N. obstinateness,
obstinacy,
tenacity, cussedness,
perseverance,
immovability, old school,
inflexibility,
obduracy,
obduration, dogged resolution, resolution, ruling passion, blind side,
self-will,
contumacy,
perversity, pervicacy|,
pervicacity,
indocility,
bigotry,
intolerance,
dogmatism, opiniatry|,
opiniativeness, fixed idea,
fanaticism,
zealotry,
infatuation,
monomania, opinionatedness opinionativeness,
mule, opinionist|,
opinionatist, opiniator|, opinator|,
stickler,
dogmatist,
bigot,
zealot,
enthusiast,
fanatic V. be obstinate,
stickle, take no denial, fly in the face of facts,
opinionate, be wedded to an opinion, hug a belief, have one's own way,
persist, have the last word, insist on having the last word, die hard, fight against destiny, not yield an inch, stand out
Adj. obstinate,
tenacious,
stubborn,
obdurate,
casehardened, inflexible,
balky, immovable,
unshakable, not to be moved,
inert, unchangeable,
inexorable,
mulish, obstinate as a mule,
pig-headed,
dogged,
sullen,
sulky, unmoved, uninfluenced, unaffected, willful,
self-willed,
perverse,
resty, restive, restiff|,
pervicacious,
wayward,
refractory,
unruly,
heady,
headstrong, entete,
contumacious,
crossgrained, arbitrary, dogmatic, positive,
bigoted,
prejudiced, creed- bound, prepossessed,
infatuated,
stiff-backed, stiff necked, stiff hearted,
hard-mouthed,
hidebound, unyielding,
impervious, impracticable, inpersuasible,
unpersuadable, intractable, untractable,
incorrigible, deaf to advice, impervious to reason,
crotchety Phr. non possumus, no surrender, ils n'ont rien appris ne rien oublie
N. dejection,
dejectedness, depression, prosternation|, lowness of spirits, depression of spirits, weight on the spirits, oppression on the spirits, damp on the spirits, low spirits, bad spirits, drooping spirits, depressed spirits, heart sinking, heaviness of heart, failure of heart,
heaviness,
infestivity,
gloom,
weariness, taedium vitae, disgust of life, mal du pays, anhedonia,
melancholy,
sadness, il penseroso,
melancholia, dismals, blues, lachrymals,
mumps, dumps, blue devils,
doldrums, vapors, megrims,
spleen, horrors,
hypochondriasis,
pessimism, la maladie sans maladie,
despondency, slough of despond,
disconsolateness, hope deferred, blank despondency, voiceless woe, prostration of soul, broken heart,
despair, cave of despair, cave of trophonius demureness, gravity,
solemnity, long face, grave face,
hypochondriac, seek sorrow,
self-tormentor, heautontimorumenos, malade imaginaire, medecin tant pis,
croaker,
pessimist,
mope,
mopus,
affliction, sorry sight, memento mori, damper, wet blanket, job's comforter
V. be dejected,
grieve,
mourn, take on, give way, lose heart,
despond,
droop, sink, lower, look downcast,
frown,
pout, hang down the head, pull a long face, make a long face, laugh on the wrong side of the mouth, grin a ghastly smile, look blue, look like a drowned man, lay to heart, take to heart,
mope, brood over,
fret,
sulk, pine, pine away,
yearn, repine,
despair, refrain from laughter, keep one's countenance, be grave, look grave, repress a smile,
depress, discourage,
dishearten,
dispirit, damp, dull,
deject, lower, sink,
dash, knock down, unman,
prostrate, break one's heart, frown upon, cast a gloom, cast a shade on,
sadden, damp one's hopes, dash one's hopes, wither one's hopes, weigh on the mind, lie heavy on the mind, prey on the mind, weigh on the spirits, lie heavy on the spirits, prey on the spirits, damp the spirits, depress the spirits
Adj. cheerless, joyless, spiritless,
uncheerful,
uncheery, unlively, unhappy,
