master, v. conquer, overpower, subject, subjugate, overcome, subdue, vanquish.
masterful, a. domineering, imperious, arbitrary.
master-hand, n. expert, adept, dabster.
masterly, a. skillful, proficient, adroit, dexterous, finished.
masterpiece, n. masterstroke, chef-d'œuvre.
mastery, n. dominion, command, supremacy, superiority, rule, sway, mastership, preëminence, leadership, influence; victory, triumph; acquirement, acquisition, attainment, dexterity, skill.
masturbation, n. onanism, self-abuse, self-pollution.
mat, n. rug; matting; petate.
mat, v. felt together, entangle, twist, interweave, snarl.
match, n. tally, mate, equal, peer; contest, competition, tournament, tourney; lucifer match, locofoco.
match, v. rival, equal, cope with; contend, pit, oppose; tally, correspond, be proportionate; adapt, fit, proportion, comport, harmonize; mate, couple, combine, sort, join.
matchable, a. comparable, proportionable, correspondent, similar.
matchless, a. peerless, incomparable, inimitable, unequalled, transcendent, surpassing.
mate, n. companion, associate, friend, chum, crony, compeer, intimate, partner, colleague; match, equal; assistant, subordinate; checkmate.
mate, v. oppose, cope with, vie with, compete with; match, marry.
material, n. substance, matter, fabric, stuff, cloth, staple; plasma.
material, a. corporeal, bodily, physical; important, essential, momentous.
materiality, n. corporeity, material existence; importance.
materially, adv. substantially; essentially, vitally.
materia medica. medicines; acology.
matrimonial, a. connubial, nuptial, hymeneal, conjugal.
matrimony, n. marriage, wedlock.
matron, n. dame.
matronly, a. elderly, dignified, matronal.
matted, a. tangled, snarled, entangled.
matter, n. substance, material, body; essence, pith, embodiment, elements; importance, significance, moment, consequence, weight, materiality; pus, purulence; manuscript, copy. Associated words: material, immaterial, materiality, immateriality, atom, molecule, chemistry, hylism, hylotheism, hylopathism, hylogenesis, materialism, physics, somatics, somatology.
matter, v. import, signify, be of importance; maturate, suppurate.
matter-of-fact, a. practical, pragmatical, unimaginative, commonplace, prosaic.
maturate, v. suppurate; mature.
maturation, n. suppuration; maturing.
mature, a. full-grown, ripe, developed, perfect; prepared, finished. Antonyms: See immature.
mature, v. ripen, develop, perfect, season.
maturity, n. development, ripeness, perfection, completion. Antonym: immaturity.
maudlin, a. over-emotional, tearful; tipsy, fuddled, intoxicated.
maul, v. pound, pommel, beat, club, cudgel.
maul, n. beetle, mall.
mauling, n. pounding, beating, clubbing, cudgelling.
mawkish, a. nauseous, sickening, loathful, disgusting; squeamish, fastidious.
maxim, n. axiom, adage, proverb, aphorism, apothegm, saw, precept.
maybe, adv. perhaps, possibly, peradventure, haply.
Mayflower, n. hawthorn, white thorn; trailing arbutus.
maze, n. perplexity, bewilderment; labyrinth, intricacy.
maze, v. perplex, bewilder, confuse, puzzle.
mazy, a. intricate, labyrinthian, confusing.
mead, n. metheglin, hydromel; meadow, lea.
meadow mice. Arvicola. Associated words: arvicoline, arvicolous.
meager, a. poor, emaciated, gaunt; barren, sterile, unproductive, arid.
meal, n. repast.
mealy, a. farinaceous.
mean, v. intend, purpose, design, contemplate; signify, purport, denote, betoken, imply, typify, indicate.
mean, a. contemptible, despicable, low-minded, base, abject, groveling, dishonorable, shabby, scurvy, servile, menial, undignified, unbecoming, disingenuous; obscure, ignoble, plebeian, inglorious, undistinguished, vulgar; penurious, illiberal, sordid, miserly, stingy, mercenary parsimonious, ungenerous; midway, average, moderate, middle, medium, mediocre; intermediate, mediate, intervening; insignificant, paltry, inconsequential, piddling, frivolous, inferior, poor.
meandering, a. winding, tortuous, crooked, serpentine, meandrous.
meaning, n. signification, significance, import, acceptation, intent. Associated words: lexicology, semasiology.
meaningly, adv. significantly.
meanly, adv. dishonorably, basely, ungenerously.
means, n. property, possessions, wealth, resources, riches, estate; instrument, agency, instrumentality, method, way, facility; expedient, resource, contrivance, resort, device, artifice.
meantime, n. interval, interim, meanwhile.
meantime, adv. meanwhile.
meanwhile, adv. meantime, during the interval.
measles, n. rubeola.
measurable, a. mensurable, computable.
measure, n. gauge, rule; dimensions, capacity, size, extent, degree, limit; quantity, amount; proportion, allotment, share; metre; act, step, means.
measure, v. gauge, mete; appraise, estimate, compute, adjust; allot, mete out, apportion, distribute.
measureless, a. immeasurable.
measurement, n. mensuration; dimensions, size, extent, area, capacity, bulk.
meat, n. flesh (of animals). See flesh.
meat pie. mince pie; pasty.
mechanic, n. mechanician, artisan, artificer, handicraftsman, craftsman.
mechanical, a. automatic, involuntary.
mechanician, n. machinist.
medal, n. medallion.
meddle, v. interfere, interpose, intermeddle, obtrude.
meddlesome, a. officious, intrusive, obtrusive, pragmatical, intermeddling.
meddling, n. interference, intrusion, intermeddling.
mediation, n. intercession.
mediator, n. intercessor. See peacemaker.
mediatorial, a. intercessory, mediatory, propitiatory.
medical, a. medicinal, therapeutical, therapeutic, curative.
medicinal, a. medicative, medical, therapeutic.
medicine, n. materia medica, medicament, remedy, restorative, corrective, specific, physic, antidote, tonic, panacea; nostrum.
mediocre, a. middling, ordinary, medium, commonplace.
mediocrity, n. commonplaceness, indifference, middle state.
meditate, v. contemplate, muse, ponder, cogitate, reflect, think.
meditation, n. contemplation, musing, cogitation, reflection, thought.
meditative, a. thoughtful, contemplative, reflective.
