Topic Thesaurus
Roget's Thesaurus

General Dimensions

Size

Nouns
  • size, magnitude, dimension, bulk, volume
  • largeness etc. adj.
  • greatness etc. (of quantity) Greatness
  • expanse etc. (space) [Indefinite space.] Space
  • amplitude, mass
  • proportions. capacity, tonnage, tunnage
  • cordage
  • caliber, scantling. turgidity etc. (expansion) Expansion
  • corpulence, obesity
  • plumpness etc. adj.
  • embonpoint, corporation, flesh and blood, lustihood. hugeness etc. adj.
  • enormity, immensity, monstrosity. giant, Brobdingnagian, Antaeus, Goliath, Gog and Magog, Gargantua, monster, mammoth, Cyclops
  • cachalot, whale, porpoise, behemoth, leviathan, elephant, hippopotamus
  • colossus
  • tun, cord, lump, bulk, block, loaf, mass, swad, clod, nugget, bushel, thumper, whooper, spanker, strapper
  • Triton among the minnows" [Coriolanus]. mountain, mound
  • heap etc. (assemblage) Assemblage. largest portion etc. [Principal part.] Whole
  • full size, life size.
Verbs
  • be large etc. adj.
  • become large etc. (expand) Expansion.
Adjectives
  • large, big
  • great etc. (in quantity) Greatness
  • considerable, bulky, voluminous, ample, massive, massy
  • capacious, comprehensive
  • spacious etc. [Indefinite space.] Space
  • mighty, towering, fine, magnificent. corpulent, stout, fat, obese, plump, squab, full, lusty, strapping, bouncing
  • portly, burly, well-fed, full-grown
  • corn fed, gram fed
  • stalwart, brawny, fleshy
  • goodly
  • in good case, in good condition
  • in condition
  • chopping, jolly
  • chub faced, chubby faced. lubberly, hulky, unwieldy, lumpish, gaunt, spanking, whacking, whopping, walloping, thumping, thundering, hulking
  • overgrown
  • puffy etc. (swollen) Expansion. huge, immense, enormous, mighty
  • vast, vasty
  • amplitudinous, stupendous
  • monster, monstrous, humongous, monumental
  • elephantine, jumbo, mammoth
  • gigantic, gigantean, giant, giant like, titanic
  • prodigious, colossal, Cyclopean, Brobdingnagian, Bunyanesque, Herculean, Gargantuan
  • infinite etc. Infinity. large as life
  • plump as a dumpling, plump as a partridge
  • fat as a pig, fat as a quail, fat as butter, fat as brawn, fat as bacon. immeasurable, unfathomable, unplumbed
  • inconceivable, unimaginable, unheard-of. of cosmic proportions
  • of epic proportions, the mother of all, teh granddaddy of all.

Littleness

Nouns
  • littleness etc. adj.
  • smallness etc. (of quantity) Smallness
  • exiguity, inextension
  • parvitude, parvity
  • duodecimo
  • Elzevir edition, epitome, microcosm
  • rudiment
  • vanishing point
  • thinness etc. Narrowness. Thinness. dwarf, pygmy, pigmy, Liliputian, chit, pigwidgeon, urchin, elf
  • atomy, dandiprat
  • doll, puppet
  • Tom Thumb, Hop-o'-my-thumb
  • manikin, mannikin
  • homunculus, dapperling, cock-sparrow. animalcule, monad, mite, insect, emmet, fly, midge, gnat, shrimp, minnow, worm, maggot, entozoon
  • bacteria
  • infusoria
  • microzoa [Micro.]
  • phytozoaria
  • microbe
  • grub
  • tit, tomtit, runt, mouse, small fry
  • millet seed, mustard seed
  • barleycorn
  • pebble, grain of sand
  • molehill, button, bubble. point
  • atom etc. (small quantity) Smallness
  • fragment etc. (small part) Part
  • powder etc. Pulverulence
  • point of a pin, mathematical point
  • minutiae etc. (unimportance) Unimportance. micrometer
  • vernier
  • scale. microphotography, photomicrography, micrography
  • photomicrograph, microphotograph
  • microscopy
  • microscope (optical instruments) Optical Instruments.
Verbs
Adjectives
  • little
  • small etc. (in quantity) Smallness
  • minute, diminutive, microscopic
  • microzoal
  • inconsiderable etc. (unimportant) Unimportance
  • exiguous, puny, tiny, wee, petty, minikin, miniature, pygmy, pigmy, elfin
  • undersized
  • dwarf, dwarfed, dwarfish
  • spare, stunted, limited
  • cramp, cramped
  • pollard, Liliputian, dapper, pocket
  • portative, portable
  • duodecimo
  • dumpy, squat
  • short etc. Shortness. impalpable, intangible, evanescent, imperceptible, invisible, inappreciable, insignificant, inconsiderable, trivial
  • infinitesimal, homoeopathic
  • atomic, subatomic, corpuscular, molecular
  • rudimentary, rudimental
  • embryonic, vestigial. weazen, scant, scraggy, scrubby
  • thin etc. (narrow) Narrowness. Thinness
  • granular etc. (powdery) Pulverulence
  • shrunk etc. Contraction
  • brevipennate.
Adverbs
  • in a small compass, in a nutshell
  • on a small scale
  • minutely, microscopically.

