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sack, n. bag, pouch; pillage, plunder, rapine, havoc, devastation, spoliation.
sack, v. devastate, plunder, pillage, ravage, despoil, loot, rapine, strip.
sacred, a. consecrated, hallowed; venerable, sainted, religious; inviolable.
sacredness, n. sanctity, holiness; inviolability, inviolableness.
sacrifice, n. oblation, immolation; surrender, loss, giving up; holocaust; hecatomb.
sacrifice, v. offer, immolate; surrender, give up, forego.
sacrilege, n. desecration, profanation, violation.
sacrilegious, a. impious, profane, irreverent.
sad, a. sorrowful, pathetic, plaintive, doleful, piteous, lugubrious, rueful, mournful, dismal, funereal, gloomy, melancholy, disconsolate, dejected, touching; calamitous, deplorable, grievous, dire, afflictive, wretched, saturnine, grave, sober; dull, sombre, subdued; (Colloq.) bad, naughty, troublesome, mischievous, vexatious.
sadden, v. depress, dishearten; tone down, subdue.
saddle, n. Associated words: pommel, cantle, girth, pillion, stirrup, saddle-tree, croup, crutch, chapelet, tilpah, tapadero, housing, latigo, pique, panel, sinch, saddle-bow, selliform, holster, mochila.
sadness, n. melancholy, pathos, sorrow, gravity, soberness, seriousness.
safe, a. unharmed, intact, unscathed, immune; trustworthy, reliable, sure, secure, invulnerable, impregnable. Antonyms: unsafe, endangered, insecure.
safe-conduct, n. convoy, guard, escort; pass, passport.
safeguard, n. defense, security, palladium, protection, convoy, guard; passport.
safeguard, v. guard, defend, protect, shield.
safekeeping, n. guardianship, care, custody, charge, preservation.
safety, n. security, custody; immunity, exemption.
sagacious, a. intelligent, knowing, shrewd, discerning.
sagacity, n. intelligence, shrewdness, cleverness, ingenuity, wisdom.
sail, v. navigate, cruise, embark.--n. sailing, cruise, embarkation.
sailable, a. navigable.
sailcloth, n. canvas, duck, tarpaulin, raven's-duck.
sailing, n. navigation; circumnavigation (sailing round); orthodromics, orthodromy.
sailor, n. mariner, navigator, seaman, seafarer, tarpaulin, tar, salt, Jacky.
sailor's song. chantey.
sailor's wages. portage.
saint, n. Associated words: canonize, canonization, hagiology, hagiologist, hagiolatry, hagiolater, hagiography, Hagiographa, dulia, legend, diptych, feretory, philatory, relic, apse, reliquary, shrine, saintism, sainthood, saintship, hagiographer, hierotheca.
sainted, a. holy, pious, saintly, consecrated; canonized.
Saint Vitus's dance. chorea. Associated word: choreic.
salable, a. vendible, marketable. Antonyms: unsalable, unmarketable.
salacious, a. lascivious, lecherous, concupiscent. See lustful.
salad, n. Associated word: acetarious.
sale, n. vendition, market; auction; handsel.
salient, a. prominent, conspicuous, noticeable, striking.
saliva, n. spittle, sputum, spit. Associated words: salivate, salivation, insalivate, insalivation, salivant, salivary, ptyalism, salival, salivous, expectorant, drool, drivel, ptyalogogue, sialogogue, ptysmagogue.
sally, n. spring, leap; sortie; witticism, jest, frolic, escapade.
saloon, n. grogshop, barroom, groggery, dramshop.
sal soda. carbonate of soda.
salt, n. chloride of sodium.
salt, n. seasoning, flavor, savor, taste; piquancy, wit, sense, humor; old sailor.
saltness, n. salinity, salineness, saltiness.
salt of wisdom. alembroth.
saltpetre, n. potassium nitrate, nitre, nitrate of potash.
salt spring. saline.
salt works. salina.
salty, a. saline, brackish, saltish, salt, briny, saliferous.
salute, v. address, greet, hail, welcome, accost.--n. salutation.
salvation, n. redemption. Associated word: soteriology.
salve, n. ointment, cerate, embrocation, emollient, balm, unguent.
salve, v. anoint, embrocate, heal; remedy, cure.
sal-volatile, n. carbonate of ammonia, salts of hartshorn, smelling salts.
same, a. identical, invariable, uniform, analogous, similar, cognate; isomeric, isonomic. Antonyms: See different.
