
job | job: n. 1 work, employment, position, berth, livelihood; career, occupation, calling, vocation, appointment, pursuit, field, trade, craft, profession, m�tier, area: What kind of job is she looking for? Harry has a new job. 2 assignment, responsibility, concern, chore, task, undertaking, function, duty, role, mission, province, contribution, charge: It is my job to see that the machines run properly. 3 task, undertaking, procedure, proceeding, affair, operation, project, activity, business, matter, chore: The job of changing the gasket will take only a few minutes. 4 problem, difficulty, burden, nuisance, bother; toil, grind, drudgery; Colloq headache, pain (in the neck), hassle, Slang pain in the Brit arse or US ass: It was a real job getting them to pay for the damage. 5 crime, felony; robbery, burglary, Slang US and Canadian caper: From the modus operandi, I''d say that the same gang did that job in Manchester. --v. 6 Often, job out. let out, assign, apportion, allot, share out, contract, hire, employ, subcontract, farm out, consign, commission: They undertake to do the work, but then they job it out to others.
jog | jog: v. 1 trot, lope, dogtrot, run: I jog around the reservoir every morning for exercise. 2 jar, prod, nudge, arouse, stir, stimulate, prompt, activate, shake: I jogged his memory by referring to the time the dog bit him. 3 bounce, shake, jolt, joggle, jounce, jerk: I was being jogged about in the back of the van as we sped over the rocky terrain.
join | join: v. 1 unite, connect, couple, link, marry, yoke, combine, fasten or tie or glue or weld or solder (together), unify: These two pieces should be joined for greater strength. 2 ally or league with, associate (oneself) with, team up with, throw (one''s lot) in with, enlist (in), sign (up) (with), enrol (in), enter: She was invited to join the bridge club. 3 go or be with, associate with, accompany, attach (oneself) to, participate with: Would you care to join us for a game of bridge? 4 border (on or upon), meet, touch, abut, butt, adjoin, be adjacent (to), extend to, verge on, coincide (with), juxtapose, be contiguous or conterminous (with), be coextensive (with): The two properties join at the top of the ridge.
joint | joint: n. 1 seam, union, juncture, connection, junction, intersection: The joint won''t show after the whole thing''s been painted. 2 Slang dive, dump, US and Canadian honky-tonk: We went into a joint in Soho, looking for some action. 3 roast: Who carves the Sunday joint at your house? --adj. 4 shared, mutual, combined, collective, cooperative, common, communal, collaborative: Our aims can only be achieved by joint effort.
jointed | jointed: v. articulated, segmented, sectioned, sectionalized, hinged: The stick is jointed so that it can be folded for carrying in the pocket.
joke | joke: n. 1 jest, witticism, quip, bon mot, laugh, wordplay, pun, story, anecdote, Colloq gag, wisecrack, one-liner, crack: Ronnie comes up with the funniest jokes I have ever heard. 2 laughing-stock, butt, (fair) game, buffoon: After that incident, he became the joke of the regiment. 3 farce, mockery, absurdity, travesty, caricature: My efforts to play the piano became a joke. --v. 4 jest, quip, pun, frolic, wisecrack, tease, taunt, banter, chaff, fool, Colloq kid, US crack wise: They joked about our predicament. You must be joking if you think I''m going to go out with him!
joker | joker: n. 1 jokester, comedian, comedienne, funny man, humorist, jester, comic, clown, wag, wit, punster, droll, zany, merry andrew, buffoon, trickster, prankster, Colloq card, gagster, gag man, kidder: Give him a drink and a funny hat and Roger thinks he''s the greatest joker in the world. 2 US catch, hitch, snag, drawback, trap, twist, pitfall, fine or small print, Colloq catch-22, no-win situation, Taboo nigger in the woodpile: The joker is that whoever treats the patients catches the disease.
jolly | jolly: adj. 1 merry, cheerful, frolicsome, gay, jovial, joyful, sportive, convivial, jocund, jocose, jocular, frisky, coltish, playful, festive, jubilant, cheery, exuberant, high-spirited, animated: Everyone was in a jolly mood at her birthday party. --v. 2 Often, jolly along. humour, appease, deceive, string along, fool, hoax: They''re just jollying him along because they want him to invest in their scheme.
