Appendix:Moby Thesaurus II/39

hibernate

• hibernate, aestivate, be a sideliner, be latent, be still, coast, delay, do nothing, drift, escape notice, hang fire, have nothing on, idle, lay by, lay off, lay to, lie beneath, lie by, lie dormant, lie fallow, lie hid, lie idle, lie low, lie off, lie to, lie up, lurk, make no sign, not budge, not stir, rest, ride at anchor, sit back, sit it out, smolder, stagnate, underlie, vegetate, wait and see, watch and wait

hibernation

• hibernation, beauty sleep, beddy-bye, bedtime, blanket drill, bye-bye, dormancy, doze, dreamland, drowse, fitful sleep, immobility, inaction, inactiveness, inactivity, inertia, land of Nod, light sleep, lull, motionlessness, quiescence, repose, shut-eye, silken repose, sleep, sleepland, sleepwalking, slumber, slumberland, snoozle, somnambulism, somniloquy, somnus, suspension, unconsciousness, underactivity, winter sleep

hiccup

• hiccup, Aqua-Lung, artificial respiration, aspiration, asthmatic wheeze, belch, blow, breath, breath of air, breathe, breathe hard, breathe in, breathe out, breathing, broken wind, burp, cough, eruct, eructate, eructation, exhalation, exhale, exhaust, expel, expiration, expire, exsufflation, gas, gasp, gulp, hack, huff, inhalation, inhalator, inhale, inspiration, inspire, insufflation, iron lung, mouth-to-mouth resuscitation, oxygen mask, oxygen tent, pant, puff, respiration, respire, scuba, sigh, sneeze, sniff, sniffle, snore, snoring, snort, snuff, snuffle, sternutation, stertor, suspiration, wheeze, wind

hick

• hick, babe, boor, boorish, bucolic, bumpkin, butterfingers, child, child of nature, churlish, clod, cloddish, clodhopper, clodhopping, clown, clownish, clumsy, countrified, country bumpkin, country-born, country-bred, dove, dub, duffer, dupe, farmer, farmerish, foozler, foul-up, from the sticks, fumble-fist, gawk, gawky, goof, goofball, goofer, hayseed, hicky, hillbilly, hobnailed, infant, ingenue, innocent, inurbane, lamb, looby, lout, loutish, lubber, lummox, lump, lumpen, lumpish, mere child, muff, muffer, noble savage, oaf, provincial, rube, rustic, simple soul, slob, stumblebum, stumblebunny, uncouth, uncultivated, uncultured, unpolished, unrefined, unsophisticate, up-country, whistle-stop, yokel, yokelish

hickey

• hickey, affair, article, artifact, birthmark, blackhead, bleb, blemish, blister, bulla, check, cicatrix, comedo, crack, crater, craze, defacement, defect, deformation, deformity, dingus, disfiguration, disfigurement, distortion, dofunny, dohickey, dojigger, dojiggy, domajig, domajigger, doodad, dowhacky, eppes, etwas, fault, flaw, flumadiddle, freckle, gadget, gigamaree, gimmick, gizmo, hemangioma, hootenanny, hootmalalie, jigger, keloid, kink, lentigo, material thing, milium, mole, needle scar, nevus, object, pimple, pit, pock, pockmark, port-wine mark, port-wine stain, pustule, quelque chose, rift, scab, scar, scratch, sebaceous cyst, something, split, strawberry mark, sty, thing, thingum, thingumabob, thingumadad, thingumadoodle, thingumajig, thingumajigger, thingumaree, thingummy, track, twist, verruca, vesicle, wale, warp, wart, weal, welt, wen, whatchy, whitehead, widget

hidden

• hidden, abstract, abstruse, arcane, beclouded, behind the curtain, behind the scenes, between the lines, blind, buried, cabalistic, camouflaged, censored, classified, close, closed, clouded, concealed, covered, covert, cryptic, dark, deep, delitescent, disguised, dormant, eclipsed, enigmatic, esoteric, guarded, hermetic, hibernating, hid, hush-hush, imperceptible, in a cloud, in a fog, in eclipse, in purdah, in the wings, incommunicado, indiscernible, insensible, invisible, latent, lurking, muffled, mysterious, mystic, obfuscated, obscure, obscured, occult, out of sight, possible, potential, private, privy, profound, recondite, restricted, secluded, secluse, secret, sequestered, shrouded, sightless, sleeping, smothered, stifled, submerged, suppressed, top secret, transcendental, ulterior, unapparent, unbeheld, unbeholdable, unbreatheable, under an eclipse, under cover, under house arrest, under security, under the surface, under wraps, underground, underlying, undiscernible, undisclosable, undisclosed, undivulgable, undivulged, unknown, unmanifested, unnoticed, unobserved, unperceivable, unperceived, unrealized, unrevealable, unrevealed, unseeable, unseen, unspoken, untellable, untold, unutterable, unuttered, unviewed, unwhisperable, unwitnessed, veiled, viewless, virtual, wrapped in clouds

hide

• hide, Australian seal, Leatherette, Leatheroid, accumulate, amass, backlog, be consumed, be gone, be incognito, bearskin, beat, beat all hollow, beat hollow, beaver, beaverette, becloud, befog, best, black fox, black marten, black sable, blanket, blind, block, blot out, brook mink, buckskin, burrow, bury, cache, calf, calfskin, camouflage, capeskin, cat, cease, cease to be, cease to exist, chinchilla, chinchillette, cloak, cloud, coast seal, coat, collect, conceal, coney, cover, cover up, cowhide, cumulate, curtain, cuticle, deerskin, defeat, dematerialize, depart, dermis, destroy, die, die away, die out, disappear, disguise, dispel, disperse, dissemble, dissipate, dissolve, distract attention from, ditch, do a fade-out, do in, doeskin, dress down, drop from sight, drub, dwindle, eclipse, electric seal, ensconce, enshroud, entomb, envelop, ermine, erode, evanesce, evaporate, exit, fade, fade away, fade out, fell, fix, flagellate, flail, flax, flee, fleece, flesh, flog, fly, fox, fur, furring, furs, garner, garner up, gather into barns, genet, give a dressing-down, gloss over, go, go away, go into hiding, go to ground, go underground, goatskin, harbor, heap up, hibernate, hide away, hide out, hoard, hoard up, hold, hole up, hors de combat, hush up, imitation fur, imitation leather, integument, inter, jacket, jaguar, keep, keep quiet, keep secret, keep under cover, lambaste, lapin, larrup, lash, lather, lay up, leather, leather paper, leave no trace, leave the scene, leopard, lick, lie, lie close, lie doggo, lie hid, lie low, lie snug, lodge, lurk, mantle, marmot, marten, mask, masquerade, melt, melt away, merino, mink, mole, moleskin, monkey, muskrat, nutria, obfuscate, obscure, occult, otter, outclass, outdo, outer layer, outer skin, outfight, outgeneral, outmaneuver, outpoint, outrun, outsail, outshine, paddle, pass, pass away, pass out, pelt, peltry, pelts, perish, pigskin, pile up, plant, play peekaboo, put, put up, rabbit, rabbitskin, raccoon, rawhide, remain anonymous, repress, retire from sight, rind, ruin, sable, save, save up, scourge, screen, seclude, secrete, settle, shade, shagreen, sheath, sheepskin, shelter, shield, shroud, silence, sink, sink away, sit tight, skin, skin alive, skins, skunk, slur over, squirrel, squirrel away, stash, stay in hiding, stock up, stockpile, store up, stripe, suffer an eclipse, suppress, take cover, tan, tegument, thrash, tiger, treasure, treasure up, trim, triumph over, trounce, undo, vair, vanish, vanish from sight, varnish, veil, wallop, waste, waste away, wear a mask, wear away, wear out, welt, whale, whip, white fox, whitewash, wool, worst

hideaway

• hideaway, adytum, ashram, asylum, bolt-hole, cache, cell, cloister, concealment, corner, cover, covert, coverture, cranny, cubby, cubbyhole, dark corner, den, dugout, foxhole, funk hole, hermitage, hideout, hidey hole, hiding, hiding place, hole, holy of holies, ivory tower, lair, mew, niche, nook, privacy, recess, refuge, retreat, safe haven, sanctuary, sanctum, sanctum sanctorum, secret place, stash, undercovert

hidebound

• hidebound, Quakerish, Sabbatarian, Victorian, authoritarian, bigot, bigoted, borne, censorious, closed, conservative, constricted, conventional, cramped, creedbound, deaf, deaf to reason, demure, dogmatic, dour, evangelical, fanatical, firm, fundamentalist, hard, hyperorthodox, illiberal, impliable, inexorable, inflexible, insular, intolerant, intractable, iron, ironbound, ironclad, ironhanded, literalist, literalistic, little, little-minded, mean, mean-minded, mean-spirited, mid-Victorian, muscle-bound, narrow, narrow-hearted, narrow-minded, narrow-souled, narrow-spirited, nearsighted, obdurate, obstinate, old-maidish, orthodox, overmodest, parochial, petty, precisianist, precisianistic, priggish, prim, procrustean, provincial, prudish, purblind, purist, puristic, puritan, puritanic, puritanical, reactionary, relentless, restricted, rigid, rigorist, rigoristic, rigorous, rockbound, sanctimonious, shortsighted, small, small-minded, smug, staunch, stiff, stiff-necked, straightlaced, strait-laced, straitlaced, strict, stubborn, stuffy, unbending, uncatholic, uncharitable, uncompromising, ungenerous, unliberal, unrelenting, unyielding

hideous

• hideous, abhorrent, abominable, appalling, astounding, atrocious, awe-inspiring, awesome, awful, baneful, beastly, contemptible, damnable, dire, direful, disgusting, dread, dreaded, dreadful, exceptionable, execrable, fell, forbidding, formidable, foul, frightful, ghastly, ghoulish, grim, grisly, grotesque, gruesome, hateful, heinous, horrendous, horrible, horrid, horrific, horrifying, ill-favored, ill-looking, inadmissible, loathsome, lurid, macabre, monstrous, morbid, nasty, nauseating, nauseous, odious, offensive, outrageous, redoubtable, repellent, repelling, repugnant, repulsive, revolting, rotten, schrecklich, shocking, sickening, terrible, terrific, terrifying, tragic, tremendous, ugly, unacceptable, unbeautiful, uncomely, undesirable, unsightly, unspeakable, unwanted, unwelcome, vile

hideously

• hideously, appallingly, awfully, banefully, direly, dreadfully, forbiddingly, frightfully, ghastly, grimly, gruesomely, horribly, horridly, loathsomely, offensively, repugnantly, repulsively, revoltingly, shockingly, terribly, tragically

hideout

• hideout, adytum, ashram, asylum, bolt-hole, cache, cell, cloister, concealment, corner, cover, covert, coverture, cranny, cubby, cubbyhole, dark corner, den, dugout, foxhole, funk hole, haven, hermitage, hideaway, hidey hole, hiding, hiding place, hole, holy of holies, ivory tower, lair, mew, niche, nook, privacy, recess, refuge, retreat, rock pile, sanctuary, sanctum, sanctum sanctorum, secret place, shelter, stash, undercovert

hiding place

• hiding place, adytum, ashram, asylum, bolt-hole, cache, cell, cloister, concealment, corner, cover, covert, coverture, cranny, cubby, cubbyhole, dark corner, den, dugout, foxhole, funk hole, hermitage, hideaway, hideout, hidey hole, hiding, hole, holy of holies, ivory tower, lair, mew, niche, nook, privacy, recess, refuge, retreat, sanctuary, sanctum, sanctum sanctorum, secret place, stash, undercovert

hiding

• hiding, Waterloo, asylum, beating, blanketing, blocking, blotting out, bolt-hole, burial, burying, cache, cementwork, cloaking, clouding, coating, collapse, concealedness, concealing, concealment, conquering, conquest, corner, cover, coverage, covering, covering up, covert, covertness, coverture, cranny, crash, cubby, cubbyhole, curtaining, dark corner, darkening, deathblow, debacle, deception, defeat, den, destruction, downfall, dressing-down, drubbing, dugout, eclipse, eclipsing, envelopment, enwrapment, enwrapping, failure, fall, foxhole, funk hole, hiddenness, hideaway, hideout, hidey hole, hiding place, hole, incrustation, interment, invisibility, lair, lambasting, larruping, lathering, laying on, leathering, licking, mantling, masking, mastery, mystification, niche, nonrevealing, nook, obduction, obscuration, obscurement, obscuring, occultation, overcoming, overlaying, overspreading, overthrow, overturn, paddling, pargeting, plasterwork, putting away, quietus, recess, refuge, retreat, ruin, sanctuary, screening, secrecy, secret place, secretion, sheathing, shielding, shrouding, smash, stash, stuccowork, subdual, subduing, subjugation, subterfuge, superimposition, superposition, tanning, thrashing, trimming, trouncing, uncommunicativeness, undercovert, undisclosing, undoing, unrevealing, upholstering, upholstery, vanquishment, veiling, walloping, whaling, whipping, wrapping

hie

• hie, accelerate, bolt, bundle, bustle, career, cheer on, commute, course, cover ground, crowd, dart, dash, dispatch, drive on, egg on, expedite, fare, fare forth, fetch, fling, flit, flow, forward, gang, go, go along, go to, goad on, haste, hasten, hasten on, hie on, hie to, hound on, hump, hump it, hurry, hurry along, hurry on, hurry up, hurtle, hustle, hustle up, journey, make haste, make the scene, move, move along, move on, pass, post, precipitate, press, proceed, process, progress, push, push on, push through, quicken, race, railroad through, repair, repair to, resort to, roll, roll on, root on, run, rush, rush along, sashay, scamper, scoot, scour, scramble, scud, scurry, scuttle, shoot, skedaddle, speed, speed along, speed on, speed up, spur, spur on, stampede, step on it, stream, tear, travel, urge, urge on, visit, wayfare, wend, whip, whip along, whip on

hiemal

• hiemal, Siberian, aestival, algid, arctic, autumn, autumnal, below zero, biting, bitter, bitterly cold, bleak, boreal, brisk, brumal, canicular, cold, cold as charity, cold as death, cold as ice, cold as marble, crisp, cutting, equinoctial, freezing, freezing cold, frigid, gelid, glacial, hibernal, hyperborean, ice-cold, ice-encrusted, icelike, icy, inclement, keen, midsummer, midwinter, nipping, nippy, numbing, out of season, penetrating, piercing, pinching, raw, rigorous, seasonal, severe, sharp, sleety, slushy, snappy, solstitial, spring, springlike, stone-cold, subzero, summer, summerlike, summerly, summery, supercooled, vernal, winter, winterbound, winterlike, wintery, wintry

hierarchic

• hierarchic, assorted, cataloged, classified, filed, graded, grouped, hierarchal, indexed, on file, pigeonholed, placed, pyramidal, ranked, rated, sorted, stratified, tabular, theocratic, theocratist

hierarchy

• hierarchy, absolute monarchy, aedileship, animal kingdom, archbishopric, archiepiscopacy, archiepiscopate, aristocracy, autarchy, autocracy, autonomy, bishopric, bureaucracy, caste, chain of being, chairmanship, chancellery, chancellorate, chancellorship, chiefery, chiefry, chieftaincy, chieftainry, chieftainship, class, class structure, coalition government, colonialism, commonwealth, condition, constitutional government, constitutional monarchy, consulate, consulship, continuity, deanery, degree, democracy, dictatorship, dictature, directorate, directorship, domain, dominion rule, duarchy, duumvirate, dyarchy, echelon, emirate, episcopacy, establishment, federal government, federation, feudal system, footing, garrison state, gerontocracy, governorship, gradation, headship, hegemony, heteronomy, hierocracy, higher echelons, higher-ups, home rule, kingdom, leadership, limited monarchy, lordship, magistracy, magistrateship, magistrature, management, martial law, masterdom, mastership, mastery, mayoralty, mayorship, meritocracy, metropolitanate, metropolitanship, militarism, military government, mineral kingdom, ministry, mob rule, mobocracy, monarchy, natural hierarchy, neocolonialism, nobility, ochlocracy, officialdom, oligarchy, order, pantisocracy, papacy, pashadom, pashalic, patriarchate, patriarchy, pecking order, place, police state, pontificality, pontificate, popedom, popehood, popeship, position, power structure, precedence, prefectship, prefecture, prelacy, premiership, presidency, presidentship, prime-ministership, prime-ministry, princedom, princeship, principality, proconsulate, proconsulship, protectorate, protectorship, provostry, provostship, pure democracy, pyramid, rank, rate, rating, realm, rectorate, rectorship, regency, regentship, representative democracy, representative government, republic, ruling class, ruling classes, seigniory, self-determination, self-government, seneschalship, seneschalsy, sequence, serial order, sheikhdom, sheriffalty, sheriffcy, sheriffdom, shrievalty, social democracy, sphere, stage, standing, station, status, stratocracy, subordination, supervisorship, suzerainship, suzerainty, technocracy, the Establishment, the administration, the authorities, the ingroup, the interests, the people upstairs, the power elite, the power structure, the top, thearchy, them, theocracy, they, top brass, totalitarian government, totalitarian regime, triarchy, tribunate, triumvirate, tyranny, vegetable kingdom, vizierate, viziership, welfare state

hieroglyphic

• hieroglyphic, alphabet, arrowhead, art, blueprint, character, charactering, characterization, chart, choreography, conventional representation, cuneiform, dance notation, delineation, demonstration, demotic character, depiction, depictment, determinative, diagram, drama, drawing, exemplification, figuration, grammalogue, hieratic symbol, hieroglyph, hieroglyphics, hiragana, iconography, ideogram, ideograph, illustration, imagery, imaging, kana, katakana, letter, limning, logogram, logograph, map, musical notation, notation, ogham, phonetic, phonetic symbol, pictogram, pictograph, picturization, plan, portraiture, portrayal, prefigurement, presentment, printing, projection, radical, realization, rendering, rendition, representation, rune, schema, score, script, shorthand, syllabary, symbol, tablature, wedge, word letter, writing

higgledy piggledy

• higgledy piggledy, all over, all over hell, anarchic, arsy-varsy, ass-backwards, balled up, bollixed up, capriciously, chaotic, chaotically, confused, erratically, every which way, fouled up, galley-west, harum-scarum, helter-skelter, hugger-mugger, impulsively, in a jumble, in a mess, in a muddle, in confusion, in disarray, in disorder, inconsistently, inconstantly, irregularly, jumbled, mixed up, mucked up, muddled, nonuniformly, scattered, screwed up, skimble-skamble, snafu, spasmodically, sporadically, topsy-turvy, unequally, unevenly, unsteadily, unsystematically, ununiformly, upside-down, willy-nilly

high and dry

• high and dry, Saharan, above water, aground, anchored, anhydrous, arid, at anchor, athirst, bone-dry, castaway, caught, chained, desert, droughty, dry, dry as dust, dusty, fast, fastened, fixed, foundered, grounded, held, impacted, in harbor, in safety, in the clear, inextricable, jammed, juiceless, like parchment, marooned, moored, on, on the rocks, out of danger, packed, past danger, sandy, sapless, set fast, shipwrecked, stranded, stuck, stuck fast, swamped, terra firma, tethered, thirsting, thirsty, tied, transfixed, undamped, under cover, unwatered, waterless, wedged, wrecked

high and mighty

• high and mighty, U, aggrandized, apotheosized, aristocratic, awesome, beatified, big, canonized, deified, dictatorial, elevated, elitist, eminent, ennobled, enshrined, enthroned, exalted, excellent, glorified, grand, great, held in awe, high, hubristic, immortal, immortalized, imperious, lofty, lordly, magisterial, magnified, masterful, mighty, sainted, sanctified, shrined, sublime, supereminent, throned

high camp

• high camp, Babbittry, Thalia, arlequinade, bad taste, black comedy, bourgeois taste, broad comedy, burlesque, burletta, camp, campiness, comedie bouffe, comedie larmoyante, comedie rosse, comedietta, comedy, comedy ballet, comedy of humors, comedy of ideas, comedy of intrigue, comedy of manners, comedy of situation, comedy relief, comic muse, comic opera, comic relief, dark comedy, domestic comedy, exode, farce, farce comedy, genteel comedy, harlequinade, impropriety, inappropriateness, indecency, indecorousness, indecorum, indelicacy, inelegance, inelegancy, kitsch, light comedy, low camp, low comedy, mime, musical, musical comedy, opera buffa, philistinism, poor taste, pop, pop culture, raw comedy, realistic comedy, romantic comedy, satyr play, sentimental comedy, situation comedy, slapstick, slapstick comedy, tastelessness, tragicomedy, unaestheticism, unaestheticness, unbecomingness, unfittingness, unseemliness, unsuitability, unsuitableness, vulgar taste, vulgarism, vulgarity, vulgarness

High Church

• High Church, Anglicanism, Anglo-Catholicism, Broad Church, Church of England, Established Church, Free Church, High-Churchism, Low Church, baptismal, ceremonial, ceremonious, eucharistic, formal, formular, formulary, liturgic, liturgistic, paschal, ritual, ritualistic, sacramental, sacramentarian

high flown

• high flown, Gongoresque, Johnsonian, absurd, affected, aggrandized, ambitious, amplified, arrogant, ballyhooed, bedizened, beyond belief, big, big-sounding, bizarre, bombastic, classy, cockamamie, condescending, convoluted, crazy, declamatory, disproportionate, domineering, elevated, euphuistic, exaggerated, excessive, exorbitant, extravagant, extreme, fancy, fantastic, flamboyant, flaming, flashy, flaunting, flossy, foolish, fulsome, garish, gassy, gaudy, grandiloquent, grandiose, grandisonant, grotesque, haughty, high, high-faluting, high-flowing, high-flying, high-headed, high-minded, high-nosed, high-sounding, high-swelling, high-toned, highfalutin, highfaluting, hoity-toity, hyperbolic, incredible, inflated, inkhorn, inordinate, labyrinthine, laughable, lexiphanic, lofty, ludicrous, lurid, magnified, magniloquent, meretricious, monstrous, nonsensical, orotund, ostentatious, outrageous, outre, overbearing, overdone, overdrawn, overelaborate, overemphasized, overemphatic, overestimated, overgreat, overinvolved, overlarge, overpraised, oversold, overstated, overstressed, overwrought, patronizing, pedantic, pompous, poppycockish, preposterous, pretentious, prodigal, profuse, proud, puffed, purse-proud, rhetorical, ridiculous, sensational, sensationalistic, sententious, showy, sonorous, stilted, stretched, stuck-up, superior, superlative, swollen, tall, tony, toplofty, tortuous, touted, uppish, uppity, upstage, vaunting, weird, wild, windy

high flying

• high flying, Gongoresque, Johnsonian, affected, ambitious, aspiring, bedizened, big-sounding, careerist, careeristic, classy, convoluted, declamatory, elevated, euphuistic, fancy, flamboyant, flaming, flashy, flaunting, flossy, fulsome, garish, gaudy, grandiloquent, grandiose, grandisonant, high-flowing, high-flown, high-reaching, high-sounding, high-toned, highfalutin, highfaluting, inkhorn, labyrinthine, lexiphanic, lofty, lurid, magniloquent, meretricious, on the make, orotund, ostentatious, overdone, overelaborate, overinvolved, overwrought, pedantic, pompous, power-hungry, pretentious, rhetorical, sensational, sensationalistic, sententious, showy, sky-aspiring, social-climbing, sonorous, stilted, tall, tony, tortuous, vaunting

high handed

• high handed, absolute, absolutist, absolutistic, arbitrary, aristocratic, arrogant, authoritarian, authoritative, autocratic, bossy, despotic, dictatorial, domineering, feudal, grinding, imperative, imperial, imperious, lordly, magisterial, magistral, masterful, monocratic, oppressive, overbearing, overruling, peremptory, repressive, severe, strict, suppressive, tyrannical, tyrannous

high horse

• high horse, Olympian detachment, Olympian loftiness, arrogance, arrogantness, assumption of superiority, condescendence, condescension, domineering, domineeringness, haughtiness, haughty airs, hauteur, hoity-toitiness, hoity-toity, loftiness, overbearing pride, overbearingness, overweening pride, patronization, patronizing, patronizing attitude, pride, proudness, purse-pride, side, stiff-necked pride, superbia, toploftiness, uppishness, uppityness

high jinks

• high jinks, Mardi Gras, Saturnalia, banquet, blowout, carnival, do, fair, feast, festival, festive occasion, festivity, fete, field day, fiesta, fooling, gala, gala affair, gala day, great doings, jamboree, kermis, party, picnic, revel, revelment, roughhouse, rowdiness, skylarking, up, wassail, waygoose, wayzgoose, whoop, whoopee

high life

• high life, FFVs, Vanity Fair, ancienne noblesse, aristocracy, baronage, baronetage, beau monde, beautiful people, best people, cafe society, carriage trade, chivalry, cream of society, drawing room, elect, elite, fashionable society, good society, haut monde, high society, in-crowd, jet set, jeunesse doree, knightage, monde, nobility, noblesse, noblesse de robe, old nobility, peerage, people of fashion, polite society, right people, royalty, salon, smart set, social register, societe, society, the Four Hundred, the classes, upper classes, upper crust, upper ten, upper ten thousand, uppercut, world of fashion

high liver

• high liver, Brillat-Savarin, Lucullus, board-and-roomer, boarder, bon vivant, cannibal, carnivore, connoisseur of food, consumer, diner, diner-out, dissipater, eater, eater-out, epicure, feeder, flesh-eater, free liver, fruitarian, gastronome, glutton, gourmand, gourmet, grain-eater, graminivore, granivore, herbivore, hungry mouth, lactovegetarian, luncher, man-eater, meat-eater, mouth, night owl, nighthawk, omnivore, omophagist, pantophagist, phytophage, picnicker, plant-eater, predacean, rounder, trencherman, vegetarian

high noon

• high noon, acme, apex, apogee, brow, cap, climax, cloud nine, crest, crown, culmen, culmination, edge, eight bells, extreme limit, extremity, heaven, heavens, height, highest pitch, highest point, limit, maximum, meridian, meridiem, midday, mountaintop, ne plus ultra, no place higher, noon, noonday, nooning, noonlight, noontide, noontime, peak, pinnacle, pitch, point, pole, ridge, seventh heaven, sky, spire, summit, tip, tip-top, top, upmost, upper extremity, uppermost, utmost, vertex, very top, zenith

high on the hog

• high on the hog, affluent, beyond all bounds, comfortable, comfortably situated, easy, excessively, high, immoderately, in clover, in good case, in luxury, inordinately, intemperately, on Easy Street, on velvet, prodigally, prosperous, successful, to excess, to extremes, wealthy, without restraint

high pitched

• high pitched, Olympian, aerial, airy, altitudinous, alto, ascending, aspiring, colossal, dominating, elevated, eminent, ethereal, exalted, falsetto, haughty, high, high-reaching, high-set, high-sounding, high-toned, high-up, lofty, mezzo-soprano, monumental, mounting, outtopping, overlooking, overtopping, prominent, soaring, soprano, spiring, steep, sublime, superlative, supernal, tenor, topless, toplofty, topping, towering, towery, treble, uplifted, upreared

high powered

• high powered, armipotent, authoritative, big, big-league, big-name, big-time, bigwig, bigwigged, cogent, consequential, considerable, double-barreled, dynamic, earthshaking, effective, energetic, forceful, forcible, grand, great, heavyweight, high-potency, high-pressure, high-tension, important, in force, in power, irresistible, major, material, mighty, mighty in battle, momentous, name, operative, potent, powerful, prepotent, puissant, ruling, self-important, significant, striking, strong, substantial, superior, telling, valid, vigorous, vital, world-shaking

high principled

• high principled, Christian, blameless, clean, creditable, decent, erect, estimable, ethical, fair, full of integrity, good, high-minded, highly respectable, honest, honorable, immaculate, inviolate, irreproachable, just, law-abiding, law-loving, law-revering, manly, moral, noble, principled, pure, reputable, respectable, right, right-minded, righteous, spotless, stainless, sterling, true-dealing, true-devoted, true-disposing, true-souled, true-spirited, truehearted, unblemished, uncorrupt, uncorrupted, undefiled, unimpeachable, unspotted, unstained, unsullied, untarnished, upright, uprighteous, upstanding, virtuous, worthy, yeomanly

high school

• high school, Gymnasium, Latin school, Realgymnasium, Realschule, academy, grammar school, high, intermediate school, junior high, junior high school, middle school, prep school, preparatory school, public school, secondary school, seminary, senior high, senior high school

high seas

• high seas, big drink, blue water, drink, high sea, hydrosphere, main, main sea, ocean, ocean depths, ocean main, ocean sea, salt sea, salt water, sea, thalassa, the bounding main, the brine, the briny, the briny deep, the deep, the deep sea, the seven seas, the vasty deep, tide

high sign

• high sign, Roman candle, SOS, aid to navigation, alarm, amber light, balefire, beacon, beacon fire, bell, bell buoy, blinker, blue peter, buoy, caution light, danger sign, early symptom, falling barometer, flare, fog bell, fog signal, fog whistle, foghorn, gathering clouds, glance, go light, gong buoy, green light, heliograph, international alphabet flag, international numeral pennant, kick, leer, marker beacon, nod, nudge, office, omen, parachute flare, pilot flag, poke, police whistle, precursor, preliminary sign, premonitory sign, premonitory symptom, prodroma, prodrome, quarantine flag, radio beacon, red flag, red light, rocket, sailing aid, semaphore, semaphore flag, semaphore telegraph, sign, signal, signal beacon, signal bell, signal fire, signal flag, signal gong, signal gun, signal lamp, signal light, signal mast, signal post, signal rocket, signal shot, signal siren, signal tower, skull and crossbones, spar buoy, stop light, storm petrel, stormy petrel, symptom, the nod, the wink, thundercloud, thunderhead, tip, tip-off, touch, traffic light, traffic signal, warning, warning sign, warning signal, watch fire, white flag, wigwag, wigwag flag, wink, yellow flag, yellow jack

high society

• high society, FFVs, Vanity Fair, ancienne noblesse, aristocracy, baronage, baronetage, beau monde, beautiful people, best people, cafe society, cafe-society, carriage trade, chivalry, cream of society, drawing room, elect, elite, fashionable society, good society, haut monde, high life, in society, in-crowd, jet set, jet-set, jeunesse doree, knightage, lace-curtain, monde, nobility, noblesse, noblesse de robe, old nobility, peerage, people of fashion, polite society, right people, royalty, salon, silk-stocking, smart set, social register, socially prominent, societe, society, the Four Hundred, the classes, upper classes, upper crust, upper ten, upper ten thousand, uppercut, world of fashion

high sounding

• high sounding, Gongoresque, Johnsonian, affected, alto, bedizened, big-sounding, convoluted, declamatory, elevated, euphuistic, falsetto, flamboyant, flaming, flashy, flaunting, fulsome, garish, gaudy, grandiloquent, grandiose, grandisonant, high, high-flowing, high-flown, high-flying, high-pitched, high-toned, highfalutin, inkhorn, labyrinthine, lexiphanic, lofty, lurid, magniloquent, meretricious, mezzo-soprano, orotund, ostentatious, overdone, overelaborate, overinvolved, overwrought, pedantic, pompous, pretentious, rhetorical, sensational, sensationalistic, sententious, showy, sonorous, soprano, stilted, tall, tenor, tortuous, treble

high spirited

• high spirited, agitable, arch, beany, brash, devilish, ebullient, edgy, effervescent, elfish, elvish, emotional, emotionally unstable, eruptive, excitable, explosive, fiery, foolish, full of mischief, high-mettled, high-strung, highly emotional, impish, inflammable, irascible, irritable, jolly, knavish, lighthearted, merry, mettlesome, mirthful, mischief-loving, mischievous, nervous, peppery, perturbable, playful, prankish, pranksome, pranky, prickly, puckish, roguish, scampish, scapegrace, sensitive, skittish, sportive, spunky, startlish, touchy, trickish, tricksy, vivacious, volcanic, waggish

high spirits

• high spirits, beatification, beatitude, bewitchment, blessedness, bliss, blissfulness, cheer, cheerfulness, cloud nine, delectation, delight, devilishness, devilment, devilry, deviltry, ecstasy, ecstatics, elation, elfishness, enchantment, exaltation, exhilaration, exuberance, felicity, foolishness, gaiety, gladness, glee, good humor, good spirits, happiness, heaven, impishness, intoxication, joy, joyance, joyfulness, mischief, mischievousness, overhappiness, overjoyfulness, paradise, playfulness, prankishness, pranksomeness, puckishness, rapture, rare good humor, ravishment, roguery, roguishness, scampishness, seventh heaven, sportiveness, sunshine, transport, unalloyed happiness, waggery, waggishness, youthful spirits

