legend, n. fable, myth; posy, inscription, motto.
legendary, a. mythical, traditional.
legerdemain, n. jugglery, sleight of hand.
legible, a. readable, decipherable. Antonym: illegible.
legions, n. pl. battalions, troops, soldiers.
legitimate, a. lawful. Antonym: illegitimate.
lemon, n. Associated words: citric, citrine, citrination, citrus.
lend, v. loan.
lending, n. loan.
lengthen, v. extend, elongate, stretch, prolong, protract; expatiate, amplify.
lengthening, n. extension, elongation, protraction, prolongation.
lengthwise, adv. longitudinally.
lengthy, a. long, prolix, protracted, verbose.
lenient, a. compassionate. See merciful.
lenity, n. clemency, mercy, lenience.
Lent, n. Quadragesima.
lessen, v. reduce, diminish, minify, depreciate, minimize, decrease, mitigate, abate.
lessening, n. reduction, diminution, decrease, decrement, depreciation, mitigation, shrinkage, abatement.
Lesser Bear. Cynosure.
let, v. allow, permit, suffer; lease, rent.
let, n. hindrance.
lethargy, n. drowsiness, stupor, unconsciousness.
letter, n. epistle, favor, missive, note; encyclic, encyclical, decretal (letter of the Pope). Associated words: correspond, epistolical, epistolary, epistolean, epistolize, epistler, epistolar, epistolography, postscript.
letter, n. initial (first letter).
letter-carrier, n. postman, mail-carrier, courier, mail-man, postboy, post.
letter for letter. literatim.
letters, n. pl. correspondence.
letters, n. pl. learning, literature, erudition, humanities.
let-up, n. (Colloq.) abatement, assuagement, respite, subsidence.
let up. (Colloq.) abate, subside, diminish, intermit.
level, a. even, flat, plain, smooth, flush, plumb; horizontal; steady, impartial, well-balanced. Antonyms: undulating uneven, concave, convex, warped.
level, v. flatten, equalize, even, smooth, reduce; raze, reduce, overthrow, demolish; adapt, adjust.
lever, n. pry. Associated words: fulcrum, purchase, prize, prizing.
leverage, n. purchase.
levity, n. lightness, buoyancy; gayety, frivolity.
lewd, a. unchaste, lustful, licentious, libidinous, lecherous, incontinent, ribald, lascivious, rakish, ruttish, salacious, concupiscent, wanton, lubricous, prurient, pornographic. Antonyms: chaste, modest, pure.
lewdness, n. unchastity, incontinence, lust, lechery, ribaldry, salacity, concupiscence, profligacy, lasciviousness. Antonyms: chastity, modesty, purity.
liability, n. exposure, accountability, responsibility, amenability Antonyms: immunity, exemption.
liabilities, n. pl. debts, obligations, indebtedness.
liable, a. exposed, subject, accountable, answerable, amenable, bound. Antonyms: exempt, immune.
libel, n. defamation, lampoon, roorback.
libel, v. defame (by some publication), lampoon.
libellous, a. defamatory, slanderous, calumnious.
liberal, a. generous, open-handed, bounteous, munificent, unstinted, princely; profuse, lavish, ample, abundant; catholic, magnanimous, tolerant. Antonyms: illiberal, ungenerous, stingy, limited, narrow, bigoced.
liberality, n. generosity. Antonyms: illiberality, stinginess, bigotry.
liberate, v. See free.
liberation, n. See freeing.
libertine, n. lecher, debauchee, rake, roué, profligate.
libertine, a. licentious, lecherous, profligate, rakish.
liberty, n. freedom, independence; privilege, permission. Antonyms: captivity, bondage, servitude, subjection, constraint, serfdom, slavery.
license, n. privilege, right; lawlessness, anarchy.
licentious, a. immoral, dissolute, profligate, lewd, libertine, rakish, lascivious; unrestrained, uncurbed, uncontrolled.
lick, v. lap; (Colloq.) flog, thrash, chastise, castigate, trounce, drub. See whip.
licking, n. (Colloq.) flogging, chastisement, castigation, punishment, thrashing, whipping.
lid, n. cover.
lie, n. untruth, falsehood, fib; fiction, fabrication; subterfuge, evasion, misrepresentation.
