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{
"hushed":{
"free from disturbing noise or uproar":{
"examples":[
"entered the hushed interior of the Gothic church"
],
"synonyms":[
"arcadian",
"calm",
"peaceful",
"placid",
"quiet",
"restful",
"serene",
"still",
"stilly",
"tranquil"
],
"near synonyms":[
"noiseless",
"silent",
"soundless",
"mute",
"speechless",
"wordless",
"dead",
"motionless",
"quiescent",
"muffled",
"muted",
"quieted",
"dull",
"gentle",
"low",
"soft",
"ultraquiet"
],
"near antonyms":[
"crazy",
"tempestuous",
"wild",
"blaring",
"blasting",
"booming",
"earsplitting",
"piercing",
"roaring",
"thundering",
"thunderous"
],
"antonyms":[
"boisterous",
"clamorous",
"clattery",
"deafening",
"loud",
"noisy",
"raucous",
"rip-roaring",
"roistering",
"romping",
"rowdy",
"tumultuous",
"unquiet",
"uproarious",
"woolly",
"wooly"
]
},
"free from storms or physical disturbance":{
"examples":[
"the hushed lake was smooth as glass the morning after the storm"
],
"synonyms":[
"calm",
"halcyon",
"lown",
"peaceful",
"placid",
"quiet",
"serene",
"still",
"stilly",
"tranquil",
"untroubled"
],
"near synonyms":[
"balmy",
"clement",
"equable",
"gentle",
"mild",
"moderate",
"temperate",
"clear",
"cloudless",
"fair",
"rainless",
"sunny",
"sunshiny",
"windless"
],
"near antonyms":[
"blizzardy",
"blizzardly",
"blustery",
"squally",
"windy",
"extreme",
"foul",
"intemperate",
"nasty",
"severe"
],
"antonyms":[
"agitated",
"angry",
"inclement",
"restless",
"rough",
"stormy",
"tempestuous",
"turbulent",
"unquiet",
"unsettled"
]
},
"mostly or entirely without sound":{
"examples":[
"a hushed sickroom"
],
"synonyms":[
"muted",
"noiseless",
"quiet",
"quieted",
"silent",
"soundless",
"still",
"stilly"
],
"near synonyms":[
"calm",
"peaceable",
"peaceful",
"serene",
"tranquil"
],
"near antonyms":[
"boisterous",
"clamorous",
"clangorous",
"clattering",
"clattery",
"raucous",
"rip-roaring",
"roaring",
"roistering",
"tumultuous"
],
"antonyms":[
"noisy",
"rackety",
"unquiet",
"uproarious"
]
},
"not known or meant to be known by the general populace":{
"examples":[
"hushed negotiations between the two countries"
],
"synonyms":[
"behind-the-scenes",
"confidential",
"esoteric",
"hush-hush",
"inside",
"intimate",
"nonpublic",
"private",
"privy",
"secret"
],
"near synonyms":[
"classified",
"restricted",
"top secret",
"silent",
"unadvertised",
"unannounced",
"undisclosed",
"unmentioned",
"unsaid",
"untold",
"clandestine",
"closet",
"collusive",
"conspiratorial",
"covert",
"furtive",
"hugger-mugger",
"occult",
"sneak",
"sneaking",
"sneaky",
"stealthy",
"surreptitious",
"undercover",
"underground",
"underhand",
"underhanded",
"personal",
"closeted",
"concealed",
"hidden",
"repressed",
"silenced",
"stifled",
"suppressed",
"backstage",
"offscreen",
"offstage"
],
"near antonyms":[
"well-known",
"advertised",
"aired",
"announced",
"blazed",
"broadcast",
"declared",
"disclosed",
"divulged",
"enunciated",
"heralded",
"proclaimed",
"professed",
"promulgated",
"publicized",
"published",
"reported",
"spotlighted",
"general",
"popular",
"prevailing",
"vulgar",
"current",
"prevalent",
"rife",
"widespread",
"communal",
"shared"
],
"antonyms":[
"common",
"open",
"public"
]
},
"to become still and orderly":{
"examples":[
"the whole room hushed when the queen made her entrance"
],
"synonyms":[
"calmed (down)",
"chilled out",
"cooled",
"piped down",
"quieted",
"settled (down)"
],
"near synonyms":[
"dried up",
"relaxed",
"tranquilized",
"tranquillized",
"unwound",
"zoned out"
],
"near antonyms":[
"clowned (around)",
"fooled around",
"horsed around",
"monkeyed (around)",
"showed off",
"skylarked"
],
"antonyms":[
"acted up",
"carried on",
"cut up"
]
},
"to stop talking":{
"examples":[
"the principal asked the children to hush and pay attention during the ceremony"
],
"synonyms":[
"belted up",
"clammed up",
"dried up",
"dummied up",
"piped down",
"quieted (down)",
"shut up"
],
"near synonyms":[
"calmed (down)",
"cooled (down)",
"settled (down)",
"hawed",
"hemmed"
],
"near antonyms":[
"piped up",
"sounded off",
"spoke out",
"spoke up",
"spouted (off)",
"talked up"
],
"antonyms":[
"spoke",
"talked"
]
},
"to stop the noise or speech of":{
"examples":[
"he tried to hush the baby by making a lot of silly faces"
],
"synonyms":[
"dumbed",
"extinguished",
"muted",
"quelled",
"quieted",
"quietened",
"settled",
"shushed",
"shut up",
"silenced",
"squelched",
"stilled"
],
"near synonyms":[],
"near antonyms":[
"agitated",
"stirred"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"adjective",
"verb"
]
},
"hushed (up)":{
"to keep from being publicly known":{
"examples":[
"the well-connected family was able to hush up the scandal so it never reached the papers"
],
"synonyms":[
"burked",
"covered (up)",
"suppressed"
],
"near synonyms":[
"blacked out",
"censored",
"gagged",
"muzzled",
"silenced",
"quashed",
"repressed",
"smothered",
"spiked",
"squashed",
"squelched",
"stifled",
"strangled",
"throttled"
],
"near antonyms":[
"debunked",
"exposed",
"revealed",
"showed up",
"uncloaked",
"uncovered",
"unmasked",
"blabbed",
"disclosed",
"divulged",
"spilled",
"spilt",
"told",
"unveiled",
"broadcast",
"broadcasted",
"circulated",
"published",
"spread",
"described",
"narrated",
"recited",
"recounted",
"rehearsed",
"related",
"reported"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"husked":{
"to remove the natural covering of":{
"examples":[
"the tedious task of husking coconuts"
],
"synonyms":[
"barked",
"flayed",
"hulled",
"peeled",
"shelled",
"shucked",
"skinned"
],
"near synonyms":[
"bared",
"denuded",
"exposed",
"scaled",
"stripped",
"stript",
"pared"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"husks":{
