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{
"wicked":{
"causing or capable of causing harm":{
"antonyms":[
"anodyne",
"benign",
"harmless",
"hurtless",
"innocent",
"innocuous",
"inoffensive",
"safe"
],
"examples":[
"a wicked insult that deeply hurt his self-esteem for many years"
],
"near antonyms":[
"advantageous",
"beneficial",
"useful",
"favorable",
"good",
"propitious",
"curative",
"healthful",
"healthy",
"helpful",
"palliative",
"remedial",
"salubrious",
"salutary",
"wholesome",
"secure",
"sound",
"benignant",
"noncorrosive",
"nondestructive",
"nonfatal",
"noninfectious",
"nonlethal",
"nonpoisonous",
"nonpolluting",
"nontoxic",
"nonvenomous"
],
"related":[
"hostile",
"inimical",
"unfriendly",
"contagious",
"deadly",
"infectious",
"infective",
"pestiferous",
"pestilent",
"pestilential",
"poisonous",
"venomous",
"insidious",
"menacing",
"ominous",
"sinister",
"threatening",
"hazardous",
"imperiling",
"imperilling",
"jeopardizing",
"parlous",
"perilous",
"risky",
"unsafe",
"unsound",
"nasty",
"noisome",
"unhealthful",
"unhealthy",
"unwholesome",
"destructive",
"fatal",
"killer",
"lethal",
"malignant",
"ruinous"
],
"synonyms":[
"adverse",
"bad",
"baleful",
"baneful",
"damaging",
"dangerous",
"deleterious",
"detrimental",
"evil",
"harmful",
"hurtful",
"ill",
"injurious",
"mischievous",
"nocuous",
"noxious",
"pernicious",
"prejudicial"
]
},
"not conforming to a high moral standard; morally unacceptable":{
"antonyms":[
"decent",
"ethical",
"good",
"honest",
"honorable",
"just",
"moral",
"right",
"righteous",
"sublime",
"upright",
"virtuous"
],
"examples":[
"a wicked urge to steal just for the sake of stealing"
],
"near antonyms":[
"elevated",
"high",
"high-minded",
"law-abiding",
"legitimate",
"lofty",
"noble",
"principled",
"reputable",
"scrupulous",
"allowed",
"authorized",
"legal",
"licensed",
"permissible",
"permitted",
"approved",
"endorsed",
"indorsed",
"sanctioned",
"abetted",
"encouraged",
"promoted",
"supported",
"clean",
"correct",
"decent",
"decorous",
"exemplary",
"proper",
"seemly",
"blameless",
"commendable",
"creditable",
"guiltless",
"legitimate",
"chaste",
"immaculate",
"incorruptible",
"innocent",
"inoffensive",
"irreproachable",
"lily-white",
"perfect",
"pure",
"spotless",
"squeaky-clean",
"uncorrupted",
"unerring",
"unfallen",
"unobjectionable",
"venerable",
"white",
"wholesome",
"esteemed",
"respected",
"upstanding",
"worthy"
],
"related":[
"base",
"contemptible",
"despicable",
"dirty",
"disreputable",
"evil-minded",
"ignoble",
"ill",
"infernal",
"low",
"mean",
"snide",
"sordid",
"atrocious",
"cruel",
"infamous",
"nasty",
"blamable",
"blameworthy",
"censurable",
"objectionable",
"obscene",
"offensive",
"reprehensible",
"corrupt",
"debased",
"debauched",
"degenerate",
"depraved",
"dissolute",
"libertine",
"loose",
"low-minded",
"perverted",
"reprobate",
"scrofulous",
"sick",
"unhealthy",
"cursed",
"curst",
"cussed",
"defiling",
"noxious",
"pernicious",
"pestilential",
"ugly",
"ungodly",
"unwholesome",
"banned",
"barred",
"condemned",
"discouraged",
"forbidden",
"illegal",
"interdicted",
"outlawed",
"prohibited",
"proscribed",
"unauthorized",
"unclean",
"disallowed",
"execrable",
"lousy",
"miserable",
"wretched",
"errant",
"erring",
"fallen",
"unprincipled",
"unscrupulous",
"improper",
"incorrect",
"indecent",
"indecorous",
"naughty",
"unbecoming",
"unseemly",
"vulgar",
"dishonest",
"dishonorable"
],
"synonyms":[
"bad",
"dark",
"evil",
"immoral",
"iniquitous",
"nefarious",
"rotten",
"sinful",
"unethical",
"unlawful",
"unrighteous",
"unsavory",
"vicious",
"vile",
"villainous",
"wrong"
]
},
"not giving pleasure to the mind or senses":{
"antonyms":[
"agreeable",
"congenial",
"good",
"grateful",
"gratifying",
"nice",
"palatable",
"pleasant",
"pleasing",
"pleasurable",
"satisfying",
"welcome"
],
"examples":[
"rotting eggs create a truly wicked stench",
"caused a rash with a wicked itch"
],
"near antonyms":[
"delectable",
"delicious",
"delightful",
"dreamy",
"felicitous",
"amiable",
"charming",
"cheery",
"friendly",
"jolly",
"kindly",
"sweet"
],
"related":[
"abhorrent",
"abominable",
"appalling",
"awful",
"beastly",
"bilious",
"disgusting",
"dreadful",
"foul",
"ghastly",
"gnarly",
"god-awful",
"gross",
"hateful",
"hellish",
"hideous",
"horrendous",
"horrible",
"horrid",
"invidious",
"loathsome",
"nauseating",
"nauseous",
"noisome",
"obnoxious",
"obscene",
"odious",
"offensive",
"repellent",
"repellant",
"repugnant",
"repulsive",
"revolting",
"revulsive",
"scandalous",
"seamy",
"shocking",
"sick",
"sickening",
"ugly",
"unholy",
"vile",
"villainous",
"aggravating",
"annoying",
"galling",
"irritating",
"vexing",
"crappy",
"cruddy",
"crummy",
"crumby",
"lousy",
"miserable",
"sucky",
"wretched"
],
"synonyms":[
"bad",
"bitter",
"disagreeable",
"displeasing",
"distasteful",
"harsh",
"icky",
"nasty",
"rotten",
"sour",
"uncongenial",
"unlovely",
"unpalatable",
"unpleasant",
"unpleasing",
"unsavory",
"unwelcome",
"yucky",
"yukky"
]
},
"tending to or exhibiting reckless playfulness":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"a wicked grin on his face when he said that"
],
"near antonyms":[
"grave",
"grim",
"sedate",
"sober",
"solemn",
"staid",
"stern"
],
"related":[
"antic",
"coltish",
"coy",
"frisky",
"frolicsome",
"kittenish",
"playful",
"sportful",
"sportive",
"gay",
"happy",
"lighthearted",
"whimsical",
"energetic",
"lively",
"spirited",
"sprightly",
"artful",
"crafty",
"cunning",
"trickish",
"tricky",
"wily",
"misbehaving",
"naughty",
"troublemaking",
"pestering",
"riling",
"teasing"
],
"synonyms":[
"arch",
"devilish",
"elvish",
"espi\u00e8gle",
"impish",
"knavish",
"leprechaunish",
"mischievous",
"pixie",
"pixy",
"pixieish",
"prankish",
"puckish",
"rascally",
"roguish",
"scampish",
"sly",
"tricksy",
"waggish"
]
},
"to a great degree":{
"antonyms":[
"little",
"negligibly",
"nominally",
"slightly",
"somewhat"
],
"examples":[
"we were wicked excited when our team finally won the pennant after so many years"
],
"near antonyms":[
"meagerly",
"scantily",
"barely",
"hardly",
"just",
"marginally",
"minimally",
"scarcely"
],
"related":[
"absolutely",
"altogether",
"completely",
"downright",
"entirely",
"flat-out",
"fully",
"positively",
"purely",
"radically",
"thoroughly",
"totally",
"utterly",
"wholly",
"deeply",
"profoundly",
"exceptionally",
"notably",
"remarkably",
"considerably",
"extensively",
"significantly",
"substantially",
"appreciably",
"discernibly",
"markedly",
"noticeably",
"obviously",
"palpably",
"plainly",
"visibly",
"abundantly",
"plentifully",
"astronomically",
"grandly",
"monstrously",
"monumentally",
"excessively",
"obscenely",
"overmuch",
"amazingly",
"astonishingly",
"staggeringly"
],
"synonyms":[
"achingly",
"almighty",
"archly",
"awful",
"awfully",
"badly",
"beastly",
"blisteringly",
"bone",
"colossally",
"corking",
"cracking",
"damn",
"damned",
"dang",
"deadly",
"desperately",
"eminently",
"enormously",
"especially",
"ever",
"exceedingly",
"exceeding",
"extra",
"extremely",
"fabulously",
"fantastically",
"far",
"fiercely",
"filthy",
"frightfully",
"full",
"greatly",
"heavily",
"highly",
"hugely",
"immensely",
"incredibly",
"intensely",
"jolly",
"majorly",
"mightily",
"mighty",
"monstrous",
"mortally",
"most",
"much",
"particularly",
"passing",
"rattling",
"real",
"really",
"right",
"roaring",
"roaringly",
"seriously",
"severely",
"so",
"sore",
"sorely",
"spanking",
"specially",
"stinking",
"such",
"super",
"supremely",
"surpassingly",
"terribly",
"that",
"thumping",
"too",
"unco",
"uncommonly",
"vastly",
"very",
"vitally",
"way",
"whacking",
"wildly"
]
},
"type":[
"adjective",
"adverb"
]
