Roget's Thesaurus by Peter Mark Roget
5. EXTRINSIC AFFECTIONS[1]
2117 words | Chapter 175
[1] Or personal affections derived from the opinion or feelings of
others.
#873. Repute.—N. distinction, mark, name, figure; repute,
reputation; good repute, high repute; note, notability, notoriety,
eclat, "the bubble reputation" [As You Like It], vogue, celebrity;
fame, famousness; renown; popularity, aura popularis[Lat]; approbation
&c. 931; credit, succes d'estime[Fr], prestige, talk of the town; name
to conjure with. glory, honor; luster &c. (light) 420; illustriousness
&c. adj. account, regard, respect; reputableness &c. adj[obs3].;
respectability &c. (probity) 939; good name, good report; fair name.
dignity; stateliness &c. adj.; solemnity, grandeur, splendor, nobility,
majesty, sublimity. rank, standing, brevet rank, precedence, pas,
station, place, status; position, position in society; order, degree,
baccalaureate, locus standi[Lat], caste, condition. greatness &c. adj.;
eminence; height &c. 206; importance &c. 642; preeminence,
supereminence; high mightiness, primacy; top of the ladder, top of the
tree. elevation; ascent &c. 305; superaltation[obs3], exaltation;
dignification[obs3], aggrandizement. dedication, consecration,
enthronement, canonization, celebration, enshrinement, glorification.
hero, man of mark, great card, celebrity, worthy, lion, rara avis[Lat],
notability, somebody; classman[obs3]; man of rank &c. (nobleman) 875;
pillar of the state, pillar of the church, pillar of the community.
chief &c. (master) 745; first fiddle &c. (proficient) 700; cynosure,
mirror; flower, pink, pearl; paragon &c. (perfection) 650; choice and
master spirits of the age; elite; star,.sun, constellation, galaxy.
ornament, honor, feather in one's cap, halo, aureole, nimbus; halo of
glory, blaze of glory, blushing honors; laurels &c. (trophy) 733.
memory, posthumous fame, niche in the temple of fame; immortality,
immortal name; magni nominis umbra [Lat][Lucan]. V. be conscious of
glory; be proud of &c. (pride) 878; exult &c. (boast) 884; be vain of
&c. (vanity) 880.
be distinguished &c. adj.; shine &c. (light) 420; shine forth,
figure; cut a figure, make a dash, make a splash. rival, surpass;
outshine, outrival, outvie[obs3], outjump; emulate, eclipse; throw
into the shade, cast into the shade; overshadow. live, flourish,
glitter, flaunt, gain honor, acquire honor &c. n.; play first
fiddle &c. (be of importance) 642, bear the palm, bear the bell;
lead the way; take precedence, take the wall of; gain laurels, win
laurels, gain spurs, gain golden opinions &c. (approbation) 931;
take one's degree, pass one's examination. make a noise, make
some noise, make a noise in the world; leave one's mark, exalt
one's horn, blow one's horn, star it, have a run, be run after;
come into vogue, come to the front; raise one's head. enthrone,
signalize, immortalize, deify, exalt to the skies; hand one's name
down to posterity. consecrate; dedicate to, devote to; enshrine,
inscribe, blazon, lionize, blow the trumpet, crown with laurel.
confer honor on, reflect honor on &c. v.; shed a luster on;
redound to one's honor, ennoble. give honor to, do honor to, pay
honor to, render honor to; honor, accredit, pay regard to,
dignify, glorify; sing praises to &c. (approve) 931; lock up to;
exalt, aggrandize, elevate, nobilitate[Lat]. Adj. distinguished,
distingue[Fr], noted; of note &c. n.; honored &c. v.; popular;
fashionable &c. 852. in good odor in; favor, in high favor;
reputable, respectable, creditable. remarkable &c. (important)
642; notable, notorious; celebrated, renowned, ion every one's
mouth, talked of; famous, famed; far-famed; conspicuous, to the
front; foremost; in the front rank, in the ascendant.
imperishable, deathless, immortal, never fading, aere
perennius[Lat][obs3]; time honored. illustrious, glorious,
splendid, brilliant, radiant; bright &c. 420; full-blown;
honorific. eminent, prominent; high &c. 206; in the zenith; at the
head of, at the top of the tree; peerless, of the first water.;
superior &c. 33; supereminent, preeminent. great, dignified,
proud, noble, honorable, worshipful, lordly, grand, stately,
august, princely. imposing, solemn, transcendent, majestic,
sacred, sublime, heaven-born, heroic, sans peur et sans
reproche[Fr]; sacrosanct. Int. hail! all hail! ave! viva!
vive[Fr]! long life to! banzai![Jap.]; glory be to, honor be to?
