sockdologer,n.(Slang) poser, facer,settler, conclusiveanswer.sod,n.sward,turf; peat.sodden,a.boiled, seethed;soaked, saturated.sofa,n.tête-à-tête, divan, causeuse.soft,a.mellow;yielding, impressible, impressionable, malleable, fictile,plastic,pliable;bland, emollient,grateful,delicate,subdued;flexible, flaccid, facile,compliant,irresolute; conciliatory,mild;effeminate, unmanlysilly,foolish; queachy.soft coal.bituminouscoal.soften,v.intenerate,mollify;palliate, extenuate,qualify,modify,relax,mitigate, emolliate,appease,temper,abate;subdue, tonedown.softening,a.demulcent,lenient, assuasive, emollient, relaxing, mollient, mollifying.softness,n.mellowness, impressibility, plasticity, flaccidity, fictility, emollescence.soft parts of the body.Associated word: sarcology.soft soap.(Colloq.)blandishment,blarney,palaver, buncombe,wheedling,cajolery,flattery.soil,n.ground,earth,dirt, humus,land, loam, mold;dirt,pollution,defilement;manure,dung,fæces,excrement.soil,v.dirty,defile,pollute, besmear,contaminate,taint, besmirch, sully,tarnish, begrime.soldier,n.warrior;private; cadet; recruit; veteran; cavalry; infantry; cohort; sepoy; chasseur; zouave;volunteer; conscript; myrmidon; cossack; guerrilla; trooper; skirmisher; grenadier; uhlan; dragoon.soldierly,a.martial,military.soldier's dress.uniform, regimentals.solecism,n.blunder,impropriety,barbarism.solemn,a.serious,sober,grave; impressive, awe-inspiring,august,majestic.solemness,n.solemnity, gravity, impressiveness,seriousness.solicit,v.ask,seek,request.solicitation,n.request,instance, entreaty,invitation.solid,a.dense,compact,hard,impenetrable,firm,unyielding, imporous,concrete, substantial; unanimous,united, undivided.Antonyms:porous, incompact,hollow,spongy,soft,plastic,unstable,fallacious.solidness,n.solidity, firmness, compactness,stability, imporosity;validity.soliloquy,n.monologue.solitary,a.unfrequented,secluded,lonely;single, individual; eremetic, hermitical.solitary,n.recluse, anchoret,hermit, eremite.solitude,n.loneliness,isolation,seclusion, eremitism,retirement; wilderness.Associated words: apanthropy, monophobia, eremophobia.solution,n.dissolution,melting, liquefaction,resolution, disintegration; disentanglement,explanation, elucidation, explication.solvent,n.menstruum,dissolvent, resolvent.somersault,n.somerset.sometimes,adv.at intervals,now and then, occasionally.son,n.Associated words: filial, filiation, unfilial, filicide, mulier, mulierty.song,n.hymn,chant,lay, ditty, ballad, onody, chansonnette, lyric, lilt, lied, pæan, cantata, aria, sonnet,strain,round, rhapsody,dirge, chanson.songcraft,n.versification, poesy,poetry.song of Solomon.canticle.song of triumph.pæan.sonorous,a.resonant,resounding; high-sounding, stentorian, vibrant.sonship,n.filiation.soot,n.crock,smut.soothe,v.compose, tranquilize,pacify, assuage,mollify,calm.soothing,a.bland, emollient, demulcent, gratifying, quieting,sedative.soothsayer,n.seer,prophet, diviner, haruspice,foreteller.soothsaying,n.prophecy,augury, divination,prediction, prognostication.sooty,a.fuliginous, soot-covered.sophism,n.fallacy, paralogy, fallaciousreasoning.sophistical,a.fallacious,unsound.sophistry,n.fallacy, paralogy, paralogism.sophomoric,a.inflated,bombastic, pretentious.soprano,n.descant, treble.sorcerer,n.conjurer,necromancer,magician, enchanter,juggler,wizard.sorcery,n.necromancy,magic,enchantment,witchcraft, blackart.sordid,a.low,degraded,abject,base.sore,a.ulcerated, cankered, ulcerous,raw, inflamed, irritated;distressing,grievous,severe; grieved, pained,hurt,sensitive.sore,n.ulcer, ulceration, imposthume, pustule,boil,abscess,canker,fester, blain,gathering; (venereal