812

#812. Price.-- N. price

• amount

• cost

• expense

• prime cost

• charge

• figure

• demand

• damage

• fare

• hire

• wages

• value

• 812a

• dues

• duty

• toll

• tax

• impost

• levy

• capitation tax

• poll tax

• gavel

• custom

• excise

• assessment

• benevolence

• tithe

• tenths

• ransom

• salvage

• tariff

• brokerage

• wharfage

• freightage

• bill

• shot

• V. bear a price

• set a price

• fix a price

• appraise

• assess

• doom

• [U.S.]

• price

• charge

• demand

• ask

• require

• exact

• run up

• distrain

• run

• up a bill

• have one's price

• liquidate

• amount to

• come to

• mount up to

• stand one in

• fetch

• sell for

• cost

• bring in

• yield

• afford

• Adj. priced

• to the tune of

• ad valorem

• dutiable

• mercenary

• venal

• Phr. no penny no paternoster[Lat]

• no longer pipe no longer dance

• no song no supper

• if you dance you have to

• pay the piper

• you get what you pay for

• there's no such thing as a free

• lunch

• one may have it for

#812a. Value [intrinsic worth] -- N. {ant. to 812b} worth

• rate

• value

• intrinsic value

• quality

• par value

• [estimated value] valuation

• appraisal

• assessment

• appraisement

• [value as estimated in a market] price current

• market price

• quotation

• fair price

• going price

• what it will fetch

• what the

• market will bear

• money's worth

• penny

• cost (price) 812

• V. value[transitive]

• esteem

• appreciate

• [estimate value] appraise

• evaluate

• assess

• Adj. valuable

• estimable

• worthwhile

• worthy

• full of worth

• precious (expensive) 814

• Phr. worth the price

• worth a king's ransom

• accountants who know the

• price of everything and the value of nothing

#812b. Worthlessness -- N. {ant. to 812a} worthlessness

• lack of value

• uselessness

• [low value] cheapness

• shoddiness

• low quality

• poor quality

• [worthless item] trash

• garbage

• Adj. worthless

• valueless

• useless

• [of low value] cheap

• shoddy

• slapdash

• inexpensive

• Phr. not worth the paper it's printed on

• not worth a sou

#813. Discount.-- N. discount

• abatement

• concession

• reduction

• depreciation

• allowance

• qualification

• set-off

• drawback

• poundage

• percentage

• rebate

• backwardation

• salvage

• sale

• bargain

• half price

• price war

• wholesale

• wholesale price

• dealer's price

• trade price

• coupon

• discount coupon

• cents-off coupon

• store coupon

• manufacturer's coupon

• double coupon discount

• triple coupon discount

• V. discount

• bate

• abate

• rebate

• reduce

• price down

• mark down take

• off

• allow

• give

• make allowance

• tax

• Adj. discounting

• Adv. at a discount

• below par

• at wholesale

• have a friend in the

• business

#814. Dearness.-- N. dearness

• high price

• famine price

• fancy price

• overcharge

• extravagance

• exorbitance

• extortion

• heavy pull

• upon the purse

• V. be dear

• cost much

• cost a pretty penny

• rise in price

• look up

• [demand a price in excess of value] overcharge

• bleed

• fleece

• extort

• [pay a price in excess of value] pay too much

• pay through the nose

• pay too dear for one's whistle

• pay top dollar

• Adj. dear

• high

• high priced

• of great price

• expensive

• costly

• precious

• worth a Jew's eye|!

• dear bought

• at a premium

• not to be had

• not to be had for love or money

• beyond price

• above

• price

• priceless

• of priceless value

• [priced in excess of value] unreasonable

• extravagant

• exorbitant

• extortionate

• overpriced

• more than it's woth

• Adv. dear

• dearly

• at great cost

• heavy cost

• Phr. prices looking up

• le

• too high a price

• to pay

• not worth it

#815. Cheapness.-- N. cheapness

• low price

• depreciation

• bargain;

• good penny

• snap [U.S.]

• [Absence of charge] gratuity

• free quarters

• free seats

• free

• admission

• pass

• free pass

• free warren

• give-away

• freebee [coll.]

