seizure, n. apprehension, grasping; capture; confiscation, usurpation.
seldom, adv. infrequently, rarely.
select, v. pick out, choose, prefer, cull, single out, elect.--a. choice. Antonyms: promiscuous, indiscriminate.
selecting, a. elective, eclectic.
selection, n. choice, election, preference, pick; collection, assortment. Antonyms: promiscuity, indiscrimination.
self, n. ego, person, individual. Associated words: egoism, egoist, egoistic, egotism, egotist, egotistical.
self-abasement, n. self-degradation, humility, meekness.
self-abuse, n. masturbation, onanism, secret vice, self-pollution.
self-acting, a. automatic.
self-conceit, n. egotism, overweening, priggishness, vanity.
self-conceited, a. egotistical, vain, overweening, priggish, opinionated, bumptious, conceited.
self-consumption, n. autophagy.
self-defense, n. Associated word:: jujutsu.
self-deification, n. autotheism.
self-denial, n. self-abnegation, asceticism, self-sacrifice, abstemiousness. Antonyms: self-indulgence, sensuality, voluptuousness.
self-denying, a. self-sacrificing, unselfish, ascetic, abstemious.
self-evident, a. axiomatic, obvious.
self-examination, n. introspection; autoscopy.
self-explanatory, a. obvious.
self-fear, n. self-distrust, autophoby.
self-fertilization, n. autogamy.
self-government, n. self-control; democracy; autonomy. Antonyms: subjection, heteronomy, abandon, subordination.
self-heating, a. idiothermic.
self-importance, n. pompousness, pomposity, vanity, conceit.
self-important, a. pompous, vain, opinionated, bumptious.
selfish, a. ungenerous, narrow, illiberal, uncharitable.
self-knowledge, n. autology.
self-murderer, n. suicide, felo-de-se.
self-possessed, a. composed, unruffled, sedate, calm, collected.
self-possession, n. composure, equanimity, calmness, aplomb. Antonyms: discomposure, agitation.
self-righteous, a. pharisaic, sanctimonious.
self-sufficiency, n. self-complacency.
self-taught person. autodidact, automath.
self-worship, n. autolatry, idiolatry.
sell, v. vend, barter, exchange; betray; (Slang) deceive, impose upon, cheat.
sell, n. (Slang) imposition, cheat, hoax, deception, trick, fraud.
seller, n. vender, vendor.
selling, n. vendition, barter, vending, sale.
selvedge, n. listing.
semen, n. sperm, seed. Associated words: seminal, spermatic, spermatism, gonic, aspermatism, aspermia, seminific, seminiferous, spermatoid, spermatozoid, spermic, spermary, spermatorrhea, spermatozoa, emission, vesiculæ seminales, fecundate.
semicircle, n. hemicycle.
send, v. dispatch, commission, delegate; transmit, forward.
send back. return, remand, recommit.
sending back. return, remand, remandment, recommitment.
senile, a. decrepit, feeble, aged, infirm.
senility, n. dotage, decrepitude, old age.
seniority, n. eldership, superiority.
sensation, n. consciousness, feeling, perception; excitement. Associated words: æsthesiology, sensorium, sentient, sensific, sensory, sentiency, insentient, sensifacient, sensiferous, sensificatory, sensitive, æsthesiometer, æsthesiogen, catalepsy, anæsthesia.
sensational, a. melodramatic, emotional, exciting, thrilling.
sense, n. perception, sensation, sensibility, feeling, æsthesia; apprehension, understanding; wisdom, sagacity; judgment, notion, opinion, sentiment, view; conviction, consciousness. Associated words: æsthematology, æsthesiography, sensuous, sensual, sensuality, sensuousness.
sense, v. (Colloq.) perceive, recognize.
senseless, a. insensible, unconscious; absurd, silly, nonsensical, inept, foolish, idiotic, fatuous, unwise.
senselessness, n. insensibility, unconsciousness; fatuity, absurdity.
sensibility, n. susceptibility, sensitiveness, delicacy, feeling, emotion.
sensible, a. apprehensible, perceptible; susceptible, impressible, conscious, cognizant, aware; wise, judicious, discreet, intelligent. Antonyms: insensible, unconscious.
sensitive, a. susceptible, impressible, sentient, irritable.
sensual, a. unspiritual, carnal, fleshly, sensuous; voluptuous, luxurious, sybaritic, wanton, licentious, self-indulgent.
sensualist, n. voluptuary, epicure, sybarite.
sensuality, n. voluptuousness, carnality, sybaritism; wantonness, licentiousness, self-gratification.
