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nauseous, a. disgusting, nauseating, offensive, sickening, fulsome,
distasteful.
nautical, a. naval, marine, maritime, oceanic.
nautilus, n. Tetrabranchiata; argonaut, paper nautilus; diving-bell.
naval, a. nautical, marine, maritime.
navel, n. umbilicus, omphalos.
navel string, funis, umbilical cord.
navigate, v. sail, cruise; guide, steer, direct; circumnavigate
near, a. nigh, close, adjacent, neighboring, contiguous, proximate,
approximate to; intimate, confidential, bosom; immediate, imminent,
impending, forthcoming.
Antonyms: distant, remote, far.
nearness, n. closeness, proximity, propinquity, contiguity,
adjacency, imminence, approximation, approxi-mateness intimacy,
familiarity.
near-sighted, a. myopic, short-sighted, purblind.
near-sightedness, n. myopia.
near-sighted person. myope.
neat, a. tidy, orderly, trim, clean, cleanly; tasteful, trim,
finished, artistic, nice, excellent, adroit; dainty; spruce; dapper,
natty. Antonyms: dowdy, slovenly, slatternly, untidy, tawdry, gaudy,
frowzy, disorderly, unkempt.
necessary, a. requisite, essential, needed, needful, indispensable
inevitable, unavoidable. Antonyms: nonessential, unnecessary, optional,
discretional, casual, needless.
necessary, n. requisite, requirement, essential, _sine qua non_.
necessity, n. requisite, necessary, requirement, essential;
exigency, urgency; indispensability. Antonyms: choice, option,
contingency, doubtfulness, possibility.
neck, n. Associated Words: nape, cervical, scruff, atlas, axis,
palea, dewlap, scrag, gula, nucha, auchenium, decollete, jugular, jugulum,
wattle, wimple, wryneck, torticollis, Adam's apple, splenius, ruche,
colliform, fichu, withers, gorget, carotid, goiter, retrocollic, cruels,
nuchalgia, ruff, crane.
necktie, n. cravat, neckcloth, scarf, tie.
necromancer, n. wizard, sorcerer, magician, conjurer, exorcist,
soothsayer, diviner.
necromancy, n. magic, conjuration, enchantment, sorcery, black art.
need, n. want, necessity, extremity, strait, exigency, urgency;
poverty, penury, privation, indigence.
need, v. require, lack, want.
needful, a. requisite, necessary, essential, indispensable, required.
needleprick, n. acupuncture.
needless, a. unnecessary, groundless, unfounded.
needlewoman, n. seamstress.
needs, adv. necessarily.
needy, a. destitute, indigent, penniless, impecunious.
nefarious, a. atrocious, flagitious, heinous.
negation, n. denial
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