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"broadminded", "open", "open-minded", "receptive" ], "related":[ "adamant", "adamantine", "hardheaded", "headstrong", "implacable", "inflexible", "mulish", "obdurate", "obstinate", "pertinacious", "perverse", "pigheaded", "rigid", "self-willed", "stubborn", "unbending", "unyielding" ], "synonyms":[ "doctrinaire", "opinionated", "opinionative", "opinioned", "pontifical", "self-opinionated" ] }, "type":[ "adjective" ] }, "doing%20a%20number%20on":{ "to cause to believe what is untrue":{ "antonyms":[ "undeceiving" ], "examples":[ "The scammers really did a number on some unsuspecting homeowners." ], "near antonyms":[ "debunking", "exposing", "revealing", "showing up", "uncloaking", "uncovering", "unmasking", "disclosing", "divulging", "telling", "unveiling", "disabusing", "disenchanting", "disillusioning" ], "related":[ "kidding", "putting on", "teasing", "bleeding", "cheating", "chiseling", "chiselling", "defrauding", "diddling", "euchring", "fleecing", "flimflamming", "hustling", 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"simple", "slow", "slow-witted", "soft", "softheaded", "stupid", "thick", "thick-witted", "thickheaded", "unintelligent", "unsmart", "vacuous", "weak-minded", "witless" ] }, "type":[ "adjective" ] }, "dominates":{ "to bring under one's control by force of arms":{ "antonyms":[], "examples":[ "by 1941 Hitler had dominated much of Europe" ], "near antonyms":[ "discharges", "emancipates", "enfranchises", "frees", "liberates", "manumits", "releases", "springs", "unbinds", "uncages", "unchains", "unfetters" ], "related":[ "annihilates", "beats", "clobbers", "crushes", "defeats", "drubs", "licks", "mows (down)", "overcomes", "prevails (over)", "reduces", "routs", "skunks", "smashes", "thrashes", "triumphs (over)", "trounces", "wallops", "whips", "enslaves", "breaks", "clamps down (on)", "cracks down (on)", "puts down", "quashes", "quells", "represses", "silences", "smothers", "snuffs (out)", "squashes", "squelches", "suppresses" ], "synonyms":[ "conquers", "overpowers", "pacifies", "subdues", "subjects", "subjugates", "subordinates", "vanquishes" ] }, "to look down on":{ "antonyms":[], "examples":[ "the ruined fortress dominates the town" ], "near antonyms":[], "related":[ "faces", "fronts" ], "synonyms":[ "commands", "overlooks" ] }, "type":[ "verb" ] }, "don":{ "as in":{ "antonyms":[], "examples":[], "near antonyms":[], "related":[], "synonyms":[] }, "to place on one's person":{ "antonyms":[ "doff", "remove", "take off" ], "examples":[ "she donned her best gown for the ball" ], "near antonyms":[ "disrobe", "strip", "undress" ], "related":[ "apparel", "array", "attire", "bedeck", "bedizen", "bundle up", "caparison", "clothe", "doll up", "dress", "garb", "rig", "robe", "suit", "trick", "uniform", "overdress" ], "synonyms":[ "put on", "slip (on or into)", "throw (on)" ] }, "type":[ "noun", "verb" ] }, "donate":{ "to make a present of":{ "antonyms":[], "examples":[ "we plan to donate all the profits from the rummage sale to charity" ], "near antonyms":[ "hold", "keep", "pocket", "retain", "withhold", "preserve", "save", "advance", "lend", "loan", "sell" ], "related":[ "chip in", "kick in", "pitch in", "throw in", "award", "confer", "endow", "endue", "indue", "render", "afford", "comp", "furnish", "provide", "lavish", "regale", "aid", "assist", "benefit", "help", "administer", "dish out", "dispense", "dole out", "hand out", "impart", "issue", "mete (out)", "extend", "fork (over, out, or up)", "offer", "pay", "proffer", "pungle (up)", "put up", "tender", "sacrifice" ], "synonyms":[ "bestow", "contribute", "give", "give away", "present", "volunteer" ] }, "type":[ "verb" ] }, "dooming":{ "to determine the fate of in advance":{ "antonyms":[], "examples":[ "the