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Synonyms and Antonyms: Simple

Mindful-heedful, attentive, observant, watchful, painstaking, considerate, studious, thoughtful. (Heedless, blind, insensible, thoughtless, careless.) Miscellaneous (see Medley and Simple)-mixed, composite, mongrel, heterogeneous, promiscuous, indiscriminate, motley. (Simple, homogeneous, uniform, single.) Mischief. See Benefit and Malice.

Miscreant-caitiff, villain, ruffian, rascal, scoundrel, wretch, scapegrace, reprobate, recreant, prodigal.

Miserable (see Morose)-wretched, woeful, unhappy, woe-begone, cheerless, dejected, melancholy, hypochondriac, distressed. (Happy, jubilant, exultant, blessed.) Miserly-(see Beneficent)-niggardly, avaricious, stingy, gripping, penurious, grasping, covetous, greedy. (Prodigal, lavish, generous, profuse, bountiful.) Misery-wretchedness, woe, desolation, despair, destitution, privation, want, beggary. (Bliss, felicity, satisfaction, happiness, abundance.) Misfortune. See Calamity.

Miss, v.-lose, fail, mislay, slip, omit, miscarry. (Hit, win, gain, succeed, secure.) Mitigate-moderate, soften, alleviate, mollify, temper, subdue, tranquillize, assuage, appease, still, calm, rebate. (Aggravate, exasperate, exacerbate, sharpen.) Moderate, adj.-(see Extravagant)-sober, temperate, reasonable, measured, lenient, middling, smooth. (Extreme, violent, extraordinary, extravagant, passionate.) Modest (see Lascivious)-chaste, decorous, restrained, pure, delicate, refined, undefiled. Moist-damp, wet, humid, dank, soaking, sodden, sloppy, dripping. (Dry, arid, parched, dusty, waterless.) Monotonous-uniform, unvaried, invariable, even, undiversified, one-and-the-same. (Varied, multifarious, chequered.) Monstrous (see Enormous)-portentous, unsightly, prodigious, unnatural, gigantic, stupendous.

Monument. See Memorial.

Mood (see Humor and Manner)-way, disposition, temperament, turn, grain, bent, bias, propensity.

Morbid-morbose, vitiated, tainted, contaminated, abnormal, unhealthy, sickly, diseased, corrupted. (Sound, hale, healthy, normal, well.) Morose (see Miserable)-sullen, gloomy, surly, crabbed, splenetic, cantankerous, glum, grim, peevish.) Mortal-fatal, deadly, lethal, human.

Motion-movement, procession, progress, proposition, overture, tender, action. Motionless-moveless, quiescent, stationary, stagnant, fixed, inactive, lethargic, sluggish, still. Mount ascend, rise, climb, clamber, soar, tower, scale. (Descend, sink, fall, gravitate, alight, dismount.) Mournful. See Doleful.

Move-(see Abet and March)-go, hie, budge, stir, shift. Multitude (see Gang)-crowd, throng, swarm, bevy, troop, host, mob, horde, crew, squad, shoal, herd, drove.

Murder. See Kill.

Muse. See Consider and Contemplate.

Music-strain, tune, melody, concert, symphony, harmony. Musty-mouldy, rusty, mildewed, fusty, effete, stale, sour, fetid, grimy, snuffy, smutty, rotten.

Mutilate-deform, disfigure, maim, cripple, truncate, disable. Mutinous-insurgent, seditious, turbulent, refractory, contumacious, recalcitrant. (Loyal, faithful, trusty, leal.) Mutual-reciprocal, commutative, interchangeable, intercurrent, correlative. Mysterious (see Frank)-dark, obscure, secret, recondite, enigmatical, mystic, cabalistic, occult, cryptic, clandestine. (Open, express, above-board, public, plain, explicit.) Mystify-mask, secrete, disguise, shade, curtain, eclipse, hood-wink. (Publish, proclaim, explain, expound, interpret.) Naked-nude, divested, stripped, exposed, undressed, bare, bald, en déshabille. (Clad, invested, dighted, attired, robed.) Name, v.-denominate, designate, entitle, style, term, call, christen, characterize, mark. -- n.--appellation, denomination, cognomen, reputation, character, fame credit. Narrate (see Describe)-relate, rehearse, recount, tell, communicate. Nasty. See Foul and Musty.

Nation-state, realm, nationality, commonwealth, body politic, public, society, people. clan, stock, race.