sensuous, a. sensual. Antonym: insensuous.
sentence, n. opinion, decision, determination, judgment; axiom, maxim, precept, posy, adage, epigram, apothegm, saying.
sententious, a. terse, pithy, laconic, epigrammatic.
sentient, a. sensitive, perceptive, conscious, susceptible. Antonyms: insentient, insusceptible.
sentiment, n. thought, feeling; judgment, notion, opinion; maxim, saying, toast; sensibility, susceptibility.
sentimental, a. romantic, impressible, emotional, lackadaisical. Antonyms: unsentimental, matter-of-fact, pragmatical.
sentinel, n. guard, sentry, watchman, picket, vidette, perdue. Associated word: cordon.
separable, a. divisible, detachable, severable, partible. Antonym: inseparable.
separate, v. divide, dissolve, detach, sunder, sever, disconnect, part, disjoin, withdraw, rend, dissociate, disengage, isolate, disunite, eliminate, disintegrate, segregate, scatter, disperse, dissipate, sequester, cleave, insulate, dissever, deglutinate.
separate, a. detached, disconnected, disjoined, separated, apart, distinct, isolated, segregated, disunited, severed, withdrawn.
separation, n. division, segregation, disunion, disconnection, sequestration, disjunction, dissolution, disengagement, disintegration, insulation, isolation, rupture, dissociation, divorce, analysis, decomposition, detachment, demarcation, severance, partition, deglutination.
separatist, n. nonconformist, dissenter, sectary, schismatic.
sequel, n. continuation, conclusion, consequence, result, outcome.
sequence, n. succession, series, following; result, sequel, consequence.
sequestered, a. secluded.
serenade, n. nocturne; (burlesque) charivari, callithump.
serene, a. calm, placid, composed, tranquil, unruffled, unclouded.
serenity, n. calmness, composure, tranquillity; cloudlessness, clearness.
serf, n. bondman, thrall, slave, bond servant, villein.
serfdom, n. thralldom, slavery, subjection, bondage, servitude.
serious, a. grave, earnest, thoughtful, solemn, staid, sober, demure, saturnine; momentous, important, weighty, grave; dangerous, alarming, critical.
seriousness, n. gravity. Antonyms: levity, frivolity, triviality.
sermon, n. homily, exhortation (religious), discourse. Associated words: homiletics, homiletic, homilist.
serpent, n. snake, reptile, ophidian; basilisk, cockatrice, amphisbæna. Associated words: ophiology, ophiolatry, ophiophagous, ophiography, herpetology, ophidian, ophiologic, ophiomorphous, herpetologist, herpetotomy, herpetotomist, ophiologist, ophiomancy, echidna, echidnine, fang, uræus, serpentry, reptilian, anguiform, anguine.
serpentine, a. serpentlike, subtle, sinuous, winding, zigzag, tortuous.
servant, n. dependent, subaltern, subordinate, helper, servitor, attendant, retainer; domestic, maid, menial, drudge, valet, flunky, groom, coistril, lackey, underling, fag, coolie, butler, factotum, orderly, soubrette, equerry.
serve, v. attend, wait upon; promote, advance, contribute, conduce to; subserve; treat, requite; satisfy, suffice, content, answer, do; deal, distribute.
service, n. labor, employment, office, duty, business, function, ministry; ritual, ceremony, rite; advantage, benefit, avail, use, utility; homage, obeisance.
servile, a. slavish, abject, cringing, groveling, obsequious; dependent, enslaved.
servitude, n. bondage, enslavement.
set, v. place, put, fix, establish, locate, station; adjust, regulate, adapt; oppose, obstruct; appoint, assign.
set, a. fixed, immovable, rigid, firm, obstinate, inflexible, unyielding; regular, uniform, established, prescribed, ordained, appointed.
set, n. clique, group, class, party, coterie, circle, band, company.
set aside. displace, supersede.
setback, n. (Colloq.) backset, check, repulse, reverse, relapse.
set-off, n. offset; counterclaim, equivalent.
set-out, n. display, equipage, rig, turnout; (Colloq.) preparations.
settle, v. fix, establish; ordain, install; adjust, determine, decide; sink, subside, fall; precipitate; quiet, calm, pacify, tranquillize; colonize, people.
settlement, n. establishment; ordination, installation; colonization, colony; adjustment; subsidence.
settler, n. pioneer, colonist.
settlings, n. pl. sediment, dregs, lees, precipitate, grounds, feculence; foots.
set-to, n. (Colloq.) contest, conflict, encounter, combat, fight, scrimmage.
seven, n. heptade. Associated words: septenary, septuple, septette, septenate, septemvirate, septemvir, heptarchy.
