wood, n. forest, wold, grove, woodland, timberland, copse.
woodbine, n. honeysuckle, caprifole, eglantine; Virginia creeper.
woodcoal, n. charcoal; lignite, brown coal.
wood-engraving, n. xylography; woodcut.
wooden shoe. sabot, clog.
woodman, n. forester.
wood-nymph, n. dryad, hamadryad.
woods, n. pl. forest.
wood-sugar, n. xylose.
woody, a. wooden, ligneous; sylvan, bosky.
wooing, n. courtship.
wool, n. fleece; worsted, merino, pelotage; mortling, Associated words: laniferous, lanifical, lanigerous, lanolin, depilate, depilation, depilatory.
woolly, a. downy, fleecy, nappy, lanate.
word, n. term, vocable; etymon, root; derivative; signal, order, command; promise, affirmation, parole.
wordbook, n. dictionary, lexicon, thesaurus, glossary.
word for word. verbatim, literally.
wordiness, n. verbosity, prolixity, verbiage, pleonasm, redundancy.
wording, n. phrasing.
words, n. pl. phraseology; vocabulary. Associated words: glossary, glossarist, glossography, glossology, glossologist, lexicology, lexicologist, etymology, etymologist, etymologize, neology, lexicography, terminology, paronomasia, pun, punning, onomatopœoea, syncope, syncopation, literal, literally, literalism, transliteration, verbal, verbalist, verbalism, battology, logomachy, logomachist, verbarium, apocope, kyriology, metonomy, autonomasia, multiloquence, perissology, purism, purist, elision, polysynthesis, coin, coinage, apheresis, aphetic, aphetism, aphesis, onomatopoiesis, metaphrase, acrostic, rebus, synecdoche, verbicide, verbomaniac, locution.
words of an opera. libretto. Associated word: librettist.
wordy, a. diffuse, prolix, verbose, redundant, pleonastic. Antonyms: terse, succinct, laconic.
work, v. toil, labor, strive; drudge, slave; operate, manipulate, perform; ferment, effervesce. Antonyms: shirk, idle, dabble, loaf, soldier (Colloq.).
work, n. industry, toil, labor, employment, occupation; effort, exertion, striving; drudgery; diligence, assiduity; business, duty, job, task; magnum opus. Antonyms: idleness, dalliance, trifling, sloth, sluggardy, truancy, dabbling, dilettanteism, relaxation, leisure, vacation.
work-bag, n. reticule.
worker, n. artisan, artificer, craftsman, handicraftsman, journeyman, mechanic, workman, laborer, operative, industrial. Antonyms: idler, drone, dabbler, sluggard, truant, dilettante, loafer, shirker.
working, a. industrious.
working together. coöperation; collusion; concurrence; collaboration.
workman, n. artisan, artificer, craftsman, journeyman. See worker.
work together. coöperate; collude; concur; collaborate.
world, n. earth, creation, universe, cosmos; globe; planet; macrocosm, microcosm. Associated words: cosmology, cosmologist, cosmography, cosmogony, cosmographer, cosmogonist, cosmometry, cosmoplastic, cosmic, cosmolatry, cosmopolite, cosmopolitan, cataclysm, ante-mundane, secularize, secularization, secularist, supermundane, geography, geology, paleontology, tellurian, telluric.
wordliness, n. secularity, secularism.
worldly, a. terrestrial, earthly, mundane, terrene; secular, temporal.
worldly-minded, a. irreligious, sordid, groveling.
worm, v. wriggle, insinuate.
worm killer. vermicide.
worm medicine. vermifuge, anthelmintic, helminthagogue.
worms, n. pl. Associated words: helminthology, helminthologist, vermeology, vermeologist, vermifugal, verminivorous, vermin, vermiculate, vermiculated, vermiculation, tænifuge, helminthic, helminthiasis, vermicious, vermicular, vermiculose, anthelmintic, wormy.
worm-shaped, a. vermiform, vermicular, wormlike.
worn away. eroded, abraded, attrite.
worry, v. harass, vex, annoy, torment, tease, fret, trouble, pester, badger, harry, importune; be anxious, be solicitous, fret.
worry, a. anxiety, fretting, apprehension, concern, solicitude. Antonym: unconcern.
worrying, a. anxious, distressing, carking.
worship, n. adoration, homage; idolatry, deification, apotheosis. Associated words: liturgies, liturgy, ritual, cult, fetish, fetishism, totem, totemism.
worship, v. adore, revere; idolize, deify, apotheosize, glorify.
