dict_dl/en_MWThesaurus/gob_MWT.json

{
  "gob":{
    "a considerable amount":{
      "antonyms":[
        "ace",
        "bit",
        "dab",
        "dram",
        "driblet",
        "glimmer",
        "handful",
        "hint",
        "lick",
        "little",
        "mite",
        "mouthful",
        "nip",
        "ounce",
        "peanuts",
        "pinch",
        "pittance",
        "scruple",
        "shade",
        "shadow",
        "smidgen",
        "smidgeon",
        "smidgin",
        "smidge",
        "speck",
        "spot",
        "sprinkle",
        "sprinkling",
        "strain",
        "streak",
        "suspicion",
        "tad",
        "taste",
        "touch",
        "trace"
      ],
      "examples":[
        "has gobs of money"
      ],
      "near antonyms":[
        "atom",
        "crumb",
        "dot",
        "fleck",
        "flyspeck",
        "fragment",
        "grain",
        "granule",
        "iota",
        "jot",
        "modicum",
        "molecule",
        "mote",
        "nubbin",
        "particle",
        "ray",
        "scintilla",
        "scrap",
        "shred",
        "tittle",
        "whit",
        "smatter",
        "smattering",
        "dash",
        "drop",
        "morsel",
        "shot",
        "piece",
        "portion",
        "section",
        "absence",
        "dearth",
        "famine",
        "lack",
        "paucity",
        "poverty",
        "scarceness",
        "scarcity",
        "shortage",
        "undersupply",
        "want",
        "deficiency",
        "deficit",
        "inadequacy",
        "insufficiency",
        "meagerness",
        "scantiness",
        "scantness",
        "skimpiness"
      ],
      "related":[
        "epidemic",
        "plague",
        "rash",
        "bonanza",
        "embarrassment",
        "excess",
        "overabundance",
        "overage",
        "overkill",
        "overmuch",
        "oversupply",
        "plethora",
        "redundancy",
        "superabundance",
        "superfluity",
        "surfeit",
        "surplus",
        "deluge",
        "flood",
        "overflow",
        "army",
        "bevy",
        "cram",
        "crowd",
        "crush",
        "drove",
        "flock",
        "herd",
        "horde",
        "host",
        "legion",
        "mob",
        "multitude",
        "press",
        "score",
        "sea",
        "swarm",
        "throng",
        "gazillion",
        "jillion",
        "kazillion",
        "million",
        "thousands",
        "trillion",
        "zillion"
      ],
      "synonyms":[
        "abundance",
        "barrel",
        "basketful",
        "boatload",
        "bucket",
        "bunch",
        "bundle",
        "bushel",
        "carload",
        "chunk",
        "deal",
        "dozen",
        "fistful",
        "good deal",
        "heap",
        "hundred",
        "lashings",
        "lashins",
        "loads",
        "lot",
        "mass",
        "mess",
        "mountain",
        "much",
        "multiplicity",
        "myriad",
        "oodles",
        "pack",
        "passel",
        "peck",
        "pile",
        "plateful",
        "plenitude",
        "plentitude",
        "plenty",
        "pot",
        "potful",
        "profusion",
        "quantity",
        "raft",
        "reams",
        "scads",
        "sheaf",
        "shipload",
        "sight",
        "slew",
        "spate",
        "stack",
        "store",
        "ton",
        "truckload",
        "volume",
        "wad",
        "wealth",
        "yard"
      ]
    },
    "a small uneven mass":{
      "antonyms":[],
      "examples":[
        "grabbed a gob of clay from the block and threw it on the pottery wheel"
      ],
      "near antonyms":[],
      "related":[
        "bead",
        "drop",
        "globule",
        "block",
        "body",
        "bulk",
        "particle",
        "piece",
        "portion",
        "bit",
        "chip",
        "crumb",
        "granule",
        "morsel",
        "nubbin",
        "patch",
        "scrap"
      ],
      "synonyms":[
        "blob",
        "chunk",
        "clod",
        "clot",
        "clump",
        "dollop",
        "glob",
        "gobbet",
        "hunk",
        "knob",
        "lump",
        "nub",
        "nubble",
        "nugget",
        "wad"
      ]
    },
    "one who operates or navigates a seagoing vessel":{
      "antonyms":[],
      "examples":[
        "avast, ye gobs , and haul anchor!"
