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nab, v. (Colloq.) grab, snatch, seize.
nag, v. (Colloq.) plague, tease, twit, hector, torment, scold.
naïve, a. artless, innocent, ingenuous, frank.
naïveté, n. artlessness, innocence, ingenuousness, candor.
naked, a. nude, undressed, bare; unexaggerated, uncolored, exact, literal.
nakedness, n. nudity, bareness; exactness, literalness, accuracy.
name, n. appellation, designation, denomination; epithet, title, cognomen, surname, cognomination, pseudonym, patronymic, metronymic, alias, penname, prænomen, sobriquet, nom de plume, nom de guerre, nickname, eponym, misnomer, euphemism, agnomen, allonym, anonym, autonym, appellative, byname, caconym, cryptonym, compellation, compellative, dionym, trionym, polyonym, diminutive; repute, fame, renown, reputation. Associated words: nominal, nominally, titular, titulary, onomatology, patronomatology, onomasticon, orismology, pseudepigraphy, pseudonymity, roster, register, née, nomancy, namesake, eponymy, of that ilk, nomenclator, heteronym, synedoche, nominative.
name, v. entitle, denominate, style, call, christen, dub, term; designate, specify, nominate.
nameless, a. unnamed; undistinguished, inglorious, unknown, obscure; anonymous; unnamable, inexpressible.
namelessness, n. anonymity; obscurity.
names, n. pl. nomenclature, terminology.
Naples, n. Associated word: Neapolitan.
narcotic, n. stupefacient, sedative, anæsthetic, opiate, anodyne.
narrate, v. recount, recite, tell about, relate.
narration, n. narrative, relation, recital, story.
narrative, n. narration, account, portrayal, story, tale.
narrow, a. limited, circumscribed, incapacious, contracted, straitened, cramped; bigoted, illiberal, uncatholic, narrow-minded, insular.
narrow, v. contract, reduce, constrict, restrict, limit, cramp, confine.
narrowing, n. contraction, reduction, constriction, limitation circumscription.
narrow-minded, a. illiberal, bigoted, intolerant, narrow, uncatholic.
narrow-mindedness, n. illiberality, bigotry, bias, intolerance, insularity, uncatholicity.
narrowness, n. contractedness, incapaciousness, circumscription.
nastiness, n. squalor, filthiness, pollution, filth, corruption, dirtiness; indecency, smut, obscenity, bawdry, ribaldry, indelicacy, lewdness.
nasty, a. filthy, squalid, foul, polluted, dirty; indecent, indelicate, gross, ribald, lewd, obscene, smutty, shameless; odious, sickening, repulsive, nauseous, disgusting, disagreeable.
native, a. natal; indigenous, natural, aboriginal, autochthonal; vernacular, mother; genuine, congenital, inherent, inborn, inbred, innate, original. Antonyms: foreign, artificial, exotic, acquired, assumed, unnatural.
native, n. aboriginal, denizen (by birth), indigene.
natives, n. pl. aborigines.
natty, a. (Colloq.) neat, spruce, trim, jaunty, dapper, chic.
natural, a. native, inborn, congenital, innate, characteristic; original, indigenous; normal, regular, legitimate; artless, unaffected, ingenuous, spontaneous, simple; unregenerate. Antonyms: unnatural, acquired, affected, simulated.
naturalization, n. denization.
naturalize, v. familiarize, accustom, habituate, acclimatize, adapt, acclimate.
natural philosophy. physics.
nature, n. creation, universe, cosmos, world; kind, sort, character, quality, species; disposition, mood, temper, essence, constitution. Associated words: physiography, physiogony, connatural, connaturalness.
nature worship. physiolatry.
naughty, a. disobedient, mischievous, perverse, forward, refractory.
nausea, n. seasickness; qualm, squeamishness, queasiness, qualmishness.
nauseate, v. sicken, disgust, revolt; recoil from, abhor, abominate.
nauseous, a. disgusting, nauseating, offensive, sickening, fulsome, distasteful.
nautical, a. naval, marine, maritime, oceanic.
nautilus, n. Tetrabranchiata; argonaut, paper nautilus; diving-bell.
naval, a. nautical, marine, maritime.
navel, n. umbilicus, omphalos.
navel string. funis, umbilical cord.
navigate, v. sail, cruise; guide, steer, direct; circumnavigate
near, a. nigh, close, adjacent, neighboring, contiguous, proximate, approximate to; intimate, confidential, bosom; immediate, imminent, impending, forthcoming. Antonyms: distant, remote, far.