"something that encloses another thing especially to protect it":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"corn husks",
"a high stone wall is the husk that protects the actor from prying curiosity seekers"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"related":[
"cartridges",
"cassettes",
"casettes",
"barks",
"crusts",
"carapaces",
"houses",
"mails",
"panoplies",
"plates",
"platings",
"shields",
"cuticles",
"hides",
"skins",
"envelopes",
"packages",
"wrappers",
"backings",
"coatings",
"covertures",
"facings"
],
"synonyms":[
"armors",
"capsules",
"cases",
"casings",
"cocoons",
"coverings",
"covers",
"encasements",
"housings",
"hulls",
"jackets",
"pods",
"sheaths",
"shells"
]
},
"to remove the natural covering of":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"the tedious task of husking coconuts"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"related":[
"bares",
"denudes",
"exposes",
"scales",
"strips",
"pares"
],
"synonyms":[
"barks",
"flays",
"hulls",
"peels",
"shells",
"shucks",
"skins"
]
},
"type":[
"noun",
"verb"
]
},
"hustles":{
"an instance of the use of dishonest methods to acquire something of value":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"a clever hustle that tricked people into revealing their bank account information"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"related":[
"crosses",
"fixes",
"Ponzi schemes",
"pyramid schemes",
"rackets",
"rip-offs",
"thimblerigs",
"three-card montes",
"devices",
"dodges",
"gimmicks",
"jigs",
"ploys",
"schemes",
"sleights",
"stratagems",
"tricks",
"wiles",
"counterfeits",
"fakes",
"forgeries",
"hoaxes",
"humbug",
"phonies",
"phoneys",
"shams"
],
"synonyms":[
"buncos",
"bunkos",
"cons",
"fiddles",
"flimflams",
"frauds",
"scams",
"shell games",
"stings",
"swindles"
]
},
"to devote serious and sustained effort":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"everyone really hustled to get the project finished on schedule"
],
"near antonyms":[
"breaks",
"eases (up)",
"lets up",
"slackens",
"bums",
"chills",
"dallies",
"dillydallies",
"footles",
"goldbricks",
"goofs (off)",
"hacks (around)",
"hangs (around or out)",
"idles",
"lazes",
"loafs",
"lounges",
"shirks",
"slacks (off)",
"vegges out",
"veges out",
"basks",
"lolls",
"relaxes",
"reposes",
"rests",
"unwinds",
"dabbles",
"doodles",
"fools around",
"fribbles",
"goofs (around)",
"hangs",
"hangs about",
"messes around",
"monkeys (around)",
"plays",
"potters (around)",
"putters (around)",
"trifles"
],
"related":[
"applies (oneself)",
"buckles (down)",
"digs in",
"hammers (away)",
"knuckles down",
"pitches in",
"attacks",
"drives",
"essays",
"tries",
"exercises",
"exerts",
"overexerts",
"overworks",
"ekes out",
"grinds (out)",
"puts out",
"scrabbles",
"scratches",
"trudges",
"wades"
],
"synonyms":[
"bangs away",
"beavers (away)",
"digs (away)",
"drudges",
"endeavors",
"fags",
"grubs",
"humps",
"labors",
"moils",
"pegs (away)",
"plods",
"plows",
"plugs",
"slaves",
"slogs",
"strains",
"strives",
"struggles",
"sweats",
"toils",
"travails",
"tugs",
"works"
]
},
"to proceed or move quickly":{
"antonyms":[
"crawls",
"creeps",
"pokes"
],
"examples":[
"we'd better hustle , or we'll miss the train"
],
"near antonyms":[
"dallies",
"dawdles",
"dillydallies",
"drags",
"hangs (around or out)",
"lags",
"lingers",
"loiters",
"pokes",
"tarries",
"ambles",
"lumbers",
"plods",
"saunters",
"shuffles",
"strolls",
"decelerates",
"slows (down or up)"
],
"related":[
"beetles",
"darts",
"flits",
"scampers",
"scuds",
"scuffles",
"stampedes",
"streaks",
"whizzes",
"gallops",
"jogs",
"sprints",
"accelerates",
"quickens",
"steps out",
"catches up",
"fast-forwards",
"outpaces",
"outruns",
"outstrips",
"overtakes",
"arrows",
"beelines"
],
"synonyms":[
"barrels",
"belts",
"blasts",
"blazes",
"blows",
"bolts",
"bombs",
"bowls",
"breezes",
"bundles",
"bustles",
"buzzes",
"cannonballs",
"careens",
"careers",
"chases",
"courses",
"cracks (on)",
"dashes",
"drives",
"flies",
"hares",
"hastens",
"hies",
"highballs",
"hotfoots (it)",
"humps",
"hurls",
"hurries",
"hurtles",
"jets",
"jumps",
"motors",
"nips",
"pelts",
"races",
"rams",
"rips",
"rockets",
"runs",
"rushes",
"rustles",
"scoots",
"scurries",
"scuttles",
"shoots",
"speeds",
"steps",
"tears",
"travels",
"trots",
"whirls",
"whisks",
"zips",
"zooms"
]
},
"to rob by the use of trickery or threats":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"a swindler who hustled cashiers by getting them all confused while they were making change"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"related":[
"extorts",
"wrenches",
"wrests",
"wrings",
"clips",
"gouges",
"nicks",
"overcharges",
"soaks",
"exploits",
"milks",
"deceives",
"dupes",
"fools",
"gulls",
"tricks",
"ropes (in)",
"betrays",
"bitches",
"double-crosses",
"bamboozles",
"fast-talks"
],
"synonyms":[
"beats",
"bilks",
"bleeds",
"cheats",
"chisels",
"chouses",
"cons",
"cozens",
"defrauds",
"diddles",
"does",
"does in",
"euchres",
"fiddles",
"fleeces",
"flimflams",
"gaffs",
"hoses",
"mulcts",
"nobbles",
"plucks",
"reams",
"rips off",
"rooks",
"screws",
"shakes down",
"shortchanges",
"shorts",
"skins",
"skunks",
"squeezes",
"sticks",
"stiffs",
"stings",
"suckers",
"swindles",
"thimblerigs",
"victimizes"
]
},
"type":[
"noun",
"verb"
]
},
"husbandry":{
"careful management of material resources":{
"examples":[
"in accordance with his practice of good husbandry , he never buys anything on credit"
],
"synonyms":[
"economy",
"frugality",
"parsimony",
"penny-pinching",
"providence",
"scrimping",
"skimping",
"thrift"
],
"near synonyms":[
"conservation",
"saving",
"miserliness",
"niggardliness",
"stinginess",
"belt-tightening",
"retrenchment",
"discretion",
"forehandedness",
"prudence",
"austerity",
"moderation",
"restraint",
