treacherous | (adjective) dangerously unstable and unpredictable | Synonyms: unreliable |
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(adjective) tending to betray; especially having a treacherous character as attributed to the Carthaginians by the Romans | Synonyms: perfidious, punic |
treacherously | (adverb) in a disloyal and faithless manner | Synonyms: faithlessly, false, traitorously, treasonably |
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treacherousness | (noun) The characteristic of providing insecure footing or support; of being marked by hidden dangers, hazards, or perils. | - |
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treachery | (noun) an act of deliberate betrayal | Synonyms: betrayal, perfidy, treason |
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(noun) betrayal of a trust | Synonyms: perfidiousness, perfidy |
treacle | (noun) writing or music that is excessively sweet and sentimental | Synonyms: glop, mush, slop |
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(noun) a pale cane syrup | Synonyms: golden syrup |
treacly | (adjective) overly sweet | Synonyms: cloying, saccharine, syrupy |
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tread | (noun) a step in walking or running | Synonyms: pace, stride |
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(noun) structural member consisting of the horizontal part of a stair or step | - |
(noun) the part (as of a wheel or shoe) that makes contact with the ground | - |
(noun) the grooved surface of a pneumatic tire | - |
(verb) crush as if by treading on | - |
(verb) brace (an archer's bow) by pressing the foot against the center | - |
(verb) mate with (used of male birds) | - |
(verb) tread or stomp heavily or roughly | Synonyms: trample |
(verb) put down or press the foot, place the foot | Synonyms: step |
(verb) apply (the tread) to a tire | - |
treadle | (noun) a lever that is operated with the foot | Synonyms: foot lever, foot pedal, pedal |
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(verb) operate (machinery) by a treadle | - |
(verb) tread over | - |
treadmill | (noun) a job involving drudgery and confinement | Synonyms: salt mine |
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(noun) a mill that is powered by men or animals walking on a circular belt or climbing steps | Synonyms: tread-wheel, treadwheel |
(noun) an exercise device consisting of an endless belt on which a person can walk or jog without changing place | - |
treadwheel | (noun) a mill that is powered by men or animals walking on a circular belt or climbing steps | Synonyms: tread-wheel, treadmill |
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treason | (noun) a crime that undermines the offender's government | Synonyms: high treason, lese majesty |
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(noun) an act of deliberate betrayal | Synonyms: betrayal, perfidy, treachery |
(noun) disloyalty by virtue of subversive behavior | Synonyms: subversiveness, traitorousness |
treasonable | (adjective) having the character of, or characteristic of, a traitor | Synonyms: faithless, traitorous, treasonous, unfaithful |
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treasonably | (adverb) in a disloyal and faithless manner | Synonyms: faithlessly, false, traitorously, treacherously |
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treasonist | (noun) someone who betrays his country by committing treason | Synonyms: traitor |
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treasonous | (adjective) having the character of, or characteristic of, a traitor | Synonyms: faithless, traitorous, treasonable, unfaithful |
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treasure | (noun) art highly prized for its beauty or perfection | Synonyms: gem |
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(noun) a collection of precious things | - |
(noun) accumulated wealth in the form of money or jewels etc. | Synonyms: hoarded wealth |
(noun) any possession that is highly valued by its owner | - |
(verb) be fond of; be attached to | Synonyms: care for, cherish, hold dear |
(verb) hold dear | Synonyms: appreciate, prize, value |
treasured | (adjective) characterized by feeling or showing fond affection for | Synonyms: cherished, precious, wanted |
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treasurer | (noun) an officer charged with receiving and disbursing funds | Synonyms: financial officer |
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treasurership | (noun) the position of treasurer | - |
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treasury | (noun) a depository (a room or building) where wealth and precious objects can be kept safely | - |
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(noun) the government department responsible for collecting and managing and spending public revenues | - |
(noun) the funds of a government or institution or individual | Synonyms: exchequer |
treat | (noun) an occurrence that causes special pleasure or delight | - |
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(noun) something considered choice to eat | Synonyms: dainty, delicacy, goody, kickshaw |
(verb) provide treatment for | Synonyms: care for |
(verb) subject to a process or treatment, with the aim of readying for some purpose, improving, or remedying a condition | Synonyms: process |
(verb) regard or consider in a specific way | - |
(verb) act on verbally or in some form of artistic expression | Synonyms: address, cover, deal, handle, plow |
(verb) engage in negotiations in order to reach an agreement | - |
(verb) provide with choice or abundant food or drink | Synonyms: regale |
(verb) provide with a gift or entertainment | - |
(verb) interact in a certain way | Synonyms: do by, handle |
treated | (adjective) subjected to a physical (or chemical) treatment or action or agent | - |
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(adjective) given medical care or treatment | - |
(adjective) made hard or flexible or resilient especially by heat treatment | Synonyms: hardened, tempered, toughened |
treater | (noun) someone who negotiates (confers with others in order to reach a settlement) | Synonyms: negotiant, negotiator |
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treatise | (noun) a formal exposition | - |
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treatment | (noun) care provided to improve a situation (especially medical procedures or applications that are intended to relieve illness or injury) | Synonyms: intervention |
