julius/dict_dl
1
0
Fork 0
Code Issues Pull Requests Packages Projects Releases Wiki Activity
0c11d07523
dict_dl/en_MWThesaurus/lit_MWT.json

4564 lines
89 KiB
JSON
Raw Normal View History

new prefix_length for MW, MWT and Duden
2022-07-10 04:31:07 +00:00
{
"literality":{
"as in literalness":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"literalness"
],
"near antonyms":[
"contrivance",
"creativity",
"fancy",
"fantasy",
"phantasy",
"ideation",
"imagination",
"imaginativeness",
"invention",
"inventiveness",
"originality",
"brainstorm",
"brainstorming",
"inspiration",
"fecundity",
"fertility"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"lithesome":{
"able to bend easily without breaking":{
"examples":[
"stretching exercises designed to make the athlete's limbs more lithesome"
],
"synonyms":[
"bendy",
"flexible",
"limber",
"lissome",
"lissom",
"lithe",
"pliable",
"pliant",
"supple",
"willowy"
],
"near synonyms":[
"adaptable",
"ductile",
"elastic",
"fluid",
"kneadable",
"malleable",
"modifiable",
"plastic",
"variable",
"yielding",
"droopy",
"flaccid",
"floppy",
"limp",
"semiflexible"
],
"near antonyms":[
"inelastic",
"nonmalleable",
"unyielding",
"breakable",
"brittle",
"fragile"
],
"antonyms":[
"inflexible",
"rigid",
"stiff",
"stiffened"
]
},
"moving easily":{
"examples":[
"the lithesome panther moved effortlessly and noiselessly through the rain forest"
],
"synonyms":[
"agile",
"featly",
"feline",
"graceful",
"gracile",
"light",
"light-footed",
"light-foot",
"lightsome",
"lissome",
"lissom",
"lithe",
"nimble",
"spry"
],
"near synonyms":[
"acrobatic",
"flexible",
"limber",
"loose-jointed",
"pliable",
"pliant",
"supple",
"adroit",
"deft",
"dexterous",
"dextrous",
"light-fingered",
"fleet-footed",
"sure-footed",
"athletic",
"balletic",
"coordinated"
],
"near antonyms":[
"uncoordinated",
"inflexible",
"rigid",
"stiff",
"bungling",
"inept",
"maladroit"
],
"antonyms":[
"awkward",
"clumsy",
"gawky",
"graceless",
"klutzy",
"lumbering",
"ungainly",
"ungraceful"
]
},
"type":[
"adjective"
]
},
"litigant":{
"someone who brings a legal action against another person or against whom a legal action is brought":{
"examples":[
"Both litigants chose to represent themselves in court."
],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"party",
"suitor",
"complainant",
"plaintiff",
"suer",
"accused",
"defendant",
"appellee",
"accuser",
"appellant",
"petitioner",
"pleader"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"litter":{
"an unorganized collection or mixture of various things":{
"examples":[
"a litter of magazines covered the bedroom floor"
],
"synonyms":[
"agglomerate",
"agglomeration",
"alphabet soup",
"assortment",
"botch",
"clutter",
"collage",
"crazy quilt",
"farrago",
"gallimaufry",
"grab bag",
"gumbo",
"hash",
"hodgepodge",
"hotchpotch",
"jambalaya",
"jumble",
"jungle",
"mac\u00e9doine",
"medley",
"m\u00e9lange",
"menagerie",
"miscellanea",
"miscellany",
"mishmash",
"mixed bag",
"montage",
"motley",
"muddle",
"olio",
"olla podrida",
"omnium-gatherum",
"pastiche",
"patchwork",
"patchwork quilt",
"potpourri",
"ragbag",
"ragout",
"rummage",
"salad",
"salmagundi",
"scramble",
"shuffle",
"smorgasbord",
"stew",
"tumble",
"variety",
"welter"
yay
2022-07-15 11:16:05 +00:00
],
"near synonyms":[
"detritus",
"notions",
"oddments",
"odds and ends",
"sundries",
"accumulation",
"aggregate",
"aggregation",
"conglomerate",
"conglomeration",
"catchall",
"admixture",
"alloy",
"amalgam",
"blend",
"combination",
"commixture",
"composite",
"compound",
"fusion",
"intermixture",
"mix-up",
"bollix",
"chaos",
"confusion",
"disarrangement",
"disarray",
"disorder",
"dog's breakfast",
"mess",
"morass",
"shambles",
"imbroglio",
"knot",
"snarl",
"tangle"
],
new prefix_length for MW, MWT and Duden
2022-07-10 04:31:07 +00:00
"near antonyms":[],
yay
2022-07-15 11:16:05 +00:00
"antonyms":[]
new prefix_length for MW, MWT and Duden
2022-07-10 04:31:07 +00:00
},
"discarded or useless material":{
"examples":[
"if you get caught throwing your litter on the sidewalk, you'll get slapped with a fine"
],
yay
2022-07-15 11:16:05 +00:00
"synonyms":[
"chaff",
"deadwood",
"debris",
"dreck",
"drek",
"dross",
"dust",
"effluvium",
"effluvia",
"garbage",
"junk",
"offal",
"offscouring",
"raffle",
"refuse",
"riffraff",
"rubbish",
"scrap",
"spilth",
"trash",
"truck",
"waste"
new prefix_length for MW, MWT and Duden
2022-07-10 04:31:07 +00:00
],
yay
2022-07-15 11:16:05 +00:00
"near synonyms":[
new prefix_length for MW, MWT and Duden
2022-07-10 04:31:07 +00:00
"crud",
"sewage",
"slop",
"swill",
"wash",
"detritus",
"remains",
"rubble",
"ruins",
"dump",
"scrap heap",
"lumber",
"odds and ends",
"trumpery",
"flotsam",
"jetsam",
"wreckage",
"castoff",
"cull",
"discard",
"hand-me-down",
"reject",
"throwaway",
"nothing",
"straw",
"two bits"
],
yay
2022-07-15 11:16:05 +00:00
"near antonyms":[
"catch",
"gem",
"goody",
"goodie",
"jewel",
"pearl",
"plum",
"prize",
"treasure",
"treasure trove",
"trove",
"valuable",
"booty",
"find",
"salvage"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"as in kid , pup":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"calve",
"kid",
"kindle",
"kitten",
"pup",
"whelp",
"beget",
"father",
"generate",
"get",
"sire",
"breed",
"multiply",
"propagate",
"reproduce",
"spawn",
"labor",
"bear",
"birth",
"deliver",
"drop",
"have",
"mother",
"produce"
],
"near antonyms":[
"abort",
"lose",
"miscarry"
],
"antonyms":[]
new prefix_length for MW, MWT and Duden
2022-07-10 04:31:07 +00:00
},
"type":[
"noun",
"verb"
]
},
"litterateurs":{
"a person who creates a written work":{
"examples":[
"Washington Irving is generally credited as the first American litterateur to gain a reputation in Britain and on the Continent"
],
yay
2022-07-15 11:16:05 +00:00
"synonyms":[
"authors",
"penmen",
"pens",
"scribes",
"scriveners",
"writers"
],
"near synonyms":[
new prefix_length for MW, MWT and Duden
2022-07-10 04:31:07 +00:00
"auteurs",
"belletrists",
"belle-lettrists",
"stylists",
"wordsmiths",
"coauthors",
"co-authors",
"coscenarists",
"co-scenarists",
"cowriters",
"co-writers",
"ghostwriters",
"hacks",
"hatchet men",
"scribblers",
"wordmongers",
"biographers",
"hagiographers",
"autobiographers",
"memoirists",
"memorialists",
"fabulists",
"fictioneers",
"fictionists",
"novelists",
"romancers",
"storytellers",
"essayists",
"pamphleteers",
"satirists",
"dramatists",
"playwrights",
"scenarists",
"screenwriters",
"scriptwriters",
"prosaists",
"prosateurs",
"prosers",
"bards",
"poets",
"rhymers",
"versifiers",
"bloggers",
"columnists",
"journalists",
"newspapermen",
"paragraphers",
"reporters",
"sportswriters"
],
yay
2022-07-15 11:16:05 +00:00
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[
"nonauthors"
new prefix_length for MW, MWT and Duden
2022-07-10 04:31:07 +00:00
]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"littered":{
"lacking in order, neatness, and often cleanliness":{
"examples":[
"is there any wonder that you can never find anything in your littered desk?"
