hydraulics, n. hydrodynamics, hydromechanics, hydrostatics, hydrokinetics, fluviology.
hydrous, adj. watery, containing water, aqueous, aquatic, lymphatic, balneal; wet, moist, hydrated, liquid; juicy, succulent, sappy.
hygiene, n. 1. hygienics, sanitation, disinfection, sanitary measures, Med. regimen, regime, preventive medicine, public health.
2. cleanliness, cleansing, washing, bathing, douching; oral hygiene, tooth brushing, tooth cleaning, flossing.
hygienic, adj. sanitary, clean, cleanly; disinfected, sterile, germ-free, aseptic; harmless, uninjurious, innoxious, pure, unpolluted; wholesome, salubrious,
hymeneal, adj. 1. nuptial, bridal, wedding, epithal-mic; matrimonial, marriage, marital, married, wedded, connubial; conjugal, spousal, husbandly, wifely.
-n. 2. wedding march or song, epithalmion, epi-thalmium.
hymn, n. 1. psalm, paean, alleluia, hallelujah, gloria, doxology, spiritual, religious song, hymn tune, Eccles. cantus firmus; chant, plainsong, plainchant, Gregorian chant, Eccles. antiphon, Eccles. responsory, Eccles. offertory, Eccles. introit; canticle, chorale, choral, Music, cantata, Music, motet; anthem, national anthem, state song, song of praise, song, melody, tune, air, composition; ode, poem, verse, (in ancient Greece) chorus. -v. 2. psalm, doxologize, carol, sing the praises of; chant, intone, cantillate, descant, Archaic, deacon; praise, laud, exalt, glorify, extol, celebrate,
hyperbole, n. exaggeration, overstatement, magnification, maximization, enlargement, expansion, inflation, swelling; enhancement, deepening, heightening, intensification; stretch of the imagination or the truth, excess, instance of overkill.
hypercritical, adj. 1. overcritical, overabusive, over-censorious; trenchant, defamatory, calumnious, denunciatory; cutting, maledictory, scurrilous, derogatory.
2. rigorous, exacting, pedantic, fussy; overparticular, hypercorrect, overscrupulous; severe, puritanical, overexacting, strict; overdeliberate, overdiligent, over-fastidious, overrigid, overrigorous.
hypersensitive, adj. oversensitive, hypersusceptible, oversusceptible, Med. hyperalgesic, allergic; Pathol. hyperaphic, Pathol, hyperesthetic, Pathol, hyper-geusesthetic; hyperexcitable, hyperreactional, hyperreactive, overreactive, high-strung, skittish, startlish; neurotic, hyperneurotic, volcanic, explosive, volatile, combustible; hyperirritable, hot-tempered, high-mettled, waspish.
hypnosis, n. 1. trance, spell, mesmeric or hypnotic sleep, somnolence, somnipathy, somnolism; narcohypnosis, animal hypnosis, autohypnosis; insensibility, numbness, stupefaction, Pathol, catalepsy, daze; sleep, slumber, Pathol, sopor, coma, deep sleep, narcosis, unconsciousness; drowsiness, languor, sleepiness, lethargy.
2. mesmerism, hypnology. See - hypnotism (def. 1). hypnotic, adj. 1. mesmerizing, mesmeric, fascinating, spellbinding, gripping, arresting, enthralling, entrancing; engrossing, absorbing, engaging, holding.
2. soporific, somnific, somniferous, sleep-inducing, sleep-producing, somnifacient, soporiferous, somnolent; sedative, calmative, stupefactive, numbing.
3. hypnotized, mesmerized, stupefied, drugged, Sl. doped, numbed, narcotized; calmed, sedated, anesthetized; entranced, spellbound, under the magic influence, Sl. under.