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{
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"literality":{
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"as in literalness":{
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"examples":[],
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"synonyms":[],
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"near synonyms":[
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"literalness"
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],
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"near antonyms":[
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"contrivance",
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"creativity",
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"fancy",
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"fantasy",
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"phantasy",
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"ideation",
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"imagination",
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"imaginativeness",
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"invention",
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"inventiveness",
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"originality",
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"brainstorm",
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"brainstorming",
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"inspiration",
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"fecundity",
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"fertility"
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],
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"antonyms":[]
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},
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"type":[
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"noun"
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]
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},
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"lithesome":{
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"able to bend easily without breaking":{
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"examples":[
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"stretching exercises designed to make the athlete's limbs more lithesome"
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],
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"synonyms":[
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"bendy",
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"flexible",
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"limber",
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"lissome",
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"lissom",
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"lithe",
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"pliable",
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"pliant",
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"supple",
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"willowy"
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],
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"near synonyms":[
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"adaptable",
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"ductile",
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"elastic",
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"fluid",
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"kneadable",
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"malleable",
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"modifiable",
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"plastic",
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"variable",
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"yielding",
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"droopy",
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"flaccid",
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"floppy",
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"limp",
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"semiflexible"
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],
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"near antonyms":[
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"inelastic",
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"nonmalleable",
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"unyielding",
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"breakable",
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"brittle",
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"fragile"
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],
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"antonyms":[
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"inflexible",
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"rigid",
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"stiff",
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"stiffened"
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]
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},
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"moving easily":{
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"examples":[
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"the lithesome panther moved effortlessly and noiselessly through the rain forest"
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],
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"synonyms":[
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"agile",
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"featly",
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"feline",
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"graceful",
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"gracile",
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"light",
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"light-footed",
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"light-foot",
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"lightsome",
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"lissome",
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"lissom",
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"lithe",
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"nimble",
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"spry"
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],
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"near synonyms":[
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"acrobatic",
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"flexible",
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"limber",
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"loose-jointed",
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"pliable",
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"pliant",
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"supple",
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"adroit",
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"deft",
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"dexterous",
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"dextrous",
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"light-fingered",
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"fleet-footed",
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"sure-footed",
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"athletic",
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"balletic",
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"coordinated"
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],
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"near antonyms":[
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"uncoordinated",
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"inflexible",
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"rigid",
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"stiff",
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"bungling",
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"inept",
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"maladroit"
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],
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"antonyms":[
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"awkward",
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"clumsy",
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"gawky",
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"graceless",
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"klutzy",
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"lumbering",
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"ungainly",
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"ungraceful"
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]
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},
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"type":[
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"adjective"
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]
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},
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"litigant":{
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"someone who brings a legal action against another person or against whom a legal action is brought":{
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"examples":[
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"Both litigants chose to represent themselves in court."
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],
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"synonyms":[],
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"near synonyms":[
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"party",
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"suitor",
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"complainant",
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"plaintiff",
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"suer",
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"accused",
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"defendant",
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"appellee",
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"accuser",
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"appellant",
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"petitioner",
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"pleader"
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],
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"near antonyms":[],
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"antonyms":[]
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},
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"type":[
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"noun"
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]
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},
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"litter":{
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"an unorganized collection or mixture of various things":{
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"antonyms":[],
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"examples":[
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"a litter of magazines covered the bedroom floor"
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],
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"near antonyms":[],
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"related":[
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"detritus",
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"notions",
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"oddments",
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"odds and ends",
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"sundries",
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"accumulation",
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"aggregate",
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"aggregation",
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"conglomerate",
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"conglomeration",
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"catchall",
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"admixture",
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"alloy",
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"amalgam",
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"blend",
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"combination",
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"commixture",
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"composite",
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"compound",
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"fusion",
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"intermixture",
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"mix-up",
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"bollix",
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"chaos",
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"confusion",
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"disarrangement",
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"disarray",
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"disorder",
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"dog's breakfast",
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"mess",
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"morass",
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"shambles",
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"imbroglio",
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"knot",
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"snarl",
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"tangle"
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],
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"synonyms":[
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"agglomerate",
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"agglomeration",
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"alphabet soup",
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"assortment",
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"botch",
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"clutter",
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"collage",
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"crazy quilt",
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"farrago",
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"gallimaufry",
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"grab bag",
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"gumbo",
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"hash",
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"hodgepodge",
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"hotchpotch",
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"jambalaya",
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"jumble",
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"jungle",
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"mac\u00e9doine",
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"medley",
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"m\u00e9lange",
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"menagerie",
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"miscellanea",
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"miscellany",
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"mishmash",
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"mixed bag",
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"montage",
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"motley",
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"muddle",
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"olio",
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"olla podrida",
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"omnium-gatherum",
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"pastiche",
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"patchwork",
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"patchwork quilt",
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"potpourri",
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"ragbag",
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"ragout",
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"rummage",
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"salad",
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"salmagundi",
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"scramble",
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"shuffle",
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"smorgasbord",
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"stew",
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"tumble",
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"variety",
