| mood | | |
| n. (feeling) | 1. 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. (state) | 2. climate, mood | the prevailing psychological state.; "the climate of opinion"; "the national mood had changed radically since the last election" |
| ~ condition, status | a state at a particular time.; "a condition (or state) of disrepair"; "the current status of the arms negotiations" |
| n. (linkdef) | 3. modality, mode, mood | verb inflections that express how the action or state is conceived by the speaker. |
| ~ grammatical relation | a linguistic relation established by grammar. |
| ~ common mood, declarative, declarative mood, fact mood, indicative, indicative mood | a mood (grammatically unmarked) that represents the act or state as an objective fact. |
| ~ subjunctive, subjunctive mood | a mood that represents an act or state (not as a fact but) as contingent or possible. |
| ~ optative, optative mood | a mood (as in Greek or Sanskrit) that expresses a wish or hope; expressed in English by modal verbs. |
| ~ imperative, imperative form, imperative mood, jussive mood | a mood that expresses an intention to influence the listener's behavior. |
| ~ interrogative mood, interrogative | some linguists consider interrogative sentences to constitute a mood. |
| tara | | |
| n. (location) | 1. tara | a village in eastern Ireland (northwest of Dublin); seat of Irish kings until 6th century. |
| ~ town | an urban area with a fixed boundary that is smaller than a city.; "they drive through town on their way to work" |
| ~ eire, ireland, irish republic, republic of ireland | a republic consisting of 26 of 32 counties comprising the island of Ireland; achieved independence from the United Kingdom in 1921. |
| character | | |
| n. (person) | 1. character, fictional character, fictitious character | an imaginary person represented in a work of fiction (play or film or story).; "she is the main character in the novel" |
| ~ imaginary being, imaginary creature | a creature of the imagination; a person that exists only in legends or myths or fiction. |
| ~ aladdin | in the Arabian Nights a boy who acquires a magic lamp from which he can summon a genie. |
| ~ argonaut | (Greek mythology) one of the heroes who sailed with Jason in search of the Golden Fleece. |
| ~ babar | an imaginary elephant that appears in a series of French books for children. |
| ~ beatrice | the woman who guided Dante through Paradise in the Divine Comedy. |
| ~ beowulf | the legendary hero of an anonymous Old English epic poem composed in the early 8th century; he slays a monster and becomes king but dies fighting a dragon. |
| ~ bluebeard | (fairytale) a monstrous villain who marries seven women; he kills the first six for disobedience. |
| ~ james bond, bond | British secret operative 007 in novels by Ian Fleming. |
| ~ brer rabbit | the fictional character of a rabbit who appeared in tales supposedly told by Uncle Remus and first published in 1880. |
| ~ paul bunyan, bunyan | a legendary giant lumberjack of the north woods of the United States and Canada.; "Paul Bunyan had a blue ox named Babe"; "the lakes of Minnesota began when Paul Bunyan and Babe's footprints filled with water" |
| ~ john henry | hero of American folk tales; portrayed as an enormously strong black man who worked on the railroads and died from exhaustion after winning a contest with a steam drill. |
| ~ cheshire cat | a fictional cat with a broad fixed smile on its face; created by Lewis Carroll. |
| ~ chicken little | a fictional character who was hit on the head with an acorn and believed that the sky was falling. |
| ~ cinderella | a fictional young girl who is saved from her stepmother and stepsisters by her fairy godmother and a handsome prince. |
| ~ colonel blimp | a pompous reactionary cartoon character created by Sir David Low. |
| ~ dracula | fictional vampire in a gothic horror novel by Bram Stoker. |
| ~ don quixote | the hero of a romance by Cervantes; chivalrous but impractical. |
| ~ el cid | the hero of a Spanish epic poem from the 12th century. |
| ~ fagin | a villainous Jew in a novel by Charles Dickens.; "Fagin was a fence who trained boys as pickpockets" |
| ~ falstaff, sir john falstaff | a dissolute character in Shakespeare's plays. |
| ~ father brown | a Catholic priest who was the hero of detective stories by G. K. Chesterton. |
| ~ faust, faustus | an alchemist of German legend who sold his soul to Mephistopheles in exchange for knowledge. |
