N. greatness, magnitude, size, multitude,
immensity,
enormity, infinity, might, strength, intensity, fullness, importance, great quantity, quantity, deal, power, sight, pot, volume, world, mass,
heap, stock,
peck,
bushel, load,
cargo, cartload,
wagonload,
shipload, flood, spring tide, abundance, principal part, chief part, main part, greater part, major part, best part, essential part, bulk, mass
V. be great, run high,
soar, tower,
transcend, rise to a great height, carry to a great height, know no bounds,
ascend, mount,
enlarge, (expand) 194
Adj. great, greater, large, considerable, fair, above par,
big, huge,
herculean,
cyclopean, ample, abundant full, intense, strong, sound, passing, heavy,
plenary, deep, high, signal, at its height, in the zenith,
world-wide,
widespread,
far-famed, extensive,
wholesale, many, goodly, noble, precious, mighty,
sad,
grave, heavy, serious, far gone,
arrant,
downright, utter,
uttermost,
crass, gross, arch, profound, intense,
consummate, rank,
uninitiated,
red-hot,
desperate,
glaring,
flagrant, stark staring,
thorough-paced,
thoroughgoing,
roaring,
thumping, extraordinary, important, unsurpassed, complete, august, grand,
dignified,
sublime,
majestic, vast, immense, enormous, extreme,
inordinate, excessive,
extravagant,
exorbitant,
outrageous,
preposterous,
unconscionable,
swinging,
monstrous, overgrown, towering,
stupendous,
prodigious,
astonishing,
incredible,
marvelous, unlimited, unapproachable, unutterable, indescribable,
ineffable, unspeakable, inexpressible, beyond expression,
fabulous, undiminished,
unabated, unreduced, unrestricted, absolute, positive,
stark, decided,
unequivocal, essential, perfect, finished, remarkable, of mark, marked, pointed, veriest, noteworthy,
renowned Adv. truly, decidedly,
unequivocally, purely, absolutely, seriously, essentially, fundamentally, radically,
downright, in all conscience, for the most part, in the main, entirely, abundantly, widely, far and wide, greatly, much,
muckle, well, indeed, very, very much, a deal, no end of, most, not a little, pretty, pretty well, enough, in a great measure, richly, to a large extent, to a great extent, to a gigantic extent, on a large scale, so, never so, ever so, ever so dole,
scrap,
shred,
tag,
splinter,
rag, much, by wholesale, mighty, powerfully, with a witness,
ultra, in the extreme, extremely, exceedingly, intensely,
exquisitely, acutely, indefinitely,
immeasurably, beyond compare, beyond comparison, beyond measure, beyond all bounds,
incalculably, infinitely, preeminently,
superlatively, immoderately,
monstrously,
preposterously,
inordinately,
exorbitantly, excessively, enormously, out of all proportion, with a vengeance, particularly, remarkably, singularly, curiously, uncommonly, unusually, peculiarly, notably, signally, strikingly, pointedly, mainly, chiefly, famously,
egregiously, prominently,
glaringly,
emphatically, κατ’ ἐξοχήν, strangely, wonderfully,
amazingly, surprisingly,
astonishingly,
incredibly,
marvelously,
awfully,
stupendously, peculiarly,
furiously, severely,
desperately,
tremendously,
extravagantly, confoundedly, deucedly,
devilishly, with a vengeance, a outrance, a toute outrance, painfully,
sadly, grossly,
sorely, bitterly,
piteously,
grievously,
miserably, cruelly,
woefully,
lamentably,
shockingly,
frightfully,
dreadfully,
fearfully,
terribly,
horribly Phr. a maximis ad minima, "greatness knows itself", "mightiest powers by deepest calms are fed", minimum decet libere cui multum licet, "some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon them"
N. interment, burial,
sepulture, inhumation|,
obsequies,
exequies, funeral,
wake,
pyre, funeral pile,
cremation, funeral, funeral rite, funeral solemnity,
kneel, passing bell,
tolling,
dirge,
cypress, orbit, dead march, muffled drum,
mortuary, undertaker,
mute,
elegy, funeral, funeral oration, funeral sermon,
epitaph,
graveclothes,
shroud, winding sheet,
cerecloth,
cerement,
coffin, shell,
sarcophagus,
urn,
pall,
bier,
hearse,
catafalque, cinerary urn,
grave, pit,
sepulcher, tomb,
vault,
crypt,
catacomb,
mausoleum,
golgotha, house of death, narrow house,
cemetery,
