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Appendix:Moby Thesaurus II/57

nonobservant

 * nonobservant, Laodicean, contrary, deviant, disregardful, dissenting, dissident, inattentive, inconstant, indevotional, indevout, indifferent, indifferentist, inobservant, lukewarm, negligent, nonadherent, noncompliant, nonconformable, nonconforming, nonreligious, recalcitrant, recusant, refractory, unadaptable, unadjustable, uncompliant, unconforming, undevout, undutiful, unfaithful, unloyal, unobservant, unreligious, unsubmissive, untrue

nonoccupancy

 * nonoccupancy, bareness, barrenness, blankness, bleakness, desertedness, desolateness, emptiness, hollowness, inanition, noninhabitance, nonoccupance, nonresidence, opening, place open, vacancy, vacant post, vacuity, voidness

nonoccurrence

 * nonoccurrence, absence, awayness, blank, deprivation, emptiness, lack, negation, negativeness, negativity, neverness, nihility, nonbeing, nonentity, nonexistence, nonpresence, nonreality, nonsubsistence, not-being, nothingness, nowhereness, nullity, subtraction, unactuality, unreality, vacancy, vacuity, vacuum, void, want

nonopposing

 * nonopposing, abject, accepting, acquiescent, agreeable, assenting, complaisant, compliable, compliant, complying, consenting, nondissenting, nonresistant, nonresisting, nonresistive, obedient, passive, resigned, servile, submissive, subservient, supine, unassertive, uncomplaining, unresistant, unresisting

nonopposition

 * nonopposition, acceptance, acquiescence, assent, complaisance, compliance, consent, deference, homage, kneeling, nonopposal, nonresistance, obedience, obeisance, passiveness, passivity, resignation, resignedness, subjection, submission, submittal, supineness, yielding

nonpareil

 * nonpareil, A per se, ace, beau ideal, boss, champion, chief, choice, chosen, commander, cream, dean, elect, elite, exemplar, fat, flower, fugleman, genius, good example, head, higher-up, ideal, jewel, laureate, leader, man of men, master, mirror, model, ne plus ultra, nonesuch, optimum, paragon, pattern, phoenix, pick, prime, principal, prize, prodigy, queen, quintessence, ruler, select, senior, shining example, standard, star, superior, superlative, superman, superstar, the best, the best ever, the greatest, the most, the tops, the very best, top dog, virtuoso

nonparticipation

 * nonparticipation, a wise passiveness, contemplation, contemplative life, do-nothing policy, do-nothingism, do-nothingness, dormancy, idleness, immobility, inaction, inactivity, indolence, inertia, inertness, laissez-aller, laissez-faire, laissez-faireism, meditation, neutralism, neutrality, neutralness, noninvolvement, nonresistance, nonviolence, nonviolent resistance, pacifism, paralysis, passive resistance, passive self-annihilation, passiveness, passivism, passivity, policy, procrastination, quiescence, quietism, stagnancy, stagnation, standpattism, stasis, vegetation, vita contemplativa, waiting game, watching and waiting

nonpartisan

 * nonpartisan, Laodicean, anythingarian, apathetic, autarchic, autarkic, autonomous, centrist, equitable, even, fence-sitter, fifty-fifty, free lance, free spirit, free trader, free-spirited, freethinker, freewheeling, half-and-half, impartial, independent, indifferent, individualist, individualistic, inner-directed, isolationist, just, latitudinarian, liberal, libertarian, libertine, midway, moderate, mugwump, mugwumpian, mugwumpish, neuter, neutral, nonaligned, noncommitted, nothingarian, objective, on the fence, passive, rugged individualist, self-contained, self-dependent, self-determined, self-directing, self-governed, self-governing, self-reliant, self-subsistent, self-sufficient, self-supporting, sovereign, swing vote, third force, third world, third-force, third-world, uncolored, uncommitted, uncommitted voter, uninvolved, unprejudiced

nonperformance

 * nonperformance, Sisyphean labor, culpa, culpable negligence, default, delinquency, dereliction, disconformity, disregard, endless task, failure, inadvertence, inadvertency, inattention, inexecution, inobservance, laches, laissez-faire, lapse, laxity, laxness, loose ends, looseness, neglect, neglectfulness, negligence, nonaccomplishment, nonachievement, nonadherence, noncompliance, nonconformance, nonconformity, nonconsummation, nondischarging, nonexecution, nonfeasance, nonfulfillment, noninterference, nonobservance, nonrestriction, omission, overlooking, oversight, permissiveness, poor stewardship, procrastination, remissness, rough edges, slackness, slight, unfulfillment, unobservance, unrigorousness, work of Penelope

nonperishable

 * nonperishable, deathless, immortal, imperishable, impregnable, incorruptible, indelible, indestructible, ineffaceable, ineradicable, inexpugnable, inextinguishable, invincible, invulnerable, quenchless, undampable, undestroyable, undying, unquenchable

nonpermanent

 * nonpermanent, brittle, capricious, changeable, corruptible, deciduous, dying, ephemeral, evanescent, fading, fickle, fleeting, flitting, fly-by-night, flying, fragile, frail, fugacious, fugitive, impermanent, impetuous, impulsive, inconstant, insubstantial, momentary, mortal, mutable, nondurable, passing, perishable, short-lived, temporal, temporary, transient, transitive, transitory, undurable, unenduring, unstable, volatile

nonphysical

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

nonplus

 * nonplus, Gordian knot, abecedarian, addle, amaze, answer, answer conclusively, argue down, astonish, astound, baffle, bafflement, balk, bamboozle, beat, bewilderment, blast, boggle, bother, brave, bring up short, buffalo, challenge, check, checkmate, circumvent, confound, confoundment, confront, confuse, confusion, confute, contradict, contravene, controvert, counter, counteract, countermand, counterwork, cross, crush, crux, dabbler, dash, daze, defeat, defy, demolish, deny, destroy, dilemma, dilettante, discomfit, discomposure, disconcert, disconcertedness, disconcertion, disconcertment, discountenance, dish, dismay, dismiss, dispose of, disrupt, disturbance, dumbfound, elude, embarrassment, enigma, faze, finish, fix, floor, flummox, flurry, fluster, foil, frustrate, fuddle, get, jam, keep in suspense, knock the chocks, knot, knotty point, lick, maze, muddle, mystery, mystify, node, nodus, nonprofessional, overcome, overthrow, overturn, overwhelm, oxymoron, paradox, paralyze, parry, perplex, perplexity, perturbation, pickle, plight, pons asinorum, poser, pother, predicament, problem, put to silence, puzzle, puzzlement, quandary, rattle, rebut, reduce to silence, refute, riddle, ruin, sabotage, scotch, scrape, settle, shock, shut up, silence, smash all opposition, smatterer, spike, spoil, squash, squelch, stew, stick, stonewall, stop, stump, stun, stymie, subvert, take aback, teaser, throw, thwart, tyro, unassuredness, undermine, upset, vexed question

nonplussed

 * nonplussed, addled, at a loss, at a nonplus, at a stand, at a standstill, at an impasse, baffled, bamboozled, beat, bewildered, buffaloed, confounded, dazed, floored, fuddled, in a dilemma, in suspense, licked, muddled, mystified, on tenterhooks, perplexed, puzzled, stuck, stumped, thrown

nonpolluted

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

nonporous

 * nonporous, close, close-knit, close-textured, close-woven, compact, compacted, compressed, concentrated, concrete, condensed, congested, consolidated, crammed, crammed full, crowded, dense, firm, gluey, hard, heavy, impenetrable, impermeable, jam-packed, jammed, massive, packed, serried, solid, substantial, thick, thick-growing, thickset, viscid, viscose, viscous

nonproductive

 * nonproductive, acarpous, arid, barren, celibate, childless, desert, desolate, drained, dried-up, dry, exhausted, fallow, fruitless, gaunt, gelded, impotent, ineffectual, infecund, infertile, issueless, jejune, leached, menopausal, nonfertile, nonproducing, nonprolific, sine prole, sterile, sucked dry, teemless, uncultivated, unfertile, unfruitful, unplowed, unproductive, unprolific, unsown, untilled, virgin, waste, wasted, without issue

nonrecognition

 * nonrecognition, benefits forgot, blindness, deafness, grudging thanks, halfhearted thanks, incognizance, incomprehension, ingratitude, insensibility, mindlessness, nonacknowledgment, nonrealization, thanklessness, unappreciation, unappreciativeness, unawareness, unconsciousness, ungratefulness, unmindfulness, unthankfulness, unwittingness

nonreligious

 * nonreligious, Laodicean, civil, congregational, godless, indevotional, indevout, indifferent, indifferentist, laic, laical, lay, lukewarm, nonclerical, nonecclesiastical, nonministerial, nonobservant, nonordained, nonpastoral, popular, profane, secular, secularist, secularistic, temporal, undevout, undutiful, unreligious

nonresistance

 * nonresistance, Eisenhower Doctrine, Monroe Doctrine, Nixon Doctrine, Quakerism, Truman Doctrine, a wise passiveness, acceptance, acquiescence, amenability, appeasement, assent, balance of power, brinkmanship, coexistence, colonialism, complaisance, compliance, compromise, consent, containment, contemplation, contemplative life, deference, detente, deterrence, diplomacy, diplomatic, diplomatics, do-nothing policy, do-nothingism, do-nothingness, dollar diplomacy, dollar imperialism, dormancy, expansionism, foreign affairs, foreign policy, good-neighbor policy, homage, humbleness, humility, idleness, immobility, imperialism, inaction, inactivity, indolence, inertia, inertness, internationalism, isolationism, kneeling, laissez-aller, laissez-faire, laissez-faireism, manifest destiny, meditation, meekness, militarism, nationalism, neocolonialism, neutralism, neutrality, neutralness, noninvolvement, nonopposal, nonopposition, nonparticipation, nonviolence, nonviolent resistance, obedience, obeisance, open door, open-door policy, pacifism, paralysis, passive resistance, passive self-annihilation, passiveness, passivism, passivity, peace offensive, peaceful coexistence, policy, preparedness, procrastination, quiescence, quietism, resignation, resignedness, shirt-sleeve diplomacy, shuttle diplomacy, spheres of influence, stagnancy, stagnation, standpattism, stasis, subjection, submission, submissiveness, submittal, supineness, the big stick, tough policy, uncomplainingness, vegetation, vita contemplativa, waiting game, watching and waiting, world politics, yielding

nonresistive

 * nonresistive, abject, accepting, acquiescent, agreeable, assenting, complaisant, compliable, compliant, complying, consenting, delicate, easy, gentle, mellow, mellowy, mild, mollified, nondissenting, nonresistant, nonresisting, nonrigid, obedient, passive, resigned, servile, soft, soft as putty, softened, submissive, subservient, supine, tender, unassertive, uncomplaining, unresistant, unresisting, whisper-soft

nonrestrictive

 * nonrestrictive, broad-minded, culpably negligent, derelict, freethinking, inadvertent, inattentive, laissez-faire, latitudinarian, lax, liberal, libertarian, libertine, loose, neglectful, neglecting, negligent, noninterfering, off-guard, open-minded, overly permissive, permissive, procrastinating, relaxed, remiss, scamping, skimping, slack, slighting, slurring, tolerant, unbigoted, uncircumspect, unguarded, unrigorous, unwary, unwatchful

nonreturnable

 * nonreturnable, changeless, constant, immutable, incommutable, inconvertible, indefeasible, inert, insusceptible of change, intransmutable, invariable, irretrievable, irreversible, irrevocable, lasting, noble, nonreversible, permanent, reverseless, unalterable, unalterative, unaltered, unchangeable, unchanged, unchanging, undeflectable, undeviating, unmodifiable, unremitting, unrestorable, unreturnable, unsusceptible, unvariable, unvarying

nonsectarian

 * nonsectarian, all-comprehending, all-comprehensive, all-covering, all-embracing, all-encompassing, all-filling, all-including, all-inclusive, all-pervading, allover, catholic, cosmopolitan, country-wide, ecumenic, galactic, global, heaven-wide, interchurch, interdenominational, international, national, nondenominational, planetary, total, undenominational, universal, world-wide

nonsense talk

 * nonsense talk, babble, babblement, bavardage, bibble-babble, blab, blabber, blah-blah, blather, blether, blethers, cackle, caquet, caqueterie, chat, chatter, chitter-chatter, clack, clatter, gab, gabble, gas, gibber, gibble-gabble, gossip, guff, hot air, idle talk, jabber, mere talk, natter, palaver, prate, prating, prattle, prittle-prattle, talkee-talkee, tittle-tattle, twaddle, twattle, yak, yakkety-yak

nonsense

 * nonsense, Greek, absurdity, absurdness, amphigory, antics, applesauce, babble, babblement, balderdash, baloney, bibble-babble, bilge, blabber, blah, blather, blatherskite, blether, bombast, bosh, buffoonery, bull, bullshit, bunk, bunkum, bushwa, cackle, capering, claptrap, cock, crap, double Dutch, double-talk, drip, drivel, drool, eyewash, fantasticalness, fiddle-faddle, fiddledeedee, flapdoodle, flimflam, flummery, folderol, foolishness, frivolity, fudge, fustian, gabble, galimatias, gammon, garbage, gas, gibber, gibberish, gibble-gabble, gobbledygook, gook, guff, hocus-pocus, hogwash, hokum, hooey, horsefeathers, horseplay, hot air, humbug, inanity, jabber, jabberwocky, jargon, jazz, jesting, jiggery-pokery, jokes, joking, ludicrousness, malarkey, mischief, monkey business, monkeyshines, monstrousness, moonshine, mumbo jumbo, mumbo-jumbo, narrishkeit, niaiserie, nonsensicality, outrageousness, pack of nonsense, palaver, piffle, poppycock, pranks, prate, prattle, preposterousness, puffery, punk, rant, ridiculousness, rigamarole, rigmarole, rodomontade, rot, rubbish, shenanigans, shit, silliness, skimble-skamble, stuff and nonsense, stultiloquence, tomfoolery, tommyrot, trash, tricks, tripe, trumpery, twaddle, twattle, twiddle-twaddle, vaporing, waffle, waffling, waggishness, wildness

nonsensical

 * nonsensical, Pickwickian, absurd, asinine, askew, beyond belief, bizarre, cockamamie, crazy, dumb, extravagant, fantastic, fool, foolish, grotesque, high-flown, idiotic, imbecilic, incredible, irrational, laughable, loony, ludicrous, mad, meaningless, monstrous, moronic, nutty, outrageous, outre, poppycockish, preposterous, ridiculous, rubbishy, screwball, screwy, senseless, silly, skimble-skamble, stupid, trashy, twaddling, twaddly, warped, weird, wild

nonspecific

 * nonspecific, abstract, aleatoric, aleatory, amorphous, bland, blobby, blurred, blurry, broad, chance, chancy, chaotic, collective, confused, disordered, featureless, foggy, fuzzy, general, generalized, generic, hazy, hit-or-miss, ill-defined, imprecise, inaccurate, inchoate, incoherent, indecisive, indefinable, indefinite, indeterminable, indeterminate, indistinct, inexact, lax, loose, nebulous, neutral, obscure, orderless, random, shadowed forth, shadowy, shapeless, stochastic, sweeping, uncharacterized, unclear, undefined, undestined, undetermined, undifferentiated, unplain, unspecified, vague, veiled, wide

nonspiritual

 * nonspiritual, Adamic, Circean, animal, animalistic, beastlike, beastly, bestial, bodily, brutal, brute, brutish, carnal, carnal-minded, coarse, corporal, corporeal, earthly, earthy, fallen, fleshly, gross, hylic, lapsed, material, materialistic, materiate, orgiastic, physical, postlapsarian, secular, somatic, substantial, swinish, temporal, unspiritual, worldly

nonstop

 * nonstop, ageless, articulated, catenated, ceaseless, coeternal, concatenated, connected, constant, continual, continued, continuing, continuous, cyclical, dateless, direct, endless, eternal, eterne, ever-being, ever-durable, ever-during, everlasting, everliving, featureless, gapless, immediate, immemorial, incessant, indestructible, infinite, interminable, joined, jointless, linked, monotonous, never-ceasing, never-ending, nonterminating, nonterminous, olamic, perdurable, perennial, periodic, permanent, perpetual, recurrent, repetitive, round-the-clock, running, seamless, sempiternal, serried, smooth, stable, steady, straight, timeless, twenty-four-hour, unbroken, unceasing, undifferentiated, unending, uniform, unintermitted, unintermittent, unintermitting, uninterrupted, unrelieved, unremitting, unstopped, without end

nonuniform

 * nonuniform, able to adapt, adaptable, adjustable, aimless, alterable, alterative, amorphous, broken, broken off, capricious, careening, casual, catchy, changeable, changing, checkered, chopped-off, choppy, contrasting, counter, decousu, desultory, deviating, deviative, deviatory, different, disarticulated, disconnected, discontinued, discontinuous, discrete, disjunct, disjunctive, disordered, disorderly, disparate, dispersed, disproportionate, dissimilar, divaricate, divergent, diverse, diversified, diversiform, eccentric, episodic, erose, erratic, ever-changing, fitful, flexible, flickering, fluctuating, fluid, formless, frivolous, gratuitous, guttering, halting, haphazard, hardly like, herky-jerky, heteroclite, hit-or-miss, immethodical, impermanent, impulsive, inchoate, incoherent, inconsistent, inconstant, indiscriminate, intermittent, intermitting, interrupted, irregular, jagged, jerky, kaleidoscopic, lurching, malleable, many-sided, meaningless, mercurial, metamorphic, misshapen, mobile, modifiable, motley, movable, mutable, nonconformist, noncontinuous, nonlinear, nonsequential, nonserial, nonstandard, nonsymmetrical, nonsystematic, odd, off, offbeat, orderless, out, parenthetic, patchy, permutable, planless, plastic, pluralistic, promiscuous, protean, proteiform, ragged, rambling, random, resilient, rough, rubbery, scarcely like, scrappy, senseless, shapeless, snatchy, spasmatic, spasmic, spasmodic, spastic, sporadic, spotty, staggering, straggling, straggly, supple, suspended, systemless, transient, transitory, unalike, unarranged, uncertain, unclassified, unconnected, undirected, unequable, unequal, uneven, ungraded, unidentical, unjoined, unlike, unmatched, unmethodical, unmetrical, unordered, unorganized, unorthodox, unregular, unresembling, unrhythmical, unsame, unsettled, unsimilar, unsorted, unstable, unsteady, unsuccessive, unsymmetrical, unsystematic, ununiform, vague, variable, variegated, variform, various, varying, veering, wandering, wavering, wobbling, wobbly

nonuniformity

 * nonuniformity, Proteus, adaptability, adjustability, allotropism, allotropy, alterability, arrhythmia, asperity, asymmetry, bad copy, bad likeness, broken thread, brokenness, bumpiness, camouflage, capriciousness, changeability, changeableness, changefulness, choppiness, contrariety, contrast, cragginess, derangement, desultoriness, difference, disarrangement, disarray, disarticulation, discomfiture, discomposure, disconcertedness, disconnectedness, disconnection, discontinuance, discontinuation, discontinuity, discontinuousness, discreteness, disequilibrium, disguise, disharmony, dishevelment, disintegration, disjunction, disorder, disorderliness, disorganization, disparity, disproportion, disruption, dissemblance, dissimilarity, dissimilation, dissimilitude, disturbance, divergence, diversification, diversity, eccentricity, entropy, episode, erraticness, fibrillation, fitfulness, fits and starts, flexibility, fluctuation, fluidity, granulation, haphazardness, harshness, her infinite variety, heterogeneity, heteromorphism, hispidity, imbalance, impermanence, inadequacy, incoherence, incommensurability, incomparability, incompleteness, inconstancy, indiscriminateness, inequality, inequity, inharmonious harmony, injustice, insufficiency, intermittence, irregularity, jaggedness, jerkiness, joltiness, makeup, malleability, manifoldness, mere caricature, mobility, modifiability, most admired disorder, movability, multifariousness, multiplicity, mutability, non sequitur, noncontinuance, nonlinearity, nonseriality, nonsymmetry, odds, omnifariousness, omniformity, overbalance, parenthesis, patchiness, permutability, perturbation, plasticity, polymorphism, poor imitation, promiscuity, promiscuousness, raggedness, randomness, resilience, rough air, roughness, rubberiness, ruggedness, rugosity, scraggliness, shapeshifter, shortcoming, spasticity, sporadicity, sporadicness, spottiness, stagger, suppleness, tooth, transience, transitoriness, turbulence, unbalance, uncertainty, unevenness, unfair discrimination, unlikeness, unmethodicalness, unpredictability, unresemblance, unsameness, unsimilarity, unsmoothness, unsteadiness, unsymmetry, unsystematicness, ununiformity, upset, variability, variation, variegation, variety, whimsicality, wobble

nonunion

 * nonunion, abstraction, alienation, detachment, disarticulation, disassociation, disconnectedness, disconnection, discontinuity, disengagement, disjointing, disjunction, dislocation, disunion, division, divorce, divorcement, incoherence, isolation, luxation, parting, partition, removal, segmentation, separation, separatism, subdivision, subtraction, withdrawal, zoning

nonviable

 * nonviable, bad, despaired of, done for, dying, expiring, facing death, given up, going, hopeless, in articulo mortis, in extremis, incapable of life, low, moribund, near death, sinking, slipping, slipping away, terminal

nonviolence

 * nonviolence, a wise passiveness, abnegation, abstinence, calm, calmness, conservatism, constraint, contemplation, contemplative life, continence, control, cool, dispassion, do-nothing policy, do-nothingism, do-nothingness, dormancy, evenness, gentleness, golden mean, happy medium, idleness, immobility, impartiality, inaction, inactivity, indolence, inertia, inertness, irenicism, judiciousness, juste-milieu, laissez-aller, laissez-faire, laissez-faireism, lenity, meden agan, meditation, middle way, mildness, moderateness, moderation, moderationism, neutralism, neutrality, neutralness, noninvolvement, nonparticipation, nonresistance, nonviolent resistance, nothing in excess, pacifism, paralysis, passive resistance, passive self-annihilation, passiveness, passivism, passivity, peaceableness, peaceful coexistence, policy, procrastination, prudence, quiescence, quietism, repose, restraint, self-abnegation, self-control, self-denial, self-restraint, serenity, sobriety, stability, stagnancy, stagnation, standpattism, stasis, steadiness, temperance, temperateness, tranquillity, unexcessiveness, unextravagance, unextremeness, unpugnaciousness, vegetation, via media, vita contemplativa, waiting game, watching and waiting

nonviolent

 * nonviolent, bland, civilian, conciliatory, dovish, gentle, irenic, judicious, mild, mild as milk, moderate, nonaggressive, noncombatant, nonmilitant, pacific, pacificatory, pacifist, pacifistic, peace-loving, peaceable, peaceful, prudent, sober, soft, tame, temperate, unbellicose, uncontentious, unhostile, unmilitant, unmilitary

nonworker

 * nonworker, beggar, bummer, cadger, coupon clippers, drone, freeloader, idle rich, leisure class, lounge lizard, lumpen proletariat, mendicant, moocher, panhandler, parasite, rentiers, spiv, sponger, the unemployable, the unemployed

noodle

 * noodle, Italian paste, bean, belfry, brain, brow, chowderhead, chucklehead, chump, conk, crown, dome, dope, dumbhead, dumpling, dunderhead, encephalon, fedellini, fettuccine, gray matter, head, headpiece, knaydlach, lasagne, macaroni, matzo balls, noddle, noddy, noggin, noodles, organ of thought, pasta, paste, pate, poll, ravioli, ridge, sconce, seat of thought, sensation, sensorium, sensory, spaetzle, spaghetti, spaghettini, stupe, vermicelli, won ton, ziti

nook

 * nook, L, alcove, angle, apex, asylum, bay, bend, bifurcation, bight, bolt-hole, cache, cant, carrel, cavity, chevron, coin, concealment, corner, cove, cover, covert, coverture, crack, crank, cranny, crevice, crook, crotchet, cubby, cubbyhole, cubicle, dark corner, deflection, den, dogleg, dugout, elbow, ell, fork, foxhole, funk hole, furcation, hideaway, hideout, hidey hole, hiding, hiding place, hole, hook, inflection, inglenook, knee, lair, nest, niche, opening, oriel, pitchhole, point, quoin, recess, recession, refuge, retreat, roomlet, sanctuary, secret place, snuggery, stash, swerve, undercovert, veer, vertex, zag, zig, zigzag

noon

 * noon, acme, apex, apogee, brow, cap, capstone, climax, cloud nine, crest, crown, culmen, culmination, edge, eight bells, extreme limit, extremity, heaven, heavens, height, high noon, highest pitch, highest point, limit, maximum, meridian, meridiem, midday, mountaintop, ne plus ultra, no place higher, noonday, nooning, noonish, noonlight, noonlit, noontide, noontime, not a soul, peak, pinnacle, pitch, point, pole, ridge, seventh heaven, sky, spire, summit, tip, tip-top, top, upmost, upper extremity, uppermost, utmost, vertex, very top, zenith

noose

 * noose, O, allure, and quarter, annular muscle, annulus, areola, aureole, ax, bag, bait, bait the hook, birdlime, block, bola, braid, catch, catch out, chaplet, circle, circuit, circumference, circus, closed circle, cobweb, corona, coronet, cross, crown, cycle, death chair, death chamber, decoy, diadem, discus, disk, dragnet, draw, drop, electric chair, enlace, enmesh, ensnare, ensnarl, entangle, entoil, entrap, entwine, enweb, eternal return, fairy ring, fishhook, fly, foul, gallows, gallows-tree, garland, gas chamber, gibbet, gill net, gin, glory, ground bait, guillotine, halo, halter, hang, harpoon, hemp, hempen collar, hook, hook in, hot seat, interknit, interlace, intertie, intertissue, intertwine, intertwist, interweave, intort, inveigle, jig, knit, lace, land, lariat, lasso, lethal chamber, lime, logical circle, loom, loop, looplet, lure, lynch, magic circle, maiden, mat, mesh, meshes, nail, neck, net, orbit, plait, pleach, plug, pound net, purse seine, raddle, radius, ring, rondelle, rope, round, roundel, sack, saucer, scaffold, scrag, seine, snag, snare, snarl, sniggle, spear, sphincter, spinner, splice, spread the toils, springe, squid, stake, stretch, string up, take, tangle, tangle up with, the chair, tissue, toils, trap, trawl, tree, trip, turn off, twill, twine, twist, vicious circle, wattle, weave, web, wheel, wind, wobbler, wreath, wreathe

noosphere

 * noosphere, Geistesgeschichte, Hegelian idea, Kantian idea, Platonic form, Platonic idea, aerosphere, all that lives, archetype, atmosphere, biochore, biocycle, biosphere, biota, biotope, brawn, complex idea, ecosphere, eternal object, eternal universal, exemplar, fiber, flesh, flora and fauna, formal cause, gaseous envelope, highest category, history of ideas, ideal, idealism, ideate, ideatum, idee-force, innate idea, lift, living matter, living nature, model, noumenon, organic matter, organic nature, organized matter, pattern, percept, plasm, prototype, regulative first principle, simple idea, subsistent form, the Absolute, the Absolute Idea, the Self-determined, the realized ideal, tissue, transcendent idea, transcendent nonempirical concept, transcendent universal, universal, universal concept, universal essence, welkin

norm

 * norm, Procrustean law, Ten Commandments, Weltanschauung, Zeitgeist, average, axiology, balance, barometer, behavioral norm, benchmark, business ethics, canon, center, check, climate, climate of opinion, code, code of ethics, code of morals, commandment, convention, criterion, decalogue, degree, dictum, ethic, ethical system, ethics, ethos, form, formality, formula, formulary, gauge, general principle, generality, golden mean, golden rule, graduated scale, guideline, guiding principle, happy medium, ideology, imperative, intellectual climate, juste-milieu, law, law of nature, legal ethics, maxim, mean, measure, median, medical ethics, mediocrity, medium, middle, middle course, middle ground, middle point, middle position, middle state, middle-of-the-road, midpoint, mitzvah, model, moral, moral climate, moral code, moral principles, morals, mores, new morality, norma, normal, normative system, norms, order of nature, ordinance, par, parameter, pattern, prescribed form, prescription, principium, principle, principles, professional ethics, quantity, reading, readout, regulation, rubric, rule, run, scale, set form, settled principle, social ethics, spiritual climate, standard, standards, standing order, tenet, test, touchstone, type, universal law, usual, value, value system, via media, working principle, working rule, world view, yardstick

normal school

 * normal school, academe, academia, alma mater, college, college of engineering, community college, degree-granting institution, four-year college, graduate school, institute of technology, ivied halls, journalism school, junior college, law school, medical school, multiversity, normal, postgraduate school, school of communications, school of education, two-year college, university, university college, varsity

normal

 * normal, academe, academia, accepted, according to Hoyle, air line, all there, alma mater, appropriate, arranged, average, axis, azimuth circle, balance, balanced, banal, beeline, besetting, bourgeois, businesslike, center, central, characteristic, chord, clearheaded, clearminded, college, college of engineering, common, commonplace, community college, compos mentis, condign, conformable, conformist, consuetudinary, conventional, correct, current, customary, decent, decorous, degree-granting institution, diagonal, diameter, direct line, directrix, distinctive, distinguishing, dominant, due, edge, epidemic, established, everyday, exemplary, familiar, fit, fitting, formal, four-year college, garden, garden-variety, general, generality, generally accepted, golden mean, good, graduate school, great-circle course, habitual, happy medium, harmonious, healthy, healthy-minded, in hand, institute of technology, intermediary, intermediate, ivied halls, journalism school, junior college, juste-milieu, kosher, law school, lucid, mean, medial, median, medical school, mediocre, mediocrity, medium, mentally sound, methodical, middle, middle course, middle ground, middle point, middle position, middle state, middle-class, middle-of-the-road, middling, midpoint, moderate, multiversity, natural, naturalistic, naturistic, nice, no great shakes, norm, normal school, normative, obtaining, of sound mind, ordered, orderly, ordinary, orthodiagonal, orthodox, orthogonal, orthometric, pandemic, par, perpendicular, plastic, plumb, popular, postgraduate school, predominant, predominating, prescribed, prescriptive, prevailing, prevalent, proper, quintessential, radius, radius vector, rampant, rational, realistic, reasonable, received, rectangular, regnant, regular, regulation, reigning, rife, right, right and proper, right angle, right line, right-angle, right-angled, right-angular, righteous, rightful, routine, rule, ruling, run, run-of-mine, run-of-the-mill, running, sample, sane, sane-minded, school of communications, school of education, secant, seemly, segment, sensible, set, shortcut, side, sound, sound-minded, stable, standard, steady, stereotyped, stock, straight, straight course, straight line, straight stretch, straightaway, streamline, suburban, suitable, symmetrical, systematic, tangent, time-honored, together, traditional, transversal, true to form, true to type, two-year college, typal, typic, typical, unexceptional, uniform, universal, university, university college, unnoteworthy, unremarkable, unspectacular, upright, usual, varsity, vector, vertical, vertical circle, via media, well-ordered, well-regulated, wholesome, widespread, wonted

normality

 * normality, appropriateness, averageness, balance, commonality, commonness, commonplaceness, contact with reality, conventionality, correctitude, correctness, currency, decencies, decency, decorousness, decorum, extensiveness, fitness, fittingness, garden variety, goodness, habitualness, healthy mind, lucid interval, lucidity, mental balance, mental equilibrium, mental health, mental hygiene, mental poise, niceness, normalcy, normalness, normativeness, ordinariness, prevalence, properness, proprieties, propriety, rampantness, rationality, reason, reasonableness, reign, rifeness, right mind, righteousness, rightness, routineness, run, sanemindedness, saneness, sanity, seemliness, senses, sober senses, sobriety, sound mind, soundness, soundness of mind, standardness, suitability, sweepingness, unexceptionality, unnoteworthiness, unremarkableness, usualness, wholesomeness, widespreadness

normalize

 * normalize, adjust, arrange, array, assimilate to, balance, chart, codify, conform, control, cool off, coordinate, damp, deploy, dispose, equalize, equilibrize, even, fix, flatten, form, formalize, grade, harmonize, hierarchize, homogenize, lay out, level, line up, make uniform, marshal, methodize, order, organize, pacify, plan, quiet, rank, rationalize, regularize, regulate, routinize, set up, settle, smooth, stabilize, standardize, stereotype, structure, symmetrize, synchronize, systematize, tranquilize, tune, tune up, uniformize

normally

 * normally, accustomedly, all in all, all things considered, altogether, as a rule, as a whole, as an approximation, as is usual, as per usual, as things go, as usual, at large, broadly, broadly speaking, by and large, chiefly, commonly, conventionally, customarily, generally, generally speaking, habitually, in general, mainly, most often, mostly, naturally, normatively, on balance, on the whole, ordinarily, overall, predominantly, prescriptively, prevailingly, regularly, roughly, roughly speaking, routinely, speaking generally, to be expected, usually, wontedly

normative

 * normative, according to Hoyle, accustomed, appropriate, average, common, commonplace, condign, conventional, correct, current, customary, decent, decorous, due, everyday, familiar, fit, fitting, good, habitual, household, kosher, nice, normal, ordinary, popular, predominating, prescriptive, prevailing, proper, regular, regulation, right, right and proper, righteous, rightful, seemly, standard, stock, suitable, universal, usual, vernacular, wonted

