The Oxford Thesaurus - An A-Z Dictionary Of Synonyms
.pdftomatoes were grown during the winter in our hothouse.
--adj. 2 dainty, delicate, sensitive, fragile, frail, pampered, overprotected, sheltered, shielded, spoiled, coddled, babied: She was glad to exchange the hothouse atmosphere of the university for the real world.
hotly adv. intensively, energetically, doggedly, persistently, zealously, fervently, fervidly, ardently, warmly,
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enthusiastically: Hotly pursued by the police, I managed to |
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hide in a culvert. |
hound |
v. bully, browbeat, persecute, nag, harass, annoy, pester, |
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harry, badger: Although he was found innocent, his neighbours |
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hounded him so much that he had to leave town. |
house |
n. 1 residence, dwelling, dwelling-place, home, abode, |
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household, homestead, domicile, lodging(s), quarters, building, |
edifice: We are playing bridge at my house next Saturday. 2 family, line, lineage, dynasty, clan, ancestry, strain, race, blood, descendants, forebears: She is a member of the royal house of Sweden. 3 legislature, legislative body, congress, parliament, assembly, council, diet: Both houses of the legislature passed the bill. 4 establishment, firm, concern,
company, business, organization, enterprise, undertaking, Colloq outfit: He has gone from one publishing house to another with his manuscript. 5 auditorium, theatre, concert-hall: The house is sold out. 6 house of ill repute or ill fame or prostitution, brothel, whore-house, bagnio, bordello, Archaic bawdy-house, Colloq sporting house, crib, Slang US cat-house: She used to run a house in Lambeth. 7 on the house. free, gratis, for nothing, as a gift: Drinks will be on the house tonight to celebrate the tenth anniversary of our opening.
--v. 8 shelter, accommodate, domicile, lodge, quarter, put up, take in, board, billet, harbour: We have housed as many as ten people at a time in the cottage. 9 contain, accommodate, quarter: This building houses our computer operations.
housing n. 1 homes, houses, lodging(s), quarters, accommodation, habitation, dwelling; shelter, protection: The Council is trying to provide housing for the elderly. 2 case, casing,
cover, covering, enclosure, container, box, shield: We keep the
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hovel |
n. hole, shack, shanty, (pig)sty, pigpen, coop, crib, hut, |
Colloq US dump: The beggar lives in a hovel near the railway |
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station. |
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hover |
v. 1 drift, poise, float, hang, be or hang suspended, hang in |
the air: The humming bird hovers over a flower, drinking its |
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nectar. 2 linger, loiter, wait, hang about or around: The |
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waiter's constant hovering about is making me nervous. |
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however |
adv. 1 notwithstanding, regardless, nevertheless, nonetheless, |
despite (that), in spite of (that), still, but, though, yet,
even so, be that as it may, come what may, no matter what; at any rate, anyway, anyhow, on the other hand, in all events, in any event, in any case, after all: He insisted the council should give their approval; however, that is not their responsibility. I was ready to move to Cardiff; she didn't offer
me the job, however. 2 to whatever manner or extent or degree, howsoever, no matter how, in any way or manner or respect, anyhow, how, in whatever way or manner: However you view it, he is still the boss. Spend the money however you see fit.
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--conj. 3 how, how on earth, how in the world, in what way or |
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manner: However do you manage with only three to help, you poor |
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thing? 4 no matter how, regardless how, putting or setting |
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aside how, notwithstanding how: However much she earns, she is |
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always short of money. |
howl |
v. 1 yowl, cry, wail, ululate, bay; shout, yell, bellow, |
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scream, roar, Colloq holler: The wolves were howling at the |
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moon last night. He howled with pain when he caught his finger |
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in the door. |
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--n. 2 yowl, yowling, ululation, ululating, wail, wailing, |
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yelp, yelping, cry; shout, yell, bellow, scream, roar, Colloq |
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holler: The wolf's howl is an eerie, chilling sound. I kicked |
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him and he let out a howl. |
howler n. blunder, mistake, error, gaffe; malapropism, Irish bull; Brit bloomer, US clinker, Colloq Brit clanger, US boner: One paper contained the howler, 'Money is the route of all evil', which the author explained should be corrected to, 'The love of
money is the root of all evil'.
