N. inexistence, nonexistence, nonsubsistence, # nonentity,
nil, negativeness,
nullity,
nihility,
nihilism, tabula rasa,
blank,
abeyance, absence, no such thing, nonbeing, nothingness,
oblivion,
annihilation,
extinction,
extinguishment,
extirpation,
nirvana,
obliteration V. not exist, have no existence, be null and void, cease to exist, pass away, perish, be extinct, become extinct, die out, disappear, melt away,
dissolve, leave not a rack behind, go, be no more, die,
annihilate, render null,
nullify,
abrogate, destroy, take away, remove,
obliterate,
extirpate Adj. inexistent,
nonexistent, negative,
blank, missing, omitted, absent, insubstantial,
shadowy,
spectral,
visionary, unreal, potential,
virtual, baseless, in nubibus, unsubstantial, vain, unborn, uncreated,
unbegotten, unconceived, unproduced, unmade, perished,
annihilated,
&c. v, extinct, exhausted, gone, lost,
vanished, departed, gone with the wind,
defunct,
fabulous,
ideal,
supposititious Adv. negatively, virtually
Phr. non ens, 2, being, in the concrete
N. prototype, original, model, pattern,
precedent, standard,
ideal, reference,
scantling, type,
archetype,
antitype,
protoplast,
module,
exemplar, example,
ensample,
paradigm, lay-figure, text, copy, design,
fugleman,
keynote, die,
mold,
matrix, last,
plasm,
proplasm, protoplasm,
mint, seal,
punch,
intaglio, negative, stamp
V. be an example, be a role model, set an example, set a copy
Phr. a precedent embalms a principle, exempla sunt odiosa, 4, general relation
N. completeness, completion,
integration, allness,
entirety, perfection,
solidity,
solidarity, unity, all, ne plus ultra,
ideal, limit,
complement, supplement, make-weight, filling, up,
impletion,
saturation, saturity|, high water, high tide, flood tide, spring tide, fill, load,
bumper,
bellyful,
brimmer,
sufficiency V. be complete, come to a head, render complete, complete, fill, charge, load,
replenish, make up, make good, piece out, eke out, supply deficiencies, fill up, fill in, fill to the brim, fill the measure of,
saturate, go the whole hog, go the whole length, go all lengths
Adj. complete, entire, whole, perfect, full, good, absolute, thorough,
plenary, solid, undivided, with all its parts, all- sided,
exhaustive, radical,
sweeping, thorough-going, dead, regular,
consummate,
unmitigated, sheer, unqualified,
unconditional, free, abundant,
brimming,
brimful, topful,
topfull, chock full, choke full, as full as an egg is of meat, as full as a vetch,
saturated,
crammed,
replete,
fraught,
laden,
full-laden, full-fraught,
full-charged, heavy laden, completing,
supplemental,
supplementary,
ascititious Adv. completely, altogether, outright, wholly, totally, in toto, quite, all out, over head and ears,
effectually, for good and all, nicely, fully, through thick and thin, head and shoulders, neck and heel, neck and crop, in all respects, in every respect, at all points, out and out, to all intents and purposes, toto coelo, utterly, clean, clean as a whistle, to the full, to the utmost, to the backbone, hollow,
stark, heart and soul, root and branch, down to the ground, to the top of one's bent, as far as possible, a outrance, throughout, from first to last, from beginning to end, from end to end, from one end to the other, from dan to beersheba, from head to foot, from top to toe, from top to bottom, de fond en comble, a fond, a capite ad calcem, ab ovo usque ad mala, fore and aft, every,
whit, every inch, cap-a-pie, to the end of the chapter, up to the brim, up to the ears, up to the eyes, as, as can be, on all accounts, sous tous les rapports, with a vengeance, with a witness
Phr. falsus in uno falsus in omnibus, omnem movere lapidem, una scopa nuova spazza bene
Error Roget’s Thesaurus §495 N. error,
fallacy, misconception,
misapprehension, misstanding, misunderstanding, inexactness,
laxity, misconstruction,
miscomputation,
non sequitur, mis-statement, mis-report, mumpsimus, mistake, miss, fault,
blunder, quiproquo, cross purposes, oversight, misprint,
erratum,
corrigendum, slip,
blot,
flaw, loose thread,
trip,
stumble,
botchery, slip of the tongue, slip of the lip, freudian slip, slip of the pen, lapsus linguae, clerical error, bull, haplography,
illusion,
delusion,
snare, false impression, false idea,
bubble, self- decit,
self-deception, mists of error, heresy,
hallucination, false light, dream,
fable,
bias, misleading
