"a large amount of a material (such as hay or wool) that is pressed together tightly and often tied or wrapped":{
"examples":[
"a bale of cotton/paper"
],
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"bundle",
"pack",
"package",
"packet",
"parcel",
"shipment",
"burden",
"cargo",
"draft",
"freight",
"haul",
"lading",
"load",
"loading",
"payload",
"weight",
"consignment",
"boatload",
"carload",
"shipload",
"trainload",
"truckload",
"wagonload",
"ballast",
"deadweight",
"overload",
"surcharge",
"manifest",
"body",
"bulk",
"mass"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"balloons":{
"to become greater in extent, volume, amount, or number":{
"antonyms":[
"contracts",
"decreases",
"diminishes",
"dwindles",
"lessens",
"recedes",
"wanes"
],
"examples":[
"the number of students who stay home sick balloons every winter"
],
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"related":[
"jumps",
"rockets",
"skyrockets",
"surges",
"heightens",
"intensifies",
"redoubles",
"blows up",
"bulks",
"distends",
"inflates",
"puffs (up)",
"crescendoes",
"crests",
"peaks"
],
"synonyms":[
"accelerates",
"accumulates",
"appreciates",
"booms",
"builds up",
"burgeons",
"bourgeons",
"climbs",
"enlarges",
"escalates",
"expands",
"gains",
"increases",
"mounts",
"multiplies",
"mushrooms",
"proliferates",
"rises",
"rolls up",
"snowballs",
"spreads",
"swells",
"waxes"
]
},
"to extend outward beyond a usual point":{
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"examples":[
"the paper bag ballooned and blew away as the wind lifted it skyward"
],
"near antonyms":[
"compresses",
"condenses",
"constricts",
"contracts",
"shrinks"
],
"related":[
"domes",
"blows up",
"inflates",
"dilates",
"distends",
"expands",
"mushrooms",
"snowballs",
"elongates",
"extends",
"lengthens",
"stretches"
],
"synonyms":[
"bags",
"beetles",
"bellies",
"billows",
"bulges",
"bunches",
"juts",
"overhangs",
"pokes",
"pooches",
"pouches",
"pouts",
"projects",
"protrudes",
"stands out",
"starts",
"sticks out",
"swells"
]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"ballyragging":{
"to make timid or fearful by or as if by threats":{
"examples":[
"anonymous trolls on the website tried to bullyrag him into backing down"
],
"synonyms":[
"blackjacking",
"bogarting",
"browbeating",
"bulldozing",
"bullying",
"cowing",
"hectoring",
"intimidating",
"strong-arming"
],
"near synonyms":[
"blustering",
"trash-talking",
"affrighting",
"alarming",
"alaruming",
"frightening",
"horrifying",
"scaring",
"shocking",
"spooking",
"startling",
"terrifying",
"menacing",
"terrorizing",
"threatening",
"badgering",
"harassing",
"hounding",
"bludgeoning",
"coercing",
"compelling",
"constraining",
"dragooning",
"forcing",
"making",
"obliging",
"pressing",
"pressuring",
"pushing around",
"demoralizing",
"psyching (out)",
"unmanning",
"unnerving",
"discomposing",
"disconcerting",
"disquieting",
"distressing",
"disturbing",
"perturbing",
"upsetting"
],
"near antonyms":[
"cheering",
"comforting",
"consoling",
"reassuring",
"solacing",
"soothing",
"emboldening",
"encouraging",
"heartening",
"steeling",
"convincing",
"persuading"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"ballyhoo":{
"a state of noisy, confused activity":{
"examples":[
"it turned out that the ballyhoo was the result of a movie being filmed on the street"
],
"synonyms":[
"ado",
"alarums and excursions",
"blather",
"bluster",
"bobbery",
"bother",
"bustle",
"clatter",
"clutter",
"coil",
"commotion",
"corroboree",
"disturbance",
"do",
"foofaraw",
"fun",
"furor",
"furore",
"fuss",
"helter-skelter",
"hoo-ha",
"hoo-hah",
"hoopla",
"hubble-bubble",
"hubbub",
"hullabaloo",
"hurly",
"hurly-burly",
"hurricane",
"hurry",
"hurry-scurry",
"hurry-skurry",
"kerfuffle",
"moil",
"pandemonium",
"pother",
"row",
"ruckus",
"ruction",
"rumpus",
"shindy",
"splore",
"squall",
"stew",
"stir",
"storm",
"to-do",
"tumult",
"turmoil",
"uproar",
"welter",
"whirl",
"williwaw",
"zoo"
],
"near synonyms":[
"cacophony",
"clamor",
"din",
"howl",
"hue and cry",
"noise",
"outcry",
"racket",
"roar",
"disorder",
"unrest",
"upheaval",
"eruption",
"flare-up",
"flurry",
"flutter",
"outbreak",
"outburst",
"brawl",
"fracas",
"fray",
"hassle",
"melee",
"m\u00eal\u00e9e",
"scuffle",
"dither",
"fever",
"fret",
"lather",
"tizzy"
],
"near antonyms":[
"calm",
"hush",
"peace",
"quiet",
"quietude",
"rest",
"stillness",
"tranquillity",
"tranquility",
"order",
"orderliness"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"information released to the media that is designed to gain public attention or support for a person, business, or cause":{
"examples":[
"the usual ballyhoo intended to fill the seats at megaplexes around the country"
],
"synonyms":[
"hype",
"publicity",
"puffery"
],
"near synonyms":[
"ad",
"advertisement",
"commercial",
"message",
"plug",
"promotion",
"spot",
"word",
"banner",
"bill",
"billboard",
"placard",
"poster",
"sign",
"advertising",
"marketing",
"propaganda",
"pronouncement",
"publication",
"release",
"broadcast",
"bulletin",
"dispatch",
"newscast",
"report",
"story",
"ink",
"testimonial",
"write-up"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to praise or publicize lavishly and often excessively":{
"examples":[
"that reviewer always ballyhoos any book by one of his pet authors"
],
"synonyms":[
"blow up",
"crack up",
"cry up",
"glorify",
"tout",
"trumpet",
"tub-thump"
],
"near synonyms":[
"acclaim",
"applaud",
"extol",
"extoll",
"laud",
"magnify",
"commend",
"compliment",
"eulogize",
"advance",
"advertise",
"announce",
"blare",
"blaze",
"blazon",
"boost",
"herald",
"offer",
"plug",
"promote",
"publicize",
"assert",
"aver",
"claim",
"declare",
"lay down",
"make out",
"proclaim",
"pronounce"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to provide publicity for":{
"examples":[
"the TV networks usually spend the summer months ballyhooing their new fall shows"
],
"synonyms":[
"boost",
"hype",
"pitch",
"plug",
"promote",
"publicize",
"talk up",
"tout"
],
"near synonyms":[
"advertise",
"bark",
"merchandise",
"merchandize",
"sell",
"push",
"acclaim",
"hail",
"laud",
"praise",
"endorse",
"indorse",
"plump (for)",
"plunk (for)",
"plonk (for)",
"recommend",
"review",
"announce",
"broadcast",
"publish"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun",
"verb"
]
},
"balkiness":{
"refusal to obey":{
"examples":[
"the teen's unrelenting balkiness was truly frustrating"
],
"synonyms":[
"contrariness",
"contumacy",
"defiance",
"disobedience",
"frowardness",
"insubordination",
"intractability",
"obstreperousness",
"rebellion",
"rebelliousness",
"recalcitrance",
"refractoriness",
"unruliness",
"waywardness",
"willfulness"
],
"related":[
"civil disobedience",
"noncooperation",
"discourteousness",
"disrespect",
"impertinence",
"impoliteness",
"impudence",
"inconsiderateness",
"inconsideration",
"insolence",
"rudeness",
"ungraciousness",
"doggedness",
"hardheadedness",
"mulishness",
"obduracy",
"obdurateness",
"obstinacy",
"obstinateness",
"peevishness",
"pertinaciousness",
"pertinacity",
"perversity",
"pigheadedness",
"self-will",
"stubbornness",
"tenaciousness",
"tenacity",
"knavery",
"mischievousness",
"naughtiness"
],
"near antonyms":[
"agreeability",
"amenability",
"amiability",
"slavishness",
"submissiveness",
"subservience",
"subserviency",
"trainability",
"deference",
"docility",
"dutifulness"
],
"antonyms":[
"compliance",
"obedience",
"submission",
"subordinateness",
"subordination",
"tractability",
"tractableness"
]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"balled":{
"as in bulbous , rounded":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"bulbous",
"rotund",
"rounded",
"roundish",
"global",
"globular",
"round",
"spherical",
"annular",
"circular",
"disciform",
"discoid",
"discoidal",
"disklike",
"hooplike",
"ringlike",
"curved",
"looped",
"spiral",
"cylindrical",
"cylindric",
"elliptical",
"elliptic",