high strung

• high strung, agitable, all nerves, apprehensive, edgy, emotional, emotionally unstable, eruptive, excitable, explosive, fearful, fidgety, frightened, goosey, high-mettled, high-spirited, highly emotional, hypersensitive, inflammable, irascible, irritable, jittery, jumpy, mettlesome, miffy, nerves on edge, nervous, nervy, on edge, oversensitive, overstrung, panicky, perturbable, prickly, sensitive, skittish, spooky, startlish, taut, temperamental, tetchy, thin-skinned, ticklish, tight, touchy, twittery, uneasy, unrelaxed, unrestful, uptight, volcanic

high test

• high test, avgas, crude, crude oil, ethyl, ethyl gas, fossil oil, gas, gasoline, high-octane gas, kerosene, lead-free gas, low-lead gas, motor oil, paraffin, petrol, petroleum, premium gas, regular, rock oil

high tide

• high tide, amplitude, congestion, direct tide, ebb, ebb and flow, ebb tide, flood, flood tide, flow, flux, flux and reflux, full, full tide, fullness, high water, impletion, low tide, low water, lunar tide, neap, neap tide, opposite tide, overfullness, plenitude, plethora, refluence, reflux, repletion, rip, riptide, satiety, saturation, saturation point, solar tide, spring tide, surfeit, thalassometer, tidal amplitude, tidal current, tidal current chart, tidal flow, tidal range, tide, tide chart, tide gate, tide gauge, tide race, tide rip, tidewater, tideway

high time

• high time, action, ball, belatedness, big time, due season, eleventh hour, favorable opportunity, fun, fun and games, funmaking, game, golden opportunity, good chance, good opportunity, good time, great fun, high old time, last minute, late hour, lateness, laughs, lovely time, picnic, play, pleasant time, proper time, small hours, sport, suitable time, tardiness, unpreparedness, unpunctuality, unreadiness, untimeliness, well-chosen moment, well-timed opportunity

high water mark

• high water mark, Plimsoll line, Plimsoll mark, border line, bound, boundary, boundary condition, boundary line, bourn, break boundary, breakoff point, ceiling, circumscription, compass, confine, cutoff, cutoff point, deadline, delimitation, determinant, division line, end, extremity, finish, floor, frontier, hedge, interface, limen, limit, limitation, limiting factor, line, line of demarcation, load waterline, low-water mark, lower limit, march, mark, mete, start, starting line, starting point, target date, term, terminal date, terminus, threshold, tidemark, time allotment, upper limit, waterline, watermark

high

• high, Dutch courage, Gymnasium, Hydromatic, Latin school, Olympian, Realgymnasium, Realschule, a bit much, a high, abandoned, above, abovestairs, academy, accented, acme, acute, aerial, afflicted, aged, aggrandized, agog, air mass, airward, airy, aloft, aloof, altitudinous, alto, alveolar, anticyclone, apex, apical, apico-alveolar, apico-dental, apotheosized, aquiver, aristocratic, arousal, aroused, articulated, ascending, asking price, aspiring, assimilated, atingle, atwitter, august, automatic transmission, awesome, back, bad, bad-smelling, barfy, barytone, beaming, bearish prices, beatified, befuddlement, bent, besottedness, beyond all bounds, bid price, big, bighearted, bilabial, blithe, blithesome, blown, boiled, boisterous, bombed, book value, boozy, boundless, brackish, bright, bright and sunny, broad, bullish prices, bursting, bursting with happiness, cacuminal, call price, canned, canonized, capital, carried away, catalepsy, central, cerebral, checked, cheerful, cheery, chief, chivalrous, close, closing price, cloying, cockeyed, cockeyed drunk, cogwheel, cold front, cold sector, colossal, coma, consequential, considerable, consonant, consonantal, continuant, costly, crocked, crocko, cyclone, dear, dear-bought, decline, dental, differential, differential gear, dissimilated, distinguished, dominating, dorsal, drugged, drunk, drunkenness, ducal, ear-splitting, ebullient, ecstatic, effervescent, egregious, elaborate, elate, elated, elevated, eminent, emotion, encephalitis lethargica, enchanted, ennobled, enormous, enraptured, enravished, enshrined, enthroned, entranced, erect, ethereal, eupeptic, euphoric, exaggerated, exalted, excellent, excessive, excessively, excited, excitedness, excitement, exhilarated, exhilaration, exorbitant, expensive, extraordinary, extravagant, extreme, exuberant, exultant, fabulous, face value, falsetto, famous, fancy, favorable, fecal, fetid, fired, fixed price, flash price, flat, flurry, flushed, flutter, foremost, foul, freaked out, freewheel, fried, front, frowsty, frowy, frowzy, fuddle, fuddled, fuddledness, fuddlement, fulsome, funky, fusty, gamy, gear, gear train, gearbox, gearing, gearshift, gearwheel, generous, genial, genteel, gentle, gentlemanlike, gentlemanly, gigantic, glad, gladsome, glide, glorified, glorious, glossal, glottal, glowing, gluttonous, godlike, grammar school, grand, grave, graveolent, great, great of heart, greathearted, guttural, half-seas over, handsome, hangover, happy, hard, haughty, heavy, height, heinous, held in awe, heroic, high and mighty, high school, high up, high-class, high-flown, high-frequency, high-headed, high-minded, high-nosed, high-pitched, high-pressure area, high-priced, high-reaching, high-set, high-sounding, high-tasted, high-toned, high-up, highfalutin, highfaluting, hilarious, hopeful, hopped up, huge, hyperbolic, hypertrophied, icky, idealistic, ill-smelling, illuminated, immoderate, immoderately, immortal, immortalized, imparadised, impassioned, important, in ecstasies, in good spirits, in heaven, in high spirits, in paradise, in raptures, in seventh heaven, in the air, in the clouds, incontinent, inebriated, inebriation, inebriety, inflamed, inordinate, inordinately, insobriety, intemperate, intemperately, intermediate, intermediate school, intonated, intoxicated, intoxication, irrepressible, isobar, isometric, isometric line, isopiestic line, isotherm, isothermal line, issue par, issue price, jubilant, junior high, junior high school, katzenjammer, keyed up, kinglike, kingly, knightly, labial, labiodental, labiovelar, ladylike, large, largehearted, lateral, lathered up, lauded, laughing, lavish, lax, leading, lethargy, liberal, lifted, light, lingual, liquid, lit, lit up, loaded, lofty, low, low-pressure area, lubricated, lushy, luxurious, maggoty, magnanimous, magnificent, magnified, majestic, malodorous, manic, manic state, market price, market value, mawkish, maximum, mephitic, merry, mezzo-soprano, miasmal, miasmic, mid, middle school, mighty, mildewed, mildewy, moldy, momentous, monophthongal, monstrous, monumental, morning after, mounting, moved, musty, muted, muzzy, narcohypnosis, narcolepsy, narcoma, narcosis, narcotic stupor, narcotization, narrow, nasal, nasalized, nasty, nauseant, nauseating, nauseous, neutral, nidorous, noble, noble-minded, nod, noisome, nominal value, not affordable, noxious, occluded front, occlusive, odorous, of gentle blood, of good cheer, of great cost, of rank, off, offensive, offering price, oiled, olid, on cloud nine, on high, on stilts, on the peak, on tiptoe, open, openhanded, opening price, optimistic, organized, out of bounds, out of sight, outrageous, outtopping, over, overbig, overdeveloped, overdrive, overgreat, overgrown, overhead, overjoyed, overjoyful, overlarge, overlooking, overmuch, overripe, overtopping, overweening, oxytone, palatal, palatalized, par, par value, parity, patrician, peak, penetrating, pharyngeal, pharyngealized, phonemic, phonetic, phonic, pickled, pie-eyed, piercing, pissed, pissy-eyed, pitch, pitched, plastered, pleasant, poisonous, polar front, polluted, possessed, posttonic, pot-valiance, pot-valor, potted, premium, prep school, preparatory school, price, pricey, princelike, princely, principal, prodigal, prodigally, prominent, public school, put price, putrid, queenlike, queenly, quite the lady, quotation, quoted price, rack, raddled, radiant, raised, rally, rampant, rancid, rank, rapt, raptured, rapturous, ravished, ready to burst, reasty, reasy, rebarbative, record, reechy, reeking, reeky, renowned, repulsive, retroflex, reverse, rhapsodic, riant, rich, ripe, rosy, rotten, rounded, roused, sainted, sanctified, sanguine, sanguineous, secondary school, sedation, seminary, semivowel, senior high, senior high school, sent, serious, settling price, sharp, shellacked, shock, shrill, shrined, sickening, skunk-drunk, skyward, sleeping sickness, smashed, smellful, smelling, smelly, smiling, soaked, soaring, soft, sonant, sopor, soprano, sottedness, sour, soured, soused, spaced out, spacy, sparkling, spiring, spoiled, squall line, squeaky, squiffy, stale, standard transmission, stated value, stationary front, steamed up, steep, stenchy, stewed, stick shift, stiff, stilted, stimulated, stimulation, stinking, stinko, stirred, stirred up, stoned, stopped, straight up, stressed, strident, strong, strong-flavored, strong-tasting, stuffy, stupor, sublime, sulfurous, sumptuous, sunny, superb, supereminent, superior, superlative, supernal, surd, swacked, swings, swoon, sybaritic, syllabic, synchromesh, tainted, tall, tanked, tenor, tense, thanatosis, thick, thrilled, throaty, throned, tight, tingling, tingly, tipsiness, tipsy, tiptoe, titled, to excess, to extremes, to the zenith, tonal, tonic, too much, top, topless, toplofty, topping, towering, towery, trance, transmission, transported, treble, turbulent, turned, turned on, turned-on, twangy, unaccented, unbridled, unconscionable, undue, unpayable, unreasonable, unrestrained, unrounded, unstressed, up, upcast, upflung, uplifted, upraised, upreared, upright, upstairs, upthrown, upward, upwards, velar, vile, violent, vocalic, vocoid, voiced, voiceless, vomity, vowel, vowellike, warm front, weak, weather map, weevily, weighty, whipped up, wide, wind-shift line, winsome, without restraint, worked up, wrought up, yeasty, yucky, zonked

high-minded

• high-minded, Christian, big, bighearted, blameless, chivalrous, clean, creditable, decent, elevated, erect, estimable, ethical, exalted, fair, full of integrity, generous, good, great, great of heart, greathearted, handsome, heroic, high, high-flown, high-headed, high-nosed, high-principled, high-toned, highfalutin, highfaluting, highly respectable, honest, honorable, idealistic, immaculate, inviolate, irreproachable, just, knightly, largehearted, law-abiding, law-loving, law-revering, liberal, lofty, magnanimous, manly, moral, noble, noble-minded, openhanded, princely, principled, pure, reputable, respectable, right, right-minded, righteous, spotless, stainless, sterling, sublime, true-dealing, true-devoted, true-disposing, true-souled, true-spirited, truehearted, unblemished, uncorrupt, uncorrupted, undefiled, unimpeachable, unspotted, unstained, unsullied, untarnished, upright, uprighteous, upstanding, virtuous, worthy, yeomanly

highball

• highball, Mickey, Mickey Finn, aperitif, ball the jack, barrel, boom, bowl along, breeze, breeze along, brush, chaser, clip, cocktail, cut along, doch-an-dorrach, drink, eye-opener, fleet, flit, fly, fly low, foot, go fast, hotfoot, hustle, knockout drops, make knots, mixed drink, nightcap, nip, outstrip the wind, parting cup, pour it on, pousse-cafe, punch, rip, run, rush, scorch, sizzle, skim, speed, stirrup cup, storm along, sundowner, sweep, tear, tear along, thunder along, wee doch-an-dorrach, whisk, whiz, zing, zip, zoom

highbrow

• highbrow, Brahmin, aesthete, aesthetic, bookish, brain, brainworker, brainy, cerebral, connoisseur, cultivated, cultured, deep, doubles, egghead, elitist, erudite, genius, highbrowed, intellect, intellectual, intellectualist, intellectualistic, learned, literate, mandarin, mastermind, name-dropper, prig, sage, savant, scholar, scholarly, snob, sophisticated, thinker, tufthunter, white-collar intellectual, wise man

higher up

• higher up, A per se, ace, boss, bureaucracy, champion, chief, commander, dean, directorate, fugleman, genius, head, hierarchy, higher echelons, higher-ups, laureate, leader, management, master, ministry, nonpareil, officialdom, paragon, prelacy, principal, prodigy, ruler, ruling class, ruling classes, senior, star, superior, superman, superstar, the Establishment, the administration, the authorities, the greatest, the ingroup, the interests, the most, the people upstairs, the power elite, the power structure, the top, them, they, top brass, top dog, virtuoso

higher

• higher, a cut above, above, ahead, ascendant, better, capping, chosen, distinguished, eclipsing, eminent, exceeding, excellent, excelling, finer, greater, highest, in ascendancy, in the ascendant, major, marked, of choice, one up on, outstanding, over, overlying, rare, rivaling, super, superincumbent, superior, surpassing, topping, transcendent, transcendental, transcending, upmost, upper, uppermost

highest

• highest, above, acmatic, acme, all-absorbing, all-knowing, all-powerful, all-seeing, all-wise, almighty, apical, astral, authority, authorization, be-all and end-all, best, blue ribbon, boundless, capital, cardinal, championship, changeless, chief, command, consummate, control, controlling, creating, creative, directorship, dominant, dominion, effectiveness, eternal, eternally the same, everlasting, first place, first prize, first-class, first-rate, foremost, glorious, good, greater, greatest, hallowed, head, headmost, headship, hegemony, height, higher, highest-ranking, holy, immortal, immutable, imperium, infinite, influence, jurisdiction, just, kingship, leadership, leading, limitless, lordship, loving, luminous, main, majestic, making, management, master, mastership, mastery, maximal, maximum, merciful, meridian, meridional, most, ne plus ultra, new high, numinous, omnipotent, omnipresent, omniscient, one, over, overmost, overriding, overruling, palms, paramount, paramountcy, permanent, perpetual, power, predominant, preeminent, premier, presidency, primacy, primary, prime, principal, radiant, ranking, record, rule, sacred, say, shaping, sovereign, sovereignty, summital, superior, superlative, supremacy, supreme, sway, timeless, tip-top, top, top spot, top-drawer, top-notch, topmost, ubiquitous, ultimate, unbounded, unchanging, undefined, unlimited, upmost, upper, uppermost, utmost, vertical, zenith, zenithal

highfalutin

• highfalutin, Gongoresque, Johnsonian, affected, ambitious, arrogant, aureate, bedizened, big, big-sounding, bombastic, classy, condescending, convoluted, declamatory, domineering, elevated, euphuistic, extravagant, fancy, flamboyant, flaming, flashy, flaunting, florid, flossy, flowery, fulsome, fustian, garish, gassy, gaudy, grandiloquent, grandiose, grandisonant, haughty, high, high-faluting, high-flowing, high-flown, high-flying, high-headed, high-minded, high-nosed, high-sounding, high-swelling, high-toned, highfaluting, hoity-toity, inflated, inkhorn, labyrinthine, lexiphanic, lexiphanicism, lofty, lurid, magniloquent, meretricious, oratorical, orotund, ostentatious, overbearing, overdone, overelaborate, overinvolved, overwrought, patronizing, pedantic, pompous, pretentious, proud, purse-proud, rant, rhapsody, rhetoric, rhetorical, rodomontade, sensational, sensationalistic, sententious, showy, sonorous, stilted, stuck-up, superior, swollen, tall, tony, toplofty, tortuous, uppish, uppity, upstage, vaunting, windy

highlands

• highlands, agricultural region, arable land, black belt, citrus belt, corn belt, cotton belt, countryside, downs, dust bowl, farm belt, farm country, farmland, fruit belt, grass roots, grassland, grazing region, highland, lowlands, meadows and pastures, moorland, moors, plains, prairies, province, provinces, rolling country, rural district, rustic region, steppes, the country, the soil, the sticks, tobacco belt, upland, uplands, veld, wheat belt, wide-open spaces, wold, woodland, woods and fields, yokeldom

highlight

• highlight, accent, accentuate, affect, arc lighting, argue, be indicative of, be significant of, be symptomatic of, beacon, belabor, bespeak, betoken, black and white, brandish, breathe, brighten, brighten up, bring forth, bring forward, bring into view, bring out, bring to notice, characterize, chiaroscuro, connote, contrast, dangle, decorative lighting, demonstrate, denominate, denote, develop, differentiate, direct lighting, disclose, display, divulge, dramatize, dwell on, electric lighting, emanation, embody, emphasize, enact, enlighten, enlightenment, entail, evidence, evince, exhibit, expose to view, express, feature, festoon lighting, flaunt, flood with light, floodlight, floodlighting, flourish, fluorescent lighting, gaslighting, give emphasis to, give evidence, give sign, give token, glow lighting, harp on, high spot, highlights, hint, identify, illume, illuminate, illumination, illumine, incandescent lighting, incarnate, indicate, indirect lighting, involve, irradiance, irradiancy, irradiate, irradiation, italicize, light, light and shade, light source, light up, lighten, lighting, luminate, luminous energy, make clear, make plain, manifest, mark, materialize, mean, note, outstanding feature, overaccentuate, overemphasize, overhead lighting, overshine, overstress, parade, perform, photosensitivity, place emphasis on, point up, present, produce, punctuate, radiance, radiancy, radiant energy, radiation, relume, relumine, represent, reveal, roll out, rub in, set forth, shed light upon, shine upon, show, show forth, sidelight, signify, spot lighting, spotlight, stage lighting, stand for, star, stress, strip lighting, suggest, symptomatize, symptomize, testify, throw light upon, token, tonality, trot out, underline, underscore, unfold, visible radiation, wave

highly

• highly, a deal, a great deal, a lot, abundantly, approvingly, as all creation, as all get-out, authoritatively, beaucoup, considerable, considerably, decidedly, effectively, enthusiastically, ever so, ever so much, exceedingly, exceptionally, extraordinarily, extremely, favorably, galore, greatly, hugely, immensely, importantly, in great measure, incomparably, influentially, largely, much, muchly, never so, no end, no end of, not a little, notably, parlous, plenty, powerfully, pretty much, quite, remarkably, so, so very much, strikingly, strongly, surpassingly, to the skies, tremendously, very, very much, warmly, well

Highness

• Highness, Eminence, Grace, Her Excellency, Her Highness, Her Ladyship, Her Majesty, His Lordship, His Majesty, Honor, Imperial Highness, Imperial Majesty, Lady, Ladyship, Lord, Lordship, Majesty, My Lady, My Lord, Reverence, Royal Highness, Royal Majesty, Serene Highness, Worship, Your Lordship, milady, milord

highroad

• highroad, Autobahn, US highway, alley, alleyway, arterial, arterial highway, arterial street, artery, autoroute, autostrada, avenue, belt highway, blind alley, boulevard, bypass, byway, camino real, carriageway, causeway, causey, chaussee, circumferential, clarity, clear coast, clear road, close, corduroy road, county road, court, crescent, cul-de-sac, dead-end street, dike, dirt road, drive, driveway, ease, easiness, easy going, effortlessness, expressway, facileness, facility, freedom, freeway, gravel road, highway, highways and byways, intelligibility, interstate highway, lack of hindrance, lane, local road, main drag, main road, mews, motorway, parkway, pave, paved road, pike, place, plain sailing, plane sailing, plank road, primary highway, private road, right-of-way, ring road, road, roadbed, roadway, route nationale, row, royal road, secondary road, simplicity, smooth road, smooth sailing, smoothness, speedway, state highway, straight sailing, street, superhighway, terrace, thoroughfare, through street, thruway, toll road, township road, turnpike, uncomplexity, uncomplicatedness, wynd

hightail

• hightail, begone, bound, canter, clear out, cut and run, cut out, decamp, flee, fly, fox-trot, gallop, get, git, hop, hop along, hotfoot, kite, leap, lope, make tracks, run, run along, run away, run away from, run off, scram, skedaddle, spring, sprint, step, step along, step lively, take off, take to flight, trip, trot, vamoose

highway robbery

• highway robbery, armed robbery, asportation, assault and robbery, banditry, bank robbery, cattle lifting, cattle stealing, exploitation, extortion, heist, hijacking, holdup, loan-sharking, mugging, overassessment, overcharge, pocket picking, purse snatching, robbery, robbing, shylocking, stickup, stickup job, surcharge, usury

highway

• highway, Autobahn, US highway, alley, alleyway, arterial, arterial highway, arterial street, artery, autoroute, autostrada, avenue, belt highway, blind alley, boulevard, bypass, byway, camino real, carriageway, causeway, causey, chaussee, circumferential, close, corduroy road, county road, court, crescent, cul-de-sac, dead-end street, dike, dirt road, drag, drive, driveway, expressway, freeway, gravel road, highroad, highways and byways, interstate highway, lane, local road, main drag, main road, mews, motorway, parkway, path, pave, paved road, pike, place, plank road, primary highway, private road, right-of-way, ring road, road, roadbed, roadway, route nationale, row, royal road, secondary road, speedway, state highway, street, superhighway, terrace, thoroughfare, through street, thruway, toll road, township road, track, turnpike, way, wynd

hijack

• hijack, blackjack, bludgeon, bulldoze, bully, coerce, commit robbery, dragoon, heist, hold up, intimidate, knock over, mug, rip off, rob, shanghai, steamroller, stick up, strong-arm, use violence

hijacking

• hijacking, armed robbery, asportation, assault and robbery, banditry, bank robbery, cattle lifting, cattle stealing, extortion, heist, highway robbery, holdup, mugging, pocket picking, purse snatching, robbery, robbing, stickup, stickup job

hike

• hike, access, accession, accretion, accrual, accruement, accumulation, add to, addition, advance, aggrandize, aggrandizement, airing, amble, amplification, amplify, appreciation, ascent, augment, augmentation, backpack, ballooning, bloat, bloating, blow up, boom, boost, broaden, broadening, build, build up, buildup, bulk, bulk out, buoy up, cast up, constitutional, crescendo, defile, develop, development, dilate, distend, edema, elevate, elevation, enlarge, enlargement, erect, escalate, exalt, expand, expansion, explore, extend, extension, fatten, file, file off, fill out, flood, footslog, forced march, gain, glee, go on parade, goose-step, greatening, growth, gush, heave, heft, heighten, heist, hike up, hoick, hoist, hold up, huff, increase, increment, inflate, inflation, jack up, jaunt, jerk up, jocularity, jocundity, jollity, joviality, jump, jump up, knock up, leap, lengthen, levitate, lift, lift up, lob, loft, magnify, march, maximize, merriment, mounting, multiplication, mush, parade, parlay, peripatetic journey, peripateticism, perk up, productiveness, proliferation, promenade, puff, puff up, pump, pump up, put up, pyramid, raise, raise up, ramble, rarefy, rear, rear up, rise, rove, saunter, schlep, set up, sky, snowballing, spread, stick up, stretch, stroll, sufflate, surge, swell, swelling, thicken, throw up, traipse, tramp, trudge, tumescence, turn, up, upbuoy, upcast, upheave, uphoist, uphold, uplift, upping, upraise, uprear, upsurge, upswing, upthrow, uptrend, upturn, walk, walkabout, walking tour, wander, waxing, widen, widening

hiker

• hiker, ambulator, backpacker, foot passenger, foot soldier, foot traveler, footslogger, hitchhiker, hoofer, infantryman, jaywalker, marcher, paddlefoot, pedestrian, peripatetic, trailsman, tramper, walker, walkist

hiking

• hiking, addition, adjunct, aggrandizement, ambling, ambulation, ampliation, amplification, augmentation, backpacking, broadening, crescendo, deployment, dispersion, enlargement, expansion, extension, fanning out, flare, footing, footing it, footwork, going on foot, hitchhiking, hitching, hoofing, increase, legwork, lumbering, magnification, marching, pedestrianism, perambulation, raising, sauntering, splay, spread, spreading, staggering, strolling, thumbing, thumbing a ride, toddling, tottering, tramping, treading, trudging, upping, waddling, walking, widening

hilarious

• hilarious, absurd, amusing, bizarre, buxom, cheerful, cheery, comical, convivial, droll, eccentric, entertaining, festal, festive, frivolous, funny, gala, gay, gladsome, gleeful, humorous, hysterical, incongruous, jocular, jocund, jolly, jovial, joyful, joyous, laughable, laughter-loving, ludicrous, merry, merrymaking, mirth-loving, mirthful, on the loose, priceless, quaint, quizzical, rejoicing, rich, ridiculous, risible, rollicking, screaming, uproarious, whimsical, witty

hilarity

• hilarity, Homeric laughter, absurdity, absurdness, amusement, belly laugh, bizarreness, bizarrerie, boff, boffola, boisterousness, burst of laughter, cachinnation, cackle, cheerfulness, chortle, chuckle, conviviality, convulsion, crow, drollery, drollness, eccentricity, elation, exhilaration, exuberance, fit of laughter, frivolity, fun, funniness, gaiety, gales of laughter, giggle, glee, gleefulness, guffaw, ha-ha, hearty laugh, hee-haw, hee-hee, high glee, high spirits, hilariousness, ho-ho, horselaugh, humorousness, incongruity, jocularity, jocundity, jolliness, jollity, joviality, joy, joyfulness, joyousness, jubilation, laugh, laughability, laughing, laughter, levity, ludicrousness, merriment, merriness, mirth, mirthfulness, outburst of laughter, peal of laughter, pricelessness, quaintness, quizzicalness, revelry, richness, ridiculousness, risibility, roar of laughter, shout, shout of laughter, shriek, snicker, snigger, snort, tee-hee, the funny side, titter, vivacity, whimsicalness, wittiness, yuck, yuk-yuk

hill of beans

• hill of beans, a continental, a curse, a damn, a darn, a hoot, bagatelle, bauble, bean, bibelot, bit, brass farthing, button, cent, curio, farce, farthing, feather, fig, fleabite, folderol, fribble, frippery, gaud, gewgaw, gimcrack, hair, halfpenny, jest, joke, kickshaw, knickknack, knickknackery, minikin, mockery, molehill, peppercorn, picayune, pin, pinch of snuff, pinprick, rap, red cent, row of pins, rush, shit, snap, sneeshing, sou, straw, toy, trifle, trinket, triviality, tuppence, two cents, twopence, whim-wham

hill

• hill, acclivity, anthill, bank, bank up, barrow, bilge, blain, bleb, blister, blob, boss, bow, brae, bubble, bulb, bulge, bulla, bump, bunch, burl, butte, button, cahot, chine, clump, cock, condyle, convex, decline, declivity, dowel, down, downgrade, downs, drift, drumlin, dune, ear, elevation, embankment, eminence, fell, flange, flap, foothill, foothills, gall, gnarl, grade, gradient, handle, haycock, haymow, hayrick, haystack, heap, heap up, height, highland, hillock, hummock, hump, hunch, incline, jog, joggle, knob, knoll, knot, knur, knurl, lip, loop, lump, mole, molehill, monticle, monticule, moor, mound, mount, mountain, mow, nevus, nub, nubbin, nubble, papilloma, peg, pile, pile up, prominence, promontory, pyramid, rib, rick, ridge, ring, rise, sand dune, shock, shoulder, slope, snowdrift, spine, stack, stack up, stud, style, swell, tab, tor, tubercle, tubercule, upgrade, upland, verruca, vesicle, wale, wart, welt

hillbilly

• hillbilly, backwoodsman, boor, briar-hopper, brush ape, bucolic, bumpkin, bushman, clam digger, clod, clodhopper, clown, country bumpkin, cracker, desert rat, farmer, forester, frontiersman, hayseed, hick, hinterlander, looby, lout, mountain man, mountaineer, piny, redneck, ridge runner, rube, rustic, woodlander, woodman, woodsman, yokel

hillock

• hillock, anthill, barrow, brae, butte, down, drumlin, dune, fell, foothills, hill, hummock, knob, knoll, molehill, monticle, monticule, moor, mound, sand dune, swell

hillocky

• hillocky, bagging, baggy, ballooning, bellying, billowing, billowy, bloated, bosomy, bulbose, bulbous, bulging, bumped, bumpy, bunched, bunchy, distended, hummocky, moutonnee, pneumatic, potbellied, pouching, rounded, swelling, verrucated, verrucose, warty

him

• him, I, I myself, alter, alter ego, alterum, better self, ego, ethical self, gentleman, he, her, herself, himself, his, hombre, homme, inner man, inner self, it, male, male being, male person, man, masculine, me, my humble self, myself, number one, oneself, other self, ourselves, self, she, subconscious self, subliminal self, superego, them, themselves, they, you, yours truly, yourself, yourselves

hind end

• hind end, afterpart, afterpiece, back, back door, back seat, back side, backside, beam, behind, breech, butt, buttocks, croup, crupper, fundament, haunches, heel, hind part, hindhead, nates, occiput, posterior, postern, rear, rear end, rearward, reverse, rump, stern, tail, tail end, tailpiece

hind

• hind, Cape elk, Partlet, Virginia deer, aft, after, aftermost, antelope, back, backward, biddy, bitch, bossy, brood mare, buck, camel, camelopard, caribou, countryman, countrywoman, cow, deer, deerlet, doe, dromedary, eland, elk, ewe, ewe lamb, fallow deer, fawn, fellah, filly, gazelle, giraffe, gnu, guinea hen, gyp, hart, hartebeest, heifer, hen, hinder, hindermost, hindhand, hindmost, jenny, kaama, lioness, mare, moose, mule deer, musk deer, muzhik, nanny, nanny goat, okapi, peahen, peasant, peon, posterior, postern, provincial, rear, rearmost, rearward, red deer, reindeer, retral, retrograde, roe, roe deer, roebuck, she-bear, she-goat, she-lion, slut, sow, springbok, stag, tail, tigress, vixen, wildebeest

hinder

• hinder, arrest, arse, back, backside, baffle, balk, bar, beat off, behind, block, bog down, bottle up, bottom, brake, bridle, bum, burden, butt, check, clog, confine, constrain, contain, control, cool, cool off, counter, countercheck, curb, curtail, dam, dam up, damp, dampen, decelerate, defer, delay, detain, deter, discourage, dompt, drag, drive back, encumber, enjoin, entrammel, fanny, fend, fend off, fetter, foil, forestall, frustrate, govern, guard, hamper, hamstring, handicap, hind, hindmost, hog-tie, hold, hold at bay, hold back, hold fast, hold in, hold in check, hold in leash, hold off, hold up, impede, inhibit, intercept, interfere, interfere with, intermeddle, interrupt, intervene, keep, keep at bay, keep back, keep from, keep in, keep in check, keep off, keep under control, lag, lay under restraint, lumber, make late, manacle, meddle, mire, obstruct, obviate, oppose, parry, posterior, postpone, preclude, prevent, prohibit, pull, pull in, push back, put back, rear, rebuff, rein, rein in, repel, repress, repulse, resist, restrain, retard, retral, retrench, scotch, set back, shackle, slacken, slow, slow down, snub, speed, stave off, stay, stop, straiten, stymie, suppress, thwart, tie down, trammel, turn aside, ward off, withhold

hindmost

• hindmost, aft, after, aftermost, back, backward, closing, concluding, eventual, final, hind, hinder, hindermost, hindhand, lag, latest, latter, posterior, postern, rear, rearmost, rearward, retral, retrograde, tail, terminal, ultimate

hindrance

• hindrance, afterthought, arrest, arrestation, barrier, bind, block, blockage, bureaucratic delay, check, clog, constraint, control, cooling, cooling down, cooling off, cumbrance, curb, curtailment, deceleration, delay, delayage, delayed reaction, detention, deterrent, double take, dragging, drawback, encumbrance, halt, hang-up, hitch, holdup, impedance, impediment, inhibition, injunction, interdict, interim, jam, lag, lagging, legal restraint, limitation, logjam, monopoly, moratorium, obstacle, obstruction, paperasserie, pause, prevention, prohibition, protection, protectionism, protective tariff, rationing, red tape, red-tapeism, red-tapery, rein, reprieve, respite, restraint, restraint of trade, retardance, retardation, retrenchment, self-control, slow-up, slowdown, slowing down, slowness, snag, stay, stay of execution, stop, stoppage, suspension, tariff wall, thought control, tie-up, time lag, wait

hindsight

• hindsight, commitment to memory, exercise of memory, flashback, learning by heart, looking back, memoir, memorization, memorizing, recall, recalling, recollecting, recollection, reconsideration, reflection, remembering, remembrance, reminiscence, retrospect, retrospection, review, rote, rote memory, study

