trail, n. train; track, wake, spoor, footmark, foil, trace.
trailing, a. procumbent, prostrate. Antonyms: upright, erect.
train, n. retinue, suite, attendants; series, chain.
train, v. discipline, nurture, drill; accustom, habituate, familiarize.
trained, a. skilled, practiced, disciplined, competent. Antonym: untrained.
training, n. discipline, nurture, drilling, exercise.
traitorous, a. perfidious, treasonable, recreant, faithless.
tramp, v. march, trudge, plod.
tramp, n. vagrant, vagabond, landloper, walleteer, nomad, hobo, derelict.
trample, v. crush; scorn, spurn, disregard.
transaction, n. procedure, affair, deal, business.
transform, v. transfigure, metamorphose; transmute.
transformation, n. transfiguration, metamorphosis; transmutation.
transgress, v. violate, infringe, disregard.
transgression, n. violation, infringement, infraction.
transient, a. fleeting, transitory, temporary, impermanent.
translate, v. construe, render, interpret.
translation, n. rendering, interpretation.
transmogrify, v. (Colloq.) transform, metamorphose.
transparency, n. diaphaneity, translucency. Antonyms: opacity, intransparency.
transparent, a. diaphanous, translucent, pellucid. Antonyms: opaque, intransparent.
trap, n. snare, toil, gin, springe, pitfall; artifice, stratagem.
trap, v. entrap, ensnare, trapan, catch.
trapdoor, n. hatchway.
trappings, n. pl. decorations, paraphernalia, frippery, gear, rigging, ornaments; caparisons, accouterments.
traps, n. pl. See things.
trash, n. rubbish, refuse, trumpery.
trashy, a. trumpery, rubbishy, waste.
travel, v. journey, itinerate, peregrinate.
travel, n. journey, tour, peregrination.
traveler, n. wayfarer, itinerant, voyager, pilgrim, tourist, peregrinator, passenger.
traveler's handbook. itinerary.
traveling, a. wayfaring, itinerant, wandering, peripatetic.
traveling man. drummer, agent, traveling salesman.
traveling preacher. itinerant.
travesty, n. burlesque, parody, caricature, take-off.
tray, n. salver, waiter, plateau, server.
treacherous, a. traitorous, perfidious, faithless.
treachery, n. treason, perfidy, disloyalty, Punic faith.
treasury, n. exchequer; repository. Associated words: treasurer, fiscal, treasure-trove.
treat, v. regale, feast; negotiate; behave toward, deal with.
treatise, n. disquisition, dissertation, monograph; thesis.
treaty, n. covenant, agreement, compact, concordat, pact, protocol.
tree, n. (young) sapling, seedling; (with top cut off) pollard, bolling; (small) staddle. Associated words: dendrology, sylviculture, arboriculture, arboriculturist, sylviculturist, dendrologist, arboreal, arbor, arboreous, arborescence, arborescent, arborist, arborization, dendrography, dendrophilous, sylvan, topiary work, thicket, copse, coppice, grove, plashing, sawyer, dendromoeter, rampick, spinny, dendrite, dendriform, dendroid, dendrolite, lichen, motte.
trellis, n. lattice, lattice-work, espalier, treillage.
tremble, v. quake, quiver, shudder, dodder, quaver, totter, vibrate, oscillate.
trembling, n. tremor, quivering, quaver, trepidation, rigor, oscillation.
trembling, a. doddering, shaking, infirm, quivering.
trench, n. ditch, gutter, trough, moat, channel.
trend, n. tendency.
trespass, v. encroach upon, infringe, intrude.
trial, n. test, experiment, proof, essay, examination; probation; ordeal, crucible, criterion; effort, exertion, endeavor; adversity, hardship, tribulation, affliction. Associated words: empiricism, empirical, empiric, probationer, probationary, tentative.
trick, n. ruse, artifice, stratagem, sleight, hoax, maneuver, wile, feint, chicane; antic, prank, caper; trait, peculiarity.
trick, v. deceive, cheat, defraud, cozen, impose upon; dress, decorate, set off, adorn.
trickery, n. deception, chicanery, artifice, duplicity, Machiavelianism, circumvention, indirection.
trickle, v. dribble, drip, percolate, distill.
trickster, n. rogue, cheat, impostor, scoundrel.
tricky, a. trickish, knavish, unprincipled, treacherous.
trifle, n. triviality, bagatelle, doit.
trifle, v. dawdle, dally, pother, fribble, quiddle.