necropolis, burial place, burial ground, grave yard, church yard, god's acre,
tope,
cromlech,
barrow,
tumulus,
cairn,
ossuary, bone house, charnel house, dead house,
morgue, lich gate, burning ghat,
crematorium,
crematory, dokhma, mastaba, potter's field,
stupa, tower of silence,
sexton,
gravedigger, monument,
cenotaph,
shrine, grave stone, head stone, tomb stone, memento mori,
hatchment, stone,
obelisk, pyramid,
exhumation,
disinterment,
necropsy,
autopsy, post mortem examination, zoothapsis
V. inter,
bury, lay in the grave, consign to the grave, lay in the tomb,
entomb, in tomb, inhume, lay out, perform a funeral,
embalm,
mummify, toll the knell, put to bed with a shovel,
inurn,
exhume,
disinter, unearth
Adv. in memoriam, post obit, post mortem, beneath the sod
Phr. hic jacet, ci-git,
rip, requiescat in pace, "the lone couch of his everlasting sleep", "without a grave- unknell'd, uncoffin'd, and unknown", "in the dark union of insensate dust", "the deep cold shadow of the tomb", 2. special vitality
N. engraving,
chalcography, line engraving, mezzotint engraving, stipple engraving, chalk engraving, dry point,
bur,
etching,
aquatinta,
chiseling, plate engraving, copperplate engraving, steel engraving, wood engraving,
xylography, lignography,
glyptography,
cerography,
lithography,
chromolithography,
photolithography,
zincography,
glyphography,
xylograph, lignograph, glyptograph,
cerograph,
lithograph,
chromolithograph,
photolithograph, zincograph,
glyphograph,
holograph, impression, print, engraving, plate, steelplate,
copperplate,
etching,
mezzotint,
aquatint,
lithotint, cut,
woodcut,
stereotype,
graphotype,
autotype,
heliotype, graver,
burin, etching point, style, plate, stone, wood block, negative, die,
punch, stamp, printing, plate printing, copperplate printing, anastatic printing, color printing, lithographic printing, type printing, three-color process, illustration,
illumination, half tone,
photogravure,
vignette, initial letter, cul de lampe,
tailpiece,
lapidary,
lapidarian Phr. sculpsit, imprimit
N. importance, consequence, moment, prominence, consideration, mark, materialness, import, significance,
concern,
emphasis, interest, greatness, superiority,
notability, weight, value, usefulness, gravity, seriousness,
solemnity, no joke, no laughing matter, pressure,
urgency, stress, matter of life and death,
memorabilia,
notabilia, great doings, red-letter day, great thing, great point, main chance, "the be all and the end all", cardinal point, substance,
gist, sum and substance,
gravamen, head and front, important part, principal part, prominent part, essential part, half the battle, sine qua non, breath of one's nostrils,
cream, salt,
core,
kernel, heart, nucleus,
keynote,
keystone, corner stone, trump card, salient points, top sawyer, first fiddle,
prima donna, chief, triton among the minnows, "it"
V. be important, be somebody, be something, import,
signify, matter,
boot, be an object, carry weight, make a figure, be in the ascendant, come to the front, lead the way, take the lead, play first fiddle, throw all else into the shade, lie at the root of, deserve notice, merit notice, be worthy of notice, be worthy of regard, be worthy of consideration, attach importance to, ascribe importance to, give importance to, value, care for, set store upon, set store by, mark, mark with a white stone, underline, write in italics, put in italics, print in italics, print in capitals, print in large letters, put in large type, put in letters, of gold,
accentuate,
emphasize, lay stress on, make a fuss about, make a fuss over, make a stir about, make a piece of work about, make much ado about, make much ado of, make much of
Adj. important, of importance,
momentous, material, to the point, not to be overlooked, not to be despised, not to be sneezed at,
egregious,
weighty, of note, notable, prominent,
salient, signal, memorable, remarkable,
unforgettable, worthy of remark, worthy of notice, never to be forgotten,
stirring, eventful,
grave, serious, earnest, noble, grand, solemn, impressive, commanding, imposing,
urgent, pressing, critical, instant,
