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Nonelastic
Not having elasticity.
Barren
A tract of barren land.
Diminish
To make smaller by a half step; to make (an interval) less than minor; as, a diminished seventh.
Blank
A paper containing the substance of a legal instrument, as a deed, release, writ, or execution, with spaces left to be filled with names, date, descriptions, etc.
Entrain
To draw along as a current does; as, water entrained by steam.
Cashbook
A book in which is kept a register of money received or paid out.
Humdrum
Monotonous; dull; commonplace.
Savorless
Having no savor; destitute of smell or of taste; insipid.
Truculent
Fierce; savage; ferocious; barbarous; as, the truculent inhabitants of Scythia.
Well-known
Fully known; generally known or acknowledged.
Bromide
A compound of bromine with a positive radical.
Pad
To wear a path by walking.
Open
Free or cleared of obstruction to progress or to view; accessible; as, an open tract; the open sea.
Displeasing
of Displease
Settle
To restore or bring to a smooth, dry, or passable condition; -- said of the ground, of roads, and the like; as, clear weather settles the roads.
Faint
Lacking distinctness; hardly perceptible; striking the senses feebly; not bright, or loud, or sharp, or forcible; weak; as, a faint color, or sound.
Rough
Hence, figuratively, lacking refinement, gentleness, or polish.
Sober
Serious or subdued in demeanor, habit, appearance, or color; solemn; grave; sedate.
Fire
To be irritated or inflamed with passion.
Hard
With tension or strain of the powers; violently; with force; tempestuously; vehemently; vigorously; energetically; as, to press, to blow, to rain hard; hence, rapidly; as, to run hard.
Mist
Visible watery vapor suspended in the atmosphere, at or near the surface of the earth; fog.
Rough
In a rough manner; rudely; roughly.
Prose
The ordinary language of men in speaking or writing; language not cast in poetical measure or rhythm; -- contradistinguished from verse, or metrical composition.
Cliche
A stereotype plate or any similar reproduction of ornament, or lettering, in relief.
Deity
The collection of attributes which make up the nature of a god; divinity; godhead; as, the deity of the Supreme Being is seen in his works.
Plight
To promise; to engage; to betroth.
Boredom
The state of being bored, or pestered; a state of ennui.
Proverbial
Mentioned or comprised in a proverb; used as a proverb; hence, commonly known; as, a proverbial expression; his meanness was proverbial.
Adversaria
A miscellaneous collection of notes, remarks, or selections; a commonplace book; also, commentaries or notes.
Embarkation
The act of putting or going on board of a vessel; as, the embarkation of troops.
Embark
To cause to go on board a vessel or boat; to put on shipboard.
Inflexibility
The quality or state of being inflexible, or not capable of being bent or changed; unyielding stiffness; inflexibleness; rigidity; firmness of will or purpose; unbending pertinacity; steadfas..
Insipid
Wanting in spirit, life, or animation; uninteresting; weak; vapid; flat; dull; heavy; as, an insipid woman; an insipid composition.
Deaden
To make as dead; to impair in vigor, force, activity, or sensation; to lessen the force or acuteness of; to blunt; as, to deaden the natural powers or feelings; to deaden a sound.
Distasteful
Unpleasant or disgusting to the taste; nauseous; loathsome.
Nauseous
Causing, or fitted to cause, nausea; sickening; loathsome; disgusting; exciting abhorrence; as, a nauseous drug or medicine.
Abominable
Worthy of, or causing, abhorrence, as a thing of evil omen; odious in the utmost degree; very hateful; detestable; loathsome; execrable.
Ledger
A book in which a summary of accounts is laid up or preserved; the final book of record in business transactions, in which all debits and credits from the journal, etc., are placed under appr..
Abhorrent
Abhorring; detesting; having or showing abhorrence; loathing; hence, strongly opposed to; as, abhorrent thoughts.
Elegancy
The state or quality of being elegant; beauty as resulting from choice qualities and the complete absence of what deforms or impresses unpleasantly; grace given by art or practice; fine polis..
Generalization
The act or process of generalizing; the act of bringing individuals or particulars under a genus or class; deduction of a general principle from particulars.
Standard
An inverted knee timber placed upon the deck instead of beneath it, with its vertical branch turned upward from that which lies horizontally.
Amaze
To bewilder; to stupefy; to bring into a maze.
Discomfit
To scatter in fight; to put to rout; to defeat.
Squelch
To quell; to crush; to silence or put down.
Turntable
A large revolving platform, for turning railroad cars, locomotives, etc., in a different direction; -- called also turnplate.
Malevolence
The quality or state of being malevolent; evil disposition toward another; inclination to injure others; ill will. See Synonym of Malice.
Deposal
The act of deposing from office; a removal from the throne.
Acetylene
A gaseous compound of carbon and hydrogen, in the proportion of two atoms of the former to two of the latter. It is a colorless gas, with a peculiar, unpleasant odor, and is produced for use ..
Abrupt
Broken off; very steep, or craggy, as rocks, precipices, banks; precipitous; steep; as, abrupt places.
Extemporaneous
Composed, performed, or uttered on the spur of the moment, or without previous study; unpremeditated; off-hand; extempore; extemporary; as, an extemporaneous address or production.
Inadvertent
Not turning the mind to a matter; heedless; careless; negligent; inattentive.
Petulance
Alt. of Petulancy
Customary
Agreeing with, or established by, custom; established by common usage; conventional; habitual.
Suburban
Of or pertaining to suburbs; inhabiting, or being in, the suburbs of a city.
Horrible
Exciting, or tending to excite, horror or fear; dreadful; terrible; shocking; hideous; as, a horrible sight; a horrible story; a horrible murder.
