The Project Gutenberg eBook, Roget's Thesaurus of English Words andPhrases, by RogetThis eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and withalmost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away orre-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License includedwith this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.netTitle: Roget's Thesaurus of English Words and Phrases: BodyAuthor: RogetRelease Date: April 19, 2004 [eBook #10681]Language: EnglishCharacter set encoding: US-ASCII***START OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK ROGET'S THESAURUS OF ENGLISH WORDSAND PHRASES***These files were assembled by L. John Old, Napier University, Edinburgh,from MICRA's contributed eBook of Roget's Thesaurus (Project Gutenberg's#22).Poster's note: The dagger symbol has been replacedby the carat "^" for this plain-text file. You mayinterpret the carat as a dagger in the original_except_ in one place, where the carat itself is defined in the Special Characters List in section 550.ROGET'S THESAURUSOFENGLISH WORDS AND PHRASESCLASS IWORDS EXPRESSING ABSTRACT RELATIONSSECTION I.EXISTENCE1. BEING, IN THE ABSTRACT1. Existence -- N. existence, being, entity, ens [Lat.], esse [Lat.],subsistence. reality, actuality; positiveness &c adj.; fact, matter of fact,sober reality; truth &c 494; actual existence. presence &c (existence in space) 186; coexistence &c 120. stubborn fact, hard fact; not a dream &c 515; no joke. center of life, essence, ...
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Title: Roget's Thesaurus of English Words and Phrases: Body
Author: Roget
Release Date: April 19, 2004 [eBook #10681]
Language: English
Character set encoding: US-ASCII
***START OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK ROGET'S THESAURUS OF ENGLISH WORDS
AND PHRASES***
These files were assembled by L. John Old, Napier University, Edinburgh,
from MICRA's contributed eBook of Roget's Thesaurus (Project Gutenberg's
#22).
Poster's note: The dagger symbol has been replaced
by the carat "^" for this plain-text file. You may
interpret the carat as a dagger in the original
_except_ in one place, where the carat itself is
defined in the Special Characters List in section 550.
ROGET'S THESAURUS
OF
ENGLISH WORDS AND PHRASES
CLASS I
WORDS EXPRESSING ABSTRACT RELATIONS
SECTION I.
EXISTENCE
1. BEING, IN THE ABSTRACT
1. Existence -- N. existence, being, entity, ens [Lat.], esse [Lat.],
subsistence.
reality, actuality; positiveness &c adj.; fact, matter of fact,
sober reality; truth &c 494; actual existence.
presence &c (existence in space) 186; coexistence &c 120.
stubborn fact, hard fact; not a dream &c 515; no joke. center of life, essence, inmost nature, inner reality, vital
principle.
[Science of existence], ontology.
V. exist, be; have being &c n.; subsist, live, breathe, stand, obtain,
be the case; occur &c (event) 151; have place, prevail; find oneself,
pass the time, vegetate.
consist in, lie in; be comprised in, be contained in, be
constituted by.
come into existence &c n.; arise &c (begin) 66; come forth &c
(appear) 446.
become &c (be converted) 144; bring into existence &c 161.
abide, continue, endure, last, remain, stay.
Adj. existing &c v.; existent, under the sun; in existence &c n.;
extant; afloat, afoot, on foot, current, prevalent; undestroyed.
real, actual, positive, absolute; true &c 494; substantial,
substantive; self-existing, self-existent; essential.
well-founded, well-grounded; unideal^, unimagined; not potential &c
2; authentic.
Adv. actually &c adj.; in fact, in point of fact, in reality; indeed;
de facto, ipso facto.
Phr. ens rationis [Lat.]; ergo sum cogito [Lat.], thinkest thou
existence doth depend on time? [Byron].
2. Inexistence -- N. inexistence^; nonexistence, nonsubsistence;
nonentity, nil; negativeness &c adj.; nullity; nihility^, nihilism;
tabula rasa [Lat.], blank; abeyance; absence &c 187; no such thing &c
4; nonbeing, nothingness, oblivion.
annihilation; extinction &c (destruction) 162; extinguishment,
extirpation, Nirvana, obliteration.
V. not exist &c 1; have no existence &c 1; be null and void; cease to
exist &c 1; pass away, perish; be extinct, become extinct &c adj.; die
out; disappear &c 449; melt away, dissolve, leave not a rack behind;
go, be no more; die &c 360.
annihilate, render null, nullify; abrogate &c 756; destroy &c 162;
take away; remove &c (displace) 185; obliterate, extirpate.
Adj. inexistent^, nonexistent &c 1; negative, blank; missing, omitted;
absent &c 187; insubstantial, shadowy, spectral, visionary.
unreal, potential, virtual; baseless, in nubibus [Lat.];
unsubstantial &c 4; vain.
unborn, uncreated^, unbegotten, unconceived, unproduced, unmade.
perished, annihilated, &c v.; extinct, exhausted, gone, lost,
vanished, departed, gone with the wind; defunct &c (dead) 360.
fabulous, ideal &c (imaginary) 515, supposititious &c 514.
Adv. negatively, virtually &c adj..
Phr. non ens [Lat.].
2. BEING, IN THE CONCRETE
3. Substantiality -- N. substantiality, hypostasis; person, being,
thing, object, article, item; something, a being, an existence;
creature, body, substance, flesh and blood, stuff, substratum; matter
&c 316; corporeity^, element, essential nature, groundwork, materiality,
substantialness, vital part.
[Totality of existences], world &c 318; plenum.
Adj. substantive, substantial; hypostatic; personal, bodily, tangible
&c (material) 316; corporeal.
Adv. substantially &c adj.; bodily, essentially.