sore) chancre, chancroid.Associated words: antiseptic,slough, proudflesh,poultice,salve,ointment, pledget, spleget.sore,adv.grievously, sorely, severely, greatly.sorrow,n.grief,regret,remorse, misery,heaviness,rue,unhappiness,contrition, dolor, agony,distress,compunction, bereavement.sorrow,v.grieve,mourn,regret,deplore,bewail,lament.sorrowful,a.Seesad.sorry,a.melancholy,mournful,dismal, depressing,sad;abject,despicable,miserable,mean, paltry,contemptible,pitiful;contrite,penitent, chagrined, pained.sort,n.kind,species,character,description,strain,class.sort,v.assort, classify; conjoin;choose,select,cull; consort,associate, fraternize;harmonize,agree,accord, conform.so-so,a.middling,passable,tolerable,mediocre,ordinary,average.sot,n.toper,drunkard, bibber.soul,n.spirit, Psyche.Associated words: psychology, psychic, psychological, psychomachy, transmigration, metempsychosis, psychogenesis, psychopannychism, theodicy, monopsychism.sound,a.whole, intact,perfect,flawless, unimpaired;healthy;logical;severe,hard,heavy;sane,rational;profound, undisturbed,unbroken;valid,legal,lawful: seaworthy;sensible, irrefutable,convincing.sound,n.strait,narrows,channel.sound,v.fathom, gauge;examine,try,test,probe, explore;proclaim,publish,herald;resound.sound,n.noise,report.Associated words: acoustic, acoustics, acoustician, catacoustics, cataphonics, phonetic, phonetics, polycoustic, phonetism, phonology, polycoustics, diacoustics, diaphonics, phonic, soniferous, sonification, megaphone, sonorescence, diacritical, harmonics, phonation, polyphone, polyphonic, polyphonist, polyphony, monophonic, monophthong, homophone, homophonic, homophony,modulate,modulation.sounding,n.bathymetry;examination; proclamation;resonance,reverberation.sounding,a.sonorous,resonant, sonant.soundless,a.unfathomable, abysmal;silent,noiseless, aphonic, surd.sound-producing,a.sonorific.soup,n.broth, bouillon, consommé, pottage, purée, bisk, bisque, julienne.soup dish.tureen.sour,a.acid, tart, acetose, acerbitous,acrid;rancid,musty;curdled, loppered; imbittered,morose, misanthropic,unamiable,dour, cynical,surly,grum, austere,crabbed,cross.sour,v.curdle, acidify, lopper,spoil, acidulate; imbitter, embitter.source,n.origin,spring,fountain,rise.sourness,n.acidity, tartness, acerbity,sharpness; rancidity, mustiness; asperity,acrimony, moroseness, cynicism,crossness.souse,v.pickle;douse,immerse,plunge,submerge.soutane,n.cassock.southerner,n.southron.southern lights.aurora australis.south wind.Auster, Notus.souvenir,n.keepsake,reminder,memento; trophy.sovereign,a.supreme,chief, paramount,predominant; controlling,effectual,efficacious.sovereign,n.ruler,monarch.sovereignty,n.dominion, supremacy,sway,empire,scepter, dynasty.sow,v.propagate, disseminate,scatter,plant.space,n.extension, vacancy; vacuum;distance,interval; interspace (intervening space); interstice; abyss.Associated words: plenum, plenist, vacuist, spacial.spacious,a.capacious,roomy,vast.spade,n.spud (narrow,with long handle).Spain,n.Iberia.Associated words: Hispanicism, Hispanic, Spanish, Spaniard, Iberian.span,n.nine inches;team,yoke,pair.spare,v.forbear,refrain, bemerciful.spare,a.thin,lean,poor,gaunt,meager, lank;superfluous.sparing,a.economical,frugal,saving, parsimonious,chary;scanty,scarce,meager; compassionate,indulgent,forbearing,merciful,lenient.spark,v.court, woo, philander.sparkle,v.glitter, coruscate,glisten, scintillate,twinkle,gleam.sparkle,n.scintillation,glitter, gleaming,brilliancy.sparkling,a.glittering, flashing,brilliant,twinkling, coruscant, glistening, lambent, scintillant, glistering;spirited,vigorous, impassioned,bright; mantling, gleaming, bubbling.sparse,a.scattered,thin, innumerous,meager.Spartan,a.hardy, undaunted,courageous,doughty.spasm,n.convulsion, paroxysm,fit, throe.spasmodic,a.intermittent,fitful, convulsive.spat,n.tiff,quarrel,dispute, dissension.spats,n. pl.gaiters, spatterdashes.spawn,n.roe, ova, eggs (of fishes,frogs, etc.); mycelium.speak,v.utter, pronounce,say, articulate, enunciate,express,talk;discourse,address, declaim,harangue,preach,lecture,rant, descant,expatiate;accost,address;declare,publish,proclaim,announce,bruit.Antonyms:repress,suppress,refrain.speaker,n.orator, discourser,spokesman, prolocutor,mouthpiece, interlocutor, chairman.speaking alone.monologue,soliloquy.speaking together.conference, collocution.spear,n.lance, javelin, harpoon, assagai, trident, jireed;shoot,spire,blade.special,a.particular,especial,specific, exceptional.specialty,n.particularity; speciality.specie,n.coin,cash, metallicmoney.species,n.group,class,kind,brood,sort,variety.specific,a.definite,precise, specified;characteristic,particular,special.specify,v.designate, particularize, individualize,name.specimen,n.example,sample,model,copy,pattern.specious,a.plausible;obvious,manifest.speck,n.spot,stain;atom,mite,particle,bit.speckle,v.speck,spot,dot.speckled,a.spotted,mottled.spectacle,n.scene,sight,show,exhibition, pageant.spectator,n.beholder,witness,bystander,onlooker, observer.specter,n.phantom,apparition,shade,ghost, manes,spirit, wraith,spook.spectral,a.phantomlike,ghostly.speculate,v.theorize,meditate,conjecture,guess,think.speculation,n.theory,supposition,conjecture; contemplation,thought.speculative,a.contemplative,meditative; theoretical, supposititious.speech,a.utterance, speaking;language,talk,conversation, parlance,words;tongue, dialect; patois;discourse,oration,address,plea, declamation,dissertation, epilogue, allocution, exhortation, disquisition, effusion, descant;harangue,diatribe,tirade,screed, rhapsody, philippic, invective,rant;soliloquy,monologue;dialogue; colloquy; trialogue; interlocution; improvisation; toast; equivocation, prevarication,quibbling; ambages, pseudology, amphibology, amphiboly, dilogy.Associated words: extempore, extemporaneous, extemporize, extemporization,impromptu, improvise, improvisation, brogue, aphasia, amnesia, oratory, elocution, rhetoric,oratorical, rhetorical, rhetorician, elocutionary, peroration,voluble, volubility,fluent, fluency.speechless,a.dumb,mute, aphasic, inarticulate.speechlessness,n.dumbness, muteness, obmutescence, taciturnity, aphasia.speed,n.velocity,swiftness,rapidity, celerity,haste, expedition,dispatch, posthaste; impetuosity.Associated words: tachymeter, tachometer, trechometer, stathmograph,momentum,impetus.speed,v.hurry,hasten; accelerate, expedite,quicken,dispatch, facilitate; prosper,favor.speedy,a.swift,quick,fast,rapid,fleet,hasty,hurried, expeditious.spell,n.charm, incantation, exorcism;period,season,interval.spell,v.orthographize; decipher,read,unravel,unfold;charm,bewitch.spellbound,a.fascinated, charmed, enchanted, bewitched.speller,n.orthographist, orthographer.spelling,n.orthography.Associated words: orthographic, phonetic, glossic, nomic, homographic, homography, homograph, heterographic, heterography, cacographic, cacography.spend,v.expend, disburse.spender,n.prodigal,spendthrift.spending,n.expenditure, disbursement.spendthrift,n.waster,spender,prodigal, squandererspent,a.exhausted, tired, consumed, wornout.sperm-whale,n.cachelot, spermaceti whale.sphere,n.globe, orb,ball; province, circuit,beat, purview,compass,circle;station,position,rank;region,domain,realm; orbit.
sockdologer,n.(Slang) poser, facer,settler, conclusiveanswer.
sod,n.sward,turf; peat.
sodden,a.boiled, seethed;soaked, saturated.
