Synonyms Dictionary
5. (all of the body) disciplining, denying, sacrificing, fasting, abstaining, doing penance, flagellating, wearing a hair shirt, sitting in sackcloth and ashes; purifying, cleansing, purging, macerating, lustrating.
6. Pathology, rotting, suppurating, corrupting, decaying, decomposing, putrescent, putrifying, festering. mortuary, n. funeral home, funeral parlor, funeral residence, funeral church, funeral chapel, undertaker's establishment.
mosaic, n. 1. marquetry, parquetry, buhl, buhl-
work, inlaid work.
2. conglomeration, pastiche, pasticcio, farrago, gallimaufry, melange, miscellany, omnium-gatherum, potpourri, olio, olla-podrida, motley; mishmash, hodgepodge, jumble, scramble, tangle; salmagundi, stew, heap, mass, bunch.
-adj. 3. tessellated, inlaid, checkered; diverse, diversified, varied; variegated, multicolored, many-colored; checked, plaid, tartan. Moslem, adj. Muslem, Muslim, Mohammedan, Islamic, Islamite, Saracen, Saracenic, dervish, Turk, moss, n. lichen, liverwort, locopod, lycopodium. mossback, n. Informal. 1. old fogy, square-toes, Inf. stick-in-the-mud, Inf. fud or fuddy-duddy or old fuddy-duddy, Inf. fossil, Inf antique, Inf relic, Inf back number, Inf dodo.
2. conservative, ultraconservative, diehard, reactionary, old-liner, Inf. standpatter.
3. rustic, peasant, provincial, country cousin, countryman, hobnail; yokel, bumpkin, country bumpkin, hawbuck, Dial, lumpkin, Often Disparaging, hillbilly, Disparaging, bogtrodder, Inf. chawbacon, Inf. cider squeezer, SI. hick, SI. woodhick, SI. rube, SI. hayseed, SI. hoosier.
4. backwoodsman, woodsman, woodslander; frontiersman, mountain man; backsettler, hinterlander, Australian, bushman. most, adj. 1. greatest, largest; utmost, ultra, extreme, maximum; farthest, furthest; nearly all.
-n. 2. utmost, outer limit, peak; majority, greater part, almost all, nearly all; greatest number. -adv. 3. extremely, very, to the greatest degree or extent. mostly, adv. 1. for the most part, on the whole, by and large, all in all, largely.
2. chiefly, mainly, primarily, especially, principally, predominantly.
3. generally, usually, customarily, ordinarily, commonly, normally. mot, n. witticism, bon mot, quip, pleasantry; pun, catchword, byword; repartee, retort, riposte; epigram, apothegm, motto, gnome, aphorism; maxim, saw, saying, proverb, adage, mote, n. particle, speck, flyspeck, grain; drop, dab, dollop; atom, Archaic, atomy, mite; snip, snippet, spot, dot, bit, trifle; scintilla, crumb, modicum, iota, jot, whit, tittle; moit, burr, seed, mother, n. 1. genetrix, female parent, parent, ma-terfamilias; dam, broody, laying hen; matriarch, matron, earth mother, housewife, the hand that rocks the cradle; mother-in-law, stepmother, foster mother, adoptive mother; All Inf. mater, old lady, mom, mommy, ma, maw, mamma, mammy, mam, mum, mummy, mumsy, motherkins.
2. maternal affection, nurturing instinct, love for children, quality of mercy.
-v. 3. give birth to, spawn, bear, beget, procreate; engender, originate, create, issue, bring forth; produce, author, design, mastermind.
4. nurture, nourish, rear, raise, bring up, parent; care for, protect, shelter, watch over, keep in tow, tie to one's apron strings; overprotect, smother.
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