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| Main Entry: | striate |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | streak |
| Synonyms: | band, dapple, daub, fleck, marble, slash, smear, spot*, strake, stripe, variegate, vein |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | variegate |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | streak |
| Synonyms: | band, dapple, daub, fleck, marble, slash, smear, spot*, strake, striate, stripe, vein |
* = informal/non-formal usage
Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition
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| Main Entry: | fashion |
| Part of Speech: | noun, verb |
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a la mode, acid washed, aesthetic, after one's fancy, allover, artistic, attic, banded, bardocucullated, bonded, bruffed, camisated, capistrate, castorial, chaste, clad, classical, colorfast, cultivated, custom, damasse, designer, diaphanous, dight, dighted, discinct, dizened, dressmaker, elegant, endimanché, euphemistic, figured, fin, frayed, full, habited, in court dress, in evening dress, in good taste, invested, jimpricute, long, missy, motley, nubby, ocreate, off, peekaboo, preshrunk, prewashed, pure, raveled, ready, reversible, sartorial, sericeous, shod, short, standaway, stonewashed, strapless, subvestimentary, tasteful, tasty, threadbare, to one's mind, to one's taste, tonnish, two, unisize, vestiary, water, waterproof, yclad, youthy
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| Main Entry: | fiber |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
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capilliform, cilicious, fibrillous, fibrous, filaceous, filamentous, filar, filiform, fimbricate, flagelliform, funicular, magged, ropy, scopate, stringy, sutile, threadlike, towy, wire, xilinous
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| Main Entry: | mind |
| Part of Speech: | noun, verb |
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branular, cacophrenic, cerebral, conative, endowed with reason, ghostly, hyperactive, ideogenous, immaterial, intellectual, mental, meshuge, metaphysical, multanimous, nooscopic, philonoetic, preconscious, primal, psychagogic, psychal, psychical, psychogenic, psychological, psychotropic, rational, self, spirituel, strung, subjective, subliminal, unbalanced, unstable, wud
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| Concept: | Caprice. |
| Category: | 1. Acts of Volition |
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-nouns
caprice, fancy, humor; whim, whimsy, whimwham; crotchet, capriccio, quirk, freak, maggot, fad, vagary, prank, fit, flimflam, escapade, boutade, wild-goose chase; capriciousness; kink.
-verbs
be capricious; have a maggot in the brain; take it into one's head, strain at a gnat and swallow a camel; blow hot and cold; play fast and loose, play fantastic tricks; tourner casaque.
-adjectives
capricious; erratic, eccentric, fitful, hysterical; full of whims.; maggoty; inconsistent, fanciful, fantastic, whimsical, crotchety, kinky [U.S.], particular, humorsome, freakish, skittish, wanton, wayward; contrary; captious; arbitrary; unconformable; penny wise and pound foolish; fickle (irresolute); frivolous, sleeveless, giddy, volatile.
-adverbs
by fits and starts, without rhyme or reason.
-phrases
nil fuit unquain sic inipar sibi; the deuce is in him.
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| Concept: | Fashion. |
| Category: | 2. Discriminative Affections |
| Synonyms: |
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fashion, style, ton, bon ton, society; good society, polite society; monde; drawing-room, civilized life, civilization, town, beau monde, high life, court; world; fashionable world, gay world; Vanity Fair; show (ostentation)., manners, breeding (politeness); air, demeanor (appearance); savoir faire; gentlemanliness, gentility, decorum, propriety, bienséance; conventions of society; Mrs. Grundy; punctilio; form, formality; etiquette, point of etiquette; dress., custom; mode, vogue, go; rage (desire); prevailing taste., man of fashion, woman of fashion, man of the world, woman of the world; height of fashion, pink of fashion, star of fashion, glass of fashion, leader of fashion; arbiter elegantiarum (taste); upper ten thousand (nobility); elite (distinction); smart set; the four hundred [U.S.].
-verbs
be fashionable, be the rage; have a run, pass current., follow the fashion, conform to the fashion, fall in with the fashion n.; go with the stream (conform); savoir vivre, savoir faire; keep up appearances, behave oneself., set the fashion, bring in the fashion; give a tone to society, cut a figure in society; keep one's carriage.
-adjectives
fashionable; in fashion; a la mode, comme il faut; admitted in society, admissible in society; presentable; conventional (customary); genteel; well-gred, well mannered, well behaved, well spoken; gentlemanlike, gentlemanly; ladylike; civil, polite (courteous)., polished, refined, thoroughbred, courtly; distingue; unembarrassed, degage; janty, jaunty; dashing,f ast., modish, stylish, chic, trendy, recherche; newfangled (unfamiliar); all the rage, all the go., in court, in full dress, in evening dress; en grande tenue (ornament).
-adverbs
fashionably; for fashion's sake.
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a la francaise, a la parisienne; a l'anglaise, a l'americaine; autre temps autre mauers; chaque pays a sa guise.
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| Concept: | Style. |
| Category: | 2. Conventional means; language generally |
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-nouns
style, diction, phraseology, wording; manner, strain; composition; mode of expression, choice of words; mode of speech, literary power, ready pen, pen of a ready writer; command of language (eloquence); authorship; la morgue littéraire.
-verbs
express by words; write.
-phrases
le style est l'homme même [Buffon]; "style is the dress of thoughts " [Chesterfield].
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