Adulteration, n. Debasement, corruption, deterioration, sophistication.
Adulterous, a. Unchaste, rakish, dissolute.
Adultery, n. Violation of the marriage-bed.
Adumbrate, v. a. 1. Shadow, foreshadow, shadow out, shadow forth.
2. Typify, represent, symbolize, show, denote, stand for.
Adumbration, n. 1. Shadowing forth, faint sketch, faint representation, indistinct image.
2. Type, image, shadow, symbol.
Aduncous, a. Crooked, hooked, bent, curved.
Advance, v. a. 1. Promote, aggrandize, exalt, elevate, dignify, raise to preferment, raise to higher rank.
2. Forward, further, promote, improve, strengthen, make better, encourage the progress of.
3. Allege, adduce, propose, offer, assign, propound, bring forward, lay down.
4. Pay beforehand, supply beforehand, furnish on credit.
5. Increase (as price), enhance, augment, make greater, make higher.
Advance, v. n. 1. Proceed, progress, make progress, make way, get forward, go forward, get on, go on, get along, come on, gain ground.
2. Improve, grow, thrive, make improvement.
Advance, n. 1. Progress, progression, march, way, moving forward.
2. Improvement, growth, advancement.
3. Payment beforehand, anticipated payment.
4. Tender, offer, proposal, proposition.
5. Increase (of price), enhancement.
Advance-guard, n. Vanguard.
Advancement, n. 1. Progress, progression, proficiency.
2. Promotion, preferment, elevation, exaltation, aggrandizement.
3. Improvement, advance, growth.
Advantage, n. 1. Favorable opportunity, vantage-ground, superior situation or condition, best estate, best plight.
2. Superiority, ascendency, pre-eminence, upper-hand.
3. Benefit, avail, profit, gain, emolument, return, utility, expediency, good, weal, service, blessing.
4. Behalf, behoof, account, interest.
5. Privilege, prerogative, convenience, accommodation, easement.
Advantage, v. a. Benefit, profit, serve, help, avail, advance the interest of, be of advantage to.
Advantageous, a. Beneficial, profitable, helpful, useful, convenient, serviceable, salutary, favorable, expedient, good, well, for one's advantage, for one's interest, for one's good.
Advent, n. 1. Arrival, coming, approach.
2. Coming of Christ.
Adventitious, a. Accidental, incidental, extrinsic, extraneous, foreign, non-essential.
Adventure, n. 1. Chance, hazard, fortuity, contingency, risk, venture, stake.
2. Hazardous enterprise, bold undertaking.
3. Event, incident, occurrence, transaction, passage, contingency.
4. (Com.) Speculation.
Adventure, v. a. Hazard, venture, risk, peril, imperil, put to hazard, put at risk, put in danger.
Adventure, v. n. Dare, venture, take the risk, run the risk, incur the hazard.
Adventurous, a. 1. Bold, daring, courageous, venturesome, venturous, chivalrous, doughty, enterprising.
2. Rash, reckless, precipitate, headlong, foolhardy, full of hazard.
Adversaria, n. pl. Notes, memoranda, remarks, note-book, journal, commonplace-book.
Adversary, n. 1. Enemy, foe, antagonist, opponent, adverse party.
2. [With The prefixed.] Devil, Satan.
Adverse, a. 1. Contrary, opposing, unpropitious, counteracting, conflicting, head, not propitious.
2. Hostile, inimical, antagonistic.
3. Unprosperous, untoward, unlucky, unfortunate, calamitous, disastrous.
Adversity, n. Misfortune, calamity, affliction, trouble, suffering, woe, disaster, distress, misery, ill-luck, bad luck, broken fortunes, hard life, frowns of fortune.
Advert to, 1. Observe, remark, regard, heed, consider, notice, mark, view, give heed to, take notice of, pay attention to, attend to, look to, see to, give heed to, have an eye to, give a thought to, look after.