Contradict
To assert the contrary of; to oppose in words; to take issue with; to gainsay; to deny the truth of, as of a statement or a speaker; to impugn.
Extenuate
To make thin or slender; to draw out so as to lessen the thickness.
Undermine
To excavate the earth beneath, or the part of, especially for the purpose of causing to fall or be overthrown; to form a mine under; to sap; as, to undermine a wall.
Impromptu
Offhand; without previous study; extemporaneous; extempore; as, an impromptu verse.
Unseat
To throw from one's seat; to deprive of a seat.
Unhorse
To throw from a horse; to cause to dismount; also, to take a horse or horses from; as, to unhorse a rider; to unhorse a carriage.
Confute
To overwhelm by argument; to refute conclusively; to prove or show to be false or defective; to overcome; to silence.
Overturn
To subvert; to destroy; to overthrow.
Spontaneous
Proceding from natural feeling, temperament, or disposition, or from a native internal proneness, readiness, or tendency, without constraint; as, a spontaneous gift or proportion.
Stark
Stiff; rigid.
Unmade
Not yet made or formed; as, an unmade grave.
Frank
A pigsty.
Unstudied
Not studied; not acquired by study; unlabored; natural.
Parry
To ward off; to stop, or to turn aside; as, to parry a thrust, a blow, or anything that means or threatens harm.
Blur
To render obscure by making the form or outline of confused and uncertain, as by soiling; to smear; to make indistinct and confused; as, to blur manuscript by handling it while damp; to blur the..
Puzzling
of Puzzle
Paleness
The quality or condition of being pale; want of freshness or ruddiness; a sickly whiteness; lack of color or luster; wanness.
Commonplaceness
The quality of being commonplace; commonness.
Perplexity
The quality or state of being perplexed or puzzled; complication; intricacy; entanglement; distraction of mind through doubt or difficulty; embarrassment; bewilderment; doubt.
Simply
In a simple manner or state; considered in or by itself; without addition; along; merely; solely; barely.
Scrip
A small bag; a wallet; a satchel.
Vagueness
The quality or state of being vague.
Opacity
The state of being opaque; the quality of a body which renders it impervious to the rays of light; want of transparency; opaqueness.
Haziness
The quality or state of being hazy.
Currency
A continued or uninterrupted course or flow like that of a stream; as, the currency of time.
Generality
The state of being general; the quality of including species or particulars.
Mustiness
The quality or state of being musty.
Commonness
State or quality of being common or usual; as, the commonness of sunlight.
Lowness
The state or quality of being low.
Dimness
The state or quality / being dim; lack of brightness, clearness, or distinctness; dullness; obscurity.
Obscurity
The quality or state of being obscure; darkness; privacy; inconspicuousness; unintelligibleness; uncertainty.
Dismount
To come down; to descend.
Plainly
In a plain manner; clearly.
Machinery
Machines, in general, or collectively.
Awkward
Wanting dexterity in the use of the hands, or of instruments; not dexterous; without skill; clumsy; wanting ease, grace, or effectiveness in movement; ungraceful; as, he was awkward at a tric..
Household
Those who dwell under the same roof and compose a family.
Wonted
of Wont
Predominating
of Predominate
Annual
Of or pertaining to a year; returning every year; coming or happening once in the year; yearly.
Disturbance
An interruption of a state of peace or quiet; derangement of the regular course of things; disquiet; disorder; as, a disturbance of religious exercises; a disturbance of the galvanic current...
Poser
One who, or that which, puzzles; a difficult or inexplicable question or fact.
Philistine
A native or an inhabitant of ancient Philistia, a coast region of southern Palestine.
Fuddle
To make foolish by drink; to cause to become intoxicated.
Bamboozle
To deceive by trickery; to cajole by confusing the senses; to hoax; to mystify; to humbug.
Buffalo
A species of the genus Bos or Bubalus (B. bubalus), originally from India, but now found in most of the warmer countries of the eastern continent. It is larger and less docile than the common ox..
Plebeian
Of or pertaining to the Roman plebs, or common people.
Ill
Contrary to good, in a physical sense; contrary or opposed to advantage, happiness, etc.; bad; evil; unfortunate; disagreeable; unfavorable.
Defy
To renounce or dissolve all bonds of affiance, faith, or obligation with; to reject, refuse, or renounce.
Unfruitful
Not producing fruit or offspring; unproductive; infertile; barren; sterile; as, an unfruitful tree or animal; unfruitful soil; an unfruitful life or effort.
Mischief
Harm; damage; esp., disarrangement of order; trouble or vexation caused by human agency or by some living being, intentionally or not; often, calamity, mishap; trivial evil caused by thoughtl..
Tension
The act of stretching or straining; the state of being stretched or strained to stiffness; the state of being bent strained; as, the tension of the muscles, tension of the larynx.
God
Good.
Gaunt
Attenuated, as with fasting or suffering; lean; meager; pinched and grim.
Celibate
Celibate state; celibacy.
Disagreeableness
The state or quality of being; disagreeable; unpleasantness.
Displeasure
State of disgrace or disfavor; disfavor.
Helpless
Destitute of help or strength; unable to help or defend one's self; needing help; feeble; weak; as, a helpless infant.
Outcast
Cast out; degraded.
Leached
of Leach
Exiled
of Exile
Intolerable
Not tolerable; not capable of being borne or endured; not proper or right to be allowed; insufferable; insupportable; unbearable; as, intolerable pain; intolerable heat or cold; an intolerabl..
Meanness
The condition, or quality, of being mean; want of excellence; poorness; lowness; baseness; sordidness; stinginess.
Infecund
Unfruitful; not producing young; barren; infertile.
Crux
Anything that is very puzzling or difficult to explain.
