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{
"boarded":{
"to provide food or meals for":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"housed and boarded many foster children over the years"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"related":[
"served",
"waited",
"nourished",
"nurtured",
"sustained",
"banqueted",
"dined",
"feasted",
"regaled",
"messed",
"battened",
"fattened",
"filled",
"force-fed",
"overfed",
"surfeited",
"underfed",
"hand-fed",
"spoon-fed",
"refed",
"reprovisioned"
],
"synonyms":[
"catered",
"fed",
"provisioned",
"victualed",
"victualled"
]
},
"to provide with living quarters or shelter":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"boarded the stray cat until a permanent home could be found"
],
"near antonyms":[
"ejected",
"evicted"
],
"related":[
"ensconced",
"homed",
"roosted",
"secured",
"shedded",
"stabled",
"tented",
"barracked",
"bedded (down)"
],
"synonyms":[
"accommodated",
"bestowed",
"billeted",
"bivouacked",
"bunked",
"camped",
"chambered",
"domiciled",
"encamped",
"harbored",
"housed",
"lodged",
"put up",
"quartered",
"roofed",
"roomed",
"sheltered",
"took in"
]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"boarding":{
"to provide food or meals for":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"housed and boarded many foster children over the years"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"related":[
"serving",
"waiting",
"nourishing",
"nurturing",
"sustaining",
"banqueting",
"dining",
"feasting",
"regaling",
"messing",
"battening",
"fattening",
"filling",
"force-feeding",
"overfeeding",
"surfeiting",
"underfeeding",
"hand-feeding",
"spoon-feeding",
"refeeding",
"reprovisioning"
],
"synonyms":[
"catering",
"feeding",
"provisioning",
"victualing",
"victualling"
]
},
"to provide with living quarters or shelter":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"boarded the stray cat until a permanent home could be found"
],
"near antonyms":[
"ejecting",
"evicting"
],
"related":[
"ensconcing",
"homing",
"roosting",
"securing",
"shedding",
"stabling",
"tenting",
"barracking",
"bedding (down)"
],
"synonyms":[
"accommodating",
"bestowing",
"billeting",
"bivouacking",
"bunking",
"camping",
"chambering",
"domiciling",
"encamping",
"harboring",
"housing",
"lodging",
"putting up",
"quartering",
"roofing",
"rooming",
"sheltering",
"taking in"
]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"boasted":{
"to have within":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"the hotel boasts nearly 50 rooms"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"related":[
"accommodated",
"fitted",
"fit",
"took",
"cased",
"encased",
"enclosed",
"inclosed",
"encompassed",
"harbored",
"housed",
"lodged",
"sheltered"
],
"synonyms":[
"bore",
"contained",
"held"
]
},
"to praise or express pride in one's own possessions, qualities, or accomplishments often to excess":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"he boasted about his latest killing in real estate so I thought he should be the one to pay for dinner"
],
"near antonyms":[
"belittled",
"deprecated",
"diminished",
"discounted",
"laughed off",
"minimized",
"played down",
"pooh-poohed",
"poohed",
"shrugged off",
"underrated",
"undervalued",
"bemoaned",
"lamented",
"mourned",
"regretted"
],
"related":[
"blustered",
"harangued",
"puffed",
"prided",
"gushed",
"exulted",
"gloried",
"rejoiced",
"brandished",
"displayed",
"exhibited",
"exposed",
"flaunted",
"glorified",
"paraded",
"showed off",
"magnified",
"maximized"
],
"synonyms":[
"blew",
"bragged",
"bulled",
"crowed",
"gasconaded",
"swaggered",
"vapored",
"vaunted"
]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"boastful":{
"as in cocky , bombastic":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[],
"near antonyms":[],
"related":[],
"synonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"adjective"
]
},
"boasting":{
"to have within":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"the hotel boasts nearly 50 rooms"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"related":[
"accommodating",
"fitting",
"taking",
"casing",
"encasing",
"enclosing",
"inclosing",
"encompassing",
"harboring",
"housing",
"lodging",
"sheltering"
],
"synonyms":[
"bearing",
"containing",
"holding"
]
},
"to praise or express pride in one's own possessions, qualities, or accomplishments often to excess":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"he boasted about his latest killing in real estate so I thought he should be the one to pay for dinner"
],
"near antonyms":[
"belittling",
"deprecating",
"diminishing",
"discounting",
"laughing off",
"minimizing",
"playing down",
"pooh-poohing",
"poohing",
"shrugging off",
"underrating",
"undervaluing",
"bemoaning",
"lamenting",
"mourning",
"regretting"
],
"related":[
"blustering",
"haranguing",
"puffing",
"priding",
"gushing",
"exulting",
"glorying",
"rejoicing",
"brandishing",
"displaying",
"exhibiting",
"exposing",
"flaunting",
"glorifying",
"parading",
"showing off",
"magnifying",
"maximizing"
],
"synonyms":[
"blowing",
"bragging",
"bulling",
"crowing",
"gasconading",
"swaggering",
"vaporing",
"vaunting"
]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"boat":{
"a large craft for travel by water":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"you'll have to take a passenger boat to get to the island"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"related":[
"aircraft carrier",
"argosy",
"barge",
"coaster",
"collier",
"containership",
"corvette",
"cruiser",
"cutter",
"destroyer",
"ferryboat",
"flagship",
"freighter",
"icebreaker",
"ironclad",
"lightship",
"liner",
"man-of-war",
"man-o'-war",
"merchantman",
"merchant ship",
"motor ship",
"packet",
"steamer",
"steamship",
"superliner",
"supertanker",
"tanker",
"trader",
"tramp",
"transport",
"warship",
"watercraft",
"bark",
"barque",
"brig",
"brigantine",
"caravel",
"clipper",
"junk",
"ketch",
"sailboat",
"schooner",
"square-rigger",
"tall ship",
"windjammer",
"xebec",
"yacht"
],
"synonyms":[
"keel",
"ship",
"vessel"
]
},
"a small buoyant structure for travel on water":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"paddling the little boat across the lake is great exercise, but tiring"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"related":[
"catboat",
"ketch",
"sailboat",
"schooner",
"yacht",
"bateau",
"ca\u00efque",
"canoe",
"catamaran",
"coracle",
"curragh",
"currach",
"dhow",
"dinghy",
"dink",
"dory",
"dugout",
"flatboat",
"garvey",
"gig",
"johnboat",
"kayak",
"outrigger",
"paddleboat",
"pinnace",
"piragua",
"pirogue",
"pontoon",
"pram",
"punt",
"raft",
"rowboat",
"rowing boat",
"sampan",
"scow",
"scull",
"shallop",
"shell",
"skiff",
"surfboat",
"umiak",
"wherry",
"cruiser",
"inboard",
"motorboat",
"outboard",
"powerboat",
"houseboat",
"riverboat",
"auxiliary",
"bumboat",
"cutter",
"jolly boat",
"launch",
"lifeboat",
"longboat",
"tender",
"yawl",
"barge",
"hoy",
"keel",
"keelboat",
"lighter",
"narrow boat",
"towboat",
"tug",
"tugboat",
"ferry",
"ferryboat",
"gondola",
"taxi",
"water taxi",
"banker",
"coble",
"dragger",
"gillnetter",
"hooker",
"lugger",
"scalloper",
"seiner",
"shrimper",
"trawler",
"whaleboat",
"whaler",
"workboat",
"cockleshell",
"tub",
"airboat",
"air-cushion vehicle",
"hovercraft",
"hydrofoil",
"hydroplane",
"assault boat",
"PT boat",
"torpedo boat"
],
"synonyms":[
"bottom",
"craft",
"vessel",
"watercraft"
]
},
"to travel on water in a vessel":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"boated to the picnic site on an island in the bay"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"related":[
"canoe",
"kayak",
"yacht",
"coast"
],
"synonyms":[
"cruise",
"ferry",
"navigate",
"sail",
"ship (out)",
"voyage"
]
},
"type":[
"noun",
"verb"
]
},
"bobbing (up)":{
"as in breaking out , shooting (up)":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[],
"near antonyms":[],
"related":[],
"synonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"bobby":{
"a member of a force charged with law enforcement at the local level":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"asked a passing London bobby for directions"
],
"near antonyms":[
"civilian"
],
"related":[
"patrolman",
"policewoman",
"detective",
"dick",
"gumshoe",
"hawkshaw",
"inspector",
"investigator",
"plainclothesman",
"sherlock",
"sleuth",
"sleuthhound",
"marshal",
"marshall",
"sheriff",
"trooper",
"peace officer",
"captain",
"lieutenant",
"sergeant",
"constabulary",
"heat",
"man",
"police",
"police force",
"operative",
"private detective",
"private eye",
"private investigator"
],
"synonyms":[
"bull",
"constable",
"cop",
"copper",
"flatfoot",
"fuzz",
"gendarme",
"lawman",
"officer",
"police officer",
"policeman",
"shamus"
]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"bobby-soxer":{
"as in schoolgirl , teenybopper":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[],
"near antonyms":[],
"related":[],
"synonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"bobs":{
"a bunch of flowers":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"the lassie carried only a little bob on her wedding day"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"related":[
"boutonnieres",
"corsages",
"arrangements",
"garlands",
"leis"
],
"synonyms":[
"bouquets",
"nosegays",
"posies"
]
},
"to deliver a blow to (someone or something) usually in a strong vigorous manner":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"he playfully bobbed his brother on the nose to get his attention"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"related":[
"batters",
"beats",
"buffets",
"bungs",
"chops",
"cuffs",
"drubs",
"laces",
"lambastes",
"lambasts",
"licks",
"mangles",
"mauls",
"pelts",
"peppers",
"pommels",
"pummels",
"roughs",
"scuffs",
"bunts",
"flicks",
"strokes",
"taps",
"bumps",
"butts",
"jabs",
"jostles",
"kicks",
"knees",
"pokes",
"prods",
"pushes",
"shoves",
"stamps",
"bowls (down or over)",
"creams",
"decks",
"dumps",
"fells",
"floors",
"knocks down",
"levels",
"rabbit-punches",
"sucker punches",
"canes",
"clubs",
"cudgels",
"flails",
"flogs",
"lashes",
"saps",
"slashes",
"sledgehammers",
"sledges",
"spears",
"stabs",
"switches",
"thrashes",
"whips",
"beans",
"brains",
"conks",
"skulls"
],
"synonyms":[
"bangs",
"bashes",
"bats",
"belts",
"biffs",
"bludgeons",
"bonks",
"bops",
"boxes",
"busts",
"claps",
"clips",
"clobbers",
"clocks",
"clouts",
"cracks",
"hammers",
"hits",
"knocks",
"nails",
"pastes",
"pounds",
"punches",
"raps",
"slams",
"slaps",
"slogs",
"slugs",
"smacks",
"smites",
"socks",
"strikes",
"swats",
"swipes",
"tags",
"thumps",
"thwacks",
"wallops",
"whacks",
"whales",
"zaps"
]
},
"to make (something) shorter or smaller with the use of a cutting instrument":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"bobbed her waist-length hair herself on her 18th birthday"
],
"near antonyms":[
"elongates",
"extends",
"lengthens"
],
"related":[
"skives",
"whittles",
"manicures",
"mows",
"pinches",
"stumps",
"curtails",
"shortens"
],
"synonyms":[
"clips",
"crops",
"cuts",
"cuts back",
"docks",
"lops (off)",
"nips",
"pares",
"polls",
"prunes",
"shaves",
"shears",
"snips",
"trims"
]
},
"to make short up-and-down movements":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"a family of ducks bobbing on the water"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"related":[
"jerks",
"jiggles",
"shakes",
"wiggles",
"wobbles",
"wabbles",
"oscillates",
"rocks",
"sways",
"swings",
"undulates",
"drops",
"ducks"
],
"synonyms":[
"bobbles",
"jogs",
"jounces",
"nods",
"pumps",
"seesaws",
"wags"
]
},
"type":[
"noun",
"verb"
]
},
"bodacious":{
"having no exceptions or restrictions":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"had the bodacious gall to tell me that he'd return my lawn mower when he felt like it"
],
"near antonyms":[
"doubtful",
"dubious",
"equivocal",
"qualified",
"questionable",
"restricted",
"uncertain"
],
"related":[
"authentic",
"classic",
"genuine",
"real",
"veritable",
"constant",
"endless",
"eternal",
"perpetual",
"undying",
"unremitting",
"extreme",
"unrestricted",
"confirmed",
"habitual",
"hopeless",
"inveterate",
"extraordinary",
"frightful",
"horrible",
"huge",
"main",
"superlative",
"supreme",
"surpassing",
"terrible",
"terrific"
],
"synonyms":[
"absolute",
"all-out",
"arrant",
"blank",
"blooming",
"categorical",
"categoric",
"clean",
"complete",
"consummate",
"crashing",
"damn",
"damned",
"dead",
"deadly",
"definite",
"downright",
"dreadful",
"fair",
"flat",
"flat-out",
"out-and-out",
"outright",
"perfect",
"plumb",
"profound",
"pure",
"rank",
"regular",
"sheer",
"simple",
"stark",
"stone",
"straight-out",
"thorough",
"thoroughgoing",
"total",
"unadulterated",
"unalloyed",
"unconditional",
"unmitigated",
"unqualified",
"utter",
"very"
]
},
"likely to attract attention":{
"antonyms":[
"inconspicuous",
"unemphatic",
"unflamboyant",
"unnoticeable",
"unobtrusive",
"unremarkable",
"unshowy"
],
"examples":[
"the bodacious decor of the boutique hotel is intended to appeal to the young and the hip"
],
"near antonyms":[
"subtle",
"concealed",
"hidden",
"shrouded",
"dim",
"faint",
"obscure",
"insignificant",
"undistinguished",
"unimportant",
"modest",
"unaffected",
"unassuming",
"unpretentious",
"conservative",
"plain",
"quiet",
"simple",
"understated",
"muted",
"restrained",
"subdued",
"subtle",
"toned-down",
"unflashy"
],
"related":[
"detectable",
"discernible",
"discernable",
"observable",
"perceptible",
"recognizable",
"visible",
"outstanding",
"salient",
"distinguished",
"eminent",
"impressive",
"notable",
"noteworthy",
"highlighted",
"spotlighted",
"flagrant",
"glaring",
"howling",
"screaming",
"flashy",
"garish",
"gaudy",
"glitzy",
"jazzy",
"loud",
"meretricious",
"swank",
"swanky",
"tawdry",
"highfalutin",
"hifalutin",
"ostentatious",
"pretentious",
"extravagant",
"fancy",
"florid",
"glittery",
"spectacular",
"opulent",
"ornate",
"overdone",
"overwrought",
"absorbing",
"engrossing",
"enthralling",
"fascinating",
"interesting",
"riveting"
],
"synonyms":[
"arresting",
"bold",
"brilliant",
"catchy",
"commanding",
"conspicuous",
"dramatic",
"emphatic",
"eye-catching",
"flamboyant",
"grabby",
"kenspeckle",
"marked",
"noisy",
"noticeable",
"prominent",
"pronounced",
"remarkable",
"showy",
"splashy",
"striking"
]
},
"sexually attractive":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"a bodacious Hollywood couple always followed by paparazzi"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"related":[
"foxy",
"nubile",
"hunky",
"studly",
"alluring",
"seductive",
"sultry",
"vampish",
"vampy"
],
"synonyms":[
"desirable",
"dishy",
"hot",
"luscious",
"sexy",
"toothsome"
]
},
"type":[
"adjective"
]
},
"bodily":{
"of or relating to the human body":{
"antonyms":[
"nonmaterial",
"nonphysical"
],
"examples":[
"the old man suffered from a number of bodily ailments"
],
"near antonyms":[
"cerebral",
"inner",
"intellectual",
"mental",
"psychological",
"psychologic",
"bodiless",
"immaterial",
"incorporeal",
"insubstantial",
"spiritual",
"ethereal",
"metaphysical",
"psychic",
"psychical"
],
"related":[
"anatomic",
"anatomical",
"physiological",
"physiologic",
"sensual",
"sensuous",
"hand-to-hand"
],
"synonyms":[
"animal",
"carnal",
"corporal",
"corporeal",
"fleshly",
"material",
"physical",
"somatic"
]
},
"type":[
"adjective"
]
},
"boding":{
"something believed to be a sign or warning of a future event":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"among some ancient peoples, solar eclipses were often seen as celestial bodings of earthly calamities"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"related":[
"forerunner",
"harbinger",
"herald",
"precursor",
"foretaste",
"hint",
"inkling",
"intimation",
"suggestion",
"forewarning",
"forecast",
"foretelling",
"prediction",
"prognostication",
"prophecy",
"prophesy",
"badge",
"mark",
"note",
"token",
"divination"
],
"synonyms":[
"augury",
"auspice",
"foreboding",
"foreshadowing",
"omen",
"portent",
"prefiguring",
"presage"
]
},
"to show signs of a favorable or successful outcome":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"her natural gift for reading boded well for her future in school"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"related":[
"forecasting",
"foretelling",
"predicting",
"presaging",
"prognosticating",
"prophesying",
"forewarning",
"warning",
"anticipating",
"divining",
"foreknowing",
"foreseeing",
"betokening",
"foreshadowing",
"harbingering",
"portending",
"prefiguring",
"presignifying",
"indicating",
"signifying",
"alluding",
"connoting",
"hinting",
"implying",
"insinuating",
"intimating",
"suggesting"
],
"synonyms":[
"auguring",
"foreboding",
"forboding",
"promising"
]
},
"type":[
"noun",
"verb"
]
},
"body blow":{
"as in right , rabbit punch":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[],
"near antonyms":[],
"related":[],
"synonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"boffs":{
"an explosive sound that is a sign of amusement":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"an old joke dating from the days of vaudeville that's still good for a boff"
],
"near antonyms":[
"cries",
"groans",
"moans",
"sobs",
"wails",
"faces",
"frowns",
"grimaces",
"lowers",
"lours",
"mouths",
"pouts",
"scowls"
],
"related":[
"crows",
"whoops",
"grins",
"simpers",
"smiles",
"smirks"
],
"synonyms":[
"belly laughs",
"boffolas",
"cachinnations",
"cackles",
"chortles",
"chuckles",
"giggles",
"guffaws",
"hee-haws",
"horselaughs",
"laughs",
"laughters",
"snickers",
"sniggers",
"titters",
"twitters"
]
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"the emcee told some good boffs that kept the ceremony from becoming too serious"
],
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"panics",
"riots",
"screams",
"thigh-slappers",
"antics",
"buffooneries",
"capers",
"leg-pulls",
"monkeyshines",
"practical jokes",
"pranks",
"tricks",
"burlesques",
"caricatures",
"lampoons",
"mockeries",
"mocks",
"parodies",
"put-ons",
"riffs",
"banters",
"persiflages",
"railleries",
"repartees",
"comedies",
"humors",
"wits",
"wordplays"
],
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"boffolas",
"cracks",
"drolleries",
"funnies",
"gags",
"giggles",
"japes",
"jests",
"jokes",
"joshes",
"laughs",
"nifties",
"one-liners",
"pleasantries",
"quips",
"ribs",
"sallies",
"waggeries",
"wisecracks",
"witticisms",
"yuks",
"yucks",
"yaks",
"yocks"
]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"bog":{
"a room furnished with a fixture for flushing body waste":{
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"examples":[
"they're out of paper in the bog again"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"related":[
"commode",
"pan",
"pot",
"garderobe",
"jakes",
"outhouse",
"privy",
"half bath",
"powder room",
"ladies",
"ladies' room",
"men's room"
],
"synonyms":[
"bath",
"bathroom",
"can",
"cloakroom",
"comfort station",
"convenience",
"head",
"john",
"latrine",
"lavatory",
"loo",
"potty",
"restroom",
"toilet",
"washroom",
"water closet"
]
},
"spongy land saturated or partially covered with water":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"got a shoe stuck in the bog"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"related":[
"swale",
"quagmire",
"guck",
"gook",
"muck",
"mud",
"ooze",
"slime",
"slop",
"sludge",
"slush"
],
"synonyms":[
"fen",
"marsh",
"marshland",
"mire",
"moor",
"morass",
"muskeg",
"slough",
"slew",
"slue",
"swamp",
"swampland",
"wash",
"wetland"
]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"boggy":{
"as in sloppy , squashy":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[],
"near antonyms":[],
"related":[],
"synonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"adjective"
]
},
"bogus":{
"being such in appearance only and made or manufactured with the intention of committing fraud":{
"antonyms":[
"authentic",
"bona fide",
"genuine",
"real",
"unfaked"
],
"examples":[
"the \"designer\" watches sold on the street are usually bogus"
],
"near antonyms":[
"natural",
"actual",
"true",
"valid"
],
"related":[
"artificial",
"factitious",
"imitation",
"man-made",
"mimic",
"mock",
"simulated",
"substitute",
"synthetic",
"dummy",
"nonfunctioning",
"ornamental",
"cultured",
"fabricated",
"manufactured",
"deceptive",
"delusive",
"misleading"
],
"synonyms":[
"counterfeit",
"fake",
"false",
"forged",
"inauthentic",
"phony",
"phoney",
"queer",
"sham",
"snide",
"spurious",
"unauthentic"
]
},
"being such in appearance only and made with or manufactured from usually cheaper materials":{
"antonyms":[
"genuine",
"natural",
"real"
],
"examples":[
"for that price, you're only going to get furniture covered in bogus leather and not the real stuff"
],
"near antonyms":[
"authentic",
"bona fide",
"legitimate",
"true",
"premium",
"quality",
"valuable",
"pure",
"unadulterated"
],
"related":[
"cultured",
"manufactured",
"process",
"unauthentic",
"adulterated",
"designer",
"doctored",
"engineered",
"fudged",
"juggled",
"manipulated",
"tampered (with)",
"concocted",
"fabricated",
"counterfeit",
"deceptive",
"forged",
"fraudulent",
"misleading",
"phony",
"phoney",
"affected",
"brummagem",
"feigned",
"pinchbeck",
"pseudo",
"spurious"
],
"synonyms":[
"artificial",
"dummy",
"ersatz",
"factitious",
"fake",
"false",
"faux",
"imitation",
"imitative",
"man-made",
"mimic",
"mock",
"pretend",
"sham",
"simulated",
"substitute",
"synthetic"
]
},
"lacking in natural or spontaneous quality":{
"antonyms":[
"artless",
"genuine",
"natural",
"spontaneous",
"unaffected",
"uncontrived",
"unfeigned",
"unforced"
],
"examples":[
"there was often a lot of bogus conviviality at the company's parties"
],
"near antonyms":[
"authentic",
"bona fide",
"real",
"realistic",
"right",
"true",
"honest",
"ingenuous",
"sincere",
"unpretending",
"easy",
"effortless",
"smooth",
"extemporaneous",
"impromptu",
"impulsive",
"instinctive",
"unconscious",
"unprompted",
"unrehearsed",
"unstudied"
],
"related":[
"automatic",
"canned",
"concocted",
"fabricated",
"hokey",
"labored",
"manufactured",
"pat",
"unauthentic",
"unreal",
