English words and phrases

arrogate; assume, presume; make bold, make free; take a liberty, give an inch and take an ell.

domineer, bully, dictate, hector; lord it over; traiter de haut en bas [Fr.], regarder de haut en bas [Fr.]; exact; snub, huff., beard, fly in the face of; put to the blush; bear down, beat down; browbeat, intimidate; trample down, tread down, trample under foot; dragoon, ride roughshod over.

out face, outlook, outstare, outbrazen^†, outbrave^†; stare out of countenance; brazen out; lay down the law; teach one's grandmother to suck eggs; assume a lofty bearing; talk big, look big; put on big looks, act the grand seigneur [Fr.]; mount the high horse, ride the high horse; toss the head, carry, with a high hand.

tempt Providence, want snuffing.

Adj. insolent, haughty, arrogant, imperious, magisterial, dictatorial, arbitrary; high-handed, high and mighty; contumelious, supercilious, overbearing, intolerant, domineering, overweening, high-flown.

flippant, pert, fresh [U.S.], cavalier, saucy, forward, impertinent, malapert.

precocious, assuming, would-be, bumptious.

bluff; brazen, shameless, aweless, unblushlng^†, unabashed; brazen, boldfaced-, barefaced-, brazen-faced; dead to shame, lost to shame.

impudent, audacious, presumptuous, free and easy, devil-may-care, rollicking; jaunty, janty^†; roistering, blustering, hectoring, swaggering, vaporing; thrasonic, fire eating, full of sound and fury [Macbeth].

Adv. with a high hand; ex cathedra [Lat.].

Phr. one's bark being worse than his bite; beggars mounted run their horse to death [Henry VI]; quid times? Caesarem vehis [Lat.] [Plutarch]; wagahai wa [Jap.] (expressing superiority) [Jap.Tr.].
886. Servility -- N. servility; slavery &c (subjection) 749; obsequiousness &c adj.; subserviency; abasement; prostration, prosternation^†; genuflection &c (worship) 990; fawning &c v.; tuft-hunting, timeserving^†, flunkeyism^†; sycophancy &c (flattery) 933; humility &c 879.

sycophant, parasite; toad, toady, toad-eater; tufthunter^†; snob, flunky, flunkey, yes-man, lapdog, spaniel, lickspittle, smell-feast, Graeculus esuriens [Lat.], hanger on, cavaliere servente [It], led captain, carpet knight; timeserver, fortune hunter, Vicar of Bray, Sir-Pertinax, Max Sycophant, pickthank^†; flatterer &c 935; doer of dirty work; ame damnee [Fr.], tool; reptile; slave &c (servant) 746; courtier; beat [Slang], dead beat [Slang], doughface [U.S.], heeler [U.S.], homme de cour [Fr.], sponger, sucker [Slang], tagtail^†, truckler.

sneak, crawl, crouch, cower, sponge, truckle to, grovel, fawn, lick the feet of, kiss the hem of one's garment, kiss one's ass [Vulg.], suck up.

pay court to; feed on, fatten on, dance attendance on, pin oneself upon, hang on the sleeve of, avaler les couleuvres [Fr.], keep time to, fetch and carry, do the dirty work of.

go with the stream, worship the rising sun, hold with the hare and run with the hounds.

puppy &c (fop) 854; prig; Sir Oracle, dogmatist, doctrinaire, jack-in-office; saucebox^†, malapert, jackanapes, minx; bantam-cock.

SYMPATHETIC AFFECTIONS

firm friendship, staunch friendship, intimate friendship, familiar friendship, bosom friendship, cordial friendship, tried friendship, devoted friendship, lasting friendship, fast friendship, sincere friendship, warm friendship, ardent friendship.

cordiality, fraternization, entente cordiale [Fr.], good understanding, rapprochement, sympathy, fellow-feeling, response, welcomeness.

affection &c (love) 897; favoritism; good will &c (benevolence) 906.

acquaintance, familiarity, intimacy, intercourse, fellowship, knowledge of; introduction.

V. be friendly &c adj., be friends &c 890, be acquainted with &c adj.; know; have the ear of; keep company with &c (sociality) 892; hold communication with, have dealings with, sympathize with; have a leaning to; bear good will &c (benevolent) 906; love &c 897; make much of; befriend &c (aid) 707; introduce to.

set one's horses together; have the latchstring out [U.S.]; hold out the right hand of friendship, extend the right hand of friendship, hold out the right hand of fellowship; become friendly &c adj.; make friends with &c 890; break the lee, be introduced to; make acquaintance with, pick acquaintance with, scrape acquaintance with; get into favor, gain the friendship of.

shake hands with, fraternize, embrace; receive with open arms, throw oneself into the arms of; meet halfway, take in good part.

