| admonish | (verb) take to task | Synonyms: reproof, reprove |
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| (verb) warn strongly; put on guard | Synonyms: caution, monish |
| (verb) advise or counsel in terms of someone's behavior | Synonyms: discourage, monish, warn |
| admonisher | (noun) someone who gives a warning so that a mistake can be avoided | Synonyms: monitor, reminder |
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| admonishing | (adjective) expressing reproof or reproach especially as a corrective | Synonyms: admonitory, reproachful, reproving |
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| admonishment | (noun) a firm rebuke | Synonyms: admonition, monition |
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| astonish | (verb) affect with wonder | Synonyms: amaze, astound |
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| astonished | (adjective) filled with the emotional impact of overwhelming surprise or shock | Synonyms: amazed, astonied, astounded, stunned |
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| astonishing | (adjective) so surprisingly impressive as to stun or overwhelm | Synonyms: astounding, staggering, stupefying |
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| (adjective) surprising greatly | Synonyms: amazing |
| astonishingly | (adverb) in an amazing manner; to everyone's surprise | Synonyms: amazingly, surprisingly |
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| astonishment | (noun) the feeling that accompanies something extremely surprising | Synonyms: amazement |
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| baboonish | (adjective) resembling a baboon | - |
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| banish | (verb) drive away | - |
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| (verb) expel, as if by official decree | Synonyms: bar, relegate |
| (verb) expel from a community or group | Synonyms: ban, blackball, cast out, ostracise, ostracize, shun |
| (verb) ban from a place of residence, as for punishment | Synonyms: ban |
| banishment | (noun) rejection by means of an act of banishing or proscribing someone | Synonyms: proscription |
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| (noun) the state of being banished or ostracized (excluded from society by general consent) | Synonyms: Coventry, ostracism |
| brainish | (adjective) characterized by undue haste and lack of thought or deliberation | Synonyms: hotheaded, impetuous, impulsive, madcap, tearaway |
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| brownish | (adjective) of a color similar to that of wood or earth | Synonyms: brown, chocolate-brown, dark-brown |
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| buffoonish | (adjective) like a clown | Synonyms: clownish, clownlike, zany |
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| burnish | (noun) the property of being smooth and shiny | Synonyms: gloss, glossiness, polish |
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| (verb) polish and make shiny | Synonyms: buff, furbish |
| burnished | (adjective) made smooth and bright by or as if by rubbing; reflecting a sheen or glow | Synonyms: bright, lustrous, shining, shiny |
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| burnisher | (noun) a hand tool with polished agate tips (or other gemstone) for rubbing the gold leaf in order to obtain a highly polished surface, used in gilding. | Synonyms: burnishing tool |
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| clannish | (adjective) characteristic of a clan especially in being unified | - |
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| (adjective) befitting or characteristic of those who incline to social exclusiveness and who rebuff the advances of people considered inferior | Synonyms: cliquish, clubby, snobbish, snobby |
| clannishly | (adverb) in a clannish manner | Synonyms: cliquishly |
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| clannishness | (noun) tendency to associate with only a select group | Synonyms: cliquishness, exclusiveness |
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| clownish | (adjective) like a clown | Synonyms: buffoonish, clownlike, zany |
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| danish | (noun) light sweet yeast-raised roll usually filled with fruits or cheese | Synonyms: danish pastry |
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| diminish | (verb) decrease in size, extent, or range | Synonyms: decrease, fall, lessen |
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| (verb) lessen the authority, dignity, or reputation of | Synonyms: belittle |
| diminished | (adjective) (of an organ or body part) diminished in size or strength as a result of disease or injury or lack of use | Synonyms: atrophied, wasted |
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| (adjective) impaired by diminution | Synonyms: lessened, vitiated, weakened |
| (adjective) made to seem smaller or less (especially in worth) | Synonyms: belittled, small |
| (adjective) (of musical intervals) reduction by a semitone of any perfect or minor musical interval | - |
| diminishing | (adjective) becoming smaller or less or appearing to do so | - |
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| donnish | (adjective) marked by a narrow focus on or display of learning especially its trivial aspects | Synonyms: academic, pedantic |
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| finish | (noun) the act of finishing | Synonyms: finishing |
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| (noun) a decorative texture or appearance of a surface (or the substance that gives it that appearance) | Synonyms: coating, finishing |
