Исторический словарь английских синонимов и антонимов. Том 1. A – E.

ANT: Mellow, luscious, mealy, rich.

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Acknowledge.

SYN: Avow, admit, recognize, own, accept, profess, endorse, grant, concede, concern.

ANT: Disavow, disclaim, disown, repudiate, ignore, deny.

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Acknowledged.

SYN: Agreed, settled, understood, decided, customary.

ANT: Not agreed, undecided, unsettled, not customary.

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Acme.

SYN: Summit, zenith, climax, apex, pitch, culmination, meridian.

ANT: Base, floor, ground, foundation, nadir, depth, depression, foot, root.

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Acquaint.

SYN: Advertise, inform, impart, make known, divulge, teach, notify, apprise, advise, tell.

ANT: Misinform, deceive, delude, mislead, misguide, hoodwink.

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Acquaintance.

SYN: Knowledge, intimacy, familiarity, experience, companionship.

ANT: Ignorance, unfamiliarity, inexperience. It has also the colloquial meaning of a person with whom one is acquainted.

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Acquiesce.

SYN: Assent, concur, repose, agree, yield, be resigned, comply.

ANT: Dissent, demur, object.

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Acquire.

SYN: Gain, earn, procure, obtain, get, realize, win, reap.

ANT: Lose, forfeit, surrender, miss, forego.

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Acquirement.

SYN: Knowledge, at, entertainment, accomplishment, learning, erudition, acquisition.

ANT: Intuition, inspiration, genius.

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Acquit.

SYN: Discharge, exonerate, absolve, exculpate, release, dismiss, liberate, pardon,.

ANT: Charge, accuse, impeach, constrain, implicate, bind, compel, condemn, oblige, sentence.

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Acquittance.

SYN: Release, receipt, discharge.

ANT: Bond, claim, charge, obligation.

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Acrid.

SYN: Harsh, sour.

ANT: Mellow, sweet, luscious.

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Acrimonious.

SYN: Sharp, biting, stinging, pungent, acrid, ill-natured, sarcastic.

ANT: Smooth, sweet, pleasant, goodnatured, bland.

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Acrimony.

SYN: Sharpness, bitterness, sourness, causticity, acerbity, asperity, tartness, ill-feeling, hostility, animosity.

ANT: Smoothness, courtesy, mildness, blandness, pleasantness, friendship, amiability.

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Across.

SYN: Athwart, against, transversely. Transverseness to a line of movement becomes opposition.

ANT: Lengthwise, along, concurrently, parallel.

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Act. \v.\ [See DO].

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Act \n.\

SYN: Deed, performance, action, movement, proceeding, exercise, operation, play.

ANT: Inaction, rest, repose, cessation, suspension, quiet, immobility, inertia, quiescence.

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Action. [See ACT].

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Active.

SYN: Nimble, agile, lively, sprightly, brisk, quick, expert, dexterous, supple, wide-awake, prompt, busy, industrial, diligent.

ANT: Slow, inactive, Indolent, sluggish, heavy.

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Activity.

SYN: Agility, quickness, energy, briskness, vivacity, promptness, alertness, celerity, rapidity.

ANT: Inactivity, awkwardness, Indolence, slowness, sloth, clumsiness, heaviness, sluggishness, lassitude.

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Actor.

SYN: Doer, worker, agent, performer, principal, player, tragedian, comedian.

ANT: [See AGENT].

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Actual.

SYN: Developed, positive, unquestionable, demonstrable, certain, real, authentic.

ANT: Potential, undeveloped, hypothetical, supposition, possible, virtual, theoretical, fabulous, fictitious, unreal.

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Actually.

SYN: Verity, truly, decidedly, assuredly, positively.

ANT: Potentially, hypothetically, theoretically.

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Actuate.

SYN: Urge, instigate, stir, induce, influence, incline, dispose, incite, impel, prompt, drive.

ANT: Deter, discourage, retard, inhibit, hinder, prevent, impede, dissuade.

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Acuity.

SYN: Pointedness, acylation, acumination.

ANT: Bluntness, hebetude, obtuseness.

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Aculeated.

SYN: Armed, spinous, acuminated, punctuous.

ANT: Unarmed, blunt, obtuse, stingless, pointless.

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acumen.

SYN: Point, penetrativeness, sharpness, discernment, talent, sagacity.

ANT: Bluntness, obtuseness, stupidity, dulness, indiscernment, hebetude.

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Acute.

SYN: Pointed, penetrating, sagacious, perspicacious, keen, astute, piercing, sharp, shrewd, keen-sighted, severe, distressing.

ANT: Dull, blunt, obtuse, stupid, undiscerning, heavy, chronic, stolid.

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Acutely.

SYN: Sharply, deeply, painfully, poignantly, intensely.

ANT: Bluntly, obtusely, stupidly, stolidly, pleasantly.

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Adage.

SYN: Maxim, saying, motto, saw, apothegm, aphorism, byword, proverb, dictum.

ANT: Discourse, disquisition, yarn, harangue.

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Adapt.

SYN: Fit, accommodate, suit, adjust, conform, admeasure, harmonize, attune.

ANT: Misfit, misconform, misapply.

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Adaptation.

SYN: Accommodation, adjustment, admeasurement, conformity, coincidence.

ANT: Inconformity, incongruity, incompatibility, disharmony, misfit, malformation, mismeasurement.

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Add.

SYN: Adduce, adjoin, increase, extend, enlarge, sum up, cast up, subjoin, amplify, annex.

ANT: Deduct, subtract, dissever, abstract.

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Addendum.

SYN: Acquisition, improvement, supplement, complement, desideratum, concomitant, annexation, appendage.

ANT: Surplusage, detriment, deterioration, detraction, drawback.

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Addicted.

SYN: Given, accustomed, prone, inclined, disposed, habituated.

ANT: Unaddicted, disinclined, unaccustomed, indisposed, averse, free.

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additament.

SYN: Adjunct, annexation, supplement, addition, acquisition, increase, augmentation, accession.