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Synonyms and Antonyms: Exact

Prompt-(see Dilatory, Exact, and Ready)-quick, instant, ready, instantaneous, timely.) Prop, v.-(see Bear) -support, carry, sustain, hold, maintain, back, second, stay. Propagate-disseminate, scatter, spread, diffuse, breed, increase, multiply, circulate, reproduce. (Annul, nullify, cancel, veto, invalidate.) Proper (see Becoming)-due, fit, meet, pertinent, appropriate, relevant, apt, befitting, suitable, just, bounden, incumbent. (Wrong, unbecoming, incongruous, impertinent.) Prosper (see Fail)-flourish, succeed, thrive, advance. Prosperity-well-being, weal, welfare, thriving, good luck, fortune, affluence. (Decline, retrogression, poverty, misfortune, disaster, adversity.) Proxy-(see Factor)-deputy, substitute, vice, agent, delegate, representative, surrogate, Prudence-carefulness, watchfulness, circumspection, providence, discretion, calculation, forethought. (Imprudence, temerity, indiscretion, rashness:) Prurient-(see Lascivious)-itching, craving, hankering, lusting, longing, concupiscent, covetous. (Whole, self-centred, clean, saintly, holy, pure.) Puerile--(see Manly)-boyish, juvenile, childish, infantile, fatuitous, weak, silly. (Mature, effective, efficient, robust.) Punctilious-(see Exact and Nice)-formal, ceremonious, fastidious, crotchety. Putrefy-rot, decompose, corrupt, decay, foul.

Puzzle, v. See Embarrass and Mystify. (Enlighten, explain, expound, interpret, elucidate.) Quack-impostor, pretender, humbug, charlatan, mountebank, empiric. (Savant, professor, expert, scientist.) Quaint-artful, curious, far-fetched, odd, antique, fanciful, whimsical. (Plain, regular, current, customary.) Qualified (see Capable)-competent, fitted, adapted.

Quality-attribute, endowment, virtue, gift, property, qualification, susceptibility. Querulous-complaining, lamenting, grumbling, fretting, repining, mourning, lachrymose. (Patient, enduring, self-possessed.) Question-(see Examination)-query, inquiry, interrogation, interrogatory, scrutiny, doubt, scepticism. (Answer, reply, rejoinder, response, retort.) Quibble, v.-cavil, evade, equivocate, shuffle, prevaricate. Quick. See Active.

Quote cite, produce, adduce, exemplify, extract.

Rabid. See Insane.

Race, n.-course, run, pursuit, chace, hunt, match, career, enterprise, family, clan, house, ancestry, lineage, pedigree.

Rack, v. torture, wring, harrow, torment, cruciate, agonize, distress, harass. (Console, soothe, comfort, gratify.) Racy-(see Insipid)-spicy, pungent, flavored, smart, spirited, lively, fresh, vernacular. (Dull, heavy, flat, stale, gross.) Radiance-splendor, brilliancy, glow, lustre, sheen, effulgence, illumination. (Darkness, obscurity, eclipse.) Radical-organic, essential, inherent, inborn, inbred, innate, hereditary, constitutional, thorough, entire. (Extrinsic, accidental, adventitious, incidental.) Rancid (see Foul and Fulsome) -fetid, rank, strong-smelling, offensive (Fragrant, fresh, sweet, aromatic.) Rancor. See Affection and Enmity.