Part 16
ANT. _Survey, conjecture, observe, view, scan, guess, mismeasure._
=Gain=, _n._ Profits, earnings, increase, gainings; emolument, lucre, money-making; blessing, profit, advantage, good, benefit.
ANT. _Loss, detriment, damage, privation, injury._
=Gain=, _v._ Get, acquire, win, earn, obtain, procure, secure, carry, achieve; conciliate, enlist, persuade, prevail upon, win over, gain over, bring over; reach, attain, arrive at; profit; benefit, realize, reap.
ANT. _Lose, forfeit, suffer._
=Gainful.= Advantageous, profitable, beneficial; lucrative, paying, productive, remunerative, winning.
ANT. _Unprofitable, disadvantageous, detrimental, injurious, losing, gainless._
=Gallant=, _a._ Gay, fine, magnificent, well-dressed, showy, splendid; courageous, brave, valiant, valorous, intrepid, chivalrous, fearless, bold, daring, high-spirited; noble, lofty, honorable, magnanimous, high-minded; attentive, polite, courteous; amorous; heroic.
ANT. _Cowardly, discourteous, churlish._
=Gambol.= Frisk, frolic, romp, caper, leap, hop, skip, jump, sport.
ANT. _Droop, tire, weary, flag._
=Game=, _n._ Sport, play, amusement, pastime; plan, scheme, stratagem, strategy, adventure, enterprise, measure, undertaking; quarry, prey; recreation, frolic, diversion.
ANT. _Toil, study, duty, labor; weariness, flagging; business._
=Garb.= Dress, clothes, habit, apparel, raiment, garments, vesture, costume, attire, habiliment; uniform, vestments.
ANT. _Undress; rags, tatters, shreds; nudity, nakedness._
=Garble.= Mutilate, falsify, corrupt, misrepresent, misquote, pervert; cook, dress, color, distort.
ANT. _Quote, cite, extract, recite, report verbatim._
=Garnish=. Adorn, embellish, decorate, deck, grace, beautify, ornament, prank, set off, trick out; furnish, furbish.
ANT. _Strip, dismantle, denude, bare, deprive, divest._
=Garrulity.= Loquacity, babble, loquaciousness, babbling, talkativeness, prattle, prate; verbosity, chatter.
ANT. _Reticence, taciturnity, laconism, reserve, silence._
=Garrulous.= Chattering, loquacious, verbose, talkative.
ANT. _Taciturn, speechless, laconic, reserved, reticent, silent._
=Gaud.= Trinket, finery, gewgaw, trumpery, whim, gimcrack, toy, bauble, trifle.
ANT. _Ornament, gem, decoration, jewel, valuable._
=Gaudy.= Flaunting, garish, glittering, tawdry, tinsel, flashy, showy, overdecorated, loud; bespangled, fine, gay, meretricious.
ANT. _Rich, simple, handsome, chaste._
=Gaunt.= Lean, lank, thin, meager, emaciated, slender, attenuated, spare; grim, savage, hungry.
ANT. _Docile, tractable, well-fed, tame, sleek._
=Gawky.= Awkward, clownish, ungainly, clumsy, raw, boorish, rustic, green, uncouth, loutish.
ANT. _Neat, handy, graceful, handsome._
=Gay.= Showy, bright, fine, brilliant, dashing; gaudy, flaunting, flashy, garish, tawdry, glittering, tinsel; merry, lively, jovial, cheerful, gleeful, blithe, sportive, airy, gladsome, frolicsome, jolly, hilarious, light-hearted; sprightly, smart, festive, pleasuresome.
ANT. _Heavy, sad, grave, dull, dowdy, somber, melancholy._
=Gaze=, _v._ Stare, scan, behold, regard, contemplate, view, gloat, glower.
ANT. _Wink, ignore, overlook, ogle, glance, disregard._
=General=, _a._ Ordinary, universal, common, commonplace, customary, everyday, public, prevalent, familiar, normal, popular, habitual, frequent, usual.
ANT. _Singular, uncommon, exceptional, rare, unknown, infrequent, unusual; particular, special._
=Generality.= Universality; bulk, mass, body, majority.
ANT. _Section, minority, exception, individuality._
=Generate.= Beget, procreate, engender, breed, propagate; produce, form, make, cause, bring about, originate.
ANT. _Stifle, extinguish, terminate, annihilate._
=Generation.= Procreation; production, formation; offspring, progeny, succession of descendants; family, stock, race, breed; contemporaries; period, epoch, age, era, lifetime; origination.