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hub |
n. centre, focus, focal point, pivot, heart, core, nucleus, |
nave: This is the hub of the city, around which everything else |
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moves. |
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huddle |
n. 1 cluster, group, bunch, clump, pack, herd, crowd, throng, |
mass: Everyone got into a huddle, trying to keep warm. 2 meeting, conference, discussion, consultation: They were in a huddle, deciding what to do next.
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--v. 3 cluster, gather, crowd or press together, throng or |
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flock together, nestle, jam or cram together, squeeze together: |
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We huddled in basements during air raids. 4 meet, discuss, |
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confer, consult: Let's huddle on this question of the |
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advertising schedule. |
hue |
n. colour, tint, shade, tinge, tone, cast, tincture, Technical |
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chroma: The dust in the atmosphere gives the sunsets a reddish |
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hue. |
huff |
n. 1 in a huff. piqued, peeved, testy, irritated, angered, |
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vexed, annoyed, in high dudgeon, provoked, exasperated, |
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petulant, in a pet, Colloq (all) het up: She went off in a huff |
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because I didn't praise her painting. |
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--v. 2 puff, blow, bluster: When I complained about the food, |
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the manager simply huffed and puffed and walked away. |
hug |
v. 1 embrace, clasp, squeeze, cuddle, snuggle, Archaic or |
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literary clip: They hugged each other warmly, then kissed |
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goodbye. 2 follow closely, cling to, stay or keep near or close |
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to: We hugged the ground as the bullets whizzed by overhead. |
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--n. 3 embrace, clasp, squeeze, Colloq clinch: She saw me, ran |
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over, and gave me a big hug. |
huge |
adj. large, great, enormous, gigantic, giant, immense, massive, |
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tremendous, gargantuan, prodigious, mammoth, colossal, |
monumental, Brobdingnagian, titanic, stupendous, elephantine, leviathan, mountainous, vast, Colloq jumbo, whopping: The red spot on Jupiter is so huge it could swallow the earth several times over.
hulk |
n. 1 shipwreck, wreck, derelict, shell, skeleton: The rusting |
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hulk of the once-proud ship is tied up at the dock. 2 oaf, |
clod, lout, ox, Slang US galoot or galloot, klutz: Don't tell me that hulk of a man painted these delicate miniatures!
hulking |
adj. clumsy, awkward, ungainly, lubberly, oafish, loutish; |
unwieldy, cumbersome, bulky, ponderous, massive, ungraceful, |
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inelegant: Their great hulking son could no longer fit into his |
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clothes. That hulking monolith of an office building dominates |
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the entire neighbourhood. |
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hull |
n. 1 framework, skeleton, frame, structure, body: The hull of |
the ship completed, we added the superstructure. 2 shell, pod, case, husk, skin, peel, rind, US shuck: Squirrels carefully nibble through the hull of the nut to get at the kernel inside.
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--v. 3 shell, peel, skin, husk, US shuck: We hulled all the |
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nuts and they are now ready for the fruit cake. |
hum |
v. 1 buzz, drone, thrum, murmur, whirr, purr, vibrate, |
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Technical bombinate or bombilate: I want to smell the wild |
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flowers and hear the bees hum once again. 2 bustle, stir, be |
active, move briskly, Colloq tick (over): Within three months of completion, the new plant was humming. 3 intone: I said, 'Do you know your rock guitar is keeping me awake?', and he replied, 'No, man, but if you hum it I'll try to play it.'
--n. 4 buzz, buzzing, drone, droning, thrum, thrumming, murmur, murmuring, murmuration, whirr, whirring, purr, purring, vibration: From the other room came the hum of conversation.
human adj. 1 mortal, anthropoid, hominoid, android; hominid; Possibly offensive manlike: The aliens from the spaceship had few human characteristics. It is human nature to think. 2 sensitive,
defenceless, weak, fallible, vulnerable: She is human, too, and can be easily hurt. 3 kind, kindly, kind-hearted, considerate, charitable, compassionate, merciful, benign, benignant, tender, gentle, forgiving, lenient, benevolent, beneficent, generous,
magnanimous, humanitarian, understanding, accommodating, sympathetic, good-natured, humane, sensitive: Human concern for others is in short supply these days.
