3. Direction, bearing, relative position.
Asperity, n. 1. Roughness, ruggedness, unevenness.
2. Acrimony, tartness, sourness, sharpness, causticity, corrosiveness.
3. Harshness, moroseness, sternness, severity, virulence, crabbedness, bitterness, churlishness, acerbity, sullenness, ill temper, bad blood.
Asperse, v. a. Vilify, slander, calumniate, traduce, defame, scandalize, malign, revile, lampoon, backbite, abuse, disparage, blacken, blemish, slur, vituperate, run down, detract from, speak ill of, accuse falsely, damn with faint praise.
Aspersion, n. Calumny, detraction, slander, defamation, abuse, vituperation, obloquy, reproach, scandal, backbiting, reviling, gainsaying, traducing.
Asphalt, n. Native bitumen, mineral pitch, Jew's pitch.
Asphaltum, n. Native bitumen, mineral pitch, Jew's pitch.
Aspirant, n. 1. Aspirer, ambitious person.
2. Candidate, solicitor, solicitant, competitor.
Aspirant, a. Aspiring, ambitious.
Aspirate, a. Aspirated, toneless, unintonated, atonic, surd, pronounced with a simple breathing, not vocal, without vocality, without tone.
Aspirate, n. Rough breathing.
Aspirate, v. a. Pronounce with an aspirate or rough breathing.
Aspirated, a. Aspirate.
Aspiration, n. 1. Pronouncing with the rough breathing.
2. Longing, yearning, hankering, craving, ardent wish or desire.
Aspire, v. n. 1. Desire (earnestly), long.
2. Ascend, rise, soar, tower, mount.
Aspirer, n. Aspirant, ambitious person.
Aspire to, Desire eagerly, wish for ardently, long for, aim at, thirst after.
Aspiring, a. Ambitious, high-reaching.
Asquint, ad. Askance, askant, awry, askew, obliquely, to one side.
Ass, n. 1. Jackass, donkey.
2. Dolt, fool, blockhead, simpleton, numskull, ninny, dunce.
Assail, v. a. Assault, attack, invade, oppugn, fall upon, fly at, bear down upon, make aggression on.
Assailant, n. Aggressor, assaulter, attacker, invader, assailer.
Assailant, a. Attacking, invading, assaulting.
Assailer, n. Aggressor, assailant.
Assassin, n. Murderer, slayer, cut-throat, assassinator, bravo.
Assassinate, v. a. Kill (by secret assault), murder, slay, despatch.
Assassination, n. Murder (by secret assault).
Assassinator, n. Assassin.
Assault, n. 1. Attack, onset, onslaught, aggression, invasion, charge, thrust.
2. Storming, storm.
Assault, v. a. Assail, attack, charge, invade, storm, fall upon, fly at, bear down upon, make aggression on.