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{
"wrangled":{
"to express different opinions about something often angrily":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"a town meeting at which local residents wrangled for hours about property taxes"
],
"near antonyms":[
"coexisted",
"got along",
"accepted",
"agreed",
"assented",
"concurred",
"consented"
],
"related":[
"challenged",
"dared",
"defied",
"clashed",
"contended",
"contested",
"tangled",
"caviled",
"cavilled",
"fussed",
"nitpicked",
"considered",
"debated",
"discussed",
"kicked",
"objected",
"protested"
],
"synonyms":[
"altercated",
"argued",
"argufied",
"bickered",
"brabbled",
"brawled",
"controverted",
"disputed",
"fell out",
"fought",
"hassled",
"jarred",
"quarreled",
"quarrelled",
"quibbled",
"rowed",
"scrapped",
"spatted",
"squabbled",
"tiffed"
]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"wreak":{
"to cause to suffer punishment or vengeance for":{
"examples":[
"wreaked their vengeance on those they considered enemies"
],
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"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"inflict",
"assess",
"charge",
"exact",
"fine",
"impose",
"lay",
"levy",
"put",
"dock",
"excise",
"mulct",
"penalize",
"tax",
"extort",
"shake down",
"wrest",
"wring",
"bleed",
"fleece",
"gouge",
"milk",
"skin",
"squeeze",
"coerce",
"compel",
"force",
"set",
"reapply",
"reimpose",
"relay"
],
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"near antonyms":[],
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"antonyms":[]
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},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
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"wrestle (with)":{
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"to give serious and careful thought to":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"I've been wrestling with the idea of switching careers for quite some time"
],
"near antonyms":[
"disregard",
"ignore",
"overlook",
"slight",
"dismiss",
"pooh-pooh",
"pooh",
"reject"
],
"related":[
"muse (upon)",
"reflect (on or upon)",
"reminisce",
"analyze",
"explore",
"review",
"conclude",
"reason",
"second-guess",
"speculate (about)",
"brood (about or over)",
"dwell (on or upon)",
"fixate (on or upon)",
"fret (about or over)",
"obsess (about or over)",
"believe",
"conceive",
"opine",
"absorb",
"assimilate",
"digest",
"drink (in)"
],
"synonyms":[
"chew over",
"cogitate",
"consider",
"contemplate",
"debate",
"deliberate",
"entertain",
"eye",
"kick around",
"meditate",
"mull (over)",
"perpend",
"ponder",
"pore (over)",
"question",
"revolve",
"ruminate",
"study",
"think (about or over)",
"turn",
"weigh"
]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"wrestling":{
"to seize and attempt to unbalance one another for the purpose of achieving physical mastery":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"the sisters wrestled on the floor over the last cookie"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"related":[
"battling",
"clashing (with)",
"combating",
"combatting",
"contending",
"dueling",
"duelling",
"fighting",
"warring (against)",
"bashing",
"battering",
"beating",
"buffeting",
"hitting",
"punching",
"slugging",
"striking",
"boxing",
"sparring",
"brawling",
"skirmishing"
],
"synonyms":[
"grappling",
"rassling",
"scuffling",
"tussling"
]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"wrests":{
"to draw out by force or with effort":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"the boy wrested the book out of his sister's hands"
],
"near antonyms":[
"implants",
"inserts",
"installs",
"instills",
"crams",
"jams",
"rams",
"stuffs",
"wedges"
],
"related":[
"mines",
"plucks",
"removes",
"takes (out)",
"withdraws"
],
"synonyms":[
"corkscrews",
"extracts",
"pries",
"prizes",
"pulls",
"roots (out)",
"tears (out)",
"uproots",
"wrings",
"yanks"
]
},
"to get (as money) by the use of force or threats":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"vowed that the bully had wrested his lunch money from him for the last time"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"related":[
"bleeds",
"fleeces",
"gouges",
"milks",
"skins",
"squeezes",
"cheats",
"racketeers",
"swindles",
"coerces",
"compels",
"forces"
],
"synonyms":[
"exacts",
"extorts",
"wrings"
]
},
"to get with great difficulty":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"farmers who were used to wresting a living from the harsh land"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"related":[
"acquires",
"attains",
"draws",
"earns",
"gains",
"lands",
"obtains",
"procures",
"secures"
],
"synonyms":[
"ekes (out)",
"scrapes (up or together)",
"scrounges",
"squeezes",
"wrings"
]
},
"to move by or as if by a forceful rotation":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"I need a strong arm to wrest the lid off this pickle jar"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"related":[
"draws",
"dredges (up)",
"extracts",
"jerks",
"lugs",
"plucks",
"pulls",
"tugs",
"tweaks",
"yanks",
"jimmies",
"levers",
"pries",
"budges",
"dislocates",
"displaces",
"disturbs",
"removes",
"shifts",
"transfers",
"transposes"
],
"synonyms":[
"twists",
"wrenches",
"wrings"
]
},
"to separate or remove by forceful pulling":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"wrested open the stuck door of the cabinet"
],
"near antonyms":[
"reattaches"
],
"related":[
"grabs",
"nabs",
"seizes",