],
"synonyms":[
"chaotic",
"cluttered",
"confused",
"disarranged",
"disarrayed",
"disheveled",
"dishevelled",
"disordered",
"disorderly",
"higgledy-piggledy",
"hugger-mugger",
"jumbled",
"messed",
"messy",
"muddled",
"mussed",
"mussy",
"pell-mell",
"rumpled",
"sloppy",
"topsy-turvy",
"tousled",
"tumbled",
"unkempt",
"untidy",
"upside-down"
],
"near synonyms":[
"bedraggled",
"befouled",
"begrimed",
"bemired",
"besmirched",
"blackened",
"cruddy",
"dingy",
"dirty",
"draggled",
"filthy",
"foul",
"grimy",
"grotty",
"grubby",
"grungy",
"mucky",
"nasty",
"smudged",
"soiled",
"spotted",
"squalid",
"stained",
"sullied",
"unclean",
"uncleanly",
"dowdy",
"frowsy",
"frowzy",
"shaggy",
"slatternly",
"sloven",
"slovenly",
"uncombed",
"wrinkled",
"adulterated",
"contaminated",
"defiled",
"polluted",
"tainted",
"knotted",
"snarled",
"tangled",
"seedy",
"shabby",
"sleazy",
"sordid",
"neglected",
"neglectful",
"negligent"
],
"near antonyms":[
"antiseptic",
"clean",
"cleaned",
"cleanly",
"hygienic",
"immaculate",
"sparkling",
"spick-and-span",
"spic-and-span",
"spotless",
"stainless",
"unsoiled",
"unsullied",
"methodical",
"methodic",
"regular",
"systematic",
"systematized",
"careful",
"fastidious",
"finicky",
"fussy",
"meticulous",
"combed",
"groomed",
"manicured",
"well-groomed",
"taintless",
"undefiled",
"unpolluted",
"untainted",
"wholesome"
],
"antonyms":[
"bandbox",
"crisp",
"kempt",
"neat",
"neatened",
"ordered",
"orderly",
"organized",
"shipshape",
"snug",
"tidied",
"tidy",
"trim",
"uncluttered",
"well-ordered"
]
},
"as in kidded , pupped":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"calved",
"kidded",
"kindled",
"kittened",
"pupped",
"whelped",
"begot",
"begat",
"fathered",
"generated",
"got",
"sired",
"bred",
"multiplied",
"propagated",
"reproduced",
"spawned",
"labored",
"birthed",
"bore",
"delivered",
"dropped",
"had",
"mothered",
"produced"
],
"near antonyms":[
"aborted",
"lost",
"miscarried"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"adjective",
"verb"
]
},
"litters":{
"an unorganized collection or mixture of various things":{
"examples":[
"a litter of magazines covered the bedroom floor"
],
"synonyms":[
"agglomerates",
"agglomerations",
"alphabet soups",
"assortments",
"botches",
"clutters",
"collages",
"crazy quilts",
"farragoes",
"gallimaufries",
"grab bags",
"gumbos",
"hashes",
"hodgepodges",
"hotchpotches",
"jambalayas",
"jumbles",
"jungles",
"mac\u00e9doines",
"medleys",
"m\u00e9langes",
"menageries",
"miscellanea",
"miscellanies",
"mishmashes",
"mixed bags",
"montages",
"motleys",
"muddles",
"olios",
"olla podridas",
"ollas podridas",
"omnium-gatherums",
"pastiches",
"patchwork quilts",
"patchworks",
"potpourris",
"ragbags",
"ragouts",
"rummages",
"salads",
"salmagundis",
"scrambles",
"shuffles",
"smorgasbords",
"stews",
"tumbles",
"varieties",
"welters"
],
"near synonyms":[
"detritus",
"notions",
"oddments",
"odds and ends",
"sundries",
"accumulations",
"aggregates",
"aggregations",
"conglomerates",
"conglomerations",
"catchalls",
"admixtures",
"alloys",
"amalgams",
"blends",
"combinations",
"commixtures",
"composites",
"compounds",
"fusions",
"intermixtures",
"mix-ups",
"bollixes",
"chaoses",
"confusions",
"disarrangements",
"disarrays",
"disorders",
"dog's breakfasts",
"messes",
"morasses",
"shambles",
"imbroglios",
"knots",
"snarls",
"tangles"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"as in kids , pups":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"calves",
"kids",
"kindles",
"kittens",
"pups",
"whelps",
"begets",
"fathers",
"generates",
"gets",
"sires",
"breeds",
"multiplies",
"propagates",
"reproduces",
"spawns",
"labors",
"bears",
"births",
"delivers",
"drops",
"has",
"mothers",
"produces"
],
"near antonyms":[
"aborts",
"loses",
"miscarries"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun",
"verb"
]
},
"littlest":{
"being the least in amount, number, or size possible":{
"examples":[
"the littlest kitten in the litter was also the cutest"
],
"synonyms":[
"fewest",
"lowest",
"minimal",
"minimum",
"minutest",
"slightest",
"smallest",
"tiniest"
],
"near synonyms":[
"fewer",
"lesser",
"low",
"minor",
"modest",
"slight",
"small",
"smaller",
"infinitesimal",
"micro",
"subminimal",
"ultramicro",
"irreducible"
],
"near antonyms":[
"highest"
],
"antonyms":[
"biggest",
"full",
"greatest",
"hugest",
"largest",
"maximum",
"most",
"top",
"topmost",
"utmost"
]
},
"type":[
"adjective"
]
},
"liturgical":{
"as in religious , spiritual":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"ceremonial",
"priestly",
"religious",
"ritual",
"sacramental",
"spiritual",
"adored",
"enshrined",
"glorified",
"revered",
"venerated",
"worshipped",
"worshiped",
"biblical",
"scriptural",
"blessed",
"blest",
"consecrate",
"consecrated",
"hallowed",
"holy",
"sacral",
"sacred",
"sacrosanct",
"sanctified"
],
"near antonyms":[
"deconsecrated",
"desacralized",
"unconsecrated",
"unhallowed",
"nonreligious",
"unspiritual",
"earthly",
"mundane",
"profane",
"secular",
"temporal",
"worldly"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"adjective"
]
},
"litt\u00e9rateurs":{
"a person who creates a written work":{
"examples":[
"Washington Irving is generally credited as the first American litterateur to gain a reputation in Britain and on the Continent"
],
"synonyms":[
"authors",
"penmen",
"pens",
"scribes",
"scriveners",
"writers"
],
"near synonyms":[
"auteurs",
"belletrists",
"belle-lettrists",
"stylists",
"wordsmiths",
"coauthors",
"co-authors",
"coscenarists",
"co-scenarists",
"cowriters",
"co-writers",
"ghostwriters",
"hacks",
"hatchet men",
"scribblers",
"wordmongers",
"biographers",
"hagiographers",
"autobiographers",
"memoirists",
"memorialists",
"fabulists",
"fictioneers",
"fictionists",
"novelists",
"romancers",
"storytellers",
"essayists",
"pamphleteers",
"satirists",
"dramatists",
"playwrights",
"scenarists",
"screenwriters",
"scriptwriters",
"prosaists",
"prosateurs",
"prosers",
"bards",
"poets",
"rhymers",
"versifiers",
"bloggers",
"columnists",
"journalists",
"newspapermen",
"paragraphers",
"reporters",
"sportswriters"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[
"nonauthors"
]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"lit up":{
"being under the influence of alcohol":{
"examples":[
"he finally wandered in at 3:00 a.m., obviously lit up"
],
"synonyms":[
"besotted",
"blasted",
"blind",
"blitzed",
"blotto",
"bombed",
"boozy",
"canned",
"cockeyed",
"crocked",
"drunk",
"drunken",
"fried",
"gassed",
"hammered",
"high",
"impaired",
"inebriate",
"inebriated",
"intoxicated",
"juiced",
"lit",
"loaded",
"looped",
"oiled",
"pickled",
"pie-eyed",
"plastered",
"potted",
"ripped",
"sloshed",
"smashed",
"sottish",
"soused",
"sozzled",
"squiffed",
"squiffy",
"stewed",
"stiff",
"stinking",
"stoned",
"tanked",
"tiddly",
"tight",
"tipsy",
"wasted",
"wet",
"wiped out"
],
yay
2022-07-15 11:16:05 +00:00
"near synonyms":[
new prefix_length for MW, MWT and Duden
2022-07-10 04:31:07 +00:00
"maudlin",
"beery",
"befuddled",
"bleary-eyed",
"crapulous",
"dopey",
"dopy",
"rocky",
"strung out",
"stupefied",
"debauched",
"dissipated",
"dissolute",
"alcoholic",
"bibulous",
"dipsomaniacal"
],
"near antonyms":[
"abstemious",
"abstinent",
"dry",
"temperate",
"teetotal",
"clearheaded",
"cool",
"level",
"steady"
],
"antonyms":[
"sober",
"straight"
]
},
"type":[
"adjective"
]
},
"literal":{
"restricted to or based on fact":{
"examples":[
"a literal account of the explorer's adventures is actually a lot less interesting than his own exaggerated stories"
],
"synonyms":[
"documentary",
"factual",
"hard",
"historical",
"matter-of-fact",
"nonfictional",
"objective",
"true"
],
"near synonyms":[
"actual",
"authentic",
"bona fide",
"genuine",
"real",
"right",
"documented",
"established",
"confirmable",
"reliable",
"supportable",
"sustainable",
"verifiable",
"demonstrable",
"provable",
"incontestable",
"incontrovertible",
"indisputable",
"irrefutable",
"undeniable",
"unquestionable",
"plain",
"simple",
"certain",
"undoubted"
],
"near antonyms":[
"hypothetical",
"speculative",
"theoretical",
"theoretic",
"apocryphal",
