Appendix:Moby Thesaurus II/56

• neat, Attic, Ciceronian, Daedalian, OK, Spartan, absolute, ace-high, adept, adroit, all ataunto, anal, apt, artistic, ascetic, ataunt, austere, authoritative, bad, bald, bang-up, bare, bonzer, boss, bravura, braw, brilliant, bully, bungup and bilge-free, but good, calligraphic, candid, capital, chaste, chic, chipper, clarified, classic, classy, clean, clean-cut, clear, clever, clothes-conscious, comely, common, commonplace, cool, coordinated, copperplate, corking, cosmopolitan, crack, crackerjack, cunning, cute, daedal, dandy, dapper, dashing, deft, delicious, dexterous, dextrous, dinky, diplomatic, direct, distilled, dressed to advantage, dressed to kill, dry, ducky, dull, easy, efficient, elegant, excellent, exceptional, expert, exquisite, fab, fancy, fastidious, fine, fine and dandy, finished, first-class, frank, gear, genteel, good, goodish, graceful, gracile, grand, great, groovy, handy, heavy, homely, homespun, hot, hunky-dory, ingenious, jam-up, jaunty, just dandy, keen, lean, limpid, lucid, magisterial, marvy, masterful, masterly, matter-of-fact, mean, naked, natty, natural, nifty, no mean, nobby, okay, on the rocks, open, orderly, organized, out of sight, peachy, peachy-keen, pellucid, perspicuous, plain, plain-speaking, plain-spoken, polished, politic, posh, precise, prim, professional, proficient, prosaic, prosing, prosy, pure, purified, quick, quite some, ready, recherche, rectified, refined, regular, resourceful, restrained, ripping, ritzy, round, rum, rustic, scrumptious, severe, shapely, sharp, sheer, shipshape, simple, simple-speaking, skillful, slap-up, sleek, slick, smart, smashing, smug, snazzy, snug, sober, soigne, soignee, solid, some, something else, sophisticated, spare, spick and span, spiffing, spiffy, splendid, spruce, stark, statesmanlike, straight, straightforward, stunning, style-conscious, stylish, super, swank, swanky, swell, systematic, tactful, tasteful, taut, terse, the compleat, the complete, tidy, tight, top-hole, top-notch, topping, tough, tricksy, trig, trim, unadorned, unadulterated, unaffected, unalloyed, unblended, uncluttered, uncombined, uncomplicated, uncompounded, uncorrupted, uncut, undiluted, unembellished, unfortified, unimaginative, unlabored, unleavened, unmingled, unmixed, unornamented, unpoetical, unsophisticated, untinged, unvarnished, virtuoso, well-cared-for, well-done, well-dressed, well-favored, well-formed, well-groomed, well-made, well-ordered, well-proportioned, well-shaped, wizard, wonderful, workmanlike

• neaten, clean up, clear the decks, clear up, fix up, groom, police, police up, put in order, put in trim, spruce, spruce up, straighten out, straighten up, tidy, tidy up, trig, trig up, trim, trim up

• neatly, ably, adeptly, adroitly, agilely, aptly, artfully, artistically, brilliantly, capably, chicly, cleverly, competently, cunningly, dapperly, dashingly, deftly, dexterously, dextrously, efficiently, elegantly, excellently, expertly, exquisitely, featly, foppishly, handily, ingeniously, jauntily, masterfully, nattily, nimbly, proficiently, resourcefully, skillfully, sleekly, smartly, spryly, superbly, swankily, trimly, well, with consummate skill, with finesse, with genius, with skill

• neatness, Atticism, anality, apple-pie order, appropriateness, chasteness, chastity, chic, clarity, classicalism, classicism, clearness, clothes-consciousness, comeliness, correctness, coxcombry, dandyism, dignity, directness, discipline, discrimination, distinction, ease, elegance, elegancy, felicitousness, felicity, fine fettle, finish, fittingness, flow, flowing periods, fluency, foppery, foppishness, good condition, good shape, good taste, good trim, grace, gracefulness, gracility, jauntiness, limpidity, lucidity, method, methodicalness, methodology, nattiness, naturalness, orderliness, pellucidity, perspicuity, plainness, polish, propriety, purity, refinement, restraint, seemliness, sharpness, simplicity, sleekness, smartness, smoothness, spiffiness, straightforwardness, system, systematicness, taste, tastefulness, terseness, tidiness, trimness, unaffectedness

• neb, aculeus, acumination, antlia, auger, beak, beezer, bill, bit, borer, bugle, conk, cusp, drill, mucro, muffle, muzzle, nares, needle, nib, nose, nostrils, nozzle, olfactory organ, pecker, point, prick, prickle, proboscis, rhinarium, rostrum, schnozzle, smeller, snoot, snout, sting, tip, trunk

• nebbish, Milquetoast, a nobody, a nothing, baby, big baby, chicken, cipher, common man, crybaby, doormat, dud, dull tool, dummy, figurehead, gutless wonder, hollow man, insignificancy, invertebrate, jackstraw, jellyfish, lay figure, lightweight, little fellow, little guy, man of straw, mediocrity, meek soul, milksop, mollycoddle, namby-pamby, nobody, nobody one knows, nonentity, nothing, nullity, obscurity, pansy, pantywaist, pip-squeak, punk, puppet, pushover, runt, sad sack, scrub, shrimp, sissy, small fry, small potato, small potatoes, softling, softy, sop, squirt, squit, thing of naught, trifle, weak sister, weakling, whiffet, whippersnapper, zero

• nebula, Black Magellanic Cloud, Crab Nebula, Gegenschein, bright diffuse nebula, coalsack, counterglow, dark cloud, dark nebula, diffuse nebula, dust cloud, gaseous nebula, nebula of Lyra, nebular hypothesis, nebulosity, nebulous stars, planetary nebula, ring nebula, the Coalsack, zodiacal light

• nebulous, Cynthian, abstract, amorphous, anagalactic, asteroidal, astral, astrologic, astrologistic, astrologous, astronomic, astrophysical, bland, blind, blurred, broad, castellatus, celestial, circumplanetary, cirrose, cirrous, cislunar, clear as mud, cloud-flecked, clouded, cloudy, collective, cumuliform, cumulous, dark, dim, dirty, empyreal, empyrean, equinoctial, extragalactic, faint, featureless, foggy, fuzzy, galactic, general, generalized, generic, gloomy, hazy, heavenly, heavy, heliacal, ill-defined, indefinite, indeterminate, indistinct, intercosmic, interplanetary, intersidereal, interstellar, lenticularis, lunar, lunary, lunate, lunular, lunulate, mammatus, meteoric, meteoritic, misty, muddy, murky, nebular, nebulose, neutral, nimbose, nonspecific, nubilous, obscure, opaque, overcast, overclouded, pale, planetal, planetarian, planetary, planetesimal, semilunar, shadowy, shapeless, sidereal, solar, sphery, squally, star-spangled, star-studded, starry, stellar, stellary, stormy, stratiform, stratous, terrestrial, thunderheaded, transcendent, turbid, uncharacterized, unclear, undifferentiated, unplain, unspecified, uranic, vague, wide, zodiacal

• necessaries, bare necessities, call for, demand, demand for, desideration, desideratum, essential, essentials, indispensable, must, must item, necessities, necessity, need, need for, occasion, prerequirement, prerequisite, requirement, requisite, requisition, the necessary, the needful, want

• necessarily, accordingly, and so, as a consequence, as a result, certainly, come what may, compulsorily, consequently, fatefully, finally, from necessity, inconsequence, indefeasibly, ineluctably, inescapably, inevasibly, inevitably, inexorably, inflexibly, irrevocably, it follows that, naturally, naturellement, need, needfully, needs, nolens volens, of course, of necessity, perforce, relentlessly, requisitely, surely, therefore, unavoidably, uncontrollably, unpreventably, unyieldingly, willy-nilly, without choice

• necessary, absolute, apodictic, backhouse, binding, bound, called for, cardinal, certain, choiceless, clear, clear and distinct, clear as day, closet, compelling, compulsory, conclusive, constraining, crapper, de rigueur, decisive, definite, determinate, dictated, essential, exigent, fated, fateful, fundamental, imperative, imperious, important, importunate, indefeasible, indicated, indispensable, ineluctable, ineludible, inerrable, inerrant, inescapable, inevasible, inevitable, inexorable, infallible, inflexible, involuntary, irreducible, irreductible, irreplaceable, irresistible, irrevocable, jakes, mandatory, momentous, must, necessitous, needed, needful, obligatory, office, outhouse, peremptory, perfectly sure, positive, predestined, predetermined, prerequisite, relentless, required, requisite, resistless, significant, sure, sure as death, sure as fate, sure-enough, true, unambiguous, unavoidable, uncontrollable, undeflectable, unequivocal, unerring, unevadable, unforgoable, univocal, unmistakable, unpreventable, unstoppable, unyielding, urgent, vital, wanted, without choice

• necessity, absolute certainty, absoluteness, act of God, assurance, assuredness, bare cupboard, bare necessities, bare subsistence, beggarliness, beggary, call, call for, cause, certain knowledge, certainness, certainty, certitude, coaction, coercion, compulsion, compulsiveness, condition, constraint, dead certainty, decree, definiteness, demand, demand for, deprivation, desideration, desideratum, destitution, determinacy, determinateness, duress, empty purse, enforcement, essential, essentials, exigency, fate, fatefulness, force majeure, forcing, foredestiny, foregone conclusion, foreknowledge, foreordination, grinding poverty, gripe, hand-to-mouth existence, homelessness, impoverishment, indefeasibility, indigence, indispensable, indispensableness, ineluctability, inerrability, inerrancy, inescapableness, inevasibleness, inevitability, inevitable accident, inevitableness, inexorability, infallibilism, infallibility, inflexibility, irresistibility, irrevocability, lack, mendicancy, moneylessness, must, must item, necessaries, necessities, necessitousness, need, need for, needfulness, neediness, nonambiguity, noncontingency, obligation, obligement, occasion, pauperism, pauperization, penury, pinch, positiveness, predestination, predetermination, preordination, prerequirement, prerequisite, prescience, privation, probatum, proved fact, relentlessness, requirement, requisite, requisiteness, requisition, restraint, sine qua non, sureness, surety, the necessary, the needful, truth, unambiguity, unavoidable casualty, unavoidableness, uncontrollability, undeflectability, unequivocalness, univocity, unmistakableness, unpreventability, unyieldingness, vis major, want

• neck, abbreviation, advocate, alpenstock, and quarter, ankle, arm, articulation, astriction, astringency, athletic supporter, back, backbone, backing, bandeau, bearer, bill and coo, bottleneck, boundary, bra, brace, bracer, bracket, brassiere, breast, butt, buttress, canal, cane, carrier, cervix, channel, chicken foot, circumscription, clinch, closure, coarctation, compactedness, compaction, compression, compressure, concentration, condensation, connecting link, connecting rod, connection, consolidation, constriction, constringency, contraction, contracture, copulate, corset, coupling, crook, crutch, curtailment, dally, dark meat, decapitate, decollate, decrease, defile, diminuendo, dovetail, draw, drumstick, elbow, embrace, foundation garment, fulcrum, gibbet, giblets, girdle, gliding joint, guillotine, guy, guywire, hang, head, hinge, hinged joint, hip, hourglass, hourglass figure, interface, isthmus, jock, jockstrap, join, joining, joint, juncture, knee, knitting, knuckle, leg, link, lollygag, lynch, mainstay, maintainer, make love, make out, mast, miter, mortise, narrow, narrow place, narrowing, narrows, noose, oyster, pass, pet, pivot, pivot joint, prop, puckering, pursing, rabbet, reduction, reinforce, reinforcement, reinforcer, rest, resting place, rigging, scarf, scrag, seam, shortening, shoulder, shroud, smooch, solidification, spine, spoon, sprit, staff, standing rigging, stave, stay, stick, stiffener, stitch, strait, stranglement, strangulation, strengthener, stretch, striction, stricture, string up, support, supporter, sustainer, suture, sweet-talk, symphysis, systole, thigh, throat, tie rod, toggle, toggle joint, toy, trifle, turkey foot, union, upholder, walking stick, wanton, wasp waist, weld, whisper sweet nothings, white meat, wing, wishbone, wrinkling, wrist

• necklace, anklet, armlet, band, bangle, beads, belt, bijou, bracelet, breastpin, brooch, chain, chaplet, charm, chatelaine, cincture, cingulum, circle, collar, collarband, coronet, crown, diadem, earring, ecliptic, equator, fascia, fillet, finger ring, fob, gem, girdle, girt, girth, great circle, hoop, jewel, locket, neckband, nose ring, pin, precious stone, quoit, rhinestone, ring, stickpin, stone, tiara, torque, wampum, wristband, wristlet, zodiac, zone

• neckwear, Roman collar, band, bandanna, bertha, boa, bowtie, button-down collar, celluloid collar, choke, choker, clerical collar, collar, comforter, cravat, dog collar, four-in-hand, fur, guimpe, kerchief, muffler, neckband, neckcloth, neckerchief, neckpiece, necktie, plunging neckline, ruff, scarf, stock, stole, tallith, tie, tippet, tucker

• necrologic, archival, autobiographical, biographical, chronologic, cinerary, dirgelike, dismal, documental, documentary, documentational, epigraphic, epitaphic, exequial, feral, funebrial, funebrious, funebrous, funeral, funerary, funereal, hagiographic, historic, historied, historiographic, legendary, martyrologic, mortuary, mournful, necrological, obituary, obsequial, sepulchral, testimonial, traditional

• necrological, archival, autobiographical, biographical, chronologic, cinerary, dirgelike, dismal, documental, documentary, documentational, epigraphic, epitaphic, exequial, feral, funebrial, funebrious, funebrous, funeral, funerary, funereal, hagiographic, historic, historied, historiographic, legendary, martyrologic, mortuary, mournful, obituary, obsequial, sepulchral, testimonial, traditional

• necrology, Clio, Muse of history, adventures, annals, arch, autobiography, barrow, bill of mortality, biographical sketch, biography, body count, boundary stone, brass, bust, cairn, case history, casualty list, cenotaph, chronicle, chronicles, chronology, column, confessions, cromlech, cross, cup, curriculum vitae, cyclolith, death roll, diary, dolmen, experiences, footstone, fortunes, grave, gravestone, hagiography, hagiology, headstone, historiography, history, hoarstone, inscription, journal, legend, life, life and letters, life story, marker, martyrology, mausoleum, megalith, memento, memoir, memoirs, memorabilia, memorial, memorial arch, memorial column, memorial statue, memorial stone, memorials, menhir, monolith, monument, mortuary roll, mound, necrologue, obelisk, obit, obituary, photobiography, pillar, plaque, prize, profile, pyramid, record, register of deaths, reliquary, remembrance, resume, ribbon, rostral column, shaft, shrine, stela, stone, story, stupa, tablet, testimonial, theory of history, tomb, tombstone, tope, trophy

• necromancer, Comus, Faust, automatist, charmer, conjurer, diabolist, diviner, dowser, ecstatic, enchanter, mage, magus, medium, miracle-worker, psychic, psychographist, sorcerer, spirit rapper, spiritist, spiritualist, thaumaturge, thaumaturgist, theurgist, voodooist, warlock, water witch, wizard

• necromancy, alchemy, bewitchery, bewitchment, charm, divination, enchantment, fetishism, glamour, gramarye, hoodoo, juju, jujuism, magic, mediumism, natural magic, obeah, rune, seance, shamanism, sitting, sorcery, sortilege, spell, spellbinding, spellcasting, spirit, spiritism, spiritualism, sympathetic magic, thaumaturgia, thaumaturgics, thaumaturgism, thaumaturgy, theurgy, vampirism, voodoo, voodooism, wanga, white magic, witchcraft, witchery, witchwork, wizardry

• necromantic, bewitched, cantrip, enchanted, hoodoo, incantational, incantatory, magian, magic, magical, miraculous, mystic, numinous, prodigious, shaman, shamanic, shamanist, shamanistic, sorcerous, talismanic, thaumaturgic, voodoo, voodooistic, weird, witch, witchlike, witchy, wizardlike, wizardly, wonder-working, wondrous

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

• necrophiliac, bugger, coprophiliac, erotomaniac, exhibitionist, fetishist, masochist, narcissist, nymphomaniac, paraphiliac, pederast, pedophiliac, rapist, sadist, satyr, scotophiliac, sodomist, sodomite, transvestite, voyeur, zoophiliac

• necrosis, abscess, ague, anemia, ankylosis, anoxia, apnea, asphyxiation, asthma, ataxia, atrophy, backache, bleeding, blennorhea, cachexia, cachexy, caries, carrion, chill, chills, colic, constipation, convulsion, coughing, cyanosis, decay, decomposition, diarrhea, dizziness, dropsy, dry gangrene, dry rot, dysentery, dyspepsia, dyspnea, edema, emaciation, fainting, fatigue, fever, fibrillation, flux, foulness, gangrene, gas gangrene, growth, hemorrhage, high blood pressure, hydrops, hypertension, hypotension, icterus, indigestion, inflammation, insomnia, itching, jaundice, labored breathing, low blood pressure, lumbago, marasmus, moist gangrene, mortification, nasal discharge, nausea, necrotic tissue, noma, pain, paralysis, pruritus, putrefaction, putrescence, putridity, putridness, rancidity, rancidness, rankness, rash, rheum, rot, rottenness, sclerosis, seizure, shock, skin eruption, slough, sneezing, sore, spasm, sphacelation, sphacelus, spoilage, tabes, tachycardia, tooth decay, tumor, upset stomach, vertigo, vomiting, wasting

• nectar, ambrosia, artificial sweetener, blackstrap, bonne bouche, calcium cyclamate, cane syrup, cate, choice morsel, clover honey, comb honey, corn syrup, cyclamates, dainty, delicacy, dessert, edulcoration, goody, honey, honeycomb, honeydew, honeypot, kickshaw, manna, maple syrup, molasses, morsel, saccharification, saccharin, savory, sodium cyclamate, sorghum, sugar, sugar-making, sugaring off, sweetener, sweetening, sweets, syrup, tidbit, titbit, treacle, treat

• nectarous, agreeable, ambrosial, bittersweet, candied, dainty, delectable, delicate, delicious, delightful, exquisite, good, good to eat, good-tasting, gustable, gusty, honeyed, honeysweet, juicy, likable, luscious, lush, melliferous, mellifluent, mellifluous, nectareous, nice, of gourmet quality, palatable, pleasing, sacchariferous, sapid, savorous, savory, scrumptious, sour-sweet, succulent, sugarcoated, sugared, sugarsweet, sugary, sweet, sweet and pungent, sweet and sour, sweet as sugar, sweetened, sweetish, syrupy, tasty, toothsome, yummy

• need, absence, ardor, arrearage, ask, bare cupboard, bare necessities, bare subsistence, basic, be forced, be hurting for, be in for, be in want, be indicated, be necessary, be obliged, be pinched, be poor, beggarliness, beggary, break, call, call for, cannot do otherwise, cannot help but, charge, claim, clamor for, commitment, committal, concupiscence, constraint, covet, crave, cry for, cry out for, curiosity, dearth, defalcation, defect, defectiveness, deficiency, deficit, demand, demand for, deprivation, desideration, desideratum, desire, destitution, devoir, difficulty, discontinuity, distress, drive, drought, duty, eagerness, emergency, empty purse, essential, essentials, exact, exaction, exigency, extremity, famine, fancy, fantasy, fundamental, gap, go on welfare, grinding poverty, gripe, hand-to-mouth existence, hanker, have, have got to, have need to, have occasion for, have to, hiatus, homelessness, hope, horme, hunger, impecuniousness, imperfection, impoverishment, incompleteness, indigence, indispensable, insufficiency, intellectual curiosity, interval, lack, lacuna, libido, long, lust for learning, mendicancy, mind, miss, missing link, moneylessness, must, must item, necessaries, necessary, necessities, necessitousness, necessity, need for, need to, needfulness, neediness, needs must, occasion, omission, ought, outage, passion, paucity, pauperism, pauperization, penury, pinch, pine, pleasure, pleasure principle, poorness, poverty, prerequire, prerequirement, prerequisite, privation, require, requirement, requisite, requisition, right, run short of, scarcity, sexual desire, shortage, shortcoming, shortfall, should, sine qua non, starvation, starve, stress, take doing, the necessary, the needful, thirst, thirst for knowledge, trouble, ullage, urge, use, want, want doing, wantage, wanting, will, will and pleasure, wish, wish fulfillment, yearn

• needful, called for, cardinal, essential, fundamental, imperative, indicated, indispensable, irreducible, irreductible, irreplaceable, mazuma, moolah, necessary, needed, ooftish, pelf, prerequisite, required, requisite, rhino, rocks, scratch, shekels, smash, unforgoable, vital, wanted

• needing, appetitive, arrested, bankrupt in, bare of, bereft of, callow, defective, deficient, denuded of, deprived of, desiderative, desireful, desiring, desirous, destitute of, devoid of, eager, embryonic, empty of, failing, for want of, forlorn of, hoping, hormic, hypoplastic, immature, in arrear, in arrears, in default, in default of, in short supply, in want of, inadequate, incomplete, infant, lacking, lascivious, libidinal, libidinous, lickerish, lustful, missing, optative, out of, out of pocket, part, partial, patchy, scant, scant of, scanty, scrappy, short, short of, shy, shy of, sketchy, tempted, unblessed with, underdeveloped, undeveloped, unpossessed of, void of, wanting, wishing

• needle, Gramophone, Gyrosin compass, PA, PA system, RDF, Victrola, aculeus, acumination, aggravate, annoy, arrow, audio sound system, audiophile, auger, badger, bait, banter, be at, bedevil, beset, between, binaural system, bit, bitch box, bite, blade, blaze, blunt, bore, borer, bother, bract, bracteole, bractlet, bramble, brier, bristle, broach, brown off, bug, bullhorn, bullyrag, burin, burn up, burr, cactus, cartridge, catchweed, ceramic pickup, chaff, changer, chivy, cleavers, compass, compass needle, cotyledon, countersink, crystal pickup, cusp, derived four-channel system, devil, die, direction, direction finder, direction post, discompose, discrete four-channel system, distemper, disturb, dog, drill, dun, empierce, engraving tool, etching ball, etching ground, etching needle, etching point, exasperate, exercise, fash, finger post, fist, fix, flag, flog, floral leaf, foliole, four-channel stereo system, frond, get, glume, gnaw, goad, goose grass, gore, gouge, gouge out, graver, gripe, guide, guideboard, guidepost, gyrocompass, gyroscopic compass, gyrostatic compass, hand, harass, harry, haze, heckle, hector, hi-fi, hi-fi fan, high-fidelity, hole, honeycomb, hound, hour hand, impale, index, index finger, inertial navigation system, intaglio, intercom, intercommunication system, involucre, involucrum, irk, jape, jest, jive, joke, jolly, josh, jukebox, kid, knitting wire, lamina, lance, lash, lead, leaf, leaflet, lemma, ligule, long-eyed sharp, loran, lubber line, magnetic compass, magnetic needle, magnetic pickup, miff, milepost, minute hand, molest, monaural system, mono, mucro, nag, neb, nettle, nib, nickelodeon, nudge, nudzh, peeve, penetrate, perforate, persecute, pester, petal, phonograph, photoelectric pickup, pick on, pickup, pierce, pile, pine needle, pink, pique, plague, pluck the beard, point, pointer, poke, pother, prick, prickle, prod, provoke, public-address system, punch, puncture, put on, quadraphonic sound system, quill, radio compass, radio direction finder, radio-phonograph combination, rag, rally, razz, ream, ream out, record changer, record player, rib, riddle, ride, rile, roast, rocker, roil, ruffle, run through, scorper, seal, seed leaf, sepal, sew, sew up, sharp, shoran, signboard, signpost, skewer, sound reproduction system, sound truck, spathe, spear, spicule, spiculum, spike, spikelet, spine, spire, spit, spur, squawk box, stab, stamp, stereo, stick, sticker, sting, stipula, stipule, stitch, straw, style, stylus, system, tailor, tap, tape deck, tape recorder, tease, thistle, thorn, tip, tone arm, torment, transcription turntable, transfix, transpierce, trepan, trephine, try the patience, turntable, tweak the nose, twit, vex, whip, worry, yucca

• needled, badgered, baited, bedeviled, beset, bugged, bullyragged, chivied, deviled, dogged, harassed, harried, heckled, hectored, hounded, nipped at, persecuted, pestered, picked on, plagued, ragged, teased, tormented, worried

• needless, de trop, dispensable, excess, excessive, expendable, expletive, gratuitous, in excess, inessential, naturally, nonessential, obviously, pleonastic, prolix, redundant, spare, supererogatory, superfluous, tautologic, tautological, tautologous, to spare, uncalled-for, unessential, unnecessary, unneeded, unrequired, unwanted, useless, verbose

• needlessly, aimlessly, beyond need, beyond reason, bootlessly, fecklessly, fruitlessly, futilely, overplus, pointlessly, purposelessly, redundantly, supererogatorily, superfluously, tautologously, to little purpose, to no purpose, unnecessarily, uselessly, vainly

• needlework, applique, basting, binding, buttonholing, crochet, embroidery, fancywork, garment making, knitting, macrame, needlepoint, netting, petit point, quilting, ribbing, sewing, stitchery, stitching, suture, tatting

• needy, beggared, beggarly, bereaved, bereft, chronic poverty area, dead, depressed population, deprived, destitute, disadvantaged, down-and-out, flat, fleeced, ghetto-dwellers, ghettoized, hard up, impecunious, impoverished, in need, in rags, in reduced circumstances, in want, indigent, insolvent, mendicant, necessitous, on relief, on welfare, out at elbows, pauperized, penniless, penurious, pinched, poor, poverty-stricken, starveling, strapped, stripped, the disadvantaged, the distressed, the down-and-out, the forgotten man, the have-nots, the needy, the other America, the poor, the underprivileged, the urban poor, underdeveloped nation, underprivileged, unprosperous, up against it, welfare rolls

• nefarious, abject, abominable, arrant, atrocious, awful, bad, base, beastly, beggarly, beneath contempt, black, blamable, blameworthy, brutal, cheesy, contemptible, corrupt, criminal, crummy, damnable, dark, debased, degenerate, degraded, deplorable, depraved, despicable, detestable, dire, dirty, disgraceful, disgusting, dreadful, egregious, enormous, evil, execrable, fetid, filthy, flagitious, flagrant, foul, fulsome, glaring, grave, grievous, gross, hateful, heinous, horrible, horrid, improper, infamous, iniquitous, knavish, lamentable, little, loathsome, lousy, low, low-down, lumpen, mangy, mean, measly, miscreant, miserable, monstrous, nasty, naughty, noisome, notorious, obnoxious, odious, offensive, outrageous, paltry, peccant, perverse, petty, pitiable, pitiful, poky, poor, putrid, rank, regrettable, reprehensible, reprobate, reptilian, repulsive, rotten, sad, scabby, scandalous, schlock, scrubby, scruffy, scummy, scurvy, shabby, shameful, shocking, shoddy, sinful, small, sordid, squalid, terrible, too bad, unclean, unforgivable, unmentionable, unpardonable, unspeakable, unworthy, vicious, vile, villainous, wicked, woeful, worst, worthless, wretched, wrong

• negate, abate, abnegate, abolish, abrogate, agree to disagree, annihilate, annul, be at cross-purposes, be contrary to, be unmoved, be unwilling, beg off, belie, blow sky-high, blow up, break, break off, bring to naught, bring to nothing, buffer, call into question, cancel, cancel out, challenge, clash, collide, come to nothing, conflict, contest, contradict, contravene, controvert, counter, counteract, counterbalance, countercheck, cross, decline, decline to accept, deflate, deny, differ, disaccord, disaffirm, disagree, disallow, disbelieve, disclaim, disconfirm, discredit, disprove, dissent, explode, expose, frustrate, gag on, gainsay, hold out against, impugn, invalidate, jangle, jar, jostle, misbelieve, mismatch, mismate, negativate, negative, neutralize, not admit, not believe, not buy, not consent, not hear of, not swallow, not think of, nullify, object, offset, oppugn, prove the contrary, puncture, quash, rebut, redress, refuse, refuse consent, refuse to admit, refuse to credit, reject, repeal, repudiate, resist entreaty, resist persuasion, revoke, say nay, say no, shake the head, show up, stand aloof, stultify, thwart, traverse, turn down, unbelieve, undercut, undo, vary, vitiate, void, vote nay, vote negatively

• negation, abnegation, abolishment, abolition, absence, annihilation, annulment, antagonism, argumentation, bucking, challenge, choking, choking off, clashing, conflict, contention, contradiction, contraposition, contravention, contraversion, controversy, counteraction, counterworking, crosscurrent, crossing, declension, declination, declinature, declining, denial, deprivation, deracination, difference, disaccord, disaccordance, disagreement, disallowance, disclaimer, disclamation, disconfirmation, discord, discordance, discordancy, discrepancy, disharmony, disobedience, disparity, disproof, disproval, disproving, dissension, dissent, dissidence, dissonance, disunion, disunity, divergence, diversity, elimination, emptiness, eradication, explosion, expose, exposure, extermination, extinction, extinguishment, extirpation, faction, gainsaying, head wind, holding back, impugnation, impugnment, inaccordance, inequality, invalidation, jarring, liquidation, nay, negative, negative answer, negativeness, negativity, nihility, nix, no, nonacceptance, nonbeing, noncompliance, nonconsent, nonentity, nonexistence, nonobservance, nonoccurrence, nonreality, nonsubsistence, not-being, nothingness, nullification, nullity, opposing, opposition, opposure, oppugnancy, oppugnation, purge, rebutment, rebuttal, recantation, redargution, reductio ad absurdum, refusal, rejection, repudiation, repugnance, resistance, retention, rooting out, silencing, snuffing out, standing against, stifling, strangulation, suffocation, suppression, thumbs-down, traversal, turndown, unactuality, undercurrent, unharmoniousness, unreality, unwillingness, uprooting, vacancy, vacuity, vacuum, variance, void, voiding, withholding

