"Returning home between his travels gave him a sense of stability and permanence .",
"All of the inks were tested for permanence on various surfaces."
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"durability",
"enduringness",
"lastingness",
"consistency",
"regularity",
"sameness",
"uniformity",
"abidance",
"ceaselessness",
"continuance",
"continuation",
"continuity",
"continuousness",
"duration",
"endurance",
"persistence",
"subsistence",
"drawing out",
"elongation",
"extension",
"lengthening",
"prolongation",
"prolonging",
"stretching",
"changelessness",
"constancy",
"fixedness",
"immutability",
"immutableness",
"invariability",
"stability",
"steadiness",
"unchangeableness"
],
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"aperiodicity",
"inconsistence",
"inconsistency",
"irregularity",
"unevenness",
"caducity",
"evanescence",
"impermanence",
"capriciousness",
"changeability",
"changeableness",
"fickleness",
"instability",
"mutability",
"unpredictability",
"unsteadiness",
"variability",
"variableness",
"volatileness",
"volatility"
],
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},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"permeable":{
"capable of being passed into or through":{
"examples":[
"a permeable fabric that allows your body heat to escape will be much more comfortable in the summertime"
],
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"passable",
"penetrable",
"pervious",
"porous"
],
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"absorbent",
"breathable"
],
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"airtight",
"watertight",
"close",
"compact",
"dense",
"thick"
],
"antonyms":[
"impassable",
"impassible",
"impenetrable",
"impermeable",
"impervious",
"nonporous"
]
},
"type":[
"adjective"
]
},
"permeate":{
"to spread throughout":{
"examples":[
"the smell of freshly baked bread permeated the house"
],
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"interpenetrate",
"percolate (into)",
"pervade",
"riddle",
"suffuse",
"transfuse"
],
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"diffuse (through)",
"impregnate",
"pass (into)",
"penetrate",
"fill (up)",
"drench",
"imbue",
"infuse",
"saturate",
"soak",
"steep",
"flood",
"glut"
],
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},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"permeation":{
"as in saturation , pervasion":{
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"pervasion",
"saturation"
],
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"breath",
"flicker",
"glimmer",
"hint",
"suggestion",
"tang",
"touch",
"trace",
"whiff",
"inkling",
"intimation",
"scent",
"wind",
"evidence",
"indication",
"mark",
"sign"
],
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},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
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"to give eternal or lasting existence to":{
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"examples":[
"we hope to perpetuate this holiday tradition"
],
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"extinguish",
"put out",
"snuff (out)",
"annihilate",
"crush",
"decimate",
"demolish",
"destroy",
"devastate",
"eradicate",
"erase",
"expunge",
"extirpate",
"obliterate",
"wipe out"
],
"related":[
"commemorate",
"memorialize",
"celebrate",
"enshrine",
"honor",
"conserve",
"keep up",
"maintain",
"preserve",
"support",
"sustain",
"defend",
"guard",
"protect",
"safeguard"
],
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"eternalize",
"immortalize"
]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
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"endless time":{
"examples":[
"lands that should remain in their wild state in perpetuity"
],
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"eternity",
"everlasting",
"foreverness",
"infinity"
],
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"boundlessness",
"endlessness",
"interminableness",
"limitlessness",
"permanence",
"permanency",
"timelessness"
],
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"ephemerality",
"impermanence",
"temporariness",
"transience",
"transitoriness"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
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"to make complex or difficult":{
"antonyms":[
"simplify",
"streamline"
],
"examples":[
"let's not perplex the issue further with irrelevant concerns"
],
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"abbreviate",
"cut",
"shorten",
"ease",
"facilitate",
"disentangle",
"straighten (out)",
"unravel",
"untangle",
"oversimplify"
],
"related":[
"develop",
"elaborate",
"expand",
"intensify",
"magnify",
"confound",
"confuse",
"mess (up)",
"mix (up)",
"muddle",
"snarl",
"tangle"
],
"synonyms":[
"complex",
"complexify",
"complicate",
"embarrass",
"entangle",
"sophisticate"
]
},
"to throw into a state of mental uncertainty":{
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"examples":[
"the question perplexed me"
],
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"assure",
"reassure",
"satisfy",
"enlighten",
"inform"
],
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"stick",
"stump",
"weird out",
"abash",
"discomfit",
"disconcert",
"discountenance",
"embarrass",
"faze",
"fluster",
"mortify",
"nonplus",
"rattle",
"agitate",
"bother",
"chagrin",
"discomfort",
"discompose",
"dismay",
"disquiet",
"distress",
"disturb",
"perturb",
"stun",
"unhinge",
"unsettle",
"upset",
"beguile",
"cozen",
"deceive",
"delude",
"dupe",
"fool",
"gull",
"hoax",
"hoodwink",
"humbug",
"misguide",
"mislead",
"snow",
"string along",
"take in",
"trick"
],
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"addle",
"baffle",
"bamboozle",
"beat",
"befog",
"befuddle",
"bemuse",
"bewilder",
"buffalo",
"confound",
"confuse",
"discombobulate",
"disorient",
"flummox",
"fox",
"fuddle",
"get",
"gravel",
"maze",
"muddle",
"muddy",
"mystify",
"pose",
"puzzle",
"vex"
]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"perquisites":{
"a small sum of money given for a service over and above what is due":{
"examples":[
"give the movers a perquisite if they do a good job"
],
"synonyms":[
"gratuities",
"tips"
],
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"donations",
"gifts",
"lagniappes",
"largesses",
"presents",
"bonuses",
"favors",
"rewards",
"contributions",
"offerings"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"something given in addition to what is ordinarily expected or owed":{
"examples":[
"the use of a company car is one perquisite of the job"
],
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"bonuses",
"cumshaws",
"dividends",
"donatives",
"extras",
"gratuities",
"gravies",
"gravy trains",
"lagniappes",
"perks",
"throw-ins",
"tips"
],
"near synonyms":[
"pensions",
"bestowals",
"presentations",
"benefactions",
"beneficences",
"benevolences",
"bounties",
"charities",
"generosities",
"largesses",
"philanthropies",
"contributions",
"donations",
"gifts",
"offerings",
"presents",
"grants",
"subsidies",
"boons",
"mannas",
"windfalls",
"favors",
"freebies",
"freebees",
"giveaways",
"premiums",
"awards",
"prizes",
"rewards",
"fringe benefits",
"icings"
],
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"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"persecute":{
"to cause persistent suffering to":{
"examples":[
"people who were persecuted simply for practicing their religious faith"
],
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"afflict",
"agonize",
"anguish",
"bedevil",
"beset",
"besiege",
"curse",
"excruciate",
"harrow",
"plague",
"rack",
"torment",
"torture"
],
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"assail",
"attack",
"badger",
"dog",
"hound",
"pursue",
"ride",
"aggravate",
"agitate",
"annoy",
"bother",
"bug",
"chafe",
"distress",
"disturb",
"exasperate",
"gall",
"get",
"grate",
"gripe",
"hagride",
"harass",
"harry",
"irk",
"irritate",
"molest",
"nettle",
"peeve",
"pester",
"pique",
"put out",
"rasp",
"rile",
"vex",
"discomfort",
"discompose",
"disquiet",
"fluster",
"grieve",
"perturb",
"strain",
"stress",
"trouble",
"try",
"upset",
"worry",
"crush",
"oppress",
"overpower",
"overwhelm",
"smite",
"strike",
"tyrannize",
"victimize",
"hurt",
"pain",
"pang",
"prick",
"smart",
"stab",
"sting",
"wring",
"martyr"
],
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"abet",
"aid",
"assist",
"help",
"deliver",
"release",
"relieve",
"reprieve",
"comfort",
"console",
"content",
"quiet",
"solace",
"soothe",
"succor"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to disturb the peace of mind of (someone) especially by repeated disagreeable acts":{
"examples":[
"she likes to persecute her sister with pointless, annoying questions at very inopportune times"
],
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"aggravate",
"annoy",
"bother",
"bug",
"burn (up)",
"chafe",
"eat",
"exasperate",
"frost",
"gall",
"get",
"grate",
"gripe",
"hack (off)",
"irk",
"irritate",
"itch",
"nark",
"nettle",
"peeve",
"pique",
"put out",
"rasp",
"rile",
"ruffle",
"spite",
"vex"
],
"near synonyms":[
"hassle",
"heckle",
"nag",
"inflame",
"enflame",
"provoke",
"rouse",
"badger",
"bait",
"bullyrag",
"ballyrag",
"devil",
"hagride",
"harass",
"harry",
"pester",
"plague",
"tease",
"anger",
"antagonize",
"enrage",
"incense",
"infuriate",
"madden",
"rankle",
"roil",
"agitate",
"discomfort",
"discompose",
"disquiet",
"distress",
"exercise",
"freak (out)",
"fret",
"perturb",
"undo",
"unhinge",
"unsettle",
"upset",
"worry",
"affront",
"insult",
"miff",
"offend",
"outrage"
],
"near antonyms":[
"appease",
"conciliate",
"mollify",
"oblige",
"pacify",
"placate",
"propitiate",
"delight",
"gladden",
"gratify",
"please",
"satisfy",
"assure",
"cheer",
"comfort",
"console",
"content",
"quiet",
"reassure",
"solace",
"soothe"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"persecuted":{
"suffering grave abuse or injustice at the hands of one in authority":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"a nation that is still regarded as a refuge for persecuted people from around the world"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"related":[
"browbeaten",
"bullied",
"cowed",
"hectored",
"intimidated",
"abused",
"maltreated",
"mistreated",
"abject",
"despairing",
"disheartened",
"dispirited",
"downcast",
"hopeless"
],
"synonyms":[
"crushed",
"downtrodden",
"oppressed",
"tyrannized"
]
},
"to cause persistent suffering to":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"people who were persecuted simply for practicing their religious faith"
],
"near antonyms":[
"abetted",
"aided",
"assisted",
"helped",
"delivered",
"released",
"relieved",
"reprieved",
"comforted",
"consoled",
"contented",
"quieted",
"solaced",
"soothed",
"succored"
],
"related":[
"assailed",
"attacked",
"badgered",
"dogged",
"hounded",
"pursued",
"rode",
"rid",
"aggravated",
"agitated",
"annoyed",
"bothered",
"bugged",
"chafed",
"distressed",
"disturbed",
"exasperated",
"galled",
"got",
"grated",
"griped",
"hagrode",
"harassed",
"harried",
"irked",
"irritated",
"molested",
"nettled",
"peeved",
"pestered",
"piqued",
"put out",
"rasped",
"riled",
"vexed",
"vext",
"discomforted",
"discomposed",
"disquieted",
"flustered",
"grieved",
"perturbed",
"strained",
"stressed",
"tried",
"troubled",
"upset",
"worried",
"crushed",
"oppressed",
"overpowered",
"overwhelmed",
"smote",
"struck",
"tyrannized",
"victimized",
"hurt",
"pained",
"panged",
"pricked",
"smarted",
"stabbed",
"stung",
"wrung",
"martyred"
],
"synonyms":[
"afflicted",
"agonized",
"anguished",
"bedeviled",
"beset",
"besieged",
"cursed",
"excruciated",
"harrowed",
"plagued",
"racked",
"tormented",
"tortured"
]
},
"to disturb the peace of mind of (someone) especially by repeated disagreeable acts":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"she likes to persecute her sister with pointless, annoying questions at very inopportune times"
],
"near antonyms":[
"appeased",
"conciliated",
"mollified",
"obliged",
"pacified",
"placated",
"propitiated",
"delighted",
"gladdened",
"gratified",
"pleased",
"satisfied",
"assured",
"cheered",
"comforted",
"consoled",
"contented",
"quieted",
"reassured",
"solaced",
"soothed"
],
"related":[
"hassled",
"heckled",
"nagged",
"inflamed",
"enflamed",
"provoked",
"roused",
"badgered",
"baited",
"bullyragged",
"ballyragged",
"deviled",
"devilled",
"hagrode",
"harassed",
"harried",
"pestered",
"plagued",
"teased",
"angered",
"antagonized",
"enraged",
"incensed",
"infuriated",
"maddened",
"rankled",
"roiled",
"agitated",
"discomforted",
"discomposed",
"disquieted",
"distressed",
"exercised",
"freaked (out)",
"fretted",
"perturbed",
"undid",
"unhinged",
"unsettled",
"upset",
"worried",
"affronted",
"insulted",
"miffed",
"offended",
"outraged"
],
"synonyms":[
"aggravated",
"annoyed",
"ate",
"bothered",
"bugged",
"burned (up)",
"burnt (up)",
"chafed",
"exasperated",
"frosted",
"galled",
"got",
"grated",
"griped",
"hacked (off)",
"irked",
"irritated",
"itched",
"narked",
"nettled",
"peeved",
"piqued",
"put out",
"rasped",
"riled",
"ruffled",
"spited",
"vexed",
"vext"
]
},
"type":[
"adjective",
"verb"
]
},
"persecutor":{
"a person who causes repeated emotional pain, distress, or annoyance to another":{
"examples":[
"years later his schoolyard persecutor would end up being one of his low-paid employees"
],
"synonyms":[
"baiter",
"harasser",
"heckler",
"mocker",
"needler",
"quiz",
"quizzer",
"ridiculer",
"taunter",
"tease",
"teaser",
"tormentor",
"tormenter",
"torturer"
],
"near synonyms":[
"belittler",
"derider",
"detractor",
"giber",
"jiber",
"insulter",
"jeerer",
"scoffer",
"scorner",
"trash-talker",
"smart aleck",
"smart alec",
"smarty",
"smartie",
"smarty-pants",
"wiseacre",
"wise guy",
"kidder",
"lampooner",
"satirist",
"accuser",
"blamer",
"troublemaker",
"assailant",
"attacker",
"molester",
"victimizer",
"bother",
"disturber",
"pest"
],
"near antonyms":[
"defender",
"deliverer",
"guard",
"protector",
"rescuer",
"savior",
"saviour",
"comforter",
"solace",
"soother",
"succorer",
"bodyguard",
"champion"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"one who is obnoxiously annoying":{
"examples":[
"on this flight my airline-appointed persecutor was a chattering nitwit who could not stop talking about himself"
],
"synonyms":[
"annoyance",
"annoyer",
"bother",
"gadfly",
"gnawer",
"nudnik",
"nudnick",
"nuisance",
"pain",
"pest",
"tease",
"teaser"
],
"near synonyms":[
"headache",
"harrier",
"heckler",
"interrupter",
"interruptor",
"hassle",
"plague",
"harasser",
"molester",
"tormentor",
"tormenter",
"torturer"
],
"near antonyms":[
"charmer",
"smoothy",
"smoothie",
"comforter",
"solacer",
"soother"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"persiflage":{
"good-natured teasing or exchanging of clever remarks":{
"examples":[
"their tongue-in-cheek persiflage is sometimes mistaken for an exchange of insults by people who don't know them"
],
"synonyms":[
"backchat",
"badinage",
"banter",
"chaff",
"give-and-take",
"jesting",
"joshing",
"raillery",
"repartee"
],
"near synonyms":[
"barb",
"crack",
"dig",
"gag",
"gambit",
"jest",
"joke",
"laugh",
"pleasantry",
"quip",
"sally",
"waggery",
"wisecrack",
"witticism",
"drollness",
"facetiousness",
"funniness",
"hilariousness",
"humorousness",
"richness",
"fooling",
"kidding",
"mocking",
"razzing",
"ribbing",
"ridiculing",
"humor",
"wit",
"wordplay",
"nothings",
"chatter",
"chitchat",
"gossip",
"small talk"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"persiflages":{
"good-natured teasing or exchanging of clever remarks":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"their tongue-in-cheek persiflage is sometimes mistaken for an exchange of insults by people who don't know them"
],
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"related":[
"barb",
"crack",
"dig",
"gag",
"gambit",
"jest",
"joke",
"laugh",
"pleasantry",
"quip",
"sally",
"waggery",
"wisecrack",
"witticism",
"drollness",
"facetiousness",
"funniness",
"hilariousness",
"humorousness",
"richness",
"fooling",
"kidding",
"mocking",
"razzing",
"ribbing",
"ridiculing",
"humor",
"wit",
"wordplay",
"nothings",
"chatter",
"chitchat",
"gossip",
"small talk"
],
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"badinage",
"banter",
"chaff",
"give-and-take",
"jesting",
"joshing",
"raillery",
"repartee"
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"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"persistent":{
"continuing despite difficulties, opposition, or discouragement":{
"examples":[
"although his first attempts were singularly unsuccessful, he was persistent in his pursuit of a career in rock music"
],
"synonyms":[
"dogged",
"insistent",
"patient",
"persevering",
"pertinacious",
"tenacious"
],
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"assured",
"certain",
"dedicated",
"determined",
"firm",
"hell-bent",
"intent",
"positive",
"resolute",
"resolved",
"single-minded",
"sure",
"adamant",
"bullheaded",
"hardened",
"hardheaded",
"headstrong",
"implacable",
"indurate",
"mulish",
"obdurate",
"obstinate",
"opinionated",
"peevish",
"perverse",
"pigheaded",
"self-willed",
"stiff-necked",
"stubborn",
"unregenerate",
"unyielding",
"willful",
"wilful",
"unfaltering",
"unhesitating",
"unwavering",
"resistant",
"wayward",
"wrongheaded",
"constant",
"devoted",
"faithful",
"good",
"loyal",
"staunch",
"stanch",
"steadfast",
"steady",
"true",
"indomitable",
"unconquerable",
"hard",
"inflexible",
"relentless",
"stern",
"unbending",
"unflinching",
"unrelenting"
],
"near antonyms":[
"quitting",
"surrendering",
"yielding",
"faltering",
"hesitant",
"hesitating",
"irresolute",
"vacillating",
"wavering",
"disloyal",
"faithless",
"false",
"fickle",
"inconstant",
"perfidious",
"traitorous",
"treacherous"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"adjective"
]
},
"person":{
"a member of the human race":{
"examples":[
"is there any person here who knows how to speak Spanish?"
],
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"baby",
"being",
"bird",
"bod",
"body",
"character",
"cookie",
"cooky",
"creature",
"customer",
"devil",
"duck",
"egg",
"face",
"fish",
"guy",
"head",
"human",
"human being",
"individual",
"life",
"man",
"mortal",
"party",
"personage",
"scout",
"slob",
"sort",
"soul",
"specimen",
"stiff",
"thing",
"wight"
],
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"hominid",
"homo",
"humanoid",
"brother",
"fellow",
"fellowman",
"neighbor",
"celebrity",
"personality",
"self",
"somebody"
],
"near antonyms":[
"animal",
"beast",
"beastie",
"brute",
"critter"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
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"friendly and easy to get along with":{
"examples":[
"The hostess was very personable .",
"He is a personable young man."
],
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"affable",
"amiable",
"cheerful",
"cheery",
"comfortable",
"gem\u00fctlich",
"genial",
"goodly",
"good-natured",
"gracious",
"hospitable",
"kindly",
"agreeable",
"blessed",
"blest",
"congenial",
"darling",
"delectable",
"delicious",
"delightful",
"delightsome",
"dreamy",
"dulcet",
"enjoyable",
"felicitous",
"good",
"grateful",
"gratifying",
"heavenly",
"jolly",
"luscious",
"nice",
"palatable",
"pleasant",
"pleasing",
"pleasurable",
"pretty",
"satisfying",
"savory",
"savoury",
"sweet",
"tasty",
"welcome",
"alluring",
"attractive",
"desirable",
"enviable",
"inviting",
"relishable",
"tempting",
"charming",
"enchanting",
"fascinating",
"calming",
"comforting",
"soothing",
"amusing",
"diverting",
"entertaining",
"recreative",
"blissful",
"felicific",
"glad",
"happy",
"joyous",
"elating",
"exhilarating",
"intoxicating",
"ecstatic",
"euphoric",
"nirvanic",
"rapturous"
],
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"disagreeable",
"pleasureless",
"unpalatable",
"unpleasant",
"unwelcome",
"abominable",
"ghastly",
"god-awful",
"hellish",
"horrid",
"miserable",
"wretched",
"bilious",
"disgusting",
"distasteful",
"obnoxious",
"offensive",
"repellent",
"repellant",
"repugnant",
"repulsive",
"revulsive",
"unsavory",
"vile",
"yucky",
"yukky",
"abhorrent",
"detestable",
"hateful",
"odious",
"boring",
"commonplace",
"dull",
"flat",
"insipid",
"irksome",
"stale",
"tedious",
"displeasing",
"dissatisfying",
"depressing",
"disheartening",
"dismal",
"dreary",
"gloomy",
"heartbreaking",
"heartrending",
"joyless",
"lachrymose",
"sad",
"unhappy",
"deplorable",
"doleful",
"dolorous",
"lamentable",
"lugubrious",
"mournful",
"regrettable",
"sorrowful",
"tragic",
"tragical",
"aggravating",
"annoying",
"exasperating",
"irritating",
"peeving",
"perturbing",
"vexing",
"forbidding",
"hostile",
"intimidating",
"angering",
"enraging",
"incensing",
"inflaming",
"enflaming",
"infuriating",
"maddening",
"outraging",
"rankling",
"riling"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"adjective"
]
},
"personality":{
"a person who is widely known and usually much talked about":{
"examples":[
"a local television personality who is beloved by area residents"
],
"synonyms":[
"cause c\u00e9l\u00e8bre",
"cause celebre",
"celeb",
"celebrity",
"figure",
"icon",
"ikon",
"light",
"luminary",
"megastar",
"name",
"notability",
"notable",
"notoriety",
"personage",
"somebody",
"standout",
"star",
"superstar",
"VIP"
],
"near synonyms":[
"favorite",
"heartthrob",
"hero",
"idol",
"demigod",
"dignitary",
"eminence",
"immortal",
"monument",
"pillar",
"worthy",
"baron",
"big shot",
"bigwig",
"kahuna",
"magnate",
"mogul",
"nabob",
"panjandrum"
],
"near antonyms":[
"lightweight",
"mediocrity",
"has-been"
],
"antonyms":[
"nobody",
"noncelebrity"
]
},
"the set of qualities that make a person different from other people":{
"examples":[
"she's got a great personality"
],
"synonyms":[
"character",
"identity",
"individualism",
"individuality",
"self-identity",
"selfhood"
],
"near synonyms":[
"distinctiveness",
"idiosyncrasy",
"oneness",
"peculiarity",
"separateness",
"singleness",
"singularity",
"uniqueness",
"disposition",
"humor",
"nature",
"temper",
"temperament",
"independence"
],
"near antonyms":[
"conformity",
"conventionality"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"the set of qualities that makes a person, a group of people, or a thing different from others":{
"examples":[
"it has never been in the nation's personality to adhere to a rigid class system"
],
"synonyms":[
"character",
"clay",
"colors",
"complexion",
"constitution",
"genius",
"nature",
"self",
"tone"
],
"near synonyms":[
"distinctiveness",
"distinctness",
"individuality",
"singularity",
"uniqueness",
"attribute",
"characteristic",
"earmark",
"essentiality",
"feature",
"flavor",
"hallmark",
"mark",
"point",
"property",
"savor",
"savour",
"stamp",
"trait",
"disposition",
"grain",
"sort",
"temper",
"temperament",
"composition",
"makeup",
"essence",
"essentiality",
"interior",
"interiority",
"soul",
"spirit",
"metal",
"stuff",
"substance",
"habit",
"way"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"an act or expression showing scorn and usually intended to hurt another's feelings":{
"examples":[
"every debate that was supposedly about the issues quickly degenerated into a juvenile exchange of personalities"
],
"synonyms":[
"affront",
"barb",
"brickbat",
"cut",
"dart",
"dig",
"dis",
"diss",
"epithet",
"gird",
"indignity",
"insult",
"name",
"offense",
"offence",
"outrage",
"poke",
"put-down",
"sarcasm",
"slap",
"slight",
"slur"
],
"near synonyms":[
"catcall",
"gibe",
"jibe",
"jeer",
"mock",
"quip",
"sneer",
"taunt",
"abuse",
"invective",
"vituperation",
"disapproval",
"opprobrium",
"disgrace",
"dishonor",
"shame",
"attack",
"criticism",
"knock",
"slam",
"swipe",
"torment",
"torture"
],
"near antonyms":[
"accolade",
"commendation",
"compliment",
"acclaim",
"applause",
"praise",
"adulation",
"flattery"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"personalize":{
"to represent in visible form":{
"examples":[
"in the character of the good-hearted, virtuous seaman, the author has personalized the concept of perfect innocence"
],
"synonyms":[
"body",
"embody",
"epitomize",
"express",
"externalize",
"incarnate",
"incorporate",
"instantiate",
"manifest",
"materialize",
"personify",
"substantiate"
],
"near synonyms":[
"actualize",
"concretize",
"realize",
"exemplify",
"illustrate",
"image",
"objectify",
"symbolize",
"typify"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"personate":{
"to pretend to be (what one is not) in appearance or behavior":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"likes to personate the man of the world, but he's still the small-town hick that he always was"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"related":[
"ape",
"copy",
"imitate",
"mime",
"mimic",
"mock",
"monkey",
"parody",
"travesty",
"perform",
"portray"
],
"synonyms":[
"act",
"impersonate",
"masquerade (as)",
"play",
"pose (as)"
]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"perspicacious":{
"having or showing an ability to notice and understand things that are difficult or not obvious":{
"examples":[
"She considers herself a perspicacious judge of character.",
"The critic made some perspicacious observations about the film."
],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"acute",
"astute",
"discerning",
"heady",
"insightful",
"knowing",
"perceptive",
"percipient",
"sagacious",
"sapient",
"savvy",
"wise",
"alert",
"brainy",
"bright",
"brilliant",
"clever",
"exceptional",
"fast",
"hyperintelligent",
"intelligent",
"keen",
"nimble",
"quick",
"quick-witted",
"sharp",
"sharp-witted",
"smart",
"supersmart",
"ultrasmart",
"apt",
"ingenious",
"resourceful",
"cerebral",
"erudite",
"genial",
"highbrow",
"knowledgeable",
"learned",
"literate",
"scholarly",
"well-read",
"educated",
"informed",
"schooled",
"skilled",
"trained",
"creative",
"inventive",
"judicious",
"prudent",
"sage",
"sane",
"sapient",
"sensible",
"sound",
"wise",
"crafty",
"cunning",
"foxy",
"shrewd",
"wily",
"logical",
"rational",
"reasonable"
],
"near antonyms":[
"feebleminded",
"simpleminded",
"boobish",
"foolish",
"half-baked",
"idiotic",
"idiotical",
"imbecile",
"imbecilic",
"moronic",
"silly",
"ignorant",
"illiterate",
"lowbrow",
"nonintellectual",
"unacademic",
"uneducated",
"uninformed",
"unintellectual",
"untaught",
"unthinking",
"absurd",
"asinine",
"balmy",
"cockeyed",
"crackpot",
"crazy",
"cuckoo",
"daffy",
"daft",
"dippy",
"dotty",
"featherheaded",
"fool",
"half-baked",
"harebrained",
"insane",
"kooky",
"kookie",
"loony",
"looney",
"lunatic",
"mad",
"nonsensical",
"nutty",
"preposterous",
"sappy",
"screwball",
"tomfool",
"unwise",
"wacky",
"whacky",
"zany",
"airheaded",
"birdbrained",
"boneheaded",
"brain-dead",
"brainless",
"bubbleheaded",
"chuckleheaded",
"dense",
"dim",
"dim-witted",
"doltish",
"dopey",
"dopy",
"dorky",
"dull",
"dumb",
"dunderheaded",
"empty-headed",
"fatuous",
"gormless",
"half-witted",
"knuckleheaded",
"lamebrain",
"lamebrained",
"lunkheaded",
"mindless",
"obtuse",
"opaque",
"pinheaded",
"senseless",
"simple",
"slow",
"slow-witted",
"soft",
"softheaded",
"stupid",
"thick",
"thickheaded",
"thick-witted",
"unbrilliant",
"unintelligent",
"unsmart",
"vacuous",
"weak-minded",
"witless"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"adjective"
]
},
"persuading":{
"the act of reasoning or pleading with someone to accept a belief or course of action":{
"examples":[
"no amount of persuading could make her change her mind"
],
"synonyms":[
"conversion",
"convincing",
"inducement",
"inducing",
"persuasion",
"suasion"
],
"near synonyms":[
"blandishment",
"cajolement",
"cajolery",
"coaxing",
"entreaty",
"exhortation",
"urging",
"wheedling",
"seduction",
"tempting",
"influencing",
"prompting",
"swaying",
"lobbying",
"pressuring",
"brainwashing",
"overpersuasion"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to cause (someone) to agree with a belief or course of action by using arguments or earnest request":{
"examples":[
"she persuaded us that she can indeed communicate with the dead",
"he persuaded his teachers to grant an extension"
],
"synonyms":[
"arguing",
"bringing",
"bringing around",
"converting",
"convincing",
"gaining",
"getting",
"inducing",
"moving",
"prevailing (on or upon)",
"satisfying",
"talking (into)",
"winning (over)"
],
"near synonyms":[
"blandishing",
"blarneying",
"cajoling",
"coaxing",
"entreating",
"exhorting",
"fast-talking",
"urging",
"wheedling",
"alluring",
"beguiling",
"leading on",
"luring",
"seducing",
"snowing",
"tempting",
"brainwashing",
"overpersuading",
"inclining",
"influencing",
"prompting",
"selling",
"swaying",
"attracting",
"drawing",
"enticing",
"interesting",
"chewing over",
"conversing",
"debating",
"discussing",
"disputing",
"hashing (over)",
"mooting",
"reasoning (with)"
],
"near antonyms":[
"deterring",
"discouraging",
"dissuading",
"unselling"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun",
"verb"
]
},
"persuasive":{
"having the power to persuade":{
"examples":[
"a persuasive argument for increasing funding of the city's library system"
],
"synonyms":[
"cogent",
"compelling",
"conclusive",
"convincing",
"decisive",
"effective",
"forceful",
"satisfying",
"strong",
"telling"
],
"near synonyms":[
"authoritative",
"definitive",
"sound",
"valid",
"well-founded",
"important",
"significant",
"weighty",
"material",
"pertinent",
"relevant"
],
"near antonyms":[
"groundless",
"invalid",
"shaky",
"unfounded",
"unsound",
"inconsequential",
"insignificant",
"unimportant",
"immaterial",
"irrelevant",
"feeble",
"weak"
],
"antonyms":[
"inconclusive",
"indecisive",
"ineffective",
"uncompelling",
"unconvincing",
"unpersuasive"
]
},
"type":[
"adjective"
]
},
"persuasiveness":{
"the capacity to persuade":{
"antonyms":[
"inconclusiveness",
"ineffectiveness",
"ineffectuality",
"ineffectualness"
],
"examples":[
"the persuasiveness of her closing statement changed the minds of several jurors who had been leaning toward conviction"
],
"near antonyms":[
"invalidity",
"shakiness",
"unsoundness",
"feebleness",
"powerlessness",
"weakness"
],
"related":[
"impact",
"might",
"power",
"punch",
"strength",
"weight",
"believability",
"credibility",
"soundness",
"validity",
"authoritativeness",
"definitiveness",
"influence",
"sway",
"appeal",
"seductiveness"
],
"synonyms":[
"authority",
"cogency",
"conclusiveness",
"convincingness",
"effectiveness",
"force",
"forcefulness",
"persuasion",
"suasiveness"
]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"pertained (to)":{
"to have (something) as a subject matter":{
"examples":[
"where would I find books pertaining to birds?"
],
"synonyms":[
"concerned",
"covered",
"dealt (with)",
"treated (of)"
],
"near synonyms":[
"appertained (to)",
"bore (on or upon)",
"referred (to)",
"related (to)",
"adverted (to)",
"alluded (to)",
"cited",
"glanced (upon)",
"instanced",
"mentioned",
"named",
"noted",
"noticed",
"quoted",
"specified",
"touched (upon)",
"offered",
"presented",
"contained",
"embraced",
"encompassed",
"entailed",
"included",
"incorporated"
],
"near antonyms":[
"excluded",
"omitted",
"disregarded",
"forgot",
"ignored",
"neglected",
"overlooked",
"overpassed",
"passed over",
"slighted",
"slurred (over)",
"brushed (aside or off)",
"rejected",
"shrugged off"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"pertaining":{
"to be the property of a person or group of persons":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"the belief that quality medical care is a right that pertains to everyone"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"related":[
"having",
"holding",
"owning",
"possessing"
],
"synonyms":[
"appertaining",
"belonging"
]
},
"to have a relation or connection":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"a person who is an expert in anything pertaining to the history of the American theater"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"related":[
"affecting",
"concerning",
"interesting",
"involving",
"touching",
"associating",
"connecting",
"coupling",
"interrelating",
"linking",
"tying in",
"tieing in",
"dealing (with)",
"treating"
],
"synonyms":[
"appertaining",
"applying",
"bearing",
"referring",
"relating"
]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"perturbing":{
"causing worry or anxiety":{
"antonyms":[
"reassuring"
],
"examples":[
"the perturbing news meant that we'd have to end our vacation prematurely"
],
"near antonyms":[
"calming",
"quieting",
"settling",
"soothing",
"comforting",
"consoling",
"dreamy",
"inviting",
"lulling",
"narcotic",
"pacifying",
"relaxing",
"sedative",
"tranquilizing",
"tranquillizing"
],
"related":[
"daunting",
"demoralizing",
"discomfiting",
"disconcerting",
"discouraging",
"disheartening",
"dismaying",
"dispiriting",
"chilling",
"frightening",
"scary",
"harassing",
"persecutive",
"persecutory",
"alarming",
"dire",
"direful",
"dread",
"dreadful",
"fearful",
"fearsome",
"forbidding",
"formidable",
"frightening",
"frightful",
"ghastly",
"hair-raising",
"horrendous",
"horrible",
"horrifying",
"intimidating",
"scary",
"shocking",
"terrible",
"terrifying"
],
"synonyms":[
"discomforting",
"discomposing",
"disquieting",
"distressing",
"disturbing",
"nagging",
"nasty",
"troublesome",
"troubling",
"troublous",
"unsettling",
"upsetting",
"worrisome"
]
},
"to trouble the mind of; to make uneasy":{
"antonyms":[
"calming",
"composing",
"quieting",
"settling",
"soothing",
"tranquilizing",
"tranquillizing"
],
"examples":[
"the caller's strange remark perturbed me enough to keep me awake that night"
],
"near antonyms":[
"allaying",
"alleviating",
"assuaging",
"appeasing",
"conciliating",
"mollifying",
"pacifying",
"placating",
"propitiating"
],
"related":[
"aggravating",
"angering",
"annoying",
"bugging",
"chafing",
"chivying",
"chivvying",
"exasperating",
"fretting",
"galling",
"getting",
"grating",
"harassing",
"harrying",
"irking",
"irritating",
"nettling",
"peeving",
"pestering",
"piquing",
"putting off",
"putting out",
"riling",
"vexing",
"bedeviling",
"haunting",
"plaguing",
"abashing",
"confounding",
"confusing",
"discomfiting",
"disconcerting",
"discountenancing",
"embarrassing",
"fazing",
"flustering",
"jarring",
"mortifying",
"nonplussing",
"nonplusing",
"rattling",
"shaking up",
"daunting",
"demoralizing",
"discouraging",
"disheartening",
"dispiriting",
"unnerving"
],
"synonyms":[
"agitating",
"ailing",
"alarming",
"alaruming",
"bothering",
"concerning",
"derailing",
"discomforting",
"discomposing",
"dismaying",
"disquieting",
"distempering",
"distracting",
"distressing",
"disturbing",
"exercising",
"flurrying",
"frazzling",
"freaking (out)",
"fussing",
"hagriding",
"undoing",
"unhinging",
"unsettling",
"upsetting",
"weirding out",
"worrying"
]
},
"type":[
"adjective",
"verb"
]
},
"peruse":{
"to go over and mentally take in the content of":{
"examples":[
"perused the manuscript, checking for grammatical errors"
],
"synonyms":[
"pore (over)",
"read"
],
"near synonyms":[
"browse",
"dip (into)",
"leaf (through)",
"scan",
"skim",
"speed-read",
"thumb (through)",
"turn over",
"devour",
"gobble (up)",
"slog (through)",
"wade (through)",
"reread",
"proofread",
"decipher",
"review",
"study",
"apprehend",
"comprehend",
"get",
"grasp",
"make",
"make out",
"perceive",
"see",
"tumble (to)",
"understand"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"perverse":{
"easily irritated or annoyed":{
"examples":[
"how can you be so cheerful one day, and so perverse the next?"
