Исторический словарь английских синонимов и антонимов. Том I. A – I.

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KEY: Attenuate.

SYN: Educe, elongate, reduce, fine-drawn, narrow, contract, diminish, compress.

ANT: Broaden, increase, expand, dilate, swell, enlarge, develop, amplify.

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KEY: Attest.

SYN: Vouch, aver, assert, certify, witness, vouch for, affirm, testify, evidence, support, confirm, suggest, prove, involve, demonstrate, establish, imply, bespeak.

ANT: Deny, controvert, contradict, contravene, disprove, disestablish, exclude, neutralize, upset, oppugn, refute.

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KEY: Attestation, [See EVIDENCE].

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KEY: Attire.

SYN: Robes, garments, clothing, vestments, habiliment, habit, raiment, clothes, garb, apparel, accoutrement, livery, uniform, costume.

ANT: Nudity, divestment, exposure, denudation, bareness, disarray, dishabille, tatters, rags, patches, shreds.

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KEY: Attitude.

SYN: Posture, position, situation, standing, composition, collocation, aspect, pose, lie.

ANT: Evolution, exercise, bearing, deportment, movement, gesticulation, manoeuvre, gesture.

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KEY: Attract.

SYN: Influence, induce, dispose, incline, tempt, prompt, allure, charm, fascinate, invite, entice.

ANT: Repel, deter, indispose, disincline, estrange, alienate.

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KEY: Attraction.

SYN: Inducement, influence, adduction, inclination, disposition, charm, beauty, allurement.

ANT: Repulsion, disinclination, aversion, indisposition, deformity, repugnance.

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KEY: Attractive.

SYN: Winning, alluring, tempting, inviting, engaging, captivating, fascinating, enticing, interesting, charming, pleasant, beautiful, agreeable.

ANT: Unattractive, repugnant, repulsive, uninteresting, disagreeable, unpleasant, deformed, ugly, deterrent, loathsome, forbidding.

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KEY: Attribute \v.\

SYN: Refer, assign, associate, apply, ascribe, charge, impute, connect.

ANT: Divorce, disconnect, dissociate, dissever.

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KEY: Attribute \n.\

SYN: Property, quality, characteristic, attainment, sign, mark, indication, manifestation.

ANT: correlative, viz, Essence, nature, substance, etc, or, spuriously, affectation, misnomer, semblance, assumption, mask, veil.

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KEY: Attrition.

SYN: Sorrow, repentance, affliction, penitence, compunction, remorse, self-reproach.

ANT: Impenitence, callousness, obduracy, reprobation, relentlessness.

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KEY: Attune.

SYN: Temper, attemper, harmonize, adjust, accommodate.

ANT: Unstring, disharmonize, disarrange, discompose, dislocate, disturb, disconcert.

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KEY: Audacious.

SYN: Insolent, adventurous, venturesome, presumptuous, valiant, rash, bold, daring, reckless, enterprising.

ANT: Timid, cowardly, cautious, inadventurous, unventuresome, unenterprising.

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KEY: Audacity.

SYN: Boldness, rashness, temerity, recklessness, hardihood.

ANT: Caution, self-preservation, timidity, calculation, forethought, foresight, diffidence, inadventurousness.

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KEY: Audience.

SYN: Hearers, assembly, auditory, conference, parley, reception, interview.

ANT: Soliloquy, monologue, apostrophe.

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KEY: Augment, [See ENLARGE].

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KEY: Augmentation.

SYN: Increase, enlargement, amplification, enrichment, supply, enhancement, addition, acquisition, improvement.

ANT: Deduction, detraction, diminution, contraction, withdrawal, reservation, expenditure, loss, waste, detriment, deterioration, impoverishment, reduction, curtailment.

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KEY: Augury.

SYN: Prophecy, prediction, divination, conjecture, omen, prognostication.

ANT: Experience, science, observation.

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KEY: August \a.\

SYN: Majestic, dignified, stately, noble, pompous, imposing, grand, solemn, exalted.

ANT: Mean, undignified, unimposing, common, vulgar, despicable, paltry, unnoticeable, beggarly, commonplace.

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KEY: auspicious.

SYN: Propitious, lucky, favorable, encouraging, satisfactory, successful, hopeful, promising, happy, golden, fortunate, opportune, prosperous.

ANT: Unpropitious, unfavorable, discouraging, unsatisfactory, inauspicious, unpromising, abortive, hopeless.

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KEY: Austere.

SYN: Hard, rigid, stern, severe, morose, unrelenting, unyielding, strict, rigorous, harsh, sour, relentless.

ANT: Mild, affable, kindly, tender, feeling, bland, indulgent, genial.

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KEY: Authentic.

SYN: Genuine, veritable, reliable, real, original, trustworthy, not

spurious, true, legitimate, certain, accepted, current, received.

ANT: Unreliable, spurious, false, apocryphal, disputed, exploded, rejected, counterfeit, unfounded, unauthorized, baseless, fabulous, fictitious.

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KEY: Authenticate.

SYN: Confirm, settle, establish, verify, substantiate, identify.

ANT: Contravene, disprove, disestablish, refute, upset.

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KEY: Author.

SYN: Creator, producer, inventor, originator, parent, cause, constructor, agent, maker, composer, fabricator, committer, perpetrator, doer.

ANT: Destroyer, annihilator, demolisher, spoiler, undoer, reverser.

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KEY: Authoritative.

SYN: Decisive, sure, conclusive, authentic, powerful, firm, potent, dictatorial, imperious, arbitrary, arrogant, imperative, dogmatic, commanding.

ANT: Weak, inconclusive, vague, indeterminate, indefinite, vacillating, undecisive, bland, conciliatory, affable, lenient, persuasive.

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KEY: Authority.

SYN: Ground, justification, authenticity, genuineness, conclusiveness, decisiveness, control, direction, jurisdiction, government, regulation, power, right, rule, sway, sufferance, supremacy, dominion.

ANT: Groundlessness, spuriousness, indecision, inconclusiveness, inoperativeness, incompetency, weakness, usurpation, wrong.