sofa,n.tête-à-tête, divan, causeuse.
soft,a.mellow;yielding, impressible, impressionable, malleable, fictile,plastic,pliable;bland, emollient,grateful,delicate,subdued;flexible, flaccid, facile,compliant,irresolute; conciliatory,mild;effeminate, unmanlysilly,foolish; queachy.
soft coal.bituminouscoal.
soften,v.intenerate,mollify;palliate, extenuate,qualify,modify,relax,mitigate, emolliate,appease,temper,abate;subdue, tonedown.
softening,a.demulcent,lenient, assuasive, emollient, relaxing, mollient, mollifying.
softness,n.mellowness, impressibility, plasticity, flaccidity, fictility, emollescence.
soft parts of the body.Associated word: sarcology.
soft soap.(Colloq.)blandishment,blarney,palaver, buncombe,wheedling,cajolery,flattery.
soil,n.ground,earth,dirt, humus,land, loam, mold;dirt,pollution,defilement;manure,dung,fæces,excrement.
soil,v.dirty,defile,pollute, besmear,contaminate,taint, besmirch, sully,tarnish, begrime.
soldier,n.warrior;private; cadet; recruit; veteran; cavalry; infantry; cohort; sepoy; chasseur; zouave;volunteer; conscript; myrmidon; cossack; guerrilla; trooper; skirmisher; grenadier; uhlan; dragoon.
soldierly,a.martial,military.
soldier's dress.uniform, regimentals.
solecism,n.blunder,impropriety,barbarism.
solemn,a.serious,sober,grave; impressive, awe-inspiring,august,majestic.
solemness,n.solemnity, gravity, impressiveness,seriousness.
solicit,v.ask,seek,request.
solicitation,n.request,instance, entreaty,invitation.
solid,a.dense,compact,hard,impenetrable,firm,unyielding, imporous,concrete, substantial; unanimous,united, undivided.Antonyms:porous, incompact,hollow,spongy,soft,plastic,unstable,fallacious.
solidness,n.solidity, firmness, compactness,stability, imporosity;validity.
soliloquy,n.monologue.
solitary,a.unfrequented,secluded,lonely;single, individual; eremetic, hermitical.
solitary,n.recluse, anchoret,hermit, eremite.
solitude,n.loneliness,isolation,seclusion, eremitism,retirement; wilderness.Associated words: apanthropy, monophobia, eremophobia.
solution,n.dissolution,melting, liquefaction,resolution, disintegration; disentanglement,explanation, elucidation, explication.
solvent,n.menstruum,dissolvent, resolvent.
somersault,n.somerset.
sometimes,adv.at intervals,now and then, occasionally.
son,n.Associated words: filial, filiation, unfilial, filicide, mulier, mulierty.
song,n.hymn,chant,lay, ditty, ballad, onody, chansonnette, lyric, lilt, lied, pæan, cantata, aria, sonnet,strain,round, rhapsody,dirge, chanson.
songcraft,n.versification, poesy,poetry.
song of Solomon.canticle.
song of triumph.pæan.
sonorous,a.resonant,resounding; high-sounding, stentorian, vibrant.
sonship,n.filiation.
soot,n.crock,smut.
soothe,v.compose, tranquilize,pacify, assuage,mollify,calm.
soothing,a.bland, emollient, demulcent, gratifying, quieting,sedative.
soothsayer,n.seer,prophet, diviner, haruspice,foreteller.
soothsaying,n.prophecy,augury, divination,prediction, prognostication.
sooty,a.fuliginous, soot-covered.
sophism,n.fallacy, paralogy, fallaciousreasoning.
sophistical,a.fallacious,unsound.
sophistry,n.fallacy, paralogy, paralogism.
sophomoric,a.inflated,bombastic, pretentious.
soprano,n.descant, treble.
sorcerer,n.conjurer,necromancer,magician, enchanter,juggler,wizard.
sorcery,n.necromancy,magic,enchantment,witchcraft, blackart.
sordid,a.low,degraded,abject,base.
sore,a.ulcerated, cankered, ulcerous,raw, inflamed, irritated;distressing,grievous,severe; grieved, pained,hurt,sensitive.
