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{
"benediction":{
"a prayer calling for divine care, protection, or favor":{
"examples":[
"the priest offered a benediction for the missing children"
],
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"synonyms":[
"benison",
"blessing"
],
"near synonyms":[
"Godspeed",
"appeal",
"entreaty",
"grace",
"intercession",
"invocation",
"orison",
"petition",
"plea",
"prayer",
"supplication",
"sanctification"
],
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"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[
"anathema",
"curse",
"execration",
"imprecation",
"malediction"
]
},
"something that provides happiness or does good for a person or thing":{
"examples":[
"the library's silence was a welcome benediction to someone, like me, who needed to concentrate"
],
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"synonyms":[
"benefit",
"blessing",
"boon",
"felicity",
"godsend",
"good",
"manna",
"windfall"
],
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"near synonyms":[
"grace",
"mercy",
"favor",
"kindness",
"mitzvah",
"advantage",
"aid",
"assistance",
"gift",
"help",
"relief",
"support",
"anodyne",
"comfort",
"consolation",
"solace",
"bonus",
"extra",
"lagniappe",
"delight",
"joy",
"pleasure"
],
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"near antonyms":[
"hex",
"hoodoo",
"jinx",
"bother",
"irritant",
"nuisance",
"pest",
"disadvantage",
"cross",
"misery",
"trial",
"tribulation"
],
"antonyms":[
"affliction",
"bane",
"curse",
"evil",
"plague",
"scourge"
]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"benefaction":{
"a gift of money or its equivalent to a charity, humanitarian cause, or public institution":{
"examples":[
"the generous benefaction from an anonymous donor meant the animal shelter could stay open"
],
"synonyms":[
"alms",
"beneficence",
"charity",
"contribution",
"donation",
"philanthropy"
],
"near synonyms":[
"offering",
"tithe",
"bequest",
"endowment",
"legacy",
"aid",
"assistance",
"dole",
"handout",
"relief",
"welfare",
"grant",
"subsidy",
"benevolence",
"bestowal",
"largesse",
"largess",
"present",
"presentation"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"benefited":{
"to provide with something useful or desirable":{
"examples":[
"his summer internship benefited him in two ways: by giving him some tuition funds and by offering vital work experience"
],
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"synonyms":[
"advantaged",
"availed",
"helped",
"profited",
"served"
],
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"near synonyms":[
"succeeded",
"worked (for)",
"wrought (for)",
"aided",
"assisted",
"bettered",
"improved",
"contented",
"delighted",
"gladdened",
"gratified",
"pleased",
"satisfied",
"blessed",
"blest"
],
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"near antonyms":[
"hindered",
"impeded",
"damaged",
"harmed",
"hurt",
"impaired",
"injured",
"afflicted",
"distressed",
"upset"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"benefits":{
"a thing that helps":{
"examples":[
"it would be a real benefit if you could keep track of what you have already bought"
],
"synonyms":[
"advantages",
"aids",
"assets",
"boons",
"help"
],
"near synonyms":[
"hands",
"lifts",
"pick-me-ups",
"supports",
"sustenances",
"blessings",
"godsends",
"windfalls",
"recourses",
"refuges",
"resorts",
"resources"
],
"near antonyms":[
"constraints",
"inhibitors",
"liabilities",
"obstacles",
"obstructions",
"restraints",
"strangleholds"
],
"antonyms":[
"disadvantages",
"drawbacks",
"encumbrances",
"hindrances",
"impediments",
"minuses"
]
},
"something that provides happiness or does good for a person or thing":{
"examples":[
"the meal service is a great benefit to invalids and the elderly"
],
"synonyms":[
"benedictions",
"blessings",
"boons",
"felicities",
"godsends",
"goods",
"mannas",
"windfalls"
],
"near synonyms":[
"graces",
"mercies",
"favors",
"mitzvoth",
"mitzvahs",
"advantages",
"aids",
"assistances",
"gifts",
"help",
"reliefs",
"supports",
"anodynes",
"comforts",
"consolations",
"solaces",
"bonuses",
"extras",
"lagniappes",
"delights",
"joys",
"pleasures"
],
"near antonyms":[
"hexes",
"hoodoos",
"jinxes",
"bothers",
"irritants",
"nuisances",
"pests",
"disadvantages",
"crosses",
"miseries",
"trials",
"tribulations"
],
"antonyms":[
"afflictions",
"banes",
"curses",
"evils",
"plagues",
"scourges"
]
},
"to provide with something useful or desirable":{
"examples":[
"his summer internship benefited him in two ways: by giving him some tuition funds and by offering vital work experience"
],
"synonyms":[
"advantages",
"avails",
"helps",
"profits",
"serves"
],
"near synonyms":[
"succeeds",
"works (for)",
"aids",
"assists",
"betters",
"improves",
"contents",
"delights",
"gladdens",
"gratifies",
"pleases",
"satisfies",
"blesses"
],
"near antonyms":[
"hinders",
"impedes",
"damages",
"harms",
"hurts",
"impairs",
"injures",
"afflicts",
"distresses",
"upsets"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun",
"verb"
]
},
"benefitted":{
"to provide with something useful or desirable":{
"examples":[
"his summer internship benefited him in two ways: by giving him some tuition funds and by offering vital work experience"
],
"synonyms":[
"advantaged",
"availed",
"helped",
"profited",
"served"
],
"near synonyms":[
"succeeded",
"worked (for)",
"wrought (for)",
"aided",
"assisted",
"bettered",
"improved",
"contented",
"delighted",
"gladdened",
"gratified",
"pleased",
"satisfied",
"blessed",
"blest"
],
"near antonyms":[
"hindered",
"impeded",
"damaged",
"harmed",
"hurt",
"impaired",
"injured",
"afflicted",
"distressed",
"upset"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"benevolent":{
"having or marked by sympathy and consideration for others":{
"examples":[
"a benevolent willingness to provide veterinary services to low-income families at greatly reduced prices"
],
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"synonyms":[
"beneficent",
"benignant",
"compassionate",
"good-hearted",
"humane",
"kind",
"kindhearted",
"kindly",
"softhearted",
"sympathetic",
"tender",
"tenderhearted",
"warmhearted"
],
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"near synonyms":[
"attentive",
"considerate",
"solicitous",
"thoughtful",
"affable",
"amicable",
"benign",
"companionable",
"comradely",
"cordial",
"friendly",
"genial",
"gentle",
"good",
"good-natured",
"good-tempered",
"gracious",
"mild",
"neighborly",
"nice",
"pleasant",
"sweet",
"warm",
"clement",
"forbearing",
"forgiving",
"lenient",
"merciful",
"soft",
"patient",
"pitying",
"tolerant",
"understanding",
"altruistic",
"brotherly",
"charitable",
"freehanded",
"generous",
"greathearted",
"humanitarian",
"liberal",
"magnanimous",
"munificent",
"noble",
"openhearted",
"philanthropic",
"philanthropical",
"selfless",
"unselfish",
"unsparing",
"anticruelty",
"cruelty-free"
],
"near antonyms":[
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"ironhearted",
"merciless",
"pitiless",
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"ruthless",
"stonyhearted",
"inconsiderate",
"insensitive",
"thoughtless",
"uncaring",
"unthinking",
"grim",
"hard-boiled",
"harsh",
"heavy-handed",
"severe",
"stern",
"tough",
"unsentimental",
"hateful",
"malevolent",
"malicious",
"malign",
"malignant",
"mean",
"nasty",
"spiteful",
"virulent",
"antihumanitarian",
"uncharitable"
],
"antonyms":[
"atrocious",
"barbaric",
"barbarous",
"bestial",
"brutal",
"brute",
"brutish",
"callous",
"cold-blooded",
"cruel",
"fiendish",
"hard-hearted",
"heartless",
"inhuman",
"inhumane",
"insensate",
"sadistic",
"savage",
"truculent",
"uncompassionate",
"unfeeling",
"unkind",
"unkindly",
"unsympathetic",
"vicious",
"wanton"
]
},
"having or showing a concern for the welfare of others":{
"examples":[
"a benevolent businessman who has donated money and time to helping inner-city youths"
],
"synonyms":[
"altruistic",
"beneficent",
"charitable",
"do-good",
"eleemosynary",
"good",
"humanitarian",
"philanthropic",
"philanthropical"
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],
"near synonyms":[
"selfless",
"self-sacrificing",
"bighearted",
"bounteous",
"bountiful",
"free",
"freehanded",
"generous",
"greathearted",
"handsome",
"liberal",
"magnanimous",
"munificent",
"openhanded",
"openhearted",
"unselfish",
"unsparing",
"compassionate",
"humane",
"kind",
"kindhearted",
"social-minded"
],
"near antonyms":[
"self-indulgent",
"self-seeking",
"cheap",
"closefisted",
"miserly",
"niggardly",
"parsimonious",
"stingy",
"tight",
"tightfisted",
"hard-hearted",
"pitiless",
"unfeeling",
"self-obsessed"
],
"antonyms":[
"self-centered",
"self-concerned",
"selfish"
]
},
"type":[
"adjective"
]
},
"benighted":{
"lacking in education or the knowledge gained from books":{
"examples":[
"the poor benighted souls who do not know the joys of reading"
],
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"synonyms":[
"analphabetic",
"dark",
"ignorant",
"illiterate",
"nonliterate",
"rude",
"simple",
"uneducated",
"uninstructed",
"unlearned",
"unlettered",
"unread",
"unschooled",
"untaught",
"untutored"
],
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"near synonyms":[
"functionally illiterate",
"innumerate",
"semiliterate",
"unknowledgeable",
"artless",
"lowbrow",
"philistine",
"uncultivated",
"uncultured",
"callow",
"green",
"inexperienced",
"innocent",
"naive",
"na\u00efve",
"unsophisticated",
"raw",