},
"wickedness":{
"playful, reckless behavior that is not intended to cause serious harm":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"a couple of live wires who got into all kinds of wickedness during their vacation in Las Vegas"
],
"near antonyms":[
"gravitas",
"gravity",
"seriousness",
"solemnity",
"solemnness"
],
"related":[
"diabolicalness",
"misbehavior",
"misconduct",
"naughtiness",
"troublemaking",
"buffoonery",
"friskiness",
"playfulness",
"sportiveness",
"chicanery",
"trickery",
"goings-on",
"hanky-panky",
"high jinks",
"hijinks",
"monkey business",
"monkeying",
"monkeyshine(s)",
"skylarking",
"tomfoolery",
"horseplay",
"roughhousing",
"antic",
"caper",
"dido",
"practical joke",
"trick",
"aggravation",
"annoyance",
"exasperation",
"irritation"
],
"synonyms":[
"devilishness",
"devilment",
"devilry",
"deviltry",
"diablerie",
"espi\u00e8glerie",
"hob",
"impishness",
"knavery",
"mischief",
"mischievousness",
"rascality",
"roguery",
"roguishness",
"shenanigan(s)",
"waggery",
"waggishness"
]
},
"the state or quality of being utterly evil":{
"antonyms":[
"goodness",
"righteousness",
"virtuousness"
],
"examples":[
"the movie featured a villain of unadulterated wickedness"
],
"near antonyms":[
"morality",
"chasteness",
"innocence",
"purity"
],
"related":[
"accursedness",
"baseness",
"cursedness",
"devilishness",
"execrableness",
"fiendishness",
"hellishness",
"corruption",
"decadence",
"degeneracy",
"pervertedness",
"immorality",
"infamy",
"notoriety"
],
"synonyms":[
"atrociousness",
"atrocity",
"badness",
"depravedness",
"depravity",
"diabolicalness",
"enormity",
"evilness",
"heinousness",
"hideousness",
"monstrosity",
"sinfulness",
"vileness"
]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"wide":{
"having a greater than usual measure across":{
"antonyms":[
"hairline",
"narrow",
"paper-thin",
"skinny",
"slender",
"slim",
"slim-jim",
"thin"
],
"examples":[
"the river is so wide that building a bridge across it would be impractical"
],
"near antonyms":[
"fine",
"hairlike",
"reedlike",
"elongate",
"elongated",
"needlelike",
"bottleneck",
"close",
"compressed",
"condensed",
"constricted",
"contracted",
"squeezed",
"tight",
"tightened",
"attenuate",
"attenuated",
"small",
"smallish",
"undersized",
"undersize"
],
"related":[
"expansive",
"extensive",
"sweeping",
"commodious",
"roomy",
"spacious",
"outsize",
"outsized",
"oversize",
"oversized",
"sizable",
"sizeable",
"substantial",
"tidy",
"voluminous"
],
"synonyms":[
"broad",
"fat",
"thick"
]
},
"having considerable extent":{
"antonyms":[
"narrow"
],
"examples":[
"a wide and detailed knowledge of the issue"
],
"near antonyms":[
"circumscribed",
"limited",
"restricted"
],
"related":[
"comprehensive",
"general",
"global",
"inclusive",
"boundless",
"endless",
"infinite",
"limitless",
"unlimited",
"capacious",
"commodious",
"roomy",
"spacious"
],
"synonyms":[
"broad",
"deep",
"expansive",
"extended",
"extensive",
"far-flung",
"far-reaching",
"rangy",
"sweeping",
"wide-ranging",
"widespread"
]
},
"to a full extent or degree":{
"antonyms":[
"half",
"halfway",
"incompletely",
"part",
"partially",
"partly"
],
"examples":[
"the door was wide open"
],
"near antonyms":[
"barely",
"hardly",
"just",
"kind of",
"marginally",
"minimally",
"scarcely",
"slightly",
"superficially",
"approximately",
"roughly",
"somewhat"
],
"related":[
"absolutely",
"categorically",
"cold",
"downright",
"hands down",
"plain",
"stone",
"stone-cold",
"unqualifiedly",
"basically",
"by and large",
"chiefly",
"generally",
"largely",
"mainly",
"more or less",
"mostly",
"overall",
"predominantly",
"predominately",
"primarily",
"principally",
"substantially",
"abundantly",
"copiously",
"generously",
"greatly"
],
"synonyms":[
"all",
"all of",
"all over",
"altogether",
"clean",
"completely",
"dead",
"enough",
"entire",
"entirely",
"even",
"exactly",
"fast",
"flat",
"full",
"fully",
"heartily",
"out",
"perfectly",
"plumb",
"quite",
"soundly",
"thoroughly",
"through and through",
"totally",
"utterly",
"well",
"wholly"
]
},
"type":[
"adjective",
"adverb"
]
},
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"widish":{
"as in thickish":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[],
"near antonyms":[],
"related":[],
"synonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"adjective"
]
},
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"wield":{
"to bring to bear especially forcefully or effectively":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"wields considerable influence in the field of women's sports"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"related":[
"employ",
"use",
"utilize",
"abuse",
"misapply",
"misuse"
],
"synonyms":[
"apply",
"exercise",
"exert",
"ply",
"put out"
]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"wields":{
"to bring to bear especially forcefully or effectively":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"wields considerable influence in the field of women's sports"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"related":[
"employs",
"uses",
"utilizes",
"abuses",
"misapplies",
"misuses"
],
"synonyms":[
"applies",
"exercises",
"exerts",
"plies",
"puts out"
]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"wigged-out":{
"as in frantic , distracted":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[],
"near antonyms":[],
"related":[],
"synonyms":[]
},
"to yield to mental or emotional stress":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"with her claustrophobia, it wouldn't take a day for her to wig out on a submarine"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"related":[
"choked"
],
"synonyms":[
"broke down",
"broke up",
"cracked",
"flipped (out)",
"freaked (out)",
"melted down"
]
},
"type":[
"adjective",
"verb"
]
},
"wild":{
"conceived or made without regard for reason or reality":{
"antonyms":[
"realistic",
"reasonable"
],
"examples":[
"some wild claim that he was abducted by aliens"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"related":[
"implausible",
"inconceivable",
"incredible",
"unbelievable",
"unimaginable",
"unthinkable",
"extravagant",
"grotesque",
"bizarro",
"curious",
"eccentric",
"far-out",
"funny",
"kinky",
"kooky",
"kookie",
"odd",
"outlandish",
"out-of-the-way",
"outr\u00e9",
"peculiar",
"quaint",
"queer",
"queerish",
"quirky",
"screwy",
"strange",
"wacky",
"whacky",
"way-out",
"weird",
"farcical",
"laughable",
"ludicrous",
"ridiculous",
"Alice-in-Wonderland",
"Kafkaesque",
"nightmarish",
"dreamlike",
"surreal"
],
"synonyms":[
"absurd",
"bizarre",
"crazy",
"fanciful",
"fantastic",
"fantastical",
"foolish",
"insane",
"nonsensical",
"preposterous",
"unreal"
]
},
"different from the ordinary in a way that causes curiosity or suspicion":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"public speakers in the park typically spout some wild ideas"
],
"near antonyms":[
"average",
"commonplace",
"everyday",
"garden",
"normal",
"ordinary",
"prosaic",
"routine",
"run-of-the-mill",
"standard",
"typical",
"unexceptional",
"unremarkable",
"usual",
"workaday",
"conformist",
"conservative",
"conventional",
"expected",
"familiar",
"knee-jerk",
"predictable",
"common",
"customary",
"frequent",
"habitual",
"regular",
"wonted"
],
"related":[
"aberrant",
"abnormal",
"addlepated",
"flaky",
"extraordinary",
"fantastic",
"fantastical",
"freak",
"freakish",
"freaky",
"phantasmagoric",
"phantasmagorical",
"phenomenal",
"atypical",
"rare",
"singular",
"uncommon",
"uncustomary",
"unique",
"unusual",
"unwonted",
"conspicuous",
"notable",
"noticeable",
"outstanding",
"prominent",
"salient",
"striking",
"atrocious",
