breeding, n. generation, procreation, begetting, prolification; stirpiculture, eugenics; nurture, training. Associated words: dysgenesis, dysgenesic, hybrid, hybridization, thremmatology.
breeding freely. prolific. Antonym: unprolific.
breeze, n. zephyr; (Colloq.) disturbance, quarrel, tumult.
breezy, a. airy, windy; (Colloq.) lively, spirited, animated, brisk.
brew, v. foment, concoct, hatch, plot.
bribe, n. hush-money, boodle (Slang).--v. suborn.
bribery, n. subornation.
bric-a-brac, n. virtu, knick-knacks.
brick, n. adobe (unburnt and dried in the sun); malm-brick.
bridal, a. nuptial, conjugal, hymeneal.
bridge, n. trestlework, viaduct, culvert, pons, pontoon bridge, cantilever bridge.
bridge, v. span.
bridle, n. restraint, curb, check.--v. restrain, curb, check, control.
brief, a. short-lived, ephemeral, transient, transitory; terse, concise. See short.
brief, n. breviary, epitome, summary; writ, precept, breve.
briefness, n. brevity.
brier, n. thorn, bramble.
brigand, n. highwayman, bandit, outlaw, robber, footpad, freebooter.
bright, a. luminous, gleaming, lustrous, radiant, resplendent, glistening, beaming, shimmering, phosphorescent, luciferous, luminiferous, argent, orient, dazzling, glowing, glittering, flashing, scintillating, sparkling, refulgent, effulgent, brilliant, vivid, glossy, fulgent, naif, lucent, glaring, garish, crystalline; intelligent, precocious, apt, acute, discerning, clever, smart, knowing; auspicious, propitious; illustrious, glorious. Antonyms: dull, lackluster, obscure, dim, opaque, murky, nebulous, dingy, tarnished, sullied.
brighten, v. polish, burnish, furbish; illuminate, irradiate, cheer, rally, enliven, inspirit.
brightness, n. brilliancy, splendor, luster, luminosity, resplendence, radiance, refulgence, effulgence, glow; aptness, precocity, acuteness, sharpness, discernment; vivacity, animation, liveliness.
brilliancy, n. brightness, resplendence, refulgence, brilliance.
brilliant, a. sparkling, glittering, scintillating, dazzling, gleaming, glistening, flashing; splendid, glorious, signal, eminent, striking.
brim, n. rim, border, margin, edge, brink, bank, marge.
brimstone, n. sulphur.
bring, v. fetch.
bring about. bring to pass, effect, accomplish, effectuate, achieve.
bring back. return, restore, replace; revive, resuscitate.
bring forward. introduce.
bring to. resuscitate, revive, reanimate.
bringing to. resuscitation, revivification.
bring on. incur.
bring to pass. accomplish, effectuate.
bring up. nurse, rear, nurture, train.
brink, n. edge, border, verge.
brisk, a. lively, spirited, sprightly, spry, agile, rapid.
British soldier. Tommy Atkins.
brittle, a. frangible, crisp, friable.
brittleness, n. frangibility. Antonym: tenacity.
broad, a. wide; extensive, extended, vast, wide-reaching, comprehensive; liberal, tolerant, catholic; indelicate, gross, questionable.
broadside, n. placard, poster.
broil, v. grill.
broiler, n. gridiron.
broiling, a. scorching, torrid, grilling.
broken, a. fractured, splintered, shattered, shivered; disconnected, discontinuous, interrupted; impaired, shattered; subdued, humbled, contrite, penitent, crushed, trained, subjugated, tractable; violated. Antonyms: inviolate, intact, whole.
broken-hearted, a. disconsolate, inconsolable, comfortless.
broker, a. agent, factor, middleman, go-between.
brood, v. incubate, sit; meditate (morbidly).
brook, n. rivulet, runlet, rill, creek, streamlet, runnel, run, burn.
brook, v. tolerate, suffer, endure, bear.
broom, n. besom; whisk (small broom).
brothel, n. house of prostitution, bawdy-house, brothelry.
brother, n. Associated words: fratricidal, fraternize, fratricide, brotherhood, brother german, brother uterine.
brotherhood, n. fraternity, fellowship.
brotherly, a. fraternal.
brow, n. forehead.
brown, a. dusky, tawny, dun, swarthy.
brown race. Malayan.
brown study. abstraction, revery, musing, preoccupation.
bruise, v. contuse, ecchymose.
bruise, v. indent, deface, disfigure.
bruise, n. contusion, ecchymosis.
bruiser, n. (Colloq.) boxer, pugilist.
bruit, n. report, town talk, rumor, hearsay.--v. noise, abroad, report, tell, circulate.
brush, n. brushwood; thicket, underbrush; grazing.
brushwood, n. thicket, coppice, underbrush, brush.
brutal, a. inhuman, cruel, fell, ruthless, truculent, unfeeling; beastly, bestial, brutish.
brutality, n. inhumanity, cruelty, truculence.
brute, n. beast; fiend, monster, ruffian, yahoo.
brute, a. irrational.
brutish, a. bestial, brutal, brute.
bubonic plague. polyadenitis.
buck, n. ram; beau, fop, blade, dandy.
bud, v. pullulate, germinate, bourgeon.
