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{
"mulct":{
"a sum of money to be paid as a punishment":{
"examples":[
"the loan shark usually imposed a mulct of an additional 20% on overdue payments"
],
"synonyms":[
"damages",
"fine",
"forfeit",
"forfeiture",
"penalty"
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],
"near synonyms":[
"reparations",
"assessment",
"award",
"compensation",
"indemnity"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to rob by the use of trickery or threats":{
"examples":[
"trying to mulct the insurance company for an accident that never happened"
],
"synonyms":[
"beat",
"bilk",
"bleed",
"cheat",
"chisel",
"chouse",
"con",
"cozen",
"defraud",
"diddle",
"do",
"do in",
"euchre",
"fiddle",
"fleece",
"flimflam",
"gaff",
"hose",
"hustle",
"nobble",
"pluck",
"ream",
"rip off",
"rook",
"screw",
"shake down",
"short",
"shortchange",
"skin",
"skunk",
"squeeze",
"stick",
"stiff",
"sting",
"sucker",
"swindle",
"thimblerig",
"victimize"
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],
"near synonyms":[
"extort",
"wrench",
"wrest",
"wring",
"clip",
"gouge",
"nick",
"overcharge",
"soak",
"exploit",
"milk",
"deceive",
"dupe",
"fool",
"gull",
"trick",
"rope (in)",
"betray",
"bitch",
"double-cross",
"bamboozle",
"fast-talk"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun",
"verb"
]
},
"mulcted":{
"to rob by the use of trickery or threats":{
"examples":[
"trying to mulct the insurance company for an accident that never happened"
],
"synonyms":[
"beat",
"bilked",
"bled",
"cheated",
"chiseled",
"chiselled",
"choused",
"conned",
"cozened",
"defrauded",
"did",
"diddled",
"did in",
"euchred",
"fiddled",
"fleeced",
"flimflammed",
"gaffed",
"hosed",
"hustled",
"nobbled",
"plucked",
"reamed",
"ripped off",
"rooked",
"screwed",
"shook down",
"shortchanged",
"shorted",
"skinned",
"skunked",
"squeezed",
"stiffed",
"stuck",
"stung",
"suckered",
"swindled",
"thimblerigged",
"victimized"
],
"near synonyms":[
"extorted",
"wrenched",
"wrested",
"wrung",
"clipped",
"gouged",
"nicked",
"overcharged",
"soaked",
"exploited",
"milked",
"deceived",
"duped",
"fooled",
"gulled",
"tricked",
"roped (in)",
"betrayed",
"bitched",
"double-crossed",
"bamboozled",
"fast-talked"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"mules":{
"as in coyotes , gunrunners":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"coyotes",
"coyote",
"gunrunners",
"bootleggers",
"contrabandists",
"couriers",
"runners",
"smugglers"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"as in hinnies":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"hinnies",
"jacks",
"jennets",
"jennies",
"pack animals",
"asses",
"burros",
"donkeys",
"jackasses",
"mokes"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"as in crosses , hybrids":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"crossbreds",
"crossbreeds",
"crosses",
"hybrids",
"intercrosses",
"mongrels",
"outcrosses",
"half-breds"
],
"near antonyms":[
"full-bloods",
"purebloods",
"purebreds",
"thoroughbreds"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"mull (over)":{
"to give serious and careful thought to":{
"examples":[
"mull over the idea for a while and then let me know"
],
"synonyms":[
"chew over",
"cogitate",
"consider",
"contemplate",
"debate",
"deliberate",
"entertain",
"eye",
"kick around",
"meditate",
"perpend",
"ponder",
"pore (over)",
"question",
"revolve",
"ruminate",
"study",
"think (about or over)",
"turn",
"weigh",
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"wrestle (with)",
"beat one's brains out (about)",
"chew on",
"cudgel one's brains (about)",
"look at"
],
"near synonyms":[
"muse (upon)",
"reflect (on or upon)",
"reminisce",
"analyze",
"explore",
"review",
"conclude",
"reason",
"second-guess",
"speculate (about)",
"brood (about or over)",
"dwell (on or upon)",
"fixate (on or upon)",
"fret (about or over)",
"obsess (about or over)",
"believe",
"conceive",
"opine",
"absorb",
"assimilate",
"digest",
"drink (in)"
],
"near antonyms":[
"disregard",
"ignore",
"overlook",
"slight",
"dismiss",
"pooh-pooh",
"pooh",
"reject"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"multicolored":{
"marked by a variety of usually vivid colors":{
"examples":[
"displays of multicolored pottery from her native Mexico"
],
"synonyms":[
"chromatic",
"colored",
"colorful",
"kaleidoscopic",
"motley",
"multihued",
"polychromatic",
"polychrome",
"prismatic",
"rainbow",
"varicolored",
"varied",
"variegated",
"various"
],
"near synonyms":[
"iridescent",
"opalescent",
"brave",
"bright",
"brilliant",
"gay",
"vibrant",
"flashy",
"garish",
"gaudy",
"loud",
"showy",
"splashy",
"checkered",
"dotted",
"patterned",
"plaid",
"plaided",
"striped",
"dappled",
"dapple",
"marbled",
"mottled",
"parti-color",
"parti-colored",
"piebald",
"pied",
"pinto",
"flecked",
"specked",
"speckled",
"spotted",
"banded",
"barred",
"brindled",
"brindle",
"streaked",
"striated",
"bichrome",
"bicolored",
"bicolor",
"dichromatic",
"trichromatic",
"tricolor",
"tricolored",
"two-tone",
"two-toned"
],
"near antonyms":[
"achromatic",
"bleached",
"decolorized",
"faded",
"washed-out",
"dull",
"faint",
"gray",
"grey",
"neutral",
"pale",
"pallid",
"unbrilliant"
],
"antonyms":[
"colorless",
"monochromatic",
"monochromic",
"monotone",
"self-colored",
"solid"
]
},
"type":[
"adjective"
]
},
"multicultural":{
"relating to or including many different cultures":{
"examples":[
"a multicultural society"
],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"external",
"international",
"multiculti",
"multilateral",
"multinational",
"alien",
"foreign",
"nonnative",
"strange",
"imported",
"introduced",
"naturalized",
"transplanted",
"foreign-born",
"nonindigenous",
"distant",
"far-off",
"overseas",
"remote"
],
"near antonyms":[
"endemic",
"local",
"aboriginal",
"indigenous",
"domestic",
"native"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"adjective"
]
},
"multifaceted":{
"having many different parts; having many facets":{
"examples":[
"a multifaceted approach to health care"
],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"composite",
"compound",
"heterogeneous",
"mixed",
"multibranched",
"multifarious",
"multipart",
"varied",
"baroque",
"byzantine",
"complex",
"complicate",
"complicated",
"convoluted",
"daedal",
"elaborate",
"intricate",
"involute",
"involved",
"knotty",
"labyrinthian",
"labyrinthine",
"sophisticated",
"tangled",
"overcomplex",
"overcomplicated",
"challenging",
"difficult",
"tough",
"impenetrable",
"incomprehensible",
"inexplicable",
"Kafkaesque",
"unfathomable",
"unintelligible"
],
"near antonyms":[
"oversimplified",
"simplified",
"simplistic",
"homogeneous",
"uniform",
"unvaried",
"noncomplex",
"noncomplicated",
"plain",
"simple",
"uncomplicated"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"adjective"
]
},
"multihued":{
"marked by a variety of usually vivid colors":{
"examples":[
