Appendix:Moby Thesaurus II/53

• middling, amidships, average, banal, betwixt and between, central, common, core, dull, equatorial, equidistant, fair, fair to middling, fairish, halfway, indifferent, inferior, insipid, interior, intermediary, intermediate, lackluster, mean, medial, median, mediocre, mediterranean, medium, mesial, mezzo, mid, middle, middle-of-the-road, middlemost, midland, midmost, midships, midway, moderate, modest, namby-pamby, normal, nuclear, of a kind, of a sort, of sorts, ordinary, passable, poor, respectable, routine, second-rate, so-so, standard, tedious, tolerable, usual, vapid, wishy-washy

• midge, Lilliputian, Tom Thumb, brownie, crumb, dot, drop, droplet, dwarf, elf, fleck, flyspeck, gnat, gnome, grain, homunculus, iota, jot, lilliputian, manikin, microbe, microorganism, midget, minim, minutia, minutiae, mite, mote, particle, peewee, pinhead, pinpoint, pip-squeak, point, pygmy, runt, scrap, shrimp, snip, snippet, speck, tittle, vanishing point, wart

• midget, Lilliputian, Tom Thumb, brownie, diminutive, dumpy, dwarf, dwarfed, dwarfish, elf, elfin, gnome, homunculus, incipient, lilliputian, manikin, meager, midge, miniature, minikin, nanoid, peewee, pip-squeak, pygmy, rudimental, rudimentary, runt, runty, scraggy, scrubby, shrimp, shriveled, shrunk, shrunken, squat, stunted, teeny, undersize, undersized, wart, wee, wizened

• midland, amidships, average, central, core, equatorial, equidistant, halfway, heartland, hinterland, inland, inlands, inshore, interior, intermediary, intermediate, mean, medial, median, mediocre, mediterranean, medium, mesial, mezzo, mid, middle, middlemost, middling, midlands, midmost, midships, midway, nuclear, up-country

• midmost, amidships, average, axial, center, centermost, central, centralized, centric, centroidal, centrosymmetric, concentrated, core, diameter, diaphragm, equator, equatorial, equidistant, geocentric, halfway, heart, interior, intermediary, intermediate, kernel, key, mean, medial, median, mediocre, mediterranean, medium, mesial, mezzo, mid, middle, middlemost, middling, midland, midriff, midships, midst, midway, nuclear, nucleus, omphalic, pivotal, thick, thick of things, umbilical, waist, waistline, zone

• midnight, all-night, atramentous, black, black as coal, black as ebony, black as ink, black as midnight, black as night, coal-black, coaly, dark, dark as night, dark as pitch, dead of night, deep black, ebony, hush of night, ink-black, inky, jetty, night, night-black, night-dark, night-fallen, nightlong, nightly, nighttime, nigrous, nocturnal, noonday night, pitch-black, pitch-dark, pitchy, raven, raven-black, sable, sloe, sloe-black, sloe-colored, tar-black, tarry

• midriff, abdomen, abomasum, barrier, bay window, beerbelly, belly, brattice, breadbasket, buffer, buffer state, bulkhead, bumper, center, cloison, collision mat, core, craw, crop, cushion, diameter, diaphragm, dissepiment, dividing line, dividing wall, division, embonpoint, equator, fender, first stomach, gizzard, gullet, gut, heart, honeycomb stomach, interior, interseptum, kernel, kishkes, manyplies, mat, maw, mean, median, middle, midmost, midsection, midst, nucleus, omasum, pad, panel, paries, partition, party wall, paunch, pot, potbelly, potgut, property line, psalterium, pusgut, rennet bag, reticulum, rumen, second stomach, separation, septulum, septum, shock pad, spare tire, stomach, swagbelly, thick, thick of things, third stomach, tum-tum, tummy, underbelly, ventripotence, waist, waistline, wall, zone

• midsection, barrier, brattice, buffer, buffer state, bulkhead, bumper, cloison, collision mat, cushion, diaphragm, dissepiment, dividing line, dividing wall, division, fender, interseptum, mat, midriff, pad, panel, paries, partition, party wall, property line, separation, septulum, septum, shock pad, wall

• midshipman, Naval Reservist, Royal Marine, Seabee, bluejacket, boot, cadet, freshman, frogman, gob, horse marine, jolly, junior, marine, midshipmite, naval cadet, navy man, plebe, senior, soph, sophomore, swabbie, undergrad, undergraduate, upperclassman

• midst, amid, amidst, among, amongst, between, betwixt, betwixt and between, center, core, diameter, diaphragm, equator, heart, interior, kernel, mean, median, mid, middle, midmost, midpoint, midriff, nucleus, over, thick, thick of things, throughout, together with, waist, waistline, with, zone

• midterm, audition, blue book, exam, examen, examination, final, final examination, great go, hearing, honors, midsemester, oral, oral examination, prelim, quiz, take-home examination, test, trial, tripos, viva, written, written examination

• midtown, Bowery, Chinatown, East End, East Side, Little Hungary, Little Italy, West End, West Side, barrio, black ghetto, blighted area, burghal, business district, central city, citified, city, city center, civic, core, downtown, ghetto, greenbelt, inner city, interurban, metropolitan, municipal, oppidan, outskirts, red-light district, residential district, run-down neighborhood, shopping center, skid road, skid row, slum, slums, suburban, suburbia, suburbs, tenderloin, tenement district, town, uptown, urban, urban blight, village

• midway, Laodicean, amidships, apathetic, average, betwixt and between, bisection, central, centrally, centrist, core, equatorial, equidistance, equidistant, even, fifty-fifty, half, half-and-half, halfway, halfway house, impartial, in medias res, in the mean, in the middle, independent, indifferent, interior, intermediary, intermediate, intermediately, mean, medial, medially, median, medianly, mediety, mediocre, mediterranean, medium, mediumly, mesial, mezzo, mezzo-mezzo, mid, mid-distance, midcourse, middle, middle distance, middlemost, middling, midland, midmost, midships, moderate, moiety, neuter, neutral, nonaligned, noncommitted, nonpartisan, nuclear, on the fence, passive, third-force, third-world, uncommitted, uninvolved

• midwife, Charlie McCarthy, agent, ancilla, appliance, bonesetter, chiropractor, contrivance, creature, device, dummy, dupe, go-between, handmaid, handmaiden, healer, homeopath, homeopathist, implement, instrument, interagent, intermediary, intermediate, intermedium, lever, mechanism, mediator, medic, medium, minion, oculist, optometrist, organ, osteopath, pawn, plaything, puppet, servant, slave, stooge, therapeutist, therapist, tool, toy, vehicle

• mien, action, actions, activity, acts, address, affectation, air, appearance, aspect, bearing, behavior, behavior pattern, behavioral norm, behavioral science, brow, carriage, cast, cast of countenance, color, complexion, comportment, conduct, countenance, culture pattern, custom, demeanor, deportment, doing, doings, expression, exteriority, externality, externalness, extrinsicality, face, facial appearance, favor, feature, features, folkway, foreignness, garb, gestures, goings-on, guise, lineaments, lines, look, looks, maintien, manner, mannerism, manners, method, methodology, methods, modus vivendi, motions, movements, moves, observable behavior, openness, outerness, outward appearance, outwardness, pattern, physiognomy, poise, port, pose, posture, practice, praxis, presence, procedure, proceeding, seeming, set, shallowness, social science, stance, style, superficiality, tactics, tone, traits, turn, visage, way, way of life, ways

• miff, aggravate, altercation, annoy, arouse, badger, bait, be at, bedevil, beef, beset, bother, bristle, brown off, bug, bullyrag, burn up, chafe, chivy, conniption, devil, discompose, dispute, distemper, disturb, dog, dudgeon, embitter, exasperate, exercise, falling-out, fash, ferment, fit, fret, fume, get, gripe, harass, harry, heckle, hector, high dudgeon, hound, huff, incense, inflame, irk, irritate, molest, nag, needle, nettle, nudzh, peeve, persecute, pester, pet, pick on, pique, plague, pluck the beard, pother, provoke, rankle, resentment, rhubarb, ride, rile, roil, ruffle, run-in, set up, snuff, spat, squabble, stew, stir the blood, stir up, tease, tiff, torment, try the patience, tweak the nose, umbrage, vex, work up, worry

• miffed, aggravated, angry, annoyed, bothered, browned-off, bugged, burnt-up, chafed, disturbed, exasperated, galled, griped, huffy, irked, irritated, nettled, peeved, piqued, provoked, put-out, resentful, riled, roiled, ruffled, troubled, vexed

• might and main, amperage, armipotence, authority, beef, black power, brute force, charge, charisma, clout, cogence, cogency, compulsion, dint, drive, duress, effect, effectiveness, effectuality, effort, elbow grease, endeavor, energetically, energy, exertion, flower power, force, force majeure, forcefully, forcefulness, forcibly, full blast, full force, hard pull, hardly, influence, long pull, main force, main strength, mana, might, mightily, mightiness, moxie, muscle, muscle power, nerve and sinew, pains, pizzazz, poop, potence, potency, potentiality, power, power pack, power structure, power struggle, powerfully, powerfulness, prepotency, productiveness, productivity, puissance, pull, punch, push, sinew, steam, strength, strong arm, strongly, superiority, superpower, trouble, validity, vehemence, vigor, vigorously, vim, virility, virtue, virulence, vitality, wattage, weight

• might, adequacy, amperage, ampleness, amplitude, arm, armipotence, ascendancy, authoritativeness, authority, beef, black power, boundlessness, brawn, brute force, bulk, capability, capacity, charge, charisma, clout, cogence, cogency, command, competence, compulsion, control, decisiveness, dint, domination, dominion, drive, duress, effect, effectiveness, effectuality, endurance, energy, enormity, enormousness, expanse, flower power, force, force majeure, forcefulness, formidableness, fortitude, full blast, full force, fullness, gigantism, grandeur, grandness, great scope, greatness, guts, gutsiness, hardiness, heartiness, hugeness, immensity, infinity, influence, intensity, intestinal fortitude, jurisdiction, largeness, lustihood, lustiness, magisterialness, magnitude, main force, main strength, mana, mastery, might and main, mightiness, moxie, muchness, muscle, muscle power, obstinacy, pizzazz, plenitude, poop, potence, potency, potentiality, power, power pack, power structure, power struggle, powerfulness, prepotency, prodigiousness, productiveness, productivity, puissance, pull, punch, push, qualification, robustness, ruggedness, sinew, stalwartness, stamina, staying power, steam, sticking power, stoutness, strength, strength of will, strenuousness, strings, strong arm, stupendousness, sturdiness, superiority, superpower, sway, thew, toughness, tremendousness, validity, vastness, vehemence, vigor, vigorousness, vim, virility, virtue, virulence, vitality, wattage, weight

• mightily, almighty, arduously, authoritatively, awfully, big, cogently, commandingly, consequentially, deafeningly, dynamically, effectively, effectually, energetically, ex cathedra, exceedingly, extremely, firmly, forcefully, forcibly, greatly, hardly, heartily, highly, hugely, imperatively, imperviously, impregnably, intensely, invincibly, invulnerably, irresistibly, just, laboriously, loudly, lustily, might and main, mighty, momentously, notably, officially, only too, potently, powerful, powerfully, pretty, productively, puissantly, pungently, quite, real, really, resistantly, right, robustly, ruggedly, so, soundly, stalwartly, staunchly, stoutly, strenuously, strikingly, strongly, sturdily, surpassingly, tellingly, terribly, terrifically, to good account, to good purpose, toilsomely, unyieldingly, very, vigorously, weightily, with a vengeance, with authority, with telling effect

• mighty, Atlantean, Brobdingnagian, Cyclopean, Gargantuan, Herculean, Homeric, able-bodied, absolute, abysmal, aggrandized, almighty, apotheosized, armipotent, ascendant, astronomic, august, authoritarian, authoritative, authorized, autocratic, awesome, awfully, beatified, beefy, big, bouncing, brawny, bulky, burly, canonized, clothed with authority, cogent, colossal, commanding, competent, comprehensive, consequential, considerable, controlling, deep, deified, dominant, doughty, duly constituted, dynamic, effective, elephantine, elevated, eminent, empowered, energetic, ennobled, enormous, enshrined, enthroned, epic, ex officio, exalted, exceedingly, excellent, exhaustive, extremely, forceful, forcible, forcy, full, full-blooded, full-strength, giant, giantlike, gigantic, glorified, governing, grand, grave, great, gutsy, gutty, hale, hard, hard as nails, hardy, hearty, heavy, hefty, hegemonic, hegemonistic, held in awe, heroic, high, high and mighty, high-potency, high-powered, high-pressure, high-tension, huge, hugely, husky, illustrious, immense, immortal, immortalized, imperative, important, imposing, impressive, in force, in power, indomitable, infinite, influential, intense, iron-hard, irresistible, jumbo, just, large, leading, lofty, lusty, magnified, main, mammoth, massive, maximum, mightily, mighty in battle, momentous, monocratic, monster, monstrous, monumental, mountainous, moving, muscular, nervy, obstinate, official, only too, operative, plenary, potent, powerful, powerfully, predominant, preeminent, prepotent, prestigious, pretty, prodigious, profound, prominent, puissant, quite, ranking, rattling, real, really, red-blooded, renowned, right, robust, robustious, rugged, ruling, sainted, sanctified, senior, serious, shrined, so, stalwart, steely, stout, strapping, striking, strong, strong as brandy, strong as strong, strong-willed, stupendous, sturdy, sublime, substantial, supereminent, superior, supreme, surpassingly, telling, terribly, terrifically, throned, titanic, total, totalitarian, towering, tremendous, valid, vast, very, vigorous, vital, weighty, well-built, whacking, whopping, wieldy

• migraine, MS, ache, aching, amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, angina, backache, bellyache, brain disease, cephalalgia, cerebral palsy, chorea, colic, collywobbles, earache, emotional disorder, epilepsy, falling sickness, fret, glossopharyngeal neuralgia, gnawing, gripe, gripes, gut-ache, headache, heartburn, hemicrania, herpes zoster, ischialgia, megrim, multiple sclerosis, nervous disorder, neuralgia, neuritis, neuropathy, odontalgia, organic psychosis, otalgia, palsy, polyneuritis, pressure neuropathy, priapism, pyrosis, radiculitis, sciatic neuritis, sciatica, shaking palsy, shingles, sick headache, spastic paralysis, splitting headache, stomachache, the jerks, throbbing pain, tic douloureux, toothache, toxic psychosis

• migrant, DP, avifauna, baby bird, bird, bird of Jove, bird of Juno, bird of Minerva, bird of night, bird of passage, bird of prey, birdie, birdlife, birdy, blue-collar worker, breadwinner, cage bird, casual, casual laborer, chick, common laborer, cygnet, day laborer, displaced person, diving bird, dove, drifter, drifting, eagle, eaglet, emigrant, emigre, employee, evacue, evacuee, exile, expatriate, factory worker, fish-eating bird, fledgling, flightless bird, floating, flunky, fowl, free lance, free-lancer, fruit-eating bird, full-time worker, fulmar, game bird, gypsy, hand, immigrant, in-migrant, industrial worker, insect-eating bird, itinerant, jobber, jobholder, laborer, laboring man, menial, migrator, migratory, migratory bird, migratory worker, mobile, moiler, mover, navvy, nestling, nomad, nomadic, office temporary, oscine bird, out-migrant, owl, passerine bird, peacock, peafowl, peahen, perching bird, peregrinator, peripatetic, pigeon, proletarian, ratite, roustabout, rover, salaried worker, sea bird, seed-eating bird, self-employed person, servant, shore bird, songbird, squab, stateless person, stiff, storm petrel, stormy petrel, swan, temporary, toiler, transient, transmigratory, traveler, traveller, trekker, vagrant, wading bird, wage earner, wage slave, wageworker, wanderer, warbler, water bird, waterfowl, wayfarer, wetback, wildfowl, worker, workgirl, workhand, working girl, workingman, workingwoman, workman

• migrate, drift, emigrate, expatriate, flit, go, immigrate, in-migrate, intermigrate, move, nomadize, out-migrate, range, relocate, remigrate, resettle, roam, rove, run, settle, swarm, take wing, transmigrate, travel, trek, voyage, wander

• migration, communication, conduction, contagion, convection, delivery, deportation, diapedesis, diffusion, dissemination, emigration, expatriation, export, exportation, expulsion, extradition, flight, immigration, import, importation, in-migration, interchange, intermigration, metastasis, metathesis, metempsychosis, mutual transfer, osmosis, out-migration, passage, passing over, perfusion, remigration, run, spread, spreading, swarm, swarming, transduction, transfer, transfer of property, transference, transfusion, transit, transition, translation, translocation, transmigration, transmigration of souls, transmission, transmittal, transmittance, transplacement, transplantation, transposal, transposition, travel, trek

• migratory, circumforaneous, discursive, divagatory, drifting, errant, flitting, floating, footloose, footloose and fancy-free, fugitive, gadding, gypsy-like, gypsyish, landloping, meandering, migrant, migrational, mobile, nomad, nomadic, rambling, ranging, roaming, roving, shifting, straggling, straying, strolling, traipsing, transient, transitory, transmigratory, vagabond, vagrant, wandering

• mikado, Dalai Lama, Holy Roman Emperor, Inca, Kaiser, ardri, bey, cacique, caesar, cham, czar, kaid, khan, negus, padishah, pendragon, pharaoh, rig, sachem, sagamore, shah, sheikh, shogun, tenno, tycoon

• milady, Eminence, Eve, Frau, Grace, Her Excellency, Her Highness, Her Ladyship, Her Majesty, Highness, 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, dame, daughter of Eve, distaff, domina, donna, dowager, femme, frow, gentlewoman, girl, lady, lass, matron, milord, squaw, vrouw, wahine, weaker vessel, woman

• milcher, Brahman, Indian buffalo, aurochs, beef, beef cattle, beeves, bison, bossy, bovine, bovine animal, buffalo, bull, carabao, cattle, cow, critter, dairy cattle, dairy cow, dogie, heifer, hornless cow, kine, leppy, maverick, milch cow, milk cow, milker, muley cow, muley head, musk-ox, neat, ox, oxen, steer, stirk, stot, wisent, yak, yearling, zebu

• mild, Saturnian, accepting, aestival, affable, agreeable, amiable, balmy, benign, benignant, bland, blood-hot, blood-warm, bonhomous, bright, broken, calid, calm, calming, chastened, choice, clement, compassionate, complaisant, conciliatory, cordial, dainty, dead, deferential, delicate, demulcent, dilute, diluted, docile, domesticated, dovelike, easy, easy-natured, easygoing, emollient, equable, equatorial, exquisite, fade, faint, fair, flat, flavorless, forbearant, forbearing, forgiving, genial, gentle, good-humored, good-natured, good-tempered, gruelly, halcyon, housebroken, humane, humble, inane, indifferent, indulgent, inoffensive, insipid, jejune, judicious, kind, kindly, lamblike, lax, lenient, lenitive, luke, lukewarm, meek, mellow, mellowy, merciful, mild as milk, milk-and-water, moderate, modest, mollified, mollifying, nonresistive, nonrigid, nonviolent, obeisant, obliging, pacific, pacifistic, pappy, passive, patient, peaceable, peaceful, placid, pleasant, prudent, pulpy, quiet, room-temperature, sapless, savorless, serene, smooth, sober, soft, soft as putty, softened, softening, soothing, spiceless, stale, subdued, submissive, subservient, subtropical, summery, sunny, sunshiny, sweet, sweet-tempered, tame, tamed, tasteless, temperate, tender, tepid, thermal, thermic, thin, toasty, tolerant, tractable, tranquil, tropical, unassuming, unflavored, unfrozen, unsavory, vapid, warm, warm as toast, warmish, washy, watered, watered-down, watery, weak, well-natured, whisper-soft, wishy-washy, yielding

• mildew, biodegradability, biodegradation, blast, blight, break up, breakup, cancer, canker, corrosion, corrupt, corruption, crumble, crumble into dust, decay, decompose, decomposition, degradability, degradation, dilapidation, disintegrate, disintegration, disorganization, dissolution, dry rot, fall into decay, fall to pieces, fester, fetidity, fetidness, foulness, frowst, frowstiness, frowziness, fungus, funkiness, fustiness, gangrene, go bad, go to pieces, malodorousness, mold, molder, moldiness, mortify, moth, moth and rust, must, mustiness, necrose, noisomeness, odorousness, offensiveness, oxidation, oxidization, pest, putrefy, putresce, putridness, rancidity, rancidness, rankle, rankness, reastiness, repulsiveness, resolution, rot, rottenness, rust, smelliness, smut, sphacelate, spoil, spoilage, stinkingness, stuffiness, suppurate, worm

• mildewed, bad, bad-smelling, blasted, blighted, blown, crumbling, despoiled, dilapidated, dusty, fecal, fetid, flyblown, foul, frowsty, frowsy, frowy, frowzy, fulsome, funky, fusty, gamy, gone to seed, graveolent, high, ill-smelling, maggoty, malodorous, mephitic, miasmal, miasmic, mildewy, moldering, moldy, moss-grown, moth-eaten, musty, nidorous, noisome, noxious, odorous, offensive, olid, putrid, rancid, rank, ravaged, reasty, reasy, reechy, reeking, reeky, repulsive, rotten, ruined, ruinous, rusty, smellful, smelling, smelly, smutted, smutty, stale, stenchy, stinking, strong, stuffy, sulfurous, time-scarred, timeworn, vile, weevily, worm-eaten, wormy, worn

• mildly, after a fashion, appreciably, at any rate, at best, at least, at most, at the least, at the most, at the outside, at worst, comparatively, detectably, fairly, gently, in a manner, in a way, in part, in some measure, incompletely, leastwise, like a lamb, meekly, merely, moderately, modestly, not comprehensively, not exhaustively, only, pacifically, part, partially, partly, peaceably, pro tanto, purely, quietly, relatively, simply, so far, somewhat, tamely, thus far, to a degree, to some degree, tolerably, visibly

• mildness, abnegation, abstinence, acceptance, affability, amiability, bonhomie, calm, calmness, clemency, clementness, compassion, conservatism, constraint, continence, control, cool, cordiality, deadness, dispassion, dovelikeness, easiness, easygoingness, evenness, flatness, flavorlessness, forbearance, forbearing, geniality, gentleness, golden mean, good disposition, good humor, good nature, good temper, goodnaturedness, goodtemperedness, happy medium, humaneness, humanity, humility, impartiality, inanity, insipidity, insipidness, jejuneness, jejunity, judiciousness, juste-milieu, lamblikeness, laxness, lenience, leniency, lenientness, lenity, lifelessness, meden agan, meekness, mercifulness, mercy, middle way, moderateness, moderation, moderationism, neutrality, nonviolence, nothing in excess, pacifism, patience, peaceableness, pity, prudence, quietness, repose, restraint, saplessness, savorlessness, self-abnegation, self-control, self-denial, self-restraint, serenity, sobriety, softness, stability, staleness, steadiness, sweetness, tameness, tastelessness, temperance, temperateness, tenderness, thinness, tolerance, tranquillity, unexcessiveness, unextravagance, unextremeness, unsavoriness, vapidity, via media, weakness, wishy-washiness

• mileage, account, aesthetic distance, allowance, assessment, bill, blackmail, blood money, clearance, compass, deep space, depths of space, distance, divergence, emolument, extension, extent, farness, fee, footing, hush money, infinity, initiation fee, leeway, length, lengthiness, light-years, linear measures, long time, longitude, longness, margin, measure, overall length, parsecs, perpetuity, perspective, piece, range, reach, reckoning, remoteness, retainer, retaining fee, scot, separation, space, span, stipend, stretch, stride, tribute, way, ways, yardage

• milepost, Samson post, arrow, baluster, balustrade, banister, bench mark, blaze, bookmark, cairn, catstone, compass needle, direction, direction post, doorjamb, doorpost, finger post, fist, gatepost, guide, guideboard, guidepost, hand, hitching post, hour hand, index, index finger, jamb, king post, landmark, lead, lighthouse, lightship, lubber line, mark, marker, menhir, milestone, minute hand, monument, mullion, needle, occasion, pharos, platform, pointer, post, seamark, signboard, signpost, snubbing post, stanchion, standard, stile, tower, upright, watchtower

• miles per hour, air speed, celerity, dispatch, expedition, fastness, flight, flit, flurry, ground speed, haste, hurry, instantaneousness, knots, lightning speed, precipitation, promptitude, promptness, quickness, rapidity, round pace, rpm, rush, snappiness, speed, speediness, swift rate, swiftness, velocity

• milestone, bench mark, bookmark, cairn, cardinal point, catstone, chief thing, climax, core, cornerstone, crisis, critical point, crux, essence, essential, essential matter, fundamental, gist, gravamen, great point, heart, high point, important thing, issue, kernel, keystone, landmark, lighthouse, lightship, main point, main thing, mark, marker, material point, meat, menhir, milepost, monument, nub, occasion, pharos, pith, pivot, platform, real issue, salient point, seamark, sine qua non, substance, substantive point, the bottom line, the point, tower, turning point, watchtower

• milieu, agora, air, airspace, alentours, ambiance, ambience, ambient, ambit, amphitheater, area, arena, athletic field, atmosphere, auditorium, aura, background, bear garden, belt, borderlands, bowl, boxing ring, bull ring, campus, canvas, circle, circuit, circumambiencies, circumjacencies, circumstances, circus, climate, cockpit, coliseum, colosseum, compass, confines, context, continental shelf, corridor, country, course, department, district, division, element, entourage, environing circumstances, environment, environs, feel, feeling, field, floor, forum, gestalt, ground, gym, gymnasium, habitat, hall, heartland, hinterland, hippodrome, land, lists, locale, marketplace, mat, medium, mise-en-scene, neighborhood, note, offshore rights, open forum, outposts, outskirts, overtone, palaestra, parade ground, part, parts, perimeter, periphery, pit, place, platform, precinct, precincts, premises, prize ring, public square, purlieu, purlieus, quality, quarter, range, region, ring, salient, scene, scene of action, scenery, section, sense, setting, site, situation, soil, space, sphere, spirit, squared circle, stadium, stage, stage set, stage setting, suburbs, surroundings, terrain, territory, theater, three-mile limit, tilting ground, tiltyard, tone, total environment, twelve-mile limit, undertone, vicinage, vicinity, walk, wrestling ring, zone

• militancy, action, activeness, activism, activity, aggression, aggressiveness, antagonism, bellicism, bellicosity, belligerence, belligerency, business, chauvinism, combativeness, contentiousness, doings, fight, goings-on, hostility, jingoism, martialism, militarism, motion, movement, political activism, proceedings, pugnaciousness, pugnacity, quarrelsomeness, saber rattling, stir, truculence, unfriendliness, unpeacefulness, warmongering, warpath

• militant, active, activist, activistic, aggressive, aggressor, alive, animated, antagonistic, assertive, at war, ball of fire, battler, battling, beaver, bellicose, belligerent, belted knight, bickerer, big-time operator, blade, bloodthirsty, bloody, bloody-minded, bouncing, bouncy, bravo, brawler, breezy, brisk, bubbly, bully, bullyboy, bustler, busy bee, chauvinist, chauvinistic, chipper, combatant, combative, competitor, contender, contentious, contestant, disputant, doer, duelist, eager beaver, ebullient, effervescent, embattled, enemy, energetic, enforcer, enthusiast, fencer, ferocious, feuder, fierce, fighter, fighting, fighting cock, foilsman, frisky, full of fight, full of go, full of life, full of pep, gamecock, gladiator, go-getter, goon, gorilla, hatchet man, hawkish, hood, hoodlum, hooligan, hostile, human dynamo, hustler, inimical, jingo, jingoish, jingoist, jingoistic, jouster, knight, live, live wire, lively, man of action, man of deeds, martial, mercurial, militaristic, military, new broom, offensive, operator, peppy, perky, pert, plug-ugly, political activist, powerhouse, pugnacious, pushful, pushing, pushy, quarreler, quarrelsome, quicksilver, rioter, rival, rough, rowdy, ruffian, saber-rattling, sabreur, sanguinary, sanguineous, savage, scrapper, scrappy, scuffler, self-assertive, smacking, snappy, soldier, soldierlike, soldierly, spanking, spirited, sprightly, spry, squabbler, strong arm, strong-arm man, strong-armer, struggler, swashbuckler, sword, swordplayer, swordsman, take-charge guy, thug, tilter, tough, trigger-happy, truculent, tussler, unfriendly, unpacific, unpeaceable, unpeaceful, up in arms, vivacious, warlike, warmongering, warring, warrior, wheeler-dealer, winner, wrangler, zingy

• militarism, Eisenhower Doctrine, Monroe Doctrine, Nixon Doctrine, Truman Doctrine, absolute monarchy, aggression, aggressiveness, antagonism, appeasement, aristocracy, autarchy, autocracy, autonomy, balance of power, bellicism, bellicosity, belligerence, belligerency, brinkmanship, chauvinism, coalition government, coexistence, colonialism, combativeness, commonwealth, compromise, constitutional government, constitutional monarchy, containment, contentiousness, democracy, detente, deterrence, dictatorship, diplomacy, diplomatic, diplomatics, dollar diplomacy, dollar imperialism, dominion rule, duarchy, duumvirate, dyarchy, expansionism, federal government, federation, ferocity, feudal system, fierceness, fight, foreign affairs, foreign policy, garrison state, gerontocracy, good-neighbor policy, heteronomy, hierarchy, hierocracy, home rule, hostility, imperialism, internationalism, isolationism, jingoism, limited monarchy, manifest destiny, martial law, martialism, meritocracy, militancy, military government, mob rule, mobocracy, monarchy, nationalism, neocolonialism, neutralism, nonresistance, ochlocracy, oligarchy, open door, open-door policy, pantisocracy, patriarchate, patriarchy, peace offensive, peaceful coexistence, police state, preparedness, pugnaciousness, pugnacity, pure democracy, quarrelsomeness, regency, representative democracy, representative government, republic, saber rattling, self-determination, self-government, shirt-sleeve diplomacy, shuttle diplomacy, social democracy, spheres of influence, stratocracy, technocracy, the big stick, thearchy, theocracy, totalitarian government, totalitarian regime, tough policy, triarchy, triumvirate, truculence, tyranny, unfriendliness, unpeacefulness, warmongering, warpath, welfare state, world politics

