so | (noun) the syllable naming the fifth (dominant) note of any musical scale in solmization | Synonyms: soh, sol |
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(adverb) in truth (often tends to intensify) | Synonyms: indeed |
(adverb) to a very great extent or degree | - |
(adverb) (usually followed by `that') to an extent or degree as expressed | - |
(adverb) in the way indicated | Synonyms: thus, thusly |
(adverb) in such a condition or manner, especially as expressed or implied | - |
(adverb) in a manner that facilitates | - |
(adverb) to a certain unspecified extent or degree | - |
(adverb) in the same way; also | - |
(adverb) subsequently or soon afterward (often used as sentence connectors) | Synonyms: and so, then |
(adverb) (used to introduce a logical conclusion) from that fact or reason or as a result | Synonyms: hence, thence, therefore, thus |
soak | (noun) washing something by allowing it to soak | Synonyms: soaking |
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(noun) the process of becoming softened and saturated as a consequence of being immersed in water (or other liquid) | Synonyms: soakage, soaking |
(verb) fill, soak, or imbue totally | Synonyms: imbue |
(verb) cover with liquid; pour liquid onto | Synonyms: douse, dowse, drench, sop, souse |
(verb) heat a metal prior to working it | - |
(verb) become drunk or drink excessively | Synonyms: hit it up, inebriate, souse |
(verb) make drunk (with alcoholic drinks) | Synonyms: inebriate, intoxicate |
(verb) beat severely | - |
(verb) submerge in a liquid | - |
(verb) rip off; ask an unreasonable price | Synonyms: fleece, gazump, hook, overcharge, pluck, plume, rob, surcharge |
(verb) leave as a guarantee in return for money | Synonyms: hock, pawn |
soakage | (noun) the process of becoming softened and saturated as a consequence of being immersed in water (or other liquid) | Synonyms: soak, soaking |
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soaked | (adjective) very drunk | Synonyms: besotted, blind drunk, blotto, cockeyed, crocked, fuddled, loaded, pie-eyed, pissed, pixilated, plastered, slopped, sloshed, smashed, soused, sozzled, squiffy, stiff, tight, wet |
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soaker | (noun) a person who drinks alcohol to excess habitually | Synonyms: alcoholic, alky, boozer, dipsomaniac, lush, souse |
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(noun) a heavy rain | Synonyms: cloudburst, deluge, downpour, pelter, torrent, waterspout |
soaking | (noun) washing something by allowing it to soak | Synonyms: soak |
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(noun) the act of making something completely wet | Synonyms: drenching, souse, sousing |
(noun) the process of becoming softened and saturated as a consequence of being immersed in water (or other liquid) | Synonyms: soak, soakage |
(adverb) extremely wet | Synonyms: dripping, sopping |
soap | (noun) a cleansing agent made from the salts of vegetable or animal fats | - |
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(noun) street names for gamma hydroxybutyrate | Synonyms: easy lay, Georgia home boy, goop, grievous bodily harm, liquid ecstasy, max, scoop |
(noun) money offered as a bribe | - |
(verb) rub soap all over, usually with the purpose of cleaning | Synonyms: lather |
soapberry | (noun) a tree of the genus Sapindus whose fruit is rich in saponin | Synonyms: soapberry tree |
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soapbox | (noun) a platform raised above the surrounding level to give prominence to the person on it | Synonyms: ambo, dais, podium, pulpit, rostrum, stump |
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(noun) a crate for packing soap | - |
soapfish | (noun) fishes with slimy mucus-covered skin; found in the warm Atlantic coastal waters of America | - |
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soapiness | (noun) the quality of being soap or being covered with soap | - |
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soaprock | (noun) a soft heavy compact variety of talc having a soapy feel; used to make hearths and tabletops and ornaments | Synonyms: soap-rock, soapstone, steatite |
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soapstone | (noun) a soft heavy compact variety of talc having a soapy feel; used to make hearths and tabletops and ornaments | Synonyms: soap-rock, soaprock, steatite |
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soapsuds | (noun) the froth produced by soaps or detergents | Synonyms: lather, suds |
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soapweed | (noun) tall arborescent yucca of southwestern United States | Synonyms: soap-weed, soap tree, Yucca elata |
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soapwort | (noun) plant of European origin having pink or white flowers and leaves yielding a detergent when bruised | Synonyms: bouncing Bess, bouncing Bet, hedge pink, Saponaria officinalis |
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soapy | (adjective) resembling or having the qualities of soap | Synonyms: saponaceous |
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(adjective) unpleasantly and excessively suave or ingratiating in manner or speech | Synonyms: buttery, fulsome, oily, oleaginous, smarmy, unctuous |
soar | (noun) the act of rising upward into the air | Synonyms: zoom |
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(verb) go or move upward | - |
(verb) fly upwards or high in the sky | - |
(verb) rise rapidly | Synonyms: soar up, soar upwards, surge, zoom |
(verb) fly a plane without an engine | Synonyms: sailplane |
(verb) fly by means of a hang glider | Synonyms: hang glide |
soaring | (adjective) of imposing height; especially standing out above others | Synonyms: eminent, lofty, towering |
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(adjective) ascending to a level markedly higher than the usual | - |
(noun) the activity of flying a glider | Synonyms: glide, gliding, sailing, sailplaning |
