thicket, n. shrubbery, copse, chaparral, grove, boscage, bosk, spinny, coppice.
thick-headed, a. pachycephalic, pachycephalous; dull, stupid, doltish.
thicklip, n. blobberlip.
thickness, n. denseness, density, compactness; grossness, crassitude, consistence; intimacy. Associated words: pachometer, pachymeter.
thick-skinned, a. pachydermatous; obtuse, dull, unimpressible.
thick-tongued, a. pachyglossal, crassilingual.
thief, n. robber, pilferer, filcher, peculator; embezzler, defaulter, peculator; plagiarist; poacher; shoplifter; kleptomaniac.
thievery, n. theft, larceny; embezzlement, peculation; shoplifting.
thievish, a. light-fingered, pilfering, predatory; stealthy, sneaking.
thill, n. shaft (of a vehicle).
thin, a. emaciated, slender, poor, wasted, peaked, gaunt, scrawny, lank, spare, meager, haggard, scraggy; tenuous, delicate, fine; incompact; dilute, rare, rarefied, subtile, attenuated; sheer, flimsy, sleazy, unsubstantial, gossamery, gauzy, diaphanous, transparent; sparse, scanty; inadequate, insufficient, superficial.
thin, v. dilute, reduce, attenuate, rarefy, diminish, subtilize.
things, n. pl. (Colloq.) clothes, furniture, appurtenances, belongings, goods, luggage, accessories, chattels, effects, traps, impedimenta (Mil.), paraphernalia.
think, v. meditate, cogitate, ponder, contemplate, brood, reflect, muse, consider, speculate, ruminate, opine, deem, apprehend, excogitate, infer, surmise, mull.
thinkable, a. conceivable, cogitable, imaginable, presumable.
thinking, a. rational, pensive, reflective, contemplative, cogitative, introspective.
thinking, n. cogitation, meditation, contemplation, thought.
thinness, n. emaciation, slenderness, gauntness, spareness, meagerness; tenuity, delicacy, fineness; incompactness; rarity, subtilty, subtilization; inadequacy, sparseness, scantiness.
thinning, n. dilution, reduction, attenuation, rarefaction, subtilization. Associated words: attenuant, diluent.
thin-skinned, a. leptodermic; sensitive, impressible, irritable.
third, a. tertiary.
thirst, n. dryness, aridity, drought. Antonym: adipsy. Associated words: slake, quench, dipsetic, adipsous.
thirty years. Associated words: tricennial, tricennially.
thorn, n. spine, prickle, brier; torment, plague, infliction.
thornless, a. spineless, inermis.
thorny, a. spiny, briery, prickly; vexatious, troublesome, annoying.
thorough, a. complete, profound. Antonyms: superficial, cursory, partial, sciolistic.
thought, n. reflection, cogitation, revery, musing, meditation, consideration, abstraction, imagination, brown study, contemplation, deliberation, introspection, retrospection, lucubration, rumination, preoccupation, excogitation; idea, concept, surmise, inference.
thoughtful, a. contemplative, meditative, reflective, cogitative, wistful, pensive, preoccupied, abstracted; considerate, heedful, circumspect, wary.
thoughtless, a. inconsiderate, careless, unmindful, remiss, rash, inadvertent, indiscreet, heedless, unreasoning.
thousand, n. Associated words: millennium, millennial, chiliad, chiliasm, chiliarchy, chiliarch, chiliast, millenary, millesimal.
thrash, v. thresh.
thread, n. filament, fibre, stamen, staple, pile, raveling, lint, warp, woof, thrum.--v. thrid.
threadbare, a. napless, pileworn, seedy, trite, hackneyed.
threat, n. menace, threatening, commination, fulmination, intimidation.
threaten, v. menace; augur, forebode, portend; impend, be imminent.
threatening, a. imminent, ominous, impending, minatory, fulminating.
three, n. trio, trinity, triad, ternary, ternion; triplets. Associated words: thrice, treble, trialogue, triarchy, triplicate, triplication, triplicity, trinal, triarchy, tripartition, tripod, triptych, trisect, trisection, trireme, triumvirate, trilogy, triform, triformity, trilling, trilemma.
three-colored, a. tricolored.
three-flowered, a. trifloral, triflorous.
threefold, a. triple.
three-forked, a. trisulcate, trifurcated.
three hundred years. tricentenary. Associated words: tercentenary, tricentenary, tri-centennial.
three languages. Associated word: trilingual.
three-leaved, a. trifoliate, trifoliated.
three-legged stand. trivet, tripod.
three letters. triphthong, trigraph.
three months. trimester. Associated words: trimestral, trimestrial, quarterly.
three-parted, a. tripartite.
three-pointed, a. tricuspidate, tricuspid.
three-pointed spear. trident.
three-sided, a. triangular, trilateral.
three-sided figure. triangle.
three-toothed, a. trident, tridentate.
three years. triennium. Associated words: triennial, triennially.
threshold, n. doorsill.
