"having or showing the annoying qualities (as silliness) associated with children":{
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"adult",
"grown-up",
"mature"
],
"examples":[
"the infantile humor that teenage boys are justly famous for"
],
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"unchildlike",
"cosmopolitan",
"experienced",
"knowing",
"smart",
"sophisticated",
"worldly",
"worldly-wise"
],
"related":[
"boyish",
"brattish",
"bratty",
"girlie",
"girly",
"girlish",
"childlike",
"innocent",
"naive",
"na\u00efve",
"simple",
"simplistic",
"unsophisticated"
],
"synonyms":[
"adolescent",
"babyish",
"childish",
"immature",
"jejune",
"juvenile",
"kiddish",
"puerile"
]
},
"type":[
"adjective"
]
},
"infantries":{
"the part of an army that has soldiers who fight on foot":{
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"examples":[
"He joined the infantry after leaving school.",
"The infantry is coming."
],
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},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"infect":{
"to pass something harmful (such as a disease) to someone or something else":{
"examples":[
"If you come to work when you're sick, you'll infect everyone in the office."
],
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"poison",
"communicate",
"conduct",
"convey",
"give",
"impart",
"spread",
"transfer",
"transfuse",
"transmit",
"befoul",
"defile",
"foul",
"pollute",
"taint",
"begrime",
"besmirch",
"blacken",
"dirty",
"foul up",
"grime",
"mire",
"muddy",
"smirch",
"smudge",
"soil",
"stain",
"sully",
"corrupt",
"rot",
"spoil",
"adulterate",
"doctor",
"dilute",
"water down",
"broadcast",
"diffuse",
"disseminate",
"propagate",
"hand down",
"hand on",
"deliver",
"hand over",
"surrender",
"turn over"
],
"near antonyms":[
"disinfect",
"sanitize",
"sterilize",
"decontaminate",
"purify",
"catch",
"come down (with)",
"contract",
"clarify",
"clean",
"cleanse",
"clear",
"distill",
"distil",
"purge",
"filter"
],
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},
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"verb"
]
},
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"that seems like a reasonable inference , but in this case it happens to be incorrect"
],
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"conclusion",
"consequence",
"deduction",
"determination",
"eduction",
"induction",
"sequitur"
],
"near synonyms":[
"decision",
"deliverance",
"diagnosis",
"judgment",
"judgement",
"resolution",
"ruling",
"verdict",
"conjecture",
"guess",
"surmise",
"assumption",
"presumption",
"supposition"
],
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"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
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"one who is of lower rank and typically under the authority of another":{
"examples":[
"she is nice to her inferiors as well as to her superiors"
],
"synonyms":[
"junior",
"subordinate",
"underling"
],
"near synonyms":[
"attendant",
"follower",
"retainer",
"domestic",
"menial",
"steward",
"flunky",
"flunkey",
"flunkie",
"henchman",
"lackey",
"minion",
"adjutant",
"aid",
"aide",
"assistant",
"coadjutor",
"deputy",
"second",
"second fiddle",
"helpmate",
"helpmeet",
"mate",
"sidekick"
],
"near antonyms":[
"boss",
"captain",
"chief",
"foreman",
"head",
"headman",
"helmsman",
"kingpin",
"leader",
"master",
"taskmaster"
],
"antonyms":[
"senior",
"superior"
]
},
"situated lower down":{
"examples":[
"creatures that inhabit the dark, inferior depths of the ocean"
],
"synonyms":[
"lower",
"nether"
],
"near synonyms":[
"lowest",
"nethermost",
"underlying"
],
"near antonyms":[
"highest",
"uppermost",
"overhanging",
"overhead"
],
"antonyms":[
"higher",
"superior",
"upper"
]
},
"of little or less value or merit":{
"examples":[
"a girl who has always felt inferior to her older sister"
],
"synonyms":[
"mean",
"minor",
"secondary",
"second-class",
"second-rate"
],
"near synonyms":[
"junior",
"lesser",
"lower",
"low-level",
"petty",
"smaller",
"subordinate",
"under",
"average",
"common",
"fair",
"middling",
"ordinary",
"amiss",
"bad",
"defective",
"unsatisfactory",
"wrong",
"deficient",
"inadequate",
"insufficient",
"unacceptable",
"littler",
"slighter",
"smaller",
"jerkwater",
"low-rent",
"one-horse",
"small-time",
"two-bit"
],
"near antonyms":[
"major",
"more",
"primary",
"senior",
"choice",
"exceptional",
"first-class",
"first-rate",
"high-grade",
"premium",
"prime",
"select",
"selected",
"acceptable",
"adequate",
"sufficient"
],
"antonyms":[
"greater",
"higher",
"superior"
]
},
"belonging to the class of people of low social or economic rank":{
"examples":[
"at one time, the upper crust liked to believe that inferior people were fit only to be servants"
],
"synonyms":[
"baseborn",
"common",
"humble",
"ignoble",
"low",
"low-life",
"lowborn",
"lower-class",
"lowly",
"lumpen",
"mean",
"plebeian",
"prole",
"proletarian",
"unwashed",
"vulgar"
],
"near synonyms":[
"bourgeois",
"middle-class",
"plain",
"poor",
"simple",
"working-class",
"d\u00e9class\u00e9",
"down-market",
"downscale"
],
"near antonyms":[
"eminent",
"illustrious",
"notable",
"prominent"
],
"antonyms":[
"aristocratic",
"blue-blooded",
"genteel",
"gentle",
"grand",
"great",
"high",
"highborn",
"highbred",
"lofty",
"noble",
"patrician",
"upper-class",
"upper-crust",
"wellborn"
]
},
"falling short of a standard":{
"examples":[
"an inferior science textbook that was out-of-date the day that it was published"
],
"synonyms":[
"bad",
"bastard",
"bush",
"bush-league",
"crummy",
"crumby",
"deficient",
"dissatisfactory",
"ill",
"lame",
"lousy",
"off",
"paltry",
"poor",
"punk",
"sour",
"suboptimal",
"subpar",
"substandard",
"unacceptable",
"unsatisfactory",
"wack",
"wanting",
"wretched",
"wrong"
],
"near synonyms":[
"abysmal",
"atrocious",
"awful",
"bitchin'",
"brutal",
"damnable",
"deplorable",
"detestable",
"disastrous",
"dreadful",
"execrable",
"gnarly",
"horrendous",
"horrible",
"pathetic",
"stinky",
"sucky",
"terrible",
"unspeakable",
"defective",
"faulty",
"flawed",
"egregious",
"flagrant",
"gross",
"bum",
"cheesy",
"coarse",
"common",
"crappy",
"cut-rate",
"junky",
"lesser",
"low-grade",
"low-rent",
"mediocre",
"miserable",
"reprehensible",
"rotten",
"rubbishy",
"second-rate",
"shoddy",
"sleazy",
"trashy",
"abominable",
"odious",
"vile",
"useless",
"valueless",
"worthless",
"inadequate",
"insufficient",
"lacking",
"meager",
"meagre",
"mean",
"miserly",
"niggardly",
"scanty",
"shabby",
"short",
"skimp",
"skimpy",
"spare",
"stingy",
"miscreant",
"scurrilous",
"villainous",
"counterfeit",
"fake",
"phony",
"phoney",
"sham"
],
"near antonyms":[
"classic",
"classical",
"A1",
"bang-up",
"banner",
"boss",
"capital",
"choice",
"crackerjack",
"dandy",
"divine",
"excellent",
"exceptional",
"fabulous",
"first-class",
"first-rate",
"grand",
"great",
"groovy",
"heavenly",
"high-test",
"jim-dandy",
"keen",
"marvelous",
"marvellous",
"mean",
"neat",
"nifty",
"noble",
"par excellence",
"perfect",
"premium",
"prime",
"sensational",
"slick",
"splendid",
"stellar",
"sterling",
"superb",
"superior",
"superlative",
"supernal",
"swell",
"terrific",
"tip-top",
"top",
"top-notch",
"unsurpassed",
"wonderful",
"better",
"exceptional",
"fancy",
"high-grade",
"special",
"sufficient",
"average",
"borderline",
"fair",
"mediocre",
"middling",
"minimal",
"so-so",
"unexceptional",
"suitable",
"useful",
"worthy",
"gratifying",
"satisfying"
],
"antonyms":[
"acceptable",
"adequate",
"all right",
"decent",
"fine",
"OK",
"okay",
"passable",
"respectable",
"satisfactory",
"standard",
"tolerable"
]
},
"having not so great importance or rank as another":{
"examples":[
"an inferior officer cannot strike a superior under any circumstances"
],
"synonyms":[
"junior",
"less",
"lesser",
"lower",
"minor",
"smaller",
"subordinate"
],
"near synonyms":[
"little",
"mean",
"small",
"minute",
"petty",
"jerkwater",
"one-horse",
"second-class",
"second-rate",
"two-bit",
"associate",
"auxiliary",
"secondary",
"subsidiary"
],
"near antonyms":[
"choice",
"exceptional",
"first-class",
"first-rate"
],
"antonyms":[
"greater",
"higher",
"major",
"more",
"primary",
"prime",
"senior",
"superior",
"superordinate"
]
},
"of low quality":{
"examples":[
"inferior chocolate candy that no serious chocolate lover would think of eating"
],
"synonyms":[
"bad",
"bargain-basement",
"bum",
"cheap",
"cheapjack",
"cheesy",
"coarse",
"common",
"crappy",
"cut-rate",
"el cheapo",
"execrable",
"gimcrack",
"junky",
"lousy",
"low-grade",
"low-rent",
"mediocre",
"miserable",
"poor",
"rotten",
"rubbishy",
"schlock",
"schlocky",
"shlock",
"shlocky",
"second-rate",
"shoddy",
"sleazy",
"terrible",
"trashy",
"trumpery",
"wretched"
],
"near synonyms":[
"useless",
"valueless",
"worthless",
"indifferent",
"lackluster",
"second-class",
"brummagem",
"flashy",
"garish",
"gaudy",
"glitzy",
"kitsch",
"kitschy",
"meretricious",
"ostentatious",
"showy",
"splashy",
"swank",
"swanky",
"tawdry",
"seedy",
"shabby",
"tacky",
"counterfeit",
"fake",
"phony",
"phoney",
"sham",
"supercheap",
"ultracheap"
],
"near antonyms":[
"elegant",
"handsome",
"tasteful",
"handcrafted",
"polished",
"refined"
],
"antonyms":[
"excellent",
"fine",
"first-class",
"first-rate",
"good",
"high-grade",
"superior",
"top-notch"
]
},
"type":[
"adjective",
"noun"
]
},
"inferiority":{
"as in worthlessness , badness":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"badness",
"crumminess",
"worthlessness",
"acceptability",
"adequacy",
"satisfactoriness",
"sufficiency",
"commonness",
"commonplaceness",
"everydayness",
"fairness",
"mundaneness",
"mundanity",
"normality",
"normalness",
"routine",
"second-rateness",
"typicality",
"typicalness",
"unremarkableness",
"usualness",
"averageness",
"mediocrity",
"ordinariness"
],
"near antonyms":[
"exceptionality",
"exceptionalness",
"extraordinariness",
"choiceness",
"distinction",
"excellence",
"excellency",
"exquisiteness",
"fabulousness",
"first-rateness",
"grandness",
"greatness",
"marvelousness",
"marvellousness",
"perfection",
"preeminence",
"primeness",
"specialness",
"splendidness",
"sterlingness",
"superbness",
"superiority",
"superlativeness",
"supremacy",
"supremeness",
"consequence",
"importance",
"notability",
"faultlessness",
"flawlessness",
"impeccability",
"perfectness",
"goodness",
"value",
"worth",
"deficiency",
"unacceptability",
"inadequacy",
"inadequateness",
"insufficiency",
"unsatisfactoriness"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"inferiorly":{
"as in insufficiently , meanly":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"insufficiently",
"meagerly",
"meanly",
"niggardly",
"scantily",
"scantly",
"shabbily",
"skimpily",
"sparely",
"stingily",
"abominably",
"odiously",
"vilely",
"miserably",
"shoddily",
"sleazily",
"trashily",
"unspeakably",
"egregiously",
"flagrantly",
"grossly",
"naughtily",
"inappropriately",
"incorrectly",
"indecently",
"reprehensibly",
"unsuitably",
"vulgarly",
"intolerably",
"unbearably",
"abysmally",
"atrociously",
"awfully",
"damnably",
"deplorably",
"detestably",
"disastrously",
"dreadfully",
"execrably",
"horrendously",
"horribly",
"horrifically",
"rottenly",
"terribly",
"bad",
"badly",
"deficiently",
"inadequately",
"lousily",
"poorly",
"unacceptably",
"unsatisfactorily",
"wretchedly"
],
"near antonyms":[
"acceptably",
"adequately",
"all right",
"fine",
"good",
"nicely",
"OK",
"okay",
"palatably",
"passably",
"satisfactorily",
"so-so",
"tolerably",
"well",
"appropriately",
"congruously",
"correctly",
"decently",
"decorously",
"felicitously",
"fittingly",
"meetly",
"rightly",
"seemly",
"suitably",
"exactly",
"faithfully",
"ideally",
"precisely",
"respectably",
"gratifyingly",
"satisfyingly"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"adverb"
]
},
"infernal":{
"deserving of one's condemnation or displeasure":{
"examples":[
"I detest that infernal machine"
],
"synonyms":[
"accursed",
"accurst",
"blasted",
"confounded",
"cursed",
"curst",
"cussed",
"damnable",
"dang",
"danged",
"darn",
"durn",
"darned",
"durned",
"deuced",
"doggone",
"doggoned",
"freaking"
],
"near synonyms":[
"atrocious",
"awful",
"bum",
"detestable",
"execrable",
"lousy",
"punk",
"rotten",
"terrible",
"wretched",
"abominable",
"odious",
"vile",
"contemptible",
"despicable",
"miserable",
"nasty",
"pitiable",
"pitiful",
"scabby",
"scummy",
"scurvy",
"shameful",
"sorry"
],
"near antonyms":[
"commendable",
"creditable",
"laudable",
"praiseworthy",
"great",
"marvelous",
"marvellous",
"wonderful"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"adjective"
]
},
"infesting":{
"to spread or swarm over in a troublesome manner":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"in desperation, we called in an exterminator because the house was infested with ants"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"related":[
"besetting",
"overspreading",
"overwhelming",
"abounding",
"crawling",
"teeming",
"annoying",
"pestering",
"plaguing",
"contaminating",
"infecting"
],
"synonyms":[
"overrunning"
]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"infiltrator":{
"as in":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[],
"near antonyms":[],
"related":[],
"synonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"infinite":{
"being or seeming to be without limits":{
"examples":[
"the infinite expanse of outer space"
],
"synonyms":[
"bottomless",
"boundless",
"endless",
"fathomless",
"horizonless",
"illimitable",
"immeasurable",
"immensurable",
"indefinite",
"limitless",
"measureless",
"unbounded",
"unfathomable",
"unlimited"
],
"near synonyms":[
"abysmal",
"countless",
"incalculable",
"incomputable",
"inestimable",
"innumerable",
"unmeasured",
"exhaustless",
"inexhaustible",
"extensive",
"far-flung",
"immense",
"vast"
],
"near antonyms":[
"fathomable",
"measurable",
"depthless",
"shallow",
"superficial"
],
"antonyms":[
"bounded",
"circumscribed",
"confined",
"definite",
"finite",
"limited",
"restricted"
]
},
"type":[
"adjective"
]
},
"infirm":{
"lacking bodily strength":{
"examples":[
"the elderly and infirm have to be especially careful during the winter months"
],
"synonyms":[
"asthenic",
"debilitated",
"delicate",
"down-and-out",
"effete",
"enervated",
"enfeebled",
"faint",
"feeble",
"frail",
"languid",
"low",
"prostrate",
"prostrated",
"sapped",
"slight",
"soft",
"softened",
"tender",
"unsubstantial",
"wasted",
"weak",
"weakened",
"wimpish",
"wimpy"
],
"near synonyms":[
"challenged",
"disabled",
"incapacitated",
"invalid",
"paralyzed",
"broken-down",
"decrepit",
"impotent",
"powerless",
"breakable",
"flimsy",
"fragile",
"dizzy",
"groggy",
"rocky",
"unsteady",
"woozy",
"drained",
"exhausted",
"flagging",
"tired",
"weary",
"worn-out",
"damaged",
"harmed",
"hurt",
"impaired",
"injured",
"lame",
"unsound",
"resistless",
"susceptible",
"unresistant",
"vulnerable",
"yielding"
],
"near antonyms":[
"able-bodied",
"athletic",
"beefy",
"brawny",
"fit",
"husky",
"muscular",
"sinewy",
"strapping",
"virile",
"hard",
"hardy",
"lusty",
"red-blooded",
"robust",
"sturdy",
"tough",
"fortified",
"hardened",
"inured",
"strengthened",
"toughened",
"energetic",
"energized",
"invigorated",
"vigorous",
"vitalized",
"hale",
"healthy",
"sound",
"capable",
"competent",
"convalescing",
"recovering",
"recuperating"
],
"antonyms":[
"mighty",
"powerful",
"rugged",
"stalwart",
"stout",
"strong"
]
},
"type":[
"adjective"
]
},
"inflammation":{
"a condition in which a part of your body becomes red, swollen, and painful":{
"examples":[
"The drug is used to reduce inflammation .",
"Inflammation around a wound can signal an infection."
