Roget's Thesaurus by Peter Mark Roget
550. prefer; have rather, have as lief; fancy &c. (desire) 865; be
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persuaded &c. 615. take a decided step, take a decisive step; commit
oneself to a course; pass the Rubicon, cross the Rubicon; cast in one's
lot with; take for better or for worse. Adj. optional; discretional &c.
(voluntary) 600. eclectic; choosing &c. v.; preferential; chosen &c.
v.; choice &c. (good) 648. Adv. optionally &c. adj.; at pleasure &c.
(will) 600; either the one or the other; or at the option of; whether
or not; once and for all; for one's money. by choice, by preference; in
preference; rather, before.
#609a. Absence of Choice.—N. no choice, Hobson's choice; first come
#
first served, random selection; necessity &c. 601; not a pin to choose
&c.
(equality) 27; any, the first that comes; that or nothing.
neutrality, indifference; indecision &c. (irresolution) 605;
arbitrariness.
coercion (compulsion) 744.
V. be neutral &c. adj.; have no choice, have no election; waive,
not
vote; abstain from voting, refrain from voting; leave undecided; "make
a
virtue of necessity" [Two Gentlemen].
Adj. neutral, neuter; indifferent, uninterested; undecided &c.
(irresolute) 605.
Adv. either &c. (choice) 609.
Phr. who cares? what difference does it make? "There's not a
dime's
worth of difference between them." [George Wallace].
#610. Rejection.—N. rejection, repudiation, exclusion; refusal &c.
764; declination V. reject; set aside, lay aside; give up; decline &c.
(refuse) 764; exclude, except; pluck, spin; cast. repudiate, scout, set
at naught; fling to the winds, fling to the dogs, fling overboard,
fling away, cast to the winds, cast to the dogs, cast overboard, cast
away, throw to the winds, throw to the dogs, throw overboard, throw
away, toss to the winds, toss to the dogs, toss overboard, toss away;
send to the right about; disclaim &c. (deny) 536; discard &c. (eject)
297, (have done with) 678. Adj. rejected &c. v.; reject, rejectaneous|,
rejectious|; not chosen &c. 609, to be thought of, out of the question
Adv. neither, neither the one nor the other; no &c 536. Phr. non haec
in faedera[Lat].
#611. Predetermination.—N. predestination, preordination,
premeditation, predeliberation[obs3], predetermination; foregone
conclusion, fait accompli[Fr]; parti pris[Fr]; resolve, propendency|;
intention &c. 620; project &c. 626; fate, foredoom, necessity. V.
predestine, preordain, predetermine, premeditate, resolve, concert;
resolve beforehand, predesignate. Adj. prepense[obs3], premeditated &c.
v., predesignated, predesigned[obs3]; advised, studied, designed,
calculated; aforethought; intended &c. 620; foregone. well-laid,
well-devised, well-weighed; maturely considered; cunning. Adv.
advisedly &c. adj.; with premeditation, deliberately, all things
considered, with eyes open, in cold blood; intentionally &c. 620.
#612. Impulse.—N. impulse, sudden thought; impromptu,
improvisation; inspiration, flash, spurt. improvisatore[obs3]; creature
of impulse. V. flash on the mind. say what comes uppermost; improvise,
extemporize. Adj. extemporaneous, impulsive, indeliberate[obs3]; snap;
improvised, improvisate[obs3], improvisatory[obs3]; unpremeditated,
unmeditated; improvise; unprompted, unguided; natural, unguarded;
spontaneous &c. (voluntary) 600; instinctive &c. 601. Adv. extempore,
extemporaneously; offhand, impromptu, a limproviste[Fr];
improviso[obs3]; on the spur of the moment, on the spur of the
occasion.