• negative, Cassandra-like, Cassandran, Cassandrian, Ditto copy, Photostat, Xerox, Xerox copy, abjuratory, abnegate, abnegation, abnegative, abolish, abrogate, absolute veto, adversary, adversative, adverse, algorismic, algorithmic, alien, aliquot, annihilate, annul, annulling, antagonistic, anti, antipathetic, antithetic, aquatint, argumentative, at cross-purposes, at loggerheads, at odds, at variance, at war, au contraire, autolithograph, aye, backing, be unmoved, be unwilling, beg off, belie, bibliofilm, bipack, black-and-white film, block, block print, blow sky-high, blow up, bring to naught, bring to nothing, buffer, cancel, cancel out, cancelling, cardinal, cartridge, cast, certainly not, chromolithograph, clashing, cold, color film, color negative film, color print, come to nothing, competitive, con, conflicting, contact print, contradict, contradicting, contradiction, contradictory, contrary, contravene, cool, copperplate, copperplate print, counter, counteract, counterbalance, countercheck, cranky, crayon engraving, cross, cut, cynical, deaf to, decimal, declension, declination, declinatory, declinature, decline, decline to accept, declining, defeatist, deflate, denial, denying, deprivation, detrimental, devoid, die, differential, differing, digital, disaccordant, disaffirm, disaffirming, disagree, disagreeable, disagreeing, disagreement, disallow, disallowance, disallowing, disavowing, disclaim, disclaimer, disclaiming, disclamation, disconfirm, discordant, discredit, discrepant, disharmonious, dismal, disobedience, disobedient, disowning, disproportionate, disprove, disputatious, disputing, dissent, dissentient, dissenting, dissentious, dissident, dissonant, divergent, dope, downbeat, dry plate, emulsion, enemy, engravement, engraving, enlargement, etching, even, existless, explode, exponential, expose, far from it, figural, figurate, figurative, film, finite, form, fractional, fractious, frame, frustrate, gainsay, gainsaying, gloomy, graphotype, grating, hectograph copy, hold out against, holding back, hostile, imaginary, immiscible, impair, impossible, impress, impression, imprint, impugn, in the negative, inaccordant, incompatible, infinite, inharmonious, inimical, intaglio, integral, interest, invalidate, irrational, item veto, jangling, jarring, kill, lacking, last, limited negative, limited veto, linoleum-block print, lithograph, logarithmic, logometric, matrix, mezzotint, microfilm, mimeograph copy, mint, minuend, minus, missing, mold, monochromatic film, motion-picture film, nay, naysaying, negate, negating, negation, negativate, negative answer, negative attitude, negatively, negativeness, negativism, negativistic, negativity, negatory, nein, neutralize, neutralizing, nihilistic, nix, no, no such thing, non, nonacceptance, noncompliance, nonconsent, nonconsenting, noncooperative, nonexistent, nonobservance, not, not a bit, not a jot, not a whit, not buy, not consent, not hear of, not really, not so, not think of, null, nullify, nullifying, numeral, numerary, numerative, numeric, nyet, obstinate, odd, offprint, offset, opponent, opposed, opposing, opposite, oppositional, oppositive, oppugnant, ordinal, orthochromatic film, out of accord, out of whack, overthwart, pack, pair, panchromatic film, perverse, pessimist, pessimistic, photocopy, photograph, photographic paper, photostatic copy, plate, plus, pocket veto, positive, prime, print, printing paper, pro, proof, prove the contrary, punch, puncture, quite the contrary, radical, rational, real, recalcitrant, recantation, recanting, reciprocal, redress, refractory, refusal, refuse, refuse consent, refusing, reject, rejection, rejective, renunciative, renunciatory, repeal, reprint, repudiate, repudiation, repudiative, repugnant, resist entreaty, resist persuasion, retention, revocative, revocatory, revoke, rival, roll, rubber-block print, rule against, say nay, say no, seal, shake the head, shoe last, show up, side, sound film, sound track, sound-on-film, soundstripe, stamp, stand aloof, stat, stultify, submultiple, subtrahend, surd, suspensory veto, template, the affirmative, the negative, thumbs-down, thwart, to the contrary, transcendental, traverse, tripack, turn down, turndown, uncheerful, uncomplaisant, uncompliant, uncomplying, uncongenial, unconsenting, uncooperative, undercut, undo, unenthusiastic, unexisting, unfavorable, unfriendly, unharmonious, uninterested, unpropitious, unresponsive, unwilling, unwillingness, vacuous, variant, vehicle, veto, vignette, vitiate, void, voiding, vote nay, vote negatively, withholding, without being, wood engraving, woodblock, woodcut, woodprint, xylograph

• negativism, abnegation, alienation, arrest, arrestation, arrestment, autism, autistic thinking, avoidance mechanism, blame-shifting, blockage, blocking, challenge, check, clogging, closing up, closure, combative reaction, compensation, complaint, constriction, counteraction, cramp, cynicism, decompensation, defeatism, defense mechanism, defiance, delay, demur, dereism, dereistic thinking, detainment, detention, dismalness, displacement, dispute, dissent, dissentience, dissociation, emotional insulation, escape, escape into fantasy, escape mechanism, escapism, fantasizing, fantasy, fixation, flight, foot-dragging, fractiousness, gloominess, gloomy outlook, hampering, hindering, hindrance, holdback, holdup, impediment, inhibition, interference, interruption, isolation, let, malism, nay, naysaying, negation, negative, negative attitude, negativeness, negativity, nihilism, nix, no, noncooperation, nuisance value, objection, obstinacy, obstruction, obstructionism, occlusion, opposition, overcompensation, passive resistance, pessimism, projection, protest, psychotaxis, rationalization, reaction, rebuff, recalcitrance, recalcitrancy, recalcitration, refractoriness, reluctance, remonstrance, renitence, renitency, repellence, repellency, repression, repulse, repulsion, resistance, restraint, restriction, retardation, retardment, retreatism, revolt, setback, sociological adjustive reactions, squeeze, stand, stranglehold, stricture, sublimation, substitution, suppression, uncheerfulness, uncooperativeness, wish-fulfillment fantasy, wishful thinking, withdrawal, withstanding

• negativist, Cassandra, Eeyore, bitter-ender, brawler, calamity howler, cynic, defeatist, defendant, diehard, disputant, dissentient, dissident, filibuster, filibusterer, frustrater, hinderer, impeder, intransigent, irreconcilable, killjoy, last-ditcher, litigant, malist, marplot, naysayer, nihilist, noncooperator, objector, obstructer, obstructionist, obstructive, opposer, oppositionist, pessimist, plaintiff, prophet of doom, protester, quarreler, resister, retreatist, scrapper, seek-sorrow, thwarter, worrywart, wrangler

• neglect, Sisyphean labor, abandon, bad policy, be caught napping, be neglectful, be negligent, blink at, brush off, carelessness, cold-shoulder, contemn, cut, cut dead, default, delinquency, dereliction, disconformity, discount, disdain, dismiss, disregard, disrespect, elide, endless task, fail, failing, failure, forget, give the go-by, gloss over, heedlessness, ignore, impolicy, inaction, inactivity, inadvertence, inattention, indifference, inexecution, inexpedience, inexpediency, inobservance, lapse, laxity, laxness, leave undone, let go, let pass, let ride, let slide, let slip, look right through, loose ends, lose sight of, lose track of, make little of, maladministration, malfeasance, malpractice, misadministration, misconduct, misdirection, misfeasance, misgovernment, misguidance, mishandling, mismanagement, misrule, miss, neglectfulness, negligence, nod, nonaccomplishment, nonachievement, nonadherence, noncompliance, nonconformance, nonconformity, nonconsummation, nondischarging, nonexecution, nonfeasance, nonfulfillment, nonobservance, nonperformance, not care for, not get involved, not heed, not think, omission, omit, overleap, overlook, overpass, oversight, pass, pass by, pass over, pass up, passiveness, passivity, pooh-pooh, pretermit, rebuff, refuse to acknowledge, refuse to recognize, reject, remissness, rough edges, scant, scorn, shirk, shrug off, slackness, sleep, slight, slighting, slur over, spurn, take for granted, think little of, unconcern, unfulfillment, unobservance, work of Penelope, wrongdoing

• neglected, abandoned, deserted, disregarded, forgotten, half-done, ignored, ill-requited, ill-rewarded, laid aside, left undone, missed, omitted, overlooked, passed by, passed over, passed up, pigeonholed, put aside, run-down, shunted, sidelined, sidetracked, slighted, unaccomplished, unachieved, unacknowledged, unasked, unattained, unattended to, uncared-for, unchaperoned, uncompleted, unconsidered, unconsummated, uncredited, undischarged, undone, unexecuted, unfairly neglected, unfinished, unfulfilled, unheeded, unperformed, unrealized, unrecognized, unregarded, unrequited, unrewarded, unsolicited, untended, unthanked, unwatched

• neglectful, behindhand, careless, culpably negligent, delinquent, derelict, disregardful, inadvertent, inattentive, laissez-faire, lax, loose, neglecting, negligent, noninterfering, nonrestrictive, off-guard, overly permissive, permissive, procrastinating, regardless, relaxed, remiss, scamping, skimping, slack, slighting, slurring, uncircumspect, unguarded, unrigorous, unwary, unwatchful

• negligence, absentmindedness, accidia, acedia, allowance, apathy, approximation, ataraxia, ataraxy, bad policy, blowziness, carelessness, casualness, chintziness, culpa, culpable negligence, default, delinquency, dereliction, detachment, deviation, disconformity, disinterest, dispassion, disregard, disregardfulness, distraction, dowdiness, easiness, easygoingness, failing, failure, fecklessness, flightiness, flippancy, forgetfulness, frivolousness, frowziness, frumpishness, giddiness, grubbiness, hastiness, heedlessness, impolicy, impotence, imprecision, improvidence, inaccuracy, inaccurateness, inadvertence, inadvertency, inattention, inattentiveness, inconsideration, incorrectness, incuriosity, indifference, indiscrimination, inexactitude, inexactness, inexcitability, inexpedience, inexpediency, inobservance, insouciance, laches, lack of affect, lackadaisicalness, laissez-faire, lapse, lax stewardship, laxity, laxness, leniency, levity, lightmindedness, listlessness, looseness, loosening, maladministration, malfeasance, malpractice, messiness, mindlessness, misadministration, misconduct, misdirection, misfeasance, misgovernment, misguidance, mishandling, mismanagement, misrule, neglect, neglectfulness, nonadherence, nonchalance, noncompliance, nonconformance, nonconformity, nonfeasance, nonfulfillment, noninterference, nonobservance, nonperformance, nonrestriction, obliviousness, omission, oscitancy, overindulgence, overlooking, overpermissiveness, oversight, permissiveness, pococurantism, poor husbandry, poor stewardship, predictable error, probable error, procrastination, recklessness, regardlessness, relaxation, relaxedness, remissness, seediness, shabbiness, shallowness, shiftlessness, shoddiness, slackness, slatternliness, slight, slipshodness, sloppiness, sloth, slovenliness, slovenry, sluttishness, softness, sordidness, squalidness, squalor, standard deviation, superficiality, tackiness, tawdriness, thoughtlessness, thriftlessness, tolerance, unalertness, unanxiousness, unawareness, unconcern, unconsciousness, uncorrectness, unfactualness, unheedfulness, unintentiveness, unmindfulness, unneatness, unobservance, unpreciseness, unrestraint, unrigorousness, unsolicitousness, untidiness, unwariness, unwatchfulness, weakness, wrongdoing

• negligent, apathetic, approximate, approximative, ataractic, beat-up, bedraggled, behindhand, blase, blowzy, botched, bungled, butchered, careless, casual, chintzy, culpably negligent, delinquent, derelict, devil-may-care, dilapidated, disinterested, dispassionate, disregardant, disregardful, distracted, distrait, drabbletailed, draggled, draggletailed, easy, easygoing, feckless, frowzy, frumpish, frumpy, fumbled, grasshopper, grubby, happy-go-lucky, heedless, ill-advised, ill-considered, ill-contrived, ill-devised, ill-done, ill-executed, ill-managed, impolitic, impotent, imprecise, improvident, in rags, inaccurate, inadvertent, inattentive, inconsiderate, inconstant, incorrect, incurious, indifferent, inexact, inexcitable, informal, inobservant, insouciant, lackadaisical, laissez-faire, lax, lenient, listless, loose, lumpen, messy, mindless, misconducted, misdirected, misguided, mismanaged, muffed, murdered, mussy, neglectful, neglecting, nonadherent, nonchalant, noncompliant, nonconforming, noninterfering, nonobservant, nonrestrictive, off-guard, out of line, out of plumb, out of square, out of true, overindulgent, overly permissive, overpermissive, perfunctory, permissive, pococurante, poky, procrastinating, ragged, raggedy, reckless, regardless, relaxed, remiss, ruinous, scamping, scraggly, seedy, shabby, shiftless, shoddy, skimping, slack, slatternly, slighting, slipshod, sloppy, slovenly, slurring, sluttish, soft, sordid, spoiled, squalid, tacky, tattered, thoughtless, thriftless, turned-off, unanxious, uncircumspect, uncompliant, unconcerned, unconforming, undiscriminating, uneconomical, unfactual, unfaithful, unguarded, unheedful, unheeding, uninterested, unkempt, unloyal, unmarking, unmindful, unneat, unnoticing, unnoting, unobservant, unobserving, unprecise, unproviding, unremarking, unrestrained, unrigorous, unsightly, unsolicitous, unthinking, unthrifty, untidy, untrue, unwary, unwatchful, weak

• negligible, back-burner, cursory, depthless, dinky, dispensable, fat, few, footling, immaterial, inappreciable, inconsequential, inconsiderable, inessential, inferior, insignificant, irrelevant, little, low, meager, miniature, minor, minute, niggling, no great shakes, nonessential, not vital, nugatory, off, outside, paltry, petit, petty, picayune, picayunish, piddling, shallow, short, skin-deep, slender, slight, slim, small, superficial, technical, tiny, trifling, trivial, unessential, unimportant, unimpressive, unnoteworthy, worthless

• negotiable instrument, CD, IOU, MO, acceptance, acceptance bill, bank acceptance, bank check, bill, bill of draft, bill of exchange, blank check, certificate, certificate of deposit, certified check, charge card, charge plate, check, checkbook, cheque, circular note, commercial paper, credit card, credit instrument, credit slip, debenture, demand bill, demand draft, deposit slip, draft, due bill, exchequer bill, letter of credit, money order, note, note of hand, paper, postal order, promissory note, sight bill, sight draft, time bill, time draft, trade acceptance, treasury bill, voucher, warrant

• negotiable, achievable, actable, alienable, assignable, attainable, bequeathable, compassable, consignable, convertible, conveyable, devisable, doable, feasible, heritable, inheritable, liquid, manageable, maneuverable, manipulatable, operable, operatable, overcomable, performable, practicable, practical, realizable, superable, surmountable, transferable, viable, workable

• negotiate, abalienate, act between, adjust, advise with, agree, alien, alienate, amortize, arbitrate, arrange, assign, bargain, barter, beat down, bequeath, bid, bid for, bounce, bound, buck, buckjump, call in, capriole, cede, chaffer, cheapen, clear, clear the hurdle, collogue, come along, come on, compare notes, compose, concert, confer, confer with, consign, consult, consult with, contract, contrive, convey, counsel, covenant, curvet, cut the mustard, deed, deed over, deliberate, deliver, demise, devolve upon, dicker, discuss, discuss with, drive a bargain, enfeoff, engineer, exchange, exchange observations, exchange views, get along, get by, get on, give, give title to, go between, go on, hack it, haggle, hand, hand down, hand on, hand over, have conversations, higgle, hippety-hop, hold conference, hop, huckster, hurdle, intercede, intermediate, interpose, intervene, jew down, judge, jump, jump over, leap, leap over, leapfrog, make it, make out, make over, make terms, make the grade, manage, manage somehow, mediate, meet halfway, moderate, muddle through, outbid, over, overjump, overleap, overskip, palaver, parley, pass, pass on, pass over, pounce, pounce on, pounce upon, powwow, put heads together, put over, put through, reason with, refer to, referee, represent, scrape along, sell, settle, settle on, sign away, sign over, sit down together, sit down with, ski jump, skip, spring, start, start aside, start up, steeplechase, step in, succeed in, surmount, surrender, swing, swing the deal, take counsel, take up with, talk over, trade, transact, transfer, transmit, treat with, turn over, umpire, underbid, updive, upleap, upspring, vault, worry along

• negotiation, audience, bargaining, bargaining session, business deal, chaffer, chaffering, collective bargaining, coming to terms, commercial transaction, conclave, confab, confabulation, conference, confrontation, congress, consultation, convention, council, council fire, council of war, deal, dickering, discussion, exchange of views, eyeball-to-eyeball encounter, haggle, haggling, higgling, high-level talk, huddle, interchange of views, interview, meeting, negotiations, news conference, operation, package bargaining, package deal, palaver, parley, pattern bargaining, pourparler, powwow, press conference, seance, session, sitting, summit, summit conference, summitry, transaction, turn

• negotiator, agent, arbitrator, bargainer, broker, business agent, cardholder, connection, contact, deputy, front, front man, go-between, interagent, interceder, intercessor, intermediary, intermediate, intermediate agent, intermediator, intermedium, internuncio, interpleader, intervener, interventionist, interventor, labor organizer, mediator, medium, middleman, mouthpiece, negotiant, negotiatress, negotiatrix, ombudsman, organizer, shop steward, spokesman, spokeswoman, trade unionist, union member, union officer, unionist

• Negro spiritual, anthem, cantata, canticle, chorale, church music, doxology, gospel, gospel music, hymn, hymn-tune, hymnody, hymnology, introit, mass, motet, offertory, offertory sentence, oratorio, paean, passion, prosodion, psalm, psalmody, recessional, requiem, requiem mass, sacred music, spiritual, white spiritual

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

• neigh, bark, bawl, bay, bell, bellow, blare, blat, blate, bleat, bray, call, caterwaul, cry, give tongue, give voice, howl, low, meow, mew, mewl, miaow, moo, nicker, pule, roar, screak, scream, screech, squall, squeak, squeal, troat, ululate, wail, whicker, whine, whinny, yap, yawl, yawp, yelp, yip, yowl

• neighbor, abut, abut on, abutter, acquaintance, adjacent, adjoin, adjoiner, adjoining, advocate, alter ego, appose, backer, be contiguous, be in contact, best friend, border, border on, borderer, bordering, bosom friend, bring near, brother, butt, bystander, casual acquaintance, close acquaintance, close friend, communicate, confidant, confidante, conjoin, connect, connecting, conterminous, contiguous, coterminous, end to end, endways, endwise, face to face, familiar, favorer, fellow, fellow creature, fellowman, friend, immediate, immediate neighbor, inseparable friend, intimate, join, joined, juxtapose, juxtaposed, juxtaposit, juxtapositional, juxtapositive, lie by, line, looker-on, lover, march, neighborer, neighboring, next, onlooker, other self, partisan, pickup, put with, repository, stand by, supporter, sympathizer, tangent, touch, verge, verge upon, well-wisher

• neighborhood, airspace, alentours, ambience, ambit, approach, approximation, area, belt, borderlands, circle, circuit, circumambiencies, circumjacencies, circumstances, closeness, compass, confines, context, continental shelf, convergence, corridor, country, department, district, division, entourage, environing circumstances, environment, environs, extent, foreground, gestalt, ground, habitat, heartland, hinterland, immediacy, immediate foreground, land, magnitude, matter, milieu, nearness, nighness, offshore rights, outposts, outskirts, part, parts, perimeter, periphery, place, precinct, precincts, premises, propinquity, proximity, purlieus, quarter, range, region, salient, section, situation, soil, space, suburbs, surroundings, terrain, territory, three-mile limit, total environment, tune, twelve-mile limit, vicinage, vicinity, zone

• neighboring, abutting, adjacent, adjoining, ambient, bordering, circling, circumambient, circumferential, circumflex, circumfluent, circumfluous, circumjacent, close, close-by, connecting, conterminous, contiguous, coterminous, embracing, encircling, enclosing, encompassing, end to end, endways, endwise, enfolding, enveloping, environing, face to face, immediate, joined, juxtaposed, juxtapositional, juxtapositive, near, nearby, neighbor, next, peripheral, roundabout, suburban, surrounding, touching, wrapping

• neighborliness, amiability, amiableness, amicability, amicableness, amity, bonhomie, congeniality, cordiality, friendliness, friendship, generosity, geniality, graciousness, heartiness, hospitableness, hospitality, kindness, liberality, love, neighborlikeness, open door, openheartedness, peaceableness, receptiveness, sociability, unhostility, warmheartedness, warmness, warmth, well-affectedness

• neighborly, agreeable, amiable, amicable, beneficent, benevolent, benign, benignant, brotherly, congenial, cooperative, cordial, favorable, fraternal, friendlike, friendly, generous, genial, gracious, gregarious, harmonious, hearty, hospitable, kind, kindly, kindly-disposed, liberal, neighborlike, open, openhearted, peaceable, pleasant, propitious, receptive, simpatico, sisterly, sociable, social, sympathique, unhostile, warm, warmhearted, welcoming, well-affected, well-disposed, well-intentioned, well-meaning, well-meant

• neighbourhood, about, almost, approximately, area, around, close to, confines, district, environs, locale, locality, more or less, nearly, practically, precincts, purlieus, quarter, region, surroundings, vicinage, vicinity

• neighbourly, affable, agreeable, amiable, civil, companionable, considerate, cordial, courteous, friendly, genial, gracious, harmonious, helpful, kind, kindly, sociable, social, thoughtful, warm, well-disposed

• Nembutal, Amytal, Amytal pill, Demerol, Dolophine, H, Luminal, Luminal pill, M, Mickey Finn, Nembutal pill, Seconal, Seconal pill, Tuinal, Tuinal pill, alcohol, amobarbital sodium, analgesic, anodyne, barb, barbiturate, barbiturate pill, black stuff, blue, blue angel, blue devil, blue heaven, blue velvet, calmative, chloral hydrate, codeine, codeine cough syrup, depressant, depressor, dolly, downer, goofball, hard stuff, heroin, hop, horse, hypnotic, junk, knockout drops, laudanum, liquor, lotus, meperidine, methadone, morphia, morphine, narcotic, opiate, opium, pacifier, pain killer, paregoric, pen yan, phenobarbital, phenobarbital sodium, purple heart, quietener, rainbow, red, scag, secobarbital sodium, sedative, shit, sleep-inducer, sleeper, sleeping draught, sleeping pill, smack, sodium thiopental, somnifacient, soother, soothing syrup, soporific, tar, tranquilizer, turps, white stuff, yellow, yellow jacket

• nemesis, affliction, bane, bugbear, burden, calamity, castigation, chastening, chastisement, condign punishment, correction, crushing burden, curse, death, defensibility, deserts, destruction, disciplinary measures, discipline, disease, drumhead justice, dueness, equitableness, equity, evenhandedness, evil, ferule, give-and-take, grievance, harm, infliction, judgment, judicial punishment, justice, justifiability, justifiableness, justification, justness, lawfulness, legality, measure for measure, meetness, open wound, pains, pains and punishments, pay, payment, penal retribution, penalty, penology, pest, pestilence, plague, poetic justice, properness, propriety, punishment, punition, retribution, retributive justice, right, rightfulness, rightness, rude justice, running sore, scales of justice, scourge, summary justice, thorn, torment, vexation, visitation, warrantability, warrantedness, well-deserved punishment, what is right, what-for, woe

• Nemesis, Alecto, Astraea, Dike, Jupiter Fidius, Justice, Justitia, Loki, Megaera, Minos, Rhadamanthus, Set, Themis, Tisiphone, Typhon, avenger, blindfolded Justice, burning rage, furious rage, furor, fury, passion, rage, revanchist, tearing passion, the Erinyes, the Eumenides, the Furies, towering rage, vehemence, vindicator, violence

• neolith, ancient manuscript, antique, antiquity, archaism, artifact, cave painting, eolith, fossil, mezzolith, microlith, paleolith, petrification, petrified forest, petrified wood, petroglyph, plateaulith, relic, reliquiae, remains, ruin, ruins, survival, vestige

• neologism, Young Turk, arriviste, blend, breakthrough, bright young man, coinage, comer, discovery, fledgling, ghost word, innovation, introduction, invention, leap, modern, modern generation, modern man, modernist, modernizer, neologist, neology, neonate, neoteric, neoterism, neoterist, new generation, new man, new phase, new sense, new word, newfangled expression, nonce word, nouveau riche, novelty, novus homo, parvenu, portmanteau word, rising generation, stripling, upstart

• neophyte, Christian, God-fearing man, abecedarian, accepter, alphabetarian, apprentice, articled clerk, baby, beginner, believer, boot, catechumen, churchgoer, churchite, churchman, colt, communicant, convert, daily communicant, deb, debutant, devotee, devotionalist, disciple, entrant, fanatic, fledgling, follower, freshman, good Christian, greenhorn, greeny, ignoramus, inductee, infant, initiate, learner, nestling, new boy, newcomer, novice, novitiate, pietist, postulant, probationer, probationist, proselyte, raw recruit, receiver, recruit, religionist, rookie, saint, tenderfoot, theist, trainee, truster, tyro, votary, zealot

• neoplasm, benign tumor, callosity, callus, cancer, carcinoma, corn, cyst, excrescence, fungosity, fungus, growth, intumescence, malignant growth, metastatic tumor, mole, morbid growth, nevus, nonmalignant tumor, outgrowth, proud flesh, sarcoma, tumor, verruca, wart, wen

• nephew, aunt, auntie, blood brother, brethren, brother, bub, bubba, bud, buddy, country cousin, cousin, cousin once removed, cousin twice removed, daughter, father, first cousin, foster brother, frater, grandnephew, grandniece, granduncle, great-aunt, great-uncle, half brother, kid brother, mother, niece, nuncle, nunks, nunky, second cousin, sis, sissy, sister, sister-german, sistern, son, stepbrother, stepsister, unc, uncle, uncs, uterine brother

• nephritis, adenoiditis, adrenitis, appendicitis, arteritis, arthritis deformans, arthritis fungosa, arthritis pauperum, atrophic arthritis, atrophic inflammation, blennorrhagic arthritis, brain fever, bronchitis, bunion, bursitis, capillaritis, carditis, catarrh, catarrhal inflammation, cerebellitis, cerebral meningitis, cerebritis, cerebrospinal meningitis, chronic infectious arthritis, chronic inflammation, cirrhotic inflammation, climactic arthritis, clitoritis, colitis, collagen disease, conjunctivitis, cystitis, degenerative arthritis, diffuse inflammation, encephalitis, endocarditis, enteritis, equine encephalomyelitis, exudative inflammation, fibroid inflammation, focal inflammation, gastritis, gingivitis, glomerulonephritis, glossitis, gonococcal arthritis, gonorrheal arthritis, gonorrheal rheumatism, gout, gouty arthritis, hemophilic arthritis, hepatitis, hyperplastic inflammation, hypertrophic arthritis, hypertrophic inflammation, infectional arthritis, infectious hepatitis, inflammation, irritable bowel syndrome, kidney stone, laryngitis, lumbago, lumbar rheumatism, mastoiditis, meningitis, menopausal arthritis, metastatic inflammation, metritis, milk leg, mucous colitis, mumps meningitis, myelitis, necrotic inflammation, nephrolithosis, nephrosis, neuritis, obliterative inflammation, ophthalitis, ophthalmia, orchitis, osseous rheumatism, osteitis, osteoarthritis, osteomyelitis, otitis, ovaritis, paradental pyorrhea, penitis, pericarditis, periodontitis, peritonitis, pharyngitis, phlebitis, podagra, proliferative arthritis, prostatitis, pyonephritis, pyorrhea, pyorrhea alveolaris, reactive inflammation, renal calculus, renal hematuria, rheumatism, rheumatiz, rheumatoid arthritis, rhinitis, sclerosing inflammation, seroplastic inflammation, serous inflammation, serum hepatitis, simple inflammation, sinusitis, spastic colon, specific inflammation, subacute rheumatism, suppurative arthritis, suppurative inflammation, syphilitic arthritis, tennis elbow, testitis, thrombophlebitis, tonsilitis, torticollis, toxic inflammation, traumatic inflammation, tuberculous arthritis, tuberculous rheumatism, ulcerative colitis, uratic arthritis, uremia, ureteritis, urethral arthritis, urethritis, uteritis, vaginitis, vertebral arthritis, visceral rheumatism, vulvitis, wryneck

• nepotism, bias, boodle, campaign contribution, campaign fund, discrimination, favoritism, graft, inclination, inequality, interest, involvement, leaning, one-sidedness, parti pris, partiality, partisanism, partisanship, preference, preferential treatment, public tit, public trough, slush fund, spoils of office, spoils system, undetachment, undispassionateness, unneutrality