"used multihued dinnerware and stemware to give the table settings a casual, festive look"
],
"synonyms":[
"chromatic",
"colored",
"colorful",
"kaleidoscopic",
"motley",
"multicolored",
"polychromatic",
"polychrome",
"prismatic",
"rainbow",
"varicolored",
"varied",
"variegated",
"various"
],
"near synonyms":[
"iridescent",
"opalescent",
"brave",
"bright",
"brilliant",
"gay",
"vibrant",
"flashy",
"garish",
"gaudy",
"loud",
"showy",
"splashy",
"checkered",
"dotted",
"patterned",
"plaid",
"plaided",
"striped",
"dappled",
"dapple",
"marbled",
"mottled",
"parti-color",
"parti-colored",
"piebald",
"pied",
"pinto",
"flecked",
"specked",
"speckled",
"spotted",
"banded",
"barred",
"brindled",
"brindle",
"streaked",
"striated",
"bichrome",
"bicolored",
"bicolor",
"dichromatic",
"trichromatic",
"tricolor",
"tricolored",
"two-tone",
"two-toned"
],
"near antonyms":[
"achromatic",
"bleached",
"decolorized",
"faded",
"washed-out",
"dull",
"faint",
"gray",
"grey",
"neutral",
"pale",
"pallid",
"unbrilliant"
],
"antonyms":[
"colorless",
"monochromatic",
"monochromic",
"monotone",
"self-colored",
"solid"
]
},
"type":[
"adjective"
]
},
"multipart":{
"as in mixed , heterogeneous":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"composite",
"compound",
"heterogeneous",
"mixed",
"multibranched",
"multifaceted",
"multifarious",
"varied",
"baroque",
"byzantine",
"complex",
"complicate",
"complicated",
"convoluted",
"daedal",
"elaborate",
"intricate",
"involute",
"involved",
"knotty",
"labyrinthian",
"labyrinthine",
"sophisticated",
"tangled",
"overcomplex",
"overcomplicated",
"challenging",
"difficult",
"tough",
"impenetrable",
"incomprehensible",
"inexplicable",
"Kafkaesque",
"unfathomable",
"unintelligible"
],
"near antonyms":[
"oversimplified",
"simplified",
"simplistic",
"homogeneous",
"uniform",
"unvaried",
"noncomplex",
"noncomplicated",
"plain",
"simple",
"uncomplicated"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"adjective"
]
},
"multiplex":{
"being of a large but indefinite number":{
"examples":[
"would sometimes experience multiplex moods in the course of a single day"
],
"synonyms":[
"beaucoup",
"legion",
"many",
"multifold",
"multiple",
"multitudinous",
"numerous"
],
"near synonyms":[
"countless",
"innumerable",
"numberless",
"uncountable",
"unnumbered",
"untold",
"several",
"some",
"miscellaneous",
"mixed",
"sundry",
"various",
"divers",
"manifold",
"multifarious",
"myriad"
],
"near antonyms":[
"countable",
"limited"
],
"antonyms":[
"few"
]
},
"as in megaplex , plex":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"megaplex",
"plex",
"'plex",
"nickelodeon",
"art house",
"art theater",
"cinematheque",
"cinema",
"playhouse",
"theater",
"theatre",
"fleapit",
"grind house",
"drive-in"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"adjective",
"noun"
]
},
"multiplied":{
"to bring forth offspring":{
"examples":[
"rabbits multiply with proverbial rapidity"
],
"synonyms":[
"bred",
"procreated",
"propagated",
"reproduced"
],
"near synonyms":[
"begot",
"begat",
"bore",
"engendered",
"gendered",
"generated",
"got",
"had",
"mothered",
"parented",
"produced",
"sired",
"hatched",
"spawned"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to make greater in size, amount, or number":{
"examples":[
"the booming economy multiplied the wealth of investors"
],
"synonyms":[
"accelerated",
"added (to)",
"aggrandized",
"amplified",
"augmented",
"boosted",
"built up",
"compounded",
"enlarged",
"escalated",
"expanded",
"extended",
"hyped",
"increased",
"pumped up",
"raised",
"stoked",
"supersized",
"swelled",
"upped"
],
"near synonyms":[
"boomed",
"jumped",
"skyrocketed",
"spiked",
"bumped (up)",
"ratcheted (up)",
"racheted (up)",
"blew up",
"dilated",
"distended",
"inflated",
"drew out",
"elongated",
"fleshed (out)",
"lengthened",
"prolonged",
"protracted",
"stretched",
"developed",
"enhanced",
"heightened",
"intensified",
"magnified",
"complemented",
"supplemented",
"beefed (up)",
"reinforced",
"reenforced",
"strengthened",
"maximized",
"accumulated",
"amassed",
"collected",
"followed up",
"parlayed"
],
"near antonyms":[
"abbreviated",
"abridged",
"curtailed",
"shortened",
"compressed",
"condensed",
"constricted",
"contracted",
"cut back",
"retrenched"
],
"antonyms":[
"abated",
"decreased",
"de-escalated",
"diminished",
"downsized",
"dwindled",
"lessened",
"lowered",
"minified",
"reduced",
"subtracted (from)"
]
},
"to become greater in extent, volume, amount, or number":{
"examples":[
"with each attempt the problems multiplied"
],
"synonyms":[
"accelerated",
"accumulated",
"appreciated",
"ballooned",
"boomed",
"built up",
"burgeoned",
"bourgeoned",
"climbed",
"enlarged",
"escalated",
"expanded",
"gained",
"increased",
"mounted",
"mushroomed",
"proliferated",
"rolled up",
"rose",
"snowballed",
"spread",
"swelled",
"waxed"
],
"near synonyms":[
"jumped",
"rocketed",
"skyrocketed",
"surged",
"heightened",
"intensified",
"redoubled",
"blew up",
"bulked",
"distended",
"inflated",
"puffed (up)",
"crescendoed",
"crested",
"peaked"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[
"contracted",
"decreased",
"diminished",
"dwindled",
"lessened",
"receded",
"waned"
]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"multiplies":{
"to bring forth offspring":{
"examples":[
"rabbits multiply with proverbial rapidity"
],
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"synonyms":[
"breeds",
"procreates",
"propagates",
"reproduces"
],
"near synonyms":[
"bears",
"begets",
"engenders",
"genders",
"generates",
"gets",
"has",
"mothers",
"parents",
"produces",
"sires",
"hatches",
"spawns"
],
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"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to make greater in size, amount, or number":{
"examples":[
"the booming economy multiplied the wealth of investors"
],
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"synonyms":[
"accelerates",
"adds (to)",
"aggrandizes",
"amplifies",
"augments",
"boosts",
"builds up",
"compounds",
"enlarges",
"escalates",
"expands",
"extends",
"hypes",
"increases",
"pumps up",
"raises",
"stokes",
"supersizes",
"swells",
"ups"
],
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"near synonyms":[
"booms",
"jumps",
"skyrockets",
"spikes",
"bumps (up)",
"ratchets (up)",
"rachets (up)",
"blows up",
"dilates",
"distends",
"inflates",
"draws out",
"elongates",
"fleshes (out)",
"lengthens",
"prolongs",
"protracts",
"stretches",
"develops",
"enhances",
"heightens",
"intensifies",
"magnifies",
"complements",
"supplements",
"beefs (up)",
"reinforces",
"reenforces",
"strengthens",
"maximizes",
"accumulates",
"amasses",
"collects",
"follows up",
"parlays"
],
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"near antonyms":[
"abbreviates",
"abridges",
"curtails",
"shortens",
"compresses",
"condenses",
"constricts",
"contracts",
"cuts back",
"retrenches"
],
"antonyms":[
"abates",
"decreases",
"de-escalates",