],
"synonyms":[
"choleric",
"crabby",
"cranky",
"cross",
"crotchety",
"fiery",
"grouchy",
"grumpy",
"irascible",
"irritable",
"peevish",
"pettish",
"petulant",
"prickly",
"quick-tempered",
"raspy",
"ratty",
"short-tempered",
"snappish",
"snappy",
"snarky",
"snippety",
"snippy",
"stuffy",
"testy",
"waspish"
],
"near synonyms":[
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"bilious",
"cantankerous",
"cross-grained",
"curmudgeonly",
"disagreeable",
"dyspeptic",
"ill-humored",
"ill-natured",
"ill-tempered",
"off-color",
"off-colored",
"ornery",
"querulous",
"snarly",
"surly",
"argumentative",
"bellicose",
"belligerent",
"combative",
"contentious",
"disputatious",
"fractious",
"fretful",
"pugnacious",
"quarrelsome",
"scrappy",
"truculent",
"huffy",
"pouty",
"sensitive",
"short",
"sulky",
"sullen",
"tetchy",
"thin-skinned",
"touchy",
"hot-blooded",
"passionate"
],
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"affable",
"companionable",
"cordial",
"extroverted",
"extraverted",
"friendly",
"genial",
"gregarious",
"outgoing",
"sociable",
"agreeable",
"amiable",
"good-natured",
"good-tempered",
"sweet",
"well-disposed",
"carefree",
"easygoing",
"happy-go-lucky",
"relaxed",
"forbearing",
"long-suffering",
"obliging",
"patient",
"stoic",
"stoical",
"tolerant",
"uncomplaining",
"understanding"
],
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},
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"examples":[
"social conservatives who believe that Hollywood is a perverse world that exerts an unhealthy influence on the young"
],
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"corrupt",
"debased",
"debauched",
"decadent",
"degenerate",
"degraded",
"demoralized",
"depraved",
"dissipated",
"dissolute",
"jackleg",
"libertine",
"loose",
"perverted",
"rakehell",
"rakehelly",
"rakish",
"reprobate",
"sick",
"unclean",
"unwholesome",
"warped"
],
"near synonyms":[
"bent",
"crooked",
"cutthroat",
"dishonest",
"unethical",
"unprincipled",
"unscrupulous",
"contaminated",
"spoiled",
"tainted",
"bad",
"evil",
"immoral",
"iniquitous",
"miscreant",
"nefarious",
"sinful",
"vicious",
"wicked"
],
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"incorruptible",
"ethical",
"honest",
"principled",
"good",
"moral",
"righteous",
"virtuous"
],
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"pure",
"uncorrupt",
"uncorrupted"
]
},
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"examples":[
"a fact so self-evident that not even the most perverse of opponents could deny it"
],
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"adamant",
"adamantine",
"bullheaded",
"dogged",
"hard",
"hard-nosed",
"hardened",
"hardheaded",
"headstrong",
"immovable",
"implacable",
"inconvincible",
"inflexible",
"intransigent",
"mulish",
"obdurate",
"obstinate",
"opinionated",
"ossified",
"pat",
"pertinacious",
"pigheaded",
"self-opinionated",
"self-willed",
"stiff-necked",
"stubborn",
"unbending",
"uncompromising",
"unrelenting",
"unyielding",
"willful",
"wilful"
],
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"anal-retentive",
"obsessive",
"wayward",
"wrongheaded",
"determined",
"hell-bent",
"inexorable",
"persistent",
"relentless",
"resolved",
"set",
"single-minded",
"steadfast",
"stouthearted",
"tenacious",
"unflinching",
"firm",
"hard-line",
"hard-shell",
"hard-shelled",
"iron",
"severe",
"stern",
"strict",
"hidebound",
"narrow-minded",
"rigid",
"bloody-minded",
"cantankerous",
"contrary",
"cussed",
"contumacious",
"disobedient",
"froward",
"insubordinate",
"intractable",
"recalcitrant",
"refractory",
"uncooperative",
"ungovernable",
"unmanageable",
"unruly",
"defiant",
"insurgent",
"mutinous",
"indomitable",
"invincible",
"unconquerable",
"confirmed",
"inveterate",
"unregenerate",
"demanding",
"exacting"
],
"near antonyms":[
"docile",
"obedient",
"placable",
"submissive",
"tractable",
"accepting",
"persuadable",
"receptive",
"responsive",
"willing",
"governable",
"manageable",
"reasonable",
"temperate",
"slavish",
"subservient"
],
"antonyms":[
"acquiescent",
"agreeable",
"amenable",
"compliant",
"complying",
"flexible",
"pliable",
"pliant",
"relenting",
"yielding"
]
},
"not appropriate for a particular occasion or situation":{
"examples":[
"a convicted criminal seemed like a perverse choice for a bank employee"
],
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"amiss",
"graceless",
"improper",
"inapposite",
"inappropriate",
"inapt",
"incongruous",
"incorrect",
"indecorous",
"inept",
"infelicitous",
"malapropos",
"unapt",
"unbecoming",
"unfit",
"unhappy",
"unseemly",
"unsuitable",
"untoward",
"wrong"
],
"near synonyms":[
"inopportune",
"unfortunate",
"unseasonable",
"untimely",
"extraneous",
"immaterial",
"inapplicable",
"irrelative",
"irrelevant",
"misbecoming",
"mismatched",
"incompatible",
"inconsistent",
"uncongenial",
"bad",
"naughty",
"sinful",
"blamable",
"blameworthy",
"censurable",
"banned",
"barred",
"disallowed",
"forbidden",
"interdicted",
"outlawed",
"prohibited",
"proscribed",
"awkward",
"gauche",
"ungraceful",
"unacceptable",
"unsatisfactory"
],
"near antonyms":[
"fortunate",
"opportune",
"seasonable",
"timely",
"applicable",
"apposite",
"apropos",
"apt",
"germane",
"material",
"pat",
"pointed",
"relative",
"relevant",
"compatible",
"congenial",
"harmonious",
"allowed",
"authorized",
"permitted",
"approved",
"endorsed",
"indorsed",
"kosher",
"licensed",
"sanctioned",
"abetted",
"encouraged",
"promoted",
"supported",
"acceptable",
"adequate",
"all right",
"decent",
"fine",
"OK",
"okay",
"passable",
"respectable",
"satisfactory",
"tolerable",
"commendable",
"creditable",
"exemplary",
"blameless",
"irreproachable",
"balanced",
"companionate",
"congruous",
"consonant",
"harmonious"
],
"antonyms":[
"appropriate",
"becoming",
"befitting",
"correct",
"decorous",
"felicitous",
"fit",
"fitting",
"genteel",
"happy",
"meet",
"proper",
"right",
"seemly",
"suitable"
]
},
"type":[
"adjective"
]
},
"pervs":{
"a person who has sunk below the normal moral standard":{
"examples":[
"an undercover officer visiting chat rooms in search of pervs preying on naive teens"
],
"synonyms":[
"backsliders",
"debauchees",
"debauchers",
"decadents",
"degenerates",
"deviates",
"libertines",
"perverts",
"profligates",
"rakehells",
"rakes",
"rips"
],
"near synonyms":[
"bankrupts",
"delinquents",
"derelicts",
"incorrigibles",
"blackguards",
"cads",
"heels",
"knaves",
"miscreants",
"rascals",
"reprobates",
"rogues",
"scoundrels",
"villains",
"lechers",
"playboys",
"playgirls",
"satyrs"
],
"near antonyms":[
"saints"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"peristyle":{
"as in atrium , parvis":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"atrium",
"galleria",
"parvis",
"parvise",
"close",
"court",
"courtyard",
"enclosure",
"inclosure",
"patio",
"quad",
"quadrangle",
"yard",
"forecourt",
"place",
"plaza",
"square",
"deck",
"terrace",
"curtilage"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"pert":{
"having much high-spirited energy and movement":{
"examples":[
"a pert girl who is a member of the cheerleading squad"
],
"synonyms":[
"active",
"airy",
"animate",
"animated",
"bouncing",
"brisk",
"energetic",
"frisky",
"gay",
"jaunty",
"jazzy",
"kinetic",
"lively",
"mettlesome",
"peppy",
"perky",
"pizzazzy",
"pizazzy",
"racy",
"snappy",
"spanking",
"sparky",
"spirited",
"sprightly",
"springy",
"vital",
"vivacious",
"zippy"
],
"near synonyms":[
"dapper",
"dashing",
"spiffy",
"agog",
"alert",
"awake",
"open-eyed",
"up",
"wide-awake",
"agile",
"nimble",
"spry",
"bright",
"buoyant",
"cheerful",
"chipper",
"chirpy",
"chirrupy",
"effervescent",
"sparkly",
"upbeat",
"eager",
"enthusiastic",
"keen",
"frolicsome",
"impish",
"pixieish",
"playful",
"boisterous",
"bubbly",
"ebullient",
"exuberant",
"high-spirited",
"high-strung",
"nervous",
"skittish"
],
"near antonyms":[
"indolent",
"lazy",
"unambitious",
"inert",
"lethargic",
"sleepy",
"sluggish",
"tired",
"torpid",
"weary",
"apathetic",
"impassive",
"phlegmatic",
"stolid",
"boring",
"dull",
"irksome",
"tedious"
],
"antonyms":[
"dead",
"inactive",
"inanimate",
"lackadaisical",
"languid",
"languishing",
"languorous",
"leaden",
"lifeless",
"limp",
"listless",
"spiritless",
"vapid"
]
},
"making light of something usually regarded as serious or sacred":{
"examples":[
"a pert retort that irritated the teacher"
],
"synonyms":[
"cute",
"facetious",
"flip",
"flippant",
"smart",
"smart-aleck",
"smart-alecky",
"smart-ass",
"smart-assed",
"smarty-pants",
"wise",
"wiseass"
],
"near synonyms":[
"flighty",
"frivolous",
"cheeky",
"cocky",
"fresh",
"impertinent",
"impish",
"impudent",
"mischievous",
"playful",
"roguish",
"sassy",
"saucy",
"waggish",
"disrespectful",
"rude",
"breezy",
"casual",
"glib",
"inappropriate",
"thoughtless"
],
"near antonyms":[
"grave",
"serious",
"sober",
"solemn",
"somber",
"sombre"
],
"antonyms":[
"earnest",
"sincere"
]
},
"sharp and pleasantly stimulating to the mind or senses":{
"examples":[
"a pert suggestion for a truly original marketing campaign"
],
"synonyms":[
"piquant",
"poignant",
"pungent",
"salty",
"savory",
"savoury",
"zesty",
"zingy"
],
"near synonyms":[
"racy",
"spicy",
"fiery",
"gingery",
"hot",
"peppery",
"vinegary",
"acute",
"keen",
"biting",
"bitter",
"cutting",
"mordant",
"trenchant",
"animating",
"energizing",
"enlightening",
"exciting",
"galvanizing",
"invigorating",
"piquing",
"provocative",
"provoking",
"ambrosial",
"appetizing",
"delectable",
"delicious",
"luscious",
"palatable",
"scrumptious",
"toothsome",
"flavorful",
"savorous",
"tasty",
"absorbing",
"arresting",
"engaging",
"engrossing",
"enthralling",
"fascinating",
"gripping",
"interesting",
"intriguing",
"riveting"
],
"near antonyms":[
"flat",
"flavorless",
"savorless",
"tasteless",
"arid",
"banal",
"barren",
"boring",
"colorless",
"drab",
"dreary",
"dry",
"dull",
"flat",
"humdrum",
"leaden",
"monotonous",
"numbing",
"pedestrian",
"ponderous",
"predictable",
"stale",
"stodgy",
"tedious",
"tiring",
"uninteresting",
"wearisome",
"wearying",
"bland",
"dilute",
"thin",
"watery",
"weak"
],
"antonyms":[
"insipid",
"zestless"
]
},
"type":[
"adjective"
]
},
"personnel":{
"a body of persons at work or available for work":{
"examples":[
"we finally have enough personnel to start that big project"
],
"synonyms":[
"force",
"help",
"labor force",
"manpower",
"pool",
"staff",
"workforce"
],
"near synonyms":[
"labor",
"proletariat",
"rank and file",
"band",
"company",
"crew",
"gang",
"outfit",
"party",
"squad",
"team",
"employee",
"employe",
"helper",
"hireling",
"worker",
"blood",
"support"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"perceptivity":{
"the ability to understand inner qualities or relationships":{
"examples":[
"with great perceptivity the author sees that the controversy embroiling the town is really about class and cultural differences"
],
"synonyms":[
"discernment",
"insight",
"perception",
"perceptiveness",
"sagaciousness",
"sagacity",
"sageness",
"sapience",
"wisdom"
],
"related":[
"acuity",
"acumen",
"astuteness",
"clear-sightedness",
"keenness",
"penetration",
"percipience",
"perspicacity",
"sensitivity",
"understanding",
"appreciation",
"apprehension",
"comprehension",
"grasp",
"brain(s)",
"braininess",
"brightness",
"brilliance",
"canniness",
"cleverness",
"gray matter",
"intellect",
"intelligence",
"judgment",
"judgement",
"mentality",
"power",
"reason",
"sense",
"smartness",
"wit",
"discrimination",
"foresight",
"foresightedness",
"judiciousness",
"prudence",
"sanity",
"logic",
"rationality"
],
"near antonyms":[
"density",
"dullness",
"dulness",
"obtuseness",
"brainlessness",
"folly",
"foolishness",
"idiocy",
"imbecility",
"mindlessness",
"silliness",
"simplemindedness",
"simpleness",
"stupidity",
"witlessness",
"illogic",
"irrationality",
"unreasonableness",
"unsoundness",
"craziness",
"insanity",
"lunacy",
"madness",
"preposterousness",
"senselessness",
"zaniness"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"the state or quality of being able to sense slight impressions or differences":{
"examples":[
"the perceptivity of that epicure's palate is legendary in food and wine circles"
],
"synonyms":[
"acuity",
"acuteness",
"delicacy",
"keenness",
"perceptiveness",
"sensitiveness",
"sensitivity",
"sharpness"
],
"related":[
"hyperacuity",
"hypersensitiveness",
"hypersensitivity",
"oversensitiveness",
"oversensitivity",
"supersensitivity",
"accuracy",
"exactitude",
"exactness",
"fineness"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"perforating":{
"to make a hole or series of holes in":{
"examples":[
"he perforated the sheet with his pencil and put it in his binder"
],
"synonyms":[
"boring",
"drilling",
"holing",
"piercing",
"punching",
"puncturing",
"riddling"
],
"near synonyms":[
"broaching",
"tapping",
"poking",
"pricking",
"prickling",
"penetrating",
"burrowing (into)",
"excavating",
"gouging",
"grooving",
"hollowing",
"breaking",
"cutting",
"gashing",
"notching",
"rending",
"rupturing",
"slashing",
"slitting",
"splitting"
],
"near antonyms":[
"filling",
"patching",
"plugging",
"sealing"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"personalized":{
"of, relating to, or belonging to a single person":{
"examples":[
"a personalized jewelry box that had been engraved with her initials"
],
"synonyms":[
"idiomatic",
"individual",
"individualized",
"particular",
"patented",
"peculiar",
"personal",
"private",
"privy",
"separate",
"singular",
"subjective",
"unique"
],
"near synonyms":[
"characteristic",
"distinctive",
"intimate",
"identifying",
"idiosyncratic",
"especial",
"express",
"special",
"specific",
"independent",
"nonconformist",
"self-directed",
"self-sufficient",
"custom",
"customized",
"specialized"
],
"near antonyms":[
"broad",
"prevailing",
"prevalent",
"widespread",
"common",
"normal",
"regular",
"typical"
],
"antonyms":[
"general",
"generic",
"popular",
"public",
"shared",
"universal"
]
},
"to represent in visible form":{
"examples":[
"in the character of the good-hearted, virtuous seaman, the author has personalized the concept of perfect innocence"
],
"synonyms":[
"bodied",
"embodied",
"epitomized",
"expressed",
"externalized",
"incarnated",
"incorporated",
"instantiated",
"manifested",
"materialized",
"personified",
"substantiated"
],
"near synonyms":[
"actualized",
"concretized",
"realized",
"exemplified",
"illustrated",
"imaged",
"objectified",
"symbolized",
"typified"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[
"disembodied"
]
},
"type":[
"adjective",
"verb"
]
},
"perpends":{
"to give serious and careful thought to":{
"examples":[
"spent the long weekend perpending what he wanted to do with his life"
],
"synonyms":[
"chews over",
"cogitates",
"considers",
"contemplates",
"debates",
"deliberates",
"entertains",
"eyes",
"kicks around",
"meditates",
"mulls (over)",
"ponders",
"pores (over)",
"questions",
"revolves",
"ruminates",
"studies",
"thinks (about or over)",
"turns",
"weighs",
"wrestles (with)"
],
"near synonyms":[
"muses (upon)",
"reflects (on or upon)",
"reminisces",
"analyzes",
"explores",
"reviews",
"concludes",
"reasons",
"second-guesses",
"speculates (about)",
"broods (about or over)",
"dwells (on or upon)",
"fixates (on or upon)",
"frets (about or over)",
"obsesses (about or over)",
"believes",
"conceives",
"opines",
"absorbs",
"assimilates",
"digests",
"drinks (in)"
],
"near antonyms":[
"disregards",
"ignores",
"overlooks",
"slights",
"dismisses",
"pooh-poohs",
"poohs",
"rejects"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"peristyles":{
"as in atria , parvises":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"atria",
"atriums",
"gallerias",
"parvises",
"closes",
"courts",
"courtyards",
"enclosures",
"inclosures",
"patios",
"quadrangles",
"quads",
"yards",
"forecourts",
"places",
"plazas",
"squares",
"decks",
"terraces",
"curtilages"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"perjury":{
"the crime of telling a lie in a court of law after promising to tell the truth":{
"examples":[
"He was found guilty of perjury ."
],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"distortion",
"exaggeration",
"half-truth",
"fable",
"fabrication",
"fairy tale",
"falsehood",
"falsity",
"fib",
"lie",
"mendacity",
"prevarication",
"story",
"tale",
"taradiddle",
"tarradiddle",
"untruth",
"whopper",
"ambiguity",
"equivocation",
"obliquity",
"defamation",
"libel",
"slander",
"bluff",
"fiction",
"pose",
"pretense",
"pretence",
"humbug",
"jive",
"nonsense",
"canard",
"fallacy",
"misconception",
"myth",
"falsification",
"misinformation",
"misreport",
"misrepresentation",
"misstatement",
"deceit",
"deceitfulness",
"dishonesty",
"duplicity",
"fraudulence"
],
"near antonyms":[
"fact",
"truism",
"verity",
"honesty",
"truthfulness",
"veracity",
"authentication",
"confirmation",
"substantiation",
"validation",
"verification",
"truth"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"perimeters":{
"the line or relatively narrow space that marks the outer limit of something":{
"examples":[
"soldiers guarding the perimeter of the camp"
],
"synonyms":[
"borderlines",
"borders",
"boundaries",
"bounds",
"brims",
"circumferences",
"compasses",
"confines",
"edges",
"edgings",
"ends",
"frames",
"fringes",
"hems",
"margins",
"peripheries",
"rims",
"skirtings",
"skirts",
"verges"
],
"near synonyms":[
"ambits",
"brinks",
"crests",
"curbs",
"cusps",
"lips",
"ceilings",
"maxima",
"maximums",
"demarcations",
"extents",
"limitations",
"measures",
"meres",
"restrictions",
"terminations",
"borderlands",
"frontiers",
"marches",
"outskirts",
"pales",
"selvages",
"laps",
"shores"
],
"near antonyms":[
"centers",
"cores",
"hearts",
"inners",
"insides",
"interiors",
"middles",
"withins"
],
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},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"personify":{
"to represent in visible form":{
"examples":[
"through her many good works she just personifies the spirit of charity"
],
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"body",
"embody",
"epitomize",
"express",
"externalize",
"incarnate",
"incorporate",
"instantiate",
"manifest",
"materialize",
"personalize",
"substantiate"
],
"near synonyms":[
"actualize",
"concretize",
"realize",
"exemplify",
"illustrate",
"image",
"objectify",
"symbolize",
"typify"
],
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"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"perambulate":{
"to make one's way through, across, or over":{
"examples":[
"we decided to lazily perambulate the entire length of the esplanade and enjoy the fresh air"
],
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"course",
"cover",
"cross",
"cut (across)",
"follow",
"go",
"navigate",
"pass (over)",
"peregrinate",
"proceed (along)",
"track",
"transit",
"travel",
"traverse"
],
"near synonyms":[
"hike",
"traipse",
"tramp",
"tread",
"walk",
"ride",
"run",
"crisscross"
],
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"antonyms":[]
},
"to travel by foot for exercise or pleasure":{
"examples":[
"long summer evenings spent perambulating up and down the tree-lined streets of the quaint village"
],
"synonyms":[
"amble",
"hike",
"ramble",
"saunter",
"stroll",
"tramp",
"tromp"
],
"near synonyms":[
"roam",
"rove",
"wander",
"peregrinate",
"traipse",
"traverse",
"trek",
"walk",
"march",
"promenade",
"power walk"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"perennial":{
"having an existence or validity that does not change or diminish":{
"examples":[
"her perennial pessimism was really starting to annoy her coworkers"
],
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"abiding",
"ageless",
"continuing",
"dateless",
"enduring",
"eternal",
"everlasting",
"immortal",
"imperishable",
"lasting",
"ongoing",
"perpetual",
"timeless",
"undying"
],
"near synonyms":[
"ceaseless",
"endless",
"permanent",
"changeless",
"constant",
"stable",
"stationary",
"steady",
"unchanging",
"unvarying"
],
"near antonyms":[
"antiquated",
"archaic",
"dated",
"obsolete",
"outdated",
"outmoded",
"out-of-date",
"outworn",
"pass\u00e9"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"adjective"
]
},
"pertinence":{
"the fact or state of being pertinent":{
"examples":[
"job applicants should question the pertinence of any questions about their personal lives"
],
"synonyms":[
"applicability",
"bearing",
"connection",
"materiality",
"relevance",
"relevancy"
],
"near synonyms":[
"appositeness",
"appropriateness",
"aptness",
"felicitousness",
"fitness",
"fittingness",
"rightness",
"seemliness",
"suitability",
"suitableness",
"importance",
"significance",
"usefulness"
],
"near antonyms":[
"inappositeness",
"inappropriateness",
"inaptness",
"infelicity",
"unfitness",
"unsuitability",
"insignificance",
"meaninglessness",
"pointlessness",
"uselessness"
],
"antonyms":[
"extraneousness",
"inapplicability",
"irrelevance",
"irrelevancy"
]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"perjure":{
"to tell a lie in a court of law after promising to tell the truth; to commit perjury":{
"examples":[
"He perjured himself before the court by giving a false testimony."
],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"forswear",
"foreswear",
"fabricate",
"fib",
"lie",
"prevaricate",
"equivocate",
"fudge",
"palter",
"beguile",
"cozen",
"deceive",
"delude",
"dupe",
"fool",
"gull",
"hoax",
"hoodwink",
"kid",
"snow",
"take in",
"trick",
"defame",
"libel",
"slander",
"traduce",
"falsify",
"misreport",
"misrepresent",
"misstate",
"distort",
"garble",
"dissemble",
"dissimulate",
"misguide",
"misinform",
"mislead"
],
"near antonyms":[
"assert",
"swear",
"testify",
"authenticate",
"confirm",
"substantiate",
"validate",
"verify"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"personnels":{
"a body of persons at work or available for work":{
"examples":[
"we finally have enough personnel to start that big project"
],
"synonyms":[
"forces",
"help",
"labor forces",
"manpowers",
"pools",
"staffs",
"staves",
"workforces"
],
"near synonyms":[
"labors",
"proletariats",
"rank and files",
"bands",
"companies",
"crews",
"gangs",
"outfits",
"parties",
"squads",
"teams",
"employees",
"employes",
"helpers",
"hirelings",
"workers",
"blood",
"supports"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"personated":{
"to pretend to be (what one is not) in appearance or behavior":{
"examples":[
"likes to personate the man of the world, but he's still the small-town hick that he always was"
],
"synonyms":[
"acted",
"impersonated",
"masqueraded (as)",
"played",
"posed (as)"
],
"near synonyms":[
"aped",
"copied",
"imitated",
"mimed",
"mimicked",
"mocked",
"monkeyed",
"parodied",
"travestied",
"performed",
"portrayed"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"peregrinated":{
"to make one's way through, across, or over":{
"examples":[
"Jack Kerouac's celebrated novel about penniless free spirits peregrinating the United States"
],
"synonyms":[
"coursed",
"covered",
"crossed",
"cut (across)",
"followed",
"navigated",
"passed (over)",
"perambulated",
"proceeded (along)",
"tracked",
"transited",
"traveled",
"travelled",
"traversed",
"went"
],
"near synonyms":[
"hiked",
"traipsed",
"tramped",
"trod",
"treaded",
"walked",
"ran",
"run",
"rode",
"rid",
"crisscrossed"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to take a trip especially of some distance":{
"examples":[
"a couple of backpacking college students who decided to spend the summer peregrinating around Ireland"
],
"synonyms":[
"journeyed",
"pilgrimaged",
"toured",
"traveled",
"travelled",
"trekked",
"tripped",
"voyaged"
],
"near synonyms":[
"gallivanted",
"galavanted",
"hopped",
"jaunted",
"knocked (about)",
"perambulated",
"rambled",
"roamed",
"roved",
"traipsed",
"wandered",
"migrated",
"road-tripped",
"bused",
"bussed",
"cabbed",
"coached",
"cruised",
"drove",
"flew",
"gigged",
"jetted",
"motored",
"navigated",
"rode",
"rid",
"rolled",
"sailed",
"trundled",
"barnstormed"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"perfumes":{
"a sweet or pleasant smell":{
"examples":[
"the perfume of fresh flowers filled the room"
],
"synonyms":[
"aromas",
"attars",
"ottos",
"balms",
"bouquets",
"fragrances",
"fragrancies",
"incenses",
"redolences",
"scents",
"spices"
],
"near synonyms":[
"essences",
"odors"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[
"fetors",
"malodors",
"reeks",
"stenches",
"stinks"
]
},
"to fill or infuse with a pleasant odor or odor-releasing substance":{
"examples":[
"roses perfumed the wedding chapel"
],
"synonyms":[
"incenses",
"odorizes",
"scents"
],
"near synonyms":[],
"near antonyms":[
"deodorizes"
],
"antonyms":[
"stinks up"
]
},
"type":[
"noun",
"verb"
]
},
"perfuming":{
"to fill or infuse with a pleasant odor or odor-releasing substance":{
"examples":[
"roses perfumed the wedding chapel"
],
"synonyms":[
"incensing",
"odorizing",
"scenting"
],
"near synonyms":[],
"near antonyms":[
"deodorizing"
],
"antonyms":[
"stinking up"
]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"permanency":{
"as in permanence , timelessness":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"boundlessness",
"endlessness",
"interminableness",
"limitlessness",
"permanence",
"timelessness",
"eternity",
"everlasting",
"foreverness",
"infinity",
"perpetuity"
],
"near antonyms":[
"ephemerality",
"impermanence",
"temporariness",
"transience",
"transitoriness"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"percolate":{
"to flow forth slowly through small openings":{
"examples":[
"water percolating through the coffee filter"
],
"synonyms":[
"bleed",
"exude",
"ooze",
"seep",
"strain",
"sweat",
"transude",
"weep"
],
"near synonyms":[
"dribble",
"drip",
"trickle",
"discharge",
"emit",
"give off",
"vent",
"emanate",
"flow",
"spring"
],
"near antonyms":[
"flood",
"gush",
"pour",
"stream",
"surge"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"perplexities":{
"a state of mental uncertainty":{
"examples":[
"seeing her perplexity , the teacher stepped in with a helpful hint"
],
"synonyms":[
"bafflements",
"bamboozlements",
"befuddlements",
"bemusements",
"bewilderments",
"confusions",
"discombobulations",
"distractions",
"fogs",
"head-scratchings",
"mazes",
"muddles",
"mystifications",
"puzzlements",
"tangles",
"whirls"
],
"near synonyms":[
"abashments",
"discomfitures",
"disconcertments",
"embarrassments",
"mortifications",
"agitations",
"chagrins",
"discomforts",
"dismays",
"disquiets",
"distresses",
"disturbances",
"perturbations",
"upsets",
"bothers",
"commotions",
"dithers",
"flurries",
"flusters",
"fusses",
"stews",
"turmoils"
],
"near antonyms":[
"assurances",
"certainties",
"certitudes",
"confidences",
"convictions"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"perforates":{
"to make a hole or series of holes in":{
"examples":[
"he perforated the sheet with his pencil and put it in his binder"
],
"synonyms":[
"bores",
"drills",
"holes",
"pierces",
"punches",
"punctures",
"riddles"
],
"near synonyms":[
"broaches",
"taps",
"pokes",
"prickles",
"pricks",
"penetrates",
"burrows (into)",
"excavates",
"gouges",
"grooves",
"hollows",
"breaks",
"cuts",
"gashes",
"notches",
"rends",
"ruptures",
"slashes",
"slits",
"splits"
],
"near antonyms":[
"fills",
"patches",
"plugs",
"seals"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"persecution":{
"something that causes mental distress":{
"examples":[
"The media's constant persecution was beginning to affect their lives."
],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"aggravation",
"anger",
"annoyance",
"exasperation",
"irritation",
"trouble",
"bedevilment",
"botheration",
"bothering",
"bugging",
"disturbance",
"harassment",
"harrying",
"importunity",
"pestering",
"teasing",
"vexation",
"aggro",
"molestation",
"offense",
"offence",
"provocation",
"torment",
"torture",
"load",
"weight",
"anxiety",
"concern",
"uneasiness",
"worry",
"pressure",
"strain",
"stress",
"tension"
],
"near antonyms":[
"comfort",
"consolation"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"persecutions":{
"something that causes mental distress":{
"examples":[
"The media's constant persecution was beginning to affect their lives."
