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The Oxford Thesaurus - An A-Z Dictionary Of Synonyms

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to go on a picnic with me? 7 sour, mouldy, bad, rotten, rancid, turned, high: The cream smells a bit off. 8 bad, unpropitious, disappointing, unsatisfactory, disheartening, displeasing, slack, slow, substandard, below par, below average, quiet: It has been an off year for the local football team. 9 cancelled, postponed: The meeting is off till next week. 10 situated,

fixed, supplied: Is he really that well off? She was much worse off when they were married.

offbeat adj. strange, eccentric, bizarre, weird, peculiar, odd, queer, unconventional, unorthodox, Bohemian, idiosyncratic, unusual, unexpected, outr‚, outlandish, deviant, novel, innovative, Colloq kinky, way-out, far-out, off-the-wall, freaky, weirdo: Jasper's offbeat, satirical humour has made him a popular comedian.

off colour

adj. 1 unwell, ill, off form, out of sorts, queasy, sick, run down, awful, seedy, Colloq under the weather, poorly, Slang lousy, rotten: I have been feeling off colour since eating that fish. 2 indelicate, risqu‚, ribald, bawdy, indecent, suggestive, broad, indelicate, inelegant, improper, inappropriate, unseemly, blue: My mother does not tolerate off-colour remarks at the dinner table.

offence n. 1 violation, breach, crime, felony, misdemeanour, infraction, transgression, trespass, wrong, wrongdoing, sin, peccadillo, misdeed, fault, infringement, malefaction; dereliction, lapse, slip, error: He was accused of offences against the rights of others. Some regard the splitting of an infinitive an offence against the Queen's English. 2 give offence. incur displeasure, create annoyance or irritation or resentment or pique, evoke indignation or anger; slight, injure, hurt, harm, offend, insult, outrage, Colloq put (someone) down: He denied that he meant to give offence in his criticism of the play. 3 take offence. take umbrage, feel displeasure or annoyance or resentment or pique or indignation, be angered or enraged: Why should you take offence at what a fool says?

offend v. 1 hurt (someone's) feelings, affront, insult, slight, snub, give offence, hurt, pain, displease, disgruntle, chagrin, humiliate, embarrass; pique, fret, gall, vex, annoy, irritate, nettle, needle, rankle, provoke, ruffle, outrage, rile, anger ,

Colloq miff, put (someone's) back up, put (someone's) nose out of joint, tread or step on (someone's) toes, put (someone) out, rattle: I hope you weren't offended by my saying that you could do with losing some weight. 2 disgust, sicken, turn (someone's) stomach, nauseate, repel, repulse, revolt, Colloq turn (someone) off: I, for one, am offended by seeing explicit sex on television.

offender n. criminal, malefactor, lawbreaker, outlaw, wrongdoer, culprit, miscreant, transgressor, sinner, evil-doer, Slang crook: I don't know if they apprehended the offender.

offensive adj. 1 antagonistic, hostile, contentious, quarrelsome, attacking, aggressive, threatening, provocative, combative, martial, belligerent, warlike, bellicose: The minute the enemy made an offensive move, we attacked. 2 insulting, rude, disrespectful, uncivil, insolent, discourteous, impolite, unmannerly, impertinent, impudent, objectionable, displeasing: Nigel has been asked to leave because of his offensive behaviour. 3 disgusting, unsavoury, unpalatable, nauseating, nauseous, noisome, noxious, obnoxious, repugnant, repulsive, repellent, revolting, abominable, foul, loathsome, vile, sickening, fetid or foetid, rank, malodorous, mephitic, putrid, putrescent, putrefying, rancid, rotten: An offensive stench emanated from the stagnant pond.

--n. 4 attack, offence: At last, our team was on the offensive. 5 attack, onslaught, drive, assault, offence, push: The offensive to capture the arsenal will be launched at dawn tomorrow.

offer v. 1 proffer, propose, tender, bid: They offered twice what I had paid for it. She offered to buy my old car. 2 make available, present, tender, put on the market, sell, put up for sale, put up, furnish: The supermarket is offering lettuce at half price. 3 proffer, provide, submit, put forward or forth, advance, tender, extend, make; suggest: Can you offer a suggestion for improving office efficiency? He offered to forget the whole thing if I paid him œ1000. 4 volunteer, present oneself, step or come forward: I offered to help with her luggage.

