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{
"goldbricking":{
"as in dallying , loafing":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"dallying",
"loafing",
"lolling",
"lounging",
"apathy",
"languor",
"lassitude",
"lethargy",
"listlessness",
"sluggishness",
"supineness",
"idleness",
"indolence",
"inertia",
"laziness",
"shiftlessness",
"sloth"
],
"near antonyms":[
"drive",
"industriousness",
"industry",
"ambition",
"enterprise",
"go",
"hustle",
"initiative",
"assiduity",
"assiduousness",
"diligence",
"perseverance",
"animation",
"briskness",
"energy",
"exuberance",
"jazziness",
"liveliness",
"lustiness",
"pep",
"peppiness",
"robustness",
"sprightliness",
"vibrancy",
"vigor",
"vim",
"vitality",
"vivacity"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"as in hanging , bumming":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"bumming",
"hanging",
"hanging about",
"hanging around",
"idling",
"loafing",
"slacking (off)",
"vegging out",
"basking",
"kicking back",
"lolling",
"lounging",
"relaxing",
"reposing",
"resting"
],
"near antonyms":[
"drudging",
"grubbing",
"humping",
"hustling",
"laboring",
"moiling",
"pegging (away)",
"plodding",
"plowing",
"plugging",
"slaving",
"slogging",
"straining",
"striving",
"struggling",
"sweating",
"toiling",
"travailing",
"working",
"exercising",
"working out"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun",
"verb"
]
},
"golden-ager":{
"a person of advanced years":{
"examples":[
"offered discounts and special tours for golden-agers"
],
"synonyms":[
"ancient",
"elder",
"geriatric",
"old-timer",
"oldster",
"senior",
"senior citizen"
],
"near synonyms":[
"gaffer",
"graybeard",
"patriarch",
"whitebeard",
"beldam",
"beldame",
"dowager",
"grandam",
"grandame",
"adult",
"grown-up",
"dotard"
],
"near antonyms":[
"adolescent",
"minor",
"child",
"cub",
"juvenile",
"kid",
"kiddie",
"kiddy"
],
"antonyms":[
"youngster",
"youth"
]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"golems":{
"a stupid person":{
"examples":[
"the supervisor was a golem who never had an unprogrammed thought in her life"
],
"synonyms":[
"airheads",
"birdbrains",
"blockheads",
"boneheads",
"bubbleheads",
"chowderheads",
"chuckleheads",
"clodpolls",
"clodpoles",
"clots",
"clucks",
"clunks",
"cretins",
"cuddies",
"deadheads",
"dim bulbs",
"dimwits",
"dips",
"dodoes",
"dodos",
"dolts",
"donkeys",
"doofuses",
"dufuses",
"dopes",
"dorks",
"dullards",
"dumbbells",
"dumbheads",
"dum-dums",
"dummies",
"dummkopfs",
"dunces",
"dunderheads",
"fatheads",
"ganders",
"goofs",
"goons",
"half-wits",
"hammerheads",
"hardheads",
"idiots",
"ignoramuses",
"ignorami",
"imbeciles",
"jackasses",
"know-nothings",
"knuckleheads",
"lamebrains",
"loggerheads",
"loons",
"lumps",
"lunkheads",
"meatheads",
"momes",
"morons",
"mugs",
"mutts",
"naturals",
"nimrods",
"nincompoops",
"ninnies",
"ninnyhammers",
"nits",
"nitwits",
"noddies",
"noodles",
"numskulls",
"numbskulls",
"oafs",
"pinheads",
"prats",
"ratbags",
"sapheads",
"schlubs",
"shlubs",
"schnooks",
"simpletons",
"stocks",
"stupes",
"stupids",
"thickheads",
"turkeys",
"woodenheads",
"yahoos",
"yo-yos"
],
"near synonyms":[
"boobies",
"buffoons",
"fools",
"geese",
"loonies",
"lunatics",
"madmen",
"nuts",
"zanies",
"losers",
"gawks",
"featherbrains",
"scatterbrains",
"beasts",
"boors",
"cads",
"churls",
"clowns",
"creeps",
"curs",
"heels",
"jerks",
"skunks",
"skunk",
"snakes",
"stinkers",
"villains"
],
"near antonyms":[
"intellects",
"intellectuals",
"sages",
"thinkers",
"whizzes",
"wizards",
"polymaths",
"Renaissance men",
"sharpies"
],
"antonyms":[
"brains",
"geniuses",
"genii"
]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"goldbrick":{
"one who deliberately avoids work or duty":{
"examples":[
"the goldbricks among the colonists were warned: no work, no food"
],
"synonyms":[
"shirker",
"slacker"
],
"near synonyms":[
