Synonyms Dictionary
2. management, relations, doings, action; proceeding, policy, practice, behavior, treatment. dean, n. 1. (in schools and colleges) official, officer, dignitary; faculty head, department or section head, registrar, secretary, provost, regent, president; counselor, advisor, personnel placement director, student services officer.
2. (within a class or category) senior member, senior, elder, elder statesman, ranking member, chief, leader, grand old man, principal, patriarch; first, foremost, most respected, most venerable, paramount, preeminent.
3. (of religious bodies) chapter head, capitular, Rom. Cath. Ch. vicar forane; pastor, rector, vicar; clergyman, ecclesiastic, cleric, priest, minister. dear, adj. 1. loved, beloved, darling, precious, treasured, cherished, valued, prized; favorite, favored, pet; respected, admired, highly esteemed, honored, venerated.
2. expensive, high-priced, costly, valuable; rich, sumptuous; excessive, overmuch, high, Inf. steep.
-n. 3. beloved, love, truelove, ladylove, darling; sweetheart, sweet, honey, precious, jewel; pet, apple of one's eye, favorite.
dearth, n. 1. scarcity, scarceness, lack, want; defi ciency, shortness, shortage, insufficiency, stint; scantiness, paucity, exiguity, meagerness, rareness; sparseness, seldomness, fewness, poorness, barrenness; depletion, exhaustion, emptiness, vacuity.
2. famine, starvation, drought, famishment, inanition; destitution, poverty, indigence, need; privation, deprivation, half rations, Chiefly Brit, short-com-mons; fast, diet, xerophagy, Lent, Obs. Quadragesima. death, n. 1. decease, demise, passing, expiration, departure, release, exit; end, cessation, dissolution, termination; brain death, Biol, biolysis, necrosis; rest, eternal rest, quietus, SI. curtains, Euph. the great adventure.
2. angel of death, Grim Reaper, Azrael, (in ancient Greece) Thanatos, (in ancient Rome) Mors; skeleton, skull and crossbones, death's head, the number 14, (Hebrew letter) nun, the black horse.
3. extinction, extermination, eradication, extirpation, liquidation, obliteration; destruction, annihilation, ruin, ruination.
4. bloodshed, bloodletting, carnage, slaughter, butchery; murder, massacre, slaying, killing. deathless, adj. 1. immortal, undying, imperishable, never-dying.
2. unceasing, perpetual, eternal, everlasting; lasting, Latin, aeres perennius, constant; never-ending, endless, interminable, unending, unfading, without end.
3. timeless, memorable, historic, unforgettable; venerable, eminent, distinguished, illustrious. deathlike, adj. cadaverous, skeletal, corpse-like, emaciated; pale, wan, ghostly, ghastly, pallid; livid, bloodless, anemic, white, etiolated; grim, gaunt, deathly, haggard, hollow-eyed; wasted, withered, shriveled. debacle, n. 1. downfall, collapse, breakdown, disintegration; breakup, dispersion, disruption, dissolution; overthrow, ruin, demolishment, devastation, wreck, havoc, disaster; tumult, turmoil, overturning, Fr. bouleversement, upsetting.
2. ice breakup, torrent, cataclysm, cataract; inundation, deluge, flood, rush of water, debar, v. 1. shut out, exclude, preclude, bar, keep
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