shake, n. jar, shivering, jolt, shaking, shudder.
shaking, n. concussion, agitation, disturbance, trembling, convulsion.
shaky, a. trembling, shaking; (Colloq.) unsound, tottering.
shallow, a. shoal; superficial, frivolous, senseless.
sham, n. pretense, feint, delusion, imposition, mockery, fraud, imitation, dissimulation, simulation.
sham, a. counterfeit, spurious, pretended, dummy, unreal false, mock, simulated.
sham, v. feign, pretend, imitate, personate, dissimulate.
shame, n. ignominy, dishonor, reproach, derision, contempt discredit, opprobrium, scandal, disgrace, obloquy; mortification, abashment, humiliation, discomfiture; modesty, decency.
shame, v. humiliate, mortify, disconcert; disgrace, degrade; mock, deride, ridicule.
shamefaced, a. bashful, diffident, modest.
shameful, a. indecent, immodest, obscene; scandalous, disgraceful, reproachful, ignominious, infamous, flagitious, disreputable, vile, opprobrious.
shameless, a. immodest, unabashed, indelicate, indecent, unblushing, audacious, brazen-faced, abandoned, graceless.
shammy, n. chamois.
shape, v. form, mould, fashion, frame; adjust, regulate, design, plan, arrange.
shape, n. form, figure, guise, appearance.
shapeless, a. misshapen, unsymmetrical, unshapely, formless, amorphous.
shapely, a. symmetrical, well-formed, comely, well-proportioned.
share, v. apportion, divide; partake, participate in.
share, n. portion, allotment, quota, dole, proportion, contingent, dividend.
sharer, n. participator, partaker; divider, distributor.
shark, n. (Colloq.) sharper, trickster, cheat, swindler; fraud, trickery.
sharp, a. pointed, trenchant, incisive, keen; poignant, piercing, acute, penetrating, severe, excruciating, intense, subtile, violent; biting, sarcastic, acrimonious, acrid, cutting; sagacious, clever, perspicacious, ingenious, bright, discerning, resourceful, astute, shrewd, apt, smart, long-headed, acuminous; fierce, fiery, unquenchable, eager; exacting, close; steep, abrupt, precipitous; pungent, piquant peppery, high-seasoned: shrill, piercing; peaked, ridged.
sharpen, v. intensify, aggravate, quicken; hone, grind, point, whet.
sharpening stone. whetstone, hone, oilstone, grindstone, abradant.
sharper, n. trickster, swindler, knave, cheat, extortioner, blackleg.
sharpness, n. keenness, poignancy, acuity, acuteness, edge; asperity, acrimony, impatience; acumen, sagacity, shrewdness, astuteness, aptness; pungency, piquancy.
sharp practice. trickery, chicanery.
sharp-sighted, a. eagle-eyed, acute, perspicacious, argus-eyed.
shatter, v. shiver, demolish; disorder, derange.
shave, n. shaving; spokeshave, drawshave.
sheath, n. case, scabbard; covering.
shed, v. diffuse, emit, radiate, spread; cast, exuviate, moult, mew, discard; doff.
shed, n. outhouse, lean-to, shack, shanty.
shedding, n. (skins, shells, etc.) exuviation, ecdysis, moulting.
she-devil, n. Jezebel, fury, virago, termagant.
sheen, n. shine, luster, gloss, brightness, splendor.
sheep, n. Ovis, Ovis aries; (male) ram, buck; (female) ewe; (young) lamb, eanling; (castrated ram) wether; (leader of the flock) bellwether; hoggerel, hogget. Associated words: bleat, braxy, gid, mutton, flock, ovine, shepherd, shepherdess, cosset, raddle, yean, ean, lowbell, abigeat, sheepcote, fold.
sheep-dog, n. collie, shepherd dog.
sheepish, a. bashful, shy, over-modest.
sheepskin, n. sheep-pelt, pelt, woolfell; roan; (Cant) diploma. Associated words: fellmonger, woolpuller, skiver, budge.
sheer, a. thin; unadulterated, pure, unmixed; precipitous, abrupt, perpendicular.