sameness, n. identity, identicalness, similarity, correspondence, uniformity, analogy, parity, invariability, parallelism; monotony; isomerism.
sample, n. specimen, example, illustration, exemplification, instance, pattern.
sanction, n. confirmation, ratification, authorization, penalty, punishment.
sanction, v. confirm, ratify, approve, countenance.
sanctity, n. godliness, saintliness, inviolability, sacredness.
sanctuary, n. shrine, sanctum, adytum; Holy of Holies; church, temple.
sand, n. sandy soil; quicksand, syrtis; arena (Med.). Associated words: dune, downs, arenicolous, burst, sabulosity (sandiness), psammophilous, ammophilous, medano, eschar, os, kame, arenarious.
sand, n. (Slang) grit, pluck, nerve, courage, fearlessness, audacity, spirit.
sand bath. arenation, psammotherapy, inhumation, saburration.
sandglass, n. hourglass.
Sandwich islands. Associated word: Kanacka (native).
sandy, a. sabulous, gritty, arenaceous, arenose.
sane, a. underanged, rational, sound, lucid, compos mentis.
sanguinary, a. bloody, murderous; cruel, truculent, bloodthirsty.
sanitarium, n. sanatorium, health retreat.
sanity, n. saneness, rationality.
sap, v. mine, undermine, subvert; exhaust, drain, unsettle.
saphead, n. (Slang) simpleton, sap, dolt.
sappy, a. juicy, lush, succulent; (Low) silly, foolish, half-witted.
sapwood, n. alburnum.
sarcastic, a. satirical, taunting, ironical, derisive, sneering.
sash, n. girdle.
Satan, n. devil, Belial, Apollyon, Abaddon, Asmodeus, Prince of Darkness, Archfiend, the Evil One, the Tempter, the Arch Enemy.
satiate, v. surfeit, pall, glut, overfeed, cloy, gorge.
satiety, n. satiation, surfeit, cloyment, over-fullness.
satire, n. irony, sarcasm, ridicule, lampoon, pasquinade.
satirical, a. bitter, sarcastic, ironical, caustic, mordacious.
satirize, v. lampoon, ridicule, lash.
satisfaction, n. gratification; contentment, complacency, content, comfort; reparation, indemnification, requital, reimbursement, recompense; atonement, amends. Antonyms: dissatisfaction, discontent.
satisfactory, a. sufficient, satisfying, conclusive, gratify, ing, atoning.
satisfy, v. gratify, content, appease, satiate, suffice; indemnify, repay.
sauce, n. (Low) sauciness, impertinence, insolence, rudeness
saucy, a. impertinent, insolent, pert, impudent, malapert, flippant.
saunter, v. loiter, linger, straggle, lounge, stroll, delay, dawdle, lag.
savable, a. salvable.
savage, a. uncivilized, barbarous; ferocious, ravenous, fierce, untamed; brutal, fell, truculent, implacable, atrocious, ferocious, inhuman.
savage, n. barbarian; cannibal.
savages, n. pl. Associated words: agriology, agriologist.
save, v. rescue, deliver, redeem; preserve, conserve, keep; reserve, hoard, garner; economize, husband; spare, obviate, prevent, forefend, shield, protect.
save, prep.or conj. except, excepting, reserving.
saving, a. preserving, redemptory, redeeming; preservative, conservative; frugal, thrifty, economical, provident, sparing, choice, chary. Antonyms: lavish, extravagant, prodigal, unthrifty, profuse, wasteful.
saving, n. treasure, hoard, reserve; exception, reservation, salvation, rescue, redemption, deliverance; preservation, conservation; salvage.
savingness, n. frugality, parsimony, thrift, providence, economy, chariness. Antonyms: extravagance, prodigality, improvidence.
savory, a. gustable, palatable, toothsome, fragrant. Antonyms: unsavory, impalatable.
savvy, v. (Slang) understand, comprehend.--n. understanding, comprehension.
saw, n. maxim, adage, apothegm. See saying.
sawbones, n. (Nickname) surgeon.
sawer, n. sawyer.
saw tooth. serration, serrature, serrulation.
saw-toothed, a. serrate, serrated, serrulate.
say, v. utter, express, mention, pronounce, speak, declare, tell, articulate, recite, rehearse; state, assert, affirm, allege, aver, asseverate, predicate, cite; suppose, assume, presume.