"outrageous",
"shocking",
"crotchety",
"idiosyncratic",
"nonconformist",
"nonmainstream",
"out-there",
"unconventional",
"unorthodox",
"baffling",
"bewildering",
"confounding",
"mystifying",
"perplexing",
"puzzling"
],
"synonyms":[
"bizarre",
"bizarro",
"cranky",
"crazy",
"curious",
"eccentric",
"erratic",
"far-out",
"funky",
"funny",
"kinky",
"kooky",
"kookie",
"odd",
"off-kilter",
"off-the-wall",
"offbeat",
"out-of-the-way",
"outlandish",
"outr\u00e9",
"peculiar",
"quaint",
"queer",
"queerish",
"quirky",
"remarkable",
"rum",
"screwy",
"spaced-out",
"strange",
"wacky",
"whacky",
"way-out",
"weird",
"weirdo"
]
},
"existing without human habitation or cultivation":{
"antonyms":[
"cultivated",
"tamed"
],
"examples":[
"that land has been completely wild since the owners abandoned it"
],
"near antonyms":[
"inhabited",
"developed",
"seminatural"
],
"related":[
"native",
"uninhabited",
"unpeopled",
"unsettled",
"overgrown",
"spontaneous",
"untended",
"waste",
"undeveloped",
"desolate",
"forlorn",
"howling"
],
"synonyms":[
"natural",
"uncultivated",
"untamed",
"virgin"
]
},
"in a confused and reckless manner":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"as soon as the doors opened, early-morning bargain hunters ran wild through the store"
],
"near antonyms":[
"calmly",
"collectedly",
"composedly",
"coolly",
"cooly",
"imperturbably",
"peacefully",
"placidly",
"self-composedly",
"self-possessedly",
"serenely",
"unconcernedly",
"meekly",
"mildly",
"passively",
"tamely",
"methodically",
"orderly",
"systematically"
],
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"agitatedly",
"confusedly",
"crazily",
"desperately",
"feverishly",
"haywire",
"skittishly",
"uncontrollably",
"heedlessly",
"hotheadedly",
"recklessly",
"wantonly",
"chaotically",
"riotously",
"tumultuously",
"turbulently",
"aimlessly",
"haphazard",
"haphazardly",
"hit or miss",
"topsy-turvy"
],
"synonyms":[
"amok",
"amuck",
"berserk",
"berserkly",
"frantically",
"frenetically",
"frenziedly",
"harum-scarum",
"hectically",
"helter-skelter",
"madly",
"pell-mell",
"wildly"
]
},
"living outdoors without taming or domestication by humans":{
"antonyms":[
"broken",
"busted",
"domestic",
"domesticated",
"gentled",
"tame",
"tamed"
],
"examples":[
"wild animals can be shy or aggressive when confronted by humans"
],
"near antonyms":[
"controlled",
"docile",
"familiar",
"semidomesticated",
"subdued",
"submissive",
"halterbroken",
"housebroken",
"trained",
"civilized",
"semicivilized",
"socialized"
],
"related":[
"uncontrolled",
"undocile",
"unsubdued",
"untrained",
"bestial",
"brutal",
"brute",
"barbarous",
"uncivilized"
],
"synonyms":[
"feral",
"savage",
"unbroken",
"undomesticated",
"untamed",
"wilding"
]
},
"marked by great and often stressful excitement or activity":{
"antonyms":[
"relaxed"
],
"examples":[
"the holidays were especially wild around here this year"
],
"near antonyms":[
"calm",
"peaceful",
"placid",
"quiet",
"serene",
"subdued",
"tranquil",
"undisturbed",
"unperturbed",
"untroubled",
"moderate",
"reasonable",
"temperate",
"casual",
"easygoing",
"low-pressure",
"balanced",
"sane",
"sound"
],
"related":[
"concentrated",
"high-pressured",
"intense",
"intensive",
"vehement",
"excessive",
"exorbitant",
"extravagant",
"extreme",
"immoderate",
"inordinate",
"lavish",
"overmuch",
"overweening",
"unconscionable",
"undue",
"crazed",
"crazy",
"demented",
"deranged",
"insane",
"irrational",
"lunatic",
"maniacal",
"maniac"
],
"synonyms":[
"delirious",
"ferocious",
"feverish",
"fierce",
"frantic",
"frenetic",
"frenzied",
"furious",
"mad",
"rabid",
"violent"
]
},
"marked by turmoil or disturbance especially of natural elements":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"a wild night, full of wind and rain"
],
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"calm",
"halcyon",
"peaceful",
"placid",
"quiet",
"serene",
"tranquil",
"bright",
"clear",
"clement",
"cloudless",
"fair",
"sunny",
"sunshiny",
"unclouded"
],
"related":[
"blustering",
"blustery",
"raging",
"violent",
"brutal",
"harsh",
"severe",
"roily",
"unquiet",
"unsettled",
"bleak",
"inclement",
"nasty",
"raw",
"squally"
],
"synonyms":[
"rough",
"rugged",
"stormy",
"tempestuous",
"tumultuous",
"turbulent"
]
},
"not civilized":{
"antonyms":[
"civilized"
],
"examples":[
"ancient traces of a wild people who lived in mountain caves"
],
"near antonyms":[
"cultured",
"enlightened",
"humane",
"sophisticated",
"genteel",
"polished",
"polite",
"refined",
"urbane",
"well-bred",
"semicivilized"
],
"related":[
"coarse",
"crude",
"primitive",
"rough",
"uncouth",
"uncultured"
],
"synonyms":[
"barbarian",
"barbaric",
"barbarous",
"heathen",
"heathenish",
"natural",
"Neanderthal",
"Neandertal",
"rude",
"savage",
"uncivil",
"uncivilized",
"uncultivated"
]
},
"showing urgent desire or interest":{
"antonyms":[
"apathetic",
"indifferent",
"uneager",
"unenthusiastic"
],
"examples":[
"they're just wild to go on the ecotour through the Amazon rain forest"
],
"near antonyms":[
"casual",
"incurious",
"insouciant",
"nonchalant",
"unconcerned",
"uninterested",
"aloof",
"detached",
"disinterested",
"impassive",
"stolid",
"halfhearted",
"lackadaisical",
"languid",
"languorous",
"lukewarm",
"spiritless",
"averse",
"disinclined",
"hesitant",
"loath",
"loth",
"loathe",
"reluctant",
"unwilling"
],
"related":[
"engaged",
"interested",
"happy",
"hung up",
"obsessed",
"ambitious",
"appetent",
"covetous",
"craving",
"hankering",
"longing",
"pining",
"breathless",
"restive",
"restless",
"amenable",
"disposed",
"game",
"glad",
"inclined",
"ready",
"unreluctant",
"willing"
],
"synonyms":[
"agog",
"antsy",
"anxious",
"ardent",
"athirst",
"avid",
"crazy",
"desirous",
"eager",
"enthused",
"enthusiastic",
"excited",
"geeked",
"great",
"greedy",
"gung ho",
"hepped up",
"hopped-up",
"hot",
"hungry",
"impatient",
"juiced",
"keen",
"nuts",
"pumped",
"raring",
"solicitous",
"stoked",
"thirsty",
"voracious"
]
},
"that part of the physical world that is removed from human habitation":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"some animals aren't meant to live outside of the wild"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"related":[
"backwoods",
"bush",
"country",
"frontier",
"hinterland",
"sticks",
"up-country",
"outside",
"without",
"badland",
"barren",
"desert",
"waste",
"wasteland"
],
"synonyms":[
"nature",
"open",
"open air",
"out-of-doors",
"outdoors",
"wilderness"
]
},
"type":[
"adjective",
"adverb",
"noun"
]
},
"wile":{
"a clever often underhanded means to achieve an end":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"had to use all of her wiles to convince her guests to stay for dinner"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"related":[
"bluff",
"end run",
"feint",
"cheating",
"chicanery",
"cozenage",
"craft",
"crookery",
"cunning",
"deception",
"dupery",
"duplicity",
"fakery",
"jugglery",
"legerdemain",
"skulduggery",
"skullduggery",
"subterfuge",
"swindling",
"trickery",
"fraud",
"gaff",
"hoax",
"sham",
"swindle",
"blind",
"front",
"smoke screen"
],
"synonyms":[
"artifice",
"device",
"dodge",
"fetch",
"flimflam",
"gambit",
"gimmick",
"jig",
"juggle",
"knack",
"play",
"ploy",
"ruse",
"scheme",
"shenanigan",
"sleight",
"stratagem",
"trick"
]
},
"the use of clever underhanded actions to achieve an end":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"it took both wile and cajolery to talk him into it"
],
"near antonyms":[
"artlessness",
"forthrightness",
"guilelessness",
"ingenuousness",
"sincerity",
"candidness",
"candor",
"directness",
"openness",
"plainness",
"plainspokenness"
],
"related":[
