dict_dl/en_MW_thesaurus/co_mwt.json
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{
"co-counsels":{
"as in counselors-at-law , trial lawyers":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[],
"near antonyms":[],
"related":[],
"synonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"co-directed":{
"as in comanaged":{
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"examples":[],
"near antonyms":[],
"related":[],
"synonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"co-financing":{
"as in":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[],
"near antonyms":[],
"related":[],
"synonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"co-opt":{
"to make a part of a body or system":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"the national organization co-opted many formerly independent local groups"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"related":[
"amalgamate",
"blend",
"combine",
"commingle",
"fuse",
"intermingle",
"merge",
"mingle",
"acculturate",
"accustom",
"condition",
"enculturate",
"habituate",
"naturalize"
],
"synonyms":[
"absorb",
"assimilate",
"embody",
"incorporate",
"integrate"
]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"coached":{
"to give advice and instruction to (someone) regarding the course or process to be followed":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"carefully coached her through the home-buying process"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"related":[
"godfathered",
"directed",
"engineered",
"steered",
"swayed",
"accompanied",
"attended",
"chaperoned",
"convoyed",
"escorted",
"saw",
"squired",
"oversaw",
"superintended",
"supervised",
"drilled",
"trained",
"briefed",
"enlightened",
"informed",
"instructed",
"schooled",
"taught",
"inculcated",
"indoctrinated",
"cultivated",
"fostered",
"nurtured"
],
"synonyms":[
"counseled",
"counselled",
"guided",
"led",
"mentored",
"piloted",
"shepherded",
"showed",
"tutored"
]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"coaches":{
"a person who trains performers or athletes":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"a coach who is highly respected by all of the baseball players"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"related":[
"handlers",
"managers",
"instructors",
"teachers",
"tutors",
"drillers",
"drillmasters",
"advisers",
"advisors",
"ciceroni",
"counselors",
"counsellors",
"guides",
"mentors"
],
"synonyms":[
"trainers"
]
},
"to give advice and instruction to (someone) regarding the course or process to be followed":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"carefully coached her through the home-buying process"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"related":[
"godfathers",
"directs",
"engineers",
"steers",
"sways",
"accompanies",
"attends",
"chaperones",
"chaperons",
"convoys",
"escorts",
"sees",
"squires",
"oversees",
"superintends",
"supervises",
"drills",
"trains",
"briefs",
"enlightens",
"informs",
"instructs",
"schools",
"teaches",
"inculcates",
"indoctrinates",
"cultivates",
"fosters",
"nurtures"
],
"synonyms":[
"counsels",
"guides",
"leads",
"mentors",
"pilots",
"shepherds",
"shows",
"tutors"
]
},
"type":[
"noun",
"verb"
]
},
"coaching":{
"as in preparation , conditioning":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[],
"near antonyms":[],
"related":[],
"synonyms":[]
},
"to give advice and instruction to (someone) regarding the course or process to be followed":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"carefully coached her through the home-buying process"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"related":[
"godfathering",
"directing",
"engineering",
"steering",
"swaying",
"accompanying",
"attending",
"chaperoning",
"convoying",
"escorting",
"seeing",
"squiring",
"overseeing",
"superintending",
"supervising",
"drilling",
"training",
"briefing",
"enlightening",
"informing",
"instructing",
"schooling",
"teaching",
"inculcating",
"indoctrinating",
"cultivating",
"fostering",
"nurturing"
],
"synonyms":[
"counseling",
"counselling",
"guiding",
"leading",
"mentoring",
"piloting",
"shepherding",
"showing",
"tutoring"
]
},
"type":[
"noun",
"verb"
]
},
"coalescence":{
"as in intermingling , agglomeration":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[],
"near antonyms":[],
"related":[],
"synonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"coalescing":{
"as in":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[],
"near antonyms":[],
"related":[],
"synonyms":[]
},
"to come together to form a single unit":{
"antonyms":[
"breaking up",
"dissevering",
"parting",
"sectioning",
"separating",
"severing",
"splitting",
"sundering",
"unlinking"
],
"examples":[
"several small townships have coalesced into a single metropolis"
],
"near antonyms":[
"detaching",
"disaffiliating",
"disconnecting",
"disjoining",
"disjointing",
"dissociating",
"disuniting",
"dividing",
"divorcing",
"fractionating",
"isolating",
"resolving",
"uncoupling",
"unyoking",
"disbanding",
"dispersing",
"scattering"
],
"related":[
"mating",
"yoking",
"allying",
"confederating",
"leaguing",
"chaining",
"compounding",
"hitching",
"hooking",
"splicing",
"assembling",
"clustering",
"congregating",
"constellating",
"convening",
"gathering",
"meeting",
"recombining",
"reconnecting",
"rejoining",
"reunifying",
"reuniting"
],
"synonyms":[
"associating",
"combining",
"conjoining",
"conjugating",
"connecting",
"coupling",
"fusing",
"interfusing",
"joining",
"linking (up)",
"marrying",
"unifying",
"uniting"
]
},
"to form or enter into an association that furthers the interests of its members":{
"antonyms":[
"breaking up",
"disbanding"
],
"examples":[
"the historic preservation movement gained momentum when the two groups coalesced"
],
"near antonyms":[
"detaching",
"disengaging",
"dissolving",
"disuniting",
"divorcing",
"parting",
"segregating",
"separating",
"severing",
"splitting",
"sundering",
"alienating",
"estranging",
"falling out"
],
"related":[
"caballing",
"collaborating",
"ganging up",
"hanging together",
"teaming (up)",
"incorporating",
"organizing",
"unionizing",
"affiliating",
"amalgamating",
"combining",
"conglomerating",
"consolidating",
"converging",
"grouping",
"joining",
"merging",
"knotting",
"linking",
"tying",
"tieing",
"wedding"
],
"synonyms":[
"allying",
"associating",
"banding (together)",
"clubbing",
"cohering",
"confederating",
"conjoining",
"cooperating",
"federating",
"leaguing",
"uniting"
]
},
"type":[
"noun",
"verb"
]
},
"coalition":{
"a group of people acting together within a larger group":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"rival coalitions struggling for control of the party"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"related":[
"splinter",
"split",
"crew",
"gang",
"pack",
"team",
"denomination",
"persuasion",
"schism",
"scission",
"caucus",
"movement"
],
"synonyms":[
"bloc",
"block",
"body",
"faction",
"party",
"sect",
"set",
"side",
"wing"
]
},
"an association of persons, parties, or states for mutual assistance and protection":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"preservationists formed a coalition with the theater owners to preserve these historic structures"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"related":[
"cabal",
"conspiracy",
"junto",
"cartel",
"syndicate",
"trust",
"faction",
"front",
"fusion",
"side",
"wing",
"association",
"group",
"organization",
"affiliation",
"cooperative",
"partnership",
"circuit",
"conference"
],
"synonyms":[
"alliance",
"axis",
"bloc",
"block",
"combination",
"combine",
"confederacy",
"confederation",
"federation",
"league",
"union"
]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"coarse-grained":{
"as in broad , salty":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[],
"near antonyms":[],
"related":[],
"synonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"adjective"
]
},
"coarseness":{
"the quality or state of being obscene":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"the coarseness of the movie's humor makes it unsuitable for children"
],
"near antonyms":[
"priggery",
"priggishness",
"primness",
"prudery",
"prudishness",
"puritanism",
"correctness",
"decency",
"decorousness",
"decorum",
"seemliness",
"appropriateness",
"fitness",
"suitability",
"suitableness",
"perfection",
"purity",
"spotlessness"
],
"related":[
"broadness",
"earthiness",
"gaminess",
"raciness",
"saltiness",
"suggestiveness",
"immodesty",
"indecorousness",
"indelicacy",
"indelicateness",
"lowness",
"unbecomingness",
"lechery",
"depravedness",
"depravity",
"kinkiness",
"naughtiness",
"perverseness",
"perversion",
"perversity",
"pervertedness",
"wickedness",
"exceptionability",
"objectionableness",
"unacceptability",
"undesirability",
"reprehensibility",
"reprehensibleness",
"abusiveness",
"scurrilousness",
"atrociousness",
"atrocity",
"infamy",
"loathsomeness",
"offensiveness",
"repellency",
"repugnance",
"repulsiveness",
"distastefulness",
"obnoxiousness",
"unpleasantness"
],
"synonyms":[
"bawdiness",
"blueness",
"crudeness",
"crudity",
"dirt",
"dirtiness",
"filth",
"filthiness",
"foulness",
"grossness",
"impureness",
"impurity",
"indecency",
"lasciviousness",
"lewdness",
"nastiness",
"obscenity",
"profanity",
"raunch",
"raunchiness",
"ribaldry",
"smut",
"smuttiness",
"vulgarity",
"wantonness"
]
},
"the quality or state of lacking refinement or good taste":{
"antonyms":[
"cultivation",
"genteelness",
"gentility",
"polish",
"refinement",
"tastefulness"
],
"examples":[
"there was a coarseness about her that really bothered her boyfriend's well-bred friends"
],
"near antonyms":[
"courtliness",
"urbanity",
"elegance",
"grace",
"graciousness",
"consideration",
"sensitivity",
"thoughtfulness"
],
"related":[
"boorishness",
"brutishness",
"churlishness",
"clownishness",
"loutishness",
"rowdiness",
"rusticity",
"uncouthness",
"artlessness",
"gracelessness",
"inelegance",
"unsophistication",
"insensitiveness",
"insensitivity",
"thoughtlessness",
"kitsch",
"tackiness"
],
"synonyms":[
"commonness",
"crassness",
"crudeness",
"crudity",
"grossness",
"indelicacy",
"indelicateness",
"lowness",
"raffishness",
"rawness",
"roughness",
"rudeness",
"tastelessness",
"vulgarity"
]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"coaster":{
"as in cruiser , tanker":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[],
"near antonyms":[],
"related":[],
"synonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"coats":{
"the hairy covering of a mammal especially when fine, soft, and thick":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"a poodle's coat is often extremely curly"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"related":[
"undercoats",
"underfurs",
"hides",
"leathers",
"pelts",
"skins"
],
"synonyms":[
"fleeces",
"furs",
"hairs",
"jackets",
"pelages",
"piles",
"wools"
]
},
"to form a layer over":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"thicken the sauce until it will coat the back of a spoon"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"related":[
"encloses",
"incloses",
"enrobes",
"enshrouds",
"enswathes",
"envelops",
"enwraps",
"mantles",
"shawls",
"shrouds",
"swathes",
"wraps",
"cloaks",
"clothes",
"curtains",
"veils",
"circles",
"encircles",
"encompasses"
],
"synonyms":[
"blankets",
"carpets",
"covers",
"overlays",
"overlies",
"overspreads",
"sheets"
]
},
"type":[
"noun",
"verb"
]
},
"coaxed":{
"to get (someone) to do something by gentle urging, special attention, or flattery":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"trying to coax their father into taking them on a ski trip, the teens mentioned what a great skier he is"
],
"near antonyms":[
"bugged",
"harassed",
"nagged",
"pestered",
"teased",
"browbeat",
"bulldozed",
"bullied",
"cowed",
"intimidated",
"coerced",
"compelled",
"constrained",
"demanded",
"forced",
"made",
"obliged",
"required"
],
"related":[
"adulated",
"flattered",
"overpraised",
"buttered up",
"charmed",
"massaged",
"wooed",
"begged",
"beseeched",
"besought",
"importuned",
"urged",
"beguiled",
"cozened",
"finagled",
"juggled",
"wangled",
"wiled",
"enticed",
"lured",
"seduced",
"tempted"
],
"synonyms":[
"blandished",
"blarneyed",
"cajoled",
"palavered",
"soft-soaped",
"sweet-talked",
"wheedled"
]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"coaxed (out)":{
"as in":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[],
"near antonyms":[],
"related":[],
"synonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"coaxing":{
"as in":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[],
"near antonyms":[],
"related":[],
"synonyms":[]
},
"to get (someone) to do something by gentle urging, special attention, or flattery":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"trying to coax their father into taking them on a ski trip, the teens mentioned what a great skier he is"
],
"near antonyms":[
"bugging",
"harassing",
"nagging",
"pestering",
"teasing",
"browbeating",
"bulldozing",
"bullying",
"cowing",
"intimidating",
"coercing",
"compelling",
"constraining",
"demanding",
"forcing",
"making",
"obliging",
"requiring"
],
"related":[
"adulating",
"flattering",
"overpraising",
"buttering up",
"charming",
"massaging",
"wooing",
"begging",
"beseeching",
"importuning",
"urging",
"beguiling",
"cozening",
"finagling",
"juggling",
"wangling",
"wiling",
"enticing",
"luring",
"seducing",
"tempting"
],
"synonyms":[
"blandishing",
"blarneying",
"cajoling",
"palavering",
"soft-soaping",
"sweet-talking",
"wheedling"
]
},
"type":[
"noun",
"verb"
]
},
"cobble (together":{
"to make or assemble roughly or hastily":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[],
"near antonyms":[
"craft",
"handcraft",
"fashion",
"forge",
"hammer out",
"pound (out)"
],
"related":[
"dash (off)",
"jerry-build"
],
"synonyms":[
"jury-rig",
"patch (together)",
"throw up"
]
},
"type":[]
},
"cobbled (together or up)":{
"to make or assemble roughly or hastily":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[],
"near antonyms":[
"crafted",
"handcrafted",
"fashioned",
"forged",
"hammered out",
"pounded (out)"
],
"related":[
"dashed (off)",
"jerry-built"
],
"synonyms":[
"jury-rigged",
"patched (together)",
"threw up"
]
},
"type":[]
},
"cobwebs":{
"as in spiderwebs":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[],
"near antonyms":[],
"related":[],
"synonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"cocker":{
"to treat with great or excessive care":{
"antonyms":[
"abuse",
"ill-treat",
"ill-use",
"maltreat",
"manhandle",
"mishandle",
"mistreat",
"misuse"
],
"examples":[
"overjoyed to be parents at last, they will likely cocker that child shamelessly"
],
"near antonyms":[
"control",
"discipline",
"restrain",
"oppress",
"neglect",
"overlook",
"slight",
"molest",
"outrage",
"violate",
"harass",
"harm",
"hurt",
"injure",
"oppress",
"persecute",
"torment",
"torture",
"victimize"
],
"related":[
"cater (to)",
"humor",
"content",
"delight",
"gladden",
"gratify",
"mother",
"oblige",
"please",
"satisfy",
"appease",
"mollify",
"pacify",
"placate",
"soothe"
],
"synonyms":[
"baby",
"coddle",
"cosset",
"dandle",
"indulge",
"mollycoddle",
"nurse",
"pamper",
"spoil",
"wet-nurse"
]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"cockered":{
"to treat with great or excessive care":{
"antonyms":[
"abused",
"ill-treated",
"ill-used",
"maltreated",
"manhandled",
"mishandled",
"mistreated",
"misused"
],
"examples":[
"overjoyed to be parents at last, they will likely cocker that child shamelessly"
],
"near antonyms":[
"controlled",
"disciplined",
"restrained",
"oppressed",
"neglected",
"overlooked",
"slighted",
"molested",
"outraged",
"violated",
"harassed",
"harmed",
"hurt",
"injured",
"oppressed",
"persecuted",
"tormented",
"tortured",
"victimized"
],
"related":[
"catered (to)",
"humored",
"contented",
"delighted",
"gladdened",
"gratified",
"mothered",
"obliged",
"pleased",
"satisfied",
"appeased",
"mollified",
"pacified",
"placated",
"soothed"
],
"synonyms":[
"babied",
"coddled",
"cosseted",
"dandled",
"indulged",
"mollycoddled",
"nursed",
"pampered",
"spoiled",
"spoilt",
"wet-nursed"
]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"cockering":{
"to treat with great or excessive care":{
"antonyms":[
"abusing",
"ill-treating",
"ill-using",
"maltreating",
"manhandling",
"mishandling",
"mistreating",
"misusing"
],
"examples":[
"overjoyed to be parents at last, they will likely cocker that child shamelessly"
],
"near antonyms":[
"controlling",
"disciplining",
"restraining",
"oppressing",
"neglecting",
"overlooking",
"slighting",
"molesting",
"outraging",
"violating",
"harassing",
"harming",
"hurting",
"injuring",
"oppressing",
"persecuting",
"tormenting",
"torturing",
"victimizing"
],
"related":[
"catering (to)",
"humoring",
"contenting",
"delighting",
"gladdening",
"gratifying",
"mothering",
"obliging",
"pleasing",
"satisfying",
"appeasing",
"mollifying",
"pacifying",
"placating",
"soothing"
],
"synonyms":[
"babying",
"coddling",
"cosseting",
"dandling",
"indulging",
"mollycoddling",
"nursing",
"pampering",
"spoiling",
"wet-nursing"
]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"cockleshells":{
"as in":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[],
"near antonyms":[],
"related":[],
"synonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"cocksure":{
"displaying or marked by rude boldness":{
"antonyms":[
"meek",
"mousy",
"mousey",
"retiring",
"shy",
"timid"
],
"examples":[
"his cocksure assertion that only he could solve the problem"
],
"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",
"bold-faced",
"brash",
"brassbound",
"brassy",
"brazen",
"brazen-faced",
"cheeky",
"cocky",
"fresh",
"impertinent",
"impudent",
"insolent",
"nervy",
"sassy",
"saucy",
"wise"
]
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"doubtful",
"dubious",
"uncertain",
"unsure"
],
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"you're always so cocksure about everything"
],
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"hesitant",
"indecisive",
"vacillating",
"wavering",
"diffident",
"unassuming"
],
"related":[
"self-assured",
"self-conceited",
"self-confident",
"decisive",
"resolute",
"unfaltering",
"unhesitating",
"unquestioning",
"unwavering"
],
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"assured",
"certain",
"clear",
"confident",
"doubtless",
"implicit",
"positive",
"sanguine",
"sure"
]
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"type":[
"adjective"
]
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"examples":[
"an autopsy found a lethal cocktail of banned substances in the actor's body"
],
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"component",
"constituent",
"element",
"ingredient"
],
"related":[
"half-and-half",
"absorption",
"blending",
"coalescence",
"coalition",
"commingling",
"commixture",
"compost",
"concretion",
"homogenization",
"immingling",
"immixture",
"incorporation",
"integration",
"interfusion",
"intermingling",
"mergence",
"merger",
"merging",
"mingling",
"assortment",
"hash",
"hodgepodge",
"hotchpotch",
"jumble",
"medley",
"m\u00e9lange",
"mishmash",
"motley",
"patchwork",
"potpourri",
"variety",
"accumulation",
"aggregation",
"conglomeration"
],
"synonyms":[
"admixture",
"alloy",
"amalgam",
"amalgamation",
"blend",
"combination",
"composite",
"compound",
"conflation",
"emulsion",
"fusion",
"intermixture",
"meld",
"mix",
"mixture",
"synthesis"
]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
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"as in":{
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"type":[
"noun"
]
},
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"as in":{
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"type":[
"adjective"
]
},
"coddles":{
"to cook in a liquid heated to the point that it gives off steam":{
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"examples":[
"a hearty, traditional breakfast that included coddled eggs"
],
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"related":[
"scalds",
"braises",
"fricassees",
"pressure-cooks",
"smothers",
"steams",
"reboils"
],
"synonyms":[
"boils",
"parboils",
"poaches",
"simmers",
"stews"
]
},
"to treat with great or excessive care":{
"antonyms":[
"abuses",
"ill-treats",
"ill-uses",
"maltreats",
"manhandles",
"mishandles",
"mistreats",
"misuses"
],
"examples":[
"accused the judiciary of coddling criminals"
],
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"controls",
"disciplines",
"restrains",
"oppresses",
"neglects",
"overlooks",
"slights",
"molests",
"outrages",
"violates",
"harasses",
"harms",
"hurts",
"injures",
"oppresses",
"persecutes",
"torments",
"tortures",
"victimizes"
],
"related":[
"caters (to)",
"humors",
"contents",
"delights",
"gladdens",
"gratifies",
"mothers",
"obliges",
"pleases",
"satisfies",
"appeases",
"mollifies",
"pacifies",
"placates",
"soothes"
],
"synonyms":[
"babies",
"cockers",
"cossets",
"dandles",
"indulges",
"mollycoddles",
"nurses",
"pampers",
"spoils",
"wet-nurses"
]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"code":{
"a collection or system of rules of conduct":{
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"examples":[
"Hammurabi was an ancient king of Babylon with a famous code of laws",
"the tax code"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"related":[
"discipline",
"establishment",
"common law",
"legislation"
],
"synonyms":[
"canon",
"constitution",
"decalogue",
"law"
]
},
"as in encrypt , encode":{
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"examples":[],
"near antonyms":[],
"related":[],
"synonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun",
"verb"
]
},
"code-name":{
"as in nickname":{
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"examples":[],
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"related":[],
"synonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"codifies":{
"to arrange or assign according to type":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"codify these ancient cultures according to their political structures"
],
"near antonyms":[
"confuses",
"disarranges",
"jumbles",
"lumps",
"mixes (up)",
"scrambles",
"misclassifies",
"missorts",
"mistypes"
],
"related":[
"arrays",
"disposes",
"draws up",
"marshals",
"marshalls",
"orders",
"organizes",
"systematizes",
"alphabetizes",
"catalogs",
"catalogues",
"files",
"indexes",
"lists",
"refers",
"pigeonholes",
"shelves",
"identifies",
"recognizes",
"culls",
"screens",
"sets",
"sieves",
"sifts",
"winnows",
"clumps",
"clusters",
"colligates",
"recategorizes",
"reclassifies",
"regroups",
"subcategorizes"
],
"synonyms":[
"assorts",
"breaks down",
"categorizes",
"classes",
"classifies",
"compartmentalizes",
"compartments",
"digests",
"distinguishes",
"distributes",
"grades",
"groups",
"pegs",
"places",
"ranges",
"ranks",
"relegates",
"separates",
"sorts",
"types"
]
},
"to put into a particular arrangement":{
"antonyms":[
"deranges",
"disarranges",
"disarrays",
"disorders",
"messes (up)",
"musses (up)",
"rumples",
"upsets"
],
"examples":[
"the rules for the game were codified over a hundred years ago"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"related":[
"grooms",
"makes up",
"spruces (up)",
"straightens (up)",
"tidies (up)",
"unscrambles",
"aligns",
"alines",
"cues",
"lines",
"lines up",
"queues",
"alphabetizes",
"files",
"hierarchizes",
"prioritizes",
"sequences",
"emplaces",
"places",
"sets",
"displays",
"maps (out)",
"sets out"
],
"synonyms":[
"arranges",
"arrays",
"classifies",
"disposes",
"draws up",
"lays out",
"marshals",
"marshalls",
"orders",
"organizes",
"ranges",
"systematizes"
]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"codirected":{
"as in comanaged":{
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"examples":[],
"near antonyms":[],
"related":[],
"synonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"codirection":{
"as in comanagement , coadministration":{
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"examples":[],
"near antonyms":[],
"related":[],
"synonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"codirections":{
"as in coadministrations":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[],
"near antonyms":[],
"related":[],
"synonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"codriver":{
"as in driver , motorist":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[],
"near antonyms":[],
"related":[],
"synonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"coerces":{
"to cause (a person) to give in to pressure":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"was coerced into signing the document"
],
"near antonyms":[
"allows",
"lets",
"permits",
"argues",
"convinces",
"induces",
"moves",
"persuades",
"prevails (on or upon)",
"satisfies",
"talks (into)",
"wins (over)"
],
"related":[
"browbeats",
"bulldozes",
"bullies",
"cows",
"hectors",
"intimidates",
"blackmails",
"high-pressures",
"menaces",
"shames",
"terrorizes",
"threatens",
"drags",
"badgers",
"harasses",
"hounds"
],
"synonyms":[
"blackjacks",
"compels",
"constrains",
"dragoons",
"drives",
"forces",
"impels",
"impresses",
"makes",
"muscles",
"obligates",
"obliges",
"presses",
"pressures",
"sandbags"
]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"coercion":{
"the use of power to impose one's will on another":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"a promise obtained by coercion is never binding"
],
"near antonyms":[
"agreement",
"approval",
"consent",
"permission",
"convincing",
"persuasion",
"reason",
"suasion"
],
"related":[
"browbeating",
"bulldozing",
"bullying",
"fear",
"intimidation",
"menace",
"sword",
"terror",
"terrorism",
"threat",
"violence",
"squeeze",
"squeeze play",
"might",
"muscle",
"potency",
"puissance",
"strength",
"hardheadedness",
"self-will",
"willfulness",
"strain",
"stress"
],
"synonyms":[
"arm-twisting",
"compulsion",
"constraint",
"duress",
"force",
"pressure"
]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"coffers":{
"as in holds , keeps":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[],
"near antonyms":[],
"related":[],
"synonyms":[]
},
"available money":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"let me see what's in the household coffers and I'll get back to you about making a donation"
],
"near antonyms":[
"debts",
"liabilities",
"indebtedness"
],
"related":[
"shirt",
"bread",
"cash",
"chips",
"currency",
"dough",
"gold",
"jack",
"legal tender",
"lucre",
"pelf",
"scratch",
"tender",
"wampum",
"assets",
"capital",
"deep pockets",
"fortune",
"means",
"opulence",
"riches",
"roll",
"substance",
"wealth",
"purse",
"treasury",
"cash flow",
"financing"
],
"synonyms":[
"bankroll",
"exchequer",
"finances",
"fund",
"pocket",
"resources",
"wherewithal"
]
},
"type":[
"noun",
"verb"
]
},
"cogency":{
"the capacity to persuade":{
"antonyms":[
"inconclusiveness",
"ineffectiveness",
"ineffectuality",
"ineffectualness"
],
"examples":[
"the cogency of Thomas Paine's celebrated case for American independence"
],
"near antonyms":[
"invalidity",
"shakiness",
"unsoundness",
"feebleness",
"powerlessness",
"weakness"
],
"related":[
"impact",
"might",
"power",
"punch",
"strength",
"weight",
"believability",
"credibility",
"soundness",
"validity",
"authoritativeness",
"definitiveness",
"influence",
"sway",
"appeal",
"seductiveness"
],
"synonyms":[
"authority",
"conclusiveness",
"convincingness",
"effectiveness",
"force",
"forcefulness",
"persuasion",
"persuasiveness",
"suasiveness"
]
},
"the quality of an utterance that provokes interest and produces an effect":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"satirical comments of great cogency"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"related":[
"payoff",
"importance",
"significance",
"appeal",
"attraction",
"charm",
"fascination"
],
"synonyms":[
"effectiveness",
"force",
"forcefulness",
"impact",
"point",
"punch"
]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"cogitable":{
"as in possible , reasonable":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[],
"near antonyms":[],
"related":[],
"synonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"adjective"
]
},
"cogitated":{
"to give serious and careful thought to":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"by the time he finishes cogitating what to do with his life, it'll be almost over"
],
"near antonyms":[
"disregarded",
"ignored",
"overlooked",
"slighted",
"dismissed",
"pooh-poohed",
"poohed",
"rejected"
],
"related":[
"mused (upon)",
"reflected (on or upon)",
"reminisced",
"analyzed",
"explored",
"reviewed",
"concluded",
"reasoned",
"second-guessed",
"speculated (about)",
"brooded (about or over)",
"dwelled (on or upon)",
"dwelt (on or upon)",
"fixated (on or upon)",
"fretted (about or over)",
"obsessed (about or over)",
"believed",
"conceived",
"opined",
"absorbed",
"assimilated",
"digested",
"drank (in)"
],
"synonyms":[
"chewed over",
"considered",
"contemplated",
"debated",
"deliberated",
"entertained",
"eyed",
"kicked around",
"meditated",
"mulled (over)",
"perpended",
"pondered",
"pored (over)",
"questioned",
"revolved",
"ruminated",
"studied",
"thought (about or over)",
"turned",
"weighed",
"wrestled (with)"
]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"cognizant":{
"having specified facts or feelings actively impressed on the mind":{
"antonyms":[
"insensible",
"oblivious",
"unaware",
"unconscious",
"unmindful",
"unwitting"
],
"examples":[
"not fully cognizant of the details of the trade agreement"
],
"near antonyms":[
"careless",
"heedless",
"inattentive",
"incautious",
"mindless",
"unguarded",
"unheeding",
"unwary"
],
"related":[
"alert",
"attentive",
"careful",
"cautious",
"heedful",
"observant",
"open-eyed",
"regardful",
"safe",
"vigilant",
"wary",
"watchful",
"wide-awake",
"hyperaware",
"hyperconscious"
],
"synonyms":[
"alive",
"apprehensive",
"aware",
"conscious",
"mindful",
"sensible",
"sentient",
"ware",
"witting"
]
},
"type":[
"adjective"
]
},
"cohabitant":{
"as in coresident":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[],
"near antonyms":[],
"related":[],
"synonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"coherence":{
"a balanced, pleasing, or suitable arrangement of parts":{
"antonyms":[
"asymmetry",
"discordance",
"disproportion",
"disunity",
"imbalance",
"incoherence",
"violence"
],
"examples":[
"the house has been expanded and remodeled so many times that now it's a jumbled mess that lacks coherence"
],
"near antonyms":[
"confusion",
"disorganization",
"dissonance",
"disturbance",
"tension",
"disconnectedness",
"disjointedness",
"incompatibility",
"irregularity",
"unevenness"
],
"related":[
"coordination",
"correlation",
"correspondence",
"equalization",
"equilibrium",
"evenness",
"order",
"orderliness",
"regularity",
"uniformity"
],
"synonyms":[
"balance",
"concinnity",
"consonance",
"consonancy",
"harmony",
"orchestration",
"proportion",
"symmetry",
"symphony",
"unity"
]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"cohesiveness":{
"as in unity , cohesion":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[],
"near antonyms":[],
"related":[],
"synonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"coil":{
"a state of noisy, confused activity":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"amidst the coil of the office renovations, we even managed to get some work done"
],
"near antonyms":[
"calm",
"hush",
"peace",
"quiet",
"quietude",
"rest",
"stillness",
"tranquillity",
"tranquility",
"order",
"orderliness"
],
"related":[
"cacophony",
"clamor",
"din",
"howl",
"hue and cry",
"noise",
"outcry",
"racket",
"roar",
"disorder",
"unrest",
"upheaval",
"eruption",
"flare-up",
"flurry",
"flutter",
"outbreak",
"outburst",
"brawl",
"fracas",
"fray",
"hassle",
"melee",
"m\u00eal\u00e9e",
"scuffle",
"dither",
"fever",
"fret",
"lather",
"tizzy"
],
"synonyms":[
"ado",
"alarums and excursions",
"ballyhoo",
"blather",
"bluster",
"bobbery",
"bother",
"bustle",
"clatter",
"clutter",
"commotion",
"corroboree",
"disturbance",
"do",
"foofaraw",
"fun",
"furor",
"furore",
"fuss",
"helter-skelter",
"hoo-ha",
"hoo-hah",
"hoopla",
"hubble-bubble",
"hubbub",
"hullabaloo",
"hurly",
"hurly-burly",
"hurricane",
"hurry",
"hurry-scurry",
"hurry-skurry",
"kerfuffle",
"moil",
"pandemonium",
"pother",
"row",
"ruckus",
"ruction",
"rumpus",
"shindy",
"splore",
"squall",
"stew",
"stir",
"storm",
"to-do",
"tumult",
"turmoil",
"uproar",
"welter",
"whirl",
"williwaw",
"zoo"
]
},
"to follow a circular or spiral course":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"a vine coiling around a pillar"
],
"near antonyms":[
"straighten"
],
"related":[
"arc",
"arch",
"bend",
"crook",
"curve",
"hook",
"sweep",
"swerve",
"turn",
"veer",
"wheel",
"swirl",
"whirl",
"circle",
"encircle",
"loop",
"enlace",
"interlace",
"intertwine",
"lace",
"bow",
"bulge",
"meander",
"weave",
"zigzag"
],
"synonyms":[
"corkscrew",
"curl",
"entwine",
"spiral",
"twine",
"twist",
"wind"
]
},
"type":[
"noun",
"verb"
]
},
"coiling":{
"to follow a circular or spiral course":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"a vine coiling around a pillar"
],
"near antonyms":[
"straightening"
],
"related":[
"arching",
"arcing",
"bending",
"crooking",
"curving",
"hooking",
"sweeping",
"swerving",
"turning",
"veering",
"wheeling",
"swirling",
"whirling",
"circling",
"encircling",
"looping",
"enlacing",
"interlacing",
"intertwining",
"lacing",
"bowing",
"bulging",
"meandering",
"weaving",
"zigzagging"
],
"synonyms":[
"corkscrewing",
"curling",
"entwining",
"spiraling",
"spiralling",
"twining",
"twisting",
"winding"
]
},
"turning around an axis like the thread of a screw":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"the coiling strands of rope"
],
"near antonyms":[
"lineal",
"linear",
"right",
"straight"
],
"related":[
"circular",
"curling",
"curving",
"swirly",
"twisting"
],
"synonyms":[
"corkscrew",
"helical",
"involute",
"screwlike",
"spiral",
"winding"
]
},
"type":[
"adjective",
"verb"
]
},
"coincidental":{
"existing or occurring at the same period of time":{
"antonyms":[
"asynchronous",
"noncontemporary",
"nonsimultaneous",
"nonsynchronous"
],
"examples":[
"the nearly coincidental deaths of Princess Diana and Mother Teresa"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"related":[
"accompanying",
"attendant",
"attending",
"concomitant",
"incident"
],
"synonyms":[
"coetaneous",
"coeval",
"coexistent",
"coexisting",
"coextensive",
"coincident",
"concurrent",
"contemporaneous",
"contemporary",
"coterminous",
"simultaneous",
"synchronic",
"synchronous"
]
},
"present at the same time and place":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"claims a connection between the proliferation of fast-food restaurants and the coincidental surge in the rate of obesity"
],
"near antonyms":[
"unassociated",
"unconnected",
"unrelated"
],
"related":[
"contemporaneous",
"contemporary",
"simultaneous",
"synchronous",
"associated",
"collateral",
"connected",
"linked",
"related",
"consequent",
"resultant",
"resulting",
"ensuing",
"following",
"subsequent",
"accidental",
"casual",
"chance",
"fluky",
"flukey",
"fortuitous",
"freak",
"incident",
"incidental"
],
"synonyms":[
"accompanying",
"attendant",
"attending",
"coexistent",
"coexisting",
"coincident",
"concomitant",
"concurrent"
]
},
"type":[
"adjective"
]
},
"coincidentally":{
"at one and the same time":{
"antonyms":[
"separately"
],
"examples":[
"the final stages of the Napoleonic Wars were fought coincidentally with the U.S.-British conflict known as the War of 1812"
],
"near antonyms":[
"apart",
"independently",
"individually",
"singly",
"consecutively",
"successively"
],
"related":[
"close",
"immediately",
"narrowly",
"near"
],
"synonyms":[
"coincidently",
"concurrently",
"contemporaneously",
"simultaneously",
"together"
]
},
"type":[
"adverb"
]
},
"cold feet":{
"as in doubt , uncertainty":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[],
"near antonyms":[],
"related":[],
"synonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"cold front":{
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],
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"ostracize",
"brush (aside or off)",
"disdain",
"rebuff",
"reject",
"repel",
"repulse",
"scorn",
"spurn",
"disregard",
"forget",
"neglect",
"overlook",
"overpass",
"pass over",
"shrug off"
],
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"high-hat",
"slight",
"snub",
"stiff",
"stiff-arm"
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},
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],
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],
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"acceptance",
"embrace",
"welcome",
"glad hand",
"welcome mat"
],
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"kiss-off",
"rejection",
"banishment",
"blackball",
"ostracism"
],
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"rebuff",
"repulse",
"silent treatment",
"snub"
]
},
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"noun",
"verb"
]
},
"cold-eyed":{
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"friendly",
"sociable",
"social",
"warm"
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],
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"clubbable",
"clubable",
"clubby",
"companionable",
"convivial",
"extroverted",
"extraverted",
"gregarious",
"outgoing",
"communicative",
"expansive",
"garrulous",
"talkative",
"affable",
"folksy",
"genial",
"gracious",
"hospitable",
"agreeable",
"amiable",
"congenial",
"kindly",
"neighborly"
],
"related":[
"indrawn",
"introverted",
"nongregarious",
"recessive",
"reclusive",
"reserved",
"unsocial",
"withdrawn",
"misanthropic",
"apathetic",
"hard",
"indifferent",
"unconcerned",
"clinical",
"dispassionate",
"impersonal",
"professional",
"disinterested",
"incurious",
"uninterested",
"reticent",
"silent",
"taciturn",
"uncommunicative",
"diffident",
"shy",
"timid",
"cliquey",
"cliquish",
"clubbish"
],
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"aloof",
"antisocial",
"asocial",
"buttoned-up",
"cold",
"cool",
"detached",
"distant",
"dry",
"frosty",
"offish",
"remote",
"standoff",
"standoffish",
"unbending",
"unclubbable",
"unsociable"
]
},
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"friendly",
"genial",
"happy",
"hearty",
"sympathetic",
"warm",
"warm-blooded",
"warmhearted"
],
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"under the cold-eyed gaze of the director, I auditioned for the part"
],
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"kind",
"kindhearted",
"demonstrative",
"emotional",
"expressive",
"eager",
"enthusiastic",
"passionate"
