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.
fiery, flaming; boiling over.
     pervading, penetrating, absorbing; rabid, raving, feverish, fanatical,
hysterical; impetuous &c. (excitable) 825.
     impressed with, moved with, touched with, affected with, penetrated
with, seized with, imbued with &c. 82; devoured by; wrought up &c. (excited) 824; struck all of a heap; rapt; in a quiver &c. n.; enraptured &c. 829. 
     Adv. heart and soul, from the bottom of one’s heart, ab imo
pectore[Lat], at heart, con amore[It], heartily, devoutly, over head and ears, head over heels. 
     Phr. the heart big, the heart full, the heart swelling, the heart
beating, the heart pulsating, the heart throbbing, the heart thumping, the heart beating high, the heart melting, the heart overflowing, the heart bursting, the heart breaking; the heart goes out, a heart as big as all outdoors (sympathy) 897.

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     #822.  Sensibility. —­ N. sensibility, sensibleness, sensitiveness;
moral sensibility; impressibility, affectibility[obs3]; susceptibleness, susceptibility, susceptivity[obs3]; mobility; vivacity, vivaciousness; tenderness, softness; sentimental, sentimentality; sentimentalism.
     excitability &c. 825; fastidiousness &c. 868; physical sensibility &c.
375.
     sore point, sore place; where the shoe pinches. 
     V. be sensible &c. adj.; have a tender heart, have a warm heart, have
a sensitive heart.
     take to heart, treasure up in the heart; shrink.
     “die of a rose in aromatic pain” [Pope]; touch to the quick; touch on
the raw, touch a raw nerve. 
     Adj. sensible, sensitive; impressible, impressionable; susceptive,
susceptible; alive to, impassionable[obs3], gushing; warm hearted, tender hearted, soft hearted; tender as a chicken; soft, sentimental, romantic; enthusiastic, highflying[obs3], spirited, mettlesome, vivacious, lively, expressive, mobile, tremblingly alive; excitable &c. 825; oversensitive, without skin, thin-skinned; fastidious &c. 868. 
     Adv. sensibly &c. adj; to the quick, to the inmost core. 
     Phr. mens aequa in arduis[Lat]; pour salt in the wound.

     #823.  Insensibility. —­ N. insensibility, insensibleness[obs3]; moral
insensibility; inertness, inertia; vis inertiae[Lat]; impassibility, impassibleness; inappetency[obs3], apathy, phlegm, dullness, hebetude[obs3], supineness, lukewarmness[obs3].
     cold fit, cold blood, cold heart; coldness, coolness; frigidity, sang
froid[Fr]; stoicism, imperturbation &c. (inexcitability) 826[obs3]; nonchalance, unconcern, dry eyes; insouciance &c. (indifference) 866; recklessness &c. 863; callousness; heart of stone, stock and stone, marble, deadness.
     torpor, torpidity; obstupefaction|, lethargy, coma, trance, vegetative
state; sleep &c. 683; suspended animation; stupor, stupefaction; paralysis, palsy; numbness &c. (physical insensibility) 376.
     neutrality; quietism,

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