"artfulness",
"caginess",
"cageyness",
"craftiness",
"cunning",
"deviousness",
"foxiness",
"oiliness",
"shadiness",
"sharpness",
"shiftiness",
"shrewdness",
"slickness",
"slipperiness",
"slyness",
"sneakiness",
"treachery",
"underhandedness",
"wiliness",
"crookedness",
"crookery",
"cunning",
"deceit",
"deceitfulness",
"deception",
"deceptiveness",
"dishonesty",
"dissimulation",
"double-dealing",
"dupery",
"duplicity",
"guile",
"guilefulness",
"hypocrisy",
"insincerity",
"fakery",
"humbuggery",
"imposture",
"quackery",
"dirty pool",
"dirty tricks",
"design",
"plotting",
"scheming",
"secrecy",
"stealth"
],
"synonyms":[
"artifice",
"chicane",
"chicanery",
"gamesmanship",
"hanky-panky",
"jiggery-pokery",
"jugglery",
"legerdemain",
"skulduggery",
"skullduggery",
"subterfuge",
"trickery"
]
},
"to attract or delight as if by magic":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"her stories of the Old South could wile anyone"
],
"near antonyms":[
"disgust",
"offend",
"repel",
"revolt",
"annoy",
"displease",
"irk",
"bore",
"tire",
"weary"
],
"related":[
"disarm",
"draw",
"entice",
"lure",
"pull",
"seduce",
"tempt",
"delight",
"gratify",
"please",
"arrest",
"enrapture",
"enthrall",
"enthral",
"entrance",
"appeal (to)",
"interest",
"intrigue",
"beckon",
"court",
"invite",
"solicit",
"woo"
],
"synonyms":[
"allure",
"beguile",
"bewitch",
"captivate",
"charm",
"enchant",
"fascinate",
"kill",
"magnetize",
"witch"
]
},
"type":[
"noun",
"verb"
]
},
"willful":{
"given to resisting authority or another's control":{
"antonyms":[
"amenable",
"biddable",
"compliant",
"conformable",
"docile",
"obedient",
"ruly",
"submissive",
"tractable"
],
"examples":[
"a particularly willful horse that took weeks to break to saddle"
],
"near antonyms":[
"acquiescent",
"agreeable",
"amiable",
"cooperative",
"deferential",
"obliging",
"yielding",
"behaved",
"disciplined",
"well-bred",
"courteous",
"polite",
"respectful",
"kowtowing",
"obsequious",
"servile",
"slavish",
"subservient",
"decorous",
"mannerly",
"orderly",
"proper",
"controllable",
"governable",
"manageable",
"trainable"
],
"related":[
"noncooperative",
"uncooperative",
"insurgent",
"mutinous",
"adamant",
"adamantine",
"dogged",
"hardheaded",
"headstrong",
"immovable",
"implacable",
"inflexible",
"mulish",
"negativistic",
"obdurate",
"obstinate",
"opinionated",
"peevish",
"pertinacious",
"pigheaded",
"rigid",
"self-willed",
"stubborn",
"unbending",
"uncompromising",
"unrelenting",
"unyielding",
"fractious",
"uncontrollable",
"unmanageable",
"wild",
"perverse",
"resistant",
"wrongheaded",
"bad",
"disorderly",
"errant",
"misbehaving",
"mischievous",
"monkeying",
"monkeyish",
"naughty",
"undisciplined",
"dissident",
"nonconformist",
"discourteous",
"disrespectful",
"ill-bred",
"ill-mannered",
"ill-natured",
"impertinent",
"impolite",
"impudent",
"inconsiderate",
"insolent",
"ornery",
"rude",
"uncivil",
"uncouth",
"ungracious",
"unmannerly"
],
"synonyms":[
"balky",
"contrary",
"contumacious",
"defiant",
"disobedient",
"froward",
"incompliant",
"insubordinate",
"intractable",
"obstreperous",
"rebel",
"rebellious",
"recalcitrant",
"recusant",
"refractory",
"restive",
"ungovernable",
"unruly",
"untoward",
"wayward"
]
},
"given to resisting control or discipline by others":{
"antonyms":[
"controllable",
"governable",
"manageable",
"tractable"
],
"examples":[
"finally the parents sought professional counseling for the willful child"
],
"near antonyms":[
"docile",
"obedient",
"well-behaved",
"compliant",
"placable",
"pliable",
"submissive",
"yielding",
"accepting",
"persuadable",
"receptive",
"responsive",
"willing",
"reasonable",
"temperate",
"trainable"
],
"related":[
"bullheaded",
"contrary",
"difficult",
"hardheaded",
"incorrigible",
"intransigent",
"mulish",
"obdurate",
"obstinate",
"opinionated",
"perverse",
"pigheaded",
"self-willed",
"stiff",
"stiff-necked",
"stubborn",
"undisciplined",
"unpunished",
"uncontrolled",
"wild",
"boisterous",
"irrepressible",
"rambunctious",
"rowdy",
"disobedient",
"indocile",
"insubordinate",
"rebellious",
"misbehaving",
"naughty"
],
"synonyms":[
"froward",
"headstrong",
"incontrollable",
"intractable",
"recalcitrant",
"refractory",
"uncontrollable",
"ungovernable",
"unmanageable",
"unruly",
"untoward",
"wayward"
]
},
"having or showing a tendency to force one's will on others without any regard to fairness or necessity":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"a willful disregard for the rights of others"
],
"near antonyms":[
"balanced",
"disinterested",
"dispassionate",
"equal",
"equitable",
"evenhanded",
"fair",
"impartial",
"just",
"nonpartisan",
"objective",
"rational",
"reasonable",
"understanding",
"unbiased",
"unprejudiced",
"ethical",
"honorable",
"irreproachable",
"law-abiding",
"moral",
"principled",
"unimpeachable"
],
"related":[
"arrogant",
"commanding",
"demanding",
"dominant",
"domineering",
"haughty",
"imperative",
"lordly",
"masterful",
"overbearing",
"presumptuous",
"authoritarian",
"autocratic",
"autocratical",
"despotic",
"totalitarian",
"tyrannical",
"tyrannic",
"tyrannous",
"capricious",
"changeable",
"erratic",
"inconsistent",
"mercurial",
"whimsical",
"biased",
"inequitable",
"partisan",
"prejudiced",
"unequal",
"unfair",
"unjust",
"unrealistic",
"unreasonable",
"unconscionable",
"unethical",
"unprincipled",
"unscrupulous"
],
"synonyms":[
"arbitrary",
"dictatorial",
"high-handed",
"imperious",
"peremptory"
]
},
"made, given, or done with full awareness of what one is doing":{
"antonyms":[
"nondeliberate",
"nonpurposive",
"unintentional"
],
"examples":[
"a willful attempt to cheat her siblings out of their rightful inheritance"
],
"near antonyms":[
"inadvertent",
"unwitting",
"accidental",
"chance",
"haphazard",
"hit-or-miss",
"incidental",
"random",
"aimless",
"desultory",
"purposeless",
"abrupt",
"impetuous",
"sudden",
"coerced",
"forced",
"involuntary",
"compulsory",
"mandatory",
"necessary",
"nonelective",
"obligatory",
"ordered",
"required",
"casual",
"extemporaneous",
"impromptu",
"impulsive",
"instinctive",
"spontaneous",
"unforced",
"unpremeditated"
],
"related":[
"designed",
"planned",
"advised",
"calculated",
"considered",
"measured",
"reasoned",
"studied",
"thoughtful",
"weighed",
"premeditated",
"premeditative",
"prepense",
"discretionary",
"elective",
"optional",
"volunteer"
],
"synonyms":[
"conscious",
"deliberate",
"intended",
"intentional",
"knowing",
"purposeful",
"purposive",
"set",
"voluntary",
"willed",
"witting"
]
},
"sticking to an opinion, purpose, or course of action in spite of reason, arguments, or persuasion":{
"antonyms":[
"acquiescent",
"agreeable",
"amenable",
"compliant",
"complying",
"flexible",
"pliable",
"pliant",
"relenting",
"yielding"
],
"examples":[
"the kind of willful person who can never bring himself to admit that he made a mistake"
],
"near antonyms":[
"docile",
"obedient",
"placable",
"submissive",
"tractable",
"accepting",
"persuadable",
"receptive",
"responsive",
"willing",
"governable",
"manageable",
"reasonable",
"temperate",
"slavish",
"subservient"
],
"related":[
"anal-retentive",
"obsessive",
"wayward",
"wrongheaded",
"determined",
"hell-bent",
"inexorable",
"persistent",
"relentless",
"resolved",
"set",
"single-minded",
"steadfast",
"stouthearted",
"tenacious",
"unflinching",
"firm",
"hard-line",
"hard-shell",
"hard-shelled",
"iron",
"severe",
"stern",
"strict",
"hidebound",
"narrow-minded",
"rigid",
"bloody-minded",
"cantankerous",
"contrary",
"cussed",
"contumacious",
"disobedient",
"froward",
"insubordinate",
"intractable",
"recalcitrant",
"refractory",
"uncooperative",
"ungovernable",
