Putnam's Word Book
Chapter 222 : stony, a. rocky, flinty, adamantine, petrous; unrelenting, pitiless.stool, n. footstoo

stony, a. rocky, flinty, adamantine, petrous; unrelenting, pitiless.

stool, n. footstool, cricket, ha.s.sock, ottoman, tabouret, buffet; tripod, trivet; faldstool; excrement, faeces.

stoop, v. bend; condescend, deign, descend.

stoop, n. condescension, descent; porch, veranda, piazza.

stop, v. obstruct, close up; stanch; arrest, hinder, impede, block, stay, check; repress, restrain, suppress, deter, interrupt, suspend, thwart, preclude, intercept, impede; halt, pause, stagnate, stand; refrain from, discontinue, cease, desist, suspend, intermit; break off, forbear: lodge, tarry. Antonyms: continue, persist.

stop, n. cessation, discontinuation, surcease, pause, suspension, intermission, interception, interruption, obstruction, obstacle, impediment.

stoppage, n. arrest, stopping, detention, stop.

stopper, n. stopple, cork, bung.

store, n. shop; acc.u.mulation, stock, abundance, plenty, h.o.a.rd, supply.

store, v. stock, replenish, save, h.o.a.rd, garner, husband, treasure up.

storehouse, n. warehouse, repository, depot, store, magazine, promptuary.

storm, n. tempest. Antonyms: calm, subsidence, serenity, tranquillity.

storm, v. a.s.sault, attack, besiege, expugn; rage, fume, rant.

storminess, n. inclemency, tempestuousness, boisterousness, violence.

stormy, a. tempestuous, boisterous, inclement, rugged, impetuous; violent, furious, wild; agitated, disturbed. Antonyms: calm, pacific, serene.

story, n. fiction, tale, anecdote, romance, novel, fable, legend, myth, parable, apologue, chronicle, record, history, narrative, narration, yarn, rehearsal, recital, tradition, jeremiad; falsehood, canard; floor, loft; mezzanine, entresol.

story-teller, n. _raconteur_.

stout, a. strong, powerful, vigorous, enduring, durable, tough; portly, fleshy, corpulent, thickset, obese, burly, chubby, fat.

straddle, v. bestride.

straight, a. perpendicular, vertical, plumb, erect, upright; direct, rectilinear, undeviating, unswerving; square, honest, equitable, honorable; (Slang) unmixed, clear, undiluted. Antonyms: indirect, oblique, crooked, devious, circuitous. See crooked.

straight-out, a. (Colloq.) unqualified, thoroughgoing, artless, undesigning.

straightway, n. immediately, at once, directly, forthwith.

strain, v. stretch, tighten; sprain, wrench; percolate, filter, defecate, filtrate; overtask, overwork.

strain, n. pedigree, race, lineage, extraction; sort, kind; overexertion, effort; tension, intension; tune, melody; style, manner.

strained, a. tense, unnatural, forced, artificial, agonistic, farfetched.

strainer, n. colander, filter, sieve.

strait, n. narrows, channel; dilemma, difficulty, pinch, exigency, restriction.

straiten, v. limit, restrict, narrow, confine, constrain, tighten, embarra.s.s.

straitened, a. restricted, embarra.s.sing, distressing.

strait-laced, a. uncompromising, rigorous, strict, prudish, prim, precise.

stranded, a. wrecked, aground, beached.

strange, a. foreign, unfamiliar, exotic, outlandish; novel, odd, unusual, queer, unique, nondescript, exceptional, singular, peculiar, rare, erratic, unique, bizarre, eccentric, inexplicable; unaccustomed, unfamiliar; reserved, distant, unfriendly; unknown. Antonyms: familiar, accustomed, wonted, commonplace, conventional.

strangle, v. choke, throttle, suffocate; stifle, suppress; garrote.

strangling, n. strangulation, choking, suffocation, suppression, constriction.

strap, n. thong, strop, leash.

strapping, a. (Colloq.) stalwart, able-bodied, large, muscular, brawny.

stratagem, n. artifice, device, machination, maneuver, intrigue, ruse, finesse.

straw, n. stalk, culm; litter, mulch; sennet, platting.

straw roof. thatch, thatching.

strawy, a. stramineous.

stray, v. wander, rove, roam, swerve, deviate; err, sin.

stray, n. estray, waif.

streak, n. stripe, wale, whelk, ridge, vein.

streaked, a. striped, streaky, whelky, striated, whelked, brindled, barred, veined.

stream, n. current, river, creek, brook, race, run, rivulet, rill, runnel; drift, course, tendency; torrent; arroyo; flume.

stream, v. pour, gush, run; radiate, shed.

streamer, n. ensign, pennon, banner, banderole, flag.

street, n. highway, avenue, thoroughfare, boulevard.

street car. trolley car; tram (England).

street cleaner. scavenger.