      ],
      "near antonyms":[],
      "related":[
        "coxswain",
        "crewman",
        "deckhand",
        "shipmate",
        "able-bodied seaman",
        "able seaman",
        "lubber",
        "powerboater",
        "sailboater",
        "lime-juicer",
        "limey"
      ],
      "synonyms":[
        "hearty",
        "jack",
        "jack-tar",
        "mariner",
        "navigator",
        "sailor",
        "salt",
        "sea dog",
        "seafarer",
        "seaman",
        "shipman",
        "swab",
        "swabbie",
        "swabby",
        "tar"
      ]
    },
    "the opening through which food passes into the body of an animal":{
      "antonyms":[],
      "examples":[
        "he threatened the yob with a punch in the gob if he didn't stop insulting everyone"
      ],
      "near antonyms":[],
      "related":[
        "countenance",
        "face",
        "puss",
        "visage",
        "muzzle",
        "jaws",
        "mandible",
        "maxilla",
        "gullet",
        "maw"
      ],
      "synonyms":[
        "chops",
        "kisser",
        "mouth",
        "mug",
        "piehole",
        "trap",
        "yap"
      ]
    },
    "type":[
      "noun"
    ]
  },
  "gobbet":{
    "a small uneven mass":{
      "antonyms":[],
      "examples":[
        "deftly avoided stepping in a gobbet of spit on the sidewalk"
      ],
      "near antonyms":[],
      "related":[
        "bead",
        "drop",
        "globule",
        "block",
        "body",
        "bulk",
        "particle",
        "piece",
        "portion",
        "bit",
        "chip",
        "crumb",
        "granule",
        "morsel",
        "nubbin",
        "patch",
        "scrap"
      ],
      "synonyms":[
        "blob",
        "chunk",
        "clod",
        "clot",
        "clump",
        "dollop",
        "glob",
        "gob",
        "hunk",
        "knob",
        "lump",
        "nub",
        "nubble",
        "nugget",
        "wad"
      ]
    },
    "type":[
      "noun"
    ]
  },
  "gobble":{
    "to swallow or eat greedily":{
      "examples":[
        "gobbled the sandwiches like they hadn't eaten for days"
      ],
      "synonyms":[
        "bolt",
        "cram",
        "devour",
        "glut",
        "gorge",
        "gormandize",
        "gulp",
        "ingurgitate",
        "inhale",
        "raven",
        "scarf",
        "scoff",
        "slop",
        "wolf"
      ],
      "near synonyms":[
        "overeat",
        "pig out",
        "swill"
      ],
      "near antonyms":[
        "nibble",
        "peck",
        "pick"
      ],
      "antonyms":[]
    },
    "type":[
      "verb"
    ]
  },
  "gobbles (up)":{
    "as in devours":{
      "examples":[],
      "synonyms":[],
      "near synonyms":[
        "devours",
        "browses",
        "dips (into)",
        "leafs (through)",
        "scans",
        "skims",
        "speed-reads",
        "thumbs (through)",
        "turns over",
        "slogs (through)",
        "wades (through)",
        "peruses",
        "pores (over)",
        "reads",
        "rereads",
        "proofreads",
        "deciphers",
        "reviews",
        "studies",
        "apprehends",
        "comprehends",
        "gets",
        "grasps",
        "makes",
        "makes out",
        "perceives",
        "sees",
        "tumbles (to)",
        "understands"
      ],
      "near antonyms":[],
      "antonyms":[]
    },
    "type":[
      "verb"
    ]
  },
  "gobbledygook":{
    "language marked by abstractions, jargon, euphemisms, and circumlocutions":{
      "examples":[
        "cut through the gobbledygook and just tell me what the final cost of the car would be"
      ],
      "synonyms":[
        "bafflegab",
        "double-talk",
        "gibberish",
        "rigmarole",
        "rigamarole",
        "song and dance"
      ],
      "near synonyms":[
        "bureaucratese",
        "computerese",
        "educationese",
        "governmentese",
        "legalese",
        "Pentagonese",
        "psychobabble",
        "technobabble",
        "bombast",
        "fustian",
        "gas",