"snaps (up)",
"snatches",
"lops (off)",
"nips",
"amputates",
"cuts (off)",
"dissevers",
"severs",
"extracts",
"forces",
"jerks",
"pries",
"prizes",
"pulls",
"roots (out)",
"uproots"
],
"synonyms":[
"rips",
"tears",
"wrenches",
"yanks"
]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
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"wretches":{
"a mean, evil, or unprincipled person":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"the clerk was an ungrateful wretch who stole money from his employer's cash register"
],
"near antonyms":[
"angels",
"innocents",
"saints",
"heroes"
],
"related":[
"villainesses",
"blackguards",
"criminals",
"crooks",
"culprits",
"felons",
"lawbreakers",
"malefactors",
"offenders",
"perpetrators",
"perps",
"transgressors",
"sinners",
"trespassers",
"wrongdoers",
"cads",
"heels",
"serpents",
"snakes",
"vipers",
"bandits",
"bravos",
"bravoes",
"desperadoes",
"desperados",
"outlaws",
"cons",
"convicts",
"jailbirds",
"assassins",
"cutthroats",
"gangsters",
"goons",
"gunmen",
"hoodlums",
"hooligans",
"racketeers",
"ruffians",
"thugs",
"roughs",
"rowdies",
"toughs",
"losers",
"lowlifes",
"lowlives",
"ne'er-do-wells",
"stinkers",
"trash"
],
"synonyms":[
"baddies",
"beasts",
"brutes",
"caitiffs",
"devils",
"evildoers",
"fiends",
"heavies",
"hounds",
"knaves",
"meanies",
"miscreants",
"monsters",
"nazis",
"no-goods",
"rapscallions",
"rascals",
"reprobates",
"rogues",
"savages",
"scalawags",
"scallywags",
"scamps",
"scapegraces",
"scoundrels",
"varlets",
"villains"
]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"wriggled":{
"to introduce in a gradual, secret, or clever way":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"within a month of his arrival, this social upstart had wriggled himself into the family's good graces"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"related":[
"crept",
"edged",
"wiggled",
"inserted",
"interpolated",
"interposed",
"introduced"
],
"synonyms":[
"infiltrated",
"insinuated",
"slipped",
"sneaked",
"snuck",
"worked in",
"wormed",
"wound",
"winded"
]
},
"to make jerky or restless movements":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"a toddler wriggling in his seat all throughout the church service"
],
"near antonyms":[
"relaxed",
"rested",
"unwound",
"calmed (down)",
"stilled"
],
"related":[
"flitted",
"fluttered",
"twittered",
"quaked",
"quivered",
"shivered",
"shook",
"shuddered",
"trembled",
"paced"
],
"synonyms":[
"fiddled",
"fidgeted",
"jerked",
"jigged",
"jiggled",
"squiggled",
"squirmed",
"thrashed",
"threshed",
"tossed",
"twisted",
"twitched",
"wiggled",
"writhed"
]
},
"to move slowly with the body close to the ground":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"a worm slowly wriggled across the sidewalk"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"related":[
"crouched",
"squatted",
"edged",
"inched",
"nosed",
"skulked",
"sneaked",
"snuck",
"stole",
"tiptoed"
],
"synonyms":[
"bellied",
"crawled",
"crept",
"groveled",
"grovelled",
"slid",
"slithered",
"snaked",
"wormed"
]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
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"wring (out)":{
"as in dry , drain":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[],
"near antonyms":[],
"related":[],
"synonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
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"wrings":{
"to draw out by force or with effort":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"willing to use torture if necessary in order to wring the information out of the terrorist"
],
"near antonyms":[
"implants",
"inserts",
"installs",
"instills",
"crams",
"jams",
"rams",
"stuffs",
"wedges"
],
"related":[
"mines",
"plucks",
"removes",
"takes (out)",
"withdraws"
],
"synonyms":[
"corkscrews",
"extracts",
"pries",
"prizes",
"pulls",
"roots (out)",
"tears (out)",
"uproots",
"wrests",
"yanks"
]
},
"to get (as money) by the use of force or threats":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"that bill collector is willing to do anything to wring money out of deadbeats"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"related":[
"bleeds",
"fleeces",
"gouges",
"milks",
"skins",
"squeezes",
"cheats",
"racketeers",
"swindles",
"coerces",
"compels",
"forces"
],
"synonyms":[
"exacts",
"extorts",
"wrests"
]
},
"to get with great difficulty":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"after years of trying to wring a decent profit out of the business, he is finally giving up"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"related":[
"acquires",
"attains",
"draws",
"earns",
"gains",
"lands",
"obtains",
"procures",
"secures"
],
"synonyms":[
"ekes (out)",
"scrapes (up or together)",
"scrounges",
"squeezes",
"wrests"
]
},
"to move by or as if by a forceful rotation":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"I'm so mad I could wring your neck"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"related":[
"draws",
"dredges (up)",
"extracts",
"jerks",
"lugs",
"plucks",
"pulls",
"tugs",
"tweaks",
"yanks",
"jimmies",
"levers",
"pries",
"budges",
"dislocates",
"displaces",
"disturbs",
"removes",
"shifts",
"transfers",
"transposes"
],
"synonyms":[
"twists",
"wrenches",
"wrests"
]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"write up":{
"a written description or review of something":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"There's a write-up of the restaurant in the paper."