],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"aggravations",
"angers",
"annoyances",
"exasperations",
"irritations",
"troubles",
"bedevilments",
"botherations",
"disturbances",
"harassments",
"importunities",
"vexations",
"aggros",
"molestations",
"offenses",
"offences",
"provocations",
"torments",
"tortures",
"loads",
"weights",
"anxieties",
"concerns",
"worries",
"pressures",
"strains",
"stresses",
"tensions"
],
"near antonyms":[
"comforts",
"consolations"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"perm":{
"as in cornrow , dreadlocks":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"Afro",
"conk",
"cornrow",
"dreadlocks",
"permanent",
"coiffure",
"cut",
"do",
"haircut",
"hairdo",
"hairstyle",
"beehive",
"big hair",
"bun",
"chignon",
"French twist",
"pageboy",
"pug",
"updo",
"upsweep",
"bob",
"buzz cut",
"crew cut",
"crop",
"fade",
"Mohawk",
"shag",
"shingle",
"trim",
"braid",
"pigtail",
"plait",
"ponytail",
"queue",
"comb-over",
"ducktail",
"pompadour",
"roach"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"Persian lamb":{
"as in fox , rabbit":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"badger",
"beaver",
"chamois",
"chinchilla",
"ermine",
"fisher",
"fox",
"marten",
"mink",
"muskrat",
"otter",
"rabbit",
"raccoon",
"racoon",
"sable",
"seal",
"fur",
"hide",
"leather",
"pelt",
"skin",
"bearskin",
"buckskin",
"calfskin",
"coonskin",
"cowhide",
"deerskin",
"doeskin",
"goatskin",
"horsehide",
"karakul",
"kidskin",
"kolinsky",
"lambskin",
"pigskin",
"rawhide",
"sealskin",
"sharkskin",
"sheep",
"sheepskin",
"snakeskin",
"fleece",
"mouton",
"alligator",
"crocodile",
"cordovan",
"morocco",
"patent leather",
"suede"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"permeating":{
"to spread throughout":{
"examples":[
"the smell of freshly baked bread permeated the house"
],
"synonyms":[
"interpenetrating",
"percolating (into)",
"pervading",
"riddling",
"suffusing",
"transfusing"
],
"near synonyms":[
"diffusing (through)",
"impregnating",
"passing (into)",
"penetrating",
"filling (up)",
"drenching",
"imbuing",
"infusing",
"saturating",
"soaking",
"steeping",
"flooding",
"glutting"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"perfumed":{
"having a pleasant smell":{
"examples":[
"delicately perfumed stationery"
],
"synonyms":[
"ambrosial",
"aromatic",
"fragrant",
"redolent",
"savory",
"savoury",
"scented",
"sweet"
],
"near synonyms":[
"flowery",
"fruity",
"pungent",
"spicy",
"odiferous",
"odored",
"odoriferous",
"odorous",
"clean",
"fresh",
"pure"
],
"near antonyms":[
"odorless",
"unscented",
"fusty",
"musty",
"stale",
"gamy",
"gamey"
],
"antonyms":[
"fetid",
"foul",
"malodorous",
"noisome",
"putrid",
"rancid",
"rank",
"reeking",
"reeky",
"skunky",
"smelly",
"stenchful",
"stenchy",
"stinking",
"stinky",
"strong"
]
},
"to fill or infuse with a pleasant odor or odor-releasing substance":{
"examples":[
"roses perfumed the wedding chapel"
],
"synonyms":[
"incensed",
"odorized",
"scented"
],
"near synonyms":[],
"near antonyms":[
"deodorized"
],
"antonyms":[
"stank up",
"stunk up"
]
},
"type":[
"adjective",
"verb"
]
},
"personal property":{
"transportable items that one owns":{
"examples":[
"any personal property that is left in the lockers overnight will be impounded"
],
"synonyms":[
"belongings",
"chattels",
"duds",
"effects",
"gear",
"goods",
"holdings",
"movables",
"moveables",
"paraphernalia",
"personal effects",
"personalty",
"plunder",
"possession",
"stuff",
"things"
],
"near synonyms":[
"treasures",
"valuables",
"appointments",
"fixtures",
"furnishings",
"estate",
"property",
"tangibles",
"collateral"
],
"near antonyms":[
"immovables",
"real estate"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"perdition":{
"the place of punishment for the wicked after death":{
"examples":[
"simple stupidity is not enough to doom one to perdition"
],
"synonyms":[
"Gehenna",
"hell",
"Pandemonium",
"Tophet"
],
"near synonyms":[
"blazes",
"inferno",
"purgatory",
"hades",
"netherworld",
"shades",
"Tartarus",
"underworld",
"Sheol",
"abyss",
"pit",
"fire and brimstone",
"hellfire"
],
"near antonyms":[
"glory",
"happy hunting ground",
"nirvana",
"promised land",
"Valhalla"
],
"antonyms":[
"bliss",
"elysian fields",
"Elysium",
"empyrean",
"heaven",
"kingdom come",
"New Jerusalem",
"paradise",
"sky",
"Zion",
"Sion"
]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"personator":{
"a person who imitates another's voice and mannerisms for comic effect":{
"examples":[
"the science museum hired an Albert Einstein personator to greet guests for its special exhibit on the scientist"
],
"synonyms":[
"imitator",
"impersonator",
"impressionist",
"mimic"
],
"near synonyms":[
"burlesquer",
"caricaturist",
"lampooner",
"mocker",
"parodist",
"satirist",
"mime",
"mimer",
"mummer",
"pantomime",
"pantomimist",
"actor",
"entertainer",
"performer",
"player",
"trouper",
"ape",
"copycat",
"echo",
"parrot",
"rubber stamp"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"personalty":{
"transportable items that one owns":{
"examples":[
"and I will my personalty to my children"
],
"synonyms":[
"belongings",
"chattels",
"duds",
"effects",
"gear",
"goods",
"holdings",
"movables",
"moveables",
"paraphernalia",
"personal effects",
"personal property",
"plunder",
"possession",
"stuff",
"things"
],
"near synonyms":[
"treasures",
"valuables",
"appointments",
"fixtures",
"furnishings",
"estate",
"property",
"tangibles",
"collateral"
],
"near antonyms":[
"immovables",
"real estate"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"perfect":{
"being entirely without fault or flaw":{
"examples":[
"a stunningly perfect performance\u2014not the slightest mistake\u2014won her the gold medal in women's figure skating"
],
"synonyms":[
"absolute",
"faultless",
"flawless",
"ideal",
"immaculate",
"impeccable",
"indefectible",
"irreproachable",
"letter-perfect",
"picture-book",
"picture-perfect",
"seamless",
"unblemished"
],
"near synonyms":[
"consummate",
"expert",
"masterly",
"classic",
"dandy",
"excellent",
"fabulous",
"fine",
"first-class",
"first-rate",
"grand",
"great",
"marvelous",
"marvellous",
"prime",
"superb",
"superior",
"superlative",
"terrific",
"top",
"top-notch",
"unsurpassed",
"completed",
"finished",
"perfected",
"polished",
"complete",
"entire",
"intact",
"whole",
"mint",
"unbruised",
"undamaged",
"unimpaired",
"uninjured",
"unmarred",
"unspoiled",
"exceptional",
"fancy",
"high-grade",
"special",
"airtight",
"bulletproof",
"accurate",
"correct",
"exact",
"precise",
"inerrant",
"infallible",
"unerring",
"unfailing"
],
"near antonyms":[
"deficient",
"inadequate",
"incomplete",
"insufficient",
"wanting",
"unfinished",
"unpolished",
"fallible",
"blemished",
"blighted",
"broken",
"damaged",
"defaced",
"disfigured",
"impaired",
"injured",
"malformed",
"marred",
"misshapen",
"spoiled",
"vitiated",
"atrocious",
"execrable",
"wretched",
"imprecise",
"inaccurate",
"incorrect",
"inexact",
"wrong"
],
"antonyms":[
"amiss",
"bad",
"censurable",
"defective",
"faulty",
"flawed",
"imperfect",
"reproachable"
]
},
"having no exceptions or restrictions":{
"examples":[
"living in perfect happiness in the country"
],
"synonyms":[
"absolute",
"all-out",
"arrant",
"blank",
"blooming",
"bodacious",
"categorical",
"categoric",
"clean",
"complete",
"consummate",
"crashing",
"damn",
"damned",
"dead",
"deadly",
"definite",
"downright",
"dreadful",
"fair",
"flat",
"flat-out",
"out-and-out",
"outright",
"plumb",
"profound",
"pure",
"rank",
"regular",
"sheer",
"simple",
"stark",
"stone",
"straight-out",
"thorough",
"thoroughgoing",
"total",
"unadulterated",
"unalloyed",
"unconditional",
"unmitigated",
"unqualified",
"utter",
"very"
],
"near synonyms":[
"authentic",
"classic",
"genuine",
"real",
"veritable",
"constant",
"endless",
"eternal",
"perpetual",
"undying",
"unremitting",
"extreme",
"unrestricted",
"confirmed",
"habitual",
"hopeless",
"inveterate",
"extraordinary",
"frightful",
"horrible",
"huge",
"main",
"superlative",
"supreme",
"surpassing",
"terrible",
"terrific"
],
"near antonyms":[
"doubtful",
"dubious",
"equivocal",
"qualified",
"questionable",
"restricted",
"uncertain"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"not lacking any part or member that properly belongs to it":{
"examples":[
"I have a perfect recollection of that conversation"
],
"synonyms":[
"compleat",
"complete",
"comprehensive",
"entire",
"full",
"grand",
"intact",
"integral",
"plenary",
"total",
"whole"
],
"near synonyms":[
"unabridged",
"uncut",
"undiminished",
"all-out",
"exhaustive",
"extensive",
"maximal",
"full-blooded",
"full-blown",
"full-bore",
"full-fledged",
"full-on",
"full-out",
"full-scale"
],
"near antonyms":[
"abbreviated",
"abridged",
"cut",
"diminished",
"reduced"
],
"antonyms":[
"imperfect",
"incomplete",
"partial"
]
},
"to bring (something) to a state where nothing remains to be done":{
"examples":[
"perfected the arrangements for their long-awaited European vacation"
],
"synonyms":[
"complete",
"consummate",
"finalize",
"finish",
"polish"
],
"near synonyms":[
"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"
],
"near antonyms":[
"abandon",
"desert",
"discontinue",
"drop",
"forsake",
"quit"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to make better":{
"examples":[
"an art teacher who seems to believe that you can always perfect a painting with some additional brush strokes"
],
"synonyms":[
"ameliorate",
"amend",
"better",
"enhance",
"enrich",
"help",
"improve",
"meliorate",
"refine",
"upgrade"
],
"near synonyms":[
"correct",
"emend",
"rectify",
"reform",
"remediate",
"remedy",
"edit",
"fine-tune",
"redraft",
"refurbish",
"rehab",
"rehabilitate",
"revamp",
"revise",
"rework",
"beef (up)",
"boost",
"fortify",
"intensify",
"reinforce",
"reenforce",
"strengthen",
"fine",
"hone",
"polish",
"retouch",
"touch up"
],
"near antonyms":[
"damage",
"endamage",
"harm",
"hurt",
"impair",
"injure",
"spoil",
"tarnish",
"vitiate",
"blemish",
"blight",
"deface",
"disfigure",
"flaw",
"mar",
"diminish",
"lessen",
"lower",
"reduce"
],
"antonyms":[
"worsen"
]
},
"type":[
"adjective",
"verb"
]
},
"perms":{
"as in dreadlocks , cornrows":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"Afros",
"conks",
"cornrows",
"dreadlocks",
"permanents",
"coiffures",
"cuts",
"dos",
"do's",
"haircuts",
"hairdos",
"hairstyles",
"beehives",
"big hairs",
"buns",
"chignons",
"French twists",
"pageboys",
"pugs",
"updos",
"upsweeps",
"bobs",
"buzz cuts",
"crew cuts",
"crops",
"fades",
"Mohawk",
"Mohawks",
"shags",
"shingles",
"trims",
"braids",
"pigtails",
"plaits",
"ponytails",
"queues",
"comb-overs",
"ducktails",
"pompadours",
"roaches"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"perceives":{
"to have a vague awareness of":{
"examples":[
"I thought I perceived a problem, but I wasn't sure"
],
"synonyms":[
"feels",
"scents",
"sees",
"senses",
"smells",
"tastes"
],
"near synonyms":[
"beholds",
"descries",
"discerns",
"distinguishes",
"espies",
"eyes",
"looks (at)",
"notes",
"notices",
"observes",
"regards",
"remarks",
"sights",
"spies",
"views",
"witnesses",
"ascertains",
"catches on (to)",
"discovers",
"finds out",
"hears",
"learns",
"realizes",
"anticipates",
"divines",
"expects",
"foreknows",
"foresees",
"assumes",
"conjectures",
"guesses",
"presumes",
"speculates",
"supposes",
"surmises",
"suspects"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to make note of (something) through the use of one's eyes":{
"examples":[
"perceived that it was going to be a nice day"
],
"synonyms":[
"beholds",
"catches",
"descries",
"discerns",
"distinguishes",
"espies",
"eyes",
"looks (at)",
"notes",
"notices",
"observes",
"regards",
"remarks",
"sees",
"sights",
"spies",
"spots",
"views",
"witnesses"
],
"near synonyms":[
"identifies",
"makes out",
"picks out",
"picks up",
"attends (to)",
"considers",
"heeds",
"marks",
"minds",
"studies",
"watches",
"examines",
"inspects",
"scans",
"scrutinizes",
"surveys",
"glances (at)",
"glimpses",
"peers (at)"
],
"near antonyms":[
"disregards",
"ignores",
"neglects",
"overpasses",
"passes over",
"misses",
"overlooks"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to have a clear idea of":{
"examples":[
"I perceive your point, but I still disagree"
],
"synonyms":[
"appreciates",
"apprehends",
"assimilates",
"beholds",
"catches",
"catches on (to)",
"cognizes",
"compasses",
"comprehends",
"conceives",
"cottons (to or on to)",
"deciphers",
"decodes",
"digs",
"discerns",
"gets",
"grasps",
"groks",
"intuits",
"knows",
"makes",
"makes out",
"recognizes",
"registers",
"savvies",
"sees",
"seizes",
"senses",
"tumbles (to)",
"twigs",
"understands"
],
"near synonyms":[
"absorbs",
"digests",
"takes in",
"realizes",
"fathoms",
"penetrates",
"pierces"
],
"near antonyms":[
"misapprehends",
"misconceives",
"misconstrues",
"misinterprets",
"misperceives",
"misreads",
"mistakes",
"misunderstands"
],
"antonyms":[
"misses"
]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"perversity":{
"readiness to show annoyance or impatience":{
"examples":[
"a certain coworker's habitual perversity makes him unpleasant to be around"
],
"synonyms":[
"biliousness",
"choler",
"crankiness",
"crossness",
"crotchetiness",
"grouchiness",
"grumpiness",
"huffiness",
"irascibility",
"irascibleness",
"irritability",
"irritableness",
"peevishness",
"perverseness",
"pettishness",
"petulance",
"testiness",
"waspishness"
],
"near synonyms":[
"cantankerousness",
"crustiness",
"curmudgeonliness",
"disagreeableness",
"dyspepsia",
"fretfulness",
"orneriness",
"sulkiness",
"surliness",
"aggression",
"aggressiveness",
"bellicosity",
"belligerence",
"belligerency",
"combativeness",
"contentiousness",
"contrariness",
"disputatiousness",
"feistiness",
"fight",
"pugnaciousness",
"pugnacity",
"quarrelsomeness",
"scrappiness",
"truculence",
"truculency",
"fussiness",
"querulousness",
"rudeness",
"oversensitiveness",
"sensitivity",
"supersensitivity",
"touchiness",
"animosity",
"antagonism",
"antipathy",
"fierceness",
"hostility",
"jaundice",
"rancor",
"unfriendliness",
"anger",
"exasperation",
"fury",
"indignation",
"rage",
"spleen",
"wrath",
"hot-bloodedness",
"passion"
],
"near antonyms":[
"forbearance",
"long-suffering",
"patience",
"tolerance",
"understanding",
"affability",
"agreeableness",
"amenity",
"amicability",
"cordiality",
"friendliness",
"geniality",
"sociability",
"amiability",
"amiableness",
"good-humoredness",
"good-naturedness",
"good-temperedness",
"coolness",
"serenity",
"tranquillity",
"tranquility",
"easygoingness",
"gentleness",
"kindliness",
"mildness"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"perpetration":{
"the doing of an action":{
"examples":[
"the perpetration of a series of pranks that resulted in an expulsion from school"
],
"synonyms":[
"accomplishment",
"achievement",
"commission",
"discharge",
"enactment",
"execution",
"fulfillment",
"fulfilment",
"implementation",
"performance",
"prosecution",
"pursuance"
],
"near synonyms":[
"dispatch",
"expedition",
"administration",
"direction",
"handling",
"management",
"application",
"operation",
"practice",
"practise"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[
"nonfulfillment",
"nonperformance"
]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"peripheries":{
"the line or relatively narrow space that marks the outer limit of something":{
"examples":[
"the dogs are confined by an invisible electronic fence that runs along the periphery of the yard"
],
"synonyms":[
"borderlines",
"borders",
"boundaries",
"bounds",
"brims",
"circumferences",
"compasses",
"confines",
"edges",
"edgings",
"ends",
"frames",
"fringes",
"hems",
"margins",
"perimeters",
"rims",
"skirtings",
"skirts",
"verges"
],
"near synonyms":[
"ambits",
"brinks",
"crests",
"curbs",
"cusps",
"lips",
"ceilings",
"maxima",
"maximums",
"demarcations",
"extents",
"limitations",
"measures",
"meres",
"restrictions",
"terminations",
"borderlands",
"frontiers",
"marches",
"outskirts",
"pales",
"selvages",
"laps",
"shores"
],
"near antonyms":[
"centers",
"cores",
"hearts",
"inners",
"insides",
"interiors",
"middles",
"withins"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"perishable":{
"likely to spoil or decay quickly; not likely to stay fresh for a long time if not eaten or used":{
"examples":[
"Don't buy large amounts of perishable foods like produce before you leave for vacation."
],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"nonhardy",
"resistless",
"susceptible",
"unresistant",
"vulnerable",
"yielding",
"delicate",
"fragile",
"frail",
"sensitive",
"tender",
"breakable",
"brittle",
"crushable",
"eggshell",
"frangible",
"friable",
"feeble",
"flimsy",
"puny",
"slight",
"soft",
"tenuous",
"weak"
],
"near antonyms":[
"nonperishable",
"durable",
"firm",
"flinty",
"hard",
"hardy",
"resistant",
"robust",
"rugged",
"solid",
"sound",
"stiff",
"stout",
"strong",
"sturdy",
"substantial",
"infrangible",
"nonbreakable",
"unbreakable",
"hardened",
"inured",
"strengthened",
"tempered",
"toughened",
"tough"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"adjective"
]
},
"peregrination":{
"a going from one place to another usually of some distance":{
"examples":[
"planning a leisurely peregrination across Europe for our honeymoon"
],
"synonyms":[
"expedition",
"journey",
"passage",
"travel(s)",
"trek",
"trip"
],
"near synonyms":[
"commutation",
"commute",
"errand",
"excursion",
"flight",
"hop",
"jaunt",
"junket",
"outing",
"sally",
"sortie",
"tour",
"cruise",
"sail",
"voyage",
"drive",
"ride",
"spin",
"grand tour",
"odyssey",
"pilgrimage",
"progress",
"quest",
"safari",
"hike",
"slog",
"tramp",
"walk",
"walkabout"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"perpended":{
"to give serious and careful thought to":{
"examples":[
"spent the long weekend perpending what he wanted to do with his life"
],
"synonyms":[
"chewed over",
"cogitated",
"considered",
"contemplated",
"debated",
"deliberated",
"entertained",
"eyed",
"kicked around",
"meditated",
"mulled (over)",
"pondered",
"pored (over)",
"questioned",
"revolved",
"ruminated",
"studied",
"thought (about or over)",
"turned",
"weighed",
"wrestled (with)"
],
"near synonyms":[
"mused (upon)",
"reflected (on or upon)",
"reminisced",
"analyzed",
"explored",
"reviewed",
"concluded",
"reasoned",
"second-guessed",
"speculated (about)",
"brooded (about or over)",
"dwelled (on or upon)",
"dwelt (on or upon)",
"fixated (on or upon)",
"fretted (about or over)",
"obsessed (about or over)",
"believed",
"conceived",
"opined",
"absorbed",
"assimilated",
"digested",
"drank (in)"
],
"near antonyms":[
"disregarded",
"ignored",
"overlooked",
"slighted",
"dismissed",
"pooh-poohed",
"poohed",
"rejected"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"persecuting":{
"to cause persistent suffering to":{
"examples":[
"people who were persecuted simply for practicing their religious faith"
],
"synonyms":[
"afflicting",
"agonizing",
"anguishing",
"bedeviling",
"besetting",
"besieging",
"cursing",
"excruciating",
"harrowing",
"plaguing",
"racking",
"tormenting",
"torturing"
],
"near synonyms":[
"assailing",
"attacking",
"badgering",
"dogging",
"hounding",
"pursuing",
"riding",
"aggravating",
"agitating",
"annoying",
"bothering",
"bugging",
"chafing",
"distressing",
"disturbing",
"exasperating",
"galling",
"getting",
"grating",
"griping",
"hagriding",
"harassing",
"harrying",
"irking",
"irritating",
"molesting",
"nettling",
"peeving",
"pestering",
"piquing",
"putting out",
"rasping",
"riling",
"vexing",
"discomforting",
"discomposing",
"disquieting",
"flustering",
"grieving",
"perturbing",
"straining",
"stressing",
"troubling",
"trying",
"upsetting",
"worrying",
"crushing",
"oppressing",
"overpowering",
"overwhelming",
"smiting",
"striking",
"tyrannizing",
"victimizing",
"hurting",
"paining",
"panging",
"pricking",
"smarting",
"stabbing",
"stinging",
"wringing",
"martyring"
],
"near antonyms":[
"abetting",
"aiding",
"assisting",
"helping",
"delivering",
"releasing",
"relieving",
"reprieving",
"comforting",
"consoling",
"contenting",
"quieting",
"solacing",
"soothing",
"succoring"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to disturb the peace of mind of (someone) especially by repeated disagreeable acts":{
"examples":[
"she likes to persecute her sister with pointless, annoying questions at very inopportune times"
],
"synonyms":[
"aggravating",
"annoying",
"bothering",
"bugging",
"burning (up)",
"chafing",
"eating",
"exasperating",
"frosting",
"galling",
"getting",
"grating",
"griping",
"hacking (off)",
"irking",
"irritating",
"itching",
"narking",
"nettling",
"peeving",
"piquing",
"putting out",
"rasping",
"riling",
"ruffling",
"spiting",
"vexing"
],
"near synonyms":[
"hassling",
"heckling",
"nagging",
"inflaming",
"enflaming",
"provoking",
"rousing",
"badgering",
"baiting",
"bullyragging",
"ballyragging",
"deviling",
"devilling",
"hagriding",
"harassing",
"harrying",
"pestering",
"plaguing",
"teasing",
"angering",
"antagonizing",
"enraging",
"incensing",
"infuriating",
"maddening",
"rankling",
"roiling",
"agitating",
"discomforting",
"discomposing",
"disquieting",
"distressing",
"exercising",
"freaking (out)",
"fretting",
"perturbing",
"undoing",
"unhinging",
"unsettling",
"upsetting",
"worrying",
"affronting",
"insulting",
"miffing",
"offending",
"outraging"
],
"near antonyms":[
"appeasing",
"conciliating",
"mollifying",
"obliging",
"pacifying",
"placating",
"propitiating",
"delighting",
"gladdening",
"gratifying",
"pleasing",
"satisfying",
"assuring",
"cheering",
"comforting",
"consoling",
"contenting",
"quieting",
"reassuring",
"solacing",
"soothing"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"persistency":{
"as in persistence , perseverance":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"doggedness",
"obduracy",
"obdurateness",
"obstinacy",
"obstinateness",
"perseverance",
"persistence",
"stubbornness",
"tenaciousness",
"tenacity",
"decidedness",
"decision",
"decisiveness",
"determination",
"determinedness",
"firmness",
"granite",
"purposefulness",
"resoluteness",
"resolution",
"resolve",
"stick-to-itiveness",
"certainty",
"certitude",
"confidence",
"sureness",
"alacrity",
"eagerness",
"gameness",
"readiness",
"backbone",
"fortitude",
"grit",
"iron",
"pluck",
"sand"
],
"near antonyms":[
"hesitation",
"indecision",
"indecisiveness",
"irresoluteness",
"irresolution",
"vacillation",
"doubt",
"incertitude",
"indetermination",
"uncertainty",
"aversion",
"disinclination",
"indisposition",
"reluctance",
"unwillingness"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"performance":{
"a presentation of an artistic work (as a piece of music) from a particular point of view":{
"examples":[
"a disappointing, lackluster performance of a classic of the musical theater"
],
"synonyms":[
"account",
"interpretation",
"reading",
"rendition",
"version"
],
"near synonyms":[
"adaptation",
"reworking",
"variation"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"the doing of an action":{
"examples":[
"the performance of her nightly ritual, the taking of a warm bath, calmed her"
],
"synonyms":[
"accomplishment",
"achievement",
"commission",
"discharge",
"enactment",
"execution",
"fulfillment",
"fulfilment",
"implementation",
"perpetration",
"prosecution",
"pursuance"
],
"near synonyms":[
"dispatch",
"expedition",
"administration",
"direction",
"handling",
"management",
"application",
"operation",
"practice",
"practise"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[
"nonfulfillment",
"nonperformance"
]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"peremptory":{
"fond of ordering people around":{
"examples":[
"the governor's peremptory personal assistant began telling the crowd of reporters and photographers exactly where they had to stand"
],
"synonyms":[
"authoritarian",
"authoritative",
"autocratic",
"autocratical",
"bossy",
"despotic",
"dictatorial",
"domineering",
"imperious",
"masterful",
"overbearing",
"tyrannical",
"tyrannic",
"tyrannous"
],
"near synonyms":[
"arrogant",
"assumptive",
"disdainful",
"fastuous",
"haughty",
"highfalutin",
"hifalutin",
"high-and-mighty",
"high-hat",
"huffy",
"important",
"lofty",
"lordly",
"overweening",
"presuming",
"presumptuous",
"pretentious",
"proud",
"self-asserting",
"supercilious",
"superior",
"toplofty",
"toploftical",
"uppish",
"uppity",
"commanding",
"controlling",
"dictating",
"regimental",
"arbitrary",
"high-handed",
"imperial",
"directorial",
"magisterial",
"aggressive",
"assertive",
"self-assertive",
"imperative",
"conceited",
"narcissistic",
"pompous",
"vain",
"all-powerful",
"almighty",
"omnipotent",
"firm",
"stern"
],
"near antonyms":[
"humble",
"meek",
"modest",
"unassuming",
"amenable",
"docile",
"obedient",
"tractable",
"indecisive",
"irresolute",
"acquiescent",
"compliant",
"passive",
"resigned",
"submissive",
"yielding"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"forcing one's compliance or participation by or as if by law":{
"examples":[
"a peremptory summons to appear before the committee"
],
"synonyms":[
"compulsory",
"forced",
"imperative",
"incumbent",
"involuntary",
"mandatory",
"necessary",
"nonelective",
"obligatory",
"required"
],
"near synonyms":[
"all-important",
"essential",
"indispensable",
"needed",
"requisite",
"insistent",
"persistent",
"pressing",
"urgent",
"demanded",
"enforced",
"coercive"
],
"near antonyms":[
"chosen",
"discretionary",
"dispensable",
"unnecessary",
"unneeded",
"unwanted",
"inconsequential",
"insignificant",
"nonessential",
"unimportant"
],
"antonyms":[
"elective",
"optional",
"voluntary"
]
},
"having a feeling of superiority that shows itself in an overbearing attitude":{
"examples":[
"she had such a peremptory approach to running the club that people started to avoid her"
],
"synonyms":[
"arrogant",
"assumptive",
"bumptious",
"cavalier",
"chesty",
"haughty",
"high-and-mighty",
"high-handed",
"high-hat",
"highfalutin",
"hifalutin",
"huffish",
"huffy",
"imperious",
"important",
"lofty",
"lordly",
"masterful",
"overweening",
"pompous",
"presuming",
"presumptuous",
"pretentious",
"self-asserting",
"self-assertive",
"sniffy",
"stiff-necked",
"supercilious",
"superior",
"toplofty",
"toploftical",
"uppish",
"uppity"
],
"near synonyms":[
"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"
],
"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"
],
"antonyms":[
"humble",
"lowly",
"modest",
"unarrogant",
"unpretentious"
]
},
"having or showing a tendency to force one's will on others without any regard to fairness or necessity":{
"examples":[
"a peremptory insistence that the staff wait on them first"
],
"synonyms":[
"arbitrary",
"dictatorial",
"high-handed",
"imperious",
"willful",
"wilful"
],
"near synonyms":[
"arrogant",
"commanding",
"demanding",
"dominant",
"domineering",
"haughty",
"imperative",
"lordly",
"masterful",
"overbearing",
"presumptuous",
"authoritarian",
"autocratic",
"autocratical",
"despotic",
"totalitarian",
"tyrannical",
"tyrannic",
"tyrannous",
"capricious",
"changeable",
"erratic",
"inconsistent",
"mercurial",
"whimsical",
"biased",
"inequitable",
"partisan",
"prejudiced",
"unequal",
"unfair",
"unjust",
"unrealistic",
"unreasonable",
"unconscionable",
"unethical",
"unprincipled",
"unscrupulous"
],
"near antonyms":[
"balanced",
"disinterested",
"dispassionate",
"equal",
"equitable",
"evenhanded",
"fair",
"impartial",
"just",
"nonpartisan",
"objective",
"rational",
"reasonable",
"understanding",
"unbiased",
"unprejudiced",
"ethical",
"honorable",
"irreproachable",
"law-abiding",
"moral",
"principled",
"unimpeachable"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"adjective"
]
},
"periling":{
"to place in danger":{
"examples":[
"a tribute to the men and women who, as firefighters, peril their lives daily"
],
"synonyms":[
"adventuring",
"compromising",
"endangering",
"gambling (with)",
"hazarding",
"imperiling",
"imperilling",
"jeoparding",
"jeopardizing",
"menacing",
"risking",
"venturing"
],
"near synonyms":[
"intimidating",
"threatening",
"exposing",
"subjecting",
"chancing",
"wagering"
],
"near antonyms":[
"guarding",
"protecting",
"sheltering",
"shielding",
"preserving",
"resuming",
"saving"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"personas":{
"the way you behave, talk, etc., with other people that causes them to see you as a particular kind of person":{
"examples":[
"His public persona is that of a strong, determined leader, but in private life he's very insecure.",
"The band takes on a whole new persona when they perform live."
],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"image",
"act",
"airs",
"charade",
"disguise",
"facade",
"fa\u00e7ade",
"front",
"guise",
"masquerade",
"playacting",
"pose",
"pretense",
"pretence",
"put-on",
"semblance",
"show",
"impersonation",
"performance",
"portrayal",
"appearance",
"color",
"gloss",
"camouflage",
"cloak",
"affectation",
"deceit",
"deception",
"dissembling",
"dissimulation",
"double-dealing",
"duplicity",
"fakery",
"fraud",
"guile",
"excuse",
"pretext"
],
"near antonyms":[
"bluntness",
"candidness",
"candor",
"directness",
"forthrightness",
"frankness",
"openheartedness",
"outspokenness",
"plainspokenness",
"sincerity",
"straightforwardness",
"artlessness",
"genuineness",
"na\u00efvet\u00e9",
"naivete",
"naivet\u00e9"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"perfidiousness":{
"lack of faithfulness especially to one's husband or wife":{
"examples":[
"perfidiousness eventually led to the couple's divorce"
],
"synonyms":[
"disloyalty",
"faithlessness",
"falseness",
"falsity",
"inconstancy",
"infidelity",
"perfidy",
"unfaithfulness"
],
"near synonyms":[
"adultery",
"betrayal",
"double cross",
"double-dealing",
"duplicity",
"sellout",
"treachery",
"treason",
"deceit",
"deception",
"lying"
],
"near antonyms":[
"staunchness",
"steadfastness",
"dependability",
"reliability",
"honesty",
"trustworthiness"
],
"antonyms":[
"allegiance",
"constancy",
"devotedness",
"devotion",
"faith",
"faithfulness",
"fealty",
"fidelity",
"loyalty"
]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"perturbation":{
"an uneasy state of mind usually over the possibility of an anticipated misfortune or trouble":{
"examples":[
"in her perturbation she kept calling her son, a freshman, to see if everything was all right at college"
],
"synonyms":[
"agita",
"agitation",
"anxiety",
"anxiousness",
"apprehension",
"apprehensiveness",
"care",
"concern",
"concernment",
"disquiet",
"disquietude",
"fear",
"nervosity",
"nervousness",
"solicitude",
"sweat",
"unease",
"uneasiness",
"worry"
],
"near synonyms":[
"strain",
"stress",
"tension",
"alarm",
"alarum",
"anguish",
"consternation",
"desperateness",
"desperation",
"discomfort",
"discomposure",
"dismay",
"distraction",
"distress",
"disturbance",
"edginess",
"franticness",
"hand-wringing",
"jitters",
"jumpiness",
"panic",
"tremor",
"angst",
"fearfulness",
"torment",
"upset",
"vexation",
"cold feet",
"doubt",
"dread",
"foreboding",
"incertitude",
"misgiving",
"presentiment",
"suspense",
"uncertainty",
"compunction",
"qualm",
"scruple"
],
"near antonyms":[
"calm",
"calmness",
"content",
"contentment",
"ease",
"easiness",
"peace",
"peacefulness",
"placidity",
"placidness",
"quiet",
"quietude",
"sereneness",
"serenity",
"tranquillity",
"tranquility",
"tranquilness",
"comfort",
"consolation",
"relief",
"solace"
],
"antonyms":[
"unconcern"
]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"persuasible":{
"as in inexperienced , wide-eyed":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"childlike",
"dewy-eyed",
"gee-whiz",
"impressionable",
"inexperienced",
"malleable",
"persuadable",
"simpleminded",
"unsophisticated",
"unworldly",
"wide-eyed",
"artless",
"genuine",
"guileless",
"honest",
"ingenuous",
"innocent",
"naive",
"na\u00efve",
"natural",
"real",
"simple",
"sincere",
"true",
"unaffected",
"unpretending",
"unpretentious",
"exploitable",
"gullible",
"gullable",
"suggestible",
"susceptible",
"unwary",
"vulnerable",
"trustful",
"trusting"
],
"near antonyms":[
"unimpressionable",
"insensitive",
"insusceptible",
"critical",
"cynical",
"mistrustful",
"skeptical",
"suspicious",
"wary",
"cosmopolitan",
"sophisticated",
"worldly",
"worldly-wise",
"civilized",
"cultivated",
"cultured",
"polished",
"refined",
"seasoned",
"arch",
"calculating",
"canny",
"crafty",
"cunning",
"designing",
"foxy",
"knavish",
"scheming",
"sharp",
"shifty",
"shrewd",
"slick",
"slippery",
"sly",
"subtle",
"tricky",
"underhanded",
"wily",
"affected",
"artful",
"artificial",
"assuming",
"dishonest",
"dissembling",
"dissimulating",
"fake",
"false",
"guileful",
"insincere",
"phony",
"phoney",
"pretentious"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"adjective"
]
},
"perfects":{
"to bring (something) to a state where nothing remains to be done":{
"examples":[
"perfected the arrangements for their long-awaited European vacation"
],
"synonyms":[
"completes",
"consummates",
"finalizes",
"finishes",
"polishes"
],
"near synonyms":[
"follows through (with)",
"sticks out",
"accomplishes",
"achieves",
"effects",
"carries out",
"carries through",
"discharges",
"does",
"executes",
"fulfills",
"fulfils",
"performs",
"ameliorates",
"amends",
"betters",
"enhances",
"enriches",
"improves",
"meliorates",
"machines",
"refines",
"rounds (off or out)",
"shines",
"touches up"
],
"near antonyms":[
"abandons",
"deserts",
"discontinues",
"drops",
"forsakes",
"quits"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to make better":{
"examples":[
"an art teacher who seems to believe that you can always perfect a painting with some additional brush strokes"
],
"synonyms":[
"ameliorates",
"amends",
"betters",
"enhances",
"enriches",
"helps",
"improves",
"meliorates",
"refines",
"upgrades"
],
"near synonyms":[
"corrects",
"emends",
"rectifies",
"reforms",
"remediates",
"remedies",
"edits",
"fine-tunes",
"redrafts",
"refurbishes",
"rehabilitates",
"rehabs",
"revamps",
"revises",
"reworks",
"beefs (up)",
"boosts",
"fortifies",
"intensifies",
"reinforces",
"reenforces",
"strengthens",
"fines",
"hones",
"polishes",
"retouches",
"touches up"
],
"near antonyms":[
"damages",
"endamages",
"harms",
"hurts",
"impairs",
"injures",
"spoils",
"tarnishes",
"vitiates",
"blemishes",
"blights",
"defaces",
"disfigures",
"flaws",
"mars",
"diminishes",
"lessens",
"lowers",
"reduces"
],
"antonyms":[
"worsens"
]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"perfections":{
"the most perfect type or example":{
"examples":[
"Rembrandt's portraits are the perfection of the art of using facial expression, pose, and gesture to reveal the subject's interior life"
],
"synonyms":[
"acmes",
"apotheoses",
"beau ideals",
"bywords",
"classics",
"epitomes",
"exemplars",
"ideals",
"quintessences"
],
"near synonyms":[
"archetypes",
"models",
"prototypes",
"paradigms",
"standards",
"nonpareils",
"paragons",
"abstracts",
"avatars",
"embodiers",
"embodiments",
"incarnations",
"incorporations",
"manifestations",
"personifications",
"heights",
"last words",
"meridians",
"ultimates",
"zeniths",
"benchmarks",
"criteria",
"criterions",
"touchstones",
"yardsticks"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"perfectionist":{
"a person who wants things to be done perfectly or who tries to do things perfectly":{
"examples":[
"I'm a bit of a perfectionist , which makes it difficult for me to finish things sometimes."