],
"related":[
"bloodless",
"coldhearted",
"hard-hearted",
"heartless",
"kindless",
"pitiless",
"uncaring",
"unfeeling",
"reserved",
"soulless",
"undemonstrative",
"unemotional",
"unresponsive",
"apathetic",
"indifferent",
"unenthusiastic",
"uninterested",
"aloof",
"detached",
"dispassionate",
"impersonal",
"offish",
"standoffish",
"antisocial",
"unsociable",
"unsocial"
],
"synonyms":[
"antiseptic",
"arctic",
"brittle",
"chill",
"chilly",
"clammy",
"cold",
"cold-blooded",
"coldish",
"cool",
"frigid",
"frosty",
"frozen",
"gelid",
"glacial",
"hard-eyed",
"icy",
"uncordial",
"unfriendly",
"unsympathetic",
"wintry",
"wintery"
]
},
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"adjective"
]
},
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"came off",
"clicked",
"delivered",
"panned out",
"succeeded",
"went",
"went over",
"worked out"
],
"examples":[
"the legal case collapsed in the face of the opposition's evidence"
],
"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":[
"bombed",
"cratered",
"failed",
"flamed out",
"flopped",
"flunked",
"folded",
"foundered",
"missed",
"struck out",
"tanked",
"washed out"
]
},
"to fall down or in as a result of physical pressure":{
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"the motel balcony collapsed under the weight of so many people"
],
"near antonyms":[
"inflated",
"rose",
"swelled"
],
"related":[
"deflated",
"flattened",
"melted",
"melted down",
"broke",
"broke down",
"conked (out)",
"crashed",
"died",
"failed",
"gave out",
"stalled",
"burst",
"bursted",
"shattered",
"smashed",
"splintered",
"split",
"cracked",
"crumbled",
"popped",
"snapped"
],
"synonyms":[
"buckled",
"caved (in)",
"crumpled",
"foundered",
"gave",
"imploded",
"tumbled",
"went",
"went out",
"yielded"
]
},
"to reduce in size or volume by or as if by pressing parts or members together":{
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"decompressed",
"expanded",
"opened",
"outspread",
"outstretched"
],
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"the novel collapses events from four separate trips into one long odyssey"
],
"near antonyms":[
"dilated",
"dispersed",
"dissipated",
"scattered",
"distended",
"inflated",
"swelled"
],
"related":[
"crammed",
"crowded",
"jammed",
"jam-packed",
"packed",
"abbreviated",
"abridged",
"curtailed",
"shortened",
"boiled down",
"downsized",
"shrank",
"shrunk",
"concentrated",
"consolidated",
"simplified",
"streamlined",
"decreased",
"diminished",
"lessened"
],
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"capsuled",
"capsulized",
"compacted",
"compressed",
"condensed",
"constricted",
"constringed",
"contracted",
"narrowed (down)",
"squeezed",
"telescoped"
]
},
"type":[
"adjective",
"verb"
]
},
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"accomplishments",
"achievements",
"successes"
],
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"the complete collapse of the invasion set off a round of finger-pointing and recrimination"
],
"near antonyms":[
"victories",
"wins"
],
"related":[
"futilities",
"ineffectualities",
"inefficacies",
"deficiencies",
"inadequacies",
"insufficiencies",
"disappointments",
"letdowns",
"setbacks"
],
"synonyms":[
"crashes",
"croppers",
"defeats",
"failures",
"fizzles",
"nonachievements",
"nonsuccesses"
]
},
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"clicks",
"comes off",
"delivers",
"goes",
"goes over",
"pans out",
"succeeds",
"works out"
],
"examples":[
"the legal case collapsed in the face of the opposition's evidence"
],
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"cooks",
"flourishes",
"prospers",
"thrives",
"prevails",
"triumphs",
"wins"
],
"related":[
"flounders",
"struggles",
"declines",
"sinks",
"skids",
"slips",
"slumps",
"wanes",
"crashes",
"crumbles",
"miscarries",
"misfires",
"goes under",
"implodes",
"self-destructs"
],
"synonyms":[
"bombs",
"craters",
"fails",
"flames out",
"flops",
"flunks",
"folds",
"founders",
"misses",
"strikes out",
"tanks",
"washes out"
]
},
"to fall down or in as a result of physical pressure":{
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"examples":[
"the motel balcony collapsed under the weight of so many people"
],
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"inflates",
"rises",
"swells"
],
"related":[
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"flattens",
"melts",
"melts down",
"breaks",
"breaks down",
"conks (out)",
"crashes",
"dies",
"fails",
"gives out",
"stalls",
"bursts",
"shatters",
"smashes",
"splinters",
"splits",
"cracks",
"crumbles",
"pops",
"snaps"
],
"synonyms":[
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"caves (in)",
"crumples",
"founders",
"gives",
"goes",
"goes out",
"implodes",
"tumbles",
"yields"
]
},
"to reduce in size or volume by or as if by pressing parts or members together":{
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"expands",
"opens",
"outspreads",
"outstretches"
],
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],
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"disperses",
"dissipates",
"scatters",
"distends",
"inflates",
"swells"
],
"related":[
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"crowds",
"jam-packs",
"jams",
"packs",
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"abridges",
"curtails",
"shortens",
"boils down",
"downsizes",
"shrinks",
"concentrates",
"consolidates",
"simplifies",
"streamlines",
"decreases",
"diminishes",
"lessens"
],
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"capsulizes",
"compacts",
"compresses",
"condenses",
"constricts",
"constringes",
"contracts",
"narrows (down)",
"squeezes",
"telescopes"
]
},
"type":[
"noun",
"verb"
]
},
"collar":{
"an ornamental chain or string (as of beads) worn around the neck":{
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"examples":[
"a simple gold collar is all that little black cocktail dress needs"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"related":[
"torque",
"torc",
"beads",
"carcanet",
"rivi\u00e8re",
"rope",
"strand",
"bangle",
"lavaliere",
"lavalliere",
"locket",
"pendant",
"pendent"
],
"synonyms":[
"choker",
"dog collar",
"lei",
"necklace"
]
},
"the act of taking or holding under one's control by authority of law":{
"antonyms":[
"discharge"
],
"examples":[
"when the murderer was finally apprehended, the detective who doggedly checked every single lead got credit for the collar"
],
"near antonyms":[
"emancipation",
"liberation",
"release"
],
"related":[
"raid",
"house arrest",
"capture",
"entrapment",
"seizure",
"captivity",
"confinement",
"detention",
"enchainment",
"hold",
"immurement",
"imprisonment",
"incarceration",
"restraint",
"rearrest",
"remand"
],
"synonyms":[
"apprehension",
"arrest",
"arrestment",
"bust",
"pinch"
]
},
"to take or keep under one's control by authority of law":{
"antonyms":[
"discharge"
],
"examples":[
"the juvenile delinquent was collared for robbing houses"
],
"near antonyms":[
"emancipate",
"free",
"liberate",
"loose",
"loosen",
"release",
"spring",
"unbind",
"unchain"
],
"related":[
"bag",
"capture",
"catch",
"get",
"grab",
"grapple",
"hook",
"land",
"snap (up)",
"snare",
"snatch",
"trap",
"commit",
"confine",
"detain",
"hold",
"immure",
"imprison",
"incarcerate",
"intern",
"jail",
"jug",
"lock (up)",
"bind",
"enchain",
"fetter",
"handcuff",
"manacle",
"shackle",
"trammel",
"rearrest",
"remand"
],
"synonyms":[
"apprehend",
"arrest",
"bust",
"nab",
"nail",
"nick",
"pick up",
"pinch",
"pull in",
"restrain",
"run in",
"seize"
]
},
"to take physical control or possession of (something) suddenly or forcibly":{
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"miss"
],
"examples":[
"she collared the boy before he could get into the cookie jar"
],
"near antonyms":[
"discharge",
"free",
"liberate",
"release",
"drop",
"loosen",
"unhand"
],
"related":[
"glove",
"halter",
"lasso",
"rope",
"apprehend",
"arrest",
"detain",
"bay",
"corner",
"clasp",
"clutch",
"fasten (on)",
"fist",
"grasp",
"grip",
"hold",
"latch (on or onto)",
"secure",
"rend",
"wrest",
"enmesh",
"immesh",
"ensnare",
"entangle",
"entrap",
"mesh",
"abduct",
"kidnap",
"spirit (away or off)"
],
"synonyms":[
"bag",
"capture",
"catch",
"cop",
"corral",
"get",
"glom",
"grab",
"grapple",
"hook",
"land",
"nab",
"nail",
"net",
"nobble",
"rap",
"seize",
"snag",
"snap (up)",
"snare",
"snatch",
"trap"
]
},
"type":[
"noun",
"verb"
]
},
"collars":{
"an ornamental chain or string (as of beads) worn around the neck":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"a simple gold collar is all that little black cocktail dress needs"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"related":[
"torques",
"torcs",
"beads",
"carcanets",
"rivi\u00e8res",
"ropes",
"strands",
"bangles",
"lavalieres",
"lavallieres",
"lockets",
"pendants",
"pendents"
],
"synonyms":[
"chokers",
"dog collars",
"leis",
"necklaces"
]
},
"the act of taking or holding under one's control by authority of law":{
"antonyms":[
"discharges"
],
"examples":[
"when the murderer was finally apprehended, the detective who doggedly checked every single lead got credit for the collar"
],
"near antonyms":[
"emancipations",
"liberations",
"releases"
],
"related":[
"raids",
"house arrests",
"captures",
"entrapments",
"seizures",
"captivities",
"confinements",
"detentions",
"enchainments",
"holds",
"immurements",
"imprisonments",
"incarcerations",
"restraints",
"rearrests",
"remands"
],
"synonyms":[
"apprehensions",
"arrestments",
"arrests",
"busts",
"pinches"
]
},
"to take or keep under one's control by authority of law":{
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"discharges"
],
"examples":[
"the juvenile delinquent was collared for robbing houses"
],
"near antonyms":[
"emancipates",
"frees",
"liberates",
"loosens",
"looses",
"releases",
"springs",
"unbinds",
"unchains"
],
"related":[
"bags",
"captures",
"catches",
"gets",
"grabs",
"grapples",
"hooks",
"lands",
"snaps (up)",
"snares",
"snatches",
"traps",
"commits",
"confines",
"detains",
"holds",
"immures",
"imprisons",
"incarcerates",
"interns",
"jails",
"jugs",
"locks (up)",
"binds",
"enchains",
"fetters",
"handcuffs",
"manacles",
"shackles",
"trammels",
"rearrests",
"remands"
],
"synonyms":[
"apprehends",
"arrests",
"busts",
"nabs",
"nails",
"nicks",
"picks up",
"pinches",
"pulls in",
"restrains",
"runs in",
"seizes"
]
},
"to take physical control or possession of (something) suddenly or forcibly":{
"antonyms":[
"misses"
],
"examples":[
"she collared the boy before he could get into the cookie jar"
],
"near antonyms":[
"discharges",
"frees",
"liberates",
"releases",
"drops",
"loosens",
"unhands"
],
"related":[
"gloves",
"halters",
"lassos",
"ropes",
"apprehends",
"arrests",
"detains",
"bays",
"corners",
"clasps",
"clutches",
"fastens (on)",
"fists",
"grasps",
"grips",
"holds",
"latches (on or onto)",
"secures",
"rends",
"wrests",
"enmeshes",
"immeshes",
"ensnares",
"entangles",
"entraps",
"meshes",
"abducts",
"kidnaps",
"spirits (away or off)"
],
"synonyms":[
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"captures",
"catches",
"cops",
"corrals",
"gets",
"gloms",
"grabs",
"grapples",
"hooks",
"lands",
"nabs",
"nails",
"nets",
"nobbles",
"raps",
"seizes",
"snags",
"snaps (up)",
"snares",
"snatches",
"traps"
]
},
"type":[
"noun",
"verb"
]
},
"colleagueships":{
"as in":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[],
"near antonyms":[],
"related":[],
"synonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"collectedness":{
"evenness of emotions or temper":{
"antonyms":[
"agitation",
"discomposure",
"perturbation"
],
"examples":[
"with the collectedness of an old pro, the new governor responded to the other hostile questions of the press corps"
],
"near antonyms":[
"alarm",
"alarum",
"anxiety",
"anxiousness",
"apprehension",
"apprehensiveness",
"care",
"concern",
"disquiet",
"solicitude",
"uneasiness",
"worry",
"excitability",
"excitableness",
"nervousness",
"disturbance"
],
"related":[
"assurance",
"confidence",
"poise",
"self-assurance",
"self-assuredness",
"self-confidence",
"self-trust",
"easygoingness",
"laid-backness",
"apathy",
"detachment",
"impassivity",
"indifference",
"insensibility",
"numbness",
"phlegm",
"unconcern"
],
"synonyms":[
"aplomb",
"calmness",
"composedness",
"composure",
"cool",
"coolness",
"countenance",
"equanimity",
"equilibrium",
"imperturbability",
"placidity",
"repose",
"sangfroid",
"self-composedness",
"self-possession",
"serenity",
"tranquillity",
"tranquility",
"tranquilness"
]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"collection":{
"a mass or quantity that has piled up or that has been gathered over a period of time":{
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"examples":[
"a collection of lint underneath the dryer"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"related":[
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"assortment",
"congeries",
"conglomerate",
"conglomeration",
"hodgepodge",
"hotchpotch",
"jumble",
"medley",
"m\u00e9lange",
"mishmash",
"mix",
"mixture",
"motley",
"potpourri",
"agglomeration",
"clutter",
"hash",
"heap",
"litter",
"mass",
"pile",
"aggregate",
"aggregation",
"sum",
"totality",
"backlog",
"cache",
"fund",
"hoard",
"inventory",
"kitty",
"nest egg",
"reserve",
"stock",
"stockpile",
"store",
"supply"
],
"synonyms":[
"accretion",
"accumulation",
"assemblage",
"cumulation",
"cumulus",
"gathering",
"lodgment",
"lodgement",
"pileup"
]
},
"a number of things considered as a unit":{
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"examples":[
"the historic village boasts an interesting collection of gift shops and antique stores"
],
"near antonyms":[
"entity",
"item",
"single",
"unit"
],
"related":[
"accumulation",
"aggregate",
"aggregation",
"conglomeration",
"agglomeration",
"assortment",
"hodgepodge",
"jumble",
"miscellany",
"mixture",
"odds and ends",
"sundries",
"variety",
"cycle",
"run",
"series",
"suit"
],
"synonyms":[
"array",
"assemblage",
"band",
"bank",
"batch",
"battery",
"block",
"bunch",
"clot",
"clump",
"cluster",
"clutch",
"constellation",
"group",
"grouping",
"huddle",
"knot",
"lot",
"muster",
"package",
"parcel",
"passel",
"set",
"suite"
]
},
"an organized group of objects acquired and maintained for study, exhibition, or personal pleasure":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"his stamp collection has become quite valuable"
],
"near antonyms":[
"bric-a-brac",
"clutter",
"heap",
"jumble",
"litter",
"pile",
"ragbag"
],
"related":[
"assortment",
"kaleidoscope",
"miscellanea",
"mixed bag",
"omnium-gatherum",
"phantasmagoria",
"treasure",
"treasure trove",
"trove",
"arsenal",
"cache",
"hoard",
"repertoire",
"repertory",
"reserve",
"stock",
"stockpile",
"store",
"supply",
"accumulation",
"assembly",
"gathering"
],
"synonyms":[
"assemblage",
"library"
]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"collectives":{
"as in groups , bodies":{
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"examples":[],
"near antonyms":[],
"related":[],
"synonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"collector":{
"as in admirer , connoisseur":{
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"examples":[],
"near antonyms":[],
"related":[],
"synonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"collide":{
"to be out of harmony or agreement usually noticeably":{
"examples":[
"the candidate had a reputation as a maverick whose positions often collided with the party platform"
],
"synonyms":[
"clash",
"conflict",
"disaccord",
"discord",
"jar"
],
"near synonyms":[
"battle",
"combat",
"engage",
"fight",
"war (against)",
"chafe",
"gall",
"grate",
"jangle",
"differ",
"disagree",
"dissent"
],
"near antonyms":[
"agree",
"assent",
"coincide",
"concur",
"correspond"
],
"antonyms":[
"accord",
"blend",
"conform (to or with)",
"fit",
"harmonize",
"match"
]
},
"to come into usually forceful contact with something":{
"examples":[
"fortunately, I wasn't hurt when my bike collided with that fence"
],
"synonyms":[
"bang",
"bash",
"bump",
"crash",
"hit",
"impact",
"impinge",
"knock",
"ram",
"slam",
"smash",
"strike",
"swipe",
"thud"
],
"near synonyms":[
"bounce",
"carom",
"clunk",
"glance",
"rebound",
"ricochet",
"skim",
"skip",
"contact",
"land",
"touch",
"brush",
"graze",
"kiss",
"nudge",
"scrape",
"shave",
"sweep",
"bulldoze",
"jostle",
"muscle",
"press",
"push"
],
"near antonyms":[
"miss",
"skirt"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"collier":{
"as in barge , steamship":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[],
"near antonyms":[],
"related":[],
"synonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"colligate":{
"as in":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[],
"near antonyms":[],
"related":[],
"synonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"colloquiums":{
"as in conferences , symposia":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[],
"near antonyms":[],
"related":[],
"synonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"collusively":{
"as in":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[],
"near antonyms":[],
"related":[],
"synonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"adverb"
]
},
"colonial":{
"a person who settles in a new region":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"European colonials who built coffee plantations in East Africa"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"related":[
"explorer",
"pathfinder",
"trailblazer",
"bushranger",
"mountain man",
"woodsman"
],
"synonyms":[
"colonist",
"colonizer",
"frontiersman",
"homesteader",
"pioneer",
"settler"
]
},
"tending to group with others of the same kind":{
"antonyms":[
"nonsocial",
"solitary"
],
"examples":[
"colonial organisms"
],
"near antonyms":[
"autonomous",
"independent",
"self-contained",
"semiautonomous",
"semi-independent",
"altricial",
"self-subsistent",
"self-sufficient",
"self-supporting",
"self-sustaining",
"lone",
"recluse",
"reclusive",
"unsociable"
],
"related":[
"associational",
"consociational",
"subsocial",
"dependent",
"parasitic",
"parasitical",
"precocial",
"symbiotic"
],
"synonyms":[
"gregarious",
"sociable",
"social"
]
},
"type":[
"adjective",
"noun"
]
},
"colorless":{
"causing weariness, restlessness, or lack of interest":{
"antonyms":[
"absorbing",
"engaging",
"engrossing",
"gripping",
"interesting",
"intriguing",
"involving",
"riveting"
],
"examples":[
"page after page of colorless prose without even one neat turn of phrase"
],
"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"
],
"related":[
"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"
],
"synonyms":[
"arid",
"boring",
"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"
]
},
"lacking an addition of color":{
"antonyms":[
"colored",
"colorized",
"dyed",
"hued",
"painted",
"pigmented",
"stained",
"tinct",
"tinctured",
"tinged",
"tinted"
],
"examples":[
"since we can't decide what color to paint the doghouse, our latest home project remains colorless for the time being"
],
"near antonyms":[
"colorful",
"multicolored",
"polychromatic",
"polychrome",
"varicolored",
"variegated"
],
"related":[
"clear",
"limpid",
"liquid",
"lucent",
"pellucid",
"transparent",
"bleached",
"faded",
"palish",
"washed-out",
"washy",
"dull",
"faint",
"gray",
"grey",
"neutral",
"pale",
"pallid",
"snow-white",
"snowy",
"whited"
],
"synonyms":[
"tintless",
"uncolored",
"undyed",
"unpainted",
"unstained",
"white"
]
},
"type":[
"adjective"
]
},
"colorlessly":{
"as in inconspicuously , unobtrusively":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[],
"near antonyms":[],
"related":[],
"synonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"adverb"
]
},
"colossal":{
"type":[
"adjective"
],
"unusually large":{
"antonyms":[
"bantam",
"bitty",
"diminutive",
"infinitesimal",
"Lilliputian",
"little bitty",
"micro",
"microminiature",
"microscopic",
"microscopical",
"midget",
"miniature",
"minuscule",
"minute",
"pocket",
"pygmy",
"teensy",
"teensy-weensy",
"teeny",
"teeny-weeny",
"tiny",
"wee"
],
"examples":[
"a colossal statue of the town's founder"
],
"near antonyms":[
"little",
"mini",
"petite",
"pint-size",
"pint-sized",
"puny",
"small",
"smallish",
"undersized",
"undersize",
"dinky",
"dwarfish",
"half-pint"
],
"related":[
"big",
"bulky",
"considerable",
"extensive",
"good",
"goodly",
"great",
"gross",
"handsome",
"hefty",
"hulking",
"largish",
"major",
"outsize",
"outsized",
"overgrown",
"oversize",
"oversized",
"sizable",
"sizeable",
"substantial",
"tidy",
"voluminous",
"august",
"formidable",
"grandiose",
"imposing",
"lofty",
"majestic",
"cavernous",
"monolithic",
"overwhelming",
"staggering",
"stupendous",
"towering",
"boundless",
"immeasurable",
"infinite"
],
"synonyms":[
"astronomical",
"astronomic",
"Brobdingnagian",
"bumper",
"cosmic",
"cosmical",
"cyclopean",
"elephantine",
"enormous",
"galactic",
"gargantuan",
"giant",
"gigantesque",
"gigantic",
"grand",
"herculean",
"heroic",
"heroical",
"Himalayan",
"huge",
"humongous",
"humungous",
"immense",
"jumbo",
"king-size",
"king-sized",
"leviathan",
"mammoth",
"massive",
"mega",
"mighty",
"monster",
"monstrous",
"monumental",
"mountainous",
"oceanic",
"pharaonic",
"planetary",
"prodigious",
"super",
"super-duper",
"supersize",
"supersized",
"titanic",
"tremendous",
"vast",
"vasty",
"walloping",
"whacking",
"whopping"
]
}
},
"coma":{
"as in":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[],
"near antonyms":[],
"related":[],
"synonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"comatose":{
"lacking in gaiety, movement, or animation":{
"antonyms":[
"alive",
"animated",
"astir",
"bustling",
"busy",
"buzzing",
"flourishing",
"humming",
"lively",
"thriving",
"vibrant"
],
"examples":[
"the city's downtown has been comatose for years"
],
"near antonyms":[
"abounding",
"overflowing",
"swarming",
"teeming",
"thronging"
],
"related":[
"lethargic",
"sluggish",
"torpid",
"dormant",
"fallow",
"free",
"idle",
"inactive",
"inert",
"inoperative",
"latent",
"off",
"vacant"
],
"synonyms":[
"dead",
"sleepy",
"slow"
]
},
"type":[
"adjective"
]
},
"combatting":{
"to oppose (someone) in physical conflict":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"a general eager to combat the enemy on his own ground"
],
"near antonyms":[
"giving up",
"submitting",
"surrendering"
],
"related":[
"dueling",
"duelling",
"jousting",
"banging",
"bashing",
"battering",
"batting",
"beating",
"belting",
"bludgeoning",
"bopping",
"buffeting",
"clobbering",
"hammering",
"hitting",
"knocking",
"pasting",
"pounding",
"punching",
"slamming",
"slapping",
"slogging",
"slugging",
"smacking",
"smiting",
"socking",
"striking",
"swatting",
"swiping",
"thumping",
"thwacking",
"walloping",
"whacking",
"whaling",
"boxing",
"sparring",
"brawling",
"grappling",
"scuffling",
"tussling",
"wrestling",
"bumping",
"colliding"
],
"synonyms":[
"battling",
"clashing (with)",
"fighting",
"scrimmaging (with)",
"skirmishing (with)",
"warring (against)"
]
},
"to strive to reduce or eliminate":{
"antonyms":[
"advancing",
"cultivating",
"encouraging",
"forwarding",
"fostering",
"furthering",
"nourishing",
"nurturing",
"promoting"
],
"examples":[
"must marshal all of our resources to combat this disease"
],
"near antonyms":[
"abiding",
"bearing",
"enduring",
"suffering",
"advocating",
"backing",
"championing",
"endorsing",
"indorsing",
"supporting",
"upholding"
],
"related":[
"baffling",
"checkmating",
"foiling",
"frustrating",
"resisting",
"thwarting",
"withstanding",
"confronting",
"defying",
"facing",
"meeting"
],
"synonyms":[
"battling",
"contending (with)",
"countering",
"fighting",
"opposing",
"oppugning"
]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"combe":{
"as in glen , canyon":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[],
"near antonyms":[],
"related":[],
"synonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"combination":{
"a distinct entity formed by the combining of two or more different things":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"a victory that was due to a combination of luck and planning"
],
"near antonyms":[
"component",
"constituent",
"element",
"ingredient"
],
"related":[
"half-and-half",
"absorption",
"blending",
"coalescence",
"coalition",
"commingling",
"commixture",
"compost",
"concretion",
"homogenization",
"immingling",
"immixture",
"incorporation",
"integration",
"interfusion",
"intermingling",
"mergence",
"merger",
"merging",
"mingling",
"assortment",
"hash",
"hodgepodge",
"hotchpotch",
"jumble",
"medley",
"m\u00e9lange",
"mishmash",
"motley",
"patchwork",
"potpourri",
"variety",
"accumulation",
"aggregation",
"conglomeration"
],
"synonyms":[
"admixture",
"alloy",
"amalgam",
"amalgamation",
"blend",
"cocktail",
"composite",
"compound",
"conflation",
"emulsion",
"fusion",
"intermixture",
"meld",
"mix",
"mixture",
"synthesis"
]
},
"a number of businesses or enterprises united for commercial advantage":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"the companies formed a combination in an attempt to establish a monopoly in the rubber market"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"related":[
"chain",
"conglomerate",
"megacorporation",
"multinational",
"association",
"guild",
"gild",
"organization",
"partnership",
"pool",
"union",
"big business"
],
"synonyms":[
"cartel",
"combine",
"syndicate",
"trust"
]
},
"an association of persons, parties, or states for mutual assistance and protection":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"a combination of citizens dedicated to fighting higher property taxes"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"related":[
"cabal",
"conspiracy",
"junto",
"cartel",
"syndicate",
"trust",
"faction",
"front",
"fusion",
"side",
"wing",
"association",
"group",
"organization",
"affiliation",
"cooperative",
"partnership",
"circuit",
"conference"
],
"synonyms":[
"alliance",
"axis",
"bloc",
"block",
"coalition",
"combine",
"confederacy",
"confederation",
"federation",
"league",
"union"
]
},
"the act or an instance of joining two or more things into one":{
"antonyms":[
"breakup",
"disconnection",
"dissolution",
"disunion",
"division",
"parting",
"partition",
"schism",
"scission",
"split"
],
"examples":[
"the combination of mint and chocolate in a delicious dessert"
],
"near antonyms":[
"detachment",
"divorcement",
"separation",
"severance"
],
"related":[
"agglomeration",
"amalgamation",
"blend",
"coalescence",
"commingling",
"compounding",
"fusion",
"intermingling",
"intermixture",
"mingling",
"mix",
"mixture",
"synthesis",
"reunification",
"reunion"
],
"synonyms":[
"combining",
"connecting",
"connection",
"consolidation",
"coupling",
"junction",
"linking",
"merger",
"merging",
"unification",
"union"
]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"come a cropper":{
"to be unsuccessful":{
"antonyms":[
"click",
"come off",
"deliver",
"go",
"go over",
"pan out",
"succeed",
"work out"
],
"examples":[
"To her disappointment, her plan came a cropper ."
],
"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":[
"bomb",
"collapse",
"crater",
"fail",
"flame out",
"flop",
"flunk",
"fold",
"founder",
"miss",
"strike out",
"tank",
"wash out"
]
},
"to go wrong":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"He tried to scale the fence but came a cropper ."
],
"near antonyms":[
"prevail",
"succeed",
"flourish",
"prosper",
"thrive"
],
"related":[
"miss",
"break down",
"bust",
"conk (out)",
"crash",
"die",
"fail",
"founder",
"stall",
"bomb",
"fizzle",
"flame out",
"flop",
"flunk",
"fold",
"wash out",
"flounder",
"struggle",
"decline",
"skid",
"slip",
"slump",
"tank",
"wane"
],
"synonyms":[
"miscarry",
"misfire"
]
},
"type":[
"phrase"
]
},
"come back":{
"a quick witty response":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"always ready with a comeback for every insult"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"related":[
"squelch",
"back talk",
"crack",
"quip",
"sally",
"wisecrack",
"witticism",
"zinger",
"cut",
"insult",
"put-down"
],
"synonyms":[
"repartee",
"retort",
"riposte"
]
},
"something spoken or written in reaction especially to a question":{
"antonyms":[
"inquiry",
"query",
"question"
],
"examples":[
"regardless of the question posed by the prosecutor, the witness had a plausible comeback"
],
"near antonyms":[
"challenge",
"charge",
"cross-examination",
"grilling",
"interrogation",
"interrogatory",
"quiz",
"poll",
"questionnaire",
"survey"
],
"related":[
"back talk",
"banter",
"persiflage",
"repartee",
"acknowledgment",
"acknowledgement",
"comment",
"communication",
"correspondence",
"feedback",
"non sequitur",
"observation",
"reaction",
"remark",
"defense",
"explanation",
"justification",
"plea",
"rebuttal",
"refutation"
],
"synonyms":[
"answer",
"rejoinder",
"replication",
"reply",
"response",
"retort",
"return"
]
},
"the process or period of gradually regaining one's health and strength":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"trying to make a comeback after a career-threatening injury"
],
"near antonyms":[
"decline",
"degeneration",
"deterioration",
"fading",
"failing",
"languishing",
"sinking",
"wasting (away)",
"weakening",
"wilting",
"withering",
"worsening",
"regression",
"relapse"
],
"related":[
"resuscitation",
"revival",
"survival"
],
"synonyms":[
"convalescence",
"healing",
"mending",
"rally",
"recovery",
"recuperation",
"rehab",
"rehabilitation",
"snapback"
]
},
"to become healthy and strong again after illness or weakness":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"she's slowly coming back after being in a coma"
],
"near antonyms":[
"ail",
"collapse",
"come down",
"sicken",
"decline",
"degenerate",
"deteriorate",
"fade",
"fail",
"languish",
"sink",
"waste (away)",
"weaken",
"wilt",
"wither",
"worsen",
"regress",
"relapse"
],
"related":[
"come around",
"come round",
"come to",
"improve",
"pick up",
"revive",
"cheer (up)",
"perk (up)",
"pull through",
"survive",
"recruit"
],
"synonyms":[
"convalesce",
"gain",
"heal",
"mend",
"pull round",
"rally",
"recoup",
"recover",
"recuperate",
"snap back"
]
},
"to regain a former or normal state":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"the American bald eagle was once nearly extinct but has come back strong"
],
"near antonyms":[
"decline",
"fail",
"worsen"
],
"related":[
"reanimate",
"revitalize",
"revive"
],
"synonyms":[
"bounce (back)",
"rally",
"rebound",
"recover",
"snap back"
]
},
"to speak or write in reaction to a question or to another reaction":{
"antonyms":[
"ask",
"inquire",
"question"
],
"examples":[
"he came back with another one of his smart remarks"
],
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"cross-examine",
"examine",
"grill",
"interrogate",
"pump",
"quiz",
"poll",
"query",
"survey"
],
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"comment",
"communicate",
"correspond",
"react",
"remark",
"counter",
"defend",
"deny",
"explain",
"field",
"rebut",
"refute"
],
"synonyms":[
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"rejoin",
"reply",
"respond",
"retort",
"return",
"riposte"
]
},
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"noun",
"verb"
]
},
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"aggrandizement",
"ascent",
"exaltation",
"rise",
"up"
],
"examples":[
"after a rapid rise to stardom, the rock band's comedown was just as quick"
],
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"advance",
"headway",
"progress",
"flower",
"heyday",
"prime"
],
"related":[
"breakdown",
"burnout",
"collapse",
"crash",
"meltdown",
"ruin",
"undoing",
"defeat",
"disappointment",
"reversal",
"setback",
"bottom",
"nadir",
"abasement",
"disgrace",
"humiliation"
],
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"d\u00e9gringolade",
"demise",
"descent",
"down",
"downfall",
"fall",
"flameout",
"G\u00f6tterd\u00e4mmerung"
]
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"let's wait and see what comes down at the meeting"
],
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"develop",
"rise",
"shape (up)",
"arise",
"come up",
"crop (up)",
"materialize",
"spring (up)",
"intervene",
"fall out",
"follow",
"result",
"turn out",
"go off",
"proceed"
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"befall",
"betide",
"chance",
"come",
"come about",
"come off",
"cook",
"do",
"go down",
"go on",
"hap",
"happen",
"occur",
"pass",
"transpire"
]
},
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"noun",
"verb"
]
},
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],
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"develop",
"rise",
"shape (up)",
"arise",
"come up",
"crop (up)",
"materialize",
"spring (up)",
"intervene",
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"follow",
"result",
"turn out",
"go off",
"proceed"
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"befall",
"betide",
"chance",
"come",
"come about",
"come down",
"cook",
"do",
"go down",
"go on",
"hap",
"happen",
"occur",
"pass",
"transpire"
]
},
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"collapse",
"fail",
"flop",
"flunk",
"fold",
"founder",
"miss",
"strike out",
"wash out"
],
"examples":[
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],
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"languish",
"flounder",
"struggle",
"decline",
"sink",
"skid",
"slip",
"slump",
"wane",
"crash",
"crater",
"crumble",
"flame out",
"choke",
"crack up",
"miscarry",
"misfire",
"fall down",
"go under",
"implode",
"self-destruct"
],
"related":[
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"flourish",
"prosper",
"thrive",
"cook",
"percolate"
],
"synonyms":[
"click",
"deliver",
"go",
"go over",
"pan out",
"succeed",
"work out"
]
},
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"verb"
]
},
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"examples":[
"when the truth came out about the state of the company's finances, several top executives lost their jobs"
],
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"suppress",
"conceal",
"disguise",
"hide",
"mask",
"secrete"
],
"related":[
"develop",
"transpire",
"unfold",
"disclose",
"reveal",
"spill",
"tell"
],
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"break",
"circulate",
"get about",
"get around",
"get out",
"get round",
"leak (out)",
"out",
"spread"
]
},
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"clear",
"disappear",
"dissolve",
"evanesce",
"evaporate",
"fade",
"go (away)",
"melt (away)",
"vanish"
],
"examples":[
"come out, come out wherever you are!"
],
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"depart",
"leave",
"retire",
"withdraw"
],
"related":[
"reappear",
"resurface",
"bulk",
"loom",
"arrive",
"come",
"dawn",
"debut",
"arise",
"blossom",
"bob (up)",
"break",
"break out",
"crop (up)",
"emerge",
"erupt",
"issue",
"outcrop",
"rise",
"shoot (up)",
"spring (up)",
"surface",
"happen",
"occur",
"reappear",
"rematerialize"
],
"synonyms":[
"appear",
"materialize",
"show",
"show up",
"turn up",
"unfold"
]
},
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"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"in the end everything came out OK"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"related":[
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"emerge",
"evolve",
"germinate",
"play out",
"unfold",
"work out"
],
"synonyms":[
"fall out",
"pan out",
"prove",
"shake out",
"turn out"
]
},
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"verb"
]
},
"come round":{
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"examples":[
"the medic waved smelling salts under his nose until he came round"
],
"near antonyms":[
"black out",
"faint",
"pass out"
],
"related":[
"pull through",
"rally",
"recover",
"awake",
"awaken",
"wake up"
],
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"come around",
"come to",
"revive"
]
},
"to give or express one's approval (as to a proposal)":{
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"dissent"
],
"examples":[
"she's cool to the idea right now, but sooner or later she'll come round"
],
"near antonyms":[
"rebuff",
"refuse",
"reject",
"scorn",
"spurn",
"deny",
"gainsay"
],
"related":[
"adopt",
"embrace",
"espouse",
"abide",
"bear (with)",
"endure",
"stand",
"suffer",
"tolerate",
"stomach",
"swallow",
"take",
"bow",
"knuckle under",
"relent",
"submit",
"succumb",
"yield"
],
"synonyms":[
"accede",
"acquiesce",
"agree",
"assent",
"consent",
"subscribe"
]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"come to":{
"to be the same in meaning or effect":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"it all comes to nothing in the end"
],
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"related":[
"approach",
"match",
"measure (up)",
"meet",
"rival",
"touch",
"connote",
"denote",
"express",
"import",
"mean",
"signify",
"smack (of)",
"spell",
"suggest"
],
"synonyms":[
"add up (to)",
"amount (to)",
"correspond (to)",
"emulate",
"equal"
]
},
"to enter the mind of":{
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"examples":[
"the actual name of the item didn't come to me until I was walking out of the store"
],
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"forget",
"unlearn",
"disregard",
"ignore",
"neglect",
"overlook"
],
"related":[
"recall",
"recollect",
"remember",
"reminisce",
"con",
"learn",
"memorize",
"appear",
"arrive",
"emerge",
"materialize"
],
"synonyms":[
"cross",
"dawn (on)",
"occur (to)",
"strike"
]
},
"to gain consciousness again":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"after being in a coma for months, the patient quite unexpectedly came to"
],
"near antonyms":[
"black out",
"faint",
"pass out"
],
"related":[
"pull through",
"rally",
"recover",
"awake",
"awaken",
"wake up"
],
"synonyms":[
"come around",
"come round",
"revive"
]
},
"to have a total of":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"your bill comes to $53.74"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"related":[
"average",
"equal",
"measure",
"reach",
"compose",
"comprise",
"constitute",
"make up"
],
"synonyms":[
"add up (to)",
"aggregate",
"amount (to)",
"count (up to)",
"number",
"sum (to or into)",
"total"
]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"come to grief":{
"to be unsuccessful":{
"antonyms":[
"click",
"come off",
"deliver",
"go",
"go over",
"pan out",
"succeed",
"work out"
],
"examples":[
"His plans came to grief after a series of unforeseen setbacks."
],
"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":[
"bomb",
"collapse",
"crater",
"fail",
"flame out",
"flop",
"flunk",
"fold",
"founder",
"miss",
"strike out",
"tank",
"wash out"
]
},
"to go wrong":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"The expedition came to grief in the vast frozen expanse."