• Neptune, AB, Agdistis, Amor, Ancient Mariner, Aphrodite, Apollo, Apollon, Ares, Argonaut, Artemis, Ate, Athena, Bacchus, Ceres, Cora, Cronus, Cupid, Cybele, Davy, Davy Jones, Demeter, Despoina, Diana, Dionysus, Dis, Dylan, Earth, Eros, Flying Dutchman, 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, Mithras, Momus, Nereid, Nereus, Nike, OD, Oceanid, Oceanus, Olympians, Olympic gods, Ops, Orcus, Persephassa, Persephone, Phoebus, Phoebus Apollo, Pluto, Poseidon, Proserpina, Proserpine, Rhea, Saturn, Tellus, Thetis, Triton, Uranus, Varuna, Venus, Vesta, Vulcan, Zeus, able seaman, able-bodied seaman, asteroid, bluejacket, buccaneer, deep-sea man, fair-weather sailor, fisherman, fresh-water nymph, hearty, inferior planet, jack, jack afloat, jack-tar, jacky, kelpie, limey, limniad, lobsterman, major planet, man fish, mariner, matelot, mermaid, merman, minor planet, naiad, navigator, nix, nixie, ocean nymph, pirate, planet, planetoid, privateer, sailor, salt, sea devil, sea dog, sea god, sea nymph, sea rover, sea-maid, sea-maiden, seafarer, seafaring man, seaman, secondary planet, shipman, siren, solar system, superior planet, tar, terrestrial planet, undine, viking, wanderer, water dog, water god, water spirit, water sprite, whaler, windjammer, windsailor

• nerve center, bosom, breast, center of activity, center of life, esoteric reality, focal point, focus, ganglion, heart, heart of hearts, hub, inmost heart, inmost soul, inner man, inner nature, inside, polestar, quick, seat, secret heart, soul, spirit, true being, true inwardness, vital center, vital principle, vitals

• nerve, afferent neuron, animate, annoy, anxiety, aplomb, apprehension, assurance, assure, audacity, autonomic nervous system, axon, backbone, balance, balanced personality, balls, beef up, boldness, bolster, bottle, bottom, brace, brace up, brain, brashness, brass, bravery, brazenness, buck up, buttress, case harden, central nervous system, cerebral cortex, cheek, cheer, chirk up, chutzpah, confidence, confirm, constancy, cool, coolness, courage, craniosacral nervous system, crust, daring, dauntlessness, dendrite, determination, doughtiness, effector organ, efferent neuron, effrontery, embolden, encourage, equilibrium, face, fastness, fearlessness, firmness, fortify, fortitude, forwardness, fretfulness, fright, gall, ganglion, gird, gray matter, grit, gumption, guts, gutsiness, guttiness, harden, hardihood, hardiness, heart, heart of oak, hearten, homeostasis, hysteria, impertinence, imperturbability, importunacy, importunateness, impudence, insolence, inspire, inspirit, internuncial neuron, intestinal fortitude, intrepidity, invariability, invigorate, irritate, medullary sheath, mettle, moxie, nerve trunk, nerves, nervous system, nervousness, neuron, peripheral nervous system, pith, plexus, pluck, presumption, presumptuousness, prop, pushiness, reassure, refresh, reinforce, reinvigorate, reliability, resoluteness, restrengthen, rootedness, sand, sang-froid, sauce, secureness, security, self-assertion, self-assertiveness, self-expression, self-expressiveness, sensorium, sensory area, sensory cell, shore up, solar plexus, solidity, soundness, spinal cord, spirit, spunk, stability, stable equilibrium, stable state, stamina, staunchness, steadfastness, steadiness, steady nerves, steady state, steel, stiffen, stout heart, strengthen, stress, substantiality, support, sustain, synapse, temerity, temper, tenacity, tension, the heebie-jeebies, thoracolumbar nervous system, toughen, toughness, undeflectability, undergird, uniformity, unshakable nerves, unshakableness, upset, valor, white matter, will, worry

• nerveless, anemic, asthenic, bloodless, calm, castrated, chicken, coolheaded, cowardly, debilitated, demasculinized, devitalized, drooping, droopy, dull, effeminized, effete, emasculate, emasculated, enervated, etiolated, eunuchized, faint, faintish, feeble, flabby, flaccid, floppy, gelded, gone, gutless, imbecile, impotent, inexcitable, languid, languorous, limber, limp, listless, lustless, marrowless, pithless, pooped, powerless, relaxed, rock-steady, rubbery, sapless, sinewless, slack, soft, spineless, steady, steady-handed, steady-nerved, steel-nerved, strengthless, strong-nerved, unblenching, unblinking, unfaltering, unflinching, unhardened, unmanned, unnerved, unnervous, unquivering, unsexed, unshaken, unshaky, unshrinking, unstrained, unstrung, untremulous, unwavering, weak, weakly, without a tremor

• nerves, agitation, apprehensiveness, attack of nerves, buck fever, case of nerves, excessive irritability, fear, fidgetiness, fidgets, morbid excitability, nervosity, nervous stomach, nervousness, panic, panickiness, spell of nerves, stage fright, state of nerves, tic, trepidation, twitching, uneasiness, vellication

• nervous breakdown, brain disease, breakdown, circulatory collapse, collapse, crack-up, crackup, emotional disorder, emotional instability, exhaustion, frayed nerves, frazzled nerves, functional nervous disorder, insanity, jangled nerves, maladjustment, manic-depressive psychosis, melancholia, mental disorder, mental illness, nervous disorder, nervous exhaustion, nervous prostration, neurasthenia, neurosis, paranoia, personality disorder, problems in living, prostration, psychosis, raw nerves, reaction, schizophrenia, shattered nerves, social maladjustment, twanging nerves

• nervous disorder, MS, amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, brain disease, cephalalgia, cerebral palsy, chorea, crack-up, emotional disorder, emotional instability, epilepsy, falling sickness, functional nervous disorder, glossopharyngeal neuralgia, headache, herpes zoster, insanity, ischialgia, maladjustment, manic-depressive psychosis, melancholia, mental disorder, mental illness, migraine, multiple sclerosis, nervous breakdown, neuralgia, neuritis, neuropathy, neurosis, organic psychosis, palsy, paranoia, personality disorder, polyneuritis, pressure neuropathy, priapism, problems in living, psychosis, radiculitis, reaction, schizophrenia, sciatic neuritis, sciatica, shaking palsy, shingles, social maladjustment, spastic paralysis, the jerks, tic douloureux, toxic psychosis

• nervous prostration, breakdown, circulatory collapse, collapse, crack-up, crackup, draining, exhaustedness, exhaustion, frayed nerves, frazzled nerves, jangled nerves, nervous breakdown, nervous exhaustion, neurasthenia, neurosis, prostration, raw nerves, shattered nerves, twanging nerves

• nervous system, afferent neuron, autonomic nervous system, axon, brain, central nervous system, cerebral cortex, craniosacral nervous system, dendrite, effector organ, efferent neuron, ganglion, gray matter, internuncial neuron, medullary sheath, nerve, nerve trunk, neuron, peripheral nervous system, plexus, sensorium, sensory area, sensory cell, solar plexus, spinal cord, synapse, thoracolumbar nervous system, white matter

• nervous tension, agitation, all-overs, angst, anxiety, anxiety hysteria, anxiety neurosis, anxious bench, anxious concern, anxious seat, anxiousness, apprehension, apprehensiveness, cankerworm of care, care, concern, concernment, disquiet, disquietude, distress, disturbance, dread, fear, foreboding, forebodingness, inquietude, malaise, mental strain, misgiving, nervous strain, nervousness, overanxiety, perturbation, pins and needles, pressure, pucker, solicitude, stew, strain, stress, stress and strain, suspense, tautness, tenseness, tension, trouble, uneasiness, unquietness, upset, vexation, zeal

• nervous, acid, agitable, agitated, all nerves, all-overish, allergic, anaphylactic, anxious, anxioused up, apprehensive, bashful, biting, bothered, concerned, corrosive, cowardly, critical, cutting, delicate, difficult, diffident, discomposed, disquieted, distressed, disturbed, driving, edgy, effective, emotional, emotionally unstable, empathetic, empathic, eruptive, excitable, excited, explosive, fearful, fearing, fearsome, feverish, fidgety, flurried, flustered, forceful, forcible, foreboding, fretful, frightened, goosey, goosy, gutsy, high-mettled, high-spirited, high-strung, highly emotional, hyperesthetic, hyperpathic, hypersensitive, imperative, impressive, in a dither, in a pucker, in a stew, in a sweat, in a tizzy, in fear, incisive, inflammable, irascible, irritable, itchy, jittery, jumpy, mettlesome, misgiving, mordant, mousy, nerval, nerves on edge, nervy, neural, neurological, on edge, on tenterhooks, overanxious, overapprehensive, overrefined, oversensible, oversensitive, overstrung, overtender, panicky, passible, penetrating, perturbable, perturbed, piercing, poignant, powerful, prickly, punchy, querulous, rabbity, refined, responsive, restless, ruffled, scared, scary, sensational, sensitive, shaken, shaken up, shaky, shivery, shrinking, shy, sinewed, sinewy, skittery, skittish, slashing, snappish, solicitous, spooky, startlish, stirred up, strained, striking, strong, strung out, supersensitive, suspenseful, sympathetic, tactful, telling, tender, tense, tetchy, thin-skinned, ticklish, timid, timorous, touchy, trembling, tremulous, trenchant, trepidant, trigger-happy, troubled, troublous, turbulent, twittery, uneasy, unpeaceful, unquiet, unrestful, upset, uptight, vigorous, vital, volatile, volcanic, waspish, worked up, worried, wrought up, zealous

• nervousness, agitability, agitation, all-overs, allergy, anaphylaxis, angst, anxiety, anxiety hysteria, anxiety neurosis, anxious bench, anxious concern, anxious seat, anxiousness, apprehension, apprehensiveness, bite, bitingness, bluster, bobbery, boil, boiling, brouhaha, bustle, cankerworm of care, care, chills of fear, churn, cold creeps, cold shivers, cold sweat, combustibility, commotion, concern, concernment, considerateness, conturbation, creeps, cuttingness, delicacy, discomposure, disorder, disquiet, disquietude, distress, disturbance, dread, drive, ebullition, edginess, effectiveness, embroilment, emotional instability, emotionalism, empathy, eruptiveness, excitability, excitableness, excitement, explosiveness, exquisiteness, fear, fear and trembling, ferment, fermentation, fever, feverishness, fidgets, fineness, flap, flurry, fluster, flutteration, foment, force, forcefulness, foreboding, forebodingness, fume, fuss, goose bumps, gooseflesh, guts, heartquake, horripilation, hubbub, hurly-burly, hyperesthesia, hyperpathia, hypersensitivity, identification, impressiveness, incisiveness, inflammability, inquietude, irascibility, irritability, jimjams, jitters, jumpiness, latent violence, maelstrom, malaise, misgiving, moil, mordancy, nerviness, nervosity, nervous strain, nervous tension, overanxiety, oversensibility, oversensitiveness, overtenderness, palpitation, passibility, perceptiveness, perceptivity, perturbability, perturbation, photophobia, pins and needles, poignancy, power, prickliness, pucker, punch, quaking, quiver of terror, responsiveness, restlessness, roil, rout, row, seethe, seething, sensitiveness, sensitivity, sensitization, shivers, sinew, sinewiness, skittishness, solicitude, soreness, startlishness, stew, stir, strain, strength, strong language, supersensitivity, suspense, sweat, swirl, sympathy, tact, tactfulness, tempestuousness, tenderness, tension, tetchiness, thin skin, thrill of fear, ticklishness, to-do, touchiness, trenchancy, trepidation, trepidity, trouble, tumult, tumultuation, turbidity, turbulence, turmoil, twitter, unease, uneasiness, unquietness, unrest, upset, vexation, vigor, vigorousness, violence, vitality, zeal

• nervy, agitated, all nerves, apprehensive, beefy, biggety, bluff, bold, bouncing, brash, bulldoggish, cheeky, chutzpadik, cocky, contemptuous, crusty, derisive, discomposed, disquieted, disrespectful, disturbed, doughty, edgy, excitable, excited, facy, fearful, feverish, fidgety, flip, flippant, flurried, flustered, forceful, forcible, forcy, forward, fresh, frightened, full-blooded, full-strength, gally, game, gamy, goosey, gratuitous, gritty, gutsy, gutty, hale, hard, hard as nails, hardy, hearty, hefty, high-strung, husky, impertinent, impudent, iron-hard, irritable, jerky, jittery, jumpy, lusty, malapert, mettlesome, mighty, nerves on edge, nervous, obstinate, on edge, overstrung, panicky, pert, pertinacious, perturbed, plucky, potent, powerful, puissant, red-blooded, resolute, restive, restless, robust, robustious, rude, ruffled, rugged, sassy, saucy, shaken, shaken up, smart, smart-alecky, smart-ass, spirited, spiritful, spooky, spunky, stalwart, steely, stirred up, stout, strapping, strong, strong as brandy, strong as strong, strong-willed, sturdy, tenacious, tense, tough, troubled, troublous, turbulent, twitchy, twittery, uncalled-for, uneasy, unpeaceful, unquiet, unrestful, upset, uptight, vigorous, wise-ass

• nescience, agnosticism, blankmindedness, callowness, empty-headedness, greenhornism, greenness, hiatus of learning, ignorance, ignorantism, ignorantness, inanity, inexperience, innocence, know-nothingism, knowledge-gap, lack of information, obscurantism, rawness, simpleness, simplicity, tabula rasa, unacquaintance, unacquaintedness, unawareness, unfamiliarity, unintelligence, unknowing, unknowingness, unripeness, vacuity, vacuousness

• nest egg, Swiss bank account, assets, backlog, balance, bank account, bottom dollar, budget, cache, cash reserves, checking account, command of money, exchequer, finances, fund, funds, hoard, inventory, kitty, life savings, means, moneys, pecuniary resources, pocket, pool, purse, reserve, reserve fund, reserve supply, reserves, reservoir, resource, resources, savings, savings account, sinking fund, something in reserve, stock, stockpile, store, substance, treasure, unexpended balance, unregistered bank account, wherewithal

• nest, a mass of, a world of, abide, abiding place, abode, address, aerie, anchor, apiary, army, bee tree, beehive, berth, bevy, billet at, birthplace, bivouac, breeding place, brood, brooder, bunch, bunk, burrow, camp, cantonment, cloud, clutch, clutter, cohabit, colonize, come to anchor, covey, cradle, crash pad, crib, den, domesticate, domicile, domiciliate, domus, doss down, drop anchor, dwell, dwelling, dwelling place, ensconce, establish residence, eyrie, farrow, flight, flock, flocks, forcing bed, fry, get, habitation, hail, hang out, hatch, hatchery, haunt, hideaway, hive, host, hotbed, incubator, inhabit, jam, keep house, lair, large amount, legion, litter, live, live at, locate, lodge, lodging, lodging place, lodgment, lots, many, masses of, mob, moor, move, muchness, multitude, nidus, numbers, nursery, occupy, pack, pad, park, people, perch, place, place to live, plurality, populate, quantities, quite a few, refuge, relocate, remain, reside, residence, resort, retreat, roof, rookery, room, roost, rout, ruck, scores, seat, set up housekeeping, set up shop, settle, settle down, shoal, sit down, snuggery, spat, spawn, squat, stand, stay, stay at, strike root, swarm, take residence at, take root, take up residence, tenant, throng, tidy sum, vespiary, worlds of, young

• nesting, abiding, abode, altricial, anserine, anserous, aquiline, avian, avicular, birdlike, birdy, cohabitation, columbine, commorancy, dovelike, dwelling, goosy, habitancy, habitation, hawklike, inhabitancy, inhabitation, inhabiting, living, lodging, nidicolous, nidificant, occupancy, occupation, oscine, passerine, psittacine, rasorial, residence, residency, residing, sojourning, squatting, staying, staying over, stopping, tenancy

• nestle, arm, armor, bed, bless, bundle, burrow, champion, cloak, compass about, copyright, cover, cradle, croodle, cuddle, cuddle up, curl up, cushion, defend, ensure, fence, fend, guarantee, guard, harbor, haven, huddle, insure, keep, keep from harm, lap, make safe, nuzzle, patent, police, protect, put to bed, register, ride shotgun for, safeguard, screen, secure, shelter, shield, shroud, snug, snug up, snuggle, snuggle up to, tuck in, underwrite

• nestling, amorous dalliance, apprentice, avifauna, baby, baby bird, beginner, billing and cooing, bird, bird of Jove, bird of Juno, bird of Minerva, bird of night, bird of passage, bird of prey, birdie, birdlife, birdling, birdy, bundling, cage bird, calf, callow, caressing, catechumen, catling, chick, chickling, chicky, colt, cub, cuddling, cygnet, dalliance, deb, debutant, dewy, diving bird, dogie, dove, duckling, eagle, eaglet, entrant, ever-new, evergreen, fawn, firsthand, fish-eating bird, fledgling, flightless bird, foal, fondling, fowl, fresh, freshman, fruit-eating bird, fryer, fulmar, game bird, gosling, green, greenhorn, greeny, hugging, immature, infant, insect-eating bird, intact, kid, kissing, kit, kitten, lamb, lambkin, learner, litter, lollygagging, lovemaking, maiden, maidenly, migrant, migratory bird, necking, neophyte, neoteric, nest, new, newcomer, novice, novitiate, nuzzling, original, oscine bird, owl, passerine bird, peacock, peafowl, peahen, perching bird, petting, pigeon, piglet, pigling, polliwog, pristine, probationer, pullet, pup, puppy, ratite, raw, raw recruit, recruit, rookie, sea bird, seed-eating bird, sempervirent, sexual intercourse, shoat, shore bird, snuggling, songbird, spooning, squab, storm petrel, stormy petrel, swan, tadpole, tenderfoot, trainee, tyro, unbeaten, undeveloped, unfledged, unhandled, untouched, untried, untrodden, unused, vernal, virgin, virginal, wading bird, warbler, water bird, waterfowl, weaner, whelp, wildfowl, yeanling, young

• Nestor, Buddha, Confucius, Father Time, Gandhi, Mentor, Methuselah, Old Paar, Plato, Socrates, Solomon, centenarian, dotard, elder, gaffer, geezer, golden-ager, gramps, grandfather, grandsire, graybeard, nonagenarian, octogenarian, old chap, old codger, old dog, old duffer, old geezer, old gent, old gentleman, old man, old party, old-timer, older, oldster, pantaloon, patriarch, presbyter, senior citizen, septuagenarian, sexagenarian, the quiet-voiced elders, venerable sir, veteran

• nestor, Dutch uncle, Polonius, admonisher, adviser, backseat driver, buttinsky, confidant, consultant, counsel, counselor, expert, guide, instructor, kibitzer, meddler, mentor, monitor, orienter, preceptist, teacher

• net income, avails, base pay, box office, commissions, compensation, credit, credits, dismissal wage, disposable income, dividend, dividends, earned income, earnings, escalator clause, escalator plan, financial remuneration, gains, gate, gate receipts, get, gross, gross income, gross receipts, guaranteed annual wage, hire, income, intake, living wage, make, minimum wage, net, net receipts, output, pay, pay and allowances, payment, payroll, portal-to-portal pay, proceeds, produce, profits, purchasing power, real wages, receipt, receipts, receivables, remuneration, returns, revenue, royalties, salary, severance pay, sliding scale, take, take-home, take-home pay, take-in, takings, taxable income, total compensation, unearned income, wage, wage control, wage freeze, wage reduction, wage rollback, wage scale, wages, wages after deductions, wages after taxes, yield

• net worth, account, assessed valuation, assets, assets and liabilities, circumstances, conversion factor, current assets, deferred assets, face, face value, fixed assets, frozen assets, funds, intangible assets, intangibles, liquid assets, market value, material assets, means, net assets, par value, pennyworth, quick assets, rate, resources, stock, stock-in-trade, tangible assets, tangibles, value, value received, wealth, worth

• net, acquire, afford, angle, apprehend, arabesque, arrest, asking price, avails, avoirdupois, bag, bait, bait the hook, balance, bargain price, basketry, basketwork, be seized of, beef, beefiness, bid, bid price, birdlime, bob, bola, box office, braid, bring in, burden, cancellation, capital gains, capitalize on, capture, cash in on, cash price, catch, catch out, circuit, clam, clean up, cleanup, clear, clear profit, coast-to-coast hookup, cobweb, coin money, colander, come by, come in for, come into, commercialize, commissions, contract, controlled price, corral, cramp, credit, credits, cribble, cribriformity, cribrosity, cripple, crop, cross-hatching, crossing-out, cumber, current price, current quotation, cut price, dap, deadweight, decoy, deficit, derive, dib, dibble, difference, discrepancy, disposable income, dividend, dividends, drag down, dragnet, draw, drive, earn, earned income, earnings, embarrass, encumber, enlace, enmesh, ensnare, ensnarl, entangle, enter into possession, entoil, entrammel, entrap, entwine, enweb, epact, fatness, fetter, filigree, filthy lucre, fish, fishhook, fixed price, flat rate, fly, fly-fish, foul, fret, fretwork, gain, gain by, gains, gate, gate receipts, get, gettings, gig, gill net, gin, gleanings, go fishing, going price, grate, grating, gravity, grid, gridiron, grig, grille, grillwork, gross, gross income, gross profit, gross receipts, gross weight, ground bait, guddle, hachure, hamper, hamstring, handicap, harpoon, harvest, hatching, heaviness, heft, heftiness, hoard, hobble, honeycomb, hook, hook in, hookup, impede, income, intake, interest, interknit, interlace, interlacement, intertexture, intertie, intertissue, intertwine, intertwinement, intertwist, interweave, intort, inveigle, involve, jack, jacklight, jig, killing, knit, lace, lacery, lacework, lacing, lame, land, lariat, lasso, lattice, latticework, left, leftover, lime, list price, liveweight, loom, loop, lucre, lumber, lure, make, make a killing, make an arrest, make money, make money by, makings, market price, mat, mesh, meshes, meshwork, nail, neat price, neat profit, neat weight, net income, net profit, net receipts, net weight, netting, network, noose, obtain, odd, output, outstanding, over, overbalance, overweight, package price, paper profits, pay, pay off, pelf, percentage, perk, perks, perquisite, pick up, pickings, piece price, plait, pleach, plexure, plexus, plug, ponderability, ponderosity, ponderousness, porosity, porousness, pound net, poundage, press down, price list, prices current, proceeds, procure, produce, profit, profits, pull down, purse seine, put under arrest, quotation, quoted price, raddle, radio links, rake-off, realize, realize on, reap, receipt, receipts, receivables, recommended price, remainder, remaining, remanent, reticle, reticulation, reticule, reticulum, return, returns, revenue, riddle, rope, royalties, sack, saddle with, score, screen, screening, secure, seine, seize, selling price, shackle, shrimp, sieve, sievelikeness, snag, snare, snarl, sniggle, spare, spear, spin, spinner, splice, sponge, spread the toils, springe, squid, still-fish, stock market quotations, store, strainer, superfluous, surplus, surviving, take, take captive, take into custody, take prisoner, take-in, takings, tangle, tangle up with, texture, throughput, tissue, to spare, toil, toils, tonnage, torch, tracery, trade price, trammel, trap, trawl, trellis, trelliswork, trip, troll, turn a penny, turn to account, turn to profit, twill, twine, twist, unconsumed, underweight, unearned income, unit price, unused, wattle, wealth, weave, weaving, web, webbing, webwork, weft, weigh down, weight, weightiness, whale, wholesale price, wicker, wickerwork, win, wind, winnings, wobbler, wreathe, yield

• nether world, Abaddon, Aides, Aidoneus, Cerberus, Charon, Cora, Despoina, Dis, Dis pater, Erebus, Gehenna, Hades, Hel, Kore, Loki, Minos, Naraka, Orcus, Osiris, Pandemonium, Persephassa, Persephone, Pluto, Proserpina, Proserpine, Rhadamanthus, Satan, Sheol, Tophet, avichi, bottomless pit, bowels, deep space, deeps, depths, gaping depths, hell, infernal pit, infernal regions, inferno, jahannan, limbo, lower world, outer space, perdition, place of torment, purgatory, shades below, the abyss, the bottomless pit, the grave, the pit, underworld, unfathomed deeps, unknown depths

• netted, barred, cancellated, crossbarred, filigreed, grated, gridded, laced, lacelike, lacy, latticelike, meshed, meshy, mullioned, netlike, netty, plexiform, reticular, reticulate, reticulated, retiform, streaked, striped

• netting, apprehension, arabesque, arrest, arrestation, arrestment, basketry, basketwork, bust, cancellation, capture, cross-hatching, crossing-out, filigree, fret, fretwork, grate, grating, grid, gridiron, grille, grillwork, hachure, hatching, interlacement, intertexture, intertwinement, lace, lacery, lacework, lacing, lattice, latticework, mesh, meshes, meshwork, net, network, pinch, plexure, plexus, raddle, reticle, reticulation, reticule, reticulum, riddle, screen, screening, seizure, sieve, texture, tissue, tracery, trellis, trelliswork, wattle, weave, weaving, web, webbing, webwork, weft, wicker, wickerwork

• nettle, aggravate, agitate, annoy, arouse, badger, bait, be at, bedevil, beset, blow the coals, bother, bramble, brier, bristle, brown off, bug, bullyrag, burn up, burr, cactus, catchweed, chafe, chivy, cleavers, devil, discompose, distemper, disturb, dog, embitter, exasperate, excite, exercise, fan, fan the flame, fash, feed the fire, ferment, fire, foment, fret, get, goose grass, gripe, harass, harry, heat, heat up, heckle, hector, hound, huff, impassion, incense, incite, inflame, instigate, irk, irritate, miff, molest, nag, needle, nudzh, peeve, persecute, perturb, pester, pick on, pine needle, pique, plague, plaque, pluck the beard, pother, prickle, provoke, put out, put up to, quill, rally, rankle, ride, rile, roil, ruffle, set on, set up, sic on, spicule, spiculum, spike, spikelet, spine, sticker, stir the blood, stir the embers, stir up, tease, thistle, thorn, tickle, torment, try the patience, tweak the nose, upset, vex, whet, whip up, work up, worry, yucca

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

• network, arabesque, arrangement, basketry, basketwork, cancellation, circuit, coast-to-coast hookup, complex, cross-hatching, crossing-out, filigree, fret, fretwork, grate, grating, grid, gridiron, grille, grillwork, hachure, hatching, hookup, interlacement, intertexture, intertwinement, jungle, labyrinth, lace, lacery, lacework, lacing, lattice, latticework, maze, mesh, meshes, meshwork, net, netting, organization, plexure, plexus, raddle, radio links, reticle, reticulation, reticule, reticulum, riddle, screen, screening, sieve, structure, system, tangle, texture, tissue, tracery, trellis, trelliswork, wattle, weave, weaving, web, webbing, webwork, weft, wicker, wickerwork

• neuralgia, MS, amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, brain disease, cephalalgia, cerebral palsy, chorea, emotional disorder, epilepsy, falling sickness, glossopharyngeal neuralgia, headache, herpes zoster, ischialgia, migraine, multiple sclerosis, nervous disorder, neuritis, neuropathy, organic psychosis, palsy, polyneuritis, pressure neuropathy, priapism, radiculitis, sciatic neuritis, sciatica, shaking palsy, shingles, spastic paralysis, the jerks, tic douloureux, toxic psychosis

• neuritis, MS, adenoiditis, adrenitis, amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, appendicitis, arteritis, arthritis deformans, arthritis fungosa, arthritis pauperum, atrophic arthritis, atrophic inflammation, blennorrhagic arthritis, brain disease, brain fever, bronchitis, bunion, bursitis, capillaritis, carditis, catarrh, catarrhal inflammation, cephalalgia, cerebellitis, cerebral meningitis, cerebral palsy, cerebritis, cerebrospinal meningitis, chorea, chronic infectious arthritis, chronic inflammation, cirrhotic inflammation, climactic arthritis, clitoritis, colitis, collagen disease, conjunctivitis, cystitis, degenerative arthritis, diffuse inflammation, emotional disorder, encephalitis, endocarditis, enteritis, epilepsy, equine encephalomyelitis, exudative inflammation, falling sickness, fibroid inflammation, focal inflammation, gastritis, gingivitis, glossitis, glossopharyngeal neuralgia, gonococcal arthritis, gonorrheal arthritis, gonorrheal rheumatism, gout, gouty arthritis, headache, hemophilic arthritis, hepatitis, herpes zoster, hyperplastic inflammation, hypertrophic arthritis, hypertrophic inflammation, infectional arthritis, infectious hepatitis, inflammation, irritable bowel syndrome, ischialgia, laryngitis, lumbago, lumbar rheumatism, mastoiditis, meningitis, menopausal arthritis, metastatic inflammation, metritis, migraine, milk leg, mucous colitis, multiple sclerosis, mumps meningitis, myelitis, necrotic inflammation, nephritis, nervous disorder, neuralgia, neuropathy, obliterative inflammation, ophthalitis, ophthalmia, orchitis, organic psychosis, osseous rheumatism, osteitis, osteoarthritis, osteomyelitis, otitis, ovaritis, palsy, paradental pyorrhea, penitis, pericarditis, periodontitis, peritonitis, pharyngitis, phlebitis, podagra, polyneuritis, pressure neuropathy, priapism, proliferative arthritis, prostatitis, pyonephritis, pyorrhea, pyorrhea alveolaris, radiculitis, reactive inflammation, rheumatism, rheumatiz, rheumatoid arthritis, rhinitis, sciatic neuritis, sciatica, sclerosing inflammation, seroplastic inflammation, serous inflammation, serum hepatitis, shaking palsy, shingles, simple inflammation, sinusitis, spastic colon, spastic paralysis, specific inflammation, subacute rheumatism, suppurative arthritis, suppurative inflammation, syphilitic arthritis, tennis elbow, testitis, the jerks, thrombophlebitis, tic douloureux, tonsilitis, torticollis, toxic inflammation, toxic psychosis, traumatic inflammation, tuberculous arthritis, tuberculous rheumatism, ulcerative colitis, uratic arthritis, ureteritis, urethral arthritis, urethritis, uteritis, vaginitis, vertebral arthritis, visceral rheumatism, vulvitis, wryneck

