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#870. Wonder. -- N. wonder

• marvel

• astonishment

• amazement

• wonderment

• bewilderment

• amazedness

• admiration

• awe;

• stupor

• stupefaction

• stound|

• fascination

• sensation

• surprise

• note of admiration

• thaumaturgy

• V. wonder

• marvel

• admire

• be surprised

• start

• stare

• open

• one's eyes

• rub one's eyes

• turn up one's eyes

• gloar|

• gape

• open one's

• mouth

• hold one's breath

• look aghast

• stand aghast

• stand agog

• look blank

• not believe one's eyes

• not

• believe one's ears

• not believe one's senses

• not be able to account for

• not know whether

• one stands on one's head or one's heels

• surprise

• astonish

• amaze

• astound

• dumfound

• dumfounder

• startle

• dazzle

• daze

• strike

• strike with wonder

• strike with awe

• electrify

• stun

• stupefy

• petrify

• confound

• bewilder

• flabbergast

• stagger

• throw on one's

• beam ends

• fascinate

• turn the head

• take away one's breath

• strike dumb;

• make one's hair stand on end

• make one's tongue cleave to the roof of one's

• mouth

• make one stare

• take by surprise

• be wonderful

• beggar description

• beggar the imagination

• baffle description

• stagger belief

• Adj. surprised

• aghast

• all agog

• breathless

• agape

• open-

• mouthed

• awestruck

• thunderstruck

• moonstruck

• planet-struck

• spellbound;

• lost in amazement

• lost in wonder

• lost in astonishment

• struck all of a

• heap

• unable to believe one's senses

• like a duck ion thunder

• wonderful

• wondrous

• surprising

• unexpected

• unheard

• of

• mysterious

• miraculous

• indescribable

• inexpressible

• unutterable

• unspeakable

• monstrous

• prodigious

• stupendous

• marvelous

• inconceivable

• incredible

• unimaginable

• strange

• passing strange

• striking

• overwhelming

• wonder-working

• Adv. wonderfully

• fearfully

• for a wonder

• in the name of

• wonder

• strange to say

• mirabile dictu[Lat]

• mirabile visu[Lat]

• to one's

• great surprise

• with wonder

• with gaping mouth

• with open eyes

• with upturned

• eyes

• Int. lo

• lo and behold! O! heyday! halloo! what! indeed! really!

• surely! humph! hem! good lack

• good heavens

• good gracious! Ye gods! good

• Lord! good grief! Holy cow! My word! Holy shit![vulg.]

• gad so!

• my

• goodness! gracious goodness! goodness gracious! mercy on us! heavens and

• earth! God bless me! bless us

• bless the mark!

• can such things be! zounds! 'sdeath! what on earth

• what in the world! who

• would have thought it!

• you don't say so!

• how

• now! where am I?

• Phr. vox faucibus haesit[Lat]

• one's hair standing on end

#871. [Absence of wonder.] Expectance. -- N. expectance

• (expectation) 507

• example

• instance (conformity) 82

• normality (habit) 6

• nine days' wonder

• V. expect

• not be surprised

• not wonder

• nil

• admirari[Lat]

• make nothing of

• Adj. expecting

• unamazed

• astonished at nothing

• blase

• (weary)

• expected

• foreseen

• unsurprising

• common

• ordinary

• normal

• typical

• usual

• Adv. naturally

• as a matter of course

• Int. no wonder

• of course

#872. Prodigy. -- N. prodigy

• phenomenon

• wonder

• wonderment

• marvel

• miracle

• monster

• curiosity

• lion

• sight

• spectacle;

• coup de theatre

• sign

• St. Elmo's

• fire

• St. Elmo's light

• portent

• bursting of a shell

• bursting of a bomb

• volcanic eruption

• peal of

• thunder

• thunder-clap

• thunder-bolt

• what no words can paint

• wonders of the world

• annus mirabilis[Lat];

• dignus vindice nodus[Lat]

• Phr. natura il fece e poi roppe la stampa [Ital.]