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"welter"
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]
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},
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"as in":{
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"antonyms":[],
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"examples":[],
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"near antonyms":[],
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"related":[],
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"synonyms":[]
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},
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"discarded or useless material":{
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"antonyms":[],
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"examples":[
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"if you get caught throwing your litter on the sidewalk, you'll get slapped with a fine"
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],
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"near antonyms":[
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"catch",
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"gem",
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"goody",
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"goodie",
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"jewel",
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"pearl",
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"plum",
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"prize",
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"treasure",
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"treasure trove",
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"trove",
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"valuable",
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"booty",
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"find",
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"salvage"
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],
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"related":[
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"crud",
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"sewage",
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"slop",
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"swill",
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"wash",
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"detritus",
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"remains",
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"rubble",
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"ruins",
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"dump",
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"scrap heap",
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"lumber",
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"odds and ends",
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"trumpery",
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"flotsam",
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"jetsam",
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"wreckage",
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"castoff",
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"cull",
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"discard",
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"hand-me-down",
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"reject",
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"throwaway",
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"nothing",
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"straw",
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"two bits"
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],
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"synonyms":[
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"chaff",
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"deadwood",
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"debris",
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"dreck",
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"drek",
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"dross",
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"dust",
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"effluvium",
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"effluvia",
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"garbage",
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"junk",
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"offal",
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"offscouring",
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"raffle",
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"refuse",
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"riffraff",
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"rubbish",
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"scrap",
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"spilth",
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"trash",
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"truck",
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"waste"
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]
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},
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"type":[
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"noun",
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"verb"
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]
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},
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"litterateurs":{
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"a person who creates a written work":{
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"antonyms":[
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"nonauthors"
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],
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"examples":[
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"Washington Irving is generally credited as the first American litterateur to gain a reputation in Britain and on the Continent"
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],
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"near antonyms":[],
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"related":[
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"auteurs",
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"belletrists",
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"belle-lettrists",
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"stylists",
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"wordsmiths",
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"coauthors",
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"co-authors",
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"coscenarists",
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"co-scenarists",
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"cowriters",
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"co-writers",
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"ghostwriters",
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"hacks",
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"hatchet men",
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"scribblers",
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"wordmongers",
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"biographers",
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"hagiographers",
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"autobiographers",
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"memoirists",
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"memorialists",
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"fabulists",
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"fictioneers",
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"fictionists",
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"novelists",
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"romancers",
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"storytellers",
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"essayists",
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"pamphleteers",
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"satirists",
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"dramatists",
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"playwrights",
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"scenarists",
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"screenwriters",
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"scriptwriters",
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"prosaists",
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"prosateurs",
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"prosers",
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"bards",
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"poets",
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"rhymers",
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"versifiers",
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"bloggers",
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"columnists",
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"journalists",
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"newspapermen",
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"paragraphers",
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"reporters",
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"sportswriters"
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],
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"synonyms":[
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"authors",
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"penmen",
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"pens",
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"scribes",
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"scriveners",
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"writers"
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]
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},
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"type":[
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"noun"
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]
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},
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"littered":{
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"lacking in order, neatness, and often cleanliness":{
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"examples":[
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"is there any wonder that you can never find anything in your littered desk?"
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],
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"synonyms":[
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"chaotic",
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"cluttered",
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"confused",
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"disarranged",
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"disarrayed",
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"disheveled",
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"dishevelled",
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"disordered",
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"disorderly",
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"higgledy-piggledy",
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"hugger-mugger",
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"jumbled",
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"messed",
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"messy",
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"muddled",
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"mussed",
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"mussy",
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"pell-mell",
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"rumpled",
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"sloppy",
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"topsy-turvy",
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"tousled",
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"tumbled",
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"unkempt",
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"untidy",
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"upside-down"
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],
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"near synonyms":[
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"bedraggled",
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"befouled",
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"begrimed",
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"bemired",
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"besmirched",
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"blackened",
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"cruddy",
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"dingy",
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"dirty",
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"draggled",
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"filthy",
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"foul",
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"grimy",
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"grotty",
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"grubby",
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"grungy",
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"mucky",
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"nasty",
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"smudged",
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"soiled",
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"spotted",
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"squalid",
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"stained",
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"sullied",
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"unclean",
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"uncleanly",
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"dowdy",
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"frowsy",
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"frowzy",
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"shaggy",
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"slatternly",
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"sloven",
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"slovenly",
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"uncombed",
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"wrinkled",
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"adulterated",
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"contaminated",
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"defiled",
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"polluted",
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"tainted",
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"knotted",
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"snarled",
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"tangled",
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"seedy",
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"shabby",
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"sleazy",
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"sordid",
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"neglected",
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"neglectful",
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"negligent"
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],
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"near antonyms":[
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"antiseptic",
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"clean",
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"cleaned",
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"cleanly",
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"hygienic",
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"immaculate",
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"sparkling",
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"spick-and-span",
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"spic-and-span",
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"spotless",
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"stainless",
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"unsoiled",
|
||
|
"unsullied",
|
||
|
"methodical",
|
||
|
"methodic",
|
||
|
"regular",
|
||
|
"systematic",
|
||
|
"systematized",
|
||
|
"careful",
|
||
|
"fastidious",
|
||
|
"finicky",
|
||
|
"fussy",
|
||
|
"meticulous",
|
||
|
"combed",
|
||
|
"groomed",
|
||
|
"manicured",
|
||
|
"well-groomed",
|
||
|
"taintless",
|
||
|
