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{
"flub":{
"an unintentional departure from truth or accuracy":{
"examples":[
"when she was told her information was wrong, she apologized for the flub and immediately corrected it"
],
"synonyms":[
"blunder",
"bobble",
"boo-boo",
"boob",
"brick",
"clanger",
"clinker",
"error",
"fault",
"fluff",
"fumble",
"gaff",
"gaffe",
"goof",
"inaccuracy",
"lapse",
"miscue",
"misstep",
"mistake",
"oversight",
"screwup",
"slip",
"slipup",
"stumble",
"trip"
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],
"near synonyms":[
"bloomer",
"blooper",
"boner",
"howler",
"pratfall",
"foul-up",
"snafu",
"misapprehension",
"miscalculation",
"miscomprehension",
"misconception",
"misconstruction",
"misdescription",
"misimpression",
"misinterpretation",
"misjudgment",
"misreading",
"misstatement",
"misunderstanding"
],
"near antonyms":[
"accuracy",
"correctness",
"exactitude",
"exactness",
"preciseness",
"precision",
"strictness",
"inerrancy",
"infallibility",
"perfection"
],
"antonyms":[]
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},
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"to make or do (something) in a clumsy or unskillful way":{
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"examples":[
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"added too much flour and flubbed the gravy"
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],
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"synonyms":[
"blow",
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"bobble",
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"boggle",
"bollix (up)",
"boot",
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"botch",
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"bugger (up)",
"bumble",
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"bungle",
"butcher",
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"dub",
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"fluff",
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"foozle",
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"foul up",
"fumble",
"goof (up)",
"louse up",
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"mangle",
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"mess (up)",
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"muck up",
"muff",
"murder",
"screw up"
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],
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"near synonyms":[
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"blunder",
"gum (up)",
"muddle",
"piffle",
"blemish",
"blight",
"damage",
"flaw",
"harm",
"hurt",
"impair",
"injure",
"mar",
"mutilate",
"ruin",
"spoil",
"vitiate",
"destroy",
"wreck",
"mishandle",
"mismanage"
],
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"near antonyms":[
"ameliorate",
"better",
"enhance",
"help",
"improve",
"meliorate",
"rectify",
"refine",
"reform",
"remedy",
"doctor",
"fix",
"patch",
"recondition",
"renovate",
"repair",
"revamp"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to make a mistake":{
"examples":[
"at some point in your training you're going to flub , so don't let it rattle you"
],
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"synonyms":[
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"blunder",
"boob",
"err",
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"fluff",
"foul up",
"fumble",
"goof (up)",
"louse up",
"mess (up)",
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"screw up",
"slip up",
"stumble",
"trip"
],
"near synonyms":[
"nod",
"bobble",
"botch",
"bungle",
"butcher",
"foozle",
"mangle",
"mishandle",
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"muff",
"murder",
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"miscalculate",
"misconceive",
"miscount",
"miscue",
"misdeem",
"misgauge",
"misjudge",
"mistake",
"misconstrue",
"misinterpret",
"misunderstand"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
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},
"type":[
"noun",
"verb"
]
},
"fluctuate":{
"to pass from one form, state, or level to another":{
"examples":[
"temperatures will fluctuate between the low and high 50s today"
],
"synonyms":[
"change",
"mutate",
"shift",
"snap",
"vary"
],
"near synonyms":[
"metamorphose",
"morph",
"transmute",
"better",
"improve",
"deteriorate",
"worsen",
"turn around",
"seesaw",
"teeter",
"vacillate",
"waver"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[
"plateau",
"stabilize"
]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"fluctuates":{
"to pass from one form, state, or level to another":{
"examples":[
"temperatures will fluctuate between the low and high 50s today"
],
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"synonyms":[
"changes",
"mutates",
"shifts",
"snaps",
"varies"
],
"near synonyms":[
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"metamorphoses",
"morphs",
"transmutes",
"betters",
"improves",
"deteriorates",
"worsens",
"turns around",
"seesaws",
"teeters",
"vacillates",
"wavers"
],
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"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[
"plateaus",
"stabilizes"
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]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"fluctuating":{
"likely to change frequently, suddenly, or unexpectedly":{
"examples":[
"a fluctuating stock market makes it hard for investors to know what to do"
],
"synonyms":[
"capricious",
"changeable",
"changeful",
"fickle",
"flickery",
"fluid",
"inconsistent",
"inconstant",
"mercurial",
"mutable",
"skittish",
"temperamental",
"uncertain",
"unpredictable",
"unsettled",
"unstable",
"unsteady",
"variable",
"volatile"
],
"near synonyms":[
"aimless",
"arbitrary",
"desultory",
"erratic",
"haphazard",
"hit-or-miss",
"irregular",
"random",
"scattered",
"slapdash",
"stray",
"ambivalent",
"hesitating",
"shaky",
"shilly-shally",
"shilly-shallying",
"vacillating",
"wavering",
"dicey",
"undependable",
"unreliable",
"untrustworthy",
"adaptable",
"mobile",
"protean",
"versatile"
],
"near antonyms":[
"equable",
"even",
"uniform",
"abiding",
"durable",
"lasting",
"permanent",
"persistent",
"dependable",
"reliable",
"sure",
"tried",
"tried-and-true",
"true",
"trustworthy",
"trusty"
],
"antonyms":[
"certain",
"changeless",
"constant",
"immutable",
"invariable",
"predictable",
"settled",
"stable",
"stationary",
"steady",
"unchangeable",
"unchanging",
"unvarying"
]
},
"not staying constant":{
"examples":[
"our speed was constantly fluctuating , so the figure of 50 miles per hour is just an average"
],
"synonyms":[
"changing",
"erratic",
"irregular",
"unequal",
"uneven",
"unstable",
"unsteady",
"varying"
],
"near synonyms":[
"capricious",
"changeable",
"changeful",
"choppy",
"fickle",
"fluid",
"inconsistent",
"inconstant",
"mercurial",
"mutable",
"uncertain",
"unsettled",
"variable",
"volatile"
],
"near antonyms":[
"regular"
],
"antonyms":[
"changeless",
"constant",
"stable",
"steady",
"unchanging",
"unvarying"
]
},
"to pass from one form, state, or level to another":{
"examples":[
"temperatures will fluctuate between the low and high 50s today"
],
"synonyms":[
"changing",
"mutating",
"shifting",
"snapping",
"varying"
],
"near synonyms":[
"metamorphosing",
"morphing",
"transmuting",
"bettering",
"improving",
"deteriorating",
"worsening",
"turning around",
"seesawing",
"teetering",
"vacillating",
"wavering"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[
"plateauing",
"stabilizing"
]
},
"type":[
"adjective",
"verb"
]
},
"fluctuations":{
"the frequent and usually sudden passing from one condition to another":{
"examples":[
"political instability that resulted in wild fluctuations in the overseas stock markets"
],
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"synonyms":[
"changes",
"fluxes",
"inconstancies",
"oscillations"
],
"near synonyms":[
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"metamorphoses",
"mutations",
"transformations",
"transmogrifications",
"transmutations",
"vacillations"
],
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"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
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},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"fluency":{
"a state of having mastery of or proficiency in a skill":{
"examples":[
"The students demonstrated fluency in the language by the end of their year abroad."
],
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"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"literacy",
"virtuosity",
"command",
"IQ",
"mastership",
"mastery",
"proficiency",
"facility",
"hang",
"experience",
"expertise",
"know-how",
"practice",
"practise",
"skill(s)",
"acquaintance",
"familiarity",
"intimacy"
],
"near antonyms":[
"incompetence",
"incompetency",
"ignorance",
"illiteracy",
"unfamiliarity"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"flummox":{
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"to throw into a state of mental uncertainty":{
"examples":[
"an actor who's easily flummoxed by any changes in the script"
],
"synonyms":[
"addle",
"baffle",
"bamboozle",
"beat",
"befog",
"befuddle",
"bemuse",
"bewilder",
"buffalo",
"confound",
"confuse",
"discombobulate",
"disorient",
"fox",
"fuddle",
"get",
"gravel",
"maze",
"muddle",
"muddy",
"mystify",
"perplex",
"pose",
"puzzle",
"vex"
],
"near synonyms":[
"stick",
"stump",
"weird out",
"abash",
"discomfit",
"disconcert",
"discountenance",
"embarrass",
"faze",
"fluster",
"mortify",
"nonplus",
"rattle",
"agitate",
"bother",
"chagrin",
"discomfort",
"discompose",
"dismay",
"disquiet",
"distress",
"disturb",
"perturb",
"stun",
"unhinge",
"unsettle",
"upset",
"beguile",
"cozen",
"deceive",
"delude",
"dupe",
"fool",
"gull",
"hoax",
"hoodwink",
"humbug",
"misguide",
"mislead",
"snow",
"string along",
"take in",
"trick"
],
"near antonyms":[
"assure",
"reassure",
"satisfy",
"enlighten",
"inform"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"flummoxed":{
"to throw into a state of mental uncertainty":{
"examples":[
"an actor who's easily flummoxed by any changes in the script"
],
"synonyms":[
"addled",
"baffled",
"bamboozled",
"beat",
"befogged",
"befuddled",
"bemused",
"bewildered",
"buffaloed",
"confounded",
"confused",
"discombobulated",
"disoriented",
"foxed",
"fuddled",
"got",
"graveled",
"gravelled",
"mazed",
"muddied",
"muddled",
"mystified",
"perplexed",
"posed",
"puzzled",
"vexed",
"vext"
],
"near synonyms":[
"stuck",
"stumped",
"weirded out",
"abashed",
"discomfited",
"disconcerted",
"discountenanced",
"embarrassed",
"fazed",
"flustered",
"mortified",
"nonplussed",
"nonplused",
"rattled",
"agitated",
"bothered",
"chagrined",
"discomforted",
"discomposed",
"dismayed",
"disquieted",
"distressed",
"disturbed",
"perturbed",
"stunned",
"unhinged",
"unsettled",
"upset",
"beguiled",
"cozened",
"deceived",
"deluded",
"duped",
"fooled",
"gulled",
"hoaxed",
"hoodwinked",
"humbugged",
"misguided",
"misled",
"snowed",
"strung along",
"took in",
"tricked"
],
"near antonyms":[
"assured",
"reassured",
"satisfied",
"enlightened",
"informed"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"flummoxing":{
"to throw into a state of mental uncertainty":{
"examples":[
"an actor who's easily flummoxed by any changes in the script"
],
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"synonyms":[
"addling",
"baffling",
"bamboozling",
"beating",
"befogging",
"befuddling",
"bemusing",
"bewildering",
"buffaloing",
"confounding",
"confusing",
"discombobulating",
"disorienting",
"foxing",
"fuddling",
"getting",
"graveling",
"gravelling",
"mazing",
"muddling",
"muddying",
"mystifying",
"perplexing",
"posing",
"puzzling",
"vexing"
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],
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"near synonyms":[
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"sticking",
"stumping",
"weirding out",
"abashing",
"discomfiting",
"disconcerting",
"discountenancing",
"embarrassing",
"fazing",
"flustering",
"mortifying",
"nonplussing",
"nonplusing",
"rattling",
"agitating",
"bothering",
"chagrining",
"discomforting",
"discomposing",
"dismaying",
"disquieting",
"distressing",
"disturbing",
"perturbing",
"stunning",
"unhinging",
"unsettling",
"upsetting",
"beguiling",
"cozening",
"deceiving",
"deluding",
"duping",
"fooling",
"gulling",
"hoaxing",
"hoodwinking",
"humbugging",
"misguiding",
"misleading",
"snowing",
"stringing along",
"taking in",
"tricking"
],
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"near antonyms":[
"assuring",
"reassuring",
"satisfying",
"enlightening",
"informing"
],
"antonyms":[]
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},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"flump":{
"to throw or set down clumsily or casually":{
"examples":[
"for now, just flump the rug on the floor\u2014we'll unroll it later"
],
"synonyms":[
"flop",
"plank",
"plop",
"plump",
"plunk",
"plonk"
],
"near synonyms":[
"fling",
"heave",
"sling",
"toss",
"ensconce",
"install",
"plant",
"settle"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"flurried":{
"to trouble the mind of; to make uneasy":{
"examples":[
"flurried by visions of falls and broken bones, the parents wouldn't even allow the child to ride a bike"
],
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"synonyms":[
"agitated",
"ailed",
"alarmed",
"alarumed",
"bothered",
"concerned",
"derailed",
"discomforted",
"discomposed",
"dismayed",
"disquieted",
"distempered",
"distracted",
"distressed",
"disturbed",
"exercised",
"frazzled",
"freaked (out)",
"fussed",
"hagrode",
"perturbed",
"undid",
"unhinged",
"unsettled",
"upset",
"weirded out",
"worried"
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],
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"near synonyms":[
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"aggravated",
"angered",
"annoyed",
"bugged",
"chafed",
"chivied",
"chivvied",
"exasperated",
"fretted",
"galled",
"got",
"grated",
"harassed",
"harried",
"irked",
"irritated",
"nettled",
"peeved",
"pestered",
"piqued",
"put off",
"put out",
"riled",
"vexed",
"vext",
"bedeviled",