"oblong",
"oval",
"ovate",
"ovoid",
"ovoidal"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to form into a round compact mass":{
"examples":[
"balled up the paper and threw it at the garbage can"
],
"synonyms":[
"agglomerated",
"rolled",
"rounded",
"wadded"
],
"near synonyms":[
"bunched",
"clumped",
"lumped",
"beaded",
"pearled",
"pelleted",
"pelletized",
"sphered"
],
"near antonyms":[
"flattened",
"opened",
"smoothed",
"spread",
"unfolded"
],
"antonyms":[
"unrolled"
]
},
"type":[
"adjective",
"verb"
]
},
"balloon":{
"to become greater in extent, volume, amount, or number":{
"examples":[
"the number of students who stay home sick balloons every winter"
],
"synonyms":[
"accelerate",
"accumulate",
"appreciate",
"boom",
"build up",
"burgeon",
"bourgeon",
"climb",
"enlarge",
"escalate",
"expand",
"gain",
"increase",
"mount",
"multiply",
"mushroom",
"proliferate",
"rise",
"roll up",
"snowball",
"spread",
"swell",
"wax"
],
"related":[
"jump",
"rocket",
"skyrocket",
"surge",
"heighten",
"intensify",
"redouble",
"blow up",
"bulk",
"distend",
"inflate",
"puff (up)",
"crescendo",
"crest",
"peak"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[
"contract",
"decrease",
"diminish",
"dwindle",
"lessen",
"recede",
"wane"
]
},
"to extend outward beyond a usual point":{
"examples":[
"the paper bag ballooned and blew away as the wind lifted it skyward"
],
"synonyms":[
"bag",
"beetle",
"belly",
"billow",
"bulge",
"bunch",
"jut",
"overhang",
"poke",
"pooch",
"pouch",
"pout",
"project",
"protrude",
"stand out",
"start",
"stick out",
"swell"
],
"related":[
"dome",
"blow up",
"inflate",
"dilate",
"distend",
"expand",
"mushroom",
"snowball",
"elongate",
"extend",
"lengthen",
"stretch"
],
"near antonyms":[
"compress",
"condense",
"constrict",
"contract",
"shrink"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"balancing":{
"to make equal in amount, degree, or status":{
"examples":[
"tried to balance the total amount of money spent on gifts for each child"
],
"synonyms":[
"equalizing",
"equating",
"evening",
"leveling",
"levelling"
],
"near synonyms":[
"equilibrating",
"equipoising",
"accommodating",
"adjusting",
"compensating",
"fitting",
"counterbalancing",
"homogenizing",
"normalizing",
"regularizing",
"standardizing",
"democratizing"
],
"near antonyms":[
"disequilibrating"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to show uncertainty about the right course of action":{
"examples":[
"his tendency to balance and waffle on certain hot-button issues may hurt him in the general election"
],
"synonyms":[
"dithering",
"faltering",
"halting",
"hanging back",
"hesitating",
"scrupling",
"shilly-shallying",
"staggering",
"teetering",
"vacillating",
"wavering",
"wobbling",
"wabbling"
],
"near synonyms":[
"hawing",
"hemming",
"dallying",
"dawdling",
"delaying",
"lingering",
"pausing",
"procrastinating",
"waiting",
"backing down",
"chickening (out)",
"considering",
"debating",
"deliberating",
"pondering",
"weighing",
"oscillating",
"swaying",
"equivocating",
"hedging",
"pussyfooting",
"waffling"
],
"near antonyms":[
"deciding",
"budging",
"stirring",
"advancing",
"continuing"
],
"antonyms":[
"diving (in)",
"plunging (in)"
]
},
"to give what is owed for":{
"examples":[
"she had to balance her account with the hotel before checking out of her room"
],
"synonyms":[
"anteing (up)",
"clearing",
"discharging",
"footing",
"liquidating",
"meeting",
"paying",
"paying off",
"paying up",
"ponying up",
"quitting",
"recompensing",
"settling",
"springing (for)",
"standing"
],
"near synonyms":[],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[
"repudiating"
]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"balk":{
"something that makes movement or progress difficult":{
"examples":[
"the constant interruptions proved to be a balk to the flow of conversation"
],
"synonyms":[
"bar",
"block",
"chain",
"clog",
"cramp",
"crimp",
"deterrent",
"drag",
"embarrassment",
"encumbrance",
"fetter",
"handicap",
"hindrance",
"holdback",
"hurdle",
"impediment",
"inhibition",
"interference",
"let",
"manacle",
"obstacle",
"obstruction",
"shackles",
"stop",
"stumbling block",
"trammel"
],
"near synonyms":[
"catch",
"hitch",
"rub",
"snag",
"barrier",
"blockade",
"blockage",
"brick wall",
"stone wall",
"arrest",
"bit",
"brake",
"check",
"constraint",
"curb",
"hobble",
"rein",
"restraint",
"embargo",
"stoppage",
"delay",
"holdup",
"stall",
"burden",
"cumber",
"load",
"danger",
"hazard",
"peril",
"reef",
"adversity",
"difficulty",
"disadvantage",
"drawback",
"hardship"
],
"near antonyms":[
"catalyst",
"goad",
"impetus",
"incentive",
"spur",
"stimulant",
"stimulus",
"advantage",
"break",
"edge",
"aid",
"assistance",
"benefit",
"boost",
"handmaiden",
"handmaid",
"help"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to prevent from achieving a goal":{
"examples":[
"a young man with big dreams who refused to be balked by the many challenges he faced in making them a reality"
],
"synonyms":[
"baffle",
"beat",
"checkmate",
"discomfit",
"foil",
"frustrate",
"thwart"
],
"near synonyms":[
"bar",
"block",
"clog",
"encumber",
"fetter",
"hamper",
"handicap",
"hinder",
"hobble",
"hold back",
"impede",
"inhibit",
"interfere (with)",
"manacle",
"obstruct",
"shackle",
"tie up",
"trammel",
"arrest",
"check",
"halt",
"set back",
"short-circuit",
"stall",
"stop",
"avert",
"forestall",
"obviate",
"preclude",
"prevent",
"negate",
"neutralize",
"nullify",
"counteract",
"offset",
"conquer",
"defeat",
"overcome"
],
"near antonyms":[
"abet",
"aid",
"assist",
"ease",
"facilitate",
"smooth"
],
"antonyms":[
"advance",
"cultivate",
"encourage",
"forward",
"foster",
"further",
"nurture",
"promote"
]
},
"type":[
"noun",
"verb"
]
},
"balks":{
"something that makes movement or progress difficult":{
"examples":[
"the constant interruptions proved to be a balk to the flow of conversation"
],
"synonyms":[
"bars",
"blocks",
"chains",
"clogs",
"cramps",
"crimps",
"deterrents",
"drags",
"embarrassments",
"encumbrances",
"fetters",
"handicaps",
"hindrances",
"holdbacks",
"hurdles",
"impediments",
"inhibitions",
"interferences",
"lets",
"manacles",
"obstacles",
"obstructions",
"shackles",
"stops",
"stumbling blocks",
"trammels"
],
"near synonyms":[
"catches",
"hitches",
"rubs",
"snags",
"barriers",
"blockades",
"blockages",
"brick walls",
"stone walls",
"arrests",
"bits",
"brakes",
"checks",
"constraints",
"curbs",
"hobbles",
"reins",
"restraints",
"embargoes",
"stoppages",
"delays",
"holdups",
"stalls",
"burdens",
"cumbers",
"loads",
"dangers",
"hazards",
"perils",
"reefs",
"adversities",
"difficulties",
"disadvantages",
"drawbacks",
"hardships"
],
"near antonyms":[
"catalysts",
"goads",
"impetuses",
"incentives",
"spurs",
"stimulants",
"stimuli",
"advantages",
"breaks",
"edges",
"aids",
"assistances",
"benefits",
"boosts",
"handmaidens",
"handmaids",
"help"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to prevent from achieving a goal":{
"examples":[
"a young man with big dreams who refused to be balked by the many challenges he faced in making them a reality"
],
"synonyms":[
"baffles",
"beats",
"checkmates",
"discomfits",
"foils",
"frustrates",
"thwarts"
],
"near synonyms":[
"bars",
"blocks",
"clogs",
"encumbers",
"fetters",
"hampers",
"handicaps",
"hinders",
"hobbles",
"holds back",
"impedes",
"inhibits",
"interferes (with)",
"manacles",
"obstructs",
"shackles",
"ties up",
"trammels",
"arrests",
"checks",
"halts",
"sets back",
"short-circuits",
"stalls",
"stops",
"averts",
"forestalls",
"obviates",
"precludes",
"prevents",
"negates",
"neutralizes",
"nullifies",
"counteracts",
"offsets",
"conquers",
"defeats",
"overcomes"
],
"near antonyms":[
"abets",
"aids",
"assists",
"eases",
"facilitates",
"smooths",
"smoothes"
],
"antonyms":[
"advances",
"cultivates",
"encourages",
"forwards",
"fosters",
"furthers",
"nurtures",
"promotes"
]
},
"type":[
"noun",
"verb"
]
},
"baldrics":{
