slap, n. cuff, buffet.--v. box, cuff, buffet.
slap, adv. (Colloq.) suddenly, violently, unceremoniously, instantly.
slap-dash, adv. (Colloq.) carelessly, at random, all at once.
slash, n. incision, gash, cut, slit.
slate, n. argillite, argillaceous schist; grapholite.--v. enroll, register.
slated, a. registered, enrolled (for an appointment).
slattern, n. draggle-tail, drab, trollop, niopsy, malkin, drabble-tail.
slatternly, a. slattern, untidy, draggle-tailed.
slaughter, n. butchery. See killing.
slaughter-house, n. abattoir, shambles.
slave, n. vassal, bond servant, bondslave, bondman, thrall, serf, captive, helot; drudge. Associated words: abolitionism, abolitionist, blackbird, maroon.
slavery, n. bondage, enslavement, servitude, inthrallment, captivity, bond service, vassalage, thralldom, subjection, helotism; drudgery.
slave warehouse. barracoon.
slavish, a. servile, menial, abject, groveling.
sleazy, a. flimsy, thin, gauzy.
sled, n. sleigh, sledge, toboggan.
sleek, adv. (Low) easily, dexterously.
sleep, v. slumber, repose; doze, drowse; lie dormant; hibernate; lodge.
sleep, n. slumber, repose; nap, doze, drowse, snooze, dozing; siesta; dormancy, lethargy; trance; sopor, coma, carus; somnipathy, somnolism; dogsleep. Associated words: hypnology, hypnotic, agrypnotic, hypnosis, hypnotism, narcotic, opiate, dwale, somniloquence, somniloquism, somnial, somniferous, hypnophobia, hypnogogic, stupefacient, mesmeric, soporific, dormitive, soporiferous, soporous, somnific, somnolent, somniloquous, antihypnotic, morphean, oversleep, morphine, narcosis, lullaby, incubation, hypnogenic, Mara, Morpheus, Hypnos, Somnus, dormitory, diurnation, cubicle, insomniac, hibernation, somnipathist, somniloquist, agrypnia, wake, awaken.
sleeper, n. slumberer; drone, sluggard; tie; joist.
sleepiness, n. drowsiness, somnolence.
sleeping, a. asleep, slumbering, dormant.
sleepless, a. wakeful, insomnious, insomnolent.
sleeplessness, n. wakefulness, insomnia, insomnolence.
sleep of plants. nyctitropism. Associated word: nyctitropic.
sleepwalker, n. somnambulist, noctambulist, somnambulator, somnambule.
sleepwalking, n. somnambulism, somnambulation, somnambulance, noctambulism, noctambulation. Associated words: somnambulate, somnambulistic, somnambular, somnambulic.
sleepy, a. drowsy, somnolent, dozy; soporiferous, somniferous, soporific, dormitive, narcotic, somnific, hypnotic; dormant, sluggish, lethargic, torpid, dull.
sleeve, n. Associated word: chevron.
sleigh, n. cutter, sled, sledge, bobsled, toboggan, jumper, pung.
sleight of hand. prestidigitation, jugglery, legerdemain, magic, conjury. Associated words: prestidigitator, juggler, conjurer, magician, legerdemamist.
slender, a. slim, slight, thin, spare, lank, spindling; delicate, feeble, fragile, frail, tenuous; trivial, inconsiderable; abstemious, frugal, spare, plain.
slice, n. chop, collop; rasher, flitch.
slick, a. sleek, sleeky, smooth.
slide, n. slip; flume, shoot, chute.
slide, v. slip, glide, lapse, elapse, skid.
slight, a. inconsiderable, trivial, insignificant, trifling, petty, paltry; desultory, cursory, superficial, indifferent.
slight, n. neglect, inattention, disregard, snub.
slight, v. overlook, neglect, disregard, ignore.
slightly, adv. somewhat; superficially, cursorily, hastily.
slim, a. thin, gaunt, poor, lank, spare, spindling, meager; slight, insufficient, inconsiderable, paltry.
slime, n. mud, mire, ooze, liman.
slimsy, a. (Colloq.) flimsy, frail, poor.
slip, v. slide, glide; err, trip; omit, lose; foist; elapse.
slip, n. lapse, error, indiscretion, transgression, peccadillo, mistake; twig, cutting, scion, shoot; escape, riddance, desertion; wrapper, covering.
slipper, n. slipshoe; (Oriental) baboosh, babouche.
