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
N. transience,
transientness,
evanescence,
impermanence,
fugacity,
caducity, mortality, span, nine days' wonder,
bubble, mayfly,
spurt, flash in the pan, temporary arrangement,
interregnum, velocity, suddenness,
changeableness,
transient, transient boarder, transient guest
V. be transient,
flit, pass away, fly,
gallop,
vanish,
fade,
evaporate, pass away like a cloud, pass away like a summer cloud, pass away like a shadow, pass away like a dream
Adj. transient,
transitory, transitive, passing,
evanescent, fleeting,
cursory,
short-lived,
ephemeral, flying,
fugacious,
fugitive,
shifting,
slippery,
spasmodic,
instantaneous,
momentaneous, temporal, temporary,
provisional,
provisory,
deciduous, perishable,
mortal,
precarious, unstable, insecure, impermanent, brief, quick,
brisk,
extemporaneous, summary, pressed for time, sudden,
momentary Adv. temporarily, pro tempore, for the moment, for a time,
awhile, en passant,
in transitu, in a short time, soon, briefly, at short notice, on the point of, on the eve of, in articulo, between cup and lip
Phr. one's days are numbered, the time is up, here today and gone tomorrow, non semper erit aestas, eheu, fugaces labuntur anni, sic transit gloria mundi, a schoolboy's tale, the wonder of the hour, [Byron], dum loquimur fugerit invidia aetas, fugit hora, all that is transitory is but an illusion
N. littleness, smallness,
exiguity, inextension,
parvitude,
parvity,
duodecimo, elzevir edition,
epitome,
microcosm,
rudiment, vanishing point, thinness,
dwarf,
pygmy,
pigmy, liliputian,
chit,
pigwidgeon,
urchin,
elf,
atomy,
dandiprat,
doll,
puppet, tom thumb, hop-o'-my- thumb,
manikin, mannikin,
homunculus,
dapperling, cock-sparrow,
animalcule,
monad,
mite, insect,
emmet, fly,
midge,
gnat,
shrimp,
minnow, worm,
maggot,
entozoon,
bacteria,
infusoria,
microzoa,
phytozoaria,
microbe,
grub,
tit,
tomtit,
runt,
mouse, small fry, millet seed, mustard seed,
barleycorn,
pebble, grain of sand,
molehill,
button,
bubble, point,
atom, fragment, powder, point of a pin, mathematical point,
minutiae,
micrometer,
vernier, scale,
microphotography,
photomicrography,
micrography,
photomicrograph,
microphotograph,
microscopy, microscope (optical instruments) 445
V. be little, lie in a nutshell, become small, (contract) 195
Adj. little, small, minute,
diminutive,
microscopic, microzoal, inconsiderable,
exiguous,
puny,
tiny,
wee, petty,
minikin,
miniature,
pygmy,
pigmy,
elfin, undersized,
dwarf,
dwarfed,
dwarfish,
spare,
stunted, limited,
cramp,
cramped,
pollard, liliputian,
dapper,
pocket,
portative, portable,
duodecimo,
dumpy,
squat, short,
impalpable,
intangible,
evanescent,
imperceptible, invisible,
inappreciable, insignificant, inconsiderable,
trivial,
infinitesimal,
homoeopathic,
atomic, subatomic,
corpuscular, molecular, rudimentary,
rudimental,
embryonic,
vestigial, weazen|,
scant,
scraggy,
scrubby, thin, granular,
shrunk,
brevipennate Adv. in a small compass, in a nutshell, on a small scale, minutely,
microscopically N. levity, lightness,
imponderability, # buoyancy,
volatility,
feather, dust,
mote, down,
thistle, down,
flue,
cobweb,
gossamer, straw, cork,
bubble,
balloon,
float,
buoy, ether, air,
leaven,
ferment,
barm,
yeast, lighter-than-air balloon, helium balloon, hydrogen balloon, hot air balloon,
convection, thermal draft,
thermal Adj. light,
subtile,
airy,
imponderous,
imponderable,
astatic, weightless,
ethereal,
sublimated,
gossamery,
suberose,
suberous, uncompressed, volatile,
buoyant, floating, portable, light as a feather, light as a thistle, light as air, lighter than air, rise like a balloon, float like a balloon, 1, solid matter
River Roget’s Thesaurus §348 N. running water,
jet,
spirt,
spurt,
squirt,
