aether | (noun) a medium that was once supposed to fill all space and to support the propagation of electromagnetic waves | Synonyms: ether |
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altogether | (noun) informal terms for nakedness | Synonyms: birthday suit, raw |
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(adverb) with everything included or counted | Synonyms: all told, in all |
(adverb) with everything considered (and neglecting details) | Synonyms: all in all, on the whole, tout ensemble |
(adverb) to a complete degree or to the full or entire extent; Completely or entirely | Synonyms: all, completely, entirely, right, totally, whole, wholly |
another | (adjective) any of various alternatives; some other; entity, singular, other pronoun; quantifier, singular, another | Synonyms: some other |
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anther | (noun) the part of the stamen that contains pollen; usually borne on a stalk | - |
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bather | (noun) a person who travels through the water by swimming | Synonyms: natator, swimmer |
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(noun) a person who takes a bath | - |
bellwether | (noun) sheep that leads the herd often wearing a bell | - |
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(noun) someone who assumes leadership of a movement or activity | - |
blather | (noun) foolish gibberish | Synonyms: blatherskite |
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(verb) to talk foolishly | Synonyms: babble, blether, blither, smatter |
blether | (noun) idle or foolish and irrelevant talk | Synonyms: chin music, idle talk, prate, prattle |
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(verb) to talk foolishly | Synonyms: babble, blather, blither, smatter |
blither | (verb) to talk foolishly | Synonyms: babble, blather, blether, smatter |
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bother | (noun) something or someone that causes trouble; a source of unhappiness | Synonyms: annoyance, botheration, infliction, nuisance, pain, pain in the ass, pain in the neck |
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(noun) an angry disturbance | Synonyms: fuss, hassle, trouble |
(verb) cause annoyance in; disturb, especially by minor irritations | Synonyms: annoy, chafe, devil, get at, get to, gravel, irritate, nark, nettle, rag, rile, vex |
(verb) make confused or perplexed or puzzled | - |
(verb) make nervous or agitated | - |
(verb) intrude or enter uninvited | - |
(verb) take the trouble to do something; concern oneself | Synonyms: inconvenience oneself, trouble, trouble oneself |
(verb) to cause inconvenience or discomfort to | Synonyms: discommode, disoblige, incommode, inconvenience, put out, trouble |
breather | (noun) air passage provided by a retractable device containing intake and exhaust pipes; permits a submarine to stay submerged for extended periods of time | Synonyms: schnorchel, schnorkel, snorkel, snorkel breather |
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(noun) a short respite | Synonyms: breath, breathing place, breathing space, breathing spell, breathing time |
brother | (noun) a male with the same parents as someone else | Synonyms: blood brother |
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(noun) a male person who is a fellow member (of a fraternity or religion or other group) | - |
(noun) a close friend who accompanies his buddies in their activities | Synonyms: buddy, chum, crony, pal, sidekick |
(noun) used as a term of address for those male persons engaged in the same movement | Synonyms: comrade |
cither | (noun) a musical stringed instrument with strings stretched over a flat sounding board; it is laid flat and played with a plectrum and with fingers | Synonyms: zither, zithern |
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(noun) a 16th century musical instrument resembling a guitar with a pear-shaped soundbox and wire strings | Synonyms: cithern, citole, cittern, gittern |
dither | (noun) an excited state of agitation | Synonyms: flap, fuss, pother, tizzy |
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(verb) make a fuss; be agitated | Synonyms: flap, pother |
(verb) act nervously; be undecided; be uncertain | - |
either | (adverb) after a negative statement used as an intensive meaning something like `likewise' or `also' | - |
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ether | (noun) a colorless volatile highly flammable liquid formerly used as an inhalation anesthetic | Synonyms: diethyl ether, divinyl ether, ethoxyethane, ethyl ether, vinyl ether |
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(noun) a medium that was once supposed to fill all space and to support the propagation of electromagnetic waves | Synonyms: aether |
(noun) any of a class of organic compounds that have two hydrocarbon groups linked by an oxygen atom | - |
(noun) the fifth and highest element after air and earth and fire and water; was believed to be the substance composing all heavenly bodies | Synonyms: quintessence |
farther | (adjective) more distant in especially space or time | - |
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(adjective) more distant in especially degree | Synonyms: further |
(adverb) to or at a greater distance in time or space (`farther' is used more frequently than `further' in this physical sense) | Synonyms: further |
(adverb) to or at a greater extent or degree or a more advanced stage (`further' is used more often than `farther' in this abstract sense) | Synonyms: further |
father | (noun) a male parent (also used as a term of address to your father) | Synonyms: begetter, male parent |
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(noun) the founder of a family | Synonyms: forefather, sire |
(noun) a person who holds an important or distinguished position in some organization | - |
