sockdologer, n. (Slang) poser, facer, settler, conclusive answer.
sod, n. sward, turf; peat.
sodden, a. boiled, seethed; soaked, saturated.
sofa, n. tête-à-tête, divan, causeuse.
soft, a. mellow; yielding, impressible, impressionable, malleable, fictile, plastic, pliable; bland, emollient, grateful, delicate, subdued; flexible, flaccid, facile, compliant, irresolute; conciliatory, mild; effeminate, unmanly silly, foolish; queachy.
soft coal. bituminous coal.
soften, v. intenerate, mollify; palliate, extenuate, qualify, modify, relax, mitigate, emolliate, appease, temper, abate; subdue, tone down.
softening, a. demulcent, lenient, assuasive, emollient, relaxing, mollient, mollifying.
softness, n. mellowness, impressibility, plasticity, flaccidity, fictility, emollescence.
soft parts of the body. Associated word: sarcology.
soft soap. (Colloq.) blandishment, blarney, palaver, buncombe, wheedling, cajolery, flattery.
soil, n. ground, earth, dirt, humus, land, loam, mold; dirt, pollution, defilement; manure, dung, fæces, excrement.
soil, v. dirty, defile, pollute, besmear, contaminate, taint, besmirch, sully, tarnish, begrime.
soldier, n. warrior; private; cadet; recruit; veteran; cavalry; infantry; cohort; sepoy; chasseur; zouave; volunteer; conscript; myrmidon; cossack; guerrilla; trooper; skirmisher; grenadier; uhlan; dragoon.
soldierly, a. martial, military.
soldier's dress. uniform, regimentals.
solecism, n. blunder, impropriety, barbarism.
solemn, a. serious, sober, grave; impressive, awe-inspiring, august, majestic.
solemness, n. solemnity, gravity, impressiveness, seriousness.
solicit, v. ask, seek, request.
solicitation, n. request, instance, entreaty, invitation.
solid, a. dense, compact, hard, impenetrable, firm, unyielding, imporous, concrete, substantial; unanimous, united, undivided. Antonyms: porous, incompact, hollow, spongy, soft, plastic, unstable, fallacious.
solidness, n. solidity, firmness, compactness, stability, imporosity; validity.
soliloquy, n. monologue.
solitary, a. unfrequented, secluded, lonely; single, individual; eremetic, hermitical.
solitary, n. recluse, anchoret, hermit, eremite.
solitude, n. loneliness, isolation, seclusion, eremitism, retirement; wilderness. Associated words: apanthropy, monophobia, eremophobia.
solution, n. dissolution, melting, liquefaction, resolution, disintegration; disentanglement, explanation, elucidation, explication.
solvent, n. menstruum, dissolvent, resolvent.
somersault, n. somerset.
sometimes, adv. at intervals, now and then, occasionally.
son, n. Associated words: filial, filiation, unfilial, filicide, mulier, mulierty.
song, n. hymn, chant, lay, ditty, ballad, onody, chansonnette, lyric, lilt, lied, pæan, cantata, aria, sonnet, strain, round, rhapsody, dirge, chanson.
songcraft, n. versification, poesy, poetry.
song of Solomon. canticle.
song of triumph. pæan.
sonorous, a. resonant, resounding; high-sounding, stentorian, vibrant.
sonship, n. filiation.
soothe, v. compose, tranquilize, pacify, assuage, mollify, calm.
soothing, a. bland, emollient, demulcent, gratifying, quieting, sedative.
soothsayer, n. seer, prophet, diviner, haruspice, foreteller.
soothsaying, n. prophecy, augury, divination, prediction, prognostication.
sooty, a. fuliginous, soot-covered.
sophism, n. fallacy, paralogy, fallacious reasoning.
sophistical, a. fallacious, unsound.
sophistry, n. fallacy, paralogy, paralogism.
sophomoric, a. inflated, bombastic, pretentious.
soprano, n. descant, treble.
sorcerer, n. conjurer, necromancer, magician, enchanter, juggler, wizard.
sorcery, n. necromancy, magic, enchantment, witchcraft, black art.
sordid, a. low, degraded, abject, base.
sore, a. ulcerated, cankered, ulcerous, raw, inflamed, irritated; distressing, grievous, severe; grieved, pained, hurt, sensitive.
