Synonyms Dictionary
3. end, ending, limit, finis, finale, omega; close, closing, closure, termination, terminus; cessation, discontinuance, halt, stop, Sl. thirty, windup, wrap-up, final curtain, end of the line, end of the road; death, expiration, wipe-out.
4. Physiology, menstrual period, menses, Inf. flow, Inf. flows, Inf. falling off the roof. See menstruation.
5. full stop, full point, Fr. point, dot. periodic, adj. periodical, intermittent, alternating, alternate, remittent, recurrent, recurring, cyclic, cyclical; episodic, on-again-off-again, spasmodic, sporadic; occasional, infrequent, rare, every-once-in-a-while, predictable, foreseeable; pulsating, systematic, ebb-and-flow; regular, regulated, rhythmic, isochronal, isochronous, clocklike; centennial, annual, biennial, monthly, bimonthly, semimonthly, weekly, hebdomadal, biweekly, semiweekly, daily, diurnal, hourly, minute-by-minute. periodical, n. 1. publication, magazine, Inf. book, serial, review, digest, comic book, funny book, house organ, employee publication; newsmagazine, newsletter, daily, weekly, monthly, quarterly, almanac, yearbook; All Sl. girlie magazine, skin magazine, nudie book, cheesecake or beefcake magazine.
2. newspaper, paper, newspaper of record, journal, bulletin, gazette; tabloid, Sl. tab, Sl. sheet, Sl. yellow journal, Sl. rag, scandal sheet, Sl. Daily Blat, Sl. Daily Bugle; throwaway, giveaway, Dial, shopper, flier, handbill, circular. periodically, adv. intermittently, alternately, remittently, recurrently, cyclically; episodically, spasmodically, sporadically; occasionally, infrequently, frequently, rarely, from time to time, now and then, once in a while, now and again, off and on; regularly, repeatedly, repetitiously, redundantly; systematically, rhythmically, isochronally; annually, biannually, monthly, weekly, daily, nightly; night after night, day after day, week after week, month after month, year after year, down through the centuries, down through the years. peripatetic, adj. 1. itinerant, itinerating, traveling, journeying, wayfaring, peregrinating; walking, ambulating, ambulatory, pedestrian; roving, roaming, wandering, rambling; perambulating, perambulatory, traversing, traveling over; galavanting, flitting, gadding, jetting; thumbing, backpacking; living in one's hat, living out of a suitcase, having itchy feet, having sand in one's shoe, unsettled, nomadic, migratory.
-n. 2. itinerant, traveler, wayfarer, voyager, pere-grinator; walker, pedestrian, ambulator; rambler, rover, roamer, adventurer, landloper, explorer, soldier of fortune, U.S. Inf. boomer; trekker, hiker, backpacker; excursionist, sight-seer. peripheral, adj. 1. peripheric, perimetric, circumferential, outlinear, outlying, outer, on the edge, on the rim, marginal; surrounding, circumjacent, circumscribing, circumspective, encircling; ambient, circumambient, environing, circumfluent.
2. superficial, unimportant, minor, not worth mentioning, beside the point, unessential, unnecessary, dis-pensible. periphery, n. 1. circumference, perimeter, edge, rim, fringe, verge, skirt; circuit, compass, ambit, margin, frame, outline, confine, confines; brink, brow, brim, hem; bound, limit, bourn, pale, extremity, termination; limits, circumspection, boundary, boundary line, bounding line, border line, border, partition line.
2. surface, superficiality, superficies, fagade, outside, external aspect.
3. lunatic fringe.
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