lie, v. recline.
lie close. cuddle, nestle, snuggle.
lief, adv. willingly, gladly, freely, readily.
lien, n. incumbrance.
life, n. existence, being, animation, vitality; vivacity, spiritedness, energy, activity, briskness, sprightliness; biography, memoir. Associated words: biology, biologist, vital, biometry, biogenesis, macrobiotics, vitalization, vitalize, bioplasm, protoplasm, elixir, biotic.
lifeless, a. dead, inanimate, spiritless, devitalized.
lifelessness, n. inanimation.
lift, n. lifting, raising, elevation; help, assistance, aid; elevator, dumb waiter.
lifting machine. derrick, crane, tackle.
light, n. illumination; lamp, taper, candle, lantern, head-light, cresset; publicity, public notice; phosphorescence, luminescence; aureole, halo, nimbus, aureola, glory. Associated words: photology, photologist, photophobia, catoptrics, dioptrics, photics, Ormuzd, luminary.
light, a. buoyant; easy, inoppressive; active, nimble, deft, fleet, swift, spry; spongy, porous, well-leavened; incompact, loose, porous; gossamery, sleazy, flimsy, thin, unsubstantial; volatile, unsteady, mercurial, fickle, frivolous.
light, v. ignite, illumine, illuminate.
light, v. dismount, alight, descend; rest, perch, settle.
lighten, v. light, illuminate, illume; ease, relieve, alleviate.
light-fingered, a. thievish, pilfering.
light-footed, a. nimble, agile.
lighthouse, n. beacon, fanal, pharos. Associated words: holophote, pharology.
lighting, n. illumination.--a. luminous, luminiferous.
lightness, n. levity, levitation, buoyancy.
lightning-rod, n. paratonnerre.
like, a. similar, alike, cognate, analogous, homogeneous. Antonyms: See unlike.
like, n. counterpart, copy, equal; liking, preference.
like, v. fancy, approve of; prefer, choose, wish.
like blazes. (Low) furiously, rapidly.
likelihood, n. probability, verisimilitude. Antonyms: unlikelihood, improbability.
likely, a. probable, verisimilar; good-looking, comely; appropriate. Antonyms: unlikely, improbable.
liken, v. compare.
likeness, n. similitude, resemblance, similarity, appearance, guise, analogy; portrait, effigy, counterpart, image, copy, facsimile.
liking, n. fondness, partiality, affection, approval, preference, predilection. Antonyms: distaste, aversion, inappetency, hatred, antipathy, disapproval.
limber, a. flexible, pliant, limp, pliable, supple, lithe, lithesome. Antonyms: See stiff.
lime, n. Associated words: calcareous, calciferous, calcariferous, calcification, calcify, calcified, calcivorous, calcination, calciform, slack, cretification, calcigerous, kalsomine.
limit, n. bound, boundary, confine, extent; restriction, check, restraint, limitation.
limit, v. restrict, circumscribe, define, confine.
limitation, n. limit, restriction, restraint, circumscription, finitude.
limited, a. restricted, confined, conditioned, finite, circumscribed. Antonyms: See unlimited.
limp, a. flaccid, flabby, limber, soft, flexile. Antonyms: See stiff.
limp, n. halt, limping, hobble.
limpid, a. clear, pellucid, lucid. See clear.
line, n. stripe, streak; cord, rope, thread, string, cable; course, route; branch, department; boundary, contour, periphery, circumference, outline; lineament; row, series, rank, file; secant; hachure, hatching. Associated words: aliner, alignment, allineation, align, linear, lineal, lineation, interline, interlinear, interlining, interlineation.
linen, n. napery; lingerie; damask.
linen and wool. linsey-woolsey.
lines, n. pl. reins.
linger, v. loiter, saunter, tarry, lag.
lingering, a. protracted.
link, v. join, unite, connect, couple, concatenate.
lion, n. Felis Leo; lioness (female); whelp, lionel (young); Leo; griffin.
lionlike, a. leonine.
lip, n. Associated words: labial, labially, labialize, labialization, labialism, chiloma, labret, philtrum, pout, labiochorea, cheiloplasty, labioplasty, harelip, blobber lip.
liquid, n. fluid.
