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{
"Pollyanna":{
"as in":{
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"near antonyms":[],
"related":[],
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},
"type":[
"adjective",
"noun"
]
},
"pocket book":{
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"examples":[
"she pulled some lip balm out of her pocketbook"
],
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"clutch",
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"minaudi\u00e8re",
"billfold",
"wallet",
"compact",
"vanity",
"poke",
"pouch",
"sack",
"shoulder bag"
],
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"bag",
"handbag",
"purse"
]
},
"as in paper , pocket edition":{
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},
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"noun"
]
},
"pockmark":{
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"examples":[
"the explosion left little pockmarks all over the face of the adjacent building"
],
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"embellishment",
"enhancement",
"ornament"
],
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"irregularity",
"malformation",
"misshape",
"bug",
"glitch",
"kink",
"blot",
"blur",
"spot",
"stain",
"taint",
"damage",
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"injury",
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"weakness"
],
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"blight",
"blotch",
"defect",
"deformity",
"disfigurement",
"excrescence",
"excrescency",
"fault",
"flaw",
"imperfection",
"mar",
"mark",
"scar"
]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"poisoned":{
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"nonpoisonous",
"nontoxic",
"nonvenomous"
],
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"leaving poisoned food to try to kill the roaches"
],
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"curative",
"healthful",
"healthy",
"helpful",
"palliative",
"remedial",
"salubrious",
"salutary",
"wholesome",
"benign",
"harmless",
"innocuous",
"inoffensive",
"nonfatal",
"nonlethal"
],
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"infectious",
"infective",
"pathogenic",
"pestilent",
"pestilential",
"baneful",
"deleterious",
"harmful",
"hurtful",
"injurious",
"malignant",
"nocuous",
"noxious",
"virulent",
"unhealthful",
"unhealthy",
"unwholesome",
"calamitous",
"deadly",
"fatal",
"fell",
"lethal",
"murderous"
],
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"poison",
"poisonous",
"toxic",
"venomous"
]
},
"to affect slightly with something morally bad or undesirable":{
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"poisoning the minds of impressionable children with ethnic hatred"
],
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"purified",
"dignified",
"elevated",
"ennobled",
"enshrined",
"glorified",
"hallowed",
"magnified",
"uplifted"
],
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"besmeared",
"besmirched",
"blackened",
"blurred",
"clouded",
"dirtied",
"discolored",
"polluted",
"smeared",
"smirched",
"smudged",
"smutted",
"soiled",
"sullied",
"tarred",
"abased",
"cheapened",
"debased",
"degraded",
"demeaned",
"discredited",
"disgraced",
"dishonored",
"fouled",
"lowered",
"sank",
"sunk",
"shamed",
"bastardized",
"corrupted",
"debauched",
"demoralized",
"depraved",
"perverted",
"subverted",
"colored",
"distorted",
"twisted"
],
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"blemished",
"darkened",
"marred",
"spoiled",
"spoilt",
"stained",
"tainted",
"tarnished",
"touched",
"vitiated"
]
},
"to cause to have often negative opinions formed without sufficient knowledge":{
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"examples":[
"malicious rumors had poisoned many church members against the new pastor"
],
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"related":[
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"inclined",
"predisposed",
"influenced",
"prepossessed",
"convinced",
"persuaded",
"suggested"
],
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"biased",
"biassed",
"prejudiced",
"turned"
]
},
"to lower in character, dignity, or quality":{
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"elevated",
"ennobled",
"uplifted"
],
"examples":[
"this party partisanship poisons the national debate we should be having about this urgent problem"
],
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"dignified",
"exalted",
"honored",
"ameliorated",
"amended",
"bettered",
"enhanced",
"enriched",
"improved",
"meliorated",
"perfected",
"clarified",
"cleaned",
"cleansed",
"purified",
"refined",
"restored",
"respected"
],
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"begrimed",
"contaminated",
"defiled",
"diluted",
"dirtied",
"polluted",
"tainted",
"thinned",
"watered down",
"weakened",
"descended",
"disgraced",
"dishonored",
"humbled",
"humiliated",
"shamed",
"took down",
"blemished",
"damaged",
"defaced",
"destroyed",
"flawed",
"harmed",
"hurt",
"impaired",
"marred",
"ruined",
"spoiled",
"spoilt",
"stained",
"tarnished",
"wrecked",
"depreciated",
"downgraded"
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"bastardized",
"cankered",
"cheapened",
"corrupted",
"debased",
"debauched",
"degraded",
"demeaned",
"demoralized",
"depraved",
"deteriorated",
"lessened",
"perverted",
"profaned",
"prostituted",
"subverted",
"vitiated",
"warped"
]
},
"to make unfit for use by the addition of something harmful or undesirable":{
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"decontaminated",
"purified"
],
"examples":[
"exhaust fumes poisoning the air"
],
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"clarified",
"cleaned",
"cleansed",
"cleared",
"distilled",
"purged",
"filtered",
"disinfected",
"sanitized",
"sterilized"
],
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"begrimed",
"besmirched",
"blackened",
"dirtied",
"fouled up",
"grimed",
"mired",
"muddied",
"smirched",
"smudged",
"soiled",
"stained",
"sullied",
"corrupted",
"rotted",
"spoiled",
"spoilt",
"adulterated",
"doctored",
"diluted",
"watered down"
],
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"befouled",
"contaminated",
"defiled",
"fouled",
"polluted",
"tainted"
]
},
"type":[
"adjective",
"verb"
]
},
"polar":{
"being as different as possible":{
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"noncontradictory"
],
"examples":[
"they're friends despite their polar positions on a number of issues"
],
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"alike",
"analogous",
"like",
"similar",
"equivalent",
"identical",
"same",
"synonymous"
],
"related":[
"adverse",
"negative",
"unfavorable",
"antagonistic",
"antipathetic",
"counter",
"cross",
"hostile",
"converse",
"inverse",
"obverse",
"reverse",
"alien",
"disparate",
"dissimilar",
"divergent",
"unalike",
"unlike"
],
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"antipodal",
"antipodean",
"antithetical",
"contradictory",
"contrary",
"diametric",
"diametrical",
"opposite"
]
},
"having a low or subnormal temperature":{
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"ardent",
"blazing",
"boiling",
"broiling",
"burning",
"fervent",
"fervid",
"fiery",
"glowing",
"hot",
"igneous",
"molten",
"piping hot",
"red-hot",
"roasting",
"scalding",
"scorching",
"searing",
"seething",
"sizzling",
"sultry",
"sweltering",
"torrid",
"ultrahot",
"warming",
"white-hot"
],
"examples":[
"a polar air mass seemed to have settled over our area in January"
],
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"lukewarm",
"tepid",
"heated",
"overheated",
"reheated",
"warmed",
"snug",
"toasty",
"warm",
"feverish",
"flushed",
"inflamed",
"enflamed",
"canicular",
"equatorial",
"muggy",
"steamy",
"summery",
"tropical"
],
"related":[
"cryogenic",
"subfreezing",
"subzero",
"ultracold",
"cutting",
"keen",
"penetrating",
"piercing",
"sharp",
"bracing",
"brisk",
"crisp",
"invigorating",
"rigorous",
"chilled",
"cooled",
"frosted",
"frozen",
"iced",
"refrigerated",
"unheated"
],
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"algid",
"arctic",
"bitter",
"bone-chilling",
"chill",
"chilly",
"cold",
"coldish",
"cool",
"coolish",
"freezing",
"frigid",
"frosty",
"gelid",
"glacial",
"ice-cold",
"icy",
"nipping",
"nippy",
"numbing",
"shivery",
"snappy",
"wintry",
"wintery"
]
},
"type":[
"adjective"
]
},
"police":{
"a body of officers of the law":{
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"examples":[