"unmanageable",
"unruly",
"defiant",
"insurgent",
"mutinous",
"indomitable",
"invincible",
"unconquerable",
"confirmed",
"inveterate",
"unregenerate",
"demanding",
"exacting"
],
"synonyms":[
"adamant",
"adamantine",
"bullheaded",
"dogged",
"hard",
"hard-nosed",
"hardened",
"hardheaded",
"headstrong",
"immovable",
"implacable",
"inconvincible",
"inflexible",
"intransigent",
"mulish",
"obdurate",
"obstinate",
"opinionated",
"ossified",
"pat",
"pertinacious",
"perverse",
"pigheaded",
"self-opinionated",
"self-willed",
"stiff-necked",
"stubborn",
"unbending",
"uncompromising",
"unrelenting",
"unyielding"
]
},
"type":[
"adjective"
]
},
"willfully":{
"type":[
"adverb"
],
"with full awareness of what one is doing":{
"antonyms":[
"inadvertently",
"unconsciously",
"unintentionally",
"unknowingly",
"unwittingly"
],
"examples":[
"willfully chose to risk pneumonia by jumping into a freezing lake on a dare"
],
"near antonyms":[
"accidentally",
"incidentally",
"haphazardly",
"randomly",
"involuntarily",
"unwillingly",
"impulsively",
"instinctively",
"spontaneously"
],
"related":[
"calculatedly",
"studiedly",
"voluntarily",
"willingly",
"premeditatedly"
],
"synonyms":[
"advisedly",
"consciously",
"deliberately",
"designedly",
"intentionally",
"knowingly",
"purposefully",
"purposely",
"purposively",
"wittingly"
]
}
},
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"williwaw":{
"a state of noisy, confused activity":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"the surprise verdict of the jury created a wild williwaw as reporters rushed to file their stories"
],
"near antonyms":[
"calm",
"hush",
"peace",
"quiet",
"quietude",
"rest",
"stillness",
"tranquillity",
"tranquility",
"order",
"orderliness"
],
"related":[
"cacophony",
"clamor",
"din",
"howl",
"hue and cry",
"noise",
"outcry",
"racket",
"roar",
"disorder",
"unrest",
"upheaval",
"eruption",
"flare-up",
"flurry",
"flutter",
"outbreak",
"outburst",
"brawl",
"fracas",
"fray",
"hassle",
"melee",
"m\u00eal\u00e9e",
"scuffle",
"dither",
"fever",
"fret",
"lather",
"tizzy"
],
"synonyms":[
"ado",
"alarums and excursions",
"ballyhoo",
"blather",
"bluster",
"bobbery",
"bother",
"bustle",
"clatter",
"clutter",
"coil",
"commotion",
"corroboree",
"disturbance",
"do",
"foofaraw",
"fun",
"furor",
"furore",
"fuss",
"helter-skelter",
"hoo-ha",
"hoo-hah",
"hoopla",
"hubble-bubble",
"hubbub",
"hullabaloo",
"hurly",
"hurly-burly",
"hurricane",
"hurry",
"hurry-scurry",
"hurry-skurry",
"kerfuffle",
"moil",
"pandemonium",
"pother",
"row",
"ruckus",
"ruction",
"rumpus",
"shindy",
"splore",
"squall",
"stew",
"stir",
"storm",
"to-do",
"tumult",
"turmoil",
"uproar",
"welter",
"whirl",
"zoo"
]
},
"a sudden brief rush of wind":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"a williwaw rose up seemingly out of nowhere and wreaked havoc with our campsite"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"related":[
"breeze",
"zephyr",
"current",
"draft",
"air",
"breath",
"waft",
"puff",
"whiff",
"bluster",
"gale",
"hurricane",
"squall",
"tempest",
"tornado",
"windstorm",
"northeaster",
"norther",
"northerly",
"northwester",
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"shindies",
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"hurricanes",
"squalls",
"tempests",
"tornadoes",
"tornados",
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"uncurl"
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"gain"
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]
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"after six solid hours of painting, his energy was starting to wilt"
],
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"thrive",
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"crest",
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"verb"
]
},
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"verb"
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},
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"winced at the movie's graphic depiction of combat injuries"
],
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"faced"
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"shrunk",
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"verb"
]
},
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"her speeches usually wind up with one last joke"
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"protracts"
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"wine":{
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},
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"wink (at)":{
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"for too long the school just winked at the young athletes' hooliganism, dismissing it as a case of \"boys being boys\""
],
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"pardon",
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"remit",
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]
},
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"servile",
"sycophantic",
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"oleaginous",
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"slobbering",
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"soapy",
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"unctuous"
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"losing"
],
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"the kind of person who always has to win \u2014even if the game is just for fun"
],
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"rivalling",
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"bagging",
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"clocking (up)",
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"win a gold medal in swimming"
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"winningly":{
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"won the debate with incisive yet winningly witty responses"
],
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"dreadfully",
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"horribly",
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"shockingly",
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"terribly",
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"luckily",
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"felicitously",
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"gloriously",
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"splendidly",
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},
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"winnowed":{
"to remove less desirable choices from a group or list":{
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"They winnowed the pool of applicants down to a few of the strongest candidates.",
"I tried to winnow out the options that weren't a good value for the price."
],
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},
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},
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"winnowed (out)":{
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"wino":{
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"a combination of solid reasoning and outright begging won my parents over , and I became an exchange student for a year"
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"the normal or healthy condition of the mental abilities":{
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"noun"
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"The kids were thrilled to hear that their family dog, Molly, was with young ."
