shriek, n. screech, yell, scream.
shrill, a. piercing, acute, strident.
shrink, v. contract, shrivel, decrease, dwindle; flinch, recoil, blench, wince, winch.
shrinkage, n. contraction; (Colloq.) depreciation.
shrinking, a. coy, shy, diffident, bashful, modest, retiring.
shroud, n. winding-sheet, grave-clothes, cerements.
shroud, v. mask, screen, cloak, conceal.
shrub, n. bush; pl. shrubbery, thicket, boscage, bosket.
shuck, n. shell, husk, pod, shale.--v. shell, enucleate.
shudder, n. tremor.--v. tremble, shake, shiver, quake.
shuffle, v. jumble, intermix; equivocate, prevaricate, quibble, shift; shamble.
shuffle, n. artifice, evasion, prevarication, trick, sophism, ruse.
shun, v. avoid, elude, evade, eschew.
shut, v. close; debar, exclude, preclude; (shut up) confine, imprison, coop up, incarcerate, immure.
shy, a. timid, coy, backward, retiring, diffident, wary, cautious; (Slang) short, lacking.
shyness, n. diffidence, coyness, timidity, bashfulness.
shyster, n. (Slang) knave, impostor, rogue, cheat.
sick, a. ill, unwell, ailing, indisposed, diseased, morbid; nauseated, queasy, squeamish, qualmish; disgusted, surfeited, weary, palled, satiated.
sick, v. sick on, incite, urge.
sicken, v. nauseate, disgust, pall, surfeit, decay, languish.
sickening, a. nauseating, disgusting, fulsome, nauseous, revolting.
sickle-shaped, a. falcate, falcated.
sickly, a. invalid, unwell, unhealthy, ailing; unwholesome; pale, languid, haggard, puny, peaked.
sickness, n. illness, malady, ailment, complaint, disorder, distemper, morbidity, indisposition, invalidism, disease. Associated words: morbidity, morbific, malinger, malingerer, malingery, decumbiture, convalescent, convalescence, relapse, malaise, clinic.
sickness of stomach. nausea, qualm, qualmishness.
side, n. flank; faction, sect, party. Associated words: lateral, laterality, laterally, collateral, bilateral, equilateral, quadrilateral, longilateral, lopsided, multilateral, perimeter, ambidexter, ambidextrous, ambidexterity.
side, a. lateral, collateral, incidental.
side by side. in apposition. Associated words: apposition, juxtaposition, juxtapose, juxtaposit.
side dish. entrée, entremets.
sidehill, n. descent, declivity, decline, slope.
sidelong, a. lateral, oblique.
sidesman, n. partisan.
sidetrack, v. shunt; (Colloq.) switch off, divert.
sideways, adv.. sidewise, askance, obliquely, laterally.
sidewise, adv. sideways, askance.
siding, n. sidetrack, turnout; clapboards, weatherboarding.
siege, n. investment, blockade, besiegement. Associated words: obsidional, besiege, beleaguer, obsess, obsession, beset.
Siena marble. brocatel.
sieve, n. strainer, sifter, bolt, bolter, riddle, tammis, tammy.
sievelike, a. cribrate, cribrose, cribriform.
sift, v. bolt, cribble, riddle; investigate.
sifting, n. bolting; (Pharm.) cribration; investigation.
sigh, n. suspiration.--v. suspire.
sight, n. vision; seeing, view, perception; visibility; spectacle, phenomenon, panorama, vista, gapeseed, cynosure; (Colloq.) great number, many, multitude, great quantity. Associated words: optics, optical, optic, ocular, optician, caligo, astigmatism, perimeter, perimetry, amaurosis, visual, visualize, apparition.
sightly, a. comely, attractive, handsome.
sign, n. omen, auspice, portent, prodigy, prognostic, augury, foretoken, presage; mark, token, indication, symptom, index, emblem, symbol; trace, vestige, ensign, signal, beacon; gesture, motion; signature. Associated words: ominous, portentous, augurial, semeiology, semeiological, sematology, semiotic, semeiography.
sign, v. signify, mark, indicate, betoken; subscribe.
signal, n. sign, ensign, beacon. Associated word: pharology.
signal, a. memorable, remarkable, noticeable, notable.
signature, n. autograph, sign-manual. Associated word: signatory.
signer, n. subscriber, signatory.
significance, n. meaning, import; consequence, importance, force.
significant, a. momentous, important; indicative, significative. Antonyms: insignificant, unimportant, meaningless.
signification, n. meaning, import, acceptation, sense.