"the National Guard will serve as backup for the metropolitan police in the event of violent protests"
],
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"bobby",
"bull",
"constable",
"cop",
"copper",
"gendarme",
"officer",
"peeler",
"policeman",
"police officer",
"policewoman",
"shamus",
"trooper"
],
"synonyms":[
"constabulary",
"finest",
"force",
"fuzz",
"heat",
"man",
"police force"
]
},
"as in patrol , conduct":{
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},
"the department of government that keeps order, fights crime, and enforces statutes":{
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"examples":[
"the appearance of a ransom note meant that the teenager's disappearance was now a matter for the police"
],
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"jurisprudence",
"justice"
],
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"law"
]
},
"type":[
"noun",
"verb"
]
},
"polish":{
"a high level of taste and enlightenment as a result of extensive intellectual training and exposure to the arts":{
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"barbarianism",
"barbarism",
"philistinism"
],
"examples":[
"acquired a great deal of polish during his year abroad"
],
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"ignorance",
"illiteracy",
"parochialism",
"provincialism",
"rusticity",
"unsophistication",
"boorishness",
"churlishness",
"clownishness",
"coarseness",
"crudeness",
"vulgarity"
],
"related":[
"education",
"erudition",
"intellectualism",
"intellectuality",
"knowledge",
"learning",
"literacy",
"scholarship",
"cosmopolitanism",
"sophistication",
"urbanity",
"breeding",
"genteelness",
"gentility",
"manners",
"class",
"elegance",
"grace",
"taste",
"civility",
"courteousness",
"courtesy",
"politeness"
],
"synonyms":[
"accomplishment",
"civilization",
"couth",
"cultivation",
"culture",
"refinement"
]
},
"brightness created by light reflected from a surface":{
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"examples":[
"buffed the silver plate to a high polish"
],
"near antonyms":[
"dimness",
"dinginess",
"dirtiness",
"drabness",
"dullness",
"dulness",
"flatness",
"grayness",
"paleness",
"cloudiness",
"gloom",
"murkiness",
"obscureness",
"obscurity",
"somberness"
],
"related":[
"glare",
"gleam",
"glimmer",
"glint",
"glisten",
"glow",
"shimmer",
"blink",
"flicker",
"sparkle",
"twinkle",
"illumination",
"irradiation",
"iridescence",
"luminescence",
"brilliance",
"luminosity",
"radiance",
"radiancy",
"refulgence",
"finish",
"glaze"
],
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"burnish",
"gloss",
"luminance",
"luster",
"lustre",
"sheen",
"shine"
]
},
"to bring (something) to a state where nothing remains to be done":{
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"examples":[
"once you polish the article a bit, it'll be ready to submit"
],
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"abandon",
"desert",
"discontinue",
"drop",
"forsake",
"quit"
],
"related":[
"follow through (with)",
"stick out",
"accomplish",
"achieve",
"effect",
"carry out",
"carry through",
"discharge",
"do",
"execute",
"fulfill",
"fulfil",
"perform",
"ameliorate",
"amend",
"better",
"enhance",
"enrich",
"improve",
"meliorate",
"machine",
"refine",
"round (off or out)",
"shine",
"touch up"
],
"synonyms":[
"complete",
"consummate",
"finalize",
"finish",
"perfect"
]
},
"to make smooth or glossy usually by repeatedly applying surface pressure":{
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"examples":[
"you'll need to polish your shoes with a clean rag before the performance"
],
"near antonyms":[
"rough (up)",
"roughen",
"ruffle",
"scuff (up)"
],
"related":[
"sleek",
"slick",
"coat",
"glaze",
"japan",
"lacquer",
"varnish",
"face",
"finish",
"veneer",
"brighten",
"file",
"rasp",
"sand",
"sandblast",
"sandpaper",
"scour",
"scrape",
"scrub",
"bob",
"bone",
"lap"
],
"synonyms":[
"buff",
"burnish",
"dress",
"furbish",
"gloss",
"grind",
"rub",
"shine",
"smooth",
"smoothen"
]
},
"type":[
"noun",
"verb"
]
},
"poll tax":{
"as in":{
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"examples":[],
"near antonyms":[],
"related":[],
"synonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"poller":{
"a person who goes around and approaches people with a request for opinions or information":{
"antonyms":[
"interviewee",
"pollee",
"respondent"
],
"examples":[
"data gathered by nationwide pollers showed the Republicans in the lead"
],
"near antonyms":[
"answerer",
"replier",
"responder",
"attester",
"informant",
"reporter",
"testifier",
"witness"
],
"related":[
"asker",
"inquirer",
"querier",
"querist",
"questioner"
],
"synonyms":[
"canvasser",
"canvaser",
"interviewer",
"pollster"
]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"polluting":{
"to make unfit for use by the addition of something harmful or undesirable":{
"antonyms":[
"decontaminating",
"purifying"
],
"examples":[
"outmoded factories polluting the air"
],
"near antonyms":[
"clarifying",
"cleaning",
"cleansing",
"clearing",
"distilling",
"purging",
"filtering",
"disinfecting",
"sanitizing",
"sterilizing"
],
"related":[
"infecting",
"begriming",
"besmirching",
"blackening",
"dirtying",
"fouling up",
"griming",
"miring",
"muddying",
"smirching",
"smudging",
"soiling",
"staining",
"sullying",
"corrupting",
"rotting",
"spoiling",
"adulterating",
"doctoring",
"diluting",
"watering down"
],
"synonyms":[
"befouling",
"contaminating",
"defiling",
"fouling",
"poisoning",
"tainting"
]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"pommeled":{
"to strike repeatedly":{
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"examples":[
"the elderly woman pommeled the would-be thief with her handbag until he begged for mercy"
],
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"related":[
"assailed",
"assaulted",
"attacked",
"beset",
"boxed",
"busted",
"bust",
"chopped",
"clobbered",
"clouted",
"cracked",
"cudgeled",
"cudgelled",
"cuffed",
"descended (on or upon)",
"hit",
"jumped (on)",
"knocked",
"laid on",
"lammed",
"pasted",
"pounced (on or upon)",
"punched",
"raided",
"rushed",
"slammed",
"slapped",
"smacked",
"smashed",
"socked",
"spanked",
"stormed",
"swatted",
"swiped",
"thwacked",
"whacked",
"whammed",
"whomped",
"blackjacked",
"caned",
"cowhided",
"flagellated",
"fustigated",
"horsewhipped",
"leathered",
"pistol-whipped",
"rawhided",
"scourged",
"strapped",
"gored",
"lacerated",
"wounded",
"maimed",
"mangled",
"mutilated"
],
"synonyms":[
"bashed",
"basted",
"batted",
"battered",
"beat",
"belabored",
"belted",
"birched",
"bludgeoned",
"buffeted",
"bunged up",
"clubbed",
"curried",
"did",
"drubbed",
"fibbed",
"flogged",
"hammered",
"hided",
"laced",
"lambasted",
"lashed",
"lathered",
"licked",
"mauled",
"messed (up)",
"paddled",
"pelted",
"pounded",
"pummeled",
"pummelled",
"punched out",
"roughed (up)",
"slated",
"slogged",
"switched",
"tanned",
"thrashed",
"threshed",
"thumped",
"tromped",
"walloped",
"whaled",
"whipped",
"whopped",
"whapped",
"whupped",
"worked over"
]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"pommeling":{
"as in":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[],
"near antonyms":[],
"related":[],
"synonyms":[]
},
"to strike repeatedly":{
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"the elderly woman pommeled the would-be thief with her handbag until he begged for mercy"
],
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"assailing",
"assaulting",
"attacking",
"besetting",
"boxing",
"busting",
"chopping",
"clobbering",
"clouting",
"cracking",
"cudgeling",
"cudgelling",
"cuffing",
"descending (on or upon)",
"hitting",
"jumping (on)",
"knocking",
"lamming",
"laying on",
"pasting",
"pouncing (on or upon)",
"punching",
"raiding",
"rushing",
"slamming",
"slapping",
"smacking",
"smashing",
"socking",
"spanking",
"storming",
"swatting",
"swiping",
"thwacking",
"whacking",
"whamming",
"whomping",
"blackjacking",
"caning",
"cowhiding",
"flagellating",
"fustigating",
"horsewhipping",
"leathering",
"pistol-whipping",
"rawhiding",
"scourging",
"strapping",
"goring",
"lacerating",
"wounding",
"maiming",
"mangling",
"mutilating"
],
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"bashing",
"basting",
"battering",
"batting",
"beating",
"belaboring",
"belting",
"birching",
"bludgeoning",
"buffeting",
"bunging up",
"clubbing",
"currying",
"doing",
"drubbing",
"fibbing",
"flogging",
"hammering",
"hiding",