"unrealistic",
"double-dealing",
"empty",
"facile",
"hollow",
"hypocritical",
"insincere",
"left-handed",
"mealy",
"mealymouthed",
"two-faced",
"unctuous",
"exaggerated",
"histrionic",
"melodramatic",
"overacted",
"overdone",
"theatrical",
"theatric",
"cute",
"cutesy",
"genteel",
"goody-goody",
"mincing",
"overrefined",
"simpering",
"conventional",
"formal",
"impersonal",
"inflexible",
"rigid",
"stiff",
"stylized",
"wooden",
"artful",
"calculated",
"conscious",
"cultivated",
"deliberate",
"premeditated",
"studied"
],
"synonyms":[
"affected",
"artificial",
"assumed",
"contrived",
"factitious",
"fake",
"false",
"feigned",
"forced",
"mechanical",
"mock",
"phony",
"phoney",
"plastic",
"pretended",
"pseudo",
"put-on",
"sham",
"simulated",
"spurious",
"strained",
"unnatural"
]
},
"type":[
"adjective"
]
},
"bogy":{
"something or someone that causes fear or dread especially without reason":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"math and math tests have long been bogeys for many students"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"related":[
"apparition",
"ghost",
"phantasm",
"fantasm",
"phantom",
"poltergeist",
"shade",
"specter",
"spectre",
"spirit",
"spook",
"wraith",
"banshee",
"bogeyman",
"bogyman",
"demon",
"daemon",
"devil",
"fiend",
"ghoul",
"imp",
"incubus",
"fright",
"horrible",
"horror",
"monster",
"monstrosity",
"terror",
"bane",
"curse",
"enemy",
"plague",
"scourge",
"torment",
"abomination",
"anathema"
],
"synonyms":[
"b\u00eate noire",
"black beast",
"bugaboo",
"bugbear",
"dread",
"hobgoblin",
"ogre"
]
},
"the soul of a dead person thought of especially as appearing to living people":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"the child believed bogeys lived in the closet"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"related":[
"angel",
"daimon",
"familiar",
"genie",
"genius",
"jinni",
"jinn",
"djinni",
"djinn",
"shaitan",
"double",
"doppelg\u00e4nger",
"doppelganger",
"fetch",
"lemures",
"manes",
"incubus",
"lamia",
"succubus",
"vampire",
"zombie",
"zombi",
"cacodemon",
"demon",
"daemon",
"devil",
"fiend",
"ghoul",
"imp"
],
"synonyms":[
"apparition",
"familiar spirit",
"ghost",
"hant",
"haunt",
"materialization",
"phantasm",
"fantasm",
"phantom",
"poltergeist",
"shade",
"shadow",
"specter",
"spectre",
"spirit",
"spook",
"sprite",
"vision",
"visitant",
"wraith"
]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"boil down":{
"to make into a short statement of the main points (as of a report)":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"the discussion of the problem can be boiled down to a couple of critical points"
],
"near antonyms":[
"elongate",
"extend",
"lengthen",
"prolong",
"protract",
"amplify",
"elaborate (on or upon)",
"enlarge (on or upon)",
"expand",
"supplement"
],
"related":[
"abridge",
"condense",
"curtail",
"cut back",
"shorten",
"downsize",
"shrink",
"concentrate",
"consolidate",
"decoct",
"essentialize",
"simplify",
"streamline"
],
"synonyms":[
"abstract",
"brief",
"digest",
"encapsulate",
"epitomize",
"outline",
"recap",
"recapitulate",
"reprise",
"sum up",
"summarize",
"synopsize",
"wrap up"
]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"boisterous":{
"being rough or noisy in a high-spirited way":{
"antonyms":[
"orderly"
],
"examples":[
"the fans at the baseball game became particularly boisterous after the home run"
],
"near antonyms":[
"sedate",
"sober",
"solemn",
"somber",
"sombre",
"staid",
"decorous",
"dignified",
"proper",
"seemly",
"calm",
"hushed",
"noiseless",
"peaceful",
"placid",
"quiet",
"restrained",
"serene",
"silent",
"soundless",
"tranquil",
"collected",
"composed",
"constrained",
"controlled",
"imperturbable",
"inhibited",
"repressed",
"self-controlled",
"unflappable",
"unruffled",
"moderate",
"reasonable",
"subdued",
"temperate",
"impassive",
"phlegmatic",
"stoic",
"stoical",
"stolid",
"depressed",
"aloof",
"detached",
"indifferent"
],
"related":[
"callithumpian",
"carnival",
"carnivalesque",
"larrikin",
"raffish",
"rampageous",
"riotous",
"rowdyish",
"ruffianly",
"stormy",
"tempestuous",
"turbulent",
"violent",
"headstrong",
"intractable",
"obstreperous",
"recalcitrant",
"uncontrollable",
"uncontrolled",
"undisciplined",
"ungovernable",
"uninhibited",
"unmanageable",
"unreserved",
"unrestrained",
"unruly",
"wild",
"willful",
"wilful",
"bubbly",
"buoyant",
"effervescent",
"exuberant",
"high-spirited",
"impassioned",
"lively",
"sprightly",
"vivacious",
"clamorous",
"loudmouthed",
"noisy",
"openmouthed",
"rackety",
"strident",
"vociferous",
"howling",
"screaming",
"yelling"
],
"synonyms":[
"hell-raising",
"knockabout",
"rambunctious",
"raucous",
"robustious",
"roisterous",
"rollicking",
"rowdy",
"rumbustious"
]
},
"type":[
"adjective"
]
},
"bold":{
"displaying or marked by rude boldness":{
"antonyms":[
"meek",
"mousy",
"mousey",
"retiring",
"shy",
"timid"
],
"examples":[
"you're a bold little brat for trying to steal my stuff while I'm right here"
],
"near antonyms":[
"demure",
"humble",
"modest",
"courteous",
"genteel",
"mannerly",
"polite",
"proper",
"deferential",
"respectful",
"abashed",
"ashamed",
"blushing",
"embarrassed",
"shamefaced",
"gentle",
"mild",
"inconspicuous",
"unobtrusive"
],
"related":[
"assertive",
"forward",
"obtrusive",
"defiant",
"disrespectful",
"shameless",
"unabashed",
"unblushing",
"bluff",
"blunt",
"curt",
"cute",
"facetious",
"flip",
"flippant",
"pert",
"smart",
"smart-aleck",
"smart-alecky",
"lippy",
"mouthy"
],
"synonyms":[
"arch",
"audacious",
"bold-faced",
"brash",
"brassbound",
"brassy",
"brazen",
"brazen-faced",
"cheeky",
"cocksure",
"cocky",
"fresh",
"impertinent",
"impudent",
"insolent",
"nervy",
"sassy",
"saucy",
"wise"
]
},
"feeling or displaying no fear by temperament":{
"antonyms":[
"chicken",
"chickenhearted",
"chicken-livered",
"coward",
"cowardly",
"craven",
"dastardly",
"fainthearted",
"fearful",
"gutless",
"lily-livered",
"milk-livered",
"nerveless",
"poltroon",
"poor-spirited",
"pusillanimous",
"spineless",
"spiritless",
"timorous",
"uncourageous",
"ungallant",
"unheroic",
"weakhearted",
"yellow"
],
"examples":[
"the bold explorers who will someday journey to other planets"
],
"near antonyms":[
"diffident",
"mousy",
"mousey",
"scary",
"shy",
"skittish",
"timid",
"anxious",
"apprehensive",
"nervous",
"careful",
"cautious",
"heedful",
"prudent",
"unadventurous",
"afraid",
"agitated",
"disconcerted",
"disquieted",
"disturbed",
"frightened",
"horrified",
"panicked",
"panic-stricken",
"perturbed",
"scared",
"shocked",
"spooked",
"startled",
"terrified",
"terrorized",
"unnerved",
"upset",
"appalled",
"concerned",
"dismayed",
"worried",
"unmanly",
"weak",
"wimpy"
],
"related":[
"determined",
"firm",
"game",
"gamy",
"gamey",
"gritty",
"plucky",
"resolute",
"Spartan",
"undeterred",
"undismayed",
"unflinching",
"unswerving",
"mettlesome",
"spirited",
"spunky",
"adventuresome",
"adventurous",
"audacious",
"daring",
"dashing",
"hardy",
"venturesome",
"venturous",
"crazy",
"foolish",
"half-witted",
"insane",
"lunatic",
"mad",
"nutty",
"brash",
"brazen",
"daredevil",
"foolhardy",
"heedless",
"hotheaded",
"impetuous",
"imprudent",
"impulsive",
"incautious",
"madcap",
"overbold",
"overconfident",
"rash",
"reckless",
"thoughtless",
"wild",
"hasty",
"headlong",
"precipitate",
"comforted",
"emboldened",
"encouraged",
"heartened",
"reassured",
"unafraid"
],
"synonyms":[
"brave",
"courageous",
"dauntless",
"doughty",
"fearless",
"gallant",
"greathearted",
"gutsy",
"gutty",
"heroic",
"heroical",
"intrepid",
"lionhearted",
"manful",
"stalwart",
"stout",
"stouthearted",
"undauntable",
"undaunted",
"valiant",
"valorous"
]
},
"having an incline approaching the perpendicular":{
"antonyms":[
"easy"
],
"examples":[
"the advanced climbers chose a bold cliff to test themselves"
],
"near antonyms":[
"gentle",
"gradual",
"moderate",
"soft",
"even",
"flat",
"flush",
"horizontal",
"level",
"plane",
"smooth",
"unruffled",
"unwrinkled"
],
"related":[
"perpendicular",
"plumb",
"straight",
"vertical",
"craggy",
"hillocky",
"hilly",
"mountainous",
"scarped",
"angled",
"canted",
"cocked",
"heeled",
"inclined",
"listed",
"slanted",
"sloped",
"tilted",
"tipped"
],
"synonyms":[
"abrupt",
"precipitous",
"sheer",
"steep"
]
},
"inclined or willing to take risks":{
"antonyms":[
"unadventurous",
"unenterprising"
],
"examples":[
"our youngest brother was the boldest one in the family, instantly taking to everything from skiing to skateboarding"
],
"near antonyms":[
"chickenhearted",
"coward",
"cowardly",
"craven",
"lily-livered",
"milk-livered",
"milky",
"poltroon",
"pusillanimous",
"shy",
"timid",
"timorous",
"careful",
"cautious",
"heedful",
"prudent",
"wary",
"overcareful",
"overcautious",
"affrighted",
"afraid",
"alarmed",
"fainthearted",
"fearful",
"frightened",
"horrified",
"scared",
"shocked",
"spooked",
"startled",
"terrified",
"terrorized",
"unnerved",
"calm",
"cool",
"levelheaded",
"rational",
"reasonable",
"sage",
"sane",
"sensible",
"sound",
"wise",
"appalled",
"concerned",
"dismayed",
"upset",
"worried"
],
"related":[
"brash",
"daredevil",
"foolhardy",
"heedless",
"hotheaded",
"impetuous",
"imprudent",
"impulsive",
"incautious",
"madcap",
"overbold",
"overconfident",
"rash",
"reckless",
"thoughtless",
"wild",
"brave",
"courageous",
"dauntless",
"fearless",
"gallant",
"greathearted",
"heroic",
"heroical",
"intrepid",
"lionhearted",
"stalwart",
"stout",
"stouthearted",
"swashbuckling",
"unafraid",
"undaunted",
"valiant",
"valorous",
"gritty",
"plucky",
"spirited",
"spunky",
"gadarene",
"hasty",
"headlong",
"precipitate",
"absurd",
"asinine",
"balmy",
"brainless",
"crazy",
"foolish",
"half-witted",
"harebrained",
"insane",
"lunatic",
"mad",
"nutty",
"scatterbrained",
"silly",
"wacky",
"whacky",
"witless",
"unnecessary",
"dumb",
"idiotic",
"idiotical",
"moronic",
"stupid",
"irrational",
"unreasonable"
],
"synonyms":[
"adventuresome",
"adventurous",
"audacious",
"daring",
"dashing",
"emboldened",
"enterprising",
"free-swinging",
"gutsy",
"hardy",
"nerved",
"nervy",
"venturesome",
"venturous"
]
},
"likely to attract attention":{
"antonyms":[
"inconspicuous",
"unemphatic",
"unflamboyant",
"unnoticeable",
"unobtrusive",
"unremarkable",
"unshowy"
],
"examples":[
"an interior decorator who likes to use bold colors"
],
"near antonyms":[
"subtle",
"concealed",
"hidden",
"shrouded",
"dim",
"faint",
"obscure",
"insignificant",
"undistinguished",
"unimportant",
"modest",
"unaffected",
"unassuming",
"unpretentious",
"conservative",
"plain",
"quiet",
"simple",
"understated",
"muted",
"restrained",
"subdued",
"subtle",
"toned-down",
"unflashy"
],
"related":[
"detectable",
"discernible",
"discernable",
"observable",
"perceptible",
"recognizable",
"visible",
"outstanding",
"salient",
"distinguished",
"eminent",
"impressive",
"notable",
"noteworthy",
"highlighted",
"spotlighted",
"flagrant",
"glaring",
"howling",
"screaming",
"flashy",
"garish",
"gaudy",
"glitzy",
"jazzy",
"loud",
"meretricious",
"swank",
"swanky",
"tawdry",
"highfalutin",
"hifalutin",
"ostentatious",
"pretentious",
"extravagant",
"fancy",
"florid",
"glittery",
"spectacular",
"opulent",
"ornate",
"overdone",
"overwrought",
"absorbing",
"engrossing",
"enthralling",
"fascinating",
"interesting",
"riveting"
],
"synonyms":[
"arresting",
"bodacious",
"brilliant",
"catchy",
"commanding",
"conspicuous",
"dramatic",
"emphatic",
"eye-catching",
"flamboyant",
"grabby",
"kenspeckle",
"marked",
"noisy",
"noticeable",
"prominent",
"pronounced",
"remarkable",
"showy",
"splashy",
"striking"
]
},
"showing a lack of proper social reserve or modesty":{
"antonyms":[
"modest",
"unassuming"
],
"examples":[
"a bold child who interrupts the adults at his parents' parties"
],
"near antonyms":[
"demure",
"down-to-earth",
"humble",
"lowly",
"meek",
"unassertive",
"unpretentious",
"bashful",
"mousy",
"mousey",
"retiring",
"shy",
"timid",
"timorous",
"diffident",
"self-doubting"
],
"related":[
"arrogant",
"bumptious",
"complacent",
"conceited",
"egoistic",
"egoistical",
"egomaniacal",
"egotistic",
"egotistical",
"highfalutin",
"hifalutin",
"high-and-mighty",
"high-hat",
"hoity-toity",
"important",
"overweening",
"pompous",
"prideful",
"proud",
"self-asserting",
"self-assertive",
"self-complacent",
"self-conceited",
"self-important",
"self-satisfied",
"smug",
"uppity",
"vain",
"vainglorious",
"cavalier",
"disdainful",
"haughty",
"lordly",
"pretentious",
"snobbish",
"stuck-up",
"supercilious",
"superior",
"audacious",
"bold-faced",
"brash",
"brassbound",
"brassy",
"brazen",
"cheeky",
"cocky",
"fresh",
"impertinent",
"impudent",
"insolent",
"overbold",
"pert",
"sassy",
"saucy",
"confident",
"self-assured",
"self-confident",
"sure",
"boastful",
"braggart",
"bragging",
"domineering",
"high-handed",
"imperious",
"self-absorbed",
"self-centered",
"self-concerned",
"self-engrossed",
"self-infatuated",
"self-interested",
"self-involved",
"selfish",
"self-obsessed",
"self-seeking"
],
"synonyms":[
"familiar",
"forward",
"free",
"immodest",
"overfamiliar",
"presuming",
"presumptuous"
]
},
"type":[
"adjective"
]
},
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"displaying or marked by rude boldness":{
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"meek",
"mousy",
"mousey",
"retiring",
"shy",
"timid"
],
"examples":[
"the child proceeded to tell a bold-faced lie despite the evidence right in front of us"
],
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"demure",
"humble",
"modest",
"courteous",
"genteel",
"mannerly",
"polite",
"proper",
"deferential",
"respectful",
"abashed",
"ashamed",
"blushing",
"embarrassed",
"shamefaced",
"gentle",
"mild",
"inconspicuous",
"unobtrusive"
],
"related":[
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"forward",
"obtrusive",
"defiant",
"disrespectful",
"shameless",
"unabashed",
"unblushing",
"bluff",
"blunt",
"curt",
"cute",
"facetious",
"flip",
"flippant",
"pert",
"smart",
"smart-aleck",
"smart-alecky",
"lippy",
"mouthy"
],
"synonyms":[
"arch",
"audacious",
"bold",
"brash",
"brassbound",
"brassy",
"brazen",
"brazen-faced",
"cheeky",
"cocksure",
"cocky",
"fresh",
"impertinent",
"impudent",
"insolent",
"nervy",
"sassy",
"saucy",
"wise"
]
},
"type":[
"adjective"
]
},
"bollixes":{
"as in clutters , mishmashes":{
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"examples":[],
"near antonyms":[],
"related":[],
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},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
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"examples":[],
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"related":[],
"synonyms":[]
},
"to hold up or serve as a foundation for":{
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"examples":[
"used additional beams to bolster the ceiling"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"related":[
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"truss",
"underlie"
],
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"bear",
"brace",
"buttress",
"carry",
"prop (up)",
"shore (up)",
"stay",
"support",
"sustain",
"undergird",
"underpin",
"uphold"
]
},
"to provide evidence or information for (as a claim or idea)":{
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"examples":[
"a couple of tournament wins would bolster the extravagant claims that have been made on behalf of the young golfer"
],
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"undercut",
"undermine",
"weaken"
],
"related":[
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"establish",
"prove",
"verify",
"affirm",
"avouch",
"validate"
],
"synonyms":[
"back",
"buttress",
"corroborate",
"reinforce",
"reenforce",
"shore (up)",
"substantiate",
"support"
]
},
"type":[
"noun",
"verb"
]
},
"bomb":{
"a very large amount of money":{
"antonyms":[
"mite",
"peanuts",
"pittance",
"song"
],
"examples":[
"that stay at Claridge's cost a bomb , but it was worth it"
],
"near antonyms":[
"petty cash",
"pin money",
"pocket money",
"spending money"
],
"related":[
"heap",
"pot",
"bonanza",
"mine",
"treasure trove",
"assets",
"capital",
"means",
"property",
"riches",
"wealth",
"wherewithal",
"bread",
"cash",
"chips",
"currency",
"dough",
"gold",
"jack",
"legal tender",
"lucre",
"pelf",
"tender",
"wampum"
],
"synonyms":[
"big bucks",
"boodle",
"bundle",
"earth",
"fortune",
"king's ransom",
"megabucks",
"mint",
"packet",
"pile",
"wad"
]
},
"something that has failed":{
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"blockbuster",
"hit",
"smash",
"success",
"winner"
],
"examples":[
"her tell-all book was a bomb that landed on the remainder tables with a thud"
],
"near antonyms":[
"corker",
"crackerjack",
"crackajack",
"dandy",
"jim-dandy",
"phenomenon"
],
"related":[
"also-ran",
"disappointment",
"dog",
"has-been",
"near miss",
"botch",
"hash",
"mess",
"muddle",
"shambles",
"nonevent",
"nonstarter"
],
"synonyms":[
"bummer",
"bust",
"catastrophe",
"clinker",
"clunker",
"debacle",
"d\u00e9b\u00e2cle",
"disaster",
"dud",
"failure",
"fiasco",
"fizzle",
"flop",
"frost",
"lemon",
"loser",
"miss",
"shipwreck",
"turkey",
"washout"
]
},
"to attack with a rapid or overwhelming outpouring of many things at once":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"following the reporter's obscene outburst, viewers bombed the television station with an unprecedented number of complaints"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"related":[
"examine",
"grill",
"interrogate",
"pump",
"query",
"question",
"quiz",
"debrief",
"cross-examine",
"catechize",
"annoy",
"harass",
"hound",
"pester",
"flood",
"inundate"
],
"synonyms":[
"barrage",
"bombard"
]
},
"to be unsuccessful":{
"antonyms":[
"click",
"come off",
"deliver",
"go",
"go over",
"pan out",
"succeed",
"work out"
],
"examples":[
"the chichi restaurant bombed big-time, lasting only six months"
],
"near antonyms":[
"cook",
"flourish",
"prosper",
"thrive",
"prevail",
"triumph",
"win"
],
"related":[
"flounder",
"struggle",
"decline",
"sink",
"skid",
"slip",
"slump",
"wane",
"crash",
"crumble",
"miscarry",
"misfire",
"go under",
"implode",
"self-destruct"
],
"synonyms":[
"collapse",
"crater",
"fail",
"flame out",
"flop",
"flunk",
"fold",
"founder",
"miss",
"strike out",
"tank",
"wash out"
]
},
"to defeat by a large margin":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"it's no surprise that the inexperienced baseball team got totally bombed in its first game"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"related":[
"sweep",
"upset",
"beat",
"best",
"conquer",
"dispatch",
"hurdle",
"lick",
"master",
"overbear",
"overcome",
"overmatch",
"prevail (over)",
"subdue",
"surmount",
"take",
"throw",
"triumph (over)",
"win (against)",
"worst",
"crush",
"knock off",
"knock over",
"overpower",
"overthrow",
"overwhelm",
"subjugate",
"upend",
"vanquish",
"ace (out)",
"better",
"eclipse",
"exceed",
"outdistance",
"outdo",
"outfight",
"outshine",
"outstrip",
"overtop",
"surpass",
"top",
"transcend",
"edge (out)",
"nose out",
"pip",
"cap",
"excel",
"flourish",
"score",
"succeed",
"break",
"destroy",
"do in",
"finish",
"sink",
"slaughter"
],
"synonyms":[
"annihilate",
"blow away",
"bury",
"clobber",
"cream",
"drub",
"dust",
"flatten",
"paste",
"rout",
"shellac",
"skin",
"skunk",
"smoke",
"smother",
"snow under",
"thrash",
"trim",
"tromp",
"trounce",
"wallop",
"wax",
"whip",
"whomp",
"whop",
"whap",
"whup"
]
},
"to proceed or move quickly":{
"antonyms":[
"crawl",
"creep",
"poke"
],
"examples":[
"skiers bombing down the slope vied for the coveted gold medal"
],
"near antonyms":[
"dally",
"dawdle",
"dillydally",
"drag",
"hang (around or out)",
"lag",
"linger",
"loiter",
"poke",
"tarry",
"amble",
"lumber",
"plod",
"saunter",
"shuffle",
"stroll",
"decelerate",
"slow (down or up)"
],
"related":[
"beetle",
"dart",
"flit",
"scamper",
"scud",
"scuffle",
"stampede",
"streak",
"whiz",
"whizz",
"gallop",
"jog",
"sprint",
"accelerate",
"quicken",
"step out",
"catch up",
"fast-forward",
"outpace",
"outrun",
"outstrip",
"overtake",
"arrow",
"beeline"
],
"synonyms":[
"barrel",
"belt",
"blast",
"blaze",
"blow",
"bolt",
"bowl",
"breeze",
"bundle",
"bustle",
"buzz",
"cannonball",
"careen",
"career",
"chase",
"course",
"crack (on)",
"dash",
"drive",
"fly",
"hare",
"hasten",
"hie",
"highball",
"hotfoot (it)",
"hump",
"hurl",
"hurry",
"hurtle",
"hustle",
"jet",
"jump",
"motor",
"nip",
"pelt",
"race",
"ram",
"rip",
"rocket",
"run",
"rush",
"rustle",
"scoot",
"scurry",
"scuttle",
"shoot",
"speed",
"step",
"tear",
"travel",
"trot",
"whirl",
"whisk",
"zip",
"zoom"
]
},
"to use bombs or artillery against":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"the enemy has bombed the city again"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"related":[
"enfilade",
"rake",
"strafe",
"assail",
"assault",
"attack",
"devastate",
"hit",
"pound",
"ravage",
"strike"
],
"synonyms":[
"batter",
"blitz",
"blitzkrieg",
"bombard",
"cannonade",
"shell"
]
},
"type":[
"noun",
"verb"
]
},
"bombard":{
"to attack with a rapid or overwhelming outpouring of many things at once":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"reporters bombarded the company spokesman with sharp questions"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"related":[
"examine",
"grill",
"interrogate",
"pump",
"query",
"question",
"quiz",
"debrief",
"cross-examine",
"catechize",
"annoy",
"harass",
"hound",
"pester",
"flood",
"inundate"
],
"synonyms":[
"barrage",
"bomb"
]
},
"to use bombs or artillery against":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"the Allies bombarded Germany for a great many months during World War II"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"related":[
"enfilade",
"rake",
"strafe",
"assail",
"assault",
"attack",
"devastate",
"hit",
"pound",
"ravage",
"strike"
],
"synonyms":[
"batter",
"blitz",
"blitzkrieg",
"bomb",
"cannonade",
"shell"
]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"bombarded":{
"to attack with a rapid or overwhelming outpouring of many things at once":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"reporters bombarded the company spokesman with sharp questions"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"related":[