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]
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"must withhold official approval until all the proper forms have been submitted"
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"disallowed",
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"exteriors",
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],
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"structural decay had started from within"
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],
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"borders",
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"brinks",
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"extremities",
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],
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"bellies",
"bowels",
"guts",
"stuffings",
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"cores",
"hearts"
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"innards",
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"noun"
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"repartees",
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"witless",
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"lame",
"humorless",
"unamusing",
"uncomic",
"unfunny",
"earnest",
"grave",
"serious",
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"solemn",
"somber",
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],
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"intellectual",
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"jesting",
"joking",
"joshing",
"teasing",
"antic",
"comic",
"comical",
"droll",
"farcical",
"funny",
"hysterical",
"laughable",
"ludicrous",
"ridiculous",
"riotous",
"risible",
"rollicking",
"screaming",
"sidesplitting",
"uproarious",
"amusing",
"diverting",
"entertaining",
"mischievous",
"playful",
"prankish",
"jocose",
"jocund",
"jolly",
"jovial",
"laughing",
"merry",
"mirthful",
"sunny",
"scintillating",
"sparkling",
"flip",
"flippant",
"pert",
"smart-aleck",
"smart-alecky",
"waggish",
"whimsical"
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"facetious",
"humorous",
"jocular",
"smart"
]
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]
},
"wizardry":{
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"examples":[
"a movie about wizardry and bizarre creatures"
],
"near antonyms":[
"science"
],
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"amulet",
"charm",
"fetish",
"fetich",
"mascot",
"periapt",
"phylactery",
"talisman",
"conjuration",
"glamour",
"glamor",
"incantation",
"spell",
"curse",
"hex",
"jinx",
"augury",
"crystal gazing",
"divination",
"divining",
"forecasting",
"foreknowing",
"foreseeing",
"foretelling",
"fortune-telling",
"predicting",
"presaging",
"prognosticating",
"prophesying",
"soothsaying",
"sortilege",
"hexerei",
"hoodoo",
"occultism",
"spiritualism",
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"diablerie",
"enchantment",
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"magic",
"mojo",
"necromancy",
"sorcery",
"thaumaturgy",
"voodooism",
"witchcraft",
"witchery"
]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"wizen":{
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"as in shrivel , mummify":{
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"examples":[],
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"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"mummify",
"shrivel",
"dry",
"wilt",
"wither",
"decline",
"fade",
"wane",
"decrease",
"diminish",
"lessen"
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"revive",
"bloom",
"flourish",
"prosper",
"thrive",
"develop",
"grow",
"increase",
"wax",
"crest",
"peak",
"surge"
],
"antonyms":[]
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},
"type":[
"verb"
]
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},
"wishing (for)":{
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"having her own home was something she had wished for since she was a child"
],
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"craving",
"desiderating",
"desiring",
"dying (for)",
"hankering (for or after)",
"hungering (for)",
"itching (for)",
"jonesing (for)",
"longing (for)",
"lusting (for or after)",
"panting (after)",
"pining (for)",
"repining (for)",
"salivating (for)",
"sighing (for)",
"thirsting (for)",
"wanting",
"yearning (for)",
"yenning (for)"
],
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"spoiling (for)",
"adoring",
"delighting (in)",
"digging",
"enjoying",
"fancying",
"grooving (on)",
"liking",
"loving",
"relishing",
"reveling (in)",
"revelling (in)",
"favoring",
"preferring",
"admiring",
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"cherishing",
"prizing",
"treasuring",
"valuing"
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"abominating",
"despising",
"detesting",
"execrating",
"hating",
"loathing",
"declining",
"refusing",
"rejecting",
"spurning"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
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"verb"
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},
"wiping the floor with":{
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"bombing",
"burying",
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"creaming",
"drubbing",
"dusting",
"flattening",
"pasting",
"routing",
"shellacking",
"skinning",
"skunking",
"smoking",
"smothering",
"snowing under",
"thrashing",
"trimming",
"tromping",
"trouncing",
"walloping",
"waxing",
"whipping",
"whomping",
"whopping",
"whapping",
"whupping"
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"upsetting",
"beating",
"besting",
"conquering",
"dispatching",
"hurdling",
"licking",
"mastering",
"overbearing",
"overcoming",
"overmatching",
"prevailing (over)",
"subduing",
"surmounting",
"taking",
"throwing",
"triumphing (over)",
"winning (against)",
"worsting",
"crushing",
"knocking off",
"knocking over",
"overpowering",
"overthrowing",
"overwhelming",
"subjugating",
"upending",
"vanquishing",
"acing (out)",
"bettering",
"eclipsing",
"exceeding",
"outdistancing",
"outdoing",
"outfighting",
"outshining",
"outstripping",
"overtopping",
"surpassing",
"topping",
"transcending",
"edging (out)",
"nosing out",
"pipping",
"capping",
"excelling",
"flourishing",
"scoring",
"succeeding",
"breaking",
"destroying",
"doing in",
"finishing",
"sinking",
"slaughtering"
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"a group of people acting together within a larger group":{
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"the conservative wing of the party"
],
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"blocks",
"blocs",
"bodies",
"coalitions",
"factions",
"parties",
"sects",
"sets",
"sides"
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"related":[
"splinters",
"splits",
"crews",
"gangs",
"packs",
"teams",
"denominations",
"persuasions",
"schisms",
"scissions",
"caucuses",
"movements"
],
"near antonyms":[],
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},
"to move through the air with or as if with outstretched wings":{
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"watched the flocks of birds as they winged southward for the winter"
],
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"aviates",
"flies",
"glides",
"planes",
"soars"
],
"related":[
"drifts",
"floats",
"hangs",
"hovers",
"wafts",
"coasts",
"cruises",
"sails",
"sweeps",
"darts",
"flits",
"flutters",
"catapults",
"helicopters",
"jets",
"orbits",
"rockets",
"dives",
"stoops"
],
"near antonyms":[],
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},
"type":[
"noun",
"verb"
]
},
"winkle":{
"to shoot forth bursts of light":{
"examples":[
"under a canopy of winkling stars, the campers bedded down for the night"
],
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"coruscate",
"flame",
"flash",
"glance",
"gleam",
"glimmer",
"glint",
"glisten",
"glister",
"glitter",
"luster",
"lustre",
"scintillate",
"shimmer",
"spangle",
"sparkle",
"twinkle",
"wink"
],
"related":[
"beam",
"radiate",
"shine",
"bedazzle",
"blind",
"daze",
"dazzle",
"blaze",
"burn",
"flare",
"glare",
"glow"
],
"near antonyms":[],
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},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"window":{
"as in space , pause":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"related":[],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
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},
"wires":{
"a length of braided, flexible material that is used for tying or connecting things":{
"examples":[
"a telephone wire"
],
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"cables",
"cords",
"laces",
"lacings",
"lines",
"ropes",
"strings"
],
"related":[
"guys",
"halyards",
"lanyards",
"stays",
"bungee cords",
"bungees",
"whipcords"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"as in straps , ropes":{
