Ant. Harsh, discordant, dissonant.

Euphuism. Purism, finical style, fastidious delicacy, affected elegance, high-flown diction, pompous or extravagantly ornate diction; affectation, factitiousness, pedantry, highflying (used of language).

Ant. Simplicity, vernacular, mother tongue, bluntness, naturalness, rusticity.

Evacuate. Empty; eject, expel, excrete, throw out, discharge, void; quit, leave, forsake, desert, abandon, withdraw from, relinquish.

Ant. Seize, occupy, hold, fill.

Evaporate. Vaporize, disperse in vapor; disappear, evanesce, vanish; exhale, emit in vapor; turn to vapor; melt, colliquate, liquefy, dissolve, distil.

Ant. Consolidate, compact, solidify, crystallize, indurate.

Evasion. Prevarication, equivocation, quibbling, subterfuge, shuffling, sophistry, tergiversation, disingenuousness; shift, quibble, fencing.

Ant. Answer, counter-argument, grappling; straightforwardness; challenge.

Even. Smooth, level, flat, plane; equal, uniform, calm, steady, unruffled; fair, just, equitable; plain, flush; well-balanced.

Ant. Variable, uneven; abrupt, inclined, rugged.

Event. Circumstance, chance, incident, fortune, result, possibility, sequel, outcome, fact, episode, end, contingency, case, issue, consequence; occurrence, adventure, accident.

Ant. Cause, antecedent, operation, inducement, contribution, convergence, tendency, predisposition.

Eventful. Stirring, memorable, signal, momentous, important, critical, remarkable, marked, noted, notable.

Ant. Ordinary, unmarked, eventless, uninteresting, unimportant, characterless, trivial.

Ever. At any time; always, perpetually, continually, evermore, eternally, aye, for aye, forever, at all times; constantly, incessantly.

Ant. Never.

Everlasting. Endless, unending, perpetual, incessant, ceaseless, continual, uninterrupted, unceasing, interminable, eternal, constant, never-ending, never-ceasing; imperishable, undying, never-dying, deathless, immortal, ever-living; infinite.

Ant. Ephemeral, transient, transitory.

Every. All, any, both, either, each.

Ant. None, no one, not any one.

Evict. Dispossess, eject, throw out.

Ant. Reinstate, admit; locate, lodge, settle.

Evidence. Testimony, ground of belief, proof; manifestation, attraction, testimony, averment, deposition, declaration, appearance, sign, token, indication, exemplification, illustration.

Ant. Surmise, conjecture; counter-evidence; refutation, disproof; concealment, misindication, suppression, fallacy.

Evident. Patent, clear, palpable, manifest, transparent, visible, perceptible, obvious, open, conspicuous, apparent, distinct, discernible, indubitable, overt, plain, unmistakable, tangible; indisputable, incontrovertible.

Ant. Doubtful, uncertain, questionable, dubious; hidden, concealed, secret, undiscovered, obscure, latent, unseen, unimagined, unknown; covert, dark, invisible; impenetrable, occult, impalpable, imperceptible, unthought of.

Evil, a. Ill, noxious, deleterious, wrong, bad, hurtful, mischievous, sinful, unhappy, adverse, unpropitious, harmful, wicked, corrupt, unfair, notorious, miserable, sorrowful.

Ant. Wholesome, right, virtuous, beneficial, holy, pure, felicitous, happy, fortunate, joyous, welcome, grateful, worthy, good, honorable.

Evince. Prove, show, evidence, exhibit, manifest, demonstrate; establish; indicate, display.

Ant. Suppress, negative, disprove, conceal.

Evoke. Summon, call forth; excite, arouse, elicit, rouse, provoke, educe, produce; eliminate, extract.

Ant. Allay, stifle, stop, silence, prevent, seal.

Exactly. Precisely, accurately, strictly, nicely.

Ant. Loosely, inaccurately, incorrectly, differently.

Exaggerate. Overstate, strain, overcharge, stretch, overcolor; amplify, enlarge, magnify, overdraw, heighten, overpaint, overestimate.