"unskilled",
"untrained",
"brainless",
"dumb",
"idiotic",
"idiotical",
"imbecile",
"imbecilic",
"moronic",
"stupid",
"witless",
"foolish",
"senseless",
"silly"
],
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"near antonyms":[
"brilliant",
"intelligent",
"smart",
"experienced",
"expert",
"trained",
"erudite",
"learned",
"polyhistoric",
"polymath",
"polymathic",
"scholarly",
"cultivated",
"cultured",
"highbrow",
"intellectual",
"sophisticated",
"acquainted",
"aware",
"familiar"
],
"antonyms":[
"educated",
"knowledgeable",
"lettered",
"literate",
"schooled",
"well-informed",
"well-read"
]
},
"type":[
"adjective"
]
},
"benign":{
"not causing or being capable of causing injury or hurt":{
"examples":[
"around campus he's known as a real character, but one whose eccentricities are entirely benign"
],
"synonyms":[
"anodyne",
"harmless",
"hurtless",
"innocent",
"innocuous",
"inoffensive",
"safe",
"white"
],
"near synonyms":[
"healthful",
"healthy",
"salubrious",
"wholesome",
"benignant",
"sound",
"trustworthy",
"gentle",
"gracious",
"mild",
"nonthreatening",
"painless",
"unobjectionable",
"noncorrosive",
"nondestructive",
"nonfatal",
"noninfectious",
"nonlethal",
"nonpoisonous",
"nonpolluting",
"nontoxic",
"nonvenomous"
],
"near antonyms":[
"poisonous",
"venomous",
"menacing",
"ominous",
"sinister",
"threatening",
"hazardous",
"imperiling",
"imperilling",
"jeopardizing",
"parlous",
"perilous",
"risky",
"unsafe",
"unsound",
"nasty",
"noisome",
"unhealthful",
"unhealthy",
"unwholesome",
"offensive",
"painful",
"scathing",
"wounding",
"deadly",
"fatal",
"lethal",
"ruinous",
"destructive",
"insidious",
"malignant",
"noxious",
"pestilent",
"polluted",
"tainted"
],
"antonyms":[
"adverse",
"bad",
"baleful",
"baneful",
"damaging",
"dangerous",
"deleterious",
"detrimental",
"evil",
"harmful",
"hurtful",
"ill",
"injurious",
"mischievous",
"nocuous",
"noxious",
"pernicious",
"prejudicial",
"wicked"
]
},
"not harsh or stern especially in nature or effect":{
"examples":[
"basking under a benign sun on a day in early spring"
],
"synonyms":[
"balmy",
"bland",
"delicate",
"gentle",
"light",
"mellow",
"mild",
"nonabrasive",
"soft",
"soothing",
"tender"
],
"near synonyms":[
"calm",
"pacific",
"peaceful",
"placid",
"quiet",
"serene",
"tranquil",
"clement",
"compassionate",
"easy",
"lenient",
"merciful",
"buffering",
"cushioning",
"emollient",
"softening",
"sleek",
"slick",
"smooth"
],
"near antonyms":[
"exquisite",
"fierce",
"intense",
"powerful",
"severe",
"forceful",
"forcible",
"savage",
"violent",
"roughened",
"rugged",
"strong",
"abrading",
"irritating",
"roughening",
"grim",
"gruff",
"rude",
"stiff",
"heavy-handed",
"oppressive",
"pitiless",
"tyrannical",
"tyrannic"
],
"antonyms":[
"abrasive",
"caustic",
"coarse",
"hard",
"harsh",
"rough",
"scathing",
"stern",
"ungentle"
]
},
"type":[
"adjective"
]
},
"bent (on":{
"fully committed to achieving a goal":{
"examples":[
"a bride-to-be bent on having the perfect wedding"
],
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"synonyms":[
"bound",
"decisive",
"determined",
"do-or-die",
"firm",
"hell-bent (on or upon)",
"intent",
"out",
"purposeful",
"resolute",
"resolved",
"set",
"single-minded"
],
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"near synonyms":[
"bitter",
"vehement",
"certain",
"cocksure",
"confident",
"positive",
"sure",
"earnest",
"serious",
"steady",
"unfaltering",
"unhesitating",
"unswerving",
"unwavering",
"adamant",
"adamantine",
"dogged",
"hard",
"hardened",
"hardheaded",
"headstrong",
"immovable",
"implacable",
"inflexible",
"mulish",
"obdurate",
"persistent",
"pertinacious",
"perverse",
"pigheaded",
"rigid",
"self-willed",
"stubborn",
"tenacious",
"unbending",
"uncompromising",
"unrelenting",
"unyielding",
"willful",
"wilful"
],
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"near antonyms":[
"distrustful",
"doubtful",
"dubious",
"mistrustful",
"skeptical",
"suspicious",
"uncertain",
"unconvinced",
"undecided",
"unsettled",
"unsure",
"disinclined",
"indisposed",
"loath",
"loth",
"loathe",
"reluctant"
],
"antonyms":[
"faltering",
"hesitant",
"indecisive",
"irresolute",
"undetermined",
"unresolved",
"vacillating",
"wavering",
"weak-kneed"
]
},
"type":[
"adjective"
]
},
"bent (on or upon)":{
"fully committed to achieving a goal":{
"examples":[
"a bride-to-be bent on having the perfect wedding"
],
"synonyms":[
"bound",
"decisive",
"determined",
"do-or-die",
"firm",
"hell-bent (on or upon)",
"intent",
"out",
"purposeful",
"resolute",
"resolved",
"set",
"single-minded"
],
"near synonyms":[
"bitter",
"vehement",
"certain",
"cocksure",
"confident",
"positive",
"sure",
"earnest",
"serious",
"steady",
"unfaltering",
"unhesitating",
"unswerving",
"unwavering",
"adamant",
"adamantine",
"dogged",
"hard",
"hardened",
"hardheaded",
"headstrong",
"immovable",
"implacable",
"inflexible",
"mulish",
"obdurate",
"persistent",
"pertinacious",
"perverse",
"pigheaded",
"rigid",
"self-willed",
"stubborn",
"tenacious",
"unbending",
"uncompromising",
"unrelenting",
"unyielding",
"willful",
"wilful"
],
"near antonyms":[
"distrustful",
"doubtful",
"dubious",
"mistrustful",
"skeptical",
"suspicious",
"uncertain",
"unconvinced",
"undecided",
"unsettled",
"unsure",
"disinclined",
"indisposed",
"loath",
"loth",
"loathe",
"reluctant"
],
"antonyms":[
"faltering",
"hesitant",
"indecisive",
"irresolute",
"undetermined",
"unresolved",
"vacillating",
"wavering",
"weak-kneed"
]
},
"type":[
"adjective"
]
},
"benignity":{
"sympathetic concern for the well-being of others":{
"examples":[
"a doctor who extends to all of her patients, both rich and poor, the same measure of gentle benignity"
],
"synonyms":[
"beneficence",
"benevolence",
"benignancy",
"compassionateness",
"good-heartedness",
"humaneness",
"kindheartedness",
"kindliness",
"kindness",
"softheartedness",
"tenderheartedness",
"tenderness",
"warmheartedness"
],
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"near synonyms":[
"attentiveness",
"considerateness",
"thoughtfulness",
"affability",
"friendliness",
"good-naturedness",
"good-temperedness",
"warmth",
"graciousness",
"niceness",
"pleasantness",
"clemency",
"leniency",
"mercifulness",
"patience",
"tolerance",
"understanding",
"altruism",
"charitableness",
"charity",
"generosity",
"greatheartedness",
"magnanimity",
"philanthropy",
"unselfishness"
],
"near antonyms":[
"mercilessness",
"pitilessness",
"ruthlessness",
"inconsiderateness",
"insensitivity",
"thoughtlessness",
"grimness",
"harshness",
"severity",
"sternness",
"toughness",
"hatefulness",
"malevolence",
"maliciousness",
"meanness",
"spitefulness",
"virulence",
"vitriol"
],
"antonyms":[
"barbarity",
"barbarousness",
"bestiality",
"brutality",
"brutishness",
"callousness",
"cold-bloodedness",
"cruelty",
"hard-heartedness",
"heartlessness",
"inhumanity",
"savageness",
"savagery",
"unfeelingness",
"unkindliness",
"unkindness"
]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"benignancy":{
"sympathetic concern for the well-being of others":{
"examples":[
"through posture and facial expression the artist has been able to convey the serene benignancy that is traditionally associated with the saint"
],
"synonyms":[
"beneficence",
"benevolence",
"benignity",
"compassionateness",
"good-heartedness",
"humaneness",
"kindheartedness",
"kindliness",
"kindness",
"softheartedness",
"tenderheartedness",
"tenderness",
"warmheartedness"
],
"near synonyms":[
"attentiveness",
"considerateness",
"thoughtfulness",
"affability",
"friendliness",
"good-naturedness",
"good-temperedness",
"warmth",
"graciousness",
"niceness",
"pleasantness",
"clemency",
"leniency",
"mercifulness",
"patience",
"tolerance",
"understanding",
"altruism",
"charitableness",
"charity",
"generosity",
"greatheartedness",
"magnanimity",
"philanthropy",
"unselfishness"
],
"near antonyms":[
"mercilessness",
"pitilessness",
"ruthlessness",
"inconsiderateness",
"insensitivity",
"thoughtlessness",
"grimness",
"harshness",
"severity",
"sternness",
"toughness",
"hatefulness",
"malevolence",
"maliciousness",
"meanness",
"spitefulness",
"virulence",
"vitriol"
],
"antonyms":[
"barbarity",
"barbarousness",
"bestiality",
"brutality",
"brutishness",
"callousness",
"cold-bloodedness",
"cruelty",
"hard-heartedness",
"heartlessness",
"inhumanity",
"savageness",
"savagery",
"unfeelingness",
"unkindliness",
"unkindness"
]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"benumb":{
"to reduce or weaken in strength or feeling":{
"examples":[
"a succession of personal tragedies had benumbed him to all grief"
],
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"blunt",
"cauterize",
"damp",
"dampen",
"deaden",
"dull",
"numb"
],
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"muffle",
"mute",
"tone (down)",
"decrease",
"diminish",
"lessen",
"let up (on)",
"lower",
"reduce",
"subdue",
"debilitate",
"enfeeble",
"weaken",
"dwindle",
"recede",
"subside",
"taper (off)",
"wane",
"alleviate",
"ease",
"lighten",
"abate",
"moderate"
],
"near antonyms":[
"amplify",
"augment",
"beef (up)",
"boost",
"consolidate",
"deepen",
"enhance",
"heighten",
"intensify",
"magnify",
"redouble",
"step up",
"strengthen",
"animate",
"arouse",
"stimulate"
],
"antonyms":[
"sharpen",
"whet"
]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"beneficiary":{
"someone who inherits something when someone dies":{
"examples":[
"He named his only child as the beneficiary on his life insurance policy."