],
"near antonyms":[],
"related":[],
"synonyms":[]
},
"as in write , describe":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[],
"near antonyms":[],
"related":[],
"synonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun",
"verb"
]
},
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"write-up":{
"a written description or review of something":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"There's a write-up of the restaurant in the paper."
],
"near antonyms":[],
"related":[],
"synonyms":[]
},
"as in":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[],
"near antonyms":[],
"related":[],
"synonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun",
"verb"
]
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},
"writes off":{
"to diminish the price or value of":{
"antonyms":[
"appreciates",
"enhances",
"marks up",
"upgrades"
],
"examples":[
"that one blunder will write off to nothing all the goodwill we've been building up"
],
"near antonyms":[
"bloats",
"blows up",
"inflates",
"overestimates",
"overprices",
"overrates",
"overvalues",
"adds",
"aggrandizes",
"amplifies",
"augments",
"balloons",
"boosts",
"compounds",
"dilates",
"enlarges",
"escalates",
"expands",
"extends",
"heightens",
"increases",
"maximizes",
"multiplies",
"raises",
"swells",
"ups"
],
"related":[
"debases",
"demonetizes",
"underestimates",
"underprices",
"underrates",
"undervalues",
"abridges",
"compresses",
"contracts",
"de-escalates",
"deflates",
"downsizes",
"dwindles",
"lessens",
"moderates",
"shrinks"
],
"synonyms":[
"attenuates",
"breaks",
"cheapens",
"depreciates",
"depresses",
"devaluates",
"devalues",
"downgrades",
"lowers",
"marks down",
"reduces",
"sinks",
"writes down"
]
},
"to express scornfully one's low opinion of":{
"antonyms":[
"acclaims",
"applauds",
"exalts",
"extols",
"extolls",
"glorifies",
"lauds",
"magnifies",
"praises"
],
"examples":[
"most critics have already written off that director as a hack incapable of turning out anything but schlock"
],
"near antonyms":[
"approves",
"countenances",
"endorses",
"indorses",
"favors",
"recommends",
"sanctions",
"commends",
"compliments",
"eulogizes"
],
"related":[
"discommends",
"abuses",
"scolds",
"disapproves (of)",
"dislikes",
"censures",
"condemns",
"criticizes",
"denounces",
"reprehends",
"reprobates",
"asperses",
"defames",
"maligns",
"rips",
"slanders",
"slurs",
"traduces",
"vilifies",
"discredits",
"disgraces"
],
"synonyms":[
"bad-mouths",
"belittles",
"cries down",
"decries",
"denigrates",
"deprecates",
"depreciates",
"derogates",
"diminishes",
"discounts",
"dismisses",
"disparages",
"disses",
"kisses off",
"minimizes",
"plays down",
"poor-mouths",
"puts down",
"runs down",
"talks down",
"trashes",
"trash-talks",
"vilipends"
]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"writes up":{
"as in writes , describes":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[],
"near antonyms":[],
"related":[],
"synonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"wrong":{
"as in burn , victimize":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[],
"near antonyms":[],
"related":[],
"synonyms":[]
},
"falling short of a standard":{
"antonyms":[
"acceptable",
"adequate",
"all right",
"decent",
"fine",
"OK",
"okay",
"passable",
"respectable",
"satisfactory",
"standard",
"tolerable"
],
"examples":[
"there is something wrong with this cake\u2014it has a funny taste"
],
"near antonyms":[
"classic",
"classical",
"A1",
"bang-up",
"banner",
"boss",
"capital",
"choice",
"crackerjack",
"dandy",
"divine",
"excellent",
"exceptional",
"fabulous",
"first-class",
"first-rate",
"grand",
"great",
"groovy",
"heavenly",
"high-test",
"jim-dandy",
"keen",
"marvelous",
"marvellous",
"mean",
"neat",
"nifty",
"noble",
"par excellence",
"perfect",
"premium",
"prime",
"sensational",
"slick",
"splendid",
"stellar",
"sterling",
"superb",
"superior",
"superlative",
"supernal",
"swell",
"terrific",
"tip-top",
"top",
"top-notch",
"unsurpassed",
"wonderful",
"better",
"exceptional",
"fancy",
"high-grade",