| ~ frankenstein | the fictional Swiss scientist who was the protagonist in a gothic novel by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley; he created a monster from parts of corpses. |
| ~ frankenstein's monster, frankenstein | the monster created by Frankenstein in a gothic novel by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley (the creator's name is commonly used to refer to his creation). |
| ~ goofy | a cartoon character created by Walt Disney. |
| ~ gulliver | a fictional Englishman who travels to the imaginary land of Lilliput in a satirical novel by Jonathan Swift. |
| ~ hamlet | the hero of William Shakespeare's tragedy who hoped to avenge the murder of his father. |
| ~ captain horatio hornblower, horatio hornblower | a fictional English admiral during the Napoleonic Wars in novels written by C. S. Forester. |
| ~ iago | the villain in William Shakespeare's tragedy who tricked Othello into murdering his wife. |
| ~ commissaire maigret, inspector maigret | a fictional detective in novels by Georges Simenon. |
| ~ kilroy | a nonexistent person popularized by American servicemen during World War II.; "Kilroy was here" |
| ~ king lear, lear | the hero of William Shakespeare's tragedy who was betrayed and mistreated by two of his scheming daughters. |
| ~ lilliputian | a 6-inch tall inhabitant of Lilliput in a novel by Jonathan Swift. |
| ~ philip marlowe, marlowe | tough cynical detective (one of the early detective heroes in American fiction) created by Raymond Chandler. |
| ~ micawber, wilkins micawber | fictional character created by Charles Dickens; an eternal optimist. |
| ~ mother goose | the imaginary author of a collection of nursery rhymes. |
| ~ mr. moto | Japanese sleuth created by John Marquand. |
| ~ othello | the hero of William Shakespeare's tragedy who would not trust his wife. |
| ~ pangloss | an incurable optimist in a satire by Voltaire. |
| ~ pantaloon | a character in the commedia dell'arte; portrayed as a foolish old man. |
| ~ perry mason | fictional detective in novels by Erle Stanley Gardner. |
| ~ peter pan | the main character in a play and novel by J. M. Barrie; a boy who won't grow up. |
| ~ pied piper of hamelin, pied piper | the title character in a German folk tale and in a poem by Robert Browning. |
| ~ pierrot | a male character in French pantomime; usually dressed in white with a whitened face. |
| ~ pluto | a cartoon character created by Walt Disney. |
| ~ huck finn, huckleberry finn | a mischievous boy in a novel by Mark Twain. |
| ~ rip van winkle | the title character in a story by Washington Irving about a man who sleeps for 20 years and doesn't recognize the world when he wakens. |
| ~ ruritanian | an imaginary inhabitant of Ruritania. |
| ~ tarzan of the apes, tarzan | a man raised by apes who was the hero of a series of novels by Edgar Rice Burroughs. |
| ~ tom sawyer | the boy hero of a novel by Mark Twain. |
| ~ uncle remus | the fictional storyteller of tales written in the Black Vernacular and set in the South; the tales were first collected and published in book form in 1880. |
| ~ uncle tom | a servile black character in a novel by Harriet Beecher Stowe. |
| ~ uncle sam | a personification of the United States government. |
| ~ holmes, sherlock holmes | a fictitious detective in stories by A. Conan Doyle. |
| ~ simon legree | the cruel slave dealer in an anti-slavery novel by Harriet Beecher Stowe. |
| ~ sinbad, sinbad the sailor | in the Arabian Nights a hero who tells of the fantastic adventures he had in his voyages. |
| ~ snoopy | a fictional beagle in a comic strip drawn by Charles Schulz. |
| ~ ali baba | the fictional woodcutter who discovered that `open sesame' opened a cave in the Arabian Nights' Entertainment. |
| ~ emile | the boy whose upbringing was described by Jean-Jacques Rousseau. |
| ~ agonist, protagonist | the principal character in a work of fiction. |
| ~ houyhnhnm | one of a race of intelligent horses who ruled the Yahoos in a novel by Jonathan Swift. |
| ~ little john | legendary follower of Robin Hood; noted for his size and strength. |
| ~ little red riding hood | a girl in a fairy tale who meets a wolf while going to visit her grandmother. |
| ~ raskolnikov, rodya raskolnikov | a fictional character in Dostoevsky's novel `Crime and Punishment'; he kills old women because he believes he is beyond the bounds of good or evil. |
| ~ robin hood | legendary English outlaw of the 12th century; said to have robbed the rich to help the poor. |
| ~ robinson crusoe | the hero of Daniel Defoe's novel about a shipwrecked English sailor who survives on a small tropical island. |
