dict_dl/en_MW_thesaurus/ed_mwt.json

{
  "eddy":{
    "a circular movement of air or water":{
      "antonyms":[],
      "examples":[
        "The boat was caught in a powerful eddy ."
      ],
      "near antonyms":[],
      "related":[],
      "synonyms":[]
    },
    "as in swirl , purl":{
      "antonyms":[],
      "examples":[],
      "near antonyms":[],
      "related":[],
      "synonyms":[]
    },
    "type":[
      "noun",
      "verb"
    ]
  },
  "edge":{
    "a harsh or sharp quality":{
      "antonyms":[
        "mildness",
        "softness"
      ],
      "examples":[
        "the teacher's voice had a sarcastic edge as she welcomed the tardy student to class"
      ],
      "near antonyms":[
        "gentleness",
        "kindliness"
      ],
      "related":[
        "ginger",
        "punch",
        "spice",
        "tang",
        "raucousness",
        "severeness",
        "severity",
        "shrillness",
        "virulence",
        "vitriol",
        "cattiness",
        "maliciousness",
        "pointedness",
        "thorniness"
      ],
      "synonyms":[
        "acerbity",
        "acidity",
        "acidness",
        "acridity",
        "acridness",
        "acrimoniousness",
        "acrimony",
        "acuteness",
        "asperity",
        "bite",
        "bitterness",
        "harshness",
        "keenness",
        "poignance",
        "poignancy",
        "pungency",
        "roughness",
        "sharpness",
        "tartness"
      ]
    },
    "an interval of time just before the onset of something":{
      "antonyms":[],
      "examples":[
        "the nation's economy was on the edge of collapse when the Federal Reserve took exceptionally bold action"
      ],
      "near antonyms":[],
      "related":[
        "nick"
      ],
      "synonyms":[
        "brink",
        "cusp",
        "point",
        "threshold",
        "verge"
      ]
    },
    "the line or relatively narrow space that marks the outer limit of something":{
      "antonyms":[],
      "examples":[
        "the design along the edge of the plate is badly worn"
      ],
      "near antonyms":[
        "center",
        "core",
        "heart",
        "inner",
        "inside",
        "interior",
        "middle",
        "within"
      ],
      "related":[
        "ambit",
        "brink",
        "crest",
        "curb",
        "cusp",
        "lip",
        "ceiling",
        "maximum",
        "demarcation",
        "extent",
        "limitation",
        "measure",
        "mere",
        "restriction",
        "termination",
        "borderland",
        "frontier",
        "march",
        "outskirts",
        "pale",
        "selvage",
        "lap",
        "shore"
      ],
      "synonyms":[
        "border",
        "borderline",
        "bound",
        "boundary",
        "brim",
        "circumference",
        "compass",
        "confines",
        "edging",
        "end",
        "frame",
        "fringe",
        "hem",
        "margin",
        "perimeter",
        "periphery",
        "rim",
        "skirt",
        "skirting",
        "verge"
      ]
    },
    "the more favorable condition or position in a competition":{
      "antonyms":[
        "disadvantage",
        "drawback",
        "handicap",
        "liability",
        "minus",
        "penalty",
        "strike"
      ],
      "examples":[
        "my big feet give me something of an edge in swimming"
      ],
      "near antonyms":[
        "detriment",
        "stranglehold",
        "disparity",
        "imbalance",
        "inequality",
        "unevenness",
        "disability",
        "failing",
        "impairment",
        "shortcoming",
        "bar",
        "catch",
        "check",
        "clog",
        "crimp",
        "embarrassment",
        "hindrance",
        "hitch",
        "hurdle",
        "impediment",
        "interference",
        "let",
        "manacle",
        "obstacle",
        "obstruction",
        "rub",
        "shackle",
        "stop",
        "trammel",
        "lurch",
        "setback"
      ],
      "related":[
        "allowance",
        "head start",
        "lead",
        "leg up",
        "margin",
        "odds",
        "start",
        "ascendancy",
        "ascendency",
        "command",
