| try out | | |
| v. (social) | 1. essay, examine, prove, test, try, try out | put to the test, as for its quality, or give experimental use to.; "This approach has been tried with good results"; "Test this recipe" |
| ~ pass judgment, evaluate, judge | form a critical opinion of.; "I cannot judge some works of modern art"; "How do you evaluate this grant proposal?"; "We shouldn't pass judgment on other people" |
| ~ verify, control | check or regulate (a scientific experiment) by conducting a parallel experiment or comparing with another standard.; "Are you controlling for the temperature?" |
| ~ float | circulate or discuss tentatively; test the waters with.; "The Republicans are floating the idea of a tax reform" |
| ~ field-test | test something under the conditions under which it will actually be used.; "The Army field tested the new tanks" |
| v. (social) | 2. experiment, try out | try something new, as in order to gain experience.; "Students experiment sexually"; "The composer experimented with a new style" |
| ~ experiment | to conduct a test or investigation.; "We are experimenting with the new drug in order to fight this disease" |
| v. (creation) | 3. audition, try out | perform in order to get a role.; "She auditioned for a role on Broadway" |
| ~ performing arts | arts or skills that require public performance. |
| ~ perform | give a performance (of something).; "Horowitz is performing at Carnegie Hall tonight"; "We performed a popular Gilbert and Sullivan opera" |
| ~ read | audition for a stage role by reading parts of a role.; "He is auditioning for `Julius Caesar' at Stratford this year" |
| v. (consumption) | 4. sample, taste, try, try out | take a sample of.; "Try these new crackers"; "Sample the regional dishes" |
| ~ ingest, consume, have, take in, take | serve oneself to, or consume regularly.; "Have another bowl of chicken soup!"; "I don't take sugar in my coffee" |
| ~ degust | taste with relish.; "degust this wonderful soup" |
| kick off | | |
| v. (social) | 1. inaugurate, kick off | commence officially. |
| ~ swear in | administer on oath to.; "The speaker of the House swore in the new President" |
| ~ embark on, start up, commence, start | get off the ground.; "Who started this company?"; "We embarked on an exciting enterprise"; "I start my day with a good breakfast"; "We began the new semester"; "The afternoon session begins at 4 PM"; "The blood shed started when the partisans launched a surprise attack" |
| ~ dedicate | open to public use, as of a highway, park, or building.; "The Beauty Queen spends her time dedicating parks and nursing homes" |
| temper | | |
| n. (feeling) | 1. irritation, pique, temper | a sudden outburst of anger.; "his temper sparked like damp firewood" |
| ~ vexation, annoyance, chafe | anger produced by some annoying irritation. |
| n. (feeling) | 2. humor, humour, mood, temper | a characteristic (habitual or relatively temporary) state of feeling.; "whether he praised or cursed me depended on his temper at the time"; "he was in a bad humor" |
| ~ feeling | the experiencing of affective and emotional states.; "she had a feeling of euphoria"; "he had terrible feelings of guilt"; "I disliked him and the feeling was mutual" |
| ~ peeve | an annoyed or irritated mood. |
| ~ sulk, sulkiness | a mood or display of sullen aloofness or withdrawal.; "stayed home in a sulk" |
| ~ amiability, good humor, good humour, good temper | a cheerful and agreeable mood. |
| ~ ill humor, ill humour, distemper | an angry and disagreeable mood. |
| n. (attribute) | 3. biliousness, irritability, peevishness, pettishness, snappishness, surliness, temper | a disposition to exhibit uncontrolled anger.; "his temper was well known to all his employees" |
| ~ ill nature | a disagreeable, irritable, or malevolent disposition. |
| ~ querulousness | the quality of being given to complaining. |
| n. (attribute) | 4. temper, toughness | the elasticity and hardness of a metal object; its ability to absorb considerable energy before cracking. |
| ~ elasticity, snap | the tendency of a body to return to its original shape after it has been stretched or compressed.; "the waistband had lost its snap" |
| v. (change) | 5. anneal, normalize, temper | bring to a desired consistency, texture, or hardness by a process of gradually heating and cooling.; "temper glass" |