--n. 4 human being, person, individual, woman, man, child, mortal, one, soul, someone, somebody: Humans have long maltreated many of the animals on which they depend.
humanitarian
adj. 1 See human, 3.
--n. 2 Good Samaritan, benefactor, philanthropist, altruist: Because of her charitable works, Lady Pendleton is thought of as a great humanitarian.
humanity n. 1 human race, people, society, humankind, Homo sapiens; the public, the masses, community; Possibly offensive man, mankind: From what we are told, humanity took millions of years to
evolve. 2 humanness, human nature, mortality: On his first voyage to Mars, Kollworth began to doubt his own humanity. 3 kindness, kindliness, kind-heartedness, consideration, helpfulness, charitableness, open-heartedness, warm-heartedness, good will, benevolence, compassion, mercifulness, mercy, benignity, tenderness, warmth, gentleness, leniency or lenience or lenity, beneficence, generosity, unselfishness, magnanimity, understanding, sympathy, sensitivity: It was owing to the humanity of our neighbours that we survived the bombing.
humble adj. 1 modest, reserved, unpretentious, unostentatious, self-effacing, unassuming, unpresuming: For someone who has accomplished so much, she is quite humble. 2 submissive, meek, servile, obsequious, deferential, mild, respectful, subservient, subdued: Usually pompous, Nigel became humble in the presence of the chairman. 3 lowly, low, inferior, mean, ignoble,
ordinary, plebeian, common, simple, obscure, unprepossessing, unimportant, undistinguished, insignificant; low-born, base, base-born: He lives in a humble cottage. Though she came from a humble background, she rose to become prime minister.
--v. 4 chasten, bring or pull down, subdue, abase, debase, demean, lower, degrade, downgrade, reduce, make (someone) eat humble pie, lose face, shame, humiliate, crush, break, mortify, chagrin, Colloq put down, take (someone) down a peg or notch:
He found army discipline a humbling experience.
humdrum adj. dull, boring, tedious, tiresome, wearisome, monotonous, unvaried, unvarying, routine, undiversified, unchanging, repetitious, uneventful, unexciting, uninteresting, prosaic, mundane, ordinary, commonplace, common, banal, dry, insipid, jejune: They saw no way of escaping from their humdrum lives.
humid adj. damp, moist, muggy, clammy, sticky, steamy, soggy, sultry, wet: The weather has been oppressively hot and humid all week.
humiliate v. See humble, 4.
humiliation
n. disgrace, shame, mortification, dishonour, ignominy, indignity, discredit, loss of face, obloquy, abasement, depreciation, detraction, degradation, derogation, belittlement, disparagement, shaming, embarrassment, humbling: He had to suffer the humiliation of being drummed out of the corps.
humility n. modesty, meekness, self-effacement, shyness, diffidence, timidity, timorousness, meekness, bashfulness, mildness, unpretentiousness, submissiveness, servility, self-abasement, lowliness: She sees humility as dissatisfaction with oneself on account of some defect or infirmity.
humorous adj. funny, comical, facetious, laughable, risible, ludicrous, farcical, side-splitting, hilarious, merry; droll, whimsical, amusing, witty, waggish, jocular, jocose, playful, pleasant, Colloq hysterical: The humorous parts of the play sent the audience into gales of laughter.
humour n. 1 funniness, comedy, wit, facetiousness, ludicrousness, drollery, jocoseness or jocosity, jocularity, waggishness, raillery, banter: One writer defined humour as 'the happy compound of pathos and playfulness', another referred to the sense of humour as a 'modulating and restraining balance-wheel'. 2 comedy, farce, jokes, jests, witticisms, wit, Slang
wisecracks, gags: Milton was scarcely known as a writer of humour. 3 mood, frame of mind, temper; spirit(s); disposition, nature, temperament: She is in a bad humour till after breakfast.
