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Gabble, n. gibberish, babble, prate, prating, chatter, jargon.
gabble, v. gibber, jabber, babble, prate, chatter.
gable, n. Associated word: pediment.
gad, n. goad.
gag, v. silence, muzzle, muffle, hush, suppress; retch.
gag, n. muffler, muzzler, silencer.
gain, n. increase, profit, advantage, increment, acquisition, accumulation, accretion, store, hoarding; emolument, lucre.
gain, v. get, acquire, achieve, win, obtain, attain; conciliate, persuade, induce.
gainsay, v. contradict, dispute, deny, controvert, impugn.
gaiters, n. pl. spats, spatterdashes, leggings, gramashes, puttee.
gale, n. wind, tempest; excitement, confusion, flurry.
gall, n. bile; bitterness, rancor, spite, malignity.
gall, n. (Slang) impudence, audacity, effrontery, insolence.
gall, v. chafe, fret; vex, annoy, harass, worry, exasperate.
gallant, a. polite, deferential, courtly, chivalrous.
gallant, n. spark, beau, cicisbeo, philander; lover, suitor; seducer, paramour.
gallantry, n. chivalry, bravery, heroism; courtliness, politeness, deference; intrigue.
gall bladder. cholecystis.
gallery, n. balcony; corridor, passage, passageway; museum.
galloping, n. Associated words: rataplan, tantivy.
gallstone, n. bilestone, biliary calculus.
galoot, n. (Slang) rowdy, blusterer.
galore, n. and a. plenty, abundance, in abundance, abounding.
gambler, n. gamester, card-sharper, blackleg, punter. Associated words: decoy, croupier, capper, by-bidder.
gambol, v. caper, frolic, play, sport, frisk, curvet.
game, n. play, amusement, pastime, diversion, fun, sport; contest; prey, quarry; scheme, plan, project, undertaking, enterprise, stratagem.
game, a. plucky, resolute, unyielding, courageous, unflinching, indomitable, undaunted, unconquerable; (Colloq.) crippled, lame, crooked, deformed.
gang, n. band, crew, company, group, crowd, set, squad, party, number, clique.
gangling, a. (Colloq.) lanky, spindling.
gangrene, n. mortification, sphacelation.--v. mortify, sphacelate.
gangrenous, a. mortified, mortifying, sphacelate.
gap, n. hiatus, rift, crevice, rent, interstice, chasm. See opening.
gape, v. yawn, oscitate; gaze, stare.
gape, n. yawn, yawning, gaping, oscitancy, oscitation; rictus (the gapes).
gaping, n. yawning, oscitancy, oscitation; staring.
garbage, n. offal, refuse, swill, waste. Associated word: scavenger.
garble, v. pervert, distort, falsify, misstate, wrench, misquote, misrepresent.
garbling, n. perversion, distortion, falsification, misstatement, misrepresentation.
gardener, n. horticulturist.
gardening, n. horticulture.
garland, n. wreath, chaplet, coronal, bays, laurel; anthology, rosary.
garnish, v. embellish, beautify, decorate, trim, adorn.
garniture, n. garnish, garnishment, embellishment, decoration, trimming.
garret, n. attic, cockloft.
gaseous, a. aëriform, gassy, gasiform; tenuous, thin, unsubstantial.
gash, v. slash, incise.
gash, n. incision, slash.
gasp, n. pant, panting.--v. pant.
gassing, n. (Slang) boasting, vaunt, gasconade, palaver, vapor, moonshine.
gassy, a. gaseous, aëriform; (Slang) boastful, bombastic, vaporous, inflated.
gate, n. entrance, portal; wicket; turnstile, turnpike; postern; tollgate; sluice gate; stanch; herse, portcullis.
gather, v. congregate, assemble, convene, muster, collect, concentrate; harvest, pick, glean, pluck, crop, reap; accumulate, amass, hoard, garner; contract, compress; pucker, plait, ruffle, shirr; infer, conclude, deduce; maturate.