        "dominance",
        "mastery",
        "predominance",
        "superiority",
        "supremacy",
        "transcendence",
        "transcendency",
        "precedence",
        "preference",
        "prerogative",
        "privilege",
        "seniority",
        "break",
        "foothold",
        "opportunity",
        "benefit",
        "blessing",
        "boon",
        "felicity",
        "godsend",
        "manna",
        "windfall"
      ],
      "synonyms":[
        "advantage",
        "better",
        "bulge",
        "catbird seat",
        "drop",
        "high ground",
        "inside track",
        "jump",
        "pull",
        "stead",
        "upper hand",
        "vantage",
        "whip hand"
      ]
    },
    "the power to produce a desired result":{
      "antonyms":[
        "ineffectiveness",
        "ineffectuality",
        "ineffectualness",
        "inefficiency"
      ],
      "examples":[
        "the utter lack of enforcement provisions totally blunts the edge of the law"
      ],
      "near antonyms":[
        "inability",
        "inadequacy",
        "inadequateness",
        "incompetence",
        "incompetency"
      ],
      "related":[
        "ability",
        "capability",
        "capacity",
        "potency",
        "puissance",
        "strength"
      ],
      "synonyms":[
        "effectiveness",
        "effectualness",
        "efficaciousness",
        "efficacity",
        "efficacy",
        "efficiency",
        "productiveness"
      ]
    },
    "to make sharp or sharper":{
      "antonyms":[
        "blunt",
        "dull"
      ],
      "examples":[
        "if you edge the tip of that stick, it should be a fine skewer for roasting marshmallows"
      ],
      "near antonyms":[
        "buff",
        "burnish",
        "gloss",
        "polish",
        "round",
        "smooth"
      ],
      "related":[
        "file"
      ],
      "synonyms":[
        "grind",
        "hone",
        "sharpen",
        "stone",
        "strop",
        "whet"
      ]
    },
    "to serve as a border for":{
      "antonyms":[],
      "examples":[
        "pavement edging the flower bed"
      ],
      "near antonyms":[],
      "related":[
        "hem",
        "trim",
        "circumscribe",
        "define",
        "delineate",
        "demarcate",
        "outline",
        "silhouette",
        "sketch",
        "trace",
        "circle",
        "compass",
        "encircle",
        "enclose",
        "inclose",
        "environ",
        "girdle",
        "girth",
        "loop",
        "ring",
        "round",
        "surround",
        "wall",
        "check",
        "confine",
        "control",
        "curb",
        "limit",
        "restrain",
        "restrict"
      ],
      "synonyms":[
        "border",
        "bound",
        "frame",
        "fringe",
        "margin",
        "rim",
        "skirt"
      ]
    },
    "type":[
      "noun",
      "verb"
    ]
  },
  "edge in":{
    "to put among or between others":{
      "antonyms":[],
      "examples":[
        "although she likes to profess journalistic impartiality when covering a story, she seldom refrains from edging in her personal observations"
      ],
      "near antonyms":[
        "eject",
        "eliminate",
        "exclude",
        "expel",
        "extract",
        "withdraw",
        "deduct",
        "detach",
        "subtract",
        "reject"
      ],
      "related":[
        "cut in",
        "inlay",
        "inset",
        "install",
        "interfile",
        "interline",
        "lard",
        "weave",
        "cram",
        "shove",
        "thrust",
        "wedge",
        "add",
        "append",
        "attach"
      ],
      "synonyms":[
        "fit (in or into)",
        "inject",
        "insert",
        "insinuate",
        "intercalate",
        "interject",
        "interpolate",
        "interpose",
        "intersperse",
        "introduce",
        "sandwich (in or between)",
        "work in"
      ]
    },
    "type":[
      "verb"
    ]
  },
  "edged (out)":{
    "as in nosed out , pipped":{
      "antonyms":[],
      "examples":[],
      "near antonyms":[],
      "related":[],
      "synonyms":[]
    },
    "type":[
      "verb"
