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"cosmopolitan", "liberal", "open", "open-minded", "receptive", "tolerant", "impartial", "nonpartisan", "objective", "unbiased", "unprejudiced", "freethinking" ], "antonyms":[] }, "type":[ "adjective", "noun" ] }, "hic jacet":{ "as in inscription , epitaph":{ "examples":[], "synonyms":[], "near synonyms":[ "epitaph", "inscription", "necrology", "obit", "obituary", "eulogy", "memorial", "testimonial", "tribute" ], "near antonyms":[], "antonyms":[] }, "type":[ "noun" ] }, "hic jacets":{ "as in inscriptions , epitaphs":{ "examples":[], "synonyms":[], "near synonyms":[ "epitaphs", "inscriptions", "necrologies", "obits", "obituaries", "eulogies", "memorials", "testimonials", "tributes" ], "near antonyms":[], "antonyms":[] }, "type":[ "noun" ] }, "hickeys":{ "a small article the actual name of which one either does not know or cannot remember":{ "examples":[ "I lost the hickey that locks and unlocks the car's doors by remote control" ], "synonyms":[ "dinguses", "doodads", "doohickeys", 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"boors", "clods", "clowns", "gawks", "louts", "oafs", "greenhorns", "tenderfeet", "tenderfoots", "peasants", "peons", "peones", "backwoodsmen", "mountaineers" ], "near antonyms":[ "slickers", "smoothies", "metropolitans", "suburbanites", "urbanites" ], "antonyms":[ "cosmopolitans", "cosmopolites", "sophisticates" ] }, "type":[ "noun" ] }, "hiccoughs":{ "a break in continuity":{ "examples":[ "the business has grown steadily for 14 years, with only a few minor hiccups" ], "synonyms":[ "discontinuities", "gaps", "hiatuses", "interims", "interludes", "intermissions", "interregnums", "interregna", "interruptions", "interstices", "intervals", "parentheses" ], "near synonyms":[ "caesuras", "caesurae", "commas", "interspaces", "lags", "pauses", "spaces", "time lags", "windows", "entr'actes", "bumpers", "adjournments", "discontinuances", "lapses", "suspensions", "lulls", "recesses", "respites", "rests", "subintervals" ], "near antonyms":[ "continua", "continuums", "runs", "stretches", "processions", "progressions" ], "antonyms":[ "continuations", "continuities" ] }, "type":[ "noun" ] } }