- 3. Engage cursorily, enter slightly.
- 4. Dive, plunge, duck, pitch, immerse one’s self.
Diplomacy, n.
- 1. Art of negotiating, negotiation, international business.
- 2. Artful management, tact, indirection.
Diplomat, Diplomate, n. See diplomatist.
Diplomatist, n. Negotiator, diplomat, expert in international affairs.
Dipper, n.
- 1. Plunger, ladler, etc. See verb.
- 2. Immersionist, dunker, tunker, tumbler.
- 3. Charles’ Wain, Great Bear, Ursa Major, Cleaver.
- 4. Water-craw, water-pyet, water-crake, water-ouzel (Cinclus aquaticus).
Dire, a. Dreadful, dismal, fearful, direful, shocking, terrible, horrid, horrible, awful, terrific, tremendous, portentous, gloomy, woful, disastrous, calamitous, destructive, cruel, inexorable, implacable.
Direct, a.
- 1. Straight, in a right line, not crooked.
- 2. From father to son.
- 3. Plain, express, categorical, unambiguous, not equivocal.
- 4. Open, sincere, ingenuous, frank, out-spoken.
- 5. (A stron.) In the order of the signs, advancing eastward.
Direct, v. a.
- 1. Aim, point, cast, turn.