"as in bandoliers , Sam Browne belts":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"bandoliers",
"bandoleers",
"Sam Browne belts",
"circles",
"loops",
"ribbons",
"rings",
"cesti",
"obis",
"bands",
"waistbands",
"belts",
"ceintures",
"cinctures",
"cummerbunds",
"cumberbunds",
"girdles",
"sashes",
"self-belts"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"ballooning":{
"as in dilating , turgescent":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"dilating",
"turgescent",
"ventricose",
"bulging",
"dilated",
"protuberant",
"ballooned",
"blown up",
"expanded",
"bloated",
"blown",
"distended",
"overinflated",
"puffed",
"swollen",
"tumescent",
"tumid",
"turgid",
"varicose",
"varicosed"
],
"near antonyms":[
"collapsed",
"deflated",
"detumescent"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"as in skydiving , paragliding":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"gliding",
"hang gliding",
"paragliding",
"skydiving",
"soaring",
"aeronautics",
"aviation",
"flight",
"flying"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to become greater in extent, volume, amount, or number":{
"examples":[
"the number of students who stay home sick balloons every winter"
],
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"appreciating",
"booming",
"building up",
"burgeoning",
"bourgeoning",
"climbing",
"enlarging",
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"expanding",
"gaining",
"increasing",
"mounting",
"multiplying",
"mushrooming",
"proliferating",
"rising",
"rolling up",
"snowballing",
"spreading",
"swelling",
"waxing"
],
"near synonyms":[
"jumping",
"rocketing",
"skyrocketing",
"surging",
"heightening",
"intensifying",
"redoubling",
"blowing up",
"bulking",
"distending",
"inflating",
"puffing (up)",
"crescendoing",
"cresting",
"peaking"
],
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"antonyms":[
"contracting",
"decreasing",
"diminishing",
"dwindling",
"lessening",
"receding",
"waning"
]
},
"to extend outward beyond a usual point":{
"examples":[
"the paper bag ballooned and blew away as the wind lifted it skyward"
],
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"bagging",
"beetling",
"bellying",
"billowing",
"bulging",
"bunching",
"jutting",
"overhanging",
"poking",
"pooching",
"pouching",
"pouting",
"projecting",
"protruding",
"standing out",
"starting",
"sticking out",
"swelling"
],
"near synonyms":[
"doming",
"blowing up",
"inflating",
"dilating",
"distending",
"expanding",
"mushrooming",
"snowballing",
"elongating",
"extending",
"lengthening",
"stretching"
],
"near antonyms":[
"compressing",
"condensing",
"constricting",
"contracting",
"shrinking"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"adjective",
"noun",
"verb"
]
},
"ballasts":{
"heavy material (such as rocks or water) that is put on a ship to make it steady or on a balloon to control its height in the air \u2014 often used figuratively":{
"examples":[
"A large amount of ballast kept the boat from capsizing.",
"She provided the ballast the family needed in times of stress."
],
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"near synonyms":[
"deadweights",
"burdens",
"cargoes",
"cargos",
"drafts",
"freights",
"hauls",
"ladings",
"loadings",
"loads",
"payloads",
"weights",
"consignments",
"boatloads",
"carloads",
"shiploads",
"trainloads",
"truckloads",
"wagonloads",
"overloads",
"surcharges",
"bales",
"bundles",
"packages",
"packets",
"packs",
"parcels",
"shipments",
"manifests",
"bodies",
"bulks",
"masses"
],
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"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"ballistic":{
"feeling or showing anger":{
"examples":[
"she went ballistic when she discovered her brother reading her e-mail"
],
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"angered",
"angry",
"apoplectic",
"cheesed off",
"choleric",
"enraged",
"foaming",
"fuming",
"furious",
"hopping",
"horn-mad",
"hot",
"incensed",
"indignant",
"inflamed",
"enflamed",
"infuriate",
"infuriated",
"irate",
"ireful",
"livid",
"mad",
"outraged",
"rabid",
"rankled",
"riled",
"riley",
"roiled",
"shirty",
"sore",
"steamed up",
"steaming",
"teed off",
"ticked",
"wrathful",
"wroth"
],
"near synonyms":[
"ranting",
"raving",
"stormy",
"boiling",
"bristling",
"bristly",
"burning",
"cross",
"huffy",
"passionate",
"seething",
"sizzling",
"smoldering",
"smouldering",
"worked up",
"wrought (up)",
"acrid",
"acrimonious",
"antagonistic",
"antipathetic",
"bitter",
"embittered",
"inimical",
"malevolent",
"piqued",
"rancorous",
"resentful",
"spiteful",
"vengeful",
"vindictive",
"virulent",
"vitriolic",
"antisocial",
"cold",
"cool",
"disagreeable",
"disapproving",
"distant",
"frigid",
"icy",
"ill-tempered",
"sorehead",
"soreheaded",
"sulky",
"unfriendly",
"unpleasant",
"aggravated",
"annoyed",
"bearish",
"bilious",
"cantankerous",
"churlish",
"crabby",
"cranky",
"dyspeptic",
"exasperated",
"fretful",
"fussy",
"grouchy",
"grumpy",
"ill-humored",
"inflammable",
"irascible",
"irritable",
"peevish",
"perturbed",
"petulant",
"put out",
"quick-tempered",
"snappish",
"testy",
"touchy",
"argumentative",
"belligerent",
"contentious",
"contrary",
"disputatious",
"ornery",
"pugnacious",
"quarrelsome",
"querulous"
],
"near antonyms":[
"accepting",
"accommodating",
"obliging",
"agreeable",
"amenable",
"complaisant",
"amicable",
"cordial",
"friendly",
"content",
"happy",
"satisfied",
"empathetic",
"sympathetic",
"tolerant",
"understanding",
"calm",
"pacific",
"peaceable",
"placid",
"serene",
"tranquil",
"unembittered",
"affable",
"amiable",
"easygoing",
"genial",
"good-natured",
"good-tempered",
"kind",
"pleasant",
"sweet"
],
"antonyms":[
"angerless",
"delighted",
"pleased"
]
},
"type":[
"adjective"
]
},
"ballyhooing":{
"to praise or publicize lavishly and often excessively":{
"examples":[
"that reviewer always ballyhoos any book by one of his pet authors"
],
"synonyms":[
"blowing up",
"cracking up",
"crying up",
"glorifying",
"touting",
"trumpeting",
"tub-thumping"
],
"near synonyms":[
"acclaiming",
"applauding",
"extolling",
"lauding",
"magnifying",
"commending",
"complimenting",
"eulogizing",
"advancing",
"advertising",
"announcing",
"blaring",
"blazing",
"blazoning",
"boosting",
"heralding",
"offering",
"plugging",
"promoting",
"publicizing",
"asserting",
"averring",
"claiming",
"declaring",
"laying down",
"making out",
"proclaiming",
"pronouncing"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to provide publicity for":{
"examples":[
"the TV networks usually spend the summer months ballyhooing their new fall shows"
],
"synonyms":[
"boosting",
"hyping",
"pitching",
"plugging",
"promoting",
"publicizing",
"talking up",
"touting"
],
"near synonyms":[
"advertising",
"barking",
"merchandising",
"merchandizing",
"selling",
"pushing",
"acclaiming",
"hailing",
"lauding",
"praising",
"endorsing",
"indorsing",
"plumping (for)",
"plunking (for)",
"plonking (for)",
"recommending",
"reviewing",
"announcing",
"broadcasting",
"publishing"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"balked":{
"to prevent from achieving a goal":{
"examples":[
"a young man with big dreams who refused to be balked by the many challenges he faced in making them a reality"
],
"synonyms":[
"baffled",
"beat",
"checkmated",
"discomfited",
"foiled",
"frustrated",
"thwarted"
],
"near synonyms":[
"barred",
"blocked",
"clogged",
"encumbered",
"fettered",
"hampered",
"handicapped",
"held back",
"hindered",
"hobbled",
"impeded",
"inhibited",
"interfered (with)",
"manacled",
"obstructed",
"shackled",
"tied up",
"trammeled",
"trammelled",
"arrested",
"checked",
"halted",
"set back",
"short-circuited",
"stalled",
"stopped",
"averted",
"forestalled",
"obviated",
"precluded",
"prevented",
"negated",
"neutralized",
"nullified",
"counteracted",
"offset",
"conquered",
"defeated",
"overcame"
],
"near antonyms":[
"abetted",
"aided",
"assisted",
"eased",
