Habit, n. wont, custom, practice, usage, habitude, addiction, way, routine.
habitual, a. wonted, customary, regular, accustomed.
habituate, v. accustom, addict, inure, familiarize. Antonyms: disaccustom, wean.
hag, n. vixen, virago, termagant, harridan, fury, Jezebel, beldame.
haggard, a. gaunt, emaciated, hollow-eyed.
haggle, v. hack, hackle; chaffer, higgle.
haggler, n. higgler, chafferer.
hail, v. accost, salute, address, signal.
hail-storm, n. Associated words: paragrandine, paragrêle.
hair, n. bristle; pubescence; pubes; tentaculum, palpus; lock, tress; coiffure; chignon; forelock. Associated words: trichology, depilatory, depilitant, depilate, depilation, disheveled, bandeau, barrette, tonsure, pomade, follicle, sac, fillet, ecdysis, endysis, bandoline, piliferous, piliform, piligerous, coiffeur, tousled.
hairiness, n. hirsuteness, hirsuties, pubescence, villosity, capillament, hypertrichosis.
hairless, a. bald, glabrous, depilous.
hairsplitting, a. subtle, fine.
hair-worm, n. gordius.
hairy, a. hirsute, shaggy, bristly, pubescent.
half, adv. partially, imperfectly.
half, n. moiety.
half-blooded, a. hybrid, mongrel, degenerate, half-breed.
half-hearted, a. indifferent, lukewarm, perfunctory.
half-moon, n. crescent. Associated word: semilunar.
halfway, adv. in the middle, imperfectly, partially.--a. intermediate, midway.
half-witted, a. imbecile, defective, silly, dull-witted, witless.
half-yearly, a. semi-annual, bi-annual.
hall, n. auditorium, lyceum; vestibule, entry, court; corridor, passage, lobby; manor-house; odeon.
hallow, v. consecrate, venerate, reverence, sanctify, bless.
hallowed, a. holy, sacred, consecrated, dedicated, blessed, sanctified.
hallucination, n. aberration, chimera, fallacy, self-deception, delusion, phantasm, illusion.
halo, n. nimbus, glory, aureola, aureole.
haloed, a. glorified, aureoled.
halve, v. bisect, dimidiate.
halving, n. bisection, dichotomy, dimidiation.
hammer, n. sledge, sledge-hammer, maul, mallet, beetle, gavel, kevel, crandall, marteline. Associated words: peen, hephestic, poll.
hammer, v. beat, forge, malleate, beetle.
hammer and tongs. vigorously, forcibly, energetically.
hamper, v. fetter, shackle, impede, restrain, hinder, encumber, embarrass.
hamper, n. hanaper; shackle, fetter, restraint, impediment.
hamstring, n. hough.--v. disable, cripple, lame, hough.
hand, n. paw, manus. Associated words: chirology, chiromancy, palmistry, chiropody, chiropodist, chirognomy, chirographer, chirographist, chirogymnast, chirologist, cheirosophy, manicure, chiromancer, manual, chirography, ambidextral, ambidextrous, ambidexterity, ambidexter, achirous, chiragra, fist, manacle, castanets, mount, discriminal, bimanual, bimanous.
handbag, n. satchel, reticule.
handbook, n. manual, guidebook, vade mecum, hornbook, enchiridion.
handcuff, n. manacle, fetter, shackle.
hand down. transmit (in succession).
handle, n. bail; hilt, haft.
handy, a. dexterous, adroit, ready; convenient.
hang, v. suspend; dangle; execute; droop, drop; append, attach; depend, rest; hover, impend, threaten; lean, incline, slope; lynch.
hang, n. (Colloq.) connection, arrangement, plan.
hang back. hesitate, falter, be reluctant.
hangdog, a. sneaking, ashamed, shamefaced, guilty.
hanger-on, n. tagtail, satellite, parasite, sycophant, dependant, vassal, minion, sponger, toady, heeler, toadeater, fawner, votary.
hanging, a. suspended, pendent, pendulous, pensile, dangling.
hanging, n. suspension; execution; drapery, valance, tapestry, dorsal, lambrequin. Associated words: gallows gibbet.
hanging on. persistence, tenacity, importunity.
hangman, n. executioner.
hangnail, n. agnail.
hang out. project, protrude.
hang over. impend, project.
hang to. cling.
hanker, v. long for, yearn, crave, covet, lust.
hankering, n. longing, craving, yearning.
haphazard, n. chance, accident, random.
happen, v. occur, befall, betide; supervene, intervene.