V. be erroneous, cause error, mislead, misguide, lead astray, lead into error,
beguile,
misinform,
delude, give a false impression, give a false idea,
falsify, misstate,
deceive, lie,
err, be -in error, be mistaken, be deceived, mistake, receive a false impression, deceive oneself, fall into error, lie under error, labor under an error, be in the wrong,
blunder,
misapprehend, misconceive, misunderstand,
misreckon, miscount,
miscalculate, play at cross purposes, be at cross purposes,
trip,
stumble, lose oneself, go astray, fail, be in the wrong box, take the wrong sow by the ear, put the saddle on the wrong horse, reckon without one's host, take the shadow for the substance, dream
Adj. erroneous, untrue, false, devoid of truth,
fallacious,
apocryphal, unreal, ungrounded, groundless, unsubstantial,
heretical, unsound,
illogical, inexact, unexact inaccurate, incorrect, indefinite,
illusive,
illusory,
delusive,
mock,
ideal,
spurious,
deceitful,
perverted,
controvertible,
unsustainable,
unauthenticated, untrustworthy,
exploded,
refuted, discarded, in error, under an error, mistaken,
tripping, out, out in one's reckoning,
aberrant, beside the mark, wide of the mark, wide of the truth, way off, far off,
astray, on a false scent, on the wrong scent, in the wrong box, outside the ballpark, at cross purposes, all in the wrong, all out
Adv. more or less
Phr. errare est humanum, mentis gratissimus error, "on the dubious waves of error tost", "to err is human, to forgive divine", "you lie—under a mistake"
N. imagination, originality, invention, fancy, inspiration,
verve, warm imagination, heated imagination, excited imagination, sanguine imagination, ardent imagination, fiery imagination, boiling imagination, wild imagination, bold imagination, daring imagination, playful imagination, lively imagination, fertile imagination, fancy, "mind's eye", "such stuff as dreams are made of",
ideality,
idealism,
romanticism,
utopianism, castle-building, dreaming,
phrensy,
frenzy,
ecstasy,
extasy,
calenture,
reverie,
trance, day dream, golden dream,
somnambulism, conception, vorstellung,
excogitation, "a fine frenzy",
cloudland,
dreamland, flight of fancy, fumes of fancy, "thick coming fancies", creation of the brain, coinage of the brain,
imagery,
conceit,
maggot, figment,
myth, dream, vision, shadow,
chimera,
phantasm,
phantasy,
fantasy, fancy,
whim,
whimsey,
whimsy,
vagary,
rhapsody, romance,
gest,
geste,
extravaganza, air drawn dagger,
bugbear,
nightmare, flying dutchman, great sea serpent, man in the moon, castle in the air, pipe dream, pie-in-the-sky, chateau en espagne,
utopia,
atlantis, happy valley,
millennium,
fairyland, land of prester john, kingdom of micomicon, work of fiction, arabian nights, le pot au lait, dream of alnashar,
illusion,
phantom,
fata morgana,
vapor, stretch of the imagination, mythogenesis,
idealist,
romanticist,
visionary,
mopus, romancer, dreamer,
somnambulist,
rhapsodist, castle-buildier, fanciful projector
V. imagine, fancy, conceive,
idealize,
realize, dream, dream of, dream up, "give to airy nothing a local habitation and a name",
create,
originate,
devise,
invent, coin,
fabricate,
improvise, strike out something new, set one's wits to work, strain one's invention, crack one's invention, rack one's brains, ransack one's brains, cudgel one's brains,
excogitate, brainstorm, give play, give the reins, give a loose to the imagination, give fancy, indulge in reverie,
visualize, envision, conjure up a vision, fancy oneself, represent oneself, picture, picture-oneself, figure to oneself, vorstellen, float in the mind, suggest itself
Adj. imagined, ben trovato, air drawn, airbuilt, imagining, v,
imaginative, original,
inventive,
creative, fertile, romantic, high flown,
flighty,
extravagant,
fanatic,
enthusiastic, unrealistic,
utopian,
quixotic,
ideal, unreal, in the clouds, in nubibus, unsubsantial,
illusory,
fabulous,
legendary,
mythical,
mythic,
mythological,
chimerical, imaginary,
visionary,
notional, fancy,
fanciful,
fantastic,
fantastical,
whimsical,
fairy, fairy-like,
gestic Phr. "a change came o'er the spirit of my dream", aegri somnia vana, dolphinum appingit sylvis in fluctibus aprum, "fancy light from fancy caught", "imagination rules the world", l'imagination gallope, le jugement ne va que le pas, musaeo contingens cuncta lepore, tous songes sont mensonges, wahrheil und dichtung