"facilitated",
"smoothed"
],
"antonyms":[
"advanced",
"cultivated",
"encouraged",
"forwarded",
"fostered",
"furthered",
"nurtured",
"promoted"
]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"balmy":{
"having or showing a very abnormal or sick state of mind":{
"examples":[
"a completely balmy but harmless old man who talked intently to plants and believed they answered back"
],
"synonyms":[
"barmy",
"bats",
"batty",
"bedlam",
"bonkers",
"brainsick",
"bughouse",
"certifiable",
"crackbrained",
"cracked",
"crackers",
"crackpot",
"cranky",
"crazed",
"crazy",
"cuckoo",
"daffy",
"daft",
"demented",
"deranged",
"fruity",
"gaga",
"haywire",
"insane",
"kooky",
"kookie",
"loco",
"loony",
"looney",
"loony tunes",
"looney tunes",
"lunatic",
"mad",
"maniacal",
"maniac",
"mental",
"meshuga",
"meshugge",
"meshugah",
"meshuggah",
"moonstruck",
"non compos mentis",
"nuts",
"nutty",
"psycho",
"psychotic",
"scatty",
"screwy",
"unbalanced",
"unhinged",
"unsound",
"wacko",
"whacko",
"wacky",
"whacky",
"wud"
],
"near synonyms":[
"dotty",
"fey",
"loopy",
"off",
"potty",
"teched",
"tetched",
"touched",
"aberrant",
"delirious",
"delusional",
"delusionary",
"disordered",
"disturbed",
"neurotic",
"obsessive-compulsive",
"paranoiac",
"paranoic",
"paranoid",
"paranoidal",
"schizoid",
"schizophrenic",
"sociopathic",
"eccentric",
"odd",
"oddball",
"pixilated",
"pixillated",
"queer",
"strange",
"foolish",
"senseless",
"witless",
"irrational",
"unreasonable",
"amok",
"amuck",
"ape",
"ballistic",
"bananas",
"berserk",
"nuclear",
"depressed",
"distracted",
"distraught",
"frantic",
"frenzied",
"hysterical",
"hysteric",
"raving",
"wigged-out",
"fixated",
"monomaniac",
"monomaniacal",
"obsessed"
],
"near antonyms":[
"clear",
"lucid",
"rational",
"reasonable",
"judicious",
"sensible",
"wise",
"healthy",
"normal",
"well-adjusted",
"unneurotic"
],
"antonyms":[
"balanced",
"compos mentis",
"sane",
"sound",
"uncrazy"
]
},
"marked by temperatures that are neither too high nor too low":{
"examples":[
"a balmy spring day"
],
"synonyms":[
"clement",
"equable",
"genial",
"gentle",
"mild",
"moderate",
"soft",
"temperate"
],
"near synonyms":[
"clear",
"cloudless",
"fair",
"rainless",
"sunny",
"sunshiny",
"calm",
"halcyon",
"peaceful",
"placid",
"tranquil",
"delightful",
"fine",
"pleasant"
],
"near antonyms":[
"blustering",
"blustery",
"breezy",
"gusty",
"rough",
"squally",
"stormy",
"windy",
"misty",
"rainy",
"showery",
"bleak",
"cloudy",
"dismal",
"foggy",
"gloomy",
"gray",
"grey",
"hazy",
"overcast",
"sunless",
"bitter",
"dirty",
"foul",
"nasty",
"raw"
],
"antonyms":[
"harsh",
"inclement",
"intemperate",
"severe"
]
},
"not harsh or stern especially in nature or effect":{
"examples":[
"a pleasant, balmy breeze was all that stirred the wildflowers growing near the shore"
],
"synonyms":[
"benign",
"bland",
"delicate",
"gentle",
"light",
"mellow",
"mild",
"nonabrasive",
"soft",
"soothing",
"tender"
],
"near synonyms":[
"calm",
"pacific",
"peaceful",
"placid",
"quiet",
"serene",
"tranquil",
"clement",
"compassionate",
"easy",
"lenient",
"merciful",
"buffering",
"cushioning",
"emollient",
"softening",
"sleek",
"slick",
"smooth"
],
"near antonyms":[
"exquisite",
"fierce",
"intense",
"powerful",
"severe",
"forceful",
"forcible",
"savage",
"violent",
"roughened",
"rugged",
"strong",
"abrading",
"irritating",
"roughening",
"grim",
"gruff",
"rude",
"stiff",
"heavy-handed",
"oppressive",
"pitiless",
"tyrannical",
"tyrannic"
],
"antonyms":[
"abrasive",
"caustic",
"coarse",
"hard",
"harsh",
"rough",
"scathing",
"stern",
"ungentle"
]
},
"showing or marked by a lack of good sense or judgment":{
"examples":[
"the balmy notion that the IRS wouldn't collect taxes on his lottery winnings"
],
"synonyms":[
"absurd",
"asinine",
"brainless",
"bubbleheaded",
"cockeyed",
"crackpot",
"crazy",
"cuckoo",
"daffy",
"daft",
"dippy",
"dotty",
"fatuous",
"featherheaded",
"fool",
"foolish",
"half-baked",
"half-witted",
"harebrained",
"inept",
"insane",
"jerky",
"kooky",
"kookie",
"loony",
"looney",
"lunatic",
"lunkheaded",
"mad",
"nonsensical",
"nutty",
"preposterous",
"sappy",
"screwball",
"senseless",
"silly",
"simpleminded",
"stupid",
"tomfool",
"unwise",
"wacky",
"whacky",
"weak-minded",
"witless",
"zany"
],
"near synonyms":[
"airheaded",
"birdbrained",
"boobish",
"brain-dead",
"chowderheaded",
"chuckleheaded",
"clueless",
"dense",
"dim",
"dim-witted",
"doltish",
"dopey",
"dopy",
"dorky",
"dull",
"dumb",
"dunderheaded",
"empty-headed",
"feebleminded",
"gormless",
"idiotic",
"idiotical",
"imbecile",
"imbecilic",
"knuckleheaded",
"lamebrain",
"lamebrained",
"mindless",
"moronic",
"oafish",
"obtuse",
"opaque",
"pinheaded",
"simple",
"slow",
"slow-witted",
"soft",
"softheaded",
"thoughtless",
"thick",
"thickheaded",
"unintelligent",
"vacuous",
"fallacious",
"illogical",
"invalid",
"irrational",
"nonrational",
"surd",
"unreasonable",
"unreasoning",
"unsound",
"weak",
"farcical",
"laughable",
"ludicrous",
"ridiculous",
"notional",
"buffoonish",
"clownish",
"ill-advised",
"unconsidered",
"unreasoned"
],
"near antonyms":[
"brainy",
"bright",
"clever",
"intelligent",
"smart",
"logical",
"rational",
"reasonable",
"valid",
"well-advised"
],
"antonyms":[
"judicious",
"prudent",
"sagacious",
"sage",
"sane",
"sapient",
"sensible",
"sound",
"wise"
]
},
"type":[
"adjective"
]
},
"balance":{
"a condition in which opposing forces are equal to one another":{
"examples":[
"in order to determine the weight of that beaker, you need to get the two pans of the scale in perfect balance"
],
"synonyms":[
"counterpoise",
"equilibration",
"equilibrium",
"equipoise",
"poise",
"stasis"
],
"near synonyms":[
"counterbalance",
"offset",
"firmness",
"fixedness",
"security",
"stability",
"steadiness"
],
"near antonyms":[
"changeability",
"fluctuation",
"inconstancy",
"insecurity",
"instability",
"mutability",
"precariousness",
"shakiness",
"unsteadiness",
"volatility"
],
"antonyms":[
"disequilibration",
"disequilibrium",
"imbalance",
"nonequilibrium",
"unbalance"
]
},
"a balanced, pleasing, or suitable arrangement of parts":{
"examples":[
"the balance of the landscaping is in keeping with the symmetry of so many 18th-century mansions"
],
"synonyms":[
"coherence",
"concinnity",
"consonance",
"consonancy",
"harmony",
"orchestration",
"proportion",
"symmetry",
"symphony",
"unity"
],
"near synonyms":[
"coordination",
"correlation",
"correspondence",
"equalization",
"equilibrium",
"evenness",
"order",
"orderliness",
"regularity",
"uniformity"
],
"near antonyms":[
"confusion",
"disorganization",
"dissonance",
"disturbance",
"tension",
"disconnectedness",
"disjointedness",
"incompatibility",
"irregularity",
"unevenness"
],
"antonyms":[
"asymmetry",
"discordance",
"disproportion",
"disunity",
"imbalance",
"incoherence",
"violence"
]
},
"a device for measuring weight":{
"examples":[
"use a balance to make sure you get the amounts precisely correct"
],
"synonyms":[
"scale"
],
"near synonyms":[
"gravimeter"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"a force or influence that makes an opposing force ineffective or less effective":{
"examples":[
"the balance to the mountain of complaints are the many letters of praise that we also receive"
],
"synonyms":[
"canceler",
"canceller",
"corrective",
"counter",
"counteraction",
"counterbalance",
"counterforce",
"counterpoise",
"counterweight",
"equipoise",
"neutralizer",
"offset"
],
"near synonyms":[
"trade-off",
"ballast",
"weight"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"a remaining group or portion":{
"examples":[
"and the balance of the contestants should stand in that last corner"
],
"synonyms":[
"leavings",
"leftovers",
"odds and ends",
"remainder",
"remains",
"remnant",
"residue",
"residuum",
"rest"
],
"near synonyms":[
"fragment",
"scrap",
"vestige",
"butt",
"oddment",
"scraping(s)",
"stub",
"stump",
"excess",
"fat",
"overabundance",
"overage",
"overflow",
