base

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n

1. stand, pedestal, rest, bed; support, prop, stay, brace; bottom, foot, Fr. fond, Archit. socle, Archit. plinth, Bot. caudex; foundation, principle, basis, footing, groundwork, substructure, substratum, understructure.

2. principal, essence, essentials, main ingredient, core, heart, element, component; root, radical, origin, source, stem.

3. camp, site, station, settlement, home; anchorage, mooring; starting point, point of departure.

v

4. establish, found, form, build; ground, rest, root, fasten; hinge, depend, pivot, turn.

5. station, post, locate, place, install.

II

adj

1. low, mean, vile, sordid, bad, foul, wrong; depraved, debased, wicked, evil, iniquitous, sinful; debauched, degenerate, immoral, dissolute, demoralized, dissipated; abandoned, profligate, reprobate, incorrigible; corrupt, black-hearted, ignoble, sinister, miscreant, evil-minded; nefarious, flagitious, villainous, heinous, scandalous, flagrant, Rare. nefast, Archaic. felonious; disloyal, unfaithful, traitorous, treacherous, perfidious, unprincipled; disgraceful, shameful, contemptuous, discreditable, disreputable, dishonorable; reprehensible, blameworthy, culpable; scoundrelly, knavish, thievish, roguish; vicious, invidious, malicious, maleficent; contemptible, mean-spirited, Inf. low-down, currish; despicable, loathsome, abhorrent, odious, hateful, detestable, Archaic. caitiff; scurvy, insufferable, opprobrious, obnoxious.

2. dreadful, terrible, dire, grim, dark, black, baleful; accursed, cursed, damnable, damned; demonic, demoniac, diabolic, devilish, satanic, fiendish, hellish; execrable, abominable, horrible, horrid, gruesome, monstrous, atrocious.

3. offensive, unpleasant, objectionable, disagreeable; repulsive, repellent, revolting, repugnant.

4. cowardly, niddering, pusillanimous, dastardly, craven, recreant; chicken-hearted, milk-livered, lily-livered, yellow; faint-hearted, nervous, diffident, tremulous; timorous, timid, apprehensive, fearful, Inf. funky.

5. menial, lowly, servile, slavish, subservient; groveling, sniveling, cowering, cringing; obsequious, sycophantic, parasitical.

6. paltry, trivial, trifling, petty, slight, little, feeble; insignificant, inconsiderable, inappreciable, nugatory, worthless, trumpery; meager, scanty, measly, piddling, niggling, scrimpy, skimpy; niggardly, miserly, cheap, catchpenny.

7. counterfeit, fake, fraudulent, pseudo, pinchbeck; bogus, forged, bad, Inf. phony, flash, sham; spurious, suppositious, unauthentic, ungenuine, false, imitation; adulterated, alloyed, artificial, debased.

8. illegitimate, bastard, bastardly, baseborn; misbegotten, adulterine, natural, unfathered, spurious.

9. obscene, coarse, rude, vulgar, crude, gross, rough; profane, maledictory, blasphemous; smutty, foul-mouthed, scatalogical, filthy, dirty, pornographic, Fescinnine; bawdy, ribald, off-color, suggestive, unseemly, indelicate, indecorous, improper, indecent.

10. poor, wretched, sorry, abject, squalid, destitute; miserable, dismal, abysmal, dreary, Literary. drear; beggarly, shabby, scrubby, seedy, sleazy, abased.