| ~ rumpelstiltskin | a dwarf in one of the fairy stories of the brothers Grimm; tells a woman he will not hold her to a promise if she can guess his name and when she discovers it he is so furious that he destroys himself. |
| ~ shylock | a merciless usurer in a play by Shakespeare. |
| ~ tristan, tristram | (Middle Ages) the nephew of the king of Cornwall who (according to legend) fell in love with his uncle's bride (Iseult) after they mistakenly drank a love potion that left them eternally in love with each other. |
| ~ iseult, isolde | (Middle Ages) the bride of the king of Cornwall who (according to legend) fell in love with the king's nephew (Tristan) after they mistakenly drank a love potion that left them eternally in love with each other. |
| ~ scaramouch, scaramouche | a stock character in commedia dell'arte depicted as a boastful coward. |
| ~ svengali | the musician in a novel by George du Maurier who controls Trilby's singing hypnotically. |
| ~ sweeney todd, todd | fictional character in a play by George Pitt; a barber who murdered his customers. |
| ~ trilby | singer in a novel by George du Maurier who was under the control of the hypnotist Svengali. |
| ~ walter mitty | fictional character created by James Thurber who daydreams about his adventures and triumphs. |
| ~ yahoo | one of a race of brutes resembling men but subject to the Houyhnhnms in a novel by Jonathan Swift. |
| ~ king arthur, arthur | a legendary king of the Britons (possibly based on a historical figure in the 6th century but the story has been retold too many times to be sure); said to have led the Knights of the Round Table at Camelot. |
| ~ galahad, sir galahad | (Arthurian legend) the most virtuous knight of the Round Table; was able to see the Holy Grail. |
| ~ gawain, sir gawain | (Arthurian legend) a nephew of Arthur and one of the knights of the Round Table. |
| ~ guenevere, guinevere | (Arthurian legend) wife of King Arthur; in some versions of the legend she became Lancelot's lover and that led to the end of the Knights of the Round Table. |
| ~ lancelot, sir lancelot | (Arthurian legend) one of the knights of the Round Table; friend of King Arthur until (according to some versions of the legend) he became the lover of Arthur's wife Guinevere. |
| ~ merlin | (Arthurian legend) the magician who acted as King Arthur's advisor. |
| n. (cognition) | 2. character, lineament, quality | a characteristic property that defines the apparent individual nature of something.; "each town has a quality all its own"; "the radical character of our demands" |
| ~ attribute, dimension, property | a construct whereby objects or individuals can be distinguished.; "self-confidence is not an endearing property" |
| ~ texture | the essential quality of something.; "the texture of Neapolitan life" |
| n. (attribute) | 3. character, fiber, fibre | the inherent complex of attributes that determines a persons moral and ethical actions and reactions.; "education has for its object the formation of character" |
| ~ trait | a distinguishing feature of your personal nature. |
| ~ personality | the complex of all the attributes--behavioral, temperamental, emotional and mental--that characterize a unique individual.; "their different reactions reflected their very different personalities"; "it is his nature to help others" |
| ~ spirit | a fundamental emotional and activating principle determining one's character. |
| ~ thoughtfulness | the trait of thinking carefully before acting. |
| ~ responsibleness, responsibility | a form of trustworthiness; the trait of being answerable to someone for something or being responsible for one's conduct.; "he holds a position of great responsibility" |
| ~ integrity | moral soundness.; "he expects to find in us the common honesty and integrity of men of business"; "they admired his scrupulous professional integrity" |
| n. (cognition) | 4. character, part, persona, role, theatrical role | an actor's portrayal of someone in a play.; "she played the part of Desdemona" |
| ~ personation, portrayal, characterization, enactment | acting the part of a character on stage; dramatically representing the character by speech and action and gesture. |
| ~ bit part, minor role | a small role. |
| ~ heavy | a serious (or tragic) role in a play. |
| ~ hero | the principal character in a play or movie or novel or poem. |
| ~ ingenue | the role of an innocent artless young woman in a play. |
| ~ name part, title role | the role of the character after whom the play is named. |
| ~ heroine | the main good female character in a work of fiction. |
