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{
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"head case":{
"a person having or showing a severely disordered or abnormal state of mind":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"brought in a counselor to work with the student they worried might be a head case"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"related":[
"madman",
"abnormal",
"deviant",
"monomaniac",
"mythomaniac",
"neurotic",
"obsessive",
"obsessive-compulsive",
"paranoid",
"psychotic",
"schizo",
"schizoid",
"schizophrenic",
"sociopath",
"character",
"codger",
"crack",
"crackpot",
"crank",
"eccentric",
"fantastic",
"flake",
"kook",
"oddball",
"oddity",
"original",
"quiz",
"screwball",
"tyke",
"tike",
"weirdo",
"zany",
"case",
"patient"
],
"synonyms":[
"bug",
"crackbrain",
"crazy",
"fool",
"fruitcake",
"loon",
"loony",
"lunatic",
"maniac",
"nut",
"nutcase",
"nutter",
"psycho",
"psychopath",
"sickie",
"sicko",
"wacko",
"whacko"
]
},
"a person of odd or whimsical habits":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"an area of scientific research that's a good niche for social misfits and hard-core head cases"
],
"near antonyms":[
"conformer",
"conformist",
"follower",
"sheep"
],
"related":[
"bohemian",
"maverick",
"nonconformist",
"quixote",
"coot",
"geezer",
"curio",
"rarity",
"freak",
"fantast",
"fantastico"
],
"synonyms":[
"character",
"codger",
"crack",
"crackbrain",
"crackpot",
"crank",
"eccentric",
"flake",
"fruitcake",
"kook",
"nut",
"nutcase",
"nutter",
"oddball",
"oddity",
"original",
"quiz",
"screwball",
"weirdo",
"zany"
]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
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"header":{
"a word or series of words often in larger letters placed at the beginning of a passage or at the top of a page in order to introduce or categorize":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"why does each column have a header except the last one?"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"related":[
"banner",
"streamer",
"catchword",
"guide word",
"running head",
"greeting",
"salutation",
"superscript",
"superscription",
"subhead",
"subheading",
"subtitle"
],
"synonyms":[
"caption",
"head",
"heading",
"headline",
"rubric",
"title"
]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"headlong":{
"acting or done with excessive or careless speed":{
"antonyms":[
"deliberate",
"unhurried",
"unrushed"
],
"examples":[
"terrified forest creatures in a headlong retreat from the rapidly spreading fire"
],
"near antonyms":[
"calculated",
"calculating",
"measured",
"circumspect",
"foresighted",
"forethoughtful",
"drawn-out",
"extended",
"long-term",
"prolonged",
"faltering",
"hesitant",
"hesitating",
"tentative",
"dallying",
"dawdling",
"laggard",
"leisurely",
"poky",
"pokey",
"shilly-shallying",
"slow"
],
"related":[
"breakneck",
"breathtaking",
"headstrong",
"heady",
"hotheaded",
"impatient",
"impetuous",
"impulsive",
"madcap",
"reckless",
"unadvised",
"quick",
"rapid",
"speedy",
"swift",
"horseback",
"impromptu",
"makeshift",
"offhand",
"offhanded",
"off-the-cuff",
"rush",
"slapdash",
"snap",
"spontaneous",
"spur-of-the-moment",
"abrupt",
"sudden"
],
"synonyms":[
"cursory",
"drive-by",
"flying",
"gadarene",
"hasty",
"helter-skelter",
"hurried",
"overhasty",
"pell-mell",
"precipitate",
"precipitous",
"rash",
"rushed"
]
},
"type":[
"adjective",
"adverb"
],
"with excessive or careless speed":{
"antonyms":[
"deliberately",
"studiedly"
],
"examples":[
"plunged headlong into the crowd in pursuit of the purse snatcher"
],
"near antonyms":[
"calculatingly",
"circumspectly",
"designedly",
"falteringly",
"haltingly",
"hesitantly",
"hesitatingly",
"tentatively",
"leisurely",
"slowly"
],
"related":[
"headfirst",
"headily",
"hotheadedly",
"impatiently",
"impetuously",
"impulsively",
"recklessly",
"thoughtlessly",
"automatically",
"glancingly",
"haphazardly",
"impromptu",
"spontaneously",
"abruptly",
"suddenly",
"offhand",
"offhandedly"
],
"synonyms":[
"cursorily",
"hastily",
"hotfoot",
"hurriedly",
"pell-mell",
"precipitately",
"precipitously",
"rashly"
]
},
"without delay":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"had barely finished the last project when we went headlong into the next one"
],
"near antonyms":[
"slowly",
"late",
"tardily"
],
"related":[
"away",
"freely",
"anon",
"momentarily",
"shortly",
"soon",
"apace",
"briskly",
"fast",
"fleetly",
"full tilt",
"posthaste",
"quick",
"quickly",
"rapidly",
"readily",
"snappily",
"speedily",
"swift",
"swiftly",
"abruptly",
"presto",
"suddenly",
"unexpectedly",
"hastily",
"impetuously",
"impulsively",
"rashly",
"recklessly",
"exactly",
"opportunely",
"punctually",
"seasonably"
],
"synonyms":[
"bang",
"directly",
"forthwith",
"immediately",
"incontinently",
"instantaneously",
"instanter",
"instantly",
"now",
"PDQ",
"plumb",
"presently",
"promptly",
"pronto",
"right",
"right away",
"right now",
"right off",
"straight off",
"straightaway",
"straightway"
]
}
},
"headmost":{
"coming before all others in time or order":{
"antonyms":[
"final",
"last",
"latest",
"latter",
"terminal",
"terminating",
"ultimate"
],
"examples":[
"the headmost horse shied at the sight of a snake"
],
"near antonyms":[
"advanced",
"late",
"consequent",
"ensuing",
"following",
"subsequent",
"succeeding",
"penultimate"
],
"related":[
"ancient",
"early",
"primal",
"primary",
"prime",
"primeval",
"primitive",
"primordial",
"antecedent",
"preceding",
"previous"
],
"synonyms":[
"earliest",
"first",
"foremost",
"inaugural",
"initial",
"leadoff",
"maiden",
"original",
"pioneer",
"premier",
"virgin"
]
},
"type":[
"adjective"
]
},
"headstrong":{
"given to resisting control or discipline by others":{
"antonyms":[
"controllable",
"governable",
"manageable",
"tractable"
],
"examples":[
"a headstrong child who likes to test the limits of his parents' patience"
],
"near antonyms":[
"docile",
"obedient",
"well-behaved",
"compliant",
"placable",
"pliable",
"submissive",
"yielding",
"accepting",
"persuadable",
"receptive",
"responsive",
"willing",
"reasonable",
"temperate",
"trainable"
],
"related":[
"bullheaded",
"contrary",
"difficult",
"hardheaded",
"incorrigible",
"intransigent",
"mulish",
"obdurate",
"obstinate",
"opinionated",
"perverse",
"pigheaded",
"self-willed",
"stiff",
"stiff-necked",
"stubborn",
"undisciplined",
"unpunished",
"uncontrolled",
"wild",
"boisterous",
"irrepressible",
"rambunctious",
"rowdy",
"disobedient",
"indocile",
"insubordinate",
"rebellious",
"misbehaving",
"naughty"
],
"synonyms":[
"froward",
"incontrollable",
"intractable",
"recalcitrant",
"refractory",
"uncontrollable",
"ungovernable",
"unmanageable",
"unruly",
"untoward",
"wayward",
"willful",
"wilful"
]
},
"sticking to an opinion, purpose, or course of action in spite of reason, arguments, or persuasion":{
"antonyms":[
"acquiescent",
"agreeable",
"amenable",
"compliant",
"complying",