hinge

• hinge, accrue from, ankle, arbor, arise from, articulate, articulation, axis, axle, axle bar, axle shaft, axle spindle, axle-tree, batten, batten down, be based on, be contingent on, be dependent on, be due to, be predicated on, bolt, boundary, buckle, bud from, butt, button, cervix, clasp, cleat, climacteric, clinch, clip, closure, clutch, come from, come out of, connecting link, connecting rod, connection, convergence of events, coupling, crisis, critical juncture, critical point, crossroads, crucial period, crunch, depend, depend on, derive from, descend from, distaff, dovetail, elbow, emanate from, embrace, emerge from, emergency, ensue from, exigency, extremity, flow from, follow from, fulcrum, germinate from, gimbal, gliding joint, grow from, grow out of, gudgeon, hang, hang on, hasp, hinge on, hinged joint, hingle, hip, hitch, hook, hub, interface, issue from, jam, join, joining, joint, juncture, knee, knuckle, latch, lie on, lie with, link, lock, mandrel, miter, mortise, nail, nave, neck, oarlock, originate in, pass, peg, pin, pinch, pintle, pivot, pivot joint, pole, proceed from, push, rabbet, radiant, rest, rest on, rest with, revolve on, rivet, rowlock, rub, scarf, screw, seam, sew, shoulder, skewer, snap, spindle, spring from, sprout from, stand on, staple, stem from, stick, stitch, strait, suture, swivel, symphysis, tack, tie rod, toggle, toggle joint, trunnion, turn, turn on, turn upon, turning point, union, wedge, weld, wrist, zipper

hint

• hint, admonishment, admonition, adumbrate, adumbration, advert, advice, aide-memoire, alarm, allegorize, allegory, allude, allude to, allusion, angle, arcane meaning, argue, assistance, assume, assumption, augur, bare suggestion, be indicative of, be significant of, be symptomatic of, beg, bespeak, betoken, bid fair, breath, bring to mind, broad hint, cast, catchword, caution, caveat, characterization, characterize, clue, coax, coloration, connotation, connote, cue, cue word, dash, denominate, denomination, denotation, denote, designation, deterrent example, differentiate, differentiation, direction, disclose, disclosure, display, divine, drop a hint, entail, evidence, example, express, expression, final notice, final warning, fingering, fish, flapper, foreshadow, foretoken, gentle hint, gesture, give a hint, give evidence, give prospect of, give the cue, give token, glance at, gleam, glimmer, glimmering, half an idea, hazy idea, help, highlight, hint at, hold out hope, hot lead, idea, identification, identify, implicate, implication, implied meaning, imply, import, importune, impression, index, indicate, indication, indicativeness, infer, inference, infusion, inkling, innuendo, insinuate, insinuation, inspiration, intimate, intimation, involve, ironic suggestion, jogger, key, key word, kick, lead, lesson, lick, look, make fair promise, make likely, manifest, manifestation, mark, mean, mean to say, meaning, memorandum, mention, mere notion, metaphorical sense, monition, moral, naming, nod, note, notice, notification, notion, nuance, nudge, object lesson, occult meaning, overtone, particle, picking out, plead, point indirectly to, point to, pointer, pointing, pointing out, pointing to, prefigure, preindicate, presign, presignal, presignify, press, presume, presumption, presuppose, presupposition, pretypify, promise, prompt, prompter, prompting, raise expectation, refer, remembrance, remembrancer, reminder, reveal, sauce, scent, scintilla, seasoning, seek, selection, shade, shadow, shadow forth, show, showing, sign, signal, signification, signify, sip, smack, smattering, smell, sneaking suspicion, solicit, soupcon, spark, specification, spell, spice, spoor, sprinkling, stand fair to, stand for, strain, streak, subsense, subsidiary sense, suggest, suggestion, sup, suppose, supposition, suspicion, symbolism, symptom, symptomaticness, symptomatize, symptomize, taint, take for granted, taste, telltale, tempering, testify, thought, threat, tickler, tinct, tincture, tinge, tint, tip, tip off, tip-off, token, touch, trace, track, trifle, twang, typify, ultimatum, undercurrent, undermeaning, undertone, vague idea, vein, verbum sapienti, vestige, warning, warning piece, whiff, whisper, wind, wink

hinterland

• hinterland, airspace, area, arena, back, back country, backcountry, backdrop, background, backwash, backwater, backwoods, belt, boondock, boondocks, borderland, brush, bush, bush country, bushveld, confines, continental shelf, corridor, country, department, distance, district, division, environs, field, forests, frontier, ground, heartland, inland, inlands, interior, land, locale, midland, midlands, milieu, mise-en-scene, neighborhood, offshore rights, outback, outpost, part, parts, place, precincts, premises, purlieus, quarter, rear, region, salient, scene, section, setting, soil, space, stage, stage set, stage setting, sticks, terrain, territory, the bush, theater, three-mile limit, timbers, twelve-mile limit, uninhabited region, up-country, vicinage, vicinity, virgin land, virgin territory, wasteland, wild West, wilderness, wilds, woodlands, woods, zone

hip

• hip, all the rage, all the thing, ankle, articulation, backside, bank, beam, behind, border, boundary, broadside, butt, buttocks, cervix, cheek, chop, clinch, closure, coast, connecting link, connecting rod, connection, coupling, croup, crupper, current, dovetail, elbow, embrace, fashionable, flank, gliding joint, go-go, groovy, hand, handedness, haunch, haunches, hep, hind end, hinge, hinged joint, in fashion, in style, in vogue, interface, into, join, joining, joint, jowl, juncture, knee, knuckle, laterality, link, many-sidedness, miter, mod, modern, mortise, multilaterality, nates, neck, new, newfashioned, on the beam, pivot, pivot joint, planking, popular, posterior, prevalent, profile, quarter, rabbet, really into, rear, rear end, rump, scarf, seam, shore, shoulder, side, siding, smart, stitch, suture, symphysis, temple, tie rod, toggle, toggle joint, trendy, unilaterality, union, up-to-date, up-to-datish, up-to-the-minute, weld, with it, wrist

hipped on

• hipped on, ape about, attached to, bugs on, cracked on, crazy about, devoted to, enamored of, far gone on, fond of, freaked-out, gaga over, gone on, hepped up over, hot about, in love with, mad about, nuts about, nuts on, partial to, smitten with, starry-eyed over, steamed up about, struck with, stuck on, sweet on, taken with, turned-on, wedded to, wild about, wrapped up in

hippie

• hippie, Bohemian, beat, beatnik, bohemian, breakaway, deviant, dissenter, dropout, far out, flower child, freak, free and easy, fringy, heretic, heretical, heterodox, informal, kinky, longhair, maverick, misfit, nonconformist, nonjuror, not cricket, not done, not kosher, offbeat, original, sectarian, sectary, swinger, ugly duckling, unconformist, unconventional, unfashionable, unorthodox, way out, yippie

hippo

• hippo, Jumbo, blimp, dinosaur, elephant, fatty, hathi, heavy, heavyweight, hippopotamus, jumbo, leviathan, lump, mammoth, mastodon, monster, pachyderm, potbelly, rhino, rhinoceros, river horse, roly-poly, swagbelly, tub, tub of lard, tun, whale, woolly mammoth

hippodrome

• hippodrome, agora, amphitheater, arena, athletic field, auditorium, background, bear garden, bowl, boxing ring, bull ring, campus, canvas, circus, cockpit, coliseum, colosseum, course, field, floor, forum, ground, gym, gymnasium, hall, lists, locale, marketplace, mat, milieu, open forum, palaestra, parade ground, pit, place, platform, precinct, prize ring, public square, purlieu, range, ring, scene, scene of action, scenery, setting, site, sphere, squared circle, stadium, stage, stage set, stage setting, terrain, theater, tilting ground, tiltyard, walk, wrestling ring

hippy

• hippy, adipose, beefy, big-bellied, bloated, blowzy, bosomy, brawny, burly, buxom, chubby, chunky, corpulent, distended, dumpy, fat, fattish, fleshy, full, gross, heavyset, hefty, imposing, lusty, meaty, obese, overweight, paunchy, plump, podgy, portly, potbellied, pudgy, puffy, pursy, roly-poly, rotund, square, squat, squatty, stalwart, stocky, stout, strapping, swollen, thick-bodied, thickset, top-heavy, tubby, well-fed

hire purchase

• hire purchase, acquitment, acquittal, acquittance, amortization, amortizement, binder, borrowing, buy, buying, buying power, buying up, cash, cash payment, catalog buying, clearance, coemption, consumer power, consumer sovereignty, consumerism, cornering, debt, debt service, debtor, defrayal, defrayment, deposit, disbursal, discharge, doling out, down payment, earnest, earnest money, emption, financing, hire purchase plan, hitting, hitting-up, hocking, impulse buying, installment, installment buying, installment plan, interest payment, liquidation, mail-order buying, marketing, money illusion, money-raising, monthly payments, mortgaging, never-never, pawning, paying, paying off, paying out, paying up, payment, payment in kind, payoff, pledging, prepayment, purchase, purchasing, purchasing power, quarterly payments, quittance, rebuying, regular payments, remittance, repurchase, retirement, satisfaction, settlement, shopping, shopping spree, sinking-fund payment, spot cash, touching, weekly payments, window-shopping

hire

• hire, admission, admission fee, anchorage, appoint, bareboat charter, base pay, bespeak, book, brief, brokerage, carfare, cellarage, charge, charges, charter, compensation, contract for, cost, cover charge, demand, dismissal wage, dockage, dues, earnings, emolument, employ, engage, enlist, entrance fee, escalator clause, escalator plan, exaction, exactment, fare, farm, farm out, fee, financial remuneration, gross income, guaranteed annual wage, hire out, hiring, income, job, lease, lease out, lease-back, lease-lend, lend-lease, let, let off, let out, license fee, living wage, minimum wage, net income, pay, pay and allowances, payment, payroll, pilotage, portage, portal-to-portal pay, preengage, price, purchasing power, put on, rate, real wages, recruit, remuneration, rent, rent out, rental, reserve, retain, salary, salvage, scot, scot and lot, severance pay, shot, sign on, sign up, sign up for, sliding scale, stipend, storage, sublease, sublet, subrent, take into employment, take on, take-home, take-home pay, taxable income, toll, total compensation, towage, underlet, wage, wage control, wage freeze, wage reduction, wage rollback, wage scale, wages, wages after deductions, wages after taxes, wharfage

hired

• hired, acquitted, chartered, discharged, employed, expended, hireling, leased, let, liquidated, mercenary, paid, paid in full, postpaid, prepaid, receipted, remitted, rented, salaried, settled, spent, subleased, sublet, waged

hireling

• hireling, adventurer, assistant, condottiere, drudge, employee, free lance, girl Friday, grub, grubber, gun, gunman, hack, hired gun, hired hand, hired killer, hired man, man Friday, mercenary, myrmidon, pensioner, professional killer, right-hand man, slavey, soldier of fortune, worker

hirsute

• hirsute, barbellate, bristled, bristling, bristly, bushy, cirrose, downy, feathery, fleecy, flocculent, flossy, fluffy, furry, fuzzy, glochidiate, hairy, hispid, lanate, matted, nappy, peachy, pilose, pinnate, pubescent, setaceous, setose, setous, shagged, shaggy, strigal, strigate, strigose, stubbled, stubbly, studded, unshorn, velvety, whiskered, woolly

hiss

• hiss, Bronx cheer, aphonia, artificial voice, assibilate, assibilation, bark, bawl, bellow, bird, blare, blat, blubber, boil, boil over, boo, booing, boom, bray, breathe, broken speech, broken tones, broken voice, bubble, bubble over, bubble up, burble, buzz, cackle, catcall, chant, childish treble, chirp, choked voice, coo, cracked voice, croak, crow, decry, deride, disparage, drawl, dysarthria, dyslalia, dyslogia, dysphasia, dysphonia, dysphrasia, effervesce, effervescence, effervescing, exclaim, falsetto, ferment, fizz, fizzle, fizzling, flute, frication, frictional rustling, gasp, give the bird, give the raspberry, gnarl, growl, grumble, grunt, guggle, gurgle, harshness, hawking voice, hissing, hoarseness, hoot, hush, hushing, idioglossia, idiolalia, impairment of speech, jeer, keen, lilt, lisp, lisping, loss of voice, mock, mumble, murmur, mutter, muzzy speech, nasal tone, nasalization, pant, pipe, plop, pooh, pooh-pooh, quaver, raspberry, razz, rhonchus, roar, rumble, scream, screech, seethe, shake, shriek, shush, shushing, sibilance, sibilate, sibilation, siffle, sigh, sigmatism, simmer, sing, siss, sissing, sizz, sizzle, sizzling, snap, snarl, sneeze, sneezing, sniff, sniffle, snore, snort, snuff, snuffle, sob, sparkle, speech defect, speech impediment, spit, splutter, sputter, squall, squash, squawk, squeal, squelch, squish, sternutation, stertor, swish, taunt, the bird, thunder, tremor, trumpet, twang, wail, warble, wheeze, whine, whish, whisper, whistle, whistle at, whistling, white noise, whiz, whoosh, work, yap, yawp, yell, yelp, zip

hissing

• hissing, Bronx cheer, assibilation, banter, bantering, birdies, blooping, blurping, boo, booing, buzz, catcall, catcalling, chaffing, derision, derisive, derisory, distortion, effervescence, effervescent, effervescing, feedback, fizz, fizzle, fizzling, fleering, flippancy, flippant, flutter, fluttering, fooling, frication, frictional rustling, grinning, hiss, hoot, hooting, howling, hum, hush, hushing, jeering, joshing, kidding, leering, levity, lisp, mockery, mocking, motorboating, panning, quizzical, ragging, railing, raillery, rallying, raspberry, razz, razzing, rhonchus, ridicule, ridiculing, roasting, rumble, scoffing, scratching, shredding, shush, shushing, sibilance, sibilant, sibilation, siffle, sigmatism, siss, sissing, sizz, sizzle, sizzling, smart, smart-aleckiness, smart-alecky, smart-ass, smartness, smirking, sneering, sneeze, sneezing, snickering, sniff, sniffing, sniffle, sniffling, sniggering, snore, snoring, snort, snorting, snuff, snuffle, snuffling, spit, splutter, sputter, squash, squeals, squelch, squish, static, sternutation, stertor, swish, taunting, teasing, the bird, twitting, wheeze, wheezing, wheezy, whish, whistle, whistles, whistling, white noise, whiz, whoosh, woomping, wow, wowwows, zip

histology

• histology, anatomist, anatomy, angiography, angiology, anthropotomy, geomorphology, histologist, morphologist, morphology, myography, myology, organography, organology, osteography, osteology, splanchnography, splanchnology, tectology, zootomy

historical

• historical, absolute, actual, admitting no question, ascertained, attested, authentic, authenticated, autobiographical, biographical, categorically true, certain, certified, chronologic, confirmable, confirmed, corroborated, de facto, demonstrable, demonstratable, demonstrated, determined, documentary, documented, effectual, established, factual, for real, genuine, hagiographic, historic, historied, historiographic, honest-to-God, inappealable, incontestable, incontrovertible, indisputable, indubitable, irrefragable, irrefutable, legendary, martyrologic, not in error, objectively true, positive, provable, proved, real, recorded, reliable, self-evident, substantial, substantiated, sure-enough, testable, traditional, true, true as gospel, truthful, unanswerable, unconfutable, unconfuted, undeniable, undenied, undoubted, unerroneous, unfallacious, unfalse, unimpeachable, unmistaken, unquestionable, unrefutable, unrefuted, validated, veracious, verifiable, verified, veritable

historically

• historically, actually, aforetime, before, before now, beforetime, certainly, earlier, erenow, erewhile, erst, factually, formerly, forsooth, heretofore, hitherto, in fact, in reality, in the past, in times past, in truth, in very sooth, indeed, indeedy, nothing else but, of a truth, only yesterday, prehistorically, previously, priorly, really, really-truly, recently, then, truly, undoubtedly, verily, veritably, whilom, with truth, yesterday

historicity

• historicity, accomplished fact, actuality, authenticity, eternal verities, fact, factuality, fait accompli, good sooth, grim reality, historical truth, not a dream, objective existence, reality, sooth, the true, trueness, truth, truthfulness, ultimate truth, unerroneousness, unfallaciousness, unfalseness, veracity, verity, very truth

history

• history, Clio, Muse of history, account, adventures, ancient history, annals, antiquity, autobiography, background, biographical sketch, biography, bygone days, bygone times, case history, catalog, chronicle, chronicles, chronology, confessions, correspondence, curriculum vitae, days gone by, days of yore, dead letter, dead past, depiction, description, diary, documentation, epic, experience, experiences, foretime, former times, fortunes, hagiography, hagiology, historiography, information, intelligence, inventory, journal, legend, letters, life, life and letters, life story, list, martyrology, memoir, memoirs, memorabilia, memorial, memorials, narration, narrative, necrology, news, obituary, old hat, past, past history, past times, photobiography, pipe roll, portrayal, profile, recapitulation, recent past, recital, record, recording, register, registry, relation, relic, remains, report, representation, resume, retailing, retelling, roll, rolls, roster, rota, saga, scroll, story, summary, table, tale, telling, the irrevocable Past, the past, theory of history, thou unrelenting past, times past, token, trace, version, vestige, yesterday, yesteryear

histrionic

• histrionic, actor-proof, affected, all-star, artificial, ballet, balletic, cinematic, cinematographic, dramatic, dramatical, dramaturgic, emotionalistic, emotive, film, filmic, ham, hammy, hysteric, insincere, la-di-da, legitimate, maniere, mannered, melodramatic, milked, monodramatic, movie, nonrational, operatic, overacted, overdone, overemotional, overplayed, pretentious, scenic, sensational, sensationalistic, spectacular, stagelike, stageworthy, stagy, starstruck, stellar, theaterlike, theatrical, thespian, thrown away, underacted, underplayed, unnatural, unreasoning, vaudevillian

histrionics

• histrionics, Thespian art, amateur theatricals, blazon, blood and thunder, bravura, brilliancy, daring, dash, demonstration, demonstrativeness, display, dramatic art, dramatic form, dramatic irony, dramatic stroke, dramatic structure, dramaticism, dramatics, dramatism, dramaturgy, eclat, emotional appeal, emotionalism, emotionality, emotionalization, emotionalizing, emotiveness, emotivity, etalage, exhibition, exhibitionism, false front, fanfaronade, figure, flair, flaunt, flaunting, flourish, histrionism, human interest, love interest, making scenes, manifestation, melodrama, melodramatics, nonrationalness, pageant, pageantry, parade, play construction, sensationalism, sham, show, showing-off, spectacle, splash, splurge, staginess, theatricalism, theatricality, theatricals, theatricism, theatrics, unreasoningness, vaunt, visceralness, yellow journalism

hit it off

• hit it off, accord, agree, agree with, associate with, be acquainted with, be friends, be inseparable, chime in with, correspond, cotton to, empathize, fall in with, fraternize with, get along, get along with, get on with, harmonize, harmonize with, hobnob with, identify with, interchange, know, reciprocate, respond to, sing in chorus, sympathize, understand one another

hit it

• hit it, answer, bottom, break the bank, clear up, crack, debug, decipher, decode, disentangle, divine, do, dope, dope out, explain, fathom, figure out, find out, find the answer, find the solution, get, get right, guess, guess right, have it, hit the jackpot, hit the mark, interpret, make a killing, make out, open the lock, plumb, psych, psych out, puzzle out, ravel, ravel out, resolve, riddle, ring the bell, score, score a success, solve, sort out, turn up trumps, undo, unlock, unravel, unriddle, unscramble, untangle, untwist, unweave, work, work out

hit man

• hit man, Cain, apache, assassin, assassinator, bloodletter, bloodshedder, bravo, burker, butcher, button man, cannibal, cutthroat, desperado, eradicator, executioner, exterminator, garroter, gorilla, gun, gunman, gunsel, gunslinger, hatchet man, head-hunter, homicidal maniac, homicide, killer, man-eater, man-killer, manslayer, massacrer, matador, murderer, pesticide, poison, poisoner, slaughterer, slayer, strangler, thug, torpedo, trigger man

hit or miss

• hit or miss, airily, any old way, any which way, anyhow, at haphazard, at intervals, at random, bunglingly, by chance, by fits, by snatches, capriciously, carelessly, casually, clumsily, cursorily, desultorily, disregardfully, erratically, experimentally, fitfully, forgetfully, haphazardly, heedlessly, helter-skelter, hit and miss, in snatches, in spots, inattentively, inconsiderately, indiscriminately, irregularly, messily, offhand, offhandedly, once over lightly, perfunctorily, promiscuously, randomly, recklessly, regardlessly, slapdash, sloppily, spasmodically, sporadically, tactlessly, thoughtlessly, unguardedly, unheedfully, unheedingly, unmethodically, unmindfully, unsolicitously, unsystematically, unthinkingly, unvigilantly, unwarily

hit the ceiling

• hit the ceiling, be angry, be excitable, bellow, blow a fuse, blow a gasket, blow up, catch fire, catch the infection, come apart, excite easily, explode, fire up, flame up, flare up, flash up, flip, fly out, get excited, go into hysterics, have a tantrum, rage, ramp, rant, rant and rave, rave, run a temperature, seethe, smolder, storm, take fire, turn a hair

hit the high spots

• hit the high spots, abridge, blink, brief, browse, capsule, capsulize, carefully ignore, cold-shoulder, condense, cut a corner, cut corners, dip into, dodge, examine cursorily, fudge, give the once-over, glance at, glance over, glance through, nutshell, outline, page through, pass over, pass over lightly, run over, run through, scamp, scan, scratch the surface, shorten, sketch, sketch out, skim, skim over, skim the surface, skimp, skip over, slight, slip through, slubber over, slur, slur over, summarize, synopsize, thumb over, thumb through, touch upon, touch upon lightly, zip through

hit the nail on the head

• hit the nail on the head, add up, answer, be OK, be correct, be just right, be right, bottom, clear up, crack, debug, decipher, decode, disentangle, divine, do, dope, dope out, explain, fathom, figure out, find out, find the answer, find the solution, get, get right, guess, guess right, have it, hit it, interpret, make out, open the lock, plumb, psych, psych out, puzzle out, ravel, ravel out, resolve, riddle, solve, sort out, undo, unlock, unravel, unriddle, unscramble, untangle, untwist, unweave, work, work out

hit the road

• hit the road, bat around, be off, beat it, begone, bum, clear out, count ties, divagate, drift, flake off, flit, gad, gad about, gallivant, get, get going, get lost, get out, git, go about, go the rounds, hit the trail, hobo, jaunt, knock about, knock around, make yourself scarce, meander, mooch, nomadize, peregrinate, pererrate, prowl, ramble, range, roam, rove, run about, saunter, scram, shove off, straggle, stray, stroll, traipse, tramp, vagabond, vagabondize, vamoose, walk the tracks, wander, wayfare

hit up

• hit up, beg, borrow, bum, cadge, float a loan, get a loan, get on credit, hit, hit one for, mooch, negotiate a loan, panhandle, pass the hat, pawn, raise money, run into debt, scrounge, touch

hit upon

• hit upon, alight upon, arrive at, arrive upon, blunder upon, bump into, chance upon, come across, come at, come down on, come on, come up against, come upon, descend upon, discover serendipitously, drop on, encounter, fall in with, fall on, fall upon, get at, happen upon, light upon, meet up with, meet with, pitch upon, reach, run across, run into, run up against, settle on, strike upon, stumble on, stumble upon, tumble on

hit

• hit, Grand Guignol, Passion play, Tom show, accomplish, accord, achieve, adverse criticism, affect, agree, ambush, animadversion, answer to, antimasque, antitoxin, approach, arrest the thoughts, arrive, arrive at, arrive in, aspersion, assail, assault, assent, assort with, attack, attain, attain to, audience success, bad notices, bad press, bag, ballad, ballet, bang, bang into, bash, bat, be consistent, be of one, be received, be uniform with, beating, beg, belt, best seller, biff, big hit, blast, blitz, blot out, blow, blow in, bob up, bomb, bonk, booster, booster dose, booster shot, brilliant success, broadcast drama, brush, brush by, buffet, bum, bump, bump into, bump off, burlesque show, bushwhack, cadge, cannon, captiousness, caress, carom, carom into, carping, catch, catch the thoughts, cavil, caviling, censoriousness, chance, charade, charge, check, check in, chime, chop, clap, clash, cliff hanger, clip, clip off, clobber, clock in, closet drama, clout, clump, cock, cohere, coincide, coldcock, collide, come, come at, come down on, come home to, come in, come in contact, come into collision, come to, come to hand, comedy drama, concur, concuss, conform, conform with, confront each other, conk, consist with, contact, cooperate, correspond, crack, crack down on, crack up, crash, crash into, critical success, criticism, criticize, croak, crump, crunch, cuff, cut, cut and thrust, dash, dash into, daytime serial, deal, deal a blow, deck, descend on, descend upon, descry, detect, determine, detonate, dialogue, dig, ding, dint, discharge, discover, do, do in, documentary drama, dose, dovetail, draft, drama, dramalogue, dramatic play, dramatic series, drop, dropping, drub, drubbing, drug packet, drumming, duodrama, duologue, eject, encounter, epic theater, erase, espy, exception, experimental theater, extravaganza, fad, failure, fall foul of, fall in together, fall on, fall upon, faultfinding, feint, fell, fetch, fetch a blow, fetch up at, find, find out, fire, fire off, fit together, fix, flail at, flail away at, flak, flop, foul, fusillade, gain, gang up on, gas, gasser, get, get in, get there, get to, give the business, giveaway, glance, go, go at, go for, go together, go with, goal, grab, grand slam, graze, great success, gun, gun down, gun for, hairsplitting, hang together, happening, harmonize, harry, have at, hit a clip, hit against, hit at, hit like lightning, hit show, hit the mark, hit town, hit tune, hit up, hold together, hole, hole in one, home run, home thrust, homer, hostile criticism, hunt down, hurt, hurtle, hypercriticalness, hypercriticism, hypodermic, hypodermic injection, ice, impinge, impress, impress forcibly, improvisational drama, imputation, injection, inoculation, interlock, intersect, invent, jab, jet injection, jibe, jump, killing, kiss, knock, knock against, knock cold, knock down, knock out, land on, lash out at, lay at, lay hands on, lay into, lay out, legitimate drama, let drive at, let fly, let fly at, let have it, let off, lick, light, light into, light music, load, locate, lock, luck, lunge at, mainlining, make, make an impression, make it, masque, match, meet, meet with, melodrama, meteoric success, minstrel show, miracle, miracle play, momentary success, monodrama, monologue, mooch, morality, morality play, mug, music drama, musical revue, mystery, mystery play, nagging, nail, narcotic injection, narcotic shot, niggle, niggling, nit, nit-picking, nudge, obloquy, off, opera, osculate, overcriticalness, overdose, overlap, pageant, pan, panel show, panhandle, pantomime, parallel, pass the hat, paste, pastoral, pastoral drama, pelt, pepper, percuss, pestering, pettifogging, pick off, piece, pistol, pitch into, play, playlet, plug, plunk, poke, poke at, polish off, pop, pop music, pop up, popping, popular music, popular song, portion, pot, potion, potshoot, potshot, pound, priggishness, prime, problem play, psychodrama, pull in, punch, punch in, quibble, quibbling, quiz show, radio drama, rap, reach, rediscover, reflection, register, register with, reproachfulness, resounding triumph, respond to, review, revue, riddle, ring in, riot, roaring success, rock, roll in, rub, rub out, run down, run into, run to earth, sail into, score, scrape, scrounge, sensation, sensational play, serial, set on, set upon, settle, shave, shoot, shoot at, shoot down, shooting up, shot, show, show up, sideswipe, sign in, sing in chorus, sink in, sitcom, situation comedy, sketch, skim, skin-popping, skirt, skit, slam, slam into, slog, slosh, slug, smack, smack into, smash, smash hit, smash into, smash up, smite, snap, snipe, snipe at, soak, soap, soap opera, sociodrama, sock, song hit, sort with, spectacle, spot, square, square with, squeak by, stage play, stage show, stand together, straight drama, stricture, strike, strike against, strike at, strike hard, strike home, strike out at, stroke, stumble, success, successful, surprise, suspense drama, swat, swing, swing at, swing on, swipe, tableau, tableau vivant, take a potshot, take care of, take the offensive, taking exception, talk show, tally, tattoo, teleplay, television drama, television play, tell, ten, theater of cruelty, thrust at, thump, thwack, time in, torpedo, total theater, touch, touchdown, trace, trace down, track down, traumatize, trichoschistism, triumph, tumble, turn up, vaccination, vaccine, variety show, vaudeville, vaudeville show, vehicle, wade into, wallop, waste, whack, wham, whomp, whop, wipe, wipe out, word-of-mouth success, work, wow, yerk, zap

hitch

• hitch, acute pain, amble, arrange a match, articulate, attach, barge, batten, batten down, bed, bed down, bite, block, blockade, bob, bolt, boring pain, bottleneck, bowl along, break, bridle, brush, buckle, bundle, butt, button, catch, catch a ride, charley horse, clasp, cleat, clip, clump, connect, continuous tenure, cordon, couple, cramp, cramps, crick, crux, curry, currycomb, curtain, darting pain, determent, deterrent, difficulty, dovetail, drag, drawback, drench, droop, enlistment, entanglement, fasten, feed, fix, flick, flip, flirt, flounce, fodder, foot, footslog, fulgurant pain, gait, gallop, gentle, girdle pain, give away, gnawing, griping, groom, halt, handicap, handle, hang-up, harness, hasp, hazard, hike up, hindrance, hinge, hippety-hop, hitch a ride, hitch rides, hitch up, hitchhike, hobble, hoick, hoist, hook, hook up, hop, hurdle, impediment, interference, jam, jerk, jig, jigger, jigget, jiggle, jog, joggle, join, join together, joint, joker, jolt, jump, jumping pain, kink, lancinating pain, latch, limp, link, litter, lock, lock step, lumber, lunge, lurch, make a match, make fast, make one, manage, marry, match, mate, milk, mince, mincing steps, mishap, miter, mortise, nail, nip, nuptial, objection, obstacle, obstruction, obstructive, one small difficulty, pace, paddle, pang, paroxysm, peg, piaffe, piaffer, pin, pinch, plod, pluck, prance, prick, prison term, problem, pull up, rabbet, rack, raise, rivet, roll, rub, rub down, saddle, sashay, saunter, scarf, screw, scuff, scuffle, scuttle, seizure, sew, shamble, sharp pain, shoot, shooting, shooting pain, shuffle, sidle, single-foot, skewer, skip, slink, slither, slog, slouch, slowness, snag, snake, snap, snatch, spasm, splice, stab, stabbing pain, stagger, stalk, stamp, staple, start, step, stick, stitch, stomp, straddle, straggle, stretch, stride, stroll, strolling gait, strut, stumbling block, stumbling stone, stump, sudden pull, swagger, swing, tack, tame, tend, tenure, term, thrill, throes, thumb, tie, time, tittup, toddle, toggle, tormen, totter, tour, train, traipse, tread, trip, trot, trouble, trudge, tweak, twinge, twitch, unite, unite in marriage, velocity, waddle, walk, wamble, water, wed, wedge, wiggle, wobble, wrench, yank, yerk, yoke, zipper

hitchhiker

• hitchhiker, ambulator, backpacker, foot passenger, foot soldier, foot traveler, footslogger, hiker, hoofer, infantryman, jaywalker, marcher, paddlefoot, pedestrian, peripatetic, trailsman, tramper, walker, walkist

hither

• hither, aboard, among us, here, hereabout, hereabouts, hereat, hereinto, hereto, hereunto, hitherward, hitherwards, in this place, in this vicinity, just here, on board, on the spot, somewhere about, to this place, with us

hitherto

• hitherto, aforetime, already, as yet, before, before all, before now, beforetime, earlier, early, ere, ere then, erenow, erewhile, erst, formerly, here, heretofore, historically, in the past, in times past, once, only yesterday, or ever, prehistorically, previously, priorly, recently, so far, then, theretofore, thus far, up to now, whilom, yesterday, yet