"diminishes",
"downsizes",
"dwindles",
"lessens",
"lowers",
"minifies",
"reduces",
"subtracts (from)"
]
},
"to become greater in extent, volume, amount, or number":{
"examples":[
"with each attempt the problems multiplied"
],
"synonyms":[
"accelerates",
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"accumulates",
"appreciates",
"balloons",
"booms",
"builds up",
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"burgeons",
"bourgeons",
"climbs",
"enlarges",
"escalates",
"expands",
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"gains",
"increases",
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"mounts",
"mushrooms",
"proliferates",
"rises",
"rolls up",
"snowballs",
"spreads",
"swells",
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"waxes"
],
"near synonyms":[
"jumps",
"rockets",
"skyrockets",
"surges",
"heightens",
"intensifies",
"redoubles",
"blows up",
"bulks",
"distends",
"inflates",
"puffs (up)",
"crescendoes",
"crests",
"peaks"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[
"contracts",
"decreases",
"diminishes",
"dwindles",
"lessens",
"recedes",
"wanes"
]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"multitalented":{
"as in well-rounded , multiskilled":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"multiskilled",
"well-rounded",
"adaptable",
"all-around",
"all-round",
"protean",
"universal",
"versatile",
"general-purpose",
"mixed-use",
"multipurpose",
"adroit",
"clever",
"deft",
"dexterous",
"dextrous",
"handy",
"slick",
"sure-handed",
"able",
"ace",
"adept",
"experienced",
"expert",
"masterful",
"proficient",
"skilled",
"skillful",
"accomplished",
"compleat",
"complete",
"consummate",
"crack",
"crackerjack",
"good",
"great",
"master",
"masterly",
"practiced",
"practised",
"professed",
"versed",
"veteran",
"virtuoso",
"educated",
"knowledgeable",
"schooled",
"taught",
"trained",
"tutored",
"adjustable",
"alterable",
"changeable",
"elastic",
"flexible",
"fluid",
"malleable",
"modifiable",
"plastic",
"pliable",
"pliant",
"supple",
"variable"
],
"near antonyms":[
"limited",
"amateur",
"inexperienced",
"amateurish",
"inexpert",
"jackleg",
"unprofessional",
"unseasoned",
"unskilled",
"unskillful",
"talentless",
"ungifted",
"untalented",
"incapable",
"incompetent",
"inept",
"unable",
"unfit",
"unfitted",
"unqualified",
"weak"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"adjective"
]
},
"multitude":{
"a great number of persons or creatures massed together":{
"examples":[
"awed by the multitude of stars in the night sky"
],
"synonyms":[
"army",
"bike",
"cram",
"crowd",
"crush",
"drove",
"flock",
"herd",
"horde",
"host",
"legion",
"mass",
"mob",
"press",
"rout",
"scrum",
"swarm",
"throng"
],
"near synonyms":[
"masses",
"millions",
"rabble",
"rabblement",
"riffraff",
"gaggle",
"heap",
"mountain",
"pile",
"jam",
"logjam"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"the body of the community as contrasted with the elite":{
"examples":[
"the nation's idle rich frolicked while the multitude starved"
],
"synonyms":[
"commoners",
"commons",
"crowd",
"herd",
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"flower",
"pick",
"pink",
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"cerebral palsy",
"poliomyelitis",
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"paralysis",
"debilitation",
"debility",
"decrepitude",
"enfeeblement",
"feebleness",
"frailness",
"frailty",
"weakness",
"infirmity",
"lameness",
"disability",
"impairment",
"diplegia",
"hemiplegia",
"paraplegia",
"paresis",
"quadriplegia",
"spastic paralysis"
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"mobility",
"motility",
"sensation"
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"noun"
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"all-night",
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"aeonian",
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"everlasting",
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"little",
"mini",
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"drinks (in)"
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"ignores",
"overlooks",
"slights",
"dismisses",
"pooh-poohs",
"poohs",
"rejects"
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"as in multiyear":{
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"all-day",
"all-night",
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"aeonic",
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"everlasting",
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"far",
"great",
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"long-term",
"marathon"
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"brief",
"little",
"mini",
"short",
"shortish",
"short-lived",
"short-term",
"abrupt",
"sudden",
"abbreviated",
"condensed",
"curtailed",
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"ephemeral",
"fleeting",
"momentary",
"transient",
"transitory",
"impermanent",
"short-range"
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"adjective"
]
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"a considerable amount":{
"examples":[
"a multiplicity of suggestions for turning the company around"
],
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"barrel",
"basketful",
"boatload",
"bucket",
"bunch",
"bundle",
"bushel",
"carload",
"chunk",
"deal",
"dozen",
"fistful",
"gobs",
"good deal",
"heap",
"hundred",
"lashings",
"lashins",
"loads",
"lot",
"mass",
"mess",
"mountain",
"much",
"myriad",
"oodles",
"pack",
"passel",
"peck",
"pile",
"plateful",
"plenitude",
"plentitude",
"plenty",
"pot",
"potful",
"profusion",
"quantity",
"raft",
"reams",
"scads",
"sheaf",
"shipload",
"sight",
"slew",
"spate",
"stack",
"store",
"ton",
"truckload",
"volume",
"wad",
"wealth",
"yard"
],
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"epidemic",
"plague",
"rash",
"bonanza",
"embarrassment",
"excess",
"overabundance",
"overage",
"overkill",
"overmuch",
"oversupply",
"plethora",
"redundancy",
"superabundance",
"superfluity",
"surfeit",
"surplus",
"deluge",
"flood",
"overflow",
"army",
"bevy",
"cram",
"crowd",
"crush",
"drove",
"flock",
"herd",
"horde",
"host",
"legion",
"mob",
"multitude",
"press",
"score",
"sea",
"swarm",
"throng",
"gazillion",
"jillion",
"kazillion",
"million",
"thousands",
"trillion",
"zillion"
],
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"atom",
"crumb",
"dot",
"fleck",
"flyspeck",
"fragment",
"grain",
"granule",
"iota",
"jot",
"modicum",
"molecule",
"mote",
"nubbin",
"particle",
"ray",
"scintilla",
"scrap",
"shred",
"tittle",
"whit",
"smatter",
"smattering",
"dash",
"drop",
"morsel",
"shot",
"piece",
"portion",
"section",
"absence",
"dearth",
"famine",
"lack",
"paucity",
"poverty",
"scarceness",
"scarcity",
"shortage",
"undersupply",
"want",
"deficiency",
"deficit",
"inadequacy",
"insufficiency",
"meagerness",
"scantiness",
"scantness",
"skimpiness"
],
"antonyms":[
"ace",
