Putnam's Word Book
Chapter 208 : significance, n. meaning, import; consequence, importance, force.significant, a. momen

significance, n. meaning, import; consequence, importance, force.

significant, a. momentous, important; indicative, significative.

Antonyms: insignificant, unimportant, meaningless.

signification, n. meaning, import, acceptation, sense.

signify, v. indicate, betoken, denote; mean; matter.

silence, n. stillness, quietness; taciturnity, muteness, reserve; secrecy.

silence, v. still, hush, quiet, suppress, lull, quell, appease.

silent, a. still, quiet, noiseless, inaudible; taciturn, reserved, mute; quiescent.

silkworms, n. pl. a.s.sociated Words: sericulture, mulberry, coc.o.o.n, filature, coc.o.o.nery, bombic, bombyx, filator, muscardine.

silky, a. sericeous, silken.

sill, n. threshold; window sill.

silliness, n. folly, foolishness, puerility, stupidity, inanity, inaneness, absurdity, senselessness, inept.i.tude.

silly, a. witless, foolish, simple, fatuous, imbecile, half-witted; stupid, unwise, inept, absurd, inane, nonsensical, senseless, puerile.

silver, n. _argentum_; bullion (uncoined silver). a.s.sociated words: filigree, platinum, desilverize, desilverization, patio, vermeil, fulguration, silversmith.

silvery, a. silver, argent, argentine, argentous, argentiferous.

similar, a. like, corresponding, resembling, h.o.m.ogeneous, a.n.a.logous.

similarity, n. a.n.a.logy, h.o.m.ogeneity, likeness, similitude, correspondence.

simile, n. comparison, metaphor.

simoon, n. desert wind, khamsin, samiel.

simper, n. smirk.

simple, a. incomplex, uncompounded, single, elementary, uncombined, mere; plain, unaffected, artless, nave, unsophisticated; credulous, gullible, silly, oafish. Antonyms: complex, complicated, intricate, artful, crafty, elaborate.

simpleton, n. dolt, dunce, numskull, lackbrain, oaf, witling, fool.

simulate, v. pretend, feign.

simulation, n. pretense, feint, feigning, affectation.

simultaneous, a. contemporaneous, synchronal, synchronous.

sin, n. iniquity, transgression, wickedness, delinquency, peccadillo, offense, peccancy, unrighteousness. a.s.sociated Words: ponerology, hamartiology, peccable, peccability, peccant, _peccavi_, impeccable, impeccability.

sin, v. do wrong, trespa.s.s, transgress.

sincere, a. heartfelt, genuine, unfeigned, undissembling. Antonyms: See insincere.

sincerity, n. honesty, unaffectedness, frankness. Antonyms: insincerity, dissimulation.

sinew, n. tendon; muscle, thew.

sinful, a. iniquitous, wrong, immoral, wicked, depraved, vicious, unrighteous.

sinfulness, n. iniquity, immorality, depravity, wickedness.

sing, v. carol, warble, chant, hymn, hum, troll, yodel, croon.

singe, v. sweal, swale, scorch.

singer, n. vocalist, songster, songstress, minstrel, chanter, cantatrice, cantor, prima donna, precentor, bard, troubadour, jongleur, musician.

single, a. individual, alone, particular, isolated, sporadic, solitary; unmarried, celibate; simple, unmixed; honest, sincere, ingenuous, frank.

single, v. single out, choose, select, separate, isolate, segregate.

single-hearted, a. sincere, honest, guileless.

single-minded, a. artless, undesigning, guileless.

singsong, n. monotone.--a. monotonous, drawling.

singular, a. unusual, unconventional, uncommon, strange, peculiar, unwonted, rare, extraordinary, exceptional, odd, whimsical, eccentric, bizarre, queer, unique, unprecedented, unexampled, curious.

singularity, n. peculiarity, idiosyncrasy, individuality; curiosity, freak, abnormality, rarity, abnormity, queerness, eccentricity.

sinister, a. left; unlucky, inauspicious, evil, wrong, forbidding.

sink, v. subside, descend, decline, fall; immerse, submerge, engulf, merge.

sinker, n. plummet.

sinking, n. subsidence, fall, decrease, decline.

sinless, a. innocent, guiltless, undefiled, perfect, blameless, faultless.

sinner, n. wrong-doer, delinquent, miscreant, trespa.s.ser. See wrong-doer.

siren, a. bewitching, fascinating, enticing.

sister, n. a.s.sociated Words: sororicide, sororize, sorosis, sororal.