spout,
spray,
splash,
rush,
gush,
jet d'eau,
sluice, water spout, water fall,
cascade, force,
foss,
lin,
linn,
ghyll,
niagara,
cataract, rapids, white water, catadupe|,
cataclysm,
debacle,
inundation,
deluge,
chute,
washout, rain, rainfall,
serein, shower,
scud,
downpour, driving rain, drenching rain, cloudburst, hyetology,
hyetography, predominance of aquarius, reign of st. swithin,
mizzle,
drizzle, stillicidum,
plash,
dropping, falling weather,
northeaster,
hurricane,
typhoon, stream, course,
flux, flow,
profluence,
effluence,
defluxion, flowing, current, tide, race,
coulee, spring, artesian well,
fount, fountain,
rill,
rivulet, gill,
gullet,
rillet,
streamlet,
brooklet, branch,
runnel,
sike, burn,
beck,
creek,
brook,
bayou, stream, river, reach, tributary,
geyser,
spout,
waterspout, body of water,
torrent, rapids,
flush, flood,
swash, spring tide, high tide, full tide, bore, tidal bore,
eagre, hygre, fresh,
freshet, indraught,
reflux, undercurrent,
eddy,
vortex,
gurge,
whirlpool,
maelstrom,
regurgitation, overflow,
confluence, corrivation|, wave,
billow,
surge, swell,
ripple, ἀνήριθμον γέλασμα,
beach comber,
riffle, rollers, ground swell,
surf, breakers, white horses, whitecaps, rough sea, heavy sea, high seas, cross sea, long sea, short sea, chopping sea,
hydrodynamics,
hydraulics, hydraulicostatics, rain gauge, flowmeter, pegology, irrigation, pump, watering pot, watering cart,
hydrant,
syringe, garden hose, lawn spray, bhisti, mussuk
V. flow, run,
meander,
gush, pour,
spout, roll,
jet, well, issue, drop,
drip,
dribble,
plash,
spirtle,
trill,
trickle, distill,
percolate, stream, overflow,
inundate,
deluge, flow over,
splash,
swash,
guggle,
murmur,
babble,
bubble,
purl,
gurgle,
sputter,
spurt,
spray,
regurgitate,
ooze, flow out, rain hard, rain in torrents, rain cats and dogs, rain pitchforks, pour with rain,
drizzle,
spit, set in,
mizzle, flow into, fall into, open into, drain into, discharge itself,
disembogue, pour, pour out, shower down,
irrigate,
drench,
spill,
splash,
stanch,
dam, up,
obstruct Adj. fluent,
diffluent,
profluent,
affluent, tidal, flowing,
meandering,
meandry,
meandrous,
fluvial,
fluviatile,
streamy,
showery,
rainy,
pluvial, stillicidous|,
stillatitious Phr. "for men may come and men may go but i go on forever", "that old man river, he just keeps rolling along"
N. bubble,
foam,
froth, head,
spume,
lather,
suds,
spray,
surf,
yeast,
barm, spindrift, cloud,
vapor,
fog,
mist,
haze, steam,
geyser,
scud,
messenger,
rack,
nimbus,
cumulus,
woolpack,
cirrus,
stratus, cirrostratus,
cumulostratus, cirrocumulus, mackerel sky, mare's tale, dirty sky, curl cloud, frost smoke,
thunderhead, nephelognosy, nephograph, nephology,
effervescence, fermentation,
bubbling,
nebula, cloudliness,
nebulosity V. bubble,
boil,
foam,
froth,
mantle,
sparkle,
guggle,
gurgle,
effervesce,
ferment,
fizzle Adj. bubbling,
frothy,
nappy,
effervescent,
sparkling, mousseux, up,
cloudy, thunderheaded,
vaporous,
nebulous, overcast
Phr. "the lowring element scowls o'er the darkened landscip"
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. deception, falseness, untruth, imposition,
imposture,
fraud,
deceit,
guile,
fraudulence,
fraudulency,
covin,
knavery, misrepresentation,
bluff, straw-bail, straw bid, spoof*,
delusion,
gullery,
juggling,
jugglery, slight of hand,
legerdemain, prestigiation|,
prestidigitation, magic,
conjuring,
conjuration, hocus-pocus, escamoterie,
jockeyship,
trickery, coggery|,
chicanery, supercherie,
cozenage,
circumvention, ingannation|,
collusion,
treachery, practical joke,
trick,
cheat,
wile, blind,
feint, plant,
bubble,
fetch, catch,
chicane,
juggle, reach,
hocus,
bite, card sharping, stacked deck, loaded dice, quick shuffle,
double dealing, dealing seconds, dealing from the bottom of the deck, artful dodge,
