{
  "afloat":{
    "riding upon the surface of a body of liquid":{
      "examples":[
        "the boat can't stay afloat much longer"
      ],
      "synonyms":[
        "floating"
      ],
      "near synonyms":[
        "buoyant",
        "floaty",
        "unsinkable",
        "free-floating",
        "awash",
        "drifting",
        "gliding",
        "hanging",
        "hovering",
        "poised",
        "sailing",
        "wafting"
      ],
      "near antonyms":[
        "aground",
        "high and dry"
      ],
      "antonyms":[
        "sinking",
        "sunk"
      ]
    },
    "as in abroad , hereabouts":{
      "examples":[],
      "synonyms":[],
      "near synonyms":[
        "abroad",
        "hereabouts",
        "hereabout",
        "all over",
        "everyplace",
        "everywhere",
        "about",
        "around",
        "round"
      ],
      "near antonyms":[],
      "antonyms":[]
    },
    "type":[
      "adjective",
      "adverb"
    ]
  },
  "aflutter":{
    "feeling or showing uncomfortable feelings of uncertainty":{
      "examples":[
        "Jonathan was all aflutter about taking a job at the new start-up company"
      ],
      "synonyms":[
        "antsy",
        "anxious",
        "atwitter",
        "dithery",
        "edgy",
        "goosey",
        "het up",
        "hinky",
        "hung up",
        "ill at ease",
        "insecure",
        "jittery",
        "jumpy",
        "nervous",
        "nervy",
        "perturbed",
        "queasy",
        "queazy",
        "tense",
        "troubled",
        "uneasy",
        "unquiet",
        "upset",
        "uptight",
        "worried"
      ],
      "near synonyms":[
        "aggrieved",
        "bothered",
        "concerned",
        "disquieted",
        "distraught",
        "distressed",
        "disturbed",
        "freaked",
        "freaked-out",
        "shook-up",
        "apprehensive",
        "foreboding",
        "hesitant",
        "misgiving",
        "fretful",
        "fretting",
        "stewing",
        "vexed",
        "qualmish",
        "qualmy",
        "flustered",
        "twittered",
        "undone",
        "unnerved",
        "unstrung",
        "obsessed",
        "preoccupied",
        "restless",
        "fidgety",
        "flighty",
        "fluttery",
        "high-strung",
        "hypertense",
        "skittish",
        "spooky"
      ],
      "near antonyms":[
        "confident",
        "self-assured",
        "self-confident",
        "sure",
        "controlled",
        "self-controlled"
      ],
      "antonyms":[
        "calm",
        "collected",
        "cool",
        "easy",
        "happy-go-lucky",
        "nerveless",
        "relaxed"
      ]
    },
    "type":[
      "adjective"
    ]
  },
  "aflame":{
    "being on fire":{
      "examples":[
        "the kindling in the wood stove was aflame as soon as I held a match to it"
      ],
      "synonyms":[
        "ablaze",
        "afire",
        "alight",
        "blazing",
        "burning",
        "combusting",
        "conflagrant",
        "fiery",
        "flaming",
        "ignited",
        "inflamed",
        "enflamed",
        "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":[]
    },
    "type":[
      "adjective"
    ]
  }
}