"examined",
"grilled",
"interrogated",
"pumped",
"queried",
"questioned",
"quizzed",
"debriefed",
"cross-examined",
"catechized",
"annoyed",
"harassed",
"hounded",
"pestered",
"flooded",
"inundated"
],
"synonyms":[
"barraged",
"bombed"
]
},
"to use bombs or artillery against":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"the Allies bombarded Germany for a great many months during World War II"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"related":[
"enfiladed",
"raked",
"strafed",
"assailed",
"assaulted",
"attacked",
"devastated",
"hit",
"pounded",
"ravaged",
"struck"
],
"synonyms":[
"battered",
"blitzed",
"blitzkrieged",
"bombed",
"cannonaded",
"shelled"
]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"bombastic":{
"marked by the use of impressive-sounding but mostly meaningless words and phrases":{
"antonyms":[
"unrhetorical"
],
"examples":[
"a bombastic speech intended to impress the voters in her congressional district"
],
"near antonyms":[
"eloquent",
"well-spoken",
"bald",
"direct",
"matter-of-fact",
"plain",
"plainspoken",
"simple",
"stark",
"straightforward",
"unadorned",
"unaffected",
"unpretentious"
],
"related":[
"bloated",
"elevated",
"florid",
"flowery",
"grandiose",
"highfalutin",
"hifalutin",
"high-flown",
"high-sounding",
"inflated",
"lofty",
"ornate",
"pompous",
"pontifical",
"pretentious",
"stilted",
"tumid",
"turgid",
"overdone",
"verbose",
"wordy"
],
"synonyms":[
"flatulent",
"fustian",
"gaseous",
"gassy",
"grandiloquent",
"oratorical",
"orotund",
"rhetorical",
"rhetoric",
"windy"
]
},
"type":[
"adjective"
]
},
"bombed":{
"being under the influence of a recreational drug":{
"antonyms":[
"sober",
"straight"
],
"examples":[
"the police officer determined that the driver was bombed and arrested him"
],
"near antonyms":[
"abstemious",
"abstinent",
"clean",
"temperate",
"clearheaded",
"cool",
"level",
"steady"
],
"related":[
"addicted",
"hooked"
],
"synonyms":[
"blasted",
"blitzed",
"high",
"hopped-up",
"loaded",
"ripped",
"spaced-out",
"spaced",
"stoned",
"strung out",
"wasted",
"wiped out",
"zonked",
"zonked-out"
]
},
"being under the influence of alcohol":{
"antonyms":[
"sober",
"straight"
],
"examples":[
"a designated driver sipping seltzer while her friends got bombed"
],
"near antonyms":[
"abstemious",
"abstinent",
"dry",
"temperate",
"teetotal",
"clearheaded",
"cool",
"level",
"steady"
],
"related":[
"maudlin",
"beery",
"befuddled",
"bleary-eyed",
"crapulous",
"dopey",
"dopy",
"rocky",
"strung out",
"stupefied",
"debauched",
"dissipated",
"dissolute",
"alcoholic",
"bibulous",
"dipsomaniacal"
],
"synonyms":[
"besotted",
"blasted",
"blind",
"blitzed",
"blotto",
"boozy",
"canned",
"cockeyed",
"crocked",
"drunk",
"drunken",
"fried",
"gassed",
"hammered",
"high",
"impaired",
"inebriate",
"inebriated",
"intoxicated",
"juiced",
"lit",
"lit up",
"loaded",
"looped",
"oiled",
"pickled",
"pie-eyed",
"plastered",
"potted",
"ripped",
"sloshed",
"smashed",
"sottish",
"soused",
"sozzled",
"squiffed",
"squiffy",
"stewed",
"stiff",
"stinking",
"stoned",
"tanked",
"tiddly",
"tight",
"tipsy",
"wasted",
"wet",
"wiped out"
]
},
"to attack with a rapid or overwhelming outpouring of many things at once":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"following the reporter's obscene outburst, viewers bombed the television station with an unprecedented number of complaints"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"related":[
"examined",
"grilled",
"interrogated",
"pumped",
"queried",
"questioned",
"quizzed",
"debriefed",
"cross-examined",
"catechized",
"annoyed",
"harassed",
"hounded",
"pestered",
"flooded",
"inundated"
],
"synonyms":[
"barraged",
"bombarded"
]
},
"to be unsuccessful":{
"antonyms":[
"came off",
"clicked",
"delivered",
"panned out",
"succeeded",
"went",
"went over",
"worked out"
],
"examples":[
"the chichi restaurant bombed big-time, lasting only six months"
],
"near antonyms":[
"cooked",
"flourished",
"prospered",
"thrived",
"throve",
"prevailed",
"triumphed",
"won"
],
"related":[
"floundered",
"struggled",
"declined",
"sank",
"sunk",
"skidded",
"slipped",
"slumped",
"waned",
"crashed",
"crumbled",
"miscarried",
"misfired",
"went under",
"imploded",
"self-destructed"
],
"synonyms":[
"collapsed",
"cratered",
"failed",
"flamed out",
"flopped",
"flunked",
"folded",
"foundered",
"missed",
"struck out",
"tanked",
"washed out"
]
},
"to defeat by a large margin":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"it's no surprise that the inexperienced baseball team got totally bombed in its first game"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"related":[
"swept",
"upset",
"beat",
"bested",
"conquered",
"dispatched",
"hurdled",
"licked",
"mastered",
"overbore",
"overcame",
"overmatched",
"prevailed (over)",
"subdued",
"surmounted",
"threw",
"took",
"triumphed (over)",
"won (against)",
"worsted",
"crushed",
"knocked off",
"knocked over",
"overpowered",
"overthrew",
"overwhelmed",
"subjugated",
"upended",
"vanquished",
"aced (out)",
"bettered",
"eclipsed",
"exceeded",
"outdid",
"outdistanced",
"outfought",
"outshone",
"outshined",
"outstripped",
"overtopped",
"surpassed",
"topped",
"transcended",
"edged (out)",
"nosed out",
"pipped",
"capped",
"excelled",
"flourished",
"scored",
"succeeded",
"broke",
"destroyed",
"did in",
"finished",
"sank",
"sunk",
"slaughtered"
],
"synonyms":[
"annihilated",
"blew away",
"buried",
"clobbered",
"creamed",
"drubbed",
"dusted",
"flattened",
"pasted",
"routed",
"shellacked",
"skinned",
"skunked",
"smoked",
"smothered",
"snowed under",
"thrashed",
"trimmed",
"tromped",
"trounced",
"walloped",
"waxed",
"whipped",
"whomped",
"whopped",
"whapped",
"whupped"
]
},
"to proceed or move quickly":{
"antonyms":[
"crawled",
"crept",
"poked"
],
"examples":[
"skiers bombing down the slope vied for the coveted gold medal"
],
"near antonyms":[
"dallied",
"dawdled",
"dillydallied",
"dragged",
"hung (around or out)",
"hanged (around or out)",
"lagged",
"lingered",
"loitered",
"poked",
"tarried",
"ambled",
"lumbered",
"plodded",
"sauntered",
"shuffled",
"strolled",
"decelerated",
"slowed (down or up)"
],
"related":[
"beetled",
"darted",
"flitted",
"scampered",
"scudded",
"scuffled",
"stampeded",
"streaked",
"whizzed",
"galloped",
"jogged",
"sprinted",
"accelerated",
"quickened",
"stepped out",
"caught up",
"fast-forwarded",
"outpaced",
"outran",
"outstripped",
"overtook",
"arrowed",
"beelined"
],
"synonyms":[
"barreled",
"barrelled",
"belted",
"blasted",
"blazed",
"blew",
"bolted",
"bowled",
"breezed",
"bundled",
"bustled",
"buzzed",
"cannonballed",
"careened",
"careered",
"chased",
"coursed",
"cracked (on)",
"dashed",
"drove",
"flew",
"hared",
"hastened",
"hied",
"highballed",
"hotfooted (it)",
"humped",
"hurled",
"hurried",
"hurtled",
"hustled",
"jetted",
"jumped",
"motored",
"nipped",
"pelted",
"raced",
"rammed",
"ran",
"run",
"ripped",
"rocketed",
"rushed",
"rustled",
"scooted",
"scurried",
"scuttled",
"shot",
"sped",
"speeded",
"stepped",
"tore",
"traveled",
"travelled",
"trotted",
"whirled",
"whisked",
"zipped",
"zoomed"
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"the enemy has bombed the city again"
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"raked",
"strafed",
"assailed",
"assaulted",
"attacked",
"devastated",
"hit",
"pounded",
"ravaged",
"struck"
],
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"battered",
"blitzed",
"blitzkrieged",
"bombarded",
"cannonaded",
"shelled"
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"type":[
"adjective",
"verb"
]
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"as in fighter , warplane":{
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"type":[
"noun"
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"being exactly as appears or as claimed":{
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"bogus",
"counterfeit",
"fake",
"false",
"mock",
"phony",
"phoney",
"pseudo",
"sham",
"spurious",
"suppositious",
"supposititious",
"unauthentic",
"unreal"
],
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"a bona fide war hero"
],
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"artificial",
"factitious",
"imitation",
"man-made",
"simulated",
"synthetic",
"unnatural",
"concocted",
"fabricated",
"manufactured",
"deceptive",
"delusive",
"delusory",
"misleading"
],
"related":[
"actual",
"historical",
"original",
"lawful",
"legal",
"legitimate",
"identifiable",
"recognizable",
"verifiable",
"proven",
"substantiated",
"validated",
"verified",
"incontestable",
"incontrovertible",
"indisputable",
"indubitable",
"irrefutable",
"undeniable",
"undoubted",
"unmistakable",
"unquestionable",
"veritable",
"very",
"accurate",
"correct",
"proper",
"pure",
"unadulterated",
"unalloyed"
],
"synonyms":[
"authentic",
"certifiable",
"certified",
"dinkum",
"echt",
"genuine",
"honest",
"pukka",
"pucka",
"real",
"right",
"sure-enough",
"true"
]
},
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"adjective"
]
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"a huge amount":{
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"examples":[
"The mailbox was stuffed with a bonanza of credit card offers."
],
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"examples":[
"The popular video game became an unexpected bonanza for the independent developers behind it."
],
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},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"bonded":{
"as in":{
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"examples":[
"a man attempting to bond with his new and mistrustful stepson"
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"related":[
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"empathized",
"identified",
"sympathized"
],
"synonyms":[
"clicked",
"communed",
"related"
]
},
"type":[
"adjective",
"verb"
]
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"as in goof , boob":{
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"related":[],
"synonyms":[]
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"synonyms":[]
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"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"boney":{
"having a noticeably small amount of body fat":{
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"chubby",
"corpulent",
"fat",
"gross",
"obese",
"overweight",
"plump",
"portly",
"rotund",
"tubby"
],
"examples":[
"that bony old horse may have been deliberately starved"
],
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"beefy",
"bulky",
"chunky",
"fleshy",
"heavy",
"heavyset",
"stocky",
"stout",
"thick",
"thickset",
"weighty",
"brawny",
"burly",
"husky",
"dumpy",
"pudgy",
"roly-poly",
"squat",
"stubby",
"paunchy",
"potbellied",
"flabby",
"soft",
"buxom",
"zaftig",
"zoftig",
"full",
"hippy",
"round"
],
"related":[
"clean-limbed",
"trim",
"sylphlike",
"willowy",
"angular",
"rawboned",
"scraggy",
"scrawny",
"sinewy",
"wiry",
"lank",
"lanky",
"rangy",
"reedy",
"spindling",
"spindly",
"stringy",
"twiggy",
"waspish",
"weedy",
"anorectic",
"anoretic",
"anorexic",
"cadaverous",
"emaciated",
"gaunt",
"haggard",
"pinched",
"skeletal",
"wasted",
"wizened",
"meager",
"meagre",
"puny",
"slight"
],
"synonyms":[
"fatless",
"lean",
"lithe",
"skinny",
"slender",
"slim",
"spare",
"svelte",
"thin"
]
},
"producing inferior or only a small amount of vegetation":{
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"fertile",
"fruitful",
"lush",
"luxuriant",
"productive",
"rich"
],
"examples":[
"bony hills from which sheepherders eked out a meager existence"
],
"near antonyms":[
"arable",
"tillable",
"green",
"sylvan",
"verdant"
],
"related":[
"bleak",
"inhospitable",
"lifeless",
"uncultivable",
"untillable",
"bankrupted",
"consumed",
"debilitated",
"depleted",
"diminished",
"drained",
"dried-up",
"enfeebled",
"exhausted",
"expended",
"lessened",
"reduced",
"spent",
"used up",
"arid",
"desert",
"droughty",
"dry",
"rainless",
"sere",
"sear",
"thirsty",
"waterless",
"baked",
"dehydrated",
"parched",
"sunbaked"
],
"synonyms":[
"barren",
"dead",
"desolate",
"hardscrabble",
"impoverished",
"infertile",
"poor",
"stark",
"unfertile",
"unproductive",
"waste"
]
},
"type":[
"adjective"
]
},
"bonged":{
"to make the clear sound heard when metal vibrates":{
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"examples":[
"church bells across the city bonged to mark the solemn occasion"
],
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"related":[
"chinked",
"clanged",
"clanked",
"clashed",
"clinked",
"ding-donged",
"dinged",
"gonged",
"jangled",
"jingled",
"pinged",
"plinked",
"plunked",
"plonked",
"tanged",
"tingled",
"tinkled",
"echoed",
"resonated",
"resounded",
"reverberated"
],
"synonyms":[
"chimed",
"knelled",
"pealed",
"rang",
"tolled"
]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"bonking":{
"to deliver a blow to (someone or something) usually in a strong vigorous manner":{
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"examples":[
"an overhead branch suddenly fell and bonked him on the head"
],
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"related":[
"battering",
"beating",
"buffeting",
"bunging",
"chopping",
"cuffing",
"drubbing",
"lacing",
"lambasting",
"licking",
"mangling",
"mauling",
"pelting",
"peppering",
"pommeling",
"pommelling",
"pummeling",
"pummelling",
"roughing",
"scuffing",
"bunting",
"flicking",
"stroking",
"tapping",
"bumping",
"butting",
"jabbing",
"jostling",
"kicking",
"kneeing",
"poking",
"prodding",
"pushing",
"shoving",
"stamping",
"bowling (down or over)",
"creaming",
"decking",
"dumping",
"felling",
"flooring",
"knocking down",
"leveling",
"levelling",
"rabbit-punching",
"sucker punching",
"caning",
"clubbing",
"cudgeling",
"cudgelling",
"flailing",
"flogging",
"lashing",
"sapping",
"slashing",
"sledgehammering",
"sledging",
"spearing",
"stabbing",
"switching",
"thrashing",
"whipping",
"beaning",
"braining",
"conking",
"skulling"
],
"synonyms":[
"banging",
"bashing",
"batting",
"belting",
"biffing",
"bludgeoning",
"bobbing",
"bopping",
"boxing",
"busting",
"clapping",
"clipping",
"clobbering",
"clocking",
"clouting",
"cracking",
"hammering",
"hitting",
"knocking",
"nailing",
"pasting",
"pounding",
"punching",
"rapping",
"slamming",
"slapping",
"slogging",
"slugging",
"smacking",
"smiting",
"socking",
"striking",
"swatting",
"swiping",
"tagging",
"thumping",
"thwacking",
"walloping",
"whacking",
"whaling",
"zapping"
]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"bonus":{
"something given in addition to what is ordinarily expected or owed":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"this job offers a nice Christmas bonus in addition to the salary"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"related":[
"pension",
"bestowal",
"presentation",
"benefaction",
"beneficence",
"benevolence",
"bounty",
"charity",
"generosity",
"largesse",
"largess",
"philanthropy",
"contribution",
"donation",
"gift",
"offering",
"present",
"grant",
"subsidy",
"boon",
"manna",
"windfall",
"favor",
"freebie",
"freebee",
"giveaway",
"premium",
"award",
"prize",
"reward",
"fringe benefit",
"icing"
],
"synonyms":[
"cumshaw",
"dividend",
"donative",
"extra",
"gratuity",
"gravy",
"gravy train",
"lagniappe",
"perk",
"perquisite",
"throw-in",
"tip"
]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"boo":{
"a vocal sound made to express scorn or disapproval":{
"antonyms":[
"cheer"
],
"examples":[
"the referee's questionable call was greeted with a chorus of boos"
],
"near antonyms":[
"applause",
"clapping"
],
"related":[
"smirk",
"sneer",
"snicker",
"snigger",
"gibe",
"jibe",
"put-down",
"taunt",
"whistle"
],
"synonyms":[
"bird",
"Bronx cheer",
"catcall",
"hiss",
"hoot",
"jeer",
"raspberry",
"razz",
"snort"
]
},
"as in":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[],
"near antonyms":[],
"related":[],
"synonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun",
"verb"
]
},
"boob":{
"an unintentional departure from truth or accuracy":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"made an embarrassing boob on a chat show that had all of London laughing"
],
"near antonyms":[
"accuracy",
"correctness",
"exactitude",
"exactness",
"preciseness",
"precision",
"strictness",
"inerrancy",
"infallibility",
"perfection"
],
"related":[
"bloomer",
"blooper",
"boner",
"howler",
"pratfall",
"foul-up",
"snafu",
"misapprehension",
"miscalculation",
"miscomprehension",
"misconception",
"misconstruction",
"misdescription",
"misimpression",
"misinterpretation",
"misjudgment",
"misreading",
"misstatement",
"misunderstanding"
],
"synonyms":[
"blunder",
"bobble",
"boo-boo",
"brick",
"clanger",
"clinker",
"error",
"fault",
"flub",
"fluff",
"fumble",
"gaff",
"gaffe",
"goof",
"inaccuracy",
"lapse",
"miscue",
"misstep",
"mistake",
"oversight",
"screwup",
"slip",
"slipup",
"stumble",
"trip"
]
},
"to make a mistake":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"it was an important speech, and the prime minister knew that he could not afford to boob on it"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"related":[
"nod",
"bobble",
"botch",
"bungle",
"butcher",
"foozle",
"mangle",
"mishandle",
"muff",
"murder",
"miscalculate",
"misconceive",
"miscount",
"miscue",
"misdeem",
"misgauge",
"misjudge",
"mistake",
"misconstrue",
"misinterpret",
"misunderstand"
],
"synonyms":[
"blunder",
"err",
"flub",
"fluff",
"foul up",
"fumble",
"goof (up)",
"louse up",
"mess (up)",
"screw up",
"slip up",
"stumble",
"trip"
]
},
"type":[
"noun",
"verb"
]
},
"boodle":{
"a usually small number of persons considered as a unit":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"a boodle of teenagers boarded the bus together"
],
"near antonyms":[
"individual",
"single"
],
"related":[
"assembly",
"collective",
"congregation",
"gathering",
"muster",
"organization",
"circle",
"clan",
"clique",
"coterie",
"fellowship",
"gang",
"ring",
"round",
"set",
"faction",
"guild",
"gild",
"order",
"school",
"sect",
"brigade",
"crew",
"outfit",
"phalanx",
"platoon",
"posse",
"task force",
"team",
"alliance",
"bloc",
"coalition",
"confederacy",
"confederation",
"federation",
"league",
"union",
"battalion",
"squadron",
"bevy",
"brood",
"covey"
],
"synonyms":[
"array",
"band",
"batch",
"battery",
"body",
"bunch",
"cluster",
"clutch",
"consort",
"constellation",
"crop",
"group",
"grouping",
"huddle",
"knot",
"lot",
"parcel",
"party",
"passel"
]
},
"a very large amount of money":{
"antonyms":[
"mite",
"peanuts",
"pittance",
"song"
],
"examples":[
"we saved a boodle by buying a house that's off the beaten path"
],
"near antonyms":[
"petty cash",
"pin money",
"pocket money",
"spending money"
],
"related":[
"heap",
"pot",
"bonanza",
"mine",
"treasure trove",
"assets",
"capital",
"means",
"property",
"riches",
"wealth",
"wherewithal",
"bread",
"cash",
"chips",
"currency",
"dough",
"gold",
"jack",
"legal tender",
"lucre",
"pelf",
"tender",
"wampum"
],
"synonyms":[
"big bucks",
"bomb",
"bundle",
"earth",
"fortune",
"king's ransom",
"megabucks",
"mint",
"packet",
"pile",
"wad"
]
},
"something given or promised in order to improperly influence a person's conduct or decision":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"an IRS agent was caught accepting some boodle from people she was auditing"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"related":[
"baksheesh",
"kickback",
"payoff",
"slush fund",
"incentive",
"incitement",
"instigation",
"motivation",
"provocation",
"spur",
"stimulation",
"stimulus",
"boost",
"encouragement",
"goad",
"inducement",
"allurement",
"bait",
"enticement",
"lure",
"seduction",
"temptation",
"turn-on",
"flattery",
"persuasion",
"decoy",
"snare",
"trap"
],
"synonyms":[
"backhander",
"bribe",
"cumshaw",
"fix",
"sop"
]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"boogie":{
"as in shuffle , jive":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[],
"near antonyms":[],
"related":[],
"synonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"book":{
"a book made up of the writings accepted by Christians as coming from God":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"offered to swear on the Book that everything had happened just as he said"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"related":[
"Polyglot"
],
"synonyms":[
"Bible",
"Good Book",
"Holy Writ",
"Scripture"
]
},
"a publication that appears at regular intervals":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"older people in these parts still tend to call a magazine a book"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"related":[
"annual",
"bimonthly",
"biweekly",
"daily",
"monthly",
"quarterly",
"semimonthly",
"semiweekly",
"triweekly",
"weekly",
"yearbook",
"digest",
"little magazine",
"fanzine",
"pictorial",
"slick",
"broadside",
"edition",
"extra",
"sheet",
"supplement",
"tab",
"tabloid",
"newsletter",
"newsmagazine",
"newsweekly"
],
"synonyms":[
"bulletin",
"diurnal",
"gazette",
"journal",
"mag",
"magazine",
"newspaper",
"organ",
"paper",
"periodical",
"rag",
"review",
"serial",
"zine"
]
},
"a set of printed sheets of paper bound together between covers and forming a work of fiction or nonfiction":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"I bought another new book yesterday, and I can't wait to read it"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"related":[
"hardback",
"hardcover",
"paper",
"paperback",
"paperbound",
"pocket book",
"pocket edition",
"softback",
"softcover",
"trade book",
"trade edition",
"folio",
"quarto",
"guidebook",
"handbook",
"how-to",
"manual",
"catalog",
"catalogue",
"cyclopedia",
"cyclopaedia",
"dictionary",
"encyclopedia",
"monograph",
"primer",
"text",
"textbook",
"tract",
"treatise",
"novel",
"novelette",
"pulp",
"album",
"almanac",
"anthology",
"casebook",
"chapbook",
"omnibus",
"picture book"
],
"synonyms":[
"tome",
"volume"
]
},
"information not generally available to the public":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"what's the book on the new company president?"