"malingerer",
"dropout",
"quitter",
"drone",
"idler",
"lazybones",
"loafer",
"slouch",
"slug",
"slugabed",
"sluggard",
"dallier",
"lingerer",
"loiterer",
"lounger",
"saunterer",
"dawdler",
"laggard",
"putterer",
"slowpoke"
],
"near antonyms":[
"live wire",
"pistol",
"powerhouse",
"doer",
"go-getter",
"hummer",
"hustler",
"self-starter"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"as in hang , bum":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"bum",
"hang",
"hang about",
"hang around",
"idle",
"loaf",
"slack (off)",
"veg out",
"bask",
"kick back",
"loll",
"lounge",
"relax",
"repose",
"rest"
],
"near antonyms":[
"drudge",
"grub",
"hump",
"hustle",
"labor",
"moil",
"peg (away)",
"plod",
"plow",
"plug",
"slave",
"slog",
"strain",
"strive",
"struggle",
"sweat",
"toil",
"travail",
"work",
"exercise",
"work out"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun",
"verb"
]
},
"golden ages":{
"a period of high artistic or cultural development":{
"examples":[
"a memoir of her days as an actress in the golden age of Hollywood"
],
"synonyms":[
"belle epoques",
"belles \u00e9poques",
"renaissances"
],
"near synonyms":[
"silver ages",
"millennia",
"millenniums",
"blooms",
"blossoms",
"flowers",
"flushes",
"glories",
"heydays",
"primes",
"salad days",
"acmes",
"apexes",
"apices",
"climaxes",
"meridians",
"peaks",
"pinnacles",
"summits",
"zeniths"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[
"dark ages"
]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"golem":{
"a stupid person":{
"examples":[
"the supervisor was a golem who never had an unprogrammed thought in her life"
],
"synonyms":[
"airhead",
"birdbrain",
"blockhead",
"bonehead",
"bubblehead",
"chowderhead",
"chucklehead",
"clodpoll",
"clodpole",
"clot",
"cluck",
"clunk",
"cretin",
"cuddy",
"cuddie",
"deadhead",
"dim bulb",
"dimwit",
"dip",
"dodo",
"dolt",
"donkey",
"doofus",
"dope",
"dork",
"dullard",
"dum-dum",
"dumbbell",
"dumbhead",
"dummkopf",
"dummy",
"dunce",
"dunderhead",
"fathead",
"gander",
"goof",
"goon",
"half-wit",
"hammerhead",
"hardhead",
"idiot",
"ignoramus",
"imbecile",
"jackass",
"know-nothing",
"knucklehead",
"lamebrain",
"loggerhead",
"loon",
"lump",
"lunkhead",
"meathead",
"mome",
"moron",
"mug",
"mutt",
"natural",
"nimrod",
"nincompoop",
"ninny",
"ninnyhammer",
"nit",
"nitwit",
"noddy",
"noodle",
"numskull",
"numbskull",
"oaf",
"pinhead",
"prat",
"ratbag",
"saphead",
"schlub",
"shlub",
"schnook",
"simpleton",
"stock",
"stupe",
"stupid",
"thickhead",
"turkey",
"woodenhead",
"yahoo",
"yo-yo"
],
"related":[
"booby",
"buffoon",
"fool",
"goose",
"loony",
"lunatic",
"madman",
"nut",
"zany",
"loser",
"gawk",
"featherbrain",
"scatterbrain",
"beast",
"boor",
"cad",
"churl",
"clown",
"creep",
"cur",
"heel",
"jerk",
"skunk",
"snake",
"stinker",
"villain"
],
"near antonyms":[
"intellect",
"intellectual",
"sage",
"thinker",
"whiz",
"wizard",
"polymath",
"Renaissance man",
"sharpie",
"sharpy"
],
"antonyms":[
"brain",
"genius"
]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"Goliath":{
"something or someone that is unusually large and powerful":{
"examples":[
"the family-owned company lost the contract to a multibillion-dollar Goliath"
],
"synonyms":[
"behemoth",
"blockbuster",
"colossus",
"dinosaur",
"dreadnought",
"elephant",
"giant",
"jumbo",
"leviathan",
"mammoth",
"mastodon",
"monster",
"titan",
"whale",
"whopper"
],
"near synonyms":[
"amazon",
"giantess",
"bulk",
"hulk",
"heavyweight",
"juggernaut",
"steamroller"
],
"near antonyms":[
"lightweight",
"weakling",
"wimp",
"wisp",
"nonentity",
"twerp",
"whippersnapper"
],
"antonyms":[
"diminutive",
"dwarf",
"half-pint",
"midget",
"mite",
"peewee",
"pygmy",
"pigmy",
"runt",
"shrimp"
]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"gold-plated":{
"covered in a thin layer of gold":{
"examples":[
"Gold-plated jewelry is less expensive than solid gold."