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(noun) the management of someone or something | Synonyms: handling |
(noun) (medicine) the act of caring for someone (as by medication or remedial training etc.) | Synonyms: therapy |
(noun) a manner of dealing with something artistically | - |
(noun) an extended communication (often interactive) dealing with some particular topic | Synonyms: discourse, discussion |
treaty | (noun) a written agreement between two states or sovereigns | Synonyms: accord, pact |
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treble | (adjective) having or denoting a high range | Synonyms: soprano |
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(adjective) three times as great or many | Synonyms: three-fold, threefold, triple |
(adjective) having three units or components or elements | Synonyms: ternary, triple, triplex |
(adjective) having more than one decidedly dissimilar aspects or qualities | Synonyms: double, dual, three-fold, threefold, two-fold, twofold |
(noun) the pitch range of the highest female voice | Synonyms: soprano |
(verb) increase threefold | Synonyms: triple |
(verb) sing treble | - |
trebuchet | (noun) catapult that uses a swinging arm to throw a projectile | Synonyms: trebucket |
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trebucket | (noun) catapult that uses a swinging arm to throw a projectile | Synonyms: trebuchet |
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tree | (noun) a tall perennial woody plant having a main trunk and branches forming a distinct elevated crown; includes both gymnosperms and angiosperms | - |
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(noun) a figure that branches from a single root | Synonyms: tree diagram |
(verb) stretch (a shoe) on a shoetree | Synonyms: shoetree |
(verb) chase an animal up a tree | - |
(verb) plant with trees | - |
(verb) force a person or an animal into a position from which he cannot escape | Synonyms: corner |
treed | (adjective) forced to turn and face attackers | Synonyms: at bay, cornered, trapped |
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treehopper | (noun) small leaping insect that sucks juices of branches and twigs | - |
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treeless | (adjective) not wooded | Synonyms: unwooded |
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treelet | (noun) a small tree | - |
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treelike | (adjective) resembling a tree in form and branching structure | Synonyms: arboreal, arboreous, arborescent, arboresque, arboriform, dendriform, dendroid, dendroidal, tree-shaped |
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treenail | (noun) a wooden peg that is used to fasten timbers in shipbuilding; water causes the peg to swell and hold the timbers fast | Synonyms: trenail, trunnel |
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treetop | (noun) the upper branches and leaves of a tree or other plant | Synonyms: crown |
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tref | (adjective) not conforming to dietary laws | Synonyms: nonkosher, terefah |
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trefoil | (noun) an architectural ornament in the form of three arcs arranged in a circle | - |
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(noun) a plant of the genus Trifolium | Synonyms: clover |
(noun) any of several Old World herbs of the genus Medicago having small flowers and trifoliate compound leaves | Synonyms: medic, medick |
treillage | (noun) latticework used to support climbing plants | Synonyms: trellis |
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trek | (noun) any long and difficult trip | - |
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(noun) a journey by ox wagon (especially an organized migration by a group of settlers) | - |
(verb) make a long and difficult journey | - |
(verb) journey on foot, especially in the mountains | - |
trekker | (noun) a traveler who makes a long arduous journey (as hiking through mountainous country) | - |
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trellis | (noun) latticework used to support climbing plants | Synonyms: treillage |
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(verb) train on a trellis, as of a vine | - |
trematode | (noun) parasitic flatworms having external suckers for attaching to a host | Synonyms: fluke, trematode worm |
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tremble | (noun) a reflex motion caused by cold or fear or excitement | Synonyms: shake, shiver |
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(verb) move or jerk quickly and involuntarily up and down or sideways | - |
trembler | (noun) one who quakes and trembles with (or as with) fear | Synonyms: quaker |
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trembles | (noun) disease of livestock and especially cattle poisoned by eating certain kinds of snakeroot | Synonyms: milk sickness |
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trembling | (adjective) vibrating slightly and irregularly; as e.g. with fear or cold or like the leaves of an aspen in a breeze | Synonyms: shaky, shivering |
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(noun) a shaky motion | Synonyms: palpitation, quiver, quivering, shakiness, shaking, vibration |
tremendismo | (noun) post-war Spanish literary style marked by a tendency to emphasize violence and grotesque imagery. | - |
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tremendous | (adjective) extraordinarily good or great; used especially as intensifiers | Synonyms: fantastic, grand, howling, marvellous, marvelous, phenomenal, rattling, terrific, wonderful, wondrous |
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(adjective) extraordinarily large in size or extent or amount or power or degree | Synonyms: enormous |
(adjective) extreme in degree or extent or amount or impact | Synonyms: awful, frightful, terrible |
tremendously | (adverb) vastly | Synonyms: enormously, hugely, staggeringly |
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tremolite | (noun) a white or pale green mineral (calcium magnesium silicate) of the amphibole group used as a form of asbestos | - |
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tremolo | (noun) vocal vibrato especially an excessive or poorly controlled one | - |
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(noun) (music) a tremulous effect produced by rapid repetition of a single tone or rapid alternation of two tones | - |