saying, n. utterance, declaration, statement, pronunciation, mention, assertion, affirmation, citation, averment, asseveration, alleging, recital, rehearsal.
saying, n. maxim, saw, proverb, apothegm, aphorism, adage, dictum, precept, axiom, motto, quotation.
scab, n. eschar, incrustation; mange.
scabby, a. scabbed, scaly, scabious, mangy.
scaffold, n. staging, scaffolding; gallows.
scalawag, n. (Slang) scamp, rascal, rogue, scapegrace, miscreant, scoundrel, villain, caitiff, varlet.
scale, n. flake, lamina, leprosity, lamella, squama, incrustation.
scale, n. (Mus.) gamut, sol-fa. Associated words: diatonic, chromatic, tonic.
scale, n. (Bot.) squamula, lodicule; fulcrum.
scale, v. exfoliate, desquamate; climb, ascend, mount, clamber, escalade.
scales, n. pl. balance; steelyards, Roman balance.
scalloped, a. pinked; crenate, crenated (Bot.).
scaly, a. flaky, squamose, leprose, squamoid, scurvy; (Low) mean, low, contemptible, scurvy, despicable.
scamble, v. sprawl, wabble, shamble; scramble, jostle.
scamp, v. (Colloq.) slight, skimp.
scamp, n. rascal, knave, miscreant, caitiff, scapegrace, scoundrel.
scamper, v. hasten away, scud, hie, run, scuttle, scatter.
scandal, n. reproach, opprobrium, disgrace, odium, shame; slander.
scandalize, v. shock, offend, displease; disgrace; slander, defame, vilify.
scandalous, a. defamatory, libellous, slanderous; infamous, disgraceful, opprobrious, shameful, disreputable.
scant, a. scanty, meager, insufficient, inadequate; sparing, saving, chary.
scant, v. limit, straiten, stint.
scantness, n. smallness, narrowness, inadequacy, insufficiency, meagerness, scantiness.
scanty, a. insufficient, inadequate, meager; sparing, illiberal, niggardly.
scapegrace, n. rogue, scamp, blacksheep, miscreant.
scar, n. cicatrix, seam, cicatrice; blemish, disfigurement, flaw. Associated words: cicatricial, cicatrisive, cicatrizant, cicatrize, cicatrization, escharotic.
scarce, a. rare, unplentiful, deficient.
scarcity, n. dearth, deficiency, insufficiency, lack, drought, rarity, paucity.
scare, v. frighten, intimidate, terrify, daunt, cow, appall, startle, affright, alarm, browbeat, dismay, terrorize, overawe. Antonym: reassure.
scare, n. fright, alarm, terror, panic, consternation.
scarecrow, n. guy, effigy; ragamuffin.
scarf, n. muffler, tippet, neckcloth, neckerchief, cravat, necktie, maniple.
scarfskin, n. epidermis, cuticle.
scary, a. (Colloq.) timid, apprehensive, alarming, frightful.
scatter, v. dissipate, disperse, dispel, separate; intersperse.
scatter-brained, a. giddy, thoughtless, flighty, careless.
scattering, a. scattered, sporadic.
scattering, n. dissipation, dispersion; interspersion.
scene, n. spectacle, show, exhibition, display, view, scenery.
scenery, n. view, landscape, prospect.
scent, n. odor, smell, perfume; flair. See smell.
scepter, n. royal mace, sovereignty.
schedule, n. list, catalogue, table.
scheme, n. design, plan, project, machination, intrigue, cabal; outline, draught, arrangement, plan, system.
scheme, v. devise, excogitate, plan, machinate, plot, design.
schemer, n. plotter, intriguer, machinator, intrigant, planner, contriver.
scheming, a. artful, designing, intriguing, Machiavelian, tricky, wily, insidious. Antonyms: guileless, undesigning, artless.
schismatic, a. dissentious, heretical, dissentient, schismatical.
schismatic, n. nonconformist, dissenter, separatist, heretic, sectary.
scholar, n. pupil, student, learner, disciple; savant, philomath.
scholarly, a. scholarlike, erudite, scholastic.
scholarship, n. erudition, learning, knowledge, attainments, polymathy.
school, n. institute, academy, seminary, college, gymnasium conservatory, university; denomination, sect; shoal; clinic.
school, v. train, educate, drill, teach.
schooling, n. education, training, nurture, discipline; tuition.
scientist, n. savant.
scintilla, n. iota, trace, whit, particle, mite, bit, tittle, jot, scrap, atom.