"flexible",
"pliable",
"pliant",
"relenting",
"yielding"
],
"examples":[
"the tenants of the building remain headstrong in their determination not to be evicted by the developer"
],
"near antonyms":[
"docile",
"obedient",
"placable",
"submissive",
"tractable",
"accepting",
"persuadable",
"receptive",
"responsive",
"willing",
"governable",
"manageable",
"reasonable",
"temperate",
"slavish",
"subservient"
],
"related":[
"anal-retentive",
"obsessive",
"wayward",
"wrongheaded",
"determined",
"hell-bent",
"inexorable",
"persistent",
"relentless",
"resolved",
"set",
"single-minded",
"steadfast",
"stouthearted",
"tenacious",
"unflinching",
"firm",
"hard-line",
"hard-shell",
"hard-shelled",
"iron",
"severe",
"stern",
"strict",
"hidebound",
"narrow-minded",
"rigid",
"bloody-minded",
"cantankerous",
"contrary",
"cussed",
"contumacious",
"disobedient",
"froward",
"insubordinate",
"intractable",
"recalcitrant",
"refractory",
"uncooperative",
"ungovernable",
"unmanageable",
"unruly",
"defiant",
"insurgent",
"mutinous",
"indomitable",
"invincible",
"unconquerable",
"confirmed",
"inveterate",
"unregenerate",
"demanding",
"exacting"
],
"synonyms":[
"adamant",
"adamantine",
"bullheaded",
"dogged",
"hard",
"hard-nosed",
"hardened",
"hardheaded",
"immovable",
"implacable",
"inconvincible",
"inflexible",
"intransigent",
"mulish",
"obdurate",
"obstinate",
"opinionated",
"ossified",
"pat",
"pertinacious",
"perverse",
"pigheaded",
"self-opinionated",
"self-willed",
"stiff-necked",
"stubborn",
"unbending",
"uncompromising",
"unrelenting",
"unyielding",
"willful",
"wilful"
]
},
"type":[
"adjective"
]
},
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"heaped":{
"to give readily and in large quantities":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"the critics heaped scorn on the wannabe blockbuster and its implausible plot"
],
"near antonyms":[
"held back",
"kept",
"reserved",
"retained",
"withheld"
],
"related":[
"gushed",
"streamed",
"flooded",
"inundated",
"overflowed",
"overwhelmed",
"swamped",
"bombarded",
"hailed"
],
"synonyms":[
"lavished",
"poured",
"rained",
"showered"
]
},
"to lay or throw on top of one another":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"heaped the stones in a corner of the yard"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"related":[
"banked",
"layered",
"pyramided",
"accumulated",
"amassed",
"assembled",
"collected",
"concentrated",
"garnered",
"gathered",
"grouped",
"massed",
"bunched",
"clumped",
"lumped"
],
"synonyms":[
"mounded",
"piled",
"stacked"
]
},
"to put into (something) as much as can be held or contained":{
"antonyms":[
"cleared",
"emptied",
"evacuated",
"vacated",
"voided"
],
"examples":[
"heaped her plate with spaghetti"
],
"near antonyms":[
"lightened",
"depleted",
"drained",
"eliminated",
"exhausted",
"bled",
"drew (off)",
"cleaned",
"flushed",
"purged",
"scoured",
"swept"
],
"related":[
"drenched",
"flooded",
"glutted",
"swamped",
"bloated",
"bulked",
"crowded",
"crushed",
"matted",
"pressed",
"rammed",
"shoved",
"squashed",
"squeezed",
"refilled",
"refreshed",
"reloaded",
"repacked",
"replenished",
"overcharged",
"overfilled",
"overflowed",
"saturated",
"honeycombed",
"penetrated"
],
"synonyms":[
"brimmed",
"charged",
"crammed",
"filled",
"jammed",
"jam-packed",
"loaded",
"packed",
"stuffed"
]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"heaps":{
"a considerable amount":{
"antonyms":[
"aces",
"bits",
"dabs",
"drams",
"driblets",
"glimmers",
"handfuls",
"handsful",
"hints",
"licks",
"little",
"mites",
"mouthfuls",
"nips",
"ounces",
"peanuts",
"pinches",
"pittances",
"scruples",
"shades",
"shadows",
"smidgens",
"smidgeons",
"smidgins",
"smidges",
"specks",
"spots",
"sprinkles",
"sprinklings",
"strains",
"streaks",
"suspicions",
"tastes",
"touches",
"traces"
],
"examples":[
"she always has a heap of good ideas",
"you're in a heap of trouble for missing curfew!"
],
"near antonyms":[
"atoms",
"crumbs",
"dots",
"flecks",
"flyspecks",
"fragments",
"grains",
"granules",
"iotas",
"jots",
"modicums",
"molecules",
"motes",
"nubbins",
"particles",
"rays",
"scintillas",
"scraps",
"shreds",
"tittles",
"whits",
"smatterings",
"smatters",
"dashes",
"drops",
"morsels",
"shots",
"pieces",
"portions",
"sections",
"absences",
"dearths",
"famines",
"lacks",
"paucities",
"poverties",
"scarcities",
"shortages",
"undersupplies",
"wants",
"deficiencies",
"deficits",
"inadequacies",
"insufficiencies"
],
"related":[
"epidemics",
"plagues",
"rashes",
"bonanzas",
"embarrassments",
"excesses",
"overabundances",
"overages",
"overkills",
"overmuch",
"oversupplies",
"plethoras",
"redundancies",
"superabundances",
"superfluities",
"surfeits",
"surpluses",
"deluges",
"floods",
"overflows",
"armies",
"bevies",
"crams",
"crowds",
"crushes",
"droves",
"flocks",
"herds",
"hordes",
"hosts",
"legions",
"mobs",
"multitudes",
"presses",
"scores",
"seas",
"swarms",
"throngs",
"gazillions",
"jillions",
"kazillions",
"millions",
"million",
"thousands",
"trillions",
"zillions"
],
"synonyms":[
"abundances",
"barrels",
"basketfuls",
"basketsful",
"boatloads",
"buckets",
"bunches",
"bundles",
"bushels",
"carloads",
"chunks",
"deals",
"dozens",
"dozen",
"fistfuls",
"gobs",
"good deals",
"hundreds",
"hundred",
"lashings",
"lashins",
"loads",
"lots",
"masses",
"messes",
"mountains",
"much",
"multiplicities",
"myriads",
"oodles",
"packs",
"passels",
"pecks",
"piles",
"platefuls",
"plenitudes",
"plenties",
"plentitudes",
"potfuls",
"pots",
"profusions",
"quantities",
"rafts",
"reams",
"scads",
"sheaves",
"shiploads",
"sights",
"slews",
"spates",
"stacks",
"stores",
"tons",
"truckloads",
"volumes",
"wads",
"wealths",
"yards"
]
},
"a quantity of things thrown or stacked on one another":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"found her shoe under a heap of clothes on the floor"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"related":[
"banks",
"bars",
"drifts",
"embankments",
"beds",
"layers",
"mows",
"pyramids",
"ricks",
"barrows",
"cairns",
"pyres",
"accumulations",
"aggregates",
"arrays",
"assemblages",
"collections",
"conglomerations",
"gatherings",
"groupings",
"hoards",
"huddles",
"jumbles",
"knots",
"pileups"
],
"synonyms":[
"cocks",
"hills",
"mounds",
"mountains",
"piles",
"stacks"
]
},
"to give readily and in large quantities":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"the critics heaped scorn on the wannabe blockbuster and its implausible plot"
],
"near antonyms":[
"holds back",
"keeps",
"reserves",
"retains",
"withholds"
],
"related":[
"gushes",
"streams",
"floods",
"inundates",
"overflows",
"overwhelms",
"swamps",
"bombards",
"hails"
],
"synonyms":[
"lavishes",
"pours",
"rains",
"showers"
]
},
"to lay or throw on top of one another":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"heaped the stones in a corner of the yard"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"related":[
"banks",
"layers",
"pyramids",