Expansion

Nouns
  • expansion
  • increase of size etc. Increase
  • enlargement, extension, augmentation
  • amplification, ampliation
  • aggrandizement, spread, increment, growth, development, pullulation, swell, dilation, rarefaction
  • turgescence, turgidness, turgidity
  • dispansion
  • obesity etc. (size) Size
  • hydrocephalus, hydrophthalmus [Med.]
  • dropsy, tumefaction, intumescence, swelling, tumor, diastole, distension
  • puffing, puffiness
  • inflation
  • pandiculation. dilatability, expansibility. germination, growth, upgrowth
  • accretion etc. Increase
  • budding, gemmation. overgrowth, overdistension
  • hypertrophy, tympany. bulb etc. (convexity) Convexity
  • plumper
  • superiority of size. [expansion of the universe] big bang
  • Hubble constant.
Verbs
  • become larger etc. (large) etc. Size
  • expand, widen, enlarge, extend, grow, increase, incrassate, swell, gather
  • fill out
  • deploy, take open order, dilate, stretch, distend, spread
  • mantle, wax
  • grow up, spring up
  • bud, shoot, sprout, germinate, put forth, vegetate, pullulate, open, burst forth
  • gain flesh, gather flesh
  • outgrow
  • spread like wildfire, overrun. be larger than
  • surpass etc. (be superior) [Supremacy.] Superiority. render larger etc. (large) etc. Size
  • expand, spread, extend, aggrandize, distend, develop, amplify, spread out, widen, magnify, rarefy, inflate, puff, blow up, stuff, pad, cram
  • exaggerate
  • fatten.
Adjectives
  • expanded, c. v.
  • larger, c. (large) etc. Size
  • swollen
  • expansive
  • wide open, wide spread
  • flabelliform
  • overgrown, exaggerated, bloated, fat, turgid, tumid, hypertrophied, dropsical
  • pot bellied, swag bellied
  • edematous, oedematous, obese, puffy, pursy, blowzy, bigswoln, distended
  • patulous
  • bulbous etc. (convex) Convexity
  • full blown, full grown, full formed
  • big etc. Size
  • abdominous, enchymatous, rhipidate
  • tumefacient, tumefying.

Contraction

Nouns
  • contraction, reduction, diminution
  • decrease of size etc. Nonincrease, Decrease
  • defalcation, decrement
  • lessening, shrinking etc. v.
  • compaction
  • tabes, collapse, emaciation, attenuation, tabefaction, consumption, marasmus, atrophy
  • systole, neck, hourglass. condensation, compression, compactness
  • compendium etc. Compendium
  • squeezing etc. v.
  • strangulation
  • corrugation
  • astringency
  • astringents, sclerotics
  • contractility, compressibility
  • coarctation. inferiority in size.
Verbs
  • become small, become smaller
  • lessen, decrease etc. Nonincrease, Decrease
  • grow less, dwindle, shrink, contract, narrow, shrivel, collapse, wither, lose flesh, wizen, fall away, waste, wane, ebb
  • decay etc. (deteriorate) Deterioration. be smaller than, fall short of
  • not come up to etc. (be inferior) Inferiority. render smaller, lessen, diminish, contract, draw in, narrow, coarctate
  • boil down
  • constrict, constringe
  • condense, compress, squeeze, corrugate, crimp, crunch, crush, crumple up, warp, purse up, pack, squeeze, stow
  • pinch, tighten, strangle
  • cramp
  • dwarf, bedwarf
  • shorten etc. Shortness
  • circumscribe etc. Circumscription
  • restrain etc. Restraint. [reduce in size by abrasion or paring. ] (subtraction) Nonaddition. Subtraction abrade, pare, reduce, attenuate, rub down, scrape, file, file down, grind, grind down, chip, shave, shear, wear down.
Adjectives
  • contracting etc. v.
  • astringent
  • shrunk, contracted etc. v.
  • strangulated, tabid, wizened, stunted
  • waning etc. v.
  • neap, compact. unexpanded etc. (expand) etc. Expansion
  • contractile
  • compressible
  • smaller etc. (small) etc. Littleness.

