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giving, n. conferring, bestowal, granting, benefaction.
giving and taking. reciprocity, reciprocation.
glad, a. pleased, delighted, happy, joyous, joyful, gratified, rejoiced, merry, exhilarated, elated, cheery, animated, gladsome, jubilant, felicitous, refres.h.i.+ng, exhilarating. Antonyms: sad, sorrowful. See sad.
gladden, v. cheer, delight, please, exhilarate, gratify, buoy, elate, rejoice.
gladness, n. delight, pleasure, elation, exhilaration, jubilation, rejoicing.
glamour, n. charm, witchery, magic, spell; illusion, glitter, delusion, glory. Antonyms: disillusionment, disenchantment.
glance, n. glimpse; allusion; gleam, flash, glitter.
glance, v. glimpse; allude, hint; gleam, beam, glitter.
glare, v. glitter, glisten, dazzle; frown, glower.
glaring, a. dazzling, intense, brilliant; flagrant, notorious, barefaced.
gla.s.s, n. flint gla.s.s, crystal gla.s.s; aventurine; murrhine gla.s.s; stra.s.s (artificial gems); schmelze (Bohemian gla.s.s); crystal, obsidian.
gla.s.s, n. tumbler, goblet, b.u.mper, beaker, schooner, bocal; decanter; carafe; looking-gla.s.s, mirror, speculum, cheval gla.s.s, pier gla.s.s; lens, spygla.s.s, microscope, telescope, binocular, binocle, opera gla.s.s, lorgnette, polyscope, altiscope, optigraph, prism, reflector, refractor; hourgla.s.s; barometer; hydrometer; pipette; graduate; hygrometer; monocle; cloche; bolthead, matra.s.s.
gla.s.s, n. a.s.sociated Words: vitrifacture, vitrifaction, vitrics, vitrify, vitriform, vitrified, vitrifiable, vitric, devitrify, devitrification, glazier, glazing, crizzel, invitrifiable vitreous, vitrescent, vitrescence, hyalography.
gla.s.ses, n. pl. spectacles, eye-gla.s.ses, pince-nez, goggles, blinkers, barnacles, lorgnette, louchettes.
gla.s.sy, a. vitreous, crystalline, transparent, crystal.
Glauber's salt. sulphate of soda.
gleam, v. glimmer, glitter, radiate, beam, scintillate, sparkle.
gleam, n. beam, ray, glimmer, glance, flash; splendor, sparkle, gleaming.
glee, n. merriment, joy, mirth, gayety.
gleeful, a. merry, gay, mirthful.
gleety, a. ichorous.
glib, a. smooth, slippery; fluent, voluble, bland, oily.
glimmering, n. glimmer, glimpse, inkling, glance.
glimpse, n. glance; flash; inkling.
glisten, v. sparkle, s.h.i.+ne, gleam, flash, glitter, glister.
glister, v. sparkle, glisten, glitter.
glitter, n. brilliancy, s.h.i.+ne, gleam, fulgency, radiance.
glitter, v. sparkle, gleam, glisten, glister.
glittering, a. sparkling, glistening, glistering, gleaming, bright, tinsel.
globe, n. sphere, ball, orb.
gloom, n. gloominess, shadow; melancholy, depression, dejection, despondency.
gloomy, a. dark, dismal, obscure, dim, shaded, lowering, overcast, lurid; melancholy, dejected, sad, despondent, pessimistic, disheartened, morose, crestfallen, glum, saturnine; disheartening, depressing, discouraging.
glorious, a. magnificent, grand, resplendent, splendid, admirable, n.o.ble, excellent; (Colloq.) hilarious, ecstatic, elated.
glory, n. fame, renown, honor, eminence, celebrity; pomp, magnificence, splendor; pride, exultation, arrogance; halo, nimbus, aureole. Antonyms: ignominy, dishonor, obscurity, ingloriousness, shame, reproach.
glory, v. exult, boast, vaunt.
Glory be to the Father. _Gloria Patri_.
gloss, n. l.u.s.ter, polish, sheen, glaze, enamel; show, pretense; commentary, note, annotation, comment, postil.
gloss, v. annotate, comment, ill.u.s.trate; glaze, polish; palliate, extenuate, gloss over.
glossy, a. s.h.i.+ning, sleek, sheeny, l.u.s.trous, polished, glazed, glace; specious, plausible.
glove-maker, n. glover.
glowing, a. ardent, pa.s.sionate, warm, flushed; luminous, incandescent.
glue, v. cement, glutinate, agglutinate. Antonyms: unglue, deglutinate.
glum, a. moody, dumpish, sullen, sulky, morose, sour.
glut, v. satiate, sate, cloy, surfeit; overfeed, overstock, oversupply.
glut, n. superfluity, superabundance, overstock, excess.
glutton, n. gormandizer, belly-G.o.d, cormorant, gormand; wolverine.
gluttonous, a. voracious, gluttonish.
gluttony, n. voracity, gormandism.
gnawer, n. rodent; pl. Rodentia.
gnawing, a. rodent.