],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"sore",
"swelling",
"ache",
"pain",
"pang",
"prick",
"shoot",
"smart",
"sting",
"stitch",
"throe",
"tingle",
"twinge",
"discomfort",
"distress",
"soreness",
"tenderness",
"affliction",
"agony",
"anguish",
"misery",
"sufferance",
"suffering",
"torment",
"torture",
"damage",
"detriment",
"harm",
"hurt",
"injury",
"backache",
"bellyache",
"charley horse",
"colic",
"complaint",
"earache",
"gripe",
"headache",
"stomachache",
"toothache"
],
"near antonyms":[
"comfort",
"ease",
"easiness"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"inflated":{
"extended beyond normal or realistic bounds":{
"examples":[
"he's been walking around with an inflated ego every since he got the promotion"
],
"synonyms":[
"bloated",
"exaggerated",
"hyperbolized",
"outsize",
"outsized",
"overblown",
"overdrawn",
"overweening"
],
"near synonyms":[
"elaborated",
"embellished",
"embroidered",
"enlarged",
"hyped-up",
"magnified",
"overdone",
"overemphasized",
"overplayed",
"overstated",
"padded",
"stretched",
"grandiose",
"preposterous",
"unreal",
"unrealistic",
"unreasonable"
],
"near antonyms":[
"realistic",
"reasonable"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to make greater in size, amount, or number":{
"examples":[
"Check that you have inflated your tires to the recommended pressure.",
"Some sellers were inflating their prices by as much as 500 per cent."
],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"blew up",
"dilated",
"distended",
"aerated",
"accelerated",
"added (to)",
"aggrandized",
"amplified",
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"collected",
"followed up",
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"compressed",
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"constricted",
"contracted",
"abated",
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"de-escalated",
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"downsized",
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"lessened",
"lowered",
"minified",
"reduced",
"subtracted (from)",
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"curtailed",
"shortened",
"cut back",
"retrenched"
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"Airbags are designed to inflate automatically on impact."
],
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"distended",
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"bourgeoned",
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"escalated",
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"rolled up",
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"rocketed",
"skyrocketed",
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"crested",
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"diminished",
"dwindled",
"lessened",
"receded",
"waned",
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"condensed",
"constricted",
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"shrank",
"shrunk"
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"adjective",
"verb"
]
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"as in convinced , persuaded":{
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"persuaded",
"predisposed",
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"colored",
"distorted",
"misrepresented",
"shaded",
"warped",
"affected",
"concerned",
"interested",
"hostile",
"inimical",
"jaundiced",
"unfriendly",
"unsympathetic",
"biased",
"one-sided",
"partial",
"parti pris",
"partisan",
"prejudiced"
],
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"disinterested",
"equal",
"equitable",
"evenhanded",
"fair",
"impartial",
"neutral",
"nonpartisan",
"objective",
"unbiased",
"unprejudiced",
"open",
"open-minded",
"persuasible",
"receptive",
"honest",
"just",
"reasonable",
"bipartisan",
"autonomous",
"independent",
"aloof",
"detached",
"dispassionate",
"hardheaded",
"impersonal",
"unemotional",
"cold",
"distant",
"remote",
"apathetic",
"incurious",
"indifferent",
"unconcerned",
"uncurious",
"unenthusiastic",
"uninterested"
],
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"the news reports of the devastating flood influenced a great many people to make contributions for food and supplies"
],
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"impressed",
"moved",
"reached",
"struck",
"swayed",
"told (on)",
"touched"
],
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"carried away",
"dazzled",
"enraptured",
"enthralled",
"entranced",
"ravished",
"transported",
"biased",
"biassed",
"colored",
"inspired",
"stirred",
"engaged",
"interested",
"involved",
"penetrated",
"pierced",
"afflicted",
"agitated",
"bothered",
"concerned",
"discomforted",
"discomposed",
"disquieted",
"distressed",
"disturbed",
"flustered",
"harassed",
"harried",
"perturbed",
"pestered",
"plagued",
"smote",
"strained",
"stressed",
"tried",
"troubled",
"upset",
"worried",
"wrung",
"allured",
"attracted",
"bewitched",
"captivated",
"charmed",
"enchanted",
"fascinated"
],
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"bored",
"jaded",
"palled",
"tired",
"wearied",
"underwhelmed"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"adjective",
"verb"
]
},
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"a flowing or coming in":{
"examples":[
"a sudden influx of people into the exurbs"
],
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"affluences",
"fluxes",
"incomes",
"inflows",
"inpourings",
"inrushes"
],
"near synonyms":[
"deluges",
"floods",
"flows",
"inundations",
"overflows",
"spates",
"torrents",
"rushes",
"stampedes",
"rivers",
"streams",
"tides"
],
"near antonyms":[
"emigrations",
"exoduses",
"flights"
],
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"outflows",
"outpourings"
]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
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"to give information (as to the authorities) about another's improper or unlawful activities":{
"examples":[
"the police only caught the mastermind of the burglary because his disgruntled partner informed"
],
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"fink",
"grass (on)",
"rat (on)",
"sing",
"snitch",
"split (on)",
"squeak",
"squeal",
"talk",
"tell (on)"
],
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"betray",
"give away",
"turn in",
"backstab",
"cross",
"double-cross",
"sell (out)",
"two-time",
"blab",
"tattle",
"tip (off)"
],
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},
"to give information to":{
"examples":[
"chose teaching as a career because it affords the opportunity to inform a whole generation of young minds"
],
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"acquaint",
"advise",
"apprise",
"brief",
"catch up",
"clear",
"clue (in)",
"enlighten",
"familiarize",
"fill in",
"hip",
"instruct",
"tell",
"verse",
"wise (up)"
],
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"advertise",
"alert",
"notify",
"announce (to)",
"disclose (to)",
"assure",
"certify",
"convince",
"reassure",
"warrant",
"educate",
"lecture",
"school",
"teach",
"tutor",
"disabuse",
"disenchant",
"disillusion",
"undeceive"
],
"near antonyms":[
"misinform",
"mislead"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"informally":{
"as in":{
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"examples":[],
"near antonyms":[],
"related":[],
"synonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"adverb"
]
},
"information":{
"a collection of factual knowledge about something":{
"examples":[
"the network correspondent spent the entire day gathering information for her report on the brewing scandal"
],
"synonyms":[
"data",
"facts"
],
"near synonyms":[
"findings",
"intelligence"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"a report of recent events or facts not previously known":{
"examples":[
"what's the latest information about the wildfires out in the West?"
],
"synonyms":[
"411",
"advice(s)",
"gen",
"info",
"intelligence",
"item",
"news",
"story",
"tidings",
"uncos",
"word"
],
"near synonyms":[
"announcement",
"bulletin",
"communication",
"correspondence",
"dispatch",
"message",
"reportage",
"dope",
"lowdown",
"scoop",
"tidbit",
"titbit",
"tip",
"gossip",
"rumor",
"tale",
"tattle",
"feedback",
"disinformation",
"propaganda"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"informer":{
"a person who provides information about another's wrongdoing":{
"examples":[
"the informer who told the police about that conspiracy has angered a lot of dangerous people"
],
"synonyms":[
"betrayer",
"canary",
"deep throat",
"fink",
"informant",
"nark",
"rat",
"rat fink",
"snitch",
"snitcher",
"squealer",
"stoolie",
"stool pigeon",
"talebearer",
"tattler",
"tattletale",
"telltale",
"whistle-blower"
],
"near synonyms":[
"collaborator",
"blabber",
"blabbermouth",
"gossip",
"gossiper",
"leaker",
"snoop",
"snooper",
"spy",
"notifier"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"infrequence":{
"as in infrequency , rareness":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"infrequency",
"rareness",
"uncommonness",
"unusualness"
],
"near antonyms":[
"commonness",
"frequence",
"frequency",
"frequentness",
"prevalence",
"chronicity",
"constancy",
"continuousness",
"regularity",
"appearance",
"incidence",
"occurrence"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"infringements":{
"a failure to uphold the requirements of law, duty, or obligation":{
"antonyms":[
"noninfringements",
"observances"
],
"examples":[
"any government action limiting freedom of speech is an infringement of the U.S. Constitution"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"related":[
"misconducts",
"misdemeanors",
"misfeasances",
"misprisions",
"offenses",
"offences",
"sins",
"wrongs",
"disregards",
"nonobservances",
"delinquencies",
"derelictions",
"neglects",
"encroachments",
"intrusions",
"invasions"
],
"synonyms":[
"breaches",
"contraventions",
"infractions",
"transgressions",
"trespasses",
"violations"
]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"infuriates":{
"to make angry":{
"examples":[
"the quarterback's stupid mistake infuriated the coach"
],
"synonyms":[
"angers",
"enrages",
"incenses",
"inflames",
"enflames",
"ires",
"maddens",
"mads",
"outrages",
"rankles",
"riles",
"roils",
"steams up",
"ticks off"
],
"near synonyms":[
"affronts",
"aggravates",
"annoys",
"burns (up)",
"crosses",
"exasperates",
"gets",
"huffs",
"irritates",
"miffs",
"nettles",
"offends",
"peeves",
"piques",
"provokes",
"puts out",
"ruffles",
"vexes",
"antagonizes",
"embitters",
"envenoms"
],
"near antonyms":[
"allays",
"assuages",
"relieves",
"comforts",
"consoles",
"soothes",
"appeases",
"conciliates",
"mollifies",
"pacifies",
"placates",
"calms",
"lulls",
"quiets",
"settles",
"beguiles",
"bewitches",
"captivates",
"charms",
"disarms",
"enchants"
],
"antonyms":[
"delights",
"gratifies",
"pleases"
]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"infixes":{
"to produce a vivid impression of":{
"examples":[
"a puzzling detail that had been infixed in the detective's mind for over a decade"
],
"synonyms":[
"brands",
"engraves",
"etches",
"impresses",
"imprints",
"ingrains",
"engrains"
],
"near synonyms":[
"enroots",
"imbues",
"implants",
"inculcates",
"infuses",
"instills",
"fixes",
"sets",
"stamps"
],
"near antonyms":[
"blots out",
"erases",
"expunges",
"obliterates"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to set permanently in the consciousness or mind-set":{
"examples":[
"a football coach celebrated for infixing in his players an all-consuming will to win"
],
"synonyms":[
"breeds",
"enroots",
"implants",
"inculcates",
"inseminates",
"instills",
"plants",
"sows"
],
"near synonyms":[
"drives",
"hammers",
"pounds",
"embeds",
"imbeds",
"entrenches",
"intrenches",
"fixes",
"lodges",
"roots",
"imbues",
"infuses",
"ingrains",
"engrains",
"inoculates",
"invests",
"steeps",
"suffuses"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"influential":{
"having power over the minds or behavior of others":{
"examples":[
"in light of the effect that they have had, religious leaders such as Jesus and Mu\u1e25ammad must be regarded as among the most influential people ever"
],
"synonyms":[
"authoritative",
"forceful",
"weighty"
],
"near synonyms":[
"cogent",
"controlling",
"dominating",
"masterful",
"dominant",
"predominant",
"regnant",
"sovereign",
"sovran",
"supreme",
"eminent",
"important",
"momentous"
],
"near antonyms":[
"helpless",
"impotent",
"powerless",
"weak",
"incapable",
"unable"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"having great power or influence":{
"examples":[
"a particularly influential politician got the team a new ballpark"
],
"synonyms":[
"heavy",
"heavy-duty",
"important",
"mighty",
"potent",
"powerful",
"puissant",
"significant",
"strong"
],
"near synonyms":[
"high-level",
"senior",
"top",
"able",
"capable",
"competent",
"effective",
"efficient",
"authoritarian",
"autocratic",
"autocratical",
"despotic",
"dictatorial",
"magisterial",
"tyrannical",
"tyrannic",
"celebrated",
"distinguished",
"dominant",
"eminent",
"famed",
"famous",
"great",
"illustrious",
"noble",
"notable",
"noteworthy",
"notorious",
"outstanding",
"preeminent",
"prestigious",
"prominent",
"renowned",
"dynamic",
"energetic",
"forceful",
"high-powered",
"robust",
"vigorous"
],
"near antonyms":[
"feeble",
"flimsy",
"frail",
"infirm",
"anonymous",
"nameless",
"obscure",
"uncelebrated",
"unknown",
"incapable",
"incompetent",
"ineffective",
"inept",
"inexpert",
"unfit",
"unqualified",
"unskilled",
"unskillful"
],
"antonyms":[
"helpless",
"impotent",
"insignificant",
"little",
"powerless",
"unimportant",
"weak"
]
},
"type":[
"adjective"
]
},
"infiltrated":{
"to introduce in a gradual, secret, or clever way":{
"examples":[
"over time, undercover agents infiltrated the crime ring and eventually busted their gambling racket"
],
"synonyms":[
"insinuated",
"slipped",
"sneaked",
"snuck",
"worked in",
"wormed",
"wound",
"winded",
"wriggled"
],
"near synonyms":[
"crept",
"edged",
"wiggled",
"inserted",
"interpolated",
"interposed",
"introduced"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"infers":{
"to form an opinion or reach a conclusion through reasoning and information":{
"examples":[
"he inferred that she had left because her coat was gone"
],
"synonyms":[
"concludes",
"decides",
"deduces",
"derives",
"extrapolates",
"gathers",
"judges",
"makes out",
"reasons",
"understands"
],
"near synonyms":[
"assumes",
"supposes",
"conjectures",
"guesses",
"speculates",
"surmises",
"construes",
"interprets",
"reads",
"contemplates",
"philosophizes",
"rationalizes",
"thinks",
"ascertains",
"dopes (out)",
"finds out"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to convey an idea indirectly":{
"examples":[
"the results infer that there might be a problem with one piece of the equipment"
],
"synonyms":[
"alludes",
"hints",
"implies",
"indicates",
"insinuates",
"intimates",
"suggests"
],
"near synonyms":[
"adverts",
"mentions",
"points",
"refers",
"signalizes",
"signals",
"signifies",
"smacks (of)",
"smells (of)"
],
"near antonyms":[
"announces",
"declares",
"proclaims",
"elucidates",
"explains",
"spells out",
"delineates",
"describes"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"infrastructure":{
"the arrangement of parts that gives something its basic form":{
"examples":[
"a bold plan to deal a crippling blow to the infrastructure of international terrorism"
],
"synonyms":[
"architecture",
"armature",
"cadre",
"configuration",
"edifice",
"fabric",
"frame",
"framework",
"framing",
"shell",
"skeleton",
"structure"
],
"near synonyms":[
"cage",
"lattice",
"network",
"contour",
"figure",
"outline",
"profile",
"shape",
"silhouette",
"chassis"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"infused":{
"to cause (as a person) to become filled or saturated with a certain quality or principle":{
"examples":[
"parents who infuse their children with strong moral values"
],
"synonyms":[
"endued",
"indued",
"imbued",
"inculcated",
"ingrained",
"engrained",
"inoculated",
"invested",
"steeped",
"suffused"
],
"near synonyms":[
"animated",
"charged",
"enlivened",
"invigorated",
"leavened",
"implanted",
"instilled",
"planted",
"impregnated",
"permeated",
"pervaded",
"saturated",
"deluged",
"drowned",
"filled",
"flooded",
"inundated",
"overwhelmed",
"submerged"
],
"near antonyms":[
"deprived",
"divested",
"stripped",
"stript",
"cleared",
"emptied",
"eliminated",
"removed",
"took (away)"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"inferred":{
"as in presumed":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"presumed",
"implicit",
"implied",
"tacit",
"unexpressed",
"unspoken",
"unvoiced",
"wordless",
"construed",
"interpreted",
"unannounced",
"undeclared",
"unsaid",
"untold",
"hinted",
"insinuated",
"intimated",
"suggested"
],
"near antonyms":[
"explicit",
"express",
"expressed",
"spoken",
"stated",
"voiced",
"apparent",
"blatant",
"evident",
"manifest",
"obvious",
"plain",
"straightforward",
"unambiguous",
"unequivocal",
"unmistakable"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to form an opinion or reach a conclusion through reasoning and information":{
"examples":[
"he inferred that she had left because her coat was gone"
],
"synonyms":[
"concluded",
"decided",
"deduced",
"derived",
"extrapolated",
"gathered",
"judged",
"made out",
"reasoned",
"understood"
],
"near synonyms":[
"assumed",
"supposed",
"conjectured",
"guessed",
"speculated",
"surmised",
"construed",
"interpreted",
"read",
"contemplated",
"philosophized",
"rationalized",
"thought",
"ascertained",
"doped (out)",
"found out"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to convey an idea indirectly":{
"examples":[
"the results infer that there might be a problem with one piece of the equipment"
],
"synonyms":[
"alluded",
"hinted",
"implied",
"indicated",
"insinuated",
"intimated",
"suggested"
],
"near synonyms":[
"adverted",
"mentioned",
"pointed",
"referred",
"signaled",
"signalled",
"signalized",
"signified",
"smacked (of)",
"smelled (of)",
"smelt (of)"
],
"near antonyms":[
"announced",
"declared",
"proclaimed",
"elucidated",
"explained",
"spelled out",
"delineated",
"described"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"adjective",
"verb"
]
},
"inform (on)":{
"as in turn in , split (on)":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"peach",
"rat (on)",
"shop",
"snitch (on)",
"split (on)",
"tell (on)",
"turn in",
"give away",
"backstab",
"betray",
"cross",
"double-cross",
"sell (out)",
"two-time"
],
"near antonyms":[
"stand by",
"defend",
"guard",
"protect",
"safeguard",
"save",
"shield"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"inflammable":{
"capable of catching or being set on fire":{
"examples":[
"some pajamas are made of inflammable material, so be careful"
],
"synonyms":[
"burnable",
"combustible",
"combustive",
"fiery",
"flammable",
"ignitable",
"ignitible",
"touchy"
],
"near synonyms":[
"explosive",
"incendiary"
],
"near antonyms":[
"nonexplosive"
],
"antonyms":[
"fireproof",
"incombustible",
"nonburnable",
"noncombustible",
"nonflammable",
"noninflammable",
"unburnable"
]
},
"type":[
"adjective"
]
},
"infuriate":{
"to make angry":{
"examples":[
"the quarterback's stupid mistake infuriated the coach"
],
"synonyms":[
"anger",
"enrage",
"incense",
"inflame",
"enflame",
"ire",
"mad",
"madden",
"outrage",
"rankle",
"rile",
"roil",
"steam up",
"tick off"
],
"near synonyms":[
"affront",
"aggravate",
"annoy",
"burn (up)",
"cross",
"exasperate",
"get",
"huff",
"irritate",
"miff",
"nettle",
"offend",
"peeve",
"pique",
"provoke",
"put out",
"ruffle",
"vex",
"antagonize",
"embitter",
"envenom"
],
"near antonyms":[
"allay",
"assuage",
"relieve",
"comfort",
"console",
"soothe",
"appease",
"conciliate",
"mollify",
"pacify",
"placate",
"calm",
"lull",
"quiet",
"settle",
"beguile",
"bewitch",
"captivate",
"charm",
"disarm",
"enchant"
],
"antonyms":[
"delight",
"gratify",
"please"
]
},
"feeling or showing anger":{
"examples":[
"Casanova made a hasty retreat from the woman's bedroom, with the infuriate husband in hot pursuit"
],
"synonyms":[
"angered",
"angry",
"apoplectic",
"ballistic",
"cheesed off",
"choleric",
"enraged",
"foaming",
"fuming",
"furious",
"hopping",
"horn-mad",
"hot",
"incensed",
"indignant",
"inflamed",
"enflamed",
"infuriated",
"irate",
"ireful",
"livid",
"mad",
"outraged",
"rabid",
"rankled",
"riled",
"riley",
"roiled",
"shirty",
"sore",
"steamed up",
"steaming",
"teed off",
"ticked",
"wrathful",
"wroth"
],
"near synonyms":[
"ranting",
"raving",
"stormy",
"boiling",
"bristling",
"bristly",
"burning",
"cross",
"huffy",
"passionate",
"seething",
"sizzling",
"smoldering",
"smouldering",
"worked up",
"wrought (up)",
"acrid",
"acrimonious",
"antagonistic",
"antipathetic",
"bitter",
"embittered",
"inimical",
"malevolent",
"piqued",
"rancorous",
"resentful",
"spiteful",
"vengeful",
"vindictive",
"virulent",
"vitriolic",
"antisocial",
"cold",
"cool",
"disagreeable",
"disapproving",
"distant",
"frigid",
"icy",
"ill-tempered",
"sorehead",
"soreheaded",
"sulky",
"unfriendly",
"unpleasant",
"aggravated",
"annoyed",
"bearish",
"bilious",
"cantankerous",
"churlish",
"crabby",
"cranky",
"dyspeptic",
"exasperated",
"fretful",
"fussy",
"grouchy",
"grumpy",
"ill-humored",
"inflammable",
"irascible",
"irritable",
"peevish",
"perturbed",
"petulant",
"put out",
"quick-tempered",
"snappish",
"testy",
"touchy",
"argumentative",
"belligerent",
"contentious",
"contrary",
"disputatious",
"ornery",
"pugnacious",
"quarrelsome",
"querulous"
],
"near antonyms":[
"accepting",
"accommodating",
"obliging",
"agreeable",
"amenable",
"complaisant",
"amicable",
"cordial",
"friendly",
"content",
"happy",
"satisfied",
"empathetic",
"sympathetic",
"tolerant",
"understanding",
"calm",
"pacific",
"peaceable",
"placid",
"serene",
"tranquil",
"unembittered",
"affable",
"amiable",
"easygoing",
"genial",
"good-natured",
"good-tempered",
"kind",
"pleasant",
"sweet"
],
"antonyms":[
"angerless",
"delighted",
"pleased"
]
},
"type":[
"adjective",
"verb"
]
},
"inflicting":{
"to cause someone to accept or experience something unwanted":{
"examples":[
"The criminal inflicted a lifetime of distress on his unsuspecting victims."