gather, n. pucker, plait, ruffle, shirring.
gathering, n. collection, crowd, assembly, congregation, concourse, assemblage, muster, party, company; accumulation, amassing, amassment; abscess, imposthume, ulcer, boil, carbuncle, suppuration, maturation, pustule.
gaudy, a. showy, flashy, meretricious, ostentatious, tawdry, garish.
gaunt, a. emaciated, pinched, attenuated, meager, lean.
gawk, n. gawky, booby, lout, simpleton, hind, boor.
gawky, a. ungraceful, clumsy, ungainly, loutish, boorish, uncouth.
gay, a. merry, sportive, frolicsome, lively, exhilarating, vivacious, jolly, blithe, airy, boon, convivial, jovial, joyous; brilliant, dashing, gallant, showy; garish, gaudy, flashing, tawdry; (Colloq.) loose, dissolute, fast.
gayety, n. merriment, mirth, hilarity, sportiveness, conviviality, joviality, light-heartedness, elation.
gear, n. rigging, tackle, gearing, mechanism, draught-gear; accouterments, trappings.
geld, v. castrate.
gem, n. jewel.
general, a. indefinite, vague, ill-defined; prevalent, extensive; usual, common, ordinary, regular. Antonyms: specific, definite.
generality, n. bulk, common run, mass, main body; universality, generalness.
generalship, n. strategy.
generate, v. procreate, beget, engender, reproduce; originate, produce, propagate.
generation, n. procreation, reproduction, prolification, begetting; origination, production, formation.
generative, a. generating, procreative, genial.
generosity, n. magnanimity, nobleness; liberality, munificence, bounty, bountifulness, beneficence, lavishsess.
generous, a. magnanimous, noble, highminded, ingenuous; munificent, bountiful, open-handed, liberal, lavish, charitable, unstinted; abundant, plentiful, overflowing. Antonyms: illiberal, ungenerous, stingy, scant, miserly, penurious.
genial, a. generative, procreative; cheerful, pleasant, agreeable, cordial, friendly, hearty.
genitals, n. pl. See sexual organs.
gentle, a. well-born, genteel, high-born; docile, tractable, tame, subdued; mild, quiet, peaceable, meek, unobtrusive; bland, soothing, pacific, clement, tender, humane; courteous, cultivated, deferential. Antonyms: drastic, refractory, vicious, brusque, harsh, rough, severe, rigorous, intractable, indocile.
gentleman, n. Antonyms: cad, boor, churl, Philistine, guy, lout.
gentlemanly, a. courteous, deferential, polite, urbane, gallant, well-bred.
genuine, a. authentic, veritable, sterling, unmixed, real, pure; sincere, heartfelt, unaffected. Antonyms: spurious, counterfeit, false, supposititious, adulterated.
germ, n. origin, first principle; embryo, bud, seed, spore.
German, a. Teutonic.
german, a. related, allied.
German, n. Teuton.
German characteristic. Germanism, Teutonicism.
germane, a. related, allied, akin, relevant, appropriate.
German Federal Council. Bundesrath.
German House of Representatives. Reichstag.
German measles. rubella.
German silver. packfong.
germ destroyer. germicide.
gesture, n. gesticulation, gesturing.--v. gesticulate.
get, v. procure, obtain, acquire, secure, gain, achieve, attain, realize; induce, persuade, prevail on, win; betake remove; receive; beget, procreate, engender.
get ahead. advance, prosper, flourish, thrive, proceed; forestall.
getatable, a. (Colloq.) accessible. Antonym: inaccessible
get back. return; recover, recuperate, reclaim, retrieve, regain.
get clear. be acquitted, be released, escape.
get down. descend, alight, dismount.
get off. descend, alight, dismount; escape, be released, be acquitted.
get on. mount; prosper, advance, progress.
get out. extricate, release.
