Putnam's Word Book
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Chapter 261 : wonted, a. accustomed, customary, usual, habitual.wood, n. timber; duramen, heartwood;
wonted, a. accustomed, customary, usual, habitual.
wood, n. timber; duramen, heartwood; alburnum, sapwood; kindling, fuel. a.s.sociated Words: kyanize, fissile, fissility, lignification, lignify, ligniferous, lignescent, lignite, lignivorous, xylopyrography, pyrography, veneer, cord.
wood, n. forest, wold, grove, woodland, timberland, copse.
woodbine, n. honeysuckle, caprifole, eglantine; Virginia creeper.
woodcoal, n. charcoal; lignite, brown coal.
wood-engraving, n. xylography; woodcut.
wooden shoe. sabot, clog.
woodman, n. forester.
wood-nymph, n. dryad, hamadryad.
woods, n. pl. forest.
wood-sugar, n. xylose.
woody, a. wooden, ligneous; sylvan, bosky.
wooing, n. courts.h.i.+p.
wool, n. fleece; worsted, merino, pelotage; mortling, a.s.sociated words: laniferous, lanifical, lanigerous, lanolin, depilate, depilation, depilatory.
woolly, a. downy, fleecy, nappy, lanate.
word, n. term, vocable; etymon, root; derivative; signal, order, command; promise, affirmation, parole.
wordbook, n. dictionary, lexicon, thesaurus, glossary.
word for word. _verbatim_, literally.
wordiness, n. verbosity, prolixity, verbiage, pleonasm, redundancy.
wording, n. phrasing.
words, n. pl. phraseology; vocabulary. a.s.sociated Words: glossary, glossarist, glossography, glossology, glossologist, lexicology, lexicologist, etymology, etymologist, etymologize, neology, lexicography, terminology, paronomasia, pun, punning, onomatopoea, syncope, syncopation, literal, literally, literalism, transliteration, verbal, verbalist, verbalism, battology, logomachy, logomachist, verbarium, apocope, kyriology, metonomy, autonomasia, multiloquence, perissology, purism, purist, elision, polysynthesis, coin, coinage, apheresis, aphetic, aphetism, aphesis, onomatopoiesis, metaphrase, acrostic, rebus, synecdoche, verbicide, verbomaniac, locution.
words of an opera. libretto. a.s.sociated Word: librettist.
wordy, a. diffuse, prolix, verbose, redundant, pleonastic.
Antonyms: terse, succinct, laconic.
work, v. toil, labor, strive; drudge, slave; operate, manipulate, perform; ferment, effervesce. Antonyms: s.h.i.+rk, idle, dabble, loaf, soldier (Colloq.).
work, n. industry, toil, labor, employment, occupation; effort, exertion, striving; drudgery; diligence, a.s.siduity; business, duty, job, task; _magnum opus_. Antonyms: idleness, dalliance, trifling, sloth, sluggardy, truancy, dabbling, dilettanteism, relaxation, leisure, vacation.
work-bag, n. reticule.
worker, n. artisan, artificer, craftsman, handicraftsman, journeyman, mechanic, workman, laborer, operative, industrial. Antonyms: idler, drone, dabbler, sluggard, truant, dilettante, loafer, s.h.i.+rker.
working, a. industrious.
working man. worker, laborer.
working together., cooperation; collusion; concurrence; collaboration.
workman, n. artisan, artificer, craftsman, journeyman. See worker.
work together. cooperate; collude; concur; collaborate.
world, n. earth, creation, universe, cosmos; globe; planet; macrocosm, microcosm. a.s.sociated Words: cosmology, cosmologist, cosmography, cosmogony, cosmographer, cosmogonist, cosmometry, cosmoplastic, cosmic, cosmolatry, cosmopolite, cosmopolitan, cataclysm, ante-mundane, secularize, secularization, secularist, supermundane, geography, geology, paleontology, tellurian, telluric.
wordliness, n. secularity, secularism.
worldly, a. terrestrial, earthly, mundane, terrene; secular, temporal.
worldly-minded, a. irreligious, sordid, groveling.
worm, v. wriggle, insinuate.
worm killer. vermicide.
worm medicine. vermifuge, anthelmintic, helminthagogue.
worms, n. pl. a.s.sociated Words: helminthology, helminthologist, vermeology, vermeologist, vermifugal, verminivorous, vermin, vermiculate, vermiculated, vermiculation, taenifuge, helminthic, helminthiasis, vermicious, vermicular, vermiculose, anthelmintic, wormy.
worm-shaped, a. vermiform, vermicular, wormlike.
worn away. eroded, abraded, attrite.
worry, v. hara.s.s, vex, annoy, torment, tease, fret, trouble, pester, badger, harry, importune; be anxious, be solicitous, fret.
worry, a. anxiety, fretting, apprehension, concern, solicitude.
Antonym: unconcern.
worrying, a. anxious, distressing, carking.
wors.h.i.+p, n. adoration, homage; idolatry, deification, apotheosis.
a.s.sociated Words: liturgies, liturgy, ritual, cult, fetish, fetis.h.i.+sm, totem, totemism.
wors.h.i.+p, v. adore, revere; idolize, deify, apotheosize, glorify.
worst, v. defeat, vanquish, conquer, overcome, overthrow, discomfit, rout.
worth, n. worthiness, excellence, virtue, merit, integrity, honor; value.