Substance, stuff.
ANT: Work, production, design.
=
KEY: Material \a.\ [See ESSENTIAL].
=
KEY: Matrimony, [See WEDLOCK].
=
KEY: matron.
SYN: Mother, woman, dowager, dame.
ANT: Girl, lass, damsel, spinster, miss, virgin, maid, maiden.
=
KEY: Matter.
SYN: Substance, stuff, subject.
body, importance, the visible, tangible, substantial, corporal, physical, ponderable.
ANT: Immateriality, spirituality, mind, intellect, spirit, the invisible, unseen, spiritual, moral, mental, intellectual.
=
KEY: Mature, [See RIPE].
=
KEY: Matutinal.
SYN: Early, morning, waking, dawning.
ANT: Vespertinal, late, slumbering, evening, waning.
=
KEY: Maudlin.
SYN: Intoxicated, temulent, sentimental, mawkish, mellow.
ANT: Sensible, unromantic, unsentimental, dry, sober.
=
KEY: Mawkish.
SYN: Sickly, sentimental, maudlin, insipid, loathsome, nauseous, flat.
ANT: Savory, sensible, sound, fine, pungent, palatable.
=
KEY: Maxim.
SYN: Adage, rule, axiom, apothegm, proverb, precept, saying.
ANT: Absurdity, sophism, quibble, paradox, enigma.
=
KEY: Maximum.
SYN: Ultimatum, climax, zenith, apex, completion, utmost, consummation, culmination, acme.
ANT: Initiative, commencement, indication, incompletion, abortion, decrease, wane, minimum, morsel, fragment.
=
KEY: Maybe.
SYN: Perhaps, possibly, mayhap, perchance.
=
KEY: Maze, [See LABYRINTH].
=
KEY: Meagre.
SYN: Thin, lean, lank, scanty, barren, dry, tame.
ANT: Stout, fat, brawny, abundant, fertile, copious.
=
KEY: Mean \a.\
SYN: Common, low, base, spiritless, dishonorable, contemptible, despicable, beggarly, sordid, vulgar, niggardly, vile.
ANT: High, exalted, eminent, spirited, honorable, lordly, princely, munificent, liberal, generous.
=
KEY: Mean \a.\
SYN: Middle, intermediate, average.
ANT: Extreme, excessive, exorbitant.
=
KEY: Mean \n.\
SYN: Medium, moderation, balance, average.
ANT: Extreme, excess, preponderance, disproportion, deficiency, shortcoming, inadequacy.
=
KEY: Mean \v.\
SYN: Intend, purpose, design, signify, denote, indicate, hint, suggest.
ANT: Say, state, enunciate, [See DO], execute, perform.
=
KEY: Meaning.
SYN: Signification, import, significance, purport, sense, aim, [See IMPORT].
=
KEY: Meanness.
SYN: Penuriousness, littleness, selfishness, baseness, smallness, illiberality, ungenerousness, sordidness.
ANT: Nobleness, unselfishness, liberality, generousness, large-heartedness.
=
KEY: Means.
SYN: Resources, instrument, media.
ANT: End, purpose, object.
=
KEY: Measure \n.\ [See DIMENSION].
=
KEY: Measure \v.\
SYN: Mete, estimate, gauge, value, appraise.
ANT: Misfit, misconform, mismeasure, misdeal, misapportion.
=
KEY: Measureless, [See INFINITE].
=
KEY: Mechanic.
SYN: Artisan, craftsman, workman, artificer.
=
KEY: Mechanical.
SYN: Habitual, automatic, unreflective, spontaneous, effortless, unimpassioned.
ANT: Labored, self-conscious, feeling, forced, spirited, appreciative, lifelike, lively, animated, impassioned.
=
KEY: Meddle, [See INTERPOSE].
=
KEY: Meddlesome.
SYN: Officious, obtrusive, intrusive, interfering.
ANT: Unofficious, unobtrusive, unmeddlesome.
=
KEY: Mutilate.
SYN: Intercede, interpose, [See INTERPOSE].
=
KEY: Mediation.
SYN: Interference, interposition, reconciliation, atonement, arbitration, adjustment.
ANT: Neutrality, non-interference, indifference.
=
