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gesture - 20 thesaurus results
| Main Entry: | gesture |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | motion as communication |
| Synonyms: | action, body language, bow, curtsy, expression, high sign, indication, intimation, mime, nod, reminder, salute, sign, sign language, signal, token, wave, wink, genuflection, gesticulation, kinesics, pantomime, shrug |
| Notes: | gesticulate and gesture are based on Latin gerere 'bear, carry, perform' and gesticulation is more exaggerated than a gesture, often involving flailing; originally, a person's gesture was their 'bearing' or the way they 'carried' themselves |
| Antonyms: | speech |
| Main Entry: | gesture/gesticulate |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | make signs, motions to communicate |
| Synonyms: | act out, flag, indicate, mime, pantomime, signal, signalize, use one's hands, use sign language, wave |
| Antonyms: | speak |
| Main Entry: | beckon |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | call, signal, or lure |
| Synonyms: | allure, ask, attract, bid, coax, command, demand, draw, entice, gesticulate, gesture, invite, motion, nod, pull, sign, summon, tempt, wave |
| Main Entry: | brandish |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | flaunt, swing around |
| Synonyms: | display, disport, exhibit, expose, flash, gesture, parade, raise, shake, show, show off, sport, swing, threaten, trot out*, warn, wield, come on strong, throw weight around |
| Antonyms: | not show |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | indication |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | evidence, clue |
| Synonyms: | augury, cue, earnest, explanation, expression, gesture, hint, implication, index, inkling, intimation, manifestation, mark, nod, note, notion, omen, pledge, portent, preamble, proof, reminder, show, sign, signal, significant, suggestion, symptom, telltale, token, trace, vestige, warning, wind*, wink*, adumbration, attestation, auspice, forewarning, indicia, prefiguration, prognostic, prolegomenon, signifier |
| Antonyms: | misinformation |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | laugh/laughter |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | audible expression of amusement |
| Synonyms: | amusement, cackle, chortle, chuckle, crow, fit, gesture, giggle, glee, guffaw, hilarity, merriment, mirth, peal, rejoicing, roar, shout, shriek, snicker, snort, sound, cachinnation, chuckling, crack-up, giggling, howling, snigger, titter, yuck |
| Antonyms: | cry |
| Main Entry: | reminder |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | warning, notice; keepsake |
| Synonyms: | admonition, expression, gesture, hint, indication, intimation, memento, memorandum, memorial, note, relic, remembrance, sign, souvenir, suggestion, token, trinket, trophy, memo, remembrancer |
| Antonyms: | forgetfulness |
| Main Entry: | signal |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | indication; authorization |
| Synonyms: | alarm, alert, beacon, cue, flag, flare, gesture, go-ahead*, green light*, high sign*, indicator, mark, movement, nod, okay*, omen, sign, tocsin, token, wink, Mayday, SOS, bleep, blinker |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | signal |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | indicate; give a sign to |
| Synonyms: | beckon, communicate, flag, flash, gesticulate, gesture, motion, nod, sign, warn, wave, wink, semaphore, signalize |
| Main Entry: | gesticulate |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | pantomime |
| Synonyms: | gesture, motion, signal |
| Main Entry: | body language |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | nonverbal communication |
| Synonyms: | gesture, motion, body movement, gestures, kinesics, mannerisms, visual communication |
| Main Entry: | laughter |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | amusement |
| Synonyms: | amusement, cackle, chortle, chuckle, crow, fit, gesture, giggle, glee, guffaw, hilarity, laugh, merriment, mirth, peal, rejoicing, roar, shout, shouting, shriek, snicker, snort, sound, cachinnation, chortling, chuckling, crack-up, crowing, giggling, guffawing, har-de-har, howling, roaring, snigger, snorting, tehee, titter, tittering, yuck |
| Antonyms: | despair, gloom |
| Main Entry: | sign of the cross |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | hand gesture of faith |
| Synonyms: | cross, gesture, crossing oneself, signation, signing oneself, signum crucis |
| Main Entry: | formality |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | convention, custom |
| Synonyms: | ceremony, form, gesture, liturgy, procedure, red tape*, rite, ritual, rule, service, solemnity, stereotype, tradition, academism, convenance, conventionality, matter of form, officialism, rituality, rubric, solemnness |
| Antonyms: | informality |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | motion |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | movement, action |
| Synonyms: | act, advance, agitation, change, changing, direction, drift, flow, fluctuation, flux, gesture, high sign*, inclination, locomotion, mobility, move, oscillation, passage, passing, progress, sign, signal, stir, stirring, stream, sway, sweep, swing, tendency, travel, wave, wavering, ambulation, body English, dynamics, full swing, gesticulation, kinetics, motility |
| Antonyms: | repose, rest, stagnation, stiffness, stillness, immobility |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | movement |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | motion, activity |
| Synonyms: | act, action, advance, agitation, alteration, change, changing, deed, development, evolution, exercise, flight, flow, flux, gesture, journey, locomotion, maneuver, migration, mobility, move, moving, operation, passage, progress, progression, roaming, shift, stir, stirring, transit, undertaking, velocity, wandering, displacement, dynamism, evolving, journeying, motility, movableness, operativeness, regression, shifting, steps, transferal, translating, transplanting, voyaging |
| Antonyms: | cessation, halt, inaction, pause, stoppage, inactivity |
| Main Entry: | sign |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | indication, evidence |
| Synonyms: | assurance, augury, badge, beacon, bell, caution, clue, divination, flag, flash, foreboding, foreknowledge, gesture, harbinger, herald, high sign*, hint, light, manifestation, mark, nod, note, omen, portent, precursor, prediction, premonition, presage, presentiment, proof, signal, suggestion, symbol, symptom, token, trace, vestige, warning, wave, whistle, wink, auspice, foreshadowing, foretoken, forewarning, giveaway, handwriting on wall, prognostic |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | flag |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | signal |
| Synonyms: | gesture, hail, indicate, motion, salute, warn, wave, give a sign to |
| Main Entry: | sign |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | motion to another |
| Synonyms: | beckon, express, flag, gesticulate, gesture, indicate, motion, signal, signify, wave, signalize, use sign language |
| Main Entry: | sweep |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | movement |
| Synonyms: | arc, bend, course, curve, gesture, move, play, progress, stroke, swing |
Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition
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