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labor, n. toil, work, drudgery, task, industry, travail.
labor, v. toil, work, drudge, slave, moil, travail.
labored, a. studied, elaborate, overwrought, stiff, unnatural.
laborer, n. toiler, workman, stevedore, roustabout, drudge, hack, peon, coolie, navvy.
laborious, a. toilsome, arduous, onerous; diligent, industrious, sedulous.
labyrinth, n. maze, intricacy, complexity.
lace, n. string, cord, thong, aglet.
lacerate, v. tear, rend, mangle, laniate, harrow, wound, harry, distress.
laceration, n. tearing, rending, laniation, harrowing, wound.
lack, v. need, want, be in need of, require, sedulous.
lack, n. want, need, deficiency, dearth, paucity, scarcity, drought, default, deficit, insufficiency, inadequacy, shortness.
lackadaisical, a. pensive, dreamy, languishing, die-away.
lackey, n. flunky.
lacking, a. deficient, insufficient, unsupplied, shy, wanting, devoid.
ladylove, n. See sweetheart.
lag, v. fall behind, loiter, linger, delay, saunter.
laggard, n. loiterer, lagger, lingerer, saunterer, idler.
lake, n. pond; lagoon. Associated words: lacustrine, lacustral.
lamb, n. eanling, yeanling, lambkin, cosset.
lambaste, v. (Low) pommel, maul, belabor, beat, strike.
lame, v. disable, maim, cripple, hamstring.
lame, a. crippled, hobbling, limping, halt, deformed, game, maimed, disabled; inconclusive, unconvincing, inefficient, feeble, unsatisfactory.
lament, v. bemoan, weep, wail, deplore, grieve, bewail, mourn.
lamentable, a. deplorable, grievous, pitiable, distressing, sorrowful.
lamentation, n. wailing, lament, grief, bewailing, plaint, sorrow.
lamented, a. mourned for, deplored.
lampoon, v. libel, defame, satirize.
lampoon, n. libel, pasqinade, iambic.
lance, n. spear, javelin, harpoon.
land, n. terra firma; country; freehold, ground, soil, earth; realty, real estate; demesne, glebe, close, garth, holm, arado, assart, reliction, dereliction, alluvium, cadastre, appanage, arable, fallow, allodium, innings, abuttal; farm, plantation; continent, island, peninsula, delta, isthmus, headland, cape, plateau, barens. Associated words: agronomy, agronomist, agronomics, agronomic, agricultre, agricultral, agriculturist, georgics, geoponics, escheat, arable, inarable, agrarian, agrarianism, agrarianize, topography, tilth, terrain, terrene, till, geoscopy, geoponic.
land, v. disembark, debark; capture.
landing, n. disembarkation, debarkation; wharf, dock, quay; capture.
landlord, n. host, hotel-keeper, inn-keeper, Boniface; owner, proprietor.
Land of promise. Canaan.
landscape, n. scene, scenery, view, prospect.
language, n. speech, tongue, vernacular; dialect; idiom, phraseology, diction; argot, flash, slang, lingo, cant, jargon, gibberish; Volapuk, pasilaly, Esperanto. Associated words: lingual, linguistic, linguist, linguistics, philology, philologist, philological, polyglot, glottology, glossology, paleography, glossologist, monoglot, grammar grammarian, chrestomathy, glossolaly, collingual.
languid, a. unanimated, flagging, lifeless, supine, listless, sluggish, tardy, slow.
languor, n. exhaustion, lassitude, inanition, listlessness.
lanky, a. gangling, overgrown.
lapse, n. slip, misstep, indiscretion; backsliding; devolution.
lard, n. grease; leaflard, flare; axunge.--v. interlard.
larder, n. buttery, pantry, spence.
lardy, a. lardaceous.
large, a. big, extensive, huge, unwieldy, vast, massive, immense, colossal, gigantic, bulky; ample, copious, liberal, unstinted; generous, liberal, munificent, princely; hypertrophied; spacious, commodious, capacious.
lark, n. frolic.
larrup, v. (Colloq.) whip, beat, trounce, flog.
larva, n. caterpillar, grub, maggot; pl. larvæ. Associated words: silphology, pupa, chrysalis.
lascivious, a. lewd, libidinous, salacious. See lustful.
lash, n. scourge, thong, whip.