"temperance"
],
"near antonyms":[
"extravagance",
"improvidence",
"lavishness",
"prodigality",
"squandering"
],
"antonyms":[
"diseconomy",
"wastefulness"
]
},
"the science or occupation of cultivating the soil, producing crops, and raising livestock":{
"examples":[
"a family of winemakers whose tradition of vineyard husbandry goes back several generations"
],
"synonyms":[
"agriculture",
"farming"
],
"near synonyms":[
"cultivation",
"culture",
"farmwork",
"gardening",
"horticulture",
"tillage",
"agribusiness",
"agroecology",
"agronomy",
"agroforestry",
"arboriculture",
"pomology",
"aquaculture",
"aquiculture",
"hydroponics",
"animal husbandry",
"mixed farming",
"monoculture",
"pastoralism",
"sharecropping"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"husbands":{
"a male partner in a marriage":{
"examples":[
"she and her husband just celebrated their 50th wedding anniversary"
],
"synonyms":[
"hubbies",
"men",
"misters",
"old men"
],
"near synonyms":[
"better halves",
"companions",
"consorts",
"mates",
"partners",
"significant others",
"spouses",
"Mr. Rights",
"soul mates",
"bridegrooms",
"grooms",
"benedicts",
"widowers",
"househusbands"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to avoid the wasteful or destructive use of":{
"examples":[
"husband our natural resources so that our children and grandchildren may benefit from them"
],
"synonyms":[
"conserves"
],
"near synonyms":[
"economizes",
"saves",
"scrimps",
"skimps",
"preserves",
"protects",
"saves",
"hoards",
"lays by",
"lays up"
],
"near antonyms":[
"cleans (out)",
"consumes",
"depletes",
"drains",
"exhausts",
"expends",
"impoverishes",
"spends",
"uses up"
],
"antonyms":[
"blows",
"dissipates",
"fritters (away)",
"lavishes",
"misspends",
"runs through",
"squanders",
"throws away",
"wastes"
]
},
"type":[
"noun",
"verb"
]
},
"hush (up)":{
"to keep from being publicly known":{
"examples":[
"the well-connected family was able to hush up the scandal so it never reached the papers"
],
"synonyms":[
"burke",
"cover (up)",
"suppress"
],
"near synonyms":[
"black out",
"censor",
"gag",
"muzzle",
"silence",
"quash",
"repress",
"smother",
"spike",
"squash",
"squelch",
"stifle",
"strangle",
"throttle"
],
"near antonyms":[
"debunk",
"expose",
"reveal",
"show up",
"uncloak",
"uncover",
"unmask",
"blab",
"disclose",
"divulge",
"spill",
"tell",
"unveil",
"broadcast",
"circulate",
"publish",
"spread",
"describe",
"narrate",
"recite",
"recount",
"rehearse",
"relate",
"report"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"hustlers":{
"a woman who engages in sexual activities for money":{
"examples":[
"policemen kept the street clean of hustlers"
],
"synonyms":[
"bawds",
"call girls",
"cocottes",
"courtesans",
"drabs",
"hookers",
"prostitutes",
"sex workers",
"streetwalkers",
"tarts",
"whores"
],
"near synonyms":[
"madames",
"mesdames",
"madams",
"chippies",
"doxies",
"floozies",
"tramps",
"hussies",
"jades",
"minxes",
"coquettes",
"flirts",
"libertines",
"sirens",
"tempters",
"temptresses",
"vamps",
"wenches"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"an ambitious person who eagerly goes after what is desired":{
"examples":[
"the ad for the sales job claims that for someone who's a real hustler , the sky's the limit"
],
"synonyms":[
"bootstrappers",
"go-aheads",
"go-getters",
"highfliers",
"highflyers",
"hummers",
"live wires",
"powerhouses",
"self-starters"
],
"near synonyms":[
"eager beavers",
"achievers",
"comers",
"doers",
"enterprisers",
"he-men",
"individualists"
],
"near antonyms":[
"dawdlers",
"idlers",
"loafers",
"loungers",
"putterers",
"triflers",
"goldbricks",
"malingerers",
"procrastinators",
"shirkers",
"slackers",
"drones",
"lazybones",
"sluggards",
"dalliers",
"laggards",
"lingerers",
"loiterers",
"slowpokes",
"stick-in-the-muds",
"ignorers",
"ne'er-do-wells",
"neglecters",
"daydreamers",
"dreamers",
"dropouts",
"quitters"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"husbanded":{
"to avoid the wasteful or destructive use of":{
"examples":[
"husband our natural resources so that our children and grandchildren may benefit from them"
],
"synonyms":[
"conserved"
],
"near synonyms":[
"economized",
"saved",
"scrimped",
"skimped",
"preserved",
"protected",
"saved",
"hoarded",
"laid by",
"laid up"
],
"near antonyms":[
"cleaned (out)",
"consumed",
"depleted",
"drained",
"exhausted",
"expended",
"impoverished",
"spent",
"used up"
],
"antonyms":[
"blew",
"dissipated",
"frittered (away)",
"lavished",
"misspent",
"ran through",
"squandered",
"threw away",
"wasted"
]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"husking":{
"to remove the natural covering of":{
"examples":[
"the tedious task of husking coconuts"
],
"synonyms":[
"barking",
"flaying",
"hulling",
"peeling",
"shelling",
"shucking",
"skinning"
],
"near synonyms":[
"baring",
"denuding",
"exposing",
"scaling",
"stripping",
"paring"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"husbandries":{
"careful management of material resources":{
"examples":[
"in accordance with his practice of good husbandry , he never buys anything on credit"
],
"synonyms":[
"economy",
"frugality",
"parsimony",
"penny-pinching",
"providence",
"scrimping",
"skimping",
"thrift"
],
"near synonyms":[
"conservation",
"saving",
"miserliness",
"niggardliness",
"stinginess",
"belt-tightening",
"retrenchment",
"discretion",
"forehandedness",
"prudence",
"austerity",
"moderation",
"restraint",
"temperance"
],
"near antonyms":[
"extravagance",
"improvidence",
"lavishness",
"prodigality",
"squandering"
],
"antonyms":[
"diseconomy",
"wastefulness"
]
},
"the science or occupation of cultivating the soil, producing crops, and raising livestock":{
"examples":[