Ant. Disparage, attenuate, palliate, understate, underestimate, minimize, mitigate, qualify, soften, modify.

Examine. Inspect, observe, investigate, scrutinize, consider, study; canvass, test, inquire into, search into, look into; weigh, ponder, criticize, prove, discuss, overhaul, explore.

Ant. Conjecture, guess; discard, slur; misconsider, misinvestigate.

Example. Model, pattern, ideal, archetype, exemplar, standard, sample, specimen, type, warning, ensample, exemplification, prototype; copy, illustration, instance; issue, development.

Ant. Stock, material, substance, law, rule, case, system, character, principle, quality.

Excavate. Hollow, dig, scoop out, cut, trench; discover, disinter.

Ant. Inter, inhume, bury; conceal; fill, level.

Except, prep. Excepting, without, saving, unless, exclusive of.

Except, v. Exclude, save, bar; segregate, negative.

Ant. Include, reckon, count, state, classify, propound, admit, affirm.

Exception. Exclusion, omission, non-inclusion; objection; affront, offense; unusual case, anomaly; qualification, separation.

Ant. Rule, class; statement, proposition.

Exceptionable. Undesirable, objectionable.

Ant. Unobjectionable, desirable, exemplary.

Exceptional. Irregular, rare, unusual, uncommon, unnatural, peculiar, anomalous, abnormal, aberrant, exceptive.

Ant. Common, usual, normal, ordinary, regular.

Excess. Surplus, waste, extravagance, wastefulness, superfluity, lavishness, exorbitance, superabundance, dissipation, intemperance, profusion, prodigality, redundance; increase, debauchery.

Ant. Frugality, economy; dearth, deficiency, defect, want, shortcoming, lack, need, poverty; failure, destitution, inadequacy, insufficiency, scantiness; temperance, sobriety.

Excessive. Superabundant, disproportionate, undue, exuberant, superfluous; immoderate, intemperate, extreme; violent, vehement; enormous, exorbitant, overmuch, inordinate, unreasonable, extravagant.

Ant. Insufficient, scant, inadequate, lacking, wanting, deficient.

Excitability. Sensibility, sensitiveness; irritability, irascibility, passionateness.

Ant. Immobility, hebetude, composure; insensitiveness, imperturbability.

Excommunicate. Dismiss, expel, denounce, proscribe, anathematize, exscind; exclude, banish, bar, eject, blackball.

Ant. Admit, readmit, enroll, inaugurate.

Excrescence. Tumor, protuberance; superfluity, useless appendage; redundancy.

Ant. Eradication, extirpation, excision, levigation, exsection.

Excruciate. Torture, torment, rack, agonize.

Ant. Soothe, please, tranquilize.

Exculpate. Absolve, exonerate, acquit, clear, set right, vindicate; defend, release.

Ant. Charge, implicate, inculpate.

Excursion. Trip, ramble, tour, jaunt, journey, expedition.

Excusable. Pardonable, venial.

Ant. Inexcusable, unpardonable.

Excuse, v. Pardon, forgive, absolve, acquit, exonerate, exculpate; extenuate, justify; free, exempt, release, let off; overlook, regard indulgently, condone; remit, vindicate, defend, mitigate.

Ant. Charge, condemn, inculpate, convict, sentence; exact, accuse.

Execrable. Detestable, cursed, loathsome, accursed, villainous, hateful, abominable, damnable, diabolical, odious, abhorrent; offensive, disgusting, nauseous, obnoxious, repulsive, revolting, vile.

Ant. Desirable, respectable, laudable, eligible.

Execration. Curse, malediction, ban, anathema, imprecation of evil; detestation, abhorrence, horror, loathing, abomination; denunciation.

Ant. Benediction, blessing.

Execute. Administer, perform, enforce, carry out, do.

Ant. Fail, be lacking, disappoint.

Exemplary. Laudable, praiseworthy, excellent, correct, estimable, worthy, virtuous; patternlike, close, faithful, exact, scrupulous, assiduous, punctilious, rigid, punctual, rigorous; worthy of imitation, fit for a pattern.

