| stub | (noun) the small unused part of something (especially the end of a cigarette that is left after smoking) | Synonyms: butt |
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| (noun) a torn part of a ticket returned to the holder as a receipt | Synonyms: ticket stub |
| (noun) the part of a check that is retained as a record | Synonyms: check stub, counterfoil |
| (noun) a short piece remaining on a trunk or stem where a branch is lost | - |
| (noun) a small piece | Synonyms: nub |
| (verb) strike (one's toe) accidentally against an object | - |
| (verb) clear of weeds by uprooting them | - |
| (verb) extinguish by crushing | Synonyms: crush out, extinguish, press out, stub out |
| (verb) pull up (weeds) by their roots | - |
| stubbiness | (noun) the property of being short and broad | Synonyms: squatness |
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| stubble | (noun) short stiff hairs growing on a man's face when he has not shaved for a few days | - |
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| (noun) material consisting of seed coverings and small pieces of stem or leaves that have been separated from the seeds | Synonyms: chaff, husk, shuck, stalk, straw |
| stubbled | (adjective) having a short growth of beard | Synonyms: bestubbled, stubbly |
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| stubbly | (adjective) having a short growth of beard | Synonyms: bestubbled, stubbled |
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| stubborn | (adjective) tenaciously unwilling or marked by tenacious unwillingness to yield | Synonyms: obstinate, unregenerate |
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| (adjective) not responding to treatment | Synonyms: refractory |
| stubbornly | (adverb) in a stubborn unregenerate manner | Synonyms: cussedly, mulishly, obdurately, obstinately, pig-headedly |
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| stubbornness | (noun) the trait of being difficult to handle or overcome | Synonyms: mulishness, obstinacy, obstinance |
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| (noun) resolute adherence to your own ideas or desires | Synonyms: bullheadedness, obstinacy, obstinance, pigheadedness, self-will |
| stubby | (adjective) short and blunt | - |
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| stucco | (noun) a plaster now made mostly from Portland cement and sand and lime; applied while soft to cover exterior walls or surfaces | - |
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| (verb) coat with stucco | - |
| (verb) decorate with stucco work | - |
| stuck | (adjective) caught or fixed | - |
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| (adjective) baffled | - |
| stud | (noun) poker in which each player receives hole cards and the remainder are dealt face up; bets are placed after each card is dealt | Synonyms: stud poker |
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| (noun) adult male horse kept for breeding | Synonyms: studhorse |
| (noun) an upright in house framing | Synonyms: scantling |
| (noun) ornament consisting of a circular rounded protuberance (as on a vault or shield or belt) | Synonyms: rivet |
| (noun) a man who is virile and sexually active | Synonyms: he-man, macho-man |
| (verb) provide with or construct with studs | - |
| (verb) scatter or intersperse like dots or studs | Synonyms: constellate, dot |
| studbook | (noun) official record of the pedigree of purebred animals especially horses | - |
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| studded | (adjective) dotted or adorned with or as with studs or nailheads; usually used in combination | - |
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| student | (noun) a learner who is enrolled in an educational institution | Synonyms: educatee, pupil |
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| (noun) someone (especially a child) who learns (as from a teacher) or takes up knowledge or beliefs | Synonyms: assimilator, learner, scholar |
| studentship | (noun) the position of student | - |
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| studhorse | (noun) adult male horse kept for breeding | Synonyms: stud |
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| studied | (adjective) produced or marked by conscious design or premeditation | - |
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| studio | (noun) workplace for the teaching or practice of an art | - |
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| (noun) an apartment with a living space and a bathroom and a small kitchen | Synonyms: studio apartment |
| (noun) workplace consisting of a room or building where movies or television shows or radio programs are produced and recorded | - |