| ~ baddie, villain | the principal bad character in a film or work of fiction. |
| n. (person) | 5. case, character, eccentric, type | a person of a specified kind (usually with many eccentricities).; "a real character"; "a strange character"; "a friendly eccentric"; "the capable type"; "a mental case" |
| ~ adult, grownup | a fully developed person from maturity onward. |
| n. (state) | 6. character | good repute.; "he is a man of character" |
| ~ reputation, repute | the state of being held in high esteem and honor. |
| n. (communication) | 7. character, character reference, reference | a formal recommendation by a former employer to a potential future employer describing the person's qualifications and dependability.; "requests for character references are all too often answered evasively" |
| ~ good word, recommendation, testimonial | something that recommends (or expresses commendation of) a person or thing as worthy or desirable. |
| n. (communication) | 8. character, grapheme, graphic symbol | a written symbol that is used to represent speech.; "the Greek alphabet has 24 characters" |
| ~ printed symbol, written symbol | a written or printed symbol. |
| ~ allograph | a variant form of a grapheme, as `m' or `M' or a handwritten version of that grapheme. |
| ~ check character | a character that is added to the end of a block of transmitted data and used to check the accuracy of the transmission. |
| ~ superscript, superior | a character or symbol set or printed or written above and immediately to one side of another character. |
| ~ subscript, inferior | a character or symbol set or printed or written beneath or slightly below and to the side of another character. |
| ~ ascii character | any member of the standard code for representing characters by binary numbers. |
| ~ ligature | character consisting of two or more letters combined into one. |
| ~ capital letter, majuscule, upper-case letter, uppercase, capital | one of the large alphabetic characters used as the first letter in writing or printing proper names and sometimes for emphasis.; "printers once kept the type for capitals and for small letters in separate cases; capitals were kept in the upper half of the type case and so became known as upper-case letters" |
| ~ lower-case letter, lowercase, minuscule, small letter | the characters that were once kept in bottom half of a compositor's type case. |
| ~ type | printed characters.; "small type is hard to read" |
| ~ percent sign, percentage sign | a sign (`%') used to indicate that the number preceding it should be understood as a proportion multiplied by 100. |
| ~ asterisk, star | a star-shaped character * used in printing. |
| ~ dagger, obelisk | a character used in printing to indicate a cross reference or footnote. |
| ~ diesis, double dagger, double obelisk | a character used in printing to indicate a cross reference or footnote. |
| ~ alphabetic character, letter of the alphabet, letter | the conventional characters of the alphabet used to represent speech.; "his grandmother taught him his letters" |
| ~ blank, space | a blank character used to separate successive words in writing or printing.; "he said the space is the most important character in the alphabet" |
| ~ phonetic symbol | a written character used in phonetic transcription of represent a particular speech sound. |
| ~ mathematical symbol | a character that is used to indicates a mathematical relation or operation. |
| ~ rune, runic letter | any character from an ancient Germanic alphabet used in Scandinavia from the 3rd century to the Middle Ages.; "each rune had its own magical significance" |
| ~ pictograph | a graphic character used in picture writing. |
| ~ ideogram, ideograph | a graphic character that indicates the meaning of a thing without indicating the sounds used to say it.; "Chinese characters are ideograms" |
| ~ radical | a character conveying the lexical meaning of a logogram. |
| ~ stenograph | a shorthand character. |
| n. (attribute) | 9. character | (genetics) an attribute (structural or functional) that is determined by a gene or group of genes. |
| ~ attribute | an abstraction belonging to or characteristic of an entity. |
| ~ unit character | (genetics) a character inherited on an all-or-none basis and dependent on the presence of a single gene. |
| ~ genetic science, genetics | the branch of biology that studies heredity and variation in organisms. |
| v. (contact) | 10. character | engrave or inscribe characters on. |