Ant. Detestable, objectionable, exceptionable.

Exemplify. Illustrate, show by example; manifest, embody, exhibit, represent.

Ant. Belie, betray, misrepresent, falsify.

Exempt, v. Relieve, set free, release, grant immunity to, excuse, exonerate, except.

Ant. Subject, render liable, bind, oblige; expose.

Exempt, a. Free, irresponsible, liberated, clear, absolved, privileged, unamenable.

Ant. Liable, subject, amenable, responsible.

Exemption. Immunity, privilege, exception, release, freedom from liability; dispensation, license.

Ant. Liability, amenableness, responsibility, subjection, obligation.

Exercise, n. Application, drill, employment, exertion; practice, training; occupation, use; performance, operation, act, activity, action.

Ant. Inaction, idleness, relaxation, rest, inactivity; ease, recreation.

Exertion. Use, exercise; effort, endeavor, struggle, trial, attempt, stretch, strain; labor, toil.

Ant. Relaxation, rest, recreation.

Exhalation. Evaporation; vapor, fume, steam, smoke, fog, reek; mist, damp, effluvium.

Ant. Inhalation, exsiccation, absorption.

Exhale. Emit, breathe out, give out, evaporate; vaporize.

Ant. Inhale, breathe in, inspire.

Exhaust. Drain, empty, expend, spend, waste, consume, squander, lavish, dissipate, destroy; prostrate, cripple, weaken, debilitate, enervate, disable, wear out, weary.

Ant. Fill, replenish, augment, refresh, invigorate.

Exhibit. Show, display; manifest, express, disclose, indicate, make known, evince; offer, present, propose; betray; demonstrate, illustrate.

Ant. Conceal, mask, hide, secrete, suppress.

Exhibition. Sight, representation, pageant, display, manifestation, show.

Exhilarate. Cheer, enliven, inspire, inspirit, stimulate, animate, elate, gladden; rejoice, delight, please.

Ant. Depress, unnerve, unhinge, dispirit.

Exhort. Urge, stimulate, persuade, incite, encourage; advise, counsel, enjoin.

Ant. Dissuade, warn, deprecate, remonstrate.

Exigency. Demand, urgency, need, necessity, requirement, want; pressure, crisis, emergency, juncture, quandary; conjuncture, pass, pinch, strait.

Ant. Provision, rule, supply, course, preparation.

Exile, n. Banishment, expulsion, ostracism, proscription, expatriation; separation, isolation; banished person.

Ant. Welcome, return; remaining; cherishing, fostering, retaining.

Exile, v. Banish, expatriate, ostracize, expel, proscribe, relegate.

Ant. Welcome, reinstate, domesticate, domiciliate.

Existence. Being, subsistence; entity, essence, creature, thing; life, animation; continuation, duration.

Ant. Nonentity, non-existence, chimera.

Expand. Open, spread out; dilate, enlarge, stretch, distend; swell, diffuse, extend, increase; develop, unfold, amplify.

Ant. Contract, curtail, condense, restrict, attenuate.

Expanse. Extent, stretch, expansion; firmament, sky, canopy, vault, welkin; vast, void, space, breadth.

Ant. Limit, enclosure, confine, bound.

Expatiate. Rove, range; dilate, enlarge, descant, be copious, launch out, amplify.

Ant. Contract, summarize, condense, epitomize.

Expect. Await, look for; anticipate, rely upon, count upon, reckon or calculate upon, look forward to; look for, forecast, forebode, foresee.

Ant. Welcome, greet, hail, recognize; realize.

Expectation. Anticipation, expectance, prospect, expectancy; reliance, confidence, assurance, presumption; trust, hope.

Ant. Recollection, remembrance, retrospect; distrust, despair, discouragement.

Expediency. Fitness, propriety, suitableness, desirableness, advisability; advantage, utility, profit, usefulness; profitableness, advantageousness; interest.

Ant. Disadvantage, detriment, inutility, inexpediency.