],
"near antonyms":[
"ancient history",
"open secret"
],
"related":[
"dirt",
"dish",
"gossip",
"rumor",
"story",
"hint",
"pointer",
"information",
"intelligence",
"news",
"tidings",
"word"
],
"synonyms":[
"411",
"dope",
"inside",
"lowdown",
"poop",
"scoop",
"skinny",
"tip"
]
},
"to arrange to have something (as a hotel room) held for one's future use":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"we booked a conference room for the meeting next week"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"related":[
"earmark",
"contract",
"engage",
"hire",
"retain"
],
"synonyms":[
"bespeak",
"reserve"
]
},
"to leave a place often for another":{
"antonyms":[
"arrive",
"come",
"show up",
"turn up"
],
"examples":[
"I'm running late, so I've got to book"
],
"near antonyms":[
"abide",
"dwell",
"lodge",
"remain",
"settle",
"stay",
"tarry",
"approach",
"close",
"near",
"hit",
"land",
"reach"
],
"related":[
"set out",
"start",
"strike out",
"abscond",
"decamp",
"escape",
"evacuate",
"flee",
"fly",
"get out",
"mizzle",
"run away",
"scat",
"scram",
"skip",
"go out",
"light out",
"step out",
"abandon",
"desert",
"forsake",
"vacate",
"emigrate",
"adjourn",
"remove",
"retire",
"retreat",
"withdraw"
],
"synonyms":[
"bail",
"bail out",
"begone",
"bug off",
"bug out",
"bugger off",
"buzz (off)",
"clear off",
"clear out",
"cut out",
"depart",
"dig out",
"exit",
"get",
"get off",
"go",
"go off",
"move",
"pack (up or off)",
"part",
"peel off",
"pike (out or off)",
"pull out",
"push off",
"push on",
"quit",
"run along",
"sally (forth)",
"scarper",
"shove (off)",
"step (along)",
"take off",
"vamoose",
"walk out"
]
},
"type":[
"noun",
"verb"
]
},
"boomed":{
"to become greater in size, extent, volume, amount, or number":{
"antonyms":[
"contracted",
"decreased",
"diminished",
"dwindled",
"lessened",
"receded",
"waned"
],
"examples":[
"with the strong economy, business is booming"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"related":[
"jumped",
"rocketed",
"skyrocketed",
"surged",
"heightened",
"intensified",
"redoubled",
"blew up",
"bulked",
"distended",
"inflated",
"puffed (up)",
"crescendoed",
"crested",
"peaked"
],
"synonyms":[
"accelerated",
"accumulated",
"appreciated",
"ballooned",
"built up",
"burgeoned",
"bourgeoned",
"climbed",
"enlarged",
"escalated",
"expanded",
"gained",
"increased",
"mounted",
"multiplied",
"mushroomed",
"proliferated",
"rolled up",
"rose",
"snowballed",
"spread",
"swelled",
"waxed"
]
},
"to make a long loud deep noise or cry":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"the cannons boomed throughout the night"
],
"near antonyms":[
"grunted",
"mouthed",
"mumbled",
"murmured",
"muttered",
"whispered",
"mewled",
"puled",
"squeaked",
"whimpered"
],
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"rolled",
"rumbled",
"banged",
"blared",
"blasted",
"pealed",
"screamed",
"screeched",
"shrieked",
"squalled",
"bawled",
"called",
"cried",
"hollered",
"hooted",
"shouted",
"whooped",
"yelled",
"belled",
"caterwauled",
"howled",
"wailed",
"yowled"
],
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"growled",
"roared",
"thundered"
]
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]
},
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"examples":[
"she grew up in a big city, but chose to settle down way out in the boonies"
],
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"conurbation",
"megalopolis",
"urban sprawl"
],
"related":[
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"backcountry",
"backwater",
"backwoods",
"bush",
"frontier",
"hinterland",
"outback",
"up-country",
"wild",
"wilderness"
],
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"country",
"countryside",
"nowhere",
"sticks"
]
},
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"plural noun"
]
},
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"a loudmouthed boor who embarrassed his family at every social event they attended"
],
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"hero",
"heroine",
"idol",
"role model",
"gentleman",
"lady",
"angel",
"saint"
],
"related":[
"barbarian",
"brute",
"caveman",
"Neanderthal",
"savage",
"loudmouth",
"vulgarian",
"lowlife",
"miscreant",
"rascal",
"rogue",
"roughneck",
"scab",
"scamp",
"scoundrel",
"villain",
"wretch",
"booby",
"doofus",
"fool",
"jackass",
"nincompoop",
"ninny",
"nit",
"nitwit",
"nut",
"schmo",
"schmoe",
"airhead",
"birdbrain",
"blockhead",
"dink",
"dolt",
"dope",
"dork",
"goon",
"half-wit",
"idiot",
"imbecile",
"moron",
"turkey",
"brat",
"insolent",
"nuisance",
"pest",
"snip",
"snob",
"snoot",
"snot",
"dweeb",
"nerd"
],
"synonyms":[
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"beast",
"bleeder",
"blighter",
"bounder",
"bugger",
"buzzard",
"cad",
"chuff",
"churl",
"clown",
"creep",
"cretin",
"crud",
"crumb",
"cur",
"dirtbag",
"dog",
"fink",
"heel",
"hound",
"jerk",
"joker",
"louse",
"lout",
"pill",
"rat",
"rat fink",
"reptile",
"rotter",
"schmuck",
"scum",
"scumbag",
"scuzzball",
"skunk",
"sleaze",
"sleazebag",
"sleazeball",
"slime",
"slimeball",
"slob",
"snake",
"so-and-so",
"sod",
"stinkard",
"stinker",
"swine",
"toad",
"varmint",
"vermin"
]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
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"as in":{
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},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
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"to lift with effort":{
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"examples":[
"boosted the child into her car seat"
],
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"depressed",
"dropped",
"lowered",
"sank",
"sunk",
"submerged",
"submersed"
],
"related":[
"elevated",
"hiked",
"picked up",
"raised",
"reared",
"uplifted",
"upped",
"upraised",
"upreared"
],
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"hove",
"hefted",
"hoisted",
"jacked (up)",
"upheaved"
]
},
"to make greater in size, amount, or number":{
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"abated",
"decreased",
"de-escalated",
"diminished",
"downsized",
"dwindled",
"lessened",
"lowered",
"minified",
"reduced",
"subtracted (from)"
],
"examples":[
"a promotion that boosted the number of interested customers milling about the showroom"
],
"near antonyms":[
"abbreviated",
"abridged",
"curtailed",
"shortened",
"compressed",
"condensed",
"constricted",
"contracted",
"cut back",
"retrenched"
],
"related":[
"boomed",
"jumped",
"skyrocketed",
"spiked",
"bumped (up)",
"ratcheted (up)",
"racheted (up)",
"blew up",
"dilated",
"distended",
"inflated",
"drew out",
"elongated",
"fleshed (out)",
"lengthened",
"prolonged",
"protracted",
"stretched",
"developed",
"enhanced",
"heightened",
"intensified",
"magnified",
"complemented",
"supplemented",
"beefed (up)",
"reinforced",
"reenforced",
"strengthened",
"maximized",
"accumulated",
"amassed",
"collected",
"followed up",
"parlayed"
],
"synonyms":[
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"added (to)",
"aggrandized",
"amplified",
"augmented",
"built up",
"compounded",
"enlarged",
"escalated",
"expanded",
"extended",
"hyped",
"increased",
"multiplied",
"pumped up",
"raised",
"stoked",
"supersized",
"swelled",
"upped"
]
},
"to make markedly greater in measure or degree":{
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"abated",
"moderated"
],
"examples":[
"recommended eating foods that boost the body's immunity to disease"
],
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"decreased",
"diminished",
"lessened",
"let up (on)",
"reduced",
"subdued",
"toned (down)",
"weakened",
"dwindled",
"receded",
"subsided",
"tapered (off)",
"waned",
"alleviated",
"eased",
"lightened"
],
"related":[
"broadened",
"enlarged",
"expanded",
"extended",
"lengthened",
"accelerated",
"hastened",
"quickened",
"emphasized",
"pointed (up)",
"sharpened",
"stressed",
"augmented",
"enforced",
"reinforced",
"reenforced",
"restrengthened",
"supplemented",
"maximized",
"enlivened",
"jazzed (up)",
"aggravated",
"exacerbated"
],
"synonyms":[
"accentuated",
"amped (up)",
"amplified",
"beefed (up)",
"consolidated",
"deepened",
"enhanced",
"heightened",
"intensified",
"magnified",
"redoubled",
"stepped up",
"strengthened"
]
},
"to move from a lower to a higher place or position":{
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"dropped",
"lowered"
],
"examples":[
"boosted the box onto the top shelf"
],
"near antonyms":[
"descended",
"dipped",
"fell",
"pitched",
"plunged",
"slipped",
"bore",
"depressed",
"pressed",
"pushed",
"sank",
"sunk",
"submerged"
],
"related":[
"ascended",
"mounted",
"rose",
"reared",
"upended"
],
"synonyms":[
"craned",
"elevated",
"heaved",
"hove",
"hefted",
"heightened",
"hiked",
"hoisted",
"jacked (up)",
"lifted",
"perked (up)",
"picked up",
"raised",
"took up",
"upheld",
"uplifted",
"upped",
"upraised"
]
},
"to provide publicity for":{
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"examples":[
"boosted the singer's latest release with a round of appearances on all the talk and entertainment shows"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"related":[
"advertised",
"barked",
"merchandised",
"merchandized",
"sold",
"pushed",
"acclaimed",
"hailed",
"lauded",
"praised",
"endorsed",
"indorsed",
"plumped (for)",
"plunked (for)",
"plonked (for)",
"recommended",
"reviewed",
"announced",
"broadcast",
"broadcasted",
"published"
],
"synonyms":[
"ballyhooed",
"hyped",
"pitched",
"plugged",
"promoted",
"publicized",
"talked up",
"touted"
]
},
"to take (something) without right and with an intent to keep":{
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"examples":[
"the woman was nabbed trying to boost a couple of bottles of perfume"
],
"near antonyms":[
"bought",
"purchased",
"bestowed",
"contributed",
"donated",
"gave",
"handed over",
"presented"
],
"related":[
"burglarized",
"knocked over",
"robbed",
"looted",
"pillaged",
"plundered",
"sacked",
"carjacked",
"hijacked",
"highjacked",
"picked",
"rifled",
"poached",
"rustled",
"shoplifted",
"collared",
"grabbed",
"grasped",
"nailed",
"seized",
"snatched",
"took",
"mooched",
"sponged",
"abducted",
"kidnapped",
"kidnaped",
"shanghaied",
"spirited"
],
"synonyms":[
"appropriated",
"filched",
"heisted",
"hooked",
"lifted",
"misappropriated",
"nicked",
"nipped",
"pilfered",
"pinched",
"pocketed",
"purloined",
"ripped off",
"snitched",
"stole",
"swiped",
"thieved"
]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"booster":{
"a person who actively supports or favors a cause":{
"antonyms":[
"adversary",
"antagonist",
"opponent"
],
"examples":[
"rah-rah boosters for the sports team will be attending the game and carrying large signs"
],
"near antonyms":[
"enemy",
"foe",
"rival",
"belittler",
"critic",
"faultfinder"
],
"related":[
"loyalist",
"partisan",
"partizan",
"stalwart",
"adherent",
"cohort",
"disciple",
"follower",
"interpreter",
"applauder",
"cheerleader",
"encourager",
"fellow traveler"
],
"synonyms":[
"advocate",
"advocator",
"apostle",
"backer",
"champion",
"espouser",
"exponent",
"expounder",
"friend",
"gospeler",
"gospeller",
"herald",
"hierophant",
"high priest",
"paladin",
"promoter",
"proponent",
"protagonist",
"supporter",
"true believer",
"tub-thumper",
"white knight"
]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"boosts":{
"an act or instance of helping":{
"antonyms":[
"hindrances"
],
"examples":[
"she always liked to give struggling families in the neighborhood a boost"
],
"near antonyms":[
"constraints",
"frustrations",
"inhibitions",
"interferences",
"obstructions",
"repressions",
"restraints",
"deterrences",
"discouragements"
],
"related":[
"advancements",
"encouragements",
"facilitations",
"furtherances",
"nurturances",
"benefactions",
"patronages",
"promotions",
"sponsorships",
"advice",
"care",
"counsel",
"guidance",
"attendances",
"attentions",
"hand-holdings",
"services",
"beneficences",
"charities",
"favors",
"philanthropies",
"assuagements",
"palliations",
"reliefs",
"succors"
],
"synonyms":[
"abetments",
"aids",
"assistances",
"assists",
"backings",
"hands",
"help",
"helping hands",
"legs up",
"lifts",
"supports"
]
},
"something added (as by growth)":{
"antonyms":[
"abatements",
"declines",
"decreases",
"decrements",
"depletions",
"diminishments",
"diminutions",
"drop-offs",
"falloffs",
"falls",
"losses",
"reductions",
"shrinkages",
"step-downs"
],
"examples":[
"a sudden boost in sales"
],
"near antonyms":[
"deductions",
"subtractions"
],
"related":[
"accumulations",
"assemblages",
"collections",
"gatherings",
"complements",
"accessions",
"appendixes",
"appendices",
"continuations",
"extensions",
"uptrends",
"upturns",
"jumps",
"run-ups",
"spikes"
],
"synonyms":[
"accretions",
"accruals",
"addenda",
"addendums",
"additions",
"augmentations",
"expansions",
"gains",
"increases",
"increments",
"more",
"pluses",
"plusses",
"proliferations",
"raises",
"rises",
"step-ups",
"supplements",
"upticks"
]
},
"something that arouses action or activity":{
"antonyms":[
"counterincentives",
"counter-incentives",
"disincentives"
],
"examples":[
"according to the President, a tax cut is just the boost that the economy needs"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"related":[
"inducements",
"invitations",
"antecedents",
"causes",
"considerations",
"grounds",
"motives",
"occasions",
"reasons",
"catalysts",
"catalyzers",
"fuels",
"sparks"
],
"synonyms":[
"encouragements",
"goads",
"impetuses",
"impulses",
"incentives",
"incitations",
"incitements",
"instigations",
"momenta",
"momentums",
"motivations",
"provocations",
"spurs",
"stimulants",
"stimuli",
"yeasts"
]
},
"to lift with effort":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"boosted the child into her car seat"
],
"near antonyms":[
"depresses",
"drops",
"lowers",
"sinks",
"submerges",
"submerses"
],
"related":[
"elevates",
"hikes",
"picks up",
"raises",
"rears",
"uplifts",
"upraises",
"uprears",
"ups"
],
"synonyms":[
"heaves",
"hefts",
"hoists",
"jacks (up)",
"upheaves"
]
},
"to make greater in size, amount, or number":{
"antonyms":[
"abates",
"decreases",
"de-escalates",
"diminishes",
"downsizes",
"dwindles",
"lessens",
"lowers",
"minifies",
"reduces",
"subtracts (from)"
],
"examples":[
"a promotion that boosted the number of interested customers milling about the showroom"
],
"near antonyms":[
"abbreviates",
"abridges",
"curtails",
"shortens",
"compresses",
"condenses",
"constricts",
"contracts",
"cuts back",
"retrenches"
],
"related":[
"booms",
"jumps",
"skyrockets",
"spikes",
"bumps (up)",
"ratchets (up)",
"rachets (up)",
"blows up",
"dilates",
"distends",
"inflates",
"draws out",
"elongates",
"fleshes (out)",
"lengthens",
"prolongs",
"protracts",
"stretches",
"develops",
"enhances",
"heightens",
"intensifies",
"magnifies",
"complements",
"supplements",
"beefs (up)",
"reinforces",
"reenforces",
"strengthens",
"maximizes",
"accumulates",
"amasses",
"collects",
"follows up",
"parlays"
],
"synonyms":[
"accelerates",
"adds (to)",
"aggrandizes",
"amplifies",
"augments",
"builds up",
"compounds",
"enlarges",
"escalates",
"expands",
"extends",
"hypes",
"increases",
"multiplies",
"pumps up",
"raises",
"stokes",
"supersizes",
"swells",
"ups"
]
},
"to make markedly greater in measure or degree":{
"antonyms":[
"abates",
"moderates"
],
"examples":[
"recommended eating foods that boost the body's immunity to disease"
],
"near antonyms":[
"decreases",
"diminishes",
"lessens",
"lets up (on)",
"reduces",
"subdues",
"tones (down)",
"weakens",
"dwindles",
"recedes",
"subsides",
"tapers (off)",
"wanes",
"alleviates",
"eases",
"lightens"
],
"related":[
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"enlarges",
"expands",
"extends",
"lengthens",
"accelerates",
"hastens",
"quickens",
"emphasizes",
"points (up)",
"sharpens",
"stresses",
"augments",
"enforces",
"reinforces",
"reenforces",
"restrengthens",
"supplements",
"maximizes",
"enlivens",
"jazzes (up)",
"aggravates",
"exacerbates"
],
"synonyms":[
"accentuates",
"amplifies",
"amps (up)",
"beefs (up)",
"consolidates",
"deepens",
"enhances",
"heightens",
"intensifies",
"magnifies",
"redoubles",
"steps up",
"strengthens"
]
},
"to move from a lower to a higher place or position":{
"antonyms":[
"drops",
"lowers"
],
"examples":[
"boosted the box onto the top shelf"
],
"near antonyms":[
"descends",
"dips",
"falls",
"pitches",
"plunges",
"slips",
"bears",
"depresses",
"presses",
"pushes",
"sinks",
"submerges"
],
"related":[
"ascends",
"mounts",
"rises",
"rears",
"upends"
],
"synonyms":[
"cranes",
"elevates",
"heaves",
"hefts",
"heightens",
"hikes",
"hoists",
"jacks (up)",
"lifts",
"perks (up)",
"picks up",
"raises",
"takes up",
"upholds",
"uplifts",
"upraises",
"ups"
]
},
"to provide publicity for":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"boosted the singer's latest release with a round of appearances on all the talk and entertainment shows"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"related":[
"advertises",
"barks",
"merchandises",
"merchandizes",
"sells",
"pushes",
"acclaims",
"hails",
"lauds",
"praises",
"endorses",
"indorses",
"plumps (for)",
"plunks (for)",
"plonks (for)",
"recommends",
"reviews",
"announces",
"broadcasts",
"publishes"
],
"synonyms":[
"ballyhoos",
"hypes",
"pitches",
"plugs",
"promotes",
"publicizes",
"talks up",
"touts"
]
},
"to take (something) without right and with an intent to keep":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"the woman was nabbed trying to boost a couple of bottles of perfume"
],
"near antonyms":[
"buys",
"purchases",
"bestows",
"contributes",
"donates",
"gives",
"hands over",
"presents"
],
"related":[
"burglarizes",
"knocks over",
"robs",
"loots",
"pillages",
"plunders",
"sacks",
"carjacks",
"hijacks",
"highjacks",
"picks",
"rifles",
"poaches",
"rustles",
"shoplifts",
"collars",
"grabs",
"grasps",
"nails",
"seizes",
"snatches",
"takes",
"mooches",
"sponges",
"abducts",
"kidnaps",
"shanghais",
"spirits"
],
"synonyms":[
"appropriates",
"filches",
"heists",
"hooks",
"lifts",
"misappropriates",
"nicks",
"nips",
"pilfers",
"pinches",
"pockets",
"purloins",
"rips off",
"snitches",
"steals",
"swipes",
"thieves"
]
},
"type":[
"noun",
"verb"
]
},
"booted (up)":{
"as in primed":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[],
"near antonyms":[],
"related":[],
"synonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"bootie":{
"the part of the body upon which someone sits":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"an oldie from the disco era that urged you to shake your booty"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"related":[
"beam",
"stern",
"moon"
],
"synonyms":[
"backside",
"behind",
"bottom",
"breech",
"bum",
"buns",
"butt",
"buttocks",
"caboose",
"can",
"cheeks",
"derriere",
"derri\u00e8re",
"duff",
"fanny",
"fundament",
"hams",
"haunches",
"heinie",
"hunkers",
"keister",
"keester",
"nates",
"posterior",
"rear",
"rear end",
"rump",
"seat",
"tail",
"tail end",
"tush"
]
},
"type":[
"noun"
],
"valuables stolen or taken by force":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"no one knows where Captain Kidd hid his booty , but that hasn't deterred hopeful adventurers from looking for it for the last 300 years"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"related":[
"prize",
"catch",
"haul",
"take",
"treasure",
"pilferage",
"windfall"
],
"synonyms":[
"loot",
"pillage",
"plunder",
"spoil",
"swag"
]
}
},
"bopping":{
"to deliver a blow to (someone or something) usually in a strong vigorous manner":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"she playfully bopped him on the head"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"related":[
"battering",
"beating",
"buffeting",
"bunging",
"chopping",
"cuffing",
"drubbing",
"lacing",
"lambasting",
"licking",
"mangling",
"mauling",
"pelting",
"peppering",
"pommeling",
"pommelling",
"pummeling",
"pummelling",
"roughing",
"scuffing",
"bunting",
"flicking",
"stroking",
"tapping",
"bumping",
"butting",
"jabbing",
"jostling",
"kicking",
"kneeing",
"poking",
"prodding",
"pushing",
"shoving",
"stamping",
"bowling (down or over)",
"creaming",
"decking",
"dumping",
"felling",
"flooring",
"knocking down",
"leveling",
"levelling",
"rabbit-punching",
"sucker punching",
"caning",
"clubbing",
"cudgeling",
"cudgelling",
"flailing",
"flogging",
"lashing",
"sapping",
"slashing",
"sledgehammering",
"sledging",
"spearing",
"stabbing",
"switching",
"thrashing",
"whipping",
"beaning",
"braining",
"conking",
"skulling"
],
"synonyms":[
"banging",
"bashing",
"batting",
"belting",
"biffing",
"bludgeoning",
"bobbing",
"bonking",
"boxing",
"busting",
"clapping",
"clipping",
"clobbering",
"clocking",
"clouting",
"cracking",
"hammering",
"hitting",
"knocking",
"nailing",
"pasting",
"pounding",
"punching",
"rapping",
"slamming",
"slapping",
"slogging",
"slugging",
"smacking",
"smiting",
"socking",
"striking",
"swatting",
"swiping",
"tagging",
"thumping",
"thwacking",
"walloping",
"whacking",
"whaling",
"zapping"
]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
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"as in suffered , stood":{
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"examples":[],
"near antonyms":[],
"related":[],
"synonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"bore out":{
"to give evidence or testimony to the truth or factualness of":{
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"disproved",
"rebutted",
"refuted"
],
"examples":[
"the newly discovered papers bore out the rumors about the president's personal life"
],
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"contradicted",
"gainsaid",
"denied",
"disavowed",
"disclaimed",
"challenged",
"contested",
"disputed",
"questioned"
],
"related":[
"avouched",
"backed (up)",
"testified (to)",
"vouched (for)",
"witnessed",
"guaranteed",
"warranted",
"affirmed",
"asserted",
"averred",
"avowed",
"declared",
"professed",
"demonstrated",
"documented",
"established",
"proved",
"reinforced",
"reenforced"
],
"synonyms":[
"argued",
"attested",
"authenticated",
"certified",
"confirmed",
"corroborated",
"substantiated",
"supported",
"validated",
"verified",
"vindicated"
]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"borehole":{
"as in":{
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"examples":[],
"near antonyms":[],
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},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
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"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"every morning the boss hands out a list of top-priority tasks"
],
"near antonyms":[
"dependents",
"inferiors",
"juniors",
"secondaries",
"subjects",
"subordinates",
"underlings"
],
"related":[
"directresses",
"mistresses",
"administrators",
"commanders",
"directors",
"executives",
"generals",
"governors",
"hierarchs",
