{
  "ray":{
    "a narrow sharply defined line of light radiating from an object":{
      "antonyms":[],
      "examples":[
        "two red eyes reflected in the ray of light from the flashlight"
      ],
      "near antonyms":[],
      "related":[
        "moonbeam",
        "sunbeam",
        "sunburst",
        "laser",
        "spotlight"
      ],
      "synonyms":[
        "beam",
        "shaft"
      ]
    },
    "a very small amount":{
      "antonyms":[],
      "examples":[
        "the tapping sound ceased, extinguishing the last ray of hope that the trapped miners were still alive"
      ],
      "near antonyms":[
        "abundance",
        "barrel",
        "boatload",
        "bucket",
        "bundle",
        "bushel",
        "deal",
        "fistful",
        "gobs",
        "heaps",
        "lashings",
        "lashins",
        "loads",
        "lot",
        "mass",
        "mess",
        "mountain",
        "much",
        "oodles",
        "passel",
        "peck",
        "pile",
        "plenty",
        "potful",
        "profusion",
        "quantity",
        "raft",
        "reams",
        "scads",
        "stack",
        "wad",
        "wealth",
        "volume",
        "bonanza",
        "embarrassment",
        "excess",
        "overabundance",
        "overage",
        "overflow",
        "overkill",
        "overmuch",
        "oversupply",
        "superabundance",
        "superfluity",
        "surfeit",
        "surplus",
        "chunk",
        "hunk",
        "lump",
        "slab"
      ],
      "related":[
        "hoot",
        "iota",
        "jot",
        "minim",
        "minimum",
        "modicum",
        "semblance",
        "syllable",
        "tittle",
        "vestige",
        "whit",
        "atom",
        "dot",
        "fleck",
        "flyspeck",
        "grain",
        "granule",
        "molecule",
        "morsel",
        "mote",
        "nubbin",
        "patch",
        "scrap",
        "dash",
        "drop",
        "pinch",
        "part",
        "portion",
        "section",
        "bite",
        "nibble",
        "taste",
        "handful",
        "scattering",
        "smatter",
        "smattering",
        "dose",
        "shot",
        "chip",
        "flake",
        "fragment",
        "shard",
        "shiver",
        "sliver",
        "smithereens",
        "splinter",
        "tatter",
        "clipping",
        "paring",
        "shaving"
      ],
      "synonyms":[
        "ace",
        "bit",
        "crumb",
        "dab",
        "dram",
        "driblet",
        "glimmer",
        "hint",
        "lick",
        "little",
        "mite",
        "nip",
        "ounce",
        "particle",
        "peanuts",
        "scintilla",
        "scruple",
        "shade",
        "shadow",
        "shred",
        "skosh",
        "smack",
        "smell",
        "smidgen",
        "smidgeon",
        "smidgin",
        "smidge",
        "snap",
        "soup\u00e7on",
        "spark",
        "spatter",
        "speck",
        "splash",
        "spot",
        "sprinkling",
        "strain",
        "streak",
        "suspicion",
        "tad",
        "touch",
        "trace"
      ]
    },
    "to emit rays of light":{
      "antonyms":[],
      "examples":[
        "klieg lights were raying against the nighttime sky at the Hollywood premiere"
      ],
      "near antonyms":[
        "blacken",
        "darken",
        "lower",
        "lour"
      ],
      "related":[
        "blaze",
        "burn",
        "fire",
        "flame",
        "gleam",
        "glimmer",
        "glint",
        "glisten",
        "glister",
        "glitter",
        "glow",
        "luminesce",
        "sheen",
        "shimmer",
        "blink",
        "coruscate",
        "flare",
        "flash",
        "flicker",
        "luster",
        "lustre",
        "scintillate",
        "spangle",
        "sparkle",
        "twinkle",
        "wink",
        "winkle",
        "beat (down)",
        "glare",
        "brighten",
        "illuminate",
        "illumine",
        "irradiate",
        "light",
        "lighten",
        "bedazzle",
        "blind",
        "daze",
        "dazzle"
      ],
      "synonyms":[
        "beam",
        "radiate",
        "shine"
      ]
    },
    "to extend outwards from or as if from a central point":{
      "antonyms":[
        "concentrate",
        "converge",
        "focus",
        "funnel",
        "meet"
      ],
      "examples":[
        "laugh wrinkles rayed out from the corners of the old man's eyes"
      ],
      "near antonyms":[
        "approach",
        "close in (on)",
        "near",
        "center (on)",
        "centralize",
        "connect",
        "couple",
        "join",
        "link",
        "unite"
      ],
      "related":[
        "diffuse",
        "dispel",
        "disperse",
        "dissipate",
        "fork",
        "stem",
        "diverge",
        "divide",
        "part",
        "ramify",
        "separate",
        "split",
        "uncouple",
        "unlink",
        "unyoke",
        "scatter",
        "splay",
        "spread",
        "arise",
        "derive",
        "emanate",
        "flow",
        "issue",
        "proceed",
        "spring"
      ],
      "synonyms":[
        "branch",
        "fan (out)",
        "radiate"
      ]
    },
    "type":[
      "noun",
      "verb"
    ]
  },
  "rayless":{
    "being without light or without much light":{
      "examples":[
        "the strange creatures that lurk in the rayless depths of the sea"
      ],
      "synonyms":[
        "black",
        "caliginous",
        "dark",
        "darkened",
        "darkish",
        "darkling",
        "darksome",
        "dim",
        "dimmed",
        "dusk",
        "dusky",
        "gloomy",
        "lightless",
        "murky",
        "obscure",
        "obscured",
        "pitch-black",
        "pitch-dark",
        "pitchy",
        "somber",
        "sombre",
        "stygian",
        "tenebrific",
        "tenebrous",
        "unlit"
      ],
      "near synonyms":[
        "crepuscular",
        "twilit",
        "moonless",
        "starless",
        "sunless",
        "cloudy",
        "dull",
        "dulled",
        "lackluster",
        "shadowlike",
        "shadowy",
        "shady",
        "gray",
        "grey",
        "leaden",
        "pale",
        "beclouded",
        "befogged",
        "clouded",
        "foggy",
        "fuliginous",
        "misty",
        "smoggy",
        "soupy"
      ],
      "near antonyms":[
        "ablaze",
        "agleam",
        "aglitter",
        "alight",
        "beaming",
        "beamy",
        "effulgent",
        "glaring",
        "glowing",
        "incandescent",
        "lambent",
        "radiant",
        "relucent",
        "resplendent",
        "shining",
        "sparkling",
        "ultrabright",
        "glossy",
        "lustrous",
        "shiny",
        "floodlit",
        "floodlighted",
        "highlighted",
        "spotlighted",
        "spotlit",
        "moonlit",
        "moony",
        "starlit",
        "sunlit"
      ],
      "antonyms":[
        "bright",
        "brightened",
        "brilliant",
        "illuminated",
        "illumined",
        "light",
        "lit",
        "lighted",
        "lightsome",
        "lucent",
        "lucid",
        "luminous"
      ]
    },
    "type":[
      "adjective"
    ]
  }
}