Dilemma
An argument which presents an antagonist with two or more alternatives, but is equally conclusive against him, whichever alternative he chooses.
Truism
An undoubted or self-evident truth; a statement which is pliantly true; a proposition needing no proof or argument; -- opposed to falsism.
Nausea
Seasickness; hence, any similar sickness of the stomach accompanied with a propensity to vomit; qualm; squeamishness of the stomach; loathing.
Daybook
A journal of accounts; a primary record book in which are recorded the debts and credits, or accounts of the day, in their order, and from which they are transferred to the journal.
Notebook
A book in which notes or memorandums are written.
Issueless
Having no issue or progeny; childless.
Yearbook
A book published yearly; any annual report or summary of the statistics or facts of a year, designed to be used as a reference book; as, the Congregational Yearbook.
Wasted
of Waste
Sealed
of Seal
Inexpedience
Alt. of Inexpediency
Desultory
Leaping or skipping about.
Repulsive
Serving, or able, to repulse; repellent; as, a repulsive force.
Daily
Happening, or belonging to, each successive day; diurnal; as, daily labor; a daily bulletin.
Sweeping
of Sweep
Fuzzy
Not firmly woven; that ravels.
Amorphous
Having no determinate form; of irregular; shapeless.
Unbeknown
Not known; unknown.
Unknown
Not known; not apprehended.
Mysterious
Of or pertaining to mystery; containing a mystery; difficult or impossible to understand; obscure not revealed or explained; enigmatical; incomprehensible.
Promiscuous
Consisting of individuals united in a body or mass without order; mingled; confused; undistinguished; as, a promiscuous crowd or mass.
Nonplussed
of Nonplus
Inconspicuous
Not conspicuous or noticeable; hardly discernible.
Unclench
Same as Unclinch.
Opaque
Impervious to the rays of light; not transparent; as, an opaque substance.
Stochastic
Conjectural; able to conjecture.
Chaotic
Resembling chaos; confused.
Hazy
Thick with haze; somewhat obscured with haze; not clear or transparent.
Foggy
Filled or abounding with fog, or watery exhalations; misty; as, a foggy atmosphere; a foggy morning.
Bamboozled
of Bamboozle
Dazed
of Daze
Discomfort
To discourage; to deject.
Countless
Incapable of being counted; not ascertainable; innumerable.
Unbounded
Having no bound or limit; as, unbounded space; an, unbounded ambition.
Limitless
Having no limits; unbounded; boundless.
Accustomed
of Accustom
Indefinable
Incapable of being defined or described; inexplicable.
Indefinite
Not definite; not limited, defined, or specified; not explicit; not determined or fixed upon; not precise; uncertain; vague; confused; obscure; as, an indefinite time, plan, etc.
Indistinguishable
Not distinguishable; not capable of being perceived, known, or discriminated as separate and distinct; hence, not capable of being perceived or known; as, in the distance the flagship was ind..
Dismay
To disable with alarm or apprehensions; to depress the spirits or courage of; to deprive or firmness and energy through fear; to daunt; to appall; to terrify.
Inferiority
The state of being inferior; a lower state or condition; as, inferiority of rank, of talents, of age, of worth.
Speechless
Destitute or deprived of the faculty of speech.
Topic
One of the various general forms of argument employed in probable as distinguished from demonstrative reasoning, -- denominated by Aristotle to`poi (literally, places), as being the places or so..
Flat
A floor, loft, or story in a building; especially, a floor of a house, which forms a complete residence in itself.
Indistinct
Not distinct or distinguishable; not separate in such a manner as to be perceptible by itself; as, the indistinct parts of a substance.
Addle
Liquid filth; mire.
Intractability
The quality of being intractable; intractableness.
Baffled
of Baffle
Faze
See Feeze.
Puzzle
Something which perplexes or embarrasses; especially, a toy or a problem contrived for testing ingenuity; also, something exhibiting marvelous skill in making.
Overpower
To excel or exceed in power; to cause to yield; to vanquish; to subdue; as, the light overpowers the eyes.
Bewildered
of Bewilder
Daze
To stupefy with excess of light; with a blow, with cold, or with fear; to confuse; to benumb.
Fluster
To make hot and rosy, as with drinking; to heat; hence, to throw into agitation and confusion; to confuse; to muddle.
Overwhelm
To cover over completely, as by a great wave; to overflow and bury beneath; to ingulf; hence, figuratively, to immerse and bear down; to overpower; to crush; to bury; to oppress, etc., overpo..
Uncertainty
The quality or state of being uncertain.
Floored
of Floor
Tiresome
Fitted or tending to tire; exhausted; wearisome; fatiguing; tedious; as, a tiresome journey; a tiresome discourse.
Stumped
of Stump
Muddled
of Muddle
Average
That service which a tenant owed his lord, to be done by the work beasts of the tenant, as the carriage of wheat, turf, etc.
Commonly
Usually; generally; ordinarily; frequently; for the most part; as, confirmed habits commonly continue through life.
Broad
A lathe tool for turning down the insides and bottoms of cylinders.
Disagreeable
Not agreeable, conformable, or congruous; contrary; unsuitable.
Repugnant
Disposed to fight against; hostile; at war with; being at variance; contrary; inconsistent; refractory; disobedient; also, distasteful in a high degree; offensive; -- usually followed by to, ..
Unconsidered
Not considered or attended to; not regarded; inconsiderable; trifling.
Inelastic
Not elastic.
Finish
See Finishing coat, under Finishing.
Perplexed
of Perplex
Rotten
Having rotted; putrid; decayed; as, a rotten apple; rotten meat.
Objectionable
Liable to objection; likely to be objected to or disapproved of; offensive; as, objectionable words.