    ]
  },
  "edging (out)":{
    "as in nosing out , pipping":{
      "antonyms":[],
      "examples":[],
      "near antonyms":[],
      "related":[],
      "synonyms":[]
    },
    "type":[
      "verb"
    ]
  },
  "edgy":{
    "feeling or showing uncomfortable feelings of uncertainty":{
      "antonyms":[
        "calm",
        "collected",
        "cool",
        "easy",
        "happy-go-lucky",
        "nerveless",
        "relaxed"
      ],
      "examples":[
        "with an edgy voice the spelling-bee contestant started to spell the tongue twister"
      ],
      "near antonyms":[
        "confident",
        "self-assured",
        "self-confident",
        "sure",
        "controlled",
        "self-controlled"
      ],
      "related":[
        "aggrieved",
        "bothered",
        "concerned",
        "disquieted",
        "distraught",
        "distressed",
        "disturbed",
        "freaked",
        "freaked-out",
        "shook-up",
        "apprehensive",
        "foreboding",
        "hesitant",
        "misgiving",
        "fretful",
        "fretting",
        "stewing",
        "vexed",
        "qualmish",
        "qualmy",
        "flustered",
        "twittered",
        "undone",
        "unnerved",
        "unstrung",
        "obsessed",
        "preoccupied",
        "restless",
        "fidgety",
        "flighty",
        "fluttery",
        "high-strung",
        "hypertense",
        "skittish",
        "spooky"
      ],
      "synonyms":[
        "aflutter",
        "antsy",
        "anxious",
        "atwitter",
        "dithery",
        "goosey",
        "het up",
        "hinky",
        "hung up",
        "ill at ease",
        "insecure",
        "jittery",
        "jumpy",
        "nervous",
        "nervy",
        "perturbed",
        "queasy",
        "queazy",
        "tense",
        "troubled",
        "uneasy",
        "unquiet",
        "upset",
        "uptight",
        "worried"
      ]
    },
    "having an edge thin enough to cut or pierce something":{
      "antonyms":[
        "blunt",
        "blunted",
        "dull",
        "dulled",
        "obtuse"
      ],
      "examples":[
        "be careful as you walk along the beach\u2014those broken clam shells are edgy enough to cut your feet"
      ],
      "near antonyms":[
        "rounded",
        "smooth",
        "soft",
        "even",
        "flat",
        "level",
        "slick"
      ],
      "related":[
        "clawlike",
        "daggerlike",
        "knifelike",
        "jabbing",
        "jagged",
        "lacerating",
        "piercing",
        "scratching",
        "stabbing",
        "pointed",
        "pointy",
        "spiky",
        "spikey"
      ],
      "synonyms":[
        "cutting",
        "edged",
        "ground",
        "honed",
        "keen",
        "sharp",
        "sharpened",
        "stropped",
        "trenchant",
        "whetted"
      ]
    },
    "serving or likely to arouse a strong reaction":{
      "antonyms":[
        "noninflammatory"
      ],
      "examples":[
        "a director known for his edgy , over-the-top satires on modern life"
      ],
      "near antonyms":[
        "subduing"
      ],
      "related":[
        "explosive",
        "fiery",
        "incendiary",
        "inflammatory",
        "triggering",
        "inducing",
        "inspirational",
        "inspiring",
        "motivating",
        "motivational",
        "motivative",
        "jeering",
        "taunting",
        "teasing",
        "activating",
        "energizing",
        "galvanizing",
        "quickening",
        "vitalizing",
        "angering",
        "enraging",
        "maddening",
        "upsetting",
        "aggravating",
        "annoying",
        "bothersome",
        "exasperating",
        "galling",
        "irksome",
        "irritating",
        "pesky",
        "vexatious",
        "vexing"
      ],
      "synonyms":[
        "charged",
        "exciting",
        "inciting",
        "instigating",
        "instigative",
        "piquing",
        "provocative",
        "provoking",
        "stimulating"
      ]
    },
    "type":[
      "adjective"
    ]
  },
  "editorialize":{
    "to make a statement of one's opinion":{
      "antonyms":[],
      "examples":[
