Chapter Wing to Wood-wax of W by Soule's Synonymes

2. Sprightly, sparkling, alert, quick, penetrating, apt at repartee.

Witwall, n.

1. Loriot, golden oriole (of Europe; Oriolus galbula).

2. Great spotted wood-pecker (Picus major).

Wizard, n. Conjurer, enchanter, sorcerer, magician, soothsayer, necromancer, charmer, diviner, seer, wonder-worker.

Wizened, a. Dried, shrivelled, shrunken, thin, sharp, lean, weazen.

Woad, n. Weld, dyer’s weed, woad-waxen, wood-waxen, wood-wax, dyer’s broom (Genista tinctoria).

Woad-waxen, n. See Woad.

Woe, n. Sorrow, grief, distress, tribulation, affliction, anguish, agony, torture, bitterness, misery, wretchedness, unhappiness, trouble, dole, disconsolateness, melancholy, depression, heart-ache, heavy heart, bleeding heart, broken heart, mental suffering, pain of mind.

Woe-begone, a. Wretched, miserable, pitiable, disconsolate, comfortless, sad, forlorn, sorrowful, melancholy, downcast, desponding, cheerless, crestfallen, chapfallen, cast down.

Woful, a. [Written also Woeful.]

1. Sorrowful, distressed, sad, afflicted, unhappy, grieved, anguished, agonized, miserable, piteous, wretched, melancholy, disconsolate, troubled, burdened. See Woe-begone.

2. Grievous, distressing, afflicting, afflictive, disastrous, calamitous, dreadful, tragical, deplorable, piteous, pitiable, depressing, sorrowful, saddening.

3. Wretched, paltry, mean, pitiful.

Wolfsbane, n. Aconite, monkshood.

Wolverene, Wolverine, n. Glutton (Gulo luscus).

Woman-hater, n. Misogynist.

Womanhood, n.

1. Womanliness, high feminine quality.

2. Maturity (in the human female), ripeness, adult age, muliebrity.

3. Muliebrity, feminality, femineity, feminine sexual quality.