| Main Entry: | bee |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | honey-making, stinging insect |
Synonyms: |
bumblebee, drone, honey bee, killer bee, queen bee |
| Main Entry: | bee |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | collective task |
Synonyms: |
communal gathering, harvest, party, social, work party |
| Main Entry: | caprice |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | sudden change of behavior |
Synonyms: |
bee, caper*, changeableness, contrariety, crotchet, fad, fancy, fickleness, fitfulness, fool notion, freak, gag, humor, impulse, inconsistency, inconstancy, jerk, kink, mood, notion, peculiarity, perversity, put on*, quirk, rib, temper, thought, vagary, vein, whim, whimsy |
Antonyms: |
constancy, constant, dependability, steadfastness |
| Main Entry: | humor |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | mood, temperament |
Synonyms: |
bee, bent, bias, caprice, character, complexion, conceit, disposition, fancy, frame of mind, individualism, individuality, makeup, mind, nature, notion, personality, propensity, quirk, spirits, strain, temper, tone, vagary, vein, whim |
| Main Entry: | insect |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | bug |
Synonyms: |
ant, aphid, arachnid, arthropod, bedbug, bee, beetle, bumblebee, butterfly, cockroach, cootie, daddy longlegs, dragonfly, flea, fly, fruit fly, gnat, grasshopper, hornet, ladybug, louse, mite, mite, mosquito, moth, pest, praying mantis, spider, termite, tick, vermin, yellowjacket |
| Notes: | a bug is a particular kind of insect, specifically belonging to the order Hemiptera (tough leathery forewings attached to the body - like ladybugs, beetles) while insects generally belong to the class Insecta, which have bodies in three segments, usually two pairs or wings and three pairs of legs (like bees, mosquitoes); spiders are not technically insects because they have four pairs of legs insect (from Latin animal insectum) literally meant 'divided animal' or 'cut up or into' from the segments of its body (head, thorax, abdomen) - the common word being 'bug'; insect is any of an extremely large group of small invertebrate animals - and most undergo metamorphosis while bug denotes a special group of insects with beaklike sucking mouth parts and partly membranous forewings one major difference between insect, spider, and crustacean is the antennae; one pair on most insects, none on spiders, and two pairs for crustaceans |
| Main Entry: | mania |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | fixation, madness |
Synonyms: |
aberration, ax to grind, bee in bonnet, bee, bug in ear, bug*, compulsion, craving, craze, craziness, delirium, dementia, derangement, desire, disorder, enthusiasm, fad, fancy, fascination, fetish, fixed idea, frenzy, furor, grabber, hang-up, idée fixe, infatuation, insanity, lunacy, monomania, obsession, on the brain, partiality, passion, preoccupation, rage, thing, tiger by the tail, tiger |
| Main Entry: | ridiculousness |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | humor |
Synonyms: |
bee, bent*, bias, caprice, character, comedy, comicality, comicalness, complexion, conceit, disposition, drollery, drollness, fancy, farcicality, frame of mind, funniness, humorousness, individualism, individuality, jocoseness, jocosity, jocularity, ludicrousness, makeup, mind, nature, notion, personality, propensity, quirk, spirits, strain, temper, tone, vagary, vein, whim, wit, wittiness, zaniness |
| Concept: | Caprice. |
| Category: | 1. Acts of Volition |
Synonyms: |
-nouns
caprice, fancy, humor; whim, whimsy, whimwham; crotchet, capriccio, quirk, freak, maggot, fad, vagary, prank, fit, flimflam, escapade, boutade, wild-goose chase; capriciousness; kink.
-verbs
be capricious; have a maggot in the brain; take it into one's head, strain at a gnat and swallow a camel; blow hot and cold; play fast and loose, play fantastic tricks; tourner casaque.
-adjectives
capricious; erratic, eccentric, fitful, hysterical; full of whims.; maggoty; inconsistent, fanciful, fantastic, whimsical, crotchety, kinky [U.S.], particular, humorsome, freakish, skittish, wanton, wayward; contrary; captious; arbitrary; unconformable; penny wise and pound foolish; fickle (irresolute); frivolous, sleeveless, giddy, volatile.
-adverbs
by fits and starts, without rhyme or reason.
-phrases
nil fuit unquain sic inipar sibi; the deuce is in him.
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| Concept: | Ridiculousness. |
| Category: | 2. Discriminative Affections |
Synonyms: |
-nouns
ridiculousness; comicality, oddity; extravagance, drollery., farce, comedy; burlesque (ridicule); buffoonery (fun); frippery; doggerel verses; absurdity; bombast (unmeaning); anticlimax, bathos; monstrosity (unconformity); laughingstock.
-verbs
be ridiculous; pass from the sublime to the ridiculous; make one laugh; play the fool, make a fool of oneself, commit an absurdity.
-adjectives
ridiculous, ludicrous; comical; droll, funny, laughable, pour rire, grotesque, farcical, odd; whimsical, whimsical as a dancing bear; fanciful, fantastic, queer, rum, quizzical, quaint, bizarre; screaming; eccentric (unconformable); strange, outlandish, out of the way, baroque; awkward (ugly)., extravagant, outre, monstrous, preposterous, bombastic, inflated, stilted, burlesque, mock heroic., drollish; seriocomic, tragicomic; gimcrack, contemptible (unimportant); doggerel; ironical (derisive); risible.
-phrases
risum teneatis amici [Horace]; rideret Heraclitus; du sublime au ridicule il n'y a qu'un pas [Napoleon].
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