"bit",
"dab",
"dram",
"driblet",
"glimmer",
"handful",
"hint",
"lick",
"little",
"mite",
"mouthful",
"nip",
"ounce",
"peanuts",
"pinch",
"pittance",
"scruple",
"shade",
"shadow",
"smidgen",
"smidgeon",
"smidgin",
"smidge",
"speck",
"spot",
"sprinkle",
"sprinkling",
"strain",
"streak",
"suspicion",
"tad",
"taste",
"touch",
"trace"
]
},
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"Shakespeare's works seem to encompass the full multiplicity of human experience"
],
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"assortment",
"diverseness",
"diversity",
"heterogeneity",
"heterogeneousness",
"manifoldness",
"miscellaneousness",
"multifariousness",
"variety",
"variousness"
],
"near synonyms":[
"disparateness",
"disparity",
"dissimilarity",
"distinction",
"distinctiveness",
"distinctness",
"otherness",
"unlikeness"
],
"near antonyms":[
"homogeneity",
"homogeneousness",
"likeness",
"sameness",
"similarity",
"fewness",
"paucity"
],
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},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
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"to bring forth offspring":{
"examples":[
"rabbits multiply with proverbial rapidity"
],
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"breed",
"procreate",
"propagate",
"reproduce"
],
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"bear",
"beget",
"engender",
"gender",
"generate",
"get",
"have",
"mother",
"parent",
"produce",
"sire",
"hatch",
"spawn"
],
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},
"to make greater in size, amount, or number":{
"examples":[
"the booming economy multiplied the wealth of investors"
],
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"accelerate",
"add (to)",
"aggrandize",
"amplify",
"augment",
"boost",
"build up",
"compound",
"enlarge",
"escalate",
"expand",
"extend",
"hype",
"increase",
"pump up",
"raise",
"stoke",
"supersize",
"swell",
"up"
],
"near synonyms":[
"boom",
"jump",
"skyrocket",
"spike",
"bump (up)",
"ratchet (up)",
"rachet (up)",
"blow up",
"dilate",
"distend",
"inflate",
"draw out",
"elongate",
"flesh (out)",
"lengthen",
"prolong",
"protract",
"stretch",
"develop",
"enhance",
"heighten",
"intensify",
"magnify",
"complement",
"supplement",
"beef (up)",
"reinforce",
"reenforce",
"strengthen",
"maximize",
"accumulate",
"amass",
"collect",
"follow up",
"parlay"
],
"near antonyms":[
"abbreviate",
"abridge",
"curtail",
"shorten",
"compress",
"condense",
"constrict",
"contract",
"cut back",
"retrench"
],
"antonyms":[
"abate",
"decrease",
"de-escalate",
"diminish",
"downsize",
"dwindle",
"lessen",
"lower",
"minify",
"reduce",
"subtract (from)"
]
},
"to become greater in extent, volume, amount, or number":{
"examples":[
"with each attempt the problems multiplied"
],
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"accelerate",
"accumulate",
"appreciate",
"balloon",
"boom",
"build up",
"burgeon",
"bourgeon",
"climb",
"enlarge",
"escalate",
"expand",
"gain",
"increase",
"mount",
"mushroom",
"proliferate",
"rise",
"roll up",
"snowball",
"spread",
"swell",
"wax"
],
"near synonyms":[
"jump",
"rocket",
"skyrocket",
"surge",
"heighten",
"intensify",
"redouble",
"blow up",
"bulk",
"distend",
"inflate",
"puff (up)",
"crescendo",
"crest",
"peak"
],
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"contract",
"decrease",
"diminish",
"dwindle",
"lessen",
"recede",
"wane"
]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"multimillionaires":{
"as in billionaires , millionaires":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"billionaires",
"gazillionaires",
"millionaires",
"multibillionaires",
"zillionaires",
"capitalists",
"Croesuses",
"deep pockets",
"fat cats",
"haves",
"money",
"moneybags",
"plutocrats",
"silk stockings",
"moneymakers",
"money-spinners",
"magnates",
"nabobs",
"tycoons",
"heiresses",
"heirs",
"jet-setters",
"jeunesse dor\u00e9e"
],
"near antonyms":[
"bankrupts",
"beggars",
"have-nots",
"paupers"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"multilateral":{
"involving more than two groups or countries":{
"examples":[
"a multilateral treaty/agreement"
],
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"near synonyms":[
"external",
"international",
"multiculti",
"multicultural",
"multinational",
"alien",
"foreign",
"nonnative",
"strange",
"imported",
"introduced",
"naturalized",
"transplanted",
"foreign-born",
"nonindigenous",
"distant",
"far-off",
"overseas",
"remote"
],
"near antonyms":[
"endemic",
"local",
"aboriginal",
"indigenous",
"domestic",
"native"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"adjective"
]
},
"multimillionaire":{
"as in billionaire , millionaire":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"billionaire",
"gazillionaire",
"millionaire",
"multibillionaire",
"zillionaire",
"capitalist",
"Croesus",
"deep pocket",
"fat cat",
"have",
"money",
"moneybags",
"plutocrat",
"silk stocking",
"moneymaker",
"money-spinner",
"magnate",
"nabob",
"tycoon",
"heir",
"heiress",
"jet-setter",
"jeunesse dor\u00e9e"
],
"near antonyms":[
"bankrupt",
"beggar",
"have-not",
"pauper"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"multibillionaires":{
"as in billionaires , multimillionaires":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"billionaires",
"gazillionaires",
"millionaires",
"multimillionaires",
"multi-millionaires",
"zillionaires",
"capitalists",
"Croesuses",
"deep pockets",
"fat cats",
"haves",
"money",
"moneybags",
"plutocrats",
"silk stockings",
"moneymakers",
"money-spinners",
"magnates",
"nabobs",
"tycoons",
"heiresses",
"heirs",
"jet-setters",
"jeunesse dor\u00e9e"
],
"near antonyms":[
"bankrupts",
"beggars",
"have-nots",
"paupers"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"mulcting":{
"to rob by the use of trickery or threats":{
"examples":[
"trying to mulct the insurance company for an accident that never happened"
],
"synonyms":[
"beating",
"bilking",
"bleeding",
"cheating",
"chiseling",
"chiselling",
"chousing",
"conning",
"cozening",
"defrauding",
"diddling",
"doing",
"doing in",
"euchring",
"fiddling",
"fleecing",
"flimflamming",
"gaffing",
"hosing",
"hustling",
"nobbling",
"plucking",
"reaming",
"ripping off",
"rooking",
"screwing",
"shaking down",
"shortchanging",
"shorting",
"skinning",
"skunking",
"squeezing",
"sticking",
"stiffing",
"stinging",
"suckering",
"swindling",
"thimblerigging",
"victimizing"
],
"near synonyms":[
"extorting",
"wrenching",
"wresting",
"wringing",
"clipping",
"gouging",
"nicking",
"overcharging",
"soaking",
"exploiting",
"milking",
"deceiving",
"duping",
"fooling",
"gulling",
"tricking",
"roping (in)",
"betraying",
"bitching",
"double-crossing",
"bamboozling",
"fast-talking"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"multipurpose":{
"having more than one use or purpose":{
"examples":[
"multipurpose furniture",
"The band practiced in the school's multipurpose room."