| ~ harden, indurate | make hard or harder.; "The cold hardened the butter" |
| v. (change) | 6. harden, temper | harden by reheating and cooling in oil.; "temper steel" |
| ~ modify | make less severe or harsh or extreme.; "please modify this letter to make it more polite"; "he modified his views on same-gender marriage" |
| v. (change) | 7. temper | adjust the pitch (of pianos). |
| ~ adjust, correct, set | alter or regulate so as to achieve accuracy or conform to a standard.; "Adjust the clock, please"; "correct the alignment of the front wheels" |
| v. (change) | 8. mollify, season, temper | make more temperate, acceptable, or suitable by adding something else; moderate.; "she tempered her criticism" |
| ~ weaken | lessen the strength of.; "The fever weakened his body" |
| v. (change) | 9. chasten, moderate, temper | restrain. |
| ~ alter, change, modify | cause to change; make different; cause a transformation.; "The advent of the automobile may have altered the growth pattern of the city"; "The discussion has changed my thinking about the issue" |
| gloomy | | |
| adj. | 1. gloomful, glooming, gloomy, sulky | depressingly dark.; "the gloomy forest"; "the glooming interior of an old inn"; "`gloomful' is archaic" |
| ~ dark | devoid of or deficient in light or brightness; shadowed or black.; "sitting in a dark corner"; "a dark day"; "dark shadows"; "dark as the inside of a black cat" |
| adj. | 2. blue, depressed, dispirited, down, down in the mouth, downcast, downhearted, gloomy, grim, low, low-spirited | filled with melancholy and despondency.; "gloomy at the thought of what he had to face"; "gloomy predictions"; "a gloomy silence"; "took a grim view of the economy"; "the darkening mood"; "lonely and blue in a strange city"; "depressed by the loss of his job"; "a dispirited and resigned expression on her face"; "downcast after his defeat"; "feeling discouraged and downhearted" |
| ~ dejected | affected or marked by low spirits.; "is dejected but trying to look cheerful" |
| adj. | 3. blue, dark, dingy, disconsolate, dismal, drab, drear, dreary, gloomy, grim, sorry | causing dejection.; "a blue day"; "the dark days of the war"; "a week of rainy depressing weather"; "a disconsolate winter landscape"; "the first dismal dispiriting days of November"; "a dark gloomy day"; "grim rainy weather" |
| ~ cheerless, depressing, uncheerful | causing sad feelings of gloom and inadequacy.; "the economic outlook is depressing"; "something cheerless about the room"; "a moody and uncheerful person"; "an uncheerful place" |
| sad | | |
| adj. | 1. sad | experiencing or showing sorrow or unhappiness.; "feeling sad because his dog had died"; "Better by far that you should forget and smile / Than that you should remember and be sad" |
| ~ bittersweet | tinged with sadness.; "a movie with a bittersweet ending" |
| ~ doleful, mournful | filled with or evoking sadness.; "the child's doleful expression"; "stared with mournful eyes"; "mournful news" |
| ~ heavyhearted | depressed. |
| ~ melancholic, melancholy | characterized by or causing or expressing sadness.; "growing more melancholy every hour"; "her melancholic smile"; "we acquainted him with the melancholy truth" |
| ~ wistful, pensive | showing pensive sadness.; "the sensitive and wistful response of a poet to the gentler phases of beauty" |
| ~ tragic, tragical | very sad; especially involving grief or death or destruction.; "a tragic face"; "a tragic plight"; "a tragic accident" |
| ~ tragicomical, tragicomic | manifesting both tragic and comic aspects.; "the tragicomic disparity...between's man's aspirations and his accomplishments" |
| adj. | 2. sad | of things that make you feel sad.; "sad news"; "she doesn't like sad movies"; "it was a very sad story"; "When I am dead, my dearest, / Sing no sad songs for me" |
| ~ sorrowful | experiencing or marked by or expressing sorrow especially that associated with irreparable loss.; "sorrowful widows"; "a sorrowful tale of death and despair"; "sorrowful news"; "even in laughter the heart is sorrowful" |
| adj. | 3. deplorable, distressing, lamentable, pitiful, sad, sorry | bad; unfortunate.; "my finances were in a deplorable state"; "a lamentable decision"; "her clothes were in sad shape"; "a sorry state of affairs" |