"overkill",
"overmuch",
"oversupply",
"superabundance",
"superfluity",
"surfeit",
"surplus"
],
"near antonyms":[
"body",
"bulk",
"main",
"mass",
"most",
"weight"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to make equal in amount, degree, or status":{
"examples":[
"tried to balance the total amount of money spent on gifts for each child"
],
"synonyms":[
"equalize",
"equate",
"even",
"level"
],
"near synonyms":[
"equilibrate",
"equipoise",
"accommodate",
"adjust",
"compensate",
"fit",
"counterbalance",
"homogenize",
"normalize",
"regularize",
"standardize",
"democratize"
],
"near antonyms":[
"disequilibrate"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to show uncertainty about the right course of action":{
"examples":[
"his tendency to balance and waffle on certain hot-button issues may hurt him in the general election"
],
"synonyms":[
"dither",
"falter",
"halt",
"hang back",
"hesitate",
"scruple",
"shilly-shally",
"stagger",
"teeter",
"vacillate",
"waver",
"wobble",
"wabble"
],
"near synonyms":[
"haw",
"hem",
"dally",
"dawdle",
"delay",
"linger",
"pause",
"procrastinate",
"wait",
"back down",
"chicken (out)",
"consider",
"debate",
"deliberate",
"ponder",
"weigh",
"oscillate",
"sway",
"equivocate",
"hedge",
"pussyfoot",
"waffle"
],
"near antonyms":[
"decide",
"budge",
"stir",
"advance",
"continue"
],
"antonyms":[
"dive (in)",
"plunge (in)"
]
},
"to give what is owed for":{
"examples":[
"she had to balance her account with the hotel before checking out of her room"
],
"synonyms":[
"ante (up)",
"clear",
"discharge",
"foot",
"liquidate",
"meet",
"pay",
"pay off",
"pay up",
"pony up",
"quit",
"recompense",
"settle",
"spring (for)",
"stand"
],
"near synonyms":[],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[
"repudiate"
]
},
"type":[
"noun",
"verb"
]
},
"balefully":{
"as in cruelly , ruthlessly":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"caddishly",
"callously",
"cruelly",
"evil-mindedly",
"felly",
"hard-heartedly",
"heartlessly",
"inhumanely",
"kindlessly",
"mercilessly",
"pitilessly",
"ruthlessly",
"soullessly",
"unfeelingly",
"bitterly",
"enviously",
"jealously",
"resentfully",
"disagreeably",
"ill",
"ungraciously",
"unkindly",
"acrimoniously",
"antagonistically",
"caustically",
"envyingly",
"hostilely",
"invidiously",
"obnoxiously",
"rancorously",
"venomously",
"vindictively",
"vituperatively",
"ill-naturedly",
"inconsiderately",
"insensitively",
"thoughtlessly",
"contemptuously",
"deprecatingly",
"disdainfully",
"scornfully",
"diabolically",
"fiendishly",
"bitchily",
"cattily",
"despitefully",
"hatefully",
"malevolently",
"maliciously",
"malignantly",
"meanly",
"nastily",
"spitefully",
"viciously",
"villainously",
"virulently",
"wickedly",
"misanthropically"
],
"near antonyms":[
"benevolently",
"benignantly",
"good-heartedly",
"kindheartedly",
"kindly",
"affably",
"agreeably",
"amiably",
"cordially",
"genially",
"good-humoredly",
"good-naturedly",
"graciously",
"nicely",
"pleasantly",
"altruistically",
"humanely",
"considerately",
"feelingly",
"lovingly",
"mercifully",
"sensitively",
"softheartedly",
"solicitously",
"soulfully",
"thoughtfully",
"compassionately",
"sympathetically",
"angelically",
"divinely",
"gently",
"sweetly",
"tenderly"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"adverb"
]
},
"balkanized":{
"as in fractionalized , fractionated":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"fractionalized",
"fractionated",
"disunited",
"divided",
"split",
"cohesionless",
"factious"
],
"near antonyms":[
"unanimous",
"undivided",
"united"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"adjective"
]
},
"ballroom":{
"as in hall , theater":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"amphitheater",
"arena",
"auditorium",
"garden",
"hall",
"theater",
"theatre",
"arena theater",
"music hall",
"odeum",
"playhouse",
"theater-in-the-round",
"chamber",
"house",
"senate",
"cafetorium",
"lyceum"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"balked (at)":{
"to show unwillingness to accept, do, engage in, or agree to":{
"examples":[
"she balked at lending him any more money"
],
"synonyms":[
"declined",
"deselected",
"disapproved",
"negatived",
"nixed",
"passed",
"passed up",
"refused",
"rejected",
"reprobated",
"repudiated",
"spurned",
"threw out",
"threw over",
"turned down"
],
"near synonyms":[
"blew off",
"disdained",
"rebuffed",
"scorned",
"scouted",
"shot down",
"overruled",
"vetoed",
"forbade",
"forbad",
"prohibited",
"proscribed",
"dismissed",
"ignored",
"abstained (from)",
"forbore",
"refrained (from)",
"denied",
"disavowed",
"disclaimed",
"disputed",
"gainsaid",
"stuck",
"abjured",
"forswore",
"foreswore",
"recanted",
"renounced",
"retracted",
"took back",
"unsaid",
"withdrew",
"avoided",
"bypassed",
"detoured",
"contradicted",
"denied",
"disowned",
"negated",
"controverted",
"disagreed (with)",
"disproved",
"disputed",
"rebutted",
"refuted",
"backed down",
"backed off",
"backtracked",
"disallowed",
"recalled",
"reneged",
"revoked"
],
"near antonyms":[
"condoned",
"countenanced",
"swallowed",
"tolerated",
"adopted",
"embraced",
"received",
"took",
"welcomed",
"acceded",
"acquiesced",
"agreed",
"assented",
"consented",
"chose",
"handpicked",
"selected",
"espoused",
"supported"
],
"antonyms":[
"accepted",
"agreed (to)",
"approved"
]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"balking (at)":{
"to show unwillingness to accept, do, engage in, or agree to":{
"examples":[
"she balked at lending him any more money"
],
"synonyms":[
"declining",
"deselecting",
"disapproving",
"negativing",
"nixing",
"passing",
"passing up",
"refusing",
"rejecting",
"reprobating",
"repudiating",
"spurning",
"throwing out",
"throwing over",
"turning down"
],
"near synonyms":[
"blowing off",
"disdaining",
"rebuffing",
"scorning",
"scouting",
"shooting down",
"overruling",
"vetoing",
"forbidding",
"prohibiting",
"proscribing",
"dismissing",
"ignoring",
"abstaining (from)",
"forbearing",
"refraining (from)",
"denying",
"disavowing",
"disclaiming",
"disputing",
"gainsaying",
"sticking",
"abjuring",
"forswearing",
"foreswearing",
"recanting",
"renouncing",
"retracting",
"taking back",
"unsaying",
"withdrawing",
"avoiding",
"bypassing",
"detouring",
"contradicting",
"denying",
"disowning",
"negating",
"controverting",
"disagreeing (with)",
"disproving",
"disputing",
"rebutting",
"refuting",
"backing down",
"backing off",
"backtracking",
"disallowing",
"recalling",
"reneging",
"revoking"
],
"near antonyms":[
"condoning",
"countenancing",
"swallowing",
"tolerating",
"adopting",
"embracing",
"receiving",
"taking",
"welcoming",
"acceding",
"acquiescing",
"agreeing",
"assenting",
"consenting",
"choosing",
"handpicking",
"selecting",
"espousing",
"supporting"
],
"antonyms":[
"accepting",
"agreeing (to)",
"approving"
]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"balefulness":{
"as in darkness , devilishness":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"atrociousness",
"atrocity",
"badness",
"darkness",
"depravedness",
"devilishness",
"diabolism",
"enormity",
"evilness",
"heinousness",
"iniquitousness",
"satanism",
"sinfulness",
"vileness",
"wickedness",
"bad",
"evil",
"evildoing",
"ill",
"immorality",
"iniquity",
"sin",
"villainy",
"wrong",
"devilry",
"deviltry",
"fiendishness",
"cancer",
"canker",
"decay",
"rot",
"squalor",
"corruption",
"debauchery",
"degeneracy",
"depravity",
"indecency",
"malefaction",
"perversion",
"pervertedness",
"scurrility",
"scurrilousness",
"abomination",
"anathema",
"taboo",
"tabu"
],
"near antonyms":[
"good",
"morality",
"right",
"virtue",
"decency",
"goodness",
"honesty",
"integrity",
"probity",
"rectitude",
"uprightness",
"goodness",
"righteousness",
"virtuousness"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"bald-faced":{
"not subject to misinterpretation or more than one interpretation":{
"examples":[