4. Unsubstantiality -- N. unsubstantiality^, insubstantiality;
nothingness, nihility^; no degree, no part, no quantity, no thing.
nothing, naught, nil, nullity, zero, cipher, no one, nobody; never
a one, ne'er a one [Contr.]; no such thing, none in the world; nothing
whatever, nothing at all, nothing on earth; not a particle &c
(smallness) 32; all talk, moonshine, stuff and nonsense; matter of noimportance, matter of no consequence.
thing of naught, man of straw, John Doe and Richard Roe, faggot
voter; nominis umbra [Lat.], nonentity; flash in the pan, vox et
praeterea nihil [Lat.].
shadow; phantom &c (fallacy of vision) 443; dream &c (imagination)
515; ignis fatuus &c (luminary) 423 [Lat.]; such stuff as dreams are
made of [Tempest]; air, thin air, vapor; bubble &c 353; baseless fabric
of a vision [Tempest]; mockery.
hollowness, blank; void &c (absence) 187.
inanity, fool's paradise.
V. vanish, evaporate, fade, dissolve, melt away; disappear &c 449.
Adj. unsubstantial; baseless, groundless; ungrounded; without
foundation, having no foundation.
visionary &c (imaginary) 515; immaterial &c 137; spectral &c 980;
dreamy; shadowy; ethereal, airy; cloud built, cloud formed; gossamery,
illusory, insubstantial, unreal.
vacant, vacuous; empty &c 187; eviscerated; blank, hollow;
nominal; null; inane.
Phr. there's nothing in it; an ocean of dreams without a sound
[Shelley].
3. FORMAL EXISTENCE
Internal conditions
5. Intrinsicality -- N. intrinsicality^, inbeing^, inherence, inhesion^;
subjectiveness; ego; egohood^; essence, noumenon; essentialness^ &c
adj.; essential part, quintessence, incarnation, quiddity, gist, pith,
marrow, core, sap, lifeblood, backbone, heart, soul; important part &c
(importance) 642.
principle, nature, constitution, character, type, quality, crasis^,
diathesis^.
habit; temper, temperament; spirit, humor, grain; disposition.
endowment, capacity; capability &c (power) 157.
moods, declensions, features, aspects; peculiarities &c
(speciality) 79; idiosyncrasy, oddity; idiocrasy &c (tendency) 176;
diagnostics.
V. be in the blood, run in the blood; be born so; be intrinsic &c adj..
Adj. derived from within, subjective; intrinsic, intrinsical^;
fundamental, normal; implanted, inherent, essential, natural; innate,
inborn, inbred, ingrained, inwrought; coeval with birth, genetous^,
haematobious^, syngenic^; radical, incarnate, thoroughbred, hereditary,
inherited, immanent; congenital, congenite^; connate, running in the
blood; ingenerate^, ingenite^; indigenous; in the grain &c n.; bred in
the bone, instinctive; inward, internal &c 221; to the manner born;
virtual.
characteristic &c (special) 79, (indicative) 550; invariable,
incurable, incorrigible, ineradicable, fixed.
Adv. intrinsically &c adj.; at bottom, in the main, in effect,
practically, virtually, substantially, au fond; fairly.
Phr. character is higher than intellect [Emerson]; come give us a taste
of your quality [Hamlet]; magnos homines virtute metimur non fortuna
[Lat.] [Nepos]; non numero haec judicantur sed pondere [Lat.] [Cicero];
vital spark of heavenly flame [Pope].
External conditions
6. Extrinsicality -- N. extrinsicality^, objectiveness, non ego;
extraneousness &c 57; accident; appearance, phenomenon &c 448.
Adj. derived from without; objective; extrinsic, extrinsical^;
extraneous &c (foreign) 57; modal, adventitious; ascititious^,
adscititious^; incidental, accidental, nonessential; contingent,
fortuitous.
implanted, ingrafted^; inculcated, infused. outward, apparent &c (external) 220.
Adv. extrinsically &c adj..
4. MODAL EXISTENCE
Absolute
7. State -- N. state, condition, category, estate, lot, ease, trim,
mood, pickle, plight, temper; aspect &c (appearance) 448, dilemma,
pass, predicament.
constitution, habitude, diathesis^; frame, fabric &c 329; stamp,
set, fit, mold, mould.
mode, modality, schesis^; form &c (shape) 240.
tone, tenor, turn; trim, guise, fashion, light, complexion, style,
character.
V. be in a state, possess a state, enjoy a state, labor under a state
&c n.; be on a footing, do, fare; come to pass.
Adj. conditional, modal, formal; structural, organic.
Adv. conditionally &c adj.; as the matter stands, as things are; such
being the case &c 8.
Relative
8. Circumstance -- N. circumstance, situation, phase, position,
posture, attitude, place, point; terms; regime; footing, standing,
status.
occasion, juncture, conjunctive; contingency &c (event) 151.
predicament; emergence, emergency; exigency, crisis, pinch, pass,
push; occurrence; turning point.
bearings, how the land lies.
surroundings, context, environment 232; location 184.
contingency, dependence (uncertainty) 475; causation 153,
attribution 155.
Adj. circumstantial; given, conditional, provisional; critical; modal;
contingent, incidental; adventitious &c (extrinsic) 6; limitative^.
Adv. in the circumstances, under the circumstances &c n., the
circumstances, conditions &c 7; thus, in such wise.
accordingly; that being the case, such being the case, in view of
the circumstances; that being so, sith^, since, seeing that.
as matters stand; as things go, as times go.
conditionally, provided, if, in case; if so, if so be, if it be
so; depending on circumstances, in certain circumstances, under certain
conditions; if it so happen, if it so turn out; in the event of; in
such a contingency, in such a case, in such an event; provisionally,
unless, without.
according to circumstances, according to the occasion; as it may
happen, as it may turn out, as it may be; as the case may be, as the
wind bl