"lacing",
"lambasting",
"lashing",
"lathering",
"licking",
"mauling",
"messing (up)",
"paddling",
"pelting",
"pounding",
"pummeling",
"pummelling",
"punching out",
"roughing (up)",
"slating",
"slogging",
"switching",
"tanning",
"thrashing",
"threshing",
"thumping",
"tromping",
"walloping",
"whaling",
"whipping",
"whopping",
"whapping",
"whupping",
"working over"
]
},
"type":[
"noun",
"verb"
]
},
"pommels":{
"to strike repeatedly":{
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"examples":[
"the elderly woman pommeled the would-be thief with her handbag until he begged for mercy"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"related":[
"assails",
"assaults",
"attacks",
"besets",
"boxes",
"busts",
"chops",
"clobbers",
"clouts",
"cracks",
"cudgels",
"cuffs",
"descends (on or upon)",
"hits",
"jumps (on)",
"knocks",
"lams",
"lays on",
"pastes",
"pounces (on or upon)",
"punches",
"raids",
"rushes",
"slams",
"slaps",
"smacks",
"smashes",
"socks",
"spanks",
"storms",
"swats",
"swipes",
"thwacks",
"whacks",
"whams",
"whomps",
"blackjacks",
"canes",
"cowhides",
"flagellates",
"fustigates",
"horsewhips",
"leathers",
"pistol-whips",
"rawhides",
"scourges",
"straps",
"gores",
"lacerates",
"wounds",
"maims",
"mangles",
"mutilates"
],
"synonyms":[
"bashes",
"bastes",
"bats",
"batters",
"beats",
"belabors",
"belts",
"birches",
"bludgeons",
"buffets",
"bungs up",
"clubs",
"curries",
"does",
"drubs",
"fibs",
"flogs",
"hammers",
"hides",
"laces",
"lambastes",
"lambasts",
"lashes",
"lathers",
"licks",
"mauls",
"messes (up)",
"paddles",
"pelts",
"pounds",
"pummels",
"punches out",
"roughs (up)",
"slates",
"slogs",
"switches",
"tans",
"thrashes",
"threshes",
"thumps",
"tromps",
"wallops",
"whales",
"whips",
"whops",
"whaps",
"whups",
"works over"
]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"pompous":{
"having a feeling of superiority that shows itself in an overbearing attitude":{
"antonyms":[
"humble",
"lowly",
"modest",
"unarrogant",
"unpretentious"
],
"examples":[
"the pompous waiter served us in the manner of a person doing some poor soul a great favor"
],
"near antonyms":[
"bashful",
"cowering",
"cringing",
"demure",
"diffident",
"introverted",
"mousy",
"mousey",
"overmodest",
"self-critical",
"self-doubting",
"sheepish",
"shrinking",
"shy",
"subdued",
"timid",
"acquiescent",
"compliant",
"deferential",
"meek",
"passive",
"submissive",
"unaggressive",
"unassertive",
"unassuming",
"unobtrusive",
"yielding",
"quiet",
"reserved",
"retiring"
],
"related":[
"authoritarian",
"bossy",
"dominant",
"dominating",
"domineering",
"magisterial",
"pontifical",
"pontificating",
"condescending",
"disdainful",
"patronizing",
"impertinent",
"impudent",
"saucy",
"snobbish",
"snobby",
"snooty",
"blusterous",
"blustery",
"boastful",
"bombastic",
"braggart",
"bragging",
"braggy",
"cocky",
"swaggering",
"vain",
"vainglorious",
"complacent",
"conceited",
"egocentric",
"egoistic",
"egoistical",
"egotistic",
"egotistical",
"hubristic",
"narcissistic",
"orgulous",
"prideful",
"proud",
"self-affected",
"self-applauding",
"self-centered",
"self-complacent",
"self-conceited",
"self-pleased",
"self-satisfied",
"smug",
"stuck-up",
"self-flattering",
"self-loving",
"self-promoting",
"brash",
"forward",
"uninhibited",
"unreserved",
"extroverted",
"extraverted",
"immodest"
],
"synonyms":[
"arrogant",
"assumptive",
"bumptious",
"cavalier",
"chesty",
"haughty",
"high-and-mighty",
"high-handed",
"high-hat",
"highfalutin",
"hifalutin",
"huffish",
"huffy",
"imperious",
"important",
"lofty",
"lordly",
"masterful",
"overweening",
"peremptory",
"presuming",
"presumptuous",
"pretentious",
"self-asserting",
"self-assertive",
"sniffy",
"stiff-necked",
"supercilious",
"superior",
"toplofty",
"toploftical",
"uppish",
"uppity"
]
},
"having too high an opinion of oneself":{
"antonyms":[
"egoless",
"humble",
"modest",
"uncomplacent"
],
"examples":[
"a pompous piano teacher who thought that the music world was lucky to have her"
],
"near antonyms":[
"diffident",
"self-critical",
"self-distrustful",
"self-doubting",
"self-reproachful",
"self-reproving",
"meek",
"timid",
"unassertive",
"down-to-earth",
"unarrogant",
"unassuming",
"unpretentious",
"bashful",
"demure",
"introverted",
"mousy",
"mousey",
"overmodest",
"retiring",
"sheepish",
"shrinking",
"shy"
],
"related":[
"blusterous",
"blustery",
"boastful",
"bombastic",
"braggart",
"bragging",
"braggy",
"cocky",
"swaggering",
"arrogant",
"assumptive",
"bumptious",
"cavalier",
"chesty",
"disdainful",
"fastuous",
"haughty",
"high-and-mighty",
"high-hat",
"huffy",
"lofty",
"lordly",
"masterful",
"peremptory",
"pontifical",
"self-asserting",
"self-assertive",
"snobbish",
"snobby",
"snooty",
"supercilious",
"superior",
"toplofty",
"toploftical",
"uppish",
"uppity",
"domineering",
"high-handed",
"imperious",
"highfalutin",
"hifalutin",
"holier-than-thou",
"pretentious",
"overconfident",
"presuming",
"presumptuous",
"confident",
"self-assured",
"self-confident",
"self-adulatory",
"self-congratulatory",
"self-contented",
"self-gratulatory",
"self-applauding",
"self-dramatizing",
"self-glorifying",
"self-promoting",
"self-affected",
"self-centered",
"self-engrossed",
"selfish",
"condescending",
"patronizing"
],
"synonyms":[
"assured",
"biggety",
"biggity",
"bigheaded",
"complacent",
"conceited",
"consequential",
"egoistic",
"egoistical",
"egotistic",
"egotistical",
"important",
"overweening",
"prideful",
"proud",
"self-conceited",
"self-important",
"self-opinionated",
"self-satisfied",
"smug",
"stuck-up",
"swellheaded",
"vain",
"vainglorious"
]
},
"self-consciously trying to present an appearance of grandeur or importance":{
"antonyms":[
"modest",
"unpretentious"
],
"examples":[
"a pompous gambling casino decorated to look like a palace in ancient Rome"
],
"near antonyms":[
"demure",
"down-to-earth",
"homely",
"humble",
"lowly",
"meek",
"retiring",
"unassertive",
"unassuming",
"bashful",
"diffident",
"mousy",
"mousey",
"overmodest",
"passive",
"quiet",
"reserved",
"shy",
"timid"
],
"related":[
"airy",
"grandiloquent",
"high-flown",
"high-sounding",
"high-toned",
"sententious",
"arrogant",
"bumptious",
"complacent",
"conceited",
"egoistic",
"egoistical",
"egotistic",
"egotistical",
"high-and-mighty",
"high-handed",
"high-hat",
"hoity-toity",
"imperious",
"important",
"overweening",
"presumptuous",
"prideful",
"proud",
"self-asserting",
"self-assertive",
"self-centered",
"self-complacent",
"self-conceited",
"self-important",
"self-obsessed",
"self-pleased",
"self-satisfied",
"smug",
"uppity",
"vain",
"vainglorious",
"self-aggrandizing",
"self-dramatizing",
"self-glorifying",
"self-promoting",
"cavalier",
"disdainful",
"haughty",
"lordly",
"snobbish",
"snobby",
"stuck-up",
"supercilious",
"superior",
"confident",
"self-assured",
"self-confident",
"sure",
"boastful",
"braggart",
"bragging",
"aggressive",
"assertive",
"audacious",
"bold",
"brassy",
"cheeky",
"cocky",
"forward",
"impudent",
"insolent",
"rude",
"flamboyant",
"flashy",
"flaunting",
"garish",
"gaudy",
"glitzy",
"showy",
"splashy"
],
"synonyms":[
"affected",
"grandiose",
"high-minded",
"highfalutin",
"hifalutin",
"la-di-da",
"la-de-da",
"lah-de-dah",
"lah-dee-dah",
"lah-di-dah",
"ostentatious",
"pretentious",
"snippy"
]
},
"type":[
"adjective"
]
},
"ponder":{
"to give serious and careful thought to":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"I'm pondering whether or not I should join another committee"
],
"near antonyms":[
"disregard",
"ignore",
"overlook",
"slight",
"dismiss",
"pooh-pooh",
"pooh",
"reject"
],
"related":[
"muse (upon)",
"reflect (on or upon)",
"reminisce",
"analyze",
"explore",
"review",
"conclude",
"reason",
"second-guess",
"speculate (about)",
"brood (about or over)",
"dwell (on or upon)",
"fixate (on or upon)",
"fret (about or over)",
"obsess (about or over)",
"believe",
"conceive",
"opine",
"absorb",
"assimilate",
"digest",
"drink (in)"
],
"synonyms":[
"chew over",
"cogitate",
"consider",
"contemplate",
"debate",
"deliberate",
"entertain",
"eye",
"kick around",
"meditate",
"mull (over)",
"perpend",
"pore (over)",
"question",
"revolve",
"ruminate",
"study",
"think (about or over)",
"turn",
"weigh",
"wrestle (with)"
]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"pooh-poohed":{
"to think or say that (something) is not very good or not true":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"They pooh-poohed my suggestion.",
"He pooh-poohed the idea that the house was haunted."