"haunted",
"plagued",
"abashed",
"confounded",
"confused",
"discomfited",
"disconcerted",
"discountenanced",
"embarrassed",
"fazed",
"flustered",
"jarred",
"mortified",
"nonplussed",
"nonplused",
"rattled",
"shook up",
"daunted",
"demoralized",
"discouraged",
"disheartened",
"dispirited",
"unnerved"
],
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"near antonyms":[
"allayed",
"alleviated",
"assuaged",
"appeased",
"conciliated",
"mollified",
"pacified",
"placated",
"propitiated"
],
"antonyms":[
"calmed",
"composed",
"quieted",
"settled",
"soothed",
"tranquilized",
"tranquillized"
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]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"flurry":{
"a sudden and usually temporary growth of activity":{
"examples":[
"a flurry of activity on the floor of the stock market as soon as the news spread"
],
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"synonyms":[
"burst",
"flare",
"flare-up",
"flash",
"flicker",
"flutter",
"outbreak",
"outburst",
"spurt"
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],
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"near synonyms":[
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"recrudescence",
"recurrence",
"renewal",
"binge",
"jag",
"spree",
"boost",
"increase",
"pickup",
"upswing",
"upturn",
"epidemic",
"eruption",
"explosion",
"paroxysm",
"deluge",
"flood",
"rush",
"spate",
"surge",
"volley",
"commotion",
"furor",
"uproar"
],
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"near antonyms":[
"calm",
"doldrums",
"slump"
],
"antonyms":[]
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},
"a sudden brief rush of wind":{
"examples":[
"a flurry that scattered the fallen leaves"
],
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"synonyms":[
"blast",
"blow",
"gust",
"scud",
"williwaw",
"windblast"
],
"near synonyms":[
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"breeze",
"zephyr",
"current",
"draft",
"air",
"breath",
"waft",
"puff",
"whiff",
"bluster",
"gale",
"hurricane",
"squall",
"tempest",
"tornado",
"windstorm",
"northeaster",
"norther",
"northerly",
"northwester",
"southeaster",
"southwester",
"westerly"
],
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"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"a rapid or overwhelming outpouring of many things at once":{
"examples":[
"a patient with a mysterious illness being subjected to a flurry of tests"
],
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"synonyms":[
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"barrage",
"blitz",
"blitzkrieg",
"bombardment",
"cannonade",
"drumbeat",
"drumfire",
"fusillade",
"hail",
"salvo",
"shower",
"storm",
"volley"
],
"near synonyms":[
"broadside",
"earful",
"avalanche",
"burst",
"cataclysm",
"cataract",
"deluge",
"discharge",
"engulfment",
"flood",
"flood tide",
"flush",
"gush",
"inundation",
"outburst",
"outflow",
"outpouring",
"overflow",
"rash",
"spate",
"surge",
"torrent",
"current",
"river",
"stream",
"tide",
"excess",
"glut",
"overabundance",
"overage",
"overkill",
"overmuch",
"oversupply",
"superabundance",
"superfluity",
"surfeit",
"surplus"
],
"near antonyms":[
"dribble",
"drip",
"trickle"
],
"antonyms":[]
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},
"to trouble the mind of; to make uneasy":{
"examples":[
"flurried by visions of falls and broken bones, the parents wouldn't even allow the child to ride a bike"
],
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"synonyms":[
"agitate",
"ail",
"alarm",
"alarum",
"bother",
"concern",
"derail",
"discomfort",
"discompose",
"dismay",
"disquiet",
"distemper",
"distract",
"distress",
"disturb",
"exercise",
"frazzle",
"freak (out)",
"fuss",
"hagride",
"perturb",
"undo",
"unhinge",
"unsettle",
"upset",
"weird out",
"worry"
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],
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"near synonyms":[
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"aggravate",
"anger",
"annoy",
"bug",
"chafe",
"chivy",
"chivvy",
"exasperate",
"fret",
"gall",
"get",
"grate",
"harass",
"harry",
"irk",
"irritate",
"nettle",
"peeve",
"pester",
"pique",
"put off",
"put out",
"rile",
"vex",
"bedevil",
"haunt",
"plague",
"abash",
"confound",
"confuse",
"discomfit",
"disconcert",
"discountenance",
"embarrass",
"faze",
"fluster",
"jar",
"mortify",
"nonplus",
"rattle",
"shake up",
"daunt",
"demoralize",
"discourage",
"dishearten",
"dispirit",
"unnerve"
],
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"near antonyms":[
"allay",
"alleviate",
"assuage",
"appease",
"conciliate",
"mollify",
"pacify",
"placate",
"propitiate"
],
"antonyms":[
"calm",
"compose",
"quiet",
"settle",
"soothe",
"tranquilize",
"tranquillize"
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]
},
"type":[
"noun",
"verb"
]
},
"flurrying":{
"to trouble the mind of; to make uneasy":{
"examples":[
"flurried by visions of falls and broken bones, the parents wouldn't even allow the child to ride a bike"
],
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"synonyms":[
"agitating",
"ailing",
"alarming",
"alaruming",
"bothering",
"concerning",
"derailing",
"discomforting",
"discomposing",
"dismaying",
"disquieting",
"distempering",
"distracting",
"distressing",
"disturbing",
"exercising",
"frazzling",
"freaking (out)",
"fussing",
"hagriding",
"perturbing",
"undoing",
"unhinging",
"unsettling",
"upsetting",
"weirding out",
"worrying"
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],
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"near synonyms":[
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"aggravating",
"angering",
"annoying",
"bugging",
"chafing",
"chivying",
"chivvying",
"exasperating",
"fretting",
"galling",
"getting",
"grating",
"harassing",
"harrying",
"irking",
"irritating",
"nettling",
"peeving",
"pestering",
"piquing",
"putting off",
"putting out",
"riling",
"vexing",
"bedeviling",
"haunting",
"plaguing",
"abashing",
"confounding",
"confusing",
"discomfiting",
"disconcerting",
"discountenancing",
"embarrassing",
"fazing",
"flustering",
"jarring",
"mortifying",
"nonplussing",
"nonplusing",
"rattling",
"shaking up",
"daunting",
"demoralizing",
"discouraging",
"disheartening",
"dispiriting",
"unnerving"
],
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"near antonyms":[
"allaying",
"alleviating",
"assuaging",
"appeasing",
"conciliating",
"mollifying",
"pacifying",
"placating",
"propitiating"
],
"antonyms":[
"calming",
"composing",
"quieting",
"settling",
"soothing",
"tranquilizing",
"tranquillizing"
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]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"flush":{
"having a healthy reddish skin tone":{
"examples":[
"was flush after getting out of the hot bath"
],
"synonyms":[
"blooming",
"florid",
"full-blooded",
"glowing",
"red",
"rosy",
"rubicund",
"ruddy",
"sanguine"
],
"near synonyms":[
"bronzed",
"brown",
"suntanned",
"tanned",
"bloomy",
"blowsy",
"blowzy",
"blushing",
"flushed",
"pink",
"pinkish",
"warm",
"cherubic"
],
"near antonyms":[
"waxen",
"waxy",
"blanched",
"white",
"whitened",
"anemic",
"sick",
"sickly",
"bloodless",
"cadaverous",
"whey-faced",
"white-faced"
],
"antonyms":[
"ashen",
"ashy",
"doughy",
"livid",
"lurid",
"mealy",
"pale",
"paled",
"palish",
"pallid",
"pasty",
"peaked",
"peaky",
"sallow",
"sallowish",
"wan"
]
},
"having a surface without bends, breaks, or irregularities":{
"examples":[
"the flush paneling on the door gives it a very plain and dull look"
],
"synonyms":[
"even",
"flat",
"level",
"plane",
"smooth"
],
"near synonyms":[
"exact",
"uniform",
"aligned",
"alined",
"regular",
"true",
"horizontal",
"tabular",
"plumb",
"straight",
"vertical"
],
"near antonyms":[
"inexact",
"irregular",
"unaligned",
"warped",
"undulating",
"undulatory",
"wavy",
"pitted",
"pockmarked",
"pocky"
],
"antonyms":[
"bumpy",
"coarse",
"lumpy",
"rough",
"uneven",
"unsmoothed"
]
},
"having active strength of body or mind":{
"examples":[
"a flush , healthy man of 65"
],
"synonyms":[
"dynamic",
"energetic",
"gingery",
"lusty",
"peppy",
"red-blooded",
"robust",
"vigorous",
"vital"
],
"near synonyms":[
"animated",
"brisk",
"dashing",
"kinetic",
"lively",
"punchy",
"spirited",
"sprightly",
"vivacious",
"energized",
"enlivened",
"invigorated",
"vitalized",
"firm",
"fortified",
"mettlesome",
"mighty",
"powerful",
"puissant",
"strong",
"refreshed",
"rejuvenated",
"revitalized",
"able-bodied",
"athletic",
"beefy",
"brawny",
"burly",
"fit",
"hardy",
"husky",
"muscular",
"robustious",
"rugged",
"stalwart",
"stout",
"strapping",
"sturdy",
"tough",
"virile",
"hale",
"healthy",
"hearty",
"sound",
"capable",
"competent"
],
"near antonyms":[
"delicate",
"effete",
"enervated",
"faint",
"feeble",
"frail",
"infirm",
"wan",
"weak",
"weakened",
"impotent",
"powerless",
"prostrate",
"prostrated",
"sapped",
"tired",
"indolent",
"lackadaisical",
"languid",
"lazy",
"invertebrate",
"nerveless",
"soft",
"spineless",
"wimpy",
"ill",
"unhealthy",
"unsound",
"unwell",
"broken-down",
"debilitated",
"decrepit",
"disabled",
"wasted",
"worn-out"
],
"antonyms":[
"dull",
"lethargic",
"listless",
"sluggish",
"torpid"
]
},
"having goods, property, or money in abundance":{
"examples":[
"she's very flush now that she has her inheritance"
],
"synonyms":[
"affluent",
"deep-pocketed",
"fat",
"fat-cat",
"loaded",
"moneyed",
"monied",
"opulent",
"rich",
"silk-stocking",
"wealthy",
"well-endowed",
"well-fixed",
"well-heeled",
"well-off",
"well-to-do"
],
"near synonyms":[
"better-off",
"comfortable",
"propertied",
"prosperous",
"substantial",
"successful",
"flourishing",
"prospering",
"thriving",
"advantaged",
"blessed",
"blest",
"privileged"
],
"near antonyms":[
"unaffluent",
"deprived",
"disadvantaged",
"hand-to-mouth",
"underprivileged",
"bankrupt",
"bankrupted",
"beggared",
"broke",
"indebted",
"insolvent",
"pauperized",
"ruined",
"skint",
"depressed",
"pinched",
"reduced",
"straitened",
"low",
"short"
],
"antonyms":[
"destitute",
"impecunious",
"impoverished",
"indigent",
"needy",
"penniless",
"penurious",
"poor",
"poverty-stricken"
]
},
"possessing or covered with great numbers or amounts of something specified":{
"examples":[
"a field flush with flowers"
],
"synonyms":[
"abounding",
"abundant",
"awash",
"fraught",
"lousy",
"replete",
"rife",
"swarming",
"teeming",
"thick",
"thronging"
],
"near synonyms":[
"brimming",
"bulging",
"bursting",
"chock-full",
"chockful",
"crammed",
"crowded",
"fat",
"filled",
"full",
"jammed",
"jam-packed",
"loaded",
"packed",
"saturated",
"stuffed",
"clogged",
"congested",
"overcrowded",
"overfilled",
"overflowing",
"overfull",
"overladen",
"overloaded",
"overstuffed",
"surfeited",
"alive",
"animated",
"astir",
"bustling",
"busy",
"buzzing",
"humming",
"lively"
],
"near antonyms":[
"bare",
"barren",
"blank",
"devoid",
"empty",
"stark",
"vacant",
"void",
"depleted",
"drained",
"exhausted",
"deficient",
"incomplete",
"insufficient",
"short"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"having a border in common":{
"examples":[
"the front yard's floral border is flush with the sidewalk"
],
"synonyms":[
"abutting",
"adjacent",
"adjoining",
"bordering",
"conterminous",
"contiguous",
"flanking",
"fringing",
"joining",
"juxtaposed",
"neighboring",
"skirting",
"touching",
"verging"
],
"near synonyms":[
"approximate",
"close",
"closest",
"immediate",
"near",
"nearby",
"nearest",
"next-door",
"nigh",
"attached",
"communicating",
"connected",
"connecting",
"interconnecting",
"joined",
"linked",
"united",
"bounding",
"circumjacent",
"embracing",
"encircling",
"enclosing",
"inclosing",
"fencing",
"rimming",
"surrounding",
"marginal",
"peripheral",
"tangent",
"tangential",
"ambient",
"encompassing"
],
"near antonyms":[
"apart",
"detached",
"disconnected",
"discrete",
"free-standing",
"isolate",
"isolated",
"removed",
"separate",
"single",
"unattached",
"unconnected",
"unlinked",
"away",
"distant",
"far",
"faraway",
"far-off",
"farthest",
"remote",
"discontinuous",
"noncontinuous",
"broken up",
"disjoined",
"dissevered",
"dissociated",
"disunited",
"divided",
"divorced",
"parted",
"ramified",
"resolved",
"severed",
"split",
"sundered",
"uncoupled",
"unyoked"
],
"antonyms":[
"nonadjacent",
"noncontiguous"
]
},
"a rosy appearance (of the cheeks)":{
"examples":[
"looked for a flush on her cheeks as evidence of a fever"
],
"synonyms":[
"bloom",
"blush",
"color"
],
"near synonyms":[
"brightness",
"brilliance",
"glow",
"pinkness",
"reddishness",
"redness",
"rosiness",
"ruddiness",
"sanguineness"
],
"near antonyms":[
"paleness",
"pallidness",
"pallor",
"pastiness",
"wanness",
"whiteness",
"greenishness",
"greenness",
"sallowness"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"a state or time of great activity, thriving, or achievement":{
"examples":[
"was in the flush of his youth"
],
"synonyms":[
"bloom",
"blossom",
"florescence",
"floruit",
"flower",
"heyday",
"high noon",
"prime",
"salad days",
"springtime"
],
"near synonyms":[
"autumn",
"Indian summer",
"blooming",
"blossoming",
"efflorescence",
"flowering",
"acme",
"apex",
"climax",
"meridian",
"peak",
"pinnacle",
"summit",
"zenith",
"glory",
"grandeur",
"splendor",
"belle epoque",
"belle \u00e9poque",
"golden age",
"silver age",
"comeback",
"recovery",
"revival"
],
"near antonyms":[
"decay",
"decline",
"downfall",
"bottom",
"nadir",
"shriveling",
"shrivelling",
"wilting",
"withering"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"a sudden intense expression of strong feeling":{
"examples":[
"a flush of patriotic pride"
],
"synonyms":[
"agony",
"blaze",
"burst",
"ebullition",
"eruption",
"explosion",
"fit",
"flare",
"flare-up",
"flash",
"gale",
"gush",
"gust",
"outburst",
"paroxysm",
"spasm",
"storm"
],
"near synonyms":[
"blowup",
"grouch",
"rage",
"tantrum",
"ecstasy",
"rapture",
"transport",
"delirium",
"firestorm",
"frenzy",
"furor"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to pour liquid over or through in order to cleanse":{
"examples":[
"use this cleaner to flush the drain in the sink"
],
"synonyms":[
"irrigate",
"rinse",
"sluice",
"wash",
"wash out"
],
"near synonyms":[
"deluge",
"engulf",
"flood",
"inundate",
"swamp",