Sober
Temperate in the use of spirituous liquors; habitually temperate; as, a sober man.
Unthinking
Not thinking; not heedful; thoughtless; inconsiderate; as, unthinking youth.
Mystified
of Mystify
Uncertain
Not certain; not having certain knowledge; not assured in mind; distrustful.
Inflexible
Not capable of being bent; stiff; rigid; firm; unyielding.
Peccant
Sinning; guilty of transgression; criminal; as, peccant angels.
Homeless
Destitute of a home.
Unlovely
Not lovely; not amiable; possessing qualities that excite dislike; disagreeable; displeasing; unpleasant.
Addled
of Addle
Murky
Dark; obscure; gloomy.
Nebulous
Cloudy; hazy; misty.
Inaccurate
Not accurate; not according to truth; inexact; incorrect; erroneous; as, in inaccurate man, narration, copy, judgment, calculation, etc.
Ugly
Offensive to the sight; contrary to beauty; being of disagreeable or loathsome aspect; unsightly; repulsive; deformed.
Incoherent
Not coherent; wanting cohesion; loose; unconnected; physically disconnected; not fixed to each; -- said of material substances.
Cloudy
Overcast or obscured with clouds; clouded; as, a cloudy sky.
Marred
of Mar
Unlatch
To open or loose by lifting the latch; as, to unlatch a door.
Bleary
Somewhat blear.
Intractable
Not tractable; not easily governed, managed, or directed; indisposed to be taught, disciplined, or tamed; violent; stubborn; obstinate; refractory; as, an intractable child.
Stagger
To begin to doubt and waver in purposes; to become less confident or determined; to hesitate.
Fusty
Moldy; musty; ill-smelling; rank.
Unready
Not ready or prepared; not prompt; slow; awkward; clumsy.
Distraught
of Distract
Inexpedient
Not expedient; not tending to promote a purpose; not tending to the end desired; inadvisable; unfit; improper; unsuitable to time and place; as, what is expedient at one time may be inexpedient ..
Indeterminate
Not determinate; not certain or fixed; indefinite; not precise; as, an indeterminate number of years.
Mediocre
Of a middle quality; of but a moderate or low degree of excellence; indifferent; ordinary.
Sober
Not mad or insane; not wild, visionary, or heated with passion; exercising cool, dispassionate reason; self-controlled; self-possessed.
Helix
A nonplane curve whose tangents are all equally inclined to a given plane. The common helix is the curve formed by the thread of the ordinary screw. It is distinguished from the spiral, all the ..
Licked
of Lick
Controvert
To make matter of controversy; to dispute or oppose by reasoning; to contend against in words or writings; to contest; to debate.
Puzzled
of Puzzle
Settle
A seat of any kind.
Ubiquitous
Existing or being everywhere, or in all places, at the same time; omnipresent.
Veiled
of Veil
Familiar
Of or pertaining to a family; domestic.
Unlock
To unfasten, as what is locked; as, to unlock a door or a chest.
Unpleasant
Not pleasant; not amiable or agreeable; displeasing; offensive.
Wicked
Having a wick; -- used chiefly in composition; as, a two-wicked lamp.
Dim
Not bright or distinct; wanting luminousness or clearness; obscure in luster or sound; dusky; darkish; obscure; indistinct; overcast; tarnished.
Unhappy
Not happy or fortunate; unfortunate; unlucky; as, affairs have taken an unhappy turn.
Accidental
Happening by chance, or unexpectedly; taking place not according to the usual course of things; casual; fortuitous; as, an accidental visit.
Pedestrian
Going on foot; performed on foot; as, a pedestrian journey.
Diminish
To make smaller in any manner; to reduce in bulk or amount; to lessen; -- opposed to augment or increase.
Sinful
Tainted with, or full of, sin; wicked; iniquitous; criminal; unholy; as, sinful men; sinful thoughts.
Desolate
Destitute or deprived of inhabitants; deserted; uninhabited; hence, gloomy; as, a desolate isle; a desolate wilderness; a desolate house.
Counteract
To act in opposition to; to hinder, defeat, or frustrate, by contrary agency or influence; as, to counteract the effect of medicines; to counteract good advice.
Devastate
To lay waste; to ravage; to desolate.
Vernacular
Belonging to the country of one's birth; one's own by birth or nature; native; indigenous; -- now used chiefly of language; as, English is our vernacular language.
Plainness
The quality or state of being plain.
Simplicity
The quality or state of being simple, unmixed, or uncompounded; as, the simplicity of metals or of earths.
Purposeless
Having no purpose or result; objectless.
Jejune
Lacking matter; empty; void of substance.
Fruitless
Lacking, or not bearing, fruit; barren; destitute of offspring; as, a fruitless tree or shrub; a fruitless marriage.
Docket
A small piece of paper or parchment, containing the heads of a writing; a summary or digest.
Throw
Pain; especially, pain of travail; throe.
Musketry
Muskets, collectively.
Bill
A beak, as of a bird, or sometimes of a turtle or other animal.
Journal
Daily; diurnal.
Drudge
To perform menial work; to labor in mean or unpleasant offices with toil and fatigue.
Mumbo Jumbo
An object of superstitious homage and fear.
Able
Fit; adapted; suitable.
Darkness
The absence of light; blackness; obscurity; gloom.
Bourgeois
A size of type between long primer and brevier. See Type.
Lowly
Not high; not elevated in place; low.
Paralyze
To affect or strike with paralysis or palsy.
Vulgar
Of or pertaining to the mass, or multitude, of people; common; general; ordinary; public; hence, in general use; vernacular.
Thunderstruck
of Thunderstrike
Plain
To lament; to bewail; to complain.
