Putnam's Word Book
Chapter 234 : tiresome, a. irksome, wearisome, fatiguing, tedious; toilsome, arduous.tissue, n. fabr

tiresome, a. irksome, wearisome, fatiguing, tedious; toilsome, arduous.

tissue, n. fabric, stuff, cloth, texture; web, network, fabrication.

toad-eater, n. toady.

toads, n. pl. a.s.sociated Words: ranine, ranivorous.

toadstool, n. fungus. See Fungi.

toady, n. sycophant, toad-eater, flatterer, fawner.

tobacco, n. a.s.sociated Words: tobacconist, nicotine, nicotinism, canaster, cavendish, plug, cud, quid, fumacious, carotte, capa, perique, mundungus, humidor.

toe, n. digit.

together, adv. unitedly, jointly, concertedly, simultaneously.

toil, n. labor, drudgery; toils, snare, trap.--v. labor, moil, drudge.

token, n. sign, symbol, index, indication.

tolerable, a. sufferable, endurable; pa.s.sable, mediocre, so-so, ordinary.

tolerance, n. endurance, toleration, sufferance. Antonym: intolerance.

tolerant, a. indulgent, forbearing, charitable. Antonym: intolerant.

tolerate, v. endure, suffer, brook; allow, permit, admit.

toleration, n. tolerance, endurance, sufferance; allowance, permission.

tomb, n. sepulchre, crypt, vault, ossuary; mausoleum (a magnificent tomb).

tomboy, n. (Colloq.) hoiden, romp.

tombstone, n. monument; cenotaph (honoring one buried elsewhere).

a.s.sociated Words: sepulchral, epitaph, lapidary.

tomfoolery, n. (Colloq.) folly, trifling, monkey-tricks, mummery.

tone, n. sound, note; cadence, modulation; force, vigor, energy.

tone down. subdue, moderate, soften.

toneless, a. aspirated, surd, atonic, unintonated.

tongue, n. a.s.sociated Words: lingual, glossal, sublingual, fur, tchick, barb, papillae, lick, lap, hyoid, lincture, aglossal, fraenum, fourchette, raphe.

tonguy, a. (Colloq.) voluble, fluent, loquacious, garrulous.

tonic, n. invigorant, roborant.

tool, n. implement, utensil, instrument; cat's-paw, puppet, hireling.

a.s.sociated Words: ratten, cocobola, kit.

tooth, n. (little tooth) denticle, dentile. a.s.sociated Words: denticulation, serration, serrature. See teeth.

toothache, n. odontalgia. a.s.sociated Word: odontalgic.

toothless, a. agomphious, edentate, edentulous.

toothless animals. Edentata.

toothsome, n. palatable, delicious, savory, gustable.

top, n. summit, crest, apex, vertex, pinnacle, zenith, culmination, capsheaf, meridian.

top, v. surmount, overtop, surpa.s.s.

toper, n. drunkard, sot, inebriate, guzzler.

topic, n. subject, theme; division, head, subdivision.

topknot, n. crest.

top-shaped, a. turbinate, turbinated.

torch, n. flambeau (flaming torch), cresset.

torment, n. pain, anguish, distress, torture; bane, infliction, scourge, thorn.

torment, v. persecute, hector, tease, tantalize, harry; torture, grill, rack, distress.

torn, a. rent, lacerated, ripped.

tornado, n. hurricane, cyclone, whirlwind.

torpid, a. numb, benumbed, unfeeling; lethargic, dull, hebetate, sluggish, stupid.

torpidity, n. numbness, lethargy, inactivity, hebetude.

touch, v. meet, impinge; graze.

touch, n. touching, contact, contiguity, juxtaposition, osculation, tangency; taction, tact, palpation; dash, sprinkling, _soupcon_, infusion; animadversion, censure, stricture, reflection, slur. a.s.sociated words: tactile, tactility, tactual, palpable, impalpable, palpability, impalpability.

touchiness, n. irascibility, petulance, irritability.

touching, a. pathetic, affecting, moving, tender.