• neurological, allopathic, chiropodic, chiropractic, clinical, dental, exodontic, homeopathic, hydropathic, iatric, medical, naturopathic, nerval, nervous, neural, obstetric, orthodontic, orthopedic, osteopathic, pediatric, periodontic, prosthodontic, surgical

• neurologist, anesthesiologist, cardiologist, chiropodist, dermatologist, eye doctor, eye-ear-nose-throat specialist, geriatrician, gerontologist, gynecologist, immunologist, internist, neurology, neurosurgeon, obstetrician, oculist, ophthalmologist, orthopedist, otolaryngologist, otologist, pathologist, pediatrician, pediatrist, podiatrist, psychiatrist, radiologist, serologist, skin man, specialist

• neuron, afferent neuron, autonomic nervous system, axon, brain, central nervous system, cerebral cortex, craniosacral nervous system, dendrite, effector organ, efferent neuron, ganglion, gray matter, internuncial neuron, medullary sheath, nerve, nerve trunk, nervous system, peripheral nervous system, plexus, sensorium, sensory area, sensory cell, solar plexus, spinal cord, synapse, thoracolumbar nervous system, white matter

• neurosis, abulia, accident neurosis, anxiety hysteria, anxiety neurosis, arteriosclerotic psychosis, association neurosis, battle fatigue, blast neurosis, brain disease, certifiability, combat fatigue, compensation neurosis, compulsion neurosis, conversion hysteria, conversion neurosis, crack-up, dementia paralytica, dipsomania, drug addiction, emotional disorder, emotional instability, expectation neurosis, fixation neurosis, folie du doute, frayed nerves, frazzled nerves, fright neurosis, functional nervous disorder, functional psychosis, general paralysis, general paresis, homosexual neurosis, hypochondria, hypochondriasis, hysteria, insanity, jangled nerves, maladjustment, manic-depressive psychosis, melancholia, mental disorder, mental illness, metabolic psychosis, moral insanity, nervous breakdown, nervous disorder, nervous prostration, neurasthenia, neuroticism, obsessional neurosis, occupational neurosis, organic psychosis, paralytic dementia, paranoia, pathological drunkenness, pathoneurosis, personality disorder, phobia, presenile dementia, prison psychosis, problems in living, psychasthenia, psychoneurosis, psychoneurotic disorder, psychopathia, psychopathia martialis, psychopathia sexualis, psychopathic condition, psychopathic personality, psychopathy, psychosis, raw nerves, reaction, regression neurosis, schizophrenia, senile dementia, senile psychosis, senility, sexual pathology, shattered nerves, shell shock, situational neurosis, situational psychosis, social maladjustment, syphilitic paresis, toxic psychosis, twanging nerves, war neurosis

• neurotic, abnormal, alcoholic, alternating personality, antisocial personality, anxious, brain-damaged, brain-injured, catatonic, certifiable, confused, deviant, disordered, disordered personality, distraught, disturbed, disturbed personality, double personality, drug user, dual personality, emotionally unstable personality, escapist, hostile personality, hypochondriac, hypochondriast, hysteric, idiot, imaginary invalid, immature personality, inadequate personality, inferior personality, irrational, malade imaginaire, maladjusted, maladjusted personality, manic-depressive, mentally defective personality, mentally ill, mentally sick, moral insanity, multiple personality, nervous, neurasthenic, neuropath, neurotic personality, obsessive, overwrought, paranoiac, paranoid, paranoid personality, perverse personality, phobic, psychasthenic, psychoneurotic, psychopath, psychopathic, psychopathic personality, psychotic, psychotic personality, schiz, schizoid, schizoid personality, schizophrenic, schizy, seclusive personality, sexual psychopath, shut-in personality, sociopath, split personality, unstable, valetudinarian, valetudinary, weak personality

• neuter, Laodicean, alter, animate, anythingarian, apathetic, asexual, capon, castrate, castrated, centrist, change, cold, common gender, contemplative, cool, cut, desex, desexualize, do-nothing, doctor, dormant, emasculate, emasculated, epicene, eunuchize, eunuchized, even, feminine, fence-sitter, fervorless, fifty-fifty, fix, frigid, frustrated, geld, gender, half-and-half, halfhearted, idle, immobile, impartial, impotent, inactive, inanimate, independent, indifferent, inert, laissez-aller, laissez-faire, lukewarm, masculine, meditative, midway, moderate, motionless, mugwump, mutilate, neutral, nonaligned, noncommitted, nonpartisan, nothingarian, on the fence, paralytic, paralyzed, passive, perfunctory, procrastinating, quiescent, quietist, quietistic, sexless, spay, stagnant, stagnating, standpat, static, stationary, tepid, third force, third world, third-force, third-world, uncommitted, uninvolved, unsex, unsexed, unsexual, vegetable, vegetative, zealless

• neutral, Hydromatic, Laodicean, Olympian, abstract, achromatic, achromic, aloof, anemic, anythingarian, apathetic, asexual, ashen, ashy, autarchic, autarkic, automatic transmission, autonomous, beige, bland, bled white, bloodless, broad, cadaverous, candid, castrated, centrist, changeable, chloranemic, cogwheel, cold, collective, colorless, compromiser, conservative, contemplative, cool, dead, deadly pale, deathly pale, detached, differential, differential gear, dim, dimmed, dingy, discolored, disinterested, dispassionate, do-nothing, dormant, drab, dull, ecru, emasculated, equitable, etiolated, eunuchized, even, evenhanded, exsanguinated, exsanguine, exsanguineous, faded, faint, fair, fallow, featureless, fence-sitter, fervorless, fifty-fifty, flat, free lance, free spirit, free trader, free-spirited, freethinker, freewheel, freewheeling, frigid, frustrated, gear, gear train, gearbox, gearing, gearshift, gearwheel, general, generalized, generic, ghastly, gray, haggard, half-and-half, halfhearted, high, hueless, hypochromic, idle, immobile, impartial, impersonal, impotent, inactive, indecisive, indefinite, independent, indeterminate, indifferent, indistinct, indistinguishable, individualist, individualistic, inert, infirm of purpose, infirm of will, inner-directed, insipid, intermediate, irresolute, isolationist, just, lackluster, laissez-aller, laissez-faire, latitudinarian, leaden, liberal, libertarian, libertine, livid, lofty, low, lukewarm, lurid, lusterless, mat, mealy, meditative, middle-of-the-roader, midway, milk-and-water, milky, moderate, moderationist, moderatist, motionless, muddy, mugwump, mugwumpian, mugwumpish, mushy, nebulous, neuter, nonaligned, noncommittal, noncommitted, nonpartisan, nonspecific, nothingarian, objective, on the fence, overdrive, pale, pale as death, pale-faced, pallid, paralytic, paralyzed, passive, pasty, perfunctory, procrastinating, quiescent, quietist, quietistic, rack, remote, removed, reverse, rugged individualist, sallow, self-contained, self-dependent, self-determined, self-directing, self-governed, self-governing, self-reliant, self-subsistent, self-sufficient, self-supporting, selfless, sexless, sickly, sovereign, stagnant, stagnating, standard transmission, standpat, static, stationary, stick shift, swing vote, synchromesh, tallow-faced, tasteless, tepid, third force, third world, third-force, third-world, toneless, transmission, unaffiliated, unallied, unbiased, uncharacterized, uncolored, uncommitted, uncommitted voter, undazzled, undifferentiated, uninfluenced, uninvolved, unjaundiced, unprejudiced, unprepossessed, unselfish, unsexed, unsexual, unspecified, unswayed, vague, vapid, vegetable, vegetative, wan, washed out, washed-out, watery, waxen, weak, whey-faced, white, wide, wishy-washy, withdrawn, zealless

• neutrality, Laodiceanism, Olympian detachment, a wise passiveness, abnegation, abstinence, avoidance, avoiding reaction, calm, calmness, chill, chilliness, circumvention, coldness, conservatism, constraint, contemplation, contemplative life, continence, control, cool, coolness, defense mechanism, detachment, disinterest, disinterestedness, dispassion, dispassionateness, do-nothing policy, do-nothingism, do-nothingness, dodge, dormancy, duck, elusion, elusiveness, equitability, equivocation, escape, evasion, evasive action, evasiveness, evenhandedness, evenness, fairness, fervorlessness, forbearance, forestalling, forestallment, frostiness, gentleness, getting around, golden mean, halfheartedness, happy medium, iciness, idleness, immobility, impartiality, inaction, inactivity, indifference, indifferentism, indifferentness, indolence, inertia, inertness, insipidity, jink, judiciousness, juste-milieu, justness, laissez-aller, laissez-faire, laissez-faireism, lenity, loftiness, lukewarmness, meden agan, meditation, middle way, mildness, moderateness, moderation, moderationism, neuterness, neutralism, neutralness, nonintervention, noninvolvement, nonparticipation, nonresistance, nonviolence, nonviolent resistance, nothing in excess, objectivity, pacifism, paralysis, passive resistance, passive self-annihilation, passiveness, passivism, passivity, perfunctoriness, policy, prevention, procrastination, prudence, quiescence, quietism, refraining, repose, restraint, self-abnegation, self-control, self-denial, self-restraint, selflessness, serenity, shunning, shunting off, shy, sidestep, sidetracking, slip, sobriety, stability, stagnancy, stagnation, standpattism, stasis, steadiness, temperance, temperateness, tepidness, the runaround, tranquillity, unbias, unbiasedness, unexcessiveness, unextravagance, unextremeness, unopinionatedness, unprejudicedness, unselfishness, vapidity, vegetation, via media, vita contemplativa, waiting game, watching and waiting, zeallessness, zigzag

• neutralize, abrogate, absorb the shock, annul, balance, break the fall, bring to nothing, buffer, cancel, cancel out, come to nothing, compensate, compensate for, conquer, counteract, counterbalance, countercheck, counterpoise, countervail, cushion, damp, dampen, deaden, defeat, delete, equalize, even, frustrate, invalidate, make up for, negate, negativate, negative, nullify, offset, overcome, override, overrule, redress, show consideration, show mercy, show pity, soften, soften the blow, square, stultify, subdue, suppress, thwart, undo, vitiate, void

• neutralizer, acid, acidity, agent, alkali, alkalinity, alloisomer, anion, antacid, antidote, atom, base, biochemical, buffer, cation, chemical, chemical element, chromoisomer, compound, copolymer, counteractant, counteractive, counteragent, counterirritant, dimer, element, heavy chemicals, high polymer, homopolymer, hydracid, inorganic chemical, ion, isomer, macromolecule, metamer, molecule, monomer, nonacid, nullifier, offset, organic chemical, oxyacid, polymer, preventative, preventive, prophylactic, pseudoisomer, radical, reagent, remedy, sulfacid, trimer

• neutron, K-meson, Kern, NMR, alpha particle, antibaryon, antilepton, antimeson, atomic nucleus, atomic particle, baryon, beta particle, electron, elementary particle, graviton, lepton, meson, mesotron, nuclear force, nuclear magnetic resonance, nuclear particle, nuclear resonance, nucleon, nucleosynthesis, nucleus, photon, pion, proton, quark, strangeness, strong interaction, triton, valence electron

• never ending, ageless, amaranthine, articulated, catenated, ceaseless, coeternal, concatenated, connected, constant, continual, continued, continuing, continuous, cyclical, dateless, direct, endless, eternal, eterne, ever-being, ever-durable, ever-during, everlasting, everliving, featureless, gapless, immediate, immemorial, immortal, incessant, indestructible, infinite, interminable, joined, jointless, linked, monotonous, never-ceasing, nonstop, nonterminating, nonterminous, olamic, perdurable, perennial, periodic, permanent, perpetual, recurrent, repetitive, round-the-clock, running, seamless, sempiternal, serried, smooth, stable, steady, straight, timeless, twenty-four-hour, unbroken, unceasing, undifferentiated, unending, uniform, unintermitted, unintermittent, unintermitting, uninterrupted, unrelieved, unremitting, unstopped, without end

• never say die, be determined, be hopeful, be in earnest, be resolved, bear up, buckle down, buckle to, catch at straws, come up fighting, cross the Rubicon, die fighting, die hard, get along, get on, go for broke, go on, go on with, hang in, hang in there, hang on, hang tough, hold fast, hold on, hold out, hold up, keep at it, keep hope alive, keep hoping, keep up, knock on wood, live through it, live with it, make out, manage, mean business, not back down, not flag, not give up, not submit, not weaken, persevere, persist, remain firm, see it out, see it through, stand fast, stand up, stay it out, stay the distance, stay with it, stick, stick fast, stick it, stick it out, stick out, stick to it, stick with it, survive, sweat it out, take heart, take it, take the plunge, tough it out

• never, God forbid, at no hand, at no time, au contraire, by no means, far from it, in no case, in no respect, in no way, in no wise, never on earth, nevermore, no matter what, nohow, not, not a bit, not a jot, not a speck, not a whit, not an iota, not at all, not ever, not much, not nearly, noway, noways, nowhere near, nowise, on no account, on no condition, on no occasion, quite the contrary, to the contrary, under no circumstances

• Never-Never land, Agapemone, Arcadia, Big Rock-Candy Mountain, Canaan, Cloudcuckooland, Cockaigne, Eden, Eldorado, Erewhon, Garden of Eden, Goshen, Happy Valley, Land of Youth, Laputa, Neverland, New Atlantis, Pandemonium, Quivira, Shangri-la, Utopia, cloudland, dreamland, dystopia, faerie, fairyland, heaven, kakotopia, kingdom come, land of dreams, land of enchantment, land of faerie, land of plenty, land of promise, lotus land, millennium, paradise, promised land, utopia, wonderland

• nevertheless, after all, again, albeit, all the same, although, anyhow, anyway, anywise, at all, at all events, at any rate, but, by any means, even, even so, for all that, howbeit, however, in any case, in any event, in any way, irregardless, just the same, nohow, nonetheless, notwithstanding, rather, regardless, still, though, when, yet

• nevus, benign tumor, bilge, birthmark, blackhead, blain, blaze, bleb, blemish, blister, blob, blotch, boss, bow, brand, bubble, bulb, bulge, bulla, bump, bunch, burl, button, cahot, callosity, callus, cancer, carcinoma, caste mark, check, checkmark, chine, cicatrix, clump, comedo, condyle, convex, corn, crack, crater, craze, cut, cyst, dapple, defacement, defect, deformation, deformity, discoloration, disfiguration, disfigurement, distortion, dot, dowel, ear, earmark, engraving, excrescence, fault, flange, flap, flaw, fleck, flick, freckle, fungosity, fungus, gall, gash, gnarl, graving, growth, hack, handle, hemangioma, hickey, hill, hump, hunch, intumescence, jog, joggle, jot, keloid, kink, knob, knot, knur, knurl, lentigo, lip, loop, lump, macula, malignant growth, mark, marking, metastatic tumor, milium, mole, morbid growth, mottle, mountain, needle scar, neoplasm, nick, nonmalignant tumor, notch, nub, nubbin, nubble, outgrowth, papilloma, patch, peg, pimple, pit, pock, pockmark, point, polka dot, port-wine mark, port-wine stain, prick, proud flesh, puncture, pustule, rib, ridge, rift, ring, sarcoma, scab, scar, scarification, score, scotch, scratch, scratching, sebaceous cyst, shoulder, speck, speckle, spine, splash, split, splotch, spot, stain, stigma, strawberry mark, stud, sty, style, tab, tattoo, tattoo mark, tick, tittle, track, tubercle, tubercule, tumor, twist, verruca, vesicle, wale, warp, wart, watermark, weal, welt, wen, whitehead

• new birth, adoption, amendment, change of allegiance, change of heart, change of mind, circumcision, conversion, improvement, new life, palingenesis, palingenesy, reanimation, rebirth, reclamation, recrudescence, redeemedness, redemption, reform, reformation, refreshment, regeneracy, regenerateness, regeneration, regenesis, rejuvenation, rejuvenescence, renaissance, renascence, renewal, resurgence, resurrection, resuscitation, revival, revivescence, revivescency, revivification, salvation, second birth, second wind, second youth, spiritual purification

• New England, Dixie, Dixieland, Down East, East, East Coast, Middle Atlantic, Middle West, North, North Central region, Northeast, Northwest, Pacific Northwest, South, Southeast, Southwest, Sunbelt, West, West Coast, Yankeeland, eastland, northland, the Coast, westland, wild West

• New Left, Jacobinism, Old Left, anarchism, anarcho-syndicalism, criminal syndicalism, extreme left, extreme left wing, extremism, left-wing extremism, nihilism, radicalism, radicalization, revolutionism, sans-culotterie, sans-culottism, syndicalism, ultraconservatism, ultraism

• new look, advance guard, avant-garde, bon ton, convention, custom, fashion, haute couture, high fashion, innovation, latest fad, latest fashion, latest wrinkle, mode, newfangled device, novelty, prevailing taste, proper thing, stream of fashion, style, swim, the in thing, the last word, the latest thing, trend, vanguard, vogue

• new moon, artificial satellite, crescent, crescent moon, decrescent, decrescent moon, demilune, full moon, gibbous moon, half-moon, harvest moon, increscent, increscent moon, moon, orb of night, queen of heaven, queen of night, satellite, silvery moon, the wandering Moon, waning crescent moon, waning moon, waxing crescent moon, waxing moon, wet moon

• new to, a novice at, a stranger to, callow, disaccustomed, fresh, green, green as grass, ignorant, immature, inexperienced, raw, rusty, unaccustomed, unaccustomed to, unacquainted with, unconversant, unconversant with, undeveloped, unexperienced, unfamiliar with, unfledged, unhabituated, unhardened, uninitiated in, uninured, unmatured, unpracticed, unpracticed in, unripe, unseasoned, unskilled in, untrained, untried, unused, unused to, unversed, unversed in, unwonted, weaned

• New World, Africa, America, Antipodes, Asia, Asia Major, Asia Minor, Australasia, East, Eastern Hemisphere, Eurasia, Europe, Far East, Levant, Middle East, Near East, Occident, Oceania, Old World, Orient, West, Western Hemisphere, continent, down under, eastland, landmass, the old country

• new, ab ovo, accessory, actual, added, additional, afresh, again, all the rage, all the thing, ancillary, anew, another, another time, as is, as new, authentic, auxiliary, avant-garde, being, bis, callow, collateral, contemporaneous, contemporary, contributory, creative, current, de novo, dewy, else, encore, ever-new, evergreen, existent, existing, extant, extra, farther, fashionable, first-hand, firsthand, fledgling, fresh, freshly, from scratch, further, green, held back, held in reserve, held out, hip, imaginative, immanent, immature, immediate, in abeyance, in fashion, in hand, in style, in vogue, independent, instant, intact, lately, latest, maiden, maidenly, mint, mod, modern, modernistic, more, neoteric, nestling, new-fashioned, newfangled, newfashioned, newly, novel, of late, once again, once more, original, other, over again, plus, popular, present, present-age, present-day, present-time, prevalent, primary, pristine, put aside, put by, raw, recent, recently, regenerated, reinvigorated, renewed, reserve, revived, revolutionary, running, saved, sempervirent, smart, spare, stored, strange, supernumerary, supplemental, supplementary, surplus, suspended, that be, that is, to spare, topical, trendy, ulterior, unaccustomed, unapplied, unbeaten, unconsumed, underived, undeveloped, unemployed, unexercised, unexpended, unfledged, unhandled, unique, unspent, untapped, untouched, untried, untrodden, unused, unutilized, up-to-date, up-to-datish, up-to-the-minute, vernal, virgin, virginal, waived, yet again, young

• newborn, babe, babish, baby, babyish, bantling, bay, bearing, born, calved, cast, doll-like, dollish, dropped, factory-new, foaled, given birth, giving birth, hatched, in arms, in diapers, in mint condition, in nappies, in swaddling clothes, in the cradle, infant, infantile, infantine, kittenish, like new, mint, nee, neonatal, neonate, new-begotten, new-built, new-fledged, new-grown, new-laid, new-made, new-minted, new-model, new-mown, new-wrought, stillborn, uncirculated, whelped

• newcomer, abecedarian, alien, alphabetarian, amateur, apprentice, arrival, arriviste, articled clerk, baby, beginner, boot, catechumen, colonist, colt, comer, deb, debutant, emigrant, entrant, fledgling, foreigner, freshman, gate-crasher, greenhorn, greeny, ignoramus, immigrant, in-migrant, incomer, inductee, infant, initiate, intruder, learner, neophyte, nestling, new arrival, new boy, novice, novitiate, novus homo, outlander, outsider, parvenu, postulant, probationer, probationist, proselyte, raw recruit, recruit, rookie, settler, squatter, stowaway, stranger, tenderfoot, trainee, tyro, upstart, visitant, visitor

• newfashioned, a la mode, advanced, all the rage, all the thing, avant-garde, contemporary, current, far out, fashionable, forward-looking, hip, in, in fashion, in style, in vogue, mod, modern, modernistic, modernized, modish, new, now, popular, present-day, present-time, prevalent, progressive, smart, streamlined, trendy, twentieth-century, ultra-ultra, ultramodern, up-to-date, up-to-datish, up-to-the-minute, way out

• newly, ab ovo, afresh, again, anew, another time, as new, bis, de novo, encore, freshly, from scratch, lately, new, of late, once again, once more, over again, recently, yet again

• newness, authenticity, contemporaneity, contemporaneousness, creativeness, creativity, freshness, historical present, innovation, inventiveness, modernity, nonimitation, novelty, now, nowadays, nowness, originality, our times, present, present tense, presentness, the Now Generation, the nonce, the now, the present, the present age, the present day, the present hour, the present juncture, the present time, the time being, the times, these days, this day, this hour, this instant, this moment, this point, this stage, today, uniqueness

• news ticker, TelAutography, Teletype, Teletype network, Teletyping, closed-circuit telegraphy, code, duplex telegraphy, electricity, facsimile telegraph, interrupter, key, multiplex telegraphy, quadruplex telegraphy, railroad telegraphy, receiver, sender, simplex telegraphy, single-current telegraphy, sounder, stock ticker, submarine telegraphy, telegraphics, telegraphy, teleprinter, teletypewriter, teletypewriting, telex, ticker, transmitter, typotelegraph, typotelegraphy, wire service

• news, account, advice, announcement, bulletin, communication, communique, daily, daily newspaper, dirt, dispatch, dope, expose, extra, extra edition, gazette, gossip, hearsay, info, information, intelligence, low-down, lowdown, message, national newspaper, neighborhood newspaper, newscast, newspaper, newspaper of record, paper, poop, press release, rag, report, rumor, scandal, scoop, scuttlebutt, sheet, special, special edition, statement, story, tabloid, talk, tattle, tidings, weekly, weekly newspaper, word

• newscast, beam, broadcast, canned show, commercial, commercial program, electrical transcription, network show, radiate, radio, radio fare, radiobroadcast, rebroadcast, rerun, send, serial, shortwave, sign off, sign on, soap opera, sound effects, sportscast, sustainer, taped program, transmit, wireless

• newsletter, Pastoral Epistle, advice, aerogram, air letter, airgraph, billet-doux, broadcast journalism, bull, chain letter, dead letter, dimissorial, dimissory letter, drop letter, encyclical, fan letter, form letter, information, intelligence, journalism, letter of credit, letter of introduction, letters credential, letters of marque, letters of request, letters overt, letters patent, letters rogatory, love letter, monitory, news, news agency, news medium, news service, newsiness, newsmagazine, newspaper, newsworthiness, nixie, open letter, pastoral letter, poison-pen letter, press association, radio, reportage, round robin, telegraph agency, television, the fourth estate, the press, tidings, wire service, word

• newsman, city editor, columnist, copy chief, copy editor, copyman, copyreader, correspondent, cub reporter, diaskeuast, editor, editorial writer, feature editor, foreign correspondent, gazetteer, interviewer, journalist, leader writer, leg man, managing editor, news editor, newspaperman, newspaperwoman, newswriter, own correspondent, paragrapher, paragraphist, pressman, publicist, reader, reporter, reviser, rewrite man, rewriter, slotman, sob sister, special correspondent, sports editor, subeditor, war correspondent

• newsmonger, a tale-bearing animal, adviser, announcer, annunciator, authority, busybody, channel, communicant, communicator, enlightener, expert witness, gossip, gossip columnist, gossiper, gossipmonger, grapevine, informant, information center, information medium, informer, interviewee, monitor, mouthpiece, newspaperman, notifier, press, public relations officer, publisher, quidnunc, radio, reporter, rumormonger, scandalmonger, source, spokesman, tabby, talebearer, taleteller, tattler, tattletale, television, teller, telltale, tipster, tittle-tattler, tout, witness, yenta

• newspaper, advice, broadcast journalism, daily, daily newspaper, extra, extra edition, gazette, information, intelligence, journalism, magazine, national newspaper, neighborhood newspaper, news, news agency, news medium, news service, newsiness, newsletter, newsmagazine, newspaper of record, newsworthiness, organ, paper, periodical, press association, radio, rag, reportage, review, sheet, special, special edition, tabloid, telegraph agency, television, the fourth estate, the press, tidings, weekly, weekly newspaper, wire service, word

• newspaperman, a tale-bearing animal, advertising writer, annalist, art critic, author, authoress, belletrist, bibliographer, busybody, city editor, coauthor, collaborator, columnist, compiler, composer, copy chief, copy editor, copyman, copyreader, copywriter, correspondent, creative writer, critic, cub reporter, dance critic, diarist, diaskeuast, drama critic, dramatist, editor, editorial writer, encyclopedist, essayist, feature editor, foreign correspondent, free lance, free-lance writer, gazetteer, ghost, ghostwriter, gossip, gossip columnist, gossiper, gossipmonger, humorist, inditer, interviewer, journalist, leader writer, leg man, literary artist, literary craftsman, literary critic, literary man, litterateur, logographer, magazine writer, man of letters, managing editor, monographer, music critic, news editor, newsman, newsmonger, newspaperwoman, newswriter, novelettist, novelist, own correspondent, pamphleteer, paragrapher, paragraphist, penwoman, poet, pressman, prose writer, publicist, quidnunc, reader, reporter, reviewer, reviser, rewrite man, rewriter, rumormonger, scandalmonger, scenario writer, scenarist, scribe, scriptwriter, short-story writer, slotman, sob sister, special correspondent, sports editor, storyteller, subeditor, tabby, talebearer, taleteller, tattler, tattletale, technical writer, telltale, tittle-tattler, war correspondent, word painter, wordsmith, writer, yenta

• newsreel, 3-D, Cinemascope, Cinerama, Technicolor, Western, animated cartoon, black-and-white film, cartoon, chiller, cinema, color film, creepie, documentary, documentary film, educational film, feature, film, flick, flicker, horror picture, horse opera, motion picture, motion-picture show, movie, moving picture, nudie, photodrama, photoplay, picture, picture show, pornographic film, preview, short, silent, silent film, skin flick, sneak preview, spaghetti Western, talkie, talking picture, thriller, trailer, underground film

• newsy, accessible, all jaw, approachable, candid, chatty, communicative, conversable, conversational, demonstrative, effusive, expansive, extroverted, flip, fluent, frank, free, free-speaking, free-spoken, free-tongued, front-page, gabby, garrulous, gassy, glib, gossiping, gossipy, gregarious, gushy, long-winded, loquacious, multiloquent, multiloquious, newsworthy, open, outgoing, outspoken, overtalkative, prolix, self-revealing, self-revelatory, smooth, sociable, talebearing, taletelling, talkative, talky, unconstrained, unhampered, unrepressed, unreserved, unrestrained, unrestricted, unreticent, unsecretive, unshrinking, unsilent, unsuppressed, verbose, voluble, windy, with news value

• next of kin, agnate, ancestry, blood, blood relation, blood relative, clansman, cognate, collateral, collateral relative, connections, consanguinean, distaff side, distant relation, enate, family, flesh, flesh and blood, folks, german, kin, kindred, kinfolk, kinnery, kinsfolk, kinsman, kinsmen, kinswoman, kith and kin, near relation, people, posterity, relations, relatives, sib, sibling, spear kin, spear side, spindle kin, spindle side, sword side, tribesman, uterine kin

• next world, Heaven, Paradise, a better place, afterlife, afterworld, destiny, eternal home, fate, future state, home, life after death, life to come, otherworld, postexistence, the beyond, the good hereafter, the grave, the great beyond, the great hereafter, the hereafter, the unknown, what bodes, what is fated, world to come

• next, adjacent, adjoining, after, after all, after that, afterward, afterwards, appendant, behind, below, bordering, by, closest, coming, connecting, consequent, conterminous, contiguous, coterminous, end to end, endways, endwise, ensuing, ex post facto, face to face, following, immediate, in the aftermath, in the sequel, joined, juxtaposed, juxtapositional, juxtapositive, later, nearest, nearmost, neighbor, neighboring, nighest, posterior, postpositional, postpositive, proximate, sequacious, sequent, sequential, since, subsequent, subsequent to, subsequently, succeeding, successive, suffixed, then, thereafter, thereon, thereupon, therewith