Phr. one's name being in every mouth, one's name living for ever;
sic itur ad astra[Lat], fama volat[Lat], aut Caesar aut
nullus[Lat]; not to know him argues oneself unknown; none but
himself could be his parallel, palmam qui meruit ferat
[Lat][Nelson's motto]. "above all Greek above all Roman fame"
[Pope]; - cineri gloria sera est [Lat][Martial]; "great is the
glory for the strife is hard" [Wordsworth]; honor virtutis
praemium [Lat][Cicero]; immensum gloria calcar habet
[Lat][obs3][Ovid]; "the glory dies not and the grief is past"
[Brydges]; vivit post funera virtus[Lat].
#874. Disrepute.—N. disrepute, discredit; ill repute, bad repute,
bad name, bad odor, bad favor, ill name, ill odor, ill favor;
disapprobation &c. 932; ingloriousness, derogation; abasement,
debasement; abjectness &c. adj.; degradation, dedecoration[obs3]; a
long farewell to all my greatness [Henry VIII]; odium, obloquy,
opprobrium, ignominy. dishonor, disgrace; shame, humiliation; scandal,
baseness, vileness[obs3]; turpitude &c. (improbity) 940[obs3]; infamy.
tarnish, taint, defilement, pollution. stain, blot, spot, blur, stigma,
brand, reproach, imputation, slur. crying shame, burning shame;
scandalum magnatum[Lat], badge of infamy, blot in one's escutcheon;
bend sinister, bar sinister; champain[obs3], point champain[obs3];
byword of reproach; Ichabod. argumentum ad verecundiam[Lat]; sense of
shame &c. 879. V. be inglorious &c. adj.; incur disgrace &c. n.; have a
bad name, earn a bad name; put a halter round one's neck, wear a halter
round one's neck; disgrace oneself, expose oneself. play second fiddle;
lose caste; pale one's ineffectual fire; recede into the shade; fall
from one's high estate; keep in the background &c. (modesty) 881; be
conscious of disgrace &c. (humility) 879; look blue, look foolish, look
like a fool; cut a poor figure, cut a sorry figure; laugh on the wrong
side of the mouth; make a sorry face, go away with a flea in. one's
ear, slink away. cause shame &c. n.; shame, disgrace, put to shame,
dishonor; throw dishonor upon, cast dishonor upon, fling dishonor upon,
reflect dishonor upon &c. n.; be a reproach &c. n. to; derogate from.
tarnish, stain, blot sully, taint; discredit; degrade, debase, defile;
beggar; expel &c. (punish) 972. impute shame to, brand, post,
stigmatize, vilify, defame, slur, cast a slur upon, hold up to shame,
send to Coventry; tread under foot, trample under foot; show up, drag
through the mire, heap dirt upon; reprehend &c. 932. bring low, put
down, snub; take down a peg, take down a peg lower, take down a peg or
two. obscure. eclipse, outshine, take the shine out of; throw into the
shade, cast into the shade; overshadow; leave in the background, put in
the background; push into a corner, put one's nose out of joint; put
out, put out of countenance. upset, throw off one's center; discompose,
disconcert; put to the blush &c. (humble) 879. Adj. disgraced &c. v.;
blown upon; "shorn of its beams" [Milton], shorn of one's glory;
overcome, downtrodden; loaded with shame &c. n.; in bad repute &c. n.;
out of repute, out of favor, out of fashion, out of countenance; at a
discount; under a cloud, under an eclipse; unable to show one's face;
in the shade, in the background; out at elbows, down at the elbows,
down in the world. inglorious; nameless, renownless[obs3]; obscure;
unknown to fame; unnoticed, unnoted[obs3], unhonored,
unglorified[obs3]. shameful; disgraceful, discreditable, disreputable;
despicable; questionable; unbecoming, unworthy; derogatory; degrading,
humiliating, infra dignitatem[Lat], dedecorous[obs3]; scandalous,
infamous, too bad, unmentionable; ribald, opprobrious; errant,
shocking, outrageous, notorious. ignominious, scrubby, dirty, abject,
vile, beggarly, pitiful, low, mean, shabby base &c. (dishonorable) 940.
