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#851. [Bad taste.] Vulgarity. -- N. vulgarity

• vulgarism

• barbarism

• Vandalism

• Gothicism|!

• bad taste

• gaucherie

• awkwardness

• want of tact

• ill-breeding

• courseness

• indecorum

• misbehavior

• lowness

• homeliness

• low life

• rusticity

• boorishness

• brutality

• rowdyism

• ribaldry

• slang

• (neology) 563

• bad joke

• [Excess of ornament] gaudiness

• tawdriness

• false ornament

• finery

• frippery

• trickery

• tinsel

• gewgaw

• baroque

• rococo

• rough diamond

• tomboy

• hoyden

• cub

• clown

• (commonalty)

• Goth

• Vandal

• Boeotian

• snob

• cad

• gent

• parvenu

• frump

• dowdy

• slattern

• V. be vulgar

• misbehave

• talk shop

• smell of the shop

• Adj. in bad taste vulgar

• unrefined

• coarse

• indecorous

• ribald

• gross

• unseemly

• contra bonos mores[Lat]

• ungraceful

• dowdy

• slovenly

• ungenteel

• shabby genteel

• low

• common

• hoi polloi[Grk]

• uncivil

• (discourteous) 8

• ill bred

• ill mannered

• underbred

• ungentlemanly

• ungentlemanlike

• unladylike

• unfeminine

• wild

• wild as an unbacked colt

• untutored

• unschooled (ignorant) 491

• unkempt. uncombed

• untamed

• unpolished

• uncouth;

• plebeian

• heavy

• rude

• awkward

• homely

• homespun

• home

• bred

• provincial

• countrified

• rustic

• boorish

• clownish

• savage

• brutish

• blackguard

• rowdy

• snobbish

• barbarous

• barbaric

• Gothic

• doggerel

• heathenish

• tramontane

• outlandish;

• uncultivated

• Bohemian

• obsolete

• unfashionable

• newfangled

• (unfamiliar)

• odd

• particular

• affected

• meretricious

• extravagant

• monstrous

• horrid

• shocking

• gaudy

• tawdry

• overornamented

• baroque

• rococo

• bedizened

• tricked

• out

• gingerbread

• obtrusive

#852. Fashion. -- N. fashion

• style

• ton

• bon ton|!

• society

• good

• society

• polite society

• drawing-room

• civilized life

• civilization

• town

• high life

• court

• world

• fashionable

• world

• gay world

• Vanity Fair

• show

• manners

• breeding

• air

• demeanor

• 4

• gentility

• decorum

• propriety

• conventions of society

• Mrs. Grundy

• punctilio;

• form

• formality

• etiquette

• point of etiquette

• dress

• custom

• mode

• vogue

• go

• rage

• prevailing

• taste

• fad

• trend

• bandwagon

• thing

• in thing

• craze

• chic

• last word

• man of fashion

• woman of fashion

• man of the world

• woman of the

• world

• height of fashion

• pink of fashion

• star of fashion

• glass of

• fashion

• leader of fashion

• arbiter elegantiarum

• the

• beautiful people

• the fashion set

• upper ten thousand

• elite

• smart set

• the four hundred [U.S.]

• in crowd

• V. be fashionable

• be the rage

• have a run

• pass

• current

• follow the fashion

• conform to the fashion

• fall in with the fashion

• follow the trend

• follow the crowd

• go with the stream

• (conform)

• keep up appearances

• behave oneself

• set the fashion

• bring in the fashion

• give a tone to society

• cut a

• figure in society

• keep one's carriage

• Adj. fashionable

• in fashion

• a la mode

• admitted in society

• admissible in society

• presentable;

• conventional

• genteel

• well-bred

• well mannered

• well

• behaved

• well spoken

• gentlemanly

• ladylike

• civil

• polite

• polished

• refined

• thoroughbred

• courtly

• unembarrassed

• jaunty

• dashing

• fast

• modish

• stylish

• chic

• trendy

• recherche

• newfangled

• all the rage

• all the go|!

