English Synonyms and Antonyms

Esthetic or esthetical refers to beauty or the appreciation of the beautiful, especially from the philosophic
point of view. Exquisite denotes the utmost perfection of the elegant in minute details; we speak of an elegant
garment, an exquisite lace. Exquisite is also applied to intense keenness of any feeling; as, exquisite delight;
exquisite pain. See BEAUTIFUL; DELICIOUS; FINE.
Antonyms:
clumsy, displeasing, grotesque, inartistic, rough, coarse, distasteful, harsh, inharmonious, rude, deformed,
fulsome, hideous, meretricious, rugged, disgusting, gaudy, horrid, offensive, tawdry.
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TEACH.
Synonyms:
discipline, give instruction, inform, nurture, drill, give lessons, initiate, school, educate, inculcate, instill, train,
enlighten, indoctrinate, instruct, tutor.
To teach is simply to communicate knowledge; to instruct (originally, to build in or into, put in order) is to
impart knowledge with special method and completeness; instruct has also an authoritative sense nearly
equivalent to command. To educate is to draw out or develop harmoniously the mental powers, and, in the
fullest sense, the moral powers as well. To train is to direct to a certain result powers already existing. Train is
used in preference to educate when the reference is to the inferior animals or to the physical powers of man;
as, to train a horse; to train the hand or eye. To discipline is to bring into habitual and complete subjection to
authority; discipline is a severe word, and is often used as a euphemism for punish; to be thoroughly effective
in war, soldiers must be disciplined as well as trained. To nurture is to furnish the care and sustenance
necessary for physical, mental, and moral growth; nurture is a more tender and homelike word than educate.
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Compare EDUCATION.
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TEMERITY.
Synonyms:
audacity, heedlessness, presumption, foolhardiness, over-confidence, rashness, hardihood, precipitancy,
recklessness, hastiness, precipitation, venturesomeness.
Rashness applies to the actual rushing into danger without counting the cost; temerity denotes the needless
exposure of oneself to peril which is or might be clearly seen to be such. Rashness is used chiefly of bodily
acts, temerity often of mental or social matters; there may be a noble rashness, but temerity is always used in a
bad sense. We say it is amazing that one should have had the temerity to make a statement which could be
readily proved a falsehood, or to make an unworthy proposal to one sure to resent it; in such use temerity is
often closely allied to hardihood, audacity, or presumption. Venturesomeness dallies on the edge of danger
and experiments with it; foolhardiness rushes in for want of sense, heedlessness for want of attention,
rashness for want of reflection, recklessness from disregard of consequences. Audacity, in the sense here
considered, denotes a dashing and somewhat reckless courage, in defiance of conventionalities, or of other
men's opinions, or of what would be deemed probable consequences; as, the audacity of a successful
financier. Compare EFFRONTERY.
Antonyms:
care, circumspection, cowardice, hesitation, timidity, wariness. caution,
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TERM.
Synonyms:
article, denomination, member, phrase, condition, expression, name, word.
Term in its figurative uses always retains something of its literal sense of a boundary or limit. The articles of a
contract or other instrument are simply the portions into which it is divided for convenience; the terms are the
essential statements on which its validity depends--as it were, the landmarks of its meaning or power; a