sob | (noun) convulsive gasp made while weeping | Synonyms: sobbing |
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(verb) weep convulsively | - |
sobbing | (noun) convulsive gasp made while weeping | Synonyms: sob |
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sobbingly | (adverb) with sobs | - |
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sober | (adjective) not affected by a chemical substance (especially alcohol) | - |
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(adjective) completely lacking in playfulness | Synonyms: serious, unplayful |
(adjective) lacking brightness or color; dull | Synonyms: drab, somber, sombre |
(adjective) dignified and somber in manner or character and committed to keeping promises | Synonyms: grave, sedate, solemn |
(verb) become sober after excessive alcohol consumption | Synonyms: sober up |
(verb) become more realistic | Synonyms: sober up |
(verb) cause to become sober | - |
sobering | (adjective) tending to make sober or more serious | - |
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soberly | (adverb) in a grave and sober manner | Synonyms: gravely, staidly |
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soberness | (noun) a manner that is serious and solemn | Synonyms: graveness, gravity, sobriety, somberness, sombreness |
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(noun) the state of being sober and not intoxicated by alcohol | Synonyms: sobriety |
sobersided | (adjective) completely lacking in humor or lightness of touch | - |
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sobersides | (noun) a serious and sedate individual | - |
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sobralia | (noun) any of various showy orchids of the genus Sobralia having leafy stems and bright-colored solitary or racemose flowers similar to those of genus Cattleya | - |
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sobriety | (noun) abstaining from excess | Synonyms: temperance |
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(noun) a manner that is serious and solemn | Synonyms: graveness, gravity, soberness, somberness, sombreness |
(noun) moderation in or abstinence from alcohol or other drugs | Synonyms: dryness |
(noun) the state of being sober and not intoxicated by alcohol | Synonyms: soberness |
sobriquet | (noun) a familiar name for a person (often a shortened version of a person's given name) | Synonyms: byname, cognomen, moniker, nickname, soubriquet |
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socage | (noun) land tenure by agricultural service or payment of rent; not burdened with military service | - |
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soccer | (noun) a football game in which two teams of 11 players try to kick or head a ball into the opponents' goal | Synonyms: association football |
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sociability | (noun) the relative tendency or disposition to be sociable or associate with one's fellows | Synonyms: sociableness |
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sociable | (adjective) inclined to or conducive to companionship with others | - |
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(adjective) friendly and pleasant | - |
(noun) a party of people assembled to promote sociability and communal activity | Synonyms: mixer, social |
sociableness | (noun) the relative tendency or disposition to be sociable or associate with one's fellows | Synonyms: sociability |
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sociably | (adverb) in a sociable manner | - |
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(adverb) in a gregarious manner | Synonyms: gregariously |
social | (adjective) living together or enjoying life in communities or organized groups | - |
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(adjective) relating to human society and its members | Synonyms: societal |
(adjective) relating to or belonging to or characteristic of high society | - |
(adjective) marked by friendly companionship with others | - |
(adjective) tending to move or live together in groups or colonies of the same kind | - |
(adjective) composed of sociable people or formed for the purpose of sociability | - |
(noun) a party of people assembled to promote sociability and communal activity | Synonyms: mixer, sociable |
socialisation | (noun) the adoption of the behavior patterns of the surrounding culture | Synonyms: acculturation, enculturation, socialization |
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(noun) the act of meeting for social purposes | Synonyms: socialising, socialization, socializing |
(noun) the action of establishing on a socialist basis | Synonyms: socialization |
socialise | (verb) make conform to socialist ideas and philosophies | Synonyms: socialize |
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(verb) prepare for social life | Synonyms: socialize |
(verb) train for a social environment | Synonyms: socialize |
(verb) take part in social activities; interact with others | Synonyms: socialize |
socialised | (adjective) under group or government control | Synonyms: socialized |
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socialiser | (noun) a person who takes part in social activities | Synonyms: socializer |
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socialising | (noun) the act of meeting for social purposes | Synonyms: socialisation, socialization, socializing |
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socialism | (noun) a political theory advocating state ownership of industry | - |
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(noun) an economic system based on state ownership of capital | Synonyms: socialist economy |
socialist | (adjective) advocating or following the socialist principles | Synonyms: socialistic |
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(noun) a political advocate of socialism | - |
