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firm friendship, staunch friendship, intimate friendship, familiar friendship, bosom friendship, cordial friendship, tried friendship, devoted friendship, lasting friendship, fast friendship, sincere friendship, warm friendship, ardent friendship.
cordiality, fraternization, entente cordiale[Fr], good understanding, rapprochement, sympathy, fellow-feeling, response, welcomeness.
affection &c. (love) Love; favoritism; good will &c. (benevolence) Benevolence.
acquaintance, familiarity, intimacy, intercourse, fellowship, knowledge of; introduction.
V. be friendly &c. adj., be friends &c. Friend, be acquainted with &c. adj.; know; have the ear of; keep company with &c.(sociality) Sociality; hold communication with, have dealings with, sympathize with; have a leaning to; bear good will &c. (benevolent) Benevolence; love &c. Love; make much of; befriend &c. (aid) Aid; introduce to. set one's horses together; have the latchstring out [U. S.]; hold out the right hand of friendship, extend the right hand of friendship, hold out the right hand of fellowship; become friendly &c. adj.; make friends &c. Friend with; break the lee, be introduced to; make acquaintance with, pick acquaintance with, scrape acquaintance with; get into favor, gain the friendship of.
shake hands with, fraternize, embrace; receive with open arms, throw oneself into the arms of; meet halfway, take in good part.
friends with, well with, at home with, hand in hand with; on good terms, on friendly terms, on amicable terms, on cordial terms, on familiar terms, on intimate terms, on good footing; on speaking terms, on visiting terms; in one's good graces, in one's good books.
acquainted, familiar, intimate, thick, hand and glove, hail fellow well met, free and easy; welcome.
Adv. amicably &c. adj.; with open arms; sans ceremonie[Fr]; arm in arm.
Phr. amicitia semper prodest [Lat][Seneca]; " a mystic bond of brotherhood makes all men one " [Carlyle]; " friendship is love without either flowers or veil " [Hare]; trulgus amicitias utilitate probat [Lat][Ovid].
# 889. Enmity. - N. enmity, hostility; unfriendliness &c. adj.; discord &c. Discord; bitterness, rancor.
alienation, estrangement; dislike &c. Dislike; hate &c. Hate.
heartburning[obs3]; animosity &c. Resentment; malevolence &c. Malevolence.
V. be inimical &c. adj.; keep at arm's length, hold at arm's length; be at loggerheads; bear malice &c. Malevolence; fall out; take umbrage &c. Resentment; harden the heart, alienate, estrange.
[not friendly, but not hostile see indifference Indifference].
Adj. inimical, unfriendly, hostile; at enmity, at variance, at daggers drawn,at open war with; up in arms against; in bad odor with.
on bad terms, not on speaking terms; cool; cold, cold hearted; estranged, alienated, disaffected, irreconcilable.
V. desire; wish, wish for; be desirous &c. adj. have a longing &c. n.; hope &c. Hope.
acquaintance, neighbor, next-door neighbor, casual acquaintance, nodding acquaintance; wellwisher.
favorer, fautor[obs3], patron, Mecaenas; tutelary saint, good genius, advocate, partisan, sympathizer; ally; friend in need &c. (auxiliary) Auxiliary.
comrade, mate, companion, familiar, confrere, comrade, camarade[obs3], confidante, intimate; old crony, crony; chum; pal; buddy, bosom buddy; playfellow, playmate, childhood friend; bedfellow, bedmate; chamber fellow.
associate, colleague, compeer.
schoolmate, schoolfellow[obs3]; classfellow[obs3], classman[obs3], classmate; roommate; fellow-man, stable companion.
best man, maid of honor, matron of honor.
compatriot; fellow countryman, countryman.
shopmate, fellow-worker, shipmate, messmate[obs3]; fellow companion, boon companion, pot companion; copartner, partner, senior partner, junior partner.
Arcades ambo Pylades and Orestes Castor and Pollux[obs3], Nisus and Euryalus[Lat], Damon and Pythias, par nobile fratrum[Lat].
host, Amphitryon[obs3], Boniface; guest, visitor, protégé.
Phr. amici probantur rebus adversis[Lat]; ohne bruder kann man leben nicht ohne Freund[Ger]; " best friend, my well-spring in the wilderness " [G. Eliot]; conocidos muchos amigos pocos[Sp]; " friend more divine than all divinities " [G. Eliot]; vida sin amigo muerte sin testigo[Sp].