"unauthentic",
"undocumented",
"chimerical",
"chimeric",
"fabulous",
"fanciful",
"fantastic",
"fantastical",
"imaginary",
"imagined",
"invented",
"legendary",
"made-up",
"make-believe",
"mythical",
"mythic",
"pretend",
"embroidered",
"exaggerated",
"insupportable",
"unsupportable"
],
"antonyms":[
"fictional",
"fictionalized",
"fictitious",
"nondocumentary",
"nonfactual",
"nonhistorical",
"unhistorical"
]
},
"type":[
"adjective"
]
},
"little guy":{
"an average or ordinary man":{
"examples":[
"for a politician who likes to portray himself as a friend of the little guy , he sure is fond of rubbing elbows with the fat cats"
],
"synonyms":[
"everyman",
"Joe Blow",
"Joe Six-Pack",
"John Doe",
"little man",
"lug",
"slob"
],
"near synonyms":[
"commoner",
"pleb",
"plebeian",
"prole",
"proletarian",
"everywoman",
"plain Jane",
"laborer",
"peon",
"worker"
],
"near antonyms":[
"big cheese",
"big shot",
"big wheel",
"bigwig",
"fat cat",
"mover and shaker",
"VIP"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"littleness":{
"the quality or state of being little in size":{
"examples":[
"the littleness of the painting hardly gives any indication of its price\u2014which is a fortune"
],
"synonyms":[
"diminutiveness",
"fineness",
"puniness",
"slightness",
"smallness"
],
"near synonyms":[
"petiteness",
"minuteness",
"tininess",
"meagerness",
"poorness",
"scantiness",
"scantness",
"scarceness",
"scarcity",
"skimpiness",
"slenderness",
"slimness",
"spareness",
"sparseness",
"sparsity",
"stinginess",
"deficiency",
"inadequacy",
"inadequateness"
],
"near antonyms":[
"enormity",
"enormousness",
"grossness",
"hugeness",
"immenseness",
"immensity",
"magnitude",
"mountainousness",
"prodigiousness",
"stupendousness",
"extensiveness",
"vastness",
"excessiveness",
"extravagance",
"extremeness",
"immoderacy",
"abundance",
"ampleness",
"bountifulness",
"copiousness",
"generosity",
"healthiness",
"liberality",
"adequacy",
"sufficiency",
"heaviness",
"heftiness",
"weightiness",
"bulkiness",
"massiveness",
"voluminousness"
],
"antonyms":[
"bigness",
"grandness",
"greatness",
"largeness",
"magnitude"
]
},
"the quality or state of being unimportant":{
"examples":[
"you can hardly imagine the appalling littleness of the stuff that she obsesses over"
],
"synonyms":[
"immateriality",
"inconsequence",
"inconsequentiality",
"inconsiderableness",
"insignificance",
"insignificancy",
"negligibility",
"nullity",
"pettiness",
"slightness",
"smallness",
"triviality"
],
"near synonyms":[
"emptiness",
"valuelessness",
"worthlessness"
],
"near antonyms":[
"substance",
"value",
"worth"
],
"antonyms":[
"bigness",
"consequence",
"import",
"importance",
"magnitude",
"moment",
"significance",
"weight",
"weightiness"
]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"little by little":{
"by small steps or amounts":{
"examples":[
"little by little , we pieced together the jigsaw puzzle"
],
"synonyms":[
"gradationally",
"gradually",
"inchmeal",
"piece by piece",
"piecemeal"
],
"near synonyms":[
"hierarchically",
"crescively",
"increasingly",
"progressively",
"fractionally",
"imperceptibly",
"slowly"
],
"near antonyms":[
"acutely",
"sharply",
"steeply",
"hastily",
"precipitously"
],
"antonyms":[
"abruptly",
"suddenly"
]
},
"type":[
"adverb"
]
},
"lit (on or upon)":{
"to come upon unexpectedly or by chance":{
"examples":[
"the novelist lit upon the plot for his latest thriller while visiting a remote lighthouse in Maine"
],
"synonyms":[
"chanced (upon)",
"encountered",
"found",
"happened (on or upon)",
"hit (upon)",
"met",
"pitched (upon)",
"stumbled (on or onto)",
"tumbled (upon)"
],
"near synonyms":[
"lucked (out, on, onto, or into)",
"confronted",
"faced",
"discovered",
"struck",
"turned up"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"literacies":{
"the understanding and information gained from being educated":{
"examples":[
"he impressed everyone with his general literacy as well as his natural intelligence"
],
"synonyms":[
"education",
"erudition",
"knowledge",
"learnedness",
"learning",
"scholarship"
],
"near synonyms":[
"culture",
"edification",
"enlightenment",
"reading",
"bookishness",
"pedantry"
],
"near antonyms":[
"functional illiteracy"
],
"antonyms":[
"ignorance",
"illiteracy",
"illiterateness"
]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"little people":{
"as in troll , elf":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"brownie",
"dwarf",
"elf",
"faerie",
"faery",
"fairy",
"fay",
"gnome",
"goblin",
"gremlin",
"hobgoblin",
"kobold",
"leprechaun",
"pixie",
"pixy",
"puck",
"sprite",
"troll",
"banshee",
"ghoul",
"hag",
"ogre",
"imp",
"kelpie",
"nixie",
"changeling"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"litt\u00e9rateur":{
"a person who creates a written work":{
"examples":[
"Washington Irving is generally credited as the first American litterateur to gain a reputation in Britain and on the Continent"
],
"synonyms":[
"author",
"pen",
"penman",
"scribe",
"scrivener",
"writer"
],
"near synonyms":[
"auteur",
"belletrist",
"belle-lettrist",
"stylist",
"wordsmith",
"coauthor",
"coscenarist",
"cowriter",
"ghostwriter",
"hack",
"hatchet man",
"scribbler",
"wordmonger",
"biographer",
"hagiographer",
"autobiographer",
"memoirist",
"memorialist",
"fabulist",
"fictioneer",
"fictionist",
"novelist",
"romancer",
"storyteller",
"essayist",
"pamphleteer",
"satirist",
"dramatist",
"playwright",
"scenarist",
"screenwriter",
"scriptwriter",
"prosaist",
"prosateur",
"proser",
"bard",
"poet",
"rhymer",
"versifier",
"blogger",
"columnist",
"journalist",
"newspaperman",
"paragrapher",
"reporter",
"sportswriter"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[
"nonauthor"
]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"littoral":{
"of, relating to, or situated in the waters near the shore":{
"examples":[
"littoral warfare includes amphibious landings"
],
"synonyms":[
"alongshore",
"coastal",
"inshore",
"nearshore",
"offshore",
"shoreside"
],
"near synonyms":[
"beachside",
"seaside",
"waterside"
],
"near antonyms":[
"blue-water",
"deepwater",
"oceanic"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"as in coast , shoreline":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"coast",
"coastland",
"coastline",
"shore",
"shoreline",
"seaboard",
"seacoast",
"seashore",
"seaside",
"beach",
"beachfront",
"sand(s)",
"strand",
"bank",
"riverbank",
"riverfront",
"riverside",
"oceanfront",
"shorefront",
"waterfront",
"lido",
"plage",
"esplanade"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"adjective",
"noun"
]
},
"little":{
"having relatively little height":{
"examples":[
"there was a little hedge separating the two lawns"
],
"synonyms":[
"low",
"low-lying",
"low-slung",
"sawed-off",
"short"
],
"near synonyms":[
"dwarf",
"dwarfish",
"compact",
"petite",
"slight",
"diminutive",
"half-pint",
"pint-size",
"pint-sized",
"pocket",
"pocket-size",
"pocket-sized",
"pygmy",
"small",
"smallish",
"bantam",
"bitty",
"dinky",
"mini",
"miniature",
"minimized",
"minute",
"puny",
"teeny",
"teeny-weeny",
"tiny",
"undersized",
"undersize",
"wee",
"dumpy",
"flat",
"scrubby",
"squat",
"squatty",
"stubby",
"stumpy",
"stunted"
],
"near antonyms":[
"elevated",
"lifted",
"raised",
"uplifted",
"upswept",
"high-rise",
"statuesque",
"gangling",
"gangly",
"lanky",
"rangy",
"big",
"bulky",
"hefty",
"hulking",
"large",
"largish",
"outsize",
"outsized",
"oversize",
"oversized",
"sizable",
"sizeable",
"voluminous"
],
"antonyms":[
"altitudinous",
"high",
"lofty",
"tall",
"towering"
]
},
"lacking importance":{
"examples":[
"there were just a few little details left to take care of"
],
"synonyms":[
"fiddling",
"foolish",
"frivolous",
"incidental",
"inconsequential",
"inconsiderable",
"insignificant",
"Mickey Mouse",
"minor",
"minute",
"negligible",
"nugatory",
"slight",
"small",
"small-fry",
"trifling",
"trivial",
"unimportant"
],
"near synonyms":[
"jerkwater",
"one-horse",
"nickel-and-dime",
"paltry",
"petty",
"small-time",
"worthless",
"anonymous",
"nameless",
"obscure",
"uncelebrated",
"unknown"
],
"near antonyms":[
"decisive",
"fatal",
"fateful",
