| Main Entry: | ginger |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | spirit |
Synonyms: |
air, animation, ardor, backbone*, boldness, bounce, breath, brio, character, complexion, courage, dash, dauntlessness, disposition, earnestness, energy, enterprise, enthusiasm, esprit, essence, fire, force, frame of mind, gameness, grit, guts*, heart, hu |
| Main Entry: | brown |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | dark, burnished color |
Synonyms: |
amber, auburn, bay, beige, bister, brick, bronze, buff, burnt sienna, chestnut, chocolate, cinnamon, cocoa, coffee, copper, drab, dust, ecru, fawn, ginger, hazel, henna, khaki, mahogany, nut, ochre, puce, russet, rust, sepia, snuff-colored, sorrel, tan, tawny, terra-cotta, toast, umber |
| Main Entry: | fire |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | animation, vigor |
Synonyms: |
ardor, brio, calenture, dash, drive, eagerness, energy, enthusiasm, excitement, exhilaration, fervency, fervor, force, ginger, gusto, heartiness, heat, impetuosity, intensity, life, light, liveliness, luster, passion, pep, punch*, radiance, red heat, scintillation, snap*, sparkle, spirit, splendor, starch, verve, vim, virtuosity, vivacity, white heat, zeal, zing, zip, élan |
Antonyms: |
apathy, dullness, lethargy, spiritlessness |
| Main Entry: | flavor |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | add seasoning |
Synonyms: |
add zing, add zip, ginger, hot it up, imbue, impart, infuse, lace, leaven, pep up, pepper, salt, season, spice |
| Main Entry: | taste |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | flavor of some quality |
Synonyms: |
aftertaste, aroma, bang*, bitter, drive, ginger, jolt, kick*, oomph, palatableness, piquancy, punch*, relish, salt, sapidity, sapor, savor, savoriness, smack, sour, sting*, suggestion, sweet, tang, wallop, zest, zing, zip |
| Main Entry: | zest |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | taste, flavor |
Synonyms: |
bite, body, charm, flavoring, get-up-and-go, ginger, guts*, interest, kick*, nip, piquancy, punch*, pungency, relish, salt, savor, seasoning, smack*, snap*, spice, tang, zap, zip |
| Notes: | zeal pertains to a keen interest while zest is keen enjoyment or added interest |
Antonyms: |
blandness, dullness |
| Main Entry: | brown |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
Related
Adjectives: |
brown, aithochrous, auburn, bay, bronze, brown as a berry, brown as mahogany, brunette, brunneous, butterscotch, café au lait, castaneous, chestnut, chocolate, cinnamon, coffee, dapple, fawn, fulvous, fuscous, ginger, glandaceous, khaki, liver, mahogany, maroon, mousy, nut, russet, snuff, tan, tanned, tawny, tortoiseshell, whity
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| Concept: | Brown. |
| Category: | 2. Sensation; special sensation; light; specific light |
Synonyms: |
-nouns
brown, brunet, brunette., [Pigments] bister, ocher, sepia, Vandyke brown.
-verbs
render brown; tan, embrown, bronze.
-adjectives
brown, bay, dapple, auburn, castaneous, chestnut, nut-brown, cinnamon, russet, tawny, fuscous, chocolate, maroon, foxy, tan, brunette, whitey brown; fawn-colored, snuff-colored, liver-colored; brown as a berry, brown as mahogany, brown as the oak leaves; khaki., sun-burnt, sunburned, tawny; tanned.
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| Concept: | [Good taste.] Taste. |
| Category: | 2. Discriminative Affections |
Synonyms: |
-nouns
taste; good taste, refined taste, cultivated taste; delicacy, refinement, fine feeling, gust, gusto, tact, finesse; nicety (discrimination); ; polish, elegance, grace., virtu; delettanteism; fine art; culture, cultivation., [Science of taste] aesthetics., man of taste; connoisseur, judge, critic, conoscent, virtuoso, amateur, dilettant, Aristarchus, Corinthian, arbiter elegantiarum, stagirite, euphemist., "caviare to the general" [Hamlet].
-adjectives
in good taste, cute, tasteful, tasty; unaffected, pure, chaste, classical, attic; cultivated, refined; dainty; aesthetic, artistic; elegant; euphemistic., to one's taste, to one's mind; after one's fancy; comme il faut; tire a quatre epingles.
-adverbs
elegantly
-phrases
nihil tetigit quod non ornavit [from Johnson's epitaph on Goldsmith]; chacun a son gout; oculi pictura tenentur aures cantibus [Cicero].
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Antonyms: |
vulgarity |
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