actor felt that he was doomed to be forever remembered for that one terrible performance" ], "near antonyms":[], "related":[ "predestinating", "auguring", "forecasting", "foretelling", "predicting", "presaging", "prognosticating", "prophesying", "preconceiving", "prejudging", "condemning", "sentencing", "boding", "foreboding", "forboding", "portending", "anticipating", "divining", "foreknowing", "foreseeing" ], "synonyms":[ "destining", "fating", "foredooming", "foreordaining", "ordaining", "predestining", "predetermining", "preordaining" ] }, "to impose a judicial punishment on":{ "antonyms":[], "examples":[ "doomed the murderer to life in prison without the possibility of parole" ], "near antonyms":[ "pardoning", "reprieving" ], "related":[ "adjudging", "judging", "castigating", "censuring", "chastening", "chastising", "correcting", "disciplining", "penalizing", "punishing", "concluding", "deciding", "decreeing", "determining", "finding", "opining", "resolving", "ruling" ], "synonyms":[ "condemning", "damning", "sentencing" ] }, "type":[ "verb" ] }, "doorway":{ "the means or right of entering or participating in":{ "antonyms":[], "examples":[ "the doorway to a life of luxury and leisure" ], "near antonyms":[ "discharge", "dismissal", "ejection", "expulsion", "ouster", "rejection", "removal" ], "related":[ "approval", "authorization", "certification", "permission", "qualification", "open door", "welcome mat" ], "synonyms":[ "access", "accession", "admission", "admittance", "door", "entrance", "entr\u00e9e", "entree", "entry", "gateway", "ingress", "key", "passport", "ticket" ] }, "the opening through which one can enter or leave a structure":{ "antonyms":[], "examples":[ "he stood in the doorway until we finally invited him in" ], "near antonyms":[], "related":[ "hatch", "hatchway" ], "synonyms":[ "door", "entrance", "gate", "gateway", "way" ] }, "type":[ "noun" ] }, "dope":{ "a stupid person":{ "antonyms":[ "brain", "genius" ], "examples":[ "that dope thought he could swim across the Colorado River at night" ], "near antonyms":[ "intellect", "intellectual", "sage", "thinker", "whiz", "wizard", "polymath", "Renaissance man", "sharpie", "sharpy" ], "related":[ "booby", "buffoon", "fool", "goose", "loony", "lunatic", "madman", "nut", "zany", "loser", "gawk", "featherbrain", "scatterbrain", "beast", "boor", "cad", "churl", "clown", "creep", "cur", "heel", "jerk", "skunk", "snake", "stinker", "villain" ], "synonyms":[ "airhead", "birdbrain", "blockhead", "bonehead", "bubblehead", "chowderhead", "chucklehead", "clodpoll", "clodpole", "clot", "cluck", "clunk", "cretin", "cuddy", "cuddie", "deadhead", "dim bulb", "dimwit", "dip", "dodo", "dolt", "donkey", "doofus", "dork", "dullard", "dum-dum", "dumbbell", "dumbhead", "dummkopf", "dummy", "dunce", "dunderhead", "fathead", "gander", "golem", "goof", "goon", "half-wit", "hammerhead", "hardhead", "idiot", "ignoramus", "imbecile", "jackass", "know-nothing", "knucklehead", "lamebrain", "loggerhead", "loon", "lump", "lunkhead", "meathead", "mome", "moron", "mug", "mutt", "natural", "nimrod", "nincompoop", "ninny", "ninnyhammer", "nit", "nitwit", "noddy", "noodle", "numskull", "numbskull", "oaf", "pinhead", "prat", "ratbag", "saphead", "schlub", "shlub", "schnook", "simpleton", "stock", "stupe", "stupid", "thickhead", "turkey", "woodenhead", "yahoo", "yo-yo" ] }, "information not generally available to the public":{ "antonyms":[], "examples":[ "the stool pigeon gave us the dope on the deal taking place that night at the warehouse" ], "near antonyms":[ "ancient history", "open secret" ], "related":[ "dirt", "dish", "gossip", "rumor", "story", "hint", "pointer", "information", "intelligence", "news", "tidings", "word" ], "synonyms":[ "book", "411", "inside", "lowdown", "poop", "scoop", "skinny", "tip" ] }, "of