"accumulates",
"amasses",
"assembles",
"collects",
"concentrates",
"garners",
"gathers",
"groups",
"masses",
"bunches",
"clumps",
"lumps"
],
"synonyms":[
"mounds",
"piles",
"stacks"
]
},
"to put into (something) as much as can be held or contained":{
"antonyms":[
"clears",
"empties",
"evacuates",
"vacates",
"voids"
],
"examples":[
"heaped her plate with spaghetti"
],
"near antonyms":[
"lightens",
"depletes",
"drains",
"eliminates",
"exhausts",
"bleeds",
"draws (off)",
"cleans",
"flushes",
"purges",
"scours",
"sweeps"
],
"related":[
"drenches",
"floods",
"gluts",
"swamps",
"bloats",
"bulks",
"crowds",
"crushes",
"mats",
"presses",
"rams",
"shoves",
"squashes",
"squeezes",
"refills",
"refreshes",
"reloads",
"repacks",
"replenishes",
"overcharges",
"overfills",
"overflows",
"saturates",
"honeycombs",
"penetrates"
],
"synonyms":[
"brims",
"charges",
"crams",
"fills",
"jam-packs",
"jams",
"loads",
"packs",
"stuffs"
]
},
"type":[
"noun",
"verb"
]
},
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"hearing":{
"range of hearing":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"let's make sure she's out of hearing before I tell you what I got her for her birthday"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"related":[
"volume",
"distance",
"sight"
],
"synonyms":[
"earshot",
"hail",
"sound"
]
},
"to come to an awareness of":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"I heard your sister is home from the hospital"
],
"near antonyms":[
"missing",
"overlooking",
"disregarding",
"ignoring",
"forgetting",
"unlearning",
"blanketing",
"blotting out",
"cloaking",
"concealing",
"covering",
"curtaining",
"enshrouding",
"hiding",
"masking",
"occulting",
"screening",
"shrouding",
"veiling"
],
"related":[
"hitting (on or upon)",
"tumbling (to)",
"descrying",
"detecting",
"encountering",
"espying",
"spotting",
"calculating",
"doping (out)",
"figuring out",
"finding",
"puzzling (out)",
"discerning",
"minding",
"noting",
"observing",
"perceiving",
"divining"
],
"synonyms":[
"ascertaining",
"catching on (to)",
"discovering",
"finding out",
"getting on (to)",
"learning",
"realizing",
"seeing",
"wising (up)"
]
},
"to pay attention especially through the act of hearing":{
"antonyms":[
"ignoring",
"tuning out"
],
"examples":[
"at least hear what I have to say before you start disagreeing"
],
"near antonyms":[
"discounting",
"disregarding"
],
"related":[],
"synonyms":[
"attending",
"harkening",
"harking",
"hearkening",
"harkening",
"heeding",
"listening",
"minding"
]
},
"type":[
"noun",
"verb"
]
},
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"hears":{
"to come to an awareness of":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"I heard your sister is home from the hospital"
],
"near antonyms":[
"misses",
"overlooks",
"disregards",
"ignores",
"forgets",
"unlearns",
"blankets",
"blots out",
"cloaks",
"conceals",
"covers",
"curtains",
"enshrouds",
"hides",
"masks",
"occults",
"screens",
"shrouds",
"veils"
],
"related":[
"hits (on or upon)",
"tumbles (to)",
"descries",
"detects",
"encounters",
"espies",
"spots",
"calculates",
"dopes (out)",
"figures out",
"finds",
"puzzles (out)",
"discerns",
"minds",
"notes",
"observes",
"perceives",
"divines"
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"ascertains",
"catches on (to)",
"discovers",
"finds out",
"gets on (to)",
"learns",
"realizes",
"sees",
"wises (up)"
]
},
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"ignores",
"tunes out"
],
"examples":[
"at least hear what I have to say before you start disagreeing"
],
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"discounts",
"disregards"
],
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"attends",
"harkens",
"harks",
"hearkens",
"heeds",
"listens",
"minds"
]
},
"type":[
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]
},
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"to place (a dead body) in the earth, a tomb, or the sea":{
"antonyms":[
"disinter",
"exhume",
"unearth"
],
"examples":[
"the cemetery hearses an average of eight bodies a week"
],
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"burn",
"cremate",
"bare",
"disclose",
"discover",
"display",
"exhibit",
"expose",
"reveal",
"show",
"uncoffin"
],
"related":[
"immure",
"inurn",
"enshrine",
"conceal",
"cover",
"ensconce",
"hide",
"obscure",
"shade",
"shield",
"cloak",
"curtain",
"enshroud",
"shroud",
"rebury",
"reinter",
"coffin"
],
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"bury",
"entomb",
"inhume",
"inter",
"lay",
"put away",
"tomb"
]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
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"heartened":{
"as in":{
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"synonyms":[]
},
"to fill with courage or strength of purpose":{
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"daunted",
"discouraged",
"disheartened",
"dispirited"
],
"examples":[
"thinking we were hopelessly lost, we were heartened by the sight of a familiar farmhouse"
],
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"demoralized",
"depressed",
"saddened",
"debilitated",
"enfeebled",
"hamstrung",
"undermined",
"weakened",
"intimidated",
"psyched (out)"
],
"related":[
"animated",
"enlivened",
"invigorated",
"enforced",
"fortified",
"reinforced",
"reenforced",
"strengthened",
"assured",
"reassured",
"boosted",
"energized",
"excited",
"galvanized",
"provoked",
"quickened",
"rallied",
"stimulated",
"stirred"
],
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"bore up",
"bucked up",
"buoyed (up)",
"cheered (up)",
"chirked (up)",
"emboldened",
"encouraged",
"inspired",
"inspirited",
"steeled"
]
},
"type":[
"adjective",
"verb"
]
},
"heartily":{
"in a cheerful or happy manner":{
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"bleakly",
"cheerlessly",
"darkly",
"heavily",
"miserably",
"morosely",
"unhappily"
],
"examples":[
"the parishioners laughed heartily at the pastor's good-natured quips"
],
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"abjectly",
"dejectedly",
"despondently",
"disconsolately",
"dispiritedly",
"wretchedly",
"dolefully",
"dolorously",
"forlornly",
"mournfully",
"plaintively",
"sorrowfully",
"dourly",
"glumly",
"mirthlessly",
"sourly",
"sternly",
"sulkily",
"sullenly",
"blackly",
"dismally",
"drearily",
"gloomily",
"pessimistically"
],
"related":[
"amusedly",
"exuberantly",
"giddily",
"gigglingly",
"joyfully",
"joyously",
"blithely",
"blithesomely",
"breezily",
"gladly",
"gladsomely",
"laughingly",
"lightheartedly",
"sunnily",
"amicably",
"friendlily",
"friendly",
"good-humoredly",
"good-naturedly",
"jocularly",
"hopefully",
"optimistically",
"sanguinely",
"blissfully",
"elatedly",
"euphorically",
"rapturously"
],
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"brightly",
"cheerfully",
"cheerily",
"gaily",
"gayly",
"happily",
"jocosely",
"jovially",
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"mirthfully",
