Merriam-Webster's Dictionary of Synonyms: A Dictionary of Discriminated Synonyms with Antonyms and Analogous and Contrasted WordsMerriam-Webster, 1984 - 940 էջ Good communication starts with choosing the right word--not always an easy task when the choise is between words of closely related meaning. Merriam-Webster's Dictionary of Synonyms makes the task easier by providing full discussions of synonymous terms and by describing the subtle distinctions that make one word more appropriate than another in a particular context. |
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... stresses a lower- ing in plane rather than in rank and often conveys a strong implication of the shamefulness of the condition to which someone or something has been reduced ( that she and Charlotte , two spent old women , should be ...
... stresses a lower- ing in plane rather than in rank and often conveys a strong implication of the shamefulness of the condition to which someone or something has been reduced ( that she and Charlotte , two spent old women , should be ...
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... stresses inability to fix the mind on present concerns ; it often connotes mental wandering rather than concentration on other things ( Sir Joshua ... was quite absent all the day , not knowing a word that was said to him - Burney > ...
... stresses inability to fix the mind on present concerns ; it often connotes mental wandering rather than concentration on other things ( Sir Joshua ... was quite absent all the day , not knowing a word that was said to him - Burney > ...
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... stresses , as acquirement does not , the inherent value of that power or skill ( absolute disinterestedness is a rare acquisition , even in historians > < no philosopher would resign his mental acquisitions for the purchase of any ...
... stresses , as acquirement does not , the inherent value of that power or skill ( absolute disinterestedness is a rare acquisition , even in historians > < no philosopher would resign his mental acquisitions for the purchase of any ...
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... stresses the realization of the po- tential in something : it therefore often connotes release of great energy and consequent forcefulness ; a dynamic per- sonality is one that exhibits great power and exerts a great influence ; love is ...
... stresses the realization of the po- tential in something : it therefore often connotes release of great energy and consequent forcefulness ; a dynamic per- sonality is one that exhibits great power and exerts a great influence ; love is ...
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... stresses alacrity arising | * acknowledge from vigor or health ; however it is frequently applied to those from whom alacrity or briskness of movement is not to be expected ( the old lady is as spry as a cricket > < she is down one day ...
... stresses alacrity arising | * acknowledge from vigor or health ; however it is frequently applied to those from whom alacrity or briskness of movement is not to be expected ( the old lady is as spry as a cricket > < she is down one day ...
Common terms and phrases
action active actual agitation animals antonym applied chiefly artist association attack autarky basic beauty body carries cation cause character close synonyms color common commonly comparable when meaning condition confusion connotes corre corresponding adjectives corresponding nouns corresponding verbs coruscate critical debase definite deliquesce denote designate desire Dictionary DISCOMPOSE discriminated distinction distinguished divergent effect Eliot emotional epicene especially expression extended faith favor fear feeling force formal frequently give hermaphrodite honor human idea intent interchangeable involved lack less light living Macaulay maladroit ment mental mind moral nature ness object offensive one's oneself onyms opposed opposite passion person or thing phrase physical political reference regarded relation result Rose Macaulay sangfroid sense skill sometimes specifically speech spirit sponding adjectives sponding verbs stresses T. S. Eliot term thought tion tive truth usually implies usually suggests words
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Էջ 31 - What happens is a continual surrender of himself as he is at the moment to something which is more valuable. The progress of an artist is a continual self-sacrifice, a continual extinction of personality.
Էջ 315 - Hail to thee, blithe Spirit! Bird thou never wert, That from Heaven, or near it, Pourest thy full heart In profuse strains of unpremeditated art. Higher still and higher From the earth thou springest Like a cloud of fire; The blue deep thou wingest, And singing still dost soar, and soaring ever singest.
Էջ 266 - The applause of listening senates to command, The threats of pain and ruin to despise, To scatter plenty o'er a smiling land, And read their...
Էջ 159 - Here lies our good Edmund, whose genius was such, We scarcely can praise it, or blame it too much; Who, born for the universe, narrowed his mind, And to party gave up what was meant for mankind.
Էջ 317 - I endure to interrupt the pursuit of no less hopes than these, and leave a calm and pleasing solitariness, fed with cheerful and confident thoughts, to embark in a troubled sea of noises and hoarse disputes, put from beholding the bright countenance of truth in the quiet and still air of delightful studies...
Էջ 144 - And not for justice? What, shall one of us, That struck the foremost man of all this world, But for supporting robbers; shall we now Contaminate our fingers with base bribes? And sell the mighty space of our large...
Էջ 236 - I'll give thee this plague for thy dowry : be thou as chaste as ice, as pure as snow, thou shalt not escape calumny.
Էջ 255 - Hearken ye, all Judah, and ye inhabitants of Jerusalem, and thou king Jehoshaphat, Thus saith the LORD unto you, Be not afraid nor dismayed by reason of this great multitude; for the battle is not yours, but God's.
Էջ 296 - There was, as usual, a crowd of folk about the door, but none that Rip recollected. The very character of the people seemed changed. There was a busy, bustling, disputatious tone about it, instead of the accustomed phlegm and drowsy tranquillity.
Էջ 208 - On what foundation stands the warrior's pride? How just his hopes, let Swedish Charles decide; A frame of adamant, a soul of fire, No dangers fright him, and no labours tire...