],
"near antonyms":[
"prevail",
"succeed",
"flourish",
"prosper",
"thrive"
],
"related":[
"miss",
"break down",
"bust",
"conk (out)",
"crash",
"die",
"fail",
"founder",
"stall",
"bomb",
"fizzle",
"flame out",
"flop",
"flunk",
"fold",
"wash out",
"flounder",
"struggle",
"decline",
"skid",
"slip",
"slump",
"tank",
"wane"
],
"synonyms":[
"miscarry",
"misfire"
]
},
"type":[
"phrase"
]
},
"come-on":{
"as in arrive , emerge":{
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"examples":[],
"near antonyms":[],
"related":[],
"synonyms":[]
},
"how surprising, doubtful, or unbelievable":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"come on , you can't be serious in making such an offer!"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"related":[
"gee",
"gee whiz",
"ha",
"hello",
"hey",
"lo",
"oh",
"fiddlesticks",
"phooey",
"pooh",
"there",
"oops",
"whoops",
"woops",
"ugh",
"egad",
"gad",
"gadzooks",
"(the) deuce",
"the devil",
"the dickens",
"zounds"
],
"synonyms":[
"ah",
"aha",
"fie",
"indeed",
"my word",
"no",
"pshaw",
"well",
"what",
"why"
]
},
"something that persuades one to perform an action for pleasure or gain":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"the spectacular sale was enough of a come-on to get many shoppers to try the store for the first time"
],
"near antonyms":[
"alarm",
"alarum",
"alert",
"caution",
"forewarning",
"notice",
"warning"
],
"related":[
"appeal",
"call",
"attraction",
"boost",
"encouragement",
"goad",
"impetus",
"impulse",
"incentive",
"inducement",
"motivation",
"persuasion",
"seducement",
"seduction",
"spur",
"stimulus",
"decoy",
"snare",
"trap",
"entrapment",
"mousetrap"
],
"synonyms":[
"allurement",
"bait",
"enticement",
"lure",
"siren song",
"temptation",
"turn-on"
]
},
"type":[
"interjection",
"noun",
"verb"
]
},
"comedown":{
"a loss of status":{
"antonyms":[
"aggrandizement",
"ascent",
"exaltation",
"rise",
"up"
],
"examples":[
"after a rapid rise to stardom, the rock band's comedown was just as quick"
],
"near antonyms":[
"advance",
"headway",
"progress",
"flower",
"heyday",
"prime"
],
"related":[
"breakdown",
"burnout",
"collapse",
"crash",
"meltdown",
"ruin",
"undoing",
"defeat",
"disappointment",
"reversal",
"setback",
"bottom",
"nadir",
"abasement",
"disgrace",
"humiliation"
],
"synonyms":[
"decline",
"d\u00e9gringolade",
"demise",
"descent",
"down",
"downfall",
"fall",
"flameout",
"G\u00f6tterd\u00e4mmerung"
]
},
"to take place":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"let's wait and see what comes down at the meeting"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"related":[
"break",
"develop",
"rise",
"shape (up)",
"arise",
"come up",
"crop (up)",
"materialize",
"spring (up)",
"intervene",
"fall out",
"follow",
"result",
"turn out",
"go off",
"proceed"
],
"synonyms":[
"be",
"befall",
"betide",
"chance",
"come",
"come about",
"come off",
"cook",
"do",
"go down",
"go on",
"hap",
"happen",
"occur",
"pass",
"transpire"
]
},
"type":[
"noun",
"verb"
]
},
"comes back":{
"to become healthy and strong again after illness or weakness":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"she's slowly coming back after being in a coma"
],
"near antonyms":[
"ails",
"collapses",
"comes down",
"sickens",
"declines",
"degenerates",
"deteriorates",
"fades",
"fails",
"languishes",
"sinks",
"wastes (away)",
"weakens",
"wilts",
"withers",
"worsens",
"regresses",
"relapses"
],
"related":[
"comes around",
"comes round",
"comes to",
"improves",
"picks up",
"revives",
"cheers (up)",
"perks (up)",
"pulls through",
"survives",
"recruits"
],
"synonyms":[
"convalesces",
"gains",
"heals",
"mends",
"pulls round",
"rallies",
"recoups",
"recovers",
"recuperates",
"snaps back"
]
},
"to regain a former or normal state":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"the American bald eagle was once nearly extinct but has come back strong"
],
"near antonyms":[
"declines",
"fails",
"worsens"
],
"related":[
"reanimates",
"revitalizes",
"revives"
],
"synonyms":[
"bounces (back)",
"rallies",
"rebounds",
"recovers",
"snaps back"
]
},
"to speak or write in reaction to a question or to another reaction":{
"antonyms":[
"asks",
"inquires",
"questions"
],
"examples":[
"he came back with another one of his smart remarks"
],
"near antonyms":[
"challenges",
"cross-examines",
"examines",
"grills",
"interrogates",
"pumps",
"quizzes",
"polls",
"queries",
"surveys"
],
"related":[
"acknowledges",
"comments",
"communicates",
"corresponds",
"reacts",
"remarks",
"counters",
"defends",
"denies",
"explains",
"fields",
"rebuts",
"refutes"
],
"synonyms":[
"answers",
"rejoins",
"replies",
"responds",
"retorts",
"returns",
"ripostes"
]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"comes to":{
"to be the same in meaning or effect":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"it all comes to nothing in the end"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"related":[
"approaches",
"matches",
"measures (up)",
"meets",
"rivals",
"touches",
"connotes",
"denotes",
"expresses",
"imports",
"means",
"signifies",
"smacks (of)",
"spells",
"suggests"
],
"synonyms":[
"adds up (to)",
"amounts (to)",
"corresponds (to)",
"emulates",
"equals"
]
},
"to enter the mind of":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"the actual name of the item didn't come to me until I was walking out of the store"
],
"near antonyms":[
"forgets",
"unlearns",
"disregards",
"ignores",
"neglects",
"overlooks"
],
"related":[
"recalls",
"recollects",
"remembers",
"reminisces",
"cons",
"learns",
"memorizes",
"appears",
"arrives",
"emerges",
"materializes"
],
"synonyms":[
"crosses",
"dawns (on)",
"occurs (to)",
"strikes"
]
},
"to gain consciousness again":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"after being in a coma for months, the patient quite unexpectedly came to"
],
"near antonyms":[
"blacks out",
"faints",
"passes out"
],
"related":[
"pulls through",
"rallies",
"recovers",
"awakens",
"awakes",
"wakes up"
],
"synonyms":[
"comes around",
"comes round",
"revives"
]
},
"to have a total of":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"your bill comes to $53.74"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"related":[
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"equals",
"measures",
"reaches",
"composes",
"comprises",
"constitutes",
"makes up"
],
"synonyms":[
"adds up (to)",
"aggregates",
"amounts (to)",
"counts (up to)",
"numbers",
"sums (to or into)",
"totals"
]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"comestibles":{
"substances intended to be eaten":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"the gourmet food shop stocks a wide variety of comestibles from around the world"
],
"near antonyms":[
"bane",
"poison",
"toxin",
"venom"
],
"related":[
"commissary",
"rations",
"supplies",
"aliment",
"nutriment",
"diet",
"nourishment",
"nurture",
"sustenance",
"mess",
"pap",
"ensilage",
"feed",
"fodder",
"forage",
"silage",
"slop",
"swill",
"feast",
"meal",
"refreshments",
"regale",
"repast",
"spread",
"board",
"dish",
"plate",
"platter",
"serving",
"finger food",
"natural food"
],
"synonyms":[
"bread",
"chow",
"chuck",
"eatables",
"eats",
"edibles",
"fare",
"food",
"foodstuffs",
"grub",
"meat",
"provender",
"provisions",
"table",
"tucker",
"viands",
"victuals",
"vittles"
]
},
"type":[
"plural noun"
]
},
"comforted":{
"as in encouraged , emboldened":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[],
"near antonyms":[],
"related":[],
"synonyms":[]
},
"to ease the grief or distress of":{
"antonyms":[
"distressed",
"tormented",
"tortured",
"troubled"
],
"examples":[
"the first responders did their best to comfort the victims of the terrible tornado"
],
"near antonyms":[
"demoralized",
"discouraged",
"disheartened",
"fretted",
"upset",
"worried",
"aggravated",
"intensified",
"worsened",
"annoyed",
"irked",
"irritated",
"harassed",
"pestered"
],
"related":[
"commiserated",
"condoled",
"empathized",
"sympathized",
"boosted",
"buoyed (up)",
"elevated",
"lifted",
"uplifted",
"allayed",
"alleviated",
"assuaged",
"relieved",
"calmed",
"quieted",
"relaxed",
"tranquilized",
"tranquillized"
],
"synonyms":[
"assured",
"cheered",
"consoled",
"reassured",
"solaced",
"soothed"
]
},
"type":[
"adjective",
"verb"
]
},
"comfortless":{
"causing discomfort":{
"antonyms":[
"comfortable",
"comfy"
],
"examples":[
"one of those modern comfortless sofas that are more pleasurable to look at than to sit on"
],
"near antonyms":[
"easy",
"soothing",
"cozy",
"cushy",
"snug",
"soft",
"easeful",
"relaxing",
"reposeful",
"restful"
],
"related":[
"aching",
"hurting",
"miserable",
"nasty",
"painful",
"sore",
"agonizing",
"excruciating",
"torturous",
"distressing",
"disturbing",
"upsetting",
"awkward",
"cumbersome",
"inconvenient",
"ungainly",
"uneasy",
"chafing",
"cramping",
"itching",
"pinching",
"pricking",
"prickling",
"smarting",
"stinging"
],
"synonyms":[
"discomforting",
"harsh",
"uncomfortable"
]
},
"causing or marked by an atmosphere lacking in cheer":{
"antonyms":[
"bright",
"cheerful",
"cheering",
"cheery",
"comforting",
"cordial",
"festive",
"friendly",
"gay",
"heartwarming",
"sunshiny"
],
"examples":[
"spent a night in a cheap comfortless hotel"
],
"near antonyms":[
"blithe",
"blithesome",
"buoyant",
"gay",
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"jolly",
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"mirthless",
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"woeful",
"dim",
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"disheartening",
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"dispiriting",
"distressful",
"distressing",
"upsetting",
"desperate",
"hopeless",
"pessimistic",
"lamentable",
"mournful",
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"sorrowful",
"colorless",
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"grim",
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"threatening"
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"cheerless",
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"Cimmerian",
"cloudy",
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"darkening",
"depressing",
"depressive",
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"disconsolate",
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"dreary",
"dreich",
"elegiac",
"elegiacal",
"forlorn",
"funereal",
"gloomy",
"glum",
"godforsaken",
"gray",
"grey",
"lonely",
"lonesome",
"lugubrious",
"miserable",
"morbid",
"morose",
"murky",
"plutonian",
"saturnine",
"sepulchral",
"solemn",
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"sombre",
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"sunless",
"tenebrific",
"tenebrous",
"wretched"
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"lame",
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"uncomic",
"unfunny",
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"unhysterical"
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"sobersided",
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"somber",
"sombre",
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"moving",
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"touching",
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"lachrymose",
"mournful",
"sad",
"sorrowful",
"tearful",
"woeful"
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"entertaining",
"clownish",
"knockabout",
"slapstick",
"slapsticky",
"zany",
"facetious",
"flip",
"flippant",
"pert",
"smart",
"smart-aleck",
"smart-alecky",
"snickery",
"jocular",
"playful",
"waggish",
"campy",
"jokey",
"joky",
"priceless",
"rich",
"whimsical",
"witty",
"wry",
"blithesome",
"gleeful",
"jocose",
"jocund",
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"jovial",
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"mad",
"merry",
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"comedic",
"comic",
"droll",
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"funny",
"hilarious",
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"humorous",
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"hysteric",
"killing",
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"ludicrous",
"ridiculous",
"riotous",
"risible",
"screaming",
"sidesplitting",
"uproarious"
]
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"serious",
"solemn",
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"conceivable",
"credible",
"logical",
"rational",
"realistic",
"reasonable",
"sensible"
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"brainless",
"dumb",
"fatuous",
"foolish",
"half-baked",
"half-witted",
"harebrained",
"idiotic",
"idiotical",
"imbecile",
"imbecilic",
"inane",
"jerky",
"moronic",
"nonsensical",
"simpleminded",
"stupid",
"unwise",
"weak-minded",
"witless",
"balmy",
"cockeyed",
"crazy",
"cuckoo",
"daffy",
"daft",
"dotty",
"insane",
"kooky",
"kookie",
"loony",
"looney",
"lunatic",
"mad",
"nutty",
"screwball",
"senseless",
"wacky",
"whacky",
"fantastic",
"fantastical",
"far-fetched",
"inconceivable",
"incredible",
"unbelievable",
"unreal",
"unrealistic",
"unreasonable",
"illogical",
"irrational"
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"cockamamy",
"cockamamie",
"derisive",
"derisory",
"farcical",
"laughable",
"ludicrous",
"pathetic",
"preposterous",
"ridiculous",
"risible",
"silly"
]
},
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"adjective"
]
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"she's slowly coming back after being in a coma"
],
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"collapsing",
"coming down",
"sickening",
"declining",
"degenerating",
"deteriorating",
"fading",
"failing",
"languishing",
"sinking",
"wasting (away)",
"weakening",
"wilting",
"withering",
"worsening",
"regressing",
"relapsing"
],
"related":[
"coming around",
"coming round",
"coming to",
"improving",
"picking up",
"reviving",
"cheering (up)",
"perking (up)",
"pulling through",
"surviving",
"recruiting"
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"convalescing",
"gaining",
"healing",
"mending",
"pulling round",
"rallying",
"recouping",
"recovering",
"recuperating",
"snapping back"
]
},
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"examples":[
"the American bald eagle was once nearly extinct but has come back strong"
],
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"declining",
"failing",
"worsening"
],
"related":[
"reanimating",
"revitalizing",
"reviving"
],
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"rallying",
"rebounding",
"recovering",
"snapping back"
]
},
"to speak or write in reaction to a question or to another reaction":{
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"asking",
"inquiring",
"questioning"
],
"examples":[
"he came back with another one of his smart remarks"
],
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"challenging",
"cross-examining",
"examining",
"grilling",
"interrogating",
"pumping",
"quizzing",
"polling",
"querying",
"surveying"
],
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"acknowledging",
"commenting",
"communicating",
"corresponding",
"reacting",
"remarking",
"countering",
"defending",
"denying",
"explaining",
"fielding",
"rebutting",
"refuting"
],
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"rejoining",
"replying",
"responding",
"retorting",
"returning",
"riposting"
]
},
"type":[
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]
},
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"examples":[
"I hope that you're not coming down with a cold"
],
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"coming back",
"gaining",
"healing",
"mending",
"recouping",
"recovering",
"recuperating",
"snapping back",
"rallying",
"rebounding",
"recovering (from)",
"shaking (off)"
],
"related":[
"breaking out (with)",
"dying (from)",
"succumbing (to)",
"failing",
"languishing",
"sinking",
"wasting (away)",
"weakening",
"wilting",
"withering",
"worsening"
],
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"contracting",
"getting",
"going down (with)",
"sickening (with)",
"taking"
]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
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"examples":[
"the medic waved smelling salts under his nose until he came round"
],
"near antonyms":[
"blacking out",
"fainting",
"passing out"
],
"related":[
"pulling through",
"rallying",
"recovering",
"awakening",
"awaking",
"waking up"
],
"synonyms":[
"coming around",
"coming to",
"reviving"
]
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"to give or express one's approval (as to a proposal)":{
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"dissenting"
],
"examples":[
"she's cool to the idea right now, but sooner or later she'll come round"
],
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"rebuffing",
"refusing",
"rejecting",
"scorning",
"spurning",
"denying",
"gainsaying"
],
"related":[
"adopting",
"embracing",
"espousing",
"abiding",
"bearing (with)",
"enduring",
"standing",
"suffering",
"tolerating",
"stomaching",
"swallowing",
"taking",
"bowing",
"knuckling under",
"relenting",
"submitting",
"succumbing",
"yielding"
],
"synonyms":[
"acceding",
"acquiescing",
"agreeing",
"assenting",
"consenting",
"subscribing"
]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"comings":{
"the act of coming upon a scene":{
"antonyms":[
"decampments",
"departures",
"disappearances",
"exits",
"farewells",
"goings",
"leave-takings",
"partings"
],
"examples":[
"the coming of the children meant we could finally get the party started"
],
"near antonyms":[
"dissipations",
"dissolutions",
"evaporations",
"fadeaways",
"passings",
"egresses",
"retirements",
"retreats",
"withdrawals",
"emigrations",
"evacuations",
"exoduses"
],
"related":[
"approaches",
"entrances",
"ingresses",
"beginnings",
"births",
"commencements",
"dawns",
"debuts",
"d\u00e9buts",
"geneses",
"inceptions",
"mornings",
"onsets",
"starts"
],
"synonyms":[
"advents",
"appearances",
"arrivals",
"incomings"
]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"commandeered":{
"to take control of (a vehicle) by force":{
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"examples":[
"an airliner commandeered by terrorists"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"related":[
"carjacked",
"skyjacked",
"appropriated",
"confiscated",
"expropriated",
"seized"
],
"synonyms":[
"hijacked",
"highjacked"
]
},
"to take or make use of under a guise of authority but without actual right":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"commandeered all of the equipment, as if the chem lab belonged solely to him"
],
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"related":[
"annexed",
"attached",
"claimed",
"confiscated",
"impounded",
"repossessed",
"sequestered",
"assumed",
"collared",
"grabbed",
"grasped",
"snatched",
"stole",
"wrenched",
"wrested",
"despoiled",
"looted",
"pillaged",
"encroached",
"infringed",
"invaded",
"occupied",
"preoccupied",
"trespassed",
"embezzled",
"misapplied",
"misappropriated",
"misused",
"peculated"
],
"synonyms":[
"appropriated",
"arrogated",
"converted",
"expropriated",
"pirated",
"preempted",
"pressed",
"seized",
"took over",
"usurped"
]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"commendable":{
"deserving of high regard or great approval":{
"antonyms":[
"censurable",
"discreditable",
"illaudable",
"reprehensible"
],
"examples":[
"a commendable interest in classical music"
],
"near antonyms":[
"base",
"contemptible",
"deplorable",
"despicable",
"detestable",
"dirty",
"infamous",
"lousy",
"nasty",
"notorious",
"pitiable",
"pitiful",
"scabby",
"scummy",
"scurvy",
"sorry",
"unlikable",
"unworthy",
"vile",
"worthless",
"wretched",
"disgraceful",
"dishonorable",
"disreputable",
"ignominious",
"low",
"mean",
"scandalous",
"seamy",
"shady",
"shameful",
"shocking",
"sordid",
"unethical",
"unsavory"
],
"related":[
"deserving",
"worthy",
"awesome",
"distinctive",
"distinguished",
"excellent",
"heady",
"honorable",
"impressive",
"noteworthy",
"noticeable",
"outstanding",
"redoubtable",
"reputable",
"respectable",
"invaluable",
"precious",
"priceless",
"valuable",
"delightful",
"enjoyable",
"pleasing",
"satisfying",
"ethical",
"good",
"high-minded",
"moral",
"noble",
"principled"
],
"synonyms":[
"admirable",
"applaudable",
"creditable",
"estimable",
"laudable",
"meritorious",
"praiseworthy"
]
},
"type":[
"adjective"
]
},
"commendation":{
"a formal expression of praise":{
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"examples":[
"a new novel that has received enthusiastic commendations from most of the critics"
],
"near antonyms":[
"censure",
"condemnation",
"denunciation",
"indictment",
"rebuke",
"reprimand",
"reproof",
"admonition",
"correction",
"harangue",
"lecture",
"sermon"
],
"related":[
"award",
"decoration",
"dedication",
"honor",
"prize",
"acclaim",
"acclamation",
"laudation",
"applause",
"plaudit(s)",
"bravo",
"hallelujah",
"kudo",
"approval",
"cachet",
"compliment",
"recommendation"
],
"synonyms":[
"accolade",
"citation",
"dithyramb",
"encomium",
"eulogium",
"eulogy",
"homage",
"hymn",
"paean",
"panegyric",
"salutation",
"tribute"
]
},
"a formal recognition of an achievement or praiseworthy deed":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"a firefighter who has been awarded several commendations for bravery"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"related":[
"decoration",
"medal",
"ribbon",
"accolade",
"award",
"honor",
"kudo",
"prize",
"tribute",
"dedication"
],
"synonyms":[
"acknowledgment",
"acknowledgement",
"citation",
"mention"
]
},
"best wishes":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"his Lordship extends his hearty commendations"
],
"near antonyms":[
"dig",
"gibe",
"jibe",
"insult",
"put-down",
"taunt"
],
"related":[
"approval",
"benediction",
"blessing",
"endorsement",
"indorsement",
"acknowledgment",
"acknowledgement",
"citation",
"commendation",
"adulation",
"flattery",
"praise",
"well-wishing"
],
"synonyms":[
"compliment",
"congratulations",
"felicitations",
"greetings",
"regards",
"respects"
]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"commendations":{
"best wishes":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"his Lordship extends his hearty commendations"
],
"near antonyms":[
"dig",
"gibe",
"jibe",
"insult",
"put-down",
"taunt"
],
"related":[
"approval",
"benediction",
"blessing",
"endorsement",
"indorsement",
"acknowledgment",
"acknowledgement",
"citation",
"commendation",
"adulation",
"flattery",
"praise",
"well-wishing"
],
"synonyms":[
"compliment",
"congratulations",
"felicitations",
"greetings",
"regards",
"respects"
]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"commending":{
"to put (something) into the possession or safekeeping of another":{
"antonyms":[
"holding",
"keeping",
"retaining"
],
"examples":[
"I commend my fate into your hands"
],
"near antonyms":[
"detaining",
"holding back",
"reserving",
"withholding",
"owning",
"possessing",
"accepting",
"receiving",
"taking in",
"occupying",
"taking",
"taking over"
],
"related":[
"conferring",
"granting",
"assigning",
"dealing (out)",
"dispensing",
"dispersing",
"distributing",
"dividing",
"handing in",
"releasing",
"relinquishing",
"submitting",
"surrendering",
"turning in",
"yielding",
"bequeathing",
"handing down",
"handing on",
"willing",
"advancing",
"lending",
"loaning",
"furnishing",
"supplying",
"recommitting",
"redelivering",
"retransferring",
"retransmitting"
],
"synonyms":[
"committing",
"confiding",
"consigning",
"delegating",
"delivering",
"entrusting",
"intrusting",
"giving",
"giving over",
"handing",
"handing over",
"leaving",
"passing",
"recommending",
"reposing",
"transferring",
"transmitting",
"trusting",
"turning over",
"vesting"
]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"comment":{
"a briefly expressed opinion":{
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"examples":[
"just ate the food without offering even a single comment"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"related":[
"analysis",
"commentary",
"exposition",
"aside",
"obiter dictum",
"annotation",
"belief",
"conviction",
"eye",
"feeling",
"judgment",
"judgement",
"mind",
"notion",
"persuasion",
"sentiment",
"verdict",
"view",
"advice",
"input"
],
"synonyms":[
"note",
"reflection",
"remark"
]
},
"a series of explanations or observations on something (as an event)":{
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"examples":[
"the pundit's comments on the political events of the previous week were astute as usual"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"related":[
"annotation",
"explication",
"descant",
"discant",
"note",
"observation",
"remark",
"report",
"review",
"write-up"
],
"synonyms":[
"analysis",
"commentary",
"exposition",
"play-by-play"
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},
"to make a statement of one's opinion":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"commenting on recent developments in the Middle East"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"related":[
"commentate",
"articulate",
"express",
"say",
"speak",
"state",
"talk",
"tell",
"utter",
"verbalize",
"vocalize",
"conjecture",
"daresay",
"guess",
"speculate",
"suppose",
"surmise"
],
"synonyms":[
"allow",
"editorialize",
"note",
"observe",
"opine",
"reflect",
"remark",
"weigh in"
]
},
"type":[
"noun",
"verb"
]
},
"commentated":{
"as in annotated , glossed":{
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"examples":[],
"near antonyms":[],
"related":[],
"synonyms":[]
},
"as in opined , editorialized":{
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"examples":[],
"near antonyms":[],
"related":[],
"synonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"commentates":{
"as in annotates , glosses":{
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"examples":[],
"near antonyms":[],
"related":[],
"synonyms":[]
},
"as in opines , editorializes":{
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"examples":[],
"near antonyms":[],
"related":[],
"synonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
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},
"commentator":{
"as in analyst , columnist":{
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"examples":[],
"near antonyms":[],
"related":[],
"synonyms":[]
},
"as in broadcaster , announcer":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[],
"near antonyms":[],
"related":[],
"synonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"commentators":{
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"examples":[],
"near antonyms":[],
"related":[],
"synonyms":[]
},
"as in broadcasters , announcers":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[],
"near antonyms":[],
"related":[],
"synonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"commented":{
"to make a statement of one's opinion":{
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"examples":[
"commenting on recent developments in the Middle East"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"related":[
"commentated",
"articulated",
"expressed",
"said",
"spoke",
"stated",
"talked",
"told",
"uttered",
"verbalized",
"vocalized",
"conjectured",
"daresaid",
"guessed",
"speculated",
"supposed",
"surmised"
],
"synonyms":[
"allowed",
"editorialized",
"noted",
"observed",
"opined",
"reflected",
"remarked",
"weighed in"
]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"comments":{
"a series of explanations or observations on something (as an event)":{
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"examples":[
"the pundit's comments on the political events of the previous week were astute as usual"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"related":[
"annotation",
"explication",
"descant",
"discant",
"note",
"observation",
"remark",
"report",
"review",
"write-up"
],
"synonyms":[
"analysis",
"commentary",
"exposition",
"play-by-play"
]
},
"to make a statement of one's opinion":{
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"examples":[
"commenting on recent developments in the Middle East"
],
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"related":[
"commentates",
"articulates",
"expresses",
"says",
"speaks",
"states",
"talks",
"tells",
"utters",
"verbalizes",
"vocalizes",
"conjectures",
"daresays",
"guesses",
"speculates",
"supposes",
"surmises"
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"editorializes",
"notes",
"observes",
"opines",
"reflects",
"remarks",
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"verb"
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"kibble",
"crumble",
"crunch",
"break",
"bust",
"dash",
"fracture",
"fragment",
"shatter",
"smash",
"splinter",
"micronize"
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"beat",
"bray",
"crush",
"disintegrate",
"grind",
"mill",
"mull",
"pound",
"powder",
"pulverize"
]
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"verb"
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"examples":[],
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"eons of incessant pounding by the waves have comminuted the once-rocky shoreline into a bed of fine-grained sand"
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"related":[
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"kibbled",
"crumbled",
"crunched",
"broke",
"busted",
"bust",
"dashed",
"fractured",
"fragmented",
"shattered",
"smashed",
"splintered",
"micronized"
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"beat",
"brayed",
"crushed",
"disintegrated",
"ground",
"milled",
"mulled",
"pounded",
"powdered",
"pulverized"
]
},
"type":[
"adjective",
"verb"
]
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"examples":[
"reported to a UN commission on the AIDS crisis"
],
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"steering committees",
"subcommittees",
"delegations",
"missions",
"assemblies",
"bodies",
"congresses",
"convocations",
"councils",
"synods"
],
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"committees",
"panels"
]
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"nonfulfillments",
"nonperformances"
],
"examples":[
"a single burglar was responsible for the commission of all the break-ins"
],
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"related":[
"dispatches",
"expeditions",
"administrations",
"directions",
"handlings",
"managements",
"applications",
"operations",
"practices",
"practises"
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"synonyms":[
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"achievements",
"discharges",
"enactments",
"executions",
"fulfillments",
"fulfilments",
"implementations",
"performances",
"perpetrations",
"prosecutions",
"pursuances"
]
},
"the granting of power to perform various acts or duties":{
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"examples":[
"President Jefferson's commission to Lewis and Clark to explore the Louisiana Territory"
],
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"related":[
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"consignments",
"entrustments",
"facilitations",
"promotions",
"orderings"
],
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"authorizations",
"delegations",
"empowerments",
"licenses",
"licences",
"mandates"
]
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"dismissals",
"dismissions",
"expulsions",
"firings"
],
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"her commission as head of the investigation"
],
"near antonyms":[
"blackballs",
"rejections",
"depositions",
"dethronements",
"ejections",
"evictions",
"ousters",
"overthrows",
"removals"
],
"related":[
"billets",
"gigs",
"jobs",
"offices",
"places",
"positions",
"situations",
"spots",
"stations",
"authorizations",
"delegations",
"deputations",
"emplacements",
"placements",
"rankings",
"anointments",
"inductions",
"installations",
"installments",
"instalments",
"investitures",
"investments",
"ordinations",
"choices",
"destinations",
"elections",
"nominations",
"selections"
],
"synonyms":[
"appointments",
"assignments",
"designations"
]
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"plans to commission a deputy to investigate the matter"
],
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"abrogates",
"abdicates"
],
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"charges",
"appoints",
"designates",
"names",
"nominates"
],
"synonyms":[
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"deputes",
"deputizes"
]
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"was commissioned to do the biography"
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"commits",
"confides",
"consigns",
"delegates",
"recommends",
"relegates",
"reposes",
"allocates",
"allots",
"authorizes",
"empowers",
"invests"
],
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"assigns",
"charges",
"entrusts",
"intrusts",
"tasks",
"trusts"
]
},
"to give official or legal power to":{
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"disqualifies"
],
"examples":[
"was commissioned lieutenant"
],
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"bans",
"bars",
"blocks",
"constrains",
"denies",
"disallows",
"disbars",
"discourages",
"disenfranchises",
"disfranchises",
"excludes",
"hinders",
"holds back",
"impedes",
"inhibits",
"obstructs",
"prevents",
"shuts out",
"stops",
"enjoins",
"forbids",
"interdicts",
"outlaws",
"prohibits",
"proscribes",
"vetoes"
],
"related":[
"approves",
"clears",
"credentials",
"endorses",
"indorses",
"OKs",
"okays",
"sanctions",
"affirms",
"confirms",
"validates",
"inaugurates",
"inducts",
"initiates",
"installs",
"instates",
"swears in",
"allows",
"lets",
"permits",
"enfranchises",
"entitles",
"privileges"
],
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"accredits",
"authorizes",
"certifies",
"charters",
"empowers",
"enables",
"invests",
"licenses",
"licences",
"qualifies",
"vests",
"warrants"
]
},
"to pick (someone) by one's authority for a specific position or duty":{
"antonyms":[
"discharges",
"dismisses",
"expels",
"fires"
],
"examples":[
"commissioned him to head the office of veterans affairs"
],
"near antonyms":[
"blackballs",
"deposes",
"dethrones",
"displaces",
"ejects",
"evicts",
"ousts",
"overthrows",
"removes",
"throws out",
"uncrowns",
"unmakes",
"unseats"
],
"related":[
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"delegates",
"deputes",
"deputizes",
"anoints",
"consecrates",
"creates",
"inaugurates",
"inducts",
"installs",
"instates",
"institutes",
"invests",
"makes",
"ordains",
"crowns",
"enthrones",
"thrones",
"chooses",
"destines",
"drafts",
"elects",
"handpicks",
"selects",
"singles (out)",
"votes (in)"
],
"synonyms":[
"appoints",
"assigns",
"attaches",
"constitutes",
"designates",
"details",
"names",
"nominates",
"places"
]
},
"type":[
"noun",
"verb"
]
},
"commixture":{
"as in immixture , interfusion":{
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"examples":[],
"near antonyms":[],
"related":[],
"synonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"commixtures":{
"as in immixtures , interfusions":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[],
"near antonyms":[],
"related":[],
"synonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
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"to treat (something that cannot be owned or that everyone has a right to) like a product that can be bought and sold":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"Do we really want to commodify our water supply?",
"I feel like our culture is being commodified ."