• with it

• in

• faddish

• in court

• in full dress

• in evening dress

• (ornament) 847

• Adv. fashionably

• for fashion's sake

• Phr. a la francaise

• a la parisienne

• a l'

#853. Ridiculousness. -- N. ridiculousness

• comicality

• oddity

• extravagance

• drollery

• farce

• comedy

• burlesque

• buffoonery

• frippery

• doggerel verses

• absurdity

• bombast

• anticlimax

• bathos

• eccentricity

• monstrosity

• laughingstock

• V. be ridiculous

• pass from the sublime to the ridiculous;

• make one laugh

• play the fool

• make a fool of oneself

• commit an absurdity

• Adj. ridiculous

• ludicrous

• comical

• droll

• funny

• laughable

• pour

• rire

• grotesque

• farcical

• odd

• whimsical

• whimsical as a dancing bear;

• fanciful

• fantastic

• queer

• rum

• quizzical

• quaint

• bizarre

• screaming;

• eccentric

• strange

• outlandish

• out of the way

• baroque

• weird

• awkward

• extravagant

• outre

• monstrous

• preposterous

• bombastic

• inflated

• stilted

• burlesque

• mock heroic

• drollish

• seriocomic

• tragicomic

• gimcrack

• contemptible

• (unimportant)

• doggerel

• ironical

• risible

• Phr. risum teneatis amici [Horace]

• rideret Heraclitus

• du sublime au

• ridicule il n'y a qu'un pas [Napoleon]

#854. Fop. -- N. fop

• fine gentleman

• swell

• dandy

• dandiprat|!;

• exquisite

• coxcomb

• beau

• macaroni

• blade

• blood

• buck

• man about town

• fast man

• fribble

• milliner|!

• Jemmy Jessamy|!

• carpet knight

• masher

• dude

• fine lady

• coquette

• flirt

• vamp

#855. Affectation. -- N. affectation

• affectedness

• acting a

• part

• pretense

• (ostentation) 8

• boasting

• 884

• charlatanism

• quackery

• shallow profundity

• pretension

• airs

• pedantry

• purism

• precisianism

• euphuism

• teratology

• 577

• mannerism

• simagree

• grimace

• conceit

• foppery

• dandyism

• man millinery

• coxcombry

• puppyism

• stiffness

• formality

• buckram

• prudery

• demureness

• coquetry

• mock

• modesty

• minauderie

• sentimentalism

• mauvais honte

• false shame

• affector

• performer

• actor

• pedant

• pedagogue

• doctrinaire

• purist

• euphuist

• mannerist

• grimacier

• lump of affectation

• precieuse

• blue stocking

• poetaster

• prig

• charlatan

• (deceiver) 5

• petit maitre

• flatterer

• coquette

• prude

• puritan

• V. affect

• act a part

• put on

• give oneself airs

• boast

• coquet

• simper

• mince

• attitudinize

• pose

• flirt a fan;

• overact

• overdo

• Adj. affected

• full of affectation

• pretentious

• pedantic

• stilted

• stagy

• theatrical

• big-sounding

• ad captandum

• canting

• insincere

• not natural

• unnatural

• self-conscious

• maniere

• artificial;

• overwrought

• overdone

• overacted

• euphuist

• stiff

• starch

• formal

• prim

• smug

• demure

• tire a quatre epingles

• quakerish

• puritanical

• prudish

• pragmatical

• priggish

• conceited

• coxcomical

• foppish

• dandified

• finical

• finikin

• mincing

• simpering

• namby-pamby

• sentimental

• Phr. "conceit in weakest bodies strongest works" [Hamlet]

#856. Ridicule. -- N. ridicule

• derision

• sardonic smile

• sardonic

• grin

• scoffing

• mockery

• quiz|!