"a family of winemakers whose tradition of vineyard husbandry goes back several generations"
],
"synonyms":[
"agriculture",
"farming"
],
"near synonyms":[
"cultivation",
"culture",
"farmwork",
"gardening",
"horticulture",
"tillage",
"agribusiness",
"agroecology",
"agronomy",
"agroforestry",
"arboriculture",
"pomology",
"aquaculture",
"aquiculture",
"hydroponics",
"animal husbandry",
"mixed farming",
"monoculture",
"pastoralism",
"sharecropping"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"hustle":{
"excited and often showy or disorderly speed":{
"examples":[
"enjoyed the hustle and bustle of the holiday season"
],
"synonyms":[
"haste",
"hastiness",
"hurry",
"precipitation",
"precipitousness",
"rush"
],
"near synonyms":[
"bustle",
"flurry",
"flutter",
"scurry",
"scuttle",
"stir",
"whirl",
"beeline",
"dash",
"scramble",
"stampede",
"hotheadedness",
"impetuosity",
"impetuousness",
"impulsiveness",
"impulsivity",
"rashness",
"expedition",
"expeditiousness",
"fastness",
"fleetness",
"quickness",
"rapidity",
"rapidness",
"speed",
"speediness",
"swiftness",
"velocity",
"celerity",
"dispatch",
"promptitude",
"promptness"
],
"near antonyms":[
"dilatoriness",
"lateness",
"pokiness",
"procrastination",
"slowness",
"languor",
"leisureliness",
"lethargy",
"sluggishness",
"torpor",
"dormancy",
"inaction",
"inactivity",
"inertia",
"inertness",
"quiescence"
],
"antonyms":[
"deliberateness",
"deliberation"
]
},
"readiness to engage in daring or difficult activity":{
"examples":[
"with his characteristic hustle , he had all the plans for the conference lined up in a matter of days"
],
"synonyms":[
"action",
"aggressiveness",
"ambition",
"drive",
"enterprise",
"go",
"initiative"
],
"near synonyms":[
"grit",
"gumption",
"pluck",
"snap",
"spirit",
"spunk",
"starch",
"ambitiousness",
"killer instinct",
"overambitiousness",
"assertiveness",
"self-reliance",
"energy",
"hardihood",
"pep",
"vigor",
"vitality"
],
"near antonyms":[
"inactivity",
"inertia",
"passivity",
"diffidence",
"faintheartedness",
"timidity",
"hesitation",
"reluctance",
"indolence",
"laziness",
"lethargy"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"an instance of the use of dishonest methods to acquire something of value":{
"examples":[
"a clever hustle that tricked people into revealing their bank account information"
],
"synonyms":[
"bunco",
"bunko",
"con",
"fiddle",
"flimflam",
"fraud",
"scam",
"shell game",
"sting",
"swindle"
],
"near synonyms":[
"cross",
"fix",
"Ponzi scheme",
"pyramid scheme",
"racket",
"rip-off",
"thimblerig",
"three-card monte",
"device",
"dodge",
"gimmick",
"jig",
"ploy",
"scheme",
"sleight",
"stratagem",
"trick",
"wile",
"gouging",
"overcharging",
"soaking",
"counterfeit",
"fake",
"forgery",
"hoax",
"humbug",
"phony",
"phoney",
"sham"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to devote serious and sustained effort":{
"examples":[
"everyone really hustled to get the project finished on schedule"
],
"synonyms":[
"bang away",
"beaver (away)",
"dig (away)",
"drudge",
"endeavor",
"fag",
"grub",
"hump",
"labor",
"moil",
"peg (away)",
"plod",
"plow",
"plug",
"slave",
"slog",
"strain",
"strive",
"struggle",
"sweat",
"toil",
"travail",
"tug",
"work"
],
"near synonyms":[
"apply (oneself)",
"buckle (down)",
"dig in",
"hammer (away)",
"knuckle down",
"pitch in",
"attack",
"drive",
"essay",
"try",
"exercise",
"exert",
"overexert",
"overwork",
"eke out",
"grind (out)",
"put out",
"scrabble",
"scratch",
"trudge",
"wade"
],
"near antonyms":[
"break",
"ease (up)",
"let up",
"slacken",
"bum",
"chill",
"dally",
"dillydally",
"footle",
"goldbrick",
"goof (off)",
"hack (around)",
"hang (around or out)",
"idle",
"laze",
"loaf",
"lounge",
"shirk",
"slack (off)",
"veg out",
"bask",
"loll",
"relax",
"repose",
"rest",
"unwind",
"dabble",
"doodle",
"fool around",
"fribble",
"goof (around)",
"hang",
"hang about",
"mess around",
"monkey (around)",
"play",
"potter (around)",
"putter (around)",
"trifle"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to proceed or move quickly":{
"examples":[
"we'd better hustle , or we'll miss the train"
],
"synonyms":[
"barrel",
"belt",
"blast",
"blaze",
"blow",
"bolt",
"bomb",
"bowl",
"breeze",
"bundle",
"bustle",
"buzz",
"cannonball",
"careen",
"career",
"chase",
"course",
"crack (on)",
"dash",
"drive",
"fly",
"hare",
"hasten",
"hie",
"highball",
"hotfoot (it)",
"hump",
"hurl",
"hurry",
"hurtle",
"jet",
"jump",
"motor",
"nip",
"pelt",
"race",
"ram",
"rip",
"rocket",
"run",
"rush",
"rustle",
"scoot",
"scurry",
"scuttle",
"shoot",
"speed",
"step",
"tear",
"travel",
"trot",
"whirl",
"whisk",
"zip",
"zoom"
],
"near synonyms":[
"beetle",
"dart",
"flit",
"scamper",
"scud",
"scuffle",
"stampede",
"streak",
"whiz",
"whizz",
"gallop",
"jog",
"sprint",
"accelerate",
"quicken",
"step out",
"catch up",
"fast-forward",
"outpace",
"outrun",
"outstrip",
"overtake",
"arrow",
"beeline"
],
"near antonyms":[
"dally",
"dawdle",
"dillydally",
"drag",
"hang (around or out)",
"lag",
"linger",
"loiter",
"poke",
"tarry",
"amble",
"lumber",
"plod",
"saunter",
"shuffle",
"stroll",
"decelerate",
"slow (down or up)"
],
"antonyms":[
"crawl",
"creep",
"poke"
]
},
"to rob by the use of trickery or threats":{
"examples":[
"a swindler who hustled cashiers by getting them all confused while they were making change"
],
"synonyms":[
"beat",
"bilk",
"bleed",
"cheat",
"chisel",
"chouse",
"con",
"cozen",
"defraud",
"diddle",
"do",
"do in",
"euchre",
"fiddle",
"fleece",
"flimflam",
"gaff",
"hose",
"mulct",
"nobble",
"pluck",
"ream",
"rip off",
"rook",
"screw",
"shake down",
"short",
"shortchange",
"skin",
"skunk",
"squeeze",
"stick",
"stiff",
"sting",
"sucker",
"swindle",
"thimblerig",
"victimize"
],
"near synonyms":[
"extort",
"wrench",
"wrest",