--n. 5 proposal, bid, tender, offering: She said she would

double any offer we have already had for the painting. 6 proposal, presentation, proffer, proposition: The company said they could entertain no offers past the deadline. My offer to lend the money was contingent on being repaid.

offering n. sacrifice, oblation, contribution, donation, gift, present: They made offerings to the gods in order to propitiate them.

offhand adj. 1 offhanded, casual, informal, nonchalant, cool, distant, aloof, easygoing, blas‚, unceremonious, relaxed, easy, smooth, unconcerned, insouciant, light-hearted, uninterested, superficial, cursory, cavalier, careless: His offhand reaction shows that he doesn't care as much about her as we thought. 2 curt, brusque, abrupt, perfunctory, ungracious, glib, smooth:

When asked when he expected to pay, he gave an offhand reply. 3 extempore, impromptu, unpremeditated, unstudied, extemporaneous, informal, off the cuff, ad lib: She rose to make some offhand comments about the accomplishments of the guest of honour.

--adv. 4 extempore, impromptu, extemporaneously, informally, off the cuff, ad lib, on the spur of the moment, at the drop of

a hat: That was a pretty good speech considering it was made offhand. 5 casually, informally, incidentally, by the way, offhandedly, by the by, parenthetically, in passing, en passant, cursorily, superficially: Offhand, I'd say that the two of them deserve each other.

office n. 1 business, organization, department, firm, house, establishment, company, corporation: Whenever I'm travelling, I always try to phone the office once a day. 2 commission, department, branch; section, division: He was with the overseas office for years. 3 workplace, offices; room, area: Our new office is completely air-conditioned. My office is next to the board room. 4 duty, obligation, responsibility, charge, commission, service, employment, occupation, position, post, appointment, assignment, chore, task, job, place, berth, work, role, function, purpose, part, bit, Colloq thing, Slang shtick:

He was appointed to the office of Minister of Health. In her office as Minister of Finance, she wields great power. 5 offices. indulgence, intermediation, auspices, support, advocacy, aegis, help, aid, intercession, mediation, patronage, favour, backing, backup: She appealed to the police chief's good offices to allow her to visit her son.

officer n. 1 (public) official, dignitary, office-holder, public servant, office-bearer, (political) appointee, (government) agent, bureaucrat, functionary, commissioner, administrator, manager, director; apparatchik: He was stopped by customs officers who demanded to search his baggage. The bailiff is an officer of the court. 2 policeman, policewoman, police officer, officer of the law, constable, Old-fashioned catchpole, US

lawman, peace officer, G-man, T-Man, Colloq gendarme, Slang cop, copper, fuzz, US dick, narc, Brit Old Bill, tec: The officer

standing at the door was there to serve a writ.

official adj. 1 authorized, legitimate, lawful, legal, authentic, bona fide, proper, true, accredited, valid, documented, licensed, sanctioned, endorsed, certified, verified, recognized, accepted: I won't believe I've won till I hold the official notification

in my own hands. 2 ceremonial, formal, solemn, ritualistic, ceremonious, pompous, stiff, proper, seemly, decorous: She has to make an acceptance speech at the official dinner.

--n. 3 See officer, 1, above.

officiate v. preside, direct, manage, chair, conduct, oversee, head (up), run, lead, supervise, superintend; umpire, referee, judge, adjudicate, moderate, mediate: Who will officiate at the annual meeting? Dennis has been invited to officiate at the football match on Saturday.

officious adj. dictatorial, intrusive, intruding, meddlesome, meddling, obtrusive, forward, bold, interfering, aggressive, insistent, persistent, demanding, importunate: Hamish is one of those officious little men who are always ready to give unasked-for advice.

offset v. 1 compensate, counterbalance, countervail, counterpoise, counteract, balance (out), equalize, even (out or up), square, cancel (out), neutralize, nullify, make up (for), atone (for), redress; recompense, repay, make amends or restitution, make good, reimburse, indemnify: The votes from the Centre offset those lost to the Far Left. How are you going to offset losses resulting from pilferage by shop assistants?

