Synonyms of the word

jade

• n. (uncountable) A semiprecious stone, either nephrite or jadeite, generally green or white in color, often…
• n. A bright shade of slightly bluish or greyish green, typical of polished jade stones.
• adj. Of a grayish shade of green, typical of jade stones.
• n. A horse too old to be put to work.
• n. (especially pejorative) A woman.
• v. To tire, weary or fatigue.
• v. (obsolete) To treat like a jade; to spurn.
• v. (obsolete) To make ridiculous and contemptible.

adulterer

• n. A married man (husband) or married woman (wife) who commits adultery (when the word adulterer is gender-neutral).

adulteress

• n. A female adulterer, a married woman or wife who commits adultery.

chromatic

• adj. Relating to or characterised by hue.
• adj. Having the capacity to separate spectral colours by refraction.
• adj. (music) Related to or using notes not belonging to the diatonic scale of the key in which a passage is…

degenerate

• adj. (of qualities) Having deteriorated, degraded or fallen from normal, coherent, balanced and desirable to…
• adj. (of a human or system) Having lost good or desirable qualities.
• adj. (of an encoding or function) Having multiple domain elements correspond to one element of the range.
• adj. (mathematics) A degenerate case is a limiting case in which a class of object changes its nature so as…
• adj. (physics) Having the same quantum energy level.
• n. One who is degenerate, who has fallen from previous stature.
• v. (intransitive) To lose good or desirable qualities.
• v. (transitive) To cause to lose good or desirable qualities.

deteriorate

• v. (transitive) To make worse; to make inferior in quality or value; to impair.
• v. (intransitive) To grow worse; to be impaired in quality; to degenerate.
• v. (informal) slang: to nerf (used in gaming) something which is overpowered.

devolve

• v. (obsolete, transitive) To roll (something) down; to unroll.
• v. (intransitive) To be inherited by someone else; to pass down upon the next person in a succession, especially…
• v. (transitive) To delegate (a responsibility, duty, etc.) on or upon someone.
• v. (intransitive) To fall as a duty or responsibility on or upon someone.
• v. (intransitive) To degenerate; to break down.

drop

• n. A small mass of liquid just large enough to hold its own weight via surface tension, usually one that…
• n. The space or distance below a cliff or other high position into which someone or something could fall.
• n. A fall, descent; an act of dropping.
• n. A place where items or supplies may be left for others to collect, sometimes associated with criminal…
• n. An instance of dropping supplies or making a delivery, sometimes associated with delivery of supplies…
• n. (chiefly Britain) A small amount of an alcoholic beverage.
• n. (chieflt, Britain, when used with the definite article (the drop) alcoholic spirits in general.
• n. (Ireland, informal) A single measure of whisky.
• n. A small, round, sweet piece of hard candy, e.g. a lemon drop; a lozenge.
• n. (American football) A dropped pass.
• n. (American football) Short for drop-back or drop back.
• n. (Rugby football) A drop-kick.
• n. In a woman, the difference between bust circumference and hip circumference; in a man, the difference…
• n. (sports, usually with definite article "the") relegation from one division to a lower one.
• n. (video games, online gaming) Any item dropped by defeated enemies.
• n. (music) A point in a song, usually electronic-styled music such as dubstep, house, trance or trap, where…
• n. (US, banking, dated) An unsolicited credit card issue.
• n. The vertical length of a hanging curtain.
• n. That which resembles or hangs like a liquid drop: a hanging diamond ornament, an earring, a glass pendant…
• n. (architecture) A gutta.
• n. A mechanism for lowering something, such as: a trapdoor; a machine for lowering heavy weights onto a ship's…
• n. (slang) (With definite article) A gallows; a sentence of hanging.
• n. A drop press or drop hammer.
• n. (engineering) The distance of the axis of a shaft below the base of a hanger.
• n. (nautical) The depth of a square sail; generally applied to the courses only.
• v. (intransitive) To fall in droplets (of a liquid).
• v. (transitive) To drip (a liquid).
• v. (intransitive) Generally, to fall (straight down).
• v. (transitive, ergative) To let fall; to allow to fall (either by releasing hold of, or losing one's grip…
• v. (intransitive, obsolete) To let drops fall; to discharge itself in drops.
• v. (intransitive) To sink quickly to the ground.
• v. (intransitive) To fall dead, or to fall in death.
• v. (intransitive) To come to an end (by not being kept up); to stop.
• v. (transitive) To mention casually or incidentally, usually in conversation.
• v. (transitive, slang) To part with or spend (money).
• v. (transitive) To cease concerning oneself over; to have nothing more to do with (a subject, discussion…
• v. (intransitive) To lessen, decrease, or diminish in value, condition, degree, etc.
• v. (transitive) To let (a letter etc.) fall into a postbox; to send (a letter or message).
• v. (transitive) To make (someone or something) fall to the ground from a blow, gunshot etc.; to bring down,…
• v. (transitive, linguistics) To fail to write, or (especially) to pronounce (a syllable, letter etc.).
• v. (cricket, of a fielder) To fail to make a catch from a batted ball that would have lead to the batsman…
• v. (transitive, slang) To swallow (a drug), particularly LSD.
• v. (transitive) To dispose (of); get rid of; to remove; to lose.
• v. (transitive) To eject; to dismiss; to cease to include, as if on a list.
• v. (Rugby football) To score [a goal] by means of a drop-kick.
• v. (transitive, slang) To impart.
• v. (transitive, music, colloquial) To release to the public.
• v. (transitive, music) To play a portion of music in the manner of a disc jockey.
• v. (intransitive, music, colloquial) To enter public distribution.
• v. (transitive, music) To tune (a guitar string, etc.) to a lower note.
• v. (transitive) To cancel or end a scheduled event, project or course.
• v. (transitive, fast food) To cook, especially by deep-frying or grilling.
• v. (intransitive, of a voice) To lower in timbre, often relating to puberty.
• v. (intransitive, of a sound or song) To lower in pitch, tempo, key, or other quality.
• v. (intransitive, of people) To visit informally; used with in or by.
• v. To give birth to.
• v. To cover with drops; to variegate; to bedrop.
• v. (slang, of the testicles) To hang lower and begin producing sperm due to puberty.

