SYNONYMS

For our national speech writers over the next few years I would like to point out that some words are too frequently repeated. In an effort to improve the national vocabulary I have looked these up in Roget’s Thesaurus App. When several are strung together it is especially disconcerting.

Synonyms:

amazing
astonishing, astounding, awesome, breathtaking, confounding, dazzling, extraordinary, eye-opening, fabulous, mind-boggling, miraculous, overwhelming, prodigious, remarkable, spectacular, staggering, startling, strange, stunning, stupendous, surprising, wonderful, wondrous

terrific
ace, agitating, appalling, astounding, awe-inspiring, awesome, awful, breathtaking, deadly, dire, direful, disquieting, divine, dread, dreaded, dreadful, excellent, exceptional, exquisite, extraordinary, fabulous, fantastic, fearful, fell, first-class, formidable, frightful, ghastly, ghoulish, gilt-edged, glorious, golden, great, grim, grisly, groovy, gruesome, heavenly, hideous, horrendous, horrible, horrid, horrific, horrifying, hot, howling, immense, incredible, keen, macabre, magnificent, marvelous, mind-boggling, morbid, outstanding, rattling, redoubtable, rousing, schrecklich, screaming, sensational, shocking, smashing, splendid, splendiferous, sterling, stupendous, super, superb, supereminent, superexcellent, superfine, superior, swell, terrible, terrorizing, thumping, tremendous, unbelievable, upsetting, whacking, wonderful

incredible
a bit thick, a bit thin, absurd, amazing, antic, appalling, astonishing, astounding, awe-inspiring, awesome, beguiling, bewildering, beyond belief, bizarre, cockamamie, conspicuous, crazy, doubtable, doubtful, dubious, dubitable, egregious, enigmatic, exceptional, extraordinary, extravagant, fabulous, fanciful, fantastic, fascinating, fictitious, flimsy, foolish, formidable, grotesque, hardly possible, hard of belief, hard to believe, high-flown, humongous, implausible, impossible, improbable, incomprehensible, inconceivable, laughable, ludicrous, marked, marvelous, miraculous, monstrous, more than doubtful, mythical, nonsensical, notable, not deserving belief, noteworthy, noticeable, of mark, open to doubt, open to suspicion, outlandish, outrageous, outre, outstanding, passing belief, passing strange, phenomenal, poppycockish, preposterous, problematic, prodigious, puzzling, questionable, rare, remarkable, ridiculous, sensational, signal, staggering belief, strange, striking, stupendous, superior, suspect, suspicious, tall, thick, thin, tremendous, unaccountable, unbelievable, uncommon, unconvincing, unearthly, unexpected, ungodly, unheard-of, unimaginable, unique, unlikely, unprecedented, unpromising, unreal, unrealistic, unsubstantial, untenable, unthinkable, unworthy of belief, weak, weird, wild, wonderful, wondrous

tremendous
abysmal, amazing, amplitudinous, appalling, astounding, astronomic, astronomical, Atlantean, awe-inspiring, awesome, awful, boundless, Brobdingnagian, bulky, colossal, cosmic, cracking, Cyclopean, dire, direful, divine, dread, dreaded, dreadful, elephantine, enormous, epic, exquisite, extensive, fantastic, fell, flabbergasting, formidable, frightful, galactic, Gargantuan, ghastly, ghoulish, giant, giantlike, gigantic, gilt-edged, glorious, golden, grim, grisly, gruesome, heavenly, Herculean, heroic, hideous, Homeric, horrendous, horrible, horrid, horrific, horrifying, huge, immeasurable, immense, infinite, jumbo, king-size, large, macabre, magnificent, mammoth, marvelous, massive, massy, mighty, monster, monstrous, monumental, morbid, mortal, mountainous, outsize, overgrown, prodigious, profound, redoubtable, schrecklich, sensational, shocking, sizable, spacious, splendid, splendiferous, sterling, stupendous, super, superb, supereminent, superexcellent, superfine, terrible, terrific, titanic, towering, vast, voluminous, weighty, wonderful

