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/ˈʌŋɡjuənt/ · noun
Any cream containing medicinal ingredients applied to the skin for therapeutic purposes..
"Alas!" said Syntax, "could I pop / Just now, upon a blacksmith's shop, / Whose cooling unguents would avail / To save poor Grizzle's ears and tail!"
So she put a golden box into his hand, and directed him how to apply the perfumed unguent which it contained, and where to meet her at midnight.
Thou knowest of old that my temper is somewhat choleric, and my tongue not greased with that unguent which oils the mouths of the lip-serving lords of the land.
In vials of ivory and coloured glass / Unstoppered, lurked her strange synthetic perfumes, / Unguent, powdered, or liquid— […]
Use unguent when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Unguent means Any cream containing medicinal ingredients applied to the skin for therapeutic purposes..
Common synonyms include salve, balm, ointment.
The opposite depends on the specific sense.
"Alas!" said Syntax, "could I pop / Just now, upon a blacksmith's shop, / Whose cooling unguents would avail / To save poor Grizzle's ears and tail!"
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