North Pole

 * North Pole, Alaska, Antarctic Zone, Antarctica, Arctic Circle, Arctic Zone, China, Darkest Africa, Frigid Zones, God knows where, Greenland, Iceland, Lower Slobbovia, Novaya Zemlya, Outer Mongolia, Pago Pago, Pillars of Hercules, Siberia, South Pole, Thule, Tierra del Fuego, Timbuktu, Ultima Thule, Yukon, antipodal points, antipodes, antipoints, antipoles, black and white, contraposita, contrapositives, contraries, counterpoles, frontier, godforsaken place, jumping-off place, night and day, nowhere, opposite poles, opposites, outback, outer space, outpost, outskirts, polar opposites, pole, poles, the Antarctic, the Arctic, the Great Divide, the Hebrides, the South Seas, the Yukon, the boondocks, the moon, the sticks, the tullies, tundra

North Star

 * North Star, Aldebaran, Canicula, Dog Star, Hesper, Hesperus, Lucifer, Phosphor, Phosphorus, Polaris, Sirius, Venus, Vesper, celestial body, comet, cynosure, daystar, evening star, fixed stars, guiding star, heavenly body, living sapphires, lodestar, morning star, orb, polar star, polestar, sphere, starry host, stars

north wind

 * north wind, Euroclydon, Tehuantepec wind, Tehuantepecer, bise, east wind, easter, easterly, gregale, levanter, mistral, northeaster, norther, northwester, south wind, southeaster, souther, southerly buster, southwester, tramontane, west wind, wester, westerly

north

 * north, Dixie, Dixieland, Down East, East, East Coast, Middle Atlantic, Middle West, N, New England, North, North Central region, Northeast, Northwest, Pacific Northwest, South, Southeast, Southwest, Sunbelt, West, West Coast, Yankeeland, antarctic, arctic, austral, boreal, cardinal points, compass card, compass rose, degrees, east, eastbound, easterly, eastermost, eastern, easternmost, eastland, eastward, half points, hyperborean, lubber line, meridional, north about, northbound, northeast, northeasterly, northeastern, northerly, northern, northernmost, northland, northward, northwardly, northwards, northwest, northwesterly, northwestern, norward, occident, occidental, orient, oriental, quarter points, rhumb, south, southbound, southeast, southeasterly, southeastern, southerly, southern, southernmost, southward, southwest, southwesterly, southwestern, sunrise, sunset, the Coast, west, westbound, westerly, western, westernmost, westland, westward, wild West

northeast

 * northeast, Dixie, Dixieland, Down East, East, East Coast, Middle Atlantic, Middle West, NE by N, NNE, New England, North, North Central region, Northeast, Northwest, Pacific Northwest, South, Southeast, Southwest, Sunbelt, West, West Coast, Yankeeland, antarctic, arctic, austral, boreal, cardinal points, compass card, compass rose, degrees, east, eastbound, easterly, eastermost, eastern, easternmost, eastland, eastward, half points, hyperborean, lubber line, meridional, north, north-northeast, northbound, northeast by east, northeast by north, northeasterly, northeastern, northeastward, northeastwardly, northeastwards, northerly, northern, northernmost, northland, northward, northwest, northwesterly, northwestern, occident, occidental, orient, oriental, quarter points, rhumb, south, southbound, southeast, southeasterly, southeastern, southerly, southern, southernmost, southward, southwest, southwesterly, southwestern, sunrise, sunset, the Coast, west, westbound, westerly, western, westernmost, westland, westward, wild West

norther

 * norther, Euroclydon, Tehuantepec wind, Tehuantepecer, bise, east wind, easter, easterly, gregale, levanter, mistral, north wind, northeaster, northwester, south wind, southeaster, souther, southerly buster, southwester, tramontane, west wind, wester, westerly

northerly

 * northerly, N, antarctic, arctic, austral, boreal, east, eastbound, easterly, eastermost, eastern, easternmost, hyperborean, meridional, north, north about, northbound, northeast, northeasterly, northeastern, northern, northernmost, northward, northwardly, northwards, northwest, northwesterly, northwestern, norward, occidental, oriental, south, southbound, southeast, southeasterly, southeastern, southerly, southern, southernmost, southwest, southwesterly, southwestern, west, westbound, westerly, western, westernmost

northern

 * northern, antarctic, arctic, austral, boreal, east, eastbound, easterly, eastermost, eastern, easternmost, hyperborean, meridional, north, northbound, northeast, northeasterly, northeastern, northerly, northernmost, northwest, northwesterly, northwestern, occidental, oriental, south, southbound, southeast, southeasterly, southeastern, southerly, southern, southernmost, southwest, southwesterly, southwestern, west, westbound, westerly, western, westernmost

northward

 * northward, N, cardinal points, compass card, compass rose, degrees, east, eastward, half points, lubber line, north, north about, northeast, northerly, northwardly, northwards, northwest, norward, occident, orient, quarter points, rhumb, south, southeast, southward, southwest, sunrise, sunset, west, westward

northwest

 * northwest, Dixie, Dixieland, Down East, East, East Coast, Middle Atlantic, Middle West, NNW, NW, NW by N, NW by W, New England, North, North Central region, Northeast, Northwest, Pacific Northwest, South, Southeast, Southwest, Sunbelt, West, West Coast, Yankeeland, antarctic, arctic, austral, boreal, cardinal points, compass card, compass rose, degrees, east, eastbound, easterly, eastermost, eastern, easternmost, eastland, eastward, half points, hyperborean, lubber line, meridional, north, north-northwest, northbound, northeast, northeasterly, northeastern, northerly, northern, northernmost, northland, northward, northwest by north, northwest by west, northwesterly, northwestern, northwestward, northwestwardly, northwestwards, occident, occidental, orient, oriental, quarter points, rhumb, south, southbound, southeast, southeasterly, southeastern, southerly, southern, southernmost, southward, southwest, southwesterly, southwestern, sunrise, sunset, the Coast, west, westbound, westerly, western, westernmost, westland, westward, wild West

northwesterly

 * northwesterly, NNW, NW, NW by N, NW by W, antarctic, arctic, austral, boreal, east, eastbound, easterly, eastermost, eastern, easternmost, hyperborean, meridional, north, north-northwest, northbound, northeast, northeasterly, northeastern, northerly, northern, northernmost, northwest, northwest by north, northwest by west, northwestern, northwestward, northwestwardly, northwestwards, occidental, oriental, south, southbound, southeast, southeasterly, southeastern, southerly, southern, southernmost, southwest, southwesterly, southwestern, west, westbound, westerly, western, westernmost

nose around

 * nose around, be curious, beat the bushes, burn with curiosity, burrow, delve, dig, dig around for, dig up, explore, forage, frisk, gape, gawk, go through, hunt, inquire, interrogate, look around, look round, look through, nose around for, nose out, peer, poke, poke around, pry, query, question, quiz, research, root, rubber, rubberneck, search, search through, seek, smell around, stare, want to know

nose count

 * nose count, account, accounts, agenda, beadroll, body count, cadastre, calendar, capitulation, census, census report, checklist, checkroll, count, docket, dramatis personae, head count, honor roll, inventory, jury list, jury panel, lineup, muster, muster roll, order of business, poll, program, property roll, questionnaire, recapitulation, reckoning, recount, recounting, rehearsal, repertory, returns, roll, roll call, roster, rota, scroll, statement, summary, summation, summing, summing up, tax roll

nose dive

 * nose dive, acrobatics, aerobatics, banking, beat down, belly buster, belly flop, belly whopper, break, breakdown, cannonball, chandelle, cheapen, cheapening, collapse, comedown, crabbing, crash, crash dive, cropper, cut, cut prices, decline, deflate, deflation, depreciate, depreciation, devaluate, devaluation, dip, dive, diving, downfall, drop, fall, fall in price, fishtailing, gainer, give way, glide, header, jackknife, jew down, lose altitude, lower, lowering, mark down, markdown, parachute, parachute jump, pare, pitch, plop, plummet, plummeting, plump, plunge, plunk, pounce, pounce on, pounce upon, power dive, pratfall, price cut, price fall, price reduction, pull-up, pullout, pushdown, reduce, reduction, rolling, running dive, sag, settle, shave, sideslip, skid, skin-dive, sky dive, sky-dive, slash, slump, smash, sound, spiral, stall, stationary dive, stoop, stumble, stunting, swan dive, swoop, swoop down, tactical maneuvers, tailspin, take a header, trim, tumble, volplane, zoom

nose ring

 * nose ring, anklet, armlet, band, bangle, beads, belt, bijou, bracelet, breastpin, brooch, chain, chaplet, charm, chatelaine, cincture, cingulum, circle, collar, collarband, coronet, crown, diadem, earring, ecliptic, equator, fascia, fillet, finger ring, fob, gem, girdle, girt, girth, great circle, hoop, jewel, locket, neckband, necklace, pin, precious stone, quoit, rhinestone, ring, stickpin, stone, tiara, torque, wampum, wristband, wristlet, zodiac, zone

nose tickling

 * nose tickling, acerbic, acid, acrid, asperous, astringent, biting, bitter, caustic, cutting, escharotic, harsh, irritating, keen, mordant, penetrating, piercing, piquant, poignant, pungent, rough, severe, sharp, sour, stinging, trenchant, vitriolic

nose

 * nose, Adamite, Paul Pry, Paul-Pry, antlia, aptness, beak, beezer, being, bent, bib nozzle, bill, body, bow, bowsprit, breathe, breathe in, bugle, bump, busybody, butt-in, caress, cat, chap, character, conk, creature, customer, duck, earthling, faculty, feel up, fellow, figurehead, flair, follow, follow a clue, follow up, fondle, fool with, forecastle, foredeck, forepeak, genius, groundling, guy, hand, head, homo, human, human being, hunt down, individual, inhale, intermeddle, jib boom, joker, kibitz, kibitzer, knack, knead, life, living soul, man, massage, meddle, meddle with, meddler, mess with, monkey with, mortal, mouse, muffle, muzzle, nares, neb, nib, nose out, nostrils, nozzle, nuzzle, olfactories, olfactory area, olfactory cell, olfactory nerves, olfactory organ, olfactory pit, one, party, pecker, peek, peep, person, personage, personality, pet, poke, pragmatist, pressure nozzle, prier, proboscis, prore, prow, pry, quidnunc, rhinarium, rose, rosehead, rostrum, rub, rub against, rub noses, rubberneck, run down, run to earth, scent, schnozzle, shadow, shower head, single, smell, smell of, smell out, smeller, sniff, sniff out, snitch, snook, snoop, snoot, snout, snuff, snuffle, somebody, someone, soul, spray nozzle, sprinkler head, spy, stalk, stem, stroke, tail, talent, tamper with, tellurian, terran, trace, trace down, track, track down, trail, trunk, whiff, worldling

nosegay

 * nosegay, aroma, bale, balminess, bindle, bolt, boughpot, bouquet, boutonniere, budget, bundle, buttonhole, chaplet, corsage, deck, fagot, fardel, fasces, fascine, festoon, flower arrangement, fragrance, fragrancy, fruitiness, garland, incense, lei, muskiness, odor, pack, package, packet, parcel, perfume, posy, quiver, redolence, roll, rouleau, scent, sheaf, spice, spiciness, spray, sweet savor, sweet smell, truss, wreath

nostalgia

 * nostalgia, Heimweh, aching, bathos, bleeding heart, cloyingness, daydream, daydreaming, desiderium, goo, hankering, hearts-and-flowers, homesickness, honing, languishing, languishment, longing, mal du pays, maladie du pays, maudlinness, mawkishness, mush, mushiness, namby-pamby, namby-pambyism, namby-pambyness, nostomania, oversentimentalism, oversentimentality, pining, romanticism, sentiment, sentimentalism, sentimentality, slop, sloppiness, slush, soap opera, sob story, sweetness and light, tearjerker, wishful thinking, wishfulness, wistful eye, wistfulness, yearnfulness, yearning, yen

nostalgic

 * nostalgic, bathetic, beery, cloying, gooey, gushing, hankering, homesick, honing, languishing, longing, maudlin, mawkish, mushy, namby-pamby, nostomanic, oversentimental, oversentimentalized, pining, romantic, sappy, sentimental, sentimentalized, sloppy, soft, sticky, tear-jerking, teary, wishful, wistful, yearnful, yearning

nostril

 * nostril, air duct, air hole, air passage, air shaft, air tube, airway, antlia, beak, beezer, bill, blowhole, breathing hole, bugle, conk, louver, louverwork, muffle, muzzle, nares, naris, neb, nib, nose, nostrils, nozzle, olfactories, olfactory area, olfactory cell, olfactory nerves, olfactory organ, olfactory pit, pecker, proboscis, rhinarium, rostrum, schnozzle, shaft, smeller, snoot, snout, spilehole, spiracle, touchhole, transom, trunk, vent, ventage, venthole, ventiduct, ventilating shaft, ventilator, wind tunnel

nosy

 * nosy, busy, busybody, curious, delving, digging, eavesdropping, fishing, forward, impertinent, in search of, inquisitive, inquisitorial, loaded for bear, looking for, meddlesome, meddling, officious, out for, out for bear, poking, presumptuous, probing, prying, pushing, pushy, searching, self-appointed, snooping, snoopy, spying

not a bit

 * not a bit, at no hand, by no means, in no case, in no respect, in no wise, nary one, never, never a one, nohow, none, not a hint, not a jot, not a lick, not a mite, not a one, not a particle, not a scrap, not a smitch, not a speck, not a suspicion, not a trace, not a whit, not an iota, not any, not at all, not much, not nearly, noway, noways, nowhere near, nowise, on no account, under no circumstances

not accept

 * not accept, abjure, assert the contrary, be skeptical, belie, brook no, contest, contradict, contravene, controvert, counter, cross, deny, disaffirm, disallow, disavow, disbelieve, disclaim, disown, disprove, dispute, forswear, gainsay, impugn, join issue upon, not admit, not allow, not bear, not bear with, not brook, not condone, not countenance, not endure, not fall for, not go for, not have, not hear of, not stand for, not stomach, not suffer, not swallow, not tolerate, nullify, oppose, recant, refuse to admit, refuse to believe, refute, reject, renounce, repudiate, resist believing, retract, revoke, take back, take issue with

not admit

 * not admit, abjure, assert the contrary, belie, contest, contradict, contravene, controvert, counter, cross, deny, disaffirm, disallow, disavow, disbelieve, disclaim, discredit, disown, disprove, dispute, forswear, gag on, gainsay, impugn, join issue upon, misbelieve, negate, not accept, not believe, not buy, not swallow, nullify, oppose, recant, refuse to admit, refuse to credit, refute, reject, renounce, repudiate, retract, revoke, take back, take issue with, unbelieve

not all there

 * not all there, abnormal, arrested, babbling, backward, bereft of reason, blithering, brainsick, burbling, crackbrained, cracked, crazed, crazy, cretinistic, cretinous, daft, deluded, demented, deprived of reason, deranged, disoriented, distraught, dithering, driveling, drooling, flighty, half-baked, half-witted, hallucinated, idiotic, imbecile, imbecilic, insane, irrational, loco, lunatic, mad, maddened, manic, maundering, mazed, mental, mentally defective, mentally deficient, mentally handicapped, mentally retarded, meshuggah, mongoloid, moon-struck, moronic, non compos, non compos mentis, not right, odd, of unsound mind, off, psycho, queer, reasonless, retarded, senseless, sick, simple, simpleminded, simpletonian, slobbering, stark-mad, stark-staring mad, strange, subnormal, tetched, touched, unbalanced, unhinged, unsane, unsettled, unsound, wandering, witless

not at all

 * not at all, God forbid, at no hand, at no time, au contraire, by no means, far from it, from scratch, in no case, in no respect, in no way, in no wise, never, never on earth, nevermore, no, no matter what, nohow, none, not a bit, not a jot, not a speck, not a whit, not an iota, not ever, not much, not nearly, noway, noways, nowhere near, nowise, on no account, on no condition, on no occasion, quite the contrary, to the contrary, under no circumstances

not bad

 * not bad, OK, acceptable, adequate, admissible, all right, better than nothing, decent, fair, fairish, good enough, goodish, moderate, not amiss, not half bad, not so bad, okay, passable, presentable, pretty good, respectable, satisfactory, sufficient, tidy, tolerable, unexceptionable, unobjectionable, workmanlike

not budge

 * not budge, balk, be a sideliner, be still, be unflappable, coast, delay, die hard, do nothing, drift, get home free, hang fire, hibernate, hold fast, hold out, hold up, idle, lie dormant, not stir, persevere, remain firm, rest, ride it out, sit back, sit it out, stagnate, stand fast, stand firm, stand out, stand pat, stay put, stick it out, stickle, take no denial, vegetate, wait and see, watch and wait, weather, weather the storm

not buy

 * not buy, be unmoved, be unwilling, beg off, decline, decline to accept, deny, disagree, disallow, disbelieve, disclaim, discredit, dissent, gag on, hold out against, misbelieve, negate, negative, not admit, not believe, not consent, not hear of, not swallow, not think of, refuse, refuse consent, refuse to admit, refuse to credit, reject, repudiate, resist entreaty, resist persuasion, say nay, say no, stand aloof, turn down, unbelieve, vote nay, vote negatively

not care for

 * not care for, abhor, be caught napping, be hostile to, be neglectful, be negligent, default, disapprove of, disfavor, dislike, disregard, disrelish, fail, gloss over, hate, ignore, lapse, let go, let ride, let slide, let slip, loathe, lose sight of, lose track of, mislike, neglect, nod, not get involved, not heed, not think, overlook, pass over, sleep, take for granted

not comparable

 * not comparable, base, deficient, imperfect, inadequate, incommensurable, incommensurate, incomparable, incompetent, insufficient, little, maladroit, mean, mediocre, not comparable to, not in it, out of it, petty, shabby, small, trivial, unskillful

not compare

 * not compare, be found wanting, be inferior, bear no resemblance, come short, differ, fail, fall short, follow, have nothing on, not approach, not come near, not compare with, not hack it, not look like, not make it, not measure up, play second fiddle, rank under, serve, subserve, want

not cricket

 * not cricket, Bohemian, beat, below the belt, breakaway, far out, foul, free and easy, fringy, heretical, heterodox, hippie, informal, kinky, maverick, not done, not fair, not kosher, offbeat, original, unconventional, unfair, unfashionable, unorthodox, unsporting, unsportsmanlike, unsportsmanly, way out

not done

 * not done, Bohemian, aberrant, abnormal, abominable, atrocious, beat, breakaway, criminal, delinquent, deviant, disgraceful, evil, fallen, far out, free and easy, fringy, hardly the thing, heretical, heterodox, hippie, ignominious, illegal, improper, inappropriate, incorrect, indecorous, infamous, informal, kinky, maverick, not cricket, not kosher, not the thing, off-base, off-color, offbeat, original, out-of-line, rare, sacrilegious, saignant, scandalous, shameful, shameless, sinful, sodden, terrible, unconventional, undercooked, underdone, undue, unfashionable, unfit, unfitting, unlawful, unorthodox, unrighteous, unseemly, unsuitable, way out, wicked, wrong, wrongful

not easy

 * not easy, Herculean, abstruse, adverse, antagonistic, arduous, brutal, complex, conflicting, contrary, counter, counteractive, critical, delicate, demanding, detrimental, difficile, difficult, exacting, formidable, hairy, hard, hard-earned, hard-fought, harmful, hostile, in opposition, inimical, intricate, jawbreaking, knotted, knotty, laborious, mean, miserable, no picnic, operose, opposed, opposing, opposite, rigorous, rough, rugged, set with thorns, severe, sinister, spiny, steep, strenuous, stressful, thorny, ticklish, toilsome, tough, tricky, troublesome, troublous, trying, unfavorable, untoward, uphill, wicked, wretched

not guilty

 * not guilty, angelic, blameless, childlike, clear, dovelike, faultless, guiltless, in the clear, incorrupt, innocent, lamblike, offenseless, prelapsarian, pristine, reproachless, sans reproche, sinless, uncorrupted, undefiled, unfallen, unlapsed, untouched by evil, with clean hands, without reproach

not hesitate

 * not hesitate, acquiesce, agree, be agreeable to, be dying to, be eager, be game, be open to, be ready, be spoiling for, be willing, carry through, collaborate, consent, cooperate, face out, go along with, incline, lean, look kindly upon, not hesitate to, not look back, plunge into, stick at nothing, stop at nothing, think little of, think nothing of, would as leave, would as lief

not in the mood

 * not in the mood, at odds, averse, cursory, differing, disagreeing, disinclined, disobedient, forced, fractious, indisposed, indocile, involuntary, mutinous, opposed, perfunctory, recalcitrant, refractory, resistant, sulky, sullen, unconsenting, unwilling

not kosher

 * not kosher, Bohemian, amoral, beat, breakaway, conscienceless, corrupt, corrupted, criminal, crooked, dark, devious, dishonest, dishonorable, doubtful, dubious, evasive, far out, felonious, fishy, fraudulent, free and easy, fringy, heretical, heterodox, hippie, ill-got, ill-gotten, immoral, indirect, informal, insidious, kinky, maverick, not cricket, not done, offbeat, original, questionable, rotten, shady, shameless, shifty, sinister, slippery, suspicious, tricky, unconscienced, unconscientious, unconscionable, unconventional, underhand, underhanded, unethical, unfashionable, unorthodox, unprincipled, unsavory, unscrupulous, unstraightforward, way out, without remorse, without shame

not listen

 * not listen, be blind to, be caught out, be inattentive, be unwary, blink at, break the law, care naught for, connive at, defy, disobey, disregard, flout, give no heed, go counter to, hear nothing, ignore, let pass, make light of, miss, not attend, not conform, not heed, not keep, not mind, not notice, not observe, overlook, pass by, pass over, pay no attention, pay no mind, refuse to cooperate, scoff at, see nothing, set at defiance, set at naught, set naught by, slight, think little of, transgress, violate, wink at

not mind

 * not mind, break the law, care naught for, care nothing for, defy, disobey, disregard, flout, go counter to, ignore, not care, not conform, not heed, not keep, not listen, not observe, refuse to cooperate, scoff at, set at defiance, set at naught, set naught by, shrug off, transgress, violate

not right

 * not right, aberrant, abnormal, abroad, adrift, all abroad, all off, all wrong, amiss, askew, astray, at fault, awry, bereft of reason, beside the mark, brainsick, corrupt, crackbrained, cracked, crazed, crazy, daft, deceptive, defective, deluded, delusive, demented, deprived of reason, deranged, deviant, deviational, deviative, disoriented, distorted, distraught, errant, erring, erroneous, fallacious, false, faultful, faulty, flawed, flighty, hallucinated, heretical, heterodox, illogical, illusory, insane, irrational, loco, lunatic, mad, maddened, manic, mazed, mental, mentally deficient, meshuggah, moon-struck, non compos, non compos mentis, not all there, not true, odd, of unsound mind, off, off the track, out, peccant, perverse, perverted, psycho, queer, reasonless, self-contradictory, senseless, sick, stark-mad, stark-staring mad, strange, straying, tetched, touched, unbalanced, unfactual, unhinged, unorthodox, unproved, unsane, unsettled, unsound, untrue, wandering, wide, witless, wrong

not surprised

 * not surprised, agape, agog, all agog, anticipant, anticipating, anticipative, anticipatory, awaiting, certain, confident, eager, expectant, expecting, forearmed, forestalling, forewarned, gaping, hopeful, in anticipation, in expectation, looking for, looking forward to, optimistic, prepared, ready, sanguine, sure, unsurprised, waiting, waiting for, watching for

not swallow

 * not swallow, be skeptical, deny, disbelieve, discredit, gag on, misbelieve, negate, not accept, not admit, not believe, not buy, not fall for, not go for, refuse to admit, refuse to believe, refuse to credit, reject, resist believing, unbelieve

not to be believed

 * not to be believed, a bit thick, a bit thin, absurd, beyond belief, doubtable, doubtful, dubious, dubitable, hard of belief, hard to believe, implausible, inconceivable, incredible, not deserving belief, open to doubt, open to suspicion, passing belief, preposterous, problematic, questionable, ridiculous, staggering belief, suspect, suspicious, tall, thick, thin, unbelievable, unconvincing, unearthly, ungodly, unimaginable, unthinkable, unworthy of belief

not to be had

 * not to be had, at a premium, beyond reach, closed forever to, closed to, impenetrable, impervious, in short supply, inaccessible, lost to, out of print, out of reach, out of season, out of stock, rare, scanty, scarce, sparse, un-come-at-able, unaccessible, unapproachable, unattainable, unavailable, uncommon, undiscoverable, ungettable, unobtainable, unprocurable, unreachable, unsecurable

not touch

 * not touch, abstain, abstain from, avoid, dispense with, do without, eschew, fight shy of, forbear, forgo, give place to, hold aloof, hold aloof from, hold back, hold off, keep aloof, keep away from, keep back, keep clear of, keep from, keep hands off, keep in hand, keep remote from, let alone, let go by, make way for, never touch, not meddle with, not use, pass up, refrain, refrain from, reserve, save, shun, spare, stand aloof, stand aloof from, stay detached from, steer clear of, turn away from, waive, withhold

not true

 * not true, aberrant, abroad, adrift, all abroad, all off, all wrong, amiss, askew, astray, at fault, awry, beside the mark, contrary to fact, corrupt, deceptive, defective, delusive, deviant, deviational, deviative, distorted, errant, erring, erroneous, fallacious, false, faultful, faulty, flawed, heretical, heterodox, illogical, illusory, in error, not right, off, off the track, out, peccant, perverse, perverted, self-contradictory, straying, truthless, unfactual, unfounded, unorthodox, unproved, untrue, wide, wrong

not with it

 * not with it, a stranger to, asleep, blind to, caught napping, dead to, deaf to, impercipient, in ignorance of, incognizant, insensible, insensible to, mindless, napping, nonconceiving, out of it, unaware, unaware of, unconscious, unconscious of, unhearing, uninsightful, unknowing, unmindful, unmindful of, unperceiving, unprehensive, unrealizing, unseeing, unsuspecting, unwitting, witless

notability

 * notability, Establishment, VIP, baron, big gun, big man, big name, big shot, big-timer, bigwig, brass, brass hat, celebrity, chief, consequence, conspicuousness, constellation, cynosure, dignitary, dignity, distinction, elder, elevation, eminence, esteem, exaltation, excellence, fame, father, figure, folk hero, galaxy, glory, grandeur, great man, greatness, hero, heroine, heroism, high mightiness, honor, idol, immortal, importance, important person, interests, leader, lion, loftiness, lords of creation, luminaries, luminary, magnanimity, magnate, majesty, man of mark, mark, master spirit, memorability, mogul, nabob, name, nobility, notable, note, noteworthiness, outstandingness, panjandrum, person of note, person of renown, personage, personality, pillar of society, pleiad, pop hero, popular hero, popular idol, power, power elite, prestige, prominence, public figure, remarkableness, renown, reputation, repute, ruling circle, sachem, salience, significance, social lion, somebody, something, star, sublimity, supereminence, superstar, the great, the top, top brass, top people, tycoon, very important person, worthy

notable

 * notable, Establishment, VIP, acclaimed, appalling, arrant, astonishing, baron, big, big boy, big bug, big cheese, big chief, big gun, big man, big name, big noise, big shot, big wheel, big-time operator, big-timer, bigwig, blatant, bold, brass, brass hat, celebrated, celebrity, character, chief, conspicuous, constellation, cynosure, czar, different, dignitary, dignity, distinctive, distinguished, egregious, elder, eminence, eminent, eminently, esteemed, estimable, exceedingly, exceptional, exceptionally, extraordinary, extremely, fabled, fabulous, famed, famous, fantastic, far-famed, far-heard, fat cat, father, figure, flagrant, folk hero, formidable, galaxy, glaring, great, great gun, great man, greatly, hanging out, heavyweight, hero, heroine, high-muck-a-muck, highly, his nibs, honored, hugely, idol, illustrious, immortal, important, important person, in relief, in the foreground, incredible, interests, king, leader, legendary, light, lion, lords of creation, luminaries, luminary, magnate, man of mark, marked, marvelous, master spirit, matchless, memorable, mogul, much acclaimed, mugwump, mythical, nabob, name, noble, notability, noted, noteworthy, noticeable, notorious, observable, obtrusive, of mark, of note, ostensible, outstanding, panjandrum, peerless, person of note, person of renown, personage, personality, pillar of society, pleiad, pop hero, popular, popular hero, popular idol, pot, power, power elite, prestigious, prince, prominent, pronounced, public figure, rare, recollectable, red-letter, remarkable, remarkably, rememberable, renowned, reputable, rubric, ruling circle, sachem, salient, signal, singular, social lion, somebody, something, special, star, staring, stark-staring, sticking out, striking, strikingly, superior, superstar, talked-about, talked-of, telling, the great, the top, top brass, top people, tycoon, uncommon, unforgettable, unmatched, unparalleled, unusual, very important person, well-known, wonderful, worthy

notably

 * notably, abundantly, acutely, amazingly, amply, arrantly, astonishingly, awesomely, blatantly, boldly, celebratedly, clearly, consequentially, conspicuously, copiously, curiously, distinctly, eminently, emphatically, especially, evidently, exceptionally, exquisitely, extraordinarily, exuberantly, famously, flagrantly, generously, glaringly, gloriously, grandly, greatly, importantly, impressively, incredibly, intensely, magically, magnanimously, magnificently, manifestly, markedly, marvelously, materially, meaningfully, momentously, nobly, notedly, noticeably, notoriously, obtrusively, obviously, ostensibly, outstandingly, particularly, peculiarly, pointedly, popularly, preeminently, profusely, prominently, pronouncedly, remarkably, richly, saliently, shockingly, signally, significantly, singularly, specifically, splendidly, staringly, strangely, strikingly, stunningly, superlatively, surpassingly, surprisingly, uncommonly, uniquely, unusually, wonderfully, wondrous, worthily

notarize

 * notarize, OK, accept, accredit, affirm, amen, approve, authenticate, authorize, autograph, certify, confirm, cosign, countersign, endorse, give permission, give the go-ahead, give the imprimatur, give thumbs up, initial, pass, pass on, pass upon, permit, ratify, rubber stamp, sanction, say amen to, seal, second, sign, sign and seal, subscribe to, support, swear and affirm, swear to, undersign, underwrite, validate, visa, vise, warrant

notarized statement

 * notarized statement, affidavit, affirmation, attestation, authority, authorization, bill of health, certificate, certificate of proficiency, certification, credential, deposition, diploma, navicert, note, sheepskin, statement under oath, swearing, sworn statement, sworn testimony, testamur, testimonial, testimony, ticket, visa, vise, voucher, vouching, warrant, warranty, witness

notarized

 * notarized, accepted, acknowledged, admitted, affirmed, allowed, approved, authenticated, avowed, certified, conceded, confessed, confirmed, countersigned, endorsed, granted, professed, ratified, received, recognized, sealed, signed, stamped, sworn and affirmed, sworn to, underwritten, validated, warranted

