Roget's Thesaurus Part 121

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Roget's Thesaurus



Roget's Thesaurus Part 121


#911. Misanthropy. -- N. misanthropy, incivism; egotism &c.

(selfishness) 943; moroseness &c. 901a; cynicism.

misanthrope, misanthropist, egotist, cynic, man hater, Timon, Diogenes.

woman hater, misogynist.

Adj. misanthropic, antisocial, unpatriotic; egotistical &c.(selfish) 943; morose &c. 901a.




<-- p.="" 317="" --=""> #912. Benefactor. -- N. benefactor, savior, good genius, tutelary saint, guardian angel, good Samaritan; pater patriae[Lat]; salt of the earth &c. (good man); 948; auxiliary &c. 711.

#913. [Maleficent being] Evil doer -- N. evil doer, evil worker; wrongdoer &c. 949; mischief-maker, marplot; oppressor, tyrant; destroyer, Vandal; iconoclast
!.

firebrand, incendiary, fire bug [U. S.], pyromaniac; anarchist, communist
!, terrorist.

savage, brute, ruffian, barbarian, semibarbarian[obs3], caitiff, desperado; Apache[obs3], hoodlum, hood, plug-ugly*, pug-ugly* [U.S.], Red Skin, tough [U. S.]; Mohawk, Mo-hock, Mo-hawk; bludgeon man, bully, rough, hooligan, larrikin[obs3], dangerous cla.s.ses, ugly customer; thief &c. 792.

c.o.c.katrice, scorpion, hornet.

snake, viper, adder, snake in the gra.s.s; serpent, cobra, asp, rattlesnake, anaconda
!.

canker-worm, wire-worm; locust, Colorado beetle; alacran[obs3], alligator, caymon[obs3], crocodile, mosquito, mugger, octopus; torpedo; bane &c. 663.

cutthroat &c. (killer) 461.

cannibal; anthropophagus
!, anthropophagist
!; bloodsucker, vampire, ogre, ghoul, gorilla, vulture; gyrfalcon
!, gerfalcon
!.

wild beast, tiger, hyena, butcher, hangman; blood-hound, h.e.l.l-hound, sleuth-hound; catamount [U. S.], cougar, jaguar, puma.

hag, h.e.l.lhag[obs3], beldam, Jezebel.

monster; fiend &c. (demon) 980; devil incarnate, demon in human shape; Frankenstein's monster.

harpy, siren; Furies, Eumenides.

Hun, Attila[obs3], scourge of the human race.

Phr. faenum habet in cornu [Lat].

-- 3. SPECIAL SYMPATHETIC AFFECTIONS --

#914. Pity. -- N. pity, compa.s.sion, commiseration; bowels, of compa.s.sion; sympathy, fellow-feeling, tenderness, yearning, forbearance, humanity, mercy, clemency; leniency &c. (lenity) 740; charity, ruth, long- suffering.

melting mood; argumentum ad misericordiam[Lat], quarter, grace, locus paenitentiae[Lat].

sympathizer; advocate, friend, partisan, patron, wellwisher.

V. pity; have pity, show pity, take pity &c. n.; commiserate, compa.s.sionate; condole &c. 915; sympathize; feel for, be sorry for, yearn for; weep, melt, thaw, enter into the feelings of.

forbear, relent, relax, give quarter, wipe the tears, parcere subjectis[Lat], give a coup de grace, put out of one's misery.

raise pity, excite pity &c. n..; touch, soften; melt, melt the heart; propitiate, disarm.

ask for mercy &c. v.; supplicate &c. (request) 765; cry for quarter, beg one's life, kneel; deprecate.

Adj. pitying &c. v.; pitiful, compa.s.sionate, sympathetic, touched.

merciful, clement, ruthful; humane; humanitarian &c. (philanthropic) 910; tender, tender hearted, tender as a chicken; soft, soft hearted; unhardened[obs3]; lenient &c. 740; exorable[obs3], forbearing; melting &c.

v.; weak.

Int. for pity's sake! mercy! have mercy! cry you mercy! G.o.d help you!

poor thing! poor dear! poor fellow! woe betide! "quis talia fando temperet a lachrymiss!" [Lat][Vergil].

Phr. one's heart bleeding for; haud ignara mali miseris succurrere disco [Lat][Vergil]; "a fellow feeling makes one wondrous kind" onor di bocca a.s.sai giova e poco costa[Garrick][It].

#914a. Pitilessness. -- N. pitilessness &c. adj.; inclemency; severity &c. 739; malevolence &c. 907.

V. have no mercy, shut the gates of mercy &c. 914; give no quarter.

Adj. pitiless, merciless, ruthless, bowelless; unpitying, unmerciful, inclement; grim-faced, grim-visaged; incompa.s.sionate[obs3], uncompa.s.sionate; inexorable; harsh &c. 739; unrelenting &c. 919.

<-- p.="" 318="" --=""> #915. Condolence. -- N. condolence; lamentation &c. 839; sympathy, consolation.