        "she never misses a chance to editorialize on the issues of the day\u2014even the ones she knows nothing about"
      ],
      "near antonyms":[],
      "related":[
        "commentate",
        "articulate",
        "express",
        "say",
        "speak",
        "state",
        "talk",
        "tell",
        "utter",
        "verbalize",
        "vocalize",
        "conjecture",
        "daresay",
        "guess",
        "speculate",
        "suppose",
        "surmise"
      ],
      "synonyms":[
        "allow",
        "comment",
        "note",
        "observe",
        "opine",
        "reflect",
        "remark",
        "weigh in"
      ]
    },
    "type":[
      "verb"
    ]
  },
  "editorialized":{
    "to make a statement of one's opinion":{
      "antonyms":[],
      "examples":[
        "she never misses a chance to editorialize on the issues of the day\u2014even the ones she knows nothing about"
      ],
      "near antonyms":[],
      "related":[
        "commentated",
        "articulated",
        "expressed",
        "said",
        "spoke",
        "stated",
        "talked",
        "told",
        "uttered",
        "verbalized",
        "vocalized",
        "conjectured",
        "daresaid",
        "guessed",
        "speculated",
        "supposed",
        "surmised"
      ],
      "synonyms":[
        "allowed",
        "commented",
        "noted",
        "observed",
        "opined",
        "reflected",
        "remarked",
        "weighed in"
      ]
    },
    "type":[
      "verb"
    ]
  },
  "educated":{
    "having or displaying advanced knowledge or education":{
      "antonyms":[
        "benighted",
        "dark",
        "ignorant",
        "illiterate",
        "uneducated",
        "unlearned",
        "unlettered",
        "unscholarly"
      ],
      "examples":[
        "educated people are often more aware and tolerant of cultural and ethnic diversity"
      ],
      "near antonyms":[
        "uncivilized",
        "uncultivated",
        "uncultured",
        "lowbrow",
        "semiliterate",
        "unintellectual",
        "ill-bred",
        "unpolished",
        "unrefined",
        "uninformed",
        "unknowledgeable",
        "uninstructed",
        "unschooled",
        "untaught",
        "untutored",
        "semiliterate",
        "undereducated"
      ],
      "related":[
        "civilized",
        "cultivated",
        "cultured",
        "cerebral",
        "highbrow",
        "highbrowed",
        "intellectual",
        "polished",
        "refined",
        "well-bred",
        "academic",
        "academical",
        "bookish",
        "didactic",
        "didactical",
        "inkhorn",
        "pedantic",
        "professorial",
        "informed",
        "instructed",
        "schooled",
        "skilled",
        "trained",
        "homeschooled",
        "self-educated",
        "self-instructed",
        "self-taught",
        "briefed",
        "enlightened",
        "informed",
        "versed",
        "overeducated",
        "polyhistoric",
        "polymath",
        "polymathic"
      ],
      "synonyms":[
        "erudite",
        "knowledgeable",
        "learned",
        "lettered",
        "literate",
        "scholarly",
        "well-read"
      ]
    },
    "having or showing exceptional knowledge, experience, or skill in a field of endeavor":{
      "antonyms":[
        "amateur",
        "amateurish",
        "inexperienced",
        "inexpert",
        "jackleg",
        "unprofessional",
        "unseasoned",
        "unskilled",
        "unskillful"
      ],
      "examples":[
        "a violinist caressing the instrument with an educated touch"
      ],
      "near antonyms":[
        "incapable",
        "incompetent",
        "inept",
        "unable",
        "unfit",
        "unfitted",
        "unqualified",
        "weak",
        "artless",
        "crude",
        "rude",
        "ineffective",
        "ineffectual",
        "inefficient",
        "talentless",
        "ungifted",
        "untalented",
        "ignorant",
        "unschooled",
        "untaught",
        "untrained",
        "untutored",
        "beginning",
        "green",
        "inexperienced",
        "new",
        "raw",
