o | (noun) the 15th letter of the Roman alphabet | Synonyms: O |
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oaf | (noun) an awkward stupid person | Synonyms: clod, gawk, goon, lout, lubber, lummox, lump, stumblebum |
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oafish | (adjective) ill-mannered and coarse and contemptible in behavior or appearance | Synonyms: boorish, loutish, neandertal, neanderthal, swinish |
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oak | (noun) a deciduous tree of the genus Quercus; has acorns and lobed leaves | Synonyms: oak tree |
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(noun) the hard durable wood of any oak; used especially for furniture and flooring | - |
oaken | (adjective) consisting of or made of wood of the oak tree | - |
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oakum | (noun) loose hemp or jute fiber obtained by unravelling old ropes; when impregnated with tar it was used to caulk seams and pack joints in wooden ships | - |
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oar | (noun) an implement used to propel or steer a boat | - |
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oarfish | (noun) thin deep-water tropical fish 20 to 30 feet long having a red dorsal fin | Synonyms: king of the herring, Regalecus glesne, ribbonfish |
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oarlock | (noun) a holder attached to the gunwale of a boat that holds the oar in place and acts as a fulcrum for rowing | Synonyms: peg, pin, rowlock, thole, tholepin |
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oarsman | (noun) a male who rows a boat | - |
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oarsmanship | (noun) skill as an oarsman | - |
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oarswoman | (noun) a woman oarsman | - |
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oasis | (noun) a shelter serving as a place of safety or sanctuary | Synonyms: haven |
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(noun) a fertile tract in a desert (where the water table approaches the surface) | - |
oast | (noun) a kiln for drying hops | - |
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oat | (noun) seed of the annual grass Avena sativa (spoken of primarily in the plural as `oats') | - |
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(noun) annual grass of Europe and North Africa; grains used as food and fodder (referred to primarily in the plural: `oats') | - |
oatcake | (noun) thin flat unleavened cake of baked oatmeal | - |
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oaten | (adjective) of or related to or derived from oats | - |
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oath | (noun) a commitment to tell the truth (especially in a court of law); to lie under oath is to become subject to prosecution for perjury | Synonyms: swearing |
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(noun) profane or obscene expression usually of surprise or anger | Synonyms: curse, curse word, cuss, expletive, swearing, swearword |
(noun) a solemn promise, usually invoking a divine witness, regarding your future acts or behavior | - |
oatmeal | (noun) porridge made of rolled oats | Synonyms: burgoo |
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(noun) meal made from rolled or ground oats | Synonyms: rolled oats |
obbligato | (noun) a part of the score that must be performed without change or omission | Synonyms: obligato |
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(noun) a persistent but subordinate motif | Synonyms: obligato |
obduracy | (noun) resoluteness by virtue of being unyielding and inflexible | Synonyms: adamance, unyieldingness |
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obdurate | (adjective) showing unfeeling resistance to tender feelings | Synonyms: flint, flinty, granitic, stony |
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(adjective) stubbornly persistent in wrongdoing | Synonyms: cussed, obstinate, unrepentant |
obdurately | (adverb) in a stubborn unregenerate manner | Synonyms: cussedly, mulishly, obstinately, pig-headedly, stubbornly |
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obeah | (noun) a religious belief of African origin involving witchcraft and sorcery; practiced in parts of the West Indies and tropical Americas | Synonyms: obi |
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(noun) (West Indies) followers of a religious system involving witchcraft and sorcery | Synonyms: obi |
obeche | (noun) large west African tree having large palmately lobed leaves and axillary cymose panicles of small white flowers and one-winged seeds; yields soft white to pale yellow wood | Synonyms: arere, obechi, samba, Triplochiton scleroxcylon |
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(noun) the wood of an African obeche tree; used especially for veneering | - |
obechi | (noun) large west African tree having large palmately lobed leaves and axillary cymose panicles of small white flowers and one-winged seeds; yields soft white to pale yellow wood | Synonyms: arere, obeche, samba, Triplochiton scleroxcylon |
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obedience | (noun) the act of obeying; dutiful or submissive behavior with respect to another person | Synonyms: obeisance |
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(noun) behavior intended to please your parents | Synonyms: respect |