• military operations, action, all-out war, amphibious operations, appeal to arms, armed combat, armed conflict, attack, battle, belligerence, belligerency, bloodshed, combat, combined operations, dry run, fighting, fluid operations, hostilities, hot war, la guerre, logistics, maneuver, maneuvers, might of arms, minor operations, mission, movement, open hostilities, open war, operation, operations, overseas operations, resort to arms, shooting war, staff work, state of war, the sword, total war, war, war game, war plans, warfare, warmaking, warring, wartime

• military police, Cheka, FBI, Gestapo, Interpol, MP, MVD, Mounties, NKVD, OGPU, RCMP, SP, Scotland Yard, constabulary, county police, highway patrol, law enforcement agency, police, police force, political police, posse, provincial police, riot police, secret police, security force, shore patrol, special police, state police, tactical police, troopers, vigilance committee, vigilantes

• military, aggressive, air force, antagonistic, armed force, armed forces, armed service, army, array, battling, bellicose, belligerent, bloodthirsty, bloody, bloody-minded, career soldiers, chauvinist, chauvinistic, combative, contentious, enemy, ferocious, fierce, fighting, fighting machine, forces, full of fight, ground forces, ground troops, hawkish, host, hostile, inimical, jingo, jingoish, jingoist, jingoistic, legions, martial, militant, militaristic, military establishment, naval, navy, occupation force, offensive, paratroops, pugnacious, quarrelsome, rank and file, ranks, regular army, regulars, saber-rattling, sanguinary, sanguineous, savage, scrappy, service, ski troops, soldierlike, soldierly, soldiery, standing army, storm troops, the line, the military, trigger-happy, troops, truculent, unfriendly, unpacific, unpeaceable, unpeaceful, warlike, warmongering, warring

• militate against, antagonize, battle, be antipathetic, be inimical, beat against, beat up against, breast the wave, buck, buffet, buffet the waves, clash, close with, collide, combat, compete with, conflict, conflict with, confute, contend against, contest, contradict, contrapose, contravene, counter, counteract, counterattack, counterpose, countervail, counterwork, cross, fight, fight against, go against, go counter to, grapple with, interfere with, join battle with, labor against, lock horns, meet head-on, offer resistance, oppose, oppugn, reluct, reluctate, resist, rival, run against, run counter to, stem the tide, strive against, struggle against, swim upstream, take on, vie with, work against

• militate, act, aid, be effective, be in action, cancel out, count, counter, countervail, discourage, favor, foil, function, further, go, have effect, have free play, have play, help, hinder, militate against, operate, oppose, percolate, perform, perk, play, prevent, promote, resist, run, take effect, tell, tick, work

• milk, abridge, abuse, alabaster, bed, bed down, bereave, beverage, bleed, bleed white, blood, break, bridle, broach, brush, butter, buttermilk, certified milk, chalk, cheese, chyle, colostrum, condensed milk, cream, curry, currycomb, curtail, cut off, dairy products, decant, declaim, denude, deplume, deprive, deprive of, despoil, discharge, disentitle, displume, divest, draft, draft off, drain, draw, draw from, draw off, draw out, drench, drink, driven snow, dry, ease one of, elicit, empty, evince, evoke, exact, exhaust, exploit, extort, extract, feed, flay, fleece, flour, fluid, fluid extract, fluid mechanics, foam, fodder, gentle, ghee, gleet, grimace, groom, half-and-half, ham, ham it up, handle, harness, heavy cream, hitch, humor, hydraulics, hydrogeology, ichor, ill-use, impose upon, impoverish, ivory, juice, lachryma, lactation, lacteal, lacteous, lactescent, lactic, lactiferous, latex, let, let blood, let out, leukorrhea, light cream, lighten one of, lily, liquid, liquid extract, liquor, litter, lymph, maggot, make use of, manage, manipulate, margarine, matter, milch, milky, mine, misuse, mucor, mucus, mug, mulct, nonfat dry milk, oleo, oleomargarine, out-herod Herod, overact, overdramatize, paper, pearl, peccant humor, phlebotomize, phlegm, pick clean, pipette, play on, pluck, presume upon, pump, pump out, purulence, pus, rant, raw milk, rheum, roar, rook, rub down, saddle, saliva, sanies, sap, semiliquid, serous fluid, serum, shear, sheet, silver, siphon off, skim milk, skin, snot, snow, sour cream, spout, stick, strip, strip bare, stroke, suck, suck dry, suck out, suppuration, swan, sweat, take advantage of, take away from, take from, tame, tap, tear, teardrop, tend, the whites, throw away, train, underact, urine, use, use ill, venesect, water, whey, whipping cream, withdraw, work on, work upon, wring, yogurt, yoke

• milker, Brahman, Indian buffalo, aurochs, beef, beef cattle, beeves, bison, bossy, bovine, bovine animal, buffalo, bull, bullock, calf, carabao, cattle, cow, critter, dairy cattle, dairy cow, dogie, heifer, hornless cow, kine, leppy, maverick, milch cow, milcher, milk cow, muley cow, muley head, musk-ox, neat, ox, oxen, steer, stirk, stot, wisent, yak, yearling, zebu

• milkiness, achroma, achromasia, achromatosis, albescence, albinism, albino, albinoism, blondness, canescence, chalkiness, chylifaction, chylification, creaminess, fairness, flow, fluency, fluidity, fluidness, flux, fluxility, fluxion, frostiness, glaucescence, glaucousness, grizzliness, hoariness, juiciness, lactation, lactescence, leukoderma, lightness, liquefaction, liquidness, moisture, paleness, pearliness, rheuminess, sappiness, serosity, silver, silveriness, snowiness, succulence, suppuration, vitiligo, wateriness, white, white race, whiteness, whitishness

• milking, aspiration, bleeding, bloodletting, broaching, cupping, drafting, drainage, draining, drawing, emptying, phlebotomy, pipetting, pumping, siphoning, sucking, suction, tapping, venesection

• milksop, Lord Fauntleroy, Milquetoast, Percy, ass, baby, big baby, born fool, buffoon, caitiff, chicken, chicken liver, clown, coward, cream puff, crybaby, dastard, doodle, doormat, dull tool, effeminate, egregious ass, figure of fun, fool, fraid-cat, fraidy-cat, funk, funker, goody-goody, gutless wonder, ignoramus, invertebrate, jackass, jellyfish, lightweight, lily, lily liver, lunatic, meek soul, mollycoddle, mooncalf, mouse, namby-pamby, nance, nancy, nebbish, nonentity, old woman, pansy, pantywaist, perfect fool, poltroon, pushover, sad sack, scaredy-cat, schmuck, sissy, softhead, softling, softy, sop, stupid ass, tomfool, weak sister, weakling, white feather, white liver, zany

• Milky Way, Via Lactea, barred spiral, barred spiral galaxy, cosmic noise, galactic circle, galactic cluster, galactic coordinates, galactic latitude, galactic longitude, galactic nebula, galactic noise, galactic pole, galaxy, island universe, spheroidal galaxy, spiral, spiral galaxy, spiral nebula, supergalaxy

• milky, argent, argentine, bland, canescent, chalky, changeable, cretaceous, fleecy-white, frosted, frosty, grizzled, grizzly, halfhearted, hoar, hoary, indecisive, infirm of purpose, infirm of will, insipid, irresolute, lacteal, lacteous, lactescent, lactic, lactiferous, lily-white, marble, marmoreal, milch, milk, milk-and-water, mushy, neutral, niveous, platinum, pure white, silver, silvered, silvery, snow-white, snowy, swan-white, tasteless, vapid, watery, white, white as snow, wishy-washy

• mill, C, C-note, G, G-note, Vandyke, abrade, amble, armory, arrastra, arsenal, assemble, assembly line, assembly plant, atomic energy plant, atomize, average, ball mill, basic, be turbulent, beat, bindery, blaze, blooming mill, boatyard, boilery, bone mill, bookbindery, bray, brecciate, brewery, brickyard, buck, bunch, bunch up, cane mill, cannery, cartwheel, carve, cent, century, cheese grater, chisel, chop, cider mill, clot, cluster, collect, come together, comminute, comminutor, common, congregate, contriturate, converge, convert, copper, copulate, couple, creamery, crenellate, crenulate, crimp, crowd, crumb, crumble, crunch, crush, crusher, cultivate, cut, dairy, date, defense plant, dime, disintegrate, distillery, dockyard, dollar, dollar bill, drag-stone mill, everyday, experienced, extract, factory, factory belt, factory district, feeder plant, fifty cents, fin, fish, five cents, five hundred dollars, five-dollar bill, five-hundred-dollar bill, five-spot, fiver, flock together, flour, flour mill, flow together, forgather, foundry, four bits, fragment, frogskin, fuse, gang around, gang up, garden-variety, gash, gather, gather around, grain, grand, granulate, granulator, granulize, grate, grater, grind, grind to powder, grinder, grinding mill, gristmill, grow, half G, half a C, half dollar, half grand, hardened, harvest, herd together, hive, horde, huddle, hundred-dollar bill, in the know, incise, indent, industrial park, industrial zone, instrument, iron man, jag, knowledgeable, knurl, kominuter, lapidary mill, league, levigate, levigator, link, machicolate, machine, main plant, manufactory, manufacturing plant, manufacturing quarter, mash, masher, mass, masticate, meander, mechanize, meet, merge, mill around, milling machine, millstone, mince, mine, mint, moil, mortar and pestle, motorize, munitions plant, muster, nick, nickel, notch, nutmeg grater, oil refinery, ordinary, packing house, paper mill, penny, pepper mill, pestle, picot, pink, plant, pottery, pound, powder, power plant, process, production line, pulverize, pulverizer, pump, push-button plant, quarter, quern, quernstone, raise, rally, rally around, rear, red cent, reduce to powder, refine, refinery, rendezvous, retool, rock crusher, roil, roller, rolling mill, run-of-the-mill, sawbuck, sawmill, scallop, scarify, score, scotch, scrunch, seasoned, seethe, serrate, shard, sharpen, sheet mill, shipyard, shop, shred, shredder, silk mill, silver dollar, simple, skin, slab mill, slash, smacker, smash, smelt, smoothing mill, sophisticated, spice mill, squash, stamp mill, stamps, steamroller, steel mill, stir, stream, stroll, subassembly plant, sugar mill, sugar refinery, surge, swarm, tannery, ten cents, ten-spot, tenner, thousand dollars, thousand-dollar bill, throng, tool, tooth, toughened, treadmill, triturate, triturator, twenty-dollar bill, twenty-five cents, two bits, two-dollar bill, two-spot, unexceptional, unite, unremarkable, walk, wander, water mill, windmill, winery, woolen mill, works, workshop, yard, yards

• milled, assembled, branny, built, cast, chalklike, chalky, comminute, comminuted, constructed, crafted, created, crushed, custom, custom-built, custom-made, detrital, detrited, disintegrated, dusty, efflorescent, extracted, fabricated, farinaceous, fashioned, fine, flaky, floury, forged, formed, furfuraceous, gathered, gone to dust, grated, ground, grown, handcrafted, handmade, harvested, homemade, homespun, impalpable, levigated, machine-made, machined, made, made to order, man-made, manufactured, mealy, mined, molded, pestled, powdered, powdery, prefab, prefabricated, processed, pulverant, pulverized, pulverulent, put together, raised, ready-for-wear, ready-formed, ready-made, ready-prepared, ready-to-wear, reduced to powder, refined, scaly, scobicular, scobiform, scurfy, shaped, sharded, shredded, smelted, triturated, well-built, well-constructed, well-made

• millenarian, Leibnizian, Leibnizian optimist, Pollyanna, aspirant, aspirer, bright, cheerful, chiliast, chiliastic, couleur de rose, hopeful, hoper, irrepressible optimist, millennialist, millennialistic, millennian, optimist, optimistic, perfectibilist, perfectibilitarian, perfectionist, philosophical optimist, ray of sunshine, rose-colored, roseate, rosy, sunny, upbeat, utopian

• millennium, Agapemone, Arcadia, Big Rock-Candy Mountain, Canaan, Cloudcuckooland, Cockaigne, Eden, Eldorado, Erewhon, G, Garden of Eden, Goshen, Happy Valley, Land of Youth, Laputa, M, Never-Never-land, Neverland, New Atlantis, Pandemonium, Quivira, Saturnia regna, Saturnian age, Shangri-la, Utopia, abundant year, academic year, age of Aquarius, annum, bissextile year, calendar month, calendar year, century, chiliad, chiliagon, chiliahedron, chiliarch, chiliarchia, cloudland, common year, day, decade, decennary, decennium, defective year, dreamland, dystopia, era of prosperity, faerie, fair weather, fairyland, fiscal year, fortnight, golden age, golden era, golden time, good times, grand, halcyon days, heaven, heyday, hour, kakotopia, kilo, kilocycle, kilogram, kilohertz, kiloliter, kilometer, kingdom come, lakh, land of dreams, land of enchantment, land of faerie, land of plenty, land of promise, leap year, lotus land, lunar month, lunar year, lunation, luster, lustrum, man-hour, microsecond, millepede, milligram, milliliter, millisecond, minute, moment, month, moon, myriad, one hundred thousand, palmy days, paradise, piping times, promised land, prosperity, quarter, quinquennium, regular year, reign of Saturn, rosy era, second, semester, session, sidereal year, solar year, sun, sunshine, ten thousand, term, thou, thousand, trimester, twelvemonth, utopia, week, weekday, wonderland, yard, year

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

• milliner, antique store, apothecary, automobile showroom, bookstore, bootery, candy store, chemist, cigar store, clothiers, clothing store, confectionery, dress shop, drugstore, dry goods store, florists, fur salon, furniture store, gift shop, haberdashery, hardware store, hat shop, hatmaker, hatter, hobby shop, ironmongery, jewelers, jewelry store, leather goods store, liquor store, luggage shop, milliners, novelty shop, package store, pharmacy, saddlery, schlock house, schlock shop, secondhand shop, secondhand store, shoe store, smoke shop, specialty shop, sporting goods store, stationers, stationery store, sweater shop, sweet shop, thrift shop, tobacco store, tobacconists, toy shop, trimming store, used-car lot

• millinery, bootmaking, cap, chapeau, cobbling, coverchief, dressmaking, garment making, handkerchief, hat, hatmaking, headcloth, headdress, headgear, headpiece, headtire, headwear, kerchief, lid, tailoring

• milling, architecture, assembly, building, casting, composition, construction, conversion, crafting, craftsmanship, creation, cultivation, devising, elaboration, erection, extraction, fabrication, fashioning, formation, forming, formulation, framing, growing, handicraft, handiwork, harvesting, machining, making, manufacture, manufacturing, mining, molding, prefabrication, preparation, processing, producing, raising, refining, shaping, smelting, workmanship

• million, a billion, a crore, a lakh, a million, a myriad, a nonillion, a quadrillion, a thousand, a zillion, billion, considerable, crore, ever so many, full many, gobs, heap, heaped-up, jillion, loads, many, multifarious, multifold, multiple, multitudinal, multitudinous, myriad, no few, not a few, numerous, quite some, slew, ten million, thousand, very many, wads, zillion

• millionaire, Daddy Warbucks, billionaire, bloated plutocrat, capitalist, fat cat, man of means, man of substance, man of wealth, moneybags, moneyed man, multimillionaire, nabob, parvenu, plutocrat, rich man, richling, warm man, wealthy man

• millstone, bale, burden, burdening, burthen, cargo, charge, charging, cheese grater, comminutor, crusher, cumber, cumbrance, deadweight, drag, duty, encumbrance, freight, granulator, grater, grinder, handicap, incubus, incumbency, kominuter, lading, levigator, load, loading, masher, mill, mortar and pestle, nutmeg grater, onus, oppression, overload, overtaxing, overweighting, pestle, pressure, pulverizer, quern, quernstone, rock crusher, roller, saddling, shredder, steamroller, superincumbency, surcharge, task, tax, taxing, triturator, weight

• millstream, adolescent stream, arroyo, beck, bourn, braided stream, branch, brook, brooklet, burn, channel, creek, crick, flowing stream, fluviation, fresh, freshet, gill, kill, lazy stream, meandering stream, midchannel, midstream, moving road, navigable river, race, racing stream, river, rivulet, run, rundle, runlet, runnel, sike, spill stream, stream, stream action, streamlet, subterranean river, wadi, watercourse, waterway

• milord, Eminence, Grace, Her Excellency, Her Highness, Her Ladyship, Her Majesty, Highness, 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

• Milquetoast, baby, big baby, chicken, chicken liver, coward, crybaby, doormat, dull tool, fence-sitter, fraid-cat, fraidy-cat, funk, funker, gutless wonder, invertebrate, jellyfish, lightweight, lily liver, meek soul, milksop, mollycoddle, mouse, mugwump, namby-pamby, nebbish, nonentity, pansy, pantywaist, pushover, sad sack, scaredy-cat, shilly-shally, sissy, softling, softy, sop, waverer, weak sister, weakling, white feather, white liver, wobbler

• mime, Roscius, Thalia, act, act a part, act as, act as foil, act out, actor, actress, antagonist, ape, appear, arlequinade, bad guy, barnstorm, barnstormer, beckon, black comedy, broad comedy, burlesque, burletta, camp, character, character actor, character man, character woman, child actor, come out, 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, conformist, copier, copy, copycat, copyist, counterfeiter, cuckoo, dark comedy, diseur, diseuse, dissembler, dissimulator, do, domestic comedy, dramatizer, echo, echoer, echoist, emote, emotionalize, enact, exode, faker, farce, farce comedy, feeder, foil, forger, genteel comedy, gesticulate, gesture, get top billing, harlequinade, heavy, high camp, histrio, histrion, hit off, hit off on, hypocrite, imitator, impersonate, impersonator, impostor, ingenue, juvenile, light comedy, low camp, low comedy, masquerade as, matinee idol, mimer, mimic, mimicker, mock, mocker, mockingbird, monkey, monologist, motion, motion to, mummer, musical, musical comedy, opera buffa, pantomime, pantomimist, parrot, pass for, patter, perform, personate, phony, plagiarist, play, play a part, play the lead, playact, playactor, player, poll-parrot, polly, polly-parrot, pose as, poseur, pretend to be, protean actor, raw comedy, realistic comedy, reciter, register, romantic comedy, satyr play, saw the air, sentimental comedy, sheep, shrug, shrug the shoulders, simulator, situation comedy, sketch, slapstick, slapstick comedy, soubrette, stage performer, stage player, star, steal the show, stooge, straight man, stroller, strolling player, take off, take off on, theatrical, thespian, tragicomedy, tread the boards, troupe, trouper, upstage, utility man, villain, wave the arms

• mimeograph, Photostat, Xerox, albertype, book printing, bring out, chromotypography, chromotypy, chromoxylography, clone, collotype, color printing, copy, ditto, double, dupe, duplicate, electronography, electrostatic printing, engrave, facsimile, get out, graphic arts, gravure, halftone engraving, hectograph, history of printing, impress, imprint, issue, job printing, letterpress, letterpress photoengraving, line engraving, lithography, lithogravure, lithophotogravure, manifold, microcopy, microfilm, mimeo, multigraph, offset, offset lithography, onset, overprint, palaeotypography, photo-offset, photochemical process, photoengraving, photogelatin process, photographic reproduction, photography, photolithography, phototypography, phototypy, photozincography, planographic printing, planography, print, printing, printmaking, proof, prove, publication, publish, publishing, pull, pull a proof, put out, put to bed, put to press, quadruplicate, reduplicate, reissue, relief printing, replicate, reprint, reproduce, rotary photogravure, rotogravure, run, run off, sheetwork, stamp, stat, stencil, strike, three-color printing, trace, transcribe, triplicate, two-color printing, typography, typolithography, wood-block printing, xerography, xeroprinting, xylotypography, zincography

• mimer, Roscius, actor, actress, antagonist, ape, bad guy, barnstormer, character, character actor, character man, character woman, child actor, conformist, copier, copycat, copyist, counterfeiter, cuckoo, diseur, diseuse, dissembler, dissimulator, dramatizer, echo, echoer, echoist, faker, feeder, foil, forger, heavy, histrio, histrion, hypocrite, imitator, impersonator, impostor, ingenue, juvenile, matinee idol, mime, mimic, mimicker, mocker, mockingbird, monkey, monologist, mummer, pantomime, pantomimist, parrot, phony, plagiarist, playactor, player, poll-parrot, polly, polly-parrot, poseur, protean actor, reciter, sheep, simulator, soubrette, stage performer, stage player, stooge, straight man, stroller, strolling player, theatrical, thespian, trouper, utility man, villain

• mimetic, apish, delineatory, depictive, echoic, embodying, emulative, figurative, graphic, ideographic, illustrational, illustrative, imitative, incarnating, limning, mimic, mimish, onomatopoeic, onomatopoetic, personifying, pictographic, pictorial, portraying, representational, representative, representing, simulative, symbolizing, typifying, vivid

• mimic, Roscius, act, act a part, act as, act out, actor, actress, antagonist, ape, apish, appear like, approach, approximate, bad guy, barnstormer, be like, be redolent of, bear resemblance, bring to mind, burlesque, call to mind, call up, caricature, caricaturist, character, character actor, character man, character woman, child actor, come close, come near, compare with, conformist, copier, copy, copycat, copyist, correspond, counterfeit, counterfeiter, cuckoo, diseur, diseuse, dissembler, dissimulator, do, dramatizer, duplicate, echo, echoer, echoic, echoist, emulative, enact, evoke, fake, faker, favor, feeder, feigned, foil, follow, forger, heavy, histrio, histrion, hit off, hit off on, hypocrite, imitate, imitation, imitative, imitator, impersonate, impersonator, impostor, impressionist, ingenue, juvenile, lampoon, look like, make fun of, make-believe, masquerade as, match, matinee idol, mime, mimer, mimetic, mimicker, mirror, mock, mocker, mockingbird, monkey, monologist, mum, mummer, near, nearly reproduce, not tell apart, onomatopoeic, onomatopoetic, pantomime, pantomimist, parallel, parodist, parody, parrot, partake of, pass for, perform, performer, personate, phony, plagiarist, play, play a part, playactor, player, poll-parrot, polly, polly-parrot, pose as, poseur, pretend to be, pretended, protean actor, reciter, remind one of, reproduce, resemble, ridicule, satirize, savor of, seem like, sham, sheep, simulate, simulated, simulative, simulator, smack of, soubrette, sound like, stack up with, stage performer, stage player, stooge, straight man, stroller, strolling player, suggest, take after, take off, take off on, theatrical, thespian, travesty, trouper, utility man, villain

• mimicry, acting, aggressive mimicry, apery, aping, buffoonery, business, caricature, characterization, cryptic mimicry, dumb show, embodiment, enacting, enactment, gag, ham, hammy acting, hoke, hokum, imitation, impersonation, incarnation, masquerade, mimesis, mimicking, miming, mock, mockery, mummery, overacting, pantomime, pantomiming, parody, parrotry, patter, performance, performing, personation, personification, playacting, playing, playing possum, portrayal, posing, projection, protective coloration, representation, slapstick, stage business, stage directions, stage presence, stunt, synaposematic mimicry, taking a role

• miming, acting, aping, buffoonery, business, characterization, dumb show, embodiment, enacting, enactment, gag, ham, hammy acting, hoke, hokum, imitation, impersonation, incarnation, masquerade, mimesis, mimicking, mimicry, mummery, overacting, pantomime, pantomiming, patter, performance, performing, personation, personification, playacting, playing, portrayal, posing, projection, representation, slapstick, stage business, stage directions, stage presence, stunt, taking a role

• minaret, antenna tower, barbican, belfry, bell tower, campanile, colossus, column, cupola, derrick, dome, fire tower, lantern, lighthouse, martello, martello tower, mast, monument, obelisk, observation tower, pagoda, pilaster, pillar, pinnacle, pole, pylon, pyramid, shaft, skyscraper, spire, standpipe, steeple, stupa, television mast, tope, tour, tower, turret, water tower, windmill tower

• minatory, abusive, bludgeoning, blustering, browbeating, bulldozing, bullying, comminatory, denunciatory, fear-inspiring, foreboding, hectoring, imminent, intimidating, lowering, menacing, minacious, ominous, terroristic, terrorizing, threatening, threatful

• mince, allow for, amble, aspic, atomize, barbecue, barge, boiled meat, bouilli, bowl along, break into pieces, break to pieces, break up, bridle, bundle, civet, clump, color, crash, croak, crunch, crush, cut to pieces, demolish, diffuse, diminish, disperse, disrupt, drag, drawl, droop, ease, extenuate, fission, flesh, flounce, foot, footslog, forcemeat, fragment, gait, gallop, game, gloss over, grind, hachis, halt, hash, hippety-hop, hitch, hobble, hop, ignore, jerky, jog, joint, jolt, jugged hare, jump, lessen, limp, lisp, lock step, lumber, lunge, lurch, make allowance for, make mincemeat of, meat, menue viande, mince it, mincing steps, mitigate, pace, paddle, palliate, peg, pemmican, piaffe, piaffer, plod, pot roast, prance, prink, pulverize, quaver, rack, roast, roll, sashay, saunter, sausage meat, scatter, scrapple, scuff, scuffle, scuttle, shake, shamble, shatter, shiver, shuffle, sidle, simper, single-foot, skip, slink, slither, slog, slouch, slowness, slur over, smash, smash up, smirk, soft-pedal, soften, splinter, squash, squish, stagger, stalk, stamp, step, stomp, straddle, straggle, stride, stroll, strolling gait, strut, stump, swagger, swing, talk incoherently, tittup, toddle, totter, traipse, tread, trip, trot, trudge, varnish, velocity, venison, viande, waddle, walk, wamble, whitewash, wiggle, wobble

• mincing, affected, dainty, dandyish, delicate, effeminate, elegant, euphemistic, euphuistic, exquisite, fastidious, finical, finicking, finicky, foppish, formalistic, fussy, goody good-good, goody-goody, la-di-da, namby-pamby, nice, overnice, overprecise, overrefined, particular, pedantic, pernickety, persnickety, precieuse, precious, precisian, precisianistic, precisionistic, pretentious, puristic, put-on, simpering, squeamish, stilted, too-too

• mind altering drug, DET, DMT, LSD, Mary Jane, STP, THC, acid, antidepressant, ataractic, diethyltryptamine, dimethyltryptamine, gage, ganja, grass, hallucinogen, hash, hashish, hay, hemp, joint, kava, marijuana, mescal, mescal bean, mescal button, mescaline, mind-blowing drug, mind-expanding drug, morning glory seeds, peyote, pot, psilocin, psilocybin, psychedelic, psychic energizer, psychoactive drug, psychochemical, psychotomimetic, reefer, roach, stick, tea, tranquilizer, weed

• mind blowing, agitating, breathtaking, charged, cliff-hanging, consciousness-expanding, disquieting, distracting, disturbing, electric, exciting, exhilarating, galvanic, hallucinational, hallucinative, hallucinatory, hallucinogenic, heady, heart-expanding, heart-stirring, heart-swelling, heart-thrilling, impressive, inflammatory, intoxicating, jarring, jolting, maddening, mind-expanding, moving, overcoming, overmastering, overpowering, overwhelming, perturbing, piquant, provocative, provoking, psychedelic, ravishing, soul-stirring, spirit-stirring, stimulating, stimulative, stirring, striking, suspenseful, suspensive, tantalizing, telling, thrilling, thrilly, troubling, unsettling, upsetting

• mind boggler, Chinese puzzle, baffling problem, brain twister, crossword puzzle, crux, enigma, enigmatic question, floorer, jigsaw puzzle, knot, knotty point, mystery, nut to crack, perplexed question, perplexity, poser, problem, puzzle, puzzlement, puzzler, question, question mark, sixty-four dollar question, sticker, stumper, tough proposition, vexed question, why

• mind expanding drug, DET, DMT, LSD, Mary Jane, STP, THC, acid, antidepressant, ataractic, diethyltryptamine, dimethyltryptamine, gage, ganja, grass, hallucinogen, hash, hashish, hay, hemp, joint, kava, marijuana, mescal, mescal bean, mescal button, mescaline, mind-altering drug, mind-blowing drug, morning glory seeds, peyote, pot, psilocin, psilocybin, psychedelic, psychic energizer, psychoactive drug, psychochemical, psychotomimetic, reefer, roach, stick, tea, tranquilizer, weed