signify, v. indicate, betoken, denote; mean; matter.
silence, n. stillness, quietness; taciturnity, muteness, reserve; secrecy.
silence, v. still, hush, quiet, suppress, lull, quell, appease.
silent, a. still, quiet, noiseless, inaudible; taciturn, reserved, mute; quiescent.
silkworms, n. pl. Associated words: sericulture, mulberry, cocoon, filature, cocoonery, bombic, bombyx, filator, muscardine.
silky, a. sericeous, silken.
sill, n. threshold; window sill.
silliness, n. folly, foolishness, puerility, stupidity, inanity, inaneness, absurdity, senselessness, ineptitude.
silly, a. witless, foolish, simple, fatuous, imbecile, half-witted; stupid, unwise, inept, absurd, inane, nonsensical, senseless, puerile.
silver, n. argentum; bullion (uncoined silver). Associated words: filigree, platinum, desilverize, desilverization, patio, vermeil, fulguration, silversmith.
silvery, a. silver, argent, argentine, argentous, argentiferous.
similar, a. like, corresponding, resembling, homogeneous, analogous.
similarity, n. analogy, homogeneity, likeness, similitude, correspondence.
simile, n. comparison, metaphor.
simoon, n. desert wind, khamsin, samiel.
simper, n. smirk.
simple, a. incomplex, uncompounded, single, elementary, uncombined, mere; plain, unaffected, artless, naïve, unsophisticated; credulous, gullible, silly, oafish. Antonyms: complex, complicated, intricate, artful, crafty, elaborate.
simpleton, n. dolt, dunce, numskull, lackbrain, oaf, witling, fool.
simulation, n. pretense, feint, feigning, affectation.
simultaneous, a. contemporaneous, synchronal, synchronous.
sin, n. iniquity, transgression, wickedness, delinquency, peccadillo, offense, peccancy, unrighteousness. Associated words: ponerology, hamartiology, peccable, peccability, peccant, peccavi, impeccable, impeccability.
sin, v. do wrong, trespass, transgress.
sincere, a. heartfelt, genuine, unfeigned, undissembling. Antonyms: See insincere.
sincerity, n. honesty, unaffectedness, frankness. Antonyms: insincerity, dissimulation.
sinew, n. tendon; muscle, thew.
sinful, a. iniquitous, wrong, immoral, wicked, depraved, vicious, unrighteous.
sinfulness, n. iniquity, immorality, depravity, wickedness.
sing, v. carol, warble, chant, hymn, hum, troll, yodel, croon.
singe, v. sweal, swale, scorch.
singer, n. vocalist, songster, songstress, minstrel, chanter, cantatrice, cantor, prima donna, precentor, bard, troubadour, jongleur, musician.
single, a. individual, alone, particular, isolated, sporadic, solitary; unmarried, celibate; simple, unmixed; honest, sincere, ingenuous, frank.
single, v. single out, choose, select, separate, isolate, segregate.
single-hearted, a. sincere, honest, guileless.
single-minded, a. artless, undesigning, guileless.
singsong, n. monotone.--a. monotonous, drawling.
singular, a. unusual, unconventional, uncommon, strange, peculiar, unwonted, rare, extraordinary, exceptional, odd, whimsical, eccentric, bizarre, queer, unique, unprecedented, unexampled, curious.
singularity, n. peculiarity, idiosyncrasy, individuality; curiosity, freak, abnormality, rarity, abnormity, queerness, eccentricity.
sinister, a. left; unlucky, inauspicious, evil, wrong, forbidding.
sink, v. subside, descend, decline, fall; immerse, submerge, engulf, merge.
sinker, n. plummet.
sinking, n. subsidence, fall, decrease, decline.
sinless, a. innocent, guiltless, undefiled, perfect, blameless, faultless.
sinner, n. wrong-doer, delinquent, miscreant, trespasser. See wrong-doer.
siren, a. bewitching, fascinating, enticing.
sister, n. Associated words: sororicide, sororize, sorosis, sororal.
site, n. location.
sitting, n. Associated words: sedentary, assession, astasia.
situation, n. position, place, post, employment, job, location, site, station, position; circumstance, condition, plight, predicament, exigency.
sitz bath. hip bath.
six, n. Associated words: sexenary, hexaplar, sextant, sextuple, sextet, sestet, sextic, senary.
six-cornered, a. hexangular, hexagonal.
six days. hexahemeron.
six fingers or toes. Associated words: sexidigitism, sexidigitist.
sixfold, a. sextuple.
six-footed, a. hexapod.
