Putnam's Word Book
Chapter 213 : snowy, a. niveous, snowlike.snub, v. slight, ignore, disregard.snub, n. slight, check,

snowy, a. niveous, snowlike.

snub, v. slight, ignore, disregard.

snub, n. slight, check, rebuke.

snuff, n. maccaboy, rappee; sniff.

snug, a. cozy; concealed, close; comfortable, compact.

snuggle, v. nestle, cuddle.

soak, v. drench, saturate; absorb, imbibe; macerate imbrue, steep.

soaked, a. drenched, saturated, sodden.

soaking, a. drenching, saturating.

soap, n. a.s.sociated Words: saponify, saponification, saponifiable, saponin, lather, suds.

soapiness, n. saponacity.

soap liniment. opodeldoc.

soapstone, n. steat.i.te.

soapy, a. saponaceous.

sob, v. weep.

sober, a. temperate, abstinent, abstemious; unintoxicated; solemn, grave, demure, sedate; dispa.s.sionate, unimpa.s.sioned, calm, rational.

sobriety, n. soberness; gravity.

sociable, a. affable, friendly, companionable, genial, social, unreserved. Antonyms: unsociable, inaffable.

social, a. civil, civic; sociable; festive, convivial.

social evil. prost.i.tution.

socialism, n. Communism, Fourierism, Saint Simonianism, humanitarianism.

society, n. sodality, a.s.sociation, fraternity, club, confraternity, guild; _verein_ (Ger.); companions.h.i.+p, a.s.sociation, fellows.h.i.+p, company.

sockdologer, n. (Slang) poser, facer, settler, conclusive answer.

sod, n. sward, turf; peat.

sodden, a. boiled, seethed; soaked, saturated.

sofa, n. tete-a-tete, divan, causeuse.

soft, a. mellow; yielding, impressible, impressionable, malleable, fictile, plastic, pliable; bland, emollient, grateful, delicate, subdued; flexible, flaccid, facile, compliant, irresolute; conciliatory, mild; effeminate, unmanly silly, foolish; queachy.

soft coal. bituminous coal.

soften, v. intenerate, mollify; palliate, extenuate, qualify, modify, relax, mitigate, emolliate, appease, temper, abate; subdue, tone down.

softening, a. demulcent, lenient, a.s.suasive, emollient, relaxing, mollient, mollifying.

softness, n. mellowness, impressibility, plasticity, flaccidity, fictility, emollescence.

soft parts of the body. a.s.sociated Word: sarcology.

soft soap. (Colloq.) blandishment, blarney, palaver, buncombe, wheedling, cajolery, flattery.

soil, n. ground, earth, dirt, humus, land, loam, mold; dirt, pollution, defilement; manure, dung, faeces, excrement.

soil, v. dirty, defile, pollute, besmear, contaminate, taint, besmirch, sully, tarnish, begrime.

soldier, n. warrior; private; cadet; recruit; veteran; cavalry; infantry; cohort; sepoy; cha.s.seur; zouave; volunteer; conscript; myrmidon; cossack; guerrilla; trooper; skirmisher; grenadier; uhlan; dragoon.

soldierly, a. martial, military.

soldier's dress. uniform, regimentals.

solecism, n. blunder, impropriety, barbarism.

solemn, a. serious, sober, grave; impressive, awe-inspiring, august, majestic.

solemness, n. solemnity, gravity, impressiveness, seriousness.

solicit, v. ask, seek, request.

solicitation, n. request, instance, entreaty, invitation.

solid, a. dense, compact, hard, impenetrable, firm, unyielding, imporous, concrete, substantial; unanimous, united, undivided. Antonyms: porous, incompact, hollow, spongy, soft, plastic, unstable, fallacious.

solidness, n. solidity, firmness, compactness, stability, imporosity; validity.

soliloquy, n. monologue.

solitary, a. unfrequented, secluded, lonely; single, individual; eremetic, hermitical.

solitary, n. recluse, anch.o.r.et, hermit, eremite.

solitude, n. loneliness, isolation, seclusion, eremitism, retirement; wilderness. a.s.sociated Words: apanthropy, monophobia, eremophobia.

solution, n. dissolution, melting, liquefaction, resolution, disintegration; disentanglement, explanation, elucidation, explication.