# 891. Enemy. - N. enemy; antagonist; foe, foeman[obs3]; open enemy, bitter enemy,; opponent &c. Opponent; back friend. public enemy, enemy to society.
Phr. every hand being against one; " he makes no friend who never made a foe " [Tennyson].
with friends like that, who needs enemies?; Lord protect me from my friends; I can protect myself from my enemies.
# 892. Sociality. - N. sociality, sociability, sociableness &c. adj.; social intercourse; consociation[obs3]; intercourse, intercommunity[obs3]; consortship[obs3], companionship, comradeship; clubbism[obs3]; esprit de corps.
conviviality; good fellowship, good company; joviality, jollity, savoir vivre[Fr], festivity, festive board, merrymaking; loving cup[Obs]!; hospitality, heartiness; cheer.
welcome, welcomeness; greeting; hearty welcome, hearty reception, warm reception; urbanity &c. (courtesy) Courtesy; familiarity.
good fellow, jolly fellow; bon enfant[Fr], bawcock[obs3].
social circle, family circle; circle of acquaintance, coterie, society, company. social gathering, social reunion; assembly &c. (assemblage) Assemblage; barbecue [U. S.], bee; corn-husking [U. S.], corn-shucking [U. S.]; house raising, barn raising; husking, husking-bee [U. S.]; infare[obs3].
party, entertainment, reception, levee, at, home, conversazione[It], soiree, matinée; evening party, morning party, afternoon party, bridge party, garden party, surprise party; kettle, kettle drum; partie carrée[Fr], dish of tea, ridotto[obs3], rout[Obs]!; housewarming; ball, festival &c; smoker, smoker-party;sociable [U. S.], stag party, hen party, tamasha[Obs]!; tea-party, tea-fight*. (amusement) Amusement; " the feast of reason and the flow of soul " [Pope].
visiting; round of visits; call, morning call; interview &c. (conversation) Conversation; assignation; tryst, trysting place; appointment.
club &c. (association) Party.
V. be sociable &c. adj.; know; be acquainted &c. adj.; associate with, sort with, keep company with, walk hand in hand with; eat off the same trencher, club together, consort, bear one company, join; make acquaintance with &c. (friendship) Friendship; make advances, fraternize, embrace.
be at home with, feel at home with, make oneself at home with; make free with; crack a bottle with; receive hospitality, live at free quarters; find the latchstring out [U. S.]. visit, pay a visit; interchange visits, interchange cards; call at, call upon; leave a card; drop in, look in; look one up, beat up one's quarters.
entertain; give a party &c. n.; be at home, see one's friends, hang out, keep open house, do the honors; receive, receive with open arms; welcome; give a warm reception &c. n. to kill the fatted calf.
Adj. sociable, companionable, clubbable, conversable[obs3], cosy, cosey[obs3], chatty,, conversational; homiletical.
convivial; festive, festal; jovial, jolly, hospitable.
welcome, welcome as the roses in May; fèted, entertained.
free and easy, hall fellow well met, familiar, on visiting terms, acquainted.
social, neighborly; international; gregarious.
Adv. en famille[Fr], in the family circle; sans façon, sans ceremonie[Fr]; arm in arm.
Phr. " a crowd is not company " [Bacon]; " be bright and jovial among your guests tonight " [Macbeth]; " his worth is warrant for his welcome " [Two Gentlemen]; " let's be red with mirth " [Winter's Tale]; " welcome the coming speed the parting guest " [Pope].
cell, hermitage; convent &c. Temple; sanctum sanctorum[Lat].
depopulation, desertion, desolation; wilderness &c. (unproductive) Unproductiveness; howling wilderness; rotten borough, Old Sarum.
exclusion, excommunication, banishment, exile, ostracism, proscription; cut, cut direct; dead cut.
inhospitality[obs3], inhospitableness &c. adj.; dissociability[obs3]; domesticity, Darby and Joan.
recluse, hermit, eremite, cenobite; anchoret[obs3], anchorite; Simon Stylites[obs3]; troglodyte, Timon of Athens[obs3], Santon[obs3], solitaire, ruralist[obs3], disciple of Zimmermann, closet cynic, Diogenes; outcast, Pariah, castaway, pilgarlic[obs3]; wastrel, foundling, wilding[obs3].