melancholy,
dismal,
somber, dark,
gloomy,
triste, clouded,
murky, lowering,
frowning,
lugubrious,
funereal,
mournful,
lamentable,
dreadful,
dreary, flat, dull, dull as a beetle, dull as ditchwater,
depressing, "melancholy as a gib cat", oppressed with melancholy, a prey to melancholy,
downcast,
downhearted, down in the mouth, down in one's luck, heavy-hearted, in the dumps, down in the dumps, in the suds, in the sulks, in the doldrums, in doleful dumps, in bad humor,
sullen,
mumpish,
dumpish,
mopish,
moping,
moody,
glum,
sulky, out of sorts, out of humor, out of heart, out of spirits, ill at ease, low spirited, in low spirits, a cup too low,
weary, discouraged,
disheartened,
desponding,
chapfallen,
chopfallen, jaw fallen, crest fallen,
sad,
pensive, penseroso, tristful,
dolesome,
doleful, woebegone,
lacrymose,
lachrymose, in tears,
melancholic, hypped,
hypochondriacal,
bilious,
jaundiced,
atrabilious,
saturnine,
splenetic,
lackadaisical, serious,
sedate,
staid, stayed, grave as a judge, grave as an undertaker, grave as a mustard pot,
sober, sober as a judge, solemn,
demure,
grim,
grim-faced,
grim-visaged,
rueful,
wan, long-faced,
disconsolate, unconsolable,
inconsolable,
forlorn, comfortless,
desolate, desole, sick at heart, soul sick, heart sick, au desespoir, in despair, lost, overcome, broken down, borne down, bowed down,
heartstricken, cut up,
dashed, sunk, unnerved,
unmanned, down fallen,
downtrodden,
broken-hearted,
careworn Adv. with a long face, with tears in one's eyes,
sadly Phr. the countenance falling, the heart failing, the heart sinking within one, "a plague of sighing and grief", "thick-ey'd musing and curs'd melancholy", "the sickening pang of hope deferred"
N. discourtesy, ill breeding, ill manners, bad manners, ungainly manners,
insuavity,
uncourteousness,
rusticity,
inurbanity,
illiberality, incivility displacency, disrespect,
procacity,
impudence,
barbarism,
barbarity,
misbehavior,
brutality,
blackguardism, conduct unbecoming a gentleman, grossieret, brusquerie,
vulgarity,
&c. 851,
churlishness,
spinosity,
perversity,
moroseness, sternness,
austerity, moodishness,
captiousness,
cynicism,
tartness,
acrimony,
acerbity,
virulence,
asperity,
scowl, black looks,
frown, short answer,
rebuff, hard words,
contumely, unparliamentary language,
personality, bear,
bruin,
brute,
blackguard, beast, unlicked cub,
frump,
crosspatch,
saucebox, crooked stick,
grizzly V. be -rude,
insult, treat with discourtesy, take a name in vain, make bold with, make free with, take a liberty, stare out of countenance,
ogle, point at, put to the blush, cut, turn one's back upon, turn on one's heel, give the cold shoulder, keep at a distance, keep at arm's length, look cool upon, look coldly upon, look black upon, show the door to, send away with a flea in the ear, lose one's temper, sulk a,
frown,
scowl,
glower,
pout,
snap,
snarl,
growl, render rude &c. ad,
brutalize,
brutify Adj. discourteous,
uncourteous, uncourtly,
ill-bred, ill- mannered, ill-behaved,
ill-conditioned,
unbred, unmannerly, unmannered,
impolite,
unpolite, unpolished, uncivilized,
ungenteel, ungentleman- like, ungentlemanly, unladylike,
blackguard, vulgar,
dedecorous, foul-mouthed foul-spoken,
abusive, uncivil,
ungracious,
unceremonious, cool,
pert, forward,
obtrusive,
impudent, rude,
saucy,
precocious,
repulsive,
uncomplaisant,
unaccommodating,
unneighborly, ungallant,
inaffable, ungentle, ungainly, rough,
rugged,
bluff,
blunt,
gruff,
churlish,
boorish,
bearish,
brutal,
brusque, stern, harsh,
austere,
cavalier,
taint,
sour,