"undefiled",
|
||
|
"unpolluted",
|
||
|
"untainted",
|
||
|
"wholesome"
|
||
|
],
|
||
|
"antonyms":[
|
||
|
"bandbox",
|
||
|
"crisp",
|
||
|
"kempt",
|
||
|
"neat",
|
||
|
"neatened",
|
||
|
"ordered",
|
||
|
"orderly",
|
||
|
"organized",
|
||
|
"shipshape",
|
||
|
"snug",
|
||
|
"tidied",
|
||
|
"tidy",
|
||
|
"trim",
|
||
|
"uncluttered",
|
||
|
"well-ordered"
|
||
|
]
|
||
|
},
|
||
|
"as in kidded , pupped":{
|
||
|
"examples":[],
|
||
|
"synonyms":[],
|
||
|
"near synonyms":[
|
||
|
"calved",
|
||
|
"kidded",
|
||
|
"kindled",
|
||
|
"kittened",
|
||
|
"pupped",
|
||
|
"whelped",
|
||
|
"begot",
|
||
|
"begat",
|
||
|
"fathered",
|
||
|
"generated",
|
||
|
"got",
|
||
|
"sired",
|
||
|
"bred",
|
||
|
"multiplied",
|
||
|
"propagated",
|
||
|
"reproduced",
|
||
|
"spawned",
|
||
|
"labored",
|
||
|
"birthed",
|
||
|
"bore",
|
||
|
"delivered",
|
||
|
"dropped",
|
||
|
"had",
|
||
|
"mothered",
|
||
|
"produced"
|
||
|
],
|
||
|
"near antonyms":[
|
||
|
"aborted",
|
||
|
"lost",
|
||
|
"miscarried"
|
||
|
],
|
||
|
"antonyms":[]
|
||
|
},
|
||
|
"type":[
|
||
|
"adjective",
|
||
|
"verb"
|
||
|
]
|
||
|
},
|
||
|
"litters":{
|
||
|
"an unorganized collection or mixture of various things":{
|
||
|
"examples":[
|
||
|
"a litter of magazines covered the bedroom floor"
|
||
|
],
|
||
|
"synonyms":[
|
||
|
"agglomerates",
|
||
|
"agglomerations",
|
||
|
"alphabet soups",
|
||
|
"assortments",
|
||
|
"botches",
|
||
|
"clutters",
|
||
|
"collages",
|
||
|
"crazy quilts",
|
||
|
"farragoes",
|
||
|
"gallimaufries",
|
||
|
"grab bags",
|
||
|
"gumbos",
|
||
|
"hashes",
|
||
|
"hodgepodges",
|
||
|
"hotchpotches",
|
||
|
"jambalayas",
|
||
|
"jumbles",
|
||
|
"jungles",
|
||
|
"mac\u00e9doines",
|
||
|
"medleys",
|
||
|
"m\u00e9langes",
|
||
|
"menageries",
|
||
|
"miscellanea",
|
||
|
"miscellanies",
|
||
|
"mishmashes",
|
||
|
"mixed bags",
|
||
|
"montages",
|
||
|
"motleys",
|
||
|
"muddles",
|
||
|
"olios",
|
||
|
"olla podridas",
|
||
|
"ollas podridas",
|
||
|
"omnium-gatherums",
|
||
|
"pastiches",
|
||
|
"patchwork quilts",
|
||
|
"patchworks",
|
||
|
"potpourris",
|
||
|
"ragbags",
|
||
|
"ragouts",
|
||
|
"rummages",
|
||
|
"salads",
|
||
|
"salmagundis",
|
||
|
"scrambles",
|
||
|
"shuffles",
|
||
|
"smorgasbords",
|
||
|
"stews",
|
||
|
"tumbles",
|
||
|
"varieties",
|
||
|
"welters"
|
||
|
],
|
||
|
"near synonyms":[
|
||
|
"detritus",
|
||
|
"notions",
|
||
|
"oddments",
|
||
|
"odds and ends",
|
||
|
"sundries",
|
||
|
"accumulations",
|
||
|
"aggregates",
|
||
|
"aggregations",
|
||
|
"conglomerates",
|
||
|
"conglomerations",
|
||
|
"catchalls",
|
||
|
"admixtures",
|
||
|
"alloys",
|
||
|
"amalgams",
|
||
|
"blends",
|
||
|
"combinations",
|
||
|
"commixtures",
|
||
|
"composites",
|
||
|
"compounds",
|
||
|
"fusions",
|
||
|
"intermixtures",
|
||
|
"mix-ups",
|
||
|
"bollixes",
|
||
|
"chaoses",
|
||
|
"confusions",
|
||
|
"disarrangements",
|
||
|
"disarrays",
|
||
|
"disorders",
|
||
|
"dog's breakfasts",
|
||
|
"messes",
|
||
|
"morasses",
|
||
|
"shambles",
|
||
|
"imbroglios",
|
||
|
"knots",
|
||
|
"snarls",
|
||
|
"tangles"
|
||
|
],
|
||
|
"near antonyms":[],
|
||
|
"antonyms":[]
|
||
|
},
|
||
|
"as in kids , pups":{
|
||
|
"examples":[],
|
||
|
"synonyms":[],
|
||
|
"near synonyms":[
|
||
|
"calves",
|
||
|
"kids",
|
||
|
"kindles",
|
||
|
"kittens",
|
||
|
"pups",
|
||
|
"whelps",
|
||
|
"begets",
|
||
|
"fathers",
|
||
|
"generates",
|
||
|
"gets",
|
||
|
"sires",
|
||
|
"breeds",
|
||
|
"multiplies",
|
||
|
"propagates",
|
||
|
"reproduces",
|
||
|
"spawns",
|
||
|
"labors",
|
||
|
"bears",
|
||
|
"births",
|
||
|
"delivers",
|
||
|
"drops",
|
||
|
"has",
|
||
|
"mothers",
|
||
|
"produces"
|
||
|
],
|
||
|
"near antonyms":[
|
||
|
"aborts",
|
||
|
"loses",
|
||
|
"miscarries"
|
||
|
],
|
||
|
"antonyms":[]
|
||
|
},
|
||
|
"type":[
|
||
|
"noun",
|
||
|
"verb"
|
||
|
]
|
||
|
},
|
||
|
"littlest":{
|
||
|
"being the least in amount, number, or size possible":{
|
||
|
"examples":[
|
||
|
"the littlest kitten in the litter was also the cutest"
|
||
|
],
|
||
|
"synonyms":[
|
||
|
"fewest",
|
||
|
"lowest",
|
||
|
"minimal",
|
||
|
"minimum",
|
||
|
"minutest",
|
||
|
"slightest",
|
||
|
"smallest",
|
||
|
"tiniest"
|
||
|
],
|
||
|
"near synonyms":[
|
||
|
"fewer",
|
||
|
"lesser",
|
||
|
"low",
|
||
|
"minor",
|
||
|
"modest",
|
||
|
"slight",
|
||
|
"small",
|
||
|
"smaller",
|
||
|
"infinitesimal",
|
||
|
"micro",
|
||
|
"subminimal",
|
||
|
"ultramicro",
|
||
|
"irreducible"
|
||
|
],
|
||
|
"near antonyms":[
|
||
|
"highest"
|
||
|
],
|
||
|
"antonyms":[
|
||
|
"biggest",
|
||
|
"full",
|
||
|
"greatest",
|
||
|
"hugest",
|
||
|
"largest",
|
||
|
"maximum",
|
||
|
"most",
|
||
|
"top",
|
||
|
"topmost",
|
||
|
"utmost"
|
||
|
]
|
||
|
},
|
||
|
"type":[
|
||
|
"adjective"
|
||
|
]
|
||
|
},
|
||
|
"liturgical":{
|
||
|
"as in religious , spiritual":{
|
||
|
"examples":[],
|
||
|
"synonyms":[],
|
||
|
"near synonyms":[
|
||
|
"ceremonial",
|
||
|
"priestly",
|
||
|
"religious",
|
||
|
"ritual",
|
||
|
"sacramental",
|
||
|
"spiritual",
|
||
|
"adored",
|
||
|
"enshrined",
|
||
|
"glorified",
|
||
|
"revered",
|
||
|
"venerated",
|
||
|
"worshipped",
|
||
|
"worshiped",
|
||
|
"biblical",
|
||
|
"scriptural",
|
||
|
"blessed",
|
||
|
"blest",
|
||
|
"consecrate",
|
||
|
"consecrated",
|
||
|
"hallowed",
|
||
|
"holy",
|
||
|
"sacral",
|
||
|
"sacred",
|
||
|
"sacrosanct",
|
||
|
"sanctified"
|
||
|
],
|
||
|
"near antonyms":[
|
||
|
"deconsecrated",
|
||
|
"desacralized",
|
||
|
"unconsecrated",
|
||
|
"unhallowed",
|
||
|
"nonreligious",
|
||
|
"unspiritual",
|
||
|
"earthly",
|
||
|
"mundane",
|
||
|
"profane",
|
||
|
"secular",
|
||
|
"temporal",
|
||
|
"worldly"
|
||
|
],
|
||
|
"antonyms":[]
|
||
|
},
|
||
|
"type":[
|
||
|
"adjective"
|
||
|
]
|
||
|
},
|
||
|
"litt\u00e9rateurs":{
|
||
|
"a person who creates a written work":{
|
||
|
"examples":[
|
||
|
"Washington Irving is generally credited as the first American litterateur to gain a reputation in Britain and on the Continent"
|
||
|
],
|
||
|
"synonyms":[
|
||
|
"authors",
|
||
|
"penmen",
|
||
|
"pens",
|
||
|
"scribes",
|
||
|
"scriveners",
|
||
|
"writers"
|
||
|
],
|
||
|
"near synonyms":[
|
||
|
"auteurs",
|
||
|
"belletrists",
|
||
|
"belle-lettrists",
|
||
|
"stylists",
|
||
|
"wordsmiths",
|
||
|
"coauthors",
|
||
|
"co-authors",
|
||
|
"coscenarists",
|
||
|
"co-scenarists",
|
||
|
"cowriters",
|
||
|
"co-writers",
|
||
|
"ghostwriters",
|
||
|
"hacks",
|
||
|
"hatchet men",
|
||
|
"scribblers",
|
||
|
"wordmongers",
|
||
|
"biographers",
|
||
|
"hagiographers",
|
||
|
"autobiographers",
|
||
|
"memoirists",
|
||
|
"memorialists",
|
||
|
"fabulists",
|
||
|
"fictioneers",
|
||
|
"fictionists",
|
||
|
"novelists",
|
||
|
"romancers",
|
||
|
"storytellers",
|
||
|
"essayists",
|
||
|
"pamphleteers",
|
||
|
"satirists",
|
||
|
"dramatists",
|
||
|
"playwrights",
|
||
|
"scenarists",
|
||
|
"screenwriters",
|
||
|
"scriptwriters",
|
||
|
"prosaists",
|
||
|
"prosateurs",
|
||
|
"prosers",
|
||
|
"bards",
|
||
|
"poets",
|
||
|
"rhymers",
|
||
|
"versifiers",
|
||
|
"bloggers",
|
||
|
"columnists",
|
||
|
"journalists",
|
||
|
"newspapermen",
|
||
|
"paragraphers",
|
||
|
"reporters",
|
||
|
"sportswriters"
|
||
|
],
|
||
|
"near antonyms":[],
|
||
|
"antonyms":[
|
||
|
"nonauthors"
|
||
|
]
|
||
|
},
|
||
|
"type":[
|
||
|
"noun"
|
||
|
]
|
||
|
},
|
||
|
"lit up":{
|
||
|
"being under the influence of alcohol":{
|
||
|
"examples":[
|
||
|
"he finally wandered in at 3:00 a.m., obviously lit up"
|
||
|
],
|
||
|
"synonyms":[
|
||
|
"besotted",
|
||
|
"blasted",
|
||
|
"blind",
|
||
|
"blitzed",
|
||
|
"blotto",
|
||
|
"bombed",
|
||
|
"boozy",
|
||
|
"canned",
|
||
|
"cockeyed",
|
||
|
"crocked",
|
||
|
"drunk",
|
||
|
"drunken",
|
||
|
"fried",
|
||
|
"gassed",
|
||
|
"hammered",
|
||
|
"high",
|
||
|
"impaired",
|
||
|
"inebriate",
|
||
|
"inebriated",
|
||
|
"intoxicated",
|
||
|
"juiced",
|
||
|
"lit",
|
||
|
"loaded",
|
||
|
"looped",
|
||
|
"oiled",
|
||
|
"pickled",
|
||
|
"pie-eyed",
|
||
|
"plastered",
|
||
|
"potted",
|
||
|
"ripped",
|
||
|
"sloshed",
|
||
|
"smashed",
|
||
|
"sottish",
|
||
|
"soused",
|
||
|
"sozzled",
|
||
|
"squiffed",
|
||
|
"squiffy",
|
||
|
"stewed",
|
||
|
"stiff",
|
||
|
"stinking",
|
||
|
"stoned",
|
||
|
"tanked",
|
||
|
"tiddly",
|
||
|
"tight",
|
||
|
"tipsy",
|
||
|
"wasted",
|
||
|
"wet",
|
||
|
"wiped out"
|
||
|
],
|
||
|
"related":[
|
||
|
"maudlin",
|
||
|
"beery",
|
||
|
"befuddled",
|
||
|
"bleary-eyed",
|
||
|
"crapulous",
|
||
|
"dopey",
|
||
|
"dopy",
|
||
|
"rocky",
|
||
|
"strung out",
|
||
|
"stupefied",
|
||
|
"debauched",
|
||
|
"dissipated",
|
||
|
"dissolute",
|
||
|
"alcoholic",
|
||
|
"bibulous",
|
||
|
"dipsomaniacal"
|
||
|
],
|
||
|
"near antonyms":[
|
||
|
"abstemious",
|
||
|
"abstinent",
|
||
|
"dry",
|
||
|
"temperate",
|
||
|
"teetotal",
|
||
|
"clearheaded",
|
||
|
"cool",
|
||
|
"level",
|
||
|
"steady"
|
||
|
],
|
||
|
"antonyms":[
|
||
|
"sober",
|
||
|
"straight"
|
||
|
]
|
||
|
},
|
||
|
"type":[
|
||
|
"adjective"
|
||
|
]
|
||
|
},
|
||
|
"literal":{
|
||
|
"restricted to or based on fact":{
|
||
|
"examples":[
|
||
|
"a literal account of the explorer's adventures is actually a lot less interesting than his own exaggerated stories"
|
||
|
],
|
||
|
"synonyms":[
|
||
|
"documentary",
|
||
|
"factual",
|
||
|
"hard",
|
||
|
"historical",
|
||
|
"matter-of-fact",
|
||
|
"nonfictional",
|
||
|
"objective",
|
||
|
"true"
|
||
|
],
|
||
|
"near synonyms":[
|
||
|
"actual",
|
||
|
"authentic",
|
||
|
"bona fide",
|
||
|
"genuine",
|
||
|
"real",
|
||
|
"right",
|
||
|
"documented",
|
||
|
"established",
|
||
|
"confirmable",
|
||
|
"reliable",
|
||
|
"supportable",
|
||
|
"sustainable",
|
||
|
"verifiable",
|
||
|
"demonstrable",
|
||
|
"provable",
|
||
|
"incontestable",
|
||
|
"incontrovertible",
|
||
|
"indisputable",
|
||
|
"irrefutable",
|
||
|
"undeniable",
|
||
|
"unquestionable",
|
||
|
"plain",
|
||
|
"simple",
|
||
|
"certain",
|
||
|
"undoubted"
|
||
|
],
|
||
|
"near antonyms":[
|
||
|
"hypothetical",
|
||
|
"speculative",
|
||
|
"theoretical",
|
||
|
"theoretic",
|
||
|
"apocryphal",
|
||
|
"unauthentic",
|
||
|
"undocumented",
|
||
|
"chimerical",
|
||
|
"chimeric",
|
||
|
"fabulous",
|
||
|
"fanciful",
|
||
|
"fantastic",
|
||
|
"fantastical",
|
||
|
"imaginary",
|
||
|
"imagined",
|
||
|
"invented",
|
||
|
"legendary",
|
||
|
"made-up",
|
||
|
"make-believe",
|
||
|
"mythical",
|
||
|
"mythic",
|
||
|
"pretend",
|
||
|
"embroidered",
|
||
|
"exaggerated",
|
||
|
"insupportable",
|
||
|
"unsupportable"
|
||
|
],
|
||
|
"antonyms":[
|
||
|
"fictional",
|
||
|
"fictionalized",
|
||
|
"fictitious",
|
||
|
"nondocumentary",
|
||
|
"nonfactual",
|
||
|
"nonhistorical",
|
||
|
"unhistorical"
|
||
|
]
|
||
|
},
|
||
|
"type":[
|
||
|
"adjective"
|
||
|
]
|
||
|
},
|
||
|
"little guy":{
|
||
|
"an average or ordinary man":{
|
||
|
"examples":[
|
||
|
"for a politician who likes to portray himself as a friend of the little guy , he sure is fond of rubbing elbows with the fat cats"
|
||
|
],
|
||
|
"synonyms":[
|
||
|
"everyman",
|
||
|
"Joe Blow",
|
||
|
"Joe Six-Pack",
|
||
|
"John Doe",
|
||
|
"little man",
|
||
|
"lug",
|
||
|
"slob"
|
||
|
],
|
||
|
"near synonyms":[
|
||
|
"commoner",
|
||
|
"pleb",
|
||
|
"plebeian",
|
||
|
"prole",
|
||
|
"proletarian",
|
||
|
"everywoman",
|
||
|
"plain Jane",
|
||
|
"laborer",
|
||
|
"peon",
|
||
|
"worker"
|
||
|
],
|
||
|
"near antonyms":[
|
||
|
"big cheese",
|
||
|
"big shot",
|
||
|
"big wheel",
|
||
|
"bigwig",
|
||
|
"fat cat",
|
||
|
"mover and shaker",
|
||
|
"VIP"
|
||
|
],
|
||
|
"antonyms":[]
|
||
|
},
|
||
|
"type":[
|
||
|
"noun"
|
||
|
]
|
||
|
},
|
||
|
"littleness":{
|
||
|
"the quality or state of being little in size":{
|
||
|
"examples":[
|
||
|
"the littleness of the painting hardly gives any indication of its price\u2014which is a fortune"
|
||
|
],
|
||
|
"synonyms":[
|
||
|
"diminutiveness",
|
||
|
"fineness",
|
||
|
"puniness",
|
||
|
"slightness",
|
||
|
"smallness"
|
||
|
],
|
||
|
"near synonyms":[
|
||
|
"petiteness",
|
||
|
"minuteness",
|
||
|
"tininess",
|
||
|
"meagerness",
|
||
|
"poorness",
|
||
|
"scantiness",
|
||
|
"scantness",
|
||
|
"scarceness",
|
||
|
"scarcity",
|
||
|
"skimpiness",
|
||
|
"slenderness",
|
||
|
"slimness",
|
||
|
"spareness",
|
||
|
"sparseness",
|
||
|
"sparsity",
|
||
|
"stinginess",
|
||
|
"deficiency",
|
||
|
"inadequacy",
|
||
|
"inadequateness"
|
||
|
],
|
||
|
"near antonyms":[
|
||
|
"enormity",
|
||
|
"enormousness",
|
||
|
"grossness",
|
||
|
"hugeness",
|
||
|
"immenseness",
|
||
|
"immensity",
|
||
|
"magnitude",
|
||
|
"mountainousness",
|
||
|
"prodigiousness",
|
||
|
"stupendousness",
|
||
|
"extensiveness",
|
||
|
"vastness",
|
||
|
"excessiveness",
|
||
|
"extravagance",
|
||
|
"extremeness",
|
||
|
"immoderacy",
|
||
|
"abundance",
|
||
|
"ampleness",
|
||
|
"bountifulness",
|
||
|
"copiousness",
|
||
|
"generosity",
|
||
|
"healthiness",
|
||
|
"liberality",
|
||
|
"adequacy",
|
||
|
"sufficiency",
|
||
|
"heaviness",
|
||
|
"heftiness",
|
||
|
"weightiness",
|
||
|
"bulkiness",
|
||
|
"massiveness",
|
||
|
"voluminousness"
|
||
|
],
|
||
|
"antonyms":[
|
||
|
"bigness",
|
||
|
"grandness",
|
||
|
"greatness",
|
||
|
"largeness",
|
||
|
"magnitude"
|
||
|
]
|
||
|
},
|
||
|
"the quality or state of being unimportant":{
|
||
|
"examples":[
|
||
|
"you can hardly imagine the appalling littleness of the stuff that she obsesses over"
|
||
|
],
|
||
|
"synonyms":[
|
||
|
"immateriality",
|
||
|
"inconsequence",
|
||
|
"inconsequentiality",
|
||
|
"inconsiderableness",
|
||
|
"insignificance",
|
||
|
"insignificancy",
|
||
|
"negligibility",
|
||
|
"nullity",
|
||
|
"pettiness",
|
||
|
"slightness",
|
||
|
"smallness",
|
||
|
"triviality"
|
||
|
],
|
||
|
"near synonyms":[
|
||
|
"emptiness",
|
||
|
"valuelessness",
|
||
|
"worthlessness"
|
||
|
],
|
||
|
"near antonyms":[
|
||
|
"substance",
|
||
|
"value",
|
||
|
"worth"
|
||
|
],
|
||
|
"antonyms":[
|
||
|
"bigness",
|
||
|
"consequence",
|
||
|
"import",
|
||
|
"importance",
|
||
|
"magnitude",
|
||
|
"moment",
|
||
|
"significance",
|
||
|
"weight",
|
||
|
"weightiness"
|
||
|
]
|
||
|
},
|
||
|
"type":[
|
||
|
"noun"
|
||
|
]
|
||
|
},
|
||
|
"little by little":{
|
||
|
"by small steps or amounts":{
|
||
|
"examples":[
|
||
|
"little by little , we pieced together the jigsaw puzzle"
|
||
|
],
|
||
|
"synonyms":[
|
||
|
"gradationally",
|
||
|
"gradually",
|
||
|
"inchmeal",
|
||
|
"piece by piece",
|
||
|
"piecemeal"
|
||
|
],
|
||
|
"near synonyms":[
|
||
|
"hierarchically",
|
||
|
"crescively",
|
||
|
"increasingly",
|
||
|
"progressively",
|
||
|
"fractionally",
|
||
|
"imperceptibly",
|
||
|
"slowly"
|
||
|
],
|
||
|
"near antonyms":[
|
||
|
"acutely",
|
||
|
"sharply",
|
||
|
"steeply",
|
||
|
"hastily",
|
||
|
"precipitously"
|
||
|
],
|
||
|
"antonyms":[
|
||
|
"abruptly",
|
||
|
"suddenly"
|
||
|
]
|
||
|
},
|
||
|
"type":[
|
||
|
"adverb"
|
||
|
]
|
||
|
},
|
||
|
"lit (on or upon)":{
|
||
|
"to come upon unexpectedly or by chance":{
|
||
|
"examples":[
|
||
|
"the novelist lit upon the plot for his latest thriller while visiting a remote lighthouse in Maine"
|
||
|
],
|
||
|
"synonyms":[
|
||
|
"chanced (upon)",
|
||
|
"encountered",
|
||
|
"found",
|
||
|
"happened (on or upon)",
|
||
|
"hit (upon)",
|
||
|
"met",
|
||
|
"pitched (upon)",
|
||
|
"stumbled (on or onto)",
|
||
|
"tumbled (upon)"
|
||
|
],
|
||
|
"near synonyms":[
|
||
|
"lucked (out, on, onto, or into)",
|
||
|
"confronted",
|
||
|
"faced",
|
||
|
"discovered",
|
||
|
"struck",
|
||
|
"turned up"
|
||
|
],
|
||
|
"near antonyms":[],
|
||
|
"antonyms":[]
|
||
|
},
|
||
|
"type":[
|
||
|
"verb"
|
||
|
]
|
||
|
},
|
||
|
"literacies":{
|
||
|
"the understanding and information gained from being educated":{
|
||
|
"examples":[
|
||
|
"he impressed everyone with his general literacy as well as his natural intelligence"
|
||
|
],
|
||
|
"synonyms":[
|
||
|
"education",
|
||
|
"erudition",
|
||
|
"knowledge",
|
||
|
"learnedness",
|
||
|
"learning",
|
||
|
"scholarship"
|
||
|
],
|
||
|
"near synonyms":[
|
||
|
"culture",
|
||
|
"edification",
|
||
|
"enlightenment",
|
||
|
"reading",
|
||
|
"bookishness",
|
||
|
"pedantry"
|
||
|
],
|
||
|
"near antonyms":[
|
||
|
"functional illiteracy"
|
||
|
],
|
||
|
"antonyms":[
|
||
|
"ignorance",
|
||
|
"illiteracy",
|
||
|
"illiterateness"
|
||
|
]
|
||
|
},
|
||
|
"type":[
|
||
|
"noun"
|
||
|
]
|
||
|
},
|
||
|
"little people":{
|
||
|
"as in troll , elf":{
|
||
|
"examples":[],
|
||
|
"synonyms":[],
|
||
|
"near synonyms":[
|
||
|
"brownie",
|
||
|
"dwarf",
|
||
|
"elf",
|
||
|
"faerie",
|
||
|
"faery",
|
||
|
"fairy",
|
||
|
"fay",
|
||
|
"gnome",
|
||
|
"goblin",
|
||
|
"gremlin",
|
||
|
"hobgoblin",
|
||
|
"kobold",
|
||
|
"leprechaun",
|
||
|
"pixie",
|
||
|
"pixy",
|
||
|
"puck",
|
||
|
"sprite",
|
||
|
"troll",
|
||
|
"banshee",
|
||
|
"ghoul",
|
||
|
"hag",
|
||
|
"ogre",
|
||
|
"imp",
|
||
|
"kelpie",
|
||
|
"nixie",
|
||
|
"changeling"
|
||
|
],
|
||
|
"near antonyms":[],
|
||
|
"antonyms":[]
|
||
|
},
|
||
|
"type":[
|
||
|
"noun"
|
||
|
]
|
||
|
},
|
||
|
"litt\u00e9rateur":{
|
||
|
"a person who creates a written work":{
|
||
|
"examples":[
|
||
|
"Washington Irving is generally credited as the first American litterateur to gain a reputation in Britain and on the Continent"
|
||
|
],
|
||
|
"synonyms":[
|
||
|
"author",
|
||
|
"pen",
|
