ing, retrospection, reviewing, remembrance of things past, contemplation, reflection; dwelling in the past, living in the past, nostalgia. reminiscent, adj. 1. Usu. reminiscent of suggestive of, evocative of, redolent of, expressive of, indicative of.
2. recollective, recollecting, remembering, bethinking, musing; nostalgic, sentimental. remiss, adj. 1. negligent, delinquent, derelict, Inf. asleep at the wheel or at the switch or on the job; indolent, lazy, slothful, laggard, shiftless, do-nothing, faineant; slack, loose, lax, sloppy, slipshod, hasty, cursory, perfunctory; dilatory, delaying, procrastinative, cunctatious, cunctatory.
2. neglectful, disregardful, disregarding, disregardant, inattentive, careless, heedless, unheeding; unobservant, unwatchful, inadvertent, unguarded; thoughtless, unthinking, unmindful, forgetful, oblivious, unaware; improvident, imprudent, injudicious; reckless, rash, temerarious, Obs. respectless. remission, n. 1. forwarding, transmission, transmittal, transmitting, sending, dispatch, dispatching, remitting; payment, paying, discharge, discharging; remunerating, reimbursement, reimbursing, compensation, settlement, settling, paying off or up, liquidation.
2. pardon, pardoning, amnesty, excuse, excusal, reprieve, reprieving, vindication, vindicating; exoneration, exonerating, freedom, freeing, release, releasing, liberation, emancipation, deliverance, forgiveness, forgiving, absolution, absolving, shriving; condonation, condoning, overlooking, disregarding, disregard, oblivion, forgetting, ignoring.
3. abatement, subsidence, subsiding, recession, receding, ebb, ebbing, lulling, decrease, decreasing, decline, declination, declining, sinking; diminution, diminishing, reduction, reducing, lessening, lightening, attenuation, waning; contraction, contracting, shrinkage, shrinking, dwindling, falling off; relaxation, relaxing, slackening, loosening, easing; mitigation, mitigating, assuagement, assuaging, allaying, alleviation, alleviating, palliation, relieving; quelling, quieting, calming, stilling; mollification, mollifying, moderation, moderating, modification, temperance, tempering, subduing, chastening, softening, weakening; yielding, submission, submitting, giving in, surrender, surrendering, giving up.
4. pause, lull, lapse, interregnum, Inf. letup; respite, reprieve, breath, breathing spell, breather, relief, rest, repose, relaxation, recess, inactivity, Archaic, bever; interruption, hiatus, break, intermission, Both Prosody. mora, caesura; suspension, abeyance, prorogation, deferment, deferral, delay, postponement, protraction, extension, continuation, Law. continuance; stemming, checking, cessation, ceasing, desistance, desisting, arrest, stoppage, stopping, halt, standstill, discontinuance, discontinuation, termination. remit, v. 1. forward, transmit, send, dispatch; pay, make payment, discharge; remunerate, recompense, reimburse, compensate; settle, pay off or up, pay in full, liquidate.
2. respite, reprieve, stay, grant a stay of execution, interrupt, stem, check, hold up; arrest, stop, brake, halt, desist, cease; forbear, spare, judge with leniency or clemency, be easy on, give a light sentence, refrain, hold back.
3. exonerate, release, free, set free, let off, Inf. let off the hook, Inf. let out of, liberate, emancipate, deliver, Obs. vindicate; exempt, except, make an exception, Rom. Cath. Ch. dispense; continue, grant an extension, Finance, extend, Commerce, indulge; waive, abolish, do away with, cancel, void, nullify, delete, erase, clear the books, wipe the slate clean.