trifler, n. fribbler, dawdler, dallier, piddler, quiddler.
trifling, a. trivial, paltry, piddling, insignificant, piffling, frivolous.
trifling, n. piddling, frivolity, piffle, dalliance, quibbling, piffling.
trim, a. spruce, smart; neat, tidy.
trim, v. adjust, arrange; decorate, adorn, garnish, embellish, bedeck, trick; prune, clip, lop; (Colloq.) rebuke, reprove, reprimand, rate, scold.
trimming, n. embellishment, garnish, decoration; (Colloq.) chastisement, scolding, reproof.
trinket, n. bauble, gimcrack, knickknack, gewgaw, gaud; bijou; pl. trinkets, trinketry; bijoutry.
trip, n. jaunt; lapse, slip, stumble, misstep. Associated words: itinerary, itinerancy, viatic, viaticum.
triplet, n. trilling.
trite, a. hackneyed, banal, commonplace.
triumph, n. victory, conquest; exultation, ovation.
triumph, v. overcome, prevail, succeed; exult, rejoice.
triumphant, a. exultant, jubilant; victorious.
trivial, a. trifling, frivolous, insignificant, unimportant.
triviality, n. unimportance, paltriness.
troop, n. company, battery, squad, band, throng, crowd.
trouble, v. vex, disturb, distress, inconvenience, incommode, pester, worry.
trouble, n. tribulation, adversity, reverses, affliction, calamity, misfortune; vexation, annoyance, inconvenience, worry, disturbance; torment, plague, thorn, bane.
troublesome, a. vexatious, burdensome, afflictive, harassing, galling, wearisome.
trounce, v. (Colloq.) flog, castigate, whip.
trousers, n. pl. pants, pantaloons, breeches; trews; spatterdashes, garnashes; knickerbockers.
trout, n. Associated word: truttaceous.
truce, n. armistice.
truckle, v. cringe, knuckle, submit, yield.
true, a. correct, exact, accurate, veritable, authentic, real, genuine, actual; veracious, truthful; loyal, stanch, steadfast, unwavering; incorruptible, trustworthy, faithful, honorable. Antonyms: See untrue.
trueblue, a. (Colloq.) incorruptible, loyal, true.
truism, n. axiom.
trump, v. impose, palm off, obtrude, deceive.
trumpery, n. falsehood, deception; rubbish, trash.--a. worthless, deceptive, trashy.
trumpet, n. horn; shophar (Heb.). Associated words: fanfare, buccinal.
trump up, v. devise, fabricate.
trunk, n. body, bole, stock; proboscis; chest, coffer.
truss, v. pack, compress; skewer.
trust, n. credence, confidence, belief, reliance, affiance, faith; credit, tick; assurance, confidence; duty, commission, charge. Antonyms: distrust, doubt. Associated words: fiduciary, fiducial.
trust, v. depend upon, rely upon; give credit to, tick; intrust, commit.
trustee, n. fiduciary, regent.
trustful, a. unsuspicious, confiding, credulous, confident.
trusty, a. trustworthy, faithful, reliable.
truth, n. veracity, truthfulness; accuracy, precision, exactness, correctness; verity, fact; truism, axiom; fidelity, constancy, loyalty, fealty, steadfastness; candor, frankness, ingenuousness. Antonyms: See untruth.
truthful, a. veracious, undissembling, ingenuous, veridical.
try, v. test, examine, prove; attempt, essay, endeavor; purify, refine; hear, adjudicate, adjudge; strive, seek, strain.
try, n. attempt, essay, trial, experiment. See trial.
trying, a. severe, distressing, hard, irksome, afflictive, ordeal.
trysting-place, n. rendezvous.
tub, n. firkin, keeler, keelfat, keeve, vat, piggin.
tube, n. pipe; valinch.
tubular, a. tubiform, fistular, cannular.
tuft, n. knot, bunch, clump; tussock, crest.
tumble, v. heave, toss, roll, pitch; topple.
tumble-down, a. (Colloq.) dilapidated, ramshackle.
tumbler, n. acrobat, contortionist.
tumor, n. sarcoma; myoma; carcinoma; lipoma. Associated words: oncology, oncotomy.
tumult, n. commotion, hurly-burly, turbulence.
tumultuous, a. disorderly, turbulent, noisy, riotous.
tune, n. air, melody; order, harmony, unison, concord, accord.
tune, v. attune, modulate, harmonize.
tuneful, a. melodious, harmonious.
tuneless, a. inharmonious, discordant, dissonant.
