Oxford Thesaurus - An A-Z Dictionary Of Synonyms
.pdfjaundiced adj. 1 coloured, tainted, distorted, twisted, prejudiced, opinionated, biased, preconceived, untrustworthy, bigoted, partial, unfair, perverted; dishonest, corrupt: Even the most jaundiced view must acknowledge the merits of the plan. 2 splenetic, cynical, bitter, envious, resentful, jealous, hostile, spiteful, unfriendly, disapproving, critical, unfavourable, disparaging, denigrating: I can't say that I agree with Cartwright's jaundiced review of the play.
jaunty adj. 1 spirited, lively, high-spirited, buoyant, brisk, frisky, sprightly, free (and easy), blithe, jovial, happy, jubilant, jolly, merry, cheerful, gay: It is heartening to see those pensioners in such a jaunty mood. 2 chic, smart, stylish, dashing, debonair, elegant, colourful, spruce, flashy, flash, showy, flamboyant, Colloq sporty, natty: Tipping his hat at a jaunty angle, the old boulevardier strolled off, twirling his walking-stick.
10.2 jealous...
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jealous adj. 1 resentful, bitter, grudging, envious, covetous, green with envy, green-eyed: Brian is jealous of attention paid to anyone but himself. 2 distrustful, distrusting, mistrustful, mistrusting, suspicious; anxious, insecure, threatened, imperilled, vulnerable: Ken is very jealous of Kathleen. If anyone so much as looks at her, he feels jealous.
jealously adv. watchfully, carefully, guardedly, protectively, warily, vigilantly, scrupulously, zealously, eagerly, attentively, anxiously, suspiciously: Victor jealously keeps all details of his business to himself.
jeer |
v. 1 Often, jeer at. mock, laugh or scoff or sneer (at), flout, |
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deride, ridicule, make fun of, thumb one's nose at, gibe or |
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jibe, chaff, decry, twit, taunt, Colloq rag, bullyrag, roast, |
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Brit cock a snook at, Brit and Australian barrack, Slang knock: |
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Don't jeer at aromatherapy till you've tried it. |
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--n. 2 taunt, gibe or jibe, aspersion, hoot, hiss, boo, |
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catcall; derision, ridicule, obloquy: Just because he was fat, |
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Christopher had to suffer the jeers of his classmates. |
jell |
v. 1 set, congeal, solidify, harden, coagulate, thicken, |
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stiffen, gelatinize: The mixture won't jell till you add hot |
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water. 2 (take) form, take shape, crystallize, materialize, |
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come together, be set: Their plans for the shopping centre have |
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not yet jelled. |
jeopardize
v. endanger, imperil, threaten, menace, risk, hazard, venture: You may jeopardize your freedom if you stand up for your rights.
jeopardy n. Usually, in sometimes at jeopardy. danger, peril; threat, menace, risk, hazard, chance, uncertainty, vulnerability, exposure, liability: She put her life in jeopardy by going into the lion's cage.
jerk |
v. 1 yank, wrench, pluck, nip, tug, twist, tweak: I jerked the |
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dagger out of his hand, leaving him defenceless. 2 twitch, |
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lurch, jolt, jump, start, jig, jiggle, wriggle, wiggle: The |
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creature jerked about convulsively, screaming, then lay still. |
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--n. 3 yank, pull, wrench, tug, twist, tweak: With a sharp |
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jerk, he pulled the plaster from the child's leg. 4 lurch, |
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jolt, start, bump: The train stopped with a jerk, throwing me |
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off balance. 5 idiot, fool, moron, imbecile, Slang US dope, |
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creep, yo-yo, nerd, dweeb: Why would she want to go out with a |
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jerk like that? |
jewel n. 1 gem, gemstone, brilliant, ornament, bijou, Colloq rock, sparkler: Thieves stole a diamond necklace and an heirloom brooch set with precious jewels. 2 treasure, marvel, find, godsend, gem, pearl, prize, boon, Colloq catch: What would you do without your secretary - she's an absolute jewel!
jewellery n. gems, precious stones, jewels, ornaments, finery, bijouterie: Alexandra keeps her jewellery in a bank vault.