"higher-ups",
"leadmen",
"managers",
"overseers",
"principals",
"skippers",
"standard-bearers",
"stewards",
"straw bosses",
"superintendents",
"superiors",
"supervisors",
"dominators",
"lords",
"overlords",
"potentates",
"rulers",
"sovereigns",
"sovrans",
"figureheads",
"barons",
"czars",
"tsars",
"tzars",
"kings",
"magnates",
"moguls",
"presidents",
"princes",
"big cheeses",
"big guns",
"bigwigs",
"top dogs",
"top guns",
"coheads",
"co-heads",
"coleaders",
"co-leaders",
"employers",
"gaffers",
"gangers",
"micromanagers",
"subchiefs",
"sub-chiefs",
"subdirectors",
"sub-directors"
],
"synonyms":[
"boss men",
"captains",
"chiefs",
"foremen",
"headmen",
"heads",
"helmsmen",
"honchos",
"jefes",
"kingpins",
"leaders",
"masters",
"taskmasters"
]
},
"to be in charge of":{
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"examples":[
"she bossed that project for years, until she was promoted again"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"related":[
"administers",
"commands",
"controls",
"directs",
"guides",
"manages",
"orders",
"runs",
"shepherds",
"shows",
"steers",
"monitors",
"presides (over)",
"governs",
"reigns",
"rules"
],
"synonyms":[
"captains",
"handles",
"heads",
"overlooks",
"oversees",
"quarterbacks",
"superintends",
"supervises"
]
},
"to exercise authority or power over":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"bossed the entire job site for a year"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"related":[
"conducts",
"directs",
"heads",
"leads",
"administers",
"manages",
"micromanages",
"oversees",
"regulates",
"superintends",
"supervises",
"dictates",
"dominates",
"domineers",
"lords (it over)",
"masters",
"oppresses",
"reigns (over)",
"tyrannizes",
"conquers",
"subdues",
"subjugates"
],
"synonyms":[
"captains",
"commands",
"controls",
"governs",
"presides (over)",
"rules",
"sways"
]
},
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"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"bossed the entire gang of electricians on the construction project"
],
"near antonyms":[
"bows (to)",
"complies (with)",
"defers (to)",
"follows",
"obeys",
"serves",
"submits (to)",
"yields (to)"
],
"related":[
"controls",
"dominates",
"directs",
"governs",
"handles",
"manages",
"oversees",
"regulates",
"runs",
"superintends",
"supervises"
],
"synonyms":[
"captains",
"commands",
"heads",
"leads",
"spearheads"
]
},
"type":[
"noun",
"verb"
]
},
"bossing":{
"to be in charge of":{
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"examples":[
"she bossed that project for years, until she was promoted again"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"related":[
"administering",
"commanding",
"controlling",
"directing",
"guiding",
"managing",
"ordering",
"running",
"shepherding",
"showing",
"steering",
"monitoring",
"presiding (over)",
"governing",
"reigning",
"ruling"
],
"synonyms":[
"captaining",
"handling",
"heading",
"overlooking",
"overseeing",
"quarterbacking",
"superintending",
"supervising"
]
},
"to exercise authority or power over":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"bossed the entire job site for a year"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"related":[
"conducting",
"directing",
"heading",
"leading",
"administering",
"managing",
"micromanaging",
"overseeing",
"regulating",
"superintending",
"supervising",
"dictating",
"dominating",
"domineering",
"lording (it over)",
"mastering",
"oppressing",
"reigning (over)",
"tyrannizing",
"conquering",
"subduing",
"subjugating"
],
"synonyms":[
"captaining",
"commanding",
"controlling",
"governing",
"presiding (over)",
"ruling",
"swaying"
]
},
"to serve as leader of":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"bossed the entire gang of electricians on the construction project"
],
"near antonyms":[
"bowing (to)",
"complying (with)",
"deferring (to)",
"following",
"obeying",
"serving",
"submitting (to)",
"yielding (to)"
],
"related":[
"controlling",
"dominating",
"directing",
"governing",
"handling",
"managing",
"overseeing",
"regulating",
"running",
"superintending",
"supervising"
],
"synonyms":[
"captaining",
"commanding",
"heading",
"leading",
"spearheading"
]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"botches":{
"an unorganized collection or mixture of various things":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"this police procedural is basically a botch of plot elements stolen from other (and better) novels"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"related":[
"detritus",
"notions",
"oddments",
"odds and ends",
"sundries",
"accumulations",
"aggregates",
"aggregations",
"conglomerates",
"conglomerations",
"catchalls",
"admixtures",
"alloys",
"amalgams",
"blends",
"combinations",
"commixtures",
"composites",
"compounds",
"fusions",
"intermixtures",
"mix-ups",
"bollixes",
"chaoses",
"confusions",
"disarrangements",
"disarrays",
"disorders",
"dog's breakfasts",
"messes",
"morasses",
"shambles",
"imbroglios",
"knots",
"snarls",
"tangles"
],
"synonyms":[
"agglomerates",
"agglomerations",
"alphabet soups",
"assortments",
"clutters",
"collages",
"crazy quilts",
"farragoes",
"gallimaufries",
"grab bags",
"gumbos",
"hashes",
"hodgepodges",
"hotchpotches",
"jambalayas",
"jumbles",
"jungles",
"litters",
"mac\u00e9doines",
"medleys",
"m\u00e9langes",
"menageries",
"miscellanea",
"miscellanies",
"mishmashes",
"mixed bags",
"montages",
"motleys",
"muddles",
"olios",
"olla podridas",
"ollas podridas",
"omnium-gatherums",
"pastiches",
"patchwork quilts",
"patchworks",
"potpourris",
"ragbags",
"ragouts",
"rummages",
"salads",
"salmagundis",
"scrambles",
"shuffles",
"smorgasbords",
"stews",
"tumbles",
"varieties",
"welters"
]
},
"to make or do (something) in a clumsy or unskillful way":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"the first time we tried to make a cake, we botched the job completely"
],
"near antonyms":[
"ameliorates",
"betters",
"enhances",
"helps",
"improves",
"meliorates",
"rectifies",
"refines",
"reforms",
"remedies",
"doctors",
"fixes",
"patches",
"reconditions",
"renovates",
"repairs",
"revamps"
],
"related":[
"blunders",
"gums (up)",
"muddles",
"piffles",
"blemishes",
"blights",
"damages",
"flaws",
"harms",
"hurts",
"impairs",
"injures",
"mars",
"mutilates",
"ruins",
"spoils",
"vitiates",
"destroys",
"wrecks",
"mishandles",
"mismanages"
],
"synonyms":[
"blows",
"bobbles",
"boggles",
"bollixes (up)",
"boots",
"buggers (up)",
"bumbles",
"bungles",
"butchers",
"dubs",
"flubs",
"fluffs",
"foozles",
"fouls up",
"fumbles",
"goofs (up)",
"louses up",
"mangles",
"messes (up)",
"mucks up",
"muffs",
"murders",
"screws up"
]
},
"type":[
"noun",
"verb"
]
},
"botheration":{
"the act of making unwelcome intrusions upon another":{
"examples":[
"if I'm to get any work done, this incessant botheration has to stop"
],
"synonyms":[
"aggravation",
"annoyance",
"bedevilment",
"bothering",
"bugging",
"disturbance",
"harassment",
"harrying",
"importunity",
"pestering",
"teasing",
"vexation"
],
"near synonyms":[
"aggro",
"molestation",
"offense",
"offence",
"persecution",
"provocation",
"torment",
"torture",
"devilment",
"devilry",
"mischief"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"the feeling of impatience or anger caused by another's repeated disagreeable acts":{
"examples":[
"my life at that point seemed destined to be one endless botheration"
],
"synonyms":[
"aggravation",
"aggro",
"annoyance",
"bother",
"exasperation",
"frustration",
"grief",
"irritation",
"pip",
"vexation"
],
"near synonyms":[
"agitation",
"discomfort",
"displeasure",
"distress",
"disturbance",
"upset",
"irritability",
"irritableness",
"peeve",
"perturbation",
"pet",
"pique",
"resentment",
"snappishness",
"trouble",
"anger",
"angriness",
"chafe",
"dander",
"dudgeon",
"gall",
"huff",
"indignation",
"irateness",
"ire",
"outrage",
"umbrage"
],
"near antonyms":[
"delight",
"pleasure"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"something that is a source of irritation":{
"examples":[
"I hope that during my visit my special dietary needs won't be a botheration"
],
"synonyms":[
"aggravation",
"aggro",
"annoyance",
"bother",
"bugbear",
"exasperation",
"frustration",
"hair shirt",
"hassle",
"headache",
"inconvenience",
"irk",
"irritant",
"nuisance",
"peeve",
"pest",
"rub",
"ruffle",
"thorn",
"trial",
"vexation"
],
"near synonyms":[
"discomfort",
"fleabite",
"pinprick",
"affront",
"insult",
"offense",
"offence",
"upset",
"worry",
"affliction",
"albatross",
"burden",
"cross",
"curse",
"menace",
"millstone",
"plague",
"sore",
"anxiety",
"plight",
"predicament",
"tribulation",
"trouble",
"hang-up",
"pet peeve",
"problem",
"annoyer",
"disturber",
"harasser",
"mischief",
"offender",
"pandora's box"
],
"near antonyms":[
"delight",
"joy",
"pleasure"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"bothering":{
"the act of making unwelcome intrusions upon another":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"one more bothering , and I'm going to kick you out of here"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"related":[
"aggro",
"molestation",
"offense",
"offence",
"persecution",
"provocation",
"torment",
"torture",
"devilment",
"devilry",
"mischief"
],
"synonyms":[
"aggravation",
"annoyance",
"bedevilment",
"botheration",
"bugging",
"disturbance",
"harassment",
"harrying",
"importunity",
"pestering",
"teasing",
"vexation"
]
},
"to disturb the peace of mind of (someone) especially by repeated disagreeable acts":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"it bothers me when obviously sick people go to movies and spend the whole time coughing and sneezing"
],
"near antonyms":[
"appeasing",
"conciliating",
"mollifying",
"obliging",
"pacifying",
"placating",
"propitiating",
"delighting",
"gladdening",
"gratifying",
"pleasing",
"satisfying",
"assuring",
"cheering",
"comforting",
"consoling",
"contenting",
"quieting",
"reassuring",
"solacing",
"soothing"
],
"related":[
"hassling",
"heckling",
"nagging",
"inflaming",
"enflaming",
"provoking",
"rousing",
"badgering",
"baiting",
"bullyragging",
"ballyragging",
"deviling",
"devilling",
"hagriding",
"harassing",
"harrying",
"pestering",
"plaguing",
"teasing",
"angering",
"antagonizing",
"enraging",
"incensing",
"infuriating",
"maddening",
"rankling",
"roiling",
"agitating",
"discomforting",
"discomposing",
"disquieting",
"distressing",
"exercising",
"freaking (out)",
"fretting",
"perturbing",
"undoing",
"unhinging",
"unsettling",
"upsetting",
"worrying",
"affronting",
"insulting",
"miffing",
"offending",
"outraging"
],
"synonyms":[
"aggravating",
"annoying",
"bugging",
"burning (up)",
"chafing",
"eating",
"exasperating",
"frosting",
"galling",
"getting",
"grating",
"griping",
"hacking (off)",
"irking",
"irritating",
"itching",
"narking",
"nettling",
"peeving",
"persecuting",
"piquing",
"putting out",
"rasping",
"riling",
"ruffling",
"spiting",
"vexing"
]
},
"to experience concern or anxiety":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"just get the basic concept right and don't bother about the details"
],
"near antonyms":[
"accepting",
"abiding",
"bearing",
"enduring",
"sticking out",
"stomaching",
"sustaining",
"taking",
"tolerating"
],
"related":[
"agonizing",
"longing",
"pining",
"yearning",
"chafing",
"despairing"
],
"synonyms":[
"fearing",
"fretting",
"fussing",
"stewing",
"stressing",
"sweating",
"troubling",
"worrying"
]
},
"to thrust oneself upon (another) without invitation":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"I am never going to get this work done if people don't stop wandering into the room and bothering me"
],
"near antonyms":[
"disregarding",
"forgetting",
"ignoring",
"leaving",
"slighting",
"appeasing",
"conciliating",
"disarming",
"mollifying",
"obliging",
"placating",
"delighting",
"gladdening",
"gratifying",
"pleasing",
"satisfying",
"comforting",
"consoling",
"contenting"
],
"related":[
"inconveniencing",
"troubling",
"aggravating",
"annoying",
"bedeviling",
"chafing",
"deviling",
"devilling",
"dogging",
"dunning",
"exasperating",
"fretting",
"galling",
"getting",
"gnawing",
"grating",
"hassling",
"irking",
"irritating",
"nettling",
"peeving",
"persecuting",
"piquing",
"putting out",
"rankling",
"rasping",
"riling",
"roiling",
"tormenting",
"vexing",
"worrying",
"beleaguering",
"besetting",
"besieging",
"distressing",
"plaguing",
"afflicting",
"harassing",
"provoking",
"angering",
"antagonizing",
"enraging",
"incensing",
"inflaming",
"enflaming",
"infuriating",
"maddening",
"outraging",
"agitating",
"perturbing",
"butting in",
"cutting in (on)",
"obtruding",
"encroaching",
"infringing",
"invading",
"trespassing"
],
"synonyms":[
"bugging",
"chivying",
"chivvying",
"disturbing",
"intruding (upon)",
"pestering"
]
},
"to trouble the mind of; to make uneasy":{
"antonyms":[
"calming",
"composing",
"quieting",
"settling",
"soothing",
"tranquilizing",
"tranquillizing"
],
"examples":[
"the boss's cryptic message about changes to the company bothered me"
],
"near antonyms":[
"allaying",
"alleviating",
"assuaging",
"appeasing",
"conciliating",
"mollifying",
"pacifying",
"placating",
"propitiating"
],
"related":[
"aggravating",
"angering",
"annoying",
"bugging",
"chafing",
"chivying",
"chivvying",
"exasperating",
"fretting",
"galling",
"getting",
"grating",
"harassing",
"harrying",
"irking",
"irritating",
"nettling",
"peeving",
"pestering",
"piquing",
"putting off",
"putting out",
"riling",
"vexing",
"bedeviling",
"haunting",
"plaguing",
"abashing",
"confounding",
"confusing",
"discomfiting",
"disconcerting",
"discountenancing",
"embarrassing",
"fazing",
"flustering",
"jarring",
"mortifying",
"nonplussing",
"nonplusing",
"rattling",
"shaking up",
"daunting",
"demoralizing",
"discouraging",
"disheartening",
"dispiriting",
"unnerving"
],
"synonyms":[
"agitating",
"ailing",
"alarming",
"alaruming",
"concerning",
"derailing",
"discomforting",
"discomposing",
"dismaying",
"disquieting",
"distempering",
"distracting",
"distressing",
"disturbing",
"exercising",
"flurrying",
"frazzling",
"freaking (out)",
"fussing",
"hagriding",
"perturbing",
"undoing",
"unhinging",
"unsettling",
"upsetting",
"weirding out",
"worrying"
]
},
"type":[
"noun",
"verb"
]
},
"bothersome":{
"causing annoyance":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"a bothersome habit of dropping trash on the floor right next to the garbage can"
],
"near antonyms":[
"delightful",
"pleasing"
],
"related":[
"burdensome",
"discomforting",
"displeasing",
"disquieting",
"distressing",
"importunate",
"importune",
"inconveniencing",
"angering",
"enraging",
"infuriating",
"brattish",
"bratty",
"mischievous",
"offensive",
"troublesome",
"upsetting",
"distractive",
"painful",
"stressful",
"tiresome",
"troubling",
"trying",
"worrisome",
"biting",
"grating",
"jangling",
"jarring",
"spiny",
"thorny"
],
"synonyms":[
"abrasive",
"aggravating",
"annoying",
"carking",
"chafing",
"disturbing",
"exasperating",
"frustrating",
"galling",
"irksome",
"irritating",
"maddening",
"nettlesome",
"nettling",
"peeving",
"pesky",
"pestiferous",
"pestilent",
"pestilential",
"pesty",
"plaguey",
"plaguy",
"rankling",
"rebarbative",
"riling",
"vexatious",
"vexing"
]
},
"type":[
"adjective"
]
},
"bottle":{
"a distilled beverage that can make a person drunk":{
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"examples":[
"a talented writer whose fondness for the bottle was the stuff of legend"
],
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"related":[
"aperitif",
"bracer",
"chaser",
"digestif",
"nightcap",
"belt",
"load",
"nip",
"peg",
"pop",
"shooter",
"shot",
"slug",
"snifter",
"snort",
"tot",
"whet",
"cocktail",
"mixed drink",
"ale",
"beer",
"brew",
"brewage",
"brewski",
"home brew",
"malt liquor",
"microbrew",
"mum",
"nappy",
"mead",
"sake",
"saki",
"wine",
"barley-bree",
"barley-broo",
"brandy",
"gin",
"liqueur",
"mao-tai",
"mescal",
"schnapps",
"tequila",
"vodka",
"whiskey",
"whisky",
"Dutch courage"
],
"synonyms":[
"alcohol",
"aqua vitae",
"ardent spirits",
"booze",
"drink",
"firewater",
"grog",
"hooch",
"inebriant",
"intoxicant",
"John Barleycorn",
"juice",
"liquor",
"lush",
"moonshine",
"potable",
"rum",
"sauce",
"spirits",
"stimulant",
"strong drink",
"tipple"
]
},
"strength of mind to carry on in spite of danger":{
"antonyms":[
"cowardice",
"cowardliness",
"cravenness",
"dastardliness",
"poltroonery",
"spinelessness"
],
"examples":[
"I wanted to confront the neighbors about the excessive noise coming from their flat, but I lost my bottle"
],
"near antonyms":[
"cold feet",
"faintheartedness",
"fearfulness",
"mousiness",
"timidity",
"timorousness",
"feebleness",
"softness",
"weakness",
"impotence",
"ineffectualness",
"hesitation",
"indecision",
"indecisiveness",
"irresolution"
],
"related":[
"backbone",
"fiber",
"fortitude",
"grit",
"gumption",
"mettle",
"pluck",
"pluckiness",
"spunk",
"temper",
"determination",
"perseverance",
"resolution",
"endurance",
"stamina",
"stomach",
"tenacity",
"audacity",
"boldness",
"brazenness",
"cheek",
"cojones",
"effrontery",
"gall",
"temerity"
],
"synonyms":[
"bravery",
"courage",
"courageousness",
"daring",
"daringness",
"dauntlessness",
"doughtiness",
"fearlessness",
"gallantry",
"greatheartedness",
"guts",
"gutsiness",
"hardihood",
"heart",
"heroism",
"intestinal fortitude",
"intrepidity",
"intrepidness",
"moxie",
"nerve",
"pecker",
"prowess",
"stoutness",
"valor",
"virtue"
]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"bottle (up)":{
"as in hold back , choke (back)":{
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"examples":[],
"near antonyms":[],
"related":[],
"synonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"bottlenecks":{
"a crowded mass (as of cars) that impedes or blocks movement":{
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"examples":[
"a bottleneck inevitably forms at the start of a construction zone when the highway narrows from three to two lanes"
],
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"related":[
"tangles",
"gridlocks",
"locks",
"congestions",
"traffic",
"crawls",
"delays",
"slowdowns",
"stoppages"
],
"synonyms":[
"backups",
"jams",
"jam-ups",
"logjams",
"snarls",
"tailbacks",
"tie-ups"
]
},
"as in impedes , hinders":{
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"examples":[],
"near antonyms":[],
"related":[],
"synonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun",
"verb"
]
},
"bottling up":{
"as in holding back , choking (back)":{
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"examples":[],
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"related":[],
"synonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"bottom":{
"a small buoyant structure for travel on water":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"the cargo will be carried by a local bottom"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"related":[
"catboat",
"ketch",
"sailboat",
"schooner",
"yacht",
"bateau",
"ca\u00efque",
"canoe",
"catamaran",
"coracle",
"curragh",
"currach",
"dhow",
"dinghy",
"dink",
"dory",
"dugout",
"flatboat",
"garvey",
"gig",
"johnboat",
"kayak",
"outrigger",
"paddleboat",
"pinnace",
"piragua",
"pirogue",
"pontoon",
"pram",
"punt",
"raft",
"rowboat",
"rowing boat",
"sampan",
"scow",
"scull",
"shallop",
"shell",
"skiff",
"surfboat",
"umiak",
"wherry",
"cruiser",
"inboard",
"motorboat",
"outboard",
"powerboat",
"houseboat",
"riverboat",
"auxiliary",
"bumboat",
"cutter",
"jolly boat",
"launch",
"lifeboat",
"longboat",
"tender",
"yawl",
"barge",
"hoy",
"keel",
"keelboat",
"lighter",
"narrow boat",
"towboat",
"tug",
"tugboat",
"ferry",
"ferryboat",
"gondola",
"taxi",
"water taxi",
"banker",
"coble",
"dragger",
"gillnetter",
"hooker",
"lugger",
"scalloper",
"seiner",
"shrimper",
"trawler",
"whaleboat",
"whaler",
"workboat",
"cockleshell",
"tub",
"airboat",
"air-cushion vehicle",
"hovercraft",
"hydrofoil",
"hydroplane",
"assault boat",
"PT boat",
"torpedo boat"
],
"synonyms":[
"boat",
"craft",
"vessel",
"watercraft"
]
},
"an immaterial thing upon which something else rests":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"the bottom of his thesis is the assumption that people are fundamentally good"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"related":[
"anchorage",
"bed",
"brace",
"bulwark",
"buttress",
"framework",
"infrastructure",
"mount",
"prop",
"shore",
"stay",
"substratum",
"substructure",
"support",
"assumption",
"justification",
"premise",
"premiss",
"presumption",
"presupposition",
"rationale",
"supposition",
"theory",
"thesis",
"warrant",
"backbone",
"center",
"core",
"eye",
"focus",
"heart",
"hub",
"kernel",
"nucleus",
"seat",
"essence",
"quintessence",
"soul",
"touchstone"
],
"synonyms":[
"base",
"basis",
"bedrock",
"cornerstone",
"footing",
"foundation",
"ground",
"groundwork",
"keystone",
"root",
"underpinning",
"warp",
"warp and woof"
]
},
"of, relating to, or located at the bottom":{
"antonyms":[
"highest",
"loftiest",
"top",
"topmost",
"upmost",
"uppermost"
],
"examples":[
"was sitting on the bottom step of the stairway"
],
"near antonyms":[
"higher",
"loftier",
"upper",
"elevated",
"escalated",
"heightened",
"jacked (up)",
"lifted",
"raised",
"uplifted",
"upraised"
],
"related":[
"below",
"lower",
"low-grade",
"lowly",
"nether",
"under",
"lowered",
"low-lying",
"sunken"
],
"synonyms":[
"bottommost",
"low",
"lowermost",
"nethermost",
"rock-bottom",
"undermost"
]
},
"the lowest part, place, or point":{
"antonyms":[
"head",
"top",
"vertex"
],
"examples":[
"sliding all the way to the bottom of the snow-covered slope"
],
"near antonyms":[
"acme",
"apex",
"climax",
"crest",
"culmination",
"height",
"meridian",
"peak",
"pinnacle",
"summit",
"tip",
"tip-top",
"zenith"
],
"related":[
"basis",
"bed",
"bedrock",
"foundation",
"ground",
"groundwork",
"keystone",
"seat",
"underpinning"
],
"synonyms":[
"base",
"basement",
"foot",
"nadir",
"rock bottom"
]
},
"the lowest point or level":{
"antonyms":[
"acme",
"apex",
"climax",
"crown",
"culmination",
"head",
"height",
"high-water mark",
"meridian",
"peak",
"pinnacle",
"summit",
"tip-top",
"top",
"zenith"
],
"examples":[
"when profits hit bottom the company was forced to declare bankruptcy"
],
"near antonyms":[
"bloom",
"flood tide",
"flower",
"glory",
"heyday",
"crescendo",
"high",
"cap",
"ceiling",
"crest",
"roof"
],
"related":[
"abyss",
"armpit",
"pit"
],
"synonyms":[
"bedrock",
"depth",
"nadir",
"rock bottom",
"zero"
]
},
"the part of the body upon which someone sits":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"the baby fell backwards onto her bottom"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"related":[
"beam",
"stern",
"moon"
],
"synonyms":[
"backside",
"behind",
"booty",
"bootie",
"breech",
"bum",
"buns",
"butt",
"buttocks",
"caboose",
"can",
"cheeks",
"derriere",
"derri\u00e8re",
"duff",
"fanny",
"fundament",
