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Aim \v.\
SYN: Seek, level, propose, design, affect, intend, mean, purpose.
ANT: Shun, disregard, disaffect, ignore, overlook, avoid.
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Airy.
SYN: Light, ethereal, spiritual, joyous, sprightly, lively, animated, frolicsome, fairy-like.
ANT: Dull, inert, stony, ponderous, plow, heavy, cheerless, sullen, dolesome, lugubrious, leaden, wooden.
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Akin.
SYN: Related, agnate, cognate, homogeneous, similar, consanguineous, congenial, allied, sympathetic.
ANT: Unrelated, unconnected, foreign, alien, heterogeneous, uncongenial, hostile, unallied, antagonistic, unsympathetic, dissimilar.
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Alacrity.
SYN: Quickness, readiness, briskness, activity, cheerfulness, compliance, willingness, promptitude.
ANT: Slowness, reluctance, repugnance.
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Alarm \n.\
SYN: Apprehension, fright, fear, timidity, consternation, tocsin, war-cry, war-note, reveille, dread, affright, disquietude, dismay.
ANT: Confidence, security, quiet.
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Alarm \v.\
SYN: Warn, wake, terrify, intimidate, frighten.
ANT: Compose, embolden, reassure, rally.
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Alarming.
SYN: Terrible, fearful, frightful, portentous, ominous, threatening.
ANT: Soothing, assuring, encouraging, inviting, propitious, hopeful, alluring, enticing, attractive.
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Alert.
SYN: Active, brisk, nimble, prepared, prompt, vigilant, ready, wakeful, watchful, on the watch, lively.
ANT: Slow, sleepy, lazy, absent, unready, oblivious, sluggish, inactive, unwatchful, dilatory, drowsy.
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Alien.
SYN: Foreign, strange, undomesticated, inappropriate, irrelevant, impertinent.
ANT: Pertinent, essential, proper, appropriate, relevant, germane, akin, apropos, naturalized.
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Alienate.
SYN: Estrange, abalienate, transfer, wean, disaffect, convey.
ANT: Conciliate, retain, endear, entail, bind, secure.
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Alienation.
SYN: Insanity, aberration, hallucination, derangement, imbecility.
ANT: Sanity, soundness, sobriety, rationality.
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Alight.
SYN: Perch, drop, descend, dismount.
ANT: Mount, ascend, spring, soar, start.
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Alike.
SYN: Resembling, similar, together, twin-fellow, analogous, identical, equal, equivalent, same, homogeneous, akin, equally.
ANT: Unlike, heterogeneous, apart, dissimilar, variously, differently, unequally.
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Aliment.
SYN: Food, sustentation, nutriment, pabulum, victuals, provision, meat, sustenance, nourishment.
ANT: Poison, bane, venom, starvation, exhaustion.
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Alive.
SYN: Quick, living, breathing, warm, lively, vivacious, alert, existing, existent, safe, subsisting, active, brisk, animated.
ANT: Dead, departed, cold, lifeless, defunct, inanimate, dispirited, du.
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All.
SYN: Whole, complete, entire, total, every, integral, perfect, full.
ANT: [(preceding)], Some, part.
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Allay.
SYN: soothe, alleviate, repress, mitigate, quiet, moderate, appease, compose, soften, pacify, mollify, assuage, tranquilize, palliate, culm.
ANT: Excite, rouse, aggravate, stir, kindle, fan, impassion, provoke, incite.
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Allege.
SYN: Declare, affirm, assert, asseverate, depose, plead, cite, quote, assign, advance, maintain, say.
ANT: Contradict, gainsay, refute, deny, disprove, neutralize, quash, repel.
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Allegiance.
SYN: Subjection, obedience, loyalty, fealty, homage.
ANT: Disloyalty, rebellion, resistance, disaffection, malcontentment, treason.
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Allegory.
SYN: Parable, metaphor, fable, illustration, image.
ANT: History, fact, narrative.
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Alleviate.
SYN: Lighten, lessen, assuage, mitigate, soothe, moderate, relieve, remit, diminish.