"smilingly"
]
},
"to a full extent or degree":{
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"half",
"halfway",
"incompletely",
"part",
"partially",
"partly"
],
"examples":[
"I am heartily tired of this spring-cleaning"
],
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"hardly",
"just",
"kind of",
"marginally",
"minimally",
"scarcely",
"slightly",
"superficially",
"approximately",
"roughly",
"somewhat"
],
"related":[
"absolutely",
"categorically",
"cold",
"downright",
"hands down",
"plain",
"stone",
"stone-cold",
"unqualifiedly",
"basically",
"by and large",
"chiefly",
"generally",
"largely",
"mainly",
"more or less",
"mostly",
"overall",
"predominantly",
"predominately",
"primarily",
"principally",
"substantially",
"abundantly",
"copiously",
"generously",
"greatly"
],
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"all",
"all of",
"all over",
"altogether",
"clean",
"completely",
"dead",
"enough",
"entire",
"entirely",
"even",
"exactly",
"fast",
"flat",
"full",
"fully",
"out",
"perfectly",
"plumb",
"quite",
"soundly",
"thoroughly",
"through and through",
"totally",
"utterly",
"well",
"wholly",
"wide"
]
},
"type":[
"adverb"
]
},
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"having or showing a lack of sympathy or tender feelings":{
"antonyms":[
"charitable",
"compassionate",
"humane",
"kindhearted",
"kindly",
"merciful",
"sensitive",
"softhearted",
"sympathetic",
"tender",
"tenderhearted",
"warm",
"warmhearted"
],
"examples":[
"a heartless boss who would fire people for missing work, even if they were sick as a dog"
],
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"benevolent",
"benignant",
"gentle",
"kind",
"clement",
"indulgent",
"lenient",
"mild",
"cordial",
"friendly",
"good-natured",
"good-tempered",
"gracious",
"tolerant",
"understanding",
"affectionate",
"fond",
"loving"
],
"related":[
"boorish",
"heedless",
"inconsiderate",
"thoughtless",
"uncaring",
"unfriendly",
"unloving",
"unthinking",
"grim",
"hard-bitten",
"harsh",
"heavy-handed",
"ironfisted",
"ironhanded",
"jackbooted",
"knock-down, drag-out",
"knock-down-and-drag-out",
"oppressive",
"rough",
"rough-and-tumble",
"severe",
"sledgehammer",
"stern",
"tough",
"ungentle",
"abusive",
"acrimonious",
"disagreeable",
"hateful",
"ill-natured",
"ill-tempered",
"malevolent",
"malicious",
"mean",
"rancorous",
"spiteful",
"surly",
"virulent",
"barbarous",
"bestial",
"brutal",
"brutish",
"cruel",
"evil-minded",
"savage",
"vicious",
"austere",
"cold",
"frosty"
],
"synonyms":[
"affectless",
"callous",
"case-hardened",
"cold-blooded",
"compassionless",
"desensitized",
"hard",
"hard-boiled",
"hard-hearted",
"indurate",
"inhuman",
"inhumane",
"insensate",
"insensitive",
"ironhearted",
"merciless",
"obdurate",
"pachydermatous",
"pitiless",
"remorseless",
"ruthless",
"slash-and-burn",
"soulless",
"stony",
"stoney",
"stonyhearted",
"take-no-prisoners",
"thick-skinned",
"uncharitable",
"unfeeling",
"unmerciful",
"unsparing",
"unsympathetic"
]
},
"having or showing the desire to inflict severe pain and suffering on others":{
"antonyms":[
"benign",
"benignant",
"compassionate",
"good-hearted",
"humane",
"kind",
"kindhearted",
"sympathetic",
"tenderhearted"
],
"examples":[
"his heartless whipping of runaway slaves virtually to the point of death shocked even other slave owners"
],
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"tender",
"warm",
"warmhearted",
"charitable",
"clement",
"lenient",
"merciful",
"pitying",
"pacific",
"peaceable",
"peaceful"
],
"related":[
"hard-hearted",
"ironhearted",
"merciless",
"pitiless",
"ruthless",
"stonyhearted",
"unfeeling",
"fell",
"ferocious",
"grim",
"bloodthirsty",
"cutthroat",
"murderous",
"sanguinary",
"sanguine",
"catty",
"despiteful",
"hateful",
"malevolent",
"malicious",
"malign",
"malignant",
"mean",
"nasty",
"spiteful",
"vindictive",
"draconian",
"draconic",
"hardhanded",
"harsh",
"heavy-handed",
"oppressive"
],
"synonyms":[
"atrocious",
"barbaric",
"barbarous",
"brutal",
"brute",
"butcherly",
"cruel",
"fiendish",
"inhuman",
"inhumane",
"sadistic",
"savage",
"truculent",
"vicious",
"wanton"
]
},
"type":[
"adjective"
]
},
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"heating":{
"to cause to have or give off heat to a moderate degree":{
"antonyms":[
"chilling",
"cooling",
"refrigerating"
],
"examples":[
"heat water for tea",
"heat the oven to 350 degrees before you put the cake in"
],
"near antonyms":[
"freezing",
"frosting",
"icing",
"supercooling"
],
"related":[
"overheating",
"superheating",
"reheating",
"rewarming",
"thawing",
"baking",
"cooking",
"roasting",
"burning",
"charring",
"firing",
"parching",
"scalding",
"scorching",
"searing"
],
"synonyms":[
"hotting (up)",
"toasting",
"warming"
]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
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"heavenly":{
"giving pleasure or contentment to the mind or senses":{
"antonyms":[
"disagreeable",
"pleasureless",
"unpalatable",
"unpleasant",
"unwelcome"
],
"examples":[
"the heavenly aroma of chocolate fills the shop"
],
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"abominable",
"ghastly",
"god-awful",
"hellish",
"horrid",
"miserable",
"wretched",
"bilious",
"disgusting",
"distasteful",
"obnoxious",
"offensive",
"repellent",
"repellant",
"repugnant",
"repulsive",
"revulsive",
"unsavory",
"vile",
"yucky",
"yukky",
"abhorrent",
"detestable",
"hateful",
"odious",
"boring",
"commonplace",
"dull",
"flat",
"insipid",
"irksome",
"stale",
"tedious",
"displeasing",
"dissatisfying",
"depressing",
"disheartening",
"dismal",
"dreary",
"gloomy",
"heartbreaking",
"heartrending",
"joyless",
"lachrymose",
"sad",
"unhappy",
"deplorable",
"doleful",
"dolorous",
"lamentable",
"lugubrious",
"mournful",
"regrettable",
"sorrowful",
"tragic",
"tragical",
"aggravating",
"annoying",
"exasperating",
"irritating",
"peeving",
"perturbing",
"vexing",
"forbidding",
"hostile",
"intimidating",
"angering",
"enraging",
"incensing",
"inflaming",
"enflaming",
"infuriating",
"maddening",
"outraging",
"rankling",
"riling",
"distressing",
"disturbing",
"upsetting"
],
"related":[
"alluring",
"attractive",
"desirable",
"enviable",
"inviting",
"relishable",
"tempting",
"charming",
"enchanting",
"fascinating",
"calming",
"comforting",
"soothing",
"amusing",
"diverting",
"entertaining",
"recreative",
"affable",
"amiable",
"cheerful",
"cheery",
"comfortable",
"gem\u00fctlich",
"genial",
"goodly",
"good-natured",
"gracious",
"hospitable",
"kindly",
"personable",
"blissful",
"felicific",
"glad",
"happy",
"joyous",
"elating",
"exhilarating",
"intoxicating",
"ecstatic",
"euphoric",
"nirvanic",
"rapturous"
],
"synonyms":[
"agreeable",
"blessed",
"blest",
"congenial",
"darling",
"delectable",
"delicious",
"delightful",
"delightsome",
"dreamy",
"dulcet",
"enjoyable",
"felicitous",
"good",
"grateful",
"gratifying",
"jolly",
"luscious",
"nice",
"palatable",
"pleasant",
"pleasing",
