Abide, v. a. 1. Await, attend, wait for, be in readiness for, be in store for.
2. Endure, tolerate, bear, brook, suffer, bear with, put up with.
Abide by. Act up to, conform to, persist in.
Abiding, a. Permanent, lasting, durable, constant, continuing, stable.
Ability, n. 1. Power (to execute any thing), ableness, force, potency, might, efficiency, efficacy, strength, energy, skill, skilfulness, dexterity, address, cleverness, ingenuity, talent, aptitude, aptness, knack, expertness, facility, quickness, readiness.
2. Qualification, competency, sufficiency.
3. Capacity, capability, capableness, faculty, gift, parts, genius, endowment, calibre, forte, turn.
Abject, a. Base, vile, mean, low, despicable, contemptible, beggarly, paltry, dirty, squalid, grovelling, pitiful, ignoble, degraded, worthless, poor, servile, slavish, menial, sneaking, sordid, shabby, scurvy, miserable, wretched, low-minded, base-minded, earth-born, earth-bred.
Abjection, n. 1. [Rare.] Humbling, humiliation.
2. Abasement, abjectness.
Abjectness, n. Meanness, servility, vileness, baseness, abasement, abjection, contemptibleness.
Abjuration, 1. Renunciation (upon oath), relinquishment, rejection, abandonment, abnegation.
2. Recantation, retraction, revocation, repeal, reversal, recall.
Abjure, v. a. 1. Renounce (upon oath), relinquish, forego, reject, forswear, abandon, abnegate, give up, cast off.
2. Retract, revoke, recant, recall, withdraw, disavow, take back.
Able, a. 1. Clever, accomplished, talented, adroit, ingenious, expert, dexterous, apt, quick, skilful, efficient, proficient, good, versed, practical, au fait.
2. Qualified, fitted, competent.
3. Capable, gifted, powerful, strong, mighty, highly endowed.
4. Masterly, effective, telling.
Ableness, n. Ability.
Ablution, n. Washing (especially of the body, as a religious rite), lavation, bathing, wash.
Abnegate, v. a. [Rare.] Deny, reject, renounce, abjure.
Abnegation, n. Denial, renunciation, rejection, abandonment, abjuration, surrender.
Abnormal, a. Irregular, anomalous, anomalistic, unusual, unnatural, singular, peculiar, unconformable, exceptional, heteroclite, aberrant, eccentric, erratic, strange, monstrous, preternatural.
Abnormity, n. Irregularity, unconformity, anomaly, peculiarity, singularity, monstrosity.