socialistic | (adjective) advocating or following the socialist principles | Synonyms: socialist |
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socialite | (noun) a socially prominent person | - |
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sociality | (noun) the tendency to associate with others and to form social groups | - |
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socialization | (noun) the adoption of the behavior patterns of the surrounding culture | Synonyms: acculturation, enculturation, socialisation |
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(noun) the act of meeting for social purposes | Synonyms: socialisation, socialising, socializing |
(noun) the action of establishing on a socialist basis | Synonyms: socialisation |
socialize | (verb) make conform to socialist ideas and philosophies | Synonyms: socialise |
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(verb) prepare for social life | Synonyms: socialise |
(verb) train for a social environment | Synonyms: socialise |
(verb) take part in social activities; interact with others | Synonyms: socialise |
socialized | (adjective) under group or government control | Synonyms: socialised |
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socializer | (noun) a person who takes part in social activities | Synonyms: socialiser |
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socializing | (noun) the act of meeting for social purposes | Synonyms: socialisation, socialising, socialization |
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socially | (adverb) by or with respect to society | - |
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(adverb) in a social manner | - |
societal | (adjective) relating to human society and its members | Synonyms: social |
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society | (noun) an extended social group having a distinctive cultural and economic organization | - |
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(noun) a formal association of people with similar interests | Synonyms: club, gild, guild, lodge, order, social club |
(noun) the fashionable elite | Synonyms: beau monde, bon ton, high society, smart set |
(noun) the state of being with someone | Synonyms: companionship, company, fellowship |
sociobiologic | (adjective) of or relating to sociobiology | Synonyms: sociobiological |
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sociobiological | (adjective) of or relating to sociobiology | Synonyms: sociobiologic |
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sociobiologically | (adverb) with respect to sociobiology | - |
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sociobiologist | (noun) a biologist who studies the biological determinants of social behavior | - |
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sociobiology | (noun) the branch of biology that conducts comparative studies of the social organization of animals (including human beings) with regard to its evolutionary history | - |
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sociocultural | (adjective) relating to both social and cultural matters | - |
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socioeconomic | (adjective) involving social as well as economic factors | - |
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socioeconomically | (adverb) with respect to socioeconomic factors | - |
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sociolinguist | (noun) a linguist who studies the social and cultural factors that influence linguistic communication | - |
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sociolinguistic | (adjective) of or relating to sociolinguistics | - |
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sociolinguistically | (adverb) with respect to sociolinguistics | - |
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sociolinguistics | (noun) the study of language in relation to its sociocultural context | - |
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sociological | (adjective) of or relating to or determined by sociology | - |
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sociologically | (adverb) with regard to sociology | - |
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sociologist | (noun) a social scientist who studies the institutions and development of human society | - |
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sociology | (noun) the study and classification of human societies | - |
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sociometry | (noun) the quantitative study of social relationships | - |
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sociopath | (noun) someone with a sociopathic personality; a person with an antisocial personality disorder (`psychopath' was once widely used but has now been superseded by `sociopath') | Synonyms: psychopath |
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sociopathic | (adjective) of or relating to a sociopathic personality disorder | - |
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sock | (noun) hosiery consisting of a cloth covering for the foot; worn inside the shoe; reaches to between the ankle and the knee | - |
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(noun) a truncated cloth cone mounted on a mast; used (e.g., at airports) to show the direction of the wind | Synonyms: air-sleeve, air sock, drogue, wind cone, wind sleeve, wind sock, windsock |
(verb) hit hard | Synonyms: bash, bonk, bop, whap, whop |
socket | (noun) a receptacle into which an electric device can be inserted | - |
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(noun) receptacle where something (a pipe or probe or end of a bone) is inserted | - |
(noun) a bony hollow into which a structure fits | - |
sockeye | (noun) small salmon with red flesh; found in rivers and tributaries of the northern Pacific and valued as food; adults die after spawning | Synonyms: blueback salmon, Oncorhynchus nerka, red salmon, sockeye salmon |