• banter

• irony

• persiflage

• raillery

• chaff

• badinage

• quizzing

• squib

• satire

• skit

• quip

• grin

• parody

• burlesque

• travesty

• farce

• caricature

• buffoonery

• practical joke

• horseplay

• scorn

• contempt

• V. ridicule[transitive]

• deride

• mock

• taunt

• snigger

• laugh in

• one's sleeve

• tease[ridicule lightly]

• badinage

• banter

• rally

• chaff

• joke

• twit

• quiz

• roast

• haze [U.S.]

• show up

• [i.p.] play upon

• play tricks upon

• fool to the top of one's bent;

• laugh at

• grin at

• smile at

• poke fun at

• satirize

• parody

• caricature

• burlesque

• travesty

• turn into ridicule

• make merry with

• make fun of

• make game of

• make a

• fool of

• rally

• scoff

• raise a laugh

• play the fool

• make a fool of oneself

• Adj. derisory

• derisive

• mock

• mocking

• sarcastic

• ironic

• ironical

• quizzical

• burlesque

• scurrilous

• 929

• Adv. in ridicule

#857. [Object and cause of ridicule.] Laughingstock. -- N

• laughingstock

• butt

• game

• fair

• game

• April fool

• original

• oddity

• queer fish

• odd fish

• quiz

• square toes

• old monkey

• old fogey

• fogey monkey

• fogy monkey

• buffoon

• pantomimist

• schlemiel

• jest

• Phr. dum vitant stulti vitia in contraria currunt[Lat]

• 3. PROSPECTIVE AFFECTIONS

#858. Hope. -- N. hope

• hopes

• desire

• fervent hope

• sanguine

• expectation

• trust

• confidence

• reliance

• faith

• affiance

• assurance

• secureness

• security

• reassurance

• good omen

• good auspices

• promise

• well grounded hopes

• good prospect

• bright prospect

• clear sky

• assumption

• presumption

• anticipation

• hopefulness

• buoyancy

• optimism

• enthusiasm

• heart of grace

• aspiration

• [person who is hopeful] optimist

• utopian

• castles in the air

• castles in Spain

• le pot

• Utopia

• millennium

• day dream

• golden dream

• dream of

• airy hopes

• fool's paradise

• mirage

• vision)

• fond hope

• beam of hope

• ray of hope

• gleam of hope

• glimmer of hope

• flash of

• hope

• dawn of hope

• star of hope

• cheer

• bit of blue sky

• silver lining

• silver lining of the cloud

• bottom of Pandora's box

• balm in Gilead

• light

• at the end of the tunnel

• anchor

• sheet anchor

• mainstay

• staff

• heaven

• 981

• V. hope

• trust

• confide

• rely on

• put one's trust in

• lean upon

• pin

• one's hope upon

• pin one's faith upon

• feel hope

• entertain hope

• harbor hope

• indulge hope

• cherish hope

• feed hope

• foster hope

• nourish hope

• encourage hope

• cling to hope

• live

• in hope

• see land

• feel assured

• rest assured

• feel confident

• rest

• confident

• presume

• promise oneself

• expect

• hope for

• anticipate

• be hopeful

• look on the bright side of

• view on the sunny

• side

• make the best of it

• hope for the best;

• put a good face upon

• put a bold face upon

• put the best face upon

• keep

• one's spirits up

• take heart

• take heart of grace

• be of good heart

• be of

• good cheer

• flatter oneself

• "lay the flattering unction to one's soul"

• catch at a straw[hamlet]

• hope against hope

• reckon one's chickens

• before they are hatched

• count one's chickens before they are hatched

• [cause hope] give hope

• inspire hope

• raise hope

• hold out hope

• n

• promise

• bid fair

• augur well

• be in a fair way

• look up

• flatter

• tell a flattering tale

• raise expectations[sentient subject]

• encourage

• cheer

• assure

• reassure

• buoy up

• embolden

• Adj. hoping

• in hopes

• hopeful

• confident

• secure

• (certain)