paramount, essential, vital, all-absorbing, radical, cardinal, chief, main, prime, primary, principal, leading, capital, foremost, overruling, of vital &c. importance, in the front rank,
first-rate, superior, considerable, marked, rare,
significant, telling,
trenchant,
emphatic,
pregnant, tanti
Adv. materially, in the main, above all, κατ’ ἐξοχήν, par excellence, to crown all, to beat all
Phr. expende hannibalem, [Lat] [Juvenal]
N. inexcitability, imperturbability,
inirritability, even temper, tranquil mind, dispassion,
tolerance,
patience, coolth, passiveness,
hebetude,
hebetation,
impassibility,
stupefaction, coolness, calmness,
composure,
placidity, indisturbance,
imperturbation, sang froid, tranquility,
serenity, quiet,
quietude, peace of mind, mental calmness,
staidness, gravity,
sobriety,
quakerism, philosophy,
equanimity,
stoicism, command of temper,
self-possession,
self-control,
self-command,
self-restraint, ice water in one's veins, presence of mind, submission,
resignation,
sufferance,
supportance,
endurance, longsufferance,
forbearance,
longanimity,
fortitude, patience of job, patience "on a monument", patience "sovereign o'er transmuted ill",
moderation, repression of feelings, subjugation of feeling, restraint,
tranquillization V. be composed, laisser faire, laisser aller, take things easily, take things as they come, take it easy, rub on, live and let live, take easily, take cooly, take in good part, aequam servare mentem, bear the brunt, bear well, go through, support,
endure,
brave, disregard,
tolerate, suffer, stand,
bide,
abide,
aby, bear with, put up with, take up with, abide with,
acquiesce, submit, submit with a good grace, resign oneself to, reconcile oneself to,
brook,
digest, eat,
swallow,
pocket, stomach, make light of, make the best of, make "a virtue of necessity", put a good face on, keep one's countenance, check check oneself,
compose,
appease,
propitiate, repress, render insensible, overcome one's excitability, allay one's excitability, repress one's excitability, master one's feelings, make oneself easy, make one's mind easy, set one's mind at ease, set one's mind at rest, calm down, cool down, gentle,
thaw, grow cool, be borne, be endured, go down
Adj. inexcitable, unexcitable,
imperturbable,
unsusceptible,
unpassionate,
dispassionate,
cold-blooded,
irritable,
enduring,
stoical,
platonic, philosophic,
staid, stayed,
sober, sober minded,
grave, sober as a judge, grave as a judge,
sedate,
demure,
cool-headed,
easy-going, peaceful,
placid, calm, quiet as a mouse,
tranquil,
serene, cool as a cucumber, cool as a custard, undemonstrative, temperate, composed, collected, unexcited,
unstirred,
unruffled, undisturbed, unperturbed,
unimpassioned,
unoffended, unresisting,
meek,
tolerant, patient, patient as job,
submissive,
tame, content, resigned,
chastened, subdued,
lamblike, gentle as a lamb, suaviter in modo, mild as mothers milk, soft as peppermint, armed with patience, bearing with, clement,
long-suffering Adv. "like patience on a monument smiling at grief", aequo animo, in cold blood, more in sorrow than in anger
Phr. "cool calm and collected", keep calm in the midst of a storm, "adversity's sweet milk, philosophy", mens aequa in arduis philosophia stemma non inspecite, quo me cumque rapit tempestas deferor hospes, "they also serve who only stand and wait", section ii, personal affections 1, passive affections
N. painfulness, trouble, care, trial,
affliction,
infliction, blow, stroke, burden, load,
curse, bitter pill, bitter draught, waters of bitterness,
annoyance,
grievance,
nuisance,
vexation,
mortification, sickener, bore, bother,
pother, hot water, "sea of troubles", hornet's nest, plague,
pest,
cancer,
ulcer,
sting,
thorn,
canker,
scorpion,
dagger,
scourge, carking care, canker worm of care,
mishap, misfortune, desagrement, esclandre,
rub, source of irritation, source of annoyance, wound, open sore, sore subject, skeleton in the closet, thorn in the flesh, thorn in one's side, where the shoe pinches, gall and wormwood, sorry sight, heavy news,
provocation,
affront, "head and front of one's offending",
infestation,
molestation,
