dodge, n. (Colloq.) prevarication, trick, artifice, subterfuge, stratagem, evasion, parry, device.
dodger, n. prevaricator; handbill, circular.
dog, n. canine; (young) pup, puppy, whelp; (female) bitch, slut; cur, whippet, tike, fice, mongrel. Associated words: canine, Canis, cyniatrics, rabies, hydrophobia, cynanthropy, cynegetics, cynic, cynophobia, cynoid, cynopodous, cynocephalous, cynocephalus, cynocephalic, learn, leash, dog-fancier.
dog days. canicular days.
dogged, a. stubborn, obstinate, mulish, headstrong, persistent.
doggish, a. surly, sullen, churlish, cynical, morose.
dog house. kennel.
dogma, n. doctrine, tenet.
dogmatic, a. positive, magisterial, dictatorial, imperious, domineering, overbearing; authoritative, categorical.
dog-star, n. Sinus, Canicula, Cards Majoris.
doings, n. pl. actions, proceedings, deeds, acts, performances, transactions.
dole, n. pittance, alms; distribution, apportionment, share, portion; grief, sorrow.
doleful, a. sorrowful, dolorous, plaintive, piteous, lugubrious, woe-begone.
domain, n. dominion, sovereignty; realm, territory; province, department.
dome, n. cupola.
domestic, a. home, household, family; intestine; domesticated, tame; fond of home.
dominant, a. predominant, prevailing, predominating, paramount.
dominate, v. predominate, sway, rule, govern, control, surmount, overtop.
domination, n. government, dominion, supremacy, rule, authority, ascendancy.
domineer, v. tyrannize, lord it; swagger, vapor, bluster.
domineering, a. tyrannical, dictatorial, overbearing, lordly, imperious. Antonyms: meek, apologetic, retiring.
dominion, n. sovereignty, sway, supremacy; realm, empire, kingdom, domain.
do more than duty requires. supererogate.
donation, n. gift, present, benefaction.
done for. (Colloq.) tired out, used up, spent, collapsed, exhausted.
done up. (Colloq.) wrapped up; worn out, exhausted.
donkey, n. ass, burro, Neddy. Associated words: bray, asinine, asininity.
do-nothing, a. inactive, idle, lazy, fabian, slothful.
doodlesack, n. bagpipe.
doom, n. judicial sentence, judgment; destiny, death.
door, n. entrance, portal, gate; postern; porch, portico. Associated words: lintel, jamb, sill, threshold, stile, panel, rail, mullion, porte-cochère, reveal, rabbet, casing.
doorkeeper, n. porter, concierge, ostiary; tyler.
doorsill, n. threshold.
dormancy, n. abeyance, quiescence, inactivity, torpor, lethargy, inertness.
dormant, a. quiescent, latent, inert, inactive, abeyant, torpid.
dose, n. draught, dram, potion. Associated word: posology.
dot, n. period, point; dowry; speck.
dotage, n. senility, anility, decrepitude; fondness, affection (excessive or weak).
double, a. twofold, duplex, bifold, binate; equivocal, Janus-faced, deceitful, insincere, perfidious.
double, v. duplicate; fold, plait, pleat.
double, n. duplicate, counterpart; duplication, plait, doubling; circuit, maneuver, shift, artifice, stratagem, ruse.
double-dealing, n. duplicity, dissimulation, trickery, Machiavelism.
double-faced, a. Janus-faced, deceitful, perfidious.
double-headed, a. bicipital, bicipitous.
double-hearted, a. perfidious, deceitful, treacherous, insincere.
double-minded, a. irresolute, vacillating, unsettled, undetermined.
doubling, n. duplication, reduplication; fold, plait, plication, double.
doubt, v. waver, hesitate, question, be undecided, query; distrust, suspect. Antonyms: believe, trust, rely upon.
doubt, n. indecision, uncertainty, vacillation, irresolution, misgiving, query, suspense, hesitancy, distrust, suspicion, quandary, perplexity; skepticism, incredulity, pyrrhonism; ambiguity, difficulty. Antonyms: conviction, credulity, confidence, decision, assurance, belief, certainty.
