abolish | (verb) do away with | Synonyms: get rid of |
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accomplish | (verb) put in effect | Synonyms: action, carry out, carry through, execute, fulfil, fulfill |
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(verb) to gain with effort | Synonyms: achieve, attain, reach |
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 |
aguish | (adjective) affected by ague | - |
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alligatorfish | (noun) small very elongate sea poachers | Synonyms: Aspidophoroides monopterygius |
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amateurish | (adjective) lacking professional skill or expertise | Synonyms: amateur, inexpert, unskilled |
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amberfish | (noun) any of several amber to coppery fork-tailed warm-water carangid fishes | Synonyms: amberjack |
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angelfish | (noun) sharks with broad flat bodies and winglike pectoral fins but that swim the way sharks do | Synonyms: angel shark, monkfish, Squatina squatina |
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(noun) a butterfly fish of the genus Pomacanthus | - |
(noun) deep-bodied disk-shaped food fish of warmer western Atlantic coastal waters | Synonyms: Chaetodipterus faber, spadefish |
anglerfish | (noun) fishes having large mouths with a wormlike filament attached for luring prey | Synonyms: allmouth, angler, angler fish, goosefish, Lophius Americanus, lotte, monkfish |
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anguish | (noun) extreme mental distress | Synonyms: torment, torture |
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(noun) extreme distress of body or mind | - |
(verb) cause emotional anguish or make miserable | Synonyms: hurt, pain |
(verb) suffer great pains or distress | - |
apish | (adjective) being or given to servile imitation | Synonyms: apelike |
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archerfish | (noun) any of several small freshwater fishes that catch insects by squirting water at them and knocking them into the water; found in Indonesia and Australia | Synonyms: Toxotes jaculatrix |
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astonish | (verb) affect with wonder | Synonyms: amaze, astound |
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baboonish | (adjective) resembling a baboon | - |
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babyish | (adjective) characteristic of a baby | - |
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bakshish | (noun) a relatively small amount of money given for services rendered (as by a waiter) | Synonyms: backsheesh, baksheesh, bakshis, gratuity, pourboire, tip |
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balloonfish | (noun) similar to but smaller than porcupinefish | Synonyms: Diodon holocanthus |
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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 |
barrelfish | (noun) blackish fish of New England waters | Synonyms: black rudderfish, Hyperglyphe perciformis |
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batfish | (noun) bottom-dweller of warm western Atlantic coastal waters having a flattened scaleless body that crawls about on fleshy pectoral and pelvic fins | - |
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beamish | (adjective) smiling with happiness or optimism | Synonyms: smiling, twinkly |
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bearish | (adjective) expecting prices to fall | - |
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biggish | (adjective) somewhat large | Synonyms: largish |
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billfish | (noun) giant warm-water game fish having a prolonged and rounded toothless upper jaw | - |
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(noun) elongate European surface-dwelling predacious fishes with long toothed jaws; abundant in coastal waters | Synonyms: gar, needlefish |
(noun) primitive predaceous North American fish covered with hard scales and having long jaws with needlelike teeth | Synonyms: gar, garfish, garpike, Lepisosteus osseus |
(noun) slender long-beaked fish of temperate Atlantic waters | Synonyms: saury, Scomberesox saurus |
bitterish | (adjective) somewhat bitter | Synonyms: sharp-tasting |
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blackfish | (noun) female salmon that has recently spawned | - |
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(noun) small dark-colored whale of the Atlantic coast of the United States; the largest male acts as pilot or leader for the school | Synonyms: black whale, common blackfish, Globicephala melaena, pilot whale |
(noun) large dark-colored food fish of the Atlantic coast of North America | Synonyms: tautog, Tautoga onitis |
blackish | (adjective) of something that is somewhat black | - |
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blandish | (verb) praise somewhat dishonestly | Synonyms: flatter |
