orgasm, n. (usu. in reference to sexual pleasure) climax, culmination, peak, acme, zenith, high or crowning point, supreme moment, consummation, fruition, Inf. payoff, SI. come; height, epitome, extremity, maximum, U.S. SI. the most, U.S. SI. the greatest.
orgasmic, adj. orgastic; ecstatic, exalted, exhilarated, excited, enthusiastic, thrilled, elated, overjoyed, transported, ravished, overcome; rapturous, rhapsodic, blissful, in heaven, in seventh heaven, on cloud nine, happy as a clam at high tide; beside oneself, bouncing with joy, delirious, in orbit, flying, floating, walking on air; very happy, delighted, joyful, glad, felicitious, beaming.
orgiastic, adj. 1. bacchanalian, saturnalian, bacchanal, bacchic, drunken, dissolute, debauched, dissipated; riotous, wild, frenzied, frenetic, mad; abandoned, wanton, licentious, intemperate, Dionysian, uninhibited, unrestrained, undisciplined; festive, gay, merry, jocund, sportive.
2. arousing, exciting, stimulating, provoking,
orgy, n. 1. bacchanalia, carousal, carouse, Archaic. rouse, carousing, saturnalia, Dionysia, bacchanal; SI. group grope, SI. love-in; SI. Wesson oil party, debauch, spree, Inf. binge, fling, drinking bout, lost weekend, Inf. jag, Inf. toot, SI. tear, SI. bust, U.S. SI. bender; compotation, wassail.
2. revelry, reveling, revels, frolic, merry-making, SI. goings-on, partying, party, celebration, SI. wing-ding, SI. hot time, SI. ball, SI. blast, SI. bash; carnival, festival, festivity, jollification, conviviality,
orient, n. 1. the Orient the East, Levant, Eastern Hemisphere, Asia, Far East, the China coast, east of Suez, East Indies, the Pacific, land of the sunrise. -adj. 2. lustrous, opalescent, pearly, nacred, oriental; iridescent, glossy, glowing.
-v. 3. orientate, adjust, adapt, accommodate, conform, compromise; familiarize, habituate, make used to, get used to, break in, condition, season, train; reconcile, acclimatize, acclimate, regulate.
4. face, turn, turn toward, direct; front, front on, place, situate, locate, set, settle, square, collimate, fix; relate, arrange, line up, straighten out, tailor, true, true up, synchronize, Inf. sync.
5. take or get one's bearing or bearings, get the lay of the land, see which way the wind blows or the land lies; assess, reassess, feel one's way.
oriental, adj. Usu.
Oriental eastern, far eastern, Asian, Asiatic, Levantine,
orientate, v. See - orient (defs. 3-5).
orientation, n. 1. bearings, placement, placing, orientating; attunement, setting up, coordination, squaring, straightening out, fixing; alignment, collima-tion, truing, synchronization.
2. adjusting, getting one's bearings, acclimatization, acclimation, assimilation, fitting in; domestication, habituation, naturalization; adjustment, adaptation, accommodation, settlement, conformity, compromise, bending, yielding.