• nexus, Indian file, array, articulation, bank, buzz, catena, catenation, chain, chain reaction, chaining, concatenation, connection, consecution, continuum, course, cycle, descent, drone, endless belt, endless round, file, filiation, gamut, gradation, hum, knot, ligament, ligature, line, lineage, link, monotone, pendulum, periodicity, plenum, powder train, progression, queue, range, rank, recurrence, reticulation, rotation, round, routine, row, run, scale, sequence, series, single file, spectrum, string, succession, swath, thread, tie, tier, train, vinculum, windrow, yoke

• NG, cheap, good-for-naught, good-for-nothing, junk, junky, no-account, no-good, not worth having, not worth mentioning, not worthwhile, nugacious, nugatory, shabby, shoddy, trashy, trivial, valueless, worthless

• niacin, adermin, aneurin, antiberi-beri factor, ascorbic acid, axerophthol, biotin, carotene, cholecalciferol, choline, cobalamin, cryptoxanthin, cyanocobalamin, ergocalciferol, folic acid, hepatoflavin, inositol, lactoflavin, menadione, naphthoquinone, nicotinic acid, ovoflavin, pyridoxine, tocopherol, vitamin, vitamin B, vitamin Bc, vitamin D, vitamin G, vitamin H, vitamin K, vitamin M

• Niagara, cascade, cataract, deluge, fall, falls, flood, force, fresh, freshet, linn, nappe, pour, river, sault, spate, torrent, waterfall, waterflood, watershoot

• nib, Thule, Ultima Thule, aculeus, acumination, antlia, auger, beak, beezer, bill, bit, bitter end, borer, bottom dollar, boundary, bugle, butt, butt end, conk, cusp, drill, extreme, extremity, fag end, farthest bound, jumping-off place, limit, mucro, muffle, muzzle, nares, neb, needle, nose, nostrils, nozzle, olfactory organ, pecker, point, pole, prick, prickle, proboscis, rhinarium, rostrum, schnozzle, smeller, snoot, snout, sting, stub, stump, tag, tag end, tail, tail end, tip, trunk

• nibble, and sinker, be a sucker, be taken in, bite, bolus, champ, chaw, chew, chew the cud, chew up, chomp, cud, devour, eat up, fall for, gnash, gnaw, go for, gob, gobble up, grind, gulp down, gum, lap up, line, masticate, morsel, mouth, mouthful, mumble, munch, nip, nosh, peck, peck at, pick, pick at, quid, ruminate, snack, snap, swallow, swallow anything, swallow hook, swallow whole, swing at, take the bait, tumble for

• nibbling, appetite, cannibalism, carnivorism, carnivority, carnivorousness, chewing, consumption, cropping, deglutition, devouring, devourment, dieting, dining, eating, epulation, feasting, feeding, gluttony, gobbling, grazing, herbivorism, herbivority, herbivorousness, hunger, ingestion, licking, manducation, mastication, messing, munching, nutrition, omnivorism, omnivorousness, omophagy, pantophagy, pasture, pasturing, pecking, regalement, relishing, rumination, savoring, tasting, vegetarianism, wolfing

• nice, Christian, Christlike, Christly, according to Hoyle, accurate, acute, advantageous, advertent, affable, affectionate, agog, agreeable, agreeably, alert, all ears, all eyes, ambrosial, amiable, amicable, appreciative, appropriate, assiduous, attentive, attractive, auspicious, aware, becoming, befitting, beneficial, benevolent, benign, benignant, blissful, bon, bonny, braw, brotherly, bueno, capital, careful, charming, cheerful, choicy, choosy, civilized, close, cogent, comfortably, commendable, compassionate, compatible, complaisant, complex, complicated, concentrated, condign, congenial, conscientious, conscious, constant, cordial, correct, courteous, critical, cultivated, cultured, dainty, dangerous, decent, decorous, delectable, delicat, delicate, delicious, delightful, delightfully, demanding, desirable, detailed, differential, diligent, direct, discerning, discriminate, discriminating, discriminative, distinctive, distinguishing, due, dulcet, earnest, elegant, en rapport, enjoyable, enjoyably, estimable, even, exact, exacting, excellent, exigent, expedient, express, exquisite, fair, fair and pleasant, faithful, famous, fastidious, faultless, favorable, felicific, felicitous, fine, finespun, finical, finicking, finicky, fit, fitting, flawless, fraternal, friendly, full, fussy, genial, gentlemanly, good, good to eat, good-tasting, goodly, graceful, gracile, gracious, grand, grateful, gratifying, gratifyingly, gustable, gusty, hair-splitting, hairline, hairsplitting, hairy, harmonious, healthy, heart-warming, heedful, helpful, honeyed, human, humane, inerrable, inerrant, infallible, intense, intent, intentive, intricate, judicious, juicy, keen, kind, kindhearted, kindly, kindly-disposed, kosher, ladylike, laudable, likable, likeable, loving, luscious, lush, mathematical, mellifluous, mellow, meticulous, micrometrically precise, microscopic, mindful, minute, narrow, neat, nectareous, nectarous, niggling, noble, normal, normative, observant, observing, of gourmet quality, old-maidish, old-womanish, on the ball, on the job, open-eared, open-eyed, openmouthed, outgoing, overconscientious, overparticular, overscrupulous, palatable, particular, penetrating, perceptive, perilous, pernickety, persnickety, picayune, picky, pinpoint, pleasant, pleasing, pleasingly, pleasurable, pleasure-giving, pleasureful, polished, polite, precarious, precious, precise, precisianistic, precisionistic, profitable, proper, punctilious, punctual, queasy, rare, refined, regal, regardful, religious, religiously exact, rewarding, right, right and proper, righteous, rightful, rigid, rigorous, royal, sage, sapid, sapient, satisfactory, satisfying, satisfyingly, savorous, savory, scientific, scientifically exact, scrumptious, scrupulous, scrutinizing, seemly, selective, sensitive, severe, sharp, skillful, slight, small, softhearted, sophisticated, sound, special, specific, splendid, square, squeamish, strict, stringent, subtle, succulent, suitable, superb, superior, sweet, sympathetic, sympathizing, tactful, tasty, tender, tender-conscienced, tenderhearted, ticklish, tidy, toothsome, trim, undeviating, unerring, useful, valid, very good, virtuous, warm, warm-hearted, warmhearted, watchful, welcome, winsome, wise, worthwhile, worthy, yummy

• nicely, accurately, aright, benignantly, benignly, capitally, conscientiously, correctly, decently, decorously, exactingly, exactly, excellently, exquisitely, famously, favorably, fine, finely, fitly, fittingly, fussily, good, humanely, humanly, in detail, justly, kindheartedly, kindly, meticulously, minutely, precisely, properly, punctiliously, punctually, refinedly, right, rightly, rigorously, royally, scrupulously, softheartedly, splendidly, strictly, tenderheartedly, very well, warmheartedly, warmly, well, with exactitude, with great nicety, with precision

• nicety, absoluteness, accuracy, acquired taste, appreciation, appreciation of differences, appreciation of excellence, appreciativeness, artistic judgment, attention to detail, attention to fact, care for truth, choiceness, circumstantiality, civilized taste, civilizedness, connoisseurship, conscientiousness, correctness, critical niceness, criticality, criticalness, cultivated taste, cultivation, culture, daintiness, delicacy, delicate distinction, delicateness, detail, differentia, differential, discriminating taste, discriminatingness, discrimination, discriminativeness, distinction, elegance, exactingness, exactitude, exactness, excellence, exquisiteness, faithfulness, fastidiousness, faultlessness, feel, feeling, fidelity, fine palate, fine point, fineness, finesse, finicality, finicalness, finickiness, finickingness, flawlessness, fussiness, good taste, grace, gracefulness, gracility, graciosity, graciousness, hairline, judiciousness, literalism, literality, literalness, making distinctions, margin, mathematical precision, meticulousness, minuteness, narrow margin, nice distinction, niceness, niceness of distinction, nuance, palate, particle of difference, particularity, particularness, perfection, point of difference, polish, preciseness, precisianism, precision, punctiliousness, punctuality, quality, refined discrimination, refined palate, refinement, right, rightness, rigidity, rigidness, rigor, rigorousness, scrupulosity, scrupulousness, selectiveness, sense, sensibility, sensitivity, severity, shade of difference, sophistication, strictness, subtle distinction, subtlety, tact, tactfulness, taste, tastefulness, textualism, the letter, wide margin

• niche, alcove, asylum, bay, bolt-hole, cache, carrel, concealment, corner, cove, cover, covert, coverture, cranny, cubby, cubbyhole, cubicle, dark corner, den, dugout, foxhole, funk hole, hideaway, hideout, hidey hole, hiding, hiding place, hole, hollow, inglenook, lair, nook, oriel, pitchhole, place, position, recess, recession, refuge, retreat, roomlet, sanctuary, secret place, slot, snuggery, stash, undercovert

• nick, Vandyke, appropriate, arrest, ascender, back, bastard type, beard, beat it, belly, bevel, birthmark, black letter, blaze, blaze a trail, blemish, blotch, body, brand, cabbage, cap, capital, case, cast, caste mark, chalk, chalk up, check, check off, checkmark, chip, chop, cicatrix, cicatrize, cleft, clout, collar, counter, crap, craps, crena, crenellate, crenulate, crimp, cut, dapple, dash, defect, define, delimit, demarcate, dent, depart, depression, descender, discolor, discoloration, dot, earmark, em, en, engrave, engraving, face, fat-faced type, feet, flaw, fleck, flick, font, freckle, gash, gouge, graving, groove, hack, hatch, hook, impress, imprint, incise, incision, indent, indentation, indenture, italic, jag, jog, joggle, jot, kerf, knurl, lentigo, letter, ligature, line, logotype, lower case, machicolate, macula, majuscule, make a mark, make off with, make tracks, mark, mark off, mark out, marking, mill, minuscule, mole, mottle, nab, nail, natural, nevus, nip, nock, notch, patch, pencil, pepper, pi, pica, picot, pinch, pink, point, police station, polka dot, prick, print, punch, punctuate, puncture, purloin, riddle, roll, roman, sans serif, scallop, scar, scarification, scarify, score, scotch, scratch, scratching, script, seal, seam, serrate, shank, shot, shoulder, slash, small cap, small capital, speck, speckle, splash, splotch, spot, stain, stamp, steal, stem, stigma, stigmatize, strawberry mark, streak, striate, stripe, take, take in, take off, tattoo, tattoo mark, throw, tick, tick off, tittle, tooth, trace, type, type body, type class, type lice, typecase, typeface, typefounders, typefoundry, underline, underscore, upper case, watermark

• nicked, battlemented, chopped, crenate, crenated, crenellated, crenulate, dentate, dentated, embrasured, erose, gashed, incised, indented, jagged, jaggy, lacerate, lacerated, notched, saw-toothed, sawlike, scalloped, scored, serrate, serrated, serrulated, toothed

• nickel, C, C-note, G, G-note, aureate, bar, brass, brassy, brazen, bronze, bronzy, buck, bullion, cartwheel, cent, century, coin gold, coin silver, copper, coppery, cupreous, cuprous, dime, dollar, dollar bill, ferrous, ferruginous, fifty cents, fin, fish, five cents, five hundred dollars, five-dollar bill, five-hundred-dollar bill, five-spot, fiver, four bits, frogskin, gilt, gold, gold nugget, gold-filled, gold-plated, golden, grand, half G, half a C, half dollar, half grand, hundred-dollar bill, ingot, iron, iron man, ironlike, lead, leaden, mercurial, mercurous, mill, nickelic, nickeline, nugget, penny, pewter, pewtery, precious metals, quarter, quicksilver, red cent, sawbuck, silver, silver dollar, silver-plated, silvery, skin, smacker, steel, steely, ten cents, ten-spot, tenner, thousand dollars, thousand-dollar bill, tin, tinny, twenty-dollar bill, twenty-five cents, two bits, two-dollar bill, two-spot, yard, yellow stuff

• nickelodeon, Gramophone, PA, PA system, Victrola, audio sound system, audiophile, binaural system, bitch box, bullhorn, cartridge, ceramic pickup, changer, cinema, cinematograph, crystal pickup, derived four-channel system, discrete four-channel system, drive-in, four-channel stereo system, hi-fi, hi-fi fan, high-fidelity, intercom, intercommunication system, jukebox, kinematograph, magnetic pickup, monaural system, mono, movie theater, moving-picture theater, needle, phonograph, photoelectric pickup, pickup, picture house, picture palace, public-address system, quadraphonic sound system, radio-phonograph combination, record changer, record player, sound reproduction system, sound truck, squawk box, stereo, stylus, system, tape deck, tape recorder, tone arm, transcription turntable, turntable

• nickname, affectionate name, agnomen, appellation, appellative, baptize, byname, byword, call, christen, cognomen, define, denominate, denomination, designate, diminutive, dub, entitle, epithet, first name, handle, hypocoristic, identify, label, moniker, name, nominate, pet name, sobriquet, specify, style, tag, term, title

• niece, aunt, auntie, blood brother, brethren, brother, bub, bubba, bud, buddy, country cousin, cousin, cousin once removed, cousin twice removed, daughter, father, first cousin, foster brother, frater, grandnephew, grandniece, granduncle, great-aunt, great-uncle, half brother, kid brother, mother, nephew, nuncle, nunks, nunky, second cousin, sis, sissy, sister, sister-german, sistern, son, stepbrother, stepsister, unc, uncle, uncs, uterine brother

• nifty, OK, ace-high, agile, apt, bad, bang-up, bonzer, boss, braw, bully, but good, chic, classy, clever, clothes-conscious, considerable, cool, corker, corking, cosmopolitan, crackerjack, daisy, dandy, dapper, dashing, delicious, dressed to advantage, dressed to kill, ducky, elegant, energetic, excellent, exquisite, fab, fine, fine and dandy, gear, genteel, good, great, groovy, healthy, heavy, hot, humdinger, hunky-dory, in good form, jam-up, jaunty, just dandy, keen, knockout, marvy, mean, modish, natty, neat, nobby, okay, out of sight, peach, peachy, peachy-keen, posh, profitable, quick, recherche, ripping, ritzy, rum, satisfactory, satisfying, scrumptious, sharp, slap-up, sleek, smart, smashing, smug, snazzy, soigne, soignee, solid, something else, sophisticated, spiffing, spiffy, splendid, spruce, spry, stunning, style-conscious, stylish, substantial, suitable, super, swank, swanky, swell, terrific, tough, tricksy, trig, trim, well-dressed, well-groomed, wizard

• niggard, Silas Marner, cheapskate, cheeseparing, churl, close, curmudgeon, grudging, mean, mingy, miser, miserly, muckworm, niggardly, penny pincher, penny-pinching, penurious, pinchfist, pinchgut, pinchpenny, save-all, scrooge, shabby, skinflint, sordid, stiff, tight, tightwad

• niggardly, Lenten, Spartan, abstemious, ascetic, austere, bountiful, cheeseparing, chinchy, chintzy, close, closefisted, closefistedly, dwarfed, dwarfish, exiguous, frugal, grudging, illiberal, illiberally, impoverished, infrequent, jejune, lean, limited, little, meager, mean, meanly, mingy, miserly, narrow, niggard, paltry, parsimonious, penny-pinching, penurious, petty, piddling, pinchpenny, poor, puny, rare, scant, scanty, scarce, scattered, scrawny, scrimp, scrimping, scrimpy, seldom met with, seldom seen, shabbily, shabby, skimp, skimping, skimpy, slender, slight, slim, small, sordid, sordidly, spare, sparing, sparse, spotty, sprinkled, starvation, stingily, stingy, stinted, straitened, stunted, subsistence, thin, tight, tightfisted, tightfistedly, unchivalrous, ungenerous, ungenerously, unnourishing, unnutritious, watered, watery

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

• niggle, adverse criticism, animadversion, aspersion, bad notices, bad press, bitch, bug, captiousness, carp, carp at, carping, cavil, caviling, censoriousness, complain, criticism, criticize, exception, faultfinding, find fault, flak, fret at, fuss, fuss at, grouse, hairsplitting, hassle, henpeck, hit, home thrust, hostile criticism, hypercriticalness, hypercriticism, imputation, knock, kvetch, nag, nagging, nibble at, niggling, nit, nit-picking, obloquy, overcriticalness, peck at, pester, pestering, pettifogging, pick at, pick on, priggishness, quibble, quibbling, rap, reflection, reproachfulness, slam, stricture, swipe, taking exception, trichoschistism, yap at

• niggling, Mickey Mouse, adverse criticism, advertent, agog, alert, all ears, all eyes, animadversion, annoying, aspersion, assiduous, attentive, aware, bad notices, bad press, captious, captiousness, careful, carping, cavil, caviling, censoriousness, concentrated, conscious, critical, criticism, cynical, diligent, earnest, exception, faultfinding, finical, finicking, finicky, flak, frivolous, fussy, hairsplitting, heedful, hit, home thrust, hostile criticism, hypercritical, hypercriticalness, hypercriticism, imputation, inconsequential, insignificant, intense, intent, intentive, irksome, irritating, jerkwater, knock, measly, meticulous, mindful, nagging, nice, niggle, nit, nit-picking, nugatory, obloquy, observant, observing, on the ball, on the job, one-horse, open-eared, open-eyed, openmouthed, overcritical, overcriticalness, paltry, peanut, pestering, pettifogging, petty, picayune, picayunish, piddling, piffling, poky, priggishness, punk, puny, quibble, quibbling, rap, reflection, regardful, reproachfulness, slam, small-beer, small-time, stricture, swipe, taking exception, tinhorn, trichoschistic, trichoschistism, trifling, trivial, troublesome, two-bit, two-by-four, ultracritical, unimportant, vexatious, vexing, watchful, worrisome, worrying

• nigh, about, all but, almost, along toward, approach, approaching, approximate, approximating, arm-in-arm, around, as good as, aside, at close quarters, at hand, at next hand, beside, bordering on, burning, by, cheek-by-jowl, circa, close, close about, close at hand, close by, close to, close upon, closely, come near, converge, counterclockwise, draw near, draw nigh, fast by, hand-in-hand, hard, hard by, hard on, hereabout, hereabouts, hot, immediate, in spitting distance, intimate, just about, larboard, left, left-hand, left-wing, left-wingish, levorotatory, liberal, near, near at hand, near the mark, near to, near upon, nearabout, nearabouts, nearby, nearing, nearish, nearly, next door to, nigh about, nighhand, nighish, not far, not far from, not quite, only a step, port, pretty near, propinque, proximal, proximate, radical, round, side-by-side, sinister, sinistral, sinistrocerebral, sinistrocular, sinistrogyrate, sinistrorse, thereabout, thereabouts, verging on, verging upon, vicinal, warm, well-nigh, within call, within earshot, within hearing, within reach

• night and day, North Pole, South Pole, always, antipodal points, antipodes, antipoints, antipoles, at all times, black and white, ceaselessly, consecutively, constantly, continually, continuously, contraposita, contrapositives, contraries, counterpoles, daily, daily and hourly, day after day, day and night, ever, ever and anon, every day, every hour, every moment, hand running, hour after hour, hourly, incessantly, month after month, on and on, opposite poles, opposites, perennially, perpetually, polar opposites, poles, rapidly, regularly, right along, running, steadily, successively, sustainedly, unceasingly, unintermittently, uninterruptedly, unvaryingly, without cease, without letup, without stopping, year after year

• night blindness, Lombardy leprosy, anemia, ariboflavinosis, beriberi, cachexia, chlorosis, day blindness, deficiency anemia, dermatitis, goiter, greensickness, hemeralopia, keratomalacia, kwashiorkor, maidism, malnutrition, moon blindness, nyctalopia, osteomalacia, osteoporosis, pellagra, pernicious anemia, protein deficiency, rachitis, rickets, scurvy, struma, vitamin deficiency, xerophthalmia

• night spot, Elizabethan theater, Globe Theatre, Greek theater, amphitheater, amusement park, arena theater, auditorium, ballroom, cabaret, cafe, cafe chantant, cafe dansant, casino, circle theater, club, concert hall, dance floor, dance hall, dancing pavilion, discotheque, entertainment industry, fun-fair, hall, house, juke joint, little theater, music hall, nightclub, nitery, opera, opera house, outdoor theater, playhouse, resort, roadhouse, show biz, show business, showboat, supper club, tavern, theater, theater-in-the-round, theatron, watering place

• night, Egyptian darkness, Erebus, all the time, all-night, blackness, ceaselessly, charcoal, coal, continually, continuously, crow, dark, dark of night, darkness, darkness visible, dead of night, dusk, ebon, ebony, endlessly, evening, evensong, eventide, gloaming, incessantly, ink, intense darkness, jet, lightlessness, midnight, moonlessness, night and day, night-fallen, nightfall, nightlong, nightly, nighttide, nighttime, nocturnal, obscure, obscure darkness, obscurity, pitch, pitch-darkness, pitchy darkness, raven, round-the-clock, sable night, sloe, smoke, smut, soot, starlessness, sundown, sunlessness, sunset, swarthiness, tar, tenebrosity, tenebrousness, the palpable obscure, total darkness, twilight, unceasingly, unendingly, velvet darkness, vespers

• nightcap, Mickey, Mickey Finn, anesthetic, aperitif, chaser, cocktail, doch-an-dorrach, drink, eye-opener, highball, hypnotic, knockout drops, lullaby, mandrake, mixed drink, morphia, morphine, opiate, opium, parting cup, poppy, pousse-cafe, punch, sedative, sleep-bringer, sleep-inducer, sleep-producer, somnifacient, soporific, stirrup cup, sundowner, wee doch-an-dorrach

• nightclub, Elizabethan theater, Globe Theatre, Greek theater, alehouse, amphitheater, amusement park, arena theater, auditorium, ballroom, bar, barrel house, barroom, beer garden, beer parlor, bistro, blind tiger, cabaret, cafe, cafe chantant, cafe dansant, casino, circle theater, club, cocktail lounge, concert hall, dance floor, dance hall, dancing pavilion, discotheque, dive, dramshop, drinking saloon, entertainment industry, fun-fair, gin mill, groggery, grogshop, hall, honky-tonk, house, juke joint, little theater, local, music hall, night spot, nitery, opera, opera house, outdoor theater, playhouse, pothouse, pub, public, public house, rathskeller, resort, roadhouse, rumshop, saloon, saloon bar, show biz, show business, showboat, speakeasy, supper club, taproom, tavern, theater, theater-in-the-round, theatron, watering place, wine shop

• nightmare, Dracula, Frankenstein, Wolf-man, bad dream, bogey, bogeyman, brown study, bugaboo, bugbear, clawing, cruciation, crucifixion, daydream, dream, fantasy, fee-faw-fum, frightener, ghost, ghoul, hell, hell upon earth, hobgoblin, holocaust, holy terror, horror, incubus, laceration, lancination, martyrdom, monster, ogre, ogress, passion, persecution, phantom, pipe dream, purgatory, rack, revenant, reverie, scarebabe, scarecrow, scarer, specter, succubus, terror, torment, torture, vampire, vision, werewolf

• nightwalk, couch, crawl, creep, go on tiptoe, grovel, gumshoe, inch, inch along, lay wait, lie in wait, lurk, noctambulate, pad, prowl, pussyfoot, scrabble, scramble, shadow, sidle, skulk, sleepwalk, slink, snake, sneak, somnambulate, stalk, steal, steal along, tippytoe, tiptoe, worm, worm along

• nightwalking, all fours, crawl, crawling, creep, creeping, gumshoeing, night-wandering, noctambulation, noctambulism, noctivagant, noctivagation, padding, prowling, pussyfooting, scrabble, scramble, sidling, sleepwalk, sleepwalking, slinking, snaking, sneaking, somnambulant, somnambular, somnambulism, stealing, tippytoe, tiptoe, tiptoeing, worming

• nihilism, Jacobinism, New Left, Old Left, agnosia, anarchism, anarcho-syndicalism, anarchy, antinomianism, block, blocking, chaos, confusion, criminal syndicalism, cynicism, defeatism, delirium, delusion, delusion of persecution, dismalness, disorder, disorderliness, disorganization, disorientation, disruption, extreme left, extreme left wing, extremism, flight of ideas, gloominess, gloomy outlook, hallucination, hallucinosis, left-wing extremism, lynch law, malism, mental block, mental confusion, misrule, mob law, mob rule, mobocracy, negativism, nihilistic delusion, ochlocracy, paralogia, pessimism, primal chaos, psychological block, radicalism, radicalization, rebellion, retreatism, revolution, revolutionism, sans-culotterie, sans-culottism, syndicalism, tohubohu, turmoil, ultraconservatism, ultraism, uncheerfulness, unruliness

• nihilist, Bolshevik, Cassandra, Eeyore, Jacobin, Wobbly, anarch, anarchist, anarcho-syndicalist, animal, annihilator, anthropophagite, antinomian, arsonist, barbarian, beast, biblioclast, bomber, brute, burner, calamity howler, cannibal, cynic, defeatist, demolisher, destroyer, dynamitard, dynamiter, exterminator, extreme left-winger, extremist, hun, hyena, iconoclast, idol breaker, idoloclast, killjoy, left-wing extremist, lunatic fringe, malist, man-eater, mild radical, mutineer, negativist, parlor Bolshevik, parlor pink, pessimist, pink, pinko, prophet of doom, radical, rebel, red, retreatist, revolutionary, revolutionist, ruiner, sans-culotte, savage, seek-sorrow, shark, subversive, syndicalist, terrorist, tiger, ultra, ultraist, vandal, wild man, worrywart, wrecker, yippie

• nihilistic, Cassandra-like, Cassandran, Cassandrian, anarchial, anarchic, anarchistic, anarcho-syndicalist, antinomian, baneful, calamitous, cataclysmal, cataclysmic, catastrophic, chaotic, consuming, consumptive, cynical, deadly, defeatist, demolishing, demolitionary, depredatory, desolating, destroying, destructive, devastating, disastrous, dismal, disorderly, disorganized, doomful, downbeat, extreme, extremist, extremistic, fatal, fateful, fratricidal, gloomy, internecine, mildly radical, negative, negativistic, nihilist, pessimist, pessimistic, pink, radical, ravaging, red, revolutionary, revolutionist, ruining, ruinous, self-destructive, subversionary, subversive, suicidal, syndicalist, syndicalistic, ultraconservative, ultraist, ultraistic, uncheerful, unruly, vandalic, vandalish, vandalistic, wasteful, wasting, withering

• Nike, 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, Mithras, Momus, Neptune, Olympians, Olympic gods, Ops, Orcus, Persephassa, Persephone, Phoebus, Phoebus Apollo, Pluto, Poseidon, Proserpina, Proserpine, Rhea, Saturn, Tellus, Venus, Vesta, Vulcan, Zeus

• nimble footed, agile, breakneck, dashing, double-quick, eagle-winged, expeditious, express, fast, featly, fleet, flying, galloping, graceful, hair-trigger, hasty, headlong, hustling, light, light of heel, light-footed, lively, mercurial, neat-fingered, neat-handed, nimble, peart, precipitate, prompt, quick, quick as lightning, quick as thought, rapid, reckless, running, snappy, spanking, speedy, sprightly, spry, sure-footed, swift, winged

• nimble witted, Attic, adroit, apt, biting, brainy, bright, brilliant, canny, clever, dexterous, droll, facetious, funny, gifted, hep, humorous, humorsome, jesting, jocose, jocular, joking, joky, joshing, keen, keen-witted, knowing, mordant, nimble, no dumbbell, not born yesterday, pointed, pungent, quick, quick-thinking, quick-witted, rapier-like, salt, salty, scintillating, sharp, sharp-witted, slick, smart, sparkling, sprightly, steel-trap, talented, whimsical, witty

• nimble, active, acute, adroit, agile, alacritous, alert, alive, apt, attentive, awake, brainy, breakneck, bright, brilliant, brisk, catty, clever, coruscating, dashing, deft, dexterous, dispatchful, double-quick, eagle-winged, energetic, expeditious, express, fast, featly, fleet, flying, galloping, gifted, graceful, hair-trigger, handy, hasty, headlong, hustling, intelligent, keen, keen-witted, light, light of heel, light-footed, lightsome, limber, lithe, lively, mercurial, neat-fingered, neat-handed, nimble-footed, nimble-witted, no dumbbell, not born yesterday, on the, on the alert, on the ball, on the job, peart, precipitate, prompt, qui vive, quick, quick as lightning, quick as thought, quick-thinking, quick-witted, rapid, ready, reckless, running, scintillating, sharp, sharp-witted, sleepless, smart, snappy, spanking, sparkling, speedy, sprightly, spry, steel-trap, sure-footed, swift, talented, unblinking, unnodding, unsleeping, unwinking, vigilant, wakeful, watchful, wide-awake, winged, zippy

• nimbleness, acuity, acuteness, adroitness, agility, alacrity, alertness, aptitude, aptness, attention, attentiveness, braininess, brightness, brilliance, briskness, clear thinking, cleverness, dexterity, dispatch, esprit, expedition, expeditiousness, featliness, flair, genius, giftedness, gifts, keen-wittedness, keenness, lightness, mental alertness, mercurial mind, native cleverness, nimble mind, nimble-wittedness, nous, promptitude, promptness, punctuality, quick parts, quick thinking, quick wit, quick-wittedness, quickness, readiness, ready wit, savvy, sharp-wittedness, sharpness, sleeplessness, smartness, smarts, speediness, sprightly wit, spryness, swiftness, talent, wakefulness

