Putnam's Word Book Part 262

worthless, a. valueless, good-for-nothing, futile, trashy, unworthy, trumpery, scurvy, contemptible.

worthy, a. meritorious, excellent, estimable, deserving, reputable, exemplary, upright.

would-be, a. self-styled, _soi-disant_, presumptuous.

wound, n. hurt, injury, scath, lesion, trauma; traumatism.

a.s.sociated Words: vulnerable, vulnerability, invulnerable, invulnerability, vulnerary, vulnific, sanies, sanious, pledget, spleget, dossil, ichor, probe, antiseptic, inviolable, violable, tent, autoplasty.

wound, v. injure, scath, hurt, maim, disable.

wrangle, n. altercation, dispute, squabble, brawl, bickering, quarrel.

wrangle, v. altercate, dispute, squabble, bicker, quarrel.

wrangler, n. disputant.

wrap, v. infold, swathe, bem.u.f.fle, envelop, m.u.f.fle, swaddle.

wrapper, n. house-dress; negligee, kimono, peignoir; envelope, wrap, covering, capsule; tillot.

wrath, n. See anger.

wreath, n. garland, chaplet, festoon, crown.

wreck, n. desolation, ruin, havoc, devastation, ravage debris, derelict.

wreck, v. demolish, destroy, ruin, shatter, strand, founder, undo, raze.

wrest, v. wrench, wring, extort; distort, pervert, garble, falsify, misconstrue.

wretch, n. outcast, pariah, pilgarlic, vagabond, knave, rogue, scoundrel, caitiff, miscreant, scapegrace, villain, rascal, renegade, reprobate, rake, scullion, poltroon, varlet, ronion, libertine, blackguard, cullion, bezonian.

wretched, a. miserable, unhappy; contemptible, abject, despicable, paltry.

wring, v. writhe, squeeze, pinch; distort, pervert, wrest, exact, extort.

wrinkle, n. corrugation, pucker, crease, furrow, rumple, crinkle, ruck; (Colloq.) notion, fancy, whim, caprice, vagary, freak, whimsey; pl. crow's feet.

wrinkle, v. rumple, pucker, corrugate, crease, c.o.c.kle, ruck, crumple.

wrinkled, a. corrugated, rumpled, puckered, c.o.c.kled, creased, rugous.

wrist, n. carpus. a.s.sociated Words: carpal, carpale.

write, v. inscribe, indite; superscribe (write on the top or outside of anything); subscribe.

writer, n. scribe, scrivener, penman, secretary, amanuensis, correspondent, essayist, clerk, copyist, author, hack, calligrapher.

writing, n. handwriting, chirography, penmanship, hand, calligraphy; doc.u.ment, writ, indenture, debenture, certificate, charter, holograph; inscription, superscription, subscription. a.s.sociated Words: graphology, agraphia, graphomania, _cacoethes scribendi_, cursive, uncial, clerical, stylus, planchette, scotograph script, literary, cacography.

writing-desk, n. secretary, escritoire.

writing-room, n. scriptorium.

written above. superscript, suprascript.

written under. subscript, subscribed.

wrong, a. immoral, bad, wicked, sinful, evil, improper, criminal, vicious, unjust, contraband, wrongful, iniquitous, blameworthy, reprehensible, base, crooked, sinister; erroneous, mistaken, untrue, false, inaccurate, inexact, incorrect; inappropriate, unsuitable; reverse.

wrong, n. injustice, inequity, oppression, disservice, trespa.s.s, transgression, injury, tort, offense, grievance, detriment; error, falsity; immorality, vice, iniquity, sin, evil, improbity, guilt, misdoing, malpractice, offense, delinquency, peccancy, dereliction, mischief, obliquity, misdemeanor.--adv. amiss, erroneously.

wrong, v. cheat, d.a.m.nify, defraud, maltreat, abuse.

wrong-doer, n. sinner, criminal, culprit, delinquent, offender, malefactor, transgressor, miscreant, profligate, pervert, crook, prevaricator.

wrong-doing, n. misdemeanor, malfeasance, malpractice, malversation, dereliction, iniquity, sin, immorality, wickedness, indiscretion, prevarication, chicanery, delinquency, transgression, graft, malfaction, demerit, default.

wrong-timed, a. ill-timed, inopportune, unseasonable.

wrought, a. worked, elaborated, finished.

wrought up. excited, perturbed, distracted, discomposed, agitated.

wry, a. twisted, distorted, awry; wrested, perverted.

wryneck, n. torticollis.

X

X-ray, n. the Rontgen ray. a.s.sociated Words: fluoroscope, fluoroscopy, cryptoscopy, cryptoscope.

Y

Y. a.s.sociated Words: ypsiloid, ypsiliform.

yank, n. (Colloq.) pull, jerk, twitch.--v. pull, jerk, twitch, s.n.a.t.c.h.

yap, n. bark, yelp.

yard, n. three feet; enclosure, court, area, garth, courtyard, quadrangle, curtilage (Law).