Roget's Thesaurus by Peter Mark Roget
900. Adj. irascible; bad-tempered, ill-tempered; irritable,
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susceptible; excitable &c. 825; thin-skinned &c. (sensitive) 822;
fretful, fidgety; on the fret. hasty, overhasty, quick, warm, hot,
testy, touchy, techy[obs3], tetchy; like touchwood, like tinder; huffy;
pettish, petulant; waspish, snappish, peppery, fiery, passionate,
choleric, shrewish, "sudden and quick in quarrel" [As You Like It].
querulous, captious, moodish[obs3]; quarrelsome, contentious,
disputatious; pugnacious &c. (bellicose) 720; cantankerous,
exceptious[obs3]; restiff &c. (perverse) 901a[obs3]; churlish &c.
(discourteous) 895. cross, cross as crabs, cross as two sticks, cross
as a cat, cross as a dog, cross as the tongs; fractious, peevish,
acaritre[obs3]. in a bad temper; sulky &c. 901a; angry &c. 900.
resentful, resentive[obs3]; vindictive &c. 919. Int. pish! Phr. a vieux
comptes nouvelles disputes[Fr]; quamvis tegatur proditur vultu furor
[Lat][Seneca]; vino tortus et ira [Lat][Horace].
#901a. Sullenness.—N. sullenness &c. adj.; morosity[obs3], spleen;
churlishness &c. (discourtesy) 895; irascibility &c. 901. moodiness &c.
adj.; perversity; obstinacy &c. 606; torvity|, spinosity[obs3];
crabbedness &c. adj. ill temper, bad temper, ill humor, bad humor;
sulks, dudgeon, mumps[obs3], dumps, doldrums, fit of the sulks,
bouderie[Fr], black looks, scowl; grouch; huff &c. (resentment) 900. V.
be sullen &c. adj.; sulk; frown, scowl, lower, glower, gloam[obs3],
pout, have a hangdog look, glout[obs3]. Adj. sullen, sulky;
ill-tempered, ill-humored, ill-affected, ill- disposed; grouty
[obs3][U. S.]; in an ill temper, in a bad temper, in a shocking temper,
in an ill humor, in a bad humor, in a shocking humor; out of temper,
out of humor; knaggy[obs3], torvous[obs3], crusty, crabbed; sour, sour
as a crab; surly &c. (discourteous) 895. moody; spleenish[obs3],
spleenly[obs3]; splenetic, cankered. cross, crossgrained[obs3];
perverse, wayward, humorsome[obs3]; restiff[obs3], restive;
cantankerous, intractable, exceptious[obs3], sinistrous[obs3], deaf to
reason, unaccommodating, rusty, froward; cussed [U. S.]. dogged &c.
(stubborn) 606. grumpy, glum, grim, grum[obs3], morose, frumpish; in
the sulks &c. n.; out of sorts; scowling, glowering, growling; grouchy.
peevish &c. (irascible) 901.
#902. [Expression of affection or love.] Endearment.—N. endearment,
caress; blandishment, blandiment|; panchement, fondling, billing and
cooing, dalliance, necking, petting, sporting, sparking, hanky-panky;
caressing. embrace, salute, kiss, buss, smack, osculation,
deosculation|; amorous glances. courtship, wooing, suit, addresses, the
soft impeachment; lovemaking; serenading; caterwauling. flirting &c.
v.; flirtation, gallantry; coquetry. true lover's knot, plighted love;
love tale, love token, love letter; billet-doux, valentine. honeymoon;
Strephon and Chloe[obs3]. V. caress, fondle, pet, dandle; pat, pat on
the head, pat on the cheek; chuck under the chin, smile upon, coax,
wheedle, cosset, coddle, cocker, cockle; make of, make much of;
cherish, foster, kill with kindness. clasp, hug, cuddle; fold in one's
arms, strain in one's arms; nestle, nuzzle; embrace, kiss, buss, smack,
blow a kiss; salute &c. (courtesy) 894; fold to the heart, press to the
bosom. bill and coo, spoon, toy, dally, flirt, coquet; gallivant,
galavant; philander; make love; pay one's court to, pay one's addresses
to, pay one's attentions to; serenade; court, woo; set one's cap at; be
sweet upon, look sweet upon; ogle, cast sheep's eyes upon; faire les
yeux doux[Fr]. fall in love with, win the affections &c. (love) 897;
die for. propose; make an offer, have an offer; pop the question;
plight one's troth, plight one's faith. Adj. caressing &c. v.; "sighing
like furnace" [Shakespeare]; love- sick, spoony. caressed &c. V. Phr.
