submit, v. yield, surrender, succumb, acquiesce, comply, tolerate, stand. Antonyms: resist, rebel, disobey, revolt.
subservient, a. subordinate, subject, inferior; serviceable, conducive.
subside, v. decrease, sink, abate, fall.
subsidence, n. decrease, abatement.
substantiate, v. verify, corroborate, confirm, prove.
substantiation, n. corroboration, confirmation, verification.
substitute, v. exchange, commute.
substitute, n. deputy, proxy, representative, agent, lieutenant, delegate, vicar, envoy, locum tenens; makeshift, expedient, shift, resource. Associated word: vicarious.
substitution, n. exchange, commutation.
subterfuge, n. artifice, evasion, shift, sophistry, excuse.
subtile, a. rare, fine, ethereal, delicate; crafty, artful.
subtilty, n. rarity, fineness, ethereality; refinement; artifice, craft, guile, cunning.
subtle, a. artful, cunning, sly, designing, crafty; refined, discriminating.
subtlety, n. cunning, artfulness, guile, craftiness; discernment, penetration.
suburbs, n. pl. environs, purlieus, outskirts, confines.
succeeding, a. subsequent, following.
success, n. prosperity, triumph, victory, good fortune.
successful, a. prosperous, victorious, triumphant, fortunate.
succession, n. sequence, consecution; chain, line, series.
successive, a. consecutive.
successor, n. Antonym: predecessor.
succor, n. assistance, help, relief.
suck, v. imbibe, absorb; engulf.
sucker, n. shoot, tiller, scion, sprout; embolus, piston, valve.
sucker, n. (Slang) dupe, gull, cully, greenhorn; parasite, sponger, toady.
suckling, n. lactation.--a. unweaned.
sudden, a. unexpected, abrupt, unlocked for.
sue, v. prosecute.
suffering, n. distress, agony, misery, pain, discomfort, torture, sufferance.
sufficiency, n. enough, adequacy, competence. Antonyms: insufficiency, inadequacy.
sufficient, a. adequate. Antonyms: insufficient, inadequate.
suffocate, v. choke, stifle, smother, asphyxiate, burke.
suffocation, n. smothering, asphyxiation.
suffrage, n. vote, assent, ballot; testimony, attestation; prayer, petition.
sugar, n. sucrose, saccharose (cane sugar); levulose (fruit sugar); dextrose, glucose (grape sugar); muscovado (unrefined sugar); maltose (malt sugar); lactose (milksugar); inosite (muscle sugar); invert sugar; cassonade (raw sugar); caramel (burnt sugar). Associated words: sacchariferous, dextrine, sorghum, saccharify, saccharimeter, saccharimetry, saccharin, saccharoid, saccharize.
suggest, v. allude to, hint, intimate, insinuate, propose, recommend.
suggestion, n. intimation, hint, allusion, proposal, instance, insinuation.
suicide, n. self-murder, self-destruction; self-murderer, felo-de-se.
suit, n. wooing, courtship, addresses; prosecution, action, lawsuit; retinue, suite; petition, solicitation, entreaty, request. Associated words: champerty, maintenance. See lawsuit.
suit, v. fit, adapt, adjust; please, gratify, satisfy; accord, comport, agree.
suitable, a. fitting, accordant, proper, becoming, congruous, consistent, congruent.
suite, n. retinue, staff, train of attendants.
sulky, a. sullen, morose, surly, moody.
sullen, a. morose, unamiable, sulky, intractable.
sulphur, n. brimstone.
sulphuric acid. oil of vitriol.
sum, n. amount, total, aggregate, sum total; problem, example.
sum, v. cast up, add, compute; summarize.
summary, n. recapitulation, epitome, résumé, synopsis.
summer, n. Associated words: æstival, æstivate, æstivation.
summing up. résumé, recapitulation, peroration.
summit, n. top, pinnacle, zenith, apex, vertex, culmination.
summoner, n. apparitor.
sum up. summarize, recapitulate.
sun, n. Sol. Associated words:: heliography, heliometry, solar, solstice, solarize, anthelion, parhelion, halo, heliocentric, actinometer, actinometry, heliacal, heliograph, equinox, astronomy, astronomer, photosphere, helioscope, heliostat, paranthelion, maculæ, Hyperion.
sun bath. insolation.
sunburnt, a. tanned, blowzy, bronzed.