Adj. friendly; amicable, amical^†; well-affected, unhostile^†, neighborly, brotherly, fraternal, sympathetic, harmonious, hearty, cordial, warm-hearted.

friends with, well with, at home with, hand in hand with; on good terms, on friendly terms, on amicable terms, on cordial terms, on familiar terms, on intimate terms, on good footing; on speaking terms, on visiting terms; in one's good graces, in one's good books.

acquainted, familiar, intimate, thick, hand and glove, hail fellow well met, free and easy; welcome.

Adv. amicably &c adj.; with open arms; sans ceremonie [Fr.]; arm in arm.

Phr. amicitia semper prodest [Lat.] [Seneca]; a mystic bond of brotherhood makes all men one [Carlyle]; friendship is love without either flowers or veil [Hare]; trulgus amicitias utilitate probat [Lat.] [Ovid].
889. Enmity -- N. enmity, hostility; unfriendliness &c adj.; discord &c 713; bitterness, rancor.

alienation, estrangement; dislike &c 867; hate &c 898.

heartburning^†; animosity &c 900; malevolence &c 907.

V. be inimical &c adj.; keep at arm's length, hold at arm's length; be at loggerheads; bear malice &c 907; fall out; take umbrage &c 900; harden the heart, alienate, estrange.

[not friendly, but not hostile]. (indifference). 866.

Adj. inimical, unfriendly, hostile; at enmity, at variance, at daggers drawn, at open war with; up in arms against; in bad odor with.

on bad terms, not on speaking terms; cool; cold, cold hearted; estranged, alienated, disaffected, irreconcilable.

acquaintance, neighbor, next-door neighbor, casual acquaintance, nodding acquaintance; wellwisher.

favorer, fautor^†, patron, Mecaenas; tutelary saint, good genius, advocate, partisan, sympathizer; ally; friend in need &c (auxiliary) 711.

comrade, mate, companion, familiar, confrere, comrade, camarade^†, confidante, intimate; old crony, crony; chum; pal; buddy, bosom buddy; playfellow, playmate, childhood friend; bedfellow, bedmate; chamber fellow.

associate, colleague, compeer.

schoolmate, schoolfellow^†; classfellow^†, classman^†, classmate; roommate; fellow-man, stable companion.

best man, maid of honor, matron of honor.

compatriot; fellow countryman, countryman.

shopmate, fellow-worker, shipmate, messmate^†; fellow companion, boon companion, pot companion; copartner, partner, senior partner, junior partner.

Arcades ambo Pylades and Orestes Castor and Pollux^†, Nisus and Euryalus [Lat.], Damon and Pythias, par nobile fratrum [Lat.].

host, Amphitryon^†, Boniface; guest, visitor, prot_eg_e.

Phr. amici probantur rebus adversis [Lat.]; ohne bruder kann man leben nicht ohne Freund [G.]; best friend, my well-spring in the wilderness [G.

Eliot]; conocidos muchos amigos pocos [Sp.]; friend more divine than all divinities [G.

Eliot]; vida sin amigo muerte sin testigo [Sp.].
891. Enemy -- N. enemy; antagonist; foe, foeman^†; open enemy, bitter enemy, opponent &c 710; back friend.

public enemy, enemy to society.

with friends like that, who needs enemies?; Lord protect me from my friends; I can protect myself from my enemies.

conviviality; good fellowship, good company; joviality, jollity, savoir vivre [Fr.], festivity, festive board, merrymaking; loving cup^†; hospitality, heartiness; cheer.

welcome, welcomeness; greeting; hearty welcome, hearty reception, warm reception; urbanity &c (courtesy) 894; familiarity.

good fellow, jolly fellow; bon enfant [Fr.], bawcock^†.

social circle, family circle; circle of acquaintance, coterie, society, company.

social gathering, social reunion; assembly &c (assemblage) 72; barbecue [U.S.], bee; corn-husking [U.S.], corn-shucking [U.S.]; house raising, barn raising; husking, husking-bee [U.S.]; infare^†.

party, entertainment, reception, levee, at, home, conversazione [It], soiree, matin_ee; evening party, morning party, afternoon party, bridge party, garden party, surprise party; kettle, kettle drum; partie carr_ee [Fr.], dish of tea, ridotto^†, rout^†; housewarming; ball, festival &c; smoker, smoker-party; sociable [U.S.], stag party, hen party, tamasha^†; tea-party, tea-fight [Slang].