"flow",
"gush",
"rush",
"stream",
"douche",
"hose",
"drench",
"saturate",
"soak",
"douse",
"dowse",
"slosh",
"splash"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to develop a rosy facial color (as from excitement or embarrassment)":{
"examples":[
"he flushed deeply upon hearing the compliment"
],
"synonyms":[
"bloom",
"blush",
"color",
"crimson",
"glow",
"redden"
],
"near synonyms":[
"incarnadine",
"rouge",
"ruddle",
"abash",
"chagrin",
"discomfit",
"disconcert",
"embarrass",
"faze",
"humiliate",
"mortify"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"adjective",
"noun",
"verb"
]
},
"flushed":{
"as in warm , pink":{
"examples":[],
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"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"bloomy",
"blowsy",
"blowzy",
"blushing",
"pink",
"pinkish",
"warm",
"bronzed",
"brown",
"suntanned",
"tanned",
"cherubic",
"blooming",
"florid",
"flush",
"full-blooded",
"glowing",
"red",
"rosy",
"rubicund",
"ruddy",
"sanguine"
],
"near antonyms":[
"ashen",
"ashy",
"doughy",
"livid",
"lurid",
"mealy",
"pale",
"paled",
"palish",
"pallid",
"pasty",
"peaked",
"peaky",
"sallow",
"sallowish",
"wan",
"waxen",
"waxy",
"blanched",
"white",
"whitened",
"anemic",
"sick",
"sickly",
"bloodless",
"cadaverous",
"whey-faced",
"white-faced"
],
"antonyms":[]
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},
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"as in rinsed , irrigated":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"irrigated",
"laved",
"rinsed",
"sluiced",
"steeped",
"clammy",
"damp",
"dampish",
"dank",
"humid",
"moist",
"semimoist",
"wettish",
"aqueous",
"boggy",
"miry",
"seepy",
"sloppy",
"squashy",
"dipped",
"dunked",
"splashed",
"hydrated",
"submerged",
"swamped",
"deluged",
"drowned",
"flooded",
"inundated",
"overflowed",
"awash",
"bathed",
"bedraggled",
"doused",
"dowsed",
"drenched",
"dripping",
"logged",
"saturate",
"saturated",
"soaked",
"soaking",
"sodden",
"soggy",
"sopping",
"soppy",
"soused",
"washed",
"watered",
"waterlogged",
"water-soaked",
"watery",
"wet"
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],
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"near antonyms":[
"arid",
"dry",
"unwatered",
"waterless",
"bone-dry",
"hyperarid",
"ultradry",
"waterproof",
"water-repellent",
"water-resistant",
"watertight",
"baked",
"dehydrated",
"freeze-dried",
"droughty",
"parched",
"sere",
"sear",
"sunbaked",
"thirsty",
"wrung"
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],
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"antonyms":[]
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},
"to pour liquid over or through in order to cleanse":{
"examples":[
"use this cleaner to flush the drain in the sink"
],
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"synonyms":[
"irrigated",
"rinsed",
"sluiced",
"washed",
"washed out"
],
"near synonyms":[
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"deluged",
"engulfed",
"flooded",
"inundated",
"swamped",
"flowed",
"gushed",
"rushed",
"streamed",
"douched",
"hosed",
"drenched",
"saturated",
"soaked",
"doused",
"dowsed",
"sloshed",
"splashed"
],
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"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to develop a rosy facial color (as from excitement or embarrassment)":{
"examples":[
"he flushed deeply upon hearing the compliment"
],
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"synonyms":[
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"bloomed",
"blushed",
"colored",
"crimsoned",
"glowed",
"reddened"
],
"near synonyms":[
"incarnadined",
"rouged",
"ruddled",
"abashed",
"chagrined",
"discomfited",
"disconcerted",
"embarrassed",
"fazed",
"humiliated",
"mortified"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
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},
"type":[
"adjective",
"verb"
]
},
"flushness":{
"as in bloom , flush":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"bloom",
"flush",
"hardiness",
"lustiness",
"robustiousness",
"ruggedness",
"stamina",
"strength",
"toughness",
"vigor",
"vigorousness",
"vitality",
"activeness",
"agility",
"liveliness",
"spryness",
"cleanliness",
"hygiene",
"weal",
"welfare",
"well-being",
"fettle",
"shape",
"fitness",
"health",
"healthiness",
"heartiness",
"robustness",
"sap",
"soundness",
"verdure",
"wellness",
"wholeness",
"wholesomeness"
],
"near antonyms":[
"illness",
"sickness",
"unhealthiness",
"unsoundness",
"debility",
"decrepitude",
"feebleness",
"frailness",
"infirmity",
"lameness",
"sickliness",
"weakness",
"ailment",
"condition",
"disease",
"disorder",
"malady",
"trouble"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"fluttered":{
"to make an irregular series of quick, sudden movements":{
"examples":[
"a lonely butterfly fluttering across the lawn"
],
"synonyms":[
"danced",
"darted",
"flicked",
"flickered",
"flirted",
"flitted",
"flittered",
"zipped"
],
"near synonyms":[
"dashed",
"flew",
"sailed",
"shot",
"sped",
"speeded",
"sprinted",
"zinged",
"zoomed",
"scampered",
"scudded",
"scurried",
"scuttled",
"skipped",
"skittered",
"meandered",
"rambled",
"roamed",
"wandered"
],
"near antonyms":[
"floated",
"hovered",
"hung",
"hanged"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to move or cause to move with a striking motion":{
"examples":[
"fluttered my eyelashes as I struck up a conversation with the new guy at work"
],
"synonyms":[
"beat",
"flailed",
"flapped",
"flopped",
"whipped"
],
"near synonyms":[
"banged",
"battered",
"buffeted",
"knocked",
"pounded",
"smacked",
"spanked",
"thumped",
"flicked",
"flickered",
"flitted",
"fanned",
"oscillated",
"swayed",
"swung",
"undulated",
"waved",
"palpitated",
"pulsed",
"throbbed"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"fluttery":{
"easily excited by nature":{
"examples":[
"a fluttery bus driver who was obviously in the wrong line of work"
],
"synonyms":[
"excitable",
"fiddle-footed",
"flighty",
"high-strung",
"hyper",
"hyperactive",
"hyperexcitable",
"hyperkinetic",
"jittery",
"jumpy",
"nervous",
"skittery",
"skittish",
"spasmodic",
"spooky"
],
"near synonyms":[
"hot-blooded",
"mercurial",
"temperamental",
"unstable",
"volatile",
"volcanic",
"anxious",
"edgy",
"flibbertigibbety",
"nervy",
"tense",
"uptight",
"emotional",
"emotionalistic",
"hypersensitive",
"intense",
"sensitive",
"soulful",
"dramatic",
"histrionic",
"melodramatic",
"irascible",
"irritable",
"perturbable",
"prickly",
"testy",
"touchy"
],
"near antonyms":[
"calm",
"collected",
"cool",
"serene",
"tranquil",
"easy",
"easygoing",
"laid-back",
"relaxed"
],
"antonyms":[
"imperturbable",
"nerveless",
"unexcitable",
"unflappable",
"unshakable"
]
},
"type":[
"adjective"
]
},
"flux":{
"the frequent and usually sudden passing from one condition to another":{
"examples":[
"the English language is always in a state of flux"
],
"synonyms":[
"change",
"fluctuation",
"inconstancy",
"oscillation"
],
"near synonyms":[
"metamorphosis",
"mutation",
"transformation",
"transmogrification",
"transmutation",
"vacillation",
"wavering"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"a flowing or coming in":{
"examples":[
"January typically brings a great flux of returns to department stores"
],
"synonyms":[
"affluence",
"income",
"inflow",
"influx",
"inpouring",
"inrush"
],
"near synonyms":[
"deluge",
"flood",
"flow",
"inundation",
"overflow",
"spate",
"torrent",
"rush",
"stampede",
"river",
"stream",
"tide"
],
"near antonyms":[
"emigration",
"exodus",
"flight"
],
"antonyms":[
"outflow",
"outpouring"
]
},
"abnormally frequent intestinal evacuations with more or less fluid stools":{
"examples":[
"Civil War doctors noted frequent cases of flux in the camps"
],
"synonyms":[
"Delhi belly",
"diarrhea",
"Montezuma's revenge",
"runs",
"trots",
"turista"
],
"near synonyms":[
"dysentery",
"shigellosis",
"scour(s)"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to go from a solid to a liquid state":{
"examples":[
"a solid will flux more quickly under pressure"
],
"synonyms":[
"deliquesce",
"fuse",
"liquefy",
"liquify",
"melt",
"run",
"thaw"
],
"near synonyms":[
"found",
"gutter",
"smelt",
"try",
"dissolve",
"render",
"soften",
"thin"
],
"near antonyms":[
"clot",
"coagulate",
"congeal",
"gel",
"jell",
"jelly",
"thicken"
],
"antonyms":[
"harden",
"set",
"solidify"
]
},
"type":[
"noun",
"verb"
]
},
"fluxes":{
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"the frequent and usually sudden passing from one condition to another":{
"examples":[
"the English language is always in a state of flux"
],
"synonyms":[
"changes",
"fluctuations",
"inconstancies",
"oscillations"
],
"near synonyms":[
"metamorphoses",
"mutations",
"transformations",
"transmogrifications",
"transmutations",
"vacillations"
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],
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"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"a flowing or coming in":{
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"examples":[
"January typically brings a great flux of returns to department stores"
],
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"synonyms":[
"affluences",
"incomes",
"inflows",
"influxes",
"inpourings",
"inrushes"
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],
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"near synonyms":[
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"deluges",
"floods",
"flows",
"inundations",
"overflows",
"spates",
"torrents",
"rushes",
"stampedes",
"rivers",
"streams",
"tides"
],
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"near antonyms":[
"emigrations",
"exoduses",
"flights"
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],
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"antonyms":[
"outflows",
"outpourings"
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]
},
"to go from a solid to a liquid state":{
"examples":[
"a solid will flux more quickly under pressure"
],
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"synonyms":[
"deliquesces",
"fuses",
"liquefies",
"liquifies",
"melts",
"runs",
"thaws"
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],
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"near synonyms":[
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"founds",
"gutters",
"tries",
"dissolves",
"renders",
"softens",
"thins"
],
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"near antonyms":[
"clots",
"coagulates",
"congeals",
"gels",
"jellies",
"jells",
"thickens"
],
"antonyms":[
"hardens",
"sets",
"solidifies"
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]
},
"type":[
"noun",
"verb"
]
},
"fluffs":{
"a soft airy substance or covering":{
"examples":[
"self-consciously picked the fluff off his sweater as he answered the officer's questions"
],
"synonyms":[
"downs",
"flosses",
"furs",
"fuzzes",
"lints",
"naps",
"piles"
],
"near synonyms":[
"battings"
],
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"antonyms":[]
},
"an unintentional departure from truth or accuracy":{
"examples":[
"the flustered newscaster's fluffs included a mispronunciation of the town's name"
],
"synonyms":[
"blunders",
"bobbles",
"boo-boos",
"boobs",
"bricks",
"clangers",
"clinkers",
"errors",
"faults",
"flubs",
"fumbles",
"gaffes",
"gaffs",
"goofs",
"inaccuracies",
"lapses",
"miscues",
"missteps",
"mistakes",
"oversights",
"screwups",
"slips",
"slipups",
"stumbles",
"trips"
],
"near synonyms":[
"bloomers",
"bloopers",
"boners",
"howlers",
"pratfalls",
"foul-ups",
"snafus",
"misapprehensions",
"miscalculations",
"miscomprehensions",
"misconceptions",
"misconstructions",
"misdescriptions",
"misimpressions",
"misinterpretations",
"misjudgments",
"misreadings",
"misstatements",
"misunderstandings"
],
"near antonyms":[
"accuracies",
"exactitudes",
"precisions",
"inerrancies",
"infallibilities",
"perfections"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to make a mistake":{
"examples":[
"unnerved by her earlier missteps, the skater fluffed on the final jump as well"
],
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"blunders",
"boobs",
"errs",
"flubs",
"fouls up",
"fumbles",
"goofs (up)",
"louses up",
"messes (up)",
"screws up",
"slips up",
"stumbles",
"trips"
],
"near synonyms":[
"nods",
"bobbles",
"botches",
"bungles",
"butchers",
"foozles",
"mangles",
"mishandles",
"muffs",
"murders",
"miscalculates",
"misconceives",
"miscounts",
"miscues",
"misdeems",
"misgauges",
"misjudges",
"mistakes",
"misconstrues",
"misinterprets",
"misunderstands"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to make or do (something) in a clumsy or unskillful way":{
"examples":[
"I completely fluffed the introduction by calling the boss's wife by the wrong name"
],
"synonyms":[
"blows",
"bobbles",
"boggles",
"bollixes (up)",
"boots",
"botches",
"buggers (up)",
"bumbles",
"bungles",
"butchers",
"dubs",
"flubs",
"foozles",
"fouls up",
"fumbles",
"goofs (up)",
"louses up",
"mangles",
"messes (up)",
"mucks up",
"muffs",
"murders",
"screws up"
],
"near synonyms":[
"blunders",
"gums (up)",
"muddles",
"piffles",
"blemishes",
"blights",
"damages",
"flaws",
"harms",
"hurts",
"impairs",
"injures",
"mars",
"mutilates",
"ruins",
"spoils",
"vitiates",
"destroys",
"wrecks",
"mishandles",
"mismanages"
],
"near antonyms":[
"ameliorates",
"betters",
"enhances",
"helps",
"improves",
"meliorates",
"rectifies",
"refines",
"reforms",
"remedies",
"doctors",
"fixes",
"patches",
"reconditions",
"renovates",
"repairs",
"revamps"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun",
"verb"
]
},
"flue":{
"as in chimney , smokestack":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"chimney",
"chimney stack",
"smokestack",
"channel",
"conduit",
"duct",
"leader",
"line",
"penstock",
"pipe",
"trough",
"tube",
"drain",
"drainpipe",
"funnel",
"hydrant",
"main",
"spout",
"standpipe",
"stovepipe",
"tile",
"waste pipe",
"waterspout",
"pipage",
"pipeage",
"pipeline",
"piping"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"flunkie":{
"a person hired to perform household or personal services":{
"examples":[
"since I'm just the flunky who files his papers, I've no idea where he is"
],