sore,n.ulcer, ulceration, imposthume, pustule,boil,abscess,canker,fester, blain,gathering; (venereal sore) chancre, chancroid.Associated words: antiseptic,slough, proudflesh,poultice,salve,ointment, pledget, spleget.
sore,adv.grievously, sorely, severely, greatly.
sorrow,n.grief,regret,remorse, misery,heaviness,rue,unhappiness,contrition, dolor, agony,distress,compunction, bereavement.
sorrow,v.grieve,mourn,regret,deplore,bewail,lament.
sorrowful,a.Seesad.
sorry,a.melancholy,mournful,dismal, depressing,sad;abject,despicable,miserable,mean, paltry,contemptible,pitiful;contrite,penitent, chagrined, pained.
sort,n.kind,species,character,description,strain,class.
sort,v.assort, classify; conjoin;choose,select,cull; consort,associate, fraternize;harmonize,agree,accord, conform.
so-so,a.middling,passable,tolerable,mediocre,ordinary,average.
sot,n.toper,drunkard, bibber.
soul,n.spirit, Psyche.Associated words: psychology, psychic, psychological, psychomachy, transmigration, metempsychosis, psychogenesis, psychopannychism, theodicy, monopsychism.
sound,a.whole, intact,perfect,flawless, unimpaired;healthy;logical;severe,hard,heavy;sane,rational;profound, undisturbed,unbroken;valid,legal,lawful: seaworthy;sensible, irrefutable,convincing.
sound,n.strait,narrows,channel.
sound,v.fathom, gauge;examine,try,test,probe, explore;proclaim,publish,herald;resound.
sound,n.noise,report.Associated words: acoustic, acoustics, acoustician, catacoustics, cataphonics, phonetic, phonetics, polycoustic, phonetism, phonology, polycoustics, diacoustics, diaphonics, phonic, soniferous, sonification, megaphone, sonorescence, diacritical, harmonics, phonation, polyphone, polyphonic, polyphonist, polyphony, monophonic, monophthong, homophone, homophonic, homophony,modulate,modulation.
sounding,n.bathymetry;examination; proclamation;resonance,reverberation.
sounding,a.sonorous,resonant, sonant.
soundless,a.unfathomable, abysmal;silent,noiseless, aphonic, surd.
sound-producing,a.sonorific.
soup,n.broth, bouillon, consommé, pottage, purée, bisk, bisque, julienne.
soup dish.tureen.
sour,a.acid, tart, acetose, acerbitous,acrid;rancid,musty;curdled, loppered; imbittered,morose, misanthropic,unamiable,dour, cynical,surly,grum, austere,crabbed,cross.
sour,v.curdle, acidify, lopper,spoil, acidulate; imbitter, embitter.
source,n.origin,spring,fountain,rise.
sourness,n.acidity, tartness, acerbity,sharpness; rancidity, mustiness; asperity,acrimony, moroseness, cynicism,crossness.
souse,v.pickle;douse,immerse,plunge,submerge.
soutane,n.cassock.
southerner,n.southron.
southern lights.aurora australis.
south wind.Auster, Notus.
souvenir,n.keepsake,reminder,memento; trophy.
sovereign,a.supreme,chief, paramount,predominant; controlling,effectual,efficacious.
sovereign,n.ruler,monarch.
sovereignty,n.dominion, supremacy,sway,empire,scepter, dynasty.
sow,v.propagate, disseminate,scatter,plant.
space,n.extension, vacancy; vacuum;distance,interval; interspace (intervening space); interstice; abyss.Associated words: plenum, plenist, vacuist, spacial.
spacious,a.capacious,roomy,vast.
spade,n.spud (narrow,with long handle).
Spain,n.Iberia.Associated words: Hispanicism, Hispanic, Spanish, Spaniard, Iberian.
span,n.nine inches;team,yoke,pair.
spare,v.forbear,refrain, bemerciful.
spare,a.thin,lean,poor,gaunt,meager, lank;superfluous.
sparing,a.economical,frugal,saving, parsimonious,chary;scanty,scarce,meager; compassionate,indulgent,forbearing,merciful,lenient.
spark,v.court, woo, philander.
sparkle,v.glitter, coruscate,glisten, scintillate,twinkle,gleam.
sparkle,n.scintillation,glitter, gleaming,brilliancy.
sparkling,a.glittering, flashing,brilliant,twinkling, coruscant, glistening, lambent, scintillant, glistering;spirited,vigorous, impassioned,bright; mantling, gleaming, bubbling.
sparse,a.scattered,thin, innumerous,meager.
