belabor | (verb) attack verbally with harsh criticism | Synonyms: belabour |
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(verb) beat soundly | Synonyms: belabour |
(verb) to work at or to absurd length | Synonyms: belabour |
belabour | (verb) attack verbally with harsh criticism | Synonyms: belabor |
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(verb) beat soundly | Synonyms: belabor |
(verb) to work at or to absurd length | Synonyms: belabor |
belated | (adjective) after the expected or usual time; delayed | Synonyms: late, tardy |
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belatedly | (adverb) later than usual or than expected | Synonyms: late, tardily |
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belay | (noun) something to which a mountain climber's rope can be secured | - |
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(verb) fasten a boat to a bitt, pin, or cleat | - |
(verb) turn a rope round an object or person in order to secure it or him | - |
belch | (noun) a reflex that expels gas noisily from the stomach through the mouth | Synonyms: belching, burp, burping, eructation |
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(verb) expel gas from the stomach | Synonyms: bubble, burp, eruct |
(verb) become active and spew forth lava and rocks | Synonyms: erupt, extravasate |
belching | (noun) a reflex that expels gas noisily from the stomach through the mouth | Synonyms: belch, burp, burping, eructation |
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(noun) the forceful expulsion of something from inside | - |
beldam | (noun) a woman of advanced age | Synonyms: beldame |
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(noun) an ugly evil-looking old woman | Synonyms: beldame, crone, hag, witch |
beldame | (noun) a woman of advanced age | Synonyms: beldam |
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(noun) an ugly evil-looking old woman | Synonyms: beldam, crone, hag, witch |
beleaguer | (verb) surround so as to force to give up | Synonyms: besiege, circumvent, hem in, surround |
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(verb) annoy persistently | Synonyms: badger, bug, pester, tease |
beleaguering | (noun) the action of an armed force that surrounds a fortified place and isolates it while continuing to attack | Synonyms: besieging, military blockade, siege |
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belemnite | (noun) a conical calcareous fossil tapering to a point at one end and with a conical cavity at the other end containing (when unbroken) a small chambered phragmocone from the shell of any of numerous extinct cephalopods of the family Belemnitidae | - |
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belemnitic | (adjective) of or relating to belemnites | - |
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belfry | (noun) a room (often at the top of a tower) where bells are hung | - |
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(noun) a bell tower; usually stands alone unattached to a building | Synonyms: campanile |
belie | (verb) represent falsely | Synonyms: misrepresent |
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(verb) be in contradiction with | Synonyms: contradict, negate |
belieber | (noun) A fan of Justin Bieber | - |
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belief | (noun) any cognitive content held as true | - |
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(noun) a vague idea in which some confidence is placed | Synonyms: feeling, impression, notion, opinion |
believability | (noun) the quality of being believable or trustworthy | Synonyms: credibility, credibleness |
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believable | (adjective) capable of being believed | Synonyms: credible |
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believably | (adverb) in a believable manner | - |
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(adverb) easy to believe on the basis of available evidence | Synonyms: credibly, plausibly, probably |
believe | (verb) accept as true; take to be true | - |
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(verb) follow a credo; have a faith; be a believer | - |
(verb) credit with veracity | - |
(verb) be confident about something | Synonyms: trust |
(verb) judge or regard; look upon; judge | Synonyms: conceive, consider, think |
believer | (noun) a person who has religious faith | Synonyms: worshiper, worshipper |
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(noun) a supporter who accepts something as true | Synonyms: truster |
believing | (noun) the cognitive process that leads to convictions | - |
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believingly | (adverb) in a credulous manner | Synonyms: credulously |
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belike | (adverb) with considerable certainty; without much doubt | Synonyms: in all likelihood, in all probability, likely, probably |
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belittle | (verb) lessen the authority, dignity, or reputation of | Synonyms: diminish |
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(verb) express a negative opinion of | Synonyms: disparage, pick at |
(verb) cause to seem less serious; play down | Synonyms: denigrate, derogate, minimize |
belittled | (adjective) made to seem smaller or less (especially in worth) | Synonyms: diminished, small |
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belittlement | (noun) the act of making a person or a thing seem little or unimportant. | - |
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belittling | (adjective) tending to diminish or disparage | Synonyms: deprecating, deprecative, deprecatory, depreciative, depreciatory, slighting |