| studious | (adjective) marked by care and effort | - |
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| (adjective) characterized by diligent study and fondness for reading | Synonyms: bookish |
| studiously | (adverb) in a studious manner | - |
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| studiousness | (noun) diligent study | - |
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| study | (noun) a detailed critical inspection | Synonyms: survey |
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| (noun) a room used for reading and writing and studying | - |
| (noun) preliminary drawing for later elaboration | Synonyms: sketch |
| (noun) attentive consideration and meditation | Synonyms: cogitation |
| (noun) a branch of knowledge | Synonyms: bailiwick, discipline, field, field of study, subject, subject area, subject field |
| (noun) applying the mind to learning and understanding a subject (especially by reading) | Synonyms: work |
| (noun) a state of deep mental absorption | - |
| (noun) a written document describing the findings of some individual or group | Synonyms: report, written report |
| (noun) a composition intended to develop one aspect of the performer's technique | - |
| (noun) someone who memorizes quickly and easily (as the lines for a part in a play) | - |
| (verb) be a student of a certain subject | Synonyms: learn, read, take |
| (verb) learn by reading books | Synonyms: hit the books |
| (verb) consider in detail and subject to an analysis in order to discover essential features or meaning | Synonyms: analyse, analyze, canvass, examine |
| (verb) be a student; follow a course of study; be enrolled at an institute of learning | - |
| (verb) think intently and at length, as for spiritual purposes | Synonyms: contemplate, meditate |
| (verb) give careful consideration to | Synonyms: consider |
| studying | (noun) reading carefully with intent to remember | Synonyms: perusal, perusing, poring over |
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| stuff | (noun) miscellaneous unspecified objects | - |
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| (noun) unspecified qualities required to do or be something | - |
| (noun) a critically important or characteristic component | - |
| (noun) senseless talk | Synonyms: hooey, poppycock, stuff and nonsense |
| (noun) information in some unspecified form | - |
| (noun) informal terms for personal possessions | Synonyms: clobber |
| (noun) the tangible substance that goes into the makeup of a physical object | Synonyms: material |
| (verb) fill with a stuffing while cooking | Synonyms: farce |
| (verb) fill tightly with a material | - |
| (verb) treat with grease, fill, and prepare for mounting | - |
| (verb) overeat or eat immodestly; make a pig of oneself | Synonyms: binge, englut, engorge, glut, gorge, gormandise, gormandize, gourmandize, ingurgitate, overeat, overgorge, overindulge, pig out, satiate, scarf out |
| (verb) cram into a cavity | - |
| (verb) obstruct | Synonyms: block, choke up, lug |
| (verb) press or force | Synonyms: shove, squeeze, thrust |
| stuffed | (adjective) filled with something | - |
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| (adjective) crammed with food | - |
| stuffer | (noun) an advertising circular that is enclosed with other material and (usually) sent by mail | - |
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| (noun) a craftsman who stuffs and mounts the skins of animals for display | Synonyms: animal stuffer, taxidermist |
| stuffily | (adverb) in a stuffy manner | Synonyms: stodgily |
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| stuffiness | (noun) dull and pompous gravity | Synonyms: stodginess |
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| (noun) the quality of being close and poorly ventilated | Synonyms: closeness |
| (noun) state of obstruction or stoppage or air in the nose or throat | - |
| stuffing | (noun) padding put in mattresses and cushions and upholstered furniture | - |
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| (noun) a mixture of seasoned ingredients used to stuff meats and vegetables | Synonyms: dressing |
| stuffy | (adjective) excessively conventional and unimaginative and hence dull | Synonyms: stodgy |
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| (adjective) affected with a sensation of stoppage or obstruction | - |
| (adjective) lacking fresh air | Synonyms: airless, close, unaired |
| stultification | (noun) the act of making something futile and useless (as by routine) | Synonyms: constipation, deadening, impairment |
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| (noun) derision of someone or something as foolish or absurd or inconsistent | Synonyms: befooling |