| (noun) (wine tasting) the taste of a wine on the back of the tongue (as it is swallowed) | - |
| (noun) designated event that concludes a contest (especially a race) | - |
| (noun) the downfall of someone (as of persons on one side of a conflict) | - |
| (noun) event whose occurrence ends something | Synonyms: conclusion, ending |
| (noun) the place designated as the end (as of a race or journey) | Synonyms: destination, goal |
| (noun) a highly developed state of perfection; having a flawless or impeccable quality | Synonyms: cultivation, culture, polish, refinement |
| (noun) the temporal end; the concluding time | Synonyms: close, conclusion, finale, finis, last, stopping point |
| (verb) finally be or do something | Synonyms: end up, fetch up, finish up, land up, wind up |
| (verb) come or bring to a finish or an end | Synonyms: complete |
| (verb) cause to finish a relationship with somebody | - |
| (verb) finish eating all the food on one's plate or on the table | Synonyms: eat up, polish off |
| (verb) provide with a finish | - |
| (verb) have an end, in a temporal, spatial, or quantitative sense; either spatial or metaphorical | Synonyms: cease, end, stop, terminate |
| finished | (adjective) ended or brought to an end | - |
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| (adjective) (of materials or goods) brought to the desired final state | - |
| (adjective) brought to ruin | Synonyms: ruined |
| (adjective) having a surface coating or finish applied | - |
| (adjective) (of skills or the products of skills) brought to or having the greatest excellence; perfected | - |
| finisher | (noun) an animal that wins in a contest of speed | - |
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| (noun) a race car that finishes a race | - |
| (noun) a worker who performs the last step in a manufacturing process | - |
| (noun) a painter who applies a finishing coat | - |
| (noun) (baseball) a relief pitcher who can protect a lead in the last inning or two of the game | Synonyms: closer |
| (noun) a racing driver who finishes a race | - |
| finishing | (noun) the act of finishing | Synonyms: finish |
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| (noun) a decorative texture or appearance of a surface (or the substance that gives it that appearance) | Synonyms: coating, finish |
| furnish | (verb) give something useful or necessary to | Synonyms: offer, provide, render, supply |
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| (verb) provide or equip with furniture | - |
| furnished | (adjective) provided with whatever is necessary for a purpose (as furniture or equipment or authority) | Synonyms: equipped |
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| furnishing | (noun) the act of providing a house or room with furniture and other removable items such as shelves, carpets, appliances, etc. | - |
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| (noun) (usually plural) the instrumentalities (furniture and appliances and other movable accessories including curtains and rugs) that make a home (or other area) livable | - |
| (noun) (usually plural) accessory wearing apparel | Synonyms: trappings |
| garnish | (noun) any decoration added as a trimming or adornment | - |
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| (noun) something (such as parsley) added to a dish for flavor or decoration | - |
| (verb) decorate (food), as with parsley or other ornamental foods | Synonyms: dress, trim |
| (verb) take a debtor's wages on legal orders, such as for child support | Synonyms: garnishee |
| garnishee | (noun) a wage earner who is served with a garnishment | - |
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| (verb) take a debtor's wages on legal orders, such as for child support | Synonyms: garnish |
| garnishment | (noun) a court order to an employer to withhold all or part of an employee's wages and to send the money to the court or to the person who won a lawsuit against the employee | - |
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| greenish | (adjective) of the color between blue and yellow in the color spectrum; similar to the color of fresh grass | Synonyms: dark-green, green, light-green |
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| greenishness | (noun) the property of being somewhat green | - |
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| heathenish | (adjective) not acknowledging the God of Christianity and Judaism and Islam | Synonyms: ethnic, heathen, pagan |
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| hoydenish | (adjective) used of girls; wild and boisterous | Synonyms: tomboyish |
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| kittenish | (adjective) playful like a lively kitten | Synonyms: frisky |
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| knish | (noun) (Yiddish) a baked or fried turnover filled with potato or meat or cheese; often eaten as a snack | - |
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| mannish | (adjective) characteristic of a man as distinguished from a woman | - |
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| (adjective) resembling or imitative of or suggestive of a man rather than a woman | - |
| monish | (verb) advise or counsel in terms of someone's behavior | Synonyms: admonish, discourage, warn |
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| (verb) warn strongly; put on guard | Synonyms: admonish, caution |
| punish | (verb) impose a penalty on; inflict punishment on | Synonyms: penalise, penalize |
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| punishable | (adjective) liable to or deserving punishment | - |
