Roget's Thesaurus by Peter Mark Roget
884. render vain &c. adj.; inspire with vanity &c. n.; inflate, puff
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up, turn up, turn one's head. Adj. vain, vain as a peacock, proud as a
peacock; conceited, overweening, pert, forward; vainglorious,
high-flown; ostentatious &c. 882; puffed up, inflated, flushed.
self-satisfied, self-confident, self-sufficient, self-flattering,
self-admiring, self-applauding, self-glorious, self-opinionated;
entente &c. (wrongheaded) 481; wise in one's own conceit,
pragmatical[obs3], overwise[obs3], pretentious, priggish; egotistic,
egotistical; soi-disant &c. (boastful) 884[Fr]; arrogant &c. 885.
unabashed, unblushing; unconstrained, unceremonious; free and easy.
Adv. vainly &c. adj. Phr. "how we apples swim!" [Swift]; "prouder than
rustling in unpaid-for silk" [Cymbeline].
#881. Modesty.—N. modesty; humility &c. 879; diffidence, timidity;
retiring disposition; unobtrusiveness; bashfulness &c. adj.; mauvaise
honte[Fr]; blush, blushing; verecundity|; self-knowledge. reserve,
constraint; demureness &c. adj.; "blushing honors" [Henry VIII]. V. be
modest &c. adj.; retire, reserve oneself; give way to; draw in one's
horns &c. 879; hide one's face. keep private, keep in the background,
keep one's distance; pursue the noiseless tenor of one's way, "do good
by stealth and blush to find it fame" [Pope], hide one's light under a
bushel, cast a sheep's eye. Adj. modest, diffident; humble &c. 879;
timid, timorous, bashful; shy, nervous, skittish, coy, sheepish,
shamefaced, blushing, overmodest. unpretending[obs3], unpretentious;
unobtrusive, unassuming, unostentatious, unboastful[obs3], unaspiring;
poor in spirit. out of countenance &c. (humbled) 879. reserved,
constrained, demure. Adv. humbly &c. adj.; quietly, privately; without
ceremony, without beat of drum; sans fa on. Phr. "not stepping o'er the
bounds of modesty" [Romeo and Juliet]; "thy modesty's a candle to thy
merit" [Fielding].
#882. Ostentation.—N. ostentation, display, show, flourish, parade,
etalage[Fr], pomp, array, state, solemnity; dash, splash, splurge,
glitter, strut, pomposity; pretense, pretensions; showing off; fuss.
magnificence, splendor; coup d'oeil[Fr]; grand doings. coup de theatre;
stage effect, stage trick; claptrap; mise en scene[Fr]; tour de force;
chic. demonstration, flying colors; tomfoolery; flourish of trumpets
&c. (celebration) 883; pageant, pageantry; spectacle, exhibition,
exposition, procession; turn out, set out; grand function; fte, gala,
field day, review, march past, promenade, insubstantial pageant. dress;
court dress, full dress, evening dress, ball dress, fancy dress;
tailoring, millinery, man millinery, frippery, foppery, equipage.
ceremony, ceremonial; ritual; form, formality; etiquette; puncto[Lat],
punctilio, punctiliousness; starched stateliness, stateliness. mummery,
solemn mockery, mouth honor. attitudinarian[obs3]; fop &c. 854. V. be
ostentatious &c. adj.; come forward, put oneself forward; attract
attention, star it. cut a figure, make a dash, make a splash, make a
splurge, cut a dash, cut a splash, cut a splurge; figure, figure away;
make a show, make a display; glitter. show off, show off one's paces;
parade, march past; display, exhibit, put forward, hold up; trot out,
hand out; sport, brandish, blazon forth; dangle, dangle before the
eyes. cry up &c. (praise) 931; proner[Fr], flaunt, emblazon,
prink[obs3], set off, mount, have framed and glazed. put a good face
upon, put a smiling face upon; clean the outside of the platter &c.
(disguise) 544. Adj. ostentatious, showy, dashing, pretentious;
janty[obs3], jaunty; grand, pompous, palatial; high-sounding; turgid
&c. (big-sounding) 577; gairish[obs3], garish; gaudy, gaudy as a
peacock, gaudy as a butterfly, gaudy as a tulip; flaunting, flashing,
flaming, glittering; gay &c. (ornate) 847. splendid, magnificent,
sumptuous. theatrical, dramatic, spectacular; ceremonial, ritual.
solemn, stately, majestic, formal, stiff, ceremonious, punctilious,
starched. dressed to kill, dressed to the nines, decjed out, all decked
out, en granite tenue[Fr], in best bib and tucker, in Sunday best,
endimanch, chic. Adv. with flourish of trumpet, with beat of drum, with
flying colors. ad captandum vulgus[Lat.]. Phr. honores mutant
mores[Lat].