],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"entailing",
"forcing",
"imposing",
"thrusting",
"begetting",
"bringing",
"bringing about",
"bringing on",
"creating",
"effectuating",
"generating",
"inducing",
"invoking",
"making",
"producing",
"prompting",
"resulting (in)",
"spawning",
"fobbing off",
"foisting",
"palming",
"palming off",
"passing off",
"wishing",
"coercing",
"compelling"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"inflammatory":{
"tending to excite political disorder or insurrection":{
"examples":[
"the restless crowd was stirred up by the inflammatory rhetoric"
],
"synonyms":[
"incendiary",
"seditious"
],
"near synonyms":[
"agitational",
"instigative",
"provocative",
"mutinous",
"rebellious",
"revolutionary"
],
"near antonyms":[
"conciliatory",
"pacific",
"diplomatic",
"calming",
"soothing"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"adjective"
]
},
"infiltrators":{
"as in informers , stool pigeons":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"informers",
"stool pigeons",
"counterspies",
"double agents",
"sleepers",
"spymasters",
"superspies",
"couriers",
"agents",
"assets",
"emissaries",
"intelligencers",
"moles",
"operatives",
"spies",
"spooks",
"undercovers"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"infinitesimal":{
"very small in size":{
"examples":[
"a soft drink with only an infinitesimal amount of caffeine"
],
"synonyms":[
"atomic",
"bitsy",
"bitty",
"itty-bitty",
"itsy-bitsy",
"little bitty",
"microminiature",
"microscopic",
"microscopical",
"miniature",
"minuscule",
"minute",
"teensy",
"teensy-weensy",
"teeny",
"teeny-weeny",
"tiny",
"wee",
"weeny",
"weensy"
],
"near synonyms":[
"baby",
"diminutive",
"dwarf",
"elfin",
"half-pint",
"Lilliputian",
"little",
"micro",
"mini",
"minikin",
"model",
"petite",
"pocket",
"pocket-size",
"pocket-sized",
"pygmy",
"small",
"smallish",
"dinky",
"dwarfish",
"insignificant",
"pint-size",
"pint-sized",
"puny",
"scrubby",
"undersized",
"undersize"
],
"near antonyms":[
"big",
"bulky",
"bumper",
"considerable",
"extensive",
"good",
"goodly",
"grand",
"great",
"gross",
"handsome",
"hefty",
"hulking",
"jumbo",
"king-size",
"king-sized",
"large",
"largish",
"major",
"outsize",
"outsized",
"overgrown",
"overscale",
"overscaled",
"oversize",
"oversized",
"sizable",
"sizeable",
"substantial",
"super",
"whacking",
"whopping",
"formidable",
"grandiose",
"imposing",
"lofty",
"majestic",
"monolithic",
"staggering",
"stupendous",
"towering",
"boundless",
"cavernous",
"immeasurable",
"infinite",
"vast",
"vasty",
"voluminous"
],
"antonyms":[
"astronomical",
"astronomic",
"colossal",
"cosmic",
"cosmical",
"elephantine",
"enormous",
"giant",
"gigantic",
"herculean",
"heroic",
"heroical",
"huge",
"immense",
"mammoth",
"massive",
"monster",
"monstrous",
"monumental",
"mountainous",
"planetary",
"prodigious",
"titanic",
"tremendous"
]
},
"type":[
"adjective"
]
},
"infants":{
"a recently born person":{
"examples":[
"infants should be kept warm at all times"
],
"synonyms":[
"babes",
"babies",
"bambinos",
"bambini",
"children",
"neonates",
"newborn",
"newborns"
],
"near synonyms":[
"cherubs",
"cherubim",
"foundlings",
"nurslings",
"sucklings",
"preemies",
"premies",
"bantlings",
"kiddies",
"kiddos",
"kids",
"moppets",
"toddlers",
"tots",
"tykes",
"tikes",
"boys",
"nippers",
"tads",
"juveniles",
"minors",
"younglings",
"youngsters",
"youths",
"imps",
"squirts",
"urchins",
"whippersnappers",
"girls",
"hoydens",
"tomboys"
],
"near antonyms":[
"adults",
"grown-ups",
"elders",
"graybeards",
"oldsters",
"old-timers",
"senior citizens",
"seniors"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"infixed":{
"to produce a vivid impression of":{
"examples":[
"a puzzling detail that had been infixed in the detective's mind for over a decade"
],
"synonyms":[
"branded",
"engraved",
"etched",
"impressed",
"imprinted",
"ingrained",
"engrained"
],
"near synonyms":[
"enrooted",
"imbued",
"implanted",
"inculcated",
"infused",
"instilled",
"fixed",
"set",
"stamped"
],
"near antonyms":[
"blotted out",
"erased",
"expunged",
"obliterated"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to set permanently in the consciousness or mind-set":{
"examples":[
"a football coach celebrated for infixing in his players an all-consuming will to win"
],
"synonyms":[
"bred",
"enrooted",
"implanted",
"inculcated",
"inseminated",
"instilled",
"planted",
"sowed"
],
"near synonyms":[
"drove",
"hammered",
"pounded",
"embedded",
"imbedded",
"entrenched",
"intrenched",
"fixed",
"lodged",
"rooted",
"imbued",
"infused",
"ingrained",
"engrained",
"inoculated",
"invested",
"steeped",
"suffused"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"infighting":{
"a lack of agreement or harmony":{
"examples":[
"continued infighting has just completely robbed that political action committee of its effectiveness"
],
"synonyms":[
"conflict",
"disaccord",
"discord",
"discordance",
"discordancy",
"disharmony",
"dissension",
"dissention",
"dissent",
"dissidence",
"dissonance",
"disunion",
"disunity",
"division",
"friction",
"inharmony",
"schism",
"strife",
"variance",
"war",
"warfare"
],
"near synonyms":[
"clash",
"collision",
"competition",
"contention",
"altercation",
"argument",
"bicker",
"brawl",
"debate",
"disagreement",
"dispute",
"divide",
"fissure",
"falling-out",
"fight",
"hassle",
"jar",
"miff",
"mix-up",
"quarrel",
"row",
"run-in",
"scrap",
"spat",
"squabble",
"tiff",
"wrangle",
"incompatibility",
"incongruence",
"incongruity",
"incongruousness",
"inconsistence",
"inconsistency",
"inconsonance",
"inharmoniousness",
"animosity",
"antagonism",
"antipathy",
"cold war",
"enmity",
"hostility",
"ill will",
"rancor"
],
"near antonyms":[
"concurrence",
"cooperation"
],
"antonyms":[
"accord",
"agreement",
"concord",
"concordance",
"harmony",
"peace"
]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"informing":{
"as in notification , notifying":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"apprising",
"notification",
"notifying",
"tip-off",
"auguring",
"augury",
"forecasting",
"foretelling",
"predicting",
"prediction",
"premonition",
"presaging",
"prognosticating",
"prophecy",
"prophesy",
"prophesying",
"advice",
"counsel",
"guidance",
"recommendation",
"suggestion",
"tip",
"admonishment",
"admonition",
"alarm",
"alarum",
"alert",
"caution",
"forewarning",
"heads-up",
"notice",
"warning",
"announcement",
"declaration"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"as in fraud , lying":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"fraud",
"lying",
"snitching",
"talebearing",
"trickery",
"deceit",
"deception",
"double-dealing",
"duplicity",
"guile",
"two-facedness",
"abandonment",
"desertion",
"backstabbing",
"betrayal",
"business",
"disloyalty",
"double cross",
"faithlessness",
"falseness",
"falsity",
"infidelity",
"perfidy",
"sellout",
"treachery",
"treason",
"two-timing",
"unfaithfulness"
],
"near antonyms":[
"allegiance",
"devotion",
"faithfulness",
"fealty",
"fidelity",
"loyalty",
"staunchness",
"steadfastness",
"dependability",
"reliability",
"trustworthiness",
"defense",
"protection",
"safeguard",
"shield"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to give information (as to the authorities) about another's improper or unlawful activities":{
"examples":[
"the police only caught the mastermind of the burglary because his disgruntled partner informed"
],
"synonyms":[
"finking",
"grassing (on)",
"ratting (on)",
"singing",
"snitching",
"splitting (on)",
"squeaking",
"squealing",
"talking",
"telling (on)"
],
"near synonyms":[
"betraying",
"giving away",
"turning in",
"backstabbing",
"crossing",
"double-crossing",
"selling (out)",
"two-timing",
"blabbing",
"tattling",
"tipping (off)"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to give information to":{
"examples":[
"chose teaching as a career because it affords the opportunity to inform a whole generation of young minds"
],
"synonyms":[
"acquainting",
"advising",
"apprising",
"briefing",
"catching up",
"clearing",
"clueing (in)",
"cluing (in)",
"enlightening",
"familiarizing",
"filling in",
"hipping",
"instructing",
"telling",
"versing",
"wising (up)"
],
"near synonyms":[
"advertising",
"alerting",
"notifying",
"announcing (to)",
"disclosing (to)",
"assuring",
"certifying",
"convincing",
"reassuring",
"warranting",
"educating",
"lecturing",
"schooling",
"teaching",
"tutoring",
"disabusing",
"disenchanting",
"disillusioning",
"undeceiving"
],
"near antonyms":[
"misinforming",
"misleading"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun",
"verb"
]
},
"infra":{
"as in hereinbelow":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"hereinbelow",
"by and by",
"hereafter",
"presently",
"since",
"soon",
"then",
"thereupon",
"next",
"after",
"afterward",
"afterwards",
"later",
"latterly",
"subsequently",
"thereafter"
],
"near antonyms":[
"afore",
"ahead",
"antecedently",
"anteriorly",
"before",
"beforehand",
"earlier",
"previously",
"formerly",
"heretofore",
"theretofore"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"adverb"
]
},
"infuriating":{
"as in angering , enraging":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"angering",
"enraging",
"burdensome",
"discomforting",
"displeasing",
"disquieting",
"distressing",
"importunate",
"importune",
"inconveniencing",
"brattish",
"bratty",
"mischievous",
"offensive",
"troublesome",
"upsetting",
"abrasive",
"aggravating",
"annoying",
"bothersome",
"carking",
"chafing",
"disturbing",
"exasperating",
"frustrating",
"galling",
"irksome",
"irritating",
"maddening",
"nettlesome",
"nettling",
"peeving",
"pesky",
"pestiferous",
"pestilent",
"pestilential",
"pesty",
"plaguey",
"plaguy",
"rankling",
"rebarbative",
"riling",
"vexatious",
"vexing",
"distractive",
"painful",
"stressful",
"tiresome",
"troubling",
"trying",
"worrisome",
"biting",
"grating",
"jangling",
"jarring",
"spiny",
"thorny"
],
"near antonyms":[
"delightful",
"pleasing"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to make angry":{
"examples":[
"the quarterback's stupid mistake infuriated the coach"
],
"synonyms":[
"angering",
"enraging",
"incensing",
"inflaming",
"enflaming",
"iring",
"maddening",
"madding",
"outraging",
"rankling",
"riling",
"roiling",
"steaming up",
"ticking off"
],
"near synonyms":[
"affronting",
"aggravating",
"annoying",
"burning (up)",
"crossing",
"exasperating",
"getting",
"huffing",
"irritating",
"miffing",
"nettling",
"offending",
"peeving",
"piquing",
"provoking",
"putting out",
"ruffling",
"vexing",
"antagonizing",
"embittering",
"envenoming"
],
"near antonyms":[
"allaying",
"assuaging",
"relieving",
"comforting",
"consoling",
"soothing",
"appeasing",
"conciliating",
"mollifying",
"pacifying",
"placating",
"calming",
"lulling",
"quieting",
"settling",
"beguiling",
"bewitching",
"captivating",
"charming",
"disarming",
"enchanting"
],
"antonyms":[
"delighting",
"gratifying",
"pleasing"
]
},
"type":[
"adjective",
"verb"
]
},
"infeasible":{
"as in impractical , unworkable":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"impracticable",
"impractical",
"unusable",
"unworkable",
"hopeless",
"impossible",
"insoluble",
"insolvable",
"insuperable",
"unattainable",
"undoable",
"unrealizable",
"unsolvable",
"debatable",
"disputable",
"doubtable",
"doubtful",
"dubious",
"far-fetched",
"fishy",
"improbable",
"problematic",
"problematical",
"questionable",
"shady",
"shaky",
"suspect",
"suspicious",
"unfeasible",
"unlikely",
"implausible",
"inconceivable",
"incredible",
"unbelievable",
"unimaginable",
"unthinkable",
"futile",
"useless",
"absurd",
"fantastic",
"fantastical",
"outlandish",
"preposterous",
"ridiculous"
],
"near antonyms":[
"achievable",
"attainable",
"doable",
"feasible",
"possible",
"realizable",
"resolvable",
"soluble",
"workable",
"applicable",
"functional",
"practicable",
"practical",
"reasonable",
"serviceable",
"usable",
"useable",
"useful",
"working",
"likely",
"probable",
"acceptable",
"believable",
"conceivable",
"credible",
"plausible"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"adjective"
]
},
"infringed":{
"as in violated , breached":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"breached",
"broke",
"violated",
"erred",
"fell",
"offended",
"sinned",
"strayed",
"transgressed",
"trespassed",
"wandered",
"backslid",
"lapsed",
"messed up"
],
"near antonyms":[
"forgave",
"justified",
"pardoned",
"regretted",
"repented",
"rued"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"as in invaded , intruded":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"entrenched",
"intrenched",
"impinged",
"intruded",
"invaded",
"snaked",
"sneaked",
"snuck",
"overpassed",
"overran",
"overreached",
"overshot",
"overstepped",
"crept",
"encroached",
"inched",
"wormed"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"informant":{
"a person who provides information about another's wrongdoing":{
"examples":[
"the FBI is working closely with informants to find out about the subversive group"
],
"synonyms":[
"betrayer",
"canary",
"deep throat",
"fink",
"informer",
"nark",
"rat",
"rat fink",
"snitch",
"snitcher",
"squealer",
"stool pigeon",
"stoolie",
"talebearer",
"tattler",
"tattletale",
"telltale",
"whistle-blower"
],
"near synonyms":[
"collaborator",
"blabber",
"blabbermouth",
"gossip",
"gossiper",
"leaker",
"snoop",
"snooper",
"spy",
"notifier"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"inferno":{
"a destructive burning":{
"examples":[
"the intense heat of the raging inferno repeatedly drove back the firefighters"
],
"synonyms":[
"conflagration",
"fire",
"holocaust"
],
"near synonyms":[
"blaze",
"flare-up",
"backfire",
"bonfire",
"brush fire",
"campfire",
"forest fire",
"wildfire",
"arson"
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"type":[
"noun"
]
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"as in violating , breaching":{
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"breaking",
"violating",
"erring",
"falling",
"offending",
"sinning",
"straying",
"transgressing",
"trespassing",
"wandering",
"backsliding",
"lapsing",
"messing up"
],
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"forgiving",
"justifying",
"pardoning",
"regretting",
"repenting",
"ruing"
],
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},
"as in invading , intruding":{
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"entrenching",
"intrenching",
"impinging",
"intruding",
"invading",
"snaking",
"sneaking",
"overpassing",
"overreaching",
"overrunning",
"overshooting",
"overstepping",
"creeping",
"encroaching",
"inching",
"worming"
],
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},
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"verb"