six months. semester. Associated words: half-yearly, semi-annual, bi-annual, semestral.
six-sided, a. cubic, hexahedral, hexagonal.
six-sided body. cube, hexahedron.
six-sided figure. hexagon.
sixty, n. Associated words: sexagenary, sexagesimal.
sixty years. Associated words: sexagenarian, sexagenary.
six years. Associated words: sexennial, sexennially.
size, n. magnitude, volume, dimensions, amplitude, bulk, extent, bigness.
skedaddle, v. (Slang) run away, flee, decamp, scuttle, scamper, scurry.
skeptic, n. unbeliever, infidel.
skeptical, a. doubtful, disbelieving, incredulous. Antonym: credulous.
skepticism, n. doubt, incredulity, infidelity; Pyrrhonism. Antonym: credulity.
sketch, n. draught, outline, plan, drawing, design, scenario, esquisse.
sketch, v. draught, portray, draw, depict, delineate.
skill, n. adroitness, ingenuity, cleverness, technic, dexterity, proficiency, expertness, facility, deftness, knack. Antonyms: maladroitness, empiricism, quackery, inexpertness, clumsiness.
skillful, a. skilled, expert, adroit, dexterous, adept, masterly, proficient, deft, able, efficient, competent, accomplished. Antonyms: unskillful, empirical, maladroit.
skimp, v. (Colloq.) scamp, slight, scrimp, save.
skimpy, a. (Colloq.) scant, skimp.
skin, n. integument, tegument, derm; epidermis, cuticle, scarfskin; true skin, dermis, derma, cutis; membrane, epithelium, ecteron, enderon, ecderon; pelt, pell, pelage, peltry; hide, kip; husk, hull, glume; (of fruit) peel, peeling, rind, paring, epicarp; pellicle, film; episperm, testa, tegmen; slough, exuviae (cast-off-skin); parchment, vellum. Antonyms: pulp, flesh. Associated words: dermatology, dermatologist, dermic, dermatic, dermal, cutaneous, dermatitis, dermatography, dermatoid, smegma, caul, dermatopathic, dermoplastic, dermoplasty, hypodermic, subcutaneous, dermatopathy, exuviate, exuviation, desquamate, desquamation, slough, dermatophyte, dermostosis, cuticular, epidermal, apellous, abrasion, emphractic, excoriation.
skin, v. flay, excoriate; pare, peel; (Slang) cheat, defraud, fleece.
skin-deep, a. superficial.
skinflint, n. miser, niggard, curmudgeon, scrimp, screw.
skinny, a. emaciated, gaunt, rawboned, poor.
skip, v. omit, pass, disregard; caper, gambol, jump, leap; ricochet.
skip, n. omission; gambol, caper, hop, leap; ricochet.
skipper, n. sea-captain; cheese maggot.
skirt, n. petticoat (underskirt); kilt; fustanella; kirtle; margin, border, edge, rim.
skirt opening. placket.
skit, n. reflection, jeer, gibe, satire, squib.
skittish, a. timorous, shy; volatile, restless, wanton.
skulk, v. sneak, slink, lurk.
skull, n. cranium; death's-head. Associated words: cranial, acrania, acranial, craniology, phrenology, trepan, trephine, fontanel, sphenoid, cephalism, parietes, parietal, crossbones, occiput, frontal, sinciput.
skullcap, a. calotte.
sky, n. firmament, welkin, empyrean, azure, the heavens. Associated words: meridian, zenith, nadir, horizon, uranology, uranography, zodiac.
sky-blue, a. azure, cerulean.
skyey, a. ethereal.
slack, a. lax, loose, relaxed; remiss, negligent, careless, shiftless; inactive, slow.
slacken, v. moderate, retard, slack, reduce; loosen, relax; diminish, abate, mitigate; slake; relax, flag.
slackness, n. looseness, laxity, negligence, remissness, carelessness, shiftlessness; relaxation, diminution.
slag, n. scoria, cinders, recrement, dross, refuse.
slake, v. quench; slack; abate, decrease, allay.
slam-bang, adv. (Collog.) violently, forcibly, noisily, loudly.
slander, v. malign, defame, traduce, asperse, vilify, calumniate, backbite, scandalize, libel.
slander, n. defamation, calumny, aspersion, libel, vilification, scandal, abuse, traducement, backbiting, roorback, vituperation.
slanderous, a. defamatory, malicious, vituperative, calumnious, libellous.
slant, n. slope, incline, inclination, obliquity.--v. slope, incline.
slanting, a. sloping, oblique, slant.--n. obliquity, inclination, tilt.