ANT. _Perpetuity, eternity, immortality; posterity._
=Generic.= General, common, collective, racial, comprehensive.
ANT. _Particular, personal, specific, individual._
=Generous.= Liberal, noble, magnanimous, bountiful, free, munificent, open-handed, disinterested, open-hearted, chivalrous, honorable.
ANT. _Avaricious, covetous, greedy, parsimonious, penurious, petty, rapacious, stingy, close, illiberal, ignoble, mean, miserly, niggardly, churlish, selfish._
=Genial.= Fostering, cheering, enlivening, encouraging, inspiriting; cordial, hearty; cheerful, pleasant, merry, mirthful, jovial, warm, balmy, festive, joyous, revivifying, rejuvenating, restorative.
ANT. _Cold, cutting, harsh, deleterious, noxious, deadly, destructive, blighting, lethal, ungenial._
=Genius.= Bent, turn, aptitude, aptness, faculty, capacity, endowment, talent, gift; ingenuity, invention, sagacity, intellect, brains, parts, wit, inspiration, creative _or_ inventive power; adept, proficient, master, master hand; nature, character, disposition, constitution, characteristic; spirit, tutelary deity, guardian angel; cleverness, inventiveness, skill, creativeness, giftedness, ideality, talents.
ANT. _Stupidity, senselessness, folly, dulness, imbecility, obtuseness, stolidity, inanity._
=Genteel.= Refined, polite, courteous, civil, polished, well-bred, gentlemanly _or_ ladylike; fashionable, stylish, elegant; graceful, refined, aristocratic, cultivated, cultured.
ANT. _Rude, clownish, uncultivated, ill-bred, boorish, uncultured, plebeian, unfashionable, unpolished, inelegant._
=Gentle.= Mild, bland, moderate, kind, tender, compassionate, indulgent, meek, soft, lenient, humane, clement, merciful, tender-hearted, gentle-hearted; tame, docile, peaceable, calm, peaceful, tranquil, tractable, pacific, quiet; light, zephyrlike; noble, high-born, well-born; cultivated, refined, courteous, well-bred, polished; placid, amiable.
ANT. _Rough, rude, coarse, fierce, savage; uneven, uncut; boisterous; shaggy, ragged, disordered; harsh, uncivil, offensive; tempestuous, stormy; inclement._
=Genuine.= Pure, uncorrupt, unalloyed, unadulterated, true, authentic, real, veritable; native, unaffected, sincere; sound, natural.
ANT. _Spurious, adulterated; fictitious; apocryphal, counterfeit, false, artificial._
=Germ.= Embryo, ovule, seed-bud; origin, source, first principle; nucleus, seed, bud.
ANT. _Fruit, result, development, product, produce, issue, outgrowth._
=Germane.= Related, akin, cognate, allied; pertinent, relevant, appropriate, apposite, fitting, suitable; kindred, homogeneous.
ANT. _Foreign, alien, irrelevant, unconnected._
=Germinate.= Bud, shoot, vegetate, sprout, push, burst forth, put forth, spring up.
ANT. _Rot, decay, spoil, die, putrefy, corrupt._
=Get.= Attain, earn, achieve, acquire, obtain, procure, receive, win, secure, gain.
ANT. _Abandon, lose, forfeit, surrender, forego._
=Ghastly.= Pale, wan, cadaverous, deathlike; grim, dismal, hideous, terrible, horrible, frightful, shocking, grisly; spectral, pallid.
ANT. _Blooming, fresh, ruddy, comely, buxom, seemly._
=Ghost.= Spirit, soul; apparition, specter, sprite, phantom, shade, departed spirit; vision.
ANT. _Body, organism, animal._
=Gibe.= Sneer, scoff, taunt, flout, jest, jeer, ridicule, deride, mock, rail at.
ANT. _Salute, compliment._
=Giddy.= Dizzy, vertiginous; inconstant, fickle, changeable, unsteady, mutable, unstable, vacillating, irresolute; careless, heedless, wild, reckless, headlong, thoughtless, light-headed, flighty; whirling, hare-brained, beetling, flighty.
ANT. _Slow, ponderous, stationary; earnest, thoughtful, steady; low, wary, unelevated, circumspect._
=Gift.= Bequest, benefaction, donation, boon, grant, present, largess, bribe, bounty, gratuity; endowment, talent, genius, faculty, power, capacity, capability, ability, turn, _forte_; donation, _douceur_, offering, alms, allowance, contribution, subscription, subsidy, dower, legacy, demise.