],
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"assignee",
"devisee",
"grantee",
"heir",
"heir at law",
"inheritor",
"legatee",
"claimant",
"heir apparent",
"representative",
"succeeder",
"successor",
"coheir",
"coheiress",
"heiress",
"descendant",
"descendent",
"scion"
],
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"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"benumbed":{
"lacking in sensation or feeling":{
"examples":[
"my benumbed ears took a few minutes to warm up after the frigid air outside"
],
"synonyms":[
"asleep",
"dead",
"insensitive",
"numb",
"numbed",
"torpid",
"unfeeling"
],
"near synonyms":[
"chilled",
"nipped",
"anesthetized",
"cocainized",
"deadened",
"drugged",
"stupefied",
"blunted",
"dulled",
"obtunded",
"insensible",
"senseless",
"unconscious",
"inanimate",
"insensate"
],
"near antonyms":[
"awake"
],
"antonyms":[
"feeling",
"sensible",
"sensitive"
]
},
"to reduce or weaken in strength or feeling":{
"examples":[
"a succession of personal tragedies had benumbed him to all grief"
],
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"blunted",
"cauterized",
"damped",
"dampened",
"deadened",
"dulled",
"numbed"
],
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"muffled",
"muted",
"toned (down)",
"decreased",
"diminished",
"lessened",
"let up (on)",
"lowered",
"reduced",
"subdued",
"debilitated",
"enfeebled",
"weakened",
"dwindled",
"receded",
"subsided",
"tapered (off)",
"waned",
"alleviated",
"eased",
"lightened",
"abated",
"moderated"
],
"near antonyms":[
"amplified",
"augmented",
"beefed (up)",
"boosted",
"consolidated",
"deepened",
"enhanced",
"heightened",
"intensified",
"magnified",
"redoubled",
"stepped up",
"strengthened",
"animated",
"aroused",
"stimulated"
],
"antonyms":[
"sharpened",
"whetted"
]
},
"type":[
"adjective",
"verb"
]
},
"beneficial":{
"promoting or contributing to personal or social well-being":{
"examples":[
"tutoring can often be as beneficial and rewarding for the tutor as for the student receiving the help"
],
"synonyms":[
"advantageous",
"benefic",
"beneficent",
"benignant",
"favorable",
"friendly",
"good",
"helpful",
"kindly",
"profitable",
"salutary"
],
"near synonyms":[
"gratifying",
"rewarding",
"satisfying",
"auspicious",
"promising",
"propitious",
"advisable",
"desirable",
"healthful",
"healthy",
"salubrious",
"salutiferous",
"wholesome",
"gainful",
"lucrative",
"remunerative",
"ameliorative",
"amelioratory",
"bettering",
"constructive",
"supportive"
],
"near antonyms":[
"damaging",
"deleterious",
"harmful",
"injurious",
"insalubrious"
],
"antonyms":[
"bad",
"disadvantageous",
"unfavorable",
"unfriendly",
"unhelpful",
"unprofitable"
]
},
"type":[
"adjective"
]
},
"beneficent":{
"having or marked by sympathy and consideration for others":{
"examples":[
"a beneficent couple who are regular volunteers at a homeless shelter"
],
"synonyms":[
"benevolent",
"benignant",
"compassionate",
"good-hearted",
"humane",
"kind",
"kindhearted",
"kindly",
"softhearted",
"sympathetic",
"tender",
"tenderhearted",
"warmhearted"
],
"near synonyms":[
"attentive",
"considerate",
"solicitous",
"thoughtful",
"affable",
"amicable",
"benign",
"companionable",
"comradely",
"cordial",
"friendly",
"genial",
"gentle",
"good",
"good-natured",
"good-tempered",
"gracious",
"mild",
"neighborly",
"nice",
"pleasant",
"sweet",
"warm",
"clement",
"forbearing",
"forgiving",
"lenient",
"merciful",
"soft",
"patient",
"pitying",
"tolerant",
"understanding",
"altruistic",
"brotherly",
"charitable",
"freehanded",
"generous",
"greathearted",
"humanitarian",
"liberal",
"magnanimous",
"munificent",
"noble",
"openhearted",
"philanthropic",
"philanthropical",
"selfless",
"unselfish",
"unsparing",
"anticruelty",
"cruelty-free"
],
"near antonyms":[
"ironhearted",
"merciless",
"pitiless",
"ruthless",
"stonyhearted",
"inconsiderate",
"insensitive",
"thoughtless",
"uncaring",
"unthinking",
"grim",
"hard-boiled",
"harsh",
"heavy-handed",
"severe",
"stern",
"tough",
"unsentimental",
"hateful",
"malevolent",
"malicious",
"malign",
"malignant",
"mean",
"nasty",
"spiteful",
"virulent",
"antihumanitarian",
"uncharitable"
],
"antonyms":[
"atrocious",
"barbaric",
"barbarous",
"bestial",
"brutal",
"brute",
"brutish",
"callous",
"cold-blooded",
"cruel",
"fiendish",
"hard-hearted",
"heartless",
"inhuman",
"inhumane",
"insensate",
"sadistic",
"savage",
"truculent",
"uncompassionate",
"unfeeling",
"unkind",
"unkindly",
"unsympathetic",
"vicious",
"wanton"
]
},
"having or showing a concern for the welfare of others":{
"examples":[
"a beneficent effort to help out the needy during the holidays"
],
"synonyms":[
"altruistic",
"benevolent",
"charitable",
"do-good",
"eleemosynary",
"good",
"humanitarian",
"philanthropic",
"philanthropical"
],
"near synonyms":[
"selfless",
"self-sacrificing",
"bighearted",
"bounteous",
"bountiful",
"free",
"freehanded",
"generous",
"greathearted",
"handsome",
"liberal",
"magnanimous",
"munificent",
"openhanded",
"openhearted",
"unselfish",
"unsparing",
"compassionate",
"humane",
"kind",
"kindhearted",
"social-minded"
],
"near antonyms":[
"self-indulgent",
"self-seeking",
"cheap",
"closefisted",
"miserly",
"niggardly",
"parsimonious",
"stingy",
"tight",
"tightfisted",
"hard-hearted",
"pitiless",
"unfeeling",
"self-obsessed"
],
"antonyms":[
"self-centered",
"self-concerned",
"selfish"
]
},
"promoting or contributing to personal or social well-being":{
"examples":[
"cultural activities have a beneficent effect on a community that can't be measured in dollars and cents"
],
"synonyms":[
"advantageous",
"benefic",
"beneficial",
"benignant",
"favorable",
"friendly",
"good",
"helpful",
"kindly",
"profitable",
"salutary"
],
"near synonyms":[
"gratifying",
"rewarding",
"satisfying",
"auspicious",
"promising",
"propitious",
"advisable",
"desirable",
"healthful",
"healthy",
"salubrious",
"salutiferous",
"wholesome",
"gainful",
"lucrative",
"remunerative",
"ameliorative",
"amelioratory",
"bettering",
"constructive",
"supportive"
],
"near antonyms":[
"damaging",
"deleterious",
"harmful",
"injurious",
"insalubrious"
],
"antonyms":[
"bad",
"disadvantageous",
"unfavorable",
"unfriendly",
"unhelpful",
"unprofitable"
]
},
"type":[
"adjective"
]
},
"beneficence":{
"a gift of money or its equivalent to a charity, humanitarian cause, or public institution":{
"examples":[
"the town library stays open primarily through beneficences from concerned residents"
],
"synonyms":[
"alms",
"benefaction",
"charity",
"contribution",
"donation",
"philanthropy"
],
"near synonyms":[
"offering",
"tithe",
"bequest",
"endowment",
"legacy",
"aid",
"assistance",
"dole",
"handout",
"relief",
"welfare",
"grant",
"subsidy",
"benevolence",
"bestowal",
"largesse",
"largess",
"present",
"presentation"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"sympathetic concern for the well-being of others":{
"examples":[
"a religious leader whose beneficence is felt by all who meet him"
],
"synonyms":[
"benevolence",
"benignancy",
"benignity",
"compassionateness",
"good-heartedness",
"humaneness",
"kindheartedness",
"kindliness",
"kindness",
"softheartedness",
"tenderheartedness",
"tenderness",
"warmheartedness"
],
"near synonyms":[
"attentiveness",
"considerateness",
"thoughtfulness",
"affability",
"friendliness",
"good-naturedness",
"good-temperedness",
"warmth",
"graciousness",
"niceness",
"pleasantness",
"clemency",
"leniency",
"mercifulness",
"patience",
"tolerance",
"understanding",
"altruism",
"charitableness",
"charity",
"generosity",
"greatheartedness",
"magnanimity",
"philanthropy",
"unselfishness"
],
"near antonyms":[
"mercilessness",
"pitilessness",
"ruthlessness",
"inconsiderateness",
"insensitivity",
"thoughtlessness",
"grimness",
"harshness",
"severity",
"sternness",
"toughness",
"hatefulness",
"malevolence",
"maliciousness",
"meanness",
"spitefulness",
"virulence",
"vitriol"
],
"antonyms":[
"barbarity",
"barbarousness",
"bestiality",
"brutality",
"brutishness",
"callousness",
"cold-bloodedness",
"cruelty",
"hard-heartedness",
"heartlessness",
"inhumanity",
"savageness",
"savagery",
"unfeelingness",
"unkindliness",
"unkindness"
]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"benefitting":{
"to provide with something useful or desirable":{
"examples":[
"his summer internship benefited him in two ways: by giving him some tuition funds and by offering vital work experience"
],
"synonyms":[
"advantaging",
"availing",
"helping",
"profiting",
"serving"
],
"near synonyms":[
"succeeding",
"working (for)",
"aiding",
"assisting",
"bettering",
"improving",
"contenting",
"delighting",
"gladdening",
"gratifying",
"pleasing",
"satisfying",
"blessing"
],
"near antonyms":[
"hindering",
"impeding",
"damaging",
"harming",
"hurting",
"impairing",
"injuring",
"afflicting",
"distressing",
"upsetting"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"bends":{
"to cause to turn away from a straight line":{
"examples":[
"she bent the blade of the knife when she got it jammed in the drawer"
],
"synonyms":[
"arches",
"bows",
"crooks",
"curves",
"hooks",
"swerves"
],
"near synonyms":[
"arcs",
"rounds",
"incurvates",
"incurves",
"inflects",
"reflects",
"deflects",
"diverts",
"entwines",
"kinks",
"swirls",
"turns",
"twines",
"twists",
"veers",
"warps",
"coils",
"curls",
"enrolls",
"enrols",
"loops",
"spirals",
"dents",
"dimples",
"meanders",
"waves",
"weaves",
"winds",
"declines",
"inclines",
"slopes"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[
"straightens",
"unbends",
"uncurls"
]
},
"to occupy (oneself) diligently or with close attention":{
"examples":[
"bent herself to the task for the rest of the day"
],
"synonyms":[
"addresses",
"applies",
"buckles",
"devotes",
"gives"
],
"near synonyms":[
"readdresses",
"reapplies",
"knuckles down",
"sets (to)",
"settles (down)",
"busies",
"commits",
"concerns",
"engages",
"involves",
"exerts",
"exhausts",
"puts out",
"spends",
"strains",
"stresses",
"taxes",
"troubles",
"wears out",
"carries on",
"pitches in",
"plunges (in)",
"grinds",
"humps",
"hustles",
"pegs (away)",
"plods",
"plows",
"plugs (away)",
"works"
],
"near antonyms":[
"dallies",
"dawdles",
"dillydallies",
"fiddles (around)",
"fools around",
"idles",
"messes around",
"monkeys (around)",
"plays",
"potters (around)",
"putters (around)",
"trifles"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to point or turn (something) toward a target or goal":{
"examples":[