nearness, n. closeness, proximity, propinquity, contiguity, adjacency, imminence, approximation, approxi-mateness intimacy, familiarity.
near-sighted, a. myopic, short-sighted, purblind.
near-sightedness, n. myopia.
near-sighted person. myope.
neat, a. tidy, orderly, trim, clean, cleanly; tasteful, trim, finished, artistic, nice, excellent, adroit; dainty; spruce; dapper, natty. Antonyms: dowdy, slovenly, slatternly, untidy, tawdry, gaudy, frowzy, disorderly, unkempt.
necessary, a. requisite, essential, needed, needful, indispensable inevitable, unavoidable. Antonyms: nonessential, unnecessary, optional, discretional, casual, needless.
necessary, n. requisite, requirement, essential, sine qua non.
necessity, n. requisite, necessary, requirement, essential; exigency, urgency; indispensability. Antonyms: choice, option, contingency, doubtfulness, possibility.
neck, n. Associated words: nape, cervical, scruff, atlas, axis, palea, dewlap, scrag, gula, nucha, auchenium, décolleté, jugular, jugulum, wattle, wimple, wryneck, torticollis, Adam's apple, splenius, ruche, colliform, fichu, withers, gorget, carotid, goiter, retrocollic, cruels, nuchalgia, ruff, crane.
necktie, n. cravat, neckcloth, scarf, tie.
necromancer, n. wizard, sorcerer, magician, conjurer, exorcist, soothsayer, diviner.
necromancy, n. magic, conjuration, enchantment, sorcery, black art.
need, n. want, necessity, extremity, strait, exigency, urgency; poverty, penury, privation, indigence.
needful, a. requisite, necessary, essential, indispensable, required.
needleprick, n. acupuncture.
needless, a. unnecessary, groundless, unfounded.
needlewoman, n. seamstress.
needs, adv. necessarily.
needy, a. destitute, indigent, penniless, impecunious.
nefarious, a. atrocious, flagitious, heinous.
negation, n. denial, disavowal.
negative, n. denial, refusal. Antonym: affirmative.
neglect, n. disregard, omission, negligence, default, dereliction, remissness, oversight.
neglect, v. disregard, slight, overlook, ignore, omit.
neglectful, a. See negligent.
negligence, n. neglect, remissness, oversight, heedlessness, laches (Law).
negligent, a. neglectful, heedless, indifferent, slack, remiss, regardless, slothful, derelict, inattentive, careless Antonyms: careful, attentive, heedful.
negotiable, a. transferable.
negro, n. African, blackamoor, Ethiopian, Nigritian, Senegambian, Mandingo, negrillo, Papuan, Krooman; darkey, buck, nigger; (of mixed blood) mulatto, quadroon, octoroon, mestee, Zambo, Sambo, sacatra. Associated words: negrophile, negrophilist, negrophilism, negrophobia.
negro, a. negritic, African, Ethiopian, negroid.
negro child. pickaninny.
negro woman. negress, wench.
neigh, n. and v. whinny.
neighborhood, n. vicinity, vicinage, locality, neighbors, venue (Law).
neighboring, a. adjacent, contiguous, neighbor, near.
neophyte, n. convert, proselyte; novice, tyro, beginner.
nerve, n. (Slang) boldness, audacity, presumption, effrontery, courage, assurance.
nerve, n. Associated words: neurology, neurologist, neurography, neuron, lecithin, rete, plexus, neurasthenia, neurasthenic, neurotic, sensorium, funiculus, ganglion, hilum, neurism, innervation, neuration, neuritis, neuropathic, nervine, neuroma, neuropathy, neuroid, neuric, neuricity, aneuria, glioma, neurosis, cinerea, cholesterin, perineurium, epineurium, internuncial.
nerve, v. brace, strengthen, fortify, invigorate, energize.
nervous, a. excitable, sensitive, timorous.
nest, n. nidus; eyrie, aerie; retreat, den, haunt, resort. Associated words: nidificate, nidification, neossine, caliology, cubilose, nidulant.
net, n. toil, snare, gin, mesh; caul, trammel, seine, trawl, dredge, dragnet.
netted, a. reticulated, retiary, interwoven, complicated, reticulose.
nettle, n. Urtica. Associated words: urticate, urtication urtical.
nettle, v. irritate, provoke, exasperate, ruffle, incense, annoy.
network, n. mesh, interlacement, reticulation; plexus, rete, ganglion.
neutrality, n. indifference.
neutralize, v. counteract, counterbalance, invalidate.
nevertheless, adv. or conj. yet, however, notwithstanding.
new, a. recent, fresh, modern, novel, newfangled, neoteric, unfamiliar, strange; renewed, renovated, repaired, refreshed; unaccustomed, untried, inexperienced.
new custom. innovation.
newly, adv. lately, recently, freshly; anew, afresh, again.
news, n. tidings, word, report.
new word. neologism, neoterism, coinage. Associated words: neology, neologic, neologist, neoterist, neoterize coin.
