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tiresome, a. irksome, wearisome, fatiguing, tedious; toilsome, arduous.
tissue, n. fabric, stuff, cloth, texture; web, network, fabrication.
toad-eater, n. toady.
toads, n. pl. a.s.sociated Words: ranine, ranivorous.
toadstool, n. fungus. See Fungi.
toady, n. sycophant, toad-eater, flatterer, fawner.
tobacco, n. a.s.sociated Words: tobacconist, nicotine, nicotinism, canaster, cavendish, plug, cud, quid, fumacious, carotte, capa, perique, mundungus, humidor.
toe, n. digit.
together, adv. unitedly, jointly, concertedly, simultaneously.
toil, n. labor, drudgery; toils, snare, trap.--v. labor, moil, drudge.
token, n. sign, symbol, index, indication.
tolerable, a. sufferable, endurable; pa.s.sable, mediocre, so-so, ordinary.
tolerance, n. endurance, toleration, sufferance. Antonym: intolerance.
tolerant, a. indulgent, forbearing, charitable. Antonym: intolerant.
tolerate, v. endure, suffer, brook; allow, permit, admit.
toleration, n. tolerance, endurance, sufferance; allowance, permission.
tomb, n. sepulchre, crypt, vault, ossuary; mausoleum (a magnificent tomb).
tomboy, n. (Colloq.) hoiden, romp.
tombstone, n. monument; cenotaph (honoring one buried elsewhere).
a.s.sociated Words: sepulchral, epitaph, lapidary.
tomfoolery, n. (Colloq.) folly, trifling, monkey-tricks, mummery.
tone, n. sound, note; cadence, modulation; force, vigor, energy.
tone down. subdue, moderate, soften.
toneless, a. aspirated, surd, atonic, unintonated.
tongue, n. a.s.sociated Words: lingual, glossal, sublingual, fur, tchick, barb, papillae, lick, lap, hyoid, lincture, aglossal, fraenum, fourchette, raphe.
tonguy, a. (Colloq.) voluble, fluent, loquacious, garrulous.
tonic, n. invigorant, roborant.
tool, n. implement, utensil, instrument; cat's-paw, puppet, hireling.
a.s.sociated Words: ratten, cocobola, kit.
tooth, n. (little tooth) denticle, dentile. a.s.sociated Words: denticulation, serration, serrature. See teeth.
toothache, n. odontalgia. a.s.sociated Word: odontalgic.
toothless, a. agomphious, edentate, edentulous.
toothless animals. Edentata.
toothsome, n. palatable, delicious, savory, gustable.
top, n. summit, crest, apex, vertex, pinnacle, zenith, culmination, capsheaf, meridian.
top, v. surmount, overtop, surpa.s.s.
toper, n. drunkard, sot, inebriate, guzzler.
topic, n. subject, theme; division, head, subdivision.
topknot, n. crest.
top-shaped, a. turbinate, turbinated.
torch, n. flambeau (flaming torch), cresset.
torment, n. pain, anguish, distress, torture; bane, infliction, scourge, thorn.
torment, v. persecute, hector, tease, tantalize, harry; torture, grill, rack, distress.
torn, a. rent, lacerated, ripped.
tornado, n. hurricane, cyclone, whirlwind.
torpid, a. numb, benumbed, unfeeling; lethargic, dull, hebetate, sluggish, stupid.
torpidity, n. numbness, lethargy, inactivity, hebetude.
touch, v. meet, impinge; graze.
touch, n. touching, contact, contiguity, juxtaposition, osculation, tangency; taction, tact, palpation; dash, sprinkling, _soupcon_, infusion; animadversion, censure, stricture, reflection, slur. a.s.sociated words: tactile, tactility, tactual, palpable, impalpable, palpability, impalpability.
touchiness, n. irascibility, petulance, irritability.
touching, a. pathetic, affecting, moving, tender.