"special",
"sufficient",
"average",
"borderline",
"fair",
"mediocre",
"middling",
"minimal",
"so-so",
"unexceptional",
"suitable",
"useful",
"worthy",
"gratifying",
"satisfying"
],
"related":[
"abysmal",
"atrocious",
"awful",
"bitchin'",
"brutal",
"damnable",
"deplorable",
"detestable",
"disastrous",
"dreadful",
"execrable",
"gnarly",
"horrendous",
"horrible",
"pathetic",
"stinky",
"sucky",
"terrible",
"unspeakable",
"defective",
"faulty",
"flawed",
"egregious",
"flagrant",
"gross",
"bum",
"cheesy",
"coarse",
"common",
"crappy",
"cut-rate",
"junky",
"lesser",
"low-grade",
"low-rent",
"mediocre",
"miserable",
"reprehensible",
"rotten",
"rubbishy",
"second-rate",
"shoddy",
"sleazy",
"trashy",
"abominable",
"odious",
"vile",
"useless",
"valueless",
"worthless",
"inadequate",
"insufficient",
"lacking",
"meager",
"meagre",
"mean",
"miserly",
"niggardly",
"scanty",
"shabby",
"short",
"skimp",
"skimpy",
"spare",
"stingy",
"miscreant",
"scurrilous",
"villainous",
"counterfeit",
"fake",
"phony",
"phoney",
"sham"
],
"synonyms":[
"bad",
"bastard",
"bush",
"bush-league",
"crummy",
"crumby",
"deficient",
"dissatisfactory",
"ill",
"inferior",
"lame",
"lousy",
"off",
"paltry",
"poor",
"punk",
"sour",
"suboptimal",
"subpar",
"substandard",
"unacceptable",
"unsatisfactory",
"wack",
"wanting",
"wretched"
]
},
"having an opinion that does not agree with truth or the facts":{
"antonyms":[
"correct",
"right"
],
"examples":[
"I'm sorry, but the latest research proves you wrong"
],
"near antonyms":[
"informed",
"accurate",
"exact",
"precise",
"true"
],
"related":[
"confused",
"misguided",
"misinformed",
"misled",
"erroneous",
"false",
"inaccurate",
"inexact",
"untrue",
"deceived",
"deluded",
"duped",
"tricked"
],
"synonyms":[
"incorrect",
"mistaken"
]
},
"not appropriate for a particular occasion or situation":{
"antonyms":[
"appropriate",
"becoming",
"befitting",
"correct",
"decorous",
"felicitous",
"fit",
"fitting",
"genteel",
"happy",
"meet",
"proper",
"right",
"seemly",
"suitable"
],
"examples":[
"has a knack for saying just the wrong thing"
],
"near antonyms":[
"fortunate",
"opportune",
"seasonable",
"timely",
"applicable",
"apposite",
"apropos",
"apt",
"germane",
"material",
"pat",
"pointed",
"relative",
"relevant",
"compatible",
"congenial",
"harmonious",
"allowed",
"authorized",
"permitted",
"approved",
"endorsed",
"indorsed",
"kosher",
"licensed",
"sanctioned",
"abetted",
"encouraged",
"promoted",
"supported",
"acceptable",
"adequate",
"all right",
"decent",
"fine",
"OK",
"okay",
"passable",
"respectable",
"satisfactory",
"tolerable",
"commendable",
"creditable",
"exemplary",
"blameless",
"irreproachable",
"balanced",
"companionate",
"congruous",
"consonant",
"harmonious"
],
"related":[
"inopportune",
"unfortunate",
"unseasonable",
"untimely",
"extraneous",
"immaterial",
"inapplicable",
"irrelative",
"irrelevant",
"misbecoming",
"mismatched",
"incompatible",
"inconsistent",
"uncongenial",
"bad",
"naughty",
"sinful",
"blamable",
"blameworthy",
"censurable",
"banned",
"barred",
"disallowed",
"forbidden",
"interdicted",
"outlawed",
"prohibited",
"proscribed",
"awkward",
"gauche",
"ungraceful",
"unacceptable",
"unsatisfactory"
],
"synonyms":[
"amiss",
"graceless",
"improper",
"inapposite",
"inappropriate",
"inapt",
"incongruous",
"incorrect",
"indecorous",
"inept",
"infelicitous",
"malapropos",
"perverse",
"unapt",
"unbecoming",
"unfit",
"unhappy",
"unseemly",
"unsuitable",
"untoward"
]
},
"not being in agreement with what is true":{
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"accurate",
"correct",
"errorless",
"exact",
"factual",
"precise",
"proper",
"right",
"sound",
"true",
"valid",
"veracious"
],
"examples":[
"her answer that Thomas Jefferson was the second president of the United States is wrong \u2014it was John Adams, of course"
],
"near antonyms":[
"confirmed",
"demonstrated",
"established",
"proven",
"tested",
"faultless",
"flawless",
"impeccable",
"letter-perfect",
"perfect"
],
"related":[
"counterfactual",
"specious",
"spurious",