],
"near antonyms":[],
"related":[],
"synonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"commodities":{
"products that are bought and sold in business":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"commodities such as sugar and oil"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"related":[
"line",
"export",
"import",
"inventory",
"staples",
"stock",
"stuff",
"supply",
"job lot",
"domestics",
"durables",
"durable goods",
"hard goods"
],
"synonyms":[
"goods",
"merchandise",
"wares"
]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"common":{
"being of the type that is encountered in the normal course of events":{
"antonyms":[
"abnormal",
"exceptional",
"extraordinary",
"odd",
"out-of-the-way",
"strange",
"unusual"
],
"examples":[
"just a common house cat but an extraordinary friend"
],
"near antonyms":[
"curious",
"funny",
"peculiar",
"quaint",
"queer",
"aberrant",
"anomalous",
"atypical",
"irregular",
"untypical",
"rare",
"recherch\u00e9",
"scarce",
"fantastic",
"fantastical",
"phenomenal",
"bizarre",
"far-out",
"Kafkaesque",
"outrageous",
"outr\u00e9",
"wacky",
"whacky",
"way-out",
"weird",
"wild",
"eccentric",
"idiosyncratic",
"kooky",
"kookie",
"nonconformist",
"oddball",
"offbeat",
"unconventional",
"unorthodox",
"freak",
"freakish",
"conspicuous",
"notable",
"novel",
"outstanding",
"prominent",
"salient",
"signal",
"striking",
"unexampled",
"unprecedented",
"singular",
"unique",
"unparalleled"
],
"related":[
"regular",
"typical",
"unextraordinary",
"familiar",
"homely",
"plain",
"plain-Jane",
"popular",
"vulgar",
"natural",
"customary",
"wonted",
"insignificant",
"trivial",
"unimportant",
"frequent",
"habitual",
"expected",
"predictable"
],
"synonyms":[
"average",
"commonplace",
"cut-and-dried",
"cut-and-dry",
"everyday",
"garden-variety",
"normal",
"ordinary",
"prosaic",
"routine",
"run-of-the-mill",
"standard",
"standard-issue",
"unexceptional",
"unremarkable",
"usual",
"workaday"
]
},
"belonging or relating to the whole":{
"antonyms":[
"individual",
"particular"
],
"examples":[
"facts of common knowledge"
],
"near antonyms":[
"component",
"constituent",
"cross-sectional",
"divisional",
"fragmentary",
"partial",
"local",
"localized",
"regional",
"sectional"
],
"related":[
"all-embracing",
"broad",
"broad-gauge",
"broad-gauged",
"broadscale",
"comprehensive",
"extensive",
"inclusionary",
"overarching",
"pervasive",
"sweeping",
"ubiquitous",
"wholesale",
"wide",
"widespread",
"aggregate",
"collective",
"complete",
"full",
"plenary",
"planetary",
"worldwide"
],
"synonyms":[
"across-the-board",
"blanket",
"broad-brush",
"general",
"generic",
"global",
"overall",
"universal"
]
},
"belonging to the class of people of low social or economic rank":{
"antonyms":[
"aristocratic",
"blue-blooded",
"genteel",
"gentle",
"grand",
"great",
"high",
"highborn",
"highbred",
"lofty",
"noble",
"patrician",
"upper-class",
"upper-crust",
"wellborn"
],
"examples":[
"a man of wealth and privilege who mingled without pretense with the common folk"
],
"near antonyms":[
"eminent",
"illustrious",
"notable",
"prominent"
],
"related":[
"bourgeois",
"middle-class",
"plain",
"poor",
"simple",
"working-class",
"d\u00e9class\u00e9",
"down-market",
"downscale"
],
"synonyms":[
"baseborn",
"humble",
"ignoble",
"inferior",
"low",
"low-life",
"lowborn",
"lower-class",
"lowly",
"lumpen",
"mean",
"plebeian",
"prole",
"proletarian",
"unwashed",
"vulgar"
]
},
"held by or applicable to a majority of the people":{
"antonyms":[
"uncommon",
"unpopular"
],
"examples":[
"a politician who works not for the special interests but for the common good"
],
"near antonyms":[
"rare",
"strange",
"unknown",
"unusual",
"distinctive",
"especial",
"idiosyncratic",
"peculiar",
"special",
"unique",
"individual",
"separate",
"singular",
"nonpublic",
"personal",
"private"
],
"related":[
"unanimous",
"universal",
"pop",
"everyday",
"familiar",
"household",
"usual",
"well-known",
"contemporary",
"current",
"present",
"dominant",
"predominant",
"preponderant",
"characteristic",
"typical",
"pandemic",
"pervasive",
"prevalent",
"rife",
"widespread",
"communal",
"shared"
],
"synonyms":[
"general",
"majority",
"overall",
"popular",
"prevailing",
"public",
"received",
"ruling",
"vulgar"
]
},
"lacking in refinement or good taste":{
"antonyms":[
"civilized",
"cultivated",
"cultured",
"genteel",
"polished",
"refined",
"smooth",
"tasteful",
"ultrarefined",
"well-bred"
],
"examples":[
"embarrassed by the common manners of his new in-laws"
],
"near antonyms":[
"aristocratic",
"courtly",
"patrician",
"elegant",
"graceful",
"restrained",
"considerate",
"gracious",
"sensitive",
"thoughtful",
"citified",
"sophisticated",
"urbane"
],
"related":[
"boorish",
"churlish",
"cloddish",
"clownish",
"loutish",
"ungentlemanly",
"clumsy",
"lubberly",
"lumpish",
"oafish",
"inconsiderate",
"indelicate",
"insensitive",
"thoughtless",
"countrified",
"countryfied",
"provincial",
"rustic",
"rustical",
"unsophisticated",
"graceless",
"inelegant",
"tacky",
"animallike",
"barbaric",
"barbarous",
"uncivilized",
"mannerless",
"unmannered",
"unmannerly"
],
"synonyms":[
"coarse",
"crass",
"crude",
"gross",
"ill-bred",
"illiberal",
"incult",
"insensible",
"low",
"lowbred",
"lowbrow",
"raffish",
"rough",
"rough-hewn",
"roughneck",
"rude",
"rugged",
"tasteless",
"uncouth",
"uncultivated",
"uncultured",
"unpolished",
"unrefined",
"vulgar"
]
},
"of average to below average quality":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"has a common singing voice that's good enough for performing at those venues"
],
"near antonyms":[
"A1",
"capital",
"choice",
"classic",
"distinguished",
"excellent",
"exceptional",
"exquisite",
"fabulous",
"fantastic",
"first-class",
"first-rate",
"grand",
"great",
"marvelous",
"marvellous",
"matchless",
"maximum",
"nifty",
"number one",
"No. 1",
"optimal",
"optimum",
"outstanding",
"par excellence",
"peerless",
"preeminent",
"prime",
"sensational",
"special",
"splendid",
"stellar",
"sterling",
"superb",
"superior",
"superlative",
"supreme",
"swell",
"terrific",
"tip-top",
"top",
"top-notch",
"unmatched",
"unparalleled",
"unsurpassed",
"deficient",
"inadequate",
"insufficient",
"lacking",
"unacceptable",
"unsatisfactory",
"wanting"
],
"related":[
"acceptable",
"adequate",
"all right",
"alright",
"decent",
"OK",
"okay",
"reasonable",
"satisfactory",
"sufficient",
"sufficing",
"tolerable",
"moderate",
"modest",
"presentable",
"respectable",
"minimal",
"unexceptional",
"fine",
"good",
"nice"
],
"synonyms":[
"fair",
"indifferent",
"mediocre",
"medium",
"middling",
"ordinary",
"passable",
"run-of-the-mill",
"run-of-the-mine",
"run-of-mine",
"second-class",
"second-rate",
"so-so"
]
},
"of low quality":{
"antonyms":[
"excellent",
"fine",
"first-class",
"first-rate",
"good",
"high-grade",
"superior",
"top-notch"
],
"examples":[
"furniture of common workmanship that did not justify the high prices"
],
"near antonyms":[
"elegant",
"handsome",
"tasteful",
"handcrafted",
"polished",
"refined"
],
"related":[
"useless",
"valueless",
"worthless",
"indifferent",
"lackluster",
"second-class",
"brummagem",
"flashy",
"garish",
"gaudy",
"glitzy",
"kitsch",
"kitschy",
"meretricious",
"ostentatious",
"showy",
"splashy",
"swank",
"swanky",
"tawdry",
"seedy",
"shabby",
"tacky",
"counterfeit",
"fake",
"phony",
"phoney",
"sham",
"supercheap",
"ultracheap"
],
"synonyms":[
"bad",
"bargain-basement",
"bum",
"cheap",
"cheapjack",
"cheesy",
"coarse",
"crappy",
"cut-rate",
"el cheapo",
"execrable",
"gimcrack",
"inferior",
"junky",
"lousy",
"low-grade",
"low-rent",
"mediocre",
"miserable",
"poor",
"rotten",
"rubbishy",
"schlock",
"schlocky",
"shlock",
"shlocky",
"second-rate",
"shoddy",
"sleazy",
"terrible",
"trashy",
"trumpery",
"wretched"
]
},
"often observed or encountered":{
"antonyms":[
"extraordinary",
"infrequent",
"rare",
"seldom",
"uncommon",
"unfamiliar",
"unusual"
],
"examples":[
"horse ranches are a common sight in that part of the state"
],
"near antonyms":[
"aberrant",
"abnormal",
"irregular",
"unnatural",
"intermittent",
"occasional",
"sporadic"
],
"related":[
"normal",
"regular",
"standard",
"de rigueur",
"mandatory",
"obligatory",
"general",
"universal",
"ceaseless",
"constant",
"continual",
"continuous",
"incessant",
"unceasing",
"endemic",
"popular",
"prevailing",
"prevalent",
"rampant",
"perennial",
"recurrent",
"repeated"
],
"synonyms":[
"common or garden",
"commonplace",
"everyday",
"familiar",
"frequent",
"garden-variety",
"household",
"ordinary",
"quotidian",
"routine",
"ubiquitous",
"usual"
]
},
"type":[
"adjective"
],
"used or done by a number of people as a group":{
"antonyms":[
"exclusive",
"individual",
"one-man",
"one-sided",
"one-way",
"single",
"sole",
"solitary",
"unilateral"
],
"examples":[
"used a common bathroom while at the campground"
],
"near antonyms":[
"personal",
"private",
"independent",
"separate",
"several",
"esoteric",
"particular",
"special",
"specialized"
],
"related":[
"bilateral",
"consensual",
"reciprocal",
"symbiotic",
"synergic",
"synergistic",
"two-way",
"mass",
"popular",
"general",
"generic",
"universal"
],
"synonyms":[
"collaborative",
"collective",
"combined",
"communal",
"concerted",
"conjoint",
"conjunct",
"cooperative",
"joint",
"multiple",
"mutual",
"pooled",
"public",
"shared",
"united"
]
}
},
"commonness":{
"the fact or state of happening often":{
"antonyms":[
"infrequence",
"infrequency",
"rareness",
"uncommonness",
"unusualness"
],
"examples":[
"tardiness of as much commonness as the rising of the sun"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"related":[
"chronicity",
"constancy",
"continuousness",
"regularity",
"appearance",
"incidence",
"occurrence"
],
"synonyms":[
"frequence",
"frequency",
"frequentness",
"prevalence"
]
},
"the quality or state of lacking refinement or good taste":{
"antonyms":[
"cultivation",
"genteelness",
"gentility",
"polish",
"refinement",
"tastefulness"
],
"examples":[
"the socialites were appalled by the newcomer's commonness"
],
"near antonyms":[
"courtliness",
"urbanity",
"elegance",
"grace",
"graciousness",
"consideration",
"sensitivity",
"thoughtfulness"
],
"related":[
"boorishness",
"brutishness",
"churlishness",
"clownishness",
"loutishness",
"rowdiness",
"rusticity",
"uncouthness",
"artlessness",
"gracelessness",
"inelegance",
"unsophistication",
"insensitiveness",
"insensitivity",
"thoughtlessness",
"kitsch",
"tackiness"
],
"synonyms":[
"coarseness",
"crassness",
"crudeness",
"crudity",
"grossness",
"indelicacy",
"indelicateness",
"lowness",
"raffishness",
"rawness",
"roughness",
"rudeness",
"tastelessness",
"vulgarity"
]
},
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"noun"
]
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"illogical",
"invalid",
"irrational",
"nonrational",
"nonsensical",
"nonvalid",
"unfounded",
"uninformed",
"unjustified",
"unreasonable",
"unreasoned",
"unsound"
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],
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"unsupported",
"unwarranted",
"flimsy",
"implausible",
"unconvincing",
"weak",
"fallacious",
"false",
"misguided",
"misled"
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"real",
"true",
"certain",
"sure",
"certified",
"validated",
"verified",
"confirmed",
"corroborated",
"substantiated",
"cogent",
"convincing",
"colorable",
"credible",
"plausible"
],
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"commonsensical",
"firm",
"good",
"hard",
"informed",
"just",
"justified",
"levelheaded",
"logical",
"rational",
"reasonable",
"reasoned",
"sensible",
"sober",
"solid",
"valid",
"well-founded"
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"the ability to make intelligent decisions especially in everyday matters":{
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"imprudence",
"indiscretion"
],
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"common sense should tell you not to meet face-to-face with someone who is just an online acquaintance"
],
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"shortsightedness",
"brainlessness",
"foolishness",
"half-wittedness",
"idiocy",
"senselessness",
"stupidity",
"carelessness",
"heedlessness",
"unreasonableness"
],
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"street smarts",
"farsightedness",
"forehandedness",
"foresight",
"foresightedness",
"forethoughtfulness",
"judgment",
"judgement",
"brains",
"gray matter",
"intelligence",
"logicality",
"logicalness",
"practicality",
"rationality",
"rationalness",
"discernment",
"discrimination",
"insight",
"sagacity",
"sapience",
"acumen",
"astuteness",
"clearheadedness",
"keenness",
"penetration",
"perspicacity",
"shrewdness",
"care",
"caution",
"circumspection",
"precaution",
"premeditation"
],
"synonyms":[
"discreetness",
"discretion",
"gumption",
"horse sense",
"levelheadedness",
"nous",
"policy",
"prudence",
"sense",
"sensibleness",
"wisdom",
"wit"
]
},
"type":[
"adjective",
"noun"
]
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"examples":[
"the infected cook unknowingly communicated the disease to hundreds of people"
],
"near antonyms":[
"catch",
"come down (with)",
"contract"
],
"related":[
"deliver",
"hand over",
"surrender",
"turn over",
"broadcast",
"diffuse",
"disseminate",
"propagate",
"hand down",
"hand on",
"contaminate",
"infect",
"poison"
],
"synonyms":[
"conduct",
"convey",
"give",
"impart",
"spread",
"transfer",
"transfuse",
"transmit"
]
},
"to engage in an exchange of information or ideas":{
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"examples":[
"for decades the two medical centers have been communicating about cancer research"
],
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"related":[
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"converse",
"talk",
"message",
"bond",
"commune",
"relate",
"accost",
"approach",
"board",
"contact"
],
"synonyms":[
"brainstorm",
"intercommunicate"
]
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"to make known (something abstract) through outward signs":{
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"examples":[
"his voice communicated a certain distrust and wariness"
],
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"belie",
"misrepresent",
"distort",
"falsify",
"garble",
"twist",
"camouflage",
"disguise",
"gild",
"gloss (over)",
"varnish",
"whitewash",
"conceal",
"counterfeit",
"cover",
"hide",
"mask",
"obscure",
"occlude",
"veil"
],
"related":[
"bare",
"disclose",
"unbosom",
"uncloak",
"uncover",
"advertise",
"air",
"announce",
"blaze",
"broadcast",
"placard",
"proclaim",
"publicize",
"sound",
"trumpet",
"project"
],
"synonyms":[
"bespeak",
"betray",
"declare",
"demonstrate",
"display",
"evince",
"expose",
"give away",
"manifest",
"reveal",
"show"
]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
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"communicating with other ham radio enthusiasts"
],
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"related":[
"get through (to)",
"acquaint",
"advise",
"apprise",
"brief",
"clue",
"enlighten",
"familiarize",
"fill in",
"inform",
"instruct",
"notify",
"tell",
"wise (up)",
"buzz",
"call",
"phone",
"ring (up)",
"telephone",
"keep up (with)"
],
"synonyms":[
"address",
"contact",
"get",
"reach"
]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
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"communicating":{
"as in connected , connecting":{
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"examples":[],
"near antonyms":[],
"related":[],
"synonyms":[]
},
"to cause (something) to pass from one to another":{
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"examples":[
"the infected cook unknowingly communicated the disease to hundreds of people"
],
"near antonyms":[
"catching",
"coming down (with)",
"contracting"
],
"related":[
"delivering",
"handing over",
"surrendering",
"turning over",
"broadcasting",
"diffusing",
"disseminating",
"propagating",
"handing down",
"handing on",
"contaminating",
"infecting",
"poisoning"
],
"synonyms":[
"conducting",
"conveying",
"giving",
"imparting",
"spreading",
"transferring",
"transfusing",
"transmitting"
]
},
"to engage in an exchange of information or ideas":{
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"examples":[
"for decades the two medical centers have been communicating about cancer research"
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"related":[
"corresponding",
"conversing",
"talking",
"messaging",
"bonding",
"communing",
"relating",
"accosting",
"approaching",
"boarding",
"contacting"
],
"synonyms":[
"brainstorming",
"intercommunicating"
]
},
"to make known (something abstract) through outward signs":{
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"examples":[
"his voice communicated a certain distrust and wariness"
],
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"belying",
"misrepresenting",
"distorting",
"falsifying",
"garbling",
"twisting",
"camouflaging",
"disguising",
"gilding",
"glossing (over)",
"varnishing",
"whitewashing",
"concealing",
"counterfeiting",
"covering",
"hiding",
"masking",
"obscuring",
"occluding",
"veiling"
],
"related":[
"baring",
"disclosing",
"unbosoming",
"uncloaking",
"uncovering",
"advertising",
"airing",
"announcing",
"blazing",
"broadcasting",
"placarding",
"proclaiming",
"publicizing",
"sounding",
"trumpeting",
"projecting"
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"bespeaking",
"betraying",
"declaring",
"demonstrating",
"displaying",
"evincing",
"exposing",
"giving away",
"manifesting",
"revealing",
"showing"
]
},
"type":[
"adjective",
"verb"
]
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"to transmit information or requests to":{
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"examples":[
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"acquainting",
"advising",
"apprising",
"briefing",
"clueing",
"cluing",
"enlightening",
"familiarizing",
"filling in",
"informing",
"instructing",
"notifying",
"telling",
"wising (up)",
"buzzing",
"calling",
"phoning",
"ringing (up)",
"telephoning",
"keeping up (with)"
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"synonyms":[
"addressing",
"contacting",
"getting",
"reaching"
]
},
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"examples":[
"The child was shy and not very communicative .",
"The workplace had a friendly and communicative atmosphere."
],
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"synonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"adjective"
]
},
"communiqu\u00e9":{
"a published statement informing the public of a matter of general interest":{
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"examples":[
"a White House communiqu\u00e9"
],
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"related":[
"broadside",
"brochure",
"circular",
"flyer",
"flier",
"fly sheet",
"gazette",
"handbill",
"handout",
"bill",
"billboard",
"placard",
"playbill",
"poster",
"show bill",
"sign",
"broadcast",
"cablecast",
"newscast",
"telecast",
"advertising",
"billing",
"blurb",
"come-on",
"commercial",
"message",
"pitch",
"plugola",
"spot",
"word",
"communication",
"dispatch",
"report",
"annunciation",
"declaration",
"edict",
"proclamation",
"promulgation",
"pronouncement",
"pronunciamento",
"rescript",
"signification",
"ballyhoo",
"boost",
"buildup",
"campaign",
"plug",
"promo",
"promotion",
"propaganda",
"publicity"
],
"synonyms":[
"ad",
"advert",
"advertisement",
"announcement",
"bulletin",
"notice",
"notification",
"posting",
"release"
]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"commutations":{
"a giving or taking of one thing of value in return for another":{
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"examples":[
"an international commutation of food for oil"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"related":[
"replacements",
"substitutions",
"reciprocations",
"recompenses",
"requitals",
"bargains",
"deals",
"horse trades",
"negotiations",
"transactions",
"dealings",
"logrollings"
],
"synonyms":[
"back-and-forths",
"barters",
"dickers",
"exchanges",
"quid pro quos",
"swaps",
"trade-offs",
"trades",
"trucks"
]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"compacted":{
"as in":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[],
"near antonyms":[],
"related":[],
"synonyms":[]
},
"to bring (something) to a central point or under a single control":{
"antonyms":[
"decentralized",
"deconcentrated",
"spread (out)"
],
"examples":[
"the media giant decided to compact all of its far-flung operations onto a single site"
],
"near antonyms":[
"segregated",
"separated"
],
"related":[
"coordinated",
"harmonized",
"integrated",
"orchestrated",
"blended",
"blent",
"coalesced",
"combined",
"fused",
"incorporated",
"merged",
"reduced",
"conjoined",
"joined",
"linked",
"assembled",
"collected",
"colligated",
"gathered",
"reunified",
"reunited"
],
"synonyms":[
"centered",
"centralized",
"concentered",
"concentrated",
"consolidated",
"polarized",
"unified",
"united"
]
},
"to reduce in size or volume by or as if by pressing parts or members together":{
"antonyms":[
"decompressed",
"expanded",
"opened",
"outspread",
"outstretched"
],
"examples":[
"compact the snow into a tight ball for throwing"
],
"near antonyms":[
"dilated",
"dispersed",
"dissipated",
"scattered",
"distended",
"inflated",
"swelled"
],
"related":[
"crammed",
"crowded",
"jammed",
"jam-packed",
"packed",
"abbreviated",
"abridged",
"curtailed",
"shortened",
"boiled down",
"downsized",
"shrank",
"shrunk",
"concentrated",
"consolidated",
"simplified",
"streamlined",
"decreased",
"diminished",
"lessened"
],
"synonyms":[
"capsuled",
"capsulized",
"collapsed",
"compressed",
"condensed",
"constricted",
"constringed",
"contracted",
"narrowed (down)",
"squeezed",
"telescoped"
]
},
"type":[
"adjective",
"verb"
]
},
"companionable":{
"having or showing kindly feeling and sincere interest":{
"antonyms":[
"antagonistic",
"hostile",
"unfriendly"
],
"examples":[
"a companionable pat on the back let me know that my shipmates were now my friends"
],
"near antonyms":[
"alienated",
"estranged",
"chilly",
"cold",
"cold-blooded",
"cool",
"frigid",
"frosty",
"glacial",
"icy",
"wintry",
"wintery",
"unsociable",
"unsocial",
"aggressive",
"argumentative",
"bellicose",
"belligerent",
"combative",
"contentious",
"disputatious",
"pugnacious",
"quarrelsome",
"scrappy",
"truculent",
"inhospitable",
"inimical"
],
"related":[
"affable",
"agreeable",
"approachable",
"good-natured",
"good-tempered",
"gracious",
"nice",
"sweet",
"clubby",
"convivial",
"folksy",
"gregarious",
"hospitable",
"sociable",
"social",
"jolly",
"jovial",
"merry",
"extroverted",
"extraverted",
"outgoing",
"brotherly",
"fraternal",
"sisterly",
"close",
"familiar",
"intimate",
"adoring",
"affectionate",
"devoted",
"fond",
"lovesome",
"loving",
"tender",
"tenderhearted"
],
"synonyms":[
"amicable",
"bonhomous",
"buddy-buddy",
"chummy",
"collegial",
"comradely",
"cordial",
"friendly",
"genial",
"hail-fellow",
"hail-fellow-well-met",
"hearty",
"matey",
"neighborly",
"palsy",
"palsy-walsy",
"warm",
"warmhearted"
]
},
"likely to seek or enjoy the company of others":{
"antonyms":[
"antisocial",
"insociable",
"introverted",
"nongregarious",
"reclusive",
"unsociable",
"unsocial"
],
"examples":[
"a good club for companionable enthusiasts of the great outdoors"
],
"near antonyms":[
"misanthropic",
"aloof",
"cold",
"cool",
"detached",
"distant",
"frosty",
"remote",
"reserved",
"standoffish",
"mum",
"mute",
"reticent",
"silent",
"taciturn"
],
"related":[
"cordial",
"folksy",
"forthcoming",
"friendly",
"hospitable",
"affable",
"genial",
"gracious",
"agreeable",
"amiable",
"congenial",
"kindly",
"neighborly",
"animated",
"gay",
"jaunty",
"jolly",
"jovial",
"lively",
"peppy",
"perky",
"pert",
"spirited",
"sprightful",
"sprightly",
"vivacious",
"communicative",
"expansive",
"garrulous",
"talkative",
"bright",
"buoyant",
"cheerful",
"chipper",
"effervescent",
"upbeat",
"bubbly",
"exuberant",
"high-spirited"
],
"synonyms":[
"boon",
"clubbable",
"clubable",
"clubby",
"convivial",
"extroverted",
"extraverted",
"gregarious",
"outgoing",
"sociable",
"social"
]
},
"type":[
"adjective"
]
},
"companionships":{
"the feeling of closeness and friendship that exists between companions":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"They missed the companionship of longtime friends after moving to California."
],
"near antonyms":[
"forlornness",
"loneliness",
"lonesomeness"
],
"related":[
"amity",
"benevolence",
"cordiality",
"friendliness",
"friendship",
"goodwill",
"kindliness",
"civility",
"comity",
"concord",
"harmony",
"rapport",
"charity",
"generosity",
"affinity",
"compassion",
"empathy",
"sympathy",
"chumminess",
"familiarity",
"inseparability",
"intimacy",
"nearness",
"affection",
"devotion",
"fondness",
"love"
],
"synonyms":[
"brotherhood",
"camaraderie",
"community",
"company",
"comradery",
"comradeship",
"fellowship",
"society"
]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"company":{
"a commercial or industrial activity or organization":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"she works for a construction company"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"related":[
"conglomerate",
"corporation",
"multinational",
"association",
"cartel",
"chain",
"combine",
"syndicate",
"trust",
"agency",
"dealer",
"outlet",
"microenterprise"
],
"synonyms":[
"business",
"concern",
"enterprise",
"establishment",
"firm",
"house",
"interest",
"outfit"
]
},
"a group of people working together on a task":{
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"examples":[
"a company of carpenters constructed the frame of the house in no time"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"related":[
"battalion",
"corps",
"troop",
"force",
"host",
"posse",
"stable",
"troupe",
"administration",
"department",
"help",
"personnel",
"staff"
],
"synonyms":[
"army",
"band",
"brigade",
"crew",
"gang",
"outfit",
"party",
"platoon",
"squad",
"team"
]
},
"a position within view":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"I would prefer that you not mock your so-called friends while in my company"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"related":[
"closeness",
"contiguity",
"immediacy",
"nearness",
"proximity"
],
"synonyms":[
"presence",
"sight"
]
},
"an organized group of stage performers":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"a city that is fortunate enough to have two thriving opera companies"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"related":[
"stock company",
"cast",
"dramatis personae",
"ensemble"
],
"synonyms":[
"troop",
"troupe"
]
},
"the feeling of closeness and friendship that exists between companions":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"enjoying each other's company"
],
"near antonyms":[
"forlornness",
"loneliness",
"lonesomeness"
],
"related":[
"amity",
"benevolence",
"cordiality",
"friendliness",
"friendship",
"goodwill",
"kindliness",
"civility",
"comity",
"concord",
"harmony",
"rapport",
"charity",
"generosity",
"affinity",
"compassion",
"empathy",
"sympathy",
"chumminess",
"familiarity",
"inseparability",
"intimacy",
"nearness",
"affection",
"devotion",
"fondness",
"love"
],
"synonyms":[
"brotherhood",
"camaraderie",
"community",
"companionship",
"comradery",
"comradeship",
"fellowship",
"society"
]
},
"to come or be together as friends":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"in her sermon the minister noted that Jesus had companied with the least privileged and most disadvantaged members of society"
],
"near antonyms":[
"avoid",
"cold-shoulder",
"shun",
"snub",
"alienate",
"estrange",
"break up",
"disband",
"disperse",
"split (up)",
"disjoin",
"dissociate",
"disunite",
"divorce",
"sever",
"split",
"sunder"
],
"related":[
"affiliate",
"ally",
"attach",
"band",
"bond",
"club",
"collaborate",
"collude",
"confederate",
"conjoin",
"connect",
"cooperate",
"couple",
"gang",
"get along",
"get on",
"group",
"interrelate",
"join",
"knot",
"league",
"link",
"mingle",
"mix",
"rally",
"relate",
"side",
"socialize",
"team",
"tie",
"wed",
"befriend",
"friend"
],
"synonyms":[
"associate",
"chum",
"consociate",
"consort",
"fraternize",
"hang (around or out)",
"hobnob",
"hook up",
"mess around",
"pal (around)",
"run",
"sort",
"travel"
]
},
"to go along with in order to provide assistance, protection, or companionship":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"may the Good Lord company you on your journey home"
],
"near antonyms":[
"abandon",
"desert",
"ditch",
"dump",
"forsake"
],
"related":[
"walk",
"associate",
"consort",
"pal (around)",
"team (up)",
"defend",
"guard",
"protect",
"bring",
"conduct",
"guide",
"lead",
"pilot",
"steer",
"usher",
"follow",
"shadow",
"tag",
"tag along",
"tail",
"hang (around)",
"hover (over)"
],
"synonyms":[
"accompany",
"attend",
"chaperone",
"chaperon",
"companion",
"convoy",
"escort",
"see",
"squire"
]
},
"type":[
"noun",
"verb"
]
},
"companying":{
"to come or be together as friends":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"in her sermon the minister noted that Jesus had companied with the least privileged and most disadvantaged members of society"
],
"near antonyms":[
"avoiding",
"cold-shouldering",
"shunning",
"snubbing",
"alienating",
"estranging",
"breaking up",
"disbanding",
"dispersing",
"splitting (up)",
"disjoining",
"dissociating",
"disuniting",
"divorcing",
"severing",
"splitting",
"sundering"
],
"related":[
"affiliating",
"allying",
"attaching",
"banding",
"bonding",
"clubbing",
"collaborating",
"colluding",
"confederating",
"conjoining",
"connecting",
"cooperating",
"coupling",
"ganging",
"getting along",
"getting on",
"grouping",
"interrelating",
"joining",
"knotting",
"leaguing",
"linking",
"mingling",
"mixing",
"rallying",
"relating",
"siding",
"socializing",
"teaming",
"tying",
"tieing",
"wedding",
"befriending",
"friending"
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"chumming",
"consociating",
"consorting",
"fraternizing",
"hanging (around or out)",
"hobnobbing",
"hooking up",
"messing around",
"palling (around)",
"running",
"sorting",
"traveling",
"travelling"
]
},
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"examples":[
"may the Good Lord company you on your journey home"
],
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"abandoning",
"deserting",
"ditching",
"dumping",
"forsaking"
],
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"walking",
"associating",
"consorting",
"palling (around)",
"teaming (up)",
"defending",
"guarding",
"protecting",
"bringing",
"conducting",
"guiding",
"leading",
"piloting",
"steering",
"ushering",
"following",
"shadowing",
"tagging",
"tagging along",
"tailing",
"hanging (around)",
"hovering (over)"
],
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"accompanying",
"attending",
"chaperoning",
"companioning",
"convoying",
"escorting",
"seeing",
"squiring"
]
},
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"verb"
]
},
"compassing":{
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"examples":[
"attempting more than his modest abilities could compass"
],
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"failing",
"skimping",
"slighting",
"slurring"
],
"related":[
"bringing about",
"effecting",
"effectuating",
"implementing",
"acing",
"nailing",
"engaging (in)",
"practicing",
"practising",
"working (at)",
"reduplicating",
"reenacting",
"repeating",
"actualizing",
"attaining",
"realizing",
"completing",
"ending",
"finishing",
"winding up"
],
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"achieving",
"bringing off",
"carrying off",
"carrying out",
"committing",
"doing",
"executing",
"following through (with)",
"fulfilling",
"making",
"negotiating",
"performing",
"perpetrating",
"prosecuting",
"pulling off",
"putting through"
]
},
"to engage in a secret plan to accomplish evil or unlawful ends":{
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"examples":[
"the rebels are compassing the assassination of the king"
],
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"related":[
"counterplotting",
"brewing",
"concocting",
"cooking (up)",
"devising",
"hatching",
"engineering",
"jockeying",
"maneuvering",
"manipulating",
"designing",
"framing",
"laying out",
"mapping",
"planning",
"shaping"
],
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"colluding",
"conniving",
"conspiring",
"contriving",
"intriguing",
"machinating",
"plotting",
"putting up",
"scheming"
]
},
"to form a circle around":{
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"examples":[
"a mysterious isle, compassed by treacherous seas"
],
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"circumscribing",
"closing in",
"cordoning (off)",
"fencing (in)",
"hemming (in)",
"walling",
"besetting",
"besieging",
"entrenching",
"intrenching",
"investing",
"swarming"
],
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"circling",
"embracing",
"encircling",
"enclosing",
"inclosing",
"encompassing",
"environing",
"girding",
"girdling",
"ringing",
"surrounding",
"wreathing"
]
},
"to have a clear idea of":{
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"missing"
],
"examples":[
"the concept that the earth is billions of years old is one that the average mind struggles to compass"
],
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"misapprehending",
"misconceiving",
"misconstruing",
"misinterpreting",
"misperceiving",
"misreading",
"mistaking",
"misunderstanding"
],
"related":[
"absorbing",
"digesting",
"taking in",
"realizing",
"fathoming",
"penetrating",
"piercing"
],
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"appreciating",
"apprehending",
"assimilating",
"beholding",
"catching",
"catching on (to)",
"cognizing",
"comprehending",
"conceiving",
"cottoning (to or on to)",
"deciphering",
"decoding",
"digging",
"discerning",
"getting",
"grasping",
"grokking",
"intuiting",
"knowing",
"making",
"making out",
"perceiving",
"recognizing",
"registering",
"savvying",
"seeing",
"seizing",
"sensing",
"tumbling (to)",
"twigging",
"understanding"
]
},
"to travel completely around":{
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"examples":[
"the great age of exploration, when ships of sail compassed the earth"
],
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"related":[
"circumambulating",
"crossing",
"perambulating",
"traversing"
],
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"circling",
"circuiting",
"circumnavigating",
"circumventing",
"encircling",
"girdling",
"orbiting",
"ringing",
"rounding"
]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
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"having or showing a lack of sympathy or tender feelings":{
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"compassionate",
"humane",
"kindhearted",
"kindly",
"merciful",
"sensitive",
"softhearted",
"sympathetic",
"tender",
"tenderhearted",
"warm",
"warmhearted"
],
"examples":[
"shocked by the mother's compassionless treatment of her autistic child"
],
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"benevolent",
"benignant",
"gentle",
"kind",
"clement",
"indulgent",
"lenient",
"mild",
"cordial",
"friendly",
"good-natured",
"good-tempered",
"gracious",
"tolerant",
"understanding",
"affectionate",
"fond",
"loving"
],
"related":[
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"heedless",
"inconsiderate",
"thoughtless",
"uncaring",
"unfriendly",
"unloving",
"unthinking",
"grim",
"hard-bitten",
"harsh",
"heavy-handed",
"ironfisted",
"ironhanded",
"jackbooted",
"knock-down, drag-out",
"knock-down-and-drag-out",
"oppressive",
"rough",
"rough-and-tumble",
"severe",
"sledgehammer",
"stern",
"tough",
"ungentle",
"abusive",
"acrimonious",
"disagreeable",
"hateful",
"ill-natured",
"ill-tempered",
"malevolent",
"malicious",
"mean",
"rancorous",
"spiteful",
"surly",
"virulent",
"barbarous",
"bestial",
"brutal",
"brutish",
"cruel",
"evil-minded",
"savage",
"vicious",
"austere",
"cold",
"frosty"
],
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"affectless",
"callous",
"case-hardened",
"cold-blooded",
"desensitized",
"hard",
"hard-boiled",
"hard-hearted",
"heartless",
"indurate",
"inhuman",
"inhumane",
"insensate",
"insensitive",
"ironhearted",
"merciless",
"obdurate",
"pachydermatous",
"pitiless",
"remorseless",
"ruthless",
"slash-and-burn",
"soulless",
"stony",
"stoney",
"stonyhearted",
"take-no-prisoners",
"thick-skinned",
"uncharitable",
"unfeeling",
"unmerciful",
"unsparing",
"unsympathetic"
]
},
"type":[
"adjective"
]
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"as in":{
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"type":[
"noun"
]
},
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"a person frequently seen in the company of another":{
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"examples":[
"like so many of his twentysomething compeers , he just had to get a tattoo"
],
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"colleague",
"coworker",
"equal",
"peer",
"workmate",
"accomplice",
"affiliate",
"ally",
"collaborator",
"confederate",
"half",
"partner",
"buddy",
"chum",
"confidant",
"familiar",
"friend",
"hearty",
"intimate",
"pal",
"countryman",
"classmate",
"housemate",
"messmate",
"playfellow",
"playmate",
"roommate",
"roomie",
"schoolmate",
"shipmate",
"teammate",
"attendant",
"escort",
"hanger-on",
"leech",
"parasite"
],
"synonyms":[
"associate",
"cohort",
"companion",
"compatriot",
"comrade",
"crony",
"fellow",
"hobnobber",
"mate",
"running mate"
]
},
"one that is equal to another in status, achievement, or value":{
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"examples":[
"contends that no military commander of modern times ranks as the compeer of Alexander the Great"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"related":[
"analogue",
"analog",
"double",
"half",
"mate",
"twin",
"associate",
"colleague",
"companion",
"copartner",
"partner",
"competitor"
],
"synonyms":[
"coequal",
"coordinate",
"counterpart",
"equal",
"equivalent",
"fellow",
"like",
"match",
"parallel",
"peer",
"rival"
]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"compel":{
"to cause (a person) to give in to pressure":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"public opinion compelled her to fire her scandal-plagued aide"
],
"near antonyms":[
"allow",
"let",
"permit",
"argue",
"convince",
"induce",
"move",
"persuade",
"prevail (on or upon)",
"satisfy",
"talk (into)",
"win (over)"
],
"related":[
"browbeat",
"bulldoze",
"bully",
"cow",
"hector",
"intimidate",
"blackmail",
"high-pressure",
"menace",
"shame",
"terrorize",
"threaten",
"drag",
"badger",
"harass",
"hound"
],
"synonyms":[
"blackjack",
"coerce",
"constrain",
"dragoon",
"drive",
"force",
"impel",
"impress",
"make",
"muscle",
"obligate",
"oblige",
"press",
"pressure",
"sandbag"
]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
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"to cause (a person) to give in to pressure":{
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"examples":[
"public opinion compelled her to fire her scandal-plagued aide"
],
"near antonyms":[
"allows",
"lets",
"permits",
"argues",
"convinces",
"induces",
"moves",
"persuades",
"prevails (on or upon)",
"satisfies",
"talks (into)",
"wins (over)"
],
"related":[
"browbeats",
"bulldozes",
"bullies",
"cows",
"hectors",
"intimidates",
"blackmails",
"high-pressures",
"menaces",
"shames",
"terrorizes",
"threatens",
"drags",
"badgers",
"harasses",
"hounds"
],
"synonyms":[
"blackjacks",
"coerces",
"constrains",
"dragoons",
"drives",
"forces",
"impels",
"impresses",
"makes",
"muscles",
"obligates",
"obliges",
"presses",
"pressures",
"sandbags"
]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"compensates":{
"to give (someone) the sum of money owed for goods or services received":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"compensate them well for their efforts"
],
"near antonyms":[
"stiffs"
],
"related":[
"refunds",
"reimburses",
"repays",
"requites",
"remits",
"pays off",
"pays up",
"prepays"
],
"synonyms":[
"pays",
"recompenses",
"remunerates"
]
},
"to provide (someone) with a just payment for loss or injury":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"you'll have to compensate the neighbors for cutting down their tree"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"related":[
"refunds",
"reimburses",
"repays",
"redresses",
"remedies",
"repairs",
"discharges",
"pays",
"quits"
],
"synonyms":[
"indemnifies",
"recompenses",
"recoups",
"remunerates",
"requites",
"satisfies"
]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"compete":{
"to engage in a contest":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"prizefighters competing for the world heavyweight championship"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"related":[
"challenge",
"engage",
"play",
"jockey",
"jostle",
"maneuver",
"go out",
"try out",
"train",
"work"
],
"synonyms":[
"battle",
"contend",
"face off",
"fight",
"race",
"rival",
"vie"
]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"competed":{
"to engage in a contest":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"prizefighters competing for the world heavyweight championship"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"related":[
"challenged",
"engaged",
"played",
"jockeyed",
"jostled",
"maneuvered",
"tried out",
"went out",
"trained",
"worked",
"wrought"
],
"synonyms":[
"battled",
"contended",
"faced off",
"fought",
"raced",
"rivaled",
"rivalled",
"vied"
]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"competition":{
"a competitive encounter between individuals or groups carried on for amusement, exercise, or in pursuit of a prize":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"a competition between two fierce football rivals"
],
"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":[
"bout",
"contest",
"event",
"game",
"match",
"matchup",
"meet",
"sweepstakes",
"sweep-stake",
"tournament",
"tourney"
]
},
"an earnest effort for superiority or victory over another":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"the intense competition for bragging rights to being the city's best French restaurant"
],
"near antonyms":[
"concord",
"harmony",
"peace"
],
"related":[
"horse race",
"nail-biter",
"showdown",
"clash",
"collision",
"discord",
"friction",
"argument",
"controversy",
"debate",
"disagreement",
"disputation",
"dispute",
"dissension",
"dissention",
"quarrel",
"row",
"wrangle"
],
"synonyms":[
"ball game",
"battle",
"combat",
"conflict",
"confrontation",
"contention",
"contest",
"dogfight",
"duel",
"face-off",
"grapple",
"match",
"rivalry",
"strife",
"struggle",
"sweepstakes",
"sweep-stake",
"tug-of-war",
"war",
"warfare"
]
},
"one who strives for the same thing as another":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"tried to analyze his major competition in the tennis tournament"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"related":[
"archrival",
"finalist",
"semifinalist",
"also-ran",
"entrant",
"entry",
"player",
"adversary",
"antagonist",
"opponent"
],
"synonyms":[
"challenger",
"competitor",
"contender",
"contestant",
"corrival",
"rival"
]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"complain":{
"to express dissatisfaction, pain, or resentment usually tiresomely":{
"antonyms":[
"crow",
"delight",
"rejoice"
],
"examples":[
"the time-honored tradition of new recruits complaining about the food in the mess hall"
],
"near antonyms":[
"accept",
"bear",
"countenance",
"endure",
"take",
"tolerate",
"applaud",
"cheer",
"commend"
],
"related":[
"object (to)",
"protest",
"quarrel (with)",
"cavil",
"quibble",
"fret",
"stew",
"worry",
"blubber",
"cry",
"sob",
"bemoan",
"bewail",
"deplore",
"lament"
],
"synonyms":[
"beef",
"bellyache",
"bitch",
"bleat",
"carp",
"caterwaul",
"crab",
"croak",
"fuss",
"gripe",
"grizzle",
"grouch",
"grouse",
"growl",
"grumble",
"grump",
"holler",
"inveigh",
"keen",
"kick",
"kvetch",
"maunder",
"moan",
"murmur",
"mutter",
"nag",
"repine",
"scream",
"squawk",
"squeal",
"wail",
"whimper",
"whine",
"whinge",
"yammer",
"yawp",
"yaup",
"yowl"
]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"complaining":{
"as in":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[],
"near antonyms":[],
"related":[],
"synonyms":[]
},
"to express dissatisfaction, pain, or resentment usually tiresomely":{
"antonyms":[
"crowing",
"delighting",
"rejoicing"
],
"examples":[
"the time-honored tradition of new recruits complaining about the food in the mess hall"
],
"near antonyms":[
"accepting",
"bearing",
"countenancing",
"enduring",
"taking",
"tolerating",
"applauding",
"cheering",
"commending"
],
"related":[
"objecting (to)",
"protesting",
"quarreling (with)",
"quarrelling (with)",
"caviling",
"cavilling",
"quibbling",
"fretting",
"stewing",
"worrying",
"blubbering",
"crying",
"sobbing",
"bemoaning",
"bewailing",
"deploring",
"lamenting"
],
"synonyms":[
"beefing",
"bellyaching",
"bitching",
"bleating",
"carping",
"caterwauling",
"crabbing",
"croaking",
"fussing",
"griping",
"grizzling",
"grouching",
"grousing",
"growling",
"grumbling",
"grumping",
"hollering",
"inveighing",
"keening",
"kicking",
"kvetching",
"maundering",
"moaning",
"murmuring",
"muttering",
"nagging",
"repining",
"screaming",
"squawking",
"squealing",
"wailing",
"whimpering",
"whinging",
"whingeing",
"whining",
"yammering",
"yawping",
"yauping",
"yowling"
]
},
"type":[
"adjective",
"verb"
]
},
"compleat":{
"having or showing exceptional knowledge, experience, or skill in a field of endeavor":{
"antonyms":[
"amateur",
"amateurish",
"inexperienced",
"inexpert",
"jackleg",
"unprofessional",
"unseasoned",
"unskilled",
"unskillful"
],
"examples":[
"a training course that transformed the former technophobe into the compleat computer geek almost overnight"
],
"near antonyms":[
"incapable",
"incompetent",
"inept",
"unable",
"unfit",
"unfitted",
"unqualified",
"weak",
"artless",
"crude",
"rude",
"ineffective",
"ineffectual",
"inefficient",
"talentless",
"ungifted",
"untalented",
"ignorant",
"unschooled",
"untaught",
"untrained",
"untutored",
"beginning",
"green",
"inexperienced",
"new",
"raw",
"unseasoned",
"untested",
"untried",
"would-be",
"primitive",
"rough",
"unpolished",
"awkward",
"clumsy",
"ham-fisted",
"ham-handed",
"heavy-handed"
],
"related":[
"adroit",
"clever",
"deft",
"dexterous",
"dextrous",
"handy",
"slick",
"sure-handed",
"gifted",
"talented",
"polished",
"refined",
"effective",
"effectual",
"efficient",
"workmanlike",
"able",
"capable",
"competent",
"employable",
"fit",
"fitted",
"habile",
"qualified",
"knowledgeable",
"schooled",
"taught",
"trained",
"tutored",
"all-around",
"all-round",
"well-rounded",
"long-term",
"old",
"multiskilled",
"multitalented"
],
"synonyms":[
"accomplished",
"ace",
"adept",
"complete",
"consummate",
"crack",
"crackerjack",
"educated",
"experienced",
"expert",
"good",
"great",
"master",
"masterful",
"masterly",
"practiced",
"practised",
"professed",
"proficient",
"skilled",
"skillful",
"versed",
"veteran",
"virtuoso"
]
},
"not lacking any part or member that properly belongs to it":{
"antonyms":[
"imperfect",
"incomplete",
"partial"
],
"examples":[
"an exhaustive how-to guide for anyone planning the compleat wedding"
],
"near antonyms":[
"abbreviated",
"abridged",
"cut",
"diminished",
"reduced"
],
"related":[
"unabridged",
"uncut",
"undiminished",
"all-out",
"exhaustive",
"extensive",
"maximal",
"full-blooded",
"full-blown",
"full-bore",
"full-fledged",
"full-on",
"full-out",
"full-scale"
],
"synonyms":[
"complete",
"comprehensive",
"entire",
"full",
"grand",
"intact",
"integral",
"perfect",
"plenary",
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"load",
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"room",
"space",
"stowage"
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"real estate",
"volume"
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"beautify",
"decorate",
"embellish",
"better",
"enhance",
"improve",
"constitute",
"form",
"make up",
"enrich",
"perfect"
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"verb"
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"enhanced",
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"decorating",
"embellishing",
"bettering",
"enhancing",
"improving",
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"The family celebrated the completion of their youngest child's education."