V. be secluded , live secluded &c. adj.; keep aloof, stand, hold oneself aloof, keep in the background, stand in the background; keep snug; shut oneself up; deny oneself, seclude oneself creep into a corner, rusticate, aller planter ses choux[Fr]; retire, retire from the world; take the veil; abandon &c. Relinquishment; sport one's oak*.
cut, cut dead; refuse to associate with, refuse to acknowledge; look cool upon, turn one's back upon, shut the door upon;, repel, blackball, excommunicate, exclude, exile, expatriate; banish, outlaw, maroon, ostracize, proscribe, cut off from, send to Coventry, keep at arm's length, draw a cordon round.
Adj. secluded, sequestered, retired, delitescent[obs3], private, bye; out of the world, out of the way; " the world forgetting by the world forgot " [Pope].
snug, domestic, stay-at-home.
unsociable; unsocial, dissocial[obs3]; inhospitable, cynical, inconversable[Obs], unclubbable, sauvage[Fr], troglodytic.
solitary; lonely, lonesome; isolated, single.
estranged; unfrequented; uninhabitable, uninhabited; tenantless; abandoned; deserted, deserted in one's utmost need; unfriended[obs3]; kithless[obs3], friendless, homeless; lorn[obs3], forlorn, desolate.
unvisited, unintroduced[obs3], uninvited, unwelcome; under a cloud, left to shift for oneself, derelict, outcast.
banished &c. v.
Phr. noli me tangere[Lat].
" among them but not of them " [Byron]; " and homeless near a thousand homes I stood " [Wordsworth]; far from the madding crowd's ignoble strife [Gray]; " makes a solitude and calls it peace " [Byron]; magna civitas magna solitudo [Lat]; " never less alone than when alone " [Rogers]; " O sacred solitude! divine retreat! " [Young].
compliment; fair words, soft words, sweet words; honeyed phrases, ceremonial; ,salutation, reception, presentation, introduction, accueil[obs3], greeting, recognition; welcome, abord[Obs], respects, devoir, regards, remembrances; kind regards, kind remembrances; love, best love, duty; empty encomium, flattering remark, hollow commendation; salaams.
obeisance &c. (reverence) Respect; bow, courtesy, curtsy, scrape, salaam, kotow[obs3], kowtow, bowing and scraping; kneeling; genuflection &c. (worship) Worship; obsequiousness &c. Servility; capping, shaking hands, &c. v.; grip of the hand, embrace, hug, squeeze, accolade, loving cup, vin d'honneur[Fr], pledge; love token &c. (endearment) Endearment [Expression of affection or love]; kiss, buss, salute.
mark of recognition, nod; "nods and becks and wreathed smiles" [Milton]; valediction &c. Departure [Initial motion from]; condolence &c. Condolence.
V. be courteous &c. adj.; show courtesy &c. n.
mind one's P's and Q's, behave oneself, be all things to all men, conciliate, speak one fair, take in good part; make the amiable, do the amiable; look as if butter would not melt in one's mouth; mend one's manners.
receive, do the honors, usher, greet, hail, bid welcome; welcome, welcome with open arms; shake hands; hold out the hand, press the hand, squeeze the hand, press the flesh; bid Godspeed; speed the parting guest; cheer, serenade.
salute; embrace &c. (endearment) Endearment [Expression of affection or love]; kiss, kiss hands; drink to, pledge, hob and nob[obs3]; move to, nod to; smile upon.
uncover, cap; touch the hat, take off the hat; doff the cap; present arms; make way for; bow; make one's bow, make a leg; scrape, curtsy, courtesy; bob a curtsy, bob a courtesy; kneel; bow the knee, bend the knee.
visit, wait upon, present oneself, pay one's respects, pay a visit &c. (sociability) Sociality; dance attendance on &c. (servility) Servility; pay attentions to; do homage to &c. (respect) Respect.
prostrate oneself &c. (worship) Worship.
render polite &c. adj.; polish, civilize, humanize.
Adj. courteous, polite, civil, mannerly, urbane; well-behaved, well- mannered, well-bred, well-brought up; good-mannered, polished, civilized, cultivated; refined &c. (taste) Taste [Good taste]; gentlemanlike &c. (fashion) Fashion[obs3]; gallant; on one's good behavior.
fine spoken, fair spoken, soft-spoken; honey-mouthed, honey-tongued; oily, bland; obliging, conciliatory, complaisant, complacent; obsequious &c. Servility.
ingratiating, winning; gentle, mild; good-humored, cordial, gracious, affable, familiar; neighborly.
diplomatic, tactful, politic; artful &c. Cunning.