doubtful, a. unsettled, undetermined, dubious, wavering, precarious, undecided, irresolute; questionable, involved; ambiguous, enigmatical, problematical, equivocal, vague, indefinite. Antonyms: certain, implicit, sure, unquestionable, unwavering.
doubting, a. incredulous, suspicious, skeptical.
doughfaced, a. pliable, weak, irresolute.
doughty, a. redoubtable, valiant, bold, fearless.
dour, a. hard, obstinate, sour.
douse, v. duck, immerse, dip, plunge, souse, submerge.
dove, n. pigeon. Associated word: coo.
dovecote, n. columbary, pigeonry, pigeon house.
dovelike, a. columbine.
dowdy, a. vulgar-looking, slovenly, untidy, slatternly, frowzy. Antonyms: See neat.
do without. dispense with.
down, adv. downward, below.
down, v. overthrow, subdue, floor, prostrate.
down, a. descending, sloping, downward.
down, n. pubescence; pl. (Colloq.) depression, abasement.
downcast, a. despondent, dejected, discouraged, gloomy, dispirited.
downcome, n. downfall.
downfall, n. downcome, descent, reverse, abasement, humiliation.
down grade. descent, declivity.
downhearted, a. dejected, despondent, discouraged.
downhill, n. descent, declivity, slope.--a. declivous, descending, sloping.
downright, a. blunt, direct, unceremonious, positive, undisguised, absolute, unmixed, straightforward.
downy, a. pubescent, flocculent.
draft, n. drawing, draught; bill of exchange; delineation, sketch, current of air; conscript, conscription. Associated word: conscript (one drafted).
drag, v. haul, trail, tug, pull; break, harrow.
drag, n. dragging; dragnet; harrow; skid; clog, impediment, obstacle.
drain, n. channel, gutter, trench, ditch, sewer.
drain, v. empty, exhaust, deplete; filter.
draw, v. haul, drag, tug, tow; attract; entice, allure, lure, induce, tempt; extract, educe; unsheathe; deduce, infer, conclude, derive; disembowel, eviscerate; delineate, draught, sketch, depict, trace, limn; influence, win, induce; contract, shrink. Antonyms: repel, repulse, rebuff, reject, alienate.
drawback, n. disadvantage, hindrance, defect, imperfection; rebate, deduction, discount.
draw back. retract; shrink, flinch, recoil, withdraw, wince.
drawer, n. till (money drawer), tiller.
drawing, n. traction, hauling, pulling; graphics, diagraphics, delineation; sketch, draught, diagram, picture, limning, representation.
drawing back. retraction; shrinking, flinching, recoiling, withdrawal, wincing.
drawing off. withdrawal, abstraction.
drawing out. extension, protraction, stretching; eduction, extraction.
draw out. stretch, extend, protract; elicit, educe, extract.
draw up. compose, draught, write; array, arrange.
dread, n. apprehension, fear, awe (reverential fear).
dreadful, a. fearful, terrible, formidable, awful, dread, dire, direful, frightful.
dream, n. vision; illusion, vagary, wild conceit, revery, fancy, fantasy. Antonyms: fact, actuality, reality, substance, realization. Associated words: Morpheus, Morphean, oneiroscopy, oneiroscopist, oneirocritic, oneiromancy, oneirology, oneirocriticism, nightmare.
dreamer, n. visionary, enthusiast, castle-builder, John-a-dreams.
dreamy, a. visionary, unreal, illusory. Antonyms: practical, real.
dreary, a. dismal, drear, cheerless, lonesome, wearisome, dull.
dregs, n. pl. refuse, sediment, lees, draff; riffraff.
dress, n. gown, toilette, robe; raiment, clothes, clothing, garments, habiliments, attire, garb, apparel, habit, array, costume, togs, toggery. Antonyms: See undress.
dress, v. clothe, deck, drape, apparel, robe, array, attire; adjust, align; curry, smooth, plane, finish; (Colloq.) castigate, chastise, whip. Antonyms: undress, disrobe, divest, strip, expose.
dress gaudily. bedizen, prank.
dressing, n. forcemeat, stuffing, condiment; (Colloq.) castigation, scolding, whipping, flogging, chastisement.
