Book: Roget\'s Thesaurus

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#634. Substitute. -- N. substitute &c. 147; deputy &c. 759; badli.

#635. Materials. -- N. material, raw material, stuff, stock, staple;
adobe, brown stone; chinking; clapboard; daubing; puncheon; shake; shingle,
bricks and mortar; metal; stone; clay, brick crockery &c. 384; compo,
composition; concrete; reenforeed concrete, cement; wood, ore, timber.
materials; supplies, munition, fuel, grist, household stuff pabulum
&c. (food) 298; ammunition &c. (arms) 727; contingents; relay,
reenforcement; baggage &c. (personal property) 780; means &c. 632; calico,
cambric, cashmere.
Adj. raw &c. (unprepared) 674; wooden &c. n.; adobe.

#636. Store. -- N. stock, fund, mine, vein, lode, quarry; spring;
fount, fountain; well, wellspring; milch cow.
stock in trade, supply; heap &c. (collection) 72; treasure; reserve,
corps de reserve, reserved fund, nest egg, savings, bonne bouche.
crop, harvest, mow, vintage.
store, accumulation, hoard, rick, stack; lumber; relay &c. (provision)
637.
storehouse, storeroom, storecloset; depository, depot, cache,
repository, reservatory, repertory; repertorium; promptuary, warehouse,
entrepot, magazine; buttery, larder, spence; garner, granary; cannery,
safe-deposit vault, stillroom; thesaurus; bank &c. (treasury) 802; armory;
arsenal; dock; gallery, museum, conservatory; menagery, menagerie.

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reservoir, cstern, aljibar, tank, pond, mill pond; gasometer.
budget, quiver, bandolier, portfolio; coffer &c. (receptacle) 191.
conservation; storing &c. v.; storage.
V. store; put by, lay by, set by; stow away; set apart, lay apart;
store treasure, hoard treasure, lay up, heap up, put up, garner up, save
up; bank; cache; accumulate, amass, hoard, fund, garner, save.
reserve; keep back, hold back; husband, husband one's resources.
deposit; stow, stack, load; harvest; heap, collect &c. 72; lay in
store &c.
Adj.; keep, file [papers]; lay in &c. (provide) 637; preserve &c. 670.
Adj. stored &c. v. ; in store, in reserve, in ordinary; spare,
supernumerary.
Phr. adde parvum parvo magnus acervus erit.

#637. Provision. -- N. provision, supply; grist, grist for the mill;
subvention &c. (aid) 707; resources &c. (means) 632; groceries, grocery.
providing &c. v.; purveyance; reenforcement; commissariat.
provender &c. (food) 298; ensilage; viaticum.
caterer, purveyor, commissary, quartermaster, manciple, feeder,
batman, victualer, grocer, comprador, restaurateur; jackal, pelican;
sutler &c. (merchant) 797.
grocery shop [U. S.], grocery store.
V. provide; make provision, make due provision for; lay in, lay in a
stock, lay in a store.
supply, suppeditate|; furnish; find, find one in; arm.
cater, victual, provision, purvey, forage; beat up for; stock, stock
with; make good, replenish; fill, fill up; recruit, feed.
have in store, have in reserve; keep, keep by one, keep on foot, keep
on hand; have to fall back upon; store &c. 636; provide against a rainy day
&c. (economy) 817.


#638. Waste. -- N. consumption, expenditure, exhaustion; dispersion
&c. 73; ebb; leakage &c. (exudation) 295; loss &c. 776; wear and tear;
waste; prodigality &c. 818; misuse &c. 679; wasting &c. v.; rubbish &c.
(useless) 645. mountain in labor.
V. spend, expend, use, consume, swallow up, exhaust; impoverish;
spill, drain, empty; disperse &c. 73.
cast away, fool away, muddle away, throw away, fling away, fritter
away,; burn the candle at both ends, waste; squander &c. 818.
" waste its sweetness on the desert air " [Gray]; cast one's bread
upon the waters, cast pearls before swine; employ a steam engine to crack a
nut, waste powder and shot, break a butterfly on a weel; labor in vain &c.
(useless) 645; cut blocks with a razor, pour water into a sieve.
leak &c. (run out) 295; run to waste; ebb; melt away, run dry, dry up.
Adj. wasted &c. v.; at a low ebb.
wasteful &c. (prodigal) 818; penny wise and pound foolish.
Phr. magno conatu magnas nugas; le jeu ne vaut pas la chandelle; "
idly busy rolls their world away " [Goldsmith].


