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2. meaningless, purposeless, hollow, empty, vain; inane, worthless, senseless, without rhyme or reason; unreasonable, irrational, nonsensical, preposterous; foolish, fatuous, silly, asinine, absurd, stupid; irrelevant, nongermane, inapposite, impertinent; inapplicable, immaterial, foreign, alien, unrelated, unconnected; extraneous, gratuitous, unessential, insignificant; beside the point, neither here nor there, beside the question, beside the mark, nothing to do with it; Inf. off base, not to the point, Inf. off the beam, Inf. off the wall; inconsistent, illogical, inconsequent, self-contradictory, incongruous.
3. weak, forceless, impotent; ineffectual, inadequate, worthless, valueless, meritless, nugatory; futile, vain, idle, bootless, useless, unavailing; unproductive, unyielding, unprofitable, profitless, gainless, unre-munerative, unpaying; unsuccessful, to no avail, to no purpose, for naught, all for naught.

poise, n. 1. balance, equilibrium, equipoise, equi-pollence, equipollency, equiponderance, equiponder-ancy; equivalence, equality, parity, par;, correspondence, evenness, levelness; equalization, uniformity, symmetry, parallelism.
2. composure, aplomb, assurance, confidence, selfassurance, self-confidence, self-possession, selfcommand, self-control, collectedness; equanimity, calmness, cool, coolness, sang-froid, imperturbability; sedateness, staidness, reserve; polish, grace, refinement, urbanity, suaveness, savoir-faire.
3. steadiness, stability, stableness, stasis; suspension, wavering, hovering.
4. posture, carriage, pose, attitude. - v. 5. balance, equilibrate, counterbalance, counterpoise; level, even, square; stabilize, steady.
6. hover, hang suspended, hang in midair; float, ride, fly.

poised, adj. composed, calm, cool, Inf. together; selfassured, self-possessed, self-confident; dignified, mannered, decorous, polished, urbane, suave; nonchalant, unruffled, imperturbable, unflappable,

poisonous, adj. 1. venomous, virulent, (in prescriptions) venenosus, toxic, morbific; fell, baneful, mephitic, viperous, Rare, virose, Archaic, venenose; pestilential, pestiferous, infective, infectious, pestilent, contaminative, contagious, leprous, septic.
2. pernicious, dangerous, hazardous, deleterious, detrimental, destructive, ruinous; deadly, lethal, fatal, mortal, mortiferous, Archaic, lethiferous; harmful, injurious, nocuous, hurtful, nocent, baleful, noisome; noxious, malicious, malign, malignant, menacing; insalubrious, unhealthful, unhygienic, unsanitary.
3. malevolent, maleficent, malefic, devilish, demonic, diabolic; vicious, rancorous, invidious; vindictive, revengeful, vengeful, spiteful; slanderous, libelous, calumnious, defamatory; acrimonious, caustic, bitter, envenomed, vitriolic.

poke, v. 1. push, butt, jab, dig, nudge, jog, punch; thrust, force, drive, stir, impel, goad, prod; jolt, jostle, elbow, shove.
2. Usu.

poke out extend, project, protrude, overhang, beetle; stick out, shoot out, hang out.
3. Usu.

poke into intrude, meddle, Inf. kibbitz, Inf. butt in, Inf. horn in, stick one's nose where it doesn't belong; muscle in, worm in, interlope.