bland, genial, polished, polite, refined,
reserved, urbane. courteous,
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BODY.
Synonyms:
ashes, clay, dust, frame, system, carcass, corpse, form, remains, trunk.
Body denotes the entire physical structure, considered as a whole, of man or animal;
form looks upon it as a
thing of shape and outline, perhaps of beauty;
frame regards it as supported by its bony framework;
system
views it as an assemblage of many related and harmonious organs.
Body,
form,
frame, and
system may be
either dead or living;
clay and
dust are sometimes so used
in religious or poetic style, tho ordinarily these
words are used only of the dead.
Corpse and
remains are used only of the dead.
Corpse is the plain technical
word for a dead body still retaining its unity;
remains may be used after any lapse of time; the latter is also the
more refined and less ghastly term; as, friends are invited to view the
remains.
Carcass applies only to the
body of an animal, or of a human being regarded with contempt and loathing. Compare COMPANY.
Antonyms:
intellect,
intelligence, mind, soul, spirit.
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BOTH.
Synonyms:
twain, two.
Both refers to
two objects previously
mentioned, or had in mind, viewed or acting in connection; as,
both men
fired at once; "
two men fired" might mean any two, out of any number, and without reference to any previous
thought or mention.
Twain is a nearly obsolete form of
two.
The two, or
the twain, is practically equivalent to
both;
both, however, expresses a closer unity. We would say
both men
rushed against the enemy; the
two men
flew at each other. Compare EVERY.
Antonyms:
each, either, every, neither, none, no one, not any.
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BOUNDARY.
Synonyms:
barrier, confines, limit, margin, border, edge, line, term, bound, enclosure, marches, termination, bourn,
frontier, marge, verge. bourne, landmark,
The
boundary was originally the
landmark, that which marked off one piece of territory from another. The
bound is the
limit, marked or unmarked. Now, however, the difference between the two words has come to be
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simply one of usage. As regards territory,
we speak of the boundaries of a nation or of an estate; the
bounds of
a college, a ball-ground, etc.
Bounds may be used for all within the
limits,
boundary for the limiting line only.
Boundary looks to that which is without;
bound only to that which is within. Hence we speak of the
bounds,
not the
boundaries, of a subject, of the universe, etc.; we say the students were forbidden to go beyond the
bounds. A
barrier is something that bars ingress or egress. A
barrier may be a
boundary, as was the Great
Wall of China.
Bourn, or
bourne,
is a poetical expression for bound or
boundary. A
border is a strip of land
along the
boundary.
Edge is a sharp terminal line, as where river or ocean meets the land.
Limit is now used
almost wholly in the figurative sense; as, the
limit of discussion, of time, of jurisdiction.
Line is a military
term; as, within the
lines, or through the
lines, of an army. Compare BARRIER; END.
Antonyms:
center, citadel, estate, inside,
interior, land, region, territory.
Prepositions:
The boundaries
of an estate; the boundary
between neighboring territories.
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BRAVE.
Synonyms:
adventurous, courageous, fearless, undaunted, bold, daring, gallant, undismayed, chivalric, dauntless, heroic,
valiant, chivalrous, doughty,
intrepid, venturesome.
The
adventurous man goes in quest of danger; the
bold man stands out and faces danger or censure; the
brave
man combines confidence with resolution in presence of danger; the
chivalrous man puts himself in peril for
others' protection. The
daring step out to defy danger; the
dauntless will not flinch before anything that may
come to them; the
doughty will give and take limitless hard knocks. The
adventurous find something romantic
in dangerous enterprises; the
venturesome may be simply heedless,
reckless, or ignorant. All great explorers
have been
adventurous; children, fools, and criminals are
venturesome. The
fearless and
intrepid possess
unshaken nerves in any place of danger.
Courageous is more than
brave, adding a moral element: the
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