• mind, Mnemosyne, affect memory, aim, ambition, ambivalent, anima, anima humana, animadvert, animus, anterograde memory, appetence, appetency, appetite, aptitude, ardor, aspiration, assumption, astral body, astuteness, atavism, atman, attend, attend to, attend to orders, attention, attitude, ba, baby-sit, babysit, balk at, bawl out, be concerned, be resolved, be unwilling, begrudge, behold, belief, bent, berate, beware, bias, brain, brains, breath, breath of life, bring back, bring to mind, buddhi, call back, call to mind, call up, capacity, care, care for, cast, castigate, chaperon, character, chastise, cherish, chew out, choice, choose, cite, climate of opinion, coconscious, cognizance, collective memory, collective unconscious, command, common belief, community sentiment, comply, computer memory, conation, conatus, conceit, concentration, concept, conception, conclude, conclusion, concupiscence, conform, conjure up, conscience, conscious self, consciousness, consensus gentium, conserve, consider, consideration, constitution, contemplate, conviction, counsel, crazy, cue, curiosity, death instinct, decide, decision, deem, defer to, descry, desideration, desideratum, design, desire, determination, determine, diathesis, dig, disapprove of, discern, discipline, discourse of reason, discretion, discursive reason, disk memory, dislike, disposition, disregard, divine breath, dress down, drive, drum memory, eagerness, eccentricity, effect, ego, ego ideal, ego-id conflict, emotional response, engram, enjoy, esprit, espy, estimate, estimation, ethical self, ethos, evoke, excogitate, eye, faculty, fancy, fantasy, feeling, fixed purpose, follow, follow the book, foreconscious, forget, form an opinion, foster, frame, frame of mind, free choice, free will, function, general belief, genius, get miffed, go, go back, go back over, govern, grain, gray matter, gross body, grudge, guard, hark back, harken to, have a care, head, headpiece, heart, heed, hope, horme, humor, id, idea, idiosyncrasy, ignore, impression, inclination, individualism, insane, insight, intellect, intellection, intellectual, intellectual curiosity, intellectual faculty, intelligence, intendment, intent, intention, jiva, jivatma, judge, judgement, judgment, kama, keep, keep watch over, khu, kidney, kinesthetic memory, leaning, libidinal energy, libido, lie low, life principle, lights, like, liking, linga sharira, listen to, look, look about one, look after, look back, look out, look out for, look sharp, look to, lucidity, lust, lust for learning, mad, make, makeup, manas, manes, marbles, mark, matronize, mean, meaning, memory, memory bank, memory circuit, memory trace, mens, mental capacity, mental set, mentality, mettle, mind-set, mneme, mold, mood, morale, mother, motive, motive force, mystique, nature, need, nephesh, never mind, nisus, not care to, not feel like, note, notice, notion, nous, nurse, nurture, obey, obey the rules, object to, objective, observance, observation, observe, opinion, oversee, passion, pay attention, pay attention to, perceive, perception, percipience, perpend, persona, personal judgment, personality, persuasion, physical body, plan, plans, pleasure, pleasure principle, pneuma, point, point of view, ponder, popular belief, position, posture, power, power of reason, prana, preconscious, predilection, predisposition, preference, preserve, presumption, prevailing belief, primitive self, principle of desire, proclivity, project, propensity, proposal, propose, prospectus, protege, provide for, psyche, psychic apparatus, public belief, public opinion, purpose, purusha, qui vive, race memory, racial unconscious, rail at, ratio, rationality, reaction, reason, reasoning, reasoning faculty, rebuke, recall, recall to mind, recapture, reck, recollect, recollection, reevoke, reflect, regard, relish, remark, remember, remembrance, remind, reminisce, reprimand, reproach, reprove, resent, resolution, resolve, retain, retrace, retrospect, review, review in retrospect, revive, ride herd on, ruach, sagacity, sage, sake, saneness, sanity, sapience, scold, screen memory, see, see after, see in retrospect, see to, self, sense, senses, sentiment, set, sexual desire, shade, shadow, shepherd, shilly-shallying, shrewdness, sight, skill, skin alive, slant, slough off, smarts, soul, soundness, souvenir, spirit, spirits, spiritual being, spiritus, stamp, stance, state of mind, stay in line, sthula sharira, strain, streak, stripe, striving, study, subconscious, subconscious mind, subliminal, subliminal self, submerged mind, submit, summon up, superego, superintend, supervise, support, take amiss, take an interest, take care, take care of, take charge of, take heed, take ill, take note, take note of, take notice, take offense, take orders, take to heart, take umbrage, tape memory, tell off, temper, temperament, tend, tendency, the self, theory, think, think back, think of, thinker, thinking, thirst for knowledge, thought, thoughts, toe the line, tone, turn, turn of mind, twist, type, uncertain, unconscious, unconscious mind, undecided, understanding, unsure, upbraid, urge, use hindsight, vacillating, vein, velleity, verbal response, view, viewpoint, visual memory, vital force, vital impulse, volition, want, wanting, warp, watch, watch out, watch out for, watch over, wavering, way of thinking, weigh, will, will and pleasure, will power, wisdom, wish, wish fulfillment, wit, wits, would rather not

• minded, acquiescent, actuated, agreeable, alacritous, amenable, animated, apt, apt to, ardent, bent, calculated to, compliant, consenting, contemplating, content, cooperative, disposed, disposed to, dispositioned, docile, eager, enthusiastic, fain, favorable, favorably disposed, favorably inclined, forward, game, given, given to, impelled, in the mind, in the mood, inclined, inclined to, inner-directed, intending, liable to, likely, likely to, minded to, motivated, moved, other-directed, planning, pliant, predisposed, predisposed to, prompt, prompted, prone, prone to, quick, ready, ready and willing, ready to, receptive, responsive, stimulated, tractable, well-disposed, well-inclined, willed, willing, willinghearted, zealous

• mindful, accommodating, accommodative, active, advertent, agog, agreeable, alert, alive, alive to, all ears, all eyes, all-knowing, apperceptive, appercipient, appreciative of, apprehending, apprehensive, apprised of, assiduous, attentive, au courant, awake, awake to, aware, aware of, behind the curtain, behind the scenes, canny, careful, cautious, circumspect, cognizant, cognizant of, complaisant, compliant, comprehending, concentrated, conforming, conscientious, conscious, conscious of, considerate, constant, conversant, curious, deliberate, delicate, devoted, devout, diligent, discreet, duteous, dutiful, earnest, evocative, faithful, finical, finicking, finicky, gingerly, guarded, haunted, heedful, helpful, hep to, hesitant, in retrospect, in the know, in the secret, indulgent, informed of, insightful, intelligent, intense, intent, intentive, judicious, knowing, knowledgeable, leaving out nothing, lenient, let into, loving, loyal, memoried, meticulous, mindful of, mindful of others, mnemonic, nagged, nice, niggling, no stranger to, noncommittal, obliging, observant, observing, obsessed, omniscient, on guard, on the ball, on the job, on the lookout, on to, open-eared, open-eyed, openmouthed, overlooking no possibility, pawky, perceptive, percipient, perspicacious, plagued, politic, practicing, prehensile, privy to, prudent, punctilious, punctual, rankled, redolent, regardful, remembering, remindful, reminiscent, retentive, retrospective, safe, sagacious, scrupulous, seized of, sensible, sensible of, sensible to, shrewd, slow to act, solicitous, streetwise, suggestive, tactful, tender, tentative, thorough, thoughtful, tolerant, true, unable to forget, unadventurous, uncommunicative, undaring, undeceived, understanding, unenterprising, unmindful, unprecipitate, vigilant, watchful, wise, wise to

• mindfully, absorbedly, advertently, assiduously, attentively, cannily, carefully, cautiously, circumspectly, considerately, devotedly, diligently, discreetly, easy, engrossedly, gingerly, guardedly, heedfully, industriously, intently, interestedly, judiciously, lovingly, observantly, painstakingly, pawkily, preoccupiedly, prudently, raptly, regardfully, sedulously, solicitously, tactfully, tenderly, thoroughgoingly, thoroughly, thoughtfully, well-meaningly, with attention, with care, with caution, with great care, with interest, with rapt attention, with undivided attention, without distraction

• mindless, a stranger to, aimless, airy, aloof, anarchic, angry, animal, animalian, animalic, animalistic, apathetic, asinine, asleep, ataractic, beastlike, beastly, bestial, blase, blind to, blustering, blusterous, blustery, bored, brainless, brutal, brute, brutelike, brutish, careless, casual, caught napping, causeless, chaotic, cursory, dead to, deaf to, degage, designless, detached, devil-may-care, disinterested, dispassionate, disregardant, disregardful, distant, driftless, dumb, dysteleological, easygoing, fatuous, flippant, foolish, forgetful, frantic, free and easy, frenzied, fruity, furious, haphazard, headless, heedless, hellish, idiotic, ignorant, ill-advised, ill-considered, ill-contrived, ill-devised, ill-gauged, ill-judged, imbecilic, impassive, impercipient, impolitic, imprudent, in ignorance of, inadvisable, inattentive, incognizant, inconsiderate, incurious, indifferent, indiscreet, indiscriminate, inept, inexcitable, inexpedient, inexplicable, infuriate, injudicious, insensate, insensible, insensible to, insouciant, instinctive, instinctual, irrational, lackadaisical, lackbrained, lazy, lean-minded, lean-witted, listless, lunatic, mad, maniac, mental, misadvised, misguided, moronic, myopic, napping, negligent, nitwitted, non compos mentis, nonchalant, nonconceiving, nonrational, not bright, not with it, nuts, oblivious, obtuse, of little brain, offhand, orgasmic, orgastic, out of it, pandemoniac, pea-brained, perfunctory, phlegmatic, pin-brained, pococurante, promiscuous, purposeless, raging, random, ravening, raving, reasonless, reckless, regardless, respectless, rip-roaring, senseless, shortsighted, silly, slackminded, slackwitted, stochastic, stolid, storming, stormy, stray, stupid, subhuman, tactless, tempestuous, thick, thickheaded, thoughtless, troublous, tumultuous, turbulent, turned-off, unaccommodating, unaccountable, unadvised, unanxious, unaware, unaware of, uncomplaisant, unconcerned, unconscious, unconscious of, unconsidered, uncooperative, undiplomatic, undirected, undiscerning, undiscriminating, unforeseeing, ungifted, unhearing, unheedful, unheeding, unhelpful, uninquiring, uninsightful, unintellectual, unintelligent, uninterested, uninvolved, unknowing, unmindful, unmindful of, unmotivated, unobliging, unperceiving, unprehensive, unprepared, unready, unrealizing, unreasonable, unreasoning, unreflecting, unreflective, unseeing, unsensible, unsolicitous, unsound, unsuspecting, untactful, untalented, unthinking, unthoughtful, unwise, unwitting, uproarious, wild, withdrawn, witless, zoic, zooidal, zoologic

• mindlessly, angrily, apathetically, carelessly, disinterestedly, dispassionately, frantically, frenziedly, furiously, heedlessly, insensately, insouciantly, lackadaisically, listlessly, madly, negligently, nonchalantly, recklessly, regardlessly, riotously, stormily, tempestuously, troublously, turbulently, unconcernedly, uninterestedly, unmindfully, uproariously

• mindlessness, Urdummheit, accidia, acedia, acuteness, animality, apathy, asininity, ataraxia, ataraxy, atrocity, barbarity, battiness, blindness, bloodlust, brainlessness, brutality, buffoonery, carelessness, casualness, clownishness, crackpottedness, crankiness, craziness, daffiness, deafness, desipience, destructiveness, detachment, disinterest, dispassion, disregard, disregardfulness, easygoingness, eccentricity, extremity, fatuity, fatuousness, ferociousness, fierceness, folly, foolery, foolheadedness, foolishness, force, frivolity, frivolousness, furiousness, giddiness, goofiness, harshness, heedlessness, idiocy, ignorance, imbecility, impetuosity, inanity, inattention, incapacity, inclemency, incognizance, incomprehension, incuriosity, indiscrimination, ineptitude, inexcitability, inhumanity, insanity, insensibility, insouciance, intensity, irrationality, lack of affect, lackadaisicalness, lackbrainedness, lackwittedness, listlessness, low IQ, lunacy, madness, malignity, mental weakness, mercilessness, murderousness, negligence, niaiserie, nonchalance, nonrealization, nonrecognition, nugacity, nuttiness, pitilessness, pococurantism, primal stupidity, queerness, reasonlessness, recklessness, regardlessness, rigor, roughness, sappiness, savagery, screwiness, senselessness, severity, sharpness, silliness, slackmindedness, slackwittedness, sloth, stupidity, terrorism, thoughtlessness, triflingness, triviality, unanxiousness, unawareness, unconcern, unconsciousness, ungentleness, unintellectuality, unintelligence, unmindfulness, unsolicitousness, unwisdom, unwiseness, unwittingness, vandalism, vehemence, venom, viciousness, violence, virulence, wackiness, weirdness, witlessness, zaniness, zanyism

• mine, Dionaea, Eldorado, Golconda, abri, abridge, abundance, abysm, abyss, approach trench, arm, armor, armor-plate, avulse, baited trap, bank, barricade, battle, bereave, blast, bleed, blitz, blockade, blow to pieces, blow up, bomb, bombard, bonanza, booby trap, bore, bulwark, bunker, burrow, carve, castellate, chasm, chisel, coal mine, colliery, communication trench, convert, cornucopia, countermine, countersink, coupure, crenellate, cultivate, curtail, cut off, cut out, deadfall, deathtrap, decoy, deepen, delve, deposit, depositary, depository, depress, deprive, deprive of, deracinate, derive, dig, dig in, dig out, dig up, diggings, dike, disentangle, disentitle, ditch, dive, divest, double sap, drain, draw, draw out, dredge, dredge up, drill, drive, dugout, ease one of, eldorado, embattle, entrench, entrenchment, eradicate, evolve, evulse, excavate, excavation, excise, exsect, extract, extricate, fence, fire trench, firetrap, flying sap, flytrap, font, fortified tunnel, fortify, fosse, fount, fountain, fountainhead, foxhole, fund, furrow, gallery, garrison, get out, gin, gold mine, gouge, gouge out, gravy train, groove, grow, grub, grub up, gulf, harvest, headspring, headstream, headwater, hoard, honeycomb, lighten one of, lode, look through, lower, machine, mainspring, man, man the garrison, milk, mill, mine of wealth, moat, mole trap, mother lode, mousetrap, open cut, opencast, palisade, pan, pan for gold, parallel, pick out, pit, pitfall, plant a mine, pluck out, pluck up, probe, process, prospect, pull, pull out, pull up, pump, quarry, raise, rake out, ransack, rattrap, read, rear, refine, remove, repository, reserve, reservoir, resource, rich lode, rich uncle, rip out, riverhead, root out, root up, sabotage, sap, scan, scoop, scoop out, scour, scrabble, scrape, scratch, search, set gun, shaft, shovel, sink, slit trench, smelt, sonic mine, source, source of supply, spade, spring, spring gun, springhead, staple, store, storehouse, supply, survey, take away from, take from, take out, tap, tear out, trap, trapfall, treasure trove, treasure-house, treasury, trench, trigger a mine, trough, tunnel, undermine, unearth, unravel, uproot, vein, wall, wealth, weed out, well, wellhead, wellspring, withdraw, work, workings, wrest out

• mined, assembled, built, cast, constructed, crafted, created, custom, custom-built, custom-made, extracted, fabricated, fashioned, forged, formed, gathered, grown, handcrafted, handmade, harvested, homemade, homespun, machine-made, machined, made, made to order, man-made, manufactured, milled, 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

• miner, butty, collier, desert rat, digger, dredge, dredger, driller, excavator, gold digger, gold miner, gold panner, groundhog, mineworker, navvy, prospector, sandhog, sapper, sourdough, steam shovel, tunneler

• mineral kingdom, animal kingdom, brute matter, chain of being, class structure, domain, establishment, gel mineral, hierarchy, inorganic matter, inorganic substance, kingdom, metamict substance, mineral, mineral resources, mineral world, mineraloid, natural hierarchy, pecking order, power structure, pyramid, realm, vegetable kingdom

• mineral oil, animal oil, cerate, drying oil, essential oil, ester, fat, fatty oil, fixed oil, grease, hydrogenated fat, lipid, oil, oleum, polyunsaturated fat, sebum, tallow, unsaturated fat, vegetable oil, volatile oil

• mineral, alabaster, alabastrine, amphibole, antimony, apatite, aplite, arsenic, asbestine, asbestos, asphalt, azurite, bauxite, bitumen, boron, brimstone, bromine, brucite, calcite, carbon, celestite, chalcedony, chlorite, chromite, clay, coal, coke, corundum, cryolite, diatomite, emery, epidote, epsomite, feldspar, garnet, gel mineral, glauconite, graphite, graphitic, gypsum, hatchettine, holosiderite, inorganic, inorganic substance, iron pyrites, jet, kyanite, lignite, lime, magnesite, malachite, maltha, marcasite, marl, meerschaum, metamict substance, mica, micaceous, mineral coal, mineral kingdom, mineral oil, mineral resources, mineral salt, mineral tallow, mineral tar, mineral wax, mineral world, mineral-bearing material, mineraloid, molybdenite, monazite, nonbiological, nonorganic, obsidian, olivine, ore, ozokerite, peat, perlite, petrified, phosphate rock, phosphorus, pumice, pyrite, pyrites, pyroxene, quartz, realgar, red clay, rhodonite, rock crystal, rocks, salt, selenite, selenium, siderite, silica, silicate, silicic, silicon, spar, spinel, spodumene, sulfur, sulfuric, sulfurous, talc, talcum, tellurium, unorganic, unorganized, untreated mineral, wollastonite, wulfenite, zeolite

• mineralogy, cosmical geology, crystallography, dynamic geology, geodesy, geodetics, geodynamics, geognosy, geographics, geography, geological chemistry, geological engineering, geology, geomorphogeny, geomorphology, geophysics, geoscopy, geotectonic geology, historical geology, hydrogeology, mineralogical chemistry, mining engineering, mining geology, paleontological geology, pedology, petrography, petrology, physical geography, physical geology, physiographic geology, physiography, soil mechanics, soil science, stratigraphic geology, stratigraphy

• Minerva, Agdistis, Amor, Aphrodite, Apollo, Apollon, Ares, Artemis, Ate, Athena, Bacchus, Bellona, Ceres, Cora, Cronus, Cupid, Cybele, Demeter, Despoina, Diana, Dionysus, Dis, Enyo, Eros, Gaea, Gaia, Ge, Great Mother, Hades, Helios, Hephaestus, Hera, Here, Hermes, Hestia, Hymen, Hyperion, Jove, Juno, Jupiter, Jupiter Fidius, Jupiter Fulgur, Jupiter Optimus Maximus, Jupiter Pluvius, Jupiter Tonans, Kore, Kronos, Magna Mater, Mars, Mercury, Mithras, Momus, Neptune, Nike, Odin, Olympians, Olympic gods, Ops, Orcus, Persephassa, Persephone, Phoebus, Phoebus Apollo, Pluto, Poseidon, Proserpina, Proserpine, Rhea, Saturn, Tellus, Tiu, Tyr, Venus, Vesta, Vulcan, Woden, Wotan, Zeus

• mingle, admix, alloy, amalgamate, associate, associate with, assort with, bemingle, blend, chum, chum together, chum with, circulate, clique, clique with, club together, coalesce, combine, commingle, commix, compose, compound, concoct, conglomerate, consort, consort with, emulsify, fellowship, flock together, fraternize, fuse, go, hang around with, hang out with, hash, herd together, hobnob with, homogenize, immingle, immix, integrate, interblend, interlace, interlard, intermingle, intermix, intertwine, interweave, join, join in fellowship, jumble, keep company with, knead, make up, marry, meld, merge, mingle with, mingle-mangle, mix, mix up, mix with, pal, pal up with, pal with, run in couples, run with, scramble, shuffle, socialize, sort with, spend time, stir up, syncretize, take up with, throw together, tie up with, toss together, unite, work

• mingled, amalgamated, ambiguous, ambivalent, amphibious, blended, combined, complex, composite, compound, compounded, conglomerate, dappled, eclectic, equivocal, fifty-fifty, half-and-half, heterogeneous, indiscriminate, intricate, ironic, jumbled, many-sided, medley, miscellaneous, mixed, motley, multifaceted, multinational, multiracial, patchy, pluralistic, promiscuous, scrambled, syncretic, thrown together, varied

• mingling, admixture, alloyage, amalgamation, blending, coalescence, combination, comminglement, commingling, commixture, composition, eclecticism, fusion, immixture, integration, interfusion, interlarding, interlardment, interminglement, intermingling, intermixture, merger, mixing, mixture, pluralism, syncretism

• mini, Elzevir, baby, bantam, banty, button, chit, diminutive, doll, duodecimo, featherweight, fingerling, lightweight, microcosm, miniature, minikin, minnow, minny, mouse, nubbin, peewee, pony, puppet, runt, shrimp, slip, small fry, snip, snippet, subminiature, tit, twelvemo, wart, wisp

• miniature, Elzevir, Lilliputian, abstract, abstraction, altarpiece, baby, baby-sized, bantam, banty, block print, collage, color print, compact, companion, copy, cursory, cyclorama, daub, dead ringer, depthless, diminutive, diptych, doll, double, duodecimo, duplicate, dwarf, effigy, engraving, exact likeness, fellow, few, footling, fresco, handy, head, icon, idol, illumination, illustration, image, inconsequential, inconsiderable, insignificant, itty-bitty, likeness, lilliputian, little, living image, living picture, low, match, mate, meager, micro, microcosm, microscopic, midget, mini, miniaturized, minikin, minimal, minny, minuscule, minute, mirroring, model, montage, mosaic, mural, negligible, no great shakes, panorama, petty, photograph, picayune, picayunish, picture, pocket, pocket edition, pocket-sized, pony, portrait, portraiture, portrayal, print, profile, puppet, pygmy, reflection, representation, reproduction, resemblance, rubbing, semblance, shadow, shallow, short, silhouette, similitude, simulacrum, skin-deep, small, small-scale, spit and image, spitting image, stained glass window, stencil, still life, subminiature, superficial, tableau, tapestry, teeny, teeny-weeny, tiny, toy, trace, tracing, trifling, triptych, trivial, twelvemo, twin, very image, very picture, vest-pocket, wall painting, wee, weeny

• miniaturization, abatement, abridgment, alleviation, attenuation, contraction, dampening, damping, decrease, decrement, decrescence, deduction, deflation, depreciation, depression, diminishment, diminution, dying, dying off, extenuation, fade-out, languishment, lessening, letup, lowering, mitigation, reduction, relaxation, sagging, scaling down, simplicity, subtraction, weakening

• miniaturized, abated, ablated, attenuated, baby, baby-sized, bantam, banty, bated, belittled, compact, consumed, contracted, curtailed, decreased, deflated, diminished, diminutive, dissipated, dropped, duodecimo, eroded, fallen, handy, less, lesser, lower, lowered, miniature, minikin, minimal, minuscule, pocket, pocket-sized, pony, reduced, retrenched, scaled-down, shorn, shorter, shrunk, shrunken, small-scale, smaller, subminiature, toy, twelvemo, vest-pocket, watered-down, weakened, worn

• minim, accidental, ace, atom, bit, breve, breve rest, crotchet, crumb, dab, demisemiquaver, dole, dominant, dominant note, dot, double whole note, dram, dribble, driblet, drop, droplet, dwarf, eighth note, eighth rest, enharmonic, enharmonic note, farthing, flat, fleck, flyspeck, fragment, gnat, gobbet, grain, granule, groat, hair, half note, half rest, handful, hemidemisemiquaver, iota, jot, little, little bit, lota, microbe, microorganism, midge, minimum, minutia, minutiae, mite, modicum, molecule, mote, musical note, natural, note, nutshell, ounce, particle, patent note, pause, pebble, pinch, pinhead, pinpoint, pittance, point, quarter note, quarter rest, quaver, report, responding note, rest, scrap, scruple, semibreve, semiquaver, shaped note, sharp, sixteenth note, sixteenth rest, sixty-fourth note, smidgen, smitch, snip, snippet, speck, spiccato, spoonful, spot, staccato, sustained note, tercet, thimbleful, thirty-second note, tiny bit, tittle, tone, trifling amount, triplet, trivia, vanishing point, whit, whole note

• minimal, adequate, ample, baby, baby-sized, bantam, banty, barely sufficient, basal, basic, commensurate, compact, competent, corresponding, decent, diminutive, due, duodecimo, enough, equal to, essential, few, fit, fundamental, good, good enough, handy, least, littlest, lowest, miniature, miniaturized, minikin, minim, minimum, minuscule, nominal, plenty, plenty good enough, pocket, pocket-sized, pony, proportionate, satisfactory, shortest, slightest, small-scale, smallest, subminiature, substantial, sufficient, sufficient for, sufficing, suitable, tiniest, token, toy, twelvemo, up to, vest-pocket

• minimally, a bit, a little, adequately, amply, barely, by a hair, by an ace, competently, enough, ever so little, exiguously, faintly, feebly, hardly, imperfectly, inappreciably, inconsequentially, insignificantly, just a bit, lightly, little, meagerly, minutely, negligibly, not hardly, only just, satisfactorily, scantily, scarcely, slightly, substantially, sufficiently, tant soit peu, triflingly, weakly

• minimize, abbreviate, abridge, bedwarf, belittle, bring down, bring into discredit, bring low, cry down, curtail, cut down, de-emphasize, debase, decrease, decry, degrade, deprecate, depreciate, derogate, derogate from, detract from, devaluate, devalue, diminish, disapprove of, discount, discredit, disgrace, disparage, dispraise, downplay, dwarf, hold in contempt, knock, lessen, make light of, make little of, make nothing of, minify, misestimate, misprize, play down, prune, put down, reduce, reflect discredit upon, run down, sell short, set at naught, set little by, shorten, shrink, shrug off, slight, speak ill of, submit to indignity, talk down, think little of, think nothing of, underestimate, underplay, underprize, underrate, underreckon, undervalue

• minimized, abated, ablated, attenuated, bated, belittled, consumed, contracted, curtailed, decreased, deflated, diminished, dissipated, dropped, eroded, fallen, less, lesser, lower, lowered, miniaturized, reduced, retrenched, scaled-down, shorn, shorter, shrunk, shrunken, smaller, watered-down, weakened, worn

• minimum wage, base pay, compensation, dismissal wage, earnings, escalator clause, escalator plan, financial remuneration, gross income, guaranteed annual wage, hire, income, living wage, net income, pay, pay and allowances, payment, payroll, portal-to-portal pay, purchasing power, real wages, remuneration, salary, severance pay, sliding scale, take-home, take-home pay, taxable income, total compensation, wage, wage control, wage freeze, wage reduction, wage rollback, wage scale, wages, wages after deductions, wages after taxes

• minimum, ace, adequacy, adequate, adequate supply, adequateness, ample, atom, bare minimum, bare sufficiency, barely sufficient, bit, commensurate, competence, competency, competent, corresponding, dab, decent, dole, dot, dram, dribble, driblet, due, dwarf, enough, equal to, exact measure, farthing, few, fit, fleck, flyspeck, fragment, gobbet, good, good enough, grain, granule, groat, hair, handful, iota, jot, just enough, least, little, little bit, littlest, lota, lowest, margin, minim, minimal, minutiae, mite, modicum, molecule, mote, nadir, nominal, nutshell, ounce, particle, pebble, pinch, pittance, plenty, plenty good enough, point, proportionate, reduced, right amount, satisfaction, satisfactoriness, satisfactory, satisfactory amount, scruple, shortest, slightest, smallest, smidgen, smitch, speck, spoonful, spot, substantial, sufficiency, sufficient, sufficient for, sufficientness, sufficing, suitable, thimbleful, tiny bit, tittle, trifling amount, trivia, up to, whit

• mining, architecture, assembly, avulsion, building, casting, coal mining, composition, construction, conversion, crafting, craftsmanship, creation, cultivation, cutting out, deepening, depression, deracination, devising, digging, disentanglement, drawing, drawing out, dredging, drilling, elaboration, engraving, enucleation, eradication, erection, evolvement, evulsion, excavation, excision, expression, exsection, extirpation, extraction, extrication, fabrication, fashioning, formation, forming, formulation, framing, gold fever, gold mining, gold rush, growing, handicraft, handiwork, harvesting, indentation, lowering, machining, making, manufacture, manufacturing, milling, molding, placer claim, placer mining, prefabrication, preparation, pressing out, probing, processing, producing, pulling, quarrying, raising, refining, removal, ripping out, shaping, sinkage, sinking, smelting, squeezing out, strip mining, tunneling, unrooting, uprooting, withdrawal, workmanship, wresting out

• minion, Charlie McCarthy, adherent, agent, ancilla, apple-polisher, appliance, ass-licker, backscratcher, backslapper, bootlick, bootlicker, brown-nose, brownie, clawback, contrivance, cosset, courtier, creature, cringer, darling, dependent, device, disciple, dummy, dupe, favorite, fawner, feudatory, figurehead, flatterer, flunky, follower, fondling, footlicker, gillie, go-between, goon, groveler, handmaid, handmaiden, handshaker, hanger-on, helot, henchman, homager, idol, implement, inferior, instrument, interagent, intermediary, intermediate, intermedium, jackal, jewel, kowtower, lackey, led captain, lever, lickspit, lickspittle, liege, liege man, man, matinee idol, mealymouth, mechanism, mediator, medium, midwife, myrmidon, organ, pawn, peon, pet, plaything, preference, puppet, retainer, satellite, serf, servant, slave, spaniel, spoiled child, stooge, subordinate, suck, sycophant, thug, timeserver, toad, toadeater, toady, tool, toy, trucker, truckler, tufthunter, underling, understrapper, vassal, vehicle, votary, yeoman, yes-man