"deceptive",
"delusive",
"delusory",
"distorted",
"fallacious",
"fictitious",
"illusory",
"misleading",
"amiss",
"askew",
"awry",
"deceitful",
"dishonest",
"fraudulent",
"lying",
"mendacious",
"unconfirmed",
"unproven",
"untested",
"fabricated",
"invented",
"made-up",
"trumped-up"
],
"synonyms":[
"erroneous",
"false",
"inaccurate",
"incorrect",
"inexact",
"invalid",
"off",
"unsound",
"untrue",
"untruthful"
]
},
"not conforming to a high moral standard; morally unacceptable":{
"antonyms":[
"decent",
"ethical",
"good",
"honest",
"honorable",
"just",
"moral",
"right",
"righteous",
"sublime",
"upright",
"virtuous"
],
"examples":[
"was caught doing something wrong"
],
"near antonyms":[
"elevated",
"high",
"high-minded",
"law-abiding",
"legitimate",
"lofty",
"noble",
"principled",
"reputable",
"scrupulous",
"allowed",
"authorized",
"legal",
"licensed",
"permissible",
"permitted",
"approved",
"endorsed",
"indorsed",
"sanctioned",
"abetted",
"encouraged",
"promoted",
"supported",
"clean",
"correct",
"decent",
"decorous",
"exemplary",
"proper",
"seemly",
"blameless",
"commendable",
"creditable",
"guiltless",
"legitimate",
"chaste",
"immaculate",
"incorruptible",
"innocent",
"inoffensive",
"irreproachable",
"lily-white",
"perfect",
"pure",
"spotless",
"squeaky-clean",
"uncorrupted",
"unerring",
"unfallen",
"unobjectionable",
"venerable",
"white",
"wholesome",
"esteemed",
"respected",
"upstanding",
"worthy"
],
"related":[
"base",
"contemptible",
"despicable",
"dirty",
"disreputable",
"evil-minded",
"ignoble",
"ill",
"infernal",
"low",
"mean",
"snide",
"sordid",
"atrocious",
"cruel",
"infamous",
"nasty",
"blamable",
"blameworthy",
"censurable",
"objectionable",
"obscene",
"offensive",
"reprehensible",
"corrupt",
"debased",
"debauched",
"degenerate",
"depraved",
"dissolute",
"libertine",
"loose",
"low-minded",
"perverted",
"reprobate",
"scrofulous",
"sick",
"unhealthy",
"cursed",
"curst",
"cussed",
"defiling",
"noxious",
"pernicious",
"pestilential",
"ugly",
"ungodly",
"unwholesome",
"banned",
"barred",
"condemned",
"discouraged",
"forbidden",
"illegal",
"interdicted",
"outlawed",
"prohibited",
"proscribed",
"unauthorized",
"unclean",
"disallowed",
"execrable",
"lousy",
"miserable",
"wretched",
"errant",
"erring",
"fallen",
"unprincipled",
"unscrupulous",
"improper",
"incorrect",
"indecent",
"indecorous",
"naughty",
"unbecoming",
"unseemly",
"vulgar",
"dishonest",
"dishonorable"
],
"synonyms":[
"bad",
"dark",
"evil",
"immoral",
"iniquitous",
"nefarious",
"rotten",
"sinful",
"unethical",
"unlawful",
"unrighteous",
"unsavory",
"vicious",
"vile",
"villainous",
"wicked"
]
},
"off the desired or intended path or course":{
"antonyms":[
"aright",
"right",
"well"
],
"examples":[
"all of our carefully laid plans have gone wrong"
],
"near antonyms":[
"perfectly",
"auspiciously",
"favorably",
"promisingly",
"correctly",
"properly",
"rightly",
"appropriately",
"fittingly",
"suitably"
],
"related":[
"badly",
"faultily",
"improperly",
"inappropriately",
"incorrectly",
"mistakenly",
"wrongly",
"inadequately",
"insufficiently",
"unpromisingly"
],
"synonyms":[
"afield",
"amiss",
"astray",
"awry"
]
},
"that which is morally unacceptable":{
"antonyms":[
"good",
"morality",
"right",
"virtue"
],
"examples":[
"any reasonable person should be expected to know the difference between right and wrong"
],
"near antonyms":[
"decency",
"goodness",
"honesty",
"integrity",
"probity",
"rectitude",
"uprightness",
"goodness",
"righteousness",
"virtuousness"
],
"related":[
"atrociousness",
"atrocity",
"badness",
"balefulness",
"darkness",
"depravedness",
"devilishness",
"diabolism",
"enormity",
"evilness",
"heinousness",
"iniquitousness",
"satanism",
"sinfulness",
"vileness",
"wickedness",
"devilry",
"deviltry",
"fiendishness",
"cancer",
"canker",
"decay",
"rot",
"squalor",
"corruption",
"debauchery",
"degeneracy",
"depravity",
"indecency",
"malefaction",
"perversion",
"pervertedness",
"scurrility",
"scurrilousness",
"abomination",
"anathema",
"taboo",
"tabu"
],
"synonyms":[
"bad",
"evil",