],
"near antonyms":[],
"related":[],
"synonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"poohed":{
"to think or say that (something) is not very good or not true":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"They pooh-poohed my suggestion.",
"He pooh-poohed the idea that the house was haunted."
],
"near antonyms":[],
"related":[],
"synonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"poor":{
"deserving of one's pity":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"aw, the poor kitten hurt its paw"
],
"near antonyms":[
"unimpressive",
"uninspiring"
],
"related":[
"deplorable",
"lamentable",
"regrettable",
"emotional",
"impressive",
"inspiring",
"affecting",
"moving",
"poignant",
"stirring",
"touching",
"awful",
"horrible",
"terrible",
"distressing",
"disturbing",
"upsetting",
"grievous",
"mournful",
"sad",
"sorrowful",
"woeful"
],
"synonyms":[
"heartbreaking",
"heartrending",
"miserable",
"pathetic",
"piteous",
"pitiable",
"pitiful",
"rueful",
"sorry",
"wretched"
]
},
"falling short of a standard":{
"antonyms":[
"acceptable",
"adequate",
"all right",
"decent",
"fine",
"OK",
"okay",
"passable",
"respectable",
"satisfactory",
"standard",
"tolerable"
],
"examples":[
"a pretty poor musician, even for a garage band"
],
"near antonyms":[
"classic",
"classical",
"A1",
"bang-up",
"banner",
"boss",
"capital",
"choice",
"crackerjack",
"dandy",
"divine",
"excellent",
"exceptional",
"fabulous",
"first-class",
"first-rate",
"grand",
"great",
"groovy",
"heavenly",
"high-test",
"jim-dandy",
"keen",
"marvelous",
"marvellous",
"mean",
"neat",
"nifty",
"noble",
"par excellence",
"perfect",
"premium",
"prime",
"sensational",
"slick",
"splendid",
"stellar",
"sterling",
"superb",
"superior",
"superlative",
"supernal",
"swell",
"terrific",
"tip-top",
"top",
"top-notch",
"unsurpassed",
"wonderful",
"better",
"exceptional",
"fancy",
"high-grade",
"special",
"sufficient",
"average",
"borderline",
"fair",
"mediocre",
"middling",
"minimal",
"so-so",
"unexceptional",
"suitable",
"useful",
"worthy",
"gratifying",
"satisfying"
],
"related":[
"abysmal",
"atrocious",
"awful",
"bitchin'",
"brutal",
"damnable",
"deplorable",
"detestable",
"disastrous",
"dreadful",
"execrable",
"gnarly",
"horrendous",
"horrible",
"pathetic",
"stinky",
"sucky",
"terrible",
"unspeakable",
"defective",
"faulty",
"flawed",
"egregious",
"flagrant",
"gross",
"bum",
"cheesy",
"coarse",
"common",
"crappy",
"cut-rate",
"junky",
"lesser",
"low-grade",
"low-rent",
"mediocre",
"miserable",
"reprehensible",
"rotten",
"rubbishy",
"second-rate",
"shoddy",
"sleazy",
"trashy",
"abominable",
"odious",
"vile",
"useless",
"valueless",
"worthless",
"inadequate",
"insufficient",
"lacking",
"meager",
"meagre",
"mean",
"miserly",
"niggardly",
"scanty",
"shabby",
"short",
"skimp",
"skimpy",
"spare",
"stingy",
"miscreant",
"scurrilous",
"villainous",
"counterfeit",
"fake",
"phony",
"phoney",
"sham"
],
"synonyms":[
"bad",
"bastard",
"bush",
"bush-league",
"crummy",
"crumby",
"deficient",
"dissatisfactory",
"ill",
"inferior",
"lame",
"lousy",
"off",
"paltry",
"punk",
"sour",
"suboptimal",
"subpar",
"substandard",
"unacceptable",
"unsatisfactory",
"wack",
"wanting",
"wretched",
"wrong"
]
},
"lacking money or material possessions":{
"antonyms":[
"affluent",
"deep-pocketed",
"fat",
"fat-cat",
"flush",
"moneyed",
"monied",
"opulent",
"rich",
"silk-stocking",
"wealthy",
"well-heeled",
"well-off",
"well-to-do"
],
"examples":[
"every year, we make up a basket of food at Thanksgiving for a poor family in the neighborhood"
],
"near antonyms":[
"comfortable",
"prosperous"
],
"related":[
"deprived",
"disadvantaged",
"dispossessed",
"unaffluent",
"underprivileged",
"bankrupt",
"bankrupted",
"bust",
"busted",
"insolvent",
"possessionless",
"ruined",
"depressed",
"distressed",
"hand-to-mouth",
"hardscrabble",
"pinched",
"poorish",
"reduced",
"straitened",
"cash-strapped",
"low",
"short",
"tapped out"
],
"synonyms":[
"beggared",
"beggarly",
"broke",
"destitute",
"dirt-poor",
"down-and-out",
"famished",
"hard up",
"impecunious",
"impoverished",
"indigent",
"necessitous",
"needful",
"needy",
"pauperized",
"penniless",
"penurious",
"poverty-stricken",
"skint",
"threadbare"
]
},
"less plentiful than what is normal, necessary, or desirable":{
"antonyms":[
"abundant",
"ample",
"bountiful",
"copious",
"generous",
"liberal",
"plenteous",
"plentiful"
],
"examples":[
"a poor crop because of the drought this year"
],
"near antonyms":[
"adequate",
"enough",
"satisfactory",
"sufficient",
"tolerable",
"fat",
"fecund",
"fertile",
"fruitful",
"prolific",
"rich",
"lavish",
"luxuriant",
"blooming",
"bursting",
"flourishing",
"proliferative",
"swarming",
"teeming",
"thriving",
"excess",
"extra",
"surplus"
],
"related":[
"deficient",
"inadequate",
"insufficient",
"lacking",
"short",
"wanting",
"bare",
"bare-bones",
"least",
"littlest",
"lowest",
"mere",
"minimal",
"slightest",
"slight",
"small",
"thin",
"barren",
"infertile",
"sterile",
"unfruitful",
"unproductive"
],
"synonyms":[
"exiguous",
"hand-to-mouth",
"light",
"meager",
"meagre",
"niggardly",
"scant",
"scanty",
"scarce",
"skimp",
"skimpy",
"slender",
"slim",
"spare",
"sparing",
"sparse",
"stingy"
]
},
"of low quality":{
"antonyms":[
"excellent",
"fine",
"first-class",
"first-rate",
"good",
"high-grade",
"superior",
"top-notch"
],
"examples":[
"the poor workmanship of the goods from that store"
],
"near antonyms":[
"elegant",
"handsome",
"tasteful",
"handcrafted",
"polished",
"refined"
],
"related":[
"useless",
"valueless",
"worthless",
"indifferent",
"lackluster",
"second-class",
"brummagem",
"flashy",
"garish",
"gaudy",
"glitzy",
"kitsch",
"kitschy",
"meretricious",
"ostentatious",
"showy",
"splashy",
"swank",
"swanky",
"tawdry",
"seedy",
"shabby",
"tacky",
"counterfeit",
"fake",
"phony",
"phoney",
"sham",
"supercheap",
"ultracheap"
],
"synonyms":[
"bad",
"bargain-basement",
"bum",
"cheap",
"cheapjack",
"cheesy",
"coarse",
"common",
"crappy",
"cut-rate",
"el cheapo",
"execrable",
"gimcrack",
"inferior",
"junky",
"lousy",
"low-grade",
"low-rent",
"mediocre",
"miserable",
"rotten",
"rubbishy",
"schlock",
"schlocky",
"shlock",
"shlocky",
"second-rate",
"shoddy",
"sleazy",
"terrible",
"trashy",
"trumpery",
"wretched"
]
},
"producing inferior or only a small amount of vegetation":{
"antonyms":[
"fertile",
"fruitful",
"lush",
"luxuriant",
"productive",
"rich"
],
"examples":[
"land that is too poor for farming"
],
"near antonyms":[
"arable",
"tillable",
"green",
"sylvan",
"verdant"
],
"related":[
"bleak",
"inhospitable",
"lifeless",
"uncultivable",
"untillable",
"bankrupted",
"consumed",
"debilitated",
"depleted",
"diminished",
"drained",
"dried-up",
"enfeebled",
"exhausted",
"expended",
"lessened",
"reduced",
"spent",
"used up",
"arid",
"desert",
"droughty",
"dry",
"rainless",
"sere",
"sear",
"thirsty",
"waterless",
"baked",
"dehydrated",
"parched",
"sunbaked"
],
"synonyms":[
"barren",
"bony",
"boney",
"dead",
"desolate",
"hardscrabble",
"impoverished",
"infertile",
"stark",
"unfertile",
"unproductive",
"waste"
]
},
"type":[
"adjective"
]
},
"poor-mouthing":{
"as in":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[],
"near antonyms":[],
"related":[],
"synonyms":[]
},
"to express scornfully one's low opinion of":{
"antonyms":[
"acclaiming",
"applauding",
"exalting",
"extolling",
"glorifying",
"lauding",
"magnifying",
"praising"
],
"examples":[
"regardless of whatever is nominated, there'll be those who will poor-mouth the Oscar nominees"
],
"near antonyms":[
"approving",
"countenancing",
"endorsing",
"indorsing",
"favoring",
"recommending",
"sanctioning",
"commending",
"complimenting",
"eulogizing"
],
"related":[
"discommending",
"abusing",
"scolding",
"disapproving (of)",
"disliking",
"censuring",
"condemning",
"criticizing",
"denouncing",
"reprehending",
"reprobating",
"aspersing",
"defaming",
"maligning",
"ripping",
"slandering",
"slurring",
"traducing",
"vilifying",
"discrediting",
"disgracing"
],
"synonyms":[
"bad-mouthing",
"belittling",
"crying down",
"decrying",
"denigrating",
"deprecating",
"depreciating",
"derogating",
"diminishing",
"discounting",
"dismissing",
