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Machine, n. automaton (self-moving machine); mechanism; organization, system.
machinist, n. mechanician.
mad, a. crazy, insane, demented, maniacal, raving; indignant, enraged, irate, resentful; rabid; distracted, wild, infatuated. See angry.
madcap, n. hotspur, blood.--a. wild, reckless, rash.
madden, v. incense, anger, enrage, infuriate, provoke, exasperate, vex, inflame.
made up. devised, fabricated, artificial, sham, false, counterfeit.
madhouse, n. bedlam, insane asylum.
madman, n. maniac, lunatic, bedlamite; monomaniac.
madness, n. dementia, insanity, craziness, mania, lunacy; monomania; frenzy, rage, wrath, ire, resentment, fury, indignation, anger.
magazine, n. storehouse, depot, repository; periodical, publication, ephemeris.
magic, n. enchantment, conjuration, wizardry, legerdemain prestidigitation, necromancy, jugglery, sorcery; fascination, witchery, charm.
magic, a. magical, necromantic, talismanic.
magician, n. conjurer, prestidigitator, sorcerer, wizard, necromancer, juggler, thaumaturge.
magnet, n. loadstone.
magnetist, n. magnetician.
magnificence, n. grandeur, sublimity, splendor, majesty
magnificent, a. splendid, superb, sublime, majestic, stately, grand.
magnify, v. augment, amplify, enlarge; overstate, exaggerate.
maid, n. See girl; lady's maid, Abigail; soubrette.
maiden, a. virgin; chaste, undefiled, pure; unused, fresh, new.
maidenhead, n. maidenhood; hymen (virginal membrane).
maidenhood, n. maidhood, girlhood, virginity.
mail, n. armor, hauberk; scale, shell; post.
mail, v. post.
mail-carrier, n. postman, letter-carrier, courier.
main, a. principal, leading, chief, capital, cardinal, paramount; requisite, necessary; sheer, pure.
main, n. ocean, high sea; gross, bulk, majority; strength, power, might, force.
mainland, n. continent.
mainly, adv. principally, chiefly, largely.
maintain, v. support, sustain; affirm, assert, contend, claim; conduct.
maintenance, n. support, sustenance.
majestic, a. august, imperial, regal, splendid, magnificent, imposing.
majesty, n. grandeur, magnificence, augustness, splendor.
major, a. greater, larger. Antonym: minor.
majority, n. seniority, manhood; plurality. Antonyms: minority, youth.
make, v. force, compel, coerce, constrain, require, necessitate, occasion, oblige; create, construct, fabricate manufacture, compose, invent, prepare, concoct, shape, form, forge.
make, n. construction, shape, form, structure, conformation
make account of. esteem, regard.
make away. alienate, transfer, make over.
make believe. feign, pretend, simulate, personate, affect.
make-believe, a. feigned, mock, sham, counterfeit, spurious, supposititious, simulated.
make-believe, n. pretense, simulation, affectation, feint.
make bold. presume, venture, dare; embolden.
make good. fulfill, vindicate, justify, establish; indemnify, reimburse, requite; verify, corroborate, confirm, ratify, substantiate.
make headway. advance, progress, thrive, prosper.
make known. declare, announce, publish, report, proclaim.
make little of. belittle, decry, disparage.
make love to. court, woo, spark.
make out. decipher.
make over. transfer, alienate, convey; remodel, rebuild, reconstruct, revamp.
make peace between. mediate, intercede, reconcile, propitiate, pacify, conciliate.
maker, n. manufacturer, constructor, producer.
makeshift, n. expedient, substitute.
make sport of. deride, ridicule, jeer.
make unfriendly. disaffect, alienate, estrange.
make up. reconcile, adjust, compose, settle; collect, amass, accumulate; supply, complete, provide.
make up for. See make good.
make up to. accost, address, salute, speak to.
make up with. become reconciled.
make up a face. grimace.
make way. advance, proceed, progress.
making, n. construction, fabrication, workmanship, invention.
malady, n. disorder, distemper, ailment, complaint, disease.