| ~ engrave, inscribe, grave, scratch | carve, cut, or etch into a material or surface.; "engrave a pen"; "engraved the trophy cupt with the winner's"; "the lovers scratched their names into the bark of the tree" |
| conduct | | |
| n. (act) | 1. behavior, behaviour, conduct, doings | manner of acting or controlling yourself. |
| ~ activity | any specific behavior.; "they avoided all recreational activity" |
| ~ aggression | deliberately unfriendly behavior. |
| ~ bohemianism | conduct characteristic of a bohemian. |
| ~ dirty pool | conduct that is unfair or unethical or unsportsmanlike. |
| ~ dirty tricks | underhand commercial or political behavior designed to discredit an opponent. |
| ~ offense, offensive activity, discourtesy, offence | a lack of politeness; a failure to show regard for others; wounding the feelings or others. |
| ~ easiness | the quality of being easy in behavior or style.; "there was an easiness between them"; "a natural easiness of manner" |
| ~ the way of the world, the ways of the world | the manner in which people typically behave or things typically happen.; "the ordinary reader is endowed with considerable wisdom and knowledge of the way of the world"; "she was well-versed in the ways of the world before she had taken the veil"; "he was amazingly innocent of the ways of the world" |
| n. (attribute) | 2. behavior, behaviour, conduct, demeanor, demeanour, deportment | (behavioral attributes) the way a person behaves toward other people. |
| ~ trait | a distinguishing feature of your personal nature. |
| ~ manners | social deportment.; "he has the manners of a pig" |
| ~ citizenship | conduct as a citizen.; "award for good citizenship" |
| ~ swashbuckling | flamboyantly reckless and boastful behavior. |
| ~ correctitude, properness, propriety | correct or appropriate behavior. |
| ~ improperness, impropriety | an improper demeanor. |
| ~ personal manner, manner | a way of acting or behaving. |
| v. (social) | 3. carry on, conduct, deal | direct the course of; manage or control.; "You cannot conduct business like this" |
| ~ handle, manage, care, deal | be in charge of, act on, or dispose of.; "I can deal with this crew of workers"; "This blender can't handle nuts"; "She managed her parents' affairs after they got too old" |
| ~ racketeer | carry on illegal business activities involving crime. |
| v. (creation) | 4. conduct, direct, lead | lead, as in the performance of a composition.; "conduct an orchestra; Barenboim conducted the Chicago symphony for years" |
| ~ music | musical activity (singing or whistling etc.).; "his music was his central interest" |
| ~ perform, do, execute | carry out or perform an action.; "John did the painting, the weeding, and he cleaned out the gutters"; "the skater executed a triple pirouette"; "she did a little dance" |
| ~ conduct | lead musicians in the performance of.; "Bernstein conducted Mahler like no other conductor"; "she cannot conduct modern pieces" |
| v. (social) | 5. acquit, bear, behave, carry, comport, conduct, deport | behave in a certain manner.; "She carried herself well"; "he bore himself with dignity"; "They conducted themselves well during these difficult times" |
| ~ carry, bear, hold | support or hold in a certain manner.; "She holds her head high"; "He carried himself upright" |
| ~ fluster | be flustered; behave in a confused manner. |
| ~ act, move | perform an action, or work out or perform (an action).; "think before you act"; "We must move quickly"; "The governor should act on the new energy bill"; "The nanny acted quickly by grabbing the toddler and covering him with a wet towel" |
| ~ put forward, assert | insist on having one's opinions and rights recognized.; "Women should assert themselves more!" |
| ~ deal | behave in a certain way towards others.; "He deals fairly with his employees" |
| ~ walk around | behave in a certain manner or have certain properties.; "He walks around with his nose in the air"; "She walks around with this strange boyfriend" |
| ~ posture, pose | behave affectedly or unnaturally in order to impress others.; "Don't pay any attention to him--he is always posing to impress his peers!"; "She postured and made a total fool of herself" |
| v. (motion) | 6. conduct, direct, guide, lead, take | take somebody somewhere.; "We lead him to our chief"; "can you take me to the main entrance?"; "He conducted us to the palace" |
| ~ beacon | guide with a beacon. |
| ~ hand | guide or conduct or usher somewhere.; "hand the elderly lady into the taxi" |