"hams",
"haunches",
"heinie",
"hunkers",
"keister",
"keester",
"nates",
"posterior",
"rear",
"rear end",
"rump",
"seat",
"tail",
"tail end",
"tush"
]
},
"the side or part facing downward from something":{
"antonyms":[
"face",
"top"
],
"examples":[
"that side of the shelf is supposed to be the bottom , so turn it over before you assemble the bookcase"
],
"near antonyms":[
"acme",
"apex",
"climax",
"crest",
"crown",
"culmination",
"height",
"high-water mark",
"meridian",
"peak",
"pinnacle",
"roof",
"summit",
"cusp",
"head",
"point",
"tip",
"tip-top",
"zenith"
],
"related":[
"belly",
"sole",
"toe",
"base",
"floor",
"foot",
"ground",
"seat",
"underpinning",
"undercarriage"
],
"synonyms":[
"underbelly",
"underbody",
"underpart",
"underside",
"undersurface"
]
},
"the surface upon which a body of water lies":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"my missing fishing pole is probably lying on the bottom of the lake"
],
"near antonyms":[
"surface"
],
"related":[
"riverbed",
"base",
"basement",
"foundation",
"ground"
],
"synonyms":[
"bed",
"floor"
]
},
"type":[
"adjective",
"noun"
]
},
"bottomless":{
"being or seeming to be without limits":{
"antonyms":[
"bounded",
"circumscribed",
"confined",
"definite",
"finite",
"limited",
"restricted"
],
"examples":[
"the wealthy couple are generous hosts, providing a bottomless supply of food and drink"
],
"near antonyms":[
"fathomable",
"measurable",
"depthless",
"shallow",
"superficial"
],
"related":[
"abysmal",
"countless",
"incalculable",
"incomputable",
"inestimable",
"innumerable",
"unmeasured",
"exhaustless",
"inexhaustible",
"extensive",
"far-flung",
"immense",
"vast"
],
"synonyms":[
"boundless",
"endless",
"fathomless",
"horizonless",
"illimitable",
"immeasurable",
"immensurable",
"indefinite",
"infinite",
"limitless",
"measureless",
"unbounded",
"unfathomable",
"unlimited"
]
},
"extending far downward":{
"antonyms":[
"shallow",
"shoal",
"skin-deep",
"superficial",
"surface"
],
"examples":[
"the ocean explorers discovered what appeared to be a bottomless abyss"
],
"near antonyms":[
"depthless",
"two-dimensional",
"even",
"flat",
"flush",
"horizontal",
"level",
"plane",
"smooth",
"confined",
"finite",
"limited",
"measured",
"restricted"
],
"related":[
"abyssal",
"unfathomable",
"boundless",
"endless",
"immeasurable",
"inestimable",
"infinite",
"limitless",
"measureless",
"unlimited",
"vast"
],
"synonyms":[
"abysmal",
"deep",
"profound"
]
},
"lacking or shed of clothing":{
"antonyms":[
"appareled",
"apparelled",
"attired",
"clad",
"clothed",
"dressed",
"garbed",
"invested",
"robed",
"suited"
],
"examples":[
"the once popular fad called \"streaking\" in which the streaker ran bottomless in a public place"
],
"near antonyms":[
"covered",
"veiled",
"arrayed",
"caparisoned",
"decked (out)",
"rigged (out)",
"tricked (out)",
"vested",
"decent"
],
"related":[
"seminude",
"topless",
"denuded",
"peeled",
"unveiled"
],
"synonyms":[
"au naturel",
"bare",
"disrobed",
"mother-naked",
"naked",
"nude",
"raw",
"starkers",
"stripped",
"unclad",
"unclothed",
"undressed"
]
},
"type":[
"adjective"
]
},
"bought":{
"made beforehand in large numbers":{
"antonyms":[
"bespoke",
"bespoken",
"custom",
"customized",
"custom-made",
"tailored",
"tailor-made"
],
"examples":[
"a bought dress that looked like a high-end designer item"
],
"near antonyms":[
"handcrafted",
"handmade",
"homemade"
],
"related":[
"ready-to-wear",
"commercial",
"prefab",
"prefabricated",
"hand-me-down"
],
"synonyms":[
"mass-produced",
"off-the-peg",
"off-the-rack",
"off-the-shelf",
"ready-made",
"store",
"store-bought"
]
},
"to get possession of (something) by giving money in exchange for":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"I really want to buy that new book, but I don't have enough money right now"
],
"near antonyms":[
"dealt (in)",
"marketed",
"merchandised",
"merchandized",
"retailed",
"sold",
"vended"
],
"related":[
"acquired",
"gained",
"garnered",
"got",
"obtained",
"procured",
"secured",
"won",
"financed",
"paid (for)",
"sprang (for)",
"sprung (for)",
"bartered (for)",
"dealt (for)",
"dickered (over)",
"exchanged (for)",
"haggled (for)",
"negotiated (about)",
"traded (for)",
"bargained (with)",
"chaffered (with)",
"horse-traded (with)",
"paltered (with)",
"bade",
"bid",
"offered",
"rebought",
"repurchased"
],
"synonyms":[
"copped",
"picked up",
"purchased",
"took"
]
},
"to influence someone with a bribe":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"there were rumors that the mobster had bought the judge"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"related":[
"fixed",
"tampered (with)",
"abased",
"debased",
"debauched",
"defiled",
"degraded",
"demeaned",
"depraved",
"dishonored",
"perverted",
"poisoned",
"profaned",
"prostituted",
"subverted",
"tainted",
"warped",
"allured",
"baited",
"beguiled",
"enticed",
"led on",
"lured",
"seduced",
"tempted",
"motivated",
"provoked",
"spurred",
"stimulated",
"goaded",
"induced",
"flattered",
"persuaded",
"snared",
"trapped"
],
"synonyms":[
"bribed",
"corrupted",
"had",
"paid off",
"squared"
]
},
"to regard as right or true":{
"antonyms":[
"disbelieved",
"discredited",
"rejected"
],
"examples":[
"if you buy that story, then I have a bridge in Brooklyn you might be interested in"
],
"near antonyms":[
"distrusted",
"doubted",
"misdoubted",
"mistrusted",
"questioned",
"suspected",
"challenged",
"disputed"
],
"related":[
"accounted",
"accredited",
"understood",
"assumed",
"presumed",
"supposed",
"concluded",
"deduced",
"inferred"
],
"synonyms":[
"accepted",
"believed",
"credited",
"swallowed",
"took",
"trusted"
]
},
"type":[
"adjective",
"verb"
]
},
"bought (back)":{
"as in":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[],
"near antonyms":[],
"related":[],
"synonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"boundary":{
"a real or imaginary point beyond which a person or thing cannot go":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"parents have to set boundaries for their children, and the children want them to"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"related":[
"extremity",
"fag end",
"terminus",
"border",
"brim",
"edge",
"margin",
"rim",
"verge",
"outside",
"bar",
"barrier",
"fence",
"hedge",
"restraint",
"stop",
"wall"
],
"synonyms":[
"bound",
"cap",
"ceiling",
"confines",
"end",
"extent",
"limit",
"limitation",
"line",
"termination"
]
},
"the line or relatively narrow space that marks the outer limit of something":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"that chalk line marks the boundary of our playing field"
],
"near antonyms":[
"center",
"core",
"heart",
"inner",
"inside",
"interior",
"middle",
"within"
],
"related":[
"ambit",
"brink",
"crest",
"curb",
"cusp",
"lip",
"ceiling",
"maximum",
"demarcation",
"extent",
"limitation",
"measure",
"mere",
"restriction",
"termination",
"borderland",
"frontier",
"march",
"outskirts",
"pale",
"selvage",
"lap",
"shore"
],
"synonyms":[
"border",
"borderline",
"bound",
"brim",
"circumference",
"compass",
"confines",
"edge",
"edging",
"end",
"frame",
"fringe",
"hem",
"margin",
"perimeter",
"periphery",
"rim",
"skirt",
"skirting",
"verge"
]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"bounteous":{
"being more than enough without being excessive":{
"examples":[
"offered a bounteous reward for finding the lost ring"
],
"synonyms":[
"abundant",
"ample",
"aplenty",
"bountiful",
"comfortable",
"cornucopian",
"galore",
"generous",
"liberal",
"plenteous",
"plentiful",
"plenty"
],
"near synonyms":[
"extra",
"supernumerary",
"surplus",
"abounding",
"blooming",
"overflowing",
"plump",
"replete",
"rich",
"rife",
"teeming",
"wealthy",
"adequate",
"enough",
"sufficient",
"fat",
"fecund",
"fertile",
"fruitful",
"luxuriant",
"prodigal",
"prolific",
"copious",
"fulsome",
"lavish",
"profuse"
],
"near antonyms":[
"deficient",
"inadequate",
"insufficient",
"lacking",
"wanting",
"meager",
"meagre",
"niggardly",
"stingy",
"skimpy",
"least",
"minimum",
"light",
"slight",
"small",
"barren",
"infertile",
"sterile",
"unfruitful",
"unproductive"
],
"antonyms":[
"bare",
"minimal",
"scant",
"spare"
]
},
"giving or sharing in abundance and without hesitation":{
"examples":[
"a bounteous king who made sure all his subjects were well-fed"
],
"synonyms":[
"bighearted",
"bountiful",
"charitable",
"free",
"freehanded",
"freehearted",
"fulsome",
"generous",
"liberal",
"munificent",
"open",
"openhanded",
"unselfish",
"unsparing",
"unstinting"
],
"near synonyms":[
"extravagant",
"handsome",
"lavish",
"overgenerous",
"profuse",
"altruistic",
"beneficent",
"benevolent",
"hospitable",
"humanitarian",
"philanthropic",
"philanthropical",
"big",
"greathearted",
"largehearted",
"magnanimous",
"openhearted",
"compassionate",
"good-hearted",
"kind",
"kindly",
"samaritan",
"sympathetic"
],
"near antonyms":[
"mean",
"petty",
"small",
"frugal",
"spare",
"sparing",
"thrifty",
"chary",
"stinting",
"acquisitive",
"avaricious",
"avid",
"coveting",
"covetous",
"desirous",
"grasping",
"hoggish",
"itchy",
"mercenary",
"rapacious",
"begrudging",
"envious",
"grudging",
"resentful"
],
"antonyms":[
"cheap",
"close",
"closefisted",
"costive",
"illiberal",
"mingy",
"miserly",
"niggardly",
"parsimonious",
"penurious",
"selfish",
"stingy",
"stinting",
"tight",
"tightfisted",
"uncharitable",
"ungenerous"
]
},
"type":[
"adjective"
]
},
"bounteously":{
"in a generous manner":{
"antonyms":[
"parsimoniously",
"stingily",
"ungenerously"
],
"examples":[
"our host handed us bounteously -filled plates and invited us to sit out by the pool"
],
"near antonyms":[
"contemptuously",
"disdainfully",
"rudely",
"scornfully",
"obnoxiously",
"provocatively",
"coldly",
"coolly",
"cooly",
"frigidly",
"hostilely",
"angrily",
"belligerently",
"begrudgingly",
"grudgingly"
],
"related":[
"considerately",
"courteously",
"hospitably",
"kindly",
"nicely",
"reasonably",
"sweetly",
"thoughtfully",
"affably",
"amiably",
"cheerfully",
"cheerily",
"congenially",
"cordially",
"friendlily",
"genially",
"good-heartedly",
"good-naturedly",
"graciously",
"selflessly",
"ungrudgingly",
"unselfishly",
"altruistically",
"beneficently",
"benevolently",
"bigheartedly",
"charitably",
"humanely",
"kindheartedly",
"magnanimously",
"philanthropically"
],
"synonyms":[
"amply",
"bountifully",
"freehandedly",
"freeheartedly",
"generously",
"handsomely",
"lavishly",
"liberally",
"munificently",
"openhandedly",
"unstintingly",
"well"
]
},
"type":[
"adverb"
]
},
"bounties":{
"something offered or given in return for a service performed":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"a bounty was offered for information leading to the capture of the criminal"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"related":[
"bonuses",
"lagniappes",
"premiums",
"bonanzas",
"jackpots",
"treasure troves",
"awards",
"decorations",
"distinctions",
"honors",
"plumes",
"prizes",
"trophies",
"gratuities",
"tips",
"deserts",
"wages"
],
"synonyms":[
"prices",
"rewards"
]
},
"the total amount collected or obtained especially at one time":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"the record-breaking bounty from this year's corn harvest"
],
"near antonyms":[
"deductions",
"losses",
"subtractions"
],
"related":[
"bags",
"earnings",
"gains",
"grosses",
"incomes",
"nets",
"payoffs",
"proceeds",
"profits",
"receipts",
"returns",
"revenues",
"winnings",
"booties",
"loots",
"plunders",
"spoils",
"swags",
"appropriations",
"collections"
],
"synonyms":[
"catches",
"hauls",
"takes",
"yields"
]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"bountiful":{
"being more than enough without being excessive":{
"antonyms":[
"bare",
"minimal",
"scant",
"spare"
],
"examples":[
"a bountiful supply of apples for the harvest festival"
],
"near antonyms":[
"deficient",
"inadequate",
"insufficient",
"lacking",
"wanting",
"meager",
"meagre",
"niggardly",
"stingy",
"skimpy",
"least",
"minimum",
"light",
"slight",
"small",
"barren",
"infertile",
"sterile",
"unfruitful",
"unproductive"
],
"related":[
"extra",
"supernumerary",
"surplus",
"abounding",
"blooming",
"overflowing",
"plump",
"replete",
"rich",
"rife",
"teeming",
"wealthy",
"adequate",
"enough",
"sufficient",
"fat",
"fecund",
"fertile",
"fruitful",
"luxuriant",
"prodigal",
"prolific",
"copious",
"fulsome",
"lavish",
"profuse"
],
"synonyms":[
"abundant",
"ample",
"aplenty",
"bounteous",
"comfortable",
"cornucopian",
"galore",
"generous",
"liberal",
"plenteous",
"plentiful",
"plenty"
]
},
"giving or sharing in abundance and without hesitation":{
"antonyms":[
"cheap",
"close",
"closefisted",
"costive",
"illiberal",
"mingy",
"miserly",
"niggardly",
"parsimonious",
"penurious",
"selfish",
"stingy",
"stinting",
"tight",
"tightfisted",
"uncharitable",
"ungenerous"
],
"examples":[
"a bountiful host who makes sure that everyone has plenty to eat at his dinners"
],
"near antonyms":[
"mean",
"petty",
"small",
"frugal",
"spare",
"sparing",
"thrifty",
"chary",
"stinting",
"acquisitive",
"avaricious",
"avid",
"coveting",
"covetous",
"desirous",
"grasping",
"hoggish",
"itchy",
"mercenary",
"rapacious",
"begrudging",
"envious",
"grudging",
"resentful"
],
"related":[
"extravagant",
"handsome",
"lavish",
"overgenerous",
"profuse",
"altruistic",
"beneficent",
"benevolent",
"hospitable",
"humanitarian",
"philanthropic",
"philanthropical",
"big",
"greathearted",
"largehearted",
"magnanimous",
"openhearted",
"compassionate",
"good-hearted",
"kind",
"kindly",
"samaritan",
"sympathetic"
],
"synonyms":[
"bighearted",
"bounteous",
"charitable",
"free",
"freehanded",
"freehearted",
"fulsome",
"generous",
"liberal",
"munificent",
"open",
"openhanded",
"unselfish",
"unsparing",
"unstinting"
]
},
"type":[
"adjective"
]
},
"bounty":{
"something offered or given in return for a service performed":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"a bounty was offered for information leading to the capture of the criminal"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"related":[
"bonus",
"lagniappe",
"premium",
"bonanza",
"jackpot",
"treasure trove",
"award",
"decoration",
"distinction",
"honor",
"plume",
"prize",
"trophy",
"gratuity",
"tip",
"desert(s)",
"wages"
],
"synonyms":[
"price",
"reward"
]
},
"the quality or state of being generous":{
"antonyms":[
"cheapness",
"closeness",
"meanness",
"miserliness",
"parsimony",
"penuriousness",
"pinching",
"selfishness",
"stinginess",
"tightness",
"ungenerosity"
],
"examples":[
"her bounty at Halloween was known throughout the neighborhood"
],
"near antonyms":[
"conserving",
"economizing",
"economy",
"frugality",
"husbandry",
"providence",
"scrimping",
"skimping",
"thrift",
"conservation",
"saving",
"husbanding",
"managing",
"scraping",
"cutting back"
],
"related":[
"beneficence",
"charity",
"kindliness",
"selflessness",
"kindness",
"gift",
"gratuity",
"lagniappe",
"tribute",
"extravagance",
"improvidence",
"lavishness",
"prodigality",
"wastefulness",
"spendthrift",
"dissipating",
"squandering"
],
"synonyms":[
"bigheartedness",
"bountifulness",
"generosity",
"generousness",
"largesse",
"largess",
"liberality",
"munificence",
"openhandedness",
"openheartedness",
"philanthropy",
"unselfishness"
]
},
"the total amount collected or obtained especially at one time":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"the record-breaking bounty from this year's corn harvest"
],
"near antonyms":[
"deduction",
"loss",
"subtraction"
],
"related":[
"bag",
"earnings",
"gain",
"gross",
"income",
"net",
"payoff",
"proceeds",
"profit",
"receipts",
"return",
"revenue",
"winnings",
"booty",
"loot",
"plunder",
"spoils",
"swag",
"appropriation",
"collection"
],
"synonyms":[
"catch",
"haul",
"take",
"yield"
]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"bouquets":{
"a bunch of flowers":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"I bought my wife a nice bouquet for her birthday"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"related":[
"boutonnieres",
"corsages",
"arrangements",
"garlands",
"leis"
],
"synonyms":[
"bobs",
"nosegays",
"posies"
]
},
"a sweet or pleasant smell":{
"antonyms":[
"fetors",
"malodors",
"reeks",
"stenches",
"stinks"
],
"examples":[
"this wine has a good bouquet"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"related":[
"essences",
"odors"
],
"synonyms":[
"aromas",
"attars",
"ottos",
"balms",
"fragrances",
"fragrancies",
"incenses",
"perfumes",
"redolences",
"scents",
"spices"
]
},
"an admiring personal remark":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"an evening dress of daring design that attracted bouquets as well as brickbats"
],
"near antonyms":[
"affronts",
"barbs",
"darts",
"digs",
"epithets",
"insults",
"put-downs",
"slights",
"slurs"
],
"related":[
"accolades",
"citations",
"commendations",
"encomiums",
"encomia",
"eulogies",
"homages",
"paeans",
"panegyrics",
"salutations",
"tributes",
"valentines"
],
"synonyms":[
"compliments",
"kudos"
]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"bourgeoisie":{
"as in":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[],
"near antonyms":[],
"related":[],
"synonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"bournes":{
"something that one hopes or intends to accomplish":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"still searching for the bourne that would give his life meaning"
],
"near antonyms":[
"means",
"methods",
"ways"
],
"related":[
"grails",
"holy grails",
"plots",
"projects",
"schemes",
"desires",
"hopes",
"minds",
"wishes",
"nirvanas",
"destinations",
"termini",
"terminuses"
],
"synonyms":[
"aims",
"ambitions",
"aspirations",
"designs",
"dreams",
"ends",
"goals",
"ideals",
"ideas",
"intentions",
"intents",
"marks",
"meanings",
"objectives",
"objects",
"plans",
"points",
"pretensions",
"purposes",
"targets",
"things"
]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"bout":{
"a competitive encounter between individuals or groups carried on for amusement, exercise, or in pursuit of a prize":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"undoubtedly the team's best wrestler, he hasn't lost a bout yet"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"related":[
"athletics",
"sport",
"battle",
"conflict",
"scrimmage",
"skirmish",
"struggle",
"tug-of-war",
"tussle",
"championship",
"national(s)",
"final",
"nightcap",
"play-off",
"semifinal",
"derby",
"field day",
"gymkhana",
"open",
"outing",
"biathlon",
"decathlon",
"heptathlon",
"pentathlon",
"triathlon",
"marathon",
"race",
"ultramarathon",
"heat",
"round",
"run",
"set",
"rally",
"volley",
"round-robin",
"rubber",
"runoff",
"sudden death",
"dead heat",
"photo finish",
"seesaw",
"classic"
],
"synonyms":[
"competition",
"contest",
"event",
"game",
"match",
"matchup",
"meet",
"sweepstakes",
"sweep-stake",
"tournament",
"tourney"
]
},
"a sudden experiencing of a physical or mental disorder":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"she's currently suffering from a bout of the flu"
],
"near antonyms":[
"arrest",
"relief",
"remission"
],
"related":[
"recurrence",
"relapse",
"brainstorm",
"convulsion",
"eclampsia",
"pang",
"paroxysm",
"spasm",
"throe",
"agitation",
"frenzy",
"breakdown",
"collapse",
"prostration"
],
"synonyms":[
"access",
"attack",
"case",
"fit",
"seizure",
"siege",
"spell",
"turn"
]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"bower":{
"as in pergola , arbor":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[],
"near antonyms":[],
"related":[],
"synonyms":[]
},
"to surround or cover closely":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"bowered by a canopy of grapevines, we enjoyed a serene and very private picnic"
],
"near antonyms":[
"bare",
"denude",
"expose",
"strip"
],
"related":[
"curtain",
"drape",
"embed",
"imbed",
"encase",
"swaddle",
"blanket",
"overlay",
"overspread",
"camouflage",
"cloak",
"disguise",
"mask",
"circle",
"encircle",
"enlace",
"enwind"
],
"synonyms":[
"bosom",
"circumfuse",
"cocoon",
"embosom",
"embower",
"embrace",
"enclose",
"inclose",
"encompass",
"enfold",
"enshroud",
"enswathe",
"envelop",
"enwrap",
"invest",
"involve",
"lap",
"mantle",
"muffle",
"shroud",
"swathe",
"veil",
"wrap"
]
},
"type":[
"noun",
"verb"
]
},
"bowing out":{
"to undergo defeat":{
"antonyms":[
"conquering",
"prevailing",
"triumphing",
"winning"
],
"examples":[
"quite embarrassingly, the top-seeded player bowed out in the first round of competition"
],
"near antonyms":[
"flourishing",
"prospering",
"succeeding",
"thriving"
],
"related":[
"faltering",
"tanking",
"throwing",
"forfeiting",
"bombing",
"collapsing",
"cracking (up)",
"failing",
"flopping",
"flunking",
"folding",
"foundering",
"missing",
"striking out",
"washing out"
],
"synonyms":[
"falling",
"losing"
]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"bowl (down or over)":{
"to strike (someone) so forcefully as to cause a fall":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"the exuberant dog bowled over several children"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"related":[
"kayo",
"knock out",
"KO",
"overthrow",
"throw down",
"topple",
"bang",
"bash",
"belt",
"bludgeon",
"clobber",
"hammer",
"hit",
"jab",
"paste",
"poke",
"pound",
"punch",
"slam",
"slap",
"slog",
"slug",
"smack",
"smite",
"sock",
"swat",
"swipe",
"thump",
"thwack",
"wallop",
"whack",
"whale"
],
"synonyms":[
"down",
"drop",
"fell",
"floor",
"knock down",
"knock over",
"level",
"mow (down)",
"prostrate"
]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"bowl over":{
"to make a strong impression on (someone) with something unexpected":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"she was bowled over to learn that she had a long-lost sister"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"related":[
"befuddle",
"bewilder",
"blindside",
"blow away",
"confound",
"confuse",
"daze",
"discomfit",
"disconcert",
"dismay",
"jar",
"muddle",
"nonplus",
"perplex",
"shake up"
],
"synonyms":[
"amaze",
"astonish",
"astound",
"dumbfound",
"dumfound",
"flabbergast",
"floor",
"rock",
"shock",
"startle",
"stun",
"stupefy",
"surprise",
"surprize",
"thunderstrike"
]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"bowling":{
"to move or proceed smoothly and readily":{
"examples":[
"bowling along in my spiffy new car"
],
"synonyms":[
"breezing",
"brushing",
"coasting",
"cruising",
"drifting",
"flowing",
"gliding",
"rolling",
"sailing",
"skimming",
"sliding",
"slipping",
"streaming",
"sweeping",
"whisking"
],
"near synonyms":[
"flying",
"racing",
"rushing",
"speeding"
],
"near antonyms":[
"limping",
"lumbering",
"plodding",
"stumbling",
"trudging",
"shambling",
"shuffling",
"stamping",
"stomping",
"stumping",
"tramping",
"laboring",
"toiling"
],
"antonyms":[
"floundering",
"struggling"
]
},
"to proceed or move quickly":{
"examples":[
"bowled through the test and was the first one to hand in the booklet"
],
"synonyms":[
"barreling",