list, n. catalogue, roster, schedule, register; selvage, selvedge, listing.
listen, v. hearken; eavesdrop; auscultate. Antonyms: disregard, ignore, scorn.
listening, n. hearkening; eavesdropping; auscultation, autophony.
listless, a. inattentive, indifferent, supine, heedless, unconcerned.
litigation, n. lawsuit.
litter, n. stretcher; mulch; disorder, untidiness; farrow.
little, a. small, diminutive, minute, tiny, wee, puny, dwarfish, insignificant, infinitesimal. See small.
little, n. miniature; modicum.
little by little. piecemeal, gradually.
live, v. exist; dwell, reside, abide.
live, a. alive, quick, animate, living.
liveliness, n. animation, vivacity, sprightliness, briskness, activity, lilt.
live longer than. survive, outlive.
lively, a. animated, spirited, vivacious, vigorous, active, brisk, energetic, stirring, sprightly; agile, nimble; hilarious frolicsome, gay, buoyant. Antonyms: slow, sluggish, inactive, quiet.
liver, n. Associated words: hepatic, hepatology, hepatize, hepatization, cirrhosis, cirrhotic, giblets, bilious, viscera, hepatogenic, bile.
liver, heart, etc., of an animal. inmeats (edible viscera).
livid, a. ecchymosed, bruised, black and blue.
living, a. alive, quick, live; quickening, animating.
living, n. life, existence, being; livelihood, sustenance, subsistence, maintenance; benefice.
living again. redivivus, resurrected, revived, resurgent.
living in seclusion. eremitism, anchoretism, reclusion, seclusion, retirement.--a. hermitical, eremitic, anchoretic, solitary.
living picture. tableau vivant.
living together. cohabitation.
living upon others. parasitic.--n. parasitism.
lizard, n. saurian, reptile; chameleon, gecko, gila monster, iguana, dragon.
load, v. encumber, lade, burden, freight.
load, n. burden, cargo, lading, encumbrance, weight, impediment, incubus.
loaded, p.p. and a. laden, freighted, fraught.
loaf, v. lounge about, loiter.
loathe, v. abhor, hate, detest, abominate, despise, execrate, recoil from.
loathing, n. abhorrence, detestation, abomination, execration, hatred.
location, n. situation, locality, place.
lock, n. ringlet, curl, tress.
lock-jaw, n. tetanus. Associated words: tetanic, tetanoid.
lofty, a. tall, towering.
log, n. puncheon (split log).
logical, a. consistent, sound. Antonym: illogical.
loins, n. pl. reins.
loitering, a. sauntering, dilatory.
Londoner, n. cockney (Contemptuous).
lone, a. alone, lonely, isolated, desolate; unfrequented, solitary, sequestered, secluded, lonesome.
lonely, a. sequestered, solitary, unfrequented; lonesome, desolate, dreary, lorn.
long, a. protracted, prolonged, lengthy, extended; lingering; extensive, inclusive; tedious, prolix, wordy, long-spun diffuse.
long, v. yearn for, hanker after, crave.
longer than broad. oblong.
long-handed, a. longimanous.
long-headed, a. shrewd, sagacious. See shrewd.
longing, n. yearning, craving.
long life. longevity.
longshoreman, n. stevedore.
long-suffering, a. forbearing, uncomplaining, patient.--n. forbearance, patience, longanimity.
look, v. glance, gaze, stare, see, con, gloat, glare, peek, peer, pry, peep, pore, lower, glower, scan, ogle; seem, appear; await, expect, anticipate; examine, investigate, inspect, contemplate, scrutinize.
look, n. glance, glimpse, inspection, scrutiny, gaze; expression, appearance, air, manner, mien, semblance, aspect, presence.
look down upon. See despise.
looking backward. retrospection, retrospect.--a. retrospective.
looking for. anticipation, expectation; search.
looking forward. anticipation, expectation, prospect, foresight.
looking forward. prospective, anticipative.
looking-glass, n. mirror; cheval glass.
looking within. introspection.--a. introspective.
look into. inspect, examine, probe, investigate.
look on. see, witness; regard, consider, deem, view.
lookout, n. observatory; watch-tower, conning tower; responsibility.
look over. examine, scrutinize, reconnoiter.