Synonyms

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2. emissary, agent, representative, delegate, deputy; nuncio, internuncio; messenger, herald, courier, runner; go-between, middleman, intermediary, mediator.

envy, n. 1. jealousy, resentment, grudge, begrudging, heartburn, green-eyed monster, enviousness; discontentment, malcontentedness, dissatisfaction, unhappiness, heartburning; rivalry, cupidity, Obs. emulation.
2. covetousness, desire, wanting, longing or wishing for, yearning or hankering after, sighing or pining for, Inf. yen, SI. letch; craving, relish, taste, appetite, appetence, hunger, thirst; fancy, eye, U.S. Dial, big eye; itch, passion, lust.
-v. 3. begrudge, be jealous of, resent, grudge, be envious of; covet, desire, want, wish for, long for, yearn for, hanker after, sigh for, pine for, Inf. have a yen for; crave, relish, have an appetite or taste for, hunger or thirst for; fancy, have an eye on, ogle, eye greedily; have an itch for, have a passion for, lust after, SI. letch after.

eon, n. age, ages, years on end, a long time, an eternity; Inf forever.

ephemeral, adj. short-lived, momentary, temporary, brief, of short duration; impermanent, mortal, unen-during, fleeting, passing, fading; evanescent, transient, transitory, fugacious, caducous, deciduous, mono-hemerous.

epic, adj. 1. epical, Homeric, Vergilian; narrative, descriptive, detailed, graphic; legendary, historic, historical, mythical, fabulous, fantastic; heroic, great, superhuman; grand, majestic, impressive, imposing, grandiose.
2. colossal, huge, vast, very large, voluminous; overdone, excessive, exaggerated, inflated; bombastic, fustian, pompous, high-sounding, high-flown, pretentious, grandiloquent, rhetorical; lofty, elevated, exalted, sublime.
3. epic poem, epopee, epos; narrative, chronicle, history, saga; legend, myth, story, tale.

epicure, n. 1. connoisseur, aesthete, epicurean; gourmet, gourmand, gastronome, gastronomist; deip-nosophist, conversationalist.
2. voluptuary, sensualist, Fr. bon vivant, hedonist, sybarite, cormorant; glutton, hog, belly-god, wine bibber; libertine, rou£, debauchee, lecher, Paphian.

epicurean, adj. 1. sybaritic, sensual, carnal, voluptuous; orgiastic, wild, unrestrained; self-indulgent, intemperate, free-living, Saturnalian.
2. dissolute, licentious, libertine, lascivious, debauched, dissipated, wasted; concupiscent, prurient, libidinous, salacious; beastly, bestial, swinish, porcine, piggish; drunken, bibulous, sottish, crapulous, gluttonous, Bacchanalian.
3. refined, cultivated, polished, cultured, civilized, well-bred, genteel, courtly; pampered, indulged; finished, fine, urbane; aesthetic, tasteful, in good taste, graceful, delicate, exquisite; noble, gentle, pure.
4. meticulous, punctilious, discriminating, fastidious; overscrupulous, overcritical; formal, proper, dainty, strict, overnice; squeamish, fussy, finicking, finicky. -n. S. voluptuary, sensualist, Fr. bon vivant, Inf. high liver, sybarite, epicure. See - epicure (defs. 1, 2).

epicureanism, n. 1. epicurism, sybaritism, hedonism, luxuriousness, voluptuousness, sensuality, sensuousness; gourmanderie, gastronomy.
2. intemperance, self-gratification, self-indulgence, overindulgence, unrestraint, incontinence, immoderation; revelry, carousal, dolce vita, wild or riotous or free living, Inf high living; crapulence, gluttony, greediness, gulosity, edacity.