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{
"nerdish":{
"much given to learning and thinking":{
"antonyms":[
"anti-intellectual",
"lowbrow",
"nonintellectual",
"philistine"
],
"examples":[
"nerdish students will find several university organizations where they will fit in"
],
"near antonyms":[
"uncultivated",
"uncultured",
"ignorant",
"illiterate",
"uneducated",
"unlettered",
"unread",
"dumb",
"foolish",
"idiotic",
"idiotical",
"moronic",
"slow",
"stupid",
"unintelligent",
"benighted",
"unenlightened"
],
"related":[
"cultivated",
"cultured",
"erudite",
"learned",
"literate",
"polyhistoric",
"polymath",
"polymathic",
"scholarly",
"well-read",
"academic",
"academical",
"bookish",
"professorial",
"didactic",
"high-toned",
"hyperintellectual",
"pedantic",
"high-hat",
"snobbish",
"snobby",
"snooty",
"educated",
"schooled",
"brainy",
"bright",
"brilliant",
"clever",
"intelligent",
"quick-witted",
"smart"
],
"synonyms":[
"blue",
"cerebral",
"eggheaded",
"geeky",
"highbrow",
"highbrowed",
"intellectual",
"intellectualist",
"intellectualistic",
"long-haired",
"longhair",
"nerdy"
]
},
"type":[
"adjective"
]
},
"nerds":{
"a person slavishly devoted to intellectual or academic pursuits":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"was such a nerd in college that she spent Saturday nights at the library"
],
"near antonyms":[
"goldbricks",
"goof-offs",
"slackers",
"underachievers",
"lowbrows"
],
"related":[
"double-domes",
"highbrows",
"intellectuals",
"brains",
"geniuses",
"genii",
"academics",
"bookmen",
"scholars",
"gearheads",
"techies"
],
"synonyms":[
"bookworms",
"dinks",
"dorks",
"geeks",
"grinds",
"swots",
"weenies",
"wonks"
]
},
"a person with strong intellectual interests":{
"antonyms":[
"anti-intellectuals",
"lowbrows",
"philistines"
],
"examples":[
"an unlikely romance between a nerd and a campus beauty queen"
],
"near antonyms":[
"blockheads",
"dolts",
"dopes",
"dumbbells",
"dummies",
"dunces",
"fatheads",
"half-wits",
"imbeciles",
"morons",
"nitwits",
"pinheads",
"simpletons"
],
"related":[
"blues",
"bluestockings",
"Brahmins",
"mandarins",
"sages",
"intellectualizers",
"pseuds",
"brains",
"geniuses",
"genii",
"intellects",
"thinkers",
"whizzes",
"wizards"
],
"synonyms":[
"double-domes",
"geeks",
"highbrows",
"intellectualists",
"intellectuals",
"longhairs"
]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"nerved":{
"inclined or willing to take risks":{
"examples":[
"a nerved and fearless driver of race cars"
],
"synonyms":[
"adventuresome",
"adventurous",
"audacious",
"bold",
"daring",
"dashing",
"emboldened",
"enterprising",
"free-swinging",
"gutsy",
"hardy",
"nervy",
"venturesome",
"venturous"
],
"near synonyms":[
"brash",
"daredevil",
"foolhardy",
"heedless",
"hotheaded",
"impetuous",
"imprudent",
"impulsive",
"incautious",
"madcap",
"overbold",
"overconfident",
"rash",
"reckless",
"thoughtless",
"wild",
"brave",
"courageous",
"dauntless",
"fearless",
"gallant",
"greathearted",
"heroic",
"heroical",
"intrepid",
"lionhearted",
"stalwart",
"stout",
"stouthearted",
"swashbuckling",
"unafraid",
"undaunted",
"valiant",
"valorous",
"gritty",
"plucky",
"spirited",
"spunky",
"gadarene",
"hasty",
"headlong",
"precipitate",
"absurd",
"asinine",
"balmy",
"brainless",
"crazy",
"foolish",
"half-witted",
"harebrained",
"insane",
"lunatic",
"mad",
"nutty",
"scatterbrained",
"silly",
"wacky",
"whacky",
"witless",
"unnecessary",
"dumb",
"idiotic",
"idiotical",
"moronic",
"stupid",
"irrational",
"unreasonable"
],
"near antonyms":[
"chickenhearted",
"coward",
"cowardly",
"craven",
"lily-livered",
"milk-livered",
"milky",
"poltroon",
"pusillanimous",
