rivulet, n. rill, creek, streamlet, runnel, runlet, brook, bourn.
road, n. thoroughfare, avenue, highroad, highway, street, lane, passage, artery, roadstead, boulevard, esplanade, turnpike, tramroad, causeway, corduroy road, anchorage, impasse.
road agent. highwayman, bandit.
roam, v. ramble, stray, rove, range, wander.
roar, n. bellow, bellowing.
roar, v. bellow; boom, peal, resound, thunder.
roast, v. bake; torrefy, parch; (Colloq.) banter.
rob, v. plunder, pillage, fleece, despoil, rifle, sack, spoliate, loot, forage.
robber, n. bandit, brigand, buccaneer, burglar, depredator, despoiler, footpad, filibuster, forager, desperado, corsair, freebooter, highwayman, picaroon, marauder, pillager, pirate, plunderer, raider, thief, ladrone.
robbery, n. larceny, burglary, theft, plundering, piracy, peculation, depredation, brigandage, buccaneering, despoliation, loot, sack.
robe, n. gown.
robing room of a church. vestry, sacristy.
robust, a. strong, sinewy, muscular, brawny, stalwart, vigorous, sound.
rock, n. bowlder; crag.
rocking-horse, n. cockhorse.
rod, n. wand, cane, stick; pole, perch, 16-1/2 feet.
roe, n. roebuck; ova, spawn (of fishes).
rogue, n. knave, miscreant, scamp, rascal, sharper. See scoundrel.
roguery, n. cheating, knavery, fraud; mischievousness.
roguish, a. knavish, tricky; waggish, sportive, arch, mischievous.
roil, v. make turbid, rile.
roily, a. turbid, muddy, feculent.
roll, n. scroll; roster, record; convolution, trundle, coil.
roll, v. wheel, whirl, revolve, rotate, turn, gyrate, spin, trundle, circumgyrate; inwrap, infold, convolve; wallow, welter; rock, sway, lurch, titubate, fluctuate.
rolled, a. coiled, convoluted, involuted.
roller, n. cylinder; fillet.
rolling, a. rotating, circumrotary; undulating, hilly; voluble.
rolling, n. rotation, wheeling, circumrotation, titubation, involution.
romantic, a. imaginary, impractical, chimerical, picturesque, fanciful, fantastic.
roof timber. rafter.
room, n. space, compass, range, scope, latitude; apartment, chamber, compartment. Associated word: suite.
roomer, n. lodger.
roomy, a. spacious, capacious, commodious.
roost, n. perch.
rooster, n. cock, chanticleer; cockerel (young); capon (castrated).
root, n. rootstock, radix, taproot, spur; rootlet, radicel; tuber, bulb.
root, n. etymon, stem, radix, radical.
rooted, a. radicated; implanted, fixed, ingrained.
rooting, n. radication; burrowing; implantation.
rooting out. uprooting, eradication, extirpation.
rope, n. cordage, cable, hawser, lasso, lariat, cabestro, tether, tow; pl. shrouds, ratlines. Associated words: marline, marline spike, marling, strand, oakum, winch, windlass, lif, contline.
rope-dancer, n. funambulist, equilibrist, acrobat.
rope-dancing, n. funambulation. Associated words: funambulate, funambulatory, poy.
rope-walker, n. equilibrist.
ropy, a. stringy, tenacious, sticky.
rose, n. Associated words: attar, rodomel.
rose-colored, a. roseate, rosy; alluring.
rosedrop, n. grogblossom, rosy whelk.
rose-grower, n. rosarian.
rose rash. roseola.
rosery, n. rosarium, rosary.
rosin, n. colophony.
rostrum, n. platform, stage, dais.
rosy, a. rose-colored, roseate, ruddy, alluring.
rot, n. decomposition, decay, putrescence, corruption, putridity. Antonyms: preservation, imputrescence, incorruption, soundness.
rotary, a. turning, rotating.
rotary motion. rotation. Associated words: trochilics, trochilic.
rotate, v. revolve, turn, gyrate, whirl.
rotation, n. turning, revolution; succession.
rotten, a. decayed, putrid, putrescent, carious, corrupt, decomposed, putrefied; malodorous, fetid.
