ginger

Main Entry:
ginger [jin-jer]
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: spirit
Synonyms: air, animation, ardor, backbone*, boldness, bounce, breath, brio, character, complexion, courage, dash, dauntlessness, disposition, earnestness, energy, enterprise, enthusiasm, esprit, essence, fire, force, frame of mind, gameness, grit, guts*, heart, hu
Main Entry: fire
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: animation, vigor
Synonyms: ardor, brio, calenture, dash, drive, eagerness, energy, enthusiasm, excitement, exhilaration, fervency, fervor, force, ginger, gusto, heartiness, heat, impetuosity, intensity, life, light, liveliness, luster, passion, pep, punch*, radiance, red heat, scintillation, snap*, sparkle, spirit, splendor, starch, verve, vim, virtuosity, vivacity, white heat, zeal, zing, zip, élan
Antonyms: apathy, dullness, lethargy, spiritlessness
Main Entry: flavor
Part of Speech: verb
Definition: add seasoning
Synonyms: add zing, add zip, ginger, hot it up, imbue, impart, infuse, lace, leaven, pep up, pepper, salt, season, spice
Main Entry: taste
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: flavor of some quality
Synonyms: aftertaste, aroma, bang*, bitter, drive, ginger, jolt, kick*, oomph, palatableness, piquancy, punch*, relish, salt, sapidity, sapor, savor, savoriness, smack, sour, sting*, suggestion, sweet, tang, wallop, zest, zing, zip
Main Entry: zest
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: taste, flavor
Synonyms: bite, body, charm, flavoring, get-up-and-go, ginger, guts*, interest, kick*, nip, piquancy, punch*, pungency, relish, salt, savor, seasoning, smack*, snap*, spice, tang, zap, zip
Notes: zeal pertains to a keen interest while zest is keen enjoyment or added interest
Antonyms: blandness, dullness
Related Words
Main Entry: brown
Part of Speech: adjective
Related
Adjectives:
aithochrous, auburn, bay, bronze, brown, brown as a berry, brown as mahogany, brunette, brunneous, butterscotch, café au lait, castaneous, chestnut, chocolate, cinnamon, coffee, dapple, fawn, fulvous, fuscous, ginger, glandaceous, khaki, liver, mahogany, maroon, mousy, nut, russet, snuff, tan, tanned, tawny, tortoiseshell, whity
Concept Thesaurus
Concept: Brown.
Category: 2. Sensation; special sensation; light; specific light
Synonyms:
-nouns
brown, brunet, brunette., [Pigments] bister, ocher, sepia, Vandyke brown.
-verbs
render brown; tan, embrown, bronze.
-adjectives
brown, bay, dapple, auburn, castaneous, chestnut, nut-brown, cinnamon, russet, tawny, fuscous, chocolate, maroon, foxy, tan, brunette, whitey brown; fawn-colored, snuff-colored, liver-colored; brown as a berry, brown as mahogany, brown as the oak leaves; khaki., sun-burnt, sunburned, tawny; tanned.
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Concept Thesaurus
Concept: [Good taste.] Taste.
Category: 2. Discriminative Affections
Synonyms:
-nouns
taste; good taste, refined taste, cultivated taste; delicacy, refinement, fine feeling, gust, gusto, tact, finesse; nicety (discrimination); ; polish, elegance, grace., virtu; delettanteism; fine art; culture, cultivation., [Science of taste] aesthetics., man of taste; connoisseur, judge, critic, conoscent, virtuoso, amateur, dilettant, Aristarchus, Corinthian, arbiter elegantiarum, stagirite, euphemist., "caviare to the general" [Hamlet].
-adjectives
in good taste, cute, tasteful, tasty; unaffected, pure, chaste, classical, attic; cultivated, refined; dainty; aesthetic, artistic; elegant; euphemistic., to one's taste, to one's mind; after one's fancy; comme il faut; tire a quatre epingles.
-adverbs
elegantly
-phrases
nihil tetigit quod non ornavit [from Johnson's epitaph on Goldsmith]; chacun a son gout; oculi pictura tenentur aures cantibus [Cicero].
Antonyms: vulgarity
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