• nimbly, ably, adeptly, adroitly, agilely, aptly, artfully, artistically, brilliantly, capably, cleverly, competently, cunningly, deftly, dexterously, dextrously, efficiently, excellently, expeditiously, expertly, featly, handily, ingeniously, masterfully, neatly, proficiently, promptly, quickly, readily, resourcefully, skillfully, spryly, superbly, swiftly, well, with consummate skill, with dispatch, with finesse, with genius, with skill

• nimbus, Cloudcuckooland, alto-cumulus, alto-stratus, anthelion, antisun, anvil cloud, aura, aureole, banner cloud, billowy cloud, blaze of glory, brilliance, brilliancy, cap cloud, charisma, circle, cirro-cumulus, cirro-fillum, cirro-nebula, cirro-stratus, cirro-velum, cirrus, cirrus cloud, cirrus haze, cirrus stripe, cloud, cloud band, cloud bank, cloud drift, cloud mass, cloud street, cloudland, cloudling, cloudscape, cocktail, corona, cottony cloud, countersun, cumulo-cirro-stratus, cumulo-cirrus, cumulo-nimbus, cumulo-stratus, cumulus, cumulus cloud, curl cloud, envelope, fleecy cloud, fractocumulus, glamour, glory, halo, high fog, illustriousness, lunar corona, lunar halo, luster, mackerel sky, magic, mammatocumulus, mock moon, mock sun, moon dog, mushroom cloud, mystique, nimbus cloud, numinousness, paraselene, parhelic circle, parhelion, radiance, rain cloud, rainbow, resplendence, resplendency, ring, scud, snail cloud, solar corona, solar halo, splendor, squall cloud, storm cloud, strato-cumulus, stratus, stratus cloud, sun dog, thundercloud, thunderhead, water carrier, woolpack

• Nimrod, archer, artilleryman, beater, big game hunter, bowman, cannoneer, carabineer, courser, crack shot, dead shot, deadeye, good shot, gun, gunman, gunner, hunter, huntress, huntsman, jacker, jacklighter, marksman, markswoman, musketeer, rifleman, sharpshooter, shikari, shooter, shot, sniper, sportsman, sportswoman, stalker, targetshooter, toxophilite, trapper, trapshooter, white hunter

• nincompoop, Boeotian, ass, block, clod, dimwit, dolt, donkey, dope, dullard, dumb cluck, dumbbell, dummy, dunce, gowk, idiot, imbecile, jackass, jerk, jobbernowl, lackwit, lamebrain, lightweight, looby, loon, niais, ninny, ninnyhammer, nitwit, noddy, put, stupid, thickwit, tomfool, witling

• nine, Nina from Carolina, cast, company, complement, crew, eight, eleven, ennead, enneastyle, first string, first team, five, nonage, nonagon, nonuplet, novena, platoon, reserves, rowing crew, second string, second team, squad, string, team, third string, varsity

• ninny, Boeotian, ass, block, clod, dimwit, dolt, donkey, dope, dullard, dumb cluck, dumbbell, dummy, dunce, gowk, idiot, imbecile, jackass, jerk, jobbernowl, lackwit, lamebrain, lightweight, looby, loon, niais, nincompoop, ninnyhammer, nitwit, noddy, put, stupid, thickwit, tomfool, witling

• nip and tuck, alike, at par, au pair, commensurate, drawn, equal, equalized, even, even stephen, fifty-fifty, half-and-half, knotted, level, like, on a footing, on a level, on a par, on even ground, par, proportionate, quits, square, stalemated, tied

• nip in the bud, annihilate, bereave of life, block, brake, carry away, carry off, chloroform, cut down, cut off, cut short, deadlock, deprive of life, destroy, dispatch, dispose of, do away with, do for, do to death, end, execute, exterminate, finish, finish off, get rid of, halt, immolate, kill, launch into eternity, liquidate, lynch, make away with, martyr, martyrize, nip, poison, purge, put away, put down, put paid to, put to death, put to sleep, remove from life, sacrifice, slaughter, slay, slow down, stall, starve, stay, stop, stymie, take life, take off, to

• nip, abbreviate, abduct, abridge, abscind, absolute zero, abstract, acute pain, adhere to, afflict, agonize, ail, algidity, amputate, and, annex, annihilate, approach, appropriate, arrest, bag, balk, ball the jack, ban, bar, barrel, bear hug, benumb, beverage, bib, bite, bite the tongue, bitterness, blast, blast-freeze, bleakness, blight, bob, boil down, bolus, boom, boost, booze, boring pain, borrow, bowl along, breeze, breeze along, briskness, brush, bumper, burn, cabbage, capsulize, carry off, center, centralize, chafe, champ, charley horse, chaw, check, chew, chill, chilliness, chip, chomp, clamp, clamping, clamping down, clasp, cleave to, clench, clinch, cling, clinging, clip, close, close in, close up, close with, clout, clutch, cold, coldness, come together, compress, compression, concenter, concentralize, concentrate, condense, congeal, contract, converge, convulse, cool, coolness, coolth, cop, cramp, cramps, crib, crick, crispness, crop, crucify, crumb, crush, cryogenics, cryology, cud, cull, curtail, cut, cut along, cut away, cut back, cut down, cut off, cut off short, cut out, cut short, darting pain, dash, dash off, death grip, decrease in temperature, defraud, dig out, dispose of, distress, do away with, dock, dose, draft, drain the cup, dram, drench, drink, drink bottoms-up, drink deep, drink hard, drink off, drink up, drop, elide, eliminate, embezzle, embrace, end, ensphere, enucleate, epitomize, eradicate, except, excise, exclude, excruciate, extinguish, extirpate, extort, fall in with, fester, filch, finish, finish off, firm hold, fix, fleet, flit, fly, fly low, follow strong drink, foot, foothold, footing, foreshorten, freeze, freeze solid, freeze to, freezing point, freshness, fret, frigidity, frost, frostbite, frostiness, frustrate, fulgurant pain, funnel, gall, gargle, gelidity, get rid of, ginger, girdle pain, give pain, glaciate, glacify, gnash, gnaw, gnawing, go fast, go through, gob, grapple, grasp, grate, grind, grip, gripe, griping, grog, gulp, guts, guzzle, hang on, hang on to, harrow, hasten, hasten off, highball, hitch, hold, hold fast, hold on, hold on to, hold tight, hook, hotfoot, hotness, hug, hurry away, hurt, hustle, ice, iciness, imbibe, inclemency, inflame, inflict pain, intense cold, intersect, iron grip, irritate, isolate, jigger, jolt, jumping pain, keenness, keep hold of, kick, kidnap, kill, kill by inches, kink, knock back, knock off, lacerate, lancinating pain, lap, lap up, libation, lift, light out, liquor up, liveliness, lop, low temperature, make away with, make knots, make off with, martyr, martyrize, meet, morceau, morsel, mouthful, mow, munch, mutilate, nab, nail, narrow the gap, never let go, nibble, nick, nip off, nippiness, numb, outstrip the wind, pain, palm, pang, pare, paroxysm, patch, peel, peg, penetrate, pepperiness, pick out, pierce, pilfer, pinch, poach, poll, pollard, portion, potation, potion, pour it on, press, pressure, prick, prolong the agony, prune, pull, punch, purchase, purloin, put paid to, put to torture, quaff, quick-freeze, quid, raciness, rack, rankle, rasp, rawness, reap, recap, recapitulate, reduce, refreeze, refrigerate, regelate, relish, retrench, rigor, rip, root out, round, round of drinks, rub, rule out, run, run away with, run together, rush, rustle, scamper off, scorch, scrap, scrounge, seizure, set apart, set aside, severity, shanghai, sharp air, sharp pain, sharpness, shave, shear, shiver, shoot, shooting, shooting pain, shoplift, shorten, shot, shred, sip, sizzle, skim, skin out, slaughter, sliver, slug, slurp, smithereen, snap, snappiness, snare, snatch, snick, snifter, snip, snippet, snitch, snort, snub, soak, spasm, speed, spice, spiciness, splinter, spot, squeeze, squeezing, stab, stabbing pain, stamp out, steal, stick to, sting, stitch, storm along, strike off, strip, strip off, stunt, suck, sum up, summarize, sup, swallow, sweep, swig, swill, swindle, swipe, synopsize, tag, take, take in, take off, take out, tang, tanginess, tank up, taper, tatter, tear, tear along, tear off, tear out, telescope, thieve, thrill, throes, throttle, thunder along, thwart, tight grip, tighten, tightening, tipple, to, toehold, tope, tormen, torment, torture, toss down, toss off, tot, trim, truncate, tweak, twinge, twist, twitch, unite, wad up, walk off with, wet, whip off, whisk, whiz, whiz off, wipe out, wound, wrench, wring, zest, zestfulness, zing, zip, zoom

• nipped, abbreviated, abridged, abstracted, bobbed, capsule, capsulized, clamped, clipped, compressed, concentrated, condensed, consolidated, constricted, contracted, cramped, cropped, curtailed, cut short, digested, docked, elided, elliptic, knitted, mowed, mown, pinched, pinched-in, pollard, polled, pruned, puckered, pursed, reaped, shaved, sheared, short-cut, shortened, snub, snubbed, solidified, squeezed, strangled, strangulated, trimmed, wasp-waisted, wrinkled

• nipper, bairn, bud, cherub, chick, chickabiddy, child, chit, claws, clutches, darling, digits, fangs, fingernails, fingers, hands, hooks, innocent, jaws, juvenile, kid, kitten, lamb, lambkin, little bugger, little fellow, little guy, little innocent, little one, little tad, little tot, mandibles, maxillae, meathooks, mite, mitts, moppet, nails, nippers, offspring, palm, peewee, pincers, pounces, shaver, tad, talons, teeth, tot, unguals, ungulae, wee tot, youngling, youngster

• nipple, adjutage, bag, boobs, bosom, breast, breasts, brisket, bust, catheter, chest, crop, drainpipe, dug, efflux tube, fire hose, flue pipe, funnel, garden hose, gas pipe, hose, hosepipe, knockers, mama, mamelon, mamelonation, mammary gland, mammilla, mammillation, nenes, organ pipe, pap, papilla, pigeon breast, pipe, pipeline, pipette, piping, reed, reed pipe, siamese, siamese connection, siphon, snorkel, soil pipe, standpipe, steam pipe, stem, straw, tap, teat, thorax, tit, tits, titties, titty, tube, tubing, tubulation, tubule, tubulet, tubulure, udder, waste pipe, water pipe

• nippy, Siberian, algid, arctic, below zero, biting, bitter, bitterly cold, bleak, boreal, brisk, brumal, burning, chill, chilly, cold, cold as charity, cold as death, cold as ice, cold as marble, cool, crisp, curried, cutting, freezing, freezing cold, frigid, frosty, gelid, glacial, hibernal, hiemal, high-seasoned, hot, hot as pepper, hyperborean, ice-cold, ice-encrusted, icelike, icy, inclement, keen, lively, nipping, numbing, penetrating, peppery, piercing, pinching, racy, raw, rigorous, seasoned, severe, sharp, shivery, sleety, slushy, snappy, spiced, spicy, stone-cold, subzero, supercooled, tangy, winterbound, winterlike, wintery, wintry, with a kick, zestful, zesty, zippy

• nirvana, Buddha-field, Canaan, Civitas Dei, KO, Lethe, New Jerusalem, Zion, absentmindedness, anorexia, anorexia nervosa, ataraxia, ataraxy, blackout, blank mind, blankmindedness, blankness, bliss, calm of mind, calmness, catalepsy, catatonia, catatony, coma, composure, contemplation, decay of memory, desirelessness, devachan, devaloka, elysium, emptiness of mind, empty-headedness, empyrean, faint, fallow mind, fatuity, foolishness, forgetfulness, forgetting, forgiveness, grayout, happy hunting ground, hazy recollection, heedlessness, imperturbability, inanity, inappetence, kamaloka, kamavachara, kayo, knockout, lack of appetite, lipothymia, lipothymy, lovelessness, lucid stillness, marmoreal repose, mental blankness, nepenthe, nirvana principle, nothingness, obliteration, oblivion, obliviousness, paradise, passionlessness, passivity, peace, peacefulness, placidity, placidness, quiescence, quiescency, quiet, quietism, quietness, quietude, repose, rest, restfulness, satori, semiconsciousness, senselessness, serenity, short memory, silence, silken repose, sleep, slumber, stillness, stupor, swoon, syncope, tabula rasa, thoughtfreeness, thoughtlessness, tranquillity, unambitiousness, unconsciousness, undesirousness, uneagerness, unintelligence, unmindfulness, vacancy, vacuity, waters of oblivion, wise passiveness

• nirvanic, asleep, blank, blankminded, calm, cataleptic, catatonic, cold, comatose, dead, desireless, doped, drugged, empty, empty-headed, fatuous, half-conscious, inane, inappetent, incogitant, loveless, narcotized, oblivious, out, out cold, out of it, passionless, passive, quietistic, relaxed, semiconscious, senseless, spaced out, stoned, strung out, thoughtfree, thoughtless, tranquil, unambitious, unaspiring, unattracted, unconscious, undesirous, uneager, unenthusiastic, unideaed, unintellectual, unoccupied, unreasoning, unthinking, vacant, vacuous, zonked, zonked out

• nit picking, adverse criticism, animadversion, aspersion, bad notices, bad press, bickering, boggling, captiousness, carping, cavil, caviling, censoriousness, chicane, chicanery, criticism, dodging, equivocation, evasion, exception, faultfinding, fencing, flak, hairsplitting, hedging, hit, home thrust, hostile criticism, hypercriticalness, hypercriticism, imputation, knock, logic-chopping, nagging, niggle, niggling, nit, obloquy, overcriticalness, paltering, parrying, pestering, pettifoggery, pettifogging, prevarication, priggishness, pussyfooting, quibble, quibbling, rap, reflection, reproachfulness, shifting, shuffling, sidestepping, slam, stricture, subterfuge, swipe, taking exception, tergiversation, trichoschistism

• nit, adverse criticism, animadversion, aspersion, bad notices, bad press, captiousness, carping, cat flea, cavil, caviling, censoriousness, chigoe, cockroach, crab, criticism, dog flea, exception, faultfinding, flak, flea, grayback, hairsplitting, hit, home thrust, hostile criticism, hypercriticalness, hypercriticism, imputation, jigger, knock, louse, mite, nagging, nay, niggle, niggling, nit-picking, nix, no, nope, obloquy, overcriticalness, parasite, pestering, pettifogging, priggishness, quibble, quibbling, rap, red bug, reflection, reproachfulness, roach, sand flea, slam, stricture, swipe, taking exception, trichoschistism, vermin, weevil

• nitpick, around the bush, beat about, beg the question, bicker, boggle, carp, catch at straws, cavil, choplogic, cut up, dodge, equivocate, evade, evade the issue, fault-find, fence, find fault, hedge, mystify, obscure, palter, parry, pettifog, pick holes, pick nits, pick to pieces, prevaricate, pull apart, pull to pieces, pussyfoot, quibble, shift, shuffle, shy, sidestep, split hairs, take exception, tear apart, tear to pieces, tergiversate

• nitpicker, belittler, captious critic, carper, caviler, censor, censurer, common scold, critic, criticizer, equivocator, faultfinder, frondeur, hairsplitter, hedger, momus, mystificator, mystifier, obscurantist, palterer, perfectionist, pettifogger, picayune critic, precisian, precisianist, prevaricator, pussyfoot, pussyfooter, quibbler, scold, shuffler, smellfungus, stickler, tergiversator

• nitrate, acetify, acidify, acidulate, alkalify, alkalize, ammonia, borate, carbonate, castor-bean meal, catalyze, chemical, chlorinate, commercial fertilizer, compost, dressing, dung, electrolyze, enrichener, ferment, fertilizer, guano, homopolymerize, hydrate, hydrogenate, hydroxylate, isomerize, manure, muck, night soil, nitrogen, organic fertilizer, oxidize, pepsinate, peroxidize, phosphate, phosphatize, polymerize, reduce, sulfate, sulfatize, sulfonate, superphosphate, work

• nitration, acetification, acidification, acidulation, alkalization, carbonation, catalysis, chemicalization, electrolysis, ferment, fermentation, hydrogenation, isomerism, metamerism, metamerization, oxidation, oxidization, phosphatization, polymerism, polymerization, position isomerism, reduction, saturization, working

• nitrogen, acetylene, ammonia, argon, asphyxiating gas, butane, carbon dioxide, carbon monoxide, castor-bean meal, chlorine, coal gas, commercial fertilizer, compost, dressing, dung, enrichener, ethane, ether, ethylene, fertilizer, fluorine, formaldehyde, guano, helium, hydrogen, illuminating gas, krypton, lewisite, manure, marsh gas, methane, muck, mustard gas, natural gas, neon, night soil, nitrate, organic fertilizer, oxygen, ozone, phosphate, poison gas, propane, radon, sewer gas, superphosphate, xenon

• nitty gritty, absolute fact, accepted fact, axiom, bald fact, bare fact, brutal fact, center, circumstance, cold fact, conceded fact, core, datum, demonstrable fact, elixir, empirical fact, essence, essential, established fact, fact, fact of experience, flower, focus, fundamental, gist, given fact, gravamen, hard fact, heart, hypostasis, indisputable fact, inescapable fact, inner essence, kernel, marrow, matter of fact, meat, naked fact, not guesswork, not opinion, nub, nucleus, nuts and bolts, pith, plain, positive fact, postulate, principle, provable fact, quid, quiddity, quintessence, salient fact, sap, self-evident fact, significant fact, simple fact, sober fact, soul, spirit, stubborn fact, stuff, substance, the case, the nitty-gritty, undeniable fact, well-known fact

• nitwit, Boeotian, block, clod, cluck, dimwit, dolt, donkey, dope, dullard, dumb cluck, dumbbell, dummy, dunce, featherweight, gowk, jobbernowl, lackwit, lamebrain, lightweight, looby, loon, niais, nincompoop, ninny, ninnyhammer, noddy, pinhead, put, simp, stupid, thickwit, witling

• nitwitted, beetleheaded, blockheaded, blunderheaded, boneheaded, brainless, cabbageheaded, chowderheaded, chuckleheaded, clodpated, dumbheaded, dunderheaded, fatheaded, foolish, jolterheaded, joltheaded, knuckleheaded, lunkheaded, mindless, muttonheaded, numskulled, pumpkin-headed, sapheaded, senseless, silly, stupidheaded, unwitty, weak-minded, witless, woodenheaded

• nix, Davy, Davy Jones, Neptune, Nereid, Oceanid, Oceanus, Poseidon, Thetis, Triton, abnegation, aught, cipher, contradiction, declension, declination, declinature, declining, denial, deprivation, disagreement, disallowance, disclaimer, disclamation, disobedience, dissent, fat chance, forget it, fresh-water nymph, goose egg, holding back, kelpie, kill, limniad, man fish, mermaid, merman, nada, naiad, naught, nay, naysaying, negation, negative, negative answer, negative attitude, negativeness, negativism, negativity, nichts, nihil, nil, nit, nixie, no, no sirree, no such thing, no way, nonacceptance, noncompliance, nonconsent, nonobservance, nope, not a chance, not much, nothing, nothing at all, nothing doing, nothing on earth, nothing whatever, ocean nymph, recantation, refusal, rejection, repudiation, retention, sea nymph, sea-maid, sea-maiden, siren, thing of naught, thumbs-down, turndown, under no circumstances, undine, unwillingness, water god, water spirit, water sprite, wind, withholding, zero, zilch

• no account, NG, cheap, featherweight, forceless, good-for-naught, good-for-nothing, impotent, ineffective, ineffectual, inefficacious, junk, junky, lightweight, no-good, not worth having, not worth mentioning, not worthwhile, nugacious, nugatory, of no account, powerless, shabby, shoddy, trashy, trivial, unauthoritative, valueless, weak, without any weight, worthless

• no chance, absurdity, equivalent odds, even break, even chance, good chance, hopelessness, hundred-to-one shot, impossibility, impossible, impossibleness, inconceivability, long odds, long shot, not a prayer, odds, oxymoron, paradox, price, self-contradiction, short odds, small chance, square odds, the impossible, unimaginability, unthinkability, what cannot be, what cannot happen

• no doubt, admittedly, beyond doubt, beyond question, by all odds, dollars to doughnuts, doubtless, doubtlessly, in all likelihood, in all probability, incontestably, indisputably, indubitably, irrefragably, irrefutably, like enough, likely, most likely, out of question, presumably, presumptively, probably, ten to one, undeniably, undoubtedly, unquestionably, very like, very likely, without doubt

• no end, a deal, a fortiori, a great deal, a lot, above all, abundantly, acervatim, affluently, all the more, aplenty, as all creation, as all get-out, beaucoup, bottomlessly, bounteously, bountifully, chiefly, considerable, considerably, copiously, countlessly, diffusely, dominantly, effusely, especially, even, ever so, ever so much, extravagantly, exuberantly, first of all, fully, galore, generously, greatly, highly, immeasurably, in abundance, in chief, in crowds, in full measure, in good supply, in great measure, in heaps, in plenty, in quantity, in the main, in throngs, incalculably, indeed, inexhaustibly, infinitely, innumerably, largely, lavishly, liberally, mainly, maximally, more than ever, mostly, much, muchly, multitudinously, never so, no end of, not a little, numerously, opulently, overflowingly, particularly, peculiarly, plenteously, plentifully, plenty, predominantly, pretty much, primarily, principally, prodigally, profusely, richly, riotously, so, so very much, still more, superabundantly, thickly, to the full, to the skies, very much, yea

• no go, aimless, bankruptcy, defeat, failure, feckless, futility, ill success, impossible, impotent, ineffective, ineffectual, losing game, meaningless, nonaccomplishment, nonsuccess, of no use, pointless, purposeless, successlessness, superfluous, unavailing, unsuccess, unsuccessfulness, useless, uselessness

• no good, Bowery bum, NG, beachcomber, beggar, beggarly fellow, blighter, budmash, bum, bummer, caitiff, cheap, derelict, devil, drifter, drunkard, good-for-naught, good-for-nothing, hobo, human wreck, junk, junky, lowlife, mauvais sujet, mean wretch, mucker, no-account, not worth having, not worth mentioning, not worthwhile, nugacious, nugatory, pauvre diable, pilgarlic, poor creature, poor devil, sad case, sad sack, shabby, shoddy, skid-row bum, stiff, sundowner, swagman, tramp, trashy, trivial, truant, vag, vagabond, vagrant, valueless, vaurien, wastrel, worthless, worthless fellow, wretch

• no matter what, God forbid, anything soever which, au contraire, by no means, far from it, in no case, in no respect, in no wise, never, nohow, not at all, noway, noways, on no account, on no condition, quite the contrary, to the contrary, under no circumstances, what, whatever, whatsoever, whichever

• no more, ago, all gone, annihilated, antiquated, antique, asleep, asleep in Jesus, at rest, away, bereft of life, blown over, breathless, by, bygone, bypast, called home, carrion, croaked, dated, dead, dead and buried, dead and gone, death-struck, deceased, defunct, demised, departed, departed this life, destitute of life, done for, down the drain, elapsed, exanimate, expired, extinct, fallen, finished, food for worms, forgotten, gone, gone away, gone glimmering, gone to glory, gone west, gone-by, had it, has-been, inanimate, irrecoverable, kaput, kaputt, lapsed, late, late lamented, launched into eternity, lifeless, lost, lost to sight, lost to view, martyred, missing, nonexistent, obsolete, out of sight, over, passe, passed, passed away, passed on, past, past and gone, perished, pushing up daisies, released, reposing, resting easy, run out, sainted, sleeping, smitten with death, still, stillborn, taken away, taken off, vanished, with the Lord, with the saints, without life, without vital functions, wound up

• no no, Eighteenth Amendment, Prohibition Party, Volstead Act, ban, contraband, curse, cuss, cuss word, denial, dirty name, dirty word, disallowance, dysphemism, embargo, epithet, exclusion, expletive, forbiddance, forbidden fruit, forbidding, foul invective, index, index expurgatorius, index librorum prohibitorum, inhibition, injunction, interdict, interdiction, interdictum, law, naughty word, oath, obscenity, preclusion, prevention, profane oath, prohibition, prohibitory injunction, proscription, refusal, rejection, repression, restrictive covenants, ruling out, statute, sumptuary laws, suppression, swearword, taboo, zoning, zoning laws

• no way, acedia, apathy, cave of Trophonius, cave of despair, despair, desperateness, desperation, despondency, disconsolateness, fat chance, forget it, forlornness, nix, no exit, no sirree, no way out, nope, not a chance, not much, nothing doing, sloth

• no, Australian ballot, Hare system, I refuse, I will not, abnegation, au contraire, aye, ballot, by no means, canvass, canvassing, casting vote, certainly not, con, contradiction, count me out, counting heads, cumulative voting, deciding vote, declension, declination, declinature, declining, denial, deprivation, disagreement, disallowance, disclaimer, disclamation, disobedience, dissent, division, enfranchisement, fagot vote, far from it, franchise, from scratch, graveyard vote, hand vote, holding back, impossible, in no way, include me out, interest, list system, nay, naysaying, negation, negative, negative answer, negative attitude, negativeness, negativism, negativity, nein, nix, no such thing, non, nonacceptance, noncompliance, nonconsent, none, nonobservance, nontransferable vote, not, not a bit, not a jot, not a whit, not at all, not likely, not really, not so, nothing doing, nyet, plebiscite, plebiscitum, plumper, plural vote, poll, polling, preferential voting, pro, proportional representation, proxy, quite the contrary, recantation, record vote, referendum, refusal, rejection, representation, repudiation, retention, right to vote, rising vote, say, secret ballot, show of hands, side, single vote, snap vote, straw vote, suffrage, the affirmative, the negative, thumbs-down, to the contrary, transferable vote, turndown, unwillingness, viva voce, voice, voice vote, vote, voting, voting right, withholding, write-in, write-in vote, yea, yeas and nays, yes

• nobby, OK, ace-high, bad, bang-up, bonzer, boss, braw, bully, but good, chic, classy, clothes-conscious, cool, corking, cosmopolitan, crackerjack, dandy, dapper, dashing, delicious, dressed to advantage, dressed to kill, ducky, elegant, exquisite, fab, fine and dandy, gear, genteel, great, groovy, heavy, hot, hunky-dory, jam-up, jaunty, just dandy, keen, marvy, mean, natty, neat, nifty, okay, out of sight, peachy, peachy-keen, posh, recherche, ripping, ritzy, rum, scrumptious, sharp, slap-up, sleek, smart, smashing, smug, snazzy, soigne, soignee, solid, something else, sophisticated, spiffing, spiffy, spruce, stunning, style-conscious, swank, swanky, swell, tough, tricksy, trig, trim, well-dressed, well-groomed, wizard

• nobility, Babylonian splendor, FFVs, aedileship, ancienne noblesse, archbishopric, archiepiscopacy, archiepiscopate, aristocracy, assured probity, augustness, authority, baronage, baronetage, barons, bigheartedness, bigness, birth, bishopric, blamelessness, blue blood, brilliance, chairmanship, chancellery, chancellorate, chancellorship, character, chiefery, chiefry, chieftaincy, chieftainry, chieftainship, chivalrousness, chivalry, class, cleanness, consequence, conspicuousness, consulate, consulship, courtliness, cream, deanery, decency, dictatorship, dictature, dignifiedness, dignity, directorship, distinction, elaborateness, elect, elegance, elevation, elite, eminence, emirate, episcopacy, erectness, errantry, establishment, estimableness, ethics, exaltation, excellence, fairness, fame, generosity, generousness, glory, good character, goodness, gorgeousness, governorship, grandeur, grandiosity, grandness, gravity, great heart, greatheartedness, greatness, greatness of heart, haut monde, headship, hegemony, heroism, hierarchy, high ideals, high life, high mightiness, high principles, high society, high-mindedness, honesty, honor, honorableness, idealism, illustriousness, immaculacy, importance, imposingness, impressiveness, influence, integrity, irreproachability, irreproachableness, justice, justness, kingliness, knight-errantry, knightage, knightliness, largeheartedness, lavishness, leadership, liberality, liberalness, loftiness, lordliness, lords of creation, lordship, luxuriousness, luxury, magistracy, magistrateship, magistrature, magnanimity, magnanimousness, magnificence, majesty, mark, masterdom, mastership, mastery, mayoralty, mayorship, metropolitanate, metropolitanship, moral excellence, moral strength, noble-mindedness, nobleness, noblesse, noblesse de robe, notability, note, old nobility, openhandedness, outstandingness, overlapping, papacy, pashadom, pashalic, patriarchate, patriarchy, peerage, plushness, pontificality, pontificate, popedom, popehood, popeship, poshness, position, power elite, power structure, prefectship, prefecture, premiership, presidency, presidentship, prestige, pride of bearing, pride of place, primacy, prime-ministership, prime-ministry, princedom, princeliness, princeship, principality, principles, probity, proconsulate, proconsulship, prominence, protectorate, protectorship, proud bearing, proudness, provostry, provostship, pureness, purity, rank, rectitude, rectorate, rectorship, regality, regency, regentship, renown, reputability, respectability, resplendence, righteousness, ritziness, royalty, ruling circles, ruling class, sedateness, seigniory, seneschalship, seneschalsy, sheikhdom, sheriffalty, sheriffcy, sheriffdom, shrievalty, significance, sobriety, solemnity, splendidness, splendiferousness, splendor, stainlessness, state, stateliness, sublimity, sumptuousness, supereminence, supervisorship, suzerainship, suzerainty, the Establishment, the Four Hundred, the best, the best people, the brass, the classes, top people, tribunate, unimpeachability, unimpeachableness, unspottedness, upper class, upper classes, upper crust, upper ten, upper ten thousand, uppercut, uprightness, upstandingness, venerability, virtue, virtuousness, vizierate, viziership, worthiness