#639. Sufficiency. -- N. sufficiency, adequacy, enough, withal,
quantum sufficit, satisfaction, competence; no less.
mediocrity &c. (average) 29.
fill; fullness &c. (completeness) 52; plenitude, plenty; abundance;
copiousness &c. Adj.; amplitude, galore, lots, profusion; full measure; "
good measure pressed down and running, over." luxuriance &c. (fertility)
168; affluence &c. (wealth) 803; fat of the land; "a land flowing with milk
and honey"; cornucopia; horn of plenty, horn of Amalhaea; mine &c. (stock)
636.
outpouring; flood &c. (grieat quantity) 31; tide &c. (river) 348;
repletion &c. (redundance) 641; satiety &c. 869.
V. be sufficient &c. Adj.; suffice, do, just do, satisfy, pass muster;
have enough &c. n.; eat. one's fill, drink one's fill, have one's fill;
roll in, swim in; wallow in &c. (superabundance) 641 ; wanton.
abound, exuberate, teem, flow, stream, rain, shower down; pour, pour
in; swarm; bristle with; superabound.
render sufficient &c. Adj.; replenish &c .(fill) 52.
Adj. sufficient, enough, adequate, up to the mark, commensurate,
competent, satisfactory, valid, tangible.
measured; moderate &c. (temperate) 953.
full.&c. (complete) 52; ample; plenty, plentiful, plenteous; plenty as
blackberries; copious, abundant; abounding &c. v.; replete, enough and to
spare, flush; choke-full; well-stocked, well-provided; liberal; unstinted,
unstinting; stintless; without stint; unsparing, unmeasured; lavish &c.
641; wholesale.
rich; luxuriant &c. (fertile) 168; affluent &c. (wealthy) 803;
wantless; big with &c. (pregnant) 161.
unexhausted, unwasted; exhaustless, inexhaustible.
adv. sufficiently, amply &c. Adj.; full; in abundance &c. n. with no
sparing hand; to one's heart's content, ad libitum, without stint.
phr. " cut and come again " [Crabbe]; das Beste ist gut genug.


#640. Insufficiency. -- N. insufficiency; inadequacy, inadequateness;
incompetence &c. (impotence) 158; deficiency &c. (incompleteness) 53;
imperfection &c. 651; shortcoming &c. 304; paucity; stint; scantiness &c.
(smallness) 32; none to spare, bare subsistence.
scarcity, dearth; want, need, lack, poverty, exigency; inanition,
starvation, famine, drought.
dole, mite, pittance; short allowance, short commons; half rations;
banyan day.
emptiness, poorness &c. Adj.; depletion, vacancy, flaccidity; ebb
tide; low water; " a beggarly account of empty boxes " [Romeo and Jul.];
indigence &c. 804; insolvency &c. (nonpayment) 808.

