Synonym Game: Round Four

Cinnamon Synonyms: Delicious and Educational

Cinnamon: amber, bay, bister, buff, drab, ecru, fawn, henna, khaki, mahogany, sorrel, snuff-colored, tawny, toast, and a bonus synonym at the end!

Notes:

1. Bister sounds like blister. That is gross and not tasty.
2. Fawn is a deer and I don't like venison, especially not baby venison. Why do deer always end up in my synonyms!?
3. Henna is that cool non-tattoo tattoo thing that all my Indian friends get when they go to family stuff. This upsets me because it reminds me of how I am not Indian and how cool it would be to be Indian.
4. Khaki - really? I don't think Tim O'Brien mentioned "a shaker of cinnamon" in The Things They Carried.
5. Sorrel sounds like squirrel, and you know how I feel about squirrels.... (Shaking fist)
6. Snuff-Colored - If I'm writing a kids' book, am I really going to choose "snuff-colored" instead of cinnamon? Are these guys advocating me drugging children with a 19th century opiate? Because I'll do it, but I won't feel comfortable about it.
7. Toast. See, this is perfect, because cinnamon + toast (+ sugar) = cinnamon-sugar toast, and that shiz is delicious.

Bonus: Like most words, according to thesaurus.com, cinnamon is a synonym for cinnamon. Lovely.

Synonym Game: Round Three

Should Lack Synonyms but Instead has Improper/Weird Ones:

Deer: (female) doe, (male red deer) stag, antelope hummel, brocket, buck(fawn, cervid, cervidæ, cervine, does, dow, elk, fallow deer, halfer, hart, havier(castrated), hind, mammal, mule deer, pricket, red deer, reindeer, roe (female red deer), roebuck, ruminant, sore, sorel, spitter), staggard

Halfter? Cervine? Havier? Does that mean my friend Javier's name means "Castrated Deer"? Because if so I am not going to be the person to tell him that. Oh... sorry, Javs.

I think deers that spit are called camels.

Just because a deer is sore does not mean a deer is A sore! Come on, he was just having a bad day. Remember, his mom probs just got shot in some clearing.

Mule deer, reindeer, fallow, and red deer are types of deer. Not synonyms for deer. Clearly this thesaurus needs itself a dictionary.

A hart is a misspelled organ. A hind is "located in the rear." Neither is a mammal. A clear misuse of synecdoche.

A mammal includes many non-deer entities. I believe this is an improper use of the transitive property, which this thesaurus (as we have seen) does not have any synonyms for.

The question is, then, is no synonym better than illogical ones?

The answer: Yes, but they're far less entertaining.

Synonym Game: Round Two

Lack Synonyms:
defect, deficiency, deficient, inadequacy, insufficiency, paucity, poverty, scantiness

Lacks Synonyms:
transitive (0), WALL-E (0), synonym (2), cheese* (0), dangly** (2)


*Cheese as a noun has no synonyms. However, cheese as a verb meaning "to lie" or "to distort" has a plethora of synonyms, including but not limited to: embroider, garble, palter, puff, previcate, and, my favorite, cheese.

**Dangly has the hilarious synonym of "pensile." Hilarious because it's like a fancier way of spelling pencil. Yep. That's the only reason why it's funny...

Synonym Game

Synonyms for Mindless:
Asinine, foolish, meaningless, silly

Mindless Synonyms:
Run: canter, whisk, fall, spurt, lift, flow
Happy: blithe, chirpy, sparkling, correct, gala
Red: inflamed, roseate, rufescent
Goo: yuck