(noun) a person who founds or establishes some institution | Synonyms: beginner, founder, founding father |
(noun) the head of an organized crime family | Synonyms: don |
(verb) make (offspring) by reproduction | Synonyms: beget, bring forth, engender, generate, get, mother, sire |
feather | (noun) turning an oar parallel to the water between pulls | Synonyms: feathering |
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(noun) branching, hair-like structure that grows on the bodies of birds | - |
(verb) grow feathers | Synonyms: fledge |
(verb) turn the oar, while rowing | Synonyms: square |
(verb) turn the paddle; in canoeing | Synonyms: square |
(verb) cover or fit with feathers | - |
(verb) join tongue and groove, in carpentry | - |
forefather | (noun) the founder of a family | Synonyms: father, sire |
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(noun) person from an earlier time who contributed to the tradition shared by some group | - |
foregather | (verb) collect in one place | Synonyms: assemble, forgather, gather, meet |
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foremother | (noun) a female ancestor | - |
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forgather | (verb) collect in one place | Synonyms: assemble, foregather, gather, meet |
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further | (adjective) more distant in especially degree | Synonyms: farther |
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(adverb) to or at a greater distance in time or space (`farther' is used more frequently than `further' in this physical sense) | Synonyms: farther |
(adverb) to or at a greater extent or degree or a more advanced stage (`further' is used more often than `farther' in this abstract sense) | Synonyms: farther |
(adverb) in addition or furthermore | - |
(verb) contribute to the progress or growth of | Synonyms: advance, boost, encourage, promote |
(verb) promote the growth of | Synonyms: cultivate, foster |
gather | (noun) the act of gathering something | Synonyms: gathering |
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(noun) sewing consisting of small folds or puckers made by pulling tight a thread in a line of stitching | Synonyms: gathering |
(verb) increase in amount by collecting or gathering | Synonyms: accumulate, amass, conglomerate, cumulate, pile up |
(verb) increase or develop | Synonyms: gain |
(verb) conclude from evidence | - |
(verb) assemble or get together | Synonyms: collect, garner, pull together |
(verb) draw together into folds or puckers | Synonyms: pucker, tuck |
(verb) look for (food) in nature | - |
(verb) draw and bring closer | - |
(verb) collect in one place | Synonyms: assemble, foregather, forgather, meet |
(verb) get people together | Synonyms: assemble, get together |
gayfeather | (noun) any of various North American plants of the genus Liatris having racemes or panicles of small discoid flower heads | Synonyms: blazing star, button snakeroot, gay-feather, snakeroot |
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godfather | (noun) any man who serves as a sponsor for a child at baptism | - |
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(noun) someone having a relation analogous to that of a male sponsor to his godchild | - |
godmother | (noun) any woman who serves as a sponsor for a child at baptism | - |
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grandfather | (noun) the father of your father or mother | Synonyms: gramps, grandad, granddad, granddaddy, grandpa |
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grandmother | (noun) the mother of your father or mother | Synonyms: gran, grandma, grannie, granny, nan, nanna |
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heather | (noun) interwoven yarns of mixed colors producing muted greyish shades with flecks of color | Synonyms: heather mixture |
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(noun) common Old World heath represented by many varieties; low evergreen grown widely in the Northern Hemisphere | Synonyms: broom, Calluna vulgaris, ling, Scots heather |
hither | (adverb) to this place (especially toward the speaker) | Synonyms: here |
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housefather | (noun) a man in charge of children in an institution | - |
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housemother | (noun) a woman employed as a chaperon in a residence for young people | - |
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lather | (noun) the froth produced by soaps or detergents | Synonyms: soapsuds, suds |
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(noun) the foam resulting from excessive sweating (as on a horse) | - |
(noun) a workman who puts up laths | - |
(noun) agitation resulting from active worry | Synonyms: fret, stew, sweat, swither |
(verb) rub soap all over, usually with the purpose of cleaning | Synonyms: soap |
(verb) exude sweat or lather | - |
(verb) form a lather | - |
(verb) beat severely with a whip or rod | Synonyms: flog, lash, slash, strap, trounce, welt, whip |
leather | (noun) an animal skin made smooth and flexible by removing the hair and then tanning | - |
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(verb) whip with a leather strap | - |
loather | (noun) one who hates or loathes | Synonyms: abominator |
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mother | (noun) a condition that is the inspiration for an activity or situation | - |
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(noun) a woman who has given birth to a child (also used as a term of address to your mother) | Synonyms: female parent |
(noun) a term of address for a mother superior | - |
(noun) a term of address for an elderly woman | - |
(noun) a stringy slimy substance consisting of yeast cells and bacteria; forms during fermentation and is added to cider or wine to produce vinegar | - |