"disparaging",
"dissing",
"kissing off",
"minimizing",
"playing down",
"putting down",
"running down",
"talking down",
"trashing",
"trash-talking",
"vilipending",
"writing off"
]
},
"type":[
"noun",
"verb"
]
},
"poor-spirited":{
"as in":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[],
"near antonyms":[],
"related":[],
"synonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"adjective"
]
},
"popping%20off":{
"to stop living":{
"antonyms":[
"breathing",
"living"
],
"examples":[
"he didn't pop off until the ripe old age of 102"
],
"near antonyms":[
"coming to",
"reviving",
"lingering",
"being",
"existing",
"subsisting",
"flourishing",
"prospering",
"thriving"
],
"related":[
"predeceasing",
"consuming",
"disappearing",
"drying up",
"fading",
"failing"
],
"synonyms":[
"checking out",
"conking (out)",
"croaking",
"deceasing",
"demising",
"departing",
"dropping",
"dying",
"ending",
"exiting",
"expiring",
"falling",
"flatlining",
"going",
"kicking in",
"kicking off",
"parting",
"passing away",
"passing (on)",
"pegging out",
"perishing",
"stepping out",
"succumbing"
]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
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"ignore",
"overlook",
"slight",
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"pooh-pooh",
"pooh",
"reject"
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"explore",
"review",
"conclude",
"reason",
"second-guess",
"speculate (about)",
"brood (about or over)",
"dwell (on or upon)",
"fixate (on or upon)",
"fret (about or over)",
"obsess (about or over)",
"believe",
"conceive",
"opine",
"absorb",
"assimilate",
"digest",
"drink (in)"
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"consider",
"contemplate",
"debate",
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"entertain",
"eye",
"kick around",
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"mull (over)",
"perpend",
"ponder",
"question",
"revolve",
"ruminate",
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"wrestle (with)"
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"he pored over the textbook for hours in preparation for the test"
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"skim",
"speed-read",
"thumb (through)",
"turn over",
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"gobble (up)",
"slog (through)",
"wade (through)",
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"proofread",
"decipher",
"review",
"study",
"apprehend",
"comprehend",
"get",
"grasp",
"make",
"make out",
"perceive",
"see",
"tumble (to)",
"understand"
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"read"
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"G-rated"
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"a collection of porny postcards of the type that American servicemen once brought back from Europe"
],
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"prim",
"prudish",
"puritanical",
"straitlaced",
"straightlaced",
"Victorian",
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"decent",
"decorous",
"genteel",
"polite",
"proper",
"seemly"
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"soft-core",
"bedroom",
"erotic",
"erotical",
"sexy",
"suggestive",
"bawdy",
"coarse",
"crude",
"dirty",
"filthy",
"foul",
"gross",
"indecent",
"lascivious",
"lewd",
"lustful",
"nasty",
"obscene",
"ribald",
"salacious",
"smutty",
"unprintable",
"vulgar",
"wanton",
"immodest",
"kinky",
"prurient",
"earthy",
"racy",
"salty",
"indecorous",
"unbecoming",
"debasing",
"perverted",
"profane",
"naughty",
"wicked"
],
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"mature",
"pornographic",
"X-rated"
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"decent",
"G-rated",
"nonobscene",
"wholesome"
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"found porny magazines hidden in an old box stored in the attic of the house"
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"prudish",
"puritanical",
"staid",
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"straightlaced",
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"nice",
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"agreeable",
"desirable",
"pleasant",
"pleasing",
"welcome",
"appropriate",
"becoming",
"fit",
"meet",
"suitable",
"immaculate",
"perfect",
"pure",
"spotless",
"virginal",
"approved",
"endorsed",
"indorsed",
"sanctioned"
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"gamy",
"gamey",
"off",
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"off-colored",
"racy",
"risqu\u00e9",
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"salty",
"suggestive",
"barnyard",
"earthy",
"scatological",
"immodest",
"indecorous",
"indelicate",
"low",
"unbecoming",
"depraved",
"kinky",
"louche",
"naughty",
"perverse",
"perverted",
"wicked",
"exceptionable",
"objectionable",
"unacceptable",
"undesirable",
"unwanted",
"unwelcome",
"abhorrent",
"debasing",
"disgusting",
"loathsome",
"offensive",
"repellent",
"repellant",
"repugnant",
"repulsive",
"revolting",
"distasteful",
"obnoxious",
"unpleasant",
"blamable",
"blameworthy",
"censurable",
"reprehensible",
"atrocious",
"infamous",
"abusive",
"scurrilous",
"hard-core",
"soft",
"soft-core"
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"blue",
"coarse",
"crude",
"dirty",
"filthy",
"foul",
"gross",
"gutter",
"impure",
"indecent",
"lascivious",
"lewd",
"locker-room",
"nasty",
"obscene",
"pornographic",
"profane",
"raunchy",
"ribald",
"smutty",
"stag",
"trashy",
"unprintable",
"vulgar",
"wanton",
"X-rated"
]
},
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"adjective"
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"noun"
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"doubt",
"incertitude",
"nonconfidence",
"uncertainty"
],
"examples":[
"I can't state with any positiveness that I know what really happened"
],
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"hesitancy",
"hesitation",
"indecisiveness",
"irresolution",
"disbelief",
"incredulity",
"unbelief",
"anxiety",
"concern",
"misgiving",
"distrust",
"mistrust",
"suspicion"
],
"related":[
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"dogmatism",
"decisiveness",
"determination",
"firmness",
"purposefulness",
"resoluteness",
"resolution",
"resolve"
],
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"assurance",
"assuredness",
"certainty",
"certitude",
"cocksureness",
"confidence",
"conviction",
"doubtlessness",
"face",
"satisfaction",
"sureness",
"surety"
]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"possible":{
"capable of being done or carried out":{
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"hopeless",
"impossible",
"impracticable",
"infeasible",
"nonviable",
"unattainable",
"undoable",
"unfeasible",
"unrealizable",
"unviable",
"unworkable"
],
"examples":[
"I think that building the entire set in two days is possible , albeit difficult"
],
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"impractical",
"unrealistic",
"doubtful",
"dubious",
"far-fetched",
"improbable",
"unlikely",
"implausible",
"inconceivable",
"incredible",
"unbelievable",
"futile",
"useless",
"vain",
"absurd",
"fantastic",
"fantastical",
"outlandish",
"preposterous",
"ridiculous",
"unthinkable"
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"reasonable",
"sensible",
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"likely",
"probable",
"acceptable",
"believable",
"conceivable",
"creditable",
"plausible",
"thinkable",
"actionable",
"available",
"usable",
"useable"
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"attainable",
"doable",
"feasible",
"practicable",
"realizable",
"viable",
"workable"
]
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"existing only as a possibility and not in fact":{
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"actual",
"existent",
"factual",
"real"
],
"examples":[
"only one of several possible outcomes"
],
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"confirmed",
"demonstrated",
"established",
"proven",
"substantiated",
"authentic",
"bona fide",
"genuine",
"true"
],
