Putnam's Word Book Part 139

masculine, a. male; manly, virile, manful. Antonym: feminine.

masculineness, n. masculinity.

mask, n. disguise, pretext, subterfuge, screen, cloak, veil, ruse, feint, blind; domino; maskoid; masquerade; mascaron.

mask, v. disguise, masquerade, veil.

masker, n. masquerader, mummer.

masquerade, n. mask, revel; disguise.

ma.s.s, n. aggregate, aggregation, totality, lump, heap, a.s.semblage, collection, acc.u.mulation; majority; size, bigness, bulk, dimensions, magnitude; conglomeration, agglomeration.

ma.s.s, v. ama.s.s, a.s.semble, acc.u.mulate, agglomerate, conglomerate.

ma.s.sacre, n. carnage, butchery (of human beings), slaughter, havoc.

ma.s.sacre, v. butcher, slaughter.

ma.s.sage, n. a.s.sociated Words: ma.s.seuse, ma.s.seur, ma.s.sotherapeutics, ma.s.sotherapy.

Ma.s.s book. missal.

ma.s.sive, a. ponderous, bulky, immense, huge, c.u.mbersome, ma.s.sy.

ma.s.sy, a. ma.s.sive, compacted.

mast, n. nuts, acorns.

master, n. director, lord, commander, ruler, manager, governor; employer; leader, chief; owner, possessor, proprietor; padrone.

a.s.sociated Word: dominicide.

master, v. conquer, overpower, subject, subjugate, overcome, subdue, vanquish.

masterful, a. domineering, imperious, arbitrary.

master-hand, n. expert, adept, dabster.

masterly, a. skillful, proficient, adroit, dexterous, finished.

masterpiece, n. masterstroke, _chef-d'uvre_.

mastery, n. dominion, command, supremacy, superiority, rule, sway, masters.h.i.+p, preeminence, leaders.h.i.+p, influence; victory, triumph; acquirement, acquisition, attainment, dexterity, skill.

masturbation, n. onanism, self-abuse, self-pollution.

mat, n. rug; matting; petate.

mat, v. felt together, entangle, twist, interweave, snarl.

match, n. tally, mate, equal, peer; contest, compet.i.tion, tournament, tourney; lucifer match, locofoco.

match, v. rival, equal, cope with; contend, pit, oppose; tally, correspond, be proportionate; adapt, fit, proportion, comport, harmonize; mate, couple, combine, sort, join.

matchable, a. comparable, proportionable, correspondent, similar.

matchless, a. peerless, incomparable, inimitable, unequalled, transcendent, surpa.s.sing.

mate, n. companion, a.s.sociate, friend, chum, crony, compeer, intimate, partner, colleague; match, equal; a.s.sistant, subordinate; checkmate.

mate, v. oppose, cope with, vie with, compete with; match, marry.

material, n. substance, matter, fabric, stuff, cloth, staple; plasma.

material, a. corporeal, bodily, physical; important, essential, momentous.

materiality, n. corporeity, material existence; importance.

materially, adv. substantially; essentially, vitally.

materia medica. medicines; acology.

matrimonial, a. connubial, nuptial, hymeneal, conjugal.

matrimony, n. marriage, wedlock.

matron, n. dame.

matronly, a. elderly, dignified, matronal.

matted, a. tangled, snarled, entangled.

matter, n. substance, material, body; essence, pith, embodiment, elements; importance, significance, moment, consequence, weight, materiality; pus, purulence; ma.n.u.script, copy. a.s.sociated Words: material, immaterial, materiality, immateriality, atom, molecule, chemistry, hylism, hylotheism, hylopathism, hylogenesis, materialism, physics, somatics, somatology.

matter, v. import, signify, be of importance; maturate, suppurate.

matter-of-fact, a. practical, pragmatical, unimaginative, commonplace, prosaic.

maturate, v. suppurate; mature.

maturation, n. suppuration; maturing.

mature, a. full-grown, ripe, developed, perfect; prepared, finished.

Antonyms: See immature.

mature, v. ripen, develop, perfect, season.

maturity, n. development, ripeness, perfection, completion.

Antonym: immaturity.