V. be insufficient &c. Adj.; not suffice &c. 639; come short of &c.
304 run dry.
want, lack, need, require; caret; be in want &c. (poor) 804, live from
hand to mouth.
render insufficient &c. Adj.; drain of resources, impoverish &c.
(waste) 638; stint &c. (begrudge) 819; put on short allowance.
do insufficiently &c. adv.; scotch the snake.
Adj. insufficient, inadequate; too little &c. 32; not enough &c. 639;
unequal to; incompetent &c. (impotent) 158; " weighed in the balance and
found wanting "; pertunctory &c. (neglect) 460; deficient &c. (incomplete)
53; wanting, &c. v.; imperfect &c. 651; ill-furnished, ill-provided, ill-
stored, ill-off.
slack, at a low ebb; empty, vacant, bare; short of, out of, destitute
of, devoid of , bereft of &c. 789; denuded of; dry, drained.
unprovided, unsupplied, unfurnished; unreplenished, unfed; unstored,
untreasured; empty-handed.
meager, poor, thin, scrimp, sparing, spare, stinted; starved,
starveing; halfstarved, famine-stricken, famished; jejune.
scant &c. (small) 32; scarce; not to be had, not to be had for love or
money, not to be had at any price; scurvy; stingy &c. 819; at the end of
one's tether; without resources &c. 632; in want &c. (poor) 804; in debt
&c. 806.
Adv. insufficiently &c. Adj.; in default of, for want of; failing.
Phr. semper avarus eget [Horace].

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#641.. Redundance. -- N. redundance; too much, too many;
superabundance, superfluity, superfluence|, saturation; nimiety,
transcendency, exuberance, profuseness; profusion &c. (plenty) 639;
repletion, enough in all conscience, satis superque, lion's share; more
than enough &c. 639; plethora, engorgement, congestion, load, surfeit,
sickener; turgescence &c. (expansion) 194; overdose, overmeasure,
oversupply, overflow; inundation &c. (water) 348; avalanche.
accumulation &c. (store) 636; heap &c. 72; drug, drug in the market;
glut; crowd; burden.
excess; surplus, overplus; epact; margin; remainder &c. 40; duplicate;
surplusage, expletive; work of supererogation; bonus, bonanza.
luxury; intemperance &c. 954; extravagance &c. (prodigality) 818;
exorbitance, lavishment.
pleonasm &c. (diffuseness) 573; too many irons in the fire; embarras
de richesses.
V. superabound, overabound; know no bounds, swarm; meet one at every
turn; creep with, crawl with, bristle with; overflow; run over, flow over,
well over, brim over; run riot; overrun, overstock, overlay, overcharge,
overdose, overfeed, overburden, overload, overdo, overwhelm, overshoot the
mark &c. (go beyond) 303; surcharge, supersaturate, gorge, glut, load,
drench, whelm, inundate, deluge, flood; drug, drug the market; *hepatize.
choke, cloy, accloy, suffoccate; pile up, lay on thick; impregnate
with; lavish &c. . (squander) 818.
send coals to Newcastle, carry coals to Newcastle, carry owls to
Athens; teach one's grandmother to suck eggs; pisces natare docere;.kill
the slain, " gild refined gold", "gild the lilly", butter one's bread on
both sides, put butter upon bacon; employ a steam engine to crack a nut &c.
(waste) 638.
exaggerate &c. 549; wallow in roll in &c. (plenty) 639 remain on one's
hands, hang heavy on hand, go a begging.
Adj. redundant; too much, too many; exuberant, inordinate,
superabundant, excessive, overmuch, replete, profuse, lavish; prodigal &c.
818; exorbitant; overweening; extravagant; overcharged &c. v.;
supersaturated, drenched, overflowing; running runningover, running to
waste, running down.
crammed to overflowing, filled to overflowing; gorged, ready to burst;
dropsical, turgid, plethoric; obese &c. 194.
superfluous, unnecessary, needless, supervacaneous|, uncalled for, to
spare, in excess; over and above &c. (remainder) 40; de trop; adscititious
&c. (additional) 37; supernumerary &c. (reserve) 636; on one's hands,
spare, duplicate, supererogatory, expletive; un peu fort.
adv. over, too, over and above; overmuch , too much; too far; without
measure, beyond measure, out of measure; with . . . to spare; over head and
ears; up to one's eyes, ears; extra; beyond the mark &c. (transcursion)
303; acervatim.
Phr. it never rains but it pours; fortune multis dat mimium nulli
satis.