fag

• n. (US, technical) In textile inspections, a rough or coarse defect in the woven fabric.
• n. (Britain, Ireland, Australia, colloquial, dated in US and Canada) A cigarette.
• n. (Britain, obsolete, colloquial) The worst part or end of a thing.
• n. (Britain, colloquial) A chore; an arduous and tiresome task.
• n. (Britain, education, archaic, colloquial) In many British boarding schools, a younger student acting as…
• v. (transitive, colloquial, used mainly in passive form) To make exhausted, tired out.
• v. (intransitive, colloquial) To droop; to tire.
• v. (Britain, education, archaic, colloquial) For a younger student to act as a servant for senior students…
• v. (Britain, archaic) To work hard, especially on menial chores.
• n. (vulgar, offensive) A homosexual man.
• n. (US, vulgar, offensive) An annoying person.

fatigue

• n. A weariness caused by exertion; exhaustion.
• n. (often in the plural) A menial task(s), especially in the military.
• n. (engineering) Material failure, such as cracking or separation, caused by stress on the material.
• v. (transitive) to tire or make weary by physical or mental exertion.
• v. (transitive, cooking) to wilt a salad by dressing or tossing it.
• v. (intransitive) to lose so much strength or energy that one becomes tired, weary, feeble or exhausted.
• v. (intransitive, engineering, of a material specimen) to undergo the process of fatigue; to fail as a result…

fornicator

• n. (pejorative) An unmarried person who engages in sexual intercourse, especially when considered to be of…

fornicatress

• n. (obsolete) A woman guilty of fornication.

