Словарь английских синонимов и синонимичных выражений. Том I. A – I.
Шрифт:
Blithesome, a. Cheerful, gay, blithe.
Bloat, v. a. Swell, inflate, distend, puff up, blow up, make turgid.
Bloat, v. n. Swell, be swollen, be inflated or distended, be puffed or blown up, become turgid.
Bloating, n. Swelling, dilatation, dilation, expanding, expansion.
Blobber-lip, n. Thick lip.
Blobber-lipped, a. Thick-lipped.
Block, v. a. Obstruct, close, blockade, shut up, stop up, block up.
Block, n. 1. Thick and heavy piece (as of wood or stone).
2. Wooden mould (on which hats are made).
3. Simpleton, fool, blockhead, dunce.
4. [U. S.] Mass of houses (in a square or a continuous row).
5. (Naut.) Pulley.
Blockade, v. a. Close (as ports, so as to prevent egress or ingress), block, shut up, stop up.
Blockade, n. Closure (as of a port), shutting up, blocking up.
Blockhead, n. Simpleton, fool, dunce.
Blockish, a. Stupid, stolid, heavy, doltish, unintelligent, dull, stockish.
Block up, Obstruct, block.
Blonde, a. Fair, light, flaxen.
Blood, n. 1. Vital fluid, vital current, life blood.
2. Kindred, relation, family, consanguinity.
3. Royal lineage, royal line.
4. High birth, noble extraction.
5. Hotspur, madcap, fiery fellow.
Bloodroot, n. Bloodwort.
Bloodshed, n. Slaughter, carnage, butchery, massacre, murder.
Bloodstone, n. 1. Hematite.
2. Heliotrope.
Blood-sucker, n. Leech.
Blood-thirsty, a. Cruel, savage, ferocious, inhuman, barbarous, barbarian, fell, truculent, ruthless, bloody, murderous, bloody-minded.
Bloodwort, n. Bloodroot, red root, red puccoon (Sanguinarea Canadensis).
Bloody, a. 1. Sanguinary, ensanguined, gory.
2. Murderous, cruel, blood-thirsty.
Bloody-flux, n. Dysentery.
Bloody-minded, a. Blood-thirsty.
Bloom, n. 1. Efflorescence, flower, blossom, blow.
2. Flush, freshness, vigor.
Bloom, v. n. Flower, blossom, put forth blossoms.
Bloomy, a. Flowery.
Blossom, n. Flower, bloom, blow.
Blossom, v. n. Flower, bloom, blow.
Blot, v. a. 1. Efface, obliterate, erase, cancel, expunge, rub out, blot out, scratch out, strike out.
2. Spot, stain, blur, disfigure.
3. Tarnish, sully, disgrace.
Blot, n. 1. Obliteration, erasure, blotting.
2. Blur, spot, stain, blemish.
3. Disgrace, cause of reproach.
Blotch, n. Pustule, eruption, pimple, blain.
Blow, n. 1. Stroke, knock, rap, pat, thump, dab, beat.
2. Calamity, disaster, misfortune, affliction.
3. Bloom, blossom, flower.
4. [Low.] Spree, carousal, drinking frolic, blow-out.
Blow, v. n. 1. Move or flow in currents (as the wind).
2. Pant, puff, lose breath, breathe hard.
3. Flower, bloom, blossom.
4. [Low.] Blab, tell a secret, tell tales, let the cat out of the bag.
Blow, v. a. 1. Drive by the wind.
2. Force wind upon, direct a current of air upon.
Blow down, Prostrate (by the wind).
Blow off, 1. Drive from shore (by the wind, as a ship).
2. Detach or scatter (by the wind, as fruit from trees).
3. Let off (as steam), suffer to escape.
Blow out, Extinguish.
Blow-out, n. [Colloquial.] Carousal, blow.
Blow up, [Active.] 1. Inflate, fill with air.
2. Burst, scatter by explosion, cause to explode.
3. Kindle.
4. (Low.) Scold, rate, berate, chide, reprimand, censure, reprove, blame, scold at.
Blow up, [Neuter.] Explode, burst, be scattered by explosion.
Blow upon, Discredit, blast, taint, bring into disfavor, make distasteful.
Blow-valve, n. Snifting-valve.
Blowzed, a. Ruddy, blowzy.
Blowzy, a. Ruddy, blowzed, tanned, ruddy-faced, high-colored, sun-burnt.
Blubber, n. Whale fat.
Blubber, v. n. Cry (so as to swell the cheeks), whine, whimper, weep.
Bludgeon, n. Club, cudgel.
Blue, a. 1. Azure, cerulean, sky-colored.
2. [Colloquial.] Melancholy, dejected, dispirited, depressed, sad, glum, gloomy, mopish, downcast, desponding, downhearted, hypochondriac, hypped, chopfallen, low-spirited, cast down, in the dumps, with a long face, down in the mouth.
Blue, n. Azure, sky-color.
Blue-devils, n. pl. Blues.
Blue-fish, n. Tailor, skip-jack, snapping mackerel (Temnodon saltator).
Blues, n. pl. [With The prefixed.] Melancholy, dejection, depression, despondency, hypochondria, dumps, vapors, megrims, low spirits, blue-devils, the dismals.
Blue-stocking, n. Literary woman.
Blue-vitriol, n. Sulphate of copper.
Bluff, a. Blustering, swaggering, bullying, vaporing, pompous, coarse, rude, blunt, gruff, churlish, bearish.
Bluff, n. Precipitous bank (especially on the margin of a river or the sea).
Bluff, v. a. [Low.] Repulse (by a bluff manner), repel, snub, bluff off, send away with a flea in one's ear.
Blunder, v. n. Mistake (grossly), err (from want of care), make a bull.
Blunder, n. Mistake (of the grossest kind), error (from thoughtlessness), gross mistake, bull.
Blunderbuss, n. 1. Short gun (with a large bore).
2. Blunderer, blunderhead, stupid fellow.
Blunderer, n. Blunderhead, blunderbuss, stupid fellow.