"I took the remark as a bald-faced accusation that I had cheated"
],
"synonyms":[
"apparent",
"bald",
"barefaced",
"bright-line",
"broad",
"clear",
"clear-cut",
"crystal clear",
"decided",
"distinct",
"evident",
"lucid",
"luculent",
"luminous",
"manifest",
"nonambiguous",
"obvious",
"open-and-shut",
"palpable",
"patent",
"pellucid",
"perspicuous",
"plain",
"ringing",
"straightforward",
"transparent",
"unambiguous",
"unambivalent",
"unequivocal",
"unmistakable"
],
"near synonyms":[
"cognizable",
"cognoscible",
"comprehendible",
"comprehensible",
"digestible",
"fathomable",
"graspable",
"intelligible",
"knowable",
"understandable",
"self-evident",
"self-explanatory",
"clean-cut",
"simple",
"tidy",
"uncomplicated",
"overt",
"undisguised",
"appreciable",
"perceptible",
"recognizable",
"sensible",
"tangible",
"discernible",
"discernable",
"noticeable",
"observable",
"visible",
"black-and-white",
"explicit",
"trenchant",
"well-defined",
"clean",
"decipherable",
"fair",
"legible",
"readable"
],
"near antonyms":[
"incomprehensible",
"indecipherable",
"unfathomable",
"unintelligible",
"unknowable",
"impalpable",
"imperceptible",
"inappreciable",
"indiscernible",
"insensible",
"cloudy",
"gauzy",
"gray",
"grey",
"hazy",
"imprecise",
"indefinite",
"indeterminate",
"misty",
"murky",
"nebulous",
"noncommittal",
"sketchy",
"slippery",
"subtle",
"vague",
"illegible",
"undecipherable",
"unreadable"
],
"antonyms":[
"ambiguous",
"clouded",
"cryptic",
"dark",
"enigmatic",
"enigmatical",
"equivocal",
"indistinct",
"mysterious",
"nonobvious",
"obfuscated",
"obscure",
"unapparent",
"unclarified",
"unclear"
]
},
"type":[
"adjective"
]
},
"ballyhoos":{
"a state of noisy, confused activity":{
"examples":[
"it turned out that the ballyhoo was the result of a movie being filmed on the street"
],
"synonyms":[
"ados",
"alarums and excursions",
"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",
"pothers",
"rows",
"ruckuses",
"ructions",
"rumpuses",
"shindys",
"shindies",
"splores",
"squalls",
"stews",
"stirs",
"storms",
"to-dos",
"tumults",
"turmoils",
"uproars",
"welters",
"whirls",
"williwaws",
"zoos"
],
"near synonyms":[
"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"
],
"near antonyms":[
"calms",
"hushes",
"peaces",
"quiets",
"quietudes",
"rests",
"tranquillities",
"tranquilities",
"orders"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to praise or publicize lavishly and often excessively":{
"examples":[
"that reviewer always ballyhoos any book by one of his pet authors"
],
"synonyms":[
"blows up",
"cracks up",
"cries up",
"glorifies",
"touts",
"trumpets",
"tub-thumps"
],
"near synonyms":[
"acclaims",
"applauds",
"extols",
"extolls",
"lauds",
"magnifies",
"commends",
"compliments",
"eulogizes",
"advances",
"advertises",
"announces",
"blares",
"blazes",
"blazons",
"boosts",
"heralds",
"offers",
"plugs",
"promotes",
"publicizes",
"asserts",
"avers",
"claims",
"declares",
"lays down",
"makes out",
"proclaims",
"pronounces"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to provide publicity for":{
"examples":[
"the TV networks usually spend the summer months ballyhooing their new fall shows"
],
"synonyms":[
"boosts",
"hypes",
"pitches",
"plugs",
"promotes",
"publicizes",
"talks up",
"touts"
],
"near synonyms":[
"advertises",
"barks",
"merchandises",
"merchandizes",
"sells",
"pushes",
"acclaims",
"hails",
"lauds",
"praises",
"endorses",
"indorses",
"plumps (for)",
"plunks (for)",
"plonks (for)",
"recommends",
"reviews",
"announces",
"broadcasts",
"publishes"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun",
"verb"
]
},
"balustrade":{
"a protective barrier consisting of a horizontal bar and its supports":{
"examples":[
"an ornately carved balustrade for the staircase"
],
"synonyms":[
"banister",
"bannister",
"guardrail",
"rail",
"railing"
],
"near synonyms":[
"handrail",
"taffrail",
"fender"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"balm":{
"a sweet or pleasant smell":{
"examples":[
"the balm of the restaurant's backyard garden enhances the aura of romance"
],
"synonyms":[
"aroma",
"attar",
"otto",
"bouquet",
"fragrance",
"fragrancy",
"incense",
"perfume",
"redolence",
"scent",
"spice"
],
"near synonyms":[
"essence",
"odor"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[
"fetor",
"malodor",
"reek",
"stench",
"stink"
]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"ballyrags":{
"to make timid or fearful by or as if by threats":{
"examples":[
"anonymous trolls on the website tried to bullyrag him into backing down"
],
"synonyms":[
"blackjacks",
"bogarts",
"browbeats",
"bulldozes",
"bullies",
"cows",
"hectors",
"intimidates",
"strong-arms"
],
"near synonyms":[
"blusters",
"trash-talks",
"affrights",
"alarms",
"alarums",
"frightens",
"horrifies",
"scares",
"shocks",
"spooks",
"startles",
"terrifies",
"menaces",
"terrorizes",
"threatens",
"badgers",
"harasses",
"hounds",
"bludgeons",
"coerces",
"compels",
"constrains",
"dragoons",
"forces",
"makes",
"obliges",
"presses",
"pressures",
"pushes around",
"demoralizes",
"psychs (out)",
"unmans",
"unnerves",
"discomposes",
"disconcerts",
"disquiets",
"distresses",
"disturbs",
"perturbs",
"upsets"
],
"near antonyms":[
"cheers",
"comforts",
"consoles",
"reassures",
"solaces",
"soothes",
"emboldens",
"encourages",
"heartens",
"steels",
"convinces",
"persuades"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"balk (at)":{
"to show unwillingness to accept, do, engage in, or agree to":{
"examples":[
"she balked at lending him any more money"
],
"synonyms":[
"decline",
"deselect",
"disapprove",
"negative",
"nix",
"pass",
"pass up",
"refuse",
"reject",
"reprobate",
"repudiate",
"spurn",
"throw out",
"throw over",
"turn down"
],
"near synonyms":[
"blow off",
"disdain",
"rebuff",
"scorn",
"scout",
"shoot down",
"overrule",
"veto",
"forbid",
"prohibit",
"proscribe",
"dismiss",
"ignore",
"abstain (from)",
"forbear",
"refrain (from)",
"deny",
"disavow",
"disclaim",
"dispute",
"gainsay",
"stick",
"abjure",
"forswear",
"foreswear",
"recant",
"renounce",
"retract",
"take back",
"unsay",
"withdraw",
"avoid",
"bypass",
"detour",
"contradict",
"deny",
"disown",
"negate",
"controvert",
"disagree (with)",
"disprove",
"dispute",
"rebut",
"refute",
"back down",
"back off",
"backtrack",
"disallow",
"recall",
"renege",
"revoke"
],
"near antonyms":[
"condone",
"countenance",
"swallow",
"tolerate",
"adopt",
"embrace",
"receive",
"take",
"welcome",
"accede",
"acquiesce",
"agree",
"assent",
"consent",
"choose",
"handpick",
"select",
"espouse",
"support"
],
"antonyms":[
"accept",
"agree (to)",
"approve"
]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"baldric":{
"as in bandolier , Sam Browne belt":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"bandolier",
"bandoleer",
"Sam Browne belt",
"circle",
"loop",
"ribbon",
"ring",
"cestus",
"obi",
"band",
"waistband",
"belt",
"ceinture",
"cincture",
"cummerbund",
"cumberbund",
"girdle",
"sash",
"self-belt"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"ball game":{
"an earnest effort for superiority or victory over another":{
"examples":[
"I'm still in this ball game , so don't count me out yet"
],
"synonyms":[
"battle",
"combat",
"competition",
"conflict",
"confrontation",
"contention",
"contest",
"dogfight",
"duel",
"face-off",
"grapple",
"match",
"rivalry",
"strife",
"struggle",
"sweepstakes",
"sweep-stake",
"tug-of-war",
"war",
"warfare"
],
"near synonyms":[
"horse race",
"nail-biter",
"showdown",
"clash",
"collision",
"discord",
"friction",
"argument",
"controversy",
"debate",
"disagreement",
"disputation",
"dispute",
"dissension",
"dissention",
"quarrel",
"row",
"wrangle"
],
"near antonyms":[
"concord",
"harmony",
"peace"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"position with regard to conditions and circumstances":{
"examples":[
"with the new regulations in place, investors are facing a whole new ball game"
