; hurry, urgency, precipitance. Antonyms: slowness,
dilatoriness.
hasten, v. accelerate, expedite, quicken, precipitate press, urge;
hurry.
hastiness, n. haste, precipitancy, precipitation, precipitance,
speediness.
hasty, a. swift, rapid, quick, fast; precipitate, rash, eager,
precipitant; cursory, hurried, superficial.
hatch, v. breed, incubate; concoct, excogitate, brew, scheme.
hatcher, n. incubator.
hatchet, n. small ax; tomahawk; machete; dolabra.
hate, v. dislike, detest, abhor, despise, abominate, loathe,
execrate.
hateful, a. execrable, odious, detestable, abominable, malevolent,
malicious.
hatred, n. hate, aversion, detestation, animosity, malignity,
antipathy, spite, feud, malice, grudge, malevolence, resentment, dislike,
abhorrence.
haughtiness, n. arrogance, hauteur, superciliousness, disdain,
contumely.
haughty, a. arrogant, supercilious, disdainful, cavalier,
magisterial, assuming, lordly.
haunt, n. resort.
hauteur, n. arrogance, contumely, superciliousness, haughtiness,
overweening.
haven, n. harbor, port, retreat, asylum, refuge, shelter.
havoc, n. destruction, devastation, waste, ruin, desolation,
demolition, wreck.
hawk, n. falcon; goshawk, kestrel. Associated Words: accipitral,
raptorial.
haystack, n. rick.
hazard, n. chance, contingency, casualty; risk, random, jeopardy,
danger, peril, venture. Antonyms: safety, security, assurance,
certainty, surety.
hazard, v. venture, risk, jeopard, endanger.
hazardous, a. perilous, precarious, risky, unsafe, dangerous.
haze, n. obscurity, dimness, fog, vapor, mist, confusion.
hazy, a. foggy, misty, vaporous; obscure, confused.
head, n. poll, cephalon; costard (Contemptuous), noddle, pate.
Associated Words: phrenology, phrenologist, craniology, craniologist,
cephalology, sinciput, occiput, cephalism, behead, decapitate,
decapitation, capitation, vertex, crown, skull, cranium, fontanel, trepan,
coronal, microcephaly, craniometry, macrocephaly, cephalic, _per capita_,
scalp.
head, n. chief, leader, commander, director; crisis, culmination;
spike; section, department, category, class.
head, a. principal, chief, leading, cardinal, foremost, main,
premier.
headache, n. megrim, cephalalgy, galea.
headdress, n. coiffure.
heading, n. title, caption.
headland, n. cape, promontory, foreland.
heading off. interception.
headless, a. acephalous; beheaded, decapitated; leaderless,
unorganized.
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