Putnam's Word Book
Chapter 146 : monarchy, n. sovereignty, kingdom, empire, realm.monastery, n. abbey, priory, cloister

monarchy, n. sovereignty, kingdom, empire, realm.

monastery, n. abbey, priory, cloister, convent; hospice.

monetary, a. pecuniary.

money, n. currency, coin, capital, funds, finances, change, legal tender, lucre, pelf, specie, sterling, revenue, a.s.sets, wherewithal, spondulics (Slang); wampum; boodle; bribe; bonus. a.s.sociated Words: bullion, cambist, bank, banker, capitalist, chrysology, till, coffer, economics, coin, coinage, mint, mintage, financial, financier, Mammon, treasury, treasurer, monetary, monetize, monetization, demonetize, demonetization, numismatist, mumismatics, alimony, cameralistics, almoner, alms, numismatology.

mongrel, a. hybrid.

monitor, n. mentor, adviser, counselor.

monk, n. religious, monastic, cen.o.bite, anch.o.r.et, friar, _abbe_, fakir. a.s.sociated Words: monkish, monastic, monastery, monasticism, conventual.

monk's-hood, n. wolfsbane, aconite.

monk's hood. cowl.

monkeylike, a. simious.

monogram, n. cipher.

monologist, n. soliloquist.

monologue, n. soliloquy.

monopolize, v. engross, forestall.

monotonous, a. unvaried, uniform, uninteresting, humdrum, tedious.

monotony, n. monotone, tedium.

monster, n. prodigy, enormity, abnormality, monstrosity _lusus naturae_; fiend, brute, ogre, villain; Cerberus, Chimera, Minotaur, Bucentaur.

monstrosity, n. abnormality, monster, _lusus naturae_.

monstrous, a. abnormal; enormous, colossal; atrocious.

month, n. a.s.sociated Words: ultimo, proximo, instant.

monthly, a. mensal, menstrual.

monument, n. tombstone, memorial; cenotaph; dolmen, cromlech.

a.s.sociated Words: epitaph, lapidary.

mood, n. humor.

moon, n. satellite; Luna, Cynthia. a.s.sociated Words: selenology, selenography, apogee, wax, wane, epigee, selenocentric, selenograph, halo, orb, lunar, lunarian, interlunary, lunation, appulse, crescent, luniform.

moons.h.i.+ne, n. balderdash, flummery, fustian, nonsense.

moot, a. undecided, unsettled, debatable.

mooted, a. moot.

mop, n. malkin, swab; merkin (cannon mop).

mopboard, n. baseboard, surbase.

mopish, a. dejected, glum, dumpish, listless, dull, spiritless.

moral, a. ethical; virtuous, good; accountable, responsible, probable. Antonyms: immoral, licentious.

moral insanity. aesthesiomania.

morality, n. virtue, rect.i.tude, probity, goodness. Antonym: immorality.

moral philosophy. deontology, ethology, ethics.

mora.s.s, n. slough, quagmire, bog, marsh, swamp.

Mormon, n. Latter-day Saint.

morning, n. forenoon; dawn, daybreak, aurora, c.o.c.k-crowing, sunrise.

morning, a. matin, matutinal.

morning concert. (in the open air) aubade.

morning reception. levee.

morning service. matins.

morose, a. churlish, sulky, sullen, moody, splenetic, unamiable.

morsel, n. bite, mouthful; fragment, crumb, sc.r.a.p.

mortally, adv. fatally.

mortar, n. a.s.sociated Word: pestle.

mortification, n. gangrene; chagrin, humiliation, abas.e.m.e.nt, embarra.s.sment; repression, subjection.

mortify, v. gangrene; chagrin, embarra.s.s, abase; repress, deny, restrain.

mosaic, a. tessellated, inlaid, variegated.

most, n. majority.