tunnel, n. funnel; subway.
turf, n. sward, sod, greensward; peat.
turmoil, n. commotion, uproar, tumult, turbulence, agitation.
turn, v. revolve, spin, gyrate, rotate, wheel, veer, shift, swivel; deflect, inflect; reverse, revert; divert, avert; invert; resort, apply.
turn, n. bend, winding, meander, curve, detour, deflection, crook, sweep; favor, kindness, service, accommodation.
turn aside. divert, avert, deflect, parry.
turned away. averted.
turning, n. rotation, revolution, spinning, gyration; eversion, extroversion; flexure, flexion, incurvation; deviation, deflection; circumrotation.
turning, a. revolving, rotary, rotating, gyratory, winding, circumrotary.
turning aside. averting, deviation, diversion, deflection, parry.
turning back. retroversion, retroflexion.
turning inward. introversion.
turning over or backward. inversion, reversal.
turning point. crisis; pivot. Associated words: pivotal, critical.
turning upside down. inversion, reversal.
turning wrong side out. extroversion, eversion.
turnip-shaped, a. napiform.
turnkey, n. warder.
turn upside down. invert, reverse.
turtle, n. tortoise; terrapin.
tussle, n. struggle, contest, scuffle, conflict.
twaddle, n. flummery, balderdash, fustian, moonshine.
twelve, n. dozen. Associated words: dodecagon, dodecahedral, dodecahedron, duodecimal, duodecimfid, duodecimo, duodecuple, duodenary.
twenty, n. score. Associated words: vicenary, vigesimal, vigesimation, icosahedron.
twenty years. Associated word: vicennial.
twig, n. spray, branch, sprig, switch.
twilight, n. dusk, evening. Associated words: crepuscular, crepusculous.
twine, v. entwine, encircle, wreathe.
twinkle, v. blink, wink; flash, sparkle, scintillate.
twinkling, n. sparkling, scintillation, flash, twinkle.
twist, v. contort, writhe, squirm, convolve, pervert, coil, wrench, distort.
twisted, a. contorted, awry, tortuous, coiled, perverted.
twisting, n. contortion, convolution, writhing, torsion, wrench, distortion, perversion.
twit, v. taunt, upbraid, reproach.
twitch, n. jerk; twitching, vellication.--v. jerk, snatch, vellicate.
twitter, n. chirp, chirrup.
two, n. couple, pair, brace, doublet, dyad, team, span, twain; twins. Associated words: dual, duality, double, dualism, duplex, duplicate, duplication, bifarious, binary, dimidiate, dimidiation, duet, dialogue, duarchy, bisect, bisection, halve.
two bodies. Associated word: bicorporal.
two colors. Associated words: dichromatic, dichromatism, dichromic.
two-faced, a. Janus-faced, bifacial.
two fingers. Associated word: bidigitate.
twofold, a. double, duplicate.
two-footed, a. biped.
two-footed animal. biped.
two-forked, a. bifurcated, bifurcate, dichotomous.
two-handed, a. bimanous; ambidextrous.
two-handed animals. Bimana.
two-headed, a. bicephalous.
two hundred years. Associated words: bicentenary, bicentennial.
two languages. Associated words: bilingual, diglot, bilingualism, bilinguist.
two-legged, a. biped.
two letters. Associated words: biliteral, biliteralism, diphthong, digraph, duoliteral.
two months. Associated word: bi-monthly.
two parties. Associated words: bipartisan, bipartisanship.
two parts. Associated words: bipartible, bipartite, bipartition, bipartient, bisect, bisection.
two poles. Associated words: bipolar, bipolarity.
two-sided, a. double-faced, bilateral.
two weeks, fortnight. Associated words: bi-weekly, fortnightly.
two years. Associated words: biennial, biennially.
type, n. symbol, token, representation; model, exemplar, phototype, archetype. Antonyms: antitype, variant, monstrosity.
typesetter, n. compositor; typograph (machine).
typhoid fever. enteric fever.
typical, a. emblematical, prefigurative, representative, indicative. Antonyms: atypical, abnormal, variant, unique.
typify, v. represent, prefigure.
typographer, n. printer.
typography, n. printing.
tyrannical, a. despotic, arbitrary, autocratic, imperious, absolute, dictatorial, domineering, oppressive, tyrannic.
tyrannize, v. domineer, persecute, oppress.
tyranny, n. despotism, absolutism, oppression, rigor, severity.
tyrant, n. despot, autocrat; oppressor, persecutor, usurper.