]
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"inflaming":{
"as in angering , enraging":{
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"angering",
"enraging",
"incensing",
"infuriating",
"maddening",
"outraging",
"rankling",
"riling",
"hostile",
"intimidating",
"distressing",
"disturbing",
"upsetting",
"forbidding",
"aggravating",
"annoying",
"exasperating",
"irritating",
"peeving",
"perturbing",
"vexing",
"deplorable",
"doleful",
"dolorous",
"lamentable",
"lugubrious",
"mournful",
"regrettable",
"sorrowful",
"tragic",
"tragical",
"depressing",
"disheartening",
"dismal",
"dreary",
"gloomy",
"heartbreaking",
"heartrending",
"joyless",
"lachrymose",
"sad",
"unhappy",
"displeasing",
"dissatisfying",
"boring",
"commonplace",
"dull",
"flat",
"insipid",
"irksome",
"stale",
"tedious",
"abhorrent",
"detestable",
"hateful",
"odious"
],
"near antonyms":[
"agreeable",
"blessed",
"blest",
"congenial",
"darling",
"delectable",
"delicious",
"delightful",
"delightsome",
"dreamy",
"dulcet",
"enjoyable",
"felicitous",
"good",
"grateful",
"gratifying",
"heavenly",
"jolly",
"luscious",
"nice",
"palatable",
"pleasant",
"pleasing",
"pleasurable",
"pretty",
"satisfying",
"savory",
"savoury",
"sweet",
"tasty",
"welcome",
"alluring",
"attractive",
"desirable",
"enviable",
"inviting",
"relishable",
"tempting",
"charming",
"enchanting",
"fascinating"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to make angry":{
"examples":[
"the newspaper editorial inflamed her enough to inspire her to dash off a letter to the editor"
],
"synonyms":[
"angering",
"enraging",
"incensing",
"infuriating",
"iring",
"maddening",
"madding",
"outraging",
"rankling",
"riling",
"roiling",
"steaming up",
"ticking off"
],
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"affronting",
"aggravating",
"annoying",
"burning (up)",
"crossing",
"exasperating",
"getting",
"huffing",
"irritating",
"miffing",
"nettling",
"offending",
"peeving",
"piquing",
"provoking",
"putting out",
"ruffling",
"vexing",
"antagonizing",
"embittering",
"envenoming"
],
"near antonyms":[
"allaying",
"assuaging",
"relieving",
"comforting",
"consoling",
"soothing",
"appeasing",
"conciliating",
"mollifying",
"pacifying",
"placating",
"calming",
"lulling",
"quieting",
"settling",
"beguiling",
"bewitching",
"captivating",
"charming",
"disarming",
"enchanting"
],
"antonyms":[
"delighting",
"gratifying",
"pleasing"
]
},
"to set (something) on fire":{
"examples":[
"a carelessly tossed cigarette inflamed the papers in the trash can"
],
"synonyms":[
"burning",
"enkindling",
"firing",
"igniting",
"kindling",
"lighting",
"torching"
],
"near synonyms":[
"immolating",
"deflagrating",
"charring",
"frizzling",
"scorching",
"baking",
"broiling",
"cooking",
"ashing",
"cremating",
"incinerating",
"kilning",
"setting off",
"brightening",
"illuminating",
"illumining",
"irradiating",
"lightening",
"radiating",
"scalding",
"scathing",
"searing",
"reigniting",
"rekindling",
"relighting",
"banking",
"stoking"
],
"near antonyms":[
"choking",
"smothering",
"suffocating",
"stamping (out)",
"blackening",
"darkening",
"dimming",
"dulling",
"obscuring"
],
"antonyms":[
"dousing",
"dowsing",
"extinguishing",
"putting out",
"quenching",
"snuffing (out)"
]
},
"type":[
"adjective",
"verb"
]
},
"informal":{
"not rigidly following established form, custom, or rules":{
"examples":[
"an informal meeting allowed everyone to get acquainted"
],
"synonyms":[
"heterodox",
"irregular",
"unceremonious",
"unconventional",
"unorthodox"
],
"near synonyms":[
"unauthorized",
"unofficial",
"casual",
"easygoing",
"familiar",
"free and easy",
"lax",
"loose",
"offhand",
"relaxed",
"ultracasual"
],
"near antonyms":[
"correct",
"decorous",
"proper",
"constrained",
"inhibited",
"restrained",
"rigid",
"stiff",
"stuffy",
"uptight"
],
"antonyms":[
"ceremonial",
"ceremonious",
"conventional",
"formal",
"orthodox",
"regular",
"routine"
]
},
"not designed to be worn only on special occasions":{
"examples":[
"chose an informal flowery dress"
],
"synonyms":[
"casual",
"everyday",
"workaday"
],
"near synonyms":[
"d\u00e9gag\u00e9",
"relaxed",
"sporty",
"dressed down",
"shabby",
"sloppy",
"slovenly",
"unkempt"
],
"near antonyms":[
"best",
"Sunday",
"dressed up",
"chic",
"elegant",
"fashionable",
"smart",
"stylish",
"neat",
"tidy",
"trim",
"semiformal"
],
"antonyms":[
"dressy",
"formal",
"noncasual"
]
},
"used in or suitable for speech and not formal writing":{
"examples":[
"the use of informal language in a scholarly article is really inappropriate"
],
"synonyms":[
"colloquial",
"conversational",
"nonformal",
"nonliterary",
"unbookish",
"unliterary",
"vernacular",
"vulgar"
],
"near synonyms":[
"dialectal",
"dialectical",
"dialectic",
"nonstandard",
"regional",
"incorrect",
"nongrammatical",
"substandard",
"uneducated",
"ungrammatical",
"unlearned",
"slang",
"slangy"
],
"near antonyms":[
"standard",
"undialectical",
"correct",
"educated",
"genteel",
"grammatical",
"proper"
],
"antonyms":[
"bookish",
"formal",
"learned",
"literary"
]
},
"type":[
"adjective"
]
},
"inflection":{
"something that curves or is curved":{
"examples":[
"the inflection of the river is even more obvious when viewed from the summit of the nearby mountain"
],
"synonyms":[
"angle",
"arc",
"arch",
"bend",
"bow",
"crook",
"curvature",
"curve",
"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":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"infantryman":{
"as in grunt , doughboy":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"doughboy",
"footman",
"foot soldier",
"grunt",
"carabineer",
"carabinier",
"cavalier",
"cavalryman",
"cuirassier",
"dragoon",
"commando",
"raider",
"servicewoman",
"jarhead",
"marine",
"ranger",
"dogface",
"fighter",
"legionary",
"legionnaire",
"man-at-arms",
"regular",
"serviceman",
"soldier",
"trooper",
"warrior",
"artilleryman",
"cannoneer",
"gunner",
"mortarman",
"musketeer",
"rifleman",
"archer",
"crossbowman",
"lancer",
"pikeman",
"spearman",
"Confederate",
"Continental",
"Federal",
"GI",
"guardsman",
"militiaman",
"minuteman"
],
"near antonyms":[
"civilian"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"inflates":{
"to make greater in size, amount, or number":{
"examples":[
"Check that you have inflated your tires to the recommended pressure.",
"Some sellers were inflating their prices by as much as 500 per cent."
],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"blows up",
"dilates",
"distends",
"aerates",
"accelerates",
"adds (to)",
"aggrandizes",
"amplifies",
"augments",
"boosts",
"builds up",
"compounds",
"enlarges",
"escalates",
"expands",
"extends",
"hypes",
"increases",
"multiplies",
"pumps up",
"raises",
"stokes",
"supersizes",
"swells",
"ups",
"hikes",
"jacks (up)",
"lifts",
"raises",
"ups",
"booms",
"jumps",
"skyrockets",
"spikes",
"bumps (up)",
"ratchets (up)",
"rachets (up)",
"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"
],
"near antonyms":[
"compresses",
"condenses",
"constricts",
"contracts",
"abates",
"decreases",
"de-escalates",
"diminishes",
"downsizes",
"dwindles",
"lessens",
"lowers",
"minifies",
"reduces",
"subtracts (from)",
"abbreviates",
"abridges",
"curtails",
"shortens",
"cuts back",
"retrenches"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to become greater in extent, volume, amount, or number":{
"examples":[
"Airbags are designed to inflate automatically on impact."
],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"blows up",
"bulks",
"distends",
"puffs (up)",
"accelerates",
"accumulates",
"appreciates",
"balloons",
"booms",
"builds up",
"burgeons",
"bourgeons",
"climbs",
"enlarges",
"escalates",
"expands",
"gains",
"increases",
"mounts",
"multiplies",
"mushrooms",
"proliferates",
"rises",
"rolls up",
"snowballs",
"spreads",
"swells",
"waxes",
"jumps",
"rockets",
"skyrockets",
"surges",
"heightens",
"intensifies",
"redoubles",
"crescendoes",
"crests",
"peaks"
],
"near antonyms":[
"contracts",
"decreases",
"diminishes",
"dwindles",
"lessens",
"recedes",
"wanes",
"compresses",
"condenses",
"constricts",
"contracts",
"shrinks"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"informs (against)":{
"as in reports , names":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"frames",
"implicates",
"inculpates",
"names",
"reports",
"prosecutes",
"sues",
"tries",
"recriminates",
"retaliates",
"appeals",
"arraigns",
"books",
"cites",
"summons",
"chides",
"rebukes",
"reproves",
"taxes",
"blames",
"calls (on)",
"castigates",
"censures",
"condemns",
"criticizes",
"damns",
"denounces",
"faults",
"impugns",
"reproaches",
"reprobates",
"accuses",
"charges",
"criminates",
"defames",
"impeaches",
"incriminates",
"indicts"
],
"near antonyms":[
"absolves",
"acquits",
"clears",
"exculpates",
"exonerates",
"vindicates",
"advocates",
"champions",
"defends",
"excuses",
"forgives",
"justifies",
"pardons",
"remits",
"shrives"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"informational":{
"providing useful information or knowledge":{
"examples":[
"an informational presentation from the company's health care provider"
],
"synonyms":[
"educational",
"educative",
"enlightening",
"illuminating",
"informative",
"informatory",
"instructional",
"instructive"
],
"near synonyms":[
"comprehensive",
"copious",
"detailed",
"full",
"communicatory",
"edifying",
"elucidative",
"explanatory",
"chatty",
"gossipy",
"newsy",
"availing",
"beneficial",
"constructive",
"helpful",
"profitable",
"practical",
"serviceable",
"usable",
"useable",
"useful",
"worthwhile"
],
"near antonyms":[
"impractical",
"unhelpful",
"unusable",
"useless"
],
"antonyms":[
"unenlightening",
"unilluminating",
"uninformative",
"uninstructive"
]
},
"type":[
"adjective"
]
},
"inflicted":{
"to cause someone to accept or experience something unwanted":{
"examples":[
"The criminal inflicted a lifetime of distress on his unsuspecting victims."
],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"entailed",
"forced",
"imposed",
"thrust",
"begot",
"begat",
"brought",
"brought about",
"brought on",
"created",
"effectuated",
"generated",
"induced",
"invoked",
"made",
"produced",
"prompted",
"resulted (in)",
"spawned",
"fobbed off",
"foisted",
"palmed",
"palmed off",
"passed off",
"wished",
"coerced",
"compelled"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"infiltrating":{
"to introduce in a gradual, secret, or clever way":{
"examples":[
"over time, undercover agents infiltrated the crime ring and eventually busted their gambling racket"
],
"synonyms":[
"insinuating",
"slipping",
"sneaking",
"winding",
"working in",
"worming",
"wriggling"
],
"near synonyms":[
"creeping",
"edging",
"wiggling",
"inserting",
"interpolating",
"interposing",
"introducing"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"infrastructures":{
"the arrangement of parts that gives something its basic form":{
"examples":[
"a bold plan to deal a crippling blow to the infrastructure of international terrorism"
],
"synonyms":[
"architectures",
"armatures",
"cadres",
"configurations",
"edifices",
"fabrics",
"frames",
"frameworks",
"framings",
"shells",
"skeletons",
"structures"
],
"near synonyms":[
"cages",
"lattices",
"networks",
"contours",
"figures",
"outlines",
"profiles",
"shapes",
"silhouettes",
"chassis"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"infernos":{
"a destructive burning":{
"examples":[
"the intense heat of the raging inferno repeatedly drove back the firefighters"
],
"synonyms":[
"conflagrations",
"fires",
"holocausts"
],
"near synonyms":[
"blazes",
"flare-ups",
"backfires",
"bonfires",
"brush fires",
"campfires",
"forest fires",
"wildfires",
"arsons"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"infection":{
"an abnormal state caused by contact with harmful organisms (such as bacteria or viruses)":{
"examples":[
"There is a viral infection spreading among the schoolchildren."
],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"contagium",
"contagion",
"contagious disease",
"virus",
"germ",
"attack",
"bout",
"fit",
"spell",
"sickishness",
"debilitation",
"debility",
"decrepitude",
"feebleness",
"frailness",
"frailty",
"indisposition",
"invalidism",
"invalidity",
"lameness",
"sickliness",
"unhealthiness",
"unsoundness",
"unwellness",
"weakliness",
"weakness",
"malaise",
"matter",
"pip",
"epidemic",
"pandemic",
"pest",
"pestilence",
"plague",
"affection",
"affliction",
"ail",
"ailment",
"bug",
"complaint",
"complication",
"condition",
"disease",
"disorder",
"distemper",
"distemperature",
"dysfunction",
"disfunction",
"fever",
"ill",
"illness",
"infirmity",
"malady",
"sickness",
"trouble",
"upset"
],
"near antonyms":[
"fitness",
"healthiness",
"hardiness",
"heartiness",
"lustiness",
"robustness",
"soundness",
"wholeness",
"wholesomeness",
"fettle",
"shape",
"health",
"wellness",
"antidote",
"antivenin",
"antivenom",
"mithridate",
"cure",
"cure-all",
"elixir",
"panacea"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"inflame":{
"to make angry":{
"examples":[
"the newspaper editorial inflamed her enough to inspire her to dash off a letter to the editor"
],
"synonyms":[
"anger",
"enrage",
"incense",
"infuriate",
"ire",
"mad",
"madden",
"outrage",
"rankle",
"rile",
"roil",
"steam up",
"tick off"
],
"near synonyms":[
"affront",
"aggravate",
"annoy",
"burn (up)",
"cross",
"exasperate",
"get",
"huff",
"irritate",
"miff",
"nettle",
"offend",
"peeve",
"pique",
"provoke",
"put out",
"ruffle",
"vex",
"antagonize",
"embitter",
"envenom"
],
"near antonyms":[
"allay",
"assuage",
"relieve",
"comfort",
"console",
"soothe",
"appease",
"conciliate",
"mollify",
"pacify",
"placate",
"calm",
"lull",
"quiet",
"settle",
"beguile",
"bewitch",
"captivate",
"charm",
"disarm",
"enchant"
],
"antonyms":[
"delight",
"gratify",
"please"
]
},
"to set (something) on fire":{
"examples":[
"a carelessly tossed cigarette inflamed the papers in the trash can"
],
"synonyms":[
"burn",
"enkindle",
"fire",
"ignite",
"kindle",
"light",
"torch"
],
"near synonyms":[
"immolate",
"deflagrate",
"char",
"frizzle",
"scorch",
"bake",
"broil",
"cook",
"ash",
"cremate",
"incinerate",
"kiln",
"set off",
"brighten",
"illuminate",
"illumine",
"irradiate",
"lighten",
"radiate",
"scald",
"scathe",
"sear",
"reignite",
"rekindle",
"relight",
"bank",
"stoke"
],
"near antonyms":[
"choke",
"smother",
"suffocate",
"stamp (out)",
"blacken",
"darken",
"dim",
"dull",
"obscure"
],
"antonyms":[
"douse",
"dowse",
"extinguish",
"put out",
"quench",
"snuff (out)"
]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"inflicts":{
"to cause someone to accept or experience something unwanted":{
"examples":[
"The criminal inflicted a lifetime of distress on his unsuspecting victims."