||
|
"penman",
|
||
|
"scribe",
|
||
|
"scrivener",
|
||
|
"writer"
|
||
|
],
|
||
|
"near synonyms":[
|
||
|
"auteur",
|
||
|
"belletrist",
|
||
|
"belle-lettrist",
|
||
|
"stylist",
|
||
|
"wordsmith",
|
||
|
"coauthor",
|
||
|
"coscenarist",
|
||
|
"cowriter",
|
||
|
"ghostwriter",
|
||
|
"hack",
|
||
|
"hatchet man",
|
||
|
"scribbler",
|
||
|
"wordmonger",
|
||
|
"biographer",
|
||
|
"hagiographer",
|
||
|
"autobiographer",
|
||
|
"memoirist",
|
||
|
"memorialist",
|
||
|
"fabulist",
|
||
|
"fictioneer",
|
||
|
"fictionist",
|
||
|
"novelist",
|
||
|
"romancer",
|
||
|
"storyteller",
|
||
|
"essayist",
|
||
|
"pamphleteer",
|
||
|
"satirist",
|
||
|
"dramatist",
|
||
|
"playwright",
|
||
|
"scenarist",
|
||
|
"screenwriter",
|
||
|
"scriptwriter",
|
||
|
"prosaist",
|
||
|
"prosateur",
|
||
|
"proser",
|
||
|
"bard",
|
||
|
"poet",
|
||
|
"rhymer",
|
||
|
"versifier",
|
||
|
"blogger",
|
||
|
"columnist",
|
||
|
"journalist",
|
||
|
"newspaperman",
|
||
|
"paragrapher",
|
||
|
"reporter",
|
||
|
"sportswriter"
|
||
|
],
|
||
|
"near antonyms":[],
|
||
|
"antonyms":[
|
||
|
"nonauthor"
|
||
|
]
|
||
|
},
|
||
|
"type":[
|
||
|
"noun"
|
||
|
]
|
||
|
},
|
||
|
"littoral":{
|
||
|
"of, relating to, or situated in the waters near the shore":{
|
||
|
"examples":[
|
||
|
"littoral warfare includes amphibious landings"
|
||
|
],
|
||
|
"synonyms":[
|
||
|
"alongshore",
|
||
|
"coastal",
|
||
|
"inshore",
|
||
|
"nearshore",
|
||
|
"offshore",
|
||
|
"shoreside"
|
||
|
],
|
||
|
"near synonyms":[
|
||
|
"beachside",
|
||
|
"seaside",
|
||
|
"waterside"
|
||
|
],
|
||
|
"near antonyms":[
|
||
|
"blue-water",
|
||
|
"deepwater",
|
||
|
"oceanic"
|
||
|
],
|
||
|
"antonyms":[]
|
||
|
},
|
||
|
"as in coast , shoreline":{
|
||
|
"examples":[],
|
||
|
"synonyms":[],
|
||
|
"near synonyms":[
|
||
|
"coast",
|
||
|
"coastland",
|
||
|
"coastline",
|
||
|
"shore",
|
||
|
"shoreline",
|
||
|
"seaboard",
|
||
|
"seacoast",
|
||
|
"seashore",
|
||
|
"seaside",
|
||
|
"beach",
|
||
|
"beachfront",
|
||
|
"sand(s)",
|
||
|
"strand",
|
||
|
"bank",
|
||
|
"riverbank",
|
||
|
"riverfront",
|
||
|
"riverside",
|
||
|
"oceanfront",
|
||
|
"shorefront",
|
||
|
"waterfront",
|
||
|
"lido",
|
||
|
"plage",
|
||
|
"esplanade"
|
||
|
],
|
||
|
"near antonyms":[],
|
||
|
"antonyms":[]
|
||
|
},
|
||
|
"type":[
|
||
|
"adjective",
|
||
|
"noun"
|
||
|
]
|
||
|
},
|
||
|
"little":{
|
||
|
"having relatively little height":{
|
||
|
"examples":[
|
||
|
"there was a little hedge separating the two lawns"
|
||
|
],
|
||
|
"synonyms":[
|
||
|
"low",
|
||
|
"low-lying",
|
||
|
"low-slung",
|
||
|
"sawed-off",
|
||
|
"short"
|
||
|
],
|
||
|
"near synonyms":[
|
||
|
"dwarf",
|
||
|
"dwarfish",
|
||
|
"compact",
|
||
|
"petite",
|
||
|
"slight",
|
||
|
"diminutive",
|
||
|
"half-pint",
|
||
|
"pint-size",
|
||
|
"pint-sized",
|
||
|
"pocket",
|
||
|
"pocket-size",
|
||
|
"pocket-sized",
|
||
|
"pygmy",
|
||
|
"small",
|
||
|
"smallish",
|
||
|
"bantam",
|
||
|
"bitty",
|
||
|
"dinky",
|
||
|
"mini",
|
||
|
"miniature",
|
||
|
"minimized",
|
||
|
"minute",
|
||
|
"puny",
|
||
|
"teeny",
|
||
|
"teeny-weeny",
|
||
|
"tiny",
|
||
|
"undersized",
|
||
|
"undersize",
|
||
|
"wee",
|
||
|
"dumpy",
|
||
|
"flat",
|
||
|
"scrubby",
|
||
|
"squat",
|
||
|
"squatty",
|
||
|
"stubby",
|
||
|
"stumpy",
|
||
|
"stunted"
|
||
|
],
|
||
|
"near antonyms":[
|
||
|
"elevated",
|
||
|
"lifted",
|
||
|
"raised",
|
||
|
"uplifted",
|
||
|
"upswept",
|
||
|
"high-rise",
|
||
|
"statuesque",
|
||
|
"gangling",
|
||
|
"gangly",
|
||
|
"lanky",
|
||
|
"rangy",
|
||
|
"big",
|
||
|
"bulky",
|
||
|
"hefty",
|
||
|
"hulking",
|
||
|
"large",
|
||
|
"largish",
|
||
|
"outsize",
|
||
|
"outsized",
|
||
|
"oversize",
|
||
|
"oversized",
|
||
|
"sizable",
|
||
|
"sizeable",
|
||
|
"voluminous"
|
||
|
],
|
||
|
"antonyms":[
|
||
|
"altitudinous",
|
||
|
"high",
|
||
|
"lofty",
|
||
|
"tall",
|
||
|
"towering"
|
||
|
]
|
||
|
},
|
||
|
"lacking importance":{
|
||
|
"examples":[
|
||
|
"there were just a few little details left to take care of"
|
||
|
],
|
||
|
"synonyms":[
|
||
|
"fiddling",
|
||
|
"foolish",
|
||
|
"frivolous",
|
||
|
"incidental",
|
||
|
"inconsequential",
|
||
|
"inconsiderable",
|
||
|
"insignificant",
|
||
|
"Mickey Mouse",
|
||
|
"minor",
|
||
|
"minute",
|
||
|
"negligible",
|
||
|
"nugatory",
|
||
|
"slight",
|
||
|
"small",
|
||
|
"small-fry",
|
||
|
"trifling",
|
||
|
"trivial",
|
||
|
"unimportant"
|
||
|
],
|
||
|
"near synonyms":[
|
||
|
"jerkwater",
|
||
|
"one-horse",
|
||
|
"nickel-and-dime",
|
||
|
"paltry",
|
||
|
"petty",
|
||
|
"small-time",
|
||
|
"worthless",
|
||
|
"anonymous",
|
||
|
"nameless",
|
||
|
"obscure",
|
||
|
"uncelebrated",
|
||
|
"unknown"
|
||
|
],
|
||
|
"near antonyms":[
|
||
|
"decisive",
|
||
|
"fatal",
|
||
|
"fateful",
|
||
|
"chief",
|
||
|
"dominant",
|
||
|
"overbearing",
|
||
|
"overmastering",
|
||
|
"overriding",
|
||
|
"principal",
|
||
|
"distinctive",
|
||
|
"exceptional",
|
||
|
"impressive",
|
||
|
"outstanding",
|
||
|
"prominent",
|
||
|
"remarkable",
|
||
|
"valuable",
|
||
|
"worthwhile",
|
||
|
"worthy",
|
||
|
"distinguished",
|
||
|
"eminent",
|
||
|
"great",
|
||
|
"illustrious",
|
||
|
"preeminent",
|
||
|
"prestigious",
|
||
|
"famous",
|
||
|
"notorious",
|
||
|
"renowned",
|
||
|
"all-important",
|
||
|
"basic",
|
||
|
"essential",
|
||
|
"fundamental",
|
||
|
"key"
|
||
|
],
|
||
|
"antonyms":[
|
||
|
"big",
|
||
|
"consequential",
|
||
|
"eventful",
|
||
|
"important",
|
||
|
"major",
|
||
|
"material",
|
||
|
"meaningful",
|
||
|
"momentous",
|
||
|
"significant",
|
||
|
"substantial",
|
||
|
"unfrivolous",
|
||
|
"weighty"
|
||
|
]
|
||
|
},
|
||
|
"not broad or open in views or opinions":{
|
||
|
"examples":[
|
||
|
"little -minded people who dislike the fact that human society is always progressing"
|
||
|
],
|
||
|
"synonyms":[
|
||
|
"illiberal",
|
||
|
"insular",
|
||
|
"Lilliputian",
|
||
|
"narrow",
|
||
|
"narrow-minded",
|
||
|
"parochial",
|
||
|
"petty",
|
||
|
"picayune",
|
||
|
"provincial",
|
||
|
"sectarian",
|
||
|
"small",
|
||
|
"small-minded"
|
||
|
],
|
||
|
"near synonyms":[
|
||
|
"inflexible",
|
||
|
"ironbound",
|
||
|
"obdurate",
|
||
|
"obstinate",
|
||
|
"rigid",
|
||
|
"set",
|
||
|
"stubborn",
|
||
|
"unyielding",
|
||
|
"wrongheaded",
|
||
|
"bigoted",
|
||
|
"intolerant",
|
||
|
"biased",
|
||
|
"discriminating",
|
||
|
"discriminatory",
|
||
|
"jaundiced",
|
||
|
"one-sided",
|
||
|
"partial",
|
||
|
"partisan",
|
||
|
"prejudiced",
|
||
|
"brassbound",
|
||
|
"hidebound",
|
||
|
"old-fashioned",
|
||
|
"reactionary",
|
||
|
"stodgy",
|
||
|
"straitlaced",
|
||
|
"straightlaced",
|
||
|
"stuffy",
|
||
|
"dogmatic",
|
||
|
"dogmatical",
|
||
|
"opinionated",
|
||
|
"opinionative",
|
||
|
"limited",
|
||
|
"hick",
|
||
|
"unsophisticated"
|
||
|
],
|
||
|
"near antonyms":[
|
||
|
"impartial",
|
||
|
"nonpartisan",
|
||
|
"objective",
|
||
|
"unbiased",
|
||
|
"unprejudiced",
|
||
|
"freethinking"
|
||
|
],
|
||
|
"antonyms":[
|
||
|
"broad-minded",
|
||
|
"catholic",
|
||
|
"cosmopolitan",
|
||
|
"liberal",
|
||
|
"open",
|
||
|
"open-minded",
|
||
|
"receptive",
|
||
|
"tolerant"
|
||
|
]
|
||
|
},
|
||
|
"not lasting for a considerable time":{
|
||
|
"examples":[
|
||
|
"let's take a little pause to relax"
|
||
|
],
|
||
|
"synonyms":[
|
||
|
"brief",
|
||
|
"fast",
|
||
|
"short"
|
||
|
],
|
||
|
"near synonyms":[
|
||
|
"shortish",
|
||
|
"abbreviated",
|
||
|
"abridged",
|
||
|
"curtailed",
|
||
|
"cut-back",
|
||
|
"shortened",
|
||
|
"syncopated",
|
||
|
"compact",
|
||
|
"condensed",
|
||
|
"abrupt",
|
||
|
"sudden",
|
||
|
"ephemeral",
|
||
|
"fleeting",
|
||
|
"momentary",
|
||
|
"short-lived",
|
||
|
"transient",
|
||
|
"transitory",
|
||
|
"impermanent",
|
||
|
"compendious",
|
||
|
"concise",
|
||
|
"crisp",
|
||
|
"epigrammatic",
|
||
|
"laconic",
|
||
|
"pithy",
|
||
|
"succinct",
|
||
|
"summary",
|
||
|
"terse",
|
||
|
"short-range",
|
||
|
"short-term"
|
||
|
],
|
||
|
"near antonyms":[
|
||
|
"endless",
|
||
|
"everlasting",
|
||
|
"interminable",
|
||
|
"persistent",
|
||
|
"unending",
|
||
|
"longish",
|
||
|
"overlong",
|
||
|
"prolonged",
|
||
|
"protracted",
|
||
|
"permanent",
|
||
|
"enlarged",
|
||
|
"expanded",
|
||
|
"supplemented",
|
||
|
"long-range",
|
||
|
"long-term"
|
||
|
],
|
||
|
"antonyms":[
|
||
|
"extended",
|
||
|
"far",
|
||
|
"great",
|
||
|
"lengthy",
|
||
|
"long",
|
||
|
"long-drawn-out",
|
||
|
"long-drawn",
|
||
|
"long-lived"
|
||
|
]
|
||
|
},
|
||
|
"of a size that is less than average":{
|
||
|
"examples":[
|
||
|
"the petting zoo has a little horse in addition to all of the goats and sheep"
|
||
|
],
|
||
|
"synonyms":[
|
||
|
"bantam",
|
||
|
"diminutive",
|
||
|
"dinky",
|
||
|
"dwarfish",
|
||
|
"fine",
|
||
|
"half-pint",
|
||
|
"Lilliputian",
|
||
|
"pint-size",
|
||
|
"pint-sized",
|
||
|
"pocket",
|
||
|
"pocket-size",
|
||
|
"pocket-sized",
|
||
|
"puny",
|
||
|
"pygmy",
|
||
|
"shrimpy",
|
||
|
"slight",
|
||
|
"small",
|
||
|
"smallish",
|
||
|
"subnormal",
|
||
|
"toylike",
|
||
|
"undersized",
|
||
|
"undersize"
|
||
|
],
|
||
|
"near synonyms":[
|
||
|
"dwarf",
|
||
|
"toy",
|
||
|
"runtish",
|
||
|
"runty",
|
||
|
"scrubby",
|
||
|
"stunted",
|
||
|
"bitty",
|
||
|
"inappreciable",
|
||
|
"infinitesimal",
|
||
|
"little bitty",
|
||
|
"micro",
|
||
|
"microscopic",
|
||
|
"microscopical",
|
||
|
"mini",
|
||
|
"miniature",
|
||
|
"miniaturized",
|
||
|
"minikin",
|
||
|
"minim",
|
||
|
"minuscule",
|
||
|
"minute",
|
||
|
"pinpoint",
|
||
|
"teensy",
|
||
|
"teensy-weensy",
|
||
|
"teeny",
|
||
|
"teeny-weeny",
|
||
|
"tiny",
|
||
|
"wee",
|
||
|
"weeny",
|
||
|
"weensy",
|
||
|
"meager",
|
||
|
"meagre",
|
||
|
"niggardly",
|
||
|
"poor",
|
||
|
"scant",
|
||
|
"scanty",
|
||
|
"scarce",
|
||
|
"skimp",
|
||
|
"skimpy",
|
||
|
"slender",
|
||
|
"slim",
|
||
|
"spare",
|
||
|
"sparse",
|
||
|
"stingy",
|
||
|
"deficient",
|
||
|
"inadequate",
|
||
|
"insufficient",
|
||
|
"lacking",
|
||
|
"wanting",
|
||
|
"bite-size",
|
||
|
"bite-sized",
|
||
|
"capsule"
|
||
|
],
|
||
|
"near antonyms":[
|
||
|
"bulky",
|
||
|
"hefty",
|
||
|
"hulking",
|
||
|
"massive",
|
||
|
"voluminous",
|
||
|
"boxcar",
|
||
|
"Brobdingnagian",
|
||
|
"Bunyanesque",
|
||
|
"cavernous",
|
||
|
"colossal",
|
||
|
"cyclopean",
|
||
|
"elephantine",
|
||
|
"enormous",
|
||
|
"galactic",
|
||
|
"gargantuan",
|
||
|
"giant",
|
||
|
"gigantic",
|
||
|
"gross",
|
||
|
"Himalayan",
|
||
|
"herculean",
|
||
|
"heroic",
|
||
|
"heroical",
|
||
|
"huge",
|
||
|
"humongous",
|
||
|
"humungous",
|
||
|
"immense",
|
||
|
"jumbo",
|
||
|
"leviathan",
|
||
|
"mammoth",
|
||
|
"monolithic",
|
||
|
"monstrous",
|
||
|
"monumental",
|
||
|
"mountainous",
|
||
|
"pharaonic",
|
||
|
"prodigious",
|
||
|
"staggering",
|
||
|
"stupendous",
|
||
|
"titanic",
|
||
|
"tremendous",
|
||
|
"vast",
|
||
|
"abundant",
|
||
|
"ample",
|
||
|
"appreciable",
|
||
|
"bountiful",
|
||
|
"copious",
|
||
|
"generous",
|
||
|
"healthy",
|
||
|
"liberal",
|
||
|
"plenteous",
|
||
|
"plentiful",
|
||
|
"fat",
|
||
|
"thick",
|
||
|
"broad",
|
||
|
"wide",
|
||
|
"boundless",
|
||
|
"cosmic",
|
||
|
"cosmical",
|
||
|
"immeasurable",
|
||
|
"incalculable",
|
||
|
"infinite",
|
||
|
"adequate",
|
||
|
"enough",
|
||
|
"sufficient"
|
||
|
],
|
||
|
"antonyms":[
|
||
|
"big",
|
||
|
"biggish",
|
||
|
"considerable",
|
||
|
"goodly",
|
||
|
"grand",
|
||
|
"great",
|
||
|
"handsome",
|
||
|
"husky",
|
||
|
"king-size",
|
||
|
"king-sized",
|
||
|
"large",
|
||
|
"largish",
|
||
|
"outsize",
|
||
|
"outsized",
|
||
|
"overscale",
|
||
|
"overscaled",
|
||
|
"oversize",
|
||
|
"oversized",
|
||
|
"sizable",
|
||
|
"sizeable",
|
||
|
"substantial",
|
||
|
"tidy",
|
||
|
"whacking",
|
||
|
"whopping"
|
||
|
]
|
||
|
},
|
||
|
"in a very small quantity or degree":{
|
||
|
"examples":[
|
||
|
"we had little more than we needed to survive in the wilderness"
|
||
|
],
|
||
|
"synonyms":[
|
||
|
"negligibly",
|
||
|
"nominally",
|
||
|
"slightly"
|
||
|
],
|
||
|
"near synonyms":[
|
||
|
"meagerly",
|
||
|
"scantily",
|
||
|
"barely",
|
||
|
"hardly",
|
||
|
"just",
|
||
|
"marginally",
|
||
|
"minimally",
|
||
|
"scarcely"
|
||
|
],
|
||
|
"near antonyms":[
|
||
|
"completely",
|
||
|
"entirely",
|
||
|
"purely",
|
||
|
"thoroughly",
|
||
|
"totally",
|
||
|
"utterly",
|
||
|
"eminently",
|
||
|
"exceptionally",
|
||
|
"appreciably",
|
||
|
"discernibly",
|
||
|
"noticeably",
|
||
|
"palpably",
|
||
|
"abundantly",
|
||
|
"plentifully",
|
||
|
"generously",
|
||
|
"handsomely",
|
||
|
"liberally",
|
||
|
"astronomically",
|
||
|
"grandly",
|
||
|
"hugely",
|
||
|
"monstrously",
|
||
|
"monumentally"
|
||
|
],
|
||
|
"antonyms":[
|
||
|
"awful",
|
||
|
"awfully",
|
||
|
"beastly",
|
||
|
"considerably",
|
||
|
"deadly",
|
||
|
"especially",
|
||
|
"exceedingly",
|
||
|
"exceeding",
|
||
|
"extensively",
|
||
|
"extra",
|
||
|
"extremely",
|
||
|
"far",
|
||
|
"frightfully",
|
||
|
"full",
|
||
|
"greatly",
|
||
|
"heavily",
|
||
|
"highly",
|
||
|
"jolly",
|
||
|
"mightily",
|
||
|
"mighty",
|
||
|
"mortally",
|
||
|
"most",
|
||
|
"much",
|
||
|
"particularly",
|
||
|
"rattling",
|
||
|
"real",
|
||
|
"right",
|
||
|
"significantly",
|
||
|
"so",
|
||
|
"something",
|
||
|
"substantially",
|
||
|
"super",
|
||
|
"terribly",
|
||
|
"too",
|
||
|
"very",
|
||
|
"whacking"
|
||
|
]
|
||
|
},
|
||
|
"not often":{
|
||
|
"examples":[
|
||
|
"he's been studying very little for the bar exam"
|
||
|
],
|
||
|
"synonyms":[
|
||
|
"infrequently",
|
||
|
"rarely",
|
||
|
"seldom"
|
||
|
],
|
||
|
"near synonyms":[
|
||
|
"ne'er",
|
||
|
"never",
|
||
|
"episodically",
|
||
|
"irregularly",
|
||
|
"now and then",
|
||
|
"occasionally",
|
||
|
"sometimes",
|
||
|
"sporadically"
|
||
|
],
|
||
|
"near antonyms":[
|
||
|
"customarily",
|
||
|
"generally",
|
||
|
"habitually",
|
||
|
"ordinarily",
|
||
|
"routinely",
|
||
|
"usually",
|
||
|
"always",
|
||
|
"constantly",
|
||
|
"continually",
|
||
|
"continuously",
|
||
|
"endlessly",
|
||
|
"eternally",
|
||
|
"ever",
|
||
|
"everlastingly",
|
||
|
"evermore",
|
||
|
"forever",
|
||
|
"invariably",
|
||
|
"perennially",
|
||
|
"perpetually",
|
||
|
"unceasingly",
|
||
|
"chronically",
|
||
|
"recurrently",
|
||
|
"repeatedly"
|
||
|
],
|
||
|
"antonyms":[
|
||
|
"frequently",
|
||
|
"oft",
|
||
|
"often",
|
||
|
"oftentimes",
|
||
|
"ofttimes"
|
||
|
]
|
||
|
},
|
||
|
"a very small amount":{
|
||
|
"examples":[
|
||
|
"there's just a little of the pie left"
|
||
|
],
|
||
|
"synonyms":[
|
||
|
"ace",
|
||
|
"bit",
|
||
|
"crumb",
|
||
|
"dab",
|
||
|
"dram",
|
||
|
"driblet",
|
||
|
"glimmer",
|
||
|
"hint",
|
||
|
"lick",
|
||
|
"mite",
|
||
|
"nip",
|
||
|
"ounce",
|
||
|
"particle",
|
||
|
"peanuts",
|
||
|
"ray",
|
||
|
"scintilla",
|
||
|
"scruple",
|
||
|
"shade",
|
||
|
"shadow",
|
||
|
"shred",
|
||
|
"skosh",
|
||
|
"smack",
|
||
|
"smell",
|
||
|
"smidgen",
|
||
|
"smidgeon",
|
||
|
"smidgin",
|
||
|
"smidge",
|
||
|
"snap",
|
||
|
"soup\u00e7on",
|
||
|
"spark",
|
||
|
"spatter",
|
||
|
"speck",
|
||
|
"splash",
|
||
|
"spot",
|
||
|
"sprinkling",
|
||
|
"strain",
|
||
|
"streak",
|
||
|
"suspicion",
|
||
|
"tad",
|
||
|
"touch",
|
||
|
"trace"
|
||
|
],
|
||
|
"near synonyms":[
|
||
|
"hoot",
|
||
|
"iota",
|
||
|
"jot",
|
||
|
"minim",
|
||
|
"minimum",
|
||
|
"modicum",
|
||
|
"semblance",
|
||
|
"syllable",
|
||
|
"tittle",
|
||
|
"vestige",
|
||
|
"whit",
|
||
|
"atom",
|
||
|
"dot",
|
||
|
"fleck",
|
||
|
"flyspeck",
|
||
|
"grain",
|
||
|
"granule",
|
||
|
"molecule",
|
||
|
"morsel",
|
||
|
"mote",
|
||
|
"nubbin",
|
||
|
"patch",
|
||
|
"scrap",
|
||
|
"dash",
|
||
|
"drop",
|
||
|
"pinch",
|
||
|
"part",
|
||
|
"portion",
|
||
|
"section",
|
||
|
"bite",
|
||
|
"nibble",
|
||
|
"taste",
|
||
|
"handful",
|
||
|
"scattering",
|
||
|
"smatter",
|
||
|
"smattering",
|
||
|
"dose",
|
||
|
"shot",
|
||
|
"chip",
|
||
|
"flake",
|
||
|
"fragment",
|
||
|
"shard",
|
||
|
"shiver",
|
||
|
"sliver",
|
||
|
"smithereens",
|
||
|
"splinter",
|
||
|
"tatter",
|
||
|
"clipping",
|
||
|
"paring",
|
||
|
"shaving"
|
||
|
],
|
||
|
"near antonyms":[
|
||
|
"abundance",
|
||
|
"barrel",
|
||
|
"boatload",
|
||
|
"bucket",
|
||
|
"bundle",
|
||
|
"bushel",
|
||
|
"deal",
|
||
|
"fistful",
|
||
|
"gobs",
|
||
|
"heaps",
|
||
|
"lashings",
|
||
|
"lashins",
|
||
|
"loads",
|
||
|
"lot",
|
||
|
"mass",
|
||
|
"mess",
|
||
|
"mountain",
|
||
|
"much",
|
||
|
"oodles",
|
||
|
"passel",
|
||
|
"peck",
|
||
|
"pile",
|
||
|
"plenty",
|
||
|
"potful",
|
||
|
"profusion",
|
||
|
"quantity",
|
||
|
"raft",
|
||
|
"reams",
|
||
|
"scads",
|
||
|
"stack",
|
||
|
"wad",
|
||
|
"wealth",
|
||
|
"volume",
|
||
|
"bonanza",
|
||
|
"embarrassment",
|
||
|
"excess",
|
||
|
"overabundance",
|
||
|
"overage",
|
||
|
"overflow",
|
||
|
"overkill",
|
||
|
"overmuch",
|
||
|
"oversupply",
|
||
|
"superabundance",
|
||
|
"superfluity",
|
||
|
"surfeit",
|
||
|
"surplus",
|
||
|
"chunk",
|
||
|
"hunk",
|
||
|
"lump",
|
||
|
"slab"
|
||
|
],
|
||
|
"antonyms":[]
|
||
|
},
|
||
|
"type":[
|
||
|
"adjective",
|
||
|
"adverb",
|
||
|
"noun"
|
||
|
]
|
||
|
},
|
||
|
"litmus test":{
|
||
|
"something (such as an opinion about a political or moral issue) that is used to make a judgment about whether someone or something is acceptable":{
|
||
|
"examples":[
|
||
|
"The party is using attitudes about gun control as a litmus test for political candidates."
