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"morose", "sulky", "sullen", "surly", "brooding", "grave", "humorless", "melancholy", "serious", "sober", "sobersided", "solemn", "somber", "sombre", "staid", "unsmiling", "weighty" ], "near antonyms":[ "bland", "meek", "mellow", "soft", "soothing", "easy", "quiet", "tranquil", "agreeable", "bright", "cheerful", "inviting", "pleasant", "pleasing", "sweet", "glad", "happy", "lighthearted", "merry", "mirthful", "sunny", "featherbrained", "flighty", "frivolous", "giddy", "goofy", "harebrained", "light-headed", "playful", "scatterbrained", "silly" ], "antonyms":[ "benign", "benignant", "gentle", "mild", "nonintimidating", "tender" ] }, "having muscles capable of exerting great physical force":{ "examples":[ "a rugged athlete who's competing in weight lifting in the Olympics" ], "synonyms":[ "brawny", "muscular", "sinewy", "stalwart", "stout", "strong" ], "near synonyms":[ "forceful", "forcible", "mighty", "potent", "powerful", "puissant", "able-bodied", "athletic", "fit", "trim", "beefy", "burly", "husky", "strapping", "masculine", "virile", "hard", "inured", "strengthened", "sturdy", "tough", "toughened", "energetic", "energized", "invigorated", "lusty", "red-blooded", "robust", "vigorous", "vitalized", "hale", "healthy", "hearty", "sound" ], "near antonyms":[ "challenged", "disabled", "incapacitated", "paralyzed", "impotent", "powerless", "puny", "slight", "small", "unathletic", "unfit", "unhealthy" ], "antonyms":[ "delicate", "feeble", "frail", "weak", "weakling", "wimpy" ] }, "not having a level or smooth surface":{ "examples":[ "rugged terrain that made for slow going" ], "synonyms":[ "broken", "bumpy", "coarse", "irregular", "jagged", "lumpy", "pebbly", "ragged", "rough", "roughened", "scraggy", "uneven" ], "near synonyms":[ "lopsided", "unbalanced", "inexact", "unaligned", "rutted", "rutty", "undulating", "undulatory", "wavy", "pitted", "pocked", "knobbly", "knobby", "knurled", "knurly", "nubbly", "nubby", "burred", "harsh", "sandpapery", "scraggly", "scratchy", "nonuniform" ], "near antonyms":[ "exact", "uniform", "aligned", "alined", "regular", "true", "horizontal", "tabular", "plumb", "straight", "vertical", "flush" ], "antonyms":[ "even", "flat", "level", "plane", "smooth" ] }, "requiring considerable physical or mental effort":{ "examples":[ "even more rugged than most ultramarathons, this one crosses a desert" ], "synonyms":[ "arduous", "Augean", "backbreaking", "challenging", "demanding", "difficult", "effortful", "exacting", "formidable", "grueling", "gruelling", "hard", "heavy", "hellacious", "herculean", "killer", "laborious", "moiling", "murderous", "pick-and-shovel", "rigorous", "rough", "severe", "stiff", "strenuous", "sweaty", "tall", "testing", "toilsome", "tough", "uphill" ], "near synonyms":[ "abstract", "abstruse", "complex", "complicated", "elusive", "hairy", "insoluble", "intricate", "involved", "knotty", "opaque", "problematic", "problematical", "recondite", "serious", "spiny", "stubborn", "thorny", "ticklish", "tricky", "bruising", "burdensome", "exhausting", "labored", "onerous", "oppressive", "stressful", "taxing", "tight", "trying", "annoying", "bothersome", "distressing", "irksome", "troublesome", "vexatious", "grievous", "grim", "strict", "stringent", "brutal", "cruel", "inhuman", "painful" ], "near antonyms":[ "achievable", "clear", "doable", "elementary", "manageable", "uncomplicated", "comforting", "gentle", "painless", "relaxed", "smooth", "soothing", "accessible", "friendly", "idiotproof", "user-friendly" ], "antonyms":[ "cheap", "easy", "effortless", "facile", "light", "mindless", "simple", "soft", "undemanding" ] }, "marked by turmoil or disturbance especially of natural elements":{ "examples":[ "New Hampshire's Mount Washington has some of the ruggedest weather in all of North America" ], "synonyms":[ "rough", "stormy", "tempestuous", "tumultuous", "turbulent", "wild" ], "near synonyms":[ "blustering", "blustery", "raging", "violent", "brutal", "harsh", "severe", "roily", "unquiet", "unsettled", "bleak", "inclement", "nasty", "raw", "squally" ], "near antonyms":[ "calm", "halcyon", "peaceful", "placid", "quiet", "serene", "tranquil", "bright", "clear", "clement", "cloudless", "fair", "sunny", "sunshiny", "unclouded" ], "antonyms":[] }, "lacking in refinement or good taste":{ "examples":[ "the kind of rugged humor that men have traditionally enjoyed at stag parties" ], "synonyms":[ "coarse", "common", "crass", "crude", "gross", "ill-bred", "illiberal", "incult", "insensible", "low", "lowbred", "lowbrow", "raffish", "rough", "rough-hewn", "roughneck", "rude", "tasteless", "uncouth", "uncultivated", "uncultured", "unpolished", "unrefined", "vulgar" ], "near synonyms":[ "boorish", "churlish", "cloddish", "clownish", "loutish", "ungentlemanly", "clumsy", "lubberly", "lumpish", "oafish", "inconsiderate", "indelicate", "insensitive", "thoughtless", "countrified", "countryfied", "provincial", "rustic", "rustical", "unsophisticated", "graceless", "inelegant", "tacky", "animallike", "barbaric", "barbarous", "uncivilized", "mannerless", "unmannered", "unmannerly" ], "near antonyms":[ "aristocratic", "courtly", "patrician", "elegant", "graceful", "restrained", "considerate", "gracious", "sensitive", "thoughtful", "citified", "sophisticated", "urbane" ], "antonyms":[ "civilized", "cultivated", "cultured", "genteel", "polished", "refined", "smooth", "tasteful", "ultrarefined", "well-bred" ] }, "type":[ "adjective" ] } }