hive

• hive, a mass of, a world of, aerie, amass, anchor, apiary, army, assemble, bee tree, beehive, bevy, billet at, bivouac, bunch, bunch up, burrow, camp, center of manufacture, charm, clot, cloud, cluster, clutter, collect, colonize, come to anchor, come together, congregate, converge, copulate, couple, covey, crowd, cumulate, date, domesticate, drop anchor, ensconce, establish residence, eyrie, flight, flock, flock together, flocks, flow together, forgather, fuse, gaggle, gang around, gang up, garner, gather, gather around, hail, herd together, hive of industry, horde, host, hub of industry, huddle, inhabit, jam, keep house, large amount, lay up, league, legion, link, live at, locate, lots, manufacturing town, many, mass, masses of, meet, merge, mill, mob, moor, move, muchness, multitude, murmuration, muster, nest, nidus, numbers, pack, park, people, perch, plague, plurality, populate, quantities, quite a few, rally, rally around, relocate, rendezvous, reside, roll up, roost, rout, ruck, scores, seethe, set up housekeeping, set up shop, settle, settle down, shoal, sit down, skein, spring, squat, stand, stay at, stockpile, store up, stream, strike root, surge, swarm, take residence at, take root, take up residence, throng, tidy sum, unite, vespiary, watch, worlds of

hives

• hives, acne, acne vulgaris, allergen, allergic disorder, allergy, asthma, breaking out, conjunctivitis, cosmetic dermatitis, dermamycosis, dermatitis, dermatosis, diaper rash, drug rash, eczema, efflorescence, elephantiasis, epithelioma, eruption, erysipelas, erythema, exanthem, hay fever, heat rash, herpes, herpes simplex, herpes zoster, impetigo, itch, jungle rot, leprosy, lichen, lichen primus, lupus, lupus vulgaris, miliaria, nettle rash, papular rash, pemphigus, pollinosis, prickly heat, pruigo, pruritus, psora, rash, ringworm, rose cold, rupia, scabies, shingles, skin cancer, skin eruption, tetter, urticaria, vaccine rash

ho ho

• ho ho, Homeric laughter, be in stitches, belly laugh, boff, boffola, break up, burst into laughter, burst of laughter, burst out, burst out laughing, burst with laughter, bust a gut, cachinnate, cachinnation, cackle, chortle, chuckle, convulsion, crow, fit of laughter, gales of laughter, giggle, go into convulsions, guffaw, ha-ha, hearty laugh, hee-haw, hee-hee, hilarity, horselaugh, laugh, laugh it up, laugh outright, laughing, laughter, nearly die laughing, outburst of laughter, peal of laughter, risibility, roar, roar of laughter, roar with laughter, shake like jelly, shake with laughter, shout, shout of laughter, shriek, snicker, snigger, snort, split, split with laughter, tee-hee, titter, yuck, yuk-yuk

ho hum

• ho hum, arid, barren, blah, blank, bloodless, characterless, cold, colorless, dead, dismal, draggy, drearisome, dreary, dry, dryasdust, dull, dusty, effete, elephantine, empty, etiolated, fade, flat, heavy, hollow, inane, inexcitable, insipid, jejune, leaden, lifeless, low-spirited, pale, pallid, pedestrian, plodding, pointless, poky, ponderous, slow, solemn, spiritless, sterile, stiff, stodgy, stuffy, superficial, tasteless, tedious, unlively, vapid, wooden

hoagy

• hoagy, BLT, Dagwood sandwich, Sloppy Joe, Swiss cheese sandwich, bacon-lettuce-tomato sandwich, canape, cheeseburger, corned beef sandwich, double-decker sandwich, egg salad sandwich, grilled cheese sandwich, grinder, ham sandwich, hamburger, hot dog, pastrami sandwich, poor boy, sandwich, submarine sandwich, tuna salad sandwich, tunaburger

hoar

• hoar, Jack Frost, advanced, advanced in life, advanced in years, aged, along in years, ancient, argent, argentine, black frost, canescent, chalky, cretaceous, elderly, fleecy-white, frost, frost line, frost smoke, frosted, frosty, gray, gray with age, gray-haired, gray-headed, grizzled, grizzly, grown old, hoarfrost, hoary, killing frost, lactescent, lily-white, marble, marmoreal, milky, niveous, old, old as Methuselah, patriarchal, platinum, pure white, rime, rime frost, senectuous, sharp frost, silver, silvered, silvery, snow-white, snowy, swan-white, venerable, white, white as snow, white frost, white with age, white-bearded, white-crowned, white-haired, wrinkled, wrinkly, years old

hoard

• hoard, abundance, accumulate, accumulation, agglomeration, amass, amassment, assemble, backlog, budget, cache, capital gains, cleanup, clear profit, collect, collection, colluvies, commissariat, commissary, conglomeration, cornucopia, cumulate, cumulation, dividends, dump, earnings, filthy lucre, fund, gain, gains, garner, garner up, gather, gather into barns, get, gettings, gleanings, gross, gross profit, heap, heap up, hide, hoard up, hold, income, interest, inventory, keep, killing, larder, lay by, lay up, lucre, makings, mass, material, materials, materiel, munitions, neat profit, nest egg, net, net profit, paper profits, pelf, percentage, perk, perks, perquisite, pickings, pile, pile up, plenitude, plenty, proceeds, profit, profits, provisionment, provisions, put away, put up, rake-off, rations, receipts, repertoire, repertory, reserve, reservoir, return, returns, rick, save, save up, secrete, set aside, sock away, squirrel, squirrel away, stack, stash, stock, stock up, stock-in-trade, stockpile, store, store up, stores, supplies, supply, supply on hand, take, take-in, treasure, treasure up, treasury, trove, wealth, winnings

hoarse

• hoarse, blurred, brassy, brazen, breathy, choked, choking, coarse, cracked, croaking, croaky, drawling, drawly, dry, dysphonic, grating, gruff, guttural, harsh, harsh-sounding, hawking, husky, inarticulate, indistinct, jarring, lisping, metallic, mispronounced, muzzy, nasal, quavering, ragged, rasping, raucid, raucous, rough, roupy, rude, shaking, shaky, snuffling, squawking, squawky, stertorous, stifled, strangled, strident, stridulous, thick, throaty, tinny, tremulous, twangy, velar

hoary

• hoary, acknowledged, admitted, advanced, advanced in life, advanced in years, age-old, aged, ageless, along in years, ancient, antediluvian, antique, argent, argentine, auld, canescent, chalky, conventional, cretaceous, customary, dateless, elderly, established, fixed, fleecy-white, folk, frost-beaded, frost-chequered, frost-covered, frost-fettered, frost-rent, frostbound, frosted, frostlike, frosty, frosty-faced, gray, gray with age, gray-haired, gray-headed, grizzled, grizzly, grown old, hallowed, handed down, heroic, hoar, hoar-frosted, hoaryheaded, immemorial, inveterate, lactescent, legendary, lily-white, long-established, long-standing, marble, marmoreal, milky, mythological, niveous, of long standing, of old, of the folk, of yore, old, old as Methuselah, old as history, old as time, old-time, olden, oral, patriarchal, platinum, prescriptive, pure white, received, recognized, rime-frosted, rimed, rooted, senectuous, silver, silver-bearded, silver-headed, silvered, silvery, snow-white, snowy, swan-white, time-honored, timeless, timeworn, traditional, tried and true, true-blue, understood, unwritten, venerable, white, white as snow, white with age, white-bearded, white-crowned, white-haired, worshipful, wrinkled, wrinkly, years old

hoax

• hoax, bamboozle, befool, beguile, betray, bluff, cajole, cheat, cheat on, chicane, circumvent, clinquant, con, con game, conjure, counterfeit, cozen, deceive, deception, defraud, delude, diddle, double-cross, dummy, dupe, fake, fakement, flam, flimflam, fool, forestall, forgery, frame-up, fraud, game, gammon, get around, gull, gyp, hocus-pocus, hoodwink, hornswaggle, humbug, imitation, impostor, imposture, juggle, junk, let down, mock, outmaneuver, outreach, outsmart, outwit, overreach, paste, phony, pigeon, pinchbeck, play one false, put something over, put-on, put-up job, rip-off, scam, sell, sham, shoddy, simulacrum, snow, snow job, spoof, string along, swindle, take in, tinsel, trick, two-time, whited sepulcher

hoaxer

• hoaxer, Artful Dodger, Casanova, Don Juan, Machiavel, Machiavelli, Machiavellian, actor, bamboozler, befuddler, beguiler, charmer, counterfeiter, deceiver, deluder, dissembler, dissimulator, dodger, double-dealer, duper, enchanter, entrancer, faker, fooler, forger, gay deceiver, hypnotizer, jilt, jilter, joker, jokester, kidder, leg-puller, mesmerizer, misleader, plagiarist, plagiarizer, playactor, practical joker, ragger, role-player, seducer, spoofer, tease, teaser

hob

• hob, Ariel, Befind, Corrigan, Finnbeara, Mab, Oberon, Titania, banshee, beam-end, brownie, chimney, chimney corner, cluricaune, corbel, dwarf, elf, fairy, fairy queen, fay, fender, fire screen, fireboard, fireguard, fireplace, fireside, flue, gnome, goblin, gradin, gradino, gremlin, hearth, hearthstone, hobgoblin, hub, imp, ingle, inglenook, ingleside, kobold, ledge, leprechaun, mantel, mantelshelf, ouphe, peri, pixie, pooka, predella, puca, pwca, retable, shelf, shoulder, smokehole, sprite, superaltar, sylph, sylphid

hobble

• hobble, amble, anchor, andante, barge, bind, bowl along, bridle, bundle, burden, castrate, chain, claudicate, claudication, clog, clump, clutch, complication, cramp, crawl, creep, cripple, crunch, cumber, curb, dead march, deflate, disable, disarm, dodder, dogtrot, drag, drag along, drag out, droop, emasculate, embarrass, embarrassing position, embarrassment, enchain, encumber, enmesh, ensnarl, entangle, entoil, entrammel, entrap, entwine, falter, fasten, fetter, fine how-do-you-do, flounce, foot, footpace, footslog, funeral march, gag, gait, gallop, go dead slow, go slow, gyve, halt, hamper, hamstring, handcuff, handicap, hell to pay, hinder, hippety-hop, hitch, hog-tie, hop, hopple, hot water, how-do-you-do, idle, imbroglio, impede, incapacitate, inch, inch along, involve, jam, jog, jog trot, jog-trot, jolt, jump, knock out, lame, lash, laze, leash, leisurely gait, lime, limp, lock step, lumber, lumbering pace, lunge, lurch, maim, make fast, manacle, mess, mince, mincing steps, mix, moor, morass, mosey, muzzle, net, pace, paddle, paralyze, parlous straits, pass, peg, peg down, piaffe, piaffer, picket, pickle, pin down, pinch, pinion, plight, plod, poke, poke along, prance, predicament, press down, pretty pass, pretty pickle, pretty predicament, prostrate, put in irons, quagmire, quicksand, rack, reel, restrain, restrict, roll, rope, saddle with, sashay, saunter, scrape, scuff, scuffle, scuttle, secure, shackle, shamble, shuffle, shuffle along, sidle, silence, single-foot, skip, slink, slither, slog, slouch, slough, slow march, slow motion, slowness, snarl, spot, squeeze, stagger, stagger along, stalk, stamp, step, stew, sticky wicket, stomp, straddle, straggle, strait, straitjacket, straits, strangle, strap, stride, stroll, strolling gait, strut, stumble, stump, swagger, swamp, swing, tangle, tether, throttle, tie, tie down, tie up, tight spot, tight squeeze, tightrope, tittup, toddle, toddle along, toil, totter, totter along, traipse, trammel, tread, tricky spot, trip, trot, trudge, truss up, unholy mess, velocity, waddle, walk, wamble, weave, weigh down, wiggle, wing, wobble, worm, worm along

hobbyhorse

• hobbyhorse, agate, avocation, ball, baseball bat, bat, battledore, bauble, blocks, by-line, checkerboard, chessboard, club, cockhorse, cricket bat, cue, doll, doll carriage, gewgaw, gimcrack, golf club, hobby, jack-in-the-box, jacks, jackstones, jackstraws, kickshaw, knickknack, marble, marionette, mig, paper doll, pastime, pick-up sticks, pinwheel, plaything, puppet, racket, rag doll, rocking horse, side interest, sideline, spare-time activity, sport, steelie, taw, teetotum, top, toy, toy soldier, trinket, whim-wham

hobbyist

• hobbyist, addict, bug, collector, demon, eager beaver, energumen, enthusiast, faddist, fanatic, fiend, freak, great one for, hound, infatuate, nut, pursuer, rhapsodist, sucker for, visionary, zealot

hobgoblin

• hobgoblin, Dracula, Frankenstein, Wolf-man, bogey, bogeyman, bugaboo, bugbear, fee-faw-fum, frightener, ghost, ghoul, goblin, hob, holy terror, horror, incubus, monster, nightmare, ogre, ogress, ouphe, phantom, revenant, scarebabe, scarecrow, scarer, specter, succubus, terror, vampire, werewolf

hobnob with

• hobnob with, associate with, assort with, be acquainted with, be friends, be inseparable, chum, chum together, chum with, clique, clique with, club together, consort with, cotton to, fellowship, flock together, fraternize, fraternize with, hang around with, hang out with, herd together, hit it off, join, join in fellowship, keep company with, know, mingle with, mix with, pal, pal up with, pal with, run in couples, run with, sort with, take up with, tie up with

hobo

• hobo, Arab, Bowery bum, alien, beach bum, beachcomber, beggar, beggarly fellow, blighter, bo, budmash, bum, bummer, cadger, caitiff, case, character, crackpot, crank, derelict, devil, dogie, drifter, drunkard, eccentric, fanatic, floater, gamin, gamine, good-for-naught, good-for-nothing, guttersnipe, hermit, homeless waif, human wreck, idler, kook, landloper, lazzarone, loafer, lone wolf, loner, losel, lowlife, mauvais sujet, maverick, mean wretch, mendicant, mendicant friar, mendicant order, meshuggenah, moocher, mucker, mudlark, natural, no-good, nonconformist, nut, odd fellow, oddball, oddity, original, outsider, panhandler, pariah, pauvre diable, piker, pilgarlic, poor creature, poor devil, queer duck, queer fish, queer specimen, ragamuffin, ragman, ragpicker, rara avis, rounder, sad case, sad sack, schnorrer, screwball, scrounger, ski bum, skid-row bum, solitary, stiff, stray, street Arab, street arab, street urchin, sundowner, surf bum, swagman, swagsman, tatterdemalion, tennis bum, tramp, truant, turnpiker, type, urchin, vag, vagabond, vagrant, vaurien, waif, waifs and strays, wastrel, worthless fellow, wretch, zealot

hock

• hock, ankle, bail, bayonet legs, bond, bottomry, bowlegs, calf, cnemis, deposit, drumstick, earnest, earnest money, escrow, foreleg, gage, gamb, gambrel, gigot, go bail, ham, handsel, hind leg, hostage, hypothecate, impignorate, jamb, knee, leg, limb, mainprise, mortgage, pawn, pignus, pledge, podite, popliteal space, post, put in hock, put in pawn, put up, recognizance, replevin, replevy, scissor-legs, shank, shin, spout, stake, stems, stumps, surety, tarsus, token payment, trotters, undertaking, vadimonium, vadium

hocus pocus

• hocus pocus, abracadabra, absurdity, amphigory, anagoge, anagogics, anthroposophy, artful dodge, artifice, babble, babblement, bag of tricks, balderdash, bibble-babble, blabber, blather, blind, bluff, bombast, bosey, cabala, cabalism, catch, chicanery, chouse, claptrap, conjuration, curve, curve-ball, design, device, dirty deal, dirty trick, dodge, double-talk, drivel, drool, escamotage, esotericism, esoterics, esoterism, esotery, fast deal, feint, fetch, ficelle, fiddle-faddle, fiddledeedee, flummery, folderol, fudge, fustian, gabble, galimatias, gambit, gammon, gibber, gibberish, gibble-gabble, gimmick, gobbledygook, googly, hanky-panky, hokey-pokey, humbug, incantation, jabber, jargon, jiggery-pokery, joker, juggle, jugglery, juggling, legerdemain, magic formula, magic words, monkey business, mumbo jumbo, mystery, mysticism, mystification, narrishkeit, niaiserie, nonsense, occultism, open sesame, pack of nonsense, palaver, pass, ploy, prate, prattle, prestidigitation, rant, rigamarole, rigmarole, rodomontade, rubbish, ruse, scheme, scurvy trick, shift, skimble-skamble, sleight, sleight of hand, sleight-of-hand trick, stratagem, stuff and nonsense, stultiloquence, subterfuge, symbolics, symbolism, trash, trick, trickery, trumpery, twaddle, twattle, twiddle-twaddle, vaporing, waffling, wile, yoga, yogeeism, yogism

hocus-pocus

• hocus-pocus, abracadabra, artifice, cheat, chicanery, con game, conjuring, deceit, deception, duplicity, flimflam, gibberish, hanky-panky, hoax, humbug, incantation, jiggery-pokery, jugglery, legerdemain, magic, mischief, mumbo-jumbo, nonsense, prestidigitation, rigmarole, sleight of hand, swindle, trick, trickery

hodgepodge

• hodgepodge, all sorts, arsy-varsiness, assemblage, assortment, broad spectrum, clutter, collectanea, conglomerate, conglomeration, farrago, gallimaufry, hash, helter-skelter, higgledy-piggledy, hotchpot, hotchpotch, hysteron proteron, jumble, litter, magpie, mash, medley, melange, mess, mingle-mangle, miscellanea, miscellany, mishmash, mix, mixed bag, mixture, oddments, odds and ends, olio, olla podrida, omnium-gatherum, pasticcio, pastiche, patchwork, potpourri, salad, salmagundi, sauce, scramble, stew, sundries, topsy-turviness, topsy-turvydom, tumble, turmoil, unholy mess, variety, welter, what you will

hoe

• hoe, backset, cultivate, culture, cut, delve, dig, dress, fallow, fertilize, force, harrow, list, mulch, plow, prune, rake, spade, thin, thin out, till, till the soil, weed, weed out, work

hog tie

• hog tie, anchor, bind, bridle, chain, clog, curb, deflate, disarm, enchain, entrammel, fasten, fetter, gag, gyve, hamper, hamstring, handcuff, hobble, hopple, knock out, lash, leash, make fast, manacle, moor, muzzle, paralyze, peg down, picket, pin down, pinion, prostrate, put in irons, restrain, rope, secure, shackle, silence, straitjacket, strangle, strap, tether, throttle, tie, tie down, tie up, trammel, truss up

hog wallow

• hog wallow, baygall, bog, bottom, bottomland, bottoms, buffalo wallow, chuckhole, everglade, fen, fenland, glade, holm, loblolly, marais, marish, marsh, marshland, meadow, mere, mire, moor, moorland, morass, moss, muckhole, mud, mud flat, mud puddle, mudhole, peat bog, puddle, quagmire, quicksand, salt marsh, slob land, slop, slough, sough, sump, swale, swamp, swampland, taiga, wallow, wash

hog wild

• hog wild, abandoned, amok, bellowing, berserk, carried away, delirious, demoniac, distracted, ecstatic, enraptured, feral, ferocious, fierce, frantic, frenzied, fulminating, furious, haggard, howling, hysterical, in a transport, in hysterics, intoxicated, mad, madding, maniac, orgasmic, orgiastic, possessed, rabid, raging, ramping, ranting, raving, ravished, roaring, running mad, storming, transported, uncontrollable, violent, wild, wild-eyed, wild-looking

hog

• hog, adopt, appropriate, arrogate, assume, barrow, belly-god, boar, careerist, colonize, conquer, cormorant, corner, egotist, engross, enslave, forestall, fortune hunter, gilt, glutton, gorger, gormand, gormandizer, gourmand, gourmandizer, greedy eater, greedygut, greedyguts, guttler, husky eater, indent, individualist, jump a claim, lone wolf, loner, make free with, make use of, monopolist, monopolize, narcissist, occupy, overrun, pig, piggy, piglet, pigling, porker, preempt, preoccupy, prepossess, razorback, requisition, road hog, self-advancer, self-pleaser, self-seeker, self-server, shoat, sit on, slattern, sloven, slut, sow, squat on, subjugate, suckling pig, swine, take all of, take it all, take over, take possession of, take up, temporizer, tie up, timepleaser, timeserver, trencherman, trencherwoman, tufthunter, tusker, usurp, wild boar

hoggish

• hoggish, Apician, a hog for, acquisitive, all-devouring, asinine, avaricious, avid, beastly, bolting, bottomless, bovid, bovine, caprid, caprine, coveting, covetous, cowish, cowlike, cramming, crapulent, crapulous, deerlike, devouring, edacious, equestrian, equine, esurient, glutting, gluttonizing, gluttonous, goatish, goatlike, gobbling, gorging, grabby, grasping, greedy, gulping, guttling, guzzling, hircine, hogging, hoofed, horsy, hyperphagic, insatiable, insatiate, intemperate, limitless, mercenary, miserly, money-hungry, money-mad, monopolistic, monopolizing, monopoloid, mulish, omnivorous, overgreedy, ovine, piggish, polyphagic, possessive, quenchless, rapacious, ravening, ravenous, ruminant, self-seeking, selfish, sheepish, sheeplike, slakeless, sordid, stuffing, swinish, unappeasable, unappeased, ungulate, unquenchable, unsated, unsatisfied, unslakeable, unslaked, venal, voracious, wolfing

hogwash

• hogwash, balls, baloney, bilge, blague, blah, blah-blah, bones, bop, bosh, bull, bullshit, bunk, bunkum, chaff, claptrap, crap, culm, deadwood, dishwater, draff, dregs, dust, eyewash, filings, flam, flapdoodle, flimflam, gammon, garbage, gas, gash, guff, gup, hoke, hokum, hooey, horsefeathers, hot air, humbug, humbuggery, husks, jiggery-pokery, leavings, lees, malarkey, moonshine, offal, offscourings, orts, parings, piffle, poppycock, potsherds, rags, raspings, refuse, rot, scat, scourings, scrap iron, scraps, scum, shards, shavings, shit, slack, slag, slop, slops, stubble, sweepings, swill, tares, tommyrot, tripe, wastage, waste, waste matter, wastepaper, weeds, wind

hoi polloi

• hoi polloi, cog, commonality, commonalty, creature, demos, flunky, follower, ignobile vulgus, inferior, junior, lightweight, lower class, lower orders, many-headed multitude, masses, mobile vulgus, pawn, second fiddle, secondary, subaltern, subordinate, the citizenry, the common herd, the crowd, the general public, the great unnumbered, the great unwashed, the herd, the hoi polloi, the horde, the majority, the many, the masses, the mob, the multitude, the people, the populace, the population, the public, third stringer, underling, understrapper, yes-man

hoist

• hoist, a leg up, boost, buoy up, cast up, crab, crane, davit, derrick, elevate, elevator, erect, erector, escalate, forklift, gantry crane, heave, heft, heighten, heist, hike, hoick, hold up, hydraulic tailgate, jack, jackscrew, jerk up, knock up, lever, levitate, lift, lift up, lifter, lob, loft, perk up, pick up, raise, raise up, rear, rear up, rise, set up, sky, stick up, tackle, take up, throw up, up, upbuoy, upcast, upheave, uphoist, uphold, uplift, upraise, uprear, upthrow, winch, windlass

hoity toity

• hoity toity, Olympian detachment, Olympian loftiness, arrogance, arrogant, arrogantness, assumption of superiority, big, condescendence, condescending, condescension, dizzy, domineering, domineeringness, featherbrained, flighty, frivolous, giddy, harebrained, haughtiness, haughty, haughty airs, hauteur, high horse, high-faluting, high-flown, high-headed, high-nosed, hoity-toitiness, loftiness, lofty, overbearing, overbearing pride, overbearingness, overweening pride, patronization, patronizing, patronizing attitude, pride, proud, proudness, purse-pride, purse-proud, rattlebrained, scatterbrained, side, silly, skittish, stiff-necked pride, stuck-up, superbia, superior, toploftiness, toplofty, uppish, uppishness, uppity, uppityness, upstage

hoke up

• hoke up, act like, affect, assume, borrow, chorus, concoct, cook up, copy, counterfeit, crib, ditto, do, do like, echo, fabricate, fake, fantasize, forge, fudge, go like, hatch, hoke, imitate, invent, make like, make up, manufacture, mirror, plagiarize, reecho, reflect, repeat, simulate, trump up

hoke

• hoke, acting, balls, baloney, blague, bosh, buffoonery, bull, bullshit, bunk, bunkum, business, characterization, claptrap, crap, eyewash, flam, flimflam, gag, gammon, ham, hammy acting, hogwash, hokum, hooey, humbug, humbuggery, impersonation, jiggery-pokery, mimesis, mimicking, mimicry, miming, moonshine, mummery, overacting, pantomiming, patter, performance, performing, personation, playacting, playing, portrayal, projection, representation, slapstick, stage business, stage directions, stage presence, stunt, taking a role

hokum

• hokum, acting, balls, baloney, bilge, blague, blah, blah-blah, bop, bosh, buffoonery, bull, bullshit, bunk, bunkum, business, characterization, claptrap, crap, eyewash, flam, flapdoodle, flimflam, gag, gammon, gas, guff, gup, ham, hammy acting, hogwash, hoke, hooey, hot air, humbug, humbuggery, impersonation, jazz, jiggery-pokery, malarkey, mimesis, mimicking, mimicry, miming, moonshine, mummery, overacting, pantomiming, patter, performance, performing, personation, piffle, playacting, playing, poppycock, portrayal, projection, representation, rot, scat, shit, slapstick, stage business, stage directions, stage presence, stunt, taking a role, tommyrot, tripe, wind

hold back

• hold back, abstain, abstain from, arrest, avoid, avoid excess, backpedal, backwater, begrudge, bit, block, bottle up, brake, bridle, check, clip the wings, close the hand, confine, conserve, constrain, contain, control, cool, cool off, countercheck, curb, curtail, dam up, damp, dampen, decelerate, delay, deny, detain, dispense with, do without, dompt, drag, draw rein, ease off, ease up, eat sparingly, eat to live, enjoin, eschew, exercise self-control, forbear, forgo, govern, grudge, guard, hinder, hold, hold aloof from, hold at bay, hold down, hold fast, hold in, hold in check, hold in leash, hold off, hold out on, hold up, husband, impede, inhibit, intercept, interfere, intermeddle, interrupt, intervene, keep, keep back, keep by one, keep from, keep in, keep in check, keep in hand, keep in reserve, keep in store, keep on hand, keep out, keep under control, keep within bounds, keep within compass, keep within limits, lag, lay by, lay under restraint, let alone, let down, let go by, let up, live plainly, lose ground, lose momentum, lose speed, make late, meddle, moderate, mortify the flesh, never touch, not touch, not use, obstruct, oppose, pass up, preserve, prohibit, pull, pull in, put apart, put aside, put by, reef, refrain, refrain from, rein, rein in, relax, repress, reserve, resist, restrain, retain, retard, retrench, save, save up, scotch, set apart, set aside, set back, set by, shun, slack off, slack up, slacken, slow, slow down, slow up, snub, spare, stand aloof from, stay, stop, straiten, suppress, take in sail, throttle down, waive, withhold

hold by

• hold by, abide by, act up to, adhere to, attend to, be faithful to, comply with, conform to, do justice to, fill, follow, fulfill, heed, keep, keep faith with, live up to, make good, meet, observe, regard, respect, satisfy

hold cheap

• hold cheap, be above, be contemptuous of, care nothing for, contemn, deride, despise, disdain, disparage, disprize, dump on, feel contempt for, feel superior to, hold beneath one, hold in contempt, insult, look down upon, misprize, put down, rank low, ridicule, scorn, set at naught, sneer at, sneeze at, sniff at, snort at, think nothing of

hold down

• hold down, asphyxiate, bit, bottle up, bridle, censor, check, choke off, clamp down on, constrain, cork, cork up, crack down on, crush, curb, damp down, deprive of freedom, disenfranchise, disfranchise, dominate, drown, enslave, enthrall, extinguish, gag, hold back, hold captive, hold in, hold in bondage, hold in captivity, hold in leash, hold in subjection, inhibit, jump on, keep down, keep under, kill, lead captive, make dependent, muzzle, peonize, pour water on, put down, quash, quell, quench, repress, shut down on, silence, sit down on, sit on, smash, smother, squash, squelch, stanch, stifle, strangle, stultify, subdue, subject, subjugate, subordinate, suffocate, suppress, take captive, throttle, vassalize, withhold

hold everything

• hold everything, abide, await, bide, bide the issue, dally, dawdle, delay, dillydally, hang about, hang around, hold on, hold your horses, linger, loiter, mark time, sit tight, sit up, stay, stay up, stick around, take time, tarry, wait, wait a minute, wait and see

hold fast

• hold fast, adhere to, arrest, be unflappable, bear up, bite, bridle, check, clasp, cleave to, clench, clinch, cling, cling like ivy, clip, clutch, come up fighting, constrain, contain, control, cool, cool off, curb, curtail, decelerate, dig in, dompt, embrace, enjoin, freeze to, get home free, govern, grapple, grasp, grip, gripe, guard, hang in, hang in there, hang on, hang on to, hang tough, hinder, hold, hold at bay, hold back, hold in, hold in check, hold in leash, hold on, hold on to, hold out, hold tight, hold up, hug, inhibit, keep, keep back, keep from, keep hold of, keep in, keep in check, keep under control, lay under restraint, live through it, live with it, never let go, never say die, nip, not budge, not give up, prohibit, pull, pull in, rein, rein in, remain firm, restrain, retard, retrench, ride it out, set back, slow down, snub, stand fast, stand firm, stand no nonsense, stand pat, stand the gaff, stand up, stay it out, stay put, stay the distance, stay with it, stick, stick close, stick fast, stick it, stick it out, stick out, stick to, stick to it, stick with it, straiten, take what comes, tough it out, weather, weather the storm, withhold

hold forth

• hold forth, debate, declaim, demagogue, discourse, elocute, explain, exposit, expound, extend, harangue, hold out, lecture, monologize, monopolize the conversation, moralize, mouth, offer, orate, out-herod Herod, perorate, point a moral, preach, prefer, present, proffer, put up, rabble-rouse, rant, read, read a lesson, recite, rodomontade, say aside, sermonize, soliloquize, spiel, spout, submit, tender, think aloud, think out loud, tub-thump

hold good

• hold good, afford proof of, ascertain, be consistent, be demonstrable, be irrefutable, be logical, be reasonable, be the case, be true, be truthful, bring home to, cinch, clinch, conform to fact, demonstrate, determine, establish, figure, fix, follow, follow from, have a case, hold, hold together, hold true, hold up, hold water, make good, make out, make sense, nail down, prove, prove out, prove to be, prove true, remain valid, remove all doubt, set at rest, settle, settle the matter, show, stand the test, stand to reason, stand up, stick together, wash

hold in contempt

• hold in contempt, be above, be contemptuous of, belittle, bring down, bring into discredit, bring low, care nothing for, contemn, cry down, dare, debase, decry, degrade, denigrate, deprecate, depreciate, deride, derogate from, despise, detract from, disapprove of, discommend, discredit, disdain, disgrace, disparage, dispraise, disprize, disvalue, dump on, feel contempt for, feel superior to, get fresh, get smart, have a nerve, have the cheek, have the gall, hold beneath one, hold cheap, insult, knock, look down upon, make bold, make little of, minimize, misprize, presume, put down, rank low, reflect discredit upon, ridicule, run down, scorn, set at naught, slight, sneer at, sneeze at, sniff at, snort at, speak ill of, submit to indignity, take liberties, taunt, think nothing of

hold off

• hold off, abstain, adjourn, be dilatory, beat back, beat off, blench, block, boggle, brush off, chase, chase away, chase off, check, continue, counter, cut, defer, delay, demur, dismiss, dispense with, do without, drag out, drive away, drive back, extend, falter, fend, fend off, fight shy of, filibuster, flinch, forbear, forgo, gain time, hang, hang back, hang fire, hang off, hang up, have qualms, hesitate, hinder, hold at bay, hold back, hold over, hold up, keep at bay, keep back, keep in hand, keep off, lay aside, lay by, lay over, let alone, make bones about, make time, not touch, not use, obstruct, pack off, parry, pause, pigeonhole, play for time, postpone, procrastinate, prolong, prorogate, prorogue, protract, pull back, push aside, push back, put, put aside, put back, put off, put on ice, quail, rebuff, rebut, recess, recoil, refrain, refuse, repel, repulse, reserve, save, scruple, send away, send off, send packing, set aside, set by, shelve, shift off, shrink, shy, shy at, sleep on, snub, spare, spurn, stall, stall for time, stall off, stand over, stave off, stay, stick at, stickle, stooge around, stop, strain, stretch out, suspend, table, take a recess, talk against time, temporize, thrust back, turn aside, turn back, waive, ward off, waver, wince

hold office

• hold office, alternate, be in office, be the incumbent, cover, do a hitch, do a stint, do a tour, do time, enlist, fill an office, fill in for, have a go, have tenure, keep a watch, occupy a post, re-up, reenlist, relieve, serve time, sign up, spell, spell off, take turns, time off