• 5. EXTRINSIC AFFECTIONS

• <-- Or personal affections derived from the opinion or feelings of others

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#873. Repute. -- N. distinction

• mark

• name

• figure

• repute

• reputation

• good repute

• high repute

• note

• notability

• notoriety

• eclat

• "the bubble reputation" [As You Like It]

• vogue

• celebrity

• fame

• famousness

• renown

• popularity

• aura popularis[Lat]

• approbation

• credit

• prestige

• talk of the town

• name to conjure

• with

• glory

• honor

• luster

• illustriousness

• account

• regard

• respect

• reputableness

• respectability

• good name

• good report

• fair name

• dignity

• stateliness

• solemnity

• grandeur

• splendor

• nobility

• majesty

• sublimity

• rank

• standing

• brevet rank

• precedence

• pas

• station

• place

• status;

• position

• position in society

• order

• degree

• baccalaureate

• locus

• standi[Lat]

• caste

• condition

• greatness

• eminence

• height

• importance

• preeminence

• supereminence

• high mightiness

• primacy

• top of the ladder

• top of the tree

• elevation

• ascent

• exaltation;

• aggrandizement. dedication

• consecration

• enthronement

• canonization

• celebration

• enshrinement

• glorification

• hero

• man of mark

• great card

• celebrity

• worthy

• lion

• rara

• avis[Lat]

• notability

• somebody

• man of rank

• pillar of the state

• pillar of the church

• pillar of the community

• chief

• first fiddle

• cynosure

• mirror

• flower

• pink

• pearl

• paragon

• choice and

• master spirits of the age

• elite

• star,.sun

• constellation

• galaxy

• ornament

• honor

• feather in one's cap

• halo

• aureole

• nimbus

• halo of

• glory

• blaze of glory

• blushing honors

• laurels

• memory

• posthumous fame

• niche in the temple of fame

• immortality

• immortal name

• magni nominis umbra [Lat][Lucan]

• V. be conscious of glory

• be proud of

• exult

• (boast) 8

• be vain of

• be distinguished

• shine

• shine forth

• figure;

• cut a figure

• make a dash

• make a splash

• rival

• surpass

• outshine

• outrival

• outjump

• emulate

• eclipse

• throw into the shade

• cast into the shade

• overshadow

• live

• flourish

• glitter

• flaunt

• gain honor

• acquire honor

• play first fiddle

• bear the palm

• bear the bell;

• lead the way

• take precedence

• take the wall of

• gain laurels

• win laurels

• gain spurs

• gain golden opinions

• take one's degree

• pass one's examination

• make a noise

• make some noise

• make a noise in the world

• leave one's

• mark

• exalt one's horn

• blow one's horn

• star it

• have a run

• be run after;

• come into vogue

• come to the front

• raise one's head

• enthrone

• signalize

• immortalize

• deify

• exalt to the skies

• hand

• one's name down to posterity

• consecrate

• dedicate to

• devote to

• enshrine

• inscribe

• blazon

• lionize

• blow the trumpet

• crown with laurel

• confer honor on

• reflect honor on

• shed a luster on;

• redound to one's honor

• ennoble

• give honor to

• do honor to

• pay honor to

• render honor to

• honor

• accredit

• pay regard to

• dignify

• glorify

• sing praises to

• lock up to

• exalt

• aggrandize

• elevate

• nobilitate[Lat]

• Adj. distinguished

• noted

• of note

• honored

• v

• popular

• fashionable

• in good odor in

• favor

• in high favor

• reputable

• respectable

• creditable

• remarkable

• notable

• notorious

• celebrated

• renowned

• ion every one's mouth

• talked of

• famous

• famed

• far-famed;

• conspicuous

• to the front

• foremost

• in the front rank

• in the ascendant

• imperishable

• deathless

• immortal

• never fading

• aere

• time honored

• illustrious

• glorious

• splendid

• brilliant

• radiant

• bright

• full-blown

• honorific

• eminent

• prominent

• high

• in the zenith

• at the head of

• at

• the top of the tree

• peerless

• of the first water

• superior

• supereminent

• preeminent

• great

• dignified

• proud

• noble

• honorable

• worshipful

• lordly

• grand

• stately

• august

• princely. imposing

• solemn

• transcendent

• majestic

• sacred

• sublime

• heaven-born

• heroic

• sacrosanct

• glory be to

• honor be to?

• Phr. one's name being in every mouth

• one's name living for ever

• sic

• itur ad astra[Lat]

• fama volat[Lat]

• aut Caesar aut nullus[Lat]

• not to

• know him argues oneself unknown

• none but himself could be his parallel

• palmam qui meruit ferat [Lat][Nelson's motto]

• "above all Greek above all Roman fame" [Pope]

• - cineri gloria sera

• est [Lat][Martial]

• "great is the glory for the strife is hard"

• [Wordsworth]

• honor virtutis praemium [Lat][Cicero]

• immensum gloria calcar

• "the glory dies not and the grief is past"

• [Brydges]

• vivit post funera virtus[Lat]

#874. Disrepute. -- N. disrepute

• discredit

• ill repute

• bad repute

• bad name

• bad odor

• bad favor

• ill name

• ill odor

• ill favor;

• disapprobation

• ingloriousness

• derogation

• abasement

• debasement;