Sunday, n. the Lord's day. Associated word: dominical.
sundial, n. Associated words: sciotheric, gnomon, gnomonics, gnomonolcgy, style, gnomonist, dialing.
sundog, n. parhelion.
sundry, a. several, divers, various.
sunny, a. genial, pleasant, cloudless, radiant.
sunrise, n. daybreak, dawn, aurora.
sun room. solarium.
sunshade, n. parasol; awning, shade.
sun's path. ecliptic.
sun spots. faculæ.
sunstroke, n. insolation, siriasis, coup de soleil.
sun-worship, n. heliolatry, Sabianism.
sun-worshiper, n. heliolater.
super, n. supernumerary.
superabundance, n. redundancy, excess, surfeit, superfluity, exuberance, plethora.
superabundant, a. superfluous, redundant, excessive, plethoric.
superb, n. magnificent, grand, august, elegant.
superfluity, n. superabundance, surplusage. See superabundance.
superfluous, a. superabundant, redundant, excessive, supernumerary.
superintendent, n. overseer, guardian, supervisor, custodian, intendant, manager, controller, principal, curator, warden.
superior, a. more excellent, surpassing, paramount, predominant.
superiority, n. predominancy, preëminence, ascendency, supremacy.
supernatural, a. miraculous, preternatural, hyperphysical.
supersede, v. replace, displace, supplant.
supine, a. negligent, heedless, listless, indolent, careless.
supplant, v. remove, displace, supersede.
supple, a. flexible, pliant, lithe. See flexible.
supplement, n. continuation, appendix, postscript, addition, addendum.
supply, v. furnish, afford, yield, replenish, recruit, stock.
support, v. prop, brace, bolster, uphold, sustain; maintain, keep, provide for; verify, substantiate, ratify, corroborate, confirm; vindicate, defend, maintain; second, back, aid. Antonyms: desert, undermine, weaken, repudiate, oppose.
support, n. prop, buttress, brace, fulcrum, bolster, stanchion, shore, staddle, supporter; maintenance, sustenance, subsistence, finding, livelihood; base, foundation, basis; assistance, espousal, advocacy, countenance; Caryatid. Antonyms: nonsupport, opposition, desertion, repudiation.
supporter, n. advocate, adherent, defender, pillar, paraclete, sustainer, upholder, support.
suppose, v. assume, conjecture, presume, imagine, believe, imply, surmise.
supposed, a. assumed, presumed, putative.
supposition, n. hypothesis, conjecture, surmise, assumption, presumption, postulate.
suppositional, a. hypothetical, conjectural, supposed, assumed.
suppress, v. quell, overpower, put down; check, repress, restrain; secrete, conceal.
suppression, n. quelling, overthrow; repression, restraint; concealment, secretion.
supreme, a. transcendent, preëminent, superlative, paramount, predominant.
surcingle, n. girth.
sure, a. certain, inevitable; positive, confident, assured, sanguine, convinced; unfailing, infallible, unerring, inerrable, abiding, stable, trustworthy, reliable, dependable, secure, safe. Antonyms: uncertain, doubtful, dubious.
sureness, n. certainty, inevitability, assurance, certitude, safety, positiveness.
surety, n. sureness, certainty; security, pledge, guaranty; bondsman; substitute, hostage; sponsor; ratification, corroboration.
surface, n. exterior, outside, superficies.
surfeit, n. fullness, repletion, satiety; superabundance, plethora.
surgeon's case of instruments. tweese.
surgery, n. aciurgy.
surly, a. morose, sullen, crabbed, unamiable, gruff, inurbane, snarling, crusty.
surmise, v. suppose, conjecture, suspect, guess, opine.
surmise, n. supposition, conjecture, guess, suspicion.
surmount, v. overtop; conquer, overcome, vanquish.
surmountable, a. superable, conquerable. Antonyms: insuperable, unsurmountable.
surname, n. patronymic, cognomen.
surpass, v. excel, exceed, outdo, outstrip, transcend.
surpassing, a. exceeding, superior, preëminent, transcendent, supereminent.
surplus, n. surplusage, excess, overplus, residue, remainder.
surprise, v. amaze, astonish, astound.
surprise, n. amazement, astonishment.
surprising, a. astonishing, amazing, astounding, marvelous.
surrender, v. relinquish, yield, abandon, capitulate, waive, remit.
surrender, n. relinquishment, capitulation, yielding.