"bent all of his efforts toward making his first documentary film"
],
"synonyms":[
"aims",
"casts",
"directs",
"heads",
"holds",
"levels",
"pinpoints",
"sets",
"trains"
],
"near synonyms":[
"sights",
"bears",
"faces",
"concentrates",
"focuses",
"focusses",
"inclines",
"orients",
"steers"
],
"near antonyms":[
"averts",
"curves",
"deflects",
"detours",
"diverts",
"rechannels",
"shunts",
"sidetracks"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to turn away from a straight line or course":{
"examples":[
"the stream bends slightly to the east"
],
"synonyms":[
"arches",
"arcs",
"bows",
"crooks",
"curves",
"falls off",
"hooks",
"rounds",
"sweeps",
"swerves",
"trends",
"wheels"
],
"near synonyms":[
"circles",
"coils",
"curlicues",
"curls",
"loops",
"spirals",
"turns",
"twists",
"winds",
"deviates",
"veers"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[
"straightens"
]
},
"to change so much as to create a wrong impression or alter the meaning of":{
"examples":[
"attorneys bending the facts to put their client in the most favorable light"
],
"synonyms":[
"colors",
"cooks",
"distorts",
"falsifies",
"fudges",
"garbles",
"misinterprets",
"misrelates",
"misrepresents",
"misstates",
"perverts",
"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 cause (something) to hold to another":{
"examples":[
"bend a leash to the dog's collar"
],
"synonyms":[
"affixes",
"attaches",
"fastens",
"fixes"
],
"near synonyms":[
"adheres",
"bolts",
"cinches",
"clamps",
"clasps",
"clenches",
"clinches",
"clips",
"glues",
"hangs",
"harnesses",
"hasps",
"laces",
"lashes",
"latches",
"nails",
"pastes",
"pins",
"plasters",
"rivets",
"screws",
"shackles",
"staples",
"sticks",
"straps",
"tackles",
"tacks",
"ties",
"toggles",
"yokes",
"coapts",
"connects",
"joins",
"links",
"unites",
"reaffixes",
"reattaches",
"refastens",
"refixes",
"resecures",
"battens",
"belays",
"buttons",
"does up"
],
"near antonyms":[
"breaks up",
"disconnects",
"disjoins",
"disjoints",
"dissevers",
"dissociates",
"disunites",
"divides",
"divorces",
"parts",
"separates",
"severs",
"splits",
"sunders",
"uncouples",
"unlinks",
"unyokes",
"loosens",
"looses",
"unbinds",
"unfixes",
"unlashes",
"unties"
],
"antonyms":[
"detaches",
"undoes",
"unfastens",
"unhooks"
]
},
"something that curves or is curved":{
"examples":[
"it's hard to see around that bend in the road, so be careful"
],
"synonyms":[
"angles",
"arches",
"arcs",
"bows",
"crooks",
"curvatures",
"curves",
"inflections",
"turns",
"winds"
],
"near synonyms":[
"kinks",
"warps",
"circles",
"ringlets",
"rings",
"rounds",
"coils",
"curlicues",
"curlycues",
"curls",
"buckles",
"convolutions",
"flexures",
"folds",
"loops",
"spirals",
"swirls",
"twists",
"windings",
"incurvatures",
"reflections",
"declines",
"inclinations",
"inclines",
"slopes",
"corners",
"turnoffs",
"doglegs",
"hairpins"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"the act of positioning or an instance of being positioned at an angle":{
"examples":[
"did knee bends for exercise"
],
"synonyms":[
"anglings",
"cocks",
"inclinations",
"lists",
"tilts",
"tips"
],
"near synonyms":[
"turns",
"twists",
"veers",
"bows",
"dips",
"nods"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun",
"verb"
]
},
"benefic":{
"promoting or contributing to personal or social well-being":{
"examples":[
"the belief that participation in sports has a benefic influence on a young person"
],
"synonyms":[
"advantageous",
"beneficent",
"beneficial",
"benignant",
"favorable",
"friendly",
"good",
"helpful",
"kindly",
"profitable",
"salutary"
],
"near synonyms":[
"gratifying",
"rewarding",
"satisfying",
"auspicious",
"promising",
"propitious",
"advisable",
"desirable",
"healthful",
"healthy",
"salubrious",
"salutiferous",
"wholesome",
"gainful",
"lucrative",
"remunerative",
"ameliorative",
"amelioratory",
"bettering",
"constructive",
"supportive"
],
"near antonyms":[
"damaging",
"deleterious",
"harmful",
"injurious",
"insalubrious"
],
"antonyms":[
"bad",
"disadvantageous",
"unfavorable",
"unfriendly",
"unhelpful",
"unprofitable"
]
},
"type":[
"adjective"
]
},
"benefit":{
"a thing that helps":{
"examples":[
"it would be a real benefit if you could keep track of what you have already bought"
],
"synonyms":[
"advantage",
"aid",
"asset",
"boon",
"help"
],
"near synonyms":[
"hand",
"lift",
"pick-me-up",
"support",
"sustenance",
"blessing",
"godsend",
"windfall",
"recourse",
"refuge",
"resort",
"resource"
],
"near antonyms":[
"constraint",
"inhibitor",
"liability",
"obstacle",
"obstruction",
"restraint",
"stranglehold"
],
"antonyms":[
"disadvantage",
"drawback",
"encumbrance",
"hindrance",
"impediment",
"minus"
]
},
"something that provides happiness or does good for a person or thing":{
"examples":[
"the meal service is a great benefit to invalids and the elderly"
],
"synonyms":[
"benediction",
"blessing",
"boon",
"felicity",
"godsend",
"good",
"manna",
"windfall"
],
"near synonyms":[
"grace",
"mercy",
"favor",
"kindness",
"mitzvah",
"advantage",
"aid",
"assistance",
"gift",
"help",
"relief",
"support",
"anodyne",
"comfort",
"consolation",
"solace",
"bonus",
"extra",
"lagniappe",
"delight",
"joy",
"pleasure"
],
"near antonyms":[
"hex",
"hoodoo",
"jinx",
"bother",
"irritant",
"nuisance",
"pest",
"disadvantage",
"cross",
"misery",
"trial",
"tribulation"
],
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"affliction",
"bane",
"curse",
"evil",
"plague",
"scourge"
]
},
"to provide with something useful or desirable":{
"examples":[
"his summer internship benefited him in two ways: by giving him some tuition funds and by offering vital work experience"
],
"synonyms":[
"advantage",
"avail",
"help",
"profit",
"serve"
],
"near synonyms":[
"succeed",
"work (for)",
"aid",
"assist",
"better",
"improve",
"content",
"delight",
"gladden",
"gratify",
"please",
"satisfy",
"bless"
],
"near antonyms":[
"hinder",
"impede",
"damage",
"harm",
"hurt",
"impair",
"injure",
"afflict",
"distress",
"upset"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun",
"verb"
]
},
"benevolence":{
"an act of kind assistance":{
"examples":[
"self-effacing as well as selfless, he refused all public acknowledgement of his many benevolences to the community"
],
"synonyms":[
"boon",
"courtesy",
"favor",
"grace",
"indulgence",
"kindness",
"mercy",
"service",
"turn"
],
"near synonyms":[
"dispensation",
"waiver",
"advantage",
"benefit",
"blessing",
"godsend",
"manna",
"liberty",
"license",
"licence",
"privilege"
],
"near antonyms":[
"hindrance",
"hurdle",
"impediment",
"interference",
"obstacle"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"kindly concern, interest, or support":{
"examples":[
"her benevolence towards her employees was such that she actually let one live in her home temporarily"
],
"synonyms":[
"amity",
"brotherhood",
"charity",
"cordiality",
"cordialness",
"fellowship",
"friendliness",
"friendship",
"gem\u00fctlichkeit",
"good-fellowship",
"goodwill",
"kindliness",
"neighborliness"
],
"near synonyms":[
"bonhomie",
"camaraderie",
"collegiality",
"community",
"companionship",
"company",
"comradeship",
"civility",
"comity",
"concord",
"harmony",
"rapport",
"rapprochement",
"generosity",
"affinity",
"communion",
"empathy",
"kindness",
"sympathy",
"tolerance",
"altruism",
"philanthropy",
"selflessness",
"unselfishness"
],
"near antonyms":[
"disfavor",
"intolerance",
"animosity",
"antagonism",
"antipathy",
"enmity",
"hate",
"hatred",
"hostility",
"incivility",
"malice",
"rancor",
"belligerency",
"quarrelsomeness",
"querulousness"
],
"antonyms":[
"ill will",
"malevolence",
"venom"
]
},
"sympathetic concern for the well-being of others":{
"examples":[
"an actress who was admired for her benevolence as for her beauty"
],
"synonyms":[
"beneficence",
"benignancy",
"benignity",
"compassionateness",
"good-heartedness",
"humaneness",
"kindheartedness",
"kindliness",
"kindness",
"softheartedness",
"tenderheartedness",
"tenderness",
"warmheartedness"
],
"near synonyms":[
"attentiveness",
"considerateness",
"thoughtfulness",
"affability",
"friendliness",
"good-naturedness",
"good-temperedness",
"warmth",
"graciousness",
"niceness",
"pleasantness",
"clemency",
"leniency",
"mercifulness",
"patience",
"tolerance",
"understanding",
"altruism",
"charitableness",
"charity",
"generosity",
"greatheartedness",
"magnanimity",
"philanthropy",
"unselfishness"
],
"near antonyms":[
"mercilessness",
"pitilessness",
"ruthlessness",
"inconsiderateness",
"insensitivity",
"thoughtlessness",
"grimness",
"harshness",
"severity",
"sternness",
"toughness",
"hatefulness",
"malevolence",
"maliciousness",
"meanness",
"spitefulness",
"virulence",
"vitriol"
],
"antonyms":[
"barbarity",
"barbarousness",
"bestiality",
"brutality",
"brutishness",
"callousness",
"cold-bloodedness",
"cruelty",
"hard-heartedness",
"heartlessness",
"inhumanity",
"savageness",
"savagery",
"unfeelingness",
"unkindliness",
"unkindness"
]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"bender":{
"a bout of prolonged or excessive drinking":{
"examples":[
"didn't remember a thing after the all-night bender"
],
"synonyms":[
"binge",
"bust",
"carousal",
"carouse",
"drunk",
"jamboree",
"spree",
"toot",
"wassail"
],
"near synonyms":[
"blowout",
"kegger",
"keg party",
"bacchanalia",
"orgy",
"revel",
"revelry",
"bibbery",
"bibulousness",
"drunkenness",
"inebriation",
"inebriety",
"intoxication",
"jag",
"tipsiness"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"benedictions":{
"a prayer calling for divine care, protection, or favor":{
"examples":[
"the priest offered a benediction for the missing children"
],
"synonyms":[
"benisons",
"blessings"
],
"near synonyms":[
"Godspeeds",
"appeals",
"entreaties",
"graces",
"intercessions",
"invocations",
"orisons",
"petitions",
"pleas",
"prayers",
"supplications",
"sanctifications"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[
"anathemas",
"curses",
"execrations",
"imprecations",
"maledictions"
]
},
"something that provides happiness or does good for a person or thing":{
"examples":[
"the library's silence was a welcome benediction to someone, like me, who needed to concentrate"
],
"synonyms":[
"benefits",
"blessings",
"boons",
"felicities",
"godsends",
"goods",
"mannas",
"windfalls"
],
"near synonyms":[
"graces",
"mercies",
"favors",
"mitzvoth",
"mitzvahs",
"advantages",
"aids",
"assistances",
"gifts",
"help",
"reliefs",
"supports",
"anodynes",
"comforts",
"consolations",