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"noun"
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"a sunscreen for people with very light complexions"
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"tint",
"tone",
"features",
"lineaments",
"looks",
"countenance",
"face",
"visage"
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"color",
"coloring"
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"changing the complexion of the department to reflect changing needs"
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"distinctness",
"individuality",
"singularity",
"uniqueness",
"attribute",
"characteristic",
"earmark",
"essentiality",
"feature",
"flavor",
"hallmark",
"mark",
"point",
"property",
"savor",
"savour",
"stamp",
"trait",
"disposition",
"grain",
"sort",
"temper",
"temperament",
"composition",
"makeup",
"essence",
"essentiality",
"interior",
"interiority",
"soul",
"spirit",
"metal",
"stuff",
"substance",
"habit",
"way"
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"clay",
"colors",
"constitution",
"genius",
"nature",
"personality",
"self",
"tone"
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"type":[
"noun"
]
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"contrariness",
"contumacy",
"defiance",
"disobedience",
"frowardness",
"insubordination",
"intractability",
"noncompliance",
"obstreperousness",
"rebelling",
"rebellion",
"rebelliousness",
"recalcitrance",
"refractoriness",
"self-will",
"unruliness",
"waywardness",
"willfulness"
],
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"an administrator who demands prompt and unquestioning compliance from subordinates"
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"recusancy",
"disrespect",
"impudence",
"insolence",
"rudeness",
"insurgence",
"insurgency",
"insurrection",
"mutiny",
"outbreak",
"revolt",
"hardheadedness",
"mulishness",
"mutinousness",
"obstinacy",
"obstinateness",
"perversity",
"pigheadedness",
"stubbornness",
"misbehavior",
"mischievousness",
"naughtiness",
"dissent",
"dissidence"
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"agreeability",
"amenability",
"teachableness",
"tractability",
"tractableness",
"trainability",
"acquiescence",
"capitulation",
"obeisance",
"obsequiousness",
"submissiveness",
"surrender",
"yielding",
"deference",
"docility",
"dutifulness",
"humility",
"meekness",
"modesty",
"servility",
"slavishness",
"subordinateness",
"subservience",
"subserviency",
"inhibition",
"repression",
"restraint",
"suppression",
"control",
"discipline",
"dutifulness",
"order"
],
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"obedience",
"submission",
"subordination"
]
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"defiance",
"disobedience",
"intractability",
"recalcitrance"
],
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"a strong-willed pop star who is not known for her compliance"
],
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"animosity",
"antipathy",
"enmity",
"hostility",
"ill will"
],
"related":[
"amenability",
"amiability",
"complaisance",
"good-naturedness",
"obsequiousness",
"servility",
"slavishness",
"subservience",
"subserviency",
"conformity",
"cooperativeness",
"receptiveness",
"receptivity",
"humoring",
"indulgence",
"acceptance",
"assent",
"consent",
"capitulation",
"submission",
"surrender",
"affability",
"amicability",
"congeniality",
"cordiality",
"friendliness",
"geniality",
"sociability"
],
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"acquiescence",
"biddability",
"compliancy",
"deference",
"docility",
"obedience",
"submissiveness"
]
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"the following of a custom, rule, or law":{
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"breach",
"contravention",
"infraction",
"infringement",
"nonobservance",
"transgression",
"trespass",
"violation"
],
"examples":[
"compliance with the statute was far from universal"
],
"near antonyms":[
"brush-off",
"disregard",
"ignoring",
"delinquency",
"dereliction",
"forgetting",
"neglect",
"overlooking",
"offense",
"offence",
"sin",
"wrong",
"challenge",
"defiance",
"flouting",
"rebellion"
],
"related":[
"deference",
"honor",
"regard",
"respect",
"upholding",
"accession",
"acquiescence",
"submission",
"surrender",
"attendance",
"attention",
"heed",
"notice"
],
"synonyms":[
"abidance",
"adherence",
"conformance",
"conformity",
"keeping",
"obedience",
"observance",
"observation"
]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
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"a readiness or willingness to yield to the wishes of others":{
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"defiance",
"disobedience",
"intractability",
"recalcitrance"
],
"examples":[
"decided to go against his characteristic compliancy and stand up for himself"
],
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"animosity",
"antipathy",
"enmity",
"hostility",
"ill will"
],
"related":[
"amenability",
"amiability",
"complaisance",
"good-naturedness",
"obsequiousness",
"servility",
"slavishness",
"subservience",
"subserviency",
"conformity",
"cooperativeness",
"receptiveness",
"receptivity",
"humoring",
"indulgence",
"acceptance",
"assent",
"consent",
"capitulation",
"submission",
"surrender",
"affability",
"amicability",
"congeniality",
"cordiality",
"friendliness",
"geniality",
"sociability"
],
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"acquiescence",
"biddability",
"compliance",
"deference",
"docility",
"obedience",
"submissiveness"
]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
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"readily giving in to the command or authority of another":{
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"contrary",
"contumacious",
"defiant",
"disobedient",
"froward",
"incompliant",
"insubordinate",
"intractable",
"noncompliant",
"obstreperous",
"rebel",
"rebellious",
"recalcitrant",
"refractory",
"restive",
"unamenable",
"ungovernable",
"unruly",
"untoward",
"wayward",
"willful",
"wilful"
],
"examples":[
"a corrupt regime aided by a compliant press"
],
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"insurgent",
"mutinous",
"dogged",
"hardheaded",
"headstrong",
"mulish",
"obdurate",
"obstinate",
"peevish",
"pigheaded",
"self-willed",
"stubborn",
"unyielding",
"uncontrollable",
"unmanageable",
"wild",
"balky",
"defiant",
"perverse",
"resistant",
"bad",
"disorderly",
"errant",
"misbehaving",
"mischievous",
"naughty",
"ill-bred",
"undisciplined",
"dissident",
"nonconformist",
"disrespectful",
"ill-mannered",
"impolite",
"impudent",
"insolent",
"rude"
],
"related":[
"acquiescent",
"agreeable",
"amiable",
"duteous",
"dutiful",
"obliging",
"placable",
"soft",
"surrendering",
"yielding",
"fawning",
"kowtowing",
"obeisant",
"obsequious",
"servile",
"slavish",
"subordinate",
"subservient",
"decorous",
"disciplined",
"mannerly",
"orderly",
"constrained",
"curbed",
"inhibited",
"repressed",
"restrained",
"controllable",
"disciplinable",
"governable",
"handleable",
"manageable",
"tame",
"teachable",
"trainable",
"gentle",
"meek",
"mild"
],
"synonyms":[
"amenable",
"biddable",
"conformable",
"docile",
"law-abiding",
"obedient",
"submissive",
"tractable"
]
},
"type":[
"adjective"
]
},
"complicate":{
"having many parts or aspects that are usually interrelated":{
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"noncomplex",
"noncomplicated",
"plain",
"simple",
"uncomplicated"
],
"examples":[
"the kind of complicate machinery that is used in the field of robotics"
],
"near antonyms":[
"oversimplified",
"simplified",
"simplistic",
"homogeneous",
"uniform",
"unvaried"
],
"related":[
"overcomplex",
"overcomplicated",
"composite",
"compound",
"heterogeneous",
"mixed",
"multibranched",
"multifaceted",
"multifarious",
"multipart",
"varied",
"challenging",
"difficult",
"tough",
"impenetrable",
"incomprehensible",
"inexplicable",
"Kafkaesque",
"unfathomable",
"unintelligible"
],
"synonyms":[
"baroque",
"byzantine",
"complex",
"complicated",
"convoluted",
"daedal",
"elaborate",
"intricate",
"involute",
"involved",
"knotty",
"labyrinthian",
"labyrinthine",
"sophisticated",
"tangled"
]
},
"to make complex or difficult":{
"antonyms":[
"simplify",
"streamline"
],
"examples":[
"the need to go to both a PTA conference and condo board meeting really complicates tonight's schedule"
],
"near antonyms":[
"abbreviate",
"cut",
"shorten",
"ease",
"facilitate",
"disentangle",
"straighten (out)",
"unravel",
"untangle",
"oversimplify"
],
"related":[
"develop",
"elaborate",
"expand",
"intensify",
"magnify",
"confound",
"confuse",
"mess (up)",
"mix (up)",
"muddle",
"snarl",
"tangle"
],
"synonyms":[
"complex",
"complexify",
"embarrass",
"entangle",
"perplex",
"sophisticate"
]
},
"to make more severe":{
"antonyms":[
"allay",
"alleviate",
"assuage",
"ease",
"help",
"mitigate",
"relieve"
],
"examples":[
"asthma that has recently been complicated by a bout of bronchitis"
],
"near antonyms":[
"ameliorate",
"better",
"improve"
],
"related":[
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"deepen",
"intensify",
"magnify"
],
"synonyms":[
"aggravate",
"exacerbate",
"worsen"
]
},
"type":[
"adjective",
"verb"
]
},
"complicities":{
"a secret agreement or cooperation between two parties for an illegal or dishonest purpose":{
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"examples":[
"the two major auction houses acting in complicity to drive up the prices of art works"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"related":[
"chicaneries",
"foul play",
"skulduggeries",
"skullduggeries",
"double-dealings",
"duplicities",
"cover-ups",
"frame-ups",
"setups",
"conspirations",
"intrigues",
"plots",
"schemes"
],
"synonyms":[
"collusions",
"connivances",
"conspiracies"
]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
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"complied (with)":{
"to act according to the commands of":{
"antonyms":[
"defied",
"disobeyed",
"rebelled (against)"
],
"examples":[
"the guards rushed to comply with the warden's orders"
],
"near antonyms":[
"disobliged",
"challenged",
"dared",
"refused",
"renounced",
"repudiated",
"directed",
"led",
"brushed (off)",
"disregarded",
"ignored",
"overlooked",
"overpassed",
"passed over",
"tuned out",
"winked (at)",
"dismissed",
"pooh-poohed",
"poohed",
"shrugged off",
"breached",
"broke",
"infringed",
"transgressed",
"violated",
"derided",
"flouted",
"mocked",
"scoffed (at)",
"scorned",
"mutinied (against)",
"revolted (against)",
"bucked",
"combated",
"combatted",
"contested",
"disputed",
"fought",
"opposed",
"resisted",
"withstood"
],
"related":[
"deferred (to)",
"submitted (to)",
"surrendered (to)",
"yielded (to)",
"acceded (to)",
"acquiesced (to)",
"agreed (to)",
"assented (to)",
"attended",
"heard",
"heeded",
"listened (to)",
"marked",
"noted",
"noticed",
"regarded",
"took",
"watched"
],
"synonyms":[
"adhered (to)",
"conformed (to)",
"followed",
"goose-stepped (to)",
"minded",
"obeyed",
"observed"
]
},
"to do what is required by the terms of":{
"antonyms":[
"breached",
"broke",
"transgressed",
"violated"
],
"examples":[
"were summarily threatened with a lawsuit if they did not comply with the contract"
],
"near antonyms":[
"defaulted (on)",
"disregarded",
"forgot",
"ignored",
"neglected",
"overlooked",
"overpassed",
"passed over",
"slighted"
],
"related":[
"concluded",
"consummated",
"finalized",
"finished",
"perfected",
"accomplished",
"achieved",
"brought about",
"brought off",
"carried out",
"effected",
"committed",
"compassed",
"discharged",
"executed",
"followed through (with)",
"made",
"performed"
],
"synonyms":[
"answered",
"completed",
"filled",
"fulfilled",
"kept",
"met",
"redeemed",
"satisfied"
]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"compliments":{
"best wishes":{
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"examples":[
"please extend our compliments to the chef for a great meal"
],
"near antonyms":[
"dig",
"gibe",
"jibe",
"insult",
"put-down",
"taunt"
],
"related":[
"approval",
"benediction",
"blessing",
"endorsement",
"indorsement",
"acknowledgment",
"acknowledgement",
"citation",
"commendation",
"adulation",
"flattery",
"praise",
"well-wishing"
],
"synonyms":[
"commendations",
"congratulations",
"felicitations",
"greetings",
"regards",
"respects"
]
},
"to express to (someone) admiration for his or her success or good fortune":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"complimented her on her election victory"
],
"near antonyms":[
"bad-mouths",
"belittles",
"cries down",
"decries",
"deprecates",
"depreciates",
"diminishes",
"discounts",
"disparages",
"minimizes",
"puts down",
"writes off",
"jeers",
"mocks",
"ridicules",
"taunts",
"teases"
],
"related":[
"applauds",
"cheers",
"commends",
"hails",
"salutes",
"extols",
"extolls",
"glorifies",
"lauds",
"praises"
],
"synonyms":[
"congratulates",
"felicitates",
"hugs"
]
},
"type":[
"noun",
"verb"
]
},
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"to act according to the commands of":{
"antonyms":[
"defying",
"disobeying",
"rebelling (against)"
],
"examples":[
"the guards rushed to comply with the warden's orders"
],
"near antonyms":[
"disobliging",
"challenging",
"daring",
"refusing",
"renouncing",
"repudiating",
"directing",
"leading",
"brushing (off)",
"disregarding",
"ignoring",
"overlooking",
"overpassing",
"passing over",
"tuning out",
"winking (at)",
"dismissing",
"pooh-poohing",
"poohing",
"shrugging off",
"breaching",
"breaking",
"infringing",
"transgressing",
"violating",
"deriding",
"flouting",
"mocking",
"scoffing (at)",
"scorning",
"mutinying (against)",
"revolting (against)",
"bucking",
"combating",
"combatting",
"contesting",
"disputing",
"fighting",
"opposing",
"resisting",
"withstanding"
],
"related":[
"deferring (to)",
"submitting (to)",
"surrendering (to)",
"yielding (to)",
"acceding (to)",
"acquiescing (to)",
"agreeing (to)",
"assenting (to)",
"attending",
"hearing",
"heeding",
"listening (to)",
"marking",
"noticing",
"noting",
"regarding",
"taking",
"watching"
],
"synonyms":[
"adhering (to)",
"conforming (to)",
"following",
"goose-stepping (to)",
"minding",
"obeying",
"observing"
]
},
"to do what is required by the terms of":{
"antonyms":[
"breaching",
"breaking",
"transgressing",
"violating"
],
"examples":[
"were summarily threatened with a lawsuit if they did not comply with the contract"
],
"near antonyms":[
"defaulting (on)",
"disregarding",
"forgetting",
"ignoring",
"neglecting",
"overlooking",
"overpassing",
"passing over",
"slighting"
],
"related":[
"concluding",
"consummating",
"finalizing",
"finishing",
"perfecting",
"accomplishing",
"achieving",
"bringing about",
"bringing off",
"carrying out",
"effecting",
"committing",
"compassing",
"discharging",
"executing",
"following through (with)",
"making",
"performing"
],
"synonyms":[
"answering",
"completing",
"filling",
"fulfilling",
"keeping",
"meeting",
"redeeming",
"satisfying"
]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"composedness":{
"evenness of emotions or temper":{
"antonyms":[
"agitation",
"discomposure",
"perturbation"
],
"examples":[
"he coped with the medical emergency with his usual composedness"
],
"near antonyms":[
"alarm",
"alarum",
"anxiety",
"anxiousness",
"apprehension",
"apprehensiveness",
"care",
"concern",
"disquiet",
"solicitude",
"uneasiness",
"worry",
"excitability",
"excitableness",
"nervousness",
"disturbance"
],
"related":[
"assurance",
"confidence",
"poise",
"self-assurance",
"self-assuredness",
"self-confidence",
"self-trust",
"easygoingness",
"laid-backness",
"apathy",
"detachment",
"impassivity",
"indifference",
"insensibility",
"numbness",
"phlegm",
"unconcern"
],
"synonyms":[
"aplomb",
"calmness",
"collectedness",
"composure",
"cool",
"coolness",
"countenance",
"equanimity",
"equilibrium",
"imperturbability",
"placidity",
"repose",
"sangfroid",
"self-composedness",
"self-possession",
"serenity",
"tranquillity",
"tranquility",
"tranquilness"
]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"composing":{
"to be all the substance of":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"the earth's crust is composed of mostly silicon with several other elements in smaller amounts"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"related":[
"embodying",
"epitomizing",
"incarnating",
"incorporating",
"integrating",
"materializing",
"personifying",
"substantiating",
"complementing",
"completing",
"supplementing",
"filling (out)",
"fleshing (out)"
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"discomposing",
"disquieting",
"disturbing",
"keying (up)",
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"upsetting",
"vexing"
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"the first order of business was to compose the injured pedestrian"
],
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"heightening",
"intensifying",
"arousing",
"exciting",
"fomenting",
"inciting",
"rousing",
"stirring (up)",
"working up"
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"conciliating",
"hushing",
"mollifying",
"pacifying",
"placating",
"allaying",
"alleviating",
"assuaging",
"easing",
"laying",
"mitigating",
"quelling",
"relaxing",
"relieving",
"solacing",
"narcotizing",
"sedating",
"stupefying"
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"calming",
"lullabying",
"lulling",
"quietening",
"quieting",
"salving",
"settling",
"soothing",
"stilling",
"tranquilizing",
"tranquillizing"
]
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"examples":[
"she took a deep breath and composed herself"
],
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"rallying",
"recovering",
"lulling",
"quieting",
"soothing",
"stilling",
"tranquilizing",
"tranquillizing"
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"collecting",
"containing",
"controlling",
"re-collecting",
"settling"
]
},
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"composed a statement on this hot-button issue that managed to satisfy absolutely no one"
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"fashioning",
"forming",
"molding",
"sculpturing",
"shaping",
"couching",
"expressing",
"phrasing",
"stating",
"verbalizing",
"wording",
"authoring",
"inditing",
"penning",
"writing",
"conceiving",
"concocting",
"devising",
"building",
"constructing",
"making",
"assembling",
"compounding",
"piecing (together)",
"redrafting",
"reformulating",
"reframing"
],
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"crafting",
"drafting",
"drawing up",
"formulating",
"framing",
"preparing"
]
},
"type":[
"verb"
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},
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"broke down",
"broke up",
"separated",
"unmixed"
],
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"wood chips can be composited or sold as mulch"
],
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"cleaved",
"cleft",
"disjoined",
"disunited",
"divided",
"divorced",
"parted",
"ruptured",
"severed",
"sundered",
"dispersed",
"dissolved",
"scattered",
"detached",
"disengaged",
"split"
],
"related":[
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"admixed",
"beat (in)",
"cut in",
"folded",
"stirred",
"tossed",
"coalesced",
"compounded",
"emulsified",
"conjoined",
"joined",
"knit",
"knitted",
"linked",
"united",
"intertwined",
"interwove",
"interweaved",
"wove",
"weaved"
],
"synonyms":[
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"blended",
"blent",
"combined",
"comingled",
"commingled",
"commixed",
"concreted",
"conflated",
"fused",
"homogenized",
"immingled",
"immixed",
"incorporated",
"integrated",
"interfused",
"intermingled",
"intermixed",
"melded",
"merged",
"mingled",
"mixed"
]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
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"breaking down",
"breaking up",
"separating",
"unmixing"
],
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"wood chips can be composited or sold as mulch"
],
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"cleaving",
"disjoining",
"disuniting",
"dividing",
"divorcing",
"parting",
"rupturing",
"severing",
"sundering",
"dispersing",
"dissolving",
"scattering",
"detaching",
"disengaging",
"splitting"
],
"related":[
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"admixing",
"beating (in)",
"cutting in",
"folding",
"stirring",
"tossing",
"coalescing",
"compounding",
"emulsifying",
"conjoining",
"joining",
"knitting",
"linking",
"uniting",
"intertwining",
"interweaving",
"weaving"
],
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"blending",
"combining",
"comingling",
"commingling",
"commixing",
"concreting",
"conflating",
"fusing",
"homogenizing",
"immingling",
"immixing",
"incorporating",
"integrating",
"interfusing",
"intermingling",
"intermixing",
"melding",
"merging",
"mingling",
"mixing"
]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
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"agitation",
"discomposure",
"perturbation"
],
"examples":[
"kept his composure in spite of the repeated provocations"
],
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"alarm",
"alarum",
"anxiety",
"anxiousness",
"apprehension",
"apprehensiveness",
"care",
"concern",
"disquiet",
"solicitude",
"uneasiness",
"worry",
"excitability",
"excitableness",
"nervousness",
"disturbance"
],
"related":[
"assurance",
"confidence",
"poise",
"self-assurance",
"self-assuredness",
"self-confidence",
"self-trust",
"easygoingness",
"laid-backness",
"apathy",
"detachment",
"impassivity",
"indifference",
"insensibility",
"numbness",
"phlegm",
"unconcern"
],
"synonyms":[
"aplomb",
"calmness",
"collectedness",
"composedness",
"cool",
"coolness",
"countenance",
"equanimity",
"equilibrium",
"imperturbability",
"placidity",
"repose",
"sangfroid",
"self-composedness",
"self-possession",
"serenity",
"tranquillity",
"tranquility",
"tranquilness"
]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"compounded":{
"as in combined , coalesced":{
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"examples":[],
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"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)"
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"examples":[
"we compounded our error by waiting too long to call for help"
],
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"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":[
"accelerated",
"added (to)",
"aggrandized",
"amplified",
"augmented",
"boosted",
"built up",
"enlarged",
"escalated",
"expanded",
"extended",
"hyped",
"increased",
"multiplied",
"pumped up",
"raised",
"stoked",
"supersized",
"swelled",
"upped"
]
},
"to put or bring together so as to form a new and longer whole":{
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"disconnected",
"disjoined",
"disjointed",
"dissevered",
"disunited",
"separated",
"unchained",
"uncoupled",
"unhitched",
"unlinked",
"unyoked"
],
"examples":[
"the German language's propensity for compounding words"
],
"near antonyms":[
"detached",
"disengaged",
"divided",
"parted",
"split",
"cleaved",
"cleft",
"ruptured",
"severed",
"sundered"
],
"related":[
"articulated",
"dovetailed",
"integrated",
"interlocked",
"intermeshed",
"corded",
"strung",
"wired",
"cemented",
"coalesced",
"combined",
"fused",
"united",
"welded"
],
"synonyms":[
"catenated",
"chained",
"concatenated",
"conjugated",
"connected",
"coupled",
"hitched",
"hooked",
"interconnected",
"interlinked",
"joined",
"linked",
"yoked"
]
},
"type":[
"adjective",
"verb"
]
},
"compounding":{
"as in mix , mixture":{
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"examples":[],
"near antonyms":[],
"related":[],
"synonyms":[]
},
"to make greater in size, amount, or number":{
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"abating",
"decreasing",
"de-escalating",
"diminishing",
"downsizing",
"dwindling",
"lessening",
"lowering",
"minifying",
"reducing",
"subtracting (from)"
],
"examples":[
"we compounded our error by waiting too long to call for help"
],
"near antonyms":[
"abbreviating",
"abridging",
"curtailing",
"shortening",
"compressing",
"condensing",
"constricting",
"contracting",
"cutting back",
"retrenching"
],
"related":[
"booming",
"jumping",
"skyrocketing",
"spiking",
"bumping (up)",
"ratcheting (up)",
"racheting (up)",
"blowing up",
"dilating",
"distending",
"inflating",
"drawing out",
"elongating",
"fleshing (out)",
"lengthening",
"prolonging",
"protracting",
"stretching",
"developing",
"enhancing",
"heightening",
"intensifying",
"magnifying",
"complementing",
"supplementing",
"beefing (up)",
"reinforcing",
"reenforcing",
"strengthening",
"maximizing",
"accumulating",
"amassing",
"collecting",
"following up",
"parlaying"
],
"synonyms":[
"accelerating",
"adding (to)",
"aggrandizing",
"amplifying",
"augmenting",
"boosting",
"building up",
"enlarging",
"escalating",
"expanding",
"extending",
"hyping",
"increasing",
"multiplying",
"pumping up",
"raising",
"stoking",
"supersizing",
"swelling",
"upping"
]
},
"to put or bring together so as to form a new and longer whole":{
"antonyms":[
"disconnecting",
"disjoining",
"disjointing",
"dissevering",
"disuniting",
"separating",
"unchaining",
"uncoupling",
"unhitching",
"unlinking",
"unyoking"
],
"examples":[
"the German language's propensity for compounding words"
],
"near antonyms":[
"detaching",
"disengaging",
"dividing",
"parting",
"splitting",
"cleaving",
"rupturing",
"severing",
"sundering"
],
"related":[
"articulating",
"dovetailing",
"integrating",
"interlocking",
"intermeshing",
"cording",
"stringing",
"wiring",
"cementing",
"coalescing",
"combining",
"fusing",
"uniting",
"welding"
],
"synonyms":[
"catenating",
"chaining",
"concatenating",
"conjugating",
"connecting",
"coupling",
"hitching",
"hooking",
"interconnecting",
"interlinking",
"joining",
"linking",
"yoking"
]
},
"type":[
"noun",
"verb"
]
},
"comprehensively":{
"type":[
"adverb"
],
"with attention to all aspects or details":{
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"examples":[
"no period in American history has been as comprehensively studied as the Civil War"
],
"near antonyms":[
"aimlessly",
"desultorily",
"haphazardly",
"hit or miss",
"randomly",
"cursorily",
"imperfectly",
"inadequately",
"narrowly",
"shallowly",
"sketchily",
"summarily",
"superficially",
"indeterminately",
"nebulously",
"vaguely"
],
"related":[
"meticulously",
"microscopically",
"all out",
"full blast",
"intensively",
"broadly",
"encyclopedically",
"extensively",
"generally",
"globally",
"widely",
"conclusively",
"consummately",
"definitely",
"perfectly"
],
"synonyms":[
"completely",
"detailedly",
"exhaustively",
"fully",
"inside out",
"minutely",
"roundly",
"sweepingly",
"systematically",
"thoroughly",
"through and through",
"totally"
]
}
},
"compress":{
"to become smaller in size or volume through the drawing together of particles of matter":{
"antonyms":[
"balloon",
"expand",
"snowball",
"swell"
],
"examples":[
"the substance can compress under pressure"
],
"near antonyms":[
"accumulate",
"grow",
"increase",
"balloon",
"inflate",
"puff (up)"
],
"related":[
"collapse",
"deflate",
"flatten",
"dry up",
"shrivel",
"wilt",
"wither",
"abate",
"decrease",
"diminish",
"dwindle",
"lessen",
"recede",
"retreat",
"withdraw"
],
"synonyms":[
"condense",
"constrict",
"contract",
"shrink"
]
},
"to reduce in size or volume by or as if by pressing parts or members together":{
"antonyms":[
"decompress",
"expand",
"open",
"outspread",
"outstretch"
],
"examples":[
"a science textbook that compresses a lot of information about human reproduction into a few short chapters"
],
"near antonyms":[
"dilate",
"disperse",
"dissipate",
"scatter",
"distend",
"inflate",
"swell"
],
"related":[
"cram",
"crowd",
"jam",
"jam-pack",
"pack",
"abbreviate",
"abridge",
"curtail",
"shorten",
"boil down",
"downsize",
"shrink",
"concentrate",
"consolidate",
"simplify",
"streamline",
"decrease",
"diminish",
"lessen"
],
"synonyms":[
"capsule",
"capsulize",
"collapse",
"compact",
"condense",
"constrict",
"constringe",
"contract",
"narrow (down)",
"squeeze",
"telescope"
]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"compressing":{
"as in":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[],
"near antonyms":[],
"related":[],
"synonyms":[]
},
"to become smaller in size or volume through the drawing together of particles of matter":{
"antonyms":[
"ballooning",
"expanding",
"snowballing",
"swelling"
],
"examples":[
"the substance can compress under pressure"
],
"near antonyms":[
"accumulating",
"growing",
"increasing",
"ballooning",
"inflating",
"puffing (up)"
],
"related":[
"collapsing",
"deflating",
"flattening",
"drying up",
"shriveling",
"shrivelling",
"wilting",
"withering",
"abating",
"decreasing",
"diminishing",
"dwindling",
"lessening",
"receding",
"retreating",
"withdrawing"
],
"synonyms":[
"condensing",
"constricting",
"contracting",
"shrinking"
]
},
"to reduce in size or volume by or as if by pressing parts or members together":{
"antonyms":[
"decompressing",
"expanding",
"opening",
"outspreading",
"outstretching"
],
"examples":[
"a science textbook that compresses a lot of information about human reproduction into a few short chapters"
],
"near antonyms":[
"dilating",
"dispersing",
"dissipating",
"scattering",
"distending",
"inflating",
"swelling"
],
"related":[
"cramming",
"crowding",
"jamming",
"jam-packing",
"packing",
"abbreviating",
"abridging",
"curtailing",
"shortening",
"boiling down",
"downsizing",
"shrinking",
"concentrating",
"consolidating",
"simplifying",
"streamlining",
"decreasing",
"diminishing",
"lessening"
],
"synonyms":[
"capsuling",
"capsulizing",
"collapsing",
"compacting",
"condensing",
"constricting",
"constringing",
"contracting",
"narrowing (down)",
"squeezing",
"telescoping"
]
},
"type":[
"noun",
"verb"
]
},
"computed":{
"to determine (a value) by doing the necessary mathematical operations":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"for the test we were required to compute the answers without using a calculator"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"related":[
"added up",
"averaged",
"summed",
"tallied",
"totaled",
"totalled",
"totalized",
"added",
"divided",
"multiplied",
"subtracted",
"allowed (for)",
"deducted",
"factored (in or into or out)",
"figured in",
"figured out",
"solved (for)",
"counted",
"itemized",
"numbered",
"calibrated",
"gauged",
"gaged",
"measured",
"scaled",
"appraised",
"assessed",
"estimated",
"evaluated",
"rated",
"valued",
"recalculated",
"recomputed",
"refigured"
],
"synonyms":[
"calculated",
"ciphered",
"figured",
"reckoned",
"worked out"
]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"comrade":{
"a person frequently seen in the company of another":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"the boy, and two others who are known to be his comrades , are wanted for questioning by the police"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"related":[
"colleague",
"coworker",
"equal",
"peer",
"workmate",
"accomplice",
"affiliate",
"ally",
"collaborator",
"confederate",
"half",
"partner",
"buddy",
"chum",
"confidant",
"familiar",
"friend",
"hearty",
"intimate",
"pal",
"countryman",
"classmate",
"housemate",
"messmate",
"playfellow",
"playmate",
"roommate",
"roomie",
"schoolmate",
"shipmate",
"teammate",
"attendant",
"escort",
"hanger-on",
"leech",
"parasite"
],
"synonyms":[
"associate",
"cohort",
"companion",
"compatriot",
"compeer",
"crony",
"fellow",
"hobnobber",
"mate",
"running mate"
]
},
"a person who has a strong liking for and trust in another":{
"antonyms":[
"enemy",
"foe"
],
"examples":[
"we expect to be comrades for the rest of our lives"
],
"near antonyms":[
"adversary",
"antagonist",
"competitor",
"opponent",
"rival",
"archenemy",
"nemesis"
],
"related":[
"acquaintance",
"associate",
"cohort",
"colleague",
"companion",
"fellow",
"hearty",
"hobnobber",
"partner",
"peer",
"sport",
"blood brother",
"brother",
"main man",
"sister",
"abettor",
"abetter",
"accomplice",
"ally",
"collaborator",
"confederate",
"pen pal",
"benefactor",
"supporter",
"sympathizer",
"well-wisher",
"friendly"
],
"synonyms":[
"alter ego",
"amigo",
"buddy",
"chum",
"compadre",
"confidant",
"confidante",
"crony",
"familiar",
"friend",
"intimate",
"mate",
"musketeer",
"pal"
]
},
"an adherent or advocate of an economic system in which the means of production are owned and controlled by the state":{
"antonyms":[
"capitalist"
],
"examples":[
"a novel about an aging comrade's eventual disenchantment with communism and its excesses"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"related":[
"leftist",
"lefty",
"pink",
"pinko",
"social democrat",
"Bolshevik",
"Leninist",
"Leninite",
"Maoist",
"Marxist",
"Stalinist",
"Trotskyist",
"Trotskyite",
"extremist",
"radical",
"revolutionary",
"revolutionist"
],
"synonyms":[
"commie",
"communist",
"Red",
"socialist"
]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"comradery":{
"the feeling of closeness and friendship that exists between companions":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"the special comradery that exists between soldiers that have experienced the crucible of combat together"
],
"near antonyms":[
"forlornness",
"loneliness",
"lonesomeness"
],
"related":[
"amity",
"benevolence",
"cordiality",
"friendliness",
"friendship",
"goodwill",
"kindliness",
"civility",
"comity",
"concord",
"harmony",
"rapport",
"charity",
"generosity",
"affinity",
"compassion",
"empathy",
"sympathy",
"chumminess",
"familiarity",
"inseparability",
"intimacy",
"nearness",
"affection",
"devotion",
"fondness",
"love"
],
"synonyms":[
"brotherhood",
"camaraderie",
"community",
"companionship",
"company",
"comradeship",
"fellowship",
"society"
]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"con":{
"a person convicted as a criminal and serving a prison sentence":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"a program to help ex- cons find employment"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"related":[
"lifer",
"trusty",
"parolee",
"probationer",
"captive",
"capture",
"inmate",
"internee",
"prisoner"
],
"synonyms":[
"convict",
"jailbird"
]
},
"an instance of the use of dishonest methods to acquire something of value":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"the explanation was so plausible that I never suspected it was all a con to make off with my car"
],
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"related":[
"cross",
"fix",
"Ponzi scheme",
"pyramid scheme",
"racket",
"rip-off",
"thimblerig",
"three-card monte",
"device",
"dodge",
"gimmick",
"jig",
"ploy",
"scheme",
"sleight",
"stratagem",
"trick",
"wile",
"gouging",
"overcharging",
"soaking",
"counterfeit",
"fake",
"forgery",
"hoax",
"humbug",
"phony",
"phoney",
"sham"
],
"synonyms":[
"bunco",
"bunko",
"fiddle",
"flimflam",
"fraud",
"hustle",
"scam",
"shell game",
"sting",
"swindle"
]
},
"to cause to believe what is untrue":{
"antonyms":[
"undeceive"
],
"examples":[
"tried to con me into thinking that he had actually won the lottery"
],
"near antonyms":[
"debunk",
"expose",
"reveal",
"show up",
"uncloak",
"uncover",
"unmask",
"disclose",
"divulge",
"tell",
"unveil",
"disabuse",
"disenchant",
"disillusion"
],
"related":[
"kid",
"put on",
"tease",
"bleed",
"cheat",
"chisel",
"defraud",
"diddle",
"euchre",
"fleece",
"flimflam",
"hustle",
"mulct",
"rook",
"shortchange",
"skin",
"squeeze",
"stick",
"sting",
"swindle"
],
"synonyms":[
"bamboozle",
"beguile",
"bluff",
"buffalo",
"burn",
"catch",
"cozen",
"deceive",
"delude",
"dupe",
"fake out",
"fool",
"gaff",
"gammon",
"gull",
"have",
"have on",
"hoax",
"hoodwink",
"hornswoggle",
"humbug",
"juggle",
"misguide",
"misinform",
"mislead",
"snooker",
"snow",
"spoof",
"string along",
"suck in",
"sucker",
"take in",
"trick"
]
},
"to commit to memory":{
"antonyms":[
"unlearn"
],
"examples":[
"usually candidates con their entire campaign speech, right down to the jokes they supposedly ad-lib"
],
"near antonyms":[
"disremember",
"forget",
"misremember",
"disregard",
"ignore",
"neglect",
"overlook",
"overpass",
"pass over",
"slight",
"slur (over)"
],
"related":[
"hark back (to)",
"mind",
"recall",
"recollect",
"relive",
"remember",
"reminisce (about)",
"retain",
"think (of)",
"accept",
"apprehend",
"comprehend",
"get",
"grasp",
"know",
"understand",
"absorb",
"digest"
],
"synonyms":[
"learn",
"memorize",
"study"
]
},
"to look over closely (as for judging quality or condition)":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"seemed to be conning his face for any sign of uncertainty"
],
"near antonyms":[
"skim",
"miss"
],
"related":[
"notice",
"observe",
"watch",
"comb",
"peruse",
"pore (over)",
"analyze",
"dissect",
"parse",
"delve (into)",
"explore",
"investigate",
"plumb",
"probe",
"research",
"study",
"categorize",
"classify",
"pick over",
"reinspect",
"rereview",
"resurvey"
],
"synonyms":[
"audit",
"check (out)",
"examine",
"inspect",
"overlook",
"oversee",
"review",
"scan",
"scrutinize",
"survey",
"view"
]
},
"to rob by the use of trickery or threats":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"a fly-by-night operator who had conned hundreds of would-be homeowners out of their hard-earned money"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"related":[
"extort",
"wrench",
"wrest",
"wring",
"clip",
"gouge",
"nick",
"overcharge",
"soak",
"exploit",
"milk",
"deceive",
"dupe",
"fool",
"gull",
"trick",
"rope (in)",
"betray",
"bitch",
"double-cross",
"bamboozle",
"fast-talk"
],
"synonyms":[
"beat",
"bilk",
"bleed",
"cheat",
"chisel",
"chouse",
"cozen",
"defraud",
"diddle",
"do",
"do in",
"euchre",
"fiddle",
"fleece",
"flimflam",
"gaff",
"hose",
"hustle",
"mulct",
"nobble",
"pluck",
"ream",
"rip off",
"rook",
"screw",
"shake down",
"short",
"shortchange",
"skin",
"skunk",
"squeeze",
"stick",
"stiff",
"sting",
"sucker",
"swindle",
"thimblerig",
"victimize"
]
},
"type":[
"noun",
"verb"
]
},
"concatenation":{
"a series of things linked together":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"a complicated concatenation of events leading to the freak accident"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"related":[
"chain reaction",
"belt",
"circle",
"cycle",
"vicious circle",
"vicious cycle",
"continuum",
"gamut",
"gauntlet",
"gantlet",
"scale",
"spectrum",
"flow",
"river",
"stream",
"file",
"line",
"queue",
"range",
"row",
"succession"
],
"synonyms":[
"catena",
"catenation",
"chain",
"consecution",
"nexus",
"progression",
"sequence",
"string",
"train"
]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"concavity":{
"a sunken area forming a separate space":{
"antonyms":[
"bulge",
"camber",
"convexity",
"jut",
"projection",
"protrusion",
"protuberance"
],
"examples":[
"water collected in a shallow concavity on the floor of the cave"
],
"near antonyms":[
"hill",
"mound",
"rise",
"bump",
"bunch",
"hump",
"lump",
"pimple",
"swell",
"swelling",
"tumor"
],
"related":[
"burrow",
"cave",
"cavern",
"ditch",
"excavation",
"furrow",
"groove",
"gutter",
"trench",
"trough",
"basin",
"bowl",
"valley",
"alcove",
"cleft",
"niche",
"nook",
"opening",
"socket",
"alveolus",
"dimple",
"gouge",
"impression",
"imprint",
"notch",
"pocket",
"borehole",
"chuckhole",
"crater",
"posthole",
"pothole",
"sinkhole",
"wallow",
"water hole",
"well",
"abyss",
"chasm",
"gulf",
"vacuity",
"vacuum",
"void"
],
"synonyms":[
"cavity",
"dent",
"depression",
"dint",
"hole",
"hollow",
"indentation",
"indenture",
"pit",
"recess"
]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"concealed":{
"as in hidden , subterranean":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[],
"near antonyms":[],
"related":[],
"synonyms":[]
},
"as in masked , shrouded":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[],
"near antonyms":[],
"related":[],
"synonyms":[]
},
"to keep secret or shut off from view":{
"antonyms":[
"bared",
"disclosed",
"displayed",
"divulged",
"exposed",
"revealed",
"showed",
"uncloaked",
"uncovered",
"unmasked",
"unveiled"
],
"examples":[
"the defense attorney accused the prosecutor of trying to conceal exculpatory evidence"
],
"near antonyms":[
"brought out",
"presented",
"clarified",
"illuminated",
"advertised",
"aired",
"broadcast",
"broadcasted",
"got out",
"proclaimed",
"publicized",
"published",
"spread"
],
"related":[
"buried",
"camouflaged",
"covered (up)",
"smothered",
"gilded",
"gilt",
"glossed (over)",
"varnished",
"whitewashed",
"beclouded",
"bedimmed",
"befogged",
"blocked",
"clouded",
"darkened",
"eclipsed",
"obstructed",
"occluded",
"overcast",
"overshadowed",
"shaded"
],
"synonyms":[
"belied",
"blanketed",
"blotted out",
"cloaked",
"covered",
"curtained",
"disguised",
"enshrouded",
"hid",
"masked",
"obscured",
"occulted",
"papered over",
"screened",
"shrouded",
"suppressed",
"veiled"
]
},
"to put into a hiding place":{
"antonyms":[
"displayed",
"exhibited"
],
"examples":[
"wisely concealed the documents in a drawer beneath a false bottom"
],
"near antonyms":[
"bared",
"exposed",
"revealed",
"showed",
"uncovered",
"unmasked",
"unveiled",
"unwrapped",
"flaunted",
"paraded",
"showed off",
"disinterred",
"unearthed"
],