| ~ misguide, mislead, lead astray, misdirect | lead someone in the wrong direction or give someone wrong directions.; "The pedestrian misdirected the out-of-town driver" |
| ~ usher, show | take (someone) to their seats, as in theaters or auditoriums.; "The usher showed us to our seats" |
| v. (motion) | 7. carry, channel, conduct, convey, impart, transmit | transmit or serve as the medium for transmission.; "Sound carries well over water"; "The airwaves carry the sound"; "Many metals conduct heat" |
| ~ convey, express, carry | serve as a means for expressing something.; "The painting of Mary carries motherly love"; "His voice carried a lot of anger" |
| ~ bring, convey, take | take something or somebody with oneself somewhere.; "Bring me the box from the other room"; "Take these letters to the boss"; "This brings me to the main point" |
| ~ wash up | carry somewhere (of water or current or waves).; "The tide washed up the corpse" |
| ~ pipe in | bring in through pipes.; "Music was piped into the offices" |
| ~ bring in | transmit.; "The microphone brought in the sounds from the room next to mine" |
| ~ retransmit | transmit again. |
| ~ carry | be conveyed over a certain distance.; "Her voice carries very well in this big opera house" |
| v. (creation) | 8. conduct | lead musicians in the performance of.; "Bernstein conducted Mahler like no other conductor"; "she cannot conduct modern pieces" |
| ~ music | musical activity (singing or whistling etc.).; "his music was his central interest" |
| ~ perform | give a performance (of something).; "Horowitz is performing at Carnegie Hall tonight"; "We performed a popular Gilbert and Sullivan opera" |
| ~ conduct, direct, lead | lead, as in the performance of a composition.; "conduct an orchestra; Barenboim conducted the Chicago symphony for years" |
| manner | | |
| n. (attribute) | 1. fashion, manner, mode, style, way | how something is done or how it happens.; "her dignified manner"; "his rapid manner of talking"; "their nomadic mode of existence"; "in the characteristic New York style"; "a lonely way of life"; "in an abrasive fashion" |
| ~ property | a basic or essential attribute shared by all members of a class.; "a study of the physical properties of atomic particles" |
| ~ artistic style, idiom | the style of a particular artist or school or movement.; "an imaginative orchestral idiom" |
| ~ drape | the manner in which fabric hangs or falls.; "she adjusted the drape of her skirt" |
| ~ fit | the manner in which something fits.; "I admired the fit of her coat" |
| ~ form | a particular mode in which something is manifested.; "his resentment took the form of extreme hostility" |
| ~ life-style, life style, lifestyle, modus vivendi | a manner of living that reflects the person's values and attitudes. |
| ~ setup | the way something is organized or arranged.; "it takes time to learn the setup around here" |
| ~ signature, touch | a distinguishing style.; "this room needs a woman's touch" |
| ~ wise | a way of doing or being.; "in no wise"; "in this wise" |
| ~ response | the manner in which an electrical or mechanical device responds to an input signal or a range of input signals. |
| n. (attribute) | 2. manner, personal manner | a way of acting or behaving. |
| ~ demeanor, demeanour, deportment, behaviour, conduct, behavior | (behavioral attributes) the way a person behaves toward other people. |
| ~ comportment, mien, bearing, presence | dignified manner or conduct. |
| ~ bedside manner | manner or conduct of a physician in the presence of a patient. |
| ~ dandyism, foppishness | the manner and dress of a fop or dandy. |
| ~ gentleness, mildness, softness | acting in a manner that is gentle and mild and even-tempered.; "his fingers have learned gentleness"; "suddenly her gigantic power melted into softness for the baby"; "even in the pulpit there are moments when mildness of manner is not enough" |
| ~ formalness, formality | a manner that strictly observes all forms and ceremonies.; "the formality of his voice made the others pay him close attention" |
| ~ informality | a manner that does not take forms and ceremonies seriously. |
| ~ good manners, courtesy | a courteous manner. |
| ~ rudeness, discourtesy | a manner that is rude and insulting. |
| n. (cognition) | 3. manner | a kind.; "what manner of man are you?" |
| ~ kind, sort, form, variety | a category of things distinguished by some common characteristic or quality.; "sculpture is a form of art"; "what kinds of desserts are there?" |
| trait | | |
| n. (attribute) | 1. trait | a distinguishing feature of your personal nature. |
