English Synonyms and Antonyms

righteousness denote conformity to the standard of right, whether in heart or act; righteousness is used
especially in the religious sense. Uprightness refers especially to conduct. Virtuousness is a quality of the soul
or of action; in the latter sense it is the essence of virtuous action. Compare INNOCENT; JUSTICE;
RELIGION.
Antonyms:
evil, vice, viciousness, wickedness, wrong.
Compare synonyms for SIN.
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WANDER.
Synonyms:
deviate, diverge, go astray, range, rove, swerve, digress, err, ramble, roam, stray, veer.
To wander (AS. windan, wind) is to move in an indefinite or indeterminate way which may or may not be a
departure from a prescribed way; to deviate (L. de, from, and via, a way) is to turn from a prescribed or right
way, physically, mentally, or morally, usually in an unfavorable sense; to diverge (L. di, apart, and vergo,
incline, tend) is to turn from a course previously followed or that something else follows, and has no
unfavorable implication; to digress (L. di, apart, aside, and gradior, step) is used only with reference to
speaking or writing; to err is used of intellectual or moral action, and of the moral with primary reference to
the intellectual, an error being viewed as in some degree due to ignorance. Range, roam, and rove imply the
traversing of considerable, often of vast, distances of land or sea; range commonly implies a purpose; as,
cattle range for food; a hunting-dog ranges a field for game. Roam and rove are often purposeless, and always
without definite aim. To swerve or veer is to turn suddenly from a prescribed or previous course, and often but
momentarily; veer is more capricious and repetitious; the horse swerves at the flash of a sword; the wind
veers; the ship veers with the wind. To stray is to go in a somewhat purposeless way aside from the regular
path or usual limits or abode, usually with unfavorable implication; cattle stray from their pastures; an author
strays from his subject; one strays from the path of virtue. Stray is in most uses a lighter word than wander.
Ramble, in its literal use, is always a word of pleasant suggestion, but in its figurative use always somewhat
contemptuous; as, rambling talk.
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WAY.
Synonyms:
alley, course, lane, path, route, avenue, driveway, pass, pathway, street, bridle-path, highroad, passage, road,
thoroughfare, channel, highway, passageway, roadway, track.
Wherever there is room for one object to pass another there is a way. A road (originally a rideway) is a
prepared way for traveling with horses or vehicles, always the latter unless the contrary is expressly stated; a
way suitable to be traversed only by foot-passengers or by animals is called a path, bridle-path, or track; as,
the roads in that country are mere bridle-paths. A road may be private; a highway or highroad is public,
highway being a specific name for a road legally set apart for the use of the public forever; a highway may be
over water as well as over land. A route is a line of travel, and may be over many roads. A street is in some
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center of habitation, as a city, town, or village; when it passes between rows of dwellings the country road
becomes the village street. An avenue is a long, broad, and imposing or principal street. Track is a word of
wide signification; we speak of a goat-track on a mountain-side, a railroad-track, a race-track, the track of a
comet; on a traveled road the line worn by regular passing of hoofs and wheels in either direction is called the