],
"synonyms":[
"deal",
"footing",
"picture",
"posture",
"scene",
"situation",
"status",
"story"
],
"near synonyms":[
"rank",
"standing",
"place",
"spot",
"state",
"score",
"status quo"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"balminess":{
"lack of good sense or judgment":{
"examples":[
"only sheer balminess would possess someone to invest in that loser of a stock"
],
"synonyms":[
"absurdity",
"asininity",
"brainlessness",
"craziness",
"daftness",
"dippiness",
"dottiness",
"fatuity",
"fatuousness",
"folly",
"foolishness",
"imbecility",
"inanity",
"insanity",
"lunacy",
"madness",
"nonsensicalness",
"nuttiness",
"preposterousness",
"senselessness",
"silliness",
"simplicity",
"unwisdom",
"wackiness",
"witlessness",
"zaniness"
],
"near synonyms":[
"denseness",
"dim-wittedness",
"doltishness",
"dopiness",
"dullness",
"dulness",
"dumbness",
"feeblemindedness",
"gormlessness",
"idiocy",
"mindlessness",
"oafishness",
"obtuseness",
"simplemindedness",
"simpleness",
"slowness",
"stupidity",
"stupidness",
"vacuity",
"fallacy",
"irrationality",
"unreasonableness",
"kookiness",
"weirdness",
"laughableness",
"ludicrousness",
"ridiculousness"
],
"near antonyms":[
"logicality",
"logicalness",
"rationality",
"rationalness",
"reasonability",
"reasonableness",
"validity",
"discernment",
"insight",
"perception",
"percipience"
],
"antonyms":[
"prudence",
"sagaciousness",
"sagacity",
"sageness",
"sanity",
"sapience",
"sensibleness",
"soundness",
"wisdom"
]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"ballyragged":{
"to make timid or fearful by or as if by threats":{
"examples":[
"anonymous trolls on the website tried to bullyrag him into backing down"
],
"synonyms":[
"blackjacked",
"bogarted",
"browbeat",
"bulldozed",
"bullied",
"cowed",
"hectored",
"intimidated",
"strong-armed"
],
"near synonyms":[
"blustered",
"trash-talked",
"affrighted",
"alarmed",
"alarumed",
"frightened",
"horrified",
"scared",
"shocked",
"spooked",
"startled",
"terrified",
"menaced",
"terrorized",
"threatened",
"badgered",
"harassed",
"hounded",
"bludgeoned",
"coerced",
"compelled",
"constrained",
"dragooned",
"forced",
"made",
"obliged",
"pressed",
"pressured",
"pushed around",
"demoralized",
"psyched (out)",
"unmanned",
"unnerved",
"discomposed",
"disconcerted",
"disquieted",
"distressed",
"disturbed",
"perturbed",
"upset"
],
"near antonyms":[
"cheered",
"comforted",
"consoled",
"reassured",
"solaced",
"soothed",
"emboldened",
"encouraged",
"heartened",
"steeled",
"convinced",
"persuaded"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"balks (at)":{
"to show unwillingness to accept, do, engage in, or agree to":{
"examples":[
"she balked at lending him any more money"
],
"synonyms":[
"declines",
"deselects",
"disapproves",
"negatives",
"nixes",
"passes",
"passes up",
"refuses",
"rejects",
"reprobates",
"repudiates",
"spurns",
"throws out",
"throws over",
"turns down"
],
"near synonyms":[
"blows off",
"disdains",
"rebuffs",
"scorns",
"scouts",
"shoots down",
"overrules",
"vetoes",
"forbids",
"prohibits",
"proscribes",
"dismisses",
"ignores",
"abstains (from)",
"forbears",
"refrains (from)",
"denies",
"disavows",
"disclaims",
"disputes",
"gainsays",
"sticks",
"abjures",
"forswears",
"foreswears",
"recants",
"renounces",
"retracts",
"takes back",
"unsays",
"withdraws",
"avoids",
"bypasses",
"detours",
"contradicts",
"denies",
"disowns",
"negates",
"controverts",
"disagrees (with)",
"disproves",
"disputes",
"rebuts",
"refutes",
"backs down",
"backs off",
"backtracks",
"disallows",
"recalls",
"reneges",
"revokes"
],
"near antonyms":[
"condones",
"countenances",
"swallows",
"tolerates",
"adopts",
"embraces",
"receives",
"takes",
"welcomes",
"accedes",
"acquiesces",
"agrees",
"assents",
"consents",
"chooses",
"handpicks",
"selects",
"espouses",
"supports"
],
"antonyms":[
"accepts",
"agrees (to)",
"approves"
]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"balling":{
"to form into a round compact mass":{
"examples":[
"balled up the paper and threw it at the garbage can"
],
"synonyms":[
"agglomerating",
"rolling",
"rounding",
"wadding"
],
"near synonyms":[
"bunching",
"clumping",
"lumping",
"beading",
"pearling",
"pelleting",
"pelletizing",
"sphering"
],
"near antonyms":[
"flattening",
"opening",
"smoothing",
"spreading",
"unfolding"
],
"antonyms":[
"unrolling"
]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"balls":{
"a more or less round body or mass":{
"examples":[
"the little rubber ball used in racquetball",
"a ball of string"
],
"synonyms":[
"globes",
"orbs",
"spheres"
],
"near synonyms":[
"beads",
"globules",
"eggs",
"ellipses",
"loops",
"ovals",
"spheroids",
"circles",
"rings",
"rondures",
"rounds",
"chunks",
"clumps",
"gobs",
"hunks",
"lumps",
"nuggets",
"wads"
],
"near antonyms":[
"blocks",
"cubes",
"rectangles",
"squares"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"a usually round or cone-shaped little piece of lead made to be fired from a firearm":{
"examples":[
"found a cache of musket balls while excavating the old fort"
],
"synonyms":[
"bullets",
"pellets"
],
"near synonyms":[
"ammunitions",
"cannonballs",
"caps",
"cartridges",
"charges",
"dumdums",
"gunshots",
"leads",
"loads",
"missiles",
"pops",
"projectiles",
"rounds",
"shells",
"shots",
"slugs"
],
"near antonyms":[
"blanks"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"a social gathering for dancing":{
"examples":[
"a ball to celebrate the inauguration"
],
"synonyms":[
"cotillions",
"cotillons",
"dances",
"formals",
"hops",
"proms"
],
"near synonyms":[
"blowouts",
"celebrations",
"events",
"festivals",
"festivities",
"fetes",
"f\u00eates",
"galas",
"masquerades",
"masques",
"masks",
"mixers",
"parties",
"receptions",
"shindigs",
"soirees",
"soir\u00e9es",
"hoedowns",
"square dances"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to form into a round compact mass":{
"examples":[
"balled up the paper and threw it at the garbage can"
],
"synonyms":[
"agglomerates",
"rolls",
"rounds",
"wads"
],
"near synonyms":[
"bunches",
"clumps",
"lumps",
"beads",
"pearls",
"pelletizes",
"pellets",
"spheres"
],
"near antonyms":[
"flattens",
"opens",
"smooths",
"smoothes",
"spreads",
"unfolds"
],
"antonyms":[
"unrolls"
]
},
"type":[
"noun",
"verb"
]
},
"baloney":{
"language, behavior, or ideas that are absurd and contrary to good sense":{
"examples":[
"just follow my orders, and stop the baloney"
],
"synonyms":[
"applesauce",
"balderdash",
"beans",
"bilge",
"blah",
"blah-blah",
"blarney",
"blather",
"blatherskite",
"blither",
"bosh",
"bull",
"bunk",
"bunkum",
"buncombe",
"claptrap",
"codswallop",
"crapola",
"crock",
"drivel",
"drool",
"fiddle",
"fiddle-faddle",
"fiddlesticks",
"flannel",
"flapdoodle",
"folderol",
"falderal",
"folly",
"foolishness",
"fudge",
"garbage",
"guff",
"hogwash",
"hokeypokey",
"hokum",
"hoodoo",
"hooey",
"horsefeathers",
"humbug",
"humbuggery",
"jazz",
"malarkey",
"malarky",
"moonshine",
"muck",
"nerts",
"nonsense",
"nuts",
"piffle",
"poppycock",
"punk",
"rot",
"rubbish",
"senselessness",
"silliness",
"slush",
"stupidity",
"taradiddle",
"tarradiddle",
"tommyrot",
"tosh",
"trash",
"trumpery",
"twaddle"
],
"near synonyms":[
"absurdity",
"asininity",
"fatuity",
"foolery",
"idiocy",
"imbecility",
"inaneness",
"inanity",
"insanity",
"kookiness",
"lunacy",
"absurdness",
"craziness",
"madness",
"witlessness",
"hoity-toity",
"monkey business",
"monkeyshine(s)",
"shenanigan(s)",
"tomfoolery",
"gas",
"hot air",
"rigmarole",
"rigamarole",
"double-talk",
"greek",
"hocus-pocus"
],
"near antonyms":[
"levelheadedness",
"rationality",
"reasonability",
"reasonableness",
"sensibleness",
"common sense",
"horse sense",
"sense",
"discernment",
"judgment",
"judgement",
"wisdom"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"ball of wax":{
"something to be dealt with":{
"examples":[
"We've moved all the boxes, but the furniture's another ball of wax ."
