English Synonyms and Antonyms
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- Preface
- Abandon to Abridgment
- Absolute to Accessory
- Accident to Address, n.
- Adequate to Airy
- Alarm to Alliance
- Allot to Ambition
- Amend to Answer
- Anticipate to Appear
- Appendage to Artist
- Ask to Attain
- Attitude to Axiom
- Babble to Because
- Becoming to Bluff
- Body to By
- Cabal to Caricature
- Carry to Change, n.
- Character to Clear
- Clever to Congratulate
- Conquer to Criminal
- Daily to Delicious
- Delightful to Difference
- Difficult to Dogmatic
- Doubt, v. to Duty
- Eager to Emigrate
- Employ to Enmity
- Entertain to Esteem, n.
- Eternal to Exterminate
- Faint to Fetter
- Feud to Follow
- Food to Frugality
- Garrolous to Grief
- Habit to Harvest
- Hatred to High
- Hinder to Hypothesis
- Idea to Imagination
- Immediately to Influence
- Inherent to Involve
- Journey to Kill
- Language to Light
- Likely to Love
- Make to Meter
- Mind to Mysterious
- Name to Necessity
- Neglect to Notwithstanding, prep.
- Oath to Oversight
- Pain to Pay, n.
- People to Perverse
- Physical to Poetry
- Polite to Predestination
- Prejudice to Primeval
- Profit to Proverb
- Prowess to Quote
- Racy to Record
- Recover to Renounce
- Repentence to Revelation
- Revenge to Rustic
- Sacrament to Self-Abnegation
- Send to Shake
- Shelter to Slander
- Slang to Stain
- State to Subvert
- Succeed to System
- Taciturn to Time
- Tip to Transient
- Union to Veneration
- Venial to Virtue
- Wander to Youthful
English Synonyms and Antonyms is basically a vocabulary builder that students might use as they prepare for entrance or exit exams. Each entry gives a list of synonyms, followed by a paragraph that briefly explains or exemplifies the subtle distinctions between the listed words. The entries sometimes close with a few words on the prepositions that follow selected synonyms, but more often with a list of antonyms.
By "synonyms" we usually understand words that coincide or nearly coincide in some part of their meaning, and may hence within certain limits be used interchangeably, while outside of those limits they may differ very greatly in meaning and use. It is the office of a work on synonyms to point out these correspondences and differences, that language may have the flexibility that comes from freedom of selection within the common limits, with the perspicuity and precision that result from exact choice of the fittest words to express each shade of meaning outside of the common limits. (Summary by DSayers and the author from the entry "Synonymous")
By "synonyms" we usually understand words that coincide or nearly coincide in some part of their meaning, and may hence within certain limits be used interchangeably, while outside of those limits they may differ very greatly in meaning and use. It is the office of a work on synonyms to point out these correspondences and differences, that language may have the flexibility that comes from freedom of selection within the common limits, with the perspicuity and precision that result from exact choice of the fittest words to express each shade of meaning outside of the common limits. (Summary by DSayers and the author from the entry "Synonymous")
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