ANT. _Reservation, refusal, purchase; inanity, stupidity, forfeit, penalty, fine, surrender; earnings, wages, remuneration, compensation; reward, guerdon._
=Gigantic.= Vast, huge, colossal, enormous, giant, prodigious, Herculean, Cyclopean, immense, tremendous.
ANT. _Puny, feeble, dwarfish, petty, insignificant, pigmy._
=Girdle.= Gird, bind round; surround, encircle, encompass, enclose, embrace, shut in; belt, hem, environ, engirdle, begird.
ANT. _Disclose, open, disencircle, expand, ungird, disengirdle._
=Girl.= Damsel, lass, lassie, miss, maiden, maid, virgin, young unmarried woman.
=Gist.= Essence, pith, core, marrow, substance, kernel, main point, force, ground, foundation.
ANT. _Surplusage, additament, redundancy, environment; accessories; clothing, garb; excess, overplus._
=Give.= Deliver, bestow, supply, grant, cede, confer, communicate, impart, furnish; produce, yield, surrender, concede, present, afford, spare, accommodate with; pay, exchange; permit, allow, vouchsafe, deign; utter, pronounce, render; occasion, cause; devote, apply, addict, give up; sink, bend; retreat, give way, recede, retire.
ANT. _Withhold, withdraw, refuse, retain, grasp, fail, restrain, deny, take back, remove, recall; take, receive, accept; hold, support._
=Glad.= Rejoiced, pleased, gratified, delighted, happy, well-contented; cheerful, joyous, joyful, gladsome, elated, jocund, playful, light-hearted, cheery, animated; exhilarating, pleasing, bright, gratifying; blithesome, gleeful.
ANT. _Unhappy, sad, sorrowful, disastrous, sorry, dismal, disappointed, discontented, uneasy._
=Gladden.= Delight, cheer, exhilarate, bless, rejoice, gratify, make glad.
ANT. _Grieve, disappoint, depress, dispirit, trouble, wound, afflict, sadden, displease._
=Glare.= Glitter, glisten, dazzle, flare, gleam, sparkle; glower, look fierce; beam, shine, glow, ray, radiate.
ANT. _Shimmer, scintillate, waver, glimmer, smolder, burn fitfully, flash, flicker, glister; obscure, darken._
=Glassy.= Vitreous; crystal, crystalline, transparent, gleaming, lucent, brilliant, shining; smooth, polished, glacial, glabrous, brittle, pellucid, limpid, glossy, silken.
ANT. _Rough, uneven, pliant, rugged, tough, opaque, turbid, muddy, dull, dark._
=Glaze=, _v._ Set glass; calender, polish, burnish, gloss, furbish; become glassy, grow dim; vitrify.
ANT. _Roughen, corrugate, rumple, crumple, wrinkle, furrow._
=Glimpse=, _n._ Glance, glimmering, sight, inkling, flash, survey, trace, tinge.
ANT. _Observation, scrutiny, investigation, inspection, exposure, analysis, examination._
=Gloom.= Obscurity, darkness, dimness, gloominess, cloud; dejection, sadness, depression, despondency, melancholy; gloaming, twilight, shadow, obscuration, dulness, cloudiness.
ANT. _Light, radiance, clearness, daylight, brightness._
=Glorify.= Extol, exalt, magnify, bless, honor, praise; brighten, make illustrious, elevate, ennoble, adorn; laud, signalize, aggrandize, panegyrize.
ANT. _Debase, depress, abuse, abase, defame, degrade, decry, censure, blame, rebuke._
=Glorious.= Illustrious, renowned, celebrated, eminent, famed, famous, distinguished, conspicuous; resplendent, splendid, radiant, bright, brilliant; noble, lofty, exalted, supreme, high, excellent, consummate.
ANT. _Mean, debased, undistinguished, disgraced, unknown, dishonorable, inglorious._
=Glory.= Honor, renown, celebrity, fame, praise; splendor, luster, brightness, brilliancy, pride, effulgence; gloriousness, nobleness, exaltation, grandeur; radiance, state, pomp, parade, magnificence.
ANT. _Obscurity, cloud, ignominy, dishonor, degradation, disgrace, shame._
=Gloss=, _n._ Interpretation, comment, note, explanation, scholium, commentary, annotation; pretext, pretense, specious plea; luster, polish, shine, sheen; distortion, misinterpretation, perversion, twist, plea, speciousness.