"related":[
"hoarded",
"squirreled (away)",
"squirrelled (away)",
"stashed",
"entombed",
"interred"
],
"synonyms":[
"buried",
"cached",
"ensconced",
"hid",
"secreted"
]
},
"type":[
"adjective",
"verb"
]
},
"concede":{
"to accept the truth or existence of (something) usually reluctantly":{
"antonyms":[
"deny"
],
"examples":[
"she grudgingly conceded his point"
],
"near antonyms":[
"disallow",
"disavow",
"disclaim",
"disown",
"contradict",
"dispute",
"gainsay",
"negate",
"negative",
"rebut",
"refute",
"reject",
"repudiate",
"conceal",
"cover (up)",
"hide",
"obscure",
"veil",
"kid (oneself)"
],
"related":[
"disburden",
"unburden",
"unload",
"affirm",
"avow",
"confirm",
"profess",
"accept",
"recognize",
"yield",
"announce",
"break",
"broadcast",
"communicate",
"declare",
"disclose",
"divulge",
"impart",
"proclaim",
"publish",
"reveal",
"spill",
"tell",
"unveil",
"betray",
"blab",
"expose",
"give away",
"inform",
"leak",
"rat",
"squeal",
"talk",
"tattle",
"tip (off)",
"warn",
"wise (up)",
"breathe",
"say",
"whisper"
],
"synonyms":[
"acknowledge",
"admit",
"agree",
"allow",
"confess",
"fess (up)",
"grant",
"own (up to)"
]
},
"to cease resistance (as to another's arguments, demands, or control)":{
"antonyms":[
"resist"
],
"examples":[
"he conceded as soon as it became clear that he could not win"
],
"near antonyms":[
"contend",
"fight",
"hold off",
"battle",
"breast",
"combat",
"confront",
"counter",
"defy",
"face",
"meet",
"object",
"oppose",
"repel",
"thwart",
"withstand"
],
"related":[
"acquiesce",
"defer"
],
"synonyms":[
"blink",
"bow",
"budge",
"capitulate",
"give in",
"knuckle under",
"quit",
"relent",
"submit",
"succumb",
"surrender",
"yield"
]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"conceded (to)":{
"as in consented (to) , confirmed":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[],
"near antonyms":[],
"related":[],
"synonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"concedes":{
"to accept the truth or existence of (something) usually reluctantly":{
"antonyms":[
"denies"
],
"examples":[
"she grudgingly conceded his point"
],
"near antonyms":[
"disallows",
"disavows",
"disclaims",
"disowns",
"contradicts",
"disputes",
"gainsays",
"negates",
"negatives",
"rebuts",
"refutes",
"rejects",
"repudiates",
"conceals",
"covers (up)",
"hides",
"obscures",
"veils",
"kids (oneself)"
],
"related":[
"disburdens",
"unburdens",
"unloads",
"affirms",
"avows",
"confirms",
"professes",
"accepts",
"recognizes",
"yields",
"announces",
"breaks",
"broadcasts",
"communicates",
"declares",
"discloses",
"divulges",
"imparts",
"proclaims",
"publishes",
"reveals",
"spills",
"tells",
"unveils",
"betrays",
"blabs",
"exposes",
"gives away",
"informs",
"leaks",
"rats",
"squeals",
"talks",
"tattles",
"tips (off)",
"warns",
"wises (up)",
"breathes",
"says",
"whispers"
],
"synonyms":[
"acknowledges",
"admits",
"agrees",
"allows",
"confesses",
"fesses (up)",
"grants",
"owns (up to)"
]
},
"to cease resistance (as to another's arguments, demands, or control)":{
"antonyms":[
"resists"
],
"examples":[
"he conceded as soon as it became clear that he could not win"
],
"near antonyms":[
"contends",
"fights",
"holds off",
"battles",
"breasts",
"combats",
"confronts",
"counters",
"defies",
"faces",
"meets",
"objects",
"opposes",
"repels",
"thwarts",
"withstands"
],
"related":[
"acquiesces",
"defers"
],
"synonyms":[
"blinks",
"bows",
"budges",
"capitulates",
"gives in",
"knuckles under",
"quits",
"relents",
"submits",
"succumbs",
"surrenders",
"yields"
]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"concentered":{
"to bring (something) to a central point or under a single control":{
"antonyms":[
"decentralized",
"deconcentrated",
"spread (out)"
],
"examples":[
"you'll have to concenter your nebulous thoughts on the subject before even attempting to write"
],
"near antonyms":[
"segregated",
"separated"
],
"related":[
"coordinated",
"harmonized",
"integrated",
"orchestrated",
"blended",
"blent",
"coalesced",
"combined",
"fused",
"incorporated",
"merged",
"reduced",
"conjoined",
"joined",
"linked",
"assembled",
"collected",
"colligated",
"gathered",
"reunified",
"reunited"
],
"synonyms":[
"centered",
"centralized",
"compacted",
"concentrated",
"consolidated",
"polarized",
"unified",
"united"
]
},
"to come together into one body or place":{
"antonyms":[
"broke up",
"disbanded",
"dispersed",
"split (up)"
],
"examples":[
"most of the local motels have concentered around the theme park, which is the region's biggest attraction by far"
],
"near antonyms":[
"departed",
"left",
"took off",
"disjoined",
"dissociated",
"disunited"
],
"related":[
"affiliated",
"allied",
"associated",
"banded (together)",
"caucused",
"clubbed",
"collaborated",
"confederated",
"conjoined",
"consolidated",
"consorted",
"cooperated",
"coupled",
"federated",
"ganged up",
"joined",
"merged",
"united",
"reassembled",
"reconvened",
"regathered",
"remet"
],
"synonyms":[
"assembled",
"clustered",
"collected",
"concentrated",
"conglomerated",
"congregated",
"convened",
"converged",
"forgathered",
"foregathered",
"gathered",
"met",
"rendezvoused"
]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"concentrate":{
"to bring (something) to a central point or under a single control":{
"antonyms":[
"decentralize",
"deconcentrate",
"spread (out)"
],
"examples":[
"time to concentrate our efforts on the really important problems that confront us"
],
"near antonyms":[
"segregate",
"separate"
],
"related":[
"coordinate",
"harmonize",
"integrate",
"orchestrate",
"blend",
"coalesce",
"combine",
"fuse",
"incorporate",
"merge",
"reduce",
"conjoin",
"join",
"link",
"assemble",
"collect",
"colligate",
"gather",
"reunify",
"reunite"
],
"synonyms":[
"center",
"centralize",
"compact",
"concenter",
"consolidate",
"polarize",
"unify",
"unite"
]
},
"to bring together in one body or place":{
"antonyms":[
"dispel",
"disperse",
"dissipate",
"scatter"
],
"examples":[
"concentrate your forces on the right side of the battlefield"
],
"near antonyms":[
"break up",
"disband",
"disintegrate",
"dissolve",
"separate",
"sever",
"split (up)",
"dismiss",
"send"
],
"related":[
"ball",
"batch",
"bunch",
"cluster",
"huddle",
"heap",
"pile",
"stack",
"band",
"brigade",
"muster",
"raise",
"rally",
"flock",
"herd",
"hive",
"pack",
"press",
"swarm",
"throng",
"combine",
"connect",
"join",
"link",
"merge",
"pool",
"unite",
"archive",
"arrange",
"collate",
"compile",
"organize",
"systematize",
"scrape (up or together)",
"re-collect",
"regather",
"regroup"
],
"synonyms":[
"accumulate",
"amass",
"assemble",
"bulk (up)",
"collect",
"congregate",
"constellate",
"corral",
"garner",
"gather",
"group",
"lump",
"pick up",
"round up"
]
},
"to come together into one body or place":{
"antonyms":[
"break up",
"disband",
"disperse",
"split (up)"
],
"examples":[
"recent immigrants tend to concentrate in port cities"
],
"near antonyms":[
"depart",
"leave",
"take off",
"disjoin",
"dissociate",
"disunite"
],
"related":[
"affiliate",
"ally",
"associate",
"band (together)",
"caucus",
"club",
"collaborate",
"confederate",
"conjoin",
"consolidate",
"consort",
"cooperate",
"couple",
"federate",
"gang up",
"join",
"merge",
"unite",
"reassemble",
"reconvene",
"regather",
"remeet"
],
"synonyms":[
"assemble",
"cluster",
"collect",
"concenter",
"conglomerate",
"congregate",
"convene",
"converge",
"forgather",
"foregather",
"gather",
"meet",
"rendezvous"
]
},
"to fix (as one's attention) steadily toward a central objective":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"a president who will try to concentrate public attention on the problems of inner cities"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"related":[
"aim",
"direct",
"home (in on)",
"hone in (on)",
"level",
"nail",
"point",
"set",
"zero (in on)",
"attend",
"heed",
"mind",
"fixate (on)",
"obsess (over)",
"refocus"
],
"synonyms":[
"center",
"fasten",
"focus",
"rivet",
"train"
]
},
"to gradually form into a layer, pile, or mass":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"the ozone layer is concentrated 20 to 30 miles above the Earth's surface"
],
"near antonyms":[
"disperse",
"dissipate",
"scatter"
],
"related":[
"agglutinate",
"clump",
"lump",
"bank",
"drift",
"ridge"
],
"synonyms":[
"accrete",
"accumulate",
"amass",
"build up",
"collect",
"conglomerate",
"gather",
"mass",
"pile (up)",
"stack (up)"
]
},
"to increase the amount of (a substance in a mixture) by removing other substances":{
"antonyms":[
"dilute",
"water (down)"
],
"examples":[
"prolonged boiling is required to concentrate the sap when making maple syrup"
],
"near antonyms":[
"adulterate",
"cut",
"thin",
"weaken"
],
"related":[
"clarify",
"clean",
"cleanse",
"distill",
"distil",
"flush",
"leach",
"purge",
"purify",
"refine",
"boil down",
"decoct",
"reduce",
"compact",
"harden",
"solidify",
"deepen",
"enhance",
"heighten",
"intensify",
"evaporate",
"extract",
"remove",
"enrich",
"fortify",
"richen",
"strengthen",
"reconcentrate",
"recondense"
],
"synonyms":[
"condense"
]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"concentrating":{
"as in focused , preoccupied":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[],
"near antonyms":[],
"related":[],
"synonyms":[]
},
"to bring (something) to a central point or under a single control":{
"antonyms":[
"decentralizing",
"deconcentrating",
"spreading (out)"
],
"examples":[
"time to concentrate our efforts on the really important problems that confront us"
],
"near antonyms":[
"segregating",
"separating"
],
"related":[
"coordinating",
"harmonizing",
"integrating",
"orchestrating",
"blending",
"coalescing",
"combining",
"fusing",
"incorporating",
"merging",
"reducing",
"conjoining",
"joining",
"linking",
"assembling",
"collecting",
"colligating",
"gathering",
"reunifying",
"reuniting"
],
"synonyms":[
"centering",
"centralizing",
"compacting",
"concentering",
"consolidating",
"polarizing",
"unifying",
"uniting"
]
},
"to bring together in one body or place":{
"antonyms":[
"dispelling",
"dispersing",
"dissipating",
"scattering"
],
"examples":[
"concentrate your forces on the right side of the battlefield"
],
"near antonyms":[
"breaking up",
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"hardening",
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"verb"
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"ignored",
"neglected",
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"piqued",
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"vexed",
"vext",
"bedeviled",
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"abashed",
"confounded",
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"jarred",
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"nonplused",
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"distempered",
"distracted",
"distressed",
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"frazzled",
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"hagrode",
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"undid",
"unhinged",
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"upset",
"weirded out",
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"verb"
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"as for",
"as regards",
"as respects",
"as to",
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"on",
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"touching",
"toward",
"towards"
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"disregarding",
"forgetting",
"ignoring",
"neglecting",
"overlooking",
"overpassing",
"passing over",
"slighting",
"slurring (over)",
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"shrugging off"
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"adverting (to)",
"alluding (to)",
"citing",
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"naming",
"noticing",
"noting",
"quoting",
"specifying",
"touching (upon)",
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"presenting",
"containing",
"embracing",
"encompassing",
"entailing",
"including",
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"treating (of)"
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"composing",
"quieting",
"settling",
"soothing",
"tranquilizing",
"tranquillizing"
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"alleviating",
"assuaging",
"appeasing",
"conciliating",
"mollifying",
"pacifying",
"placating",
"propitiating"
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"angering",
"annoying",
"bugging",
"chafing",
"chivying",
"chivvying",
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"galling",
"getting",
"grating",
"harassing",
"harrying",
"irking",
"irritating",
"nettling",
"peeving",
"pestering",
"piquing",
"putting off",
"putting out",
"riling",
"vexing",
"bedeviling",
"haunting",
"plaguing",
"abashing",
"confounding",
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"discountenancing",
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"fazing",
"flustering",
"jarring",
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"nonplusing",
"rattling",
"shaking up",
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"disheartening",
"dispiriting",
"unnerving"
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"ailing",
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"alaruming",
"bothering",
"derailing",
"discomforting",
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"dismaying",
"disquieting",
"distempering",
"distracting",
"distressing",
"disturbing",
"exercising",
"flurrying",
"frazzling",
"freaking (out)",
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"hagriding",
"perturbing",
"undoing",
"unhinging",
"unsettling",
"upsetting",
"weirding out",
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"verb"
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"to bring about through discussion and compromise":{
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"dealt",
"dickered",
"haggled",
"horse-traded",
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"covenanted",
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"debated",
"discussed",
"hammered out",
"hashed (over)",
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"talked over",
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"associated",
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"confederated",
"hung together",
"interfaced"
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"conjoined",
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"verb"
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"used or done by a number of people as a group":{
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"individual",
"one-man",
"one-sided",
"one-way",
"single",
"sole",
"solitary",
"unilateral"
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"examples":[
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"private",
"independent",
"separate",
"several",
"esoteric",
"particular",
"special",
"specialized"
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"consensual",
"reciprocal",
"symbiotic",
"synergic",
"synergistic",
"two-way",
"mass",
"popular",
"general",
"generic",
"universal"
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"synonyms":[
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"collective",
"combined",
"common",
"communal",
"conjoint",
"conjunct",
"cooperative",
"joint",
"multiple",
"mutual",
"pooled",
"public",
"shared",
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"independently",
"individually",
"separately",
"severally",
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"singly",
"solely",
"unaided",
"unassisted",
"unilaterally"
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"mutually",
"reciprocally",
"unanimously",
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"cooperatively",
"symbiotically"
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"hand in glove",
"hand and glove",
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"together"
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"nonadmissions"
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"examples":[
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"disallowances",
"disclaimers",
"recantations",
"rejections",
"renouncements",
"repudiations"
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"self-betrayals",
"self-revelations",
"self-incriminations",
"self-recriminations",
"self-reproaches",
"affirmations",
"assertions",
"avouchments",
"claims",
"confirmations",
"declarations",
"insistences",
"professions",
"allowances",
"apologies",
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"betrayals",
"disclosures",
"divulgences",
"giveaways",
"revelations",
"announcements",
"declarations",
"proclamations",
"pronouncements",
"blames",
"faults",
"responsibilities",
"contritions",
"penitences",
"regrets",
"remorses",
"repentances",
"rues"
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"confessions",
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"something granted as a special favor":{
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"duties",
"obligations",
"responsibilities"
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"claims",
"entitlements",
"rights",
"birthrights",
"perquisites",
"prerogatives",
"charters",
"grants",
"patents",
"exemptions",
"immunities",
"waivers"
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"apanages",
"boons",
"honors",
"privileges"
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"when trying to get a raise in your salary, it's good to know the art of concession"
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"horse trades",
"accords",
"arrangements",
"bargains",
"concurrences",
"consensuses",
"deals",
"understandings",
"agreements",
"settlements",
"mediations",
"treaties"
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"negotiations"
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"commence",
"inaugurate",
"open",
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"examples":[
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"crown",
"consummate",
"perfect",
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"stop",
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"close out",
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"end",
"finish",
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"examples":[
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"deal",
"dicker",
"haggle",
"horse-trade",
"palter",
"agree",
"contract",
"covenant",
"argue",
"debate",
"discuss",
"hammer out",
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"talk",
"talk over",
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"decline",
"refuse",
"reject",
"turn down",
"delay",
"halt",
"hesitate",
"stall",
"temporize",
"shilly-shally",
"vacillate",
"waffle",
"waver"
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"rule",
"cull",
"elect",
"handpick",
"pick",
"prefer",
"select",
"single (out)",
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"arbitrate",
"find",
"judge",
"referee",
"rule (on)",
"umpire",
"chew over",
"cogitate",
"consider",
"contemplate",
"debate",
"deliberate",
"entertain",
"meditate",
"mull (over)",
"ponder",
"question",
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"study",
"think (about or over)",
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"decide",
"determine",
"figure",
"name",
"opt",
"resolve",
"settle (on or upon)"
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"continue",
"hang on",
"persist"
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"examples":[
"the concert concluded late in the evening"
],
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"extend",
"prolong",
"protract"
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"related":[
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"lay off (of)",
"refrain (from)",
"give over",
"knock off",
"pack (up or in)",
"break down",
"conk (out)",
"cut out",
"stall",
"pause",
"stay",
"suspend",
"abate",
"peter (out)",
"wind down"
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"cease",
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"dead-end",
"determine",
"die",
"discontinue",
"elapse",
"end",
"expire",
"finish",
"go",
"halt",
"lapse",
"leave off",
"let up",
"pass",
"quit",
"stop",
"terminate",
"wind up",
"wink (out)"
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"suppose",
"conjecture",
"guess",
"speculate",
"surmise",
"construe",
"interpret",
"read",
"contemplate",
"philosophize",
"rationalize",
"think",
"ascertain",
"dope (out)",
"find out"
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"decide",
"deduce",
"derive",
"extrapolate",
"gather",
"infer",
"judge",
"make out",
"reason",
"understand"
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"type":[
"verb"
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},
"concluded":{
"brought or having come to an end":{
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"continuing",
"incomplete",
"ongoing",
"uncompleted",
"undone",
"unfinished"
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"examples":[
"with another recently concluded fiscal year behind us, we are now ready to face new challenges"
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"related":[
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"achieved",
"attained",
"compassed",
"realized",
"dead",
"defunct",
"extinct",
"kaput",
"kaputt",
"obsolete",
"expired"
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"synonyms":[
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"completed",
"done",
"down",
"ended",
"finished",
"over",
"over with",
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"up"
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},
"to bring (an event) to a natural or appropriate stopping point":{
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"commenced",
"inaugurated",
"opened",
"started"
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"examples":[
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"crowned",
"consummated",
"perfected",
"halted",
"stopped",
"suspended"
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"closed out",
"completed",
"ended",
"finished",
"rounded (off or out)",
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"wound up",
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"wrapped up"
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"verb"
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"roots",
"sources",
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"d\u00e9nouements",
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"issues",
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"apices",
"capstones",
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"copestones",
"coups de gr\u00e2ce",
"coups de grace",
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"crescendi",
"crowns",
"culminations",
"high-water marks",
"meridians",
"peaks",
"pinnacles",
"summits",
"tip-tops",
"tops",
"zeniths",
"aftermaths",
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"codas",
"epilogues",
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"shanks",
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"moratoriums",
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"standstills",
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"checks",
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"discontinuations",
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"type":[
"noun"
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"the capacity to persuade":{
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"ineffectiveness",
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"ineffectualness"
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],
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"shakiness",
"unsoundness",
"feebleness",
"powerlessness",
"weakness"
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"power",
"punch",
"strength",
"weight",
"believability",
"credibility",
"soundness",
"validity",
"authoritativeness",
"definitiveness",
"influence",
"sway",
"appeal",
"seductiveness"
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"convincingness",
"effectiveness",
"force",
"forcefulness",
"persuasion",
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"noun"
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"clone",
"copy",
"dupe",
"duplicate",
"duplication",
"facsimile",
"imitation",
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"replica",
"replication",
"reproduction"
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"device",
"gadget",
"gizmo",
"gismo",
"novelty",
"design",
"product",
"work",
"dream",
"fantasy",
"phantasy",
"picture",
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"imagining",
"origination"
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"coinage",
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"creation",
"innovation",
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"wrinkle"
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"noun"
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"type":[
"noun"
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"airline passengers had to pass through the security checkpoints before being allowed in the concourse"
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"breezeways",
"cloisters",
"loggias",
"loggie",
"piazzas",
"piazze"
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"galleries",
"halls",
"hallways",
"passageways"
]
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"type":[
"noun"
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"hypothetical",
"ideal",
"inexistent",
"nonexistent",
"platonic",
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"potential",
"suppositional",
"theoretical",
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"examples":[
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"assumed",
"reputed",
"supposed",
"conceived",
"envisaged",
"envisioned",
"imagined",
"pictured",
"visualized",
"chimerical",
"chimeric",
"fabled",
"fanciful",
"fictional",
"fictitious",
"illusory",
"legendary",
"fabricated",
"fake",
"imaginary",
"invented",
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"make-believe",
"pretend",
"romantic",
"abstract",
"symbolic",
"unreal",
"virtual"
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"authenticated",
"confirmed",
"demonstrated",
"established",
"proven",
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"valid",
"validated",
"verified",
"incontestable",
"incontrovertible",
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"inescapable",
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"unquestionable",
"believable",
"convincing",
"literal",
"realistic",
"unmistakable",
"verifiable",
"authentic",
"bona fide",
"real-life",
"real-world",
"absolute",
"certain",
"final",
"hard",
"objective",
"palpable",
"positive",
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"tangible",
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"certifiable",
"certified"
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"de facto",
"effective",
"existent",
"factual",
"genuine",
"real",
"sure-enough",
"true",
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"nonspecific"
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"examples":[
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"generalized",
"generic",
"nonexclusive",
"universal"
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"only",
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"single",
"sole",
"solitary",
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"exclusive",
"individual",
"unique",
"limited",
"restricted",
"differentiated",
"specialized",
"given",
"specified"
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"especial",
"express",
"peculiar",
"precise",
"set",
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"immaterial",
"nonmaterial",
"nonphysical"
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"examples":[
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"discarnate",
"disembodied",
"formless",
"incorporeal",
"unbodied",
"ethereal",
"insubstantial",
"unsubstantial",
"impalpable",
"imperceptible",
"insensible",
"intangible",
"invisible",
"unnoticeable",
"airy",
"diaphanous",
"gossamery",
"tenuous",
"thin",
"vaporous",
"wispish",
"metaphysical",
"spiritual"
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"related":[
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"carnal",
"corporal",
"corporeal",
"embodied",
"fleshly",
"apparent",
"appreciable",
"detectable",
"discernible",
"discernable",
"noticeable",
"observable",
"palpable",
"perceptible",
"seeable",
"sensible",
"tangible",
"touchable",
"visible",
"objective",
"phenomenal",
"bulky",
"heavy",
"hefty",
"massive",
"ponderous",
"solid",
"weighty"
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"synonyms":[
"material",
"physical",
"substantial"
]
},
"to become physically firm or solid":{
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"liquefy",
"liquify",
"soften"
],
"examples":[
"the mortar slowly concreted in the mold"
],
"near antonyms":[
"deliquesce",
"dissolve",
"flux",
"fuse",
"melt",
"smelt",
"thaw",
"unfreeze"
],
"related":[
"cake",
"callus",
"encrust",
"incrust",
"clot",
"coagulate",
"gel",
"gelate",
"gelatinize",
"jell",
"jelly",
"stiffen",
"thicken",
"calcify",
"crystallize",
"crystalize",
"ossify",
"petrify",
"rigidify",
"anneal",
"case-harden",
"temper"
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"synonyms":[
"congeal",
"firm (up)",
"freeze",
"harden",
"indurate",
"set",
"solidify"
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"to turn into a single mass or entity that is more or less the same throughout":{
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"break down",
"break up",
"separate",
"unmix"
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"examples":[
"a choral work that concretes music and dance into a stunning theatrical experience"
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"disjoin",
"disunite",
"divide",
"divorce",
"part",
"rupture",
"sever",
"sunder",
"disperse",
"dissolve",
"scatter",
"detach",
"disengage",
"split"
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"related":[
"add",
"admix",
"beat (in)",
"cut in",
"fold",
"stir",
"toss",
"coalesce",
"compound",
"emulsify",
"conjoin",
"join",
"knit",
"link",
"unite",
"intertwine",
"interweave",
"weave"
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"synonyms":[
"amalgamate",
"blend",
"combine",
"comingle",
"commingle",
"commix",
"composite",
"conflate",
"fuse",
"homogenize",
"immingle",
"immix",
"incorporate",
"integrate",
"interfuse",
"intermingle",
"intermix",
"meld",
"merge",
"mingle",
"mix"
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},
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"adjective",
"verb"
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"concretion":{
"as in":{
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"type":[
"noun"
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"having a strong sexual desire":{
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"frigid",
"undersexed"
],
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],
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"chaste",
"decent",
"immaculate",
"modest",
"moral",
"pure",
"virtuous",
"monastic",
"monkish",
"maidenly",
"virginal",
"innocent",
"lily-white",
"priggish",
"prim",
"prudish",
"puritanical",
"straitlaced",
"straightlaced",
"Victorian"
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"excited",
"easy",
"fast",
"loose",
"promiscuous",
"dissipated",
"dissolute",
"libertine",
"corrupt",
"debased",
"debauched",
"decadent",
"degenerate",
"degraded",
"demoralized",
"depraved",
"dissipated",
"dissolute",
"immoral",
"indecent"
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"synonyms":[
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"horny",
"hot",
"hypersexual",
"itchy",
"lascivious",
"lecherous",
"lewd",
"libidinous",
"licentious",
"lubricious",
"lubricous",
"lustful",
"oversexed",
"passionate",
"randy",
"salacious",
"satyric",
"wanton"
]
},
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"adjective"
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},
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"to have or come to the same opinion or point of view":{
"antonyms":[
"differ",
"disagree"
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"examples":[
"I concur with your assessment of the political situation"
],
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"clash",
"collide",
"conflict",
"bicker",
"counter",
"dispute",
"dissent",
"diverge",
"fall out",
"object",
"oppose",
"protest",
"quarrel",
"resist",
"rival",
"dissociate",
"separate",
"split"
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"related":[
"accede (to)",
"accept",
"acquiesce",
"assent (to)",
"comply (with)",
"consent (to)",
"go (by)",
"subscribe",
"affiliate",
"ally",
"associate",
"unite",
"collaborate",
"cooperate",
"get along",
"get on"
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"synonyms":[
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"coincide"
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"to occur or exist at the same time":{
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"examples":[
"the 1960s, a decade in which the Cold War, the race to the moon, the Vietnam War, and the civil rights movement all concurred"
],
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"antedate",
"precede",
"predate",
"follow",
"succeed"
],
"related":[
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"hap",
"happen",
"transpire"
],
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"attend",
"co-occur",
"coexist",
"coincide",
"synchronize"
]
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"to participate or assist in a joint effort to accomplish an end":{
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"examples":[
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"associate",
"combine",
"confederate",
"hang together",
"interface"
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"collaborate",
"concert",
"conjoin",
"conspire",
"cooperate",
"join",
"league",
"team (up)",
"unite"
]
},
"type":[
"verb"
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"as in":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[],
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"synonyms":[]
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"type":[
"verb"
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"to have or come to the same opinion or point of view":{
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"disagreed"
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"examples":[
"I concur with your assessment of the political situation"
],
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"collided",
"conflicted",
"bickered",
"countered",
"disputed",
"dissented",
"diverged",
"fell out",
"objected",
"opposed",
"protested",
"quarreled",
"quarrelled",
"resisted",
"rivaled",
"rivalled",
"dissociated",
"separated",
"split"
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"related":[
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"accepted",
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"assented (to)",
"complied (with)",
"consented (to)",
"subscribed",
"went (by)",
"affiliated",
"allied",
"associated",
"united",
"collaborated",
"cooperated",
"got along",
"got on"
],
"synonyms":[
"agreed",
"coincided"
]
},
"to occur or exist at the same time":{
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"examples":[
"the 1960s, a decade in which the Cold War, the race to the moon, the Vietnam War, and the civil rights movement all concurred"
],
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"antedated",
"preceded",
"predated",
"followed",
"succeeded"
],
"related":[
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"happed",
"happened",
"transpired"
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"attended",
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"co-occurred",
"synchronized"
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"teamed (up)",
"united"
]
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"verb"
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"blest"
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"it is a sign of human progress that slavery, which was once legal in many places, is now universally condemned"
],
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"endorsed",
"indorsed",
"sanctioned",
"eulogized",
"exalted",
"extolled",
"glorified",
"lauded",
"praised",
"acclaimed",
"applauded",
"commended",
"hailed",
"saluted",
"touted",
"consecrated",
"hallowed",
"sanctified",
"honored",
"revered",
"venerated"
],
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"attacked",
"blamed",
"blasted",
"criticized",
"dispraised",
"dissed",
"faulted",
"knocked",
"panned",
"slammed",
"belittled",
"deprecated",
"disparaged",
"doomed",
"sentenced",
"convicted",
"blacklisted",
"excommunicated",
"ostracized",
"castigated",
"chastised",
"rebuked",
"reprimanded",
"reproached",
"admonished",
"chid",
"chided",
"reproved",
"berated",
"lambasted",
"raked",
"scolded",
"upbraided",
"vituperated",
"cursed",
"imprecated",
"abhorred",
"abominated",
"detested",
"hated",
"loathed",
"reviled"
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"censured",
"damned",
"decried",
"denounced",
"execrated",
"reprehended",
"reprobated"
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"extolled",
"lauded",
"praised"
],
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"a report that condemns the working conditions in the factories of many developing countries"
],
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"approved",
"commended",
"endorsed",
"indorsed",
"recommended",
"sanctioned"
],
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"skewered",
"tweaked",
"assailed",
"attacked",
"blasted",
"clobbered",
"slammed",
"slashed",
"nicked (at)",
"sniped (at)",
"beefed",
"bellyached",
"bitched",
"carped",
"caviled",
"cavilled",
"complained",
"crabbed",
"croaked",
"fussed",
"griped",
"groused",
"growled",
"grumbled",
"kicked",
"kvetched",
"moaned",
"murmured",
"muttered",
"niggled",
"quibbled",
"whined",
"admonished",
"chid",
"chided",
"drubbed",
"rebuked",
"reprimanded",
"reproached",
"reproved",
"berated",
"castigated",
"crucified",
"excoriated",
"flayed",
"gibbeted",
"hammered",
"keelhauled",
"lambasted",
"lashed",
"pilloried",
"scolded",
"upbraided",
"bad-mouthed",
"belittled",
"decried",
"derided",
"discommended",
"disparaged",
"put down"
],
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"blamed",
"censured",
"criticized",
"denounced",
"dispraised",
"dissed",
"faulted",
"knocked",
"panned",
"reprehended",
"slagged"
]
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"cited",
"commended",
"endorsed",
"indorsed"
],
"examples":[
"the philosopher's works were once condemned by the church and placed on its list of forbidden books"
],
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"acclaimed",
"applauded",
"hailed",
"honored",
"eulogized",
"lauded",
"praised",
"approved",
"blessed",
"blest",
"sanctioned"
],
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"admonished",
"chastised",
"castigated",
"punished",
"bawled out",
"berated",
"chewed out",
"cut up",
"dressed down",
"flayed",
"gibbeted",
"jawed",
"keelhauled",
"lambasted",
"lectured",
"ragged",
"railed (at or against)",
"rated",
"scolded",
"scored",
"told off",
"upbraided",
"belittled",
"criticized",
"deprecated",
"depreciated",
"disparaged"
],
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"censured",
"denounced",
"objurgated",
"rebuked",
"reprimanded",
"reproached",
"reproved"
]
},
"to find or pronounce guilty":{
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"absolved",
"acquitted",
"cleared",
"exculpated",
"exonerated",
"vindicated"
],
"examples":[
"the accused was condemned by the news media even before the trial began"
],
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"cited",
"commended",
"endorsed",
"indorsed",
"approved",
"blessed",
"blest",
"sanctioned"
],
"related":[
"accused",
"arraigned",
"charged",
"impeached",
"indicted",
"censured",
"damned",
"denounced",
"rebuked",
"reprimanded",
"reproached",
"reproved",
"admonished",
"castigated",
"chastised",
"penalized",
"punished",
"sentenced"
],
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"convicted"
]
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"examples":[
"a stern judge who does not hesitate to condemn a felon to life behind bars"
],
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"pardoned",
"reprieved"
],
"related":[
"adjudged",
"judged",
"castigated",
"censured",
"chastened",
"chastised",
"corrected",
"disciplined",
"penalized",
"punished",
"concluded",
"decided",
"decreed",
"determined",
"found",
"opined",
"resolved",
"ruled"
],
"synonyms":[
"damned",
"doomed",
"sentenced"
]
},
"type":[
"adjective",
"verb"
]
},
"condemner":{
"as in denouncer":{