Adv. to one's shame be it spoken. Int. fie! shame! for shame! proh
pudor[Lat]! O tempora[obs3]! O mores! ough! sic transit gloria
mundi[Lat.]!
#875. Nobility.—N. nobility, rank, condition, distinction,
optimacy[obs3], blood, pur sang[Fr], birth, high descent, order;
quality, gentility; blue blood of Castile; ancien regime[Fr]. high
life, haute monde[Fr]; upper classes, upper ten thousand; the four
hundred [U. S.]; elite, aristocracy, great folks; fashionable world &c.
(fashion) 852. peer, peerage; house of lords, house of peers; lords,
lords temporal and spiritual; noblesse; noble, nobleman; lord,
lordling[obs3]; grandee, magnifico[Lat], hidalgo; daimio[obs3], daimyo,
samurai, shizoku [all Japanese]; don, donship[obs3]; aristocrat, swell,
three-tailed bashaw[obs3]; gentleman, squire, squireen[obs3],
patrician, laureate. gentry, gentlefolk; *squirarchy[obs3], better sort
magnates, primates, optimates[obs3]; pantisocracy[obs3]. king &c.
(master) 745; atheling[obs3]; prince, duke; marquis, marquisate[obs3];
earl, viscount, baron, thane, banneret[obs3]; baronet, baronetcy[obs3];
knight, knighthood; count, armiger[obs3], laird; signior[obs3],
seignior; esquire, boyar, margrave, vavasour[obs3]; emir, ameer[obs3],
scherif[obs3], sharif, effendi, wali; sahib; chevalier, maharaja,
nawab, palsgrave[obs3], pasha, rajah, waldgrave[obs3]. princess,
begum[obs3], duchess, marchioness; countess &c.; lady, dame; memsahib;
Dona, maharani, rani. personage of distinction, man of distinction,
personage of rank, man of rank, personage of mark, man of mark;
notables, notabilities; celebrity, bigwig, magnate, great man, star,
superstar; big bug; big gun, great gun; gilded rooster* [U. S.]; magni
nominis umbra [Lat][Lucan]; "every inch a king" [Lear]. V. be noble &c.
adj. Adj. noble, exalted; of rank &c. n.; princely, titled, patrician,
aristocratic; high-, well-born; of gentle blood; genteel, comme il
faut[Fr], gentlemanlike[obs3], courtly &c. (fashionable) 852; highly
respectable. Adv. in high quarters. Phr. Adel sitzt im Gemuthe nicht im
Gebluete[Ger.]; adelig und edel sind zweierlei[obs3][Ger.]; noblesse
oblige[Fr.].
#876. Commonalty.—N. commonalty, democracy; obscurity; low
condition, low life, low society, low company; bourgeoisie; mass of the
people, mass of society; Brown Jones and Robinson; lower classes,
humbler classes, humbler orders; vulgar herd, common herd; rank and
file, hoc genus omne[Lat]; the many, the general,the crowd, the people,
the populace, the multitude, the million, the masses, the mobility, the
peasantry; king Mob; proletariat; fruges consumere nati[Lat], demos,
hoi polloi [Grk][Grk][Grk], great unwashed; man in the street. mob;
rabble, rabble rout; chaff, rout, horde, canaille; scum of the people,
residuum of the people, dregs of the people, dregs of society; swinish
multitude, foex populi[obs3]; trash; profanum vulgus[Lat], ignobile
vulgus[Lat]; vermin, riffraff, ragtag and bobtail; small fry. commoner,
one of the people, democrat, plebeian, republican, proletary[obs3],
proletaire[obs3], roturier[obs3], Mr. Snooks, bourgeois, epicier[Fr],
Philistine, cockney; grisette[obs3], demimonde. peasant, countryman,
boor, carle[obs3], churl; villain, villein; terrae filius[Latin: son of
the land]; serf, kern[obs3], tyke, tike, chuff[obs3], ryot[obs3],
fellah; longshoreman; swain, clown, hind; clod, clodhopper; hobnail,
yokel, bog-trotter, bumpkin; plowman, plowboy[obs3]; rustic, hayseed*,
lunkhead [U. S.], chaw-bacon*[obs3], tiller of the soil; hewers of wood
and drawers of water, groundling[obs3]; gaffer, loon, put, cub, Tony