],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"general-purpose",
"mixed-use",
"adaptable",
"all-around",
"all-round",
"protean",
"universal",
"versatile",
"all-around",
"all-round",
"all-purpose",
"unrestricted",
"unspecialized",
"adjustable",
"alterable",
"changeable",
"elastic",
"flexible",
"fluid",
"malleable",
"modifiable",
"plastic",
"pliable",
"pliant",
"supple",
"variable"
],
"near antonyms":[
"limited",
"restricted",
"specialized"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"adjective"
]
},
"multiculti":{
"as in international , multicultural":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"external",
"international",
"multicultural",
"multilateral",
"multinational",
"alien",
"foreign",
"nonnative",
"strange",
"imported",
"introduced",
"naturalized",
"transplanted",
"foreign-born",
"nonindigenous",
"distant",
"far-off",
"overseas",
"remote"
],
"near antonyms":[
"endemic",
"local",
"aboriginal",
"indigenous",
"domestic",
"native"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"adjective"
]
},
"multiplexes":{
"as in megaplexes , plexes":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"megaplexes",
"plexes",
"'plexes",
"nickelodeons",
"art houses",
"art theaters",
"cinematheques",
"cinemas",
"playhouses",
"theaters",
"theatres",
"fleapits",
"grind houses",
"drive-ins"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"muliebrity":{
"the set of qualities traditionally considered appropriate for or characteristic of women":{
"examples":[
"with her warm hospitality and graceful manners, she demonstrated a refined muliebrity"
],
"synonyms":[
"femininity",
"feminity",
"womanhood",
"womanishness",
"womanliness"
],
"near synonyms":[
"femaleness",
"girlishness",
"effeminacy",
"effeteness",
"girlhood",
"maidenhood"
],
"near antonyms":[
"androgyny",
"boyishness",
"mannishness",
"tomboyishness"
],
"antonyms":[
"manhood",
"manliness",
"masculinity",
"virility"
]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"multiplication":{
"the act or process of becoming greater in number":{
"examples":[
"there's been a steady multiplication in our attic of obsolete video equipment as new technologies come on the market"
],
"synonyms":[
"accumulating",
"accumulation",
"addition",
"increase",
"mushrooming",
"proliferation"
],
"near synonyms":[
"doubling",
"quadrupling",
"tripling",
"creep",
"growth",
"rise",
"spread",
"enlargement",
"escalation",
"expansion",
"amplification",
"distension",
"distention",
"inflation",
"accretion",
"accrual",
"augmentation",
"cumulation",
"extension",
"lengthening",
"boost",
"gain",
"hike",
"increment",
"rise"
],
"near antonyms":[
"abatement",
"compressing",
"compression",
"condensation",
"condensing",
"constricting",
"constriction",
"contracting",
"contraction",
"diminishing",
"diminishment",
"diminution",
"drop",
"drop-off",
"fall",
"falloff",
"lessening",
"lowering",
"reduction",
"shrinkage",
"shrinking",
"retrenching",
"retrenchment",
"shortening"
],
"antonyms":[
"decrease"
]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"mulling (over)":{
"to give serious and careful thought to":{
"examples":[
"mull over the idea for a while and then let me know"
],
"synonyms":[
"chewing over",
"cogitating",
"considering",
"contemplating",
"debating",
"deliberating",
"entertaining",
"eyeing",
"eying",
"kicking around",
"meditating",
"perpending",
"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"
]
},
"multiplying":{
"to bring forth offspring":{
"examples":[
"rabbits multiply with proverbial rapidity"
],
"synonyms":[
"breeding",
"procreating",
"propagating",
"reproducing"
],
"near synonyms":[
"bearing",
"begetting",
"engendering",
"gendering",
"generating",
"getting",
"having",
"mothering",
"parenting",
"producing",
"siring",
"hatching",
"spawning"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to make greater in size, amount, or number":{
"examples":[
"the booming economy multiplied the wealth of investors"
],
"synonyms":[
"accelerating",
"adding (to)",
"aggrandizing",
"amplifying",
"augmenting",
"boosting",
"building up",
"compounding",
"enlarging",
"escalating",
"expanding",
"extending",
"hyping",
"increasing",
"pumping up",
"raising",
"stoking",
"supersizing",
"swelling",
"upping"
],
"near synonyms":[
"booming",
"jumping",
"skyrocketing",
"spiking",
"bumping (up)",
"ratcheting (up)",
"racheting (up)",
"blowing up",
"dilating",
"distending",
"inflating",
"drawing out",
"elongating",
"fleshing (out)",
"lengthening",
"prolonging",
"protracting",
"stretching",
"developing",
"enhancing",
"heightening",
"intensifying",
"magnifying",
"complementing",
"supplementing",
"beefing (up)",
"reinforcing",
"reenforcing",
"strengthening",
"maximizing",
"accumulating",
"amassing",
"collecting",
"following up",
"parlaying"
],
"near antonyms":[
"abbreviating",
"abridging",
"curtailing",
"shortening",
"compressing",
"condensing",
"constricting",
"contracting",
"cutting back",
"retrenching"
],
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"abating",
"decreasing",
"de-escalating",
"diminishing",
"downsizing",
"dwindling",
"lessening",
"lowering",
"minifying",
"reducing",
"subtracting (from)"
]
},
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"examples":[
"with each attempt the problems multiplied"
],
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"accelerating",
"accumulating",
"appreciating",
"ballooning",
"booming",
"building up",
"burgeoning",
"bourgeoning",
"climbing",
"enlarging",
"escalating",
"expanding",
"gaining",
"increasing",
"mounting",
"mushrooming",
"proliferating",
"rising",
"rolling up",
"snowballing",
"spreading",
"swelling",
"waxing"
],
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"jumping",
"rocketing",
"skyrocketing",
"surging",
"heightening",
"intensifying",
"redoubling",
"blowing up",
"bulking",
"distending",
"inflating",
"puffing (up)",
"crescendoing",
"cresting",
"peaking"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[
"contracting",
"decreasing",
"diminishing",
"dwindling",
"lessening",
"receding",
"waning"
]
},
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"verb"
]
},
"mulcts":{
"a sum of money to be paid as a punishment":{
"examples":[
"the loan shark usually imposed a mulct of an additional 20% on overdue payments"
],
"synonyms":[
"damages",
"fines",
"forfeits",
"forfeitures",
"penalties"
],
"near synonyms":[
"reparations",
"assessments",
"awards",
"compensations",
"indemnities"
],
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"antonyms":[]
},
"to rob by the use of trickery or threats":{
"examples":[
"trying to mulct the insurance company for an accident that never happened"
],
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"beats",
"bilks",
"bleeds",
"cheats",
"chisels",
"chouses",
"cons",
"cozens",
"defrauds",
"diddles",
"does",
"does in",
"euchres",