Buddha, n. Gautama Siddartha, Sakya Sinha.
budding, n. gemmification, bourgeoning, gemmation.
buffalo, n. bison; carabao (water buffalo).
bugaboo, n. ogre, bugbear, bogy, fright, bullbeggar.
bugbear, n. bugaboo, ogre, bogy, bête noire.
build, v. erect, construct, raise.
builder, n. architect; carpenter.
building, n. erection, construction; edifice, structure, pile; architecture.
businesslike, a. pragmatical.
bulging, a. protuberant, convex, gibbous.
bulgy, a. (Colloq.) bulging, gibbous, convex.
bulk, n. mass, size, dimensions, magnitude, bulkiness; majority, mass.
bulky, a. massive, ponderous, big.
bull, n. Taurus; Minotaur; Apis. Associated words: tauriform, taurine, bovine, bellow.
bulldoze, v. (Colloq.) intimidate, browbeat.
bullfight, n. Associated words: arena, banderilla, banderillero, picadore.
bullfighter, n. matador, toreador, tauridor, capeador, tauromachian.
bullfighting, n. tauromachy.
bullhead, n. (Colloq.) dolt, lout, lubber, dunderhead, beetlehead.
bully, n. blusterer, swaggerer, roisterer, rowdy, rough.
bully, a. (Slang) jolly, jovial; fine, excellent, good.
bully, v. browbeat, overbear, swagger, bluster, intimidate.
bullying, a. hectoring, swaggering, blustering.
bulwark, n. rampart, fortification; defense, palladium, shield.
bump, n. protuberance, prominence, lump, nodule, swelling.
bumpkin, n. lout, boor, clodpoll, yokel, yahoo, hind.
bumptious, a. (Colloq.) self-conceited, obtrusive, pushing.
bunch, n. cluster, tuft, knot, tussock; raceme, racemation; protuberance, lump, nodule, hunch, bump; lot, collection, group, assortment, set.
bundle, n. parcel, package, bale, pack, budget, packet.
bung, n. stopper, tampoon, spigot, stopple; bunghole, vent.
bunghole, n. bung, vent, vent-hole.
bungling, a. unskillful, maladroit, inexpert, clumsy, inapt.
bunker, n. bin, receptacle, crib.
bunko, v. cheat, swindle, victimize.
burden, n. load, cargo; incubus, encumbrance, weight, impediment, trial, oppression; chorus, refrain.
burden, v. encumber, load, surcharge, oppress.
burial, n. interment, inhumation, sepulture, entombment. Antonyms: disinterment, exhumation.
burlesque, n. travesty, farce.
burn, v. scorch, scald, singe, char, sear, cauterize, brand, consume, incinerate; cremate, incremate.
burn, n. ambustion.
burnable, a. combustible, inflammable. Antonyms: incombustible, asbestic.
burning, n. combustion, cineration, incineration; cauterization, cautery; pyrography; arson; incendiarism; smoldering.
burning, n. cremation, incremation. Associated words: cremator, crematory, crematorium.
bury, n. inter, inhume, entomb, sepulcher; hide, secrete, conceal, cache. Antonyms: disinter, exhume.
burying-ground, n. cemetery.
bush, n. shrub; thicket, jungle, underwood, boscage.
bushwhacker, n. bushranger, guerrilla.
business, n. vocation, calling, pursuit, craft, trade, occupation, profession; avocation; traffic, trade, commerce, enterprise, industry, barter; duty, function, work, place; affair, concern, matter. Associated words: commercial, mercantile, technical, technicality, technology.
bustle, n. stir, agitation, tumult, ado, pother, commotion; bishop, tournure, pannier.
busy, a. occupied, engaged, employed, engrossed; diligent, industrious, sedulous, active; intrusive, officious, meddlesome.
butcher, v. slaughter.
butter, n. Associated words: butyric, butyrin, butyrometer, butyrate, dairy, creamery, churn, butterine, capric, caprylic, caproic acid, butyraceous.
butterflies, n. pl. Lepidoptera. Associated words: lepidopterist, lepidopteral, lepidopterous, caterpillar, larva.
buttock, n. rump, fundament, breech; glutæus (muscle).
buttress, n. support, stay, prop.
buy, v. purchase.
buyer, n. purchaser.
buying, n. purchase.
buzz, n. hum, murmur, bombinate; whiz.
buzz, v. hum, bombinate.
by degrees. gradually.
bystander, n. spectator, onlooker, witness.
by turns. alternately, in succession.