10.3 jiggle...
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jiggle v. 1 jog, joggle, jig, shake, agitate, wiggle, wriggle, jerk: It's odd to see grown people jiggling about on the dance floor
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occupation, calling, vocation, appointment, pursuit, field, |
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trade, craft, profession, m‚tier, area: What kind of job is she |
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looking for? Harry has a new job. 2 assignment, responsibility, |
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concern, chore, task, undertaking, function, duty, role, |
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mission, province, contribution, charge: It is my job to see |
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that the machines run properly. 3 task, undertaking, procedure, |
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proceeding, affair, operation, project, activity, business, |
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matter, chore: The job of changing the gasket will take only a |
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few minutes. 4 problem, difficulty, burden, nuisance, bother; |
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toil, grind, drudgery; Colloq headache, pain (in the neck), |
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hassle, Slang pain in the Brit arse or US ass: It was a real |
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job getting them to pay for the damage. 5 crime, felony; |
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robbery, burglary, Slang US and Canadian caper: From the modus |
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operandi, I'd say that the same gang did that job in Manchester. |
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--v. 6 Often, job out. let out, assign, apportion, allot, share |
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out, contract, hire, employ, subcontract, farm out, consign, |
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commission: They undertake to do the work, but then they job it |
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out to others. |
jog |
v. 1 trot, lope, dogtrot, run: I jog around the reservoir |
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every morning for exercise. 2 jar, prod, nudge, arouse, stir, |
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stimulate, prompt, activate, shake: I jogged his memory by |
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referring to the time the dog bit him. 3 bounce, shake, jolt, |
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joggle, jounce, jerk: I was being jogged about in the back of |
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the van as we sped over the rocky terrain. |
join |
v. 1 unite, connect, couple, link, marry, yoke, combine, fasten |
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or tie or glue or weld or solder (together), unify: These two |
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pieces should be joined for greater strength. 2 ally or league |
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with, associate (oneself) with, team up with, throw (one's lot) |
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in with, enlist (in), sign (up) (with), enrol (in), enter: She |
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was invited to join the bridge club. 3 go or be with, associate |
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with, accompany, attach (oneself) to, participate with: Would |
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you care to join us for a game of bridge? 4 border (on or |
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upon), meet, touch, abut, butt, adjoin, be adjacent (to), extend |
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to, verge on, coincide (with), juxtapose, be contiguous or |
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conterminous (with), be coextensive (with): The two properties |
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join at the top of the ridge. |
joint |
n. 1 seam, union, juncture, connection, junction, intersection: |
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The joint won't show after the whole thing's been painted. 2 |
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Slang dive, dump, US and Canadian honky-tonk: We went into a |
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jolted over the rough terrain. 2 butt, strike, hit, push, |
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nudge, elbow, knock, jab: He jolted me so hard he actually |
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cracked a rib. 3 shock, astonish, astound, amaze, surprise, |
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startle, stun, dumbfound or dumfound, stupefy, strike dumb, |
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daze, shake (up): I was jolted to learn that my husband had |
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been arrested for murder. |
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--n. 4 lurch, jar, jerk, bump, jump, bounce, start: The train |
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started with a jolt that almost knocked me over. 5 blow, shock, |
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surprise, bolt from the blue, bombshell: It was certainly a |
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jolt to discover that she had left me. |
jot |
v. 1 Usually, jot down. make a note of, write or note (down), |
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put or set or take down, record: Jot down this telephone |
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number. |
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--n. 2 scrap, grain, (wee) bit, speck, mite, iota, whit, |
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particle, tittle, Colloq slightest, US and Canadian tad, smidgen |
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or smidgin: I don't care a jot what she thinks about the |
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situation in Central America. |
journal n. 1 periodical, magazine, gazette, newspaper, paper, newsletter, review, tabloid; daily, weekly, monthly, fortnightly, quarterly, annual: The journal contains information about every building permit awarded in the entire country. 2 diary, chronicle, dossier, record, register, log,
logbook, minute-book, minutes, documentation, album, scrapbook, memoir, almanac, annal, history, yearbook, record book; roll, catalogue, list: He kept a detailed journal of every event in
his twenty-year exile.