• run of

• one's teeth

• nominal price

• peppercorn rent

• labor of love

• drug in the market

• V. be cheap

• cost little

• come down in price

• fall in price

• buy for a mere nothing

• buy for an old song

• have one's money's worth

• Adj. cheap

• low

• low priced

• moderate

• reasonable

• inexpensive

• well worth the money

• worth the money

• magnifique et pas

• good at the price

• cheap at the price

• dirt cheap

• dog cheap;

• cheap

• cheap as dirt

• cheap and nasty

• catchpenny

• discounted

• half-price

• depreciated

• unsalable

• gratuitous

• gratis

• free

• for nothing

• costless

• without charge

• not charged

• untaxed

• scotfree

• rent-free;

• free of cost

• free of expense

• honorary

• unbought

• unpaid

• Adv. for a mere song

• for a song

• at cost

• at cost price

• at prime

• cost

• at a reduction

#816. Liberality.-- N. liberality

• generosity

• munificence

• bounty

• bounteousness

• bountifulness

• hospitality

• charity

• V. be liberal

• spend freely

• bleed freely

• shower down upon;

• open one's purse strings

• spare no expense

• give carte

• Adj. liberal

• free

• generous

• charitable

• hospitable

• bountiful

• bounteous

• handsome

• unsparing

• ungrudging;

• unselfish

• open handed

• free handed

• full handed

• open hearted

• large

• hearted

• free hearted

• munificent

• princely

• overpaid

• Phr. "handsome is that handsome does" [Goldsmith]

#817. Economy.-- N. economy

• frugality

• thrift

• thriftiness

• care

• husbandry

• good housewifery

• retrenchment

• savings

• prevention of waste

• save-all

• cheese parings and candle

• ends

• parsimony

• cost-cutting

• cost control

• V. be economical

• practice economy

• economize

• save;

• retrench

• cut back expenses

• cut expenses

• cut one's coat according to

• one's cloth

• make both ends meet

• keep within compass

• meet one's expenses

• pay one's way

• pay as you go

• husband

• save money

• invest money

• put out to interest

• provide for a rainy

• day

• save for a rainy day

• provide against a rainy day

• save against a

• rainy day

• feather one's nest

• look after the main chance

• cut costs

• Adj. economical

• frugal

• careful

• thrifty

• saving

• chary

• spare

• sparing

• parsimonious

• underpaid

• Adv. sparingly

• ne quid nimis[Lat]

• Phr. adde parvum parvo magnus acervus erit[Latin]

• magnum est vectigal

• parsimonia [Latin][Cicero]

#817a. Greed [excessive desire] -- N. covetousness

• ravenousness

• venality

• avidity

• cupidity

• acquisitiveness (acquisition) 775;

• desire

• [greed for money or material things] greed

• greediness

• avarice

• avidity

• rapacity

• extortion

• selfishness

• auri sacra fames[Lat]

• grasping

• craving

• canine appetite

• rapacity

• V. covet

• crave (desire)

• grasp

• exact

• extort

• Adj. greedy

• avaricious

• covetous

• acquisitive

• grasping

• rapacious;

• greedy as a hog

• overeager

• voracious

• ravenous

• ravenous as a wolf;

• openmouthed

• extortionate

• exacting

• sordid|!

• alieni appetens[Lat];

• insatiable

• insatiate

• unquenchable

• quenchless

• omnivorous

#818. Prodigality.-- N. prodigality

• prodigence|

• waste

• profusion

• profuseness

• extravagance

• squandering

• malversation

• prodigal

• spendthrift

• waste thrift

• locust

• high roller* [U.S.]

• V. be prodigal

• squander

• lavish

• sow broadcast

• pour forth

• like water

• blow

• blow in*

• pay through the nose

• spill

• waste

• dissipate

• exhaust

• drain

• eat out of house and home

• overdraw

• outrun the constable

• run out

• run through

• misspend

• throw good money

• after bad

• burn the candle at both

• ends

• make ducks and drakes of one's money

• fool away one's money

• potter

• away one's money

• muddle away one's money

• fritter away one's money

• throw

• away one's money

• run through one's money

• pour water into a sieve

• kill

• the goose that lays the golden eggs

• Adj. prodigal

• profuse

• thriftless

• unthrifty

• improvident

• wasteful

• extravagant

• lavish

• dissipated

• overliberal

• full-handed

• (liberal) 816

• penny wise and pound foolish

• Adv. with an unsparing hand

• money burning a hole in one's pocket

• Phr. amor nummi [Latin]