"solaces",
"bonuses",
"extras",
"lagniappes",
"delights",
"joys",
"pleasures"
],
"near antonyms":[
"hexes",
"hoodoos",
"jinxes",
"bothers",
"irritants",
"nuisances",
"pests",
"disadvantages",
"crosses",
"miseries",
"trials",
"tribulations"
],
"antonyms":[
"afflictions",
"banes",
"curses",
"evils",
"plagues",
"scourges"
]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"bench":{
"a public official having authority to decide questions of law":{
"examples":[
"appealed to the bench for leniency"
],
"synonyms":[
"adjudicator",
"beak",
"court",
"judge",
"jurist",
"justice",
"magistrate"
],
"near synonyms":[
"chief justice",
"circuit judge",
"justice of the peace",
"squire",
"auditor",
"master",
"jurisconsult",
"jurisprudent"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"an assembly of persons for the administration of justice":{
"examples":[
"a ruling from the bench is expected any day now"
],
"synonyms":[
"bar",
"court",
"forum",
"tribunal"
],
"near synonyms":[
"criminal court",
"judicatory",
"judicature",
"judiciary",
"high court",
"supreme court",
"court-martial",
"drumhead court-martial",
"inquisition",
"kangaroo court"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"benedicts":{
"as in men , husbands":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"hubbies",
"husbands",
"men",
"misters",
"old men",
"better halves",
"companions",
"consorts",
"mates",
"partners",
"significant others",
"spouses",
"bridegrooms",
"grooms",
"Mr. Rights",
"soul mates",
"widowers",
"househusbands"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"benumbs":{
"to reduce or weaken in strength or feeling":{
"examples":[
"a succession of personal tragedies had benumbed him to all grief"
],
"synonyms":[
"blunts",
"cauterizes",
"dampens",
"damps",
"deadens",
"dulls",
"numbs"
],
"near synonyms":[
"muffles",
"mutes",
"tones (down)",
"decreases",
"diminishes",
"lessens",
"lets up (on)",
"lowers",
"reduces",
"subdues",
"debilitates",
"enfeebles",
"weakens",
"dwindles",
"recedes",
"subsides",
"tapers (off)",
"wanes",
"alleviates",
"eases",
"lightens",
"abates",
"moderates"
],
"near antonyms":[
"amplifies",
"augments",
"beefs (up)",
"boosts",
"consolidates",
"deepens",
"enhances",
"heightens",
"intensifies",
"magnifies",
"redoubles",
"steps up",
"strengthens",
"animates",
"arouses",
"stimulates"
],
"antonyms":[
"sharpens",
"whets"
]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"benumbing":{
"as in numbing , anesthetic":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"analgesic",
"anesthetic",
"anesthetizing",
"deadening",
"dulling",
"numbing",
"calming",
"comforting",
"lulling",
"pacifying",
"quieting",
"relaxing",
"restful",
"settling",
"soothing",
"hypnotizing",
"mesmerizing",
"stupefying",
"depressant",
"relaxant",
"sedative",
"tranquilizing",
"tranquillizing",
"drowsy",
"hypnotic",
"narcotic",
"opiate",
"sleepy",
"slumberous",
"slumbrous",
"somniferous",
"somnolent",
"soporific"
],
"near antonyms":[
"stimulant",
"arousing",
"awakening",
"energizing",
"invigorating",
"rousing",
"stimulating",
"wakening",
"waking",
"bracing",
"refreshing",
"restorative",
"reviving",
"stimulative",
"stimulatory"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to reduce or weaken in strength or feeling":{
"examples":[
"a succession of personal tragedies had benumbed him to all grief"
],
"synonyms":[
"blunting",
"cauterizing",
"dampening",
"damping",
"deadening",
"dulling",
"numbing"
],
"near synonyms":[
"muffling",
"muting",
"toning (down)",
"decreasing",
"diminishing",
"lessening",
"letting up (on)",
"lowering",
"reducing",
"subduing",
"debilitating",
"enfeebling",
"weakening",
"dwindling",
"receding",
"subsiding",
"tapering (off)",
"waning",
"alleviating",
"easing",
"lightening",
"abating",
"moderating"
],
"near antonyms":[
"amplifying",
"augmenting",
"beefing (up)",
"boosting",
"consolidating",
"deepening",
"enhancing",
"heightening",
"intensifying",
"magnifying",
"redoubling",
"stepping up",
"strengthening",
"animating",
"arousing",
"stimulating"
],
"antonyms":[
"sharpening",
"whetting"
]
},
"type":[
"adjective",
"verb"
]
},
"benefactors":{
"one that helps another with gifts or money":{
"examples":[
"an anonymous benefactor gave the school a dozen new computers"
],
"synonyms":[
"angels",
"donators",
"donors",
"fairy godmothers",
"Maecenases",
"patrons",
"sugar daddies"
],
"near synonyms":[
"benefactresses",
"patronesses",
"almoners",
"almsgivers",
"philanthropists",
"altruists",
"bestowers",
"contributors",
"givers",
"helpers",
"subscribers",
"supporters",
"guardian angels",
"protectors",
"saviors",
"saviours"
],
"near antonyms":[
"beneficiaries",
"donees",
"giftees",
"recipients"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"beneficialness":{
"as in profitability , advantageousness":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"advantageousness",
"profitability",
"advisability",
"advisableness",
"desirability",
"desirableness",
"expedience",
"expediency",
"judiciousness",
"prudence",
"wisdom",
"feasibility",
"practicality",
"usefulness",
"opportuneness",
"seasonableness",
"timeliness"
],
"near antonyms":[
"imprudence",
"inadvisability",
"inexpedience",
"inexpediency",
"injudiciousness",
"unwisdom",
"impracticality",
"infeasibility",
"inopportuneness",
"unseasonableness",
"untimeliness"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"beneath":{
"in a lower position than":{
"examples":[
"sat beneath him, on the floor, for the group photo"
],
"synonyms":[
"below",
"neath",
"under"
],
"near synonyms":[
"underneath"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[
"above",
"over"
]
},
"in or to a lower place":{
"examples":[
"a ranch house with all of the rooms on one floor and a combined basement and garage beneath"
],
"synonyms":[
"below",
"under",
"underneath"
],
"near synonyms":[
"beside",
"near",
"nearby"
],
"near antonyms":[
"aloft",
"overhead"
],
"antonyms":[
"up"
]
},
"type":[
"adverb",
"preposition"
]
},
"benches":{
"a public official having authority to decide questions of law":{
"examples":[
"appealed to the bench for leniency"
],
"synonyms":[
"adjudicators",
"beaks",
"courts",
"judges",
"jurists",
"justices",
"magistrates"
],
"near synonyms":[
"chief justices",
"circuit judges",
"justices of the peace",
"squires",
"auditors",
"masters",
"jurisconsults",
"jurisprudents"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"an assembly of persons for the administration of justice":{
"examples":[
"a ruling from the bench is expected any day now"
],
"synonyms":[
"bars",
"courts",
"forums",
"fora",
"tribunals"
],
"near synonyms":[
"criminal courts",
"judicatories",
"judicatures",
"judiciaries",
"high courts",
"supreme courts",
"courts-martial",
"court-martials",
"drumhead court-martials",
"inquisitions",
"kangaroo courts"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"bent":{
"given to or marked by cheating and deception":{
"examples":[
"the drug dealer knew which of the cops were bent"
],
"synonyms":[
"crooked",
"deceptive",
"dishonest",
"double-dealing",
"duplicitous",
"fast",
"fraudulent",
"guileful",
"rogue",
"shady",
"sharp",
"shifty",
"underhand",
"underhanded"
],
"near synonyms":[
"unconscionable",
"unethical",
"unprincipled",
"unscrupulous",
"deceitful",
"deceiving",
"deluding",
"delusive",
"delusory",
"false",
"artful",
"beguiling",
"cagey",
"cagy",
"crafty",
"cunning",
"foxy",
"slick",
"sly",
"subtle",
"wily",
"defrauding",
"devious",
"furtive",
"slippery",
"sneaking",
"sneaky",
"trickish",
"tricky",
"insidious",
"perfidious",
"treacherous"
],
"near antonyms":[
"conscientious",
"decent",
"ethical",
"honorable",
"just",
"scrupulous",
"upright",
"forthright",
"straightforward"
],
"antonyms":[
"aboveboard",
"honest",
"straight"
]
},
"a habitual attraction to some activity or thing":{
"examples":[
"the perfect gift for a person of a literary bent"
],
"synonyms":[
"affection",
"affinity",
"aptitude",
"bias",
"bone",
"devices",
"disposition",
"genius",
"habitude",
"impulse",
"inclination",
"leaning",
"partiality",
"penchant",
"predilection",
"predisposition",
"proclivity",
"propensity",
"tendency",
"turn"
],
"near synonyms":[
"favor",
"one-sidedness",
"partisanship",
"prejudice",
"endowment",
"faculty",
"flair",
"gift",
"knack",
"talent",
"addiction",
"appetite",
"fancy",
"fondness",
"like",
"liking",
"preference",
"taste",
"forte",
"speciality",
"specialty",
"convention",
"custom",
"habit",
"pattern",
"practice",
"practise",
"routine",
"trick",
"way",
"wont",
"eccentricity",
"idiosyncrasy",
"kink",
"oddity",
"peculiarity",
"quirk",
"singularity"
],
"near antonyms":[
"allergy",
"averseness",
"aversion",
"disfavor",
"disinclination",
"dislike",
"disliking",
"disrelish",
"distaste",
"detachment",
"impartiality",
"neutrality",
"objectivity",
"apathy",
"disinterestedness",
"indifference",
"insouciance",
"nonchalance",
"unconcern"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"a special and usually inborn ability":{
"examples":[
"having a decided bent for languages, he picked up Italian in no time"
],
"synonyms":[
"aptitude",
"endowment",
"faculty",
"flair",
"genius",
"gift",
"head",
"knack",
"talent"
],
"near synonyms":[
"affinity",
"bias",
"disposition",
"habitude",
"impulse",
"inclination",
"leaning",
"partiality",
"penchant",
"predilection",
"predisposition",
"proclivity",
"propensity",
"tendency",
"turn",
"ear",
"eye",
"mind",
"nose",
"feel",
"hang",
"instinct",
"touch",
"way",
"capability",
"competence",
"facility",
"proficiency",
"skill",
"capacity",
"potential",
"power",
"forte",
"specialism",
"speciality",
"specialty"
],
"near antonyms":[
"disability",
"handicap",
"inability",
"incapacity",
"shortcoming",
"weakness"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to cause to turn away from a straight line":{
"examples":[
"she bent the blade of the knife when she got it jammed in the drawer"
],
"synonyms":[
"arched",
"bowed",
"crooked",
"curved",
"hooked",
"swerved"
],
"near synonyms":[
"arced",
"rounded",
"incurvated",
"incurved",
"inflected",
"reflected",
"deflected",
"diverted",
"entwined",
"kinked",
"swirled",
"turned",
"twined",
"twisted",
"veered",
"warped",
"coiled",
"curled",
"enrolled",
"looped",
"spiraled",
"spiralled",
"dented",
"dimpled",
"meandered",
"waved",
"weaved",
"wound",
"winded",
"declined",
"inclined",
"sloped"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[
"straightened",
"unbent",
"uncurled"
]
},
