| Main Entry: | gesture |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | motion as communication |
Synonyms: |
action, body language, bow, curtsy, expression, genuflection, gesticulation, high sign, indication, intimation, kinesics, mime, nod, pantomime, reminder, salute, shrug, sign, sign language, signal, token, wave, wink |
| 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: |
come on strong, display, disport, exhibit, expose, flash, gesture, parade, raise, shake, show, show off, sport, swing, threaten, throw weight around, trot out, warn, wield |
Antonyms: |
not show |
| Main Entry: | flag |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | signal |
Synonyms: |
gesture, give a sign to, hail, indicate, motion, salute, warn, wave |
| Main Entry: | formality |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | convention, custom |
Synonyms: |
academism, ceremony, convenance, conventionality, form, gesture, liturgy, matter of form, officialism, procedure, red tape, rite, ritual, rituality, rubric, rule, service, solemnity, solemnness, stereotype, tradition |
Antonyms: |
informality |
| Main Entry: | indication |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | evidence, clue |
Synonyms: |
adumbration, attestation, augury, auspice, cue, earnest, explanation, expression, forewarning, gesture, hint, implication, index, indicia, inkling, intimation, manifestation, mark, nod, note, notion, omen, pledge, portent, preamble, prefiguration, prognostic, prolegomenon, proof, reminder, show, sign, signal, significant, signifier, suggestion, symptom, telltale, token, trace, vestige, warning, wind*, wink |
Antonyms: |
misinformation |
| Main Entry: | laugh/laughter |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | audible expression of amusement |
Synonyms: |
amusement, cachinnation, cackle, chortle, chuckle, chuckling, crack-up, crow, fit, gesture, giggle, giggling, glee, guffaw, hilarity, howling, merriment, mirth, peal, rejoicing, roar, shout, shriek, snicker, snigger, snort, sound, titter, yuck |
Antonyms: |
cry |
| Main Entry: | motion |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | movement, action |
Synonyms: |
act, advance, agitation, ambulation, body English, change, changing, direction, drift, dynamics, flow, fluctuation, flux, full swing, gesticulation, gesture, high sign, inclination, kinetics, locomotion, mobility, motility, move, oscillation, passage, passing, progress, sign, signal, stir, stirring, stream, sway, sweep, swing, tendency, travel, wave, wavering |
Antonyms: |
immobility, repose, rest, stagnation, stiffness, stillness |
| Main Entry: | movement |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | motion, activity |
Synonyms: |
act, action, advance, agitation, alteration, change, changing, deed, development, displacement, dynamism, evolution, evolving, exercise, flight, flow, flux, gesture, journey, journeying, locomotion, maneuver, migration, mobility, motility, movableness, move, moving, operation, operativeness, passage, progress, progression, regression, roaming, shift, shifting, steps, stir, stirring, transferal, transit, translating, transplanting, undertaking, velocity, voyaging, wandering |
Antonyms: |
cessation, halt, inaction, inactivity, pause, stoppage |