Repertory
A place in which things are disposed in an orderly manner, so that they can be easily found, as the index of a book, a commonplace book, or the like.
Plastic
Having the power to give form or fashion to a mass of matter; as, the plastic hand of the Creator.
Unclog
To disencumber of a clog, or of difficulties and obstructions; to free from encumbrances; to set at liberty.
Habitual
Formed or acquired by habit or use.
Classical
Of or relating to the first class or rank, especially in literature or art.
Envy
Malice; ill will; spite.
Pure
Separate from all heterogeneous or extraneous matter; free from mixture or combination; clean; mere; simple; unmixed; as, pure water; pure clay; pure air; pure compassion.
Ordinary
According to established order; methodical; settled; regular.
Unconscious
Not conscious; having no consciousness or power of mental perception; without cerebral appreciation; hence, not knowing or regarding; ignorant; as, an unconscious man.
Unwitting
Not knowing; unconscious; ignorant.
Cockney
An effeminate person; a spoilt child.
Impervious
Not pervious; not admitting of entrance or passage through; as, a substance impervious to water or air.
Oxymoron
A figure in which an epithet of a contrary signification is added to a word; e. g., cruel kindness; laborious idleness.
Moderate
Kept within due bounds; observing reasonable limits; not excessive, extreme, violent, or rigorous; limited; restrained
Rambling
of Ramble
Beastly
Pertaining to, or having the form, nature, or habits of, a beast.
Unveil
To remove a veil from; to divest of a veil; to uncover; to disclose to view; to reveal; as, she unveiled her face.
Inelegance
Alt. of Inelegancy
Unsheathe
To deprive of a sheath; to draw from the sheath or scabbard, as a sword.
Involuntary
Not having will or the power of choice.
Teaser
One who teases or vexes.
Shabby
Torn or worn to rage; poor; mean; ragged.
Pickle
See Picle.
Ascetic
Extremely rigid in self-denial and devotions; austere; severe.
Monotonous
Uttered in one unvarying tone; continued with dull uniformity; characterized by monotony; without change or variety; wearisome.
Cacophony
An uncouth or disagreable sound of words, owing to the concurrence of harsh letters or syllables.
Interminable
Without termination; admitting no limit; boundless; endless; wearisomely protracted; as, interminable space or duration; interminable sufferings.
Untold
Not told; not related; not revealed; as, untold secrets.
Problem
A question proposed for solution; a matter stated for examination or proof; hence, a matter difficult of solution or settlement; a doubtful case; a question involving doubt.
Acceptable
Capable, worthy, or sure of being accepted or received with pleasure; pleasing to a receiver; gratifying; agreeable; welcome; as, an acceptable present, one acceptable to us.
Unnumbered
Not numbered; not counted or estimated; innumerable.
Stupefy
To make stupid; to make dull; to blunt the faculty of perception or understanding in; to deprive of sensibility; to make torpid.
Snap
To break at once; to break short, as substances that are brittle.
Unaffected
Not affected or moved; destitute of affection or emotion; uninfluenced.
Attic
Of or pertaining to Attica, in Greece, or to Athens, its principal city; marked by such qualities as were characteristic of the Athenians; classical; refined.
Overworked
of Overwork
Inauspicious
Not auspicious; ill-omened; unfortunate; unlucky; unfavorable.
Universal
Of or pertaining to the universe; extending to, including, or affecting, the whole number, quantity, or space; unlimited; general; all-reaching; all-pervading; as, universal ruin; universal g..
Baseness
The quality or condition of being base; degradation; vileness.
Confused
of Confuse
Blemished
of Blemish
Suppress
To overpower and crush; to subdue; to put down; to quell.
Fire
The evolution of light and heat in the combustion of bodies; combustion; state of ignition.
Conflict
A striking or dashing together; violent collision; as, a conflict of elements or waves.
Bafflement
The process or act of baffling, or of being baffled; frustration; check.
Immeasurable
Incapble of being measured; indefinitely extensive; illimitable; immensurable; vast.
Exchange
The act of giving or taking one thing in return for another which is regarded as an equivalent; as, an exchange of cattle for grain.
Discountenance
To ruffle or discompose the countenance of; to put of countenance; to put to shame; to abash.
Garden
A piece of ground appropriated to the cultivation of herbs, fruits, flowers, or vegetables.
Bother
To annoy; to trouble; to worry; to perplex. See Pother.
Disconcert
To break up the harmonious progress of; to throw into disorder or confusion; as, the emperor disconcerted the plans of his enemy.
Blunt
Having a thick edge or point, as an instrument; dull; not sharp.
Normal
According to an established norm, rule, or principle; conformed to a type, standard, or regular form; performing the proper functions; not abnormal; regular; natural; analogical.
Stereotyped
of Stereotype
Unskillful
Not skillful; inexperienced; awkward; bungling; as, an unskillful surgeon or mechanic; an unskillful logician.
Sinister
On the left hand, or the side of the left hand; left; -- opposed to dexter, or right.
Workaday
See Workyday.
Ennui
A feeling of weariness and disgust; dullness and languor of spirits, arising from satiety or want of interest; tedium.
Assuage
To soften, in a figurative sense; to allay, mitigate, ease, or lessen, as heat, pain, or grief; to appease or pacify, as passion or tumult; to satisfy, as appetite or desire.
Brave
Bold; courageous; daring; intrepid; -- opposed to cowardly; as, a brave man; a brave act.
Usual
Such as is in common use; such as occurs in ordinary practice, or in the ordinary course of events; customary; ordinary; habitual; common.
Corny
Strong, stiff, or hard, like a horn; resembling horn.
Everyday
Used or fit for every day; common; usual; as, an everyday suit or clothes.