"barrelling",
"belting",
"blasting",
"blazing",
"blowing",
"bolting",
"bombing",
"breezing",
"bundling",
"bustling",
"buzzing",
"cannonballing",
"careening",
"careering",
"chasing",
"coursing",
"cracking (on)",
"dashing",
"driving",
"flying",
"haring",
"hastening",
"highballing",
"hotfooting (it)",
"humping",
"hurling",
"hurrying",
"hurtling",
"hustling",
"hying",
"hieing",
"jetting",
"jumping",
"motoring",
"nipping",
"pelting",
"racing",
"ramming",
"ripping",
"rocketing",
"running",
"rushing",
"rustling",
"scooting",
"scurrying",
"scuttling",
"shooting",
"speeding",
"stepping",
"tearing",
"traveling",
"travelling",
"trotting",
"whirling",
"whisking",
"zipping",
"zooming"
],
"near synonyms":[
"beetling",
"darting",
"flitting",
"scampering",
"scudding",
"scuffling",
"stampeding",
"streaking",
"whizzing",
"galloping",
"jogging",
"sprinting",
"accelerating",
"quickening",
"stepping out",
"catching up",
"fast-forwarding",
"outpacing",
"outrunning",
"outstripping",
"overtaking",
"arrowing",
"beelining"
],
"near antonyms":[
"dallying",
"dawdling",
"dillydallying",
"dragging",
"hanging (around or out)",
"lagging",
"lingering",
"loitering",
"poking",
"tarrying",
"ambling",
"lumbering",
"plodding",
"sauntering",
"shuffling",
"strolling",
"decelerating",
"slowing (down or up)"
],
"antonyms":[
"crawling",
"creeping",
"poking"
]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"boxing":{
"to deliver a blow to (someone or something) usually in a strong vigorous manner":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"his mother threatened to box his ears if he didn't show a bit more respect"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"related":[
"battering",
"beating",
"buffeting",
"bunging",
"chopping",
"cuffing",
"drubbing",
"lacing",
"lambasting",
"licking",
"mangling",
"mauling",
"pelting",
"peppering",
"pommeling",
"pommelling",
"pummeling",
"pummelling",
"roughing",
"scuffing",
"bunting",
"flicking",
"stroking",
"tapping",
"bumping",
"butting",
"jabbing",
"jostling",
"kicking",
"kneeing",
"poking",
"prodding",
"pushing",
"shoving",
"stamping",
"bowling (down or over)",
"creaming",
"decking",
"dumping",
"felling",
"flooring",
"knocking down",
"leveling",
"levelling",
"rabbit-punching",
"sucker punching",
"caning",
"clubbing",
"cudgeling",
"cudgelling",
"flailing",
"flogging",
"lashing",
"sapping",
"slashing",
"sledgehammering",
"sledging",
"spearing",
"stabbing",
"switching",
"thrashing",
"whipping",
"beaning",
"braining",
"conking",
"skulling"
],
"synonyms":[
"banging",
"bashing",
"batting",
"belting",
"biffing",
"bludgeoning",
"bobbing",
"bonking",
"bopping",
"busting",
"clapping",
"clipping",
"clobbering",
"clocking",
"clouting",
"cracking",
"hammering",
"hitting",
"knocking",
"nailing",
"pasting",
"pounding",
"punching",
"rapping",
"slamming",
"slapping",
"slogging",
"slugging",
"smacking",
"smiting",
"socking",
"striking",
"swatting",
"swiping",
"tagging",
"thumping",
"thwacking",
"walloping",
"whacking",
"whaling",
"zapping"
]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"boyo":{
"a male person who has not yet reached adulthood":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"a novel about a self-assertive, self-reliant boyo growing up in working-class Dublin"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"related":[
"adolescent",
"juvenile",
"kid",
"kiddie",
"kiddy",
"kiddo",
"minor",
"moppet",
"teenager",
"tween",
"youngling",
"youngster",
"gamin",
"guttersnipe",
"hobbledehoy",
"imp",
"squirt",
"urchin",
"whippersnapper",
"schoolboy",
"toddler",
"tot",
"tyke",
"tike",
"mama's boy"
],
"synonyms":[
"boy",
"boychick",
"boychik",
"callant",
"lad",
"laddie",
"nipper",
"shaveling",
"shaver",
"sonny",
"stripling",
"tad",
"youth"
]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"bo\u00eetes":{
"a bar or restaurant offering special nighttime entertainment (as music, dancing, or comedy acts)":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"a funky bo\u00eete on Paris's Left Bank that offers hot jazz to a self-consciously cool crowd"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"related":[
"a-go-gos",
"discos",
"discotheques",
"discoth\u00e9ques",
"barrooms",
"public houses",
"pubs",
"saloons",
"taverns",
"clip joints",
"dives",
"honky-tonks",
"key clubs",
"speakeasies",
"canteens",
"watering holes",
"watering places"
],
"synonyms":[
"bistros",
"cabarets",
"caf\u00e9s",
"cafes",
"clubs",
"nightclubs",
"nightspots",
"niteries",
"roadhouses",
"supper clubs"
]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"bodiless":{
"not composed of matter":{
"examples":[
"ghosts are supposed to be bodiless"
],
"synonyms":[
"ethereal",
"formless",
"immaterial",
"incorporeal",
"insubstantial",
"nonmaterial",
"nonphysical",
"spiritual",
"unbodied",
"unsubstantial"
],
"related":[
"metaphysical",
"psychic",
"psychical",
"supernatural",
"impalpable",
"insensible",
"intangible",
"invisible",
"airy",
"diaphanous",
"gaseous",
"gossamery",
"tenuous",
"thin",
"vaporous",
"wispish"
],
"near antonyms":[
"animal",
"carnal",
"fleshly",
"detectable",
"discernible",
"discernable",
"noticeable",
"observable",
"palpable",
"sensible",
"tangible",
"visible",
"bulky",
"heavy",
"massive",
"solid"
],
"antonyms":[
"bodily",
"corporeal",
"material",
"physical",
"substantial"
]
},
"type":[
"adjective"
]
},
"bowel(s)":{
"as in intestine(s)":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"related":[],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"boyishness":{
"as in tomboyishness , mannishness":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"related":[],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"bony":{
"having a noticeably small amount of body fat":{
"examples":[
"that bony old horse may have been deliberately starved"
],
"synonyms":[
"fatless",
"lean",
"lithe",
"skinny",
"slender",
"slim",
"spare",
"svelte",
"thin"
],
"related":[
"clean-limbed",
"trim",
"sylphlike",
"willowy",
"angular",
"rawboned",
"scraggy",
"scrawny",
"sinewy",
"wiry",
"lank",
"lanky",
"rangy",
"reedy",
"spindling",
"spindly",
"stringy",
"twiggy",
"waspish",
"weedy",
"anorectic",
"anoretic",
"anorexic",
"cadaverous",
"emaciated",
"gaunt",
"haggard",
"pinched",
"skeletal",
"wasted",
"wizened",
"meager",
"meagre",
"puny",
"slight"
],
"near antonyms":[
"beefy",
"bulky",
"chunky",
"fleshy",
"heavy",
"heavyset",
"stocky",
"stout",
"thick",
"thickset",
"weighty",
"brawny",
"burly",
"husky",
"dumpy",
"pudgy",
"roly-poly",
"squat",
"stubby",
"paunchy",
"potbellied",
"flabby",
"soft",
"buxom",
"zaftig",
"zoftig",
"full",
"hippy",
"round"
],
"antonyms":[
"chubby",
"corpulent",
"fat",
"gross",
"obese",
"overweight",
"plump",
"portly",
"rotund",
"tubby"
]
},
"producing inferior or only a small amount of vegetation":{
"examples":[
"bony hills from which sheepherders eked out a meager existence"
],
"synonyms":[
"barren",
"dead",
"desolate",
"hardscrabble",
"impoverished",
"infertile",
"poor",
"stark",
"unfertile",
"unproductive",
"waste"
],
"related":[
"bleak",
"inhospitable",
"lifeless",
"uncultivable",
"untillable",
"bankrupted",
"consumed",
"debilitated",
"depleted",
"diminished",
"drained",
"dried-up",
"enfeebled",
"exhausted",
"expended",
"lessened",
"reduced",
"spent",
"used up",
"arid",
"desert",
"droughty",
"dry",
"rainless",
"sere",
"sear",
"thirsty",
"waterless",
"baked",
"dehydrated",
"parched",
"sunbaked"
],
"near antonyms":[
"arable",
"tillable",
"green",
"sylvan",
"verdant"
],
"antonyms":[
"fertile",
"fruitful",
"lush",
"luxuriant",
"productive",
"rich"
]
},
"type":[
"adjective"
]
},
"bothers":{
"to thrust oneself upon (another) without invitation":{
"examples":[
"I am never going to get this work done if people don't stop wandering into the room and bothering me"
],
"synonyms":[
"bugs",
"chivies",
"chivvies",
"disturbs",
"intrudes (upon)",
"pesters"
],
"related":[
"inconveniences",
"troubles",
"aggravates",
"annoys",
"bedevils",
"chafes",
"devils",
"dogs",
"duns",
"exasperates",
"frets",
"galls",
"gets",
"gnaws",
"grates",
"hassles",
"irks",
"irritates",
"nettles",
"peeves",
"persecutes",
"piques",
"puts out",
"rankles",
"rasps",
"riles",
"roils",
"torments",
"vexes",
"worries",
"beleaguers",
"besets",
"besieges",
"distresses",
"plagues",
"afflicts",
"harasses",
"provokes",
"angers",
"antagonizes",
"enrages",
"incenses",
"inflames",
"enflames",
"infuriates",
"maddens",
"outrages",
"agitates",
"perturbs",
"butts in",
"cuts in (on)",
"obtrudes",
"encroaches",
"infringes",
"invades",
"trespasses"
],
"near antonyms":[
"disregards",
"forgets",
"ignores",
"leaves",
"slights",
"appeases",
"conciliates",
"disarms",
"mollifies",
"obliges",
"placates",
"delights",
"gladdens",
"gratifies",
"pleases",
"satisfies",
"comforts",
"consoles",
"contents"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to disturb the peace of mind of (someone) especially by repeated disagreeable acts":{
"examples":[
"it bothers me when obviously sick people go to movies and spend the whole time coughing and sneezing"
],
"synonyms":[
"aggravates",
"annoys",
"bugs",
"burns (up)",
"chafes",
"eats",
"exasperates",
"frosts",
"galls",
"gets",
"grates",
"gripes",
"hacks (off)",
"irks",
"irritates",
"itches",
"narks",
"nettles",
"peeves",
"persecutes",
"piques",
"puts out",
"rasps",
"riles",
"ruffles",
"spites",
"vexes"
],
"related":[
"hassles",
"heckles",
"nags",
"inflames",
"enflames",
"provokes",
"rouses",
"badgers",
"baits",
"bullyrags",
"ballyrags",
"devils",
"hagrides",
"harasses",
"harries",
"pesters",
"plagues",
"teases",
"angers",
"antagonizes",
"enrages",
"incenses",
"infuriates",
"maddens",
"rankles",
"roils",
"agitates",
"discomforts",
"discomposes",
"disquiets",
"distresses",
"exercises",
"freaks (out)",
"frets",
"perturbs",
"undoes",
"unhinges",
"unsettles",
"upsets",
"worries",
"affronts",
"insults",
"miffs",
"offends",
"outrages"
],
"near antonyms":[
"appeases",
"conciliates",
"mollifies",
"obliges",
"pacifies",
"placates",
"propitiates",
"delights",
"gladdens",
"gratifies",
"pleases",
"satisfies",
"assures",
"cheers",
"comforts",
"consoles",
"contents",
"quiets",
"reassures",
"solaces",
"soothes"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to experience concern or anxiety":{
"examples":[
"just get the basic concept right and don't bother about the details"
],
"synonyms":[
"fears",
"frets",
"fusses",
"stews",
"stresses",
"sweats",
"troubles",
"worries"
],
"related":[
"agonizes",
"longs",
"pines",
"yearns",
"chafes",
"despairs"
],
"near antonyms":[
"accepts",
"abides",
"bears",
"endures",
"sticks out",
"stomachs",
"sustains",
"takes",
"tolerates"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to trouble the mind of; to make uneasy":{
"examples":[
"the boss's cryptic message about changes to the company bothered me"
],
"synonyms":[
"agitates",
"ails",
"alarms",
"alarums",
"concerns",
"derails",
"discomforts",
"discomposes",
"dismays",
"disquiets",
"distempers",
"distracts",
"distresses",
"disturbs",
"exercises",
"flurries",
"frazzles",
"freaks (out)",
"fusses",
"hagrides",
"perturbs",
"undoes",
"unhinges",
"unsettles",
"upsets",
"weirds out",
"worries"
],
"related":[
"aggravates",
"angers",
"annoys",
"bugs",
"chafes",
"chivies",
"chivvies",
"exasperates",
"frets",
"galls",
"gets",
"grates",
"harasses",
"harries",
"irks",
"irritates",
"nettles",
"peeves",
"pesters",
"piques",
"puts off",
"puts out",
"riles",
"vexes",
"bedevils",
"haunts",
"plagues",
"abashes",
"confounds",
"confuses",
"discomfits",
"disconcerts",
"discountenances",
"embarrasses",
"fazes",
"flusters",
"jars",
"mortifies",
"nonpluses",
"nonplusses",
"rattles",
"shakes up",
"daunts",
"demoralizes",
"discourages",
"disheartens",
"dispirits",
"unnerves"
],
"near antonyms":[
"allays",
"alleviates",
"assuages",
"appeases",
"conciliates",
"mollifies",
"pacifies",
"placates",
"propitiates"
],
"antonyms":[
"calms",
"composes",
"quiets",
"settles",
"soothes",
"tranquilizes",
"tranquillizes"
]
},
"a state of noisy, confused activity":{
"examples":[
"the whole household was in a bother , as our overnight guests were expected to arrive any minute"
],
"synonyms":[
"ados",
"alarums and excursions",
"ballyhoos",
"blathers",
"bluster",
"bobberies",
"bustles",
"clatters",
"clutters",
"coils",
"commotions",
"corroborees",
"disturbances",
"dos",
"do's",
"foofaraws",
"fun",
"furores",
"furors",
"fusses",
"helter-skelters",
"hoo-has",
"hoo-hahs",
"hooplas",
"hubble-bubbles",
"hubbubs",
"hullabaloos",
"hurlies",
"hurly-burlies",
"hurricanes",
"hurry-scurries",
"hurry-skurries",
"kerfuffles",
"moils",
"pandemoniums",
"pothers",
"rows",
"ruckuses",
"ructions",
"rumpuses",
"shindys",
"shindies",
"splores",
"squalls",
"stews",
"stirs",
"storms",
"to-dos",
"tumults",
"turmoils",
"uproars",
"welters",
"whirls",
"williwaws",
"zoos"
],
"related":[
"cacophonies",
"clamors",
"dins",
"howls",
"hue and cries",
"noises",
"outcries",
"rackets",
"roars",
"disorders",
"upheavals",
"eruptions",
"flare-ups",
"flurries",
"flutters",
"outbreaks",
"outbursts",
"brawls",
"fracases",
"fracas",
"frays",
"hassles",
"melees",
"m\u00eal\u00e9es",
"scuffles",
"dithers",
"fevers",
"frets",
"lathers",
"tizzies"
],
"near antonyms":[
"calms",
"hushes",
"peaces",
"quiets",
"quietudes",
"rests",
"tranquillities",
"tranquilities",
"orders"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"one who is obnoxiously annoying":{
"examples":[
"the woman next-door is such a bother \u2014always dropping in at the most inopportune moments!"
],
"synonyms":[
"annoyances",
"annoyers",
"gadflies",
"gnawers",
"nudniks",
"nudnicks",
"nuisances",
"pains",
"persecutors",
"pests",
"teasers",
"teases"
],
"related":[
"headaches",
"harriers",
"hecklers",
"interrupters",
"interruptors",
"hassles",
"plagues",
"harassers",
"molesters",
"tormentors",
"tormenters",
"torturers"
],
"near antonyms":[
"charmers",
"smoothies",
"comforters",
"solacers",
"soothers"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"something that is a source of irritation":{
"examples":[
"returning damaged goods is a real bother"
],
"synonyms":[
"aggravations",
"aggros",
"annoyances",
"botherations",
"bugbears",
"exasperations",
"frustrations",
"hair shirts",
"hassles",
"headaches",
"inconveniences",
"irks",
"irritants",
"nuisances",
"peeves",
"pests",
"rubs",
"ruffles",
"thorns",
"trials",
"vexations"
],
"related":[
"discomforts",
"fleabites",
"pinpricks",
"affronts",
"insults",
"offenses",
"offences",
"upsets",
"worries",
"afflictions",
"albatross",
"albatrosses",
"burdens",
"crosses",
"curses",
"menaces",
"millstones",
"plagues",
"sores",
"anxieties",
"plights",
"predicaments",
"tribulations",
"troubles",
"hang-ups",
"pet peeves",
"problems",
"annoyers",
"disturbers",
"harassers",
"mischiefs",
"offenders",
"pandora's boxes"
],
"near antonyms":[
"delights",
"joys",
"pleasures"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"the feeling of impatience or anger caused by another's repeated disagreeable acts":{
"examples":[
"never let his personal bothers interfere with his responsibilities at work"
],
"synonyms":[
"aggravations",
"aggros",
"annoyances",
"botherations",
"exasperations",
"frustrations",
"griefs",
"irritations",
"pips",
"vexations"
],
"related":[
"agitations",
"discomforts",
"displeasures",
"distresses",
"disturbances",
"upsets",
"irritabilities",
"peeves",
"perturbations",
"pets",
"piques",
"resentments",
"troubles",
"angers",
"chafes",
"danders",
"dudgeons",
"galls",
"huffs",
"indignations",
"ires",
"outrages",
"umbrages"
],
"near antonyms":[
"delights",
"pleasures"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun",
"verb"
]
},
"bore down on":{
"to push steadily against with some force":{
"examples":[
"you need to bear down on that cap a bit to get it to latch tightly"
],
"synonyms":[
"depressed",
"pressed",
"shoved",
"weighed (on or upon)"
],
"related":[
"compressed",
"mashed",
"punched",
"squashed",
"squeezed",
"squished",
"squooshed",
"compelled",
"forced",
"pressured",
"leaned (on or against)",
"muscled",
"drove",
"propelled",
"thrust",
"compacted",
"condensed",
"constricted",
"contracted",
"crushed",
"scrunched",
"wrung",
"crammed",
"jammed",
"jam-packed",
"packed",
"stuffed",
"wedged"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to indicate the importance of by centering attention on":{
"examples":[
"Our manager bore down on the need to meet upcoming deadlines."
],
"synonyms":[
"accented",
"accentuated",
"emphasized",
"featured",
"foregrounded",
"highlighted",
"illuminated",
"played up",
"pointed (up)",
"pressed",
"punctuated",
"stressed"
],
"related":[
"focused",
"focussed",
"identified",
"pinpointed",
"spotlighted",
"spotlit",
"advertised",
"boosted",
"plugged",
"promoted",
"publicized",
"overplayed"
],
"near antonyms":[
"toned (down)",
"underemphasized",
"understated",
"belittled",
"discounted",
"disparaged",
"minimized"
],
"antonyms":[
"de-emphasized",
"played down"
]
},
"type":[
"phrase",
"verb"
]
},
"bonhomie":{
"a feeling of friendliness among a group of people":{
"examples":[
"Those camping out in line for the store's grand opening soon developed a cheerful bonhomie .",
"the bonhomie of strangers singing together around a campfire"
],
"synonyms":[],
"related":[],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"boozes":{
"a distilled beverage that can make a person drunk":{
"examples":[
"this will be a birthday party without booze"
],
"synonyms":[
"alcohols",
"aqua vitaes",
"ardent spirits",
"bottles",
"drinks",
"firewaters",
"grogs",
"hooches",
"inebriants",
"intoxicants",
"John Barleycorns",
"juices",
"liquors",
"lushes",
"moonshines",
"potables",
"rums",
"sauces",
"spirits",
"stimulants",
"strong drinks",
"tipples"
],
"related":[
"aperitifs",
"bracers",
"chasers",
"digestifs",
"nightcaps",
"belts",
"loads",
"nips",
"pegs",
"pops",
"shooters",
"shots",
"slugs",
"snifters",
"snorts",
"tots",
"whets",
"cocktails",
"mixed drinks",
"ales",
"beers",
"brewages",
"brews",
"brewskis",
"home brews",
"malt liquors",
"microbrews",
"mums",
"nappies",
"meads",
"sakes",
"sakis",
"wines",
"barley-brees",
"barley-broos",
"brandies",
"gins",
"liqueurs",
"mao-tais",
"mescals",
"schnapps",
"tequilas",
"vodkas",
"whiskeys",
"whiskies",
"Dutch courages"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to partake excessively of alcoholic beverages":{
"examples":[
"he went out boozing with his friends on his 21st birthday"
],
"synonyms":[
"bibs",
"drinks",
"guzzles",
"liquors (up)",
"lushes (up)",
"soaks",
"tipples"
],
"related":[
"carouses",
"revels",
"imbibes",
"nips"
],
"near antonyms":[
"abstains"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun",
"verb"
]
},
"bowered":{
"to surround or cover closely":{
"examples":[
"bowered by a canopy of grapevines, we enjoyed a serene and very private picnic"
],
"synonyms":[
"bosomed",
"circumfused",
"cocooned",
"embosomed",
"embowered",
"embraced",
"enclosed",
"inclosed",
"encompassed",
"enfolded",
"enshrouded",
"enswathed",
"enveloped",
"enwrapped",
"invested",
"involved",
"lapped",
"mantled",
"muffled",
"shrouded",
"swathed",
"veiled",
"wrapped"
],
"related":[
"curtained",
"draped",
"embedded",
"imbedded",
"encased",
"swaddled",
"blanketed",
"overlaid",
"overspread",
"camouflaged",
"cloaked",
"disguised",
"masked",
"circled",
"encircled",
"enlaced",
"enwound"
],
"near antonyms":[
"bared",
"denuded",
"exposed",
"stripped",
"stript"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"bourgeoning":{
"as in flourishing , flowering":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"related":[],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to become greater in extent, volume, amount, or number":{
"examples":[
"the trout population in the stream is burgeoning now that the water is clean"
],
"synonyms":[
"accelerating",
"accumulating",
"appreciating",
"ballooning",
"booming",
"building up",
"climbing",
"enlarging",
"escalating",
"expanding",
"gaining",
"increasing",
"mounting",
"multiplying",
"mushrooming",
"proliferating",
"rising",
"rolling up",
"snowballing",
"spreading",
"swelling",
"waxing"
],
"related":[
"jumping",
"rocketing",
"skyrocketing",
"surging",
"heightening",
"intensifying",
"redoubling",
"blowing up",
"bulking",
"distending",
"inflating",
"puffing (up)",
"crescendoing",
"cresting",
"peaking"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[
"contracting",
"decreasing",
"diminishing",
"dwindling",
"lessening",
"receding",
"waning"
]
},
"to grow vigorously":{
"examples":[
"the spring flowers burgeoned once the warm weather set in for good"
],
"synonyms":[
"flourishing",
"prospering",
"thriving"
],
"related":[
"luxuriating",
"overgrowing",
"proliferating",
"shooting up",
"germinating",
"rooting",
"sprouting",
"blooming",
"flowering",
"fruiting",
"producing",
"propagating",
"regenerating",
"seeding"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to produce flowers":{
"examples":[
"chrysanthemums usually burgeon in early fall"
],
"synonyms":[
"blooming",
"blossoming",
"blowing",
"efflorescing",
"flowering",
"unfolding"
],
"related":[
"leafing",
"leaving",
"budding",
"opening"
],
"near antonyms":[
"drying up",
"fading",
"shriveling",
"shrivelling",
"wilting",
"withering",
"dropping",
"dying",
"expiring",
"perishing"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"adjective",
"verb"
]
},
"boffola":{
"an explosive sound that is a sign of amusement":{
"examples":[
"the audience could be heard chuckling throughout the play, but there were few theater-filling boffolas"
],
"synonyms":[
"belly laugh",
"boff",
"boffo",
"cachinnation",
"cackle",
"chortle",
"chuckle",
"giggle",
"guffaw",
"hee-haw",
"horselaugh",
"laugh",
"laughter",
"snicker",
"snigger",
"titter",
"twitter"
],
"related":[
"crow",
"whoop",
"grin",
"simper",
"smile",
"smirk"
],
"near antonyms":[
"cry",
"groan",
"moan",
"sob",
"wail",
"face",
"frown",
"grimace",
"lower",
"lour",
"mouth",
"pout",
"scowl"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"something said or done to cause laughter":{
"examples":[
"if that was the wannabe comic's best boffola , he'd be well-advised not to quit his day job"
],
"synonyms":[
"boff",
"boffo",
"crack",
"drollery",
"funny",
"gag",
"giggle",
"jape",
"jest",
"joke",
"josh",
"laugh",
"nifty",
"one-liner",
"pleasantry",
"quip",
"rib",
"sally",
"waggery",
"wisecrack",
"witticism",
"yuk",
"yuck",
"yak",
"yock"
],
"related":[
"funning",
"joking",
"wisecracking",
"knee-slapper",
"panic",
"riot",
"scream",
"thigh-slapper",
"antic",
"buffoonery",
"caper",
"leg-pull",
"monkeyshine(s)",
"practical joke",
"prank",
"trick",
"burlesque",
"caricature",
"lampoon",
"mock",
"mockery",
"parody",
"put-on",
"riff",
"banter",
"kidding",
"persiflage",
"raillery",
"repartee",
"drollness",
"facetiousness",
"funniness",
"hilariousness",
"humorousness",
"comedy",
"humor",
"wit",
"wordplay"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"bowdlerizing":{