the very best kind":{ "antonyms":[ "atrocious", "awful", "execrable", "lousy", "pathetic", "poor", "rotten", "terrible", "vile", "wretched" ], "examples":[ "dude, there are some really dope rhymes on that rap album" ], "near antonyms":[ "bad", "inferior", "low-grade", "substandard", "unsatisfactory", "mediocre", "middling", "second-class", "second-rate" ], "related":[ "acceptable", "adequate", "all right", "decent", "good", "OK", "okay", "passable", "satisfactory", "tolerable", "better", "exceptional", "fancy", "high-grade", "high-test", "premium", "select", "special", "superfine", "classical", "standard", "traditional" ], "synonyms":[ "A-OK", "A1", "awesome", "bang-up", "banner", "beautiful", "blue-chip", "blue-ribbon", "boffo", "bonny", "bonnie", "boss", "brag", "brave", "bully", "bumper", "capital", "choice", "classic", "cool", "corking", "crackerjack", "cracking", "dandy", "divine", "down", "dynamite", "excellent", "fab", "fabulous", "famous", "fantabulous", "fantastic", "fine", "first-class", "first-rate", "first-string", "five-star", "four-star", "frontline", "gangbusters", "gangbuster", "gilt-edged", "gilt-edge", "gone", "grand", "great", "groovy", "heavenly", "high-class", "hot", "hype", "immense", "jim-dandy", "keen", "lovely", "marvelous", "marvellous", "mean", "neat", "nifty", "noble", "number one", "No. 1", "numero uno", "out-of-sight", "par excellence", "peachy", "peachy keen", "phat", "prime", "primo", "prize", "prizewinning", "quality", "radical", "righteous", "sensational", "slick", "splendid", "stellar", "sterling", "superb", "superior", "superlative", "supernal", "swell", "terrific", "tip-top", "top", "top-notch", "top-of-the-line", "top-shelf", "topflight", "topping", "unsurpassed", "wizard", "wonderful" ] }, "type":[ "adjective", "noun" ] }, "dope%20%28out%29":{ "to find an answer for through reasoning":{ "antonyms":[], "examples":[ "tried to dope out the answer from the little information we had been given" ], "near antonyms":[], "related":[ "conclude", "decide", "deduce", "gather", "infer", "judge", "reason", "clear (up)", "iron out", "straighten (out)", "unscramble", "untangle", "untie", "assume", "conjecture", "divine", "guess", "presume", "speculate", "decipher", "decode" ], "synonyms":[ "answer", "break", "crack", "figure out", "puzzle (out)", "resolve", "riddle (out)", "solve", "unravel", "unriddle", "work", "work out" ] }, "type":[ "verb" ] }, "doped%20%28out%29":{ "to find an 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"equals", "equivalents", "analogues", "analogs", "parallels" ], "synonyms":[ "alter egos", "carbon copies", "carbons", "clones", "counterparts", "doubles", "duplicates", "duplications", "facsimiles", "fetches", "images", "likenesses", "look-alikes", "matches", "mirror images", "pictures", "replicas", "ringers", "spits", "spitting images", "twins" ] }, "type":[ "noun" ] }, "dopy":{ "not having or showing an ability to absorb ideas readily":{ "antonyms":[ "apt", "brainy", "bright", "brilliant", "clever", "fast", "hyperintelligent", "intelligent", "keen", "nimble", "quick", "quick-witted", "sharp", "sharp-witted", "smart", "supersmart", "ultrasmart" ], "examples":[ "a sweet but dopey little dog who never learned any tricks" ], "near antonyms":[ "ingenious", "resourceful", "acute", "astute", "discerning", "insightful", "keen", "knowing", "perceptive", "percipient", "perspicacious", "sagacious", "sage", "sapient", "savvy", "wise", "cerebral", "erudite", "highbrow", "intellectual", 