],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"gilded",
"gilt",
"gold",
"golden",
"bejeweled",
"bejewelled",
"bossed",
"chased",
"emblazoned",
"embossed",
"embroidered",
"flounced",
"fringed",
"garlanded",
"laced",
"sequined",
"sequinned",
"wreathed"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"adjective"
]
},
"golden mean":{
"a middle point between extremes":{
"examples":[
"when it comes to money, the golden mean is saving some income, while giving yourself a modest spending allowance"
],
"synonyms":[
"mean",
"medium",
"middle",
"middle ground",
"midpoint"
],
"near synonyms":[
"arithmetic mean",
"average",
"median",
"norm",
"par",
"standard"
],
"near antonyms":[
"maximum",
"utmost",
"minimum"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"Goliaths":{
"something or someone that is unusually large and powerful":{
"examples":[
"the family-owned company lost the contract to a multibillion-dollar Goliath"
],
"synonyms":[
"behemoths",
"blockbusters",
"colossi",
"dinosaurs",
"dreadnoughts",
"elephants",
"elephant",
"giants",
"jumbos",
"leviathans",
"mammoths",
"mastodons",
"monsters",
"titans",
"whales",
"whoppers"
],
"near synonyms":[
"amazons",
"giantesses",
"bulks",
"hulks",
"heavyweights",
"juggernauts",
"steamrollers"
],
"near antonyms":[
"lightweights",
"weaklings",
"wimps",
"wisps",
"nonentities",
"twerps",
"whippersnappers"
],
"antonyms":[
"diminutives",
"dwarfs",
"dwarves",
"half-pints",
"midgets",
"mites",
"peewees",
"pygmies",
"pigmies",
"runts",
"shrimp",
"shrimps"
]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"gold standard":{
"something set up as an example against which others of the same type are compared":{
"examples":[
"the gold standard for accurate experimental procedures is the double-blind medication trial"
],
"synonyms":[
"bar",
"barometer",
"benchmark",
"criterion",
"grade",
"mark",
"measure",
"metric",
"par",
"standard",
"touchstone",
"yardstick"
],
"near synonyms":[
"case",
"example",
"instance",
"average",
"norm",
"rule",
"acme",
"apex",
"meridian",
"peak",
"pinnacle",
"summit",
"zenith"
],
"near antonyms":[
"aberration",
"abnormality",
"deviation"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"goldbricked":{
"as in hung , bummed":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"bummed",
"hung",
"hanged",
"hung about",
"hung around",
"idled",
"loafed",
"slacked (off)",
"vegged out",
"basked",
"kicked back",
"lolled",
"lounged",
"relaxed",
"reposed",
"rested"
],
"near antonyms":[
"drudged",
"grubbed",
"humped",
"hustled",
"labored",
"moiled",
"pegged (away)",
"plodded",
"plowed",
"plugged",
"slaved",
"slogged",
"strained",
"strove",
"strived",
"struggled",
"sweat",
"sweated",
"toiled",
"travailed",
"worked",
"wrought",
"exercised",
"worked out"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"Golcondas":{
"as in bonanzas , honeypots":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"bonanzas",
"gravy trains",
"honeypots",
"caches",
"hoards",
"stashes",
"armories",
"repositories",
"stockpots",
"storehouses",
"stores",
"treasure-houses",
"argosies",
"cornucopias",
"gold mines",
"mines",
"mother lodes",
"treasure troves",
"wellsprings"
],
"near antonyms":[
"black holes",
"sinkholes"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"golden years":{
"as in seniority , elderliness":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"elderliness",
"oldness",
"seniority",
"anecdotage",
"dotage",
"senility",
"adulthood",
"majority",
"maturity",
"middle",
"middle age",
"midlife",
"ripeness",
"sunset",
"twilight",
"winter",
"afterlife",
"afternoon",
"age",
"autumn",
"evening"
],
"near antonyms":[
"springtime",
"adolescence",
"youth"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"plural noun"
]
},
"golden":{