"shy",
"timid",
"timorous",
"careful",
"cautious",
"heedful",
"prudent",
"wary",
"overcareful",
"overcautious",
"affrighted",
"afraid",
"alarmed",
"fainthearted",
"fearful",
"frightened",
"horrified",
"scared",
"shocked",
"spooked",
"startled",
"terrified",
"terrorized",
"unnerved",
"calm",
"cool",
"levelheaded",
"rational",
"reasonable",
"sage",
"sane",
"sensible",
"sound",
"wise",
"appalled",
"concerned",
"dismayed",
"upset",
"worried"
],
"antonyms":[
"unadventurous",
"unenterprising"
]
},
"to prepare (oneself) mentally or emotionally":{
"examples":[
"needs to nerve himself for the big game tomorrow"
],
"synonyms":[
"braced",
"forearmed",
"fortified",
"poised",
"psyched (up)",
"readied",
"steeled",
"strengthened"
],
"near synonyms":[
"armed",
"hardened",
"inured",
"seasoned",
"toughened",
"bolstered",
"boosted",
"buoyed (up)",
"buttressed",
"enforced",
"propped (up)",
"reinforced",
"reenforced",
"supported",
"sustained",
"cheered (up)",
"comforted",
"emboldened",
"encouraged",
"heartened",
"inspired",
"rallied",
"roused",
"stirred"
],
"near antonyms":[
"daunted",
"demoralized",
"discouraged",
"disheartened",
"dispirited",
"psyched (out)",
"shook",
"unnerved",
"debilitated",
"enervated",
"enfeebled",
"prostrated",
"sapped",
"softened",
"tired",
"undercut",
"undermined",
"weakened"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"adjective",
"verb"
]
},
"nervelessly":{
"as in ineffectually , uncertainly":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"impotently",
"ineffectively",
"ineffectually",
"lamely",
"spinelessly",
"uncertainly",
"bloodlessly",
"halfheartedly",
"languidly",
"lazily",
"listlessly",
"spiritlessly",
"delicately",
"faintly",
"frailly",
"shakily",
"feebly",
"gently",
"softly",
"weakly"
],
"near antonyms":[
"dynamically",
"energetically",
"explosively",
"firmly",
"forcefully",
"forcibly",
"hard",
"mightily",
"muscularly",
"powerfully",
"roundly",
"stiffly",
"stoutly",
"strenuously",
"strongly",
"sturdily",
"vigorously",
"fiercely",
"hammer and tongs",
"robustly",
"roughshod",
"sharply",
"vehemently",
"violently",
"actively",
"animatedly",
"briskly",
"crisply",
"eagerly",
"gamely",
"heartily",
"lustily",
"snappily",
"spiritedly",
"spunkily",
"vivaciously"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"adverb"
]
},
"nervousness":{
"an uneasy state of mind usually over the possibility of an anticipated misfortune or trouble":{
"examples":[
"your nervousness over your son's safety is only natural"
],
"synonyms":[
"agita",
"agitation",
"anxiety",
"anxiousness",
"apprehension",
"apprehensiveness",
"care",
"concern",
"concernment",
"disquiet",
"disquietude",
"fear",
"nervosity",
"perturbation",
"solicitude",
"sweat",
"unease",
"uneasiness",
"worry"
],
"near synonyms":[
"strain",
"stress",
"tension",
"alarm",
"alarum",
"anguish",
"consternation",
"desperateness",
"desperation",
"discomfort",
"discomposure",
"dismay",
"distraction",
"distress",
"disturbance",
"edginess",
"franticness",
"hand-wringing",
"jitters",
"jumpiness",
"panic",
"tremor",
"angst",
"fearfulness",
"torment",
"upset",
"vexation",
"cold feet",
"doubt",
"dread",
"foreboding",
"incertitude",
"misgiving",
"presentiment",
"suspense",
"uncertainty",
"compunction",
"qualm",
"scruple"
],
"near antonyms":[
"calm",
"calmness",
"content",
"contentment",
"ease",
"easiness",
"peace",
"peacefulness",
"placidity",
"placidness",
"quiet",
"quietude",
"sereneness",
"serenity",
"tranquillity",
"tranquility",
"tranquilness",
"comfort",
"consolation",
"relief",
"solace"
],
"antonyms":[
"unconcern"
]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"nervous breakdown":{