• minister of state, alderman, archon, bailie, burghermaster, burgomaster, cabinet member, cabinet minister, chancellor, city councilman, city father, city manager, commissar, commissioner, councillor, councilman, councilwoman, county commissioner, county supervisor, elder, headman, induna, legislator, lord mayor, magistrate, maire, mayor, minister, portreeve, reeve, secretary, secretary of state, selectman, supervisor, syndic, undersecretary, warden

• minister to, act for, administer to, advance, assist, attend, attend on, attend to, baby-sit, bandage, bathe, be instrumental, care for, cater to, chaperon, cherish, chore, conserve, cure, dance attendance upon, diagnose, do for, do service to, doctor, drudge, facilitate, flux, forward, foster, give care to, go between, heal, help, keep watch over, lackey, look after, look out for, look to, maid, massage, matronize, mediate, mind, mother, nurse, nurture, operate on, pander, pander to, physic, plaster, poultice, preserve, promote, protege, provide for, purge, remedy, ride herd on, rub, see after, see to, serve, shepherd, splint, strap, subserve, support, take care of, take charge of, tend, treat, upon, valet, wait, wait on, watch, watch out for, watch over, work for

• minister, DD, Doctor of Divinity, Holy Joe, abbe, accommodate, administer the Eucharist, agent, aid, alderman, ambassador, ambassadress, anoint, apostolic delegate, archon, assist, attache, bailie, burghermaster, burgomaster, cabinet member, cabinet minister, care for, career diplomat, chancellor, chaplain, charge, chrism, churchman, city councilman, city father, city manager, clergyman, clergywoman, cleric, clerical, clerk, commercial attache, commissar, commissary, commissionaire, commissioner, confirm, consul, consul general, consular agent, councillor, councilman, councilwoman, county commissioner, county supervisor, curate, cure, dean, delegate, diplomat, diplomatic, diplomatic agent, diplomatist, divine, do duty, ecclesiastic, elder, emissary, envoy, envoy extraordinary, evangelist, father, foreign service officer, headman, help, herald, impose, induna, internuncio, lay hands on, legate, legislator, look after, lord mayor, magistrate, maire, man of God, mayor, messenger, military attache, military chaplain, minister of state, minister plenipotentiary, minister resident, minister to, missionary, nuncio, officiate, padre, parson, pastor, perform a rite, perform service, plenipotentiary, portreeve, preacher, priest, rector, reeve, resident, reverend, secretary, secretary of legation, secretary of state, see to, selectman, servant of God, serve, shepherd, sky pilot, supervisor, supply, supply clergy, supply minister, support, syndic, the Reverend, the very Reverend, tonsured cleric, undersecretary, vicar, vice-consul, vice-legate, wait on, warden

• ministerial, abbatial, abbatical, accessory, adjuvant, administrating, administrative, agential, agentival, agentive, ambassadorial, ancillary, archiepiscopal, assistant, assisting, auxiliary, bureaucratic, canonical, capitular, capitulary, churchly, clerical, conducive, consular, diplomatic, directing, ecclesiastic, employable, episcopal, episcopalian, evangelistic, executive, facilitating, favoring, forwarding, fostering, handy, helpful, helping, instrumental, intermediary, managing, mediating, mediatorial, ministering, ministrant, nurtural, nutricial, official, officiating, pastoral, plenipotentiary, prelatial, prelatic, presiding, priest-ridden, priestish, priestly, promoting, rabbinic, sacerdotal, serviceable, serving, subservient, subsidiary, supervisory, ultramontane, useful

• ministering, accessory, adjuvant, agential, agentival, agentive, ancillary, assistant, assisting, attendant, attending, auxiliary, conducive, employable, facilitating, favoring, forwarding, fostering, handy, helpful, helping, instrumental, intermediary, mediating, mediatorial, menial, ministerial, ministrant, nurtural, nutricial, promoting, serviceable, servile, serving, servitorial, subservient, subsidiary, useful, waiting

• ministration, aid, assistance, attendance, benefit, comfort, ease, employ, employment, good offices, help, ministry, office, offices, peonage, protection, relief, remedy, rescue, serfdom, service, servitium, servitorship, servitude, slavery, succor, support, tendance, therapy

• ministry, Sacred College, administration, advisory council, agency, agent, aid, assistance, attendance, auspices, bailiwick, benefit, bureau, bureaucracy, cabinet, camarilla, care, channel, charge, clergy, clerical order, clericals, comfort, commissariat, constablery, constablewick, constabulary, council, council of state, cure, custodianship, custody, department, directorate, divan, ease, employ, employment, good offices, governance, government, guardianship, guidance, hands, help, hierarchy, higher echelons, higher-ups, holy orders, instrument, instrumentality, instrumentation, jurisdiction, keeping, kitchen cabinet, management, mean, medium, ministration, municipality, office, offices, officialdom, organ, oversight, pastorage, pastorate, pastorship, patronage, peonage, prelacy, presbytery, priestery, priesthood, privy council, protection, protectorship, rabbinate, relief, religion, remedy, rescue, ruling class, ruling classes, sacred calling, safe hands, secretariat, serfdom, service, servitium, servitorship, servitude, shadow cabinet, sheriffalty, sheriffwick, shrievalty, slavery, stewardship, succor, support, tendance, the Establishment, the administration, the authorities, the church, the cloth, the ingroup, the interests, the people upstairs, the power elite, the power structure, the pulpit, the top, them, therapy, they, top brass, tutelage, vehicle, ward, wardenship, wardship, watch and ward, wing

• minor matter, a little thing, hardly anything, inessential, insignificancy, marginal matter, matter of indifference, mere nothing, naught, nihility, no great matter, nothing, nothing in particular, nothing to signify, nullity, paltry affair, peu de chose, rien du tout, scarcely anything, technicality, thing of naught

• minor, academic specialty, adolescent, area, average, baby, back-burner, boy, budding, callow, casual, child, classical education, common, core curriculum, course, course of study, curriculum, demeaning, dependent, dewy, dinky, disadvantaged, discipline, dispensable, dominant, elective, fair, field, fledgling, general education, general studies, girl, green, growing, hopeful, humanities, humble, immaterial, immature, impubic, in the shade, inappreciable, inconsequential, inconsiderable, indifferent, inessential, inexperienced, infant, inferior, infra dig, ingenuous, innocent, insignificant, intact, irrelevant, juicy, junior, juvenal, juvenile, key, key signature, keynote, lad, laddie, lass, lassie, less, lesser, liberal arts, light, little, low, lower, lowly, major, major key, mediant, mediocre, medium, middling, minute, modest, naive, negligible, new-fledged, nonessential, not vital, obscure, one-horse, ordinary, paltry, pedal point, petit, petty, picayune, piddling, proseminar, pubescent, quadrivium, raw, refresher course, ripening, sapling, sappy, schoolboy, schoolgirl, scientific education, second rank, second string, second-rate, secondary, seminar, servile, shoestring, slight, slip, small, small-beer, small-fry, small-time, smaller, specialty, sprig, stripling, study, sub, subaltern, subdiscipline, subdominant, subject, submediant, subordinate, subservient, subsidiary, subtonic, supertonic, technical, technical education, teenager, teener, teenybopper, tender, third rank, third string, tonality, tonic, tonic key, trifling, trivial, trivium, two-bit, unadult, underage, underprivileged, undeveloped, undistinguished, unessential, unfledged, unformed, unimportant, unimpressive, unlicked, unmellowed, unnoteworthy, unnoticeable, unripe, unseasoned, vernal, virginal, vulgar, ward, young hopeful, young person, younger, youngest, youngling, youngster, youth

• minority group, breakaway group, camp, caucus, division, ethnic group, faction, interest, interest group, least, minority, offshoot, party, political party, pressure group, sect, side, silent majority, splinter, splinter group, the few, the minority, vocal minority, we happy few, wing

• minority leader, MP, Member of Congress, Member of Parliament, alderman, assemblyman, chosen freeholder, city father, congressman, congresswoman, councilman, floor leader, lawgiver, lawmaker, legislator, majority leader, party whip, representative, senator, solon, state senator, whip

• minority opinion, agreement to disagree, alienation, apostasy, counter-culture, difference, disaccord, disagreement, disapprobation, disapproval, disparity, dissatisfaction, dissension, dissent, dissentience, dissidence, diversity, dropping out, nonagreement, nonassent, nonconcurrence, nonconformity, nonconsent, opposition, recusance, recusancy, rejection, repudiation, secession, underground, variance, withdrawal

• minority, back seat, callowness, dewiness, disability, disablement, disqualification, freshness, greenness, humbleness, humility, imbecility, immaturity, inability, inadequacy, incapability, incapacitation, incapacity, incompetence, incompetency, inefficiency, ineptitude, inexperience, infancy, inferiority, insufficiency, juiciness, juniority, least, legal incapacity, lowliness, minority group, nonage, rawness, sappiness, second fiddle, second string, secondariness, servility, subjection, subordinacy, subordination, subservience, the few, the minority, third string, undevelopment, unfitness, unripeness, wardship, we happy few

• Minos, Aeacus, Aides, Aidoneus, Astraea, Cerberus, Charon, Cora, Despoina, Dike, Dis, Dis pater, Erebus, Hades, Hel, Jupiter Fidius, Justice, Justitia, Kore, Loki, Nemesis, Orcus, Osiris, Persephassa, Persephone, Pluto, Pontius Pilate, Proserpina, Proserpine, Rhadamanthus, Satan, Solomon, Themis, blindfolded Justice

• minstrel show, Broadway musical, Grand Guignol, Passion play, Singspiel, Tom show, antimasque, audience success, ballad opera, ballet, ballet divertissement, bomb, broadcast drama, burlesque show, charade, chorus show, cliff hanger, closet drama, comedy ballet, comedy drama, comic opera, critical success, dance drama, daytime serial, dialogue, documentary drama, drama, dramalogue, dramatic play, dramatic series, duodrama, duologue, epic theater, experimental theater, extravaganza, failure, flop, gasser, giveaway, grand opera, happening, hit, hit show, improvisational drama, legitimate drama, light opera, lyric drama, masque, melodrama, minstrel, miracle, miracle play, monodrama, monologue, morality, morality play, music drama, musical, musical comedy, musical revue, musical stage, musical theater, mystery, mystery play, opera, opera ballet, opera bouffe, opera buffa, operetta, pageant, panel show, pantomime, pastoral, pastoral drama, piece, play, playlet, problem play, psychodrama, quiz show, radio drama, review, revue, sensational play, serial, show, sitcom, situation comedy, sketch, skit, soap, soap opera, sociodrama, song-and-dance act, song-play, spectacle, stage play, stage show, straight drama, success, suspense drama, tableau, tableau vivant, talk show, teleplay, television drama, television play, theater of cruelty, total theater, variety show, vaudeville, vaudeville show, vehicle, word-of-mouth success, work

• minstrel, Broadway musical, Meistersinger, Parnassian, Singspiel, arch-poet, artist, artiste, ballad maker, ballad opera, ballad singer, balladeer, balladist, balladmonger, ballet, ballet divertissement, bard, beat poet, bucoliast, chorus show, comedy ballet, comic opera, concert artist, dance drama, elegist, epic poet, executant, fili, folk singer, folk-rock singer, gleeman, grand opera, idyllist, imagist, interpreter, jongleur, laureate, librettist, light opera, lyric drama, maestro, major poet, maker, minnesinger, minor poet, minstrel show, minstrelsy, modernist, music drama, music maker, musical, musical comedy, musical stage, musical theater, musician, occasional poet, odist, opera, opera ballet, opera bouffe, opera buffa, operetta, pastoral poet, pastoralist, performer, player, poet, poet laureate, poetress, rhapsode, rhapsodist, satirist, scald, scop, serenader, singer, skald, soloist, song-and-dance act, song-play, sonneteer, street singer, strolling minstrel, symbolist, troubador, troubadour, trouveur, trovatore, tunester, vers libriste, vers-librist, virtuosa, virtuoso, wait, wandering minstrel

• mint condition, brand-newness, callowness, dewiness, eupepsia, fine fettle, fine shape, fine whack, freshness, gloss of novelty, glowing health, good condition, good constitution, good digestion, good health, good shape, good trim, greenness, healthfulness, healthiness, healthy body, healthy constitution, high feather, immaturity, intactness, lateness, maidenhood, newbornness, newfangledness, newfangleness, newness, novelness, novelty, nowness, originality, picture of health, presentness, pristineness, rawness, recency, recentness, robust health, rude health, rugged health, soundness, strangeness, top shape, uncommonness, unfamiliarity, unusualness, virginity, wholesomeness

• mint, armory, arsenal, assembly line, assembly plant, atomic energy plant, batch, beget, bindery, block out, boatyard, boilery, bomb, boodle, bookbindery, brand-new, breed, brewery, brickyard, bright, bring forth, bring into being, bundle, call into being, cannery, carve, cast, chisel, coin, conceive, concoct, considerable, contrive, cook up, counterfeit, creamery, create, cut, dairy, deal, defense plant, design, develop, devise, die, discover, distillery, dockyard, dream up, earn, efform, engender, evolve, extra, fabricate, factory, factory belt, factory district, factory-new, fashion, feeder plant, figure, fire-new, fix, flour mill, forge, form, formalize, found, frame, fresh, generate, give being to, give rise to, gobs, good deal, good sum, great deal, harmless, hatch, heap, heaps, heaps of gold, held back, held in reserve, held out, hew, improvise, in abeyance, in hand, in mint condition, inaugurate, industrial park, industrial zone, innovate, intact, intaglio, invent, inviolate, knead, knock out, large sum, lashings, last, lay out, lick into shape, like new, loads, lot, lots, main plant, make, make do with, make up, manufactory, manufacturing plant, manufacturing quarter, matrix, mature, mess, mill, millions, mint of money, model, mold, munitions plant, negative, neologize, neoterize, new, new-begotten, new-built, new-fledged, new-grown, new-laid, new-made, new-minted, new-model, new-mown, new-wrought, newborn, oil refinery, oodles, original, originate, pack, packet, packing house, peck, perfect, pile, piles, plan, plant, pot, potful, pots, pottery, power of money, power plant, pretty penny, pristine, procreate, produce, production line, punch, push-button plant, put aside, put by, quite a little, raft, rafts, refinery, renew, renovate, reserve, roll, rough out, roughcast, roughhew, saved, sawmill, scads, scatheless, sculpt, sculpture, seal, set, shape, shipyard, shoe last, shove the queer, sight, slew, slews, spare, spate, spawn, spick-and-span, stack, stacks, stamp, stored, strike out, subassembly plant, sugar refinery, suspended, tailor, tannery, template, thermoform, think out, think up, thousands, tidy sum, to spare, ton, unapplied, unbeaten, unbroken, unbruised, uncirculated, unconsumed, undamaged, undefaced, undeformed, undemolished, undestroyed, unemployed, unexercised, unexpended, unfaded, unhandled, unharmed, unhurt, unimpaired, uninjured, unmaimed, unmangled, unmarked, unmarred, unscarred, unscathed, unscratched, unshattered, unspent, unspoiled, untapped, untorn, untouched, untrodden, unused, unutilized, unwithered, unworn, utter, virgin, wad, wads, waived, whole slew, winery, work, yard, yards

• mintage, and pence, artifact, authorship, beginning, brainchild, cash, child, circulating medium, coinage, coined liberty, coining, cold cash, composition, conception, concoction, contrivance, contriving, counterfeiting, creation, creative effort, creature, crowning achievement, currency, devising, distillation, dollars, effect, emergency money, end product, essence, extract, fabrication, filthy lucre, forgery, fractional currency, fruit, generation, gold, handiwork, hard cash, hard currency, hatching, improvisation, invention, issue, legal tender, lucre, making do, mammon, managed currency, manufacture, masterpiece, masterwork, medium of exchange, money, necessity money, new mintage, offspring, opera, opus, opuscule, origination, outcome, outgrowth, pelf, postage currency, postal currency, pounds, product, production, result, scrip, shillings, silver, soft currency, specie, stamping, sterling, striking, the almighty dollar, the wherewith, the wherewithal, work

• minus, barring, bereaved, bereaved of, bereft, cut off, decrement, deduction, deficient, denuded, deprived of, devoid, discounting, divested, except, excepting, exception taken of, excluding, exclusive of, existless, from, inadequate, inferior, insufficient, lacking, leaving out, less, minuend, missing, negative, nonexistent, not counting, null, off, out of, parted from, plus, positive, robbed of, sans, save, shorn of, short, short of, stripped of, subtrahend, unexisting, unreached, vacuous, void, wanting, without, without being

• minuscule, abecedarian, allographic, alphabetic, baby, baby-sized, bantam, banty, capital, compact, diminutive, duodecimo, graphemic, handy, ideographic, lettered, lexigraphic, literal, logogrammatic, logographic, lower-case, majuscule, miniature, miniaturized, minikin, minimal, minuscular, pictographic, pocket, pocket-sized, pony, small-scale, subminiature, toy, transliterated, twelvemo, uncial, upper-case, vest-pocket

• minute, Lilliputian, absolute, abundant year, academic year, accurate, all the rage, annum, attentive, baby, back-burner, balance, balance the books, bantam, bell, bissextile year, bitsy, bitty, blow-by-blow, book, breath, breathing, calendar, calendar month, calendar year, capitalize, careful, carry, carry over, carve, cast up accounts, catalog, ceaseless, century, certain, chalk, chalk up, charge off, check in, chronicle, close, close out, close the books, common year, concrete, conscientious, constant, continuous, cool, correct, coup, crack, credit, critical, cut, day, debit, decade, decennary, decennium, defective year, defined, definite, delicate, demanding, detailed, determinate, different, diminutive, dinky, dispensable, distinct, distinguished, docket, document, double entry, engrave, enroll, enscroll, enter, entry, esoteric, especial, exact, exacting, exceptional, exigent, express, exquisite, extraordinary, fashionable, fateful moment, file, fill out, fine, finical, finicking, finicky, fiscal year, fixed, flash, fortnight, full, fussy, grave, half a jiffy, half a mo, half a second, half a shake, hep, hip, hot, hour, immaterial, impanel, in, in fashion, in style, in vogue, inappreciable, incessant, incise, inconsequential, inconsiderable, index, individual, inessential, inferior, infinitesimal, inner, inscribe, insert, insignificant, instant, interminable, interval, intimate, irrelevant, item, itemized, itsy-bitsy, itty-bitty, jiff, jiffy, jot down, journal, journalize, juncture, kairos, keep books, latest, leap year, least, light, list, little, log, lunar month, lunar year, lunation, luster, lustrum, make a memorandum, make a note, make an entry, make out, man-hour, mark down, matriculate, memorandum, mere, meticulous, micro, microscopic, microsecond, millennium, millisecond, mini, miniature, minor, minuscule, minutely, minutes, modern, moment, moment of truth, month, moon, narrow, negligible, newest, nice, nonessential, not vital, notation, note, note down, notes, noteworthy, now, particular, particularized, peewee, period, personal, petit, petty, picayune, piddling, pint-sized, place upon record, point, poll, post, post up, precise, precisianistic, precisionistic, pregnant moment, private, proceedings, psychological moment, punctilious, punctual, put down, put in writing, put on paper, put on tape, quarter, quinquennium, record, reduce to writing, refined, register, regular year, religious, respective, resume, rigid, rigorous, scrupulous, scrutinizing, season, sec, second, semester, session, set down, several, shake, sidereal year, single entry, singular, slight, small, small-beer, smart, solar year, solipsistic, space, span, special, specific, spell, split second, stage, stretch, strict, strike a balance, stroke, stylish, subtle, summary, sun, tabulate, take down, tape, tape-record, technical, teensy-weensy, teeny, teeny-weeny, term, the time, thorough, tick, time, time lag, time of day, time signal, tiniest, tiny, transactions, transcribe, transcript, trendy, trice, trifling, trimester, trivial, twelvemonth, twink, twinkle, twinkling, twitch, two shakes, unceasing, unessential, unimportant, unimpressive, unintermitted, uninterrupted, unnoteworthy, videotape, wee, week, weekday, while, wink, with it, write, write down, write in, write out, write up, year

• minutely, a bit, a little, accurately, at length, barely, by a hair, by an ace, completely, concretely, conscientiously, definitely, distinctly, especially, ever so little, exactingly, exactly, exiguously, expressly, exquisitely, faintly, feebly, fully, fussily, hardly, imperfectly, in detail, in extenso, in full, in particular, in toto, inappreciably, inconsequentially, insignificantly, item by item, just a bit, lightly, little, meagerly, meticulously, minimally, negligibly, nicely, not hardly, only just, particularly, precisely, punctiliously, punctually, refinedly, rigorously, scantily, scarcely, scrupulously, separately, singly, slightly, specially, specifically, strictly, tant soit peu, to be specific, triflingly, weakly, wholly, with exactitude, with great nicety, with precision

• minutes, account, account rendered, accounting, acta, adversaria, aide-memoire, annotation, annual, brief, bulletin, census report, docket, election returns, entry, footnote, item, jotting, marginal note, marginalia, memo, memoir, memorandum, memorial, notation, note, proceedings, register, registry, reminder, report, returns, scholia, scholium, statement, tally, the record, transactions, yearbook

• minutiae, ace, article, aspect, atom, bit, bric-a-brac, case, chaff, chicken feed, chickenshit, count, crumb, dab, datum, detail, details, dole, dot, dram, dribble, driblet, drop, droplet, dwarf, element, facet, fact, factor, farthing, fleck, flyspeck, fragment, froth, gimcrackery, gnat, gobbet, grain, granule, groat, hair, handful, incidental, instance, iota, item, jot, knickknackery, little, little bit, matter, microbe, microorganism, midge, minim, minimum, minor detail, minutia, mite, modicum, molecule, mote, nutshell, ounce, particle, particular, peanuts, pebble, pinch, pinhead, pinpoint, pittance, point, regard, respect, rubbish, scrap, scruple, small beer, small change, small potatoes, smidgen, smitch, snip, snippet, speck, spoonful, spot, thimbleful, thing, tiny bit, tittle, trash, trifles, trifling amount, trivia, triviality, trumpery, vanishing point, whit

• minx, JD, Jane, bad boy, baggage, biddy, bird, bitch, boldface, booger, brat, brazenface, broad, buffoon, bugger, chick, chippy, chutzpanik, cutup, dame, devil, doll, drab, elf, enfant terrible, floozy, funmaker, gamin, hen, holy terror, hood, hoodlum, hooligan, hussy, imp, jade, joker, jokester, juvenile delinquent, knave, little devil, little monkey, little rascal, malapert, mischief, mischief-maker, pixie, practical joker, prankster, puck, punk, punk kid, pup, puppy, rapscallion, rascal, rogue, rowdy, ruffian, saucebox, scamp, scapegrace, skirt, slut, smart aleck, smart-ass, smarty, smarty-pants, snip, spoiled brat, strumpet, swaggerer, tart, tomato, trollop, trull, upstart, urchin, wag, wench, whippersnapper, wise guy, wise-ass

• miracle play, Grand Guignol, Passion play, Tom show, antimasque, audience success, ballet, bomb, broadcast drama, burlesque show, charade, cliff hanger, closet drama, comedy drama, critical success, daytime serial, dialogue, documentary drama, drama, dramalogue, dramatic play, dramatic series, duodrama, duologue, epic theater, experimental theater, extravaganza, failure, flop, gasser, giveaway, happening, hit, hit show, improvisational drama, legitimate drama, masque, melodrama, minstrel show, miracle, monodrama, monologue, morality, morality play, music drama, musical revue, mystery, mystery play, opera, pageant, panel show, pantomime, pastoral, pastoral drama, piece, play, playlet, problem play, psychodrama, quiz show, radio drama, review, revue, sensational play, serial, show, sitcom, situation comedy, sketch, skit, soap, soap opera, sociodrama, spectacle, stage play, stage show, straight drama, success, suspense drama, tableau, tableau vivant, talk show, teleplay, television drama, television play, theater of cruelty, total theater, variety show, vaudeville, vaudeville show, vehicle, word-of-mouth success, work

• miracle, Grand Guignol, Passion play, Tom show, amazement, antimasque, astonishing thing, astonishment, audience success, ballet, bomb, broadcast drama, burlesque show, charade, cliff hanger, closet drama, comedy drama, critical success, curiosity, daytime serial, dialogue, documentary drama, drama, dramalogue, dramatic play, dramatic series, duodrama, duologue, enchantment, epic theater, exception, experimental theater, extravaganza, failure, fantasy, ferlie, flop, gasser, gazingstock, giveaway, happening, hit, hit show, improvisational drama, legitimate drama, marvel, marvelment, masque, melodrama, minstrel show, miracle play, monodrama, monologue, morality, morality play, music drama, musical revue, mystery, mystery play, nonesuch, opera, pageant, panel show, pantomime, pastoral, pastoral drama, phenomenon, piece, play, playlet, portent, problem play, prodigy, psychodrama, quite a thing, quiz show, radio drama, rarity, review, revue, sensation, sensational play, serial, show, sight, sign, sitcom, situation comedy, sketch, skit, soap, soap opera, sociodrama, something else, spectacle, stage play, stage show, straight drama, stunner, success, suspense drama, tableau, tableau vivant, talk show, teleplay, television drama, television play, theater of cruelty, total theater, variety show, vaudeville, vaudeville show, vehicle, wonder, wonderful thing, wonderment, wonderwork, word-of-mouth success, work

• miraculous, amazing, astonishing, astounding, beguiling, bewildering, bewitched, crazy, enchanted, enigmatic, exceptional, extraordinary, fabulous, fantastic, fascinating, incomprehensible, inconceivable, incredible, inexplicable, magical, marvelous, mind-boggling, necromantic, numinous, outlandish, passing strange, phenomenal, preternatural, prodigious, puzzling, rare, remarkable, sensational, spectacular, staggering, strange, striking, stupendous, superhuman, superior, supermundane, supernatural, supramundane, supranatural, thaumaturgic, unbelievable, unearthly, unexplainable, unheard-of, unimaginable, unique, unprecedented, wonder-working, wonderful, wondrous

• miraculously, beguilingly, bewilderingly, enigmatically, exceptionally, extraordinarily, fabulously, fantastically, fascinatingly, incomprehensibly, inconceivably, incredibly, marvelously, outlandishly, phenomenally, prodigiously, puzzlingly, remarkably, sensationally, strangely, strikingly, stupendously, unimaginably, wonderfully, wondrously

• mirage, apparition, appearance, bafflement, balk, bamboozlement, befooling, betrayed hope, blasted expectation, blighted hope, blow, bluffing, buffet, calculated deception, circumvention, comedown, conning, cruel disappointment, dash, dashed hope, deceiving, deception, deceptiveness, defeat, defrauding, delusion, delusiveness, disappointment, discomfiture, disillusionment, dissatisfaction, dupery, enmeshment, ensnarement, entanglement, entrapment, failure, fallaciousness, fallacy, fallen countenance, false image, falseness, fata morgana, fiasco, figure, fizzle, flimflam, flimflammery, foiling, fond illusion, fooling, forlorn hope, form, frustration, hallucination, hoodwinking, hope deferred, illusion, image, kidding, letdown, looming, outwitting, overreaching, phantasm, phantom, phasm, phenomenon, presence, putting on, self-deception, setback, shape, snow job, song and dance, sore disappointment, spoofery, spoofing, subterfuge, swindling, tantalization, tease, trickiness, tricking, victimization, vision, willful misconception, wishful thinking

• mire, adhere, baygall, befoul, begrime, bemire, bemud, besmirch, besmoke, blacken, bog, bog down, bottom, bottomland, bottoms, buffalo wallow, cesspool, clay, cleave, cling, cloaca, cloaca maxima, cohere, decelerate, defile, detain, dirt, dirty, dirty up, drain, dump, dust, embroil, enmesh, ensnare, entangle, entrap, everglade, fen, fenland, garbage dump, glade, glop, grime, gumbo, gunk, hog wallow, holm, implicate, involve, marais, marish, marsh, marshland, meadow, mere, moor, moorland, morass, moss, muck, muck up, mud, mud flat, muddy, ooze, peat bog, quag, quagmire, quicksand, retard, salt marsh, scum, septic tank, set back, sewer, sink, sink in, slab, slacken, slime, slip, slob, slob land, slop, slosh, slough, slow down, sludge, slush, smear, smoke, smudge, snare, soil, soot, sough, splosh, squash, stick, stodge, sully, sump, swale, swamp, swampland, swill, taiga, tangle, tarnish, trap, wallow, wash

• mirror image, antipode, antipodes, antipole, antithesis, antonym, contra, converse, counter, counterbalance, countercheck, counterpoint, counterpoise, counterpole, counterterm, foil, inverse, obverse, offset, opposite, opposite number, reverse, setoff, the contrary, the other side, vis-a-vis

• mirror, acme, act like, adumbrate, affect, antetype, antitype, ape, apotheosis, appear like, approach, approximate, archetype, assume, be like, be redolent of, bear resemblance, beau ideal, best type, biotype, body forth, borrow, bring to mind, call to mind, call up, cheval glass, chorus, classic, classic example, come close, come near, compare with, concave mirror, convex mirror, copy, correspond, counterfeit, crib, criterion, cynosure, demonstrate, depict, distorting mirror, ditto, do, do like, echo, ego ideal, emblematize, embody, epitome, epitomize, evoke, example, exemplar, exemplify, fake, favor, figure, follow, foreshadow, forge, fugleman, fugler, genotype, glass, go like, good example, hand mirror, hero, hoke, hoke up, ideal, illustrate, image, imitate, imitatee, impersonate, incarnate, lead, look like, looking glass, make like, man of men, masterpiece, masterwork, match, mimic, mirror image, model, near, nearly reproduce, nonpareil, not tell apart, original, paradigm, paragon, parallel, partake of, pattern, pattern of perfection, personate, personify, picture, pier glass, plagiarize, precedent, prefigure, pretypify, project, prototype, quintessence, realize, rear-view mirror, reecho, reflect, reflection, reflector, remind one of, repeat, replication, represent, representation, representative, reproduce, reproduction, resemble, rule, savor of, seeing glass, seem like, send back, shadow, shadow forth, shaving mirror, shining example, simulate, smack of, sound like, speculum, stack up with, standard, suggest, symbolize, take after, type, type species, type specimen, typify, urtext, very model, window mirror