slipperiness, n. smoothness, glibness, lubricity.
slippery, a. smooth, glib; inconstant, unstable; loose, incontinent, lubric.
slipshod, a. slovenly, careless, negligent.
slit, n. gash, incision.
sliver, n. splinter.
slobber, v. drivel, drool, slabber, slaver; smear, daub, defile.
slogan, n. war cry, rallying cry.
slope, n. inclination, slant, obliquity, acclivity; declivity.
sloping, a. oblique, slanting; acclivous; declivous.
slosh, n. slush, sludge.
sloth, n. sluggishness, indolence, laziness.
slothful, a. dronish, lazy, indolent, supine, sluggish, idle, inactive.
slouchy, a. slouching, ungainly, awkward.
slough, n. quagmire, bog, morass; swale; exuviae.
sloughing, n. ecdysis, exuviation.
slovenly, a. untidy, disorderly, frowzy, careless.
slow, a. deliberate, moderate, gradual; dilatory, languid, unready, phlegmatic, lingering, torpid, sluggish, slack, leisurely; (Colloq.) wearisome, dull, prosaic, uninteresting, tiresome.
slow, v. slacken, relax, moderate, delay, retard.
sluggish, a. idle, lazy, slothful; inactive, slow, inert.
slump, n. (Colloq.) depreciation.
slur, v. soil, sully; disparage, traduce, asperse; blur, mackle.
slur, n. stain, mark; innuendo, reproach, brand.
slush, n. slosh, sludge.
slut, n. bitch (femaledog); slattern, quean, malkin.
sly, a. cautious, nimble, skillful, arch, wary, knowing, shrewd, cunning, wily, artful; subtle, stealthy, clandestine, covert, surreptitious, furtive.
smack, n. taste; kiss, buss; crack, snap.
smacking, a. brisk, smart, resounding.
small, a. little, minute, diminutive, petty, slight, inconsiderable, puny, tiny, weazened, undeveloped, dwarfish, runty, wee, stunted, inappreciable, undersized, atrophied; miniature; trivial, insignificant, trifling, frivolous; mean, narrow-minded, illiberal, sordid, ungenerous, contracted; short, limited; piping, feeble, weak; microscopic, infinitesimal, molecular, corpuscular, atomic, fine; homeopathic.
smallpox, n. variola; varioloid (modified smallpox after vaccination). Associated words: vaccination, vaccine, virus, variolation, vaccinate, pock, pockmark, pockmarked, antivariolus, variolus, pocky, papule, pustule.
smart, v. sting, prick, suffer.
smart, a. acute, bright, clever, apt, brilliant, gifted, talented; precocious; vigorous, energetic, forcible; fashionable, pretentious, trim, elegant; fresh, smacking, brisk; agile, nimble, lively; pungent, poignant, intense, keen. Antonyms: dull, inapt, dowdy, tawdry.
smash, v. shiver, crush.--n. destruction, ruin, wreck; bankruptcy.
smatterer, n. sciolist, superficialist.
smattering, n. sciolism, superficial knowledge.
smear, v. besmear, daub.--n. smooch, smutch, blotch, daub.
smeary, a. dauby, sticky, viscous.
smell, n. olfaction; odor, savor, scent; (sweet smell) fragrance, aroma, perfume, redolence; (offensive smell) stink, fetor, stench. Antonyms: inodorousness, scentlessness, anosmia. Associated words: olfactory, reek, fume, perfume, inodorous, malodorous, odoriferous, odorous, osphresiology, osphretic, odorless, deodorize, deodorization, emanation, effluvium, sniff, whiff, disinfect, disinfection, unsavory, savory.
smell, v. scent; savor; stink.
smelling, n. olfaction, osmesis (Med.).
smelling salts. sal-volatile, carbonate of ammonia. Associated word: vinaigrette.
smile, n. smiling; propitiousness, favor.
smirch, n. smutch, discoloration, smooch.
smite, v. strike, buffet; blast, destroy; afflict, chasten, visit.
smithereens, n. pl. (Colloq.) atoms, fragments, smithers, splinters.
smitten, p.p. of smite. stricken; blasted; afflicted, chastened; enamored, fascinated, infatuated, captivated.
smock, n. shift, chemise, shirt, blouse.
smockfaced, a. smoothfaced, girlish, beardless.
smoke, n. fume, reek, effluvium; smudge (dense smoke). Associated words: capnomancy, flue, chimney, soot, tewel.