get over. surmount, overcome, conquer; recover from.
getting, n. acquisition, obtaining, receiving, acquirement, procurement.
gewgaw, n. bawble, gaud, knickknack, trifle, toy, trinket, bagatelle.
ghastly, a. cadaverous, ghostly, pallid, pale, horrible, shocking, repulsive.
ghost, n. shade, phantom, apparition, spectre, spook, revenant, sprite, wraith; spirit.
ghostly, a. spiritual; spectral, phantomlike.
ghost worship. sciotheism.
ghoul, n. vampire.
giant, n. colossus, monster, Hercules, Goliath, Titan, Cyclops, Brobdingnagian, ogre.
gibberish, n. jargon, jabber, gabbling, babble, drivel.
gibe, v. scoff, flout, jeer, sneer, ridicule, deride, mock.
gibe, n. ridicule, sneer, sarcasm, derision, mockery.
giddy, a. fickle, mercurial, volatile, flighty, unstable, inconstant, thoughtless; light-headed, dizzy, vertiginous.
gift, n. gratuity, present, largess, offering, grant, donation, boon, bounty, bequest, benefaction, contribution, subsidy, legacy, alms, donative, douceur, dotation, sportula; endowment, talent.
gifted, a. talented.
gigantic, a. enormous, colossal, Herculean, vast, Cyclopean, prodigious, Titanic, Gargantuan, Brobdingnagian.
giggle, n. snicker, snigger, titter.
gimcrack, n. device, toy, plaything, trinket, knickknack, jiggumbob.
gin, n. trap, snare, springe, artifice, toils; windlass, crane; Holland gin, schnapps.
gingerly, adv. carefully, cautiously, timidly, fastidiously.
giraffe, n. camelopard.
gird, v. encircle, engird, surround, equip, prepare.
girdle, n. cestus, sash, belt, band, cincture.
girl, n. maiden, maid, lass, lassie, damsel, miss, nymph, virgin; domestic, maid, waitress; ingenue; soubrette; filly, gill; wench; hoiden, hussy, minx; coleen (Anglo-Irish).
girlhood, n. maidenhood, virginity.
girth, n. belly-band; circumference.
gist, n. core, substance, pith, marrow, essence.
give, v. confer, bestow, accord, grant, vouchsafe, donate, contribute, impart, yield, afford, assign. Antonyms: withhold, refuse.
give and take. exchange, interchange, reciprocate, alternate.
give back. return, restore, refund.
give in. yield, surrender, succumb, recede. Antonyms: resist, withstand.
given, a. granted, assumed; disposed, inclined; stated, specified.
give off. emit, exhale.
give out. announce, proclaim, publish, report; fail, be inadequate, be exhausted.
giver, n. donor.
give up. surrender, disgorge; yield, cease, desist, quit, relinquish, waive, cede, succumb, abdicate, abandon, desert. Antonyms: resist, withstand, continue, persist.
give way. withdraw, retire, recede; yield, collapse.
giving, n. conferring, bestowal, granting, benefaction.
giving and taking. reciprocity, reciprocation.
glad, a. pleased, delighted, happy, joyous, joyful, gratified, rejoiced, merry, exhilarated, elated, cheery, animated, gladsome, jubilant, felicitous, refreshing, exhilarating. Antonyms: sad, sorrowful. See sad.
gladden, v. cheer, delight, please, exhilarate, gratify, buoy, elate, rejoice.
gladness, n. delight, pleasure, elation, exhilaration, jubilation, rejoicing.
glamour, n. charm, witchery, magic, spell; illusion, glitter, delusion, glory. Antonyms: disillusionment, disenchantment.
glance, n. glimpse; allusion; gleam, flash, glitter.
glance, v. glimpse; allude, hint; gleam, beam, glitter.
glare, v. glitter, glisten, dazzle; frown, glower.
glaring, a. dazzling, intense, brilliant; flagrant, notorious, barefaced.