gards, wishes; acknowledgement, recognition, credit,
thankless, adj. 1. unappreciated, unrewarded, unrewarding, unacknowledged; unrequited, unreturned, unavowed; vain, in vain, useless, for nothing, forgotten.
2. ungrateful, unthankful, unappreciative, Archaic. ingrate; unmindful, heedless, inconsiderate, unthinking.
thaw, v. 1. melt, soften, dissolve, liquefy, liquidize, turn into water, liquesce, deliquesce, melt away, leave nothing but a puddle; puddle, flow, stream, run.
2. Sometimes
thaw out defrost, unfreeze, deice, take out of the freezer; warm up, heat up, put in the oven, put in front of the fire.
3. relax, loosen up, become more responsive, let oneself go, SI. go with the flow; bend, give quarter, give an inch, give ground, yield, relent, forbear, give in, submit, acquiesce; break the ice, get [s.t.] going, get the juices flowing.
-n. 4. melting, melt, ice-out, spring thaw; spring, warm weather, warmth,
theater, n. 1. playhouse, odeum, auditorium, hall, lyceum; arena, colloseum, amphitheater; opera house, opera, music hall, concert hall; cabaret, night club, dinner theather; summer theater, strawhat theater; regional theater, repertory theater.
2. movie theater, movie palace, cinema, kino, Brit. picture house or palace, first-run house, second-run house; drive-in or drive-in theater.
3. audience, Archaic, auditory, congregation, house, gallery, Inf. peanut gallery.
4. troupe, company, theatrical or acting company, repertory company, stock company.
5. the theater drama, dramaturgy, dramatic art, dramatic performance, histrionic or thespian art; show business, Inf. show biz; the stage, the boards.
6. field of operations, seat or theater of war; scene or place of action.
theatrical, adj. 1. dramatic, dramaturgic, dramaturgical, theatric; scenic, stagy; operatic; histrionic, histrionical, thespian, Roscian, SI. ham or hammy, SI. actressy.
2. affected, mannered, unnatural, forced, campy; artificial, false, insincere, put-on, Inf. fake, SI. phony; overdone, overacted, overwrought; emotive, emo-tionialistic, overemotional, melodramatic; sensational, spectacular, SI. grandstand.
3. pompous, bombastic, turgid, orotund, grandiloquent, stilted, self-important.
theft, n. 1. stealing, thievery, pilferage, pilfering, SI. swiping, SI. hustling, SI. copping; peculation, embezzlement, misappropriation; shoflifting, palming, SI. boosting; purse-snatching; smuggling, bootlegging.
2. burglary, robbery, Law. larceny, SI. heist; break-in, U.S. Inf. hold-up, U.S. SI. stick-up, Inf. mugging.
3. expropriation, appropriation, arrogation, usurpation, accroachment, assumption; plagiarism, copying, Inf. cribbing, Inf. lifting.
4. dispossession, deprivation, deprival, divestiture, bereavement.
5. commandeering, hijacking, skyjacking, air or sky piracy; (all usu. of persons) kidnapping, capture, seizure, rape, impressment, conscription, man-stealing, child-stealing; (all of animals) poaching, deerjack-ing, petnapping, dognapping, (of cattle) rustling.
6. brigandage, piracy, buccaneering, freebooting, banditry, highway robbery, Obs. latrociny, privateering, filibustering.
7. swindle, fraud, flimflam, confidence game, thim