English Synonyms and Antonyms

Harvest, from the Anglo-Saxon, signified originally "autumn," and as that is the usual season of gathering
ripened crops in Northern lands, the word came to its present meaning of the season of gathering ripened
grain or fruits, whether summer or autumn, and hence a crop gathered or ready for gathering; also, the act or
process of gathering a crop or crops. "The harvest truly is great, but the laborers are few," Luke x, 2. "Lift up
your eyes and look on the fields, for they are white already to harvest," John iv, 35. Harvest is the elegant and
literary word; crop is the common and commercial expression; we say a man sells his crop, but we should not
speak of his selling his harvest; we speak of an ample or abundant harvest, a good crop. Harvest is applied
almost wholly to grain; crop applies to almost anything that is gathered in; we speak of the potato-crop, not
the potato-harvest; we may say either the wheat-crop or the wheat-harvest. Produce is a collective word for
all that is produced in farming or gardening, and is, in modern usage, almost wholly restricted to this sense;
we speak of produce collectively, but of a product or various products; vegetables, fruits, eggs, butter, etc.,
may be termed farm-produce, or the products of the farm. Product is a word of wider application than
produce; we speak of the products of manufacturing, the products of thought, or the product obtained by
multiplying one number by another. The word proceeds is chiefly used of the return from an investment: we
speak of the produce of a farm, but of the proceeds of the money invested in farming. The yield is what the
land gives up to the farmer's demand; we speak of the return from an expenditure of money or labor, but of
the yield of corn or oats. Harvest has also a figurative use, such as crop more rarely permits; we term a
religious revival a harvest of souls; the result of lax enforcement of law is a harvest of crime. As regards time,
harvest, harvest-tide, and harvest-time alike denote the period or season when the crops are or should be
gathered (tide being simply the old Saxon word for time). Harvest-home ordinarily denotes the festival of
harvest, and when used to denote simply the season always gives a suggestion of festivity and rejoicing, such
as harvest and harvest-time by themselves do not express.
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HATRED.
Synonyms:
abhorrence, detestation, hostility, rancor, anger, dislike, ill will, repugnance, animosity, enmity, malevolence,
resentment, antipathy, grudge, malice, revenge, aversion, hate, malignity, spite.
Repugnance applies to that which one feels himself summoned or impelled to do or to endure, and from which
Synonyms and Antonyms, by James Champlin Fernald
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he instinctively draws back. Aversion is the turning away of the mind or feelings from some person or thing,
or from some course of action, etc. Hate, or hatred, as applied to persons, is intense and continued aversion,
usually with disposition to injure; anger is sudden and brief, hatred is lingering and enduring; "Her wrath
became a hate," TENNYSON Pelleas and Ettarre st. 16. As applied to things, hatred is intense aversion, with
desire to destroy or remove; hatred of evil is a righteous passion, akin to abhorrence, but more vehement.
Malice involves the active intent to injure; in the legal sense, malice is the intent to injure, even tho with no
personal ill will; as, a highwayman would be said to entertain malice toward the unknown traveler whom he
attacks. Malice is direct, pressing toward a result; malignity is deep, lingering, and venomous, tho often
impotent to act; rancor (akin to rancid) is cherished malignity that has soured and festered and is virulent and
implacable. Spite is petty malice that delights to inflict stinging pain; grudge is deeper than spite; it is sinister
and bitter; grudge, resentment, and revenge are all retaliatory, grudge being the disposition, revenge the
determination to repay real or supposed offense with injury; revenge may denote also the retaliatory act;