2. blandness, insipidness, flatness, vapidity, inanity, jejuneness, tastelessness, flavorlessness, weakness, wishy-washiness,
mileage, n.1. wear, use, usage, usefulness, service, serviceability; advantage, profit, benefit, gain, good; coverage, promotion, publicity.
2. viaticum, allowance, reimbursement, compensation, payment, recompense; ration, allotment, amount, percentage.
3. charge, fee, price, exaction; levy, tax, toll, rate; truckage, wharfage, towage, freightage, tollage.
4. (all in miles)
length, extent, distance; gap, space, span, reach, range.
milestone, n.1. milepost, marker, miliary column, waymark; signpost, direction post, post, mark, pointer.
2. climax, point, degree, stage, junctures, climacteric.
milieu, n.environment, sphere, medium, element, condition; ambience, atmosphere, air, aura, climate, tone, feeling, spirit; background, setting, backdrop, scene, stage; arena, locale, field, ground, theatre; surroundings, environs, vicinity, precincts, circle, purlieus, neighborhood,
militancy, n.aggressiveness, aggression, combativeness, activism, activity; belligerency, bellicosity, pugnacity, war fever; contentiousness, fierceness, ferocity, truculence; warmongering, saber rattling, jingoism, chauvinism; hawkishness, martialism, militarism,
militant, adj.1. aggressive, combative, truculent, offensive, activist; belligerent, bellicose, pugnacious, martial, warlike; hawkish, warmongering, flag-waving, saber-rattling, chauvinistic, jingoistic; war-loving, bloodthirsty, sanguinary, fierce, ferocious; hostile, contentious, antagonistic, unfriendly, enemy.
2. warring, contending, campaigning, attacking, up in arms; at war, on the warpath, on the offensive, at grips; embattled, arrayed, engaged, mobilized.
-n. 3. combatant, contender, battler, fighter, struggler, scuffler; soldier, serviceman, warrior, brave; assailer, assaulter, attacker, aggressor, fighting man.
militarism, n.military spirit, war fever, jingoism, chauvinism, Prussianism. See - militancy, militarist, n.warlord, warmonger, hawk, jingoist, chauvinist; mercenary, condottiere, soldier of fortune, adventurer, crusader, ghazi.
military, adj.1. army, martial, militant, naval, service, fighting.
2. soldierly, soldierlike, military-minded; combative, contentious, militarist, aggressive. See - militant (def. 1).
-n. 3. armed forces, army, service, forces, regular army, standing army, the military establishment; soldiery, troops, contingents, janissaries, legions, ranks, cannon fodder; recruits, reinforcements, the line, storm troops.
militate, v. Usu.
militate against operate against, go against, side against, war against, contend against; contradict, belie, counter, work against, traverse, cross, not conduce to; rebuff, spurn, foil, counteract; countervail, counterpoise, cancel out, conflict with; antagonize, oppose, counterattack, oppugn, resist,
militia, n.national guard, guard, reserves, minute-men, home reserves, home guard; yeomanry, volunteers, Eng. Hist,
trainband, posse, posse commitatus.
milk, n.1. cream, cow's milk, goat's milk, beestings, breast milk, mother's milk, kumiss; whey, curds, junket, buttermilk, skim milk; bonnyclabber, posset,