Threadbare
Worn to the naked thread; having the nap worn off; threadbare clothes.
Buck
Lye or suds in which cloth is soaked in the operation of bleaching, or in which clothes are washed.
Indifferent
Not mal/ing a difference; having no influence or preponderating weight; involving no preference, concern, or attention; of no account; without significance or importance.
Nondescript
Not hitherto described; novel; hence, odd; abnormal; unclassifiable.
Actual
Involving or comprising action; active.
Anguish
Extreme pain, either of body or mind; excruciating distress.
Black
Destitute of light, or incapable of reflecting it; of the color of soot or coal; of the darkest or a very dark color, the opposite of white; characterized by such a color; as, black cloth; bl..
Hack
A frame or grating of various kinds; as, a frame for drying bricks, fish, or cheese; a rack for feeding cattle; a grating in a mill race, etc.
Indiscriminate
Not discriminate; wanting discrimination; undistinguishing; not making any distinction; confused; promiscuous.
Baffle
To cause to undergo a disgraceful punishment, as a recreant knight.
Dislodge
To drive from a lodge or place of rest; to remove from a place of quiet or repose; as, shells resting in the sea at a considerate depth are not dislodged by storms.
Chaste
Pure from unlawful sexual intercourse; virtuous; continent.
Stubborn
Firm as a stub or stump; stiff; unbending; unyielding; persistent; hence, unreasonably obstinate in will or opinion; not yielding to reason or persuasion; refractory; harsh; -- said of persons ..
Log
A Hebrew measure of liquids, containing 2.37 gills.
Regulation
The act of regulating, or the state of being regulated.
Checkmate
The position in the game of chess when a king is in check and cannot be released, -- which ends the game.
Table
A smooth, flat surface, like the side of a board; a thin, flat, smooth piece of anything; a slab.
Thwart
Situated or placed across something else; transverse; oblique.
Tedium
Irksomeness; wearisomeness; tediousness.
Haphazard
Extra hazard; chance; accident; random.
Disappointment
The act of disappointing, or the state of being disappointed; defeat or failure of expectation or hope; miscarriage of design or plan; frustration.
Platitudinous
Abounding in platitudes; of the nature of platitudes; uttering platitudes.
Uneasiness
The quality or state of being uneasy; restlessness; disquietude; anxiety.
Malaise
An indefinite feeling of uneasiness, or of being sick or ill at ease.
Shapeless
Destitute of shape or regular form; wanting symmetry of dimensions; misshapen; -- opposed to shapely.
Inexhaustible
Incapable of being exhausted, emptied, or used up; unfailing; not to be wasted or spent; as, inexhaustible stores of provisions; an inexhaustible stock of elegant words.
Filmy
Composed of film or films.
Calendar
An orderly arrangement of the division of time, adapted to the purposes of civil life, as years, months, weeks, and days; also, a register of the year with its divisions; an almanac.
Rude
Characterized by roughness; umpolished; raw; lacking delicacy or refinement; coarse.
Disordered
of Disorder
Confound
To mingle and blend, so that different elements can not be distinguished; to confuse.
Deprecate
To pray against, as an evil; to seek to avert by prayer; to desire the removal of; to seek deliverance from; to express deep regret for; to disapprove of strongly.
Maze
A wild fancy; a confused notion.
Faint
Lacking strength; weak; languid; inclined to swoon; as, faint with fatigue, hunger, or thirst.
Closed
of Close
Obscure
Covered over, shaded, or darkened; destitute of light; imperfectly illuminated; dusky; dim.
Modulate
To form, as sound, to a certain key, or to a certain portion.
Banality
Something commonplace, hackneyed, or trivial; the commonplace, in speech.
Anxiety
Concern or solicitude respecting some thing or event, future or uncertain, which disturbs the mind, and keeps it in a state of painful uneasiness.
Odious
Hateful; deserving or receiving hatred; as, an odious name, system, vice.
Inelegant
Not elegant; deficient in beauty, polish, refinement, grave, or ornament; wanting in anything which correct taste requires.
Hasty
Involving haste; done, made, etc., in haste; as, a hasty sketch.
Spartan
Of or pertaining to Sparta, especially to ancient Sparta; hence, hardy; undaunted; as, Spartan souls; Spartan bravey.
Impetuous
Rushing with force and violence; moving with impetus; furious; forcible; violent; as, an impetuous wind; an impetuous torrent.
Termless
Having no term or end; unlimited; boundless; unending; as, termless time.
Boundless
Without bounds or confines; illimitable; vast; unlimited.
Chestnut
The edible nut of a forest tree (Castanea vesca) of Europe and America. Commonly two or more of the nuts grow in a prickly bur.
Depreciate
To lessen in price or estimated value; to lower the worth of; to represent as of little value or claim to esteem; to undervalue.
Prosy
Of or pertaining to prose; like prose.
Innumerable
Not capable of being counted, enumerated, or numbered, for multitude; countless; numberless; unnumbered, hence, indefinitely numerous; of great number.
Eternal
Without beginning or end of existence; always existing.
Commonplace
Common; ordinary; trite; as, a commonplace person, or observation.
Purity
The condition of being pure.
Lax
Not tense, firm, or rigid; loose; slack; as, a lax bandage; lax fiber.
Humble
Near the ground; not high or lofty; not pretentious or magnificent; unpretending; unassuming; as, a humble cottage.
Incalculable
Not capable of being calculated; beyond calculation; very great.
Platitude
The quality or state of being flat, thin, or insipid; flat commonness; triteness; staleness of ideas of language.
Immutable
Not mutable; not capable or susceptible of change; unchangeable; unalterable.
Surly
Arrogant; haughty.
