English Synonyms and Antonyms

accordingly they sprang forward at the word of command." Thence is a word of more sweeping inference than
therefore, applying not merely to a single set of premises, but often to all that has gone before, including the
reasonable inferences that have not been formally stated. Wherefore is the correlative of therefore, and
whence of hence or thence, appending the inference or conclusion to the previous statement without a break.
Compare synonyms for BECAUSE.
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THRONG.
Synonyms:
concourse, crowd, host, jam, mass, multitude, press.
A crowd is a company of persons filling to excess the space they occupy and pressing inconveniently upon
one another; the total number in a crowd may be great or small. Throng is a word of vastness and dignity,
always implying that the persons are numerous as well as pressed or pressing closely together; there may be a
dense crowd in a small room, but there can not be a throng. Host and multitude both imply vast numbers, but
a multitude may be diffused over a great space so as to be nowhere a crowd; host is a military term, and
properly denotes an assembly too orderly for crowding. Concourse signifies a spontaneous gathering of many
persons moved by a common impulse, and has a suggestion of stateliness not found in the word crowd, while
suggesting less massing and pressure than is indicated by the word throng.
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TIME.
Synonyms:
age, duration, epoch, period, sequence, term, date, eon, era, season, succession, while.
Sequence and succession apply to events viewed as following one another; time and duration denote
something conceived of as enduring while events take place and acts are done. According to the necessary
conditions of human thought, events are contained in time as objects are in space, time existing before the
event, measuring it as it passes, and still existing when the event is past. Duration and succession are more
general words than time; we can speak of infinite or eternal duration or succession, but time is commonly
contrasted with eternity. Time is measured or measurable duration.
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TIP.
Synonyms:
cant, dip, incline, list, slope, careen, heel over, lean, slant, tilt.
To tilt or tip is to throw out of a horizontal position by raising one side or end or lowering the other; the words
are closely similar, but tilt suggests more of fluctuation or instability. Slant and slope are said of things
somewhat fixed or permanent in a position out of the horizontal or perpendicular; the roof slants, the hill
slopes. Incline is a more formal word for tip, and also for slant or slope. To cant is to set slantingly; in many
cases tip and cant might be interchanged, but tip is more temporary, often momentary; one tips a pail so that
the water flows over the edge; a mechanic cants a table by making or setting one side higher than the other. A
vessel careens in the wind; lists, usually, from shifting of cargo, from water in the hold, etc. Careening is
always toward one side or the other; listing may be forward or astern as well. To heel over is the same as to
careen, and must be distinguished from "keel over," which is to capsize.
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TIRE.
Synonyms:
exhaust, fatigue, harass, jade, wear out, weary. fag,
To tire is to reduce strength in any degree by exertion; one may be tired just enough to make rest pleasant, or
even unconsciously tired, becoming aware of the fact only when he ceases the exertion; or, on the other hand,
he may be, according to the common phrase, "too tired to stir;" but for this extreme condition the stronger
words are commonly used. One who is fatigued suffers from a conscious and painful lack of strength as the
result of some overtaxing; an invalid may be fatigued with very slight exertion; when one is wearied, the
painful lack of strength is the result of long-continued demand or strain; one is exhausted when the strain has
been so severe and continuous as utterly to consume the strength, so that further exertion is for the time
impossible. One is fagged by drudgery; he is jaded by incessant repetition of the same act until it becomes
increasingly difficult or well-nigh impossible; as, a horse is jaded by a long and unbroken journey.
Antonyms:
invigorate, refresh, relax, relieve, repose, rest, restore. recreate,
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TOOL.
Synonyms:
apparatus, implement, machine, utensil, appliance, instrument, mechanism, weapon.
A tool is something that is both contrived and used for extending the force of an intelligent agent to something
that is to be operated upon. Those things by which pacific and industrial operations are performed are alone
properly called tools, those designed for warlike purposes being designated weapons. An instrument is
anything through which power is applied and a result produced; in general usage, the word is of considerably
wider meaning than tool; as, a piano is a musical instrument. Instrument is the word usually applied to tools
used in scientific pursuits; as, we speak of a surgeon's or an optician's instruments. An implement is a
mechanical agency considered with reference to some specific purpose to which it is adapted; as, an
agricultural implement; implements of war. Implement is a less technical and artificial term than tool. The paw
of a tiger might be termed a terrible implement, but not a tool. A utensil is that which may be used for some
special purpose; the word is especially applied to articles used for domestic or agricultural purposes; as,
kitchen utensils; farming utensils. An appliance is that which is or may be applied to the accomplishment of a
result, either independently or as subordinate to something more extensive or important; every mechanical