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.
mad after, enrage, rabid, dying for, devoured by desire.
     aspiring, ambitious, vaulting, skyaspiring, high-reaching.
     desirable; desired &c. v.; in demand; pleasing &c. (giving pleasure)
829; appetizing, appetible[obs3]; tantalizing. 
     Adv. wistfully &c. adj.; fain. 
     Int. would that, would that it were!  O for! esto perpetual
     Phr[Lat]. the wish being father to the thought; sua cuique
voluptas[Lat]; hoc erat in votis[Lat], the mouth watering, the fingers itching; aut Caesar aut nullus[Lat]. 
     “Cassius has a lean and hungry look” [Jul.  Caesar]; “hungry as the
grave” [Thomson]; “I was born to other things” [Tennyson]; “not what we wish but what we want” [Merrick]; “such joy ambition finds” [P.  L.]; “the sea hath bounds but deep desire hath none” [Venus and Adonis]; ubi mel ibi apes[Lat].

     #866.  Indifference. —­ N. indifference, neutrality; coldness &c. adj.;
anaphrodisia[obs3]; unconcern, insouciance, nonchalance; want of interest, want of earnestness; anorexy[obs3], anorexia, inappetency[obs3]; apathy &c. (insensibility) 823; supineness &c. (inactivity) 683; disdain &c. 930; recklessness &c. 863; inattention &c. 458.
     anaphrodisiac[obs3], antaphrodisiac[obs3]; lust-quencher, passion-
queller[obs3]. 
     V. be indifferent &c. adj.; stand neuter; take no interest in &c.
(insensibility) 823; have no desire for &c. 865,have no taste for, have no relish for; not care for; care nothing for, care nothing about; not care a straw about, not care a fig for, not care a whit about &c. (unimportance) 643; not mind.
     set at naught &c. (make light of) 483; spurn &c. (disdain) 930. 
     Adj. indifferent, cold, frigid, lukewarm; cool, cool as a cucumber;
unconcerned, insouciant, phlegmatic, pococurante[obs3], easygoing, devil-may-care, careless, listless, lackadaisical; half-hearted; unambitious, unaspiring, undesirous[obs3], unsolicitous[obs3], unattracted.
     [indifferent toward people] aloof, unapproachable, remote; uncaring.
     unattractive, unalluring, undesired, undesirable, uncared for,
unwished[obs3], unvalued, all one to.
     insipid &c. 391; vain. 
     Adv. for aught one cares. 
     Int. never mind; Who cares? whatever you like, whatever. 
     Phr.  I couldn’t care less, I could care less; anything will do; es
macht nichts [German].

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     #867.  Dislike. —­ N. dislike, distaste, disrelish, disinclination,
displacency[obs3].
     reluctance; backwardness &c. (unwillingness) 603.
     repugnance, disgust, queasiness, turn, nausea, loathing;
averseness[obs3], aversation|, aversion; abomination, antipathy, abhorrence, horror; mortal antipathy, rooted antipathy, mortal horror, rooted horror; hatred, detestation; hate &c. 898; animosity &c. 900; hydrophobia; canine madness; byssa[obs3], xenophobia. sickener[obs3]; gall and wormwood &c. (unsavory) 395; shuddering, cold sweat. 

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