great
able, absolute, abundant, accomplished, ace, ace-high, active, acute, adept, adroit, aggrandized, anticipating, apotheosized, arch, ardent, arrant, artistic, ascendant, authoritarian, authoritative, authorized, autocratic, awesome, awful, bad, bang-up, banner, baron, basic, beatified, best, big, big-laden, big-league, big-name, big-time, big gun, bighearted, big man, big name, bigwig, bigwigged, big with child, bonzer, boss, brass, brass hat, breeding, brilliant, Brobdingnagian, bull, bully, bumper, but good, canonized, capacious, capital, cardinal, carrying, carrying a fetus, celebrated, celebrity, central, champion, chief, chivalrous, choir, claviature, clever, close, clothed with authority, colossal, commanding, competent, comprehensive, consequential, considerable, console, consummate, controlling, cool, corking, countless, crackerjack, critical, crowning, crucial, cutting, Cyclopean, dandy, dedicated, deep, deified, delicious, devoted, dignitary, dignity, distinguished, dominant, double-barreled, drastic, ducky, duly constituted, eager, earthshaking, echo, egregious, eighty-eight, elder, elevated, eminent, empowered, ennobled, enormous, enshrined, enthroned, enthusiastic, Establishment, exalted, excellent, exceptional, excess, excessive, exhaustive, ex officio, exorbitant, expecting, expert, extensive, extraordinary, extravagant, extreme, fab, faithful, famed, famous, fast, fat, father, fierce, figure, fine and dandy, fingerboard, first, first-rate, first-rater, flagrant, focal, foremost, full, furious, gargantuan, gear, generous, genius, gestating, giant, gifted, gigantic, glaring, glorified, good hand, goodly, governing, grand, grave, gravid, greathearted, great man, great of heart, grievous, groovy, handsome, headmost, healthy, hear, heavy, heavyweight, heavy with child, hegemonic, hegemonistic, heinous, held in awe, heroic, high, high-minded, high-powered, high and mighty, horrendous, horrible, horrific, hot, huge, hunky-dory, husky, idealistic, illustrious, immense, immoderate, immortal, immortalized, imperative, important, important person, incomparable, influential, inordinate, intemperate, intense, interests, intimate, irresistible, ivories, jam-up, just dandy, keen, keyboard, keys, knightly, knocked up, large, large-scale, largehearted, leading, liberal, lion, lofty, lords of creation, loving, loyal, magician, magisterial, magnanimous, magnate, magnified, mahatma, main, major, mammoth, man-sized, man of genius, man of mark, manual, marked, marvy, massive, master, master hand, mastermind, matchless, material, maximum, mean, mighty, mogul, momentous, monocratic, monstrous, nabob, name, neat, nifty, nobby, noble, noble-minded, notability, notable, noteworthy, numerous, official, OK, okay, openhanded, organ manual, out-and-out, out of sight, outrageous, outstanding, overruling, panjandrum, paramount, parturient, passionate, past master, peachy, peachy-keen, pedals, peerless, personage, personality, person of renown, piano keys, piercing, pillar of society, plenary, potent, power, power elite, powerful, practiced hand, predominant, preeminent, preggers, pregnant, preponderant, prestigious, prevailing, primal, primary, prime, princely, principal, prodigious, prodigy, proficient, profound, prominent, pronounced, puissant, ranking, remarkable, renowned, rigorous, ripping, rough, ruling, ruling circle, rum, sachem, sage, sainted, sanctified, scrumptious, self-important, senior, serious, severe, sharp, shrined, significant, sizable, skilled, skilled hand, slap-up, smashing, solid, solo, somebody, something, something else, sovereign, spacious, spectacular, spiffing, spiffy, splitting, star, stellar, strong, stunning, stupendous, sublime, substantial, superb, supereminent, superfetate, superimpregnated, superior, superlative, superstar, supreme, surpassing, swell, talented, tall, teeming, terrible, terrific, the great, the top, throned, tidy, titanic, top, top brass, topflight, topnotcher, top people, total, totalitarian, tough, transcendent, tremendous, true, tycoon, unconscionable, unforgivable, vast, vehement, venomous, very important person, violent, VIP, virtuoso, virulent, weighty, well-known, whiz, with child, wizard, wonderful, world-shaking, worthy, zealous