"to occupy (oneself) diligently or with close attention":{
"examples":[
"bent herself to the task for the rest of the day"
],
"synonyms":[
"addressed",
"applied",
"buckled",
"devoted",
"gave"
],
"near synonyms":[
"readdressed",
"reapplied",
"knuckled down",
"settled (down)",
"set (to)",
"busied",
"committed",
"concerned",
"engaged",
"involved",
"exerted",
"exhausted",
"put out",
"spent",
"strained",
"stressed",
"taxed",
"troubled",
"wore out",
"carried on",
"pitched in",
"plunged (in)",
"ground",
"humped",
"hustled",
"pegged (away)",
"plodded",
"plowed",
"plugged (away)",
"worked",
"wrought"
],
"near antonyms":[
"dallied",
"dawdled",
"dillydallied",
"fiddled (around)",
"fooled around",
"idled",
"messed around",
"monkeyed (around)",
"played",
"pottered (around)",
"puttered (around)",
"trifled"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to point or turn (something) toward a target or goal":{
"examples":[
"bent all of his efforts toward making his first documentary film"
],
"synonyms":[
"aimed",
"cast",
"directed",
"headed",
"held",
"leveled",
"levelled",
"pinpointed",
"set",
"trained"
],
"near synonyms":[
"sighted",
"bore",
"faced",
"concentrated",
"focused",
"focussed",
"inclined",
"oriented",
"steered"
],
"near antonyms":[
"averted",
"curved",
"deflected",
"detoured",
"diverted",
"rechanneled",
"rechannelled",
"shunted",
"sidetracked"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to turn away from a straight line or course":{
"examples":[
"the stream bends slightly to the east"
],
"synonyms":[
"arced",
"arched",
"bowed",
"crooked",
"curved",
"fell off",
"hooked",
"rounded",
"swept",
"swerved",
"trended",
"wheeled"
],
"near synonyms":[
"circled",
"coiled",
"curled",
"curlicued",
"looped",
"spiraled",
"spiralled",
"turned",
"twisted",
"wound",
"winded",
"deviated",
"veered"
],
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"antonyms":[
"straightened"
]
},
"to change so much as to create a wrong impression or alter the meaning of":{
"examples":[
"attorneys bending the facts to put their client in the most favorable light"
],
"synonyms":[
"colored",
"cooked",
"distorted",
"falsified",
"fudged",
"garbled",
"misinterpreted",
"misrelated",
"misrepresented",
"misstated",
"perverted",
"slanted",
"twisted",
"warped"
],
"near synonyms":[
"misdescribed",
"misspoke",
"mistranslated",
"belied",
"camouflaged",
"disguised",
"dissembled",
"glossed (over)",
"masked",
"veiled",
"whitewashed",
"bowdlerized",
"censored",
"complicated",
"confounded",
"confused",
"mistook",
"mixed (up)",
"mystified",
"obscured",
"equivocated",
"fibbed",
"lied",
"paltered",
"prevaricated"
],
"near antonyms":[
"clarified",
"cleared (up)",
"explained",
"illuminated",
"illustrated",
"interpreted",
"spelled out",
"deciphered"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to cause (something) to hold to another":{
"examples":[
"bend a leash to the dog's collar"
],
"synonyms":[
"affixed",
"attached",
"fastened",
"fixed"
],
"near synonyms":[
"adhered",
"bolted",
"cinched",
"clamped",
"clasped",
"clenched",
"clinched",
"clipped",
"glued",
"harnessed",
"hasped",
"hung",
"hanged",
"laced",
"lashed",
"latched",
"nailed",
"pasted",
"pinned",
"plastered",
"riveted",
"screwed",
"shackled",
"stapled",
"strapped",
"stuck",
"tacked",
"tackled",
"tied",
"toggled",
"yoked",
"coapted",
"connected",
"joined",
"linked",
"united",
"reaffixed",
"reattached",
"refastened",
"refixed",
"resecured",
"battened",
"belayed",
"buttoned",
"did up"
],
"near antonyms":[
"broke up",
"disconnected",
"disjoined",
"disjointed",
"dissevered",
"dissociated",
"disunited",
"divided",
"divorced",
"parted",
"separated",
"severed",
"split",
"sundered",
"uncoupled",
"unlinked",
"unyoked",
"loosed",
"loosened",
"unbound",
"unfixed",
"unlashed",
"untied"
],
"antonyms":[
"detached",
"undid",
"unfastened",
"unhooked"
]
},
"type":[
"adjective",
"noun",
"verb"
]
},
"benignantly":{
"as in lovingly , kindly":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"benevolently",
"considerately",
"cordially",
"graciously",
"kindly",
"lovingly",
"tenderly",
"clemently",
"gently",
"leniently",
"lightly",
"mildly",
"softly",
"charitably",
"compassionately",
"humanely",
"mercifully",
"softheartedly",
"sympathetically",
"tolerantly",
"understandingly"
],
"near antonyms":[
"brutally",
"hard",
"hardly",
"harshly",
"ill",
"oppressively",
"roughly",
"severely",
"sternly",
"stiffly",
"callously",
"cold-bloodedly",
"hard-heartedly",
"heartlessly",
"inhumanely",
"inhumanly",
"insensately",
"insensitively",
"mercilessly",
"obdurately",
"pitilessly",
"ruthlessly",
"tyrannically",
"uncharitably",
"unfeelingly",
"unmercifully",
"unsparingly",
"abusively",
"brutishly",
"savagely",
"viciously"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"adverb"
]
},
"bendable":{
"as in pliable , pliant":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"bendy",
"ductile",
"pliable",
"pliant",
"supple",
"waxen",
"willowy",
"adaptable",
"elastic",
"flexible",
"flexile",
"limber",
"resilient",
"workable",
"malleable",
"moldable",
"plastic",
"shapable",
"shapeable",
"waxy",
"bending",
"giving",
"kneadable",
"tractable",
"yielding"
],
"near antonyms":[
"inflexible",
"intractable",
"rigid",
"stiff"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"adjective"
]
},
"bendy":{
"able to bend easily without breaking":{
"examples":[
"the kids love to use bendy straws"
],
"synonyms":[
"flexible",
"limber",
"lissome",
"lissom",
"lithe",
"lithesome",
"pliable",
"pliant",
"supple",
"willowy"
],
"near synonyms":[
"adaptable",
"ductile",
"elastic",
"fluid",
"kneadable",
"malleable",
"modifiable",
"plastic",
"variable",
"yielding",
"droopy",
"flaccid",
"floppy",
"limp",
"semiflexible"
],
"near antonyms":[
"inelastic",
"nonmalleable",
"unyielding",
"breakable",
"brittle",
"fragile"
],
"antonyms":[
"inflexible",
"rigid",
"stiff",
"stiffened"
]
},
"type":[
"adjective"
]
},
"benevolently":{
"as in charitably , humanely":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"altruistically",
"beneficently",
"bigheartedly",
"charitably",
"humanely",
"kindheartedly",
"magnanimously",
"philanthropically",
"selflessly",
"ungrudgingly",
"unselfishly",
"affably",
"amiably",
"cheerfully",
"cheerily",
"congenially",
"cordially",
"friendlily",
"genially",
"good-heartedly",
"good-naturedly",
"graciously",
"considerately",
"courteously",
"hospitably",
"kindly",
"nicely",
"reasonably",
"sweetly",
"thoughtfully",
"amply",
"bounteously",
"bountifully",
"freehandedly",
"freeheartedly",
"generously",
"handsomely",
"lavishly",
"liberally",
"munificently",
"openhandedly",
"unstintingly",
"well"
],
"near antonyms":[
"parsimoniously",
"stingily",
"ungenerously",
"contemptuously",
"disdainfully",
"rudely",
"scornfully",
"obnoxiously",
"provocatively",
"coldly",
"coolly",
"cooly",
"frigidly",
"hostilely",
"angrily",
"belligerently",
"begrudgingly",
"grudgingly"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"adverb"
]
},
"benightedness":{
"the state of being unaware or uninformed":{
"examples":[
"takes perverse pride in his benightedness regarding popular culture"
],
"synonyms":[
"cluelessness",
"ignorance",
"incognizance",
"innocence",
"nescience",
"obliviousness",
"unawareness",
"unfamiliarity"
],
"near synonyms":[
"callowness",
"greenness",
"inexperience",
"na\u00efvet\u00e9",
"naivete",
"naivet\u00e9",
"rawness",
"simpleness",
"unsophistication"
],
"near antonyms":[
"experience",
"know-how",
"sophistication"
],
"antonyms":[
"acquaintance",
"awareness",
"cognizance",
"familiarity"
]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"benefactress":{
"as in patroness":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"patroness",
"angel",
"benefactor",
"donator",
"donor",
"fairy godmother",
"Maecenas",
"patron",
"sugar daddy",
"almoner",
"almsgiver",
"philanthropist",
"altruist",
"bestower",
"contributor",
"giver",
"helper",
"subscriber",
"supporter",
"guardian angel",
"protector",
"savior",
"saviour"
],
"near antonyms":[
"beneficiary",
"donee",
"giftee",
"recipient"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"benchmark":{
"something set up as an example against which others of the same type are compared":{
"examples":[
"this prize-winning biography will be the benchmark against which all others will be judged in future years"
],
"synonyms":[
"bar",
"barometer",
"criterion",
"gold standard",
"grade",
"mark",
"measure",
"metric",
"par",
"standard",
"touchstone",
"yardstick"
],
"near synonyms":[
"case",
"example",
"instance",
"average",
"norm",
"rule",
"acme",
"apex",
"meridian",
"peak",
"pinnacle",
"summit",
"zenith"
],
"near antonyms":[
"aberration",
"abnormality",
"deviation"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"benthic":{
"as in marine , deep-sea":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"marine",
"maritime",
"oceanic",
"pelagic",
"abyssal",
"deep-sea",
"deepwater",
"saltwater",
"hydrographic",
"oceanographic",
"oceanographical",
"undersea",
"underwater",
"admiralty",
"nautical",
"naval"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"adjective"
]
},
"benchmarks":{
"something set up as an example against which others of the same type are compared":{
"examples":[
"this prize-winning biography will be the benchmark against which all others will be judged in future years"
],
"synonyms":[
"barometers",
"bars",
"criteria",
"criterions",
"gold standards",
"grades",
"marks",
"measures",
"metrics",
"pars",
"standards",
"touchstones",
"yardsticks"
],
"near synonyms":[
"cases",
"examples",
"instances",
"averages",
"norms",
"rules",
"acmes",
"apexes",
"apices",
"meridians",
"peaks",
"pinnacles",
"summits",
"zeniths"
],
"near antonyms":[
"aberrations",
"abnormalities",
"deviations"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
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},
"benevolences":{
"an act of kind assistance":{
"examples":[
"self-effacing as well as selfless, he refused all public acknowledgement of his many benevolences to the community"
],
"synonyms":[
"boons",
"courtesies",
"favors",
"graces",
"indulgences",
"mercies",
"services",
"turns"
],
"near synonyms":[
"dispensations",
"waivers",
"advantages",
"benefits",
"blessings",
"godsends",
"mannas",
"liberties",
"licenses",
"licences",
"privileges"
],
"near antonyms":[
"hindrances",
"hurdles",
"impediments",
"interferences",
"obstacles"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"benison":{