ANT. _Haze, nebulousness; truth, literalness, representation, reality, verity, actuality, solution, exposition._
=Glowing.= Shining, hot, intense, ardent, excited, fiery, fervid, fervent.
ANT. _Cool, languid, dispassionate, dull, apathetic, chilling._
=Glut=, _n._ Repletion, superabundance, surplus, overplus, redundancy, overstock, superfluity.
ANT. _Scarcity, want, scantiness, dearth, failure, drainage, exhaustion._
=Glut=, _v._ Cloy, sate, satiate, pall, surfeit; gorge, cram, stuff, fill, overfeed, make replete.
ANT. _Empty, void, disgorge, eject, discharge, vomit._
=Gluttony.= Voracity, greed, gormandizement, deglutition.
ANT. _Abstinence, abstemiousness, temperance, frugality._
=Go.= Move, pass, proceed, advance, progress; walk, travel, journey, fare; depart, set out, leave; reach, extend; contribute, concur, tend, avail; eventuate, turn out; be esteemed, be reckoned; accept, approve, endure, tolerate, swallow, bear; stir, budge.
ANT. _Stand, stay, come, remain, rest, endure, persist, lack, abide, fail._
=Good=, _n._ Benefit, gain, advantage, utility, profit; welfare, weal, prosperity, interest; virtue, righteousness, excellence; abundance, riches; boon, blessing, mercy.
ANT. _Hurt, loss, detriment, injury, evil, disadvantage, ill, calamity, affliction, infliction, curse._
=Good=, _a._ Advantageous, serviceable, profitable, useful, beneficial; suitable, fit, convenient, proper, well-adapted; upright, virtuous, worthy, pious, dutiful, righteous, religious; excellent, valuable, precious, sterling, admirable, capital; kind, humane, benevolent, friendly, favorable, gracious, merciful, obliging, well-disposed; fair, unblemished, untarnished, unsullied, immaculate, honorable, unimpeached; cheerful, lively, social, genial, companionable; able, skilful, expert, ready, dexterous, well-qualified; competent; pleasant, gratifying, agreeable; considerable; real, true, serious, unfeigned; right, complete, sound, propitious, efficient, sufficient, valid, actual, reputable, just.
ANT. _Bad, wrong, evil, ill, wicked, depraved, imperfect, unsound, vicious, profane, niggardly, unpropitious, unserviceable, unsuitable, inefficient, incompetent, inadequate, invalid, fictitious, supposititious, inconsiderable, mean, disreputable, disgraceful; baneful, mischievous, pernicious, injurious, hurtful; abandoned, corrupt, immoral, unprincipled, dishonest, unfair, villainous; unfortunate, unlucky, unhappy; unwelcome, sad, depressing, discouraging, distressing; wretched, sorry, abominable; inferior, defective; severe, serious, hard, heavy._
=Good-by.= Farewell, adieu.
ANT. _Salutation, welcome, hail, greeting._
=Good-humored.= Cheerful, buoyant, placid, amiable, good-natured, good-tempered.
ANT. _Cross, ill-humored, ill-natured, unamiable, petulant, fretful, peevish._
=Goodly.= Graceful, comely, beautiful, good-looking; pleasant, happy, agreeable, desirable; excellent, fair, fine; considerable.
ANT. _Unpleasant, undesirable, inconsiderable, uncomely, ungainly, clumsy, awkward._
=Gorgeous.= Showy, glittering, splendid, shining, magnificent, resplendent, fine, rich, superb, dazzling; costly, grand, strong.
ANT. _Poor, naked, dingy, bare, threadbare, cheap; grimy, soiled; dull, obscure, dim._
=Govern.= Manage, reign over, direct, command, control, rule, sway, influence, mold, restrain, curb, moderate, guide, supervise, conduct; regulate, steer, bridle.
ANT. _Be subject, obey, submit, comply, yield; misrule, misdirect, misconduct._
=Grace.= Favor, kindness, condescension, love, benignity, good will; piety, devotion, sanctity, devoutness, faith, holiness, religion; mercy, pardon, forgiveness; elegance, polish, accomplishment, refinement; beauty, symmetry, comeliness, gracefulness, ease; short prayer; excellence, charm.
ANT. _Disfavor, deformity, pride, unkindness, gawkiness, awkwardness, inelegance._
=Graceful.= Beautiful, comely, elegant, stately, easy, natural, becoming, flowing, rounded, sinuous.
