N. unsubstantiality,
insubstantiality, nothingness,
nihility, no degree, no part, no quantity, no thing, nothing,
naught,
nil,
nullity, zero,
cipher, no one,
nobody, never a one, ne'er a one, no such thing, none in the world, nothing whatever, nothing at all, nothing on earth, not a particle, all talk,
moonshine, stuff and nonsense, matter of no importance, matter of no consequence, thing of naught, man of straw, john doe and richard roe, faggot voter, nominis umbra,
nonentity, flash in the pan, vox et praeterea nihil,
shadow,
phantom, dream,
ignis fatuus, "such stuff as dreams are made of", air, thin air,
vapor,
bubble, "baseless fabric of a vision",
mockery, hollowness,
blank, void,
inanity, fool's paradise
Adj. unsubstantial, baseless, groundless, ungrounded, without foundation, having no foundation,
visionary, immaterial,
spectral,
dreamy,
shadowy,
ethereal,
airy, cloud built, cloud formed,
gossamery,
illusory, insubstantial, unreal,
vacant,
vacuous, empty,
eviscerated,
blank, hollow, nominal,
null,
inane Phr. there's nothing in it, "an ocean of dreams without a sound", 3, formal existence internal conditions
Copy Roget’s Thesaurus §21 N. copy,
facsimile,
counterpart, # effigies,
effigy, form, likeness, image, picture,
photo, xerox,
similitude,
semblance,
ectype, photo offset,
electrotype, imitation, model, representation,
adumbration, study, portrait, resemblance,
duplicate, reproduction, cast, tracing,
reflex, reflexion,
reflection,
shadow,
echo,
transcript,
transcription, recording,
scan, chip off the old block, reprint, new printing, rechauffe,
apograph, fair copy,
parody,
caricature,
burlesque,
travesty, travestie,
paraphrase,
derivative,
derivation, modification, expansion, extension, revision, second edition, servile copy, servile imitation,
plagiarism,
counterfeit,
fake,
pasticcio N. smallness, littleness,
tenuity,
paucity, fewness, meanness, insignificance (unimportance) 643,
mediocrity,
moderation, small quantity,
modicum, trace,
hint, minimum, vanishing point, material point,
atom, particle, molecule,
corpuscle, point,
speck,
dot,
mote,
jot,
iota,
ace,
minutiae, details, look, thought, idea, soupcon,
dab,
dight,
whit,
tittle, shade,
shadow,
spark,
scintilla,
gleam, touch, cast, grain,
scruple,
granule,
globule,
minim,
sup,
sip,
sop,
spice, drop,
droplet,
sprinkling,
dash,
morceau,
screed,
smack,
tinge,
tincture, inch,
patch,
scantling,
tatter,
cantlet,
flitter,
gobbet,
mite,
bit,
morsel,
crumb, seed,
fritter,
shive,
snip,
snippet,
snick,
snack,
snatch, slip,
scrag,
chip,
chipping,
shiver,
sliver,
driblet,
clipping, paring,
shaving, hair,
nutshell,
thimbleful,
spoonful, handful, capful, mouthful, fragment, fraction, drop in the ocean,
animalcule,
trifle, mere nothing, next to nothing, hardly anything, just enough to swear by, the shadow of a shade, finiteness, finite quantity
V. be small, lie in a nutshell, diminish, (contract) 195
Adj. small, little,
diminutive, minute, fine, inconsiderable,
paltry,
faint, slender, light, slight, scanty,
scant, limited,
meager,
sparing, few, low,
so-so, middling,
tolerable, no great shakes, below par, under par, below the mark, at a low ebb,
halfway, moderate, modest, tender,
subtle,
inappreciable,
evanescent,
infinitesimal,
homeopathic, very small,
atomic,
corpuscular,
microscopic, molecular, subatomic, mere, simple, sheer,
stark, bare, near run, dull, petty, shallow,
stolid, ungifted, unintelligent
Adv. to a small extent, on a small scale, a little bit, a wee bit, slightly,
imperceptibly,
miserably,
wretchedly, insufficiently, imperfectly,
faintly,
passably, pretty well, well enough, partially, in part, in a certain degree, to a certain degree, to a certain extent, comparatively, some, rather in some degree, in some measure, something, somewhat, simply, only, purely, merely, at least, at the least, at most, at the most, ever so little, as little as may be, tant soit peu, in ever so small a degree, thus far, pro tanto, within bounds, in a manner, after a fashion, so to speak, almost, nearly,