"pleasurable",
"pretty",
"satisfying",
"savory",
"savoury",
"sweet",
"tasty",
"welcome"
]
},
"of the very best kind":{
"antonyms":[
"atrocious",
"awful",
"execrable",
"lousy",
"pathetic",
"poor",
"rotten",
"terrible",
"vile",
"wretched"
],
"examples":[
"had a heavenly time at the dance"
],
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"bad",
"inferior",
"low-grade",
"substandard",
"unsatisfactory",
"mediocre",
"middling",
"second-class",
"second-rate"
],
"related":[
"acceptable",
"adequate",
"all right",
"decent",
"good",
"OK",
"okay",
"passable",
"satisfactory",
"tolerable",
"better",
"exceptional",
"fancy",
"high-grade",
"high-test",
"premium",
"select",
"special",
"superfine",
"classical",
"standard",
"traditional"
],
"synonyms":[
"A-OK",
"A1",
"awesome",
"bang-up",
"banner",
"beautiful",
"blue-chip",
"blue-ribbon",
"boffo",
"bonny",
"bonnie",
"boss",
"brag",
"brave",
"bully",
"bumper",
"capital",
"choice",
"classic",
"cool",
"corking",
"crackerjack",
"cracking",
"dandy",
"divine",
"dope",
"down",
"dynamite",
"excellent",
"fab",
"fabulous",
"famous",
"fantabulous",
"fantastic",
"fine",
"first-class",
"first-rate",
"first-string",
"five-star",
"four-star",
"frontline",
"gangbusters",
"gangbuster",
"gilt-edged",
"gilt-edge",
"gone",
"grand",
"great",
"groovy",
"high-class",
"hot",
"hype",
"immense",
"jim-dandy",
"keen",
"lovely",
"marvelous",
"marvellous",
"mean",
"neat",
"nifty",
"noble",
"number one",
"No. 1",
"numero uno",
"out-of-sight",
"par excellence",
"peachy",
"peachy keen",
"phat",
"prime",
"primo",
"prize",
"prizewinning",
"quality",
"radical",
"righteous",
"sensational",
"slick",
"splendid",
"stellar",
"sterling",
"superb",
"superior",
"superlative",
"supernal",
"swell",
"terrific",
"tip-top",
"top",
"top-notch",
"top-of-the-line",
"top-shelf",
"topflight",
"topping",
"unsurpassed",
"wizard",
"wonderful"
]
},
"of, relating to, or being God":{
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"examples":[
"do not concern yourself with material possessions, but with things heavenly , the prophet admonished"
],
"near antonyms":[
"human",
"mortal",
"natural"
],
"related":[
"eternal",
"everlasting",
"immortal",
"all-powerful",
"almighty",
"omnipotent",
"omniscient",
"supreme"
],
"synonyms":[
"blessed",
"blest",
"divine",
"godlike",
"godly",
"holy",
"sacred",
"supernatural"
]
},
"of, relating to, or suggesting heaven":{
"antonyms":[
"chthonic",
"chthonian",
"hellish",
"infernal",
"plutonian",
"sulfurous",
"Tartarean"
],
"examples":[
"heavenly hosts singing \"Alleluia!\""
],
"near antonyms":[
"earthly",
"mundane",
"terrestrial",
"worldly",
"anti-utopian",
"dystopian"
],
"related":[
"supernatural",
"transcendent",
"transcendental",
"unearthly",
"unworldly",
"angelic",
"angelical",
"beatific",
"blissful",
"Olympian",
"paradisiacal",
"paradisiac",
"utopian",
"cosmic",
"cosmical",
"galactic",
"stellar"
],
"synonyms":[
"celestial",
"elysian",
"empyreal",
"empyrean",
"ethereal",
"supernal"
]
},
"type":[
"adjective"
]
},
"heavies":{
"a mean, evil, or unprincipled person":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"he played the heavy in film after film until being cast against type as the romantic lead in a comedy"
],
"near antonyms":[
"angels",
"innocents",
"saints",
"heroes"
],
"related":[
"villainesses",
"blackguards",
"criminals",
"crooks",
"culprits",
"felons",
"lawbreakers",
"malefactors",
"offenders",
"perpetrators",
"perps",
"transgressors",
"sinners",
"trespassers",
"wrongdoers",
"cads",
"heels",
"serpents",
"snakes",
"vipers",
"bandits",
"bravos",
"bravoes",
"desperadoes",
"desperados",
"outlaws",
"cons",
"convicts",
"jailbirds",
"assassins",
"cutthroats",
"gangsters",
"goons",
"gunmen",
"hoodlums",
"hooligans",
"racketeers",
"ruffians",
"thugs",
"roughs",
"rowdies",
"toughs",
"losers",
"lowlifes",
"lowlives",
"ne'er-do-wells",
"stinkers",
"trash"
],
"synonyms":[
"baddies",
"beasts",
"brutes",
"caitiffs",
"devils",
"evildoers",
"fiends",
"hounds",
"knaves",
"meanies",
"miscreants",
"monsters",
"nazis",
"no-goods",
"rapscallions",
"rascals",
"reprobates",
"rogues",
"savages",
"scalawags",
"scallywags",
"scamps",
"scapegraces",
"scoundrels",
"varlets",
"villains",
"wretches"
]
},
"one of high position or importance within a group":{
"antonyms":[
"lightweights",
"nobodies",
"nonentities",
"shrimp",
"shrimps",
"twerps",
"whippersnappers",
"zeros",
"zeroes",
"zilches"
],
"examples":[
"in the field of secondary education, she definitely ranks as one of the heavies"
],
"near antonyms":[
"inferiors",
"subordinates",
"underlings",
"mediocrities",
"obscurities"
],
"related":[
"barons",
"czars",
"tsars",
"tzars",
"kings",
"lions",
"magnates",
"moguls",
"princes",
"princesses",
"queens",
"tycoons",
"VIPs"
],
"synonyms":[
"big boys",
"big cheeses",
"bigfeet",
"bigfoots",
"biggies",
"big guns",
"big leaguers",
"bigs",
"big shots",
"big-timers",
"big wheels",
"bigwigs",
"fat cats",
"heavy hitters",
"heavyweights",
"high-muck-a-mucks",
"high-muckety-mucks",
"honchos",
"kahunas",
"kingfish",
"kingpins",
"major leaguers",
"muckety-mucks",
"muck-a-mucks",
"mucky-mucks",
"nabobs",
"nawabs",
"nibs",
"nobs",
"pooh-bahs",
"poo-bahs",
"wheels"
]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"heavily":{
"to a great degree":{
"antonyms":[
"little",
"negligibly",
"nominally",
"slightly",
"somewhat"
],
"examples":[
"heavily spiced sausage",
"the family was heavily in debt"
],
"near antonyms":[
"meagerly",
"scantily",
"barely",
"hardly",
"just",
"marginally",
"minimally",
"scarcely"
],
"related":[
"absolutely",
"altogether",
"completely",
"downright",
"entirely",
"flat-out",
"fully",
"positively",
"purely",
"radically",
"thoroughly",
"totally",
"utterly",
"wholly",
"deeply",
"profoundly",
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"notably",
"remarkably",
"considerably",
"extensively",
"significantly",
"substantially",
"appreciably",
"discernibly",
"markedly",
"noticeably",
"obviously",
"palpably",
"plainly",
"visibly",
"abundantly",
"plentifully",
"astronomically",
"grandly",
"monstrously",
"monumentally",
"excessively",
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"overmuch",
"amazingly",
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"staggeringly"
],
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"almighty",
"archly",
"awful",
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"badly",
"beastly",
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"honcho",
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"nob",
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"lightweight",
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"nonentity",
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],
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"examples":[
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"many of the heavy hitters in the wine industry were boozing and schmoozing at the expo"
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],