"a prayer calling for divine care, protection, or favor":{
"examples":[
"during the harbor festival the parish priest offered a benison for the local fishermen"
],
"synonyms":[
"benediction",
"blessing"
],
"near synonyms":[
"Godspeed",
"appeal",
"entreaty",
"grace",
"intercession",
"invocation",
"orison",
"petition",
"plea",
"prayer",
"supplication",
"sanctification"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[
"anathema",
"curse",
"execration",
"imprecation",
"malediction"
]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"benders":{
"a bout of prolonged or excessive drinking":{
"examples":[
"didn't remember a thing after the all-night bender"
],
"synonyms":[
"binges",
"busts",
"carousals",
"carouses",
"drunks",
"jamborees",
"sprees",
"toots",
"wassails"
],
"near synonyms":[
"blowouts",
"keggers",
"keg parties",
"bacchanalia",
"orgies",
"revelries",
"revels",
"bibberies",
"inebriations",
"inebrieties",
"intoxications",
"jags"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"bend":{
"to cause to turn away from a straight line":{
"examples":[
"she bent the blade of the knife when she got it jammed in the drawer"
],
"synonyms":[
"arch",
"bow",
"crook",
"curve",
"hook",
"swerve"
],
"near synonyms":[
"arc",
"round",
"incurvate",
"incurve",
"inflect",
"reflect",
"deflect",
"divert",
"entwine",
"kink",
"swirl",
"turn",
"twine",
"twist",
"veer",
"warp",
"coil",
"curl",
"enroll",
"enrol",
"loop",
"spiral",
"dent",
"dimple",
"meander",
"wave",
"weave",
"wind",
"decline",
"incline",
"slope"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[
"straighten",
"unbend",
"uncurl"
]
},
"to occupy (oneself) diligently or with close attention":{
"examples":[
"bent herself to the task for the rest of the day"
],
"synonyms":[
"address",
"apply",
"buckle",
"devote",
"give"
],
"near synonyms":[
"readdress",
"reapply",
"knuckle down",
"set (to)",
"settle (down)",
"busy",
"commit",
"concern",
"engage",
"involve",
"exert",
"exhaust",
"put out",
"spend",
"strain",
"stress",
"tax",
"trouble",
"wear out",
"carry on",
"pitch in",
"plunge (in)",
"grind",
"hump",
"hustle",
"peg (away)",
"plod",
"plow",
"plug (away)",
"work"
],
"near antonyms":[
"dally",
"dawdle",
"dillydally",
"fiddle (around)",
"fool around",
"idle",
"mess around",
"monkey (around)",
"play",
"potter (around)",
"putter (around)",
"trifle"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to point or turn (something) toward a target or goal":{
"examples":[
"bent all of his efforts toward making his first documentary film"
],
"synonyms":[
"aim",
"cast",
"direct",
"head",
"hold",
"level",
"pinpoint",
"set",
"train"
],
"near synonyms":[
"sight",
"bear",
"face",
"concentrate",
"focus",
"incline",
"orient",
"steer"
],
"near antonyms":[
"avert",
"curve",
"deflect",
"detour",
"divert",
"rechannel",
"shunt",
"sidetrack"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to turn away from a straight line or course":{
"examples":[
"the stream bends slightly to the east"
],
"synonyms":[
"arc",
"arch",
"bow",
"crook",
"curve",
"fall off",
"hook",
"round",
"sweep",
"swerve",
"trend",
"wheel"
],
"near synonyms":[
"circle",
"coil",
"curlicue",
"curl",
"loop",
"spiral",
"turn",
"twist",
"wind",
"deviate",
"veer"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[
"straighten"
]
},
"to change so much as to create a wrong impression or alter the meaning of":{
"examples":[
"attorneys bending the facts to put their client in the most favorable light"
],
"synonyms":[
"color",
"cook",
"distort",
"falsify",
"fudge",
"garble",
"misinterpret",
"misrelate",
"misrepresent",
"misstate",
"pervert",
"slant",
"twist",
"warp"
],
"near synonyms":[
"misdescribe",
"misspeak",
"mistranslate",
"belie",
"camouflage",
"disguise",
"dissemble",
"gloss (over)",
"mask",
"veil",
"whitewash",
"bowdlerize",
"censor",
"complicate",
"confound",
"confuse",
"mistake",
"mix (up)",
"mystify",
"obscure",
"equivocate",
"fib",
"lie",
"palter",
"prevaricate"
],
"near antonyms":[
"clarify",
"clear (up)",
"explain",
"illuminate",
"illustrate",
"interpret",
"spell out",
"decipher"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to cause (something) to hold to another":{
"examples":[
"bend a leash to the dog's collar"
],
"synonyms":[
"affix",
"attach",
"fasten",
"fix"
],
"near synonyms":[
"adhere",
"bolt",
"cinch",
"clamp",
"clasp",
"clench",
"clinch",
"clip",
"glue",
"hang",
"harness",
"hasp",
"lace",
"lash",
"latch",
"nail",
"paste",
"pin",
"plaster",
"rivet",
"screw",
"shackle",
"staple",
"stick",
"strap",
"tack",
"tackle",
"tie",
"toggle",
"yoke",
"coapt",
"connect",
"join",
"link",
"unite",
"reaffix",
"reattach",
"refasten",
"refix",
"resecure",
"batten",
"belay",
"button",
"do up"
],
"near antonyms":[
"break up",
"disconnect",
"disjoin",
"disjoint",
"dissever",
"dissociate",
"disunite",
"divide",
"divorce",
"part",
"separate",
"sever",
"split",
"sunder",
"uncouple",
"unlink",
"unyoke",
"loose",
"loosen",
"unbind",
"unfix",
"unlash",
"untie"
],
"antonyms":[
"detach",
"undo",
"unfasten",
"unhook"
]
},
"something that curves or is curved":{
"examples":[
"it's hard to see around that bend in the road, so be careful"
],
"synonyms":[
"angle",
"arc",
"arch",
"bow",
"crook",
"curvature",
"curve",
"inflection",
"turn",
"wind"
],
"near synonyms":[
"kink",
"warp",
"circle",
"ring",
"ringlet",
"round",
"coil",
"curl",
"curlicue",
"curlycue",
"buckle",
"convolution",
"flexure",
"fold",
"loop",
"spiral",
"swirl",
"twist",
"winding",
"incurvature",
"reflection",
"decline",
"inclination",
"incline",
"slope",
"corner",
"turnoff",
"dogleg",
"hairpin"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"the act of positioning or an instance of being positioned at an angle":{
"examples":[
"did knee bends for exercise"
],
"synonyms":[
"angling",
"cock",
"inclination",
"list",
"tilt",
"tip"
],
"near synonyms":[
"turn",
"twist",
"veer",
"bow",
"dip",
"nod"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun",
"verb"
]
},
"benignant":{
"having or marked by sympathy and consideration for others":{
"examples":[
"a benignant understanding of the daily struggles of the economically disadvantaged"
],
"synonyms":[
"beneficent",
"benevolent",
"compassionate",
"good-hearted",
"humane",
"kind",
"kindhearted",
"kindly",
"softhearted",
"sympathetic",
"tender",
"tenderhearted",
"warmhearted"
],
"near synonyms":[
"attentive",
"considerate",
"solicitous",
"thoughtful",
"affable",
"amicable",
"benign",
"companionable",
"comradely",
"cordial",
"friendly",
"genial",
"gentle",
"good",
"good-natured",
"good-tempered",
"gracious",
"mild",
"neighborly",
"nice",
"pleasant",
"sweet",
"warm",
"clement",
"forbearing",
"forgiving",
"lenient",
"merciful",
"soft",
"patient",
"pitying",
"tolerant",
"understanding",
"altruistic",
"brotherly",
"charitable",
"freehanded",
"generous",
"greathearted",
"humanitarian",
"liberal",
"magnanimous",
"munificent",
"noble",
"openhearted",
"philanthropic",
"philanthropical",
"selfless",
"unselfish",
"unsparing",
"anticruelty",
"cruelty-free"
],
"near antonyms":[
"ironhearted",
"merciless",
"pitiless",
"ruthless",
"stonyhearted",
"inconsiderate",
"insensitive",
"thoughtless",
"uncaring",
"unthinking",
"grim",
"hard-boiled",
"harsh",
"heavy-handed",
"severe",
"stern",
"tough",
"unsentimental",
"hateful",
"malevolent",
"malicious",
"malign",
"malignant",
"mean",
"nasty",
"spiteful",
"virulent",
"antihumanitarian",
"uncharitable"
],
"antonyms":[
"atrocious",
"barbaric",
"barbarous",
"bestial",
"brutal",
"brute",
"brutish",
"callous",
"cold-blooded",
"cruel",
"fiendish",
"hard-hearted",
"heartless",
"inhuman",
"inhumane",
"insensate",
"sadistic",
"savage",
"truculent",
"uncompassionate",
"unfeeling",
"unkind",
"unkindly",
"unsympathetic",
"vicious",
"wanton"
]
},
"promoting or contributing to personal or social well-being":{
"examples":[
"firmly believes that religion is a benignant force in society"
],
"synonyms":[
"advantageous",
"benefic",
"beneficent",
"beneficial",
"favorable",
"friendly",
"good",
"helpful",
"kindly",
"profitable",
"salutary"
],
"near synonyms":[
"gratifying",
"rewarding",
"satisfying",
"auspicious",
"promising",
"propitious",
"advisable",
"desirable",
"healthful",
"healthy",
"salubrious",
"salutiferous",
"wholesome",
"gainful",
"lucrative",
"remunerative",
"ameliorative",
"amelioratory",
"bettering",
"constructive",
"supportive"
],
"near antonyms":[
"damaging",
"deleterious",
"harmful",
"injurious",
"insalubrious"
],
"antonyms":[
"bad",
"disadvantageous",
"unfavorable",
"unfriendly",
"unhelpful",
"unprofitable"
]
},
"type":[
"adjective"
]
},
"benefactresses":{
"as in patronesses":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"patronesses",
"angels",
"benefactors",
"donators",
"donors",
"fairy godmothers",
"Maecenases",
"patrons",
"sugar daddies",
"almoners",
"almsgivers",
"philanthropists",
"altruists",
"bestowers",
"contributors",
"givers",
"helpers",
"subscribers",
"supporters",
"guardian angels",
"protectors",
"saviors",
"saviours"
],
"near antonyms":[
"beneficiaries",
"donees",
"giftees",
"recipients"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"benefactor":{
"one that helps another with gifts or money":{
"examples":[
"an anonymous benefactor gave the school a dozen new computers"
],
"synonyms":[
"angel",
"donator",
"donor",
"fairy godmother",
"Maecenas",
"patron",
"sugar daddy"
],
"near synonyms":[
"benefactress",
"patroness",
"almoner",
"almsgiver",
"philanthropist",
"altruist",
"bestower",
"contributor",
"giver",
"helper",
"subscriber",
"supporter",
"guardian angel",
"protector",
"savior",
"saviour"
],
"near antonyms":[
"beneficiary",
"donee",
"giftee",
"recipient"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"benisons":{
"a prayer calling for divine care, protection, or favor":{
"examples":[
"during the harbor festival the parish priest offered a benison for the local fishermen"
],
"synonyms":[
"benedictions",
"blessings"
],
"near synonyms":[
"Godspeeds",
"appeals",
"entreaties",
"graces",
"intercessions",
"invocations",
"orisons",
"petitions",
"pleas",
"prayers",
"supplications",
"sanctifications"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[
"anathemas",
"curses",
"execrations",
"imprecations",
"maledictions"
]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"beneficiaries":{
"someone who inherits something when someone dies":{
"examples":[
"He named his only child as the beneficiary on his life insurance policy."