journalist
n. reporter, newspaperman, newspaperwoman, correspondent, newsman, newswoman, member of the fourth estate, gentleman or lady of the press, stringer; columnist; hack; newscaster,
anchorman, anchorwoman, commentator, broadcaster, Brit pressman, paragraphist; newsreader, Colloq scribe, newsmonger, US and Canadian legman, news-hawk, news-hound, news-hen: Journalists crowded round the minister, urging her to make a statement.
journey n. 1 trip, voyage, excursion, tour, travel, outing, expedition, junket, cruise, jaunt, pilgrimage, peregrination, odyssey, trek:
Did your wife accompany you on your journey to Tierra del Fuego?
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2 way, passage, passing, transit, transition, progress, course, |
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way, trip, route, career: On your journey through this life, |
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Whatever be your goal, Keep your eye upon the doughnut, And not |
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upon the hole. |
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--v. 3 travel, tour, voyage, go (abroad or overseas), make or |
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take a trip, make or wend one's way, make a pilgrimage, |
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peregrinate, trek, rove, range, wander, roam, tour, cruise, gad |
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(about), gallivant or galivant or galavant: He journeyed to the |
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far corners of the earth seeking an answer to life's mysteries. |
joy |
n. 1 pleasure, gratification, satisfaction, happiness, |
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contentment, enjoyment, gladness, delight, felicity, elation, |
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exaltation, ecstasy, bliss, exhilaration, exultation, rapture: |
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We felt indescribable joy at seeing the children safe and sound. |
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2 gaiety, cheerfulness, cheer, glee, buoyancy, joviality, |
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jollity, jocundity, joyfulness, joyousness, jubilation, |
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merriment, light-heartedness, blithesomeness: Let me wish you |
joy in this holiday season. 3 delight, pleasure, treat, blessing, gratification, satisfaction, prize: A thing of beauty is a joy forever.
joyful adj. 1 cheerful, happy, buoyant, gleeful, merry, jovial, jolly, jocund, joyous, jubilant, gay, light-hearted, blithe,
blithesome, sunny: We are delighted that you have all come to help us celebrate this joyful occasion. 2 glad, pleased, gratified, delighted, happy, elated, ecstatic, exhilarated, exultant, overjoyed, jubilant, in heaven, Brit in the seventh heaven, US in seventh heaven, Colloq on cloud nine, tickled
(pink), Brit over the moon: Mark was joyful at the news that he was father of a boy.
joyless adj. 1 sad, unhappy, miserable, depressed, dejected, mournful, downhearted, downcast, down, despondent, dispirited, melancholy, heavy-hearted, cheerless, doleful, grief-stricken, disheartened, saddened, crestfallen, wretched, disconsolate, inconsolable, morose, heartsick, sorrowful, woeful, woebegone: It was a
joyless company that stood at the grave side. The cat died, the dog died, and my husband was ill - all in all, a joyless time. 2 gloomy, depressing, dispiriting, disheartening, dreary, lugubrious, cheerless, dismal, bleak, inhospitable, desolate, grim, austere, severe: The shuttered, joyless house loomed out of the misty moor ahead.
10.5 judge...
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judge n. 1 justice, magistrate, jurist, Isle of Man deemster or dempster, Slang Brit beak: The judge demanded order in the court. 2 arbitrator, arbiter, umpire, referee, adjudicator, judicator, mediator, moderator: She served as a judge at Crufts dog show last year. 3 connoisseur, expert, authority, arbiter, appraiser, evaluator, reviewer, critic, arbiter elegantiarum or elegantiae: Let me be the judge of which work I do best.