#613. Habit. [includes commonness due to frequency of occurrence]—
N. habit, habitude; assuetude|, assuefaction|, wont; run, way. common
state of things, general state of things, natural state of things,
ordinary state of things, ordinary course of things, ordinary run of
things; matter of course; beaten path, beaten track, beaten ground.
prescription, custom, use, usage, immemorial usage, practice;
prevalence, observance; conventionalism, conventionality; mode,
fashion, vogue; etiquette &c. (gentility) 852; order of the day, cry;
conformity &c. 82; consuetude,.dustoor[obs3]. one's old way, old
school, veteris vestigia flammae[Lat]; laudator temporis acti[Lat].
rule, standing order, precedent, routine; red-tape, red-tapism[obs3];
pipe clay; rut, groove. cacoethes[Lat]; bad habit, confirmed habit,
inveterate habit, intrinsic habit &c.; addiction, trick. training &c.
(education) 537; seasoning, second nature, acclimatization; knack &c.
V. be wont &c. adj. fall into a rut, fall into a custom &c. (conform
to) 82; tread the beaten track, follow the beaten track, tread the
beaten path, follow the beaten; stare super antiquas vias[Lat][obs3];
move in a rut, run on in a groove, go round like a horse in a mill, go
on in the old jog trot way. habituate, inure, harden, season,
caseharden; accustom, familiarize; naturalize, acclimatize; keep one's
hand in; train &c. (educate) 537. get into the way, get into the knack
of; learn &c. 539; cling to, adhere to; repeat &c. 104; acquire a
habit, contract a habit, fall into a habit, acquire a trick, contract a
trick, fall into a trick; addict oneself to, take to, get into. be
habitual &c. adj.; prevail; come into use, become a habit, take root;
gain upon one, grow upon one. Adj. habitual; accustomary[obs3];
prescriptive, accustomed &c. v.; of daily occurrence, of everyday
occurrence; consuetudinary[obs3]; wonted, usual, general, ordinary,
common, frequent, everyday, household, garden variety, jog, trot;
well-trodden, well-known; familiar, vernacular, trite, commonplace,
conventional, regular, set, stock, established, stereotyped;
prevailing, prevalent; current, received, acknowledged, recognized,
accredited; of course, admitted, understood. conformable. &c. 82;
according to use, according to custom, according to routine; in vogue,
in fashion, in, with it; fashionable &c. (genteel) 852. wont; used to,
given to, addicted to, attuned to, habituated &c. v.; in the habit of;
habitue; at home in &c. (skillful) 698; seasoned; imbued with; devoted
to, wedded to. hackneyed, fixed, rooted, deep-rooted, ingrafted[obs3],
permanent, inveterate, besetting; naturalized; ingrained &c.
(intrinsic) 5. Adv. habitually &c. adj.; always &c. (uniformly) 16. as
usual, as is one's wont, as things go, as the world goes, as the sparks
fly upwards; more suo, more solito[Lat]; ex more. as a rule, for the
most part; usually, generally, typically &c. adj.; most often, most
frequently. Phr. cela s'entend[Fr]; abeunt studia in mores[Lat]; adeo
in teneris consuescere multum est[Lat]; consuetudo quasi altera natura
[Lat][Cicero]; hoc erat in more majorum[Lat]; "How use doth breed a
habit in a man!" [Two Gentlemen]; magna est vis consuetudinis[Lat];
morent fecerat usus [Lat][Ovid].
#614. Desuetude.—N. desuetude, disusage[obs3]; obsolescence, disuse
&c. 678; want of habit, want of practice; inusitation[obs3]; newness
to; new brooms. infraction of usage &c. (unconformity) 83;
nonprevalence[obs3]; "a custom more honored in the breach than the
observance" [Hamlet]. V. be -unaccustomed &c. adj.; leave off a habit,
cast off a habit, break off a habit, wean oneself of a habit, violate a
habit, break through a habit, infringe a habit, leave off a custom,
cast off a custom, break off a custom, wean oneself of a custom,
violate a custom, break through a custom, infringe a custom, leave off
a usage, cast off a usage, break off a usage, wean oneself of a usage,
violate a usage, break through a usage, infringe a usage; disuse &c.
678; wear off. Adj. unaccustomed, unused, unwonted, unseasoned,
uninured[obs3], unhabituated[obs3], untrained; new; green &c.
(unskilled) 699; unhackneyed. unusual &c. (unconformable) 83;
nonobservant[obs3]; disused &c. 678.
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