"synonyms":[
"daily",
"domestic",
"lackey",
"menial",
"retainer",
"servant",
"steward"
],
"near synonyms":[
"butler",
"footman",
"groom",
"houseboy",
"houseman",
"majordomo",
"man",
"manservant",
"servitor",
"valet",
"handmaiden",
"handmaid",
"housekeeper",
"housemaid",
"lady-in-waiting",
"maid",
"maidservant",
"wench",
"woman",
"assistant",
"attendant",
"companion",
"factotum",
"follower",
"dogsbody",
"drudge",
"gofer",
"gopher"
],
"near antonyms":[
"boss",
"captain",
"chief",
"foreman",
"head",
"headman",
"helmsman",
"kingpin",
"leader",
"taskmaster"
],
"antonyms":[
"master",
"mistress"
]
},
"a person who flatters another in order to get ahead":{
"examples":[
"a rock star who saw through the phonies and the flunkies"
],
"synonyms":[
"apple-polisher",
"bootlicker",
"brownnoser",
"fawner",
"lickspittle",
"suck-up",
"sycophant",
"toady"
],
"near synonyms":[
"yes-man",
"apparatchik",
"company man",
"hanger-on",
"leech",
"parasite",
"sponge",
"sponger",
"henchman",
"lackey",
"lapdog",
"minion",
"running dog",
"satellite",
"slave",
"stooge",
"admirer",
"cultist",
"devotee",
"enthusiast",
"fan",
"groveler",
"idolater",
"idolator",
"worshipper",
"worshiper",
"zealot",
"adherent",
"camp follower",
"convert",
"disciple",
"follower",
"me-tooer",
"partisan",
"partizan",
"pupil",
"votary"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"flunks":{
"to be unsuccessful":{
"examples":[
"the movie flunks , both as entertainment and as a dramatization of a historical incident"
],
"synonyms":[
"bombs",
"collapses",
"craters",
"fails",
"flames out",
"flops",
"folds",
"founders",
"misses",
"strikes out",
"tanks",
"washes out"
],
"near synonyms":[
"flounders",
"struggles",
"declines",
"sinks",
"skids",
"slips",
"slumps",
"wanes",
"crashes",
"crumbles",
"miscarries",
"misfires",
"goes under",
"implodes",
"self-destructs"
],
"near antonyms":[
"cooks",
"flourishes",
"prospers",
"thrives",
"prevails",
"triumphs",
"wins"
],
"antonyms":[
"clicks",
"comes off",
"delivers",
"goes",
"goes over",
"pans out",
"succeeds",
"works out"
]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"flunkeys":{
"a person hired to perform household or personal services":{
"examples":[
"since I'm just the flunky who files his papers, I've no idea where he is"
],
"synonyms":[
"dailies",
"domestics",
"lackeys",
"menials",
"retainers",
"servants",
"stewards"
],
"near synonyms":[
"butlers",
"footmen",
"grooms",
"houseboys",
"housemen",
"majordomos",
"men",
"menservants",
"servitors",
"valets",
"handmaidens",
"handmaids",
"housekeepers",
"housemaids",
"ladies-in-waiting",
"maids",
"maidservants",
"wenches",
"women",
"assistants",
"attendants",
"companions",
"factotums",
"followers",
"dogsbodies",
"drudges",
"gofers",
"gophers"
],
"near antonyms":[
"bosses",
"captains",
"chiefs",
"foremen",
"headmen",
"heads",
"helmsmen",
"kingpins",
"leaders",
"taskmasters"
],
"antonyms":[
"masters",
"mistresses"
]
},
"a person who flatters another in order to get ahead":{
"examples":[
"a rock star who saw through the phonies and the flunkies"
],
"synonyms":[
"apple-polishers",
"bootlickers",
"brownnosers",
"fawners",
"lickspittles",
"suck-ups",
"sycophants",
"toadies"
],
"near synonyms":[
"yes-men",
"apparatchiks",
"apparatchiki",
"company men",
"hangers-on",
"leeches",
"parasites",
"spongers",
"sponges",
"henchmen",
"lackeys",
"lapdogs",
"minions",
"running dogs",
"satellites",
"slaves",
"stooges",
"admirers",
"cultists",
"devotees",
"enthusiasts",
"fans",
"grovelers",
"idolaters",
"idolators",
"worshippers",
"worshipers",
"zealots",
"adherents",
"camp followers",
"converts",
"disciples",
"followers",
"me-tooers",
"partisans",
"partizans",
"pupils",
"votaries"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"fluffed":{
"to make a mistake":{
"examples":[
"unnerved by her earlier missteps, the skater fluffed on the final jump as well"
],
"synonyms":[
"blundered",
"boobed",
"erred",
"flubbed",
"fouled up",
"fumbled",
"goofed (up)",
"loused up",
"messed (up)",
"screwed up",
"slipped up",
"stumbled",
"tripped"
],
"near synonyms":[
"nodded",
"bobbled",
"botched",
"bungled",
"butchered",
"foozled",
"mangled",
"mishandled",
"muffed",
"murdered",
"miscalculated",
"misconceived",
"miscounted",
"miscued",
"misdeemed",
"misgauged",
"misgaged",
"misjudged",
"mistook",
"misconstrued",
"misinterpreted",
"misunderstood"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to make or do (something) in a clumsy or unskillful way":{
"examples":[
"I completely fluffed the introduction by calling the boss's wife by the wrong name"
],
"synonyms":[
"blew",
"bobbled",
"boggled",
"bollixed (up)",
"booted",
"botched",
"buggered (up)",
"bumbled",
"bungled",
"butchered",
"dubbed",
"flubbed",
"foozled",
"fouled up",
"fumbled",
"goofed (up)",
"loused up",
"mangled",
"messed (up)",
"mucked up",
"muffed",
"murdered",
"screwed up"
],
"near synonyms":[
"blundered",
"gummed (up)",
"muddled",
"piffled",
"blemished",
"blighted",
"damaged",
"flawed",
"harmed",
"hurt",
"impaired",
"injured",
"marred",
"mutilated",
"ruined",
"spoiled",
"spoilt",
"vitiated",
"destroyed",
"wrecked",
"mishandled",
"mismanaged"
],
"near antonyms":[
"ameliorated",
"bettered",
"enhanced",
"helped",
"improved",
"meliorated",
"rectified",
"refined",
"reformed",
"remedied",
"doctored",
"fixed",
"patched",
"reconditioned",
"renovated",
"repaired",
"revamped"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"flukes":{
"an unexpected benefit or advantage resulting from the uncertain course of events":{
"examples":[
"the discovery of oil on their property was just an amazing fluke"
],
"synonyms":[
"breaks",
"strikes"
],
"near synonyms":[
"accidents",
"chances",
"circumstances",
"happenchances",
"happenstances",
"haps",
"hazards",
"luck"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"flurries":{
"a sudden and usually temporary growth of activity":{
"examples":[
"a flurry of activity on the floor of the stock market as soon as the news spread"
],
"synonyms":[
"bursts",
"flares",
"flare-ups",
"flashes",
"flickers",
"flutters",
"outbreaks",
"outbursts",
"spurts"
],
"near synonyms":[
"recrudescences",
"recurrences",
"renewals",
"binges",
"jags",
"sprees",
"boosts",
"increases",
"pickups",
"upswings",
"upturns",
"epidemics",
"eruptions",
"explosions",
"paroxysms",
"deluges",
"floods",
"rushes",
"spates",
"surges",
"volleys",
"commotions",
"furors",
"uproars"
],
"near antonyms":[
"calms",
"doldrums",
"slumps"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"a sudden brief rush of wind":{
"examples":[
"a flurry that scattered the fallen leaves"
],
"synonyms":[
"blasts",
"blows",
"gusts",
"scuds",
"williwaws",
"windblasts"
],
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"zephyrs",
"currents",
"drafts",
"airs",
"breaths",
"wafts",
"puffs",
"whiffs",
"bluster",
"gales",
"hurricanes",
"squalls",
"tempests",
"tornadoes",
"tornados",
"windstorms",
"northeasters",
"northerlies",
"northers",
"northwesters",
"southeasters",
"southwesters",
"westerlies"
],
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"a rapid or overwhelming outpouring of many things at once":{
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"a patient with a mysterious illness being subjected to a flurry of tests"
],
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"blitzkriegs",
"bombardments",
"cannonades",
"drumbeats",
"drumfires",
"fusillades",
"hails",
"salvos",
"salvoes",
"showers",
"storms",
"volleys"
],
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"broadsides",
"earfuls",
"avalanches",
"bursts",
"cataclysms",
"cataracts",
"deluges",
"discharges",
"engulfments",
"floods",
"flood tides",
"flushes",
"gushes",
"inundations",
"outbursts",
"outflows",
"outpourings",
"overflows",
"rashes",
"spates",
"surges",
"torrents",
"currents",
"rivers",
"streams",
"tides",
"excesses",
"gluts",
"overabundances",
"overages",
"overkills",
"overmuch",
"oversupplies",
"superabundances",
"superfluities",
"surfeits",
"surpluses"
],
"near antonyms":[
"dribbles",
"drips",
"trickles"
],
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},
"to trouble the mind of; to make uneasy":{
"examples":[
"flurried by visions of falls and broken bones, the parents wouldn't even allow the child to ride a bike"
],
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"agitates",
"ails",
"alarms",
"alarums",
"bothers",
"concerns",
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"discomforts",
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"disquiets",
"distempers",
"distracts",
"distresses",
"disturbs",
"exercises",
"frazzles",
"freaks (out)",
"fusses",
"hagrides",
"perturbs",
"undoes",
"unhinges",
"unsettles",
"upsets",
"weirds out",
"worries"
],
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"aggravates",
"angers",
"annoys",
"bugs",
"chafes",
"chivies",
"chivvies",
"exasperates",
"frets",
"galls",
"gets",
"grates",
"harasses",
"harries",
"irks",
"irritates",
"nettles",
"peeves",
"pesters",
"piques",
"puts off",
"puts out",
"riles",
"vexes",
"bedevils",
"haunts",
"plagues",
"abashes",
"confounds",
"confuses",
"discomfits",
"disconcerts",
"discountenances",
"embarrasses",
"fazes",
"flusters",
"jars",
"mortifies",
"nonpluses",
"nonplusses",
"rattles",
"shakes up",
"daunts",
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"discourages",
"disheartens",
"dispirits",
"unnerves"
],
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"allays",
"alleviates",
"assuages",
"appeases",
"conciliates",
"mollifies",
"pacifies",
"placates",
"propitiates"
],
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"calms",
"composes",
"quiets",
"settles",
"soothes",
"tranquilizes",
"tranquillizes"
]
},
"type":[
"noun",
"verb"
]
},
"flung":{
"to send through the air especially with a quick forward motion of the arm":{
"examples":[
"flinging rocks into the pond just for the fun of it"
],
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"cast",
"catapulted",
"chucked",
"dashed",
"fired",
"heaved",
"hove",
"hurled",
"hurtled",
"launched",
"lobbed",
"lofted",
"pegged",
"pelted",
"pitched",
"slung",
"threw",
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],
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"bowled",
"darted",
"flipped",
"gunned",
"hooked",
"passed",
"rolled",
"shot",
"bucked",
"ejected",
"impelled",
"precipitated",
"projected",
"propelled",
"rifled",
"thrust"
],
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},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"flummoxes":{
"to throw into a state of mental uncertainty":{
"examples":[
"an actor who's easily flummoxed by any changes in the script"
],
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"addles",
"baffles",
"bamboozles",
"beats",
"befogs",
"befuddles",
"bemuses",
"bewilders",
"buffaloes",
"confounds",
"confuses",
"discombobulates",
"disorients",
"foxes",
"fuddles",
"gets",
"gravels",
"mazes",
"muddies",
"muddles",
"mystifies",
"perplexes",
"poses",
"puzzles",
"vexes"
],
"near synonyms":[
"sticks",
"stumps",
"weirds out",
"abashes",
"discomfits",
"disconcerts",
"discountenances",
"embarrasses",
"fazes",
"flusters",
"mortifies",
"nonpluses",
"nonplusses",
"rattles",
"agitates",
"bothers",
"chagrins",
"discomforts",
"discomposes",
"dismays",
"disquiets",
"distresses",
"disturbs",
"perturbs",
"stuns",
"unhinges",
"unsettles",
"upsets",
"beguiles",
"cozens",
"deceives",
"deludes",
"dupes",
"fools",
"gulls",
"hoaxes",
"hoodwinks",
"humbugs",
"misguides",
"misleads",
"snows",
"strings along",
"takes in",
"tricks"
],
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"assures",
"reassures",
"satisfies",
"enlightens",
"informs"
],
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},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
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"as in bevels , chamfers":{
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"bevels",
"chamfers",
"abrades",
"files",
"grazes",
"mills",
"rasps",
"scarifies",
"scratches",
"grooves",
"scores",
"scribes",
"seams"
],
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"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"flustered":{
"as in nervous , upset":{
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"aggravated",
"agitated",
"bothered",
"chagrined",
"dismayed",
"disquieted",
"distressed",
"disturbed",
"fazed",
"irritated",
"jittery",
"jumpy",
"mortified",
"nervous",
"nonplussed",
"nonplused",
"perturbed",
"rattled",
"unhinged",
"unsettled",
"upset",
"awkward",
"clumsy",
"gauche",
"graceless",
"inelegant",
"rough-hewn",
"rustic",
"rustical",
"stiff",
"stilted",
"uncomfortable",
"uneasy",
"ungraceful",
"wooden",
"abashed",
"discomfited",
"discomforted",
"discomposed",
"disconcerted",
"discountenanced",
"embarrassed",
"humiliated",
"self-conscious"
],
"near antonyms":[
"assured",
"calm",
"collected",
"composed",
"confident",
"cool",
"placid",
"poised",
"secure",
"self-assured",
"self-confident",
"self-possessed",
"serene",
"tranquil",
"undisturbed",
"unperturbed"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to throw into a state of self-conscious distress":{
"examples":[
"was flustered when her parents dragged out her baby pictures for her new boyfriend"
],
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"abashed",
"confounded",
"confused",
"discomfited",
"disconcerted",
"discountenanced",
"embarrassed",
"fazed",
"mortified",
"nonplussed",
"nonplused",
"rattled"
],
"near synonyms":[
"agitated",
"bothered",
"chagrined",
"discomforted",
"discomposed",
"dismayed",
"disquieted",
"distressed",
"disturbed",
"perturbed",
"put off",
"put out",
"unhinged",
"unsettled",
"upset",
"debased",
"degraded",
"demeaned",
"humbled",
"humiliated",
"queered",
"shamed"
],
"near antonyms":[
"calmed",
"comforted",
"consoled",
"relieved",
"soothed",
"buoyed",
"cheered",
"emboldened",
"encouraged",
"heartened",
"assured",
"reassured"
],
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},
"type":[
"adjective",
"verb"
]
},
"flumped":{
"to throw or set down clumsily or casually":{
"examples":[
"for now, just flump the rug on the floor\u2014we'll unroll it later"
],
"synonyms":[
"flopped",
"planked",
"plopped",
"plumped",
"plunked",
"plonked"
],
