Topic Thesaurus
Roget's Thesaurus

Retrospective Sympathetic Affections

Gratitude

Nouns
  • gratitude, thankfulness, feeling of obligation, sense of obligation. acknowledgment, recognition, thanksgiving, thanksgiving, giving thanks
  • thankful good will. thanks, praise, benediction
  • paean
  • grace, grace before meat, grace after meat, grace before meals, grace after meals
  • thank offering. requital.
Verbs
  • be grateful etc. adj.
  • thank
  • give thanks, render thanks, return thanks, offer thanks, tender thanks etc. n.
  • acknowledge, requite. feel under an obligation, be under an obligation, lie under an obligation
  • not look a gift horse in the mouth
  • never forget, overflow with gratitude
  • thank one's stars, thank one's lucky stars, bless one's stars
  • fall on one's knees.
Adjectives
  • grateful, thankful, obliged, beholden, indebted to, under obligation.
Int
  • thanks!, many thanks!, gramercy! , much obliged!, thank you!, thank you very much!, thanks a lot!, thanks a heap, thanks loads [Coll.]
  • thank Heaven!, Heaven be praised!

Ingratitude

Nouns
  • ingratitude, thanklessness, oblivion of benefits, unthankfulness. benefits forgot
  • " thankless task, thankless office.
Verbs
  • be ungrateful etc. adj.
  • forget benefits
  • look a gift horse in the mouth.
Adjectives
  • ungrateful, unmindful, unthankful
  • thankless, ingrate, wanting in gratitude, insensible of benefits. forgotten
  • unacknowledged, unthanked, unrequited, unrewarded
  • ill-requited.
Int
  • thank you for nothing!, thanks for nothing!, et tu Brute! " [Julius Caesar].
Phrases
  • ingratitude! thou marble-hearted fiend" [Lear].

Forgiveness

Nouns
  • forgiveness, pardon, condonation, grace, remission, absolution, amnesty, oblivion
  • indulgence
  • reprieve. conciliation
  • reconcilement
  • reconciliation etc. (pacification) Pacification
  • propitiation. excuse, exoneration, quittance, release, indemnity
  • bill of indemnity, act of indemnity, covenant of indemnity, deed of indemnity
  • exculpation etc. (acquittal) Acquittal. longanimity, placability
  • forbearance.
Verbs
  • forgive, forgive and forget
  • pardon, condone, think no more of, let bygones be bygones, shake hands
  • forget an injury. excuse, pass over, overlook
  • wink at etc. (neglect) Neglect
  • bear with
  • allow for, make allowances for
  • let one down easily, not be too hard upon, pocket the affront. let off, remit, absolve, give absolution, reprieve
  • acquit etc. Acquittal. beg pardon, ask pardon, implore pardon etc. n.
  • conciliate, propitiate, placate
  • make up a quarrel etc. (pacify) Pacification
  • let the wound heal.
Adjectives
  • forgiving, placable, conciliatory, forgiven etc. v.
  • unresented, unavenged, unrevenged.
Adverbs
  • cry you mercy.
Phrases
  • more in sorrow than in anger
  • the offender never pardons" [Herbert].

Revenge

Nouns
  • revenge, revengement
  • vengeance
  • avengement, avengeance, sweet revenge, vendetta, death feud, blood for blood retaliation etc. Retaliation
  • day of reckoning. rancor, vindictiveness, implacability
  • malevolence etc. Malevolence
  • ruthlessness etc. Existence4-pity">Pity.1. avenger, vindicator, Nemesis, Eumenides.
Verbs
  • revenge, avenge
  • vindicate
  • take one's revenge, have one's revenge
  • breathe revenge, breathe vengeance
  • wreak one's vengeance, wreak one's anger. have accounts to settle, have a crow to pluck, have a bone to pick, have a rod in pickle. keep the wound green
  • harbor revenge, harbor vindictive feeling
  • bear malice
  • rankle, rankle in the breast.
Adjectives
  • revengeful, vengeful
  • vindictive, rancorous
  • pitiless etc. Existence4-pity">Pity.1
  • ruthless, rigorous, avenging. unforgiving, unrelenting
  • inexorable, stony-hearted, implacable
  • relentless
  • rankling
  • immitigable.
Phrases
  • in high vengeance there is noble scorn" [G. Eliot]
  • malevolus animus abditos dentes habet [Syrus]
  • now infidel I have thee on the hip" [Merchant of Venice].

Jealousy

Nouns
  • jealousy, jealousness
  • jaundiced eye
  • envious suspicion, suspicion
  • green-eyed monster" [Othello]
  • yellows
  • Juno.
Verbs
  • be jealous etc. adj.
  • view with jealousy, view with a jealous eye.
Adjectives
  • jealous, jealous as a barbary pigeon
  • jaundiced, yellow-eyed, envious, hornmad.

Envy

Nouns
  • envy
  • enviousness etc. adj.
  • rivalry
  • illwill, spite.
Verbs
  • envy, covet, burst with envy.
Adjectives
  • envious, invidious, covetous
Phrases
  • base envy withers at another's joy" [Thomson]