#883. Celebration.—N. celebration, solemnization, jubilee,
commemoration, ovation, paean, triumph, jubilation, ceremony (rite)
998; holiday, fiesta, zarabanda[obs3], revelry, feast (amusement) 840;
china anniversary, diamond anniversary, golden anniversary, silver
anniversary, tin anniversary, china jubilee, diamond jubilee, golden
jubilee, silver jubilee, tin jubilee, china wedding, diamond wedding,
golden wedding, silver wedding, tin wedding. triumphal arch, bonfire,
salute; salvo, salvo of artillery; feu de joie[Fr], flourish of
trumpets, fanfare, colors flying, illuminations. inauguration,
installation, presentation; coronation; Lord Mayor's show;
harvest-home, red-letter day; trophy &,:c. 733; Te Deum &c.
(thanksgiving) 990[Lat]; fete &c. 882; holiday &c. 840; Forefathers'
Day [U. S.]. V. celebrate keep, signalize, do honor to, commemorate,
solemnize, hallow, mark with a red letter. pledge, drink to, toast, hob
and nob[obs3]. inaugurate, install, chair. rejoice &c. 838; kill the
fatted calf, hold jubilee, roast an ox. Adj. celebrating &c. v.;
commemorative, celebrated, immortal. Adv. in honor of, in commemoration
of. Int. hail! all hail! io paean, io triumphe[obs3]! "see the
conquering hero comes!".
#884. Boasting.—N. boasting &c. v.; boast, vaunt, crake|; pretense,
pretensions; puff, puffery; flourish, fanfaronade[obs3]; gasconade;
blague[obs3], bluff, gas*; highfalutin, highfaluting[obs3]; hot air,
spread-eagleism [obs3][U. S.]; brag, braggardism[obs3]; bravado,
bunkum, buncombe; jactitation[obs3], jactancy[obs3]; bounce;
venditation|, vaporing, rodomontade, bombast, fine talking, tall talk,
magniloquence, teratology|, heroics; Chauvinism; exaggeration &c. 549.
vanity &c. 880; vox et praeterea nihil[Lat]; much cry and little wool,
brutum fulmen[Lat]. exultation; gloriation|, glorification; flourish of
trumpets; triumph &c. 883. boaster; braggart, braggadocio; Gascon[Fr],
fanfaron[obs3], pretender, soi-disant[Fr]; blower [U. S.], bluffer,
Foxy Quiller[obs3]; blusterer &c. 887; charlatan, jack-pudding,
trumpeter; puppy &c. (fop) 854. V. boast, make a boast of, brag, vaunt,
Puff, show off, flourish, crake|, crack, trumpet, strut, swagger,
vapor; blague[obs3], blow, four- flush *, bluff. exult, crow, crow
over, neigh, chuckle, triumph; throw up one's cap; talk big, se faire
valoir[Fr], faire claquer son fouet[obs3][Fr], take merit to oneself,
make a merit of, sing Io triumphe[obs3], holloa before one is out of
the wood[obs3]. Adj. boasting &c. v.; magniloquent, flaming, Thrasonic,
stilted, gasconading, braggart, boastful, pretentious, soi-disant[Fr];
vainglorious &c. (conceited) 880; highfalutin, highfaluting[obs3];
spread-eagle [U. S.*]. elate, elated; jubilant, triumphant, exultant;
in high feather; flushed, flushed with victory; cock-a-hoop; on stilts.
vaunted &c. v. Adv. vauntingly &c. adj. Phr. "let the galled jade
wince" [Hamlet]; facta non verba[Lat].
#885. [Undue assumption of superiority.] Insolence.—N. insolence;
haughtiness &c. adj.; arrogance, airs; overbearance[obs3]; domineering
&c. v.; tyranny &c. 739. impertinence; sauciness &c. adj.; flippancy,
dicacity|, petulance, procacity[obs3], bluster; swagger, swaggering &c.
v.; bounce; terrorism. assumption, presumption; beggar on horseback;
usurpation. impudence, assurance, audacity, hardihood, front, face,
brass; shamelessness &c. adj.; effrontery, hardened front, face of
brass. assumption of infallibility. saucebox &c. (blusterer) 887[obs3].
