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hurry, v. hasten, impel, expedite, accelerate, speed, precipitate.
hurt, v. damage, wound, impair, harm, injure, offend, harry.
hurt, n. injury, wound, detriment, harm, damage.
hurtful, a. See injurious.
husband, n. spouse, benedict. Antonyms: bachelor, celibate.
a.s.sociated Words: marital, monandry, polyandry cuckold, cuckoldom, henpecked.
hush, v. silence, still, repress, suppress; appease, allay.
husk, n. glume, hull, rind, sh.e.l.l, bark, kex.
husky, a. dry, raucous, harsh, discordant, guttural, hoa.r.s.e.
hussy, n. jade, quean; jilt, flirt, jill.
hustle, v. jostle.
hut, n. hovel, shack, shed.
hybrid, n. mongrel, crossbreed, cross.--a. mongrel, crossbred.
hypocrisy, n. dissimulation, Pharisaism, sanctimoniousness.
hypocrite, n. dissembler, Pharisee, formalist, dissimulator.
hypocritical, a. Pharisaical, canting, dissembling, sanctimonious, insincere. Antonyms: sincere, unfeigned, undissembling, ingenuous.
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ice, n. a.s.sociated Words: igloo, iceberg, glacier, floe, icicle, frazil, avalanche, curling, skate, skee, skating, skeeing, brash, glare, serac, crampoons, calk, glaciate, glaciation, creeper, anchor ice.
iced, a. chilled, _frappe_.
Iceland moss. lichen.
icy, a. glacial, glacious.
idea, n. conception, notion, opinion, fancy, impression; intention, design.
ideal, a. faultless, consummate, perfect.
idiocy, n. imbecility, foolishness, fatuity, folly, senselessness
idiot, n. imbecile.
idiotic, a. imbecile, foolish, fatuous, senseless.
idle, a. leisure; vain, unavailing, futile, ineffectual; indolent, slothful, inactive, lazy, otiose.
idleness, n. indolence, sloth, inaction, laziness; futility, vanity.
a.s.sociated Word: Cocagne.
idler, n. sluggard, drone, lounger, loafer, dawdler, donothing.
idol, n. image (of a divinity), effigy, graven image; Juggernaut.
a.s.sociated Words: idolater, idolatrous, idolatry, idolize, iconoplast, iconoclast, iconodule, idolomania, iconography, iconology, idoloclast, iconomachy, ting, iconolatry.
idolize, v. deify, wors.h.i.+p, adore.
ignis fatuus. Will-o'-the-wisp, Jack-with-a-lantern, decoy.
ign.o.ble, a. humble, plebeian, unt.i.tled; base, dishonorable, low.
ignominious, a. dishonorable, shameful, infamous, disreputable.
ignominy, n. disgrace, dishonor, reproach, obloquy, shame, humiliation.
ignoramus, n. dunce, illiterate, sciolist, wiseacre, dullard, simpleton.
ignorance, n. illiteracy, inerudition, unenlightenment, nescience; quackery, charlatanry.
ignorant, a. illiterate, inerudite unenlightened, uninformed, unlearned, untaught, uneducated, unlettered, nescient; quackish, charlatanic. Antonyms: educated, instructed, schooled, trained, proficient, learned.
ignorantly, adv. unknowingly, unconsciously, inadvertently, unwittingly.
ignorant person. ignoramus, illiterate.
ignore, v. disregard, slight, connive, overlook.
ill, a. ailing, sick, unwell; evil, unfavorable, adverse, bad.
ill at ease. uneasy, uncomfortable, anxious.
ill-boding, a. ominous, inauspicious.
illegal, a. illicit, unlawful, contraband, unlicensed, illegitimate.
illegality, n. unlawfulness, illegitimacy.
illegitimate, a. b.a.s.t.a.r.d, adulterine; illegal, illicit; spurious.