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blemish | (noun) a mark or flaw that spoils the appearance of something (especially on a person's body) | Synonyms: defect, mar |
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(verb) add a flaw or blemish to; make imperfect or defective | Synonyms: flaw |
(verb) mar or impair with a flaw | Synonyms: spot |
(verb) mar or spoil the appearance of | Synonyms: deface, disfigure |
blimpish | (adjective) pompously ultraconservative and nationalistic | - |
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blockish | (adjective) resembling a block in shape | Synonyms: blocky |
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blowfish | (noun) any of numerous marine fishes whose elongated spiny body can inflate itself with water or air to form a globe; several species contain a potent nerve poison; closely related to spiny puffers | Synonyms: globefish, puffer, pufferfish |
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(noun) delicacy that is highly dangerous because of a potent nerve poison in ovaries and liver | Synonyms: puffer, pufferfish, sea squab |
bluefish | (noun) bluish warm-water marine food and game fish that follow schools of small fishes into shallow waters | Synonyms: Pomatomus saltatrix |
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(noun) fatty bluish flesh of bluefish | - |
blueish | (adjective) of the color intermediate between green and violet; having a color similar to that of a clear unclouded sky | Synonyms: blue, bluish |
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bluish | (adjective) of the color intermediate between green and violet; having a color similar to that of a clear unclouded sky | Synonyms: blue, blueish |
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boarfish | (noun) fish with a projecting snout | Synonyms: Capros aper |
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(noun) fish with large eyes and long snouts | - |
bonefish | (noun) slender silvery marine fish found in tropical mud flats and mangrove lagoons | Synonyms: Albula vulpes |
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bookish | (adjective) characterized by diligent study and fondness for reading | Synonyms: studious |
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boorish | (adjective) ill-mannered and coarse and contemptible in behavior or appearance | Synonyms: loutish, neandertal, neanderthal, oafish, swinish |
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bounderish | (adjective) (of persons) lacking in refinement or grace | Synonyms: ill-bred, lowbred, rude, underbred, yokelish |
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boxfish | (noun) any of numerous small tropical fishes having body and head encased in bony plates | Synonyms: trunkfish |
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boyish | (adjective) befitting or characteristic of a young boy | Synonyms: boylike, schoolboyish |
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brackish | (adjective) slightly salty (especially from containing a mixture of seawater and fresh water) | Synonyms: briny |
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(adjective) distasteful and unpleasant; spoiled by mixture | - |
brainish | (adjective) characterized by undue haste and lack of thought or deliberation | Synonyms: hotheaded, impetuous, impulsive, madcap, tearaway |
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brandish | (noun) the act of waving | Synonyms: flourish |
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(verb) move or swing back and forth | Synonyms: flourish, wave |
(verb) exhibit aggressively | - |
brattish | (adjective) (used of an ill-mannered child) impolitely unruly | Synonyms: bratty |
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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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brutish | (adjective) resembling a beast; showing lack of human sensibility | Synonyms: beastly, bestial, brutal, brute |
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buffalofish | (noun) any of several large suckers of the Mississippi valley | Synonyms: buffalo fish |
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(noun) large carp-like North American fish | - |
buffoonish | (adjective) like a clown | Synonyms: clownish, clownlike, zany |
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bullish | (adjective) expecting a rise in prices | - |
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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 |
burrfish | (noun) any of several fishes having rigid flattened spines | - |
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butterfish | (noun) small marine fish with a short compressed body and feeble spines | Synonyms: stromateid, stromateid fish |
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(noun) slippery scaleless food fish of the northern Atlantic coastal waters | Synonyms: Pholis gunnellus, rock gunnel |
(noun) any of numerous small flat Atlantic food fish having smooth skin | - |
butterflyfish | (noun) tropical fish with huge fanlike pectoral fins for underwater gliding; unrelated to searobins | Synonyms: flying gurnard, flying robin |
