Nutrition, n. 1. Nourishing.
2. Food, nutriment.
Nutritious, a. Nourishing, strengthening, wholesome.
Nutritive, a. Nourishing, strengthening, wholesome.
Nyctalopy, n. Day-blindness, nocturnal sight.
Nymph, n. Damsel, maiden, maid, lass, lassie, girl.
Nympha, n. (Ent.) Pupa, chrysalis, aurelia.
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Oaf, n. Changeling (when a foolish child is left in place of another), simpleton, fool, dunce.
Obduracy, n. 1. Contumacy, obstinacy, stubbornness, doggedness, hardness of heart.
2. Impenitence, depravity.
Obdurate, a. 1. Hardened, obstinate, callous, unfeeling, stubborn, unyielding, dogged, pig-headed, inflexible, inexorable, cantankerous.
2. Depraved, graceless, shameless, reprobate, lost, impenitent, irreclaimable, incorrigible.
Obedience, n. Compliance, submission.
Obedient, a. Compliant, submissive, deferential, dutiful, respectful.
Obeisance, n. Salutation, reverence, bow, courtesy.
Obelisk, n. 1. Pillar.
2. Dagger (in printing).
Obese, a. Fat, fleshy, corpulent, stout, plump, portly, bouncing.
Obesity, n. Fleshiness, fatness, corpulence, corpulency, plumpness, embonpoint.
Obfuscate, v. a. Darken, cloud, obscure.
Obituary, n. Necrology.
Object, n. 1. Mark, butt.
2. End, aim, intent, purpose, design, view, scope, drift, goal, final cause.
Objection, n. Exception, difficulty, cavil, demurrer.
Objectionable, a. Exceptionable.
Object to, Disapprove, protest against, take exception to.
Oblation, n. Offering, sacrifice.
Obligate, v. a. [Inelegant.] Bind, oblige, bring under obligation.
Obligation, n. 1. Responsibility, accountableness, bond of duty.
2. Engagement, contract, agreement, stipulation.
3. Debt of gratitude.
Obligatory, a. Binding, coercive.
Oblige, v. a. 1. Compel, force, coerce, constrain.
2. Serve, accommodate, please, favor, gratify, do a service for, do a favor to.
3. Obligate, bind, bring under obligation.
Obliging, a. Civil, complaisant, kind, courteous, polite, friendly, gentlemanly, urbane, affable.
Oblique, a. 1. Inclined, aslant.
2. Indirect.
Obliterate, v. a. Efface, erase, expunge, cancel, rub out, rub off, blot out, scratch out, wipe out, strike out.
Obliteration, n. Effacement, erasure, extinction, blotting out.
Oblivion, n. 1. Forgetfulness (Oblivion refers especially to the thing forgotten).
2. Amnesty, general pardon.
Oblivious, a. Forgetful, mindless, heedless, careless, negligent, neglectful.
Obloquy, n. 1. Reproach, detraction, censure, blame, calumny, contumely, slander, defamation, backbiting, traducing, aspersion, reviling.
2. Dishonor, disgrace, shame, infamy, opprobrium, odium, scandal.
Obnoxious, a. 1. Liable, subject, exposed.
2. Hateful, unpleasing, odious, offensive, unpopular.
Oboe, n. Hautboy.
Obscene, a. 1. Indecent, indelicate, immodest, impure, ribald, gross, coarse, broad, unchaste, lewd, loose.
2. Dirty, filthy, foul, offensive, disgusting.
Obscenity, n. Indecency, indelicacy, immodesty, unchastity, lewdness.
Obscure, a. 1. Dark, gloomy, rayless, darksome, unilluminated, unenlightened, dusky, sombre, sombrous, lurid, shadowy, murky, dim.
2. Unintelligible, incomprehensible, indistinct, indefinite, vague, doubtful, enigmatical, mysterious, mystic, mystical, recondite, abstruse, cabalistic, transcendental, high.
3. Unknown, undistinguished, nameless, unnoted, unnoticed, renownless, unhonored, humble, inglorious.
Obscure, v. a. Darken, cloud, eclipse, dim, shade, obfuscate, cast in the shade.
