Словарь английских синонимов и синонимичных выражений. Том I. A – I. Виктор Евгеньевич Никитин
v. a. 1. Try, assay, essay, make trial or experiment of.
2. Undertake, go about, set about, take in hand, endeavor to accomplish.
Attempt, v. n. Try, strive, endeavor, seek, aim, make an attempt, make essay, do one's best, do all that in one lies, strain every nerve, leave no stone unturned.
Attempt, n. Effort, trial, essay, endeavor, experiment, undertaking, enterprise.
Attend, v. a. 1. Accompany, escort, follow, go with, go along with, keep company with.
2. Guard, watch, have in keeping.
3. Serve, lackey, minister to, wait on, dance attendance on.
4. Be present at.
5. Await, be in store for, be ready for.
Attend, v. n. 1. Listen, hearken, hear, give ear, pay attention.
2. Tend, serve, wait, be attendant.
Attendance, 1. Presence.
2. Service, ministration, waiting on.
Attendant, a. Accompanying, attending.
Attendant, n. 1. Follower, satellite, companion, fellow, associate, escort.
2. Servant, vassal, servitor, dependant, retainer, squire, domestic, footman, lackey, valet, waiter, flunkey, underling, menial, understrapper, tender.
3. Accompaniment, concomitant, attendant circumstance.
Attend on, Accompany, serve, wait on, be in waiting upon, be within call of.
Attend to, 1. Mind, heed, notice, regard, observe, mark, be attentive to, pay regard to, give heed to, take heed of, take notice of, give or pay attention to, give a thought to, be mindful of.
2. Look after, look to, see to.
3. Practise, pursue, follow.
Attention, n. 1. Care, heed, regard, heedfulness, mindfulness, notice, observation, consideration, advertence, circumspection, watch, watchfulness.
2. Application, reflection, study.
3. Civility, courtesy, politeness, deference, respect, regard.
Attentive, a. Mindful, heedful, observant, wary, circumspect, watchful, careful, thoughtful, regardful, awake, alive, wide awake, on the alert, on the lookout.
Attentive to, Mindful of, occupied with, taken up with, absorbed in.
Attenuate, v. a. 1. Dilute, thin, rarefy, make thin, make less dense.
2. Lessen, diminish, contract, reduce.
Attenuation, n. Thinning, diminishing, contracting.
Attest, v. a. 1. Witness, certify, endorse, confirm, ratify, corroborate, support, authenticate, seal, vouch for, bear out, set one's hand and seal to.
2. Adjure, invoke, call to witness.
3. Prove, show, exhibit, manifest, confess.
Attestation, n. Attesting, authentication, confirmation, testimony, witness, proof, evidence, seal.
Attic, a. Chaste, classic, classical, pure, correct, refined, elegant, polished, in good taste.
Attic, n. 1. Athenian, Athenian author.
2. Garret, loft, cockloft, upper story.
Atticism, n. Attic idiom or phrase, elegant or concise expression, happy phrase.
Attic salt, Delicate wit.
Attire, v. a. Dress, clothe, array, apparel, rig, robe, enrobe, accoutre, equip, fit out, trick out.
Attire, n. Dress, clothes, clothing, apparel, raiment, array, habit, garb, gear, costume, habiliment, vesture, vestment, outfit, suit, accoutrement, equipment, toilet, rigging, trappings, toggery, wardrobe.
Attitude, n. 1. Posture (with reference to the expression of some sentiment), position.
2. Situation, aspect, phase, standing, predicament
Attorney, n. 1. Agent, factor, proxy, deputy, substitute.
2. Lawyer, counsellor, counsel, solicitor, advocate, barrister, attorney-at-law, limb of the law.
Attract, v. a. 1. Draw, bring into proximity, cause to approach.
2. Allure, invite, entice, engage, win, captivate, fascinate, endear, charm, enamour.
Attraction, n. 1. Attracting, drawing.
2. Allurement, lure, fascination, charm, enticement, witchery, attractiveness.
Attractive, a. 1. Alluring, inviting, enticing, fascinating, captivating, charming, winning, bewitching, enchanting, engaging, interesting, prepossessing, taking, pleasing, pleasant, lovely, sweet.
2. Magnetic, magnetical.
Attributable, a. Ascribable, imputable, referrible, chargeable, traceable, owing, to be charged, to be attributed, to be imputed.
Attribute, v. a. Ascribe, assign, refer, impute, consider as due.
Attribute, n. Quality, property, characteristic, peculiarity.
Attrition, n. Abrasion, friction, rubbing.
Attune, v. a. 1. Set to a tune, make musical.
2. Tune, accord, harmonize, modulate, put in tune.
At variance, Quarrelling, bickering, at odds.
Auburn, a. Nut-brown, chestnut-colored, reddish-brown.
Auction, n. Vendue, cant, public sale, auction sale.
Auctioneer, n. Vendue-master.
Audacious, a. 1. Bold, daring, fearless, courageous, intrepid, venturesome, dauntless, undaunted, valiant, stout-hearted.
2. Presumptuous, assuming, forward, impudent, insolent.
Audaciousness, n. Audacity.
Audacity, n. 1. Boldness, daring, fearlessness, courage, intrepidity, venturesomeness, hardihood.
2. Impudence, insolence, impertinence, sauciness, effrontery, presumptuousness, presumption, assurance, face, front, brass, cheek.
Audience, n. 1. Hearing.
2. Auditory, assembly of hearers.
Audience-chamber, n. Divan, council-chamber, state-chamber.
Audit, v. a. Examine (as accounts, to ascertain whether they are correct or not).
Audit, n. 1. Examination of accounts.
2. Final account.
Auditor, n. 1. Hearer, listener.
2. Examiner of accounts.
Auditory, n. Audience, assembly of hearers.
Au fait, [Fr.] Skilful, skilled, expert, at home, in one's element.
Aught, n. Any thing.
Augment, v. a. Enlarge, increase, magnify, add to, make larger.
Augment, v. n. Increase, grow larger.
Augmentation, n. Increase, enlargement, extension, addition, accession.
Augur, n. Soothsayer, prophet, fortune-teller.
Augur, v. n. Prophesy, conjecture, predict, guess.
Augur, v. a. Portend, forebode, presage, foreshow, foreshadow, prognosticate, betoken, foretell, predict, prophesy, be ominous of.
Augury, n. 1. Prognostication, prognostic, prediction, prophecy, vaticination.
2. Omen, sign, auspice, portent, presage, prognostic, precursor, forerunner, harbinger, herald.
August, a. Imposing, awful, solemn, venerable, majestic, stately, pompous, great, regal, noble, dignified, kingly, princely, magnificent, superb.
Auld lang syne, [Scotch.] Antiquity, old times, former times, days of yore, the olden time, time gone by, days gone by.
Aureate, a. Golden, yellow, gold-colored.
Aurelia, n. (Ent.) Chrysalis, pupa, nympha.
Aureola,