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| (adjective) (of an act or offense) subject to punishment by law | Synonyms: penal |
| punished | (adjective) subjected to a penalty (as pain or shame or restraint or loss) for an offense or fault or in order to coerce some behavior (as a confession or obedience) | - |
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| punishing | (adjective) resulting in punishment | - |
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| (adjective) characterized by effort to the point of exhaustion; especially physical effort | Synonyms: arduous, backbreaking, grueling, gruelling, hard, heavy, laborious, operose, toilsome |
| punishingly | (adverb) in a punishing manner | - |
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| punishment | (noun) the act of punishing, or the infliction of a penalty | Synonyms: penalisation, penalization, penalty |
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| refinish | (verb) give a new surface | - |
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| refinisher | (noun) a skilled worker who is employed to restore or refinish buildings or antique furniture | Synonyms: preserver, renovator, restorer |
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| refurnish | (verb) furnish with new or different furniture | - |
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| replenish | (verb) fill something that had previously been emptied | Synonyms: fill again, refill |
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| replenishment | (noun) filling again by supplying what has been used up | Synonyms: refilling, renewal, replacement |
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| swinish | (adjective) resembling swine; coarsely gluttonous or greedy | Synonyms: hoggish, piggish, piggy, porcine |
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| (adjective) ill-mannered and coarse and contemptible in behavior or appearance | Synonyms: boorish, loutish, neandertal, neanderthal, oafish |
| swinishness | (noun) The quality of resembling a swine; being gluttonous, coarse, debased. | - |
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| tannish | (adjective) of a color resembling tan | - |
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| tarnish | (noun) discoloration of metal surface caused by oxidation | - |
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| (verb) make dirty or spotty, as by exposure to air; also used metaphorically | Synonyms: defile, maculate, stain, sully |
| tokenish | (adjective) insignificantly small; a matter of form only (`tokenish' is informal) | Synonyms: nominal, token |
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| unburnished | (adjective) of metals e.g.; not made shiny and smooth by friction | - |
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| undiminished | (adjective) not lessened or diminished | Synonyms: unrelieved |
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| unfinished | (adjective) not brought to an end or conclusion | - |
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| (adjective) not brought to the desired final state | - |
| (adjective) lacking a surface finish such as paint | Synonyms: bare |
| unfurnished | (adjective) not equipped with what is needed especially furniture | - |
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| unpunished | (adjective) not punished | - |
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| untarnished | (adjective) (of reputation) free from blemishes | Synonyms: stainless, unstained, unsullied, untainted |
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| unvarnished | (adjective) free from any effort to soften to disguise | Synonyms: plain |
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| (adjective) not having a coating of stain or varnish | Synonyms: unstained |
| vanish | (verb) get lost, as without warning or explanation | Synonyms: disappear, go away |
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| (verb) decrease rapidly and disappear | Synonyms: fly, vaporize |
| (verb) cease to exist | Synonyms: disappear |
| (verb) pass away rapidly | Synonyms: fell, fly |
| (verb) become invisible or unnoticeable | Synonyms: disappear, go away |
| vanished | (adjective) having passed out of existence | - |
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| vanisher | (noun) a person who disappears | - |
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| vanishing | (noun) a sudden disappearance from sight | - |
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| (noun) a sudden or mysterious disappearance | - |
| vanishingly | (adverb) so as to disappear or approach zero | - |
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| varnish | (noun) a coating that provides a hard, lustrous, transparent finish to a surface | - |
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| (verb) cover with varnish | Synonyms: seal |
| varnished | (adjective) having a coating of stain or varnish | Synonyms: stained |
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| varnisher | (noun) someone who applies a finishing coat of varnish | - |
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| vixenish | (adjective) shrewish and malicious | - |
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| womanish | (adjective) having characteristics associated with women and considered undesirable in men | - |
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| womanishness | (noun) the trait of being effeminate (derogatory of a man) | Synonyms: effeminacy, effeminateness, sissiness, softness, unmanliness |
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