| stultify | (verb) deprive of strength or efficiency; make useless or worthless | Synonyms: cripple |
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| (verb) cause to appear foolish | - |
| (verb) prove to be of unsound mind or demonstrate someone's incompetence | - |
| stumble | (noun) an unsteady uneven gait | Synonyms: lurch, stagger |
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| (noun) an unintentional but embarrassing blunder | Synonyms: misstep, trip-up, trip |
| (verb) make an error | Synonyms: slip up, trip up |
| (verb) miss a step and fall or nearly fall | Synonyms: trip |
| (verb) walk unsteadily, tripping repeatedly | Synonyms: bumble, falter |
| (verb) encounter by chance | Synonyms: hit |
| stumblebum | (noun) an awkward stupid person | Synonyms: clod, gawk, goon, lout, lubber, lummox, lump, oaf |
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| (noun) a second-rate prize fighter | Synonyms: palooka |
| stumbler | (noun) a walker or runner who trips and almost falls | Synonyms: tripper |
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| (noun) someone who makes mistakes because of incompetence | Synonyms: blunderer, botcher, bumbler, bungler, butcher, fuckup, fumbler, sad sack |
| stump | (noun) (cricket) any of three upright wooden posts that form the wicket | - |
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| (noun) a platform raised above the surrounding level to give prominence to the person on it | Synonyms: ambo, dais, podium, pulpit, rostrum, soapbox |
| (noun) the part of a limb or tooth that remains after the rest is removed | - |
| (noun) the base part of a tree that remains standing after the tree has been felled | Synonyms: tree stump |
| (verb) remove tree stumps from | - |
| (verb) cause to be perplexed or confounded | Synonyms: mix up |
| (verb) travel through a district and make political speeches | - |
| (verb) walk heavily | Synonyms: stamp, stomp |
| stumper | (noun) a particularly difficult or baffling question or problem | Synonyms: poser, sticker, toughie |
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| stumping | (noun) campaigning for something by making political speeches (stump speeches) | - |
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| stumpknocker | (noun) inhabits streams from South Carolina to Florida; esteemed panfish | Synonyms: Lepomis punctatus, spotted sunfish |
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| stumpy | (adjective) short and thick; as e.g. having short legs and heavy musculature | Synonyms: chunky, dumpy, low-set, squat, squatty |
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| stun | (verb) make senseless or dizzy by or as if by a blow | Synonyms: stupefy |
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| (verb) hit something or somebody as if with a sandbag | Synonyms: sandbag |
| (verb) overcome as with astonishment or disbelief | Synonyms: bedaze, daze |
| stung | (adjective) aroused to impatience or anger | Synonyms: annoyed, irritated, miffed, nettled, peeved, pissed, pissed off, riled, roiled, steamed |
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| stunned | (adjective) in a state of mental numbness especially as resulting from shock | Synonyms: dazed, stupefied, stupid |
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| (adjective) filled with the emotional impact of overwhelming surprise or shock | Synonyms: amazed, astonied, astonished, astounded |
| (adjective) knocked unconscious by a heavy blow | Synonyms: kayoed, knocked out, KO'd, out |
| stunner | (noun) an unexpected and amazing event | - |
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| (noun) a very attractive or seductive looking woman | Synonyms: beauty, dish, knockout, looker, lulu, mantrap, peach, ravisher, smasher, sweetheart |
| stunning | (adjective) strikingly beautiful or attractive | - |
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| (adjective) causing or capable of causing bewilderment or shock or insensibility | - |
| (adjective) commanding attention | Synonyms: arresting, sensational |
| (adjective) causing great astonishment and consternation | - |
| stunningly | (adverb) in a spectacular manner | Synonyms: spectacularly |
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| stunt | (noun) a difficult or unusual or dangerous feat; usually done to gain attention | - |
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| (noun) a creature (especially a whale) that has been prevented from attaining full growth | - |
| (verb) perform a stunt or stunts | - |
| (verb) to look good | - |
| (verb) check the growth or development of | - |
| stunted | (adjective) inferior in size or quality | Synonyms: scrawny, scrubby |