notary

 * notary, accountant, amanuensis, approver, archivist, bookkeeper, certifier, clerk, confirmer, cosignatory, cosigner, documentalist, endorser, engraver, filing clerk, guarantor, insurer, librarian, marker, notary public, party, prothonotary, ratifier, record clerk, recorder, recordist, register, registrar, scorekeeper, scorer, scribe, scrivener, secretary, signatory, stenographer, stonecutter, subscriber, timekeeper, underwriter, upholder

notate

 * notate, catch a likeness, character, characterize, chart, delineate, depict, diagram, draw, hit off, limn, map, paint, picture, picturize, portray, print, register, render, represent, rub, schematize, symbolize, take a rubbing, trace, trace out, trace over, write

notation

 * notation, abstract, accent, accent mark, addition, adversaria, aide-memoire, alphabet, annotation, apparatus criticus, approximation, arrangement, art, bar, binary digit, bit, blueprint, cancel, character, charactering, characterization, characters, chart, chit, choreography, cipher, code, comment, commentary, commentation, conventional representation, copy, credit, custos, dance notation, debit, delineation, demonstration, depiction, depictment, diagram, differentiation, digit, direct, division, docket, dot, double entry, draft, drama, drawing, edition, entry, equation, evolution, exegesis, exemplification, expression mark, extrapolation, fermata, figuration, figure, footnote, gloss, hieroglyphic, hold, hymnal, hymnbook, iconography, ideogram, illustration, imagery, imaging, instrumental score, integration, interpolation, inversion, involution, item, jotting, key signature, lead, letter, libretto, ligature, limning, logogram, logograph, lute tablature, map, marginal note, marginalia, mark, measure, memo, memoir, memorandum, memorial, metronomic mark, minute, minutes, multiplication, music, music paper, music roll, musical notation, musical score, note, note of explanation, number, numeral, numero, opera, opera score, orchestral score, part, pause, piano score, pictogram, picturization, plan, portraiture, portrayal, practice, prefigurement, presa, presentment, printing, projection, proportion, realization, record, reduction, register, registry, reminder, rendering, rendition, representation, schema, scholia, scholium, score, script, segno, sheet music, short score, sign, signature, signs, single entry, slur, songbook, songster, subtraction, swell, syllabary, symbol, symbolism, symbols, tablature, tempo mark, text, tie, time signature, transcript, transcription, transformation, version, vinculum, vocal score, word of explanation, writing, written music

notch

 * notch, Vandyke, abysm, abyss, accomplish, achieve, alveolation, alveolus, amount, arroyo, birthmark, blaze, blaze a trail, blemish, blotch, box canyon, brand, breach, break, caliber, canyon, caste mark, cavity, chalk, chalk up, chap, chasm, check, check off, checkmark, chimney, chink, chop, cicatrix, cicatrize, cleft, cleuch, clough, col, compass, coulee, couloir, crack, cranny, crenellate, crenulate, crevasse, crevice, crimp, cut, cwm, dapple, dash, defile, define, degree, delimit, dell, demarcate, dent, depress, dike, dimple, dint, discolor, discoloration, ditch, donga, dot, draw, earmark, engrave, engraving, excavation, extent, fault, fissure, flaw, fleck, flick, flume, fracture, freckle, furrow, gain, gap, gape, gash, gorge, gouge, gradation, grade, graving, groove, gulch, gulf, gully, hack, hatch, height, hole, honeycomb, impress, impression, imprint, incise, incision, indent, indentation, indention, indenture, interval, jag, joint, jot, kloof, knurl, leak, leap, lentigo, level, line, machicolate, macula, make a mark, mark, mark off, mark out, marking, measure, mill, moat, mole, mottle, nevus, nick, nock, nuance, nullah, opening, pas, pass, passage, patch, peg, pencil, pepper, period, picot, pink, pit, pitch, plane, plateau, pock, pockmark, point, polka dot, press in, prick, print, proportion, punch, punch in, punctuate, puncture, range, ratio, ravine, reach, recess, register, remove, rent, riddle, rift, rime, round, rung, rupture, scale, scallop, scar, scarification, scarify, scissure, scope, score, scotch, scratch, scratching, seal, seam, serrate, set back, set in, shade, shadow, slash, slit, slot, space, speck, speckle, splash, split, splotch, spot, stage, stain, stair, stamp, standard, step, stigma, stigmatize, stint, strawberry mark, streak, striate, stripe, sunken part, tamp, tattoo, tattoo mark, tick, tick off, tittle, tooth, trace, tread, trench, underline, underscore, valley, void, wadi, watermark, win

notched

 * notched, alveolar, alveolate, battlemented, chopped, crenate, crenated, crenellated, crenulate, dentate, dentated, dented, dentiform, depressed, dimpled, embrasured, engraved, erose, faveolate, gashed, honeycombed, incised, indented, jagged, jaggy, lacerate, lacerated, nicked, pitted, pocked, pockmarked, saw-toothed, sawlike, scalloped, scored, serrate, serrated, serriform, serrulated, toothed, zigzag

note

 * note, CD, Federal Reserve note, French pitch, IOU, MO, Parthian shot, accent, acceptance, acceptance bill, accidental, acknowledgment, address, adversaria, advertence, advertency, affidavit, affirmation, affix, aide-memoire, air, alertness, allegation, allonge, allude to, animadvert, animal noise, annotation, answer, apostrophe, apparatus criticus, appendix, apperception, appreciation, appreciativeness, argue, aria, article, assertion, assiduity, assiduousness, assignat, atmosphere, attend, attend to, attention, attention span, attentiveness, attestation, aura, authority, authorization, averment, awareness, badge, balance, balance the books, bank acceptance, bank check, bank note, banknote, banner, bark, barking, be indicative of, be significant of, be symptomatic of, bespeak, betoken, bill, bill of draft, bill of exchange, bill of health, billet, birdcall, blank check, blurt, blurt out, book, breve, business letter, calendar, call, call attention to, callable securities, canto, cantus, capitalize, care, carry, carry over, carve, cast up accounts, catalog, cats and dogs, causerie, certificate, certificate of deposit, certificate of proficiency, certification, certified check, chalk, chalk up, character, characteristic, characterize, charge off, check, check in, check out, checkbook, cheque, chit, chronicle, clang, classical pitch, climate, close out, close the books, clue, coda, codicil, cognition, cognizance, comment, commentary, commentation, commercial paper, communication, concentration, concern, concernment, connote, consciousness, consecutive intervals, consequence, consequentiality, consider, consideration, conspicuousness, contemplate, corporation securities, crack, credential, credit, criticism, critique, crotchet, cry, cue, currency, cut, debenture, debit, declaration, degree, demand bill, demand draft, demisemiquaver, denominate, denote, deposition, depth, descant, descry, device, diapason, diatessaron, diatonic interval, diatonic semitone, dictum, differentia, differentiate, diligence, diploma, discern, disclose, discourse, discussion, dispatch, display, disquisition, dissertation, distinction, distinguish, docket, dollar bill, dominant, dominant note, double entry, double whole note, draft, due bill, ear, earmark, earnestness, eighth note, eisegesis, element, elevation, eminence, emphasis, enclitic, engrave, enharmonic, enharmonic diesis, enharmonic interval, enharmonic note, enroll, enscroll, entail, enter, entry, envoi, epilogue, epistle, espial, espionage, essay, etude, exaltation, examination, excellence, exchequer bill, exclaim, exclamation, excursus, exegesis, explanation, exposition, express, expression, fan letter, favor, feature, feel, feeling, fiat money, fifth, file, fill out, first approach, flat, folding money, footnote, foreign securities, fourth, fractional note, frame, frame of mind, futures contract, give evidence, give thought to, give token, gloss, government note, government securities, grandeur, grave, greatness, greeting, grunt, half note, half step, halftone, hallmark, heart, heed, heedfulness, height, hemidemisemiquaver, high mightiness, high order, high pitch, high rank, highlight, hint, homily, howl, howling, humor, idea, identify, idiosyncrasy, image, impanel, import, importance, incise, index, indicant, indicate, indicator, infix, inkling, inscribe, insert, insight, insignia, intentiveness, intentness, interest, interject, interjection, interlineation, interpolation, interval, intimation, introductory study, investigate, involve, item, jot down, jotting, journalize, junior securities, keep books, key, keynote, lay, legal-tender note, less semitone, let drop, let fall, letter, letter of credit, line, list, listed securities, loftiness, log, look, look into, looking, lookout, low pitch, lucubration, make a memorandum, make a note, make an entry, make out, make reference to, manifest, marginal note, marginalia, mark, mark down, marketable securities, mash note, materiality, mating call, matriculate, mean, measure, melodia, melodic interval, melodic line, melody, memo, memoir, memorandum, memorial, mention, merit, message, milieu, mind, mindfulness, minim, minute, minutes, missive, moment, money, money order, monograph, mood, morale, morceau, motif, municipal securities, muse, musical note, national bank note, natural, navicert, negotiable instrument, negotiable note, negotiable securities, new philharmonic pitch, nobility, noesis, noncallable securities, notability, notarized statement, notation, note down, note of explanation, note of hand, notes, notice, obiter dictum, observance, observation, observe, octave, opine, outline, outstanding securities, outstandingness, over-the-counter securities, overtone, pandect, paper, paper money, paragraph, parallel octaves, paramountcy, patent note, pay attention to, peculiarity, perceive, perception, philharmonic pitch, philosophical pitch, phrase, picture, piece, pitch, place upon record, poll, portfolio, position, post, post up, postal order, postscript, precedence, preeminence, prefix, preliminary study, prestige, primacy, priority, proclitic, prolegomenon, prominence, promissory note, pronouncement, property, put down, put in writing, put on paper, put on tape, quality, quarter note, quaver, question, realization, recognition, record, records, reduce to writing, refer to, reflect, reflection, refrain, regard, regardfulness, register, registry, remark, reminder, renown, reply, report, representation, representative, reputation, repute, rescript, research paper, respect, responding note, reveal, rider, rough draft, saying, scholia, scholium, screed, scrip, seal, second, securities, see, self-importance, semibreve, semiquaver, semitone, senior securities, sense, sensibility, sentence, set down, seventh, shaped note, sharp, sheepskin, shinplaster, short-term note, show, sight bill, sight draft, sigil, sign, signal, signature, significance, signify, single entry, sixteenth note, sixth, sixty-fourth note, sketch, solo, solo part, song, soprano part, sound, speak, special article, spiccato, spirit, spirits, spying, staccato, stamp, stand for, standard pitch, state of mind, statement, step, stocks and bonds, strain, stress, stridulation, strike a balance, study, subject to call, subjoinder, sublimity, substance, suffix, suggest, suggestion, supereminence, superiority, supremacy, sure sign, survey, suspicion, sustained note, sworn statement, symptom, symptomatize, symptomize, synopsis, tabulate, tail, take down, take note, take notice, tape, tape-record, telltale sign, temper, tend, tenor, tercet, term paper, testamur, testify, testimonial, theme, thesis, think about, third, thirty-second note, thought, thumbnail sketch, ticket, time bill, time draft, tip, tip-off, tonality, tone, touch on, tract, tractate, trade acceptance, trait, treasury bill, treasury bond, treasury certificate, treasury note, treatise, treatment, treble, triplet, tune, ululation, undertone, undigested securities, unison interval, unregistered securities, utterance, value, vein, videotape, view, viewing, visa, vise, voucher, warrant, warranty, watch, watching, weight, whole note, whole step, witness, witnessing, woodnote, word, word of explanation, worth, write, write down, write in, write out, write up

notebook

 * notebook, Domesday Book, account book, address book, adversaria, album, annual, appointment calendar, appointment schedule, best seller, blankbook, blotter, book, bound book, calendar, cashbook, catalog, classic, classified catalog, coloring book, commonplace book, court calendar, daybook, definitive work, desk calendar, diary, diptych, docket, engagement book, folio, great work, hardback, journal, juvenile, juvenile book, ledger, limp-cover book, log, logbook, loose-leaf notebook, magnum opus, memo book, memorandum book, memory book, nonbook, novel, opus, opuscule, opusculum, pad, paperback, petty cashbook, picture book, playbook, pocket book, pocket notebook, pocketbook, police blotter, prayer book, production, psalmbook, psalter, publication, scrapbook, scratch pad, serial, sketchbook, soft-cover, songbook, spiral notebook, standard work, storybook, table, tablet, title, tome, trade book, triptych, volume, work, workbook, writing, writing tablet, yearbook

noted

 * noted, acclaimed, celebrated, distinguished, eminent, esteemed, fabled, famed, famous, far-famed, far-heard, honored, illustrious, leading, legendary, marked, much acclaimed, mythical, notable, notorious, of mark, of note, popular, prominent, renowned, respected, talked-about, talked-of, well-known

noteworthy

 * noteworthy, absolute, appalling, astonishing, celebrated, certain, concrete, conspicuous, defined, definite, detailed, determinate, different, distinct, distinguished, egregious, eminent, esoteric, estimable, evident, exceptional, express, extraordinary, fabulous, fantastic, fixed, formidable, incredible, indescribable, individual, ineffable, inner, intimate, legendary, manifest, marked, marvelous, memorable, minute, mythical, noble, notable, noticeable, observable, of mark, outstanding, particular, patent, personal, phenomenal, portentous, precise, prestigious, private, prodigious, prominent, rare, red-letter, remarkable, rememberable, reputable, respective, rubric, salient, several, signal, singular, solipsistic, special, specific, striking, stupefying, stupendous, superior, telling, uncommon, unexampled, unforgettable, unique, unparalleled, unprecedented, unspeakable, unusual, wonderful

nothing of the kind

 * nothing of the kind, a mile off, another, au contraire, autre chose, away off, certainly not, different story, different thing, far from it, far other, nay, negative, nein, no, no such thing, non, not, not a bit, not a jot, not a whit, not really, not so, nothing like, nyet, other, quite another thing, quite the contrary, something else, something else again, to the contrary, way off, way out

nothing special

 * nothing special, Middle America, bourgeoisie, burgherdom, fourth-rater, mediocrity, middle class, middle order, middle orders, no prize, nobody special, nonentity, second-rater, silent majority, small beer, small potatoes, suburbia, third-rater, tinhorn

nothing

 * nothing, a little thing, a nobody, a nothing, aught, bagatelle, blank, cipher, clean slate, common man, dud, dummy, empty space, figurehead, good-for-nothing, goose egg, hardly anything, hollow man, inanity, inessential, insignificancy, jackstraw, lay figure, lightweight, little fellow, little guy, man of straw, marginal matter, matter of indifference, mediocrity, mere nothing, minor matter, nada, naught, nebbish, nichts, nihil, nihility, nil, nix, no great matter, no such thing, no-account, no-good, nobody, nobody one knows, nonentity, nothing at all, nothing in particular, nothing on earth, nothing to signify, nothing whatever, nothingness, nought, nullity, obscurity, ought, paltry affair, peanuts, peu de chose, pip-squeak, punk, puppet, pushover, rien du tout, runt, scarcely anything, scrub, shrimp, small fry, small potato, small potatoes, squirt, squit, tabula rasa, technicality, thing of naught, trifle, unworthy, vacuum, valueless, void, whiffet, whippersnapper, wind, zero, zilch

nothingness

 * nothingness, KO, absence, acreage, area, blackout, blank, breadth, catalepsy, catatonia, catatony, clean slate, coma, continuum, deprivation, dimension, emptiness, empty space, expanse, expansion, extension, extent, faint, field, galactic space, grayout, inanity, infinite space, interstellar space, kayo, knockout, lipothymia, lipothymy, measure, nada, negation, negativeness, negativity, nihility, nirvana, nirvana principle, nonbeing, nonentity, nonexistence, nonoccurrence, nonreality, nonsubsistence, not-being, nothing, nullity, oblivion, obliviousness, outer space, proportion, semiconsciousness, senselessness, sleep, space, spatial extension, sphere, spread, stupor, superficial extension, surface, swoon, syncope, tabula rasa, tract, unactuality, unconsciousness, unreality, vacancy, vacuity, vacuum, void, volume

notice

 * notice, account, acknowledge, acquaintance, admonish, admonishment, admonition, advert, advertence, advertency, advice, advise, alarm, alertness, allude, analysis, animadvert, announce, announcement, annunciation, apperception, appreciation, appreciativeness, apprehension, approval, assiduity, assiduousness, attend, attend to, attention, attention span, attentiveness, awareness, behold, bench warrant, blackmail, blue book, book review, briefing, bulletin, bulletin board, call, call for, capias, care, catch sight of, caution, caveat, censure, circular, claim, clap eyes on, cognition, cognizance, comment, commentary, commentation, communication, communique, concentration, concern, consciousness, consideration, contribution, critical bibliography, critical journal, critical notice, critical review, criticism, critique, data, datum, death warrant, declaration, demand, demand for, descry, detect, deterrent example, diligence, directive, directory, discern, discover, dispatch, distinguish, draft, drain, duty, ear, earnestness, edict, editorial, encyclical, enlightenment, enunciation, espial, espionage, espy, evidence, exaction, example, extortion, extortionate demand, facts, factual information, familiarization, fieri facias, final notice, final warning, gen, general information, give heed to, give notice, glimpse, gloss, grasp, guidebook, habere facias possessionem, handout, hard information, have in sight, heavy demand, heed, heedfulness, hint, identify, imposition, impost, incidental information, indent, info, inform, information, injunction, insight, insistent demand, instruction, intelligence, intentiveness, intentness, interdict, intimation, ken, knowledge, lay eyes on, leader, leading article, lesson, levy, light, literary criticism, look, look on, look upon, looking, lookout, make out, mandamus, mandate, mandatory injunction, manifesto, mark, memo, mention, message, mind, mindfulness, mittimus, monition, moral, nisi prius, noesis, nonnegotiable demand, note, notification, notify, object lesson, observance, observation, observe, order, pay attention to, perceive, perception, pick out, pick up, position paper, precept, presentation, press release, process, proclamation, program, programma, prohibitory injunction, promotional material, pronouncement, pronunciamento, proof, public notice, publication, publicity, realization, recognition, recognize, refer, regard, regardfulness, release, remark, report, requirement, requisition, respect, review, running commentary, rush, rush order, search warrant, see, sense, sensibility, sidelight, sight, spot, spy, spying, statement, take heed of, take in, take note, take note of, take notice, take notice of, tax, taxing, tend, the dope, the goods, the know, the scoop, thought, threat, tip-off, transmission, tribute, twig, ukase, ultimatum, understanding, verbum sapienti, view, viewing, warn, warning, warning piece, warrant, warrant of arrest, warrant of attorney, watch, watching, white book, white paper, witness, witnessing, word, writ, write-up

noticeable

 * noticeable, acquaint, advise, appalling, apparent, appraisable, appreciable, apprise, arrant, arresting, assessable, astonishing, beholdable, blatant, bold, calculable, clear, clear as crystal, clear-cut, clue, computable, considerable, conspicuous, crystal-clear, detectable, determinable, discernible, disclosed, distinct, distinguishable, egregious, especial, estimable, evident, exceptional, explicit, exposed, exposed to view, express, extraordinary, eye-catching, fabulous, fantastic, fathomable, flagrant, formidable, gaugeable, glaring, hanging out, important, in evidence, in full view, in plain sight, in relief, in the foreground, in view, incredible, indisputable, indubitable, insight, major, manifest, marked, marvelous, measurable, mensurable, meterable, naked, notable, noteworthy, notify, notorious, numerable, observable, obtrusive, obvious, of mark, open, open to view, open-and-shut, ostensible, outcropping, outstanding, palpable, patent, perceivable, perceptible, perspicuous, plain, plain as day, pointed, prominent, pronounced, quantifiable, quantizable, recognizable, remarkable, reveal, revealed, salient, seeable, self-evident, self-explaining, self-explanatory, sensational, showing, signal, significant, singular, spectacular, staring, stark-staring, sticking out, striking, superior, tangible, to be seen, unclouded, uncommon, unconcealed, undisguised, unhidden, unmistakable, viewable, visible, visual, witnessable, wonderful

noticeably

 * noticeably, actually, apparently, appreciably, arrantly, assuredly, blatantly, boldly, certainly, clearly, conspicuously, decidedly, definitely, demonstrably, discernibly, distinctly, evidently, explicitly, expressly, flagrantly, for a certainty, for real, glaringly, in all conscience, indeed, indubitably, manifestly, markedly, measurably, notably, notoriously, observably, obtrusively, obviously, ostensibly, outstandingly, palpably, patently, perceivably, perceptibly, plainly, positively, prominently, pronouncedly, quite, really, recognizably, saliently, seeably, sensibly, seriously, staringly, starkly, strikingly, truly, unambiguously, unconcealedly, undeniably, undisguisedly, unmistakably, verily, visibly, with clarity, without doubt

notification

 * notification, account, acquaintance, admonishment, admonition, alarm, announcement, annunciation, bench warrant, blue book, briefing, bulletin, bulletin board, capias, caution, caveat, circular, communication, communique, conveyance, data, datum, death warrant, declaration, deterrent example, directory, disclosure, dispatch, edict, encyclical, enlightenment, enunciation, evidence, example, facts, factual information, familiarization, fieri facias, final notice, final warning, gen, general information, giving, guidebook, habere facias possessionem, handout, hard information, hint, impartation, imparting, impartment, incidental information, info, information, injunction, instruction, intelligence, interdict, knowledge, lesson, light, mandamus, mandate, mandatory injunction, manifesto, mention, message, mittimus, monition, moral, nisi prius, notice, object lesson, position paper, precept, presentation, process, proclamation, program, programma, prohibitory injunction, promotional material, pronouncement, pronunciamento, proof, public notice, publication, publicity, release, report, search warrant, sharing, sidelight, statement, telling, the dope, the goods, the know, the scoop, threat, tip-off, transfer, transference, transmission, transmittal, ukase, ultimatum, verbum sapienti, warning, warning piece, warrant, warrant of arrest, warrant of attorney, white book, white paper, word, writ

notify

 * notify, acquaint, admonish, advertise, advertise of, advise, alert, announce, apprise, brief, bring word, caution, communicate, cry havoc, declare, disclose, enlighten, familiarize, forerun, give fair warning, give notice, give the facts, give warning, give word, harbinger, herald, hint, inform, instruct, intimate, issue an ultimatum, leave word, let know, mention to, preannounce, proclaim, publish, report, run before, send word, serve notice, sound the alarm, speak, tell, threaten, tip, tip off, utter a caveat, verse, warn, warn against

notion

 * notion, apprehension, assumption, attitude, automatic response, bare suggestion, bee, blind impulse, boutade, brain wave, brainstorm, capriccio, caprice, climate of opinion, clue, common belief, community sentiment, conceit, concept, conception, conclusion, consensus gentium, consideration, crank, craze, crazy idea, crotchet, cue, drive, estimate, estimation, ethos, eye, fad, fancy, fantastic notion, fantasy, feeling, flash, fleeting impulse, flimflam, fool notion, freak, freakish inspiration, general belief, general idea, gut response, half an idea, harebrained idea, hazy idea, hint, humor, idea, image, imago, impression, impulse, inclination, indication, inkling, inspiration, instinct, intellection, intellectual object, intimation, involuntary impulse, judgment, kink, lights, maggot, megrim, memory-trace, mental image, mental impression, mental picture, mere notion, mind, mystique, natural impulse, observation, opinion, passing fancy, perception, personal judgment, point of view, popular belief, position, posture, presumption, prevailing belief, public belief, public opinion, quick hunch, quirk, reaction, recept, reflection, reflex, representation, sentiment, sight, sneaking suspicion, stance, sudden thought, suggestion, supposition, suspicion, telltale, theory, thinking, thought, toy, urge, vagary, vague idea, view, way of thinking, whim, whim-wham, whimsy, wind

notional

 * notional, Gothic, abstract, academic, arbitrary, armchair, baroque, bizarre, brain-born, capricious, conceptive, conceptual, conjectural, cranky, creative, crotchety, dream-built, esemplastic, extravagant, fancied, fanciful, fancy-born, fancy-built, fancy-woven, fantasied, fantasque, fantastic, fecund, fertile, fictive, flaky, florid, freakish, germinal, grotesque, harebrained, humorsome, hypothetic, ideal, ideational, ideative, ideological, illusory, imaginary, imaginational, imaginative, imagined, impractical, ingenious, inspired, inventive, kinky, maggoty, moody, moot, motiveless, nonexistent, original, originative, outlandish, petulant, postulatory, pregnant, preposterous, productive, prolific, quirky, rococo, seminal, shadowy, shaping, speculative, supposititious, teeming, temperamental, theoretical, unactual, unreal, unreasonable, unrestrained, vagarious, vagrant, visional, visioned, wanton, wayward, whimsical, wild

notoriety

 * notoriety, PR, acclaim, arrantness, ballyhoo, blatancy, blot, blurb, boldness, bright light, celebrity, character, common knowledge, conspicuousness, cry, currency, daylight, discredit, discreditableness, disgrace, disgracefulness, dishonor, dishonorableness, disreputability, disreputableness, disrepute, eclat, exposure, fame, famousness, figure, flagrance, flagrancy, glare, glory, high relief, hoopla, hue and cry, ignominy, infamy, kudos, limelight, maximum dissemination, name, noticeability, notoriousness, obloquy, obtrusiveness, opprobrium, ostentation, outstandingness, plug, popularity, press notice, prominence, promotion, pronouncedness, propaganda, public eye, public knowledge, public relations, public report, publicity, publicity story, publicness, puff, reclame, recognition, renown, rep, report, reputation, repute, salience, saliency, scandal, shame, shamefulness, spotlight, stain, strikingness, strong relief, the bubble reputation, unrespectability, unsavoriness, vogue, write-up

notorious

 * notorious, abominable, acclaimed, arrant, atrocious, awful, base, beastly, beneath contempt, blackguardly, blameworthy, blatant, bold, brazen, brazenfaced, brutal, celebrated, common, commonly known, commonplace, conspicuous, contemptible, current, degraded, deplorable, derogatory, despicable, detestable, dire, discreditable, disgraceful, disgusting, dishonorable, disreputable, distinguished, dreadful, egregious, embarrassing, enormous, exhibitionistic, fabled, famed, familiar, famous, far-famed, far-heard, fetid, filthy, flagrant, forward, foul, fulsome, glaring, grievous, gross, hackneyed, hanging out, hateful, heinous, honored, horrible, horrid, household, ignoble, ignominious, immodest, in relief, in the foreground, infamous, inglorious, knavish, lamentable, leading, legendary, loathsome, lousy, marked, memorable, monstrous, much acclaimed, mythical, nasty, naughty, nefarious, noisome, notable, noted, noticeable, obnoxious, obtrusive, odious, of mark, of note, offensive, opprobrious, ostensible, outrageous, outstanding, pitiable, pitiful, platitudinous, popular, prominent, pronounced, proverbial, public, rank, rascally, recreant, regrettable, renowned, reprehensible, reprobate, repulsive, roguish, rotten, sad, salient, scampish, scandalous, schlock, scoundrelly, scurvy, seamy, shabby, shady, shameful, shameless, shaming, shocking, shoddy, sordid, squalid, staring, stark-staring, sticking out, striking, talked-about, talked-of, terrible, too bad, trite, truistic, unabashed, unashamed, unblushing, unclean, unembarrassed, universally admitted, universally recognized, unmodest, unpraiseworthy, unrespectable, unsavory, vile, villainous, well-kenned, well-known, well-recognized, well-understood, widely known, woeful, worst, worthless, wretched

notwithstanding

 * notwithstanding, after all, again, albeit, all the same, although, at all events, at any rate, but, despite, even, even so, for all that, howbeit, however, in any case, in any event, in spite, just the same, nevertheless, nonetheless, rather, regardless of, still, though, when, yet

nought

 * nought, a little thing, aught, cipher, goose egg, hardly anything, inessential, insignificancy, marginal matter, matter of indifference, mere nothing, minor matter, nada, naught, nichts, nihil, nihility, nil, nix, no great matter, no such thing, nothing, nothing at all, nothing in particular, nothing on earth, nothing to signify, nothing whatever, nullity, paltry affair, peu de chose, rien du tout, scarcely anything, technicality, thing of naught, zero, zilch

nourish

 * nourish, abet, advance, aid, aid and abet, aliment, ask for, breast-feed, care for, cherish, coddle, cosset, countenance, cradle, cultivate, dry-nurse, encourage, fatten, fatten up, feed, fondle, force-feed, fortify, foster, give encouragement, harbor, help, invite, keep, keep in countenance, lactate, lavish care on, look after, maintain, mother, nurse, nurture, nutrify, pamper, promote, provide for, spoon-feed, stimulate, strengthen, stuff, suckle, support, sustain, take care of, wet-nurse

nourishing

 * nourishing, alimental, alimentary, assimilable, cannibal, cannibalistic, carnivorous, commensal, dietetic, digestible, dining, eating, feeding, flesh-eating, fruitarian, gastronomic, gluttonous, grain-eating, graminivorous, granivorous, grass-eating, herbivorous, insect-eating, insectivorous, lactovegetarian, man-eating, meat-eating, mensal, nutrient, nutritious, nutritive, omnivorous, omophagous, pantophagous, phytivorous, phytophagous, plant-eating, postprandial, prandial, predacious, preprandial, vegetable-eating, vegetarian

nourishment

 * nourishment, TLC, aliment, alimentation, bread, care, daily bread, economic support, endowment, food, food chain, keep, livelihood, living, maintenance, manna, meat, mothering, nurture, nutriment, nutrition, nutriture, pabulum, pap, price support, provision, refection, refreshment, subsidization, subsidy, subsistence, subvention, support, sustainment, sustenance, sustentation, tender loving care, upkeep, victuals

nous

 * nous, Logos, Vernunft, World Reason, acuity, acuteness, adroitness, anima mundi, aptitude, aptness, archeus, brain, braininess, brains, brightness, brilliance, clear thinking, cleverness, conception, dexterity, discourse of reason, discursive reason, esprit, flair, genius, giftedness, gifts, gray matter, head, headpiece, infinite spirit, intellect, intellection, intellectual faculty, intelligence, keen-wittedness, keenness, mens, mental alertness, mental capacity, mentality, mercurial mind, mind, native cleverness, nimble mind, nimble-wittedness, nimbleness, oversoul, power of reason, psyche, quick parts, quick thinking, quick wit, quick-wittedness, quickness, ratio, rationality, ready wit, reason, reasoning, reasoning faculty, savvy, sharp-wittedness, sharpness, smartness, smarts, sprightly wit, supreme soul, talent, understanding, universal ego, universal life force, world principle, world soul, world spirit, world-self

nouveau riche

 * nouveau riche, Babbitt, Philistine, Young Turk, adventurer, arriviste, boor, bounder, bourgeois, bourgeois gentilhomme, bright young man, cad, churl, clown, comer, epicier, fledgling, groundling, guttersnipe, hooligan, ill-bred fellow, looby, lout, low fellow, modern, modern generation, modern man, modernist, modernizer, mucker, mushroom, name-dropper, neologism, neologist, neology, neonate, neoteric, neoterism, neoterist, new generation, new man, newly-rich, nouveau roturier, novus homo, parvenu, peasant, pig in clover, ribald, rising generation, roturier, rough, roughneck, rowdy, ruffian, social climber, sprout, status seeker, stripling, tufthunter, upstart, vulgarian, vulgarist, would-be gentleman, yokel

nova

 * nova, Beehive, Cepheid variable, Hertzsprung-Russell diagram, Hyades, Messier catalog, NGC, Pleiades, Seven Sisters, absolute magnitude, binary star, black hole, double star, dwarf star, fixed star, giant star, globular cluster, gravity star, magnitude, main sequence star, mass-luminosity law, neutron star, open cluster, populations, pulsar, quasar, quasi-stellar radio source, radio star, red giant star, relative magnitude, sky atlas, spectrum-luminosity diagram, star, star catalog, star chart, star cloud, star cluster, stellar magnitude, supernova, variable star, white dwarf star

