small, wee, tiny, puny, petty, diminutive, paltry,
exile, n. 1. separation, displacement, dislocation,
expatriation, uprooting, exilement.
2. displaced person, D.P., expatriate, alien, dmigrd; outcast, expellee, outsider, deportee, Ishmael, Hagar; pariah, leper, nonperson, unperson.
3. expulsion, ostracism, banishment, deportation, relegation, excommunication; proscription, outlawry, prohibition, banning, barring; exclusion, segregation, isolation, sequestration, quarantine; ejection, eviction, ouster.
-v. 4. expatriate, dislocate, displace, separate, ex port; scatter, unsettle, uproot; expel, banish, ostracize, excommunicate, deport; run out, drive out, cast out, thrust out, send away, relegate; proscribe, outlaw, ban, bar, prohibit; eject, exclude, oust, evict; isolate, cut off, quarantine, sequester, seclude, maroon,
exist, v. 1. be, have being; live, breathe, draw breath, respire; have life, have animation, have vitality, be viable; subsist, vegetate.
2. continue, remain, endure, abide, last, stay; survive, SI. get along.
3. occur, happen, obtain, prevail; take place, ensue, result, eventuate, befall, betide, come off, crop up, bechance.
existence, n. 1. being, existing, subsistence, Latin,
esse; actuality, reality, presence, fact, living.
2. continuance, duration, abidingness, endurance, lastingness, permanence, persistence.
3. mode of being, lifestyle, manner, fashion.
4. life, vital principle, animation, vitality, nature.
5. entity, being, thing, creature, Metaphys. ens; essence, quiddity.
exit, n. 1. way out, passage out, doorway, door, gate, mouth; outlet, opening, aperture, porthole, loophole, window; hatch, Naut. booby hatch, trapdoor, postern.
2. departure, going out, taking off, leaving; withdrawal, retreat, retirement; egress, debouchment; emanation, issuance, issue, discharge, vent; escape, evacuation, flight, exodus, hegira; abandonment, vacation, desertion.
-v. 3. leave, go out or away, depart, quit, take off; withdraw, retire, repair, retreat; issue, emanate, discharge, vent; escape, flee, fly, evacuate; vacate, decamp, break camp, abandon, forsake, desert,
exodus, n. flight, escape, move, migration, emigration; hegira, fleeing; exit, departure, leaving, going out, sallying forth; retreat, withdrawal, recession,
exonerate, v. 1. acquit, clear, vindicate. See - exculpate.
2. release, discharge, free. See - excuse (def. 3).
exoneration, n. 1. acquittal, acquittance, vindication. See - exculpation.
2. excusal, release, relief, dismissal, discharge, freedom, liberty, liberation, emancipation, deliverance, delivery; exemption, exception, exclusion, indemnity, immunity, impunity, Rom. Cath. Ch. dispensation,
exorbitance, n. 1. excessiveness, nimiety, extravagance, immoderateness, unreasonableness, undueness, inordinateness; outrageousness, preposterousness, monstrousness, rankness, egregiousness; redundancy, superfluity, supererogation, oversufficiency, overkill, overdose, too much of a good thing.
2. expensiveness, costliness, dearness, highness, Inf. steepness, Inf. stiffness,
exorbitant, adj. 1. excessive, unreasonable, immoderate, disproportionate, undue, inordinate, uncalled-for, unwarranted, unnecessary; extreme, too much, unconscionable, outrageous, preposterous, monstrous, rank, egregious, Inf. criminal.