malignity V. cause pain, occasion pain, give pain, bring pain, induce pain, produce pain, create pain, inflict pain, pain,
hurt, wound,
pinch,
prick,
gripe,
pierce, lancinate, cut, hurt the feelings, wound the feelings, grate upon the feelings, grate upon the nerves, jar upon the feelings, wring the heart, pierce the heart, lacerate the heart, break the heart, rend the heart, make the heart bleed, tear the heart strings, rend the heart strings, draw tears from the eyes,
sadden, make unhappy, plunge into sorrow,
grieve,
fash,
afflict, distress, cut up, cut to the heart, displease,
annoy,
incommode,
discompose, trouble, disquiet,
faze,
feaze, feeze (u .s.),
disturb, cross,
perplex,
molest,
tease,
tire,
irk,
vex,
mortify, wherret|,
worry, plague, bother,
pester, bore,
pother,
harass,
harry,
badger,
heckle,
bait,
beset,
infest,
persecute,
importune,
wring,
harrow,
torment,
torture,
bullyrag, put to the rack, put to the question, break on the wheel,
rack,
scarify,
cruciate,
crucify,
convulse,
agonize, barb the dart, plant a dagger in the breast, plant a thorn in one's side,
irritate,
provoke,
sting,
nettle, try the patience,
pique,
fret,
rile, tweak the nose,
chafe, gall, sting to the quick, wound to the quick, cut to the quick,
aggrieve,
affront,
enchafe,
enrage,
ruffle, sour the temper, give offense,
maltreat,
bite, snap at,
assail,
smite,
sicken,
disgust, revolt,
nauseate,
disenchant,
repel,
offend,
shock, stink in the nostrils, go against the stomach, turn the stomach, make one sick, set the teeth on edge, go against the grain, grate on the ear, stick in one's throat, stick in one's gizzard,
rankle,
gnaw,
corrode,
horrify, appal,
appall, freeze the blood, make the flesh creep, make the hair stand on end, make the blood curdle, make the blood run cold, make one shudder, haunt the memory, weigh on the heart, prey on the heart, weigh on the mind, prey on the mind, weigh on the spirits, prey on the spirits, bring one's gray hairs with sorrow to the grave, add a nail to one's coffin
Adj. causing pain,
hurting,
hurtful, painful,
dolorific,
dolorous, unpleasant, unpleasing, displeasing, disagreeable,
unpalatable, bitter, distasteful, uninviting,
unwelcome, undesirable, undesired,
obnoxious, unacceptable, unpopular,
thankless, unsatisfactory, untoward,
unlucky, uncomfortable, distressing,
afflicting,
afflictive, joyless,
cheerless, comfortless,
dismal,
disheartening,
depressing,
depressive,
dreary,
melancholy,
grievous,
piteous,
woeful,
rueful,
mournful,
deplorable,
pitiable,
lamentable,
sad, affecting, touching,
pathetic,
irritating,
provoking,
stinging,
annoying,
aggravating,
mortifying, galling,
unaccommodating,
invidious,
vexatious,
troublesome,
tiresome,
irksome,
wearisome, plaguing,
plaguy,
awkward,
importunate,
teasing,
pestering,
bothering,
harassing,
worrying,
tormenting,
carking,
intolerable, insufferable, insupportable, unbearable, unendurable, past bearing, not to be borne, not to be endured, more than flesh and blood can bear, enough to drive one mad, enough to provoke a saint, enough to make a parson swear, enough to gag a maggot,
shocking,
terrific,
grim,
appalling,
crushing,
dreadful, fearful,
frightful,
thrilling,
tremendous,
dire,
heart-breaking,
heart-rending,
heart-wounding,
heart-corroding, heart-sickening,
harrowing,
rending,
odious,
hateful,
execrable,
repulsive,
repellent,
abhorrent,
horrid,
horrible,
horrific,
horrifying, offensive,
nauseous,
nauseating,
disgusting,
sickening, revolting,
nasty,
loathsome,
loathful,
fulsome,
vile,
hideous, sharp, acute,
sore, severe,
grave, hard, harsh, cruel,
biting,
caustic, cutting,
corroding,
consuming,
racking,
excruciating, searching,
grinding,
grating,
agonizing,
envenomed,
catheretic,
pyrotic,
ruinous, disastrous,
calamitous,
tragical,
desolating,
withering,
burdensome,
onerous,
oppressive,
cumbrous,
cumbersome Adv. painfully, with pain,
deuced Int. hinc illae lachrymae, phr, surgit amari aliquid, the place being too hot to hold one, the iron entering into the soul, "he jests at scars that never felt a wound", "i must be cruel only to be kind", "what deep wounds ever closed without a scar?"
