thoughtlessness, n. 1. carelessness, heedlessness, unmindfulness, regardlessness, disregardfulness, negligence, neglectfulness, remissness; inadvertence, inattentiveness, unobservance; inconsiderateness, inconsideration, insensibility, unthinkingness, forgetfulness, obliviousness; tactlessness, untactfulness, unsolicitousness.
2. recklessness, rashness, precipitousness, foolhardiness; imprudence, injudiciousness, indiscretion, improvidence.
3. flightiness, giddiness, dizziness; vacuousness, emptiness, empty-headedness, blankness.
4. foolishness, stupidity, senselessness, witlessness, brainlessness; asininity, idiocy, moronism, craziness, insanity, madness; All SI. nuttiness, screwiness, looniness, daffiness, wackiness, battiness.
thrall, n. 1. slave, bondsman, bond slave, chattel slave, chattel, indentured servant, Hist, or Archaic. theow; bondswoman, bondmaid.
2. thralldom. See - thralldom.
thralldom, n. slavery, servitude, subjection, subjugation, enslavement, enthrallment, thrall; captivity, bondage, bond service, indentureship.
thrash, v. 1. flog, lash, switch, birch, scourge, flagellate, whip, horsewhip, curry, strap, thresh, flail, cowhide, spank, Inf tan [s.o.'s] hide, Inf. trim, Inf. thump, Inf lace, Inf lambaste, Inf. whale, SI. whump; beat, batter, pound, pommel, pummel, baste, pelt, lay on, SI. paste, Archaic, belabor; punch, smite, hit, strike, thwack, slap, smack, Australian, ding, Scot. and North Eng. paik; cuff, buffet, sandbag, box, Inf clout, Inf slug, Inf. whack, Inf. knock [s.o.'s] block off, Inf. crown, Inf. wallop, SI. belt, SI. sock, SI. plug, U.S. SI. biff, SI. loop; cudgel, fustigate, cane, bastinado.
2. trounce, rout, vanquish, defeat, worse, Inf. lick, SI. shellac, SI. pulverize; conquer, overthrow, overpower, overwhelm, master; quash, crush, trample, destroy, do for, SI. do in.
3. thresh, flail.
4. toss and turn, fling oneself about; jerk, jump, twitch; pitch, rock, roll, sway.
-n. 5. beating, battering, pounding, pommeling, pummeling, pelting, going over, SI. pasting; thrashing, flogging, basting, lashing, whipping, spanking, Inf. tanning, smacking, slapping, Inf. whacking.
6. blow, bastindo, Scot. dunt, Scot and North Eng. paik, punch, beat, box, Inf. wallop, Brit. Dial, douse, U. S. SI. biff, SI. bop; cuff, strike, hit, slap, smack, Inf clout.
thread, n. 1. cord, string, yarn, twine, twist, pip
ing; cable, wire; fiber, filament, fibril.
2. strand, line, seam, strip, chain, tape; wisp, hair;
queue, file, row; stream, jet.
3. theme, subject, subject matter, thesis, motif; story line, plot; train of thought.
-v. 4. string, Naut. reeve, braid.
5. pervade, permeate, penetrate, imbue, suffuse, fill; connect, unite, link, tie together, merge, fuse, inosculate.
6. wind, meander, loop, twine, twist, stray, straggle; push through, squeeze through, shoulder through.
threadbare, adj. 1. worn, worn to a thread, worn out, shopworn, (of a tire) bald, napless, moth-eaten, frayed, ragged; raveled, holey, in need of patches; faded; marred, damaged.