V. be insolent &c. adj.; bluster, vapor, swagger, swell, give oneself
airs, snap one's fingers, kick up a dust; swear &c. (affirm) 535; rap
out oaths; roister. arrogate; assume, presume; make bold, make free;
take a liberty, give an inch and take an ell. domineer, bully, dictate,
hector; lord it over; traiter de haut en bas[Fr], regarder de haut en
bas[Fr]; exact; snub, huff., beard, fly in the face of; put to the
blush; bear down, beat down; browbeat, intimidate; trample down, tread
down, trample under foot; dragoon, ride roughshod over. out face,
outlook, outstare, outbrazen[obs3], outbrave[obs3]; stare out of
countenance; brazen out; lay down the law; teach one's grandmother to
suck eggs; assume a lofty bearing; talk big, look big; put on big
looks, act the grand seigneur[Fr]; mount the high horse, ride the high
horse; toss the head, carry, with a high hand. tempt Providence, want
snuffing. Adj. insolent, haughty, arrogant, imperious, magisterial,
dictatorial, arbitrary; high-handed, high and mighty; contumelious,
supercilious, overbearing, intolerant, domineering, overweening,
high-flown. flippant, pert, fresh [U. S.], cavalier, saucy, forward,
impertinent, malapert. precocious, assuming, would-be, bumptious.
bluff; brazen, shameless, aweless, unblushlng[obs3], unabashed; brazen,
boldfaced-, barefaced-, brazen-faced; dead to shame, lost to shame.
impudent, audacious, presumptuous, free and easy, devil-may-care,
rollicking; jaunty, janty[obs3]; roistering, blustering, hectoring,
swaggering, vaporing; thrasonic, fire eating, "full of sound and fury"
[Macbeth]. Adv. with a high hand; ex cathedra[Lat]. Phr. one's bark
being worse than his bite; "beggars mounted run their horse to death"
[Henry VI]; quid times? Caesarem vehis [Lat][Plutarch]; wagahai wa
[Jap: I (expressing superiority)].
#886. Servility.—N. servility; slavery &c. (subjection) 749;
obsequiousness &c. adj.; subserviency; abasement; prostration,
prosternation|; genuflection &c. (worship) 990; fawning &c. v.; tuft-
hunting, timeserving[obs3], flunkeyism[obs3]; sycophancy &c. (flattery)
933; humility &c. 879. sycophant, parasite; toad, toady, toad-eater;
tufthunter[obs3]; snob, flunky, flunkey, yes-man, lapdog, spaniel,
lickspittle, smell-feast, Graeculus esuriens[Lat], hanger on, cavaliere
servente[It], led captain, carpet knight; timeserver, fortune hunter,
Vicar of Bray, Sir-Pertinax, Max Sycophant, pickthank[obs3]; flatterer
&c. 935; doer of dirty work; ame damnee[Fr], tool; reptile; slave &c.
(servant) 746; courtier; beat*, dead beat*, doughface * [obs3][U. S],
heeler [U. S.], homme de cour[Fr], sponger, sucker*, tagtail[obs3],
truckler. V. cringe, bow, stoop, kneel, bend the knee; fall on one's
knees, prostrate oneself; worship &c. 990. sneak, crawl, crouch, cower,
sponge, truckle to, grovel, fawn, lick the feet of, kiss the hem of
one's garment, kiss one's ass[vulg.], suck up. pay court to; feed on,
fatten on, dance attendance on, pin oneself upon, hang on the sleeve
of, avaler les couleuvres[Fr], keep time to, fetch and carry, do the
dirty work of. go with the stream, worship the rising sun, hold with
the hare and run with the hounds. Adj. servile, obsequious;
supple,supple as a glove; soapy, oily, pliant, cringing, abased,
dough-faced, fawning, slavish, groveling, sniveling, mealy-mouthed;
beggarly, sycophantic, parasitical; abject, prostrate, down on ones
marrowbones; base, mean, sneaking; crouching &c. v. Adv. hat in hand,
cap in hand.
#887. Blusterer.—N. blusterer, swaggerer, vaporer, roisterer[obs3],
brawler; fanfaron[obs3]; braggart &c. (boaster) 884; bully, terrorist,
rough; bulldozer [U. S.], hoodlum, hooligan*, larrikin[obs3], roarer*;
Mohock, Mohawk; drawcansir[obs3], swashbuckler, Captain Bobadil, Sir
Lucius O'Trigger, Thraso, Pistol, Parolles, Bombastes Furioso[obs3],
Hector, Chrononhotonthologos[obs3]; jingo; desperado, dare-devil, fire
eater; fury, &c. (violent person) 173; rowdy; slang-whanger*[obs3],
tough [U. S.]. puppy &c. (fop) 854; prig; Sir Oracle, dogmatist,
doctrinaire, jack- in-office; saucebox[obs3], malapert, jackanapes,
minx; bantam-cock.
SECTION III. SYMPATHETIC AFFECTIONS
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