well-nigh, short of, not quite, all but, near upon, close upon, peu s'en faut, near the mark, within an ace of, within an inch of, on the brink of, scarcely, hardly, barely, only just, no more than, about,
thereabouts, somewhere about, nearly, say, be the same, be little more or less, no ways, no way, no wise, not at all, not in the least, not a bit, not a bit of it, not a whit, not a jot, not a shadow, in no wise, in no respect, by no means, by no manner of means, on no account, at no hand
Phr. dare pondus idonea fumo, magno conatu magnas nugas, "small sands the mountain, moments make the year", quantity by comparison with a similar object
N. accompaniment,
adjunct,
context,
appendage,
appurtenance,
coexistence,
concomitance, company, association,
companionship,
partnership,
copartnership,
coefficiency,
concomitant,
accessory,
coefficient, companion, buddy,
attendant, fellow, associate, friend,
colleague,
consort,
spouse,
mate,
partner, co- partner,
satellite, hanger on, fellow-traveller,
shadow,
escort,
cortege, attribute
V. accompany,
coexist, attend, hang on, wait on, go hand in hand with,
synchronize, bear company, keep company, row in the same boat, bring in its train, associate with, couple with
Adv. with,
withal, together with, along with, in company with, hand in hand, side by side, cheek by jowl, cheek by jole, arm in arm,
therewith,
herewith, and, together, in a body,
collectively Phr. noscitur a sociis, virtutis fortuna comes
N. narrowness, closeness,
exility, exiguity 7c, (little) 193, line, hair's breadth, finger's breadth, strip,
streak, vein, monolayer, epitaxial deposition, thinness,
tenuity,
emaciation,
macilency, marcor|,
shaving, slip, thread paper, skeleton,
shadow, anatomy,
spindleshanks, lantern jaws, mere skin and bone, middle constriction,
stricture, neck,
waist,
isthmus,
wasp,
hourglass, ridge,
ghaut,
ghat, pass,
ravine, narrowing,
coarctation,
angustation,
tapering, contraction
V. be narrow, narrow,
taper, contract, render narrow, waste away
Adj. narrow, close, slender, thin, fine, thread-like,
finespun,
gossamer, paper-thin,
taper,
slim, slight-made,
scant, scanty,
spare, delicate,
incapacious, contracted, unexpanded &c. (expand ), slender as a thread,
emaciated,
lean,
meager,
gaunt,
macilent,
lank,
lanky,
weedy,
skinny, scrawny slinky,
starved,
starveling, herring gutted, worn to a shadow, lean as a rake, thin as a lath, thin as a whipping post, thin as a wafer, hatchet-faced,
lantern-jawed,
attenuated,
shriveled,
extenuated,
tabid, marcid|,
barebone,
rawboned, monomolecular
V. follow, pursue, go after, fly after, attend,
beset, dance attendance on, dog, tread in the steps of, tread close upon, be in the wake of, be in the trail of, be in the rear of, go in the wake of, go in the trail of, go in the rear of, follow in the wake of, follow in the trail of, follow in the rear of, follow as a shadow, hang on the skirts of, tread on the heels of, follow on the heels of, camp on the trail
Adj. subsequent, next, succeeding, following
Adv. behind, in the rear, in the train of, in the wake of, after, (time) 117
N. d, darkness, ], absence of light, "eldest night and chaos, ancestors of nature", blackness, "the blackness of the noonday night", obscurity, "the prayer of ajax was for light",
gloom,
murk,
dusk, cimmerian darkness, stygian darkness, egyptian darkness, night,
midnight, dead of night, witching hour of night, witching time of night, blind man's holiday, darkness visible, darkness that can be felt, palpable obscure,
erebus, "the jaws of darkness", "sablevested night", shade,
shadow,
umbra,
penumbra,
sciagraphy,
obscuration,
occultation,
adumbration,
obumbration,
obtenebration, offuscation|, caligation|,
extinction,
