| sonority | (noun) having the character of a loud deep sound; the quality of being resonant | Synonyms: plangency, resonance, reverberance, ringing, sonorousness, vibrancy |
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| sonorous | (adjective) full and loud and deep | Synonyms: heavy |
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| sonorously | (adverb) in a sonorous manner | Synonyms: rotundly |
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| sonorousness | (noun) having the character of a loud deep sound; the quality of being resonant | Synonyms: plangency, resonance, reverberance, ringing, sonority, vibrancy |
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| sonsie | (adjective) (of a woman's body) having a large bosom and pleasing curves | Synonyms: bosomy, busty, buxom, curvaceous, curvy, full-bosomed, sonsy, stacked, voluptuous, well-endowed |
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| sonsy | (adjective) (of a woman's body) having a large bosom and pleasing curves | Synonyms: bosomy, busty, buxom, curvaceous, curvy, full-bosomed, sonsie, stacked, voluptuous, well-endowed |
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| soochong | (noun) a fine quality of black tea native to China | Synonyms: souchong |
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| soon | (adverb) in the near future | Synonyms: before long, presently, shortly |
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| sooner | (adverb) comparatives of `soon' or `early' | Synonyms: earlier |
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| (adverb) more readily or willingly | Synonyms: preferably, rather |
| soonest | (adverb) with the least delay | Synonyms: earliest |
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| soot | (noun) a black colloidal substance consisting wholly or principally of amorphous carbon and used to make pigments and ink | Synonyms: carbon black, crock, lampblack, smut |
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| (verb) coat with soot | - |
| sooth | (noun) truth or reality | - |
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| soothe | (verb) cause to feel better | - |
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| (verb) give moral or emotional strength to | Synonyms: comfort, console, solace |
| soothing | (adjective) affording physical relief | - |
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| (adjective) freeing from fear and anxiety | Synonyms: assuasive |
| soothingly | (adverb) in a soothing manner | - |
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| soothsayer | (noun) someone who makes predictions of the future (usually on the basis of special knowledge) | Synonyms: forecaster, predictor, prognosticator |
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| soothsaying | (noun) the art or gift of prophecy (or the pretense of prophecy) by supernatural means | Synonyms: divination, foretelling, fortune telling |
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| sootiness | (noun) the state of being dirty with soot | Synonyms: smuttiness |
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| sooty | (adjective) of the blackest black; similar to the color of jet or coal | Synonyms: coal-black, jet-black, jet, pitchy |
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| (adjective) covered with or as if with soot | - |
| sop | (noun) a concession given to mollify or placate | - |
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| (noun) piece of solid food for dipping in a liquid | Synonyms: sops |
| (verb) cover with liquid; pour liquid onto | Synonyms: douse, dowse, drench, soak, souse |
| (verb) dip into liquid | - |
| (verb) be or become thoroughly soaked or saturated with a liquid | Synonyms: soak through |
| (verb) give a conciliatory gift or bribe to | - |
| soph | (noun) a second-year undergraduate | Synonyms: sophomore |
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| sophism | (noun) a deliberately invalid argument displaying ingenuity in reasoning in the hope of deceiving someone | Synonyms: sophistication, sophistry |
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| sophist | (noun) someone whose reasoning is subtle and often specious | Synonyms: casuist |
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| sophistic | (adjective) of or pertaining to sophists | - |
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| (adjective) plausible but misleading | Synonyms: sophistical |
| sophistical | (adjective) plausible but misleading | Synonyms: sophistic |
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| sophisticate | (noun) a worldly-wise person | Synonyms: man of the world |
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| (verb) make more complex or refined | - |
| (verb) alter and make impure, as with the intention to deceive | Synonyms: doctor, doctor up |
| (verb) practice sophistry; change the meaning of or be vague about in order to mislead or deceive | Synonyms: convolute, pervert, twist, twist around |
| (verb) make less natural or innocent | - |
| sophisticated | (adjective) having or appealing to those having worldly knowledge and refinement and savoir-faire | - |
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| (adjective) ahead in development; complex or intricate | Synonyms: advanced |