novel

 * novel, Bildungsroman, Gothic novel, authentic, avant-garde, bauble, best seller, bibelot, blockbuster, book, bound book, classic, coloring book, comic novel, creative, curio, definitive work, detective novel, different, dime novel, dreadful, epistolary novel, erotic novel, firsthand, folio, fresh, gewgaw, gimcrack, great work, hardback, historical novel, imaginative, juvenile, juvenile book, limp-cover book, magnum opus, modern, modernistic, narrative, neoteric, new, new-fashioned, newfangled, nonbook, notebook, nouvelle, novel of character, novel of ideas, novel of incident, novel of manners, novel of sensibility, novelette, novella, odd, opus, opuscule, opusculum, original, paperback, peculiar, penny dreadful, picaresque novel, picture book, playbook, pocket book, pornographic novel, prayer book, problem novel, production, proletarian novel, propaganda novel, psalmbook, psalter, psychological novel, publication, recent, regional novel, revolutionary, river novel, roman, roman a clef, roman-fleuve, romance, satirical novel, science-fiction novel, sentimental novel, serial, shilling shocker, short story, short-short, singular, sketchbook, sociological novel, soft-cover, songbook, special, standard work, storiette, story, storybook, strange, stream-of-consciousness novel, tale, thesis novel, title, tome, trade book, trifle, trinket, uncommon, unconventional, underived, unfamiliar, unheard-of, unique, untested, untried, unusual, vignette, volume, whatnot, work, writing

novelist

 * novelist, advertising writer, anecdotist, annalist, art critic, author, authoress, belletrist, bibliographer, coauthor, collaborator, columnist, compiler, composer, copywriter, creative writer, critic, dance critic, diarist, drama critic, dramatist, encyclopedist, essayist, fableist, fabler, fabulist, fictionist, free lance, free-lance writer, ghost, ghostwriter, humorist, inditer, literary artist, literary craftsman, literary critic, literary man, litterateur, logographer, magazine writer, man of letters, monographer, music critic, mythmaker, mythopoet, narrator, newspaperman, novelettist, pamphleteer, penwoman, poet, prose writer, raconteur, reciter, recounter, relator, reviewer, romancer, romancist, sagaman, scenario writer, scenarist, scribe, scriptwriter, short-story writer, spinner of yarns, storier, storyteller, taleteller, technical writer, teller of tales, word painter, wordsmith, writer, yarn spinner

novelty

 * novelty, advance guard, authenticity, avant-garde, bauble, brand-newness, callowness, craze, creativeness, creativity, dewiness, fad, faddiness, faddishness, faddism, faddist, freshness, gewgaw, gimcrack, gimmick, gloss of novelty, greenness, immaturity, innovation, innovativeness, intactness, inventiveness, kickshaw, lateness, latest fad, latest fashion, latest wrinkle, maidenhood, mint condition, new look, newbornness, newfangled device, newfangledness, newfangleness, newness, nonimitation, novelness, nowness, originality, ornament, plaything, presentness, pristineness, rage, rawness, recency, recentness, strangeness, the in thing, the last word, the latest thing, toy, trifle, trinket, uncommonness, unfamiliarity, uniqueness, unusualness, vanguard, virginity, wrinkle

novena

 * novena, Mass, Nina from Carolina, bedtime prayer, camp meeting, church, church service, compline, devotions, divine service, duty, ennead, enneastyle, evening devotions, evensong, exercises, lauds, liturgy, matins, meeting, morning devotions, night song, nine, nonage, nonagon, none, nones, nonuplet, office, praise meeting, prayer, prayer meeting, prayers, prime, prime song, public worship, revival, revival meeting, service, sext, tent meeting, tierce, undersong, vesper, vespers, vigils, watch meeting, watch night, watch-night service

novice

 * novice, abbess, abecedarian, alphabetarian, amateur, apprentice, articled clerk, baby, beginner, boot, canoness, catechumen, clergywoman, colt, conventual, cub, deb, debutant, entrant, fledgling, freshman, greenhorn, greeny, ignoramus, inductee, infant, initiate, lady superior, learner, mother superior, neophyte, nestling, new boy, newcomer, novitiate, nun, postulant, prentice, prioress, probationer, probationist, proselyte, punk, raw recruit, recruit, religieuse, rookie, secular canoness, sister, student, superioress, tenderfoot, the reverend mother, trainee, tyro, undergraduate

now and then

 * now and then, at infrequent intervals, at intervals, at odd times, at times, at various times, betimes, betweentimes, betweenwhiles, ever and again, ever and anon, every so often, here and there, now, occasionally, on divers occasions, on occasion, once and again, only occasionally, only when necessary, sometimes

now

 * now, a la mode, advanced, all at once, all together, as, as long as, as of now, as things are, at a blow, at a stroke, at once, at one blow, at one jump, at one stroke, at one swoop, at one time, at present, at this juncture, at this moment, at this point, at this time, avant-garde, away, but now, cause, considering, contemporaneity, contemporaneousness, contemporary, directly, even now, far out, fashionable, for, for the nonce, for this occasion, forthwith, forward-looking, here, here and now, hereat, hic et nunc, historical present, immediately, in, in a hurry, in our time, in these days, inasmuch as, instanter, instantly, just now, lately, latterly, mod, modern, modernistic, modernity, modernized, modish, newfashioned, newness, not long ago, nowadays, nowness, of late, on the spot, only yesterday, our times, per saltum, present, present tense, present-day, present-time, presently, presentness, progressive, pronto, recently, right away, right now, right off, seeing, simultaneously, since, straightaway, straightway, streamlined, subito, the Now Generation, the nonce, the now, the other day, the present, the present age, the present day, the present hour, the present juncture, the present time, the time being, the times, then and there, these days, this day, this hour, this instant, this minute, this moment, this night, this point, this stage, this very minute, today, tonight, twentieth-century, ultra-ultra, ultramodern, uno saltu, up-to-date, up-to-datish, up-to-the-minute, way out, whereas, without delay

noway

 * noway, God forbid, at no hand, au contraire, by no means, far from it, in no case, in no respect, in no wise, never, no matter what, nohow, not a bit, not a jot, not a speck, not a whit, not an iota, not at all, not much, not nearly, noways, nowhere near, nowise, on no account, on no condition, quite the contrary, to the contrary, under no circumstances

nowhere

 * nowhere, China, Darkest Africa, God knows where, Greenland, North Pole, Outer Mongolia, Pago Pago, Pillars of Hercules, Siberia, South Pole, Thule, Tierra del Fuego, Timbuktu, Ultima Thule, Yukon, antipodes, frontier, godforsaken place, in no place, jumping-off place, nowhither, outback, outer space, outpost, outskirts, pole, the Great Divide, the South Seas, the boondocks, the moon, the sticks, the tullies

nowise

 * nowise, at no hand, by no means, in no case, in no respect, in no wise, never, nohow, not a bit, not a jot, not a speck, not a whit, not an iota, not at all, not much, not nearly, noway, noways, nowhere near, on no account, under no circumstances

noxious

 * noxious, abhorrent, abominable, bad, bad for, bad-smelling, baleful, baneful, barfy, base, beastly, below contempt, beneath contempt, bitchy, brackish, catching, cloying, communicable, contagious, contaminated, contemptible, corroding, corrosive, corrupting, corruptive, counterproductive, crude, cussed, damaging, deadly, deleterious, despicable, destructive, detestable, detrimental, disadvantageous, disgusting, disserviceable, distressing, envenomed, execrable, fecal, fetid, forbidding, foul, frowsty, frowy, frowzy, fulsome, funky, fusty, gamy, graveolent, gross, harmful, hateful, heinous, high, hurtful, icky, ignoble, ill-smelling, infectious, infective, iniquitous, injurious, insalubrious, insanitary, invidious, lethal, loathsome, maggoty, malefic, maleficent, malevolent, malicious, malign, malignant, malodorous, mawkish, mean, mephitic, miasmal, miasmatic, miasmic, mildewed, mildewy, mischievous, moldy, morbific, musty, nasty, nauseant, nauseating, nauseous, nidorous, noisome, objectionable, obnoxious, obscene, odious, odorous, offensive, olid, ominous, ornery, overripe, pathogenic, peccant, pernicious, pestiferous, pestilent, pestilential, poisonous, polluted, prejudicial, putrid, rancid, rank, reasty, reasy, rebarbative, reechy, reeking, reeky, repellent, repugnant, repulsive, revolting, rotten, scatheful, septic, sickening, sickly, smellful, smelling, smelly, spoiled, stenchy, stinking, strong, stuffy, sulfurous, tainted, toxic, toxicant, toxiferous, unhealthful, unhealthy, unhygienic, unsanitary, unwholesome, venenate, veneniferous, venenous, venomous, vicious, vile, virulent, vomity, weevily, wicked, yucky

nozzle

 * nozzle, aerosol, antlia, aspergil, aspergillum, atomizer, beak, beezer, bib nozzle, bill, bugle, clyster, concentrate sprayer, conk, douche, enema, fountain syringe, mist concentrate sprayer, muffle, muzzle, nares, neb, needle bath, nib, nose, nostrils, olfactory organ, pecker, pressure nozzle, proboscis, rhinarium, rose, rosehead, rostrum, schnozzle, shower, shower bath, shower head, smeller, snoot, snout, sparge, sparger, spray, spray can, spray nozzle, sprayer, sprinkler, sprinkler head, sprinkling system, syringe, trunk, watercart, watering can, watering pot

nth degree

 * nth degree, acme, all, apogee, ceiling, climax, crown, end, extreme, extremity, highest degree, limit, maximum, ne plus ultra, peak, pinnacle, summit, the whole, top, utmost, utmost extent, uttermost

nuance

 * nuance, allegory, allusion, amount, arcane meaning, assumption, caliber, coloration, compass, connotation, contradistinction, cut, dash, degree, delicacy, delicate distinction, demarcation, differentia, differential, differentiation, distinction, distinctiveness, distinguishment, division, extent, fine point, grade, hairline, hairsplitting, height, hint, implication, implied meaning, import, inference, innuendo, interval, intimation, ironic suggestion, leap, level, margin, mark, meaning, measure, metaphorical sense, microscopic distinction, narrow margin, nice distinction, nicety, notch, occult meaning, overtone, particle of difference, pas, peg, period, pitch, plane, plateau, point, point of difference, presumption, presupposition, proportion, range, ratio, reach, refinement, remove, round, rung, scale, scope, segregation, separation, shade, shade of difference, shadow, soupcon, space, stair, standard, step, stint, subsense, subsidiary sense, subtle distinction, subtlety, suggestion, supposition, suspicion, symbolism, tinge, touch, tread, trichoschistism, undercurrent, undermeaning, undertone, wide margin

nub

 * nub, axiom, axis, bench mark, bilge, blain, bleb, blister, blob, boss, bow, bubble, bulb, bulge, bulla, bump, bunch, burl, button, cahot, cardinal point, center, center of action, center of gravity, centroid, centrum, chief thing, chine, climax, clump, condyle, convex, core, cornerstone, crisis, critical point, crux, dead center, distillate, distillation, dowel, ear, elixir, epicenter, essence, essential, essential matter, fabric, feel, finish, flange, flap, flower, focus, fundamental, gall, gist, gnarl, grain, granular texture, gravamen, great point, handle, heart, high point, hill, hub, hump, hunch, hypostasis, important thing, indentation, inner essence, issue, jog, joggle, kernel, keystone, knob, knot, knub, knur, knurl, landmark, lip, loop, lump, main point, main thing, marrow, material, material point, matter, meat, medium, medulla, metacenter, middle, milestone, mole, mountain, nap, nave, navel, nevus, nubbin, nubble, nucleus, nuts and bolts, omphalos, papilloma, peg, pile, pit, pith, pivot, pock, postulate, principle, protuberance, quid, quiddity, quintessence, real issue, rib, ridge, ring, salient point, sap, shag, short, shoulder, sine qua non, soul, spine, spirit, storm center, structure, stud, stuff, style, substance, substantive point, sum and substance, surface, surface texture, tab, texture, the bottom line, the nitty-gritty, the point, tubercle, tubercule, turning point, umbilicus, upshot, verruca, vesicle, wale, wart, weave, welt, woof

nubbin

 * nubbin, bantam, banty, bilge, blain, bleb, blister, blob, boss, bow, bubble, bulb, bulge, bulla, bump, bunch, burden, burl, button, cahot, chine, chit, clump, condyle, convex, core, crux, diminutive, dowel, ear, featherweight, fingerling, flange, flap, gall, gist, gnarl, handle, hill, hump, hunch, jog, joggle, kernel, knob, knot, knur, knurl, lightweight, lip, loop, lump, matter, meat, mini, minikin, minnow, minny, mole, mountain, mouse, nevus, nub, nubble, papilloma, peewee, peg, pony, rib, ridge, ring, runt, shoulder, shrimp, slip, small fry, snip, snippet, spine, stud, style, tab, tit, tubercle, tubercule, upshot, verruca, vesicle, wale, wart, welt, wisp

nubby

 * nubby, burled, gnarled, gnarly, knobbed, knobby, knoblike, knotted, knotty, knurled, knurly, nappy, nodal, noded, nodiform, nodular, nodulated, noduled, nubbled, nubbly, pily, pitted, shaggy, studded, torose, tubercular, tuberculous, tuberose, tuberous

nuclear fission

 * nuclear fission, alpha decay, atom-chipping, atom-smashing, atomic disintegration, atomic reaction, atomization, beta decay, bombardment, breeding, bullet, chain reaction, cleavage, disintegration series, dissociation, exchange reaction, fission, fission reaction, gamma decay, ionization, neutron reaction, nonreversible reaction, nucleization, photodisintegration, proton gun, proton reaction, reversible reaction, splitting the atom, stimulation, target, thermonuclear reaction

nuclear physics

 * nuclear physics, Newtonian physics, acoustics, aerophysics, applied physics, astrophysics, atomic science, atomics, atomistics, atomology, basic conductor physics, biophysics, chemical physics, cryogenics, crystallography, cytophysics, electron physics, electronics, electrophysics, geophysics, macrophysics, mass spectrography, mass spectrometry, mathematical physics, mechanics, medicophysics, microphysics, molecular physics, natural philosophy, natural science, nuclear chemistry, optics, philosophy, physic, physical chemistry, physical science, physicochemistry, physicomathematics, physics, psychophysics, quantum mechanics, radiation physics, radiology, radionics, solar physics, solid-state physics, statics, stereophysics, theoretical physics, thermionics, thermodynamics, wave mechanics, zoophysics

nuclear power

 * nuclear power, AEC, Atomic Energy Commission, activation energy, atomic energy, atomic power, atomic project, atomic research, binding energy, electric power, electropower, energy level, horsepower, hydraulic power, hydroelectric power, impulse, jet power, manpower, mass energy, nuclear energy, piston power, propulsion, rocket power, solar power, steam power, thermonuclear power, thrust, water power

nuclear

 * nuclear, amidships, average, central, chromatinic, chromosomal, core, diploid, equatorial, equidistant, extranuclear, halfway, haploid, heteronuclear, homonuclear, interior, intermediary, intermediate, isonuclear, mean, medial, median, mediocre, mediterranean, medium, mesial, mezzo, mid, middle, middlemost, middling, midland, midmost, midships, midway, nucleal, nucleary, nucleate, nucleolar, nucleolate, nucleolated, polyploid, thermonuclear

nucleus

 * nucleus, Anlage, Kern, NMR, alpha particle, antibaryon, antilepton, antimeson, atomic nucleus, atomic particle, axiom, axis, baryon, basichromatin, beta particle, bud, center, center of action, center of gravity, centroid, centrum, chromatin, chromatin strands, core, dead center, diameter, diaphragm, egg, electron, elementary particle, elixir, embryo, epicenter, equator, essence, essential, flower, focus, fundamental, germ, germen, gist, gravamen, heart, heterochromatin, hub, hypostasis, inner essence, interior, karyosome, karyotin, kernel, lepton, loins, macronucleus, marrow, mean, meat, median, medulla, meganucleus, meson, metacenter, micronucleus, middle, midmost, midriff, midst, nave, navel, neutron, nub, nuclear force, nuclear magnetic resonance, nuclear particle, nuclear resonance, nucleolus, nucleon, nucleosynthesis, nuts and bolts, omphalos, ovum, photon, pith, pivot, plasmosome, postulate, principle, proton, quid, quiddity, quintessence, rudiment, sap, seed, soul, spark, spermatozoon, spirit, storm center, strangeness, strong interaction, stuff, substance, the nitty-gritty, thick, thick of things, triton, umbilicus, valence electron, waist, waistline, zone

nude

 * nude, art object, au naturel, bald, bare, bare-ass, bareness, birthday suit, blank, brainchild, bric-a-brac, classic, composition, creation, decollete, design, dishabille, ecdysiast, garmentless, grotesque, gymnosophical, gymnosophist, gymnosophy, in, in native buff, in puris naturalibus, in the altogether, in the buff, in the raw, kitsch, master, masterpiece, masterwork, mobile, mother-naked, museum piece, naked, nakedness, naturism, naturist, naturistic, not a stitch, nudism, nudist, nudity, old master, pasticcio, pastiche, peeled, piece, piece of virtu, raw, stabile, stark, stark-naked, state of nature, statue, still life, stripped, stripper, stripteaser, study, the altogether, the nude, the raw, toplessness, unadorned, unadulterated, unarrayed, unattired, unclad, unclothed, uncomplicated, uncovered, undecked, undecorated, undraped, undressed, unembellished, unfurbished, ungarnished, unornamented, unrobed, unsophisticated, untrimmed, unvarnished, virtu, with nothing on, without a stitch, work, work of art

nudge

 * nudge, Roman candle, actuate, aid to navigation, alarm, amber light, assault, attouchement, balefire, beacon, beacon fire, bear, bear upon, bearing, beat the drum, bell, bell buoy, blinker, blue peter, boost, bring to recollection, broad hint, brush, brush by, buck, bull, bulldoze, bump, bump against, bunt, buoy, butt, butt against, caress, carry back, caution light, clue, come in contact, contact, contingence, cram, crowd, cue, dig, dip, drive, elbow, encourage, encouragement, exchange colors, flag, flag down, flare, flash, flog, fog bell, fog signal, fog whistle, foghorn, force, gentle hint, gesture, give a hint, give a signal, give the cue, give the nod, glance, glimmer, glimmering, go light, goad, gong buoy, graze, green light, hail, hail and speak, half-mast, head, heliograph, high sign, hint, hit, hoist a banner, hold the promptbook, hurtle, hustle, impel, impinge, impingement, impingence, implication, index, indication, inkling, innuendo, insinuation, international alphabet flag, international numeral pennant, intimation, jab, jam, jog, jog the memory, joggle, jolt, jostle, kick, kiss, lash, leer, look, make a sign, marker beacon, mobilize, motivate, move, nag, needle, nod, osculate, osculation, parachute flare, pile drive, pilot flag, poke, police whistle, press, pressure, prick, prod, prompt, prompt the mind, propel, punch, push, put in mind, put in remembrance, quarantine flag, radio beacon, raise a cry, ram, ram down, rattle, recall, red flag, red light, remember, remind, remind one of, rocket, rub, run, run against, sailing aid, salute, scent, scrape, semaphore, semaphore flag, semaphore telegraph, set in motion, shake, shave, shoulder, shove, sideswipe, sign, signal, signal beacon, signal bell, signal fire, signal flag, signal gong, signal gun, signal lamp, signal light, signal mast, signal post, signal rocket, signal shot, signal siren, signal tower, signalize, skim, skirt, sound an alarm, sound the trumpet, spar buoy, speak, spoor, spur, squeak by, sting, stop light, stress, suggest, suggestion, suspicion, symptom, taction, tamp, tangency, telltale, tentative contact, the nod, the wink, thrust, touch, touching, track, traffic light, traffic signal, unfurl a flag, watch fire, wave, wave a flag, wave the hand, whip, whisper, white flag, wigwag, wigwag flag, wink, yellow flag

nudie

 * nudie, 3-D, Cinemascope, Cinerama, Technicolor, Western, animated cartoon, black-and-white film, cartoon, chiller, cinema, color film, creepie, documentary, documentary film, educational film, feature, film, flick, flicker, horror picture, horse opera, motion picture, motion-picture show, movie, moving picture, newsreel, photodrama, photoplay, picture, picture show, pornographic film, preview, short, silent, silent film, skin flick, sneak preview, spaghetti Western, talkie, talking picture, thriller, trailer, underground film

nudist

 * nudist, bald, bare, bare-ass, bareness, birthday suit, decollete, ecdysiast, gymnosophical, gymnosophist, gymnosophy, in native buff, in puris naturalibus, in the altogether, in the buff, in the raw, naked, nakedness, naturism, naturist, naturistic, not a stitch, nude, nudism, nudity, peeled, raw, stark-naked, state of nature, stripper, stripteaser, the altogether, the nude, the raw, toplessness, with nothing on, without a stitch

nudity

 * nudity, baldness, bareness, beauty unadorned, birthday suit, decollete, ecdysiast, gymnosophist, gymnosophy, nakedness, naturism, naturist, not a stitch, nudism, nudist, state of nature, stripper, stripteaser, the altogether, the nude, the raw, toplessness, unadulteration, uncomplexity, uncomplicatedness, uncomplication, undress, unembellishment, unornamentation, unsophistication

nudzh

 * nudzh, aggravate, annoy, annoyer, badger, badgerer, bait, be at, bedevil, beset, bother, bristle, brown off, bug, bully, bullyrag, burn up, chivy, devil, discompose, distemper, disturb, dog, exasperate, exercise, fash, get, gripe, harass, harasser, harrier, harry, heckle, heckler, hector, hound, irk, miff, molest, nag, needle, nettle, nudnik, peeve, persecute, persecutor, pest, pester, pesterer, pick on, pique, plague, plaguer, pluck the beard, pother, provoke, ride, rile, roil, ruffle, sadist, tease, teaser, torment, tormentor, try the patience, tweak the nose, vex, worry

nugatory

 * nugatory, NG, airy, asinine, barren, bootless, catchpenny, cheap, counterproductive, effete, empty, etiolated, fatuitous, fatuous, feckless, flimsy, foolish, fribble, fribbling, frivolous, frothy, fruitless, futile, good-for-naught, good-for-nothing, hollow, idle, inadequate, inane, ineffective, ineffectual, inefficacious, inoperative, invalid, junk, junky, light, no-account, no-good, not worth having, not worth mentioning, not worthwhile, nugacious, of no force, otiose, shabby, shallow, shoddy, silly, slender, slight, sterile, superficial, trashy, trifling, trite, trivial, unavailing, useless, vacuous, vain, valueless, vapid, windy, worthless

nugget

 * nugget, bar, batch, block, bulk, bullion, chunk, clod, clump, coin gold, coin silver, copper, gob, gold, gold nugget, hunch, hunk, ingot, loaf, lump, mass, nickel, pat, precious metals, quantity, silver, wad, yellow stuff

nuisance value

 * nuisance value, arrest, arrestation, arrestment, blockage, blocking, check, clogging, closing up, closure, constriction, cramp, delay, detainment, detention, fixation, foot-dragging, hampering, hindering, hindrance, holdback, holdup, impediment, inhibition, interference, interruption, let, negativism, obstruction, obstructionism, occlusion, opposition, repression, resistance, restraint, restriction, retardation, retardment, setback, squeeze, stranglehold, stricture, suppression

nuisance

 * nuisance, aggravation, annoyance, ass, bad news, bedevilment, besetment, bore, bother, botheration, bothersomeness, burden, buttonholer, crashing bore, devilment, difficulty, dogging, downer, drag, drip, dryasdust, dusty, exasperation, flat tire, frightful bore, harassment, harrying, hassle, headache, hounding, humdrum, inconvenience, irritant, irritation, molestation, nag, ordeal, persecution, pest, pester, pesterer, pill, plague, problem, proser, tease, tormenter, tormentor, trial, trouble, twaddler, vexation, vexatiousness, wet blanket, worriment, worry

null and void

 * null and void, bad, bare, barren, bland, blank, bleached, characterless, clear, devoid, empty, featureless, hollow, inane, insipid, invalid, null, repealed, revoked, unrelieved, vacant, vacuous, void, white, with nothing inside, without content

null

 * null, aimless, bad, bare, barren, bland, blank, bleached, characterless, clear, designless, devoid, empty, existless, featureless, garbled, hollow, importless, inane, ineffective, ineffectual, inefficacious, insignificant, insipid, invalid, lacking, meaningless, minus, missing, negative, nonconnotative, nondenotative, nonexistent, null and void, phatic, purportless, purposeless, scrambled, senseless, unexisting, unmeaning, unrelieved, unsignificant, useless, vacant, vacuous, void, white, with nothing inside, without being, without content, worthless

nullification

 * nullification, abjuration, abjurement, abolishment, abolition, abrogation, absolute contradiction, annihilation, annulment, autarky, bimetallism, cancel, canceling, cancellation, cassation, choking, choking off, contradiction, contrary assertion, contravention, controversion, counterbalancing, countering, countermand, counterorder, crossing, defeasance, denial, deracination, disaffirmation, disallowance, disavowal, disclaimer, disclamation, disownment, disproof, economic self-sufficiency, elimination, eradication, extermination, extinction, extinguishment, extirpation, forswearing, free enterprise, free trade, frustration, gainsaying, governmentalism, impugnment, invalidation, laissez-faire, laissez-faireism, line, liquidation, localism, managed currency, negation, neutralization, noninterference, nonintervention, offsetting, party line, party principle, planned economy, policy, polity, position, price supports, protection, protectionism, public policy, pump-priming, purge, recall, recantation, refutation, renege, renunciation, repeal, repudiation, rescinding, rescindment, rescission, retractation, retraction, reversal, revocation, revoke, revokement, rooting out, sectionalism, setting aside, silencing, snuffing out, stifling, strangulation, suffocation, suppression, suspension, thwarting, undoing, uprooting, vacation, vacatur, vitiation, voidance, voiding, waiver, waiving, withdrawal, write-off

nullify

 * nullify, abate, abjure, abolish, abrogate, absolve, annihilate, annul, assert the contrary, belie, bring to naught, bring to nothing, buffer, cancel, cancel out, come to nothing, compensate, confine, contest, contradict, contravene, controvert, counter, counteract, counterbalance, countermand, counterorder, countervail, cross, declare a moratorium, deny, disaffirm, disallow, disannul, disavow, disclaim, disown, disprove, dispute, do away with, forswear, frustrate, gainsay, impugn, invalidate, join issue upon, limit, make void, negate, negativate, negative, neutralize, not accept, not admit, obliterate, offset, oppose, override, overrule, quash, recall, recant, refuse to admit, refute, renege, renounce, repeal, repudiate, rescind, restrict, retract, reverse, revoke, set aside, stultify, suspend, take back, take issue with, thwart, undo, vacate, vitiate, void, waive, wipe out, withdraw, write off

nullity

 * nullity, a little thing, absence, aimlessness, cipher, dead letter, deprivation, dud, dummy, emptiness, empty sound, futility, hardly anything, hollow man, inanity, inessential, insignificance, insignificancy, jackstraw, lay figure, man of straw, marginal matter, matter of indifference, meaninglessness, mere noise, mere nothing, minor matter, nada, naught, nebbish, negation, negativeness, negativity, nihility, no great matter, nobody, noise, nonbeing, nonentity, nonexistence, nonoccurrence, nonreality, nonsensicality, nonsubsistence, not-being, nothing, nothing in particular, nothing to signify, nothingness, paltry affair, peu de chose, phatic communion, puppet, purposelessness, pushover, rien du tout, scarcely anything, senselessness, technicality, thing of naught, trifle, unactuality, unmeaningness, unreality, unsignificancy, vacancy, vacuity, vacuum, void, whiffet, whippersnapper, zero, zilch

numb

 * numb, KO, Laodicean, Olympian, abate, allay, alleviate, aloof, anesthetize, anesthetized, apathetic, appease, asleep, assuage, bedaze, benumb, benumbed, besot, bite, blah, blase, blunt, bored, callous, casual, chill, chloroform, coldcock, comatose, cushion, cut, dead, deaden, deaden the pain, deadened, debilitated, desensitize, desensitized, detached, diminish, disinterested, dope, dopey, dormant, droopy, drug, drugged, dull, ease, ease matters, enervated, etherize, exanimate, foment, freeze, frost, frostbite, give relief, go through, heartless, heavy, hebetudinous, hopeless, immobilize, impassible, imperceptive, impercipient, in a stupor, inanimate, incurious, indifferent, inert, insensate, insensible, insensitive, insentient, insouciant, jaded, kayo, knock out, knock senseless, knock stiff, knock unconscious, lackadaisical, languid, languorous, lay, lay out, leaden, lessen, lethargic, lifeless, listless, lull, lumpish, mitigate, mollify, moribund, mull, narcotize, nip, nonchalant, numbed, obdurate, obtund, obtuse, pad, palliate, palsy, paralyze, passive, penetrate, phlegmatic, pierce, pluckless, pooped, poultice, pour balm into, pour oil on, put to sleep, reduce, refrigerate, relieve, remote, resigned, salve, sated, senseless, slack, slacken, slake, sleepy, slow, sluggish, soften, somnolent, soothe, soporific, spiritless, spunkless, stagnant, stagnating, stoic, stultified, stun, stupe, stupefied, stupefy, subdue, supine, thick-skinned, thick-witted, torpid, uncaring, unconcerned, unconscious, unfeeling, unfelt, uninterested, unperceptive, vegetable, vegetative, wan, weary, withdrawn, world-weary

number among

 * number among, admit, assimilate, complete, comprehend, comprise, contain, count in, cover, embody, embrace, encircle, enclose, encompass, envisage, fill, fill in, fill out, hold, include, incorporate, occupy, receive, reckon among, reckon in, reckon with, take in, take into account, take into consideration, take up

number one

 * number one, Al, Grade A, alter, alter ego, alterum, better self, blue-ribbon, capital, cock, dominant, ego, ethical self, first-class, first-rate, first-string, he, her, herself, him, himself, inner man, inner self, it, main, major, me, my humble self, myself, oneself, other self, ourselves, outstanding, predominant, preeminent, self, she, stellar, subconscious self, subliminal self, superego, superior, them, themselves, they, you, yours truly, yourself, yourselves

number

 * number, G, M, a certain number, a few, a number, account, act, add up, add up to, afterpiece, aggregate, aggregate to, amount, amount to, apportion, army, art, article, back matter, back number, batch, beat, bevy, billion, bit, block out, blood, book, box score, brand, breed, budget, bunch, business, calculate, call off, call over, call the roll, calling, career, career building, careerism, cast, census, chapter, character, chaser, chiliad, chiliagon, chiliahedron, chiliarch, chiliarchia, chunk, cipher, clan, clause, clutch, collection, color, come, come to, company, comprise, compute, contain, copy, count, covey, craft, crowd, curtain, curtain call, curtain raiser, deal, decrease, denomination, description, designation, detail, difference, digit, divertimento, divertissement, divide, dose, dual, edition, enumerate, epilogue, exode, exodus, expository scene, fascicle, feather, few, figure, figure up, finale, fix, foliate, folio, form, front matter, game, gang, gathering, genre, genus, gob, grain, grand, group, handful, handicraft, heap, hoke act, horde, host, hundred, hunk, ilk, impression, include, increase, integer, interlude, intermezzo, intermission, introduction, issue, itemize, kidney, kilo, kilocycle, kilogram, kilohertz, kiloliter, kilometer, kin, kind, label, lakh, large amount, legions, library, library edition, lifework, lilt, line, line of business, line of work, loads, lot, make, manner, many, mark, mass, measure, mess, meter, metier, metrics, millennium, millepede, milligram, milliliter, million, mission, mob, mold, mount up to, movement, multitude, myriad, mystery, nature, numbers, numeral, numerate, occupation, one hundred thousand, one or two, outline, pack, page, paginate, paragraph, parcel, parse, part, party, passage, passel, persuasion, phrase, phylum, platoon, plural, poll, portion, practice, printing, product, profession, prologue, prosody, pursuit, quantify, quantity, quantize, race, racket, rate, ration, reckon, reckon up to, reckoning, reduce, resolve, rhythm, rhythmic pattern, routine, run into, run over, run to, scan, scene, schematize, school edition, score, section, sentence, series, set, several, shape, sheet, shtick, signature, singular, sketch, skit, slew, slews, small amount, song and dance, sort, specialization, specialty, species, stamp, stand-up comedy act, strain, stripe, striptease, style, sum, sum up, summation, swarm, swing, tale, tally, tell, ten thousand, text, the bottom line, the like of, the likes of, the story, the whole story, thou, thousand, tons, tot up, tot up to, total, tote up to, trade, trade book, trade edition, trial, tribe, troop, turn, two or three, type, umpteen, unitize, variety, verse, vocation, volume, walk, walk of life, whole, whole number, work, x number, yard