],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"emotionalist",
"sentimentalist",
"Don Quixote",
"dreamer",
"fantast",
"idealist",
"idealizer",
"ideologue",
"idealogue",
"romantic",
"romanticist",
"utopian",
"visionary",
"daydreamer",
"fantasizer",
"woolgatherer",
"Micawber",
"optimist",
"Pollyanna",
"do-gooder",
"reformer",
"doctrinaire",
"theorist",
"thinker"
],
"near antonyms":[
"cynic",
"defeatist",
"pessimist",
"empiric",
"empiricist",
"hardnose",
"pragmatist",
"realist"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"perfunctorily":{
"as in indifferently , apathetically":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"apathetically",
"indifferently",
"lukewarmly",
"aloofly",
"disinterestedly",
"impassively",
"incuriously",
"hesitantly",
"reluctantly",
"unwillingly"
],
"near antonyms":[
"enthusiastically",
"exuberantly",
"madly",
"rhapsodically",
"sky-high",
"avidly",
"eagerly",
"excitedly",
"impatiently",
"keenly",
"fanatically",
"rabidly",
"warmly",
"zealously"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"adverb"
]
},
"pertinently":{
"as in meaningfully , sensibly":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"germanely",
"meaningfully",
"relevantly",
"sensibly",
"infallibly",
"perfectly",
"acceptably",
"adequately",
"satisfactorily",
"sufficiently",
"appropriately",
"aptly",
"correctly",
"fittingly",
"properly",
"right",
"rightly",
"suitably",
"well",
"prudently",
"sagely",
"wisely"
],
"near antonyms":[
"amiss",
"erroneously",
"faultily",
"improperly",
"inaccurately",
"inappropriately",
"inaptly",
"incorrectly",
"mistakenly",
"unsuitably",
"wrongly",
"misguidedly",
"fallibly",
"imperfectly"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"adverb"
]
},
"persuade":{
"to cause (someone) to agree with a belief or course of action by using arguments or earnest request":{
"examples":[
"she persuaded us that she can indeed communicate with the dead",
"he persuaded his teachers to grant an extension"
],
"synonyms":[
"argue",
"bring",
"bring around",
"convert",
"convince",
"gain",
"get",
"induce",
"move",
"prevail (on or upon)",
"satisfy",
"talk (into)",
"win (over)"
],
"near synonyms":[
"blandish",
"blarney",
"cajole",
"coax",
"entreat",
"exhort",
"fast-talk",
"urge",
"wheedle",
"allure",
"beguile",
"lead on",
"lure",
"seduce",
"snow",
"tempt",
"brainwash",
"overpersuade",
"incline",
"influence",
"prompt",
"sell",
"sway",
"attract",
"draw",
"entice",
"interest",
"chew over",
"converse",
"debate",
"discuss",
"dispute",
"hash (over)",
"moot",
"reason (with)"
],
"near antonyms":[
"deter",
"discourage",
"dissuade",
"unsell"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"permission":{
"the approval by someone in authority for the doing of something":{
"examples":[
"she asked for permission to have a piece of candy",
"the President granted permission for the foreign diplomats to have special quarters"
],
"synonyms":[
"allowance",
"authorization",
"clearance",
"concurrence",
"consent",
"granting",
"green light",
"leave",
"license",
"licence",
"sanction",
"sufferance",
"warrant"
],
"near synonyms":[
"imprimatur",
"seal",
"signature",
"stamp",
"accreditation",
"certification",
"liberty",
"pass",
"concession",
"patent",
"permit",
"tolerance",
"toleration",
"acceptance",
"acquiescence",
"agreement",
"assent",
"OK",
"okay",
"accord",
"grant"
],
"near antonyms":[
"denial",
"refusal",
"rejection",
"revocation",
"taboo",
"tabu",
"injunction",
"veto",
"deterrence",
"discouragement",
"repression",
"suppression",
"ban",
"embargo",
"exclusion"
],
"antonyms":[
"interdiction",
"prohibition",
"proscription"
]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"perusals":{
"as in studies , surveys":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"examinations",
"inspections",
"studies",
"surveys",
"attentions",
"observances",
"observations",
"surveillances",
"watches",
"contemplations",
"fixations",
"glares",
"glowers",
"aspects",
"eyes",
"gapes",
"gazes",
"regards",
"scrutinies",
"stares"
],
"near antonyms":[
"blinks",
"flashes",
"glances",
"glimpses",
"peeks",
"peeps",
"sights",
"stimes",
"oeillades",
"ogles",
"browses",
"scans"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"pertinent":{
"having to do with the matter at hand":{
"examples":[
"he impressed the jury with his concise, pertinent answers to the attorney's questions"
],
"synonyms":[
"applicable",
"apposite",
"apropos",
"germane",
"material",
"pointed",
"relative",
"relevant"
],
"near synonyms":[
"appropriate",
"apt",
"fit",
"fitting",
"suitable",
"important",
"meaningful",
"significant",
"sensible",
"useful",
"admissible",
"allowable"
],
"near antonyms":[
"frivolous",
"inconsequential",
"insignificant",
"little",
"minor",
"negligible",
"slight",
"trifling",
"trivial",
"unimportant",
"meaningless",
"purposeless",
"senseless",
"useless",
"inappropriate",
"inapt",
"unsuitable",
"inadmissible"
],
"antonyms":[
"extraneous",
"immaterial",
"impertinent",
"inapplicable",
"inapposite",
"irrelative",
"irrelevant",
"pointless"
]
},
"type":[
"adjective"
]
},
"periphrasis":{
"the use of too many words to express an idea":{
"examples":[
"congressional hearings into the Watergate scandal were marked by an orgy of periphrasis , the expression \"at this point in time\" being a memorable example"
],
"synonyms":[
"circumlocution",
"diffuseness",
"diffusion",
"garrulity",
"garrulousness",
"logorrhea",
"long-windedness",
"prolixity",
"redundancy",
"verbalism",
"verbiage",
"verboseness",
"verbosity",
"windiness",
"wordage",
"wordiness"
],
"near synonyms":[
"circuitousness",
"circularity",
"digressiveness",
"pleonasm",
"tautology",
"reiteration",
"repetition",
"repetitiousness",
"repetitiveness",
"embellishment",
"embroidering",
"exaggeration",
"hyperbole",
"overstatement"
],
"near antonyms":[
"brevity",
"briefness",
"compactness",
"conciseness",
"concision",
"crispness",
"pithiness",
"succinctness",
"terseness"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"perduring":{
"as in holding up , running on":{
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"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"abiding",
"biding",
"continuing",
"enduring",
"holding on",
"holding up",
"keeping up",
"lasting",
"persisting",
"running on",
"lingering",
"residual",
"staying",
"sticking around",
"tarrying",
"leftover",
"remaining",
"carrying through",
"prevailing",
"surviving"
],
"near antonyms":[
"abating",
"dying (down)",
"ebbing",
"letting up",
"moderating",
"subsiding",
"waning",
"ceasing",
"closing",
"concluding",
"desisting",
"discontinuing",
"dying",
"ending",
"expiring",
"finishing",
"lapsing",
"leaving off",
"passing",
"quitting",
"stopping",
"terminating",
"winding up"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to remain indefinitely in existence or in the same state":{
"examples":[
"in so many ways, the influence and legacy of the Roman empire perdures to this very day"
],
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"abiding",
"biding",
"continuing",
"enduring",
"holding on",
"holding up",
"keeping up",
"lasting",
"persisting",
"remaining",
"running on"
],
"near synonyms":[
"lingering",
"staying",
"sticking around",
"tarrying",
"carrying through",
"prevailing",
"surviving"
],
"near antonyms":[
"abating",
"dying (down)",
"ebbing",
"letting up",
"moderating",
"subsiding",
"waning"
],
"antonyms":[
"ceasing",
"closing",
"concluding",
"desisting",
"discontinuing",
"dying",
"ending",
"expiring",
"finishing",
"lapsing",
"leaving off",
"passing",
"quitting",
"stopping",
"terminating",
"winding up"
]
},
"type":[
"adjective",
"verb"
]
},
"perturbable":{
"as in testy , prickly":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"irascible",
"irritable",
"prickly",
"testy",
"touchy",
"dramatic",
"histrionic",
"melodramatic",
"emotional",
"emotionalistic",
"hypersensitive",
"intense",
"sensitive",
"soulful",
"anxious",
"edgy",
"flibbertigibbety",
"nervy",
"tense",
"uptight",
"hot-blooded",
"mercurial",
"temperamental",
"unstable",
"volatile",
"volcanic",
"excitable",
"fiddle-footed",
"flighty",
"fluttery",
"high-strung",
"hyper",
"hyperactive",
"hyperexcitable",
"hyperkinetic",
"jittery",
"jumpy",
"nervous",
"skittery",
"skittish",
"spasmodic",
"spooky"
],
"near antonyms":[
"imperturbable",
"nerveless",
"unexcitable",
"unflappable",
"unshakable",
"calm",
"collected",
"cool",
"serene",
"tranquil",
"easy",
"easygoing",
"laid-back",
"relaxed"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"adjective"
]
},
"persons":{
"a member of the human race":{
"examples":[
"is there any person here who knows how to speak Spanish?"
],
"synonyms":[
"baby",
"being",
"bird",
"bod",
"body",
"character",
"cookie",
"cooky",
"creature",
"customer",
"devil",
"duck",
"egg",
"face",
"fish",
"guy",
"head",
"human",
"human being",
"individual",
"life",
"man",
"mortal",
"party",
"personage",
"scout",
"slob",
"sort",
"soul",
"specimen",
"stiff",
"thing",
"wight"
],
"near synonyms":[
"hominid",
"homo",
"humanoid",
"brother",
"fellow",
"fellowman",
"neighbor",
"celebrity",
"personality",
"self",
"somebody"
],
"near antonyms":[
"animal",
"beast",
"beastie",
"brute",
"critter"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"perpending":{
"to give serious and careful thought to":{
"examples":[
"spent the long weekend perpending what he wanted to do with his life"
],
"synonyms":[
"chewing over",
"cogitating",
"considering",
"contemplating",
"debating",
"deliberating",
"entertaining",
"eyeing",
"eying",
"kicking around",
"meditating",
"mulling (over)",
"pondering",
"poring (over)",
"questioning",
"revolving",
"ruminating",
"studying",
"thinking (about or over)",
"turning",
"weighing",
"wrestling (with)"
],
"near synonyms":[
"musing (upon)",
"reflecting (on or upon)",
"reminiscing",
"analyzing",
"exploring",
"reviewing",
"concluding",
"reasoning",
"second-guessing",
"speculating (about)",
"brooding (about or over)",
"dwelling (on or upon)",
"fixating (on or upon)",
"fretting (about or over)",
"obsessing (about or over)",
"believing",
"conceiving",
"opining",
"absorbing",
"assimilating",
"digesting",
"drinking (in)"
],
"near antonyms":[
"disregarding",
"ignoring",
"overlooking",
"slighting",
"dismissing",
"pooh-poohing",
"poohing",
"rejecting"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"perused":{
"to go over and mentally take in the content of":{
"examples":[
"perused the manuscript, checking for grammatical errors"
],
"synonyms":[
"pored (over)",
"read"
],
"near synonyms":[
"browsed",
"dipped (into)",
"leafed (through)",
"scanned",
"skimmed",
"speed-read",
"thumbed (through)",
"turned over",
"devoured",
"gobbled (up)",
"slogged (through)",
"waded (through)",
"reread",
"proofread",
"deciphered",
"reviewed",
"studied",
"apprehended",
"comprehended",
"got",
"grasped",
"made",
"made out",
"perceived",
"saw",
"tumbled (to)",
"understood"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"percolate (into)":{
"to spread throughout":{
"examples":[
"the closing shot of the film is one of those iconic images that has long since percolated into the cultural consciousness"
],
"synonyms":[
"interpenetrate",
"permeate",
"pervade",
"riddle",
"suffuse",
"transfuse"
],
"near synonyms":[
"diffuse (through)",
"impregnate",
"pass (into)",
"penetrate",
"fill (up)",
"drench",
"imbue",
"infuse",
"saturate",
"soak",
"steep",
"flood",
"glut"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"persuasion":{
"the act of reasoning or pleading with someone to accept a belief or course of action":{
"examples":[
"the suffragists' gradual persuasion of the American people that voting rights had to be extended to women"
],
"synonyms":[
"conversion",
"convincing",
"inducement",
"inducing",
"persuading",
"suasion"
],
"near synonyms":[
"blandishment",
"cajolement",
"cajolery",
"coaxing",
"entreaty",
"exhortation",
"urging",
"wheedling",
"seduction",
"tempting",
"influencing",
"prompting",
"swaying",
"lobbying",
"pressuring",
"brainwashing",
"overpersuasion"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"a body of beliefs and practices regarding the supernatural and the worship of one or more deities":{
"examples":[
"debating theology with someone of a different persuasion"
],
"synonyms":[
"credo",
"creed",
"cult",
"faith",
"religion"
],
"near synonyms":[
"church",
"communion",
"denomination",
"sect",
"doctrine",
"dogma",
"theology",
"deism",
"heathenism",
"monotheism",
"paganism",
"pantheism",
"polytheism",
"theism"
],
"near antonyms":[
"agnosticism",
"know-nothingism",
"atheism",
"godlessness",
"nonbelief",
"secularism",
"unbelief"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"an idea that is believed to be true or valid without positive knowledge":{
"examples":[
"he's of the persuasion that everything that happens in this world is part of a divine plan"
],
"synonyms":[
"belief",
"conviction",
"eye",
"feeling",
"judgment",
"judgement",
"mind",
"notion",
"opinion",
"sentiment",
"verdict",
"view"
],
"near synonyms":[
"say",
"impression",
"perception",
"take",
"attitude",
"assumption",
"presumption",
"presupposition",
"conclusion",
"decision",
"determination",
"deliverance",
"esteem",
"estimate",
"estimation",
"credence",
"credit",
"faith",
"concept",
"conception",
"idea",
"thought",
"position",
"stance",
"stand",
"comment",
"obiter dictum",
"observation",
"reflection",
"remark",
"conjecture",
"guess",
"hunch",
"hypothesis",
"surmise",
"theory",
"advice",
"input",
"recommendation",
"suggestion",
"angle",
"outlook",
"perspective",
"shoes",
"slant",
"standpoint",
"viewpoint",
"counterview"
],
"near antonyms":[
"fact",
"truth"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"the capacity to persuade":{
"examples":[
"there was an inherent persuasion in his sonorous voice that made listeners put aside any misgivings about his message"
],
"synonyms":[
"authority",
"cogency",
"conclusiveness",
"convincingness",
"effectiveness",
"force",
"forcefulness",
"persuasiveness",
"suasiveness"
],
"near synonyms":[
"impact",
"might",
"power",
"punch",
"strength",
"weight",
"believability",
"credibility",
"soundness",
"validity",
"authoritativeness",
"definitiveness",
"influence",
"sway",
"appeal",
"seductiveness"
],
"near antonyms":[
"invalidity",
"shakiness",
"unsoundness",
"feebleness",
"powerlessness",
"weakness"
],
"antonyms":[
"inconclusiveness",
"ineffectiveness",
"ineffectuality",
"ineffectualness"
]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"permissibility":{
"as in permissibleness":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"permissibleness",
"rightfulness",
"rightness",
"lawfulness",
"legality",
"legitimacy"
],
"near antonyms":[
"illegality",
"illegitimacy",
"unlawfulness",
"wrongfulness",
"badness",
"immorality",
"iniquitousness",
"iniquity",
"sinfulness",
"unjustness",
"wickedness",
"wrongness",
"criminality",
"unconstitutionality"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"permits":{
"to give permission for or to approve of":{
"examples":[
"the school won't permit such an activity on its grounds"
],
"synonyms":[
"allows",
"green-lights",
"has",
"suffers"
],
"near synonyms":[
"authorizes",
"commissions",
"licenses",
"licences",
"accedes (to)",
"acquiesces",
"agrees (to)",
"assents (to)",
"consents (to)",
"OKs",
"okays",
"warrants",
"accords",
"concedes",
"grants",
"sanctions",
"vouchsafes",
"admits",
"brooks",
"condones",
"countenances",
"endures",
"supports",
"tolerates"
],
"near antonyms":[
"hinders",
"impedes",
"obstructs",
"censures",
"denies",
"disallows",
"disapproves",
"interdicts",
"refuses",
"rejects",
"revokes",
"suppresses",
"withholds",
"deplores",
"discountenances",
"disfavors",
"dislikes",
"frowns (at or on)",
"grudges",
"checks",
"curbs",
"keeps",
"represses",
"restrains"
],
"antonyms":[
"bans",
"enjoins",
"forbids",
"prohibits",
"proscribes",
"vetoes"
]
},
"to give permission to":{
"examples":[
"you are not permitted to swim at the town pond without a season pass"
],
"synonyms":[
"allows",
"leaves",
"lets"
],
"near synonyms":[
"authorizes",
"commissions",
"empowers",
"licenses",
"licences",
"approves",
"endorses",
"indorses",
"sanctions",
"frees",
"liberates",
"releases",
"caters (to)",
"gives in (to)",
"humors",
"indulges"
],
"near antonyms":[
"deters",
"discourages",
"bars",
"blocks",
"constrains",
"curbs",
"frustrates",
"holds back",
"impedes",
"inhibits",
"obstructs",
"prevents"
],
"antonyms":[
"enjoins",
"forbids",
"prohibits"
]
},
"to make able or possible":{
"examples":[
"we'll have our picnic on Thursday, weather permitting"
],
"synonyms":[
"allows",
"empowers",
"enables",
"lets"
],
"near synonyms":[
"fits",
"habilitates",
"prepares",
"qualifies",
"readies",
"approves",
"endorses",
"indorses",
"sanctions",
"conditions",
"equips"
],
"near antonyms":[
"inhibits",
"precludes",
"disallows",
"enjoins",
"forbids",
"prohibits"
],
"antonyms":[
"prevents"
]
},
"to fail to prevent (some behavior on someone's part) especially from neglect or indifference":{
"examples":[
"the college permits way too much drinking, in my opinion"
],
"synonyms":[
"allows",
"lets",
"suffers",
"tolerates"
],
"near synonyms":[
"brushes (aside or off)",
"condones",
"disregards",
"ignores",
"overlooks",
"shrugs off",
"winks (at)",
"excuses",
"forgives",
"pardons",
"brooks",
"caters (to)",
"gives in (to)",
"humors",
"indulges"
],
"near antonyms":[
"forbids",
"prohibits",
"curbs",
"deters",
"discourages",
"frustrates",
"holds back",
"impedes",
"inhibits",
"interferes (with)"
],
"antonyms":[
"bars",
"blocks",
"constrains",
"prevents"
]
},
"as in concessions , patents":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"concessions",
"patents",
"liberties",
"passes",
"tolerances",
"tolerations",
"accreditations",
"certifications",
"acceptances",
"acquiescences",
"agreements",
"assents",
"OKs",
"okays",
"imprimaturs",
"seals",
"signatures",
"stamps",
"accords",
"grants",
"allowances",
"authorizations",
"clearances",
"concurrences",
"consents",
"green lights",
"leaves",
"licenses",
"licences",
"permissions",
"sanctions",
"sufferances",
"warrants"
],
"near antonyms":[
"interdictions",
"prohibitions",
"proscriptions",
"denials",
"refusals",
"rejections",
"revocations",
"taboos",
"tabus",
"injunctions",
"vetoes",
"deterrences",
"discouragements",
"repressions",
"suppressions",
"bans",
"embargoes",
"exclusions"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun",
"verb"
]
},
"pergola":{
"as in arbor , bower":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"arbor",
"bower",
"awning",
"canopy",
"ceiling",
"cover",
"roof",
"tent",
"dome",
"marquee",
"pavilion",
"screen",
"shade",
"shelter",
"shield",
"sunshade",
"umbrella",
"canvas",
"canvass",
"fly"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"perp":{
"as in perpetrator , gunman":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"assassin",
"bandit",
"bravo",
"brigand",
"criminal",
"crook",
"desperado",
"felon",
"gunman",
"highwayman",
"lawbreaker",
"mafioso",
"malefactor",
"offender",
"outlaw",
"perpetrator",
"pirate",
"bully",
"gangbanger",
"gangsta",
"gangster",
"goon",
"gorilla",
"hood",
"hoodlum",
"hooligan",
"mobster",
"mug",
"plug-ugly",
"punk",
"roughneck",
"rowdy",
"ruffian",
"thug",
"tough",
"toughie",
"toughy",
"yob",
"yobbo",
"cutthroat",
"scoundrel",
"villain",
"pickpocket",
"racketeer",
"robber",
"swindler",
"thief",
"vandal",
"juvenile delinquent",
"tearaway"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"perpetuities":{
"endless time":{
"examples":[
"lands that should remain in their wild state in perpetuity"
],
"synonyms":[
"eternity",
"everlasting",
"foreverness",
"infinity"
],
"near synonyms":[
"boundlessness",
"endlessness",
"interminableness",
"limitlessness",
"permanence",
"permanency",
"timelessness"
],
"near antonyms":[
"ephemerality",
"impermanence",
"temporariness",
"transience",
"transitoriness"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"permit (of)":{
"to make possible especially to the exclusion of other possibilities":{
"examples":[
"the photo is too grainy to permit of anything more than a slight enlargement"
],
"synonyms":[
"admit (of)",
"allow (of)"
],
"near synonyms":[
"open up",
"favor",
"justify",
"support",
"sustain",
"validate",
"need",
"take",
"want",
"warrant"
],
"near antonyms":[
"close out",
"disallow",
"enjoin",
"exclude",
"forbid",
"negative",
"preclude",
"rule out"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"perilled":{
"to place in danger":{
"examples":[
"a tribute to the men and women who, as firefighters, peril their lives daily"
],
"synonyms":[
"adventured",
"compromised",
"endangered",
"gambled (with)",
"hazarded",
"imperiled",
"imperilled",
"jeoparded",
"jeopardized",
"menaced",
"risked",
"ventured"
],
"near synonyms":[
"intimidated",
"threatened",
"exposed",
"subjected",
"chanced",
"wagered"
],
"near antonyms":[
"guarded",
"protected",
"sheltered",
"shielded",
"preserved",
"resumed",
"saved"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"perplexed":{
"faced with difficulty or uncertainty about what to say, think, or do":{
"examples":[
"the convoluted instructions for calibrating a high-definition television will leave many consumers utterly perplexed"
],
"synonyms":[
"baffled",
"confounded",
"hard put",
"hard-pressed",
"nonplussed",
"nonplused"
],
"near synonyms":[
"bewildered",
"confused",
"disconcerted",
"fazed",
"embarrassed",
"flustered",
"put out"
],
"near antonyms":[
"undaunted",
"unfazed",
"composed",
"untroubled"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to make complex or difficult":{
"examples":[
"let's not perplex the issue further with irrelevant concerns"
],
"synonyms":[
"complexed",
"complexified",
"complicated",
"embarrassed",
"entangled",
"sophisticated"
],
"near synonyms":[
"developed",
"elaborated",
"expanded",
"intensified",
"magnified",
"confounded",
"confused",
"messed (up)",
"mixed (up)",
"muddled",
"snarled",
"tangled"
],
"near antonyms":[
"abbreviated",
"cut",
"shortened",
"eased",
"facilitated",
"disentangled",
"straightened (out)",
"unraveled",
"untangled",
"oversimplified"
],
"antonyms":[
"simplified",
"streamlined"
]
},
"to throw into a state of mental uncertainty":{
"examples":[
"the question perplexed me"
],
"synonyms":[
"addled",
"baffled",
"bamboozled",
"beat",
"befogged",
"befuddled",
"bemused",
"bewildered",
"buffaloed",
"confounded",
"confused",
"discombobulated",
"disoriented",
"flummoxed",
"foxed",
"fuddled",
"got",
"graveled",
"gravelled",
"mazed",
"muddied",
"muddled",
"mystified",
"posed",
"puzzled",
"vexed",
"vext"
],
"near synonyms":[
"stuck",
"stumped",
"weirded out",
"abashed",
"discomfited",
"disconcerted",
"discountenanced",
"embarrassed",
"fazed",
"flustered",
"mortified",
"nonplussed",
"nonplused",
"rattled",
"agitated",
"bothered",
"chagrined",
"discomforted",
"discomposed",
"dismayed",
"disquieted",
"distressed",
"disturbed",
"perturbed",
"stunned",
"unhinged",
"unsettled",
"upset",
"beguiled",
"cozened",
"deceived",
"deluded",
"duped",
"fooled",
"gulled",
"hoaxed",
"hoodwinked",
"humbugged",
"misguided",
"misled",
"snowed",
"strung along",
"took in",
"tricked"
],
"near antonyms":[
"assured",
"reassured",
"satisfied",
"enlightened",
"informed"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"adjective",
"verb"
]
},
"perdured":{
"to remain indefinitely in existence or in the same state":{
"examples":[
"in so many ways, the influence and legacy of the Roman empire perdures to this very day"
],
"synonyms":[
"abided",
"abode",
"bode",
"bided",
"continued",
"endured",
"held on",
"held up",
"kept up",
"lasted",
"persisted",
"ran on",
"remained"
],
"near synonyms":[
"lingered",
"stayed",
"stuck around",
"tarried",
"carried through",
"prevailed",
"survived"
],
"near antonyms":[
"abated",
"died (down)",
"ebbed",
"let up",
"moderated",
"subsided",
"waned"
],
"antonyms":[
"ceased",
"closed",
"concluded",
"desisted",
"died",
"discontinued",
"ended",
"expired",
"finished",
"lapsed",
"left off",
"passed",
"quit",
"quitted",
"stopped",
"terminated",
"wound up",
"winded up"
]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"perorating":{
"to talk as if giving an important and formal speech":{
"examples":[
"an arrogant scholar who never passes up an opportunity to posture and perorate on stunningly unimportant matters"
],
"synonyms":[
"declaiming",
"discoursing",
"haranguing",
"mouthing (off)",
"orating"
],
"near synonyms":[
"ranting",
"raving",
"bloviating",
"blowing",
"lecturing",
"preaching",
"sermonizing",
"advertising",
"announcing",
"broadcasting",
"declaring",
"proclaiming",
"pronouncing",
"speaking",
"speechifying",
"talking"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"perceived":{
"to have a vague awareness of":{
"examples":[
"I thought I perceived a problem, but I wasn't sure"
],
"synonyms":[
"felt",
"saw",
"scented",
"sensed",
"smelled",
"smelt",
"tasted"
],
"near synonyms":[
"beheld",
"descried",
"discerned",
"distinguished",
"espied",
"eyed",
"looked (at)",
"noted",
"noticed",
"observed",
"regarded",
"remarked",
"sighted",
"spied",
"viewed",
"witnessed",
"ascertained",
"caught on (to)",
"discovered",
"found out",
"heard",
"learned",
"realized",
"anticipated",
"divined",
"expected",
"foreknew",
"foresaw",
"assumed",
"conjectured",
"guessed",
"presumed",
"speculated",
"supposed",
"surmised",
"suspected"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to make note of (something) through the use of one's eyes":{
"examples":[
"perceived that it was going to be a nice day"
],
"synonyms":[
"beheld",
"caught",
"descried",
"discerned",
"distinguished",
"espied",
"eyed",
"looked (at)",
"noted",
"noticed",
"observed",
"regarded",
"remarked",
"saw",
"sighted",
"spied",
"spotted",
"viewed",
"witnessed"
],
"near synonyms":[
"identified",
"made out",
"picked out",
"picked up",
"attended (to)",
"considered",
"heeded",
"marked",
"minded",
"studied",
"watched",
"examined",
"inspected",
"scanned",
"scrutinized",
"surveyed",
"glanced (at)",
"glimpsed",
"peered (at)"
],
"near antonyms":[
"disregarded",
"ignored",
"neglected",
"overpassed",
"passed over",
"missed",
"overlooked"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to have a clear idea of":{
"examples":[
"I perceive your point, but I still disagree"
],
"synonyms":[
"appreciated",
"apprehended",
"assimilated",
"beheld",
"caught",
"caught on (to)",
"cognized",
"compassed",
"comprehended",
"conceived",
"cottoned (to or on to)",
"deciphered",
"decoded",
"discerned",
"dug",
"got",
"grasped",
"grokked",
"intuited",
"knew",
"made",
"made out",
"recognized",
"registered",
"savvied",
"saw",
"seized",
"sensed",
"tumbled (to)",
"twigged",
"understood"
],
"near synonyms":[
"absorbed",
"digested",
"took in",
"realized",
"fathomed",
"penetrated",
"pierced"
],
"near antonyms":[
"misapprehended",
"misconceived",
"misconstrued",
"misinterpreted",
"misperceived",
"misread",
"mistook",
"misunderstood"
],
"antonyms":[
"missed"
]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"persecutory":{
"as in harassing , persecutive":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"harassing",
"persecutive",
"chilling",
"frightening",
"scary",
"alarming",
"dire",
"direful",
"dread",
"dreadful",
"fearful",
"fearsome",
"forbidding",
"formidable",
"frightening",
"frightful",
"ghastly",
"hair-raising",
"horrendous",
"horrible",
"horrifying",
"intimidating",
"scary",
"shocking",
"terrible",
"terrifying",
"daunting",
"demoralizing",
"discomfiting",
"disconcerting",
"discouraging",
"disheartening",
"dismaying",
"dispiriting",
"discomforting",
"discomposing",
"disquieting",
"distressing",
"disturbing",
"nagging",
"nasty",
"perturbing",
"troublesome",
"troubling",
"troublous",
"unsettling",
"upsetting",
"worrisome"
],
"near antonyms":[
"reassuring",
"calming",
"quieting",
"settling",
"soothing",
"comforting",
"consoling",
"dreamy",
"inviting",
"lulling",
"narcotic",
"pacifying",
"relaxing",
"sedative",
"tranquilizing",
"tranquillizing"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"adjective"
]
},
"perjurers":{
"as in liars , slanderers":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"charlatans",
"cheaters",
"cheats",
"counterfeiters",
"cozeners",
"deceivers",
"defrauders",
"dissemblers",
"dissimulators",
"double-dealers",
"frauds",
"hustlers",
"knaves",
"mountebanks",
"operators",
"pretenders",
"fabricators",
"fabulists",
"fibbers",
"liars",
"prevaricators",
"storytellers",
"calumniators",
"defamers",
"libelers",
"libelists",
"slanderers",
"distorters",
"falsifiers",
"gossipers",
"gossips",
"talebearers",
"exaggerators",
"mythomaniacs",
"equivocators",
"palterers"
],
"near antonyms":[
"square shooters"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"personifier":{
"a visible representation of something abstract (as a quality)":{
"examples":[
"hailed the young war hero as a living personifier of all that is right with the generation now coming of age"
],
"synonyms":[
"abstract",
"avatar",
"embodier",
"embodiment",
"epitome",
"externalization",
"genius",
"icon",
"ikon",
"image",
"incarnation",
"incorporation",
"instantiation",
"manifestation",
"objectification",
"personification"
],
"near synonyms":[
"actualization",
"concretization",
"exemplification",
"personalization",
"realization",
"substantiation",
"essence",
"quintessence",
"soul",
"archetype",
"exemplar",
"model",
"paradigm",
"pattern",
"reincarnation"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"peregrinate":{
"to make one's way through, across, or over":{
"examples":[
"Jack Kerouac's celebrated novel about penniless free spirits peregrinating the United States"
],
"synonyms":[
"course",
"cover",
"cross",
"cut (across)",
"follow",
"go",
"navigate",
"pass (over)",
"perambulate",
"proceed (along)",
"track",
"transit",
"travel",
"traverse"
],
"near synonyms":[
"hike",
"traipse",
"tramp",
"tread",
"walk",
"ride",
"run",
"crisscross"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to take a trip especially of some distance":{
"examples":[
"a couple of backpacking college students who decided to spend the summer peregrinating around Ireland"
],
"synonyms":[
"journey",
"pilgrimage",
"tour",
"travel",
"trek",
"trip",
"voyage"
],
"near synonyms":[
"gallivant",
"galavant",
"hop",
"jaunt",
"knock (about)",
"perambulate",
"ramble",
"roam",
"rove",
"traipse",
"wander",
"migrate",
"road-trip",
"bus",
"cab",
"coach",
"cruise",
"drive",
"fly",
"gig",
"jet",
"motor",
"navigate",
"ride",
"roll",
"sail",
"trundle",
"barnstorm"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"persuader":{
"as in supporter , advocate":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"advocate",
"apostle",
"backer",
"booster",
"champion",
"exponent",
"promoter",
"proponent",
"reformer",
"reformist",
"supporter",
"demonstrator",
"marcher",
"objector",
"picketer",
"protester",
"protestor",
"alarmist",
"extremist",
"insurgent",
"insurrectionist",
"radical",
"rebel",
"revolter",
"revolutionary",
"revolutionist",
"subversive",
"troublemaker",
"agitator",
"demagogue",
"demagog",
"exciter",
"firebrand",
"fomenter",
"incendiary",
"inciter",
"instigator",
"kindler",
"provocateur",
"rabble-rouser",
"prodder",
"prompter",
"provoker",
"agent provocateur"
],
"near antonyms":[
"peacemaker",
"reconciler",
"uniter"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"as in inducer , briber":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"briber",
"inducer",
"inveigler",
"tantalizer",
"corrupter",
"corruptor",
"debaser",
"debaucher",
"degrader",
"depraver",
"perverter",
"undoer",
"beguiler",
"enchantress",
"siren",
"temptress",
"baiter",
"seducer",
"solicitor",
"tempter"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"pervasion":{
"as in saturation , permeation":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"permeation",
"saturation"
],
"near antonyms":[
"breath",
"flicker",
"glimmer",
"hint",
"suggestion",
"tang",
"touch",
"trace",
"whiff",
"inkling",
"intimation",
"scent",
"wind",
"evidence",
"indication",
"mark",
"sign"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"personates":{
"to pretend to be (what one is not) in appearance or behavior":{
"examples":[
"likes to personate the man of the world, but he's still the small-town hick that he always was"
],
"synonyms":[
"acts",
"impersonates",
"masquerades (as)",
"plays",
"poses (as)"
],
"near synonyms":[
"apes",
"copies",
"imitates",
"mimes",
"mimics",
"mocks",
"monkeys",
"parodies",
"travesties",
"performs",
"portrays"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"perspective":{
"a way of looking at or thinking about something":{
"examples":[
"whether she was being rude or candid is all a matter of perspective"
],
"synonyms":[
"angle",
"eye view",
"outlook",
"shoes",
"slant",
"standpoint",
"vantage point",
"viewpoint"
],
"near synonyms":[
"interpretation",
"spin",
"belief",
"conviction",
"eye",
"feeling",
"judgment",
"judgement",
"mind",
"mind-set",
"notion",
"opinion",
"perception",
"persuasion",
"sentiment",
"verdict",
"view",
"impression",
"take"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"all that can be seen from a certain point":{
"examples":[
"the perspective from the hotel balcony was dominated by the lake and mountains"
],
"synonyms":[
"command",
"lookout",
"outlook",
"panorama",
"prospect",
"view",
"vista"
],
"near synonyms":[
"landscape",
"scene",
"scenery",
"ken",
"sight",
"visual field"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"peregrine":{
"traveling from place to place":{
"examples":[
"a loyal cadre of peregrine workers who follow the presidential candidate from primary to primary"
],
"synonyms":[
"ambulant",
"ambulatory",
"errant",
"fugitive",
"gallivanting",
"galavanting",
"itinerant",
"nomad",
"nomadic",
"perambulatory",
"peripatetic",
"ranging",
"roaming",
"roving",
"vagabond",
"vagrant",
"wandering",
"wayfaring"
],
"near synonyms":[
"drifting",
"footloose",
"meandering",
"rambling",
"sauntering",
"strolling",
"traipsing",
"walking",
"migrant",
"migratory"
],
"near antonyms":[
"immobile",
"nonmoving",
"settled",
"standing",
"static",
"stationary",
"motionless",
"still"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"adjective"
]
},
"percipiences":{
"the knowledge gained from the process of coming to know or understand something":{
"examples":[
"a novelist who reveals an exceptional percipience of human aspirations and desires"
],
"synonyms":[
"appreciations",
"apprehensions",
"comprehensions",
"grasps",
"grips",
"holds",
"perceptions",
"understandings"
],
"near synonyms":[
"absorptions",
"assimilations",
"digestions",
"uptakes",
"conceptions",
"visualizations",
"enlightenments",
"realizations"
],
"near antonyms":[
"misapprehensions",
"miscomprehensions",
"misinterpretations",
"misperceptions",
"misunderstandings"
],
"antonyms":[
"incomprehensions"
]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"perked (up)":{
"to become glad or hopeful":{
"examples":[
"we perked up once the sun came out"
],
"synonyms":[
"brightened",
"bucked up",
"cheered (up)",
"lightened",
"looked up"
],
"near synonyms":[
"rejoiced",
"livened (up)",
"revived",
"beamed",
"glowed",
"radiated",
"sparkled",
"encouraged",
"gladdened",
"heartened"
],
"near antonyms":[
"despaired",
"desponded",
"brooded",
"fretted",
"moped"
],
"antonyms":[
"darkened",
"saddened"
]
},
"to move from a lower to a higher place or position":{
"examples":[
"the dog tilts her head and perks up her ears whenever someone speaks to her"
],
"synonyms":[
"boosted",
"craned",
"elevated",
"heaved",
"hove",
"hefted",
"heightened",
"hiked",
"hoisted",
"jacked (up)",
"lifted",
"picked up",
"raised",
"took up",
"upheld",
"uplifted",
"upped",
"upraised"
],
"near synonyms":[
"ascended",
"mounted",
"rose",
"reared",
"upended"
],
"near antonyms":[
"descended",
"dipped",
"fell",
"pitched",
"plunged",
"slipped",
"bore",
"depressed",
"pressed",
"pushed",
"sank",
"sunk",
"submerged"
],
"antonyms":[
"dropped",
"lowered"
]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"perorate":{
"to talk as if giving an important and formal speech":{
"examples":[
"an arrogant scholar who never passes up an opportunity to posture and perorate on stunningly unimportant matters"
],
"synonyms":[
"declaim",
"discourse",
"harangue",
"mouth (off)",
"orate"
],
"near synonyms":[
"rant",
"rave",
"bloviate",
"blow",
"lecture",
"preach",
"sermonize",
"advertise",
"announce",
"broadcast",
"declare",
"proclaim",
"pronounce",
"speak",
"speechify",
"talk"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"per":{
"using the means or agency of":{
"examples":[
"the infection is spread to the rest of the body per the bloodstream"
],
"synonyms":[
"by",
"in",
"through",
"via",
"with"
],
"near synonyms":[],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"for each one":{
"examples":[
"you can have them at 50 cents per or three for $1.25"
],
"synonyms":[
"all",
"apiece",
"each",
"per capita"
],
"near synonyms":[
"apart",
"discretely",
"independently",
"individually",
"respectively",
"separately",
"singly"
],
"near antonyms":[
"aggregately",
"altogether",
"collectively",
"together"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"adverb",
"preposition"
]
},
"perambulating":{
"to make one's way through, across, or over":{
"examples":[
"we decided to lazily perambulate the entire length of the esplanade and enjoy the fresh air"
],
"synonyms":[
"coursing",
"covering",
"crossing",
"cutting (across)",
"following",
"going",
"navigating",
"passing (over)",
"peregrinating",
"proceeding (along)",
"tracking",
"transiting",
"traveling",
"travelling",
"traversing"
],
"near synonyms":[
"hiking",
"traipsing",
"tramping",
"treading",
"walking",
"riding",
"running",
"crisscrossing"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to travel by foot for exercise or pleasure":{
"examples":[
"long summer evenings spent perambulating up and down the tree-lined streets of the quaint village"
],
"synonyms":[
"ambling",
"hiking",
"rambling",
"sauntering",
"strolling",
"tramping",
"tromping"
],
"near synonyms":[
"roaming",
"roving",
"wandering",
"peregrinating",
"traipsing",
"traversing",
"trekking",
"walking",
"marching",
"promenading",
"power walking"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"perennially":{
"as in long , enduringly":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"enduringly",
"long",
"always",
"aye",
"ay",
"e'er",
"eternally",
"ever",
"everlastingly",
"evermore",
"forever",
"forevermore",
"indelibly",
"permanently",
"perpetually"
],
"near antonyms":[
"ne'er",
"never",
"nevermore",
"once"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"adverb"
]
},
"personifications":{
"a visible representation of something abstract (as a quality)":{
"examples":[
"he's the personification of kindness"
],
"synonyms":[
"abstracts",
"avatars",
"embodiers",
"embodiments",
"epitomes",
"externalizations",
"geniuses",
"genii",
"icons",
"ikons",
"images",
"incarnations",
"incorporations",
"instantiations",
"manifestations",
"objectifications",
"personifiers"
],
"near synonyms":[
"actualizations",
"concretizations",
"exemplifications",
"personalizations",
"realizations",
"substantiations",
"essences",
"quintessences",
"souls",
"archetypes",
"exemplars",
"models",
"paradigms",
"patterns",
"reincarnations"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"perambulations":{
"a relaxed journey on foot for exercise or pleasure":{
"examples":[
"took an invigorating perambulation around the lake to get some fresh air"
],
"synonyms":[
"ambles",
"constitutionals",
"rambles",
"ranges",
"saunters",
"strolls",
"turns",
"walks",
"wanders"
],
"near synonyms":[
"parades",
"paseos",
"promenades",
"expeditions",
"hikes",
"marches",
"peregrinations",
"traipses",
"tramps",
"travels",
"traversals",
"traverses",
"treks",
"trips",
"walkabouts",
"excursions",
"jaunts",
"junkets",
"outings",
"sallies",
"sashays",
"spins",
"tours",
"pilgrimages",
"progresses",
"safaris"
],
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"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"permitting":{
"as in license , sanction":{
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"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"allowance",
"allowing",
"authorization",
"clearance",
"consent",
"granting",
"leave",
"letting",
"license",
"licence",
"licensing",
"licencing",
"permission",
"sanction",
"sanctioning",
"sufferance",
"tolerance",
"toleration",
"approbation",
"approval",
"blessing",
"endorsement",
"indorsement",
"imprimatur",
"OK",
"okay",
"prescription",
"enabling",
"encouragement",
"facilitation",
"promotion",
"support",
"compliance",
"obedience",
"submission",
"accession",
"acquiescence",
"agreement",
"assent"
],
"near antonyms":[
"ban",
"embargo",
"interdict",
"interdiction",
"prohibition",
"proscription",
"veto",
"no-no",
"taboo",
"tabu",
"constraint",
"inhibition",
"limitation",
"restraint",
"restriction"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to give permission for or to approve of":{
"examples":[
"the school won't permit such an activity on its grounds"
],
"synonyms":[
"allowing",
"green-lighting",
"having",
"suffering"
],
"near synonyms":[
"authorizing",
"commissioning",
"licensing",
"licencing",
"acceding (to)",
"acquiescing",
"agreeing (to)",
"assenting (to)",
"consenting (to)",
"OK'ing",
"okaying",
"warranting",
"according",
"conceding",
"granting",
"sanctioning",
"vouchsafing",
"admitting",
"brooking",
"condoning",
"countenancing",
"enduring",
"supporting",
"tolerating"
],
"near antonyms":[
"hindering",
"impeding",
"obstructing",
"censuring",
"denying",
"disallowing",
"disapproving",
"interdicting",
"refusing",
"rejecting",
"revoking",
"suppressing",
"withholding",
"deploring",
"discountenancing",
"disfavoring",
"disliking",
"frowning (at or on)",
"grudging",
"checking",
"curbing",
"keeping",
"repressing",
"restraining"
],
"antonyms":[
"banning",
"enjoining",
"forbidding",
"prohibiting",
"proscribing",
"vetoing"
]
},
"to give permission to":{
"examples":[
"you are not permitted to swim at the town pond without a season pass"
],
"synonyms":[
"allowing",
"leaving",
"letting"
],
"near synonyms":[
"authorizing",
"commissioning",
"empowering",
"licensing",
"licencing",
"approving",
"endorsing",
"indorsing",
"sanctioning",
"freeing",
"liberating",
"releasing",
"catering (to)",
"giving in (to)",
"humoring",
"indulging"
],
"near antonyms":[
"deterring",
"discouraging",
"barring",
"blocking",
"constraining",
"curbing",
"frustrating",
"holding back",
"impeding",
"inhibiting",
"obstructing",
"preventing"
],
"antonyms":[
"enjoining",
"forbidding",
"prohibiting"
]
},
"to make able or possible":{
"examples":[
"we'll have our picnic on Thursday, weather permitting"
],
"synonyms":[
"allowing",
"empowering",
"enabling",
"letting"
],
"near synonyms":[
"fitting",
"habilitating",
"preparing",
"qualifying",
"readying",
"approving",
"endorsing",
"indorsing",
"sanctioning",
"conditioning",
"equipping"
],
"near antonyms":[
"inhibiting",
"precluding",
"disallowing",
"enjoining",
"forbidding",
"prohibiting"
],
"antonyms":[
"preventing"
]
},
"to fail to prevent (some behavior on someone's part) especially from neglect or indifference":{
"examples":[
"the college permits way too much drinking, in my opinion"
],
"synonyms":[
"allowing",
"letting",
"suffering",
"tolerating"
],
"near synonyms":[
"brushing (aside or off)",
"condoning",
"disregarding",
"ignoring",
"overlooking",
"shrugging off",
"winking (at)",
"excusing",
"forgiving",
"pardoning",
"brooking",
"catering (to)",
"giving in (to)",
"humoring",
"indulging"
],
"near antonyms":[
"forbidding",
"prohibiting",
"curbing",
"deterring",
"discouraging",
"frustrating",
"holding back",
"impeding",
"inhibiting",
"interfering (with)"
],
"antonyms":[
"barring",
"blocking",
"constraining",
"preventing"
]
},
"type":[
"noun",
"verb"
]
},
"personage":{
"a member of the human race":{
"examples":[
"these sci-fi conventions attract personages of every description"
],
"synonyms":[
"baby",
"being",
"bird",
"bod",
"body",
"character",
"cookie",
"cooky",
"creature",
"customer",
"devil",
"duck",
"egg",
"face",
"fish",
"guy",
"head",
"human",
"human being",
"individual",
"life",
"man",
"mortal",
"party",
"person",
"scout",
"slob",
"sort",
"soul",
"specimen",
"stiff",
"thing",
"wight"
],
"near synonyms":[
"hominid",
"homo",
"humanoid",
"brother",
"fellow",
"fellowman",
"neighbor",
"celebrity",
"personality",
"self",
"somebody"
],
"near antonyms":[
"animal",
"beast",
"beastie",
"brute",
"critter"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"a person who is widely known and usually much talked about":{
"examples":[
"personages from the fields of sports and entertainment will be special guests at the political convention"
],
"synonyms":[
"cause c\u00e9l\u00e8bre",
"cause celebre",
"celeb",
"celebrity",
"figure",
"icon",
"ikon",
"light",
"luminary",
"megastar",
"name",
"notability",
"notable",
"notoriety",
"personality",
"somebody",
"standout",
"star",
"superstar",
"VIP"
],
"near synonyms":[
"favorite",
"heartthrob",
"hero",
"idol",
"demigod",
"dignitary",
"eminence",
"immortal",
"monument",
"pillar",
"worthy",
"baron",
"big shot",
"bigwig",
"kahuna",
"magnate",
"mogul",
"nabob",
"panjandrum"
],
"near antonyms":[
"lightweight",
"mediocrity",
"has-been"
],
"antonyms":[
"nobody",
"noncelebrity"
]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"perorated":{
"to talk as if giving an important and formal speech":{
"examples":[
"an arrogant scholar who never passes up an opportunity to posture and perorate on stunningly unimportant matters"
],
"synonyms":[
"declaimed",
"discoursed",
"harangued",
"mouthed (off)",
"orated"
],
"near synonyms":[
"ranted",
"raved",
"blew",
"bloviated",
"lectured",
"preached",
"sermonized",
"advertised",
"announced",
"broadcast",
"broadcasted",
"declared",
"proclaimed",
"pronounced",
"speechified",
"spoke",
"talked"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"pervading":{
"to spread throughout":{
"examples":[
"the delicious scent of roasting turkey pervaded the house"
],
"synonyms":[
"interpenetrating",
"percolating (into)",
"permeating",
"riddling",
"suffusing",
"transfusing"
],
"near synonyms":[
"diffusing (through)",
"impregnating",
"passing (into)",
"penetrating",
"filling (up)",
"drenching",
"imbuing",
"infusing",
"saturating",
"soaking",
"steeping",
"flooding",
"glutting"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"perambulatory":{
"traveling from place to place":{
"examples":[
"perambulatory groups of protesters were all over the city during the political convention"
],
"synonyms":[
"ambulant",
"ambulatory",
"errant",
"fugitive",
"gallivanting",
"galavanting",
"itinerant",
"nomad",
"nomadic",
"peregrine",
"peripatetic",
"ranging",
"roaming",
"roving",
"vagabond",
"vagrant",
"wandering",
"wayfaring"
],
"near synonyms":[
"drifting",
"footloose",
"meandering",
"rambling",
"sauntering",
"strolling",
"traipsing",
"walking",
"migrant",
"migratory"
],
"near antonyms":[
"immobile",
"nonmoving",
"settled",
"standing",
"static",
"stationary",
"motionless",
"still"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"adjective"
]
},
"perusal":{
"as in study , survey":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"examination",
"inspection",
"study",
"survey",
"attention",
"observance",
"observation",
"surveillance",
"watch",
"contemplation",
"fixation",
"glare",
"glower",
"aspect",
"eye",
"gape",
"gaze",
"regard",
"scrutiny",
"stare"
],
"near antonyms":[
"blink",
"flash",
"glance",
"glimpse",
"peek",
"peep",
"sight",
"stime",
"oeillade",
"ogle",
"browse",
"scan"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"persona":{
"the way you behave, talk, etc., with other people that causes them to see you as a particular kind of person":{
"examples":[
"His public persona is that of a strong, determined leader, but in private life he's very insecure.",
"The band takes on a whole new persona when they perform live."