lash, v. scourge, castigate, flagellate; satirize, scold, rate. See whip.
lashing, n. scourging, castigation, flagellation; satire, scolding, rating.
lassitude, n. languor, weariness, exhaustion, languidness, enervation.
lasso, n. lariat, cabestro, reata.
last, a. final, hindmost, farthest, latest, ultimate.
last, v. continue, endure, remain.
lasting, a. enduring, durable, permanent, imperishable, abiding. Antonyms: ephemeral, transitory, fleeting, transient, fugitive, impermanent.
lastingness, n. durability, permanence, indestructibility, imperishability.
lastly, adv. finally.
late, a. tardy, delayed; recent.
lately, adv. recently.
latent, a. concealed, dormant, undeveloped, hidden.
later, a. subsequent, posterior.
latitude, n. breadth, width; room, range, scope, extent, freedom; laxity.
lattice, n. trellis, lattice-work; cancelli; grille.
lattice-work, n. lattice, trellis, treillage, espailier.
laud, v. extol, praise. See praise.
laudable, a. praisworth, commendable. Antonyms: illaudable, unpraiseworthy, indign.
laudatory, a. panegyrical, eulogistic, encomiastic, adulatory, commendatory.
laugh, v. cachinnate, roar, giggle, snicker, titter, chuckle, grin, twitter, cackle, chortle, hawhaw.
laughable, a. risible, comic, ludicrous, droll, facetious, farcical, amusing. See funny.
laughing, a. merry, gleeful, mirthful, smiling.
laughing gas. protoxide of nitrogen, nitrous oxide, hyponitrous oxide.
laughter, n. mirth, laugh, cachinnation, giggle, snicker, roar, cackle, grin, chortle, chuckle, guffaw, titter. Associated words: risible, risibles, risibility, risorial, abderian, sardonic, geloscopy, gelastic.
laugh to scorn. deride, ridicule.
launch, v. set afloat; set going, start; throw, hurl; expatiate, descant.
lava field. pedregal (Mexico and Western U.S.).
lavish, a. profuse, prodigal, free, unstinted; superabundant, immoderate, excessive, exuberant.
lavish, v. spend lavishly, bestow with profusion.
law, n. statute, ordinance, edict, enactment, decree, canon, usage. Associated words: jurisprudence, nomology, nomography, nomocracy, antinomy, dysnomy, neonomian, code, codex, codify, codification, digest, forensic, legislate, legislation, legislative, enact, ordain, repeal, veto, jurat, juratory, juridic, juridical, jurist, juris consult, publicist, jurisprudent, juristic, pandect, moratory, judicial, causidical, nomothetic, nomistic.
law-breaker, n. criminal, malefactor, culprit, felon, delinquent, offender, sinner.
law-breaking, n. crime, misdemeanor, transgression, violation.
lawful, a. legal, legitimate, licit, legalized. Antonyms: See unlawful.
lawfulness, n. legality, legitimacy. Antonyms: unlawfulness, illegality.
lawing, n. litigation, lawsuit.
lawless, a. anarchical, riotous, mobocratic, licentious.
lawlessness, n. anarchy, unrestraint, abandon, mobocracy, license, riot.
lawmaker, n. legislator, lawgiver, Solon.
lawmaking, n. legislation.
lawsuit, n. litigation, case, suit, action. Associated words: litigant, litigate, litigious, litigable, barratry.
lawyer, n. attorney, counselor, barrister, counsel, advocate, attorney-at-law, solicitor; pettifogger; (dishonest) shyster. Associated words: client, clientele.
lax, a. loose, slack, flabby, relaxed; loose, vague, equivocal, doubtful; slack, remiss, negligent; unrestrained, dissolute, licentious.
laxative, a. aperient.
laxative, n. aperient.
laxness, n. laxity, looseness; relaxation, flabbiness; remissness, negligence, slackness.
lay, v. deposit, place; impose, assess; impute, charge, ascribe, attribute; submit, present, offer; superimpose.
lay, n. song, ballad, lyric.
lay, a. laic, laical.
layer, n. stratum, course, tier.
laymen, n. pl. laity.
lay open. uncover, reveal, expose, disclose, exhibit, show.
lay over. overlay, cover, apply; defer, postpone, prorogue.
lay siege to. besiege, beset, bombard, obsess.
lay to heart. take to heart, be grieved at, feel keenly, consider seriously.