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"generable",
"imaginable",
"plausible",
"thinkable",
"likely",
"probable",
"conjectural",
"hypothetical",
"suppositional",
"theoretical",
"theoretic",
"alleged",
"assumed",
"purported",
"reputed",
"supposed",
"achievable",
"attainable",
"doable",
"feasible",
"practicable",
"viable",
"workable"
],
"synonyms":[
"implicit",
"potential"
]
},
"type":[
"adjective"
]
},
"possibly":{
"it is possible":{
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"he may possibly recover after such a serious mistake, but it doesn't seem likely"
],
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"related":[
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"probably",
"certainly",
"doubtless",
"sure",
"surely",
"undoubtedly",
"assumably",
"presumably",
"presumedly",
"supposably",
"supposedly"
],
"synonyms":[
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"maybe",
"mayhap",
"perchance",
"perhaps"
]
},
"type":[
"adverb"
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"posted":{
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"to affix (as a notice) to or on a suitable place":{
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"the student organizations generally post their announcements on the campus bulletin board"
],
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"removed",
"took down"
],
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"plastered",
"tacked (up)",
"advertised",
"announced",
"billed",
"blazed",
"broadcast",
"broadcasted",
"called",
"declared",
"proclaimed",
"promulgated",
"publicized",
"published"
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"synonyms":[
"placarded"
]
},
"to assign to a place or position":{
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"examples":[
"the police are planning to post an officer outside the hospital room of the witness"
],
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"related":[
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"appointed",
"placed",
"positioned"
],
"synonyms":[
"detailed",
"stationed"
]
},
"to make known openly or publicly":{
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"examples":[
"posted the students' grades"
],
"near antonyms":[
"concealed",
"hushed (up)",
"silenced",
"suppressed",
"withheld",
"recalled",
"recanted",
"retracted",
"revoked"
],
"related":[
"barked",
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"cried",
"billboarded",
"billed",
"bulletined",
"gazetted",
"knelled",
"rang",
"tolled",
"blurbed",
"featured",
"pitched",
"plugged",
"promoted",
"puffed",
"disseminated",
"spread",
"disclosed",
"divulged",
"introduced",
"kithed",
"kythed",
"manifested",
"reported",
"revealed",
"showed",
"advised",
"apprised",
"handed down",
"informed",
"notified",
"communicated",
"imparted",
"intimated"
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"announced",
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"broadcast",
"broadcasted",
"declared",
"enunciated",
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"gave out",
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"placarded",
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"promulgated",
"publicized",
"published",
"released",
"sounded",
"trumpeted"
]
},
"to send through the postal system":{
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"examples":[
"be sure to post the letter this afternoon"
],
"near antonyms":[
"got",
"received"
],
"related":[
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"franked",
"addressed",
"consigned",
"directed",
"dispatched",
"forwarded",
"remitted",
"routed",
"shipped",
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"transported",
"registered"
],
"synonyms":[
"mailed"
]
},
"type":[
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"verb"
]
},
"pot":{
"a considerable amount":{
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"ace",
"bit",
"dab",
"dram",
"driblet",
"glimmer",
"handful",
"hint",
"lick",
"little",
"mite",
"mouthful",
"nip",
"ounce",
"peanuts",
"pinch",
"pittance",
"scruple",
"shade",
"shadow",
"smidgen",
"smidgeon",
"smidgin",
"smidge",
"speck",
"spot",
"sprinkle",
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"strain",
"streak",
"suspicion",
"tad",
"taste",
"touch",
"trace"
],
"examples":[
"made a pot of money in the real estate market"
],
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"atom",
"crumb",
"dot",
"fleck",
"flyspeck",
"fragment",
"grain",
"granule",
"iota",
"jot",
"modicum",
"molecule",
"mote",
"nubbin",
"particle",
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"scrap",
"shred",
"tittle",
"whit",
"smatter",
"smattering",
"dash",
"drop",
"morsel",
"shot",
"piece",
"portion",
"section",
"absence",
"dearth",
"famine",
"lack",
"paucity",
"poverty",
"scarceness",
"scarcity",
"shortage",
"undersupply",
"want",
"deficiency",
"deficit",
"inadequacy",
"insufficiency",
"meagerness",
"scantiness",
"scantness",
"skimpiness"
],
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"plague",
"rash",
"bonanza",
"embarrassment",
"excess",
"overabundance",
"overage",
"overkill",
"overmuch",
"oversupply",
"plethora",
"redundancy",
"superabundance",
"superfluity",
"surfeit",
"surplus",
"deluge",
"flood",
"overflow",
"army",
"bevy",
"cram",
"crowd",
"crush",
"drove",
"flock",
"herd",
"horde",
"host",
"legion",
"mob",
"multitude",
"press",
"score",
"sea",
"swarm",
"throng",
"gazillion",
"jillion",
"kazillion",
"million",
"thousands",
"trillion",
"zillion"
],
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"abundance",
"barrel",
"basketful",
"boatload",
"bucket",
"bunch",
"bundle",
"bushel",
"carload",
"chunk",
"deal",
"dozen",
"fistful",
"gobs",
"good deal",
"heap",
"hundred",
"lashings",
"lashins",
"loads",
"lot",
"mass",
"mess",
"mountain",
"much",
"multiplicity",
"myriad",
"oodles",
"pack",
"passel",
"peck",
"pile",
"plateful",
"plenitude",
"plentitude",
"plenty",
"potful",
"profusion",
"quantity",
"raft",
"reams",
"scads",
"sheaf",
"shipload",
"sight",
"slew",
"spate",
"stack",
"store",
"ton",
"truckload",
"volume",
"wad",
"wealth",
"yard"
]
},
"an enlarged or bulging abdomen":{
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"examples":[
"vowed that he would never get a pot , that telltale sign of middle age"
],
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"related":[
"breadbasket",
"stomach",
"tummy",
"chubbiness",
"corpulence",
"fat",
"fatness",
"fleshiness",
"obesity",
"overweight",
"paunchiness",
"plumpness",
"portliness",
"pudginess",
"chunkiness",
"heaviness",
"stoutness"
],
"synonyms":[
"bay window",
"beer belly",
"belly",
"corporation",
"gut",
"paunch",
"potbelly"
]
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"as in":{
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"synonyms":[]
},
"the total of the bets at stake at one time":{
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"examples":[
"everyone got a bit nervous when the pot grew to more than a hundred dollars"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"related":[
"fund",
"kitty",
"bet",
"stake",
"wager"
],
"synonyms":[
"jack",
"jackpot",
"pool"
]
},
"type":[
"noun",
"verb"
]
},
"potful":{
"a considerable amount":{
"antonyms":[
"ace",
"bit",
"dab",
"dram",
"driblet",
"glimmer",
"handful",
"hint",
"lick",
"little",
"mite",
"mouthful",
"nip",
"ounce",
"peanuts",
"pinch",
"pittance",
"scruple",
"shade",
"shadow",
"smidgen",
"smidgeon",
"smidgin",
"smidge",
"speck",
"spot",
"sprinkle",
"sprinkling",
"strain",
"streak",
"suspicion",
"tad",
"taste",
"touch",
"trace"
],
"examples":[
"visitors to the theme park will have a potful of fun"
],
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"atom",
"crumb",
"dot",
"fleck",
"flyspeck",
"fragment",
"grain",
"granule",
"iota",
"jot",
"modicum",
"molecule",
"mote",
"nubbin",
"particle",
"ray",
"scintilla",
"scrap",
"shred",
"tittle",
"whit",
"smatter",
"smattering",
"dash",
"drop",
"morsel",
"shot",
"piece",
"portion",
"section",
"absence",
"dearth",
"famine",
"lack",
"paucity",
"poverty",
"scarceness",
"scarcity",
"shortage",
"undersupply",
"want",
"deficiency",
"deficit",
"inadequacy",