happiness, n. felicity, blessedness, delight, gladness, pleasure, ecstasy, bliss, rapture, merriment, mirth, elation, beatitude, joy. Antonyms: sorrow, grief. Associated words: eudemonics, eudemonist, eudemonism, eudemonic, beatify, beatification, hedonics, hedonist, hedonic, hedonism, felicific, felicitate, felicitation.
happy, a. joyous, light-hearted, gay, blissful, glad, delighted, elated, merry, ecstatic, buoyant, cheerful, gratified, joyful, beatific, rapturous, felicitous, blithe, halcyon, charmed, exultant, ravishing, gladdened; lucky, prosperous, successful; auspicious. Antonyms: See unhappy.
happy-go-lucky, a. improvident, easy-going, unthrifty.
harangue, n. declamation, ranting, effusion, screed, tirade.
harangue, v. declaim, spout, rant.
harass, v. fatigue, tire, weary; annoy, vex, torment, perplex, distress, persecute, worry, bother.
harbinger, n. forerunner, precursor, herald, messenger.
harbor, n. refuge, shelter, asylum, retreat; port, haven, destination.
hard, a. firm, solid, compact, impenetrable, unimpressible, unyielding, rigid, adamantine, dense, insoluble, flinty, indurate, indurated, infrangible; arduous, laborious, wearisome, onerous, burdensome, toilsome, tiresome, exhausting, difficult, knotty, intricate, puzzling, incomprehensible; irresistible, uncontrollable; severe, rigorous, unendurable, oppressive, unjust, grievous, calamitous, incompliant; stern, unyielding, obdurate, unfeeling, exacting, insensible, hard-hearted, callous, implacable, inflexible; repelling, constrained, inelegant; severe, inclement, rigorous; excessive, immoderate; unprosperous, unfavorable, disastrous.
hard case. (Colloq.) incorrigible, reprobate, derelict, outcast.
hard coal. anthracite, glance coal.
harden, v. indurate, solidify; petrify, ossify, sear, brutalize, embitter; inure, season, fortify, steel, brace, accustom.
hardened, a. indurated; callous, inexorable, ossified, petrified, obdurate, incorrigible, inveterate, case-hardened, seared, depraved, graceless, impenitent, confirmed; sclerosed, sclerotic.
hardening, n. induration; habituation, confirmation; solidification, petrifaction, ossification; sclerosis (Med.).
hard-headed, a. shrewd, astute, sagacious.
hard-hearted, a. unsympathetic, inexorable, ruthless, unsparing, stern, obdurate, incompassionate.
hardihood, n. boldness, bravery, courage, intrepidity, fortitude; audacity, effrontery, impudence.
hard lines. hardship, difficulties, adversity.
hardness, n. induration, compactness, impenetrability, solidity, firmness, adamant. Associated word: durometer.
hardship, n. privation, adversity, affliction, reverse, calamity, disaster, visitation.
hardware, n. ironmongery.
hardy, a. courageous, intrepid, brave; hearty, hale, robust, lusty.
hare-brained, a. heedless, reckless, rash, giddy, careless.
harem, n. concubines, seraglio.
harlot, n. prostitute, courtesan, whore.
harlotry, n. prostitution, whoredom.
harm, v. injure, hurt, damage, impair, scathe, mar, deface, abuse, misuse.
harm, n. injury, damage, detriment, scath, mischief, misfortune.
harmful, a. injurious, pernicious, detrimental, baneful, noxious, prejudicial, deleterious, ruinous, hurtful.
harmless, a. innocuous, innoxious; inoffensive, peaceable; uninjured, unscathed.
harmonious, a. symmetrical, correspondent, consistent, congruent, conformable; consonant, symphonious, melodious amicable, peaceable. Antonyms: inharmonious, discordant, antagonistic, incompatible.
harmonize, v. agree, chime, tally, correspond, accord; adjust, reconcile.
harmony, n. concord, agreement, concurrence, consonance chime, unison, unanimity; concordance, congruity, adaptation, consistency. Antonyms: discord, antagonism, variance, contention, incongruity, inconsistency, dissension, opposition.
harness, n. saddlery; accouterments, armor, array, gearing, equipment, tackling, gear; caparison, trappings, Associated words: saddler, saddlery.
harness, v. equip, array, caparison, tackle.
harp, n. lyre. Associated words: harpist, lyrist, lyrism, lyric, plectrum.
harpy, n. extortioner, oppressor.
harrow, v. wound, lacerate, tear, distress, torture, harass.
harsh, a. inharmonious, rough, disagreeable, unpleasant, raucous; dissonant, strident, discordant, cacophonous: austere, morose, severe, ungracious, inurbane, discourteous, churlish, uncivil, blunt, bluff, brusque, acrimonious, caustic, acrid, repulsive.