Spartan,a.hardy, undaunted,courageous,doughty.
spasm,n.convulsion, paroxysm,fit, throe.
spasmodic,a.intermittent,fitful, convulsive.
spat,n.tiff,quarrel,dispute, dissension.
spats,n. pl.gaiters, spatterdashes.
spawn,n.roe, ova, eggs (of fishes,frogs, etc.); mycelium.
speak,v.utter, pronounce,say, articulate, enunciate,express,talk;discourse,address, declaim,harangue,preach,lecture,rant, descant,expatiate;accost,address;declare,publish,proclaim,announce,bruit.Antonyms:repress,suppress,refrain.
speaker,n.orator, discourser,spokesman, prolocutor,mouthpiece, interlocutor, chairman.
speaking alone.monologue,soliloquy.
speaking together.conference, collocution.
spear,n.lance, javelin, harpoon, assagai, trident, jireed;shoot,spire,blade.
special,a.particular,especial,specific, exceptional.
specialty,n.particularity; speciality.
specie,n.coin,cash, metallicmoney.
species,n.group,class,kind,brood,sort,variety.
specific,a.definite,precise, specified;characteristic,particular,special.
specify,v.designate, particularize, individualize,name.
specimen,n.example,sample,model,copy,pattern.
specious,a.plausible;obvious,manifest.
speck,n.spot,stain;atom,mite,particle,bit.
speckle,v.speck,spot,dot.
speckled,a.spotted,mottled.
spectacle,n.scene,sight,show,exhibition, pageant.
spectator,n.beholder,witness,bystander,onlooker, observer.
specter,n.phantom,apparition,shade,ghost, manes,spirit, wraith,spook.
spectral,a.phantomlike,ghostly.
speculate,v.theorize,meditate,conjecture,guess,think.
speculation,n.theory,supposition,conjecture; contemplation,thought.
speculative,a.contemplative,meditative; theoretical, supposititious.
speech,a.utterance, speaking;language,talk,conversation, parlance,words;tongue, dialect; patois;discourse,oration,address,plea, declamation,dissertation, epilogue, allocution, exhortation, disquisition, effusion, descant;harangue,diatribe,tirade,screed, rhapsody, philippic, invective,rant;soliloquy,monologue;dialogue; colloquy; trialogue; interlocution; improvisation; toast; equivocation, prevarication,quibbling; ambages, pseudology, amphibology, amphiboly, dilogy.Associated words: extempore, extemporaneous, extemporize, extemporization,impromptu, improvise, improvisation, brogue, aphasia, amnesia, oratory, elocution, rhetoric,oratorical, rhetorical, rhetorician, elocutionary, peroration,voluble, volubility,fluent, fluency.
speechless,a.dumb,mute, aphasic, inarticulate.
speechlessness,n.dumbness, muteness, obmutescence, taciturnity, aphasia.
speed,n.velocity,swiftness,rapidity, celerity,haste, expedition,dispatch, posthaste; impetuosity.Associated words: tachymeter, tachometer, trechometer, stathmograph,momentum,impetus.
speed,v.hurry,hasten; accelerate, expedite,quicken,dispatch, facilitate; prosper,favor.
speedy,a.swift,quick,fast,rapid,fleet,hasty,hurried, expeditious.
spell,n.charm, incantation, exorcism;period,season,interval.
spell,v.orthographize; decipher,read,unravel,unfold;charm,bewitch.
spellbound,a.fascinated, charmed, enchanted, bewitched.
speller,n.orthographist, orthographer.
spelling,n.orthography.Associated words: orthographic, phonetic, glossic, nomic, homographic, homography, homograph, heterographic, heterography, cacographic, cacography.
spend,v.expend, disburse.
spender,n.prodigal,spendthrift.
spending,n.expenditure, disbursement.
spendthrift,n.waster,spender,prodigal, squanderer
spent,a.exhausted, tired, consumed, wornout.
sperm-whale,n.cachelot, spermaceti whale.
sphere,n.globe, orb,ball; province, circuit,beat, purview,compass,circle;station,position,rank;region,domain,realm; orbit.