green

• adj. Having green as its color.
• adj. (figuratively, of people) Sickly, unwell.
• adj. Unripe, said of certain fruits that change color when they ripen.
• adj. (figuratively, of people) Inexperienced.
• adj. (figuratively, of people) Naïve or unaware of obvious facts.
• adj. (figuratively, of people) Overcome with envy.
• adj. (figuratively) Environmentally friendly.
• adj. (cricket) Describing a pitch which, even if there is no visible grass, still contains a significant amount…
• adj. (dated) Of bacon or similar smallgoods: unprocessed, raw, unsmoked; not smoked or spiced.
• adj. (dated) Not fully roasted; half raw.
• adj. Of freshly cut wood or lumber that has not been dried: containing moisture and therefore relatively more…
• adj. (wine) High or too high in acidity.
• adj. Full of life and vigour; fresh and vigorous; new; recent.
• adj. (Philippines) Having a sexual connotation.
• adj. (particle physics) Having a color charge of green.
• n. The colour of growing foliage, as well as other plant cells containing chlorophyll; the colour between…
• n. (politics, sometimes capitalised) A member of a green party; an environmentalist.
• n. (golf) A putting green, the part of a golf course near the hole.
• n. (bowls) The surface upon which bowls is played.
• n. (snooker) One of the colour balls used in snooker, with a value of 3 points.
• n. (Britain) a public patch of land in the middle of a settlement.
• n. A grassy plain; a piece of ground covered with verdant herbage.
• n. (chiefly in the plural) Fresh leaves or branches of trees or other plants; wreaths.
• n. Any substance or pigment of a green colour.
• n. (Britain, slang, uncountable) marijuana.
• n. (US, slang, uncountable) Money.
• n. (particle physics) One of the three color charges for quarks.
• v. (transitive) To make (something) green, to turn (something) green.
• v. To become or grow green in colour.
• v. (transitive) To add greenspaces to (a town).
• v. (intransitive) To become environmentally aware.
• v. (transitive) To make (something) environmentally friendly.

greenness

• n. The state or quality of being green; green colour.
• n. (now rare) Vitality, freshness.
• n. Inexperience.
• n. The fact of being environmentally or ecologically conscious; commitment to environmental conservation.

hack

• v. (transitive) To chop or cut down in a rough manner.
• v. (intransitive) To cough noisily.
• v. To withstand or put up with a difficult situation.
• v. (transitive, slang, computing) To hack into; to gain unauthorized access to (a computer system, e.g.,…
• v. (transitive, slang, computing) By extension, to gain unauthorised access to a computer or online account…
• v. (computing) To accomplish a difficult programming task.
• v. (computing) To make a quick code change to patch a computer program, often one that, while being effective,…
• v. (transitive, colloquial, by extension) To apply a trick, shortcut, skill, or novelty method to something…
• v. (computing, slang, transitive) To work with on an intimately technical level.
• v. (ice hockey) To strike an opponent's leg with one's hockey stick.
• v. (ice hockey) To make a flailing attempt to hit the puck with a hockey stick.
• v. (baseball) To swing at a pitched ball.
• v. (soccer and rugby) To kick (a player) on the shins.
• v. To strike in a frantic movement.
• v. (transitive) To strike lightly as part of tapotement massage.
• n. A tool for chopping.
• n. A hacking blow.
• n. A gouge or notch made by such a blow.
• n. A dry cough.
• n. A hacking; a catch in speaking; a short, broken cough.
• n. (figuratively) A try, an attempt.
• n. (curling) The foothold traditionally cut into the ice from which the person who throws the rock pushes…
• n. (obsolete) A mattock or a miner's pickaxe.
• n. (computing, slang) An illegal attempt to gain access to a computer network.
• n. (computing, slang) A video game or any computer software that has been altered from its original state.
• n. (computing) An interesting technical achievement, particularly in computer programming.
• n. (computing) An expedient, temporary solution, such as a small patch or change to code, meant to be replaced…
• n. (colloquial) A trick, shortcut, skill, or novelty method to increase productivity, efficiency or ease.
• n. (slang, military) Time check.
• n. (baseball) A swing of the bat at a pitched ball by the batter.
• n. A kick on the shins in football.
• n. (falconry) A board which the falcon's food is placed on; used by extension for the state of partial freedom…
• n. A food-rack for cattle.
• n. A rack used to dry something, such as bricks, fish, or cheese.
• n. A grating in a mill race.
• v. To lay (bricks) on a rack to dry.
• v. (falconry) To keep (young hawks) in a state of partial freedom, before they are trained.
• n. (obsolete) An ordinary saddle horse, especially one which has been let out for hire and is old and tired.
• n. A person, often a journalist, hired to do routine work. (newspaper hack).
• n. (pejorative) Someone who is available for hire; hireling, mercenary.
• n. (slang) A taxicab (hackney cab) driver.
• n. A coach or carriage let for hire; particularly, a coach with two seats inside facing each other; a hackney…
• n. (pejorative) An untalented writer.
• n. (pejorative) One who is professionally successful despite producing mediocre work. (Usually applied to…
• n. (pejorative) A talented writer-for-hire, paid to put others' thoughts into felicitous language.
• n. (politics) A political agitator. (slightly derogatory).
• n. (obsolete) A writer who hires himself out for any sort of literary work; an overworked man; a drudge.
• n. (obsolete) A procuress.
• v. (dated) To make common or cliched; to vulgarise.
• v. To ride a horse at a regular pace; to ride on a road (as opposed to riding cross-country etc.).
• v. (obsolete) To be exposed or offered or to common use for hire; to turn prostitute.
• v. (obsolete) To live the life of a drudge or hack.
• v. To use as a hack; to let out for hire.
• v. To use frequently and indiscriminately, so as to render trite and commonplace.
• n. A small ball usually made of woven cotton or suede and filled with rice, sand or some other filler, for…
• v. To play hackeysack.