| ~ bad | having undesirable or negative qualities.; "a bad report card"; "his sloppy appearance made a bad impression"; "a bad little boy"; "clothes in bad shape"; "a bad cut"; "bad luck"; "the news was very bad"; "the reviews were bad"; "the pay is bad"; "it was a bad light for reading"; "the movie was a bad choice" |
| sorry | | |
| adj. | 1. bad, regretful, sorry | feeling or expressing regret or sorrow or a sense of loss over something done or undone.; "felt regretful over his vanished youth"; "regretful over mistakes she had made"; "he felt bad about breaking the vase" |
| ~ penitent, repentant | feeling or expressing remorse for misdeeds. |
| adj. | 2. good-for-naught, good-for-nothing, meritless, no-account, no-count, no-good, sorry | without merit.; "a sorry horse"; "a sorry excuse"; "a lazy no-count, good-for-nothing goldbrick"; "the car was a no-good piece of junk" |
| ~ worthless | lacking in usefulness or value.; "a worthless idler" |
| lament | | |
| n. (communication) | 1. lament, lamentation, plaint, wail | a cry of sorrow and grief.; "their pitiful laments could be heard throughout the ward" |
| ~ complaint | (formerly) a loud cry (or repeated cries) of pain or rage or sorrow. |
| n. (communication) | 2. coronach, dirge, lament, requiem, threnody | a song or hymn of mourning composed or performed as a memorial to a dead person. |
| ~ keen | a funeral lament sung with loud wailing. |
| ~ song, vocal | a short musical composition with words.; "a successful musical must have at least three good songs" |
| n. (communication) | 3. elegy, lament | a mournful poem; a lament for the dead. |
| ~ poem, verse form | a composition written in metrical feet forming rhythmical lines. |
| v. (emotion) | 4. keen, lament | express grief verbally.; "we lamented the death of the child" |
| ~ grieve, sorrow | feel grief. |
| ~ express emotion, express feelings | give verbal or other expression to one's feelings. |
| v. (communication) | 5. bemoan, bewail, deplore, lament | regret strongly.; "I deplore this hostile action"; "we lamented the loss of benefits" |
| ~ complain, kvetch, plain, quetch, sound off, kick | express complaints, discontent, displeasure, or unhappiness.; "My mother complains all day"; "She has a lot to kick about" |
| mourn | | |
| v. (emotion) | 1. mourn | feel sadness.; "She is mourning her dead child" |
| ~ grieve, sorrow | feel grief. |
| v. (emotion) | 2. mourn | observe the customs of mourning after the death of a loved one. |
| ~ celebrate, observe, keep | behave as expected during of holidays or rites.; "Keep the commandments"; "celebrate Christmas"; "Observe Yom Kippur" |
| regret | | |
| n. (feeling) | 1. regret, rue, ruefulness, sorrow | sadness associated with some wrong done or some disappointment.; "he drank to drown his sorrows"; "he wrote a note expressing his regret"; "to his rue, the error cost him the game" |
| ~ sadness, unhappiness | emotions experienced when not in a state of well-being. |
| ~ contriteness, contrition, attrition | sorrow for sin arising from fear of damnation. |
| ~ compunction, remorse, self-reproach | a feeling of deep regret (usually for some misdeed). |
| v. (emotion) | 2. regret, repent, rue | feel remorse for; feel sorry for; be contrite about. |
| ~ feel, experience | undergo an emotional sensation or be in a particular state of mind.; "She felt resentful"; "He felt regret" |
| v. (emotion) | 3. regret | feel sad about the loss or absence of. |
| ~ miss | feel or suffer from the lack of.; "He misses his mother" |
| v. (communication) | 4. regret | decline formally or politely.; "I regret I can't come to the party" |
| ~ refuse, decline | show unwillingness towards.; "he declined to join the group on a hike" |
| ~ regret | express with regret.; "I regret to say that you did not gain admission to Harvard" |
| v. (communication) | 5. regret | express with regret.; "I regret to say that you did not gain admission to Harvard" |
| ~ inform | impart knowledge of some fact, state or affairs, or event to.; "I informed him of his rights" |
| ~ regret | decline formally or politely.; "I regret I can't come to the party" |
| ~ fear | be sorry; used to introduce an unpleasant statement.; "I fear I won't make it to your wedding party" |
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