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2. Degree of Subservience

#642. Importance. -- N. importance, consequence, moment, prominence,
consideration, mark, materialness.
import, significance, concern; emphasis, interest.
greatness &c. 31; superiority &c. 33; notability &c. (repute) 873;
weight &c. (influence) 175; value &c. (goodness) 648; usefulness &c. 644.
gravity, seriousness, solemnity; no joke, no laughing matter;
pressure, urgency, stress; matter of life and death.
memorabilia, notabilia, great doings; red-letter day.
great thing, great point; main chance, "the be all and the end all "
[Macbeth]; cardinal point; substance, gist &c. (essence) 5; sum and
substance, gravamen, head and front; important part, principal part,
prominent part, essential part; half the battle; sine qua non; breath of
one's nostrils &c. (life) 359;cream, salt, core, kernel, heart, nucleus;
keynote, keystone; corner stone; trump card &c. (device) 626; salient
points.
top sawyer, first fiddle, prima donna, chief; triton among the
minnows; " it" [U.S.]
V. be important &c. adj., be somebody, be something; import, signify,
matter, boot, be an object; carry weight &c. (influence) 175; make a figure
&c. (repute) 873; be in the ascendant, come to the front, lead the way,
take the lead, play first fiddle, throw all else into the shade; lie at the
root of; deserve notice, merit notice, be worthy of notice, be worthy of
regard, be worthy of consideration.
attach importance to, ascribe importance to, give importance to &c.
n.; value, care for, set store upon, set store by; mark &c. 550; mark with
a white stone, underline; write in italics, put in italics, print in
italics, print in capitals,print in large letters, put in large type, put
in letters. of gold; accentuate, emphasize, lay stress on.
make a fuss about, make a fuss over, make a stir about, make a piece
of work about, make much ado about; make much ado of,make much of.
Adj. important; of importance &c. n.; momentous, material; to the
point; not to be overlooked, not to be despised, not to be sneezed at;
egregious; weighty &c. (influential) 175; of note &c. (repute) 873;
notable, prominent, salient, signal; memorable, remarkable; unforgettable;
worthy of remark, worthy of notice; never to be forgotten; stirring,
eventful.
grave, serious, earnest, noble, grand, solemn, impressive, commanding,
imposing.
urgent, pressing, critical, instant.
paramount, essential, vital, all-absorbing, radical, cardinal, chief,
main, prime, primary, principal, leading, capital, foremost, overruling; of
vital &c. importance.
in the front rank, first-rate; superior &c. 33; considerable &c.
(great) 31; marked &c. v.; rare &c. 137.
significant, telling, trenchant, emphatic, pregnant; tanti.
adv. materially &c. Adj.; in the main; above all, ,
par excellence, to crown all, to beat all.
Phr. expende Hannibalem! [Juvenal].