"evildoing",
"ill",
"immorality",
"iniquity",
"sin",
"villainy"
]
},
"type":[
"adjective",
"adverb",
"noun",
"verb"
],
"unfair or inadequate treatment of someone or something or an instance of this":{
"antonyms":[
"equitableness",
"equity",
"fairness",
"justice"
],
"examples":[
"trying to right all the wrongs in the world"
],
"near antonyms":[
"cricket"
],
"related":[
"affront",
"indignity",
"insult",
"offense",
"offence",
"outrage",
"put-down",
"slight",
"slur",
"beef",
"complaint",
"grievance"
],
"synonyms":[
"disservice",
"inequity",
"injury",
"injustice",
"raw deal",
"shaft",
"unfairness",
"unjustness"
]
}
},
"wrought (up)":{
"as in worried , anxious":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[],
"near antonyms":[],
"related":[],
"synonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"adjective"
]
},
"wrongness":{
"the quality or state of being unsuitable or unfitting":{
"examples":[
"arguments about the rightness or wrongness of the satirical skit drowned out any discussion of the points it attempted to raise"
],
"synonyms":[
"improperness",
"impropriety",
"inappositeness",
"inappropriateness",
"inaptness",
"incorrectness",
"infelicity",
"unfitness"
],
"related":[
"extraneousness",
"inadequacy",
"inadequateness",
"inadmissibility",
"inapplicability",
"irrelevance",
"meaninglessness",
"pointlessness",
"senselessness",
"inauspiciousness",
"inexpedience",
"inexpediency",
"intolerability",
"undesirability",
"undesirableness",
"unsatisfactoriness",
"uselessness",
"unbecomingness"
],
"near antonyms":[
"admissibility",
"applicability",
"bearing",
"connection",
"materiality",
"pertinence",
"pointedness",
"relevance",
"relevancy"
],
"antonyms":[
"appositeness",
"appropriateness",
"aptness",
"correctness",
"felicitousness",
"felicity",
"fitness",
"fittingness",
"properness",
"propriety",
"rightness",
"seemliness",
"suitability",
"suitableness"
]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
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},
"wrapped":{
"to encircle or bind with or as if with a belt":{
"examples":[
"wrapped her waist with a colorful silk sash"
],
"synonyms":[
"banded",
"begirt",
"begirded",
"belted",
"engirded",
"engirdled",
"enwound",
"girded",
"girt",
"girdled",
"girted",
"girthed"
],
"related":[
"tied up",
"trussed",
"circled",
"enwreathed",
"looped",
"wound",
"winded",
"wreathed",
"bandaged",
"enswathed",
"swathed",
"chained",
"corded",
"enchained",
"lashed",
"roped",
"shackled",
"taped",
"wired"
],
"near antonyms":[
"unbound",
"unlashed",
"unshackled",
"untied",
"unwound"
],
"antonyms":[
"ungirded",
"unwrapped"
]
},
"to surround or cover closely":{
"examples":[
"a sinister darkness seemed to wrap the lonely cabin"
],
"synonyms":[
"bosomed",
"bowered",
"circumfused",
"cocooned",
"embosomed",
"embowered",
"embraced",
"enclosed",
"inclosed",
"encompassed",
"enfolded",
"enshrouded",
"enswathed",
"enveloped",
"enwrapped",
"invested",
"involved",
"lapped",
"mantled",
"muffled",
"shrouded",
"swathed",
"veiled"
],
"related":[
"curtained",
"draped",
"embedded",
"imbedded",
"encased",
"swaddled",
"blanketed",
"overlaid",
"overspread",
"camouflaged",
"cloaked",
"disguised",
"masked",
"circled",
"encircled",
"enlaced",
"enwound"
],
"near antonyms":[
"bared",
"denuded",
"exposed",
"stripped",
"stript"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"wracked":{
"to bring to a complete end the physical soundness, existence, or usefulness of":{
"examples":[
"it's amazing how a raging sea can wrack a seemingly sturdy beachfront home"
],
"synonyms":[
"annihilated",
"creamed",
"decimated",
"demolished",
"desolated",
"destroyed",
"devastated",
"did in",
"extinguished",
"nuked",
"pulled down",
"pulverized",
"razed",
"rubbed out",
"ruined",
"shattered",
"smashed",
"tore down",
"totaled",
"totalled",
"vaporized",
"wasted",
"wrecked"
],
"related":[
"beat",
"bested",
"clobbered",
"conquered",
"crushed",
"defeated",
"drubbed",
"licked",
"mastered",
"overbore",
"overcame",
"overmatched",
"prevailed (over)",
"routed",
