Synonyms Test 102

bright, shining, lucid, lucent, relucent; radiant, irradiant, effulgent, refulgent, lambent, beamy, beamish; shiny, glossy, glassy, lustrous, sheenful, sheeny, burnished, polished; glittering, glinting, fulgid, sparkling, twinkling, flashing, fulgurant; glaring, flary, brilliant, splendid, splendorous, resplendent, fulgent, dazzling; illuminated, alight, light, lit, glowing, aglow, rutilant, luminous, luminescent; incandescent, phosphorescent, iridescent, opalescent, opaline.

nit-pick, v. Informal,

pettifog, split hairs, chop logic; carp, cavil, quibble, find fault, criticize, pick or tear apart, take apart in detail.

nitty-gritty, n.

crux, gist, Inf

nub, meat, substance, essence, quintessence, sum and substance, essential part, marrow, pith, heart of the matter; core, inner core, heart, center, nucleus, kernel; base, bottom, root.

nitwit, n.

fool, ninny, nincompoop, goose; dimwit, half-wit, simpleton, Simple Simon, Inf.

jay, Sl.

bird-brain, Sl.

pinhead. See - nincompoop.

nix', n. Slang.1. nothing, none, naught, no quantity, no amount, no degree; none whatever, none whatsoever, nothing at all, nothing on earth, nothing under the sun; no such thing, nil, Sl.

zip, aught; Sl. zilch, Sl.

scratch, Sl.

diddly, Sl.

squat; Latin, nihil, Fr. rien, Sp. nada;

not one, not a one, nary a one, no one, not a thing, Inf.

not a blessed thing.
-adv.

2. no, nay, never. See - no (def.

2). -interj.

3. watch it, attention, on guard, heads up, hark; Sl.

cheese it, Sl.

cool it, Sl.

keep cool.
-v.4. veto, override, overrule, counterorder, countermand; prohibit, disallow, proscribe, disapprove, forbid, negative; turn down, reject, refuse, repudiate, negate; quash, nullify, void, annul, invalidate, disestablish; silence, squelch, suppress, abolish.

nix², n.

nixie, water sprite, fairy, siren, nymph, naiad, kelpie, undine, rusalka; sea maid, sea maiden, sea nymph, Oceanid, Nereid, mermaid.

no, adv.

1. not at all, to no extent, not, in no respect, not so, Fr. pas du tout;

far from being, far from, anything but, by no means, God forbid; noway, noways, nowise, not in the least, Inf.

no how, nothing of the kind or

sort; not nearly, nowhere near, not by a long shot, by no stretch of the imagination; on no account, in no case; in no way, shape or form; under no circumstances, not in a million years.
2. nay, no indeed, no sir, no ma'am, Inf.

no siree, Inf

no siree bob; Sl.

uh-uh, Inf.

nope, Sl.

naw, Sl. nah, Sl.

forget it, Inf.

nothing doing, no way, no, no, a thousand times no; never, not on your life, absolutely not, certainly not, not really, are you kidding; on no account, to or

on the contrary, Fr. au contraire;

negative, Citizens' Band Radio Sl.

negatory, Pig Latin,

ix-nay; Ger. nein, Fr. non, It. no, Russ, nyet;

count me out, over my dead body, Sl.

like hell I will, out of the question, far be it from me; I won't, I will not, I refuse.
-n. 3. denial, refusal, rejection, turndown, disapproval; rebuff, repulse, declination; repudiation, disclaimer, Rhet.

apophasis, recantation, retraction; for-biddance, proscription, prohibition, disapproval, Inf. no-go.
4. negative vote, nay, thumbs down, U.S.

Bronx cheer; veto, objection, contravention, protest, refutation, answer; disagreement, dissent, demur, demurral.

-adj.

5. not any, no more, none, not one, not a one, nary.

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