Expedition. Haste, speed, celerity, despatch, alertness, promptness, alacrity, quickness; enterprise, undertaking; march, voyage.

Ant. Delay, tardiness, procrastination.

Expend. Disburse, spend, lay out; use, exert, consume, employ; waste, exhaust, spread, scatter, dissipate.

Ant. Save, economize, husband.

Expense. Expenditure, outgo, cost, outlay; price, charge, payment.

Ant. Income, gain, proceeds, return, profit, product, receipts.

Expensive. Dear, costly, high-priced; lavish, wasteful, extravagant; valuable, rich.

Ant. Cheap, worthless, poor; economical.

Experience, n. Actual observation, feeling, or presentation; practice, experimental knowledge; experiment, trial, proof, test, knowledge, habit.

Ant. Anticipation, expectation.

Experience, v. Feel, undergo, prove by trial, endure, suffer, be subject to; try, encounter.

Ant. Evade, escape, lose, miss.

Experienced. Practiced, versed, accomplished, able, qualified, instructed, thoroughbred; familiar, skilled, accustomed, conversant.

Ant. Inexperienced, strange, unpracticed.

Experiment. Trial, test, assay, examination, proof, touchstone, ordeal; observation, investigation, experimentation; illustration, exemplification.

Ant. Hypothesis, conjecture, assumption.

Explain. Elucidate, expound, interpret, unfold, clear up, make plain; account for, make intelligible, give the reasons for, solve, warrant, trace to causes, justify; teach, decipher.

Ant. Mystify, bewilder, obscure, darken, misinterpret.

Explanation. Elucidation, interpretation, exposition, illustration, description, explication; solution, warrant, justification, account, key; mutual understanding; sense.

Ant. Confusion, misinterpretation, mystification, obscuration.

Explicit. Express, clear, plain, definite, positive, unambiguous, unreserved, categorical, determinate; detailed, declaratory, unobscure, stated.

Ant. Ambiguous, doubtful, indefinite, uncertain, vague, implied, implicit, indeterminate; hinted, suggestive, obscure.

Exponent. Index, indication, example, type, representative, illustration, specimen; advocate, interpreter, propounder.

Ant. System, creed, principle, opinion.

Export, v. Send out, carry out, send abroad, ship, produce.

Ant. Import; consume.

Exposed. Unprotected, defenseless, unguarded, endangered.

Ant. Guarded, defended, protected.

Expostulate. Object, dissuade, remonstrate.

Ant. Abet, coincide, agree, confirm.

Express, v. Squeeze out; utter, declare, assert, speak; represent, indicate, show, signify, exhibit, denote, intimate; send by express.

Ant. Suppress, repress, conceal.

Express, a. Explicit, clear, definite, plain, determinate, positive, categorical; exact, accurate, faithful, true, close, precise; special, particular; swift, rapid, fast; specific, pointed, direct.

Ant. General; vague; leisurely; inaccurate, inexact, approximate.

Expression. Squeezing out; assertion, statement, utterance, declaration; phrase, mode of speech, term; general tone, pervading effect, look, cast of countenance; lively representation; modulation, feeling, execution; indication.

Ant. Suppression, restraint, repression; face, features, lineament; falsification, misstatement, solecism, enigma.

Expunge. Erase, efface, obliterate, cancel, blot out, delete.

Ant. Mark, write, trace, delineate.

Exquisite. Nice, accurate, delicate, discriminating, exact, refined; precious, valuable, select, choice, rare, excellent; perfect, complete, matchless, consummate; keen, poignant, acute, intense; delicious.

Ant. Common, coarse, ordinary; unrefined.

Extemporaneous. Improvised, unpremeditated, extempore, impromptu, extemporary, offhand.

Ant. Prepared, studied, premeditated, read, written, elaborated; rehearsed, recited.

Extend. Stretch, reach; prolong, continue, lengthen, protract; expand, dilate, enlarge, widen, augment, increase; diffuse; impart, give, offer, yield; amplify, avail, apply.

Ant. Contract, restrict, curtail, limit, narrow, reduce, condense; miss, fail.