lay up. store, treasure, save, hoard, garner; confine, disable.
lay wait for. lie in ambush for.
lay waste. desolate, devastate, pillage, sack, spoliate.
laziness, n. indolence, sloth.
lazy, a. indolent, slothful, sluggard, dronish. Antonyms: diligent, industrious, sedulous, hardworking.
lazy person. sluggard, drone, idler.
leach, v. lixiviate.
leaching, n. lixiviation.
lead, n. plumbum (Chem.); graphite, plumbago (black lead); plummet; blende (mock lead).
lead, v. guide, conduct, escort, direct; precede; induce, entice, influence, allure, persuade, actuate, impel; conduce, contribute, tend; have precedence; have charge of, command, head.
lead, n. precedence, initiative, command, guidance.
lead astray. mislead, seduce.
leader, n. guide, commander, corypheus, pilot, bellwether, protagonist, chief.
leadership, n. direction, command, guidance; primacy, supremacy, domination, hegemony.
leading, a. chief, principal, premiere, influential, guiding.
leaf, n. blade, spire; folio; lithophyll (fossil leaf). Associated words: foliar, foliferous, foliaceous, foliation, defoliate, defoliation, frond, bract, frondation, frondesce, frondescence, verticil, whorl, acanthus deciduous, indeciduous.
leaf-green, n. chlorophyll.
leaf-stalk, n. petiole.
league, n. alliance, confederation, coalition, confederacy, union, federation, association.
league, v. combine, confederate.
leak, v. percolate, filter, ooze.
leaky, a. defective.
lean, v. incline, slope, recline, tend; rely, depend; careen.
lean, a. thin, lank, spare, meager, poor, skinny, gaunt, emaciated, marcid, angular; slender, scant, bare.
leaning, a. reclining, inclining, supine.
leaning, n. inclination, tendency, propensity, bent, bias, proneness, predisposition, proclivity; reclination.
lean-to, n. penthouse, addition, shed.
leap, v. spring, jump, vault, bound, caper, gambol, prance, cavort, curvet.
leap, n. spring, jump, vault, bound, capriole.
leaping, a. springing, jumping, salient, saltigrade, saltatory.
leaping, n. springing, saltation, salience.
leap year. bissextile.
learn, v. master, acquire knowledge.
learned, a. educated, erudite, lettered, scholarly.
learning, n. education, erudition, lore, scholarship, knowledge. Associated words: savant, philomath, philomathy, misology, oracle, pedant, pedantry.
lease, n. letting, demise; tenure. Associated words: lessee, lessor.
least, n. minimum. Associated words: minimize, minimization.
least, a. smallest, minimum.
leather-burning, n. pyrography.
leathery, a. coriaceous, tough, alutaceous.
leave, n. permission; leave-taking, adieu, farewell, congé; withdrawal, retirement, departure, leaving, egress.
leave, v. depart from, vacate, retire from; abandon, forsake, desert; abstain from, forego, desist from, forbear; permit, allow, let; commit, give over, intrust, consign, deliver; will, bequeath, devise; depart, set out, start, go.
leaves, n. pl. foliage, leafage. See leaf.
leavetaking, n. farewell, valedictory, congé, adieu.
leavings, n. pl. remnants, fragments, offal, refuse, waste, scraps, culls, orts.
lecher, n. rake, libertine, whoremonger.
lechery, n. libertinism, licentiousness.
lecture, n. discourse, address, dissertation, prelection; reproof, scolding.
lecture, v. discourse, address; reprove, censure, rate, upbraid, scold.
ledge, n. shelf; reef, ridge (of rocks); layer, stratum, lode.
left, n. Associated words: sinister, sinistral, sinistrality, sinistrorse, sinistrorsal, haw, port, larboard.
left-handed, a. sinister, ambilevous.
leg, n. limb, shank, shin; (bones of the leg) tibia, fibula, femur, thigh bone, epipodiale. Associated words: crotch, hock, hough, solen, cradle, puttee, hip, thigh, haunch gyve, scarpines, calf, galligaskins, spatterdashes, leggings.
legal, a. lawful, legitimate. Antonym: illegal.
legality, n. lawfulness, legitimacy. Antonym: illegality.
legalize, v. legitimize. Antonyms: illegalize, illegitimize.
legate, n. ambassador, envoy, representative.
legation, n. embassy.