ABOMINABLE—detestable, hateful, odious, execrable. (Choice, excellent, attractive, select.)
ABORTIVE—ineffectual, futile, inoperative, defective, inadequate. (Efficient, productive, complete.)
ABOUT—around, near to, nearly, approximately, contiguous. (Remote from, distant.)
ABSCOND—take oneself off, “vamoose,” disappear, decamp, run away. (Thrust oneself into notice.)
ABSENT—not present, wanting, absentminded, abstracted, inattentive, listless, dreamy, visionary. (Present, collected, composed, vigilant, observant.)
ABSOLUTE—certain, unconditioned, unconditional, unlimited, unrestricted, transcendent, authoritative, paramount, imperative, arbitrary, despotic. (Conditional, limited, hampered, fettered.)
ABSORB—suck up, imbibe, engross, drain away, consume. (Reserve, save, spare, husband, economize, hoard up.)
ABSURD—unreasonable, nonsensical, foolish, vain, impracticable. (Reasonable, prudent, veracious.)
ABUSE, v.—pervert, deprave, traduce, debase, disparage, slander, calumniate, rail at, reproach, depreciate. (Improve, develop, cultivate, promote, bless, magnify, appreciate.)