Adv. courteously &c. adj.; with a good grace; with open arms, with outstretched arms; a bras ouverts[Fr]; suaviter in modo[Fr], in good humor.
Int. hail! welcome! well met! ave! all hail! good day, good morrow! Godspeed! pax vobiscum[Lat]! may your shadow never be less! Phr. Tien de plus estimable que la ceremonie[Fr]; " the very pink of courtesy " [Romeo and Juliet].
disrespect &c. Disrespect; procacity[obs3], impudence: barbarism, barbarity; misbehavior, brutality, blackguardism[obs3], conduct unbecoming a gentleman, grossiereté, brusquerie[obs3]; vulgarity, &c. Vulgarity [Bad taste].
churlishness &c. adj.; spinosity[obs3], perversity,; moroseness &c. (sullenness) Sullenness. sternness &c. adj.; austerity,; moodishness[obs3], captiousness &c. Irascibility; cynicism; tartness &c. adj.; acrimony, acerbity, virulence, asperity.
scowl, black looks, frown; short answer, rebuff; hard words, contumely; unparliamentary language, personality.
bear, bruin, brute, blackguard, beast; unlicked cub[obs3]; frump, crosspatch[obs3]; saucebox &c. Blusterer[obs3]; crooked stick; grizzly.
V. be -rude &c. adj.; insult &c. Disrespect; treat with discourtesy; take a name in vain; make bold with, make free with; take a liberty; stare out of countenance, ogle, point at, put to the blush.
cut; turn one's back upon, turn on one's heel; give the cold shoulder; keep at a distance, keep at arm's length; look cool upon, look coldly upon, look black upon; show the door to, send away with a flea in the ear.
lose one's temper &c. (resentment) Resentment; sulk &c. Duplicationla; frown, scowl, glower, pout; snap, snarl, growl.
render rude &c. ad .; brutalize, brutify[obs3].
Adj. discourteous, uncourteous[obs3]; uncourtly[obs3]; ill-bred, ill- mannered, ill-behaved, ill-conditioned; unbred; unmannerly, unmannered; impolite, unpolite[obs3]; unpolished, uncivilized, ungenteel; ungentleman- like, ungentlemanly; unladylike; blackguard; vulgar &c. Vulgarity [Bad taste]; dedecorous[obs3]; foul-mouthed foul-spoken; abusive.
uncivil, ungracious, unceremonious; cool; pert, forward, obtrusive, impudent, rude, saucy, precocious.
repulsive; uncomplaisant[obs3], unaccommodating, unneighborly, ungallant; inaffable[obs3]; ungentle, ungainly; rough, rugged, bluff, blunt, gruff; churlish, boorish, bearish; brutal, brusque; stern, harsh, austere; cavalier.
taint, sour, crabbed, sharp, short, trenchant, sarcastic, biting, doggish, caustic, virulent, bitter, acrimonious, venomous, contumelious; snarling &c. v.; surly, surly as a bear; perverse; grim, sullen &c. Sullenness; peevish &c. (irascible) Irascibility.
# 896. Congratulation. - N. congratulation, gratulation[obs3]; felicitation; salute &c. Courtesy; condolence &c. Condolence; compliments of the season.
V. congratulate, gratulate[obs3]; felicitate; give one joy, wish one joy; compliment; tender one's congratulations, offer one's congratulations; wish many happy returns of the day, wish a merry Christmas and a happy new year.
praise,laud (commendation) Approbation.
congratulate oneself &c. (rejoice) Rejoicing [Expression of pleasure].
Adj. congratulatory, gratulatory[obs3].
Phr. " I wish you all the joy that you can wish " [Merchant of Venice]; best wishes.
affection, sympathy, fellow-feeling; tenderness &c. adj.; heart, brotherly love; benevolence &c. Benevolence; attachment.
yearning, <gr/eros/gr>, tender passion, amour; gyneolatry[obs3]; gallantry, passion, flame, devotion, fervor, enthusiasm, transport of love, rapture, enchantment, infatuation, adoration, idolatry.