"fiddles",
"fleeces",
"flimflams",
"gaffs",
"hoses",
"hustles",
"nobbles",
"plucks",
"reams",
"rips off",
"rooks",
"screws",
"shakes down",
"shortchanges",
"shorts",
"skins",
"skunks",
"squeezes",
"sticks",
"stiffs",
"stings",
"suckers",
"swindles",
"thimblerigs",
"victimizes"
],
"near synonyms":[
"extorts",
"wrenches",
"wrests",
"wrings",
"clips",
"gouges",
"nicks",
"overcharges",
"soaks",
"exploits",
"milks",
"deceives",
"dupes",
"fools",
"gulls",
"tricks",
"ropes (in)",
"betrays",
"bitches",
"double-crosses",
"bamboozles",
"fast-talks"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun",
"verb"
]
},
"mulishness":{
"a steadfast adherence to an opinion, purpose, or course of action":{
"examples":[
"cursed their mulishness for failing to own up to what seemed like an obvious mistake to him"
],
"synonyms":[
"bullheadedness",
"doggedness",
"hardheadedness",
"intransigence",
"obduracy",
"obdurateness",
"obstinacy",
"obstinateness",
"opinionatedness",
"pertinaciousness",
"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"
]
},
"multifariousness":{
"the quality or state of being composed of many different elements or types":{
"examples":[
"the remarkable multifariousness of the conglomerate's commercial activities"
],
"synonyms":[
"assortment",
"diverseness",
"diversity",
"heterogeneity",
"heterogeneousness",
"manifoldness",
"miscellaneousness",
"multiplicity",
"variety",
"variousness"
],
"near synonyms":[
"disparateness",
"disparity",
"dissimilarity",
"distinction",
"distinctiveness",
"distinctness",
"otherness",
"unlikeness"
],
"near antonyms":[
"homogeneity",
"homogeneousness",
"likeness",
"sameness",
"similarity",
"fewness",
"paucity"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"multimillionairess":{
"as in billionaire , millionaire":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"billionaire",
"gazillionaire",
"millionaire",
"multibillionaire",
"multimillionaire",
"zillionaire",
"magnate",
"nabob",
"tycoon",
"heir",
"heiress",
"jet-setter",
"jeunesse dor\u00e9e",
"moneymaker",
"money-spinner",
"capitalist",
"Croesus",
"deep pocket",
"fat cat",
"have",
"money",
"moneybags",
"plutocrat",
"silk stocking"
],
"near antonyms":[
"have-not",
"pauper",
"bankrupt",
"beggar"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"mulled":{
"as in reduced , pulverized":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"close-grained",
"comminuted",
"ground",
"micronized",
"milled",
"pestled",
"pulverized",
"reduced",
"triturated",
"filtered",
"levigated",
"refined",
"buttery",
"smooth",
"velvety",
"dusty",
"fine",
"floury",
"powdery",
"superfine",
"ultrafine"
],
"near antonyms":[
"coarse",
"grained",
"grainy",
"granular",
"granulated",
"unfiltered",
"unrefined",
"earthy",
"gravelly",
"gritty",
"sandy"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to reduce to fine particles":{
"examples":[
"the dentist was in the habit of mulling the mercury amalgam in the palm of his hand"
],
"synonyms":[
"atomized",
"beat",
"brayed",
"comminuted",
"crushed",
"disintegrated",
"ground",
"milled",
"pounded",
"powdered",
"pulverized"
],
"near synonyms":[
"grated",
"kibbled",
"crumbled",
"crunched",
"broke",
"busted",
"bust",
"dashed",
"fractured",
"fragmented",
"shattered",
"smashed",
"splintered",
"micronized"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"adjective",
"verb"
]
},
"multi-millionairesses":{
"as in billionaires , millionaires":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"billionaires",
"gazillionaires",
"millionaires",
"multibillionaires",
"multimillionaires",
"multi-millionaires",
"zillionaires",
"magnates",
"nabobs",
"tycoons",
"heiresses",
"heirs",
"jet-setters",
"jeunesse dor\u00e9e",
"moneymakers",
"money-spinners",
"capitalists",
"Croesuses",
"deep pockets",
"fat cats",
"haves",
"money",
"moneybags",
"plutocrats",
"silk stockings"
],
"near antonyms":[
"have-nots",
"paupers",
"bankrupts",
"beggars"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[]
},
"multiplicities":{
"a considerable amount":{
"examples":[
"a multiplicity of suggestions for turning the company around"
],
"synonyms":[
"abundances",
"barrels",
"basketfuls",
"basketsful",
"boatloads",
"buckets",
"bunches",
"bundles",
"bushels",
"carloads",
"chunks",
"deals",
"dozens",
"dozen",
"fistfuls",
"gobs",
"good deals",
"heaps",
"hundreds",
"hundred",
"lashings",
"lashins",
"loads",
"lots",
"masses",
"messes",
"mountains",
"much",
"myriads",
"oodles",
"packs",
"passels",
"pecks",
"piles",
"platefuls",
"plenitudes",
"plenties",
"plentitudes",
"potfuls",
"pots",
"profusions",
"quantities",
"rafts",
"reams",
"scads",
"sheaves",
"shiploads",
"sights",
"slews",
"spates",
"stacks",
"stores",
"tons",
"truckloads",
"volumes",
"wads",
"wealths",
"yards"
],
"near synonyms":[
"epidemics",
"plagues",
"rashes",
"bonanzas",
"embarrassments",
"excesses",
"overabundances",
"overages",
"overkills",
"overmuch",
"oversupplies",
"plethoras",
"redundancies",
"superabundances",
"superfluities",
"surfeits",
"surpluses",
"deluges",
"floods",
"overflows",
"armies",
"bevies",
"crams",
"crowds",
"crushes",
"droves",
"flocks",
"herds",
"hordes",
"hosts",
"legions",
"mobs",
"multitudes",
"presses",
"scores",
"seas",
"swarms",
"throngs",
"gazillions",
"jillions",
"kazillions",
"millions",
"million",
"thousands",
"trillions",
"zillions"
],
"near antonyms":[
"atoms",
"crumbs",
"dots",
"flecks",
"flyspecks",
"fragments",
"grains",
"granules",
"iotas",
"jots",
"modicums",
"molecules",
"motes",
"nubbins",
"particles",
"rays",
"scintillas",
"scraps",
"shreds",
"tittles",
"whits",
"smatterings",
"smatters",
"dashes",
"drops",
"morsels",
"shots",
"pieces",
"portions",
"sections",
"absences",
"dearths",
"famines",
"lacks",
"paucities",
"poverties",
"scarcities",
"shortages",
"undersupplies",
"wants",
"deficiencies",
"deficits",
"inadequacies",
"insufficiencies"
],
"antonyms":[
"aces",
"bits",
"dabs",
"drams",
"driblets",
"glimmers",
"handfuls",
"handsful",
"hints",
"licks",
"little",
"mites",
"mouthfuls",
"nips",
"ounces",
"peanuts",
"pinches",
"pittances",
"scruples",
"shades",
"shadows",
"smidgens",
"smidgeons",
"smidgins",
"smidges",
"specks",
"spots",
"sprinkles",
"sprinklings",
"strains",
"streaks",
"suspicions",
"tastes",
"touches",
"traces"
]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"mule":{
"as in coyote , gunrunner":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"coyote",
"gunrunner",
"bootlegger",
"contrabandist",
"courier",
"runner",
"smuggler"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"as in hinny":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"hinny",
"jack",
"jennet",
"jenny",
"pack animal",
"ass",
"burro",
"donkey",
"jackass",
"moke"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"as in cross , hybrid":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"cross",