surround, v. enclose, encircle, encompass, environ, hem in, corral, invest, intrench.
surrounding, a. circumambient, encompassing, encircling ambient, enveloping.
surroundings, n. pl. environment, entourage.
surveying, n. survey, chorometry; geodesy. Associated words: theodolite, transit, perambulator.
susceptible, a. sensitive, impressionable, impressible, tender.
suspect, v. mistrust, distrust, doubt; conjecture, surmise.
suspenders, n. pl. gallowses, braces.
suspense, n. uncertainty, wavering, hesitation, irresolution.
suspension, n. pendency; delay, respite, postponement, abeyance.
suspicion, n. mistrust, misgiving, distrust; surmise, conjecture, supposition; (Colloq.) suggestion, hint.
swag, n. (Slang) booty, boodle, loot, plunder, spoil.
swaggering, n. blustering, boasting, roistering.
swallow, v. ingurgitate; gulp, bolt, engorge, englut; ingulf, suck in, absorb, submerge, engulf, overwhelm; accept, believe, credit; appropriate, arrogate, monopolize, engross; bear, brook, tolerate, pocket.
swallowing, n. deglutition, ingurgitation, absorption. Antonym: aglutition.
swamp, n. marsh, morass, slough, quagmire, bog, fen, marish. Associated words: paludine, paludinous, paludism, paludose, palustrine, draco, muck, effluvium, malaria, miasma.
swamp, v. engulf, overwhelm, submerge.
swampy, a. boggy, fenny, marshy, sloughy, slumpy, queachy.
swan, n. cob (male); cygnet (young).
swap, v. (Colloq.) exchange, trade.
swarm, v. teem.
swarming, a. teeming.
swashing, a. heavy, violent, crushing.
sway, n. dominion, domination, rule.
swear, v. blaspheme, curse, imprecate, use profane language.
swearing, n. profanity, oath, blasphemy, expletive, cursing, imprecation.
sweat, v. perspire; exude.
sweat, n. perspiration; exudation. Associated words: sudoriferous, sudoral, sudorific, sudatory, diaphoretic, diaphoresis, perspiratory, empasm, bagnio, adiophoretic.
sweating-bath, n. sudatory, sudatorium, vapor-bath.
Swedish Parliament. Riksdag.
sweet, a. saccharine, honeyed, sugary, nectarean, ambrosial, nectareous; dulcet, melodious, harmonious, mellifluous, silvery, symphonious, tuneful; winsome, winning. Antonyms: bitter, acrid, tart, sour.
sweetbread, n. pancreas.
sweeten, v. dulcify, edulcorate; purify, disinfect, fumigate, deodorize.
sweetening, n. dulcification, edulcoration.
sweetheart, n. (male) lover, inamorato, beau, flame, spark, swain, suitor; (female) ladylove, mistress, inamorata, dulcinea, darling, flame, amaryllis.
sweets, n. pl. confectionery, sweetmeats.
sweet-smelling, a. fragrant, redolent, balmy, aromatic, savory, sweet-scented.
swell, v. distend, dilate, expand, bloat, puff up, tumefy, intumesce; increase, augment; heave, surge; protuberate; strut, swagger.
swell, n. swelling; augmentation, increase; protuberance, bulge; elevation, rise.
swell, a. (Slang) fashionable, elegant, distinguished, exquisite.--n. exquisite, fop, dandy.
swelled, a. swollen, tumid, enlarged, bloated, protuberant, turgid.
swelling, n. intumescence, turgescence, prominence, protuberance, bump, node, blain, distention. Antonyms: subsidence, detumescence.
swelling, a. turgent, tumefacient, tumid, turgid; grandiloquent, bombastic, grandiose.
swerve, v. deviate, deflect, diverge, turn aside.
swift, a. fleet, rapid, fast, speedy, quick.
swiftness, n. celerity, velocity, speed, rapidity, fleetness, quickness.
swill, n. hogwash, swillings, draff.
swimming, n. natation; dizziness, vertigo, giddiness; transnatation, supernatation. Associated words: natatorial, natant, natatorious, natatorium, natatory.
swimming birds. Natatores.
swindle, n. See cheat.
swine, n. pl. hogs. Associated word: porcine.
swing, v. oscillate, vibrate; sway, brandish, flourish, wave.
swing, n. swinging; free course, liberty, unrestraint, sweep.
swinging, n. oscillation, vibration.