ANT: Aggravate, enhance, increase, embitter, augment.
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Alliance.
SYN: Compact, treaty, cooperation, union, connection, partnership, league, combination, coalition, confederation, friendship, relation, relationship.
ANT: Disunion, enmity, divorce, discord, disruption, antagonism, separation, estrangement, hostility.
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Allot.
SYN: Assign, grant, award, give, apportion, deal, dispense, parcel, distribute, divide, mete out, portion out.
ANT: Refuse, withhold, retain, appropriate, resume, misapportion, misdeal.
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Allotment.
SYN: Piece, assignment, parcel, award, apportionment.
ANT: Misappropriation, seizure, encroachment.
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Allow.
SYN: Concede, apportion, allot, assign, afford, tolerate, authorize, grant, remit, recognize, acknowledge, avow, confess, admit, permit, suffer, sanction, yield.
ANT: Withhold, withdraw, resume, refuse, deny, disallow, repudiate, protest, Withstand, resist, disapprove, reject.
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Allowance, [See ALLOW].
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Alloy.
SYN: Admixture, deterioration, adulteration, drawback, diminution, decrement, impairment, debasement, depreciation, disparagement.
ANT: Purity, genuineness, enhancement, integrity.
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Alloyed.
SYN: Mixed, deteriorated, impaired, diminished, adulterated.
ANT: Pure, absolute, perfect, complete, genuine, unmixed, unimpaired, undeteriorated, undiminished, unadulterated, enhanced.
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Allude.
SYN: Point, indicate, suggest, hint, signify, insinuate, refer, imply, intimate.
ANT: Specify, demonstrate, declare, mention, state.
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Allure.
SYN: Entice, seduce, attract, tempt, decoy, inveigle, wheedle, lure, cajole.
ANT: Alarm, deter, terrify, scare, warn.
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Allurement, [See ALLURE].
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Allusion.
SYN: Reference, insinuation.
ANT: Specification, demonstration, mention.
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Ally.
SYN: Friend, companion, supporter, aider, abetter, accomplice, assistant, confederate, helper, associate, accessory, colleague, coadjutor.
ANT: Foe, enemy, opponent, adversary, baffler, counteractor, antagonist.
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Aloof.
SYN: Apart, away, separately.
ANT: Close, near, together.
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Aloud.
SYN: Audibly, loudly, clamorously, sonorously, vociferously, obstreperously.
ANT: Softly, silently, inaudibly, suppressedly.
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Alter.
SYN: Substitute, change, vary, modify, exchange, diversify, remodel.
ANT: Retain, perpetuate, conserve, stereotype, arrest, solidify, stabilitate.
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Alterable.
SYN: Variable, mutable, changeable, movable, revocable.
ANT: Invariable, immutable, fixed, unchangeable, permanent, perpetual, unalterable, immovable.
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Alteration.
SYN: Variation, difference, diversification, shifting, modification, change, permutation, mutation, mutability.
ANT: Retention, perpetuation, conservation, changelessness, identity, stabilisation, fixity, permanence.
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Altercation.
SYN: Dispute, wrangle, contentious, quarrel, dissension, commotion, variance, disturbance, affray, controversy, brawl.
ANT: Unanimity, concord, compromise, agreement, reconciliation, consonance, conversation, harmony.
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Alternative.
SYN: Choice, resource, opinion.
ANT: Compulsion, quandary, necessity, fix.
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Altiloquence.
SYN: Bombast, inflatedness, turgidity, euphuism, magniloquence.
ANT: Plain-spokenness, vernacular, mother tongue.
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Altitude.
SYN: Height, tallness, verticality, ascent, loftiness, eminence, elevation.
ANT: Lowness, depression, descent, declination, depth.
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Altogether.
SYN: Collectively, combined, in one, totally, entirely, wholly, fully, completely, utterly, thoroughly.
ANT: Separately, individually, partially.
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Amalgamate.
SYN: Fuse, commix, mix, compound, unite, consolidate, incorporate.
ANT: Separate, disintegrate, decompose, disunite, dissipate, detach, disperse, analyze.