--n. 2 compensation, counterbalance, counteraction, check,

equalizer, neutralizer: The bank manager considered the money owed to the company as sufficient offset for the money owed by it.

offshoot n. 1 branch, spur; shoot, limb, bough, twig, stem, appendage, sucker, sprout, sprig, tendril, scion: There is an offshoot of

this road that goes up the hill. The offshoots are trained to grow along the arms of the espalier. 2 descendant, relation, relative, kin, kindred, offspring, scion, heir: One offshoot of the family later emigrated to the United States. 3 outgrowth, development, branch, spin-off; by-product, derivative: An offshoot of the company manufactures optical instruments. The sale of gravel for concrete is an offshoot of our mining operations.

offspring n. (Often used as plural) child, progeny, issue, seed, youngster, brood, young, successor, heir: None of the earl's offspring ever amounted to much.

often adv. frequently, regularly, much, many times, usually, habitually, commonly; ordinarily, again and again, over and over again, time after time, repeatedly, time and (time) again, in

many cases or instances, on numerous occasions, day in (and) day out, continually, Literary oftentimes, oft: How often do you

visit your mother? We often went to the seaside for our summer holiday. She was often warned not to go too near the edge.

15.6 ogle...

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ogle

v. 1 leer, eye, make eyes at, Colloq give (someone) the glad

 

eye, give (someone) the once-over, make sheep's eyes at: The

 

old lecher is always ogling the pretty young secretaries. 2

 

gape, gaze, goggle, gawk, stare, Slang Brit gawp or gaup: We

 

took turns ogling the rings of Saturn through the telescope.

 

--n. 3 leer, stare, gape, goggle, oeillade, Colloq once-over,

 

glad eye: They all crowded round the paper for an ogle at the

 

pin-ups.

ogre

n. ogress, monster, giant, fiend, demon, troll, man-eater,

 

bogey, bogeyman, bugbear, spectre, Minotaur, Cyclops, Gorgon,

Caliban; brute, sadist, villain, cad, scoundrel: The ogre chased Jack to the beanstalk. The persistent ogre of poverty threatened him all his life.

15.7 oil...

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oil

n. 1 lubricant, grease, lubricator, unguent: A little oil will

 

stop that squeak. 2 fuel: Miraculously, the lamp burned for

 

eight days with only one day's supply of oil.

 

--v. 3 lubricate, grease: Oil the bearings or they will burn

 

out.

oily

adj. 1 greasy, oleaginous, fat, fatty, adipose, pinguid,

 

sebaceous, soapy, saponaceous, buttery, butyraceous, lardaceous;

 

slippery, slimy, slithery, smooth, unctuous: The cars slid

 

about as the tyres failed to grip the oily surface. 2 glib,

 

smooth, unctuous, servile, obsequious, sycophantic,

 

ingratiating, flattering, hypocritical; suave, urbane,

 

sophisticated, Colloq smarmy: Sarah found Curtis's approach

 

sickeningly oily.

ointment n. unguent, balm, salve, emollient, embrocation, demulcent, pomade, pomatum, petrolatum; lotion, cream: A little ointment will keep the sore moist till it heals.

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OK

interj. 1 O.K.!, Okay!, Fine!, Yes!, Definitely!, Agreed!, Very

 

well!, All right!: 'Would you have dinner with me?' 'OK!' 'I

 

think you ought to leave.' 'OK!'

 

--adj. 2 satisfactory, acceptable, correct, suitable, all

 

right, fine, good, in order: Is it OK if I go the cinema

 

tonight? That dress is OK to wear to the dance. 3 adequate,

 

mediocre, fair, middling, passable, tolerable, Colloq so so,

 

pretty good, not bad, not great: The film was OK, I suppose. 4

 

well, healthy; sound, in good condition, in fine fettle, fine,

 

all right: Now that he's on the proper medication, Sam is OK.