"scotched",
"skunked",
"subdued",
"surmounted",
"thrashed",
"trimmed",
"triumphed (over)",
"trounced",
"walloped",
"whipped",
"won (against)",
"blasted",
"blew up",
"broke",
"crippled",
"damaged",
"defaced",
"deteriorated",
"disfigured",
"disintegrated",
"dissolved",
"dynamited",
"harmed",
"impaired",
"injured",
"mangled",
"marred",
"mutilated",
"spoiled",
"spoilt",
"vitiated",
"eroded",
"scoured",
"swept (away)",
"washed out",
"wore (away)",
"dilapidated",
"disassembled",
"dismantled",
"gutted",
"took down",
"unbuilt",
"undid",
"unmade",
"blotted out",
"effaced",
"eradicated",
"expunged",
"exterminated",
"extirpated",
"liquidated",
"obliterated",
"removed",
"rooted (out)",
"snuffed (out)",
"stamped (out)",
"wiped out",
"despoiled",
"havocked",
"looted",
"pillaged",
"plundered",
"ravaged",
"sacked",
"trampled",
"trashed",
"vandalized",
"assassinated",
"butchered",
"cut down",
"dispatched",
"executed",
"felled",
"killed",
"killed off",
"massacred",
"mowed (down)",
"murdered",
"slaughtered",
"slew",
"took out",
"zapped"
],
"near antonyms":[
"doctored",
"fixed",
"mended",
"patched",
"reconditioned",
"repaired",
"revamped",
"created",
"invented",
"assembled",
"fabricated",
"fashioned",
"forged",
"formed",
"framed",
"made",
"manufactured",
"molded",
"produced",
"shaped",
"brought about",
"constituted",
"established",
"fathered",
"founded",
"instituted",
"organized",
"conserved",
"preserved",
"protected",
"saved",
"rebuilt",
"reconstructed",
"remodeled",
"renovated",
"restored"
],
"antonyms":[
"built",
"constructed",
"erected",
"put up",
"raised",
"reared",
"set up"
]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"writing off":{
"to express scornfully one's low opinion of":{
"examples":[
"most critics have already written off that director as a hack incapable of turning out anything but schlock"
],
"synonyms":[
"bad-mouthing",
"belittling",
"crying down",
"decrying",
"denigrating",
"deprecating",
"depreciating",
"derogating",
"diminishing",
"discounting",
"dismissing",
"disparaging",
"dissing",
"kissing off",
"minimizing",
"playing down",
"poor-mouthing",
"putting down",
"running down",
"talking down",
"trashing",
"trash-talking",
"vilipending"
],
"near synonyms":[
"discommending",
"abusing",
"scolding",
"disapproving (of)",
"disliking",
"censuring",
"condemning",
"criticizing",
"denouncing",
"reprehending",
"reprobating",
"aspersing",
"defaming",
"maligning",
"ripping",
"slandering",
"slurring",
"traducing",
"vilifying",
"discrediting",
"disgracing"
],
"near antonyms":[
"approving",
"countenancing",
"endorsing",
"indorsing",
"favoring",
"recommending",
"sanctioning",
"commending",
"complimenting",
"eulogizing"
],
"antonyms":[
"acclaiming",
"applauding",
"exalting",
"extolling",
"glorifying",
"lauding",
"magnifying",
"praising"
]
},
"to diminish the price or value of":{
"examples":[
"that one blunder will write off to nothing all the goodwill we've been building up"
],
"synonyms":[
"attenuating",
"breaking",
"cheapening",
"depreciating",
"depressing",
"devaluating",
"devaluing",
"downgrading",
"lowering",
"marking down",
"reducing",
"sinking",
"writing down"
],
"near synonyms":[
"debasing",
"demonetizing",
"underestimating",
"underpricing",
"underrating",
"undervaluing",
"abridging",
"compressing",
"contracting",
"de-escalating",
"deflating",
"downsizing",
"dwindling",
"lessening",
"moderating",
"shrinking"
],
"near antonyms":[
"bloating",
"blowing up",
"inflating",
"overestimating",
"overpricing",
"overrating",
"overvaluing",
"adding",
"aggrandizing",
"amplifying",
"augmenting",
"ballooning",
"boosting",
"compounding",
"dilating",
"enlarging",
"escalating",
"expanding",
"extending",
"heightening",
"increasing",
"maximizing",
"multiplying",
"raising",
"swelling",
"upping"
],
"antonyms":[
"appreciating",
"enhancing",
"marking up",
"upgrading"
]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"wryness":{
"as in wittiness , whimsicality":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"whimsicality",
"wittiness",
"absurdity",
"irony",