],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"image",
"act",
"airs",
"charade",
"disguise",
"facade",
"fa\u00e7ade",
"front",
"guise",
"masquerade",
"playacting",
"pose",
"pretense",
"pretence",
"put-on",
"semblance",
"show",
"impersonation",
"performance",
"portrayal",
"appearance",
"color",
"gloss",
"camouflage",
"cloak",
"affectation",
"deceit",
"deception",
"dissembling",
"dissimulation",
"double-dealing",
"duplicity",
"fakery",
"fraud",
"guile",
"excuse",
"pretext"
],
"near antonyms":[
"bluntness",
"candidness",
"candor",
"directness",
"forthrightness",
"frankness",
"openheartedness",
"outspokenness",
"plainspokenness",
"sincerity",
"straightforwardness",
"artlessness",
"genuineness",
"na\u00efvet\u00e9",
"naivete",
"naivet\u00e9"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"perspectives":{
"a way of looking at or thinking about something":{
"examples":[
"whether she was being rude or candid is all a matter of perspective"
],
"synonyms":[
"angles",
"eye views",
"outlooks",
"shoes",
"slants",
"standpoints",
"vantage points",
"viewpoints"
],
"near synonyms":[
"interpretations",
"spins",
"beliefs",
"convictions",
"eyes",
"feelings",
"judgments",
"judgements",
"minds",
"mind-sets",
"notions",
"opinions",
"perceptions",
"persuasions",
"sentiments",
"verdicts",
"views",
"impressions",
"takes"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"all that can be seen from a certain point":{
"examples":[
"the perspective from the hotel balcony was dominated by the lake and mountains"
],
"synonyms":[
"commands",
"lookouts",
"outlooks",
"panoramas",
"prospects",
"views",
"vistas"
],
"near synonyms":[
"landscapes",
"sceneries",
"scenes",
"kens",
"sights",
"visual fields"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"personalization":{
"as in realization , actualization":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"actualization",
"concretization",
"exemplification",
"realization",
"substantiation",
"abstract",
"avatar",
"embodier",
"embodiment",
"epitome",
"externalization",
"genius",
"icon",
"ikon",
"image",
"incarnation",
"incorporation",
"instantiation",
"manifestation",
"objectification",
"personification",
"personifier",
"essence",
"quintessence",
"soul",
"archetype",
"exemplar",
"model",
"paradigm",
"pattern",
"reincarnation"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"perjurer":{
"as in liar , slanderer":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"charlatan",
"cheat",
"cheater",
"counterfeiter",
"cozener",
"deceiver",
"defrauder",
"dissembler",
"dissimulator",
"double-dealer",
"fraud",
"hustler",
"knave",
"mountebank",
"operator",
"pretender",
"fabricator",
"fabulist",
"fibber",
"liar",
"prevaricator",
"storyteller",
"calumniator",
"defamer",
"libeler",
"libelist",
"slanderer",
"distorter",
"falsifier",
"gossip",
"gossiper",
"talebearer",
"exaggerator",
"mythomaniac",
"equivocator",
"palterer"
],
"near antonyms":[
"square shooter"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"periodically":{
"at regular intervals":{
"examples":[
"New editions are released periodically ."
],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"intermittently",
"recurrently",
"regularly",
"commonly",
"habitually",
"ordinarily",
"routinely",
"always",
"consistently",
"continuingly",
"continuously",
"night and day",
"perpetually",
"steadily",
"unceasingly",
"uninterruptedly",
"unremittingly",
"again and again",
"constantly",
"continually",
"frequently",
"hourly",
"much",
"oft",
"often",
"oftentimes",
"ofttimes",
"over and over",
"repeatedly",
"dependably",
"generally",
"normally",
"typically",
"usually",
"aye",
"ay",
"ever",
"forever",
"incessantly",
"invariably",
"unfailingly"
],
"near antonyms":[
"episodically",
"erratically",
"intermittently",
"irregularly",
"occasionally",
"sporadically",
"now and then",
"sometimes",
"inconsistently",
"variably",
"infrequently",
"little",
"rarely",
"seldom",
"ne'er",
"never",
"once"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"on some occasions":{
"examples":[
"Though he now lives across town, he still periodically visits the old diner."
],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"here and there",
"now",
"now and then",
"occasionally",
"sometimes",
"intermittently",
"off and on",
"on and off",
"recurrently",
"infrequently",
"little",
"rarely",
"seldom",
"irregularly",
"sporadically",
"variously",
"at times",
"ever and anon",
"every now and then",
"every now and again",
"from time to time",
"once in a while",
"on occasion"
],
"near antonyms":[
"frequently",
"hourly",
"much",
"oft",
"often",
"oftentimes",
"ofttimes",
"commonly",
"ordinarily",
"regularly",
"routinely",
"usually",
"always",
"consistently",
"constantly",
"invariably",
"continually",
"continuingly",
"continuously",
"incessantly",
"perpetually",
"unceasingly",
"uninterruptedly",
"endlessly",
"ever",
"interminably"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"adverb"
]
},
"persisting (beyond)":{
"as in lasting (beyond) , enduring (past)":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"abiding (beyond)",
"enduring (past)",
"holding (past)",
"holding out (past)",
"lasting (beyond)",
"outstaying",
"drawing out",
"perpetuating",
"surviving",
"succeeding",
"outlasting",
"outliving",
"outwearing"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"persist":{
"to continue despite difficulties, opposition, or discouragement":{
"examples":[
"she persisted in her efforts and eventually got the job she wanted"
],
"synonyms":[
"carry on",
"persevere"
],
"near synonyms":[
"dig in",
"hang on",
"keep up",
"follow through (with)",
"knuckle down"
],
"near antonyms":[
"give up",
"knock off",
"quit",
"bow",
"give in",
"submit",
"succumb",
"surrender",
"yield",
"falter",
"hang back",
"hesitate",
"shilly-shally",
"vacillate",
"waver",
"wobble",
"wabble"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to remain indefinitely in existence or in the same state":{
"examples":[
"my headache persisted for almost the entire day"
],
"synonyms":[
"abide",
"bide",
"continue",
"endure",
"hold on",
"hold up",
"keep up",
"last",
"perdure",
"remain",
"run on"
],
"near synonyms":[
"linger",
"stay",
"stick around",
"tarry",
"carry through",
"prevail",
"survive"
],
"near antonyms":[
"abate",
"die (down)",
"ebb",
"let up",
"moderate",
"subside",
"wane"
],
"antonyms":[
"cease",
"close",
"conclude",
"desist",
"die",
"discontinue",
"end",
"expire",
"finish",
"lapse",
"leave off",
"pass",
"quit",
"stop",
"terminate",
"wind up"
]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"perplexes":{
"to make complex or difficult":{
"examples":[
"let's not perplex the issue further with irrelevant concerns"
],
"synonyms":[
"complexes",
"complexifies",
"complicates",
"embarrasses",
"entangles",
"sophisticates"
],
"near synonyms":[
"develops",
"elaborates",
"expands",
"intensifies",
"magnifies",
"confounds",
"confuses",
"messes (up)",
"mixes (up)",
"muddles",
"snarls",
"tangles"
],
"near antonyms":[
"abbreviates",
"cuts",
"shortens",
"eases",
"facilitates",
"disentangles",
"straightens (out)",
"unravels",
"untangles",
"oversimplifies"
],
"antonyms":[
"simplifies",
"streamlines"
]
},
"to throw into a state of mental uncertainty":{
"examples":[
"the question perplexed me"
],
"synonyms":[
"addles",
"baffles",
"bamboozles",
"beats",
"befogs",
"befuddles",
"bemuses",
"bewilders",
"buffaloes",
"confounds",
"confuses",
"discombobulates",
"disorients",
"flummoxes",
"foxes",
"fuddles",
"gets",
"gravels",
"mazes",
"muddies",
"muddles",
"mystifies",
"poses",
"puzzles",
"vexes"
],
"near synonyms":[
"sticks",
"stumps",
"weirds out",
"abashes",
"discomfits",
"disconcerts",
"discountenances",
"embarrasses",
"fazes",
"flusters",
"mortifies",
"nonpluses",
"nonplusses",
"rattles",
"agitates",
"bothers",
"chagrins",
"discomforts",
"discomposes",
"dismays",
"disquiets",
"distresses",
"disturbs",
"perturbs",
"stuns",
"unhinges",
"unsettles",
"upsets",
"beguiles",
"cozens",
"deceives",
"deludes",
"dupes",
"fools",
"gulls",
"hoaxes",
"hoodwinks",
"humbugs",
"misguides",
"misleads",
"snows",
"strings along",
"takes in",
"tricks"
],
"near antonyms":[
"assures",
"reassures",
"satisfies",
"enlightens",
"informs"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"perturb":{
"to trouble the mind of; to make uneasy":{
"examples":[
"the caller's strange remark perturbed me enough to keep me awake that night"
],
"synonyms":[
"agitate",
"ail",
"alarm",
"alarum",
"bother",
"concern",
"derail",
"discomfort",
"discompose",
"dismay",
"disquiet",
"distemper",
"distract",
"distress",
"disturb",
"exercise",
"flurry",
"frazzle",
"freak (out)",
"fuss",
"hagride",
"undo",
"unhinge",
"unsettle",
"upset",
"weird out",
"worry"
],
"near synonyms":[
"aggravate",
"anger",
"annoy",
"bug",
"chafe",
"chivy",
"chivvy",
"exasperate",
"fret",
"gall",
"get",
"grate",
"harass",
"harry",
"irk",
"irritate",
"nettle",
"peeve",
"pester",
"pique",
"put off",
"put out",
"rile",
"vex",
"bedevil",
"haunt",
"plague",
"abash",
"confound",
"confuse",
"discomfit",
"disconcert",
"discountenance",
"embarrass",
"faze",
"fluster",
"jar",
"mortify",
"nonplus",
"rattle",
"shake up",
"daunt",
"demoralize",
"discourage",
"dishearten",
"dispirit",
"unnerve"
],
"near antonyms":[
"allay",
"alleviate",
"assuage",
"appease",
"conciliate",
"mollify",
"pacify",
"placate",
"propitiate"
],
"antonyms":[
"calm",
"compose",
"quiet",
"settle",
"soothe",
"tranquilize",
"tranquillize"
]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"permissible":{
"that may be permitted":{
"examples":[
"deployment overseas would be regarded as a permissible reason for late filing by members of the military"
],
"synonyms":[
"admissible",
"allowable"
],
"near synonyms":[
"acceptable",
"bearable",
"endurable",
"tolerable",
"accredited",
"allowed",
"authorized",
"certified",
"endorsed",
"indorsed",
"licensed",
"OK",
"okay",
"permitted",
"sanctioned",
"warranted",
"lawful",
"legal",
"licit",
"mandatory",
"ordered",
"required"
],
"near antonyms":[
"intolerable",
"unacceptable",
"unbearable",
"unendurable",
"objectionable",
"denied",
"disallowed",
"refused",
"rejected",
"vetoed",
"repressed",
"suppressed",
"outlawed"
],
"antonyms":[
"banned",
"barred",
"forbidden",
"impermissible",
"inadmissible",
"interdicted",
"prohibited",
"proscribed",
"verboten"
]
},
"type":[
"adjective"
]
},
"persisted":{
"to continue despite difficulties, opposition, or discouragement":{
"examples":[
"she persisted in her efforts and eventually got the job she wanted"
],
"synonyms":[
"carried on",
"persevered"
],
"near synonyms":[
"dug in",
"hung on",
"kept up",
"followed through (with)",
"knuckled down"
],
"near antonyms":[
"gave up",
"knocked off",
"quit",
"quitted",
"bowed",
"gave in",
"submitted",
"succumbed",
"surrendered",
"yielded",
"faltered",
"hesitated",
"hung back",
"shilly-shallied",
"vacillated",
"wavered",
"wobbled",
"wabbled"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to remain indefinitely in existence or in the same state":{
"examples":[
"my headache persisted for almost the entire day"
],
"synonyms":[
"abided",
"abode",
"bode",
"bided",
"continued",
"endured",
"held on",
"held up",
"kept up",
"lasted",
"perdured",
"ran on",
"remained"
],
"near synonyms":[
"lingered",
"stayed",
"stuck around",
"tarried",
"carried through",
"prevailed",
"survived"
],
"near antonyms":[
"abated",
"died (down)",
"ebbed",
"let up",
"moderated",
"subsided",
"waned"
],
"antonyms":[
"ceased",
"closed",
"concluded",
"desisted",
"died",
"discontinued",
"ended",
"expired",
"finished",
"lapsed",
"left off",
"passed",
"quit",
"quitted",
"stopped",
"terminated",
"wound up",
"winded up"
]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"permeates":{
"to spread throughout":{
"examples":[
"the smell of freshly baked bread permeated the house"
],
"synonyms":[
"interpenetrates",
"percolates (into)",
"pervades",
"riddles",
"suffuses",
"transfuses"
],
"near synonyms":[
"diffuses (through)",
"impregnates",
"passes (into)",
"penetrates",
"fills (up)",
"drenches",
"imbues",
"infuses",
"saturates",
"soaks",
"steeps",
"floods",
"gluts"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"persuasions":{
"a body of beliefs and practices regarding the supernatural and the worship of one or more deities":{
"examples":[
"debating theology with someone of a different persuasion"
],
"synonyms":[
"credos",
"creeds",
"cults",
"faiths",
"religions"
],
"near synonyms":[
"churches",
"communions",
"denominations",
"sects",
"doctrines",
"dogmas",
"dogmata",
"theologies",
"deisms",
"heathenisms",
"monotheisms",
"paganisms",
"pantheisms",
"polytheisms",
"theisms"
],
"near antonyms":[
"agnosticism",
"know-nothingisms",
"atheisms",
"nonbeliefs",
"secularisms"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"an idea that is believed to be true or valid without positive knowledge":{
"examples":[
"he's of the persuasion that everything that happens in this world is part of a divine plan"
],
"synonyms":[
"beliefs",
"convictions",
"eyes",
"feelings",
"judgments",
"judgements",
"minds",
"notions",
"opinions",
"sentiments",
"verdicts",
"views"
],
"near synonyms":[
"says",
"impressions",
"perceptions",
"takes",
"attitudes",
"assumptions",
"presumptions",
"presuppositions",
"conclusions",
"decisions",
"determinations",
"deliverances",
"esteems",
"estimates",
"estimations",
"credences",
"credits",
"faiths",
"conceptions",
"concepts",
"ideas",
"thoughts",
"positions",
"stances",
"stands",
"comments",
"obiter dicta",
"observations",
"reflections",
"remarks",
"conjectures",
"guesses",
"hunches",
"hypotheses",
"surmises",
"theories",
"advice",
"inputs",
"recommendations",
"suggestions",
"angles",
"outlooks",
"perspectives",
"shoes",
"slants",
"standpoints",
"viewpoints",
"counterviews"
],
"near antonyms":[
"facts",
"truths"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"perjuring":{
"to tell a lie in a court of law after promising to tell the truth; to commit perjury":{
"examples":[
"He perjured himself before the court by giving a false testimony."