--v. 4 soothe, gratify, placate, please, mollify, indulge, appease, pamper, cosset, coddle, mollycoddle, jolly, baby, spoil: They are trying to humour him because he's in a bad mood.
hump n. 1 bulge, lump, bump, protuberance, protrusion, projection, knob, node, mass, hunch, enlargement, swelling, growth, excrescence, tumefaction, tumescence; mound, barrow, tell, hummock, hillock, tumulus, Brit dialect tump: Digging into the hump near the trees, we uncovered an ancient burial-ground.
--v. 2 hunch, arch, curve, crook, bend: Sulking in the corner, he humped his back and refused to speak to anyone. 3 drag, lug, haul, carry, heave: She had to hump two heavy suitcases all the way from the railway station.
hunch n. 1 (intuitive) guess, intuition, feeling, impression, suspicion, premonition, presentiment: I had a hunch they would be late. 2 See hump, 1.
--v. 3 See hump, 2.
hunger n. 1 hungriness, emptiness, appetite, ravenousness, voraciousness, voracity; famine, starvation: We ate leaves to stave off the pangs of hunger. Some optimists hope to eliminate hunger from the planet by the year 2000. 2 yearning, desire, craving, itch, thirst, longing, hankering, mania, cupidity, Formal cacoethes, Colloq yen: She felt an insatiable hunger for intellectual companionship.
--v. 3 Usually, hunger for or after. crave, yearn, desire, thirst, want, hanker, Colloq yen, have a yen: Blessed are they who hunger and thirst after righteousness.
hungry adj. 1 famished, starved, starving, ravenous, voracious, empty, hollow, Colloq chiefly Brit peckish: I'm hungry enough to eat a horse. 2 craving, covetous, eager, avid, greedy, keen,
yearning, desirous, longing, hungering, thirsting, starving,
dying, Colloq hankering: Marooned for years, Crusoe was hungry for the sight of another human being. 3 acquisitive, greedy, thirsty, insatiable, deprived: The parched, hungry earth drank
up the rain.
hunt v. 1 chase, pursue, dog, hound, stalk, trail, track (down), trace; course: The jewel thieves were hunted across three continents. 2 Also, hunt for or up or out or through. seek (out), search (for), go in search of or for, look (high and low) for, quest after, go in quest of, scour, ransack, investigate, pry into, go over or through with a fine-tooth comb, examine,
explore, Colloq US check out: Detectives hunted the carpet for clues. She is hunting a job in publishing. I have hunted for the ring but cannot find it. Can you hunt up someone to fill the vacancy? Hunt through your pockets again for the key.
--n. 3 chase, pursuit, tracking (down), stalking, hunting; course: The ten-year hunt for the thieves continues. 4 search, quest: My hunt ended when I found the ring.
hunter |
n. huntsman, huntswoman, stalker, tracker, Nimrod, Orion; |
huntress: An expert hunter, she bagged three tigers last year. |
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hurdle |
n. 1 barrier, obstacle, impediment, hindrance, obstruction, |
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bar, handicap, restraint, snag, (stumbling) block, check, |
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difficulty, complication, interference: Can she overcome the |
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hurdle of prejudice against women? |
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--v. 2 leap (over), vault (over), jump (over): The fugitive |
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easily hurdled the fence around the compound. |
hurl |
v. throw, toss, shy, sling, fling, pitch, cast, send, fire, |
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heave, propel, let fly, Colloq chuck: The fast bowler hurled |
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the ball past the batsman. |
hurricane n. cyclone, tornado, typhoon, whirlwind, twister, wind-storm, storm, gale, blow: The 1985 hurricane destroyed millions of trees.
hurried adj. 1 hasty, feverish, frantic, hectic, breakneck, frenetic, impetuous, rushed, precipitate, swift, quick, speedy; brief, short: We ate a hurried lunch before leaving to catch the train. 2 superficial, cursory, offhand, perfunctory, slapdash:
Airport security guards made only a hurried examination of the hand luggage.
hurry v. 1 rush, hasten, make haste, speed, race, dash, hustle, scurry, tear, fly, run, shoot, scoot, scamper, scuttle, hotfoot