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"examples":[],
"near antonyms":[],
"related":[],
"synonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
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"as in denouncers":{
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"examples":[],
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"synonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"condole":{
"as in commiserate , empathize":{
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"examples":[],
"near antonyms":[],
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"synonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
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},
"conduces (to)":{
"as in contributes (to)":{
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"near antonyms":[],
"related":[],
"synonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"conducive":{
"providing service or assistance":{
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"unhelpful",
"useless"
],
"examples":[
"the noisy environment of the dorms was not very conducive to studying"
],
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"ineffective",
"ineffectual",
"adverse",
"disadvantageous",
"inconvenient",
"profitless",
"unfavorable"
],
"related":[
"advantageous",
"beneficial",
"efficacious",
"favorable",
"productive",
"profitable",
"salutary",
"accommodating",
"obliging"
],
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"facilitative",
"helpful",
"useful"
]
},
"tending to promote or assist the development of something":{
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"examples":[
"the claim that the state's long-standing antitax attitude is conducive to entrepreneurship"
],
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"bad",
"damaging",
"deleterious",
"disadvantageous",
"harmful",
"injurious",
"unfavorable",
"unhelpful"
],
"related":[
"advantageous",
"beneficial",
"favorable",
"helpful",
"profitable",
"propitious",
"salutary"
],
"synonyms":[
"facilitative"
]
},
"type":[
"adjective"
]
},
"conduct":{
"the act or activity of looking after and making decisions about something":{
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"examples":[
"the President was happy to leave the conduct of foreign affairs to his secretary of state"
],
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"related":[
"generalship",
"leadership",
"rulership",
"agency",
"aegis",
"egis",
"custody",
"guardianship",
"keeping",
"lap",
"protection",
"safekeeping",
"trust",
"tutelage",
"ward",
"engineering",
"logistics",
"machination",
"manipulation",
"coadministration",
"codirection",
"comanagement"
],
"synonyms":[
"administration",
"care",
"charge",
"control",
"direction",
"governance",
"government",
"guidance",
"handling",
"intendance",
"management",
"operation",
"oversight",
"presidency",
"regulation",
"running",
"stewardship",
"superintendence",
"superintendency",
"supervision"
]
},
"the way or manner in which one conducts oneself":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"a child who has often been scolded for poor conduct"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"related":[
"etiquette",
"form",
"manners",
"mores",
"proprieties",
"p's and q's",
"amenity",
"civility",
"courtesy",
"decorum",
"politeness",
"air",
"attitude",
"carriage",
"poise",
"pose",
"posture",
"presence",
"aspect",
"look",
"mien",
"formality",
"protocol",
"rules",
"custom",
"habit",
"habitude",
"pattern",
"practice",
"practise",
"trick",
"wont",
"convention",
"fashion",
"form",
"mode",
"style",
"affectation",
"attribute",
"characteristic",
"mark",
"trait",
"distinctiveness",
"oddity",
"peculiarity",
"singularity",
"strangeness",
"uniqueness",
"weirdness"
],
"synonyms":[
"actions",
"address",
"bearing",
"behavior",
"comportment",
"demeanor",
"deportment",
"geste",
"gest"
]
},
"to cause (something) to pass from one to another":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"a material that conducts heat quite efficiently"
],
"near antonyms":[
"catch",
"come down (with)",
"contract"
],
"related":[
"deliver",
"hand over",
"surrender",
"turn over",
"broadcast",
"diffuse",
"disseminate",
"propagate",
"hand down",
"hand on",
"contaminate",
"infect",
"poison"
],
"synonyms":[
"communicate",
"convey",
"give",
"impart",
"spread",
"transfer",
"transfuse",
"transmit"
]
},
"to cause to move to a central point or along a restricted pathway":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"the gutter conducts water to the curb, thus protecting the house's basement"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"related":[
"carry",
"convey",
"transmit",
"concentrate",
"consolidate",
"focus"
],
"synonyms":[
"canalize",
"channel",
"channelize",
"direct",
"funnel",
"pipe",
"siphon",
"syphon"
]
},
"to look after and make decisions about":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"the company's president continues to conduct the everyday affairs of the software firm he founded many years ago"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"related":[
"care (for)",
"mind",
"watch",
"lead",
"pilot",
"steer",
"guard",
"protect",
"safeguard",
"micromanage",
"stage-manage",
"codirect",
"comanage"
],
"synonyms":[
"administer",
"administrate",
"carry on",
"control",
"direct",
"govern",
"guide",
"handle",
"keep",
"manage",
"operate",
"overlook",
"oversee",
"preside (over)",
"regulate",
"run",
"steward",
"superintend",
"supervise",
"tend"
]
},
"to manage the actions of (oneself) in a particular way":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"conducted themselves at the party like perfect ladies and gentlemen"
],
"near antonyms":[
"act up",
"carry on",
"cut up",
"misbehave",
"misconduct"
],
"related":[
"check",
"collect",
"compose",
"constrain",
"contain",
"control",
"curb",
"handle",
"inhibit",
"quiet",
"repress",
"restrain",
"moderate",
"modulate",
"temper",
"act",
"impersonate",
"play"
],
"synonyms":[
"acquit",
"bear",
"behave",
"carry",
"comport",
"demean",
"deport",
"quit"
]
},
"to point out the way for (someone) especially from a position in front":{
"antonyms":[
"follow",
"trail"
],
"examples":[
"a job conducting tourists through the historical museum"
],
"near antonyms":[
"dog",
"hound",
"shadow",
"tail",
"tailgate"
],
"related":[
"precede",
"accompany",
"attend",
"chaperone",
"chaperon",
"convoy",
"escort",
"see",
"control",
"manage"
],
"synonyms":[
"direct",
"guide",
"lead",
"marshal",
"marshall",
"pilot",
"route",
"show",
"steer",
"usher"
]
},
"type":[
"noun",
"verb"
]
},
"confab":{
"an exchange of views for the purpose of exploring a subject or deciding an issue":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"we had a little confab about the merits of the plan"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"related":[
"bull session",
"chat room",
"forum",
"meeting",
"roundtable",
"seminar",
"skull session",
"skull practice",
"symposium",
"talkathon",
"chat",
"conversation",
"rap",
"words",
"discourse",
"disquisition",
"bargaining",
"consultancy",
"negotiation",
"pourparler"
],
"synonyms":[
"argument",
"argumentation",
"argy-bargy",
"back-and-forth",
"colloquy",
"confabulation",
"conference",
"consult",
"consultation",
"council",
"counsel",
"debate",
"deliberation",
"dialogue",
"dialog",
"discussion",
"give-and-take",
"palaver",
"parley",
"talk"
]
},
"friendly, informal conversation or an instance of this":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"after the requisite confab , we got down to business"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"related":[
"colloquy",
"conference",
"discourse",
"parley",
"symposium",
"debate",
"dialogue",
"dialog",
"exchange",
"give-and-take",
"crosstalk",
"happy talk",
"yak",
"yack",
"yammer",
"yap"
],
"synonyms":[
"backchat",
"cackle",
"causerie",
"chat",
"chatter",
"chin music",
"chin-wag",
"chitchat",
"confabulation",
"gab",
"gabfest",
"gossip",
"jangle",
"jaw",
"natter",
"palaver",
"patter",
"rap",
"schmooze",
"small talk",
"table talk",
"talk",
"t\u00eate-\u00e0-t\u00eate"
]
},
"to exchange viewpoints or seek advice for the purpose of finding a solution to a problem":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"the members of the condo board have been confabbing about the security problem"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"related":[
"argue",
"bandy",
"bat (around)",
"chew over",
"debate",
"deliberate",
"discuss",
"dispute",
"hash (over)",
"kick around",
"moot",
"palaver",
"talk",
"talk over",
"ventilate",
"rehash",
"coach",
"guide",
"tutor",
"recommend",
"suggest",
"direct",
"refer (to)"
],
"synonyms":[
"advise",
"confabulate",
"confer",
"consult",
"counsel",
"parley",
"treat"
]
},
"type":[
"noun",
"verb"
]
},
"confected":{
"to form by putting together parts or materials":{
"antonyms":[
"demounted",
"disassembled",
"dismantled",
"dismembered",
"knocked down",
"struck",
"took down",
"tore down"
],
"examples":[
"a cook who can confect a magnificent dinner from whatever ingredients are in the cupboards"
],
"near antonyms":[
"demolished",
"destroyed",
"devastated",
"flattened",
"leveled",
"levelled",
"pulled down",
"pulverized",
"razed",
"ruinated",
"ruined",
"shattered",
"smashed",
"wrecked",
"blew up",
"exploded",
"detached",
"disengaged",
"disconnected",
"disjoined",
"disunited",
"divided",
"separated"
],
"related":[
"carpentered",
"fashioned",
"forged",
"framed",
"hammered",
"handcrafted",
"manufactured",
"molded",
"produced",
"shaped",
"prefabricated",
"began",
"coined",
"created",
"generated",
"inaugurated",
"initiated",
"innovated",
"invented",
"originated",
"constituted",
"established",
"fathered",
"founded",
"instituted",
"organized",
"conceived",
"concocted",
"contrived",
"cooked (up)",
"designed",
"devised",
"imagined",
"thought (up)",
"reassembled",
"rebuilt",
"reconstructed",
"redeveloped",
"reedified",
"retrofitted",
"retrofit",
"jerry-built",
"rigged (up)",
"threw up",
"combined",
"united"
],
"synonyms":[
"assembled",
"built",
"constructed",
"erected",
"fabricated",
"made",
"made up",
"pieced",
"put up",
"raised",
"reared",
"set up"
]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"confederacy":{
"an association of persons, parties, or states for mutual assistance and protection":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"a confederacy of several small nations who had promised to come to one another's aid if any were attacked"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"related":[
"cabal",
"conspiracy",
"junto",
"cartel",
"syndicate",
"trust",
"faction",
"front",
"fusion",
"side",
"wing",
"association",
"group",
"organization",
"affiliation",
"cooperative",
"partnership",
"circuit",
"conference"
],
"synonyms":[
"alliance",
"axis",
"bloc",
"block",
"coalition",
"combination",
"combine",
"confederation",
"federation",
"league",
"union"
]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"confessing":{
"to accept the truth or existence of (something) usually reluctantly":{
"antonyms":[
"denying"
],
"examples":[
"political prisoners, under threat of torture, forced to confess their guilt"
],
"near antonyms":[
"disallowing",
"disavowing",
"disclaiming",
"disowning",
"contradicting",
"disputing",
"gainsaying",
"negating",
"negativing",
"rebutting",
"refuting",
"rejecting",
"repudiating",
"concealing",
"covering (up)",
"hiding",
"obscuring",
"veiling",
"kidding (oneself)"
],
"related":[
"disburdening",
"unburdening",
"unloading",
"affirming",
"avowing",
"confirming",
"professing",
"accepting",
"recognizing",
"yielding",
"announcing",
"breaking",
"broadcasting",
"communicating",
"declaring",
"disclosing",
"divulging",
"imparting",
"proclaiming",
"publishing",
"revealing",
"spilling",
"telling",
"unveiling",
"betraying",
"blabbing",
"exposing",
"giving away",
"informing",
"leaking",
"ratting",
"squealing",
"talking",
"tattling",
"tipping (off)",
"warning",
"wising (up)",
"breathing",
"saying",
"whispering"
],
"synonyms":[
"acknowledging",
"admitting",
"agreeing",
"allowing",
"conceding",
"fessing (up)",
"granting",
"owning (up to)"
]
},
"to make an acknowledgment of something unpleasant as true or valid":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"the thief confessed to dozens of robberies"
],
"near antonyms":[
"clamming up",
"hushing",
"quieting (down)",
"shutting up"
],
"related":[
"blabbing",
"talking",
"tattling",
"babbling",
"spilling"
],
"synonyms":[
"admitting",
"copping (to)",
"fessing (up)",
"owning (up)"
]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"confessions":{
"an open declaration of something (as a fault or the commission of an offense) about oneself":{
"antonyms":[
"disavowals",
"nonadmissions"
],
"examples":[
"a confession that he had been lying all along"
],
"near antonyms":[
"denials",
"disallowances",
"disclaimers",
"recantations",
"rejections",
"renouncements",
"repudiations"
],
"related":[
"self-accusations",
"self-betrayals",
"self-revelations",
"self-incriminations",
"self-recriminations",
"self-reproaches",
"affirmations",
"assertions",
"avouchments",
"claims",
"confirmations",
"declarations",
"insistences",
"professions",
"allowances",
"apologies",
"hand-wringings",
"betrayals",
"disclosures",
"divulgences",
"giveaways",
"revelations",
"announcements",
"declarations",
"proclamations",
"pronouncements",
"blames",
"faults",
"responsibilities",
"contritions",
"penitences",
"regrets",
"remorses",
"repentances",
"rues"
],
"synonyms":[
"acknowledgments",
"acknowledgements",
"admissions",
"avowals",
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"noun"
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"competitor",
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"rival",
"archenemy",
"nemesis"
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"associate",
"cohort",
"colleague",
"companion",
"fellow",
"hearty",
"hobnobber",
"partner",
"peer",
"sport",
"blood brother",
"brother",
"main man",
"sister",
"abettor",
"abetter",
"accomplice",
"ally",
"collaborator",
"confederate",
"pen pal",
"benefactor",
"supporter",
"sympathizer",
"well-wisher",
"friendly"
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"amigo",
"buddy",
"chum",
"compadre",
"comrade",
"confidante",
"crony",
"familiar",
"friend",
"intimate",
"mate",
"musketeer",
"pal"
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"noun"
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"lattices",
"networks",
"contours",
"figures",
"outlines",
"profiles",
"shapes",
"silhouettes",
"chassis"
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"armatures",
"cadres",
"edifices",
"fabrics",
"frames",
"frameworks",
"framings",
"infrastructures",
"shells",
"skeletons",
"structures"
]
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"a birthday cake in the configuration of a top hat"
],
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"materials",
"matters",
"raw materials",
"stuff",
"substances"
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"contours",
"outlines",
"profiles",
"silhouettes",
"frames",
"frameworks",
"shells",
"skeletons",
"arrangements",
"designs",
"formats",
"layouts",
"makeups",
"organizations",
"patterns",
"plans",
"setups"
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"conformations",
"fashions",
"figures",
"forms",
"geometries",
"shapes"
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"a small business computer system in its simplest configuration"
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"plans",
"schemes",
"compositions",
"constitutions",
"getups",
"makeups",
"builds",
"constructions",
"structures"
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"formations",
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"layouts",
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"themes"
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"forms",
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"makeups",
"ordonnances",
"patterns"
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"noun"
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"to put in or as if in prison":{
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"free",
"liberate",
"release"
],
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"the accused was confined until the trial could take place"
],
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"enfranchise",
"manumit",
"unbind",
"uncage",
"unchain",
"unfetter"
],
"related":[
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"limit",
"restrain",
"restrict",
"shut",
"bar",
"gate",
"apprehend",
"arrest",
"bust",
"capture",
"catch",
"detain",
"nab",
"pick up",
"pinch",
"seize",
"impress",
"shanghai",
"hold",
"impound",
"keep",
"bind",
"enchain",
"fetter",
"handcuff",
"manacle",
"shackle",
"trammel"
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"synonyms":[
"commit",
"immure",
"imprison",
"incarcerate",
"intern",
"jail",
"jug",
"lock (up)"
]
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"to set bounds or an upper limit for":{
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"exceed"
],
"examples":[
"will confine my remarks to the subject we came here to discuss"
],
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"broaden",
"expand",
"widen",
"overextend",
"overreach"
],
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"bar",
"block",
"hamper",
"hinder",
"impede",
"obstruct",
"constrict",
"contract",
"lessen",
"narrow",
"pinch",
"squeeze",
"tighten",
"quell",
"repress",
"suppress",
"number",
"modify",
"qualify"
],
"synonyms":[
"cap",
"circumscribe",
"hold down",
"limit",
"restrict"
]
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"type":[
"noun",
"verb"
]
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"confuting",
"disproving",
"refuting"
],
"examples":[
"a confirmatory test for pregnancy"
],
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"contradictory",
"contrary",
"counter",
"opposing"
],
"related":[
"auxiliary",
"supplementary",
"beneficial",
"helpful"
],
"synonyms":[
"confirmational",
"confirming",
"corroborating",
"corroborative",
"corroboratory",
"probative",
"probatory",
"substantiating",
"supporting",
"supportive",
"verifying",
"vindicating"
]
},
"type":[
"adjective"
]
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"to fail to differentiate (a thing) from something similar or related":{
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"differences",
"differentiates",
"discriminates",
"distinguishes",
"separates"
],
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"be careful not to conflate gossip with real news"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"related":[
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"misapplies",
"miscalls",
"misidentifies",
"misnames"
],
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"confuses",
"mistakes",
"mixes (up)"
]
},
"to turn into a single mass or entity that is more or less the same throughout":{
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"breaks down",
"breaks up",
"separates",
"unmixes"
],
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"the movie conflates documentary footage and dramatized reenactments so seamlessly and ingeniously that viewers may not know what is real and what is not"
],
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"cleaves",
"disjoins",
"disunites",
"divides",
"divorces",
"parts",
"ruptures",
"severs",
"sunders",
"disperses",
"dissolves",
"scatters",
"detaches",
"disengages",
"splits"
],
"related":[
"adds",
"admixes",
"beats (in)",
"cuts in",
"folds",
"stirs",
"tosses",
"coalesces",
"compounds",
"emulsifies",
"conjoins",
"joins",
"knits",
"links",
"unites",
"intertwines",
"interweaves",
"weaves"
],
"synonyms":[
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"blends",
"combines",
"comingles",
"commingles",
"commixes",
"composites",
"concretes",
"fuses",
"homogenizes",
"immingles",
"immixes",
"incorporates",
"integrates",
"interfuses",
"intermingles",
"intermixes",
"melds",
"merges",
"mingles",
"mixes"
]
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"verb"
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"a distinct entity formed by the combining of two or more different things":{
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"the word \"robustious\" is probably a conflation of \"robust\" and \"boisterous\""
],
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"component",
"constituent",
"element",
"ingredient"
],
"related":[
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"absorption",
"blending",
"coalescence",
"coalition",
"commingling",
"commixture",
"compost",
"concretion",
"homogenization",
"immingling",
"immixture",
"incorporation",
"integration",
"interfusion",
"intermingling",
"mergence",
"merger",
"merging",
"mingling",
"assortment",
"hash",
"hodgepodge",
"hotchpotch",
"jumble",
"medley",
"m\u00e9lange",
"mishmash",
"motley",
"patchwork",
"potpourri",
"variety",
"accumulation",
"aggregation",
"conglomeration"
],
"synonyms":[
"admixture",
"alloy",
"amalgam",
"amalgamation",
"blend",
"cocktail",
"combination",
"composite",
"compound",
"emulsion",
"fusion",
"intermixture",
"meld",
"mix",
"mixture",
"synthesis"
]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"conformable (to)":{
"not having or showing any apparent conflict":{
"antonyms":[
"conflicting",
"conflictive",
"incompatible",
"incongruous",
"inconsistent",
"inharmonious",
"noncompatible"
],
"examples":[
"student conduct must be at all times conformable to the principles and values of the school"
],
"near antonyms":[
"improper",
"inapposite",
"inappropriate",
"inapt",
"infelicitous",
"unsuitable"
],
"related":[
"self-consistent",
"appropriate",
"befitting",
"felicitous",
"fit",
"fitting",
"meet",
"proper",
"right",
"suitable"
],
"synonyms":[
"accordant",
"coherent",
"compatible",
"concordant",
"congruent",
"congruous",
"consistent",
"consonant",
"correspondent (with or to)",
"harmonious",
"nonconflicting"
]
},
"type":[
"adjective"
]
},
"conformations":{
"the act or process of changing something to fit a new use or situation":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"the conformation of their lives to the changing social order"
],
"near antonyms":[
"maladaptations"
],
"related":[
"readaptations",
"readjustments",
"attunements",
"corrections",
"harmonizations",
"alterations",
"conversions",
"makeovers",
"modifications",
"refits",
"revisions",
"transformations"
],
"synonyms":[
"acclimations",
"acclimatizations",
"accommodations",
"adaptations",
"adaptions",
"adjustments"
]
},
"the outward appearance of something as distinguished from its substance":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"an ice sculpture in the conformation of a swan"
],
"near antonyms":[
"compositions",
"materials",
"matters",
"raw materials",
"stuff",
"substances"
],
"related":[
"contours",
"outlines",
"profiles",
"silhouettes",
"frames",
"frameworks",
"shells",
"skeletons",
"arrangements",
"designs",
"formats",
"layouts",
"makeups",
"organizations",
"patterns",
"plans",
"setups"
],
"synonyms":[
"casts",
"configurations",
"fashions",
"figures",
"forms",
"geometries",
"shapes"
]
},
"the way in which something is sized, arranged, or organized":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"the regular conformation of particles in a crystal"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"related":[
"designs",
"plans",
"schemes",
"compositions",
"constitutions",
"getups",
"makeups",
"builds",
"constructions",
"structures"
],
"synonyms":[
"arrangements",
"configurations",
"formations",
"formats",
"layouts",
"setouts",
"setups"
]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
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"to act according to the commands of":{
"antonyms":[
"defying",
"disobeying",
"rebelling (against)"
],
"examples":[
"an independent-minded person who refuses to conform to the dictates of society"
],
"near antonyms":[
"disobliging",
"challenging",
"daring",
"refusing",
"renouncing",
"repudiating",
"directing",
"leading",
"brushing (off)",
"disregarding",
"ignoring",
"overlooking",
"overpassing",
"passing over",
"tuning out",
"winking (at)",
"dismissing",
"pooh-poohing",
"poohing",
"shrugging off",
"breaching",
"breaking",
"infringing",
"transgressing",
"violating",
"deriding",
"flouting",
"mocking",
"scoffing (at)",
"scorning",
"mutinying (against)",
"revolting (against)",
"bucking",
"combating",
"combatting",
"contesting",
"disputing",
"fighting",
"opposing",
"resisting",
"withstanding"
],
"related":[
"deferring (to)",
"submitting (to)",
"surrendering (to)",
"yielding (to)",
"acceding (to)",
"acquiescing (to)",
"agreeing (to)",
"assenting (to)",
"attending",
"hearing",
"heeding",
"listening (to)",
"marking",
"noticing",
"noting",
"regarding",
"taking",
"watching"
],
"synonyms":[
"adhering (to)",
"complying (with)",
"following",
"goose-stepping (to)",
"minding",
"obeying",
"observing"
]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"conformity":{
"a state of consistency":{
"antonyms":[
"conflict",
"disagreement",
"incongruence",
"incongruity",
"incongruousness"
],
"examples":[
"the simple lifestyle of the Amish is in conformity with their ascetic religious beliefs"
],
"near antonyms":[
"contrast",
"discrepancy",
"disparateness",
"disparity",
"dissimilarity",
"distinction",
"distinctiveness",
"distinctness",
"diverseness",
"diversity",
"unlikeness",
"deviance",
"divergence",
"discord",
"discordance",
"dissension",
"dissention",
"dissent",
"dissidence",
"disunity",
"friction",
"strife",
"variability",
"variance",
"incompatibility"
],
"related":[
"compatibility",
"assimilation",
"integration",
"oneness",
"solidarity",
"togetherness",
"affinity",
"empathy",
"sympathy"
],
"synonyms":[
"accord",
"accordance",
"agreement",
"conformance",
"congruence",
"congruency",
"congruity",
"consonance",
"harmony",
"tune"
]
},
"the action of following a custom, rule, or law":{
"antonyms":[
"breach",
"contravention",
"infraction",
"infringement",
"nonobservance",
"transgression",
"trespass",
"violation"
],
"examples":[
"a rebellious artist who has never shown any interest in conformity to social custom"
],
"near antonyms":[
"brush-off",
"disregard",
"ignoring",
"delinquency",
"dereliction",
"forgetting",
"neglect",
"overlooking",
"offense",
"offence",
"sin",
"wrong",
"challenge",
"defiance",
"flouting",
"rebellion"
],
"related":[
"deference",
"honor",
"regard",
"respect",
"upholding",
"accession",
"acquiescence",
"submission",
"surrender",
"attendance",
"attention",
"heed",
"notice"
],
"synonyms":[
"abidance",
"adherence",
"compliance",
"conformance",
"keeping",
"obedience",
"observance",
"observation"
]
},
"the following of a custom, rule, or law":{
"antonyms":[
"breach",
"contravention",
"infraction",
"infringement",
"nonobservance",
"transgression",
"trespass",
"violation"
],
"examples":[
"a small community that still expected conformity to traditional gender roles"
],
"near antonyms":[
"brush-off",
"disregard",
"ignoring",
"delinquency",
"dereliction",
"forgetting",
"neglect",
"overlooking",
"offense",
"offence",
"sin",
"wrong",
"challenge",
"defiance",
"flouting",
"rebellion"
],
"related":[
"deference",
"honor",
"regard",
"respect",
"upholding",
"accession",
"acquiescence",
"submission",
"surrender",
"attendance",
"attention",
"heed",
"notice"
],
"synonyms":[
"abidance",
"adherence",
"compliance",
"conformance",
"keeping",
"obedience",
"observance",
"observation"
]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"conforms":{
"to be in agreement on every point":{
"antonyms":[
"differs (from)",
"disagrees (with)"
],
"examples":[
"the list conforms with the contents of the trunk"
],
"near antonyms":[
"contradicts",
"disputes",
"gainsays",
"negates",
"nullifies",
"clashes",
"conflicts",
"jars"
],
"related":[
"equals",
"matches",
"parallels",
"aligns",
"alines",
"lines up",
"registers"
],
"synonyms":[
"accords",
"agrees",
"answers",
"checks",
"chords",
"coheres",
"coincides",
"comports",
"consists",
"corresponds",
"dovetails",
"fits",
"goes",
"harmonizes",
"jibes",
"rhymes",
"rimes",
"sorts",
"squares",
"tallies"
]
},
"to bring to a state free of conflicts, inconsistencies, or differences":{
"antonyms":[
"disharmonizes"
],
"examples":[
"we'll have to conform this new rule with existing policy regarding student-run organizations on campus"
],
"near antonyms":[
"confuses",
"disarrays",
"disorders",
"disorganizes",
"disrupts",
"disturbs",
"skews",
"upsets",
"alienates",
"estranges"
],
"related":[
"adapts",
"tunes",
"blends",
"combines",
"connects",
"correlates",
"dovetails",
"fits",
"fuses",
"integrates",
"joins",
"matches",
"merges",
"orchestrates",
"pairs",
"squares",
"suits",
"synchronizes",
"synthesizes",
"unifies",
"unites",
"aligns",
"alines",
"arranges",
"arrays",
"balances",
"equalizes",
"evens",
"orders",
"proportions",
"regularizes",
"standardizes"
],
"synonyms":[
"accommodates",
"attunes",
"conciliates",
"coordinates",
"harmonizes",
"keys",
"reconciles"
]
},
"to change (something) so as to make it suitable for a new use or situation":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"I can be funny or serious, for I always conform my behavior to the situation"
],
"near antonyms":[
"misadjusts"
],
"related":[
"readapts",
"readjusts",
"customizes",
"gears",
"matches",
"models",
"patterns",
"attunes",
"corrects",
"harmonizes",
"squares",
"tunes",
"establishes",
"roots",
"settles",
"acquaints",
"familiarizes",
"orientates",
"orients",
"equips",
"prepares",
"primes",
"rehearses",
"hardens",
"inures",
"seasons",
"toughens",
"alters",
"converts",
"makes over",
"modifies",
"recasts",
"reclaims",
"recycles",
"redesigns",
"redevelops",
"redoes",
"reengineers",
"refashions",
"refigures",
"refits",
"refocuses",
"reinvents",
"rejiggers",
"remakes",
"remodels",
"revamps",
"revises",
"reworks",
"transforms",
"accustoms",
"habilitates",
"habituates",
"naturalizes",
"readies",
"trains",
"bends",
"fiddles (with)",
"fine-tunes",
"phases",
"registers",
"regulates",
"rigs"
],
"synonyms":[
"acclimates",
"acclimatizes",
"accommodates",
"adapts",
"adjusts",
"conditions",
"doctors",
"edits",
"fashions",
"fits",
"puts",
"shapes",
"suits",
"tailors"
]
},
"to form a pleasing relationship":{
"antonyms":[
"clashes",
"collides",
"conflicts"
],
"examples":[
"last-minute changes in the schedule that conform with our plans nicely"
],
"near antonyms":[
"contradicts",
"contrasts",
"counters",
"differs",
"diverges",
"jars",
"cancels (out)",
"counteracts",
"negates",
"offsets"
],
"related":[
"balances",
"correlates",
"corresponds",
"dovetails",
"hangs together",
"matches",
"meets",
"parallels",
"bonds",
"coalesces",
"coheres",
"conjoins",
"fuses",
"merges",
"squares",
"tallies"
],
"synonyms":[
"agrees",
"assorts",
"blends",
"chimes",
"chimes in",
"consorts",
"coordinates",
"grooves",
"harmonizes"
]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"confounding":{
"as in confusing , perplexing":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[],
"near antonyms":[],
"related":[],
"synonyms":[]
},
"to fail to differentiate (a thing) from something similar or related":{
"antonyms":[
"differencing",
"differentiating",
"discriminating",
"distinguishing",
"separating"
],
"examples":[
"I think you've confounded astrology with astronomy"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"related":[
"lumping (together)",
"misapplying",
"miscalling",
"misidentifying",
"misnaming"
],
"synonyms":[
"conflating",
"confusing",
"mistaking",
"mixing (up)"
]
},
"to prove to be false":{
"antonyms":[
"confirming",
"establishing",
"proving",
"validating",
"verifying"
],
"examples":[
"new discoveries that confound much of what archaeologists thought they knew about the Mayan civilization"
],
"near antonyms":[
"documenting",
"evidencing",
"evincing",
"recording",
"showing",
"supporting",
"witnessing",
"backing (up)",
"buttressing",
"corroborating",
"substantiating",
"adducing",
"attesting",
"authenticating",
"certifying",
"identifying",
"demonstrating",
"displaying",
"illustrating",
"manifesting"
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"overturning",
"challenging",
"contesting",
"querying",
"questioning",
"doubting",
"mistrusting",
"debating",
"discussing",
"hashing (over)",
"mooting",
"talking over"
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"confuting",
"debunking",
"disconfirming",
"discrediting",
"disproving",
"falsifying",
"rebutting",
"refuting",
"shooting down"
]
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"we were confounded by the player's remote control, which wasn't at all user-friendly"
],
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"reassuring",
"satisfying",
"enlightening",
"informing"
],
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"sticking",
"stumping",
"weirding out",
"abashing",
"discomfiting",
"disconcerting",
"discountenancing",
"embarrassing",
"fazing",
"flustering",
"mortifying",
"nonplussing",
"nonplusing",
"rattling",
"agitating",
"bothering",
"chagrining",
"discomforting",
"discomposing",
"dismaying",
"disquieting",
"distressing",
"disturbing",
"perturbing",
"stunning",
"unhinging",
"unsettling",
"upsetting",
"beguiling",
"cozening",
"deceiving",
"deluding",
"duping",
"fooling",
"gulling",
"hoaxing",
"hoodwinking",
"humbugging",
"misguiding",
"misleading",
"snowing",
"stringing along",
"taking in",
"tricking"
],
"synonyms":[
"addling",
"baffling",
"bamboozling",
"beating",
"befogging",
"befuddling",
"bemusing",
"bewildering",
"buffaloing",
"confusing",
"discombobulating",
"disorienting",
"flummoxing",
"foxing",
"fuddling",
"getting",
"graveling",
"gravelling",
"mazing",
"muddling",
"muddying",
"mystifying",
"perplexing",
"posing",
"puzzling",
"vexing"
]
},
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"examples":[
"his renewed popularity has confounded the critics who said his singing career was dead"
],
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"calming",
"comforting",
"consoling",
"relieving",
"soothing",
"buoying",
"cheering",
"emboldening",
"encouraging",
"heartening",
"assuring",
"reassuring"
],
"related":[
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"bothering",
"chagrining",
"discomforting",
"discomposing",
"dismaying",
"disquieting",
"distressing",
"disturbing",
"perturbing",
"putting off",
"putting out",
"unhinging",
"unsettling",
"upsetting",
"debasing",
"degrading",
"demeaning",
"humbling",
"humiliating",
"queering",
"shaming"
],
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"abashing",
"confusing",
"discomfiting",
"disconcerting",
"discountenancing",
"embarrassing",
"fazing",
"flustering",
"mortifying",
"nonplussing",
"nonplusing",
"rattling"
]
},
"type":[
"adjective",
"verb"
]
},
"confrontational":{
"feeling or displaying eagerness to fight":{
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"nonaggressive",
"nonbelligerent",
"pacific",
"peaceable",
"peaceful",
"unbelligerent",
"uncombative",
"uncontentious"
],
"examples":[
"her confrontational , in-your-face manner doesn't help get legislation passed"
],
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"anti-imperialist",
"antimilitarist",
"unwarlike",
"affable",
"amiable",
"amicable",
"benevolent",
"complaisant",
"conciliatory",
"cordial",
"easygoing",
"friendly",
"genial",
"good-natured",
"good-tempered",
"gracious",
"ingratiating",
"kindhearted",
"obliging",
"pleasant",
"sociable",
"calm",
"quiet",
"relaxed",
"serene",
"tranquil",
"benign",
"gentle",
"kindly",
"mild"
],
"related":[
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"fierce",
"hostile",
"hot-tempered",
"acidic",
"bearish",
"bilious",
"bristly",
"choleric",
"crabby",
"cranky",
"cross",
"disagreeable",
"dyspeptic",
"fractious",
"fretful",
"grouchy",
"grumpy",
"huffy",
"ill-humored",
"ill-natured",
"ill-tempered",
"irascible",
"irritable",
"ornery",
"peevish",
"pettish",
"petulant",
"prickly",
"querulous",
"rude",
"snappish",
"snappy",
"stroppy",
"surly",
"testy",
"touchy",
"ugly",
"waspish",
"savage",
"vicious",
"battling",
"fighting",
"warring"
],
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"aggressive",
"agonistic",
"argumentative",
"assaultive",
"bellicose",
"belligerent",
"brawly",
"chippy",
"combative",
"contentious",
"discordant",
"disputatious",
"feisty",
"gladiatorial",
"militant",
"pugnacious",
"quarrelsome",
"scrappy",
"truculent",
"warlike"
]
},
"type":[
"adjective"
]
},
"confrontations":{
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"examples":[
"the softball rivals met in an epic confrontation on the last weekend of the summer"
],
"near antonyms":[
"concords",
"harmonies",
"peaces"
],
"related":[
"horse races",
"nail-biters",
"showdowns",
"clashes",
"collisions",
"discords",
"frictions",
"arguments",
"controversies",
"debates",
"disagreements",
"disputations",
"disputes",
"dissensions",
"dissentions",
"quarrels",
"rows",
"wrangles"
],
"synonyms":[
"ball games",
"battles",
"combats",
"competitions",
"conflicts",
"contentions",
"contests",
"dogfights",
"duels",
"face-offs",
"grapples",
"matches",
"rivalries",
"strifes",
"struggles",
"sweepstakes",
"sweep-stake",
"tugs-of-war",
"warfares",
"wars"
]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"confuted":{
"to prove to be false":{
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"confirmed",
"established",
"proved",
"validated",
"verified"
],
"examples":[
"theories which will eventually be confirmed or confuted by experience"
],
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"documented",
"evidenced",
"evinced",
"recorded",
"showed",
"supported",
"witnessed",
"backed (up)",
"buttressed",
"corroborated",
"substantiated",
"adduced",
"attested",
"authenticated",
"certified",
"identified",
"demonstrated",
"displayed",
"illustrated",
"manifested"
],
"related":[
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"overturned",
"challenged",
"contested",
"queried",
"questioned",
"doubted",
"mistrusted",
"debated",
"discussed",
"hashed (over)",
"mooted",
"talked over"
],
"synonyms":[
"belied",
"confounded",
"debunked",
"disconfirmed",
"discredited",
"disproved",
"falsified",
"rebutted",
"refuted",
"shot down"
]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"congested":{
"as in":{
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"examples":[],
"near antonyms":[],
"related":[],
"synonyms":[]
},
"to prevent passage through by filling with something":{
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"cleared",
"freed",
"opened (up)",
"unblocked",
"unclogged",
"unplugged",
"unstopped"
],
"examples":[
"the usual weekend traffic congested the region's highways"
],
"near antonyms":[
"excavated",
"hollowed (out)",
"scooped (out)",
"emptied",
"lightened"
],
"related":[
"bunged",
"corked",
"spiled",
"stoppered",
"stoppled",
"filled",
"gridlocked",
"packed",
"furred",
"silted",
"flooded",
"glutted",
"inundated",
"overwhelmed",
"swamped"
],
"synonyms":[
"blocked",
"choked",
"clogged",
"clotted",
"dammed",
"gummed (up)",
"jammed",
"obstructed",
"occluded",
"plugged (up)",
"stopped (up)",
"stuffed"
]
},
"type":[
"adjective",
"verb"
]
},
"conglomerates":{
"a group of businesses or enterprises under one control":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"the huge media conglomerate owns TV and radio stations, a cable company, and a movie studio"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"related":[
"multinationals",
"cartels",
"combinations",
"combines",
"syndicates",
"trusts",
"chains",
"associations",
"corporations",
"organizations",
"pools"
],
"synonyms":[
"empires"
]
},
"to come together into one body or place":{
"antonyms":[
"breaks up",
"disbands",
"disperses",
"splits (up)"
],
"examples":[
"people conglomerated in the downtown streets for an impromptu victory celebration"
],
"near antonyms":[
"departs",
"leaves",
"takes off",
"disjoins",
"dissociates",
"disunites"
],
"related":[
"affiliates",
"allies",
"associates",
"bands (together)",
"caucuses",
"clubs",
"collaborates",
"confederates",
"conjoins",
"consolidates",
"consorts",
"cooperates",
"couples",
"federates",
"gangs up",
"joins",
"merges",
"unites",
"reassembles",
"reconvenes",
"regathers",
"remeets"
],
"synonyms":[
"assembles",
"clusters",
"collects",
"concenters",
"concentrates",
"congregates",
"convenes",
"converges",
"forgathers",
"foregathers",
"gathers",
"meets",
"rendezvouses"
]
},
"to gradually form into a layer, pile, or mass":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"over the years the town's discarded junk conglomerated at the bottom of the river"
],
"near antonyms":[
"disperses",
"dissipates",
"scatters"
],
"related":[
"agglutinates",
"clumps",
"lumps",
"banks",
"drifts",
"ridges"
],
"synonyms":[
"accretes",
"accumulates",
"amasses",
"builds up",
"collects",
"concentrates",
"gathers",
"masses",
"piles (up)",
"stacks (up)"
]
},
"type":[
"noun",
"verb"
]
},
"congratulations":{
"best wishes":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"a gift for you with our congratulations"
],
"near antonyms":[
"dig",
"gibe",
"jibe",
"insult",
"put-down",
"taunt"
],
"related":[
"approval",
"benediction",
"blessing",
"endorsement",
"indorsement",
"acknowledgment",
"acknowledgement",