Distance

Nouns
  • distance
  • space etc. [Indefinite space.] Space
  • remoteness, farness, far-cry to
  • longinquity, elongation
  • offing, background
  • remote region
  • removedness
  • parallax
  • reach, span, stride. outpost, outskirt
  • horizon
  • aphelion
  • foreign parts, antipodes
  • long range, giant's stride. dispersion etc. Nonassemblage. Dispersion. [units of distance] length etc. Length. cosmic distance, light-years.
Verbs
  • be distant etc. adj.
  • extend to, stretch to, reach to, spread to, go to, get to, stretch away to
  • range. remain at a distance
  • keep away, keep off, keep aloof, keep clear of, stand away, stand off, stand aloof, stand clear of, stay away, keep one's distance. distance
  • distance oneself from.
Adjectives
  • distant
  • far off, far away
  • remote, telescopic, distal, wide of
  • stretching to etc. v.
  • yon, yonder
  • ulterior
  • transmarine, transpontine, transatlantic, transalpine
  • tramontane
  • ultramontane, ultramundane
  • hyperborean, antipodean
  • inaccessible, out of the way
  • unapproached, unapproachable
  • incontiguous.
Adverbs
  • far off, far away
  • afar, afar off
  • off
  • away
  • a long way off, a great way off, a good way off
  • wide away, aloof
  • wide of, clear of
  • out of the way, out of reach
  • abroad, yonder, farther, further, beyond
  • over the border, far and wide, over the hills and far away" [Gay]
  • from pole to pole etc. (over great space) [Indefinite space.] Space
  • to the uttermost parts, to the ends of the earth
  • out of hearing, nobody knows where, out of the sphere of, wide of the mark
  • a far cry to. apart, asunder
  • wide apart, wide asunder
  • at arm's length.
Phrases
  • distance lends enchantment" [Campbell]
  • it's a long long way to Tipperary
  • " out of sight, out of mind.

Nearness

Nouns
  • nearness etc. adj.
  • proximity, propinquity
  • vicinity, vicinage
  • neighborhood, adjacency
  • contiguity etc. Contiguity. short distance, short step, short cut
  • earshot, close quarters, stone's throw
  • bow shot, gun shot, pistol shot
  • hair's breadth, span. purlieus, neighborhood, vicinage, environs, suburbs, confines, banlieue, borderland
  • whereabouts. bystander
  • neighbor, borderer. approach etc. [Motion towards.] Approach
  • convergence etc. [Motion nearer to.] Convergence
  • perihelion.
Verbs
Adjectives
  • near, nigh
  • close at hand, near at hand
  • close, neighboring
  • bordering upon, contiguous, adjacent, adjoining
  • proximate, proximal
  • at hand, handy
  • near the mark, near run
  • home, intimate.
Adverbs
  • near, nigh
  • hard by, fast by
  • close to, close upon
  • hard upon
  • at the point of
  • next door to
  • within reach, within call, within hearing, within earshot
  • within an ace of
  • but a step, not far from, at no great distance
  • on the verge of, on the brink of, on the skirts of
  • in the environs etc. n.
  • at one's door, at one's feet, at one's elbow, at one's finger's end, at one's side
  • on the tip of one's tongue
  • under one's nose
  • within a stone's throw etc. n.
  • in sight of, in presence of
  • at close quarters
  • cheek by jole, cheek by jowl
  • beside, alongside, side by side, tete-a-tete
  • in juxtaposition etc. (touching) Contiguity
  • yardarm to yardarm, at the heels of
  • on the confines of, at the threshold, bordering upon, verging to
  • in the way. about
  • hereabouts, thereabouts
  • roughly, in round numbers
  • approximately, approximatively
  • as good as, well-nigh.

Interval

Nouns
  • interval, interspace
  • separation etc. Disjunction
  • break, gap, opening
  • hole etc. Opening
  • chasm, hiatus, caesura
  • interruption, interregnum
  • interstice, lacuna, cleft, mesh, crevice, chink, rime, creek, cranny, crack, chap, slit, fissure, scissure, rift, flaw, breach, rent, gash, cut, leak, dike, ha-ha. gorge, defile, ravine, canon, crevasse, abyss, abysm
  • gulf
  • inlet, frith, strait, gully
  • pass
  • furrow etc. Furrow
  • abra
  • barranca, barranco
  • clove [U.S.], gulch [U.S.], notch [U.S.]
  • yawning gulf
  • parenthesis etc. (interjacence) Interposition
  • void etc. (absence) Absence
  • incompleteness etc. Incompleteness. [interval of time] period etc. [Definite duration, or portion of time.] Period
  • interim (time) Time.
Verbs
Adjectives
  • with an interval, far between
  • breachy, rimose, rimulose.
Adverbs

Contiguity

Nouns
  • contiguity, contact, proximity, apposition, abuttal, juxtaposition
  • abutment, osculation
  • meeting, appulse, rencontre, rencounter, syzygy [Astr.], coincidence, coexistence
  • adhesion etc. Coherence
  • touching etc. v.. (touch) [Sensation of pressure] Touch. borderland
  • frontier etc. (limit) Limit
  • tangent
  • abutter.
Verbs
  • be contiguous etc. adj.
  • join, adjoin, abut on, march with
  • graze, touch, meet, osculate, come in contact, coincide
  • coexist
  • adhere etc. Coherence. [cause to be contiguous] juxtapose
  • contact
  • join (unite) Junction
  • link (vinculum) [Connecting medium.] Connection.
Adjectives
  • contiguous
  • touching etc. v.
  • in contact etc. n.
  • conterminous, end to end, osculatory
  • pertingent
  • tangential. hand to hand
  • close to etc. (near) Nearness
  • with no interval etc. Interval.