shelf, n. mantel, mantelpiece; bracket, console; ledge, shallow, shoal; banquette.
shell, n. shuck, putamen; test, testa, episperm, spermoderm. Associated words: scleroid, enucleate, enucleation, inenucleable.
shell, n. armature, case, exoskeleton, shale; carapace, plastron; cockle, conch, periwinkle, cowrie, whelk, mitre shell, abilone shell; exuviae (cast-off); conchite (fossil). Associated words: conchology, conchologist, malacology, testaceous, cockled, mollusk, conchiferous, conchiform conchometer, conchometry, crustacean, exuvial, exuviate, exuviation, Loricata, bivalve, multivalve, univalve.
shell, n. framework; bomb, torpedo, shrapnel, grenade.
shell, v. hull, shuck, shale, enucleate; bombard, besiege.
shellfish, n. pl. Mollusks, Mollusca, Testacea.
shell money. wampum, hiagua, peag, colcol, kopkops, seawan, suckanhock.
shelter, n. protection, screen, cover, shield, defense, covert, security, lee; asylum, refuge, retreat, haven, sanctuary.
shelter, v. shield, protect, defend, screen, ensconce, cover. Antonym: expose.
sheltered, a. protected, covert.
shepherd, n. pastor, pastoralist. Associated words: bucolic, pastoral, staff, crook.
shibboleth, n. watchword, party cry.
shield, n. ægis, buckler, escutcheon, scutcheon, pavise, scutum; defense, protection, palladium, bulwark, safeguard. Associated words: scutal, bouche.
shield, v. defend, protect, safeguard; ward off, repel.
shield-shaped, a. thyroid.
shift, v. veer, change, turn; quirk, quibble, palter; change, substitute.
shift, n. subterfuge, device, contrivance, evasion, stratagem, trick, dodge; resource, expedient, change, substitution; chemise.
shifting, a. unstable, variable, changeable.
shiftless, a. improvident, unthrifty, thriftless, wasteful. Antonyms: thrifty, industrious.
shilly-shally, adv. irresolutely, hesitatingly.
shilly-shally, n. hesitation, irresolution, indecision, vacillation, wavering, trifling, evasion, dalliance.
shilly-shally, v. hesitate, waver, trifle, dally, vacillate, dodge, be irresolute.
shin, n. shank.
shindy, n. (Slang) uproar, disturbance, riot, row; hockey; liking, fancy.
shine, v. beam, radiate, gleam, irradiate, glisten, glow, glitter, flare, glare; excel, surpass; polish.
shine, n. luster, polish, gloss, sheen, radiance, resplendence, brilliancy, lucency, glaze.
shine, n. (Slang) liking, fancy; caper, antic, dido.
shining, a. radiant, beaming, lustrous, luminous, glowing, brilliant, lucent, bright, sleek, glazed, glistening, splendent, resplendent, glossy, shiny; conspicuous, noticeable.
shining between. interlucent.
shining round. circumfulgent.
ship, n. vessel. Associated words: barratry, hypothecate, hypothecation.
ship, v. transport; deport; (Colloq.) dismiss, send away.
shipbuilder, n. shipwright.
shipment, n. shipping, transportation; consignment.
ship mortgage. bottomry, hypothecation.
shipping, n. shipment, transportation; navigation.
shipwreck, n. wreckage; disaster, destruction, ruin, subversion, miscarriage. Associated words: salvage, flotsam, jetsam, derelict, jettison.
shipwrecked person. castaway.
shirk, v. avoid, evade, neglect.
shirt, n. smock, chemise, shift, tunic, camise.
shiver, n. splinter, sliver; shivering, tremor, horripilation.
shoal, n. shallow, sandbank, bar.--a. shallow.
shock, v. dismay, horrify, appall, terrify, frighten; stook; astound, stun, paralyze, scandalize, outrage, offend.
shock, n. impact, blow, collision, concussion, onset, brunt, clash, percussion; stroke, blow; stook, hattock.
shocking, a. scandalous, appalling, offensive, outrageous, heinous, dire.
shod, p.p. and a. calced, calceated.
shoddy, a. (Colloq.) sham, spurious, mock.
