end, v. displease, affront, provoke, mortify, exasperate, incense,
wound, shock.
offender, n. delinquent, wrong-doer, trespasser, malefactor,
culprit, criminal.
offense, n. crime, wrong, sin, outrage, indignity; displeasure,
resentment, dudgeon, umbrage; misdemeanor, transgression, delinquency,
trespass.
offensive, a. obnoxious, displeasing, noisome, distasteful, insolent,
abusive, aggressive, assailant, fetid, disagreeable, opprobrious,
scurrilous, fulsome.
offer, v. tender, proffer, propose, propound, volunteer, bid;
immolate, sacrifice.
offer, n. tender, proposition, bid, overture, proffer.
offering, n. overture, proposition, bid; sacrifice, oblation;
offertory; corban.
offhand, a. extemporaneous, impromptu, improvised, unstudied.
office, n. duty, function, service, work, charge, trust, business.
office-holder, n. officer, official, functionary, placeman.
officer, n. office-holder, magistrate, dignitary, incumbent.
officially, adv. ex-officio.
officious, a. meddlesome, intrusive, obtrusive, pragmatical,
impertinent.
offscouring, n. refuse, scum, offscum, recrement, dross, trash,
waste.
offset, n. set-off, counterbalance, equivalent.--v.
counterbalance, counterpoise.
offshoot, n. scion, branch.
offspring, n. children, issue, progeny, posterity, descendants.
often, adv. frequently, repeatedly, oftentimes, ofttimes. Antonyms:
seldom, infrequently.
oil, v. lubricate.
oiliness, n. lubricity, unctuousness, unctuosity, oleosity, glibness.
oil-producing, a. oleiferous.
oilstone, n. hone.
oily, a. unctuous, oleaginous, emulsive, lubricous; glib, fluent,
plausible.
ointment, n. unguent, embrocation, salve.
old, a. aged, elderly, senescent, decrepit, venerable, patriarchal,
superannuated, senile; former, pre-existing, preceding, ancient, archaic,
antique, antiquated, olden, time-honored, traditional, immemorial,
primitive, primordial, primeval, pristine, fossil; dilapidated, decayed,
effete; practiced, veteran, experienced; sensible, astute, shrewd,
sagacious.
old age. senility, dotage, superannuation, decrepitude. Associated
words: geratology, geratic, gerontic.
old-fashioned, a. antiquated, archaic, _passe_, antique, obsolete,
fogram, frumpish.
old-fashioned word. archaism.
old iron, glass, etc. junk.
old maid. spinster.
old man. veteran, patriarch, Nestor, elder, oldster, Methuselah,
dotard; gaffer, crone, geezer; centenarian, octogenarian, sexagenaria
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