Synonyms

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4. Usu.

poke about or

around ransack, rummage, forage, rake, scour; look around, sift through; examine, investigate.
5. Usu.

poke along dawdle, dally, loiter, loll, Inf. lallygag, lag behind, take one's time or one's own sweet time; idle, loaf, potter, fiddle, piddle, dillydally, Inf. diddle; meander, saunter, shuffle, roam aimlessly; window-shop.
6. poke fun at mock, ridicule, jeer, make fun of, fleer, guy; tease, kid, rib, rally, chaff, taunt, twit, needle, make sport of, Inf. roast; deride, flout, put down, insult, run down, abuse, disdain.
-n. 7. thrust, dig, push, shove, jab, nudge, jog, punch, jolt; finger in the ribs.
8. Informal, slowpoke, snail, tortoise; dawdler, laggard, lingerer, loiterer; lazybones, slugabed; procrastinator, dillydallier.

poky, adj. Informal. 1. dawdling, dillydallying, lingering, lagging, puttering; crawling, snail-like, tortoise-like; slow, unhurried, leisurely, relaxed, easy.
2. indecisive, hesitant, uncertain, hanging back, tentative; faltering, hesitating, wavering, fluctuating.
3. tardy, late, unpunctual, behind time, behindhand.
4. small, cramped, incommodious, unroomy, celllike, boxy; narrow, confined, tiny.
5. dowdy, frumpy, dumpy, frowzy, tacky; sloppy, slatternly, messy, unkempt.
-n. 6. Slang, jail, jailhouse, lockup, police station, station house. See - jail (def. 1). polar, adj. 1. opposite, contrasting, contradictory, contrary, different, radically different; antagonistic, repugnant, conflicting, hostile, inimical, opposed, diametrically opposed; antithetic, antithetical, antipodal.
2. central, pivotal, key, crucial, cardinal; chief, principal, fundamental.
3. guiding, leading, directing, beacon-like,

polarity, n. 1. opposition, repugnance, contrariety, antithesis; antagonism, conflict, antipathy, hostility.
2. duality, Inf. twoness, doubleness, dualism; ambiguity, ambivalence, paradox, self-contradiction.

pole¹, n. shaft, rod, post; flag pole, flagstaff; mast, spar, timber, tree; beam, stanchion; pillar, column, upright.

pole², n. 1. extremity, extreme, limit; end of the earth, end of the rainbow, ultima Thule or Thule.
2. cynosure, polestar, lodestar, magnet; focus, focal point, center of attention, center of attraction, center of interest.
3. poles apart at opposite extremes, at opposite ends, worlds apart, widely apart or separated; (all in the extreme) different, dissimilar, distinct, discrete, separate, like night and day, like black and white; incompatible, incongruous, irreconcilable, unconformable; disagreeing, in disagreement, at odds, at variance.

polemic, n. 1. debate, dispute, argument, controversy, altercation, verbal engagement, war of words, logomachy, pilpul.
2. debater, polemist. See - polemist.
-adj. 3. controversial, polemical, argumentative, argumental, dialectic, logomachic, eristic, pilpulistic; quarrelsome, contentious, disputatious, litigious; pugnacious, belligerent, bellicose, aggressive,

polemics, n. argumentation, argument, disputation, dispute, contention, controversy, litigation, wrangling, bickering, Rare, disceptation.

polemist, n. controversialist, debater, arguer, mooter, disputer, disputant, wrangler, Rare, disceptator; dialectician, polemic, polemicist, pilpulist, logom-acher; logician, ratiocinator; casuist, Jesuit, Philadelphia lawyer.