|
||
|
],
|
||
|
"synonyms":[],
|
||
|
"near synonyms":[
|
||
|
"acid test",
|
||
|
"litmus",
|
||
|
"cross",
|
||
|
"crucible",
|
||
|
"fire",
|
||
|
"gauntlet",
|
||
|
"gantlet",
|
||
|
"ordeal",
|
||
|
"trial",
|
||
|
"baptism",
|
||
|
"initiation",
|
||
|
"challenge",
|
||
|
"complication",
|
||
|
"difficulty",
|
||
|
"grief",
|
||
|
"grievance",
|
||
|
"hardship",
|
||
|
"rigor"
|
||
|
],
|
||
|
"near antonyms":[],
|
||
|
"antonyms":[]
|
||
|
},
|
||
|
"type":[
|
||
|
"noun"
|
||
|
]
|
||
|
},
|
||
|
"litmus tests":{
|
||
|
"something (such as an opinion about a political or moral issue) that is used to make a judgment about whether someone or something is acceptable":{
|
||
|
"examples":[
|
||
|
"The party is using attitudes about gun control as a litmus test for political candidates."
|
||
|
],
|
||
|
"synonyms":[],
|
||
|
"near synonyms":[
|
||
|
"acid tests",
|
||
|
"litmuses",
|
||
|
"crosses",
|
||
|
"crucibles",
|
||
|
"fires",
|
||
|
"gauntlets",
|
||
|
"gantlets",
|
||
|
"ordeals",
|
||
|
"trials",
|
||
|
"baptisms",
|
||
|
"initiations",
|
||
|
"challenges",
|
||
|
"complications",
|
||
|
"difficulties",
|
||
|
"griefs",
|
||
|
"grievances",
|
||
|
"hardships",
|
||
|
"rigors"
|
||
|
],
|
||
|
"near antonyms":[],
|
||
|
"antonyms":[]
|
||
|
},
|
||
|
"type":[
|
||
|
"noun"
|
||
|
]
|
||
|
},
|
||
|
"little guys":{
|
||
|
"an average or ordinary man":{
|
||
|
"examples":[
|
||
|
"for a politician who likes to portray himself as a friend of the little guy , he sure is fond of rubbing elbows with the fat cats"
|
||
|
],
|
||
|
"synonyms":[
|
||
|
"everymen",
|
||
|
"Joe Blows",
|
||
|
"Joe Six-Packs",
|
||
|
"John Does",
|
||
|
"little men",
|
||
|
"lugs",
|
||
|
"slobs"
|
||
|
],
|
||
|
"near synonyms":[
|
||
|
"commoners",
|
||
|
"plebeians",
|
||
|
"plebs",
|
||
|
"proles",
|
||
|
"proletarians",
|
||
|
"everywomen",
|
||
|
"plain Janes",
|
||
|
"laborers",
|
||
|
"peons",
|
||
|
"peones",
|
||
|
"workers"
|
||
|
],
|
||
|
"near antonyms":[
|
||
|
"big cheeses",
|
||
|
"big shots",
|
||
|
"big wheels",
|
||
|
"bigwigs",
|
||
|
"fat cats",
|
||
|
"movers and shakers",
|
||
|
"VIPs"
|
||
|
],
|
||
|
"antonyms":[]
|
||
|
},
|
||
|
"type":[
|
||
|
"noun"
|
||
|
]
|
||
|
},
|
||
|
"lit into":{
|
||
|
"to criticize harshly and usually publicly":{
|
||
|
"examples":[
|
||
|
"She lit into the intern for deleting an important file."
|
||
|
],
|
||
|
"synonyms":[
|
||
|
"abused",
|
||
|
"assailed",
|
||
|
"attacked",
|
||
|
"bashed",
|
||
|
"belabored",
|
||
|
"blasted",
|
||
|
"castigated",
|
||
|
"excoriated",
|
||
|
"jumped (on)",
|
||
|
"lambasted",
|
||
|
"potshot",
|
||
|
"savaged",
|
||
|
"scathed",
|
||
|
"slammed",
|
||
|
"trashed",
|
||
|
"vituperated"
|
||
|
],
|
||
|
"near synonyms":[
|
||
|
"berated",
|
||
|
"harangued",
|
||
|
"harassed",
|
||
|
"harried",
|
||
|
"reviled",
|
||
|
"scolded",
|
||
|
"whipped",
|
||
|
"blasphemed",
|
||
|
"cursed",
|
||
|
"execrated",
|
||
|
"imprecated",
|
||
|
"profaned",
|
||
|
"affronted",
|
||
|
"insulted",
|
||
|
"slurred",
|
||
|
"aspersed",
|
||
|
"bad-mouthed",
|
||
|
"belittled",
|
||
|
"blackguarded",
|
||
|
"disparaged",
|
||
|
"put down",
|
||
|
"libeled",
|
||
|
"libelled",
|
||
|
"slandered",
|
||
|
"traduced",
|
||
|
"vilified",
|
||
|
"chastised",
|
||
|
"chid",
|
||
|
"chided",
|
||
|
"criticized",
|
||
|
"laced (into)",
|
||
|
"rebuked",
|
||
|
"reprimanded",
|
||
|
"fulminated",
|
||
|
"lashed (out)"
|
||
|
],
|
||
|
"near antonyms":[
|
||
|
"acclaimed",
|
||
|
"commended",
|
||
|
"complimented",
|
||
|
"hailed",
|
||
|
"lauded",
|
||
|
"praised"
|
||
|
],
|
||
|
"antonyms":[]
|
||
|
},
|
||
|
"to start work on energetically":{
|
||
|
"examples":[
|
||
|
"We lit into the new project right away."
|
||
|
],
|
||
|
"synonyms":[
|
||
|
"attacked",
|
||
|
"dived (into)",
|
||
|
"dove (into)",
|
||
|
"tackled",
|
||
|
"waded (in or into)"
|
||
|
],
|
||
|
"near synonyms":[
|
||
|
"addressed",
|
||
|
"approached",
|
||
|
"faced",
|
||
|
"buckled (down to)",
|
||
|
"concentrated (on)",
|
||
|
"focused (on)",
|
||
|
"focussed (on)",
|
||
|
"knuckled down (to)",
|
||
|
"zeroed (in on)",
|
||
|
"fell (to)",
|
||
|
"pitched in",
|
||
|
"plunged (in)",
|
||
|
"settled (down)",
|
||
|
"pursued",
|
||
|
"took up",
|
||
|
"undertook"
|
||
|
],
|
||
|
"near antonyms":[
|
||
|
"avoided",
|
||
|
"evaded",
|
||
|
"shunned",
|
||
|
"dallied",
|
||
|
"dawdled",
|
||
|
"dillydallied",
|
||
|
"fiddled (around)",
|
||
|
"fooled",
|
||
|
"idled",
|
||
|
"lagged",
|
||
|
"messed",
|
||
|
"monkeyed (around)",
|
||
|
"played",
|
||
|
"poked",
|
||
|
"pottered (around)",
|
||
|
"puttered (around)",
|
||
|
"trifled"
|
||
|
],
|
||
|
"antonyms":[]
|
||
|
},
|
||
|
"to take sudden, violent action against":{
|
||
|
"examples":[
|
||
|
"He lit into the punching bag as though it were his worst enemy."
|
||
|
],
|
||
|
"synonyms":[
|
||
|
"assailed",
|
||
|
"assaulted",
|
||
|
"attacked",
|
||
|
"beset",
|
||
|
"bushwhacked",
|
||
|
"charged",
|
||
|
"descended (on or upon)",
|
||
|
"jumped (on)",
|
||
|
"pounced (on or upon)",
|
||
|
"raided",
|
||
|
"rushed",
|
||
|
"set on",
|
||
|
"sicced",
|
||
|
"sicked",
|
||
|
"stormed",
|
||
|
"struck",
|
||
|
"trashed",
|
||
|
"turned (on)",
|
||
|
"went in (on)"
|
||
|
],
|
||
|
"near synonyms":[
|
||
|
"bum-rushed",
|
||
|
"ganged up (on)",
|
||
|
"mobbed",
|
||
|
"swarmed",
|
||
|
"mugged",
|
||
|
"robbed",
|
||
|
"ambuscaded",
|
||
|
"ambushed",
|
||
|
"surprised",
|
||
|
"surprized",
|
||
|
"waylaid",
|
||
|
"blitzed",
|
||
|
"bombarded",
|
||
|
"bombed",
|
||
|
"nuked",
|
||
|
"barraged",
|
||
|
"cannonaded",
|
||
|
"cannoned",
|
||
|
"banged away (at)",
|
||
|
"battered",
|
||
|
"buffeted",
|
||
|
"plastered",
|
||
|
"beleaguered",
|
||
|
"besieged",
|
||
|
"pressed",
|
||
|
"harried",
|
||
|
"looted",
|
||
|
"pillaged",
|
||
|
"plundered",
|
||
|
"ravaged",
|
||
|
"sacked",
|
||
|
"forayed",
|
||
|
"invaded",
|
||
|
"overran",
|
||
|
"enveloped",
|
||
|
"flanked"
|
||
|
],
|
||
|
"near antonyms":[
|
||
|
"covered",
|
||
|
"defended",
|
||
|
"guarded",
|
||
|
"protected",
|
||
|
"secured",
|
||
|
"shielded"
|
||
|
],
|
||
|
"antonyms":[]
|
||
|
},
|
||
|
"type":[
|
||
|
"phrase"
|
||
|
]
|
||
|
},
|
||
|
"lit":{
|
||
|
"filled with much light":{
|
||
|
"examples":[
|
||
|
"the coat room was just lit well enough for us to identify our jackets"
|
||
|
],
|
||
|
"synonyms":[
|
||
|
"ablaze",
|
||
|
"alight",
|
||
|
"bright",
|
||
|
"brightened",
|
||
|
"illuminated",
|
||
|
"illumined",
|
||
|
"light",
|
||
|
"lightsome"
|
||
|
],
|
||
|
"near synonyms":[
|
||
|
"floodlit",
|
||
|
"floodlighted",
|
||
|
"highlighted",
|
||
|
"spotlighted",
|
||
|
"spotlit",
|
||
|
"ignited",
|
||
|
"kindled",
|
||
|
"moonlit",
|
||
|
"shiny",
|
||
|
"sunlit",
|
||
|
"sunny",
|
||
|
"sunshiny"
|
||
|
],
|
||
|
"near antonyms":[
|
||
|
"gloomy",
|
||
|
"somber",
|
||
|
"sombre",
|
||
|
"sunless",
|
||
|
"cloudy",
|
||
|
"murky",
|
||
|
"obscured",
|
||
|
"shadowlike",
|
||
|
"shadowy",
|
||
|
"gray",
|
||
|
"grey",
|
||
|
"leaden",
|
||
|
"pale",
|
||
|
"lightproof"
|
||
|
],
|
||
|
"antonyms":[
|
||
|
"blackened",
|
||
|
"dark",
|
||
|
"darkened",
|
||
|
"darkish",
|
||
|
"darkling",
|
||
|
"dimmed",
|
||
|
"dusk",
|
||
|
"dusky",
|
||
|
"lightless",
|
||
|
"pitch-black",
|
||
|
"pitch-dark",
|
||
|
"tenebrous",
|
||
|
"unlit"
|
||
|
]
|
||
|
},
|
||
|
"being on fire":{
|
||
|
"examples":[
|
||
|
"some lighted torches lined the path to the shrine"
|
||
|
],
|
||
|
"synonyms":[
|
||
|
"ablaze",
|
||
|
"afire",
|
||
|
"aflame",
|
||
|
"alight",
|
||
|
"blazing",
|
||
|
"burning",
|
||
|
"combusting",
|
||
|
"conflagrant",
|
||
|
"fiery",
|
||
|
"flaming",
|
||
|
"ignited",
|
||
|
"inflamed",
|
||
|
"enflamed",
|
||
|
"kindled"
|
||
|
],
|
||
|
"near synonyms":[
|
||
|
"aglow",
|
||
|
"flaring",
|
||
|
"flickering",
|
||
|
"glowing",
|
||
|
"live",
|
||
|
"smoldering",
|
||
|
"smouldering",
|
||
|
"broiling",
|
||
|
"hot",
|
||
|
"piping hot",
|
||
|
"red-hot",
|
||
|
"roasting",
|
||
|
"scalding",
|
||
|
"scorching",
|
||
|
"searing",
|
||
|
"sizzling",
|
||
|
"burned",
|
||
|
"burnt",
|
||
|
"charred",
|
||
|
"incinerated",
|
||
|
"scorched",
|
||
|
"seared",
|
||
|
"singed"
|
||
|
],
|
||
|
"near antonyms":[
|
||
|
"choked",
|
||
|
"damped",
|
||
|
"dead",
|
||
|
"doused",
|
||
|
"dowsed",
|
||
|
"extinguished",
|
||
|
"quenched",
|
||
|
"smothered",
|
||
|
"snuffed (out)",
|
||
|
"stamped (out)",
|
||
|
"suffocated"
|
||
|
],
|
||
|
"antonyms":[]
|
||
|
},
|
||
|
"being under the influence of alcohol":{
|
||
|
"examples":[
|
||
|
"Raucous singing could be heard coming from tents full of lit Oktoberfest revelers."