jolt | jolt: v. 1 jar, shake (up), jostle, bump, bounce, jerk: The cart jolted over the rough terrain. 2 butt, strike, hit, push, nudge, elbow, knock, jab: He jolted me so hard he actually cracked a rib. 3 shock, astonish, astound, amaze, surprise, startle, stun, dumbfound or dumfound, stupefy, strike dumb, daze, shake (up): I was jolted to learn that my husband had been arrested for murder. --n. 4 lurch, jar, jerk, bump, jump, bounce, start: The train started with a jolt that almost knocked me over. 5 blow, shock, surprise, bolt from the blue, bombshell: It was certainly a jolt to discover that she had left me.
jot | jot: v. 1 Usually, jot down. make a note of, write or note (down), put or set or take down, record: Jot down this telephone number. --n. 2 scrap, grain, (wee) bit, speck, mite, iota, whit, particle, tittle, Colloq slightest, US and Canadian tad, smidgen or smidgin: I don''t care a jot what she thinks about the situation in Central America.
journal | journal: n. 1 periodical, magazine, gazette, newspaper, paper, newsletter, review, tabloid; daily, weekly, monthly, fortnightly, quarterly, annual: The journal contains information about every building permit awarded in the entire country. 2 diary, chronicle, dossier, record, register, log, logbook, minute-book, minutes, documentation, album, scrapbook, memoir, almanac, annal, history, yearbook, record book; roll, catalogue, list: He kept a detailed journal of every event in his twenty-year exile.
journalist | journalist: n. reporter, newspaperman, newspaperwoman, correspondent, newsman, newswoman, member of the fourth estate, gentleman or lady of the press, stringer; columnist; hack; newscaster, anchorman, anchorwoman, commentator, broadcaster, Brit pressman, paragraphist; newsreader, Colloq scribe, newsmonger, US and Canadian legman, news-hawk, news-hound, news-hen: Journalists crowded round the minister, urging her to make a statement.
journey | journey: n. 1 trip, voyage, excursion, tour, travel, outing, expedition, junket, cruise, jaunt, pilgrimage, peregrination, odyssey, trek: Did your wife accompany you on your journey to Tierra del Fuego? 2 way, passage, passing, transit, transition, progress, course, way, trip, route, career: On your journey through this life, Whatever be your goal, Keep your eye upon the doughnut, And not upon the hole. --v. 3 travel, tour, voyage, go (abroad or overseas), make or take a trip, make or wend one''s way, make a pilgrimage, peregrinate, trek, rove, range, wander, roam, tour, cruise, gad (about), gallivant or galivant or galavant: He journeyed to the far corners of the earth seeking an answer to life''s mysteries.
joy | joy: n. 1 pleasure, gratification, satisfaction, happiness, contentment, enjoyment, gladness, delight, felicity, elation, exaltation, ecstasy, bliss, exhilaration, exultation, rapture: We felt indescribable joy at seeing the children safe and sound. 2 gaiety, cheerfulness, cheer, glee, buoyancy, joviality, jollity, jocundity, joyfulness, joyousness, jubilation, merriment, light-heartedness, blithesomeness: Let me wish you joy in this holiday season. 3 delight, pleasure, treat, blessing, gratification, satisfaction, prize: A thing of beauty is a joy forever.
joyful | joyful: adj. 1 cheerful, happy, buoyant, gleeful, merry, jovial, jolly, jocund, joyous, jubilant, gay, light-hearted, blithe, blithesome, sunny: We are delighted that you have all come to help us celebrate this joyful occasion. 2 glad, pleased, gratified, delighted, happy, elated, ecstatic, exhilarated, exultant, overjoyed, jubilant, in heaven, Brit in the seventh heaven, US in seventh heaven, Colloq on cloud nine, tickled (pink), Brit over the moon: Mark was joyful at the news that he was father of a boy.
joyless | joyless: adj. 1 sad, unhappy, miserable, depressed, dejected, mournful, downhearted, downcast, down, despondent, dispirited, melancholy, heavy-hearted, cheerless, doleful, grief-stricken, disheartened, saddened, crestfallen, wretched, disconsolate, inconsolable, morose, heartsick, sorrowful, woeful, woebegone: It was a joyless company that stood at the grave side. The cat died, the dog died, and my husband was ill - all in all, a joyless time. 2 gloomy, depressing, dispiriting, disheartening, dreary, lugubrious, cheerless, dismal, bleak, inhospitable, desolate, grim, austere, severe: The shuttered, joyless house loomed out of the misty moor ahead.