swindle, tricks upon travelers,
stratagem, confidence trick,
fake,
hoax,
theft, ballot-box stuffing barney*, brace* game, bunko game, drop* game, gum* game, panel game, shell game,
thimblerig, skin* game,
snare,
trap,
pitfall,
decoy,
gin,
springe, springle|,
noose,
hoot,
bait,
decoy-duck, tub to the whale, baited trap, guet-a-pens,
cobweb, net, meshes, toils, mouse trap,
birdlime,
dionaea, venus's flytrap,
ambush,
trapdoor, sliding panel, false bottom, spring-net, spring net, spring gun,
mask, masked battery, mine,
flytrap, green goods, panel house, cornish hug, wolf in sheep's clothing,
disguise,
disguisement, false colors,
masquerade,
mummery, borrowed plumes, pattes de velours,
mockery, copy,
counterfeit,
sham, make- believe,
forgery,
fraud, lie, "a delusion a mockery and a snare", hollow mockery, whited sepulcher, painted sepulcher,
tinsel, paste, junk jewelry, costume jewelry, false jewelry, synthetic jewels,
scagliola,
ormolu,
german silver,
albata, paktong, white metal, britannia metal,
paint,
veneer, jerry building, man of straw,
illusion,
ignis fatuus,
mirage V. deceive, take in,
defraud,
cheat,
jockey, do,
cozen,
diddle,
nab,
chouse, play one false,
bilk,
cully,
jilt,
bite,
pluck,
swindle,
victimize,
abuse,
mystify, blind one's eyes,
blindfold,
hoodwink, throw dust into the eyes,
dupe,
gull,
hoax,
fool,
befool,
bamboozle,
flimflam, hornswoggle,
trick, impose upon, practice upon, play upon, put upon, palm off on, palm upon, foist upon, snatch a verdict, bluff off,
bluff,
bunko, four flush*, gum*, spoof*, stuff (a ballot box),
circumvent, overreach, outreach, out wit, out maneuver, steal a march upon, give the go-by, to leave in the lurch decoy,
waylay,
lure,
beguile,
delude,
inveigle,
entrap,
intrap,
ensnare,
nick,
springe, set a trap, lay a trap, lay a snare for, bait the hook,
forelay, spread the toils, lime,
trapan,
trepan,
kidnap, let in, hook in,
nousle,
nousel, blind a trail,
enmesh,
immesh,
shanghai, catch, catch in a trap,
sniggle,
entangle,
illaqueate,
hocus, escamoter, practice on one's credulity,
hum,
humbug,
gammon, stuff up*, sell, play a trick upon one, play a practical joke upon one, put something over on one, put one over on,
balk, trip up, throw a tub to a whale, fool to the top of one's bent, send on a fool's errand, make game, make a fool of, make an april fool of, make an ass of, trifle with,
cajole,
flatter, come over, gild the pill, make things pleasant,
divert, put a good face upon,
dissemble,
cog, cog the dice, load the dice, stack the deck, live by one's wits, play at hide and seek, obtain money under false pretenses,
conjure,
juggle, practice chicanery,
deacon, play off, palm off, foist off, fob- off, lie,
misinform, mislead,
betray, be deceived
Adj. deceived, deceiving &c,
cunning, prestigious|, prestigiatory|,
deceptive,
deceptious,
deceitful,
covinous,
delusive,
delusory,
illusive,
illusory,
elusive,
insidious, ad captandum vulgus, untrue,
mock,
sham,
make-believe,
counterfeit, snide*,
pseudo,
spurious,
supposititious,
so-called, pretended,
feigned, trumped up,
bogus, scamped,
fraudulent,
tricky,
factitious,
bastard,
surreptitious,
illegitimate,
contraband,
adulterated,
sophisticated, unsound, rotten at the core, colorable,
disguised,
meretricious,
tinsel,
pinchbeck, plated,
catchpenny,
brummagem, artificial,
synthetic, ersatz,
simulated Adv. under false colors, under the garb of, under cover of, over the left
Phr. "keep the word of promise to the ear and break it to the hope", fronti nulla fides, "ah that deceit should steal such gentle shapes", "a quicksand of deceit", decipimur specie recti, falsi crimen, fraus est celare fraudem, lupus in fabula, "so smooth, he daubed his vice with show of virtue"