rottenness, n. putrefaction. See rot. Associated words: antiseptic, imputrescible, septic, putrescible, aseptic.
rotund, a. round, spherical, globular, orbicular.
rotundity, n. roundness, sphericity, circularity, globosity.
roué, n. rake.
rouge, n. ferric oxide, crocus; cosmetic.
rough, a. uneven, jagged, craggy, rugged, cragged, scraggy; rude, inurbane, burly, unrefined, discourteous, uncivil, blunt, bluff, brusque, austere, abrupt, gruff, boorish, uncourtly; boisterous, tumultuous, tempestuous, stormy; harsh, hard, severe, inclement, drastic, violent; harsh, grating, raucous, discordant, inharmonious; unkempt, disheveled, shaggy; incomplete, superficial, cursory, crude, uncut, unpolished, scabrous.
rough, n. bully, ruffian, rowdy.
round, a. circular, spherical, orbicular, orbed, globular, annular, discoid, rotund; cylindrical; convex, protuberant, bulging; orotund.
round, n. revolution, cycle, rotation, series, succession; rung, rundle, ranee, step; circuit, beat; bout.
roundabout, a. circuitous, indirect, tortuous; encircling, ambient, circumambient, encompassing.
roundabout language. circumlocution.
round building or room. rotunda.
roundelay, n. rondeau, rondel, round.
roundness, n. circularity, globularity, sphericity, rotundity, cylindricity, globosity, annularity, orbiculation, orotundity, convexity.
rouse, v. See arouse.
rousing, a. exciting, stirring; (Colloq.) astounding, startling.
rout, n. overthrow, defeat, discomfiture, vanquishment: clamor, tumult, uproar, din, brawl; mob, rabble.
rout, v. vanquish, defeat, scatter.
route, n. course, way, road, passage.
routine, a. custom, round, course.
rove, v. range, ramble, straggle. See wander.
rover, n. See wanderer.
row, n. (Colloq.) brawl, broil, affray, rumpus, squabble, mêlée, tumult, fracas.
row, n. rank, line, file, series.
rowdy, n. (Colloq.) ruffian, rough, bully, hoodlum, larrikin.
royal, a. kingly, regal, imperial, monarchical, palatine; august, majestic, princely.
royal mace. scepter.
royalty, n. kingship, sovereignty, regality, regency; sovereign, majesty; domain, realm.
rub, n. friction; hindrance, impediment, obstruction, pinch, difficulty; sarcasm, jeer, jibe, taunt; whetstone.
rub, v. abrade, chafe, scrape, grate, fret; embrocate; massage; graze, scour, smooth, smear, fray; burnish, furbish, polish.
rubber, n. caoutchouc, India-rubber; overshoe, galoshe, galoche; eraser. Associated words: vulcanize, vulcanization.
rubbing, n. friction, abrasion, attrition, chafing, fraying; embrocation; massage.
rubbing out. erasure, obliteration, effacement.
rubbish, n. trash, litter, lumber, refuse, debris, garbage, dross, trumpery.
rub out. erase, obliterate, expunge, efface.
rub up. burnish, scour, polish.
ruck, n. wrinkle, crease; (Colloq.) common sort.
rudder, n. Associated word: tiller.
ruddy, a. red, florid, rubicund, blowzed.
rude, a. crude, unpolished, raw, rough, indelicate, unrefined, coarse, undisciplined, uncivilized; inelegant, inartistic, artless; uncivil, discourteous, inurbane, impolite, romping, hoidenish; boisterous, turbulent, violent, inclement, tumultuous; unwrought, unfashioned.
rudiment, n. element; embryo; pl. elements, accidence.
rudimentary, n. rudimental, elementary, initial; embryonic, embryo.
rueful, a. woeful, sad, lugubrious, mournful.
ruffian, n. monster, villain, rowdy, desperado.
ruffle, n. ruff, frill, flounce, furbelow; perturbation, flurry, bustle.
ruffle, v. pucker, pleat, wrinkle; rumple, derange, disarrange, disorder; agitate, discompose, perturb, disconcert; swagger, strut.