numbering

 * numbering, accounting, assimilating, census, comprising, containing, counting, covering, dactylonomy, embracing, encircling, enclosing, encompassing, enumeration, envisaging, foliation, including, inclusive, incorporating, inventorying, measurement, numeration, pagination, quantification, quantization, tallying, telling

numberless

 * numberless, countless, endless, immeasurable, incalculable, inexhaustible, infinite, innumerable, measureless, myriad, no end of, numerous, uncountable, uncounted, unmeasured, unnumbered, untold, without end, without limit

numbers

 * numbers, Alexandrine, Stabreim, a mass of, a world of, accent, accentuation, algorism, algorithm, alliterative meter, amount, amphibrach, amphimacer, amplitude, anacrusis, anapest, antispast, applied mathematics, army, arsis, bacchius, beat, bevy, bingo, bulk, bunch, cadence, caesura, card games, catalexis, chloriamb, chloriambus, chuck and toss, chuck farthing, chuck-a-luck, cloud, clutter, colon, counterpoint, covey, crack-loo, crap game, crap shooting, craps, cretic, dactyl, dactylic hexameter, diaeresis, dimeter, dipody, dochmiac, elegiac, elegiac couplet, elegiac pentameter, emphasis, epitrite, extent, fan-tan, feminine caesura, figures, flight, flock, flocks, foot, force, hail, hazard, heptameter, heptapody, heroic couplet, hexameter, hexapody, higher mathematics, hive, horse racing, host, iamb, iambic, iambic pentameter, ictus, ionic, jam, jingle, keno, large amount, legion, lilt, lots, lotto, magnitude, many, masculine caesura, mass, masses of, math, mathematic, mathematics, matter, measure, measurement, meter, metrical accent, metrical foot, metrical group, metrical pattern, metrical unit, metrics, metron, mob, molossus, mora, movement, muchness, multitude, nest, pack, paeon, pentameter, pentapody, period, pinball, pitch and toss, plurality, policy, proceleusmatic, prosodic pattern, prosody, pure mathematics, pyrrhic, quantitative meter, quantities, quantity, quantum, quite a few, rhythm, rouge et noir, roulette, rout, ruck, scanning, scansion, scores, shell game, shoal, spondee, sprung rhythm, strength, stress, substance, sum, swarm, sweepstake, sweepstakes, swing, syllabic meter, syzygy, tetrameter, tetrapody, tetraseme, the numbers, the numbers game, thesis, throng, tidy sum, trente-et-quarante, tribrach, trimeter, tripody, triseme, trochee, vers libre, versification, whole, worlds of

numbing

 * numbing, Siberian, abatement, algid, allayment, alleviating, alleviation, alleviative, analgesia, analgesic, anesthesia, anesthetic, anesthetizing, anodyne, appeasement, arctic, assuagement, assuasive, balmy, balsamic, below zero, benumbing, biting, bitter, bitterly cold, bleak, boreal, brisk, brumal, cathartic, cleansing, cold, cold as charity, cold as death, cold as ice, cold as marble, crisp, cutting, deadening, demulcent, diminishment, diminution, dulling, ease, easement, easing, emollient, freezing, freezing cold, frigid, gelid, glacial, hibernal, hiemal, hyperborean, ice-cold, ice-encrusted, icelike, icy, inclement, keen, lenitive, lessening, lulling, mitigating, mitigation, mitigative, mollification, narcotic, nipping, nippy, pain-killing, palliation, palliative, penetrating, piercing, pinching, purgative, raw, reduction, relief, relieving, remedial, remedy, rigorous, salving, severe, sharp, sleety, slushy, snappy, softening, soothing, stone-cold, stunning, stupefying, subduement, subduing, subzero, supercooled, winterbound, winterlike, wintery, wintry

numbness

 * numbness, acedia, aloofness, analgesia, anesthesia, apathy, ataraxia, ataraxy, benumbedness, blah, blahs, callousness, comatoseness, deadness, detachment, disinterest, dispassion, dullness, electronarcosis, heartlessness, hebetude, hopelessness, impassibility, imperception, imperceptiveness, imperceptivity, impercipience, inappetence, inconsiderateness, indifference, insensibility, insensibleness, insensitiveness, insensitivity, insentience, insouciance, lack of appetite, languidness, lethargicalness, lethargy, listlessness, narcosis, narcotization, nonchalance, obtuseness, passiveness, passivity, phlegm, phlegmaticalness, phlegmaticness, pins and needles, plucklessness, resignation, resignedness, sloth, sluggishness, sopor, soporifousness, spiritlessness, spunklessness, stupefaction, stupor, supineness, thick skin, torpidity, torpidness, torpor, unconcern, unfeeling, unfeelingness, unperceptiveness, withdrawnness

numerable

 * numerable, appraisable, appreciable, assessable, calculable, computable, countable, determinable, estimable, fathomable, gaugeable, measurable, mensurable, meterable, noticeable, numberable, perceptible, quantifiable, quantizable, reckonable

numerate

 * numerate, call off, call over, call the roll, census, count, enumerate, foliate, list, measure, number, page, paginate, poll, quantify, quantize, run over, tale, tally, tell, tick off

numerative

 * numerative, algorismic, algorithmic, aliquot, approximative, calculating, cardinal, chorographic, computational, computative, computing, decimal, differential, digital, enumerative, estimating, estimative, even, exponential, figural, figurate, figurative, finite, fractional, hypsographic, imaginary, impair, impossible, infinite, integral, irrational, logarithmic, logometric, measuring, mensural, mensurational, mensurative, metric, negative, numeral, numerary, numeric, oceanographic, odd, ordinal, pair, positive, possible, prime, quantifying, quantitative, radical, rational, real, reciprocal, statistical, submultiple, surd, topographic, transcendental, valuational, valuative

numeric

 * numeric, algebraic, algorismic, algorithmic, aliquot, analytic, cardinal, decimal, differential, digital, even, exponential, figural, figurate, figurative, finite, fractional, geometric, imaginary, impair, impossible, infinite, integral, irrational, logarithmic, logometric, mathematical, negative, numeral, numerary, numerative, odd, ordinal, pair, positive, possible, prime, radical, rational, real, reciprocal, submultiple, surd, transcendental

numerical

 * numerical, algebraic, algorismic, algorithmic, aliquot, analytic, cardinal, decimal, differential, digital, even, exponential, figural, figurate, figurative, finite, fractional, geometric, imaginary, impair, impossible, infinite, integral, irrational, logarithmic, logometric, mathematical, negative, numeral, numerary, numerative, numeric, odd, ordinal, pair, positive, possible, prime, radical, rational, real, reciprocal, submultiple, surd, transcendental

numerous

 * numerous, abounding, abundant, affluent, all-sufficing, ample, aplenty, big, billion, bottomless, bounteous, bountiful, certain, composite, considerable, copious, countless, diffuse, effuse, epidemic, ever so many, exhaustless, extravagant, exuberant, fat, fertile, flush, full, full many, galore, generous, great, heaped-up, in plenty, in quantity, inexhaustible, jillion, large, lavish, legion, liberal, luxuriant, many, maximal, million, more, more than one, much, multifarious, multifold, multiple, multitudinal, multitudinous, myriad, no few, not a few, not singular, opulent, overflowing, plenitudinous, plenteous, plentiful, plenty, plural, pluralistic, plurative, populous, prevailing, prevalent, prodigal, productive, profuse, profusive, quite some, rampant, replete, rich, rife, riotous, running over, several, some, sundry, superabundant, teeming, thousand, various, very many, voluminous, wealthy, well-found, well-furnished, well-provided, well-stocked, wholesale, zillion

numinous

 * numinous, Greek to one, all-knowing, all-powerful, all-seeing, all-wise, almighty, ambiguous, arcane, awe-inspiring, awesome, awful, awing, beyond understanding, bizarre, boundless, bright, brilliant, cabalistic, cantrip, changeless, charismatic, creating, creative, divine, eerie, esoteric, eternal, eternally the same, everlasting, extramundane, extraterrestrial, fey, glamorous, glorious, good, hallowed, heavenly, highest, holy, hoodoo, hypernormal, hyperphysical, illustrious, immortal, immutable, impenetrable, inarticulate, incantational, incantatory, incognizable, incoherent, incomprehensible, ineffable, inenarrable, inexpressible, infinite, inscrutable, inviolable, inviolate, just, limitless, loving, luminous, lustrous, magian, magic, majestic, making, merciful, miraculous, mysterious, mystic, necromantic, occult, omnipotent, omnipresent, omniscient, one, otherworldly, past comprehension, permanent, perpetual, preterhuman, preternatural, preternormal, pretersensual, psychic, radiant, rambling, religious, resplendent, sacred, sacrosanct, shaman, shamanic, shamanist, shamanistic, shaping, shining, sorcerous, sovereign, spiritual, splendent, splendid, splendorous, splendrous, superhuman, superior, supermundane, supernatural, supernormal, superphysical, supersensible, supersensual, supramundane, supranatural, supreme, talismanic, thaumaturgic, timeless, transcendental, transmundane, ubiquitous, unaccountable, unbounded, uncanny, unchanging, unconnected, undefined, unearthly, unfathomable, unguessed, unhuman, unintelligible, unknowable, unlimited, unsearchable, unspeakable, untouchable, unutterable, unworldly, venerable, voodoo, voodooistic, weird, witch, witchlike, witchy, wizardlike, wizardly

numskull

 * numskull, addlebrain, addlehead, addlepate, beefhead, blockhead, blubberhead, blunderhead, bonehead, bufflehead, cabbagehead, chowderhead, chucklehead, clodhead, clodpate, clodpoll, dolthead, dullhead, dumbhead, dunderhead, dunderpate, fathead, jolterhead, jughead, knucklehead, lunkhead, meathead, muddlehead, mushhead, muttonhead, noodlehead, peabrain, pinbrain, pinhead, puddinghead, pumpkin head, puzzlehead, stupidhead, thickhead, thickskull, tottyhead

nun

 * nun, abbess, canoness, celibataire, celibate, clergywoman, conventual, lady superior, misogamist, misogynist, monastic, monk, mother superior, novice, postulant, priest, prioress, religieuse, secular canoness, single, sister, superioress, the reverend mother, unmarried

nuncio

 * nuncio, Hermes, Iris, Mercury, Paul Revere, Pheidippides, ambassador, ambassadress, apostolic delegate, attache, career diplomat, carrier, chancellor, charge, commercial attache, commissionaire, consul, consul general, consular agent, courier, diplomat, diplomatic, diplomatic agent, diplomatic courier, diplomatist, emissary, envoy, envoy extraordinary, estafette, express, foreign service officer, go-between, internuncio, legate, message-bearer, messenger, military attache, minister, minister plenipotentiary, minister resident, plenipotentiary, post, postboy, postrider, resident, runner, secretary of legation, vice-consul, vice-legate

nuptial

 * nuptial, amorous, bridal, carnal, conjugal, connubial, epithalamic, erogenic, erogenous, erotic, erotogenic, fleshly, gamic, heterosexual, husbandly, hymeneal, libidinal, marital, married, matrimonial, oversexed, potent, procreative, sensual, sex, sexed, sexlike, sexual, sexy, spousal, straight, undersexed, venereal, voluptuous, wedded, wedding, wifely

nuptials

 * nuptials, Gretna Green wedding, banns, bridal, bridal suite, bridechamber, chuppah, church wedding, civil ceremony, civil wedding, elopement, epithalamium, espousals, espousement, forced marriage, honeymoon, hymen, hymeneal, hymeneal rites, marriage, nuptial apartment, nuptial mass, nuptial song, prothalamium, saffron veil, shotgun wedding, spousal, spousals, wedding, wedding canopy, wedding song, wedding veil

nurse

 * nurse, LPN, RN, advance, aliment, amah, apprentice, attend, attend to, ayah, baby, baby-sit, bandage, bathe, bear, bosom, break, break in, breast-feed, breed, bring up, care for, chaperon, charge nurse, cherish, cling to, clip, coddle, condition, conserve, cosset, cradle, cultivate, cure, develop, diagnose, discipline, district nurse, doctor, drill, dry nurse, dry-nurse, embosom, embrace, entertain, exercise, fatten, fatten up, feed, fetch up, fit, flux, fondle, force-feed, form, forward, foster, further, give care to, graduate nurse, groom, harbor, have, have and hold, heal, hold, hold on to, house-train, housebreak, hug, humor, improve, indulge, keep, keep alive, keep watch over, lactate, lavish care on, licensed practical nurse, lick into shape, look after, look out for, look to, mammy, massage, matronize, mind, minister to, mother, nanny, nourish, nursemaid, nurserymaid, nursing sister, nurture, nutrify, operate on, pamper, physic, plaster, poultice, practical nurse, practice, prepare, preserve, private-duty nurse, probationer, probationist, probe, promote, protege, provide for, public health nurse, purge, put in tune, put to school, raise, ready, rear, registered nurse, rehearse, remedy, ride herd on, rub, school nurse, scrub nurse, see after, see to, send to school, shepherd, sister, sitter, splint, spoon-feed, strap, student nurse, stuff, suckle, support, surgical nurse, sustain, take care of, take charge of, take in hand, tend, train, trained nurse, treasure, treasure up, treat, visiting nurse, wait on, watch, watch out for, watch over, wet nurse, wet-nurse

nursemaid

 * nursemaid, abigail, amah, au pair girl, ayah, betweenmaid, biddy, chambermaid, chaperon, companion, cook, dry nurse, duenna, femme de chambre, fille de chambre, gentlewoman, girl, governess, handmaid, handmaiden, hired girl, housemaid, kitchenmaid, lady-help, lady-in-waiting, live-in maid, live-out maid, maid, maidservant, mammy, nanny, nurse, nurserymaid, parlormaid, scullery maid, servant girl, servitress, sitter, soubrette, tweeny, upstairs maid, waiting maid, wench, wet nurse

nursery rhyme

 * nursery rhyme, English sonnet, Horatian ode, Italian sonnet, Petrarchan sonnet, Pindaric ode, Sapphic ode, Shakespearean sonnet, alba, anacreontic, balada, ballad, ballade, bucolic, canso, chanson, clerihew, dirge, dithyramb, eclogue, elegy, epic, epigram, epithalamium, epode, epopee, epopoeia, epos, georgic, ghazel, haiku, idyll, jingle, limerick, lyric, madrigal, monody, narrative poem, ode, palinode, pastoral, pastoral elegy, pastorela, pastourelle, poem, prothalamium, rhyme, rondeau, rondel, roundel, roundelay, satire, sestina, sloka, song, sonnet, sonnet sequence, tanka, tenso, tenzone, threnody, triolet, troubadour poem, verse, verselet, versicle, villanelle, virelay

nursery

 * nursery, X ray, bedchamber, bedroom, birthplace, blood bank, boudoir, breeding place, brooder, chamber, charity ward, clinic, cloche, cold frame, conservatory, consultation room, coolhouse, cradle, cubicle, cubiculum, day nursery, delivery room, dispensary, dormitory, emergency, examining room, fever ward, forcing bed, forcing house, forcing pit, glasshouse, greenhouse, hatchery, hospital room, hotbed, hothouse, incubator, infant school, intensive care, isolation, kindergarten, labor room, laboratory, lathhouse, maternity ward, nest, nidus, operating room, orangery, pharmacy, pinery, preschool, prison ward, private room, recovery room, rookery, seedbed, semi-private room, sleeping room, summerhouse, surgery, therapy, treatment room, ward

nurseryman

 * nurseryman, floriculturist, florist, fruit-grower, gardener, horticulturist, landscape architect, landscape gardener, landscapist, market gardener, olericulturist, orchardist, orchardman, truck gardener, vigneron, vinegrower, viniculturist, vintager, viticulturist

nursing home

 * nursing home, VA hospital, almshouse, asylum, base hospital, clinic, community hospital, convalescent home, convalescent hospital, evacuation hospital, field hospital, foster home, general hospital, halfway house, home, hospice, hospital, hospitium, infirmary, inpatient clinic, maison de sante, mental hospital, orphanage, osteopathic hospital, outpatient clinic, policlinic, polyclinic, poor farm, poorhouse, private hospital, proprietary hospital, public hospital, rest home, retreat, sanatorium, sick bay, sickbed, sickroom, special hospital, station hospital, surgical hospital, teaching hospital, veterans hospital, voluntary hospital, ward, well-baby clinic, workhouse

nurture

 * nurture, TLC, abet, acculturate, advance, aid and abet, aliment, alimentation, ameliorate, amend, apprentice, apprenticeship, ask for, attend to, baby-sit, back, basic training, bear, better, bolster, boost, bosom, bread, break, break in, breaking, breast-feed, breed, breeding, bring forward, bring up, care, care for, chaperon, cherish, civilize, cling to, clip, coddle, comestibles, condition, conditioning, conserve, cosset, countenance, cradle, cultivate, cultivation, culture, daily bread, develop, development, discipline, drill, drilling, dry-nurse, eats, economic support, edibles, edify, educate, elevate, embosom, embrace, emend, encourage, endowment, enhance, enlighten, enrich, entertain, exercise, farm, fatten, fatten up, favor, feed, fetch up, fetching-up, fit, fondle, force-feed, form, forward, foster, fostering, give encouragement, go straight, groom, grooming, grow, grub, harbor, hatch, have, have and hold, hold, hold on to, house-train, housebreak, housebreaking, hug, improve, improve upon, improvement, in-service training, invite, keep, keep in countenance, keep watch over, lactate, lard, lavish care on, lick into shape, lift, livelihood, living, look after, look out for, look to, maintenance, make an improvement, manna, manual training, matronize, meat, meliorate, mend, military training, mind, minister to, mother, mothering, nourish, nourishment, nurse, nurturing, nutrify, nutriment, on-the-job training, pabulum, pamper, pap, practice, preparation, prepare, preserve, price support, promote, protege, provender, provide for, provision, provisions, put in tune, put to school, raise, raising, ranch, ready, readying, rear, rearing, refection, refine upon, reform, refreshment, rehearsal, rehearse, ride herd on, run, school, see after, see to, send to school, shepherd, sloyd, socialize, spoon-feed, straighten out, stuff, subsidization, subsidy, subsistence, subvention, suckle, support, sustain, sustainment, sustenance, sustentation, take care of, take charge of, take in hand, tend, tender loving care, train, training, transfigure, transform, treasure, treasure up, upbringing, upgrade, uphold, upkeep, uplift, viands, victuals, vocational education, vocational training, watch, watch out for, watch over, wet-nurse

nut

 * nut, Brazil nut, English walnut, Macadamia nut, acorn, addict, aficionado, alien, aliene, almond, almond paste, amande, amande douce, amandes mondees, amateur, authority, bean, bedlamite, beechnut, ben nut, berry, betel nut, bigot, bird seed, bitter almond, black walnut, blanched almonds, bonduc nut, borderline case, bring in, buff, bug, burnt almond, butternut, candlenut, case, cashew, cashew nut, character, chestnut, chinquapin, cobnut, coconut, collector, conk, connoisseur, corozo nut, crackbrain, crackpot, crank, critic, crop, crop herbs, cuckoo, cumara nut, cut, dement, demon, demoniac, devotee, dig, dika nut, dilettante, ding-a-ling, dome, eager beaver, eccentric, energumen, enthusiast, erratic, expert, faddist, fan, fanatic, fanatico, fiend, flake, flaxseed, fou, freak, fruit, gather, gather in, glean, goober, goober pea, grabble, grain, great one for, ground-pea, groundnut, harebrain, harvest, hay, hayseed, head, hermit, hickory nut, hobbyist, hobo, horse chestnut, hound, idiot, infatuate, issue, kernel, kola, kola nut, kook, linseed, litchi nut, lone wolf, loner, loon, loony, lunatic, lunatic fringe, madman, maniac, maverick, meat, meshuggenah, monomaniac, mow, natural, nigger toe, noddle, noggin, noisette, noix, non compos, noncompos, nonconformist, noodle, odd fellow, oddball, oddity, original, outsider, palm nut, pariah, peanut, peanut butter, pecan, phrenetic, pick, pine nut, pip, pistachio, pit, pluck, poll, pundit, pursuer, queer duck, queer fish, queer specimen, question, rara avis, raving lunatic, reap, reap and carry, recluse, rhapsodist, salted peanuts, sassafras nut, savant, scholar, screwball, seed, solitary, souari nut, specialist, stone, strange duck, sucker for, sweet almond, technical expert, technician, tramp, type, visionary, walnut, weirdo, zealot

nutriment

 * nutriment, aliment, alimentation, bread, bread and butter, growth regulator, keep, livelihood, living, maintenance, nourishment, nurture, nutrient, nutritive, pabulum, pap, refection, refreshment, subsistence, support, sustenance

nutrition

 * nutrition, appetite, baking, barbecuing, basting, boiling, braising, brewing, broil, broiling, cannibalism, carnivorism, carnivority, carnivorousness, catering, chewing, consumption, cookery, cooking, cropping, cuisine, culinary science, deglutition, devouring, devourment, dieting, dining, domestic science, eating, epulation, feasting, feeding, frying, gluttony, gobbling, grazing, grilling, herbivorism, herbivority, herbivorousness, home economics, hunger, ingestion, licking, manducation, mastication, messing, munching, nibbling, omnivorism, omnivorousness, omophagy, pan-broiling, pantophagy, pasture, pasturing, pecking, poaching, regalement, relishing, roasting, rumination, sauteing, savoring, searing, shirring, simmering, steeping, stewing, tasting, toasting, vegetarianism, wolfing

nutritious

 * nutritious, alimental, alimentary, assimilable, balanced, beneficial, cannibal, cannibalistic, carnivorous, commensal, dietetic, digestible, dining, eating, feeding, flesh-eating, fruitarian, gastronomic, gluttonous, good, grain-eating, graminivorous, granivorous, grass-eating, healthful, healthy, herbivorous, insect-eating, insectivorous, lactovegetarian, life-giving, man-eating, meat-eating, mensal, nourishing, nutrient, nutritive, omnivorous, omophagous, pantophagous, phytivorous, phytophagous, plant-eating, postprandial, prandial, predacious, preprandial, salubrious, salutary, vegetable-eating, vegetarian, wholesome

nuts about

 * nuts about, ape about, attached to, bugs on, cracked on, crazy about, devoted to, enamored of, far gone on, fond of, freaked-out, gaga over, gone on, hepped up over, hipped on, hot about, in love with, mad about, nuts on, partial to, smitten with, starry-eyed over, steamed up about, struck with, stuck on, sweet on, taken with, turned-on, wedded to, wild about, wrapped up in

nuts

 * nuts, balmy, bananas, barmy, bats, batty, beany, bonkers, buggy, bughouse, bugs, cracked, crackers, crazy, cuckoo, daffy, daft, demented, dippy, dotty, flaky, flipped, freaked-out, fruitcakey, fruity, gaga, goofy, haywire, just plain nuts, kooky, loony, loopy, mad, nutty, off the hinges, off the track, off the wall, potty, round the bend, screwball, screwballs, screwy, slaphappy, unbalanced, wacky

nutshell

 * nutshell, abridge, ace, atom, bit, brief, capsule, capsulize, condense, dab, digest, dole, dot, dram, dribble, driblet, dwarf, farthing, fleck, flyspeck, fragment, gobbet, grain, granule, groat, hair, handful, inventory, iota, jot, little, little bit, minim, minimum, minutiae, mite, modicum, molecule, mote, ounce, outline, particle, pebble, pinch, pittance, point, scruple, shorten, sketch, sketch out, smidgen, smitch, speck, spoonful, spot, sum, sum up, summarize, summate, synopsize, thimbleful, tiny bit, tittle, trifling amount, trivia, whit

nutty

 * nutty, abnormal, anomalous, apish, asinine, balmy, bananas, barmy, bats, batty, beany, bedlamite, befooled, beguiled, besotted, bonkers, brainless, buffoonish, buggy, bughouse, bugs, cockeyed, cracked, crackers, crank, crankish, cranky, crazed, crazy, credulous, crotchety, cuckoo, daffy, daft, dazed, deviant, deviative, different, dippy, divergent, dizzy, doting, dotty, dumb, eccentric, erratic, exceptional, fatuitous, fatuous, fey, flaky, flavorful, flavorous, flavorsome, flavory, flipped, fond, fool, foolheaded, foolish, freaked-out, freakish, fruitcakey, fruity, fuddled, full-bodied, full-flavored, funny, futile, gaga, goofy, gulled, gung ho, haywire, idiocratic, idiosyncratic, idiotic, imbecile, inane, inept, infatuated, insane, irregular, just plain nuts, keen, kinky, kooky, loony, loopy, mad, maggoty, maudlin, moronic, nuts, odd, oddball, off the hinges, off the track, off the wall, peculiar, potty, queer, quirky, rich, rich-flavored, round the bend, sappy, screwball, screwballs, screwy, senseless, sentimental, silly, singular, slaphappy, strange, stupid, thoughtless, twisted, unconventional, unnatural, wacky, warm, wet, whimsical, witless, zealous

nuzzle

 * nuzzle, bundle, burrow, caress, croodle, cuddle, feel up, fondle, knead, lap, massage, nestle, nose, pet, rub, rub against, rub noses, snuggle, stroke

nylon

 * nylon, Aralac, Avisco, Axminster, Celanese, Chemstrand, Dacron, Dynel, Georgette, Harris Tweed, Lastex, Leatherette, Manila, Orlon, Qiana, Revolite, Terylene, Ultrasuede, Velon, Vicara, acetate, acetate rayon, alpaca, angora, arras, astrakhan, baize, bast, batik, blanketing, broadcloth, broadloom, brocade, bunting, calico, cambric, canvas, carpeting, cashmere, castor, cheesecloth, chiffon, chinchilla, chintz, coating, coir, cord, corduroy, cotton, crash, crepe, crepe de chine, cretonne, crinoline, damask, denim, doeskin, drill, drilling, drugget, duck, duffel, felt, flannel, flannelette, flax, fleece, floss, foulard, frieze, fustian, gauze, gingham, gossamer, grenadine, grogram, grosgrain, gunny, haircloth, hemp, herringbone, hessian, homespun, hop sacking, horsehair, huck, huckaback, jersey, jute, kapok, lame, lawn, linen, linoleum, linsey-woolsey, lisle, list, llama hair, loden, longcloth, luster, mackinaw, mackintosh, madras, maline, manta, mantua, marquisette, mat, matting, melton, merino, messaline, mohair, moire, moleskin, mousseline de soie, murrey, muslin, nainsook, nankeen, near-silk, net, netting, oakum, oil silk, oilcloth, organdy, organza, paisley, panne, panne velvet, pepper-and-salt, percale, pique, plaid, plush, polyester, pongee, poplin, print, quilting, radium, raffia, rayon, rayon casheen, rep, rugging, russet, sackcloth, sacking, sailcloth, sarcenet, sateen, satin, say, seersucker, serge, shalloon, shantung, sharkskin, sheers, sheeting, shoddy, shot silk, silk, sisal, spandex, spun rayon, stamin, stammel, stockinette, stuff, suede, swansdown, tabaret, tabby, taffeta, taffety, tapestry, tarpaulin, tartan, terry cloth, tick, ticking, tricotine, tulle, tussah, tussore, tweed, twill, veiling, velours, velure, velvet, velveteen, voile, wash-and-wear fabric, watered fabric, webbing, wool, worsted, yarn, zephyr

nymph

 * nymph, Anlage, Atlantides, Hyades, Napaea, Pleiades, arachnid, arthropod, aurelia, beetle, blastula, bug, caterpillar, centipede, chilopod, chippy, chrysalis, cocoon, daddy longlegs, diplopod, dryad, embryo, fetus, floozy, flower nymph, fly, germ, germen, glen nymph, grisette, grub, hamadryad, harvestman, hexapod, insect, larva, limoniad, maggot, millepede, millipede, mite, mountain nymph, nympha, nymphet, nymphlin, oread, pupa, rudiment, scorpion, spider, tarantula, tick, tree nymph, vila, wiggler, willi, wood nymph, wriggler, zygote

nymphet

 * nymphet, Atlantides, Hyades, Jezebel, Napaea, Pleiades, babe, baby, bad woman, baggage, bitch, broad, chick, chippy, clitoromaniac, cocotte, colleen, cutie, dame, damoiselle, damsel, demoiselle, doll, drab, dryad, easy lay, easy woman, filly, floozy, flower nymph, frail, frail sister, gal, girl, girlie, glen nymph, grisette, hamadryad, harridan, heifer, hoyden, hussy, hysteromaniac, jade, jeune fille, jill, junior miss, lass, lassie, limoniad, little missy, loose woman, mademoiselle, maid, maiden, miss, missy, mountain nymph, nymph, nymphlin, nympho, nymphomaniac, oread, pickup, piece, quean, romp, schoolgirl, schoolmaid, schoolmiss, skirt, slip, slut, strumpet, subdeb, subdebutante, subteen, subteener, tart, teenybopper, tomato, tomboy, tree nymph, trollop, trull, uteromaniac, vila, virgin, wanton, wench, whore, willi, wood nymph, young creature, young thing

nymphomania

 * nymphomania, andromania, animality, aphrodisia, bawdiness, biological urge, bodily appetite, carnal desire, carnality, clitoromania, concupiscence, desire, dirtiness, eromania, eroticism, eroticomania, eroticomaniac, erotism, erotomania, fleshliness, fleshly lust, furor uterinus, goatishness, gynecomania, horniness, hot blood, hot pants, hysteromania, indecency, infantile sexuality, itch, lasciviousness, lecherousness, lechery, lewdness, libidinousness, lickerishness, lubriciousness, lubricity, lust, lustfulness, obscenity, passion, polymorphous perversity, prurience, pruriency, randiness, salaciousness, salacity, satyriasis, satyrism, sensuality, sexiness, sexual desire, sexual longing, sexual passion, sexuality, uteromania, venereal appetite

nymphomaniac

 * nymphomaniac, Jezebel, bad woman, baggage, bitch, broad, bugger, chippy, clitoromaniac, cocotte, coprophiliac, drab, easy lay, easy woman, erotomaniac, exhibitionist, fetishist, floozy, frail sister, grisette, harridan, hussy, hysteromaniac, jade, loose woman, masochist, narcissist, necrophiliac, nymphet, nympho, paraphiliac, pederast, pedophiliac, pickup, quean, rapist, sadist, satyr, scotophiliac, slut, sodomist, sodomite, strumpet, tart, transvestite, trollop, trull, uteromaniac, voyeur, wanton, wench, whore, zoophiliac

oaf

 * oaf, babe, baboon, beast, blockhead, blunderbuss, blunderer, blunderhead, boob, booby, boor, botcher, bruiser, brute, bull, bumbler, bumpkin, bungler, child, child of nature, chump, clod, clodhopper, clodknocker, clot, clown, dolt, dolthead, dove, dub, dupe, fathead, fumbler, galoot, gaum, gawk, gawky, gorilla, gowk, hayseed, hick, hulk, infant, ingenue, innocent, klutz, lamb, lobster, looby, lout, lubber, lug, lummox, lump, meathead, mere child, missing link, noble savage, ox, palooka, rube, simple soul, slob, slouch, slubberer, unsophisticate, yokel

oafish

 * oafish, Boeotian, all thumbs, asinine, awkward, beef-brained, beef-witted, blockish, blunderheaded, blundering, boorish, bovine, bumbling, bungling, butterfingered, careless, chumpish, cloddish, clownish, clumsy, clumsy-fisted, cowish, crass, cumbersome, dense, doltish, dullard, dumb, duncical, duncish, fat, fingers all thumbs, fumbling, gauche, gawkish, gawky, graceless, gross, ham-fisted, ham-handed, heavy-handed, hulking, hulky, ineducable, inelegant, klutzy, left-hand, left-handed, loutish, lubberly, lumbering, lumpish, maladroit, opaque, ponderous, sloppy, sottish, stiff, stupid, thick, uncouth, ungainly, ungraceful, unhandy, unteachable, unwieldy, wrongheaded