],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"forswearing",
"foreswearing",
"fabricating",
"fibbing",
"lying",
"prevaricating",
"equivocating",
"fudging",
"paltering",
"beguiling",
"cozening",
"deceiving",
"deluding",
"duping",
"fooling",
"gulling",
"hoaxing",
"hoodwinking",
"kidding",
"snowing",
"taking in",
"tricking",
"defaming",
"libeling",
"libelling",
"slandering",
"traducing",
"falsifying",
"misreporting",
"misrepresenting",
"misstating",
"distorting",
"garbling",
"dissembling",
"dissimulating",
"misguiding",
"misinforming",
"misleading"
],
"near antonyms":[
"asserting",
"swearing",
"testifying",
"authenticating",
"confirming",
"substantiating",
"validating",
"verifying"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"periphrases":{
"the use of too many words to express an idea":{
"examples":[
"congressional hearings into the Watergate scandal were marked by an orgy of periphrasis , the expression \"at this point in time\" being a memorable example"
],
"synonyms":[
"circumlocution",
"diffuseness",
"diffusion",
"garrulity",
"garrulousness",
"logorrhea",
"long-windedness",
"prolixity",
"redundancy",
"verbalism",
"verbiage",
"verboseness",
"verbosity",
"windiness",
"wordage",
"wordiness"
],
"near synonyms":[
"circuitousness",
"circularity",
"digressiveness",
"pleonasm",
"tautology",
"reiteration",
"repetition",
"repetitiousness",
"repetitiveness",
"embellishment",
"embroidering",
"exaggeration",
"hyperbole",
"overstatement"
],
"near antonyms":[
"brevity",
"briefness",
"compactness",
"conciseness",
"concision",
"crispness",
"pithiness",
"succinctness",
"terseness"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"personages":{
"a member of the human race":{
"examples":[
"these sci-fi conventions attract personages of every description"
],
"synonyms":[
"babies",
"beings",
"birds",
"bodies",
"bods",
"characters",
"cookies",
"creatures",
"customers",
"devils",
"ducks",
"eggs",
"faces",
"fish",
"fishes",
"guys",
"heads",
"human beings",
"humans",
"individuals",
"lives",
"men",
"mortals",
"parties",
"people",
"scouts",
"slobs",
"sorts",
"souls",
"specimens",
"stiffs",
"things",
"wights"
],
"near synonyms":[
"hominids",
"homos",
"humanoids",
"brothers",
"brethren",
"fellowmen",
"fellows",
"neighbors",
"celebrities",
"personalities",
"selves",
"somebodies"
],
"near antonyms":[
"animals",
"beasties",
"beasts",
"brutes",
"critters"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"a person who is widely known and usually much talked about":{
"examples":[
"personages from the fields of sports and entertainment will be special guests at the political convention"
],
"synonyms":[
"causes c\u00e9l\u00e8bres",
"causes celebres",
"celebrities",
"celebs",
"figures",
"icons",
"ikons",
"lights",
"luminaries",
"megastars",
"names",
"notabilities",
"notables",
"notorieties",
"personalities",
"somebodies",
"standouts",
"stars",
"superstars",
"VIPs"
],
"near synonyms":[
"favorites",
"heartthrobs",
"heroes",
"idols",
"demigods",
"dignitaries",
"eminences",
"immortals",
"monuments",
"pillars",
"worthies",
"barons",
"big shots",
"bigwigs",
"kahunas",
"magnates",
"moguls",
"nabobs",
"panjandrums",
"panjandra"
],
"near antonyms":[
"lightweights",
"mediocrities",
"has-beens"
],
"antonyms":[
"nobodies",
"noncelebrities"
]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"perversion":{
"a sinking to a state of low moral standards and behavior":{
"examples":[
"claimed that rap and rock music were responsible for the perversion of the nation's young people"
],
"synonyms":[
"abjection",
"corruption",
"corruptness",
"debasement",
"debauchery",
"decadence",
"decadency",
"degeneracy",
"degenerateness",
"degeneration",
"degradation",
"demoralization",
"depravity",
"dissipatedness",
"dissipation",
"dissoluteness",
"libertinage",
"libertinism",
"pervertedness",
"rakishness",
"turpitude"
],
"near synonyms":[
"evil",
"immorality",
"sinfulness",
"villainy",
"wickedness",
"filth",
"gangrene",
"rot",
"squalor"
],
"near antonyms":[
"goodness",
"morality",
"righteousness",
"virtue"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"incorrect or improper use":{
"examples":[
"if there's a hidden charge for the service, then that's a perversion of the word \"free\""
],
"synonyms":[
"abuse",
"misapplication",
"misemployment",
"misusage",
"misuse",
"misutilization"
],
"near synonyms":[
"mishandling",
"mismanagement",
"mismanaging",
"ill-treatment",
"ill-usage",
"maltreatment",
"mistreatment",
"damage",
"destruction",
"ruin",
"spoiling",
"wrecking",
"corruption",
"debasement",
"desecration",
"profanation",
"prostitution"
],
"near antonyms":[
"application",
"employment",
"use",
"utilization"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"pervasive":{
"existing in every part of something; spreading to all parts of something":{
"examples":[
"A pervasive smell filled the room.",
"the pervasive nature of the problem"
],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"pandemic",
"prevalent",
"rife",
"widespread",
"common",
"general",
"majority",
"overall",
"popular",
"prevailing",
"public",
"received",
"ruling",
"unanimous",
"universal",
"pop",
"everyday",
"familiar",
"household",
"usual",
"well-known",
"contemporary",
"current",
"present",
"dominant",
"predominant",
"preponderant",
"characteristic",
"typical",
"communal",
"shared"
],
"near antonyms":[
"rare",
"strange",
"unknown",
"unusual",
"distinctive",
"especial",
"idiosyncratic",
"peculiar",
"special",
"unique",
"individual",
"separate",
"singular",
"nonpublic",
"personal",
"private",
"uncommon",
"unpopular"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"adjective"
]
},
"percolated (into)":{
"to spread throughout":{
"examples":[
"the closing shot of the film is one of those iconic images that has long since percolated into the cultural consciousness"
],
"synonyms":[
"interpenetrated",
"permeated",
"pervaded",
"riddled",
"suffused",
"transfused"
],
"near synonyms":[
"diffused (through)",
"impregnated",
"passed (into)",
"penetrated",
"filled (up)",
"drenched",
"imbued",
"infused",
"saturated",
"soaked",
"steeped",
"flooded",
"glutted"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"pertinaciousness":{
"a steadfast adherence to an opinion, purpose, or course of action in spite of reason, arguments, or persuasion":{
"examples":[
"thanks to his pertinaciousness , he eventually succeeded where all others had failed"
],
"synonyms":[
"bullheadedness",
"doggedness",
"hardheadedness",
"intransigence",
"mulishness",
"obduracy",
"obdurateness",
"obstinacy",
"obstinateness",
"opinionatedness",
"pertinacity",
"pigheadedness",
"self-opinionatedness",
"self-will",
"stubbornness",
"willfulness"
],
"near synonyms":[
"anal-retentiveness",
"perverseness",
"perversity",
"waywardness",
"wrongheadedness",
"adamancy",
"adamance",
"determination",
"implacability",
"inexorability",
"inflexibility",
"inveteracy",
"perseverance",
"persistence",
"persistency",
"relentlessness",
"resolve",
"single-mindedness",
"steadfastness",
"stick-to-itiveness",
"tenaciousness",
"tenacity",
"firmness",
"hardness",
"rigor",
"rigorousness",
"sternness",
"strictness",
"narrow-mindedness",
"rigidity",
"rigidness",
"bloody-mindedness",
"cantankerousness",
"contrariness",
"cussedness",
"balkiness",
"contumacy",
"defiance",
"disobedience",
"frowardness",
"immovability",
"immovableness",
"insubordination",
"intractability",
"obstreperousness",
"rebelliousness",
"recalcitrance",
"recalcitrancy",
"refractoriness",
"unruliness"
],
"near antonyms":[
"broad-mindedness",
"open-mindedness",
"reasonability",
"reasonableness",
"receptiveness",
"receptivity",
"acceptance",
"acquiescence",
"flexibility",
"pliability",
"pliableness",
"pliancy",
"pliantness",
"compliance",
"docility",
"obedience",
"subordinateness",
"subordination",
"submission",
"surrender",
"willingness",
"yielding",
"slavishness",
"subservience",
"subserviency"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"permanents":{
"as in dreadlocks , perms":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"Afros",
"conks",
"cornrows",
"dreadlocks",
"perms",
"coiffures",
"cuts",
"dos",
"do's",
"haircuts",
"hairdos",
"hairstyles",
"beehives",
"big hairs",
"buns",
"chignons",
"French twists",
"pageboys",
"pugs",
"updos",
"upsweeps",
"bobs",
"buzz cuts",
"crew cuts",
"crops",
"fades",
"Mohawk",
"Mohawks",
"shags",
"shingles",
"trims",
"braids",
"pigtails",
"plaits",
"ponytails",
"queues",
"comb-overs",
"ducktails",
"pompadours",
"roaches"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"personal effects":{
"transportable items that one owns":{
"examples":[
"put all of your personal effects in the bin so that they can be x-rayed"
],
"synonyms":[
"belongings",
"chattels",
"duds",
"effects",
"gear",
"goods",
"holdings",
"movables",
"moveables",
"paraphernalia",
"personal property",
"personalty",
"plunder",
"possession",
"stuff",
"things"
],
"near synonyms":[
"treasures",
"valuables",
"appointments",
"fixtures",
"furnishings",
"estate",
"property",
"tangibles",
"collateral"
],
"near antonyms":[
"immovables",
"real estate"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"plural noun"
]
},
"perambulates":{
"to make one's way through, across, or over":{
"examples":[
"we decided to lazily perambulate the entire length of the esplanade and enjoy the fresh air"
],
"synonyms":[
"courses",
"covers",
"crosses",
"cuts (across)",
"follows",
"goes",
"navigates",
"passes (over)",
"peregrinates",
"proceeds (along)",
"tracks",
"transits",
"travels",
"traverses"
],
"near synonyms":[
"hikes",
"traipses",
"tramps",
"treads",
"walks",
"rides",
"runs",
"crisscrosses"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to travel by foot for exercise or pleasure":{
"examples":[
"long summer evenings spent perambulating up and down the tree-lined streets of the quaint village"
],
"synonyms":[
"ambles",
"hikes",
"rambles",
"saunters",
"strolls",
"tramps",
"tromps"
],
"near synonyms":[
"roams",
"roves",
"wanders",
"peregrinates",
"traipses",
"traverses",
"treks",
"walks",
"marches",
"promenades",
"power walks"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"perimeter":{
"the line or relatively narrow space that marks the outer limit of something":{
"examples":[
"soldiers guarding the perimeter of the camp"
],
"synonyms":[
"border",
"borderline",
"bound",
"boundary",
"brim",
"circumference",
"compass",
"confines",
"edge",
"edging",
"end",
"frame",
"fringe",
"hem",
"margin",
"periphery",
"rim",
"skirt",
"skirting",
"verge"
],
"near synonyms":[
"ambit",
"brink",
"crest",
"curb",
"cusp",
"lip",
"ceiling",
"maximum",
"demarcation",
"extent",
"limitation",
"measure",
"mere",
"restriction",
"termination",
"borderland",
"frontier",
"march",
"outskirts",
"pale",
"selvage",
"lap",
"shore"
],
"near antonyms":[
"center",
"core",
"heart",
"inner",
"inside",
"interior",
"middle",
"within"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"pergolas":{
"as in arbors , bowers":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"arbors",
"bowers",
"awnings",
"canopies",
"ceilings",
"covers",
"roofs",
"tents",
"domes",
"marquees",
"pavilions",
"screens",
"shades",
"shelters",
"shields",
"sunshades",
"umbrellas",
"canvases",
"canvasses",
"flies"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"perforation":{
"a mark or small hole made by a pointed instrument":{
"examples":[
"during the lesson the boy absentmindedly made perforations in his paper with his pencil"
],
"synonyms":[
"pinhole",
"pinprick",
"prick",
"punch",
"puncture",
"stab"
],
"near synonyms":[
"gouge",
"groove",
"hollow",
"break",
"cut",
"gash",
"incision",
"laceration",
"notch",
"rent",
"rip",
"rupture",
"slash",
"slit",
"tear"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"a place in a surface allowing passage into or through a thing":{
"examples":[
"poked the button through a perforation in the fabric"
],
"synonyms":[
"aperture",
"hole",
"opening",
"orifice"
],
"near synonyms":[
"loophole",
"breach",
"break",
"chink",
"cleft",
"crack",
"cranny",
"crevice",
"cut",
"fissure",
"gash",
"notch",
"rent",
"rift",
"rupture",
"slash",
"slit",
"split",
"tear",
"slot",
"space",
"exit",
"mouth",
"outlet",
"pore",
"vent",
"entrance",
"inlet",
"intake",
"pinhole",
"pinprick",
"punch",
"puncture",
"airhole",
"armhole",
"buttonhole",
"keyhole",
"knothole",
"peephole",
"pothole",
"wormhole"
],
"near antonyms":[
"fill",
"filler",
"filling",
"patch",
"plug",
"seal",
"stopper",
"barrier",
"blockage",
"obstacle",
"obstruction"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"permanent":{
"lasting forever":{
"examples":[
"a temporary compromise has been accepted until a more permanent solution can be agreed upon"
],
"synonyms":[
"ceaseless",
"dateless",
"deathless",
"endless",
"eternal",
"everlasting",
"immortal",
"perpetual",
"undying",
"unending"
],
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"durable",
"enduring",
"lasting",
"long-lived",
"persistent",
"stubborn",
"imperishable",
"indefeasible",
"indefectible",
"indelible",
"indestructible",
"indissoluble",
"inexpungible",
"timeless",
"abiding",
"stable",
"standing",
"steadfast",
"steady",
"unfailing",
"unfaltering",
"continual",
"continuing",
"continuous",
"incessant",
"unbroken",
"unceasing",
"uninterrupted",
"unremitting"
],
"near antonyms":[
"ephemeral",
"evanescent",
"fleeting",
"fugacious",
"fugitive",
"momentary",
"passing",
"short-lived",
"transitory",
"interim",
"provisional",
"short-term"
],
"antonyms":[
"impermanent",
"mortal",
"temporary",
"transient"
]
},
"as in perm , cornrow":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"Afro",
"conk",
"cornrow",
"dreadlocks",
"perm",
"coiffure",
"cut",
"do",
"haircut",
"hairdo",
"hairstyle",
"beehive",
"big hair",
"bun",
"chignon",
"French twist",
"pageboy",
"pug",
"updo",
"upsweep",
"bob",
"buzz cut",
"crew cut",
"crop",
"fade",
"Mohawk",
"shag",
"shingle",
"trim",
"braid",
"pigtail",
"plait",
"ponytail",
"queue",
"comb-over",
"ducktail",
"pompadour",
"roach"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"adjective",
"noun"
]
},
"period":{
"an occurrence of menstruating":{
"examples":[
"she hoped her period wouldn't start until she got home"
],
"synonyms":[
"menstruation",
"monthlies"
],
"near synonyms":[
"menses"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"an extent of time associated with a particular person or thing":{
"examples":[
"the Romantic period in music"
],
"synonyms":[
"age",
"day",
"epoch",
"era",
"time"
],
"near synonyms":[
"cycle",
"generation",
"year",
"bit",
"space",
"span",
"spell",
"stretch",
"while",
"date",
"vintage"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"perplexity":{
"a state of mental uncertainty":{
"examples":[
"seeing her perplexity , the teacher stepped in with a helpful hint"
],
"synonyms":[
"bafflement",
"bamboozlement",
"befuddlement",
"bemusement",
"bewilderedness",
"bewilderment",
"confusedness",
"confusion",
"discombobulation",
"distraction",
"fog",
"head-scratching",
"maze",
"muddle",
"mystification",
"puzzlement",
"tangle",
"whirl"
],
"near synonyms":[
"abashment",
"discomfiture",
"disconcertment",
"embarrassment",
"mortification",
"agitation",
"chagrin",
"discomfort",
"dismay",
"disquiet",
"distress",
"disturbance",
"perturbation",
"upset",
"bother",
"commotion",
"dither",
"flurry",
"fluster",
"fuss",
"stew",
"turmoil"
],
"near antonyms":[
"assurance",
"certainty",
"certitude",
"confidence",
"conviction",
"positiveness",
"sureness"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"peril":{
"something that may cause injury or harm":{
"examples":[
"life is full of unexpected perils"
],
"synonyms":[
"danger",
"hazard",
"imminence",
"menace",
"pitfall",
"risk",
"threat",
"trouble"
],
"near synonyms":[
"snare",
"trap",
"booby trap"
],
"near antonyms":[
"guard",
"protection",
"safeguard",
"shield",
"ward",
"asylum",
"harbor",
"haven",
"refuge",
"retreat",
"shelter"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"the state of not being protected from injury, harm, or evil":{
"examples":[
"they were unhappy about sending their son into peril overseas"
],
"synonyms":[
"danger",
"distress",
"endangerment",
"harm's way",
"imperilment",
"jeopardy",
"risk",
"trouble"
],
"near synonyms":[
"exposure",
"liability",
"openness",
"vulnerability",
"precariousness",
"threat",
"susceptibility",
"susceptibleness",
"defenselessness",
"helplessness",
"weakness"
],
"near antonyms":[
"preservation",
"salvation",
"defense",
"protection",
"exemption",
"immunity",
"impunity",
"inviolability",
"invulnerability"
],
"antonyms":[
"safeness",
"safety",
"secureness",
"security"
]
},
"to place in danger":{
"examples":[
"a tribute to the men and women who, as firefighters, peril their lives daily"
],
"synonyms":[
"adventure",
"compromise",
"endanger",
"gamble (with)",
"hazard",
"imperil",
"jeopard",
"jeopardize",
"menace",
"risk",
"venture"
],
"near synonyms":[
"intimidate",
"threaten",
"expose",
"subject",
"chance",
"wager"
],
"near antonyms":[
"guard",
"protect",
"shelter",
"shield",
"preserve",
"resume",
"save"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun",
"verb"
]
},
"pertinacity":{
"a steadfast adherence to an opinion, purpose, or course of action in spite of reason, arguments, or persuasion":{
"examples":[
"without the pertinacity of the suffragists, voting rights for women would never have become a reality"
],
"synonyms":[
"bullheadedness",
"doggedness",
"hardheadedness",
"intransigence",
"mulishness",
"obduracy",
"obdurateness",
"obstinacy",
"obstinateness",
"opinionatedness",
"pertinaciousness",
"pigheadedness",
"self-opinionatedness",
"self-will",
"stubbornness",
"willfulness"
],
"near synonyms":[
"anal-retentiveness",
"perverseness",
"perversity",
"waywardness",
"wrongheadedness",
"adamancy",
"adamance",
"determination",
"implacability",
"inexorability",
"inflexibility",
"inveteracy",
"perseverance",
"persistence",
"persistency",
"relentlessness",
"resolve",
"single-mindedness",
"steadfastness",
"stick-to-itiveness",
"tenaciousness",
"tenacity",
"firmness",
"hardness",
"rigor",
"rigorousness",
"sternness",
"strictness",
"narrow-mindedness",
"rigidity",
"rigidness",
"bloody-mindedness",
"cantankerousness",
"contrariness",
"cussedness",
"balkiness",
"contumacy",
"defiance",
"disobedience",
"frowardness",
"immovability",
"immovableness",
"insubordination",
"intractability",
"obstreperousness",
"rebelliousness",
"recalcitrance",
"recalcitrancy",
"refractoriness",
"unruliness"
],
"near antonyms":[
"broad-mindedness",
"open-mindedness",
"reasonability",
"reasonableness",
"receptiveness",
"receptivity",
"acceptance",
"acquiescence",
"flexibility",
"pliability",
"pliableness",
"pliancy",
"pliantness",
"compliance",
"docility",
"obedience",
"subordinateness",
"subordination",
"submission",
"surrender",
"willingness",
"yielding",
"slavishness",
"subservience",
"subserviency"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"personalizes":{
"to represent in visible form":{
"examples":[
"in the character of the good-hearted, virtuous seaman, the author has personalized the concept of perfect innocence"
],
"synonyms":[
"bodies",
"embodies",
"epitomizes",
"expresses",
"externalizes",
"incarnates",
"incorporates",
"instantiates",
"manifests",
"materializes",
"personifies",
"substantiates"
],
"near synonyms":[
"actualizes",
"concretizes",
"realizes",
"exemplifies",
"illustrates",
"images",
"objectifies",
"symbolizes",
"typifies"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"perhaps":{
"it is possible":{
"examples":[
"perhaps we will not have to take this exam, but I doubt it"
],
"synonyms":[
"conceivably",
"maybe",
"mayhap",
"perchance",
"possibly"
],
"near synonyms":[
"likely",
"probably",
"certainly",
"doubtless",
"sure",
"surely",
"undoubtedly",
"assumably",
"presumably",
"presumedly",
"supposably",
"supposedly"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"adverb"
]
},
"perspicuousness":{
"clearness of expression":{
"examples":[
"the undeniable perspicuousness of the prosecutor's closing argument"
],
"synonyms":[
"clarity",
"explicitness",
"lucidity",
"lucidness",
"perspicuity",
"simplicity"
],
"near synonyms":[
"incision",
"incisiveness",
"directness",
"forthrightness",
"openness",
"straightforwardness",
"readability",
"readableness",
"comprehensibility",
"intelligibility",
"legibility"
],
"near antonyms":[
"ambiguity",
"ambiguousness",
"equivocalness",
"equivocation",
"inscrutability",
"inscrutableness",
"obliqueness",
"obliquity",
"opacity",
"opaqueness",
"impenetrability",
"incomprehensibility",
"incomprehensibleness",
"unintelligibility",
"unintelligibleness",
"circuitousness",
"deviousness",
"indirectness",
"indistinctness",
"dimness",
"disjointedness",
"incoherence",
"faintness",
"fuzziness",
"muddiness",
"nebulousness",
"vagueness"
],
"antonyms":[
"obscureness",
"obscurity",
"unclarity"
]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"peremptoriness":{
"an exaggerated sense of one's importance that shows itself in the making of excessive or unjustified claims":{
"examples":[
"the peremptoriness that was all too apparent in his voice irritated everyone"
],
"synonyms":[
"arrogance",
"assumption",
"bumptiousness",
"consequence",
"haughtiness",
"hauteur",
"high horse",
"huffiness",
"imperiousness",
"loftiness",
"lordliness",
"masterfulness",
"pomposity",
"pompousness",
"presumptuousness",
"pretense",
"pretence",
"pretension",
"pretentiousness",
"self-consequence",
"self-importance",
"superciliousness",
"superiority",
"toploftiness"
],
"near synonyms":[
"authoritativeness",
"bossiness",
"bowwow",
"brag",
"dominance",
"high-handedness",
"condescension",
"disdain",
"scorn",
"chest-thumping",
"inflation",
"self-assertion",
"side",
"snobbery",
"snobbishness",
"snobbism",
"snootiness",
"attitude",
"cheek",
"cheekiness",
"impertinence",
"impudence",
"sauciness",
"boastfulness",
"bombast",
"braggadocio",
"bravado",
"strut",
"swagger",
"triumphalism",
"vaingloriousness",
"vainglory",
"cockiness",
"complacence",
"conceit",
"egoism",
"egotism",
"pride",
"pridefulness",
"self-assumption",
"self-centeredness",
"self-complacency",
"self-conceit",
"self-content",
"self-contentment",
"self-opinion",
"self-partiality",
"self-satisfaction",
"smugness",
"swelled head",
"vanity",
"superiority complex"
],
"near antonyms":[
"bashfulness",
"demureness",
"retiringness",
"shyness",
"diffidence",
"self-distrust",
"self-doubt",
"timidity",
"timidness",
"lowliness",
"meekness",
"mousiness",
"passiveness",
"passivity",
"submissiveness",
"quietness",
"reserve",
"reservedness"
],
"antonyms":[
"humility",
"modesty",
"unassumingness",
"unpretentiousness"
]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"perception":{
"the ability to understand inner qualities or relationships":{
"examples":[
"a writer of considerable perception , she remembers how it feels to be confused and insecure"
],
"synonyms":[
"discernment",
"insight",
"perceptiveness",
"perceptivity",
"sagaciousness",
"sagacity",
"sageness",
"sapience",
"wisdom"
],
"near synonyms":[
"acuity",
"acumen",
"astuteness",
"clear-sightedness",
"keenness",
"penetration",
"percipience",
"perspicacity",
"sensitivity",
"understanding",
"appreciation",
"apprehension",
"comprehension",
"grasp",
"brain(s)",
"braininess",
"brightness",
"brilliance",
"canniness",
"cleverness",
"gray matter",
"intellect",
"intelligence",
"judgment",
"judgement",
"mentality",
"power",
"reason",
"sense",
"smartness",
"wit",
"discrimination",
"foresight",
"foresightedness",
"judiciousness",
"prudence",
"sanity",
"logic",
"rationality"
],
"near antonyms":[
"density",
"dullness",
"dulness",
"obtuseness",
"brainlessness",
"folly",
"foolishness",
"idiocy",
"imbecility",
"mindlessness",
"silliness",
"simplemindedness",
"simpleness",
"stupidity",
"witlessness",
"illogic",
"irrationality",
"unreasonableness",
"unsoundness",
"craziness",
"insanity",
"lunacy",
"madness",
"preposterousness",
"senselessness",
"zaniness"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"the knowledge gained from the process of coming to know or understand something":{
"examples":[
"a growing perception of the enormity of the problem"
],
"synonyms":[
"appreciation",
"apprehension",
"comprehension",
"grasp",
"grip",
"hold",
"percipience",
"understanding"
],
"near synonyms":[
"absorption",
"assimilation",
"digestion",
"uptake",
"conception",
"visualization",
"awareness",
"consciousness",
"enlightenment",
"realization"
],
"near antonyms":[
"misapprehension",
"miscomprehension",
"misinterpretation",
"misperception",
"misunderstanding"
],
"antonyms":[
"incomprehension",
"noncomprehension"
]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"percussionist":{
"as in pianist , guitarist":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"accordionist",
"bassoonist",
"clarinetist",
"clarinettist",
"cornetist",
"cornettist",
"drummer",
"fiddler",
"flautist",
"flutist",
"guitarist",
"harpist",
"hornist",
"keyboardist",
"oboist",
"organ-grinder",
"organist",
"pianist",
"picker",
"piper",
"reedman",
"saxophonist",
"trombonist",
"trumpeter",
"violinist",
"violist",
"accompanist",
"recitalist",
"soloist",
"symphonist",
"maestro",
"virtuoso",
"artist",
"performer",
"minstrel",
"instrumentalist",
"musician",
"player"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"perpetrators":{
"as in offenders , criminals":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"assassins",
"bandits",
"bravos",
"bravoes",
"brigands",
"criminals",
"crooks",
"desperadoes",
"desperados",
"felons",
"gunmen",
"highwaymen",
"lawbreakers",
"mafiosi",
"malefactors",
"offenders",
"outlaws",
"perps",
"pirates",
"bullies",
"gangbangers",
"gangstas",
"gangsters",
"goons",
"gorillas",
"hoodlums",
"hoods",
"hooligans",
"mobsters",
"mugs",
"plug-uglies",
"punks",
"roughnecks",
"rowdies",
"ruffians",
"thugs",
"toughies",
"toughs",
"yobbos",
"yobboes",
"yobs",
"cutthroats",
"scoundrels",
"villains",
"pickpockets",
"racketeers",
"robbers",
"swindlers",
"thieves",
"vandals",
"juvenile delinquents",
"tearaways"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"perversions":{
"incorrect or improper use":{
"examples":[
"if there's a hidden charge for the service, then that's a perversion of the word \"free\""
],
"synonyms":[
"abuses",
"misapplications",
"misemployments",
"misusages",
"misuses",
"misutilizations"
],
"near synonyms":[
"mismanagements",
"ill-treatments",
"ill-usages",
"maltreatments",
"mistreatments",
"damages",
"destructions",
"ruins",
"corruptions",
"debasements",
"desecrations",
"profanations",
"prostitutions"
],
"near antonyms":[
"applications",
"employments",
"uses",
"utilizations"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"perceive":{
"to have a vague awareness of":{
"examples":[
"I thought I perceived a problem, but I wasn't sure"
],
"synonyms":[
"feel",
"scent",
"see",
"sense",
"smell",
"taste"
],
"near synonyms":[
"behold",
"descry",
"discern",
"distinguish",
"espy",
"eye",
"look (at)",
"note",
"notice",
"observe",
"regard",
"remark",
"sight",
"spy",
"view",
"witness",
"ascertain",
"catch on (to)",
"discover",
"find out",
"hear",
"learn",
"realize",
"anticipate",
"divine",
"expect",
"foreknow",
"foresee",
"assume",
"conjecture",
"guess",
"presume",
"speculate",
"suppose",
"surmise",
"suspect"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to make note of (something) through the use of one's eyes":{
"examples":[
"perceived that it was going to be a nice day"
],
"synonyms":[
"behold",
"catch",
"descry",
"discern",
"distinguish",
"espy",
"eye",
"look (at)",
"note",
"notice",
"observe",
"regard",
"remark",
"see",
"sight",
"spot",
"spy",
"view",
"witness"
],
"near synonyms":[
"identify",
"make out",
"pick out",
"pick up",
"attend (to)",
"consider",
"heed",
"mark",
"mind",
"study",
"watch",
"examine",
"inspect",
"scan",
"scrutinize",
"survey",
"glance (at)",
"glimpse",
"peer (at)"
],
"near antonyms":[
"disregard",
"ignore",
"neglect",
"overpass",
"pass over",
"miss",
"overlook"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to have a clear idea of":{
"examples":[
"I perceive your point, but I still disagree"
],
"synonyms":[
"appreciate",
"apprehend",
"assimilate",
"behold",
"catch",
"catch on (to)",
"cognize",
"compass",
"comprehend",
"conceive",
"cotton (to or on to)",
"decipher",
"decode",
"dig",
"discern",
"get",
"grasp",
"grok",
"intuit",
"know",
"make",
"make out",
"recognize",
"register",
"savvy",
"see",
"seize",
"sense",
"tumble (to)",
"twig",
"understand"
],
"near synonyms":[
"absorb",
"digest",
"take in",
"realize",
"fathom",
"penetrate",
"pierce"
],
"near antonyms":[
"misapprehend",
"misconceive",
"misconstrue",
"misinterpret",
"misperceive",
"misread",
"mistake",
"misunderstand"
],
"antonyms":[
"miss"
]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"perfunctory":{
"having or showing a lack of interest or concern":{
"examples":[
"the violinist delivered a perfunctory performance that displayed none of the passion and warmth he was once known for"
],
"synonyms":[
"apathetic",
"casual",
"complacent",
"disinterested",
"incurious",
"indifferent",
"insensible",
"insouciant",
"nonchalant",
"pococurante",
"unconcerned",
"uncurious",
"uninterested"
],
"near synonyms":[
"halfhearted",
"lukewarm",
"tepid",
"aloof",
"cold",
"numb",
"remote",
"unemotional",
"callous",
"hard-hearted",
"insensitive",
"unfeeling",
"calm",
"cool",
"detached",
"dispassionate",
"careless",
"heedless",
"mindless",
"impassive",
"impervious",
"phlegmatic",
"stoic",
"stoical",
"stolid",
"lethargic",
"listless",
"unimpressed"
],
"near antonyms":[
"attentive",
"aware",
"conscientious",
"heedful",
"mindful",
"caring",
"sensitive",
"warmhearted",
"ardent",
"fervent",
"keen",
"passionate",
"warm",
"zealous"
],
"antonyms":[
"concerned",
"interested"
]
},
"type":[
"adjective"
]
},
"pertains":{
"to be the property of a person or group of persons":{
"examples":[
"the belief that quality medical care is a right that pertains to everyone"
],
"synonyms":[
"appertains",
"belongs"
],
"near synonyms":[
"has",
"holds",
"owns",
"possesses"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to have a relation or connection":{
"examples":[
"a person who is an expert in anything pertaining to the history of the American theater"
],
"synonyms":[
"appertains",
"applies",
"bears",
"refers",
"relates"
],
"near synonyms":[
"affects",
"concerns",
"interests",
"involves",
"touches",
"associates",
"connects",
"couples",
"interrelates",
"links",
"ties in",
"deals (with)",
"treats"
],
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"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"perpendicular":{
"rising straight up":{
"examples":[
"river rafters staring awestruck at the canyon's nearly perpendicular cliffs"
],
"synonyms":[
"erect",
"plumb",
"raised",
"stand-up",
"standing",
"upright",
"upstanding",
"vertical"
],
"near synonyms":[
"elevated",
"lifted",
"upended",
"upraised",
"semierect",
"freestanding",
"stand-alone"
],
"near antonyms":[
"prostrate",
"supine",
"diagonal",
"hanging",
"sagging",
"slant",
"slanted",
"slanting",
"slanty"
],
"antonyms":[
"flat",
"recumbent"
]
},
"type":[
"adjective"
]
},
"pervious":{
"capable of being passed into or through":{
"examples":[
"the new road has a pervious surface that will cut down on the amount of water that collects on it during heavy rains"
],
"synonyms":[
"passable",
"penetrable",
"permeable",
"porous"
],
"near synonyms":[
"absorbent",
"breathable"
],
"near antonyms":[
"airtight",
"watertight",
"close",
"compact",
"dense",
"thick"
],
"antonyms":[
"impassable",
"impassible",
"impenetrable",
"impermeable",
"impervious",
"nonporous"
]
},
"type":[
"adjective"
]
},
"performer":{
"as in player , entertainer":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"busker",
"entertainer",
"player",
"trouper",
"mime",
"mimic",
"mummer",
"pantomime",
"pantomimist",
"aper",
"imitator",
"impersonator",
"impressionist",
"clown",
"pantaloon"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"permanently":{
"for all time":{
"examples":[
"planned to stay there permanently"
],
"synonyms":[
"always",
"aye",
"ay",
"e'er",
"eternally",
"ever",
"everlastingly",
"evermore",
"forever",
"forevermore",
"indelibly",
"perpetually"
],
"near synonyms":[
"enduringly",
"long",
"perennially"
],
"near antonyms":[
"once"
],
"antonyms":[
"ne'er",
"never",
"nevermore"
]
},
"type":[
"adverb"
]
},
"pertinacious":{
"continuing despite difficulties, opposition, or discouragement":{
"examples":[
"a pertinacious little boy who was determined to catch and collect reptiles"
],
"synonyms":[
"dogged",
"insistent",
"patient",
"persevering",
"persistent",
"tenacious"
],
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"assured",
"certain",
"dedicated",
"determined",
"firm",
"hell-bent",
"intent",
"positive",
"resolute",
"resolved",
"single-minded",
"sure",
"adamant",
"bullheaded",
"hardened",
"hardheaded",
"headstrong",
"implacable",
"indurate",
"mulish",
"obdurate",
"obstinate",
"opinionated",
"peevish",
"perverse",
"pigheaded",
"self-willed",
"stiff-necked",
"stubborn",
"unregenerate",
"unyielding",
"willful",
"wilful",
"unfaltering",
"unhesitating",
"unwavering",
"resistant",
"wayward",
"wrongheaded",
"constant",
"devoted",
"faithful",
"good",
"loyal",
"staunch",
"stanch",
"steadfast",
"steady",
"true",
"indomitable",
"unconquerable",
"hard",
"inflexible",
"relentless",
"stern",
"unbending",
"unflinching",
"unrelenting"
],
"near antonyms":[
"quitting",
"surrendering",
"yielding",
"faltering",
"hesitant",
"hesitating",
"irresolute",
"vacillating",
"wavering",
"disloyal",
"faithless",
"false",
"fickle",
"inconstant",
"perfidious",
"traitorous",
"treacherous"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"sticking to an opinion, purpose, or course of action in spite of reason, arguments, or persuasion":{
"examples":[
"a pertinacious salesman who would simply not take \"No!\" for an answer"
],
"synonyms":[
"adamant",
"adamantine",
"bullheaded",
"dogged",
"hard",
"hard-nosed",
"hardened",
"hardheaded",
"headstrong",
"immovable",
"implacable",
"inconvincible",
"inflexible",
"intransigent",
"mulish",
"obdurate",
"obstinate",
"opinionated",
"ossified",
"pat",
"perverse",
"pigheaded",
"self-opinionated",
"self-willed",
"stiff-necked",
"stubborn",
"unbending",
"uncompromising",
"unrelenting",
"unyielding",
"willful",
"wilful"
],
"near synonyms":[
"anal-retentive",
"obsessive",
"wayward",
"wrongheaded",
"determined",
"hell-bent",
"inexorable",
"persistent",
"relentless",
"resolved",
"set",
"single-minded",
"steadfast",
"stouthearted",
"tenacious",
"unflinching",
"firm",
"hard-line",
"hard-shell",
"hard-shelled",
"iron",
"severe",
"stern",
"strict",
"hidebound",
"narrow-minded",
"rigid",
"bloody-minded",
"cantankerous",
"contrary",
"cussed",
"contumacious",
"disobedient",
"froward",
"insubordinate",
"intractable",
"recalcitrant",
"refractory",
"uncooperative",
"ungovernable",
"unmanageable",
"unruly",
"defiant",
"insurgent",
"mutinous",
"indomitable",
"invincible",
"unconquerable",
"confirmed",
"inveterate",
"unregenerate",
"demanding",
"exacting"
],
"near antonyms":[
"docile",
"obedient",
"placable",
"submissive",
"tractable",
"accepting",
"persuadable",
"receptive",
"responsive",
"willing",
"governable",
"manageable",
"reasonable",
"temperate",
"slavish",
"subservient"
],
"antonyms":[
"acquiescent",
"agreeable",
"amenable",
"compliant",
"complying",
"flexible",
"pliable",
"pliant",
"relenting",
"yielding"
]
},
"type":[
"adjective"
]
},
"perorations":{
"a usually formal discourse delivered to an audience":{
"examples":[
"gave an eloquent peroration celebrating the nation's long tradition of religious tolerance and pluralism"
],
"synonyms":[
"addresses",
"declamations",
"harangues",
"orations",
"speeches",
"talks"
],
"near synonyms":[
"diatribes",
"rants",
"tirades",
"eulogies",
"panegyrics",
"tributes",
"keynote addresses",
"keynote speeches",
"lectures",
"salutatories",
"homilies",
"sermons",
"monologues",
"monologs",
"soliloquies",
"pitches",
"presentations",
"spiels"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"persuaders":{
"as in supporters , advocates":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"advocates",
"apostles",
"backers",
"boosters",
"champions",
"exponents",
"promoters",
"proponents",
"reformers",
"reformists",
"supporters",
"demonstrators",
"marchers",
"objectors",
"picketers",
"protesters",
"protestors",
"alarmists",
"extremists",
"insurgents",
"insurrectionists",
"radicals",
"rebels",
"revolters",
"revolutionaries",
"revolutionists",
"subversives",
"troublemakers",
"agitators",
"demagogues",
"demagogs",
"exciters",
"firebrands",
"fomenters",
"incendiaries",
"inciters",
"instigators",
"kindlers",
"provocateurs",
"rabble-rousers",
"prodders",
"prompters",
"provokers",
"agents provocateurs"
],
"near antonyms":[
"peacemakers",
"reconcilers",
"uniters"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"as in inducers , bribers":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"bribers",
"inducers",
"inveiglers",
"tantalizers",
"corrupters",
"corruptors",
"debasers",
"debauchers",
"degraders",
"depravers",
"perverters",
"undoers",
"beguilers",
"enchantresses",
"sirens",
"temptresses",
"baiters",
"seducers",
"solicitors",
"tempters"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"percipience":{
"the knowledge gained from the process of coming to know or understand something":{
"examples":[
"a novelist who reveals an exceptional percipience of human aspirations and desires"
],
"synonyms":[
"appreciation",
"apprehension",
"comprehension",
"grasp",
"grip",
"hold",
"perception",
"understanding"
],
"near synonyms":[
"absorption",
"assimilation",
"digestion",
"uptake",
"conception",
"visualization",
"awareness",
"consciousness",
"enlightenment",
"realization"
],
"near antonyms":[
"misapprehension",
"miscomprehension",
"misinterpretation",
"misperception",
"misunderstanding"
],
"antonyms":[
"incomprehension",
"noncomprehension"
]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"perverts":{
"a person who has sunk below the normal moral standard":{
"examples":[
"a pervert who, because of years of bad choices, couldn't get a job"
],
"synonyms":[
"backsliders",
"debauchees",
"debauchers",
"decadents",
"degenerates",
"deviates",
"libertines",
"pervs",
"profligates",
"rakehells",
"rakes",
"rips"
],
"near synonyms":[
"bankrupts",
"delinquents",
"derelicts",
"incorrigibles",
"blackguards",
"cads",
"heels",
"knaves",
"miscreants",
"rascals",
"reprobates",
"rogues",
"scoundrels",
"villains",
"lechers",
"playboys",
"playgirls",
"satyrs"
],
"near antonyms":[
"saints"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to change so much as to create a wrong impression or alter the meaning of":{
"examples":[
"that summary really perverts the other candidate's views on taxes"
],
"synonyms":[
"bends",
"colors",
"cooks",
"distorts",
"falsifies",
"fudges",
"garbles",
"misinterprets",
"misrelates",
"misrepresents",
"misstates",
"slants",
"twists",
"warps"
],
"near synonyms":[
"misdescribes",
"misspeaks",
"mistranslates",
"belies",
"camouflages",
"disguises",
"dissembles",
"glosses (over)",
"masks",
"veils",
"whitewashes",
"bowdlerizes",
"censors",
"complicates",
"confounds",
"confuses",
"mistakes",
"mixes (up)",
"mystifies",
"obscures",
"equivocates",
"fibs",
"lies",
"palters",
"prevaricates"
],
"near antonyms":[
"clarifies",
"clears (up)",
"explains",
"illuminates",
"illustrates",
"interprets",
"spells out",
"deciphers"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to lower in character, dignity, or quality":{
"examples":[
"a movie that perverted the Bible story by reveling in the sinners' lewd behavior until just before the moment of divine retribution"
],
"synonyms":[
"abases",
"bastardizes",
"cankers",
"cheapens",
"corrupts",
"debases",
"debauches",
"degrades",
"demeans",
"demoralizes",
"depraves",
"deteriorates",
"lessens",
"poisons",
"profanes",
"prostitutes",
"subverts",
"vitiates",
"warps"
],
"near synonyms":[
"befouls",
"begrimes",
"contaminates",
"defiles",
"dilutes",
"dirties",
"pollutes",
"taints",
"thins",
"waters down",
"weakens",
"descends",
"disgraces",
"dishonors",
"humbles",
"humiliates",
"shames",
"takes down",
"blemishes",
"damages",
"defaces",
"destroys",
"flaws",
"harms",
"hurts",
"impairs",
"mars",
"ruins",
"spoils",
"stains",
"tarnishes",
"wrecks",
"depreciates",
"downgrades"
],
"near antonyms":[
"dignifies",
"exalts",
"honors",
"ameliorates",
"amends",
"betters",
"enhances",
"enriches",
"improves",
"meliorates",
"perfects",
"clarifies",
"cleans",
"cleanses",
"purifies",
"refines",
"restores",
"respects"
],
"antonyms":[
"elevates",
"ennobles",
"uplifts"
]
},
"to put to a bad or improper use":{
"examples":[
"accused of perverting the Internal Revenue Service by using it to harass political opponents"
],
"synonyms":[
"abuses",
"misapplies",
"misemploys",
"misuses",
"profanes",
"prostitutes"
],
"near synonyms":[
"degrades",
"twists",
"mismanages",
"corrupts",
"debases",
"desecrates"
],
"near antonyms":[
"applies",
"employs",
"uses",
"utilizes",
"respects"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun",
"verb"
]
},
"perforce":{
"because of necessity":{
"examples":[
"we must, perforce , deal with this issue immediately, as procrastination is not an option"
],
"synonyms":[
"ineluctably",
"inescapably",
"inevitably",
"ipso facto",
"necessarily",
"needs",
"unavoidably"
],
"near synonyms":[
"involuntarily"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"adverb"
]
},
"persevere":{
"to continue despite difficulties, opposition, or discouragement":{
"examples":[
"although he was frustrated by the lack of financial resources and support, he persevered in his scientific research"
],
"synonyms":[
"carry on",
"persist"
],
"near synonyms":[
"dig in",
"hang on",
"keep up",
"follow through (with)",
"knuckle down"
],
"near antonyms":[
"give up",
"knock off",
"quit",
"bow",
"give in",
"submit",
"succumb",
"surrender",
"yield",
"falter",
"hang back",
"hesitate",
"shilly-shally",
"vacillate",
"waver",
"wobble",
"wabble"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"perjurious":{
"as in false , untruthful":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"erroneous",
"fallacious",
"false",
"misleading",
"untrue",
"double-dealing",
"hypocrite",
"hypocritical",
"insincere",
"mealymouthed",
"smooth-tongued",
"two-faced",
"dishonest",
"lying",
"mendacious",
"untruthful"
],
"near antonyms":[
"honest",
"truthful",
"veracious",
"candid",
"open",
"plainspoken",
"straightforward",
"earnest",
"sincere",
"true",
"conscientious",
"moral",
"principled",
"scrupulous",
"dependable",
"reliable",
"trustable",
"trustworthy",
"trusty",
"decent",
"ethical",
"honorable",
"just",
"respectable",
"righteous",
"right-minded",
"straight",
"upright",
"upstanding",
"virtuous"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"adjective"
]
},
"perturbs":{
"to trouble the mind of; to make uneasy":{
"examples":[
"the caller's strange remark perturbed me enough to keep me awake that night"
],
"synonyms":[
"agitates",
"ails",
"alarms",
"alarums",
"bothers",
"concerns",
"derails",
"discomforts",
"discomposes",
"dismays",
"disquiets",
"distempers",
"distracts",
"distresses",
"disturbs",
"exercises",
"flurries",
"frazzles",
"freaks (out)",
"fusses",
"hagrides",
"undoes",
"unhinges",
"unsettles",
"upsets",
"weirds out",
"worries"
],
"near synonyms":[
"aggravates",
"angers",
"annoys",
"bugs",
"chafes",
"chivies",
"chivvies",
"exasperates",
"frets",
"galls",
"gets",
"grates",
"harasses",
"harries",
"irks",
"irritates",
"nettles",
"peeves",
"pesters",
"piques",
"puts off",
"puts out",
"riles",
"vexes",
"bedevils",
"haunts",
"plagues",
"abashes",
"confounds",
"confuses",
"discomfits",
"disconcerts",
"discountenances",
"embarrasses",
"fazes",
"flusters",
"jars",
"mortifies",
"nonpluses",
"nonplusses",
"rattles",
"shakes up",
"daunts",
"demoralizes",
"discourages",
"disheartens",
"dispirits",
"unnerves"
],
"near antonyms":[
"allays",
"alleviates",
"assuages",
"appeases",
"conciliates",
"mollifies",
"pacifies",
"placates",
"propitiates"
],
"antonyms":[
"calms",
"composes",
"quiets",
"settles",
"soothes",
"tranquilizes",
"tranquillizes"
]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"persuades":{
"to cause (someone) to agree with a belief or course of action by using arguments or earnest request":{
"examples":[
"she persuaded us that she can indeed communicate with the dead",
"he persuaded his teachers to grant an extension"
],
"synonyms":[
"argues",
"brings",
"brings around",
"converts",
"convinces",
"gains",
"gets",
"induces",
"moves",
"prevails (on or upon)",
"satisfies",
"talks (into)",
"wins (over)"
],
"near synonyms":[
"blandishes",
"blarneys",
"cajoles",
"coaxes",
"entreats",
"exhorts",
"fast-talks",
"urges",
"wheedles",
"allures",
"beguiles",
"leads on",
"lures",
"seduces",
"snows",
"tempts",
"brainwashes",
"overpersuades",
"inclines",
"influences",
"prompts",
"sells",
"sways",
"attracts",
"draws",
"entices",
"interests",
"chews over",
"converses",
"debates",
"discusses",
"disputes",
"hashes (over)",
"moots",
"reasons (with)"
],
"near antonyms":[
"deters",
"discourages",
"dissuades",
"unsells"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"perusing":{
"to go over and mentally take in the content of":{
"examples":[
"perused the manuscript, checking for grammatical errors"
],
"synonyms":[
"poring (over)",
"reading"
],
"near synonyms":[
"browsing",
"dipping (into)",
"leafing (through)",
"scanning",
"skimming",
"speed-reading",
"thumbing (through)",
"turning over",
"devouring",
"gobbling (up)",
"slogging (through)",
"wading (through)",
"rereading",
"proofreading",
"deciphering",
"reviewing",
"studying",
"apprehending",
"comprehending",
"getting",
"grasping",
"making",
"making out",
"perceiving",
"seeing",
"tumbling (to)",
"understanding"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"perpetually":{
"for all time":{
"examples":[
"a group of jaded teenagers with their perpetually bored expressions"
],
"synonyms":[
"always",
"aye",
"ay",
"e'er",
"eternally",
"ever",
"everlastingly",
"evermore",
"forever",
"forevermore",
"indelibly",
"permanently"
],
"near synonyms":[
"enduringly",
"long",
"perennially"
],
"near antonyms":[
"once"
],
"antonyms":[
"ne'er",
"never",
"nevermore"
]
},
"on every relevant occasion":{
"examples":[
"the perpetually smiling host of the morning talk show"
],
"synonyms":[
"always",
"aye",
"ay",
"consistently",
"constantly",
"continually",
"ever",
"forever",
"incessantly",
"invariably",
"night and day",
"unfailingly"
],
"near synonyms":[
"commonly",
"frequently",
"oft",
"often",
"oftentimes",
"ofttimes",
"recurrently",
"repeatedly",
"continuously",
"steadily",
"uninterruptedly",
"unremittingly",
"dependably",
"generally",
"habitually",
"normally",
"ordinarily",
"regularly",
"routinely",
"typically",
"usually",
"inevitably",
"eternally",
"everlastingly"
],
"near antonyms":[
"intermittently",
"occasionally",
"periodically",
"sometimes",
"sporadically",
"infrequently",
"rarely",
"seldom",
"unusually",
"variously"
],
"antonyms":[
"ne'er",
"never"
]
},
"type":[
"adverb"
]
},
"perceptive":{
"able to sense slight impressions or differences":{
"examples":[
"due to their ability to rotate their ears, cats are very perceptive when it comes to pinpointing the source of a sound"
],
"synonyms":[
"acute",
"delicate",
"fine",
"keen",
"quick",
"sensitive",
"sharp"
],
"near synonyms":[
"accurate",
"clear",
"discerning",
"good",
"piercing",
"precise",
"receptive",
"sensible",
"subtle",
"hair-trigger",
"hyperacute",
"hypersensitive",
"oversensitive",
"supersensitive"
],
"near antonyms":[
"bad",
"deadened",
"dimmed",
"dull",
"dulled",
"fading",
"dead",
"imperceptive",
"insensible",
"insensitive",
"numb",
"imprecise",
"inaccurate"
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"having or showing deep understanding and intelligent application of knowledge":{
"examples":[
"a perceptive therapist was able to discover what was really troubling the youth"
],
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"discerning",
"insightful",
"prudent",
"sagacious",
"sage",
"sapient",
"wise"
],
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"penetrating",
"percipient",
"perspicacious",
"experienced",
"discriminating",
"discriminative",
"brainy",
"bright",
"brilliant",
"clever",
"intelligent",
"keen",
"nimble",
"quick",
"quick-witted",
"smart",
"cerebral",
"erudite",
"knowledgeable",
"learned",
"literate",
"scholarly",
"astute",
"clearheaded",
"piercing",
"sharp",
"shrewd",
"contemplative",
"reflective",
"thoughtful"
],
"near antonyms":[
"dense",
"dull",
"obtuse",
"purblind",
"woodenheaded",
"brainless",
"dumb",
"feebleminded",
"foolish",
"idiotic",
"idiotical",
"imbecile",
"imbecilic",
"knuckleheaded",
"moronic",
"silly",
"simple",
"slow",
"slow-witted",
"stupid",
"thoughtless",
"unintelligent",
"witless",
"undiscriminating"
],
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"unperceptive",
"unwise"
]
},
"type":[
"adjective"
]
},
"permittee":{
"as in licensee , assignee":{
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"assignee",
"licensee",
"licentiate",
"candidate",
"inductee",
"appointee",
"designee",
"nominee",
"selectee",
"agent",
"delegate",
"delegatee",
"deputy",
"choice",
"draftee",
"endorsee",
"pick",
"selection"
],
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"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"perpetrator":{
"as in offender , criminal":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
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"assassin",
"bandit",
"bravo",
"brigand",
"criminal",
"crook",
"desperado",
"felon",
"gunman",
"highwayman",
"lawbreaker",
"mafioso",
"malefactor",
"offender",
"outlaw",
"perp",
"pirate",
"bully",
"gangbanger",
"gangsta",
"gangster",
"goon",
"gorilla",
"hood",
"hoodlum",
"hooligan",
"mobster",
"mug",
"plug-ugly",
"punk",
"roughneck",
"rowdy",
"ruffian",
"thug",
"tough",
"toughie",
"toughy",
"yob",
"yobbo",
"cutthroat",
"scoundrel",
"villain",
"pickpocket",
"racketeer",
"robber",
"swindler",
"thief",
"vandal",
"juvenile delinquent",
"tearaway"
],
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"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"perquisite":{
"a small sum of money given for a service over and above what is due":{
"examples":[
"give the movers a perquisite if they do a good job"
],
"synonyms":[
"gratuity",
"tip"
],
"near synonyms":[
"donation",
"gift",
"lagniappe",
"largesse",
"largess",
"present",
"bonus",
"favor",
"reward",
"contribution",
"offering"
],
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"antonyms":[]
},
"something given in addition to what is ordinarily expected or owed":{
"examples":[
"the use of a company car is one perquisite of the job"
],
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"bonus",
"cumshaw",
"dividend",
"donative",
"extra",
"gratuity",
"gravy",
"gravy train",
"lagniappe",
"perk",
"throw-in",
"tip"
],
"near synonyms":[
"pension",
"bestowal",
"presentation",
"benefaction",
"beneficence",
"benevolence",
"bounty",
"charity",
"generosity",
"largesse",
"largess",
"philanthropy",
"contribution",
"donation",
"gift",
"offering",
"present",
"grant",
"subsidy",
"boon",
"manna",
"windfall",
"favor",
"freebie",
"freebee",
"giveaway",
"premium",
"award",
"prize",
"reward",
"fringe benefit",
"icing"
],
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"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"periapts":{
"something worn or kept to bring good luck or keep away evil":{
"examples":[
"even rational, enlightened people have their periapts , which somehow make them feel a little more secure in an uncertain world"
],
"synonyms":[
"amulets",
"charms",
"fetishes",
"fetiches",
"mascots",
"mojoes",
"mojos",
"phylacteries",
"talismans"
],
"near synonyms":[
"gris-gris",
"grigri",
"jujus",
"philters",
"toadstones",
"emblems",
"symbols",
"tokens",
"totems"
],
"near antonyms":[
"curses",
"hexes",
"spells"
],
"antonyms":[
"hoodoos",
"jinxes"
]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"percolating":{
"to flow forth slowly through small openings":{
"examples":[
"water percolating through the coffee filter"
],
"synonyms":[
"bleeding",
"exuding",
"oozing",
"seeping",
"straining",
"sweating",
"transuding",
"weeping"
],
"near synonyms":[
"dribbling",
"dripping",
"trickling",
"discharging",
"emitting",
"giving off",
"venting",
"emanating",
"flowing",
"springing"
],
"near antonyms":[
"flooding",
"gushing",
"pouring",
"streaming",
"surging"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"perfectionists":{
"a person who wants things to be done perfectly or who tries to do things perfectly":{
"examples":[
"I'm a bit of a perfectionist , which makes it difficult for me to finish things sometimes."