        "unseasoned",
        "untested",
        "untried",
        "would-be",
        "primitive",
        "rough",
        "unpolished",
        "awkward",
        "clumsy",
        "ham-fisted",
        "ham-handed",
        "heavy-handed"
      ],
      "related":[
        "adroit",
        "clever",
        "deft",
        "dexterous",
        "dextrous",
        "handy",
        "slick",
        "sure-handed",
        "gifted",
        "talented",
        "polished",
        "refined",
        "effective",
        "effectual",
        "efficient",
        "workmanlike",
        "able",
        "capable",
        "competent",
        "employable",
        "fit",
        "fitted",
        "habile",
        "qualified",
        "knowledgeable",
        "schooled",
        "taught",
        "trained",
        "tutored",
        "all-around",
        "all-round",
        "well-rounded",
        "long-term",
        "old",
        "multiskilled",
        "multitalented"
      ],
      "synonyms":[
        "accomplished",
        "ace",
        "adept",
        "compleat",
        "complete",
        "consummate",
        "crack",
        "crackerjack",
        "experienced",
        "expert",
        "good",
        "great",
        "master",
        "masterful",
        "masterly",
        "practiced",
        "practised",
        "professed",
        "proficient",
        "skilled",
        "skillful",
        "versed",
        "veteran",
        "virtuoso"
      ]
    },
    "to cause to acquire knowledge or skill in some field":{
      "antonyms":[],
      "examples":[
        "a revered professor of astronomy who is credited with educating many of today's leading astronomers"
      ],
      "near antonyms":[],
      "related":[
        "coached",
        "mentored",
        "drilled",
        "fitted",
        "fit",
        "grounded",
        "habilitated",
        "prepared",
        "primed",
        "qualified",
        "directed",
        "guided",
        "led",
        "reared",
        "catechized",
        "lectured",
        "moralized",
        "preached",
        "implanted",
        "inculcated",
        "instilled",
        "homeschooled",
        "edified",
        "enlightened",
        "briefed",
        "familiarized",
        "imparted (to)",
        "informed",
        "versed",
        "initiated",
        "introduced",
        "showed",
        "reeducated",
        "reschooled",
        "retaught",
        "retrained"
      ],
      "synonyms":[
        "indoctrinated",
        "instructed",
        "lessoned",
        "schooled",
        "taught",
        "trained",
        "tutored"
      ]
    },
    "to provide (someone) with moral or spiritual understanding":{
      "antonyms":[],
      "examples":[
        "the belief that parents better educate their children by example than by sending them to Sunday school"
      ],
      "near antonyms":[
        "confused",
        "perplexed",
        "puzzled",
        "beclouded",
        "clouded",
        "darkened",
        "obscured"
      ],
      "related":[
        "elevated",
        "ennobled",
        "enriched",
        "ensouled",
        "lifted",
        "uplifted",
        "bettered",
        "improved",
        "regenerated",
        "renewed",
        "transformed",
        "exalted",
        "glorified",
        "transfigured"
      ],
      "synonyms":[
        "edified",
        "enlightened",
        "illumed",
        "illuminated",
        "illumined",
        "inspired",
        "nurtured"
      ]
    },
    "type":[
      "adjective",
      "verb"
    ]
  },
  "educates":{
    "to cause to acquire knowledge or skill in some field":{
      "antonyms":[],
      "examples":[
        "a revered professor of astronomy who is credited with educating many of today's leading astronomers"
      ],
      "near antonyms":[],
      "related":[
        "coaches",
        "mentors",
        "drills",
        "fits",
        "grounds",
        "habilitates",
        "prepares",
        "primes",
        "qualifies",
        "directs",
        "guides",
        "leads",
        "rears",
        "catechizes",
        "lectures",
        "moralizes",
        "preaches",
        "implants",
        "inculcates",
        "instills",
        "instils",