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},
"type":[
"noun",
"verb"
]
},
"wienerwurst":{
"as in hot dog , Vienna sausage":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"related":[],
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},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"windup":{
"to bring (an event) to a natural or appropriate stopping point":{
"examples":[
"try to wind up the performance, as we're almost out of time"
],
"synonyms":[
"close",
"close out",
"complete",
"conclude",
"end",
"finish",
"round (off or out)",
"terminate",
"wrap up"
],
"related":[
"climax",
"crown",
"consummate",
"perfect",
"halt",
"stop",
"suspend"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[
"begin",
"commence",
"inaugurate",
"open",
"start"
]
},
"to come to an end":{
"examples":[
"her speeches usually wind up with one last joke"
],
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"break off",
"break up",
"cease",
"close",
"conclude",
"dead-end",
"determine",
"die",
"discontinue",
"elapse",
"end",
"expire",
"finish",
"go",
"halt",
"lapse",
"leave off",
"let up",
"pass",
"quit",
"stop",
"terminate",
"wink (out)"
],
"related":[
"desist (from)",
"lay off (of)",
"refrain (from)",
"give over",
"knock off",
"pack (up or in)",
"break down",
"conk (out)",
"cut out",
"stall",
"pause",
"stay",
"suspend",
"abate",
"peter (out)",
"wind down"
],
"near antonyms":[
"draw out",
"extend",
"prolong",
"protract"
],
"antonyms":[
"continue",
"hang on",
"persist"
]
},
"the last part of a process or action":{
"examples":[
"wait until the windup of your sales pitch before giving up any information about the product's price point"
],
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"capper",
"close",
"closing",
"conclusion",
"consummation",
"end",
"endgame",
"ending",
"finale",
"finis",
"finish",
"grand finale",
"homestretch",
"mop-up",
"wrap-up"
],
"related":[
"acme",
"apex",
"capstone",
"climax",
"copestone",
"coup de gr\u00e2ce",
"coup de grace",
"crescendo",
"crown",
"culmination",
"high-water mark",
"meridian",
"peak",
"pinnacle",
"summit",
"tip-top",
"top",
"zenith",
"aftermath",
"anticlimax",
"coda",
"epilogue",
"epilog",
"postscript",
"shank",
"tag end",
"tail end"
],
"near antonyms":[
"foreword",
"introduction",
"overture",
"preamble",
"preface",
"prelude",
"prologue",
"prolog"
],
"antonyms":[
"baseline",
"beginning",
"dawn",
"day one",
"nascence",
"nascency",
"opening",
"start"
]
},
"type":[
"noun",
"verb"
]
},
"wining":{
"to drink wine or give wine to (another person) to drink":{
"examples":[
"wined and dined her clients in hopes of closing the deal"
],
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"near synonyms":[
"pledging",
"toasting",
"belting (down)",
"drinking",
"gulping",
"guzzling",
"hoisting",
"imbibing",
"knocking back",
"pounding (down)",
"quaffing",
"sipping",
"slugging (down)",
"slurping",
"supping",
"swigging",
"swilling",
"tossing (down or off)",
"lapping",
"licking",
"sucking",
"consuming",
"downing",
"ingurgitating",
"killing",
"mouthing (down)",
"putting away",
"nipping",
"tippling"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"will-less":{
"not made or done willingly or by choice":{
"examples":[
"her involvement in the after-school program was will-less \u2014her parents made her go"
],
"synonyms":[
"coerced",
"forced",
"involuntary",
"unintended",
"unintentional",
"unwilling"
],
"near synonyms":[
"accidental",
"unplanned",
"unpremeditated",
"automatic",
"impulsive",
"instinctive",
"spontaneous",
"unprompted",
"inadvertent",
"unconscious",
"unknowing",
"unwitting"
],
"near antonyms":[
"advised",
"conscious",
"considered",
"knowing",
"planned",
"premeditated",
"premeditative",
"prepense",
"purposeful",
"volitional",
"self-imposed",
"self-inflicted"
],
"antonyms":[
"deliberate",
"freewill",
"intentional",
"uncoerced",
"unforced",
"voluntary",
"willful",
"wilful",
"willing"
]
},
"type":[
"adjective"
]
},
"wind":{
"noticeable movement of air in a particular direction":{
"examples":[
"there's a wind coming from underneath the front door"
],
"synonyms":[
"current",
"draft"
],
"near synonyms":[
"blast",
"blow",
"flurry",
"gale",
"gust",
"headwind",
"squall",
"tailwind",
"tempest",
"tornado",
"windstorm",
"breath",
"breeze",
"puff",
"waft",
"zephyr"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"a prevailing or general movement or inclination":{
"examples":[
"the winds of public opinion are changing on this issue"
],
"synonyms":[
"current",
"direction",
"drift",
"leaning",
"run",
"tendency",
"tide",
"trend"
],
"near synonyms":[
"curve",
"downside",
"shift",
"swing",
"turn",
"turnabout",
"upside",
"custom",
"habit",
"propensity",
"tenor",
"way",
"countercurrent",
"countertrend",
"undercurrent",
"undertow"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"language that is impressive-sounding but not meaningful or sincere":{
"examples":[
"the speech contained nothing of substance and was just a lot of wind"
],
"synonyms":[
"bombast",
"fustian",
"gas",
"grandiloquence",
"hot air",
"oratory",
"rhetoric",
"verbiage"
],
"near synonyms":[
"claptrap",
"drivel",
"gibberish",
"hogwash",
"humbug",
"jabberwocky",
"jazz",
"moonshine",
"nonsense",
"affectedness",
"floweriness",
"grandiosity",
"loftiness",
"pomposity",
"pretension",
"pretentiousness",
"garrulity",
"garrulousness",
"verboseness",
"verbosity",
"windiness",
"wordiness"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"something that curves or is curved":{
"examples":[
"there's one last easterly wind to the river before it empties into the sea"
],
"synonyms":[
"angle",
"arc",
"arch",
"bend",
"bow",
"crook",
"curvature",
"curve",
"inflection",
"turn"
],
"near synonyms":[
"kink",
"warp",
"circle",
"ring",
"ringlet",
"round",
"coil",
"curl",
"curlicue",
"curlycue",
"buckle",
"convolution",
"flexure",
"fold",
"loop",
"spiral",
"swirl",
"twist",
"winding",
"incurvature",
"reflection",
"decline",
"inclination",
"incline",
"slope",
"corner",
"turnoff",
"dogleg",
"hairpin"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to follow a circular or spiral course":{
"examples":[
"flowering vines wind around the porch's graceful columns"
],
"synonyms":[
"coil",
"corkscrew",
"curl",
"entwine",
"spiral",
"twine",
"twist"
],
"near synonyms":[
"arc",
"arch",
"bend",
"crook",
"curve",
"hook",
"sweep",
"swerve",
"turn",
"veer",
"wheel",
"swirl",
"whirl",
"circle",
"encircle",
"loop",
"enlace",
"interlace",
"intertwine",
"lace",
"bow",
"bulge",
"meander",
"weave",
"zigzag"
],
"near antonyms":[
"straighten"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to introduce in a gradual, secret, or clever way":{
"examples":[
"self-interest winds itself into everything that he does\u2014even his alleged favors for other people"
],
"synonyms":[
"infiltrate",
"insinuate",
"slip",
"sneak",
"work in",
"worm",
"wriggle"
],
"near synonyms":[
"creep",
"edge",
"wiggle",
"insert",
"interpolate",
"interpose",
"introduce"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun",
"verb"
]
},
"winged":{
"to move through the air with or as if with outstretched wings":{
"examples":[
"watched the flocks of birds as they winged southward for the winter"
],
"synonyms":[
"aviated",
"flew",
"glided",
"planed",
"soared"
],
"near synonyms":[
"drifted",
"floated",
"hovered",
"hung",
"hanged",
"wafted",
"coasted",
"cruised",
"sailed",
"swept",
"darted",
"flitted",
"fluttered",
"catapulted",
"helicoptered",
"jetted",
"orbited",
"rocketed",
"dived",
"dove",
"stooped"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"withholding (from)":{
"to resist the temptation of":{
"examples":[
"please see if you can withhold from criticizing every little thing she says"
],
"synonyms":[
"abjuring",
"abstaining (from)",
"forbearing",
"forgoing",
"foregoing",
"keeping (from)",
"refraining (from)"
],
"near synonyms":[
"avoiding",
"eschewing",
"shunning",
"checking",
"constraining",
"curbing",
"inhibiting",
"denying",
"refusing",
"rejecting",
"repudiating",
"bucking",
"combating",
"combatting",
"fighting"
],
"near antonyms":[
"acquiescing (to)",
"capitulating",
"conceding (to)",
"knuckling under (to)"
],
"antonyms":[
"bowing (to)",
"giving in (to)",
"submitting (to)",
"succumbing (to)",
"surrendering (to)",
"yielding (to)"
]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"withheld (from)":{
"to resist the temptation of":{
"examples":[
"please see if you can withhold from criticizing every little thing she says"
],
"synonyms":[
"abjured",
"abstained (from)",
"forbore",
"forwent",
"forewent",
"kept (from)",
"refrained (from)"
],
"near synonyms":[
"avoided",
"eschewed",
"shunned",
"checked",
"constrained",
"curbed",
"inhibited",
"denied",
"refused",
"rejected",
"repudiated",
"bucked",
"combated",
"combatted",
"fought"
],
"near antonyms":[
"acquiesced (to)",
"capitulated",
"conceded (to)",
"knuckled under (to)"
],
"antonyms":[
"bowed (to)",
"gave in (to)",
"submitted (to)",
"succumbed (to)",