Cupid, Venus; myrtle; true lover's knot; love token, love suit, love affair, love tale, love story; the, old story, plighted love; courtship &c. Endearment [Expression of affection or love]; amourette[obs3]; free love.
maternal love, <gr/storge/gr>[Grk], parental love; young love, puppy love.
attractiveness; popularity,; favorite &c. Favorite.
lover, suitor, follower, admirer, adorer, wooer, amoret[obs3], beau, sweetheart, inamorato[It], swain, young man, flame, love, truelove; leman[obs3], Lothario, gallant, paramour, amoroso[obs3], cavaliere servente[It], captive, cicisbeo[obs3]; caro sposo[It].
inamorata, ladylove, idol, darling, duck, Dulcinea, angel, goddess, cara sposa[It].
betrothed, affianced, fiancee.
flirt, coquette; amorette[obs3]; pair of turtledoves; abode of love, agapemone[obs3].
V. love, like, affect, fancy, care for, take an interest in, be partial to, sympathize with; affection; be in love &c. with adj. ; have a love &c. n. for, entertain a love &c. n. for, harbor cherish a love &c. n. for; regard, revere; take to, bear love to, be wedded to; set one's affections on; make much of, feast one's eyes on; hold dear, prize; hug, cling to, cherish, pet.
burn; adore, idolize, love to distraction, aimer eperdument[Fr]; dote on, dote upon; take a fancy to, look sweet upon; become enamored &c. adj.; fall in love with, lose one's heart; desire &c. Desire.
excite love; win the heart, gain the heart, win the affections, gain the affections, secure the love, engage the affections; take the fancy of have a place in the heart, wind round the heart; attract, attach, endear, charm, fascinate, captivate, bewitch, seduce, enamor, enrapture, turn the head.
get into favor; ingratiate oneself, insinuate oneself, worm oneself; propitiate, curry favor with, pay one's court to, faire l'aimable[Fr], set one's cap at, flirt.
affectionate, tender, sweet upon, sympathetic, loving; amorous, amatory; fond, erotic, uxorious, ardent, passionate, rapturous, devoted, motherly.
loved &c. v. beloved well beloved, dearly beloved; dear, precious, darling, pet, little; favorite, popular.
congenial; after one's mind, after one's taste, after one's fancy, after one's own heart, to one's mind, to one's taste, to one's fancy, to one's own heart.
in one's good graces &c. (friendly) Friendship; dear as the apple of one's eye, nearest to one's heart.
lovable, adorable; lovely, sweet; attractive, seductive, winning; charming, engaging, interesting, enchanting, captivating, fascinating, bewitching; amiable, like an angel.
Phr. amantes amentes [Lat][Terence]; credula res amor est [Lat][Ovid]; militat omnis amasius [Lat][Ovid]; love conquers all, omnia vincit amor [Lat][Vergil]; si vis amari ama [obs3][Lat][Seneca]; " the sweetest joy, the wildest woe " [Bailey].
disaffection, disfavor; alienation, estrangement, coolness; enmity &c. Enmity; animosity &c. Resentment.
umbrage, pique, grudge; dudgeon, spleen bitterness, bitterness of feeling; ill blood, bad blood; acrimony; malice &c. Malevolence; implacability &c. (revenge) Revenge.
repugnance &c. (dislike) Dislike; misanthropy, demonophobia[obs3], gynephobia[obs3], negrophobia[obs3]; odium, unpopularity; detestation, antipathy; object of hatred, object of execration; abomination, aversion, bète noire; enemy &c. Enemy; bitter pill; source of annoyance &c. Painfulness [Capability of giving pain; cause or source of pain].
V. hate, detest, abominate, abhor, loathe; recoil at, shudder at; shrink from, view with horror, hold in abomination, revolt against, execrate;scowl &c. Discourtesy; disrelish &c. (dislike) Dislike.
owe a grudge; bear spleen, bear a grudge, bear malice &c. (malevolence) Malevolence; conceive an aversion to, take a dislike to.
excite hatred, provoke hatred &c. n.; be hateful &c. adj.; stink in the nostrils; estrange, alienate, repel, set against, sow dissension, set by the ears, envenom, incense, irritate, rile; horrify &c. Painfulness [Capability of giving pain; cause or source of pain]; roil.
