dict_dl/en_MWThesaurus/bei_MWT.json

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{
"being":{
"as in living , existing":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"breathing",
"existent",
"existing",
"living",
"contemporary",
"mod",
"modern",
"modernistic",
"new",
"newfangled",
"new-fashioned",
"recent",
"red-hot",
"space-age",
"supermodern",
"ultramodern",
"up-to-date",
"current",
"extant",
"immediate",
"instant",
"ongoing",
"present",
"present-day"
],
"near antonyms":[
"coming",
"future",
"unborn",
"completed",
"concluded",
"done",
"ended",
"finished",
"over",
"terminated",
"through",
"up",
"ancient",
"antediluvian",
"antiquated",
"antique",
"archaic",
"dated",
"fusty",
"musty",
"noncontemporary",
"obsolete",
"old",
"oldfangled",
"old-fashioned",
"old-time",
"out-of-date",
"outworn",
"pass\u00e9",
"ago",
"bygone",
"erstwhile",
"former",
"past"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"a member of the human race":{
"examples":[
"no one has the right to enslave another being"
],
"synonyms":[
"baby",
"bird",
"bod",
"body",
"character",
"cookie",
"cooky",
"creature",
"customer",
"devil",
"duck",
"egg",
"face",
"fish",
"guy",
"head",
"human",
"human being",
"individual",
"life",
"man",
"mortal",
"party",
"person",
"personage",
"scout",
"slob",
"sort",
"soul",
"specimen",
"stiff",
"thing",
"wight"
],
"near synonyms":[
"hominid",
"homo",
"humanoid",
"brother",
"fellow",
"fellowman",
"neighbor",
"celebrity",
"personality",
"self",
"somebody"
],
"near antonyms":[
"animal",
"beast",
"beastie",
"brute",
"critter"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"one that has a real and independent existence":{
"examples":[
"new parents are typically in awe at having created this separate being"
],
"synonyms":[
"commodity",
"entity",
"existent",
"individual",
"individuality",
"integer",
"object",
"reality",
"something",
"substance",
"thing"
],
"near synonyms":[
"body",
"subject",
"material",
"matter",
"quantity",
"stuff"
],
"near antonyms":[
"nonentity"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"the quality or qualities that make a thing what it is":{
"examples":[
"music is such a large part of her being that she could never give up performing"
],
"synonyms":[
"essence",
"essentiality",
"nature",
"quiddity",
"quintessence",
"soul",
"stuff",
"substance"
],
"near synonyms":[
"heart",
"spirit",
"alpha and omega",
"center",
"core",
"keynote",
"marrow",
"pith",
"seat",
"embodiment",
"epitome",
"incarnation",
"manifestation",
"personification",
"aspect",
"attribute",
"feature",
"property",
"gist",
"kernel",
"nub"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to have life":{
"examples":[
"stories that begin with the familiar line \"once upon a time there was a beautiful maiden\""
],
"synonyms":[
"breathing",
"existing",
"living",
"subsisting"
],
"near synonyms":[
"abiding",
"continuing",
"enduring",
"holding on",
"holding up",
"keeping (on)",
"kicking",
"lasting",
"leading",
"persisting",
"ruling",
"running on",
"surviving",
"moving",
"flourishing",
"prospering",
"thriving"
],
"near antonyms":[
"disappearing",
"evaporating",
"vanishing",
"ceasing",
"desisting",
"discontinuing",
"ending",
"quitting",
"stopping",
"abating",
"dying (down)",
"ebbing",
"letting up",
"moderating",
"subsiding",
"waning"
],
"antonyms":[
"departing",
"dying",
"expiring",
"passing away",
"perishing",
"succumbing"
]
},
"to occupy a place or location":{
"examples":[
"we'll be there waiting for you"
],
"synonyms":[
"bearing",
"lying",
"sitting",
"standing"
],
"near synonyms":[
"commanding",
"overlooking",
"hanging around",
"remaining",
"resting",
"staying",
"sticking around",
"tarrying",
"awaiting",
"waiting",
"posting",
"stationing",
"dwelling",
"residing"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to take or have a certain position within a group arranged in vertical classes":{
"examples":[
"our school's football team is first in its division"
],
"synonyms":[
"grading",
"placing",
"ranking",
"rating",
"standing"
],
"near synonyms":[
"seeding",
"counting",
"categorizing",
"classifying",
"classing",
"codifying",
"compartmentalizing",
"grouping",
"separating",
"setting",
"sorting",
"installing",
"instating"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to take place":{
"examples":[
"the party is next Saturday"
],
"synonyms":[
"befalling",
"betiding",
"chancing",
"coming",
"coming about",
"coming down",
"coming off",
"cooking",
"doing",
"going down",
"going on",
"happening",
"happing",
"occurring",
"passing",
"transpiring"
],
"near synonyms":[
"breaking",
"developing",
"rising",
"shaping (up)",
"arising",
"coming up",
"cropping (up)",
"materializing",
"springing (up)",
"intervening",
"falling out",
"following",
"resulting",
"turning out",
"going off",
"proceeding"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"adjective",
"noun",
"verb"
]
},
"being friends with":{
"to come or be together as friends":{
"examples":[
"If you could be friends with any famous person, past or present, who would you pick?"