"crossbred",
"crossbreed",
"hybrid",
"intercross",
"mongrel",
"outcross",
"half-bred"
],
"near antonyms":[
"full-blood",
"pureblood",
"purebred",
"thoroughbred"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"mulled (over)":{
"to give serious and careful thought to":{
"examples":[
"mull over the idea for a while and then let me know"
],
"synonyms":[
"chewed over",
"cogitated",
"considered",
"contemplated",
"debated",
"deliberated",
"entertained",
"eyed",
"kicked around",
"meditated",
"perpended",
"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"
]
},
"multifarious":{
"being of many and various kinds":{
"examples":[
"the multifarious interests and activities in which Benjamin Franklin immersed himself"
],
"synonyms":[
"divers",
"manifold",
"myriad"
],
"near synonyms":[
"multiform",
"multiple",
"multiplex",
"multitudinous",
"heterogeneous",
"heterogenous",
"miscellaneous",
"mixed",
"sundry",
"various",
"different",
"diverse",
"unlike",
"varied"
],
"near antonyms":[
"homogeneous",
"homogenous",
"monolithic",
"unmixed",
"unvaried",
"alike",
"identical",
"same",
"distinct",
"distinctive",
"individual",
"separate",
"alone",
"lone",
"only",
"sole",
"solitary",
"singular",
"unique"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"adjective"
]
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},
"multinational":{
"relating to or involving two or more nations":{
"examples":[
"multinational efforts to negotiate a lasting peace in the region"
],
"synonyms":[
"foreign",
"international",
"transnational"
],
"near synonyms":[
"intercontinental",
"transcontinental"
],
"near antonyms":[
"domestic",
"internal",
"national"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"as in chain , conglomerate":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"chain",
"conglomerate",
"megacorporation",
"cartel",
"combination",
"combine",
"syndicate",
"trust",
"association",
"guild",
"gild",
"organization",
"partnership",
"pool",
"union",
"big business"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"adjective",
"noun"
]
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},
"mulling":{
"to reduce to fine particles":{
"examples":[
"the dentist was in the habit of mulling the mercury amalgam in the palm of his hand"
],
"synonyms":[
"atomizing",
"beating",
"braying",
"comminuting",
"crushing",
"disintegrating",
"grinding",
"milling",
"pounding",
"powdering",
"pulverizing"
],
"near synonyms":[
"grating",
"kibbling",
"crumbling",
"crunching",
"breaking",
"busting",
"dashing",
"fracturing",
"fragmenting",
"shattering",
"smashing",
"splintering",
"micronizing"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"multifold":{
"being of a large but indefinite number":{
"examples":[
"the advantages of the new accounting system are multifold"
],
"synonyms":[
"beaucoup",
"legion",
"many",
"multiple",
"multiplex",
"multitudinous",
"numerous"
],
"near synonyms":[
"countless",
"innumerable",
"numberless",
"uncountable",
"unnumbered",
"untold",
"several",
"some",
"miscellaneous",
"mixed",
"sundry",
"various",
"divers",
"manifold",
"multifarious",
"myriad"
],
"near antonyms":[
"countable",
"limited"
],
"antonyms":[
"few"
]
},
"type":[
"adjective"
]
},
"mulls":{
"to reduce to fine particles":{
"examples":[
"the dentist was in the habit of mulling the mercury amalgam in the palm of his hand"
],
"synonyms":[
"atomizes",
"beats",
"brays",
"comminutes",
"crushes",
"disintegrates",
"grinds",
"mills",
"pounds",
"powders",
"pulverizes"
],
"near synonyms":[
"grates",
"kibbles",
"crumbles",
"crunches",
"breaks",
"busts",
"dashes",
"fractures",
"fragments",
"shatters",
"smashes",
"splinters",
"micronizes"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"as in duffs":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"duffs",
"alluviums",
"alluvia",
"colluvia",
"colluviums",
"detritus",
"loesses",
"marls",
"sediments",
"shingles",
"silts",
"subsoils",
"substrata",
"dust",
"gravels",
"sands",
"blacklands",
"clays",
"gaults",
"gleys",
"gucks",
"gooks",
"gumbos",
"kaolins",
"muck",
"muds",
"clods",
"dirt",
"earth",
"ground",
"molds",
"humuses",
"loams",
"topsoils"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun",
"verb"
]
},
"multitudes":{
"a great number of persons or creatures massed together":{
"examples":[
"awed by the multitude of stars in the night sky"
],
"synonyms":[
"armies",
"bikes",
"crams",
"crowds",
"crushes",
"droves",
"flocks",
"herds",
"hordes",
"hosts",
"legions",
"masses",
"mobs",
"presses",
"routs",
"scrums",
"swarms",
"throngs"
],
"near synonyms":[
"masses",
"millions",
"rabblements",
"rabbles",
"riffraffs",
"gaggles",
"heaps",
"mountains",
"piles",
"jams",
"logjams"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"the body of the community as contrasted with the elite":{
"examples":[
"the nation's idle rich frolicked while the multitude starved"
],
"synonyms":[
"commoners",
"commons",
"crowds",
"herds",
"hoi polloi",
"masses",
"millions",
"mobs",
"people",
"plebeians",
"plebes",
"populaces",
"publics",
"rank and files"
],
"near synonyms":[
"cattle",
"proletariats",
"rabblements",
"rabbles",
"ragtag and bobtails",
"riffraffs",
"routs",
"scums",
"tag, rag, and bobtails",
"tagrag and bobtails",
"trash",
"unwasheds",
"bourgeoisies",
"middle classes"
],
"near antonyms":[
"gentilities",
"gentlefolks",
"gentries",
"haute mondes",
"nobilities",
"patriciates",
"peerages",
"qualities",
"royalties",
"societies"
],
"antonyms":[
"A-lists",
"aristocracies",
"best",
"choices",
"corps d'elite",
"creams",
"elect",
"elites",
"fat",
"flowers",
"picks",
"pinks",
"prides",
"upper crusts"
]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"multibranched":{
"as in mixed , varied":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"composite",
"compound",
"heterogeneous",
"mixed",
"multifaceted",
"multifarious",
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"constrictions",
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"diminutions",
"drop-offs",
"drops",
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"crumble",
"crunch",
"break",
"bust",
"dash",
"fracture",
"fragment",
"shatter",
"smash",
"splinter",
"micronize"
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"marl",
"sediment",
"shingle",
"silt",
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"topsoil",
"dust",
"gravel",
"sand",
"blackland",
"clay",
"gault",
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"guck",
"gook",
"gumbo",
"kaolin",
"muck",
"mud",
"clod",
"dirt",
"earth",
"ground",
"mold",
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"verb"
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"divers",
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"homogenous",
"monolithic",
"unmixed",
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"alone",
"lone",
"only",
"sole",