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(noun) the act of belittling | - |
(noun) a belittling comment | Synonyms: denigration |
bell | (noun) a hollow device made of metal that makes a ringing sound when struck | - |
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(noun) a push button at an outer door that gives a ringing or buzzing signal when pushed | Synonyms: buzzer, doorbell |
(noun) the flared opening of a tubular device | - |
(noun) a percussion instrument consisting of a set of tuned bells that are struck with a hammer; used as an orchestral instrument | Synonyms: chime, gong |
(noun) the sound of a bell being struck | Synonyms: toll |
(noun) the shape of a bell | Synonyms: bell shape, campana |
(noun) (nautical) each of the eight half-hour units of nautical time signaled by strokes of a ship's bell; eight bells signals 4:00, 8:00, or 12:00 o'clock, either a.m. or p.m. | Synonyms: ship's bell |
(verb) attach a bell to | - |
belladonna | (noun) an alkaloidal extract or tincture of the poisonous belladonna plant that is used medicinally | - |
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(noun) perennial Eurasian herb with reddish bell-shaped flowers and shining black berries; extensively grown in United States; roots and leaves yield atropine | Synonyms: Atropa belladonna, belladonna plant, deadly nightshade |
bellarmine | (noun) a stoneware drinking jug with a long neck; decorated with a caricature of Cardinal Bellarmine (17th century) | Synonyms: greybeard, long-beard, longbeard |
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bellbird | (noun) any of several tropical American birds of the genus Procnias having a bell-like call | - |
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bellbottom | (adjective) (of trousers) having legs that flare at the bottom | Synonyms: bell-bottom, bell-bottomed |
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bellboy | (noun) someone employed as an errand boy and luggage carrier around hotels | Synonyms: bellhop, bellman |
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belle | (noun) a young woman who is the most charming and beautiful of several rivals | - |
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belletristic | (adjective) written and regarded for aesthetic value rather than content | - |
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bellflower | (noun) any of various plants of the genus Campanula having blue or white bell-shaped flowers | Synonyms: campanula |
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bellhop | (noun) someone employed as an errand boy and luggage carrier around hotels | Synonyms: bellboy, bellman |
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bellicose | (adjective) having or showing a ready disposition to fight | Synonyms: battleful, combative |
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bellicoseness | (noun) a natural disposition to fight | Synonyms: bellicosity |
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bellicosity | (noun) a natural disposition to fight | Synonyms: bellicoseness |
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bellied | (adjective) having a belly | - |
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(adjective) curving outward | Synonyms: bellying, bulbous, bulging, bulgy, protuberant |
belligerence | (noun) a natural disposition to be hostile | Synonyms: aggressiveness, pugnacity |
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(noun) hostile or warlike attitude or nature | Synonyms: belligerency |
belligerency | (noun) fighting; acts of overt warfare | Synonyms: hostilities |
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(noun) hostile or warlike attitude or nature | Synonyms: belligerence |
belligerent | (adjective) characteristic of an enemy or one eager to fight | Synonyms: aggressive |
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(adjective) engaged in war | Synonyms: militant, war-ridden, warring |
(noun) someone who fights (or is fighting) | Synonyms: battler, combatant, fighter, scrapper |
belligerently | (adverb) with hostility; in a belligerent hostile manner | Synonyms: hostilely |
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belling | (noun) a noisy mock serenade (made by banging pans and kettles) to a newly married couple | Synonyms: callathump, callithump, charivari, chivaree, shivaree |
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bellman | (noun) someone employed as an errand boy and luggage carrier around hotels | Synonyms: bellboy, bellhop |
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bellow | (noun) a very loud utterance (like the sound of an animal) | Synonyms: bellowing, holla, holler, hollering, hollo, holloa, roar, roaring, yowl |
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(verb) shout loudly and without restraint | Synonyms: bawl |
(verb) make a loud noise, as of animal | Synonyms: roar |
bellower | (noun) someone who communicates vocally in a very loud voice | Synonyms: bawler, roarer, screamer, screecher, shouter, yeller |
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bellowing | (noun) a very loud utterance (like the sound of an animal) | Synonyms: bellow, holla, holler, hollering, hollo, holloa, roar, roaring, yowl |
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bellows | (noun) (used in the plural) a mechanical device that blows a strong current of air; used to make a fire burn more fiercely or to sound a musical instrument | - |
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bellpull | (noun) a handle or cord that is pulled to ring a doorbell or a servant's bell etc. | - |
