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{
"object":{
"one that has a real and independent existence":{
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"examples":[
"trying to determine whether communication with the dead is an object for study, a hoax, or a figment of the imagination"
],
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"nonentity"
],
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"subject",
"material",
"matter",
"quantity",
"stuff"
],
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"individual",
"individuality",
"integer",
"reality",
"something",
"substance",
"thing"
]
},
"something material that can be perceived by the senses":{
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"examples":[
"I kept tripping over countless little objects scattered about the darkened room"
],
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"good",
"ware",
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"doohickey",
"thingamabob",
"thingamajig",
"thingumajig",
"thingummy",
"whatchamacallit",
"whatnot",
"accessory",
"accessary",
"accompaniment",
"bauble",
"curio",
"gaud",
"gewgaw",
"geegaw",
"knickknack",
"nicknack",
"novelty",
"ornamental",
"spangle",
"token",
"trinket"
],
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"thing"
]
},
"something that one hopes or intends to accomplish":{
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"examples":[
"the object of this course is to teach you algebra"
],
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"way"
],
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"desire",
"hope",
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"wish",
"nirvana",
"destination",
"terminus"
],
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"design",
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"end",
"goal",
"idea",
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"meaning",
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"plan",
"point",
"pretension",
"purpose",
"target",
"thing"
]
},
"to present an opposing opinion or argument":{
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"examples":[
"they objected to the conductor's insistence that their train tickets were not valid"
],
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"sanction",
"accept",
"accede",
"acquiesce",
"agree",
"assent",
"adhere",
"comply",
"conform",
"follow",
"mind",
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"advocate",
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"defend",
"maintain",
"support",
"sustain",
"uphold",
"applaud",
"cheer",
"commend"
],
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"cavil",
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"challenge",
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"defy",
"fight",
"conflict",
"debate",
"dispute",
"hassle",
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"squabble",
"wrangle",
"beef",
"bellyache",
"bitch",
"bleat",
"carp",
"caterwaul",
"complain",
"crab",
"croak",
"fuss",
"gripe",
"grizzle",
"grouch",
"grouse",
"growl",
"grumble",
"grump",
"holler",
"keen",
"maunder",
"moan",
"murmur",
"mutter",
"nag",
"repine",
"scream",
"squawk",
"squeal",
"wail",
"whimper",
"whine",
"whinge",
"yammer",
"yawp",
"yaup",
"yowl",
"balk",
"gag",
"stick",
"censure",
"criticize",
"denounce",
"disobey",
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"withstand",
"demonstrate"
],
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"expostulate",
"kick",
"protest",
"remonstrate (with)"
]
},
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"noun",
"verb"
]
},
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"near antonyms":[],
"related":[],
"synonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"objectify":{
"to treat (someone) as an object rather than as a person":{
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"examples":[
"She says beauty pageants objectify women."
],
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"synonyms":[]
},
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]
},
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"examples":[
"She says beauty pageants objectify women."
],
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},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"objective":{
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"nonempirical",
"theoretical",
"theoretic",
"unempirical"
],
"examples":[
"an objective assessment based solely upon the results of the experiment"
],
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"conjectural",
"hypothetical",