V. condole with, console, sympathize express pity, testify pity; afford consolation, supply consolation; lament &c. 839 with; express sympathy for; feel grief in common with, feel sorrow in common with; share one's sorrow.

-- 4. RETROSPECTIVE SYMPATHETIC AFFECTIONS --

#916. Grat.i.tude. -- N. grat.i.tude, thankfulness, feeling of obligation, sense of obligation.

acknowledgment, recognition, thanksgiving, thanksgiving, giving thanks; thankful good will.

thanks, praise, benediction; paean; Te Deum &c. (worship) 990[Lat]; grace, grace before meat, grace after meat, grace before meals, grace after meals; thank offering.

requital.

V. be grateful &c. adj.; thank; give thanks, render thanks, return thanks, offer thanks, tender thanks &c. n.; acknowledge, requite.

feel under an obligation, be under an obligation, lie under an obligation; savoir gr[Fr]; not look a gift horse in the mouth; never forget, overflow with grat.i.tude; thank one's stars, thank one's lucky stars, bless one's stars; fall on one's knees.

Adj. grateful, thankful, obliged, beholden, indebted to, under obligation.

Int. thanks! many thanks! gramercy[obs3]! much obliged! thank you!

thank you very much! thanks a lot! thanks a heap, thanks loads [coll.]; thank Heaven! Heaven be praised! Gott sei Dank[Ger]!.

#917. Ingrat.i.tude. -- N. ingrat.i.tude, thanklessness, oblivion of benefits, unthankfulness[obs3].

"benefits forgot"; thankless task,thankless office.

V. be ungrateful &c. adj.; forget benefits; look a gift horse in the mouth.

Adj. ungrateful, unmindful, unthankful; thankless, ingrate, wanting in grat.i.tude, insensible of benefits.

forgotten; unacknowledged, unthanked[obs3], unrequited, unrewarded; ill-requited.

Int. thank you for nothing! thanks for nothing! "et tu Brute!"

[Julius Caesar].

Phr. "ingrat.i.tude! thou marble-hearted fiend" [Lear].

#918. Forgiveness. -- N. forgiveness, pardon, condonation, grace, remission, absolution, amnesty, oblivion; indulgence; reprieve.

conciliation; reconcilement; reconciliation &c. (pacification) 723; propitiation.

excuse, exoneration, quittance, release, indemnity; bill of indemnity, act of indemnity, covenant of indemnity, deed of indemnity; exculpation &c.

(acquittal) 970.

longanimity[obs3], placability; amantium irae[Lat]; locus paenitentiae[Lat]; forbearance.

V. forgive, forgive and forget; pardon, condone, think no more of, let bygones be bygones, shake hands; forget an injury. excuse, pa.s.s over, overlook; wink at &c. (neglect) 460; bear with; allow for, make allowances for; let one down easily, not be too hard upon, pocket the affront.

let off, remit, absolve, give absolution, reprieve; acquit &c. 970.

beg pardon, ask pardon, implore pardon &c. n.; conciliate, propitiate, placate; make up a quarrel &c. (pacify) 723; let the wound heal.

Adj. forgiving, placable, conciliatory,.

forgiven &c. v.; unresented[obs3], unavenged, unrevenged[obs3].

Adv. cry you mercy.

Phr. veniam petimusque damusque vicissim [Lat][Horace]; more in sorrow than in anger; comprendre tout c'est tout pardonner[Fr]; "the offender never pardons" [Herbert].

#919. Revenge. -- N. revenge, revengement[obs3]; vengeance; avengement[obs3], avengeance
, sweet revenge, vendetta, death feud, blood for blood retaliation &c. 718; day of reckoning.

rancor, vindictiveness, implacability; malevolence &c. 907; ruthlessness &c. 914a.

avenger, vindicator, Nemesis, Eumenides.

V. revenge, avenge; vindicate; take one's revenge, have one's revenge; breathe revenge, breathe vengeance; wreak one's vengeance, wreak one's anger.

have accounts to settle, have a crow to pluck, have a bone to pick, have a rod in pickle.

keep the wound green; harbor revenge, harbor vindictive feeling; bear malice; rankle, rankle in the breast.

Adj. revengeful, vengeful; vindictive, rancorous; pitiless &c. 914a; ruthless, rigorous, avenging.

unforgiving, unrelenting; inexorable, stony-hearted, implacable; relentless, remorseless.

aeternum servans sub pectore vulnus[Lat]; rankling; immitigable.

Phr. manet ciratrix[Lat], manet alid mente repostum[Lat][obs3]; dies irae dies illa[Lat]; "in high vengeance there is n.o.ble scorn" [G. Eliot]; inhumanum verb.u.m est ultio [Lat][Seneca]; malevolus animus abditos dentes habet [Lat][obs3][Syrus]; "now infidel I have thee on the hip" [Merchant of Venice].

<-- p.="" 319="" --=""> #920. Jealousy.-- N. jealousy,jealousness; jaundiced eye; envious suspicion, suspicion; "green-eyed monster" [Oth.e.l.lo]; yellows; Juno.







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