toleration, n. tolerance, endurance, sufferance; allowance, permission.
tomb, n. sepulchre, crypt, vault, ossuary; mausoleum (a magnificent tomb).
tomboy, n. (Colloq.) hoiden, romp.
tombstone, n. monument; cenotaph (honoring one buried elsewhere). Associated Words: sepulchral, epitaph, lapidary.
tomfoolery, n. (Colloq.) folly, trifling, monkey-tricks, mummery.
tone, n. sound, note; cadence, modulation; force, vigor, energy.
tone down. subdue, moderate, soften.
toneless, a. aspirated, surd, atonic, unintonated.
tongue, n. Associated Words: lingual, glossal, sublingual, fur, tchick, barb, papillae, lick, lap, hyoid, lincture, aglossal, fraenum, fourchette, raphe.
tonguy, a. (Colloq.) voluble, fluent, loquacious, garrulous.
tonic, n. invigorant, roborant.
tool, n. implement, utensil, instrument; cat’s-paw, puppet, hireling. Associated Words: ratten, cocobola, kit.
tooth, n. (little tooth) denticle, dentile. Associated Words: denticulation, serration, serrature. See teeth.
toothache, n. odontalgia. Associated Word: odontalgic.
toothless, a. agomphious, edentate, edentulous.
toothless animals. Edentata.
toothsome, n. palatable, delicious, savory, gustable.
top, n. summit, crest, apex, vertex, pinnacle, zenith, culmination, capsheaf, meridian.
top, v. surmount, overtop, surpass.
toper, n. drunkard, sot, inebriate, guzzler.
topic, n. subject, theme; division, head, subdivision.
topknot, n. crest.
top-shaped, a. turbinate, turbinated.
torch, n. flambeau (flaming torch), cresset.
torment, n. pain, anguish, distress, torture; bane, infliction, scourge, thorn.
torment, v. persecute, hector, tease, tantalize, harry; torture, grill, rack, distress.
torn, a. rent, lacerated, ripped.
tornado, n. hurricane, cyclone, whirlwind.
torpid, a. numb, benumbed, unfeeling; lethargic, dull, hebetate, sluggish, stupid.
torpidity, n. numbness, lethargy, inactivity, hebetude.
touch, v. meet, impinge; graze.
touch, n. touching, contact, contiguity, juxtaposition, osculation, tangency; taction, tact, palpation; dash, sprinkling, soupcon, infusion; animadversion, censure, stricture, reflection, slur. Associated words: tactile, tactility, tactual, palpable, impalpable, palpability, impalpability.
touchiness, n. irascibility, petulance, irritability.
touching, a. pathetic, affecting, moving, tender.
touching, prep. respecting, concerning, regarding.
touchstone, n. criterion, test; basanite, Lydian stone.
touchwood, n. punk, tinder, agaric, spunk.
touchy, a. irascible, irritable, petulant, testy, choleric, snappish.