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dugout, n. excavation.
dull, a. unintelligent, obtuse, stolid, loggerheaded, inapt, doltish, beetle-headed, blockish, sluggish; apathetic, unfeeling, insensate, callous; blunt, obtuse, dulled, pointless; dim, faint; tedious, uninteresting, prosaic, stupid, wearisome, jejune, depressing; lifeless, torpid, slow, inactive; matte, l.u.s.terless, lackl.u.s.ter.
dull, v. blunt, rebate, benumb, obtund, stupefy, deaden, hebetate; sully, tarnish, obscure, dim, bedim; depress, sadden, dishearten; a.s.suage, alleviate, moderate, allay.
dumb, a. mute, speechless; pantomimic.
dumbness, n. muteness, obmutescence, speechlessness.
dumb show. pantomime.
dumfound, v. astound, amaze, astonish, confound.
dumpish, a. dull, moody, moping, dejected, gloomy, despondent.
dumps, n. pl. melancholy, depression, despondency.
dunce, n. dullard, dolt, numskull, witling, blockhead, coot, lackbrain, ninny, oaf, nincomp.o.o.p, mooncalf, ignoramus, b.o.o.by, simpleton.
duncical, a. doltish, witless.
dung, n. ordure, excrement, faeces, dejections, lesses, muck; puer, fumet, fiants, treddle, spraints, coprolite (petrified), mute, guano, ornithocopros. a.s.sociated Words: coprophagy, coprophagous, Augean, dungmeer, excrement.i.tious, sterconst, sterconcolous, stercoraceous, bubulin.
dupe, n. gull, cully, gudgeon, dotterel, victim.
duplicate, a. double, twofold, duplex.--n. facsimile, counterpart. See copy. Antonyms: original, archetype prototype, model, pattern.
dusk, n. twilight, evening, nightfall.
dust, n. powder; detritus; stive (in flour mills). a.s.sociated words: pulverizable, pulverable, pulverulence, pulverize, pulverization.
dust storm. simoon; (in India) shaitan, devil, peesash; dust whirl.
dusty, a. powdery, pulverulent, pulverous, pulverized.
dutiful, a. obedient, duteous, submissive, deferential, docile.
duty, n. responsibility, inc.u.mbency, accountability; service, business, work, function, office; tax, impost, toll, excise, custom.
a.s.sociated Words: ethics, deontology, casuistry, ethology, morals, ethicist, ethically, supererogate, supererogation.
dwarf, n. pygmy, gnome, manikin, dandiprat, Lilliputian, elf, midget, runt, Tom Thumb, pigwidgeon, homunculus, hop-o-my-thumb.
dwarf, v. stunt, atrophy.
dwarfish, a. diminutive, undersized, Lilliputian, pygmy, pygmean, runty, stunted, undeveloped, tiny, atrophied.
dweller, n. denizen, resident, sojourner, inhabitant, habitant.
dwelling, n. residence, domicile, house, abode.
dwindle, v. decrease, diminish, shrink.
dwindling, n. decrease, diminution, shrinkage.
dye, v. color, stain, tinge, imbue.
dying, a. moribund; expiring, last; mortal, perishable.
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Eager, a. ardent, avid, zealous, impetuous, vehement, intent, animated, impatient, fervent, athirst, impa.s.sioned ravenous, anxious, glowing, keen. Antonyms: indifferent, apathetic, dispa.s.sionate, phlegmatic, unconcerned unmoved, stolid.
eagerness, n. impatience, avidity, fervor, zeal, intensity, empress.e.m.e.nt, impetuosity, vehemence, heartiness, intentness ardor, devotion.
eagle, n. Aquila, bird of Jove; eaglet (young eagle). a.s.sociated words: aquiline, eyry, aerie.
ear, n. (of grain) spike.
ear, n. (external) auricle, pinna, concha; (inner) labyrinth.
a.s.sociated Words: otology, otologist, aurist (ear doctor), auricular, otography, otopathy, aural, auditory, otiatrics, lappet, otoplasty, tympanitis, otorrhea, auricled, alveary, otolith, lobe, otic, binaural, malleus, stapes, incus.
earache, n. otalgia, otalgy. a.s.sociated Word: otalgic.
eardrum, n. tympanum.
earlier, a. antecedent.
early, a. seasonable, timely, forehanded; premature.
earnest, a. unfeigned, ardent, sincere, fervent, impa.s.sioned, zealous, intent.
earnest, n. sincerity, seriousness, good faith; pledge, handsel, token, foretaste. Antonym: jest.
earnestness, n. ardor, sincerity, fervency, seriousness, intentness, unction.
earpick, n. auriscalp.
earring, n. eardrop, pendant; girandole.
ear-shaped, a. auriform.
earth, n. world, terra firma, globe; land, soil, ground. See world.
earthborn, a. terrigenous, human; groveling, abject, base.