The mechanic assured me that my car would be OK.

--v. 5 approve, sanction, ratify, authorize, endorse, support, agree to, allow, consent to, agree to, Colloq give the go-ahead or green light to, give the thumbs up or the nod to,

rubber-stamp: A department head must OK your expense account before you can be reimbursed.

--n. 6 approval, sanction, ratification, authorization, endorsement, agreement, support, permission, consent: You need an OK from the security guard to enter the restricted area.

--adv. 7 all right, satisfactorily, well (enough), adequately: She can get along OK without me.

15.9 old...

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old

adj. 1 elderly, ageing, aged, advanced in years or age,

 

long-lived, past one's prime, grey, full of years, getting on

 

(in years), hoary, superannuated, Colloq over the hill, past it:

 

Bill is too old to continue working in the mine. 2 ancient,

 

antiquated, antediluvian, fossil, prehistoric, Noachian,

 

obsolete, antique, outdated, out of date, old-time, dated,

 

archaic, stale, out-moded, pass‚, Literary Ogygian: The

 

archaeological dig has turned up some interesting old artefacts.

 

3 time-worn, decayed, dilapidated, ramshackle, disintegrated,

 

crumbling, shabby, worn out, dusty, broken-down, tumbledown,

 

disused, unused, cast off, cast aside: They have torn down the

 

old mill near the river. 4 long-standing, well-established,

 

enduring, lasting, age-old, time-honoured: It is hard to see an

 

old friendship die. 5 former, olden, bygone, early, primordial,

 

primitive: In the old days, it took a week to travel from

 

London to Edinburgh. 6 previous, preceding, prior, former,

 

quondam, erstwhile, one-time, ex-: The West End was my old

 

stamping-ground when I lived in London. 7 experienced, veteran,

 

practised, (well-)versed, knowledgeable, proficient,

 

accomplished, adept, skilled, expert, old-time: Charles is an

 

old hand at steam engines. 8 dear, beloved, loved, esteemed,

 

valued, precious, well-known, intimate, close, familiar:

 

Penelope is an old friend of the family's.

old-fashioned

adj. antiquated, antique, pass‚, out-moded, out-dated, unfashionable, stale, out-dated, dated, out of date, tired, old-time, obsolete, obsolescent, dead, superseded, replaced, disused, out, old-fangled, old hat: Whoever thought we would see the day when miniskirts were old-fashioned?

15.10 omen...

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omen

n. portent, augury, sign, token, foretoken, indication,

harbinger, forewarning, premonition, foreshadowing, writing on

the wall, prognostic, presage: Solar eclipses were once

regarded as omens, sometimes good, sometimes bad.

ominous

adj. 1 foreboding, threatening, fateful, dark, black, gloomy,

lowering or louring, menacing, sinister; unpropitious, unfavourable, ill-omened, ill-starred, unpromising, star-crossed, inauspicious: With ominous solemnity, the judge placed a black cloth square on his head before passing the death sentence. 2 minatory, warning, admonitory, cautionary: The whispering had taken on ominous overtones. 3 portentous, prophetic, oracular, vaticinal, predictive, prognostic, augural, mantic, sibyllic, meaningful, premonitory, foreshadowing, foretelling, foretokening, indicative: Virtually everything was regarded as ominous in ancient times.

omission n. 1 non-inclusion, omitting, leaving out or off, excluding, eliminating, dropping, skipping; exclusion, exception, deletion, elimination, excision: The omission of your name from the list was a mistake. Allowing for inadvertent omissions, the inventory is complete. 2 failure, default, neglect, dereliction,

oversight, shortcoming, negligence: She is being punished for her innocent omission in failing to notify the police while he is at liberty despite his deliberate commission of a crime.

omit

v. 1 leave out, exclude, skip, except, pass over; delete,

 

erase, cancel, eradicate, edit out, strike (out), dele, cut

 

(out), cross out, obliterate: She was offended because he

 

omitted any mention of all that she had contributed. 2 neglect,

 

disregard, fail, forget, overlook, let slide, ignore: I omitted

 

to tell you that your sister telephoned yesterday.

