Synonyms Dictionary
2. intelligent, brilliant, apt, clever, ingenious; astute, bright, agile, quick, smart, acute, sharp, gigantic, adj. enormous, huge, large, immense, prodigious, herculean; cyclopean, titanic, Brob-dingnagian, Atlantean; mammoth, jumbo, colossal, monumental, monstrous, gigantean; great, great big, towering, staggering, mountainous, stupendous, tremendous, Si. humongous; elephantine, hippopotamic, leviathan, dinosaurian, dinotherian, megatherian; oversize, kingsize, overlarge; All Inf whopping, spanking, walloping, strapping, thundering, thumping. giggle, v. snicker, snigger, titter, teehee, ha-ha, SI. yuk-yuk; laugh, chortle, chuckle, gigolo, n. 1. (all hired) escort, companion, dancing partner, It. cicisbeo.
2. pimp, pander, procurer.
3. paramour, lover, amorist, gallant, Archaic, leman.
4. playboy, ladykiller, ladies' man, man about town; cad, two-timer, Derogatory, male chauvinist or male chauvinist pig. gild, v. 1. gilt, aurify, aureate, make golden, inlay or outlay with gold; coat, plate, electroplate; enamel, lacquer, paint.
2. decorate, embellish, furbish, adorn, brighten up, cheer up; bedizen, bedeck, deck out, deck, array, Archaic. bedight; dress up, dress, caparison, Inf. doll up, Inf. pretty up, beautify, prettify; enrich,' enhance, polish, smarten.
3. sugarcoat, coat, whitewash, window-dress; disguise, camouflage, conceal. gimcrack, n. gewgaw, bauble, trifle, trinket. See gewgaw. gimmick, n. contrivance, device, Inf. contraption, invention, apparatus, gadget, hickey; design, plan, scheme, strategy; stratagem, Inf. wrinkle, artifice, trick, Inf. flimflam, wile, ruse, ploy, trap; subterfuge, blind, Inf. dodge, fetch; maneuver, deception, feint, sleight, shift, shuffle; catch, snag, hitch, rub, drawback, fly in the ointment, gimmicky, adj. contrived, devised, faked, false, SI. hokey; commercial, plastic, SI. mickey mouse, artificial; tricky, wily, shifty, deceitful, deceptive, gin, n. trap, snare, ensnarement, noose, pitfall, net, toil; decoy, lure, bait, hook, gingerly, adv. cautiously, charily, warily, cannily, carefully, heedfully, attentively; prudently, politicly, discreetly, judiciously, circumspectly; watchfully, vigilantly, guardedly, timidly, timorously, shyly, gird, v. 1. encircle, circle, Archaic., Poetic, cincture; belt, bind, truss, girdle, begird; wrap, swathe, swaddle, bandage; buckle, strap, tie, hitch, pinion, fasten, secure.
2. encompass, compass, circumscribe, circumvent, environ, ring, loop, ensphere, surround; confine, enclose, hem in, hedge, pen, coop.
3. Usu. gird oneself strengthen, fortify, brace, buttress, steel, harden, prepare. girdle, n. 1. corset, Chiefly Brit, stays, Obs. bodice, corselet; foundation garment, panty girdle, garter belt, SI. undie; back brace, Med. truss.
2. belt, sash, obi, waistband, cummerbund, cestus, Archaic, zone, Archaic., Poetic, cincture; baldric, cord, cordon, braid, thong, strap, (for a horse) surcingle.
3. circumference, perimeter, edge, skirt; circuit, compass, ambit, outline, confine; bound, limit, border, boundary.
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