"insufficiency",
"meagerness",
"scantiness",
"scantness",
"skimpiness"
],
"related":[
"epidemic",
"plague",
"rash",
"bonanza",
"embarrassment",
"excess",
"overabundance",
"overage",
"overkill",
"overmuch",
"oversupply",
"plethora",
"redundancy",
"superabundance",
"superfluity",
"surfeit",
"surplus",
"deluge",
"flood",
"overflow",
"army",
"bevy",
"cram",
"crowd",
"crush",
"drove",
"flock",
"herd",
"horde",
"host",
"legion",
"mob",
"multitude",
"press",
"score",
"sea",
"swarm",
"throng",
"gazillion",
"jillion",
"kazillion",
"million",
"thousands",
"trillion",
"zillion"
],
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"abundance",
"barrel",
"basketful",
"boatload",
"bucket",
"bunch",
"bundle",
"bushel",
"carload",
"chunk",
"deal",
"dozen",
"fistful",
"gobs",
"good deal",
"heap",
"hundred",
"lashings",
"lashins",
"loads",
"lot",
"mass",
"mess",
"mountain",
"much",
"multiplicity",
"myriad",
"oodles",
"pack",
"passel",
"peck",
"pile",
"plateful",
"plenitude",
"plentitude",
"plenty",
"pot",
"profusion",
"quantity",
"raft",
"reams",
"scads",
"sheaf",
"shipload",
"sight",
"slew",
"spate",
"stack",
"store",
"ton",
"truckload",
"volume",
"wad",
"wealth",
"yard"
]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"pothers":{
"a state of nervous or irritated concern":{
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"examples":[
"always in a pother over the state of her garden"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"related":[
"bothers",
"dudgeons",
"piques",
"alarms",
"alarums",
"hand-wringings",
"panics",
"ados",
"agitations",
"deliriums",
"distractions",
"furors",
"hysterias",
"uproars",
"nervous breakdowns"
],
"synonyms":[
"dithers",
"flusters",
"frets",
"fusses",
"huffs",
"lathers",
"stews",
"sweats",
"swelters",
"swivets",
"tizzies",
"twitters"
]
},
"a state of noisy, confused activity":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"the pother of city traffic that commuters face every day"
],
"near antonyms":[
"calms",
"hushes",
"peaces",
"quiets",
"quietudes",
"rests",
"tranquillities",
"tranquilities",
"orders"
],
"related":[
"cacophonies",
"clamors",
"dins",
"howls",
"hue and cries",
"noises",
"outcries",
"rackets",
"roars",
"disorders",
"upheavals",
"eruptions",
"flare-ups",
"flurries",
"flutters",
"outbreaks",
"outbursts",
"brawls",
"fracases",
"fracas",
"frays",
"hassles",
"melees",
"m\u00eal\u00e9es",
"scuffles",
"dithers",
"fevers",
"frets",
"lathers",
"tizzies"
],
"synonyms":[
"ados",
"alarums and excursions",
"ballyhoos",
"blathers",
"bluster",
"bobberies",
"bothers",
"bustles",
"clatters",
"clutters",
"coils",
"commotions",
"corroborees",
"disturbances",
"dos",
"do's",
"foofaraws",
"fun",
"furores",
"furors",
"fusses",
"helter-skelters",
"hoo-has",
"hoo-hahs",
"hooplas",
"hubble-bubbles",
"hubbubs",
"hullabaloos",
"hurlies",
"hurly-burlies",
"hurricanes",
"hurry-scurries",
"hurry-skurries",
"kerfuffles",
"moils",
"pandemoniums",
"rows",
"ruckuses",
"ructions",
"rumpuses",
"shindys",
"shindies",
"splores",
"squalls",
"stews",
"stirs",
"storms",
"to-dos",
"tumults",
"turmoils",
"uproars",
"welters",
"whirls",
"williwaws",
"zoos"
]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"potion":{
"a drink that is meant to have a special or magical effect on someone":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"a potion that is supposed to improve health",
"The hero in the play is given a magic potion so that he will fall in love with the princess.",
"medical potions",
"sleeping potions"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"related":[],
"synonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"potted":{
"as in":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[],
"near antonyms":[],
"related":[],
"synonyms":[]
},
"being under the influence of alcohol":{
"antonyms":[
"sober",
"straight"
],
"examples":[
"work was so awful that I'm just going to go out and get potted tonight"
],
"near antonyms":[
"abstemious",
"abstinent",
"dry",
"temperate",
"teetotal",
"clearheaded",
"cool",
"level",
"steady"
],
"related":[
"maudlin",
"beery",
"befuddled",
"bleary-eyed",
"crapulous",
"dopey",
"dopy",
"rocky",
"strung out",
"stupefied",
"debauched",
"dissipated",
"dissolute",
"alcoholic",
"bibulous",
"dipsomaniacal"
],
"synonyms":[
"besotted",
"blasted",
"blind",
"blitzed",
"blotto",
"bombed",
"boozy",
"canned",
"cockeyed",
"crocked",
"drunk",
"drunken",
"fried",
"gassed",
"hammered",
"high",
"impaired",
"inebriate",
"inebriated",
"intoxicated",
"juiced",
"lit",
"lit up",
"loaded",
"looped",
"oiled",
"pickled",
"pie-eyed",
"plastered",
"ripped",
"sloshed",
"smashed",
"sottish",
"soused",
"sozzled",
"squiffed",
"squiffy",
"stewed",
"stiff",
"stinking",
"stoned",
"tanked",
"tiddly",
"tight",
"tipsy",
"wasted",
"wet",
"wiped out"
]
},
"type":[
"adjective",
"verb"
]
},
"potters%20%28around%29":{
"to spend time in aimless activity":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"pottering around indoors on a rainy day"
],
"near antonyms":[
"buckles (down)",
"knuckles down",
"sets (to)",
"settles (down)"
],
"related":[
"dallies",
"dawdles",
"dillydallies",
"hangs (around or out)",
"idles",
"loafs",
"lolls",
"lounges",
"clowns (around)",
"horses around",
"diddles (with)",
"tinkers"
],
"synonyms":[
"doodles",
"fiddles (around)",
"fools around",
"fribbles",
"goofs (around)",
"hangs about",
"kicks around",
"messes around",
"monkeys (around)",
"plays",
"putters (around)",
"trifles"
]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"potty":{
"a room furnished with a fixture for flushing body waste":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"the little girl announced loudly that she needed to go to the potty"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"related":[
"commode",
"pan",
"pot",
"garderobe",
"jakes",
"outhouse",
"privy",
"half bath",
"powder room",
"ladies",
"ladies' room",
"men's room"
],
"synonyms":[
"bath",
"bathroom",
"bog",
"can",
"cloakroom",
"comfort station",
"convenience",
"head",
"john",
"latrine",
"lavatory",
"loo",
"restroom",
"toilet",
"washroom",
"water closet"
]
},
"being or characteristic of a person who has an offensive air of superiority and tends to ignore or disdain anyone regarded as inferior":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"a ridiculous woman with pretentious airs and potty pronunciations for everyday words"
],
"near antonyms":[
"democratic",
"egalitarian",
"egoless",
"humble",
"modest",
"unpretentious",
"antielitist"
],
"related":[
"aloof",
"arrogant",
"bumptious",
"haughty",
"high-and-mighty",
"highfalutin",
"hifalutin",
"high-handed",
"hoity-toity",
"huffish",
"huffy",
"imperious",
"lordly",
"overweening",
"peremptory",
"pompous",
"presumptuous",
"pretentious",
"supercilious",
"superior",
"toplofty",
"toploftical",
"uppity",
"biggety",
"biggity",
"bigheaded",
"egoistic",
"egoistical",
"egotistic",
"egotistical",
"prideful",
"self-conceited",
"self-important",
"self-satisfied",
"smug",
"stuck-up",
"swelled-headed",
"swellheaded"
],
"synonyms":[
"aristocratic",
"elitist",
"high-hat",
"persnickety",
"ritzy",
"snobbish",
"snobby",
"snooty",
"snotty",
"toffee-nosed"
]
},
"type":[
"adjective",
"noun"
]
},
"pounce (on":{
"as in":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[],
"near antonyms":[],
"related":[],
"synonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"pound":{
"a hard strike with a part of the body or an instrument":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"give the nail a final pound with the hammer"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"related":[
"counter",
"counterblow",
"counterpunch",
"counterstroke",
"body blow",
"hand",
"kick",
"knee",
"left",
"one-two",
"rabbit punch",
"right",
"right-hander",
"roundhouse",
"shiver",
"sidewinder",
"sucker punch",
"swing",
"uppercut",
"cruncher",
"kayo",
"knockdown",
"knockout",
"KO",
"bastinado",
"bastinade",
"battering",
"beating",
"bludgeoning",
"clobbering",
"cudgeling",
"cudgelling",
"drubbing",
"hammering",
"lambasting",
"licking",
"pasting",
"pounding",
"pummeling",
"pummelling",
"thrashing",
"flogging",
"walloping",
"whip",
"whipping"