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#643. Unimportance. -- N. unimportance, insignificance, nothingness,
immateriality.
triviality, levity, frivolity; paltriness &c. Adj.; poverty; smallness
&c. 32; vanity &c. (uselessness) 645; matter of indifference &c. 866; no
object.
nothing, nothing to signify,, nothing worth speaking of, nothing
particular, nothing to boast of, nothing to speak of; small matter, no
great matter, trifling matter &c. Adj.; mere joke, mere nothing; hardly
anything; scarcely anything; nonentity, small beer, cipher; no great
shakes, peu de chose; child's play, kinderspiel.
toy, plaything, popgun, paper pellet, gimerack, gewgaw, bauble,
trinket, bagatelle, Rickshaw, knicknack, whim-wham, trifle, " trifles light
as air "; yankee notions [U. S.].
trumpery, trash, rubbish, stuff, fatras, frippery; " leather or
prunello "; chaff, drug, froth bubble smoke, cobweb; weed; refuse &c.
(inutility) 645; scum &c. (dirt) 653.
joke, jest, snap of the fingers; fudge &c. (unmeaning) 517;
fiddlestick, fiddlestick end; pack of nonsense, mere farce.
straw, pin, fig, button, rush; bulrush, feather, halfpenny, farthing,
brass farthing, doit, peppercorn, jot, rap, pinch of snuff, old son,; cent,
mill, picayune, pistareen, red cent [U.S.].
minutiae, details, minor details, small fry; dust in the balance,
feather in the *seale, drop in the ocean, flea-bite, molehill.
nine days' wonder, ridiculus mus; flash in the pan &c. (impotence)
158; much ado about nothing &c. (overestimation) 482.
V. be unimportant &c. Adj.; not matter &c. 642; go for nothing, matter
nothing, signify nothing, matter little, matter little or nothing; not
matter a straw &c. n.
make light of &c. (underestimate) 483; catch at straws &c.
(overestimate) 482.
Adj.,unimportant; of little account, of small account, of no account,
of little importance, of no importance &c. 642; immaterial; unessential,
nonessential; indifferent.
subordinate &c. (inferior) 34; mediocre &c. (average) 29; passable,
fair, respectable, tolerable, commonplace; uneventful, mere, common;
ordinary &c. (habitual) 613; inconsiderable, so-so, insignificant,
inappreciable.
trifling, trivial; slight, slender, light, flimsy, frothy, idle;
puerile &c. (foolish) 499; airy, shallow; weak &c. 160; powerless &c. 158;
frivolous, petty, niggling; piddling, peddling; fribble, inane, ridiculous,
farcical; finical, finikin; fiddle-faddle, fingle-fangle, namby-pamby,
wishy-washy, milk and water.
poor, paltry, pitiful; contemptible &c. (contempt) 930; sorry, mean,
meager, shabby, miserable, wretched, vile, scrubby, scrannel, weedy,
niggardly, scurvy, putid, beggarly, worthless, twopennyhalfpenny, cheap,
trashy, catchpenny, gimcrack, trumpery; one-horse [U. S.]. not worth the
pains, not worth while, not worth mentioning, not worth speaking of, not
worth a thought, not worth a curse, not worth a straw &c. n.;1 beneath
notice, unworthy of notice, beneath regard, unworthy of regard, beneath
consideration, unworthy of consideration; de lana caprina; vain &c.
(useless) 645.

Adv. slightly &c. adj.; rather, somewhat, pretty well, tolerably. for
aught one cares.
Int. no matter! pish! tush! tut! pshaw! pugh! pooh,pooh-pooh! fudge!
bosh! humbug! fiddlestick, fiddlestick end! fiddlededee! never mind!
n'importe! what signifies it, what boots it, what of it, what of that,
what matter, what's the odds, a fig for' stuff and nonsense, stuff!
nonsense!
Phr. magno conatu magnas nugas; le jeu ne. vaut pas la chandelle; it
matters not, it does not signify; it is of no consequence, it is of no
importance; elephantus non capit murem; tempete dans un verre d'eau.

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#644. Utility. -- N. utility; usefulness &c. adj.; efficacy,
efficiency, adequacy; service, use, stead, avail; help &c. (aid) 707;
applicability &c. adj.; subservience &c. (instrmentality) 631; function &c.
(busbiness) 625; value; worth &c. (goodness) 648; money's worth;
productiveness &c. 168; cui bono &c. (intention) 620; utilization &c. (use)
677 step in the right direction.
common weal; commonwealth public good, public interest; utilitarianism
&c. (philanthropy) 910.
V. be useful &c. adj.; avail, serve; subserve &c. (be instrumental to)
631; conduce &c. (tend) 176; answer , serve one's turn, answer a purpose,
serve a purpose.
act a part &c. (action) 680; perform a function, discharge a function
&c.; render a service, render good service, render yeoman's service;
bestead, stand one in good stead be the making of; help &c. 707.
bear fruit &c. (produce) 161; bring grist to the mill; profit,
remunerate; benefit &c. (do good) 648.
find one's account in, find one's advantage in; reap the benefit of
&c. (be better for) 658. render useful &c. (use) 677.
Adj. useful; of use &c. n.; serviceable, proficuous|, good for;
subservient &c. (instrumental) 631.; conducive &c. (tending) 176;
subsidiary &c. (helping) 707.
advantageous &c. (beneficial) 648; profitable, gainful, remunerative,
worth one's salt; valuable; prolific &c. (productive) 168.
adequate; efficient, efficacious; effective, effectual; expedient &c.
646.
applicable, available, ready, handy, at hand, tangible; commodious,
adaptable; of all work.
adv. usefully &c. adj.; pro bono publico.