horse

• n. Any of several animals related to Equus ferus caballus.
• n. Equipment with legs.
• n. (nautical) Type of equipment.
• n. (mining) A mass of earthy matter, or rock of the same character as the wall rock, occurring in the course…
• n. (slang) The sedative, antidepressant, and anxiolytic drug morphine, chiefly when used illicitly.
• n. (US) An informal variant of basketball in which players match shots made by their opponent(s), each miss…
• n. (dated, slang, among students) A translation or other illegitimate aid in study or examination.
• n. (dated, slang, among students) horseplay; tomfoolery.
• v. (intransitive) To frolic, to act mischievously. (Usually followed by "around".).
• v. (transitive) To provide with a horse.
• v. (obsolete) To get on horseback.
• v. To sit astride of; to bestride.
• v. (of a male horse) To copulate with (a mare).
• v. To take or carry on the back.
• v. To place on the back of another person, or on a wooden horse, etc., to be flogged; to subject to such…
• n. (uncountable, slang, dated) Heroin (drug).

hussy

• n. (obsolete) A housewife or housekeeper.
• n. A cheeky or disrespectful girl; a woman showing inappropriate or improper behavior; a minx.
• n. (obsolete) A case or bag for needles, thread, etc.

indispose

• v. (transitive) To render unfit or unsuited; to disqualify.
• v. (transitive) To make indisposed, or slightly unwell.
• v. (transitive) To disincline.

nag

• n. A small horse; a pony.
• n. An old useless horse.
• n. (obsolete, derogatory) A paramour.
• v. To continuously remind or complain to someone in an annoying way, often about insignificant or unnecessary…
• v. To act inappropriately in the eyes of peers, to backstab, to verbally abuse.
• v. To bother with persistent memories.
• v. Other sorts of persistent annoyance, e.g.
• n. One who nags.

outwear

• v. To wear out.
• v. To outlast; to survive longer than.

pall

• n. (archaic) Fine cloth, especially purple cloth used for robes.
• n. (Christianity) A cloth used for various purposes on the altar in a church.
• n. (Christianity) A piece of cardboard, covered with linen and embroidered on one side, used to cover the…
• n. (Christianity) A pallium (woollen vestment in Roman Catholicism).
• n. (heraldry) A figure resembling the Roman Catholic pallium, or pall, and having the form of the letter…
• n. A heavy canvas, especially one laid over a coffin or tomb.
• n. An outer garment; a cloak or mantle.
• n. (obsolete) nausea.
• n. A feeling of gloom.
• v. To cloak.
• v. (transitive) To make vapid or insipid; to make lifeless or spiritless; to dull; to weaken.
• v. (intransitive) To become vapid, tasteless, dull, or insipid; to lose strength, life, spirit, or taste.

plug

• n. (electricity) A pronged connecting device which fits into a mating socket.
• n. Any piece of wood, metal, or other substance used to stop or fill a hole; a stopple.
• n. (US) A flat oblong cake of pressed tobacco.
• n. (US, slang) A high, tapering silk hat.
• n. (US, slang) A worthless horse.
• n. (construction) A block of wood let into a wall to afford a hold for nails.
• n. A mention of a product (usually a book, film or play) in an interview, or an interview which features…
• n. (geology) A body of once molten rock that hardened in a volcanic vent. Usually round or oval in shape.
• n. (fishing) A type of lure consisting of a rigid, buoyant or semi-buoyant body and one or more hooks.
• n. (horticulture) A small seedling grown in a tray from expanded polystyrene or polythene filled usually…
• n. A short cylindrical piece of jewellery commonly worn in larger-gauge body piercings, especially in the…
• v. (transitive) To stop with a plug; to make tight by stopping a hole.
• v. (transitive) To blatantly mention a particular product or service as if advertising it.
• v. (intransitive, informal) To persist or continue with something.
• v. (transitive) To shoot a bullet into something with a gun.
• v. (slang, transitive) to have sex with, penetrate sexually.