ANT. _Awkward, homely, uncouth, ugly, plain, gawky, ungraceful._
=Graceless.= Depraved, degenerate, corrupt, reprobate, dissolute, profligate, lost, abandoned, hardened, obdurate, shameless, incorrigible, wicked, irreclaimable; ungraceful, scampish, vicious, worthless.
ANT. _Graceful, virtuous, upright, conscientious, worthy; gracious, tender-hearted._
=Gracious.= Benevolent, benign, kind, favorable, benignant, compassionate, friendly, merciful, tender, lenient, condescending, mild, gentle; affable, familiar, civil, polite, easy, courteous, beneficent.
ANT. _Haughty, discourteous, ungracious, ill-disposed, churlish, unfriendly, impolite._
=Gradation.= Progress, progression, succession; graduation, precedency, arrangement, ordination, standing, rank, degree, stage, tier.
ANT. _Equality, uniformity, fraternity; abruptness, break, hiatus._
=Gradual.= Regular, progressive; slow, approximate; continuous, unintermittent, step by step, gradational.
ANT. _Sudden, momentary, instantaneous, periodic, intermittent, recurrent, broken, discontinuous, disconnected._
=Grand.= Stately, lordly, princely, august, exalted, majestic, elevated, illustrious, eminent, dignified, great, high; magnificent, glorious, superb, splendid, lofty, noble, sublime; principal, chief, main, leading, supreme; large, imposing, important, eventful, pompous, gorgeous.
ANT. _Little, undignified, unimposing, inferior, petty, paltry, secondary, unimportant, insignificant, mean, common, beggarly, contemptible, small._
=Grandeur.= Greatness, vastness, loftiness, elevation, immensity; state, dignity, majesty, stateliness, pomp, augustness, splendor; magnificence, display, ostentation.
ANT. _Meanness, paltriness; humiliation, shame, disgrace._
=Grandiloquence.= Bombast, fustian, turgidity; verbosity, pomposity, mouthiness, grandiosity, antiloquence, stiltedness, euphuism.
ANT. _Simplicity, naïveté, unaffectedness; vernacular._
=Grant.= Yield, admit, concede, allow; give, bestow, confer, deign, vouchsafe; convey, transfer; allot, accord, cede, impart.
ANT. _Withhold, withdraw, reserve, resume, deny, refuse._
=Graphic.= Vivid, lively, picturesque, well-drawn, striking, telling; illustrative, pictorial, descriptive, forcible, feeling; described.
ANT. _Undescriptive, unillustrative, unpicturesque; hazy, obscure, indefinite._
=Grasp.= Clasp, gripe, seize, grip, grapple, catch, clutch, clinch, lay hold of; hold, retain, comprehend.
ANT. _Loose, lose, abandon, relinquish, surrender, release, miss, misunderstand._
=Grateful.= Obliged, thankful, indebted, beholden; agreeable, acceptable, pleasing, pleasant, delightful, gratifying, welcome, charming, satisfying; delicious, savory, nice, cordial, luscious, refreshing, invigorating; comforting, soothing, alleviating.
ANT. _Unpleasant, unacceptable, disobliged, ungrateful, disagreeable._
=Gratification.= Satisfaction, indulgence; enjoyment, delight, pleasure, fruition; reward, recompense.
ANT. _Pain, dislike, disappointment, abstinence, stinting, discipline, inurement, abnegation._
=Gratify.= Please, delight, gladden; indulge, satisfy, humor, fulfil.
ANT. _Displease, dissatisfy, stint, deprive, deny, discipline._
=Gratitude.= Thankfulness, obligation, gratefulness.
ANT. _Thanklessness, ingratitude, ungratefulness, unthankfulness, resentment, oblivion, indignation._
=Gratuitous.= Free, voluntary, uncompensated, groundless, unwarranted, unsought, unnecessary; spontaneous, baseless, unrecompensed.
ANT. _Compulsory, involuntary, obligatory, necessitated, warranted, well-founded; unwilling, enforced, enjoined._
=Grave=, _a._ Important, weighty, serious, cogent, momentous; sober, sedate, thoughtful, staid, solemn; plain, subdued, quiet, silent; sad, pressing, demure, somber, aggravated, heavy.
ANT. _Joyous, merry, unimportant, facetious, ridiculous, trivial, light, frivolous, futile, trifling, petty, slight._
=Great.= Large, big, vast, huge, bulky, ample, immense, gigantic, enormous; much, excessive, high; numerous, countless; considerable, important, weighty; distinguished, eminent, exalted, prominent, excellent, elevated, celebrated, noted, famed, illustrious, famous, renowned; august, grand, dignified, noble, sublime, majestic, lofty; generous, magnanimous, chivalrous, high-minded; sumptuous, rich, magnificent; difficult, onerous, hard, burdensome, grievous; chief, principal, main, leading, grand; superior, preëminent; protracted, noticeable.