sore, n. ulcer, ulceration, imposthume, pustule, boil, abscess, canker, fester, blain, gathering; (venereal sore) chancre, chancroid. Associated words: antiseptic, slough, proud flesh, poultice, salve, ointment, pledget, spleget.
sore, adv. grievously, sorely, severely, greatly.
sorrow, n. grief, regret, remorse, misery, heaviness, rue, unhappiness, contrition, dolor, agony, distress, compunction, bereavement.
sorrow, v. grieve, mourn, regret, deplore, bewail, lament.
sorrowful, a. See sad.
sorry, a. melancholy, mournful, dismal, depressing, sad; abject, despicable, miserable, mean, paltry, contemptible, pitiful; contrite, penitent, chagrined, pained.
sort, n. kind, species, character, description, strain, class.
sort, v. assort, classify; conjoin; choose, select, cull; consort, associate, fraternize; harmonize, agree, accord, conform.
so-so, a. middling, passable, tolerable, mediocre, ordinary, average.
sot, n. toper, drunkard, bibber.
soul, n. spirit, Psyche. Associated words: psychology, psychic, psychological, psychomachy, transmigration, metempsychosis, psychogenesis, psychopannychism, theodicy, monopsychism.
sound, a. whole, intact, perfect, flawless, unimpaired; healthy; logical; severe, hard, heavy; sane, rational; profound, undisturbed, unbroken; valid, legal, lawful: seaworthy; sensible, irrefutable, convincing.
sound, n. strait, narrows, channel.
sound, v. fathom, gauge; examine, try, test, probe, explore; proclaim, publish, herald; resound.
sound, n. noise, report. Associated words: acoustic, acoustics, acoustician, catacoustics, cataphonics, phonetic, phonetics, polycoustic, phonetism, phonology, polycoustics, diacoustics, diaphonics, phonic, soniferous, sonification, megaphone, sonorescence, diacritical, harmonics, phonation, polyphone, polyphonic, polyphonist, polyphony, monophonic, monophthong, homophone, homophonic, homophony, modulate, modulation.
sounding, n. bathymetry; examination; proclamation; resonance, reverberation.
sounding, a. sonorous, resonant, sonant.
soundless, a. unfathomable, abysmal; silent, noiseless, aphonic, surd.
sound-producing, a. sonorific.
soup, n. broth, bouillon, consommé, pottage, purée, bisk, bisque, julienne.
soup dish. tureen.
sour, a. acid, tart, acetose, acerbitous, acrid; rancid, musty; curdled, loppered; imbittered, morose, misanthropic, unamiable, dour, cynical, surly, grum, austere, crabbed, cross.
sour, v. curdle, acidify, lopper, spoil, acidulate; imbitter, embitter.
source, n. origin, spring, fountain, rise.
sourness, n. acidity, tartness, acerbity, sharpness; rancidity, mustiness; asperity, acrimony, moroseness, cynicism, crossness.
souse, v. pickle; douse, immerse, plunge, submerge.
soutane, n. cassock.
southerner, n. southron.
southern lights. aurora australis.
south wind. Auster, Notus.
souvenir, n. keepsake, reminder, memento; trophy.
sovereign, a. supreme, chief, paramount, predominant; controlling, effectual, efficacious.
sovereignty, n. dominion, supremacy, sway, empire, scepter, dynasty.
sow, v. propagate, disseminate, scatter, plant.
space, n. extension, vacancy; vacuum; distance, interval; interspace (intervening space); interstice; abyss. Associated words: plenum, plenist, vacuist, spacial.
spacious, a. capacious, roomy, vast.
spade, n. spud (narrow, with long handle).
Spain, n. Iberia. Associated words: Hispanicism, Hispanic, Spanish, Spaniard, Iberian.
span, n. nine inches; team, yoke, pair.
spare, v. forbear, refrain, be merciful.
spare, a. thin, lean, poor, gaunt, meager, lank; superfluous.
sparing, a. economical, frugal, saving, parsimonious, chary; scanty, scarce, meager; compassionate, indulgent, forbearing, merciful, lenient.
spark, v. court, woo, philander.
sparkle, v. glitter, coruscate, glisten, scintillate, twinkle, gleam.
sparkle, n. scintillation, glitter, gleaming, brilliancy.
sparkling, a. glittering, flashing, brilliant, twinkling, coruscant, glistening, lambent, scintillant, glistering; spirited, vigorous, impassioned, bright; mantling, gleaming, bubbling.
sparse, a. scattered, thin, innumerous, meager.