--v. 4 adjudicate, adjudge, arbitrate, decide, find, conclude, settle, determine, decree, pass judgement, deem, rule, pronounce or pass sentence: Do you think the jury will judge in Claus's favour? 5 assess, evaluate, appraise, estimate, rate, value, weigh, measure, review, consider, size up, appreciate: A ballistics expert is required to judge this evidence. 6
referee, umpire, mediate, moderate, arbitrate: Mr Farnsworth agreed to judge the essay competition. 7 believe, suspect, think, consider, suppose, guess, conjecture, surmise, conclude, infer: Palaeontologists judge the age of the specimens to be 400 million years.
judgement n. 1 judgment, discretion, discernment, discrimination, judiciousness, prudence, wisdom, wit, sagacity, perspicacity, clear-headedness, perception, perspicuousness, percipience, acumen, intelligence, (good) sense, common sense, level-headedness, understanding, shrewdness: Charlotte's judgement is often sought in such matters. 2 decision, ruling, verdict, conclusion, determination, opinion, adjudication, finding, decree, order; outcome, result, upshot: The judgement of the court is final. It was the judgement of Paris to award
the golden apple to Aphrodite. 3 criticism, censure,
disapproval, reproof, condemnation: They offered a moral, not a legal judgement. 4 opinion, view, belief, (way of) thinking, mind, perception; sentiment: In my judgement, she is innocent. 5 evaluation, valuation, appraisal, estimation, assessment: One critic's unfavourable judgement of a play can spell its doom.
judicial adj. 1 legal, judiciary, judicatory, juridic(al); official: forensic: A formal judicial procedure can be quite costly. 2
king-sized, Colloq US humongous: Grandad brought us a jumbo box of chocolates.
jump v. 1 leap, bound, spring, pounce, hurdle, vault, hop, skip; caper, cavort, gambol: Jack, jump over the candlestick! Lambs were jumping about in the meadow. 2 start, jerk, wince, flinch,
recoil: The sudden noise made me jump. 3 Sometimes, jump over. skip (over), omit, pass over or by, bypass, avoid, leave out,
ignore, disregard, overlook, gloss over: Jump the boring parts and read me the sexy bits. 4 pass, move, leap, skip: She jumped from one subject to another so quickly that I couldn't keep track. 5 advance, increase, rise, gain, surge, escalate: The cost of living jumped again this month, causing fear of inflation. 6 jump at. accept, grab, snatch, swoop up, leap at, pounce on: Most people would jump at the chance to better themselves. 7 jump on. attack, swoop down on or upon;
reprimand, rebuke: She jumps on anyone who suggests that she used influence to get her job.
--n. 8 leap, bound, spring, pounce, hurdle, vault, hop, skip: With one jump the cheetah was upon the gazelle. 9 rise, increase, boost, hike, advance, gain, surge, escalation,
upsurge, increment, elevation: A jump in the Retail Price Index drove share prices lower again yesterday. 10 barricade, obstacle, hurdle, fence, rail, obstruction: My horse cleared
the first jump easily. 11 start, jerk, spasm, twitch, recoil, lurch, jolt: When they called his name, he gave a little jump. 12 break, gap, hiatus, lacuna, space, hole, breach, rift, interruption: There's a jump in continuity at the end of the fourth chapter.
jumpy adj. nervous, agitated, anxious, jittery, fidgety, restless, edgy, on edge, tense, shaky, skittish, fretful, uneasy, queasy, restive, panicky: Do you think he was jumpy because we were approaching Count Dracula's castle?
junction n. juncture, union, combination, joining, conjunction, meeting, linking, connection, conjoining, intersection, confluence; crossroads, interchange: The train robbery took place at the junction of the two railways.
juncture n. 1 See junction. 2 point, time, moment, stage, period: At this juncture, suggesting a merger seems premature.