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caddish | (adjective) offensively discourteous | Synonyms: unchivalrous, ungallant |
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cardinalfish | (noun) small red fishes of coral reefs and inshore tropical waters | - |
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catfish | (noun) any of numerous mostly freshwater bottom-living fishes of Eurasia and North America with barbels like whiskers around the mouth | Synonyms: siluriform fish |
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(noun) large ferocious northern deep-sea food fishes with strong teeth and no pelvic fins | Synonyms: wolf fish, wolffish |
(noun) flesh of scaleless food fish of the southern United States; often farmed | Synonyms: mudcat |
(verb) To deceive someone by professing romantic feelings but actually using a false identity | - |
cattish | (adjective) marked by or arising from malice | Synonyms: bitchy, catty |
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chenfish | (noun) small silvery marine food fish found off California | Synonyms: Genyonemus lineatus, kingfish, white croaker |
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cherish | (verb) be fond of; be attached to | Synonyms: care for, hold dear, treasure |
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childish | (adjective) indicating a lack of maturity | Synonyms: infantile |
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churlish | (adjective) having a bad disposition; surly | - |
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(adjective) rude and boorish | - |
cigarfish | (noun) small fusiform fish of western Atlantic | Synonyms: Decapterus punctatus, quiaquia, round scad |
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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 |
clingfish | (noun) very small (to 3 inches) flattened marine fish with a sucking disc on the abdomen for clinging to rocks etc. | - |
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cliquish | (adjective) befitting or characteristic of those who incline to social exclusiveness and who rebuff the advances of people considered inferior | Synonyms: clannish, clubby, snobbish, snobby |
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cloddish | (adjective) heavy and dull and stupid | Synonyms: doltish |
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clownish | (adjective) like a clown | Synonyms: buffoonish, clownlike, zany |
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clubbish | (adjective) effusively sociable | Synonyms: clubby |
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codfish | (noun) major food fish of Arctic and cold-temperate waters | Synonyms: cod |
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(noun) lean white flesh of important North Atlantic food fish; usually baked or poached | Synonyms: cod |
coltish | (adjective) given to merry frolicking | Synonyms: frolicky, frolicsome, rollicking, sportive |
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conchfish | (noun) found in West Indies; lives in mantle cavity of a living conch | Synonyms: Astropogon stellatus |
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contradistinguish | (verb) distinguish by contrasting qualities | - |
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convictfish | (noun) greenling with whitish body marked with black bands | Synonyms: convict fish, Oxylebius pictus, painted greenling |
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coquettish | (adjective) like a coquette | Synonyms: flirtatious |
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cornetfish | (noun) slender tropical fish with a long tubular snout and bony plates instead of scales | - |
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cowfish | (noun) trunkfish having hornlike spines over the eyes | Synonyms: Lactophrys quadricornis |
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crampfish | (noun) any sluggish bottom-dwelling ray of the order Torpediniformes having a rounded body and electric organs on each side of the head capable of emitting strong electric discharges | Synonyms: electric ray, numbfish, torpedo |
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crawfish | (noun) large edible marine crustacean having a spiny carapace but lacking the large pincers of true lobsters | Synonyms: crayfish, langouste, rock lobster, sea crawfish, spiny lobster |
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(noun) small freshwater decapod crustacean that resembles a lobster | Synonyms: crawdad, crawdaddy, crayfish |
(noun) tiny lobster-like crustaceans usually boiled briefly | Synonyms: crawdad, crayfish, ecrevisse |
(verb) make a retreat from an earlier commitment or activity | Synonyms: back away, back out, crawfish out, pull back, pull in one's horns, retreat, withdraw |
crayfish | (noun) large edible marine crustacean having a spiny carapace but lacking the large pincers of true lobsters | Synonyms: crawfish, langouste, rock lobster, sea crawfish, spiny lobster |