New York. Gotham.
New Yorker. Gothamite.
nice, a. fastidious, exacting, particular, punctilious, queasy, finical, difficult, squeamish, dainty; delicate, refined, dainty; discriminating, scrupulous, precise, discerning, subtle; exquisite, agreeable, pleasant, enjoyable, gratifying; fine, neat, finished.
nicety, n. niceness, precision; punctilio, subtlety, fine point.
niche, n. recess, cavity, nook, tabernacle.
nick, n. notch, indentation, dent, score, dint.
nick, v. notch, mar, deface, indent.
nickname, n. sobriquet.
nigger, n. (Colloq.) negro.
night, n. darkness. Associated words: nocturnal, noctuary, noctidial, noctilucous, belated, benight, benighted, noctivagant, noctivagation, noctivagous, nocturne, noctiflorous pernoctalian, pernoctation, lychnobite.
night-blindness, n. hemeralopia.
nightingale, n. philomel, philomela.
nightly, a. nocturnal.
nightmare, n. incubus, cacodemon, succubus.
nightshade, n. belladonna.
night-sight, n. nyctalopia.
nimble, a. agile, sprightly, deft, lively, swift, brisk, active, spry. Antonyms: slow, sluggish, clumsy, dilatory, unready, dull, heavy.
nimble-fingered, a. dexterous.
nimbus, n. halo, glory, aureola.
nincompoop, n. (Slang) simpleton, dolt, witling, dunce. See fool.
nine, n. novenary, ennead.--a. enneatic. Associated words: novennial, enneagon, nonagon, enneagonal, enneahedral, enneahedron.
nine days' devotion. (religious). novena.
ninety, n. Associated word: nonagesimal.
ninety years. Associated word: nonagenarian.
nip, n. pinch; blast, cut; sarcasm, taunt, gibe.
nip, v. pinch; clip, cut off; blast, kill; chill, deaden, benumb.
nippers, n. pl. pincers, tweezers, pinchers, pliers.
nipping, a. biting, pinching, blasting, destructive.
nipple, n. teat, pap, dug, mammilla.
nitric acid. spirit of nitre, aquafortis.
nitrogen, n. azote.
no, n. refusal, denial, negative.
nobby, a. (Colloq.) modish, stylish, fashionable.
nobility, n. nobleness, high-mindedness, magnanimity, excellence, superiority, dignity; peerage, aristocracy, patrician class.
noble, a. eminent, exalted, magnanimous, superior; stately, magnificent, splendid, imposing, grand; aristocratic highborn, patrician.
noble, n. nobleman, peer, grandee. Antonyms: commoner, proletary, plebeian.
nobleman, n. noble, peer, lord, aristocrat, patrician, grandee.
noblewoman, n. peeress.
nobody, n. nonentity, jackstraw.
nod, n. bow.
nodding, n. bowing, nutation.--a. annuent, bowing, nutant.
noise, n. sound; racket, clamor, din, outcry, clatter, uproar, hubbub, tumult, rout, blare, vociferation, hullabaloo (Colloq.), powwow (Slang), hilarity.
noiseless, a. still, silent, quiet, inaudible.
noisome, a. unwholesome, noxious, pestilential; offensive, malodorous, fetid, stinking.
noisy, a. clamorous, boisterous, vociferous, turbulent, riotous, obstreperous, uproarious, blatant, discordant, brawling, hilarious.
nomad, n. wanderer.
nonchalance, n. indifference, coolness, carelessness, sang-froid, insouciance.
nonchalant, a. indifferent, cool, unconcerned, insouciant.
nonconformist, n. dissenter, recusant.
nonconformity, n. recusancy, dissent.
nondescript, a. undescribed, unclassifiable.
nonentity, n. non-existence; nobody, cipher.
non-essential, a. unimportant, incidental, adventitious.
nonesuch, n. paragon, pattern, nonpareil, model.
non-interference, n. laissez faire.
nonplus, v. perplex, puzzle, disconcert, confuse, embarrass, mystify, bewilder.
nonsense, n. absurdity, twaddle, bosh, fudge, silliness, balderdash, moonshine, amphigory, rigmarole.