|
||
|
],
|
||
|
"synonyms":[
|
||
|
"besotted",
|
||
|
"blasted",
|
||
|
"blind",
|
||
|
"blitzed",
|
||
|
"blotto",
|
||
|
"bombed",
|
||
|
"boozy",
|
||
|
"canned",
|
||
|
"cockeyed",
|
||
|
"crocked",
|
||
|
"drunk",
|
||
|
"drunken",
|
||
|
"fried",
|
||
|
"gassed",
|
||
|
"hammered",
|
||
|
"high",
|
||
|
"impaired",
|
||
|
"inebriate",
|
||
|
"inebriated",
|
||
|
"intoxicated",
|
||
|
"juiced",
|
||
|
"lit up",
|
||
|
"loaded",
|
||
|
"looped",
|
||
|
"oiled",
|
||
|
"pickled",
|
||
|
"pie-eyed",
|
||
|
"plastered",
|
||
|
"potted",
|
||
|
"ripped",
|
||
|
"sloshed",
|
||
|
"smashed",
|
||
|
"sottish",
|
||
|
"soused",
|
||
|
"sozzled",
|
||
|
"squiffed",
|
||
|
"squiffy",
|
||
|
"stewed",
|
||
|
"stiff",
|
||
|
"stinking",
|
||
|
"stoned",
|
||
|
"tanked",
|
||
|
"tiddly",
|
||
|
"tight",
|
||
|
"tipsy",
|
||
|
"wasted",
|
||
|
"wet",
|
||
|
"wiped out"
|
||
|
],
|
||
|
"near synonyms":[
|
||
|
"maudlin",
|
||
|
"beery",
|
||
|
"befuddled",
|
||
|
"bleary-eyed",
|
||
|
"crapulous",
|
||
|
"dopey",
|
||
|
"dopy",
|
||
|
"rocky",
|
||
|
"strung out",
|
||
|
"stupefied",
|
||
|
"debauched",
|
||
|
"dissipated",
|
||
|
"dissolute",
|
||
|
"alcoholic",
|
||
|
"bibulous",
|
||
|
"dipsomaniacal"
|
||
|
],
|
||
|
"near antonyms":[
|
||
|
"abstemious",
|
||
|
"abstinent",
|
||
|
"dry",
|
||
|
"temperate",
|
||
|
"teetotal",
|
||
|
"clearheaded",
|
||
|
"cool",
|
||
|
"level",
|
||
|
"steady"
|
||
|
],
|
||
|
"antonyms":[
|
||
|
"sober",
|
||
|
"straight"
|
||
|
]
|
||
|
},
|
||
|
"to set (something) on fire":{
|
||
|
"examples":[
|
||
|
"we lit the kindling before adding the heavier logs"
|
||
|
],
|
||
|
"synonyms":[
|
||
|
"burned",
|
||
|
"burnt",
|
||
|
"enkindled",
|
||
|
"fired",
|
||
|
"ignited",
|
||
|
"inflamed",
|
||
|
"enflamed",
|
||
|
"kindled",
|
||
|
"torched"
|
||
|
],
|
||
|
"near synonyms":[
|
||
|
"immolated",
|
||
|
"deflagrated",
|
||
|
"charred",
|
||
|
"frizzled",
|
||
|
"scorched",
|
||
|
"baked",
|
||
|
"broiled",
|
||
|
"cooked",
|
||
|
"ashed",
|
||
|
"cremated",
|
||
|
"incinerated",
|
||
|
"kilned",
|
||
|
"set off",
|
||
|
"brightened",
|
||
|
"illuminated",
|
||
|
"illumined",
|
||
|
"irradiated",
|
||
|
"lightened",
|
||
|
"radiated",
|
||
|
"scalded",
|
||
|
"scathed",
|
||
|
"seared",
|
||
|
"reignited",
|
||
|
"rekindled",
|
||
|
"relit",
|
||
|
"relighted",
|
||
|
"banked",
|
||
|
"stoked"
|
||
|
],
|
||
|
"near antonyms":[
|
||
|
"choked",
|
||
|
"smothered",
|
||
|
"suffocated",
|
||
|
"stamped (out)",
|
||
|
"blackened",
|
||
|
"darkened",
|
||
|
"dimmed",
|
||
|
"dulled",
|
||
|
"obscured"
|
||
|
],
|
||
|
"antonyms":[
|
||
|
"doused",
|
||
|
"dowsed",
|
||
|
"extinguished",
|
||
|
"put out",
|
||
|
"quenched",
|
||
|
"snuffed (out)"
|
||
|
]
|
||
|
},
|
||
|
"to supply with light":{
|
||
|
"examples":[
|
||
|
"the lights from the TV cameras will light this room as though it were high noon"
|
||
|
],
|
||
|
"synonyms":[
|
||
|
"bathed",
|
||
|
"beaconed",
|
||
|
"emblazed",
|
||
|
"illumed",
|
||
|
"illuminated",
|
||
|
"illumined",
|
||
|
"irradiated",
|
||
|
"lightened"
|
||
|
],
|
||
|
"near synonyms":[
|
||
|
"brightened",
|
||
|
"beamed",
|
||
|
"beat (down)",
|
||
|
"radiated",
|
||
|
"shone",
|
||
|
"shined",
|
||
|
"enhaloed",
|
||
|
"haloed",
|
||
|
"floodlit",
|
||
|
"floodlighted",
|
||
|
"highlighted",
|
||
|
"spotlighted",
|
||
|
"spotlit",
|
||
|
"blazed",
|
||
|
"burned",
|
||
|
"burnt",
|
||
|
"fired",
|
||
|
"flamed",
|
||
|
"glared",
|
||
|
"glowed",
|
||
|
"ignited",
|
||
|
"incinerated",
|
||
|
"kindled",
|
||
|
"bedazzled",
|
||
|
"blinded",
|
||
|
"dazed",
|
||
|
"dazzled",
|
||
|
"gleamed",
|
||
|
"glistened",
|
||
|
"glittered"
|
||
|
],
|
||
|
"near antonyms":[
|
||
|
"dimmed",
|
||
|
"dulled",
|
||
|
"obscured",
|
||
|
"covered",
|
||
|
"shrouded",
|
||
|
"veiled",
|
||
|
"doused",
|
||
|
"dowsed",
|
||
|
"extinguished",
|
||
|
"put out",
|
||
|
"quenched",
|
||
|
"snuffed (out)"
|
||
|
],
|
||
|
"antonyms":[
|
||
|
"blackened",
|
||
|
"darkened",
|
||
|
"obfuscated"
|
||
|
]
|
||
|
},
|
||
|
"to come to rest after descending from the air":{
|
||
|
"examples":[
|
||
|
"the bird lit on the branch and began to sing"
|
||
|
],
|
||
|
"synonyms":[
|
||
|
"alighted",
|
||
|
"alit",
|
||
|
"landed",
|
||
|
"perched",
|
||
|
"roosted",
|
||
|
"settled",
|
||
|
"touched down"
|
||
|
],
|
||
|
"near synonyms":[
|
||
|
"belly-landed",
|
||
|
"crash-landed"
|
||
|
],
|
||
|
"near antonyms":[
|
||
|
"arose",
|
||
|
"ascended",
|
||
|
"climbed",
|
||
|
"rose",
|
||
|
"flew",
|
||
|
"floated",
|
||
|
"glided",
|
||
|
"planed",
|
||
|
"soared",
|
||
|
"winged",
|
||
|
"hovered",
|
||
|
"hung",
|
||
|
"hanged"
|
||
|
],
|
||
|
"antonyms":[
|
||
|
"blasted off",
|
||
|
"took off"
|
||
|
]
|
||
|
},
|
||
|
"to come down from something (as a vehicle)":{
|
||
|
"examples":[
|
||
|
"he hurriedly lighted from the bus and started walking up the street"
|
||
|
],
|
||
|
"synonyms":[
|
||
|
"alighted",
|
||
|
"alit",
|
||
|
"descended",
|
||
|
"disembarked",
|
||
|
"dismounted",
|
||
|
"got down"
|
||
|
],
|
||
|
"near synonyms":[
|
||
|
"deplaned",
|
||
|
"detrained"
|
||
|
],
|
||
|
"near antonyms":[
|
||
|
"boarded",
|
||
|
"climbed (aboard)",
|
||
|
"got in",
|
||
|
"mounted",
|
||
|
"enplaned",
|
||
|
"emplaned",
|
||
|
"entrained"
|
||
|
],
|
||
|
"antonyms":[
|
||
|
"embarked"
|
||
|
]
|
||
|
},
|
||
|
"type":[
|
||
|
"adjective",
|
||
|
"verb"
|
||
|
]
|
||
|
},
|
||
|
"little man":{
|
||
|
"an average or ordinary man":{
|
||
|
"examples":[
|
||
|
"claims that the wind farm would benefit only its developers and that the little man would get nothing out of it"
|
||
|
],
|
||
|
"synonyms":[
|
||
|
"everyman",
|
||
|
"Joe Blow",
|
||
|
"Joe Six-Pack",
|
||
|
"John Doe",
|
||
|
"little guy",
|
||
|
"lug",
|
||
|
"slob"
|
||
|
],
|
||
|
"near synonyms":[
|
||
|
"commoner",
|
||
|
"pleb",
|
||
|
"plebeian",
|
||
|
"prole",
|
||
|
"proletarian",
|
||
|
"everywoman",
|
||
|
"plain Jane",
|
||
|
"laborer",
|
||
|
"peon",
|
||
|
"worker"
|
||
|
],
|
||
|
"near antonyms":[
|
||
|
"big cheese",
|
||
|
"big shot",
|
||
|
"big wheel",
|
||
|
"bigwig",
|
||
|
"fat cat",
|
||
|
"mover and shaker",
|
||
|
"VIP"
|
||
|
],
|
||
|
"antonyms":[]
|
||
|
},
|
||
|
"type":[
|
||
|
"noun"
|
||
|
]
|
||
|
},
|
||
|
"literacy":{
|
||
|
"the understanding and information gained from being educated":{
|
||
|
"examples":[
|
||
|
"he impressed everyone with his general literacy as well as his natural intelligence"
|
||
|
],
|
||
|
"synonyms":[
|
||
|
"education",
|
||
|
"erudition",
|
||
|
"knowledge",
|
||
|
"learnedness",
|
||
|
"learning",
|
||
|
"scholarship"
|
||
|
],
|
||
|
"near synonyms":[
|
||
|
"culture",
|
||
|
"edification",
|
||
|
"enlightenment",
|
||
|
"reading",
|
||
|
"bookishness",
|
||
|
"pedantry"
|
||
|
],
|
||
|
"near antonyms":[
|
||
|
"functional illiteracy"
|
||
|
],
|
||
|
"antonyms":[
|
||
|
"ignorance",
|
||
|
"illiteracy",
|
||
|
"illiterateness"
|
||
|
]
|
||
|
},
|
||
|
"type":[
|
||
|
"noun"
|
||
|
]
|
||
|
},
|
||
|
"literati":{
|
||
|
"intellectuals considered as a social class":{
|
||
|
"examples":[
|
||
|
"Boston's 19th-century literati often referred to their city as \"the Athens of America\""
|
||
|
],
|
||
|
"synonyms":[
|
||
|
"clerisy",
|
||
|
"intelligentsia"
|
||
|
],
|
||
|
"near synonyms":[
|
||
|
"avant-garde",
|
||
|
"culturati",
|
||
|
"chosen",
|
||
|
"illuminati",
|
||
|
"best",
|
||
|
"choice",
|
||
|
"cream",
|
||
|
"elect",
|
||
|
"elite",
|
||
|
"fat",
|
||
|
"flower",
|
||
|
"pick",
|
||
|
"prime",
|
||
|
"upper crust"
|
||
|
],
|
||
|
"near antonyms":[],
|
||
|
"antonyms":[]
|
||
|
},
|
||
|
"type":[
|
||
|
"plural noun"
|
||
|
]
|
||
|
},
|
||
|
"litheness":{
|
||
|
"as in flexibility , loose-jointedness":{
|
||
|
"examples":[],
|
||
|
"synonyms":[],
|
||
|
"near synonyms":[
|
||
|
"flexibility",
|
||
|
"gracefulness",
|
||
|
"limberness",
|
||
|
"loose-jointedness",
|
||
|
"suppleness",
|
||
|
"coordination",
|
||
|
"handiness",
|
||
|
"sure-handedness",
|
||
|
"agility",
|
||
|
"deftness",
|
||
|
"dexterity",
|
||
|
"nimbleness",
|
||
|
"sleight",
|
||
|
"spryness",
|
||
|
"sure-footedness",
|
||
|
"adeptness",
|
||
|
"adroitness",
|
||
|
"finesse",
|
||
|
"prowess"
|
||
|
],
|
||
|
"near antonyms":[
|
||
|
"awkwardness",
|
||
|
"clumsiness",
|
||
|
"gaucheness",
|
||
|
"gawkiness",
|
||
|
"gawkishness",
|
||
|
"gracelessness",
|
||
|
"ham-handedness",
|
||
|
"heavy-handedness",
|
||
|
"klutziness",
|
||
|
"ungainliness",
|
||
|
"disability",
|
||
|
"inability",
|
||
|
"incapability",
|
||
|
"incapacity",
|
||
|
"debilitation",
|
||
|
"disablement",
|
||
|
"impairment",
|
||
|
"incapacitation",
|
||
|
"unhandiness"
|
||
|
],
|
||
|
"antonyms":[]
|
||
|
},
|
||
|
"type":[
|
||
|
"noun"
|
||
|
]
|
||
|
},
|
||
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"litmus":{
|
||
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"as in litmus test , acid test":{
|
||
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"examples":[],
|
||
|
"synonyms":[],
|
||
|
"near synonyms":[
|
||
|
"acid test",
|
||
|
"litmus test",
|
||
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"cross",
|
||
|
"crucible",
|
||
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"fire",
|
||
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"gauntlet",
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||
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"gantlet",
|
||
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"ordeal",
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||
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"trial",
|
||
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"baptism",
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||
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"initiation",
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||
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"challenge",
|
||
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"complication",
|
||
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"difficulty",
|
||
|
"grief",
|
||
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"grievance",
|
||
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"hardship",
|
||
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"rigor"
|
||
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],
|
||
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"near antonyms":[],
|
||
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"antonyms":[]
|
||
|
},
|
||
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"type":[
|
||
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"noun"
|
||
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]
|
||
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},
|
||
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"litigations":{
|
||
|
"as in lawsuits , cases":{
|
||
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"examples":[],
|
||
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"synonyms":[],
|
||
|
"near synonyms":[
|
||
|
"actions",
|
||
|
"lawsuits",
|
||
|
"proceedings",
|
||
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"suits",
|
||
|
"cases",
|
||
|
"causes",
|
||
|
"complaints",
|
||
|
"counterclaims",
|
||
|
"countersuits",
|
||
|
"counter-suits",
|
||
|
"cross actions",
|
||
|
"cross-claims"
|