hold on

• hold on, abide, adhere, adhere to, agglomerate, aim, aim at, await, be caught short, be short, bear up, belong, bend, bide, bide the issue, bite, bucket, bucketshop, bunch, carry on, cease not, clasp, cleave, cleave to, clench, clinch, cling, cling to, clip, clot, cluster, clutch, coagulate, cohere, come up fighting, congeal, conglomerate, continue, continue to be, dally, dawdle, defeat time, defy time, delay, deposit margin, determine, dillydally, direct, directionize, drag on, dwell, embrace, endure, exist, extend, fix, fix on, freeze to, go along, go long, go on, grapple, grasp, grip, gripe, grow together, hang about, hang around, hang in, hang in there, hang on, hang on to, hang together, hang tough, hold, hold everything, hold fast, hold on to, hold out, hold steady, hold tight, hold together, hold up, hold your horses, hug, jog on, keep, keep going, keep hold of, keep on, last, last long, last out, level at, linger, live, live on, live through, live through it, live with it, loiter, maintain, make a killing, make a scoop, margin up, mark time, mass, miss the market, never cease, never let go, never say die, nip, not give up, operate, overstay the market, perdure, perennate, persist, play the market, plunge, point, point at, point to, present, prevail, pyramid, remain, run, run on, scalp, scoop the market, set, sight on, sit tight, sit up, slog on, solidify, speculate, stag, stag the market, stagger on, stand, stand up, stay, stay it out, stay on, stay put, stay the distance, stay up, stay with it, stick, stick around, stick it, stick it out, stick out, stick to, stick to it, stick together, stick with it, subsist, survive, sustain, take a flier, take hold of, take time, tarry, tide over, tough it out, trade on margin, train, train upon, turn, turn upon, venture, wait, wait a minute, wait and see, wear, wear well

hold out on

• hold out on, bosom, classify, conceal, file and forget, hold back, in petto, keep, keep back, keep between us, keep buttoned up, keep close, keep dark, keep from, keep in ignorance, keep mum, keep secret, keep snug, keep under wraps, make no sign, never let on, not give away, not tell, play dumb, secrete, veil, withhold

hold out

• hold out, abide, balk, be proof against, be unflappable, be unmoved, be unwilling, bear up, bear up against, beg off, bide, boycott, carry on, come up fighting, continue, continue to be, decline, decline to accept, defeat time, defy, defy time, die hard, dig in, disagree, disallow, disclaim, dissent, dwell, endure, exist, extend, get home free, give, go on, go on strike, go out, hang in, hang in there, hang on, hang tough, hold, hold fast, hold forth, hold on, hold out against, hold up, keep, keep on, keep up, last, last long, last out, live, live on, live through, live through it, live with it, lock out, maintain, negate, negative, never say die, not back down, not budge, not buy, not consent, not flag, not give up, not hear of, not submit, not think of, not weaken, offer, perdure, perennate, persevere, persist, picket, pose, prefer, present, prevail, proffer, put up, rebuff, refuse, refuse consent, reject, remain, remain firm, repel, repudiate, repulse, resist, resist entreaty, resist persuasion, revolt, ride it out, run, run on, say nay, say no, see it out, shut it down, sit down, slow down, stand, stand aloof, stand fast, stand firm, stand no nonsense, stand out, stand pat, stand the gaff, stand up, stay, stay it out, stay on, stay put, stay the distance, stay with it, stick, stick fast, stick it, stick it out, stick out, stick to it, stick with it, stickle, strike, submit, subsist, survive, sustain, sweat it out, take it, take no denial, take what comes, tarry, tender, tide over, tough it out, turn down, vote nay, vote negatively, walk out, wear, wear well, weather, weather the storm, withstand

hold over

• hold over, adjourn, continue, defer, delay, drag out, extend, hang fire, hang up, hold off, hold up, lay aside, lay by, lay over, pigeonhole, postpone, prolong, prorogate, prorogue, protract, push aside, put aside, put off, put on ice, recess, reserve, set aside, set by, shelve, shift off, sleep on, stand over, stave off, stay, stretch out, suspend, table, take a recess, waive

hold together

• hold together, accord, act in concert, act together, adhere, affiliate, agglomerate, agree, ally, amalgamate, answer to, assent, associate, assort with, band, band together, be consistent, be in league, be of one, be the case, be true, be truthful, be uniform with, bunch, check, chime, clasp, cleave, clinch, cling, cling to, clot, club together, cluster, coact, coagulate, coalesce, cohere, coincide, collaborate, collude, combine, come together, communicate, concert, concord, concur, confederate, conform, conform to fact, conform with, congeal, conglomerate, connect, consist with, consolidate, conspire, converge, cooperate, correspond, do business with, dovetail, embrace, fall in together, federate, fit together, freeze to, fuse, get heads together, get together, go partners, go together, go with, grasp, grow together, hang on, hang together, harmonize, hit, hold, hold good, hold on, hold true, hold up, hold water, hook up, hug, intercommunicate, interlock, intersect, jibe, join, join in, join together, keep together, knit, league, league together, lock, make common cause, mass, match, meet, merge, overlap, parallel, partner, persist, play ball, prove out, prove to be, prove true, pull together, put heads together, reciprocate, register, register with, remain valid, respond to, set, sing in chorus, solidify, sort with, square, square with, stand the test, stand together, stand up, stay, stay put, stick, stick together, take hold of, tally, team up, throw in together, tie in, tie up, unite, unite efforts, wash, work together

hold true

• hold true, be consistent, be the case, be true, be truthful, conform to fact, hold, hold good, hold together, hold up, hold water, prove out, prove to be, prove true, remain valid, stand the test, stand up, stick together, wash

hold up

• hold up, adjourn, advertise, afford support, air, arrest, back, back up, backpedal, backwater, be consistent, be proof against, be the case, be true, be truthful, be unflappable, bear, bear out, bear up, bear up against, blazon forth, bleed, bleed white, block, bolster, bolster up, boost, bottle up, brace, brake, brandish, bridle, buoy, buoy up, buttress, carry, cast up, check, clip, clip the wings, come up fighting, commit robbery, confine, conform to fact, constrain, contain, continue, control, cool, cool off, countercheck, cradle, crutch, curb, curtail, cushion, dam up, damp, dampen, dangle, decelerate, defer, defy, delay, demonstrate, detain, display, dompt, drag, drag out, draw rein, ease off, ease up, elevate, emblazon, endure, enjoin, erect, escalate, exhibit, exploit, extend, finance, flash, flaunt, fleece, float, float high, flourish, fund, get by, get home free, give support, gouge, govern, guard, hack it, hang fire, hang in, hang in there, hang on, hang tough, hang up, heave, heft, heighten, heist, hijack, hike, hinder, hoick, hoist, hold, hold at bay, hold back, hold fast, hold good, hold in, hold in check, hold in leash, hold off, hold on, hold out, hold over, hold together, hold true, hold water, impede, inhibit, intercept, interfere, intermeddle, interrupt, intervene, jerk up, keep, keep afloat, keep back, keep from, keep in, keep in check, keep under control, keep up, knock over, knock up, lag, lay aside, lay by, lay over, lay under restraint, lend support, let down, let up, levitate, lift, lift up, live through it, live with it, lob, loft, lose ground, lose momentum, lose speed, mainstay, maintain, make late, manifest, meddle, meet requirements, moderate, mug, never say die, not budge, not flag, not give up, not weaken, obstruct, oppose, overcharge, overprice, overtax, parade, pass, pass muster, perk up, pigeonhole, pillow, postpone, profiteer, prohibit, prolong, prop, prop up, prorogate, prorogue, protract, prove out, prove to be, prove true, pull, pull in, push aside, put aside, put forth, put forward, put off, put on ice, raise, raise up, rear, rear up, rebuff, recess, reef, rein, rein in, reinforce, relax, remain firm, remain valid, remit, repel, repress, repulse, reserve, resist, restrain, retard, retrench, ride high, ride it out, rip off, rise, rob, scotch, screw, see it out, set aside, set back, set by, set up, shelve, shift off, shore, shore up, shoulder, skin, sky, slack off, slack up, slacken, sleep on, slow, slow down, slow up, snub, soak, sport, stand, stand fast, stand firm, stand over, stand pat, stand the test, stand up, stave off, stay, stay it out, stay put, stay the distance, stay with it, stick, stick it, stick it out, stick out, stick to it, stick together, stick up, stick with it, sting, stop, straiten, stretch out, subsidize, subvention, subventionize, support, suppress, surcharge, suspend, sustain, sweat it out, swindle, table, take a recess, take in sail, take it, throttle down, throw up, tough it out, trumpet, trumpet forth, underbrace, undergird, underlie, underpin, underset, up, upbear, upbuoy, upcast, upheave, uphoist, uphold, upkeep, uplift, upraise, uprear, upthrow, vaunt, victimize, waft, waive, wash, wave, weather, weather the storm, withhold, withstand

hold water

• hold water, afford proof of, ascertain, be consistent, be demonstrable, be irrefutable, be logical, be reasonable, be the case, be true, be truthful, bring home to, cinch, clinch, conform to fact, demonstrate, determine, establish, figure, fix, follow, follow from, have a case, hold, hold good, hold together, hold true, hold up, make good, make out, make sense, nail down, prove, prove out, prove to be, prove true, remain valid, remove all doubt, set at rest, settle, settle the matter, show, stand the test, stand to reason, stand up, stick together, wash

hold with

• hold with, OK, abide by, accede, accede to, accept, acclaim, accord to, acquiesce, acquiesce in, admire, agree, agree to, agree with, applaud, approve, approve of, assent, be willing, bless, buy, cheer, comply, condescend, connive at, consent, consent to silently, countenance, deign, endorse, esteem, favor, give consent, give the nod, go along with, go for, grant, hail, have no objection, in toto, keep in countenance, nod, nod assent, not refuse, okay, permit, ratify, receive, respect, sanction, say aye, say yes, subscribe to, take kindly to, think well of, uphold, view with favor, vote affirmatively, vote aye, vote for, welcome, wink at, yes, yield assent

hold your horses

• hold your horses, abide, await, bide, bide the issue, dally, dawdle, delay, dillydally, hang about, hang around, hold everything, hold on, linger, loiter, mark time, sit tight, sit up, stay, stay up, stick around, take time, tarry, wait, wait a minute, wait and see

hold

• hold, abandon, abduction, abide, abort, absorb, absorb the attention, abstain, accent, accent mark, accommodate, account, account as, accumulate, acropolis, adhere, adhere to, adjudge, adjudicate, admit, advance, advantage, adverse possession, affirm, afford support, agglomerate, agree to, agree with, allege, allow, alodium, amass, announce, annunciate, answer, apply, apprehension, approve of, archives, argue, armory, arrest, arrestation, arsenal, ascendancy, assemble, assert, assever, asseverate, assimilate, assume, attic, authority, avail, aver, avoid, avouch, avow, back, back up, backlog, balance, ballast, bank, bar, basement, bastion, bay, be, be afraid, be consistent, be enfeoffed of, be equal to, be extant, be found, be in existence, be judicious, be met with, be possessed of, be present, be seized of, be the case, be there, be true, be truthful, beachhead, bear, bear hug, bear up, belay, believe, beset, bide, bin, bite, blockhouse, boast, bolster, bolster up, bonded warehouse, bookcase, booth, bosom, bottle up, box, box up, brace, breathe, bridgehead, bridle, bunch, bunker, buoy up, burgage, buttery, buttress, cage, call, cancel, capture, care, cargo dock, carry, carry on, castle, catch, catch up, catching, cavity, cease, cell, cellar, cellarage, cellule, chamber, character, charge, charisma, charm, check, cherish, chest, citadel, claim, clamp, clasp, claws, cleave, cleave to, clench, clinch, cling, cling to, clinging, clip, cloister, closet, clot, clout, cluster, clutch, clutches, coagulate, coal bin, cohere, collaring, collect, colony, command, compartment, compel, complete, comprehend, comprise, conceal, conceive, condone, conduct, confine, conform to fact, congeal, conglomerate, consequence, conservatory, consider, constrain, contain, contend, continue, continue to be, control, convene, convoke, cool, cool off, coop, coop in, coop up, cork up, count, count in, countenance, counterbalance, coup, cover, cradle, crate, credit, crib, crutch, crypt, cumulate, cupboard, curb, curtail, cushion, custodianship, custody, custos, cut it out, cyclone cellar, daresay, de facto, de jure, death grip, decelerate, declaim, declare, deem, defeat time, defer, defy time, delay, deny, dependency, depository, depot, derivative title, desist, detain, diminish, direct, discontinue, display, do, do it, dock, dominance, domination, dominion, dompt, donjon, dot, dragnet, drawer, drive, drop it, dump, dwell, effect, embody, embosom, embrace, eminence, encage, enchant, enchantment, encircle, enclose, enclosed space, encompass, end, endure, enfold, engage, engage in, engage the attention, engage the mind, engage the thoughts, engross, engross the mind, engross the thoughts, enjoin, enjoy, entertain, enthrall, enunciate, environ, envisage, esteem, estimate, exchequer, exercise, exercise judgment, exhibit, exist, expect, express, express an opinion, expression mark, extend, fancy, fare, fascinate, fasthold, fastness, favor, fee fief, fee position, fee simple, fee simple absolute, fee simple conditional, fee simple defeasible, fee simple determinable, fee tail, feel, fence in, fend off, feodum, fermata, feud, fiefdom, fill, fill in, fill out, fill the bill, firm, firm hold, firm up, fondle, foothold, footing, footplate, footrail, footrest, forbear, force, forcible seizure, forgo, form an opinion, fort, fortress, foster, frankalmoign, free socage, freehold, freeze, freeze to, fulfill, function, garner, garner up, garrison, garrison house, gather into barns, gavelkind, get by, give over, give support, glory hole, go, go around, go on, go out, godown, good feeling, govern, grab, grabbing, grapple, grasp, grip, gripe, grow together, guard, guarding, guess, hack it, haft, halt, hand, handclasp, handhold, handle, hands, hang on, hang on to, hang together, happen to be, harangue, harbor, have, have a hunch, have an idea, have an impression, have an inkling, have and hold, have being, have done with, have in hand, have place, have tenure of, have the idea, having title to, heap up, helm, helve, hem in, hide, hinder, hoard, hoard up, hold, hold as, hold at bay, hold back, hold down, hold fast, hold forth, hold good, hold in, hold in check, hold in custody, hold in leash, hold in restraint, hold off, hold on, hold on to, hold out, hold over, hold spellbound, hold the interest, hold tight, hold together, hold true, hold up, hold water, hold with, holder, holding, hole, hollow, hug, hutch, hypnotize, imagine, immerse, immobilize, immure, impede, impel, importance, impound, imprison, incidental power, include, incorporate, infatuate, influence, influentiality, inhibit, insinuation, insist, involve, involve the interest, iron grip, iron hand, issue a manifesto, jail, judge, jurisdiction, just do, keep, keep afloat, keep alive, keep back, keep from, keep going, keep hold of, keep in, keep in check, keep in custody, keep in detention, keep off, keep on, keep out, keep under control, keep up, keeping, key signature, kidnapping, knight service, knock it off, last, last long, last out, lay down, lay fee, lay off, lay up, lead, leadership, lease, leasehold, leave off, legal claim, legal possession, lend support, lengthen, leverage, library, lie, ligature, live, live on, live through, locker, locus standi, look on, look upon, look upon as, lumber room, lumberyard, magasin, magazine, magnetism, mainstay, maintain, make the grade, manage, mandate, manger, manifesto, mark, martello, martello tower, mass, mastership, mastery, measure, meet, meet requirements, mesmerize, metronomic mark, mew, mew up, moment, monopolize, mote, motte, mug, nabbing, nail down, never let go, nip, not let go, notation, number among, nurse, nurture, obsess, obtain, occupancy, occupation, occupy, occupy the attention, occur, offer, operate, opine, orate, original title, own, owning, participate in, pass, pass muster, pause, peel, peel tower, pen, pen up, perch, perdure, perennate, perpetuate, persevere, persist, personality, persuasion, pew, picking up, pile up, pillbox, pillow, pin down, pine, possess, possessing, possession, possessor, post, postpone, potato cellar, potency, pound, power, power grab, predicate, predominance, prehension, preoccupancy, preoccupation, preoccupy, preponderance, prepossession, presa, prescription, present, preserve, preside over, pressure, prestige, presume, prevail, preventive custody, proclaim, profess, proffer, prohibit, prolong, prop, property, property rights, propose, propound, proprietary rights, proprietor, protection, protective custody, protest, protract, prove out, prove to be, prove true, pull, pull in, purchase, put, put it, put off, put up, qualify, quit, rack, rail in, range, rath, reach, reach out, rebuff, receive, reckon, reckon among, reckon in, reckon with, reduce, refrain, refrain from, refuse, regard, reign, rein, rein in, reinforce, reins of government, relinquish, remain, remain valid, renounce, repel, repertory, repository, repress, repulse, repute, reserve, reservoir, resist, restrain, restrict, retain, retard, retrench, rick, rob, rule, run, run on, running in, safehold, safekeeping, satisfy, save, save up, say, scrub, seal up, secrete, segno, seisin, seize, seizure, seizure of power, sense, serve, serve the purpose, set, set back, set down, set down as, shackle, shelf, shore, shore up, shoulder, show, shut in, shut up, sign, signature, slow down, slow up, slur, snatch, snatching, snub, socage, solidify, span, spare, speak, speak out, speak up, spellbind, spread, squat, squat on, squatting, squirrel, squirrel away, stabilitate, stabilize, stack, stack room, stall, stance, stand, stand for, stand on, stand the test, stand up, standing, standing place, state, stay, stay on, stay put, steady, stick, stick to, stick together, stick up, stock room, stock up, stockpile, stop, storage, store, store up, storehouse, storeroom, storm cellar, straddle, straiten, stretch, stretch out, strong point, stronghold, suasion, subbasement, sublease, submit, subscribe to, subsidize, subsist, subtle influence, subvention, suffice, suggestion, supply base, supply depot, support, suppose, suppress, supremacy, surmise, surround, survive, suspect, suspend, sustain, sway, sweep, swell, symbol, take, take for, take hold of, take in, take into account, take into consideration, take it, take up, taking in, taking into custody, talons, tank, tarry, tempo mark, tenancy, tenantry, tender, tenure, tenure in chivalry, terminate, think, think of, thrust out, tide over, tie, tight grip, time signature, title, toehold, tower, tower of strength, traction, transfix, treasure, treasure house, treasure room, treasure up, treasury, trow, underbrace, undergird, underlease, underlie, underpin, underset, undertenancy, upbear, uphold, upkeep, upper hand, usucapion, usucapt, vat, vault, view as, villein socage, villeinhold, villenage, vinculum, wait, wall in, ward, warehouse, wash, waylay, wear, wear well, ween, weight, whip hand, wine cellar, withhold, withstand, work

holdback

• holdback, arrest, arrestation, arrestment, bearing rein, bit, blockage, blocking, brake, chain, check, checkrein, chock, clog, clogging, closing up, closure, constriction, countercheck, cramp, curb, curb bit, damper, delay, detainment, detention, doorstop, drag, drag sail, drift anchor, drift sail, drogue, fetter, fixation, foot-dragging, hampering, hindering, hindrance, holdup, impediment, inhibition, interference, interruption, let, martingale, negativism, nuisance value, obstruction, obstructionism, occlusion, opposition, pelham, remora, repression, resistance, restraint, restriction, retardation, retardment, scotch, sea anchor, setback, shackle, snaffle, spoke, squeeze, stay, stop, stranglehold, stricture, suppression, trammel

holder

• holder, accepter, acquirer, addressee, audience, auditor, beholder, bracket, candelabrum, candlestand, candlestick, chandelier, consignee, container, enjoyer, gas fixture, getter, girandole, have, haver, hearer, keeper, lamp holder, lampstand, light fixture, light socket, listener, looker, obtainer, payee, possessor, procurer, receiver, receptacle, recipient, sconce, spectator, taker, torch holder, torch staff, trustee, utensil, vessel, viewer, wall bracket

holding company

• holding company, Aktiengesellschaft, aktiebolag, body corporate, business, business establishment, cartel, chamber of commerce, closed-end investment company, combine, commercial enterprise, compagnie, company, concern, conglomerate, conglomerate corporation, consolidating company, consortium, copartnership, corporate body, corporation, diversified corporation, enterprise, firm, growth fund, house, industry, investment company, investment trust, joint-stock association, joint-stock company, load fund, mutual fund, no-load fund, operating company, partnership, plunderbund, pool, public utility, stock company, syndicate, trade association, trust, utility

holding

• holding, absolute interest, absorbing, adverse possession, alodium, arresting, attractive, bearing, benefit, blessed with, block, board lot, bolstering, bottling up, bracing, burdened, burgage, buttressing, carrying, claim, clinging, colony, common, compelling, compulsive, consuming, contingent interest, corking up, de facto, de jure, dependency, derivative title, driving, dummy share, easement, enchanting, enfeoffed, engaging, engrossing, enthralling, equitable interest, equity, estate, even lot, fascinating, fee fief, fee position, fee simple, fee simple absolute, fee simple conditional, fee simple defeasible, fee simple determinable, fee tail, feodum, feud, fiefdom, fractional lot, frankalmoign, free socage, freehold, full lot, gavelkind, grasping, gripping, having, having and holding, having title to, hold, holding in, holdings, hypnotic, impelling, in possession of, inhibition, interest, keeping, knight service, landed, landholding, landowning, lay fee, lease, leasehold, legal claim, legal possession, limitation, locking in, lot, magnetic, maintaining, maintenance, mandate, master of, mesmeric, mesmerizing, obsessing, obsessional, obsessive, occupancy, occupation, occupying, odd lot, original title, owning, part, percentage, possessed of, possessing, possession, preference share, prehension, preoccupancy, preoccupation, preoccupying, prepossession, prescription, preservation, propertied, property, property rights, property-owning, propping, proprietary rights, repression, retainment, retention, retentive, retentiveness, retentivity, right, right of entry, round lot, seisin, seized of, settlement, share, shoring, socage, spellbinding, squatting, stake, stockholding, stockholdings, strict settlement, sublease, supporting, supportive, suppression, suspensory, sustaining, sustentative, tenacious, tenacity, tenancy, tenantry, tenure, tenure in chivalry, tenured, title, trust, underlease, undertenancy, upholding, use, usucapion, vested interest, villein socage, villeinhold, villenage, worth

holdings

• holdings, Festschrift, acquest, ana, anthology, aquarium, assets, available means, balance, block, board lot, body, capital, capital goods, capitalization, chattels, chrestomathy, collectanea, collection, compilation, corpus, data, dummy share, effects, estate and effects, even lot, florilegium, fractional lot, full lot, fund, goods, grist, havings, hereditament, holding, incorporeal hereditament, library, liquid assets, lot, means, menagerie, museum, odd lot, possessions, preference share, properties, property, raw data, resource, resources, round lot, share, stockholding, stockholdings, supply, treasure, zoo

holdover

• holdover, afterglow, afterimage, balance, butt, butt end, candle ends, chaff, debris, detritus, end, fag end, filings, fossil, husks, incumbent, ins, jack-in-office, lame duck, leavings, leftovers, new broom, odds and ends, office-bearer, officeholder, offscourings, orts, parings, president-elect, public official, public servant, rags, refuse, relics, remainder, remains, remnant, residue, residuum, rest, roach, rubbish, ruins, rump, sawdust, scourings, scraps, shadow, shavings, straw, stubble, stump, survival, sweepings, trace, vestige, waste

holdup

• holdup, afterthought, armed robbery, arrest, arrestation, arrestment, asportation, assault and robbery, banditry, bank robbery, bind, block, blockage, blocking, bureaucratic delay, cattle lifting, cattle stealing, check, clogging, closing up, closure, constriction, cramp, dead time, deceleration, delay, delayage, delayed reaction, detainment, detention, double take, drag, dragging, ease-off, ease-up, exploitation, extortion, fixation, flagging, foot-dragging, gain, halt, hampering, hang-up, heist, highway robbery, hijacking, hindering, hindrance, holdback, hysteresis, impediment, inhibition, interference, interim, interruption, jam, lag, lagging, let, letdown, letup, loan-sharking, logjam, minus acceleration, moratorium, mugging, negativism, nuisance value, obstruction, obstructionism, occlusion, opposition, output lag, overassessment, overcharge, paperasserie, pause, pocket picking, process lag, purse snatching, red tape, red-tapeism, red-tapery, repression, reprieve, resistance, respite, restraint, restriction, retardance, retardation, retardment, robbery, robbing, setback, shylocking, slack-up, slackening, slow-up, slowdown, slowing, slowing down, slowness, slowup, squeeze, stay, stay of execution, stickup, stickup job, stop, stoppage, stranglehold, stricture, suppression, surcharge, suspension, throughput, tie-up, time constants, time lag, time lead, usury, wait

hole in the wall

• hole in the wall, alcove, bay, carrel, corner, cove, cranny, cubby, cubbyhole, cubicle, doghouse, hole, niche, nook, oriel, pigeonhole, pinch, playhouse, recess, roomlet, snuggery, tight spot, tight squeeze

hole up

• hole up, be incognito, burrow, disappear, drop from sight, go into hiding, go to ground, go underground, hide, hide away, hide out, lie, lie close, lie doggo, lie hid, lie low, lie snug, masquerade, play peekaboo, remain anonymous, retire from sight, sit tight, stay in hiding, take cover, wear a mask

hole

• hole, Augean stables, Babylon, CAT, Gomorrah, Sodom, abode, abri, abysm, abyss, aerospace, aerosphere, air hole, air pocket, airspace, alveolation, alveolus, antre, antrum, aperture, area, armpit, arroyo, asylum, auger, basement, basin, bearings, bench mark, bind, bite, blemish, blind alley, bolt-hole, booth, bordello, bore, bowl, box, box canyon, breach, break, brig, broach, broaching, brothel, bug, bump, bunker, burrow, cache, cage, canyon, catch, catch-22, cathouse, cave, cavern, cavity, ceiling, cell, cellar, cellarage, cellule, chamber, chap, chasm, check, chimney, chink, clearing, cleft, cleuch, clip joint, clough, coal bin, col, compartment, concave, concavity, concealment, corner, couch, coulee, couloir, countersink, cove, cover, covert, coverture, crack, cranny, crater, crevasse, crevice, crib, crosswind, crypt, cubby, cubbyhole, cul-de-sac, cup, cut, cwm, cyclone cellar, dark corner, dead end, dead-end street, deadlock, deep, defect, defection, deficiency, defile, dell, den, den of iniquity, den of thieves, dent, depression, depth, difficulty, dike, dilemma, dip, disclosure, discontinuity, discrepancy, disrupt, district, ditch, dive, doghouse, donga, donjon, draw, drawback, drill, dugout, dump, dungeon, earth, empierce, emplacement, empty space, enclosed space, error, excavation, extremity, failing, failure, fallacy, fault, faute, favorable wind, fenestra, fissure, fistula, fix, flaw, fleshpots, flume, fog, foible, fold, follicle, fontanel, foramen, form, foxhole, fracture, frailty, front, funk hole, funnel chest, furrow, gap, gape, gash, gat, goal, gore, gorge, gouge, gouge out, grand slam, groove, grot, grotto, gulch, gulf, gully, gyp joint, halt, head wind, hellhole, hiatus, hideaway, hideout, hidey hole, hiding, hiding place, high-pressure area, hit, hold, hole in one, hollow, hollow shell, home run, homer, honeycomb, hot water, hovel, hut, impale, impasse, imperfection, impression, inadequacy, incision, inconsistency, indentation, infirmity, inlet, interstice, interval, ionosphere, jail, jetstream, joint, keep, kink, kloof, lacuna, lair, lance, latitude and longitude, laying open, leak, lieu, little problem, locale, locality, location, locus, lodge, loophole, low-pressure area, manger, mess, mew, mistake, moat, muddle, needle, niche, nook, notch, nullah, open, opening, opening up, orifice, oubliette, outlet, overcast, pass, passage, passageway, penetrate, perforate, perforation, pesthole, pew, pickle, pierce, pigeonhole, pigpen, pigsty, pinch, pink, pinpoint, pit, place, placement, plague spot, playhouse, plight, pocket, point, pore, position, potato cellar, predicament, prick, prison, problem, punch, punch bowl, puncture, ravine, ream, ream out, recess, refuge, region, rent, retreat, riddle, rift, rime, rip, rookery, roughness, run, run through, rupture, sanctuary, scissure, scoop, score, scrape, seam, secret place, sewer, shack, shaft, shanty, shell, shortcoming, sink, sink of corruption, sinus, site, situation, situs, skewer, slam, slit, slot, slum, snag, socket, something missing, soup, space, spear, spike, spit, split, sporting house, spot, stab, stable, stalemate, stall, stand, standstill, stash, stead, stews, stick, stoma, stop, storm cellar, stratosphere, strike, sty, subbasement, substratosphere, subterrane, subway, tail wind, taint, tap, tear, tenement, the slums, throwing open, tight spot, tight squeeze, touchdown, transfix, transpierce, trench, trepan, trephine, tropopause, troposphere, trouble, trough, tumbledown shack, tunnel, turbulence, uncorking, undercovert, unstopping, vacancy, vacuity, vacuum, valley, vault, vent, visibility, visibility zero, void, vug, vulnerable place, wadi, warren, weak link, weak point, weakness, well, whereabout, whereabouts, whorehouse, wine cellar, yawn, yawning abyss

holey

• holey, apertured, crible, dowdy, down-at-heel, down-at-the-heels, fenestrated, frayed, frazzled, full of holes, honeycombed, in rags, in shreds, in tatters, like Swiss cheese, patchy, peppered, perforate, perforated, pierced, ragged, raggedy, ratty, riddled, scruffy, seedy, shabby, shoddy, shot through, slotted, tacky, tattered, tatty, torn, windowed

holiday

• holiday, AWOL, Admission Day, Arbor Day, Armed Forces Day, Armistice Day, Army Day, Bastille Day, Christmas, Colorado Day, Constitution Day, Decoration Day, Dewali, Discovery Day, Double Ten, Easter Monday, Election Day, Empire Day, Evacuation Day, Flag Day, Foundation Day, Fourth of July, French leave, Groundhog Day, Halifax Day, Halloween, High Holiday, High Holy Day, Holi, Ides of March, Kuhio Day, Labor Day, Lenin Memorial Day, Loyalty Day, Maryland Day, May Day, Mecklenburg Day, Memorial Day, Midsummer Day, National Aviation Day, Navy Day, Nevada Day, Pan American Day, Pascua Florida Day, Pioneer Day, Remembrance Day, Roosevelt Day, State Day, Sunday, Texas Independence Day, United Nations Day, V-E Day, Victory Day, West Virginia Day, Wyoming Day, abeyance, abscondence, absence, absence without leave, absentation, absenteeism, absenting, anniversaries, bank holiday, break, caesura, cease-fire, celebrating, celebration, ceremony, church feast, coffee break, comfortable, commemoration, cut, day of festivities, day off, default, departure, disappearance, downtime, dressing ship, drop, escape, event, excused absence, fair, fanfare, fanfaronade, feast, feast day, festal, festival, festival day, festivity, fete, fete day, fixed feast, fleeing, flourish of trumpets, furlough, gala, gala day, go on furlough, go on leave, half time, half-time intermission, hesitation, high day, holy day, hooky, interim, interlude, intermezzo, intermission, intermittence, interregnum, interruption, interval, jubilee, lapse, layoff, leave, leave of absence, leaving, legal holiday, letup, liberty, lull, make holiday, marking the occasion, memorialization, memory, nonappearance, nonattendance, observance, off-time, ovation, paid holiday, paid vacation, pause, plateau, point of repose, quiet, quiet spell, recess, red-letter day, rejoicing, relief, religious rites, remembrance, remission, respite, rest, restful, resting point, revel, rite, ritual observance, running away, sabbatical, sabbatical leave, sabbatical year, salute, salvo, shore leave, sick leave, solemn observance, solemnization, stand-down, stay, suspension, take a holiday, take leave, testimonial, testimonial banquet, testimonial dinner, time off, time out, toast, tribute, triumph, truancy, truantism, truce, unexcused absence, vacation, vacational, weekend

holier-than-thou

• holier-than-thou, Pecksniffian, Tartuffian, Tartuffish, affected, canting, false, goody, goody-goody, hypocritic, hypocritical, insincere, mealymouthed, oily, pharisaic, pharisean, pietistic, pious, sanctified, sanctimonious, self-righteous, simon-pure, sniveling, unctuous