"chief",
"dominant",
"overbearing",
"overmastering",
"overriding",
"principal",
"distinctive",
"exceptional",
"impressive",
"outstanding",
"prominent",
"remarkable",
"valuable",
"worthwhile",
"worthy",
"distinguished",
"eminent",
"great",
"illustrious",
"preeminent",
"prestigious",
"famous",
"notorious",
"renowned",
"all-important",
"basic",
"essential",
"fundamental",
"key"
],
"antonyms":[
"big",
"consequential",
"eventful",
"important",
"major",
"material",
"meaningful",
"momentous",
"significant",
"substantial",
"unfrivolous",
"weighty"
]
},
"not broad or open in views or opinions":{
"examples":[
"little -minded people who dislike the fact that human society is always progressing"
],
"synonyms":[
"illiberal",
"insular",
"Lilliputian",
"narrow",
"narrow-minded",
"parochial",
"petty",
"picayune",
"provincial",
"sectarian",
"small",
"small-minded"
],
"near synonyms":[
"inflexible",
"ironbound",
"obdurate",
"obstinate",
"rigid",
"set",
"stubborn",
"unyielding",
"wrongheaded",
"bigoted",
"intolerant",
"biased",
"discriminating",
"discriminatory",
"jaundiced",
"one-sided",
"partial",
"partisan",
"prejudiced",
"brassbound",
"hidebound",
"old-fashioned",
"reactionary",
"stodgy",
"straitlaced",
"straightlaced",
"stuffy",
"dogmatic",
"dogmatical",
"opinionated",
"opinionative",
"limited",
"hick",
"unsophisticated"
],
"near antonyms":[
"impartial",
"nonpartisan",
"objective",
"unbiased",
"unprejudiced",
"freethinking"
],
"antonyms":[
"broad-minded",
"catholic",
"cosmopolitan",
"liberal",
"open",
"open-minded",
"receptive",
"tolerant"
]
},
"not lasting for a considerable time":{
"examples":[
"let's take a little pause to relax"
],
"synonyms":[
"brief",
"fast",
"short"
],
"near synonyms":[
"shortish",
"abbreviated",
"abridged",
"curtailed",
"cut-back",
"shortened",
"syncopated",
"compact",
"condensed",
"abrupt",
"sudden",
"ephemeral",
"fleeting",
"momentary",
"short-lived",
"transient",
"transitory",
"impermanent",
"compendious",
"concise",
"crisp",
"epigrammatic",
"laconic",
"pithy",
"succinct",
"summary",
"terse",
"short-range",
"short-term"
],
"near antonyms":[
"endless",
"everlasting",
"interminable",
"persistent",
"unending",
"longish",
"overlong",
"prolonged",
"protracted",
"permanent",
"enlarged",
"expanded",
"supplemented",
"long-range",
"long-term"
],
"antonyms":[
"extended",
"far",
"great",
"lengthy",
"long",
"long-drawn-out",
"long-drawn",
"long-lived"
]
},
"of a size that is less than average":{
"examples":[
"the petting zoo has a little horse in addition to all of the goats and sheep"
],
"synonyms":[
"bantam",
"diminutive",
"dinky",
"dwarfish",
"fine",
"half-pint",
"Lilliputian",
"pint-size",
"pint-sized",
"pocket",
"pocket-size",
"pocket-sized",
"puny",
"pygmy",
"shrimpy",
"slight",
"small",
"smallish",
"subnormal",
"toylike",
"undersized",
"undersize"
],
"near synonyms":[
"dwarf",
"toy",
"runtish",
"runty",
"scrubby",
"stunted",
"bitty",
"inappreciable",
"infinitesimal",
"little bitty",
"micro",
"microscopic",
"microscopical",
"mini",
"miniature",
"miniaturized",
"minikin",
"minim",
"minuscule",
"minute",
"pinpoint",
"teensy",
"teensy-weensy",
"teeny",
"teeny-weeny",
"tiny",
"wee",
"weeny",
"weensy",
"meager",
"meagre",
"niggardly",
"poor",
"scant",
"scanty",
"scarce",
"skimp",
"skimpy",
"slender",
"slim",
"spare",
"sparse",
"stingy",
"deficient",
"inadequate",
"insufficient",
"lacking",
"wanting",
"bite-size",
"bite-sized",
"capsule"
],
"near antonyms":[
"bulky",
"hefty",
"hulking",
"massive",
"voluminous",
"boxcar",
"Brobdingnagian",
"Bunyanesque",
"cavernous",
"colossal",
"cyclopean",
"elephantine",
"enormous",
"galactic",
"gargantuan",
"giant",
"gigantic",
"gross",
"Himalayan",
"herculean",
"heroic",
"heroical",
"huge",
"humongous",
"humungous",
"immense",
"jumbo",
"leviathan",
"mammoth",
"monolithic",
"monstrous",
"monumental",
"mountainous",
"pharaonic",
"prodigious",
"staggering",
"stupendous",
"titanic",
"tremendous",
"vast",
"abundant",
"ample",
"appreciable",
"bountiful",
"copious",
"generous",
"healthy",
"liberal",
"plenteous",
"plentiful",
"fat",
"thick",
"broad",
"wide",
"boundless",
"cosmic",
"cosmical",
"immeasurable",
"incalculable",
"infinite",
"adequate",
"enough",
"sufficient"
],
"antonyms":[
"big",
"biggish",
"considerable",
"goodly",
"grand",
"great",
"handsome",
"husky",
"king-size",
"king-sized",
"large",
"largish",
"outsize",
"outsized",
"overscale",
"overscaled",
"oversize",
"oversized",
"sizable",
"sizeable",
"substantial",
"tidy",
"whacking",
"whopping"
]
},
"in a very small quantity or degree":{
"examples":[
"we had little more than we needed to survive in the wilderness"
],
"synonyms":[
"negligibly",
"nominally",
"slightly"
],
"near synonyms":[
"meagerly",
"scantily",
"barely",
"hardly",
"just",
"marginally",
"minimally",
"scarcely"
],
"near antonyms":[
"completely",
"entirely",
"purely",
"thoroughly",
"totally",
"utterly",
"eminently",
"exceptionally",
"appreciably",
"discernibly",
"noticeably",
"palpably",
"abundantly",
"plentifully",
"generously",
"handsomely",
"liberally",
"astronomically",
"grandly",
"hugely",
"monstrously",
"monumentally"
],
"antonyms":[
"awful",
"awfully",
"beastly",
"considerably",
"deadly",
"especially",
"exceedingly",
"exceeding",
"extensively",
"extra",
"extremely",
"far",
"frightfully",
"full",
"greatly",
"heavily",
"highly",
"jolly",
"mightily",
"mighty",
"mortally",
"most",
"much",
"particularly",
"rattling",
"real",
"right",
"significantly",
"so",
"something",
"substantially",
"super",
"terribly",
"too",
"very",
"whacking"
]
},
"not often":{
"examples":[
"he's been studying very little for the bar exam"
],
"synonyms":[
"infrequently",
"rarely",
"seldom"
],
"near synonyms":[
"ne'er",
"never",
"episodically",
"irregularly",
"now and then",
"occasionally",
"sometimes",
"sporadically"
],
"near antonyms":[
"customarily",
"generally",
"habitually",
"ordinarily",
"routinely",
"usually",
"always",
"constantly",
"continually",
"continuously",
"endlessly",
"eternally",
"ever",
"everlastingly",
"evermore",
"forever",
"invariably",
"perennially",
"perpetually",
"unceasingly",
"chronically",
"recurrently",
"repeatedly"
],
"antonyms":[
"frequently",
"oft",
"often",
"oftentimes",
"ofttimes"
]
},
"a very small amount":{
"examples":[
"there's just a little of the pie left"
],
"synonyms":[
"ace",
"bit",
"crumb",
"dab",
"dram",
"driblet",
"glimmer",
"hint",
"lick",
"mite",
"nip",
"ounce",
"particle",
"peanuts",
"ray",
"scintilla",
"scruple",
"shade",
"shadow",
"shred",
"skosh",
"smack",
"smell",
"smidgen",
"smidgeon",
"smidgin",
"smidge",
"snap",
"soup\u00e7on",
"spark",
"spatter",
"speck",
"splash",
"spot",
"sprinkling",
"strain",
"streak",
"suspicion",
"tad",
"touch",
"trace"
],
"near synonyms":[
"hoot",
"iota",
"jot",
"minim",
"minimum",
"modicum",
"semblance",
"syllable",
"tittle",
"vestige",
"whit",
"atom",
"dot",
"fleck",
"flyspeck",
"grain",
"granule",
"molecule",
"morsel",
"mote",
"nubbin",
"patch",
"scrap",
"dash",
"drop",
"pinch",
"part",
"portion",
"section",
"bite",
"nibble",
"taste",
"handful",
"scattering",
"smatter",
"smattering",
"dose",
"shot",
"chip",
"flake",
"fragment",
"shard",
"shiver",
"sliver",
"smithereens",
"splinter",
"tatter",
"clipping",
"paring",
"shaving"
],
"near antonyms":[
"abundance",
"barrel",
"boatload",
"bucket",
"bundle",
"bushel",
"deal",
"fistful",
"gobs",
"heaps",
"lashings",
"lashins",
"loads",
"lot",
"mass",
"mess",
"mountain",
"much",
"oodles",
"passel",
"peck",
"pile",
"plenty",
"potful",
"profusion",
"quantity",
"raft",
"reams",
"scads",
"stack",
"wad",
"wealth",
"volume",
"bonanza",
"embarrassment",
"excess",
"overabundance",
"overage",
"overflow",
"overkill",
"overmuch",
"oversupply",
"superabundance",
"superfluity",
"surfeit",
"surplus",
"chunk",
"hunk",
"lump",
"slab"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"adjective",
"adverb",
"noun"
]
},
"litmus test":{
"something (such as an opinion about a political or moral issue) that is used to make a judgment about whether someone or something is acceptable":{
"examples":[
"The party is using attitudes about gun control as a litmus test for political candidates."