],
"synonyms":[
"associating",
"chumming",
"companying",
"consociating",
"consorting",
"fraternizing",
"hanging (around or out)",
"hobnobbing",
"hooking up",
"messing around",
"palling (around)",
"running",
"sorting",
"traveling",
"travelling"
],
"near synonyms":[
"affiliating",
"allying",
"attaching",
"banding",
"bonding",
"clubbing",
"collaborating",
"colluding",
"confederating",
"conjoining",
"connecting",
"cooperating",
"coupling",
"ganging",
"getting along",
"getting on",
"grouping",
"interrelating",
"joining",
"knotting",
"leaguing",
"linking",
"mingling",
"mixing",
"rallying",
"relating",
"siding",
"socializing",
"teaming",
"tying",
"tieing",
"wedding",
"befriending",
"friending"
],
"near antonyms":[
"avoiding",
"cold-shouldering",
"shunning",
"snubbing",
"alienating",
"estranging",
"breaking up",
"disbanding",
"dispersing",
"splitting (up)",
"disjoining",
"dissociating",
"disuniting",
"divorcing",
"severing",
"splitting",
"sundering"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"phrase"
]
},
"being (as or as how or that)":{
"for the reason that":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[
"'cause",
"as",
"as long as",
"because",
"considering",
"for",
"inasmuch as",
"now",
"seeing",
"since",
"whereas"
],
"near synonyms":[],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[]
},
"being (to)":{
"to behave toward in a stated way":{
"examples":[
"you need to be nice to your brother"
],
"synonyms":[
"acting (toward)",
"dealing (with)",
"handling",
"serving",
"treating",
"using"
],
"near synonyms":[
"considering",
"esteeming",
"rating",
"reckoning",
"regarding",
"viewing",
"engaging (with)",
"reacting (to)",
"responding (to)"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"being on the lookout for":{
"to be cautious of or on guard against":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[
"guarding (against)",
"looking out (for)",
"minding",
"waring",
"watching out (for)"
],
"near synonyms":[
"attending",
"heeding",
"marking",
"noticing",
"noting",
"beholding",
"discerning",
"observing",
"perceiving",
"seeing",
"watching"
],
"near antonyms":[
"discounting",
"disregarding",
"ignoring",
"missing",
"overlooking"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[]
},
"beige":{
"lacking in distinctive features or qualities":{
"examples":[
"some food critics have dismissed that chef's version of French cuisine as beige and boring"
],
"synonyms":[
"characterless",
"faceless",
"featureless",
"indistinctive",
"neutral",
"noncommittal",
"nondescript",
"vanilla"
],
"near synonyms":[
"boring",
"drab",
"dreary",
"dry",
"dull",
"flat",
"humdrum",
"leaden",
"monotonous",
"pedestrian",
"stodgy",
"stuffy",
"tame",
"tedious",
"tiresome",
"tiring",
"uninteresting",
"wearisome",
"weary",
"wearying"
],
"near antonyms":[
"arresting",
"bold",
"catchy",
"dramatic",
"emphatic",
"eye-catching",
"flamboyant",
"showy",
"splashy",
"striking"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"adjective"
]
},
"being out of breath":{
"to breathe hard, quickly, or with difficulty":{
"examples":[
"They were out of breath after their five-mile run."
],
"synonyms":[
"blowing",
"gasping",
"heaving",
"hyperventilating",
"panting",
"puffing",
"wheezing"
],
"near synonyms":[
"choking",
"gagging",
"gulping",
"huffing",
"asphyxiating",
"smothering",
"stifling",
"strangling",
"snoring",
"snuffling",
"exhaling",
"expiring"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"phrase"
]
}
}