- 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.