Roget's Thesaurus of English Words and Phrases

Peter Mark Roget

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Title: Roget's Thesaurus of English Words and Phrases: Body with Parts of Speech
Author: Roget
Release Date: April 19, 2004 [eBook #10681]
Language: English
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***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).
WORD INDEX
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 #2. Inexistence -- N. inexistence ;
[Lat.], esse [Lat.], subsistence. reality, actuality; nonexistence, nonsubsistence; nonentity, nil;
positiveness &c. adj.; fact, matter of fact, sober †negativeness &c. adj.; nullity; nihility , nihilism;
reality; truth &c. 494; actual existence. presence tabula rasa [Lat.], blank; abeyance; absence
&c. (existence in space) 186; coexistence &c. &c. 187; no such thing &c. 4; nonbeing,
120. stubborn fact, hard fact; not a dream &c. nothingness, oblivion. annihilation; extinction
515; no joke. center of life, essence, inmost &c. (destruction) 162; extinguishment,
nature, inner reality, vital principle. [Science of extirpation, Nirvana, obliteration.
existence], ontology. V. not exist &c. 1; have no existence &c. 1; be
V. exist, be; have being &c. n.; subsist, live, null and void; cease to exist &c. 1; pass away,
breathe, stand, obtain, be the case; occur &c. perish; be extinct, become extinct &c. adj.; die
(event) 151; have place, prevail; find oneself, out; disappear &c. 449; melt away, dissolve,
pass the time, vegetate. consist in, lie in; be leave not a rack behind; go, be no more; die &c.
comprised in, be contained in, be constituted 360. annihilate, render null, nullify; abrogate &c.
by. come into existence &c. n.; arise &c. (begin) 756; destroy &c. 162; take away; remove &c.
66; come forth &c. (appear) 446. become &c. (displace) 185; obliterate, extirpate.
(be converted) 144; bring into existence &c. †Adj. inexistent , nonexistent &c. 1; negative,
161. abide, continue, endure, last, remain, stay.
blank; missing, omitted; absent &c. 187;
Adj. existing &c. v.; existent, under the sun; in
insubstantial, shadowy, spectral, visionary.
existence &c. n.; extant; afloat, afoot, on foot,
unreal, potential, virtual; baseless, in nubibusunreal, potential, virtual; baseless, in nubibus
current, prevalent; undestroyed. real, actual,
[Lat.]; unsubstantial &c. 4; vain. unborn,
positive, absolute; true &c. 494; substantial,
†uncreated , unbegotten, unconceived,substantive; self-existing, self-existent;
unproduced, unmade. perished, annihilated,essential. well-founded, well-grounded;
&c. v.; extinct, exhausted, gone, lost, vanished,†unideal , unimagined; not potential &c. 2;
departed, gone with the wind; defunct &c.
authentic.
(dead) 360. fabulous, ideal &c. (imaginary) 515,
Adv. actually &c. adj.; in fact, in point of fact, in supposititious &c. 514.
reality; indeed; de facto, ipso facto.
Adv. negatively, virtually &c. adj..
Phr. ens rationis [Lat.]; ergo sum cogito [Lat.],
Phr. non ens [Lat.].
thinkest thou existence doth depend on thinkest
thou existence doth depend on time? [Byron].
2. BEING, IN THE CONCRETE
†#3. Substantiality -- N. substantiality, #4. Unsubstantiality -- N. unsubstantiality ,
hypostasis; person, being, thing, object, article, †insubstantiality; nothingness, nihility ; no
item; something, a being, an existence; degree, no part, no quantity, no thing. nothing,
creature, body, substance, flesh and blood, naught, nil, nullity, zero, cipher, no one, nobody;
†stuff, substratum; matter &c. 316; corporeity , never a one, ne'er a one [Contr.]; no such thing,
element, essential nature, groundwork, none in the world; nothing whatever, nothing at
materiality, substantialness, vital part. [Totality all, nothing on earth; not a particle &c.
of existences], world &c. 318; plenum. (smallness) 32; all talk, moonshine, stuff and
Adj. substantive, substantial; hypostatic; nonsense; matter of no importance, matter of no
personal, bodily, tangible &c. (material) 316; consequence. thing of naught, man of straw,
corporeal. John Doe and Richard Roe, faggot voter;
Adv. substantially &c. adj.; bodily, essentially. 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 [Lat.] &c.
(luminary) 423; 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
† † †#5. Intrinsicality -- N. intrinsicality , inbeing , #6. Extrinsicality -- N. extrinsicality ,
† objectiveness, non ego; extraneousness &c.inherence, inhesion ; subjectiveness; ego;
† † 57; accident; appearance, phenomenon &c.egohood ; essence, noumenon; essentialness
448.&c. adj.; essential part, quintessence,
Adj. derived from without; objective; extrinsic,incarnation, quiddity, gist, pith, marrow, core,
†extrinsical ; extraneous &c. (foreign) 57; modal,sap, lifeblood, backbone, heart, soul; important
† †adventitious; ascititious , adscititious ;† †part &c. (importance) 642. principle, nature, adventitious; ascititious , adscititious ;
† incidental, accidental, nonessential; contingent,constitution, character, type, quality, crasis ,
†† fortuitous. implanted, ingrafted ; inculcated,diathesis . habit; temper, temperament; spirit,
infused. outward, apparent &c. (external) 220.humor, grain; disposition. endowment, capacity;
Adv. extrinsically &c. adj..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].
4. MODAL EXISTENCE
#7. State -- N. state, condition, category, estate, #8. Circumstance -- N. circumstance, situation,
lot, ease, trim, mood, pickle, plight, temper; phase, position, posture, attitude, place, point;
aspect &c. (appearance) 448, dilemma, pass, terms; regime; footing, standing, status.
† occasion, juncture, conjunctive; contingencypredicament. constitution, habitude, diathesis ;
&c. (event) 151. predicament; emergence,frame, fabric &c. 329; stamp, set, fit, mold,
† emergency; exigency, crisis, pinch, pass, push;mould. mode, modality, schesis ; form &c.
occurrence; turning point. bearings, how the(shape) 240. tone, tenor, turn; trim, guise,
land lies. surroundings, context, environmentfashion, light, complexion, style, character.
232; location 184. contingency, dependenceV. be in a state, possess a state, enjoy a state,
(uncertainty) 475; causation 153, attributionlabor under a state &c. n.; be on a footing, do,
155.fare; come to pass.
Adj. circumstantial; given, conditional,Adj. conditional, modal, formal; structural,
provisional; criti