Adj. hating &c. v.; abhorrent; averse from &c. (disliking) Dislike; set against.
bitter &c. (acrimonious) Discourtesy implacable &c. (revengeful) Revenge. unloved, unbeloved, unlamented, undeplored, unmourned[obs3], uncared for, unendeared[obs3], un-valued; disliked &c. Dislike.
crossed in love, forsaken, rejected, lovelorn, jilted.
obnoxious, hateful, odious, abominable, repulsive, offensive, shocking; disgusting &c. (disagreeable) Painfulness [Capability of giving pain; cause or source of pain]; reprehensible.
invidious, spiteful; malicious &c. Malevolence.
insulting, irritating, provoking.
at daggers drawn[Mutual hate]; not on speaking terms &c. (enmity) Enmity; at loggerheads.
Phr. no love lost between.
teacher's pet.
general favorite, universal favorite; idol of the people.
pique, umbrage, huff, miff, soreness, dudgeon, acerbity, virulence, bitterness, acrimony, asperity, spleen, gall; heart-burning, heart- swelling; rankling.
ill humor, bad humor, ill temper, bad temper; irascibility &c. Irascibility; ill blood &c. (hate) Hate; revenge &c. Revenge.
excitement, irritation; warmth, bile, choler, ire, fume, pucker, dander, ferment, ebullition; towering passion, acharnement[Fr], angry mood, taking, pet, tiff, passion, fit, tantrums.
burst, explosion, paroxysm, storm, rage, fury, desperation; violence &c. Violence; fire and fury; vials of wrath; gnashing of teeth, hot blood, high words.
scowl &c. Discourtesy; sulks &c. Sullenness.
[Cause of umbrage] affront, provocation, offense; indignity &c. (insult) Disrespect; grudge, crow to pluck, bone to pick, sore subject, casus belli[Lat]; ill turn, outrage.
Furies, Eumenides.
buffet, slap in the face, box on the ear, rap on the knuckles.
V. resent,; take amiss, take ill, take to heart, take offense, take umbrage, take huff, take exception; take in ill part, take in bad part, take in dudgeon; ne pas entendre raillerie[Fr]; breathe revenge, cut up rough.
fly into a rage, fall into a rage, get into a rage, fly into a passion; bridle up, bristle up, froth up, fire up, flare up; open the vials of one's wrath, pour out the vials of one's wrath.
pout, knit the brow, frown, scowl, lower, snarl, growl, gnarl, gnash, snap; redden, color; look black, look black as thunder, look daggers; bite one's thumb; show one's teeth, grind one's teeth; champ the bit, champ at the bit.
chafe, mantle, fume, kindle, fly out, take fire; boil, boil over; boil with indignation, boil with rage; rage, storm, foam, vent one's rage, vent one's spleen; lose one's temper, stand on one's hind legs, stamp the foot, stamp with rage, quiver with rage, swell with rage, foam with rage; burst with anger; raise Cain.
have a fling at; bear malice &c. (revenge) Revenge.
cause anger, raise anger; affront, offend; give offense, give umbrage; anger; hurt the feelings; insult, discompose, fret, ruffle, nettle, huff, pique; excite &c. Excitation; irritate, stir the blood, stir up bile; sting, sting to the quick; rile, provoke, chafe, wound, incense, inflame, enrage, aggravate, add fuel to the flame, fan into a flame, widen the breach, envenom, embitter, exasperate, infuriate, kindle wrath; stick in one's gizzard; rankle &e. Revenge; hit on the raw, rub on the raw, sting on the raw, strike on the raw.
put out of countenance, put out of humor; put one's monkey up, put one's back up; raise one's gorge, raise one's dander, raise one's choler; work up into a passion; make one's blood boil, make the ears tingle; throw, into a ferment, madden, drive one mad; lash into fury, lash into madness; fool to the top of one's bent; set by the ears.
bring a hornet's nest about one's ears.
warm, burning; boiling, boiling over; fuming, raging; foaming, foaming at the mouth; convulsed with rage.
offended &c. v.; waxy, acharne; wrought, worked up; indignant, hurt, sore; set against.
fierce, wild, rageful[obs3], furious, mad with rage, fiery, infuriate, rabid, savage; relentless &c. Revenge.
flushed with anger, flushed with rage; in a huff, in a stew, in a fume, in a pucker, in a passion, in a rage, in a fury, in a taking, in a way; on one's high ropes, up in arms; in high dudgeon.
Adv. angrily &c. adj.; in the height of passion; in the heat of passion, in the heat of the moment.