| (adjective) intellectually appealing | - |
| sophistication | (noun) falsification by the use of sophistry; misleading by means of specious fallacies | - |
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| (noun) the quality or character of being intellectually sophisticated and worldly through cultivation or experience or disillusionment | Synonyms: mundaneness, mundanity, worldliness |
| (noun) uplifting enlightenment | Synonyms: edification |
| (noun) being expert or having knowledge of some technical subject | - |
| (noun) a deliberately invalid argument displaying ingenuity in reasoning in the hope of deceiving someone | Synonyms: sophism, sophistry |
| sophistry | (noun) a deliberately invalid argument displaying ingenuity in reasoning in the hope of deceiving someone | Synonyms: sophism, sophistication |
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| sophomore | (adjective) used of the second year in United States high school or college | Synonyms: second-year |
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| (noun) a second-year undergraduate | Synonyms: soph |
| sopor | (noun) a torpid state resembling deep sleep | Synonyms: sleep |
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| soporiferous | (adjective) sleep inducing | Synonyms: hypnagogic, hypnogogic, somniferous, somnific, soporific |
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| (adjective) inducing mental lethargy | Synonyms: narcotic, soporific |
| soporific | (adjective) sleep inducing | Synonyms: hypnagogic, hypnogogic, somniferous, somnific, soporiferous |
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| (adjective) inducing mental lethargy | Synonyms: narcotic, soporiferous |
| (noun) a drug that induces sleep | Synonyms: hypnotic |
| sopping | (adverb) extremely wet | Synonyms: dripping, soaking |
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| soppy | (adjective) effusively or insincerely emotional | Synonyms: bathetic, drippy, hokey, kitschy, maudlin, mawkish, mushy, sappy, schmaltzy, schmalzy, sentimental, slushy, soupy |
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| (adjective) wet through and through; thoroughly wet | Synonyms: sodden |
| sopranino | (adjective) higher in range than soprano | - |
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| soprano | (adjective) having or denoting a high range | Synonyms: treble |
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| (noun) the pitch range of the highest female voice | Synonyms: treble |
| (noun) the highest female voice; the voice of a boy before puberty | - |
| (noun) a female singer with the highest vocal range of all the voice type | - |
| sops | (noun) piece of solid food for dipping in a liquid | Synonyms: sop |
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| sorb | (noun) acid gritty-textured fruit | Synonyms: sorb apple |
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| (verb) take up a liquid or a gas either by adsorption or by absorption | Synonyms: take up |
| sorbate | (noun) a material that has been or is capable of being taken up by another substance by either absorption or adsorption | - |
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| sorbed | (adjective) (of a substance) taken into and retained in another substance | Synonyms: occluded |
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| sorbefacient | (adjective) inducing or promoting absorption | Synonyms: absorbefacient |
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| sorbent | (noun) a material that sorbs another substance; i.e. that has the capacity or tendency to take it up by either absorption or adsorption | Synonyms: sorbent material |
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| sorbet | (noun) an ice containing no milk but having a mushy consistency; usually made from fruit juice | Synonyms: water ice |
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| sorcerer | (noun) one who practices magic or sorcery | Synonyms: magician, necromancer, thaumaturge, thaumaturgist, wizard |
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| sorceress | (noun) a woman sorcerer | - |
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| sorcerise | (verb) transform or change by means of sorcery | Synonyms: sorcerize |
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| sorcerize | (verb) transform or change by means of sorcery | Synonyms: sorcerise |
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| sorcerous | (adjective) possessing or using or characteristic of or appropriate to supernatural powers | Synonyms: charming, magic, magical, witching, wizard, wizardly |
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| sorcery | (noun) the belief in magical spells that harness occult forces or evil spirits to produce unnatural effects in the world | Synonyms: black art, black magic, necromancy |
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| sordid | (adjective) meanly avaricious and mercenary | - |
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| (adjective) unethical or dishonest | Synonyms: dirty, shoddy |
| (adjective) foul and run-down and repulsive | Synonyms: flyblown, squalid |
| (adjective) morally degraded | Synonyms: seamy, seedy, sleazy, squalid |