smoke, v. reek; fume; infumate; fumigate; suffumigate; smolder.
smoking, n. smoldering; fuming; fumigation; infumation suffumigation.
smoky, a. fumid, fumy, sooty, reeky, fumacious, fuliginous.
smooch, n. smutch, stain, smudge.
smooth, v. level, plane, sleek, flatten, planish, levigate; facilitate, pave.
smooth, a. even, plain, flat, level, abraded, levigated, slippery, sleek, glary; unruffled, placid; voluble, fluent; suave, oily, bland, insinuating, flattering, smooth-tongued. Antonyms: rough, abrupt.
smoothfaced, a. beardless, smockfaced.
smoothness, n. evenness, levelness, sleekness; volubility, fluency; suavity.
smooth over. palliate, gloze, extenuate, mitigate.
smooth-spoken, a. smooth-tongued, adulatory, plausible, glib. Antonyms: brusque, abrupt.
smother, v. suffocate, stifle; extinguish, repress, suppress; smolder.
smuggler, n. contrabandist.
smut, n. scot, dirt, smutch; mildew, blight; obscenity, lewdness, ribaldry.
smut, v. stain, blacken, sully, tarnish; crock.
smutty, a. obscene, lewd, ribald, indecent, gross.
snail, n. sluggard, drone; slug.
snake, n. serpent, reptile. See serpent.
snakestone, n. madstone; ammonite.
snaky, a. serpentine, winding; insinuating, subtle, deceitful.
snap, n. spell, period, season, interval; catch, clasp; fillip, crack, smack, fico; (Collog.) energy, briskness, vigor; (Slang) sinecure.
snappish, a. captious, irascible, testy, petulant, splenetic, cross.
snare, n. catch, wile, trap, gin, lure, decoy, trapan, toils.
snarl, v. entangle, complicate, involve, knot; confuse, enmesh, insnare; growl, gnarl. Antonyms: disentangle, unravel, extricate.
snarl, n. complication, entanglement, intricacy, knot; confusion; growl.
snarler, n. growler, grumbler, fault-finder, cynic.
snatch, v. seize, grasp, gripe, wrest, pluck, grab, twitch.
sneak, v. skulk, slink, lurk, snoop.
sneaking, a. lurking, skulking, slavish, underhand, covert, stealthy.
sneer, v. mock, gibe, scoff, flout, jeer, deride, ridicule, scout.
sneer, n. gibe, scoff, jeer, gird, derision.
sneezing, n. sternutation. Associated words: sternutative, sternutatory.
snicker, n. giggle, titter, snigger.
snide, a. (Slang) tricky, deceptive, dishonest, fraudulent.
sniff, v. snuff; scent, smell.--n. snuff, breath.
snob, n. upstart, pretender, parvenu; rat, knobstick.
snobbish, a. pretentious, assuming, overbearing, uppish.
snoring, n. Associated word: stertorous.
snot, n. snivel, mucus (from the nose).
snotty, a. snively, mean, despicable.
snout, n. nose (of a beast), muzzle, proboscis; nozzle.
snow, n. Associated words: pluviography, flurry, sleet, spoondrift, drift, flake, igloo, slush, avalanche, hyetology, meteorology, blizzard.
snowy, a. niveous, snowlike.
snub, v. slight, ignore, disregard.
snub, n. slight, check, rebuke.
snuff, n. maccaboy, rappee; sniff.
snug, a. cozy; concealed, close; comfortable, compact.
soak, v. drench, saturate; absorb, imbibe; macerate imbrue, steep.
soaked, a. drenched, saturated, sodden.
soaking, a. drenching, saturating.
soap, n. Associated words: saponify, saponification, saponifiable, saponin, lather, suds.
soapiness, n. saponacity.
soap liniment. opodeldoc.
soapstone, n. steatite.
soapy, a. saponaceous.
sob, v. weep.
sober, a. temperate, abstinent, abstemious; unintoxicated; solemn, grave, demure, sedate; dispassionate, unimpassioned, calm, rational.
sobriety, n. soberness; gravity.
sociable, a. affable, friendly, companionable, genial, social, unreserved. Antonyms: unsociable, inaffable.
social, a. civil, civic; sociable; festive, convivial.
social evil. prostitution.
socialism, n. Communism, Fourierism, Saint Simonianism, humanitarianism.
society, n. sodality, association, fraternity, club, confraternity, guild; verein (Ger.); companionship, association, fellowship, company.