"speculative",
"unproven",
"unsubstantiated",
"metaphysical",
"transcendentalist",
"visionary"
],
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"factual",
"genuine",
"hard",
"material",
"real",
"accepted",
"established",
"tried",
"tried-and-true",
"indisputable",
"undeniable",
"demonstrable",
"provable",
"verifiable"
],
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"empiric",
"existential",
"experiential",
"experimental",
"observational"
]
},
"marked by justice, honesty, and freedom from bias":{
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"biased",
"ex parte",
"inequitable",
"nonobjective",
"one-sided",
"partial",
"parti pris",
"partisan",
"prejudiced",
"unjust"
],
"examples":[
"the judge removed herself from the case because she doubted her ability to remain objective , given her friendship with one of the attorneys"
],
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"deceitful",
"deceptive",
"dishonest",
"arbitrary",
"unconscionable",
"unreasonable",
"jaundiced",
"unfriendly",
"unsympathetic",
"colored",
"distorted",
"warped"
],
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"forthright",
"open",
"straight",
"straightforward",
"balanced",
"rational",
"reasonable"
],
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"disinterested",
"dispassionate",
"equal",
"equitable",
"evenhanded",
"fair",
"impartial",
"indifferent",
"just",
"nonpartisan",
"square",
"unbiased",
"unprejudiced"
]
},
"restricted to or based on fact":{
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"fictional",
"fictionalized",
"fictitious",
"nondocumentary",
"nonfactual",
"nonhistorical",
"unhistorical"
],
"examples":[
"the paper's news stories strive to be scrupulously objective , with opinions clearly labeled as commentary"
],
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"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"
],
"related":[
"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"
],
"synonyms":[
"documentary",
"factual",
"hard",
"historical",
"literal",
"matter-of-fact",
"nonfictional",
"true"
]
},
"something that one hopes or intends to accomplish":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"the summer camp's stated objective is to produce tournament-level tennis players"
],
"near antonyms":[
"means",
"method",
"way"
],
"related":[
"grail",
"holy grail",
"plot",
"project",
"scheme",
"desire",
"hope",
"mind",
"wish",
"nirvana",
"destination",
"terminus"
],
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"ambition",
"aspiration",
"bourne",
"bourn",
"design",
"dream",
"end",
"goal",
"idea",
"ideal",
"intent",
"intention",
"mark",
"meaning",
"object",
"plan",
"point",
"pretension",
"purpose",
"target",
"thing"
]
},
"type":[
"adjective",
"noun"
]
},
"oblige":{
"to cause (a person) to give in to pressure":{
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"examples":[
"I know you're in a hurry, but you can't oblige me to drive any faster than the speed limit"
],
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"allow",
"let",
"permit",
"argue",
"convince",
"induce",
"move",
"persuade",
"prevail (on or upon)",
"satisfy",
"talk (into)",
"win (over)"
],
"related":[
"browbeat",
"bulldoze",
"bully",
"cow",
"hector",
"intimidate",
"blackmail",
"high-pressure",
"menace",
"shame",
"terrorize",
"threaten",
"drag",
"badger",
"harass",
"hound"
],
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"blackjack",
"coerce",
"compel",
"constrain",
"dragoon",
"drive",
"force",
"impel",
"impress",
"make",
"muscle",
"obligate",
"press",
"pressure",
"sandbag"
]
},
"to do a service or favor for":{
"antonyms":[
"disoblige"
],
"examples":[
"I would appreciate it greatly if you could oblige me by bringing a dessert to the party"
],
"near antonyms":[
"bother",
"discommode",
"disturb",
"incommode",
"inconvenience",
"trouble",
"burden",
"encumber",
"saddle",
"weigh",
"desert",
"disappoint",
"fail",
"let down",
"constrain",
"hamper",
"hamstring",
"hinder",
"hobble",
"hold back",
"impede",
"obstruct",
"restrain",
"frustrate",
"oppose",
"sabotage",
"thwart"
],
"related":[
"humor",
"indulge",
"coddle",
"mollycoddle",
"pamper",
"appease",
"conciliate",
"mollify",
"pacify",
"placate",
"delight",
"gladden",
"gratify",
"please",
"satisfy",
"abet",
"aid",
"assist",
"help",
"support",
"attend",
"care (for)",
"comfort",
"minister (to)",
"relieve",
"succor"
],
"synonyms":[
"accommodate",
"favor"
]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"obliquity":{
"the quality or state of having a veiled or uncertain meaning":{
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"clarity",