slut

• n. (countable, often derogatory) A sexually promiscuous woman or girl.
• n. (countable, derogatory) A man with the above qualities, often a gay man.
• n. (countable, archaic, derogatory) A slovenly, untidy person, usually a woman.
• n. (countable, obsolete, derogatory) A bold, outspoken woman.
• n. (countable, obsolete) A female dog.
• n. (countable, obsolete) A maid.
• n. (countable, obsolete) A rag soaked in a flammable substance and lit for illumination.
• v. To wear slutty clothing or makeup, or otherwise behave in a slutty manner.
• v. (slang, usually with around) To visit places frequented by men, with the intention of engaging in sexual…

strumpet

• n. A female prostitute; a woman who is very sexually active.
• n. A female adulterer.
• n. A mistress.
• n. (derogatory) A trollop; a whore.
• v. (obsolete, transitive) To debauch.
• v. (obsolete, transitive) To dishonour with the reputation of being a strumpet; to belie; to slander.

tire

• v. (intransitive) To become sleepy or weary.
• v. (transitive) To make sleepy or weary.
• v. (intransitive) To become bored or impatient (with).
• v. (transitive) To bore.
• n. (obsolete) Accoutrements, accessories.
• n. (obsolete) Dress, clothes, attire.
• n. A covering for the head; a headdress.
• n. Metal rim of a wheel, especially that of a railroad locomotive.
• n. (Canada, US) The rubber covering on a wheel; a tyre.
• n. A child's apron covering the upper part of the body, and tied with tape or cord; a pinafore. Also tier.
• v. (transitive, obsolete) To dress or adorn.
• v. (obsolete) To seize, pull, and tear prey, as a hawk does.
• v. (obsolete) To seize, rend, or tear something as prey; to be fixed upon, or engaged with, anything.
• n. A tier, row, or rank.

trollop

• n. A woman held by others as retaining a vulgar and discourteous disposition.
• n. (derogatory) A strumpet; a whore.
• v. to act in a sluggish or slovenly manner.
• v. (Scotch) to dangle soggily: become bedraggled.
• v. to behave like a trollop.
• v. A gait performed by a horse which falls between a trot and a gallop. Also known as a canter.

viridity

• n. The state or condition of being virid.

wear

• v. (now chiefly Britain dialectal, transitive) To guard; watch; keep watch, especially from entry or invasion.
• v. (now chiefly Britain dialectal, transitive) To defend; protect.
• v. (now chiefly Britain dialectal, transitive) To ward off; prevent from approaching or entering; drive off;…
• v. (now chiefly Britain dialectal, transitive) To conduct or guide with care or caution, as into a fold or…
• v. To carry or have equipped on or about one's body, as an item of clothing, equipment, decoration, etc.
• v. To have or carry on one's person habitually, consistently; or, to maintain in a particular fashion or…
• v. To bear or display in one's aspect or appearance.
• v. (colloquial, with "it") To overcome one's reluctance and endure a (previously specified) situation.
• v. To eat away at, erode, diminish, or consume gradually; to cause a gradual deterioration in; to produce…
• v. (intransitive) To undergo gradual deterioration; become impaired; be reduced or consumed gradually due…
• v. To exhaust, fatigue, expend, or weary.
• v. (intransitive) To last or remain durable under hard use or over time; to retain usefulness, value, or…
• v. (intransitive, colloquial) (in the phrase "wearing on (someone)") To cause annoyance, irritation, fatigue,…
• v. (intransitive, of time) To pass slowly, gradually or tediously.
• v. (nautical) To bring (a sailing vessel) onto the other tack by bringing the wind around the stern (as opposed…
• n. (uncountable) (in combination) clothing.
• n. (uncountable) damage to the appearance and/or strength of an item caused by use over time.
• n. (uncountable) fashion.

weary

• adj. Having the strength exhausted by toil or exertion; tired; fatigued.
• adj. Having one's patience, relish, or contentment exhausted; tired; sick.
• adj. Expressive of fatigue.
• adj. Causing weariness; tiresome.
• v. To make or to become weary.