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moonshine,n.balderdash, flummery,fustian,nonsense.moot,a.undecided,unsettled,debatable.mooted,a.moot.mop,n.malkin, swab; merkin (cannon mop).mopboard,n.baseboard, surbase.mopish,a.dejected,glum,dumpish,listless,dull, spiritless.moral,a.ethical;virtuous,good;accountable,responsible,probable.Antonyms:immoral,licentious.moral insanity.æsthesiomania.morality,n.virtue,rectitude, probity, goodness.Antonym:immorality.moral philosophy.deontology, ethology, ethics.morass,n.slough,quagmire,bog,marsh,swamp.Mormon,n.Latter-day Saint.morning,n.forenoon;dawn, daybreak, aurora, cock-crowing,sunrise.morning,a.matin, matutinal.morning concert.(in the open air) aubade.morning reception.levee.morning service.matins.morose,a.churlish,sulky,sullen, moody, splenetic,unamiable.morsel,n.bite, mouthful;fragment, crumb,scrap.mortally,adv.fatally.mortar,n.Associated word: pestle.mortification,n.gangrene;chagrin,humiliation,abasement,embarrassment;repression,subjection.mortify,v.gangrene;chagrin,embarrass,abase;repress,deny,restrain.mosaic,a.tessellated, inlaid,variegated.most,n.majority.mote,n.particle,speck,mite.moth-eaten,a.moth-fretted.mother,n.materfamilias,matron, matriarch; generatrix;dam.Associated words: cognate, cognation, matricide, maternalism, uterine, matriarchy, matriarchal.motherhood,n.maternity.motherly,a.maternal.mother-of-pearl,n.nacre.motion,n.movement,activity;gesture,signal, gesticulation;port, gait;impulse.Antonyms: inertia,rest, stagnation, immobility, quiescence,repose.motionless,a.stationary, inert,stagnant, quiescent.motive,n.incentive,inducement,incitement.mottled,a.piebald,party-colored,spotted.mould,n.matrix, matrice;pattern,model; mouldiness,mildew,blight,smut,fungus.mould,v.form,shape,model,cast; knead.mouldy,a.musty, mildewed, fusty,decaying.moult,v.mew, exuviate.moulting,n.exuviation.mount,v.ascend; bestride.mountain,n.mount.Associated words: orology, orography, orogeny, montiform, butte, arete,spur, montanic, intermontane, oread, mountainous, ultramontane, bergstock, subalpine, alpenstock,range,ridge, submontane, alpestrine.mountebank,n.quack;charlatan,impostor, empiric.mourn,v.deplore,lament,regret,grieve,repine,sorrow,bemoan,bewail.mournful,a.sorrowful,lugubrious,doleful, woful.mourning,n.sorrow,grief, bereavement; weeds.mouse,n.murine, rodent;pl.mice, vermin.mousing,a.meddlesome, prying,intrusive.mouthpiece,n.embouchure;spokesman.movable,a.portable, mobile.Antonyms:immovable,fast, immobile.move,v.transfer; migrate, immigrate,emigrate,remove; impel, propel,actuate,influence; budge,stir.movement,n.motion, locomotion, transference,removal.movement cure.kinesiatrics, kinesitherapy, lingism.moving,a.motive.mow,v.reap.mowing,n.reaping.mucus,n.phlegm.mud,n.mire,ooze, muck; silt.mud bath.illutation.muddiness,n.turbidness, feculence,obscurity, miriness.muddle,v.confuse, fuddle,bewilder.muddle,n.confusion.muddled,a.confused, addled.muddy,a.feculent, turbid,roily;opaque, intransparent, confused, involved, incoherent.mud-eating,a.limivorous.muffle,v.wrap,envelop;deaden,subdue.muffler,n.scarf, tippet.mulct,n.fine, amercement.mule,n.hybrid, hinny.mule-driver,n.muleteer.mulish,a.Seestubborn.mull,v.ruminate,ponder, cogitate.mulligrubs,n.(Slang)colic.multitude,n.crowd, throng,host.mum,a.silent,speechless,dumb,mute.mumble,v.mutter, maunder, mump.mumbling,a.muttering, inarticulate, indistinct, incoherent.mummery,n.masquerade,mimicry.mumpish,a.moody,sullen,morose,sulky,unamiable.mumps,n.parotitis; sullenness, the sulks.munch,v.craunch.murder,n.homicide.murderer,n.homicide.murderous,a.sanguinary, homicidal, fell.muriatic acid.hydrochloric acid.murky,a.lowering,dark.murmur,v.grumble,complain,repine.murmur,n.plaint,complaint; purl,babble; undertone.murmuring,a.complaining,querulous, repining.muscle,n.brawn, thew;sinew, tendon.muscular,a.brawny, thewy, sinewy,stalwart.muse,v.contemplate,ruminate,brood,ponder,mull,reflect.muse,n.contemplation,meditation, revery.Muses,n. pl.Pierides, tuneful nine (Calliope, Clio, Erato, Euterpe, Melpomene, Polymnia, Terpsichore, Thalia, Urania).Associated word: Pierian.mushroom,a.ephemeral, transitory.mushrooms,n. pl.Fungi, agaric, Agaricaceæ.Associated words: mycology, agaricin, pileus, gills, spore. SeeFungi.music,n.melody, symphony,harmony; melodies, harmonics.musical,a.melodious,harmonious,tuneful, symphonious.musical entertainment.musicale,concert.muskmelon,n.cantaloupe.muss,n.confusion,litter,jumble,disorder.--v.disarrange,rumple, dishevel.mustard plaster.sinapism.muster,v.assemble,marshal.musty,a.mildewed, fusty,mouldy,frowzy,rank,stale.mute,a.dumb, obmutescent;silent,speechless.mutilate,v.maim,dismember,mangle.mutilation,n.maim,dismemberment,mangling.mutinous,a.rebellious, insubordinate,seditious,insurgent, insurrectionary.mutiny,n.insurrection,rebellion, insubordination,revolt.mutter,v.maunder.muttering,a.inarticulate, indistinct, maundering.mutual,a.reciprocal.mutuality,n.correlation, reciprocation,interchange.muzzle,v.restrain,repress.mysterious,a.inscrutable,cryptic,obscure,unexplainable, enigmatical, unfathomed,unfathomable,abstruse,mystic, inexplicable,recondite, cabalistic,occult, unexplained.mystery,n.secret, enigma,riddle,intricacy, arcanum.mystic,a.occult, esoteric, cabalistic, mystical.mystification,n.bewilderment,perplexity, obfuscation.mystify,v.bewilder,perplex, obfuscate, befog,nonplus.mystifying,a.perplexing, confusing,bewildering,mysterious.myth,n.legend, tradition, fable.mythical,a.fabulous,legendary, traditional.