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"inferior",
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"underling",
"mediocrity",
"obscurity"
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],
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"baron",
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"the messenger was confronted with a hedge of spears held aloft by the castle guards"
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"gate",
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"encumbrance",
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"hurdle",
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"roadblock",
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"stumbling block",
"trammel",
"fetter",
"hobble",
"manacle",
"shackle(s)",
"constraint",
"curb",
"restraint",
"snag",
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"buffer",
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]
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],
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"eschew",
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"shake",
"shirk",
"shun",
"sidestep",
"skirt",
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"circumvent",
"cavil",
"quibble",
"straddle"
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"pussyfoot",
"tergiversate",
"waffle",
"weasel"
]
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"the prison was hedged by a high stone wall"
],
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"confine",
"contain",
"limit",
"restrict",
"encircle",
"encompass",
"enfold",
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"enlace",
"frame",
"ring",
"surround",
"armor",
"cocoon",
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"ensheathe",
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"encase",
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"inclose",
"envelop",
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"hem (in)",
"house",
"immure",
"include",
"mew (up)",
"pen",
"wall (in)"
]
},
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"noun",
"verb"
]
},
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"as in confine , hem (in)":{
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},
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]
},
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"the messenger was confronted with a hedge of spears held aloft by the castle guards"
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"entrances",
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"entryways",
"gates",
"portals",
"breaks",
"gaps",
"passes"
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"palings",
"blocks",
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"straddles"
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"waffles",
"weasels"
]
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"the prison was hedged by a high stone wall"
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"evading",
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"the prison was hedged by a high stone wall"
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"mewing (up)",
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"walling (in)"
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"adjective",
"noun",
"verb"
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},
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"brash",
"impetuous",
"rash",
"reckless",
"venturesome",
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"regardless",
"inconsiderate",
"thoughtless",
"lax",
"neglectful",
"negligent",
"remiss",
"imprudent",
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]
},
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"a person whose behavior is offensive to others":{
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"antonyms":[],
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"felt like a heel when she found out that she'd blamed the wrong person"
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],
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"role models",
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"ladies",
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"saints"
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],
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"doofuses",
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"jackasses",
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"ninnies",
"nits",
"nitwits",
"nuts",
"schmoes",
"airheads",
"birdbrains",
"blockheads",
"dinks",
"dolts",
"dopes",
"dorks",
"goons",
"half-wits",
"idiots",
"imbeciles",
"morons",
"turkeys",
"brats",
"insolents",
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"pests",
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"clowns",
"creeps",
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"cruds",
"crumbs",
"curs",
"dirtbags",
"dogs",
"finks",
"hounds",
"jerks",
"jokers",
"louses",
"louts",
"pills",
"rat finks",
"rats",
"reptiles",
"rotters",
"schmucks",
"scumbags",
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"scuzzballs",
"skunks",
"skunk",
"sleazebags",
"sleazeballs",
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"slimeballs",
"slimes",
"slobs",
"snakes",
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"so-and-so's",
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"the strong gust heeled the sailboat almost to the point of capsizing, but we managed to right it"
],
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"levels",
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],
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"weightiness",
"solidity",
"solidness",
"substantiality",
"substantialness"
],
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"heaviness",
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"piece",
"section",
"segment",
"angle",
"aspect",
"facet",
"feature",
"quality",
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"root",
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"stuff",
"substance",
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"heart",
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"nut",
"seat",
"affair",
"argument",
"burden",
"crux",
"focus",
"gist",
"nub",
"pitch",
"point",
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"matter",
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"as a former senator, he still had some heft in political circles"
],
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"impotency",
"powerlessness",
"weakness"
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"command",
"dominance",
"dominion",
"mastery",
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"reign",
"scepter",
"sovereignty",
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"supremacy",
"consequence",
"eminence",