tremor | (noun) an involuntary vibration (as if from illness or fear) | Synonyms: shudder |
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(noun) a small earthquake | Synonyms: earth tremor, microseism |
(noun) shaking or trembling (usually resulting from weakness or stress or disease) | - |
(verb) shake with seismic vibrations | Synonyms: quake |
tremulous | (adjective) (of the voice) quivering as from weakness or fear | Synonyms: quavering |
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tremulously | (adverb) in a tremulous manner | - |
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trenail | (noun) a wooden peg that is used to fasten timbers in shipbuilding; water causes the peg to swell and hold the timbers fast | Synonyms: treenail, trunnel |
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trench | (noun) a ditch dug as a fortification having a parapet of the excavated earth | - |
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(noun) any long ditch cut in the ground | - |
(noun) a long steep-sided depression in the ocean floor | Synonyms: deep, oceanic abyss |
(verb) cut or carve deeply into | - |
(verb) dig a trench or trenches | - |
(verb) cut a trench in, as for drainage | Synonyms: ditch |
(verb) fortify by surrounding with trenches | - |
(verb) set, plant, or bury in a trench | - |
(verb) impinge or infringe upon | Synonyms: encroach, entrench, impinge |
trenchancy | (noun) keenness and forcefulness of thought or expression or intellect | Synonyms: incisiveness |
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trenchant | (adjective) clearly or sharply defined to the mind | Synonyms: clear-cut, distinct |
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(adjective) characterized by or full of force and vigor | Synonyms: hard-hitting |
(adjective) having keenness and forcefulness and penetration in thought, expression, or intellect | Synonyms: searching |
trenchantly | (adverb) in a vigorous and effective manner | - |
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trencher | (noun) a wooden board or platter on which food is served or carved | - |
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(noun) someone who digs trenches | - |
trencherman | (noun) a person who is devoted to eating and drinking to excess | Synonyms: glutton, gourmand, gourmandizer |
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trend | (noun) a general tendency to change (as of opinion) | Synonyms: drift, movement |
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(noun) the popular taste at a given time | Synonyms: style, vogue |
(noun) general line of orientation | Synonyms: course |
(noun) a general direction in which something tends to move | Synonyms: tendency |
(verb) turn sharply; change direction abruptly | Synonyms: curve, cut, sheer, slew, slue, swerve, veer |
(verb) to be temporarily popular | - |
trendsetting | (adjective) initiating or popularizing a trend | Synonyms: trend-setting |
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trendy | (adjective) in accord with the latest fad | Synonyms: voguish |
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trepan | (noun) a drill for cutting circular holes around a center | - |
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(noun) a surgical instrument used to remove sections of bone from the skull | Synonyms: trephine |
(verb) cut a hole with a trepan, as in surgery | - |
trepang | (noun) of warm coasts from Australia to Asia; used as food especially by Chinese | Synonyms: Holothuria edulis |
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trephination | (noun) an operation that removes a circular section of bone from the skull | - |
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trephine | (noun) a surgical instrument used to remove sections of bone from the skull | Synonyms: trepan |
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(verb) operate on with a trephine | - |
trepid | (adjective) timid by nature or revealing timidity | Synonyms: fearful, timorous |
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trepidation | (noun) a feeling of alarm or dread | - |
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trepidly | (adverb) in a timorous and trepid manner | Synonyms: timorously |
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treponema | (noun) spirochete that causes disease in humans (e.g. syphilis and yaws) | - |
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trespass | (noun) entry to another's property without right or permission | Synonyms: encroachment, intrusion, usurpation, violation |
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(noun) a wrongful interference with the possession of property (personal property as well as realty), or the action instituted to recover damages | - |
(verb) pass beyond (limits or boundaries) | Synonyms: overstep, transgress |
(verb) break the law | - |
(verb) enter unlawfully on someone's property | Synonyms: intrude |
(verb) commit a sin; violate a law of God or a moral law | Synonyms: sin, transgress |
(verb) make excessive use of | Synonyms: take advantage |
trespasser | (noun) someone who intrudes on the privacy or property of another without permission | Synonyms: interloper, intruder |
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trespassing | (adjective) gradually intrusive without right or permission | Synonyms: encroaching, invasive |
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tress | (noun) a hairdo formed by braiding or twisting the hair | Synonyms: braid, plait, twist |
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trestle | (noun) sawhorses used in pairs to support a horizontal tabletop | - |
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(noun) a supporting tower used to support a bridge | - |
trestlework | (noun) a supporting structure composed of a system of connected trestles; for a bridge or pier or scaffold e.g. | - |
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trews | (noun) (used in the plural) tight-fitting trousers; usually of tartan | - |
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trey | (noun) one of four playing cards in a deck having three pips | Synonyms: three |
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(noun) the cardinal number that is the sum of one and one and one | Synonyms: 3, deuce-ace, III, leash, tercet, ternary, ternion, terzetto, three, threesome, tierce, triad, trine, trinity, trio, triplet, troika |