dict_dl/en_MW_thesaurus/os_mwt.json

{
  "oscillate":{
    "to continuously change from one belief, feeling, or condition to an opposite one":{
      "antonyms":[],
      "examples":[
        "The model's hair color oscillates between bleach blond and jet black."
      ],
      "near antonyms":[],
      "related":[],
      "synonyms":[]
    },
    "to move back and forth in a rhythmic manner":{
      "antonyms":[],
      "examples":[
        "When a guitar string is plucked, it oscillates to produce sound waves in the air."
      ],
      "near antonyms":[],
      "related":[],
      "synonyms":[]
    },
    "type":[
      "verb"
    ]
  },
  "oscillation":{
    "a series of slight movements by a body back and forth or from side to side":{
      "antonyms":[],
      "examples":[
        "the precise oscillations of the quartz crystal that allows a quartz watch to keep such accurate time"
      ],
      "near antonyms":[],
      "related":[
        "juddering",
        "quaking",
        "rocking",
        "jiggle",
        "palpitation",
        "quiver",
        "shake",
        "shiver",
        "shudder",
        "tremble",
        "tremor",
        "twitch"
      ],
      "synonyms":[
        "jiggling",
        "quivering",
        "shaking",
        "shivering",
        "shuddering",
        "trembling",
        "twitching",
        "vibration"
      ]
    },
    "the frequent and usually sudden passing from one condition to another":{
      "antonyms":[],
      "examples":[
        "fickle springtime weather in which there seemed to be an unceasing oscillation between unseasonable heat and unseasonable cold"
      ],
      "near antonyms":[],
      "related":[
        "metamorphosis",
        "mutation",
        "transformation",
        "transmogrification",
        "transmutation",
        "vacillation",
        "wavering"
      ],
      "synonyms":[
        "change",
        "fluctuation",
        "flux",
        "inconstancy"
      ]
    },
    "type":[
      "noun"
    ]
  },
  "ostensible":{
    "appearing to be true on the basis of evidence that may or may not be confirmed":{
      "antonyms":[],
      "examples":[
        "the ostensible reason for the meeting turned out to be a trick to get him to the surprise party"
      ],
      "near antonyms":[
        "hidden",
        "inapparent",
        "implausible",
        "impossible",
        "improbable",
        "inconceivable",
        "unlikely",
        "actual",
        "authenticated",
        "confirmed",
        "corroborated",
        "established",
        "genuine",
        "real",
        "substantiated",
        "sure",
        "valid",
        "validated",
        "verified"
      ],
      "related":[
        "demonstrable",
        "external",
        "outward",
        "superficial",
        "visible",
        "conceivable",
        "plausible",
        "possible",
        "supposable",
        "likely",
        "probable",
        "clear",
        "distinct",
        "manifest",
        "obvious",
        "plain",
        "deceptive",
        "delusive",
        "delusory",
        "illusive",
        "illusory",
        "imaginary",
        "misleading",
        "specious",
        "fake",
        "faked",
        "feigned",
        "phony",
        "phoney",
        "pretended",
        "pseudo",
        "put-on",
        "alleged",
        "claimed",
        "professed",
        "purported",
        "so-called"
      ],
      "synonyms":[
        "apparent",
        "assumed",
        "evident",
        "ostensive",
        "presumed",
        "prima facie",
        "putative",
        "reputed",
        "seeming",
        "supposed"
      ]
    },
    "type":[
      "adjective"
    ]
  },
  "ostracizes":{
    "to not allow (someone) to be included in a group; to exclude (someone) from a group":{
      "antonyms":[],
      "examples":[
        "She was ostracized by the scientific community for many years because of her radical political beliefs.",
        "The other girls ostracized her because of the way she dressed."
      ],
      "near antonyms":[],
      "related":[],
      "synonyms":[]
    },
    "type":[
      "verb"
    ]
  },
  "osculate":{
    "as in smack , French-kiss":{
      "examples":[],
      "synonyms":[],
      "related":[],
      "near antonyms":[],
      "antonyms":[]
    },
    "type":[
      "verb"
    ]
  }
}