heart-broken, a. disconsolate, inconsolable, broken-hearted.
heartburn, n. cardialgia, water-brash, pyrosis.
heartburning, n. discontent, resentment, envy, rankling.
hearthstone, n. hearth, fireside, ingleside. Associated words: Vesta, Hestia.
heartless, a. acardiac; cruel, pitiless. See cruel.
heart-shaped, a. cordate, cordiform.
heartwood, n. duramen.
hearty, a. cordial, heartfelt, sincere; healthy, robust, hale; nourishing, nutritious.
heat, n. warmth, caloric; cauma. Associated words: pyrology, pyrologist, thermology, pyrometry, pyrometer, pyronomics, calorifics, therm, thermal, pyrography, caloric, calorie, thermic, swelter, thermostat, thermometer, thermometry.
heat, n. vehemence, fire, ardor, impetuosity, fervor, fervency, zeal, intensity, enthusiasm; œstrus, rut.
heat, v. warm, calefy.
heathen, a. pagan, heathenish, paganic, gentile, paganish; irreligious, godless.
heathen, n. pagan, idolater.
heathenism, n. idolatry, paganism, pagandom, gentilism; irreligion, godlessness.
heathenize, v. paganize.
heat stroke. insolation.
heaven, n. Paradise, Elysium, Eden, the New Jerusalem, glory; Olympus, Elysium, Elysian, Arcadia; Valhalla, Walhalla; Nirvana.
heavenly, a. celestial, supernal; divine, beatific, ravishing, sublime, ecstatic.
heaviness, n. weight, ponderosity, ponderousness, gravity.
heavy, a. weighty, massive, ponderous; burdensome, oppressive, onerous, severe; unraised, soggy, indigestible, unleavened.
heavy hand. severity, oppression, persecution, tyranny, extortion.
hector, v. torment, tease, plague, bully, harass.
heed, v. mind, regard, consider, notice, attend.
heed, n. regard, attention, consideration, notice. Antonyms: disregard, inattention.
heedful, a. attentive, circumspect, cautious, vigilant, mindful. Antonyms: inattentive, uncircumspect, unmindful, careless, heedless.
heel bone. calcaneum, fibulare.
height, n. altitude, loftiness; elevation; stature, tallness; eminence, exaltation; summit, zenith, apex, culmination. Associated words: altimetry, altimeter, hypsometry, hypsometer.
heinous, a. atrocious, flagrant, flagitious, monstrous, nefarious.
heir, n. inheritor; scion; coheir, parcener.
hell, n. inferno, infernal regions, Gehenna, limbo, abyss, Avernus, Pandemonium, Abaddon, Styx, Hades, Sheol, the grave; Naraka (Buddhism).
hellish, a. infernal, malignant, fiendish, diabolical, atrocious.
helm, n. rudder, tiller, wheel; steersman, pilot; command, control, administration.
helmet, n. casque, headpiece, morion, sallet.
help, v. abet, assist, befriend, succor, aid, coöperate, collaborate, second, facilitate, subsidize; remedy, ameliorate, alleviate, promote, further.
help, n. aid, assistance, succor, support, facilitation, backing, subsidy, subvention, coöperation; remedy, relief, cure, restorative.
helper, n. assistant, ally, auxiliary, supporter, abettor, helpmeet, associate, coadjutor, confederate, deputy, aider, colleague, acolyte, adjuvant, collaborator, subsidiary, co-aid, coöperator, accessory, accomplice.
helpful, a. assistant, conducive, instrumental, useful, salutary.
helping, a. assisting, auxiliary, subsidiary, accessory.
helter-skelter, adv. (Colloq.) irregularly, disorderly, pell-mell, headlong.
hem in. environ, surround, encompass, beset, hedge in.
hen, n. partlet; pullet (young hen).
herald, n. messenger, forerunner, precursor, harbinger, crier.
herald, v. proclaim, announce, foretell, usher in.
herd, n. drove; rabble, mob, multitude. Associated words: gregarious, gregal.
herdsman, n. ranchman, vaquero, cowboy, vacher.
hereditary, a. ancestral, patrimonial, inheritable, inherited.
heritage, n. inheritance, hereditament, patrimony; possession.
hermit, n. recluse, anchoret, anchorite, eremite, solitary, cenobite.
heroic, a. valiant, bold, daring, brave; desperate, drastic, extreme.
heroism, n. courage, valor, bravery, prowess, fortitude, intrepidity.