"wring",
"clip",
"gouge",
"nick",
"overcharge",
"soak",
"exploit",
"milk",
"deceive",
"dupe",
"fool",
"gull",
"trick",
"rope (in)",
"betray",
"bitch",
"double-cross",
"bamboozle",
"fast-talk"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun",
"verb"
]
},
"husbanding":{
"as in managing":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"managing",
"conservation",
"saving",
"conserving",
"economizing",
"economy",
"frugality",
"husbandry",
"providence",
"scrimping",
"skimping",
"thrift",
"cheapness",
"cheeseparing",
"closeness",
"miserliness",
"niggardliness",
"parsimony",
"penny-pinching",
"penuriousness",
"pinching",
"stinginess",
"tightfistedness",
"tightness"
],
"near antonyms":[
"bountifulness",
"bounty",
"generosity",
"largesse",
"largess",
"liberality",
"openhandedness",
"openheartedness",
"philanthropy",
"unselfishness",
"extravagance",
"lavishness",
"dissipation",
"improvidence",
"prodigality",
"squandering",
"wastefulness"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to avoid the wasteful or destructive use of":{
"examples":[
"husband our natural resources so that our children and grandchildren may benefit from them"
],
"synonyms":[
"conserving"
],
"near synonyms":[
"economizing",
"saving",
"scrimping",
"skimping",
"preserving",
"protecting",
"saving",
"hoarding",
"laying by",
"laying up"
],
"near antonyms":[
"cleaning (out)",
"consuming",
"depleting",
"draining",
"exhausting",
"expending",
"impoverishing",
"spending",
"using up"
],
"antonyms":[
"blowing",
"dissipating",
"frittering (away)",
"lavishing",
"misspending",
"running through",
"squandering",
"throwing away",
"wasting"
]
},
"type":[
"noun",
"verb"
]
},
"hustler":{
"a woman who engages in sexual activities for money":{
"examples":[
"policemen kept the street clean of hustlers"
],
"synonyms":[
"bawd",
"call girl",
"cocotte",
"courtesan",
"drab",
"hooker",
"prostitute",
"sex worker",
"streetwalker",
"tart",
"whore"
],
"near synonyms":[
"madam",
"madame",
"chippie",
"chippy",
"doxy",
"doxie",
"floozy",
"floozie",
"tramp",
"hussy",
"jade",
"minx",
"coquette",
"flirt",
"libertine",
"siren",
"tempter",
"temptress",
"vamp",
"wench"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"an ambitious person who eagerly goes after what is desired":{
"examples":[
"the ad for the sales job claims that for someone who's a real hustler , the sky's the limit"
],
"synonyms":[
"bootstrapper",
"go-ahead",
"go-getter",
"highflier",
"highflyer",
"hummer",
"live wire",
"powerhouse",
"self-starter"
],
"near synonyms":[
"eager beaver",
"achiever",
"comer",
"doer",
"enterpriser",
"he-man",
"individualist"
],
"near antonyms":[
"dawdler",
"idler",
"loafer",
"lounger",
"putterer",
"trifler",
"goldbrick",
"malingerer",
"procrastinator",
"shirker",
"slacker",
"drone",
"lazybones",
"sluggard",
"dallier",
"laggard",
"lingerer",
"loiterer",
"slowpoke",
"stick-in-the-mud",
"ignorer",
"ne'er-do-well",
"neglecter",
"daydreamer",
"dreamer",
"dropout",
"quitter"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"hustled":{
"to devote serious and sustained effort":{
"examples":[
"everyone really hustled to get the project finished on schedule"
],
"synonyms":[
"banged away",
"beavered (away)",
"drudged",
"dug (away)",
"endeavored",
"fagged",
"grubbed",
"humped",
"labored",
"moiled",
"pegged (away)",
"plodded",
"plowed",
"plugged",
"slaved",
"slogged",
"strained",
"strove",
"strived",
"struggled",
"sweat",
"sweated",
"toiled",
"travailed",
"tugged",
"worked",
"wrought"
],
"near synonyms":[
"applied (oneself)",
"buckled (down)",
"dug in",
"hammered (away)",
"knuckled down",
"pitched in",
"attacked",
"drove",
"essayed",
"tried",
"exercised",
"exerted",
"overexerted",
"overworked",
"eked out",
"ground (out)",
"put out",
"scrabbled",
"scratched",
"trudged",
"waded"
],
"near antonyms":[
"broke",
"eased (up)",
"let up",
"slackened",
"bummed",
"chilled",
"dallied",
"dillydallied",
"footled",
"goldbricked",
"goofed (off)",
"hacked (around)",
"hung (around or out)",
"hanged (around or out)",
"idled",
"lazed",
"loafed",
"lounged",
"shirked",
"slacked (off)",
"vegged out",
"basked",
"lolled",
"relaxed",
"reposed",
"rested",
"unwound",
"dabbled",
"doodled",
"fooled around",
"fribbled",
"goofed (around)",
"hung",
"hanged",
"hung about",
"messed around",
"monkeyed (around)",
"played",
"pottered (around)",
"puttered (around)",
"trifled"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to proceed or move quickly":{
"examples":[
"we'd better hustle , or we'll miss the train"
],
"synonyms":[
"barreled",
"barrelled",
"belted",
"blasted",
"blazed",
"blew",
"bolted",
"bombed",
"bowled",
"breezed",
"bundled",
"bustled",
"buzzed",
"cannonballed",
"careened",
"careered",
"chased",
"coursed",
"cracked (on)",
"dashed",
"drove",
"flew",
"hared",
"hastened",
"hied",
"highballed",
"hotfooted (it)",
"humped",
"hurled",
"hurried",
"hurtled",
"jetted",
"jumped",
"motored",
"nipped",
"pelted",
"raced",
"rammed",
"ran",
"run",
"ripped",
"rocketed",
"rushed",
"rustled",
"scooted",
"scurried",
"scuttled",
"shot",
"sped",
"speeded",
"stepped",
"tore",
"traveled",
"travelled",
"trotted",
"whirled",
"whisked",
"zipped",
"zoomed"
],
"near synonyms":[
"beetled",
"darted",
"flitted",
"scampered",
"scudded",
"scuffled",
"stampeded",
"streaked",
"whizzed",
"galloped",
"jogged",
"sprinted",
"accelerated",
"quickened",
"stepped out",
"caught up",
"fast-forwarded",
"outpaced",
"outran",
"outstripped",
"overtook",
"arrowed",
"beelined"
],
"near antonyms":[
"dallied",
"dawdled",
"dillydallied",
"dragged",
"hung (around or out)",
"hanged (around or out)",
"lagged",
"lingered",
"loitered",
"poked",
"tarried",
"ambled",
"lumbered",
"plodded",
"sauntered",
"shuffled",
"strolled",
"decelerated",