crabbed, sharp, short,
trenchant,
sarcastic,
biting,
doggish,
caustic,
virulent, bitter,
acrimonious,
venomous,
contumelious,
snarling, surly, surly as a bear,
perverse,
grim,
sullen,
peevish, untactful,
impolitic,
undiplomatic, artless, adv,
discourteously, with discourtesy, with a bad grace
N. sullenness,
morosity,
spleen,
churlishness,
irascibility,
moodiness,
perversity,
obstinacy, torvity|,
spinosity,
crabbedness, ill temper, bad temper, ill humor, bad humor,
sulks,
dudgeon,
mumps, dumps,
doldrums, fit of the sulks, bouderie, black looks,
scowl, grouch,
huff Adj. sullen,
sulky,
ill-tempered, ill-humored, ill-affected, ill- disposed,
grouty, in an ill temper, in a bad temper, in a shocking temper, in an ill humor, in a bad humor, in a shocking humor, out of temper, out of humor,
knaggy,
torvous,
crusty,
crabbed,
sour, sour as a crab, surly,
moody,
spleenish, spleenly,
splenetic,
cankered, cross,
crossgrained,
perverse,
wayward,
humorsome, restiff, restive,
cantankerous, intractable,
exceptious,
sinistrous, deaf to reason,
unaccommodating,
rusty,
froward, cussed,
dogged,
grumpy,
glum,
grim,
grum,
morose,
frumpish, in the sulks, out of sorts,
scowling,
glowering,
growling, grouchy,
peevish N. malevolence, bad intent, bad intention, unkindness, diskindness, ill nature, ill will, ill blood, bad blood,
enmity,
hate,
malignity,
malice, malice prepense,
maliciousness, spite,
despite, resentment,
uncharitableness, incompassionateness, gall,
venom,
rancor,
rankling,
virulence,
mordacity, acerbity churlishness, hardness of heart, heart of stone,
obduracy, cruelty, cruelness,
brutality,
savagery,
ferity,
ferocity,
barbarity, inhumanity, immanity|,
truculence, ruffianism,
evil eye, cloven foot,
torture,
vivisection, ill turn, bad turn,
affront,
outrage,
atrocity, ill usage,
intolerance, persecution, tender mercies, "unkindest cut of all"
V. be malevolent, bear spleen, harbor spleen, bear a grudge, harbor a grudge, bear malice, betray the cloven foot, show the cloven foot,
hurt,
annoy,
injure,
harm, wrong, do harm to, do an ill office to,
outrage,
disoblige,
malign, plant a thorn in the breast,
molest,
worry,
harass,
haunt,
harry,
bait,
tease, throw stones at, play the devil with, hunt down,
dragoon,
hound,
persecute,
oppress,
grind,
maltreat,
illtreat, ill-use, wreak one's malice on, do one's worst, break a butterfly on the wheel, dip one's hands in blood, imbrue one's hands in blood, have no mercy
Adj. malevolent,
unbenevolent,
unbenign, ill-disposed, ill- intentioned,
ill-natured,
ill-conditioned, ill-contrived,
evil-minded, evil-disposed,
black-browed,
malicious,
malign,
malignant,
rancorous,
despiteful, spiteful,
mordacious,
caustic, bitter,
envenomed,
acrimonious,
virulent,
unamiable,
uncharitable,
maleficent,
venomous,
grinding, galling, harsh,
disobliging, unkind, unfriendly,
ungracious,
inofficious,
invidious,
uncandid,
churlish, surly,
sullen, cold,
cold-blooded,
cold-hearted,
black-hearted,
hard-hearted, flint- hearted, marble-hearted,
stony-hearted, hard of heart, unnatural,
ruthless, relentless, cruel,
brutal,
brutish, savage, savage as a bear, savage as a tiger,
ferine,
ferocious, inhuman, barbarous,
barbaric,
semibarbaric, fell,
untamed,
tameless,
truculent,
incendiary,
bloodthirsty,
atrocious, bloodyminded,
fiendish,
fiendlike,
demoniacal,
diabolic,
diabolical,
devilish,
infernal,
hellish,
satanic, tartaran
Phr. cruel as death, "hard unkindness' alter'd eye", homo homini lupus, mala mens, malus animus, "rich gifts wax poor when givers prove unkind", "sharp-tooth'd unkindness"