shoddy, n. rag wool, mungo.
shoe, n. boot, balmoral, Goodyear welt, clog, sock, buskin, sandal, slipper, creedmore, Creole, stogy, chopine, brogan, blucher, bottine, moccasin, oxford, sabot, pump, cracowes, poulaine, racket.
shoemaker, n. crispin, cordwainer (Archaic).
shoe mender. cobbler.
shoe mending. cobbling.
shoestring, n. shoelace, latchet.
shoot, n. chute, shute, flume, channel.
shoot, n. tiller, sucker, sprout, offshoot, chit, twig, scion.
shoot, v. discharge, fire; eject, hurl, emit, ejaculate; protrude, project, extend, jut; germinate, sprout; penetrate, dart; fusillade; tiller.
shooting, a. darting, piercing.
shop, n. workshop, factory; store; warehouse; atelier, studio.
shore, n. beach, coast, strand, marge. Associated words: littoral, circumlittoral, limicoline, shingle, beached.
shore, v. prop, brace, buttress, support, stay.
shorn, a. sheared, clipped; divested, deprived, fleeced.
short, a. brief, contracted, terse, concise, condensed, sententious, laconic, succinct, summary, epigrammatic, pithy; limited, inadequate, insufficient, deficient, scanty; abrupt, curt, uncivil; lacking, shy, unsupplied; crisp, friable, brittle. Antonyms: diffuse, prolix, long.
shortage, n. deficiency, insufficiency, inadequacy, deficit, ullage. Antonyms: See surplus.
short-billed, a. brevirostral, brevirostrate.
shortcoming, n. defect, imperfection, fault, foible, failure.
shorten, v. abridge, abbreviate, curtail, reduce, epitomize, contract, retrench, condense, diminish; limit, restrict, restrain, confine, circumscribe; dock, lop.
shortening, n. abbreviation, abridgment, contraction, curtailment, reduction, retrenchment.
shorthand, n. phonography, stenography.
short-headed, a. brachycephalous.
short-legged, a. breviped.
short-lived, a. ephemeral, mushroom, transitory.
shortness, n. brevity, briefness, conciseness, laconism, inadequacy, deficiency, insufficiency, shortage, deficit.
short-sighted, a. myopic, near-sighted; unwise, impudent, indiscreet.
short-sightedness, n. myopia, near-sightedness; unwisdom, imprudence, indiscretion.
short-sighted person. myope.
short-winged, a. brevipennate.
shot, n. discharge; projectile, bullet, ball; marksman; range, reach.
shoulder, n. Associated words: epaulet, shrug, espauliere, scapular, scapulary, baldric, infrascapular, omagra.
shoulder, v. jostle, push; assume, bear.
shoulder blade. scapula, omoplate.
shout, n. vociferation, halloo, outcry, call, hoot, clamor, acclamation.
shout, v. vociferate, yell, halloo, call, clamor, acclaim.
show, n. exposure, exhibition, exposition, demonstration, representation; display, spectacle, ostentation, parade, pomp, flourish, splurge, pageantry, splendor: appearance, semblance; pretense, puppetry, speciousness, simulation.
show, v. exhibit, present, display, uncover, reveal, disclose, manifest, divulge, evince, proclaim; direct, guide, usher, conduct; demonstrate, explain, expound, exemplify; indicate, signify.
showing, n. demonstration, exhibition, presentation, revelation, disclosure, exposition, manifestation; direction, guidance, ushering; explanation, expounding, illustration, interpretation, indication, exemplification. Associated words: ostensive, ostensible, exhibiting, expository.
showy, a. spectacular, pageant, ostentatious, pompous; garish, gaudy, meretricious, gorgeous, flashy, bedizened, gay, conspicuous, tinsel. Antonyms: inconspicuous, modest, unostentatious, quiet, subdued.
shred, n. fragment, tatter, rag, strip, frazzle.
shrew, n. scold, brawler, termagant, vixen, virago, Xantippe.
shrewd, a. astute, sharp; cunning, crafty, wily, artful, long-headed.
shrewdness, n. acumen, astuteness, sharpness, long-headedness.