Nasty
Offensively filthy; very dirty, foul, or defiled; disgusting; nauseous.
Corn
A thickening of the epidermis at some point, esp. on the toes, by friction or pressure. It is usually painful and troublesome.
Maxim
An established principle or proposition; a condensed proposition of important practical truth; an axiom of practical wisdom; an adage; a proverb; an aphorism.
Pocketbook
A small book or case for carrying papers, money, etc., in the pocket; also, a notebook for the pocket.
Subdue
To bring under; to conquer by force or the exertion of superior power, and bring into permanent subjection; to reduce under dominion; to vanquish.
Demolish
To throw or pull down; to raze; to destroy the fabric of; to pull to pieces; to ruin; as, to demolish an edifice, or a wall.
Immense
Immeasurable; unlimited. In commonest use: Very great; vast; huge.
Painful
Full of pain; causing uneasiness or distress, either physical or mental; afflictive; disquieting; distressing.
Blurred
of Blur
Overturn
To turn or throw from a basis, foundation, or position; to overset; as, to overturn a carriage or a building.
Prosaic
Alt. of Prosaical
Tame
To broach or enter upon; to taste, as a liquor; to divide; to distribute; to deal out.
Soften
To make soft or more soft.
Disfigured
of Disfigure
Quandary
A state of difficulty or perplexity; doubt; uncertainty.
Underplay
To play in a subordinate, or in an inferior manner; to underact a part.
Broad
Wide; extend in breadth, or from side to side; -- opposed to narrow; as, a broad street, a broad table; an inch broad.
Transcendent
Very excellent; superior or supreme in excellence; surpassing others; as, transcendent worth; transcendent valor.
Unroll
To open, as what is rolled or convolved; as, to unroll cloth; to unroll a banner.
Muddy
Abounding in mud; besmeared or dashed with mud; as, a muddy road or path; muddy boots.
Indecisive
Not decisive; not bringing to a final or ultimate issue; as, an indecisive battle, argument, answer.
Austere
Sour and astringent; rough to the state; having acerbity; as, an austere crab apple; austere wine.
Allay
To make quiet or put at rest; to pacify or appease; to quell; to calm; as, to allay popular excitement; to allay the tumult of the passions.
Homespun
Spun or wrought at home; of domestic manufacture; coarse; plain.
Uncover
To take the cover from; to divest of covering; as, to uncover a box, bed, house, or the like; to uncover one's body.
Unorganized
Not organized; being without organic structure; specifically (Biol.), not having the different tissues and organs characteristic of living organisms, nor the power of growth and development; ..
Misty
Accompained with mist; characterized by the presence of mist; obscured by, or overspread with, mist; as, misty weather; misty mountains; a misty atmosphere.
Tired
of Tire
Reiteration
The act of reiterating; that which is reiterated.
Unwrap
To open or undo, as what is wrapped or folded.
Rough
Having inequalities, small ridges, or points, on the surface; not smooth or plain; as, a rough board; a rough stone; rough cloth.
Trouble
To put into confused motion; to disturb; to agitate.
Inchoate
Recently, or just, begun; beginning; partially but not fully in existence or operation; existing in its elements; incomplete.
Orderless
Being without order or regularity; disorderly; out of rule.
Uproot
To root up; to tear up by the roots, or as if by the roots; to remove utterly; to eradicate; to extirpate.
Desert
That which is deserved; the reward or the punishment justly due; claim to recompense, usually in a good sense; right to reward; merit.
Stale
The stock or handle of anything; as, the stale of a rake.
Straightforward
Proceeding in a straight course or manner; not deviating; honest; frank.
Expose
To set forth; to set out to public view; to exhibit; to show; to display; as, to expose goods for sale; to expose pictures to public inspection.
Mystification
The act of mystifying, or the state of being mystied; also, something designed to, or that does, mystify.
Worn
of Wear
Diptych
Anything consisting of two leaves.
Diary
A register of daily events or transactions; a daily record; a journal; a blank book dated for the record of daily memoranda; as, a diary of the weather; a physician's diary.
Aleatory
Depending on some uncertain contingency; as, an aleatory contract.
Pad
A footpath; a road.
Spoiled
of Spoil
Miserable
Very unhappy; wretched.
Shooting
of Shoot
Inferior
Lower in place, rank, excellence, etc.; less important or valuable; subordinate; underneath; beneath.
Exhausted
of Exhaust
Severe
Serious in feeeling or manner; sedate; grave; austere; not light, lively, or cheerful.
Dry
Free from moisture; having little humidity or none; arid; not wet or moist; deficient in the natural or normal supply of moisture, as rain or fluid of any kind; -- said especially: (a) Of the ..
Rebut
To drive or beat back; to repulse.
Alleviate
To lighten or lessen the force or weight of.
Minimize
To reduce to the smallest part or proportion possible; to reduce to a minimum.
Countermand
To revoke (a former command); to cancel or rescind by giving an order contrary to one previously given; as, to countermand an order for goods.
Shadowy
Full of shade or shadows; causing shade or shadow.
Frustrate
Vain; ineffectual; useless; unprofitable; null; voil; nugatory; of no effect.
Uncork
To draw the cork from; as, to uncork a bottle.
Rustic
Of or pertaining to the country; rural; as, the rustic gods of antiquity.
Spleen
A peculiar glandlike but ductless organ found near the stomach or intestine of most vertebrates and connected with the vascular system; the milt. Its exact function in not known.
Unstop
To take the stopple or stopper from; as, to unstop a bottle or a cask.
Matter-of-fact
Adhering to facts; not turning aside from absolute realities; not fanciful or imaginative; commonplace; dry.
Dwarf
An animal or plant which is much below the ordinary size of its species or kind; especially, a diminutive human being.
