moonshine, n. balderdash, flummery, fustian, nonsense.
moot, a. undecided, unsettled, debatable.
mooted, a. moot.
mop, n. malkin, swab; merkin (cannon mop).
mopboard, n. baseboard, surbase.
mopish, a. dejected, glum, dumpish, listless, dull, spiritless.
moral, a. ethical; virtuous, good; accountable, responsible, probable. Antonyms: immoral, licentious.
moral insanity. æsthesiomania.
morality, n. virtue, rectitude, probity, goodness. Antonym: immorality.
moral philosophy. deontology, ethology, ethics.
morass, n. slough, quagmire, bog, marsh, swamp.
Mormon, n. Latter-day Saint.
morning, n. forenoon; dawn, daybreak, aurora, cock-crowing, sunrise.
morning, a. matin, matutinal.
morning concert. (in the open air) aubade.
morning reception. levee.
morning service. matins.
morose, a. churlish, sulky, sullen, moody, splenetic, unamiable.
morsel, n. bite, mouthful; fragment, crumb, scrap.
mortally, adv. fatally.
mortar, n. Associated word: pestle.
mortification, n. gangrene; chagrin, humiliation, abasement, embarrassment; repression, subjection.
mortify, v. gangrene; chagrin, embarrass, abase; repress, deny, restrain.
mosaic, a. tessellated, inlaid, variegated.
most, n. majority.
mote, n. particle, speck, mite.
moth-eaten, a. moth-fretted.
mother, n. materfamilias, matron, matriarch; generatrix; dam. Associated words: cognate, cognation, matricide, maternalism, uterine, matriarchy, matriarchal.
motherhood, n. maternity.
motherly, a. maternal.
mother-of-pearl, n. nacre.
motion, n. movement, activity; gesture, signal, gesticulation; port, gait; impulse. Antonyms: inertia, rest, stagnation, immobility, quiescence, repose.
motionless, a. stationary, inert, stagnant, quiescent.
motive, n. incentive, inducement, incitement.
mottled, a. piebald, party-colored, spotted.
mould, n. matrix, matrice; pattern, model; mouldiness, mildew, blight, smut, fungus.
mould, v. form, shape, model, cast; knead.
mouldy, a. musty, mildewed, fusty, decaying.
moult, v. mew, exuviate.
moulting, n. exuviation.
mount, v. ascend; bestride.
mountain, n. mount. Associated words: orology, orography, orogeny, montiform, butte, arete, spur, montanic, intermontane, oread, mountainous, ultramontane, bergstock, subalpine, alpenstock, range, ridge, submontane, alpestrine.
mountebank, n. quack; charlatan, impostor, empiric.
mourn, v. deplore, lament, regret, grieve, repine, sorrow, bemoan, bewail.
mournful, a. sorrowful, lugubrious, doleful, woful.
mourning, n. sorrow, grief, bereavement; weeds.
mouse, n. murine, rodent; pl. mice, vermin.
mousing, a. meddlesome, prying, intrusive.
mouthpiece, n. embouchure; spokesman.
movable, a. portable, mobile. Antonyms: immovable, fast, immobile.
move, v. transfer; migrate, immigrate, emigrate, remove; impel, propel, actuate, influence; budge, stir.
movement, n. motion, locomotion, transference, removal.
movement cure. kinesiatrics, kinesitherapy, lingism.
moving, a. motive.
mow, v. reap.
mowing, n. reaping.
mucus, n. phlegm.
mud, n. mire, ooze, muck; silt.
mud bath. illutation.
muddiness, n. turbidness, feculence, obscurity, miriness.
muddle, v. confuse, fuddle, bewilder.
muddle, n. confusion.
muddled, a. confused, addled.
muddy, a. feculent, turbid, roily; opaque, intransparent, confused, involved, incoherent.
mud-eating, a. limivorous.
muffle, v. wrap, envelop; deaden, subdue.
muffler, n. scarf, tippet.
mulct, n. fine, amercement.
mule, n. hybrid, hinny.
mule-driver, n. muleteer.
mulish, a. See stubborn.
mull, v. ruminate, ponder, cogitate.
mulligrubs, n. (Slang) colic.
multitude, n. crowd, throng, host.
mum, a. silent, speechless, dumb, mute.
mumble, v. mutter, maunder, mump.
mumbling, a. muttering, inarticulate, indistinct, incoherent.
mummery, n. masquerade, mimicry.
mumpish, a. moody, sullen, morose, sulky, unamiable.
mumps, n. parotitis; sullenness, the sulks.
munch, v. craunch.
murder, n. homicide.
murderer, n. homicide.
murderous, a. sanguinary, homicidal, fell.
muriatic acid. hydrochloric acid.
murmur, v. grumble, complain, repine.
murmur, n. plaint, complaint; purl, babble; undertone.
murmuring, a. complaining, querulous, repining.
muscle, n. brawn, thew; sinew, tendon.
muscular, a. brawny, thewy, sinewy, stalwart.
muse, v. contemplate, ruminate, brood, ponder, mull, reflect.
muse, n. contemplation, meditation, revery.
Muses, n. pl. Pierides, tuneful nine (Calliope, Clio, Erato, Euterpe, Melpomene, Polymnia, Terpsichore, Thalia, Urania). Associated word: Pierian.
mushroom, a. ephemeral, transitory.
mushrooms, n. pl. Fungi, agaric, Agaricaceæ. Associated words: mycology, agaricin, pileus, gills, spore. See Fungi.
music, n. melody, symphony, harmony; melodies, harmonics.
musical, a. melodious, harmonious, tuneful, symphonious.
musical entertainment. musicale, concert.
muskmelon, n. cantaloupe.
muss, n. confusion, litter, jumble, disorder.--v. disarrange, rumple, dishevel.
mustard plaster. sinapism.
musty, a. mildewed, fusty, mouldy, frowzy, rank, stale.
mute, a. dumb, obmutescent; silent, speechless.
mutilate, v. maim, dismember, mangle.
mutilation, n. maim, dismemberment, mangling.
mutinous, a. rebellious, insubordinate, seditious, insurgent, insurrectionary.
mutiny, n. insurrection, rebellion, insubordination, revolt.
mutter, v. maunder.
muttering, a. inarticulate, indistinct, maundering.
mutual, a. reciprocal.
mutuality, n. correlation, reciprocation, interchange.
mysterious, a. inscrutable, cryptic, obscure, unexplainable, enigmatical, unfathomed, unfathomable, abstruse, mystic, inexplicable, recondite, cabalistic, occult, unexplained.
mystery, n. secret, enigma, riddle, intricacy, arcanum.
mystic, a. occult, esoteric, cabalistic, mystical.
mystification, n. bewilderment, perplexity, obfuscation.
mystify, v. bewilder, perplex, obfuscate, befog, nonplus.
mystifying, a. perplexing, confusing, bewildering, mysterious.
myth, n. legend, tradition, fable.