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#645. Inutility. -- N. inutility; uselessness &c. adj.; inefficacy,
futility; ineptitude, inaptitude; unsubservience; inadequacy &c.
(insufficiency) 640; inefficiency.&c. (incompetence) 158; unskillfulness
&c. 699; disservice; unfruitfulness &c.(unproductiveness). 169; labor in
vain, labor lost, labor of Sisyphus; lost trouble, lost labor; work of
Penelope; sleeveless errand, wild goose chase, mere farce.
tautology &c. (repetition) 104; supererogation &c. (redundance) 641.
vanitas vanitatum, vanity, inanity, worthlessness, nugacity;
triviality &c. (unimportance) 643.
caput mortuum, waste paper, dead letter; blunt tool.
litter, rubbish, junk, lumber, odds and ends, cast-off clothes; button
top; shoddy; rags, orts, trash, refuse, sweepings, scourings, offscourings,
waste, rubble, debris, detritus; stubble, leavings; broken meat; dregs &c.
(dirt) 653; weeds, tares; rubbish heap, dust hole; rudera, deads.
fruges consumere natus [Horace] &c. (drone) 683.
V. be useless &c. Adj.; go a begging &c. (redundant) 641; fail &c.
732.
seek after impossibilities, strive after impossibilities; use vain
efforts, labor in vain, roll the stone of Sisyphus, beat the air, lash the
waves, battre l'eau avec un baton, donner un coup d'epee dans l'eau, fish
in the air, milk the ram, drop a bucket into an empty well, sow the sand;
bay the moon; preach to the winds, speak to the winds; whistle jigs to a
milestone; kick against the pricks, se battre contre des moulins; lock the
stable door when the steed is stolen, lock the barn door after the horse is
stolen &c. (too late) 135; hold a farthing candle to the sun; cast pearls
before swine &c. (waste) 638; carry coals to Newcastle &c. (redundance)
641; wash a blackamoor white &c. (impossible) 471.
render useless &c. adj.; dismantle, dismast, dismount, disqualify,
disable; unrig; cripple, lame &c. (injure) 659; spike guns, clip the wings;
put out of gear.
Adj. useless, inutile, inefficacious, futile, unavailing, bootless;
inoperative &c. 158; inadequate &c. (insufficient) 640; inservient|,
unsubservient; inept, inefficient &c. (impotent) 158; of no avail &c. (use)
644; ineffectual &c. (failure) 732; incompetent &c. (unskillful) 699; "
stale, flat and unprofitable"; superfluous &c. (redundant) 641;
dispensable; thrown away &c. (wasted) 638; abortive &c. (immature) 674.
worthless, valueless, priceless; unsalable; not worth a straw &c.
(trifling) 643 dear at any price.
vain, empty, inane; gainless, profitless, fruitless; unserviceable,
unprofitable; ill-spent; unproductive &c. 169; hors de combat; effete, past
work &c. (impaired) 659; obsolete &c. (old) 124; fit for the dust hole;
good for nothing; of no earthly use; not worth having, not worth powder and
shot; leading to no end, uncalled for; unnecessary, unneeded.
Adv. uselessly &c. adj.; to little purpose, to no purpose, to little
or no purpose.
Int. cui bono? what's the good!
Phr. actum ne agas; chercher une aiguille dans une botte de foin;
tanto buon che val niente.

#646. [Specific subservience.] Expedience. -- N. expedience,
expediency; desirableness, desirability &c. adj.; fitness &c. (agreement)
23; utility &c. 644; propriety; opportunism; advantage.
high time &c. (occasion) 134.
V. be expedient &c. Adj.; suit &c. (agree) 23; befit; suit the time,
befit the time, suit the season, befit the season, suit the occasion,
befit the occasion.
conform &c. 82.
Adj. expedient; desirable, advisable, acceptable; convenient; worth
while, meet; fit, fitting; due, proper, eligible, seemly, becoming;
befitting &c. v.; opportune &c. (in season) 134; in loco; suitable &c.
(accordant) 23; applicable &c. (useful) 644.
Adv. in the right place; conveniently &c. adj.
Phr. operae pretium est.



