Словарь английских синонимов и синонимичных выражений. Том I. A – I.
Шрифт:
5. Auspicious, promising, propitious.
Brighten, v. a. 1. Polish, burnish, furbish, make bright.
2. Make cheerful, make joyous.
Brighten, v. n. Grow bright.
Brightness, n. 1. Lustre, splendor, brilliancy, radiance, resplendence, effulgence.
2. Clearness, transparency, lucidity.
3. Acuteness, ingenuity, sagacity, acumen, astuteness, discernment, mother-wit, quick parts.
Brilliancy, n. Splendor, lustre, brightness, effulgence, refulgence, radiance, shine, sheen, gloss.
Brilliant, a. 1. Sparkling, glittering, splendid, lustrous, shining, bright, beaming, radiant, effulgent, refulgent, resplendent.
2. Illustrious, glorious, celebrated, famous.
Brilliant, n. Diamond (cut into facets).
Brim, n. Edge, border, rim, verge, margin, skirt.
Brimful, a. Quite full, full to the brim, choke full.
Brimstone, n. 1. Sulphur.
2. [Commercial term.] Cane brimstone, roll sulphur, stick sulphur.
Brinded, a. Brindled, tabby.
Brindled, a. Brinded, tabby.
Brine, n. 1. Salt water.
2. Sea, ocean, deep, main.
Bring, v. a. 1. Convey, bear, fetch.
2. Produce, gain, be the cause of, be the means of.
3. Draw, lead, induce, prevail upon.
Bring about, Effect, achieve, accomplish, bring to pass.
Bring back, 1. Recall.
2. Restore, return.
Bring down, Humble, abase.
Bring forth, 1. Give birth to.
2. Produce, exhibit, show, expose, bring out, bring to light, make manifest.
Bring forward, Introduce, propose.
Bring near, Approximate.
Bring on, Originate, give rise to.
Bring out, Produce, expose, show, exhibit, bring forth, bring to light.
Bring over, 1. Bear across.
2. Convert, win over.
Bring to, 1. Check the course of (said of a ship).
2. Resuscitate, revive.
Bring under, Subdue, repress, restrain, conquer, get the better of.
Bring up, Educate, instruct, rear, nurse.
Brink, n. Edge, border, margin, verge, brow.
Briny, a. Salt.
Brisk, a. Active, lively, smart, agile, nimble, quick, smart, alert, spry, spirited, vivacious, sprightly.
Brittle, a. Fragile, crumbling, shivery, frail, frangible, brash, easily broken (into pieces), easily shivered.
Britzska, n. Brett.
Broach, v. a. 1. Pierce, tap.
2. Utter, publish, proclaim, give out.
Broached, a. Tapped, abroach, on tap.
Broad, a. 1. Wide.
2. Large, ample, extensive, expanded, extended, vast.
3. Spread, diffused, open.
4. Gross, coarse, indelicate, vulgar, obscene.
Broaden, v. a. Widen, make broad.
Broadside, n. 1. Cannonade (from all the guns on the side of a ship).
2. Placard, bill, poster, hand-bill.
Brochure, n. [Fr.] Pamphlet.
Broil, n. Affray, fray, quarrel, contention, feud, brawl.
Broken, a. 1. Shattered, rent, severed, separated.
2. Weakened, impaired, feeble, shaken, spent, wasted, exhausted.
3. Abrupt, craggy, steep, precipitous, rough.
Broken-hearted, a. Disconsolate, inconsolable, comfortless, cheerless, sad, sorrowful, melancholy, woebegone, forlorn, undone, heart-broken, in despair.
Broker, n. Factor, agent, middleman, go-between.
Brood, v. n. Incubate.
Brood, n. Offspring, progeny, issue.
Brood over, Think long and anxiously about.
Brook, n. Rivulet, streamlet, run, runnel, runlet, rill, burn, small stream.
Brook, v. a. Endure, bear, abide, tolerate, suffer, put up with, submit to, bear with, take patiently or easily.
Broom, n. Besom.
Broth, n. Soup (in which meat has been macerated).
Brothel, n. Bagnio, stew, bawdy-house, whore-house, house of prostitution, house of ill-fame.
Brotherhood, n. 1. Relation of a brother, mutual kindness (as of brothers).
2. Fraternity, association, sodality, society, clique, coterie, clan, junto.
Brotherly, a. Fraternal, affectionate, kind, amicable, friendly, cordial.
Brow, n. 1. Forehead.
2. Edge (as of a precipice), brink, border.
Browbeat, v. a. Bully, overbear, treat insolently.
Brown study, Reverie, musing, abstraction, preoccupation, absence, absence of mind.
Browse, n. Tender twigs of shrubs and trees.
Browse, v. a. Nibble, crop, feed upon.
Browse, v. n. 1. Feed on browse.
2. [Colloquial.] Live precariously.
Bruin, n. [Colloquial.] Bear.
Bruise, v. a. 1. Crush, squeeze, contuse.
2. Break, batter, pound, bray, pulverize, comminute, triturate, break to pieces.
Bruise, n. Contusion.
Bruit, n. Rumor, fame, report, hearsay, town-talk.
Bruit, v. a. Report, noise, blaze or spread abroad.
Brunt, n. Shock, heat of onset.
Brush, n. 1. Skirmish, engagement, rencounter, encounter, battle, contest, fight, conflict, collision, action, affair.
2. Thicket, bushes, shrubs, brushwood.
Brushwood, n. Underwood, shrubs, bushes, brush.
Brusque, a. [Fr.] Rude, rough, blunt, unceremonious, abrupt, bluff, gruff, ungentle, uncivil, ungracious, bearish, discourteous, uncourteous, impolite.