• noble minded, big, bighearted, chivalrous, elevated, exalted, generous, great, great of heart, greathearted, handsome, heroic, high, high-minded, idealistic, knightly, largehearted, liberal, lofty, magnanimous, noble, openhanded, princely, sublime

• noble, Babylonian, Brahman, Christian, Corinthian, acclaimed, admirable, advantageous, archduke, aristocrat, aristocratic, armiger, august, auspicious, awe-inspiring, awful, barbaric, baron, baronet, baronial, beneficial, benevolent, big, bighearted, blameless, blue blood, blue-blooded, bon, bonny, braw, bueno, capital, celebrated, changeless, chivalrous, clean, cogent, commendable, conspicuous, constant, count, courtly, creditable, daimio, decent, deluxe, dignified, distinguished, ducal, duke, earl, elaborate, elegant, elevated, eminent, erect, esquire, esteemed, estimable, ethical, exalted, excellent, exceptional, expedient, exquisite, extraordinary, extravagant, fair, faithful, famous, fancy, favorable, fine, full of integrity, generous, genteel, gentle, gentleman, gentlemanlike, gentlemanly, gentlewoman, glorious, godlike, good, goodly, grand, grand duke, grandee, grandiose, grave, great, great of heart, greathearted, handsome, healthy, held in esteem, helpful, heroic, hidalgo, high, high-class, high-minded, high-principled, high-ranking, highly esteemed, highly regarded, highly reputed, highly respectable, honest, honorable, honored, idealistic, illustrious, immaculate, immutable, imposing, impressive, in favor, in good odor, in high favor, incommutable, inconvertible, incorruptible, indefeasible, inert, inspiring, insusceptible of change, intransmutable, invariable, inviolate, irreproachable, irretrievable, irreversible, irrevocable, just, kind, kinglike, kingly, knightly, lace-curtain, lady, ladylike, laird, landgrave, largehearted, lasting, laudable, lauded, law-abiding, law-loving, law-revering, liberal, lofty, lord, lordling, lordly, loyal, luxurious, magisterial, magnanimous, magnate, magnificent, magnifico, majestic, manly, margrave, marked, marquis, memorable, meritorious, moral, moralistic, moving, nice, noble-minded, nobleman, noblewoman, none, nonreturnable, nonreversible, notable, noted, noteworthy, of gentle blood, of mark, of rank, openhanded, optimate, outstanding, palatial, palsgrave, patrician, peer, permanent, pleasant, plush, posh, prestigious, princelike, princely, principled, profitable, prominent, proud, pure, queenlike, queenly, quite the lady, rare, regal, remarkable, rememberable, renowned, reputable, respectable, respected, revered, reverend, reverseless, rich, right, right-minded, righteous, ritzy, royal, salient, sedate, seigneur, seignior, self-sacrificing, serious, signal, silk-stocking, skillful, soaring, sober, solemn, sound, special, splendacious, splendid, splendiferous, spotless, squire, stainless, stately, statuesque, staunch, steadfast, sterling, striking, stunning, sublime, sumptuous, superb, superfancy, superfine, swank, swanky, swell, telling, thoroughbred, titled, towering, true, true-dealing, true-devoted, true-disposing, true-souled, true-spirited, truehearted, trustworthy, unalterable, unalterative, unaltered, unblemished, unchangeable, unchanged, unchanging, uncorrupt, uncorrupted, undefiled, undeflectable, undeviating, unforgettable, unimpeachable, unmodifiable, unremitting, unrestorable, unreturnable, unspotted, unstained, unsullied, unsusceptible, untarnished, unvariable, unvarying, upper-cruster, upright, uprighteous, upstanding, useful, valid, venerable, venerated, very good, virtuous, viscount, waldgrave, weighty, well-thought-of, worshipful, worthy, yeomanly

• nobleman, Brahman, archduke, aristocrat, armiger, baron, baronet, blue blood, count, daimio, duke, earl, esquire, gentleman, grand duke, grandee, hidalgo, lace-curtain, laird, landgrave, lord, lordling, magnate, magnifico, margrave, marquis, noble, optimate, palsgrave, patrician, peer, seigneur, seignior, silk-stocking, squire, swell, thoroughbred, upper-cruster, viscount, waldgrave

• nobly, abundantly, acutely, amazingly, amply, astonishingly, awesomely, bigheartedly, blamelessly, chivalrously, conscientiously, conspicuously, copiously, creditably, decently, elaborately, elegantly, eminently, emphatically, erectly, estimably, exceptionally, exquisitely, extraordinarily, extravagantly, exuberantly, famously, fastidiously, generously, glaringly, gloriously, grandiosely, grandly, gravely, greatheartedly, handsomely, high-mindedly, honestly, honorably, immaculately, imposingly, impressively, incredibly, intensely, irreproachably, knightly, largeheartedly, liberally, loftily, luxuriously, magically, magisterially, magnanimously, magnificently, majestically, markedly, marvelously, meticulously, morally, notably, openhandedly, particularly, peculiarly, pointedly, preeminently, profusely, prominently, pronouncedly, proudly, punctiliously, purely, regally, remarkably, reputably, respectably, richly, righteously, royally, scrupulously, sedately, signally, singularly, soberly, solemnly, splendaciously, splendidly, splendiferously, stainlessly, stately, strikingly, sumptuously, superbly, superlatively, surpassingly, surprisingly, uncommonly, unimpeachably, unspottedly, unusually, uprightly, upstandingly, venerably, virtuously, with dignity, wonderfully, wondrous, worthily

• nobody, a nobody, a nothing, cipher, common man, dud, dummy, figurehead, hollow man, insignificancy, jackstraw, lay figure, lightweight, little fellow, little guy, man of straw, mediocrity, nary one, nebbish, never a one, no man, no one, nobody on earth, nobody one knows, nobody present, nonentity, not a soul, not one, nothing, nullity, obscurity, pip-squeak, punk, puppet, pushover, runt, scrub, shrimp, small fry, small potato, small potatoes, squirt, squit, thing of naught, trifle, unknown, whiffet, whippersnapper, zero, zilch

• nocturne, Nachtmusik, absolute music, adaptation, air varie, aleatory, aleatory music, arrangement, chamber music, chamber orchestra, composition, descant, electronic music, etude, exercise, harmonization, incidental music, instrumental music, invention, opus, orchestration, piece, production, program music, ricercar, score, sonata, sonatina, string orchestra, string quartet, study, theme and variations, trio, variation, work

• nod, John Hancock, OK, Roman candle, abide by, accede, accede to, accept, acceptance, acclaim, accord to, accost, acquiesce, acquiesce in, address, adherence, admiration, affirmance, affirmation, affirmative, affirmative attitude, affirmativeness, agree, agree to, agree with, aid to navigation, alarm, amber light, amen, applaud, approbation, approval, approve, approve of, assent, authentication, authorization, aye, bag, balefire, be caught napping, be neglectful, be negligent, be willing, beacon, beacon fire, beat the drum, beck, beck and call, bell, bell buoy, bend, bend the knee, bend the neck, bending the knee, bid good day, bid good morning, bidding, blessing, blinker, blue peter, bob, bob a curtsy, bob down, bow, bow and scrape, bow down, bow the head, bow to, bowing and scraping, broad hint, buoy, buy, call, calling, calling forth, cascade, catalepsy, caution light, certification, cheer, clue, coma, comply, condescend, confirmation, connive at, consent, consent to silently, convocation, countenance, countersignature, crouch, cue, curtsy, daggle, dangle, default, deign, depend, dip, dipping the colors, disregard, dope off, doze off, drabble, drag, draggle, drape, droop, drop asleep, drop off, drowse off, duck, embrace, encephalitis lethargica, endorse, endorsement, esteem, evocation, exchange colors, fail, fall, fall asleep, fall down before, favor, favorable vote, flag, flag down, flap, flare, flash, flop, flow, fog bell, fog signal, fog whistle, foghorn, gentle hint, genuflect, genuflection, gesture, give a signal, give consent, give the nod, glance, glimmer, glimmering, gloss over, go along with, go light, go to sleep, go-ahead, gong buoy, grant, green light, greet, greeting, hail, hail and speak, half-mast, hand-clasp, handshake, hang, hang down, have no objection, heliograph, hello, high, high sign, hint, hoist a banner, hold with, homage, how-do-you-do, hug, ignore, implication, imprimatur, in toto, inclination, indent, index, indication, inkling, innuendo, insinuation, international alphabet flag, international numeral pennant, intimation, invocation, kick, kiss, kiss hands, kneel, kneeling, kowtow, lapse, leer, let go, let ride, let slide, let slip, lethargy, lift the hat, look, lop, lose sight of, lose track of, make a leg, make a sign, make obeisance, making a leg, marker beacon, narcohypnosis, narcolepsy, narcoma, narcosis, narcotic stupor, narcotization, neglect, nod, nod assent, nod of assent, nod off, nod to, not care for, not get involved, not heed, not refuse, not think, notarization, nudge, obeisance, obsequiousness, okay, overlook, parachute flare, pass over, pend, permission, permit, pilot flag, poke, police whistle, preconization, presenting arms, prompt, prostration, pull the forelock, quarantine flag, radio beacon, raise a cry, ratification, ratify, receive, red flag, red light, requisition, respect, reverence, rocket, rubber stamp, sag, sailing aid, salaam, salutation, salute, sanction, say aye, say hello, say yes, scent, scrape, seal, seal of approval, sedation, semaphore, semaphore flag, semaphore telegraph, servility, settle to sleep, shake, shake hands, shock, sigil, sign, signal, signal beacon, signal bell, signal fire, signal flag, signal gong, signal gun, signal lamp, signal light, signal mast, signal post, signal rocket, signal shot, signal siren, signal tower, signalize, signature, signet, sleep, sleeping sickness, smile, smile of recognition, sopor, sound an alarm, sound the trumpet, spar buoy, speak, spoor, squat, stamp, stamp of approval, standing at attention, stoop, stop light, stupor, submission, submissiveness, subscribe to, subscription, suggestion, summons, supination, suspicion, swag, swing, swoon, symptom, take for granted, take kindly to, telltale, thanatosis, the nod, the wink, thumbs-up, touch, touch the hat, track, traffic light, traffic signal, trail, trance, uncover, unfurl a flag, validation, visa, vise, voice, vote, vote affirmatively, vote aye, vote for, warrant, watch fire, wave, wave a flag, wave the hand, weep, welcome, whisper, white flag, wigwag, wigwag flag, wink, wink at, yea, yea vote, yea-saying, yellow flag, yes, yield assent

• nodding, absent, absentminded, absorbed, abstracted, anesthetized, asleep, bagging, baggy, ballooning, bemused, castle-building, casual, cataleptic, comatose, daydreaming, daydreamy, distant, doped, dozy, dreaming, dreamy, drooping, droopy, drowsing, drowsy, drugged, drugged with sleep, ecstatic, elsewhere, engrossed, faraway, floppy, goofing off, half asleep, half-awake, heavy, heavy with sleep, heavy-eyed, in a reverie, in a stupor, in the clouds, incautious, incomplete, languid, lethargic, limp, loose, lop, lop-eared, loppy, lost, lost in thought, meditative, mooning, moonraking, museful, musing, napping, narcoleptic, narcose, narcotized, narcous, oblivious, off-guard, oscitant, out of it, pensive, pipe-dreaming, preoccupied, rapt, sagging, sagging in folds, saggy, sedated, sleep-drowned, sleep-drunk, sleep-filled, sleep-swollen, sleepful, sleeping, sleepy, slight, slumberous, slumbery, snoozy, somewhere else, somnolent, soporific, stargazing, stretchy, stuporose, stuporous, superficial, swag, taken up, transported, unalert, uncautious, unconscious, unguarded, unprepared, unready, unvigilant, unwary, unwatchful, woolgathering, wrapped in thought, yawning, yawny

• noddle, bean, belfry, brain, brow, conk, crown, dome, encephalon, gray matter, head, headpiece, noggin, noodle, organ of thought, pate, poll, ridge, sconce, seat of thought, sensation, sensorium, sensory

• node, Gordian knot, amplitude, antinode, block, body, cake, clump, cluster, concrete, concretion, conglomerate, conglomeration, crest, crux, de Broglie wave, diffraction, dilemma, electromagnetic radiation, electromagnetic wave, enigma, frequency, frequency band, frequency spectrum, guided wave, in phase, interference, knot, knotty point, light, longitudinal wave, lump, mass, mechanical wave, nodosity, nodulation, nodule, nodulus, nodus, nonplus, out of phase, oxymoron, paradox, period, periodic wave, perplexity, pons asinorum, poser, puzzle, quandary, radio wave, ray, reinforcement, resonance, resonance frequency, seismic wave, shock wave, solid, solid body, sound wave, surface wave, teaser, tidal wave, transverse wave, trough, vexed question, wave, wave equation, wave motion, wave number, wavelength

• nodular, burled, gnarled, gnarly, knobbed, knobbly, knobby, knoblike, knotted, knotty, knurled, knurly, lumpy, nodal, noded, nodiform, nodose, nodulated, noduled, nubbled, nubbly, nubby, studded, torose, tubercular, tuberculous, tuberose, tuberous

• noel, Brautlied, Christmas carol, Kunstlied, Liebeslied, Nativity, Volkslied, alba, anthem, art song, aubade, ballad, ballade, ballata, barcarole, blues, blues song, boat song, bridal hymn, brindisi, calypso, canso, canticle, canzone, canzonet, canzonetta, carol, cavatina, chanson, chant, chantey, croon, croon song, dirge, ditty, drinking song, epithalamium, folk song, hymeneal, lay, lied, lilt, love song, love-lilt, matin, minstrel song, minstrelsy, national anthem, prothalamium, serena, serenade, serenata, song, theme song, torch song, war song, wedding song, yule, yuletide

• noetic, bright, cerebral, cogitative, cognitive, concentrating, concentrative, conceptive, conceptual, conceptualized, contemplating, contemplative, deliberating, deliberative, discursive, endopsychic, excogitating, ideational, ideative, intellectual, intelligent, internal, introspective, knowing, meditating, meditative, mental, museful, musing, noological, not so dumb, pensive, phrenic, pondering, prehensive, psychic, psychologic, rational, reasonable, reasoning, reflecting, reflective, ruminant, ruminating, ruminative, sane, sensible, serious, sober, sophic, speculative, spiritual, strong-minded, subjective, thinking, thought, thoughtful, understanding, wistful

• noggin, bean, brain, brow, chump, conk, crown, dome, encephalon, gray matter, head, headpiece, noddle, noodle, organ of thought, pate, poll, ridge, sconce, seat of thought, sensation, sensorium, sensory

• nohow, God forbid, anyhow, anyway, anywise, at all, at any rate, at no hand, au contraire, by any means, by no means, far from it, however, in any case, in any event, in any way, in no case, in no respect, in no wise, irregardless, never, nevertheless, no matter what, nonetheless, not a bit, not a jot, not a speck, not a whit, not an iota, not at all, not much, not nearly, noway, noways, nowhere near, nowise, on no account, on no condition, quite the contrary, regardless, to the contrary, under no circumstances

• noise, ALGOL, Aesopian language, Babel, Bedlam let loose, COBOL, EDP, FORTRAN, Greek, aimlessness, alphabetic data, alphanumeric code, amplitude, angular data, argot, assembler, atmospherics, auditory effect, auditory phenomenon, babble, babel, ballyhoo, bawling, be noisy, bedlam, binary digit, binary scale, binary system, bit, black spot, blare, blaring, blast, blasting, blind spot, bloom, blooping, bobbery, brawl, brouhaha, bruit about, bug, byte, cacophony, cant, channel, charivari, chirm, cipher, circulate, clamor, clangor, clap, clash, clatter, code, command pulses, commands, commotion, communication explosion, communication theory, compiler, computer code, computer language, computer program, confusion of tongues, control signals, controlled quantity, correcting signals, crash, crawling, creeping, cryptogram, data, data retrieval, data storage, dead letter, decoding, definition, din, discord, discordance, dissonance, disturbance, donnybrook, double Dutch, drift, drunken brawl, dustup, electronic data processing, emit a sound, emptiness, empty sound, encoding, entropy, error, error signals, fade-out, fading, feedback pulses, feedback signals, film data, flap, flare, fracas, free-for-all, fringe area, futility, garble, ghost, gibberish, gift of tongues, glossolalia, gobbledygook, granulation, grid, hard shadow, harshness, hell, hell broke loose, hexadecimal system, howl, hubbub, hue and cry, hullabaloo, image, inanity, information, information explosion, information theory, input data, input quantity, insignificance, instructions, interference, jangle, jar, jargon, jumble, loud noise, loudness, machine language, maffick, make a noise, make a racket, make a sound, make an uproar, meaninglessness, mere noise, message, multiple image, multiple messages, noise and shouting, nonsensicality, nullity, numeric data, octal system, oscillograph data, outcry, output data, output quantity, pandemonium, phatic communion, phone, picture, picture noise, picture shifts, play, polar data, punch-card data, purposelessness, racket, rain, raise Cain, raise a clamor, raise hell, raise the devil, raise the roof, random data, rattle, reception, rectangular data, redundancy, reference quantity, resound, rhubarb, roar, rolling, row, ruckus, ruction, ruly English, rumble, rumbling, rumor, rumpus, scanning pattern, scintillation, scramble, secret language, senselessness, shading, shindy, shivaree, signal, signals, single messages, slang, snow, snowstorm, sonance, sound, sound intensity level, sound propagation, sound wave, speak, speech sound, spread, static, thunder, thunderclap, thundering, tintamarre, tumult, turmoil, ultrasound, unmeaningness, unorganized data, unsignificancy, uproar, visible-speech data, whoop it up

• noiseless, damped, dampened, deadened, echoless, hush, hush as death, hushed, inaudible, mousy, muffled, mute, muted, quiescent, quiet, silent, soft, soundless, still, still as death, stilly, subaudible, unarticulated, unhearable, unpronounced, unsounded, unuttered, unvocalized, unvoiced, whist

• noiseproof, airtight, ballproof, bombproof, bulletproof, burglarproof, corrosionproof, dampproof, fire-resisting, fireproof, flameproof, foolproof, hermetic, holeproof, impervious to, leakproof, proof, proof against, punctureproof, resistant, rustproof, shatterproof, shellproof, soundproof, tight, watertight, weatherproof

• noisome, abhorrent, abominable, arrant, atrocious, awful, bad, bad for, bad-smelling, baleful, baneful, barfy, base, beastly, below contempt, beneath contempt, blameworthy, brackish, brutal, cloying, contaminated, contemptible, corroding, corrosive, corrupting, corruptive, counterproductive, crude, damaging, deadly, deleterious, deplorable, despicable, detestable, detrimental, dire, dirty, disadvantageous, disgusting, disserviceable, distressing, dreadful, egregious, enormous, execrable, fecal, fetid, filthy, flagrant, forbidding, foul, frowsty, frowy, frowzy, fulsome, funky, fusty, gamy, graveolent, grievous, gross, harmful, hateful, heinous, high, horrible, horrid, hurtful, icky, ignoble, ill-smelling, infamous, injurious, insalubrious, insanitary, lamentable, lethal, loathsome, lousy, maggoty, malefic, malevolent, malign, malignant, malodorous, mawkish, mephitic, miasmal, miasmic, mildewed, mildewy, mischievous, moldy, monstrous, morbific, musty, nasty, nauseant, nauseating, nauseous, nefarious, nidorous, notorious, noxious, objectionable, obnoxious, obscene, odious, odorous, offensive, olid, ominous, outrageous, overripe, pathogenic, peccant, pernicious, pestiferous, pitiable, pitiful, poisonous, polluted, prejudicial, putrid, rancid, rank, reasty, reasy, rebarbative, reechy, reeking, reeky, regrettable, repellent, reprehensible, repugnant, repulsive, revolting, rotten, sad, scandalous, scatheful, schlock, scurvy, septic, shabby, shameful, shocking, shoddy, sickening, sickly, smellful, smelling, smelly, sordid, spoiled, squalid, stenchy, stinking, strong, stuffy, sulfurous, tainted, terrible, too bad, toxic, unclean, unhealthful, unhealthy, unhygienic, unsanitary, unwholesome, venenate, veneniferous, venenous, venomous, vicious, vile, villainous, virulent, vomity, weevily, woeful, worst, worthless, wretched, yucky

• noisy, bawling, blaring, blasting, blatant, blatting, blustering, blusterous, blustery, boanergean, boisterous, brassy, brawling, brazen, bullying, cacophonic, cacophonous, clamant, clamorous, clamoursome, clanging, clangorous, clarion, clattery, crying, deafening, discordant, dissonant, ear-splitting, grating, harsh, hectoring, jarring, loud, loudmouthed, mafficking, noiseful, obstreperous, openmouthed, piercing, rackety, raging, ranting, raving, resounding, riotous, rip-roaring, roistering, roisterous, rollicking, rowdy, screaming, shouting, shrill, sonorous, storming, strepitant, strepitous, strident, swaggering, swashbuckling, swashing, thunderous, tumultuous, turbulent, unmusical, uproarious, vociferant, vociferating, vociferous, yammering, yapping, yelling, yelping

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

• nomadism, Wanderjahr, afoot and lighthearted, bumming, discursion, divagation, drifting, errantry, flitting, gadding, hoboism, itineracy, itinerancy, peregrination, pererration, ramble, rambling, roam, roaming, rove, roving, straying, traipsing, vagabondage, vagabondia, vagabondism, vagrancy, wandering, wanderlust, wayfaring

• nomen, agnomen, appellation, appellative, binomen, binomial name, byword, cognomen, cryptonym, denomination, designation, empty title, epithet, eponym, euonym, handle, honorific, hyponym, label, moniker, name, namesake, nomen nudum, praenomen, proper name, proper noun, scientific name, secret name, style, tag, tautonym, title, trinomen, trinomial name

• nominal, abstract noun, adherent noun, adjectival, adverbial, alleged, apparent, attributive, budget, byname, cheap, cognominal, collective noun, common noun, conjunctive, copulative, correct, diminutive, easy, economic, economy, epithetic, formal, frugal, functional, gerund, glossematic, grammatic, honorific, hypocoristic, hypostasis, in name only, inconsiderable, inexpensive, insignificant, insubstantial, intransitive, linking, low, low-priced, manageable, minimal, minor, minuscule, moderate, modest, nominative, noun, noun phrase, ostensible, participial, postpositional, prepositional, pretended, professed, pronominal, pronoun, proper noun, proposed, propositional, puppet, purported, quasi, quotation noun, reasonable, representational, seeming, self-called, self-christened, self-styled, sensible, shabby, shoddy, small, so-called, soi-disant, structural, substantive, supposed, supposititious, syntactic, tagmemic, tiny, titular, token, transitive, trifling, trivial, unexpensive, verbal, within means, worth the money, would-be

• nominalism, differentiation, differentness, distinctiveness, egohood, human factor, identity, individualism, individuality, integrity, nonconformity, oneness, particularism, particularity, personal equation, personal identity, personality, personship, self-identity, selfhood, selfness, singularity, soul, uniqueness

• nominally, apparently, artificially, at a bargain, at a sacrifice, at budget prices, at cost, at cost price, at piggy-bank prices, at prime cost, at reduced rates, at small cost, at wholesale, cheap, cheaply, erroneously, factitiously, falsely, for a song, for pennies, in name only, inexpensively, moderately, namely, on the cheap, ostensibly, plausibly, reasonably, sc, scil, scilicet, seemingly, spuriously, synthetically, to wit, truthlessly, ungenuinely, unnaturally, untruly, unveraciously, videlicet, viz, wholesale

• nominate, appoint, assign, back, back up, baptize, call, choose, christen, define, denominate, designate, dub, elect, endorse, entitle, finger, forward, identify, intend, label, make, mean, name, name for office, nickname, offer, ordain, ordinate, present, proffer, propose, purpose, put forth, put forward, put up, recommend, run, run for office, select, specify, style, submit, suggest, support, tab, tag, tap, tender, term, title, vote

• nominated, accepted, adopted, appointed, approved, carried, chosen, designated, elect, elected, elected by acclamation, embraced, espoused, handpicked, named, passed, picked, ratified, select, selected, unanimously elected

• nomination, acceptance speech, apostolic orders, appointment, assignment, calling, canonization, caucus nomination, conferment, consecration, designation, direct nomination, election, holy orders, induction, installation, institution, investiture, major orders, minor orders, naming, ordainment, orders, ordination, petition nomination, posting, preferment, presentation, proposal, reading in, selection, tabbing, transferral

• nominative, abessive, ablative, accusative, adessive, allative, appellative, approximative, byname, case, cognominal, common case, dative, delative, denominative, diminutive, elative, epithetic, eponymic, eponymous, essive, formal, genitive, honorific, hypocoristic, illative, in name only, inessive, instrumental, lative, local case, locative, nominal, objective case, oblique case, perlative, possessive case, prepositional, quasi, self-called, self-christened, self-styled, so-called, soi-disant, subject case, sublative, superessive, terminative, titular, translative, vocative, would-be

• non compos mentis, abnormal, bereft of reason, brainsick, crackbrained, cracked, crazed, crazy, daft, deluded, demented, deprived of reason, deranged, disoriented, distraught, flighty, hallucinated, insane, irrational, loco, lunatic, mad, maddened, manic, mazed, mental, mentally deficient, meshuggah, moon-struck, non compos, not all there, not right, odd, of unsound mind, off, psycho, queer, reasonless, senseless, sick, stark-mad, stark-staring mad, strange, tetched, touched, unbalanced, unhinged, unsane, unsettled, unsound, wandering, witless

• non sequitur, argument, argument by analogy, argumentum ad baculum, argumentum ad captandum, argumentum ad hominem, bad case, begging the question, broken thread, brokenness, circular argument, claptrap, crowd-pleasing argument, disconnectedness, disconnection, discontinuance, discontinuation, discontinuity, discontinuousness, discreteness, disjunction, empty words, episode, fallacy, fitfulness, formal fallacy, hysteron proteron, incoherence, incompleteness, insincere argument, intermittence, irregularity, logical fallacy, material fallacy, mere rhetoric, moonshine, noncontinuance, nonlinearity, nonseriality, nonuniformity, paralogism, parenthesis, petitio principii, philosophism, pseudosyllogism, solecism, sophism, sophistry, verbal fallacy, weak point

• nonacceptance, abjuration, abjurement, abnegation, chucking, chucking out, contempt, contradiction, declension, declination, declinature, declining, denial, deprivation, despisal, despising, disagreement, disallowance, disapproval, discard, disclaimer, disclamation, discounting, dismissal, disobedience, disownment, disregard, dissent, exception, exclusion, holding back, ignoring, nay, negation, negative, negative answer, nix, no, nonapproval, noncompliance, nonconsent, nonconsideration, nonobservance, passing by, putting away, putting out, rebuff, recantation, refusal, rejection, renouncement, repudiation, repulse, retention, scouting, spurning, throwing out, thumbs-down, turndown, turning out, unwillingness, withholding

• nonadherent, aloof, broken, detached, disconnected, discontinuous, discrete, disregardful, gapped, inattentive, incoherent, inconsistent, inconstant, inobservant, negligent, nonadhesive, noncoherent, noncohesive, noncompliant, nonconforming, nonobservant, open, tenuous, unadhesive, uncoherent, uncohesive, uncompliant, unconforming, unconnected, unfaithful, unjoined, unloyal, unobservant, untenacious, untrue

• nonadmission, ban, bar, barring, blockade, boycott, circumscription, debarment, debarring, demarcation, embargo, exception, exclusion, inadmissibility, injunction, lockout, narrowing, omission, preclusion, prohibition, rejection, relegation, repudiation, restriction, taboo

• nonage, Nina from Carolina, callowness, dewiness, ennead, enneastyle, freshness, greenness, immaturity, inexperience, infancy, juiciness, juniority, minority, nine, nonagon, nonuplet, novena, rawness, sappiness, undevelopment, unripeness

• nonagenarian, Father Time, L, Methuselah, Nestor, Old Paar, Sexagesima, boxcar, boxcars, centenarian, dotard, dozen, duodecimo, eighty, elder, eleven, fifteen, fifty, five and twenty, fortnight, forty, four and twenty, fourscore, fourscore and ten, fourteen, gaffer, geezer, golden-ager, gramps, grandfather, grandsire, graybeard, half a hundred, long dozen, ninety, octogenarian, old chap, old codger, old dog, old duffer, old geezer, old gent, old gentleman, old man, old party, old-timer, older, oldster, pantaloon, patriarch, presbyter, quindecennial, quindecim, quindecima, quindene, score, senior citizen, septuagenarian, seventy, sexagenarian, sexagenary, sexagesimo-quarto, sixteen, sixteenmo, sixty, sixty-four, sixty-fourmo, teens, the quiet-voiced elders, thirteen, thirty-two, thirty-twomo, threescore, threescore and ten, twelve, twelvemo, twenty, twenty-five, twenty-four, twenty-fourmo, two dozen, two weeks, twoscore, venerable sir, veteran