• mirroring, companion, copy, copying, counterfeiting, dead ringer, double, duplicate, effigy, emulation, exact likeness, fakery, fellow, following, forgery, hit-off, icon, idol, image, imitation, impersonation, imposture, impression, likeness, living image, living picture, match, mate, mimesis, miniature, model, onomatopoeia, parody, photograph, picture, plagiarism, plagiary, portrait, reflection, repetition, resemblance, rubbing, semblance, shadow, similitude, simulacrum, simulation, spit and image, spitting image, takeoff, trace, tracing, twin, very image, very picture

• mirth, amusement, buoyancy, cheer, cheerfulness, diversion, divertisement, divertissement, enjoyment, entertainment, frivolity, frolic, fun, gaiety, gladness, glee, gleefulness, happiness, high glee, high spirits, hilariousness, hilarity, jocularity, jocundity, jolliness, jollity, joviality, joy, joyfulness, joyousness, laughter, levity, lightheartedness, merriment, merriness, merrymaking, mirthfulness, passe-temps, pastime, pleasure, recreation, regalement, rejoicing, relaxation, revelry, solace

• mirthful, blithe, blithesome, buxom, festive, frivolous, gay, gleeful, hilarious, jocular, jocund, jolly, jovial, joyful, joyous, laughter-loving, lighthearted, merry, mirth-loving, rejoicing, risible

• miry, boggish, boggy, dingy, dirty, dusty, fenny, grimy, grubby, grungy, marish, marshy, messy, mirish, moorish, moory, mucky, muddy, oozy, paludal, paludous, plashy, poachy, quaggy, quagmiry, scruffy, slabby, slobby, sloppy, sloshy, sloughy, slovenly, sludgy, slushy, smirchy, smoky, smudgy, smutchy, smutty, snuffy, soft, sooty, splashy, sposhy, spouty, squashy, squelchy, squishy, swampish, swampy, turbid, uliginous, untidy

• misadventure, accident, blow, blunder, boner, bull, calamity, casualty, cataclysm, catastrophe, collision, contretemps, crack-up, crash, disaster, error, faux pas, grief, howler, ill hap, lapse, mischance, misfortune, mishap, nasty blow, pileup, shipwreck, shock, slip, smash, smashup, staggering blow, tragedy, wreck

• misalliance, a world-without-end bargain, abnormality, alliance, anomaly, bed, bond of matrimony, bridebed, cohabitation, conjugal bond, conjugal knot, coverture, holy matrimony, holy wedlock, husbandhood, ill-assorted marriage, impropriety, inadmissibility, inapplicability, inappositeness, inappropriateness, inaptitude, inaptness, infelicity, intermarriage, interracial marriage, invalid linking, irrelevance, irrelevancy, maladjustment, marriage, marriage bed, marriage sacrament, match, matrimonial union, matrimony, mesalliance, misapplicability, misapplication, miscegenation, misconnection, misjoinder, misjoining, mismatch, misreference, misrelation, mixed marriage, nuptial bond, sacrament of matrimony, spousehood, uncongeniality, unfitness, union, unsuitability, wedded bliss, wedded state, weddedness, wedding knot, wedlock, wifehood

• misanthrope, Anglophobe, Russophobe, anchoret, anchorite, bigot, cynic, hater, hermit, lone wolf, loner, man-hater, misanthropist, misogynist, racist, recluse, sexist, woman-hater, xenophobe

• misanthropic, Timonistic, antisocial, cynical, egocentric, egoistic, eremitic, man-hating, misogynic, misogynous, reclusive, reserved, sexist, solitary, standoffish, unfriendly, unsociable, unsocial, woman-hating

• misanthropy, Anglophobia, Russophobia, abhorrence, abomination, anti-Semitism, antipathy, aversion, bigotry, despitefulness, detestation, dislike, execration, hate, hatred, loathing, malevolence, malice, malignity, misandry, misogyny, odium, race hatred, racism, repugnance, spite, spitefulness, vials of hate, vials of wrath, xenophobia

• misapplication, aberrancy, aberration, abuse, abuse of office, abuse of terms, apparent soundness, befoulment, casuistry, catachresis, circularity, contorting, conversion, corrupt administration, debasement, defalcation, defectiveness, defilement, delusion, desecration, deviancy, disingenuousness, distortion, diversion, eisegesis, embezzlement, equivocalness, equivocation, errancy, erroneousness, error, evasive reasoning, fallaciousness, fallacy, falseness, falsity, fault, faultiness, flaw, flawedness, fouling, garbling, gloss, hamartia, heresy, heterodoxy, illusion, insincerity, invalid linking, jesuitism, jesuitry, maladministration, malentendu, malfeasance, malobservation, malpractice, malversation, mesalliance, misalliance, misapplicability, misapprehension, misappropriation, miscitation, misconception, misconduct, misconnection, misconstruction, misdoing, misemployment, misexplanation, misexplication, misexposition, misfeasance, mishandling, misintelligence, misinterpretation, misjudgment, mismanagement, misquotation, misreading, misreference, misrelation, misrendering, mistranslation, misunderstanding, misusage, misuse, misuse of words, mystification, obfuscation, obscurantism, oversubtlety, peccancy, peculation, perversion, philosophism, pilfering, plausibility, plausibleness, pollution, poor stewardship, profanation, prostitution, rationalization, self-contradiction, sin, sinfulness, sophism, sophistical reasoning, sophistication, sophistry, special pleading, speciosity, specious reasoning, speciousness, squeezing, subtlety, torturing, twisting, unorthodoxy, untrueness, untruth, untruthfulness, vicious circle, vicious reasoning, violation, wrenching, wrong, wrongness

• misapply, abuse, argue insincerely, befoul, contort, convert, debase, defalcate, defile, desecrate, distort, divert, do amiss, embezzle, foul, garble, get one wrong, get wrong, gloss, maladminister, misapprehend, misappropriate, miscall, miscite, misconceive, misconduct, misconstrue, miscount, misdeal, misdeem, misdirect, misemploy, misexplain, misexplicate, misexpound, misfield, mishandle, misinterpret, misjudge, mismanage, misplay, misprint, misquote, misread, misrender, misreport, misspell, mistake, mistranslate, misunderstand, misuse, paralogize, peculate, pervert, pilfer, pollute, profane, prostitute, rationalize, reason ill, squeeze, strain the sense, torture, twist the words, violate, wrench

• misapprehend, contort, distort, garble, get one wrong, get wrong, gloss, make a miscue, make a mistake, misapply, miscite, misconceive, misconstrue, miscue, misdeem, misexplain, misexplicate, misexpound, misidentify, misinterpret, misjudge, misquote, misread, misrender, miss, mistake, mistranslate, misunderstand, pervert, squeeze, strain the sense, torture, twist the words, wrench

• misapprehension, abuse of terms, catachresis, clerical error, contorting, corrigendum, distortion, eisegesis, erratum, error, failure, fault, faute, garbling, gloss, human error, malentendu, malobservation, misapplication, miscalculation, miscarriage, miscitation, misconception, misconstruction, miscount, misdeal, misexplanation, misexplication, misexposition, misidentification, misintelligence, misinterpretation, misjudgment, misplay, misprint, misquotation, misreading, misrendering, misreport, miss, misstatement, mistake, mistranslation, misunderstanding, misuse, misuse of words, perversion, squeezing, torturing, twisting, typo, typographical error, wrenching

• misappropriate, abuse, befoul, convert, debase, defalcate, defile, desecrate, divert, embezzle, expropriate, filch, foul, maladminister, misapply, misemploy, mishandle, mismanage, misuse, peculate, pervert, pilfer, pocket, pollute, profane, prostitute, steal, violate

• misappropriation, abuse, abuse of office, befoulment, conversion, corrupt administration, debasement, defalcation, defilement, desecration, diversion, embezzlement, fouling, maladministration, malfeasance, malpractice, malversation, misapplication, misconduct, misemployment, misfeasance, mishandling, mismanagement, misusage, misuse, peculation, perversion, pilfering, pollution, poor stewardship, profanation, prostitution, violation

• misbegotten, bandy, bandy-legged, baroque, baseborn, bastard, bizarre, blemished, bloated, bowlegged, cacogenic, club-footed, defaced, deformed, disfigured, dwarfed, false, fatherless, flatfooted, freak, freakish, gargoylish, grotesque, ill-made, ill-proportioned, ill-shaped, illegitimate, knock-kneed, malformed, marred, miscreated, misproportioned, misshapen, monstrous, mutilated, natural, out of shape, pigeon-toed, pug-nosed, rachitic, rickety, rococo, shapeless, simous, snub-nosed, spurious, stumpy, supposititious, swaybacked, talipedic, teratic, teratogenic, teratoid, truncated, unshapely

• misbelief, Albigensianism, Arianism, Catharism, Ebionitism, Erastianism, Gnosticism, Jovinianism, Lollardy, Manichaeanism, Manichaeism, Monophysism, Monophysitism, Pelagianism, Waldensianism, Wyclifism, airy nothing, antinomianism, autism, bubble, chimera, daydream, deception, deluded belief, delusion, dereism, dream, dream vision, dreamland, dreamworld, emanatism, error, fallacy, false belief, false doctrine, heresy, hylotheism, ignis fatuus, illusion, misconception, pantheism, pipe dream, self-deceit, self-deception, self-delusion, trick, trip, vapor, wrong impression

• misbelieve, be in error, be mistaken, be wrong, deny, deviate, disbelieve, discredit, err, fall into error, gag on, go astray, go wrong, negate, not admit, not believe, not buy, not swallow, refuse to admit, refuse to credit, reject, serve Mammon, stray, unbelieve, wander

• misbeliever, Albigensian, Arian, Cathar, Donatist, Ebionite, Erastian, Gnostic, Jansenist, Lollard, Manichaean, Monophysite, Montanist, Pelagian, Sabellian, Waldensian, Wyclifite, antinomian, dissenter, dissident, emanationist, heretic, hylotheist, nonconformist, pantheist, schismatic, sectary, separatist

• miscalculate, deviate, discount, disregard, err, fall into error, go amiss, go astray, go awry, go wrong, judge amiss, lapse, misappreciate, miscompute, misconjecture, misconstrue, miscount, misdeem, misesteem, misestimate, misevaluate, misinterpret, misjudge, misread, misreckon, misthink, misunderstand, misvalue, overestimate, overlook, overprize, overrate, overvalue, slip, slip up, stray, stumble, trip, underestimate, underprize, underrate, undervalue, wander

• miscalculation, clerical error, corrigendum, erratum, error, error in judgment, failure, fault, faute, human error, injudiciousness, misappreciation, misapprehension, miscarriage, miscomputation, misconception, misconjecture, misconstruction, miscount, misdeal, misestimation, misevaluation, misidentification, misinterpretation, misjudgment, misplay, misprint, misquotation, misreading, misreport, miss, misstatement, mistake, misunderstanding, misuse, misvaluation, poor judgment, skewed judgment, typo, typographical error, wrong construction, wrong impression

• miscarriage, abortion, abortive attempt, breakdown, clerical error, collapse, corrigendum, defeat, dud, erratum, error, failing, failure, fault, faute, frustration, human error, merry chase, misapprehension, miscalculation, miscarrying, misconception, miscount, misdeal, misfire, misidentification, misjudgment, mismanagement, misplay, misprint, misquotation, misreport, miss, misstatement, mistake, misunderstanding, misuse, typo, typographical error, vain attempt, wet squib, wild-goose chase

• miscarry, abort, break down, come to grief, die, fail, fall through, flop, founder, go amiss, go astray, go awry, go wrong, misfire, miss, miss out, miss stays, miss the boat, miss the mark, perish

• miscegenate, be made one, be spliced, become one, contract matrimony, couple, cross, crossbreed, espouse, get hitched, hybridize, interbreed, intermarry, interwed, marry, mate, mongrelize, pair off, remarry, rewed, take to wife, wed, wive

• miscegenation, a world-without-end bargain, alliance, bed, bond of matrimony, bridebed, cohabitation, conjugal bond, conjugal knot, coverture, crossbreeding, crossing, holy matrimony, holy wedlock, husbandhood, hybridism, hybridization, ill-assorted marriage, interbreeding, intermarriage, interracial marriage, marriage, marriage bed, marriage sacrament, match, matrimonial union, matrimony, mesalliance, misalliance, mixed marriage, mongrelism, nuptial bond, sacrament of matrimony, spousehood, union, wedded bliss, wedded state, weddedness, wedding knot, wedlock, wifehood

• miscellaneous, amalgamated, ambiguous, ambivalent, amphibious, assorted, blended, combined, complex, composite, compound, compounded, conglomerate, dappled, different, disparate, divergent, divers, diverse, diversified, eclectic, equivocal, fifty-fifty, half-and-half, heterogeneous, indiscriminate, intricate, ironic, jumbled, manifold, many, many-sided, medley, mingled, mixed, motley, multifaceted, multifarious, multiform, multinational, multiplex, multiracial, odd, patchy, pluralistic, promiscuous, scrambled, sundry, syncretic, thrown together, unsorted, varied, various, varying

• miscellany, Festschrift, album, all sorts, ana, analects, anthology, assemblage, assortment, beauties, brew, broad spectrum, canon, chrestomathy, clippings, collectanea, collected works, collection, colluvies, compilation, complete works, conglomerate, conglomeration, cuttings, delectus, diversity, excerpta, excerpts, extracts, florilegium, flowers, fragments, gallimaufry, garden, garland, gleanings, hash, hodgepodge, hotchpot, hotchpotch, job lot, jumble, magpie, mash, medley, melange, melee, mess, mingle-mangle, miscellanea, mishmash, mix, mixed bag, mixture, motley, oddments, odds and ends, olio, olla podrida, omnibus, omnium gatherum, omnium-gatherum, pasticcio, pastiche, patchwork, photograph album, posy, potpourri, quotation book, salad, salmagundi, sauce, scramble, scrapbook, smorgasbord, stew, sundries, symposium, variety, what you will

• mischance, accident, adversity, blow, calamity, casualty, cataclysm, catastrophe, collision, contretemps, crack-up, crash, disaster, grief, ill hap, misadventure, misfortune, mishap, nasty blow, pileup, shipwreck, shock, smash, smashup, staggering blow, tragedy, wreck

• mischief maker, agent provocateur, agitator, agitprop, bad boy, booger, buffoon, bugger, catalyst, cutup, demagogue, devil, elf, enfant terrible, exciter, firebrand, fomenter, funmaker, hood, hoodlum, hooligan, imp, incendiary, inciter, inflamer, instigator, joker, jokester, knave, little devil, little monkey, little rascal, minx, mischief, pixie, practical joker, prankster, provocateur, provoker, puck, rabble-rouser, rapscallion, rascal, ringleader, rogue, rouser, rowdy, ruffian, scamp, scapegrace, seditionary, seditionist, troublemaker, urger, wag

• mischief, Discordia, Eris, abomination, atrocity, bad, bad boy, badness, bane, bankruptcy, befoulment, blight, booger, breakage, breakdown, buffoon, bugger, clash, clashing, collapse, conflict, contention, corruption, crack-up, crippling, crying evil, cutup, damage, defilement, despoliation, destruction, detriment, devil, devilishness, devilment, devilry, deviltry, diablerie, difference, difficulty, dilapidation, disablement, disaccord, disadvantage, disaffinity, discord, discordance, discordancy, disharmony, disrepair, disruption, dissension, dissent, division, drawback, elf, elfishness, encroachment, enfant terrible, enmity, evil, foolishness, friction, funmaker, grievance, handicap, hardship, harm, havoc, high spirits, hobbling, hood, hoodlum, hooligan, hurt, hurting, ill, imp, impairment, impishness, incapacitation, incompatibility, incompatibleness, infection, infringement, inharmoniousness, inharmony, injury, inroad, jangle, jar, joker, jokester, knave, liability, limb, little devil, little monkey, little rascal, loss, loss of ground, maiming, mayhem, minx, misbehavior, mischief-maker, mischievousness, misfortune, monkey business, monkeyshines, mutilation, naughtiness, noncooperation, open conflict, outrage, pixie, playfulness, poison, pollution, practical joker, prankishness, pranksomeness, prankster, prejudice, puck, puckishness, rapscallion, rascal, rascality, rogue, roguery, roguishness, rowdy, rub, ruffian, ruin, ruination, ruinousness, sabotage, scalawag, scamp, scampishness, scapegrace, scathe, shenanigans, sickening, spoiling, sportiveness, step backward, strained relations, strife, tension, the worst, toxin, trouble, unharmoniousness, unpleasantness, variance, venom, vexation, villain, wag, waggery, waggishness, weakening, woe, wrong, youthful spirits

• mischievous, annoying, arch, artful, bad, baleful, baneful, bothering, bothersome, corroding, corrosive, corrupting, corruptive, counterproductive, damaging, dangerous, deadly, deleterious, destructive, detrimental, devilish, disadvantageous, disserviceable, distressing, elfish, elvish, evil, foolish, foxy, frolicsome, full of mischief, harmful, hazardous, high-spirited, hurtful, ill, ill-behaved, impish, injurious, insidious, irking, irksome, knavish, larkish, lethal, malefic, malevolent, malicious, malign, malignant, misbehaving, mischief-loving, naughty, noisome, noxious, ominous, paw, perilous, pernicious, playful, poisonous, prankish, pranksome, pranky, precarious, prejudicial, puckish, rascally, risky, roguish, scampish, scapegrace, scatheful, sly, spiteful, sportive, toxic, trickish, tricksy, tricky, venenate, veneniferous, venenous, venomous, vexatious, vexing, vicious, virulent, waggish, wicked

• mischievousness, annoying, belie, color, devilment, devilry, deviltry, diablerie, distort, evil, falsify, garble, harm, hurt, impishness, injury, mischief, miscolor, misstate, odiousness, offensiveness, pervert, roguery, roguishness, sportiveness, teasing, twist, waggery, waggishness, warp

• misconceive, contort, distort, garble, get one wrong, get wrong, gloss, make a miscue, make a mistake, misapply, misapprehend, miscite, misconstrue, miscue, misdeem, misexplain, misexplicate, misexpound, misidentify, misinterpret, misjudge, misquote, misread, misrender, mistake, mistranslate, misunderstand, pervert, squeeze, strain the sense, torture, twist the words, wrench

• misconception, abuse of terms, airy nothing, autism, bubble, catachresis, chimera, clerical error, contorting, corrigendum, daydream, deception, deluded belief, delusion, dereism, distortion, dream, dream vision, dreamland, dreamworld, eisegesis, erratum, error, failure, false belief, fault, faute, garbling, gloss, human error, ignis fatuus, illusion, malentendu, malobservation, misapplication, misapprehension, misbelief, miscalculation, miscarriage, miscitation, misconstruction, miscount, misdeal, misexplanation, misexplication, misexposition, misidentification, misintelligence, misinterpretation, misjudgment, misplay, misprint, misquotation, misreading, misrendering, misreport, miss, misstatement, mistake, mistranslation, misunderstanding, misuse, misuse of words, perversion, pipe dream, self-deceit, self-deception, self-delusion, squeezing, torturing, trick, trip, twisting, typo, typographical error, vapor, wrenching, wrong impression

• misconduct, abuse, abuse of office, bad policy, badness, be negligent, befoulment, conversion, corrupt administration, crime, criminal tendency, criminality, criminosis, debasement, defalcation, defilement, desecration, discourtesy, disorder, disorderliness, disorderly conduct, disruption, disruptiveness, diversion, do amiss, embezzlement, evil courses, evildoing, feloniousness, fouling, frowned-upon behavior, hooliganism, horseplay, impolicy, impropriety, inexpedience, inexpediency, lawbreaking, maladminister, maladministration, malfeasance, malpractice, malversation, misadminister, misadministration, misapplication, misapply, misappropriation, misbehavior, miscall, miscite, miscount, misdeal, misdemeanor, misdirect, misdirection, misdoing, misemploy, misemployment, misfeasance, misfield, misgovern, misgovernment, misguidance, misguide, mishandle, mishandling, mismanage, mismanagement, misplay, misprint, misprision, misprision of treason, misquote, misread, misreport, misrule, misspell, misusage, misuse, naughtiness, neglect, negligence, nonfeasance, nonsanctioned behavior, omission, peculation, perversion, pilfering, pollution, poor stewardship, positive misprision, profanation, prostitution, roughhouse, rowdiness, rowdyism, ruffianism, sin, thou scarlet sin, vandalism, venial sin, vice, viciousness, violation, wrong conduct, wrongdoing

• misconstruction, aberrancy, aberration, abuse of terms, antiphrasis, barbarism, catachresis, coloring, confabulation, contorting, corruption, defectiveness, delusion, deviancy, distortion, eisegesis, equivocation, errancy, erroneousness, error, error in judgment, exaggeration, fallaciousness, fallacy, false coloring, false swearing, falseness, falsification, falsifying, falsity, fault, faultiness, flaw, flawedness, garbling, gloss, hamartia, heresy, heterodoxy, illusion, infelicity, injudiciousness, malapropism, malentendu, malobservation, misapplication, misappreciation, misapprehension, miscalculation, miscitation, miscoloring, miscomputation, misconception, misconjecture, misdirection, misdoing, misestimation, misevaluation, misexplanation, misexplication, misexposition, misfeasance, misintelligence, misinterpretation, misjudgment, misquotation, misreading, misrendering, misrepresentation, missaying, misstatement, mistranslation, misunderstanding, misusage, misuse, misuse of words, misvaluation, peccancy, perjury, perversion, poor judgment, prevarication, self-contradiction, sin, sinfulness, skewed judgment, slanting, solecism, squeezing, straining, torturing, twisting, ungrammaticism, unorthodoxy, untrueness, untruth, untruthfulness, wrenching, wrong, wrong construction, wrong impression, wrongness

• misconstrue, bias, color, contort, distort, err, garble, get one wrong, get wrong, gloss, judge amiss, misapply, misappreciate, misapprehend, miscalculate, miscite, miscompute, misconceive, misconjecture, misdeem, misdirect, misesteem, misestimate, misevaluate, misexplain, misexplicate, misexpound, misinterpret, misjudge, misquote, misread, misreckon, misrender, misrepresent, mistake, misthink, mistranslate, misunderstand, misuse, misvalue, pervert, slant, squeeze, strain, strain the sense, torture, twist the words, varnish, wrench

• miscreant, backslider, bad egg, bad lot, base, bastard, black sheep, blackguard, caitiff, corrupt, criminal, crook, degenerate, depraved, evil, fallen angel, felon, felonious, flagitious, good-for-nothing, heel, hood, hoodlum, hooligan, infamous, iniquitous, knave, lecher, lost sheep, lost soul, lowlife, malefactor, malefic, malevolent, mischief-maker, mischievous, mug, nefarious, perverse, pervert, pimp, profligate, rapscallion, rascal, rascally, recidivist, recreant, reprobate, rogue, rough, roughneck, rowdy, ruffian, scalawag, scamp, scapegrace, scoundrel, scoundrelly, sorry lot, thug, trollop, unhealthy, unprincipled, vicious, villain, villainous, whore, wicked, wretch, wretched, wrongdoer

• miscue, bad job, balk, be all thumbs, bevue, blooper, blunder, blunder away, blunder into, blunder on, blunder upon, bobble, boggle, bonehead play, boner, boo-boo, botch, bumble, bungle, butcher, clumsy performance, commit a gaffe, error, etourderie, false move, false step, faux pas, flounder, flub, fluff, foozle, fumble, gaucherie, hash, inadvertence, inadvertency, lapse, lapsus calami, lapsus linguae, loose thread, lumber, make a miscue, make a mistake, mar, mess, misapprehend, misconceive, misidentify, misinterpret, misstep, mistake, misunderstand, muddle, muff, murder, off day, omission, oversight, play havoc with, sad work, slip, slipup, spoil, stumble, trip, wrong step

• misdate, anachronism, antedate, antedating, anticipation, earliness, foredate, historical error, lag, lateness, metachronism, misdating, mistime, mistiming, parachronism, postdate, postdating, prochronism, prolepsis, tardiness, unpunctuality

• misdated, ahead of time, anachronistic, antedated, beforehand, behind time, behindhand, dated, early, foredated, late, metachronistic, mistimed, out of date, out of season, overdue, parachronistic, past due, postdated, prochronistic, tardy, unpunctual, unseasonable

• misdeed, atrocity, breach, crime, crime against humanity, deadly sin, delinquency, dereliction, enormity, error, evil, failure, fault, felony, genocide, guilty act, heavy sin, impropriety, indiscretion, inexpiable sin, iniquity, injury, injustice, lapse, malefaction, malfeasance, malum, minor wrong, misconduct, misdeeds, misdemeanor, misdoing, misfeasance, mortal sin, nonfeasance, offense, omission, outrage, peccadillo, peccancy, sin, sin of commission, sin of omission, sinful act, slip, tort, transgression, trespass, trip, unutterable sin, venial sin, wrong, wrongdoing

• misdemeanor, atrocity, badness, breach, crime, crime against humanity, criminal tendency, criminality, criminosis, deadly sin, delict, delinquency, dereliction, discourtesy, disorder, disorderliness, disorderly conduct, disruption, disruptiveness, enormity, error, evil, evil courses, evildoing, failure, fault, feloniousness, felony, frowned-upon behavior, genocide, guilty act, heavy sin, hooliganism, horseplay, illegality, impropriety, indiscretion, inexpiable sin, iniquity, injury, injustice, lapse, lawbreaking, malefaction, malfeasance, malpractice, malum, malversation, minor wrong, misbehavior, misconduct, misdeed, misdoing, misfeasance, misprision, misprision of treason, mortal sin, naughtiness, nonfeasance, nonsanctioned behavior, offense, omission, outrage, peccadillo, peccancy, positive misprision, roughhouse, rowdiness, rowdyism, ruffianism, sin, sin of commission, sin of omission, sinful act, slip, thou scarlet sin, tort, transgression, trespass, trip, unutterable sin, vandalism, venial sin, vice, viciousness, violation, wrong, wrong conduct, wrongdoing

• misdirect, be negligent, bias, bowl a googly, color, corrupt, garble, lead astray, maladminister, misaddress, misadminister, misadvise, misconduct, misconstrue, miseducate, misgovern, misguide, mishandle, misinform, misinstruct, misinterpret, mislead, mismanage, misrender, misrepresent, misrule, misteach, misuse, mystify, obfuscate, obscure, pervert, slant, strain, throw a curve, torture, varnish

• misdirected, botched, bungled, butchered, fumbled, ill-advised, ill-considered, ill-contrived, ill-devised, ill-done, ill-executed, ill-managed, impolitic, misadvised, misconducted, misguided, misinformed, misinstructed, misled, mismanaged, mistaught, muffed, murdered, negligent, spoiled

• misdirection, bad policy, bum steer, college of Laputa, corruption, false coloring, impolicy, inexpedience, inexpediency, maladministration, malfeasance, malpractice, misadministration, misconduct, misconstruction, misfeasance, misgovernment, misguidance, mishandling, misinformation, misinstruction, misinterpretation, misknowledge, misleading, mismanagement, misrepresentation, misrule, misteaching, misuse, mystification, neglect, negligence, nonfeasance, obfuscation, obscurantism, obscuration, omission, perversion, slanting, sophistry, straining, torturing, wrongdoing

• miser, Silas Marner, accumulator, bill collector, cheapskate, churl, collection agent, collector, connoisseur, curmudgeon, douanier, dunner, exciseman, farmer, gatherer, glutton, hog, magpie, muckworm, niggard, pack rat, penny pincher, pig, piker, pinchfist, pinchgut, pinchpenny, save-all, scrooge, skin, skinflint, stiff, tax collector, tightwad

• miserable, abject, abominable, adverse, afflicted, antagonistic, arrant, atrocious, awful, bad, base, beggarly, beneath contempt, cheap, cheerless, cheesy, common, conflicting, contemptible, contrary, counter, counteractive, crummy, crushed, cut up, debased, deep-troubled, degraded, dejected, deplorable, depraved, depressed, desolate, despairing, desperate, despicable, despondent, detrimental, difficult, dirty, disconsolate, discontented, disgraceful, disgusting, dismal, doleful, dolorous, downhearted, execrable, flagrant, forlorn, foul, fulsome, gaudy, gimcracky, gloomy, glum, grave, grim, gross, hard, harmful, heart-stricken, heart-struck, heartbroken, heartsick, heinous, hopeless, hostile, humorless, in bad humor, in opposition, inadequate, inclement, inconvenient, infestive, inimical, joyless, lachrymose, lamentable, little, lousy, low, low-down, low-spirited, lumpen, mangy, mean, measly, melancholy, meretricious, mirthless, monstrous, mournful, nefarious, not easy, obnoxious, odious, opposed, opposing, opposite, out of humor, out of sorts, paltry, pathetic, petty, piteous, pitiable, pitiful, pleasureless, poky, poor, rank, reptilian, rigorous, rotten, rubbishy, rueful, ruthful, sad, scabby, scrubby, scruffy, scummy, scurvy, scuzzy, shabby, shameful, shoddy, sinister, small, sorrowful, sorry, sorryish, squalid, stressful, stricken, suicidal, tearful, terrible, trashy, troublesome, troublous, trumpery, trying, two-for-a-cent, two-for-a-penny, twopenny, twopenny-halfpenny, uncheerful, uncheery, unfavorable, unhappy, unjoyful, unmentionable, unmirthful, unpleasant, unsmiling, untoward, unworthy, valueless, vile, woebegone, woeful, worthless, wretched