(amusement) 840; the feast of reason and the flow of soul [Pope].

birthday party [parties for specific occasions], Christmas party, New Year's Eve party, Thanksgiving Day Dinner; bonenkai [Jap.]; wedding reception.

visiting; round of visits; call, morning call; interview &c (conversation) 588; assignation; tryst, trysting place; appointment.

club &c (association) 712.

be at home with, feel at home with, make oneself at home with; make free with; crack a bottle with; receive hospitality, live at free quarters; find the latchstring out [U.S.].

visit, pay a visit; interchange visits, interchange cards; call at, call upon; leave a card; drop in, look in; look one up, beat up one's quarters.

entertain; give a party &c n.; be at home, see one's friends, hang out, keep open house, do the honors; receive, receive with open arms; welcome; give a warm reception &c n.. to kill the fatted calf.

convivial; festive, festal; jovial, jolly, hospitable.

welcome, welcome as the roses in May; f=eted, entertained.

free and easy, hall fellow well met, familiar, on visiting terms, acquainted.

social, neighborly; international; gregarious.

Adv. en famille [Fr.], in the family circle; sans fa [Fr.]; arm in arm.

Phr. a crowd is not company [Bacon]; be bright and jovial among your guests tonight [Macbeth]; his worth is warrant for his welcome [Two Gentlemen]; let's be red with mirth [Winter's Tale]; welcome the coming speed the parting guest [Pope].
893. Seclusion. Exclusion -- N. seclusion, privacy; retirement; reclusion, recess; snugness &c adj.; delitescence^†; rustication, rus in urbe [Lat.]; solitude; solitariness &c (singleness) 87; isolation; loneliness &c adj.; estrangement from the world, voluntary exile; aloofness.

cell, hermitage; convent &c 1000; sanctum sanctorum [Lat.].

depopulation, desertion, desolation; wilderness &c (unproductive) 169; howling wilderness; rotten borough, Old Sarum.

exclusion, excommunication, banishment, exile, ostracism, proscription; cut, cut direct; dead cut.

inhospitality^†, inhospitableness &c adj.; dissociability^†; domesticity, Darby and Joan.

recluse, hermit, eremite, cenobite; anchoret^†, anchorite; Simon Stylites^†; troglodyte, Timon of Athens^†, Santon^†, solitaire, ruralist^†, disciple of Zimmermann, closet cynic, Diogenes; outcast, Pariah, castaway, pilgarlic^†; wastrel, foundling, wilding^†.

cut, cut dead; refuse to associate with, refuse to acknowledge; look cool upon, turn one's back upon, shut the door upon; repel, blackball, excommunicate, exclude, exile, expatriate; banish, outlaw, maroon, ostracize, proscribe, cut off from, send to Coventry, keep at arm's length, draw a cordon round.

depopulate; dispeople^†, unpeople^†.

Adj. secluded, sequestered, retired, delitescent^†, private, bye; out of the world, out of the way; the world forgetting by the world forgot [Pope].

snug, domestic, stay-at-home.

unsociable; unsocial, dissocial^†; inhospitable, cynical, inconversable^†, unclubbable, sauvage [Fr.], troglodytic.

solitary; lonely, lonesome; isolated, single.

estranged; unfrequented; uninhabitable, uninhabited; tenantless; abandoned; deserted, deserted in one's utmost need; unfriended^†; kithless^†, friendless, homeless; lorn^†, forlorn, desolate.

unvisited, unintroduced^†, uninvited, unwelcome; under a cloud, left to shift for oneself, derelict, outcast.

banished &c v..

Phr. noli me tangere [Lat.].

among them but not of them [Byron]; and homeless near a thousand homes I stood [Wordsworth]; far from the madding crowd's ignoble strife [Gray]; makes a solitude and calls it peace [Byron]; magna civitas magna solitudo [Lat.]; never less alone than when alone [Rogers]; O sacred solitude! divine retreat! [Young].

compliment; fair words, soft words, sweet words; honeyed phrases, ceremonial salutation, reception, presentation, introduction, accueil^†, greeting, recognition; welcome, abord^†, respects, devoir, regards, remembrances; kind regards, kind remembrances; love, best love, duty; empty encomium, flattering remark, hollow commendation; salaams.

obeisance &c (reverence) 928; bow, courtesy, curtsy, scrape, salaam, kotow^†, kowtow, bowing and scraping; kneeling; genuflection &c (worship) 990; obsequiousness &c 886; capping, shaking hands, &c v.; grip of the hand, embrace, hug, squeeze, accolade, loving cup, vin d'honneur [Fr.], pledge; love token &c (endearment) 902; kiss, buss, salute.

mark of recognition, nod; nods and becks and wreathed smiles [Milton]; valediction &c 293; condolence &c 915.

receive, do the honors, usher, greet, hail, bid welcome; welcome, welcome with open arms; shake hands; hold out the hand, press the hand, squeeze the hand, press the flesh; bid Godspeed; speed the parting guest; cheer, serenade.

salute; embrace &c (endearment) 902; kiss, kiss hands; drink to, pledge, hob and nob^†; move to, nod to; smile upon.

uncover, cap; touch the hat, take off the hat; doff the cap; present arms; make way for; bow; make one's bow, make a leg; scrape, curtsy, courtesy; bob a curtsy, bob a courtesy; kneel; bow the knee, bend the knee.

visit, wait upon, present oneself, pay one's respects, pay a visit &c (sociability) 892; dance attendance on &c (servility) 886; pay attentions to; do homage to &c (respect) 928.

prostrate oneself &c (worship) 990.

give one's duty to, send one's duty to, &c n.. render polite &c adj.; polish, civilize, humanize.

