time, n. duration; while, spell, season, interval, interim, lapse, interregnum, period; season, opportunity, leisure; tense; (Mus.) measure, tempo; perpetuity; usance; age, date, eon, epoch, era, term. Associated Words: horology, horography, horometry, chronology, chronological, anachronism, anachronistic, synchronology, synchronal, synchronous, synchronism, synchronize, synchroncity, chronometry, gnomonics, contemporaneous, coexistent, coexistence, contemporary, contemporaneity, simultaneous, simultaneousness, concurrence, coincident, coincidence, gnomon, coincide, isochronal, isochronism, isochronon, isochronous, anachronous, prochronism, chronogram, chronic, coeval, coetaneous.
timely, a. seasonable, punctual, opportune. Antonyms: untimely, inopportune.
timepiece, n. time-keeper, chronometer, horologe, clock, watch, hourglass, chronograph, chronoscope, clepsydra, gnomon, repeater, sundial, isochronon.
time-server, n. temporizer, trimmer.
time-serving, a. temporizing, trimming.
timid, a. timorous, shy, diffident, meticulous, faint-hearted, cowardly.
timidity, n. diffidence, shyness, timorousness, cowardice.
tin, n. stannum; latten, prillion. Associated Words: stannary, stannic, stanniferous, stannous, shadd.
tin mine. stannary.
tinsel, a. glittering, meretricious, specious, flashy.
tinsel, n. spangle, pinchbeck, glitter, tawdriness.
tinsmith, n. whitesmith, tinner.
tintype, n. ferrotype, stannotype.
tip, v. incline, lean, cant, tilt; careen, capsize, keel, overturn, upset.—n. end, apex, extremity.
tiptop, n. (Colloq.) pinnacle, apex.
tirade, n. diatribe, invective, billingsgate, screed.
tire, v. fatigue, weary, jade, fag, bore, irk, tucker, exhaust.
tiresome, a. irksome, wearisome, fatiguing, tedious; toilsome, arduous.
tissue, n. fabric, stuff, cloth, texture; web, network, fabrication.
toad-eater, n. toady.
toads, n. pl. Associated Words: ranine, ranivorous.
toadstool, n. fungus. See Fungi.
toady, n. sycophant, toad-eater, flatterer, fawner.
tobacco, n. Associated Words: tobacconist, nicotine, nicotinism, canaster, cavendish, plug, cud, quid, fumacious, carotte, capa, perique, mundungus, humidor.
toe, n. digit.
together, adv. unitedly, jointly, concertedly, simultaneously.
toil, n. labor, drudgery; toils, snare, trap.—v. labor, moil, drudge.
token, n. sign, symbol, index, indication.
tolerable, a. sufferable, endurable; passable, mediocre, so-so, ordinary.
tolerance, n. endurance, toleration, sufferance. Antonym: intolerance.
tolerant, a. indulgent, forbearing, charitable. Antonym: intolerant.
tolerate, v. endure, suffer, brook; allow, permit, admit.