(verb) make (offspring) by reproduction | Synonyms: beget, bring forth, engender, father, generate, get, sire |
(verb) care for like a mother | Synonyms: fuss, overprotect |
neither | (adjective) not either; not one or the other; entity, dual, negative pronoun; quantifier, dual, negative | - |
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nether | (adjective) lower | - |
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(adjective) dwelling beneath the surface of the earth | Synonyms: chthonian, chthonic |
(adjective) located below or beneath something else | Synonyms: under |
norther | (noun) a wind that blows from the north | Synonyms: boreas, north wind, northerly |
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other | (adjective) not the same one or ones already mentioned or implied; quantifier, other | - |
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(adjective) recently past | - |
(adjective) very unusual; different in character or quality from the normal or expected | - |
(adjective) belonging to the distant past | Synonyms: early, former |
panther | (noun) a leopard in the black color phase | - |
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(noun) a large spotted feline of tropical America similar to the leopard; in some classifications considered a member of the genus Felis | Synonyms: Felis onca, jaguar, Panthera onca |
(noun) large American feline resembling a lion | Synonyms: catamount, cougar, Felis concolor, mountain lion, painter, puma |
pother | (noun) an excited state of agitation | Synonyms: dither, flap, fuss, tizzy |
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(verb) make a fuss; be agitated | Synonyms: dither, flap |
(verb) make upset or troubled | - |
rather | (adverb) to a degree (not used with a negative) | Synonyms: quite |
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(adverb) more readily or willingly | Synonyms: preferably, sooner |
(adverb) on the contrary | Synonyms: instead |
(adverb) to some (great or small) extent | Synonyms: kind of, kinda, sort of |
slather | (verb) spread thickly | - |
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slither | (verb) to pass or move unobtrusively or smoothly | Synonyms: slide |
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smoother | (noun) a power tool used for sanding wood; an endless loop of sandpaper is moved at high speed by an electric motor | Synonyms: drum sander, electric sander, sander |
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smother | (noun) a stifling cloud of smoke | - |
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(noun) a confused multitude of things | Synonyms: clutter, fuddle, jumble, mare's nest, muddle, welter |
(verb) deprive of oxygen and prevent from breathing | Synonyms: asphyxiate, suffocate |
(verb) suppress in order to conceal or hide | Synonyms: muffle, repress, stifle, strangle |
(verb) envelop completely | Synonyms: surround |
(verb) deprive of the oxygen necessary for combustion | Synonyms: put out |
(verb) form an impenetrable cover over | - |
souther | (noun) a wind from the south | Synonyms: south wind, southerly |
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stepbrother | (noun) a brother who has only one parent in common with you | Synonyms: half-brother, half brother |
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stepfather | (noun) the husband of your mother by a subsequent marriage | - |
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stepmother | (noun) the wife of your father by a subsequent marriage | - |
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sunbather | (noun) someone who basks in the sunshine in order to get a suntan | - |
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swither | (noun) agitation resulting from active worry | Synonyms: fret, lather, stew, sweat |
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tether | (noun) restraint consisting of a rope (or light chain) used to restrain an animal | Synonyms: lead, leash |
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(verb) tie with a tether | - |
thither | (adverb) to or toward that place; away from the speaker | Synonyms: there |
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tither | (noun) someone who pays tithes | - |
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together | (adjective) mentally and emotionally stable | - |
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(adverb) at the same time | - |
(adverb) with cooperation and interchange | Synonyms: unitedly |
(adverb) in contact with each other or in proximity | - |
(adverb) assembled in one place | - |
(adverb) with a common plan | Synonyms: in concert |
(adverb) in each other's company | - |
weather | (adjective) towards the side exposed to wind | Synonyms: upwind |
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(noun) the atmospheric conditions that comprise the state of the atmosphere in terms of temperature and wind and clouds and precipitation | Synonyms: atmospheric condition, conditions, weather condition |
(verb) change under the action or influence of the weather | - |
(verb) cause to slope | - |
(verb) sail to the windward of | - |
(verb) face and withstand with courage | Synonyms: brave, brave out, endure |
wether | (noun) male sheep especially a castrated one | - |
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wither | (verb) wither, as with a loss of moisture | Synonyms: shrink, shrivel, shrivel up |
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(verb) lose freshness, vigor, or vitality | Synonyms: fade |
woolgather | (verb) have a daydream; indulge in a fantasy | Synonyms: daydream, dream, stargaze |
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zither | (noun) a musical stringed instrument with strings stretched over a flat sounding board; it is laid flat and played with a plectrum and with fingers | Synonyms: cither, zithern |
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