• sanguine

• in good heart

• buoyed up

• buoyant

• elated

• flushed

• exultant

• enthusiastic

• utopian

• unsuspecting

• unsuspicious

• fearless

• free from fear

• free from

• suspicion

• free from distrust

• free from despair

• exempt from fear

• exempt

• from suspicion

• exempt from distrust

• exempt from despair;

• self reliant

• probable

• on the high road to

• within sight of shore

• within sight of

• land

• promising

• propitious

• of promise

• full of promise

• of good omen;

• auspicious

• reassuring

• encouraging

• cheering

• inspiriting

• looking up

• bright

• roseate

• rose-

• colored

• Adv. hopefully

• Int. God speed!

• Phr. nil desperandum [Lat][Horace]

• never say die

• dum spiro

• spero[Lat]

• latet scintillula forsan[Lat]

• all is for the best

• spero

• meliora[Lat]

• every cloud has a silver lining

• "the wish being father to

• the thought" [Henry IV]

• "hope told a flattering tale"

• rusticus expectat

• at spes non fracta[Lat]

• ego spem prietio non emo [Lat][Terence]

• un

• "hope! thou nurse of young desire" [Bickerstaff];

• in hoc signo spes mea[Lat]

• in hoc signo vinces[Lat]

• la speranza e il pan

• de miseri[It]

• "the

• mighty hopes that make us men" [Tennyson]

• "the sickening pang of hope

• deferred" [Scott]

#859. [Absence

• want or loss of hope.] Hopelessness. -- N

• hopelessness

• despair

• desperation

• despondency

• depression

• (dejection) 8

• pessimism

• pessimist

• Job's comforter

• bird of bad omen

• bird of ill omen

• abandonment

• desolation

• resignation

• surrender

• submission

• hope deferred

• dashed hopes

• vain expectation

• 509

• airy hopes

• forlorn hope

• gone case

• dead duck

• gone coon*

• [U.S.]

• goner*

• bad job

• bad business

• gloomy horizon

• black spots in the horizon

• slough of Despond

• cave of Despair;

• immedicabile vulnus[Lat]

• V. despair

• lose all hope

• give up all hope

• abandon all hope

• relinquish all hope

• lose the hope of

• give up the hope of

• abandon the

• hope of

• relinquish the hope of

• give up

• give over

• yield to despair;

• falter

• despond

• inspire despair

• drive to despair

• disconcert

• dash one's

• hopes

• crush one's hopes

• destroy one's hopes

• hope against hope

• abandon

• resign

• surrender

• submit

• Adj. hopeless

• desperate

• despairing

• gone

• in despair

• au

• forlorn

• desolate

• inconsolable

• broken

• hearted

• unpromising

• unpropitious

• inauspicious

• ill-omened

• threatening

• clouded over

• out of the question

• not to be thought of

• impracticable

• past

• hope

• past cure

• past mending

• past recall

• at one's last gasp

• 360

• given up

• given over

• incurable

• cureless

• immedicable

• remediless

• beyond remedy;

• incorrigible

• irreparable

• irremediable

• irrecoverable

• irreversible

• irretrievable

• irreclaimable

• irredeemable

• irrevocable

• ruined

• undone;

• immitigable

• Phr. "lasciate ogni speranza voi ch'entrate" [Dante]

• its days are

• numbered

• the worst come to the worst

• "no change

• no pause

• no hope

• yet I

• endure" [Shelley]

• "O dark

• dark

• dark

• amid the blaze of noon" [Milton];

• "mene mene tekel upharson" [Old Testament]

#860. Fear. -- N. fear

• timidity

• diffidence

• want of confidence;