| sordidly | (adverb) in a sordid or squalid way | Synonyms: squalidly |
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| sordidness | (noun) unworthiness by virtue of lacking higher values | Synonyms: baseness, contemptibility, despicability, despicableness |
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| (noun) sordid dirtiness | Synonyms: squalidness, squalor |
| sordino | (noun) a mute for a violin | Synonyms: sourdine |
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| sore | (adjective) roused to anger | Synonyms: huffy, mad |
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| (adjective) hurting | Synonyms: raw, sensitive, tender |
| (adjective) causing misery or pain or distress | Synonyms: afflictive, painful |
| (noun) an open skin infection | - |
| sorehead | (noun) someone who is peevish or disgruntled | - |
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| sorely | (adverb) to a great extent | - |
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| (adverb) in or as if in pain | Synonyms: painfully |
| soreness | (noun) an uncomfortable feeling of mental painfulness or distress | Synonyms: discomfort, irritation |
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| (noun) a pain that is felt (as when the area is touched) | Synonyms: rawness, tenderness |
| sorgho | (noun) any of several sorghums cultivated as a source of syrup | Synonyms: sorgo, sugar sorghum, sweet sorghum |
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| sorghum | (noun) made from juice of sweet sorghum | Synonyms: sorghum molasses |
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| (noun) economically important Old World tropical cereal grass | - |
| sorgo | (noun) any of several sorghums cultivated as a source of syrup | Synonyms: sorgho, sugar sorghum, sweet sorghum |
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| sororal | (adjective) like or characteristic of or befitting a sister | Synonyms: sisterlike, sisterly |
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| sorority | (noun) a social club for female undergraduates | - |
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| sorption | (noun) the process in which one substance takes up or holds another (by either absorption or adsorption) | - |
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| sorrel | (adjective) of a light brownish color | Synonyms: brownish-orange |
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| (noun) a horse of a brownish orange to light brown color | - |
| (noun) large sour-tasting arrowhead-shaped leaves used in salads and sauces | Synonyms: common sorrel |
| (noun) any of certain coarse weedy plants with long taproots, sometimes used as table greens or in folk medicine | Synonyms: dock, sour grass |
| (noun) any plant or flower of the genus Oxalis | Synonyms: oxalis, wood sorrel |
| (noun) East Indian sparsely prickly annual herb or perennial subshrub widely cultivated for its fleshy calyxes used in tarts and jelly and for its bast fiber | Synonyms: Hibiscus sabdariffa, Jamaica sorrel, red sorrel, roselle, rozelle |
| sorriness | (noun) worthlessness due to insignificance | Synonyms: paltriness |
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| sorrow | (noun) something that causes great unhappiness | Synonyms: grief |
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| (noun) an emotion of great sadness associated with loss or bereavement | - |
| (noun) sadness associated with some wrong done or some disappointment | Synonyms: regret, rue, ruefulness |
| (noun) the state of being sad | Synonyms: sadness, sorrowfulness |
| (verb) feel grief | Synonyms: grieve |
| sorrower | (noun) a person who is feeling grief (as grieving over someone who has died) | Synonyms: griever, lamenter, mourner |
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| sorrowful | (adjective) experiencing or marked by or expressing sorrow especially that associated with irreparable loss | - |
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| sorrowfully | (adverb) with sadness; in a sorrowful manner | Synonyms: dolefully |
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| (adverb) in a sorrowful manner | - |
| sorrowfulness | (noun) a state of gloomy sorrow | Synonyms: mournfulness, ruthfulness |
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| (noun) the state of being sad | Synonyms: sadness, sorrow |
| sorrowing | (adjective) sorrowful through loss or deprivation | Synonyms: bereaved, bereft, grief-stricken, grieving, mourning |
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| sorry | (adjective) feeling or expressing regret or sorrow or a sense of loss over something done or undone | Synonyms: bad, regretful |
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| (adjective) bad; unfortunate | Synonyms: deplorable, distressing, lamentable, pitiful, sad |
| (adjective) causing dejection | Synonyms: blue, dark, dingy, disconsolate, dismal, drab, drear, dreary, gloomy, grim |
| (adjective) without merit; of little or no value or use | Synonyms: good-for-naught, good-for-nothing, meritless, no-account, no-count, no-good |
| sort | (noun) an approximate definition or example | - |
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| (noun) a category of things distinguished by some common characteristic or quality | Synonyms: form, kind, variety |