"near synonyms":[
"flung",
"heaved",
"hove",
"slung",
"tossed",
"ensconced",
"installed",
"planted",
"settled"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"flustering":{
"causing embarrassment":{
"examples":[
"a flustering situation that left us all silent"
],
"synonyms":[
"awkward",
"discomfiting",
"disconcerting",
"disturbing",
"embarrassing",
"uncomfortable"
],
"near synonyms":[
"confusing",
"difficult",
"disagreeable",
"impossible",
"inconvenient",
"intolerable",
"troublesome",
"unpleasant",
"unwieldy",
"unsettling",
"debasing",
"degrading",
"demeaning",
"humbling",
"humiliating",
"mortifying"
],
"near antonyms":[
"agreeable",
"comfortable",
"convenient",
"pleasing"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to throw into a state of self-conscious distress":{
"examples":[
"was flustered when her parents dragged out her baby pictures for her new boyfriend"
],
"synonyms":[
"abashing",
"confounding",
"confusing",
"discomfiting",
"disconcerting",
"discountenancing",
"embarrassing",
"fazing",
"mortifying",
"nonplussing",
"nonplusing",
"rattling"
],
"near synonyms":[
"agitating",
"bothering",
"chagrining",
"discomforting",
"discomposing",
"dismaying",
"disquieting",
"distressing",
"disturbing",
"perturbing",
"putting off",
"putting out",
"unhinging",
"unsettling",
"upsetting",
"debasing",
"degrading",
"demeaning",
"humbling",
"humiliating",
"queering",
"shaming"
],
"near antonyms":[
"calming",
"comforting",
"consoling",
"relieving",
"soothing",
"buoying",
"cheering",
"emboldening",
"encouraging",
"heartening",
"assuring",
"reassuring"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"adjective",
"verb"
]
},
"fluorescence":{
"the steady giving off of the form of radiation that makes vision possible":{
"examples":[
"studied the fluorescence of certain elements"
],
"synonyms":[
"blaze",
"flare",
"glare",
"gleam",
"glow",
"illumination",
"incandescence",
"light",
"luminescence",
"radiance",
"shine"
],
"near synonyms":[
"flash",
"glimmer",
"glint",
"glitter",
"scintillation",
"shimmer",
"sparkle",
"twinkle",
"daylight",
"moonlight",
"sunlight",
"sunshine",
"afterglow",
"aureole",
"aureola",
"aurora",
"beam",
"halo",
"ray",
"shaft",
"streak",
"stream",
"sunbeam",
"glisten",
"gloss",
"luster",
"lustre",
"polish",
"reflection",
"sheen"
],
"near antonyms":[
"blackness",
"dark",
"darkness",
"dimness",
"dusk",
"duskiness",
"gloom",
"night",
"shadow"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"fluctuated":{
"to pass from one form, state, or level to another":{
"examples":[
"temperatures will fluctuate between the low and high 50s today"
],
"synonyms":[
"changed",
"mutated",
"shifted",
"snapped",
"varied"
],
"near synonyms":[
"metamorphosed",
"morphed",
"transmuted",
"bettered",
"improved",
"deteriorated",
"worsened",
"turned around",
"seesawed",
"teetered",
"vacillated",
"wavered"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[
"plateaued",
"stabilized"
]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"fluttering":{
"to make an irregular series of quick, sudden movements":{
"examples":[
"a lonely butterfly fluttering across the lawn"
],
"synonyms":[
"dancing",
"darting",
"flickering",
"flicking",
"flirting",
"flittering",
"flitting",
"zipping"
],
"near synonyms":[
"dashing",
"flying",
"sailing",
"shooting",
"speeding",
"sprinting",
"zinging",
"zooming",
"scampering",
"scudding",
"scurrying",
"scuttling",
"skipping",
"skittering",
"meandering",
"rambling",
"roaming",
"wandering"
],
"near antonyms":[
"floating",
"hanging",
"hovering"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to move or cause to move with a striking motion":{
"examples":[
"fluttered my eyelashes as I struck up a conversation with the new guy at work"
],
"synonyms":[
"beating",
"flailing",
"flapping",
"flopping",
"whipping"
],
"near synonyms":[
"banging",
"battering",
"buffeting",
"knocking",
"pounding",
"smacking",
"spanking",
"thumping",
"flickering",
"flicking",
"flitting",
"fanning",
"oscillating",
"swaying",
"swinging",
"undulating",
"waving",
"palpitating",
"pulsing",
"throbbing"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"flung (off or away)":{
"to get rid of as useless or unwanted":{
"examples":[
"he flung away the used matchstick",
"flinging off dirty clothes"
],
"synonyms":[
"cashiered",
"cast (off)",
"chucked",
"deep-sixed",
"discarded",
"ditched",
"dumped",
"eighty-sixed",
"86'd",
"exorcised",
"exorcized",
"jettisoned",
"junked",
"laid by",
"lost",
"pitched",
"rejected",
"scrapped",
"shed",
"shucked (off)",
"sloughed (off)",
"sluffed (off)",
"threw away",
"threw out",
"tossed",
"unloaded"
],
"near synonyms":[
"abandoned",
"abdicated",
"deserted",
"forsook",
"dismissed",
"kicked out",
"abolished",
"annihilated",
"eliminated",
"eradicated",
"expunged",
"exterminated",
"extinguished",
"extirpated",
"liquidated",
"removed",
"rooted (out)",
"stamped (out)",
"wiped out"
],
"near antonyms":[
"adopted",
"embraced",
"took on",
"employed",
"used",
"utilized",
"held",
"held back",
"kept",
"retained"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"flunky":{
"a person hired to perform household or personal services":{
"examples":[
"since I'm just the flunky who files his papers, I've no idea where he is"
],
"synonyms":[
"daily",
"domestic",
"lackey",
"menial",
"retainer",
"servant",
"steward"
],
"near synonyms":[
"butler",
"footman",
"groom",
"houseboy",
"houseman",
"majordomo",
"man",
"manservant",
"servitor",
"valet",
"handmaiden",
"handmaid",
"housekeeper",
"housemaid",
"lady-in-waiting",
"maid",
"maidservant",
"wench",
"woman",
"assistant",
"attendant",
"companion",
"factotum",
"follower",
"dogsbody",
"drudge",
"gofer",
"gopher"
],
"near antonyms":[
"boss",
"captain",
"chief",
"foreman",
"head",
"headman",
"helmsman",
"kingpin",
"leader",
"taskmaster"
],
"antonyms":[
"master",
"mistress"
]
},
"a person who flatters another in order to get ahead":{
"examples":[
"a rock star who saw through the phonies and the flunkies"
],
"synonyms":[
"apple-polisher",
"bootlicker",
"brownnoser",
"fawner",
"lickspittle",
"suck-up",
"sycophant",
"toady"
],
"near synonyms":[
"yes-man",
"apparatchik",
"company man",
"hanger-on",
"leech",
"parasite",
"sponge",
"sponger",
"henchman",
"lackey",
"lapdog",
"minion",
"running dog",
"satellite",
"slave",
"stooge",
"admirer",
"cultist",
"devotee",
"enthusiast",
"fan",
"groveler",
"idolater",
"idolator",
"worshipper",
"worshiper",
"zealot",
"adherent",
"camp follower",
"convert",
"disciple",
"follower",
"me-tooer",
"partisan",
"partizan",
"pupil",
"votary"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"flumps":{
"to throw or set down clumsily or casually":{
"examples":[
"for now, just flump the rug on the floor\u2014we'll unroll it later"
],
"synonyms":[
"flops",
"planks",
"plops",
"plumps",
"plunks",
"plonks"
],
"near synonyms":[
"flings",
"heaves",
"slings",
"tosses",
"ensconces",
"installs",
"plants",
"settles"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"fluke":{
"an unexpected benefit or advantage resulting from the uncertain course of events":{
"examples":[
"the discovery of oil on their property was just an amazing fluke"
],
"synonyms":[
"break",
"strike"
],
"near synonyms":[
"accident",
"chance",
"circumstance",
"hap",
"happenchance",
"happenstance",
"hazard",
"luck"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"fluorescent lamp":{
"as in light bulb , arc lamp":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"arc lamp",
"arc light",
"candelabra",
"candelabrum",
"candle",
"chandelier",
"dark lantern",
"flare",
"flash",
"flashbulb",
"flashcube",
"flashlight",
"floodlight",
"gaslight",
"gasolier",
"girandole",
"headlight",
"incandescent lamp",
"klieg light",
"kleig light",
"lantern",
"light bulb",
"lighthouse",
"lighting",
"sconce",
"spotlight",
"streetlight",
"sun lamp",
"beacon",
"illuminant",
"lamp"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"fluxed":{
"to go from a solid to a liquid state":{
"examples":[
"a solid will flux more quickly under pressure"
],
"synonyms":[
"deliquesced",
"fused",
"liquefied",
"liquified",
"melted",
"ran",
"run",
"thawed"
],
"near synonyms":[
"founded",
"guttered",
"tried",
"dissolved",
"rendered",
"softened",
"thinned"
],
"near antonyms":[
"clotted",
"coagulated",
"congealed",
"gelled",
"jelled",
"jellied",
"thickened"
],
"antonyms":[
"hardened",
"set",
"solidified"
]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"flute":{
"as in bevel , chamfer":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"bevel",
"chamfer",
"abrade",
"file",
"graze",
"mill",
"rasp",
"scarify",
"scratch",
"groove",
"score",
"scribe",
"seam"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"flunkey":{
"a person hired to perform household or personal services":{
"examples":[
"since I'm just the flunky who files his papers, I've no idea where he is"
],
"synonyms":[
"daily",
"domestic",
"lackey",
"menial",
"retainer",
"servant",
"steward"
],
"near synonyms":[
"butler",
"footman",
"groom",
"houseboy",
"houseman",
"majordomo",
"man",
"manservant",
"servitor",
"valet",
"handmaiden",
"handmaid",
"housekeeper",
"housemaid",
"lady-in-waiting",
"maid",
"maidservant",
"wench",
"woman",
"assistant",
"attendant",
"companion",
"factotum",
"follower",
"dogsbody",
"drudge",
"gofer",
"gopher"
],
"near antonyms":[
"boss",
"captain",
"chief",
"foreman",
"head",
"headman",
"helmsman",
"kingpin",
"leader",
"taskmaster"
],
"antonyms":[
"master",
"mistress"
]
},
"a person who flatters another in order to get ahead":{
"examples":[
"a rock star who saw through the phonies and the flunkies"
],
"synonyms":[
"apple-polisher",
"bootlicker",
"brownnoser",
"fawner",
"lickspittle",
"suck-up",
"sycophant",
"toady"
],
"near synonyms":[
"yes-man",
"apparatchik",
"company man",
"hanger-on",
"leech",
"parasite",
"sponge",
"sponger",
"henchman",
"lackey",
"lapdog",
"minion",
"running dog",
"satellite",
"slave",
"stooge",
"admirer",
"cultist",
"devotee",
"enthusiast",
"fan",
"groveler",
"idolater",
"idolator",
"worshipper",
"worshiper",
"zealot",
"adherent",
"camp follower",
"convert",
"disciple",
"follower",
"me-tooer",
"partisan",
"partizan",
"pupil",
"votary"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"fluffy":{
"resembling air in lightness":{
"examples":[
"big fluffy pillows"
],
"synonyms":[
"airy",
"ethereal",
"gossamer",
"gossamery",
"light"
],
"near synonyms":[
"cobwebby",
"dainty",
"delicate",
"diaphanous",
"downy",
"feathery",
"flimsy",
"gauzelike",
"gauzy",
"insubstantial",
"tender",
"wispy",
"buoyant",
"lighter-than-air",
"lightweight",
"rarefied",
"unsubstantial",
"vaporous",
"weightless",
"cumulous",
"pillowy"
],
"near antonyms":[
"firm",
"solid",
"substantial",
"bulky",
"burdensome",
"cumbersome",
"hefty",
"hulking",
"lumpish",
"ponderous",
"unwieldy",
"weighty"
],
"antonyms":[
"heavy",
"leaden"
]
},
"type":[
"adjective"
]
},
"flunkies":{
"a person hired to perform household or personal services":{
"examples":[
"since I'm just the flunky who files his papers, I've no idea where he is"
],
"synonyms":[
"dailies",
"domestics",
"lackeys",
"menials",
"retainers",
"servants",
"stewards"
],
"near synonyms":[
"butlers",
"footmen",
"grooms",
"houseboys",
"housemen",
"majordomos",
"men",
"menservants",
"servitors",
"valets",
"handmaidens",
"handmaids",
"housekeepers",
"housemaids",
"ladies-in-waiting",
"maids",
"maidservants",
"wenches",
"women",
"assistants",
"attendants",
"companions",
"factotums",
"followers",
"dogsbodies",
"drudges",
"gofers",
"gophers"
],
"near antonyms":[
"bosses",
"captains",
"chiefs",
"foremen",
"headmen",
"heads",
"helmsmen",
"kingpins",
"leaders",
"taskmasters"
],
"antonyms":[
"masters",
"mistresses"
]
},
"a person who flatters another in order to get ahead":{
"examples":[
"a rock star who saw through the phonies and the flunkies"
],
"synonyms":[
"apple-polishers",
"bootlickers",
"brownnosers",
"fawners",
"lickspittles",
"suck-ups",
"sycophants",
"toadies"
],
"near synonyms":[
"yes-men",
"apparatchiks",
"apparatchiki",
"company men",
"hangers-on",
"leeches",
"parasites",
"spongers",
"sponges",
"henchmen",
"lackeys",
"lapdogs",
"minions",
"running dogs",
"satellites",
"slaves",
"stooges",
"admirers",
"cultists",
"devotees",
"enthusiasts",
"fans",
"grovelers",
"idolaters",
"idolators",
"worshippers",
"worshipers",
"zealots",
"adherents",
"camp followers",
"converts",
"disciples",
"followers",
"me-tooers",
"partisans",
"partizans",
"pupils",
"votaries"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"fluid":{
"capable of moving like a liquid":{
"examples":[
"warm the jam until it is fluid , then spread it over the cake"
],
"synonyms":[
"flowing",
"fluent",
"liquid"
],
"near synonyms":[
"circumfluent",
"circumfluous",
"diluted",
"thin",
"watery",
"weak",
"semiliquid",
"semisolid"
],
"near antonyms":[
"clotted",
"coagulated",
"gelatinous",
"gelled",
"jelled",
"jellied",
"thick",
"gluey",
"glutinous",
"gooey",
"gummy",
"viscous"
],
"antonyms":[
"hard",
"nonliquid",
"solid"
]
},
"capable of being readily changed":{
"examples":[
"the script is still fluid at this point, so be prepared for last-minute rewrites"
],
"synonyms":[
"adaptable",
"adjustable",
"alterable",
"changeable",
"elastic",
"flexible",
"malleable",
"modifiable",
"pliable",
"variable"
],
"near synonyms":[
"changing",
"fluctuating",
"inconstant",
"labile",
"unstable",
"unsteady",
"varying",
"versatile"
],
"near antonyms":[
"constant",
"stable",
"steady",
"unchanging",
"uniform",
"unvarying"
],
"antonyms":[
"established",
"fixed",
"immutable",
"inelastic",
"inflexible",
"invariable",
"nonmalleable",
"ramrod",
"set",
"unadaptable",
"unalterable",
"unbudgeable",
"unchangeable"
]
},
"involving minimal difficulty or effort":{
"examples":[
"the dance looked smooth and fluid , though backstage we could see the dancer gasping for breath and sweating from the effort"
],
"synonyms":[
"cheap",
"downhill",
"easy",
"effortless",
"facile",
"fluent",
"hands-down",
"light",
"painless",
"ready",
"royal",
"simple",
"smooth",
"snap",
"soft"
],
"near synonyms":[
"idiotproof",
"mindless",
"quick",
"straightforward",
"unchallenging",
"uncomplicated",
"apparent",
"clear",
"clear-cut",
"distinct",
"evident",
"manifest",
"obvious",