],
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"emotionalists",
"sentimentalists",
"Don Quixotes",
"dreamers",
"fantasts",
"idealists",
"idealizers",
"ideologues",
"idealogues",
"romanticists",
"romantics",
"utopians",
"visionaries",
"daydreamers",
"fantasizers",
"woolgatherers",
"Micawbers",
"optimists",
"Pollyannas",
"do-gooders",
"reformers",
"doctrinaires",
"theorists",
"thinkers"
],
"near antonyms":[
"cynics",
"defeatists",
"pessimists",
"empiricists",
"empirics",
"hardnoses",
"pragmatists",
"realists"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"perverter":{
"as in degrader , depraver":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"corrupter",
"corruptor",
"debaser",
"debaucher",
"degrader",
"depraver",
"undoer",
"briber",
"inducer",
"inveigler",
"persuader",
"tantalizer",
"beguiler",
"enchantress",
"siren",
"temptress",
"baiter",
"seducer",
"solicitor",
"tempter"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"percolates (into)":{
"to spread throughout":{
"examples":[
"the closing shot of the film is one of those iconic images that has long since percolated into the cultural consciousness"
],
"synonyms":[
"interpenetrates",
"permeates",
"pervades",
"riddles",
"suffuses",
"transfuses"
],
"near synonyms":[
"diffuses (through)",
"impregnates",
"passes (into)",
"penetrates",
"fills (up)",
"drenches",
"imbues",
"infuses",
"saturates",
"soaks",
"steeps",
"floods",
"gluts"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"perk (up)":{
"to become glad or hopeful":{
"examples":[
"we perked up once the sun came out"
],
"synonyms":[
"brighten",
"buck up",
"cheer (up)",
"lighten",
"look up"
],
"near synonyms":[
"rejoice",
"liven (up)",
"revive",
"beam",
"glow",
"radiate",
"sparkle",
"encourage",
"gladden",
"hearten"
],
"near antonyms":[
"despair",
"despond",
"brood",
"fret",
"mope"
],
"antonyms":[
"darken",
"sadden"
]
},
"to move from a lower to a higher place or position":{
"examples":[
"the dog tilts her head and perks up her ears whenever someone speaks to her"
],
"synonyms":[
"boost",
"crane",
"elevate",
"heave",
"heft",
"heighten",
"hike",
"hoist",
"jack (up)",
"lift",
"pick up",
"raise",
"take up",
"up",
"uphold",
"uplift",
"upraise"
],
"near synonyms":[
"ascend",
"mount",
"rise",
"rear",
"upend"
],
"near antonyms":[
"descend",
"dip",
"fall",
"pitch",
"plunge",
"slip",
"bear",
"depress",
"press",
"push",
"sink",
"submerge"
],
"antonyms":[
"drop",
"lower"
]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"permissions":{
"the approval by someone in authority for the doing of something":{
"examples":[
"she asked for permission to have a piece of candy",
"the President granted permission for the foreign diplomats to have special quarters"
],
"synonyms":[
"allowances",
"authorizations",
"clearances",
"concurrences",
"consents",
"green lights",
"leaves",
"licenses",
"licences",
"sanctions",
"sufferances",
"warrants"
],
"near synonyms":[
"imprimaturs",
"seals",
"signatures",
"stamps",
"accreditations",
"certifications",
"liberties",
"passes",
"concessions",
"patents",
"permits",
"tolerances",
"tolerations",
"acceptances",
"acquiescences",
"agreements",
"assents",
"OKs",
"okays",
"accords",
"grants"
],
"near antonyms":[
"denials",
"refusals",
"rejections",
"revocations",
"taboos",
"tabus",
"injunctions",
"vetoes",
"deterrences",
"discouragements",
"repressions",
"suppressions",
"bans",
"embargoes",
"exclusions"
],
"antonyms":[
"interdictions",
"prohibitions",
"proscriptions"
]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"perk":{
"something given in addition to what is ordinarily expected or owed":{
"examples":[
"the salary's not great, but the perks make up for it"
],
"synonyms":[
"bonus",
"cumshaw",
"dividend",
"donative",
"extra",
"gratuity",
"gravy",
"gravy train",
"lagniappe",
"perquisite",
"throw-in",
"tip"
],
"near synonyms":[
"pension",
"bestowal",
"presentation",
"benefaction",
"beneficence",
"benevolence",
"bounty",
"charity",
"generosity",
"largesse",
"largess",
"philanthropy",
"contribution",
"donation",
"gift",
"offering",
"present",
"grant",
"subsidy",
"boon",
"manna",
"windfall",
"favor",
"freebie",
"freebee",
"giveaway",
"premium",
"award",
"prize",
"reward",
"fringe benefit",
"icing"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"perorates":{
"to talk as if giving an important and formal speech":{
"examples":[
"an arrogant scholar who never passes up an opportunity to posture and perorate on stunningly unimportant matters"
],
"synonyms":[
"declaims",
"discourses",
"harangues",
"mouths (off)",
"orates"
],
"near synonyms":[
"rants",
"raves",
"bloviates",
"blows",
"lectures",
"preaches",
"sermonizes",
"advertises",
"announces",
"broadcasts",
"declares",
"proclaims",
"pronounces",
"speaks",
"speechifies",
"talks"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"perturbed":{
"feeling or showing uncomfortable feelings of uncertainty":{
"examples":[
"a perturbed look betrayed her nervousness at her first job interview"
],
"synonyms":[
"aflutter",
"antsy",
"anxious",
"atwitter",
"dithery",
"edgy",
"goosey",
"het up",
"hinky",
"hung up",
"ill at ease",
"insecure",
"jittery",
"jumpy",
"nervous",
"nervy",
"queasy",
"queazy",
"tense",
"troubled",
"uneasy",
"unquiet",
"upset",
"uptight",
"worried"
],
"near synonyms":[
"aggrieved",
"bothered",
"concerned",
"disquieted",
"distraught",
"distressed",
"disturbed",
"freaked",
"freaked-out",
"shook-up",
"apprehensive",
"foreboding",
"hesitant",
"misgiving",
"fretful",
"fretting",
"stewing",
"vexed",
"qualmish",
"qualmy",
"flustered",
"twittered",
"undone",
"unnerved",
"unstrung",
"obsessed",
"preoccupied",
"restless",
"fidgety",
"flighty",
"fluttery",
"high-strung",
"hypertense",
"skittish",
"spooky"
],
"near antonyms":[
"confident",
"self-assured",
"self-confident",
"sure",
"controlled",
"self-controlled"
],
"antonyms":[
"calm",
"collected",
"cool",
"easy",
"happy-go-lucky",
"nerveless",
"relaxed"
]
},
"to trouble the mind of; to make uneasy":{
"examples":[
"the caller's strange remark perturbed me enough to keep me awake that night"
],
"synonyms":[
"agitated",
"ailed",
"alarmed",
"alarumed",
"bothered",
"concerned",
"derailed",
"discomforted",
"discomposed",
"dismayed",
"disquieted",
"distempered",
"distracted",
"distressed",
"disturbed",
"exercised",
"flurried",
"frazzled",
"freaked (out)",
"fussed",
"hagrode",
"undid",
"unhinged",
"unsettled",
"upset",
"weirded out",
"worried"
],
"near synonyms":[
"aggravated",
"angered",
"annoyed",
"bugged",
"chafed",
"chivied",
"chivvied",
"exasperated",
"fretted",
"galled",
"got",
"grated",
"harassed",
"harried",
"irked",
"irritated",
"nettled",
"peeved",
"pestered",
"piqued",
"put off",
"put out",
"riled",
"vexed",
"vext",
"bedeviled",
"haunted",
"plagued",
"abashed",
"confounded",
"confused",
"discomfited",
"disconcerted",
"discountenanced",
"embarrassed",
"fazed",
"flustered",
"jarred",
"mortified",
"nonplussed",
"nonplused",
"rattled",
"shook up",
"daunted",
"demoralized",
"discouraged",
"disheartened",
"dispirited",
"unnerved"
],
"near antonyms":[
"allayed",
"alleviated",
"assuaged",
"appeased",
"conciliated",
"mollified",
"pacified",
"placated",
"propitiated"
],
"antonyms":[
"calmed",
"composed",
"quieted",
"settled",
"soothed",
"tranquilized",
"tranquillized"
]
},
"type":[
"adjective",
"verb"
]
},
"percussionists":{
"as in pianists , guitarists":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"accordionists",
"bassoonists",
"clarinetists",
"clarinettists",
"cornetists",
"cornettists",
"drummers",
"fiddlers",
"flautists",
"flutists",
"guitarists",
"harpists",
"hornists",
"keyboardists",
"oboists",
"organ-grinders",
"organists",
"pianists",
"pickers",
"pipers",
"reedmen",
"saxophonists",
"trombonists",
"trumpeters",
"violinists",
"violists",
"accompanists",
"recitalists",
"soloists",
"symphonists",
"maestros",
"maestri",
"virtuosos",
"virtuosi",
"artists",
"performers",
"minstrels",
"instrumentalists",
"musicians",
"players"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"perverseness":{
"readiness to show annoyance or impatience":{
"examples":[
"the kind of perverseness that makes you want to snap at anyone who makes the mistake of greeting you"
],
"synonyms":[
"biliousness",
"choler",
"crankiness",
"crossness",
"crotchetiness",
"grouchiness",
"grumpiness",
"huffiness",
"irascibility",
"irascibleness",
"irritability",
"irritableness",
"peevishness",
"perversity",
"pettishness",
"petulance",
"testiness",
"waspishness"
],
"near synonyms":[
"cantankerousness",
"crustiness",
"curmudgeonliness",
"disagreeableness",
"dyspepsia",
"fretfulness",
"orneriness",
"sulkiness",
"surliness",
"aggression",
"aggressiveness",
"bellicosity",
"belligerence",
"belligerency",
"combativeness",
"contentiousness",
"contrariness",
"disputatiousness",
"feistiness",
"fight",
"pugnaciousness",
"pugnacity",
"quarrelsomeness",
"scrappiness",
"truculence",
"truculency",
"fussiness",
"querulousness",
"rudeness",
"oversensitiveness",
"sensitivity",
"supersensitivity",
"touchiness",
"animosity",
"antagonism",
"antipathy",
"fierceness",
"hostility",
"jaundice",
"rancor",
"unfriendliness",
"anger",
"exasperation",
"fury",
"indignation",
"rage",
"spleen",
"wrath",
"hot-bloodedness",
"passion"
],
"near antonyms":[
"forbearance",
"long-suffering",
"patience",
"tolerance",
"understanding",
"affability",
"agreeableness",
"amenity",
"amicability",
"cordiality",
"friendliness",
"geniality",
"sociability",
"amiability",
"amiableness",
"good-humoredness",
"good-naturedness",
"good-temperedness",
"coolness",
"serenity",
"tranquillity",
"tranquility",
"easygoingness",
"gentleness",
"kindliness",
"mildness"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"performed":{
"to carry through (as a process) to completion":{
"examples":[
"she performed the task quickly and expertly"
],
"synonyms":[
"accomplished",
"achieved",
"brought off",
"carried off",
"carried out",
"committed",
"compassed",
"did",
"executed",
"followed through (with)",
"fulfilled",
"made",
"negotiated",
"perpetrated",
"prosecuted",
"pulled off",
"put through"
],
"near synonyms":[
"brought about",
"effected",
"effectuated",
"implemented",
"aced",
"nailed",
"engaged (in)",
"practiced",
"practised",
"worked (at)",
"reduplicated",
"reenacted",
"repeated",
"actualized",
"attained",
"realized",
"completed",
"ended",
"finished",
"wound up",
"winded up"
],
"near antonyms":[
"failed",
"skimped",
"slighted",
"slurred"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to have a certain purpose":{
"examples":[
"the kidneys perform as a filtering system for the blood"
],
"synonyms":[
"acted",
"functioned",
"served",
"worked",
"wrought"
],
"near synonyms":[
"operated",
"ran",
"run",
"administered",
"carried on",
"controlled",
"directed",
"guided",
"handled",
"managed",
"oversaw",
"regulated",
"supervised"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to present a portrayal or performance of":{
"examples":[
"has always dreamed of performing Hamlet on stage"
],
"synonyms":[
"acted",
"did",
"impersonated",
"interpreted",
"played",
"portrayed"
],
"near synonyms":[
"depicted",
"dramatized",
"rendered",
"represented",
"acted out",
"enacted",
"pantomimed",
"playacted",
"role-played",
"took on",
"overacted",
"overplayed",
"underplayed",
"aped",
"clowned",
"hammed",
"imitated",
"masqueraded",
"mimed",
"mimicked",
"posed (as)",
"starred (in)",
"coacted",
"co-acted",
"costarred",
"co-starred"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to produce a desired effect":{
"examples":[
"the new medication performed surprisingly well"
],
"synonyms":[
"acted",
"operated",
"took",
"worked",
"wrought"
],
"near synonyms":[
"behaved",
"reacted",
"responded",
"affected",
"influenced",
"swayed",
"panned out",
"redounded",
"resulted"
],
"near antonyms":[
"backfired",
"fizzled"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"permitted":{
"as in allowed , authorized":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"accredited",
"allowed",
"authorized",
"certified",
"endorsed",
"indorsed",
"licensed",
"OK",
"okay",
"sanctioned",
"warranted",
"acceptable",
"bearable",
"endurable",
"tolerable",
"lawful",
"legal",
"licit",
"admissible",
"allowable",
"permissible",
"mandatory",
"ordered",
"required"
],
"near antonyms":[
"banned",
"barred",
"forbidden",
"impermissible",
"inadmissible",
"interdicted",
"prohibited",
"proscribed",
"verboten",
"intolerable",
"unacceptable",
"unbearable",
"unendurable",
"objectionable",
"denied",
"disallowed",
"refused",
"rejected",
"vetoed",
"repressed",
"suppressed",
"outlawed"
],
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},
"to give permission for or to approve of":{
"examples":[
"the school won't permit such an activity on its grounds"
],
"synonyms":[
"allowed",
"green-lighted",
"had",
"suffered"
],
"near synonyms":[
"authorized",
"commissioned",
"licensed",
"licenced",
"acceded (to)",
"acquiesced",
"agreed (to)",
"assented (to)",
"consented (to)",
"OK'd",
"okayed",
"warranted",
"accorded",
"conceded",
"granted",
"sanctioned",
"vouchsafed",
"admitted",
"brooked",
"condoned",
"countenanced",
"endured",
"supported",
"tolerated"
],
"near antonyms":[
"hindered",
"impeded",
"obstructed",
"censured",
"denied",
"disallowed",
"disapproved",
"interdicted",
"refused",
"rejected",
"revoked",
"suppressed",
"withheld",
"deplored",
"discountenanced",
"disfavored",
"disliked",
"frowned (at or on)",
"grudged",
"checked",
"curbed",
"kept",
"repressed",
"restrained"
],
"antonyms":[
"banned",
"enjoined",
"forbade",
"forbad",
"prohibited",
"proscribed",
"vetoed"
]
},
"to give permission to":{
"examples":[
"you are not permitted to swim at the town pond without a season pass"
],
"synonyms":[
"allowed",
"left",
"let"
],
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"authorized",
"commissioned",
"empowered",
"licensed",
"licenced",
"approved",
"endorsed",
"indorsed",
"sanctioned",
"freed",
"liberated",
"released",
"catered (to)",
"gave in (to)",
"humored",
"indulged"
],
"near antonyms":[
"deterred",
"discouraged",
"barred",
"blocked",
"constrained",
"curbed",
"frustrated",
"held back",
"impeded",
"inhibited",
"obstructed",
"prevented"
],
"antonyms":[
"enjoined",
"forbade",
"forbad",
"prohibited"
]
},
"to make able or possible":{
"examples":[
"we'll have our picnic on Thursday, weather permitting"
],
"synonyms":[
"allowed",
"empowered",
"enabled",
"let"
],
"near synonyms":[
"fitted",
"fit",
"habilitated",
"prepared",
"qualified",
"readied",
"approved",
"endorsed",
"indorsed",
"sanctioned",
"conditioned",
"equipped"
],
"near antonyms":[
"inhibited",
"precluded",
"disallowed",
"enjoined",
"forbade",
"forbad",
"prohibited"
],
"antonyms":[
"prevented"
]
},
"to fail to prevent (some behavior on someone's part) especially from neglect or indifference":{
"examples":[
"the college permits way too much drinking, in my opinion"
],
"synonyms":[
"allowed",
"let",
"suffered",
"tolerated"
],
"near synonyms":[
"brushed (aside or off)",
"condoned",
"disregarded",
"ignored",
"overlooked",
"shrugged off",
"winked (at)",
"excused",
"forgave",
"pardoned",
"brooked",
"catered (to)",
"gave in (to)",
"humored",
"indulged"
],
"near antonyms":[
"forbade",
"forbad",
"prohibited",
"curbed",
"deterred",
"discouraged",
"frustrated",
"held back",
"impeded",
"inhibited",
"interfered (with)"
],
"antonyms":[
"barred",
"blocked",
"constrained",
"prevented"
]
},
"type":[
"adjective",
"verb"
]
},
"perishing":{
"as in death , dying":{
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"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"death",
"decease",
"demise",
"dying",
"end",
"exit",
"expiration",
"expiring",
"expiry",
"ebbing",
"fading",
"shriveling",
"shrivelling",
"waning",
"wilting",
"withering",
"regression",
"retrogression",
"reversion",
"decadence",
"decay",
"decaying",
"declension",
"decline",
"declining",
"degeneration",
"descent",
"deterioration"
],
"near antonyms":[
"development",
"growth",
"maturation",
"maturing",
"ripening",
"blossoming",
"flourishing",
"flowering",
"mellowing",
"softening"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to stop living":{
"examples":[
"12 people perished in the plane crash"
],
"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",
"popping off",
"stepping out",
"succumbing"
],
"near synonyms":[
"predeceasing",
"consuming",
"disappearing",
"drying up",
"fading",
"failing"
],
"near antonyms":[
"coming to",
"reviving",
"lingering",
"being",
"existing",
"subsisting",
"flourishing",
"prospering",
"thriving"
],
"antonyms":[
"breathing",
"living"
]
},
"to go through decomposition":{
"examples":[
"after being left out in the summer heat, the milk perished and had to be thrown out"
],
"synonyms":[
"breaking down",
"corrupting",
"decaying",
"decomposing",
"disintegrating",
"festering",
"fouling",
"moldering",
"molding",
"putrefying",
"rotting",
"spoiling"
],
"near synonyms":[
"souring",
"turning",
"turning off",
"contaminating",
"defiling",
"polluting",
"tainting",
"addling",
"curdling",
"fermenting",
"mortifying",
"rusting",
"crumbling",
"declining",
"degenerating",
"descending",
"deteriorating",
"dilapidating",
"sinking",
"withering"
],
"near antonyms":[
"aging",
"ageing",
"developing",
"growing",
"maturing",
"ripening",
"refreshing",
"renewing",
"restoring",
"cleansing",
"purifying",
"assembling",
"composing",
"integrating",
"ameliorating",
"bettering",
"improving",
"meliorating"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun",
"verb"
]
},
"personification":{
"a visible representation of something abstract (as a quality)":{
"examples":[
"he's the personification of kindness"
],
"synonyms":[
"abstract",
"avatar",
"embodier",
"embodiment",
"epitome",
"externalization",
"genius",
"icon",
"ikon",
"image",
"incarnation",
"incorporation",
"instantiation",
"manifestation",
"objectification",
"personifier"
],
"near synonyms":[
"actualization",
"concretization",
"exemplification",
"personalization",
"realization",
"substantiation",
"essence",
"quintessence",
"soul",
"archetype",
"exemplar",
"model",
"paradigm",
"pattern",
"reincarnation"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"pertains (to)":{
"to have (something) as a subject matter":{
"examples":[
"where would I find books pertaining to birds?"