],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"entails",
"forces",
"imposes",
"thrusts",
"begets",
"brings",
"brings about",
"brings on",
"creates",
"effectuates",
"generates",
"induces",
"invokes",
"makes",
"produces",
"prompts",
"results (in)",
"spawns",
"fobs off",
"foists",
"palms",
"palms off",
"passes off",
"wishes",
"coerces",
"compels"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"infertile":{
"not able to produce fruit or offspring":{
"examples":[
"an infertile cow is of limited use to a farmer"
],
"synonyms":[
"barren",
"fruitless",
"impotent",
"sterile",
"unfruitful"
],
"near synonyms":[
"altered",
"desexed",
"neutered",
"sterilized",
"castrated",
"emasculated",
"gelded",
"spayed",
"unproductive"
],
"near antonyms":[
"fecund",
"luxuriant",
"productive",
"prolific",
"enriched",
"fertilized",
"rich",
"impregnated",
"pregnant",
"potent",
"bearing",
"producing",
"yielding",
"blooming",
"bursting",
"flourishing",
"swarming",
"teeming"
],
"antonyms":[
"fat",
"fertile",
"fruitful"
]
},
"producing inferior or only a small amount of vegetation":{
"examples":[
"only parched, infertile fields remained after months of drought"
],
"synonyms":[
"barren",
"bony",
"boney",
"dead",
"desolate",
"hardscrabble",
"impoverished",
"poor",
"stark",
"unfertile",
"unproductive",
"waste"
],
"near synonyms":[
"bleak",
"inhospitable",
"lifeless",
"uncultivable",
"untillable",
"bankrupted",
"consumed",
"debilitated",
"depleted",
"diminished",
"drained",
"dried-up",
"enfeebled",
"exhausted",
"expended",
"lessened",
"reduced",
"spent",
"used up",
"arid",
"desert",
"droughty",
"dry",
"rainless",
"sere",
"sear",
"thirsty",
"waterless",
"baked",
"dehydrated",
"parched",
"sunbaked"
],
"near antonyms":[
"arable",
"tillable",
"green",
"sylvan",
"verdant"
],
"antonyms":[
"fertile",
"fruitful",
"lush",
"luxuriant",
"productive",
"rich"
]
},
"type":[
"adjective"
]
},
"infidelity":{
"lack of faithfulness especially to one's husband or wife":{
"examples":[
"infidelity can lead to divorce"
],
"synonyms":[
"disloyalty",
"faithlessness",
"falseness",
"falsity",
"inconstancy",
"perfidiousness",
"perfidy",
"unfaithfulness"
],
"near synonyms":[
"adultery",
"betrayal",
"double cross",
"double-dealing",
"duplicity",
"sellout",
"treachery",
"treason",
"deceit",
"deception",
"lying"
],
"near antonyms":[
"staunchness",
"steadfastness",
"dependability",
"reliability",
"honesty",
"trustworthiness"
],
"antonyms":[
"allegiance",
"constancy",
"devotedness",
"devotion",
"faith",
"faithfulness",
"fealty",
"fidelity",
"loyalty"
]
},
"the act or fact of violating the trust or confidence of another":{
"examples":[
"the one thing that the political boss will not forgive is infidelity"
],
"synonyms":[
"backstabbing",
"betrayal",
"business",
"disloyalty",
"double cross",
"faithlessness",
"falseness",
"falsity",
"perfidy",
"sellout",
"treachery",
"treason",
"two-timing",
"unfaithfulness"
],
"near synonyms":[
"abandonment",
"desertion",
"deceit",
"deception",
"double-dealing",
"duplicity",
"guile",
"two-facedness",
"fraud",
"informing",
"lying",
"snitching",
"talebearing",
"trickery"
],
"near antonyms":[
"dependability",
"reliability",
"trustworthiness",
"defense",
"protection",
"safeguard",
"shield"
],
"antonyms":[
"allegiance",
"devotion",
"faithfulness",
"fealty",
"fidelity",
"loyalty",
"staunchness",
"steadfastness"
]
},
"a sexual encounter or relationship between a married person and someone other than their spouse":{
"examples":[
"had known about his wife's infidelities for years"
],
"synonyms":[
"adultery",
"cheating",
"misconduct",
"two-timing",
"unfaithfulness"
],
"near synonyms":[
"criminal conversation",
"free love",
"promiscuity",
"disloyalty",
"faithlessness",
"falseness",
"inconstancy",
"perfidiousness",
"perfidy",
"treachery",
"affair",
"affaire",
"amour",
"fling",
"love",
"love affair",
"romance",
"intrigue",
"attachment",
"infatuation",
"entanglement",
"flirtation",
"liaison",
"passion"
],
"near antonyms":[
"allegiance",
"constancy",
"dedication",
"devotedness",
"devotion",
"fealty",
"loyalty",
"steadfastness"
],
"antonyms":[
"faithfulness",
"fidelity"
]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"inferring":{
"to form an opinion or reach a conclusion through reasoning and information":{
"examples":[
"he inferred that she had left because her coat was gone"
],
"synonyms":[
"concluding",
"deciding",
"deducing",
"deriving",
"extrapolating",
"gathering",
"judging",
"making out",
"reasoning",
"understanding"
],
"near synonyms":[
"assuming",
"supposing",
"conjecturing",
"guessing",
"speculating",
"surmising",
"construing",
"interpreting",
"reading",
"contemplating",
"philosophizing",
"rationalizing",
"thinking",
"ascertaining",
"doping (out)",
"finding out"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to convey an idea indirectly":{
"examples":[
"the results infer that there might be a problem with one piece of the equipment"
],
"synonyms":[
"alluding",
"hinting",
"implying",
"indicating",
"insinuating",
"intimating",
"suggesting"
],
"near synonyms":[
"adverting",
"mentioning",
"pointing",
"referring",
"signaling",
"signalling",
"signalizing",
"signifying",
"smacking (of)",
"smelling (of)"
],
"near antonyms":[
"announcing",
"declaring",
"proclaiming",
"elucidating",
"explaining",
"spelling out",
"delineating",
"describing"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"infringed (on or upon)":{
"to fail to keep":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[
"breached",
"broke",
"contravened",
"fractured",
"offended",
"traduced",
"transgressed",
"violated"
],
"near synonyms":[
"disobeyed",
"rebelled",
"blew off",
"brushed (off)",
"disregarded",
"flouted",
"ignored",
"neglected",
"overlooked",
"overpassed",
"passed over",
"slighted",
"tuned out",
"winked (at)",
"dismissed",
"pooh-poohed",
"poohed",
"scorned",
"shrugged off",
"defied",
"resisted",
"withstood"
],
"near antonyms":[
"deferred (to)",
"served",
"submitted (to)",
"surrendered (to)",
"yielded (to)",
"attended",
"heard",
"heeded",
"listened (to)",
"marked",
"noted",
"noticed",
"regarded",
"watched"
],
"antonyms":[
"complied (with)",
"conformed (to)",
"followed",
"minded",
"obeyed",
"observed"
]
},
"type":[]
},
"inflate":{
"to make greater in size, amount, or number":{
"examples":[
"Check that you have inflated your tires to the recommended pressure.",
"Some sellers were inflating their prices by as much as 500 per cent."
],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"blow up",
"dilate",
"distend",
"aerate",
"accelerate",
"add (to)",
"aggrandize",
"amplify",
"augment",
"boost",
"build up",
"compound",
"enlarge",
"escalate",
"expand",
"extend",
"hype",
"increase",
"multiply",
"pump up",
"raise",
"swell",
"stoke",
"supersize",
"up",
"hike",
"jack (up)",
"lift",
"raise",
"up",
"boom",
"jump",
"skyrocket",
"spike",
"bump (up)",
"ratchet (up)",
"rachet (up)",
"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":[
"compress",
"condense",
"constrict",
"contract",
"abate",
"decrease",
"de-escalate",
"diminish",
"downsize",
"dwindle",
"lessen",
"lower",
"minify",
"reduce",
"subtract (from)",
"abbreviate",
"abridge",
"curtail",
"shorten",
"cut back",
"retrench"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to become greater in extent, volume, amount, or number":{
"examples":[
"Airbags are designed to inflate automatically on impact."
],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"blow up",
"bulk",
"distend",
"puff (up)",
"accelerate",
"accumulate",
"appreciate",
"balloon",
"boom",
"build up",
"burgeon",
"bourgeon",
"climb",
"enlarge",
"escalate",
"expand",
"gain",
"increase",
"mount",
"multiply",
"mushroom",
"proliferate",
"rise",
"roll up",
"snowball",
"spread",
"swell",
"wax",
"jump",
"rocket",
"skyrocket",
"surge",
"heighten",
"intensify",
"redouble",
"crescendo",
"crest",
"peak"
],
"near antonyms":[
"contract",
"decrease",
"diminish",
"dwindle",
"lessen",
"recede",
"wane",
"compress",
"condense",
"constrict",
"contract",
"shrink"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"infiltrate":{
"to introduce in a gradual, secret, or clever way":{
"examples":[
"over time, undercover agents infiltrated the crime ring and eventually busted their gambling racket"
],
"synonyms":[
"insinuate",
"slip",
"sneak",
"wind",
"work in",
"worm",
"wriggle"
],
"near synonyms":[
"creep",
"edge",
"wiggle",
"insert",
"interpolate",
"interpose",
"introduce"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"informing (against)":{
"as in reporting , naming":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"framing",
"implicating",
"inculpating",
"naming",
"reporting",
"prosecuting",
"suing",
"trying",
"recriminating",
"retaliating",
"appealing",
"arraigning",
"booking",
"citing",
"summoning",
"chiding",
"rebuking",
"reproving",
"taxing",
"blaming",
"calling (on)",
"castigating",
"censuring",
"condemning",
"criticizing",
"damning",
"denouncing",
"faulting",
"impugning",
"reproaching",
"reprobating",
"accusing",
"charging",
"criminating",
"defaming",
"impeaching",
"incriminating",
"indicting"
],
"near antonyms":[
"absolving",
"acquitting",
"clearing",
"exculpating",
"exonerating",
"vindicating",
"advocating",
"championing",
"defending",
"excusing",
"forgiving",
"justifying",
"pardoning",
"remitting",
"shriving"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"infamy":{
"the state of having lost the esteem of others":{
"examples":[
"despite her eventual pardons, she could never completely free herself of the infamy of being named a war criminal"
],
"synonyms":[
"discredit",
"disesteem",
"disgrace",
"dishonor",
"disrepute",
"ignominy",
"obloquy",
"odium",
"opprobrium",
"reproach",
"shame"
],
"near synonyms":[
"scandal",
"contempt",
"despite",
"disdain",
"scorn",
"deprecation",
"disapprobation",
"disapproval",
"disfavor",
"abasement",
"debasement",
"debasing",
"degradation",
"dust",
"humbling",
"humiliation",
"blot",
"brand",
"shadow",
"slur",
"smirch",
"spot",
"stain",
"stigma",
"taint"
],
"near antonyms":[
"admiration",
"appreciation",
"estimation",
"regard",
"awe",
"fear",
"reverence",
"fame",
"glory",
"renown",
"repute"
],
"antonyms":[
"esteem",
"honor",
"respect"
]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"inferences":{
"an opinion arrived at through a process of reasoning":{
"examples":[
"that seems like a reasonable inference , but in this case it happens to be incorrect"
],
"synonyms":[
"conclusions",
"consequences",
"deductions",
"determinations",
"eductions",
"inductions",
"sequiturs"
],
"near synonyms":[
"decisions",
"deliverances",
"diagnoses",
"judgments",
"judgements",
"resolutions",
"rulings",
"verdicts",
"conjectures",
"guesses",
"surmises",
"assumptions",
"presumptions",
"suppositions"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"influx":{
"a flowing or coming in":{
"examples":[
"a sudden influx of people into the exurbs"
],
"synonyms":[
"affluence",
"flux",
"income",
"inflow",
"inpouring",
"inrush"
],
"near synonyms":[
"deluge",
"flood",
"flow",
"inundation",
"overflow",
"spate",
"torrent",
"rush",
"stampede",
"river",
"stream",
"tide"
],
"near antonyms":[
"emigration",
"exodus",
"flight"
],
"antonyms":[
"outflow",
"outpouring"
]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"infidel":{
"a person who does not believe in a religion that someone regards as the true religion":{
"examples":[
"The theocracy regarded as infidels anyone that did not practice their religion."
],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"disbeliever",
"misbeliever",
"unbeliever",
"dissenter",
"dissentient",
"dissident",
"heresiarch",
"heretic",
"nonconformist",
"apostate",
"defector",
"renegade",
"schismatic",
"sectarian",
"separationist",
"separatist",
"bohemian",
"individualist"
],
"near antonyms":[
"believer",
"conformer",
"conformist"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"infatuation":{
"a strong but often short-lived liking for another person":{
"examples":[
"had a brief infatuation with the captain of the ski team"
],
"synonyms":[
"crush",
"mash",
"passion"
],
"near synonyms":[
"fixation",
"obsession",
"affection",
"devotion",
"fondness",
"love",
"craze",
"fad",
"rage",
"vogue"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"inferrible":{
"being or provable by reasoning in which the conclusion follows necessarily from given information":{
"examples":[
"the inferable but unstated conclusion of the report on juvenile delinquency"
],
"synonyms":[
"a priori",
"deducible",
"deductive",
"derivable",
"inferential",
"reasoned"
],
"near synonyms":[
"conjectural",
"hypothetical",
"purported",
"supposed",
"suppositional",
"academic",
"academical",
"speculative",
"theoretical",
"theoretic",
"logical",
"rational"
],
"near antonyms":[
"inducible",
"inductive",
"absolute",
"categorical",
"categoric",
"definite",
"explicit",
"express",
"instinctive",
"intuitive",
"illogical",
"irrational"
],
"antonyms":[
"nondeductive"
]
},
"type":[
"adjective"
]
},
"infrequent":{
"not often occurring or repeated":{
"examples":[
"a shut-in who made infrequent trips to the store"
],
"synonyms":[
"isolated",
"occasional",
"odd",
"rare",
"sporadic"
],
"near synonyms":[
"scarce",
"scattered",
"uncommon",
"unique",
"unusual",
"choppy",
"discontinuous",
"erratic",
"fitful",
"intermittent",
"irregular",
"spasmodic",
"spotty",
"unsteady"
],
"near antonyms":[
"daily",
"regular",
"common",
"ordinary",
"routine"
],
"antonyms":[
"frequent"
]
},
"type":[
"adjective"
]
},
"infinity":{
"endless time":{
"examples":[
"it seemed as though that meeting might extend into infinity"
],
"synonyms":[
"eternity",
"everlasting",
"foreverness",
"perpetuity"
],
"near synonyms":[
"boundlessness",
"endlessness",
"interminableness",
"limitlessness",
"permanence",
"permanency",
"timelessness"
],
"near antonyms":[
"ephemerality",
"impermanence",
"temporariness",
"transience",
"transitoriness"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"inflexible":{
"not capable of changing or being changed":{
"examples":[
"the inflexible law of gravity"
],
"synonyms":[
"fixed",
"hard-and-fast",
"immutable",
"inalterable",
"incommutable",
"invariable",
"unalterable",
"unchangeable"
],
"near synonyms":[
"changeless",
"constant",
"determinate",
"established",
"set",
"settled",
"stable",
"steadfast",
"steady",
"unaltered",
"unchanging",
"unvarying",
"immovable",
"unmovable"
],
"near antonyms":[
"adaptable",
"adjustable",
"fickle",
"fluctuating",
"inconstant",
"uncertain",
"unsettled",
"unstable",
"varying",
"plastic",
"pliable",
"pliant",
"supple",
"willowy"
],
"antonyms":[
"alterable",
"changeable",
"elastic",
"flexible",
"mutable",
"variable"
]
},
"incapable of or highly resistant to bending":{
"examples":[
"shoes made of inflexible plastic hurt my feet"
],
"synonyms":[
"rigid",
"stiff",
"stiffened",
"unyielding"
],
"near synonyms":[
"inelastic",
"firm",
"hard",
"solid",
"sound",
"strong",
"brittle",
"crisp",
"compact",
"dense",
"substantial",
"arthritic",
"rheumatic",
"nonelastic",
"nonmalleable"
],
"near antonyms":[
"elastic",
"resilient",
"springy",
"stretchy",
"workable",
"malleable",
"plastic",
"semiflexible",
"droopy",
"flabby",
"flaccid",
"mushy",
"semisoft",
"soft",
"squashy",
"squishy",
"lank",
"limber",
"limp",
"lissome",
"lissom",
"lithe",
"lithesome",
"willowy"
],
"antonyms":[
"flexible",
"floppy",
"pliable",
"pliant",
"supple",
"yielding"
]
},
"not allowing for any exceptions or loosening of standards":{
"examples":[
"inflexible entry rules for the contest ban anyone who works for the company as well as any of their relatives"
],
"synonyms":[
"brassbound",
"cast-iron",
"exacting",
"hard-line",
"rigid",
"rigorous",
"strict",
"stringent",
"uncompromising"
],
"near synonyms":[
"close",
"conscientious",
"exact",
"fussy",
"meticulous",
"painstaking",
"punctilious",
"scrupulous",
"undeviating",
"adamant",
"adamantine",
"determined",
"dogged",
"firm",
"relentless",
"resolved",
"single-minded",
"steadfast",
"stubborn",
"tenacious",
"unbending",
"unflinching",
"immovable",
"implacable",
"unappeasable",
"unrelenting",
"unsparing",
"unyielding",
"austere",
"demanding",
"flinty",
"grim",
"hard",
"hardened",
"hard-hearted",
"harsh",
"ironbound",
"severe",
"stern",
"tough"
],
"near antonyms":[
"acquiescent",
"compliant",
"compromising",
"pliable",
"pliant",
"relenting",
"yielding",
"easy",
"easygoing",
"gentle",
"indulgent",
"kindly",
"lenient",
"merciful",
"mild",
"pampering",
"soft",
"spoiling",
"tolerant",
"neglectful",
"negligent",
"remiss",
"slipshod",
"sloppy",
"slovenly",
"unfussy"
],
"antonyms":[
"flexible",
"lax",
"loose",
"relaxed",
"slack"
]
},
"sticking to an opinion, purpose, or course of action in spite of reason, arguments, or persuasion":{
"examples":[
"her inflexible father was unmoved by tears and pleading, and he grounded her anyway"
],
"synonyms":[
"adamant",
"adamantine",
"bullheaded",
"dogged",
"hard",
"hard-nosed",
"hardened",
"hardheaded",
"headstrong",
"immovable",
"implacable",
"inconvincible",
"intransigent",
"mulish",
"obdurate",
"obstinate",
"opinionated",
"ossified",
"pat",
"pertinacious",
"perverse",
"pigheaded",
"self-opinionated",
"self-willed",
"stiff-necked",
"stubborn",
"unbending",
"uncompromising",
"unrelenting",
"unyielding",
"willful",
"wilful"
],
"near synonyms":[
"anal-retentive",
"obsessive",
"wayward",
"wrongheaded",
"determined",
"hell-bent",
"inexorable",
"persistent",
"relentless",
"resolved",
"set",
"single-minded",
"steadfast",
"stouthearted",
"tenacious",
"unflinching",
"firm",
"hard-line",
"hard-shell",
"hard-shelled",
"iron",
"severe",
"stern",
"strict",
"hidebound",
"narrow-minded",
"rigid",
"bloody-minded",
"cantankerous",
"contrary",
"cussed",
"contumacious",
"disobedient",
"froward",
"insubordinate",
"intractable",
"recalcitrant",
"refractory",
"uncooperative",
"ungovernable",
"unmanageable",
"unruly",
"defiant",
"insurgent",
"mutinous",
"indomitable",
"invincible",
"unconquerable",
"confirmed",
"inveterate",
"unregenerate",
"demanding",
"exacting"
],
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"docile",
"obedient",
"placable",
"submissive",
"tractable",
"accepting",
"persuadable",
"receptive",
"responsive",
"willing",
"governable",
"manageable",
"reasonable",
"temperate",
"slavish",
"subservient"
],
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"acquiescent",
"agreeable",
"amenable",
"compliant",
"complying",
"flexible",
"pliable",
"pliant",
"relenting",
"yielding"
]
},
"type":[
"adjective"
]
},
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"as in babyhood":{
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"babyhood",
"immaturity",
"juvenility",
"adolescence",
"juvenescence",
"minority",
"boyhood",
"girlhood",
"toddlerhood",
"childhood",
"nonage",
"springtime",
"youth"
],
"near antonyms":[
"adulthood",
"majority",
"middle age",
"midlife",
"senectitude",
"sunset",
"winter"
],
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},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"infidels":{
"a person who does not believe in a religion that someone regards as the true religion":{
"examples":[
"The theocracy regarded as infidels anyone that did not practice their religion."