moonshine,n.balderdash, flummery,fustian,nonsense.

moot,a.undecided,unsettled,debatable.

mooted,a.moot.

mop,n.malkin, swab; merkin (cannon mop).

mopboard,n.baseboard, surbase.

mopish,a.dejected,glum,dumpish,listless,dull, spiritless.

moral,a.ethical;virtuous,good;accountable,responsible,probable.Antonyms:immoral,licentious.

moral insanity.æsthesiomania.

morality,n.virtue,rectitude, probity, goodness.Antonym:immorality.

moral philosophy.deontology, ethology, ethics.

morass,n.slough,quagmire,bog,marsh,swamp.

Mormon,n.Latter-day Saint.

morning,n.forenoon;dawn, daybreak, aurora, cock-crowing,sunrise.

morning,a.matin, matutinal.

morning concert.(in the open air) aubade.

morning reception.levee.

morning service.matins.

morose,a.churlish,sulky,sullen, moody, splenetic,unamiable.

morsel,n.bite, mouthful;fragment, crumb,scrap.

mortally,adv.fatally.

mortar,n.Associated word: pestle.

mortification,n.gangrene;chagrin,humiliation,abasement,embarrassment;repression,subjection.

mortify,v.gangrene;chagrin,embarrass,abase;repress,deny,restrain.

mosaic,a.tessellated, inlaid,variegated.

most,n.majority.

mote,n.particle,speck,mite.

moth-eaten,a.moth-fretted.

mother,n.materfamilias,matron, matriarch; generatrix;dam.Associated words: cognate, cognation, matricide, maternalism, uterine, matriarchy, matriarchal.

motherhood,n.maternity.

motherly,a.maternal.

mother-of-pearl,n.nacre.

motion,n.movement,activity;gesture,signal, gesticulation;port, gait;impulse.Antonyms: inertia,rest, stagnation, immobility, quiescence,repose.

motionless,a.stationary, inert,stagnant, quiescent.

motive,n.incentive,inducement,incitement.

mottled,a.piebald,party-colored,spotted.

mould,n.matrix, matrice;pattern,model; mouldiness,mildew,blight,smut,fungus.

mould,v.form,shape,model,cast; knead.

mouldy,a.musty, mildewed, fusty,decaying.

moult,v.mew, exuviate.

moulting,n.exuviation.

mount,v.ascend; bestride.

mountain,n.mount.Associated words: orology, orography, orogeny, montiform, butte, arete,spur, montanic, intermontane, oread, mountainous, ultramontane, bergstock, subalpine, alpenstock,range,ridge, submontane, alpestrine.