ANT. _Little, narrow, scanty, puny, few, short, mean, ignoble, weak, unimportant._
=Greediness.= Avidity, hunger, voracity, ravenousness, gluttony; eagerness, longing, greed, intense desire; grasping, avarice, rapacity, selfishness.
ANT. _Generosity, prodigality, benevolence._
=Greedy.= Voracious, ravenous, insatiable, gluttonous, insatiate, rapacious; eager, desirous; selfish, grasping, avaricious; hungry.
ANT. _Abstemious, abstinent, contented, apathetic, indifferent; generous, unselfish._
=Grief.= Bitterness, misery, agony, anguish, heartache, heartbreak; trial, grievance; melancholy, sadness, sorrow, trouble, tribulation, woe, mourning, affliction, distress, regret.
ANT. _Happiness, joy, elation, delight, hilarity, exultation, cheer, mirth, gaiety._
=Grievance.= Hardship, wrong, injury, burden, oppression; affliction, trial, sorrow, grief, distress, woe; complaint, trouble, injustice.
ANT. _Congratulation, boon, benefit, rejoicing, privilege, alleviation, riddance, disburdenment._
=Grieve.= Afflict, pain, hurt, distress, sadden, agonize; sorrow, mourn, lament, suffer, bewail; burden, annoy, wound, complain, deplore.
ANT. _Ease, soothe, console, please, rejoice, exult, alleviate, gratify, content, satisfy._
=Grievous.= Sad, heavy, distressing, afflictive, painful, deplorable, lamentable; hurtful, injurious, noxious, mischievous, detrimental, calamitous; atrocious, heinous, outrageous, intolerable, dreadful, flagrant, aggravated; sorrowful, baleful, burdensome, unhappy, disastrous.
ANT. _Pleasant, joyous, delightful, glad, consolatory, acceptable, welcome, grateful, light, trivial, trifling._
=Grim.= Fierce, ruthless, cruel, savage, ferocious; frightful, horrible, hideous, dire, horrid, appalling, terrific, dreadful; ugly, ghastly, sullen, stern.
ANT. _Mild, attractive, benign, placid, docile._
=Gross.= Great, large, big, bulky; dense, thick; coarse, rough, rude, unrefined, unseemly, unbecoming; indelicate, sensual, impure, vulgar, low, broad; enormous, flagrant, shameful, outrageous, grievous; palpable, manifest, glaring; whole, total, entire, aggregate; vicious, animal, bloated.
ANT. _Partial, component; net; refined, pure; elegant, delicate, subtle._
=Grotesque.= Fantastic, whimsical, fanciful, droll, odd, unnatural, strange, wild, bizarre, extravagant; ludicrous, absurd, ridiculous, antic, burlesque; quaint, old, archaic, distorted, caricatured.
ANT. _Classic, chaste, graceful, fine, severe, regular, fashionable, symmetrical, typical, formal, normal._
=Ground.= Basis, base, groundwork, support, foundation; sod, soil, clod, earth, loam, turf; region, territory, country, land, domain; estate, acres, field; motive, consideration, reason, cause, account, inducement; premise, plea.
ANT. _Superstructure, statement, argument, inference, deduction; product, development, result, effect; ocean, sea, deep, main, waters._
=Grounded.= Rooted, established, initiated, inaugurated, trained, prepared, fixed, set; indoctrinated.
ANT. _Ungrounded, unprepared, uninitiated, baseless, unfounded, groundless, unauthorized._
=Groundless.= Vain, supposititious, unfounded, false, baseless, fanciful, chimerical, gratuitous.
ANT. _Well-founded, authoritative, substantial, actual, authentic._
=Group.= Cluster, collection, assemblage, order, bunch, knot, class, clump, assembly, collocation.
ANT. _Individual, crowd, isolation, medley, confusion; dispersion, distribution, scattering._
=Grovel.= Creep, crawl, sneak, be prone, fawn, cringe, lie, grub, wallow.
ANT. _Soar, aspire, mount, rise, domineer, intimidate, dictate, browbeat._
=Grow.= Enlarge, increase, swell, expand, extend, augment; vegetate, shout, sprout, germinate; advance, wax, progress, improve; adhere; raise, produce, cultivate; accrue, become, develop, amplify.