rugged, a. irregular, rough, uneven, scraggy, cragged, craggy; inclement, tempestuous, turbulent, boisterous, wild; (Colloq.) robust, hardy, vigorous; austere, crabbed, harsh, unfeeling.
ruin, n. wreck, destruction, undoing, dilapidation, disorganization, perdition, ruination, subversion, shipwreck, downfall, havoc, demolition.
ruin, v. overthrow, subvert, destroy, wreck, ruinate, impoverish.
ruination, n. ruin.
ruinous, a. destructive.
rule, n. regulation, prescript, prescription, order, ruling; standard, criterion, touchstone, brocard; maxim, law, canon; norm; government, sway, regency, domination, authority, direction, empire, dynasty, supremacy, administration, regime.
rule, v. govern, dominate; restrain, influence, sway, prevail, dominate, preponderate, domineer.
ruler, n. governor, sovereign, monarch, president, king, potentate, dynast, lord, satrap, rajah, emir, caliph, burgrave, procurator, Pharaoh, interregent, despot, regent, dominator, arbiter, viceroy, vicegerent, autocrat, oligarch, liege lord, protector, kaiser, czar, dey, doge, mogul, pasha, bey, tetrarch, khedive, sultan, emperor.
ruling, a. regnant, reigning; predominant, dominative, dominant, prevailing.
ruling, n. government, regnancy.
rum, a. (Slang) queer, odd, old-fashioned.
ruminate, v. meditate, muse, ponder, reflect.
rumination, n. meditation.
rummage, v. ransack.
runmy, a. (Slang) strange, odd, freakish, singular.
rumor, n. hearsay, gossip, bruit, on dit.
rump, n. buttocks.
rump bone. aitchbone, edgebone, natch bone.
rumple, v. crumple, wrinkle, pucker, crease.
rumple, n. crumple, pucker, wrinkle, crease.
rumpus, n. (Colloq.) disturbance, quarrel, affray, brawl, row, fracas.
run, v. sprint, lope, scamper, scud, speed, his, hasten, scour, scuttle, flee, race, pace, gallop, trot; proceed, flow; melt, fuse; elapse, pass; pursue, follow, tag; stampede; abscond.
run, n. running, sprint, sprinting; course, series, repetition pressure, demand, importunity; generality.
run, n. brook, rill, streamlet, rivulet.
run after. pursue, follow, tag.
runagate, n. renegade, deserter, apostate, vagabond.
runaway, n. fugitive, absconder, deserter, truant, renegade.
runaway, a. fugitive, absconding, truant.
run away. flee, escape, desert, elope, abscond.
run away with. accompany.
run down. decline, deteriorate; decry, belittle, disparage, derogate.
rung, n. round, rime, rundle (of a ladder).
run into. collide.
runner, n. racer, sprinter; messenger, courier.
running, a. successive, consecutive; flowing, easy, cursive; continuous; trailing.
running after. pursuit.
running away. desertion, fleeing, absconding, elopement.
running down. decline, deterioration; decrial, disparagement.
running into. collision.
running out. expiration, extension, expatiation, extinction.
run out. expire; extend, spread; expatiate, descant; become extinct.
run over. overflow.
runround, n. (Colloq.) felon, whitlow.
runt, n. dwarf, pygmy.
run through. squander, dissipate; transfix, impale, pierce.
rupture, n. disruption, breach; hernia.
rural, a. rustic, country, countrified, pastoral, bucolic, agrestic.
ruralism, n. ruralness, rurality, rusticity.
ruralize, v. rusticate.
ruse, n. artifice, wile, trick, stratagem, maneuver, feint, dodge.
Russia, n. Associated words: Russian, russianize, Russification, russify, Russophile, Russophobia, Russophobe, Duma, vodka.
Russian peasant. muzhik, moujik.
rust, n. corrosion, ærugo, verdigris; mildew, blight, mould; pating.
rust, v. corrode; degenerate (in idleness), decline.
rustic, a. rural, country, agrestic; unpolished, countrified, uncouth, rude, rough; coarse, plain, simple, inelegant, homely; artless, unaffected.
rustic, n. countryman, farmer; boor, churl, hind, put, carl, yokel.