        "grandiloquence",
        "hot air",
        "hype",
        "oratory",
        "rhetoric",
        "wind"
      ],
      "near antonyms":[],
      "antonyms":[]
    },
    "type":[
      "noun"
    ]
  },
  "gobbled (up)":{
    "as in devoured":{
      "examples":[],
      "synonyms":[],
      "near synonyms":[
        "devoured",
        "browsed",
        "dipped (into)",
        "leafed (through)",
        "scanned",
        "skimmed",
        "speed-read",
        "thumbed (through)",
        "turned over",
        "slogged (through)",
        "waded (through)",
        "perused",
        "pored (over)",
        "read",
        "reread",
        "proofread",
        "deciphered",
        "reviewed",
        "studied",
        "apprehended",
        "comprehended",
        "got",
        "grasped",
        "made",
        "made out",
        "perceived",
        "saw",
        "tumbled (to)",
        "understood"
      ],
      "near antonyms":[],
      "antonyms":[]
    },
    "type":[
      "verb"
    ]
  },
  "goblet":{
    "a container used for drinking liquids that has a round bowl on top of a stem attached to a flat base":{
      "examples":[
        "The water was served in fancy crystal goblets ."
      ],
      "synonyms":[],
      "near synonyms":[
        "chalice",
        "cup",
        "demitasse",
        "glass",
        "mug",
        "teacup",
        "dinnerware",
        "tableware",
        "china",
        "chinaware",
        "crockery",
        "earthenware",
        "porcelain",
        "pottery",
        "stoneware",
        "ware",
        "crystal",
        "glassware"
      ],
      "near antonyms":[],
      "antonyms":[]
    },
    "type":[
      "noun"
    ]
  },
  "gobble (up or down)":{
    "as in devour , bolt":{
      "examples":[],
      "synonyms":[],
      "near synonyms":[
        "bolt",
        "devour",
        "gulp",
        "ingurgitate",
        "drink",
        "guzzle",
        "imbibe",
        "knock back",
        "sip",
        "consume",
        "eat",
        "mouth (down)",
        "put away",
        "sup",
        "down",
        "get down",
        "ingest",
        "swallow",
        "gorge",
        "scarf",
        "scoff",
        "wolf",
        "chew",
        "gnaw (at or on)",
        "lap",
        "lick",
        "munch",
        "nibble (on)",
        "peck (at)",
        "ruminate",
        "dispatch",
        "finish",
        "polish off"
      ],
      "near antonyms":[],
      "antonyms":[]
    },
    "type":[
      "verb"
    ]
  },
  "gobbets":{
    "a small uneven mass":{
      "examples":[
        "deftly avoided stepping in a gobbet of spit on the sidewalk"
      ],
      "synonyms":[
        "blobs",
        "chunks",
        "clods",
        "clots",
        "clumps",
        "dollops",
        "globs",
        "gobs",
        "hunks",
        "knobs",
        "lumps",
        "nubbles",
        "nubs",
        "nuggets",
        "wads"
      ],
      "near synonyms":[
        "beads",
        "drops",
        "globules",
        "blocks",
        "bodies",
        "bulks",
        "particles",
        "pieces",
        "portions",
        "bits",
        "chips",
        "crumbs",
        "granules",
        "morsels",
        "nubbins",
        "patches",
        "scraps"
      ],
      "near antonyms":[],
      "antonyms":[]
    },
    "type":[
      "noun"
    ]
  },
  "gobbles":{
    "to swallow or eat greedily":{
      "examples":[
        "gobbled the sandwiches like they hadn't eaten for days"
      ],
      "synonyms":[
        "bolts",
        "crams",
        "devours",
        "gluts",
        "gorges",
        "gormandizes",
        "gulps",
        "ingurgitates",
        "inhales",
        "ravens",
        "scarfs",
        "scoffs",
        "slops",
        "wolfs"
      ],
      "near synonyms":[
        "overeats",
        "pigs out",
        "swills"
      ],
      "near antonyms":[
        "nibbles",
        "pecks",
        "picks"
      ],
      "antonyms":[]
    },
    "type":[
      "verb"
    ]
  },
  "gobbled":{
    "to swallow or eat greedily":{
      "examples":[