],
"synonyms":[
"concerns",
"covers",
"deals (with)",
"treats (of)"
],
"near synonyms":[
"appertains (to)",
"bears (on or upon)",
"refers (to)",
"relates (to)",
"adverts (to)",
"alludes (to)",
"cites",
"glances (upon)",
"instances",
"mentions",
"names",
"notes",
"notices",
"quotes",
"specifies",
"touches (upon)",
"offers",
"presents",
"contains",
"embraces",
"encompasses",
"entails",
"includes",
"incorporates"
],
"near antonyms":[
"excludes",
"omits",
"disregards",
"forgets",
"ignores",
"neglects",
"overlooks",
"overpasses",
"passes over",
"slights",
"slurs (over)",
"brushes (aside or off)",
"rejects",
"shrugs off"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"periphery":{
"the line or relatively narrow space that marks the outer limit of something":{
"examples":[
"the dogs are confined by an invisible electronic fence that runs along the periphery of the yard"
],
"synonyms":[
"border",
"borderline",
"bound",
"boundary",
"brim",
"circumference",
"compass",
"confines",
"edge",
"edging",
"end",
"frame",
"fringe",
"hem",
"margin",
"perimeter",
"rim",
"skirt",
"skirting",
"verge"
],
"near synonyms":[
"ambit",
"brink",
"crest",
"curb",
"cusp",
"lip",
"ceiling",
"maximum",
"demarcation",
"extent",
"limitation",
"measure",
"mere",
"restriction",
"termination",
"borderland",
"frontier",
"march",
"outskirts",
"pale",
"selvage",
"lap",
"shore"
],
"near antonyms":[
"center",
"core",
"heart",
"inner",
"inside",
"interior",
"middle",
"within"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"personally":{
"in person and usually privately":{
"examples":[
"the hostess told me personally that I was invited"
],
"synonyms":[
"face-to-face",
"t\u00eate-\u00e0-t\u00eate"
],
"near synonyms":[
"familiarly",
"intimately",
"confidentially",
"secretly",
"directly",
"immediately"
],
"near antonyms":[
"distantly",
"indirectly",
"openly",
"publicly"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"adverb"
]
},
"perambulated":{
"to make one's way through, across, or over":{
"examples":[
"we decided to lazily perambulate the entire length of the esplanade and enjoy the fresh air"
],
"synonyms":[
"coursed",
"covered",
"crossed",
"cut (across)",
"followed",
"navigated",
"passed (over)",
"peregrinated",
"proceeded (along)",
"tracked",
"transited",
"traveled",
"travelled",
"traversed",
"went"
],
"near synonyms":[
"hiked",
"traipsed",
"tramped",
"trod",
"treaded",
"walked",
"ran",
"run",
"rode",
"rid",
"crisscrossed"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to travel by foot for exercise or pleasure":{
"examples":[
"long summer evenings spent perambulating up and down the tree-lined streets of the quaint village"
],
"synonyms":[
"ambled",
"hiked",
"rambled",
"sauntered",
"strolled",
"tramped",
"tromped"
],
"near synonyms":[
"roamed",
"roved",
"wandered",
"peregrinated",
"traipsed",
"traversed",
"trekked",
"walked",
"marched",
"promenaded",
"power walked"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"permitting (of)":{
"to make possible especially to the exclusion of other possibilities":{
"examples":[
"the photo is too grainy to permit of anything more than a slight enlargement"
],
"synonyms":[
"admitting (of)",
"allowing (of)"
],
"near synonyms":[
"opening up",
"favoring",
"justifying",
"supporting",
"sustaining",
"validating",
"needing",
"taking",
"wanting",
"warranting"
],
"near antonyms":[
"closing out",
"disallowing",
"enjoining",
"excluding",
"forbidding",
"negativing",
"precluding",
"ruling out"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"personal taxes":{
"as in direct taxes":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"direct taxes",
"assessments",
"duties",
"impositions",
"imposts",
"levies",
"taxes",
"capitations",
"customs",
"excises",
"hidden taxes",
"income taxes",
"poll taxes",
"property taxes",
"sales taxes",
"single taxes",
"sin taxes",
"tariffs",
"tolls",
"tributes",
"value-added taxes",
"withholding taxes",
"supertaxes",
"surcharges",
"surtaxes",
"death taxes",
"estate taxes",
"inheritance taxes",
"flat taxes",
"proportional taxes"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"peregrinations":{
"a going from one place to another usually of some distance":{
"examples":[
"planning a leisurely peregrination across Europe for our honeymoon"
],
"synonyms":[
"expeditions",
"journeys",
"passages",
"travels",
"treks",
"trips"
],
"near synonyms":[
"commutations",
"commutes",
"errands",
"excursions",
"flights",
"hops",
"jaunts",
"junkets",
"outings",
"sallies",
"sorties",
"tours",
"cruises",
"sails",
"voyages",
"drives",
"rides",
"spins",
"grand tours",
"odysseys",
"pilgrimages",
"progresses",
"quests",
"safaris",
"hikes",
"slogs",
"tramps",
"walkabouts",
"walks"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"periodical":{
"appearing in parts or numbers that follow regularly":{
"examples":[
"a periodical town newsletter that is supported by local advertisers"
],
"synonyms":[
"episodic",
"episodical",
"serial",
"serialized"
],
"near synonyms":[
"sequential",
"successive",
"periodic",
"recurrent",
"recurring",
"regular"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"occurring or appearing at intervals":{
"examples":[
"periodical announcements from airline personnel concerning the delay"
],
"synonyms":[
"continual",
"intermittent",
"on-and-off",
"periodic",
"recurrent",
"recurring"
],
"near synonyms":[
"alternate",
"alternating",
"cyclic",
"cyclical",
"rhythmic",
"rhythmical",
"seasonal",
"serial",
"aperiodic",
"erratic",
"fitful",
"irregular",
"occasional",
"spasmodic",
"sporadic",
"spotty",
"unsteady"
],
"near antonyms":[
"eternal",
"everlasting",
"interminable",
"perpetual"
],
"antonyms":[
"constant",
"continuous",
"incessant",
"unceasing"
]
},
"appearing or occurring repeatedly from time to time":{
"examples":[
"periodical visits to the dentist will help keep your teeth healthy"
],
"synonyms":[
"constant",
"frequent",
"habitual",
"periodic",
"regular",
"repeated",
"steady"
],
"near synonyms":[
"continual",
"intermittent",
"recurrent",
"recurring",
"cyclic",
"cyclical",
"around-the-clock",
"hourly",
"round-the-clock",
"24-7",
"24/7",
"chronic",
"confirmed",
"inveterate",
"expected",
"usual"
],
"near antonyms":[
"episodic",
"episodical",
"occasional",
"unexpected",
"unusual"
],
"antonyms":[
"inconstant",
"infrequent",
"irregular"
]
},
"a publication that appears at regular intervals":{
"examples":[
"subscribed to three new periodicals"
],
"synonyms":[
"book",
"bulletin",
"diurnal",
"gazette",
"journal",
"mag",
"magazine",
"newspaper",
"organ",
"paper",
"rag",
"review",
"serial",
"zine"
],
"near synonyms":[
"annual",
"bimonthly",
"biweekly",
"daily",
"monthly",
"quarterly",
"semimonthly",
"semiweekly",
"triweekly",
"weekly",
"yearbook",
"digest",
"little magazine",
"fanzine",
"pictorial",
"slick",
"broadside",
"edition",
"extra",
"sheet",
"supplement",
"tab",
"tabloid",
"newsletter",
"newsmagazine",
"newsweekly"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"adjective",
"noun"
]
},
"persnicketiness":{
"as in care , carefulness":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"care",
"carefulness",
"fastidiousness",
"meticulousness",
"subtlety",
"definiteness",
"definitiveness",
"definitude",
"determinacy",
"correctness",
"fidelity",
"rightness",
"strictness",
"truth",
"accuracy",
"accurateness",
"closeness",
"delicacy",
"exactitude",
"exactness",
"fineness",
"nicety",
"perfection",
"preciseness",
"precision",
"rigor",
"rigorousness",
"ultraprecision",
"veracity"
],
"near antonyms":[
"coarseness",
"impreciseness",
"imprecision",
"inaccuracy",
"inexactitude",
"inexactness",
"roughness",
"approximation",
"roundness",
"falseness",
"falsity",
"incorrectness",
"wrongness",
"carelessness",
"guesswork",
"looseness",
"indefiniteness",
"vagueness"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"periapt":{
"something worn or kept to bring good luck or keep away evil":{
"examples":[
"even rational, enlightened people have their periapts , which somehow make them feel a little more secure in an uncertain world"
],
"synonyms":[
"amulet",
"charm",
"fetish",
"fetich",
"mascot",
"mojo",
"phylactery",
"talisman"
],
"near synonyms":[
"gris-gris",
"grigri",
"juju",
"philter",
"toadstone",
"emblem",
"symbol",
"token",
"totem"
],
"near antonyms":[
"curse",
"hex",
"spell"
],
"antonyms":[
"hoodoo",
"jinx"
]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"perceivable":{
"as in clear , obvious":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"clear",
"conspicuous",
"evident",
"eye-catching",
"manifest",
"obvious",
"overt",
"patent",
"plain",
"prominent",
"striking",
"detectable",
"discernible",
"discernable",
"noticeable",
"perceptible",
"exposed",
"external",
"outer",
"outward",
"superficial",
"viewable",
"apparent",
"observable",
"seeable",
"visible",
"visual"
],
"near antonyms":[
"invisible",
"sightless",
"viewless",
"disappeared",
"dissolved",
"evanesced",
"evaporated",
"melted",
"vanished",
"vaporized",
"imperceptible",
"indiscernible",
"indistinct",
"unnoticeable",
"unobservable",
"faint",
"inconspicuous",
"insignificant",
"slight",
"unobtrusive",
"vague",
"buried",
"concealed",
"covert",
"disguised",
"hidden",
"latent",
"obscure",
"shrouded"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"adjective"
]
},
"percolating (into)":{
"to spread throughout":{
"examples":[
"the closing shot of the film is one of those iconic images that has long since percolated into the cultural consciousness"
],
"synonyms":[
"interpenetrating",
"permeating",
"pervading",
"riddling",
"suffusing",
"transfusing"
],
"near synonyms":[
"diffusing (through)",
"impregnating",
"passing (into)",
"penetrating",
"filling (up)",
"drenching",
"imbuing",
"infusing",
"saturating",
"soaking",
"steeping",
"flooding",
"glutting"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"personalizing":{
"to represent in visible form":{
"examples":[
"in the character of the good-hearted, virtuous seaman, the author has personalized the concept of perfect innocence"
],
"synonyms":[
"bodying",
"embodying",
"epitomizing",
"expressing",
"externalizing",
"incarnating",
"incorporating",
"instantiating",
"manifesting",
"materializing",
"personifying",
"substantiating"
],
"near synonyms":[
"actualizing",
"concretizing",
"realizing",
"exemplifying",
"illustrating",
"imaging",
"objectifying",
"symbolizing",
"typifying"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"pervades":{
"to spread throughout":{
"examples":[
"the delicious scent of roasting turkey pervaded the house"
],
"synonyms":[
"interpenetrates",
"percolates (into)",
"permeates",
"riddles",
"suffuses",
"transfuses"
],
"near synonyms":[
"diffuses (through)",
"impregnates",
"passes (into)",
"penetrates",
"fills (up)",
"drenches",
"imbues",
"infuses",
"saturates",
"soaks",
"steeps",
"floods",
"gluts"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"perpetual":{
"going on and on without any interruptions":{
"examples":[
"the perpetual rise and fall of the sea"
],
"synonyms":[
"ceaseless",
"continual",
"continued",
"continuing",
"continuous",
"incessant",
"nonstop",
"running",
"unbroken",
"unceasing",
"uninterrupted",
"unremitting"
],
"near synonyms":[
"dateless",
"deathless",
"endless",
"eternal",
"everlasting",
"immortal",
"interminable",
"permanent",
"undying",
"unending",
"changeless",
"constant",
"stable",
"steady",
"unchanging",
"unvarying",
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"lasting",
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"imperishable",
"indestructible"
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"intermittent",
"periodic",
"periodical",
"recurrent",
"recurring",
"alternate",
"alternating",
"cyclic",
"cyclical",
"rhythmic",
"rhythmical",
"seasonal",
"serial",
"erratic",
"fitful",
"irregular",
"occasional",
"spasmodic",
"sporadic",
"spotty",
"unsteady"
],
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"discontinuous",
"noncontinuous"
]
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"examples":[
"freedom of religion is a perpetual right that is guaranteed by the nation's constitution"
],
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"dateless",
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"eternal",
"everlasting",
"immortal",
"imperishable",
"lasting",
"ongoing",
"perennial",
"timeless",
"undying"
],
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"ceaseless",
"endless",
"permanent",
"changeless",
"constant",
"stable",
"stationary",
"steady",
"unchanging",
"unvarying"
],
"near antonyms":[
"antiquated",
"archaic",
"dated",
"obsolete",
"outdated",
"outmoded",
"out-of-date",
"outworn",
"pass\u00e9"
],
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},
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"examples":[
"an immature jerk who seemed to be in a state of perpetual adolescence"
],
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"ceaseless",
"dateless",
"deathless",
"endless",
"eternal",
"everlasting",
"immortal",
"permanent",
"undying",
"unending"
],
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"durable",
"enduring",
"lasting",
"long-lived",
"persistent",
"stubborn",
"imperishable",
"indefeasible",
"indefectible",
"indelible",
"indestructible",
"indissoluble",
"inexpungible",
"timeless",
"abiding",
"stable",
"standing",
"steadfast",
"steady",
"unfailing",
"unfaltering",
"continual",
"continuing",
"continuous",
"incessant",
"unbroken",
"unceasing",
"uninterrupted",
"unremitting"
],
"near antonyms":[
"ephemeral",
"evanescent",
"fleeting",
"fugacious",
"fugitive",
"momentary",
"passing",
"short-lived",
"transitory",
"interim",
"provisional",
"short-term"
],
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"impermanent",
"mortal",
"temporary",
"transient"
]
},
"type":[
"adjective"
]
},
"perils":{
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"examples":[
"life is full of unexpected perils"
],
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"dangers",
"hazards",
"imminences",
"menaces",
"pitfalls",
"risks",
"threats",
"troubles"
],
"near synonyms":[
"snares",
"traps",
"booby traps"
],
"near antonyms":[
"guards",
"protections",
"safeguards",
"shields",
"wards",
"asylums",
"harbors",
"havens",
"refuges",
"retreats",
"shelters"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to place in danger":{
"examples":[
"a tribute to the men and women who, as firefighters, peril their lives daily"
],
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"adventures",
"compromises",
"endangers",
"gambles (with)",
"hazards",
"imperils",
"jeopardizes",
"jeopards",
"menaces",
"risks",
"ventures"
],
"near synonyms":[
"intimidates",
"threatens",
"exposes",
"subjects",
"chances",
"wagers"
],
"near antonyms":[
"guards",
"protects",
"shelters",
"shields",
"preserves",
"resumes",
"saves"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun",
"verb"
]
},
"perfidies":{
"the act or fact of violating the trust or confidence of another":{
"examples":[
"the full cost\u2014both in compromised intelligence and in human life\u2014of the double agent's perfidy is not yet known"
],
"synonyms":[
"backstabbings",
"betrayals",
"businesses",
"disloyalties",
"double crosses",
"falsities",
"infidelities",
"sellouts",
"treacheries",
"treasons"
],
"near synonyms":[
"abandonments",
"desertions",
"deceits",
"deceptions",
"double-dealings",
"duplicities",
"guiles",
"frauds",
"talebearings",
"trickeries"
],
"near antonyms":[
"dependabilities",
"reliabilities",
"defenses",
"protections",
"safeguards",
"shields"
],
"antonyms":[
"allegiances",
"devotions",
"fealties",
"fidelities",
"loyalties"
]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"persecutive":{
"as in harassing , persecutory":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
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"harassing",
"persecutory",
"chilling",
"frightening",
"scary",
"alarming",
"dire",
"direful",
"dread",
"dreadful",
"fearful",
"fearsome",
"forbidding",
"formidable",
"frightening",
"frightful",
"ghastly",
"hair-raising",
"horrendous",
"horrible",
"horrifying",
"intimidating",
"scary",
"shocking",
"terrible",
"terrifying",
"daunting",
"demoralizing",
"discomfiting",
"disconcerting",
"discouraging",
"disheartening",
"dismaying",
"dispiriting",
"discomforting",
"discomposing",
"disquieting",
"distressing",
"disturbing",
"nagging",
"nasty",
"perturbing",
"troublesome",
"troubling",
"troublous",
"unsettling",
"upsetting",
"worrisome"
],
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"reassuring",
"calming",
"quieting",
"settling",
"soothing",
"comforting",
"consoling",
"dreamy",
"inviting",
"lulling",
"narcotic",
"pacifying",
"relaxing",
"sedative",
"tranquilizing",
"tranquillizing"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"adjective"
]
},
"perching":{
"to come to rest after descending from the air":{
"examples":[
"pigeons perching on the roof"
],
"synonyms":[
"alighting",
"landing",
"lighting",
"roosting",
"settling",
"touching down"
],
"near synonyms":[
"belly-landing",
"crash-landing"
],
"near antonyms":[
"arising",
"ascending",
"climbing",
"rising",
"floating",
"flying",
"gliding",
"planing",
"soaring",
"winging",
"hanging",
"hovering"
],
"antonyms":[
"blasting off",
"taking off"
]
},
"to establish or place comfortably or snugly":{
"examples":[
"perched the baby in a basket"
],
"synonyms":[
"ensconcing",
"installing",
"lodging",
"nestling",
"roosting",
"settling"
],
"near synonyms":[
"deploying",
"emplacing",
"fixing",
"locating",
"parking",
"planting",
"positioning",
"setting",
"situating",
"stationing",
"anchoring",
"bivouacking",
"camping",
"camping (out)",
"burrowing",
"curling up",
"digging in",
"harboring",
"housing"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"persistence":{
"uninterrupted or lasting existence":{
"examples":[
"the persistence of the fever for a week caused me great worry"
],
"synonyms":[
"abidance",
"ceaselessness",
"continuance",
"continuation",
"continuity",
"continuousness",
"durability",
"duration",
"endurance",
"subsistence"
],
"near synonyms":[
"drawing out",
"elongation",
"extension",
"lengthening",
"prolongation",
"prolonging",
"stretching",
"enduringness",
"permanence",
"survival"
],
"near antonyms":[
"abridgment",
"abridgement",
"curtailment",
"cutback",
"shortening"
],
"antonyms":[
"cessation",
"close",
"discontinuance",
"discontinuity",
"end",
"ending",
"expiration",
"finish",
"stoppage",
"surcease",
"termination"
]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"permit":{
"to give permission for or to approve of":{
"examples":[
"the school won't permit such an activity on its grounds"
],
"synonyms":[
"allow",
"green-light",
"have",
"suffer"
],
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"authorize",
"commission",
"license",
"licence",
"accede (to)",
"acquiesce",
"agree (to)",
"assent (to)",
"consent (to)",
"OK",
"okay",
"warrant",
"accord",
"concede",
"grant",
"sanction",
"vouchsafe",
"admit",
"brook",
"condone",
"countenance",
"endure",
"support",
"tolerate"
],
"near antonyms":[
"hinder",
"impede",
"obstruct",
"censure",
"deny",
"disallow",
"disapprove",
"interdict",
"refuse",
"reject",
"revoke",
"suppress",
"withhold",
"deplore",
"discountenance",
"disfavor",
"dislike",
"frown (at or on)",
"grudge",
"check",
"curb",
"keep",
"repress",
"restrain"
],
"antonyms":[
"ban",
"enjoin",
"forbid",
"prohibit",
"proscribe",
"veto"
]
},
"to give permission to":{
"examples":[
"you are not permitted to swim at the town pond without a season pass"
],
"synonyms":[
"allow",
"leave",
"let"
],
"near synonyms":[
"authorize",
"commission",
"empower",
"license",
"licence",
"approve",
"endorse",
"indorse",
"sanction",
"free",
"liberate",
"release",
"cater (to)",
"give in (to)",
"humor",
"indulge"
],
"near antonyms":[
"deter",
"discourage",
"bar",
"block",
"constrain",
"curb",
"frustrate",
"hold back",
"impede",
"inhibit",
"obstruct",
"prevent"
],
"antonyms":[
"enjoin",
"forbid",
"prohibit"
]
},
"to make able or possible":{
"examples":[
"we'll have our picnic on Thursday, weather permitting"
],
"synonyms":[
"allow",
"empower",
"enable",
"let"
],
"near synonyms":[
"fit",
"habilitate",
"prepare",
"qualify",
"ready",
"approve",
"endorse",
"indorse",
"sanction",
"condition",
"equip"
],
"near antonyms":[
"inhibit",
"preclude",
"disallow",
"enjoin",
"forbid",
"prohibit"
],
"antonyms":[
"prevent"
]
},
"to fail to prevent (some behavior on someone's part) especially from neglect or indifference":{
"examples":[
"the college permits way too much drinking, in my opinion"
],
"synonyms":[
"allow",
"let",
"suffer",
"tolerate"
],
"near synonyms":[
"brush (aside or off)",
"condone",
"disregard",
"ignore",
"overlook",
"shrug off",
"wink (at)",
"excuse",
"forgive",
"pardon",
"brook",
"cater (to)",
"give in (to)",
"humor",
"indulge"
],
"near antonyms":[
"forbid",
"prohibit",
"curb",
"deter",
"discourage",
"frustrate",
"hold back",
"impede",
"inhibit",
"interfere (with)"
],
"antonyms":[
"bar",
"block",
"constrain",
"prevent"
]
},
"as in concession , patent":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"concession",
"patent",
"liberty",
"pass",
"tolerance",
"toleration",
"accreditation",
"certification",
"acceptance",
"acquiescence",
"agreement",
"assent",
"OK",
"okay",
"imprimatur",
"seal",
"signature",
"stamp",
"accord",
"grant",
"allowance",
"authorization",
"clearance",
"concurrence",
"consent",
"granting",
"green light",
"leave",
"license",
"licence",
"permission",
"sanction",
"sufferance",
"warrant"
],
"near antonyms":[
"interdiction",
"prohibition",
"proscription",
"denial",
"refusal",
"rejection",
"revocation",
"taboo",
"tabu",
"injunction",
"veto",
"deterrence",
"discouragement",
"repression",
"suppression",
"ban",
"embargo",
"exclusion"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun",
"verb"
]
},
"perps":{
"as in perpetrators , gunmen":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"assassins",
"bandits",
"bravos",
"bravoes",
"brigands",
"criminals",
"crooks",
"desperadoes",
"desperados",
"felons",
"gunmen",
"highwaymen",
"lawbreakers",
"mafiosi",
"malefactors",
"offenders",
"outlaws",
"perpetrators",
"pirates",
"bullies",
"gangbangers",
"gangstas",
"gangsters",
"goons",
"gorillas",
"hoodlums",
"hoods",
"hooligans",
"mobsters",
"mugs",
"plug-uglies",
"punks",
"roughnecks",
"rowdies",
"ruffians",
"thugs",
"toughies",
"toughs",
"yobbos",
"yobboes",
"yobs",
"cutthroats",
"scoundrels",
"villains",
"pickpockets",
"racketeers",
"robbers",
"swindlers",
"thieves",
"vandals",
"juvenile delinquents",
"tearaways"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"percolated":{
"to flow forth slowly through small openings":{
"examples":[
"water percolating through the coffee filter"
],
"synonyms":[
"bled",
"exuded",
"oozed",
"seeped",
"strained",
"sweat",
"sweated",
"transuded",
"wept"
],
"near synonyms":[
"dribbled",
"dripped",
"trickled",
"discharged",
"emitted",
"gave off",
"vented",
"emanated",
"flowed",
"sprang",
"sprung"
],
"near antonyms":[
"flooded",
"gushed",
"poured",
"streamed",
"surged"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"perjuries":{
"the crime of telling a lie in a court of law after promising to tell the truth":{
"examples":[
"He was found guilty of perjury ."
],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"distortions",
"exaggerations",
"half-truths",
"fables",
"fabrications",
"fairy tales",
"falsehoods",
"falsities",
"fibs",
"lies",
"mendacities",
"prevarications",
"stories",
"tales",
"taradiddles",
"tarradiddles",
"untruths",
"whoppers",
"ambiguities",
"equivocations",
"obliquities",
"defamations",
"libels",
"slanders",
"bluffs",
"fictions",
"poses",
"pretenses",
"pretences",
"humbug",
"jives",
"nonsense",
"canards",
"fallacies",
"misconceptions",
"myths",
"falsifications",
"misinformation",
"misreports",
"misrepresentations",
"misstatements",
"deceits",
"dishonesties",
"duplicities",
"fraudulences"
],
"near antonyms":[
"facts",
"truisms",
"verities",
"honesties",
"veracities",
"authentications",
"confirmations",
"substantiations",
"validations",
"verifications",
"truths"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"personators":{
"a person who imitates another's voice and mannerisms for comic effect":{
"examples":[
"the science museum hired an Albert Einstein personator to greet guests for its special exhibit on the scientist"
],
"synonyms":[
"imitators",
"impersonators",
"impressionists",
"mimics"
],
"near synonyms":[
"burlesquers",
"caricaturists",
"lampooners",
"mockers",
"parodists",
"satirists",
"mimers",
"mimes",
"mummers",
"pantomimes",
"pantomimists",
"actors",
"entertainers",
"performers",
"players",
"troupers",
"apes",
"copycats",
"echoes",
"echos",
"parrots",
"rubber stamps"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"perjures":{
"to tell a lie in a court of law after promising to tell the truth; to commit perjury":{
"examples":[
"He perjured himself before the court by giving a false testimony."
],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"forswears",
"foreswears",
"fabricates",
"fibs",
"lies",
"prevaricates",
"equivocates",
"fudges",
"palters",
"beguiles",
"cozens",
"deceives",
"deludes",
"dupes",
"fools",
"gulls",
"hoaxes",
"hoodwinks",
"kids",
"snows",
"takes in",
"tricks",
"defames",
"libels",
"slanders",
"traduces",
"falsifies",
"misreports",
"misrepresents",
"misstates",
"distorts",
"garbles",
"dissembles",
"dissimulates",
"misguides",
"misinforms",
"misleads"
],
"near antonyms":[
"asserts",
"swears",
"testifies",
"authenticates",
"confirms",
"substantiates",
"validates",
"verifies"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"perdure":{
"to remain indefinitely in existence or in the same state":{
"examples":[
"in so many ways, the influence and legacy of the Roman empire perdures to this very day"
],
"synonyms":[
"abide",
"bide",
"continue",
"endure",
"hold on",
"hold up",
"keep up",
"last",
"persist",
"remain",
"run on"
],
"near synonyms":[
"linger",
"stay",
"stick around",
"tarry",
"carry through",
"prevail",
"survive"
],
"near antonyms":[
"abate",
"die (down)",
"ebb",
"let up",
"moderate",
"subside",
"wane"
],
"antonyms":[
"cease",
"close",
"conclude",
"desist",
"die",
"discontinue",
"end",
"expire",
"finish",
"lapse",
"leave off",
"pass",
"quit",
"stop",
"terminate",
"wind up"
]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"perspicacities":{
"having or showing an ability to notice and understand things that are difficult or not obvious":{
"examples":[
"She considers herself a perspicacious judge of character.",
"The critic made some perspicacious observations about the film."
],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"acute",
"astute",
"discerning",
"heady",
"insightful",
"knowing",
"perceptive",
"percipient",
"sagacious",
"sapient",
"savvy",
"wise",
"alert",
"brainy",
"bright",
"brilliant",
"clever",
"exceptional",
"fast",
"hyperintelligent",
"intelligent",
"keen",
"nimble",
"quick",
"quick-witted",
"sharp",
"sharp-witted",
"smart",
"supersmart",
"ultrasmart",
"apt",
"ingenious",
"resourceful",
"cerebral",
"erudite",
"genial",
"highbrow",
"knowledgeable",
"learned",
"literate",
"scholarly",
"well-read",
"educated",
"informed",
"schooled",
"skilled",
"trained",
"creative",
"inventive",
"judicious",
"prudent",
"sage",
"sane",
"sapient",
"sensible",
"sound",
"wise",
"crafty",
"cunning",
"foxy",
"shrewd",
"wily",
"logical",
"rational",
"reasonable"
],
"near antonyms":[
"feebleminded",
"simpleminded",
"boobish",
"foolish",
"half-baked",
"idiotic",
"idiotical",
"imbecile",
"imbecilic",
"moronic",
"silly",
"ignorant",
"illiterate",
"lowbrow",
"nonintellectual",
"unacademic",
"uneducated",
"uninformed",
"unintellectual",
"untaught",
"unthinking",
"absurd",
"asinine",
"balmy",
"cockeyed",
"crackpot",
"crazy",
"cuckoo",
"daffy",
"daft",
"dippy",
"dotty",
"featherheaded",
"fool",
"half-baked",
"harebrained",
"insane",
"kooky",
"kookie",
"loony",
"looney",
"lunatic",
"mad",
"nonsensical",
"nutty",
"preposterous",
"sappy",
"screwball",
"tomfool",
"unwise",
"wacky",
"whacky",
"zany",
"airheaded",
"birdbrained",
"boneheaded",
"brain-dead",
"brainless",
"bubbleheaded",
"chuckleheaded",
"dense",
"dim",
"dim-witted",
"doltish",
"dopey",
"dopy",
"dorky",
"dull",
"dumb",
"dunderheaded",
"empty-headed",
"fatuous",
"gormless",
"half-witted",
"knuckleheaded",
"lamebrain",
"lamebrained",
"lunkheaded",
"mindless",
"obtuse",
"opaque",
"pinheaded",
"senseless",
"simple",
"slow",
"slow-witted",
"soft",
"softheaded",
"stupid",
"thick",
"thickheaded",
"thick-witted",
"unbrilliant",
"unintelligent",
"unsmart",
"vacuous",
"weak-minded",
"witless"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"adjective"
]
},
"perpetuates":{
"to give eternal or lasting existence to":{
"examples":[
"we hope to perpetuate this holiday tradition"
],
"synonyms":[
"eternalizes",
"immortalizes"
],
"near synonyms":[
"commemorates",
"memorializes",
"celebrates",
"enshrines",
"honors",
"conserves",
"keeps up",
"maintains",
"preserves",
"supports",
"sustains",
"defends",
"guards",
"protects",
"safeguards"
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"extinguishes",
"puts out",
"snuffs (out)",
"annihilates",
"crushes",
"decimates",
"demolishes",
"destroys",
"devastates",
"eradicates",
"erases",
"expunges",
"extirpates",
"obliterates",
"wipes out"
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},
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"verb"
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"performances":{
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"examples":[
"a disappointing, lackluster performance of a classic of the musical theater"
],
"synonyms":[
"accounts",
"interpretations",
"readings",
"renditions",
"versions"
],
"near synonyms":[
"adaptations",
"variations"
],
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"antonyms":[]
},
"the doing of an action":{
"examples":[
"the performance of her nightly ritual, the taking of a warm bath, calmed her"
],
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"accomplishments",
"achievements",
"commissions",
"discharges",
"enactments",
"executions",
"fulfillments",
"fulfilments",
"implementations",
"perpetrations",
"prosecutions",
"pursuances"
],
"near synonyms":[
"dispatches",
"expeditions",
"administrations",
"directions",
"handlings",
"managements",
"applications",
"operations",
"practices",
"practises"
],
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"antonyms":[
"nonfulfillments",
"nonperformances"
]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
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"to give eternal or lasting existence to":{
"examples":[
"we hope to perpetuate this holiday tradition"
],
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"eternalizing",
"immortalizing"
],
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"commemorating",
"memorializing",
"celebrating",
"enshrining",
"honoring",
"conserving",
"keeping up",
"maintaining",
"preserving",
"supporting",
"sustaining",
"defending",
"guarding",
"protecting",
"safeguarding"
],
"near antonyms":[
"extinguishing",
"putting out",
"snuffing (out)",
"annihilating",
"crushing",
"decimating",
"demolishing",
"destroying",
"devastating",
"eradicating",
"erasing",
"expunging",
"extirpating",
"obliterating",
"wiping out"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"perv":{
"a person who has sunk below the normal moral standard":{
"examples":[
"an undercover officer visiting chat rooms in search of pervs preying on naive teens"
],
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"backslider",
"debauchee",
"debaucher",
"decadent",
"degenerate",
"deviate",
"libertine",
"pervert",
"profligate",
"rake",
"rakehell",
"rip"
],
"near synonyms":[
"bankrupt",
"delinquent",
"derelict",
"incorrigible",
"blackguard",
"cad",
"heel",
"knave",
"miscreant",
"rascal",
"reprobate",
"rogue",
"scoundrel",
"villain",
"lecher",
"playboy",
"playgirl",
"satyr"
],
"near antonyms":[
"saint"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"permitted (of)":{
"to make possible especially to the exclusion of other possibilities":{
"examples":[
"the photo is too grainy to permit of anything more than a slight enlargement"
],
"synonyms":[
"admitted (of)",
"allowed (of)"
],
"near synonyms":[
"opened up",
"favored",
"justified",
"supported",
"sustained",
"validated",
"needed",
"took",
"wanted",
"warranted"
],
"near antonyms":[
"closed out",
"disallowed",
"enjoined",
"excluded",
"forbade",
"forbad",
"negatived",
"precluded",
"ruled out"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"permittees":{
"as in licensees , assignees":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"assignees",
"licensees",
"licentiates",
"candidates",
"inductees",
"appointees",
"designees",
"nominees",
"selectees",
"agents",
"delegatees",
"delegates",
"deputies",
"choices",
"draftees",
"endorsees",
"picks",
"selections"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"perambulators":{
"a person who travels by foot for exercise or pleasure":{
"examples":[
"counts himself among that select group of hikers who are perambulators of the entire Appalachian Trail"
],
"synonyms":[
"amblers",
"hikers",
"ramblers",
"trampers",
"walkers"
],
"near synonyms":[
"pedestrians",
"roamers",
"rovers",
"trekkers",
"wanderers",
"wayfarers",
"alpinists",
"Alpinists",
"backpackers",
"climbers",
"mountaineers"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"a small four-wheeled vehicle designed for pushing a baby around in":{
"examples":[
"nannies pushing perambulators around London's Hyde Park"
],
"synonyms":[
"baby buggies",
"baby carriages",
"buggies",
"prams",
"pushchairs",
"strollers"
],
"near synonyms":[
"bassinets",
"cradles",
"cribs",
"carry-cots"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"persisted (beyond)":{
"as in lasted (beyond) , endured (past)":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"abided (beyond)",
"abode (beyond)",
"endured (past)",
"held (past)",
"held out (past)",
"lasted (beyond)",
"outstayed",
"drew out",
"perpetuated",
"survived",
"succeeded",
"outlasted",
"outlived",
"outwore"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"pertained":{
"to be the property of a person or group of persons":{
"examples":[
"the belief that quality medical care is a right that pertains to everyone"
],
"synonyms":[
"appertained",
"belonged"
],
"near synonyms":[
"had",
"held",
"owned",
"possessed"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to have a relation or connection":{
"examples":[
"a person who is an expert in anything pertaining to the history of the American theater"
],
"synonyms":[
"appertained",
"applied",
"bore",
"referred",
"related"
],
"near synonyms":[
"affected",
"concerned",
"interested",
"involved",
"touched",
"associated",
"connected",
"coupled",
"interrelated",
"linked",
"tied in",
"dealt (with)",
"treated"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"perched":{
"to come to rest after descending from the air":{
"examples":[
"pigeons perching on the roof"
],
"synonyms":[
"alighted",
"alit",
"landed",
"lit",
"lighted",
"roosted",
"settled",
"touched down"
],
"near synonyms":[
"belly-landed",
"crash-landed"
],
"near antonyms":[
"arose",
"ascended",
"climbed",
"rose",
"flew",
"floated",
"glided",
"planed",
"soared",
"winged",
"hovered",
"hung",
"hanged"
],
"antonyms":[
"blasted off",
"took off"
]
},
"to establish or place comfortably or snugly":{
"examples":[
"perched the baby in a basket"
],
"synonyms":[
"ensconced",
"installed",
"lodged",
"nestled",
"roosted",
"settled"
],
"near synonyms":[
"deployed",
"emplaced",
"fixed",
"located",
"parked",
"planted",
"positioned",
"set",
"situated",
"stationed",
"anchored",
"bivouacked",
"camped",
"camped (out)",
"burrowed",
"curled up",
"dug in",
"harbored",
"housed"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"perilling":{
"to place in danger":{
"examples":[
"a tribute to the men and women who, as firefighters, peril their lives daily"
],
"synonyms":[
"adventuring",
"compromising",
"endangering",
"gambling (with)",
"hazarding",
"imperiling",
"imperilling",
"jeoparding",
"jeopardizing",
"menacing",
"risking",
"venturing"
],
"near synonyms":[
"intimidating",
"threatening",
"exposing",
"subjecting",
"chancing",
"wagering"
],
"near antonyms":[
"guarding",
"protecting",
"sheltering",
"shielding",
"preserving",
"resuming",
"saving"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"perform":{
"to carry through (as a process) to completion":{
"examples":[
"she performed the task quickly and expertly"
],
"synonyms":[
"accomplish",
"achieve",
"bring off",
"carry off",
"carry out",
"commit",
"compass",
"do",
"execute",
"follow through (with)",
"fulfill",
"fulfil",
"make",
"negotiate",
"perpetrate",
"prosecute",
"pull off",
"put through"
],
"near synonyms":[
"bring about",
"effect",
"effectuate",
"implement",
"ace",
"nail",
"engage (in)",
"practice",
"practise",
"work (at)",
"reduplicate",
"reenact",
"repeat",
"actualize",
"attain",
"realize",
"complete",
"end",
"finish",
"wind up"
],
"near antonyms":[
"fail",
"skimp",
"slight",
"slur"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to have a certain purpose":{
"examples":[
"the kidneys perform as a filtering system for the blood"
],
"synonyms":[
"act",
"function",
"serve",
"work"
],
"near synonyms":[
"operate",
"run",
"administer",
"carry on",
"control",
"direct",
"guide",
"handle",
"manage",
"oversee",
"regulate",
"supervise"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to present a portrayal or performance of":{
"examples":[
"has always dreamed of performing Hamlet on stage"
],
"synonyms":[
"act",
"do",
"impersonate",
"interpret",
"play",
"portray"
],
"near synonyms":[
"depict",
"dramatize",
"render",
"represent",
"act out",
"enact",
"pantomime",
"playact",
"role-play",
"take on",
"overact",
"overplay",
"underplay",
"ape",
"clown",
"ham",
"imitate",
"masquerade",
"mime",
"mimic",
"pose (as)",
"star (in)",
"coact",
"costar"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to produce a desired effect":{
"examples":[
"the new medication performed surprisingly well"
],
"synonyms":[
"act",
"operate",
"take",
"work"
],
"near synonyms":[
"behave",
"react",
"respond",
"affect",
"influence",
"sway",
"pan out",
"redound",
"result"
],
"near antonyms":[
"backfire",
"fizzle"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"periods":{
"an extent of time associated with a particular person or thing":{
"examples":[
"the Romantic period in music"
],
"synonyms":[
"ages",
"days",
"epochs",
"eras",
"times"
],
"near synonyms":[
"cycles",
"generations",
"years",
"bits",
"spaces",
"spans",
"spells",
"stretches",
"whiles",
"dates",
"vintages"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"Persian lambs":{
"as in foxes , rabbit":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"badgers",
"beavers",
"chamois",
"chamoix",
"chinchillas",
"ermines",
"fishers",
"foxes",
"fox",
"marten",
"martens",
"mink",
"minks",
"muskrat",
"muskrats",
"otters",
"otter",
"rabbit",
"rabbits",
"raccoon",
"raccoons",
"racoon",
"racoons",
"sables",
"seals",
"furs",
"hides",
"leathers",
"pelts",
"skins",
"bearskins",
"buckskins",
"calfskins",
"coonskins",
"cowhides",
"deerskins",
"doeskins",
"goatskins",
"horsehides",
"karakuls",
"kidskins",
"kolinskies",
"lambskins",
"pigskins",
"rawhides",
"sealskins",
"sharkskins",
"sheep",
"sheepskins",
"snakeskins",
"fleeces",
"moutons",
"alligators",
"crocodiles",
"cordovans",
"moroccos",
"patent leathers",
"suedes"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"personifiers":{
"a visible representation of something abstract (as a quality)":{
"examples":[
"hailed the young war hero as a living personifier of all that is right with the generation now coming of age"
],
"synonyms":[
"abstracts",
"avatars",
"embodiers",
"embodiments",
"epitomes",
"externalizations",
"geniuses",
"genii",
"icons",
"ikons",
"images",
"incarnations",
"incorporations",
"instantiations",
"manifestations",
"objectifications",
"personifications"
],
"near synonyms":[
"actualizations",
"concretizations",
"exemplifications",
"personalizations",
"realizations",
"substantiations",
"essences",
"quintessences",
"souls",
"archetypes",
"exemplars",
"models",
"paradigms",
"patterns",
"reincarnations"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"peripatetic":{
"traveling from place to place":{
"examples":[
"a peripatetic reporter for a cable news network"
],
"synonyms":[
"ambulant",
"ambulatory",
"errant",
"fugitive",
"gallivanting",
"galavanting",
"itinerant",
"nomad",
"nomadic",
"perambulatory",
"peregrine",
"ranging",
"roaming",
"roving",
"vagabond",
"vagrant",
"wandering",
"wayfaring"
],
"near synonyms":[
"drifting",
"footloose",
"meandering",
"rambling",
"sauntering",
"strolling",
"traipsing",
"walking",
"migrant",
"migratory"
],
"near antonyms":[
"immobile",
"nonmoving",
"settled",
"standing",
"static",
"stationary",
"motionless",
"still"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"adjective"
]
},
"pertain (to)":{
"to have (something) as a subject matter":{
"examples":[
"where would I find books pertaining to birds?"
],
"synonyms":[
"concern",
"cover",
"deal (with)",
"treat (of)"
],
"near synonyms":[
"appertain (to)",
"bear (on or upon)",
"refer (to)",
"relate (to)",
"advert (to)",
"allude (to)",
"cite",
"glance (upon)",
"instance",
"mention",
"name",
"note",
"notice",
"quote",
"specify",
"touch (upon)",
"offer",
"present",
"contain",
"embrace",
"encompass",
"entail",
"include",
"incorporate"
],
"near antonyms":[
"exclude",
"omit",
"disregard",
"forget",
"ignore",
"neglect",
"overlook",
"overpass",
"pass over",
"slight",
"slur (over)",
"brush (aside or off)",
"reject",
"shrug off"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"permeated":{
"to spread throughout":{
"examples":[
"the smell of freshly baked bread permeated the house"