],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"acid test",
"litmus",
"cross",
"crucible",
"fire",
"gauntlet",
"gantlet",
"ordeal",
"trial",
"baptism",
"initiation",
"challenge",
"complication",
"difficulty",
"grief",
"grievance",
"hardship",
"rigor"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"litmus tests":{
"something (such as an opinion about a political or moral issue) that is used to make a judgment about whether someone or something is acceptable":{
"examples":[
"The party is using attitudes about gun control as a litmus test for political candidates."
],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"acid tests",
"litmuses",
"crosses",
"crucibles",
"fires",
"gauntlets",
"gantlets",
"ordeals",
"trials",
"baptisms",
"initiations",
"challenges",
"complications",
"difficulties",
"griefs",
"grievances",
"hardships",
"rigors"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"little guys":{
"an average or ordinary man":{
"examples":[
"for a politician who likes to portray himself as a friend of the little guy , he sure is fond of rubbing elbows with the fat cats"
],
"synonyms":[
"everymen",
"Joe Blows",
"Joe Six-Packs",
"John Does",
"little men",
"lugs",
"slobs"
],
"near synonyms":[
"commoners",
"plebeians",
"plebs",
"proles",
"proletarians",
"everywomen",
"plain Janes",
"laborers",
"peons",
"peones",
"workers"
],
"near antonyms":[
"big cheeses",
"big shots",
"big wheels",
"bigwigs",
"fat cats",
"movers and shakers",
"VIPs"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"lit into":{
"to criticize harshly and usually publicly":{
"examples":[
"She lit into the intern for deleting an important file."
],
"synonyms":[
"abused",
"assailed",
"attacked",
"bashed",
"belabored",
"blasted",
"castigated",
"excoriated",
"jumped (on)",
"lambasted",
"potshot",
"savaged",
"scathed",
"slammed",
"trashed",
"vituperated"
],
"near synonyms":[
"berated",
"harangued",
"harassed",
"harried",
"reviled",
"scolded",
"whipped",
"blasphemed",
"cursed",
"execrated",
"imprecated",
"profaned",
"affronted",
"insulted",
"slurred",
"aspersed",
"bad-mouthed",
"belittled",
"blackguarded",
"disparaged",
"put down",
"libeled",
"libelled",
"slandered",
"traduced",
"vilified",
"chastised",
"chid",
"chided",
"criticized",
"laced (into)",
"rebuked",
"reprimanded",
"fulminated",
"lashed (out)"
],
"near antonyms":[
"acclaimed",
"commended",
"complimented",
"hailed",
"lauded",
"praised"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to start work on energetically":{
"examples":[
"We lit into the new project right away."
],
"synonyms":[
"attacked",
"dived (into)",
"dove (into)",
"tackled",
"waded (in or into)"
],
"near synonyms":[
"addressed",
"approached",
"faced",
"buckled (down to)",
"concentrated (on)",
"focused (on)",
"focussed (on)",
"knuckled down (to)",
"zeroed (in on)",
"fell (to)",
"pitched in",
"plunged (in)",
"settled (down)",
"pursued",
"took up",
"undertook"
],
"near antonyms":[
"avoided",
"evaded",
"shunned",
"dallied",
"dawdled",
"dillydallied",
"fiddled (around)",
"fooled",
"idled",
"lagged",
"messed",
"monkeyed (around)",
"played",
"poked",
"pottered (around)",
"puttered (around)",
"trifled"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to take sudden, violent action against":{
"examples":[
"He lit into the punching bag as though it were his worst enemy."
],
"synonyms":[
"assailed",
"assaulted",
"attacked",
"beset",
"bushwhacked",
"charged",
"descended (on or upon)",
"jumped (on)",
"pounced (on or upon)",
"raided",
"rushed",
"set on",
"sicced",
"sicked",
"stormed",
"struck",
"trashed",
"turned (on)",
"went in (on)"
],
"near synonyms":[
"bum-rushed",
"ganged up (on)",
"mobbed",
"swarmed",
"mugged",
"robbed",
"ambuscaded",
"ambushed",
"surprised",
"surprized",
"waylaid",
"blitzed",
"bombarded",
"bombed",
"nuked",
"barraged",
"cannonaded",
"cannoned",
"banged away (at)",
"battered",
"buffeted",
"plastered",
"beleaguered",
"besieged",
"pressed",
"harried",
"looted",
"pillaged",
"plundered",
"ravaged",
"sacked",
"forayed",
"invaded",
"overran",
"enveloped",
"flanked"
],
"near antonyms":[
"covered",
"defended",
"guarded",
"protected",
"secured",
"shielded"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"phrase"
]
},
"lit":{
"filled with much light":{
"examples":[
"the coat room was just lit well enough for us to identify our jackets"
],
"synonyms":[
"ablaze",
"alight",
"bright",
"brightened",
"illuminated",
"illumined",
"light",
"lightsome"
],
"near synonyms":[
"floodlit",
"floodlighted",
"highlighted",
"spotlighted",
"spotlit",
"ignited",
"kindled",
"moonlit",
"shiny",
"sunlit",
"sunny",
"sunshiny"
],
"near antonyms":[
"gloomy",
"somber",
"sombre",
"sunless",
"cloudy",
"murky",
"obscured",
"shadowlike",
"shadowy",
"gray",
"grey",
"leaden",
"pale",
"lightproof"
],
"antonyms":[
"blackened",
"dark",
"darkened",
"darkish",
"darkling",
"dimmed",
"dusk",
"dusky",
"lightless",
"pitch-black",
"pitch-dark",
"tenebrous",
"unlit"
]
},
"being on fire":{
"examples":[
"some lighted torches lined the path to the shrine"
],
"synonyms":[
"ablaze",
"afire",
"aflame",
"alight",
"blazing",
"burning",
"combusting",
"conflagrant",
"fiery",
"flaming",
"ignited",
"inflamed",
"enflamed",
"kindled"
],
"near synonyms":[
"aglow",
"flaring",
"flickering",
"glowing",
"live",
"smoldering",
"smouldering",
"broiling",
"hot",
"piping hot",
"red-hot",
"roasting",
"scalding",
"scorching",
"searing",
"sizzling",
"burned",
"burnt",
"charred",
"incinerated",
"scorched",
"seared",
"singed"
],
"near antonyms":[
"choked",
"damped",
"dead",
"doused",
"dowsed",
"extinguished",
"quenched",
"smothered",
"snuffed (out)",
"stamped (out)",
"suffocated"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"being under the influence of alcohol":{
"examples":[
"Raucous singing could be heard coming from tents full of lit Oktoberfest revelers."