• miserably, abjectly, abominably, agonizingly, arrantly, atrociously, awfully, baldly, balefully, basely, bitterly, blatantly, brashly, confoundedly, contemptibly, cruelly, damnably, deadly, deathly, despicably, deucedly, distressingly, dolorously, dreadfully, egregiously, excessively, excruciatingly, execrably, exorbitantly, extravagantly, flagrantly, foully, frightfully, grievously, grossly, heinously, hellishly, horribly, improperly, inexcusably, infernally, inordinately, intolerably, lamentably, meanly, monstrously, nakedly, nefariously, obnoxiously, odiously, openly, painfully, pettily, piteously, poorly, sadly, scurvily, shabbily, shatteringly, shockingly, shoddily, something awful, something fierce, sorely, staggeringly, terribly, torturously, unashamedly, unbearably, unconscionably, unduly, unpardonably, vilely, woefully, wretchedly

• Miserere, Agnus Dei, Benedicite, Gloria, Gloria Patri, Gloria in Excelsis, Introit, Magnificat, Nunc Dimittis, Te Deum, Trisagion, Vedic hymn, alleluia, answer, anthem, antiphon, antiphony, canticle, chant, chorale, doxology, hallelujah, hosanna, hymn, hymn of praise, hymnody, hymnography, hymnology, laud, mantra, motet, offertory, offertory sentence, paean, psalm, psalmody, report, response, responsory, versicle

• miserly, Lenten, Spartan, a hog for, abject, abstemious, acquisitive, all-devouring, ascetic, austere, avaricious, avid, bottomless, cheap, cheeseparing, chinchy, chintzy, close, closefisted, coveting, covetous, devouring, dwarfed, dwarfish, esurient, exiguous, frugal, gluttonous, gobbling, grabby, grasping, greedy, hardfisted, hoggish, ignoble, illiberal, impoverished, infrequent, insatiable, insatiate, jejune, lean, limited, limitless, meager, mean, mercenary, mingy, money-hungry, money-mad, narrow, near, niggardly, omnivorous, overgreedy, paltry, parsimonious, penny-pinching, penurious, piddling, piggish, pinchfisted, pinching, poor, puny, quenchless, rapacious, rare, ravening, ravenous, save-all, scant, scanty, scarce, scattered, scrawny, scrimp, scrimping, scrimpy, seldom met with, seldom seen, skimp, skimping, skimpy, slakeless, slender, slight, slim, small, sordid, spare, sparing, sparse, spotty, sprinkled, starvation, stingy, stinted, straitened, stunted, subsistence, swinish, thin, tight, tight-fisted, tightfisted, unappeasable, unappeased, ungenerous, unnourishing, unnutritious, unquenchable, unsated, unsatisfied, unslakeable, unslaked, venal, voracious, watered, watery

• misery, Cassandra, Schmerz, ache, aches and pains, aching heart, adversity, affliction, agony, agony of mind, angst, anguish, anxiety, bale, bitterness, bleeding heart, broken heart, burden, calamity, care, carking care, catastrophe, cheerlessness, crushing, curse, cynic, dampener, damper, dejection, depression, depth of misery, desolation, despair, desperation, despondency, destitution, disaster, discomfort, discontent, displeasure, distress, dolor, extremity, gloom, gloomy Gus, grief, grimness, grouch, grump, hardship, heartache, heartfelt grief, heartgrief, heavy heart, humorlessness, hurt, hurting, indigence, infelicity, infestivity, joylessness, killjoy, lamentation, languishment, malaise, malcontent, melancholia, melancholy, mirthlessness, misfortune, ordeal, pain, pang, passion, penury, pessimist, pining, poverty, privation, prophet of doom, prostration, sadness, sordidness, sorrow, sorrowing, sourpuss, spoilsport, squalor, stitch, suffering, suicidal despair, throe, trial, tribulation, trouble, twinge, uncheerfulness, unhappiness, unjoyfulness, unmirthfulness, wet blanket, woe, wretchedness

• misfeasance, aberrancy, aberration, abuse, abuse of office, atrocity, bad policy, befoulment, breach, conversion, corrupt administration, crime, crime against humanity, criminal tendency, criminality, criminosis, deadly sin, debasement, defalcation, defectiveness, defilement, delinquency, delusion, dereliction, desecration, deviancy, distortion, diversion, embezzlement, enormity, errancy, erroneousness, error, evil, evil courses, evildoing, failure, fallaciousness, fallacy, falseness, falsity, fault, faultiness, feloniousness, felony, flaw, flawedness, fouling, genocide, guilty act, hamartia, heavy sin, heresy, heterodoxy, illusion, impolicy, impropriety, indiscretion, inexpedience, inexpediency, inexpiable sin, iniquity, injury, injustice, lapse, lawbreaking, maladministration, malefaction, malfeasance, malpractice, malum, malversation, minor wrong, misadministration, misapplication, misappropriation, misconduct, misconstruction, misdeed, misdemeanor, misdirection, misdoing, misemployment, misgovernment, misguidance, mishandling, misinterpretation, misjudgment, mismanagement, misprision, misprision of treason, misrule, misusage, misuse, mortal sin, neglect, negligence, nonfeasance, offense, omission, outrage, peccadillo, peccancy, peculation, perversion, pilfering, pollution, poor stewardship, positive misprision, profanation, prostitution, self-contradiction, sin, sin of commission, sin of omission, sinful act, sinfulness, slip, thou scarlet sin, tort, transgression, trespass, trip, unorthodoxy, untrueness, untruth, untruthfulness, unutterable sin, venial sin, vice, viciousness, violation, wrong, wrong conduct, wrongdoing, wrongness

• misfire, abort, abortion, abortive attempt, blow up, come a cropper, come to nothing, dud, explode, fail, fail miserably, failure, fall through, fizz out, fizzle, fizzle out, flop, get nowhere, go amiss, go astray, go phut, go wrong, hang up, merry chase, miscarriage, miscarry, miscarrying, miss, miss out, miss stays, miss the boat, miss the mark, poop out, vain attempt, wet squib, wild-goose chase

• misfit, Bohemian, anomaly, beatnik, black sheep, blemish, crosspatch, deviant, dissenter, dropout, eccentric, flower child, foreign body, foreign intruder, freak, heretic, hippie, impurity, individual, individualist, inner-directed person, intruder, maverick, monkey wrench, mote, naysayer, nonconformist, nonjuror, oddball, original, sectarian, sectary, sliver, speck, splinter, sport, stone, swinger, ugly duckling, unconformist, weed, yippie

• misfortune, accident, adversity, bad luck, bad news, blow, calamity, casualty, cataclysm, catastrophe, collision, contretemps, crack-up, crash, cross, disaster, dole, grief, hard luck, ill fortune, ill hap, ill luck, infelicity, loss, misadventure, mischance, mishap, nasty blow, pileup, reverse, shipwreck, shock, smash, smashup, staggering blow, tragedy, trial, tribulation, visitation, wreck

• misgiving, Pyrrhonism, agitated, agitation, all-overish, all-overs, angst, anxiety, anxiety hysteria, anxiety neurosis, anxious, anxious bench, anxious concern, anxious seat, anxioused up, anxiousness, apprehension, apprehensive, apprehensiveness, boding, bothered, cankerworm of care, care, concern, concerned, concernment, diffidence, discomfort, disquiet, disquieted, disquietude, distress, distrust, distrustfulness, disturbance, disturbed, doubt, doubtfulness, dread, dubiety, dubiousness, fear, fearful, foreboding, forebodingness, funny feeling, half-belief, hesitation, in a pucker, in a stew, inquietude, leeriness, malaise, misdoubt, mistrust, mistrustfulness, nervous, nervous strain, nervous tension, nervousness, on tenterhooks, overanxiety, overanxious, overapprehensive, perturbation, perturbed, pins and needles, premonition, prenotion, presage, presentiment, pucker, qualm, qualmish, qualmishness, qualmy, question, scruple, scrupulousness, self-doubt, shadow of doubt, skepticalness, skepticism, solicitous, solicitude, stew, strain, strained, suspense, suspenseful, suspicion, suspiciousness, tense, tension, total skepticism, trouble, troubled, uncertainty, unease, uneasiness, uneasy, unquietness, upset, vexation, wariness, worry, zeal, zealous

• misguidance, bad policy, bum steer, college of Laputa, corruption, impolicy, inexpedience, inexpediency, maladministration, malfeasance, malpractice, misadministration, misconduct, misdirection, misfeasance, misgovernment, mishandling, misinformation, misinstruction, misknowledge, misleading, mismanagement, misrule, misteaching, mystification, neglect, negligence, nonfeasance, obfuscation, obscurantism, obscuration, omission, perversion, sophistry, wrongdoing

• misguide, be negligent, bowl a googly, corrupt, lead astray, maladminister, misadminister, misadvise, misconduct, misdirect, miseducate, misgovern, mishandle, misinform, misinstruct, mislead, mismanage, misrule, misteach, mystify, obfuscate, obscure, pervert, throw a curve

• misguided, botched, bungled, butchered, erroneous, fallacious, foolish, fumbled, ill-advised, ill-considered, ill-contrived, ill-devised, ill-done, ill-executed, ill-gauged, ill-judged, ill-managed, impolitic, imprudent, inadvisable, inconsiderate, indiscreet, inexpedient, injudicious, insensate, irrational, mindless, misadvised, misconducted, misdirected, misinformed, misinstructed, misled, mismanaged, misplaced, mistaken, mistaught, muffed, murdered, myopic, negligent, reasonless, reckless, senseless, shortsighted, spoiled, thoughtless, unadvised, uncalled-for, unconsidered, undiscerning, unforeseeing, unreasonable, unreflecting, unreflective, unseeing, unsensible, unsound, unthinking, unthoughtful, unwise, witless, wrong

• mishandle, abuse, batter, be negligent, beat up, befoul, botch, bruise, brutalize, buffet, bugger up, bungle, convert, debase, defalcate, defile, desecrate, destroy, divert, do violence to, do wrong by, do wrong to, embezzle, foul, fuck up, harm, hurt, ill-treat, ill-use, injure, knock about, knock around, maladminister, maltreat, mangle, manhandle, maul, mess up, misadminister, misapply, misappropriate, misconduct, misdirect, misemploy, misgovern, misguide, mismanage, misrule, mistreat, misuse, molest, muddle, muff, outrage, peculate, pervert, pilfer, pollute, profane, prostitute, rough, rough up, roughhouse, ruin, savage, screw up, violate, wreck

• mishandling, abuse, abuse of office, bad policy, befoulment, conversion, corrupt administration, debasement, defalcation, defilement, desecration, diversion, embezzlement, fouling, impolicy, inexpedience, inexpediency, maladministration, malfeasance, malpractice, malversation, misadministration, misapplication, misappropriation, misconduct, misdirection, misemployment, misfeasance, misgovernment, misguidance, mismanagement, misrule, misusage, misuse, neglect, negligence, nonfeasance, omission, peculation, perversion, pilfering, pollution, poor stewardship, profanation, prostitution, violation, wrongdoing

• mishap, accident, adversity, blow, calamity, casualty, cataclysm, catastrophe, collision, contretemps, crack-up, crash, disaster, dole, grief, ill hap, misadventure, mischance, misfortune, nasty blow, pileup, shipwreck, shock, smash, smashup, staggering blow, tragedy, wreck

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

• misinform, bowl a googly, con, corrupt, deceive, defraud, delude, dupe, fool, gull, lead astray, misadvise, misdirect, miseducate, misguide, misinstruct, mislead, misteach, mystify, obfuscate, obscure, pervert, throw a curve

• misinformed, Gothic, Philistine, barbarous, bookless, deceived, functionally illiterate, grammarless, heathen, hoodwinked, ill-educated, illiterate, led astray, lowbrow, misadvised, misdirected, misguided, misinstructed, misled, mistaught, nonintellectual, pagan, rude, unbooked, unbookish, unbooklearned, unbriefed, uncultivated, uncultured, unedified, uneducated, unerudite, unguided, uninstructed, unintellectual, unlearned, unlettered, unliterary, unread, unrefined, unscholarly, unschooled, unstudious, untaught, untutored

• misinterpret, bias, bugger up, color, contort, distort, err, garble, get one wrong, get wrong, gloss, judge amiss, make a miscue, make a mistake, misapply, misappreciate, misapprehend, miscalculate, miscite, miscompute, misconceive, misconjecture, misconstrue, miscue, misdeem, misdirect, misesteem, misestimate, misevaluate, misexplain, misexplicate, misexpound, misidentify, misjudge, misquote, misread, misreckon, misrender, misrepresent, mistake, misthink, mistranslate, misunderstand, misuse, misvalue, pervert, screw up, slant, squeeze, strain, strain the sense, torture, twist the words, varnish, wrench

• misinterpretation, aberrancy, aberration, corruption, defectiveness, delusion, deviancy, distortion, errancy, erroneousness, error, error in judgment, fallaciousness, fallacy, false coloring, falseness, falsity, fault, faultiness, flaw, flawedness, hamartia, heresy, heterodoxy, illusion, injudiciousness, misapplication, misappreciation, miscalculation, miscomputation, misconjecture, misconstruction, misdirection, misdoing, misestimation, misevaluation, misfeasance, misjudgment, misreading, misrepresentation, misuse, misvaluation, peccancy, perversion, poor judgment, self-contradiction, sin, sinfulness, skewed judgment, slanting, straining, torturing, unorthodoxy, untrueness, untruth, untruthfulness, wrong, wrong construction, wrong impression, wrongness

• misjudge, contort, distort, err, garble, get one wrong, get wrong, gloss, judge amiss, misapply, misappreciate, misapprehend, miscalculate, miscite, miscompute, misconceive, misconjecture, misconstrue, misdeem, misesteem, misestimate, misevaluate, misexplain, misexplicate, misexpound, misinterpret, misquote, misread, misreckon, misrender, mistake, misthink, mistranslate, misunderstand, misvalue, pervert, squeeze, strain the sense, torture, twist the words, wrench

• misjudgment, aberrancy, aberration, abuse of terms, catachresis, clerical error, contorting, corrigendum, defectiveness, delusion, deviancy, distortion, eisegesis, errancy, erratum, erroneousness, error, failure, fallaciousness, fallacy, falseness, falsity, fault, faultiness, faute, flaw, flawedness, garbling, gloss, hamartia, heresy, heterodoxy, human error, illusion, malentendu, malobservation, misapplication, misapprehension, miscalculation, miscarriage, miscitation, misconception, misconstruction, miscount, misdeal, misdoing, misexplanation, misexplication, misexposition, misfeasance, misidentification, misintelligence, misinterpretation, misplay, misprint, misquotation, misreading, misrendering, misreport, miss, misstatement, mistake, mistranslation, misunderstanding, misuse, misuse of words, peccancy, perversion, self-contradiction, sin, sinfulness, squeezing, torturing, twisting, typo, typographical error, unorthodoxy, untrueness, untruth, untruthfulness, wrenching, wrong, wrongness

• mislay, be bereaved of, default, drop, forfeit, go astray from, incur loss, kiss good-bye, let slip, lose, lose out, mislocate, misplace, misput, miss, sacrifice, suffer loss, undergo privation, wander from

• mislead, abuse, bamboozle, be untruthful, beguile, betray, bluff, bowl a googly, bunk, con, corrupt, cozen, debauch, deceive, defile, deflower, delude, despoil, double-cross, draw the longbow, dupe, entice, equivocate, exaggerate, falsify, fib, flimflam, fool, force, gull, hoodwink, humbug, inveigle, juggle, lead astray, lie, lie flatly, lure, misadvise, misdirect, miseducate, misguide, misinform, misinstruct, misteach, mystify, obfuscate, obscure, outwit, pervert, prevaricate, rape, ravage, ravish, ruin, seduce, soil, speak falsely, story, stretch the truth, sully, take, take in, tell a lie, tempt, throw a curve, trick, violate

• misleading, Barmecidal, Barmecide, airy, apparent, apparitional, autistic, beguiling, bewildering, bum steer, catchy, chimeric, college of Laputa, conflict, confounding, corruption, deceitful, deceiving, deceptive, deluding, delusional, delusionary, delusive, delusory, dereistic, disaccord, discord, distracting, dreamlike, dreamy, dubious, erroneous, fallacious, false, fantastic, fishy, hallucinatory, illusional, illusionary, illusive, illusory, imaginary, inaccurate, jangle, jar, misdirecting, misdirection, miseducative, misguidance, misguiding, misinformation, misinforming, misinstruction, misinstructive, misknowledge, mismatch, misteaching, mystification, obfuscation, obscurantism, obscuration, ostensible, perplexing, perversion, phantasmagoric, phantasmal, phantom, puzzling, questionable, seeming, self-deceptive, self-deluding, sophistical, sophistry, specious, spectral, supposititious, trickish, tricksy, tricky, unactual, unfounded, unreal, unsubstantial, visionary, wrong

• mismanage, abuse, be negligent, befoul, convert, debase, defalcate, defile, desecrate, divert, do amiss, embezzle, foul, maladminister, misadminister, misapply, misappropriate, miscall, miscite, misconduct, miscount, misdeal, misdirect, misemploy, misfield, misgovern, misguide, mishandle, misplay, misprint, misquote, misread, misreport, misrule, misspell, misuse, peculate, pervert, pilfer, pollute, profane, prostitute, violate

• mismanaged, botched, bungled, butchered, fumbled, ill-advised, ill-considered, ill-contrived, ill-devised, ill-done, ill-executed, ill-managed, impolitic, misconducted, misdirected, misguided, muffed, murdered, negligent, spoiled

• mismanagement, abuse, abuse of office, bad policy, befoulment, conversion, corrupt administration, debasement, defalcation, defilement, desecration, diversion, embezzlement, fouling, impolicy, inexpedience, inexpediency, maladministration, malfeasance, malpractice, malversation, misadministration, misapplication, misappropriation, misconduct, misdirection, misemployment, misfeasance, misgovernment, misguidance, mishandling, misrule, misusage, misuse, neglect, negligence, nonfeasance, omission, peculation, perversion, pilfering, pollution, poor stewardship, profanation, prostitution, violation, wrongdoing

• mismatch, abnormality, agree to disagree, anomaly, be at cross-purposes, break, break off, clash, collide, conflict, contradict, counter, differ, disaccord, disagree, dissent, impropriety, inadmissibility, inapplicability, inappositeness, inappropriateness, inaptitude, inaptness, infelicity, irrelevance, irrelevancy, jangle, jar, jostle, maladjustment, mesalliance, misalliance, misjoinder, misjoining, mismate, negate, object, uncongeniality, unfitness, unsuitability, vary

• mismatched, asymmetric, discordant, disparate, disproportionate, ill-adapted, ill-assorted, ill-chosen, ill-fitted, ill-matched, ill-sorted, ill-suited, ill-timed, improper, inadequate, inadmissible, inapplicable, inapposite, inappropriate, inapt, incompatible, incongruous, inconsistent, inept, infelicitous, inharmonious, insufficient, irregular, irrelevant, mal a propos, maladjusted, malapropos, misjoined, mismated, misplaced, odd, out of character, out of joint, out of keeping, out of line, out of place, out of proportion, out of season, out of time, out of tune, skew, skewed, unadapted, unapt, unbecoming, unbefitting, uncongenial, unequal, uneven, unfit, unfitted, unfitting, unqualified, unseasonable, unseemly, unsuitable, unsuited, untimely

• misogynist, Anglophobe, Russophobe, bigot, celibataire, celibate, cynic, hater, man-hater, misanthrope, misanthropist, misogamist, monastic, monk, nun, priest, racist, sexist, single, unmarried, woman-hater, xenophobe

• misogyny, Anglophobia, Russophobia, abhorrence, abomination, anti-Semitism, antipathy, aversion, bachelordom, bachelorhood, bachelorism, bachelorship, bigotry, celibacy, continence, despitefulness, detestation, dislike, execration, hate, hatred, loathing, maidenhead, maidenhood, malevolence, malice, malignity, misandry, misanthropy, misogamy, monachism, monasticism, odium, race hatred, racism, repugnance, single blessedness, single state, singleness, spinsterhood, spite, spitefulness, unwed state, vials of hate, vials of wrath, virgin state, virginity, xenophobia

• misplaced, amiss, askew, awry, cockeyed, convulsed, deranged, disarranged, discomfited, discomposed, disconcerted, dislocated, disordered, disorderly, disorganized, disturbed, haywire, ill-adapted, ill-assorted, ill-chosen, ill-fitted, ill-matched, ill-sorted, ill-suited, ill-timed, improper, in disorder, inadmissible, inapplicable, inapposite, inappropriate, inapt, inept, infelicitous, irrelevant, mal a propos, maladjusted, malapropos, misjoined, mislaid, mismatched, mismated, misput, on the fritz, out of character, out of gear, out of joint, out of keeping, out of kelter, out of kilter, out of line, out of order, out of place, out of proportion, out of season, out of step, out of time, out of tune, out of turn, out of whack, perturbed, roily, shuffled, turbid, turbulent, unadapted, unapt, unbecoming, unbefitting, unfit, unfitted, unfitting, unqualified, unseasonable, unseemly, unsettled, unsuitable, unsuited, untimely, upset

• misplay, clerical error, corrigendum, do amiss, erratum, error, failure, fault, faute, human error, misapply, misapprehension, miscalculation, miscall, miscarriage, miscite, misconception, misconduct, miscount, misdeal, misemploy, misfield, misidentification, misjudgment, mismanage, misprint, misquotation, misquote, misread, misreport, miss, misspell, misstatement, mistake, misunderstanding, misuse, typo, typographical error

• misprint, clerical error, corrigendum, do amiss, erratum, error, failure, fault, faute, human error, literal, misapply, misapprehension, miscalculation, miscall, miscarriage, miscite, misconception, misconduct, miscount, misdeal, misemploy, misfield, misidentification, misjudgment, mismanage, misplay, misquotation, misquote, misread, misreport, miss, misspell, misstatement, mistake, misunderstanding, misuse, typo, typographical error

• misprize, be above, be contemptuous of, belittle, care nothing for, contemn, deprecate, depreciate, deride, despise, disdain, disparage, disprize, dump on, feel contempt for, feel superior to, hold beneath one, hold cheap, hold in contempt, insult, look down upon, make light of, make little of, make nothing of, minimize, misestimate, put down, rank low, ridicule, scorn, sell short, set at naught, set little by, shrug off, sneer at, sneeze at, sniff at, snort at, think little of, think nothing of, underestimate, underprize, underrate, underreckon, undervalue

• mispronounced, blurred, breathy, choked, choking, croaking, drawling, drawly, dysphonic, guttural, harsh, hawking, hoarse, inarticulate, indistinct, lisping, muzzy, nasal, quavering, shaking, shaky, snuffling, stifled, strangled, thick, throaty, tremulous, twangy, velar

• mispronunciation, Irish bull, anacoluthon, bull, cacoepy, cacology, catachresis, corruption, fluff, folk etymology, gammacism, grammatical error, hypercorrection, hyperform, lambdacism, malaprop, malapropism, marrowsky, missaying, misspeaking, misusage, mytacism, paralambdacism, pararhotacism, rhotacism, solecism, spoonerism

• misquote, belie, burlesque, camouflage, caricature, color, contort, disguise, distort, do amiss, dress up, embellish, embroider, exaggerate, falsify, fudge, garble, get one wrong, get wrong, gild, gloss, gloss over, mask, misapply, misapprehend, miscall, miscite, miscolor, misconceive, misconduct, misconstrue, miscount, misdeal, misdeem, misemploy, misexplain, misexplicate, misexpound, misfield, misinterpret, misjudge, mismanage, misplay, misprint, misread, misrender, misreport, misrepresent, misspell, misstate, mistake, misteach, mistranslate, misunderstand, misuse, overdraw, overstate, parody, pervert, slant, squeeze, strain, strain the sense, titivate, torture, travesty, trick out, twist, twist the words, understate, varnish, warp, whitewash, wrench

• misquoted, biased, cooked, doctored, garbled, inauthentic, miscited, misreported, misrepresented, misstated, perverted, slanted, spurious, strained, tortured, twisted, unauthentic, unauthoritative, unfounded, unreliable

• misread, catachrestic, contort, distort, distorted, do amiss, eisegetical, garble, garbled, get one wrong, get wrong, gloss, misapply, misapprehend, misapprehended, miscall, miscite, misconceive, misconceived, misconduct, misconstrue, misconstrued, miscount, misdeal, misdeem, misemploy, misexplain, misexplicate, misexpound, misfield, misinterpret, misinterpreted, misjudge, mismanage, misplay, misprint, misquote, misrender, misreport, misspell, mistake, mistaken, mistranslate, misunderstand, misunderstood, misuse, pervert, perverted, squeeze, strain the sense, torture, twist the words, wrench

• misreading, abuse of terms, catachresis, contorting, distortion, eisegesis, error, error in judgment, garbling, gloss, injudiciousness, malentendu, malobservation, misapplication, misappreciation, misapprehension, miscalculation, miscitation, miscomputation, misconception, misconjecture, misconstruction, misestimation, misevaluation, misexplanation, misexplication, misexposition, misintelligence, misinterpretation, misjudgment, misquotation, misrendering, mistranslation, misunderstanding, misuse of words, misvaluation, perversion, poor judgment, skewed judgment, squeezing, torturing, twisting, wrenching, wrong construction, wrong impression

• misrender, bias, color, contort, distort, garble, get one wrong, get wrong, gloss, misapply, misapprehend, miscite, misconceive, misconstrue, misdeem, misdirect, misexplain, misexplicate, misexpound, misinterpret, misjudge, misquote, misread, misrepresent, mistake, mistranslate, misunderstand, misuse, pervert, slant, squeeze, strain, strain the sense, torture, twist the words, varnish, wrench

• misrendering, abuse of terms, catachresis, contorting, distortion, eisegesis, error, garbling, gloss, malentendu, malobservation, misapplication, misapprehension, miscitation, misconception, misconstruction, misexplanation, misexplication, misexposition, misintelligence, misinterpretation, misjudgment, misquotation, misreading, mistranslation, misunderstanding, misuse of words, perversion, squeezing, torturing, twisting, wrenching

• misrepresent, belie, bias, burlesque, camouflage, caricature, cloak, color, confuse, counterfeit, disguise, dissemble, distort, dress, dress up, embellish, embroider, equivocate, exaggerate, falsify, feign, fudge, garble, gild, gloss, gloss over, lie, mangle, mask, miscite, miscolor, misconstrue, misdirect, misinterpret, misquote, misrender, misreport, misstate, misteach, misuse, overdraw, overstate, palter, parody, pervert, prevaricate, simulate, slant, strain, titivate, torture, travesty, trick out, twist, understate, varnish, warp, weasel, whitewash, wrench, wrest

• misrepresentation, canard, coloring, confabulation, corruption, distortion, equivocation, exaggeration, false coloring, false swearing, falsehood, falsification, falsifying, falsity, fib, lie, miscoloring, misconstruction, misdirection, misinterpretation, misstatement, misuse, perjury, perversion, prevarication, slanting, story, straining, tale, torturing, untruth

• misrule, anarchism, anarcho-syndicalism, anarchy, antinomianism, bad policy, be negligent, chaos, confusion, criminal syndicalism, disorder, disorderliness, disorganization, disruption, distemper, fabulous formless darkness, foul-up, hassle, impolicy, inexpedience, inexpediency, license, lynch law, maladminister, maladministration, malfeasance, malpractice, misadminister, misadministration, misconduct, misdirect, misdirection, misfeasance, misgovern, misgovernment, misguidance, misguide, mishandle, mishandling, mismanage, mismanagement, mix-up, mob law, mob rule, mobocracy, morass, muddle, neglect, negligence, nihilism, nonfeasance, ochlocracy, omission, primal chaos, rebellion, revolution, riot, screw-up, snafu, syndicalism, tohubohu, turmoil, unruliness, wrongdoing

• Miss America, bathing beauty, beau ideal, beaut, beauty, beauty contest winner, beauty queen, belle, bunny, charmer, cover girl, dazzler, dream, enchantress, great beauty, knockout, lady fair, looker, model, paragon, peach, pinup, pinup girl, pussycat, raving beauty, reigning beauty, sex kitten, slick chick, stunner

• miss the boat, be behindhand, be late, be overdue, blow the chance, get up late, go amiss, go astray, keep everyone waiting, keep late hours, lose the chance, lose the opportunity, miscarry, misfire, miss, miss an opportunity, miss out, miss stays, miss the chance, miss the mark, neglect the opportunity, oversleep, show up late, stay late, stay up late

• miss the mark, blunder, bungle, come short, err, fall down, fall short, foozle, go amiss, go astray, goof, miscarry, misfire, miss, miss out, miss stays, miss the boat, not bear inspection, not hack it, not make it, not measure up, not pass muster, not qualify, slip, slip up