],
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"near synonyms":[
"disbelievers",
"misbelievers",
"unbelievers",
"dissenters",
"dissentients",
"dissidents",
"heresiarchs",
"heretics",
"nonconformists",
"apostates",
"defectors",
"renegades",
"schismatics",
"sectarians",
"separationists",
"separatists",
"bohemians",
"individualists"
],
"near antonyms":[
"believers",
"conformers",
"conformists"
],
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},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"infringe (on or upon)":{
"to fail to keep":{
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"breach",
"break",
"contravene",
"fracture",
"offend",
"traduce",
"transgress",
"violate"
],
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"disobey",
"rebel",
"blow off",
"brush (off)",
"disregard",
"flout",
"ignore",
"neglect",
"overlook",
"overpass",
"pass over",
"slight",
"tune out",
"wink (at)",
"dismiss",
"pooh-pooh",
"pooh",
"scorn",
"shrug off",
"defy",
"resist",
"withstand"
],
"near antonyms":[
"defer (to)",
"serve",
"submit (to)",
"surrender (to)",
"yield (to)",
"attend",
"hear",
"heed",
"listen (to)",
"mark",
"note",
"notice",
"regard",
"watch"
],
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"comply (with)",
"conform (to)",
"follow",
"mind",
"obey",
"observe"
]
},
"type":[]
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"infantine":{
"as in childish , infantile":{
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"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"babyish",
"childish",
"infantile",
"infantilized",
"adolescent",
"callow",
"green",
"immature",
"inexperienced",
"juvenile",
"puerile",
"raw",
"unfledged",
"unformed",
"unripe",
"unripened",
"boyish",
"girlish",
"juvenescent",
"kiddish",
"young",
"youngish",
"youthful",
"maidenly",
"virginal",
"ingenuous",
"innocent",
"naive",
"na\u00efve",
"tender",
"unknowing",
"unseasoned",
"unsophisticated",
"untrained",
"untried"
],
"near antonyms":[
"adult",
"experienced",
"grown-up",
"mature",
"ripe",
"advanced",
"precocious",
"knowing",
"savvy",
"sophisticated",
"worldly",
"worldly-wise"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"adjective"
]
},
"inflation":{
"the quality or state of appearing or trying to appear more important or more valuable than is the case":{
"examples":[
"the personal essay accompanying his college application was devoid of the inflation and self-aggrandizement that all too often is found in such writings"
],
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"affectation",
"affectedness",
"grandiosity",
"pretense",
"pretence",
"pretension",
"pretentiousness"
],
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"arrogance",
"bumptiousness",
"complacency",
"conceit",
"egotism",
"hauteur",
"imperiousness",
"pompousness",
"presumptuousness",
"pride",
"self-aggrandizement",
"self-assertion",
"self-assumption",
"self-conceit",
"self-consequence",
"self-glorification",
"self-importance",
"self-satisfaction",
"smugness",
"vaingloriousness",
"vainglory",
"vainness",
"vanity",
"disdain",
"haughtiness",
"lordliness",
"snobbery",
"snobbishness",
"superciliousness",
"superiority",
"confidence",
"presumption",
"self-assurance",
"self-confidence",
"sureness",
"boastfulness",
"braggadocio",
"aggressiveness",
"assertiveness",
"audaciousness",
"boldness",
"brassiness",
"cheekiness",
"cockiness",
"forwardness",
"impudence",
"insolence",
"rudeness",
"grandiloquence",
"flamboyance",
"flashiness",
"garishness",
"gaudiness",
"glitz",
"mummery",
"ostentation",
"ostentatiousness",
"show",
"showiness"
],
"near antonyms":[
"demureness",
"down-to-earthness",
"humbleness",
"humility",
"lowliness",
"meekness",
"modesty",
"bashfulness",
"diffidence",
"shyness",
"timidity",
"naturalness",
"sincerity"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"info":{
"a report of recent events or facts not previously known":{
"examples":[
"wondered about the fate of newspapers, seeing as so many people now go on the Internet for info"
],
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"411",
"advice(s)",
"gen",
"information",
"intelligence",
"item",
"news",
"story",
"tidings",
"uncos",
"word"
],
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"announcement",
"bulletin",
"communication",
"correspondence",
"dispatch",
"message",
"reportage",
"dope",
"lowdown",
"scoop",
"tidbit",
"titbit",
"tip",
"gossip",
"rumor",
"tale",
"tattle",
"feedback",
"disinformation",
"propaganda"
],
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"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"inflict":{
"to cause someone to accept or experience something unwanted":{
"examples":[
"The criminal inflicted a lifetime of distress on his unsuspecting victims."
],
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"near synonyms":[
"entail",
"force",
"impose",
"thrust",
"beget",
"bring",
"bring about",
"bring on",
"create",
"effectuate",
"generate",
"induce",
"invoke",
"make",
"produce",
"prompt",
"result (in)",
"spawn",
"fob off",
"foist",
"palm",
"palm off",
"pass off",
"wish",
"coerce",
"compel"
],
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"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"infamies":{
"the state of having lost the esteem of others":{
"examples":[
"despite her eventual pardons, she could never completely free herself of the infamy of being named a war criminal"
],
"synonyms":[
"discredit",
"disesteems",
"disgraces",
"dishonors",
"disreputes",
"ignominies",
"obloquies",
"odiums",
"opprobriums",
"reproaches",
"shames"
],
"near synonyms":[
"scandals",
"contempts",
"despites",
"disdains",
"scorns",
"deprecations",
"disapprobations",
"disapprovals",
"disfavors",
"abasements",
"debasements",
"degradations",
"dust",
"humiliations",
"blots",
"brands",
"shadows",
"slurs",
"smirches",
"spots",
"stains",
"stigmas",
"stigmata",
"taints"
],
"near antonyms":[
"admirations",
"appreciations",
"estimations",
"regards",
"awes",
"fears",
"reverences",
"fames",
"glories",
"renowns",
"reputes"
],
"antonyms":[
"esteems",
"honors",
"respects"
]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"inflects":{
"to change from a straight line or course to a curved one":{
"examples":[
"tree limbs inflecting toward the trunk"
],
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"near synonyms":[
"incurvates",
"incurves",
"reflects",
"arches",
"bends",
"bows",
"crooks",
"curves",
"hooks",
"swerves",
"arcs",
"rounds",
"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":[
"straightens",
"unbends",
"uncurls"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"infusing":{
"to cause (as a person) to become filled or saturated with a certain quality or principle":{
"examples":[
"parents who infuse their children with strong moral values"
],
"synonyms":[
"enduing",
"induing",
"imbuing",
"inculcating",
"ingraining",
"engraining",
"inoculating",
"investing",
"steeping",
"suffusing"
],
"near synonyms":[
"animating",
"charging",
"enlivening",
"invigorating",
"leavening",
"implanting",
"instilling",
"planting",
"impregnating",
"permeating",
"pervading",
"saturating",
"deluging",
"drowning",
"filling",
"flooding",
"inundating",
"overwhelming",
"submerging"
],
"near antonyms":[
"depriving",
"divesting",
"stripping",
"clearing",
"emptying",
"eliminating",
"removing",
"taking (away)"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"infightings":{
"a lack of agreement or harmony":{
"examples":[
"continued infighting has just completely robbed that political action committee of its effectiveness"
],
"synonyms":[
"conflicts",
"disaccords",
"discordances",
"discordancies",
"discords",
"disharmonies",
"dissensions",
"dissentions",
"dissents",
"dissidences",
"dissonances",
"disunions",
"disunities",
"divisions",
"frictions",
"inharmonies",
"schisms",
"strifes",
"variances",
"warfares",
"wars"
],
"near synonyms":[
"clashes",
"collisions",
"competitions",
"contentions",
"altercations",
"arguments",
"bickers",
"brawls",
"debates",
"disagreements",
"disputes",
"divides",
"fissures",
"fallings-out",
"falling-outs",
"fights",
"hassles",
"jars",
"miffs",
"mix-ups",
"quarrels",
"rows",
"run-ins",
"scraps",
"spats",
"squabbles",
"tiffs",
"wrangles",
"incompatibilities",
"incongruences",
"incongruities",
"inconsistences",
"inconsistencies",
"inconsonances",
"animosities",
"antagonisms",
"antipathies",
"cold wars",
"enmities",
"hostilities",
"ill wills",
"rancors"
],
"near antonyms":[
"concurrences",
"cooperations"
],
"antonyms":[
"accords",
"agreements",
"concordances",
"concords",
"harmonies",
"peaces"
]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"infallibility":{
"as in inerrancy":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"inerrancy",
"dependability",
"dependableness",
"reliability",
"reliableness",
"responsibility",
"solidity",
"solidness",
"sureness",
"trustability",
"trustworthiness",
"credibility",
"creditability",
"creditableness"
],
"near antonyms":[
"dodginess",
"unreliability",
"doubtfulness",
"dubiousness",
"questionableness",
"shakiness",
"uncertainness"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"infringement":{
"a failure to uphold the requirements of law, duty, or obligation":{
"examples":[
"any government action limiting freedom of speech is an infringement of the U.S. Constitution"
],
"synonyms":[
"breach",
"contravention",
"infraction",
"transgression",
"trespass",
"violation"
],
"near synonyms":[
"misconduct",
"misdemeanor",
"misfeasance",
"misprision",
"offense",
"offence",
"sin",
"wrong",
"disregard",
"forgetting",
"ignoring",
"nonobservance",
"overlooking",
"delinquency",
"dereliction",
"neglect",
"encroachment",
"intrusion",
"invasion"
],
"near antonyms":[
"respecting",
"upholding"
],
"antonyms":[
"noninfringement",
"observance"
]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"inflections":{
"something that curves or is curved":{
"examples":[
"the inflection of the river is even more obvious when viewed from the summit of the nearby mountain"
],
"synonyms":[
"angles",
"arches",
"arcs",
"bends",
"bows",
"crooks",
"curvatures",
"curves",
"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":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"infirmity":{
"an abnormal state that disrupts a plant's or animal's normal bodily functioning":{
"examples":[
"an 18th-century quack who specialized in those mysterious infirmities that are known only to the idle rich"
],
"synonyms":[
"affection",
"ail",
"ailment",
"bug",
"complaint",
"complication",
"condition",
"disease",
"disorder",
"distemper",
"distemperature",
"fever",
"ill",
"illness",
"malady",
"sickness",
"trouble"
],
"near synonyms":[
"contagion",
"contagious disease",
"contagium",
"infection",
"attack",
"bout",
"fit",
"spell",
"debility",
"decrepitude",
"feebleness",
"frailness",
"lameness",
"sickliness",
"unhealthiness",
"unsoundness",
"unwellness",
"weakness",
"malaise",
"matter",
"pip",
"epidemic",
"pest",
"pestilence",
"plague"
],
"near antonyms":[
"fitness",
"healthiness",
"heartiness",
"robustness",
"soundness",
"wholeness",
"wholesomeness",
"fettle",
"shape"
],
"antonyms":[
"health",
"wellness"
]
},
"the quality or state of lacking physical strength or vigor":{
"examples":[
"a period of infirmity left the athlete completely out of shape"
],
"synonyms":[
"asthenia",
"debilitation",
"debility",
"delicacy",
"enervation",
"enfeeblement",
"faintness",
"feebleness",
"fragility",
"frailness",
"frailty",
"languidness",
"languor",
"listlessness",
"lowness",
"weakness",
"wimpiness"
],
"near synonyms":[
"decay",
"decrepitude",
"breakdown",
"collapse",
"prostration",
"exhaustion",
"fatigue",
"lassitude",
"weariness",
"defenselessness",
"helplessness",
"impotence",
"impuissance",
"powerlessness",
"effeteness",
"softness",
"tenderness",
"disablement",
"incapacitation",
"invalidism",
"damage",
"harm",
"hurt",
"impairment",
"injury"
],
"near antonyms":[
"energy",
"vitality",
"brawniness",
"fitness",
"heftiness",
"huskiness",
"lustiness",
"muscularity",
"virility",
"hardness",
"ruggedness",
"stoutness",
"sturdiness",
"toughness",
"health",
"healthiness",
"soundness",
"wellness"
],
"antonyms":[
"hardihood",
"hardiness",
"robustness",
"strength",
"vigor"
]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"infirmary":{
"a place for the treatment of those who are ill or injured":{
"examples":[
"The school's infirmary has reported an increase in flu cases."