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"megacorporations",
"cartels",
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"syndicates",
"trusts",
"associations",
"guilds",
"gilds",
"organizations",
"partnerships",
"pools",
"unions"
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"noun"
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"adamantine",
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"headstrong",
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"implacable",
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"obdurate",
"obstinate",
"opinionated",
"ossified",
"pat",
"pertinacious",
"perverse",
"pigheaded",
"self-opinionated",
"self-willed",
"stiff-necked",
"stubborn",
"unbending",
"uncompromising",
"unrelenting",
"unyielding",
"willful",
"wilful"
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"wrongheaded",
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"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",
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"unruly",
"defiant",
"insurgent",
"mutinous",
"indomitable",
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"confirmed",
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"obedient",
"placable",
"submissive",
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"persuadable",
"receptive",
"responsive",
"willing",
"governable",
"manageable",
"reasonable",
"temperate",
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"amenable",
"compliant",
"complying",
"flexible",
"pliable",
"pliant",
"relenting",
"yielding"
]
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"type":[
"adjective"
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"as in billionaires , millionaires":{
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"billionaires",
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"millionaires",
"multibillionaires",
"zillionaires",
"capitalists",
"Croesuses",
"deep pockets",
"fat cats",
"haves",
"money",
"moneybags",
"plutocrats",
"silk stockings",
"moneymakers",
"money-spinners",
"magnates",
"nabobs",
"tycoons",
"heiresses",
"heirs",
"jet-setters",
"jeunesse dor\u00e9e"
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"bankrupts",
"beggars",
"have-nots",
"paupers"
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"type":[
"noun"
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"as in billionaire , multimillionaire":{
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"billionaire",
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"millionaire",
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"fat cat",
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"money",
"moneybags",
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"magnate",
"nabob",
"tycoon",
"heir",
"heiress",
"jet-setter",
"jeunesse dor\u00e9e"
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"bankrupt",
"beggar",
"have-not",
"pauper"
],
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"noun"
]
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"as in well-rounded , multitalented":{
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"near synonyms":[
"multitalented",
"well-rounded",
"adaptable",
"all-around",
"all-round",
"protean",
"universal",
"versatile",
"general-purpose",
"mixed-use",
"multipurpose",
"adroit",
"clever",
"deft",
"dexterous",
"dextrous",
"handy",
"slick",
"sure-handed",
"able",
"ace",
"adept",
"experienced",
"expert",
"masterful",
"proficient",
"skilled",
"skillful",
"accomplished",
"compleat",
"complete",
"consummate",
"crack",
"crackerjack",
"good",
"great",
"master",
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"practiced",
"practised",
"professed",
"versed",
"veteran",
"virtuoso",
"educated",
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"schooled",
"taught",
"trained",
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"alterable",
"changeable",
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"flexible",
"fluid",
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"modifiable",
"plastic",
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"supple",
"variable"
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"amateur",
"inexperienced",
"amateurish",
"inexpert",
"jackleg",
"unprofessional",
"unseasoned",
"unskilled",
"unskillful",
"talentless",
"ungifted",
"untalented",
"incapable",
"incompetent",
"inept",
"unable",
"unfit",
"unfitted",
"unqualified",
"weak"
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"adjective"
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"used or done by a number of people as a group":{
"examples":[
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],
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"collective",
"combined",
"common",
"communal",
"concerted",
"conjoint",
"conjunct",
"cooperative",
"joint",
"mutual",
"pooled",
"public",
"shared",
"united"
],
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"bilateral",
"consensual",
"reciprocal",
"symbiotic",
"synergic",
"synergistic",
"two-way",
"mass",
"popular",
"general",
"generic",
"universal"
],
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"personal",
"private",
"independent",
"separate",
"several",
"esoteric",
"particular",
"special",
"specialized"
],
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"exclusive",
"individual",
"one-man",
"one-sided",
"one-way",
"single",
"sole",
"solitary",
"unilateral"
]
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"examples":[
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],
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"beaucoup",
"legion",
"many",
"multifold",
"multiplex",
"multitudinous",
"numerous"
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"innumerable",
"numberless",
"uncountable",
"unnumbered",
"untold",
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"some",
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"mixed",
"sundry",
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"manifold",
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"limited"
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"few"
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"multimillionairesses":{
"as in billionaires , millionaires":{
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"billionaires",
"gazillionaires",
"millionaires",
"multibillionaires",
"multimillionaires",
"multi-millionaires",
"zillionaires",
"magnates",
"nabobs",
"tycoons",
"heiresses",
"heirs",
"jet-setters",
"jeunesse dor\u00e9e",
"moneymakers",
"money-spinners",
"capitalists",
"Croesuses",
"deep pockets",
"fat cats",
"haves",
"money",
"moneybags",
"plutocrats",
"silk stockings"
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"have-nots",
"paupers",
"bankrupts",
"beggars"
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