(noun) the trait of being willing to obey | - |
obedient | (adjective) dutifully complying with the commands or instructions of those in authority | - |
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obediently | (adverb) in an obedient manner | Synonyms: yieldingly |
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obeisance | (noun) the act of obeying; dutiful or submissive behavior with respect to another person | Synonyms: obedience |
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(noun) bending the head or body or knee as a sign of reverence or submission or shame or greeting | Synonyms: bow, bowing |
obelion | (noun) the craniometric point on the sagittal suture near the lamboid suture | - |
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obelisk | (noun) a stone pillar having a rectangular cross section tapering towards a pyramidal top | - |
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(noun) a character used in printing to indicate a second cross reference or footnote when the asterisk has already been used | Synonyms: dagger |
obese | (adjective) excessively fat | Synonyms: corpulent, rotund, weighty |
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obesity | (noun) more than average fatness | Synonyms: corpulency, fleshiness |
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obey | (verb) be obedient to | - |
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obfuscate | (verb) make obscure or unclear | - |
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obfuscation | (noun) the activity of obscuring people's understanding, leaving them baffled or bewildered | Synonyms: mystification |
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(noun) darkening or obscuring the sight of something | - |
(noun) confusion resulting from failure to understand | Synonyms: bafflement, befuddlement, bemusement, bewilderment, mystification, puzzlement |
obi | (noun) a religious belief of African origin involving witchcraft and sorcery; practiced in parts of the West Indies and tropical Americas | Synonyms: obeah |
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(noun) (West Indies) followers of a religious system involving witchcraft and sorcery | Synonyms: obeah |
obiism | (noun) belief in a kind of sorcery that originated in Africa and is practiced in the West Indies | - |
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obit | (noun) a notice of someone's death; usually includes a short biography | Synonyms: necrology, obituary |
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obituary | (noun) a notice of someone's death; usually includes a short biography | Synonyms: necrology, obit |
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object | (noun) a tangible and visible entity; an entity that can cast a shadow | Synonyms: physical object |
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(noun) the goal intended to be attained (and which is believed to be attainable) | Synonyms: aim, objective, target |
(noun) the focus of cognitions or feelings | - |
(noun) (computing) a discrete item that provides a description of virtually anything known to a computer | - |
(noun) (grammar) a constituent that is acted upon | - |
(verb) express or raise an objection or protest or criticism or express dissent | - |
(verb) be averse to or express disapproval of | - |
objectification | (noun) the act of representing an abstraction as a physical thing | - |
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(noun) a concrete representation of an abstract idea or principle | - |
objectify | (verb) make impersonal or present as an object | Synonyms: depersonalise, depersonalize |
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(verb) make external or objective, or give reality to | Synonyms: exteriorise, exteriorize, externalise, externalize |
objection | (noun) (law) a procedure whereby a party to a suit says that a particular line of questioning or a particular witness or a piece of evidence or other matter is improper and should not be continued and asks the court to rule on its impropriety or illegality | - |
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(noun) the act of protesting; a public (often organized) manifestation of dissent | Synonyms: dissent, protest |
(noun) the speech act of objecting | - |
(noun) the act of expressing earnest opposition or protest | Synonyms: expostulation, remonstrance, remonstration |
objectionable | (adjective) causing disapproval or protest | Synonyms: obnoxious |
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(adjective) liable to objection or debate; used of something one might take exception to | Synonyms: exceptionable |
objectionableness | (noun) the quality of being hateful | Synonyms: hatefulness, obnoxiousness |
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objectionably | (adverb) in an obnoxious manner | Synonyms: obnoxiously, offensively |
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objective | (adjective) undistorted by emotion or personal bias; based on observable phenomena | Synonyms: nonsubjective |
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(adjective) serving as or indicating the object of a verb or of certain prepositions and used for certain other purposes | Synonyms: accusative |
(adjective) belonging to immediate experience of actual things or events | - |
(adjective) emphasizing or expressing things as perceived without distortion of personal feelings or interpretation | - |