"having qualities which inspire hope":{
"examples":[
"this may be your golden moment to impress a baseball scout, so don't blow it"
],
"synonyms":[
"auspicious",
"bright",
"encouraging",
"fair",
"heartening",
"hopeful",
"likely",
"optimistic",
"promising",
"propitious",
"rose-colored",
"roseate",
"rosy",
"upbeat"
],
"near synonyms":[
"cheering",
"comforting",
"reassuring",
"soothing",
"assured",
"confident",
"decisive",
"doubtless",
"positive",
"sure",
"unhesitating",
"beamish",
"bullish",
"eupeptic",
"favorable",
"good"
],
"near antonyms":[
"cheerless",
"comfortless",
"doubtful",
"dubious",
"uncertain",
"bearish",
"grim",
"negative",
"unfavorable",
"funereal",
"glum",
"gray",
"grey",
"miserable",
"wretched"
],
"antonyms":[
"bleak",
"dark",
"depressing",
"desperate",
"discouraging",
"disheartening",
"dismal",
"downbeat",
"dreary",
"gloomy",
"hopeless",
"inauspicious",
"pessimistic",
"unencouraging",
"unlikely",
"unpromising",
"unpropitious"
]
},
"marked by conspicuously full and rich sounds or tones":{
"examples":[
"sang in a golden alto that filled the concert hall"
],
"synonyms":[
"orotund",
"plangent",
"resonant",
"resounding",
"reverberant",
"reverberating",
"reverberative",
"ringing",
"rotund",
"round",
"sonorous",
"vibrant"
],
"near synonyms":[
"deep",
"full",
"mellifluent",
"mellifluous",
"mellow",
"plummy",
"rich",
"loud",
"powerful",
"stentorian",
"thundering",
"thunderous"
],
"near antonyms":[
"cavernous",
"hollow",
"faint",
"low",
"murmurous",
"muted",
"smothered",
"soft",
"weak",
"thin",
"tinny"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"marked by vigorous growth and well-being especially economically":{
"examples":[
"the golden age of industrialization"
],
"synonyms":[
"booming",
"boomy",
"flourishing",
"halcyon",
"healthy",
"lush",
"palmy",
"prospering",
"prosperous",
"roaring",
"successful",
"thriving"
],
"near synonyms":[
"affluent",
"moneyed",
"monied",
"opulent",
"rich",
"substantial",
"wealthy",
"well-heeled",
"well-off",
"well-to-do",
"comfortable"
],
"near antonyms":[
"declining",
"dying",
"failing",
"floundering",
"languishing",
"struggling",
"bankrupt",
"bankrupted",
"insolvent"
],
"antonyms":[
"depressed",
"unprosperous",
"unsuccessful"
]
},
"of a pale yellow or yellowish brown color":{
"examples":[
"a golden Labrador"
],
"synonyms":[
"blond",
"blonde",
"fair",
"flaxen",
"sandy",
"straw",
"tawny"
],
"near synonyms":[
"ocherous",
"ochreous",
"ash-blond",
"ash-blonde",
"blondish",
"strawberry blonde",
"strawberry blond",
"towheaded",
"gold",
"light",
"white"
],
"near antonyms":[
"black-a-vised",
"brown",
"brunet",
"brunette",
"dark",
"olive",
"swart",
"swarthy",
"black",
"ebony",
"raven"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"pointing toward a happy outcome":{
"examples":[
"that new job is a golden opportunity"
],
"synonyms":[
"auspicious",
"bright",
"encouraging",
"favorable",
"heartening",
"hopeful",
"promising",
"propitious"
],
"near synonyms":[
"fortunate",
"fortuitous",
"happy",
"lucky",
"providential",
"advantageous",
"beneficial",
"profitable",
"prosperous",
"salutary"
],
"near antonyms":[
"unfortunate",
"unhappy",
"unlucky",
"calamitous",
"catastrophic",
"disastrous",
"fatal",
"ruinous",
"baleful",
"dark",
"dire",
"direful",
"doomy",
"foreboding",
"gloomy",
"ill",
"ill-boding",
"menacing",
"minatory",
"ominous",
"portentous",
"sinister",
"threatening"
],
"antonyms":[
"dim",
"discouraging",
"disheartening",
"futureless",
"hopeless",
"inauspicious",
"unfavorable",
"unpromising",
"unpropitious"
]
},
"type":[
"adjective"
]
},
"golden means":{
"a middle point between extremes":{
"examples":[
"when it comes to money, the golden mean is saving some income, while giving yourself a modest spending allowance"
],
"synonyms":[
"means",
"mediums",
"media",
"middle grounds",
