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nab, v. (Colloq.) grab, s.n.a.t.c.h, seize.
nag, v. (Colloq.) plague, tease, twit, hector, torment, scold.
nave, a. artless, innocent, ingenuous, frank.
navete, n. artlessness, innocence, ingenuousness, candor.
naked, a. nude, undressed, bare; unexaggerated, uncolored, exact, literal.
nakedness, n. nudity, bareness; exactness, literalness, accuracy.
name, n. appellation, designation, denomination; epithet, t.i.tle, cognomen, surname, cognomination, pseudonym, patronymic, metronymic, alias, penname, praenomen, sobriquet, _nom de plume_, _nom de guerre_, nickname, eponym, misnomer, euphemism, agnomen, allonym, anonym, autonym, appellative, byname, caconym, cryptonym, compellation, compellative, dionym, trionym, polyonym, diminutive; repute, fame, renown, reputation.
a.s.sociated Words: nominal, nominally, t.i.tular, t.i.tulary, onomatology, patronomatology, onomasticon, orismology, pseudepigraphy, pseudonymity, roster, register, nee, nomancy, namesake, eponymy, of that ilk, nomenclator, heteronym, synedoche, nominative.
name, v. ent.i.tle, denominate, style, call, christen, dub, term; designate, specify, nominate.
nameless, a. unnamed; undistinguished, inglorious, unknown, obscure; anonymous; unnamable, inexpressible.
namelessness, n. anonymity; obscurity.
names, n. pl. nomenclature, terminology.
Naples, n. a.s.sociated Word: Neapolitan.
narcotic, n. stupefacient, sedative, anaesthetic, opiate, anodyne.
narrate, v. recount, recite, tell about, relate.
narration, n. narrative, relation, recital, story.
narrative, n. narration, account, portrayal, story, tale.
narrow, a. limited, circ.u.mscribed, incapacious, contracted, straitened, cramped; bigoted, illiberal, uncatholic, narrow-minded, insular.
narrow, v. contract, reduce, constrict, restrict, limit, cramp, confine.
narrowing, n. contraction, reduction, constriction, limitation circ.u.mscription.
narrow-minded, a. illiberal, bigoted, intolerant, narrow, uncatholic.
narrow-mindedness, n. illiberality, bigotry, bias, intolerance, insularity, uncatholicity.
narrowness, n. contractedness, incapaciousness, circ.u.mscription.
narrows, n. strait, sound.
nastiness, n. squalor, filthiness, pollution, filth, corruption, dirtiness; indecency, s.m.u.t, obscenity, bawdry, ribaldry, indelicacy, lewdness.
nasty, a. filthy, squalid, foul, polluted, dirty; indecent, indelicate, gross, ribald, lewd, obscene, s.m.u.tty, shameless; odious, sickening, repulsive, nauseous, disgusting, disagreeable.
native, a. natal; indigenous, natural, aboriginal, autochthonal; vernacular, mother; genuine, congenital, inherent, inborn, inbred, innate, original. Antonyms: foreign, artificial, exotic, acquired, a.s.sumed, unnatural.
native, n. aboriginal, denizen (by birth), indigene.
natives, n. pl. aborigines.
natty, a. (Colloq.) neat, spruce, trim, jaunty, dapper, chic.
natural, a. native, inborn, congenital, innate, characteristic; original, indigenous; normal, regular, legitimate; artless, unaffected, ingenuous, spontaneous, simple; unregenerate. Antonyms: unnatural, acquired, affected, simulated.
naturalization, n. denization.
naturalize, v. familiarize, accustom, habituate, acclimatize, adapt, acclimate.
natural philosophy. physics.
nature, n. creation, universe, cosmos, world; kind, sort, character, quality, species; disposition, mood, temper, essence, const.i.tution.
a.s.sociated Words: physiography, physiogony, connatural, connaturalness.
nature wors.h.i.+p. physiolatry.
naughty, a. disobedient, mischievous, perverse, forward, refractory.
nausea, n. seasickness; qualm, squeamishness, queasiness, qualmishness.
nauseate, v. sicken, disgust, revolt; recoil from, abhor, abominate.
nauseous, a. disgusting, nauseating, offensive, sickening, fulsome, distasteful.
nautical, a. naval, marine, maritime, oceanic.
nautilus, n. Tetrabranchiata; argonaut, paper nautilus; diving-bell.
naval, a. nautical, marine, maritime.
navel, n. umbilicus, omphalos.
navel string, funis, umbilical cord.
navigate, v. sail, cruise; guide, steer, direct; circ.u.mnavigate
near, a. nigh, close, adjacent, neighboring, contiguous, proximate, approximate to; intimate, confidential, bosom; immediate, imminent, impending, forthcoming.
Antonyms: distant, remote, far.
nearness, n. closeness, proximity, propinquity, contiguity, adjacency, imminence, approximation, approxi-mateness intimacy, familiarity.