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(noun) small freshwater decapod crustacean that resembles a lobster | Synonyms: crawdad, crawdaddy, crawfish |
(noun) tiny lobster-like crustaceans usually boiled briefly | Synonyms: crawdad, crawfish, ecrevisse |
(noun) warm-water lobsters without claws; those from Australia and South Africa usually marketed as frozen tails; caught also in Florida and California | Synonyms: langouste, rock lobster, spiny lobster |
currish | (adjective) base and cowardly | - |
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(adjective) resembling a cur; snarling and rude | - |
cutlassfish | (noun) long-bodied marine fishes having a long whiplike scaleless body and sharp teeth; closely related to snake mackerel | Synonyms: frost fish, hairtail |
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cuttlefish | (noun) ten-armed oval-bodied cephalopod with narrow fins as long as the body and a large calcareous internal shell | Synonyms: cuttle |
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dampish | (adjective) slightly wet | Synonyms: damp, moist |
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damselfish | (noun) small brilliantly colored tropical marine fishes of coral reefs | Synonyms: demoiselle |
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dandyish | (adjective) affecting extreme elegance in dress and manner | Synonyms: dandified, foppish |
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danish | (noun) light sweet yeast-raised roll usually filled with fruits or cheese | Synonyms: danish pastry |
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darkish | (adjective) slightly dark | - |
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dealfish | (noun) deep-sea ribbonfish | Synonyms: Trachipterus arcticus |
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demolish | (verb) defeat soundly and humiliatingly | Synonyms: destroy |
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(verb) eat up completely, as with great appetite | Synonyms: consume, devour, down, go through |
(verb) destroy completely | Synonyms: pulverise, pulverize |
(verb) ruin or destroy | - |
dervish | (noun) an ascetic Muslim monk; a member of an order noted for devotional exercises involving bodily movements | - |
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devilfish | (noun) extremely large pelagic tropical ray that feeds on plankton and small fishes; usually harmless but its size make it dangerous if harpooned | Synonyms: manta, manta ray |
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(noun) bottom-living cephalopod having a soft oval body with eight long tentacles | Synonyms: octopus |
(noun) medium-sized greyish-black whale of the northern Pacific | Synonyms: Eschrichtius gibbosus, Eschrichtius robustus, gray whale, grey whale |
devilish | (adjective) showing the cunning or ingenuity or wickedness typical of a devil | Synonyms: diabolic, diabolical, mephistophelean, mephistophelian |
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(adjective) playful in an appealingly bold way | Synonyms: rascally, roguish |
(adverb) in a playfully devilish manner | Synonyms: devilishly |
dilettanteish | (adjective) showing frivolous or superficial interest; amateurish | Synonyms: dilettante, dilettantish, sciolistic |
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dilettantish | (adjective) showing frivolous or superficial interest; amateurish | Synonyms: dilettante, dilettanteish, sciolistic |
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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 |
disestablish | (verb) deprive (an established church) of its status | - |
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dish | (noun) an activity that you like or at which you are superior | Synonyms: bag, cup of tea |
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(noun) a piece of dishware normally used as a container for holding or serving food | - |
(noun) directional antenna consisting of a parabolic reflector for microwave or radio frequency radiation | Synonyms: dish aerial, dish antenna, saucer |
(noun) a particular item of prepared food | - |
(noun) a very attractive or seductive looking woman | Synonyms: beauty, knockout, looker, lulu, mantrap, peach, ravisher, smasher, stunner, sweetheart |
(noun) the quantity that a dish will hold | Synonyms: dishful |
(verb) make concave; shape like a dish | - |
(verb) provide (usually but not necessarily food) | Synonyms: dish out, dish up, serve, serve up |
distinguish | (verb) mark as different | Synonyms: differentiate, secern, secernate, separate, severalise, severalize, tell, tell apart |
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(verb) identify as in botany or biology, for example | Synonyms: describe, discover, identify, key, key out, name |
(verb) be a distinctive feature, attribute, or trait; sometimes in a very positive sense | Synonyms: differentiate, mark |
(verb) make conspicuous or noteworthy | Synonyms: signalise, signalize |
(verb) detect with the senses | Synonyms: discern, make out, pick out, recognise, recognize, spot, tell apart |