Synonyms Starting with D
Desperation Synonyms: recklessness, heedlessness, foolhardiness, imprudence, frenzy, daring, defiance, extremity, risk, precipitateness, rashness.Despicable Synonyms: contemptible, hateful, loathsome, mean, vile, low, ignominious, base, infamous, disgraceful, shameful, detestable, reprehensible, wretched, worthless, disreputable.Despise Synonyms: scorn, spurn, disdain, contemn, look down on, misprize, sneer at, loathe, detest, deride, revile.Despite Synonyms: spite.contempt.Despoil Synonyms: plunder.Despond Synonyms: despair.Despondency Synonyms: despair, dejection, discouragement, desperation, hopelessness, dispiritedness, depression, pessimism, melancholy, defeatism, unhappiness, wretchedness, misery, funk, the blues.Despondent Synonyms: dejected, depressed, disheartened, downhearted, dispirited, discouraged, disconsolate, forlorn, desolate, melancholy, sad, glum, morose, wretched, unhappy, miserable, blue, down.Despot Synonyms: autocrat, tyrant, oppressor, dictator, authoritarian, fascist, inquisitor, martinet, bully, simon legree, slave driver, taskmaster.Despotic Synonyms: tyrannical, autocratic, oppressive, dictatorial, authoritarian, fascist, inquisitorial, bullying, arbitrary, unyielding, imperious, inhumane, merciless, unreasonable, draconian.Despotism Synonyms: tyranny.Destination Synonyms: terminal, terminus, address, resting place, journey's end, haven, port, harbor, home, anchorage, stop, station.goal, purpose, aim, end, aspiration, intention, design, object, ambition, target, hope, wDestine Synonyms: determine.Destiny Synonyms: fate, lot, inevitability, fortune, portion, providence, doom, star, karma, kismet.Destitute Synonyms: lacking, depleted, devoid, used up, exhausted, empty, deficient, void, inadequate, low, short, wanting, vacant.poverty-stricken, needy, badly off, poor, hard up, insolvent, indigent, impoverished, in Destroy Synonyms: tear down, raze, demolish, pull down, wreck, shatter, blast, gut, devastate, break.annihilate, exterminate, extinguish, consume, quench, undo, ruin, obliterate, efface, eradicate, decimate, wipe out, Destruction Synonyms: havoc, ruin, annihilation, extermination, undoing, obliteration, removal, demolition, overthrow, subversion, slaughter, fall, end, wreck.Destructive Synonyms: hurtful, harmful, injurious, damaging, negative, deleterious, bad, discouraging, undermining, disheartening, detrimental, disruptive, subversive, baneful.Desultory Synonyms: aimless, unmethodical, changeable, discontinuous, casual, wandering, spasmodic, off and on, irregular, capricious, discursive, cursory, undirected, episodic, purposeless, erratic, nonchalant.Detach Synonyms: separate, disconnect, unfasten, sever, disengage, loosen, divide, sunder, part, free, isolate, cut, withdraw, undo, disjoin, divorce.Detached Synonyms: separated, disconnected, severed, sundered, divided, free, discrete, isolated, disjointed, segregated, divorced, cut, parted.impartial, unbiased, disinterested, objective, uncommitted, fair-minded, juDetachment Synonyms: impartiality, objectivity, disinterestedness, indifference, aloofness, dispassion, nonpartisanship, unconcern, coolness, neutrality, fair-mindedness, justice, remoteness, disengagement.Detail Synonyms: part, item, particular, iota, datum, specific, particularity, feature, itemization, particularization, triviality.Detailed Synonyms: specific.Detain Synonyms: restrain, stop, arrest, delay, hold, retard, hinder, impede, confine, lock up, kidnap, jail, imprison.
