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"helplessness", "impotence", "impotency", "powerlessness", "weakness" ], "antonyms":[] }, "the main or greater part of something as distinguished from its subordinate parts":{ "examples":[ "the heft of the wainwright's business had been the building of hay wagons" ], "synonyms":[ "body", "brunt", "bulk", "chief", "core", "generality", "main", "mass", "staple", "weight" ], "near synonyms":[ "majority", "aggregate", "amount", "entirety", "quantum", "sum", "sum total", "total", "totality", "whole", "bottom", "essence", "essentiality", "marrow", "meat", "nature", "pith", "quintessence", "root", "soul", "stuff", "substance", "center", "heart", "hub", "kernel", "middle", "nucleus", "nut", "seat", "affair", "argument", "burden", "crux", "focus", "gist", "nub", "pitch", "point", "purport", "matter", "motif", "subject", "text", "theme", "topic" ], "near antonyms":[ "accessory", "accessary", "adjunct", "appendage", "extension", "offshoot", "component", "constituent", "element", "ingredient", 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"scarceness", "scarcity", "skimpiness", "slenderness", "slimness", "spareness", "sparseness", "sparsity", "stinginess", "deficiency", "inadequacy", "inadequateness" ], "antonyms":[ "fineness", "littleness", "puniness", "smallness" ] }, "the state or quality of being heavy":{ "examples":[ "clerks no longer have to deal with the heftiness of paper files now that everything is filed on computers" ], "synonyms":[ "avoirdupois", "heaviness", "massiveness", "ponderousness", "weightiness" ], "near synonyms":[ "overweight", "solidity", "solidness", "substantiality", "substantialness", "bulk", "bulkiness", "hugeness", "cumbersomeness" ], "near antonyms":[ "airiness", "delicacy", "ethereality", "etherealness", "flimsiness", "fluffiness", "insubstantiality", "slightness" ], "antonyms":[ "lightness", "weightlessness" ] }, "type":[ "noun" ] }, "hefty":{ "having great weight":{ "examples":[ "that's a pretty hefty book bag for a tiny person like you" ], "synonyms":[ "heavy", "massive", "ponderous", "weighty" ], "near synonyms":[ "burdensome", "leaden", "lumpish", "bulky", "elephantine", "massy", "outsize", "outsized", "voluminous", "overweight", "top-heavy", "solid", "substantial", "ultraheavy" ], "near antonyms":[ "airy", "ethereal", "feathery", "fluffy", "gossamer", "gossamery", "flimsy", "insubstantial", "slight", "lightweight", "undersized", "undersize", "underweight", "ultralight", "ultralightweight" ], "antonyms":[ "light", "weightless" ] }, "of a size greater than average of its kind":{ "examples":[ "received a hefty donation from the local business association for holiday lights along Main Street" ], "synonyms":[ "big", "biggish", "boxcar", "bulky", "considerable", "goodly", "grand", "great", "handsome", "hulking", "husky", "large", "largish", "outsize", "outsized", "oversize", "oversized", "sizable", "sizeable", "substantial", "tidy", "voluminous" ], "near synonyms":[ "astronomical", "astronomic", "Brobdingnagian", "bumper", "Bunyanesque", "cavernous", "colossal", "cosmic", "cosmical", "cyclopean", "elephantine", "enormous", "galactic", "gargantuan", "gigantic", "gross", "hellacious", "herculean", "heroic", "heroical", "Himalayan", "huge", "humongous", "humungous", "immense", "jumbo", "king-size", "king-sized", "leviathan", "major", "mammoth", "massive", "monolithic", "monstrous", "monumental", "mountainous", "pharaonic", "prodigious", "staggering", "stupendous", "super", "super-duper", "supersized", "titanic", "tremendous", "vast", "vasty", "walloping", "whacking", "whopping", "excessive", "exorbitant", "extravagant", "extreme", "immoderate", "inordinate", "abundant", "ample", "appreciable", "copious", "plentiful", "fat", "thick", "capacious", "commodious", "roomy", "spacious" ], "near antonyms":[ "diminutive", "half-pint", "infinitesimal", "Lilliputian", "little bitty", "microminiature", "microscopic", "microscopical", "mini", "miniature", "minuscule", "minute", "pint-size", "pint-sized", "pocket-size", "pocket-sized", "pygmy", "teensy", "teensy-weensy", "teeny", "teeny-weeny", "tiny", "wee", "petite", "slender", "slight", "slim", "thin" ], "antonyms":[ "bantam", "dinky", "dwarf", "dwarfish", "little", "puny", "shrimpy", "small", "smallish", "undersized", "undersize" ] }, "strongly and heavily built":{ "examples":[ "hefty since childhood, he became a champion wrestler" ], "synonyms":[ "beefy", "brawny", "burly", "hulking", "husky", "mesomorphic" ], "near synonyms":[ "able-bodied", "athletic", "herculean", "mighty", "muscle-bound", "muscular", "powerful", "robust", "rugged", "sinewy", "stalwart", "stout", "strapping", "strong", "sturdy", "chunky", "compact", "heavy", "heavyset", "solid", "squat", "squatty", "stocky", "thickset", "chubby", "dumpy", "lumpish", "podgy", "portly", "pudgy", "roly-poly", "tubby" ], "near antonyms":[ "lean", "light", "lightweight", "slender", "slight", "slim", "svelte", "sylphlike", "thin", "willowy", "bony", "boney", "gangling", "gangly", "gaunt", "gawky", "lanky", "reedy", "scraggy", "scrawny", "skinny", "spare", "stringy", "twiggy", "waspish", "weedy", "spidery", "wiry", "debilitated", "delicate", "effete", "emaciated", "enervated", "enfeebled", "feeble", "fragile", "frail", "infirm", "puny", "unathletic", "weak", "weakly", "wimpy" ], "antonyms":[] }, "type":[ "adjective" ] }, "hefts":{ "the power to direct the thinking or behavior of others usually indirectly":{ "examples":[ "as a former senator, he still had some heft in political circles" ], "synonyms":[ "authorities", "clouts", "credits", "influences", "ins", "juices", "leverages", "pulls", "sways", "weights" ], "near synonyms":[ "counterinfluences", "counter-influences", "commands", "dominances", "dominions", "masteries", "predominances", "reigns", "scepters", "sovereignties", "sovranties", "supremacies", "consequences", "eminences", "importances", "moments", "impacts", "impresses", "impressions", "imprints", "marks" ], "near antonyms":[ "impotences", "impotencies", "weaknesses" ], "antonyms":[] }, "the main 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"ascending", "mounting", "rising", "rearing", "upending" ], "near antonyms":[ "descending", "dipping", "falling", "pitching", "plunging", "slipping", "bearing", "depressing", "pressing", "pushing", "sinking", "submerging" ], "antonyms":[ "dropping", "lowering" ] }, "type":[ "verb" ] } }