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anomaly
- deviation from what is normal or expected
- syn: incongruity, deviant
- ant: congruous
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apathy
- lack of feeling, emotion or interest
- syn: aloof, impassive
- ant: ardor, fervor, zeal
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appall
- to fill with intense horror, fear or dismay
- syn: stupefy, astound
- ant: gladden, elate, exhilerate
- phrase: be aghast at
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apprehend
- arrest or take into custody; perceive or understand the meaning of; look forward to with fear or anxiety
- syn: nab, collar, discern, fathom, foreboding
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arbitrary
- subject to or determined by one's judgement, random; arrived at by excercise of will, preference or whim, not justice; tyrannical
- syn: capricious, highhanded, despotic
- ant: objective, equitable
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arbitrate
- act as a judge in a dispute, to settle
- phrases: arbiter elegantaie
- syn: adjudicate, mediate
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array
- line up, dress; imposing grouping, rich and beautiful
- syn: marshal, muster, gussy up, accouter, finery, accouterments
- ant: disperse, disband, dismiss
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articulate
- pronounce distinctly, express well in words; expressed clearly and forcefully, fluent
- syn: enunciate, expound, elucidate, explicate, silver-tongued, glib
- ant: mumble, maunder, garbled
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askew
- out of line, turned to one side; disapprovingly, scornfully
- syn: cock-eyed, awry, disdainfully, comtemptuously, askance, derisively
- ant: benignly
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assimilate
- absorb fully or make one's own, adopt; adapt fully
- syn: homogenize, fuse, digest
- ant: segregate, insulate
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astute
- keen of mind and judgement, cunning
- syn: shrewd, sagacious, perspicacious, wily, cagey, acumen
- ant: obtuse, doltish, vacuous, inane
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asylum
institution that shelters and cares for mentally unbalanced, aged or homeless people; place offering protectio/security; protection against legal or social penalty
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atone
- to make up for or repent
- syn: expiate, penance, expiation, redress
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atrocity
- savagely cruel, brutal or inhuman deed; monstrosity
- syn: enormity, sadistic, grisly, ghastly, heinous, abominable
- ant: clement, benevolent, irreproachable
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atrophy
- failure to develop normally, progressive decline; waste away
- syn: wither
- ant: flourish
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attrition
- gradual wearing down or weakening of resistance resulting from constant friction, pressure or harassment; gradual (sometimes natural) decrease in size, strength or number
- syn: abrasion, enervation, diminution
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augment
- make greater; become greater
- ant: curtail, abate
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augur
- someone who can indicate the future by spotting omens; to predict or foretell through signs, to point to or be an omen
- syn: soothsayer, seer, prognosticate, portend, presage, bode
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austere
- rigidly severe, severely simple or bare
- syn: strait-laced, abstemious, puritanical, ascetic
- ant: orotund, florid, gaudy
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authentic
- genuine, trustworthy
- syn: veritable, bona fide, kosher
- ant: spurious, apocryphal, dubious
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avarice
- excessive desire to acquire and possess wealth, combination of greed and stinginess
- syn: acquisitive, cupidity, covetousness, rapacity, miserliness, parsimony niggardliness
- ant: liberal
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avid
- extremely eager, anxious or enthusiastic
- syn: zealous, ardent, fervid, voracious, rabid, gung ho
- ant: apathetic
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badger
- tease, annoy with a string of petty torments
- syn: harass, vex, bait, harry
- ant: pacify
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baffle
- puzzle completely; prevent from achieving a goal
- syn: nonplus, confound, foil, balk, stymie, enigmatic
- ant: fathom
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banal
- made stale by constant use or repetition
- syn: trite, hackneyed, prosaic, pedestrian, vapid, fatuous, jejune, corny, triteness, cliche, platitude, bromide
- ant: scintillating, piquant
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belligernet
- warring, actually engaged in a war, hostile; party (i.e. nation) engaged in a war
- syn: martial, bellicose, pugnacious
- ant: pacific, concilliatory, dovish
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benign
- gentle and kindly; wholesome or favorable
- syn: benevolent, auspicious, salutary, salubrious
- ant: malevolent, pernicious, deleterious, injurious, inimical, noxious
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bicker
- engage in petty quarreling
- syn: squabble, wrangle, haggle, dicker
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bizarre
- weird or fantastic
- syn: grotesque, singular, eccentric
- ant: orthodox, sedate, sober, staid
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bland
- mild or gentle; lacking in interest or liveliness, flat
- syn: insipid
- ant: piquant, racy, florid, scintillating, sprightly
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