malaria, n. miasma, miasm; fever and ague.
malarious, a. malarial, miasmatic.
male, a. masculine; staminate (Bot.).
malice, n. hatred, rancor, malevolence, animosity.
malicious, a. hateful, malevolent, rancorous, malignant.
malpractice, n. evil practice, misdoing, misbehavior.
maltreat, v. See abuse.
maltreatment, n. See abuse.
mammoth, a. colossal, gigantic, monstrous.
man, n. mortal, person, individual, adult, someone; mankind, humanity; valet; Primates, Anthropidæ. Associated words: anthropology, anthropogeny, anthropography, anthropolite, anthropoid, anthropometry, anthropometric, anthropocentric, anthropomorphic, android, manikin, écorché, pithecanthrope, androphobia.
manacle, n. handcuff, fetter, shackle.
manacle, v. handcuff, shackle, restrain, fetter.
manage, v. conduct, administer, supervise, manipulate, superintend, engineer; contrive, husband, economize.
manageable, a. governable, tractable, docile, controllable, sequacious.
management, n. administration, conduct, guidance, regulation, superintendence, direction, procuracy, negotiation, contrivance, intrigue, economy, manipulation.
manager, n. conductor, administrator, superintendent, proctor, comptroller, economist, engineer, director.
managing, a. ruling, directing, managerial.
mandate, n. command, edict, order, injunction, precept.
mandatory, a. directory, commandatory, preceptive.
mandrake, n. mandragora; May apple.
mane, n.Associated word: roach.
man-eater, n. cannibal, anthropophagite.
man-eating, a. cannibal, anthropophagous.
man-eating, n. cannibalism, anthropophagy.
manège, n. horsemanship, equestrianism; riding school.
maneuver, n. management, ruse, stratagem, artifice, trick, finesse.
maneuver, v. scheme, finesse, plan.
maneuverer, n. strategist, tactician.
manful, a. manly, resolute, brave.
mangel-wurtzel, n. mangold-wurtzel, scarcity-root.
mangle, v. mutilate, maim, dismember, hack; smooth, calender.
mangling, n. mutilation.
mangy creature. ronion, ronyon.
man-hater, n. misanthrope.
man-hating, a. misanthropic.
manhood, n. maturity, majority, man's estate; manliness, fortitude, resolution, manfulness; virility; humanity, men.
mania, n. madness, insanity, craziness. See insanity.
maniac, n. madman, bedlamite.
maniacal, a. raving, mad, insane, delirious.
manifest, v. show, exhibit, reveal, disclose.
manifest, a. apparent, obvious, patent.
manifestation, n. show, exhibition, revelation, disclosure.
manifold, a. many, various, sundry, diverse, multifarious, multitudinous, multiplex.
manikin, n. dwarf, pygmy, homunculus.
manipulate, v. handle, operate, manage.
manipulation, n. handling, management.
manly, a. manlike, resolute, brave, strong, dignified.
man-midwife, n. obstetrician, accoucheur.
manner, n. mode, method, style, fashion, way; bearing, demeanor, mien, air, carriage, deportment; mannerism, affectation, peculiarity; sort, kind, style; pl. civility, courtesy, politeness.
manners, n. pl. Associated word: etiquette.
mannish, a. masculine, vigorous, bold. Antonyms: effeminate, feminine.
man of all work. factotum.
man-of-war, n. warship, battleship, cruiser.
mansion, n. palace; manor-house, hall.
man-stealer, n. kidnapper, abductor.
man-stealing, n. kidnapping, abduction.
mantle, n. cape, cloak; pallium; mantel-piece, mantel-shelf.
mantle, v. sparkle, foam, bubble, effervesce.
manual, n. handbook.
manufactory, n. factory, shop.
manufacture, n. making, fabrication, construction.
manufacture, v. make, fabricate, construct.
manufacturing, a. industrial.
manure, n. fertilizer, dung, compost, guano. Associated word: fire-fanged.
manuscript, n. copy; paleograph (an ancient manuscript).
man worship. anthropolatry.
