harem, n. seraglio, (in India) zenana, (in India, Pakistan, etc.) purdah (in ancient Greece) gynaeceum; Sl. stable. hark, v. 1. listen, attend, mark, notice, pay or give heed, pay attention, pay mind, give ear, harken.
2. hark back revert, regress, retrovert, retrogress, go back, change back, turn back; remember, recall, recollect, think back, look back. harken, v. listen, lend an ear, bend an ear, listen with both ears, keep one's ears open, strain one's ears, perk up one's ears, be all ears, hark, Med. auscultate; heed, take heed, attend, pay attention, notice, take notice, regard, observe, take cognizance of. harlequin, n. 1. buffoon, jester, fool, clown, zany, merry-andrew, motley fool. See buffoon.
-adj. 2. checkered, variegated, varicolored, particolored, motley, multicolored, many-colored, divers-colored, many-hued. harlequinade, n. 1. farce, travesty, lampoon, caricature; pantomime, dumb show, charade.
2. buffoonery, clownery, clownishness, foolery, tomfoolery, Inf. shenanigans, Sl. monkeyshines. harlot, n. 1. whore, hussy, slut, slattern, demirep, cocotte, demimondaine, loose woman, fallen woman, wanton, tramp, vamp, white slave, Sl. bitch, Sl. broad, Sl. chippy; prostitute, lady of the evening, woman of the profession, Mrs. Warren, Fr. fille de joie, trollop, strumpet, Archaic, wench, trull, drab, quean, painted woman, woman of the streets, streetwalker, bar girl, Inf. pick-up, call girl, Cyprian, All Sl. cat, tart, hustler, bim, moll, hooker, floozie, working girl, Brit. Sl. bird, Mexican Sl. caliente; madam, bawd, procuress, pander.
2. paramour, courtesan, mistress, concubine, kept woman, Sl. doxy.
3. temptress, siren, seductress, Jezebel, Delilah, flirt, coquette, minx; adventuress, hetaera. harlotry, n. prostitution, whoredom, streetwalking, Mrs. Warren's profession, the oldest profession; whoremongering, whoremastery, pimping, pandering, procuring, hustling, harm, n. 1. harmfulness, injury, perniciousness, ill, woe, trauma, hurt, pain, torment, suffering, adversity; abuse, detriment, damage, defacement, destruction, waste, ruin, bane, havoc, loss, desolation; defilement, pollution, poisoning, contamination.
2. badness, meanness, moral injury, vice, sin, sinfulness, evil, iniquity, wickedness, nefariousness, maleficence, malignancy; malefaction, wrong, wrongdoing, mischief, deviltry, foul play, perfidy; outrage, atrocity, abomination, infamy.
-v. 3. maltreat, abuse, attack, maul, molest, mis use; injure, inflict injury on, do violence to, lay hands on, hurt; wound, maim, cripple, stab, rape, beat, beat up, batter, pummel, Sl. mug; Sl. work over, Sl. do a job on, Sl. let [s.o.] have it, Sl. give [s.o.] the works.
4. damage, blemish, mar, distress, impair, spoil, ruin, defile, pollute. harmful, adj. 1. dangerous, detrimental, deleterious, pernicious; injurious, hurtful, damaging, baneful; ruinous, destructive, fell, extirpative; unhealthy, insalubrious, unwholesome, noxious, poisonous, venomous, septic, toxic, virulent, corrosive.
2. bad, evil, malign, malefic, satanic; inimical, sinister, corrupting, subversive, undermining, seditious, treasonous. harmless, adj. innocuous, innoxious, inoffensive, unhurtful; unoffending, innocent, blameless; mild, non-irritating, gentle, soft; unobjectionable, bland, insipid, pallid; G-rated, perfectly O.K.; impotent, powerless, ineffective, disarmed, manageable.