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| stuntedness | (noun) smallness of stature | Synonyms: puniness, runtiness |
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| stunting | (noun) the performance of stunts while in flight in an aircraft | Synonyms: acrobatics, aerobatics, stunt flying |
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| stupa | (noun) a dome-shaped shrine erected by Buddhists | Synonyms: tope |
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| stupe | (noun) a person who is not very bright | Synonyms: dolt, dullard, pillock, poor fish, pudden-head, pudding head, stupid, stupid person |
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| stupefaction | (noun) the action of stupefying; making dull or lethargic | - |
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| (noun) marginal consciousness | Synonyms: grogginess, semiconsciousness, stupor |
| (noun) a feeling of stupefied astonishment | - |
| stupefied | (adjective) in a state of mental numbness especially as resulting from shock | Synonyms: dazed, stunned, stupid |
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| (adjective) as if struck dumb with astonishment and surprise | Synonyms: dumbfounded, dumbstricken, dumbstruck, dumfounded, flabbergasted, thunderstruck |
| stupefy | (verb) make senseless or dizzy by or as if by a blow | Synonyms: stun |
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| (verb) be a mystery or bewildering to | Synonyms: amaze, baffle, beat, bewilder, dumbfound, flummox, get, gravel, mystify, nonplus, perplex, pose, puzzle, stick, vex |
| (verb) make dull or stupid or muddle with drunkenness or infatuation | Synonyms: besot |
| stupefying | (adjective) shocking with surprise and consternation | - |
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| (adjective) making physically stupid or dull or insensible | - |
| (adjective) so surprisingly impressive as to stun or overwhelm | Synonyms: astonishing, astounding, staggering |
| stupendous | (adjective) so great in size or force or extent as to elicit awe | Synonyms: colossal, prodigious |
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| stupendously | (adverb) to a stupendous degree | - |
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| stupid | (adjective) lacking or marked by lack of intellectual acuity | - |
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| (adjective) lacking intelligence | Synonyms: unintelligent |
| (adjective) in a state of mental numbness especially as resulting from shock | Synonyms: dazed, stunned, stupefied |
| (noun) a person who is not very bright | Synonyms: dolt, dullard, pillock, poor fish, pudden-head, pudding head, stupe, stupid person |
| stupidity | (noun) a stupid mistake | Synonyms: betise, folly, foolishness, imbecility |
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| (noun) a poor ability to understand or to profit from experience | - |
| stupidly | (adverb) in a stupid manner | Synonyms: doltishly |
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| stupor | (noun) marginal consciousness | Synonyms: grogginess, semiconsciousness, stupefaction |
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| (noun) the feeling of distress and disbelief that you have when something bad happens accidentally | Synonyms: daze, shock |
| stuporous | (adjective) stunned or confused and slow to react (as from blows or drunkenness or exhaustion) | Synonyms: dazed, foggy, groggy, logy |
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| sturdily | (adverb) in a sturdy manner | - |
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| sturdiness | (noun) the property of something that is strongly built | - |
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| (noun) resoluteness evidenced by strength of character | - |
| (noun) the state of being vigorous and robust | - |
| sturdy | (adjective) not making concessions | Synonyms: inflexible, uncompromising |
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| (adjective) having rugged physical strength; inured to fatigue or hardships | Synonyms: hardy, stalwart, stout |
| (adjective) substantially made or constructed | Synonyms: tough |
| sturgeon | (noun) large primitive fishes valued for their flesh and roe; widely distributed in the North Temperate Zone | - |
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| stutter | (noun) a speech disorder involving hesitations and involuntary repetitions of certain sounds | Synonyms: stammer |
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| (verb) speak haltingly | Synonyms: bumble, falter, stammer |
| stutterer | (noun) someone who speaks with involuntary pauses and repetitions | Synonyms: stammerer |
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