Vice Roget’s Thesaurus §945 N. vice, evil-doing, evil courses,
wrongdoing, wickedness,
viciousness, iniquity,
peccability,
demerit, sin, adam|, old adam, offending adam, immorality, impropriety,
indecorum,
scandal,
laxity, looseness of morals, enphagy, dophagy, exophagy, want of principle, want of ballast,
obliquity,
backsliding,
infamy,
demoralization,
pravity,
depravity,
pollution, hardness of heart,
brutality, corruption,
knavery,
profligacy,
flagrancy,
atrocity,
cannibalism, lesbianism, sadism,
infirmity, weakness, weakness of the flesh,
frailty, imperfection, error, weak side,
foible, failing, failure, crying sin, besetting sin, defect,
deficiency, cloven foot, lowest dregs of vice, sink of iniquity, alsatian den, gusto picaresco, fault, crime,
criminality,
sinner,
brothel, gambling house, joint*, opium den, shooting gallery, crack house
V. be vicious, sin, commit sin, do amiss,
err,
transgress, misdemean oneself, forget oneself, misconduct oneself,
misdo,
misbehave, fall,
lapse, slip,
trip,
offend,
trespass, deviate from the line of duty, deviate from the path of virtue, take a wrong course, go astray, hug a sin, hug a fault, sow one's wild oats, render vicious,
demoralize,
brutalize, corrupt
Adj. vicious, sinful,
sinning, wicked,
iniquitous, immoral, unrighteous, wrong, criminal,
naughty, incorrect,
unduteous,
undutiful, unprincipled, lawless, disorderly, contra bonos mores,
indecorous, unseemly, improper,
dissolute,
profligate,
scampish, unworthy, worthless, desertless, disgraceful,
recreant,
reprehensible,
blameworthy,
uncommendable, discreditable,
disreputable, sadistic, base,
sinister,
scurvy, foul, gross,
vile, black,
grave, facinorous|,
felonious,
nefarious, shameful,
scandalous, infamous,
villainous, of a deep dye,
heinous,
flagrant,
flagitious,
atrocious,
incarnate,
accursed,
mephistophelian,
satanic,
diabolic,
hellish,
infernal,
stygian,
fiendlike, hell-born,
demoniacal,
devilish,
fiendish, miscreated,
misbegotten,
demoralized, corrupt,
depraved,
evil-minded, evil-disposed,
ill-conditioned,
malevolent, heartless, graceless, shameless, virtueless, abandoned, lost to virtue,
unconscionable, sunk in iniquity, lost in iniquity, steeped in iniquity,
incorrigible,
irreclaimable,
obdurate,
reprobate, past praying for,
culpable,
reprehensible,
unjustifiable,
indefensible,
inexcusable,
inexpiable,
unpardonable,
irremissible, weak,
frail,
lax, infirm, imperfect,
indiscrete,
demoralizing,
degrading Int. o tempora, o mores, phr, alitur vitium vivitque tegendo, genus est mortis male vivere, mala mens malus animus, nemo repente fuit turpissimus, "the trail of the serpent is over them all", "to sanction vice and hunt decorum down", [Note 1 - Most of these adjectives are applicable both to the act and to the agent.]