"open-and-shut",
"palpable",
"patent",
"perspicuous",
"plain",
"transparent",
"unambiguous",
"unequivocal",
"unmistakable"
],
"near antonyms":[
"burdensome",
"exhausting",
"onerous",
"oppressive",
"painful",
"stressful",
"taxing",
"troublesome",
"abstruse",
"complex",
"complicated",
"intricate",
"involved",
"knotty",
"problematic",
"problematical",
"recondite"
],
"antonyms":[
"arduous",
"demanding",
"difficult",
"exacting",
"formidable",
"grueling",
"gruelling",
"hard",
"herculean",
"killer",
"labored",
"laborious",
"murderous",
"rough",
"severe",
"stiff",
"strenuous",
"toilful",
"toilsome",
"tough"
]
},
"likely to change frequently, suddenly, or unexpectedly":{
"examples":[
"his arrival plans are fluid , so expect him anytime"
],
"synonyms":[
"capricious",
"changeable",
"changeful",
"fickle",
"flickery",
"fluctuating",
"inconsistent",
"inconstant",
"mercurial",
"mutable",
"skittish",
"temperamental",
"uncertain",
"unpredictable",
"unsettled",
"unstable",
"unsteady",
"variable",
"volatile"
],
"near synonyms":[
"aimless",
"arbitrary",
"desultory",
"erratic",
"haphazard",
"hit-or-miss",
"irregular",
"random",
"scattered",
"slapdash",
"stray",
"ambivalent",
"hesitating",
"shaky",
"shilly-shally",
"shilly-shallying",
"vacillating",
"wavering",
"dicey",
"undependable",
"unreliable",
"untrustworthy",
"adaptable",
"mobile",
"protean",
"versatile"
],
"near antonyms":[
"equable",
"even",
"uniform",
"abiding",
"durable",
"lasting",
"permanent",
"persistent",
"dependable",
"reliable",
"sure",
"tried",
"tried-and-true",
"true",
"trustworthy",
"trusty"
],
"antonyms":[
"certain",
"changeless",
"constant",
"immutable",
"invariable",
"predictable",
"settled",
"stable",
"stationary",
"steady",
"unchangeable",
"unchanging",
"unvarying"
]
},
"type":[
"adjective"
]
},
"flubbed":{
"to make or do (something) in a clumsy or unskillful way":{
"examples":[
"added too much flour and flubbed the gravy"
],
"synonyms":[
"blew",
"bobbled",
"boggled",
"bollixed (up)",
"booted",
"botched",
"buggered (up)",
"bumbled",
"bungled",
"butchered",
"dubbed",
"fluffed",
"foozled",
"fouled up",
"fumbled",
"goofed (up)",
"loused up",
"mangled",
"messed (up)",
"mucked up",
"muffed",
"murdered",
"screwed up"
],
"near synonyms":[
"blundered",
"gummed (up)",
"muddled",
"piffled",
"blemished",
"blighted",
"damaged",
"flawed",
"harmed",
"hurt",
"impaired",
"injured",
"marred",
"mutilated",
"ruined",
"spoiled",
"spoilt",
"vitiated",
"destroyed",
"wrecked",
"mishandled",
"mismanaged"
],
"near antonyms":[
"ameliorated",
"bettered",
"enhanced",
"helped",
"improved",
"meliorated",
"rectified",
"refined",
"reformed",
"remedied",
"doctored",
"fixed",
"patched",
"reconditioned",
"renovated",
"repaired",
"revamped"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to make a mistake":{
"examples":[
"at some point in your training you're going to flub , so don't let it rattle you"
],
"synonyms":[
"blundered",
"boobed",
"erred",
"fluffed",
"fouled up",
"fumbled",
"goofed (up)",
"loused up",
"messed (up)",
"screwed up",
"slipped up",
"stumbled",
"tripped"
],
"near synonyms":[
"nodded",
"bobbled",
"botched",
"bungled",
"butchered",
"foozled",
"mangled",
"mishandled",
"muffed",
"murdered",
"miscalculated",
"misconceived",
"miscounted",
"miscued",
"misdeemed",
"misgauged",
"misgaged",
"misjudged",
"mistook",
"misconstrued",
"misinterpreted",
"misunderstood"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"fluently":{
"without difficulty":{
"examples":[
"fluently negotiates even the most challenging slalom courses"
],
"synonyms":[
"easily",
"easy",
"effortlessly",
"facilely",
"freely",
"handily",
"hands down",
"lightly",
"painlessly",
"readily",
"smoothly",
"well"
],
"near synonyms":[
"ably",
"adeptly",
"adroitly",
"competently",
"deftly",
"dexterously",
"efficiently",
"expertly",
"masterfully",
"proficiently",
"skillfully",
"instinctively",
"intuitively",
"naturally",
"spontaneously"
],
"near antonyms":[
"awkwardly",
"clumsily",
"gracelessly",
"ham-handedly",
"ineptly",
"maladroitly",
"unskillfully",
"meticulously",
"painfully",
"painstakingly",
"thoroughly",
"assiduously",
"diligently",
"indefatigably",
"industriously",
"intensely",
"intently",
"mightily",
"sedulously",
"tirelessly"
],
"antonyms":[
"arduously",
"hardly",
"laboriously",
"strenuously"
]
},
"type":[
"adverb"
]
},
"fluorescences":{
"the steady giving off of the form of radiation that makes vision possible":{
"examples":[
"studied the fluorescence of certain elements"
],
"synonyms":[
"blazes",
"flares",
"glares",
"gleams",
"glows",
"illuminations",
"incandescences",
"lights",
"luminescences",
"radiances",
"shines"
],
"near synonyms":[
"flashes",
"glimmers",
"glints",
"glitters",
"scintillations",
"shimmers",
"sparkles",
"twinkles",
"daylights",
"moonlights",
"sunlights",
"sunshines",
"afterglows",
"aureoles",
"aureolae",
"auroras",
"aurorae",
"beams",
"halos",
"haloes",
"rays",
"shafts",
"streaks",
"streams",
"sunbeams",
"glistens",
"glosses",
"lusters",
"lustres",
"polishes",
"reflections",
"sheens"
],
"near antonyms":[
"darks",
"dusks",
"glooms",
"nights",
"shadows"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"fluffiness":{
"as in flimsiness , insubstantiality":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"flimsiness",
"insubstantiality",
"airiness",
"delicacy",
"ethereality",
"etherealness",
"lightness",
"slightness",
"weightlessness"
],
"near antonyms":[
"heaviness",
"heftiness",
"massiveness",
"ponderousness",
"weightiness",
"solidity",
"solidness",
"substantiality"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"flutters":{
"a sudden and usually temporary growth of activity":{
"examples":[
"the site saw a flutter of construction last month, but nothing's happening now"
],
"synonyms":[
"bursts",
"flares",
"flare-ups",
"flashes",
"flickers",
"flurries",
"outbreaks",
"outbursts",
"spurts"
],
"near synonyms":[
"recrudescences",
"recurrences",
"renewals",
"binges",
"jags",
"sprees",
"boosts",
"increases",
"pickups",
"upswings",
"upturns",
"epidemics",
"eruptions",
"explosions",
"paroxysms",
"deluges",
"floods",
"rushes",
"spates",
"surges",
"volleys",
"commotions",
"furors",
"uproars"
],
"near antonyms":[
"calms",
"doldrums",
"slumps"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"a risky undertaking":{
"examples":[
"most people regard the lottery as a harmless flutter"
],
"synonyms":[
"adventures",
"chances",
"crapshoots",
"enterprises",
"fliers",
"flyers",
"gambles",
"speculations",
"throws",
"ventures"
],
"near synonyms":[
"bets",
"hazards",
"stakes",
"wagers",
"liberties",
"dark horses",
"long shots",
"plays"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[
"sure things"
]
},
"to make an irregular series of quick, sudden movements":{
"examples":[
"a lonely butterfly fluttering across the lawn"
],
"synonyms":[
"dances",
"darts",
"flickers",
"flicks",
"flirts",
"flits",
"flitters",
"zips"
],
"near synonyms":[
"dashes",
"flies",
"sails",
"shoots",
"speeds",
"sprints",
"zings",
"zooms",
"scampers",
"scuds",
"scurries",
"scuttles",
"skips",
"skitters",
"meanders",
"rambles",
"roams",
"wanders"
],
"near antonyms":[
"floats",
"hangs",
"hovers"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to move or cause to move with a striking motion":{
"examples":[
"fluttered my eyelashes as I struck up a conversation with the new guy at work"
],
"synonyms":[
"beats",
"flails",
"flaps",
"flops",
"whips"
],
"near synonyms":[
"bangs",
"batters",
"buffets",
"knocks",
"pounds",
"smacks",
"spanks",
"thumps",
"flickers",
"flicks",
"flits",
"fans",
"oscillates",
"sways",
"swings",
"undulates",
"waves",
"palpitates",
"pulses",
"throbs"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun",
"verb"
]
},
"fluster":{
"a state of nervous or irritated concern":{
"examples":[
"all the yelling on the bus put the driver in a fluster"
],
"synonyms":[
"dither",
"fret",
"fuss",
"huff",
"lather",
"pother",
"stew",
"sweat",
"swelter",
"swivet",
"tizzy",
"twitter"
],
"near synonyms":[
"bother",
"dudgeon",
"pique",
"alarm",
"alarum",
"hand-wringing",
"panic",
"ado",
"agitation",
"delirium",
"distraction",
"furor",
"hysteria",
"uproar",
"nervous breakdown"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"the emotional state of being made self-consciously uncomfortable":{
"examples":[
"there was a palpable fluster in the audience when I asked my awkward question"
],
"synonyms":[
"abashment",
"confusion",
"discomfiture",
"disconcertment",
"embarrassment",
"mortification"
],
"near synonyms":[
"agitation",
"bother",
"chagrin",
"discomfort",
"discomposure",
"dismay",
"disquiet",
"distress",
"disturbance",
"perturbation",
"unease",
"uneasiness",
"upset",
"disgrace",
"ignominy",
"shame",
"debasement",
"degradation",
"humiliation",
"humble pie"
],
"near antonyms":[
"aplomb",
"assurance",
"composure",
"confidence",
"coolness",
"equanimity",
"poise",
"self-assurance",
"self-confidence",
"self-possession"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to throw into a state of self-conscious distress":{
"examples":[
"was flustered when her parents dragged out her baby pictures for her new boyfriend"
],
"synonyms":[
"abash",
"confound",
"confuse",
"discomfit",
"disconcert",
"discountenance",
"embarrass",
"faze",
"mortify",
"nonplus",
"rattle"
],
"near synonyms":[
"agitate",
"bother",
"chagrin",
"discomfort",
"discompose",
"dismay",
"disquiet",
"distress",
"disturb",
"perturb",
"put off",
"put out",
"unhinge",
"unsettle",
"upset",
"debase",
"degrade",
"demean",
"humble",
"humiliate",
"queer",
"shame"
],
"near antonyms":[
"calm",
"comfort",
"console",
"relieve",
"soothe",
"buoy",
"cheer",
"embolden",
"encourage",
"hearten",
"assure",
"reassure"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun",
"verb"
]
},
"fluted":{
"as in beveled , chamfered":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"beveled",
"bevelled",
"chamfered",
"abraded",
"filed",
"grazed",
"milled",
"rasped",
"scarified",
"scratched",
"grooved",
"scored",
"scribed",
"seamed"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"flutter":{
"a sudden and usually temporary growth of activity":{
"examples":[
"the site saw a flutter of construction last month, but nothing's happening now"
],
"synonyms":[
"burst",
"flare",
"flare-up",
"flash",
"flicker",
"flurry",
"outbreak",
"outburst",
"spurt"
],
"near synonyms":[
"recrudescence",
"recurrence",
"renewal",
"binge",
"jag",
"spree",
"boost",
"increase",
"pickup",
"upswing",
"upturn",
"epidemic",
"eruption",
"explosion",
"paroxysm",
"deluge",
"flood",
"rush",
"spate",
"surge",
"volley",
"commotion",
"furor",
"uproar"
],
"near antonyms":[
"calm",
"doldrums",
"slump"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"a risky undertaking":{
"examples":[
"most people regard the lottery as a harmless flutter"
],
"synonyms":[
"adventure",
"chance",
"crapshoot",
"enterprise",
"flier",
"flyer",
"gamble",
"speculation",
"throw",
"venture"
],
"near synonyms":[
"bet",
"hazard",
"stake",
"wager",
"liberty",
"dark horse",
"long shot",
"play"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[
"sure thing"
]
},
"to make an irregular series of quick, sudden movements":{
"examples":[
"a lonely butterfly fluttering across the lawn"
],
"synonyms":[
"dance",
"dart",
"flick",
"flicker",
"flirt",
"flit",
"flitter",
"zip"
],
"near synonyms":[
"dash",
"fly",
"sail",
"shoot",
"speed",
"sprint",
"zing",
"zoom",
"scamper",
"scud",
"scurry",
"scuttle",
"skip",
"skitter",
"meander",
"ramble",
"roam",
"wander"
],
"near antonyms":[
"float",
"hang",
"hover"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to move or cause to move with a striking motion":{
"examples":[
"fluttered my eyelashes as I struck up a conversation with the new guy at work"
],
"synonyms":[
"beat",
"flail",
"flap",
"flop",
"whip"
],
"near synonyms":[
"bang",
"batter",
"buffet",
"knock",
"pound",
"smack",
"spank",
"thump",
"flick",
"flicker",
"flit",
"fan",
"oscillate",
"sway",
"swing",
"undulate",
"wave",
"palpitate",
"pulse",
"throb"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun",
"verb"
]
},
"flumes":{
"a narrow opening between hillsides or mountains that can be used for passage":{
"examples":[
"hiked through the flume and into the meadow beyond it"
],
"synonyms":[
"canyons",
"ca\u00f1ons",
"cols",
"couloirs",
"defiles",
"gaps",
"gills",
"gorges",
"gulches",
"gulfs",
"kloofs",
"linns",
"notches",
"passes",
"ravines",
"saddles"
],
"near synonyms":[
"abysses",
"chasms",
"cirques",
"clefts",
"crevasses",
"crevices",
"cwms",
"fissures",
"combes",
"coombes",
"coombs",
"dales",
"dells",
"glens",
"hollows",
"shut-ins",
"vales",
"valleys",
"basins",
"floodplains",
"kettles",
"arroyos",
"barrancas",
"barrancos",
"coulees",
"draws",
"gullies",
"gulleys",
"gutters",
"nullahs",
"trenches",
"troughs",
"wadis",
"washes"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"an open man-made passageway for water":{
"examples":[
"built a flume next to the road for runoff"
],
"synonyms":[
"aqueducts",
"canals",
"channels",
"conduits",
"courses",
"racecourses",
"raceways",
"watercourses",
"waterways"
],
"near synonyms":[
"millraces",
"millstreams",
"floodways",
"sluices",
"sluiceways",
"spillways",
"swashes",
"tideways",
"torrents",
"gutters",
"troughs",
"rivers",
"rivulets",
"streams"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
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},
"fluky":{
"coming or happening by good luck especially unexpectedly":{
"examples":[
"a fluky coincidence that kept me safely at home when the blizzard hit"
],
"synonyms":[
"fortuitous",
"fortunate",
"happy",
"heaven-sent",
"lucky",
"providential"
],
"near synonyms":[
"convenient",
"opportune",
"seasonable",
"timely",
"unexpected",
"unforeseen",
"unlooked-for",
"accidental",
"chance",
"coincidental",
"serendipitous",
"auspicious",
"bright",
"encouraging",
"fair",
"heartening",
"hopeful",
"promising",
"propitious",
"benign",
"favorable",
"golden",
"good",
"halcyon",
"advantageous",
"beneficial",
"profitable"
],
"near antonyms":[
"inconvenient",
"inopportune",
"unseasonable",
"untimely",
"anticipated",
"expected",
"foreseen",
"deliberate",
"intentional",
"planned",
"inauspicious",
"unpromising",
"calamitous",