many, a. various, numerous, sundry, divers, manifold, multitudinous, myriad, multiple, innumerable.
many-sided, a. versatile; polyhedral, polyhedrical.
many-sidedness, n. versatility.
many-times, adv. frequently, oftentimes, often, repeatedly.
many-ways, adv. variously, multifariously, diversely.
map, n. chart. Associated words: cartography, cartographer, chorography, chorographer, atlas, hachure, contour line, culture.
map, v. sketch, plan, delineate, picture.
maple, n. Associated words: aceric, spile.
mar, n. defacement, disfigurement, blemish, injury, defect.
mar, v. deface, damage, injure, impair.
marauder, n. See robber.
marble, n. brocatel (in a literary sense, granite-flint). Associated words: marmoreal, marmorean.
margin, n. confine, border, edge, limit, skirt, brink, rim, brim, verge. Associated words: emarginate, emargination.
marine, a. maritime, naval, nautical, oceanic.
marionette, n. puppet.
maritime, a. marine, naval, nautical.
mark, v. note, notice, remark, observe, see; indicate, betoken, characterize, stamp, imprint, impress, brand, stigmatize, label.
mark, n. characteristic, impress, impression, stamp, sign, trace, vestige, symptom, token, symbol, indication, brand, stigma; badge, cognizance; trademark, idiograph; target, bull's-eye; preëminence, distinction, prominence, earmark; wheal, weal, whelk.
marked, a. designated, noticeable, conspicuous, notable, salient.
market, n. mart, emporium, exchange, market-place.
marketable, a. salable, vendible. Antonyms: unmarketable, unsalable.
marl, n. greensand.
marriage, n. matrimony, wedlock; wedding, nuptials, espousals, nuptial rites. Antonyms: celibacy, divorce, bachelorhood, maidenhood. Associated words: misogamy, misogamist, affiance, affianced, affinity, intermarriage, conjugality, misalliance, agamist, benedict, betroth, betrothal, desponsory, ante-nuptial, sponsal, hymeneal, schatchen, connubial, connubiality, fiancé, Hymen, fiancée, troth, plight, nuptial, nuptiality, postnuptial, morganatic, banns, neogamist, matrimonial.
marriageability, n. nubility.
marriageable, a. nubile.
marriage song. epithalamium, prothalamion, prothalamium.
marrow, n. medulla, pith.
marrow-bones, n. pl. knees.
marry, v. wed, espouse.
Mars, n. Associated word: Martian.
marsh, n. swamp, morass, fen, slough, bog, quagmire. See swamp.
marsh gas. firedamp.
marsh grass. sedge.
marshy, a. boggy, fenny, swampy, sloughy, palustrine, paludine.
mart, n. market, emporium.
martial, a. military.
martinet, n. disciplinarian.
marvel, n. wonder, prodigy; amazement.
marvel, v. wonder.
marvelous, a. wonderful, amazing, stupendous, astonishing.
masculine, a. male; manly, virile, manful. Antonym: feminine.
masculineness, n. masculinity.
mask, n. disguise, pretext, subterfuge, screen, cloak, veil, ruse, feint, blind; domino; maskoid; masquerade; mascaron.
mask, v. disguise, masquerade, veil.
masker, n. masquerader, mummer.
masquerade, n. mask, revel; disguise.
mass, n. aggregate, aggregation, totality, lump, heap, assemblage, collection, accumulation; majority; size, bigness, bulk, dimensions, magnitude; conglomeration, agglomeration.
mass, v. amass, assemble, accumulate, agglomerate, conglomerate.
massacre, n. carnage, butchery (of human beings), slaughter, havoc.
massacre, v. butcher, slaughter.
massage, n. Associated words: masseuse, masseur, massotherapeutics, massotherapy.
Mass book. missal.
massive, a. ponderous, bulky, immense, huge, cumbersome, massy.
massy, a. massive, compacted.
master, n. director, lord, commander, ruler, manager, governor; employer; leader, chief; owner, possessor, proprietor; padrone. Associated word: dominicide.