15.11 once...

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once

adv. 1 once upon a time, formerly, (at) one time, on a former

 

occasion, previously, before, in days gone by, in olden days, in

 

the (good) old days, long ago, some time ago, years or ages or

 

aeons ago, in days of yore: Your hair is as long as mine once

 

was. He was once a famous film star. That once revered leader

 

has fallen. 2 one time, on one occasion, a single time: He has

 

visited his family only once in all these years. 3 once and for

 

all. finally, positively, definitely, decidedly, conclusively,

 

for good: We must settle the itinerary once and for all before

 

we can make the bookings. 4 once in a while. occasionally,

 

(every) now and then, now and again, at times, sometimes,

 

periodically, from time to time, at intervals, sporadically: We

 

go to the theatre once in a while.

 

--conj. 5 (if) ever, as soon as, at any time: Once the bus

 

comes, you'd best get on it straight away.

 

--n. 6 at once. a immediately, straight away, right away,

 

directly, without delay, promptly, instantly, post-haste; in a

 

wink, in the twinkling of an eye, in a minute or moment or

 

second or split second, in no time (at all), before you can turn

 

around, before you can say 'Jack Robinson', in a trice, Colloq

 

in a jiffy, in two shakes of a lamb's tail: Watson, come here

 

at once. I'll be there at once. b together, at the same time,

 

simultaneously, at a stroke, in the same instant, in the same

 

breath, Colloq at one go, at a go, in one go: You cannot be in

 

two places at once.

oncoming adj. 1 advancing, arriving, coming, nearing, approaching, onrushing, imminent: He swerved and just managed to avoid the oncoming lorry.

 

--n. 2 onset, beginning, nearing, arrival, advance, approach:

 

With the oncoming of spring, the birds returned.

one

adj. 1 single, lone, solitary, individual, sole, only: The one

 

time I kissed Margie it was heaven. 2 unified, united,

 

inseparable, joined, undivided, one and the same, identical,

equal, at one, harmonious, in unison, whole, entire, complete: When he went into a trance, he felt one with his God. 3 a particular, a certain, a given, a specific: I recall one

occasion when she brought all her dogs into work.

--pron. 4 a person, an individual, a man or a woman, everybody, everyone, anybody, anyone; people; Possibly offensive man: One ought to treat others as one would like to be treated. One

cannot be too careful these days.

--n. 5 joke, story, anecdote, chestnut, one-liner; limerick, rhyme, ditty, song; bromide: Have you heard the one that begins, 'There was a young man from Loch Ness'?

one-sided adj. 1 partial, biased, partisan, prejudiced, bigoted, unfair, unjust, inequitable, close-minded, narrow-minded, intolerant: His is a one-sided view of the problem. 2 lopsided, unbalanced,

unequal, unequalized, uneven, disproportionate, Slang cock-eyed: The swelling on his left cheek made Tom's face look very one-sided. 3 unilateral, independent, exclusionary, exclusive: They made a one-sided decision to halt production of nuclear weapons.

ongoing adj. 1 continuing, continued, continuous, continual, ceaseless, unbroken, uninterrupted, constant, perpetual, non-stop,

relentless, persistent, unending, endless, interminable,

running: There has been an ongoing dispute with the museum over the authenticity of the sculpture. 2 developing, evolving,

growing, successive, unfolding, progressing, progressive: Rather than come to a hasty decision, we decided to monitor ongoing developments.

onlooker n. spectator, observer, looker-on, eyewitness, witness, watcher, viewer; bystander, passer-by: She was merely an onlooker, not a participant. Onlookers reported that the driver had run away from the accident.

only

adj. 1 sole, single, solitary, lone, one and only, exclusive:

 

He is the only one who can identify the murderer.

 

--adv. 2 solely, just, exclusively, alone: He has a face that

 

only a mother could love. They have been here only twice. She

 

gets her own way only because she has a tantrum if anyone

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