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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 | - |
bellwort | (noun) any of various plants of the genus Uvularia having yellowish drooping bell-shaped flowers | Synonyms: merry bells, wild oats |
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belly | (noun) the underpart of the body of certain vertebrates such as snakes or fish | - |
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(noun) the region of the body of a vertebrate between the thorax and the pelvis | Synonyms: abdomen, stomach, venter |
(noun) a protruding abdomen | Synonyms: paunch |
(noun) the hollow inside of something | - |
(noun) a part that bulges deeply | - |
(verb) swell out or bulge out | Synonyms: belly out |
bellyache | (noun) an ache localized in the stomach or abdominal region | Synonyms: gastralgia, stomach ache, stomachache |
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(verb) complain | Synonyms: beef, bitch, crab, gripe, grouse, holler, squawk |
bellyacher | (noun) a person given to excessive complaints and crying and whining | Synonyms: complainer, crybaby, grumbler, moaner, sniveller, squawker, whiner |
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bellyband | (noun) a strap around the belly of a draft animal holding the shafts of a wagon | - |
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(noun) a cloth band that is worn around the waist (as on infants until the navel has healed) | - |
bellybutton | (noun) a scar where the umbilical cord was attached | Synonyms: belly button, navel, omphalos, omphalus, umbilicus |
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bellyful | (noun) an undesirable overabundance | - |
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bellying | (adjective) curving outward | Synonyms: bellied, bulbous, bulging, bulgy, protuberant |
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bellylaugh | (verb) laugh a deep, hearty laugh | - |
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bellyless | (adjective) lacking a prominent belly | Synonyms: flat-bellied |
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belong | (verb) be owned by; be in the possession of | - |
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(verb) be rightly classified in a class or category | - |
(verb) be suitable or acceptable | - |
(verb) be in the right place or situation | Synonyms: go |
(verb) be a part or adjunct | Synonyms: belong to |
(verb) be a member, adherent, inhabitant, etc. (of a group, organization, or place) | - |
belonging | (noun) happiness felt in a secure relationship | - |
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belongings | (noun) something owned; any tangible or intangible possession that is owned by someone | Synonyms: holding, property |
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beloved | (adjective) dearly loved | Synonyms: darling, dear |
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(noun) a beloved person; used as terms of endearment | Synonyms: baby, darling, dear, dearest, dearie, deary, honey, love, sweetheart, sweetie |
below | (adverb) (in writing) at a later place | Synonyms: infra |
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(adverb) in or to a place that is lower | Synonyms: at a lower place, beneath, to a lower place |
(adverb) further down | Synonyms: under |
(adverb) on a floor below | Synonyms: down the stairs, downstairs, on a lower floor |
belowground | (adjective) underneath the ground | - |
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(adjective) under the level of the ground | Synonyms: underground |
belt | (noun) the act of hitting vigorously | Synonyms: knock, rap, whack, whang |
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(noun) a band to tie or buckle around the body (usually at the waist) | - |
(noun) endless loop of flexible material between two rotating shafts or pulleys | - |
(noun) ammunition (usually of small caliber) loaded in flexible linked strips for use in a machine gun | Synonyms: belt ammunition, belted ammunition |
(noun) a vigorous blow | Synonyms: bang, bash, knock, smash |
(noun) an elongated region where a specific condition or characteristic is found | - |
(noun) a path or strip (as cut by one course of mowing) | Synonyms: swath |
(verb) deliver a blow to | - |
(verb) fasten with a belt | - |
(verb) sing loudly and forcefully | Synonyms: belt out |
belted | (adjective) having or provided with a belt | - |
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belting | (noun) the material of which belts are made | - |
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beltless | (adjective) lacking a belt | Synonyms: unbelted |
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beltlike | (adjective) resembling a belt around something | Synonyms: belt-like |
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beltway | (noun) a highway that encircles an urban area so that traffic does not have to pass through the center | Synonyms: bypass, ring road, ringway |
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beluga | (noun) valuable source of caviar and isinglass; found in Black and Caspian seas | Synonyms: Acipenser huso, hausen, white sturgeon |
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(noun) small northern whale that is white when adult | Synonyms: Delphinapterus leucas, white whale |
belvedere | (noun) a gazebo sited to command a fine view | - |
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(noun) densely branched Eurasian plant; foliage turns purple-red in autumn | Synonyms: Bassia scoparia, burning bush, fire-bush, fire bush, Kochia scoparia, summer cypress |