],
"synonyms":[
"bang",
"bash",
"bat",
"beat",
"belt",
"biff",
"blow",
"bop",
"box",
"buffet",
"bust",
"chop",
"clap",
"clip",
"clout",
"crack",
"cuff",
"dab",
"douse",
"fillip",
"hack",
"haymaker",
"hit",
"hook",
"knock",
"larrup",
"lash",
"lick",
"pelt",
"pick",
"plump",
"poke",
"punch",
"rap",
"slam",
"slap",
"slug",
"smack",
"smash",
"sock",
"spank",
"stinger",
"stripe",
"stroke",
"swat",
"swipe",
"switch",
"thud",
"thump",
"thwack",
"wallop",
"welt",
"whack",
"wham",
"whop",
"whap"
]
},
"an enclosure with an open framework for keeping animals":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"stray dogs wearing tags are kept in that pound until their owners can be notified"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"related":[
"kennel",
"run",
"kraal",
"stockade",
"cote",
"dovecote",
"dovecot",
"henhouse",
"fold",
"sheepfold",
"pigpen",
"aquarium",
"terrarium",
"live-box",
"fence"
],
"synonyms":[
"cage",
"coop",
"corral",
"hutch",
"pen"
]
},
"to deliver a blow to (someone or something) usually in a strong vigorous manner":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"pounding nails into boards all day long"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"related":[
"batter",
"beat",
"buffet",
"bung",
"chop",
"cuff",
"drub",
"lace",
"lambaste",
"lambast",
"lick",
"mangle",
"maul",
"pelt",
"pepper",
"pommel",
"pummel",
"rough",
"scuff",
"bunt",
"flick",
"stroke",
"tap",
"bump",
"butt",
"jab",
"jostle",
"kick",
"knee",
"poke",
"prod",
"push",
"shove",
"stamp",
"bowl (down or over)",
"cream",
"deck",
"dump",
"fell",
"floor",
"knock down",
"level",
"rabbit-punch",
"sucker punch",
"cane",
"club",
"cudgel",
"flail",
"flog",
"lash",
"sap",
"slash",
"sledge",
"sledgehammer",
"spear",
"stab",
"switch",
"thrash",
"whip",
"bean",
"brain",
"conk",
"skull"
],
"synonyms":[
"bang",
"bash",
"bat",
"belt",
"biff",
"bludgeon",
"bob",
"bonk",
"bop",
"box",
"bust",
"clap",
"clip",
"clobber",
"clock",
"clout",
"crack",
"hammer",
"hit",
"knock",
"nail",
"paste",
"punch",
"rap",
"slam",
"slap",
"slog",
"slug",
"smack",
"smite",
"sock",
"strike",
"swat",
"swipe",
"tag",
"thump",
"thwack",
"wallop",
"whack",
"whale",
"zap"
]
},
"to move heavily or clumsily":{
"antonyms":[
"breeze",
"coast",
"glide",
"slide",
"waltz",
"whisk"
],
"examples":[
"pounding down the road as fast as he could run"
],
"near antonyms":[
"drift",
"float",
"hang",
"hover",
"poise",
"waft"
],
"related":[
"drag",
"flop",
"haul",
"blunder",
"careen",
"dodder",
"lurch",
"reel",
"stagger",
"sway",
"teeter",
"totter",
"waddle",
"weave",
"wobble",
"wabble"
],
"synonyms":[
"barge",
"clump",
"flog",
"flounder",
"galumph",
"lumber",
"lump",
"plod",
"scuff",
"scuffle",
"shamble",
"shuffle",
"slog",
"slough",
"stamp",
"stomp",
"stumble",
"stump",
"tramp",
"tromp",
"trudge"
]
},
"to reduce to fine particles":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"the tablet may be pounded and mixed in with the animal's food"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"related":[
"grate",
"kibble",
"crumble",
"crunch",
"break",
"bust",
"dash",
"fracture",
"fragment",
"shatter",
"smash",
"splinter",
"micronize"
],
"synonyms":[
"atomize",
"beat",
"bray",
"comminute",
"crush",
"disintegrate",
"grind",
"mill",
"mull",
"powder",
"pulverize"
]
},
"to shape with a hammer":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"pounding out a depression in the metal"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"related":[
"chase",
"planish",
"fashion",
"form",
"knead",
"model",
"mold",
"pat",
"work",
"coin",
"mint",
"stamp",
"abate",
"boast",
"carve",
"chisel",
"cut",
"grave",
"hew",
"knap",
"sculpt",
"sculpture"
],
"synonyms":[
"beat",
"draw",
"forge",
"hammer"
]
},
"to strike repeatedly":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"during the storm the waves furiously pounded the beach"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"related":[
"assail",
"assault",
"attack",
"beset",
"box",
"bust",
"chop",
"clobber",
"clout",
"crack",
"cudgel",
"cuff",
"descend (on or upon)",
"hit",
"jump (on)",
"knock",
"lam",
"lay on",
"paste",
"pounce (on or upon)",
"punch",
"raid",
"rush",
"slam",
"slap",
"smack",
"smash",
"sock",
"spank",
"storm",
"swat",
"swipe",
"thwack",
"whack",
"wham",
"whomp",
"blackjack",
"cane",
"cowhide",
"flagellate",
"fustigate",
"horsewhip",
"leather",
"pistol-whip",
"rawhide",
"scourge",
"strap",
"gore",
"lacerate",
"wound",
"maim",
"mangle",
"mutilate"
],
"synonyms":[
"bash",
"baste",
"bat",
"batter",
"beat",
"belabor",
"belt",
"birch",
"bludgeon",
"buffet",
"bung up",
"club",
"curry",
"do",
"drub",
"fib",
"flog",
"hammer",
"hide",
"lace",
"lambaste",
"lambast",
"lash",
"lather",
"lick",
"maul",
"mess (up)",
"paddle",
"pelt",
"pommel",
"pummel",
"punch out",
"rough (up)",
"slate",
"slog",
"switch",
"tan",
"thrash",
"thresh",
"thump",
"tromp",
"wallop",
"whale",
"whip",
"whop",
"whap",
"whup",
"work over"
]
},
"type":[
"noun",
"verb"
]
},
"pound (down)":{
"to swallow in liquid form":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"Friday nights were usually spent wolfing down pizza and pounding down beers"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"related":[
"lap",
"lick",
"suck",
"consume",
"down",
"ingurgitate",
"kill",
"mouth (down)",
"put away",
"nip",
"tipple",
"pledge",
"toast",
"wine"
],
"synonyms":[
"belt (down)",
"drink",
"gulp",
"guzzle",
"hoist",
"imbibe",
"knock back",
"quaff",
"sip",
"slug (down)",
"slurp",
"sup",
"swig",
"swill",
"toss (down or off)"
]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"pourparlers":{
"as in":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[],
"near antonyms":[],
"related":[],
"synonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"pouting":{
"given to or displaying a resentful silence and often irritability":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"stayed in a pouting mood until her boyfriend apologized, though he didn't have the vaguest idea what he was apologizing for"
],
"near antonyms":[
"sociable",
"cheerful",
"cheery",
"gladsome",
"good-humored",
"good-natured",
"good-tempered",
"perky",
"sunny",
"carefree",
"easygoing",
"happy-go-lucky",
"relaxed"
],
"related":[
"dour",
"gloomy",
"morose",
"choleric",
"crabby",
"cranky",
"cross",
"crotchety",
"grouchy",
"grumpy",
"irascible",
"irritable",
"peevish",
"perverse",
"pettish",
"petulant",
"prickly",
"quick-tempered",
"raspy",
"ratty",
"short-tempered",
"snappish",
"snappy",
"snarky",
"snippety",
"snippy",
"testy",
"waspish",
"brooding",
"moping",
"bearish",
"bilious",
"cantankerous",
"disagreeable",
"dyspeptic",
"ill-humored",
"ill-natured",
"ill-tempered",
"ornery",
"huffy",
"sensitive",
"temperamental",
"tetchy",
"thin-skinned",
"touchy"
],
"synonyms":[
"glum",
"mopey",
"pouty",
"sulky",
"sullen",
"surly"
]
},
"to extend outward beyond a usual point":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"her lips pouted as she glared at him silently"
],
"near antonyms":[
"compressing",
"condensing",
"constricting",
"contracting",
"shrinking"
],
"related":[
"doming",
"blowing up",
"inflating",
"dilating",
"distending",
"expanding",
"mushrooming",
"snowballing",
"elongating",
"extending",
"lengthening",
"stretching"
],
"synonyms":[
"bagging",
"ballooning",
"beetling",
"bellying",
"billowing",
"bulging",
"bunching",
"jutting",
"overhanging",
"poking",
"pooching",
"pouching",
"projecting",
"protruding",
"standing out",
"starting",
"sticking out",
"swelling"
]
},
"to silently go about in a bad mood":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"pouted and didn't say a word to anyone all morning"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"related":[
"brooding",
"dwelling (on)",
"mulling (over)",
"musing (over)",
"pondering",
"frowning",
"glowering",
"lowering",
"louring",
"scowling",
"carrying on",
"taking on",
"petting"
],
"synonyms":[
"grumping",
"moping",
"sulking"
]
},
"type":[
"adjective",
"verb"
]
},
"pox":{
"as in curse , spell":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[],
"near antonyms":[],
"related":[],
"synonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
}
}