Mediterranean Sea. Associated word: Levant.
medium, a. intermediate, middling, mean, average, médiocre.
medium, n. middle; means, instrumentality, agency; menstruum; psychic.
medley, n. mixture, jumble, hodgepodge, potpourri, olio, mélange, farrago.
meed, n. reward, recompense, prize; merit, desert, worth.
meek, a. humble, unassuming, modest, retiring, docile, lowly.
meerschaum, n. magnesite, seafoam, sepiolite.
meet, v. encounter, confront, collide, converge, engage; intercept; assemble, congregate, convene, collect, muster; agree, harmonize, unite; equal, satisfy, fulfill, match. Antonyms: avoid, elude, escape, disperse, scatter.
meet, a. suitable, proper, befitting, seemly, appropriate.
meeting, n. assembly, assemblage, congregation, convention, convocation, conference, synod, mall, concourse, gathering, mustering; juncture, convergence, crossing, junction, confluence; encounter; collision, clash; interception; interview; tryst, rendezvous.
melancholia, n. hypochondria, hypochondriasis.
melancholy, n. despondency, hypochondria, dejection, disconsolation, melancholia.
melancholy, a. despondent, hypochondriac, depressed, disconsolate, dispirited.
mêlée, n. affray, scuffle, set-to, brawl, fight (hand to hand).
melodious, a. tuneful, harmonious, dulcet, musical, sweet, euphonious, ariose, mellifluous.
melody, n. music; descant, tune, song, air, theme. Antonyms: discord, dissonance.
melt, v. dissolve, liquefy, thaw, fuse, soften, blend, swale, colliquate.
meltable, a. dissolvable, soluble, liquefiable, fusible.
melted, a. molten.
melting, a. dissolving, thawing; affecting, touching.
melting, n. dissolution, liquefaction, fusion, thawing, inteneration, dissipation, colliquation.
melting-pot, n. crucible.
member, n. part, organ, limb; constituent, component, part.
memento, n. souvenir, keepsake, memorial.
memoir, n. biography, autobiography.
memorandum, n. record, minute, note.
memorial, a. commemorative.
memory, n. remembrance, recollection, reminiscence; retrospection. Antonyms: oblivion, forgetfulness, Lethe, amnesia, ecmnesia. Associated words: mnemonics, mnemonic, mnemonician, mnemotechny, phrenotypics, Mnemosyne, immortalize, immemorial, memorable, memorabilia, memorize, remember, amnesic.
menace, n. threat, threatening.
menace, v. threaten.
menacing, a. threatening, minatory.
mend, v. repair, patch; improve.
mendacious, a. lying, untruthful, false, deceitful.
mendacity, n. untruthfulness, lying, falsehood, lie, untruth.
mendicant, n. beggar.--a. begging.
mending, n. repairing, patching, restoration; improvement.
menial, a. serving; low, servile.
mental, a. intellectual.
mentality, n. intellectuality.
mentor, n. monitor, counselor, guide.
mentorial, a. admonitory, monitory.
mercantile, a. trading, commercial.
mercenary, a. hired, hireling, purchased; greedy, sordid, avaricious, grasping.
mercenary, n. hireling.
merchandise, n. wares, goods, commodities.
merchant, n. trader, dealer, trafficker, shopkeeper, tradesman.
merchantable, a. salable, vendible, marketable.
merciful, a. pitiful, lenient, clement, compassionate, benignant, indulgent, kind, gracious, forgiving.
merciless, a. unmerciful, remorseless, cruel, pitiless, ruthless, inexorable, implacable.
Mercury, n. Hermes; quicksilver; messenger.
Mercury's staff. caduceus.
mercy, n. clemency, pity, lenity, leniency, lenience, compassion, forgiveness, placability; discretion, disposal; blessing, favor. Antonyms: revenge, implacability, inclemency, incompassion.
mercy seat. propitiatory.
merely, a. purely, absolutely; simply, barely, only.
merge, v. swallow up, absorb, immerse, take in; be swallowed up, be absorbed.
merger, n. absorption.
meridian, n. noon, midday; culmination, zenith, pinnacle, apex. Antonym: nadir.
meridian, a. midday, meridional.
merit, n. desert, worth, meed, worthiness; worth, excellence, goodness; reward; pl. claim, right. Antonym: demerit.
merit, v. deserve, earn.
meritorious, a. worthy, commendable, meedful, deserving.
merriment, n. mirth, gayety, glee, levity, laughter, sportiveness, jocularity.
merry, a. mirthful, gay, jolly, gleeful, jovial, sportive, jocular, bonny.
mess, n. rations, food; mixture, medley, farrago, litter, hodgepodge, jumble, mélange.
message, n. communication, notice, word; telegram, despatch, cablegram.
messenger, n. courier, herald, forerunner, precursor, harbinger, mercury, emissary.
metaphor, n. simile.
meteor, n. fireball, shooting star; bolis, bolide.
meteoric stone. meteorite, aërolite.
methodical, a. systematic, orderly, methodic. Antonyms: immethodical, unsystematic.
meticulous, a. timid, fearful, diffident.
mettle, n. spirit, disposition; pluck, nerve, hardihood, stamina, spirit.