"a mental or nervous collapse":{
"examples":[
"you're going to have a nervous breakdown if you keep up that pace"
],
"synonyms":[
"breakdown",
"crack-up",
"tailspin"
],
"near synonyms":[
"frazzle",
"freak-out",
"meltdown",
"alarm",
"alarum",
"anxiety",
"apprehension",
"disquiet",
"excitability",
"nervousness",
"disturbance",
"agitation",
"discomposure",
"perturbation",
"basket case"
],
"near antonyms":[
"aplomb",
"calmness",
"composure",
"coolness",
"imperturbability",
"placidity",
"self-possession",
"sereneness",
"serenity",
"tranquillity",
"tranquility",
"tranquilness"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"nerve center":{
"a thing or place that is of greatest importance to an activity or interest":{
"examples":[
"Wall Street's undisputed status as the nerve center for the world of high finance"
],
"synonyms":[
"axis",
"base",
"capital",
"center",
"central",
"core",
"cynosure",
"epicenter",
"eye",
"focus",
"ground zero",
"heart",
"hub",
"locus",
"mecca",
"navel",
"nexus",
"nucleus",
"omphalos",
"seat"
],
"near synonyms":[
"headquarters",
"happy hunting ground",
"hive",
"hotbed",
"hot spot",
"playground",
"playland",
"kernel",
"nub",
"pith",
"deep",
"thick",
"essence",
"quintessence",
"soul",
"attraction",
"lodestone",
"loadstone",
"magnet",
"polestar"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"nerve-wracking":{
"marked by or causing agitation or uncomfortable feelings":{
"examples":[
"the nerve-racking wait to learn the identities of the passengers who were killed in the plane crash"
],
"synonyms":[
"agitating",
"anxious",
"creepy",
"disquieting",
"distressful",
"distressing",
"disturbing",
"fraught",
"hairy",
"nail-biting",
"nervous",
"restless",
"tense",
"uneasy",
"unnerving",
"unsettling",
"worrisome"
],
"near synonyms":[
"bothersome",
"troublesome",
"foreboding",
"misgiving",
"discouraging",
"disheartening",
"strained",
"restive",
"unrestful",
"awkward",
"embarrassing"
],
"near antonyms":[
"restful",
"pacific"
],
"antonyms":[
"calming",
"comfortable",
"easy",
"peaceful",
"quiet",
"quieting",
"tranquil"
]
},
"type":[
"adjective"
]
},
"nerve-racking":{
"marked by or causing agitation or uncomfortable feelings":{
"examples":[
"the nerve-racking wait to learn the identities of the passengers who were killed in the plane crash"
],
"synonyms":[
"agitating",
"anxious",
"creepy",
"disquieting",
"distressful",
"distressing",
"disturbing",
"fraught",
"hairy",
"nail-biting",
"nervous",
"restless",
"tense",
"uneasy",
"unnerving",
"unsettling",
"worrisome"
],
"near synonyms":[
"bothersome",
"troublesome",
"foreboding",
"misgiving",
"discouraging",
"disheartening",
"strained",
"restive",
"unrestful",
"awkward",
"embarrassing"
],
"near antonyms":[
"restful",
"pacific"
],
"antonyms":[
"calming",
"comfortable",
"easy",
"peaceful",
"quiet",
"quieting",
"tranquil"
]
},
"type":[
"adjective"
]
},
"nerts":{
"language, behavior, or ideas that are absurd and contrary to good sense":{
"examples":[
"nerts ! that's all I have to say about that idea"
],
"synonyms":[
"applesauce",
"balderdash",
"baloney",
"boloney",
"beans",
"bilge",
"blah",
"blah-blah",
"blarney",
"blather",
"blatherskite",
"blither",
"bosh",
"bull",
"bunk",
"bunkum",
"buncombe",
"claptrap",
"codswallop",
"crapola",
"crock",
"drivel",
"drool",
"fiddle",
"fiddle-faddle",
"fiddlesticks",
"flannel",
"flapdoodle",
"folderol",
"falderal",
"folly",
"foolishness",
"fudge",
"garbage",
"guff",
"hogwash",
"hokeypokey",
"hokum",
"hoodoo",
"hooey",
"horsefeathers",
"humbug",
"humbuggery",
"jazz",
"malarkey",
"malarky",
"moonshine",
"muck",
"nonsense",
"nuts",
"piffle",
"poppycock",
"punk",
"rot",