Extent. Expanse, amplitude, extension; volume, bulk, magnitude, size; stretch, reach, compass, length; degree, distance, quantity.

Ant. Limitation, diminution, restriction.

Extenuate. Lessen, diminish, reduce; palliate, mitigate, excuse, qualify, apologize for.

Ant. Enhance, aggravate, heighten.

Exterior, a. Outward, external, outer, outside, superficial; foreign, extrinsic, from without.

Ant. Inner, internal, domestic, inward.

Exterminate. Eradicate, overthrow, uproot, expel, extirpate, annihilate, banish, destroy, remove, root out, wipe out.

Ant. Augment, breed, cherish, develop, increase, populate, replenish, settle, plant, foster, propagate, colonize, build up, beget.

Extermination. Extirpation, annihilation, eradication, abolition, destruction, extinction, excision, elimination.

Ant. Settlement, replenishment, augmentation, colonization, population, propagation, increase.

External. Outward, outer, exterior, outside, superficial; foreign, extrinsic; visible, apparent; manifest, palpable.

Ant. Inner, internal, intestine, inmost, hidden, non-apparent.

Extinction. Destruction, annihilation, extirpation, extermination, abolition; extinguishment; stifling, death, suffocation, cessation, obsolescence.

Ant. Inception, origination, birth, course, life, operation, action, exercise, continuance, prosperity, survival.

Extinguish. Quench; destroy, suppress, put down; extirpate, abolish, eradicate, kill, annihilate, put out.

Ant. Replenish, replant, implant, cherish, propagate, promote, invigorate, establish, confirm, secure.

Extort. Exact, wrest, wrench, wring out, force; despoil, express, fleece, squeeze out, extract.

Ant. Coax, cheat, wheedle, cajole.

Extortionate. Oppressive, exacting, severe, hard, harsh; exorbitant, close-fisted, rigorous, monstrous, preposterous.

Ant. Liberal, bountiful, indulgent, fair, moderate, reasonable.

Extract, n. Selection, excerpt, passage, citation, quotation.

Extract, v. Draw, pull, take out; derive, select, quote, cite; determine, find; educe, elicit, gather, collect, extort.

Ant. Insert, replace, incorporate, restore, reinsert, impose.

Extraneous. Foreign, extrinsic; non-pertinent, not germane, unessential, superfluous; unconnected, alien, unrelated, adventitious, ascititious.

Ant. Intrinsic, vital, internal, connected, essential.

Extraordinary. Unusual, remarkable, uncommon, singular, signal, egregious, rare, extra; unwonted, peculiar, wonderful, unprecedented, marvelous, prodigious, monstrous, preposterous, strange.

Ant. Common, usual, frequent, wonted, unremarkable, unimportant, ordinary.

Extravagance. Excess, exorbitance, enormity, unreasonableness, preposterousness; wildness, folly, absurdity, irregularity; prodigality, lavish expenditure, profusion, waste.

Ant. Carefulness, economy, frugality, saving, provision, prudence, foresight.

Extravagant. Excessive, inordinate, unreasonable, preposterous, exorbitant; wild, foolish, absurd, irregular; lavish, profuse, wasteful, spendthrift, prodigal.

Ant. Sound, sober, consistent, fair, rational, economical, frugal, careful, regular, usual.

Extreme. Utmost, farthest, uttermost, outermost; greatest, highest; last, final, ultimate; extravagant, immoderate, excessive, unreasonable; remote, terminal, distant, most violent.

Ant. Initial, primal, judicious, moderate.

Extremity. End, verge, termination, edge, border, extreme, utmost point; close, conclusion.

Ant. Beginning, commencement, opening, center, origin, bulk, body.

Exudation. Ooze, drip, percolation, excretion, secretion.

Ant. Absorption, parching, aridity.

Exultant. Exulting, jubilant, triumphant, elated, joyous, transported.

Ant. Mournful, dispirited, depressed.

Exultation. Elation, joy, triumph, delight, transport, ecstasy.

Ant. Mourning, depression.