Roget's Thesaurus eBook

Peter Roget
This eBook from the Gutenberg Project consists of approximately 925 pages of information about Roget's Thesaurus.

Roget's Thesaurus eBook

Peter Roget
This eBook from the Gutenberg Project consists of approximately 925 pages of information about Roget's Thesaurus.
     scant &c. (small) 32; scarce; not to be had, not to be had for love or
money, not to be had at any price; scurvy; stingy &c. 819; at the end of one’s tether; without resources &c. 632; in want &c. (poor) 804; in debt &c. 806. 
     Adv. insufficiently &c.  Adj.; in default of, for want of; failing. 
     Phr. semper avarus eget [Lat][Horace].

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     #641.  Redundancy. —­ N. redundancy, redundance[obs3]; too much, too
many; superabundance, superfluity, superfluence|, saturation; nimiety[obs3], transcendency, exuberance, profuseness; profusion &c. (plenty) 639; repletion, enough in all conscience, satis superque[Lat], lion’s share; more than enough &c. 639; plethora, engorgement, congestion, load, surfeit, sickener[obs3]; turgescence &c. (expansion) 194[obs3]; overdose, overmeasure[obs3], oversupply, overflow; inundation &c. (water) 348; avalanche.
     accumulation &c. (store) 636; heap &c. 72; drug, drug in the market;
glut; crowd; burden.
     excess; surplus, overplus[obs3]; epact[obs3]; margin; remainder &c.
40; duplicate; surplusage[obs3], expletive; work of supererogation; bonus, bonanza.
     luxury; intemperance &c. 954; extravagance &c. (prodigality) 818;
exorbitance, lavishment[obs3].
     pleonasm &c. (diffuseness) 573; too many irons in the fire; embarras
de richesses[Fr]. 
     V. superabound, overabound[obs3]; know no bounds, swarm; meet one at
every turn; creep with, crawl with, bristle with; overflow; run over, flow over, well over, brim over; run riot; overrun, overstock, overlay, overcharge, overdose, overfeed, overburden, overload, overdo, overwhelm, overshoot the mark &c. (go beyond) 303; surcharge, supersaturate, gorge, glut, load, drench, whelm, inundate, deluge, flood; drug, drug the market; hepatize[obs3].

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     choke, cloy, accloy[obs3], suffocate; pile up, lay on thick;
impregnate with; lavish &c. (squander) 818.
     send coals to Newcastle, carry coals to Newcastle, carry owls to
Athens[obs3]; teach one’s grandmother to suck eggs; pisces natare docere[Lat]; kill the slain, “gild refined gold”, “gild the lily”, butter one’s bread on both sides, put butter upon bacon; employ a steam engine to crack a nut &c. (waste) 638.
     exaggerate &c. 549; wallow in roll in &c. (plenty) 639 remain on one’s
hands, hang heavy on hand, go a begging. 
     Adj. redundant; too much, too many; exuberant, inordinate,
superabundant, excessive, overmuch, replete, profuse, lavish; prodigal &c. 818; exorbitant; overweening; extravagant; overcharged &c. v.; supersaturated, drenched, overflowing; running over, running to waste, running down.
     crammed to overflowing, filled to overflowing; gorged, ready to burst;
dropsical, turgid, plethoric; obese &c. 194.
     superfluous, unnecessary, needless, supervacaneous|, uncalled for, to
spare, in excess; over and above &c. (remainder) 40;

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