"slowed (down or up)"
],
"antonyms":[
"crawled",
"crept",
"poked"
]
},
"to rob by the use of trickery or threats":{
"examples":[
"a swindler who hustled cashiers by getting them all confused while they were making change"
],
"synonyms":[
"beat",
"bilked",
"bled",
"cheated",
"chiseled",
"chiselled",
"choused",
"conned",
"cozened",
"defrauded",
"did",
"diddled",
"did in",
"euchred",
"fiddled",
"fleeced",
"flimflammed",
"gaffed",
"hosed",
"mulcted",
"nobbled",
"plucked",
"reamed",
"ripped off",
"rooked",
"screwed",
"shook down",
"shortchanged",
"shorted",
"skinned",
"skunked",
"squeezed",
"stiffed",
"stuck",
"stung",
"suckered",
"swindled",
"thimblerigged",
"victimized"
],
"near synonyms":[
"extorted",
"wrenched",
"wrested",
"wrung",
"clipped",
"gouged",
"nicked",
"overcharged",
"soaked",
"exploited",
"milked",
"deceived",
"duped",
"fooled",
"gulled",
"tricked",
"roped (in)",
"betrayed",
"bitched",
"double-crossed",
"bamboozled",
"fast-talked"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"hushing":{
"to become still and orderly":{
"examples":[
"the whole room hushed when the queen made her entrance"
],
"synonyms":[
"calming (down)",
"chilling out",
"cooling",
"piping down",
"quieting",
"settling (down)"
],
"near synonyms":[
"drying up",
"relaxing",
"tranquilizing",
"tranquillizing",
"unwinding",
"zoning out"
],
"near antonyms":[
"clowning (around)",
"fooling around",
"horsing around",
"monkeying (around)",
"showing off",
"skylarking"
],
"antonyms":[
"acting up",
"carrying on",
"cutting up"
]
},
"to stop talking":{
"examples":[
"the principal asked the children to hush and pay attention during the ceremony"
],
"synonyms":[
"belting up",
"clamming up",
"drying up",
"dummying up",
"piping down",
"quieting (down)",
"shutting up"
],
"near synonyms":[
"calming (down)",
"cooling (down)",
"settling (down)",
"hawing",
"hemming"
],
"near antonyms":[
"piping up",
"sounding off",
"speaking out",
"speaking up",
"spouting (off)",
"talking up"
],
"antonyms":[
"speaking",
"talking"
]
},
"to stop the noise or speech of":{
"examples":[
"he tried to hush the baby by making a lot of silly faces"
],
"synonyms":[
"dumbing",
"extinguishing",
"muting",
"quelling",
"quietening",
"quieting",
"settling",
"shushing",
"shutting up",
"silencing",
"squelching",
"stilling"
],
"near synonyms":[],
"near antonyms":[
"agitating",
"stirring"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"husband":{
"a male partner in a marriage":{
"examples":[
"she and her husband just celebrated their 50th wedding anniversary"
],
"synonyms":[
"hubby",
"man",
"mister",
"old man"
],
"near synonyms":[
"better half",
"companion",
"consort",
"mate",
"partner",
"significant other",
"spouse",
"Mr. Right",
"soul mate",
"bridegroom",
"groom",
"benedict",
"widower",
"househusband"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to avoid the wasteful or destructive use of":{
"examples":[
"husband our natural resources so that our children and grandchildren may benefit from them"
],
"synonyms":[
"conserve"
],
"near synonyms":[
"economize",
"save",
"scrimp",
"skimp",
"preserve",
"protect",
"save",
"hoard",
"lay by",
"lay up"
],
"near antonyms":[
"clean (out)",
"consume",
"deplete",
"drain",
"exhaust",
"expend",
"impoverish",
"spend",
"use up"
],
"antonyms":[
"blow",
"dissipate",
"fritter (away)",
"lavish",
"misspend",
"run through",
"squander",
"throw away",
"waste"
]
},
"type":[
"noun",
"verb"
]
},
"hushing (up)":{
"to keep from being publicly known":{
"examples":[
"the well-connected family was able to hush up the scandal so it never reached the papers"
],
"synonyms":[
"burking",
"covering (up)",
"suppressing"
],
"near synonyms":[
"blacking out",
"censoring",
"gagging",
"muzzling",
"silencing",
"quashing",
"repressing",
"smothering",
"spiking",
"squashing",
"squelching",
"stifling",
"strangling",
"throttling"
],
"near antonyms":[
"debunking",
"exposing",
"revealing",
"showing up",
"uncloaking",
"uncovering",
"unmasking",
"blabbing",
"disclosing",
"divulging",
"spilling",
"telling",
"unveiling",
"broadcasting",
"circulating",
"publishing",
"spreading",
"describing",
"narrating",
"reciting",
"recounting",
"rehearsing",
"relating",
"reporting"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"hushes (up)":{
"to keep from being publicly known":{
"examples":[
"the well-connected family was able to hush up the scandal so it never reached the papers"
],
"synonyms":[
"burkes",
"covers (up)",
"suppresses"
],
"near synonyms":[
"blacks out",
"censors",
"gags",
"muzzles",
"silences",
"quashes",
"represses",
"smothers",
"spikes",
"squashes",
"squelches",
"stifles",
"strangles",
"throttles"
],
"near antonyms":[
"debunks",
"exposes",
"reveals",
"shows up",
"uncloaks",
"uncovers",
"unmasks",
"blabs",
"discloses",
"divulges",
"spills",
"tells",
"unveils",
"broadcasts",
"circulates",
"publishes",
"spreads",
"describes",
"narrates",
"recites",
"recounts",
"rehearses",
"relates",
"reports"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"hustling":{
"as in enterprising , industrious":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"determined",
"diligent",
"driving",
"dynamic",
"enterprising",
"gung ho",
"hungry",
"industrious",
"motivated",
"venturesome",
"venturous",
"animated",
"lively",
"spirited",
"ardent",
"avid",
"eager",
"energetic",
"impassioned",
"keen",
"raring",
"vigorous",
"aggressive",
"assertive",
"high-flying",
"opportunistic",
"overambitious",
"pretentious",
"pushy",
"self-assertive",
"competing",
"competitive",
"rival",
"rivalrous",
"ambitious",
"aspiring",
"go-getting",
"hard-driving",
"pushing",
"self-seeking"
],
"near antonyms":[
"apathetic",
"disinterested",
"indifferent",
"uneager",
"unenthusiastic",
"unexcited",
"uninterested",