"to remove objectionable parts from":{
"examples":[
"a bowdlerized version of \"Gulliver's Travels\" that purportedly makes it unobjectionable for children"
],
"synonyms":[
"censoring",
"cleaning (up)",
"expurgating",
"laundering",
"red-penciling"
],
"related":[
"cleansing",
"purging",
"purifying",
"abbreviating",
"blue-penciling",
"editing",
"shortening",
"bleeping",
"blipping",
"cutting (out)",
"deleting",
"excising",
"expunging",
"gutting",
"x-ing (out)",
"x'ing (out)",
"blacking out",
"repressing",
"silencing",
"suppressing",
"censuring",
"condemning",
"denouncing",
"examining",
"reviewing",
"screening",
"scrutinizing"
],
"near antonyms":[
"approving",
"authorizing",
"sanctioning"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"boycott":{
"as in blackball , black":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"related":[],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"bogies":{
"something or someone that causes fear or dread especially without reason":{
"examples":[
"math and math tests have long been bogeys for many students"
],
"synonyms":[
"b\u00eates noires",
"black beasts",
"bugaboos",
"bugbears",
"dreads",
"hobgoblins",
"ogres"
],
"near synonyms":[
"apparitions",
"ghosts",
"phantasms",
"fantasms",
"phantoms",
"poltergeists",
"shades",
"specters",
"spectres",
"spirits",
"spooks",
"wraiths",
"banshees",
"bogeymen",
"bogymen",
"demons",
"daemons",
"devils",
"fiends",
"ghouls",
"imps",
"incubi",
"incubuses",
"frights",
"horribles",
"horrors",
"monsters",
"monstrosities",
"terrors",
"banes",
"curses",
"enemies",
"plagues",
"scourges",
"torments",
"abominations",
"anathemas"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"the soul of a dead person thought of especially as appearing to living people":{
"examples":[
"the child believed bogeys lived in the closet"
],
"synonyms":[
"apparitions",
"familiar spirits",
"ghosts",
"hants",
"haunts",
"materializations",
"phantasms",
"fantasms",
"phantoms",
"poltergeists",
"shades",
"shadows",
"specters",
"spectres",
"spirits",
"spooks",
"sprites",
"visions",
"visitants",
"wraiths"
],
"near synonyms":[
"angels",
"daimones",
"daimons",
"familiars",
"genies",
"genii",
"geniuses",
"genii",
"jinn",
"jinns",
"djinn",
"djinns",
"shaitans",
"doppelg\u00e4ngers",
"doppelgangers",
"doubles",
"fetches",
"lemures",
"manes",
"incubi",
"incubuses",
"lamiae",
"lamias",
"succubi",
"vampires",
"zombies",
"cacodemons",
"demons",
"daemons",
"devils",
"fiends",
"ghouls",
"imps"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"bootlegger":{
"a person who imports or exports goods secretly and illegally":{
"examples":[
"a bootlegger of counterfeit electronics"
],
"synonyms":[
"contrabandist",
"courier",
"runner",
"smuggler"
],
"near synonyms":[
"coyote",
"gunrunner",
"mule"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"boondocks":{
"the open rural area outside of big towns and cities":{
"examples":[
"a former city girl who was still adjusting to life in the boondocks"
],
"synonyms":[
"boonies",
"country",
"countryside",
"nowhere",
"sticks"
],
"near synonyms":[
"exurbia",
"backcountry",
"backwater",
"backwoods",
"bush",
"frontier",
"hinterland",
"outback",
"up-country",
"wild",
"wilderness"
],
"near antonyms":[
"conurbation",
"megalopolis",
"urban sprawl"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"plural noun"
]
},
"bolsters":{
"to hold up or serve as a foundation for":{
"examples":[
"used additional beams to bolster the ceiling"
],
"synonyms":[
"bears",
"braces",
"buttresses",
"carries",
"props (up)",
"shores (up)",
"stays",
"supports",
"sustains",
"undergirds",
"underpins",
"upholds"
],
"near synonyms":[
"steadies",
"trusses",
"underlies"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to provide evidence or information for (as a claim or idea)":{
"examples":[
"a couple of tournament wins would bolster the extravagant claims that have been made on behalf of the young golfer"
],
"synonyms":[
"backs",
"buttresses",
"corroborates",
"reinforces",
"reenforces",
"shores (up)",
"substantiates",
"supports"
],
"near synonyms":[
"confirms",
"establishes",
"proves",
"verifies",
"affirms",
"avouches",
"validates"
],
"near antonyms":[
"undercuts",
"undermines",
"weakens"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"as in brackets , arches":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"arches",
"brackets",
"cantilevers",
"girders",
"columns",
"pedestals",
"pilasters",
"pillars",
"bearings",
"shorings",
"crutches",
"pegs",
"posts",
"stakes",
"stanchions",
"stands",
"stilts",
"struts",
"trusses",
"braces",
"buttresses",
"mountings",
"mounts",
"props",
"reinforcements",
"shores",
"spurs",
"stays",
"supports",
"underpinnings",
"bases",
"foundations",
"frames"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun",
"verb"
]
},
"bodkin":{
"as in dagger , machete":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"bayonet",
"bolo",
"bowie knife",
"cutlass",
"dagger",
"dirk",
"jackknife",
"machete",
"pocketknife",
"poniard",
"sheath knife",
"stiletto",
"stylet",
"switchblade",
"switch knife",
"yataghan",
"cutter",
"knife",
"shank",
"shiv",
"cleaver",
"hack",
"rapier",
"saber",
"sabre",
"steel",
"sword",
"scalpel"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"bourgeoned":{
"to become greater in extent, volume, amount, or number":{
"examples":[
"the trout population in the stream is burgeoning now that the water is clean"
],
"synonyms":[
"accelerated",
"accumulated",
"appreciated",
"ballooned",
"boomed",
"built up",
"climbed",
"enlarged",
"escalated",
"expanded",
"gained",
"increased",
"mounted",
"multiplied",
"mushroomed",
"proliferated",
"rolled up",
"rose",
"snowballed",
"spread",
"swelled",
"waxed"
],
"near synonyms":[
"jumped",
"rocketed",
"skyrocketed",
"surged",
"heightened",
"intensified",
"redoubled",
"blew up",
"bulked",
"distended",
"inflated",
"puffed (up)",
"crescendoed",
"crested",
"peaked"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[
"contracted",
"decreased",
"diminished",
"dwindled",
"lessened",
"receded",
"waned"
]
},
"to grow vigorously":{
"examples":[
"the spring flowers burgeoned once the warm weather set in for good"
],
"synonyms":[
"flourished",
"prospered",
"thrived",
"throve"
],
"near synonyms":[
"luxuriated",
"overgrew",
"proliferated",
"shot up",
"germinated",
"rooted",
"sprouted",
"bloomed",
"flowered",
"fruited",
"produced",
"propagated",
"regenerated",
"seeded"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to produce flowers":{
"examples":[
"chrysanthemums usually burgeon in early fall"
],
"synonyms":[
"blew",
"bloomed",
"blossomed",
"effloresced",
"flowered",
"unfolded"
],
"near synonyms":[
"leafed",
"leaved",
"budded",
"opened"
],
"near antonyms":[
"dried up",
"faded",
"shriveled",
"shrivelled",
"wilted",
"withered",
"died",
"dropped",
"expired",
"perished"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"bogeymen":{
"as in demons , devils":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"banshees",
"demons",
"daemons",
"devils",
"fiends",
"ghouls",
"imps",
"incubi",
"incubuses",
"apparitions",
"ghosts",
"phantasms",
"fantasms",
"phantoms",
"poltergeists",
"shades",
"specters",
"spectres",
"spirits",
"spooks",
"wraiths",
"frights",
"horribles",
"horrors",
"monsters",
"monstrosities",
"terrors",
"b\u00eates noires",
"black beasts",
"bogeys",
"bogies",
"bugaboos",
"bugbears",
"dreads",
"hobgoblins",
"ogres",
"banes",
"curses",
"enemies",
"plagues",
"scourges",
"torments",
"abominations",
"anathemas"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"bonehead":{
"not having or showing an ability to absorb ideas readily":{
"examples":[
"a bonehead decision to trade their best player"
],
"synonyms":[
"airheaded",
"birdbrained",
"boneheaded",
"brain-dead",
"brainless",
"bubbleheaded",
"chuckleheaded",
"dense",
"dim",
"dim-witted",
"doltish",
"dopey",
"dopy",
"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"
],
"near synonyms":[
"cretinous",
"feebleminded",
"simpleminded",
"boobish",
"foolish",
"idiotic",
"idiotical",
"imbecile",
"imbecilic",
"moronic",
"ignorant",
"illiterate",
"lowbrow",
"uneducated",
"uninformed",
"unintellectual",
"untaught",
"unthinking",
"absurd",
"asinine",
"balmy",
"cockeyed",
"crackpot",
"crazy",
"cuckoo",
"daffy",
"daft",
"dippy",
"dotty",
"featherheaded",
"fool",
"half-baked",
"harebrained",
"insane",
"kooky",
"kookie",
"loony",
"looney",
"lunatic",
"mad",
"nonsensical",
"nutty",
"preposterous",
"sappy",
"screwball",
"silly",
"tomfool",
"unwise",
"wacky",
"whacky",
"zany",
"fallacious",
"illogical",
"invalid",
"irrational",
"unreasonable"
],
"near antonyms":[
"ingenious",
"resourceful",
"acute",
"astute",
"discerning",
"insightful",
"keen",
"knowing",
"perceptive",
"percipient",
"perspicacious",
"sagacious",
"sage",
"sapient",
"savvy",
"wise",
"cerebral",
"erudite",
"highbrow",
"intellectual",
"knowledgeable",
"learned",
"literate",
"scholarly",
"thinking",
"well-read",
"educated",
"informed",
"schooled",
"skilled",
"trained",
"crafty",
"cunning",
"foxy",
"shrewd",
"wily",
"judicious",
"prudent",
"sane",
"sensible",
"sound",
"logical",
"rational",
"reasonable",
"valid"
],
"antonyms":[
"apt",
"brainy",
"bright",
"brilliant",
"clever",
"fast",
"hyperintelligent",
"intelligent",
"keen",
"nimble",
"quick",
"quick-witted",
"sharp",
"sharp-witted",
"smart",
"supersmart",
"ultrasmart"
]
},
"a stupid person":{
"examples":[
"the package's directions seem to suggest that anyone who would buy such a product is a bonehead"
],
"synonyms":[
"airhead",
"birdbrain",
"blockhead",
"bubblehead",
"chowderhead",
"chucklehead",
"clodpoll",
"clodpole",
"clot",
"cluck",
"clunk",
"cretin",
"cuddy",
"cuddie",
"deadhead",
"dim bulb",
"dimwit",
"dip",
"dodo",
"dolt",
"donkey",
"doofus",
"dope",
"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"
],
"near synonyms":[
"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"
],
"near antonyms":[
"intellect",
"intellectual",
"sage",
"thinker",
"whiz",
"wizard",
"polymath",
"Renaissance man",
"sharpie",
"sharpy"
],
"antonyms":[
"brain",
"genius"
]
},
"type":[
"adjective",
"noun"
]
},
"boded":{
"to show signs of a favorable or successful outcome":{
"examples":[
"her natural gift for reading boded well for her future in school"
],
"synonyms":[
"augured",
"foreboded",
"forboded",
"promised"
],
"near synonyms":[
"forecast",
"forecasted",
"foretold",
"predicted",
"presaged",
"prognosticated",
"prophesied",
"forewarned",
"warned",
"anticipated",
"divined",
"foreknew",
"foresaw",
"betokened",
"foreshadowed",
"harbingered",
"portended",
"prefigured",
"presignified",
"indicated",
"signified",
"alluded",
"connoted",
"hinted",
"implied",
"insinuated",
"intimated",
"suggested"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"bouquet":{
"a bunch of flowers":{
"examples":[
"I bought my wife a nice bouquet for her birthday"
],
"synonyms":[
"bob",
"nosegay",
"posy"
],
"near synonyms":[
"boutonniere",
"corsage",
"arrangement",
"garland",
"lei"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"a sweet or pleasant smell":{
"examples":[
"this wine has a good bouquet"
],
"synonyms":[
"aroma",
"attar",
"otto",
"balm",
"fragrance",
"fragrancy",
"incense",
"perfume",
"redolence",
"scent",
"spice"
],
"near synonyms":[
"essence",
"odor"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[
"fetor",
"malodor",
"reek",
"stench",
"stink"
]
},
"an admiring personal remark":{
"examples":[
"an evening dress of daring design that attracted bouquets as well as brickbats"
],
"synonyms":[
"compliment",
"kudo"
],
"near synonyms":[
"accolade",
"citation",
"commendation",
"encomium",
"eulogy",
"homage",
"paean",
"panegyric",
"salutation",
"tribute",
"valentine"
],
"near antonyms":[
"affront",
"barb",
"dart",
"dig",
"epithet",
"insult",
"put-down",
"slight",
"slur"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"boring":{
"causing weariness, restlessness, or lack of interest":{
"examples":[
"I wish this book weren't so boring ; I keep falling asleep whenever I try to read it"
],
"synonyms":[
"arid",
"colorless",
"drab",
"dreary",
"drudging",
"dry",
"dull",
"dusty",
"flat",
"heavy",
"ho-hum",
"humdrum",
"jading",
"jejune",
"leaden",
"mind-numbing",
"monochromatic",
"monotonous",
"numbing",
"old",
"pedestrian",
"ponderous",
"slow",
"stale",
"stodgy",
"stuffy",
"stupid",
"tame",
"tedious",
"tiresome",
"tiring",
"uninteresting",
"wearisome",
"weary",
"wearying"
],
"near synonyms":[
"aseptic",
"barren",
"blah",
"dullish",
"pleasureless",
"prosaic",
"prosy",
"soggy",
"spiritless",
"blank",
"earthbound",
"gray",
"grey",
"inanimate",
"pallid",
"pedantic",
"sterile",
"suspenseless",
"undramatic",
"uneventful",
"unexciting",
"unimaginative",
"uninspiring",
"unnewsworthy",
"unrewarding",
"unsensational",
"unspectacular",
"annoying",
"bothersome",
"irksome",
"irritating",
"longsome",
"palling",
"draining",
"enervating",
"exhausting",
"fatiguing",
"wearing",
"debilitating",
"enfeebling",
"demoralizing",
"discouraging",
"disheartening",
"dispiriting",
"common",
"commonplace",
"ordinary",
"tepid",
"unexceptional",
"unsurprising",
"vapid",
"cumbersome",
"lumbering",
"plodding",
"poky",
"pokey"
],
"near antonyms":[
"amazing",
"astonishing",
"astounding",
"awesome",
"eye-opening",
"fabulous",
"marvelous",
"marvellous",
"sensational",
"spectacular",
"surprising",
"wonderful",
"wondrous",
"animating",
"breathtaking",
"electrifying",
"energizing",
"enlivening",
"exciting",
"exhilarating",
"galvanizing",
"hair-raising",
"inspiring",
"invigorating",
"rip-roaring",
"rousing",
"stimulating",
"stirring",
"thrilling",
"amusing",
"diverting",
"entertaining",
"moving",
"poignant",
"touching",
"alluring",
"attracting",
"attractive",
"beguiling",
"bewitching",
"captivating",
"charming",
"enchanting",
"enthralling",
"entrancing",
"fascinating",
"mesmerizing",
"spellbinding",
"suspenseful",
"arresting",
"provocative",
"tantalizing"
],
"antonyms":[
"absorbing",
"engaging",
"engrossing",
"gripping",
"interesting",
"intriguing",
"involving",
"riveting"
]
},
"to make a hole or series of holes in":{
"examples":[
"some woodpecker bored holes in our tree in the backyard"
],
"synonyms":[
"drilling",
"holing",
"perforating",
"piercing",
"punching",
"puncturing",
"riddling"
],
"near synonyms":[
"broaching",
"tapping",
"poking",
"pricking",
"prickling",
"penetrating",
"burrowing (into)",
"excavating",
"gouging",
"grooving",
"hollowing",
"breaking",
"cutting",
"gashing",
"notching",
"rending",
"rupturing",
"slashing",
"slitting",
"splitting"
],
"near antonyms":[
"filling",
"patching",
"plugging",
"sealing"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to force one's way":{
"examples":[
"with some effort, she bored through the throng of yelling protestors"
],
"synonyms":[
"bulldozing",
"bulling",
"crashing",
"elbowing",
"jamming",
"jostling",
"muscling",
"pressing",
"pushing",
"shouldering",
"squeezing"
],
"near synonyms":[
"ramming",
"shoving",
"thrusting"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to make weary and restless by being dull or monotonous":{
"examples":[
"the professor's lifeless and unimaginative teaching style bored the students to death"
],
"synonyms":[
"jading",
"tiring",
"wearying"
],
"near synonyms":[
"palling",
"burning out",
"doing in",
"draining",
"enervating",
"exhausting",
"fagging",
"fatiguing",
"tuckering (out)",
"washing out",
"wearing",
"wearing out",
"debilitating",
"disabling",
"enfeebling",
"dejecting",
"demoralizing",
"discouraging",
"disheartening",
"dispiriting"
],
"near antonyms":[
"activating",
"animating",
"energizing",
"enlivening",
"exciting",
"galvanizing",
"invigorating",
"stimulating",
"strengthening",
"vitalizing",
"amusing",
"entertaining",
"alluring",
"attracting",
"beguiling",
"bewitching",
"captivating",
"charming",
"enchanting",
"hypnotizing",
"mesmerizing",
"monopolizing",
"preoccupying",
"busying",
"immersing",
"involving",
"occupying",
"pumping up",
"rallying",
"rousing",
"stirring"
],
"antonyms":[
"absorbing",
"busying",
"engaging",
"engrossing",
"enthralling",
"fascinating",
"gripping",
"interesting",
"intriguing"
]
},
"type":[
"adjective",
"verb"
]
},
"bossiness":{
"as in high-handedness , dominance":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"authoritativeness",
"bowwow",
"brag",
"dominance",
"high-handedness",
"arrogance",
"assumption",
"bumptiousness",
"consequence",
"haughtiness",
"hauteur",
"high horse",
"huffiness",
"imperiousness",
"loftiness",
"lordliness",
"masterfulness",
"peremptoriness",
"pomposity",
"pompousness",
"presumptuousness",
"pretense",
"pretence",
"pretension",
"pretentiousness",
"self-consequence",
"self-importance",
"superciliousness",
"superiority",
"toploftiness",
"condescension",
"disdain",
"scorn",
"chest-thumping",
"inflation",
"self-assertion",
"side",
"snobbery",
"snobbishness",
"snobbism",
"snootiness",
"attitude",
"cheek",
"cheekiness",
"impertinence",
"impudence",
"sauciness",
"boastfulness",
"bombast",
"braggadocio",
"bravado",
"strut",
"swagger",
"triumphalism",
"vaingloriousness",
"vainglory",
"cockiness",
"complacence",
"conceit",
"egoism",
"egotism",
"pride",
"pridefulness",
"self-assumption",
"self-centeredness",
"self-complacency",
"self-conceit",
"self-content",
"self-contentment",
"self-opinion",
"self-partiality",
"self-satisfaction",
"smugness",
"swelled head",
"vanity",
"superiority complex"
],
"near antonyms":[
"humility",
"modesty",
"unassumingness",
"unpretentiousness",
"bashfulness",
"demureness",
"retiringness",
"shyness",
"diffidence",
"self-distrust",
"self-doubt",
"timidity",
"timidness",
"lowliness",
"meekness",
"mousiness",
"passiveness",
"passivity",
"submissiveness",
"quietness",
"reserve",
"reservedness"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"boss":{
"the person (as an employer or supervisor) who tells people and especially workers what to do":{
"examples":[
"every morning the boss hands out a list of top-priority tasks"
],
"synonyms":[
"boss man",
"captain",
"chief",
"foreman",
"head",
"headman",
"helmsman",
"honcho",
"jefe",
"kingpin",
"leader",
"master",
"taskmaster"
],
"near synonyms":[
"directress",
"mistress",
"administrator",
"commander",
"director",
"executive",
"general",
"governor",
"hierarch",
"higher-up",
"leadman",
"manager",
"overseer",
"principal",
"skipper",
"standard-bearer",
"steward",
"straw boss",
"superintendent",
"superior",
"supervisor",
"dominator",
"lord",
"overlord",
"potentate",
"ruler",
"sovereign",
"sovran",
"figurehead",
"baron",
"czar",
"tsar",
"tzar",
"king",
"magnate",
"mogul",
"president",
"prince",
"big cheese",
"big gun",
"bigwig",
"top dog",
"top gun",
"cohead",
"coleader",
"employer",
"gaffer",
"ganger",
"micromanager",
"subchief",
"subdirector"
],
"near antonyms":[
"dependent",
"inferior",
"junior",
"secondary",
"subject",
"subordinate",
"underling"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"of the very best kind":{
"examples":[
"that's a really boss stereo you've got"
],
"synonyms":[
"A-OK",
"A1",
"awesome",
"bang-up",
"banner",
"beautiful",
"blue-chip",
"blue-ribbon",
"boffo",
"bonny",
"bonnie",
"brag",
"brave",
"bully",
"bumper",
"capital",
"choice",
"classic",
"cool",
"corking",
"crackerjack",
"cracking",
"dandy",
"divine",
"dope",
"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"
],
"near synonyms":[
"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"
],
"near antonyms":[
"bad",
"inferior",
"low-grade",
"substandard",
"unsatisfactory",
"mediocre",
"middling",
"second-class",
"second-rate"
],
"antonyms":[
"atrocious",
"awful",
"execrable",
"lousy",
"pathetic",
"poor",
"rotten",
"terrible",
"vile",
"wretched"
]
},
"to be in charge of":{
"examples":[
"she bossed that project for years, until she was promoted again"
],
"synonyms":[
"captain",
"handle",
"head",
"overlook",
"oversee",
"quarterback",
"superintend",
"supervise"
],
"near synonyms":[
"administer",
"command",
"control",
"direct",
"guide",
"manage",
"order",
"run",
"shepherd",
"show",
"steer",
"monitor",
"preside (over)",
"govern",
"reign",
"rule"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to exercise authority or power over":{
"examples":[
"bossed the entire job site for a year"
],
"synonyms":[
"captain",
"command",
"control",
"govern",
"preside (over)",
"rule",
"sway"
],
"near synonyms":[
"conduct",
"direct",
"head",
"lead",
"administer",
"manage",
"micromanage",
"oversee",
"regulate",
"superintend",
"supervise",
"dictate",
"dominate",
"domineer",
"lord (it over)",
"master",
"oppress",
"reign (over)",
"tyrannize",
"conquer",
"subdue",
"subjugate"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to serve as leader of":{
"examples":[
"bossed the entire gang of electricians on the construction project"
],
"synonyms":[
"captain",
"command",
"head",
"lead",
"spearhead"
],
"near synonyms":[
"control",
"dominate",
"direct",
"govern",
"handle",
"manage",
"oversee",
"regulate",
"run",
"superintend",
"supervise"
],
"near antonyms":[
"bow (to)",
"comply (with)",
"defer (to)",
"follow",
"obey",
"serve",
"submit (to)",
"yield (to)"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"adjective",
"noun",
"verb"
]
},
"bobbled":{
"to make or do (something) in a clumsy or unskillful way":{
"examples":[
"the first baseman bobbled the catch, so the runner was safe"
],
"synonyms":[
"blew",
"boggled",
"bollixed (up)",
"booted",
"botched",
"buggered (up)",
"bumbled",
"bungled",
"butchered",
"dubbed",
"flubbed",
"fluffed",
"foozled",
"fouled up",
"fumbled",
"goofed (up)",
"loused up",
"mangled",
"messed (up)",
"mucked up",
"muffed",
"murdered",
"screwed up"
],
"near synonyms":[
"blundered",
"gummed (up)",
"muddled",
"piffled",
"blemished",
"blighted",
"damaged",
"flawed",
"harmed",
"hurt",
"impaired",
"injured",
"marred",
"mutilated",
"ruined",
"spoiled",
"spoilt",
"vitiated",
"destroyed",
"wrecked",
"mishandled",
"mismanaged"
],
"near antonyms":[
"ameliorated",
"bettered",
"enhanced",
"helped",
"improved",
"meliorated",
"rectified",
"refined",
"reformed",
"remedied",
"doctored",
"fixed",
"patched",
"reconditioned",
"renovated",
"repaired",
"revamped"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to make short up-and-down movements":{
"examples":[
"the little doll's head bobbled when you poked it"
],
"synonyms":[
"bobbed",
"jogged",
"jounced",
"nodded",
"pumped",
"seesawed",
"wagged"
],
"near synonyms":[
"jerked",
"jiggled",
"shook",
"wiggled",
"wobbled",
"wabbled",
"oscillated",
"rocked",
"swayed",
"swung",
"undulated",
"dropped",
"ducked"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"boxcar":{
"of a size greater than average of its kind":{
"examples":[
"a boxcar pile of paper",
"boxcar amounts of money"
],
"synonyms":[
"big",
"biggish",
"bulky",
"considerable",
"goodly",
"grand",
"great",
"handsome",
"hefty",
"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"
]
},
"type":[
"adjective"
]
}
}
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