"faint heart neer won fair lady"; "kisses honeyed by oblivion" [G.
Eliot].
#903. Marriage.—N. marriage, matrimony, wedlock, union,
intermarriage, miscegenation, the bonds of marriage, vinculum
matrimonii[Lat], nuptial tie. married state, coverture, bed,
cohabitation. match; betrothment &c. (promise) 768; wedding, nuptials,
Hymen, bridal; espousals, spousals; leading to the altar &c. v.;
nuptial benediction, epithalamium[obs3]; sealing. torch of Hymen,
temple of Hymen; hymeneal altar; honeymoon. bridesmaid,
bridesman[obs3], best man; bride, bridegroom. married man, married
woman, married couple; neogamist[obs3], Benedict, partner, spouse,
mate, yokemate[obs3]; husband, man, consort, baron; old man, good man;
wife of one's bosom; helpmate, rib, better half, gray mare, old woman,
old lady, good wife, goodwife. feme[Fr], feme coverte[Fr]; squaw, lady;
matron, matronage, matronhood[obs3]; man and wife; wedded pair, Darby
and Joan; spiritual wife. monogamy, bigamy, digamy[obs3],
deuterogamy[obs3], trigamy[obs3], polygamy; mormonism; levirate[obs3];
spiritual wifery[obs3], spiritual wifeism[obs3]; polyandrism[obs3];
Turk, bluebeard[obs3]. unlawful marriage, left-handed marriage,
morganatic marriage, ill- assorted marriage; mesalliance; mariage de
convenance[Fr]. marriage broker; matrimonial agency, matrimonial agent,
matrimonial bureau, matchmaker; schatchen[Ger]. V. marry, wive, take to
oneself a wife; be married, be spliced; go off, pair off; wed, espouse,
get hitched[U.S. slang], lead to the hymeneal altar, take "for better
for worse", give one's hand to, bestow one's hand upon. marry, join,
handfast[obs3]; couple &c. (unit) 43; tie the nuptial knot; give away,
give away in marriage; seal; ally, affiance; betroth &c. (promise) 768;
publish the banns, bid the banns; be asked in church. Adj. married &c.
v.; one, one bone and one flesh. marriageable, nubile. engaged,
betrothed, affianced. matrimonial, marital, conjugal, connubial,
wedded; nuptial, hymeneal, spousal, bridal. Phr. the gray mare the
better horse; "a world-without-end bargain" [Love's Labor's Lost];
"marriages are made in Heaven" [Tennyson]; "render me worthy of this
noble wife" [Julius Caesar]; si qua voles apte nubere nube pari
[Lat][Ovid].
#904. Celibacy.—N. celibacy, singleness, single blessedness;
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bachelorhood, bachelorship[obs3]; misogamy[obs3], misogyny.
virginity, pucelage[obs3]; maidenhood, maidenhead.
unmarried man, bachelor, Coelebs, agamist[obs3], old bachelor;
misogamist[obs3], misogynist; monogamist; monk.
unmarried woman, spinster; maid, maiden;virgin, feme sole[Fr], old
maid; bachelor girl, girl-bachelor; nun.
V. live single, live alone.
Adj. unmarried, unwed, unwedded[obs3]; wifeless, spouseless[obs3];
single.
#905. Divorce.—N. divorce, divorcement; separation; judicial
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separation, separate maintenance; separatio a mensa et thoro[Lat],
separatio a vinculo matrimonii [Lat].
trial separation, breakup; annulment.
widowhood, viduity[obs3], weeds.
widow, widower; relict; dowager; divorcee; cuckold; grass widow,
grass
widower; merry widow.
V. live separate; separate, divorce, disespouse[obs3], put away;
wear
the horns.
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