• facile largiri de alieno[Lat]

• wie gewonnen

• so zerronnen [German]

• les fous font les festins et les sages les mangent

• "spendthrift alike of money and of wit" [Cowper]

• "squandering

• wealth was his peculiar art" [Dryden]

• <-- separate greed

• acquisitiveness => 817a from parsimony

• frugality -->

#819. Parsimony.-- N. parsimony

• parcity|

• stinginess

• stint

• illiberality

• tenacity

• avarice

• greed

• miser

• niggard

• churl

• screw

• skinflint

• crib

• codger

• scrimp

• hunks

• curmudgeon

• Harpagon

• harpy

• extortioner

• Jew

• usurer

• Hessian [U.S.]

• pinch fist

• pinch penny

• V. be parsimonious

• grudge

• begrudge

• stint

• pinch

• gripe

• screw

• dole out

• hold back

• withhold

• starve

• famish

• live upon nothing

• skin a flint

• drive a bargain

• drive a hard bargain

• cheapen

• beat down

• stop one

• hole in a sieve

• have an itching palm

• grasp

• grab

• Adj. parsimonious

• penurious

• stingy

• miserly

• mean

• shabby

• peddling

• scrubby

• penny wise

• near

• niggardly

• close

• fast handed

• close handed

• strait handed

• close fisted

• hard fisted

• tight fisted

• tight

• sparing;

• chary

• grudging

• griping

• illiberal

• ungenerous

• churlish

• hidebound

• sordid

• mercenary

• venal

• covetous

• usurious

• avaricious

• greedy

• extortionate

• rapacious

• Adv. with a sparing hand

• Phr. desunt inopioe multa avaritiae omnia [Latin][Syrus]

• "hoards

• after hoards his rising raptures fill" [Goldsmith]

• "the unsunn'd heaps of

• miser's treasures" [Milton]

#820. Affections. -- N. affections

• affect

• character

• qualities

• disposition

• nature

• spirit

• tone

• temper

• temperament

• idiosyncrasy

• cast of mind

• cast of soul

• habit of mind

• habit of soul

• frame of mind

• frame of soul

• predilection

• turn

• natural turn of mind;

• bent

• bias

• predisposition

• proneness

• proclivity

• propensity

• propendency|

• vein

• humor

• mood

• grain

• mettle

• sympathy

• soul

• heart

• breast

• bosom

• inner man

• heart's core

• heart's strings

• heart's blood

• heart of hearts

• bottom of one's heart

• penetralia

• mentis[Lat]

• secret and inmost recesses of the heart

• cockles of one's

• heart

• inmost heart

• inmost soul

• backbone

• passion

• pervading spirit

• ruling passion

• master passion;

• fullness of the heart

• heyday of the blood

• flesh and blood

• flow of soul

• energy

• fervor

• fire

• force

• V. have affections

• possess affections

• be of a character

• n

• be affected

• breathe

• Adj. affected

• characterized

• formed

• molded

• cast

• tempered

• framed

• predisposed

• prone

• inclined

• having a bias

• tinctured with

• imbued with

• penetrated with

• eaten up with

• inborn

• inbred

• ingrained

• deep-rooted

• ineffaceable

• inveterate;

• pathoscopic|!

• congenital

• dyed in the wool

• implanted by nature

• inherent

• in the grain

• Adv. in one's heart

• at heart

• heart and soul

• Phr. "affection is a coal that must be cool'd else suffer'd it will

• set the heart on fire" [Venus and Adonis]

#821. Feeling. -- N. feeling

• suffering

• endurance

• tolerance

• sufferance

• experience

• response

• sympathy

• 8

• impression

• inspiration

• affection

• sensation

• emotion

• pathos

• deep

• sense

• warmth

• glow

• unction

• gusto

• vehemence

• fervor

• fervency;

• heartiness

• cordiality

• earnestness

• eagerness

• gush

• ardor

• zeal

• passion

• enthusiasm

• verve

• fanaticism;