hesitancy, n. indecision, vacillation, uncertainty, irresolution, wavering.
hesitate, v. doubt, vacillate, falter, dubitate, waver, scruple, demur, deliberate.
hesitation, n. indecision, doubt, vacillation, reluctance, wavering.
hidden, a. covert, latent, concealed; recondite, esoteric, abstruse, unrevealed.
hide, v. veil, cloak, conceal, dissemble, cache, secrete, mask; skulk, lurk.
hidebound, a. untractable, bigoted, obstinate, uncompromising.
hideous, a. horrible, grim, ogreish, grisly, repulsive, ugly, ghastly, shocking.
hiding, n. concealment, secretion.
high, a. lofty, tall, elevated, towering.
high and dry. aground, beached, stranded.
high and mighty. (Colloq.) arrogant, overbearing, domineering, lordly.
higher, a. supernal.
highest, a. loftiest, superlative, meridian, maximum, supreme, topgallant.
highest good. summum bonum.
highest point. meridian, culmination, zenith, maximum.
highfaluting, a. bombastic, grandiloquent.--n. bombast.
highflown, a. bombastic, grandiloquent, pretentious, magniloquent, grandiose.
highflying, a. aspiring, presumptuous, ambitious, Icarian.
highgo, n. (Colloq.) spree, revel, carousal.
highhanded, a. overbearing, tyrannical, arbitrary, autocratic, despotic.
high jinks. (Colloq.) revelry, carousal, wild sport.
highland, n. plateau.
high liver. gormand, sybarite, epicure, gourmet, voluptuary, gastronomer, bon vivant.
high living. gormandism, sybaritism, epicurism, luxury. Antonyms: asceticism, abstemiousness, moderation.
highminded, a. magnanimous, honorable, noble. Antonyms: mean, base, low, servile, abject, ignoble.
highmindedness, n. magnanimity.
high time. full time; (Slang) carousal, revelry.
hightoned, a. shrill, acute; magnanimous, honorable; (Colloq.) fashionable, aristocratic.
highwayman, n. bandit, desperado, road agent, outlaw, footpad.
hill, n. mound, eminence, knoll, elevation; monadnock; butte; monticle; copple; Acropolis; foothill.
hillock, n. knoll, mound.
hilly, a. undulating, uneven, rolling.
hind, n. rustic, boor, peasant.
hinder, n. (Slang) buttocks, rump, seat, fundament.
hinder, v. retard, obstruct, hamper, impede, forestall, forefend, check, thwart, foil.
hindrance, n. retardation, hindering; obstacle, impediment, obstruction, restraint, frustration, encumbrance, check.
hinge joint. diarthrosis, ginglymus.
hint, v. intimate, suggest, imply, allude to, refer.
hint, n. allusion, suggestion, insinuation, intimation, innuendo, inkling.
hip, n. haunch, huckle; (hip-bone) innominate, ilium, ischium, pubis. Associated words: sciatic, ischial, ischiatic, coxalgia, acetabulum.
hire, n. salary, wages, pay, stipend, remuneration, compensation.--v. engage; let, lease.
hireling, a. mercenary, venal.--n. mercenary.
hiss, n. sibilation, sibilance, hissing.--v. sibilate, whiz.
hissing, a. sibilant, sibilatory.
history, n. annals, chronicle, record, account; biography, autobiography. Associated words: historic, historicity, historian, historiology, historiography, Clio, prehistoric.
hit, v. smite, buffet, strike.
hitch, n. catch, impediment, obstacle, obstruction, contretemps.--v. hook, yoke, unite, attach.
hoard, v. garner, amass, save, treasure.
hoard, n. store, supply, stock, accumulation.
hoarse, a. harsh, discordant, husky, raucous, guttural.
hobgoblin, n. sprite, goblin, bugaboo.
hobo, n. (Colloq.) tramp, vagrant, vagabond.
hodgepodge, n. medley, farrago, salmagundi, potpourri.
hog, n. swine, porker; boar; sow; barrow (castrated); glutton. Associated word: porcine.
hoggish, a. swinish, gluttonous, voracious.
hoitytoity, a. flighty, giddy, thoughtless.
hold, v. sustain, restrain, retain, detain, withhold, arrest; contain; clutch, grasp, grip, clinch.
hold back. check, restrain, impede, curb, retard.
holdback, n. check, hindrance, restraint, impediment.
holder, n. tenant, occupier; incumbent.