huge
abysmal, amplitudinous, astronomic, astronomical, Atlantean, awesome, boundless, Brobdingnagian, bulky, colossal, cosmic, Cyclopean, elephantine, enormous, epic, extensive, galactic, gargantuan, Gargantuan, giant, giantlike, gigantic, great, Herculean, heroic, Homeric, immeasurable, immense, infinite, jumbo, king-size, large, leviathan, mammoth, massive, massy, mighty, monster, monstrous, monumental, mountainous, outsize, overgrown, prodigious, profound, sizable, spacious, stupendous, titanic, towering, tremendous, vast, voluminous, weighty, whopping

win
accomplish, achieve, acquire, annex, argue into, ascendancy, attain, bag, bear the palm, beat, beat all hollow, be seized of, best, bring in, bring over, bring round, bring to reason, Cadmean victory, captivate, capture, carry, carry away, carry it, carry off, carry the day, catch, chalk up, championship, charm, clobber, come by, come in for, come into, come out first, con, conquer, conquest, contract, convince, corral, defeat, derive, drag down, draw, draw over, earn, easy victory, enter into possession, finish in front, fluke, gain, gain over, gain the day, get, grand slam, harvest, have, hook, hook in, knock down, knockout, KO, landslide, landslide victory, lick, make, make a killing, mastery, moral victory, net, obtain, outtalk, overcome, persuade, pick up, picnic, prevail, prevail on, prevail upon, prevail with, procure, produce, pull down, pushover, Pyrrhic victory, reach, realize, reap, runaway victory, sack, score, secure, sell, sell one on, skin, subdual, subduing, success, sway, take, take the cake, talk into, talk over, total victory, triumph, trounce, victory, walkaway, walkover, wangle, wangle into, wear down, winning, winning streak, win out, win over, win the battle, win the laurels, win the palm, win the prize, win through, worst, yield

A few negative words that I need to hear less frequently: fool, idiot, moron and above all:

stupid
absurd, addled, apish, asinine, backward, balmy, barmy, batty, beef-brained, beef-witted, beetleheaded, befooled, beguiled, besotted, blear-eyed, blear-witted, block, blockheaded, blockish, Boeotian, boneheaded, bootless, boring, bovine, brainless, brute, brutish, buffoonish, chuckleheaded, chumpish, clod, cloddish, cockamamie, cockeyed, cowish, crass, crazy, credulous, cretinous, cuckoo, daffy, daft, dazed, dense, dim, dim-witted, dimwit, dizzy, dolt, doltish, donkey, dope, dopey, doting, dozy, dull, dull-witted, dullard, dullhead, dumb, dumbbell, dumb cluck, dummkopf, dummy, dunce, duncical, duncish, empty-headed, fat, fatheaded, fatuitous, fatuous, flaky, fond, fool, foolhardy, foolheaded, foolish, frivolous, fuddled, futile, gaga, goofy, goosey, gowk, gross, gulled, half-assed, half-baked, half-witted, ho-hum, humdrum, idiot, idiotic, ignoramus, ill-advised, imbecile, imbecilic, inane, ineducable, inept, infatuated, insane, insipid, irrational, irresponsible, jerky, jobbernowl, klutzy, kooky, lackwit, lamebrain, laughable, lightweight, looby, loon, loony, ludicrous, lumbering, lumpish, mad, maudlin, mindless, monotonous, moron, moronic, niais, nincompoop, ninny, ninnyhammer, nitwit, noddy, nonsensical, numskulled, nutty, oafish, obtuse, opaque, pinhead, prosaic, put, retarded, ridiculous, risible, sappy, scatterbrained, screwy, senseless, sentimental, silly, simple, simpleton, slow, slow-witted, sluggish, sottish, stolid, subnormal, tedious, thick, thick-witted, thickheaded, thickwit, thoughtless, tiresome, torpid, unimaginative, uninspired, unintelligent, uninteresting, unteachable, vacuous, vapid, wacky, weak-minded, wet, witless, witling, wrongheaded
thickwit, thoughtless, tiresome, torpid, unimaginative, uninspired, unintelligent, uninteresting, unteachable, vacuous, vapid, wacky, weak-minded, wet, witless, witling, wrongheaded

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