thrift, n. frugality, economy, thriftiness, providence; prosperity.
thriftless, a. wasteful, improvident, extravagant, prodigal.
thrifty, a. sparing, economical, provident, frugal; thriving, prosperous; luxuriant.
thrilling, a. moving, exciting, sensational.
thrive, v. flourish, prosper.
thriving, a. flourishing, thrifty, prosperous.
throat, n. pharynx, fauces; gullet, esophagus. Associated words: guttural, gutturalize, gargle, faucal, laryngeal, glottis, pharyngeal, pharyngotomy, larynx.
throb, n. beating, pulsation, palpitation.--v. palpitate, pulsate, beat.
throbbing, a. pulsating, palpitant, palpitating.
throne, n. sovereignty. Associated words: enthrone, dethrone, dorsal, abdicate, abdication, interregnum, accession, accede.
throw, v. pitch, hurl, fling, cast, toss, sling, heave; overturn, prostrate, floor.
throw away. squander; reject, decline, refuse.
throw by. discard.
throw in. inject; contribute.
throwing, n. Associated words: missile, putting.
throwing out. ejection, expulsion; eviction; ejaculation.
throwing overboard. jettison.
throw off. expel; reject, discard, abandon.
throw out. expel, evict, oust, reject; emit; discharge, excrete, eject, egest, void, ejaculate, eliminate. Antonym: retain.
throw up. resign; vomit, puke, disgorge.
thrush, n. aphtha.
thrust, n. push, shove, allonge, stab, protrusion.
thrust, v. push, force, impel, shove, stab, pierce, protrude.
thug, n. ruffian, rough, assassin.
thunder, n. Associated words: brontology, Thor, brontorneter, brontograph, fulmineous, fulminatory, isobront, keraunophobia.
thunder, n. fulmination, denunciation.--v. fulminate, denounce.
thunder, v. detonate, roll, boom.
thundering, n. fulmination.--a. fulminatory.
thunderstruck, n. dumfounded, astounded, amazed.
thwart, v. frustrate, baffle, foil, balk, contravene.
tickle, v. titillate; please, delight, gladden.
tickling, n. titillation.--a. titillative.
ticklish, a. difficult, critical, delicate.
tidbit, n. delicacy, dainty, junket.
tide, n. Associated words: ebb, flood, flow, marigray, marigram.
tie, v. secure, fasten, bind, tether, leash.
tie, n. knot, fastening; bond, obligation; (R.R.) sleeper, crosstie.
tight, a. taut, tense; snug, close-fitting; (Colloq.) close, penurious, stingy, parsimonious; (Colloq.) stringent; (Slang) tipsy, boozy, fuddled, intoxicated, drunk.
tighten, v. straiten.
tile, n. Associated words: tegular, mosaic, tessellated, parquetry.
till, v. cultivate.
tillable, a. arable, cultivable.
tilt, v. slant, slope, incline, tip, cant.
time, n. duration; while, spell, season, interval, interim, lapse, interregnum, period; season, opportunity, leisure; tense; (Mus.) measure, tempo; perpetuity; usance; age, date, eon, epoch, era, term. Associated words: horology, horography, horometry, chronology, chronological, anachronism, anachronistic, synchronology, synchronal, synchronous, synchronism, synchronize, synchroncity, chronometry, gnomonics, contemporaneous, coexistent, coexistence, contemporary, contemporaneity, simultaneous, simultaneousness, concurrence, coincident, coincidence, gnomon, coincide, isochronal, isochronism, isochronon, isochronous, anachronous, prochronism, chronogram, chronic, coeval, coetaneous.
timely, a. seasonable, punctual, opportune. Antonyms: untimely, inopportune.
timepiece, n. time-keeper, chronometer, horologe, clock, watch, hourglass, chronograph, chronoscope, clepsydra, gnomon, repeater, sundial, isochronon.
time-server, n. temporizer, trimmer.
time-serving, a. temporizing, trimming.
timid, a. timorous, shy, diffident, meticulous, faint-hearted, cowardly.
timidity, n. diffidence, shyness, timorousness, cowardice.
tin, n. stannum; latten, prillion. Associated words: stannary, stannic, stanniferous, stannous, shadd.
tin mine. stannary.
tinsel, a. glittering, meretricious, specious, flashy.
tinsel, n. spangle, pinchbeck, glitter, tawdriness.
tinsmith, n. whitesmith, tinner.
tintype, n. ferrotype, stannotype.
tip, v. incline, lean, cant, tilt; careen, capsize, keel, overturn, upset.--n. end, apex, extremity.
tiptop, n. (Colloq.) pinnacle, apex.
tirade, n. diatribe, invective, billingsgate, screed.
tire, v. fatigue, weary, jade, fag, bore, irk, tucker, exhaust.
tiresome, a. irksome, wearisome, fatiguing, tedious; toilsome, arduous.
tissue, n. fabric, stuff, cloth, texture; web, network, fabrication.
toad-eater, n. toady.