],
"synonyms":[
"besotted",
"blasted",
"blind",
"blitzed",
"blotto",
"bombed",
"boozy",
"canned",
"cockeyed",
"crocked",
"drunk",
"drunken",
"fried",
"gassed",
"hammered",
"high",
"impaired",
"inebriate",
"inebriated",
"intoxicated",
"juiced",
"lit up",
"loaded",
"looped",
"oiled",
"pickled",
"pie-eyed",
"plastered",
"potted",
"ripped",
"sloshed",
"smashed",
"sottish",
"soused",
"sozzled",
"squiffed",
"squiffy",
"stewed",
"stiff",
"stinking",
"stoned",
"tanked",
"tiddly",
"tight",
"tipsy",
"wasted",
"wet",
"wiped out"
],
"near synonyms":[
"maudlin",
"beery",
"befuddled",
"bleary-eyed",
"crapulous",
"dopey",
"dopy",
"rocky",
"strung out",
"stupefied",
"debauched",
"dissipated",
"dissolute",
"alcoholic",
"bibulous",
"dipsomaniacal"
],
"near antonyms":[
"abstemious",
"abstinent",
"dry",
"temperate",
"teetotal",
"clearheaded",
"cool",
"level",
"steady"
],
"antonyms":[
"sober",
"straight"
]
},
"to set (something) on fire":{
"examples":[
"we lit the kindling before adding the heavier logs"
],
"synonyms":[
"burned",
"burnt",
"enkindled",
"fired",
"ignited",
"inflamed",
"enflamed",
"kindled",
"torched"
],
"near synonyms":[
"immolated",
"deflagrated",
"charred",
"frizzled",
"scorched",
"baked",
"broiled",
"cooked",
"ashed",
"cremated",
"incinerated",
"kilned",
"set off",
"brightened",
"illuminated",
"illumined",
"irradiated",
"lightened",
"radiated",
"scalded",
"scathed",
"seared",
"reignited",
"rekindled",
"relit",
"relighted",
"banked",
"stoked"
],
"near antonyms":[
"choked",
"smothered",
"suffocated",
"stamped (out)",
"blackened",
"darkened",
"dimmed",
"dulled",
"obscured"
],
"antonyms":[
"doused",
"dowsed",
"extinguished",
"put out",
"quenched",
"snuffed (out)"
]
},
"to supply with light":{
"examples":[
"the lights from the TV cameras will light this room as though it were high noon"
],
"synonyms":[
"bathed",
"beaconed",
"emblazed",
"illumed",
"illuminated",
"illumined",
"irradiated",
"lightened"
],
"near synonyms":[
"brightened",
"beamed",
"beat (down)",
"radiated",
"shone",
"shined",
"enhaloed",
"haloed",
"floodlit",
"floodlighted",
"highlighted",
"spotlighted",
"spotlit",
"blazed",
"burned",
"burnt",
"fired",
"flamed",
"glared",
"glowed",
"ignited",
"incinerated",
"kindled",
"bedazzled",
"blinded",
"dazed",
"dazzled",
"gleamed",
"glistened",
"glittered"
],
"near antonyms":[
"dimmed",
"dulled",
"obscured",
"covered",
"shrouded",
"veiled",
"doused",
"dowsed",
"extinguished",
"put out",
"quenched",
"snuffed (out)"
],
"antonyms":[
"blackened",
"darkened",
"obfuscated"
]
},
"to come to rest after descending from the air":{
"examples":[
"the bird lit on the branch and began to sing"
],
"synonyms":[
"alighted",
"alit",
"landed",
"perched",
"roosted",
"settled",
"touched down"
],
"near synonyms":[
"belly-landed",
"crash-landed"
],
"near antonyms":[
"arose",
"ascended",
"climbed",
"rose",
"flew",
"floated",
"glided",
"planed",
"soared",
"winged",
"hovered",
"hung",
"hanged"
],
"antonyms":[
"blasted off",
"took off"
]
},
"to come down from something (as a vehicle)":{
"examples":[
"he hurriedly lighted from the bus and started walking up the street"
],
"synonyms":[
"alighted",
"alit",
"descended",
"disembarked",
"dismounted",
"got down"
],
"near synonyms":[
"deplaned",
"detrained"
],
"near antonyms":[
"boarded",
"climbed (aboard)",
"got in",
"mounted",
"enplaned",
"emplaned",
"entrained"
],
"antonyms":[
"embarked"
]
},
"type":[
"adjective",
"verb"
]
},
"little man":{
"an average or ordinary man":{
"examples":[
"claims that the wind farm would benefit only its developers and that the little man would get nothing out of it"
],
"synonyms":[
"everyman",
"Joe Blow",
"Joe Six-Pack",
"John Doe",
"little guy",
"lug",
"slob"
],
"near synonyms":[
"commoner",
"pleb",
"plebeian",
"prole",
"proletarian",
"everywoman",
"plain Jane",
"laborer",
"peon",
"worker"
],
"near antonyms":[
"big cheese",
"big shot",
"big wheel",
"bigwig",
"fat cat",
"mover and shaker",
"VIP"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"literacy":{
"the understanding and information gained from being educated":{
"examples":[
"he impressed everyone with his general literacy as well as his natural intelligence"
],
"synonyms":[
"education",
"erudition",
"knowledge",
"learnedness",
"learning",
"scholarship"
],
"near synonyms":[
"culture",
"edification",
"enlightenment",
"reading",
"bookishness",
"pedantry"
],
"near antonyms":[
"functional illiteracy"
],
"antonyms":[
"ignorance",
"illiteracy",
"illiterateness"
]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"literati":{
"intellectuals considered as a social class":{
"examples":[
"Boston's 19th-century literati often referred to their city as \"the Athens of America\""
],
"synonyms":[
"clerisy",
"intelligentsia"
],
"near synonyms":[
"avant-garde",
"culturati",
"chosen",
"illuminati",
"best",
"choice",
"cream",
"elect",
"elite",
"fat",
"flower",
"pick",
"prime",
"upper crust"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"plural noun"
]
},
"litheness":{
"as in flexibility , loose-jointedness":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"flexibility",
"gracefulness",
"limberness",
"loose-jointedness",
"suppleness",
"coordination",
"handiness",
"sure-handedness",
"agility",
"deftness",
"dexterity",
"nimbleness",
"sleight",
"spryness",
"sure-footedness",
"adeptness",
"adroitness",
"finesse",
"prowess"
],
"near antonyms":[
"awkwardness",
"clumsiness",
"gaucheness",
"gawkiness",
"gawkishness",
"gracelessness",
"ham-handedness",
"heavy-handedness",
"klutziness",
"ungainliness",
"disability",
"inability",
"incapability",
"incapacity",
"debilitation",
"disablement",
"impairment",
"incapacitation",
"unhandiness"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"litmus":{
"as in litmus test , acid test":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"acid test",
"litmus test",
"cross",
"crucible",
"fire",
"gauntlet",
"gantlet",
"ordeal",
"trial",
"baptism",
"initiation",
"challenge",
"complication",
"difficulty",
"grief",
"grievance",
"hardship",
"rigor"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"litigations":{
"as in lawsuits , cases":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"actions",
"lawsuits",
"proceedings",
"suits",
"cases",
"causes",
"complaints",
"counterclaims",
"countersuits",
"counter-suits",
"cross actions",
"cross-claims"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"literate":{
"having or displaying advanced knowledge or education":{
"examples":[
"the columnist's witty and literate comments on current events make her a popular guest on political talk shows"
],
"synonyms":[
"educated",
"erudite",
"knowledgeable",
"learned",
"lettered",
"scholarly",
"well-read"
],
"near synonyms":[
"civilized",
"cultivated",
"cultured",
"cerebral",
"highbrow",
"highbrowed",
"intellectual",
"polished",
"refined",
"well-bred",
"academic",
"academical",
"bookish",
"didactic",
"didactical",
"inkhorn",
"pedantic",
"professorial",
"informed",
"instructed",
"schooled",
"skilled",
"trained",
"homeschooled",
"self-educated",
"self-instructed",
"self-taught",
"briefed",
"enlightened",
"informed",
"versed",
"overeducated",
"polyhistoric",
"polymath",
"polymathic"
],
"near antonyms":[
"uncivilized",
"uncultivated",
"uncultured",
"lowbrow",
"semiliterate",
"unintellectual",
"ill-bred",
"unpolished",
"unrefined",
"uninformed",
"unknowledgeable",
"uninstructed",
"unschooled",
"untaught",
"untutored",
"semiliterate",
"undereducated"
],
"antonyms":[
"benighted",
"dark",
"ignorant",
"illiterate",
"uneducated",
"unlearned",
"unlettered",
"unscholarly"
]
},
"type":[
"adjective"
]
},
"literalism":{
"realistic depiction in art and literature":{
"examples":[
"if audiences ever got the literalism they claim they want in movies, they'd be fast asleep by the second reel"
],
"synonyms":[
"naturalism",
"realism",
"representationalism",
"verisimilitude",
"verismo"
],
"near synonyms":[
"photo-realism",
"authenticity",
"grittiness"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"lit (up)":{
"being under the influence of alcohol":{
"examples":[
"he finally wandered in at 3:00 a.m., obviously lit up"
],
"synonyms":[
"besotted",
"blasted",
"blind",
"blitzed",
"blotto",
"bombed",
"boozy",
"canned",
"cockeyed",
"crocked",
"drunk",
"drunken",
"fried",
"gassed",
"hammered",
"high",
"impaired",
"inebriate",
"inebriated",
"intoxicated",
"juiced",
"lit",
"loaded",
"looped",
"oiled",
"pickled",
"pie-eyed",
"plastered",
"potted",
"ripped",
"sloshed",
"smashed",
"sottish",
"soused",
"sozzled",
"squiffed",
"squiffy",
"stewed",
"stiff",
"stinking",
"stoned",
"tanked",
"tiddly",
"tight",
"tipsy",
"wasted",
"wet",
"wiped out"
],
"near synonyms":[
"maudlin",
"beery",
"befuddled",
"bleary-eyed",
"crapulous",
"dopey",
"dopy",
"rocky",
"strung out",
"stupefied",
"debauched",
"dissipated",
"dissolute",
"alcoholic",
"bibulous",
"dipsomaniacal"
],
"near antonyms":[
"abstemious",
"abstinent",
"dry",
"temperate",
"teetotal",
"clearheaded",
"cool",
"level",
"steady"
],
"antonyms":[
"sober",
"straight"
]
},
"type":[
"adjective"
]
},
"litany":{
"a long stated list of things one after another":{
"examples":[
"Nobody wants to deal with a coworker who repeats the same litany of complaints day after day."