| ~ attribute | an abstraction belonging to or characteristic of an entity. |
| ~ personality | the complex of all the attributes--behavioral, temperamental, emotional and mental--that characterize a unique individual.; "their different reactions reflected their very different personalities"; "it is his nature to help others" |
| ~ character, fibre, fiber | the inherent complex of attributes that determines a persons moral and ethical actions and reactions.; "education has for its object the formation of character" |
| ~ nature | the complex of emotional and intellectual attributes that determine a person's characteristic actions and reactions.; "it is his nature to help others" |
| ~ compulsiveness, compulsivity | the trait of acting compulsively. |
| ~ emotionalism, emotionality | emotional nature or quality. |
| ~ emotionlessness, unemotionality | absence of emotion. |
| ~ activeness, activity | the trait of being active; moving or acting rapidly and energetically.; "the level of activity declines with age" |
| ~ inertia, inactiveness, inactivity | a disposition to remain inactive or inert.; "he had to overcome his inertia and get back to work" |
| ~ serious-mindedness, earnestness, seriousness, sincerity | the trait of being serious.; "a lack of solemnity is not necessarily a lack of seriousness" |
| ~ frivolity, frivolousness | the trait of being frivolous; not serious or sensible. |
| ~ communicativeness | the trait of being communicative. |
| ~ uncommunicativeness | the trait of being uncommunicative. |
| ~ thoughtfulness | the trait of thinking carefully before acting. |
| ~ unthoughtfulness, thoughtlessness | the trait of not thinking carefully before acting. |
| ~ attentiveness | the trait of being observant and paying attention. |
| ~ inattentiveness | the trait of not being considerate and thoughtful of others. |
| ~ masculinity | the trait of behaving in ways considered typical for men. |
| ~ femininity, muliebrity | the trait of behaving in ways considered typical for women. |
| ~ trustiness, trustworthiness | the trait of deserving trust and confidence. |
| ~ untrustiness, untrustworthiness | the trait of not deserving trust or confidence. |
| ~ individualism, individuality, individuation | the quality of being individual.; "so absorbed by the movement that she lost all sense of individuality" |
| ~ stinginess | a lack of generosity; a general unwillingness to part with money. |
| ~ egocentrism, self-centeredness, self-concern, egoism, self-interest | concern for your own interests and welfare. |
| ~ drive | the trait of being highly motivated.; "his drive and energy exhausted his co-workers" |
| ~ firmness of purpose, resoluteness, resolve, firmness, resolution | the trait of being resolute.; "his resoluteness carried him through the battle"; "it was his unshakeable resolution to finish the work" |
| ~ irresoluteness, irresolution | the trait of being irresolute; lacking firmness of purpose. |
| ~ discipline | the trait of being well behaved.; "he insisted on discipline among the troops" |
| ~ indiscipline, undiscipline | the trait of lacking discipline. |
| ~ pride | the trait of being spurred on by a dislike of falling below your standards. |
| ~ conceitedness, vanity, conceit | the trait of being unduly vain and conceited; false pride. |
| ~ humility, humbleness | a disposition to be humble; a lack of false pride.; "not everyone regards humility as a virtue" |
| ~ wisdom, wiseness | the trait of utilizing knowledge and experience with common sense and insight. |
| ~ folly, foolishness, unwiseness | the trait of acting stupidly or rashly. |
| ~ sound judgement, sound judgment, perspicacity, judgement, judgment | the capacity to assess situations or circumstances shrewdly and to draw sound conclusions. |
| ~ trustfulness, trustingness, trust | the trait of believing in the honesty and reliability of others.; "the experience destroyed his trust and personal dignity" |
| ~ distrustfulness, distrust, mistrust | the trait of not trusting others. |
| ~ cleanliness | diligence in keeping clean. |
| ~ uncleanliness | lack of cleanly habits. |
| ~ demeanor, demeanour, deportment, behaviour, conduct, behavior | (behavioral attributes) the way a person behaves toward other people. |
| ~ tractability, tractableness, flexibility | the trait of being easily persuaded. |
| ~ intractability, intractableness | the trait of being hard to influence or control. |
| ~ rurality, ruralism | a rural characteristic or trait.; "a place with the rurality of a turnip field" |
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