||
|
],
|
||
|
"near antonyms":[],
|
||
|
"antonyms":[]
|
||
|
},
|
||
|
"type":[
|
||
|
"noun"
|
||
|
]
|
||
|
},
|
||
|
"literate":{
|
||
|
"having or displaying advanced knowledge or education":{
|
||
|
"examples":[
|
||
|
"the columnist's witty and literate comments on current events make her a popular guest on political talk shows"
|
||
|
],
|
||
|
"synonyms":[
|
||
|
"educated",
|
||
|
"erudite",
|
||
|
"knowledgeable",
|
||
|
"learned",
|
||
|
"lettered",
|
||
|
"scholarly",
|
||
|
"well-read"
|
||
|
],
|
||
|
"near synonyms":[
|
||
|
"civilized",
|
||
|
"cultivated",
|
||
|
"cultured",
|
||
|
"cerebral",
|
||
|
"highbrow",
|
||
|
"highbrowed",
|
||
|
"intellectual",
|
||
|
"polished",
|
||
|
"refined",
|
||
|
"well-bred",
|
||
|
"academic",
|
||
|
"academical",
|
||
|
"bookish",
|
||
|
"didactic",
|
||
|
"didactical",
|
||
|
"inkhorn",
|
||
|
"pedantic",
|
||
|
"professorial",
|
||
|
"informed",
|
||
|
"instructed",
|
||
|
"schooled",
|
||
|
"skilled",
|
||
|
"trained",
|
||
|
"homeschooled",
|
||
|
"self-educated",
|
||
|
"self-instructed",
|
||
|
"self-taught",
|
||
|
"briefed",
|
||
|
"enlightened",
|
||
|
"informed",
|
||
|
"versed",
|
||
|
"overeducated",
|
||
|
"polyhistoric",
|
||
|
"polymath",
|
||
|
"polymathic"
|
||
|
],
|
||
|
"near antonyms":[
|
||
|
"uncivilized",
|
||
|
"uncultivated",
|
||
|
"uncultured",
|
||
|
"lowbrow",
|
||
|
"semiliterate",
|
||
|
"unintellectual",
|
||
|
"ill-bred",
|
||
|
"unpolished",
|
||
|
"unrefined",
|
||
|
"uninformed",
|
||
|
"unknowledgeable",
|
||
|
"uninstructed",
|
||
|
"unschooled",
|
||
|
"untaught",
|
||
|
"untutored",
|
||
|
"semiliterate",
|
||
|
"undereducated"
|
||
|
],
|
||
|
"antonyms":[
|
||
|
"benighted",
|
||
|
"dark",
|
||
|
"ignorant",
|
||
|
"illiterate",
|
||
|
"uneducated",
|
||
|
"unlearned",
|
||
|
"unlettered",
|
||
|
"unscholarly"
|
||
|
]
|
||
|
},
|
||
|
"type":[
|
||
|
"adjective"
|
||
|
]
|
||
|
},
|
||
|
"literalism":{
|
||
|
"realistic depiction in art and literature":{
|
||
|
"examples":[
|
||
|
"if audiences ever got the literalism they claim they want in movies, they'd be fast asleep by the second reel"
|
||
|
],
|
||
|
"synonyms":[
|
||
|
"naturalism",
|
||
|
"realism",
|
||
|
"representationalism",
|
||
|
"verisimilitude",
|
||
|
"verismo"
|
||
|
],
|
||
|
"near synonyms":[
|
||
|
"photo-realism",
|
||
|
"authenticity",
|
||
|
"grittiness"
|
||
|
],
|
||
|
"near antonyms":[],
|
||
|
"antonyms":[]
|
||
|
},
|
||
|
"type":[
|
||
|
"noun"
|
||
|
]
|
||
|
},
|
||
|
"lit (up)":{
|
||
|
"being under the influence of alcohol":{
|
||
|
"examples":[
|
||
|
"he finally wandered in at 3:00 a.m., obviously lit up"
|
||
|
],
|
||
|
"synonyms":[
|
||
|
"besotted",
|
||
|
"blasted",
|
||
|
"blind",
|
||
|
"blitzed",
|
||
|
"blotto",
|
||
|
"bombed",
|
||
|
"boozy",
|
||
|
"canned",
|
||
|
"cockeyed",
|
||
|
"crocked",
|
||
|
"drunk",
|
||
|
"drunken",
|
||
|
"fried",
|
||
|
"gassed",
|
||
|
"hammered",
|
||
|
"high",
|
||
|
"impaired",
|
||
|
"inebriate",
|
||
|
"inebriated",
|
||
|
"intoxicated",
|
||
|
"juiced",
|
||
|
"lit",
|
||
|
"loaded",
|
||
|
"looped",
|
||
|
"oiled",
|
||
|
"pickled",
|
||
|
"pie-eyed",
|
||
|
"plastered",
|
||
|
"potted",
|
||
|
"ripped",
|
||
|
"sloshed",
|
||
|
"smashed",
|
||
|
"sottish",
|
||
|
"soused",
|
||
|
"sozzled",
|
||
|
"squiffed",
|
||
|
"squiffy",
|
||
|
"stewed",
|
||
|
"stiff",
|
||
|
"stinking",
|
||
|
"stoned",
|
||
|
"tanked",
|
||
|
"tiddly",
|
||
|
"tight",
|
||
|
"tipsy",
|
||
|
"wasted",
|
||
|
"wet",
|
||
|
"wiped out"
|
||
|
],
|
||
|
"near synonyms":[
|
||
|
"maudlin",
|
||
|
"beery",
|
||
|
"befuddled",
|
||
|
"bleary-eyed",
|
||
|
"crapulous",
|
||
|
"dopey",
|
||
|
"dopy",
|
||
|
"rocky",
|
||
|
"strung out",
|
||
|
"stupefied",
|
||
|
"debauched",
|
||
|
"dissipated",
|
||
|
"dissolute",
|
||
|
"alcoholic",
|
||
|
"bibulous",
|
||
|
"dipsomaniacal"
|
||
|
],
|
||
|
"near antonyms":[
|
||
|
"abstemious",
|
||
|
"abstinent",
|
||
|
"dry",
|
||
|
"temperate",
|
||
|
"teetotal",
|
||
|
"clearheaded",
|
||
|
"cool",
|
||
|
"level",
|
||
|
"steady"
|
||
|
],
|
||
|
"antonyms":[
|
||
|
"sober",
|
||
|
"straight"
|
||
|
]
|
||
|
},
|
||
|
"type":[
|
||
|
"adjective"
|
||
|
]
|
||
|
},
|
||
|
"litany":{
|
||
|
"a long stated list of things one after another":{
|
||
|
"examples":[
|
||
|
"Nobody wants to deal with a coworker who repeats the same litany of complaints day after day."
|
||
|
],
|
||
|
"synonyms":[],
|
||
|
"near synonyms":[
|
||
|
"enumeration",
|
||
|
"recital",
|
||
|
"recitation",
|
||
|
"iteration",
|
||
|
"repetition",
|
||
|
"account",
|
||
|
"narration",
|
||
|
"report",
|
||
|
"story",
|
||
|
"catalog",
|
||
|
"checklist",
|
||
|
"list",
|
||
|
"listing",
|
||
|
"index",
|
||
|
"inventory"
|
||
|
],
|
||
|
"near antonyms":[],
|
||
|
"antonyms":[]
|
||
|
},
|
||
|
"an address to a deity or religious figure":{
|
||
|
"examples":[
|
||
|
"In Catholic tradition, the Litany of the Saints is commonly sung at Mass the night before Easter."
|
||
|
],
|
||
|
"synonyms":[],
|
||
|
"near synonyms":[
|
||
|
"collect",
|
||
|
"grace",
|
||
|
"invocation",
|
||
|
"requiescat",
|
||
|
"thanksgiving",
|
||
|
"prayer",
|
||
|
"orison",
|
||
|
"evensong",
|
||
|
"matins",
|
||
|
"vespers",
|
||
|
"appeal",
|
||
|
"begging",
|
||
|
"beseeching",
|
||
|
"entreaty",
|
||
|
"imploring",
|
||
|
"petition",
|
||
|
"pleading",
|
||
|
"request",
|
||
|
"soliciting",
|
||
|
"suit",
|
||
|
"supplication"
|
||
|
],
|
||
|
"near antonyms":[],
|
||
|
"antonyms":[]
|
||
|
},
|
||
|
"type":[
|
||
|
"noun"
|
||
|
]
|
||
|
},
|
||
|
"lit (upon)":{
|
||
|
"as in tumbled (to) , hit (upon)":{
|
||
|
"examples":[],
|
||
|
"synonyms":[],
|
||
|
"near synonyms":[
|
||
|
"hit (upon)",
|
||
|
"tumbled (to)",
|
||
|
"crisscrossed",
|
||
|
"crossed",
|
||
|
"passed",
|
||
|
"reencountered",
|
||
|
"re-encountered",
|
||
|
"remet",
|
||
|
"collided (with)",
|
||
|
"crashed (into)",
|
||
|
"faced",
|
||
|
"greeted",
|
||
|
"saluted",
|
||
|
"accosted",
|
||
|
"confronted",
|
||
|
"caught",
|
||
|
"chanced (upon)",
|
||
|
"encountered",
|
||
|
"happened (upon)",
|
||
|
"met",
|
||
|
"stumbled (upon)"
|
||
|
],
|
||
|
"near antonyms":[
|
||
|
"avoided",
|
||
|
"dodged",
|
||
|
"ducked",
|
||
|
"eluded",
|
||
|
"escaped",
|
||
|
"evaded",
|
||
|
"shook",
|
||
|
"shunned"
|
||
|
],
|
||
|
"antonyms":[]
|
||
|
},
|
||
|
"type":[
|
||
|
"verb"
|
||
|
]
|
||
|
},
|
||
|
"little bitty":{
|
||
|
"very small in size":{
|
||
|
"examples":[
|
||
|
"all that was left when I finally got to the dessert table was one little bitty piece of pie"
|
||
|
],
|
||
|
"synonyms":[
|
||
|
"atomic",
|
||
|
"bitsy",
|
||
|
"bitty",
|
||
|
"infinitesimal",
|
||
|
"itty-bitty",
|
||
|
"itsy-bitsy",
|
||
|
"microminiature",
|
||
|
"microscopic",
|
||
|
"microscopical",
|
||
|
"miniature",
|
||
|
"minuscule",
|
||
|
"minute",
|
||
|
"teensy",
|
||
|
"teensy-weensy",
|
||
|
"teeny",
|
||
|
"teeny-weeny",
|
||
|
"tiny",
|
||
|
"wee",
|
||
|
"weeny",
|
||
|
"weensy"
|
||
|
],
|
||
|
"near synonyms":[
|
||
|
"baby",
|
||
|
"diminutive",
|
||
|
"dwarf",
|
||
|
"elfin",
|
||
|
"half-pint",
|
||
|
"Lilliputian",
|
||
|
"little",
|
||
|
"micro",
|
||
|
"mini",
|
||
|
"minikin",
|
||
|
"model",
|
||
|
"petite",
|
||
|
"pocket",
|
||
|
"pocket-size",
|
||
|
"pocket-sized",
|
||
|
"pygmy",
|
||
|
"small",
|
||
|
"smallish",
|
||
|
"dinky",
|
||
|
"dwarfish",
|
||
|
"insignificant",
|
||
|
"pint-size",
|
||
|
"pint-sized",
|
||
|
"puny",
|
||
|
"scrubby",
|
||
|
"undersized",
|
||
|
"undersize"
|
||
|
],
|
||
|
"near antonyms":[
|
||
|
"big",
|
||
|
"bulky",
|
||
|
"bumper",
|
||
|
"considerable",
|
||
|
"extensive",
|
||
|
"good",
|
||
|
"goodly",
|
||
|
"grand",
|
||
|
"great",
|
||
|
"gross",
|
||
|
"handsome",
|
||
|
"hefty",
|
||
|
"hulking",
|
||
|
"jumbo",
|
||
|
"king-size",
|
||
|
"king-sized",
|
||
|
"large",
|
||
|
"largish",
|
||
|
"major",
|
||
|
"outsize",
|
||
|
"outsized",
|
||
|
"overgrown",
|
||
|
"overscale",
|
||
|
"overscaled",
|
||
|
"oversize",
|
||
|
"oversized",
|
||
|
"sizable",
|
||
|
"sizeable",
|
||
|
"substantial",
|
||
|
"super",
|
||
|
"whacking",
|
||
|
"whopping",
|
||
|
"formidable",
|
||
|
"grandiose",
|
||
|
"imposing",
|
||
|
"lofty",
|
||
|
"majestic",
|
||
|
"monolithic",
|
||
|
"staggering",
|
||
|
"stupendous",
|
||
|
"towering",
|
||
|
"boundless",
|
||
|
"cavernous",
|
||
|
"immeasurable",
|
||
|
"infinite",
|
||
|
"vast",
|
||
|
"vasty",
|
||
|
"voluminous"
|
||
|
],
|
||
|
"antonyms":[
|
||
|
"astronomical",
|
||
|
"astronomic",
|
||
|
"colossal",
|
||
|
"cosmic",
|
||
|
"cosmical",
|
||
|
"elephantine",
|
||
|
"enormous",
|
||
|
"giant",
|
||
|
"gigantic",
|
||
|
"herculean",
|
||
|
"heroic",
|
||
|
"heroical",
|
||
|
"huge",
|
||
|
"immense",
|
||
|
"mammoth",
|
||
|
"massive",
|
||
|
"monster",
|
||
|
"monstrous",
|
||
|
"monumental",
|
||
|
"mountainous",
|
||
|
"planetary",
|
||
|
"prodigious",
|
||
|
"titanic",
|
||
|
"tremendous"
|
||
|
]
|
||
|
},
|
||
|
"type":[
|
||
|
"adjective"
|
||
|
]
|
||
|
},
|
||
|
"literary":{
|
||
|
"suggestive of the vocabulary used in books":{
|
||
|
"examples":[
|
||
|
"the novel's dialogue is a little too literary in flavor to be entirely convincing"
|
||
|
],
|
||
|
"synonyms":[
|
||
|
"bookish",
|
||
|
"erudite",
|
||
|
"learned"
|
||
|
],
|
||
|
"near synonyms":[
|
||
|
"academic",
|
||
|
"academical",
|
||
|
"donnish",
|
||
|
"inkhorn",
|
||
|
"pedantic",
|
||
|
"scholastic",
|
||
|
"belletristic",
|
||
|
"belle-lettristic",
|
||
|
"highbrow",
|
||
|
"highbrowed",
|
||
|
"intellectual",
|
||
|
"educated",
|
||
|
"schooled",
|
||
|
"elevated",
|
||
|
"eloquent",
|
||
|
"formal",
|
||
|
"high-flown",
|
||
|
"lofty",
|
||
|
"majestic",
|
||
|
"stately",
|
||
|
"towering",
|
||
|
"bombastic",
|
||
|
"declamatory",
|
||
|
"florid",
|
||
|
"flowery",
|
||
|
"grandiloquent",
|
||
|
"highfalutin",
|
||
|
"hifalutin",
|
||
|
"pompous",
|
||
|
"stilted"
|
||
|
],
|
||
|
"near antonyms":[
|
||
|
"chatty",
|
||
|
"conversational",
|
||
|
"familiar",
|
||
|
"informal",
|
||
|
"slangy",
|
||
|
"illiterate"
|
||
|
],
|
||
|
"antonyms":[
|
||
|
"colloquial",
|
||
|
"nonliterary",
|
||
|
"unbookish"
|
||
|
]
|
||
|
},
|
||
|
"type":[
|
||
|
"adjective"
|
||
|
]
|
||
|
},
|
||
|
"littorals":{
|
||
|
"as in coasts , shorelines":{
|
||
|
"examples":[],
|
||
|
"synonyms":[],
|
||
|
"near synonyms":[
|
||
|
"coastlands",
|
||
|
"coastlines",
|
||
|
"coasts",
|
||
|
"shorelines",
|
||
|
"shores",
|
||
|
"seaboards",
|
||
|
"seacoasts",
|
||
|
"seashores",
|
||
|
"seasides",
|
||
|
"beaches",
|
||
|
"beachfronts",
|
||
|
"sands",
|
||
|
"strands",
|
||
|
"banks",
|
||
|
"riverbanks",
|
||
|
"riverfronts",
|
||
|
"riversides",
|
||
|
"oceanfronts",
|
||
|
"shorefronts",
|
||
|
"waterfronts",
|
||
|
"lidos",
|
||
|
"plages",
|
||
|
"esplanades"
|
||
|
],
|
||
|
"near antonyms":[],
|
||
|
"antonyms":[]
|
||
|
},
|
||
|
"type":[
|
||
|
"noun"
|
||
|
]
|
||
|
},
|
||
|
"lithe":{
|
||
|
"able to bend easily without breaking":{
|
||
|
"examples":[
|
||
|
"the lithe blade of a fencing foil"
|
||
|
],
|
||
|
"synonyms":[
|
||
|
"bendy",
|
||
|
"flexible",
|
||
|
"limber",
|
||
|
"lissome",
|
||
|
"lissom",
|
||
|
"lithesome",
|
||
|
"pliable",
|
||
|
"pliant",
|
||
|
"supple",
|
||
|
"willowy"
|
||
|
],
|
||
|
"near synonyms":[
|
||
|
"adaptable",
|
||
|
"ductile",
|
||
|
"elastic",
|
||
|
"fluid",
|
||