hold in. restrain, curb, check, repress, retain, rein.
holding, n. restraint, retention, checking, continence, tenacity, detention; tenure, incumbency. Antonyms: incontinence, release.
hole, n. cavity, excavation, pit, perforation, rent, fissure, opening, aperture, delve, cache, concavity, mortise, puncture, orifice, eyelet, crevice, loophole, interstice, gap, spiracle, vent, bung, pothole, manhole, scuttle, scupper, muset, muse; cave, holt, den, lair, retreat, cover, hovel, burrow. Antonyms: imperforation, closure. Associated words: auger, drill, gimlet, bodkin, bore, bit, puncture, perforate, pink, awl, stylet, imperforable, imperforate, punch, wimble, pierce, eyeleteer, dibble, plug, spigot, spile, gouge, puncheon, probe.
holiday, n. festival, fête, fiesta (Sp.).
holiness, n. sanctity, piety, godliness, devoutness, sacredness.
hollow, a. excavated, cavernous, vacant, void, unfilled, empty; cannulated; concave, depressed, gaunt, sunken; insincere, unsound, false, hypocritical. Antonyms: convex, protuberant, sincere.
hollow, v. scoop, excavate, concave.
hollow, n. depression, cavity, valley; concavity, channel, groove, concave, recess; correi.
holy, a. sacred, consecrated, hallowed, sanctified, saintly, godly, pious, guileless.
Holy Ghost. Paraclete, Holy Spirit, the Comforter, the Sanctifier.
holy oil. chrism. Associated words: chrismatory, chrismation, chrismal, cruet, ampulla, unction.
holy water. Associated words: asperges, aspergill, aspergillum, aspersorium, aspersoir, stoup, font, bénitier, cruet, hyssop.
homage, n. deference, obeisance, reverence, honor; fealty, fidelity, allegiance; adoration.
home, n. domicile, residence, dwelling-place, abode, dwelling, hearth, hearthstone; habitat, seat; asylum, retreat. Associated words: domestic, domesticate, domesticity, domestication, inhabitativeness.
homeborn, a. native, indigenous.
homely, a. plain, plain-looking, uncomely; inelegant, rude.
homesickness, n. nostalgia. Associated word: nostalgic.
homing instinct. orientation.
hone, n. oilstone.
honest, a. honorable, reputable; upright, sincere, guileless, ingenuous, incorruptible.
honesty, n. uprightness, probity, integrity, candor, sincerity, rectitude.
honey, n. Associated words: melliferous, mellific, mellification, metheglin, mellifluent, mellifluous, mellite, mellivorous, meliphagan, meliphagous, hydromel, mead, comb.
honey-combed, a. alveolate, cellular, faviform, favaginous.
honey-dew, n. meligo, nectar.
honeysuckle, n. woodbine, caprifole.
honey-tongued, a. persuasive, seductive.
honor, n. respect, esteem, veneration, reverence, deference, homage; probity, integrity, magnanimity, uprightness, chastity, decency, virtue, modesty; eminence, distinction, fame; glory, excellency, pride. Antonyms: dishonor, disesteem, irreverence, improbity, disrepute, reproach.
honor, v. esteem, respect, revere, reverence, venerate; dignify, exalt, elevate.
honorable, a. upright, honest, equitable, reputable, magnanimous.
honors, n. pl. titles, dignities, privileges. Associated words: timocracy, timocratic, honorary, honorific.
hood, n. cowl, fascinator, capote, capoch, camail, amice, chaperon, capuchin, bashlyk (Russia).
hooded, a. cowled, capistrate.
hoodlum, n. (Colloq.) rowdy, larrikin.
hoodwink, v. deceive, impose upon, delude, hoax, dupe, overreach.
hook, n. hasp, clasp, catch; crook, tenaculum, peavey, clives, agraffe, fluke, pot-hook, cant-hook, cleek, trammel, cottrel; snare, decoy, trap; bill-hook, sickle.
hook, v. fasten, catch, secure; entrap, ensnare; gore; (Colloq.) steal.
hooked, a. aquiline, bent, curvated, uncinate.
hookedness, n. aquilinity, incurvation.
hoot, v. shout, deride, denounce, execrate.
hop, v. spring, jump, skip, frisk, bound, leap, caper, trip, gambol, dance.
hope, n. optimism, anticipation. Antonyms: despair, desperation, pessimism.
hopeful, a. expectant, optimistic, promising, sanguine.