(noun) the lens or system of lenses in a telescope or microscope that is nearest the object being viewed | Synonyms: object glass, object lens, objective lens |
(noun) the goal intended to be attained (and which is believed to be attainable) | Synonyms: aim, object, target |
objectively | (adverb) with objectivity | - |
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objectiveness | (noun) judgment based on observable phenomena and uninfluenced by emotions or personal prejudices | Synonyms: objectivity |
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objectivity | (noun) judgment based on observable phenomena and uninfluenced by emotions or personal prejudices | Synonyms: objectiveness |
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objectivization | (noun) the act or process of making or becoming objective. | - |
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objector | (noun) a person who dissents from some established policy | Synonyms: contestant, dissenter, dissident, protester |
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objurgate | (verb) express strong disapproval of | Synonyms: condemn, decry, excoriate, reprobate |
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(verb) censure severely | Synonyms: castigate, chasten, chastise, correct |
objurgation | (noun) rebuking a person harshly | Synonyms: chiding, scolding, tongue-lashing |
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oblanceolate | (adjective) (of a leaf shape) having a broad rounded apex and a tapering base | - |
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oblate | (adjective) having the equatorial diameter greater than the polar diameter; being flattened at the poles | Synonyms: pumpkin-shaped |
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(noun) a lay person dedicated to religious work or the religious life | - |
oblateness | (noun) the property possessed by a round shape that is flattened at the poles | Synonyms: ellipticity |
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oblation | (noun) the act of contributing to the funds of a church or charity | Synonyms: offering |
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obligate | (adjective) restricted to a particular condition of life | - |
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(verb) bind by an obligation; cause to be indebted | Synonyms: bind, hold, oblige |
(verb) commit in order to fulfill an obligation | - |
(verb) force somebody to do something | Synonyms: compel, oblige |
obligated | (adjective) caused by law or conscience to follow a certain course | - |
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obligation | (noun) the social force that binds you to the courses of action demanded by that force | Synonyms: duty, responsibility |
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(noun) a legal agreement specifying a payment or action and the penalty for failure to comply | - |
(noun) a written promise to repay a debt | Synonyms: certificate of indebtedness, debt instrument |
(noun) a personal relation in which one is indebted for a service or favor | Synonyms: indebtedness |
(noun) the state of being obligated to do or pay something | - |
obligational | (adjective) relating or constituting or qualified to create a legal or financial obligation | - |
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obligato | (noun) a part of the score that must be performed without change or omission | Synonyms: obbligato |
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(noun) a persistent but subordinate motif | Synonyms: obbligato |
obligatorily | (adverb) in a manner that cannot be evaded | Synonyms: compulsorily, mandatorily |
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(adverb) in an obligatory manner | - |
obligatory | (adjective) morally or legally constraining or binding | - |
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(adjective) required by obligation or compulsion or convention | - |
oblige | (verb) bind by an obligation; cause to be indebted | Synonyms: bind, hold, obligate |
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(verb) provide a service or favor for someone | Synonyms: accommodate |
(verb) force somebody to do something | Synonyms: compel, obligate |
obliged | (adjective) under a moral obligation to do something | Synonyms: duty-bound |
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obliger | (noun) someone who performs a service or does a favor | Synonyms: accommodator |
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obliging | (adjective) showing a cheerful willingness to do favors for others | Synonyms: complaisant |
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obligingly | (adverb) in accommodation | Synonyms: accommodatingly |
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obligingness | (noun) a disposition or tendency to yield to the will of others | Synonyms: complaisance, compliance, compliancy, deference |
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oblique | (adjective) slanting or inclined in direction or course or position--neither parallel nor perpendicular nor right-angled | - |
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(adjective) indirect in departing from the accepted or proper way; misleading | Synonyms: devious |
(noun) a diagonally arranged abdominal muscle on either side of the torso | Synonyms: abdominal external oblique muscle, external oblique muscle, musculus obliquus externus abdominis |