harum-scarum, a. (Colloq.) wild, giddy, reckless, volatile, indiscreet, hare-brained.
harvest, n. ingathering; crop, produce, yield, fruit.
hash, n. ragout, gallimaufry, potpourri, ollapodrida, olio, réchauffé (rehash).
haste, n. celerity, swiftness, dispatch, expedition, speed, quickness; hurry, urgency, precipitance. Antonyms: slowness, dilatoriness.
hasten, v. accelerate, expedite, quicken, precipitate press, urge; hurry.
hastiness, n. haste, precipitancy, precipitation, precipitance, speediness.
hasty, a. swift, rapid, quick, fast; precipitate, rash, eager, precipitant; cursory, hurried, superficial.
hatch, v. breed, incubate; concoct, excogitate, brew, scheme.
hatcher, n. incubator.
hatchet, n. small ax; tomahawk; machete; dolabra.
hate, v. dislike, detest, abhor, despise, abominate, loathe, execrate.
hateful, a. execrable, odious, detestable, abominable, malevolent, malicious.
hatred, n. hate, aversion, detestation, animosity, malignity, antipathy, spite, feud, malice, grudge, malevolence, resentment, dislike, abhorrence.
haughtiness, n. arrogance, hauteur, superciliousness, disdain, contumely.
haughty, a. arrogant, supercilious, disdainful, cavalier, magisterial, assuming, lordly.
haunt, n. resort.
hauteur, n. arrogance, contumely, superciliousness, haughtiness, overweening.
haven, n. harbor, port, retreat, asylum, refuge, shelter.
havoc, n. destruction, devastation, waste, ruin, desolation, demolition, wreck.
hawk, n. falcon; goshawk, kestrel. Associated words: accipitral, raptorial.
haystack, n. rick.
hazard, n. chance, contingency, casualty; risk, random, jeopardy, danger, peril, venture. Antonyms: safety, security, assurance, certainty, surety.
hazard, v. venture, risk, jeopard, endanger.
hazardous, a. perilous, precarious, risky, unsafe, dangerous.
haze, n. obscurity, dimness, fog, vapor, mist, confusion.
hazy, a. foggy, misty, vaporous; obscure, confused.
head, n. poll, cephalon; costard (Contemptuous), noddle, pate. Associated words: phrenology, phrenologist, craniology, craniologist, cephalology, sinciput, occiput, cephalism, behead, decapitate, decapitation, capitation, vertex, crown, skull, cranium, fontanel, trepan, coronal, microcephaly, craniometry, macrocephaly, cephalic, per capita, scalp.
head, n. chief, leader, commander, director; crisis, culmination; spike; section, department, category, class.
head, a. principal, chief, leading, cardinal, foremost, main, premier.
headache, n. megrim, cephalalgy, galea.
headdress, n. coiffure.
heading, n. title, caption.
headland, n. cape, promontory, foreland.
heading off. interception.
headless, a. acephalous; beheaded, decapitated; leaderless, unorganized.
headlong, adv. headforemost; precipitately, rashly; pell-mell, helter-skelter, confusedly.
head off. intercept.
headsman, n. executioner, Jack Ketch.
headstrong, a. willful, perverse, stubborn, intractable, froward.
heal, v. cure, repair; cicatrize.
healing, a. curative, sanative, restorative, remedial, mollifying, sanatory, therapeutic, lenitive, medicinal, emollient, assuasive.
health, n. Associated words: hygiene, Hygeia, hygienic, hygienics, eucrasy, sanitation, sanitarian, soteriology, eutrophic, hygienist, sanitary.
healthful, a. healthy; salubrious, wholesome.
healthy, a. hale, well, hearty; salubrious, salutary, wholesome. Antonyms: unhealthy, ill, sickly, morbid, delicate, diseased.
heap, n. pile, mass, accumulation, lot, stack, cumulation.
heap, v. amass, accumulate, pile, stack, cumulate.
hearer, n. auditor.
hearing, n. audition, listening; audience; earshot, sound, hearing distance. Associated words: auditory, acoumeter, acoumetry, acoustic, audible, audibility, audiometer, deaf, deafness, microcoustic, microphonous, otacoustic, inaudible, inaudibility, clairaudient, clairaudience, audient, audiphone, sonometer, audile.
hearsay, n. rumor, report, gossip, bruit, on dit.
heart, n. cardia; conscience, character; essence, core, pith, kernel, marrow. Associated words: cardiology, carditis, cardiac, cordial, cardialgia, cardiometry, dexiocardia, systole, diastole, pericardium, endocardium, auricle, ventricle, valve, aneurism, stethoscope, peridiastole.