dressmaker, n. modiste, mantuamaker.
dribble, n. (Colloq.) trickling.
drier, n. desiccator, desiccant, desiccative, exsiccant, exsiccator.
drift, n. course, direction, bearing, tendency, aim, intention intent, design, import, meaning; accumulation, heap, bank, pile, diluvium.
drill, v. perforate, pierce, bore; train, discipline, exercise.
drink, v. quaff, sip, sup, imbibe, slake one's thirst; tipple, tope, guzzle, booze, house, be intemperate; absorb.
drink, n. beverage, potation, potable; draught, dram, potation, drench.
drinkable, a. potable, potulent. Antonym: undrinkable
drinking, n. potation; tippling, bibacity, drunkenness, carousal, guzzling, intemperance. Antonyms: temperance nephalism, abstinence, teetotalism. Associated words: bibacious, bibulous, bibitory, dipsomania, alcoholism thirst, nectar, hobnob, bacchanalian, inebriant, potatory, œnomania, symposium, crapulence, supernaculum convivial, conviviality, tankard, beaker, cup, stein, canteen.
drinking-bout, n. orgies, compotation, bacchanals, carousal revel, revelry, wassail, saturnalia, debauch, spree, excess, carouse, jollification.
drip, v. drop, trickle, dribble.
dripping, n. trickling, dribbling.
dripping from the eaves. stillicide.
drive, v. impel, force, compel, press; propel, send; rush, press; conduct, carry on.
drive at. aim, intend, purpose.
drive away. dispel, disperse, scatter, dissipate.
drive back. repulse, repel, rebuff.
drivel, n. driveling; nonsense, twaddle.
drivel, v. drool.
driveler, n. drooler; imbecile, fool, idiot.
driver, n. coachman, jehu, charioteer, whip.
driving, a. violent, forcible; impelling, impellent, propulsive, impulsive.
driving, n. guiding by reins; impulsion, propulsion, compulsion, forcing.
driving back. repulse, rebuff, repulsion, repercussion, repellence, recussion.
driving out. expulsion.--a. expulsive.
drizzle, n. mizzle, misle, mist.--v. mizzle, misle.
droll, n. jester, buffoon, merry-andrew, zany, harlequin; comedy, farce, burlesque.
droll, a. ludicrous, laughable, comical, facetious, funny.
drollery, n. waggery, buffoonery, pleasantry, facetiousness.
drone, n. sluggard, idler, lounger.
drool, v. drivel, slaver, slabber.
drooler, n. driveler, slaverer, slabberer.
droop, v. languish, faint, grow faint, sink; bend, drop, hang; slouch; fade, wilt, wither.
drop, n. globule, minim, blob; pendant; descent, fall.
drop, v. distill, dribble, trickle, drip; fall; let fall, release, banish, dismiss, discontinue, discard, intermit, remit, relinquish; lower, sink, depress; variegate, bedrop, speckle, fleck.
drop by drop. guttatim, guttat, stillatitious.
droplight, n. pendant.
dropping, n. distillation, trickling, dribbling, falling; stillicide.
droppings, n. pl. excrement, dung.
drop serene. amaurosis, gutta serena.
drop-shaped, a. globular, guttiform, stilliform.
dross, n. refuse, scum, recrement, draff, dregs, scobs, waste, sinter.
drought, n. aridity, dryness; scarcity, dearth.
drought plant. xerophyte. Associated words: xerophilous, xerophytic.
drove, n. herd, flock; crowd, company.
drown, v. overwhelm, submerge, flood, inundate, deluge.
drowning, n. demersion, submersion, inundation; noyade.
drowsiness, n. sleepiness, oscitancy.
drowsy, a. sleepy, dozy, oscitant.
drudge, n. menial, hack, slave, scullion, fag.
drug, v. deaden, dull, stupefy; surfeit; hocus.
drug, n. Associated words: pharmacology, pharmacologist, pharmacy, pharmacognosis, pharmaceutics, pharmacodynamics, pharmacopœoea, pharmacography, spatula, mortar, pestle, cribration, pharmacopolist, pharmaceutical.
druggist, n. pharmacist, apothecary, pharmaceutist.