toads, n. pl. Associated words: ranine, ranivorous.
toadstool, n. fungus. See Fungi.
toady, n. sycophant, toad-eater, flatterer, fawner.
tobacco, n. Associated words: tobacconist, nicotine, nicotinism, canaster, cavendish, plug, cud, quid, fumacious, carotte, capa, perique, mundungus, humidor.
toe, n. digit.
together, adv. unitedly, jointly, concertedly, simultaneously.
toil, n. labor, drudgery; toils, snare, trap.--v. labor, moil, drudge.
token, n. sign, symbol, index, indication.
tolerable, a. sufferable, endurable; passable, mediocre, so-so, ordinary.
tolerance, n. endurance, toleration, sufferance. Antonym: intolerance.
tolerant, a. indulgent, forbearing, charitable. Antonym: intolerant.
tolerate, v. endure, suffer, brook; allow, permit, admit.
toleration, n. tolerance, endurance, sufferance; allowance, permission.
tomb, n. sepulchre, crypt, vault, ossuary; mausoleum (a magnificent tomb).
tomboy, n. (Colloq.) hoiden, romp.
tombstone, n. monument; cenotaph (honoring one buried elsewhere). Associated words: sepulchral, epitaph, lapidary.
tomfoolery, n. (Colloq.) folly, trifling, monkey-tricks, mummery.
tone, n. sound, note; cadence, modulation; force, vigor, energy.
tone down. subdue, moderate, soften.
toneless, a. aspirated, surd, atonic, unintonated.
tongue, n. Associated words: lingual, glossal, sublingual, fur, tchick, barb, papillæ, lick, lap, hyoid, lincture, aglossal, frænum, fourchette, raphe.
tonguy, a. (Colloq.) voluble, fluent, loquacious, garrulous.
tonic, n. invigorant, roborant.
tool, n. implement, utensil, instrument; cat's-paw, puppet, hireling. Associated words: ratten, cocobola, kit.
tooth, n. (little tooth) denticle, dentile. Associated words: denticulation, serration, serrature. See teeth.
toothache, n. odontalgia. Associated word: odontalgic.
toothless, a. agomphious, edentate, edentulous.
toothless animals. Edentata.
toothsome, n. palatable, delicious, savory, gustable.
top, n. summit, crest, apex, vertex, pinnacle, zenith, culmination, capsheaf, meridian.
top, v. surmount, overtop, surpass.
toper, n. drunkard, sot, inebriate, guzzler.
topic, n. subject, theme; division, head, subdivision.
topknot, n. crest.
top-shaped, a. turbinate, turbinated.
torch, n. flambeau (flaming torch), cresset.
torment, n. pain, anguish, distress, torture; bane, infliction, scourge, thorn.
torment, v. persecute, hector, tease, tantalize, harry; torture, grill, rack, distress.
torn, a. rent, lacerated, ripped.
tornado, n. hurricane, cyclone, whirlwind.
torpid, a. numb, benumbed, unfeeling; lethargic, dull, hebetate, sluggish, stupid.
torpidity, n. numbness, lethargy, inactivity, hebetude.
touch, v. meet, impinge; graze.
touch, n. touching, contact, contiguity, juxtaposition, osculation, tangency; taction, tact, palpation; dash, sprinkling, soupçon, infusion; animadversion, censure, stricture, reflection, slur. Associated words: tactile, tactility, tactual, palpable, impalpable, palpability, impalpability.
touchiness, n. irascibility, petulance, irritability.
touching, a. pathetic, affecting, moving, tender.
touching, prep. respecting, concerning, regarding.
touchstone, n. criterion, test; basanite, Lydian stone.
touchwood, n. punk, tinder, agaric, spunk.
touchy, a. irascible, irritable, petulant, testy, choleric, snappish.
tough, a. tenacious, unyielding; cohesive, adhesive; obdurate, refractory, stubborn; (Colloq.) difficult, arduous, hard.
tour, n. journey, trip, excursion, expedition.
tousled, a. (Colloq.) disordered, disheveled.
toweling, n. crash.
tower, n. steeple, campanile, minaret, spire, belfry, turret, cupola, dome; tourelle, barbican, pylon, martello tower; castle, citadel, donjon, keep, fortress.
tower, v. overtop, rise above.
toy, n. gimcrack, plaything, trinket, kickshaw, bauble, teetotum, gewgaw.
trace, n. vestige, sign, impression.
track, n. trace, vestige, footprint, footmark, foil; spoor; wake, trail.
tract, n. Associated words: colporteur, colportage.
trade, n. commerce, barter, traffic, business; handicraft. Associated words: technical, technology, technicals, technicality, technological, polytechnic, polytechnics, vocational, Mercury.
trade, v. exchange, barter, traffic, swap (Colloq.).
trader, n. trafficker, dealer, merchant, tradesman, monger.
tradesman, n. trader, merchant; artisan, craftsman, mechanic, journeyman, handicraftsman.
trading, a. commercial, mercantile; venal, corrupt, jobbing.