"rubbish",
"senselessness",
"silliness",
"slush",
"stupidity",
"taradiddle",
"tarradiddle",
"tommyrot",
"tosh",
"trash",
"trumpery",
"twaddle"
],
"near synonyms":[
"absurdity",
"asininity",
"fatuity",
"foolery",
"idiocy",
"imbecility",
"inaneness",
"inanity",
"insanity",
"kookiness",
"lunacy",
"absurdness",
"craziness",
"madness",
"witlessness",
"hoity-toity",
"monkey business",
"monkeyshine(s)",
"shenanigan(s)",
"tomfoolery",
"gas",
"hot air",
"rigmarole",
"rigamarole",
"double-talk",
"greek",
"hocus-pocus"
],
"near antonyms":[
"levelheadedness",
"rationality",
"reasonability",
"reasonableness",
"sensibleness",
"common sense",
"horse sense",
"sense",
"discernment",
"judgment",
"judgement",
"wisdom"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"plural noun"
]
},
"nerve centers":{
"a thing or place that is of greatest importance to an activity or interest":{
"examples":[
"Wall Street's undisputed status as the nerve center for the world of high finance"
],
"synonyms":[
"axes",
"bases",
"capitals",
"centers",
"centrals",
"cores",
"cynosures",
"epicenters",
"eyes",
"foci",
"focuses",
"ground zeros",
"hearts",
"hubs",
"loci",
"meccas",
"navels",
"nexuses",
"nexus",
"nuclei",
"nucleuses",
"omphali",
"seats"
],
"near synonyms":[
"headquarters",
"happy hunting grounds",
"hives",
"hotbeds",
"hot spots",
"playgrounds",
"playlands",
"kernels",
"nubs",
"piths",
"deeps",
"thicks",
"essences",
"quintessences",
"souls",
"attractions",
"lodestones",
"loadstones",
"magnets",
"polestars"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"nervous Nelly":{
"a person who is inclined to worry":{
"examples":[
"many new parents are nervous Nellies when it comes to the health of their babies"
],
"synonyms":[
"handwringer",
"worrier",
"worrywart"
],
"near synonyms":[
"defeatist",
"fatalist",
"pessimist"
],
"near antonyms":[
"optimist",
"Pollyanna"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"nerves":{
"a sense of panic or extreme nervousness":{
"examples":[
"a veteran performer who still gets a case of the nerves before performances"
],
"synonyms":[
"butterflies",
"dither",
"heebie-jeebies",
"jimjams",
"jitters",
"screaming meemies",
"shakes",
"shivers",
"whim-whams",
"willies"
],
"near synonyms":[
"cold sweat",
"creeps",
"fidgets",
"goose bumps",
"agitation",
"anxiety",
"fear",
"hysteria",
"uneasiness",
"frazzle",
"nervous breakdown",
"edginess",
"jumpiness",
"skittishness"
],
"near antonyms":[
"aplomb",
"calm",
"composure",
"equanimity",
"imperturbability",
"self-possession",
"tranquillity",
"tranquility"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to prepare (oneself) mentally or emotionally":{
"examples":[
"needs to nerve himself for the big game tomorrow"
],
"synonyms":[
"braces",
"forearms",
"fortifies",
"poises",
"psyches (up)",
"readies",
"steels",
"strengthens"
],
"near synonyms":[
"arms",
"hardens",
"inures",
"seasons",
"toughens",
"bolsters",
"boosts",
"buoys (up)",
"buttresses",
"enforces",
"props (up)",
"reinforces",
"reenforces",
"supports",
"sustains",
"cheers (up)",
"comforts",
"emboldens",
"encourages",
"heartens",
"inspires",
"rallies",
"rouses",
"stirs"
],
"near antonyms":[
"daunts",
"demoralizes",
"discourages",
"disheartens",
"dispirits",
"psychs (out)",
"shakes",
"unnerves",
"debilitates",
"enervates",
"enfeebles",
"prostrates",
"saps",
"softens",
"tires",
"undercuts",
"undermines",
"weakens"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun",
"verb"
]
},
"nervosity":{
"an uneasy state of mind usually over the possibility of an anticipated misfortune or trouble":{
"examples":[
"a palpable feeling of nervosity in every corner of the city after the terrorist attack"