],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"clinic",
"hospital",
"medical center",
"sick bay",
"hospice",
"sanatorium",
"sanitarium",
"sanitorium",
"halfway house",
"home",
"sickroom"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"informative":{
"providing useful information or knowledge":{
"examples":[
"some Web sites for family vacation resorts are very informative and some are practically useless"
],
"synonyms":[
"educational",
"educative",
"enlightening",
"illuminating",
"informational",
"informatory",
"instructional",
"instructive"
],
"near synonyms":[
"comprehensive",
"copious",
"detailed",
"full",
"communicatory",
"edifying",
"elucidative",
"explanatory",
"chatty",
"gossipy",
"newsy",
"availing",
"beneficial",
"constructive",
"helpful",
"profitable",
"practical",
"serviceable",
"usable",
"useable",
"useful",
"worthwhile"
],
"near antonyms":[
"impractical",
"unhelpful",
"unusable",
"useless"
],
"antonyms":[
"unenlightening",
"unilluminating",
"uninformative",
"uninstructive"
]
},
"type":[
"adjective"
]
},
"informs":{
"to give information (as to the authorities) about another's improper or unlawful activities":{
"examples":[
"the police only caught the mastermind of the burglary because his disgruntled partner informed"
],
"synonyms":[
"finks",
"grasses (on)",
"rats (on)",
"sings",
"snitches",
"splits (on)",
"squeaks",
"squeals",
"talks",
"tells (on)"
],
"near synonyms":[
"betrays",
"gives away",
"turns in",
"backstabs",
"crosses",
"double-crosses",
"sells (out)",
"two-times",
"blabs",
"tattles",
"tips (off)"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to give information to":{
"examples":[
"chose teaching as a career because it affords the opportunity to inform a whole generation of young minds"
],
"synonyms":[
"acquaints",
"advises",
"apprises",
"briefs",
"catches up",
"clears",
"clues (in)",
"enlightens",
"familiarizes",
"fills in",
"hips",
"instructs",
"tells",
"verses",
"wises (up)"
],
"near synonyms":[
"advertises",
"alerts",
"notifies",
"announces (to)",
"discloses (to)",
"assures",
"certifies",
"convinces",
"reassures",
"warrants",
"educates",
"lectures",
"schools",
"teaches",
"tutors",
"disabuses",
"disenchants",
"disillusions",
"undeceives"
],
"near antonyms":[
"misinforms",
"misleads"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"inferiors":{
"one who is of lower rank and typically under the authority of another":{
"examples":[
"she is nice to her inferiors as well as to her superiors"
],
"synonyms":[
"juniors",
"subordinates",
"underlings"
],
"near synonyms":[
"attendants",
"followers",
"retainers",
"domestics",
"menials",
"stewards",
"flunkies",
"flunkeys",
"henchmen",
"lackeys",
"minions",
"adjutants",
"aides",
"aids",
"assistants",
"coadjutors",
"deputies",
"second fiddles",
"seconds",
"helpmates",
"helpmeets",
"mates",
"sidekicks"
],
"near antonyms":[
"bosses",
"captains",
"chiefs",
"foremen",
"headmen",
"heads",
"helmsmen",
"kingpins",
"leaders",
"masters",
"taskmasters"
],
"antonyms":[
"seniors",
"superiors"
]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"influents":{
"a stream that flows into a larger body of water":{
"examples":[
"along with its influents , the Missouri and Ohio rivers, the Mississippi River drains all or part of 31 U.S. states and two Canadian provinces"
],
"synonyms":[
"affluents",
"bayous",
"branches",
"confluents",
"feeders",
"tributaries"
],
"near synonyms":[
"backwaters",
"brooklets",
"brooks",
"creeks",
"rills",
"rivulets",
"runs",
"streamlets",
"fountainheads",
"heads",
"headstreams",
"headwaters",
"sources"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[
"distributaries",
"effluents"
]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"infiltrates":{
"to introduce in a gradual, secret, or clever way":{
"examples":[
"over time, undercover agents infiltrated the crime ring and eventually busted their gambling racket"
],
"synonyms":[
"insinuates",
"slips",
"sneaks",
"winds",
"works in",
"worms",
"wriggles"
],
"near synonyms":[
"creeps",
"edges",
"wiggles",
"inserts",
"interpolates",
"interposes",
"introduces"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"infirmities":{
"an abnormal state that disrupts a plant's or animal's normal bodily functioning":{
"examples":[
"an 18th-century quack who specialized in those mysterious infirmities that are known only to the idle rich"
],
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"affections",
"ailments",
"ails",
"bugs",
"complaints",
"complications",
"conditions",
"diseases",
"disorders",
"distemperatures",
"distempers",
"fevers",
"illnesses",
"ills",
"maladies",
"sicknesses",
"troubles"
],
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"contagions",
"contagious diseases",
"contagia",
"infections",
"attacks",
"bouts",
"fits",
"spells",
"debilities",
"decrepitudes",
"weaknesses",
"malaises",
"matters",
"pips",
"epidemics",
"pestilences",
"pests",
"plagues"
],
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},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"inflexibility":{
"the quality or state of being demanding or unyielding (as in discipline or criticism)":{
"examples":[
"the principal's inflexibility in matters of discipline is the stuff of school legend"
],
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"exactingness",
"hardness",
"harshness",
"rigidity",
"rigidness",
"rigor",
"rigorousness",
"severity",
"sternness",
"strictness",
"stringency"
],
"near synonyms":[
"callousness",
"hard-heartedness",
"implacability",
"obduracy",
"obdurateness",
"pitilessness",
"dourness",
"gruffness",
"asceticism",
"austereness",
"austerity",
"monasticism",
"determination",
"firmness",
"resolve",
"steadfastness",
"obstinacy",
"stubbornness"
],
"near antonyms":[
"forbearance",
"indulgence",
"kindness",
"lenience",
"patience",
"softness",
"tenderness",
"tolerance",
"responsiveness",
"willingness",
"compliance",
"pliability",
"pliancy"
],
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"flexibility",
"gentleness",
"laxness",
"mildness"
]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"inflammations":{
"a condition in which a part of your body becomes red, swollen, and painful":{
"examples":[
"The drug is used to reduce inflammation .",
"Inflammation around a wound can signal an infection."
],
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"sores",
"swellings",
"aches",
"pains",
"pangs",
"pricks",
"shoots",
"smarts",
"stings",
"stitches",
"throes",
"tingles",
"twinges",
"discomforts",
"distresses",
"afflictions",
"agonies",
"anguishes",
"miseries",
"sufferances",
"sufferings",
"torments",
"tortures",
"damages",
"detriments",
"harms",
"hurts",
"injuries",
"backaches",
"bellyaches",
"charley horses",
"colics",
"complaints",
"earaches",
"gripes",
"headaches",
"stomachaches",
"toothaches"
],
"near antonyms":[
"comforts",
"eases"
],
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},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"inflected":{
"to change from a straight line or course to a curved one":{
"examples":[
"tree limbs inflecting toward the trunk"
],
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"incurvated",
"incurved",
"reflected",
"arched",
"bent",
"bowed",
"crooked",
"curved",
"hooked",
"swerved",
"arced",
"rounded",
"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":[
"straightened",
"unbent",
"uncurled"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"infested":{
"to spread or swarm over in a troublesome manner":{
"examples":[
"in desperation, we called in an exterminator because the house was infested with ants"
],
"synonyms":[
"overran"
],
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"beset",
"overspread",
"overwhelmed",
"abounded",
"crawled",
"teemed",
"annoyed",
"pestered",
"plagued",
"contaminated",
"infected"
],
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"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"infatuations":{
"a strong but often short-lived liking for another person":{
"examples":[
"had a brief infatuation with the captain of the ski team"
],
"synonyms":[
"crushes",
"mashes",
"passions"
],
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"fixations",
"obsessions",
"affections",
"devotions",
"loves",
"crazes",
"fads",
"rages",
"vogues"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"infantilized":{
"as in childish , infantile":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"babyish",
"childish",
"infantile",
"infantine",
"adolescent",
"callow",
"green",
"immature",
"inexperienced",
"juvenile",
"puerile",
"raw",
"unfledged",
"unformed",
"unripe",
"unripened",
"boyish",
"girlish",
"juvenescent",
"kiddish",
"young",
"youngish",
"youthful",
"maidenly",
"virginal",
"ingenuous",
"innocent",
"naive",
"na\u00efve",
"tender",
"unknowing",
"unseasoned",
"unsophisticated",
"untrained",
"untried"
],
"near antonyms":[
"adult",
"experienced",
"grown-up",
"mature",
"ripe",
"advanced",
"precocious",
"knowing",
"savvy",
"sophisticated",
"worldly",
"worldly-wise"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"adjective"
]
},
"informing (on)":{
"as in turning in , splitting (on)":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
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"peaching",
"ratting (on)",
"shopping",
"snitching (on)",
"splitting (on)",
"telling (on)",
"turning in",
"giving away",
"backstabbing",
"betraying",
"crossing",
"double-crossing",
"selling (out)",
"two-timing"
],
"near antonyms":[
"standing by",
"defending",
"guarding",
"protecting",
"safeguarding",
"saving",
"shielding"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"inflamed":{
"being on fire":{
"examples":[
"the inflamed hillsides in one of the largest wildfires in the state's history"
],
"synonyms":[
"ablaze",
"afire",
"aflame",
"alight",
"blazing",
"burning",
"combusting",
"conflagrant",
"fiery",
"flaming",
"ignited",
"kindled",
"lit",
"lighted"
],
"near synonyms":[
"aglow",
"flaring",
"flickering",
"glowing",
"live",
"smoldering",
"smouldering",
"broiling",
"hot",
"piping hot",
"red-hot",
"roasting",
"scalding",
"scorching",
"searing",
"sizzling",
"burned",
"burnt",
"charred",
"incinerated",
"scorched",
"seared",
"singed"
],
"near antonyms":[
"choked",
"damped",
"dead",
"doused",
"dowsed",
"extinguished",
"quenched",
"smothered",
"snuffed (out)",
"stamped (out)",
"suffocated"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"feeling or showing anger":{
"examples":[
"he gets red-faced when he's inflamed enough"
],
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"angered",
"angry",
"apoplectic",
"ballistic",
"cheesed off",
"choleric",
"enraged",
"foaming",
"fuming",
"furious",
"hopping",
"horn-mad",
"hot",
"incensed",
"indignant",
"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"
]
},
"to make angry":{
"examples":[
"the newspaper editorial inflamed her enough to inspire her to dash off a letter to the editor"
],
"synonyms":[
"angered",
"enraged",
"incensed",
"infuriated",
"ired",
"madded",
"maddened",
"outraged",
"rankled",
"riled",
"roiled",
"steamed up",
"ticked off"
],
"near synonyms":[
"affronted",
"aggravated",
"annoyed",
"burned (up)",
"burnt (up)",
"crossed",
"exasperated",
"got",
"huffed",
"irritated",
"miffed",
"nettled",
"offended",
"peeved",
"piqued",
"provoked",
"put out",
"ruffled",
"vexed",
"vext",
"antagonized",
"embittered",
"envenomed"
],
"near antonyms":[
"allayed",
"assuaged",
"relieved",
"comforted",
"consoled",
"soothed",
"appeased",
"conciliated",
"mollified",
"pacified",
"placated",
"calmed",
"lulled",
"quieted",
"settled",
"beguiled",
"bewitched",
"captivated",
"charmed",
"disarmed",
"enchanted"
],
"antonyms":[
"delighted",
"gratified",
"pleased"
]
},
"to set (something) on fire":{
"examples":[
"a carelessly tossed cigarette inflamed the papers in the trash can"
],
"synonyms":[
"burned",
"burnt",
"enkindled",
"fired",
"ignited",
"kindled",
"lit",
"lighted",
"torched"
],
"near synonyms":[
"immolated",
"deflagrated",
"charred",
"frizzled",
"scorched",
"baked",
"broiled",
"cooked",
"ashed",
"cremated",
"incinerated",
"kilned",
"set off",
"brightened",
"illuminated",
"illumined",
"irradiated",
"lightened",
"radiated",
"scalded",
"scathed",
"seared",
"reignited",
"rekindled",
"relit",
"relighted",
"banked",
"stoked"
],
"near antonyms":[
"choked",
"smothered",
"suffocated",
"stamped (out)",
"blackened",
"darkened",
"dimmed",
"dulled",
"obscured"
],
"antonyms":[
"doused",
"dowsed",
"extinguished",
"put out",
"quenched",
"snuffed (out)"
]
},
"type":[
"adjective",
"verb"
]
},
"infallibilities":{
"as in perfections , inerrancies":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"inerrancies",
"perfections",
"accuracies",
"exactitudes",
"precisions"
],
"near antonyms":[
"blunders",
"bobbles",
"boo-boos",
"boobs",
"bricks",
"clangers",
"clinkers",
"errors",
"faults",
"flubs",
"fluffs",
"fumbles",
"gaffes",
"gaffs",
"goofs",
"inaccuracies",
"lapses",
"miscues",
"missteps",
"mistakes",
"oversights",
"screwups",
"slips",
"slipups",
"stumbles",
"trips",
"bloomers",
"bloopers",
"boners",
"howlers",
"pratfalls",
"foul-ups",
"snafus"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"infantrymen":{
"as in grunts , doughboys":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"doughboys",
"footmen",
"foot soldiers",
"grunts",
"carabineers",
"carabiniers",
"cavaliers",
"cavalrymen",
"cuirassiers",
"dragoons",
"commandos",
"commandoes",
"raiders",
"servicewomen",
"jarheads",
"marines",
"rangers",
"dogfaces",
"fighters",
"legionaries",
"legionnaires",
"men-at-arms",
"regulars",
"servicemen",
"soldiers",
"troopers",
"warriors",
"artillerymen",
"cannoneers",
"gunners",
"mortarmen",
"musketeers",
"riflemen",
"archers",
"crossbowmen",
"lancers",
"pikemen",
"spearmen",
"Confederates",
"Continentals",
"Federals",
"GIs",
"GI's",
"guardsmen",
"militiamen",
"minutemen"
],
"near antonyms":[
"civilians"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"infest":{
"to spread or swarm over in a troublesome manner":{
"examples":[
"in desperation, we called in an exterminator because the house was infested with ants"
],
"synonyms":[
"overrun"
],
"near synonyms":[
"beset",
"overspread",
"overwhelm",
"abound",
"crawl",
"teem",
"annoy",
"pester",
"plague",
"contaminate",
"infect"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"infections":{
"an abnormal state caused by contact with harmful organisms (such as bacteria or viruses)":{
"examples":[
"There is a viral infection spreading among the schoolchildren."
],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"contagium",
"contagion",
"contagious disease",
"virus",
"germ",
"attack",
"bout",
"fit",
"spell",
"sickishness",
"debilitation",
"debility",
"decrepitude",
"feebleness",
"frailness",
"frailty",
"indisposition",
"invalidism",
"invalidity",
"lameness",
"sickliness",
"unhealthiness",
"unsoundness",
"unwellness",
"weakliness",
"weakness",
"malaise",
"matter",
"pip",
"epidemic",
"pandemic",
"pest",
"pestilence",
"plague",
"affection",
"affliction",
"ail",
"ailment",
"bug",
"complaint",
"complication",
"condition",
"disease",
"disorder",
"distemper",
"distemperature",
"dysfunction",
"disfunction",
"fever",
"ill",
"illness",
"infirmity",
"malady",
"sickness",
"trouble",
"upset"
],
"near antonyms":[
"fitness",
"healthiness",
"hardiness",
"heartiness",
"lustiness",
"robustness",
"soundness",
"wholeness",
"wholesomeness",
"fettle",
"shape",
"health",
"wellness",
"antidote",
"antivenin",
"antivenom",
"mithridate",
"cure",
"cure-all",
"elixir",
"panacea"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"influencing":{
"as in prompting , swaying":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"prompting",
"swaying",
"seduction",
"tempting",
"lobbying",
"pressuring",
"blandishment",
"cajolement",
"cajolery",
"coaxing",
"entreaty",
"exhortation",
"urging",
"wheedling",
"brainwashing",
"overpersuasion",
"conversion",
"convincing",
"inducement",
"inducing",
"persuading",
"persuasion",
"suasion"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to act upon (a person or a person's feelings) so as to cause a response":{
"examples":[
"the news reports of the devastating flood influenced a great many people to make contributions for food and supplies"
],
"synonyms":[
"affecting",
"impacting",
"impressing",
"moving",
"reaching",
"striking",
"swaying",
"telling (on)",
"touching"
],
"near synonyms":[
"carrying away",
"dazzling",
"enrapturing",
"enthralling",
"entrancing",
"ravishing",
"transporting",
"biasing",
"biassing",
"coloring",
"inspiring",
"stirring",
"engaging",
"interesting",
"involving",
"penetrating",
"piercing",
"afflicting",
"agitating",
"bothering",
"concerning",
"discomforting",
"discomposing",
"disquieting",
"distressing",
"disturbing",
"flustering",
"harassing",
"harrying",
"perturbing",
"pestering",
"plaguing",
"smiting",
"straining",
"stressing",
"troubling",
"trying",
"upsetting",
"worrying",
"wringing",
"alluring",
"attracting",
"bewitching",
"captivating",
"charming",
"enchanting",
"fascinating"
],
"near antonyms":[
"boring",
"jading",
"palling",
"tiring",
"wearying",
"underwhelming"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun",
"verb"
]
},
"informatory":{
"providing useful information or knowledge":{
"examples":[
"an informatory brochure is available for first-time visitors to the historic site"
],
"synonyms":[
"educational",
"educative",
"enlightening",
"illuminating",
"informational",
"informative",
"instructional",
"instructive"
],
"near synonyms":[
"comprehensive",
"copious",
"detailed",
"full",
"communicatory",
"edifying",
"elucidative",
"explanatory",
"chatty",
"gossipy",
"newsy",
"availing",
"beneficial",
"constructive",
"helpful",
"profitable",
"practical",
"serviceable",
"usable",
"useable",
"useful",
"worthwhile"
],
"near antonyms":[
"impractical",
"unhelpful",
"unusable",
"useless"
],
"antonyms":[
"unenlightening",
"unilluminating",
"uninformative",
"uninstructive"
]
},
"type":[
"adjective"
]
},
"infective":{
"as in infectious":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"infectious",
"catching",
"communicable",
"contagious",
"pestilent",
"transmissible",
"transmittable"
],
"near antonyms":[
"noncommunicable",
"noninfectious"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"adjective"
]
},
"influences":{
"the power to direct the thinking or behavior of others usually indirectly":{
"examples":[
"a mayor who doesn't hesitate to use her influence to get business leaders behind civic improvements"
],
"synonyms":[
"authorities",
"clouts",
"credits",
"hefts",
"ins",
"juices",
"leverages",
"pulls",
"sways",
"weights"
],
"near synonyms":[
"counterinfluences",
"counter-influences",
"commands",
"dominances",
"dominions",
"masteries",
"predominances",
"reigns",
"scepters",
"sovereignties",
"sovranties",
"supremacies",
"consequences",
"eminences",
"importances",
"moments",
"impacts",
"impresses",
"impressions",
"imprints",
"marks"
],
"near antonyms":[
"impotences",
"impotencies",
"weaknesses"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"the power to bring about a result on another":{