"laughableness",
"ludicrousness",
"ridiculousness",
"burlesque",
"caricature",
"farce",
"jest",
"lampoon",
"parody",
"satire",
"slapstick",
"spoof",
"takeoff",
"amusement",
"enjoyment",
"fun",
"pleasure",
"jocularity",
"jokiness",
"playfulness",
"waggishness",
"comedy",
"comic",
"comicality",
"drollery",
"drollness",
"funniness",
"hilariousness",
"humor",
"humorousness",
"richness",
"uproariousness"
],
"near antonyms":[
"pathos",
"agony",
"anguish",
"dolor",
"grief",
"heartache",
"heartbreak",
"misery",
"sorrow",
"torment",
"torture",
"tribulation",
"woe",
"gravity",
"seriousness",
"soberness",
"solemnity",
"solemnness",
"somberness"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"wreathing":{
"to cause to twine about one another":{
"examples":[
"decided to wreathe the grapevines into a beribboned swag to give the room the \"country look\""
],
"synonyms":[
"enlacing",
"entwining",
"implicating",
"interlacing",
"intertwining",
"intertwisting",
"interweaving",
"inweaving",
"lacing",
"plying",
"twisting",
"weaving",
"writhing"
],
"near synonyms":[
"braiding",
"plaiting",
"platting",
"pleaching",
"blending",
"fusing",
"joining",
"linking",
"mixing"
],
"near antonyms":[
"disentangling",
"uncoiling",
"untangling",
"untwining",
"unwinding"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to scatter or set here and there among other things":{
"examples":[
"wreathed small flowers into the design for the wallpaper"
],
"synonyms":[
"interlacing",
"interspersing",
"interweaving",
"lacing",
"salting",
"threading",
"weaving"
],
"near synonyms":[
"inserting",
"intermingling",
"mingling",
"mixing",
"alternating",
"juxtaposing",
"amalgamating",
"assimilating",
"blending",
"combining",
"commingling",
"embodying",
"fusing",
"incorporating",
"integrating",
"merging"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to form a circle around":{
"examples":[
"pretty ribbons wreathed the flower girl's braided bun"
],
"synonyms":[
"circling",
"compassing",
"embracing",
"encircling",
"enclosing",
"inclosing",
"encompassing",
"environing",
"girding",
"girdling",
"ringing",
"surrounding"
],
"near synonyms":[
"circumscribing",
"closing in",
"cordoning (off)",
"fencing (in)",
"hemming (in)",
"walling",
"besetting",
"besieging",
"entrenching",
"intrenching",
"investing",
"swarming"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"wrongheadedness":{
"as in perversity , perverseness":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"anal-retentiveness",
"perverseness",
"perversity",
"waywardness",
"bullheadedness",
"doggedness",
"hardheadedness",
"intransigence",
"mulishness",
"obduracy",
"obdurateness",
"obstinacy",
"obstinateness",
"opinionatedness",
"pertinaciousness",
"pertinacity",
"pigheadedness",
"self-opinionatedness",
"self-will",
"stubbornness",
"willfulness",
"adamancy",
"adamance",
"determination",
"implacability",
"inexorability",
"inflexibility",
"inveteracy",
"perseverance",
"persistence",
"persistency",
"relentlessness",
"resolve",
"single-mindedness",
"steadfastness",
"stick-to-itiveness",
"tenaciousness",
"tenacity",
"firmness",
"hardness",
"rigor",
"rigorousness",
"sternness",
"strictness",
"narrow-mindedness",
"rigidity",
"rigidness",
"bloody-mindedness",
"cantankerousness",
"contrariness",
"cussedness",
"balkiness",
"contumacy",
"defiance",
"disobedience",
"frowardness",
"immovability",
"immovableness",
"insubordination",
"intractability",
"obstreperousness",
"rebelliousness",
"recalcitrance",
"recalcitrancy",
"refractoriness",
"unruliness"
],
"near antonyms":[
"broad-mindedness",
"open-mindedness",
"reasonability",
"reasonableness",
"receptiveness",
"receptivity",
"acceptance",
"acquiescence",
"flexibility",
"pliability",
"pliableness",
"pliancy",
"pliantness",
"compliance",
"docility",
"obedience",
"subordinateness",
"subordination",
"submission",
"surrender",
"willingness",
"yielding",
"slavishness",
"subservience",
"subserviency"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
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}
}