"middles",
"midpoints"
],
"near synonyms":[
"arithmetic means",
"averages",
"medians",
"norms",
"pars",
"standards"
],
"near antonyms":[
"maxima",
"maximums",
"utmosts",
"minima",
"minimums"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"golden-agers":{
"a person of advanced years":{
"examples":[
"offered discounts and special tours for golden-agers"
],
"synonyms":[
"ancients",
"elders",
"geriatrics",
"oldsters",
"old-timers",
"senior citizens",
"seniors"
],
"near synonyms":[
"gaffers",
"graybeards",
"patriarchs",
"whitebeards",
"beldams",
"beldames",
"dowagers",
"grandams",
"grandames",
"adults",
"grown-ups",
"dotards"
],
"near antonyms":[
"adolescents",
"minors",
"children",
"cubs",
"juveniles",
"kiddies",
"kids"
],
"antonyms":[
"youngsters",
"youths"
]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"gold mine":{
"an abundant source":{
"examples":[
"the estate sale promises to be a gold mine for antique dealers"
],
"synonyms":[
"argosy",
"cornucopia",
"mine",
"mother lode",
"treasure trove",
"wellspring"
],
"near synonyms":[
"armory",
"repository",
"stockpot",
"store",
"storehouse",
"treasure-house",
"cache",
"hoard",
"stash",
"bonanza",
"Golconda",
"gravy train",
"honeypot"
],
"near antonyms":[
"black hole",
"sinkhole"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"golden age":{
"a period of high artistic or cultural development":{
"examples":[
"a memoir of her days as an actress in the golden age of Hollywood"
],
"synonyms":[
"belle epoque",
"belle \u00e9poque",
"renaissance"
],
"near synonyms":[
"silver age",
"millennium",
"bloom",
"blossom",
"flower",
"flush",
"glory",
"heyday",
"prime",
"salad days",
"acme",
"apex",
"climax",
"meridian",
"peak",
"pinnacle",
"summit",
"zenith"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[
"dark age"
]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"goldbricks":{
"one who deliberately avoids work or duty":{
"examples":[
"the goldbricks among the colonists were warned: no work, no food"
],
"synonyms":[
"shirkers",
"slackers"
],
"near synonyms":[
"malingerers",
"dropouts",
"quitters",
"drones",
"idlers",
"lazybones",
"loafers",
"slouches",
"slugabeds",
"sluggards",
"slugs",
"dalliers",
"lingerers",
"loiterers",
"loungers",
"saunterers",
"dawdlers",
"laggards",
"putterers",
"slowpokes"
],
"near antonyms":[
"live wires",
"pistols",
"powerhouses",
"doers",
"go-getters",
"hummers",
"hustlers",
"self-starters"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"as in hangs , bums":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"bums",
"hangs",
"hangs about",
"hangs around",
"idles",
"loafs",
"slacks (off)",
"vegges out",
"veges out",
"basks",
"kicks back",
"lolls",
"lounges",
"relaxes",
"reposes",
"rests"
],
"near antonyms":[
"drudges",
"grubs",
"humps",
"hustles",
"labors",
"moils",
"pegs (away)",
"plods",
"plows",
"plugs",
"slaves",
"slogs",
"strains",
"strives",
"struggles",
"sweats",
"toils",
"travails",
"works",
"exercises",
"works out"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun",
"verb"
]
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},
"gold standards":{
"something set up as an example against which others of the same type are compared":{
"examples":[
"the gold standard for accurate experimental procedures is the double-blind medication trial"
],
"synonyms":[
"barometers",
"bars",
"benchmarks",
"criteria",
"criterions",
"grades",
"marks",
"measures",
"metrics",
"pars",
"standards",
"touchstones",
"yardsticks"
],
"near synonyms":[
"cases",
"examples",
"instances",
"averages",
"norms",
"rules",
"acmes",
"apexes",
"apices",
"meridians",
"peaks",
"pinnacles",
"summits",
"zeniths"
],
"near antonyms":[
"aberrations",
"abnormalities",
"deviations"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
}
}