Putnam's Word Book
Chapter 106 : healthy, a. hale, well, hearty; salubrious, salutary, wholesome.Antonyms: unhealthy, i

healthy, a. hale, well, hearty; salubrious, salutary, wholesome.

Antonyms: unhealthy, ill, sickly, morbid, delicate, diseased.

heap, n. pile, ma.s.s, acc.u.mulation, lot, stack, c.u.mulation.

heap, v. ama.s.s, acc.u.mulate, pile, stack, c.u.mulate.

hearer, n. auditor.

hearing, n. audition, listening; audience; earshot, sound, hearing distance. a.s.sociated Words: auditory, acoumeter, acoumetry, acoustic, audible, audibility, audiometer, deaf, deafness, microcoustic, microphonous, otacoustic, inaudible, inaudibility, clairaudient, clairaudience, audient, audiphone, sonometer, audile.

hearsay, n. rumor, report, gossip, bruit, _on dit_.

heart, n. cardia; conscience, character; essence, core, pith, kernel, marrow. a.s.sociated Words: cardiology, carditis, cardiac, cordial, cardialgia, cardiometry, dexiocardia, systole, diastole, pericardium, endocardium, auricle, ventricle, valve, aneurism, stethoscope, peridiastole.

heart-broken, a. disconsolate, inconsolable, broken-hearted.

heartburn, n. cardialgia, water-brash, pyrosis.

heartburning, n. discontent, resentment, envy, rankling.

hearthstone, n. hearth, fireside, ingleside. a.s.sociated Words: Vesta, Hestia.

heartless, a. acardiac; cruel, pitiless. See cruel.

heart-shaped, a. cordate, cordiform.

heartwood, n. duramen.

hearty, a. cordial, heartfelt, sincere; healthy, robust, hale; nouris.h.i.+ng, nutritious.

heat, n. warmth, caloric; cauma. a.s.sociated Words: pyrology, pyrologist, thermology, pyrometry, pyrometer, pyronomics, calorifics, therm, thermal, pyrography, caloric, calorie, thermic, swelter, thermostat, thermometer, thermometry.

heat, n. vehemence, fire, ardor, impetuosity, fervor, fervency, zeal, intensity, enthusiasm; strus, rut.

heat, v. warm, calefy.

heathen, a. pagan, heathenish, paganic, gentile, paganish; irreligious, G.o.dless.

heathen, n. pagan, idolater.

heathenism, n. idolatry, paganism, pagandom, gentilism; irreligion, G.o.dlessness.

heathenize, v. paganize.

heat stroke. insolation.

heaven, n. Paradise, Elysium, Eden, the New Jerusalem, glory; Olympus, Elysium, Elysian, Arcadia; Valhalla, Walhalla; Nirvana.

heavenly, a. celestial, supernal; divine, beatific, ravis.h.i.+ng, sublime, ecstatic.

heaviness, n. weight, ponderosity, ponderousness, gravity.

heavy, a. weighty, ma.s.sive, ponderous; burdensome, oppressive, onerous, severe; unraised, soggy, indigestible, unleavened.

heavy hand. severity, oppression, persecution, tyranny, extortion.

hector, v. torment, tease, plague, bully, hara.s.s.

heed, v. mind, regard, consider, notice, attend.

heed, n. regard, attention, consideration, notice. Antonyms: disregard, inattention.

heedful, a. attentive, circ.u.mspect, cautious, vigilant, mindful.

Antonyms: inattentive, uncirc.u.mspect, unmindful, careless, heedless.

heel bone. calcaneum, fibulare.

height, n. alt.i.tude, loftiness; elevation; stature, tallness; eminence, exaltation; summit, zenith, apex, culmination. a.s.sociated words: altimetry, altimeter, hypsometry, hypsometer.

heinous, a. atrocious, flagrant, flagitious, monstrous, nefarious.

heir, n. inheritor; scion; coheir, parcener.

h.e.l.l, n. inferno, infernal regions, Gehenna, limbo, abyss, Avernus, Pandemonium, Abaddon, Styx, Hades, Sheol, the grave; Naraka (Buddhism).

h.e.l.lish, a. infernal, malignant, fiendish, diabolical, atrocious.

helm, n. rudder, tiller, wheel; steersman, pilot; command, control, administration.

helmet, n. casque, headpiece, morion, sallet.

help, v. abet, a.s.sist, befriend, succor, aid, cooperate, collaborate, second, facilitate, subsidize; remedy, ameliorate, alleviate, promote, further.

help, n. aid, a.s.sistance, succor, support, facilitation, backing, subsidy, subvention, cooperation; remedy, relief, cure, restorative.

helper, n. a.s.sistant, ally, auxiliary, supporter, abettor, helpmeet, a.s.sociate, coadjutor, confederate, deputy, aider, colleague, acolyte, adjuvant, collaborator, subsidiary, co-aid, cooperator, accessory, accomplice.

helpful, a. a.s.sistant, conducive, instrumental, useful, salutary.

helping, a. a.s.sisting, auxiliary, subsidiary, accessory.

helter-skelter, adv. (Colloq.) irregularly, disorderly, pell-mell, headlong.

hem in. environ, surround, encompa.s.s, beset, hedge in.

hen, n. partlet; pullet (young hen).

herald, n. messenger, forerunner, precursor, harbinger, crier.