Int. tantaene animis coelestibus irae [Lat][Vergil]! marry come up! zounds! 'sdeath! Phr. one's blood being up, one's back being up, one's monkey being up; fervens difficili bile jecur[Lat]; the gorge rising, eyes flashing fire; the blood rising, the blood boiling; haeret lateri lethalis arundo [Lat][Vergil]; " beware the fury of a patient man " [Dryden]; furor arma ministrat [Lat][Vergil]; ira furor brevis est [Lat][Horace]; quem Jupiter vult perdere dementat prius[Lat]; "What, drunk with choler? " [Henry IV].
# 901. Irascibility. - N. irascibility, irascibleness, temper; crossness &c. adj.; susceptibility, procacity, petulance, irritability, tartness, acerbity, protervity; pugnacity &c. (contentiousness) Contention.
excitability &c. Excitability [Excess of sensitiveness]; bad temper, fiery temper, crooked temper, irritable &c. adj. temper; genus irritabile[Lat], hot blood.
ill humor &c. (sullenness) Sullenness; asperity &c., churlishness &c. (discourtesy) Discourtesy.
huff &c. (resentment) Resentment; a word and a blow.
Sir Fretful Plagiary; brabbler[obs3], Tartar; shrew, vixen, virago, termagant, dragon, scold, Xantippe; porcupine; spitfire; fire eater &c. (blusterer) Blusterer; fury &c. (violent person) Violence.
V. be irascible &c. adj.; have a temper &c. n., have a devil in one; fire up &c. (be angry) Resentment.
Adj. irascible; bad-tempered, ill-tempered; irritable, susceptible; excitable &c. Excitability [Excess of sensitiveness]; thin-skinned &c. (sensitive) Sensibility; fretful, fidgety; on the fret.
hasty, overhasty, quick, warm, hot, testy, touchy, techy[obs3], tetchy; like touchwood, like tinder; huffy,; pettish, petulant; waspish, snappish, peppery, fiery, passionate, choleric, shrewish, " sudden and quick in quarrel " [As You Like It].
querulous, captious, moodish[obs3]; quarrelsome, contentious, disputatious; pugnacious &c. (bellicose) Contention; cantankerous, exceptious[obs3]; restiff &c. (perverse) Sullenness[obs3]; churlish &c. (discourteous) Discourtesy.
cross, cross as crabs, cross as two sticks, cross as a cat, cross as a dog, cross as the tongs; fractious, peevish, acariâtre[obs3]. in a bad temper; sulky &c. Sullenness; angry &c. Resentment. resentful, resentive[obs3]; vindictive &c. Revenge.
Int. pish! Phr. a vieux comptes nouvelles disputes[Fr]; quamvis tegatur proditur vultu furor [Lat][Seneca]; vino tortus et ira [Lat][Horace].
ill temper, bad temper, ill humor, bad humor; sulks, dudgeon, mumps[obs3], dumps, doldrums, fit of the sulks, bouderie[Fr], black looks, scowl; grouch; huff &c. (resentment) Resentment.
V. be sullen &c. adj.; sulk; frown, scowl, lower, glower, gloam[obs3], pout, have a hangdog look, glout[obs3].
Adj. sullen, sulky; ill-tempered, ill-humored, ill-affected, ill- disposed; grouty [obs3][U. S.]; in an ill temper, in a bad temper, in a shocking temper, in an ill humor, in a bad humor, in a shocking humor; out of temper, out of humor; knaggy[obs3], torvous[obs3], crusty, crabbed; sour, sour as a crab; surly &c. (discourteous) Discourtesy.
moody,; spleenish[obs3], spleenly[obs3]; splenetic, cankered.
cross, crossgrained[obs3]; perverse, wayward, humorsome[obs3]; restiff[obs3], restive; cantankerous, intractable, exceptious[obs3], sinistrous[obs3], deaf to reason, unaccommodating, rusty, froward; cussed [U. S.].
dogged &c. (stubborn) Obstinacy.
grumpy, glum, grim, grum[obs3], morose, frumpish; in the sulks &c. n.; out of sorts; scowling, glowering, growling; grouchy. peevish &c. (irascible) Irascibility.
embrace, salute, kiss, buss, smack, osculation, deosculation[Obs]; amorous glances.
courtship, wooing, suit, addresses, the soft impeachment; lovemaking; serenading; caterwauling.
flirting &c. v.; flirtation, gallantry; coquetry.
true lover's knot, plighted love; love tale, love token, love letter; billet-doux, valentine.
honeymoon; Strephon and Chloe[obs3].