],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"assignees",
"devisees",
"grantees",
"heirs",
"heirs at law",
"inheritors",
"legatees",
"claimants",
"heirs apparent",
"representatives",
"succeeders",
"successors",
"coheiresses",
"co-heiresses",
"coheirs",
"co-heirs",
"heiresses",
"descendants",
"descendents",
"scions"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"benefiting":{
"to provide with something useful or desirable":{
"examples":[
"his summer internship benefited him in two ways: by giving him some tuition funds and by offering vital work experience"
],
"synonyms":[
"advantaging",
"availing",
"helping",
"profiting",
"serving"
],
"near synonyms":[
"succeeding",
"working (for)",
"aiding",
"assisting",
"bettering",
"improving",
"contenting",
"delighting",
"gladdening",
"gratifying",
"pleasing",
"satisfying",
"blessing"
],
"near antonyms":[
"hindering",
"impeding",
"damaging",
"harming",
"hurting",
"impairing",
"injuring",
"afflicting",
"distressing",
"upsetting"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"bents":{
"a habitual attraction to some activity or thing":{
"examples":[
"the perfect gift for a person of a literary bent"
],
"synonyms":[
"affections",
"affinities",
"aptitudes",
"biases",
"bones",
"devices",
"dispositions",
"geniuses",
"genii",
"habitudes",
"impulses",
"inclinations",
"leanings",
"partialities",
"penchants",
"predilections",
"predispositions",
"proclivities",
"propensities",
"tendencies",
"turns"
],
"near synonyms":[
"favors",
"partisanships",
"prejudices",
"endowments",
"faculties",
"flairs",
"gifts",
"knacks",
"talents",
"addictions",
"appetites",
"fancies",
"likes",
"likings",
"preferences",
"tastes",
"fortes",
"specialities",
"specialties",
"conventions",
"customs",
"habits",
"patterns",
"practices",
"practises",
"routines",
"tricks",
"ways",
"wonts",
"eccentricities",
"idiosyncrasies",
"kinks",
"oddities",
"peculiarities",
"quirks",
"singularities"
],
"near antonyms":[
"allergies",
"aversions",
"disfavors",
"disinclinations",
"dislikes",
"disrelishes",
"distastes",
"detachments",
"impartialities",
"neutralities",
"objectivities",
"apathies",
"indifferences",
"insouciances",
"nonchalances"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"a special and usually inborn ability":{
"examples":[
"having a decided bent for languages, he picked up Italian in no time"
],
"synonyms":[
"aptitudes",
"endowments",
"faculties",
"flairs",
"geniuses",
"genii",
"gifts",
"heads",
"knacks",
"talents"
],
"near synonyms":[
"affinities",
"biases",
"dispositions",
"habitudes",
"impulses",
"inclinations",
"leanings",
"partialities",
"penchants",
"predilections",
"predispositions",
"proclivities",
"propensities",
"tendencies",
"turns",
"ears",
"eyes",
"minds",
"noses",
"feels",
"hangs",
"instincts",
"touches",
"ways",
"capabilities",
"competences",
"facilities",
"proficiencies",
"skills",
"capacities",
"potentials",
"powers",
"fortes",
"specialisms",
"specialities",
"specialties"
],
"near antonyms":[
"disabilities",
"handicaps",
"inabilities",
"incapacities",
"shortcomings",
"weaknesses"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"benefactions":{
"a gift of money or its equivalent to a charity, humanitarian cause, or public institution":{
"examples":[
"the generous benefaction from an anonymous donor meant the animal shelter could stay open"
],
"synonyms":[
"alms",
"beneficences",
"charities",
"contributions",
"donations",
"philanthropies"
],
"near synonyms":[
"offerings",
"tithes",
"bequests",
"endowments",
"legacies",
"aids",
"assistances",
"doles",
"handouts",
"reliefs",
"welfares",
"grants",
"subsidies",
"benevolences",
"bestowals",
"largesses",
"presentations",
"presents"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"bending":{
"marked by a long series of irregular curves":{
"examples":[
"the river takes a long bending path to the sea"
],
"synonyms":[
"crazy",
"crooked",
"curled",
"curling",
"curved",
"curving",
"curvy",
"devious",
"serpentine",
"sinuous",
"tortuous",
"twisted",
"twisting",
"winding",
"windy"
],
"near synonyms":[
"zigzag",
"zigzagging",
"circling",
"coiled",
"coiling",
"corkscrew",
"looping",
"spiral",
"spiraling",
"spiralling",
"swirling",
"circuitous",
"indirect",
"roundabout",
"meandering",
"rambling",
"wandering",
"irregular",
"jagged",
"uneven"
],
"near antonyms":[
"direct",
"linear"
],
"antonyms":[
"straight",
"straightaway"
]
},
"to cause to turn away from a straight line":{
"examples":[
"she bent the blade of the knife when she got it jammed in the drawer"
],
"synonyms":[
"arching",
"bowing",
"crooking",
"curving",
"hooking",
"swerving"
],
"near synonyms":[
"arcing",
"rounding",
"incurvating",
"incurving",
"inflecting",
"reflecting",
"deflecting",
"diverting",
"entwining",
"kinking",
"swirling",
"turning",
"twining",
"twisting",
"veering",
"warping",
"coiling",
"curling",
"enrolling",
"looping",
"spiraling",
"spiralling",
"denting",
"dimpling",
"meandering",
"waving",
"weaving",
"winding",
"declining",
"inclining",
"sloping"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[
"straightening",
"unbending",
"uncurling"
]
},
"to occupy (oneself) diligently or with close attention":{
"examples":[
"bent herself to the task for the rest of the day"
],
"synonyms":[
"addressing",
"applying",
"buckling",
"devoting",
"giving"
],
"near synonyms":[
"readdressing",
"reapplying",
"knuckling down",
"setting (to)",
"settling (down)",
"busying",
"committing",
"concerning",
"engaging",
"involving",
"exerting",
"exhausting",
"putting out",
"spending",
"straining",
"stressing",
"taxing",
"troubling",
"wearing out",
"carrying on",
"pitching in",
"plunging (in)",
"grinding",
"humping",
"hustling",
"pegging (away)",
"plodding",
"plowing",
"plugging (away)",
"working"
],
"near antonyms":[
"dallying",
"dawdling",
"dillydallying",
"fiddling (around)",
"fooling around",
"idling",
"messing around",
"monkeying (around)",
"playing",
"pottering (around)",
"puttering (around)",
"trifling"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to point or turn (something) toward a target or goal":{
"examples":[
"bent all of his efforts toward making his first documentary film"
],
"synonyms":[
"aiming",
"casting",
"directing",
"heading",
"holding",
"leveling",
"levelling",
"pinpointing",
"setting",
"training"
],
"near synonyms":[
"sighting",
"bearing",
"facing",
"concentrating",
"focusing",
"focussing",
"inclining",
"orienting",
"steering"
],
"near antonyms":[
"averting",
"curving",
"deflecting",
"detouring",
"diverting",
"rechanneling",
"shunting",
"sidetracking"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to turn away from a straight line or course":{
"examples":[
"the stream bends slightly to the east"
],
"synonyms":[
"arching",
"arcing",
"bowing",
"crooking",
"curving",
"falling off",
"hooking",
"rounding",
"sweeping",
"swerving",
"trending",
"wheeling"
],
"near synonyms":[
"circling",
"coiling",
"curlicuing",
"curling",
"looping",
"spiraling",
"spiralling",
"turning",
"twisting",
"winding",
"deviating",
"veering"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[
"straightening"
]
},
"to change so much as to create a wrong impression or alter the meaning of":{
"examples":[
"attorneys bending the facts to put their client in the most favorable light"
],
"synonyms":[
"coloring",
"cooking",
"distorting",
"falsifying",
"fudging",
"garbling",
"misinterpreting",
"misrelating",
"misrepresenting",
"misstating",
"perverting",
"slanting",
"twisting",
"warping"
],
"near synonyms":[
"misdescribing",
"misspeaking",
"mistranslating",
"belying",
"camouflaging",
"disguising",
"dissembling",
"glossing (over)",
"masking",
"veiling",
"whitewashing",
"bowdlerizing",
"censoring",
"complicating",
"confounding",
"confusing",
"mistaking",
"mixing (up)",
"mystifying",
"obscuring",
"equivocating",
"fibbing",
"lying",
"paltering",
"prevaricating"
],
"near antonyms":[
"clarifying",
"clearing (up)",
"explaining",
"illuminating",
"illustrating",
"interpreting",
"spelling out",
"deciphering"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to cause (something) to hold to another":{
"examples":[
"bend a leash to the dog's collar"
],
"synonyms":[
"affixing",
"attaching",
"fastening",
"fixing"
],
"near synonyms":[
"adhering",
"bolting",
"cinching",
"clamping",
"clasping",
"clenching",
"clinching",
"clipping",
"gluing",
"glueing",
"hanging",
"harnessing",
"hasping",
"lacing",
"lashing",
"latching",
"nailing",
"pasting",
"pinning",
"plastering",
"riveting",
"screwing",
"shackling",
"stapling",
"sticking",
"strapping",
"tacking",
"tackling",
"toggling",
"tying",
"tieing",
"yoking",
"coapting",
"connecting",
"joining",
"linking",
"uniting",
"reaffixing",
"reattaching",
"refastening",
"refixing",
"resecuring",
"battening",
"belaying",
"buttoning",
"doing up"
],
"near antonyms":[
"breaking up",
"disconnecting",
"disjoining",
"disjointing",
"dissevering",
"dissociating",
"disuniting",
"dividing",
"divorcing",
"parting",
"separating",
"severing",
"splitting",
"sundering",
"uncoupling",
"unlinking",
"unyoking",
"loosening",
"loosing",
"unbinding",
"unfixing",
"unlashing",
"untying",
"untieing"
],
"antonyms":[
"detaching",
"undoing",
"unfastening",
"unhooking"
]
},
"type":[
"adjective",
"verb"
]
},
"benedict":{
"as in man , husband":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"hubby",
"husband",
"man",
"mister",
"old man",
"better half",
"companion",
"consort",
"mate",
"partner",
"significant other",
"spouse",
"bridegroom",
"groom",
"Mr. Right",
"soul mate",
"widower",
"househusband"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"beneficences":{
"a gift of money or its equivalent to a charity, humanitarian cause, or public institution":{
"examples":[
"the town library stays open primarily through beneficences from concerned residents"
],
"synonyms":[
"alms",
"benefactions",
"charities",
"contributions",
"donations",
"philanthropies"
],
"near synonyms":[
"offerings",
"tithes",
"bequests",
"endowments",
"legacies",
"aids",
"assistances",
"doles",
"handouts",
"reliefs",
"welfares",
"grants",
"subsidies",
"benevolences",
"bestowals",
"largesses",
"presentations",
"presents"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"beneficently":{
"as in humanely , charitably":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"altruistically",
"benevolently",
"bigheartedly",
"charitably",
"humanely",
"kindheartedly",
"magnanimously",
"philanthropically",
"selflessly",
"ungrudgingly",
"unselfishly",
"affably",
"amiably",
"cheerfully",
"cheerily",
"congenially",
"cordially",
"friendlily",
"genially",
"good-heartedly",
"good-naturedly",
"graciously",
"considerately",
"courteously",
"hospitably",
"kindly",
"nicely",
"reasonably",
"sweetly",
"thoughtfully",
"amply",
"bounteously",
"bountifully",
"freehandedly",
"freeheartedly",
"generously",
"handsomely",
"lavishly",
"liberally",
"munificently",
"openhandedly",
"unstintingly",
"well"
],
"near antonyms":[
"parsimoniously",
"stingily",
"ungenerously",
"contemptuously",
"disdainfully",
"rudely",
"scornfully",
"obnoxiously",
"provocatively",
"coldly",
"coolly",
"cooly",
"frigidly",
"hostilely",
"angrily",
"belligerently",
"begrudgingly",
"grudgingly"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"adverb"
]
},
"bent out of shape":{
"feeling or showing anger":{
"examples":[
"Try not to get so bent out of shape over such little things."
],
"synonyms":[
"angered",
"angry",
"apoplectic",
"ballistic",
"cheesed off",
"choleric",
"enraged",
"foaming",
"fuming",
"furious",
"hopping",
"horn-mad",
"hot",
"incensed",
"indignant",
"inflamed",
"enflamed",
"infuriate",
"infuriated",
"irate",
"ireful",
"livid",
"mad",
"outraged",
"rabid",
"rankled",
"riled",
"riley",
"roiled",
"shirty",
"sore",
"steamed up",
"steaming",
"teed off",
"ticked",
"wrathful",
"wroth"
],
"near synonyms":[
"ranting",
"raving",
"stormy",
"boiling",
"bristling",
"bristly",
"burning",
"cross",
"huffy",
"passionate",
"seething",
"sizzling",
"smoldering",
"smouldering",
"worked up",
"wrought (up)",
"acrid",
"acrimonious",
"antagonistic",
"antipathetic",
"bitter",
"embittered",
"inimical",
"malevolent",
"piqued",
"rancorous",
"resentful",
"spiteful",
"vengeful",
"vindictive",
"virulent",
"vitriolic",
"antisocial",
"cold",
"cool",
"disagreeable",
"disapproving",
"distant",
"frigid",
"icy",
"ill-tempered",
"sorehead",
"soreheaded",
"sulky",
"unfriendly",
"unpleasant",
"aggravated",
"annoyed",
"bearish",
"bilious",
"cantankerous",
"churlish",
"crabby",
"cranky",
"dyspeptic",
"exasperated",
"fretful",
"fussy",
"grouchy",
"grumpy",
"ill-humored",
"inflammable",
"irascible",
"irritable",
"peevish",
"perturbed",
"petulant",
"put out",
"quick-tempered",
"snappish",
"testy",
"touchy",
"argumentative",
"belligerent",
"contentious",
"contrary",
"disputatious",
"ornery",
"pugnacious",
"quarrelsome",
"querulous"
],
"near antonyms":[
"accepting",
"accommodating",
"obliging",
"agreeable",
"amenable",
"complaisant",
"amicable",
"cordial",
"friendly",
"content",
"happy",
"satisfied",
"empathetic",
"sympathetic",
"tolerant",
"understanding",
"calm",
"pacific",
"peaceable",
"placid",
"serene",
"tranquil",
"unembittered",
"affable",
"amiable",
"easygoing",
"genial",
"good-natured",
"good-tempered",
"kind",
"pleasant",
"sweet"
],
"antonyms":[
"angerless",
"delighted",
"pleased"
]
},
"type":[
"phrase"
]
}
}