• excitation of feeling

• fullness of the heart

• 820

• passion

• ecstasy

• blush

• suffusion

• flush

• hectic

• tingling

• thrill

• turn

• shock;

• agitation

• quiver

• heaving

• flutter

• flurry

• fluster

• twitter

• tremor

• throb

• throbbing

• pulsation

• palpitation

• panting

• trepidation

• perturbation

• ruffle

• hurry of spirits

• pother

• stew

• ferment

• state of excitement

• V. feel

• receive an impression

• be impressed with

• entertain feeling

• harbor feeling

• cherish feeling

• respond

• catch the flame

• catch the infection

• enter the spirit of

• bear

• suffer

• support

• sustain

• endure

• abide

• experience

• taste

• prove

• labor under

• smart under

• bear the brunt of

• brave

• stand

• swell

• glow

• warm

• flush

• blush

• change color

• mantle

• turn color

• turn pale

• turn red

• turn black in the face

• tingle

• thrill

• heave

• pant

• throb

• palpitate

• go pitapat

• tremble

• quiver

• flutter

• twitter

• shake

• be agitated

• be excited

• look blue

• look black

• wince

• draw a

• deep breath

• impress

• Adj. feeling

• sentient

• sensuous

• sensorial

• sensory

• emotive

• emotional

• of feeling

• with feeling

• warm

• quick

• lively

• smart

• strong

• sharp

• acute

• cutting

• piercing

• incisive

• keen

• keen as a razor

• trenchant

• pungent

• racy

• piquant

• poignant

• caustic

• impressive

• deep

• profound

• indelible

• deep felt

• home felt

• heartfelt

• swelling

• soul-stirring

• deep-mouthed

• heart-expanding

• electric

• thrilling

• rapturous

• ecstatic

• earnest

• wistful

• eager

• breathless

• fervent

• fervid

• gushing

• passionate

• warm-hearted

• hearty

• cordial

• sincere

• zealous

• enthusiastic

• glowing

• ardent

• burning

• red-hot

• fiery

• flaming

• boiling over

• pervading

• penetrating

• absorbing

• rabid

• raving

• feverish

• fanatical

• hysterical

• impetuous

• impressed with

• moved with

• touched with

• affected with

• penetrated

• with

• seized with

• imbued with

• devoured by

• wrought up

• (excited) 8

• struck all of a heap

• rapt

• in a quiver

• enraptured

• Adv. heart and soul

• from the bottom of one's heart

• ab imo

• pectore[Lat]

• at heart

• con amore[It]

• heartily

• devoutly

• over head and

• ears

• head over heels

• Phr. the heart big

• the heart full

• the heart swelling

• the heart

• beating

• the heart pulsating

• the heart throbbing

• the heart thumping

• the

• heart beating high

• the heart melting

• the heart overflowing

• the heart

• bursting

• the heart breaking

• the heart goes out

• a heart as big as all

• outdoors (sympathy) 897

#822. Sensibility. -- N. sensibility

• sensibleness

• sensitiveness;

• moral sensibility

• impressibility

• susceptibleness

• susceptibility

• mobility

• vivacity

• vivaciousness;

• tenderness

• softness

• sentimental

• sentimentality

• sentimentalism

• excitability

• fastidiousness

• physical sensibility

• 375

• sore point

• sore place

• where the shoe pinches

• V. be sensible

• have a tender heart

• have a warm heart

• have

• a sensitive heart

• take to heart

• treasure up in the heart

• shrink

• "die of a rose in aromatic pain" [Pope]

• touch to the quick

• touch on

• the raw

• touch a raw nerve

• Adj. sensible

• sensitive

• impressible

• impressionable

• susceptive

• susceptible

• alive to

• gushing

• warm hearted

• tender

• hearted

• soft hearted

• tender as a chicken

• soft

• sentimental

• romantic;

• enthusiastic

• spirited

• mettlesome

• vivacious

• lively

• expressive

• mobile

• tremblingly alive

• excitable

• oversensitive

• without skin

• thin-skinned

• fastidious

• Adv. sensibly

• to the quick

• to the inmost core

• Phr. mens aequa in arduis[Lat]

• pour salt in the wound