        "homeschools",
        "edifies",
        "enlightens",
        "briefs",
        "familiarizes",
        "imparts (to)",
        "informs",
        "verses",
        "initiates",
        "introduces",
        "shows",
        "reeducates",
        "reschools",
        "reteaches",
        "retrains"
      ],
      "synonyms":[
        "indoctrinates",
        "instructs",
        "lessons",
        "schools",
        "teaches",
        "trains",
        "tutors"
      ]
    },
    "to provide (someone) with moral or spiritual understanding":{
      "antonyms":[],
      "examples":[
        "the belief that parents better educate their children by example than by sending them to Sunday school"
      ],
      "near antonyms":[
        "confuses",
        "perplexes",
        "puzzles",
        "beclouds",
        "clouds",
        "darkens",
        "obscures"
      ],
      "related":[
        "elevates",
        "ennobles",
        "enriches",
        "ensouls",
        "lifts",
        "uplifts",
        "betters",
        "improves",
        "regenerates",
        "renews",
        "transforms",
        "exalts",
        "glorifies",
        "transfigures"
      ],
      "synonyms":[
        "edifies",
        "enlightens",
        "illumes",
        "illuminates",
        "illumines",
        "inspires",
        "nurtures"
      ]
    },
    "type":[
      "verb"
    ]
  },
  "educational":{
    "of or relating to schooling or learning especially at an advanced level":{
      "antonyms":[
        "nonacademic",
        "noneducational",
        "unacademic",
        "unscholarly"
      ],
      "examples":[
        "the community college strives to meet the educational needs of the residents of its urban location"
      ],
      "near antonyms":[
        "cocurricular",
        "extracurricular",
        "noncollegiate"
      ],
      "related":[
        "bookish",
        "donnish",
        "geeky",
        "nerdish",
        "nerdy",
        "pedagogical",
        "pedagogic",
        "pedantic",
        "professorial",
        "tweedy",
        "curricular",
        "educative",
        "instructive",
        "collegiate",
        "graduate",
        "postgraduate"
      ],
      "synonyms":[
        "academic",
        "academical",
        "intellectual",
        "scholarly",
        "scholastic"
      ]
    },
    "providing useful information or knowledge":{
      "antonyms":[
        "unenlightening",
        "unilluminating",
        "uninformative",
        "uninstructive"
      ],
      "examples":[
        "we found the talk on easy ways for families to recycle household products very educational"
      ],
      "near antonyms":[
        "impractical",
        "unhelpful",
        "unusable",
        "useless"
      ],
      "related":[
        "comprehensive",
        "copious",
        "detailed",
        "full",
        "communicatory",
        "edifying",
        "elucidative",
        "explanatory",
        "chatty",
        "gossipy",
        "newsy",
        "availing",
        "beneficial",
        "constructive",
        "helpful",
        "profitable",
        "practical",
        "serviceable",
        "usable",
        "useable",
        "useful",
        "worthwhile"
      ],
      "synonyms":[
        "educative",
        "enlightening",
        "illuminating",
        "informational",
        "informative",
        "informatory",
        "instructional",
        "instructive"
      ]
    },
    "type":[
      "adjective"
    ]
  },
  "eduction":{
    "an opinion arrived at through a process of reasoning":{
      "antonyms":[],
      "examples":[
        "the policeman's eduction was that there was more than one murderer involved"
      ],
      "near antonyms":[],
      "related":[
        "decision",
        "deliverance",
        "diagnosis",
        "judgment",
        "judgement",
        "resolution",
        "ruling",
        "verdict",
        "conjecture",
        "guess",
        "surmise",
        "assumption",
        "presumption",
        "supposition"
      ],
      "synonyms":[
        "conclusion",
        "consequence",
        "deduction",
        "determination",
        "induction",
        "inference",
        "sequitur"
      ]
    },
    "type":[
      "noun"
    ]
  }
}