eclipse, total eclipse, gathering of the clouds, shading, distribution of shade,
chiaroscuro,
noctivagation, black body, hohlraum,
black hole, dark star, dark matter, cold dark matter
V. be dark,
darken, obscure, shade,
dim, tone down, lower, overcast, overshadow,
eclipse,
obfuscate, offuscate|,
obumbrate,
adumbrate, cast into the shade becloud,
bedim, bedarken, cast a shade, throw a shade, spread a shade, cast a shadow, cast a gloom, throw a shadow, spread a shadow, cast gloom, throw gloom, spread gloom,
extinguish, put out, blow out, snuff out, doubt, turn out the lights, douse the lights, dim the lights, turn off the lights, switch off the lights
Adj. dark,
darksome,
darkling, obscure,
tenebrious,
sombrous, pitch dark,
pitchy, pitch black,
caliginous, black, sunless, lightless &c. (see sun , light, ),
somber,
dusky, unilluminated &c. (see illuminate ),
nocturnal,
dingy,
lurid,
gloomy,
murky, murksome,
shady,
umbrageous, overcast,
cloudy,
darkened,
&c. v, dark as pitch, dark as a pit, dark as erebus,
benighted,
noctivagant, |,
noctivagous, |
Adv. in the dark, in the shade
Phr. "brief as the lightning in the collied night" [m
Shade Roget’s Thesaurus §424 N. shade,
awning,
parasol,
sunshade, # umbrella,
chick,
portiere, screen,
curtain,
shutter, blind,
gauze,
veil, chador,
mantle,
mask, cloud,
mist, gathering, of clouds,
umbrage,
glade,
shadow, beach umbrella, folding umbrella
V. draw a curtain, put up a shutter, close a shutter,
veil, cast a shadow
Phr. "welcome ye shades! ye bowery thickets hail"
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
N. pursuit, pursuing,
prosecution,
pursuance, enterprise, business,
adventure,
quest,
scramble, hue and cry, game,
hobby,
still-hunt,
chase,
hunt,
battue, race, steeple chase, hunting, coursing,
venation,
venery, fox chase,
sport,
sporting, shooting, angling, fishing,
hawking, shikar, pursuer, hunter,
huntsman,
shikari,
sportsman,
nimrod,
hound V. pursue,
prosecute, follow, run after, make after, be after, hunt after, prowl after,
shadow, carry on, engage in, set about,
endeavor, court seek, aim at, follow the trail, fish for, press on, run a race,
chase, give chase, course, dog,
hunt,
hound, tread on the heels, follow on the heels of,
&c. (sequence) 281, rush upon, rush headlong ride full tilt at, run full tilt at, make a leap at, jump at, snatch at run down, start game, tread a path, take a course, hold- a course, shape one's steps, direct one's steps, bend one's steps, course, play a game, fight one's way, elbow one's way, follow up, take to, take up, go in for, ride one's hobby
Adj. pursuing, in quest of in pursuit, in full cry, in hot pursuit, on the scent
Adv. in pursuance of, after
Demon Roget’s Thesaurus §980 N. demon,
daemon,
demonry,
demonology, evil genius,
fiend, familiar, daeva, devil, bad spirit, unclean spirit,
cacodemon,
incubus,
eblis, shaitan,
succubus,
succuba, frankenstein's monster,
titan, shedim,
mephistopheles,
asmodeus,
moloch,
belial,
ahriman,
fury,
harpy, friar rush,
vampire,
ghoul,
afreet,
barghest,
loki,
ogre,
ogress,
gnome,
gin,
jinn,
imp,
deev,
lamia,
bogie, bogeyman,
bogle,
nis,
kobold,
flibbertigibbet,
fairy,
brownie,
pixy,
elf,
dwarf,
urchin,
puck,
robin goodfellow, leprechaun, cluricaune,
troll, dwerger,
sprite,
ouphe, bad fairy,
nix,
nixie,
pigwidgeon, will-o'-the wisp, ghost, revenant,
specter,
apparition, spirit, shade,
shadow, vision, hobglobin,
goblin,
orc,
wraith,
spook, boggart,
banshee, loup-garou,
lemures,
evil eye,
merman,
mermaid, merfolk,
siren,
satyr,
faun,
manito,
manitou,
manitu, possession, demonic possession, diabolic possession,
insanity, maxwell's demon,
demoniac Adj. demonic, demonical, impish,
demoniacal,
fiendish, fiend-like, supernatural,
weird,
uncanny, unearthly,
spectral, ghostly, ghost-like,
elfin, elvin,
elfish, elflike,
haunted,
pokerish, possessed, possessed by a devil, possessed by a demon
Adv. demonically