        "gobbled the sandwiches like they hadn't eaten for days"
      ],
      "synonyms":[
        "bolted",
        "crammed",
        "devoured",
        "glutted",
        "gorged",
        "gormandized",
        "gulped",
        "ingurgitated",
        "inhaled",
        "ravened",
        "scarfed",
        "scoffed",
        "slopped",
        "wolfed"
      ],
      "near synonyms":[
        "overate",
        "pigged out",
        "swilled"
      ],
      "near antonyms":[
        "nibbled",
        "pecked",
        "picked"
      ],
      "antonyms":[]
    },
    "type":[
      "verb"
    ]
  },
  "gobbling":{
    "as in devouring , gulping":{
      "examples":[],
      "synonyms":[],
      "near synonyms":[
        "devouring",
        "gorging",
        "gormandizing",
        "gulping",
        "hearty",
        "wolfish",
        "insatiable",
        "unquenchable",
        "unslakable",
        "edacious",
        "esurient",
        "gluttonous",
        "greedy",
        "hoggish",
        "piggish",
        "rapacious",
        "ravenous",
        "swinish",
        "voracious",
        "empty",
        "famished",
        "hungry",
        "peckish",
        "starved",
        "starving",
        "malnourished",
        "underfed",
        "undernourished"
      ],
      "near antonyms":[
        "content",
        "full",
        "glutted",
        "sated",
        "satiated",
        "satisfied",
        "stuffed"
      ],
      "antonyms":[]
    },
    "to swallow or eat greedily":{
      "examples":[
        "gobbled the sandwiches like they hadn't eaten for days"
      ],
      "synonyms":[
        "bolting",
        "cramming",
        "devouring",
        "glutting",
        "gorging",
        "gormandizing",
        "gulping",
        "ingurgitating",
        "inhaling",
        "ravening",
        "scarfing",
        "scoffing",
        "slopping",
        "wolfing"
      ],
      "near synonyms":[
        "overeating",
        "pigging out",
        "swilling"
      ],
      "near antonyms":[
        "nibbling",
        "pecking",
        "picking"
      ],
      "antonyms":[]
    },
    "type":[
      "adjective",
      "verb"
    ]
  },
  "gobs":{
    "a considerable amount":{
      "examples":[
        "has gobs of money"
      ],
      "synonyms":[
        "abundance",
        "barrel",
        "basketful",
        "boatload",
        "bucket",
        "bunch",
        "bundle",
        "bushel",
        "carload",
        "chunk",
        "deal",
        "dozen",
        "fistful",
        "good deal",
        "heap",
        "hundred",
        "lashings",
        "lashins",
        "loads",
        "lot",
        "mass",
        "mess",
        "mountain",
        "much",
        "multiplicity",
        "myriad",
        "oodles",
        "pack",
        "passel",
        "peck",
        "pile",
        "plateful",
        "plenitude",
        "plentitude",
        "plenty",
        "pot",
        "potful",
        "profusion",
        "quantity",
        "raft",
        "reams",
        "scads",
        "sheaf",
        "shipload",
        "sight",
        "slew",
        "spate",
        "stack",
        "store",
        "ton",
        "truckload",
        "volume",
        "wad",
        "wealth",
        "yard"
      ],
      "near synonyms":[
        "epidemic",
        "plague",
        "rash",
        "bonanza",
        "embarrassment",
        "excess",
        "overabundance",
        "overage",
        "overkill",
        "overmuch",
        "oversupply",
        "plethora",
        "redundancy",
        "superabundance",
        "superfluity",
        "surfeit",
        "surplus",
        "deluge",
        "flood",
        "overflow",
        "army",
        "bevy",
        "cram",
        "crowd",
        "crush",
        "drove",
        "flock",
        "herd",
        "horde",
        "host",
        "legion",
        "mob",
        "multitude",
        "press",
        "score",
        "sea",
        "swarm",
        "throng",
        "gazillion",
        "jillion",
        "kazillion",
        "million",
        "thousands",
        "trillion",
        "zillion"
      ],