• apprehensiveness

• fearfulness

• solicitude

• anxiety

• care

• apprehension

• misgiving

• mistrust

• suspicion

• qualm

• hesitation

• nervousness

• restlessness

• inquietude

• disquietude

• worry

• concern

• flutter

• trepidation

• fear and

• trembling

• perturbation

• tremor

• quivering

• shaking

• trembling

• throbbing

• heart

• palpitation

• ague fit

• cold sweat

• abject fear

• mortal funk

• despondency

• despair

• fright

• affright

• dread

• awe

• terror

• horror

• dismay

• consternation

• panic

• scare

• stampede [of

• horses]

• intimidation

• terrorism

• reign of terror

• [Object of fear] bug bear

• bugaboo

• scarecrow

• hobgoblin

• 980

• nightmare

• Gorgon

• ogre

• raw head and

• bloody bones

• fee-faw-fum

• alarmist

• V. fear

• stand in awe of

• be afraid

• have qualms

• apprehend

• sit upon thorns

• eye askance

• distrust

• hesitate

• falter

• funk

• cower

• crouch

• skulk

• "let 'I dare not' wait upon 'I would'"

• take fright

• take alarm

• start

• wince

• flinch

• shy

• shrink

• fly

• tremble

• shake

• shiver

• shiver in one's shoes

• shudder

• flutter

• shake

• like an aspen leaf

• tremble like an aspen leaf

• tremble all over

• quake

• quaver

• quiver

• quail

• grow pale

• turn pale

• blench

• stand aghast

• not dare to say one's soul

• is one's own

• inspire fear

• excite fear

• inspire awe

• excite awe

• raise

• be in a daze

• bulldoze [U. S.]

• faze

• S.]

• give an alarm

• raise an alarm

• sound an alarm

• alarm

• startle

• scare

• cry "wolf," disquiet

• dismay

• fright

• frighten

• terrify

• astound

• fright

• from one's propriety

• fright out of one's senses

• fright out of one's wits

• fright out of one's seven senses

• awe

• strike all of a heap

• strike an awe

• into

• strike terror

• harrow up the soul

• appall

• unman

• petrify

• horrify;

• pile on the agony

• make one's flesh creep

• make one's hair stand on end

• make one's blood

• run cold

• make one's teeth chatter

• take away one's breath

• stop one's

• breath

• make one tremble

• haunt

• prey on the mind

• weigh on the mind

• put in fear

• put in bodily fear

• terrorize

• intimidate

• cow

• daunt

• overawe

• abash

• deter

• discourage

• browbeat

• bully

• threaten

• Adj. fearing

• frightened

• in fear

• in a fright

• haunted with the fear of

• afraid

• fearful

• timid

• timorous

• nervous

• diffident

• coy

• faint-

• hearted

• tremulous

• shaky

• afraid of one's shadow

• apprehensive

• restless

• fidgety

• more frightened than hurt

• aghast

• awe-stricken

• horror-stricken

• terror-stricken

• panic-

• stricken

• awestruck

• awe-stricken

• horror-struck

• frightened to death

• white as a sheet

• pale

• pale as a ghost

• pale as death

• pale as ashes;

• breathless

• in hysterics

• inspiring fear

• alarming

• formidable

• redoubtable

• perilous

• (danger) 6

• portentous

• fearful

• dread

• dreadful

• fell

• dire

• direful;

• shocking

• terrible

• terrific

• tremendous

• horrid

• horrible

• horrific;

• ghastly

• awful

• awe-inspiring

• revolting

• Gorgonian

• Adv. in terrorem[Lat]

• Int. "angels and ministers of grace defend us!" [Hamlet]

• Phr. ante tubam trepidat[Latin]

• horresco referens[Latin]

• one's heart

• failing one

• obstupui steteruntque comae et vox faucibus haesit

• [Lat][Vergil]

• "a dagger of the mind" [Macbeth]

• expertus metuit [Lat][Horace];

• "fain would I climb but that I fear to fall" [Raleigh]

• "fear is the parent

• "Gorgons and hydras and chimeras dire" [Paradise

• Lost]

• omnia tuta timens [Latin][Vergil]

• "our fears do make us traitors"

• [Macbeth]