Putnam's Word Book
Chapter 161 : pare, v. peel.parentage, n. extraction, descent, pedigree, ancestry, family, birth, li

pare, v. peel.

parentage, n. extraction, descent, pedigree, ancestry, family, birth, lineage.

parish, n. a.s.sociated Words: parochial, parochialism, paris.h.i.+oner, parochialize.

parry, v. ward off, avert, prevent; avoid, evade, elude.

parson, n. See clergyman.

parsonage, n. rectory; manse; living, benefice.

part, n. portion, fraction, division, piece, const.i.tuent, installment, element, section, subdivision; quarter, region, district; share, portion, lot, allotment, a.s.signment, duty, partic.i.p.ation, function; role, character; clause, section, paragraph, chapter, pa.s.sage, division.

part, v. divide, sever, disunite, dissever, sunder, dissociate, disconnect, detach, separate; intervene; apportion, share, mete out, allot, distribute.

partable, a. partible, separable. Antonyms: impartible, indivisible.

partake, v. share, partic.i.p.ate in.

partaker, n. partic.i.p.ant, partic.i.p.ator, sharer.

partaking, n. partic.i.p.ation.

parted, a. separated, divided, severed, disunited, isolated, detached, riven, cleft, sundered.

partial, a. warped, biased, prejudiced; imperfect, incomplete.

Antonyms: See impartial.

partiality, n. bias, favoritism; predilection, inclination, fondness, predisposition, bent.

partible, a. separable, divisible, detachable, dissoluble, severable.

Antonym: impartible.

particle, n. See bit; atom, molecule, monad.

particular, a. special, especial, specific; minute, precise, detailed, circ.u.mstantial; individual, separate, sole, single; characteristic, distinctive, individual, personal, peculiar; fastidious, finical, scrupulous, precise, strict. Antonyms: indiscriminate, slatternly, promiscuous, general.

particular, n. detail.

particulars, n. pl. details, minutiae.

parting, a. farewell, valedictory.

parting, n. division, disunion, severance, separation; leave-taking, farewell.

partisan, a. factionary.

part.i.tion, n. division, distribution, apportionment, allotment.

partner, n. copartner, coadjutor; colleague, a.s.sociate, confederate, accessory, ally, accomplice, partaker, confrere.

partners.h.i.+p, n. copartners.h.i.+p, cahoot (Slang).

parts, n. pl. talents, gifts, faculties, endowments; regions, districts, quarters.

party, n. clique, faction, set, circle, ring, cabal, coterie, junto; function, reception, salon, soiree, levee, matinee, drawing-room; company, squad, detachment, troop; partaker, partic.i.p.ant; person, somebody.

party-colored, a. variegated.

party man. partisan.

pa.s.s, v. elapse, lapse; transmit, deliver, hand; go, move, proceed, advance; disappear, vanish, recede, depart; pa.s.s by, omit, pretermit; overstep, overpa.s.s; transude.

pa.s.s, n. pa.s.sageway, defile, pa.s.sage; thrust, pa.s.sado, lunge, allonge; condition, plight, predicament, state, conjuncture, situation; pa.s.sport, safe-conduct.

pa.s.sable, a. navigable, traversable, penetrable; tolerable, mediocre, middling, so-so, ordinary, fair. Antonyms: impa.s.sable, impervious, impenetrable.

pa.s.sage, n. transit; fare; clause, sentence, paragraph; enactment; corridor, hall; gangway; slype; pa.s.s, defile.

pa.s.sing, a. exceeding, surpa.s.sing; transient, momentary, transitory, fleeting, impermanent.

pa.s.sing, adv. exceedingly, surpa.s.singly.

pa.s.sion, n. suffering, pain, agony; emotion, ardor, feeling, pathos; wrath, fury, anger; love, infatuation, transport.

pa.s.sionate, a. irascible, quick-tempered, choleric, excitable, waspish; ardent, fervid, vehement, impa.s.sioned, fervent.

pa.s.sionless, a. impa.s.sive, phlegmatic, stoical, unemotional, dispa.s.sionate, apathetic.

pa.s.sive, a. inactive, quiet, inert, receptive, quiescent, patient, unresisting, submissive.

pa.s.s over. traverse.

pa.s.sport, n. pa.s.s, safe-conduct; sea letter.

pa.s.sword, n. countersign, watchword, sesame.

past, n. a.s.sociated Words: preterist, preterition, pretermission, preteritive, preterit, aorist, aoristic, retrospect, retrospective, retrospection, antiquary, antiquity, antiquarian, quondam, antecedent, antecedence, antecedents.

past, a. bygone, elapsed; preterite, preterit.

pastime, n. amus.e.m.e.nt, sport, diversion, recreation, divertis.e.m.e.nt, entertainment, play, fun.

pastor, n. See clergyman.

pat, a. suitable, fit, convenient, timely, pertinent, appropriate.

patch, n. clout; tract, plot, parcel.--v. mend, repair, vamp, revamp.