"examples":[
"the basic premise of astrology is that the position of the stars has an influence on human affairs"
],
"synonyms":[
"effects",
"impacts",
"marks",
"repercussions",
"sways"
],
"near synonyms":[
"authorities",
"clouts",
"prestiges",
"pulls",
"weights",
"commands",
"dominations",
"dominions",
"masteries",
"consequences",
"importances",
"significances",
"sovereignties",
"sovranties",
"supremacies"
],
"near antonyms":[
"impotences",
"impotencies",
"weaknesses"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to act upon (a person or a person's feelings) so as to cause a response":{
"examples":[
"the news reports of the devastating flood influenced a great many people to make contributions for food and supplies"
],
"synonyms":[
"affects",
"impacts",
"impresses",
"moves",
"reaches",
"strikes",
"sways",
"tells (on)",
"touches"
],
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"carries away",
"dazzles",
"enraptures",
"enthralls",
"enthrals",
"entrances",
"ravishes",
"transports",
"biases",
"biasses",
"colors",
"inspires",
"stirs",
"engages",
"interests",
"involves",
"penetrates",
"pierces",
"afflicts",
"agitates",
"bothers",
"concerns",
"discomforts",
"discomposes",
"disquiets",
"distresses",
"disturbs",
"flusters",
"harasses",
"harries",
"perturbs",
"pesters",
"plagues",
"smites",
"strains",
"stresses",
"tries",
"troubles",
"upsets",
"worries",
"wrings",
"allures",
"attracts",
"bewitches",
"captivates",
"charms",
"enchants",
"fascinates"
],
"near antonyms":[
"bores",
"jades",
"palls",
"tires",
"wearies",
"underwhelms"
],
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},
"type":[
"noun",
"verb"
]
},
"infrequently":{
"not often":{
"examples":[
"their grandparents were disappointed that they visited so infrequently"
],
"synonyms":[
"little",
"rarely",
"seldom"
],
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"ne'er",
"never",
"episodically",
"irregularly",
"now and then",
"occasionally",
"sometimes",
"sporadically"
],
"near antonyms":[
"customarily",
"generally",
"habitually",
"ordinarily",
"routinely",
"usually",
"always",
"constantly",
"continually",
"continuously",
"endlessly",
"eternally",
"ever",
"everlastingly",
"evermore",
"forever",
"invariably",
"perennially",
"perpetually",
"unceasingly",
"chronically",
"recurrently",
"repeatedly"
],
"antonyms":[
"frequently",
"oft",
"often",
"oftentimes",
"ofttimes"
]
},
"type":[
"adverb"
]
},
"informed (on)":{
"as in turned in , split (on)":{
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"synonyms":[],
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"peached",
"ratted (on)",
"shopped",
"snitched (on)",
"split (on)",
"told (on)",
"turned in",
"gave away",
"backstabbed",
"betrayed",
"crossed",
"double-crossed",
"sold (out)",
"two-timed"
],
"near antonyms":[
"stood by",
"defended",
"guarded",
"protected",
"safeguarded",
"saved",
"shielded"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"inflecting":{
"to change from a straight line or course to a curved one":{
"examples":[
"tree limbs inflecting toward the trunk"
],
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"incurvating",
"incurving",
"reflecting",
"arching",
"bending",
"bowing",
"crooking",
"curving",
"hooking",
"swerving",
"arcing",
"rounding",
"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":[
"straightening",
"unbending",
"uncurling"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"infrangible":{
"as in unbreakable , irrefragable":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"irrefragable",
"unbreakable",
"dependable",
"durable",
"reliable",
"beefy",
"solid",
"bombproof",
"fast",
"firm",
"sound",
"stable",
"stalwart",
"strong",
"sturdy",
"cohesive",
"tough"
],
"near antonyms":[
"rickety",
"unsound",
"unstable",
"unsteady",
"infirm",
"insecure",
"weak",
"shaky",
"tottering",
"tottery",
"unbalanced",
"wobbly",
"wabbly",
"unsubstantial"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"adjective"
]
},
"informed":{
"based on sound reasoning or information":{
"examples":[
"the expert's informed opinion persuaded many fence-sitters to get a flu shot"
],
"synonyms":[
"commonsense",
"commonsensible",
"commonsensical",
"firm",
"good",
"hard",
"just",
"justified",
"levelheaded",
"logical",
"rational",
"reasonable",
"reasoned",
"sensible",
"sober",
"solid",
"valid",
"well-founded"
],
"near synonyms":[
"actual",
"real",
"true",
"certain",
"sure",
"certified",
"validated",
"verified",
"confirmed",
"corroborated",
"substantiated",
"cogent",
"convincing",
"colorable",
"credible",
"plausible"
],
"near antonyms":[
"unsubstantiated",
"unsupported",
"unwarranted",
"flimsy",
"implausible",
"unconvincing",
"weak",
"fallacious",
"false",
"misguided",
"misled"
],
"antonyms":[
"groundless",
"illogical",
"invalid",
"irrational",
"nonrational",
"nonsensical",
"nonvalid",
"unfounded",
"uninformed",
"unjustified",
"unreasonable",
"unreasoned",
"unsound"
]
},
"having information especially as a result of study or experience":{
"examples":[
"people who are informed about nutrition have some serious misgivings about this new diet"
],
"synonyms":[
"abreast",
"acquainted",
"au courant",
"conversant",
"familiar",
"knowledgeable",
"up",
"up-to-date",
"versed",
"well-informed"
],
"near synonyms":[
"alive",
"aware",
"cognizant",
"conscious",
"heedful",
"mindful",
"sensible",
"sentient"
],
"near antonyms":[
"insensible",
"unaware",
"unconscious",
"unmindful",
"blind",
"oblivious",
"unknowing",
"unwitting",
"inattentive",
"unheeding"
],
"antonyms":[
"ignorant",
"unacquainted",
"unfamiliar",
"uninformed",
"unknowledgeable"
]
},
"to give information (as to the authorities) about another's improper or unlawful activities":{
"examples":[
"the police only caught the mastermind of the burglary because his disgruntled partner informed"
],
"synonyms":[
"finked",
"grassed (on)",
"ratted (on)",
"sang",
"sung",
"snitched",
"split (on)",
"squeaked",
"squealed",
"talked",
"told (on)"
],
"near synonyms":[
"betrayed",
"gave away",
"turned in",
"backstabbed",
"crossed",
"double-crossed",
"sold (out)",
"two-timed",
"blabbed",
"tattled",
"tipped (off)"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to give information to":{
"examples":[
"chose teaching as a career because it affords the opportunity to inform a whole generation of young minds"
],
"synonyms":[
"acquainted",
"advised",
"apprised",
"briefed",
"caught up",
"cleared",
"clued (in)",
"enlightened",
"familiarized",
"filled in",
"hipped",
"instructed",
"told",
"versed",
"wised (up)"
],
"near synonyms":[
"advertised",
"alerted",
"notified",
"announced (to)",
"disclosed (to)",
"assured",
"certified",
"convinced",
"reassured",
"warranted",
"educated",
"lectured",
"schooled",
"taught",
"tutored",
"disabused",
"disenchanted",
"disillusioned",
"undeceived"
],
"near antonyms":[
"misinformed",
"misled"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"adjective",
"verb"
]
},
"inflamer":{
"as in igniter , flamer":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"flamer",
"igniter",
"ignitor",
"immolator",
"kindler",
"pyromaniac",
"arsonist",
"firebug",
"incendiary",
"torch"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"infirmaries":{
"a place for the treatment of those who are ill or injured":{
"examples":[
"The school's infirmary has reported an increase in flu cases."
],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"clinics",
"hospitals",
"medical centers",
"sick bays",
"hospices",
"sanatoriums",
"sanatoria",
"sanitariums",
"sanitaria",
"sanitoriums",
"sanitoria",
"sanitaria",
"sanitariums",
"sanitoria",
"sanitoriums",
"halfway houses",
"homes",
"sickrooms"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"infallibly":{
"as in perfectly":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"perfectly",
"appropriately",
"aptly",
"correctly",
"fittingly",
"properly",
"right",
"rightly",
"suitably",
"well",
"germanely",
"meaningfully",
"pertinently",
"relevantly",
"sensibly",
"acceptably",
"adequately",
"satisfactorily",
"sufficiently",
"prudently",
"sagely",
"wisely"
],
"near antonyms":[
"amiss",
"erroneously",
"faultily",
"improperly",
"inaccurately",
"inappropriately",
"inaptly",
"incorrectly",
"mistakenly",
"unsuitably",
"wrongly",
"misguidedly",
"fallibly",
"imperfectly"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"adverb"
]
},
"infeasibility":{
"as in impracticality":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"impracticality",
"imprudence",
"inadvisability",
"inexpedience",
"inexpediency",
"injudiciousness",
"unwisdom",
"inopportuneness",
"unseasonableness",
"untimeliness"
],
"near antonyms":[
"advisability",
"advisableness",
"desirability",
"desirableness",
"expedience",
"expediency",
"judiciousness",
"prudence",
"wisdom",
"advantageousness",
"beneficialness",
"profitability",
"feasibility",
"practicality",
"usefulness"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"infrequency":{
"as in rareness , unusualness":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"infrequence",
"rareness",
"uncommonness",
"unusualness"
],
"near antonyms":[
"commonness",
"frequence",
"frequency",
"frequentness",
"prevalence",
"chronicity",
"constancy",
"continuousness",
"regularity",
"appearance",
"incidence",
"occurrence"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"influent":{
"a stream that flows into a larger body of water":{
"examples":[
"along with its influents , the Missouri and Ohio rivers, the Mississippi River drains all or part of 31 U.S. states and two Canadian provinces"
],
"synonyms":[
"affluent",
"bayou",
"branch",
"confluent",
"feeder",
"tributary"
],
"near synonyms":[
"backwater",
"brook",
"brooklet",
"creek",
"rill",
"rivulet",
"run",
"streamlet",
"fountainhead",
"head",
"headstream",
"headwater",
"source"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[
"distributary",
"effluent"
]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"inflect":{
"to change from a straight line or course to a curved one":{
"examples":[
"tree limbs inflecting toward the trunk"
],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"incurvate",
"incurve",
"reflect",
"arch",
"bend",
"bow",
"crook",
"curve",
"hook",
"swerve",
"arc",
"round",
"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":[
"straighten",
"unbend",
"uncurl"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"influence":{
"the power to direct the thinking or behavior of others usually indirectly":{
"examples":[
"a mayor who doesn't hesitate to use her influence to get business leaders behind civic improvements"
],
"synonyms":[
"authority",
"clout",
"credit",
"heft",
"in",
"juice",
"leverage",
"pull",
"sway",
"weight"
],
"near synonyms":[
"counterinfluence",
"command",
"dominance",
"dominion",
"mastery",
"predominance",
"reign",
"scepter",
"sovereignty",
"sovranty",
"supremacy",
"consequence",
"eminence",
"importance",
"moment",
"impact",
"impress",
"impression",
"imprint",
"mark"
],
"near antonyms":[
"helplessness",
"impotence",
"impotency",
"powerlessness",
"weakness"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"the power to bring about a result on another":{
"examples":[
"the basic premise of astrology is that the position of the stars has an influence on human affairs"
],
"synonyms":[
"effect",
"impact",
"mark",
"repercussion",
"sway"
],
"near synonyms":[
"authority",
"clout",
"prestige",
"pull",
"weight",
"command",
"domination",
"dominion",
"mastery",
"consequence",
"importance",
"significance",
"sovereignty",
"sovranty",
"supremacy"
],
"near antonyms":[
"helplessness",
"impotence",
"impotency",
"powerlessness",
"weakness"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to act upon (a person or a person's feelings) so as to cause a response":{
"examples":[
"the news reports of the devastating flood influenced a great many people to make contributions for food and supplies"
],
"synonyms":[
"affect",
"impact",
"impress",
"move",
"reach",
"strike",
"sway",
"tell (on)",
"touch"
],
"near synonyms":[
"carry away",
"dazzle",
"enrapture",
"entrance",
"enthrall",
"enthral",
"ravish",
"transport",
"bias",
"color",
"inspire",
"stir",
"engage",
"interest",
"involve",
"penetrate",
"pierce",
"afflict",
"agitate",
"bother",
"concern",
"discomfort",
"discompose",
"disquiet",
"distress",
"disturb",
"fluster",
"harass",
"harry",
"perturb",
"pester",
"plague",
"smite",
"strain",
"stress",
"trouble",
"try",
"upset",
"worry",
"wring",
"allure",
"attract",
"bewitch",
"captivate",
"charm",
"enchant",
"fascinate"
],
"near antonyms":[
"bore",
"jade",
"pall",
"tire",
"weary",
"underwhelm"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun",
"verb"
]
},
"infixing":{
"to produce a vivid impression of":{
"examples":[
"a puzzling detail that had been infixed in the detective's mind for over a decade"
],
"synonyms":[
"branding",
"engraving",
"etching",
"impressing",
"imprinting",
"ingraining",
"engraining"
],
"near synonyms":[
"enrooting",
"imbuing",
"implanting",
"inculcating",
"infusing",
"instilling",
"fixing",
"setting",
"stamping"
],
"near antonyms":[
"blotting out",
"erasing",
"expunging",
"obliterating"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to set permanently in the consciousness or mind-set":{
"examples":[
"a football coach celebrated for infixing in his players an all-consuming will to win"
],
"synonyms":[
"breeding",
"enrooting",
"implanting",
"inculcating",
"inseminating",
"instilling",
"planting",
"sowing"
],
"near synonyms":[
"driving",
"hammering",
"pounding",
"embedding",
"imbedding",
"entrenching",
"intrenching",
"fixing",
"lodging",
"rooting",
"imbuing",
"infusing",
"ingraining",
"engraining",
"inoculating",
"investing",
"steeping",
"suffusing"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"infringe":{
"as in violate , breach":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"breach",
"break",
"violate",
"err",
"fall",
"offend",
"sin",
"stray",
"transgress",
"trespass",
"wander",
"backslide",
"lapse",
"mess up"
],
"near antonyms":[
"forgive",
"justify",
"pardon",
"regret",
"repent",
"rue"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"as in invade , intrude":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"entrench",
"intrench",
"impinge",
"intrude",
"invade",
"snake",
"sneak",
"overpass",
"overreach",
"overrun",
"overshoot",
"overstep",
"creep",
"encroach",
"inch",
"worm"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"infallible":{
"not being or likely to be wrong":{
"examples":[
"a teacher with an infallible memory for names"
],
"synonyms":[
"unerring",
"unfailing"
],
"near synonyms":[
"errorless",
"faultless",
"flawless",
"impeccable",
"certain",
"foolproof",
"inerrant",
"perfect",
"sure",
"dependable",
"reliable"
],
"near antonyms":[
"defective",
"faulty",
"flawed",
"imperfect",
"undependable",
"unreliable"
],
"antonyms":[
"fallible"
]
},
"not likely to fail":{
"examples":[
"an infallible cure for hiccups"
],
"synonyms":[
"can't-miss",
"certain",
"fail-safe",
"sure",
"surefire",
"unfailing"
],
"near synonyms":[
"dependable",
"reliable",
"deadly",
"unerring"
],
"near antonyms":[
"doubtful",
"questionable",
"uncertain"
],
"antonyms":[
"fallible"
]
},
"type":[
"adjective"
]
},
"inflating":{
"to make greater in size, amount, or number":{
"examples":[
"Check that you have inflated your tires to the recommended pressure.",
"Some sellers were inflating their prices by as much as 500 per cent."
],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"blowing up",
"dilating",
"distending",
"aerating",
"accelerating",
"adding (to)",
"aggrandizing",
"amplifying",
"augmenting",
"boosting",
"building up",
"compounding",
"enlarging",
"escalating",
"expanding",
"extending",
"hyping",
"increasing",
"multiplying",
"pumping up",
"raising",
"stoking",
"supersizing",
"swelling",
"upping",
"hiking",
"jacking (up)",
"lifting",
"raising",
"upping",
"booming",
"jumping",
"skyrocketing",
"spiking",
"bumping (up)",
"ratcheting (up)",
"racheting (up)",
"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":[
"compressing",
"condensing",
"constricting",
"contracting",
"abating",
"decreasing",
"de-escalating",
"diminishing",
"downsizing",
"dwindling",
"lessening",
"lowering",
"minifying",
"reducing",
"subtracting (from)",
"abbreviating",
"abridging",
"curtailing",
"shortening",
"cutting back",
"retrenching"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to become greater in extent, volume, amount, or number":{
"examples":[
"Airbags are designed to inflate automatically on impact."
],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"blowing up",
"bulking",
"distending",
"puffing (up)",
"accelerating",
"accumulating",
"appreciating",
"ballooning",
"booming",
"building up",
"burgeoning",
"bourgeoning",
"climbing",
"enlarging",
"escalating",
"expanding",
"gaining",
"increasing",
"mounting",
"multiplying",
"mushrooming",
"proliferating",
"rising",
"rolling up",
"snowballing",
"spreading",
"swelling",
"waxing",
"jumping",
"rocketing",
"skyrocketing",
"surging",
"heightening",
"intensifying",
"redoubling",
"crescendoing",
"cresting",
"peaking"
],
"near antonyms":[
"contracting",
"decreasing",
"diminishing",
"dwindling",
"lessening",
"receding",
"waning",
"compressing",
"condensing",
"constricting",
"contracting",
"shrinking"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"inferable":{
"being or provable by reasoning in which the conclusion follows necessarily from given information":{
"examples":[
"the inferable but unstated conclusion of the report on juvenile delinquency"
],
"synonyms":[
"a priori",
"deducible",
"deductive",
"derivable",
"inferential",
"reasoned"
],
"near synonyms":[
"conjectural",
"hypothetical",
"purported",
"supposed",
"suppositional",
"academic",
"academical",
"speculative",
"theoretical",
"theoretic",
"logical",
"rational"
],
"near antonyms":[
"inducible",
"inductive",
"absolute",
"categorical",
"categoric",
"definite",
"explicit",
"express",
"instinctive",
"intuitive",
"illogical",
"irrational"
],
"antonyms":[
"nondeductive"
]
},
"type":[
"adjective"
]
},
"infringes (on or upon)":{
"to fail to keep":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[
"breaches",
"breaks",
"contravenes",
"fractures",
"offends",
"traduces",
"transgresses",
"violates"
],
"near synonyms":[
"disobeys",
"rebels",
"blows off",
"brushes (off)",
"disregards",
"flouts",
"ignores",
"neglects",
"overlooks",
"overpasses",
"passes over",
"slights",
"tunes out",
"winks (at)",
"dismisses",
"pooh-poohs",
"poohs",
"scorns",
"shrugs off",
"defies",
"resists",
"withstands"
],
"near antonyms":[
"defers (to)",
"serves",
"submits (to)",
"surrenders (to)",
"yields (to)",
"attends",
"hears",
"heeds",
"listens (to)",
"marks",
"notes",
"notices",
"regards",
"watches"
],
"antonyms":[
"complies (with)",
"conforms (to)",
"follows",
"minds",
"obeys",
"observes"
]
},
"type":[]
},
"inflows":{
"a flowing or coming in":{
"examples":[
"the inflow of new students every September means that there will always be new blood for student organizations"