"casual",
"easygoing",
"lackadaisical",
"lazyish",
"halfhearted",
"lukewarm",
"tepid",
"lazy",
"lethargic",
"listless",
"shiftless",
"sluggish",
"spiritless",
"unaggressive",
"unassertive",
"ambitionless",
"unambitious"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to devote serious and sustained effort":{
"examples":[
"everyone really hustled to get the project finished on schedule"
],
"synonyms":[
"banging away",
"beavering (away)",
"digging (away)",
"drudging",
"endeavoring",
"fagging",
"grubbing",
"humping",
"laboring",
"moiling",
"pegging (away)",
"plodding",
"plowing",
"plugging",
"slaving",
"slogging",
"straining",
"striving",
"struggling",
"sweating",
"toiling",
"travailing",
"tugging",
"working"
],
"near synonyms":[
"applying (oneself)",
"buckling (down)",
"digging in",
"hammering (away)",
"knuckling down",
"pitching in",
"attacking",
"driving",
"essaying",
"trying",
"exercising",
"exerting",
"overexerting",
"overworking",
"eking out",
"grinding (out)",
"putting out",
"scrabbling",
"scratching",
"trudging",
"wading"
],
"near antonyms":[
"breaking",
"easing (up)",
"letting up",
"slackening",
"bumming",
"chilling",
"dallying",
"dillydallying",
"footling",
"goldbricking",
"goofing (off)",
"hacking (around)",
"hanging (around or out)",
"idling",
"lazing",
"loafing",
"lounging",
"shirking",
"slacking (off)",
"vegging out",
"basking",
"lolling",
"relaxing",
"reposing",
"resting",
"unwinding",
"dabbling",
"doodling",
"fooling around",
"fribbling",
"goofing (around)",
"hanging",
"hanging about",
"messing around",
"monkeying (around)",
"playing",
"pottering (around)",
"puttering (around)",
"trifling"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to proceed or move quickly":{
"examples":[
"we'd better hustle , or we'll miss the train"
],
"synonyms":[
"barreling",
"barrelling",
"belting",
"blasting",
"blazing",
"blowing",
"bolting",
"bombing",
"bowling",
"breezing",
"bundling",
"bustling",
"buzzing",
"cannonballing",
"careening",
"careering",
"chasing",
"coursing",
"cracking (on)",
"dashing",
"driving",
"flying",
"haring",
"hastening",
"highballing",
"hotfooting (it)",
"humping",
"hurling",
"hurrying",
"hurtling",
"hying",
"hieing",
"jetting",
"jumping",
"motoring",
"nipping",
"pelting",
"racing",
"ramming",
"ripping",
"rocketing",
"running",
"rushing",
"rustling",
"scooting",
"scurrying",
"scuttling",
"shooting",
"speeding",
"stepping",
"tearing",
"traveling",
"travelling",
"trotting",
"whirling",
"whisking",
"zipping",
"zooming"
],
"near synonyms":[
"beetling",
"darting",
"flitting",
"scampering",
"scudding",
"scuffling",
"stampeding",
"streaking",
"whizzing",
"galloping",
"jogging",
"sprinting",
"accelerating",
"quickening",
"stepping out",
"catching up",
"fast-forwarding",
"outpacing",
"outrunning",
"outstripping",
"overtaking",
"arrowing",
"beelining"
],
"near antonyms":[
"dallying",
"dawdling",
"dillydallying",
"dragging",
"hanging (around or out)",
"lagging",
"lingering",
"loitering",
"poking",
"tarrying",
"ambling",
"lumbering",
"plodding",
"sauntering",
"shuffling",
"strolling",
"decelerating",
"slowing (down or up)"
],
"antonyms":[
"crawling",
"creeping",
"poking"
]
},
"to rob by the use of trickery or threats":{
"examples":[
"a swindler who hustled cashiers by getting them all confused while they were making change"
],
"synonyms":[
"beating",
"bilking",
"bleeding",
"cheating",
"chiseling",
"chiselling",
"chousing",
"conning",
"cozening",
"defrauding",
"diddling",
"doing",
"doing in",
"euchring",
"fiddling",
"fleecing",
"flimflamming",
"gaffing",
"hosing",
"mulcting",
"nobbling",
"plucking",
"reaming",
"ripping off",
"rooking",
"screwing",
"shaking down",
"shortchanging",
"shorting",
"skinning",
"skunking",
"squeezing",
"sticking",
"stiffing",
"stinging",
"suckering",
"swindling",
"thimblerigging",
"victimizing"
],
"near synonyms":[
"extorting",
"wrenching",
"wresting",
"wringing",
"clipping",
"gouging",
"nicking",
"overcharging",
"soaking",
"exploiting",
"milking",
"deceiving",
"duping",
"fooling",
"gulling",
"tricking",
"roping (in)",
"betraying",
"bitching",
"double-crossing",
"bamboozling",
"fast-talking"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"adjective",
"verb"
]
},
"hussy":{
"a boldly flirtatious or sexually promiscuous woman":{
"examples":[
"\"Grandma, you hussy !\" joked the girl when her grandmother admitted kissing on her first date"
],
"synonyms":[
"chippie",
"chippy",
"doxy",
"doxie",
"fancy woman",
"floozy",
"floozie",
"hoochie",
"Jezebel",
"minx",
"quean",
"tramp",
"trollop",
"wench"
],
"near synonyms":[
"siren",
"temptress",
"vamp",
"grisette",
"prostitute",
"trull"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"husky":{
"strongly and heavily built":{
"examples":[
"a husky weight lifter"
],
"synonyms":[
"beefy",
"brawny",
"burly",
"hefty",
"hulking",
"mesomorphic"
],
"near synonyms":[
"able-bodied",
"athletic",
"herculean",
"mighty",
"muscle-bound",
"muscular",
"powerful",
"robust",
"rugged",
"sinewy",
"stalwart",
"stout",
"strapping",
"strong",
"sturdy",
"chunky",
"compact",
"heavy",
"heavyset",
"solid",
"squat",
"squatty",
"stocky",
"thickset",
"chubby",
"dumpy",
"lumpish",
"podgy",
"portly",
"pudgy",
"roly-poly",
"tubby"
],
"near antonyms":[
"lean",
"light",
"lightweight",
"slender",
"slight",
"slim",
"svelte",
"sylphlike",
"thin",
"willowy",
"bony",
"boney",
"gangling",
"gangly",
"gaunt",
"gawky",
"lanky",
"reedy",
"scraggy",
"scrawny",
"skinny",
"spare",
"stringy",
"twiggy",
"waspish",
"weedy",
"spidery",
"wiry",
"debilitated",
"delicate",
"effete",
"emaciated",
"enervated",
"enfeebled",
"feeble",
"fragile",
"frail",
"infirm",
"puny",
"unathletic",
"weak",
"weakly",
"wimpy"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"of a size greater than average of its kind":{