| (noun) a person of a particular character or nature | - |
| (noun) an operation that segregates items into groups according to a specified criterion | Synonyms: sorting |
| (verb) arrange or order by classes or categories | Synonyms: assort, class, classify, separate, sort out |
| (verb) examine in order to test suitability | Synonyms: screen, screen out, sieve |
| sorted | (adjective) arranged into groups | Synonyms: grouped |
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| (adjective) arranged according to size | - |
| sorter | (noun) a machine for sorting things (such as punched cards or letters) into classes | - |
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| (noun) a clerk who sorts things (as letters at the post office) | - |
| sortie | (noun) a military action in which besieged troops burst forth from their position | Synonyms: sally |
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| (noun) (military) an operational flight by a single aircraft (as in a military operation) | - |
| sorting | (noun) grouping by class or kind or size | - |
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| (noun) the basic cognitive process of arranging into classes or categories | Synonyms: categorisation, categorization, classification |
| (noun) an operation that segregates items into groups according to a specified criterion | Synonyms: sort |
| sortition | (noun) making a chance decision by using lots (straws or pebbles etc.) that are thrown or drawn | Synonyms: casting lots, drawing lots |
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| sorus | (noun) cluster of sporangia usually on underside of a fern frond | - |
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| (noun) a spore-producing structure in certain lichens and fungi | - |
| soshnik | (noun) an iron plowshare that is a part of a sokha. | - |
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| sot | (noun) a chronic drinker | Synonyms: drunk, drunkard, inebriate, rummy, wino |
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| soteriological | (adjective) of or relating to soteriology | - |
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| soteriology | (noun) the branch of Christian theology that deals with salvation as the effect of a divine agency | - |
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| sottish | (adjective) given to or marked by the consumption of alcohol | Synonyms: bibulous, boozy, drunken |
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| sottishly | (adverb) in a sottish manner | - |
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| sottishness | (noun) lack of restraint in use of alcohol | - |
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| (noun) stupefaction from drink | - |
| sou | (noun) a former French coin of low denomination; often used of any small amount of money | - |
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| souari | (noun) large South American evergreen tree having trifoliate leaves and drupes with nutlike seeds used as food and a source of cooking oil | Synonyms: Caryocar nuciferum, souari nut, souari tree |
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| soubrette | (noun) a minor female role as a pert flirtatious lady's maid in a comedy | - |
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| (noun) a pert or flirtatious young girl | - |
| soubriquet | (noun) a familiar name for a person (often a shortened version of a person's given name) | Synonyms: byname, cognomen, moniker, nickname, sobriquet |
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| souchong | (noun) a fine quality of black tea native to China | Synonyms: soochong |
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| souffle | (noun) light fluffy dish of egg yolks and stiffly beaten egg whites mixed with e.g. cheese or fish or fruit | - |
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| sough | (verb) make a murmuring sound | Synonyms: purl |
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| soughing | (adjective) characterized by soft sounds | Synonyms: murmurous, rustling, susurrous |
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| soughingly | (adverb) with a soft sound | - |
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| sought | (adjective) that is looked for | - |
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| (adjective) being searched for | Synonyms: sought-after |
| souk | (noun) an open-air market in an Arabian city | - |
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| soul | (noun) a human being; person, singular, assertive existential pronoun; pronoun, person, singular; quantifier: assertive existential | Synonyms: individual, mortal, person, somebody, someone |
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| (noun) the human embodiment of something | - |
| (noun) a secular form of gospel that was a major Black musical genre in the 1960s and 1970s | - |
| (noun) deep feeling or emotion | Synonyms: soulfulness |
| (noun) the immaterial part of a person; the actuating cause of an individual life | Synonyms: psyche |
| soulful | (adjective) full of or expressing deep emotion | - |
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