palm2, n. victory, triumph, success; laurels, honor, glory, fame, distinction; crown, wreath, garland, chaplet; prize, trophy, award, decoration, badge,
palmate, adj. radial, spoked, arranged around a hub or nave; hand-like, palm-like, palmy, Bot. digitate; star-shaped, starlike, starry, stelliform, stellar, stellular; fan-shaped, fan-like; fingered, leafed, branched, antlered, Bot. fronded.
palmist, n. palm reader, chiromancer, fortuneteller; clairvoyant, seer, soothsayer, foreseer, foreteller, pres-ager, prognosticator, predictor, forecaster; diviner, augur, prophet, prophetess, vaticinator, sibyl,
palmistry, n. palm reading, chiromancy, fortune-telling; soothsaying, foretelling, prognostication, prediction, forecasting; divination, augury, prophecy, vaticination.
palmy, adj. prosperous, thriving, golden, flourishing, halcyon; wonderful, wondrous, marvelous, spectacular, fabulous, winning; delightful, charming, captivating, enchanting, delectable; excellent, superb, splendid, consummate, Inf. peachy, Brit. SI. ducky; enjoyable, pleasurable, pleasant, pleasing, gratifying, agreeable, congenial; peaceful, serene, pacific, heavenly; promising, sunny, roseate, rosy, balmy,
palpable, adj. 1. evident, manifest, apparent, self-evident, manifestative, Fr. en evidence; visible, see-able, in full view, open, public, exposed, showing, naked, bald, unhidden, uncovered, unveiled, unshrouded, uncurtained; obvious, patent, conspicuous, prominent, striking, blatant, flagrant, egregious; overt, displayed, shown, presented, professed, avowed, ostensible; plain, clear, clear-cut, plain as day, plain as the nose on your face; distinct, definite, unmistakable, unambiguous, indubitable, unquestionable; discernible, perceivable, perceptible, recognizable, ascertainable, salient.
2. tangible, tactile, tactual, touchable, sensible, ponderable, appreciable, nonabstract; incarnate, embodied, corporal, corporeal, physical, material, bodily, somatic; concrete, real, solid, substantial, substantive,
palpate, v. handle, touch, contact; examine, feel, probe; massage, stroke, knead, manipulate, rub, caress; finger, thumb.
palpation, n. handling, touching, feeling; examination, probe, physical; massage, stroking, kneading, manipulating, manipulation; rubbing, caressing; contact, touch; stereognosis.
palpitant, adj. pulsating, pulsative, pulsatory, pulsing, beating, throbbing; trembling, tremulous, tremulant, shaking, shaky, quivering; vibrant, vibrating, vi-brative, vibratory; fluttering, twittering, twittery, flickering; agitated, disquieted, discomposed, excited; turbulent, tumultuous.
palpitate, v. pulsate, pulse, beat, throb; tremble, shake, quiver, quaver, quake, shiver, vibrate; flutter, twitter, flicker, patter; pound, pump, drum,
palpitation, n. palpitating, pulsating, pulsing, pulsation, beating, beat, throbbing, throb; trembling, tremble, shaking, quivering, quiver, quavering, quaking, shivering, vibrating, vibration, tremor, trepidation; fluttering, flutter, flittering, flitter, twittering, twitter, flickering, flicker, pattering, patter, pitter-patter; pounding, drumming, pumping; turbulency, turbulence, tumult,
palpus, n. palp, Zool. antenna, Zool. feeler, Zool. tentacle, sensory appendage, organ of touch,
palsied, adj. paralyzed, paralytic, crippled, spastic; shaking, shaky, trembling, tremulous, tremulant, trembly, quaking, quaky, shuddering, shuddery; shivering, shivery, quivering, quivery, quavering, quavery, quaverous.
palsy, n. paralysis, Pathol, cerebral palsy, Pathol.