holiness

• holiness, Christianity, Christlikeness, Christliness, angelicalness, awesomeness, awfulness, beauty of holiness, blessedness, consecration, devotion, devoutness, divineness, divinity, eternity, fear of God, glory, godlikeness, godliness, godly-mindedness, goodness, hallowedness, heavenliness, heavenly-mindedness, holy-mindedness, immutability, ineffability, inenarrability, inexpressibility, infinite goodness, infinite justice, infinite love, infinite mercy, infinite power, infinite wisdom, infinity, inviolability, inviolableness, light, majesty, numinousness, odor of sanctity, omnipotence, omnipotency, omnipresence, omniscience, omnisciency, otherworldliness, piety, piousness, pureness, pureness of heart, purity, righteousness, sacredness, sacrosanctity, sacrosanctness, sainthood, saintlikeness, saintliness, saintship, sanctitude, sanctity, seraphicalness, sovereignty, spiritual-mindedness, spirituality, ubiquity, unearthliness, unity, unspeakability, unutterability, unworldliness, venerability, venerableness

holler

• holler, air a grievance, bark, battle cry, bawl, beef, beefing, bellow, bellyache, bellyaching, bitch, bitching, boggle, boycott, call, call in question, caterwaul, challenge, cheer, clamor, complain, complaining, complaint, crab, croak, cry, cry out against, demonstrate, demonstrate against, demur, destructive criticism, dispute, dissent, enter a protest, expostulate, faultfinding, fret, fret and fume, fuss, grievance, gripe, griping, groan, groaning, grouch, grouse, grousing, growl, grumble, grumbling, grunt, hail, halloo, hollo, hoot, howl, hurrah, kick, kicking, lodge a complaint, march, murmur, murmuring, mutter, object, peeve, peevishness, pet peeve, petulance, picket, press objections, protest, querulousness, raise a howl, rally, rallying cry, register a complaint, remonstrate, roar, scolding, scream, screech, scruple, shout, shriek, sit in, sniping, squall, squawk, squawking, squeal, state a grievance, strike, take on, teach in, vociferate, war cry, war whoop, whining, whoop, yammer, yap, yapping, yawl, yawp, yell, yell bloody murder, yelp, yo-ho, yowl

hollow eyed

• hollow eyed, attenuated, cadaverous, corpselike, drawn, emacerated, emaciate, emaciated, haggard, jejune, marantic, marasmic, peaked, peaky, pinched, poor, puny, ravaged, shriveled, skeletal, starved, starveling, tabetic, tabid, tired-eyed, tired-faced, tired-looking, underfed, undernourished, wan, wasted, weary-looking, weazeny, withered, wizened, worn, wraithlike

hollow man

• hollow man, actor, affecter, cipher, deceiver, dud, dummy, fake, fraud, jackstraw, lay figure, man of straw, mannerist, nebbish, nobody, nonentity, nothing, nullity, paper tiger, performer, phony, playactor, pretender, puppet, pushover, straw man, thing of naught, trifle, zero

hollow ware

• hollow ware, appliances, brassware, chinaware, clayware, copperware, cutlery, dining utensils, dinnerware, durable goods, durables, earthenware, enamelware, fixtures, flat silver, flatware, forks, glassware, graniteware, hard goods, hardware, housefurnishings, housewares, ironmongery, ironware, kitchenware, knives, metalware, ovenware, silver, silver plate, silverware, spoons, sporting goods, stainless-steel ware, stoneware, tablespoon, tableware, teaspoon, tinware, tools and machinery, white goods, woodenware

hollow

• hollow, absurd, abysm, abyss, alveolation, alveolus, antrum, aperture, apparently sound, arid, armpit, artificial, bare, baritone, barren, basin, bass, blah, bland, blank, bleached, bloodless, boat-shaped, boatlike, booth, bootless, bowl, bowl-shaped, bowllike, box, broaching, casuistic, cave, cave in, cavelike, cavern, cavernous, cavity, cell, cellule, chamber, characterless, chasm, check, clear, clearing, cleft, cold, colorable, colorless, compartment, concave, concaved, concavity, contralto, costly, counterfeit, crack, crater, craterlike, crevasse, crib, crypt, cup, cup-shaped, cupped, cymbiform, cynical, dale, dead, deceitful, deceptive, deep, deep-echoing, deep-pitched, deep-toned, deepmouthed, dell, dent, dented, depressed, depression, depth, devoid, dig out, dig up, dip, disclosure, dish, dish-shaped, dished, dishing, dishlike, dishonest, disingenuous, dismal, draggy, drearisome, dreary, dredge, dry, dryasdust, dull, dusty, effete, elephantine, empty, empty-headed, empty-minded, empty-pated, empty-skulled, enclosed space, etiolated, excavate, excavation, fade, fallacious, false, famished, fatuitous, fatuous, featureless, feigned, fenestra, fistula, flat, fold, follicle, fontanel, foramen, fraudulent, fruitless, funnel chest, funnel-breasted, funnel-chested, funnel-shaped, furrow, futile, gap, gape, gat, glen, gouge, grave, gulf, heavy, hiatus, ho-hum, hold, hole, hollow out, hollow shell, hollowed, hungry, hypocritical, idle, illusive, impression, inane, incurve, incurved, incurving, incurvous, indentation, indented, ineffective, inexcitable, infundibular, infundibuliform, inlet, insincere, insipid, interval, jejune, jesuitic, lacuna, laying open, leaden, leak, lifeless, low, low-pitched, low-spirited, manger, mealymouthed, meaningless, mendacious, muffled, navicular, naviform, null, null and void, opening, opening up, orifice, otiose, outlet, overrefined, oversubtle, pale, pallid, passageway, pedestrian, pew, philosophistic, pit, plausible, plodding, pocket, pointless, poky, ponderous, pore, profitless, punch bowl, rattlebrained, rattleheaded, ravenous, retire, retiring, retreat, retreating, reverberant, sag, saucer-shaped, scaphoid, scatterbrained, scoop, scyphate, senseless, sepulchral, shaft, sham, shell, sink, sinkage, sinkhole, sinus, slot, slow, socket, solemn, sophistic, sophistical, space, specious, spiritless, split, spoonlike, spurious, stall, starved, sterile, stiff, stodgy, stoma, stuffy, sunk, sunken, superficial, tasteless, tedious, throwing open, toneless, tongue in cheek, trough, unavailing, uncandid, uncorking, unfilled, unfrank, unlively, unprofitable, unrelieved, unserious, unstopping, vacant, vacuity, vacuous, vain, valley, valueless, vapid, vault, void, vug, well, white, with nothing inside, without content, wooden, worthless, yawn, yawning abyss

holocaust

• holocaust, annihilation, bloodbath, blue ruin, breakup, burnt offering, butchery, carnage, clawing, collection, conflagration, consumption, cruciation, crucifixion, damnation, decimation, depredation, desolation, despoilment, despoliation, destruction, devastation, disintegration, disorganization, disruption, dissolution, drink offering, elimination, eradication, ex voto offering, extermination, extinction, final solution, fire, genocide, havoc, heave offering, hecatomb, hell, hell upon earth, horror, human sacrifice, immolation, incense, infanticide, inferno, laceration, lancination, libation, mactation, martyrdom, mass destruction, mass murder, massacre, nightmare, oblation, offering, offertory, passion, peace offering, perdition, persecution, piacular offering, pogrom, purgatory, race extermination, race-murder, rack, ravage, ruin, ruination, sacramental offering, sacrifice, saturnalia of blood, scapegoat, self-immolation, self-sacrifice, shambles, slaughter, spoliation, suttee, sutteeism, thank offering, torment, torture, undoing, vandalism, votive offering, waste, whole offering, wholesale murder, wrack, wrack and ruin, wreck

hologram

• hologram, Photostat, Xerox, Xerox copy, blowup, blueprint, contact printing, cyanotype, enlargement, glossy, lantern slide, matte, microcopy, microprint, photocopy, photogravure, photostatic copy, positive, print, projection printing, semi-matte, slide, transparency

holograph

• holograph, article, autograph, blank, brainchild, chirograph, composition, computer printout, copy, docket, document, dossier, draft, edited version, engrossment, essay, fair copy, fiction, file, final draft, finished version, first draft, first edition, flimsy, form, instrument, legal document, legal instrument, legal paper, letter, literae scriptae, literary artefact, literary production, literature, lucubration, manuscript, matter, nonfiction, official document, opus, original, paper, papers, parchment, penscript, personal file, piece, piece of writing, play, poem, printed matter, printout, production, reading matter, recension, roll, screed, scrip, script, scrive, scroll, second draft, the written word, transcript, transcription, typescript, version, work, writ, writing

holus bolus

• holus bolus, a corps perdu, carelessly, desperately, furiously, happen what may, hastily, head over heels, headfirst, headforemost, headlong, heedlessly, heels over head, helter-skelter, hotheadedly, hurriedly, hurry-scurry, impetuously, like crazy, like mad, madly, overeagerly, overenthusiastically, overzealously, precipitantly, precipitately, precipitously, ramble-scramble, recklessly, slam-bang, slap-bang, slapdash, wantonly, wildly

Holy Communion

• Holy Communion, Communion, Eucharist, Host, Last Supper, Sacrament Sunday, altar bread, bread, bread and wine, consecrated bread, consecrated elements, consubstantiation, elements, impanation, intinction, loaf, real presence, subpanation, the Holy Sacrament, the Sacrament, transubstantiation, wafer

holy day

• holy day, High Holiday, High Holy Day, Sabbath, Sunday, bank holiday, church calendar, church feast, day of festivities, day off, ecclesiastical calendar, fast, feast, feast day, festival day, fete day, fixed feast, gala day, high day, holiday, holytide, legal holiday, red-letter day

Holy Father

• Holy Father, God the Father, Grand Penitentiary, Our Father, abuna, antipope, archbishop, archdeacon, archpriest, bishop, bishop coadjutor, canon, cardinal, cardinal bishop, cardinal deacon, cardinal priest, chaplain, coadjutor, curate, dean, diocesan, ecclesiarch, exarch, hierarch, high priest, metropolitan, papa, patriarch, penitentiary, pontiff, pope, prebendary, prelate, primate, rector, rural dean, subdean, suffragan, the All-father, the Creator, the Everlasting Father, the Father, the Holy Father, vicar

Holy Grail

• Holy Grail, Agnus Dei, Host, Pieta, Sanctus bell, Sangraal, ark, asperger, asperges, aspergillum, bambino, beadroll, beads, candle, censer, chaplet, ciborium, cross, crucifix, cruet, eucharistial, holy cross, holy water, holy-water sprinkler, icon, incensory, matzo, menorah, mezuzah, mikvah, monstrance, osculatory, ostensorium, paschal candle, pax, phylacteries, prayer shawl, prayer wheel, pyx, relics, rood, rosary, sacramental, sacred relics, sacring bell, shofar, sukkah, tabernacle, tallith, thurible, urceole, veronica, vigil light, votive candle

holy of holies

• holy of holies, adytum, ashram, cabinet, cell, cloister, closet, den, hermitage, hideaway, hideout, hiding place, ivory tower, lair, mew, privacy, recess, retreat, sacrarium, sanctuary, sanctum, sanctum sanctorum, secret place, the holy, the ineffable, the inenarrable, the inexpressible, the numinous, the unspeakable, the unutterable

holy orders

• holy orders, acolyte, acolytus, apostleship, apostolic orders, appointment, baptism, call, calling, canonization, care of souls, conferment, confirmation, consecration, deacon, diaconus, doorkeeper, election, exorcist, exorcista, extreme unction, induction, installation, institution, investiture, lector, major orders, matrimony, minor orders, nomination, ordainment, orders, ordination, ostiarius, pastorage, pastoral care, pastorate, penance, preferment, presbyter, presentation, priest, priesthood, priestship, rabbinate, reader, reading in, sacred calling, seven sacraments, subdeacon, subdiaconus, the Eucharist, the church, the cloth, the desk, the ministry, the pulpit, vocation

Holy Sacrament

• Holy Sacrament, Communion, Eucharist, Holy Communion, Host, Last Supper, Sacrament Sunday, altar bread, bread, bread and wine, consecrated bread, consecrated elements, consubstantiation, elements, impanation, intinction, loaf, real presence, subpanation, the Holy Sacrament, the Sacrament, transubstantiation, wafer

holy terror

• holy terror, Dracula, Frankenstein, JD, Mafioso, Wolf-man, Young Turk, beast, beldam, berserk, berserker, bogey, bogeyman, bomber, brat, bruiser, brute, bugaboo, bugbear, demon, devil, dragon, elf, enfant terrible, fee-faw-fum, fiend, fire-eater, firebrand, frightener, fury, gamin, ghost, ghoul, goon, gorilla, gun, gunsel, hardnose, hatchet man, hell-raiser, hellcat, hellhound, hellion, hobgoblin, hood, hoodlum, hooligan, horror, hothead, hotspur, imp, incendiary, incubus, juvenile delinquent, killer, little monkey, mad dog, madcap, minx, monster, mug, mugger, muscle man, nightmare, ogre, ogress, phantom, plug-ugly, puck, punk, punk kid, rapist, revenant, revolutionary, rodman, roughneck, savage, scarebabe, scarecrow, scarer, she-wolf, specter, spitfire, spoiled brat, strong-arm man, succubus, termagant, terror, terrorist, tiger, tigress, torpedo, tough, tough guy, trigger man, ugly customer, urchin, vampire, violent, virago, vixen, werewolf, whippersnapper, wild beast, witch, wolf

holy war

• holy war, Armageddon, brushfire war, campaign, civil war, crusade, drive, expedition, general war, global war, jihad, limited war, police action, preventive war, religious war, revolutionary war, undeclared war, war, war of independence, world war

holy

• holy, Christlike, Christly, God-fearing, adored, all-knowing, all-powerful, all-seeing, all-wise, almighty, angelic, awesome, awful, blessed, boundless, celestial, changeless, chaste, clean, consecrated, creating, creative, deference, devout, divine, eternal, eternally the same, everlasting, faithful, glorified, glorious, godlike, godly, godly-minded, good, hallowed, heavenly, highest, holy-minded, homage, immaculate, immortal, immutable, ineffable, inenarrable, inexpressible, infinite, inviolable, inviolate, just, limitless, loving, luminous, majestic, making, merciful, numinous, obeisance, omnipotent, omnipresent, omniscient, one, otherworldly, permanent, perpetual, pietistic, pious, prayerful, pure, pure in heart, purehearted, radiant, religious, revered, reverence, reverenced, reverent, reverential, righteous, sacred, sacrosanct, saintlike, saintly, sanctified, seraphic, shaping, sinless, sovereign, spiritual, spiritual-minded, spotless, supernal, supreme, timeless, ubiquitous, unbounded, unchanging, uncorrupted, undefiled, undefined, unearthly, unlimited, unspeakable, unsullied, untainted, untouchable, unutterable, unworldly, venerable, venerated, worshiped

holystone

• holystone, abstergent, baptize, bath, bathe, cathartic, cleaner, cleaning agent, cleaning solvent, cleanser, cleansing cream, cold cream, cream, dentifrice, depurant, detergent, diuretic, douche, emetic, enema, flush, flush out, gargle, irrigate, lather, launder, lave, lotion, mop, mop up, mouthwash, nauseant, pumice stone, purgative, purge, purifier, rinse, rinse out, ritually immerse, scour, scrub, scrub up, shampoo, shower, sluice, sluice out, soap, solvent, sponge, swab, synthetic detergent, syringe, toivel, tooth powder, toothpaste, tub, wash, wash out, wash up

homage

• homage, acceptance, accolade, acquiescence, adherence, adhesion, admiration, adoration, adulation, allegiance, apotheosis, appreciation, approbation, approval, assent, assigned task, attachment, awe, bend, bending the knee, bepraisement, bob, bona fides, bond, bonne foi, bounden duty, bow, bowing and scraping, breathless adoration, burden, business, call of duty, charge, co-worship, commitment, complaisance, compliance, conformity, congratulation, consent, consideration, constancy, courtesy, cult, cultism, cultus, curtsy, dedication, deference, deification, devoir, devotedness, devotion, dipping the colors, dulia, duteousness, duties and responsibilities, dutifulness, duty, eloge, encomium, esteem, estimation, ethics, eulogium, eulogy, exaggerated respect, exaltation, excessive praise, faith, faithfulness, favor, fealty, fidelity, firmness, flattery, genuflection, glorification, glory, good faith, great respect, hero worship, high regard, hommage, honor, hyperdulia, idolatry, idolization, idolizing, imperative, inclination, kneeling, kowtow, kudos, latria, laud, laudation, line of duty, lionizing, loyalty, magnification, making a leg, meed of praise, mission, must, nod, nonopposal, nonopposition, nonresistance, obedience, obediency, obeisance, obligation, obsequiousness, observance, onus, ought, overpraise, paean, panegyric, passiveness, passivity, place, praise, presenting arms, prestige, prostration, regard, resignation, resignedness, respect, reverence, reverential regard, salaam, salutation, salute, scrape, self-imposed duty, service, servility, servitium, standing at attention, staunchness, steadfastness, subjection, submission, submissiveness, submittal, suit and service, suit service, supineness, tie, transcendent wonder, tribute, troth, true blue, trueness, veneration, willingness, worship, worshiping, yielding

home economics

• home economics, baking, barbecuing, basting, boiling, braising, brewing, broil, broiling, catering, cookery, cooking, cuisine, culinary science, domestic economy, domestic management, domestic science, frying, grilling, homemaking, housekeeping, housewifery, husbandry, menage, nutrition, pan-broiling, poaching, roasting, sauteing, searing, shirring, simmering, steeping, stewing, toasting

home in on

• home in on, allocate, assign, collocate, deploy, dispose, emplace, fix, get a fix, home on, identify, install, localize, locate, map, navigate, pick up, pin down, pinpoint, place, position, put in place, receive, scan, situate, spot, sweep, triangulate, trigger, tune in, zero in on

home rule

• home rule, Declaration of Independence, absolute monarchy, aristocracy, autarchy, autarky, autocracy, autonomy, coalition government, colonialism, commonwealth, constitutional government, constitutional monarchy, democracy, dictatorship, dominion rule, duarchy, duumvirate, dyarchy, federal government, federation, feudal system, garrison state, gerontocracy, heteronomy, hierarchy, hierocracy, independence, individualism, inner-direction, limited monarchy, martial law, meritocracy, militarism, military government, mob rule, mobocracy, monarchy, neocolonialism, ochlocracy, oligarchy, pantisocracy, patriarchate, patriarchy, police state, pure democracy, regency, representative democracy, representative government, republic, rugged individualism, self-containment, self-determination, self-direction, self-government, self-reliance, self-sufficiency, social democracy, stratocracy, technocracy, thearchy, theocracy, totalitarian government, totalitarian regime, triarchy, triumvirate, tyranny, welfare state

home

• home, Heaven, Paradise, VA hospital, Vaterland, a better place, abode, accessible, adept in, afterlife, afterworld, almshouse, ancestral halls, asylum, at ease, at home, available, bailiwick, base hospital, birthplace, chimney corner, clinic, comfortable, commorancy, community hospital, composed, convalescent home, convalescent hospital, conversant with, cosy, cradle, cuttingly, deeply, destiny, diggings, digs, domal, domestic, domicile, domiciliary, dwelling, effectively, emphasize, eternal home, evacuation hospital, familiar with, family, family homestead, fate, fatherland, field hospital, fireplace, fireside, foster home, foyer, future state, general hospital, habitat, habitation, halfway house, harshly, haunt, haven, hearth, hearth and home, hearthstone, home place, home roof, home sweet home, homeground, homeland, homestead, homewards, hospice, hospital, hospitium, house, household, impress upon, in, infirmary, ingle, inglenook, ingleside, inland, inpatient clinic, institution, internal, intestine, la patrie, life after death, life to come, living quarters, locality, lodgings, maison de sante, make clear, manorial, mansional, menage, mental hospital, mother country, motherland, municipal, national, native, native environment, native land, native soil, next world, nursing home, orphanage, osteopathic hospital, otherworld, outpatient clinic, palatial, paternal roof, patria, peaceful, place, placid, policlinic, polyclinic, poor farm, poorhouse, postexistence, private hospital, proficient in, profoundly, proprietary hospital, public hospital, range, refuge, relaxed, residence, residency, residential, residentiary, rest home, retreat, roof, rooftree, sanatorium, serene, severely, shelter, sick bay, sickbed, sickroom, site, skilled in, snug harbor, soil, special hospital, stamping, station hospital, stress, surgical hospital, teaching hospital, tellingly, territory, the beyond, the good hereafter, the grave, the great beyond, the great hereafter, the hereafter, the old country, the unknown, toft, tranquil, untroubled, up on, veterans hospital, voluntary hospital, ward, welcoming, well-baby clinic, what bodes, what is fated, workhouse, world to come

homebody

• homebody, Diogenes, Hieronymian, Hieronymite, Timon of Athens, anchoress, anchorite, ascetic, bedridden invalid, cloistered monk, closet cynic, desert fathers, desert saints, eremite, hermit, hermitess, invalid, isolationist, loner, marabout, outcast, pariah, pillar saint, pillarist, recluse, seclusionist, shut-in, solitaire, solitary, solitudinarian, stay-at-home, stylite

homeless

• homeless, abandoned, alienated, alone, aloof, apart, bankrupt, bums, companionless, defenseless, derelict, deserted, desolate, destitute, detached, down-and-out, exiled, fatherless, forlorn, forsaken, fortuneless, friendless, godforsaken, helpless, houseless, in the gutter, in the red, insolvent, insular, isolated, kithless, landless, lone, lonely, lonesome, moneyless, motherless, out of funds, outcast, penniless, propertyless, removed, rootless, separate, separated, single-handed, solitary, solo, stateless, unabetted, unaccompanied, unaided, unassisted, unattended, unescorted, unestablished, unfriended, unharbored, unhoused, unplaced, unseconded, unsettled, unsupported, vagabond, withdrawn, without a sou

homelike

• homelike, cheerful, comfortable, comfy, commodious, contented, convenient, cozy, cushioned, cushiony, cushy, easeful, easy, friendly, habitable, homely, homey, homish, inhabitable, intimate, livable, lived-in, lodgeable, luxurious, occupiable, peaceful, plain, relaxing, reposeful, restful, roomy, simple, snug, soft, tenantable, unpretending, warm

homely

• homely, Attic, Babbittish, Bohemian, Philistine, Spartan, affable, amiable, ascetic, austere, bald, bare, baseborn, basic, beautiless, below the salt, blemished, blotted, bourgeois, cacophonic, cacophonous, campy, candid, casual, chaste, cheerful, classic, classical, cockney, comfortable, comfy, commodious, common, commonplace, congenial, contented, convenient, cordial, cosy, cozy, cushioned, cushiony, cushy, defaced, degage, direct, disfigured, domestic, dry, dull, dysphemistic, dysphemized, easeful, easy, easygoing, elementary, essential, everyday, familiar, folksy, frank, free and easy, friendly, fundamental, garden, garden-variety, general, gracious, haymish, high-camp, homelike, homespun, homey, homish, homogeneous, household, humble, humble-looking, humble-visaged, humblest, ill-favored, indivisible, inelegant, informal, inglorious, innocuous, intimate, irreducible, irregular, kitschy, lean, least, lived-in, loose, low, low-camp, lowborn, lowbred, lowest, lowliest, lowly, luxurious, marred, matter-of-fact, mean, mere, modest, monolithic, natural, neat, nonclerical, nondescript, of a piece, offhand, offhanded, open, ordinary, peaceful, plain, plain-speaking, plain-spoken, plebeian, poor, pop, popular, primal, primary, prosaic, prosing, prosy, public, pure, pure and simple, relaxed, relaxing, reposeful, restful, roomy, rude, rustic, serene, severe, shabby-genteel, short on looks, simon-pure, simple, simple-speaking, single, small, snug, sober, sociable, soft, spare, spoiled, stark, straightforward, teachable, third-estate, tranquil, uglified, ugly, ugly as hell, ugly as sin, unadorned, unaesthetic, unaffected, unalluring, unassuming, unattractive, unbeauteous, unbeautiful, unceremonious, uncluttered, uncomely, unconstrained, unconventional, undifferenced, undifferentiated, undistinguished, unelaborate, ungarnished, ungenteel, unhandsome, uniform, unimaginative, unimportant, unlovely, unofficial, unornamented, unostentatious, unpleasing, unpoetical, unpretending, unpretentious, unpretty, unsightly, unsophisticated, unstudied, unvarnished, vernacular, vulgar, warm, workaday, workday

homemade

• homemade, assembled, built, cast, constructed, crafted, created, custom, custom-built, custom-made, extracted, fabricated, fashioned, forged, formed, gathered, grown, handcrafted, handmade, harvested, homespun, machine-made, machined, made, made to order, man-made, manufactured, milled, mined, molded, prefab, prefabricated, processed, put together, raised, ready-for-wear, ready-formed, ready-made, ready-prepared, ready-to-wear, refined, shaped, smelted, well-built, well-constructed, well-made

homeostasis

• homeostasis, aplomb, balance, balanced personality, constancy, cool, equilibrium, fastness, firmness, imperturbability, invariability, nerve, reliability, rootedness, sang-froid, secureness, security, solidity, soundness, stability, stable equilibrium, stable state, steadfastness, steadiness, steady nerves, steady state, substantiality, undeflectability, uniformity, unshakable nerves, unshakableness

homer

• homer, carrier, carrier pigeon, goal, grand slam, hit, hole, hole in one, home run, homing pigeon, mail car, mail coach, mail packet, mail train, mail truck, mailer, mailplane, packet boat, pigeon post, post boat, post car, post coach, post-horse, post-office car, poster, railway mail car, score, slam, strike, touchdown

Homeric

• Homeric, Alcaic, Anacreontic, Atlantean, Brobdingnagian, Castalian, Cyclopean, Gargantuan, Herculean, Hudibrastic, Pierian, Pindaric, Theocritean, abysmal, astronomic, bardic, bucolic, colossal, didactic, dithyrambic, dramatic, eclogic, elegiac, elephantine, enormous, epic, giant, giantlike, gigantic, heroic, huge, idyllic, immense, infinite, jumbo, mammoth, mighty, mock-heroic, monster, monstrous, monumental, mountainous, narrative, pastoral, poetic, poetico-mystical, poetico-mythological, poetico-philosophic, poetlike, prodigious, profound, rhapsodic, runic, sapphic, skaldic, stupendous, titanic, towering, tremendous, vast

homespun

• homespun, Attic, Babbittish, Philistine, Spartan, amateur, amateurish, arcadian, ascetic, assembled, austere, bald, bare, basic, bourgeois, broken, bucolic, built, bumpy, campy, candid, cast, chaste, choppy, classic, classical, coarse, coarse-grained, common, commonplace, constructed, corrugated, crafted, created, cross-grained, crude, custom, custom-built, custom-made, direct, down-to-earth, dry, dull, elementary, essential, everyday, extracted, fabricated, fashioned, forged, formed, frank, fundamental, garden, garden-variety, gathered, general, genuine, grainy, granulated, grown, handcrafted, handmade, harvested, high-camp, homely, homemade, homogeneous, horripilant, household, inartificial, indivisible, inelegant, inequal, irreducible, irregular, jolty, kitschy, lean, linsey-woolsey, low-camp, machine-made, machined, made, made to order, man-made, manufactured, matter-of-fact, mere, milled, mined, molded, monolithic, native, natural, naturelike, neat, nondescript, of a piece, open, ordinary, pastoral, pimply, pitted, plain, plain-speaking, plain-spoken, plebeian, pocky, pop, popular, potholed, prefab, prefabricated, primal, primary, processed, prosaic, prosing, prosy, public, pure, pure and simple, put together, raised, rank, ready-for-wear, ready-formed, ready-made, ready-prepared, ready-to-wear, refined, ripply, rough, rough-cast, rough-grained, rough-hewn, rude, ruffled, rural, rustic, rutted, rutty, severe, shagged, shaggy, shaped, simon-pure, simple, simple-speaking, single, smelted, sober, spare, stark, straightforward, textured, unadorned, unaffected, unartificial, unassuming, uncluttered, undesigning, undifferenced, undifferentiated, undisguising, undissembling, undissimulating, unembellished, uneven, unfeigning, uniform, unimaginative, unkempt, unlevel, unpoetical, unpolished, unpretending, unpretentious, unprofessional, unrefined, unsmooth, unsophisticated, unspoiled, ununiform, unvarnished, vernacular, well-built, well-constructed, well-made, wimpled, workaday, workday

homestead

• homestead, ancestral halls, arable land, barnyard, barton, cattle ranch, chicken farm, chimney corner, collective farm, cotton plantation, croft, dairy farm, demesne, demesne farm, dry farm, dude ranch, estate, factory farm, fallow, family homestead, farm, farmery, farmhold, farmland, farmplace, farmstead, farmyard, fireplace, fireside, foyer, fruit farm, fur farm, grain farm, grange, grassland, hacienda, hearth, hearth and home, hearthstone, home, home place, home roof, home sweet home, homecroft, homefarm, house and grounds, house and lot, household, ingle, inglenook, ingleside, kibbutz, kolkhoz, location, mains, manor farm, menage, messuage, orchard, pasture, paternal roof, pen, place, plantation, poultry farm, ranch, rancheria, rancho, roof, rooftree, sheep farm, station, steading, stock farm, toft, truck farm

homesteader

• homesteader, colonial, colonist, colonizer, hirer, immigrant, incumbent, leaseholder, lessee, lodger, nester, occupant, occupier, paying guest, pioneer, planter, precursor, renter, resident, roomer, settler, sooner, squatter, sublessee, subtenant, tenant, tenant at sufferance, tenant for life, underlessee

homeward bound

• homeward bound, approaching, arriving, at sea, coming, entering, homeward, homeward-bound, in blue water, in soundings, inbound, incoming, inward-bound, making way, off soundings, off the course, off the heading, under bare poles, under sail, under way, with sails spread, with way on

homeward

• homeward, anticlockwise, approaching, arriving, clockwise, coming, counterclockwise, earthward, entering, heavenward, homeward-bound, inbound, incoming, inward-bound, landward, leeward, leftward, rightward, seaward, widdershins, windward

homework

• homework, assignment, busywork, chalk talk, chare, charge, chore, commission, discourse, disquisition, duty, errand, exercise, exposition, fish to fry, harangue, homily, instruction, job, job of work, labor, lecture, lecture-demonstration, lesson, make-work, matters in hand, mission, moral, moral lesson, morality, moralization, object lesson, odd job, piece of work, preachment, project, recital, recitation, sermon, service, set task, skull session, stint, talk, task, teaching, things to do, work

homey

• homey, Bohemian, affable, casual, cheerful, comfortable, comfy, commodious, contented, convenient, cordial, cozy, cushioned, cushiony, cushy, degage, easeful, easy, easygoing, familiar, folksy, free and easy, friendly, gracious, haymish, homelike, homely, homish, informal, intimate, irregular, lived-in, loose, luxurious, natural, offhand, offhanded, peaceful, plain, relaxed, relaxing, reposeful, restful, roomy, simple, snug, sociable, soft, unaffected, unassuming, unceremonious, unconstrained, unconventional, unofficial, unpretending, unstudied, warm

homicidal

• homicidal, amok, berserk, bloodthirsty, bloody, bloody-minded, cruel, cutthroat, deadly, ferocious, gory, insane, lethal, mad, maniacal, mortal, murdering, murderous, red-handed, sanguinary, sanguine, sanguineous, self-destructive, slaughterous, suicidal

homicide

• homicide, Cain, aborticide, apache, assassin, assassination, assassinator, blood, bloodletter, bloodshedder, bloody murder, bravo, bumping-off, burker, butcher, button man, cannibal, cutthroat, desperado, elimination, eradicator, executioner, exterminator, foul play, fratricide, fungicide, garroter, genocide, germicide, gorilla, gun, gunman, gunsel, hatchet man, head-hunter, herbicide, hit man, homicidal maniac, infanticide, insecticide, killer, killing, liquidation, man-eater, man-killer, manslaughter, manslayer, massacrer, matador, matricide, microbicide, murder, murderer, parricide, patricide, pesticide, poison, poisoner, purge, purging, regicide, removal, rodenticide, slaughterer, slayer, sororicide, strangler, suicide, thug, thuggee, thuggery, thuggism, torpedo, trigger man, uxoricide, vermicide

homily

• homily, article, assignment, causerie, chalk talk, descant, discourse, discussion, disquisition, dissertation, essay, etude, examination, excursus, exercise, exposition, feature, first approach, harangue, homework, instruction, introductory study, lecture, lecture-demonstration, lesson, lucubration, memoir, monograph, moral, moral lesson, morality, moralization, morceau, note, object lesson, outline, pandect, paper, paragraph, piece, preachification, preaching, preachment, prelection, preliminary study, prolegomenon, recital, recitation, religious discourse, research paper, screed, sermon, sermonette, set task, sketch, skull session, special article, study, survey, talk, task, teaching, term paper, theme, thesis, tract, tractate, travelogue, treatise, treatment

homing pigeon

• homing pigeon, Aquarius, Ganymede, Hebe, bearer, bheesty, busboy, caddie, cargo handler, carrier, carrier pigeon, carter, common carrier, conveyer, coolie, cupbearer, drayman, express, expressman, freighter, gun bearer, hauler, homer, letter carrier, litter-bearer, mail car, mail coach, mail packet, mail train, mail truck, mailer, mailplane, packet boat, pigeon post, porter, post boat, post car, post coach, post-horse, post-office car, poster, railway mail car, redcap, shield-bearer, skycap, stevedore, stretcher-bearer, the Water Bearer, transporter, truck driver, trucker, wagoner, water boy, water carrier

hominid

• hominid, Adam, Bronze Age man, Hominidae, Homo sapiens, Iron Age man, Stone Age man, aboriginal, aborigine, ancient, antediluvian, anthropoid, ape-man, autochthon, bushman, cave dweller, caveman, clay, fallen humanity, flesh, fossil man, generation of man, genus Homo, homo, human family, human nature, human race, human species, humanity, humankind, humanoid, le genre humain, man, man of old, mankind, missing link, mortal flesh, mortality, mortals, preadamite, prehistoric man, prehuman, primate, primitive, protohuman, race of man, troglodyte

hominy grits

• hominy grits, breakfast food, cereal, cornflakes, dry cereal, farina, frumenty, grits, gruel, hasty pudding, hot cereal, kasha, loblolly, millet, mush, oatmeal, porridge, puffed rice, puffed wheat, rolled oats, wheatflakes

hommage

• hommage, accolade, adulation, apotheosis, bepraisement, congratulation, deification, eloge, encomium, eulogium, eulogy, exaltation, excessive praise, flattery, glorification, glory, hero worship, homage, honor, idolatry, idolizing, kudos, laud, laudation, lionizing, magnification, meed of praise, overpraise, paean, panegyric, praise, tribute