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"bonehead", "boneheaded", "brain-dead", "brainless", "bubbleheaded", "chuckleheaded", "dense", "dim", "dim-witted", "doltish", "dorky", "dull", "dumb", "dunderheaded", "empty-headed", "fatuous", "gormless", "half-witted", "knuckleheaded", "lamebrain", "lamebrained", "lunkheaded", "mindless", "oafish", "obtuse", "opaque", "pinheaded", "senseless", "simple", "slow", "slow-witted", "soft", "softheaded", "stupid", "thick", "thick-witted", "thickheaded", "unintelligent", "unsmart", "vacuous", "weak-minded", "witless" ] }, "suffering from mental confusion":{ "antonyms":[ "clearheaded" ], "examples":[ "we were still dopey from having all those facts and figures thrown at us" ], "near antonyms":[ "alert", "conscious" ], "related":[ "senseless", "unconscious" ], "synonyms":[ "addle", "addled", "addlepated", "bedeviled", "befogged", "befuddled", "bemused", "bewildered", "bushed", "confounded", "confused", "dazed", "distracted", "dizzy", "fogged", "mixed-up", "muddleheaded", "muzzy", "pixilated", "pixillated", "punch-drunk", "punchy", "raddled", "shell-shocked", "silly", "slaphappy", "spaced-out", "spaced", "spacey", "spacy", "stunned", "stupefied", "zonked", "zonked-out" ] }, "type":[ "adjective" ] }, "dories":{ "as in":{ "antonyms":[], "examples":[], "near antonyms":[], "related":[], "synonyms":[] }, "type":[ "noun" ] }, "dose":{ "as in":{ "antonyms":[], "examples":[], "near antonyms":[], "related":[], "synonyms":[] }, "type":[ "noun", "verb" ] }, "dosing":{ "as in":{ "antonyms":[], "examples":[], "near antonyms":[], "related":[], "synonyms":[] }, "type":[ "verb" ] }, "doting%20%28on%29":{ "to love or admire too much":{ "antonyms":[], "examples":[ "doted on her only grandchild" ], "near antonyms":[ "abhorring", "abominating", "despising", "detesting", "disdaining", "disliking", "hating", "loathing", "belittling", "deprecating", "disparaging", "misprizing", "putting down" ], "related":[ "appreciating", "cherishing", "esteeming", "prizing", "treasuring", "valuing", "fancying", "favoring", "liking", "preferring", "regarding", "hallowing", "respecting", "revering", "venerating", "approving", "endorsing", "indorsing", "supporting" ], "synonyms":[ "adoring", "adulating", "canonizing", "deifying", "hero-worshipping", "hero-worshiping", "idolizing", "worshipping", "worshiping" ] }, "type":[ "verb" ] }, "double cross":{ "the act or fact of violating the trust or confidence of another":{ "antonyms":[ "allegiance", "devotion", "faithfulness", "fealty", "fidelity", "loyalty", "staunchness", "steadfastness" ], "examples":[ "politics is full of double crosses and backbiting" ], "near antonyms":[ "dependability", "reliability", "trustworthiness", "defense", "protection", "safeguard", "shield" ], "related":[ "abandonment", "desertion", "deceit", "deception", "double-dealing", "duplicity", "guile", "two-facedness", "fraud", "informing", "lying", "snitching", "talebearing", "trickery" ], "synonyms":[ "backstabbing", "betrayal", "business", "disloyalty", "faithlessness", "falseness", "falsity", "infidelity", "perfidy", "sellout", "treachery", "treason", "two-timing", "unfaithfulness" ] }, "to be unfaithful or disloyal to":{ "antonyms":[ "stand by" ], "examples":[ "she promised to share the profits but then double-crossed us" ], "near antonyms":[ "defend", "guard", "protect", "safeguard", "save", "shield" ], "related":[ "give away", "inform (on)", "peach", "rat (on)", "shop", "snitch (on)", "split (on)", "tell (on)", "turn in" ], "synonyms":[ "backstab", "betray", "cross", "sell (out)", "two-time" ] }, "type":[ "noun", "verb" ] }, "double-cross":{ "the act or fact of violating the trust or confidence of another":{ "antonyms":[ "allegiance", "devotion", "faithfulness", "fealty", "fidelity", "loyalty", "staunchness", "steadfastness" ], "examples":[ "politics is full of double crosses and backbiting" ], "near antonyms":[ "dependability", "reliability", "trustworthiness", "defense", "protection", "safeguard", "shield" ], "related":[ "abandonment", "desertion", "deceit", "deception", "double-dealing", "duplicity", "guile", "two-facedness", "fraud", "informing", "lying", "snitching", "talebearing", "trickery" ], "synonyms":[ "backstabbing", "betrayal", "business", "disloyalty", "faithlessness", "falseness", "falsity", "infidelity", "perfidy", "sellout", "treachery", "treason", "two-timing", "unfaithfulness" ] }, "to be unfaithful or disloyal to":{ "antonyms":[ "stand by" ], "examples":[ "she promised to share the profits but then double-crossed us" ], "near antonyms":[ "defend", "guard", "protect", "safeguard", "save", "shield" ], "related":[ "give away", "inform (on)", "peach", "rat (on)", "shop", "snitch (on)", "split (on)", "tell (on)", "turn in" ], "synonyms":[ "backstab", "betray", "cross", "sell (out)", "two-time" ] }, "type":[ "noun", "verb" ] }, "double-crossing":{ "to be unfaithful or disloyal to":{ "antonyms":[ "standing by" ], "examples":[ "she promised to share the profits but then double-crossed us" ], "near antonyms":[ "defending", "guarding", "protecting", "safeguarding", "saving", "shielding" ], "related":[ "giving away", "informing (on)", "peaching", "ratting (on)", "shopping", "snitching (on)", "splitting (on)", "telling (on)", "turning in" ], "synonyms":[ "backstabbing", "betraying", "crossing", "selling (out)", "two-timing" ] }, "type":[ "verb" ] }, "doubles":{ "something or someone that strongly resembles another":{ "antonyms":[], "examples":[ "he looks so much like you that he could be your double" ], "near antonyms":[ "antitheses", "converses", "opposites", "reverses" ], "related":[ "Chinese copies", "effigies", "portraits", "portrayals", "companions", "fellows", "mates", "equals", "equivalents", "analogues", "analogs", "parallels" ], "synonyms":[ "alter egos", "carbon copies", "carbons", "clones", "counterparts", "doppelg\u00e4ngers", "doppelgangers", "duplicates", "duplications", "facsimiles", "fetches", "images", "likenesses", "look-alikes", "matches", "mirror images", "pictures", "replicas", "ringers", "spits", "spitting images", "twins" ] }, "to lay one part over or against another part of":{ "antonyms":[ "extends", "opens", "spreads", "unfolds", "unrolls" ], "examples":[ "double the wet cloth and place it on the victim's forehead" ], "near antonyms":[], "related":[ "overlaps", "overlays", "overlies", "collapses", "telescopes", "closes", "shuts", "plaits", "pleats" ], "synonyms":[ "folds" ] }, "to make twice as great or as many":{ "antonyms":[], "examples":[ "we doubled our investment in six months" ], "near antonyms":[], "related":[ "compounds", "multiplies", "accumulates", "balloons", "builds (up)", "burgeons", "bourgeons", "enlarges", "escalates", "expands", "increases", "mounts", "mushrooms", "proliferates", "rises", "snowballs", "swells", "waxes" ], "synonyms":[ "duplicates", "redoubles" ] }, "type":[ "noun", "verb" ] }, "doubted":{ "to have no trust or confidence in":{ "antonyms":[ "trusted" ], "examples":[ "I doubt that you can do all that you say" ], "near antonyms":[ "banked (on or upon)", "counted (on or upon)", "depended (on or upon)", "relied (on or upon)" ], "related":[ "disbelieved", "discounted", "discredited", "negated" ], "synonyms":[ "distrusted", "misdoubted", "mistrusted", "questioned", "suspected" ] }, "type":[ "verb" ] }, "doughy":{ "lacking a healthy skin color":{ "antonyms":[ "blooming", "florid", "flush", "full-blooded", "glowing", "red", "rosy", "rubicund", "ruddy", "sanguine" ], "examples":[ "she worried that her husband was very ill when she saw his doughy complexion" ], "near antonyms":[ "blushing", "flushed", "pink" ], "related":[ "sallow", "sallowish", "sick", "sickly", "waxen", "waxy", "white", "whitened", "anemic", "bloodless", "untanned", "whey-faced", "white-faced" ], "synonyms":[ "ashen", "ashy", "blanched", "cadaverous", "livid", "lurid", "mealy", "pale", "paled", "pallid", "pasty", "peaked", "wan" ] }, "type":[ "adjective" ] }, "dove":{ "a person who opposes war or warlike policies":{ "antonyms":[ "hawk", "jingo", "war hawk", "warmonger" ], "examples":[ "the doves were in favor of using the surplus to improve the nation's schools and not its weapons systems" ], "near antonyms":[ "militarist", "chauvinist", "nationalist" ], "related":[ "peacemaker" ], "synonyms":[ "pacifist", "peacenik" ] }, "an innocent or gentle person":{ "antonyms":[ "wolf" ], "examples":[ "he's a dove who wouldn't hurt a fly" ], "near antonyms":[ "bully", "roughneck", "rowdy", "tough", "beast", "boor", "cad", "churl", "clown", "creep", "cretin", "cur", "heel", "jerk", "joker", "louse", "lout", "slob", "shark", "skunk", "snake", "stinker", "devil", "knave", "miscreant", "no-good", "rapscallion", "rascal", "reprobate", "rogue", "scalawag", "scallywag", "scamp", "scoundrel", "varlet", "villain" ], "related":[ "babe", "colt", "cub", "fledgling", "greenhorn", "ingenue", "ing\u00e9nue", "na\u00eff", "naif", "newbie", "tenderfoot", "virgin", "cherub", "saint", "softy", "softie", "weakling", "wimp", "dupe", "pigeon", "sap", "sucker" ], "synonyms":[ "angel", "innocent", "lamb", "sheep" ] }, "type":[ "noun" ] }, "dovecot":{ "as in":{ "antonyms":[], "examples":[], "near antonyms":[], "related":[], "synonyms":[] }, "type":[ "noun" ] }, "down-at-heel":{ "showing signs of advanced wear and tear and neglect":{ "antonyms":[], "examples":[ "the stately mansion where he lives now is a far cry from the down-at-the-heels triple-decker in which he grew up" ], "near antonyms":[ "brand-new", "fresh", "new", "cared-for", "kept-up", "maintained", "mended", "patched", "rebuilt", "reconstructed", "smart", "spiffy", "spruce" ], "related":[ "abandoned", "unkept", "desolate", "forlorn", "godforsaken", "broken-down", "decrepit", "tired", "worn-out", "bedraggled", "dingy", "ragged", "tattered", "decaying", "deteriorated", "deteriorating", "rackety", "ramshackle", "rattletrap", "rickety", "broken", "damaged", "destroyed", "harmed", "hurt", "impaired", "injured", "ruined", "wrecked" ], "synonyms":[ "beat-up", "bombed-out", "dilapidated", "dog-eared", "dumpy", "grungy", "mangy", "mean", "miserable", "moth-eaten", "neglected", "ratty", "run-down", "scrubby", "scruffy", "seedy", "shabby", "sleazy", "tacky", "tatterdemalion", "tatty", "threadbare", "timeworn", "tumbledown" ] }, "type":[ "adjective" ] }, "down-to-earthness":{ "the absence of any feelings of being better than others":{ "antonyms":[ "arrogance", "assumption", "bumptiousness", "conceit", "egoism", "egotism", "haughtiness", "hauteur", "huffiness", "imperiousness", "loftiness", "lordliness", "peremptoriness", "pomposity", "pompousness", "presumptuousness", "pretense", "pretence", "pretension", "pretentiousness", "pride", "pridefulness", "superciliousness", "superiority", "toploftiness" ], "examples":[ "we were pleasantly surprised by the quiet down-to-earthness and self-deprecating humor of the billionaire" ], "near antonyms":[ "aggressiveness", "assertiveness", "attitude", "audaciousness", "boldness", "brashness", "brassiness", "cheek", "cheekiness", "cockiness", "cocksureness", "forwardness", "overconfidence", "swagger", "swash", "temerity", "impertinence", "impudence", "insolence", "nerve", "sauciness", "boastfulness", "chest-thumping", "self-applause", "self-assumption", "self-centeredness", "self-complacency", "self-conceit", "self-glorification", "self-importance", "self-opinion", "self-partiality", "self-satisfaction", "vaingloriousness", "vanity", "condescension", "disdain", "scorn", "flamboyance", "ostentation", "ostentatiousness", "showiness" ], "related":[ "acquiescence", "compliance", "deference", "passivity", "resignedness", "submission", "submissiveness", "ingenuousness", "na\u00efvet\u00e9", "naivete", "naivet\u00e9", "directness", "plainness", "simpleness", "bashfulness", "diffidence", "mousiness", "quietness", "reserve", "reservedness", "retiringness", "sheepishness", "shyness", "timidity", "timidness" ], "synonyms":[ "demureness", "humbleness", "humility", "lowliness", "meekness", "modesty" ] }, "type":[ "noun" ] }, "downbeat":{ "as in":{ "antonyms":[], "examples":[], "near antonyms":[], "related":[], "synonyms":[] }, "emphasizing or expecting the worst":{ "antonyms":[ "hopeful", "optimistic", "Panglossian", "Pollyanna", "Pollyannaish", "Pollyannish", "rose-colored", "rosy", "upbeat" ], "examples":[ "a downbeat prediction for the company's sales performance in the upcoming year" ], "near antonyms":[ "auspicious", "bright", "encouraging", "fair", "golden", "heartening", "likely", "promising", "propitious", "cheering", "comforting", "reassuring", "favorable", "good", "positive", "idealist", "romantic", "utopian", "visionary", "cheerful", "cheery", "chipper", "sunny" ], "related":[ "cynical", "fatalistic", "nihilist", "nihilistic", "desperate", "discouraging", "disheartening", "inauspicious", "unlikely", "unpromising", "bleak", "cheerless", "comfortless", "depressing", "desolate", "dismal", "dreary", "funereal", "gloomy", "morose", "saturnine", "sepulchral", "somber", "sombre", "sullen", "grim", "contrary", "hostile", "negative" ], "synonyms":[ "bearish", "defeatist", "despairing", "hopeless", "pessimistic" ] }, "type":[ "adjective", "noun" ] }, "downheartedly":{ "as in dejectedly , abjectly":{ "antonyms":[], "examples":[], "near antonyms":[], "related":[], "synonyms":[] }, "type":[ "adverb" ] }, "downsized":{ "to make smaller in amount, volume, or extent":{ "antonyms":[ "aggrandized", "amplified", "augmented", "boosted", "enlarged", "escalated", "expanded", "increased", "raised" ], "examples":[ "the company downsized its overseas operations in an attempt to cut costs" ], "near antonyms":[ "blew up", "dilated", "distended", "inflated", "swelled", "elongated", "extended", "lengthened", "prolonged", "protracted", "added (to)", "complemented", "supplemented", "enhanced", "heightened", "intensified", "redoubled" ], "related":[ "compressed", "condensed", "constricted", "contracted", "abbreviated", "abridged", "clipped", "cropped", "curtailed", "cut", "cut back", "cut down", "docked", "nicked", "pared", "pruned", "retrenched", "shortened", "slashed", "trimmed", "truncated", "whittled", "deflated", "shrank", "shrunk", "minimized", "moderated", "modified", "modulated", "qualified" ], "synonyms":[ "abated", "decreased", "de-escalated", "dented", "depleted", "diminished", "downscaled", "dropped", "dwindled", "eased", "knocked down", "lessened", "lowered", "reduced" ] }, "type":[ "verb" ] }, "downtrend":{ "as in":{ "antonyms":[], "examples":[], "near antonyms":[], "related":[], "synonyms":[] }, "type":[ "noun" ] }, "doxy":{ "a boldly flirtatious or sexually promiscuous woman":{ "antonyms":[], "examples":[ "an island infamous in the 17th century as a haven for pirates, drunks, doxies , thieves, and other unsavory types" ], "near antonyms":[], "related":[ "siren", "temptress", "vamp", "grisette", "prostitute", "trull" ], "synonyms":[ "chippie", "chippy", "fancy woman", "floozy", "floozie", "hoochie", "hussy", "Jezebel", "minx", "quean", "tramp", "trollop", "wench" ] }, "a female other than his wife with whom a married man has a continuing sexual relationship":{ "antonyms":[], "examples":[ "had the cheating two-timer served with divorce papers after spotting him with his doxy" ], "near antonyms":[], "related":[ "lover", "paramour", "courtesan", "demimondaine", "demirep", "odalisque", "prostitute", "whore", "girlfriend" ], "synonyms":[ "concubine", "mistress", "other woman" ] }, "type":[ "noun" ] } }