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.
     impulsive, impetuous, passionate; uncontrolled, uncontrollable;
ungovernable, irrepressible, stanchless[obs3], inextinguishable, burning, simmering, volcanic, ready to burst forth, volatile.
     excited, exciting &c. 824. 
     Int. pish! pshaw! 
     Phr. noli me tangere[Lat]; “filled with fury, rapt, inspir’d”
[Collins]; maggiore fretta minore atto[It].

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     #826. [Absence of excitability, or of excitement.] Inexcitability. —­
N. inexcitability[obs3], imperturbability, inirritability[obs3]; even temper, tranquil mind, dispassion; tolerance, patience, coolth [coll.].
     passiveness &c. (physical inertness) 172; hebetude[obs3],
hebetation[obs3]; impassibility &c. (insensibility) 823; stupefaction.
     coolness, calmness &c. adj.; composure, placidity,
indisturbance[obs3], imperturbation[obs3], sang froid[Fr], tranquility, serenity; quiet, quietude; peace of mind, mental calmness.
     staidness &c. adj.; gravity, sobriety, Quakerism[obs3]; philosophy,
equanimity, stoicism, command of temper; self-possession, self-control, self-command, self-restraint, ice water in one’s veins; presence of mind.
     submission &c. 725; resignation; sufferance, supportance[obs3],
endurance, longsufferance[obs3], forbearance; longanimity[obs3]; fortitude; patience of Job, patience “on a monument” [Twelfth Night], patience “sovereign o’er transmuted ill” [Johnson]; moderation; repression of feelings, subjugation of feeling; restraint &c. 751.
     tranquillization &c. (moderation) 174[obs3]. 
     V. be composed &c. adj.
     laisser faire[Fr], laisser aller[Fr]; take things easily, take things
as they come; take it easy, rub on, live and let live; take easily, take cooly[obs3], take in good part; aequam servare mentem [Latin].
     bear the brunt, bear well; go through, support, endure, brave,
disregard.
     tolerate, suffer, stand, bide; abide, aby[obs3]; bear with, put up
with, take up with, abide with; acquiesce; submit &c. (yield) 725; submit with a good grace; resign oneself to, reconcile oneself to; brook, digest, eat, swallow, pocket, stomach.
     make light of, make the best of, make “a virtue of necessity”
[Chaucer]; put a good face on, keep one’s countenance; check &c. 751 check oneself.
     compose, appease &c. (moderate)174; propitiate; repress &c. (restrain)
751; render insensible &c. 823; overcome one’s excitability, allay one’s excitability, repress one’s excitability &c. 825; master one’s feelings.
     make oneself easy; make one’s mind easy; set one’s mind at ease, set
one’s mind at rest.
     calm down, cool down; gentle; thaw, grow cool.
     be borne, be endured; go down. 
     Adj. inexcitable[obs3], unexcitable; imperturbable; unsusceptible &c.
(insensible) 823; unpassionate[obs3], dispassionate; cold-blooded, irritable; enduring &c. v.; stoical, Platonic, philosophic, staid, stayed; sober, sober

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