• nonaggressive, bone-lazy, cadging, civilian, conciliatory, dilatory, do-nothing, doless, dovish, dronish, drony, easy, ergophobic, faineant, good-for-nothing, indolent, irenic, laggard, lax, lazy, noncombatant, nonmilitant, nonviolent, pacific, pacifist, pacifistic, parasitic, peace-loving, peaceable, procrastinative, remiss, scrounging, shiftless, slack, slothful, slow, sponging, unbellicose, uncontentious, unenterprising, unhostile, unmilitant, unmilitary, work-shy

• nonaligned, Laodicean, apathetic, autarchic, autarkic, autonomous, centrist, even, fifty-fifty, free-spirited, freewheeling, half-and-half, impartial, independent, indifferent, individualistic, inner-directed, midway, moderate, neuter, neutral, noncommitted, nonpartisan, on the fence, passive, self-contained, self-dependent, self-determined, self-directing, self-governed, self-governing, self-reliant, self-subsistent, self-sufficient, self-supporting, sovereign, third-force, third-world, uncommitted, uninvolved

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

• nonattendant, absconded, absent, away, deleted, departed, disappeared, gone, lacking, missing, no longer present, nonexistent, not found, not present, omitted, out of sight, subtracted, taken away, vanished, wanting

• nonce, contemporaneity, contemporaneousness, historical present, modernity, newness, now, nowadays, nowness, our times, present, present tense, presentness, the Now Generation, the nonce, the now, the present, the present age, the present day, the present hour, the present juncture, the present time, the time being, the times, these days, this day, this hour, this instant, this moment, this point, this stage, today

• nonchalance, accidia, acedia, aloofness, apathy, ataraxia, ataraxy, benumbedness, blah, blahs, carelessness, casualness, comatoseness, detachment, disinterest, dispassion, disregard, disregardfulness, dullness, easygoingness, heartlessness, hebetude, heedlessness, hopelessness, inappetence, inattention, incuriosity, indifference, indiscrimination, inexcitability, insouciance, lack of affect, lack of appetite, lackadaisicalness, languidness, lethargicalness, lethargy, listlessness, mindlessness, negligence, numbness, offhandedness, passiveness, passivity, phlegm, phlegmaticalness, phlegmaticness, plucklessness, pococurantism, recklessness, regardlessness, resignation, resignedness, sloth, sluggishness, sopor, soporifousness, spiritlessness, spunklessness, stupefaction, stupor, supineness, torpidity, torpidness, torpor, unanxiousness, unconcern, unmindfulness, unsolicitousness, withdrawnness

• nonchalant, Laodicean, Olympian, aloof, apathetic, at ease, ataractic, benumbed, blah, blase, calm, careless, casual, cheerful, collected, comatose, composed, cool, degage, desensitized, detached, devil-may-care, disinterested, dispassionate, disregardful, distant, dull, easy, easygoing, effortless, free and easy, glad, happy-go-lucky, heartless, hebetudinous, heedless, hopeless, imperturbable, in a stupor, inattentive, incurious, indifferent, inexcitable, insouciant, lackadaisical, languid, lethargic, light, lighthearted, listless, mindless, negligent, numb, numbed, offhand, passive, perfunctory, phlegmatic, pluckless, pococurante, reckless, regardless, relaxed, resigned, slack, sluggish, smooth, soporific, spiritless, spunkless, stoic, stupefied, supine, together, torpid, turned-off, unanxious, uncaring, unconcerned, undiscriminating, undisturbed, unemotional, unenthusiastic, unexcitable, unexcited, unflappable, uninterested, unmindful, unperturbed, unruffled, unsolicitous, untroubled, withdrawn

• noncoherent, aloof, broken, detached, disconnected, discontinuous, discrete, gapped, incoherent, inconsistent, nonadherent, nonadhesive, noncohesive, open, tenuous, unadhesive, uncoherent, uncohesive, unconnected, unjoined, untenacious

• noncohesive, aloof, apart, asunder, bipartite, broken, detached, dichotomous, disconnected, discontinuous, discrete, distinct, divergent, gapped, in two, incoherent, inconsistent, insular, nonadherent, nonadhesive, noncoherent, open, partitioned, separate, tenuous, unadhesive, unassociated, unattached, unattended, uncoherent, uncohesive, unconnected, unjoined, untenacious

• noncom, NCO, acting corporal, acting sergeant, centurion, chief warrant officer, color sergeant, corporal, first sergeant, havildar, lance corporal, lance sergeant, master sergeant, mess sergeant, naik, noncommissioned officer, platoon sergeant, sarge, sergeant, sergeant first class, sergeant major, staff sergeant, technical sergeant, top sergeant, topkick, warrant officer

• noncombatant, citizen, civilian, conciliatory, dovish, irenic, nonaggressive, nonbelligerent, nonmilitant, nonresistant, nonresister, nonviolent, pacific, pacifist, pacifistic, peace-loving, peaceable, unbellicose, uncontentious, unhostile, unmilitant, unmilitary

• noncommissioned officer, Big Brother, NCO, acting corporal, acting sergeant, auditor, boatswain, boss, buck private, centurion, chief, chief warrant officer, color sergeant, common soldier, comptroller, controller, corporal, enlisted man, first sergeant, floor manager, floorman, floorwalker, foreman, gaffer, ganger, havildar, head, headman, inspector, lance corporal, lance sergeant, master sergeant, mess sergeant, monitor, naik, noncom, overman, overseer, platoon sergeant, private, private first class, proctor, sarge, sergeant, sergeant first class, sergeant major, sirdar, slave driver, staff sergeant, straw boss, subforeman, super, superintendent, supervisor, surveyor, taskmaster, technical sergeant, top sergeant, topkick, visitor, warrant officer

• noncommittal, canny, careful, cautious, circumspect, constrained, cool, deliberate, discreet, gingerly, guarded, heedful, hesitant, incommunicable, judicious, leaving out nothing, mindful, on guard, overlooking no possibility, pawky, politic, precautional, precautionary, precautious, prudent, regardful, reserved, restrained, safe, slow to act, tentative, thorough, unadventurous, uncommunicative, undaring, unenterprising, unprecipitate, wary, watchful

• noncommitted, Laodicean, apathetic, centrist, even, fifty-fifty, half-and-half, impartial, independent, indifferent, midway, moderate, neuter, neutral, nonaligned, nonpartisan, on the fence, passive, third-force, third-world, uncommitted, uninvolved

• noncommunicable, inalienable, incommunicable, indefeasible, indefinable, indescribable, ineffable, inenarrable, inexpressible, innominable, noncontagious, noninfectious, undefinable, unimpartable, unmentionable, unnameable, unspeakable, unutterable, unwhisperable

• noncompetitive, coacting, coactive, coadjutant, coadjuvant, coefficient, collaborative, collective, collectivist, collectivistic, collusive, combined, commensal, common, communal, communalist, communalistic, communist, communistic, communitarian, concerted, concordant, concurrent, concurring, conniving, cooperant, cooperating, cooperative, ecumenic, fellow, harmonious, harmonized, joint, mutual, reciprocal, symbiotic, synergetic, synergic, synergistic, uncompetitive

• noncompletion, Sisyphean labor, endless task, failure, inexecution, loose ends, neglect, nonaccomplishment, nonachievement, nonconsummation, nondischarging, nonexecution, nonfeasance, nonfulfillment, nonperformance, omission, rough edges, unfulfillment, work of Penelope

• noncompliance, abnegation, civil disobedience, contradiction, contrariety, declension, declination, declinature, declining, default, delinquency, denial, deprivation, dereliction, deviation, disaccord, disaccordance, disagreement, disallowance, disclaimer, disclamation, disconformity, disobedience, disregard, dissent, failure, frowardness, holding back, inaccordance, inattention, incongruity, inconsistency, indiscipline, indocility, infraction, infringement, inobservance, insubordination, intractability, lawbreaking, lawlessness, laxity, naughtiness, nay, negation, negative, negative answer, neglect, negligence, nix, no, nonacceptance, nonadherence, nonconcurrence, nonconformance, nonconformism, nonconformity, nonconsent, noncooperation, nonfeasance, nonfulfillment, nonobedience, nonobservance, nonperformance, omission, originality, oversight, passive resistance, protest, recalcitrance, recantation, recusance, recusancy, refractoriness, refusal, rejection, repudiation, retention, slight, thumbs-down, transgression, turndown, unconformity, uncooperativeness, unduteousness, undutifulness, unobservance, unsubmissiveness, unwillingness, violation, waywardness, willful disobedience, withholding

• nonconforming, alienated, antiestablishment, at odds with, at variance with, breakaway, contrary, counter-culture, deviant, differing, disagreeing, disobedient, disregardful, dissentient, dissenting, dissident, froward, in opposition, inattentive, inconstant, indisciplined, inobservant, lawless, naughty, negligent, nonadherent, noncompliant, nonconformable, nonobservant, obstinate, opposing, recalcitrant, recusant, refractory, sectarian, sectary, self-willed, transgressive, unadaptable, unadjustable, uncompliant, uncomplying, unconforming, underground, undisciplined, unduteous, undutiful, unfaithful, unloyal, unobservant, unsubmissive, untrue, violative, wayward, willful

• nonconformist, Albigensian, Arian, Bohemian, Cathar, Donatist, Ebionite, Erastian, Gnostic, Jansenist, Lollard, Manichaean, Monophysite, Montanist, Pelagian, Sabellian, Waldensian, Wyclifite, agitator, alien, anomaly, antagonistic, antinomian, antipathetic, apostate, beatnik, brawler, breakaway, capricious, case, changeable, changing, character, choppy, clashing, conflicting, contradicting, contradictory, counteractant, counteracting, counteractive, countervailing, counterworking, crackpot, crank, cranky, crosspatch, crotchety, demurrer, deviant, deviating, deviative, deviatory, different, disorderly, dissenter, dissentient, dissident, divaricate, divergent, diversified, diversiform, dropout, eccentric, emanationist, erose, erratic, exception, extremist, fanatic, flake, flower child, freak, frondeur, heretic, heretical, hermit, heterodox, hippie, hobo, hostile, hylotheist, iconoclast, iconoclastic, impulsive, inconsistent, inconstant, individualist, individualistic, inimical, inner-directed, inner-directed person, insubordinate, insurgent, insurrectionary, insurrectionist, insurrecto, irregular, jagged, jerky, kook, lone wolf, loner, malcontent, maverick, mercurial, meshuggenah, misbeliever, misfit, motley, mutable, mutineer, natural, naysayer, nonconformer, nonconforming, nonjuror, nonstandard, nonuniform, nut, objector, odd fellow, oddball, oddity, opinionist, opposing, opposition voice, oppositional, oppugnant, original, outsider, pantheist, pariah, perverse, pluralistic, protestant, protester, queer duck, queer fish, queer specimen, radical, ragged, rara avis, reactionary, rebel, rebellious, recalcitrant, recluse, recusant, renegade, renitent, repugnant, resistant, revolter, revolutionary, revolutionist, rioter, rough, schismatic, screwball, sectarian, sectary, separatist, solitary, spasmodic, sporadic, sport, strange duck, subversive, swinger, traitor, tramp, type, ugly duckling, unconformist, unequable, unequal, uneven, unorthodox, unstable, unsteady, unsystematic, ununiform, variable, variegated, variform, various, varying, wavering, weirdo, yippie, zealot

• nonconformity, aberration, abnormality, agreement to disagree, alienage, alienation, alienism, ambiguity, ambivalence, anomaly, antagonism, antinomy, antipathy, apostasy, asymmetry, backlash, capriciousness, changeability, changeableness, choppiness, circuitousness, civil disobedience, clashing, collision, conceit, conflict, confutation, contradiction, contraposition, contrariety, contrast, counter-culture, counteraction, counterposition, counterworking, crackpotism, crank, crankiness, crankism, crosswiseness, crotchet, crotchetiness, dappleness, declination, default, deflection, deflexure, delinquency, departure, dereliction, deviance, deviancy, deviation, deviousness, diagonality, difference, differentiation, differentness, digression, disaccord, disaccordance, disagreement, disapprobation, disapproval, disconformity, discongruity, discordance, discrepancy, discreteness, disobedience, disorder, disparity, disproportion, disproportionateness, disregard, dissatisfaction, dissension, dissent, dissentience, dissidence, dissimilarity, dissonance, distinction, distinctiveness, distinctness, divagation, divarication, divergence, divergency, diversification, diversity, dottiness, dropping out, eccentricity, egohood, equivocality, erraticism, erraticness, excursion, exteriority, extraneousness, extrinsicality, failure, far cry, freakishness, friction, frowardness, heresy, heterodoxy, heterogeneity, human factor, identity, idiocrasy, idiosyncrasy, inaccordance, inattention, incoherence, incommensurability, incompatibility, incongruity, inconsistency, inconsonance, inconstancy, indirection, indirectness, indiscipline, individualism, individuality, indocility, inequality, infraction, infringement, inharmoniousness, inharmony, inobservance, instability, insubordination, integrity, interference, intractability, intrusion, irreconcilability, irregularity, jerkiness, kick, kink, lawbreaking, lawlessness, laxity, maggot, mannerism, mercuriality, minority opinion, misbelief, mixture, motleyness, mutability, naughtiness, neglect, negligence, nominalism, nonadherence, nonagreement, nonassent, nonassimilation, noncompliance, nonconcurrence, nonconformability, nonconformance, nonconformism, nonconsent, noncooperation, nonfeasance, nonfulfillment, nonobedience, nonobservance, nonperformance, nonstandardization, nonuniformity, obliqueness, obliquity, oddity, odds, omission, oneness, opposition, opposure, oppugnance, oppugnancy, otherness, oversight, oxymoron, paradox, particularism, particularity, passive resistance, peculiarity, personal equation, personal identity, personality, personship, pluralism, queerness, quip, quirk, quirkiness, raggedness, reaction, recalcitrance, recoil, recusance, recusancy, rejection, renitency, repercussion, repudiation, repugnance, resistance, revolt, schism, secession, self-contradiction, self-identity, selfhood, selfness, separateness, singularity, skewness, slight, soul, squint, strangeness, swimming upstream, transgression, transverseness, trick, twist, un-Scripturality, unauthenticity, unauthoritativeness, uncanonicalness, unconformability, unconformism, unconformity, unconventionality, uncooperativeness, underground, unduteousness, undutifulness, unevenness, uniqueness, unlikeness, unnaturalness, unobservance, unorthodoxness, unorthodoxy, unsoundness, unsteadiness, unsubmissiveness, vagary, variability, variance, variation, variegation, variety, variousness, versatility, violation, wavering, waywardness, whim, whimsicality, whimsy, willful disobedience, withdrawal

• nonconvergent, aligned, analogous, coextending, coextensive, collateral, concurrent, equal, equidistant, equispaced, even, lined up, nondivergent, parallel, parallelepipedal, parallelinervate, paralleling, parallelodrome, parallelogrammatic, parallelogrammic, parallelotropic

• noncooperative, adversary, adversative, adverse, alien, antagonistic, anti, antipathetic, antithetic, clashing, competitive, complaining, con, conflicting, contradictory, contrary, counter, cross, disaccordant, disputatious, disputing, dissentient, dissenting, enemy, fractious, hostile, indocile, inimical, insubordinate, intractable, negative, noncooperating, objecting, obstinate, obstructive, on the barricades, opponent, opposed, opposing, opposite, oppositional, oppositive, oppugnant, overthwart, perverse, proof against, protesting, rebellious, recalcitrant, refractory, reluctant, renitent, repellent, repugnant, resistant, resisting, resistive, retardant, retardative, rival, uncompliant, uncooperative, unfavorable, unfriendly, unpropitious, unsubmissive, unyielding, up in arms, withstanding

• nondenominational, all-comprehending, all-comprehensive, all-covering, all-embracing, all-encompassing, all-filling, all-including, all-inclusive, all-pervading, allover, catholic, cosmopolitan, country-wide, ecumenic, galactic, global, heaven-wide, interdenominational, international, national, nonsectarian, planetary, total, undenominational, universal, world-wide

• nondescript, Attic, amorphic, amorphous, anarchic, baggy, bland, blobby, blurred, blurry, chaotic, characterless, chaste, classic, classical, colorless, common, commonplace, confused, disorderly, drab, everyday, featureless, formless, fuzzy, garden, garden-variety, hazy, homely, homespun, household, inchoate, indecisive, indefinite, indescribable, indeterminate, inform, insipid, kaleidoscopic, lumpen, matter-of-fact, misty, obscure, orderless, ordinary, plain, prosaic, prosy, pure, pure and simple, shapeless, simple, unclassifiable, unclassified, unclear, undefined, unexceptional, uninteresting, unordered, unorganized, unremarkable, vague, workaday, workday

• none, from scratch, in no way, nary one, never a one, nil, no, no man, no one, nobody, not a bit, not a hint, not a jot, not a lick, not a mite, not a one, not a particle, not a scrap, not a smitch, not a speck, not a suspicion, not a trace, not a whit, not an iota, not any, not at all, not one

• nonelastic, adamant, adamantine, immovable, immutable, inductile, inelastic, inextensible, inextensile, inextensional, inflexible, intractable, intractile, irresilient, nonstretchable, stubborn, unalterable, unbending, unextendible, unextensible, unflexible, ungiving, unlimber, unmalleable, unpliable, unpliant, untractable, unyielding

• nonemotional, affectless, anesthetized, arctic, autistic, blunt, catatonic, chill, chilly, cold, cold as charity, cold-blooded, coldhearted, cool, dispassionate, drugged, dull, emotionally dead, emotionless, frigid, frosted, frosty, frozen, heartless, icy, immovable, impassible, impassive, inexcitable, insusceptible, objective, obtuse, out of touch, passionless, self-absorbed, soulless, spiritless, unaffectionate, unemotional, unfeeling, unimpassioned, unimpressionable, unloving, unpassionate, unresponding, unresponsive, unsusceptible, unsympathetic, untouchable

• nonentity, Middle America, Milquetoast, a nobody, a nothing, absence, baby, big baby, bourgeoisie, burgherdom, chicken, cipher, common man, crybaby, deprivation, doormat, dud, dull tool, dummy, emptiness, figurehead, fourth-rater, gutless wonder, hollow man, insignificancy, invertebrate, jackstraw, jellyfish, lay figure, lightweight, little fellow, little guy, man of straw, mediocrity, meek soul, middle class, middle order, middle orders, milksop, mollycoddle, namby-pamby, nebbish, negation, negativeness, negativity, nihility, no great shakes, no prize, nobody, nobody one knows, nobody special, nonbeing, nonexistence, nonoccurrence, nonreality, nonsubsistence, not-being, nothing, nothing special, nothingness, nullity, obscurity, pansy, pantywaist, pip-squeak, punk, puppet, pushover, runt, rushlight, sad sack, scrub, second-rater, shrimp, silent majority, sissy, small, small beer, small fry, small potato, small potatoes, softling, softy, sop, squirt, squit, suburbia, thing of naught, third-rater, tinhorn, trifle, unactuality, unreality, vacancy, vacuity, vacuum, void, weak sister, weakling, whiffet, whippersnapper, zero, zilch

• nonessential, accessory, accident, accidental, addendum, addition, additional, adjunct, adrift, adscititious, adventitious, aleatory, appendage, appurtenance, appurtenant, ascititious, auxiliary, back-burner, beside the mark, beside the point, beside the question, casual, circumstantial, collateral, conditional, contingency, contingent, de trop, dinky, dispensable, excess, expendable, expletive, extra, extraneous, extrinsic, fortuitous, gratuitous, happenstance, immaterial, impertinent, in excess, inadmissible, inapplicable, inapposite, inappreciable, inappropriate, incidental, inconsequent, inconsequential, inconsiderable, inessential, inferior, insignificant, irrelative, irrelevant, little, mere chance, minor, minute, needless, negligible, nihil ad rem, not at issue, not vital, not-self, occasional, off the subject, other, out-of-the-way, parenthetical, petit, pleonastic, prolix, provisional, redundant, secondary, small, spare, subsidiary, superadded, superaddition, supererogatory, superfluous, supervenient, supplement, supplemental, supplementary, tautologic, tautologous, technical, to spare, uncalled-for, unessential, unimpressive, unnecessary, unneeded, unnoteworthy, unrequired, verbose

• nonesuch, abnormality, amazement, anomaly, astonishing thing, astonishment, champion, choice, chosen, conversation piece, cream, curio, curiosity, elect, elite, exception, fat, flower, gazingstock, ideal, improbability, jewel, marvel, marvelment, miracle, museum piece, nonpareil, oddity, optimum, paragon, phenomenon, phoenix, pick, prime, prize, prodigiosity, prodigy, queen, quintessence, quite a thing, rarity, select, sensation, sight, something else, spectacle, strange thing, stunner, superlative, the best, the best ever, the tops, the very best, wonder, wonderful thing, wonderment

• nonetheless, after all, again, albeit, all the same, although, anyhow, anyway, anywise, at all, at all events, at any rate, but, by any means, even, even so, for all that, howbeit, however, in any case, in any event, in any way, irregardless, just the same, nevertheless, nohow, notwithstanding, rather, regardless, still, though, when, yet

• nonexistent, absconded, absent, away, deleted, departed, devoid, disappeared, existless, extinct, fancied, fictive, gone, gone away, illusory, imaginary, imaginational, imagined, lacking, lost, lost to sight, lost to view, minus, missing, negative, no longer present, no more, nonattendant, not found, not present, notional, null, omitted, out of sight, past and gone, subtracted, supposititious, taken away, unactual, unexisting, unreal, vacuous, vanished, visional, void, wanting, without being

• nonfeasance, Sisyphean labor, atrocity, bad policy, breach, crime, crime against humanity, culpa, culpable negligence, deadly sin, default, delinquency, dereliction, disconformity, disregard, endless task, enormity, error, evil, failure, fault, felony, genocide, guilty act, heavy sin, impolicy, impropriety, inadvertence, inadvertency, inattention, indiscretion, inexecution, inexpedience, inexpediency, inexpiable sin, iniquity, injury, injustice, inobservance, laches, laissez-faire, lapse, laxity, laxness, loose ends, looseness, maladministration, malefaction, malfeasance, malpractice, malum, minor wrong, misadministration, misconduct, misdeed, misdemeanor, misdirection, misfeasance, misgovernment, misguidance, mishandling, mismanagement, misrule, mortal sin, neglect, neglectfulness, negligence, nonaccomplishment, nonachievement, nonadherence, noncompliance, nonconformance, nonconformity, nonconsummation, nondischarging, nonexecution, nonfulfillment, noninterference, nonobservance, nonperformance, nonrestriction, offense, omission, outrage, overlooking, oversight, peccadillo, peccancy, permissiveness, poor stewardship, procrastination, remissness, rough edges, sin, sin of commission, sin of omission, sinful act, slackness, slight, slip, tort, transgression, trespass, trip, unfulfillment, unobservance, unrigorousness, unutterable sin, venial sin, work of Penelope, wrong, wrongdoing

• nonfertile, acarpous, arid, barren, celibate, childless, desert, desolate, drained, dried-up, dry, exhausted, fallow, fruitless, gaunt, gelded, impotent, ineffectual, infecund, infertile, issueless, jejune, leached, menopausal, nonproducing, nonproductive, nonprolific, sine prole, sterile, sucked dry, teemless, uncultivated, unfertile, unfruitful, unplowed, unproductive, unprolific, unsown, untilled, virgin, waste, wasted, without issue

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

• nonfulfillment, Sisyphean labor, default, delinquency, dereliction, disconformity, disregard, endless task, failure, falling short, inadequacy, inadequateness, inattention, incompetence, inexecution, inobservance, insufficiency, insufficientness, laxity, loose ends, neglect, negligence, nonaccomplishment, nonachievement, nonadherence, noncompliance, nonconformance, nonconformity, nonconsummation, nondischarging, none to spare, nonexecution, nonfeasance, nonobservance, nonperformance, nonsatisfaction, omission, oversight, rough edges, short supply, slight, too late, too little, unfulfillment, unobservance, unqualification, unsuitability, work of Penelope

• nonfunctional, functionless, impractical, in disrepair, inapplicable, inoperable, inoperative, nonutilitarian, otiose, out of order, out of whack, unconducive, unemployable, unfit, unhelpful, unserviceable, unsuitable, unusable, unworkable

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

• noninterference, autarky, bimetallism, capitalism, culpa, culpable negligence, default, dereliction, disregard, economic self-sufficiency, failure, free competition, free enterprise, free trade, governmentalism, inadvertence, inadvertency, inattention, isolationism, laches, laissez-aller, laissez-faire, laissez-faireism, lapse, laxity, laxness, let-alone policy, let-alone principle, liberalism, line, localism, looseness, managed currency, neglect, neglectfulness, negligence, nonfeasance, nonintervention, nonperformance, nonrestriction, nullification, omission, overlooking, oversight, party line, party principle, permissiveness, planned economy, policy, polity, poor stewardship, position, price supports, procrastination, protection, protectionism, public policy, pump-priming, remissness, sectionalism, self-regulating market, slackness, slight, unrigorousness

• noninterruption, ceaselessness, chattering, constancy, constant flow, continualness, continuity, incessancy, oscillation, perpetuity, pulsation, quick fire, rapid fire, rapid recurrence, rapid succession, rapidity, regularity, repetition, staccato, steadiness, stuttering, sustainment, tattoo, unintermission, uninterruption, vibration

• nonintervention, autarky, avoidance, avoiding reaction, bimetallism, capitalism, circumvention, defense mechanism, dodge, duck, economic self-sufficiency, elusion, elusiveness, equivocation, escape, evasion, evasive action, evasiveness, forbearance, forestalling, forestallment, free competition, free enterprise, free trade, getting around, governmentalism, isolationism, jink, laissez-aller, laissez-faire, laissez-faireism, let-alone policy, let-alone principle, liberalism, line, localism, managed currency, neutrality, noninterference, noninvolvement, nullification, party line, party principle, planned economy, policy, polity, position, prevention, price supports, protection, protectionism, public policy, pump-priming, refraining, sectionalism, self-regulating market, shunning, shunting off, shy, sidestep, sidetracking, slip, the runaround, zigzag

• noninvolvement, a wise passiveness, abstention, anythingarianism, avoidance, avoiding reaction, circumvention, contemplation, contemplative life, cop-out, defense mechanism, do-nothing policy, do-nothingism, do-nothingness, dodge, dormancy, duck, elusion, elusiveness, equivocation, escape, evasion, evasive action, evasiveness, fence-sitting, forbearance, forestalling, forestallment, getting around, idleness, immobility, impartiality, inaction, inactivity, independence, indolence, inertia, inertness, jink, laissez-aller, laissez-faire, laissez-faireism, meditation, mugwumpery, mugwumpism, neutralism, neutrality, neutralness, nonalignment, noncommitment, nonintervention, nonparticipation, nonpartisanism, nonresistance, nonviolence, nonviolent resistance, nothingarianism, pacifism, paralysis, passive resistance, passive self-annihilation, passiveness, passivism, passivity, policy, prevention, procrastination, quiescence, quietism, refraining, shunning, shunting off, shy, sidestep, sidetracking, slip, stagnancy, stagnation, standpattism, stasis, strict neutrality, the runaround, vegetation, vita contemplativa, waiting game, watching and waiting, zigzag

• nonliving, abiotic, azoic, dumb, exanimate, inanimate, inanimated, inert, insensate, insensible, insentient, lifeless, mute, nonconscious, senseless, soulless, unanimated, unconscious, unfeeling

• nonmandatory, arbitrary, autonomous, discretional, discretionary, elective, free, free will, gratuitous, independent, offered, optional, proffered, self-acting, self-active, self-determined, self-determining, spontaneous, unasked, unbesought, unbidden, uncalled-for, uncoerced, uncompelled, unforced, uninfluenced, uninvited, unpressured, unprompted, unrequested, unrequired, unsolicited, unsought, voluntary, volunteer, willful

• nonobjective, antiblack, biased, chauvinistic, colored, doctrinaire, dogmatic, influenced, interested, jaundiced, know-nothing, one-sided, opinionated, partial, partisan, prejudiced, prepossessed, racist, sexist, superpatriotic, swayed, twisted, ultranationalist, undetached, undispassionate, warped, xenophobic

• nonobservance, Laodiceanism, abnegation, absentmindedness, carelessness, contradiction, contrariety, declension, declination, declinature, declining, denial, deprivation, deviation, disaccord, disaccordance, disagreement, disallowance, disclaimer, disclamation, disconformity, disobedience, disregard, disregardfulness, dissent, distraction, flightiness, flippancy, frivolousness, giddiness, heedlessness, holding back, inaccordance, inadvertence, inadvertency, inattention, inattentiveness, incongruity, inconsideration, inconsistency, incuriosity, indevotion, indevoutness, indifference, indifferentism, inobservance, levity, lightmindedness, lukewarm piety, nay, negation, negative, negative answer, negligence, nix, no, nonacceptance, noncompliance, nonconcurrence, nonconformance, nonconformism, nonconformity, nonconsent, nonreligiousness, obliviousness, originality, protest, recalcitrance, recantation, recusance, recusancy, refractoriness, refusal, regardlessness, rejection, repudiation, retention, shallowness, superficiality, thoughtlessness, thumbs-down, turndown, unalertness, unawareness, unconformity, unconsciousness, undevoutness, undutifulness, unheedfulness, unintentiveness, unmindfulness, unobservance, unreligiousness, unwariness, unwatchfulness, unwillingness, withholding