- 4. Mean, despicable, contemptible, beggarly, sordid, servile, slavish, menial, sorry, worthless, pitiful, low-
minded, rascally, abject, grovelling, low, venal.
- 5. Shameful, disreputable, disgraceful, discreditable, dishonorable, scandalous, infamous, vile, villanous.
Base, n.
- 1. Basis, foundation, ground, groundwork, lowest part, bottom, foot.
- 2. (Surveying.) Base-line.
- 3. (Chem.) Principal element (of a compound).
Base, v. a. Found, rest, establish. [Followed by on or upon.]
Base-born, a. See base, a., 3.
Base-line, n. (Surveying.) Base.
Basement, n. Ground-floor, lowest story, basement story.
Base-minded, a. Mean, low, vile, grovelling, beggarly, pitiful, despicable, abject, low-minded, mean- spirited.
Baseness, n.
- 1. Meanness, despicableness, contemptibleness, abasement, worthlessness, abjectness.
- 2. Disgrace, ignominy, infamy, shame, dishonor, turpitude, villany, perfidy.
Bashful, a. Shy, timid, timorous, coy, diffident, sheepish, shamefaced, over-modest, not self-possessed.
Bashfulness, n. Shyness, timidity, coyness, diffidence, self-distrust, excessive modesty.
Basilisk, n. Cockatrice.
Basis, n. Base, foundation, ground, groundwork, lowest part.
Bask, v. n.
- 1. Lie warming, warm one’s self joyously, luxuriate.
- 2. Rejoice, be shone upon, be bathed, revel, prosper.
Bask, v. a. Bathe, warm, expose.
Bass, a. (Mus.) Low, deep, grave.
Basset, v. n. (Geol.) Crop out.