mountebank,n.quack;charlatan,impostor, empiric.

mourn,v.deplore,lament,regret,grieve,repine,sorrow,bemoan,bewail.

mournful,a.sorrowful,lugubrious,doleful, woful.

mourning,n.sorrow,grief, bereavement; weeds.

mouse,n.murine, rodent;pl.mice, vermin.

mousing,a.meddlesome, prying,intrusive.

mouthpiece,n.embouchure;spokesman.

movable,a.portable, mobile.Antonyms:immovable,fast, immobile.

move,v.transfer; migrate, immigrate,emigrate,remove; impel, propel,actuate,influence; budge,stir.

movement,n.motion, locomotion, transference,removal.

movement cure.kinesiatrics, kinesitherapy, lingism.

moving,a.motive.

mow,v.reap.

mowing,n.reaping.

mucus,n.phlegm.

mud,n.mire,ooze, muck; silt.

mud bath.illutation.

muddiness,n.turbidness, feculence,obscurity, miriness.

muddle,v.confuse, fuddle,bewilder.

muddle,n.confusion.

muddled,a.confused, addled.

muddy,a.feculent, turbid,roily;opaque, intransparent, confused, involved, incoherent.

mud-eating,a.limivorous.

muffle,v.wrap,envelop;deaden,subdue.

muffler,n.scarf, tippet.

mulct,n.fine, amercement.

mule,n.hybrid, hinny.

mule-driver,n.muleteer.

mulish,a.Seestubborn.

mull,v.ruminate,ponder, cogitate.

mulligrubs,n.(Slang)colic.

multitude,n.crowd, throng,host.

mum,a.silent,speechless,dumb,mute.

mumble,v.mutter, maunder, mump.

mumbling,a.muttering, inarticulate, indistinct, incoherent.

mummery,n.masquerade,mimicry.

mumpish,a.moody,sullen,morose,sulky,unamiable.

mumps,n.parotitis; sullenness, the sulks.

munch,v.craunch.

murder,n.homicide.

murderer,n.homicide.

murderous,a.sanguinary, homicidal, fell.

muriatic acid.hydrochloric acid.

murky,a.lowering,dark.

murmur,v.grumble,complain,repine.

murmur,n.plaint,complaint; purl,babble; undertone.

murmuring,a.complaining,querulous, repining.

muscle,n.brawn, thew;sinew, tendon.

muscular,a.brawny, thewy, sinewy,stalwart.

muse,v.contemplate,ruminate,brood,ponder,mull,reflect.

muse,n.contemplation,meditation, revery.

Muses,n. pl.Pierides, tuneful nine (Calliope, Clio, Erato, Euterpe, Melpomene, Polymnia, Terpsichore, Thalia, Urania).Associated word: Pierian.

mushroom,a.ephemeral, transitory.

mushrooms,n. pl.Fungi, agaric, Agaricaceæ.Associated words: mycology, agaricin, pileus, gills, spore. SeeFungi.

music,n.melody, symphony,harmony; melodies, harmonics.

musical,a.melodious,harmonious,tuneful, symphonious.

musical entertainment.musicale,concert.

muskmelon,n.cantaloupe.

muss,n.confusion,litter,jumble,disorder.--v.disarrange,rumple, dishevel.

mustard plaster.sinapism.

muster,v.assemble,marshal.

musty,a.mildewed, fusty,mouldy,frowzy,rank,stale.

mute,a.dumb, obmutescent;silent,speechless.

mutilate,v.maim,dismember,mangle.

mutilation,n.maim,dismemberment,mangling.

mutinous,a.rebellious, insubordinate,seditious,insurgent, insurrectionary.

mutiny,n.insurrection,rebellion, insubordination,revolt.

mutter,v.maunder.

muttering,a.inarticulate, indistinct, maundering.

mutual,a.reciprocal.

mutuality,n.correlation, reciprocation,interchange.

muzzle,v.restrain,repress.

mysterious,a.inscrutable,cryptic,obscure,unexplainable, enigmatical, unfathomed,unfathomable,abstruse,mystic, inexplicable,recondite, cabalistic,occult, unexplained.

mystery,n.secret, enigma,riddle,intricacy, arcanum.

mystic,a.occult, esoteric, cabalistic, mystical.

mystification,n.bewilderment,perplexity, obfuscation.

mystify,v.bewilder,perplex, obfuscate, befog,nonplus.

mystifying,a.perplexing, confusing,bewildering,mysterious.

myth,n.legend, tradition, fable.

mythical,a.fabulous,legendary, traditional.


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