],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"enumeration",
"recital",
"recitation",
"iteration",
"repetition",
"account",
"narration",
"report",
"story",
"catalog",
"checklist",
"list",
"listing",
"index",
"inventory"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"an address to a deity or religious figure":{
"examples":[
"In Catholic tradition, the Litany of the Saints is commonly sung at Mass the night before Easter."
],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"collect",
"grace",
"invocation",
"requiescat",
"thanksgiving",
"prayer",
"orison",
"evensong",
"matins",
"vespers",
"appeal",
"begging",
"beseeching",
"entreaty",
"imploring",
"petition",
"pleading",
"request",
"soliciting",
"suit",
"supplication"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"lit (upon)":{
"as in tumbled (to) , hit (upon)":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"hit (upon)",
"tumbled (to)",
"crisscrossed",
"crossed",
"passed",
"reencountered",
"re-encountered",
"remet",
"collided (with)",
"crashed (into)",
"faced",
"greeted",
"saluted",
"accosted",
"confronted",
"caught",
"chanced (upon)",
"encountered",
"happened (upon)",
"met",
"stumbled (upon)"
],
"near antonyms":[
"avoided",
"dodged",
"ducked",
"eluded",
"escaped",
"evaded",
"shook",
"shunned"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"little bitty":{
"very small in size":{
"examples":[
"all that was left when I finally got to the dessert table was one little bitty piece of pie"
],
"synonyms":[
"atomic",
"bitsy",
"bitty",
"infinitesimal",
"itty-bitty",
"itsy-bitsy",
"microminiature",
"microscopic",
"microscopical",
"miniature",
"minuscule",
"minute",
"teensy",
"teensy-weensy",
"teeny",
"teeny-weeny",
"tiny",
"wee",
"weeny",
"weensy"
],
"near synonyms":[
"baby",
"diminutive",
"dwarf",
"elfin",
"half-pint",
"Lilliputian",
"little",
"micro",
"mini",
"minikin",
"model",
"petite",
"pocket",
"pocket-size",
"pocket-sized",
"pygmy",
"small",
"smallish",
"dinky",
"dwarfish",
"insignificant",
"pint-size",
"pint-sized",
"puny",
"scrubby",
"undersized",
"undersize"
],
"near antonyms":[
"big",
"bulky",
"bumper",
"considerable",
"extensive",
"good",
"goodly",
"grand",
"great",
"gross",
"handsome",
"hefty",
"hulking",
"jumbo",
"king-size",
"king-sized",
"large",
"largish",
"major",
"outsize",
"outsized",
"overgrown",
"overscale",
"overscaled",
"oversize",
"oversized",
"sizable",
"sizeable",
"substantial",
"super",
"whacking",
"whopping",
"formidable",
"grandiose",
"imposing",
"lofty",
"majestic",
"monolithic",
"staggering",
"stupendous",
"towering",
"boundless",
"cavernous",
"immeasurable",
"infinite",
"vast",
"vasty",
"voluminous"
],
"antonyms":[
"astronomical",
"astronomic",
"colossal",
"cosmic",
"cosmical",
"elephantine",
"enormous",
"giant",
"gigantic",
"herculean",
"heroic",
"heroical",
"huge",
"immense",
"mammoth",
"massive",
"monster",
"monstrous",
"monumental",
"mountainous",
"planetary",
"prodigious",
"titanic",
"tremendous"
]
},
"type":[
"adjective"
]
},
"literary":{
"suggestive of the vocabulary used in books":{
"examples":[
"the novel's dialogue is a little too literary in flavor to be entirely convincing"
],
"synonyms":[
"bookish",
"erudite",
"learned"
],
"near synonyms":[
"academic",
"academical",
"donnish",
"inkhorn",
"pedantic",
"scholastic",
"belletristic",
"belle-lettristic",
"highbrow",
"highbrowed",
"intellectual",
"educated",
"schooled",
"elevated",
"eloquent",
"formal",
"high-flown",
"lofty",
"majestic",
"stately",
"towering",
"bombastic",
"declamatory",
"florid",
"flowery",
"grandiloquent",
"highfalutin",
"hifalutin",
"pompous",
"stilted"
],
"near antonyms":[
"chatty",
"conversational",
"familiar",
"informal",
"slangy",
"illiterate"
],
"antonyms":[
"colloquial",
"nonliterary",
"unbookish"
]
},
"type":[
"adjective"
]
},
"littorals":{
"as in coasts , shorelines":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"coastlands",
"coastlines",
"coasts",
"shorelines",
"shores",
"seaboards",
"seacoasts",
"seashores",
"seasides",
"beaches",
"beachfronts",
"sands",
"strands",
"banks",
"riverbanks",
"riverfronts",
"riversides",
"oceanfronts",
"shorefronts",
"waterfronts",
"lidos",
"plages",
"esplanades"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"lithe":{
"able to bend easily without breaking":{
"examples":[
"the lithe blade of a fencing foil"
],
"synonyms":[
"bendy",
"flexible",
"limber",
"lissome",
"lissom",
"lithesome",
"pliable",
"pliant",
"supple",
"willowy"
],
"near synonyms":[
"adaptable",
"ductile",
"elastic",
"fluid",
"kneadable",
"malleable",
"modifiable",
"plastic",
"variable",
"yielding",
"droopy",
"flaccid",
"floppy",
"limp",
"semiflexible"
],
"near antonyms":[
"inelastic",
"nonmalleable",
"unyielding",
"breakable",
"brittle",
"fragile"
],
"antonyms":[
"inflexible",
"rigid",
"stiff",
"stiffened"
]
},
"moving easily":{
"examples":[
"lithe dancers glided across the stage"
],
"synonyms":[
"agile",
"featly",
"feline",
"graceful",
"gracile",
"light",
"light-footed",
"light-foot",
"lightsome",
"lissome",
"lissom",
"lithesome",
"nimble",
"spry"
],
"near synonyms":[
"acrobatic",
"flexible",
"limber",
"loose-jointed",
"pliable",
"pliant",
"supple",
"adroit",
"deft",
"dexterous",
"dextrous",
"light-fingered",
"fleet-footed",
"sure-footed",
"athletic",
"balletic",
"coordinated"
],
"near antonyms":[
"uncoordinated",
"inflexible",
"rigid",
"stiff",
"bungling",
"inept",
"maladroit"
],
"antonyms":[
"awkward",
"clumsy",
"gawky",
"graceless",
"klutzy",
"lumbering",
"ungainly",
"ungraceful"
]
},
"having a noticeably small amount of body fat":{
"examples":[
"she has the lithe , sinewy body of a distance runner"
],
"synonyms":[
"bony",
"boney",
"fatless",
"lean",
"skinny",
"slender",
"slim",
"spare",
"svelte",
"thin"
],
"near synonyms":[
"clean-limbed",
"trim",
"sylphlike",
"willowy",
"angular",
"rawboned",
"scraggy",
"scrawny",
"sinewy",
"wiry",
"lank",
"lanky",
"rangy",
"reedy",
"spindling",
"spindly",
"stringy",
"twiggy",
"waspish",
"weedy",
"anorectic",
"anoretic",
"anorexic",
"cadaverous",
"emaciated",
"gaunt",
"haggard",
"pinched",
"skeletal",
"wasted",
"wizened",
"meager",
"meagre",
"puny",
"slight"
],
"near antonyms":[
"beefy",
"bulky",
"chunky",
"fleshy",
"heavy",
"heavyset",
"stocky",
"stout",
"thick",
"thickset",
"weighty",
"brawny",
"burly",
"husky",
"dumpy",
"pudgy",
"roly-poly",
"squat",
"stubby",
"paunchy",
"potbellied",
"flabby",
"soft",
"buxom",
"zaftig",
"zoftig",
"full",
"hippy",
"round"
],
"antonyms":[
"chubby",
"corpulent",
"fat",
"gross",
"obese",
"overweight",
"plump",
"portly",
"rotund",
"tubby"
]
},
"type":[
"adjective"
]
},
"litigants":{
"someone who brings a legal action against another person or against whom a legal action is brought":{
"examples":[
"Both litigants chose to represent themselves in court."