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"mark"
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"submerge"
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],
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"sank",
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"submerged"
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"European intellectuals have long debated the consequences of the hegemony of American popular culture around the world"
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"residence",
"roof"
],
"related":[
"accommodations",
"housing",
"nest",
"residency",
"shelter",
"bungalow",
"cabin",
"casita",
"chalet",
"cottage",
"duplex",
"ranch",
"ranch house",
"saltbox",
"semi",
"split level",
"townhome",
"town house",
"tract house",
"triplex",
"apartment",
"apartment house",
"condo",
"condominium",
"flat",
"tenement",
"tenement house",
"walk-up",
"penthouse",
"salon",
"suite",
"barracks",
"billet",
"boardinghouse",
"dorm",
"dormitory",
"flophouse",
"lodging house",
"lodgment",
"lodgement",
"room(s)",
"rooming house",
"castle",
"ch\u00e2teau",
"countryseat",
"estate",
"hall",
"manor",
"manor house",
"mansion",
"McMansion",
"palace",
"villa",
"farmhouse",
"grange",
"hacienda",
"homestead",
"double-wide",
"houseboat",
"house trailer",
"mobile home",
"motor home",
"recreational vehicle",
"RV",
"trailer",
"hermitage",
"manse",
"parsonage",
"rectory",
"vicarage",
"hooch",
"hootch",
"hovel",
"hut",
"hutch",
"shack",
"shanty"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"he-man":{
"as in individualist":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"related":[],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"heavyhearted":{
"feeling unhappiness":{
"examples":[
"she was heavyhearted at losing the election, in which she had invested everything"
],
"synonyms":[
"bad",
"blue",
"brokenhearted",
"cast down",
"crestfallen",
"dejected",
"depressed",
"despondent",
"disconsolate",
"doleful",
"down",
"down in the mouth",
"downcast",
"downhearted",
"droopy",
"forlorn",
"gloomy",
"glum",
"hangdog",
"heartbroken",
"heartsick",
"heartsore",
"inconsolable",
"joyless",
"low",
"low-spirited",
"melancholic",
"melancholy",
"miserable",
"mournful",
"sad",
"saddened",
"sorrowful",
"sorry",
"unhappy",
"woebegone",
"woeful",
"wretched"
],
"related":[
"aggrieved",
"distressed",
"troubled",
"uneasy",
"unquiet",
"upset",
"worried",
"despairing",
"hopeless",
"sunk",
"disappointed",
"discouraged",
"disheartened",
"dispirited",
"suicidal",
"dolorous",
"lachrymose",
"lugubrious",
"plaintive",
"tearful",
"regretful",
"rueful",
"agonized",
"anguished",
"grieving",
"wailing",
"weeping",
"black",
"bleak",
"cheerless",
"comfortless",
"dark",
"darkening",
"depressing",
"desolate",
"dismal",
"drear",
"dreary",
"elegiac",
"elegiacal",
"funereal",
"gray",
"grey",
"morbid",
"morose",
"murky",
"saturnine",
"somber",
"sombre",
"sullen"
],
"near antonyms":[
"ecstatic",
"elated",
"enraptured",
"entranced",
"euphoric",
"exhilarated",
"exuberant",
"exultant",
"overjoyed",
"rapturous",
"rhapsodic",
"rhapsodical",
"blithe",
"blithesome",
"jocose",
"jocular",
"jocund",
"jolly",
"jovial",
"lightsome",
"merry",
"mirthful",
"excited",
"thrilled",
"hopeful",
"optimistic",
"rosy",
"sanguine",
"encouraged",
"heartened",
"animated",
"bouncing",
"energetic",
"frisky",
"jaunty",
"lively",
"peppy",
"perky",
"spirited",
"sprightful",
"sprightly",
"springy",
"vital",
"vivacious",
"zippy",
"content",
"gratified",
"pleased",
"satisfied",
"beaming",
"grinning",
"laughing",
"smiling",
"boon",
"carefree",
"careless",
"cavalier",
"devil-may-care",
"easygoing",
"happy-go-lucky",
"insouciant",
"lighthearted",
"unconcerned"
],
"antonyms":[
"blissful",
"buoyant",
"buoyed",
"cheerful",
"cheery",
"chipper",
"delighted",
"glad",
"gladdened",
"gladsome",
"gleeful",
"happy",
"joyful",
"joyous",
"jubilant",
"sunny",
"upbeat"
]
},
"type":[
"adjective"
]
},
"headhunting":{
"as in scouting":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"related":[],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"hedonists":{
"a person whose life is devoted to luxury and sensual pleasures":{
"examples":[
"he's a star chef and self-described hedonist"
],
"synonyms":[
"debauchees",
"decadents",
"sensualists",
"sybarites",
"voluptuaries"
],
"related":[
"Cyrenaics",
"Epicureans",
"bons vivants",
"bon vivants",
"epicures",
"gluttons",
"gourmands",
"libertines",
"playboys",
"rakes",
"rou\u00e9s",
"playgirls"
],
"near antonyms":[
"killjoys",
"spoilsports",
"wet blankets",
"fuddy-duddies",
"prudes",
"straight arrows"
],
"antonyms":[
"ascetics"
]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"head start":{
"as in start , lead":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"related":[],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"hemming":{
"as in hawing":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"hawing",
"balancing",
"dithering",
"faltering",
"halting",
"hanging back",
"hesitating",
"scrupling",
"shilly-shallying",
"staggering",
"teetering",
"vacillating",
"wavering",
"wobbling",
"wabbling",
"dallying",
"dawdling",
"delaying",
"lingering",
"pausing",
"procrastinating",
"waiting",
"backing down",
"chickening (out)",
"considering",
"debating",
"deliberating",
"pondering",
"weighing",
"oscillating",
"swaying",
"equivocating",
"hedging",
"pussyfooting",
"waffling"
],
"near antonyms":[
"diving (in)",
"plunging (in)",
"deciding",
"budging",
"stirring",
"advancing",
"continuing"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"as in trimming":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"trimming",
"bordering",
"bounding",
"edging",
"framing",
"fringing",
"margining",
"rimming",
"skirting",
"circumscribing",
"defining",
"delineating",
"demarcating",
"outlining",
"silhouetting",
"sketching",
"tracing",
"circling",
"compassing",
"encircling",
"enclosing",
"inclosing",
"environing",
"girdling",
"girthing",
"looping",
"ringing",
"rounding",
"surrounding",
"walling",
"checking",
"confining",
"controlling",
"curbing",
"limiting",
"restraining",
"restricting"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"heart":{
"the capacity for feeling for another's unhappiness or misfortune":{
"examples":[
"those who refuse to contribute to the fund for the famine victims must have no heart"
],
"synonyms":[
"bigheartedness",
"charity",
"commiseration",
"compassion",
"feeling",
"good-heartedness",
"humanity",
"kindheartedness",
"kindliness",
"kindness",
"largeheartedness",
"mercy",
"pity",
"ruth",
"softheartedness",
"sympathy",
"warmheartedness"
],
"near synonyms":[
"feelings",
"responsiveness",
"sensibility",
"sensitivity",
"affection",
"love",
"regard",
"affinity",
"empathy",
"rapport",
"altruism",
"benevolence",
"benignancy",
"benignity",
"generosity",
"goodwill",
"humaneness",
"humanism",
"humanitarianism",
"philanthropy"
],
"near antonyms":[
"callousness",
"coldness",
"disinterest",