sevenfold, a. septuple.
seven languages. Associated word: heptaglot.
seven-sided, a. heptagonal, septilateral.
seven-sided figure. heptagon, heptahedron.
seventy, n. Associated words: septuagenary, septuagesimal, Septuagint.
seventy years. Associated words: septuagenarian, septuagenary.
seven years. septennate. Associated words: septennial, septennially, septenary.
sever, v. part, divide, disunite, separate, disjoin, detach, disconnect.
several, a. various, diverse, manifold, divers, sundry.
severe, a. drastic, harsh, stern, rigorous, exact, cruel; serious, sedate, grave, austere, sober; distressing, afflictive, sharp, acute, violent, intense; inexorable, stern, exacting, peremptory, unrelenting, unmerciful; plain, austere, unembellished, unadorned; methodical, strict, precise, exact.
severity, n. rigor, rigorousness, harshness, exactness, cruelty; seriousness, gravity; violence, intensity, acuteness; austerity, simplicity, plainness; exactness, strictness, preciseness.
sew, v. stitch; baste.
sewer, n. Associated words: sewerage, sewage.
sewing woman. seamstress.
sex, n. Associated words: sexual, gender, bisexual, unisexual, epicene, hermaphrodite, hermaphroditism, androgyne, androgyny, gonad.
sexless, a. asexual, agamous.
sexton, n. janitor (of a church), sacristan, sacrist.
sexual desire. lust, venereal appetite, sexual appetite, carnal appetite, lasciviousness, venery, concupiscence, salacity, salaciousness, aphrodisia; satyriasis (immoderate); nymphomania (morbid in women); (of animals) œstrus, rut, heat, œstruation. Antonym: anaphrodisia. Associated words: aphrodisiac, antaphrodisiac, anaphrodisiac, aphrodisiacal, amative, amativeness, amorous, amorousness, amatory, antiorgastic, philter, œstrual, sedative, erotic, erotomania, sadism, satyromaniac.
sexual intercourse. coition, copulation, venery, sexual conjunction; (illicit) fornication, bawdry; prostitution, putage; adultery; incest; rape; (unnatural) sodomy, buggery, pederasty; (of birds) tread. Antonyms: continence, chastity, virginity. Associated words: venereal, incontinence, incontinent, unchastity, copulatory, gonorrhea, clap, syphilis, cenogamy, infibulation, intromittent, access, nonaccess, orgasm, fecundation, impregnate, impregnation, copulate, lecher, lechery, lecherous, libertine, libertinism, house of assignation, bawd, procurer, bawdry, pander, catamite.
sexual love. venery, amorousness, amativeness.
sexual organs. genitals, privates, private parts, organs of generation, pudenda, virilia; (male) penis, testicles; (female external) vulva, pudendum; (internal) womb, uterus, ovaries, vagina, clitoris. Associated words: agamic, agamous, protandric, protandrism, nympha, maidenhead, pudic, pubes, spermatheca, gonad, masturbation, infibulation.
sexual power. virility; fecundity. Associated word: emasculate.
sexual weakness. (male) impotency, sexual debility, invirility, emasculation, eviration; (female) sterility, defemination, infecundity.
shabby, a. seedy, threadbare, tacky (Colloq.); mean, despicable, scurvy, contemptible.
shack, n. (Colloq.) vagabond, tramp, loafer; hut, shanty, hovel, cabin.
shackle, n. handcuff, manacle, fetter.
shackle, v. manacle, hamper, fetter; impede, trammel.
shade, n. umbrage, shadow; pl. darkness, obscurity, gloom, shadows; retreat, seclusion; screen, protection, curtain, awning, blind; spirit, ghost, specter, phantom, manes; minute difference, variation, nuance.
shade, v. screen; obscure, dim, obfuscate, cloud, darken, eclipse.
shadow, n. shade, darkness, penumbra, adumbration; prefiguration. Associated words: sciagraphy, sciomachy, periscian, silhouette, sciomancy.
shadow, v. shade, screen; adumbrate, typify, symbolize; cloud, obscure.
shadowy, a. unsubstantial, visionary, illusory, chimerical.
shady, a. umbrageous, shadowy, umbriferous; sheltered, screened; (Colloq.) equivocal, questionable, corrupt.
shaft, n. arrow, spear, missile; column, obelisk; handle, helve; spire, pinnacle; pole, tongue, thill; axis.
shake, v. agitate, jar, jolt, convulse, concuss, jounce, dodder, tremble, trill, shiver, totter, joggle, jiggle, wave, vibrate, shudder.