"surrendered (to)",
"yielded (to)"
]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"width":{
"an area over which activity, capacity, or influence extends":{
"examples":[
"surprised by the width of his power and influence in the oil business"
],
"synonyms":[
"ambit",
"amplitude",
"breadth",
"compass",
"confines",
"dimension(s)",
"extent",
"range",
"reach",
"realm",
"scope",
"sweep"
],
"near synonyms":[
"gamut",
"spectrum",
"spread",
"bailiwick",
"circle",
"demesne",
"department",
"discipline",
"domain",
"element",
"fief",
"fiefdom",
"field",
"province",
"region",
"specialty",
"sphere",
"terrain",
"frontier",
"horizon",
"panorama"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"witness":{
"something presented in support of the truth or accuracy of a claim":{
"examples":[
"the ruins are a compelling witness of the ancient civilization's cultural and aesthetic achievements"
],
"synonyms":[
"attestation",
"confirmation",
"corroboration",
"documentation",
"evidence",
"proof",
"substantiation",
"testament",
"testimonial",
"testimony",
"validation",
"voucher"
],
"near synonyms":[
"(the) goods",
"certificate",
"document",
"exhibit",
"demonstration",
"illustration",
"authentication",
"identification",
"manifestation",
"verification"
],
"near antonyms":[
"rebuttal",
"refutation",
"accusation",
"allegation",
"charge",
"assumption",
"conjecture",
"guess",
"presumption",
"surmise",
"suspicion"
],
"antonyms":[
"disproof"
]
},
"to declare (something) to be true or genuine":{
"examples":[
"a notary public witnessing wills and other important documents"
],
"synonyms":[
"attest",
"authenticate",
"avouch",
"certify",
"testify (to)",
"vouch (for)"
],
"near synonyms":[
"guarantee",
"warrant",
"affirm",
"assert",
"aver",
"avow",
"profess",
"vow"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to make note of (something) through the use of one's eyes":{
"examples":[
"witnessed the crime"
],
"synonyms":[
"behold",
"catch",
"descry",
"discern",
"distinguish",
"espy",
"eye",
"look (at)",
"note",
"notice",
"observe",
"perceive",
"regard",
"remark",
"see",
"sight",
"spot",
"spy",
"view"
],
"near synonyms":[
"identify",
"make out",
"pick out",
"pick up",
"attend (to)",
"consider",
"heed",
"mark",
"mind",
"study",
"watch",
"examine",
"inspect",
"scan",
"scrutinize",
"survey",
"glance (at)",
"glimpse",
"peer (at)"
],
"near antonyms":[
"disregard",
"ignore",
"neglect",
"overpass",
"pass over",
"miss",
"overlook"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to make a solemn declaration under oath for the purpose of establishing a fact":{
"examples":[
"I witnessed to the fact that I had seen them together that night"
],
"synonyms":[
"attest",
"depose",
"swear",
"testify"
],
"near synonyms":[
"verify",
"vouch",
"promise",
"vow"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to come to a knowledge of (something) by living through it":{
"examples":[
"war changes anyone who has ever witnessed it first hand"
],
"synonyms":[
"endure",
"experience",
"feel",
"have",
"know",
"pass",
"see",
"suffer",
"sustain",
"taste",
"undergo"
],
"near synonyms":[
"encounter",
"meet",
"accept",
"receive",
"assimilate",
"digest"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun",
"verb"
]
},
"widths":{
"an area over which activity, capacity, or influence extends":{
"examples":[
"surprised by the width of his power and influence in the oil business"
],
"synonyms":[
"ambits",
"amplitudes",
"breadths",
"compasses",
"confines",
"dimensions",
"extents",
"ranges",
"reaches",
"realms",
"scopes",
"sweeps"
],
"near synonyms":[
"gamuts",
"spectra",
"spectrums",
"spreads",
"bailiwicks",
"circles",
"demesnes",
"departments",
"disciplines",
"domains",
"elements",
"fiefdoms",
"fiefs",
"fields",
"provinces",
"regions",
"specialties",
"spheres",
"terrains",
"frontiers",
"horizons",
"panoramas"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"winked":{
"to rapidly open and close one's eyes":{
"examples":[
"she winked several times to get the dust and grit out of her eyes"
],
"synonyms":[
"blinked"
],
"near synonyms":[
"batted",
"fluttered",
"squinted"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to shine with light at regular intervals":{
"examples":[
"a lighthouse was winking in the distance"
],
"synonyms":[
"blinked",
"flashed",
"twinkled"
],
"near synonyms":[
"coruscated",
"flared",
"flickered",
"glanced",
"glimmered",
"glinted",
"glistened",
"glistered",
"glittered",
"scintillated",
"shimmered",
"spangled",
"sparked",
"sparkled"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to shoot forth bursts of light":{
"examples":[
"fireflies winking in the darkness beyond our campfire"
],
"synonyms":[
"coruscated",
"flamed",
"flashed",
"glanced",
"gleamed",
"glimmered",
"glinted",
"glistened",
"glistered",
"glittered",
"lustered",
"lustred",
"scintillated",
"shimmered",
"spangled",
"sparkled",
"twinkled",
"winkled"
],
"near synonyms":[
"beamed",
"radiated",
"shone",
"shined",
"bedazzled",
"blinded",
"dazed",
"dazzled",
"blazed",
"burned",
"burnt",
"flared",
"glared",
"glowed"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to secretly sympathize with or pretend ignorance of something improper or unlawful":{
"examples":[
"the whole sporting world seems to wink as untold sums are bet on the outcome of the Super Bowl"
],
"synonyms":[
"connived"
],
"near synonyms":[
"brushed (aside or off)",
"condoned",
"disregarded",
"excused",
"forgave",
"glossed (over)",
"glozed (over)",
"ignored",
"overlooked",
"pardoned",
"passed over",
"shrugged off",
"tolerated"
],
"near antonyms":[
"disapproved (of)",
"frowned (on or upon)",
"denied",
"disallowed",
"refused"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"willpower":{
"the power to control one's actions, impulses, or emotions":{
"examples":[
"trying to summon the willpower to resist buying any more books before finishing the unread ones I already have"
],
"synonyms":[
"continence",
"restraint",
"self-command",
"self-containment",
"self-control",
"self-discipline",
"self-government",
"self-mastery",
"self-possession",
"self-restraint",
"will"
],
"near synonyms":[
"self-abnegation",
"self-denial",
"moderateness",
"moderation",
"temperance",
"temperateness",
"determination",
"nerve",
"command",
"control",
"discipline",
"mastery",
"abnegation",
"abstention",
"avoidance",
"eschewal",
"forbearance",
"abstinence",
"soberness",
"sobriety",
"aplomb",
"assurance",
"composure",
"confidence",
"coolness",
"equanimity",
"poise",
"self-confidence",
"discretion"
],
"near antonyms":[
"gratification",
"indulgence",
"self-indulgence",
"excessiveness",
"immoderacy",
"intemperance",
"intemperateness",
"overindulgence",
"demerit",
"failing",
"fault",
"feebleness",
"foible",
"frailty",
"shortcoming",
"vice",
"weakness",
"indiscipline",
"unconstraint",
"unreserve",
"unreservedness",
"unrestraint"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"wisewomen":{
"as in sibyls , prophetesses":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"prophetesses",
"sibyls",
"augurs",
"diviners",
"forecasters",
"foreseers",
"foretellers",
"fortune-tellers",
"futurists",
"prognosticators",
"prophesiers",
"prophets",
"seers",
"soothsayers",
"visionaries",
"mystics",
"oracles",
"astrologers",
"crystal gazers",
"palmists",
"rhabdomancers",
"Cassandras",
"doomsayers",
"doomsdayers",
"Jeremiahs"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"wired":{
"as in nervous , anxious":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"anxious",
"dithery",
"edgy",
"het up",
"high-strung",
"hyped-up",
"hyper",
"jittery",
"jumpy",
"nervous",
"nervy",
"perturbed",
"tense",
"troubled",
"uneasy",
"unquiet",
"upset",
"uptight",
"afire",
"aflutter",
"aquiver",
"atingle",
"hyperexcited",
"overexcited",
"agitated",
"excited",
"feverish",
"frenzied",
"heated",
"hectic",
"hyperactive",
"overactive",
"overwrought"
],
"near antonyms":[
"calm",
"collected",
"composed",
"cool",
"coolheaded",
"placid",
"serene",
"tranquil",
"undisturbed",
"unperturbed",
"unshaken",
"untroubled",
"unworried"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"as in strapped , roped":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"cinched",
"corded",
"roped",
"strapped",
"threaded",
"banded",
"bound",
"tied",
"trussed",
"girded",
"girt",
"girted",
"lashed",
"leashed",
"tethered",
"interlaced",
"intertwined",
"interwove",
"interweaved",
"laced",
"entangled",
"knotted",
"snarled",
"tangled",
"twisted",
"coiled",
"wound",
"winded"
],
"near antonyms":[
"unbound",
"untied",
"undid",
"unfastened",
"unlaced",
"unlashed",
"unloosed",
"unloosened",
"unstrapped",
"unstrung",
"unthreaded",
"unleashed",
"untethered",
"disentangled",
"unraveled",
"unsnarled",
"untangled",
"untwined",
"untwisted",
"uncoiled",
"unspooled",
"unwound"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"adjective",
"verb"
]
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}
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