Homo sapiens

• Homo sapiens, Adam, Hominidae, clay, fallen humanity, flesh, generation of man, genus Homo, hominid, homo, human family, human nature, human race, human species, humanity, humankind, le genre humain, man, mankind, mortal flesh, mortality, mortals, race of man

homo

• homo, Adam, Adamite, Hominidae, Homo sapiens, auntie, being, bi-guy, bisexual, body, bull dyke, butch, cat, catamite, chap, character, chicken, clay, creature, customer, duck, dyke, earthling, fag, faggot, fairy, fallen humanity, fellow, femme, flesh, flit, fricatrice, fruit, generation of man, genus Homo, groundling, gunsel, guy, hand, head, hominid, homophile, homosexual, homosexualist, human, human being, human family, human nature, human race, human species, humanity, humankind, individual, invert, joker, le genre humain, lesbian, life, living soul, man, mankind, mortal, mortal flesh, mortality, mortals, nance, nose, one, pansy, party, pathic, person, personage, personality, punk, queen, queer, race of man, sapphist, single, somebody, someone, soul, tellurian, terran, tribade, worldling

homoerotic

• homoerotic, AC-DC, amphierotic, autoerotic, bisexed, bisexual, butch, deviant, effeminate, gay, homophile, homosexual, inverted, lesbian, mannish, perverted, queer, sapphic, transvestite, tribadistic

homogeneity

• homogeneity, accordance, agreement, calm, coequality, coincidence, congruence, consistency, consonance, constancy, continuity, correspondence, elementarity, equability, equality, equanimity, equilibrium, equivalence, evenness, fundamentality, homoousia, identity, indistinguishability, integrity, monism, monolithism, no difference, oneness, persistence, plainness, purity, sameness, self-identity, selfhood, selfness, selfsameness, severity, simpleness, simplicity, singleness, stability, starkness, steadfastness, steadiness, synonymity, synonymousness, synonymy, unadulteration, uniformity, unity, unmixedness, unruffledness, unsophistication

homogeneous

• homogeneous, accordant, akin, alike, aped, austere, automatic, balanced, bare, basic, chaste, comparable, consimilar, consistent, consonant, constant, continuous, copied, correspondent, counterfeit, elementary, equable, equal, ersatz, essential, even, fake, favoring, flat, following, fundamental, homely, homespun, identical, imitated, imitation, immutable, indivisible, invariable, irreducible, level, like, measured, mechanical, mere, methodic, mimicked, mock, monolithic, nearly reproduced, not unlike, of a piece, ordered, orderly, persistent, phony, plain, primal, primary, pure, pure and simple, regular, resembling, robotlike, severe, similar, simon-pure, simple, simulated, single, smacking of, smooth, something like, spare, stable, stark, steadfast, steady, suggestive of, synthetic, systematic, unadorned, unbroken, unchangeable, unchanged, unchanging, uncluttered, undeviating, undifferenced, undifferentiated, undiversified, uniform, uniform with, unruffled, unvaried, unvarying

homogenize

• homogenize, admix, alloy, amalgamate, assimilate to, balance, bemingle, blend, coalesce, combine, commingle, commix, compose, compound, concoct, conglomerate, damp, emulsify, equalize, equilibrize, even, flatten, fuse, harmonize, hash, immingle, immix, integrate, interblend, interlace, interlard, intermingle, intermix, intertwine, interweave, jumble, knead, level, make uniform, merge, mingle, mingle-mangle, mix, mix up, normalize, regularize, regulate, scramble, shuffle, smooth, stabilize, standardize, stereotype, stir up, symmetrize, syncretize, throw together, toss together, uniformize, work

homologous

• homologous, analogous, answering, approximate, approximating, approximative, close, coequal, comparable, complemental, complementary, correspondent, corresponding, equipollent, equivalent, like, near, proximate, reciprocal, reciprocative, relatable, similar, tantamount

homology

• homology, accord, addition, adjunct, affairs, affiliation, affinity, alliance, approximation, assemblage, association, bond, closeness, combination, connectedness, connection, contiguity, contrariety, dealings, deduction, disjunction, filiation, intercourse, intimacy, junction, liaison, link, linkage, linking, mutual attraction, nearness, propinquity, proximity, rapport, relatedness, relation, relations, relationship, similarity, sympathy, tie, tie-in, union

homonym

• homonym, Doppelganger, actual thing, antonym, articulation, carbon copy, copy, dead ringer, ditto, double, duplicate, equivalent, exact counterpart, expression, facsimile, free form, homograph, homophone, idem, identical same, lexeme, linguistic form, locution, logos, metonym, minimum free form, monosyllable, no other, none other, polysyllable, replica, selfsame, spit and image, spitting image, syllable, synonym, term, the same, the same difference, twin, usage, utterance, verbalism, verbum, very image, very same, vocable, word

homosexual

• homosexual, AC-DC, amphierotic, androgynous, auntie, autoerotic, bent, bi-guy, bisexed, bisexual, bull dyke, butch, camp, campy, catamite, chicken, deviant, dike, dyke, effeminate, epicene, fag, faggot, fairy, femme, flit, fricatrice, fruit, fruity, gay, ginger beer, gunsel, homo, homoerotic, homophile, homosexualist, invert, inverted, kinky, lesbian, mannish, nance, nancy, pansy, pathic, pederast, pervert, perverted, punk, queen, queer, sapphic, sapphist, sodomite, swish, transvestite, tribade, tribadistic

homosexuality

• homosexuality, active algolagnia, algolagnia, algolagny, amphierotism, autoeroticism, bisexuality, coprophilia, exhibitionism, fetishism, heterosexuality, homoeroticism, homosexualism, incest, incestuousness, lesbianism, masochism, narcissism, necrophilia, paraphilia, passive algolagnia, pedophilia, sadism, sadomasochism, sapphism, scotophilia, sexual inversion, sexual normality, sexual preference, swinging both ways, transvestitism, tribadism, tribady, voyeurism, zooerastia, zoophilia

honcho

• honcho, boss, chief, chieftain, cock, electronics king, head, headman, hierarch, king, lead, leader, leading light, luminary, master, master spirit, paramount, prima donna, principal, star, superstar, top dog

honest man

• honest man, acceptable person, capital fellow, diamond, faithful, galantuomo, gem, gentilhomme, gentleman, good fellow, good lot, good man, good person, good sort, good woman, honest woman, jewel, lady, man of honor, mensch, pearl, perfect gentleman, perfect lady, persona grata, prince, real lady, real man, right sort, rough diamond, straight shooter, true blue, truepenny, trusty, woman of honor, worthy

honest

• honest, Christian, angelic, authentic, blameless, bona fide, candid, card-carrying, clean, conscientious, creditable, decent, dependable, dinkum, direct, dispassionate, equitable, erect, estimable, ethical, explicit, fair, following the letter, forthright, frank, full of integrity, genuine, godly, good, high-minded, high-principled, highly respectable, honest-to-God, honorable, immaculate, inartificial, incorruptible, ingenuous, inviolate, irreproachable, just, law-abiding, law-loving, law-revering, lawful, legitimate, lifelike, literal, manly, moral, native, natural, naturalistic, noble, objective, on the level, open, original, plain, plain-spoken, principled, proper, pure, real, realistic, reliable, reputable, respectable, right, right-minded, righteous, rightful, saintlike, saintly, scrupulous, seraphic, simon-pure, simple, sincere, sound, spotless, square, square-dealing, square-shooting, stainless, sterling, straight, straightforward, sure-enough, true, true to life, true to nature, true to reality, true-dealing, true-devoted, true-disposing, true-souled, true-spirited, truehearted, trustworthy, trusty, truthful, unadulterated, unaffected, unambiguous, unartificial, unassumed, unassuming, unblemished, uncolored, unconcocted, unconstrained, uncopied, uncorrupt, uncorrupted, uncounterfeited, undefiled, undesigning, undisguised, undisguising, undissembled, undistorted, unequivocal, unexaggerated, unfabricated, unfanciful, unfeigned, unfeigning, unfictitious, unflattering, unimagined, unimitated, unimpeachable, uninhibited, uninvented, unpretended, unpretending, unpretentious, unqualified, unreserved, unrestrained, unromantic, unsimulated, unspecious, unspotted, unstained, unsullied, unsynthetic, untarnished, unvarnished, upright, uprighteous, upstanding, valid, veracious, verbal, verbatim, veridical, verisimilar, virtuous, word-for-word, worthy, yeomanly

honest-to-God

• honest-to-God, absolute, actual, authentic, bona fide, candid, card-carrying, de facto, dinkum, factual, following the letter, for real, genuine, good, historical, honest, inartificial, lawful, legitimate, lifelike, literal, natural, naturalistic, original, positive, pure, real, realistic, rightful, simon-pure, simple, sincere, sterling, substantial, sure-enough, true, true to life, true to nature, true to reality, unadulterated, unaffected, unassumed, unassuming, uncolored, unconcocted, uncopied, uncounterfeited, undeniable, undisguised, undisguising, undistorted, unexaggerated, unfabricated, unfanciful, unfeigned, unfeigning, unfictitious, unflattering, unimagined, unimitated, uninvented, unpretended, unpretending, unqualified, unromantic, unsimulated, unspecious, unsynthetic, unvarnished, verbal, verbatim, veridical, verisimilar, veritable, word-for-word

honestly

• honestly, authentically, blamelessly, bluntly, candidly, conscientiously, creditably, decently, dependably, disinterestedly, equitably, erectly, ethically, fairly, fastidiously, frankly, genuinely, high-mindedly, honorably, immaculately, impartially, in good faith, in plain English, in plain words, ingenuously, irreproachably, justly, legitimately, meticulously, morally, naturally, nobly, objectively, openly, plainly, punctiliously, purely, really, reliably, reputably, righteously, scrupulously, simply, sincerely, stainlessly, straightforwardly, truly, truthfully, unaffectedly, unambiguously, unassumedly, unequivocally, unimpeachably, unreservedly, unspottedly, uprightly, upstandingly, veridically, virtuously, warts and all, worthily

honesty

• honesty, absolute realism, artlessness, assured probity, authenticity, blamelessness, bluntness, bona fideness, candor, character, cleanness, conscientiousness, decency, dependability, directness, disinterestedness, equitableness, equity, erectness, estimableness, fairness, forthrightness, frankness, genuineness, good character, goodness, guilelessness, high ideals, high principles, high-mindedness, honor, honorableness, immaculacy, impartiality, inartificiality, incorruption, ingenuousness, integrity, irreproachability, irreproachableness, justice, justness, legitimacy, lifelikeness, literalism, literality, literalness, moral excellence, moral strength, morality, naturalism, naturalness, nobility, objectivity, openness, outspokenness, photographic realism, principles, probity, pureness, purity, realism, realness, rectitude, reliability, reputability, respectability, righteousness, scrupulousness, sincerity, stainlessness, straightforwardness, true-to-lifeness, trustworthiness, truth to nature, truthfulness, unadulteration, unaffectedness, unfictitiousness, unimpeachability, unimpeachableness, unspeciousness, unspottedness, unspuriousness, unsyntheticness, uprightness, upstandingness, veracity, verisimilitude, virtue, virtuousness, worthiness

honey

• honey, Jell-O, ace, ambrosia, angel, artificial sweetener, babe, baby, baby-doll, beaut, beloved, blackstrap, blancmange, blarney, butter, butter up, buttercup, calcium cyclamate, candy, cane syrup, captive, catch, cherub, chick, chickabiddy, clover honey, comb honey, comfit, compote, confection, confectionery, confiture, conquest, conserve, coquette, corker, corn syrup, crackerjack, cyclamates, daisy, dandy, darb, darling, date, dear, deary, dilly, doll, dream, duck, duckling, dulcify, edulcorate, edulcoration, flame, flirt, frosting, gelatin, get around, glaze, heartthrob, hon, honey bunch, honey child, honeycomb, honeydew, honeypot, humdinger, icing, inamorata, jam, jelly, jolly, kid along, killer-diller, knockout, ladylove, lamb, lambkin, lay it on, lollapaloosa, love, lover, lulu, maple syrup, marmalade, meringue, molasses, mousse, mull, nectar, oil, overdo it, peach, pet, petkins, pip, pippin, play up to, precious, precious heart, preserve, saccharification, saccharify, saccharin, snookums, soap, sodium cyclamate, soft-soap, soften up, sorghum, steady, string along, stroke, sugar, sugar off, sugar-making, sugarcoat, sugaring off, sweet, sweet patootie, sweet stuff, sweeten, sweetener, sweetening, sweetheart, sweetie, sweetkins, sweetmeat, sweets, syrup, the nuts, treacle, truelove, tutti-frutti, vamp, vampire, whipped cream, whiz

honeycomb

• honeycomb, alveolation, alveolus, ambrosia, artificial sweetener, auger, bespread, bite, blackstrap, bore, broach, calcium cyclamate, cane syrup, clover honey, colander, comb honey, corn syrup, countersink, crawl with, creep with, cribble, cribriformity, cribrosity, cyclamates, dent, diffuse, dimple, dint, drill, edulcoration, empierce, extend throughout, fill, fix, furrow, gore, gouge, gouge out, hole, honey, honeydew, honeypot, imbue, impale, impress, impression, imprint, indent, indentation, indention, indenture, lance, leave no void, leaven, maple syrup, mine, molasses, nectar, needle, net, notch, occupy, overrun, overset, overspread, overswarm, overthrow, overturn, penetrate, perforate, permeate, pervade, pierce, pink, pit, pock, pockmark, porosity, porousness, prick, print, punch, puncture, ream, ream out, riddle, run through, sabotage, saccharification, saccharin, sap, sap the foundations, screen, sieve, sievelikeness, skewer, sodium cyclamate, sorghum, spear, spike, spit, sponge, stab, stick, strainer, subvert, suffuse, sugar, sugar-making, sugaring off, sunken part, swarm with, sweetener, sweetening, sweets, syrup, tap, teem with, throw down, throw over, transfix, transfuse, transpierce, treacle, trepan, trephine, undermine, upend, upset, weaken

honeycombed

• honeycombed, alveolar, alveolate, apertured, crawling, creeping, crible, dented, depressed, dimpled, engraved, faveolate, fenestrated, holey, indented, like Swiss cheese, notched, peppered, perforate, perforated, permeated, pierced, pitted, pocked, pockmarked, riddled, saturated, shot through, slotted, swarming, teeming, windowed

honeyed

• honeyed, achingly sweet, adulatory, affable, agreeable, agreeable-sounding, ambrosial, amiable, amicable, appealing, ariose, arioso, bittersweet, bland, blandishing, blarneying, blissful, buttery, cajoling, candied, canorous, cantabile, catchy, cheerful, compatible, complaisant, complimentary, congenial, cordial, courtierly, courtly, desirable, dulcet, en rapport, enjoyable, euphonic, euphonious, euphonous, fair, fair and pleasant, fair-spoken, fawning, felicific, felicitous, fine, fine-spoken, fine-toned, flattering, fulsome, genial, golden, golden-tongued, golden-voiced, good, goodly, gracious, grateful, gratifying, gushing, harmonious, heart-warming, honey-mouthed, honey-tongued, honeysweet, insincere, insinuating, likable, liquid, mealymouthed, melic, melliferous, mellifluent, mellifluous, mellisonant, mellow, melodic, melodious, music-flowing, music-like, musical, nectareous, nectarous, nice, obsequious, oily, oily-tongued, pleasant, pleasant-sounding, pleasing, pleasurable, pleasure-giving, pleasureful, rewarding, rich, sacchariferous, satisfying, silver-toned, silver-tongued, silver-voiced, silvery, singable, slimy, slobbery, smarmy, smooth, smooth-spoken, smooth-tongued, soapy, soft-soaping, songful, songlike, sonorous, sour-sweet, sugarcoated, sugared, sugarsweet, sugary, sweet, sweet and pungent, sweet and sour, sweet as sugar, sweet-flowing, sweet-sounding, sweetened, sweetish, sycophantic, syrupy, tunable, tuneful, unctuous, welcome, wheedling

honeymoon

• honeymoon, Gretna Green wedding, banns, bridal, bridal suite, bridechamber, chuppah, church wedding, civil ceremony, civil wedding, elopement, epithalamium, espousals, espousement, forced marriage, hymen, hymeneal, hymeneal rites, marriage, nuptial apartment, nuptial mass, nuptial song, nuptials, prothalamium, saffron veil, shotgun wedding, spousals, wedding, wedding canopy, wedding song, wedding veil

honk

• honk, bay, beep, bell, blare, blast, blat, blow, blow the horn, bray, bugle, cackle, call, carol, caw, chatter, cheep, chirk, chirp, chirr, chirrup, chitter, chuck, clack, clarion, cluck, cock-a-doodle-doo, coo, croak, cronk, crow, cuckoo, drum, fanfare, flourish of trumpets, gabble, gaggle, gobble, guggle, hoo, hoot, peal, peep, pip, pipe, quack, roll, scold, shriek, sing, sound, sound a tattoo, sound taps, squawk, squeal, tantara, tantarara, taps, tarantara, tattoo, toot, tootle, trill, trumpet, trumpet blast, trumpet call, tweedle, tweet, twit, twitter, warble, whistle, wind

honky tonk

• honky tonk, alehouse, bar, barrel house, barroom, beer garden, beer parlor, bistro, blind tiger, cabaret, cafe, cocktail lounge, dive, dramshop, drinking saloon, gin mill, groggery, grogshop, local, nightclub, pothouse, pub, public, public house, rathskeller, rumshop, saloon, saloon bar, speakeasy, taproom, tavern, wine shop

honky

• honky, American Indian, Amerind, Australian aborigine, Bushman, Caucasian, Indian, Malayan, Mister Charley, Mongolian, Negrillo, Negrito, Negro, Oriental, Red Indian, WASP, black, black man, blackfellow, boy, brown man, burrhead, colored person, coon, darky, gook, jigaboo, jungle bunny, nigger, niggra, ofay, paleface, pygmy, red man, redskin, slant-eye, spade, the Man, white, white man, whitey, yellow man

honor roll

• honor roll, agenda, beadroll, cadastre, calendar, census, census report, checklist, checkroll, docket, dramatis personae, head count, jury list, jury panel, lineup, muster, muster roll, nose count, order of business, poll, program, property roll, questionnaire, returns, roll, roll call, roster, rota, scroll, tax roll

honor

• honor, abide by, accept, acclaim, accolade, accord respect to, account, accounting for, acknowledgment, acres, adhere to, administer, admiration, admire, adoration, adore, adorn, adulate, adulation, aggrandize, amortize, answerability, apotheosis, apotheosize, application, appreciate, appreciation, approbation, approval, approve, arrogation, ascription, assignation, assignment, assured probity, attachment, attribution, audition, award, awe, badge, bays, beat the drum, bepraisement, bestow honor upon, blame, blamelessness, blessing, blotlessness, blow the trumpet, blue book, breathless adoration, carry out, carry through, cash, celebrate, celebrity, character, charge, chastity, chattels real, cite, cleanliness, cleanness, clear, commemorate, complete, compliment, confer distinction on, congratulation, connection with, consideration, courtesy, credit, crown, crown with laurel, decency, decorate, decoration, defer to, deference, deification, deify, delight, demesne, derivation from, devotion, dignify, dignity, discharge, distinction, distinguish, do honor, do service, domain, dress ship, duty, effect, effectuate, eloge, eminence, encomium, enforce, ennoble, entertain respect for, erect, erectness, esteem, estimableness, estimation, etiology, eulogium, eulogize, eulogy, exaggerated respect, exalt, exaltation, exam, examen, examination, excessive praise, execute, fairness, fame, favor, fill out, final, final examination, fire a salute, flattery, fulfill, glorification, glorify, glory, good character, goodness, grace, great go, great respect, greatness, grounds, hail, hallow, handle, hearing, hero worship, hero-worship, high ideals, high principles, high regard, high-mindedness, hold in esteem, hold in reverence, hold jubilee, homage, hommage, honesty, honorableness, honorific, honors, idolatry, idolization, idolize, idolizing, illustriousness, immaculacy, immaculateness, implement, imputation, incorruption, innocence, integrity, irreproachability, irreproachableness, joy, jubilate, jubilize, justice, justness, keep, kudos, land, landed property, lands, laud, laudation, laurels, lift, lionizing, liquidate, live up to, look up to, lot, lots, maffick, magnification, magnify, maintain, make, make accounts square, make merry, make out, manor, mark, meed of praise, meet, memorability, memorialize, messuage, midsemester, midterm, moral excellence, moral strength, morality, nobility, notability, noteworthiness, obeisance, observe, oral, oral examination, overpraise, paean, palaetiology, panegyric, parcel, pay, pay homage to, pay in full, pay off, pay regard to, pay the bill, pay the shot, pay tribute, pay up, placement, plat, pleasure, plot, praedium, praise, prelim, prestige, principles, privilege, prize, probity, prominence, promulgate, property, prosecute, pureness, purity, put in force, put through, quadrat, quiz, real estate, real property, realty, recognition, rectitude, redeem, reference to, regard, remarkableness, render, render honor to, renown, reputability, reputation, repute, respect, respectability, responsibility, retire, revere, reverence, reverential regard, righteousness, saddling, salience, salute, satisfy, settle, sexual innocence, signalize, snowiness, solemnize, solemnly mark, sound a fanfare, spotlessness, square, square accounts, stainlessness, strike a balance, sublime, taintlessness, take up, take-home examination, tenements, test, think highly of, think much of, think well of, title, toft, transact, trial, tribute, tripos, unblemishedness, unblottedness, uncorruptness, undefiledness, unimpeachability, unimpeachableness, unsoiledness, unspottedness, unstainedness, unsulliedness, untaintedness, uprear, uprightness, upstandingness, value, venerate, veneration, virginity, virtue, virtuousness, viva, whiteness, worship, worth, worthiness, written, written examination

honorable mention

• honorable mention, accolade, acknowledgment, appreciation, blurb, boost, buildup, citation, commendation, eulogy, good word, hype, kudos, mention, plug, praise, promotion, puff, recognition, tribute

honorable

• honorable, Christian, acclaimed, appropriate, artless, august, awe-inspiring, awesome, awful, blameless, celebrated, clean, conscientious, correct, creditable, decent, disinterested, distinguished, dreadful, eminent, equitable, erect, esteemed, estimable, ethical, exalted, fair, fair and square, famed, famous, fitting, full of integrity, good, guileless, held in esteem, high-minded, high-principled, highly esteemed, highly regarded, highly reputed, highly respectable, honest, honorary, honored, honorific, illustrious, immaculate, impartial, in favor, in good odor, in high favor, incorruptible, ingenuous, inviolate, irreproachable, just, law-abiding, law-loving, law-revering, manly, meritorious, moral, noble, notable, noted, noteworthy, on the level, open, prestigious, principled, proper, pure, renowned, reputable, respectable, respected, revered, reverend, right, right-minded, righteous, scrupulous, sincere, spotless, square, stainless, sterling, straight, time-honored, true, true-dealing, true-devoted, true-disposing, true-souled, true-spirited, truehearted, trustworthy, trusty, unbiased, unblemished, uncorrupt, uncorrupted, undeceitful, undeceiving, undefiled, unimpeachable, unprejudiced, unspotted, unstained, unsullied, untarnished, upright, uprighteous, upstanding, venerable, venerated, virtuous, well-thought-of, worshipful, worthy, yeomanly

honorably

• honorably, blamelessly, conscientiously, creditably, decently, erectly, estimably, fastidiously, high-mindedly, honestly, immaculately, irreproachably, meticulously, morally, nobly, punctiliously, purely, reputably, respectably, righteously, scrupulously, stainlessly, unimpeachably, unspottedly, uprightly, upstandingly, virtuously, worthily

honorarium

• honorarium, Trinkgeld, amends, atonement, blood money, bonus, bounty, bribe, compensation, consideration, damages, donative, double time, emolument, fee, gratuity, gravy, grease, guerdon, incentive pay, indemnification, indemnity, inducement, lagniappe, largess, liberality, meed, palm oil, pay, payment, perks, perquisite, pourboire, premium, price, quittance, recompense, redress, remuneration, reparation, requital, requitement, restitution, retribution, return, reward, salvage, salve, satisfaction, smart money, solatium, something extra, sportula, sweetener, tip, wergild

honored

• honored, acclaimed, admired, adored, appreciated, celebrated, creditable, crowned with laurel, distinguished, esteemed, estimable, fabled, famed, famous, far-famed, far-heard, held in esteem, held in respect, highly considered, highly esteemed, highly regarded, highly reputed, highly respectable, honorable, in favor, in good odor, in high esteem, in high favor, laureate, legendary, marked, meritorious, much acclaimed, much-admired, mythical, noble, notable, noted, notorious, of mark, of note, popular, prestigious, prized, renowned, reputable, respectable, respected, revered, reverenced, reverend, talked-about, talked-of, valued, venerable, venerated, well-considered, well-known, well-thought-of, worshiped, worshipful, worthy

honorific

• honorific, appellation, appellative, attentive, binomen, binomial name, byname, byword, cap in hand, ceremonious, cognomen, cognominal, courteous, cryptonym, deferential, denomination, designation, diminutive, dutiful, empty title, epithet, epithetic, eponym, euonym, formal, handle, honor, honorable, honorary, hypocoristic, hyponym, in name only, label, moniker, name, namesake, nomen, nomen nudum, nominal, nominative, proper name, proper noun, quasi, regardful, respectful, scientific name, secret name, self-called, self-christened, self-styled, so-called, soi-disant, style, tag, tautonym, title, titular, titulary, trinomen, trinomial name, would-be

hooch

• hooch, alcohol, aqua vitae, bathtub gin, blockade, bootleg, booze, corpse reviver, drink, firewater, grog, juice, likker, medicine, mountain dew, sauce, snake medicine, spirits, tiger milk, tipple, white lightning

hood

• hood, Mafioso, SOB, Young Turk, apply to, bad boy, bastard, battler, beast, beldam, belligerent, belted knight, berserk, berserker, bickerer, blade, blanket, block, bomber, bonnet, booger, boot, bravo, brawler, breech, bruiser, brute, buffoon, bugger, bully, bullyboy, canopy, cap, ceil, cloak, clothe, cloud, coat, coif, combatant, competitor, contender, contestant, cope, cork, cover, cover up, coverage, covering, covert, coverture, cowl, cowling, creep, crown, curtain, cutup, demon, devil, disputant, dome, dragon, drape, drapery, duelist, eclipse, elf, enfant terrible, enforcer, fart, fencer, feuder, fiend, fighter, fighting cock, film, fire-eater, firebrand, foilsman, frock, funmaker, fury, gamecock, gladiator, goon, gorilla, gown, guise, gun, gunsel, hanging, hardnose, hat, hatchet man, heel, hell-raiser, hellcat, hellhound, hellion, holy terror, hoodlum, hooligan, hothead, hotspur, housing, imp, incendiary, jacket, jerk, joker, jokester, jouster, killer, knave, knight, lay on, lay over, little devil, little monkey, little rascal, louse, mad dog, madcap, mantle, mask, meanie, militant, minx, mischief, mischief-maker, monster, mother, muffle, mug, mugger, muscle man, obduce, obscure, occult, overlay, overspread, pall, pill, pixie, plug-ugly, practical joker, prankster, puck, put on, quarreler, rapist, rapscallion, rascal, rat, revolutionary, rioter, rival, rodman, rogue, roof, roof in, rough, roughneck, rowdy, ruffian, sabreur, savage, scamp, scapegrace, scrapper, screen, scuffler, scum, she-wolf, shelter, shield, shirt, shit, shithead, shitheel, shoe, shroud, sock, spitfire, spread over, squabbler, stinkard, stinker, stocking, stopper, strong arm, strong-arm man, strong-armer, struggler, superimpose, superpose, swashbuckler, sword, swordplayer, swordsman, termagant, terror, terrorist, thug, tiger, tigress, tilter, tip, top, torpedo, tough, tough guy, trigger man, turd, tussler, ugly customer, veil, vestment, violent, virago, vixen, wag, wild beast, witch, wolf, wrangler

hooded

• hooded, appareled, armored, arrayed, attired, bedecked, breeched, capped, cased, ceiled, chausse, clad, cloaked, clothed, clouded, coated, coifed, coped, costumed, covered, covert, cowled, curtained, decked, dight, disguised, dressed, eclipsed, encapsulated, encapsuled, encased, endued, enveloped, enwrapped, filmed, floored, garbed, garmented, gowned, habilimented, habited, housed, invested, liveried, loricate, loricated, mantled, masked, muffled, obscured, occulted, packaged, pantalooned, paved, raimented, rigged out, robed, roofed-in, screened, scummed, sheathed, shelled, shielded, shod, shoed, shrouded, swathed, tented, tired, togged, tricked out, trousered, under cover, veiled, vested, vestmented, walled, walled-in, wrapped

hoodlum

• hoodlum, Mafioso, Young Turk, apache, bad boy, bandit, battler, beast, beldam, belligerent, belted knight, berserk, berserker, bickerer, blade, bomber, booger, bravo, brawler, brigand, bruiser, brute, buffoon, bugger, bully, bullyboy, combatant, competitor, contender, contestant, crook, cutup, dacoit, demon, desperado, devil, disputant, dragon, duelist, elf, enfant terrible, enforcer, fencer, feuder, fiend, fighter, fighting cock, fire-eater, firebrand, foilsman, funmaker, fury, gamecock, gangster, gladiator, goon, gorilla, gun, gunsel, hardnose, hatchet man, hell-raiser, hellcat, hellhound, hellion, hit man, holy terror, hood, hooligan, hothead, hotspur, imp, incendiary, joker, jokester, jouster, killer, knave, knight, little devil, little monkey, little rascal, mad dog, madcap, militant, minx, mischief, mischief-maker, mobsman, mobster, monster, mug, mugger, muscle man, pixie, plug-ugly, practical joker, prankster, puck, quarreler, racketeer, rapist, rapscallion, rascal, revolutionary, rioter, rival, rodman, rogue, rough, roughneck, rowdy, ruffian, sabreur, savage, scamp, scapegrace, scrapper, scuffler, she-wolf, spitfire, squabbler, strong arm, strong-arm man, strong-armer, struggler, swashbuckler, sword, swordplayer, swordsman, termagant, terror, terrorist, thug, tiger, tigress, tilter, torpedo, tough, tough guy, trigger man, tussler, ugly customer, violent, virago, vixen, wag, wild beast, witch, wolf, wrangler

