Any of various lithe-bodied roundheaded fissiped mammals, many with retractile claws.

synonym: felid.

Roget 366: animal, animal kingdom; fauna; brute creation.    beast, brute, creature, critter [U.S.]; wight, created being; creeping thing, living thing; dumb animal, dumb creature; zoophyte.    [major divisions of animals] mammal, bird, reptile, amphibian, fish, crustacean, shellfish, mollusk, worm, insect, arthropod, microbe.    [microscopic animals] microbe, animalcule etc. 193.    [reptiles] alligator, crocodile; saurian; dinosaur (extinct); snake, serpent, viper, eft; asp, aspick^†.    [amphibians] frog, toad.    [fishes] trout, bass, tuna, muskelunge, sailfish, sardine, mackerel.    [insects] ant, mosquito, bee, honeybee.    [arthropods] tardigrade, spider.    [classification by number of feet] biped, quadruped; [web-footed animal] webfoot.    flocks and herds, live stock; domestic animals, wild animals; game, ferae naturae [Lat.]; beasts of the field, fowls of the air, denizens of the sea; black game, black grouse; blackcock^†, duck, grouse, plover, rail, snipe.    [domesticated mammals] horse etc. (beast of burden) 271; cattle, kine^†, ox; bull, bullock; cow, milch cow, calf, heifer, shorthorn; sheep; lamb, lambkin^†; ewe, ram, tup; pig, swine, boar, hog, sow; steer, stot^†; tag, teg^†; bison, buffalo, yak, zebu, dog, cat.    [dogs] dog, hound; pup, puppy; whelp, cur, mongrel; house dog, watch dog, sheep dog, shepherd's dog, sporting dog, fancy dog, lap dog, toy dog, bull dog, badger dog; mastiff; blood hound, grey hound, stag hound, deer hound, fox hound, otter hound; harrier, beagle, spaniel, pointer, setter, retriever; Newfoundland; water dog, water spaniel; pug, poodle; turnspit; terrier; fox terrier, Skye terrier; Dandie Dinmont; collie.    [cats--generally] feline, puss, pussy; grimalkin^†; gib cat, tom cat.    [wild mammals] fox, Reynard, vixen, stag, deer, hart, buck, doe, roe; caribou, coyote, elk, moose, musk ox, sambar^†.    [birds] bird; poultry, fowl, cock, hen, chicken, chanticleer, partlet^†, rooster, dunghill cock, barn door fowl; feathered tribes, feathered songster; singing bird, dicky bird; canary, warbler; finch; aberdevine^†, cushat^†, cygnet, ringdove^†, siskin, swan, wood pigeon.    [undesirable animals] vermin, varmint [U.S.], pest.    ... show more

Of or relating to cats.

Roget 528: concealed etc. v.; hidden; secret, recondite, mystic, cabalistic, occult, dark; cryptic, cryptical^†; private, privy, in petto, auricular, clandestine, close, inviolate; tortuous.    behind a screen etc. 530; undercover, under an eclipse; in ambush, in hiding, in disguise; in a cloud, in a fog, in a mist, in a haze, in a dark corner; in the shade, in the dark; clouded, wrapped in clouds, wrapt in clouds^†; invisible etc. 447; buried, underground, perdu [Fr.]; secluded etc. 893.    undisclosed etc. 529, untold etc. 527; covert etc. (latent) 526; untraceable; mysterious etc. (unintelligible) 519.    irrevealable^†, inviolable; confidential; esoteric; not to be spoken of; unmentionable.    obreptitious^†, furtive, stealthy, feline; skulking etc. v.; surreptitious, underhand, hole and corner; sly etc. (cunning) 702; secretive, evasive; reserved, reticent, uncommunicative, buttoned up; close, close as wax; taciturn etc. 585.    ... show more

Roget 366: animal, zoological equine, bovine, vaccine, canine, feline, fishy; piscatory^†, piscatorial; molluscous^†, vermicular; gallinaceous, rasorial^†, solidungulate^†, soliped^†.    ... show more

Roget 702: cunning, crafty, artful; skillful etc. 698; subtle, feline, vulpine; cunning as a fox, cunning as a serpent; deep, deep laid; profound; designing, contriving; intriguing etc. v.; strategic, diplomatic, politic, Machiavelian, timeserving^†; artificial; tricky, tricksy^†; wily, sly, slim, insidious, stealthy; underhand etc. (hidden) 528; subdolous^†; deceitful etc. 545; slippery as an eel, evasive etc. 623; crooked; arch, pawky^†, shrewd, acute; sharp, sharp as a tack, sharp as a needle^†; canny, astute, leery, knowing, up to snuff, too clever by half, not to be caught with chaff.    tactful, diplomatic, politic; polite etc. 894.    ... show more

Dutch: felien
Polish: koci