"examples":[
"the neighbors bought a fairly husky lawn mower for their small yard"
],
"synonyms":[
"big",
"biggish",
"boxcar",
"bulky",
"considerable",
"goodly",
"grand",
"great",
"handsome",
"hefty",
"hulking",
"large",
"largish",
"outsize",
"outsized",
"oversize",
"oversized",
"sizable",
"sizeable",
"substantial",
"tidy",
"voluminous"
],
"near synonyms":[
"astronomical",
"astronomic",
"Brobdingnagian",
"bumper",
"Bunyanesque",
"cavernous",
"colossal",
"cosmic",
"cosmical",
"cyclopean",
"elephantine",
"enormous",
"galactic",
"gargantuan",
"gigantic",
"gross",
"hellacious",
"herculean",
"heroic",
"heroical",
"Himalayan",
"huge",
"humongous",
"humungous",
"immense",
"jumbo",
"king-size",
"king-sized",
"leviathan",
"major",
"mammoth",
"massive",
"monolithic",
"monstrous",
"monumental",
"mountainous",
"pharaonic",
"prodigious",
"staggering",
"stupendous",
"super",
"super-duper",
"supersized",
"titanic",
"tremendous",
"vast",
"vasty",
"walloping",
"whacking",
"whopping",
"excessive",
"exorbitant",
"extravagant",
"extreme",
"immoderate",
"inordinate",
"abundant",
"ample",
"appreciable",
"copious",
"plentiful",
"fat",
"thick",
"capacious",
"commodious",
"roomy",
"spacious"
],
"near antonyms":[
"diminutive",
"half-pint",
"infinitesimal",
"Lilliputian",
"little bitty",
"microminiature",
"microscopic",
"microscopical",
"mini",
"miniature",
"minuscule",
"minute",
"pint-size",
"pint-sized",
"pocket-size",
"pocket-sized",
"pygmy",
"teensy",
"teensy-weensy",
"teeny",
"teeny-weeny",
"tiny",
"wee",
"petite",
"slender",
"slight",
"slim",
"thin"
],
"antonyms":[
"bantam",
"dinky",
"dwarf",
"dwarfish",
"little",
"puny",
"shrimpy",
"small",
"smallish",
"undersized",
"undersize"
]
},
"harsh and dry in sound":{
"examples":[
"a voice that was husky from an afternoon of cheering on the team"
],
"synonyms":[
"coarse",
"croaking",
"croaky",
"grating",
"gravel",
"gravelly",
"gruff",
"hoarse",
"rasping",
"raspy",
"rusty",
"scratchy",
"throaty"
],
"near synonyms":[
"growling",
"growly",
"guttural",
"abrasive",
"cacophonous",
"discordant",
"grinding",
"jarring",
"rough",
"scraping",
"scratching",
"cawing",
"raucous",
"screeching",
"squawking",
"strident",
"choked",
"cracked",
"strained",
"strangled",
"dissonant",
"inharmonious",
"unmelodious",
"unmusical"
],
"near antonyms":[
"gentle",
"gliding",
"golden",
"liquid",
"mellifluent",
"mellifluous",
"mellow",
"soothing",
"sweet",
"tender",
"satiny",
"silken",
"smooth",
"soft",
"velvety",
"euphonious",
"lyric",
"lyrical",
"melodic",
"melodious",
"musical"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"adjective"
]
},
"hush":{
"a state of freedom from storm or disturbance":{
"examples":[
"the storm passed, and a hush fell over the sea"
],
"synonyms":[
"calm",
"calmness",
"peace",
"peacefulness",
"placidity",
"quiet",
"quietness",
"quietude",
"repose",
"restfulness",
"sereneness",
"serenity",
"still",
"stillness",
"tranquillity",
"tranquility"
],
"near synonyms":[
"lull",
"pause",
"respite",
"silence",
"mildness",
"soothingness",
"comity",
"concord",
"harmony",
"casualness",
"easygoingness",
"informality",
"laid-backness",
"relaxedness"
],
"near antonyms":[
"clamor",
"din",
"noise",
"racket"
],
"antonyms":[
"bustle",
"commotion",
"hubbub",
"hurly-burly",
"pandemonium",
"tumult",
"turmoil",
"unquietness",
"unrest",
"uproar"
]
},
"the near or complete absence of sound":{
"examples":[
"a hush fell over the auditorium as the lights went down"
],
"synonyms":[
"quiet",
"quietness",
"quietude",
"silence",
"still",
"stillness"
],
"near synonyms":[
"calm",
"lull",
"peace",
"peacefulness",
"tranquillity",
"tranquility"
],
"near antonyms":[
"babel",
"blare",
"bluster",
"cacophony",
"chatter",
"clamor",
"clangor",
"din",
"hubbub",
"racket",
"rattle",
"roar",
"tumult",
"uproar"
],
"antonyms":[
"noise",
"sound",
"unquietness"
]
},
"to become still and orderly":{
"examples":[
"the whole room hushed when the queen made her entrance"
],
"synonyms":[
"calm (down)",
"chill out",
"cool",
"pipe down",
"quiet",
"settle (down)"
],
"near synonyms":[
"dry up",
"relax",
"tranquilize",
"tranquillize",
"unwind",
"zone out"
],
"near antonyms":[
"clown (around)",
"fool around",
"horse around",
"monkey (around)",
"show off",
"skylark"
],
"antonyms":[
"act up",
"carry on",
"cut up"
]
},
"to stop talking":{
"examples":[
"the principal asked the children to hush and pay attention during the ceremony"
],
"synonyms":[
"belt up",
"clam up",
"dry up",
"dummy up",
"pipe down",
"quiet (down)",
"shut up"
],
"near synonyms":[
"calm (down)",
"cool (down)",
"settle (down)",
"haw",
"hem"
],
"near antonyms":[
"pipe up",
"sound off",
"speak out",
"speak up",
"spout (off)",
"talk up"
],
"antonyms":[
"speak",
"talk"
]
},
"to stop the noise or speech of":{
"examples":[
"he tried to hush the baby by making a lot of silly faces"
],
"synonyms":[
"dumb",
"extinguish",
"mute",
"quell",
"quiet",
"quieten",
"settle",
"shush",
"shut up",
"silence",
"squelch",
"still"
],
"near synonyms":[],
"near antonyms":[
"agitate",
"stir"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun",
"verb"
]
},
"huskiness":{
"as in stoutness":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"stoutness",
"bulkiness",
"heaviness",
"brawniness",
"burliness",
"adiposity",
"chubbiness",
"corpulence",
"corpulency",
"embonpoint",
"fat",
"fatness",
"fattiness",
"fleshiness",
"grossness",
"obesity",
"plumpness",
"portliness",
"pudginess",
"pursiness",
"rotundity",
"weight",
"endomorphy"
],
"near antonyms":[
"leanness",
"reediness",
"slenderness",
"slimness",
"svelteness",
"thinness",
"fitness",
"trimness",
"gauntness",
"scrawniness",
"skinniness",
"weediness"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
}
}