      "near antonyms":[
        "atom",
        "crumb",
        "dot",
        "fleck",
        "flyspeck",
        "fragment",
        "grain",
        "granule",
        "iota",
        "jot",
        "modicum",
        "molecule",
        "mote",
        "nubbin",
        "particle",
        "ray",
        "scintilla",
        "scrap",
        "shred",
        "tittle",
        "whit",
        "smatter",
        "smattering",
        "dash",
        "drop",
        "morsel",
        "shot",
        "piece",
        "portion",
        "section",
        "absence",
        "dearth",
        "famine",
        "lack",
        "paucity",
        "poverty",
        "scarceness",
        "scarcity",
        "shortage",
        "undersupply",
        "want",
        "deficiency",
        "deficit",
        "inadequacy",
        "insufficiency",
        "meagerness",
        "scantiness",
        "scantness",
        "skimpiness"
      ],
      "antonyms":[
        "ace",
        "bit",
        "dab",
        "dram",
        "driblet",
        "glimmer",
        "handful",
        "hint",
        "lick",
        "little",
        "mite",
        "mouthful",
        "nip",
        "ounce",
        "peanuts",
        "pinch",
        "pittance",
        "scruple",
        "shade",
        "shadow",
        "smidgen",
        "smidgeon",
        "smidgin",
        "smidge",
        "speck",
        "spot",
        "sprinkle",
        "sprinkling",
        "strain",
        "streak",
        "suspicion",
        "tad",
        "taste",
        "touch",
        "trace"
      ]
    },
    "type":[
      "noun"
    ]
  },
  "gobbling (up)":{
    "as in devouring":{
      "examples":[],
      "synonyms":[],
      "near synonyms":[
        "devouring",
        "browsing",
        "dipping (into)",
        "leafing (through)",
        "scanning",
        "skimming",
        "speed-reading",
        "thumbing (through)",
        "turning over",
        "slogging (through)",
        "wading (through)",
        "perusing",
        "poring (over)",
        "reading",
        "rereading",
        "proofreading",
        "deciphering",
        "reviewing",
        "studying",
        "apprehending",
        "comprehending",
        "getting",
        "grasping",
        "making",
        "making out",
        "perceiving",
        "seeing",
        "tumbling (to)",
        "understanding"
      ],
      "near antonyms":[],
      "antonyms":[]
    },
    "type":[
      "verb"
    ]
  },
  "gobbledegook":{
    "language marked by abstractions, jargon, euphemisms, and circumlocutions":{
      "examples":[
        "cut through the gobbledygook and just tell me what the final cost of the car would be"
      ],
      "synonyms":[
        "bafflegab",
        "double-talk",
        "gibberish",
        "rigmarole",
        "rigamarole",
        "song and dance"
      ],
      "near synonyms":[
        "bureaucratese",
        "computerese",
        "educationese",
        "governmentese",
        "legalese",
        "Pentagonese",
        "psychobabble",
        "technobabble",
        "bombast",
        "fustian",
        "gas",
        "grandiloquence",
        "hot air",
        "hype",
        "oratory",
        "rhetoric",
        "wind"
      ],
      "near antonyms":[],
      "antonyms":[]
    },
    "type":[
      "noun"
    ]
  },
  "goblins":{
    "an imaginary being usually having a small human form and magical powers":{
      "examples":[
        "dressed up the toddlers like goblins for Halloween"
      ],
      "synonyms":[
        "brownies",
        "dwarfs",
        "dwarves",
        "elves",
        "faeries",
        "fairies",
        "fays",
        "gnomes",
        "gremlins",
        "hobgoblins",
        "kobolds",
        "leprechauns",
        "pixies",
        "pucks",
        "sprites",
        "trolls"
      ],
      "near synonyms":[
        "little people",
        "kelpies",
        "nixies",
        "changelings",
        "imps",
        "banshees",
        "ghouls",
        "hags",
        "ogres"
      ],
      "near antonyms":[],
      "antonyms":[]
    },
    "type":[
      "noun"
    ]
  }
}