"clearness",
"obviousness",
"plainness"
],
"examples":[
"her poetry is sure to satisfy those readers who readily confuse obliquity with profundity"
],
"near antonyms":[
"comprehensibility",
"intelligibility",
"legibility",
"brightness",
"distinctness",
"self-evidence",
"certainty",
"surety",
"definiteness",
"exactness",
"explicitness",
"incision",
"incisiveness",
"lucidity",
"lucidness",
"perspicuity",
"perspicuousness",
"directness",
"forthrightness",
"openness",
"straightforwardness",
"palpability",
"tangibility",
"tangibleness",
"visibility",
"readability",
"readableness",
"obviousness"
],
"related":[
"mystery",
"reconditeness",
"cloudiness",
"dimness",
"faintness",
"fogginess",
"fuzziness",
"haziness",
"indefiniteness",
"indistinctness",
"mistiness",
"shade",
"shadow",
"uncertainty",
"vagueness",
"impenetrability",
"incomprehensibility",
"incomprehensibleness",
"circuitousness",
"circuity",
"indirectness",
"deepness",
"depth",
"profoundness",
"abstruseness",
"abstrusity",
"complexity",
"complication",
"difficulty",
"obtuseness"
],
"synonyms":[
"ambiguity",
"ambiguousness",
"darkness",
"equivocalness",
"equivocation",
"inscrutability",
"inscrutableness",
"murkiness",
"mysteriousness",
"nebulosity",
"nebulousness",
"obliqueness",
"obscurity",
"opacity",
"opaqueness"
]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"obliterate":{
"to destroy all traces of":{
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"examples":[
"in a stroke, the March snowstorm obliterated our hopes for an early spring"
],
"near antonyms":[
"conserve",
"preserve",
"protect",
"save",
"build",
"construct",
"create",
"fabricate",
"fashion",
"forge",
"form",
"frame",
"make",
"manufacture",
"shape",
"fix",
"mend",
"patch",
"rebuild",
"recondition",
"reconstruct",
"renew",
"renovate",
"repair",
"restore",
"revamp"
],
"related":[
"decimate",
"demolish",
"destroy",
"devastate",
"ravage",
"dismantle",
"flatten",
"mow (down)",
"raze",
"tear down",
"ruin",
"total",
"waste",
"wreck",
"blast",
"blow up",
"dash",
"dynamite",
"smash",
"atomize",
"consume",
"devour",
"dissolve",
"fragment",
"powder",
"pulverize",
"shatter",
"splinter",
"doom",
"finish",
"kill",
"kill off",
"terminate",
"zap",
"cut",
"discard",
"ditch",
"eject",
"excise",
"expel",
"jettison",
"oust",
"throw out"
],
"synonyms":[
"abolish",
"annihilate",
"black out",
"blot out",
"cancel",
"clean (up)",
"efface",
"eradicate",
"erase",
"expunge",
"exterminate",
"extirpate",
"liquidate",
"root (out)",
"rub out",
"snuff (out)",
"stamp (out)",
"sweep (away)",
"wipe out"
]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"obliviousness":{
"a state of being disregardful or unconscious of one's surroundings, concerns, or obligations":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"her general obliviousness often results in her walking into walls and other hard-to-miss objects"
],
"near antonyms":[
"memory",
"recall",
"recollection",
"remembrance",
"alertness",
"awareness",
"cognizance",
"consciousness"
],
"related":[
"ignorance",
"incognizance",
"innocence",
"insensibility",
"nescience",
"unawareness",
"unconsciousness",
"unfamiliarity",
"amnesia",
"blindness",
"absentmindedness",
"absorption",
"abstraction",
"inattention",
"inattentiveness",
"preoccupation"
],
"synonyms":[
"forgetfulness",
"nirvana",
"oblivion"
]
},
"the state of being unaware or uninformed":{
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"acquaintance",
"awareness",
"cognizance",
"familiarity"
],
"examples":[
"obliviousness of a law is not an acceptable excuse for breaking it"
],
"near antonyms":[
"experience",
"know-how",
"sophistication"
],
"related":[
"callowness",
"greenness",
"inexperience",
"na\u00efvet\u00e9",
"naivete",
"naivet\u00e9",
"rawness",
"simpleness",
"unsophistication"
],
"synonyms":[
"benightedness",
"cluelessness",
"ignorance",
"incognizance",
"innocence",
"nescience",
"unawareness",
"unfamiliarity"
]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"oblong":{
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"near antonyms":[],
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},
"type":[
"adjective"
]
},
"obscenely":{
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},
"type":[
"adverb"
]
},
"obscurantic":{
"as in":{
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"near antonyms":[],
"related":[],
"synonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"adjective"
]
},
"obscured":{
"being without light or without much light":{
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"bright",
"brightened",
"brilliant",
"illuminated",
"illumined",
"light",