#647. Inexpedience. -- N. inexpedience, inexpediency; undesirableness,
undesirability &c. Adj.; discommodity, impropriety; unfitness &c.
(disagreement) 24; inutility &c. 645; disadvantage.
V. be inexpedient &c. Adj.; come amiss &c. (disagree) 24; embarrass
&c. (hinder) 706; put to inconvenience; pay too dear for one's whistle.
Adj. inexpedient, undesirable; unadvisable, inadvisable;
objectionable; inapt, ineligible, inadmissible, inconvenient; incommodious,
discommodious; disadvantageous; inappropriate, unfit &c. (inconsonant) 24.
ill-contrived, ill-advised; unsatisfactory; unprofitable &c.,
unsubservient &c. (useless) 645; inopportune &c. (unseasonable) 135; out of
place, in the wrong place; improper, unseemly.
clumsy, awkward; cumbrous, cumbersome; lumbering, unwieldy, hulky;
unmanageable &c. (impracticable) 704; impedient &c. (in the way) 706.
unnecessary &c. (redundant) 641.
Phr. it will never do.


#648. [Capability of producing good. Good qualities.] Goodness. -- N.
goodness &c. adj.; excellence, merit; virtue &c. 944; value, worth, price.
super-excellence, supereminence; superiority &c. 33; perfection &c.
650; coup de maitre; masterpiece, chef d'ouvre, prime, flower, cream,
elite, pick, A1, nonesuch, nonpareil, creme de la creme, flower of the
flock, cock of the roost, salt of the earth; champion; prodigy.
tidbit; gem, gem of the first water; bijou, precious stone, jewel,
pearl, diamond, ruby, brilliant, treasure; good thing; rara avis, one in a
thousand.
beneficence &c. 906; good man &c. 948.
V. be beneficial &c. Adj.; produce good, do good &c. 618; profit &c.
(be of use) 644; benefit; confer a benefit &c. 618.
be the making of, do a world of good, make a man of.
produce a good effect; do a good turn, confer an obligation; improve
&c. 658.
do no harm, break no bones.
be good &c. adj.; excel, transcend &c. (be superior) 33; bear away the
bell.
stand the proof, stand the test; pass muster, pass an examination.
challenge comparison, vie, emulate, rival.
Adj. harmless, hurtless; unobnoxious, innocuous, innocent,
inoffensive.
beneficial, valuable, of value; serviceable &c. (useful) 644;
advantageous, edifying, profitable; salutary &c. (healthful) 656.
favorable; propitious &c. (hope-giving) 858; fair.
good, good as gold; excellent; better; superior &c. 33; above par;
nice, fine; genuine &c. (true) 494.
best, choice, select, picked, elect, recherche, rare, priceless;
unparagoned, unparalleled &c. (supreme) 33; superlatively &c. 33; good;
bully* , crackajack*, giltedged; superfine, superexcellent; of the first
water; first-rate, first-class; high-wrought, exquisite, very best, crack,
prime, tiptop, capital, cardinal; standard &c. (perfect) 650; inimitable.
admirable, estimable; praiseworthy &c. (approve) 931; pleasing &c.
829; couleur de rose, precious, of great price; costly &c. (dear) 814;
worth its weight in gold, worth a Jew's eye; priceless, invaluable,
inestimable, precious as the apple of the eye.
tolerable &c. (not very good) 651; up to the mark, unexceptionable,
unobjectionable; satisfactory, tidy.
in good condition, in fair condition; fresh; sound &c. (perfect) 650.
Adv. beneficially &c. adj.; well &c. 618.
Phr. " Jewels five words long " [Tennyson]; long may such goodness
live! " [Rogers]; "the luxury of doing good " [Goldsmith].

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