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(noun) fatty red flesh of salmon of Pacific coast and rivers | Synonyms: red salmon, sockeye salmon |
socle | (noun) a plain plinth that supports a wall | - |
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sod | (noun) surface layer of ground containing a mat of grass and grass roots | Synonyms: greensward, sward, turf |
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(noun) someone who engages in anal copulation (especially a male who engages in anal copulation with another male) | Synonyms: bugger, sodomist, sodomite |
(noun) an informal term for a youth or man | Synonyms: bozo, cat, guy, hombre |
(verb) cover with sod | - |
soda | (noun) a sweet drink containing carbonated water and flavoring | Synonyms: pop, soda pop, soda water, tonic |
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(noun) a sodium salt of carbonic acid; used in making soap powders and glass and paper | Synonyms: sal soda, soda ash, sodium carbonate, washing soda |
sodalist | (noun) a member of a sodality | - |
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sodalite | (noun) a vitreous mineral consisting of sodium aluminum silicate and sodium chloride in crystalline form; occurs in igneous rocks | - |
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sodality | (noun) people engaged in a particular occupation | Synonyms: brotherhood, fraternity |
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sodbuster | (noun) a person who operates a farm | Synonyms: farmer, granger, husbandman |
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sodden | (adjective) wet through and through; thoroughly wet | Synonyms: soppy |
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sodding | (adjective) without qualification; used informally as (often pejorative) intensifiers | Synonyms: arrant, complete, consummate, double-dyed, everlasting, gross, perfect, pure, staring, stark, thorough, thoroughgoing, unadulterated, utter |
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soddy | (noun) a house built of sod or adobe laid in horizontal courses | Synonyms: adobe house, sod house |
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sodium | (noun) a silvery soft waxy metallic element of the alkali metal group; occurs abundantly in natural compounds (especially in salt water); burns with a yellow flame and reacts violently in water; occurs in sea water and in the mineral halite (rock salt) | Synonyms: atomic number 11, Na |
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sodoku | (noun) the form of ratbite fever occurring in the Far East | Synonyms: spirillum fever |
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sodom | (noun) any location known for vice and corruption | - |
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sodomise | (verb) practice anal sex upon | Synonyms: bugger, sodomize |
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(verb) copulate with an animal | Synonyms: sodomize |
sodomist | (noun) someone who engages in anal copulation (especially a male who engages in anal copulation with another male) | Synonyms: bugger, sod, sodomite |
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sodomite | (noun) someone who engages in anal copulation (especially a male who engages in anal copulation with another male) | Synonyms: bugger, sod, sodomist |
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sodomize | (verb) practice anal sex upon | Synonyms: bugger, sodomise |
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(verb) copulate with an animal | Synonyms: sodomise |
sodomy | (noun) intercourse via the anus, committed by a man with a man or woman | Synonyms: anal intercourse, anal sex, buggery |
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(noun) sexual activity between a person and an animal | Synonyms: bestiality, zooerastia, zooerasty |
sofa | (noun) an upholstered seat for more than one person | Synonyms: couch, lounge |
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soffit | (noun) the underside of a part of a building (such as an arch or overhang or beam etc.) | - |
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soft | (adjective) produced with vibration of the vocal cords | Synonyms: sonant, voiced |
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(adjective) yielding readily to pressure or weight | - |
(adjective) compassionate and kind; conciliatory | - |
(adjective) (of speech sounds); produced with the back of the tongue raised toward the hard palate; characterized by a hissing or hushing sound (as `s' and `sh') | - |
(adjective) (of sound) relatively low in volume | - |
(adjective) (of light) transmitted from a broad light source or reflected | Synonyms: diffuse, diffused |
(adjective) not protected against attack (especially by nuclear weapons) | - |
(adjective) (used chiefly as a direction or description in music) soft; in a quiet, subdued tone | Synonyms: piano |
(adjective) mild and pleasant | Synonyms: balmy, mild |
(adjective) willing to negotiate and compromise | - |
(adjective) not brilliant or glaring | Synonyms: subdued |
(adjective) not burdensome or demanding; borne or done easily and without hardship | Synonyms: cushy, easygoing |
(adjective) (of a commodity or market or currency) falling or likely to fall in value | - |
(adjective) having little impact | Synonyms: easy, gentle |
(adjective) soft and mild; not harsh or stern or severe | Synonyms: gentle |
(adjective) tolerant or lenient | Synonyms: indulgent, lenient |
(adjective) using evidence not readily amenable to experimental verification or refutation | - |
(adjective) easily hurt | Synonyms: delicate |
(adjective) out of condition; not strong or robust; incapable of exertion or endurance | Synonyms: flabby, flaccid |
(adverb) in a relaxed manner; or without hardship | Synonyms: easy |
softback | (noun) a book with paper covers | Synonyms: paper-back book, paperback, paperback book, soft-cover, soft-cover book, softback book |
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