Lumpkin[obs3], looby[obs3], rube* [U. S.], lout, underling; gamin;
rough; pot-wallopper[obs3], slubberdegullion|; vulgar fellow, low
fellow; cad, curmudgeon. upstart, parvenu, skipjack[obs3]; nobody,
nobody one knows; hesterni quirites[Lat], pessoribus orti[Lat];
bourgeois gentilhomme[Fr], novus homo[Lat], snob, gent, mushroom, no
one knows who, adventurer; man of straw. beggar, gaberlunzie[obs3],
muckworm[obs3], mudlark[obs3], sans culotte, raff[obs3],
tatterdemalion, caitiff, ragamuffin, Pariah, outcast of society, tramp,
vagabond, bezonian[obs3], panhandler*, sundowner[obs3], chiffonnier,
Cinderella, cinderwench[obs3], scrub, jade; gossoon[obs3]. Goth,
Vandal, Hottentot, Zulu, savage, barbarian, Yahoo; unlicked cub[obs3],
rough diamond|!. barbarousness, barbarism; boeotia. V. be ignoble &c.
adj., be nobody &c. n. Adj. ignoble, common, mean, low, base, vile,
sorry, scrubby, beggarly; below par; no great shakes &c. (unimportant)
643; homely, homespun; vulgar, low-minded; snobbish. plebeian,
proletarian; of low parentage, of low origin, of low extraction, of
mean parentage, of mean origin, of mean extraction; lowborn, baseborn,
earthborn[obs3]; mushroom, dunghill, risen from the ranks; unknown to
fame, obscure, untitled. rustic, uncivilized; loutish, boorish,
clownish, churlish, brutish, raffish; rude, unlicked[obs3]. barbarous,
barbarian, barbaric, barbaresque[obs3]; cockney, born within sound of
Bow bells. underling, menial, subaltern. Adv. below the salt. Phr.
dummodo sit dives barbarus ipse placet [Lat][Ovid].
#877. Title.—N. title, honor; knighthood &c. (nobility) 875.
highness, excellency, grace; lordship, worship; reverence,
reverend; esquire, sir, master, Mr., signor, senor, Mein
Herr[Ger], mynheer[obs3]; your honor, his honor; serene highness;
handle to one's name. decoration, laurel, palm, wreath, garland,
bays, medal, ribbon, riband, blue ribbon, cordon, cross, crown,
coronet, star, garter; feather, feather in one,s cap; epaulet,
epaulette, colors, cockade; livery; order, arms, shield,
scutcheon; reward &c. 973.
#878. Pride.—N. dignity, self-respect, mens sibi conscia recti
[Lat][Vergil]. pride; haughtiness &c. adj.; high notions, hauteur;
vainglory, crest; arrogance &c. (assumption) 885. proud man,
highflier[obs3]; fine gentleman, fine lady. V. be proud &c. adj.; put
a good face on; look one in the face; stalk abroad, perk oneself up;
think no small beer of oneself; presume, swagger, strut; rear one's
head, lift up one's head, hold up one's head; hold one's head high,
look big, take the wall, "bear like the Turk no rival near the throne"
[Pope], carry with a high hand; ride the high horse, mount on one's
high horse; set one's back up, bridle, toss the head; give oneself airs
&c. (assume) 885; boast &c. 884. pride oneself on; glory in, take a
pride in; pique oneself, plume oneself, hug oneself; stand upon, be
proud of; put a good face on; not hide one's light under a bushel, not
put one's talent in a napkin; not think small beer of oneself &c.
(vanity) 880. Adj. dignified; stately; proud, proud-crested; lordly,
baronial; lofty-minded; highsouled, high-minded, high-mettled[obs3],
high-handed, high-plumed, high-flown, high-toned. haughty lofty, high,
mighty, swollen, puffed up, flushed, blown; vainglorious; purse-proud,
fine; proud as a peacock, proud as Lucifer; bloated with pride.
supercilious, disdainful, bumptious, magisterial, imperious, high and
mighty, overweening, consequential; arrogant &c. 885; unblushing &c.
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