],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"parties",
"suitors",
"complainants",
"plaintiffs",
"suers",
"accused",
"defendants",
"appellees",
"accusers",
"appellants",
"petitioners",
"pleaders"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"littler":{
"as in smaller , slighter":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"slighter",
"smaller",
"deficient",
"inadequate",
"insufficient",
"unacceptable",
"jerkwater",
"low-rent",
"one-horse",
"small-time",
"two-bit",
"amiss",
"bad",
"defective",
"unsatisfactory",
"wrong",
"average",
"common",
"fair",
"middling",
"ordinary",
"junior",
"lesser",
"lower",
"low-level",
"petty",
"smaller",
"subordinate",
"under",
"inferior",
"mean",
"minor",
"secondary",
"second-class",
"second-rate"
],
"near antonyms":[
"greater",
"higher",
"superior",
"major",
"more",
"primary",
"senior",
"choice",
"exceptional",
"first-class",
"first-rate",
"high-grade",
"premium",
"prime",
"select",
"selected",
"acceptable",
"adequate",
"sufficient"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"adjective"
]
},
"litigation":{
"as in lawsuit , case":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"action",
"lawsuit",
"proceeding",
"suit",
"case",
"cause",
"complaint",
"counterclaim",
"countersuit",
"cross action",
"cross-claim"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"litmuses":{
"as in litmus tests , acid tests":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"acid tests",
"litmus tests",
"crosses",
"crucibles",
"fires",
"gauntlets",
"gantlets",
"ordeals",
"trials",
"baptisms",
"initiations",
"challenges",
"complications",
"difficulties",
"griefs",
"grievances",
"hardships",
"rigors"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"literally":{
"in a literal, true, or accurate way":{
"examples":[
"She is not one for hyperbole\u2014all of her warnings should be taken literally .",
"The employees took the CEO's remarks literally and rightfully worried about the future health of the company."
],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"accurately",
"precisely",
"ad verbum",
"directly",
"exactly",
"verbatim",
"word for word",
"actually",
"authentically",
"certifiably",
"genuinely",
"really",
"truly",
"veritably",
"just",
"right",
"sharp",
"smack-dab",
"squarely",
"identically",
"positively",
"simply"
],
"near antonyms":[
"carelessly",
"freely",
"imprecisely",
"inaccurately",
"loosely",
"inexactly",
"metaphorically"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"adverb"
]
},
"lite":{
"as in light":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"light",
"natural",
"plain",
"simple",
"unseasoned",
"diet",
"nonfattening",
"slimming",
"nonfat"
],
"near antonyms":[
"heavy",
"rich",
"buttery",
"fat",
"fatty",
"greasy",
"oily",
"caloric",
"calorific",
"fattening"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"adjective"
]
},
"litterateur":{
"a person who creates a written work":{
"examples":[
"Washington Irving is generally credited as the first American litterateur to gain a reputation in Britain and on the Continent"
],
"synonyms":[
"author",
"pen",
"penman",
"scribe",
"scrivener",
"writer"
],
"near synonyms":[
"auteur",
"belletrist",
"belle-lettrist",
"stylist",
"wordsmith",
"coauthor",
"coscenarist",
"cowriter",
"ghostwriter",
"hack",
"hatchet man",
"scribbler",
"wordmonger",
"biographer",
"hagiographer",
"autobiographer",
"memoirist",
"memorialist",
"fabulist",
"fictioneer",
"fictionist",
"novelist",
"romancer",
"storyteller",
"essayist",
"pamphleteer",
"satirist",
"dramatist",
"playwright",
"scenarist",
"screenwriter",
"scriptwriter",
"prosaist",
"prosateur",
"proser",
"bard",
"poet",
"rhymer",
"versifier",
"blogger",
"columnist",
"journalist",
"newspaperman",
"paragrapher",
"reporter",
"sportswriter"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[
"nonauthor"
]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
yay
2022-07-15 11:16:05 +00:00
},
"little men":{
"an average or ordinary man":{
"examples":[
"claims that the wind farm would benefit only its developers and that the little man would get nothing out of it"
],
"synonyms":[
"everymen",
"Joe Blows",
"Joe Six-Packs",
"John Does",
"little guys",
"lugs",
"slobs"
],
"near synonyms":[
"commoners",
"plebeians",
"plebs",
"proles",
"proletarians",
"everywomen",
"plain Janes",
"laborers",
"peons",
"peones",
"workers"
],
"near antonyms":[
"big cheeses",
"big shots",
"big wheels",
"bigwigs",
"fat cats",
"movers and shakers",
"VIPs"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"literalness":{
"as in literality":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"literality"
],
"near antonyms":[
"contrivance",
"creativity",
"fancy",
"fantasy",
"phantasy",
"ideation",
"imagination",
"imaginativeness",
"invention",
"inventiveness",
"originality",
"brainstorm",
"brainstorming",
"inspiration",
"fecundity",
"fertility"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"little magazines":{
"as in digests":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"digests",
"annuals",
"bimonthlies",
"biweeklies",
"dailies",
"monthlies",
"quarterlies",
"semimonthlies",
"semiweeklies",
"triweeklies",
"weeklies",
"yearbooks",
"fanzines",
"books",
"bulletins",
"diurnals",
"gazettes",
"journals",
"magazines",
"mags",
"newspapers",
"organs",
"papers",
"periodicals",
"rags",
"reviews",
"serials",
"zines",
"pictorials",
"slicks",
"broadsides",
"editions",
"extras",
"sheets",
"supplements",
"tabloids",
"tabs",
"newsletters",
"newsmagazines",
"newsweeklies"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"little magazine":{
"as in digest":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"digest",
"annual",
"bimonthly",
"biweekly",
"daily",
"monthly",
"quarterly",
"semimonthly",
"semiweekly",
"triweekly",
"weekly",
"yearbook",
"fanzine",
"book",
"bulletin",
"diurnal",
"gazette",
"journal",
"mag",
"magazine",
"newspaper",
"organ",
"paper",
"periodical",
"rag",
"review",
"serial",
"zine",
"pictorial",
"slick",
"broadside",
"edition",
"extra",
"sheet",
"supplement",
"tab",
"tabloid",
"newsletter",
"newsmagazine",
"newsweekly"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"littering":{
"as in kidding , pupping":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"calving",
"kidding",
"kindling",
"kittening",
"pupping",
"whelping",
"begetting",
"fathering",
"generating",
"getting",
"siring",
"breeding",
"multiplying",
"propagating",
"reproducing",
"spawning",
"laboring",
"bearing",
"birthing",
"delivering",
"dropping",
"having",
"mothering",
"producing"
],
"near antonyms":[
"aborting",
"losing",
"miscarrying"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"litanies":{
"a long stated list of things one after another":{
"examples":[
"Nobody wants to deal with a coworker who repeats the same litany of complaints day after day."
],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"enumerations",
"recitals",
"recitations",
"iterations",
"repetitions",
"accounts",
"narrations",
"reports",
"stories",
"catalogs",
"checklists",
"listings",
"lists",
"indexes",
"indices",
"inventories"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
new prefix_length for MW, MWT and Duden
2022-07-10 04:31:07 +00:00
}
}
Reference in New Issue Copy Permalink