oak leaf

 * oak leaf, Hershey bar, aviation badge, badge, bar, chevron, chicken, eagle, epaulet, hash mark, insignia of branch, organization insignia, overseas bar, parachute badge, patch, pip, service stripe, shoulder patch, shoulder sleeve insignia, spread eagle, star, stripe, submarine badge

oak

 * oak, Gibraltar, acacia, adamant, ailanthus, alder, alligator pear, allspice, almond, apple, apricot, ash, aspen, avocado, balsa, balsam, banyan, bass, basswood, bay, bayberry, beech, beechwood, betel palm, birch, bone, brick, buckeye, burl, butternut, buttonwood, cacao, candleberry, cashew, cassia, catalpa, cement, cherry, chestnut, chinquapin, cinnamon, citron, clove, coconut, concrete, cork, cork oak, cypress, diamond, dogwood, ebony, elder, elm, eucalyptus, fig, fir, flint, frankincense, granite, grapefruit, guava, gum, gumwood, hawthorn, hazel, heart of oak, hemlock, henna, hickory, holly, hop tree, horse, horse chestnut, iron, ironwood, juniper, kumquat, laburnum, lancewood, larch, laurel, lemon, lime, linden, lion, litchi, litchi nut, locust, logwood, magnolia, mahogany, mango, mangrove, maple, marble, medlar, mountain ash, mulberry, nails, nutmeg, olive, orange, ox, palm, papaw, papaya, peach, pear, pecan, persimmon, pine, pistachio, plane, plum, pomegranate, poplar, quince, raffia palm, rain tree, redwood, rock, sandalwood, sassafras, senna, sequoia, spruce, steel, stone, sumac, sycamore, tangerine, teak, tulip tree, walnut, willow, witch hazel, yew

oar

 * oar, bargee, bargeman, barger, boat-handler, boater, boatman, boatsman, ferrier, ferryman, galley slave, gondolier, lighterman, oarsman, paddle, pole, pull, punter, row, rower, scull, steering oar, sweep, waterman, yachter, yachtsman

oarsman

 * oarsman, bargee, bargeman, barger, boat-handler, boater, boatman, boatsman, ferrier, ferryman, galley slave, gondolier, lighterman, oar, punter, rower, waterman, yachter, yachtsman

oath

 * oath, Bible oath, assurance, avouch, avouchment, avow, avowal, curse, cuss, cuss word, dirty name, dirty word, dysphemism, epithet, expletive, extrajudicial oath, faith, foul invective, guarantee, guaranty, imprecation, ironclad oath, judicial oath, loyalty oath, malediction, naughty word, no-no, oath of allegiance, oath of office, obscenity, official oath, parole, pledge, plight, profane oath, profanity, promise, solemn declaration, solemn oath, swear, swearword, sworn statement, test oath, troth, vow, warrant, warranty, word, word of honor

oatmeal

 * oatmeal, breakfast food, cereal, cornflakes, dry cereal, farina, frumenty, grits, gruel, hasty pudding, hominy grits, hot cereal, kasha, loblolly, millet, mush, porridge, puffed rice, puffed wheat, rolled oats, wheatflakes

oats

 * oats, Bengal grass, English rye grass, Italian rye grass, Kentucky bluegrass, alfilaria, bamboo, barley, beach grass, beard grass, bent, bent grass, bird seed, black bent, bluegrass, bog grass, bran, buckwheat, buffalo grass, bulrush, bunch grass, canary grass, cane, cat food, chicken feed, chop, corn, cotton grass, crab grass, dog food, eatage, ensilage, feather grass, feed, flyaway grass, fodder, forage, four-leaved grass, grain, grasses, hassock grass, hay, horsetail, little quaking grass, lovegrass, maize, mash, meadow fescue, meadow foxtail, meadow grass, meal, millet, myrtle grass, paddy, palm-leaved grass, pampas grass, papyrus, pasturage, pasture, peppergrass, pet food, provender, reed, ribbon grass, rice, rush, rye, scratch, scratch feed, scutch, sedge, sesame, sesame grass, silage, slops, sorghum, straw, striped grass, sugar cane, swill, switch grass, sword grass, tufted hair grass, wheat, wild oats, wire grass, woolly beard grass, worm grass, zebra grass, zoysia

obdurate

 * obdurate, adamant, asleep, benumbed, bony, brazen, callous, calloused, case-hardened, cement, cemental, cold, cold of heart, coldblooded, coldhearted, concrete, conscienceless, corneous, dead, deadened, dense, diamondlike, dogged, dour, dull, dure, firm, flinthearted, flintlike, flinty, fundamentalist, granitelike, granitic, hard, hard as nails, hard of heart, hard-bitten, hard-boiled, hard-nosed, hard-set, hardened, hardhearted, heartless, hidebound, horny, immovable, impassible, impenitent, imperceptive, impercipient, impliable, indurated, inexorable, inflexible, insensate, insensible, insensitive, insentient, insolent, inured, iron, iron-hard, ironbound, ironclad, ironhanded, ironlike, lapideous, lithoid, lithoidal, lost to shame, marble, marblelike, mulish, muscle-bound, numb, numbed, obstinate, obtuse, orthodox, osseous, procrustean, purist, puristic, puritan, puritanic, relentless, resistant, resistive, rigid, rigorist, rigoristic, rigorous, rockbound, rocklike, rocky, seared, shameless, solid, steellike, steely, stiff, stiff-necked, stonelike, stony, stonyhearted, straightlaced, straitlaced, stubborn, thick-skinned, thick-witted, tough, unabject, unbending, unblushing, uncompassionate, uncompromising, uncontrite, unemotional, unfeeling, unfelt, unmelted, unmerciful, unnatural, unperceptive, unrelenting, unrepentant, unrepenting, unresponsive, unsoftened, unsympathetic, untouched, unyielding

obedience

 * obedience, Quakerism, acceptance, accommodation, accord, accordance, acquiescence, adaptability, adaptation, adaption, adjustment, agreeability, agreeableness, agreement, amenability, assent, complaisance, compliance, conformance, conformation other-direction, conformity, congruity, consent, consistency, conventionality, correspondence, deference, docility, dutifulness, flexibility, harmony, homage, humbleness, humility, keeping, kneeling, line, malleability, meekness, nonopposal, nonopposition, nonresistance, nonviolent resistance, obeisance, observance, orthodoxy, passive resistance, passiveness, passivity, pliancy, quietism, reconcilement, reconciliation, resignation, resignedness, respect, respectfulness, strictness, subjection, submission, submissiveness, submittal, subservience, supineness, tractability, traditionalism, uncomplainingness, uniformity, yielding

obedient

 * obedient, abject, accepting, accommodating, acquiescent, adaptable, adapting, adaptive, adjustable, adjusting, agreeable, amenable, assenting, biddable, complaisant, compliable, compliant, complying, conformable, conforming, conscientious, consenting, deferential, devoted, docile, duteous, dutiful, ethical, faithful, flexible, humble, law-abiding, loyal, malleable, meek, moral, nondissenting, nonresistant, nonresisting, nonresistive, obeisant, observant, other-directed, passive, plastic, pliant, reconciled, resigned, respectful, scrupulous, servile, sheeplike, submissive, subservient, supine, timid, tractable, unassertive, uncomplaining, unresistant, unresisting, willing, yielding

obediently

 * obediently, acquiescently, agreeably, anally, complaisantly, compliantly, compulsively, conformably, conformingly, conventionally, devotedly, duteously, dutifully, faithfully, flexibly, in compliance with, in conformity with, in obedience to, loyally, malleably, nonresistively, passively, pedantically, pliantly, resignedly, submissively, supinely, traditionally, uncomplainingly, unresistantly, unresistingly, willingly, with resignation, yieldingly

obeisance

 * obeisance, acceptance, acquiescence, allegiance, apple-polishing, ass-kissing, assent, backscratching, bend, bending the knee, bob, bootlicking, bow, bowing and scraping, brown-nosing, complaisance, compliance, consent, cringing, crouch, curtsy, deference, dipping the colors, duck, fawnery, fawning, fealty, flunkyism, footlicking, genuflection, groveling, handshaking, homage, honor, inclination, ingratiation, insinuation, kneeling, kowtow, loyalty, making a leg, mealymouthedness, nod, nonopposal, nonopposition, nonresistance, obedience, obsequiousness, parasitism, passiveness, passivity, presenting arms, prostration, resignation, resignedness, respect, respectfulness, reverence, salaam, salutation, salute, scrape, servility, sponging, squat, standing at attention, stoop, subjection, submission, submissiveness, submittal, supination, supineness, sycophancy, timeserving, toadeating, toadying, toadyism, truckling, tufthunting, yielding

obeisant

 * obeisant, abject, backscratching, beggarly, bootlicking, cowering, crawling, cringing, crouching, deferential, fawning, flattering, footlicking, groveling, hangdog, ingratiating, mealymouthed, menial, obsequious, on bended knee, parasitic, prone, prostrate, servile, slavish, sniveling, sponging, submissive, subservient, sycophantic, timeserving, toadeating, toadying, toadyish, truckling

obelisk

 * obelisk, antenna tower, arch, barbican, barrow, belfry, bell tower, boundary stone, brass, bust, cairn, campanile, cenotaph, colossus, column, cromlech, cross, cup, cupola, cyclolith, derrick, dolmen, dome, fire tower, footstone, grave, gravestone, headstone, hoarstone, inscription, lantern, lighthouse, marker, martello, martello tower, mast, mausoleum, megalith, memento, memorial, memorial arch, memorial column, memorial statue, memorial stone, menhir, minaret, monolith, monument, mound, necrology, obituary, observation tower, pagoda, pilaster, pillar, pinnacle, plaque, pole, prize, pylon, pyramid, reliquary, remembrance, ribbon, rostral column, shaft, shrine, skyscraper, spire, standpipe, steeple, stela, stone, stupa, tablet, television mast, testimonial, tomb, tombstone, tope, tour, tower, trophy, turret, water tower, windmill tower

Oberon

 * Oberon, Ariel, Befind, Corrigan, Finnbeara, Mab, Titania, banshee, brownie, cluricaune, dwarf, elf, fairy, fairy queen, fay, gnome, goblin, gremlin, hob, imp, kobold, leprechaun, ouphe, peri, pixie, pooka, puca, pwca, sprite, sylph, sylphid

obese

 * obese, adipose, beefy, big-bellied, bloated, blowzy, bosomy, brawny, burly, buxom, chubby, chunky, corpulent, distended, dumpy, fat, fattish, fleshy, full, gross, heavy, heavyset, hefty, hippy, imposing, lusty, meaty, overweight, paunchy, plump, podgy, portly, potbellied, pudgy, puffy, pursy, roly-poly, rotund, square, squat, squatty, stalwart, stocky, stout, strapping, swollen, thick-bodied, thickset, top-heavy, tubby, well-fed

obey

 * obey, abide by, accede, accept, acquiesce, acquiesce in, act, adhere to, agree, agree to, assent, attend to orders, be agreeable, bend to, bow, bow to, carry out, comply, comply with, condone, conform, conform to, conform with, consent, consent to, countenance, defer, defer to, discharge, do, effect, execute, face the music, follow, follow the book, fulfill, give way to, go along with, grin and abide, harken to, heed, keep, knock under, knuckle down, knuckle under, knuckle under to, let go by, let pass, listen to, live with it, mark, meet, mind, not resist, obey the rules, observe, overlook, perform, regard, relent, resign, respect, rise above, satisfy, serve, shrug, shrug it off, stay in line, submit, submit to, succumb, succumb to, swallow it, swallow the pill, take, take it, take orders, toe the line, truckle to, yield, yield to

obfuscate

 * obfuscate, adumbrate, becloud, bedarken, bedim, befog, begloom, black, black out, blacken, blanket, blind, block the light, blot out, blur, brown, camouflage, cast a shadow, cloak, cloud, cloud over, complicate, conceal, confuse, corrupt, cover, cover up, curtain, darken, darken over, deform, dim, dim out, disguise, disorder, dissemble, distort, distract attention from, eclipse, encloud, encompass with shadow, ensconce, enshroud, envelop, fog up, garble, gloom, gloss over, hide, jumble, keep under cover, make unintelligible, mask, mess up, misadvise, misdirect, miseducate, misguide, misinform, misinstruct, mislead, misteach, muddle, murk, mystify, obnubilate, obscure, obumbrate, occult, occultate, overcast, overcloud, overshadow, pervert, scramble, screen, shade, shadow, shroud, slur over, somber, unform, unshape, varnish, veil, whitewash

obituary

 * obituary, Clio, Muse of history, adventures, annals, arch, archival, autobiography, barrow, bill of mortality, biographical sketch, biography, body count, boundary stone, brass, bust, cairn, case history, casualty list, cenotaph, chronicle, chronicles, chronology, cinerary, column, confessions, cromlech, cross, cup, curriculum vitae, cyclolith, death roll, diary, dirgelike, dismal, documental, documentary, documentational, dolmen, epigraphic, epitaphic, eulogy, exequial, experiences, feral, footstone, fortunes, funebrial, funebrious, funebrous, funeral, funerary, funereal, grave, gravestone, hagiography, hagiology, headstone, historiography, history, hoarstone, inscription, journal, legend, life, life and letters, life story, marker, martyrology, mausoleum, megalith, memento, memoir, memoirs, memorabilia, memorial, memorial arch, memorial column, memorial statue, memorial stone, memorials, menhir, monolith, monument, mortuary, mortuary roll, mound, mournful, necrological, necrologue, necrology, obelisk, obit, obsequial, photobiography, pillar, plaque, prize, profile, pyramid, record, register of deaths, reliquary, remembrance, resume, ribbon, rostral column, sepulchral, shaft, shrine, stela, stone, story, stupa, tablet, testimonial, theory of history, tomb, tombstone, tope, trophy

object lesson

 * object lesson, admonishment, admonition, alarm, assignment, case, case in point, caution, caveat, chalk talk, demonstration, deterrent example, discourse, disquisition, emblem, example, exemplar, exemplification, exercise, explanation, exponent, exposition, final notice, final warning, harangue, hint, homework, homily, illustration, instance, instruction, lecture, lecture-demonstration, lesson, monition, moral, moral lesson, morality, moralization, notice, notification, preachment, recital, recitation, relevant instance, representative, sermon, set task, skull session, symbol, talk, task, teaching, threat, tip-off, type, typical example, ultimatum, verbum sapienti, warning, warning piece

object

 * object, IC analysis, affair, agree to disagree, aim, an existence, appositive, article, artifact, attribute, attributive, balk, ban, be against, be at cross-purposes, beef, being, bitch, blackball, body, boggle, boycott, break, break off, bulk, butt, by-end, by-purpose, call in question, categorically reject, challenge, clash, collide, complain, complain loudly, complement, conflict, confront, construction modifier, contend with, contradict, counter, creature, criticize, critter, cry out against, cutting, deep structure, demonstrate, demonstrate against, demur, deprecate, design, destination, differ, dingus, direct object, disaccord, disagree, disallow, disapprove, disapprove of, discommend, disfavor, dispute, dissent, dissent from, dofunny, dohickey, dojigger, dojiggy, domajig, domajigger, doodad, dowhacky, duty, end, end in view, entelechy, enter a protest, entity, eppes, etwas, except, exclude, expostulate, face down, face out, face up to, fact, filler, final cause, flumadiddle, focus, form-function unit, front, frown, frown at, frown down, frown upon, function, gadget, game, gigamaree, gimmick, gizmo, goal, grimace at, hickey, holler, hootenanny, hootmalalie, howl, idea, immediate constituent analysis, indirect object, individual, intent, intention, interfere with, inveigh against, item, jangle, jar, jib, jigger, jostle, kick, kick against, levels, life, look askance at, look black upon, make a stand, march, mark, mass, material, material thing, matter, meet head-on, mismatch, mismate, modifier, monad, negate, not approve, not go for, not hear of, not hold with, object in mind, object to, objective, offer resistance, oppose, organism, ostracize, person, persona, personality, phenomenon, phrase structure, picket, plan, predicate, press objections, prey, protest, protest against, purpose, pursuit, qualifier, quarry, quelque chose, quintain, rail, raise a howl, rally, ranks, rant, rave, reality, reason, reason for being, recalcitrate, refuse, reject, reluct, remonstrate, revolt, say no to, scruple, shallow structure, show fight, sit in, slot, slot and filler, something, soul, spurn, squawk, stand, stand at bay, stand up against, stand up to, state a grievance, stickle, storm, strata, strike, strive against, structure, stuff, subject, substance, surface structure, syntactic analysis, syntactic structure, syntactics, syntax, tagmeme, take exception to, tangible, target, teach in, teleology, thing, thingum, thingumabob, thingumadad, thingumadoodle, thingumajig, thingumajigger, thingumaree, thingummy, think ill of, think little of, thumb down, ultimate aim, underlying structure, unit, use, vary, view with disfavor, volume, whatchy, widget, withstand, word arrangement, word order, yell bloody murder

objectify

 * objectify, actualize, call to mind, call up, conjure up, envisage, envision, exteriorize, externalize, extrapolate, image, incarnate, just see, manifest, materialize, personalize, personify, picture, project, realize, represent, see, substantiate, summon up, vision, visualize

objecting

 * objecting, complaining, disputatious, disputing, dissentient, dissenting, expostulative, expostulatory, fractious, noncooperative, obstructive, on the barricades, proof against, protestant, protesting, rebellious, recalcitrant, refractory, reluctant, remonstrant, remonstrative, renitent, repellent, resistant, resisting, resistive, retardant, retardative, uncooperative, under protest, unsubmissive, unyielding, up in arms, withstanding

objection

 * objection, answer, antipathy, argument, ban, bashfulness, beef, bitch, blackball, blackballing, block, blockade, boggle, boggling, bottleneck, boycott, catch, challenge, combative reaction, complaint, compunction, cordon, counteraction, counterstatement, curtain, defense, defiance, demonstration, demur, demurral, demurrer, denial, determent, deterrent, difficulty, diffidence, dim view, disagreement, disappointment, disapprobation, disapproval, discontent, discontentedness, discontentment, disenchantment, disesteem, disfavor, disgruntlement, disillusion, disillusionment, dislike, displeasure, dispute, disrespect, dissatisfaction, dissent, dissentience, distaste, doubt, drawback, exception, exclusion, expostulation, falter, faltering, fractiousness, grievance, grievance committee, hang-up, hazard, hesitance, hesitancy, hesitation, hitch, howl, hurdle, indignation, indignation meeting, interference, joker, kick, low estimation, low opinion, march, modesty, negativism, noncooperation, nonviolent protest, obstacle, obstinacy, obstruction, obstructive, one small difficulty, opposition, opposure, ostracism, passive resistance, pause, picketing, plea, pleading, protest, protest demonstration, protestation, qualm, qualm of conscience, qualmishness, question, rally, reaction, rebuff, rebuttal, recalcitrance, recalcitrancy, recalcitration, recoil, refractoriness, refusal, refutation, rejection, reluctance, remonstrance, remonstration, renitence, renitency, repellence, repellency, reply, repulse, repulsion, resistance, response, revolt, riposte, rub, scruple, scrupulosity, scrupulousness, shrinking, shyness, sit-in, snag, special demurrer, special pleading, squawk, stand, statement of defense, stickling, strike, stumbling block, stumbling stone, teach-in, thumbs-down, uncooperativeness, unhappiness, withstanding

objectionable

 * objectionable, abhorrent, abominable, base, beastly, below contempt, beneath contempt, censurable, contemptible, crude, despicable, detestable, disagreeable, discommendable, disgusting, distasteful, exceptionable, execrable, fetid, forbidding, foul, fulsome, gross, hateful, heinous, ignoble, ill-favored, illaudable, impossible, inadmissible, indefensible, intolerable, invidious, loathsome, malodorous, mephitic, miasmal, miasmic, nasty, nauseating, noisome, noxious, obnoxious, obscene, odious, offensive, rebarbative, repellent, reprehensible, repugnant, repulsive, revolting, sickening, stinking, unacceptable, uncommendable, undesirable, unfit, unpleasant, unpraiseworthy, unsuitable, untenable, unwanted, unwelcome, vile

objective

 * objective, achromatic lens, affectless, aim, ambition, anesthetized, animus, appetence, appetency, appetite, arctic, aspiration, astigmatic lens, autistic, bauble, bibelot, blunt, burning glass, butt, by-end, by-purpose, camera, catatonic, chill, chilly, choice, coated lens, cold, cold as charity, cold-blooded, coldhearted, command, conation, conatus, concave lens, concavo-convex lens, condenser, convex lens, cool, corporeal, curio, decision, design, desire, destination, detached, determination, discretion, disinterested, dispassionate, disposition, drugged, dull, duty, emotionally dead, emotionless, end, end in view, equitable, evenhanded, external, extraneous, extraorganismal, extrinsic, eyeglass, eyepiece, fair, fancy, final cause, foreign, free choice, free will, frigid, frosted, frosty, frozen, function, game, gewgaw, gimcrack, glass, goal, gross, hand lens, heartless, hope, icy, immovable, impartial, impassible, impassive, impersonal, inclination, indifferent, inexcitable, insusceptible, intent, intention, judicious, just, lens, liking, lust, magnifier, magnifying glass, mark, material, meniscus, mind, neutral, nonemotional, nonsubjective, novelty, object, object glass, object in mind, objective prism, obtuse, ocular, open-handed, open-minded, out of touch, outer, outlying, outside, outward, passion, passionless, phenomenal, physical, pleasure, prey, prism, purpose, pursuit, quarry, quintain, reader, reading glass, reason for being, resolution, self-absorbed, sensible, sexual desire, soulless, spiritless, substantial, tangible, target, teleology, telephoto lens, toric lens, trinket, ultimate aim, unaffectionate, unbiased, unbigoted, uncolored, undazzled, unemotional, unfeeling, unimpassioned, unimpressionable, uninfluenced, unjaundiced, unloving, unpassionate, unprejudiced, unprepossessed, unresponding, unresponsive, unsusceptible, unswayed, unsympathetic, untouchable, use, varifocal lens, velleity, volition, whatnot, will, will power, wish, zoom lens

objectivity

 * objectivity, anesthesia, autism, catatonia, chill, chilliness, cold blood, cold heart, coldheartedness, coldness, coolness, deadpan, detachment, discreteness, disinterest, disinterestedness, dispassion, dispassionateness, dullness, emotional deadness, emotionlessness, equitability, equitableness, evenhandedness, externality, extraneousness, extrinsicality, fair-mindedness, fairness, foreignness, frigidity, frostiness, heartlessness, iciness, immovability, impartiality, impassibility, impassiveness, impassivity, impersonality, indifference, inexcitability, justness, lack of affect, lack of feeling, lack of touch, neutrality, nonsubjectivity, obtuseness, otherness, outwardness, passionlessness, poker face, self-absorption, soullessness, spiritlessness, straight face, unbiasedness, unemotionalism, unexcitability, unfeeling, unfeelingness, unimpressibility, unimpressionableness, unopinionatedness, unpassionateness, unprejudicedness, unresponsiveness, unsusceptibility, unsympatheticness, untouchability, withdrawal

objector

 * objector, apostate, bitter-ender, brawler, defendant, demurrer, diehard, disputant, dissenter, dissentient, dissident, intransigent, irreconcilable, last-ditcher, litigant, naysayer, negativist, nonconformist, noncooperator, obstructionist, obstructive, opinionist, opposer, opposition voice, oppositionist, plaintiff, protestant, protester, quarreler, recusant, resister, schismatic, scrapper, sectarian, sectary, separatist, wrangler

oblation

 * oblation, Christmas present, award, birthday present, box, burnt offering, cadeau, collection, drink offering, ex voto offering, fairing, gift, handsel, heave offering, hecatomb, holocaust, human sacrifice, immolation, incense, infanticide, libation, mactation, offering, offertory, peace offering, piacular offering, present, presentation, sacramental offering, sacrifice, scapegoat, self-immolation, self-sacrifice, suttee, sutteeism, thank offering, tribute, votive offering, white elephant, whole offering

obligate

 * obligate, accept obligation, agree to, answer for, be answerable for, be responsible for, be security for, bind, commit, compel, constrain, contract, engage, force, go bail for, have an understanding, make imperative, make incumbent, oblige, pledge, require, saddle with, shake hands on, take the vows, tie, undertake

obligated

 * obligated, affianced, answerable for, assured, beholden, beholden to, betrothed, bound, bounden, bounden to, chargeable, committed, compromised, contracted, duty-bound, engaged, guaranteed, in duty bound, indebted to, intended, liable, obligate, obliged, obliged to, pledged, plighted, promised, responsible, saddled, sworn, tied, under obligation, underwritten, warranted

obligation

 * obligation, accountability, accounts payable, accounts receivable, act of grace, act of kindness, affair, agreement, allegiance, amount due, appreciation, appreciativeness, aptitude, aptness, arrearage, assigned task, attempt, bad debts, benefaction, benefit, benevolence, benignity, bill, bills, blessing, bond, borrowing, boundary condition, bounden duty, burden, business, call, call of duty, catch, cause, chance, charge, charges, chits, clause, coaction, commitment, committal, compulsatory, compulsion, compulsiveness, compulsoriness, compulsory, condition, constraint, contingency, contract, courtesy, covenant, deal, debt, dedication, deference, demand, devoir, devotion, donnee, due, dues, duress, duties and responsibilities, duty, effort, enforcement, engagement, enterprise, escalator clause, escape clause, escape hatch, ethics, eventuality, favor, fealty, financial commitment, fine print, floating debt, forcing, funded debt, given, good deed, good offices, good turn, grace, gratefulness, gratitude, grounds, homage, imperative, imperious, indebtedness, indebtment, inevitability, irresistibility, joker, kicker, kind deed, kind offices, kindly act, kindness, labor of love, liability, liableness, likelihood, likeliness, limiting condition, line of duty, loyalty, mandatedness, mandatoriness, maturity, mercy, mission, mitzvah, must, national debt, necessariness, necessitation, necessitude, necessity, need, obligatoriness, obligatory, obligement, office, onus, operation, ought, outstanding debt, parameter, part, place, plan, pledge, possibility, preengagement, prerequisite, probability, program, project, promise, proneness, proposition, provision, provisions, proviso, public debt, recognizance, required, requirement, requisite, respect, responsibility, restraint, right, saving clause, score, self-imposed duty, sense of obligation, service, sine qua non, small print, specification, stipulation, string, task, terms, thankfulness, trust, turn, ultimatum, uncollectibles, understanding, undertaking, unfulfilled pledge, venture, verbal agreement, weakness, whereas, work

obligatory

 * obligatory, absolute, binding, choiceless, compulsory, conclusive, de rigueur, decisive, decretory, demanded, dictated, entailed, essential, exigent, final, hard-and-fast, imperative, imperious, importunate, imposed, incumbent, indispensable, inevitable, involuntary, irrevocable, mandated, mandatory, must, necessary, necessitous, peremptory, prescript, prescriptive, required, requisite, ultimate, urgent, without appeal, without choice

oblige

 * oblige, accommodate, aid, assist, avail, benefit, bind, brook no denial, call for, cater to, coddle, coerce, commit, compel, concuss, constrain, contribute, convenience, cosset, demand, dictate, do a favor, do a service, do right by, exact, favor, force, give way to, gratify, help, humor, impose, indulge, insist upon, leave no option, make, make imperative, make incumbent, mollycoddle, necessitate, obligate, pamper, please, pledge, profit, require, saddle with, satisfy, serve, shotgun, show kindness to, spoil, take no denial, tie, treat well, yield to

obliged

 * obliged, acknowledging, appreciative, beholden, beholden to, bound, bounden, bounden to, cognizant of, committed, compelled, crediting, duty-bound, forced, grateful, in duty bound, indebted, indebted to, made, much obliged, obligate, obligated, obliged to, pledged, required, saddled, sensible, thankful, tied, under obligation

obliging

 * obliging, accommodating, accommodative, affable, agreeable, amenable, amiable, attentive, benevolent, benign, benignant, civil, complaisant, compliant, considerate, courteous, decent, deferential, delicate, easy, fair, friendly, generous, good-humored, good-natured, good-tempered, graceful, gracious, heedful, helpful, indulgent, kind, kindly, lenient, mild, mindful, mindful of others, overindulgent, overpermissive, permissive, polite, regardful, respectful, solicitous, supportive, tactful, thoughtful, tolerant, urbane, willing

oblique

 * oblique, O-shaped, across, ambagious, angle, angle off, angling, askew, aslant, athwart, atilt, awry, backhand, backhanded, banked, banking, bear off, bend, bias, cambered, canted, canting, circuitous, circular, circumlocutional, circumlocutory, clandestine, collateral, crook, crooked, cross, crossway, crossways, crosswise, deceitful, deceptive, deflect, deflectional, deviant, deviate, deviating, deviative, devious, diagonal, digressive, discursive, divagate, divagational, diverge, divergent, diverging, evasive, excursive, false, furtive, helical, implied, inclined, inclining, indirect, leaning, left-handed, meandering, oblique angle, oblique figure, oblique line, offhand, orbital, out-of-the-way, overthwart, periphrastic, pitched, pitching, rhomboid, rotary, round, roundabout, scratch comma, separatrix, sheer, side, sidelong, sinister, sinistral, skew, slant, slanted, slanting, slash, sloped, sloping, slue, sly, solidus, spiral, surreptitious, sway, swerve, thwart, tilted, tilting, tipped, transversal, transverse, traverse, turn, twist, underhanded, veer, virgule

obliterate

 * obliterate, absolve, annihilate, black out, blot, blot out, cancel, consign to oblivion, cross out, declare a moratorium, dele, delete, destroy, efface, eliminate, eradicate, erase, expunge, exterminate, extirpate, forgive, kill, nullify, raze, rub out, rule out, scratch, scratch out, sponge, sponge out, strike off, strike out, wipe out, write off

obliteration

 * obliteration, Lethe, absentmindedness, blot, blotting, blotting out, cancel, cancellation, decay of memory, deletion, effacement, erasure, expunction, forgetfulness, forgetting, forgiveness, grace period, hazy recollection, heedlessness, moratorium, nepenthe, nirvana, oblivion, obliviousness, scrubbing, short memory, unmindfulness, washing out, waters of oblivion, wiping out, write-off

oblivion

 * oblivion, KO, Lethe, abandon, absentmindedness, anonymity, blackness, blackout, blank mind, blankmindedness, blankness, calm of mind, careless abandon, carelessness, casualness, catalepsy, catatonia, catatony, coma, cursoriness, darkness, decay of memory, disregard, disregardfulness, easiness, emptiness of mind, empty-headedness, extinction, faint, fallow mind, fatuity, foolishness, forgetfulness, forgetting, forgiveness, grayout, hastiness, hazy recollection, heedlessness, inanity, inconsiderateness, inconsideration, indifference, insensibility, insensibleness, insouciance, kayo, knockout, lack of foresight, laziness, lethe, limbo, lipothymia, lipothymy, mental blankness, nepenthe, nihility, nirvana, nirvana principle, nothingness, obliteration, obliviousness, obscurity, offhandedness, passivity, perfunctoriness, quietism, recklessness, regardlessness, semiconsciousness, senselessness, short memory, sleep, sprezzatura, stupor, swoon, syncope, tabula rasa, tactlessness, thoughtfreeness, thoughtlessness, tranquillity, unawareness, unconsciousness, unheedfulness, unintelligence, unmindfulness, unpreparedness, unreadiness, unsolicitousness, unsolicitude, unthinkingness, vacancy, vacuity, void, waters of oblivion