"lit",
"lighted",
"lightsome",
"lucent",
"lucid",
"luminous"
],
"examples":[
"an obscured area of the prison yard that was the perfect escape route"
],
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"ablaze",
"agleam",
"aglitter",
"alight",
"beaming",
"beamy",
"effulgent",
"glaring",
"glowing",
"incandescent",
"lambent",
"radiant",
"relucent",
"resplendent",
"shining",
"sparkling",
"ultrabright",
"glossy",
"lustrous",
"shiny",
"floodlit",
"floodlighted",
"highlighted",
"spotlighted",
"spotlit",
"moonlit",
"moony",
"starlit",
"sunlit"
],
"related":[
"crepuscular",
"twilit",
"moonless",
"starless",
"sunless",
"cloudy",
"dull",
"dulled",
"lackluster",
"shadowlike",
"shadowy",
"shady",
"gray",
"grey",
"leaden",
"pale",
"beclouded",
"befogged",
"clouded",
"foggy",
"fuliginous",
"misty",
"smoggy",
"soupy"
],
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"black",
"caliginous",
"dark",
"darkened",
"darkish",
"darkling",
"darksome",
"dim",
"dimmed",
"dusk",
"dusky",
"gloomy",
"lightless",
"murky",
"obscure",
"pitch-black",
"pitch-dark",
"pitchy",
"rayless",
"somber",
"sombre",
"stygian",
"tenebrific",
"tenebrous",
"unlit"
]
},
"to keep secret or shut off from view":{
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"bared",
"disclosed",
"displayed",
"divulged",
"exposed",
"revealed",
"showed",
"uncloaked",
"uncovered",
"unmasked",
"unveiled"
],
"examples":[
"the investigative reporters obscured their real motives for visiting the company by pretending the story was about something else"
],
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"brought out",
"presented",
"clarified",
"illuminated",
"advertised",
"aired",
"broadcast",
"broadcasted",
"got out",
"proclaimed",
"publicized",
"published",
"spread"
],
"related":[
"buried",
"camouflaged",
"covered (up)",
"smothered",
"gilded",
"gilt",
"glossed (over)",
"varnished",
"whitewashed",
"beclouded",
"bedimmed",
"befogged",
"blocked",
"clouded",
"darkened",
"eclipsed",
"obstructed",
"occluded",
"overcast",
"overshadowed",
"shaded"
],
"synonyms":[
"belied",
"blanketed",
"blotted out",
"cloaked",
"concealed",
"covered",
"curtained",
"disguised",
"enshrouded",
"hid",
"masked",
"occulted",
"papered over",
"screened",
"shrouded",
"suppressed",
"veiled"
]
},
"to make dark, dim, or indistinct":{
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"brightened",
"illuminated",
"illumined",
"lightened",
"lit (up)",
"lighted (up)"
],
"examples":[
"when it isn't obscured by smog, the view of the city from the observatory can be spectacular"
],
"near antonyms":[
"exposed",
"revealed",
"uncovered",
"unveiled"
],
"related":[
"adumbrated",
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"eclipsed",
"hid",
"obliterated",
"screened",
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"camouflaged",
"cloaked",
"covered",
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"masked",
"veiled"
],
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"beclouded",
"bedimmed",
"befogged",
"blackened",
"bleared",
"blurred",
"clouded",
"darkened",
"dimmed",
"dislimned",
"fogged",
"fuzzed (up)",
"hazed",
"misted",
"overcast",
"overclouded",
"overshadowed",
"shadowed",
"shrouded"
]
},
"type":[
"adjective",
"verb"
]
},
"obscureness":{
"as in":{
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"examples":[],
"near antonyms":[],
"related":[],
"synonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"observable":{
"capable of being seen":{
"antonyms":[
"invisible",
"sightless",
"viewless"
],
"examples":[
"scientists often work with phenomena that are not directly observable"
],
"near antonyms":[
"disappeared",
"dissolved",
"evanesced",
"evaporated",
"melted",
"vanished",
"vaporized",
"imperceptible",
"indiscernible",
"indistinct",
"unnoticeable",
"unobservable",
"faint",
"inconspicuous",
"insignificant",
"slight",
"unobtrusive",
"vague",
"buried",
"concealed",
"covert",
"disguised",
"hidden",
"latent",
"obscure",
"shrouded"
],
"related":[
"viewable",
"detectable",
"discernible",
"discernable",
"noticeable",
"perceptible",
"clear",
"conspicuous",
"evident",
"eye-catching",
"manifest",
"obvious",
"overt",
"patent",
"perceivable",
"plain",
"prominent",
"striking",
"exposed",
"external",
"outer",
"outward",
"superficial"
],
"synonyms":[
"apparent",
"seeable",
"visible",
"visual"
]
},
"type":[
"adjective"
],
"worth remembering or mentioning":{
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"forgettable",
"unmemorable",
"unremarkable"
],
"examples":[
"a man who apparently was devoid of any observable virtue"
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