"catastrophic",
"disastrous"
],
"antonyms":[
"hapless",
"ill-fated",
"ill-starred",
"luckless",
"star-crossed",
"unfortunate",
"unhappy",
"unlucky"
]
},
"happening by chance":{
"examples":[
"the fluky selection of consecutive numbers on consecutive days of the lottery"
],
"synonyms":[
"accidental",
"casual",
"chance",
"fortuitous",
"inadvertent",
"incidental",
"unintended",
"unintentional",
"unplanned",
"unpremeditated",
"unwitting"
],
"near synonyms":[
"coincidental",
"freak",
"odd",
"aimless",
"arbitrary",
"desultory",
"haphazard",
"random",
"uncertain",
"unexpected",
"unforeseeable",
"unforeseen",
"coerced",
"forced",
"involuntary",
"unconscious",
"unprompted"
],
"near antonyms":[
"certain",
"destined",
"expected",
"fixed",
"foreordained",
"foreseeable",
"foreseen",
"inevitable",
"predestined",
"predetermined",
"predictable",
"preordained",
"prescribed",
"sure",
"conscious",
"freewill",
"knowing",
"unforced",
"voluntary",
"volunteer",
"willful",
"wilful"
],
"antonyms":[
"calculated",
"deliberate",
"intended",
"intentional",
"planned",
"premeditated",
"premeditative",
"prepense",
"set"
]
},
"type":[
"adjective"
]
},
"flubbing":{
"to make or do (something) in a clumsy or unskillful way":{
"examples":[
"added too much flour and flubbed the gravy"
],
"synonyms":[
"blowing",
"bobbling",
"boggling",
"bollixing (up)",
"booting",
"botching",
"buggering (up)",
"bumbling",
"bungling",
"butchering",
"dubbing",
"fluffing",
"foozling",
"fouling up",
"fumbling",
"goofing (up)",
"lousing up",
"mangling",
"messing (up)",
"mucking up",
"muffing",
"murdering",
"screwing up"
],
"near synonyms":[
"blundering",
"gumming (up)",
"muddling",
"piffling",
"blemishing",
"blighting",
"damaging",
"flawing",
"harming",
"hurting",
"impairing",
"injuring",
"marring",
"mutilating",
"ruining",
"spoiling",
"vitiating",
"destroying",
"wrecking",
"mishandling",
"mismanaging"
],
"near antonyms":[
"ameliorating",
"bettering",
"enhancing",
"helping",
"improving",
"meliorating",
"rectifying",
"refining",
"reforming",
"remedying",
"doctoring",
"fixing",
"patching",
"reconditioning",
"renovating",
"repairing",
"revamping"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to make a mistake":{
"examples":[
"at some point in your training you're going to flub , so don't let it rattle you"
],
"synonyms":[
"blundering",
"boobing",
"erring",
"fluffing",
"fouling up",
"fumbling",
"goofing (up)",
"lousing up",
"messing (up)",
"screwing up",
"slipping up",
"stumbling",
"tripping"
],
"near synonyms":[
"nodding",
"bobbling",
"botching",
"bungling",
"butchering",
"foozling",
"mangling",
"mishandling",
"muffing",
"murdering",
"miscalculating",
"misconceiving",
"miscounting",
"miscuing",
"misdeeming",
"misgauging",
"misgaging",
"misjudging",
"mistaking",
"misconstruing",
"misinterpreting",
"misunderstanding"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"flunk":{
"to be unsuccessful":{
"examples":[
"the movie flunks , both as entertainment and as a dramatization of a historical incident"
],
"synonyms":[
"bomb",
"collapse",
"crater",
"fail",
"flame out",
"flop",
"fold",
"founder",
"miss",
"strike out",
"tank",
"wash out"
],
"near synonyms":[
"flounder",
"struggle",
"decline",
"sink",
"skid",
"slip",
"slump",
"wane",
"crash",
"crumble",
"miscarry",
"misfire",
"go under",
"implode",
"self-destruct"
],
"near antonyms":[
"cook",
"flourish",
"prosper",
"thrive",
"prevail",
"triumph",
"win"
],
"antonyms":[
"click",
"come off",
"deliver",
"go",
"go over",
"pan out",
"succeed",
"work out"
]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
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},
"fluxing":{
"to go from a solid to a liquid state":{
"examples":[
"a solid will flux more quickly under pressure"
],
"synonyms":[
"deliquescing",
"fusing",
"liquefying",
"liquifying",
"melting",
"running",
"thawing"
],
"near synonyms":[
"founding",
"guttering",
"trying",
"dissolving",
"rendering",
"softening",
"thinning"
],
"near antonyms":[
"clotting",
"coagulating",
"congealing",
"gelling",
"jelling",
"jellying",
"thickening"
],
"antonyms":[
"hardening",
"setting",
"solidifying"
]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"fluorescent lamps":{
"as in light bulbs , arc lamps":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"arc lamps",
"arc lights",
"candelabra",
"candelabrums",
"candelabras",
"candles",
"chandeliers",
"dark lanterns",
"flares",
"flashbulbs",
"flashcubes",
"flashes",
"flashlights",
"floodlights",
"gaslights",
"gasoliers",
"girandoles",
"headlights",
"incandescent lamps",
"klieg lights",
"kleig lights",
"lanterns",
"light bulbs",
"lighthouses",
"lightings",
"sconces",
"spotlights",
"streetlights",
"sun lamps",
"beacons",
"illuminants",
"lamps"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"flushing":{
"to pour liquid over or through in order to cleanse":{
"examples":[
"use this cleaner to flush the drain in the sink"
],
"synonyms":[
"irrigating",
"rinsing",
"sluicing",
"washing",
"washing out"
],
"near synonyms":[
"deluging",
"engulfing",
"flooding",
"inundating",
"swamping",
"flowing",
"gushing",
"rushing",
"streaming",
"douching",
"hosing",
"drenching",
"saturating",
"soaking",
"dousing",
"dowsing",
"sloshing",
"splashing"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to develop a rosy facial color (as from excitement or embarrassment)":{
"examples":[
"he flushed deeply upon hearing the compliment"
],
"synonyms":[
"blooming",
"blushing",
"coloring",
"crimsoning",
"glowing",
"reddening"
],
"near synonyms":[
"incarnadining",
"rouging",
"ruddling",
"abashing",
"chagrining",
"discomfiting",
"disconcerting",
"embarrassing",
"fazing",
"humiliating",
"mortifying"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"fluctuation":{
"the frequent and usually sudden passing from one condition to another":{
"examples":[
"political instability that resulted in wild fluctuations in the overseas stock markets"
],
"synonyms":[
"change",
"flux",
"inconstancy",
"oscillation"
],
"near synonyms":[
"metamorphosis",
"mutation",
"transformation",
"transmogrification",
"transmutation",
"vacillation",
"wavering"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"fluting":{
"as in beveling , chamfering":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"beveling",
"bevelling",
"chamfering",
"abrading",
"filing",
"grazing",
"milling",
"rasping",
"scarifying",
"scratching",
"grooving",
"scoring",
"scribing",
"seaming"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"flutists":{
"as in pianists , violinists":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"accordionists",
"bassoonists",
"clarinetists",
"clarinettists",
"cornetists",
"cornettists",
"drummers",
"fiddlers",
"flautists",
"guitarists",
"harpists",
"hornists",
"keyboardists",
"oboists",
"organ-grinders",
"organists",
"percussionists",
"pianists",
"pickers",
"pipers",
"reedmen",
"saxophonists",
"trombonists",
"trumpeters",
"violinists",
"violists",
"accompanists",
"recitalists",
"soloists",
"symphonists",
"maestros",
"maestri",
"virtuosos",
"virtuosi",
"artists",
"performers",
"minstrels",
"instrumentalists",
"musicians",
"players"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"flumping":{
"to throw or set down clumsily or casually":{
"examples":[
"for now, just flump the rug on the floor\u2014we'll unroll it later"
],
"synonyms":[
"flopping",
"planking",
"plopping",
"plumping",
"plunking",
"plonking"
],
"near synonyms":[
"flinging",
"heaving",
"slinging",
"tossing",
"ensconcing",
"installing",
"planting",
"settling"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"flunking":{
"as in failing , collapsing":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"collapsing",
"failing",
"flopping",
"folding",
"washing-out",
"futureless",
"hopeless",
"inauspicious",
"no-good",
"unpromising",
"declining",
"slipping",
"slumping",
"waning",
"failed",
"unsuccessful",
"bankrupt",
"kaput",
"kaputt",
"kerflooey",
"destroyed",
"ruined",
"wrecked"
],
"near antonyms":[
"flourishing",
"going",
"palmy",
"prosperous",
"successful",
"thriving",
"triumphant",
"coming",
"promising",
"booming",
"growing",
"roaring",
"robust"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to be unsuccessful":{
"examples":[
"the movie flunks , both as entertainment and as a dramatization of a historical incident"
],
"synonyms":[
"bombing",
"collapsing",
"cratering",
"failing",
"flaming out",
"flopping",
"folding",
"foundering",
"missing",
"striking out",
"tanking",
"washing out"
],
"near synonyms":[
"floundering",
"struggling",
"declining",
"sinking",
"skidding",
"slipping",
"slumping",
"waning",
"crashing",
"crumbling",
"miscarrying",
"misfiring",
"going under",
"imploding",
"self-destructing"
],
"near antonyms":[
"cooking",
"flourishing",
"prospering",
"thriving",
"prevailing",
"triumphing",
"winning"
],
"antonyms":[
"clicking",
"coming off",
"delivering",
"going",
"going over",
"panning out",
"succeeding",
"working out"
]
},
"type":[
"adjective",
"verb"
]
},
"fluent":{
"able to express oneself clearly and well":{
"examples":[
"a very fluent speaker who always communicates his points well"
],
"synonyms":[
"articulate",
"eloquent",
"silver-tongued",
"well-spoken"
],
"near synonyms":[
"facile",
"glib",
"smooth-tongued",
"voluble",
"expressive",
"outspoken",
"verbal",
"vocal",
"blabby",
"chatty",
"garrulous",
"loquacious",
"talkative",
"verbose",
"unfaltering",
"unhesitating"
],
"near antonyms":[
"faltering",
"halting",
"hesitant",
"maundering",
"mumbling",
"muttering",
"sputtering",
"stammering",
"stumbling",
"stuttering",
"mute",
"speechless",
"tongueless",
"tongue-tied",
"voiceless"
],
"antonyms":[
"inarticulate",
"ineloquent",
"unvocal"
]
},
"capable of moving like a liquid":{
"examples":[
"heated the wax until it was fluent , then poured it into the mold"
],
"synonyms":[
"flowing",
"fluid",
"liquid"
],
"near synonyms":[
"circumfluent",
"circumfluous",
"diluted",
"thin",
"watery",
"weak",
"semiliquid",
"semisolid"
],
"near antonyms":[
"clotted",
"coagulated",
"gelatinous",
"gelled",
"jelled",
"jellied",
"thick",
"gluey",
"glutinous",
"gooey",
"gummy",
"viscous"
],
"antonyms":[
"hard",
"nonliquid",
"solid"
]
},
"involving minimal difficulty or effort":{
"examples":[
"a fluent performance of one of the oldest magic tricks in the book"
],
"synonyms":[
"cheap",
"downhill",
"easy",
"effortless",
"facile",
"fluid",
"hands-down",
"light",
"painless",
"ready",
"royal",
"simple",
"smooth",
"snap",
"soft"
],
"near synonyms":[
"idiotproof",
"mindless",
"quick",
"straightforward",
"unchallenging",
"uncomplicated",
"apparent",
"clear",
"clear-cut",
"distinct",
"evident",
"manifest",
"obvious",
"open-and-shut",
"palpable",
"patent",
"perspicuous",
"plain",
"transparent",
"unambiguous",
"unequivocal",
"unmistakable"
],
"near antonyms":[
"burdensome",
"exhausting",
"onerous",
"oppressive",
"painful",
"stressful",
"taxing",
"troublesome",
"abstruse",
"complex",
"complicated",
"intricate",
"involved",
"knotty",
"problematic",
"problematical",
"recondite"
],
"antonyms":[
"arduous",
"demanding",
"difficult",
"exacting",
"formidable",
"grueling",
"gruelling",
"hard",
"herculean",
"killer",
"labored",
"laborious",
"murderous",
"rough",
"severe",
"stiff",
"strenuous",
"toilful",
"toilsome",
"tough"
]
},
"type":[
"adjective"
]
},
"fluff":{
"a soft airy substance or covering":{
"examples":[
"self-consciously picked the fluff off his sweater as he answered the officer's questions"
],
"synonyms":[
"down",
"floss",
"fur",
"fuzz",
"lint",
"nap",
"pile"
],
"near synonyms":[
"batting"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"an unintentional departure from truth or accuracy":{
"examples":[
"the flustered newscaster's fluffs included a mispronunciation of the town's name"
],
"synonyms":[
"blunder",
"bobble",
"boo-boo",
"boob",
"brick",
"clanger",
"clinker",
"error",
"fault",
"flub",
"fumble",
"gaff",
"gaffe",
"goof",
"inaccuracy",
"lapse",
"miscue",
"misstep",
"mistake",
"oversight",
"screwup",
"slip",
"slipup",
"stumble",
"trip"
],
"near synonyms":[
"bloomer",
"blooper",
"boner",
"howler",
"pratfall",
"foul-up",
"snafu",
"misapprehension",
"miscalculation",
"miscomprehension",
"misconception",
"misconstruction",
"misdescription",
"misimpression",
"misinterpretation",
"misjudgment",
"misreading",
"misstatement",
"misunderstanding"
],
"near antonyms":[
"accuracy",
"correctness",
"exactitude",
"exactness",
"preciseness",
"precision",
"strictness",
"inerrancy",
"infallibility",
"perfection"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to make a mistake":{
"examples":[
"unnerved by her earlier missteps, the skater fluffed on the final jump as well"
],
"synonyms":[
"blunder",
"boob",
"err",
"flub",
"foul up",
"fumble",
"goof (up)",
"louse up",
"mess (up)",
"screw up",
"slip up",
"stumble",
"trip"
],
"near synonyms":[
"nod",
"bobble",
"botch",
"bungle",
"butcher",
"foozle",
"mangle",
"mishandle",
"muff",
"murder",
"miscalculate",
"misconceive",
"miscount",
"miscue",
"misdeem",
"misgauge",
"misjudge",
"mistake",
"misconstrue",
"misinterpret",
"misunderstand"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to make or do (something) in a clumsy or unskillful way":{
"examples":[
"I completely fluffed the introduction by calling the boss's wife by the wrong name"
],
"synonyms":[
"blow",
"bobble",
"boggle",
"bollix (up)",
"boot",
"botch",
"bugger (up)",
"bumble",
"bungle",
"butcher",
"dub",
"flub",
"foozle",
"foul up",
"fumble",
"goof (up)",
"louse up",
"mangle",
"mess (up)",
"muck up",
"muff",
"murder",
"screw up"
],
"near synonyms":[
"blunder",
"gum (up)",
"muddle",
"piffle",
"blemish",
"blight",
"damage",
"flaw",
"harm",
"hurt",
"impair",
"injure",
"mar",
"mutilate",
"ruin",
"spoil",
"vitiate",
"destroy",
"wreck",
"mishandle",
"mismanage"
],
"near antonyms":[
"ameliorate",
"better",
"enhance",
"help",
"improve",
"meliorate",
"rectify",
"refine",
"reform",
"remedy",
"doctor",
"fix",
"patch",
"recondition",
"renovate",
"repair",
"revamp"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun",
"verb"
]
},
"fluencies":{
"a state of having mastery of or proficiency in a skill":{
"examples":[
"The students demonstrated fluency in the language by the end of their year abroad."