oblivious

 * oblivious, Lethean, absent, absent-minded, absentminded, absorbed, abstracted, airy, amnestic, asleep, bemused, blank, blankminded, blind, blind to, blocked, calm, careless, castle-building, casual, cataleptic, catatonic, cold, comatose, converted, cursory, daydreaming, daydreamy, dead, dead asleep, dead to, deaf, deaf to, deep asleep, degage, detached, disregardant, disregardful, distant, doped, dormant, dreaming, dreamy, drowsing, drugged, easygoing, ecstatic, elsewhere, empty, empty-headed, engrossed, faraway, fast asleep, fatuous, flaked-out, flippant, forgetful, forgetting, free and easy, half-awake, half-conscious, heedless, in a reverie, in the clouds, inane, inclined to forget, incogitant, incognizant, inconsiderate, indifferent, insensible, insensitive, insouciant, lazy, lost, lost in thought, lost to, meditative, mooning, moonraking, museful, musing, napping, narcotized, nirvanic, nodding, offhand, out, out cold, out of it, passive, pensive, perfunctory, pipe-dreaming, preoccupied, quietistic, rapt, reckless, regardless, relaxed, removed, repressed, respectless, semiconscious, senseless, sleeping, slumbering, somewhere else, sound asleep, spaced out, stargazing, stoned, strung out, suppressed, tactless, taken up, thoughtfree, thoughtless, tranquil, transported, unacquainted, unaware, unconcerned, unconscious, undiplomatic, unfamiliar, unfeeling, unheedful, unheeding, unideaed, uninformed, uninstructed, unintellectual, unknowing, unmindful, unoccupied, unprepared, unready, unreasoning, unsolicitous, untactful, unthinking, unwitting, vacant, vacuous, woolgathering, wrapped in thought, zonked, zonked out

oblong

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

obloquy

 * obloquy, abuse, adverse criticism, animadversion, aspersion, bad notices, bad press, billingsgate, calumny, captiousness, carping, cavil, caviling, censoriousness, contumely, criticism, degradation, demotion, depluming, discredit, disesteem, dishonor, displuming, disrepute, exception, faultfinding, flak, hairsplitting, hit, home thrust, hostile criticism, hypercriticalness, hypercriticism, ignobility, ignominiousness, ignominy, imputation, infamousness, infamy, ingloriousness, invective, knock, loss of honor, nagging, niggle, niggling, nit, nit-picking, odium, opprobrium, overcriticalness, pestering, pettifogging, priggishness, quibble, quibbling, rap, reflection, reproachfulness, revilement, scurrility, shame, slam, slur, stricture, swipe, taking exception, trichoschistism, vilification, vituperation

obnoxious

 * obnoxious, abhorrent, abject, abominable, arrant, atrocious, awful, base, beastly, beggarly, below contempt, beneath contempt, blameworthy, brutal, cheesy, contemptible, crude, crummy, debased, degraded, deplorable, depraved, despicable, detestable, dire, dirty, disgusting, dreadful, egregious, enormous, execrable, exposed, fetid, filthy, flagrant, forbidding, foul, fulsome, grave, grievous, gross, hateful, heinous, horrible, horrid, ignoble, infamous, invidious, lamentable, little, loathsome, lousy, low, low-down, lumpen, malodorous, mangy, mean, measly, mephitic, miasmal, miasmic, miserable, monstrous, nasty, nauseating, nefarious, noisome, notorious, noxious, objectionable, obscene, odious, offensive, open, outrageous, paltry, petty, pitiable, pitiful, poky, poor, prone, rank, rebarbative, regrettable, repellent, reprehensible, reptilian, repugnant, repulsive, revolting, revulsive, rotten, sad, scabby, scandalous, schlock, scrubby, scruffy, scummy, scurvy, sensitive, shabby, shameful, shocking, shoddy, sickening, small, sordid, squalid, stinking, subject, susceptible, terrible, too bad, unclean, unmentionable, vile, villainous, woeful, worst, worthless, wretched

oboe

 * oboe, English horn, Pandean pipe, aulos, basset horn, basset oboe, bassoon, block flute, bombard, bourdon, cello, claribel, clarinet, clarion, concert flute, contrabassoon, contrafagotto, cornet, cornopean, cromorna, cromorne, cymbel, diapason, double bassoon, double reed, dulciana, fife, fipple flute, flageolet, flute, flute stop, foundation stop, fourniture, gamba, gedeckt, gemshorn, harmonic flute, hautboy, heckelphone, hornpipe, hybrid stop, koppel flute, larigot, licorice stick, melodia, mixture, musette, mutation stop, nazard, oaten reed, oboe da caccia, ocarina, octave, organ stop, panpipe, penny-whistle, piccolo, pipe, plein jeu, pommer, posaune, principal, quint, quintaten, rank, ranket, recorder, reed, reed instrument, reed stop, register, rohr flute, sax, saxophone, sesquialtera, shawm, single reed, single-reed instrument, sonorophone, spitz flute, stop, stopped diapason, stopped flute, string diapason, string stop, sweet potato, syrinx, tabor pipe, tenoroon, tierce, tin-whistle, tremolo, trombone, trumpet, twelfth, unda maris, vibrato, viola, voix celeste, vox angelica, vox humana, whistle, woods, woodwind, woodwind choir, woodwind instrument

obscene

 * obscene, Cyprian, Fescennine, Paphian, Rabelaisian, abhorrent, abominable, abusive, amoral, animal, aphrodisiomaniacal, atrocious, awful, barnyard, base, bawdy, beastly, below contempt, beneath contempt, blasphemous, blue, broad, calumniatory, calumnious, carnal, clitoromaniacal, coarse, comminatory, concupiscent, contemptible, contumelious, crass, crude, crusty, cursing, damnatory, debauched, degenerate, denunciatory, despicable, detestable, dirty, disgusting, dissolute, distasteful, dysphemistic, earthy, epithetic, erotic, eroticomaniacal, erotomaniacal, evil, excommunicative, excommunicatory, execrable, execratory, fetid, filthy, fleshly, forbidding, foul, foul-mouthed, foul-spoken, foul-tongued, foulmouthed, fulminatory, fulsome, gaudy, goatish, gross, gynecomaniacal, hateful, heinous, hideous, horny, horrible, hot, hysteromaniacal, ignoble, immodest, immoral, imprecatory, improper, impure, indecent, indecorous, indelicate, inelegant, insufferable, intolerable, ithyphallic, lascivious, lecherous, lewd, libertine, libidinous, licentious, lickerish, loathsome, loose, loud, lubricious, lurid, lustful, maledictory, malodorous, mephitic, meretricious, miasmal, miasmic, nasty, nauseating, nauseous, noisome, noxious, nymphomaniacal, objectionable, obnoxious, odious, off color, offensive, outrageous, paw, pornographic, priapic, profane, prurient, randy, rank, raunchy, raw, rebarbative, repellent, repugnant, repulsive, revolting, ribald, rich, risque, rocky, rough, rude, ruttish, salacious, satyric, scabrous, scatologic, scatological, scurrile, scurrilous, sensual, sexual, sexy, shameful, shameless, shocking, sickening, smoking-room, smutty, stinking, suggestive, sultry, unchaste, unclean, unpalatable, unprintable, unrepeatable, vile, vituperative, vulgar, wanton, warm, wicked

obscenity

 * obscenity, Rabelaisianism, X-rated movie, abominability, animality, bad language, baseness, bawdiness, bawdry, beastliness, billingsgate, blue language, blue movie, carnality, clitoromania, coarseness, colorful language, concupiscence, contemptibility, contrariety, crassness, crudeness, crudity, curse, cursing, cuss, cuss word, cussing, despicability, despicableness, dirt, dirtiness, dirty language, dirty movie, dirty name, dirty talk, dirty word, disgustingness, dysphemism, earthiness, epithet, erotic art, erotic literature, eroticism, eroticomania, erotographomania, erotomania, evil speaking, expletive, fescenninity, filth, filthiness, filthy language, fleshliness, foul invective, foul language, foulness, fulsomeness, furor uterinus, gaudiness, goatishness, grossness, gynecomania, harshness, hatefulness, heinousness, horniness, hysteromania, iconolagny, ignobility, lasciviousness, lecherousness, lechery, lewdness, libidinousness, lickerishness, loathsomeness, loudness, lubriciousness, lubricity, lust, lustfulness, meretriciousness, nastiness, naughty word, nauseousness, no-no, noisomeness, noxiousness, nymphomania, oath, objectionability, objectionableness, obnoxiousness, odiousness, offensiveness, pornographic art, pornographic literature, pornographomania, pornography, profane oath, profane swearing, profanity, prurience, pruriency, putridity, putridness, randiness, rawness, rebarbativeness, repellence, repellency, repugnance, repulsiveness, ribaldry, rottenness, roughness, rudeness, salaciousness, salacity, satyriasis, satyrism, scatology, scurrility, sensuality, sexiness, sexploitation, sexuality, skin flick, smut, smuttiness, soft-core pornography, stag film, strong language, swearing, swearword, unparliamentary language, unrepeatable expressions, unspeakableness, uteromania, vile language, vileness, vulgar language

obscure

 * obscure, Cimmerian, abstruse, adiaphanous, adumbrate, aleatoric, aleatory, ambiguous, amorphic, amorphous, amphibological, anarchic, anonymous, apply to, arcane, around the bush, back of beyond, baffling, baggy, bandage, beamless, beat about, becloud, beclouded, bedarken, bedazzle, bedim, befog, befogged, beg the question, begloom, belie, bemist, benight, beyond one, bicker, black, black as night, black out, blacken, blanket, blear, bleared, bleary, blind, blind the eyes, blindfold, blobby, block, block the light, blot out, blur, blurred, blurry, boggle, broad, brown, buried, caliginous, camouflage, canopy, cast a shadow, cavil, chance, chancy, chaotic, characterless, choplogic, clabber up, clear as mud, cloak, close, clothe, cloud, cloud over, cloud up, clouded, cloudy, complex, complicate, complicated, conceal, concealed, confuse, confused, confusing, cope, corrupt, cover, cover up, covered, covert, cowl, crabbed, cramp, cryptic, curtain, dark, dark as night, dark as pitch, darken, darken over, darkling, darksome, daze, dazzle, deform, deprive of sight, devious, difficult, dim, dim out, disguise, dismal, disorder, disordered, disorderly, dissemble, distant, distort, distract attention from, dodge, double-edged, double-faced, doubtful, dubious, dull, dusk, dusky, ebon, ebony, eclipse, eclipsed, encloud, encompass with shadow, enigmatic, enmist, ensconce, enshroud, envelop, equivocal, equivocate, esoteric, evade, evade the issue, excecate, faint, falsify, far, far-off, featureless, feeble, fence, film, filmy, fog, fog up, foggy, foreign, formless, fuliginous, fuzz, fuzzy, garble, garbled, general, glare, gloom, gloomy, gloss over, gouge, grumly, half-seen, half-visible, hard, hard to understand, haze, hazy, hedge, hid, hidden, hide, hit-or-miss, hood, hoodwink, humble, ignotus, ill-defined, illegible, impervious to light, imprecise, in a cloud, in a fog, in eclipse, in purdah, in the wings, inaccessible, inaccurate, inchoate, incoherent, incommunicado, incomprehensible, inconclusive, inconsequential, inconspicuous, indecisive, indefinable, indefinite, indeterminable, indeterminate, indistinct, indistinguishable, inexact, inexplicable, inform, inglorious, inscrutable, insignificant, intransparent, intricate, jumble, jumbled, kaleidoscopic, keep from, keep under cover, knotty, latent, lax, lay on, lay over, little known, lonesome, loose, low-profile, lowly, lumpen, make blind, make uncertain, make unintelligible, mantle, mask, mean, merely glimpsed, mess up, minor, misadvise, misdirect, miseducate, misguide, misinform, misinstruct, mislead, misrepresent, mist, misteach, misty, muddle, muddy, muffle, murk, murky, mysterious, mystic, mystical, mystify, mystifying, nameless, nebulous, night-black, night-clad, night-cloaked, night-dark, night-enshrouded, night-filled, night-mantled, night-veiled, nitpick, no credit to, nondescript, nonspecific, nubilate, nubilous, obduce, obfuscate, obfuscated, obnubilate, obscured, obumbrate, occult, occultate, occulted, odd, opaque, orderless, out of focus, out-of-the-way, overcast, overcloud, overlay, overshadow, oversmoke, overspread, overtechnical, pale, palter, parry, perplexed, perplexing, pervert, pick nits, pitch-black, pitch-dark, pitchy, prevaricate, pussyfoot, put on, puzzling, quibble, random, rayless, recondite, remote, removed, renownless, retired, roiled, roily, scramble, scrambled, screen, scum, secluded, secluse, secret, semivisible, sequestered, shade, shadow, shadowed forth, shadowy, shady, shapeless, shield, shift, shroud, shuffle, shy, sidestep, slur over, smog, smoke, snow-blind, solitary, somber, split hairs, spread over, starless, stochastic, strange, strike blind, subfusc, sunless, superimpose, superpose, sweeping, tenebrious, tenebrose, tenebrous, tergiversate, tough, transcendent, turbid, umbral, uncelebrated, uncertain, unclear, undefined, under an eclipse, under cover, under house arrest, under wraps, underground, undestined, undetermined, undistinguished, unemphatic, unfamed, unfamiliar, unfathomable, unform, unglorified, unheard-of, unhonored, unilluminated, unimportant, unintelligible, unknown, unlighted, unlit, unnamed, unnotable, unnoted, unnoticeable, unnoticed, unordered, unorganized, unplain, unpopular, unrecognizable, unremarked, unrenowned, unshape, unspecified, unsung, vague, varnish, veil, veiled, weak, whitewash, wrapped in clouds

obscured

 * obscured, abstruse, armored, beamless, beclouded, bedazzled, between the lines, beyond one, black, black as night, blind, blindfold, blindfolded, buried, caliginous, cased, ceiled, cloaked, close, clouded, coated, complex, complicated, concealed, coped, covered, covert, cowled, crabbed, cramp, cryptic, curtained, dark, dark as night, dark as pitch, darkened, darkling, darksome, dazed, dazzled, delitescent, difficult, dormant, ebon, ebony, eclipsed, encapsulated, encapsuled, encased, enveloped, enwrapped, esoteric, excecate, filmed, floored, garbled, guarded, hard, hard to understand, hibernating, hid, hidden, hooded, hoodwinked, housed, in a cloud, in a fog, in eclipse, in purdah, in the wings, incommunicado, intricate, jumbled, knotty, latent, loricate, loricated, lurking, mantled, masked, muffled, mysterious, mystic, night-black, night-clad, night-cloaked, night-dark, night-enshrouded, night-filled, night-mantled, night-veiled, obfuscated, obscure, occult, occulted, overtechnical, packaged, paved, perplexed, pitch-black, pitch-dark, pitchy, possible, potential, privy, rayless, recondite, roofed-in, scrambled, screened, scummed, secluded, secluse, secret, sequestered, sheathed, shelled, shielded, shrouded, sleeping, snow-blind, snow-blinded, starless, submerged, sunless, swathed, tenebrious, tenebrose, tenebrous, tented, tough, under an eclipse, under cover, under house arrest, under the surface, under wraps, underground, underlying, unilluminated, unknown, unlighted, unlit, unmanifested, veiled, virtual, walled, walled-in, wrapped, wrapped in clouds

obscurity

 * obscurity, Egyptian darkness, Erebus, a nobody, a nothing, abstruseness, adiaphanousness, ambiguousness, amorphia, amorphism, amorphousness, anarchy, anonymity, arcanum, blackness, bleariness, blobbiness, blur, blurriness, broadness, chaos, cipher, cloudiness, common man, complexity, confusion, dark, darkness, darkness visible, dead of night, defocus, dimness, disorder, dummy, dusk, duskiness, entropy, esoterica, faintness, feebleness, figurehead, filminess, fog, fogginess, formlessness, fuzziness, generality, gloom, half-visibility, haze, haziness, ill-definedness, imperviousness to light, imprecision, inaccuracy, inchoateness, incoherence, indecisiveness, indefinableness, indefiniteness, indeterminateness, indistinctness, indistinguishability, inexactness, ingloriousness, insignificance, insignificancy, intense darkness, intransparency, intricacy, jackstraw, laxity, lightlessness, lightweight, limbo, little fellow, little guy, looseness, low profile, man of straw, mediocrity, messiness, mist, mistiness, moonlessness, mumbo jumbo, murk, murkiness, mystery, mystification, namelessness, nebbish, nebulousness, night, nobody one knows, nonentity, obfuscation, obscurantism, obscuration, obscure, obscure darkness, opacity, opaque, opaqueness, orderlessness, paleness, perplexity, pip-squeak, pitch-darkness, pitchy darkness, punk, roil, roiledness, runt, scrub, secret, semivisibility, shade, shadow, shadowiness, shapelessness, shrimp, small fry, small potato, small potatoes, soft focus, squirt, squit, starlessness, sunlessness, swarthiness, sweepingness, tenebrosity, tenebrousness, the palpable obscure, total darkness, turbidity, turbidness, uncertainty, unclarity, unclearness, unimportance, unintelligibility, unplainness, vague appearance, vagueness, velvet darkness, weakness, whiffet, whippersnapper

obsequious

 * obsequious, abject, adulatory, ass-kissing, backscratching, beggarly, bland, blandishing, blarneying, bootlicking, brown-nosing, buttery, cajoling, complimentary, courtierly, courtly, cowering, crawling, cringing, crouching, deferential, fair-spoken, fawning, fine-spoken, flattering, footlicking, fulsome, groveling, gushing, hangdog, honey-mouthed, honey-tongued, honeyed, ingratiating, insincere, insinuating, low, mealy-mouthed, mealymouthed, menial, obeisant, oily, oily-tongued, on bended knee, parasitic, prone, prostrate, servile, slavish, slimy, slobbery, smarmy, smooth, smooth-spoken, smooth-tongued, sniveling, soapy, soft-soaping, sponging, submissive, subservient, sycophantic, sycophantical, sycophantish, timeserving, toadeating, toadying, toadyish, truckling, unctuous, wheedling

observable

 * observable, apparent, appreciable, beholdable, clear, clear as crystal, crystal-clear, detectable, discernible, disclosed, distinct, evident, explicit, exposed, exposed to view, express, hanging out, in evidence, in full view, in plain sight, in view, indisputable, indubitable, insight, manifest, memorable, naked, notable, noticeable, obvious, open, open to view, open-and-shut, outcropping, palpable, patent, perceivable, perceptible, perspicuous, plain, plain as day, recognizable, red-letter, revealed, rubric, seeable, self-evident, self-explaining, self-explanatory, sensible, showing, tangible, to be seen, transparent, unclouded, unconcealed, undisguised, unhidden, unmistakable, viewable, visible, visual, witnessable

observance

 * observance, accommodation, accord, accordance, acquiescence, adaptation, adaption, adherence, adhering, adjustment, adoration, advertence, advertency, agreement, alertness, allegiance, anniversaries, assiduity, assiduousness, attention, attention span, attentiveness, awareness, baccalaureate service, bon ton, care, carrying out, celebrating, celebration, ceremonial, ceremony, churchgoing, cognizance, commemoration, commencement, completion, compliance, complying, concentration, conformance, conformation other-direction, conforming, conformity, congruity, consciousness, consideration, consistency, consuetude, convention, conventionality, convocation, correspondence, cultism, custodianship, custody, custom, devotedness, devotion, devoutness, diligence, discharge, dressing ship, duteousness, dutifulness, duty, eagle eye, ear, earnestness, effectuation, empty formality, enforcement, espial, espionage, established way, etiquette, examination, execution, exercise, exercises, faith, faithfulness, fanfare, fanfaronade, fashion, fealty, festivity, flexibility, flourish of trumpets, folkway, form, form of worship, formal, formality, formula, formulary, fulfillment, function, graduation, graduation exercises, guard, guardedness, guardianship, habit, harmony, heed, heedfulness, heeding, holiday, holy rite, homage, inaugural, inauguration, initiation, inspection, institution, intentiveness, intentness, invigilation, jubilee, keeping, line, liturgy, looking, lookout, love of God, loyalty, malleability, manner, manners, mark, marking the occasion, memorialization, memory, mind, mindfulness, mode of worship, monitoring, mores, mummery, mystery, note, notice, obedience, obediency, obeying, observation, observing, office, order of worship, ordinance, orthodoxy, ovation, peeled eye, performance, pietism, piety, piousness, pliancy, practice, praxis, prescribed form, prescription, proctoring, proper thing, prosecution, prudence, qui vive, recognition, reconcilement, reconciliation, regard, regardfulness, rejoicing, religion, religionism, religious ceremony, religious rites, religiousness, remark, remembrance, respect, respecting, revel, reverence, rite, rite de passage, rite of passage, ritual, ritual observance, rituality, sacrament, sacramental, salute, salvo, scrutiny, service, servility, servitium, sharp eye, social convention, solemn observance, solemnity, solemnization, spying, standard behavior, standard usage, standing custom, stewardship, strictness, submission, submissiveness, suit and service, suit service, surveillance, testimonial, testimonial banquet, testimonial dinner, theism, thought, time-honored practice, toast, tradition, traditionalism, transaction, tribute, triumph, uniformity, usage, use, veneration, viewing, vigil, vigilance, wariness, watch, watch and ward, watchful eye, watchfulness, watching, way, weather eye, what is done, willingness, witnessing, wont, wonting, worship, worshipfulness

observant

 * observant, Argus-eyed, active, advertent, agog, alert, all ears, all eyes, assiduous, attentive, aux aguets, awake, aware, careful, compliant, concentrated, conforming, conscientious, conscious, constant, custodial, deferential, devoted, devout, diligent, duteous, dutiful, eagle-eyed, earnest, ethical, faithful, finical, finicking, finicky, guarded, hawk-eyed, heedful, intense, intent, intentive, keen, keen-eyed, lidless, loyal, meticulous, mindful, moral, nice, niggling, obedient, observing, on guard, on the ball, on the job, on the lookout, on the watch, open-eared, open-eyed, openmouthed, perceptive, practicing, prudent, punctilious, punctual, regardful, respectful, scrupulous, sharp, sharp-eyed, shrewd, sleepless, thoughtful, true, vigilant, wary, watchful, wide awake, with open eyes

observation

 * observation, Parthian shot, accordance, acquittal, acquittance, address, adherence, advertence, advertency, affirmation, alertness, allegation, announcement, answer, apostrophe, apprehension, assertion, assiduity, assiduousness, assumption, attention, attention span, attentiveness, attitude, averment, awareness, bugging, care, carrying out, climate of opinion, cloak-and-dagger work, cognizance, comment, commentary, common belief, community sentiment, compliance, conceit, concentration, concept, conception, conclusion, conformance, conformity, consciousness, consensus gentium, consideration, counterespionage, counterintelligence, crack, criticism, declaration, dictum, diligence, discharge, discovery, ear, earnestness, electronic surveillance, espial, espionage, estimate, estimation, ethos, examination, exclamation, execution, expression, eye, fancy, feeling, following, fulfillment, general belief, greeting, heed, heedfulness, heeding, idea, image, imago, impression, inspection, intellectual object, intelligence, intelligence work, intentiveness, intentness, interjection, judgment, keeping, lights, looking, lookout, mark, memory-trace, mental image, mental impression, mention, military intelligence, mind, mindfulness, mystique, note, notice, notion, obiter dictum, observance, opinion, perception, performance, personal judgment, phrase, point of view, popular belief, position, posture, practice, presumption, prevailing belief, proclamation, pronouncement, public belief, public opinion, question, reaction, recept, reflection, regard, regardfulness, remark, representation, respect, satisfaction, say, saying, scrutiny, secret police, secret service, sentence, sentiment, shadowing, sight, spying, stakeout, stance, statement, subjoinder, supposition, surveillance, survey, tailing, theory, thinking, thought, trailing, utterance, view, viewing, watch, watching, way of thinking, wiretap, wiretapping, witnessing, word

observatory

 * observatory, Cassegrainian telescope, Newtonian telescope, OAO, OSO, Texas tower, astronomical observatory, astronomical telescope, beacon, belvedere, bleachers, bridge, coelostat, conning tower, coronagraph, coronograph, gallery, gazebo, grandstand, heliostat, lighthouse, lookout, loophole, observation post, orrery, outlook, overlook, peanut gallery, peephole, pharos, planetarium, radar telescope, radio observatory, radio telescope, reflector, refractor, ringside, ringside seat, sighthole, spectrograph, spectroheliograph, spectrohelioscope, spectroscope, telescope, top gallery, tower, watchtower

observe

 * observe, abide by, accommodate, accommodate with, accord, act up to, adapt, adapt to, adhere to, adjust, adjust to, administer, administer Communion, agree with, allude to, animadvert, assimilate to, attend, attend Communion, attend Mass, attend to, attend to orders, autopsy, be faithful to, be guided by, be vigilant, be watchful, beat the drum, behold, beholder, bend, blow the trumpet, blurt, blurt out, bystander, call attention to, canvass, carry out, carry through, case, catch sight of, celebrate, celebrate Mass, check, check out, check over, check up on, chime in with, clap eyes on, commemorate, comment, comment upon, commentate, communicate, complete, comply, comply with, compose, conform, conform to, consider, contemplate, conventionalize, correct, correspond, declare, defer to, descry, dignify, discern, discharge, discipline, discover, distinguish, do justice to, dress ship, effect, effectuate, enforce, espy, examine, exclaim, execute, eye, eyeball, eyewitness, fall in with, fill, fill out, fire a salute, fit, follow, follow the book, formalize, fulfill, gaze at, gear to, give an examination, glimpse, go by, go over, hallow, harken to, harmonize, have a looksee, have in sight, heed, hold by, hold in view, hold jubilee, honor, implement, inspect, interject, jubilate, jubilize, keep, keep faith with, keep in sight, keep in view, keep under observation, ken, lay eyes on, let drop, let fall, listen to, live up to, look, look after, look at, look on, look over, look upon, looker-on, maffick, make, make conform, make good, make merry, make out, make reference to, mark, meet, memorialize, mention, mind, mold, monitor, muse, note, notice, obey, obey the rules, observer, onlooker, opine, overhaul, overlook, pass over, pass under review, pay attention to, peer at, perceive, peruse, pick out, pore over, postmortem, promulgate, prosecute, put in force, put through, receive the Sacrament, recognize, reconcile, reconnoiter, rectify, refer to, reflect, regard, remark, remark upon, remember, render, respect, revere, reverence, review, ritualize, rub off corners, run over, satisfy, say, scan, scout, scrutinize, see, set an examination, settle, shape, sight, signalize, size, size up, solemnize, solemnly mark, sound a fanfare, speak, spot, spy, spy upon, state, stay in line, straighten, study, stylize, submit, suit, survey, take in, take note, take notice, take orders, take stock of, take the measure, tally with, tend, toe the line, transact, twig, up on, venerate, view, viewer, watch, watcher, witness, yield

observer

 * observer, TV-viewer, ace, air force, beholder, bird-watcher, bomber pilot, bystander, combat pilot, drugstore cowboy, examinant, examiner, eyewitness, fighter pilot, flyboy, gaper, gazer, gazer-on, girl-watcher, goggler, inspector, investigator, kibitzer, looker, looker-on, military pilot, naval pilot, ogler, onlooker, perceiver, percipient, scrutineer, seer, sidewalk superintendent, spectator, spectatress, spectatrix, suicide pilot, televiewer, television-viewer, tester, video-gazer, viewer, visitator, visitor, watcher, witness

obsess

 * obsess, absorb, absorb the attention, arrest, be remembered, bedevil, beset, bewitch, burden, catch, charm, compel, control, crush one, demonize, devilize, diabolize, dominate, drive, enchant, engage, engage the attention, engage the mind, engage the thoughts, engross, engross the mind, engross the thoughts, enthrall, exercise, exhaust, fascinate, grab, grip, hant, harass, haunt, haunt the memory, hex, hold, hold spellbound, hold the interest, hoodoo, hypnotize, immerse, impel, infatuate, involve, involve the interest, jinx, make an impression, mesmerize, monopolize, never be forgotten, not let go, occupy, occupy the attention, oppress, overlook, penetrate, plague, possess, preoccupy, prey on, rankle, sink in, spellbind, spook, take over, take up, tire, torment, voodoo, wear out, wear upon one, weary, weigh upon, weight down, witch

obsessed

 * obsessed, absorbed, absorbed in, affected, agonized, bedeviled, beset, besotted, bewitched, buried in, caught up in, contemplating, contemplative, devoted, devoted to, devoured by, dogged, dominated, engaged, engrossed, engrossed in, fixated, ghost-haunted, ghost-ridden, gripped, hag-ridden, harassed, haunted, held, hipped, hung-up, imbued with, immersed in, impressed, impressed with, infatuated, intent, intent on, involved, lost in, meditating, meditative, mindful, monomaniac, monomaniacal, monopolized, moved, nagged, obsessed by, occupied, overcome, penetrated with, plagued, possessed, preoccupied, prepossessed, queer, racked, rankled, remembering, seized with, single-minded, specter-haunted, spirit-haunted, spooked, spooky, stricken, studious, studying, submerged in, swept up, taken up with, torn, tortured, totally absorbed, touched, troubled, unable to forget, witch-charmed, witch-held, witch-struck, witched, wracked, wrapped in, wrapped up in

obsession

 * obsession, absorbed attention, absorption, abstraction, abulia, alienation, anxiety, anxiety equivalent, anxiety state, apathy, application, bedevilment, bewitchery, bewitchment, captivation, catatonic stupor, complex, compulsion, concentration, contemplation, conviction, deep study, deep thought, dejection, depression, detachment, elation, emotionalism, enchantment, engagement, engrossment, entrancement, euphoria, fascination, fixation, fixed idea, folie du doute, hang-up, hypercathexis, hypochondria, hysteria, hysterics, idee fixe, illusion, immersion, indifference, insensibility, intentness, involvement, irresistible impulse, lethargy, mania, maya, meditation, melancholia, mental distress, monomania, morbid drive, obsessive compulsion, passion, pathological indecisiveness, phobia, possession, preoccupation, prepossession, profound thought, psychalgia, psychomotor disturbance, rapt attention, ruling passion, single-mindedness, spirit control, studiousness, study, stupor, submersion, thing, tic, twitching, unresponsiveness, witchery, withdrawal

obsessive

 * obsessive, absorbing, all-encompassing, arresting, attractive, compelling, compulsive, consuming, controlling, dominating, driving, enchanting, engaging, engrossing, enthralling, fascinating, gripping, harassing, haunting, holding, hypnotic, impelling, indelible, magnetic, mesmeric, mesmerizing, nagging, obsessing, obsessional, passionate, persistent, possessing, preoccupying, recurrent, spellbinding, tormenting, unforgettable, unshakable, unshakeable

obsolesce

 * obsolesce, age, antiquate, be superseded, become extinct, become obsolete, date, fade, fall into disuse, fossilize, fust, go out, grow old, lose currency, molder, obsolete, outdate, pass away, perish, rust, superannuate

obsolete

 * obsolete, abandoned, abjured, ago, ancient, antediluvian, antiquate, antiquated, antique, archaic, behind the times, blown over, by, bygone, bypast, dated, dead, dead and buried, deceased, defunct, demode, departed, deserted, discarded, discontinued, disused, done with, elapsed, expired, extinct, finished, forgotten, gone, gone glimmering, gone out, gone-by, has-been, hors de combat, irrecoverable, lapsed, no more, not worth saving, obsolesce, obsolescent, off the field, old, old hat, old-fashioned, old-time, old-timey, on the shelf, out, out of commission, out of date, out of fashion, out of gear, out of style, out of use, out-of-date, outdated, outmoded, outworn, over, passe, passed, passed away, past, past use, pensioned off, relinquished, renounced, resigned, retired, run out, superannuate, superannuated, superseded, unused, vanished, worn-out, wound up

obstacle

 * obstacle, bar, barrier, blank wall, blind alley, blind gut, block, blockade, blockage, bottleneck, catch, cecum, check, choking, choking off, clog, congestion, constipation, cordon, costiveness, crimp, cul-de-sac, curtain, dead end, determent, deterrent, difficulty, disincentive, drawback, embolism, embolus, gorge, hamper, hang-up, hazard, hindrance, hitch, hurdle, impasse, impediment, infarct, infarction, jam, joker, mountain, objection, obstipation, obstruction, obstructive, one small difficulty, rub, sealing off, snag, stop, stoppage, strangulation, stumbling, stumbling block, stumbling stone

obstetrician

 * obstetrician, anesthesiologist, cardiologist, chiropodist, dermatologist, eye doctor, eye-ear-nose-throat specialist, geriatrician, gerontologist, gynecologist, immunologist, internist, neurologist, oculist, ophthalmologist, orthopedist, otolaryngologist, otologist, pathologist, pediatrician, pediatrist, podiatrist, psychiatrist, radiologist, serologist, skin man, specialist