hoodoo

• hoodoo, Jonah, alchemy, amulet, bad influence, bedevil, bewitch, bewitchery, bring bad luck, charm, curse, demonize, diabolize, divination, enchantment, evil eye, evil genius, evil star, fetish, fetishism, fylfot, gammadion, glamour, good-luck charm, gramarye, hex, ill wind, jinx, juju, jujuism, love charm, lucky bean, lucky piece, madstone, magic, malevolent influence, malocchio, mascot, mumbo jumbo, natural magic, necromancy, obeah, obsess, overlook, periapt, philter, phylactery, possess, rune, scarab, scarabaeus, scarabee, shamanism, sorcery, sortilege, spell, spellbinding, spellcasting, sudarium, swastika, sympathetic magic, talisman, thaumaturgia, thaumaturgics, thaumaturgism, thaumaturgy, theurgy, vampirism, veronica, voodoo, voodooism, wanga, whammy, white magic, witch, witchcraft, witchery, witchwork, wizardry

hoodwink

• hoodwink, bamboozle, bandage, bedazzle, befool, benight, blind, blind the eyes, blindfold, chicane, con, darken, daze, dazzle, deceive, defraud, delude, deprive of sight, dim, dupe, eclipse, excecate, flimflam, fool, glare, gouge, gull, hoax, humbug, make blind, mislead, obscure, outwit, rook, snow, snow-blind, strike blind, suck in, trick

hoodwinked

• hoodwinked, Gothic, Philistine, barbarous, bedazzled, blindfold, blindfolded, bookless, darkened, dazed, dazzled, deceived, excecate, functionally illiterate, grammarless, heathen, ill-educated, illiterate, led astray, lowbrow, misinformed, misinstructed, mistaught, nonintellectual, obscured, pagan, rude, snow-blind, snow-blinded, unbooked, unbookish, unbooklearned, unbriefed, uncultivated, uncultured, unedified, uneducated, unerudite, unguided, uninstructed, unintellectual, unlearned, unlettered, unliterary, unread, unrefined, unscholarly, unschooled, unstudious, untaught, untutored

hooey

• hooey, balls, baloney, bilge, blague, blah, blah-blah, bop, bosh, bull, bullshit, bunk, bunkum, claptrap, crap, eyewash, flam, flapdoodle, flimflam, gammon, gas, guff, gup, hogwash, hoke, hokum, hot air, humbug, humbuggery, jiggery-pokery, malarkey, moonshine, piffle, poppycock, rot, scat, shit, tommyrot, tripe, wind

hoof

• hoof, ambulate, ankle, arch, circumambulate, clog, clubfoot, dance, digit, dog, extremity, fetlock, foot, foot it, forefoot, forepaw, fox-trot, harefoot, heel, hoof it, hop, instep, jaywalk, jog on, leg, leg it, pace, pad, pastern, patte, paw, pedal extremity, pedes, pedestrianize, perambulate, peripateticate, pes, pied, prance, pug, shake, shimmy, shuffle, shuffle along, skip, sole, splayfoot, step, stride, stump it, tap-dance, toe, tootsy, traipse, tread, trip, troop, trotter, ungula, walk, waltz

hoof-and-mouth disease

• hoof-and-mouth disease, Texas fever, anthrax, aphthous fever, bighead, black quarter, blackleg, blackwater, blind staggers, bloody flux, broken wind, cattle plague, charbon, distemper, foot-and-mouth disease, gapes, glanders, heaves, hog cholera, hydrophobia, liver rot, loco, loco disease, locoism, mad staggers, malignant catarrh, malignant catarrhal fever, malignant pustule, mange, megrims, milzbrand, paratuberculosis, pip, pseudotuberculosis, quarter evil, rabies, rinderpest, rot, scabies, sheep rot, splenic fever, staggers, stringhalt, swine dysentery

hoofed

• hoofed, asinine, bovid, bovine, caprid, caprine, clawed, cowish, cowlike, deerlike, equestrian, equine, footed, goatish, goatlike, hircine, hoggish, horsy, mulish, ovine, pedal, piggish, plantar, ruminant, sheepish, sheeplike, swinish, taloned, toed, ungulate

hoofer

• hoofer, ambulator, artist, artiste, backpacker, ballerina, ballet dancer, ballet girl, ballroom dancer, belly dancer, burlesque queen, choral dancer, chorine, chorus boy, chorus girl, clog dancer, conjurer, coryphee, dancer, dancing girl, danseur, danseur noble, danseuse, ecdysiast, entertainer, exotic dancer, female impersonator, figurant, figurante, foot passenger, foot soldier, foot traveler, footslogger, geisha, geisha girl, guisard, guiser, heel-and-toe dancer, hiker, hitchhiker, hula girl, impersonator, infantryman, jaywalker, magician, marcher, mountebank, mummer, musician, nautch girl, paddlefoot, pedestrian, peeler, performer, peripatetic, prestidigitator, public entertainer, show girl, singer, square-dancer, stripper, stripteaser, stripteuse, terpsichorean, trailsman, tramper, vaudevillian, vaudevillist, walker, walkist

hoofing

• hoofing, ambling, ambulation, backpacking, ballet, ballroom dancing, choreodrama, choreography, classical ballet, comedy ballet, dance, dance drama, dancing, footing, footing it, footwork, going on foot, hiking, hitchhiking, hitching, legwork, lumbering, marching, modern ballet, modern dance, pedestrianism, perambulation, sauntering, staggering, strolling, tap dancing, terpsichore, thumbing, thumbing a ride, toddling, tottering, tramping, treading, trudging, waddling, walking

hook up

• hook up, act in concert, act together, affiliate, ally, amalgamate, associate, band, band together, be in cahoots, be in league, bridle, bunch, bunch up, cabal, cement a union, centralize, club, club together, coact, coalesce, collaborate, collude, combine, come together, concert, concord, concur, confederate, consociate, consolidate, conspire, cooperate, couple, do business with, federalize, federate, fetter, fuse, gang, gang up, get heads together, get together, go in partners, go in partnership, go partners, halter, hang together, harmonize, harness, hitch up, hold together, hook up with, join, join forces, join fortunes with, join in, join together, join up with, join with, keep together, league, league together, make common cause, marry, merge, organize, pair, pair off, partner, play ball, pull together, put heads together, reciprocate, saddle, stand together, stand up with, team up, team up with, team with, tether, throw in together, throw in with, tie in, tie in with, tie up, tie up with, unionize, unite, unite efforts, unite with, wed, work together, yoke

hook

• hook, L, Long Melford, abstract, acquitted, all the way, allure, anchor, anchorage, and, and sinker, angle, angle off, annex, apex, appropriate, arc, arch, argue into, articulate, backhand, backhander, backstroke, bag, bait, bait the hook, baited trap, bar, batten, batten down, belt, bend, bend back, berth, bifurcate, bifurcation, bight, bill, birdlime, bola, bolo punch, bolt, boom, boost, borrow, bow, branch, breakwater, bring over, bring round, bring to reason, buckle, butt, button, cabbage, cant, cape, captivate, capture, catacaustic, catch, catch out, catenary, caustic, charm, chersonese, chevron, circle, clasp, claws, cleared, cleat, clip, clotheshorse, clothespin, clutches, cobweb, coin, collar, come what may, come-on, completely, con, conchoid, convince, cop, coral reef, corner, crane, crank, crib, crook, crotchet, curl, curve, decoy, decoy duck, decurve, deflect, deflection, defraud, delta, diacaustic, digits, dogleg, dome, dovetail, dragnet, draw over, drawcard, drawing card, elbow, ell, ellipse, embezzle, embow, endearment, enmesh, ensnare, ensnarl, entangle, entirely, entoil, entrap, enweb, exonerated, extort, fangs, fastener, festoon, filch, fingernails, fingers, fishhook, flex, fly, foreland, fork, foul, furcate, furcation, gain, gain over, gallows, garter, gibbet, gill net, gin, grab, ground bait, hake, hands, hanger, harpoon, hasp, haymaker, head, headland, hinge, hitch, holder, hook, hook in, hooks, horse, hump, hunch, hyperbola, in the clear, incurvate, incurve, inflect, inflection, inveigle, jam, jaws, jig, joint, knee, knob, land, lariat, lasso, latch, let off, liberate, lift, lime, line, lituus, lock, loop, lure, make off with, mandibles, maxillae, meathooks, mesh, meshes, miter, mitts, mooring, mooring buoy, moorings, mortise, mudhook, mull, nab, nail, nails, naze, ness, net, nick, nip, nippers, nook, noose, off, one-two, out of it, outtalk, palm, parabola, peg, peninsula, persuade, pilfer, pin, pincers, pinch, plug, poach, point, pothook, pounces, pound net, prevail on, prevail upon, prevail with, promontory, purloin, purse seine, quoin, rabbet, recurve, reef, reflect, reflex, remove, retroflex, ring, rip off, rivet, rob, rope, round, round-arm blow, roundhouse, run away with, rustle, sack, sag, sandspit, scarf, screw, scrounge, seine, seize, sell, sell one on, set free, sew, shoplift, short-arm blow, sidewinder, sinus, skewer, slip, snag, snap, snare, snarl, snatch, sniggle, snitch, somehow or other, someway, spar, spear, spinner, spit, spread the toils, springe, spur, squid, staple, steal, stick, stitch, stud, suspenders, suspensory, swag, sway, sweep, swerve, swindle, swing, swipe, tack, take, talk into, talk over, talons, tangle, tangle up with, teeth, thieve, thoroughly, through and through, toggle, toils, tongue, totally, tracery, trap, trawl, trip, turn, unguals, ungulae, uppercut, utterly, vault, veer, vertex, vindicated, walk off with, wangle, wangle into, wear down, wedge, wholly, win, win over, wind, wobbler, yard, yardarm, zag, zig, zigzag, zipper

hook-and-ladder

• hook-and-ladder, Foamite, acid, automatic sprinkler, carbon tet, carbon tetrachloride, carbon-dioxide foam, deck gun, deluge set, extinguisher, fire apparatus, fire engine, fire hose, fire hydrant, fireplug, foam, foam extinguisher, ladder pipe, pumper, snorkel, soda, sprinkler, sprinkler head, sprinkler system, super-pumper, water, water cannon, wet blanket

hookah

• hookah, Missouri meerschaum, briar, briar pipe, calean, calumet, churchwarden, clay, corncob, corncob pipe, hubble-bubble, meerschaum, nargileh, peace pipe, pipe, pipe cleaner, pipe rack, tobacco pipe, tobacco pouch, water pipe

hooked

• hooked, Roman-nosed, V-shaped, Y-shaped, absorbed in, addicted, addicted to, akimbo, angular, aquiline, aquiline-nosed, beak-nosed, beak-shaped, beaked, bent, bill-like, bill-shaped, billed, caught up in, clawlike, cornered, crookbilled, crooked, crooknosed, crotched, dependent, dependent on, down-curving, enmeshed in, entangled in, far-gone, forked, furcal, furcate, geniculate, geniculated, habituated, habitue, hamate, hamiform, hamulate, hooked on, hooklike, immersed in, implicated in, in a rut, involved in, jagged, knee-shaped, never free from, parrot-nosed, pointed, rhamphoid, rostrate, rostriform, saw-toothed, sawtooth, serrate, sharp, sharp-cornered, spaced out, submerged in, tied up in, unciform, uncinate, unguiform, used to, wrapped up in, zigzag

hooker

• hooker, B-girl, Cyprian, Paphian, argosy, bark, bawd, boat, bottom, bucket, call girl, craft, daughter of joy, drab, erring sister, fallen woman, fille, fille de joie, harlot, hulk, hull, hustler, keel, leviathan, meretrix, packet, painted woman, poule, prostitute, scarlet woman, ship, stew, streetwalker, tub, unfortunate woman, vessel, watercraft, white slave, whore

hookup

• hookup, Anschluss, addition, affiliation, agglomeration, agglutination, aggregation, agreement, alignment, alliance, amalgamation, articulation, assimilation, association, blend, blending, bond, bracketing, cabal, cahoots, cartel, centralization, circuit, clustering, coadunation, coalescence, coalition, coast-to-coast hookup, colleagueship, collegialism, collegiality, combination, combine, combo, communication, composition, comradeship, concatenation, concourse, concurrence, confederacy, confederation, confluence, confraternity, congeries, conglomeration, conjugation, conjunction, connection, consolidation, conspiracy, convergence, copartnership, copartnery, copulation, coupling, ecumenism, embodiment, encompassment, enosis, federalization, federation, fellowship, fraternalism, fraternity, fraternization, freemasonry, fusion, gathering, inclusion, incorporation, integration, intercommunication, intercourse, interlinking, joinder, joining, jointure, junction, junta, knotting, league, liaison, linkage, linking, marriage, meeting, meld, melding, merger, merging, net, network, package, package deal, pairing, partnership, radio links, sodality, solidification, sorority, splice, symbiosis, syncretism, syndication, syneresis, synthesis, tie, tie-in, tie-up, togetherness, unification, union, wedding, yoking

hookworm

• hookworm, African lethargy, Asiatic cholera, Chagres fever, German measles, Haverhill fever, acute articular rheumatism, ague, alkali disease, amebiasis, amebic dysentery, anthrax, bacillary dysentery, bastard measles, black death, black fever, blackwater fever, breakbone fever, brucellosis, bubonic plague, cachectic fever, cerebral rheumatism, chicken pox, cholera, cowpox, dandy fever, deer fly fever, dengue, dengue fever, diphtheria, dumdum fever, dysentery, elephantiasis, encephalitis lethargica, enteric fever, erysipelas, famine fever, five-day fever, flu, frambesia, glandular fever, grippe, hansenosis, hepatitis, herpes, herpes simplex, herpes zoster, histoplasmosis, hydrophobia, infantile paralysis, infectious mononucleosis, inflammatory rheumatism, influenza, jail fever, jungle rot, kala azar, kissing disease, lepra, leprosy, leptospirosis, loa loa, loaiasis, lockjaw, madness, malaria, malarial fever, marsh fever, measles, meningitis, milzbrand, mumps, ornithosis, osteomyelitis, paratyphoid fever, parotitis, parrot fever, pertussis, pneumonia, polio, poliomyelitis, polyarthritis rheumatism, ponos, psittacosis, rabbit fever, rabies, rat-bite fever, relapsing fever, rheumatic fever, rickettsialpox, ringworm, rubella, rubeola, scarlatina, scarlet fever, schistosomiasis, septic sore throat, shingles, sleeping sickness, sleepy sickness, smallpox, snail fever, splenic fever, spotted fever, strep throat, swamp fever, tetanus, thrush, tinea, trench fever, trench mouth, tuberculosis, tularemia, typhoid, typhoid fever, typhus, typhus fever, undulant fever, vaccinia, varicella, variola, venereal disease, viral dysentery, whooping cough, yaws, yellow fever, yellow jack, zona, zoster

hooky

• hooky, AWOL, French leave, abscondence, absence, absence without leave, absentation, absenteeism, absenting, cut, day off, default, departure, disappearance, escape, excused absence, fleeing, furlough, holiday, leave, leave of absence, leaving, nonappearance, nonattendance, running away, sabbatical leave, sick leave, truancy, truantism, unexcused absence, vacation

hooligan

• hooligan, Babbitt, Philistine, SOB, arriviste, bad boy, bastard, battler, belligerent, belted knight, bickerer, blade, booger, boor, bounder, bourgeois, bravo, brawler, bruiser, buffoon, bugger, bully, bullyboy, cad, churl, clown, combatant, competitor, contender, contestant, creep, cutup, devil, disputant, duelist, elf, enfant terrible, enforcer, epicier, fart, fencer, feuder, fighter, fighting cock, foilsman, funmaker, gamecock, gladiator, goon, gorilla, groundling, gun, gunsel, guttersnipe, hatchet man, heel, hellion, holy terror, hood, hoodlum, ill-bred fellow, imp, jerk, joker, jokester, jouster, knave, knight, little devil, little monkey, little rascal, looby, louse, lout, low fellow, meanie, militant, minx, mischief, mischief-maker, mother, mucker, mug, mugger, muscle man, nouveau riche, parvenu, peasant, pill, pixie, plug-ugly, practical joker, prankster, puck, quarreler, rapscallion, rascal, rat, ribald, rioter, rival, rodman, rogue, rough, roughneck, rowdy, ruffian, sabreur, scamp, scapegrace, scrapper, scuffler, shit, shithead, shitheel, squabbler, stinkard, stinker, strong arm, strong-arm man, strong-armer, struggler, swashbuckler, sword, swordplayer, swordsman, terror, thug, tilter, torpedo, tough, trigger man, turd, tussler, ugly customer, upstart, vulgarian, vulgarist, wag, wrangler, yokel

hoop

• hoop, anklet, armlet, band, belt, bracelet, cincture, cingulum, collar, collarband, earring, ecliptic, equator, fascia, fillet, finger ring, girdle, girt, girth, great circle, neckband, necklace, nose ring, quoit, ring, wristband, wristlet, zodiac, zone

hoopla

• hoopla, PR, ballyhoo, blurb, bright light, celebration, celebrity, common knowledge, conviviality, cry, currency, daylight, eclat, elation, exposure, exultation, fame, famousness, festivity, gaiety, glare, holiday-making, hue and cry, jollification, jollity, joviality, jubilance, jubilation, jubilee, larking, limelight, mafficking, maximum dissemination, merriment, merrymaking, notoriety, plug, press notice, public eye, public knowledge, public relations, public report, publicity, publicity story, publicness, puff, racketing, raucous happiness, reclame, rejoicing, report, reveling, revelment, revelry, revels, show of joy, skylarking, spotlight, triumph, whoopee, write-up

hooray

• hooray, alleluia, applaud, applause, cheer, chorus of cheers, cry, cry for joy, give a cheer, hallelujah, hosanna, hurrah, hurray, huzzah, paean, rah, shout, shout hosanna, yell, yippee

hoot

• hoot, Bronx, Bronx cheer, a continental, a curse, a damn, a darn, a hoot, bagatelle, bark, battle cry, bauble, bawl, bean, bellow, bibelot, bird, bit, boo, booing, brass farthing, button, cackle, call, carol, catcall, caterwaul, caw, cent, chatter, cheep, cheer, chirk, chirp, chirr, chirrup, chitter, chuck, clack, cluck, cock-a-doodle-doo, coo, croak, cronk, crow, cry, cuckoo, curio, drum, farce, farthing, feather, fig, fleabite, folderol, fribble, frippery, gabble, gaggle, gaud, gewgaw, gimcrack, give the bird, give the raspberry, gobble, guggle, hail, hair, halfpenny, halloo, hill of beans, hiss, hissing, holler, hollo, honk, hoo, howl, hurrah, jest, joke, kickshaw, knickknack, knickknackery, minikin, mockery, molehill, peep, peppercorn, picayune, pin, pinch of snuff, pinprick, pip, pipe, quack, rallying cry, rap, raspberry, razz, red cent, roar, roll, row of pins, rush, scold, scream, screech, shit, shout, shriek, sing, snap, sneeshing, sou, squall, squawk, squeal, straw, the bird, toy, trifle, trill, trinket, triviality, tuppence, tweet, twit, twitter, two cents, twopence, war cry, war whoop, warble, whim-wham, whistle, whistle at, whoop, yammer, yap, yawl, yawp, yell, yelp, yo-ho, yowl

hootenanny

• hootenanny, affair, article, artifact, choral service, dingus, dofunny, dohickey, dojigger, dojiggy, domajig, domajigger, doodad, dowhacky, eisteddfod, eppes, etwas, farewell performance, flumadiddle, folk-music festival, folk-sing, gadget, gigamaree, gimmick, gizmo, hickey, hootmalalie, jam session, jigger, material thing, music festival, musicale, object, opera festival, quelque chose, rock festival, service of song, sing, sing-in, singfest, singing, something, swan song, thing, thingum, thingumabob, thingumadad, thingumadoodle, thingumajig, thingumajigger, thingumaree, thingummy, whatchy, widget

hop to it

• hop to it, attack, dive into, enter on, enter upon, fall to, get busy, get cracking, get going, get with it, go to it, hotfoot, hump, hump it, jump to it, launch into, light into, pitch in, pitch into, plunge into, sail into, set about, set at, set to, set to work, shag ass, shake it up, snap to it, start in, step on it, tackle, take on, tear ass, turn to, undertake, wade into

hop

• hop, Amytal, Amytal pill, Demerol, Dolophine, H, Highland fling, Luminal, Luminal pill, M, Mickey Finn, Nembutal, Nembutal pill, Seconal, Seconal pill, Tuinal, Tuinal pill, aeroplane, airlift, airplane, alcohol, amble, amobarbital sodium, analgesic, and jump, anodyne, bal, bal costume, bal masque, ball, balloon, barb, barbiturate, barbiturate pill, barge, barn dance, be airborne, black stuff, blue, blue angel, blue devil, blue heaven, blue velvet, bounce, bound, bowl along, broad jump, buck, buckjump, bundle, calmative, canter, capriole, chloral hydrate, clear, clog, clop, clump, codeine, codeine cough syrup, country dance, cruise, curvet, dance, demivolt, depressant, depressor, dolly, dope, downer, drag, drift, fancy-dress ball, ferry, flight, flit, flounce, fly, flying jump, foot, footfall, footslog, footstep, fox-trot, galliard, gallop, gelandesprung, get, git, glide, goofball, grand jete, halt, handspring, hard stuff, heroin, high jump, hightail, hippety-hop, hitch, hobble, hoof, hoofbeat, hop along, horse, hotfoot, hover, hurdle, hydroplane, hypnotic, jet, jete, jig, jog, jolt, jump, jump over, jump shot, jump turn, jump-hop, jump-off, junk, knockout drops, laudanum, lavolta, leap, leap over, leapfrog, limp, liquor, long jump, lop, lope, lotus, lumber, lunge, lurch, make tracks, mask, masked ball, masque, masquerade, masquerade ball, meperidine, methadone, mince, mixer, morphia, morphine, morris, narcotic, navigate, negotiate, opiate, opium, overjump, overleap, overskip, pace, pacifier, paddle, pain killer, paregoric, peg, pen yan, phenobarbital, phenobarbital sodium, piaffe, piaffer, plod, pole vault, pounce, pounce on, pounce upon, prance, prom, promenade, purple heart, quietener, rack, rainbow, record hop, red, roll, run, running broad jump, running high jump, sail, sailplane, sashay, saunter, saut de basque, scag, scuff, scuffle, scuttle, seaplane, secobarbital sodium, sedative, shake, shamble, shimmy, shindig, shindy, shit, shuffle, sidle, single-foot, ski jump, skip, skitter, sleep-inducer, sleeper, sleeping draught, sleeping pill, slink, slither, slog, slouch, smack, soar, sodium thiopental, solo, somnifacient, soother, soothing syrup, soporific, spring, sprint, square dance, stag dance, stagger, stalk, stamp, start, start aside, start up, steeplechase, step, step along, step lively, stomp, straddle, straggle, stride, stroll, strut, stump, swagger, swing, take the air, take wing, tap-dance, tar, tea dance, test flight, the dansant, tittup, toddle, totter, tour jete, traipse, tranquilizer, tread, trip, trot, trudge, turps, updive, upleap, upspring, vault, volplane, waddle, waltz, wamble, white stuff, wiggle, wing, wobble, yellow, yellow jacket

hope

• hope, acceptation, acception, ache for, acquiescence, ambition, anticipate, anticipation, approach, ardor, aspire, aspire to, assumption, assurance, assuredness, await, bank on, bare possibility, be destined, be dying for, be fated, be hurting for, be imminent, be to be, be to come, belief, cardinal virtues, catch, certainty, chance, charity, cheerful expectation, clamor for, come, come on, conceivability, conceivableness, concupiscence, confide, confidence, contemplate, contingency, conviction, count, count on, craving, credence, credit, credulity, cry for, curiosity, daydream, dearest wish, dependence, dernier ressort, desideration, desideratum, desire, draw near, draw on, dread, drive, eagerness, envisage, even chance, eventuality, expect, expectancy, expectation, expedient, face, faith, fancy, fantasy, feel confident, forbidden fruit, foresee, foretell, fortitude, gape for, glimmering goal, golden vision, good chance, good possibility, hankering, harbor the hope, have in mind, hone for, hope against hope, hope and pray, hope for, hope in, hope to God, horme, intellectual curiosity, itch for, justice, languish for, last resort, lean upon, libido, lie ahead, likelihood, live in hopes, lodestone, long for, longing, look, look for, look forward to, loom, love, lust for, lust for learning, magnet, mind, natural virtues, near, need, nurture the hope, off chance, optimism, outside chance, outside hope, pant for, passion, pine for, pis aller, plan, pleasure, pleasure principle, plot, plum, possibility, possibleness, potential, potentiality, predict, presume, prize, probability, project, promise, prophesy, prospect, prudence, reception, recourse, reliance, reliance on, rely on, remote possibility, resort, resource, rest assured, sanguine expectation, security, sexual desire, sigh for, small hope, spoil for, stock, store, supernatural virtues, sureness, surety, suspension of disbelief, take for granted, temperance, temptation, the attainable, the feasible, the possible, theological virtues, think, thinkability, thinkableness, thirst for, thirst for knowledge, threaten, trophy, trust, urge, virtuality, wait, want, wanting, weary for, what is possible, what may be, what might be, will, will and pleasure, wish, wish for, wish fulfillment, yearn for, yearning, yen for

hoped for

• hoped for, anticipated, approaching, awaited, coming, coveted, desired, destinal, destined, determined, due, emergent, eventual, expected, extrapolated, fatal, fated, fatidic, foreseen, forthcoming, future, futuristic, hereafter, imminent, in demand, in prospect, in view, later, long-expected, longed-for, nearing, on the horizon, overdue, planned, plotted, popular, predicted, presumed, probable, projected, promised, prophesied, prospective, to come, to-be, ultimate, wanted, wished-for

hopeful

• hopeful, Leibnizian optimist, Pollyanna, addict, adolescent, advantageous, agape, agog, all agog, also-ran, anticipant, anticipating, anticipative, anticipatory, applicant, apt, aspirant, aspirer, aspiring, assured, auspicious, awaiting, baby, baby kisser, beaming, blithe, blithesome, bright, bright and sunny, budding, candidate, certain, cheerful, cheering, cheery, chiliast, collector, confident, content, couleur de rose, coveter, dark horse, defeated candidate, desirer, devotee, dud, eager, easy, elated, encouraging, eupeptic, euphoric, exalted, exhilarated, expectant, expecting, fair, fancier, favorite son, fledgling, flushed, fond, forearmed, foreseeable, forestalling, forewarned, freak, full of hope, gaping, genial, glad, gladsome, glowing, golden, halcyon, hankerer, happy, heartening, high, hoper, hoping, in anticipation, in expectation, in good heart, in good spirits, in high spirits, in hopes, in the cards, infant, inspiriting, irrepressible, irrepressible optimist, junior, juvenal, juvenile, lame duck, laughing, liable, likely, looking for, looking forward to, lover, millenarian, millennialist, millennian, minor, not surprised, odds-on, of good cheer, of good hope, office seeker, optimist, optimistic, perfectibilist, perfectibilitarian, perfectionist, philosophical optimist, pleasant, political hopeful, predictable, predictable within limits, prepared, presidential timber, presumable, presumptive, probable, promising, propitious, pubescent, radiant, ray of sunshine, ready, reassuring, riant, rose-colored, roseate, rosy, running mate, sanguine, sanguineous, sapling, satisfied, secure, seeker, slip, smiling, solicitant, sparkling, sprig, stalking-horse, statistically probable, stripling, suitor, sunny, sure, teenager, teener, teenybopper, undespairing, undisturbed, unsurprised, up-and-coming, upbeat, utopian, verisimilar, votary, waiting, waiting for, wanter, watching for, winsome, wisher, yearner, young hopeful, young person, younger, youngest, youngling, youngster, youth

hopefully

• hopefully, after a time, after a while, afterward, afterwards, airily, anon, anticipatingly, anticipatively, anticipatorily, before long, blithely, by and by, by destiny, cheerfully, cheerily, confidently, expectantly, expectedly, expectingly, fatally, fondly, genially, gladly, happily, hopingly, imminently, in aftertime, in the future, irrepressibly, jauntily, joyfully, later, lightly, optimistically, pleasantly, predictably, probably, proximo, sanguinely, smilingly, soon, tomorrow, with bated breath, with breathless expectation, with good cheer

hopeless

• hopeless, Laodicean, Olympian, Pollyanna, absurd, affording no hope, aloof, apathetic, bad, barred, benumbed, blah, blase, bleak, bootless, cheerless, closed-out, comatose, comfortless, contrary to reason, cureless, deadly, deficient, dejected, depressed, desensitized, despaired of, despairing, desperate, despondent, desponding, detached, disconsolate, discouraged, disinterested, dismal, done for, downcast, dull, dying, excluded, expiring, facing death, fatal, forlorn, funereal, futile, given up, gloomy, glum, going, gone, grim, heartless, hebetudinous, hoper, immedicable, impossible, impracticable, in a stupor, in articulo mortis, in despair, in extremis, inadequate, incapable of life, incompetent, inconceivable, inconsolable, incorrigible, incurable, indifferent, inept, inferior, insoluble, insouciant, irredeemable, irremediable, irreparable, irretrievable, languid, lethal, lethargic, listless, logically impossible, lost, low, lugubrious, melancholy, miserable, moribund, morose, near death, nonchalant, nonviable, not possible, numb, numbed, oxymoronic, paradoxical, passive, phlegmatic, pluckless, pointless, poor, preposterous, prohibited, resigned, ridiculous, ruled-out, sad, self-contradictory, sinking, slack, slipping, slipping away, sluggish, soporific, sorrowful, spiritless, spunkless, stoic, stupefied, supine, terminal, torpid, unavailing, uncaring, unconcerned, uncorrectable, unfit, unhappy, unhopeful, unimaginable, uninterested, unqualified, unthinkable, unworkable, useless, vain, withdrawn, without hope, woebegone, worthless, wretched

hopelessness

• hopelessness, Schmerz, Slough of Despond, absurdity, acedia, aloofness, apathy, ataraxia, ataraxy, benumbedness, blah, blahs, blank despondency, comatoseness, death wish, dejectedness, dejection, depression, despair, despondency, despondentness, detachment, discouragement, disheartenment, disinterest, dispassion, dispiritedness, down trip, downcastness, downer, downheartedness, drooping spirits, dullness, heartlessness, hebetude, impossibility, impossible, impossibleness, inappetence, inconceivability, indifference, insouciance, lack of appetite, languidness, lethargicalness, lethargy, listlessness, low spirits, lowness, lowness of spirit, malaise, no chance, nonchalance, not a prayer, numbness, oppression, oxymoron, paradox, passiveness, passivity, pessimism, phlegm, phlegmaticalness, phlegmaticness, plucklessness, resignation, resignedness, self-contradiction, self-destructive urge, sinking heart, sloth, sluggishness, sopor, soporifousness, spiritlessness, spunklessness, stupefaction, stupor, suicidal despair, supineness, taedium vitae, the impossible, torpidity, torpidness, torpor, unconcern, unimaginability, unthinkability, weariness of life, what cannot be, what cannot happen, withdrawnness

hophead

• hophead, LSD user, acidhead, addict, alcoholic, chain smoker, cocaine sniffer, cokie, cubehead, dipsomaniac, dope fiend, doper, drug abuser, drug addict, drug user, drunkard, fiend, freak, glue sniffer, habitual, head, heavy smoker, hype, junkie, marijuana smoker, methhead, narcotics addict, pillhead, pothead, snowbird, speed freak, tripper, user

hoping

• hoping, appetitive, aspiring, assured, confident, desiderative, desireful, desiring, desirous, eager, expectant, fond, full of hope, hopeful, hormic, in good heart, in hopes, lascivious, libidinal, libidinous, lickerish, lustful, needing, of good cheer, of good hope, optative, sanguine, tempted, undespairing, wanting, wishing

hopped up

• hopped up, agog, antsy, antsy-pantsy, anxious, aquiver, aroused, atingle, atwitter, breathless, bursting, carried away, chafing, doped, eager, ebullient, edgy, effervescent, excited, exhilarated, fired, fretful, fretting, hasty, high, hopped up, impassioned, impatient, impetuous, in a lather, in a stew, in a sweat, inflamed, keyed up, lathered up, manic, moved, on edge, ready to burst, restive, restless, roused, spaced-out, squirming, squirmy, steamed up, stimulated, stirred, stirred up, stoned, thrilled, tingling, tingly, turned-on, uneasy, unpatient, unquiet, whipped up, wiped out, worked up, wrought up, yeasty, zonked