],
"synonyms":[
"affair",
"business",
"matter",
"thing"
],
"near synonyms":[
"consideration",
"issue",
"problem",
"crisis",
"crossroad(s)",
"crunch",
"emergency",
"exigency",
"flash point",
"head",
"juncture",
"strait",
"zero hour",
"concern",
"trouble",
"worry",
"care",
"lookout",
"responsibility",
"deadlock",
"halt",
"impasse",
"stalemate",
"standstill",
"corner",
"fix",
"hole",
"hot water",
"jam",
"pickle",
"pinch",
"predicament",
"scrape",
"spot"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"phrase"
]
},
"ballparks":{
"as in parks":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"parks",
"bowls",
"circuses",
"coliseums",
"colosseums",
"stadiums",
"stadia",
"gymnasiums",
"gymnasia",
"gyms",
"spas",
"arenas",
"domes",
"hippodromes"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"balustrades":{
"a protective barrier consisting of a horizontal bar and its supports":{
"examples":[
"an ornately carved balustrade for the staircase"
],
"synonyms":[
"banisters",
"bannisters",
"guardrails",
"railings",
"rails"
],
"near synonyms":[
"handrails",
"taffrails",
"fenders"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"ballots":{
"a piece of paper indicating a person's preferences in an election":{
"examples":[
"we collected all of the ballots from the students voting for class president"
],
"synonyms":[
"votes"
],
"near synonyms":[
"ayes",
"yeas",
"nays",
"noes",
"nos",
"non placets",
"blackballs",
"referenda",
"referendums",
"tickets",
"absentee ballots",
"Australian ballots",
"secret ballots",
"short ballots",
"write-ins"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"the right to formally express one's position or will in an election":{
"examples":[
"believes that even convicted felons should have the ballot"
],
"synonyms":[
"enfranchisements",
"franchises",
"suffrages",
"votes"
],
"near synonyms":[
"says",
"say-sos",
"voices"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[
"disenfranchisements"
]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"baleful":{
"being or showing a sign of evil or calamity to come":{
"examples":[
"a dark, baleful sky portending a tornado"
],
"synonyms":[
"dire",
"direful",
"doomy",
"foreboding",
"ill",
"ill-boding",
"inauspicious",
"menacing",
"minatory",
"ominous",
"portentous",
"sinister",
"threatening"
],
"near synonyms":[
"black",
"bleak",
"cheerless",
"chill",
"Cimmerian",
"cloudy",
"cold",
"comfortless",
"dark",
"darkening",
"depressing",
"depressive",
"desolate",
"dim",
"disconsolate",
"dismal",
"drear",
"dreary",
"dreich",
"elegiac",
"elegiacal",
"forlorn",
"funereal",
"gloomy",
"glum",
"godforsaken",
"gray",
"grey",
"lonely",
"lonesome",
"lugubrious",
"miserable",
"morbid",
"morose",
"murky",
"plutonian",
"saturnine",
"sepulchral",
"somber",
"sombre",
"sullen",
"sunless",
"tenebrific",
"tenebrous",
"wretched",
"discouraging",
"disheartening",
"hopeless",
"unfavorable",
"unpromising",
"unpropitious",
"ill-fated",
"ill-starred",
"star-crossed",
"troubled",
"unfortunate",
"unlucky",
"evil",
"malign",
"malignant"
],
"near antonyms":[
"auspicious",
"benign",
"bright",
"encouraging",
"favorable",
"golden",
"heartening",
"hopeful",
"promising",
"propitious",
"prosperous"
],
"antonyms":[
"unthreatening"
]
},
"causing or capable of causing harm":{
"examples":[
"contends that the violent content of so much of popular entertainment is a baleful influence on our society"
],
"synonyms":[
"adverse",
"bad",
"baneful",
"damaging",
"dangerous",
"deleterious",
"detrimental",
"evil",
"harmful",
"hurtful",
"ill",
"injurious",
"mischievous",
"nocuous",
"noxious",
"pernicious",
"prejudicial",
"wicked"
],
"near synonyms":[
"hostile",
"inimical",
"unfriendly",
"contagious",
"deadly",
"infectious",
"infective",
"pestiferous",
"pestilent",
"pestilential",
"poisonous",
"venomous",
"insidious",
"menacing",
"ominous",
"sinister",
"threatening",
"hazardous",
"imperiling",
"imperilling",
"jeopardizing",
"parlous",
"perilous",
"risky",
"unsafe",
"unsound",
"nasty",
"noisome",
"unhealthful",
"unhealthy",
"unwholesome",
"destructive",
"fatal",
"killer",
"lethal",
"malignant",
"ruinous"
],
"near antonyms":[
"advantageous",
"beneficial",
"useful",
"favorable",
"good",
"propitious",
"curative",
"healthful",
"healthy",
"helpful",
"palliative",
"remedial",
"salubrious",
"salutary",
"wholesome",
"secure",
"sound",
"benignant",
"noncorrosive",
"nondestructive",
"nonfatal",
"noninfectious",
"nonlethal",
"nonpoisonous",
"nonpolluting",
"nontoxic",
"nonvenomous"
],
"antonyms":[
"anodyne",
"benign",
"harmless",
"hurtless",
"innocent",
"innocuous",
"inoffensive",
"safe"
]
},
"likely to cause or capable of causing death":{
"examples":[
"a medicine that is beneficial in small doses but baleful in large"
],
"synonyms":[
"deadly",
"deathly",
"fatal",
"fell",
"killer",
"lethal",
"mortal",
"murderous",
"pestilent",
"terminal",
"vital"
],
"near synonyms":[
"baneful",
"deleterious",
"destructive",
"harmful",
"injurious",
"noxious",
"pernicious",
"truculent",
"infectious",
"infective",
"pestilential",
"poisonous",
"sublethal",
"toxic",
"virulent",
"dangerous",
"grave",
"grievous",
"hazardous",
"jeopardizing",
"menacing",
"parlous",
"perilous",
"risky",
"serious",
"threatening",
"ugly",
"unhealthy",
"unsound",
"bloody",
"internecine",
"sanguinary",
"sanguine"
],
"near antonyms":[
"beneficial",
"restorative",
"salubrious",
"salutary",
"alleviative",
"corrective",
"curative",
"remedial",
"tonic",
"advantageous",
"beneficial",
"useful",
"nonpoisonous",
"nontoxic",
"safe"
],
"antonyms":[
"healthful",
"healthy",
"nonfatal",
"nonlethal",
"wholesome"
]
},
"type":[
"adjective"
]
},
"balderdash":{
"language, behavior, or ideas that are absurd and contrary to good sense":{
"examples":[
"a combat veteran himself, he could not believe the balderdash he was hearing from whippersnappers with no war experience at all"
],
"synonyms":[
"applesauce",
"baloney",
"boloney",
"beans",
"bilge",
"blah",
"blah-blah",
"blarney",
"blather",
"blatherskite",
"blither",
"bosh",
"bull",
"bunk",
"bunkum",
"buncombe",
"claptrap",
"codswallop",
"crapola",
"crock",
"drivel",
"drool",
"fiddle",
"fiddle-faddle",
"fiddlesticks",
"flannel",
"flapdoodle",
"folderol",
"falderal",
"folly",
"foolishness",
"fudge",
"garbage",
"guff",
"hogwash",
"hokeypokey",
"hokum",
"hoodoo",
"hooey",
"horsefeathers",
"humbug",
"humbuggery",
"jazz",
"malarkey",
"malarky",
"moonshine",
"muck",
"nerts",
"nonsense",
"nuts",
"piffle",
"poppycock",
"punk",
"rot",
"rubbish",
"senselessness",
"silliness",
"slush",
"stupidity",
"taradiddle",
"tarradiddle",
"tommyrot",
"tosh",
"trash",
"trumpery",
"twaddle"
],
"near synonyms":[
"absurdity",
"asininity",
"fatuity",
"foolery",
"idiocy",
"imbecility",
"inaneness",
"inanity",
"insanity",
"kookiness",
"lunacy",
"absurdness",
"craziness",
"madness",
"witlessness",
"hoity-toity",
"monkey business",
"monkeyshine(s)",
"shenanigan(s)",
"tomfoolery",
"gas",
"hot air",
"rigmarole",
"rigamarole",
"double-talk",
"greek",
"hocus-pocus"
],
"near antonyms":[
"levelheadedness",
"rationality",
"reasonability",
"reasonableness",
"sensibleness",
"common sense",
"horse sense",
"sense",
"discernment",
"judgment",
"judgement",
"wisdom"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"ballot":{
"a piece of paper indicating a person's preferences in an election":{
"examples":[
"we collected all of the ballots from the students voting for class president"
],
"synonyms":[
"vote"
],
"near synonyms":[
"aye",
"ay",
"yea",
"nay",
"no",
"non placet",
"blackball",
"referendum",
"ticket",
"absentee ballot",
"Australian ballot",
"secret ballot",
"short ballot",
"write-in"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"the right to formally express one's position or will in an election":{
"examples":[
"believes that even convicted felons should have the ballot"
],
"synonyms":[
"enfranchisement",
"franchise",
"suffrage",
"vote"
],
"near synonyms":[
"say",
"say-so",
"voice"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[
"disenfranchisement"
]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"bales":{
"a large amount of a material (such as hay or wool) that is pressed together tightly and often tied or wrapped":{