|
"kneadable",
|
||
|
"malleable",
|
||
|
"modifiable",
|
||
|
"plastic",
|
||
|
"variable",
|
||
|
"yielding",
|
||
|
"droopy",
|
||
|
"flaccid",
|
||
|
"floppy",
|
||
|
"limp",
|
||
|
"semiflexible"
|
||
|
],
|
||
|
"near antonyms":[
|
||
|
"inelastic",
|
||
|
"nonmalleable",
|
||
|
"unyielding",
|
||
|
"breakable",
|
||
|
"brittle",
|
||
|
"fragile"
|
||
|
],
|
||
|
"antonyms":[
|
||
|
"inflexible",
|
||
|
"rigid",
|
||
|
"stiff",
|
||
|
"stiffened"
|
||
|
]
|
||
|
},
|
||
|
"moving easily":{
|
||
|
"examples":[
|
||
|
"lithe dancers glided across the stage"
|
||
|
],
|
||
|
"synonyms":[
|
||
|
"agile",
|
||
|
"featly",
|
||
|
"feline",
|
||
|
"graceful",
|
||
|
"gracile",
|
||
|
"light",
|
||
|
"light-footed",
|
||
|
"light-foot",
|
||
|
"lightsome",
|
||
|
"lissome",
|
||
|
"lissom",
|
||
|
"lithesome",
|
||
|
"nimble",
|
||
|
"spry"
|
||
|
],
|
||
|
"near synonyms":[
|
||
|
"acrobatic",
|
||
|
"flexible",
|
||
|
"limber",
|
||
|
"loose-jointed",
|
||
|
"pliable",
|
||
|
"pliant",
|
||
|
"supple",
|
||
|
"adroit",
|
||
|
"deft",
|
||
|
"dexterous",
|
||
|
"dextrous",
|
||
|
"light-fingered",
|
||
|
"fleet-footed",
|
||
|
"sure-footed",
|
||
|
"athletic",
|
||
|
"balletic",
|
||
|
"coordinated"
|
||
|
],
|
||
|
"near antonyms":[
|
||
|
"uncoordinated",
|
||
|
"inflexible",
|
||
|
"rigid",
|
||
|
"stiff",
|
||
|
"bungling",
|
||
|
"inept",
|
||
|
"maladroit"
|
||
|
],
|
||
|
"antonyms":[
|
||
|
"awkward",
|
||
|
"clumsy",
|
||
|
"gawky",
|
||
|
"graceless",
|
||
|
"klutzy",
|
||
|
"lumbering",
|
||
|
"ungainly",
|
||
|
"ungraceful"
|
||
|
]
|
||
|
},
|
||
|
"having a noticeably small amount of body fat":{
|
||
|
"examples":[
|
||
|
"she has the lithe , sinewy body of a distance runner"
|
||
|
],
|
||
|
"synonyms":[
|
||
|
"bony",
|
||
|
"boney",
|
||
|
"fatless",
|
||
|
"lean",
|
||
|
"skinny",
|
||
|
"slender",
|
||
|
"slim",
|
||
|
"spare",
|
||
|
"svelte",
|
||
|
"thin"
|
||
|
],
|
||
|
"near synonyms":[
|
||
|
"clean-limbed",
|
||
|
"trim",
|
||
|
"sylphlike",
|
||
|
"willowy",
|
||
|
"angular",
|
||
|
"rawboned",
|
||
|
"scraggy",
|
||
|
"scrawny",
|
||
|
"sinewy",
|
||
|
"wiry",
|
||
|
"lank",
|
||
|
"lanky",
|
||
|
"rangy",
|
||
|
"reedy",
|
||
|
"spindling",
|
||
|
"spindly",
|
||
|
"stringy",
|
||
|
"twiggy",
|
||
|
"waspish",
|
||
|
"weedy",
|
||
|
"anorectic",
|
||
|
"anoretic",
|
||
|
"anorexic",
|
||
|
"cadaverous",
|
||
|
"emaciated",
|
||
|
"gaunt",
|
||
|
"haggard",
|
||
|
"pinched",
|
||
|
"skeletal",
|
||
|
"wasted",
|
||
|
"wizened",
|
||
|
"meager",
|
||
|
"meagre",
|
||
|
"puny",
|
||
|
"slight"
|
||
|
],
|
||
|
"near antonyms":[
|
||
|
"beefy",
|
||
|
"bulky",
|
||
|
"chunky",
|
||
|
"fleshy",
|
||
|
"heavy",
|
||
|
"heavyset",
|
||
|
"stocky",
|
||
|
"stout",
|
||
|
"thick",
|
||
|
"thickset",
|
||
|
"weighty",
|
||
|
"brawny",
|
||
|
"burly",
|
||
|
"husky",
|
||
|
"dumpy",
|
||
|
"pudgy",
|
||
|
"roly-poly",
|
||
|
"squat",
|
||
|
"stubby",
|
||
|
"paunchy",
|
||
|
"potbellied",
|
||
|
"flabby",
|
||
|
"soft",
|
||
|
"buxom",
|
||
|
"zaftig",
|
||
|
"zoftig",
|
||
|
"full",
|
||
|
"hippy",
|
||
|
"round"
|
||
|
],
|
||
|
"antonyms":[
|
||
|
"chubby",
|
||
|
"corpulent",
|
||
|
"fat",
|
||
|
"gross",
|
||
|
"obese",
|
||
|
"overweight",
|
||
|
"plump",
|
||
|
"portly",
|
||
|
"rotund",
|
||
|
"tubby"
|
||
|
]
|
||
|
},
|
||
|
"type":[
|
||
|
"adjective"
|
||
|
]
|
||
|
},
|
||
|
"litigants":{
|
||
|
"someone who brings a legal action against another person or against whom a legal action is brought":{
|
||
|
"examples":[
|
||
|
"Both litigants chose to represent themselves in court."
|
||
|
],
|
||
|
"synonyms":[],
|
||
|
"near synonyms":[
|
||
|
"parties",
|
||
|
"suitors",
|
||
|
"complainants",
|
||
|
"plaintiffs",
|
||
|
"suers",
|
||
|
"accused",
|
||
|
"defendants",
|
||
|
"appellees",
|
||
|
"accusers",
|
||
|
"appellants",
|
||
|
"petitioners",
|
||
|
"pleaders"
|
||
|
],
|
||
|
"near antonyms":[],
|
||
|
"antonyms":[]
|
||
|
},
|
||
|
"type":[
|
||
|
"noun"
|
||
|
]
|
||
|
},
|
||
|
"littler":{
|
||
|
"as in smaller , slighter":{
|
||
|
"examples":[],
|
||
|
"synonyms":[],
|
||
|
"near synonyms":[
|
||
|
"slighter",
|
||
|
"smaller",
|
||
|
"deficient",
|
||
|
"inadequate",
|
||
|
"insufficient",
|
||
|
"unacceptable",
|
||
|
"jerkwater",
|
||
|
"low-rent",
|
||
|
"one-horse",
|
||
|
"small-time",
|
||
|
"two-bit",
|
||
|
"amiss",
|
||
|
"bad",
|
||
|
"defective",
|
||
|
"unsatisfactory",
|
||
|
"wrong",
|
||
|
"average",
|
||
|
"common",
|
||
|
"fair",
|
||
|
"middling",
|
||
|
"ordinary",
|
||
|
"junior",
|
||
|
"lesser",
|
||
|
"lower",
|
||
|
"low-level",
|
||
|
"petty",
|
||
|
"smaller",
|
||
|
"subordinate",
|
||
|
"under",
|
||
|
"inferior",
|
||
|
"mean",
|
||
|
"minor",
|
||
|
"secondary",
|
||
|
"second-class",
|
||
|
"second-rate"
|
||
|
],
|
||
|
"near antonyms":[
|
||
|
"greater",
|
||
|
"higher",
|
||
|
"superior",
|
||
|
"major",
|
||
|
"more",
|
||
|
"primary",
|
||
|
"senior",
|
||
|
"choice",
|
||
|
"exceptional",
|
||
|
"first-class",
|
||
|
"first-rate",
|
||
|
"high-grade",
|
||
|
"premium",
|
||
|
"prime",
|
||
|
"select",
|
||
|
"selected",
|
||
|
"acceptable",
|
||
|
"adequate",
|
||
|
"sufficient"
|
||
|
],
|
||
|
"antonyms":[]
|
||
|
},
|
||
|
"type":[
|
||
|
"adjective"
|
||
|
]
|
||
|
},
|
||
|
"litigation":{
|
||
|
"as in lawsuit , case":{
|
||
|
"examples":[],
|
||
|
"synonyms":[],
|
||
|
"near synonyms":[
|
||
|
"action",
|
||
|
"lawsuit",
|
||
|
"proceeding",
|
||
|
"suit",
|
||
|
"case",
|
||
|
"cause",
|
||
|
"complaint",
|
||
|
"counterclaim",
|
||
|
"countersuit",
|
||
|
"cross action",
|
||
|
"cross-claim"
|
||
|
],
|
||
|
"near antonyms":[],
|
||
|
"antonyms":[]
|
||
|
},
|
||
|
"type":[
|
||
|
"noun"
|
||
|
]
|
||
|
},
|
||
|
"litmuses":{
|
||
|
"as in litmus tests , acid tests":{
|
||
|
"examples":[],
|
||
|
"synonyms":[],
|
||
|
"near synonyms":[
|
||
|
"acid tests",
|
||
|
"litmus tests",
|
||
|
"crosses",
|
||
|
"crucibles",
|
||
|
"fires",
|
||
|
"gauntlets",
|
||
|
"gantlets",
|
||
|
"ordeals",
|
||
|
"trials",
|
||
|
"baptisms",
|
||
|
"initiations",
|
||
|
"challenges",
|
||
|
"complications",
|
||
|
"difficulties",
|
||
|
"griefs",
|
||
|
"grievances",
|
||
|
"hardships",
|
||
|
"rigors"
|
||
|
],
|
||
|
"near antonyms":[],
|
||
|
"antonyms":[]
|
||
|
},
|
||
|
"type":[
|
||
|
"noun"
|
||
|
]
|
||
|
},
|
||
|
"literally":{
|
||
|
"in a literal, true, or accurate way":{
|
||
|
"examples":[
|
||
|
"She is not one for hyperbole\u2014all of her warnings should be taken literally .",
|
||
|
"The employees took the CEO's remarks literally and rightfully worried about the future health of the company."
|
||
|
],
|
||
|
"synonyms":[],
|
||
|
"near synonyms":[
|
||
|
"accurately",
|
||
|
"precisely",
|
||
|
"ad verbum",
|
||
|
"directly",
|
||
|
"exactly",
|
||
|
"verbatim",
|
||
|
"word for word",
|
||
|
"actually",
|
||
|
"authentically",
|
||
|
"certifiably",
|
||
|
"genuinely",
|
||
|
"really",
|
||
|
"truly",
|
||
|
"veritably",
|
||
|
"just",
|
||
|
"right",
|
||
|
"sharp",
|
||
|
"smack-dab",
|
||
|
"squarely",
|
||
|
"identically",
|
||
|
"positively",
|
||
|
"simply"
|
||
|
],
|
||
|
"near antonyms":[
|
||
|
"carelessly",
|
||
|
"freely",
|
||
|
"imprecisely",
|
||
|
"inaccurately",
|
||
|
"loosely",
|
||
|
"inexactly",
|
||
|
"metaphorically"
|
||
|
],
|
||
|
"antonyms":[]
|
||
|
},
|
||
|
"type":[
|
||
|
"adverb"
|
||
|
]
|
||
|
},
|
||
|
"lite":{
|
||
|
"as in light":{
|
||
|
"examples":[],
|
||
|
"synonyms":[],
|
||
|
"near synonyms":[
|
||
|
"light",
|
||
|
"natural",
|
||
|
"plain",
|
||
|
"simple",
|
||
|
"unseasoned",
|
||
|
"diet",
|
||
|
"nonfattening",
|
||
|
"slimming",
|
||
|
"nonfat"
|
||
|
],
|
||
|
"near antonyms":[
|
||
|
"heavy",
|
||
|
"rich",
|
||
|
"buttery",
|
||
|
"fat",
|
||
|
"fatty",
|
||
|
"greasy",
|
||
|
"oily",
|
||
|
"caloric",
|
||
|
"calorific",
|
||
|
"fattening"
|
||
|
],
|
||
|
"antonyms":[]
|
||
|
},
|
||
|
"type":[
|
||
|
"adjective"
|
||
|
]
|
||
|
},
|
||
|
"litterateur":{
|
||
|
"a person who creates a written work":{
|
||
|
"examples":[
|
||
|
"Washington Irving is generally credited as the first American litterateur to gain a reputation in Britain and on the Continent"
|
||
|
],
|
||
|
"synonyms":[
|
||
|
"author",
|
||
|
"pen",
|
||
|
"penman",
|
||
|
"scribe",
|
||
|
"scrivener",
|
||
|
"writer"
|
||
|
],
|
||
|
"near synonyms":[
|
||
|
"auteur",
|
||
|
"belletrist",
|
||
|
"belle-lettrist",
|
||
|
"stylist",
|
||
|
"wordsmith",
|
||
|
"coauthor",
|
||
|
"coscenarist",
|
||
|
"cowriter",
|
||
|
"ghostwriter",
|
||
|
"hack",
|
||
|
"hatchet man",
|
||
|
"scribbler",
|
||
|
"wordmonger",
|
||
|
"biographer",
|
||
|
"hagiographer",
|
||
|
"autobiographer",
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"memoirist",
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"memorialist",
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"fabulist",
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"fictioneer",
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"fictionist",
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"novelist",
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"romancer",
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"storyteller",
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"essayist",
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"pamphleteer",
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"satirist",
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"dramatist",
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"playwright",
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"scenarist",
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"screenwriter",
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"scriptwriter",
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"prosaist",
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"prosateur",
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"proser",
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"bard",
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"poet",
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"rhymer",
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"versifier",
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"blogger",
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"columnist",
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"journalist",
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"newspaperman",
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"paragrapher",
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"reporter",
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"sportswriter"
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],
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"near antonyms":[],
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"antonyms":[
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"nonauthor"
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]
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},
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"type":[
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"noun"
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]
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}
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}
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