society, n. 1. association, consociation, club, circle, band, group; community, congregation, assembly, body; affiliation, fraternity, brotherhood, sisterhood; alliance, federation, league; guild, union.
2. humanity, the human race, humankind, mankind, people, the world, Fr. monde; the public, the general public, the commonwealth, the body politic; the community.
3. company, companionship, friendship, camaraderie, fellowship.
4. high society, Fr. haut monde, Inf. upper crust; upper classes, nobility, peerage, aristocracy, gentility; the privileged classes, the rich, the elite.
sod, n. 1. clump or chunk of turf, Scot. divot.
2. turf, sward, greensward; lawn, grass, grass court, green, grounds, mall, parkland, park; pasture, meadow, grassland, hayfield, field, Archaic, glebe. sodden, adj. 1. soggy, soppy, sopping, sopping or wringing wet, wet, dripping; oozy, leaking, seepy, seeping; humid, damp, dank, moist, soupy, clammy, sweaty, muggy, steamy; soaked, drenched, saturated, soused, waterlogged; drowned, flooded, inundated, covered with water, under water; imbued, imbrued, infused, permeated, steeped, marinated, soaked through; bloated, swollen, puffy, distended, blown up; macerated, decomposing, disintegrating, falling apart.
2. spongy, marshy, paludal, boggy, swampy, quaggy, miry, slimy, muddy, lutose; soft, mushy, squashy, squishy, pulpy, flabby, fleshy, fat, thick, succulent, Bot. uliginous; watery, thin, pappy, paplike, runny; doughy, gummy, tacky, sticky, viscid, gluey, gluelike, glutinous, Inf. gooey; lumpy, pasty, starchy, heavy, indigestible, unhealthful.
3. solemn, staid, somber, sober, stodgy; ponderous, laborious, labored, tedious, tiresome, tiring, wearisome; dull, dry, dry-as-dust, prosaic, uninteresting, boring, boresome, humdrum, monotonous, dead; expressionless, vapid, vacant, empty; bland, tasteless, insipid, jejune, pallid, SI. nothing, SI. blah, SI. for the birds; dull-witted, stolid, doltish, loutish, lumpish, blockish, bovine, Inf. thick; stupid, slow-witted, Inf. dumb, retarded.
4. spiritless, lifeless, unanimated; heavy, leaden, torpid, listless, lethargic, phlegmatic, sluggish, languid, lazy, oscitant, drowsy; stationary, static, stagnant, standing, dormant, still, motionless, inactive, inert. sofa, n. couch, divan, lounge, ottoman, U.S. davenport; love seat, settee, causeuse; studio couch, sleep sofa, day bed, Trademark. Castro convertible; t6te-&-t6te, siamoise, vis-^-vis; sectional. soft, adj. 1. plushlike, plushed, squashy, squishy, mushy, spongy; pulpy, pulpal, pulpous, pulplike, pul-paceous, overripe, overmature; pappy, paplike, mashed, softened; thin, watery, runny, liquid; loamy, friable, crumbly; marshy, paludal, boggy, swampy, quaggy, miry, slimy; doughy, pasty, starchy, Inf. gooey; fleshy, flabby, fat.
2. pliable, pliant, malleable, ductile, flexible, flexile, flexuous, bendable; extensile, extensible, tractile, tractable, stretchable; plastic, shapable, moldable, fictile, lithe, supple; jellylike, gelatinous, semiliquid; limp, flaccid, unfirm, slack, unstiff, unstiffened, unstarched, starchless, Both Dial, limpsy, limsey; flimsy, unsound, unstable, unsubstantial, rickety, jerry-built.
3. smooth, silky, silken, silklike, satiny, velvety, creamy, like a baby's bottom; agreeable to the touch, touchable, kissable; fuzzy, downy, fleecy, furry.