Spartan, a. hardy, undaunted, courageous, doughty.
spasm, n. convulsion, paroxysm, fit, throe.
spasmodic, a. intermittent, fitful, convulsive.
spat, n. tiff, quarrel, dispute, dissension.
spats, n. pl. gaiters, spatterdashes.
spawn, n. roe, ova, eggs (of fishes, frogs, etc.); mycelium.
speak, v. utter, pronounce, say, articulate, enunciate, express, talk; discourse, address, declaim, harangue, preach, lecture, rant, descant, expatiate; accost, address; declare, publish, proclaim, announce, bruit. Antonyms: repress, suppress, refrain.
speaker, n. orator, discourser, spokesman, prolocutor, mouthpiece, interlocutor, chairman.
speaking alone. monologue, soliloquy.
speaking together. conference, collocution.
spear, n. lance, javelin, harpoon, assagai, trident, jireed; shoot, spire, blade.
special, a. particular, especial, specific, exceptional.
specialty, n. particularity; speciality.
specie, n. coin, cash, metallic money.
species, n. group, class, kind, brood, sort, variety.
specific, a. definite, precise, specified; characteristic, particular, special.
specify, v. designate, particularize, individualize, name.
specimen, n. example, sample, model, copy, pattern.
specious, a. plausible; obvious, manifest.
speck, n. spot, stain; atom, mite, particle, bit.
speckled, a. spotted, mottled.
spectacle, n. scene, sight, show, exhibition, pageant.
spectator, n. beholder, witness, bystander, onlooker, observer.
specter, n. phantom, apparition, shade, ghost, manes, spirit, wraith, spook.
spectral, a. phantomlike, ghostly.
speculate, v. theorize, meditate, conjecture, guess, think.
speculation, n. theory, supposition, conjecture; contemplation, thought.
speculative, a. contemplative, meditative; theoretical, supposititious.
speech, a. utterance, speaking; language, talk, conversation, parlance, words; tongue, dialect; patois; discourse, oration, address, plea, declamation, dissertation, epilogue, allocution, exhortation, disquisition, effusion, descant; harangue, diatribe, tirade, screed, rhapsody, philippic, invective, rant; soliloquy, monologue; dialogue; colloquy; trialogue; interlocution; improvisation; toast; equivocation, prevarication, quibbling; ambages, pseudology, amphibology, amphiboly, dilogy. Associated words: extempore, extemporaneous, extemporize, extemporization, impromptu, improvise, improvisation, brogue, aphasia, amnesia, oratory, elocution, rhetoric, oratorical, rhetorical, rhetorician, elocutionary, peroration, voluble, volubility, fluent, fluency.
speechless, a. dumb, mute, aphasic, inarticulate.
speechlessness, n. dumbness, muteness, obmutescence, taciturnity, aphasia.
speed, n. velocity, swiftness, rapidity, celerity, haste, expedition, dispatch, posthaste; impetuosity. Associated words: tachymeter, tachometer, trechometer, stathmograph, momentum, impetus.
speed, v. hurry, hasten; accelerate, expedite, quicken, dispatch, facilitate; prosper, favor.
speedy, a. swift, quick, fast, rapid, fleet, hasty, hurried, expeditious.
spell, n. charm, incantation, exorcism; period, season, interval.
spell, v. orthographize; decipher, read, unravel, unfold; charm, bewitch.
spellbound, a. fascinated, charmed, enchanted, bewitched.
speller, n. orthographist, orthographer.
spelling, n. orthography. Associated words: orthographic, phonetic, glossic, nomic, homographic, homography, homograph, heterographic, heterography, cacographic, cacography.
spend, v. expend, disburse.
spender, n. prodigal, spendthrift.
spending, n. expenditure, disbursement.
spendthrift, n. waster, spender, prodigal, squanderer
spent, a. exhausted, tired, consumed, worn out.
sperm-whale, n. cachelot, spermaceti whale.
sphere, n. globe, orb, ball; province, circuit, beat, purview, compass, circle; station, position, rank; region, domain, realm; orbit.