3. display, demonstration, exhibition, configuration, coverage, incorporation, encompassment; distribution, disposition, deployment, formation, routine,
Brit. Inf. the drill; form, array, order, organization, grouping, placement, coordination, collation; production, staging, presentation, packaging, design, style, styling, creation; orchestration, scoring, instrumentation, adaptation, transcription.
4. setting, background, stage setting, stage set, set, scene, backdrop, scenery; ground, field, site, locale, environment, surroundings; arena, stage, theatre, platform, mount, dais, estrade; support, underframe, base, rigging, scaffolding; framework, structure, skeleton, bones; window dressing, illumination, lighting; motif, pattern, theme, ornamental theme; ornamentation, decor, embellishment, trimming, emblazonment; fitting, casing, display case or cabinet, case, box, shadow box, frame, edging, backing, matting, foil.
-adj. 5. ascending, ascensive, ascendant, ascensional; rising, leaping, springing, skyrocketing, spiral-ing, upward spiraling, soaring, climbing, surging; increasing, gaining; inflationary, swelling, ballooning; appreciating, advancing, booming, ever-increasing. mourn, v. 1. grieve, sorrow, lament, ache, suffer, eat one's heart out, be sad, be anguished, bewail, bemoan; weep for, be sorry for, deplore, regret, repine, rue, rue the day; yearn, languish, despair; break down, give way, melt into tears, cry one's eyes out.
2. weep, cry, sob, Scot. and North Eng. greet; keen, ululate, wail, howl, Yiddish, kvitch, Yiddish, geshrie; beat one's breast, flagellate oneself, tear one's hair, gnash one's teeth, rend one's clothes, put on sackcloth and ashes, wear mourning, wear widow's weeds; be dumb with grief, elegize, give sorrow words, Inf. sing the blues. mourner, n. sorrower, griever, lamenter, weeper, wail-er, bewailer, bemoaner, elegizer, repiner, groaner, whimperer; survivor, widow or widower, bereaved person, orphan, SI. relict; commiserator, condoler, pallbearer, bearer, undertaker, Brit. Obs. mute, professional mourner, Inf. crepe hanger. mournful, adj. 1. sad, sorrowful, doleful, dolorous, downcast, downhearted, heavy-hearted, low-spirited, discouraged; woeful, cheerless, joyless, forlorn, woebegone; sorrowing, attended with sorrow, Fr. triste, unhappy, afflicted, disheartened, bowed-down, wan, blue, pensive, grim-visaged, long-faced; in mourning, in sackcloth and ashes; grief-stricken, prostrate, overcome, overcome with grief, dashed, broken-hearted, despairing, heartsick, disconsolate, despondent, melancholy, desolate, cut up; lugubrious, lachrymose, tearful, shedding tears, bathed in tears, crying; moaning, groaning, wailing, keening, Yiddish, kvitching.