worst, v. defeat, vanquish, conquer, overcome, overthrow, discomfit, rout.
worth, n. worthiness, excellence, virtue, merit, integrity, honor; value.
worthless, a. valueless, good-for-nothing, futile, trashy, unworthy, trumpery, scurvy, contemptible.
worthy, a. meritorious, excellent, estimable, deserving, reputable, exemplary, upright.
would-be, a. self-styled, soi-disant, presumptuous.
wound, n. hurt, injury, scath, lesion, trauma; traumatism. Associated words: vulnerable, vulnerability, invulnerable, invulnerability, vulnerary, vulnific, sanies, sanious, pledget, spleget, dossil, ichor, probe, antiseptic, inviolable, violable, tent, autoplasty.
wound, v. injure, scath, hurt, maim, disable.
wrangle, n. altercation, dispute, squabble, brawl, bickering, quarrel.
wrangle, v. altercate, dispute, squabble, bicker, quarrel.
wrangler, n. disputant.
wrap, v. infold, swathe, bemuffle, envelop, muffle, swaddle.
wrapper, n. house-dress; negligee, kimono, peignoir; envelope, wrap, covering, capsule; tillot.
wrath, n. See anger.
wreath, n. garland, chaplet, festoon, crown.
wreck, n. desolation, ruin, havoc, devastation, ravage debris, derelict.
wreck, v. demolish, destroy, ruin, shatter, strand, founder, undo, raze.
wrest, v. wrench, wring, extort; distort, pervert, garble, falsify, misconstrue.
wretch, n. outcast, pariah, pilgarlic, vagabond, knave, rogue, scoundrel, caitiff, miscreant, scapegrace, villain, rascal, renegade, reprobate, rake, scullion, poltroon, varlet, ronion, libertine, blackguard, cullion, bezonian.
wretched, a. miserable, unhappy; contemptible, abject, despicable, paltry.
wring, v. writhe, squeeze, pinch; distort, pervert, wrest, exact, extort.
wrinkle, n. corrugation, pucker, crease, furrow, rumple, crinkle, ruck; (Colloq.) notion, fancy, whim, caprice, vagary, freak, whimsey; pl. crow's feet.
wrinkle, v. rumple, pucker, corrugate, crease, cockle, ruck, crumple.
wrinkled, a. corrugated, rumpled, puckered, cockled, creased, rugous.
wrist, n. carpus. Associated words: carpal, carpale.
write, v. inscribe, indite; superscribe (write on the top or outside of anything); subscribe.
writer, n. scribe, scrivener, penman, secretary, amanuensis, correspondent, essayist, clerk, copyist, author, hack, calligrapher.
writing, n. handwriting, chirography, penmanship, hand, calligraphy; document, writ, indenture, debenture, certificate, charter, holograph; inscription, superscription, subscription. Associated words: graphology, agraphia, graphomania, cacoëthes scribendi, cursive, uncial, clerical, stylus, planchette, scotograph script, literary, cacography.
writing-desk, n. secretary, escritoire.
writing-room, n. scriptorium.
written above. superscript, suprascript.
written under. subscript, subscribed.
wrong, a. immoral, bad, wicked, sinful, evil, improper, criminal, vicious, unjust, contraband, wrongful, iniquitous, blameworthy, reprehensible, base, crooked, sinister; erroneous, mistaken, untrue, false, inaccurate, inexact, incorrect; inappropriate, unsuitable; reverse.
wrong, n. injustice, inequity, oppression, disservice, trespass, transgression, injury, tort, offense, grievance, detriment; error, falsity; immorality, vice, iniquity, sin, evil, improbity, guilt, misdoing, malpractice, offense, delinquency, peccancy, dereliction, mischief, obliquity, misdemeanor.--adv. amiss, erroneously.
wrong, v. cheat, damnify, defraud, maltreat, abuse.
wrong-doer, n. sinner, criminal, culprit, delinquent, offender, malefactor, transgressor, miscreant, profligate, pervert, crook, prevaricator.
wrong-doing, n. misdemeanor, malfeasance, malpractice, malversation, dereliction, iniquity, sin, immorality, wickedness, indiscretion, prevarication, chicanery, delinquency, transgression, graft, malfaction, demerit, default.
wrong-timed, a. ill-timed, inopportune, unseasonable.
wrought, a. worked, elaborated, finished.
wrought up. excited, perturbed, distracted, discomposed, agitated.
wry, a. twisted, distorted, awry; wrested, perverted.
wryneck, n. torticollis.