• abjectness

• degradation

• a long farewell to

• all my greatness [Henry VIII]

• odium

• obloquy

• opprobrium

• ignominy

• dishonor

• disgrace

• shame

• humiliation

• scandal

• baseness

• turpitude

• infamy

• tarnish

• taint

• defilement

• pollution. stain

• blot

• spot

• blur

• stigma

• brand

• reproach

• imputation

• slur

• crying shame

• burning shame

• scandalum magnatum[Lat]

• badge of infamy

• blot in one's escutcheon

• bend sinister

• bar sinister

• byword of reproach

• Ichabod

• argumentum ad verecundiam[Lat]

• sense of shame

• V. be inglorious

• incur disgrace

• have a bad name

• earn a bad name

• put a halter round one's neck

• wear a halter round one's

• neck

• disgrace oneself

• expose oneself

• play second fiddle

• lose caste

• pale one's ineffectual fire

• recede

• into the shade

• fall from one's high estate

• keep in the background

• (modesty) 8

• be conscious of disgrace

• look blue

• look

• foolish

• look like a fool

• cut a poor figure

• cut a sorry figure

• laugh on

• the wrong side of the mouth

• make a sorry face

• go away with a flea in

• one's ear

• slink away

• cause shame

• shame

• disgrace

• put to shame

• dishonor

• throw

• dishonor upon

• cast dishonor upon

• fling dishonor upon

• reflect dishonor

• upon

• be a reproach

• derogate from

• tarnish

• stain

• blot sully

• taint

• discredit

• degrade

• debase

• defile;

• beggar

• expel

• impute shame to

• brand

• post

• stigmatize

• vilify

• defame

• slur

• cast a

• slur upon

• hold up to shame

• send to Coventry

• tread under foot

• trample

• under foot

• show up

• drag through the mire

• heap dirt upon

• reprehend

• 932

• bring low

• put down

• snub

• take down a peg

• take down a peg lower

• take down a peg or two

• obscure. eclipse

• outshine

• take the shine out of

• throw into the

• shade

• cast into the shade

• overshadow

• leave in the background

• put in the

• background

• push into a corner

• put one's nose out of joint

• put out

• put

• out of countenance

• upset

• throw off one's center

• discompose

• disconcert

• put to the

• blush

• Adj. disgraced

• blown upon

• "shorn of its beams" [Milton]

• shorn of one's glory

• overcome

• downtrodden

• loaded with shame

• in

• bad repute

• out of repute

• out of favor

• out of fashion

• out of

• countenance

• at a discount

• under a cloud

• under an eclipse

• unable to

• show one's face

• in the shade

• in the background

• out at elbows

• down at

• the elbows

• down in the world

• inglorious

• nameless

• obscure

• unknown to fame;

• unnoticed

• unhonored

• shameful

• disgraceful

• discreditable

• disreputable

• despicable;

• questionable

• unbecoming

• unworthy

• derogatory

• degrading

• humiliating

• infra dignitatem[Lat]

• scandalous

• infamous

• too bad

• unmentionable

• ribald

• opprobrious

• errant

• shocking

• outrageous

• notorious

• ignominious

• scrubby

• dirty

• abject

• vile

• beggarly

• pitiful

• low

• mean

• shabby base

• Adv. to one's shame be it spoken

• ough! sic transit gloria mundi[Lat.]!

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#875. Nobility. -- N. nobility

• rank

• condition

• distinction

• blood

• birth

• high descent

• order

• quality

• gentility

• blue blood of Castile

• high life

• upper classes

• upper ten thousand

• the

• four hundred [U. S.]

• elite

• aristocracy

• great folks

• fashionable world

• peer

• peerage

• house of lords

• house of peers

• lords

• lords temporal

• and spiritual

• noblesse

• noble

• nobleman

• lord

• grandee

• magnifico[Lat]

• hidalgo

• daimyo

• samurai

• shizoku [all

• Japanese]

• don

• aristocrat

• swell

• three-tailed

• gentleman

• squire

• patrician

• laureate

• gentry

• gentlefolk

• better sort magnates

• primates

• king

• prince

• duke

• marquis

• earl

• viscount

• baron

• thane

• baronet

• knight

• knighthood

• count

• laird;

• seignior

• esquire

• boyar

• margrave

• emir

• sharif

• effendi

• wali

• sahib

• chevalier

• maharaja

• nawab

• pasha

• rajah

• princess

• duchess

• marchioness

• countess

• lady

• dame;

• memsahib

• Dona

• maharani

• rani

• personage of distinction

• man of distinction

• personage of rank

• man

• of rank

• personage of mark

• man of mark

• notables

• notabilities

• celebrity

• bigwig

• magnate

• great man

• star

• superstar

• big bug

• big gun

• great gun;

• gilded rooster* [U. S.]