V. caress, fondle, pet, dandle; pat, pat on the head, pat on the cheek; chuck under the chin, smile upon, coax, wheedle, cosset, coddle, cocker, cockle; make of, make much of; cherish, foster, kill with kindness.
clasp, hug, cuddle; fold in one's arms, strain in one's arms; nestle, nuzzle; embrace, kiss, buss, smack, blow a kiss; salute &c. (courtesy) Courtesy; fold to the heart, press to the bosom.
bill and coo, spoon, toy, dally, flirt, coquet; gallivant, galavant; philander; make love; pay one's court to, pay one's addresses to, pay one's attentions to; serenade; court, woo; set one's cap at; be sweet upon, look sweet upon; ogle, cast sheep's eyes upon; faire les yeux doux[Fr].
fall in love with, win the affections &c. (love) Love; die for.
propose; make an offer, have an offer; pop the question; plight one's troth, plight one's faith.
Adj. caressing &c. v.; " sighing like furnace " [Shakespeare]; love- sick, spoony.
caressed &c. V.
Phr. " faint heart neer won fair lady"; "kisses honeyed by oblivion " [G. Eliot].
married state, coverture, bed, cohabitation.
torch of Hymen, temple of Hymen; hymeneal altar; honeymoon.
bridesmaid, bridesman[obs3], best man; bride, bridegroom. married man, married woman, married couple; neogamist[obs3], Benedict, partner, spouse, mate, yokemate[obs3]; husband, man, consort, baron; old man, good man; wife of one's bosom; helpmate, rib, better half, gray mare, old woman, old lady, good wife, goodwife.
feme[Fr], feme coverte[Fr]; squaw, lady; matron, matronage, matronhood[obs3]; man and wife; wedded pair, Darby and Joan; spiritual wife.
monogamy, bigamy, digamy[obs3], deuterogamy[obs3], trigamy[obs3], polygamy; mormonism; levirate[obs3]; spiritual wifery[obs3], spiritual wifeism[obs3]; polyandrism[obs3]; Turk, bluebeard[obs3].
unlawful marriage, left-handed marriage, morganatic marriage, ill- assorted marriage; mesalliance; mariage de convenance[Fr].
marriage broker; matrimonial agency, matrimonial agent, matrimonial bureau, matchmaker; schatchen[Ger].
V. marry, wive, take to oneself a wife; be married, be spliced; go off, pair off; wed, espouse, get hitched[U. S.slang], lead to the hymeneal altar, take "for better for worse", give one's hand to, bestow one's hand upon.
marry, join, handfast[obs3]; couple &c. (unit) Junction; tie the nuptial knot; give away, give away in marriage; seal; ally, affiance; betroth &c. (promise) Promise; publish the banns, bid the banns; be asked in church.
Adj. married &c. v.; one, one bone and one flesh. marriageable, nubile.
engaged, betrothed, affianced.
matrimonial, marital, conjugal, connubial, wedded; nuptial, hymeneal, spousal, bridal.
Phr. the gray mare the better horse; " a world-without-end bargain " [Love's Labor's Lost]; "marriages are made in Heaven " [Tennyson]; " render me worthy of this noble wife " [Julius Caesar]; si qua voles apte nubere nube pari [Lat][Ovid].
# 904. Celibacy. - N. celibacy, singleness, single blessedness; bachelorhood, bachelorship[obs3]; misogamy[obs3], misogyny.
virginity, pucelage[obs3]; maidenhood, maidenhead.
unmarried man, bachelor, Coelebs, agamist[obs3], old bachelor; misogamist[obs3], misogynist; monogamist; monk.
unmarried woman, spinster; maid, maiden;,virgin, feme sole[Fr], old maid; bachelor girl, girl-bachelor; nun.
V. live single, live alone.
Adj. unmarried, unwed, unwedded[obs3]; wifeless, spouseless[obs3]; single.
trial separation, breakup; annulment.
widowhood, viduity[obs3], weeds.
widow, widower; relict; dowager; divorcee; cuckold; grass widow, grass widower; merry widow.
V. live separate; separate, divorce, disespouse[obs3], put away; wear the horns.
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