Adj. courteous, polite, civil, mannerly, urbane; well-behaved, well-mannered, well-bred, well-brought up; good-mannered, polished, civilized, cultivated; refined &c (taste) 850; gentlemanlike &c (fashion) 852 [Obs.]; gallant; on one's good behavior.

fine spoken, fair spoken, soft-spoken; honey-mouthed, honey-tongued; oily, bland; obliging, conciliatory, complaisant, complacent; obsequious &c 886.

ingratiating, winning; gentle, mild; good-humored, cordial, gracious, affable, familiar; neighborly.

diplomatic, tactful, politic; artful &c 702.

disrespect &c 929; procacity^†, impudence: barbarism, barbarity; misbehavior, brutality, blackguardism^†, conduct unbecoming a gentleman, grossieret_e, brusquerie^†; vulgarity, &c 851.

churlishness &c adj.; spinosity^†, perversity; moroseness &c (sullenness) 901.1.

sternness &c adj.; austerity; moodishness^†, captiousness &c 901; cynicism; tartness &c adj.; acrimony, acerbity, virulence, asperity.

scowl, black looks, frown; short answer, rebuff; hard words, contumely; unparliamentary language, personality.

bear, bruin, brute, blackguard, beast; unlicked cub^†; frump, crosspatch^†; saucebox &c 887 [Obs.]; crooked stick; grizzly.

cut; turn one's back upon, turn on one's heel; give the cold shoulder; keep at a distance, keep at arm's length; look cool upon, look coldly upon, look black upon; show the door to, send away with a flea in the ear.

lose one's temper &c (resentment) 900; sulk &c 901.1; frown, scowl, glower, pout; snap, snarl, growl.

render rude &c adj.; brutalize, brutify^†.

uncivil, ungracious, unceremonious; cool; pert, forward, obtrusive, impudent, rude, saucy, precocious.

repulsive; uncomplaisant^†, unaccommodating, unneighborly, ungallant; inaffable^†; ungentle, ungainly; rough, rugged, bluff, blunt, gruff; churlish, boorish, bearish; brutal, brusque; stern, harsh, austere; cavalier.

taint, sour, crabbed, sharp, short, trenchant, sarcastic, biting, doggish, caustic, virulent, bitter, acrimonious, venomous, contumelious; snarling &c v.; surly, surly as a bear; perverse; grim, sullen &c 901.1; peevish &c (irascible) 901.

untactful, impolitic, undiplomatic; artless &c 703;

Adv. discourteously &c adj.; with discourtesy &c n., with a bad grace.
896. Congratulation -- N. congratulation, gratulation^†; felicitation; salute &c 894; condolence &c 915; compliments of the season.

V. congratulate, gratulate^†; felicitate; give one joy, wish one joy; compliment; tender one's congratulations, offer one's congratulations; wish many happy returns of the day, wish a merry Christmas and a happy new year.

praise, laud (commendation) 931.

congratulate oneself &c (rejoice) 838.

Adj. congratulatory, gratulatory^†.

Phr. I wish you all the joy that you can wish [Merchant of Venice]; best wishes.
897. Love -- N. love; fondness &c adj.; liking; inclination &c (desire) 865; regard, dilection^†, admiration, fancy.

affection, sympathy, fellow-feeling; tenderness &c adj.; heart, brotherly love; benevolence &c 906; attachment.

yearning, eros, tender passion, amour; gyneolatry^†; gallantry, passion, flame, devotion, fervor, enthusiasm, transport of love, rapture, enchantment, infatuation, adoration, idolatry.

Cupid, Venus; myrtle; true lover's knot; love token, love suit, love affair, love tale, love story; the, old story, plighted love; courtship &c 902; amourette^†; free love.

maternal love, storge [Gr.], parental love; young love, puppy love.

attractiveness; popularity; favorite &c 899.

lover, suitor, follower, admirer, adorer, wooer, amoret^†, beau, sweetheart, inamorato [It], swain, young man, flame, love, truelove; leman^†, Lothario, gallant, paramour, amoroso^†, cavaliere servente [It], captive, cicisbeo^†; caro sposo [It].

inamorata, ladylove, idol, darling, duck, Dulcinea, angel, goddess, cara sposa [It].

betrothed, affianced, fiancee.

flirt, coquette; amorette^†; pair of turtledoves; abode of love, agapemone^†.