Putnam's Word Book eBook

This eBook from the Gutenberg Project consists of approximately 372 pages of information about Putnam's Word Book.

Putnam's Word Book eBook

This eBook from the Gutenberg Project consists of approximately 372 pages of information about Putnam's Word Book.

thanks, n. pl. gramercy (many thanks).

theater, n. playhouse; odeon, lyceum; arena, stage, scene, field.

theatrical, a. dramatic, histrionic, scenic; stagy, artificial.

theft, n.  See stealing.

theory, n. hypothesis.

thick, a. dense, coagulated, crass, gross, inspissate, inspissated, grumous, incrassated; compact, turbid, roily, feculent, muddy; (Colloq.) intimate, confidential.

thicken, v. coagulate, condense, inspissate, curdle, concrete, incrassate.

thickening, a. inspissant.

thickening, n. inspissation, condensation, coagulation, incrassation.

thicket, n. shrubbery, copse, chaparral, grove, boscage, bosk, spinny, coppice.

thick-headed, a. pachycephalic, pachycephalous; dull, stupid, doltish.

thicklip, n. blobberlip.

thickness, n. denseness, density, compactness; grossness, crassitude, consistence; intimacy.  Associated Words:  pachometer, pachymeter.

thick-skinned, a. pachydermatous; obtuse, dull, unimpressible.

thick-tongued, a. pachyglossal, crassilingual.

thief, n. robber, pilferer, filcher, peculator; embezzler, defaulter, peculator; plagiarist; poacher; shoplifter; kleptomaniac.

thievery, n. theft, larceny; embezzlement, peculation; shoplifting.

thievish, a. light-fingered, pilfering, predatory; stealthy, sneaking.

thill, n. shaft (of a vehicle).

thin, a. emaciated, slender, poor, wasted, peaked, gaunt, scrawny, lank, spare, meager, haggard, scraggy; tenuous, delicate, fine; incompact; dilute, rare, rarefied, subtile, attenuated; sheer, flimsy, sleazy, unsubstantial, gossamery, gauzy, diaphanous, transparent; sparse, scanty; inadequate, insufficient, superficial.

thin, v. dilute, reduce, attenuate, rarefy, diminish, subtilize.

thing, n. object, article.

things, n. pl. (Colloq.) clothes, furniture, appurtenances, belongings, goods, luggage, accessories, chattels, effects, traps, impedimenta (Mil.), paraphernalia.

think, v. meditate, cogitate, ponder, contemplate, brood, reflect, muse, consider, speculate, ruminate, opine, deem, apprehend, excogitate, infer, surmise, mull.

thinkable, a. conceivable, cogitable, imaginable, presumable.

thinking, a. rational, pensive, reflective, contemplative, cogitative, introspective.

thinking, n. cogitation, meditation, contemplation, thought.

thinness, n. emaciation, slenderness, gauntness, spareness, meagerness; tenuity, delicacy, fineness; incompactness; rarity, subtilty, subtilization; inadequacy, sparseness, scantiness.

thinning, n. dilution, reduction, attenuation, rarefaction, subtilization.  Associated Words:  attenuant, diluent.

thin-skinned, a. leptodermic; sensitive, impressible, irritable.

third, a. tertiary.

thirst, n. dryness, aridity, drought.  Antonym:  adipsy.  Associated words:  slake, quench, dipsetic, adipsous.

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