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2. emphasize, overemphasize, play up, overplay, overdo; exaggerate, hyperbolize, overstate; color, embroider, enlarge upon; extol, overpraise, overrate; intensify, dramatize, deepen, heighten; enhance, strengthen, Inf.beef up.
3. exploit, milk, make the most of, strike while the iron is hot, make hay while the sun shines.
maximum, n.1. most, utmost, uttermost, max., Math,
extremum; extremity, extreme, outer limit, limit, bound, boundary, border, frontier.
2. height, top, tip, tiptop; pinnacle, peak, crest, heights; summit, apex, vertex, apogee, Latin, ne plus ultra; acme, zenith, meridian, high noon; climax, pitch, high point, culmination; crown, cap, head.
-adj.3. supreme, superlative, paramount, maximal, greatest; most, utmost, uttermost, extreme.
4. highest, uppermost, upper, topmost, top, tiptop; summital, apical, apogeal, apogean; meridian, meridional, climactic, climactical, culminating, culminant, crowning.
maybe, adv.
perhaps, possibly, mayhap, Chiefly Dial,
mayhappen, Literary,
perchance, Archaic.
peradventure; haply, as the case may be, it may be, for all oraught one knows; if possible, if at all orhumanly possible, God willing, wind and weather permitting,
mayor, n.city manager, burgomaster, syndic, (in Britain)
Lord Mayor, (in Scotland)
provost orLord Provost.
maze, n.1. labyrinth, Chinese puzzle; complex,
tangle, snarl, knot, Inf.mess, SI.snafu.
2. confusion, bewilderment, bafflement, befuddle-ment, perplexity, disorientation,
mazy, adj.1. labyrinthine, labyrinthian, daedal,
meandering, sinuous, tortuous, serpentine, snaky, anfractuous, convolutional, winding, twisting, twisting and turning.
2. confusing, perplexing, bewildering, baffling, confounding, puzzling, mystifying,
meadow, n.lea, meadowland, Archaic, mead; pasture, pasturage, pastureland, Scot.
shieling,
meager, adj.1. scarce, scanty, scant, sparse, exiguous, in short supply, at a premium, not to be had, Inf. scarce as hen's teeth; poor, inadequate, insufficient, lacking, wanting, short, short of, not enough, too little; bare, slight, skimpy, scrimpy; puny, paltry, petty, piddling, poky, picayune, pathetic, Inf.chintzy, Inf. measly; shabby, SI.crummy, SI.lousy, SI.rotten; beggarly, miserly, niggardly, stingy, stinted.
2. lean, thin, skinny, thin orskinny as a rail, lank, lanky; gaunt, scraggy, scrawny, emaciated, underfed, undernourished, starved, half-starved; bony, spindly, rawboned, mere flesh and bones.
meagerness, n.1. scarceness, scantiness, scantness, exiguity, shortness; want, lack, need, stint, scarcity, poverty, paucity; poorness, inadequacy, insufficiency; bareness, slightness, skimpiness, scrimpiness; puniness, paltriness, pettiness, piddlingness, pokiness, Inf.chintziness; shabbiness, SI.crumminess, SI. lousiness, SI.rottenness; beggarliness, miserliness, niggardliness, stinginess.
2. leanness, thinnesss, skinniness, lankness, lankiness; gauntness, scragginess, scrawniness; boniness, spindliness.
meal1, n.1. repast, collation, refection, banquet, feast, Inf.feed; breakfast, brunch, lunch, luncheon, Fr. dejeuner, Fr. dejeuner h la fourchette, Brit,
tiffin, supper, dinner; tea, snack, bite; picnic, barbecue, cookout, clambake, Fr. fete champitre, Brit,
bump-supper, Chiefly Brit. SI.
beanfeast orbeanfest.
2. fare, menu, board, table, diet, regimen, bill of fare, table d'hdte, Inf.spread; food, foodstuffs, edibles, aliment, viands, bread, Inf.grub, SI.eats, SI. chow, SI.chuck, SI.munchies; Chiefly Brit. SI.
scoff;
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