"indifference",
"unconcern",
"cruelty",
"harshness",
"animosity",
"antipathy",
"dislike",
"hatred",
"hostility"
],
"antonyms":[
"coldheartedness",
"hard-heartedness",
"inhumanity",
"inhumanness",
"mercilessness",
"pitilessness"
]
},
"a thing or place that is of greatest importance to an activity or interest":{
"examples":[
"the heart of the village economy was the outdoor market"
],
"synonyms":[
"axis",
"base",
"capital",
"center",
"central",
"core",
"cynosure",
"epicenter",
"eye",
"focus",
"ground zero",
"hub",
"locus",
"mecca",
"navel",
"nerve center",
"nexus",
"nucleus",
"omphalos",
"seat"
],
"near synonyms":[
"headquarters",
"happy hunting ground",
"hive",
"hotbed",
"hot spot",
"playground",
"playland",
"kernel",
"nub",
"pith",
"deep",
"thick",
"essence",
"quintessence",
"soul",
"attraction",
"lodestone",
"loadstone",
"magnet",
"polestar"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"strength of mind to carry on in spite of danger":{
"examples":[
"never lost heart while she was lost in the woods"
],
"synonyms":[
"bottle",
"bravery",
"courage",
"courageousness",
"daring",
"daringness",
"dauntlessness",
"doughtiness",
"fearlessness",
"gallantry",
"greatheartedness",
"guts",
"gutsiness",
"hardihood",
"heroism",
"intestinal fortitude",
"intrepidity",
"intrepidness",
"moxie",
"nerve",
"pecker",
"prowess",
"stoutness",
"valor",
"virtue"
],
"near synonyms":[
"backbone",
"fiber",
"fortitude",
"grit",
"gumption",
"mettle",
"pluck",
"pluckiness",
"spunk",
"temper",
"determination",
"perseverance",
"resolution",
"endurance",
"stamina",
"stomach",
"tenacity",
"audacity",
"boldness",
"brazenness",
"cheek",
"cojones",
"effrontery",
"gall",
"temerity"
],
"near antonyms":[
"cold feet",
"faintheartedness",
"fearfulness",
"mousiness",
"timidity",
"timorousness",
"feebleness",
"softness",
"weakness",
"impotence",
"ineffectualness",
"hesitation",
"indecision",
"indecisiveness",
"irresolution"
],
"antonyms":[
"cowardice",
"cowardliness",
"cravenness",
"dastardliness",
"poltroonery",
"spinelessness"
]
},
"the central part or aspect of something under consideration":{
"examples":[
"at the heart of the problem is the school's outmoded computer system",
"avoided any small talk and got right to the heart of the matter"
],
"synonyms":[
"bottom line",
"bull's-eye",
"centerpiece",
"core",
"crux",
"essence",
"gist",
"kernel",
"keynote",
"meat",
"meat and potatoes",
"net",
"nub",
"nubbin",
"nucleus",
"pith",
"pivot",
"point",
"root",
"sum"
],
"near synonyms":[
"course",
"direction",
"drift",
"tenor",
"body",
"content",
"substance",
"hypothesis",
"proposition",
"purport",
"subject",
"theme",
"thesis"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"the seat of one's deepest thoughts and emotions":{
"examples":[
"deep down in her heart , she knew he was telling the truth"
],
"synonyms":[
"belly",
"blood",
"bone(s)",
"bosom",
"breast",
"core",
"gut",
"heartstrings",
"inner space",
"inside",
"quick",
"soul"
],
"near synonyms":[
"conscience",
"mind"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"headstreams":{
"the beginning part of a stream":{
"examples":[
"the headstreams of the Ganges River arise in the Himalayas"
],
"synonyms":[
"heads",
"headwaters",
"sources"
],
"near synonyms":[
"fountainheads",
"fountains",
"geysers",
"headsprings",
"hot springs",
"springs",
"wellsprings",
"branches",
"feeders",
"tributaries"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"heinie":{
"the part of the body upon which someone sits":{
"examples":[
"a skirt so tight that her heinie was clearly outlined"
],
"synonyms":[
"backside",
"behind",
"booty",
"bootie",
"bottom",
"breech",
"bum",
"buns",
"butt",
"buttocks",
"caboose",
"can",
"cheeks",
"derriere",
"derri\u00e8re",
"duff",
"fanny",
"fundament",
"hams",
"haunches",
"hunkers",
"keister",
"keester",
"nates",
"posterior",
"rear",
"rear end",
"rump",
"seat",
"tail",
"tail end",
"tush"
],
"near synonyms":[
"beam",
"stern",
"moon"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"heinies":{
"the part of the body upon which someone sits":{
"examples":[
"a skirt so tight that her heinie was clearly outlined"
],
"synonyms":[
"backsides",
"behinds",
"booties",
"bottoms",
"breeches",
"bums",
"buns",
"buttocks",
"butts",
"cabooses",
"cans",
"cheeks",
"derrieres",
"derri\u00e8res",
"duffs",
"fannies",
"fundaments",
"hams",
"haunches",
"hunkers",
"keisters",
"keesters",
"nates",
"posteriors",
"rear ends",
"rears",
"rumps",
"seats",
"tail ends",
"tails",
"tushes"
],
"near synonyms":[
"beams",
"sterns",
"moons"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
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},
"herds":{
"a group of domestic animals assembled or herded together":{
"examples":[
"the great herds of cattle that cowboys once drove across the plains"
],
"synonyms":[
"droves",
"flocks"
],
"near synonyms":[
"colonies",
"coveys",
"gaggles",
"packs",
"plumps",
"pods",
"schools",
"swarms"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"the body of the community as contrasted with the elite":{
"examples":[
"aspire to achieve something, to distinguish yourself from the herd"
],
"synonyms":[
"commoners",
"commons",
"crowds",
"hoi polloi",
"masses",
"millions",
"mobs",
"multitudes",
"people",
"plebeians",
"plebes",
"populaces",
"publics",
"rank and files"
],
"near synonyms":[
"cattle",
"proletariats",
"rabblements",
"rabbles",
"ragtag and bobtails",
"riffraffs",
"routs",
"scums",
"tag, rag, and bobtails",
"tagrag and bobtails",
"trash",
"unwasheds",
"bourgeoisies",
"middle classes"
],
"near antonyms":[
"gentilities",
"gentlefolks",
"gentries",
"haute mondes",
"nobilities",
"patriciates",
"peerages",
"qualities",
"royalties",
"societies"
],
"antonyms":[
"A-lists",
"aristocracies",
"best",
"choices",
"corps d'elite",
"creams",
"elect",
"elites",
"fat",
"flowers",
"picks",
"pinks",
"prides",
"upper crusts"
]
},
"a great number of persons or things massed together":{
"examples":[
"gearing up for the herd of holiday shoppers at the mall on the day after Thanksgiving"
],
"synonyms":[
"armies",
"bikes",
"crams",
"crowds",
"crushes",
"droves",
"flocks",
"hordes",
"hosts",
"legions",
"masses",
"mobs",
"multitudes",
"presses",
"routs",
"scrums",
"swarms",
"throngs"
],
"near synonyms":[
"masses",
"millions",
"rabblements",
"rabbles",
"riffraffs",
"gaggles",
"heaps",
"mountains",
"piles",
"jams",
"logjams"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to urge, push, or force onward":{
"examples":[
"the guards briskly herded us through the museum in order to prevent overcrowding"
],
"synonyms":[
"drives",
"punches",
"runs"
],
"near synonyms":[
"shepherds",
"wrangles",
"eggs",
"exhorts",
"flogs",
"goads",
"hounds",
"presses",
"pricks",
"prods",
"prompts",
"scourges",
"spurs",
"whips"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun",
"verb"
]
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}
}
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