],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"literacies",
"virtuosities",
"commands",
"IQs",
"masteries",
"masterships",
"proficiencies",
"facilities",
"hangs",
"experiences",
"expertises",
"know-hows",
"practices",
"practises",
"skills",
"acquaintances",
"familiarities",
"intimacies"
],
"near antonyms":[
"incompetences",
"incompetencies",
"ignorances",
"illiteracies",
"unfamiliarities"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"flume":{
"a narrow opening between hillsides or mountains that can be used for passage":{
"examples":[
"hiked through the flume and into the meadow beyond it"
],
"synonyms":[
"canyon",
"ca\u00f1on",
"col",
"couloir",
"defile",
"gap",
"gill",
"gorge",
"gulch",
"gulf",
"kloof",
"linn",
"notch",
"pass",
"ravine",
"saddle"
],
"near synonyms":[
"abyss",
"chasm",
"cirque",
"cleft",
"crevasse",
"crevice",
"cwm",
"fissure",
"combe",
"coombe",
"coomb",
"dale",
"dell",
"glen",
"hollow",
"shut-in",
"vale",
"valley",
"basin",
"floodplain",
"kettle",
"arroyo",
"barranca",
"barranco",
"coulee",
"draw",
"gully",
"gulley",
"gutter",
"nullah",
"trench",
"trough",
"wadi",
"wash"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"an open man-made passageway for water":{
"examples":[
"built a flume next to the road for runoff"
],
"synonyms":[
"aqueduct",
"canal",
"channel",
"conduit",
"course",
"racecourse",
"raceway",
"watercourse",
"waterway"
],
"near synonyms":[
"millrace",
"millstream",
"floodway",
"sluice",
"sluiceway",
"spillway",
"swash",
"tideway",
"torrent",
"gutter",
"trough",
"river",
"rivulet",
"stream"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"flukey":{
"coming or happening by good luck especially unexpectedly":{
"examples":[
"a fluky coincidence that kept me safely at home when the blizzard hit"
],
"synonyms":[
"fortuitous",
"fortunate",
"happy",
"heaven-sent",
"lucky",
"providential"
],
"near synonyms":[
"convenient",
"opportune",
"seasonable",
"timely",
"unexpected",
"unforeseen",
"unlooked-for",
"accidental",
"chance",
"coincidental",
"serendipitous",
"auspicious",
"bright",
"encouraging",
"fair",
"heartening",
"hopeful",
"promising",
"propitious",
"benign",
"favorable",
"golden",
"good",
"halcyon",
"advantageous",
"beneficial",
"profitable"
],
"near antonyms":[
"inconvenient",
"inopportune",
"unseasonable",
"untimely",
"anticipated",
"expected",
"foreseen",
"deliberate",
"intentional",
"planned",
"inauspicious",
"unpromising",
"calamitous",
"catastrophic",
"disastrous"
],
"antonyms":[
"hapless",
"ill-fated",
"ill-starred",
"luckless",
"star-crossed",
"unfortunate",
"unhappy",
"unlucky"
]
},
"happening by chance":{
"examples":[
"the fluky selection of consecutive numbers on consecutive days of the lottery"
],
"synonyms":[
"accidental",
"casual",
"chance",
"fortuitous",
"inadvertent",
"incidental",
"unintended",
"unintentional",
"unplanned",
"unpremeditated",
"unwitting"
],
"near synonyms":[
"coincidental",
"freak",
"odd",
"aimless",
"arbitrary",
"desultory",
"haphazard",
"random",
"uncertain",
"unexpected",
"unforeseeable",
"unforeseen",
"coerced",
"forced",
"involuntary",
"unconscious",
"unprompted"
],
"near antonyms":[
"certain",
"destined",
"expected",
"fixed",
"foreordained",
"foreseeable",
"foreseen",
"inevitable",
"predestined",
"predetermined",
"predictable",
"preordained",
"prescribed",
"sure",
"conscious",
"freewill",
"knowing",
"unforced",
"voluntary",
"volunteer",
"willful",
"wilful"
],
"antonyms":[
"calculated",
"deliberate",
"intended",
"intentional",
"planned",
"premeditated",
"premeditative",
"prepense",
"set"
]
},
"type":[
"adjective"
]
},
"flubs":{
"an unintentional departure from truth or accuracy":{
"examples":[
"when she was told her information was wrong, she apologized for the flub and immediately corrected it"
],
"synonyms":[
"blunders",
"bobbles",
"boo-boos",
"boobs",
"bricks",
"clangers",
"clinkers",
"errors",
"faults",
"fluffs",
"fumbles",
"gaffes",
"gaffs",
"goofs",
"inaccuracies",
"lapses",
"miscues",
"missteps",
"mistakes",
"oversights",
"screwups",
"slips",
"slipups",
"stumbles",
"trips"
],
"near synonyms":[
"bloomers",
"bloopers",
"boners",
"howlers",
"pratfalls",
"foul-ups",
"snafus",
"misapprehensions",
"miscalculations",
"miscomprehensions",
"misconceptions",
"misconstructions",
"misdescriptions",
"misimpressions",
"misinterpretations",
"misjudgments",
"misreadings",
"misstatements",
"misunderstandings"
],
"near antonyms":[
"accuracies",
"exactitudes",
"precisions",
"inerrancies",
"infallibilities",
"perfections"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to make or do (something) in a clumsy or unskillful way":{
"examples":[
"added too much flour and flubbed the gravy"
],
"synonyms":[
"blows",
"bobbles",
"boggles",
"bollixes (up)",
"boots",
"botches",
"buggers (up)",
"bumbles",
"bungles",
"butchers",
"dubs",
"fluffs",
"foozles",
"fouls up",
"fumbles",
"goofs (up)",
"louses up",
"mangles",
"messes (up)",
"mucks up",
"muffs",
"murders",
"screws up"
],
"near synonyms":[
"blunders",
"gums (up)",
"muddles",
"piffles",
"blemishes",
"blights",
"damages",
"flaws",
"harms",
"hurts",
"impairs",
"injures",
"mars",
"mutilates",
"ruins",
"spoils",
"vitiates",
"destroys",
"wrecks",
"mishandles",
"mismanages"
],
"near antonyms":[
"ameliorates",
"betters",
"enhances",
"helps",
"improves",
"meliorates",
"rectifies",
"refines",
"reforms",
"remedies",
"doctors",
"fixes",
"patches",
"reconditions",
"renovates",
"repairs",
"revamps"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to make a mistake":{
"examples":[
"at some point in your training you're going to flub , so don't let it rattle you"
],
"synonyms":[
"blunders",
"boobs",
"errs",
"fluffs",
"fouls up",
"fumbles",
"goofs (up)",
"louses up",
"messes (up)",
"screws up",
"slips up",
"stumbles",
"trips"
],
"near synonyms":[
"nods",
"bobbles",
"botches",
"bungles",
"butchers",
"foozles",
"mangles",
"mishandles",
"muffs",
"murders",
"miscalculates",
"misconceives",
"miscounts",
"miscues",
"misdeems",
"misgauges",
"misjudges",
"mistakes",
"misconstrues",
"misinterprets",
"misunderstands"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun",
"verb"
]
},
"flues":{
"as in chimneys , smokestacks":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"chimneys",
"chimney stacks",
"smokestacks",
"channels",
"conduits",
"ducts",
"leaders",
"lines",
"penstocks",
"pipes",
"troughs",
"tubes",
"drainpipes",
"drains",
"funnels",
"hydrants",
"mains",
"spouts",
"standpipes",
"stovepipes",
"tiles",
"waste pipes",
"waterspouts",
"pipages",
"pipeages",
"pipelines",
"pipings"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"fluffing":{
"to make a mistake":{
"examples":[
"unnerved by her earlier missteps, the skater fluffed on the final jump as well"
],
"synonyms":[
"blundering",
"boobing",
"erring",
"flubbing",
"fouling up",
"fumbling",
"goofing (up)",
"lousing up",
"messing (up)",
"screwing up",
"slipping up",
"stumbling",
"tripping"
],
"near synonyms":[
"nodding",
"bobbling",
"botching",
"bungling",
"butchering",
"foozling",
"mangling",
"mishandling",
"muffing",
"murdering",
"miscalculating",
"misconceiving",
"miscounting",
"miscuing",
"misdeeming",
"misgauging",
"misgaging",
"misjudging",
"mistaking",
"misconstruing",
"misinterpreting",
"misunderstanding"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to make or do (something) in a clumsy or unskillful way":{
"examples":[
"I completely fluffed the introduction by calling the boss's wife by the wrong name"
],
"synonyms":[
"blowing",
"bobbling",
"boggling",
"bollixing (up)",
"booting",
"botching",
"buggering (up)",
"bumbling",
"bungling",
"butchering",
"dubbing",
"flubbing",
"foozling",
"fouling up",
"fumbling",
"goofing (up)",
"lousing up",
"mangling",
"messing (up)",
"mucking up",
"muffing",
"murdering",
"screwing up"
],
"near synonyms":[
"blundering",
"gumming (up)",
"muddling",
"piffling",
"blemishing",
"blighting",
"damaging",
"flawing",
"harming",
"hurting",
"impairing",
"injuring",
"marring",
"mutilating",
"ruining",
"spoiling",
"vitiating",
"destroying",
"wrecking",
"mishandling",
"mismanaging"
],
"near antonyms":[
"ameliorating",
"bettering",
"enhancing",
"helping",
"improving",
"meliorating",
"rectifying",
"refining",
"reforming",
"remedying",
"doctoring",
"fixing",
"patching",
"reconditioning",
"renovating",
"repairing",
"revamping"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"flusters":{
"a state of nervous or irritated concern":{
"examples":[
"all the yelling on the bus put the driver in a fluster"
],
"synonyms":[
"dithers",
"frets",
"fusses",
"huffs",
"lathers",
"pothers",
"stews",
"sweats",
"swelters",
"swivets",
"tizzies",
"twitters"
],
"near synonyms":[
"bothers",
"dudgeons",
"piques",
"alarms",
"alarums",
"hand-wringings",
"panics",
"ados",
"agitations",
"deliriums",
"distractions",
"furors",
"hysterias",
"uproars",
"nervous breakdowns"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"the emotional state of being made self-consciously uncomfortable":{
"examples":[
"there was a palpable fluster in the audience when I asked my awkward question"
],
"synonyms":[
"abashments",
"confusions",
"discomfitures",
"disconcertments",
"embarrassments",
"mortifications"
],
"near synonyms":[
"agitations",
"bothers",
"chagrins",
"discomforts",
"discomposures",
"dismays",
"disquiets",
"distresses",
"disturbances",
"perturbations",
"upsets",
"disgraces",
"ignominies",
"shames",
"debasements",
"degradations",
"humiliations",
"humble pies"
],
"near antonyms":[
"aplombs",
"assurances",
"composures",
"confidences",
"equanimities",
"poises",
"self-confidences",
"self-possessions"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to throw into a state of self-conscious distress":{
"examples":[
"was flustered when her parents dragged out her baby pictures for her new boyfriend"
],
"synonyms":[
"abashes",
"confounds",
"confuses",
"discomfits",
"disconcerts",
"discountenances",
"embarrasses",
"fazes",
"mortifies",
"nonpluses",
"nonplusses",
"rattles"
],
"near synonyms":[
"agitates",
"bothers",
"chagrins",
"discomforts",
"discomposes",
"dismays",
"disquiets",
"distresses",
"disturbs",
"perturbs",
"puts off",
"puts out",
"unhinges",
"unsettles",
"upsets",
"debases",
"degrades",
"demeans",
"humbles",
"humiliates",
"queers",
"shames"
],
"near antonyms":[
"calms",
"comforts",
"consoles",
"relieves",
"soothes",
"buoys",
"cheers",
"emboldens",
"encourages",
"heartens",
"assures",
"reassures"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun",
"verb"
]
},
"flunked":{
"to be unsuccessful":{
"examples":[
"the movie flunks , both as entertainment and as a dramatization of a historical incident"
],
"synonyms":[
"bombed",
"collapsed",
"cratered",
"failed",
"flamed out",
"flopped",
"folded",
"foundered",
"missed",
"struck out",
"tanked",
"washed out"
],
"near synonyms":[
"floundered",
"struggled",
"declined",
"sank",
"sunk",
"skidded",
"slipped",
"slumped",
"waned",
"crashed",
"crumbled",
"miscarried",
"misfired",
"went under",
"imploded",
"self-destructed"
],
"near antonyms":[
"cooked",
"flourished",
"prospered",
"thrived",
"throve",
"prevailed",
"triumphed",
"won"
],
"antonyms":[
"came off",
"clicked",
"delivered",
"panned out",
"succeeded",
"went",
"went over",
"worked out"
]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"flushes":{
"a state or time of great activity, thriving, or achievement":{
"examples":[
"was in the flush of his youth"
],
"synonyms":[
"blooms",
"blossoms",
"florescences",
"floruits",
"flowers",
"heydays",
"high noons",
"primes",
"salad days",
"springtimes"
],
"near synonyms":[
"autumns",
"Indian summers",
"efflorescences",
"flowerings",
"acmes",
"apexes",
"apices",
"climaxes",
"meridians",
"peaks",
"pinnacles",
"summits",
"zeniths",
"glories",
"grandeurs",
"splendors",
"belle epoques",
"belles \u00e9poques",
"golden ages",
"silver ages",
"comebacks",
"recoveries",
"revivals"
],
"near antonyms":[
"decays",
"declines",
"downfalls",
"bottoms",
"nadirs"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"a sudden intense expression of strong feeling":{
"examples":[
"a flush of patriotic pride"
],
"synonyms":[
"agonies",
"blazes",
"bursts",
"ebullitions",
"eruptions",
"explosions",
"fits",
"flares",
"flare-ups",
"flashes",
"gales",
"gushes",
"gusts",
"outbursts",
"paroxysms",
"spasms",
"storms"
],
"near synonyms":[
"blowups",
"grouches",
"rages",
"tantrums",
"ecstasies",
"raptures",
"transports",
"deliriums",
"firestorms",
"frenzies",
"furors"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to pour liquid over or through in order to cleanse":{
"examples":[
"use this cleaner to flush the drain in the sink"
],
"synonyms":[
"irrigates",
"rinses",
"sluices",
"washes",
"washes out"
],
"near synonyms":[
"deluges",
"engulfs",
"floods",
"inundates",
"swamps",
"flows",
"gushes",
"rushes",
"streams",
"douches",
"hoses",
"drenches",
"saturates",
"soaks",
"douses",
"dowses",
"sloshes",
"splashes"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to develop a rosy facial color (as from excitement or embarrassment)":{
"examples":[
"he flushed deeply upon hearing the compliment"
],
"synonyms":[
"blooms",
"blushes",
"colors",
"crimsons",
"glows",
"reddens"
],
"near synonyms":[
"incarnadines",
"rouges",
"ruddles",
"abashes",
"chagrins",
"discomfits",
"disconcerts",
"embarrasses",
"fazes",
"humiliates",
"mortifies"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun",
"verb"
]
},
"flutist":{
"as in pianist , violinist":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"accordionist",
"bassoonist",
"clarinetist",
"clarinettist",
"cornetist",
"cornettist",
"drummer",
"fiddler",
"flautist",
"guitarist",
"harpist",
"hornist",
"keyboardist",
"oboist",
"organ-grinder",
"organist",
"percussionist",
"pianist",
"picker",
"piper",
"reedman",
"saxophonist",
"trombonist",
"trumpeter",
"violinist",
"violist",
"accompanist",
"recitalist",
"soloist",
"symphonist",
"maestro",
"virtuoso",
"artist",
"performer",
"minstrel",
"instrumentalist",
"musician",
"player"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
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}
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