],
"synonyms":[
"agita",
"agitation",
"anxiety",
"anxiousness",
"apprehension",
"apprehensiveness",
"care",
"concern",
"concernment",
"disquiet",
"disquietude",
"fear",
"nervousness",
"perturbation",
"solicitude",
"sweat",
"unease",
"uneasiness",
"worry"
],
"near synonyms":[
"strain",
"stress",
"tension",
"alarm",
"alarum",
"anguish",
"consternation",
"desperateness",
"desperation",
"discomfort",
"discomposure",
"dismay",
"distraction",
"distress",
"disturbance",
"edginess",
"franticness",
"hand-wringing",
"jitters",
"jumpiness",
"panic",
"tremor",
"angst",
"fearfulness",
"torment",
"upset",
"vexation",
"cold feet",
"doubt",
"dread",
"foreboding",
"incertitude",
"misgiving",
"presentiment",
"suspense",
"uncertainty",
"compunction",
"qualm",
"scruple"
],
"near antonyms":[
"calm",
"calmness",
"content",
"contentment",
"ease",
"easiness",
"peace",
"peacefulness",
"placidity",
"placidness",
"quiet",
"quietude",
"sereneness",
"serenity",
"tranquillity",
"tranquility",
"tranquilness",
"comfort",
"consolation",
"relief",
"solace"
],
"antonyms":[
"unconcern"
]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"Nereids":{
"as in mermaids , sirens":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"mermaids",
"Oceanids",
"sea-maids",
"sea-maidens",
"sirens",
"water nymphs",
"dryads",
"hamadryads",
"naiads",
"naiades",
"nymphs",
"oreads",
"wood nymphs"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"nerdy":{
"much given to learning and thinking":{
"examples":[
"a fringe party of nerdy political activists who have no chance of getting elected"
],
"synonyms":[
"blue",
"cerebral",
"eggheaded",
"geeky",
"highbrow",
"highbrowed",
"intellectual",
"intellectualist",
"intellectualistic",
"long-haired",
"longhair",
"nerdish"
],
"near synonyms":[
"cultivated",
"cultured",
"erudite",
"learned",
"literate",
"polyhistoric",
"polymath",
"polymathic",
"scholarly",
"well-read",
"academic",
"academical",
"bookish",
"professorial",
"didactic",
"high-toned",
"hyperintellectual",
"pedantic",
"high-hat",
"snobbish",
"snobby",
"snooty",
"educated",
"schooled",
"brainy",
"bright",
"brilliant",
"clever",
"intelligent",
"quick-witted",
"smart"
],
"near antonyms":[
"uncultivated",
"uncultured",
"ignorant",
"illiterate",
"uneducated",
"unlettered",
"unread",
"dumb",
"foolish",
"idiotic",
"idiotical",
"moronic",
"slow",
"stupid",
"unintelligent",
"benighted",
"unenlightened"
],
"antonyms":[
"anti-intellectual",
"lowbrow",
"nonintellectual",
"philistine"
]
},
"type":[
"adjective"
]
},
"nervous wrecks":{
"a person who is inclined to worry":{
"examples":[
"Between her upcoming deadlines and a baby on the way, Nellie is a nervous wreck ."
],
"synonyms":[
"handwringers",
"nervous Nellies",
"worriers",
"worrywarts"
],
"near synonyms":[
"defeatists",
"fatalists",
"pessimists"
],
"near antonyms":[
"optimists",
"Pollyannas"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"phrase"
]
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},
"nervous breakdowns":{
"a mental or nervous collapse":{
"examples":[
"you're going to have a nervous breakdown if you keep up that pace"
],
"synonyms":[
"breakdowns",
"crack-ups",
"tailspins"
],
"near synonyms":[
"frazzles",
"freak-outs",
"meltdowns",
"alarms",
"alarums",
"anxieties",
"apprehensions",
"disquiets",
"excitabilities",
"disturbances",
"agitations",
"discomposures",
"perturbations",
"basket cases"
],
"near antonyms":[
"aplombs",
"composures",
"imperturbabilities",
"placidities",
"self-possessions",
"serenities",
"tranquillities",
"tranquilities"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
}
}