obstinacy

 * obstinacy, adhesiveness, antagonism, antipathy, application, assiduity, assiduousness, averseness, aversion, backwardness, bad blood, bloody-mindedness, bulldog tenacity, bullheadedness, cantankerousness, challenge, clashing, cohesiveness, collision, combative reaction, commitment, competition, complaint, concentration, conflict, consistency, constancy, contrariety, contrariness, contumaciousness, contumacy, counteraction, cross-purposes, cursoriness, decidedness, decision, decisiveness, dedication, defiance, defiance of authority, definiteness, demur, determinateness, determination, determinedness, devotion, diligence, disaccord, disagreement, disinclination, disobedience, dispute, disrelish, dissension, dissent, dissentience, distaste, dogged perseverance, doggedness, earnestness, endurance, energy, engrossment, enmity, fidelity, firmness, fixedness, foot-dragging, force, fortitude, fractiousness, friction, frowardness, fundamentalism, gluiness, glutinosity, grudging consent, grudgingness, gumminess, guts, gutsiness, hardiness, hardness, heartiness, hostility, imperviousness, impliability, indefatigability, indisposedness, indisposition, indocility, industriousness, industry, inexorability, inflexibility, inimicalness, insistence, insistency, intestinal fortitude, intractability, intractableness, intransigence, lack of enthusiasm, lack of zeal, loyalty, lustihood, lustiness, might, mightiness, mulishness, mutinousness, negativeness, negativism, nolition, noncooperation, obduracy, obdurateness, objection, obstinateness, obstreperousness, opposition, oppugnancy, orneriness, orthodoxy, passive resistance, patience, patience of Job, perfunctoriness, permanence, perseverance, persistence, persistency, pertinaciousness, pertinacity, perverseness, perversity, pigheadedness, plodding, plugging, potency, power, powerfulness, precisianism, preoccupation, protest, purism, puritanism, purpose, purposefulness, reaction, rebelliousness, rebuff, recalcitrance, recalcitrancy, recalcitration, refractoriness, refusal, relentlessness, reluctance, remonstrance, renitence, renitency, repellence, repellency, repugnance, repulse, repulsion, resistance, resoluteness, resolution, resolve, resolvedness, restiveness, retention, revolt, rigidity, rigidness, rigor, rigorousness, rivalry, robustness, ruggedness, sedulity, sedulousness, self-will, seriousness, sincerity, single-mindedness, singleness of purpose, slogging, slowness, snugness, stability, stalwartness, stamina, stand, staying power, steadfastness, steadiness, stick-to-itiveness, stickiness, sticking power, stiffness, stolidity, stoutness, strength, strength of will, stubbornness, sturdiness, sulk, sulkiness, sulks, sullenness, tackiness, tenaciousness, tenacity, tightness, tirelessness, total commitment, toughness, unbendingness, uncompromisingness, uncooperativeness, unenthusiasm, unimpressionability, uninfluenceability, unmovability, unpersuadability, unreceptiveness, unrelentingness, unremittingness, unresponsiveness, unruliness, unsuggestibility, unsusceptibility, unswayableness, unswerving attention, unwillingness, unyieldingness, vigor, vigorousness, viscidity, viscosity, vitality, vying, wildness, will, withstanding

obstinate

 * obstinate, adamant, adherent, adhesive, adversary, adversative, adverse, alien, antagonistic, anti, antipathetic, antithetic, assiduous, balking, balky, beefy, bigoted, bloody-minded, bouncing, bound, bound and determined, bulldogged, bulldoggish, bulldoggy, bulletheaded, bullheaded, case-hardened, clashing, clingy, closed to, closed-minded, committed, competitive, con, conflicting, constant, continuing, contradictory, contrary, contumacious, costive, counter, crabbed, cross, deaf, decided, decisive, dedicated, definite, determined, devoted, diligent, disaccordant, disobedient, dissentient, dogged, dogmatic, doughty, dour, earnest, enduring, enemy, faithful, fanatic, firm, fixed, forceful, forcible, forcy, fractious, froward, full-blooded, full-strength, fundamentalist, gluey, glutinous, gummy, gutsy, gutty, hale, hard, hard as nails, hardheaded, hardy, headstrong, hearty, hefty, hidebound, hostile, husky, immovable, immutable, impersuadable, impersuasible, impervious, impliable, inalterable, indefatigable, indisciplined, indomitable, industrious, inexorable, inflexible, inimical, insistent, intolerant, intractable, intransigent, invincible, iron, iron-hard, ironbound, ironclad, ironhanded, lasting, lawless, loyal, lusty, mighty, mulish, muscle-bound, naughty, negative, nervy, never-tiring, nonconforming, noncooperative, obdurate, obstipated, opinionated, opponent, opposed, opposing, opposite, oppositional, oppositive, oppugnant, orthodox, overthwart, overzealous, patient, patient as Job, permanent, perseverant, persevering, persistent, persisting, pertinacious, perverse, pigheaded, plodding, plugging, potent, powerful, preoccupied, procrustean, puissant, purist, puristic, puritan, puritanic, purposeful, rapt, rebellious, recalcitrant, recusant, red-blooded, refractory, relentless, renitent, repugnant, resistant, resolute, resolved, restive, rigid, rigorist, rigoristic, rigorous, rival, robust, robustious, rockbound, rugged, sedulous, self-adhesive, self-willed, serious, set, sincere, single-minded, sleepless, slogging, sot, stable, stalwart, staunch, steadfast, steady, steely, stickable, sticky, stiff, stiff-necked, stony, stout, straightlaced, straitlaced, strapping, strong, strong as brandy, strong as strong, strong-willed, strongheaded, stubborn, sturdy, sulky, sullen, tacky, tenacious, tireless, tough, transgressive, unabating, unamenable, unbending, unchangeable, uncomplying, uncompromising, unconquerable, uncooperative, undaunted, undisciplined, undiscouraged, undrooping, unduteous, undutiful, unfailing, unfaltering, unfavorable, unflagging, unflinching, unfriendly, unimpressionable, uninfluenceable, unintermitting, uninterrupted, unmovable, unmoving, unnodding, unpersuadable, unpliable, unpliant, unpropitious, unreceptive, unregenerate, unrelaxing, unrelenting, unremitting, unresponsive, unsleeping, unsubmissive, unsuggestible, unsusceptible, unswayable, unswerving, untiring, unwavering, unwearied, unwearying, unwinking, unyielding, utterly attentive, vigorous, violative, viscid, wayward, weariless, wholehearted, willful, withstanding, wrongheaded

obstreperous

 * obstreperous, bawling, beyond control, blaring, blatant, blatting, blustering, boanergean, boisterous, brassy, brawling, brazen, breachy, clamant, clamorous, clamoursome, clanging, clangorous, clattery, contumacious, crying, defiant, disorderly, fractious, impatient of control, incorrigible, indocile, indomitable, insuppressible, intractable, irrepressible, loud, loudmouthed, mafficking, multivocal, naughty, noiseful, noisy, openmouthed, ornery, out of control, out of hand, rackety, rambunctious, rampant, raucous, recalcitrant, refractory, resistant, resisting, restive, revolutionary, riotous, rip-roaring, roisterous, rowdy, rumbustious, screaming, shouting, shrewish, strepitant, strepitous, strident, tempestuous, terrorist, tumultuous, turbulent, unbiddable, unbridled, uncontrollable, uncontrolled, undisciplined, ungovernable, unmalleable, unmanageable, unmoldable, unrestrained, unruly, unsubmissive, uproarious, vociferant, vociferating, vociferous, wild, yammering, yapping, yelling, yelping

obstruct

 * obstruct, arrest, backpedal, backwater, bar, barricade, beat off, bind, block, block out, block up, blockade, bolt, brake, bung, caulk, check, chink, chock, choke, choke off, choke up, clip the wings, clog, clog up, close, close off, close tight, close up, confine, congest, constipate, constrict, cork, counter, cover, crowd, curb, dam, dam up, debar, decelerate, delay, detain, dog, drag, draw rein, drive back, ease off, ease up, fend, fend off, fill, fill up, forbid, foul, halt, hamper, hinder, hold at bay, hold back, hold in check, hold off, hold up, impede, interfere with, interrupt, jam, keep at bay, keep back, keep off, lag, let down, let up, lock, lose ground, lose momentum, lose speed, make late, moderate, obstipate, occlude, pack, parry, plug, plug up, preclude, prevent, prohibit, push back, put back, rebuff, reef, rein in, relax, repel, repulse, retard, set back, shroud, shut off, shut out, shut tight, slack off, slack up, slacken, slow, slow down, slow up, spile, squeeze, squeeze shut, stall, stanch, stave off, stay, stench, stifle, stop, stop up, stopper, stopple, strangle, strangulate, stuff, stuff up, suffocate, take in sail, throttle down, turn aside, ward off

obstructed

 * obstructed, arrested, back, backward, behindhand, belated, blocked, bound, choked, choked up, clogged, clogged up, congested, constipated, costive, delayed, delayed-action, detained, foul, fouled, full, held up, hung up, in a bind, in abeyance, infarcted, jammed, late, latish, moratory, never on time, obstipated, overdue, packed, plugged, plugged up, retarded, slow, stopped, stopped up, stuffed, stuffed up, tardy, unpunctual, unready, untimely

obstruction

 * obstruction, afterthought, arrest, arrestation, arrestment, bar, barrier, bind, blank wall, blind alley, blind gut, block, blockade, blockage, blocking, bottleneck, bureaucratic delay, catch, cecum, cessation, check, checking, choking, choking off, clog, clogging, closing up, closure, congestion, constipation, constraint, constriction, cordon, costiveness, cramp, cul-de-sac, curtain, dead end, deceleration, delay, delayage, delayed reaction, detainment, detention, determent, deterrent, difficulty, double take, drag, dragging, drawback, ease-off, ease-up, embolism, embolus, fixation, flagging, foot-dragging, forbiddance, forbidding, gorge, halt, halting, hamper, hampering, hang-up, hazard, hindering, hindrance, hitch, holdback, holdup, hurdle, impasse, impediment, impeding, infarct, infarction, inhibition, interference, interim, interruption, jam, joker, lag, lagging, let, letdown, letup, limitation, limiting, logjam, minus acceleration, moratorium, mountain, negativism, nuisance value, objection, obstacle, obstipation, obstructionism, obstructive, occlusion, one small difficulty, opposition, paperasserie, pause, proscription, red tape, red-tapeism, red-tapery, repression, reprieve, resistance, respite, restraint, restriction, retardance, retardation, retardment, rub, sealing off, setback, slack-up, slackening, slow-up, slowdown, slowing, slowing down, slowness, slowup, snag, squeeze, stay, stay of execution, stop, stoppage, stopping, stranglehold, strangulation, stricture, stumbling block, stumbling stone, suppression, suspension, tie-up, time lag, wait

obstructionist

 * obstructionist, bitter-ender, brawler, defendant, diehard, disputant, dissentient, dissident, filibuster, filibusterer, frustrater, hinderer, impeder, intransigent, irreconcilable, last-ditcher, litigant, marplot, naysayer, negativist, noncooperator, objector, obstructer, obstructive, opposer, oppositionist, plaintiff, protester, quarreler, resister, scrapper, thwarter, wrangler

obstructive

 * obstructive, choking, complaining, constrictive, contrary, counterproductive, crosswise, disputatious, disputing, dissentient, dissenting, fractious, hindering, hindersome, in the way, inhibiting, inhibitive, interrupting, interruptive, noncooperative, objecting, obstructing, obstruent, occlusive, on the barricades, proof against, protesting, rebellious, recalcitrant, refractory, reluctant, renitent, repellent, repressive, resistant, resisting, resistive, restrictive, retardant, retardative, stifling, strangling, suppressive, troublesome, uncooperative, unsubmissive, unyielding, up in arms, withstanding

obtain

 * obtain, accept, acquire, admit, annex, apply, arouse, assume, bag, be, be extant, be found, be in, be in existence, be in force, be met with, be present, be seized of, be the case, be the rage, be the rule, be the thing, be there, breathe, bring, bring back, bring forth, bring on, bring out, bring to light, buy, call for, call forth, call out, call up, capture, catch, chalk up, chase after, come by, come in for, come into, contract, contrive, corral, deduce, derive, derive from, dominate, drag down, drag out, draw, draw down, draw forth, draw from, draw on, draw out, earn, educe, effect, elicit, enter into possession, evoke, exist, fetch, fetch and carry, gain, get, get from, get out of, go after, go and get, go fetch, go for, go get, go to get, grasp, happen to be, harvest, have, have being, have coming in, have place, hold, induce, inspire, instigate, lead, live, make, motivate, net, occur, pick up, predominate, prevail, procure, provoke, pull down, purchase, reap, receive, reign, relate, retrieve, rouse, rule, run after, sack, score, secure, seize, shag, stand, stimulate, subsist, summon forth, summon up, superinduce, take, take in, take on, take over, take possession of, wangle, wangle out of, win, winkle out, worm out, worm out of

obtainable

 * obtainable, accessible, approachable, attainable, available, come-at-able, derivable, findable, getatable, gettable, open, open to, penetrable, pervious, procurable, reachable, securable, to be had, within reach

obtrude

 * obtrude, barge in, boot out, bounce, break in, break in upon, burst in, butt in, cast, cast out, charge in, chuck out, come between, crash, crash in, crash the gates, creep in, crowd in, cut in, defenestrate, detrude, discard, discharge, edge in, eject, elbow in, encroach, entrench, exclude, expel, extrude, foist in, force upon, give the hook, heave out, horn in, impinge, impose, impose on, impose upon, infiltrate, infringe, insinuate, interfere, interlope, interpose, intervene, intrude, invade, irrupt, jettison, junk, kick downstairs, kick out, obtrude on, oust, press in, press upon, presume, push in, push upon, put on, put out, put upon, reject, remove, rush in, slink in, slip in, smash in, sneak in, squeeze in, steal in, storm in, throng in, throw away, throw out, throw overboard, thrust in, thrust out, thrust upon, toss out, trench, trespass, turn out, work in, worm in

obtrusive

 * obtrusive, aggressively self-confident, arrant, arrogant, audacious, biggety, blatant, bold, brazen, brazenfaced, bumptious, busy, chesty, cocky, cold, colorful, conceited, conspicuous, contumelious, cool, crude, disdainful, extravagant, familiar, flagrant, flaring, flaunting, forceful, forward, garish, gaudy, glaring, gorgeous, hanging out, hubristic, immodest, importunate, in relief, in the foreground, insolent, insulting, interfering, interruptive, intervenient, intrusive, invasive, know-it-all, loud, lurid, meddlesome, meddling, meretricious, notable, noticeable, notorious, officious, ostensible, outstanding, overpresumptuous, overweening, overwise, peacockish, peacocky, perk, perky, pert, presuming, presumptuous, procacious, prominent, pronounced, puffed up, pushy, salient, screaming, self-conceited, self-opinionated, sensational, shameless, smart-alecky, spectacular, staring, stark-staring, sticking out, striking, stuck-up, swelled-headed, tawdry, uppish, uppity, vulgar

obtuse

 * obtuse, abrupt, affectless, anesthetized, arctic, asleep, autistic, benumbed, bluff, blunt, blunt-edged, blunt-ended, blunt-pointed, blunt-witted, blunted, bluntish, boneheaded, callous, catatonic, chill, chilly, cloddish, cold, cold as charity, cold-blooded, coldhearted, cool, dead, deadened, dense, dim, dim-witted, dispassionate, doltish, dopey, drugged, dull, dull of mind, dull-edged, dull-headed, dull-pated, dull-pointed, dull-witted, dulled, dullish, edgeless, emotionally dead, emotionless, faired, fat-witted, frigid, frosted, frosty, frozen, gross-headed, heartless, heavy, hebetudinous, icy, immovable, impassible, impassive, imperceptive, impercipient, inexcitable, insensate, insensible, insensitive, insentient, insusceptible, loutish, lumpish, mentally retarded, nonemotional, numb, numbed, oafish, obdurate, objective, out of touch, passionless, pointless, rounded, self-absorbed, simple, slow, slow-witted, sluggish, smoothed, soulless, spiritless, stolid, thick, thick-brained, thick-headed, thick-pated, thick-skinned, thick-witted, thickheaded, thickskulled, unaffectionate, unedged, unemotional, unfeeling, unfelt, unimpassioned, unimpressionable, unloving, unpassionate, unperceptive, unpointed, unresponding, unresponsive, unsharp, unsharpened, unsusceptible, unsympathetic, untouchable, wooden

obverse

 * obverse, adversative, adverse, adversive, ally, alter ego, analogon, analogue, antagonistic, anteriority, anti, antipathetic, antipodal, antipode, antipodes, antipole, antithesis, antithetic, antonym, antonymous, associate, at cross-purposes, balancing, bold front, brave face, brave front, brother, clashing, close copy, close match, cognate, companion, compensating, complement, conflicting, confronting, congenator, congener, contra, contradictory, contradistinct, contrapositive, contrarious, contrary, contrasted, converse, coordinate, correlate, correlative, correspondent, counter, counterbalance, counterbalancing, countercheck, counterpart, counterpoint, counterpoise, counterpoised, counterpole, counterterm, countervailing, dead against, discordant, discrepant, display, equivalent, eyeball to eyeball, eyeball-to-eyeball, facade, face, facet, facia, facing, fellow, foil, fore, forefront, foreground, forehand, foreland, forepart, forequarter, foreside, foreword, front, front elevation, front man, front matter, front page, front view, frontage, frontal, frontier, frontispiece, head, heading, heads, hostile, image, inconsistent, inimical, inverse, kindred spirit, lap, like, likeness, mate, near duplicate, offset, opposed, opposing, opposite, opposite number, opposite side, oppositional, oppositive, oppugnant, other face, other side, parallel, pendant, perverse, picture, polar, polaric, polarized, preface, prefix, priority, proscenium, reciprocal, repugnant, reverse, second self, setoff, similitude, simulacrum, sister, soul mate, squared off, such, suchlike, tails, tally, the contrary, the like of, the likes of, the other side, twin, vis-a-vis, window dressing

obviate

 * obviate, anticipate, avert, bar, debar, deflect, deter, discourage, dishearten, estop, exclude, fend, fend off, forbid, foreclose, forestall, help, interfere, interpose, intervene, keep from, keep off, preclude, prevent, prohibit, repel, rule out, save, stave off, turn aside, ward, ward off

obvious

 * obvious, apparent, bald, clean-cut, clear, clear as crystal, clear-cut, conspicuous, crystal-clear, defined, definite, direct, discernible, distinct, evident, explicit, express, glaring, in focus, indisputable, indubitable, manifest, noticeable, observable, open, open-and-shut, ostensible, overt, palpable, patent, perceivable, perceptible, perspicuous, plain, plain as day, prominent, pronounced, seeable, self-evident, self-explaining, self-explanatory, simple, staring, straightforward, tangible, to be seen, unambiguous, unconcealed, undeniable, unequivocal, unhidden, unmistakable, unsubtle, visible, well-defined, well-marked, well-pronounced, well-resolved

obviously

 * obviously, absolutely, actually, apparently, assuredly, certainly, clearly, conspicuously, de facto, decidedly, definitely, demonstrably, discernibly, distinctly, doubtlessly, evidently, explicitly, expressly, for a certainty, for real, genuinely, glaringly, in actuality, in all conscience, in effect, in fact, in reality, indeed, indubitably, manifestly, markedly, noticeably, observably, of course, palpably, patently, perceivably, perceptibly, plainly, positively, prominently, pronouncedly, quite, really, recognizably, seeably, sensibly, seriously, simply, staringly, starkly, truly, unambiguously, unconcealedly, undeniable, undeniably, undisguisedly, unmistakably, verily, veritably, visibly, with clarity, without doubt

ocarina

 * ocarina, English horn, Pandean pipe, aulos, basset horn, basset oboe, bassoon, bombard, clarinet, contrabassoon, contrafagotto, cromorne, double bassoon, double reed, fife, fipple flute, flageolet, flute, hautboy, heckelphone, hornpipe, licorice stick, musette, oaten reed, oboe, oboe da caccia, panpipe, penny-whistle, piccolo, pipe, pommer, recorder, reed, reed instrument, sax, saxophone, shawm, single reed, single-reed instrument, sonorophone, sweet potato, syrinx, tabor pipe, tenoroon, tin-whistle, whistle, woods, woodwind, woodwind choir, woodwind instrument

occasion

 * occasion, a leg up, advantage, adventure, affair, antecedent, antecedents, author, bare necessities, base, basis, bear, beget, break, breed, bring about, bring forth, bring on, bring to effect, bring to pass, call, call for, call forth, call up, causation, cause, cause and effect, celebration, ceremony, chance, circumstance, clear stage, commemoration, conceive, condition, conjuncture, contingency, create, demand, demand for, desideration, desideratum, determinant, determinative, do, effect, effectuate, element, elicit, engender, episode, essential, essentials, establish, etiology, event, eventuality, evoke, excuse, experience, fact, factor, fair field, fair game, father, found, foundation, function, gala, generate, gestate, give birth to, give occasion to, give origin to, give rise to, go, ground, grounds, hap, happening, happenstance, impel, impulse, inaugurate, incident, incitement, indispensable, induce, inducement, institute, juncture, justification, liberty, look-in, make, make for, matter of fact, milestone, moment, must, must item, necessaries, necessities, necessity, need, need for, obligation, observance, occasionally, occurrence, on occasion, opening, opportunism, opportunity, originate, particular, party, phenomenon, place, prerequirement, prerequisite, principle, produce, prompt, prompting, provocation, provoke, reality, realize, reason, requirement, requisite, requisition, right, room, scope, set afloat, set on foot, set up, shot, show, sire, squeak, stepping-stone, stimulus, the necessary, the needful, thing, time, turn of events, want, warrant, work, work up

occasional

 * occasional, accessory, accidental, accompanying, additional, ado, adventitious, afloat, afoot, aleatory, auxiliary, behind the scenes, by-the-way, casual, causal, causative, ceremonial, circumstantial, conditional, constitutive, contingent, current, decisive, determinative, doing, effectual, etiological, eventuating, extra, few, formative, going on, happening, in hand, in the wind, incidental, inessential, infrequent, institutive, intermittent, irregular, nonessential, occurring, odd, off, on, on foot, ongoing, originative, out-of-the-way, parenthetical, part-time, particular, passing, periodic, pivotal, prevailing, prevalent, provisional, random, rare, resultant, ritual, scarce, seldom, side, spare, special, sporadic, supplementary, taking place, uncommon, under way, unessential, unfrequent

occasionally

 * occasionally, at infrequent intervals, at intervals, at odd times, at times, at various times, betweentimes, betweenwhiles, brokenly, by catches, by fits, by jerks, by skips, by snatches, disconnectedly, discontinuously, every so often, fitfully, haphazardly, here and there, in spots, infrequently, intermittently, irregularly, now and then, off and on, on divers occasions, on occasion, once and again, only occasionally, only when necessary, per saltum, periodically, randomly, skippingly, sometimes, sporadically, uncommonly, willy-nilly

Occident

 * Occident, Africa, America, Antipodes, Asia, Asia Major, Asia Minor, Australasia, East, Eastern Hemisphere, Eurasia, Europe, Far East, Levant, Middle East, Near East, New World, Oceania, Old World, Orient, West, Western Hemisphere, continent, down under, eastland, landmass, the old country

occidental

 * occidental, antarctic, arctic, austral, boreal, east, eastbound, easterly, eastermost, eastern, easternmost, hyperborean, meridional, north, northbound, northeast, northeasterly, northeastern, northerly, northern, northernmost, northwest, northwesterly, northwestern, oriental, south, southbound, southeast, southeasterly, southeastern, southerly, southern, southernmost, southwest, southwesterly, southwestern, west, westbound, westerly, western, westernmost

occlude

 * occlude, bang, bar, barricade, batten, batten down, block, block up, blockade, bolt, button, button up, chock, choke, choke off, clap, clog, close, close off, close tight, close up, congest, constrict, contain, contract, cover, crowd, debar, dog, fasten, fold, fold up, jam, key, latch, lock, lock out, lock up, obstruct, pack, padlock, plug, plumb, seal, seal off, seal up, secure, shut, shut off, shut out, shut the door, shut tight, shut up, slam, snap, squeeze, squeeze shut, stifle, stop, stop up, stopper, strangle, strangulate, suffocate, zip up, zipper

occlusion

 * occlusion, Jacksonian epilepsy, Rolandic epilepsy, abdominal epilepsy, access, acquired epilepsy, activated epilepsy, affect epilepsy, akinetic epilepsy, apoplexy, arrest, arrestation, arrestment, attack, autonomic epilepsy, blockade, blockage, blocking, cardiac epilepsy, check, clogging, clonic spasm, clonus, closing, closing up, closure, constriction, convulsion, cortical epilepsy, cramp, cursive epilepsy, delay, detainment, detention, diurnal epilepsy, eclampsia, epilepsia, epilepsia gravior, epilepsia major, epilepsia minor, epilepsia mitior, epilepsia nutans, epilepsia tarda, epilepsy, falling sickness, fit, fixation, focal epilepsy, foot-dragging, frenzy, grand mal, hampering, haute mal, hindering, hindrance, holdback, holdup, hysterical epilepsy, ictus, impediment, inhibition, interference, interruption, larval epilepsy, laryngeal epilepsy, laryngospasm, latent epilepsy, let, lockjaw, matutinal epilepsy, menstrual epilepsy, musicogenic epilepsy, myoclonous epilepsy, negativism, nocturnal epilepsy, nuisance value, obstruction, obstructionism, opposition, paroxysm, petit mal, physiologic epilepsy, psychic epilepsy, psychomotor epilepsy, reflex epilepsy, repression, resistance, restraint, restriction, retardation, retardment, rotatoria, seizure, sensory epilepsy, serial epilepsy, setback, shutdown, shutting, shutting up, spasm, squeeze, stoppage, stranglehold, stricture, stroke, suppression, tardy epilepsy, tetanus, tetany, throes, thromboembolism, thrombosis, tonic epilepsy, tonic spasm, torsion spasm, traumatic epilepsy, trismus, ucinate epilepsy, visitation

occlusive

 * occlusive, accented, alveolar, apical, apico-alveolar, apico-dental, articulated, assimilated, back, barytone, bilabial, broad, cacuminal, central, cerebral, checked, choking, close, consonant, consonantal, constrictive, continuant, contrary, counterproductive, crosswise, dental, dissimilated, dorsal, flat, front, glide, glossal, glottal, guttural, hard, heavy, high, hindering, hindersome, in the way, inhibiting, inhibitive, interrupting, interruptive, intonated, labial, labiodental, labiovelar, lateral, lax, light, lingual, liquid, low, mid, monophthongal, muted, narrow, nasal, nasalized, obstructing, obstructive, obstruent, open, oxytone, palatal, palatalized, pharyngeal, pharyngealized, phonemic, phonetic, phonic, pitch, pitched, posttonic, repressive, restrictive, retroflex, rounded, semivowel, soft, sonant, stifling, stopped, strangling, stressed, strong, suppressive, surd, syllabic, tense, thick, throaty, tonal, tonic, troublesome, twangy, unaccented, unrounded, unstressed, velar, vocalic, vocoid, voiced, voiceless, vowel, vowellike, weak, wide

occult

 * occult, abstract, abstruse, airy, anagogic, apply to, arcana, arcane, arcanum, asomatous, astral, baffling, becloud, beclouded, bedarken, bedim, befog, begloom, between the lines, black, black magic, black out, blacken, blanket, blind, block, block the light, blot out, bodiless, bodilessness, brown, buried, bury, cabala, cabalic, cabalism, cabalistic, cabbala, cabbalism, cabbalistic, cache, camouflage, canopy, cast a shadow, censored, classified, classified information, cloak, close, closed, clothe, cloud, cloud over, clouded, conceal, concealed, confidence, confidential communication, cope, cover, cover up, covered, covert, cowl, dark, darken, darken over, decarnate, decarnated, deep, delitescent, dim, dim out, discarnate, disembodied, disguise, dissemble, distract attention from, ditch, dormant, eclipse, eclipsed, eerie, eeriness, elfdom, encloud, encompass with shadow, enigma, enigmatic, ensconce, enshroud, envelop, esoteric, esoterica, ethereal, extramundane, extraterrestrial, faerie, fey, film, ghostliness, ghostly, gloom, gloss over, guarded secret, heavy, hermetic, hermetics, hibernating, hid, hidden, hide, hood, hush-hush, hypernormal, hyperphysical, immaterial, immateriality, immaterialness, impalpability, impalpable, impenetrable, imponderability, imponderable, in a cloud, in a fog, in eclipse, in purdah, in the wings, incommunicado, incomprehensible, incorporate, incorporeal, incorporeality, incorporeity, indecipherable, inexplicable, inextension, inscrutable, insubstantial, intangibility, intangible, keep under cover, latent, lay on, lay over, lurking, magical, mantle, mask, metaphysic, miraculousness, muffle, muffled, murk, mysterious, mysteriousness, mystery, mystery of mysteries, mystic, mystical, mystifying, nonexteriority, nonmaterial, nonphysical, numinous, numinousness, obduce, obfuscate, obfuscated, obnubilate, obscure, obscured, obumbrate, occult phenomena, occultate, occultism, otherworldliness, otherworldly, overcast, overcloud, overlay, overshadow, overspread, perplexing, personal matter, phantom, possible, potential, preterhuman, preternatural, preternaturalism, preternormal, pretersensual, private, private matter, privileged communication, privity, privy, profound, profound secret, psychic, psychical research, psychicism, psychics, psychism, put on, puzzling, recondite, restricted, restricted information, screen, scum, sealed book, secluded, secluse, secret, secrete, sequestered, shade, shadow, shadowiness, shadowy, shield, shroud, shrouded, sleeping, slur over, smothered, somber, sorcery, spirit world, spiritual, spirituality, spirituousness, spread over, stash, stifled, submerged, superhuman, superhumanity, superimpose, supernatural, supernaturalism, supernaturality, supernaturalness, supernature, supernormal, supernormalness, superphysical, superphysicalness, superpose, supersensible, supersensibleness, supersensual, suppressed, supramundane, supranatural, supranaturalism, supranature, the occult, the supernatural, the supersensible, the unknown, theosophical, theosophist, top secret, transcendental, transcendentalism, transmundane, ulterior, unbreatheable, under an eclipse, under cover, under house arrest, under security, under the surface, under wraps, underground, underlying, undisclosable, undisclosed, undivulgable, undivulged, unearthliness, unearthly, unembodied, unexplainable, unexplained, unextended, unfathomable, unfleshly, unhuman, unknown, unmanifested, unphysical, unrevealable, unrevealed, unspoken, unsubstantial, unsubstantiality, unsubstantialness, untellable, untold, unutterable, unuttered, unwhisperable, unworldliness, unworldly, vague, varnish, veil, veiled, virtual, weird, whitewash, witchcraft, witchery, wrapped in clouds

occultation

 * occultation, annular eclipse, blackout, blanketing, blocking, blotting out, burial, burying, cementwork, central eclipse, cloaking, clouding, coating, concealedness, concealment, coverage, covering, covering up, covertness, curtaining, darkening, deception, dematerialization, departure, disappearance, disappearing, dispersion, dissipation, dissolution, dissolving, eclipse, eclipsing, elimination, envelopment, enwrapment, enwrapping, erasure, evanescence, evaporation, extinction, fadeaway, fadeout, fading, going, hiddenness, hiding, incrustation, interment, invisibility, laying on, lunar eclipse, mantling, masking, melting, mystification, obduction, obscuration, obscurement, obscuring, overlaying, overspreading, pargeting, partial eclipse, passing, plasterwork, putting away, screening, secrecy, secretion, sheathing, shielding, shrouding, solar eclipse, stuccowork, subterfuge, superimposition, superposition, total eclipse, uncommunicativeness, upholstering, upholstery, vanishing, vanishing point, veiling, wipe, wrapping

occultism

 * occultism, bodilessness, ghostliness, immateriality, immaterialness, impalpability, imponderability, incorporeality, incorporeity, inextension, intangibility, nonexteriority, occult phenomena, otherworldliness, psychical research, psychicism, psychics, psychism, shadowiness, spirit world, spirituality, spirituousness, supernaturalism, the occult, unearthliness, unsubstantiality, unsubstantialness, unworldliness

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title: Appendix:Moby Thesaurus II/57