• miss, abandon, avoid, babe, baby, bachelor girl, be bereaved of, be blind to, be caught out, be inattentive, be unwary, bird, blink at, blunder, broad, bungle, chick, clerical error, coed, colleen, come short, connive at, corrigendum, cut, cutie, dame, damoiselle, damsel, default, demoiselle, discount, disregard, dodge, doll, drop, err, erratum, error, escape, evade, fail, failure, fall down, fall short, fault, faute, filly, foozle, forfeit, forget, forgo, frail, gal, girl, girlie, give no heed, go amiss, go astray, go astray from, goldbrick, goof, goof off, groupie, hear nothing, heifer, hoyden, human error, ignore, incur loss, jeune fille, jill, jump, junior miss, kiss good-bye, lack, lass, lassie, leave, leave loose ends, leave out, leave undone, let alone, let be, let dangle, let go, let pass, let slip, little missy, long for, lose, lose out, mademoiselle, maid, maiden, make light of, malinger, misapprehend, misapprehension, miscalculation, miscarriage, miscarry, misconceive, misconception, misconstrue, miscount, misdeal, misexplain, misfire, misidentification, misinterpret, misjudgment, mislay, misplace, misplay, misprint, misquotation, misread, misreport, miss out, miss stays, miss the boat, miss the mark, misstatement, missy, mistake, mistranslate, misunderstand, misunderstanding, misuse, near-miss, need, not attend, not bear inspection, not hack it, not heed, not listen, not make it, not measure up, not notice, not pass muster, not qualify, nymph, nymphet, old maid, omission, omit, overlook, oversight, pass, pass by, pass over, pass up, pay no attention, pay no mind, piece, pine for, pretermit, procrastinate, require, romp, run short of, sacrifice, schoolgirl, schoolmaid, schoolmiss, see nothing, shirk, skip, skirt, slack, slight, slip, slip up, slipup, spinster, subdeb, subdebutante, subteen, subteener, suffer loss, teenager, teenybopper, think little of, tomato, tomboy, trifle, typo, typographical error, undergo privation, virgin, wander from, want, wench, wink at, wish for, yearn for, young creature, young thing

• Miss, Frau, Fraulein, Mistress, Mlle, Mme, Mmes, dame, dona, donna, lady, madam, madame, mademoiselle, mem-sahib, mesdames, senhora, senhorita, signora, signorina, vrouw

• missal, Sefer Torah, Torah, Torah scroll, Virginal, breviary, canon, church book, euchologion, euchology, farse, formulary, lectionary, litany, machzor, manual, ordinal, pontifical, prayer book, ritual, rituale, rubric, service book, siddur

• missed, abandoned, deserted, disregarded, half-done, ignored, laid aside, left undone, neglected, omitted, overlooked, passed by, passed over, passed up, pigeonholed, put aside, shunted, sidelined, sidetracked, slighted, unasked, unattended to, uncared-for, unchaperoned, unconsidered, undone, unregarded, unsolicited, untended, unwatched

• misshapen, acromegalic, aimless, amorphous, awry, bandy, bandy-legged, baroque, bizarre, blemished, bloated, bowlegged, cacogenic, capricious, casual, club-footed, contorted, crippled, crooked, defaced, deformed, desultory, disarticulated, discontinuous, disfigured, disjunct, disordered, dispersed, disproportionate, distorted, dwarfed, erratic, fitful, flatfooted, formless, freak, freakish, frivolous, gargoylish, gnarled, gratuitous, grotesque, haphazard, hit-or-miss, ill-made, ill-proportioned, ill-shaped, immethodical, inchoate, incoherent, indiscriminate, irregular, knock-kneed, malformed, marred, meaningless, misbegotten, misproportioned, monstrous, mutilated, nonsymmetrical, nonsystematic, nonuniform, orderless, out of shape, pigeon-toed, planless, promiscuous, pug-nosed, rachitic, random, rickety, rococo, senseless, shapeless, simous, snub-nosed, spasmodic, sporadic, straggling, straggly, stumpy, swaybacked, systemless, talipedic, teratic, teratogenic, teratoid, truncated, twisted, unarranged, unclassified, undirected, ungraded, unjoined, unmethodical, unordered, unorganized, unshapely, unsorted, unsymmetrical, unsystematic, ununiform, vague, wandering, warped

• missile, AA target rocket, ABM, ASM, ATS, Asp, Asroc, Atlas, Atlas-Agena, Atlas-Centaur, Bullpup, Cajun, Corporal, Corvus, Crossbow, Dart, Deacon, Delta, Diamant, Dove, Falcon, Firebee, Genie, Hawk, Holy Moses, Hound Dog, ICBM, Irish confetti, Jupiter, Lacrosse, Lark, Loki, Loon, Mace, Matador, Navaho, Nike, Nike Ajax, Pershing, Petrel, Polaris, Poseidon, Quail, Ram, Rascal, Redeye, Redstone, Regulus I, SLAM, Saturn, Scout, Sentinel, Sergeant, Shillelagh, Sidewinder, Skybolt, Snark, Spaerobee, Sparrow, Subroc, Super Talos, Talos, Tartar, Terrier, Thor, Thor Able Star, Thor-Agena, Thor-Delta, Tiny Tim, Titan, V-2, Viking, WAC-Corporal, Wagtail, Zuni, anchor rocket, antiaircraft rocket, antiradar rocket, atom-rocket, atomic warhead, ball, ballistic, barrage rocket, bat bomb, bird, bola, bolt, boomerang, brickbat, chemical rocket, countermissile, demolition rocket, discus, ejecta, ejectamenta, ejective, fin-stabilized rocket, fireworks rocket, flare rocket, flying tank, guided missile, high-altitude rocket, homing rocket, incendiary rocket, ion rocket, jaculatory, line-throwing rocket, liquid-fuel rocket, nuclear warhead, payload, projectile, quoit, ram rocket, retro-float light, retro-rocket, rock, rocket, rockoon, signal rocket, skyrocket, smoke rocket, snake, solid-fuel rocket, space rocket, spin-stabilized rocket, spinner, stone, supersonic rocket, thermonuclear warhead, throw stick, throwing-stick, torpedo, trajectile, trajectory missile, transoceanic rocket, vernier, vernier rocket, waddy, war rocket, warhead, window rocket

• missilery, A-weapons, archery, armament, arms, artillery, ballistics, biological weapons, conventional weapons, deadly weapons, gunnery, instrumentation, instruments of destruction, munitions, musketry, nuclear weapons, ordnance, rocketry, side arms, small arms, telemetry, thermonuclear weapons, weaponry, weapons

• missing link, Bronze Age man, Hominidae, Iron Age man, Stone Age man, aboriginal, aborigine, ancient, antediluvian, anthropoid, ape-man, arrearage, autochthon, break, bushman, cave dweller, caveman, defalcation, defect, deficiency, deficit, discontinuity, fossil man, gap, hiatus, hominid, humanoid, interval, lack, lacuna, man of old, need, omission, outage, preadamite, prehistoric man, prehuman, primate, primitive, protohuman, shortage, troglodyte, ullage, want, wantage

• missing, absconded, absent, arrested, away, bankrupt in, bare of, bereft of, callow, defective, deficient, deleted, denuded of, departed, deprived of, destitute of, devoid, devoid of, disappeared, embryonic, empty of, existless, extinct, failing, for want of, forlorn of, gone, gone away, hypoplastic, immature, in arrear, in arrears, in default, in default of, in short supply, in want of, inadequate, incomplete, infant, lacking, lost, lost to sight, lost to view, minus, needing, negative, no longer present, no more, nonattendant, nonexistent, not found, not present, null, omitted, out of, out of pocket, out of sight, part, partial, past and gone, patchy, scant, scant of, scanty, scrappy, short, short of, shy, shy of, sketchy, subtracted, taken away, unblessed with, underdeveloped, undeveloped, unexisting, unpossessed of, vacuous, vanished, void, void of, wanting, without being

• mission, accredit, action, activity, adventure, agency, agentship, aim, air cover, air raid, air support, allegiance, amphibious operations, art, assign, assigned task, assignment, authority, authorization, authorize, basilica, bethel, bombing, bounden duty, brevet, burden, business, busywork, call of duty, calling, care, career, career building, careerism, cathedral, cathedral church, chare, charge, charter, chore, church, church house, combined operations, commission, commissioning, commit, commitment, committee, consign, consignment, conventicle, cover, craft, cure, dedication, deference, delegate, delegated authority, delegation, deputation, depute, deputize, detach, detail, devoir, devolute, devolution, devolve, devolve upon, devolvement, devotion, dry run, duomo, duties and responsibilities, duty, embassy, empower, empowerment, emprise, entrust, entrusting, entrustment, errand, ethics, executorship, exequatur, exercise, expedition, exploration, factorship, fealty, fish to fry, fluid operations, full power, function, game, give in charge, group, handicraft, homage, homework, house of God, house of prayer, house of worship, imperative, job, job of work, jurisdiction, kirk, labor, legation, license, lieutenancy, lifework, line, line of business, line of duty, line of work, logistics, loyalty, make-work, mandate, maneuver, maneuvers, matters in hand, meetinghouse, metier, military operations, milk run, ministry, minor basilica, minor operations, movement, must, mystery, number, objective, obligation, occupation, odd job, office, onus, operation, operations, ought, overseas operations, patriarchal basilica, piece of work, pilgrimage, place, place of worship, plenipotentiary power, post, power of attorney, power to act, practice, procuration, profession, project, proxy, purpose, pursuit, purview, quest, racket, reconnaissance, reconnaissance mission, regency, regentship, respect, responsibility, scramble, self-imposed duty, send out, service, shuttle raid, sortie, specialization, specialty, staff work, stint, strafing, subcommittee, task, things to do, trade, training mission, transfer, trust, trusteeship, umbrella, undertaking, vicarious authority, vocation, walk, walk of life, war game, war plans, warrant, work

• misstate, belie, burlesque, camouflage, caricature, color, disguise, distort, dress up, embellish, embroider, exaggerate, falsify, fudge, garble, gild, gloss, gloss over, mask, miscite, miscolor, misquote, misreport, misrepresent, misteach, overdraw, overstate, parody, pervert, slant, strain, titivate, travesty, trick out, twist, understate, varnish, warp, whitewash, wrench

• misstatement, abstractionism, bloomer, blooper, blunder, clerical error, coloring, confabulation, corrigendum, deformation, distortion, equivocation, erratum, error, exaggeration, expressionism, fabrication, failure, false coloring, false swearing, falsehood, falsification, falsifying, fault, faute, faux pas, gaffe, garbling, howler, human error, hyperbole, inaccuracy, injustice, lapsus linguae, lie, litotes, misapprehension, miscalculation, miscarriage, miscitation, miscoloring, misconception, misconstruction, miscount, misdeal, misdrawing, misidentification, misinterpretation, misjudgment, mispainting, misplay, misprint, misquotation, misreport, misrepresentation, miss, mistake, misteaching, misunderstanding, misuse, nonrealism, overdrawing, overstatement, perjury, perversion, prevarication, slanting, solecism, straining, twisting, typo, typographical error, understatement, untruth

• misstep, balk, bevue, bloomer, blooper, blunder, error, false move, false step, faux pas, gaffe, goof, howler, inadvertence, inadvertency, indiscretion, lapse, lapsus calami, lapsus linguae, loose thread, miscue, mistake, omission, oversight, slip, slipup, stumble, trip, wrong step

• mist, London fog, London special, Scotch mist, addle, addle the wits, air, airy nothing, amorphousness, ball up, becloud, bedazzle, befog, befuddle, befuddlement, bemist, bewilder, bewilderment, blood rain, blur, bother, botheration, bubble, bug, chaos, clabber up, cloud, cloud over, cloud up, confuse, confusion, dark, darken, darken over, darkness, daze, dazzle, defocus, dim, discombobulate, discombobulation, discomfit, discomfiture, discompose, discomposure, disconcert, disconcertion, disorder, disorganization, disorganize, disorient, disorientation, disturb, disturbance, drisk, drizzle, drizzling mist, embarrass, embarrassment, encloud, enmist, entangle, ether, evening mist, fall, film, flummox, flurry, fluster, flutter, fog, fogginess, frenzy, frost smoke, fuddle, fuddlement, fuss, fuzziness, gauze, gout of rain, haze, illusion, indeterminateness, indistinctness, jumble, lose resolution, maze, mess, mistiness, misty rain, mix up, mizzle, moider, moisture, muddle, muddlement, mumbo jumbo, murk, murkiness, mystification, nubilate, obfuscation, obnubilate, obscurantism, obscuration, obscure, obscurity, opacity, overcast, overcloud, overshadow, oversmoke, pale, patter, pea soup, pea-soup fog, peasouper, perplex, perplexity, perturb, perturbation, phantom, pitter-patter, pother, precipitation, pucker, put out, rain, raindrop, rainfall, rainwater, raise hell, rattle, ruffle, shade, shadow, shapelessness, sheet of rain, shower, shuffle, smog, smoke, soften, spirit, splatter, sprinkle, steam up, stew, sweat, swivet, thin air, throw into confusion, tizzy, unclarity, unclearness, unfrozen hydrometeor, unplainness, unsettle, unsettlement, upset, vagueness, vapor, wet

• mistake, bad job, bevue, bloomer, blooper, blunder, bobble, boggle, bonehead play, boner, boo-boo, boob, botch, bungle, clanger, clerical error, clumsy performance, contort, corrigendum, distort, erratum, error, etourderie, failure, false step, fault, faute, faux pas, flub, fluff, foozle, fumble, gaffe, garble, gaucherie, get one wrong, get wrong, gloss, goof, hash, howler, human error, indiscretion, make a miscue, make a mistake, mess, misapply, misapprehend, misapprehension, miscalculation, miscarriage, miscite, misconceive, misconception, misconstrue, miscount, miscue, misdeal, misdeem, misexplain, misexplicate, misexpound, misidentification, misidentify, misinterpret, misjudge, misjudgment, misplay, misprint, misquotation, misquote, misread, misrender, misreport, miss, misstatement, misstep, mistranslate, misunderstand, misunderstanding, misuse, muff, near-miss, off day, pervert, sad work, slip, slipup, squeeze, strain the sense, stumble, take for, torture, trip, twist the words, typo, typographical error, wrench

• mistaken, all wet, all wrong, amiss, catachrestic, distorted, eisegetical, erring, erroneous, fallacious, false, faulty, flawed, garbled, in error, inaccurate, incorrect, misapprehended, misconceived, misconstrued, misguided, misinformed, misinterpreted, misread, misunderstood, off, out of order, perverted, twisted, under an error, warped, wrong

• mistaught, Gothic, Philistine, barbarous, bookless, deceived, functionally illiterate, grammarless, heathen, hoodwinked, ill-educated, illiterate, led astray, lowbrow, misadvised, misdirected, misguided, misinformed, misinstructed, misled, nonintellectual, pagan, rude, unbooked, unbookish, unbooklearned, unbriefed, uncultivated, uncultured, unedified, uneducated, unerudite, unguided, uninstructed, unintellectual, unlearned, unlettered, unliterary, unread, unrefined, unscholarly, unschooled, unstudious, untaught, untutored

• misteach, belie, burlesque, camouflage, caricature, color, corrupt, disguise, distort, exaggerate, falsify, garble, misadvise, miscolor, misdirect, miseducate, misguide, misinform, misinstruct, mislead, misquote, misreport, misrepresent, misstate, mystify, obfuscate, obscure, overdraw, overstate, parody, pervert, slant, travesty, twist, understate, warp, wrench

• misteaching, abstractionism, coloring, deformation, distortion, exaggeration, expressionism, false coloring, falsification, garbling, hyperbole, inaccuracy, injustice, litotes, miscoloring, misdirecting, misdrawing, miseducative, misguiding, misinforming, misinstructive, misleading, mispainting, misquotation, misreport, misrepresentation, misstatement, nonrealism, overdrawing, overstatement, perversion, slanting, twisting, understatement

• mistimed, ahead of time, anachronistic, antedated, beforehand, behind time, behindhand, dated, early, foredated, ill-considered, ill-seasoned, ill-timed, improper, inappropriate, inauspicious, inconvenient, inexpedient, infelicitous, inopportune, intempestive, intrusive, irrelevant, late, mal a propos, malapropos, metachronistic, misdated, off base, out of date, out of line, out of phase, out of season, out of time, overdue, parachronistic, past due, postdated, premature, prochronistic, tardy, too late, too soon, unbefitting, unfavorable, unfit, unfitting, unfortunate, unhandy, unhappy, unlucky, unpropitious, unpunctual, unready, unripe, unseasonable, unsuitable, untimely, untoward, wrong

• mistral, Euroclydon, Tehuantepec wind, Tehuantepecer, bise, east wind, easter, easterly, gregale, levanter, north wind, northeaster, norther, northwester, south wind, southeaster, souther, southerly buster, southwester, tramontane, west wind, wester, westerly

• mistreat, abuse, afflict, aggrieve, batter, befoul, bewitch, blight, bruise, brutalize, buffet, condemn, corrupt, crucify, curse, damage, defile, deprave, despoil, destroy, disadvantage, disserve, distress, do a mischief, do evil, do ill, do violence to, do wrong, do wrong by, do wrong to, doom, envenom, get into trouble, harass, harm, hex, hurt, ill-treat, ill-use, impair, infect, injure, jinx, knock about, maltreat, manhandle, maul, menace, mishandle, misuse, molest, outrage, persecute, play havoc with, play hob with, poison, pollute, prejudice, rough, rough up, savage, scathe, taint, threaten, torment, torture, violate, wound, wreak havoc on, wrong

• mistress, Dulcinea, abbess, beneficiary, best girl, cestui, cestui que trust, cestui que use, chatelaine, concubine, dame, deedholder, dowager, doxy, dream girl, duenna, educatress, feoffee, feudatory, first lady, gill, girl, girl friend, goodwife, governess, great lady, headmistress, homemaker, householder, housewife, inamorata, instructress, jill, jo, kept mistress, kept woman, lady, lady love, laird, landlady, landlord, lass, lassie, lord, lover, madam, master, matriarch, matron, mesne, mesne lord, mother superior, odalisque, old lady, owner, paramour, playmate, proprietary, proprietor, proprietress, proprietrix, rentier, schooldame, schoolmarm, schoolmistress, squire, titleholder, tutoress, unofficial wife, woman

• Mistress, Frau, Fraulein, Miss, Mlle, Mme, Mmes, dame, dona, donna, lady, madam, madame, mademoiselle, mem-sahib, mesdames, senhora, senhorita, signora, signorina, vrouw

• mistrust, Pyrrhonism, apprehension, apprehensiveness, awake a doubt, be diffident, be doubtful, be dubious, be possessive, be skeptical, be uncertain, beware, cageyness, call in question, challenge, chariness, contest, diffidence, dispute, distrust, distrustfulness, doubt, doubtfulness, dubiety, dubiousness, greet with skepticism, half believe, half-belief, harbor suspicions, have reservations, leeriness, misdoubt, misgive, misgiving, mistrustfulness, query, question, raise a question, reservation, scepticism, scruple, scrupulousness, self-doubt, shadow of doubt, skepticalness, skepticism, smell a rat, suspect, suspicion, suspiciousness, throw doubt upon, total skepticism, treat with reserve, uncertainty, unsureness, wariness

• mistrustful, Pyrrhonic, agnostic, cagey, chary, distrustful, doubtful, doubting, dubious, from Missouri, in doubt, leery, mistrusting, questioning, scrupulous, shy, skeptical, suspecting, suspicious, uncertain, untrusting, wary

• misty, addlebrained, addled, addleheaded, addlepated, airy, amorphic, amorphous, anarchic, attenuate, attenuated, baggy, beclouded, befuddled, blear, bleared, bleary, blind, blinding, blobby, blurred, blurry, boyish, cat-and-doggish, chaotic, characterless, clear as mud, cloudy, confused, dark, delicate, diaphanous, diluted, dim, disorderly, drippy, driving, drizzling, drizzly, drumming, ethereal, faint, featureless, feeble, filmy, fine, fine-drawn, finespun, flimsy, fogged, foggy, formless, frail, fuddlebrained, fuddled, fuzzy, gauzy, girlish, gossamer, gracile, half-seen, half-visible, hazy, ill-defined, in a fog, in a muddle, inchoate, inconspicuous, indecisive, indefinite, indeterminate, indistinct, indistinguishable, inform, insubstantial, kaleidoscopic, lacy, light, low-profile, lumpen, merely glimpsed, misted, misty-moisty, mizzly, muddled, muddleheaded, muddy, murky, muzzy, nebulous, nondescript, obscure, opaque, orderless, out of focus, pale, papery, pea-soupy, pelting, pluvial, pluviose, pluvious, pouring, puzzleheaded, rainy, rare, rarefied, semivisible, shadowy, shapeless, showery, slender, slenderish, slight, slight-made, slim, slimmish, slinky, small, smoggy, soupy, streaming, subtle, svelte, sylphlike, tenuous, thin, thin-bodied, thin-set, thin-spun, thinnish, threadlike, transcendent, uncertain, unclear, undefined, unintelligible, unordered, unorganized, unplain, unrecognizable, vague, wasp-waisted, watered, watered-down, watery, weak, willowy, wiredrawn, wispy

• misunderstand, contort, distort, garble, get one wrong, get wrong, gloss, make a miscue, make a mistake, misapply, misapprehend, miscalculate, miscite, misconceive, misconstrue, miscue, misdeem, misexplain, misexplicate, misexpound, misidentify, misinterpret, misjudge, misquote, misread, misrender, mistake, mistranslate, pervert, squeeze, strain the sense, torture, twist the words, wrench

• misunderstanding, abuse of terms, agreement to disagree, argument, catachresis, clerical error, contorting, controversy, corrigendum, cross-purposes, difference, difference of opinion, difficulty, disagreement, discord, disparity, dispute, dissension, distortion, dividedness, division, eisegesis, erratum, error, failure, fault, faute, garbling, gloss, human error, malentendu, malobservation, misapplication, misapprehension, miscalculation, miscarriage, miscitation, misconception, misconstruction, miscount, misdeal, misexplanation, misexplication, misexposition, misidentification, misintelligence, misinterpretation, misjudgment, misplay, misprint, misquotation, misreading, misrendering, misreport, miss, misstatement, mistake, mistaking, mistranslation, misuse, misuse of words, odds, perversion, polarization, quarrel, rift, squeezing, torturing, twisting, typo, typographical error, variance, wrenching, wrong impression

• misunderstood, catachrestic, despised, disliked, distorted, eisegetical, garbled, lowly, misapprehended, misconceived, misconstrued, misinterpreted, misprized, misread, mistaken, out of favor, perverted, thankless, unappreciated, uncared-for, unlamented, unmissed, unmourned, unpopular, unregretted, unsung, unvalued

• misusage, Irish bull, abuse, abuse of office, anacoluthon, antiphrasis, barbarism, befoulment, bull, catachresis, conversion, corrupt administration, corruption, debasement, defalcation, defilement, desecration, diversion, embezzlement, fluff, folk etymology, fouling, grammatical error, hypercorrection, hyperform, infelicity, maladministration, malaprop, malapropism, malfeasance, malpractice, malversation, marrowsky, misapplication, misappropriation, misconduct, misconstruction, misemployment, misfeasance, mishandling, mismanagement, mispronunciation, missaying, misuse, peculation, perversion, pilfering, pollution, poor stewardship, profanation, prostitution, solecism, spoonerism, ungrammaticism, violation

• misuse, abuse, active use, adulterate, adulteration, alloy, appliance, application, barbarism, befoul, befouling, bias, bleed, bleed white, canker, catachresis, cheapen, clerical error, coarsen, color, confound, consumption, contaminate, contamination, convert, corrigendum, corrupt, corruption, debase, debauch, defalcate, defile, defilement, deflower, degenerate, degrade, denature, deprave, desecrate, despoil, devalue, distort, diversion, divert, diverting, do amiss, drain, embezzle, employ, employment, envenoming, erratum, error, exercise, exertion, exploit, failure, false coloring, fault, faute, festering, foul, fouling, garble, good use, hard usage, hard use, human error, ill use, ill-treat, ill-use, impose upon, infect, infection, infelicity, make use of, maladminister, malapropism, maltreat, manipulate, milk, misapplication, misapply, misapprehension, misappropriate, misappropriation, miscalculation, miscall, miscarriage, miscite, misconception, misconduct, misconstruction, misconstrue, miscount, misdeal, misdirect, misdirection, misemploy, misemployment, misfield, mishandle, misidentification, misinterpret, misinterpretation, misjudgment, mismanage, misplay, misprint, misquotation, misquote, misread, misrender, misreport, misrepresent, misrepresentation, miss, misspell, misstatement, mistake, mistreat, mistreatment, misunderstanding, misusage, outrage, peculate, perversion, pervert, pilfer, play on, poison, poisoning, pollute, pollution, presume upon, profane, prostitute, prostitution, ravage, ravish, rough usage, slant, slanting, solecism, strain, straining, stroke, suck dry, suppuration, taint, take advantage of, torture, torturing, twist, typo, typographical error, ulcerate, usage, use, use ill, using up, varnish, violate, vitiate, vitiation, vulgarize, warp, work on, work upon, wrong use

• mite, ace, arachnid, arthropod, atom, bairn, bawbee, beetle, bit, bug, cat flea, caterpillar, centipede, cherub, chigoe, child, chilopod, chit, cockroach, crab, crown, crumb, dab, daddy longlegs, darling, diplopod, dog flea, dole, dollar, dot, dram, dribble, driblet, drop, droplet, dwarf, farthing, fiver, flea, fleck, florin, fly, flyspeck, fourpence, fourpenny, fragment, gnat, gobbet, grain, granule, grayback, groat, guinea, hair, half crown, half dollar, half rations, halfpenny, handful, harvestman, hexapod, innocent, insect, iota, jigger, jot, kid, kitten, lamb, lambkin, larva, little, little bit, little bugger, little fellow, little guy, little innocent, little one, little tad, little tot, lota, louse, mag, maggot, meg, mere subsistence, microbe, microorganism, midge, millepede, millipede, minim, minimum, minutia, minutiae, modicum, molecule, monkey, mote, new pence, nipper, nit, np, nutshell, nymph, offspring, ounce, p, parasite, particle, pebble, peewee, pence, penny, pinch, pinhead, pinpoint, pittance, point, pony, pound, quid, red bug, roach, sand flea, scorpion, scrap, scrimption, scruple, shaver, shilling, short allowance, short commons, sixpence, smidgen, smitch, snip, snippet, speck, spider, spoonful, spot, starvation wages, tad, tarantula, tenner, thimbleful, threepence, threepenny bit, thrippence, tick, tiny bit, tittle, tot, trifling amount, trivia, tuppence, twopence, vanishing point, vermin, wee tot, weevil, whit

• miter, ankle, articulate, articulation, batten, batten down, bolt, boundary, buckle, butt, button, cervix, clasp, cleat, clinch, clip, closure, connecting link, connecting rod, connection, coupling, crook, crosier, dovetail, elbow, embrace, gliding joint, hasp, hinge, hinged joint, hip, hitch, hook, interface, jam, join, joining, joint, juncture, keys, knee, knuckle, latch, link, lock, mortise, nail, neck, pallium, pastoral staff, peg, pin, pivot, pivot joint, rabbet, red hat, ring, rivet, scarf, screw, seam, sew, shoulder, skewer, snap, staple, stick, stitch, suture, symphysis, tack, tiara, tie rod, toggle, toggle joint, triple crown, union, wedge, weld, wrist, zipper

• Mithras, Agdistis, Amor, Aphrodite, Apollo, Apollon, Ares, Artemis, Ate, Athena, Bacchus, Ceres, Cora, Cronus, Cupid, Cybele, Demeter, Despoina, Diana, Dionysus, Dis, Eros, Gaea, Gaia, Ge, Great Mother, Hades, Helios, Hephaestus, Hera, Here, Hermes, Hestia, Hymen, Hyperion, Jove, Juno, Jupiter, Jupiter Fidius, Jupiter Fulgur, Jupiter Optimus Maximus, Jupiter Pluvius, Jupiter Tonans, Kore, Kronos, Magna Mater, Mars, Mercury, Minerva, Momus, Neptune, Nike, Olympians, Olympic gods, Ops, Orcus, Persephassa, Persephone, Phoebus, Phoebus Apollo, Pluto, Poseidon, Proserpina, Proserpine, Rhea, Saturn, Tellus, Venus, Vesta, Vulcan, Zeus

• mitigate, abate, accommodate, adapt, adjust, adjust to, allay, alleviate, allow for, alter, ameliorate, anesthetize, appease, assuage, attemper, attenuate, bank the fire, bate, be changed, be converted into, be renewed, benumb, better, blunt, bottom out, box in, break, break up, calm, change, chasten, checker, chop, chop and change, circumscribe, color, come about, come around, come round, condition, constrain, control, convert, cramp, cripple, cushion, damp, dampen, de-emphasize, deaden, deaden the pain, debilitate, decrease, deform, degenerate, denature, deteriorate, deviate, devitalize, dilute, diminish, diverge, diversify, downplay, dull, ease, ease matters, ease off, ease up, enervate, enfeeble, eviscerate, exhaust, extenuate, fit, flop, foment, give relief, gloss over, gruel, haul around, hedge, hedge about, ignore, improve, jibe, keep within bounds, lay, lay low, leaven, lenify, lessen, let down, let up, let up on, lighten, limit, loose, loosen, lull, make allowance for, meliorate, mince, moderate, modify, modulate, mollify, mutate, narrow, numb, obtund, overthrow, pad, palliate, placate, play down, poultice, pour balm into, pour oil on, qualify, rattle, re-create, realign, rebuild, reconstruct, redesign, reduce, reduce the temperature, refit, reform, regulate by, relax, relieve, remake, remit, renew, reshape, restrain, restrict, restructure, revamp, revive, ring the changes, salve, sap, season, set conditions, set limits, shake, shake up, shift, shift the scene, shuffle the cards, slack, slack off, slack up, slacken, slake, slow down, slur over, smother, sober, sober down, soft-pedal, soften, soften up, soothe, stifle, still, stupe, subdue, subvert, suppress, swerve, tack, take a turn, tame, temper, tone down, tune down, turn, turn aside, turn into, turn the corner, turn the scale, turn the tables, turn the tide, turn upside down, unbend, unbrace, undergo a change, undermine, underplay, unman, unnerve, unstrain, unstrengthen, unstring, varnish, vary, veer, warp, water down, weaken, whitewash, work a change, worsen