Defeat
To undo; to disfigure; to destroy.
Bare
Without clothes or covering; stripped of the usual covering; naked; as, his body is bare; the trees are bare.
Subvert
To overturn from the foundation; to overthrow; to ruin utterly.
Reduce
To bring or lead back to any former place or condition.
Disharmony
Want of harmony; discord; incongruity.
Inquietude
Disturbed state; uneasiness either of body or mind; restlessness; disquietude.
Natural
Fixed or determined by nature; pertaining to the constitution of a thing; belonging to native character; according to nature; essential; characteristic; not artifical, foreign, assumed, put o..
Lay
of Lie, to recline.
Vague
Wandering; vagrant; vagabond.
Small
Having little size, compared with other things of the same kind; little in quantity or degree; diminutive; not large or extended in dimension; not great; not much; inconsiderable; as, a small ..
Mitigate
To make less severe, intense, harsh, rigorous, painful, etc.; to soften; to meliorate; to alleviate; to diminish; to lessen; as, to mitigate heat or cold; to mitigate grief.
Trifling
of Trifle
Cancel
To inclose or surround, as with a railing, or with latticework.
Trite
Worn out; common; used until so common as to have lost novelty and interest; hackneyed; stale; as, a trite remark; a trite subject.
Boggle
To stop or hesitate as if suddenly frightened, or in doubt, or impeded by unforeseen difficulties; to take alarm; to exhibit hesitancy and indecision.
Balk
A ridge of land left unplowed between furrows, or at the end of a field; a piece missed by the plow slipping aside.
Counter
A prefix meaning contrary, opposite, in opposition; as, counteract, counterbalance, countercheck. See Counter, adv. & a.
Forbidding
of Forbid
Deny
To declare not to be true; to gainsay; to contradict; -- opposed to affirm, allow, or admit.
Constrain
To secure by bonds; to chain; to bond or confine; to hold tightly; to constringe.
Abate
To beat down; to overthrow.
Fuddled
of Fuddle
Weakness
The quality or state of being weak; want of strength or firmness; lack of vigor; want of resolution or of moral strength; feebleness.
Confront
To stand facing or in front of; to face; esp. to face hostilely; to oppose with firmness.
Discord
Want of concord or agreement; absence of unity or harmony in sentiment or action; variance leading to contention and strife; disagreement; -- applied to persons or to things, and to thoughts,..
Perturbation
The act of perturbing, or the state of being perturbed; esp., agitation of mind.
Plow
Alt. of Plough
Wickedness
The quality or state of being wicked; departure from the rules of the divine or the moral law; evil disposition or practices; immorality; depravity; sinfulness.
Paradox
A tenet or proposition contrary to received opinion; an assertion or sentiment seemingly contradictory, or opposed to common sense; that which in appearance or terms is absurd, but yet may be tr..
Blotter
One who, or that which, blots; esp. a device for absorbing superfluous ink.
Dread
To fear in a great degree; to regard, or look forward to, with terrific apprehension.
Dullness
The state of being dull; slowness; stupidity; heaviness; drowsiness; bluntness; obtuseness; dimness; want of luster; want of vividness, or of brightness.
Belittle
To make little or less in a moral sense; to speak of in a depreciatory or contemptuous way.
Displeasure
The feeling of one who is displeased; irritation or uneasiness of the mind, occasioned by anything that counteracts desire or command, or which opposes justice or a sense of propriety; disapp..
Evil
Having qualities tending to injury and mischief; having a nature or properties which tend to badness; mischievous; not good; worthless or deleterious; poor; as, an evil beast; and evil plant; an..
Blank
Of a white or pale color; without color.
Scrapbook
A blank book in which extracts cut from books and papers may be pasted and kept.
Pale
Wanting in color; not ruddy; dusky white; pallid; wan; as, a pale face; a pale red; a pale blue.
Ruin
The act of falling or tumbling down; fall.
Discontent
Not content; discontented; dissatisfied.
Incompatibility
The quality or state of being incompatible; inconsistency; irreconcilableness.
Album
A white tablet on which anything was inscribed, as a list of names, etc.
Bitter
AA turn of the cable which is round the bitts.
Neat
Cattle of the genus Bos, as distinguished from horses, sheep, and goats; an animal of the genus Bos; as, a neat's tongue; a neat's foot.
Casual
Happening or coming to pass without design, and without being foreseen or expected; accidental; fortuitous; coming by chance.
Chance
A supposed material or psychical agent or mode of activity other than a force, law, or purpose; fortune; fate; -- in this sense often personified.
Surprise
The act of coming upon, or taking, unawares; the act of seizing unexpectedly; surprisal; as, the fort was taken by surprise.
Triptych
Anything in three parts or leaves.
Resentment
The act of resenting.
Impotent
Not potent; wanting power, strength. or vigor. whether physical, intellectual, or moral; deficient in capacity; destitute of force; weak; feeble; infirm.
Causal
Relating to a cause or causes; inplying or containing a cause or causes; expressing a cause; causative.
Mundane
Of or pertaining to the world; worldly; earthly; terrestrial; as, the mundane sphere.
Spoil
To plunder; to strip by violence; to pillage; to rob; -- with of before the name of the thing taken; as, to spoil one of his goods or possession.
Open
Free of access; not shut up; not closed; affording unobstructed ingress or egress; not impeding or preventing passage; not locked up or covered over; -- applied to passageways; as, an open door,..
Sourness
The quality or state of being sour.
Weaken
To make weak; to lessen the strength of; to deprive of strength; to debilitate; to enfeeble; to enervate; as, to weaken the body or the mind; to weaken the hands of a magistrate; to weaken the ..
