| Roget’s II: The New Thesaurus, Third Edition. 1995. |
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| NOUN: | 1. A person's customary manner of emotional response: complexion, disposition, nature, temper, temperament. See BE. 2. An impulsive, often illogical turn of mind: bee, boutade, caprice, conceit, fancy, freak, impulse, megrim, notion, vagary, whim, whimsy. Idioms: bee in one's bonnet. See THOUGHTS. 3. The quality of being laughable or comical: comedy, comicality, comicalness, drollery, drollness, farcicality, funniness, humorousness, jocoseness, jocosity, jocularity, ludicrousness, ridiculousness, wit, wittiness, zaniness. See LAUGHTER. 4. A temporary state of mind or feeling: frame of mind, mood, spirit (used in plural), temper, vein. See FEELINGS. | | VERB: | To comply with the wishes or ideas of (another): cater, gratify, indulge. See RESIST.
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