• magni nominis umbra [Lat][Lucan]

• "every inch a

• king" [Lear]

• V. be noble

• Adj. noble

• exalted

• of rank

• princely

• titled

• patrician

• aristocratic

• high-

• well-born

• of gentle blood

• genteel

• comme il

• courtly

• highly

• respectable

• Adv. in high quarters

• Phr. Adel sitzt im Gemuthe nicht im Gebluete[Ger.]

• adelig und edel

#876. Commonalty. -- N. commonalty

• democracy

• obscurity

• low

• condition

• low life

• low society

• low company

• bourgeoisie

• mass of the

• people

• mass of society

• Brown Jones and Robinson

• lower classes

• humbler

• classes

• humbler orders

• vulgar herd

• common herd

• rank and file

• hoc genus

• omne[Lat]

• the many

• the general,the crowd

• the people

• the populace

• the

• multitude

• the million

• the masses

• the mobility

• the peasantry

• king Mob;

• proletariat

• fruges consumere nati[Lat]

• demos

• hoi polloi [Grk][Grk][Grk]

• great unwashed

• man in the street

• mob

• rabble

• rabble rout

• chaff

• rout

• horde

• canaille

• scum of the

• people

• residuum of the people

• dregs of the people

• dregs of society;

• swinish multitude

• trash

• profanum vulgus[Lat]

• ignobile

• vulgus[Lat]

• vermin

• riffraff

• ragtag and bobtail

• small fry

• commoner

• one of the people

• democrat

• plebeian

• republican

• Mr. Snooks

• bourgeois

• Philistine

• cockney

• demimonde

• peasant

• countryman

• boor

• churl

• villain

• villein;

• terrae filius[Latin: son of the land]

• serf

• tyke

• tike

• fellah

• longshoreman

• swain

• clown

• hind

• clod

• clodhopper

• hobnail

• yokel

• bog-trotter

• bumpkin

• plowman

• rustic

• hayseed*

• lunkhead [U. S.]

• tiller of the soil;

• hewers of wood and drawers of water

• gaffer

• loon

• put

• cub

• rube* [U. S.]

• lout

• underling;

• gamin

• rough

• slubberdegullion|

• vulgar fellow

• low

• fellow

• cad

• curmudgeon

• upstart

• parvenu

• nobody

• nobody one knows

• hesterni

• quirites[Lat]

• pessoribus orti[Lat]

• novus

• homo[Lat]

• snob

• gent

• mushroom

• no one knows who

• adventurer

• man of

• straw

• beggar

• sans

• culotte

• tatterdemalion

• caitiff

• ragamuffin

• Pariah

• outcast

• of society

• tramp

• vagabond

• panhandler*

• chiffonnier

• Cinderella

• scrub

• jade

• Goth

• Vandal

• Hottentot

• Zulu

• savage

• barbarian

• Yahoo

• unlicked

• rough diamond|!

• barbarousness

• barbarism

• boeotia

• V. be ignoble

• be nobody

• Adj. ignoble

• common

• mean

• low

• base

• vile

• sorry

• scrubby

• beggarly;

• below par

• no great shakes

• homely

• homespun

• vulgar

• low-minded

• snobbish

• plebeian

• proletarian

• of low parentage

• of low origin

• of low

• extraction

• of mean parentage

• of mean origin

• of mean extraction

• lowborn

• baseborn

• mushroom

• dunghill

• risen from the ranks;

• unknown to fame

• obscure

• untitled

• rustic

• uncivilized

• loutish

• boorish

• clownish

• churlish

• brutish

• raffish

• rude

• barbarous

• barbarian

• barbaric

• cockney

• born

• within sound of Bow bells

• underling

• menial

• subaltern

• Adv. below the salt

• Phr. dummodo sit dives barbarus ipse placet [Lat][Ovid]

#877. Title. -- N. title

• honor

• knighthood

• highness

• excellency

• grace

• lordship

• worship

• reverence

• reverend;

• esquire

• sir

• master

• Mr

• signor

• senor

• Mein Herr[Ger]

• your honor

• his honor

• serene highness

• handle to one's name

• decoration

• laurel

• palm

• wreath

• garland

• bays

• medal

• ribbon

• riband

• blue ribbon

• cordon

• cross

• crown

• coronet

• star

• garter

• feather

• feather in one,s cap

• epaulet

• epaulette

• colors

• cockade

• livery

• order

• arms

• shield

• scutcheon

• reward