• mitigating, abating, allaying, alleviating, alleviative, altering, analgesic, anesthetic, anodyne, assuaging, assuasive, balmy, balsamic, benumbing, blunting, bounding, cathartic, chastening, cleansing, cushioning, dampening, damping, deadening, demulcent, diminishing, dulling, easing, emollient, excusatory, extenuating, extenuatory, justifying, lenitive, lessening, limitative, limiting, mitigative, mitigatory, modificatory, modifying, modulatory, numbing, pain-killing, palliative, purgative, qualificative, qualificatory, qualifying, reducing, relaxing, relieving, remedial, restricting, restrictive, softening, soothing, subduing, tempering, vindicating

• mitigation, abatement, about-face, abridgment, accommodation, adaptation, adjustment, allayment, alleviation, allowance, alteration, amelioration, analgesia, anesthesia, anesthetizing, apostasy, appeasement, assuagement, attenuation, attrition, benevolence, betterment, blunting, break, calming, change, change of heart, changeableness, clemency, color, commiseration, compassion, condolence, constructive change, continuity, contraction, conversion, dampening, damping, deadening, debilitation, decontamination, decrease, decrement, decrescence, deduction, defection, deflation, degeneration, degenerative change, demulsion, depreciation, depression, deterioration, deviation, devitalization, difference, dilution, diminishment, diminution, discontinuity, divergence, diversification, diversion, diversity, dulcification, dulling, dying, dying off, ease, easement, easing, effemination, enervation, enfeeblement, evisceration, exhaustion, extenuating circumstances, extenuation, extenuative, fade-out, falling-off, fatigue, favor, feeling, fitting, flip-flop, forbearance, forgiveness, gilding, gloss, grace, gradual change, humanity, hushing, improvement, inanition, kindness, languishment, leniency, lessening, letdown, letup, lightening, loosening, lowering, lulling, melioration, mercy, miniaturization, modification, modulation, mollification, numbing, overthrow, pacification, palliation, palliative, pardon, pathos, pity, qualification, quarter, quietening, quieting, radical change, re-creation, realignment, redesign, reduction, reform, reformation, relaxation, relief, remaking, remedy, remission, renewal, reprieve, reshaping, restructuring, reversal, revival, revivification, revolution, ruth, sagging, salving, scaling down, self-pity, shift, simplicity, slackening, softening, soothing, subduement, subtraction, sudden change, switch, sympathy, tempering, thinning, total change, tranquilization, transition, turn, turnabout, upheaval, variation, variety, varnish, violent change, weakening, whitewash, whitewashing, worsening

• mitigator, alleviative, alleviator, anodyne, assuager, balm, calmative, cushion, dolorifuge, lenitive, moderator, modulator, mollifier, pacificator, pacifier, palliative, peacemaker, restraining hand, salve, sedative, shock absorber, soother, soothing syrup, stabilizer, temperer, tranquilizer, wiser head

• mitzvah, act of grace, act of kindness, benefaction, benefit, benevolence, benignity, blessing, canon, code, commandment, convention, courtesy, dictum, favor, form, formula, general principle, golden rule, good deed, good offices, good turn, grace, guideline, guiding principle, imperative, kind deed, kind offices, kindly act, kindness, labor of love, law, maxim, mercy, moral, norm, obligation, office, ordinance, principium, principle, regulation, rubric, rule, service, settled principle, standard, tenet, turn, working principle, working rule

• mix up, addle, addle the wits, admix, alloy, amalgamate, anarchy, ball up, becloud, bedazzle, befuddle, bemingle, bewilder, blend, bollix up, botch, botchery, bother, bug, chaos, cloud, coalesce, combine, commingle, commix, commixture, complicate, compose, composite, compound, concoct, confound, confuse, confusion, conglomerate, daze, dazzle, derange, disarrange, discombobulate, discomfit, discompose, disconcert, disjoint, disorganize, disorient, disrupt, distemper, distract, disturb, dizzy, embarrass, embrangle, emulsify, entangle, fabulous formless darkness, flummox, flurry, fluster, flutter, fog, foul up, foul-up, fuddle, fumble, fuse, fusion, fuss, garble, hash, hassle, homogenize, immingle, immix, immixture, implicate, integrate, interblend, interfusion, interlace, interlard, intermingle, intermix, intermixture, intertwine, interweave, involve, jumble, knead, knot, license, louse up, maze, merge, mess up, mingle, mingle-mangle, misdeem, misidentify, misrule, mist, mix, moider, morass, muck up, muddle, mull, muss, perplex, perturb, pi, play hob with, pother, put out, raise hell, ramify, rattle, ravel, riffle, ruffle, scramble, screw up, screw-up, shambles, shuffle, snafu, snarl, snarl up, stir up, syncretize, tangle, throw into confusion, throw together, toss together, tumble, unsettle, upset, work

• mix, add, admix, admixture, all sorts, alloy, amalgam, amalgamate, amalgamation, assemblage, assemble, assimilate, associate, associate with, assort with, assortment, bemingle, bind, blend, blur, blur distinctions, braid, brew, broad spectrum, build, build up, chum, chum together, chum with, clique, clique with, club together, clutch, coalesce, combine, come together, commingle, commix, commixture, complication, compose, compound, comprise, concoct, confound, confuse, conglomerate, conglomeration, conjoin, connect, consist of, consolidate, consort with, constitute, construct, crunch, decoct, disarrange, disarray, disorganize, disrupt, disturb, embarrassing position, embarrassment, embody, emulsify, encompass, enter into, fabricate, fellowship, fine how-do-you-do, fix up, flock together, flux, form, fraternize, fuse, fusion, gallimaufry, get up, go into, hang around with, hang out with, hash, hell to pay, herd together, hobble, hobnob with, hodgepodge, homogenize, hot water, hotchpot, hotchpotch, how-do-you-do, imbroglio, immingle, immix, immixture, include, incorporate, integrate, interblend, interfuse, interfusion, interlace, interlard, intermingle, intermix, intermixture, intertwine, interweave, jam, join, join in fellowship, jumble, jumble together, keep company with, knead, link, lump, lump together, magpie, make, make one, make up, mash, medley, melange, meld, melt into one, merge, merge in, mess, mess up, mingle, mingle with, mingle-mangle, miscellany, misdeem, mishmash, misidentify, mix up, mix with, mixed bag, mixture, morass, muddle, muss up, odds and ends, olio, olla podrida, omnium-gatherum, organize, overlook distinctions, pal, pal up with, pal with, parlous straits, pass, pasticcio, pastiche, patchwork, pickle, piece together, pinch, plight, potpourri, predicament, pretty pass, pretty pickle, pretty predicament, put together, quagmire, quicksand, reembody, roll into one, run in couples, run with, salad, salmagundi, sauce, scramble, scrape, shade into, shuffle, slough, solidify, sort with, spot, squeeze, stew, sticky wicket, stir up, strait, straits, structure, swamp, syncretize, syndicate, synthesize, take up with, throw together, tie up with, tight spot, tight squeeze, tightrope, toss together, tricky spot, tumble, unholy mess, unify, unite, unite in, what you will, work, work in

• mixed bag, all sorts, assemblage, assortment, broad spectrum, conglomeration, gallimaufry, hash, hodgepodge, hotchpot, hotchpotch, jumble, magpie, mash, medley, melange, mess, mingle-mangle, miscellany, mishmash, mix, odds and ends, olio, olla podrida, omnium-gatherum, pasticcio, pastiche, patchwork, potpourri, salad, salmagundi, sauce, scramble, stew, what you will

• mixed blood, Cape Colored, Eurasian, cattalo, citrange, cross, crossbreed, griffe, half blood, half-bred, half-breed, half-caste, high yellow, hinny, hybrid, ladino, liger, mestee, mestiza, mestizo, metis, metisse, mixblood, mongrel, mulatto, mule, mustee, octoroon, plumcot, quadroon, quintroon, sambo, tangelo, tigon, zebrass, zebrule

• mixed marriage, a world-without-end bargain, alliance, bed, bond of matrimony, bridebed, cohabitation, conjugal bond, conjugal knot, coverture, holy matrimony, holy wedlock, husbandhood, ill-assorted marriage, intermarriage, interracial marriage, marriage, marriage bed, marriage sacrament, match, matrimonial union, matrimony, mesalliance, misalliance, miscegenation, nuptial bond, sacrament of matrimony, spousehood, union, wedded bliss, wedded state, weddedness, wedding knot, wedlock, wifehood

• mixed up, Byzantine, anarchic, arsy-varsy, ass-backwards, balled up, balled-up, bollixed up, bothered, chaotic, complex, complicated, confounded, confused, convoluted, crabbed, daedal, devious, discomposed, disconcerted, disordered, disorganized, disturbed, elaborate, embarrassed, embrangled, entangled, flustered, fluttered, fouled up, fussed, galley-west, helter-skelter, higgledy-piggledy, hugger-mugger, implicated, in a jumble, in a mess, in a pother, in a pucker, in a stew, in a sweat, in a swivet, in a tizzy, intricate, involuted, involved, jumbled, knotted, labyrinthian, labyrinthine, loused up, many-faceted, matted, mazy, meandering, messed up, mixed up, mucked up, muddled, multifarious, perplexed, perturbed, put-out, ramified, rattled, roundabout, ruffled, scattered, screwed up, shaken, shook, shuffled, skimble-skamble, snafu, snarled, subtle, tangled, tangly, topsy-turvy, twisted, unsettled, upset, upside-down

• mixed, adulterated, amalgamated, ambiguous, ambivalent, amphibious, assimilated, associated, assorted, blemished, blended, clashing, combinative, combinatory, combined, complex, composite, compound, compounded, conflicting, confused, conglomerate, conjoint, conjugate, conjunctive, connected, connective, consolidated, contradictory, damaged, dappled, defective, deficient, diverse, eclectic, equivocal, erroneous, fallible, faulty, fifty-fifty, found wanting, fused, half-and-half, half-bred, heterogeneous, hybrid, immature, impaired, imperfect, imprecise, impure, inaccurate, inadequate, incomplete, incorporated, indiscriminate, inexact, integrated, interbred, intricate, involved, ironic, joined, joint, jumbled, lacking, makeshift, many-sided, mediocre, medley, merged, mingled, miscellaneous, mongrel, motley, muddled, multifaceted, multifarious, multinational, multiracial, not perfect, off, one, opposing, opposite, partial, patchy, pluralistic, promiscuous, scrambled, short, sketchy, syncretic, syncretistic, syncretized, synthesized, tainted, thrown together, undeveloped, uneven, unfinished, united, unperfected, unsound, unthorough, varied, various, wanting

• mixer, ARRL, agitator, amateur radio operator, bal, bal costume, bal masque, ball, barn dance, beater, blender, bon vivant, cement mixer, churn, clubman, clubwoman, console, control desk, control engineer, control panel, country dance, crucible, dance, eggbeater, emulsifier, excellent companion, fancy-dress ball, good company, good mixer, ham, hop, jack field, joiner, man-about-town, mask, masked ball, masque, masquerade, masquerade ball, master control desk, melting pot, monitor, nightclub habitue, playboy, pleasant company, prom, promenade, radio electrician, radio engineer, radio operator, radio technician, radioman, radiotelegrapher, radiotrician, record hop, shindig, shindy, social lion, square dance, stag dance, tea dance, the dansant

• mixing, FCC, FM broadcasting, Federal Communications Commission, admixture, alloyage, amalgamation, blending, broadcasting, coalescence, combination, comminglement, commingling, commixture, composition, eclecticism, fade-out, fusion, immixture, integration, interfusion, interlaced scanning, interlarding, interlardment, interminglement, intermingling, intermixture, merger, mingling, mixture, monitoring, pluralism, radiobroadcasting, scanning, shading, standard broadcasting, switching, syncretism, telecasting, televising, tone control, transmission, vestigial transmission, volume control

• mixture, English horn, admixture, alloy, alloying, amalgam, amalgamating, amalgamation, assemblage, assembly, associating, association, assortment, balm, balsam, bassoon, blend, blending, block flute, bombard, bourdon, brew, building, buildup, cello, chemical solution, claribel, clarinet, clarion, collectanea, combination, combining, combo, commixture, composite, composition, compost, compound, concert flute, concoction, confection, conglomerate, conglomeration, constitution, construction, contrariety, contrast, cornet, cornopean, cromorna, cymbel, decoction, decoctum, departure, deviation, diapason, difference, disaccord, disaccordance, disagreement, disconformity, discongruity, discordance, discrepancy, discreteness, disparity, dissent, dissimilarity, dissonance, distinction, distinctness, divergence, divergency, diversity, drops, drug, dulciana, electuary, elixir, embodiment, ensemble, ethical drug, fabrication, far cry, farrago, fashioning, flute stop, formation, foundation stop, fourniture, fusing, fusion, gallimaufry, gamba, gedeckt, gemshorn, generic name, getup, goulash, harmonic flute, hash, herbs, heterogeneity, hodgepodge, hybrid stop, immixture, inaccordance, incompatibility, incongruity, inconsistency, inconsonance, incorporation, inequality, infusion, inhalant, inharmoniousness, inharmony, interfusion, intermingling, intermixture, interweaving, irreconcilability, jumble, junction, koppel flute, larigot, leach, leachate, lincture, linctus, lixivium, magma, make, makeup, materia medica, medicament, medication, medicinal, medicinal herbs, medicine, medley, melange, melodia, merger, merging, mess, mingling, miscellanea, miscellany, mishmash, mix, mix-up, mixing, mutation stop, nazard, nonconformity, nonprescription drug, oboe, octave, oddments, odds, odds and ends, officinal, olio, olla podrida, omnium gatherum, omnium-gatherum, opposition, organ stop, organization, otherness, paste, patent medicine, pharmacon, physic, piccolo, piecing together, plein jeu, posaune, powder, preparation, prescription drug, principal, proprietary, proprietary medicine, proprietary name, putting together, quint, quintaten, ragout, rank, ranket, reed stop, register, rohr flute, salmagundi, separateness, sesquialtera, setup, shaping, shawm, simples, solution, spitz flute, stop, stopped diapason, stopped flute, string diapason, string stop, structure, structuring, sundries, syneresis, synthesis, syrup, theraputant, tierce, tisane, tremolo, trombone, trumpet, twelfth, unconformity, unda maris, unlikeness, unorthodoxy, variance, variation, variegation, variety, vegetable remedies, vibrato, viola, voix celeste, vox angelica, vox humana

• moan, bawl, beef, bemoan, bewail, bitch, complain, complaint, cry, cry out, deplore, dirge, dolorous tirade, elegize, give sorrow words, grievance, grieve, gripe, groan, grouse, growl, grumble, howl, jeremiad, keen, knell, lament, lamentation, make an outcry, mewl, moaning, mourn, murmur, mutter, outcry, pipe, plaint, planctus, pule, repine, roar, scream, screech, shriek, sigh, sing, sing the blues, snarl, snivel, sob, sorrow, sough, squall, tirade, ululate, ululation, wail, wail of woe, weep, weep over, whimper, whine, whisper, whistle, yawl, yawp, yell, yowl

• moaning, bemoaning, bewailing, grieving, howling, in mourning, keening, lamentation, lamenting, mourning, sigh, sighing, sobbing, sorrow, sorrowing, soughing, ululation, wailing, whining

• moat, abri, abysm, abyss, approach trench, aqueduct, arch dam, arroyo, backstop, bamboo curtain, bank, bar, barrage, barrier, bear-trap dam, beaver dam, boom, box canyon, breach, break, breakwater, breastwork, brick wall, buffer, bulkhead, bulwark, bunker, canal, canalization, canyon, cavity, channel, chap, chasm, check, chimney, chink, cleft, cleuch, clough, cofferdam, col, communication trench, coulee, couloir, countermine, coupure, crack, cranny, crevasse, crevice, crimp, cut, cwm, dam, defense, defile, dell, dike, ditch, donga, double sap, draw, dugout, earthwork, embankment, entrenchment, excavation, fault, fence, fire trench, fissure, flaw, flume, flying sap, fortified tunnel, fosse, foxhole, fracture, furrow, gallery, gap, gape, gash, gate, goffer, gorge, gravity dam, groin, groove, gulch, gulf, gully, gutter, ha-ha, hole, hydraulic-fill dam, incision, iron curtain, jam, jetty, joint, kennel, kloof, leak, leaping weir, levee, logjam, milldam, mine, mole, mound, notch, nullah, opening, parallel, parapet, pass, passage, pleat, portcullis, rampart, ravine, rent, rift, rime, roadblock, rock-fill dam, rupture, sap, scissure, seam, seawall, shutter dam, slit, slit trench, slot, split, stone wall, sunk fence, trench, trough, tunnel, valley, void, wadi, wall, weir, wicket dam, work

• mob rule, absolute monarchy, anarchism, anarcho-syndicalism, anarchy, antinomianism, aristocracy, autarchy, autocracy, autonomy, chaos, coalition government, colonialism, commonwealth, confusion, constitutional government, constitutional monarchy, criminal syndicalism, democracy, dictatorship, disorder, disorderliness, disorganization, disruption, dominion rule, duarchy, duumvirate, dyarchy, federal government, federation, feudal system, garrison state, gerontocracy, heteronomy, hierarchy, hierocracy, home rule, limited monarchy, lynch law, martial law, meritocracy, militarism, military government, misrule, mob law, mobocracy, monarchy, neocolonialism, nihilism, ochlocracy, oligarchy, pantisocracy, patriarchate, patriarchy, police state, primal chaos, pure democracy, rebellion, regency, representative democracy, representative government, republic, revolution, self-determination, self-government, social democracy, stratocracy, syndicalism, technocracy, thearchy, theocracy, tohubohu, totalitarian government, totalitarian regime, triarchy, triumvirate, turmoil, tyranny, unruliness, welfare state

• mob, Black Hand, Bund, Cosa Nostra, Rochdale cooperative, a mass of, a world of, age group, alliance, army, assemblage, association, axis, band, battalion, bevy, bloc, body, brigade, bunch, cabal, cadre, camarilla, camp, canaille, carpet, cast, cell, charmed circle, chew out, circle, clan, clique, closed circle, cloud, cluster, clutter, coalition, cohort, cohue, college, combination, combine, common market, company, complement, confederacy, confederation, consumer cooperative, contingent, cooperative, cooperative society, corps, coterie, council, covey, credit union, crew, crowd, crush, customs union, deluge, detachment, detail, division, dregs, economic community, elite, elite group, faction, federation, fleet, flight, flock, flocks, flood, free trade area, galaxy, gang, gangdom, gangland, group, grouping, groupment, hail, heap, herd, hive, horde, host, ignobile vulgus, in-group, ingroup, inner circle, jam, junta, junto, large amount, lash, league, legion, lots, machine, many, many-headed multitude, mass, masses, masses of, mobile vulgus, movement, muchness, multitude, nest, numbers, organized crime, out-group, outfit, pack, panoply, partnership, party, peer group, phalanx, platoon, plurality, political machine, posse, press, proletariat, push, quantities, quite a few, rabble, ragtag and bobtail, rail, rate, regiment, riffraff, ring, rout, row, ruck, salon, scores, scum, set, shoal, society, spate, squad, stable, string, swarm, team, the Mafia, the common herd, the crowd, the great unnumbered, the great unwashed, the herd, the hoi polloi, the horde, the majority, the many, the masses, the mob, the multitude, the rackets, the syndicate, the underworld, throng, tidy sum, trash, tribe, troop, troupe, union, unwashed, we-group, wing, worlds of

• mobile, able to adapt, active, adaptable, adjustable, agile, alert, all-around, alterable, alterative, ambidextrous, ambulant, ambulatory, animated, art object, brainchild, bric-a-brac, bronze, capricious, cast, changeable, changeful, checkered, classic, composition, creation, design, driving, ever-changing, expressive, facile, fickle, flexible, fluid, grotesque, impelling, impermanent, in motion, inconstant, kaleidoscopic, kitsch, liquid, malleable, many-sided, marble, master, masterpiece, masterwork, mechanical, mercurial, metamorphic, migrant, modifiable, motile, motivational, motive, motor, motorized, movable, moving, museum piece, mutable, nimble, nonuniform, nude, old master, pasticcio, pastiche, permutable, piece, piece of virtu, plastic, portable, propellant, propelling, protean, proteiform, quick, resilient, responsive, rubbery, sculpture, sensitive, stabile, statue, still life, stirring, study, supple, terra cotta, transient, transitional, transitory, transmigratory, transportable, traveling, unfixed, unsettled, unstable, unsteadfast, unsteady, variable, versatile, virtu, work, work of art

• mobility, adaptability, adjustability, alterability, changeability, changeableness, changefulness, flexibility, fluidity, impermanence, locomotion, malleability, modifiability, motility, motive power, motivity, movability, movableness, mutability, nonuniformity, permutability, plasticity, resilience, rubberiness, suppleness, transience, transitoriness

• mobilization, activation, activity, actuation, arms race, arrangement, assemblage, assembly, basic training, briefing, bugle call, call, call to arms, call-up, canvass, catchword, census, clarion, clarion call, clearing the decks, collection, colligation, collocation, combination, comparison, compulsory military service, concourse, concurrence, confluence, conflux, congregation, conscription, convergence, corralling, data-gathering, draft, draft call, drafting, dynamics, enlistment, enrollment, equipment, exhortation, familiarization, fixing, foundation, garrison state, gathering, go for broke, going, groundwork, gung ho, impressment, induction, ingathering, inventory, junction, juxtaposition, kinematics, kinesipathy, kinesis, kinesitherapy, kinetics, levy, makeready, making ready, manufacture, martial law, militarization, motion, motivation, move, movement, moving, muster, planning, prearrangement, preliminaries, preliminary, preliminary act, preliminary step, prep, preparation, preparatory study, preparing, prepping, prerequisite, press, pretreatment, processing, propaedeutic, provision, rally, rallying cry, reactivation, readying, rebel yell, recruiting, recruitment, remilitarization, restlessness, rodeo, roundup, running, selective service, slogan, spadework, stir, stirring, summons, survey, training, treatment, trial, trumpet call, tryout, unrest, velocity, war clouds, war cry, war footing, war whoop, warm-up, wartime footing, watchword

• mobilize, accouple, accumulate, activate, actuate, agglomerate, agglutinate, aggregate, aggroup, amass, arrange, articulate, assemble, associate, band, batch, beat the drums, bond, bracket, bridge, bridge over, bring together, bulk, bunch, bunch together, bunch up, call to arms, call up, cement, chain, circulate, clap together, clear for action, clear the decks, clump, cluster, collect, colligate, collocate, combine, commandeer, compare, compile, comprise, concatenate, conglobulate, conglomerate, conjoin, conjugate, connect, conscript, copulate, corral, couple, cover, cumulate, cure, deploy, detach, detach for service, dig up, draft, draw together, dredge up, dress, drive, drive together, embrace, encompass, enlist, enroll, fix, fix up, gather, gather in, gather together, get in, get ready, get together, glue, group, impel, impress, include, induct, join, juxtapose, knot, lay together, league, levy, link, list, lump together, make arrangements, make preparations, make ready, make up, marry, marshal, mass, match, merge, motivate, move, muster, muster in, nudge, organize, pair, partner, piece together, plan, prearrange, prep, prepare, press, pretreat, process, propel, provide, push, put in shape, put together, raise, rake up, rally, reactivate, ready, ready up, recruit, remilitarize, roll into one, round up, scrape together, set in motion, set off, settle preliminaries, shove, sign on, sign up, solder, span, splice, stick together, summon, take in, take up, tan, tape, tie, treat, trim, try out, unify, unite, weld, whip in, yoke

• mobilized, all ready, all set, armed, armed and ready, booted and spurred, briefed, coached, cocked, equipped, familiarized, good and ready, groomed, in arms, in battle array, in readiness, in the saddle, informed, loaded, loaded for bear, mature, on the mark, planned, prearranged, prepared, prepared and ready, prepped, primed, provided, psyched up, ready, ready for anything, ripe, set, up in arms, vigilant, well-prepared

• mobster, Judas, bad person, bandit, betrayer, brigand, convict, criminal, crook, dacoit, deceiver, delinquent, desperado, desperate criminal, double-dealer, evildoer, felon, fugitive, gallows bird, gangster, gaolbird, hoodlum, jailbird, lawbreaker, malefactor, malevolent, malfeasant, malfeasor, misfeasor, mobsman, outlaw, public enemy, quisling, racketeer, scofflaw, sinner, swindler, thief, thug, traitor, transgressor, two-timer, villain, worker of ill, wrongdoer

• mock heroic, Alcaic, Anacreontic, Castalian, Homeric, Hudibrastic, Pierian, Pindaric, Theocritean, bardic, broad, bucolic, burlesque, comic, comical, didactic, dithyrambic, dramatic, eclogic, elegiac, epic, farcical, heroic, idyllic, narrative, pastoral, poetic, poetico-mystical, poetico-mythological, poetico-philosophic, poetlike, rhapsodic, runic, sapphic, skaldic, slapstick, tragicomic

• mock up, burlesque, clay model, copy, dummy, duplication, facsimile, imitation, knockoff, lay figure, mannequin, model, paraphrase, parody, pilot model, replica, representation, reproduction, travesty, version, wood model

• mock, Parthian shot, abuse, adopt, affect, affected, affront, alike, alternate, alternative, ape, aped, apocryphal, appropriate, artificial, aspersion, assume, assumed, atrocity, back answer, backup, bamboozle, barrack, bastard, be merry with, beguile, betray, bluff, bogus, brickbat, brummagem, buffoon, burlesque, butt, cajole, call names, caricature, caustic remark, chaff, cheat, cheat on, circumvent, clinquant, colorable, colored, comeback, conjure, consimilar, contempt, contumely, copied, copy, copycat, counterfeit, counterfeited, crack, crack a joke, crack wise, cut, cut at, cutting remark, deceive, decry, defy, delude, deride, derision, derive from, despite, diddle, dig, dig at, disdain, dishonor, disoblige, disparage, distorted, double-cross, dressed up, dummy, dump, dump on, dupe, embellished, embroidered, enormity, equivalent, ersatz, factitious, fake, faked, fakement, false, falsified, farce, favoring, feign, feigned, fictitious, fictive, fleer, fleer at, flout, flouting, following, foolery, forestall, forged, forgery, frame-up, fraud, fraudulent, fun, gammon, garbled, get around, gibe, gibe at, gibing retort, give offense to, gull, guy, hit off, hit off on, hoax, hocus-pocus, hokey, homogeneous, hornswaggle, humbug, humiliate, humiliation, hurl a brickbat, identical, illegitimate, imitate, imitated, imitation, impersonate, impostor, indignity, infringe, injury, insult, jab, jab at, jape, jeer, jeer at, jeering, jest, jester, jibe at, joke, josh, juggle, junk, junky, kid, kid around, lampoon, laugh at, leg-pull, let down, like, lout, make a funny, make fun, make fun of, make use of, make-believe, makeshift, man-made, mime, mimic, mimicked, misapprehend, misconceive, misconstrue, misexplain, misinterpret, mislead, misread, mistake, mistranslate, mockery, nearly reproduced, not unlike, offend, offense, outmaneuver, outrage, outreach, outsmart, outwit, overreach, parody, parrot, parting shot, paste, perverted, phony, pigeon, pilgarlic, pinch, pinchbeck, pirate, plagiarize, plagiarized, play on words, play one false, poke fun at, pooh, pooh-pooh, pretend, pretended, provisional, proxy, pseudo, pun, put down, put something over, put-down, put-on, put-up job, quasi, queer, quip, quiz, rag, rail at, rally, rank out, razz, resembling, reserve, revile, rib, ridicule, rip-off, rude reproach, satirize, scintillate, scoff, scoff at, scorn, scout, scurrility, secondary, self-styled, sell out, send up, sham, shoddy, short answer, similar, simulacrum, simulate, simulated, slam, slap, slap at, smacking of, sneer, sneer at, snow, so-called, soi-disant, something like, spare, sparkle, spoof, sport, spurious, steal, stopgap, string along, substitute, suggestive of, supposititious, swindle, swipe, synthetic, take, take in, take off, take off on, take on, take over, tantalize, taunt, tease, temporary, tentative, tin, tinsel, titivated, token, travesty, treat with indignity, trick, twisted, twit, two-time, unauthentic, uncomplimentary remark, ungenuine, uniform with, unnatural, unreal, utility, utter a mot, verbal thrust, vicarious, warped, whited sepulcher, wisecrack

• mocker, ape, conformist, copier, copycat, copyist, counterfeiter, cuckoo, dissembler, dissimulator, echo, echoer, echoist, faker, forger, hypocrite, imitator, impersonator, impostor, mime, mimer, mimic, mimicker, mockingbird, monkey, parrot, phony, plagiarist, poll-parrot, polly, polly-parrot, poseur, sheep, simulator