(noun) any grammatical case other than the nominative | Synonyms: oblique case |
obliquely | (adverb) at an oblique angle | Synonyms: aslant, athwart |
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(adverb) to, toward or at one side | Synonyms: sidelong, sideways |
obliqueness | (noun) the property of being neither parallel nor perpendicular, but at a slanting angle | - |
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(noun) the quality of being oblique and rambling indirectly | Synonyms: deviousness |
obliquity | (noun) the quality of being deceptive | Synonyms: deceptiveness |
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(noun) the presentation during labor of the head of the fetus at an abnormal angle | Synonyms: asynclitism |
obliterable | (adjective) able to be obliterated completely | Synonyms: removable |
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obliterate | (adjective) reduced to nothingness | Synonyms: blotted out, obliterated |
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(verb) remove completely from recognition or memory | Synonyms: efface |
(verb) make undecipherable or imperceptible by obscuring or concealing | Synonyms: blot out, hide, obscure, veil |
(verb) mark for deletion, rub off, or erase | Synonyms: kill, wipe out |
(verb) do away with completely, without leaving a trace | - |
obliterated | (adjective) reduced to nothingness | Synonyms: blotted out, obliterate |
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obliteration | (noun) destruction by annihilating something | Synonyms: annihilation |
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(noun) the complete destruction of every trace of something | Synonyms: eradication |
obliterator | (noun) an eliminator that does away with all traces | - |
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oblivion | (noun) total forgetfulness | Synonyms: obliviousness |
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(noun) the state of being disregarded or forgotten | Synonyms: limbo |
oblivious | (adjective) failing to keep in mind | Synonyms: forgetful |
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(adjective) (followed by `to' or `of') lacking conscious awareness of | Synonyms: unmindful |
obliviousness | (noun) total forgetfulness | Synonyms: oblivion |
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oblong | (adjective) deviating from a square or circle or sphere by being elongated in one direction | - |
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(adjective) (of a leaf shape) having a somewhat elongated form with approximately parallel sides | - |
(noun) a plane figure that deviates from a square or circle due to elongation | - |
oblongness | (noun) the property of being shaped like a rectangle | Synonyms: rectangularity |
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obloquy | (noun) a false accusation of an offense or a malicious misrepresentation of someone's words or actions | Synonyms: calumniation, calumny, defamation, hatchet job, traducement |
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(noun) state of disgrace resulting from public abuse | Synonyms: opprobrium |
obnoxious | (adjective) causing disapproval or protest | Synonyms: objectionable |
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obnoxiously | (adverb) in an obnoxious manner | Synonyms: objectionably, offensively |
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obnoxiousness | (noun) the quality of being hateful | Synonyms: hatefulness, objectionableness |
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obnubilate | (verb) make unclear, indistinct, or blurred | Synonyms: blur, confuse, obscure |
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(verb) make less visible or unclear | Synonyms: becloud, befog, cloud, fog, haze over, mist, obscure |
oboe | (noun) a slender double-reed instrument; a woodwind with a conical bore and a double-reed mouthpiece | Synonyms: hautbois, hautboy |
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oboist | (noun) a musician who plays the oboe | - |
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obolus | (noun) a Greek unit of weight equal to one tenth of a gram | - |
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obovate | (adjective) (of a leaf shape) egg-shaped with the narrower end at the base | - |
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obscene | (adjective) suggestive of or tending to moral looseness | Synonyms: lewd, raunchy, salacious |
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(adjective) designed to incite to indecency or lust | - |
(adjective) offensive to the mind | Synonyms: abhorrent, detestable, repugnant, repulsive |
obscenely | (adverb) in a lewd and obscene manner | Synonyms: lewdly |
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(adverb) to an obscene degree | - |
obscenity | (noun) an obscene act | - |
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(noun) the trait of behaving in an obscene manner | Synonyms: bawdiness, lewdness, salaciousness, salacity |
(noun) an offensive or indecent word or phrase | Synonyms: dirty word, filth, smut, vulgarism |
obscurantism | (noun) a deliberate act intended to make something obscure | - |
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(noun) a policy of opposition to enlightenment or the spread of knowledge | - |