"citation",
"commendation",
"adulation",
"flattery",
"praise",
"well-wishing"
],
"synonyms":[
"commendations",
"compliment",
"felicitations",
"greetings",
"regards",
"respects"
]
},
"type":[
"plural noun"
]
},
"congruity":{
"a point which two or more things share in common":{
"antonyms":[
"dissimilarity"
],
"examples":[
"the book alleges certain congruities between several political assassinations that were thought to be unrelated"
],
"near antonyms":[
"difference",
"discrepancy",
"deviance",
"divergence",
"incongruence",
"incongruity",
"change",
"modification",
"variation"
],
"related":[
"counterpart",
"equal",
"equivalent",
"analogy",
"homology"
],
"synonyms":[
"common denominator",
"commonality",
"correspondence",
"parallel",
"resemblance",
"similarity",
"similitude"
]
},
"a state of consistency":{
"antonyms":[
"conflict",
"disagreement",
"incongruence",
"incongruity",
"incongruousness"
],
"examples":[
"there's little congruity between your professed religious beliefs and your actual behavior"
],
"near antonyms":[
"contrast",
"discrepancy",
"disparateness",
"disparity",
"dissimilarity",
"distinction",
"distinctiveness",
"distinctness",
"diverseness",
"diversity",
"unlikeness",
"deviance",
"divergence",
"discord",
"discordance",
"dissension",
"dissention",
"dissent",
"dissidence",
"disunity",
"friction",
"strife",
"variability",
"variance",
"incompatibility"
],
"related":[
"compatibility",
"assimilation",
"integration",
"oneness",
"solidarity",
"togetherness",
"affinity",
"empathy",
"sympathy"
],
"synonyms":[
"accord",
"accordance",
"agreement",
"conformance",
"conformity",
"congruence",
"congruency",
"consonance",
"harmony",
"tune"
]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"conjectural":{
"existing only as an assumption or speculation":{
"antonyms":[
"actual",
"factual",
"real"
],
"examples":[
"a necessarily conjectural account of Shakespeare's life, since there is so little hard information"
],
"near antonyms":[
"clinical",
"practical",
"concrete",
"defined",
"definite",
"distinct",
"attested",
"authenticated",
"confirmed",
"demonstrated",
"established",
"proven",
"substantiated",
"tested",
"time-tested",
"validated",
"verified",
"empirical",
"empiric",
"nonspeculative",
"nontheoretical",
"observational"
],
"related":[
"alleged",
"assumed",
"presumed",
"presupposed",
"proposed",
"supposed",
"unproved",
"unproven",
"untested",
"debatable",
"moot",
"abstract",
"conceptual",
"intellectual",
"metaphysical",
"nonclinical",
"nonpractical",
"nonempirical"
],
"synonyms":[
"academic",
"academical",
"hypothetical",
"speculative",
"suppositional",
"theoretical",
"theoretic"
]
},
"type":[
"adjective"
]
},
"conjectured":{
"as in alleged , surmised":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"alleged",
"assumed",
"guessed",
"presumed",
"surmised",
"suspected",
"defensible",
"excusable",
"justifiable",
"vindicable",
"warrantable",
"certifiable",
"documentable",
"well-founded",
"checkable",
"confirmable",
"demonstrable",
"empirical",
"empiric",
"provable",
"supportable",
"sustainable",
"verifiable"
],
"near antonyms":[
"indemonstrable",
"insupportable",
"unprovable",
"unsupportable",
"unsustainable",
"unverifiable",
"debatable",
"disprovable",
"disputable",
"refutable"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to decide the size, amount, number, or distance of (something) without actual measurement":{
"examples":[
"he conjectured that the theater could seat 1000 people more or less"
],
"synonyms":[
"calculated",
"called",
"estimated",
"figured",
"gauged",
"gaged",
"guessed",
"judged",
"made",
"placed",
"put",
"reckoned",
"supposed"
],
"near synonyms":[
"concluded",
"deduced",
"extrapolated",
"gathered",
"inferred",
"reasoned",
"understood"
],
"near antonyms":[
"calibrated",
"measured",
"scaled",
"computed",
"worked out"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to form an opinion from little or no evidence":{
"examples":[
"you're only conjecturing that he was the culprit"
],
"synonyms":[
"assumed",
"daresaid",
"guessed",
"imagined",
"presumed",
"speculated",
"supposed",
"surmised",
"suspected",
"suspicioned"
],
"near synonyms":[
"concluded",
"deduced",
"gathered",
"inferred",
"hypothecated",
"hypothesized",
"theorized",
"believed",
"conceived",
"expected",
"judged",
"reckoned",
"thought",
"took"
],
"near antonyms":[
"demonstrated",
"documented",
"established",
"proved",
"substantiated",
"validated",
"ascertained",
"determined",
"found out",
"learned"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"adjective",
"verb"
]
},
"conjoin":{
"to come together to form a single unit":{
"antonyms":[
"break up",
"dissever",
"part",
"section",
"separate",
"sever",
"split",
"sunder",
"unlink"
],
"examples":[
"several streets conjoin to form the crossroads known as New York's Times Square"
],
"near antonyms":[
"detach",
"disaffiliate",
"disconnect",
"disjoin",
"disjoint",
"dissociate",
"disunite",
"divide",
"divorce",
"fractionate",
"isolate",
"resolve",
"uncouple",
"unyoke",
"disband",
"disperse",
"scatter"
],
"related":[
"mate",
"yoke",
"ally",
"confederate",
"league",
"chain",
"compound",
"hitch",
"hook",
"splice",
"assemble",
"cluster",
"congregate",
"constellate",
"convene",
"gather",
"meet",
"recombine",
"reconnect",
"rejoin",
"reunify",
"reunite"
],
"synonyms":[
"associate",
"coalesce",
"combine",
"conjugate",
"connect",
"couple",
"fuse",
"interfuse",
"join",
"link (up)",
"marry",
"unify",
"unite"
]
},
"to form or enter into an association that furthers the interests of its members":{
"antonyms":[
"break up",
"disband"
],
"examples":[
"small farmers had to conjoin in order to compete with the agricultural conglomerates"
],
"near antonyms":[
"detach",
"disengage",
"dissolve",
"disunite",
"divorce",
"part",
"segregate",
"separate",
"sever",
"split",
"sunder",
"alienate",
"estrange",
"fall out"
],
"related":[
"cabal",
"collaborate",
"gang up",
"hang together",
"team (up)",
"incorporate",
"organize",
"unionize",
"affiliate",
"amalgamate",
"combine",
"conglomerate",
"consolidate",
"converge",
"group",
"join",
"merge",
"knot",
"link",
"tie",
"wed"
],
"synonyms":[
"ally",
"associate",
"band (together)",
"club",
"coalesce",
"cohere",
"confederate",
"cooperate",
"federate",
"league",
"unite"
]
},
"to participate or assist in a joint effort to accomplish an end":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"government agencies and private charities have conjoined to bring relief to the famine-stricken nation"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"related":[
"connive",
"affiliate",
"ally",
"associate",
"combine",
"confederate",
"hang together",
"interface"
],
"synonyms":[
"band (together)",
"collaborate",
"concert",
"concur",
"conspire",
"cooperate",
"join",
"league",
"team (up)",
"unite"
]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"conjoined":{
"as in":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[],
"near antonyms":[],
"related":[],
"synonyms":[]
},
"to come together to form a single unit":{
"antonyms":[
"broke up",
"dissevered",
"parted",
"sectioned",
"separated",
"severed",
"split",
"sundered",
"unlinked"
],
"examples":[
"several streets conjoin to form the crossroads known as New York's Times Square"
],
"near antonyms":[
"detached",
"disaffiliated",
"disconnected",
"disjoined",
"disjointed",
"dissociated",
"disunited",
"divided",
"divorced",
"fractionated",
"isolated",
"resolved",
"uncoupled",
"unyoked",
"disbanded",
"dispersed",
"scattered"
],
"related":[
"mated",
"yoked",
"allied",
"confederated",
"leagued",
"chained",
"compounded",
"hitched",
"hooked",
"spliced",
"assembled",
"clustered",
"congregated",
"constellated",
"convened",
"gathered",
"met",
"recombined",
"reconnected",
"rejoined",
"reunified",
"reunited"
],
"synonyms":[
"associated",
"coalesced",
"combined",
"conjugated",
"connected",
"coupled",
"fused",
"interfused",
"joined",
"linked (up)",
"married",
"unified",
"united"
]
},
"to form or enter into an association that furthers the interests of its members":{
"antonyms":[
"broke up",
"disbanded"
],
"examples":[
"small farmers had to conjoin in order to compete with the agricultural conglomerates"
],
"near antonyms":[
"detached",
"disengaged",
"dissolved",
"disunited",
"divorced",
"parted",
"segregated",
"separated",
"severed",
"split",
"sundered",
"alienated",
"estranged",
"fell out"
],
"related":[
"caballed",
"collaborated",
"ganged up",
"hung together",
"teamed (up)",
"incorporated",
"organized",
"unionized",
"affiliated",
"amalgamated",
"combined",
"conglomerated",
"consolidated",
"converged",
"grouped",
"joined",
"merged",
"knotted",
"linked",
"tied",
"wedded",
"wed"
],
"synonyms":[
"allied",
"associated",
"banded (together)",
"clubbed",
"coalesced",
"cohered",
"confederated",
"cooperated",
"federated",
"leagued",
"united"
]
},
"to participate or assist in a joint effort to accomplish an end":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"government agencies and private charities have conjoined to bring relief to the famine-stricken nation"
],
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"related":[
"connived",
"affiliated",
"allied",
"associated",
"combined",
"confederated",
"hung together",
"interfaced"
],
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"banded (together)",
"collaborated",
"concerted",
"concurred",
"conspired",
"cooperated",
"joined",
"leagued",
"teamed (up)",
"united"
]
},
"type":[
"adjective",
"verb"
]
},
"conjugating":{
"to come together to form a single unit":{
"antonyms":[
"breaking up",
"dissevering",
"parting",
"sectioning",
"separating",
"severing",
"splitting",
"sundering",
"unlinking"
],
"examples":[
"biological cells conjugating under a microscope"
],
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"detaching",
"disaffiliating",
"disconnecting",
"disjoining",
"disjointing",
"dissociating",
"disuniting",
"dividing",
"divorcing",
"fractionating",
"isolating",
"resolving",
"uncoupling",
"unyoking",
"disbanding",
"dispersing",
"scattering"
],
"related":[
"mating",
"yoking",
"allying",
"confederating",
"leaguing",
"chaining",
"compounding",
"hitching",
"hooking",
"splicing",
"assembling",
"clustering",
"congregating",
"constellating",
"convening",
"gathering",
"meeting",
"recombining",
"reconnecting",
"rejoining",
"reunifying",
"reuniting"
],
"synonyms":[
"associating",
"coalescing",
"combining",
"conjoining",
"connecting",
"coupling",
"fusing",
"interfusing",
"joining",
"linking (up)",
"marrying",
"unifying",
"uniting"
]
},
"to put or bring together so as to form a new and longer whole":{
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"disconnecting",
"disjoining",
"disjointing",
"dissevering",
"disuniting",
"separating",
"unchaining",
"uncoupling",
"unhitching",
"unlinking",
"unyoking"
],
"examples":[
"conjugate polymers in a chemistry lab"
],
"near antonyms":[
"detaching",
"disengaging",
"dividing",
"parting",
"splitting",
"cleaving",
"rupturing",
"severing",
"sundering"
],
"related":[
"articulating",
"dovetailing",
"integrating",
"interlocking",
"intermeshing",
"cording",
"stringing",
"wiring",
"cementing",
"coalescing",
"combining",
"fusing",
"uniting",
"welding"
],
"synonyms":[
"catenating",
"chaining",
"compounding",
"concatenating",
"connecting",
"coupling",
"hitching",
"hooking",
"interconnecting",
"interlinking",
"joining",
"linking",
"yoking"
]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
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"antonyms":[
"divergence"
],
"examples":[
"the conjunction of the two major highways creates a massive influx of cars into the city"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"related":[
"combination",
"combining",
"connecting",
"connection",
"consolidation",
"coupling",
"joining",
"junction",
"juncture",
"linking",
"merging",
"unification",
"union"
],
"synonyms":[
"confluence",
"convergence",
"convergency",
"meeting"
]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
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"as in congruent":{
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"examples":[],
"near antonyms":[],
"related":[],
"synonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"adjective"
]
},
"conking (out)":{
"to lose consciousness":{
"antonyms":[
"coming around",
"coming round",
"coming to",
"reviving"
],
"examples":[
"after three days without eating, he simply conked out"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"related":[
"breaking down",
"collapsing",
"zonking (out)"
],
"synonyms":[
"blacking out",
"fainting",
"keeling (over)",
"passing out",
"swooning"
]
},
"to stop functioning":{
"antonyms":[
"starting (up)"
],
"examples":[
"the engine conked out just as we were approaching the exact middle of nowhere"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"related":[
"fizzling",
"sputtering",
"wheezing",
"acting up",
"malfunctioning",
"jamming"
],
"synonyms":[
"breaking",
"breaking down",
"crashing",
"cutting out",
"dying",
"failing",
"giving out",
"stalling"
]
},
"to stop living":{
"antonyms":[
"breathing",
"living"
],
"examples":[
"a list of people whose chief claim to fame is the unusual manner in which they conked out"
],
"near antonyms":[
"coming to",
"reviving",
"lingering",
"being",
"existing",
"subsisting",
"flourishing",
"prospering",
"thriving"
],
"related":[
"predeceasing",
"consuming",
"disappearing",
"drying up",
"fading",
"failing"
],
"synonyms":[
"checking out",
"croaking",
"deceasing",
"demising",
"departing",
"dropping",
"dying",
"ending",
"exiting",
"expiring",
"falling",
"flatlining",
"going",
"kicking in",
"kicking off",
"parting",
"passing away",
"passing (on)",
"pegging out",
"perishing",
"popping off",
"stepping out",
"succumbing"
]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"conks":{
"as in":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[],
"near antonyms":[],
"related":[],
"synonyms":[]
},
"the part of the face bearing the nostrils and nasal cavity":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"a feisty cockney who had got his conk broken more than once in street brawls"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"related":[
"pugnoses",
"pugs"
],
"synonyms":[
"beaks",
"honkers",
"nebs",
"noses",
"nozzles",
"proboscises",
"proboscides",
"schnozzes",
"schnozzolas",
"schnozzles",
"smellers",
"snoots",
"snouts"
]
},
"type":[
"noun",
"verb"
]
},
"conks (out)":{
"to lose consciousness":{
"antonyms":[
"comes around",
"comes round",
"comes to",
"revives"
],
"examples":[
"after three days without eating, he simply conked out"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"related":[
"breaks down",
"collapses",
"zonks (out)"
],
"synonyms":[
"blacks out",
"faints",
"keels (over)",
"passes out",
"swoons"
]
},
"to stop functioning":{
"antonyms":[
"starts (up)"
],
"examples":[
"the engine conked out just as we were approaching the exact middle of nowhere"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"related":[
"fizzles",
"sputters",
"wheezes",
"acts up",
"malfunctions",
"jams"
],
"synonyms":[
"breaks",
"breaks down",
"crashes",
"cuts out",
"dies",
"fails",
"gives out",
"stalls"
]
},
"to stop living":{
"antonyms":[
"breathes",
"lives"
],
"examples":[
"a list of people whose chief claim to fame is the unusual manner in which they conked out"
],
"near antonyms":[
"comes to",
"revives",
"lingers",
"exists",
"is",
"subsists",
"flourishes",
"prospers",
"thrives"
],
"related":[
"predeceases",
"consumes",
"disappears",
"dries up",
"fades",
"fails"
],
"synonyms":[
"checks out",
"croaks",
"deceases",
"demises",
"departs",
"dies",
"drops",
"ends",
"exits",
"expires",
"falls",
"flatlines",
"goes",
"kicks in",
"kicks off",
"parts",
"passes away",
"passes (on)",
"pegs out",
"perishes",
"pops off",
"steps out",
"succumbs"
]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"connect":{
"to come together to form a single unit":{
"antonyms":[
"break up",
"dissever",
"part",
"section",
"separate",
"sever",
"split",
"sunder",
"unlink"
],
"examples":[
"the two interstate highways connect , so a driver can go from one corner of the state to the other without much trouble"
],
"near antonyms":[
"detach",
"disaffiliate",
"disconnect",
"disjoin",
"disjoint",
"dissociate",
"disunite",
"divide",
"divorce",
"fractionate",
"isolate",
"resolve",
"uncouple",
"unyoke",
"disband",
"disperse",
"scatter"
],
"related":[
"mate",
"yoke",
"ally",
"confederate",
"league",
"chain",
"compound",
"hitch",
"hook",
"splice",
"assemble",
"cluster",
"congregate",
"constellate",
"convene",
"gather",
"meet",
"recombine",
"reconnect",
"rejoin",
"reunify",
"reunite"
],
"synonyms":[
"associate",
"coalesce",
"combine",
"conjoin",
"conjugate",
"couple",
"fuse",
"interfuse",
"join",
"link (up)",
"marry",
"unify",
"unite"
]
},
"to put or bring together so as to form a new and longer whole":{
"antonyms":[
"disconnect",
"disjoin",
"disjoint",
"dissever",
"disunite",
"separate",
"unchain",
"uncouple",
"unhitch",
"unlink",
"unyoke"
],
"examples":[
"connect all the sets of lights and attach them to the branches of the Christmas tree"
],
"near antonyms":[
"detach",
"disengage",
"divide",
"part",
"split",
"cleave",
"rupture",
"sever",
"sunder"
],
"related":[
"articulate",
"dovetail",
"integrate",
"interlock",
"intermesh",
"cord",
"string",
"wire",
"cement",
"coalesce",
"combine",
"fuse",
"unite",
"weld"
],
"synonyms":[
"catenate",
"chain",
"compound",
"concatenate",
"conjugate",
"couple",
"hitch",
"hook",
"interconnect",
"interlink",
"join",
"link",
"yoke"
]
},
"to think of (something) in combination":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"opera is popularly connected with high society"
],
"near antonyms":[
"contrast",
"differentiate",
"discriminate",
"distinguish",
"separate",
"set off"
],
"related":[
"compare",
"equate",
"liken",
"group",
"join",
"lump (together)",
"tie (together)"
],
"synonyms":[
"associate",
"correlate",
"identify",
"link",
"relate"
]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"connives":{
"to engage in a secret plan to accomplish evil or unlawful ends":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"suspects that his coworkers are conniving to get him fired"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"related":[
"counterplots",
"brews",
"concocts",
"cooks (up)",
"devises",
"hatches",
"engineers",
"jockeys",
"maneuvers",
"manipulates",
"designs",
"frames",
"lays out",
"maps",
"plans",
"shapes"
],
"synonyms":[
"colludes",
"compasses",
"conspires",
"contrives",
"intrigues",
"machinates",
"plots",
"puts up",
"schemes"
]
},
"to secretly sympathize with or pretend ignorance of something improper or unlawful":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"the principal connived at all the school absences that were recorded on the day of the city's celebration of its Super Bowl victory"
],
"near antonyms":[
"disapproves (of)",
"frowns (on or upon)",
"denies",
"disallows",
"refuses"
],
"related":[
"brushes (aside or off)",
"condones",
"disregards",
"excuses",
"forgives",
"glosses (over)",
"glozes (over)",
"ignores",
"overlooks",
"pardons",
"passes over",
"shrugs off",
"tolerates"
],
"synonyms":[
"winks"
]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"connoted":{
"to make you think about (something) in addition to the word's meaning":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"The word \"childlike\" connotes innocence.",
"For her, the word \"family\" connotes love and comfort."
],
"near antonyms":[],
"related":[],
"synonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"conquering":{
"as in winning , victorious":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[],
"near antonyms":[],
"related":[],
"synonyms":[]
},
"to achieve a victory over":{
"antonyms":[
"losing (to)"
],
"examples":[
"love conquers all, or so romance novels would have us believe"
],
"near antonyms":[
"falling",
"giving up",
"going down",
"going under",
"collapsing",
"failing",
"flopping",
"flunking",
"folding",
"washing out"
],
"related":[
"sweeping",
"edging (out)",
"nosing out",
"pipping",
"annihilating",
"blowing away",
"blowing out",
"bombing",
"breaking",
"burying",
"clobbering",
"creaming",
"crushing",
"drubbing",
"finishing",
"flattening",
"overwhelming",
"routing",
"shellacking",
"skinning",
"slaughtering",
"smoking",
"snowing under",
"thrashing",
"trouncing",
"upsetting",
"walloping",
"waxing",
"whipping",
"capping",
"excelling",
"flourishing",
"scoring",
"succeeding",
"knocking off",
"knocking over",
"overpowering",
"overthrowing",
"subjugating",
"unseating",
"vanquishing",
"acing (out)",
"bettering",
"eclipsing",
"exceeding",
"excelling",
"outdistancing",
"outdoing",
"outfighting",
"outshining",
"outstripping",
"overtopping",
"surpassing",
"topping",
"transcending"
],
"synonyms":[
"beating",
"besting",
"defeating",
"dispatching",
"doing down",
"getting",
"getting around",
"licking",
"mastering",
"overbearing",
"overcoming",
"overmatching",
"prevailing (over)",
"skunking",
"stopping",
"subduing",
"surmounting",
"taking",
"trimming",
"triumphing (over)",
"upending",
"winning (against)",
"worsting"
]
},
"to achieve victory (as in a contest)":{
"antonyms":[
"losing"
],
"examples":[
"a coach who demands that his team conquer , whatever the cost"
],
"near antonyms":[
"collapsing",
"failing",
"flopping",
"folding",
"washing out",
"floundering",
"struggling",
"declining",
"slipping",
"slumping",
"waning"
],
"related":[
"overcoming",
"sweeping",
"squeaking",
"squeezing",
"contending",
"vying",
"succeeding",
"breezing",
"romping"
],
"synonyms":[
"prevailing",
"triumphing",
"winning"
]
},
"to bring under one's control by force of arms":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"before his final defeat, Napol\u00e9on had managed to conquer much of Europe"
],
"near antonyms":[
"discharging",
"emancipating",
"enfranchising",
"freeing",
"liberating",
"manumitting",
"releasing",
"springing",
"unbinding",
"uncaging",
"unchaining",
"unfettering"
],
"related":[
"annihilating",
"beating",
"clobbering",
"crushing",
"defeating",
"drubbing",
"licking",
"mowing (down)",
"overcoming",
"prevailing (over)",
"reducing",
"routing",
"skunking",
"smashing",
"thrashing",
"triumphing (over)",
"trouncing",
"walloping",
"whipping",
"enslaving",
"breaking",
"clamping down (on)",
"cracking down (on)",
"putting down",
"quashing",
"quelling",
"repressing",
"silencing",
"smothering",
"snuffing (out)",
"squashing",
"squelching",
"suppressing"
],
"synonyms":[
"dominating",
"overpowering",
"pacifying",
"subduing",
"subjecting",
"subjugating",
"subordinating",
"vanquishing"
]
},
"type":[
"adjective",
"verb"
]
},
"conquers":{
"to achieve a victory over":{
"antonyms":[
"loses (to)"
],
"examples":[
"love conquers all, or so romance novels would have us believe"
],
"near antonyms":[
"falls",
"gives up",
"goes down",
"goes under",
"collapses",
"fails",
"flops",
"flunks",
"folds",
"washes out"
],
"related":[
"sweeps",
"edges (out)",
"noses out",
"pips",
"annihilates",
"blows away",
"blows out",
"bombs",
"breaks",
"buries",
"clobbers",
"creams",
"crushes",
"drubs",
"finishes",
"flattens",
"overwhelms",
"routs",
"shellacs",
"skins",
"slaughters",
"smokes",
"snows under",
"thrashes",
"trounces",
"upsets",
"wallops",
"waxes",
"whips",
"caps",
"excels",
"flourishes",
"scores",
"succeeds",
"knocks off",
"knocks over",
"overpowers",
"overthrows",
"subjugates",
"unseats",
"vanquishes",
"aces (out)",
"betters",
"eclipses",
"exceeds",
"excels",
"outdistances",
"outdoes",
"outfights",
"outshines",
"outstrips",
"overtops",
"surpasses",
"tops",
"transcends"
],
"synonyms":[
"beats",
"bests",
"defeats",
"dispatches",
"does down",
"gets",
"gets around",
"licks",
"masters",
"overbears",
"overcomes",
"overmatches",
"prevails (over)",
"skunks",
"stops",
"subdues",
"surmounts",
"takes",
"trims",
"triumphs (over)",
"upends",
"wins (against)",
"worsts"
]
},
"to achieve victory (as in a contest)":{
"antonyms":[
"loses"
],
"examples":[
"a coach who demands that his team conquer , whatever the cost"
],
"near antonyms":[
"collapses",
"fails",
"flops",
"folds",
"washes out",
"flounders",
"struggles",
"declines",
"slips",
"slumps",
"wanes"
],
"related":[
"overcomes",
"sweeps",
"squeaks",
"squeezes",
"contends",
"vies",
"succeeds",
"breezes",
"romps"
],
"synonyms":[
"prevails",
"triumphs",
"wins"
]
},
"to bring under one's control by force of arms":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"before his final defeat, Napol\u00e9on had managed to conquer much of Europe"
],
"near antonyms":[
"discharges",
"emancipates",
"enfranchises",
"frees",
"liberates",
"manumits",
"releases",
"springs",
"unbinds",
"uncages",
"unchains",
"unfetters"
],
"related":[
"annihilates",
"beats",
"clobbers",
"crushes",
"defeats",
"drubs",
"licks",
"mows (down)",
"overcomes",
"prevails (over)",
"reduces",
"routs",
"skunks",
"smashes",
"thrashes",
"triumphs (over)",
"trounces",
"wallops",
"whips",
"enslaves",
"breaks",
"clamps down (on)",
"cracks down (on)",
"puts down",
"quashes",
"quells",
"represses",
"silences",
"smothers",
"snuffs (out)",
"squashes",
"squelches",
"suppresses"
],
"synonyms":[
"dominates",
"overpowers",
"pacifies",
"subdues",
"subjects",
"subjugates",
"subordinates",
"vanquishes"
]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"consciences":{
"one's internal sense of right and wrong":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"Her conscience told her to find the lost wallet's owner."
],
"near antonyms":[],
"related":[],
"synonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"conscript":{
"a person forced or required to enroll in military service":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"as the war continued, the body of enlisted soldiers was supplemented by an increasing number of conscripts"
],
"near antonyms":[
"enlistee",
"volunteer"
],
"related":[
"levy",
"recruit",
"rookie"
],
"synonyms":[
"draftee",
"inductee",
"selectee"
]
},
"to pick especially for required military service":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"was conscripted into the army shortly after turning 18"
],
"near antonyms":[
"discharge",
"muster out"
],
"related":[
"impress",
"press",
"enlist",
"enroll",
"enrol",
"recruit",
"call up",
"sign up",
"volunteer"
],
"synonyms":[
"conscribe",
"draft",
"levy"
]
},
"type":[
"noun",
"verb"
]
},
"consecrate":{
"set apart or worthy of veneration by association with God":{
"antonyms":[
"deconsecrated",
"desacralized",
"unconsecrated",
"unhallowed"
],
"examples":[
"the consecrate gold tablets which Joseph Smith claimed to have found"
],
"near antonyms":[
"nonreligious",
"unspiritual",
"earthly",
"mundane",
"profane",
"secular",
"temporal",
"worldly"
],
"related":[
"adored",
"enshrined",
"glorified",
"revered",
"venerated",
"worshipped",
"worshiped",
"ceremonial",
"liturgical",
"priestly",
"religious",
"ritual",
"sacramental",
"spiritual",
"biblical",
"scriptural"
],
"synonyms":[
"blessed",
"blest",
"consecrated",
"hallowed",
"holy",
"sacral",
"sacred",
"sacrosanct",
"sanctified"
]
},
"to keep or intend for a special purpose":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"a philanthropist who consecrated his considerable fortune to an array of charitable causes"
],
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"ignore",
"neglect",
"misapply",
"misuse"
],
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"bless",
"hallow",
"sanctify",
"commit",
"confide",
"consign",
"entrust",
"intrust",
"apply",
"bestow",
"employ",
"use"
],
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"allocate",
"dedicate",
"devote",
"earmark",
"give up (to)",
"reserve",
"save",
"set by"
]
},
"to make holy through prayers or ritual":{
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"deconsecrate",
"desacralize",
"desanctify"
],
"examples":[
"plans to consecrate the altar in the new church with great ceremony"
],
"near antonyms":[
"defile",
"desecrate",
"profane",
"dirty",
"foul",
"pollute",
"soil",
"taint",
"violate",
"blaspheme",
"curse",
"cuss",
"damn",
"execrate",
"cast out",
"condemn",
"damn",
"punish"
],
"related":[
"baptize",
"canonize",
"spiritualize",
"chasten",
"cleanse",
"lustrate",
"purify",
"exorcise",
"exorcize",
"expurgate",
"commit",
"dedicate",
"devote",
"reconsecrate"
],
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"bless",
"hallow",
"sacralize",
"sanctify"
]
},
"type":[
"adjective",
"verb"
]
},
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"to keep or intend for a special purpose":{
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"examples":[
"a philanthropist who consecrated his considerable fortune to an array of charitable causes"
],
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"ignores",
"neglects",
"misapplies",
"misuses"
],
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"blesses",
"hallows",
"sanctifies",
"commits",
"confides",
"consigns",
"entrusts",
"intrusts",
"applies",
"bestows",
"employs",
"uses"
],
"synonyms":[
"allocates",
"dedicates",
"devotes",
"earmarks",
"gives up (to)",
"reserves",
"saves",
"sets by"
]
},
"to make holy through prayers or ritual":{
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"deconsecrates",
"desacralizes",
"desanctifies"
],
"examples":[
"plans to consecrate the altar in the new church with great ceremony"
],
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"defiles",
"desecrates",
"profanes",
"dirties",
"fouls",
"pollutes",
"soils",
"taints",
"violates",
"blasphemes",
"curses",
"cusses",
"damns",
"execrates",
"casts out",
"condemns",
"damns",
"punishes"
],
"related":[
"baptizes",
"canonizes",
"spiritualizes",
"chastens",
"cleanses",
"lustrates",
"purifies",
"exorcises",
"exorcizes",
"expurgates",
"commits",
"dedicates",
"devotes",
"reconsecrates"
],
"synonyms":[
"blesses",
"hallows",
"sacralizes",
"sanctifies"
]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
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"to keep or intend for a special purpose":{
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"examples":[
"a philanthropist who consecrated his considerable fortune to an array of charitable causes"
],
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"ignoring",
"neglecting",
"misapplying",
"misusing"
],
"related":[
"blessing",
"hallowing",
"sanctifying",
"committing",
"confiding",
"consigning",
"entrusting",
"intrusting",
"applying",
"bestowing",
"employing",
"using"
],
"synonyms":[
"allocating",
"dedicating",
"devoting",
"earmarking",
"giving up (to)",
"reserving",
"saving",
"setting by"
]
},
"to make holy through prayers or ritual":{
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"deconsecrating",
"desacralizing",
"desanctifying"
],
"examples":[
"plans to consecrate the altar in the new church with great ceremony"
],
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"defiling",
"desecrating",
"profaning",
"dirtying",
"fouling",
"polluting",
"soiling",
"tainting",
"violating",
"blaspheming",
"cursing",
"cussing",
"damning",
"execrating",
"casting out",
"condemning",
"damning",
"punishing"
],
"related":[
"baptizing",
"baptising",
"canonizing",
"spiritualizing",
"chastening",
"cleansing",
"lustrating",
"purifying",
"exorcising",
"exorcizing",
"expurgating",
"committing",
"dedicating",
"devoting",
"reconsecrating"
],
"synonyms":[
"blessing",
"hallowing",
"sacralizing",
"sanctifying"
]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"consensus":{
"the state of being of one opinion about something":{
"antonyms":[
"conflict",
"disagreement",
"dissensus"
],
"examples":[
"finally reached a consensus on how to spend the money that the club had raised"
],
"near antonyms":[
"discord",
"dissension",
"dissention",
"dissent",
"opposition",
"resistance",
"disapprobation",
"disapproval",
"disfavor"
],
"related":[
"accession",
"adhesion",
"assent",
"assentation",
"consent",
"acceptance",
"acquiescence",
"concession",
"embrace",
"embracement",
"approbation",
"approval",
"favor",
"alliance",
"collaboration",
"collusion",
"complicity",
"conspiracy",
"compliance",
"concert",
"concertedness",
"concord",
"concordance",
"conformity",
"consonance",
"harmony",
"oneness",
"solidarity",
"understanding",
"union",
"empathy",
"rapport",
"sympathy"
],
"synonyms":[
"accord",
"agreement",
"concurrence",
"concurrency",
"unanimity",
"unison"
]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"consented":{
"to give or express one's approval (as to a proposal)":{
"antonyms":[
"dissented"
],
"examples":[
"refused to consent to the marriage"
],
"near antonyms":[
"rebuffed",
"refused",
"rejected",
"scorned",
"spurned",
"denied",
"gainsaid"
],
"related":[
"adopted",
"embraced",
"espoused",
"abided",
"abode",
"bore (with)",
"endured",
"stood",
"suffered",
"tolerated",
"stomached",
"swallowed",
"took",
"bowed",
"knuckled under",
"relented",
"submitted",
"succumbed",
"yielded"
],
"synonyms":[
"acceded",
"acquiesced",
"agreed",
"assented",
"came round",
"subscribed"
]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"consented (to)":{
"as in complied (with) , accepted":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[],
"near antonyms":[],
"related":[],
"synonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"consequential":{
"coming as a result":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"his high-fat diet and the consequential weight gain"
],
"near antonyms":[
"causal"
],
"related":[
"accompanying",
"coincident",
"concomitant"
],
"synonyms":[
"attendant",
"consequent",
"due (to)",
"resultant"
]
},
"having great meaning or lasting effect":{
"antonyms":[
"inconsequential",
"inconsiderable",
"insignificant",
"little",
"minor",
"negligible",
"slight",
"small",
"trifling",
"trivial",
"unimportant"
],
"examples":[
"the American Civil War is often regarded as the nation's most consequential event since its founding"
],
"near antonyms":[
"paltry",
"petty",
"worthless",
"anonymous",
"nameless",
"obscure",
"uncelebrated",
"unknown"
],
"related":[
"decisive",
"fatal",
"fateful",
"strategic",
"earnest",
"grave",
"heavy",
"serious",
"sincere",
"distinctive",
"exceptional",
"impressive",
"outstanding",
"prominent",
"remarkable",
"valuable",
"worthwhile",
"worthy",
"distinguished",
"eminent",
"great",
"illustrious",
"noble",
"notable",
"noteworthy",
"outstanding",
"preeminent",
"prestigious",
"famous",
"notorious",
"renowned",
"all-important",
"central",
"critical",
"crucial",
"essential",
"key",
"pivotal",
"seminal",
"vital"
],
"synonyms":[
"big",
"earth-shattering",
"earthshaking",
"eventful",
"historic",
"important",
"major",
"material",
"meaningful",
"momentous",
"monumental",
"much",
"significant",
"substantial",
"tectonic",
"weighty"
]
},
"having too high an opinion of oneself":{
"antonyms":[
"egoless",
"humble",
"modest",
"uncomplacent"
],
"examples":[
"for such a consequential businessman, he's head of a rather small company"
],
"near antonyms":[
"diffident",
"self-critical",
"self-distrustful",
"self-doubting",
"self-reproachful",
"self-reproving",
"meek",
"timid",
"unassertive",
"down-to-earth",
"unarrogant",
"unassuming",
"unpretentious",
"bashful",
"demure",
"introverted",
"mousy",
"mousey",
"overmodest",
"retiring",
"sheepish",
"shrinking",
"shy"
],
"related":[
"blusterous",
"blustery",
"boastful",
"bombastic",
"braggart",
"bragging",
"braggy",
"cocky",
"swaggering",
"arrogant",
"assumptive",
"bumptious",
"cavalier",
"chesty",
"disdainful",
"fastuous",
"haughty",
"high-and-mighty",
"high-hat",
"huffy",
"lofty",
"lordly",
"masterful",
"peremptory",
"pontifical",
"self-asserting",
"self-assertive",
"snobbish",
"snobby",
"snooty",
"supercilious",
"superior",
"toplofty",
"toploftical",
"uppish",
"uppity",
"domineering",
"high-handed",
"imperious",
"highfalutin",
"hifalutin",
"holier-than-thou",
"pretentious",
"overconfident",
"presuming",
"presumptuous",
"confident",
"self-assured",
"self-confident",
"self-adulatory",
"self-congratulatory",
"self-contented",
"self-gratulatory",
"self-applauding",
"self-dramatizing",
"self-glorifying",
"self-promoting",
"self-affected",
"self-centered",
"self-engrossed",
"selfish",
"condescending",
"patronizing"
],
"synonyms":[
"assured",
"biggety",
"biggity",
"bigheaded",
"complacent",
"conceited",
"egoistic",
"egoistical",
"egotistic",
"egotistical",
"important",
"overweening",
"pompous",
"prideful",
"proud",
"self-conceited",
"self-important",
"self-opinionated",
"self-satisfied",
"smug",
"stuck-up",
"swellheaded",
"vain",
"vainglorious"
]
},
"type":[
"adjective"
]
},
"conservative":{
"a person whose political beliefs are centered on tradition and keeping things the way they are":{
"antonyms":[
"leftist",
"left-winger",
"lefty",
"liberal",
"progressive"
],
"examples":[
"proposed legislation that was opposed by conservatives throughout the state"
],
"near antonyms":[
"extremist",
"radical",
"red",
"revolutionary",
"revolutionist",
"reformer",
"reformist"
],
"related":[
"right",
"right-wing",
"conformist",
"neocon",
"neoconservative",
"diehard",
"standpatter",
"bourbon",
"Colonel Blimp",
"fuddy-duddy",
"square",
"stuffed shirt"
],
"synonyms":[
"archconservative",
"paleoconservative",
"reactionary",
"rightist",
"right-winger",
"Tory",
"traditionalist"
]
},
"having or showing a close attentiveness to avoiding danger or trouble":{
"antonyms":[
"careless",
"heedless",
"incautious",
"unguarded",
"unmindful",
"unsafe",
"unwary"
],
"examples":[
"made conservative investments, and so he wasn't ruined when the market went into a free fall"
],
"near antonyms":[
"bold",
"brash",
"impetuous",
"rash",
"reckless",
"venturesome",
"asleep",
"inattentive",
"regardless",
"inconsiderate",
"thoughtless",
"lax",
"neglectful",
"negligent",
"remiss",
"imprudent",
"indiscreet",
"injudicious",
"absentminded",
"forgetful",
"inadvertent",
"unintentional",
"unplanned"
],
"related":[
"advertent",
"attentive",
"awake",
"observant",
"regardful",
"vigilant",
"watchful",
"hypercautious",
"foresighted",
"foresightful",
"forethoughtful",
"provident",
"thoughtful",
"cagey",
"cagy",
"calculating",
"canny",
"shrewd",
"deliberate",
"slow",
"ultracareful",
"ultracautious"
],
"synonyms":[
"alert",
"careful",
"cautious",
"chary",
"circumspect",
"considerate",
"gingerly",
"guarded",
"heedful",
"safe",
"wary"
]
},
"not excessively showy":{
"antonyms":[
"flamboyant",
"flaring",
"flashy",
"garish",
"gaudy",
"glitzy",
"loud",
"noisy",
"ostentatious",
"razzle-dazzle",
"splashy",
"swank",
"swanky"
],
"examples":[
"dressing in conservative outfits so as to make a good impression at job interviews"
],
"near antonyms":[
"meretricious",
"graceless",
"inelegant",
"tacky",
"tasteless",
"tawdry",
"trashy",
"vulgar",
"baroque",
"fancy",
"frilly",
"gilded",
"gilt",
"ornate",
"rococo",
"overdecorated",
"overdone",
"overwrought"
],
"related":[
"appropriate",
"becoming",
"fit",
"fitting",
"proper",
"suitable",
"modest",
"plain",
"simple",
"unadorned",
"undecorated",
"inconspicuous",
"unnoticeable",
"unobtrusive",
"graceful",
"handsome",
"refined",
"tasteful",
"drab",
"mousy",
"mousey",
"practical",
"sensible"
],
"synonyms":[
"low-key",
"low-keyed",
"muted",
"quiet",
"repressed",
"restrained",
"sober",
"subdued",
"toned-down",
"understated",
"unflashy",
"unpretentious"
]
},
"tending to favor established ideas, conditions, or institutions":{
"antonyms":[
"broad-minded",
"large-minded",
"liberal",
"nonconservative",
"nonconventional",
"nonorthodox",
"nontraditional",
"open-minded",
"progressive",
"unconventional",
"unorthodox"
],
"examples":[
"conservative baseball fans consider the new ballpark too modern-looking and plain ugly"
],
"near antonyms":[
"anticonventional",
"antiestablishment",
"antitraditional",
"extremist",
"radical",
"revolutionary",
"nonconformist",
"advanced",
"contemporary",
"modern",
"lefty",
"radical",
"ultraleft",
"ultraleftist",
"ultraprogressive",
"ultraradical"
],
"related":[
"conventional",
"square",
"devoted",
"faithful",
"loyal",
"staunch",
"stanch",
"steadfast",
"steady",
"true",
"true-blue",
"blimpish",
"neoconservative",
"Tory",
"ultraright",
"ultrarightist",
"dowdy",
"fogyish",
"fogeyish",
"fuddy-duddy",
"ossified",
"set",
"stodgy",
"right",
"right-wing",
"antiliberal",
"antimodern",
"antiprogressive",
"antireform",
"antirevolutionary"
],
"synonyms":[
"archconservative",
"brassbound",
"button-down",
"buttoned-down",
"die-hard",
"hidebound",
"mossbacked",
"old-fashioned",
"old-line",
"old-school",
"orthodox",
"paleoconservative",
"reactionary",
"standpat",
"traditional",
"traditionalistic",
"ultraconservative",
"unprogressive"
]
},
"type":[
"adjective",
"noun"
]
},
"conservatively":{
"as in simply , quietly":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[],
"near antonyms":[],
"related":[],
"synonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"adverb"
]
},
"conservatories":{
"a glass-enclosed building for growing plants":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"the college's conservatory is entirely devoted to cultivating and displaying orchids"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"related":[
"cold frames",
"hotbeds",
"nurseries",
"botanical gardens",
"botanic gardens"
],
"synonyms":[
"glasshouses",
"greenhouses",
"hothouses"
]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"considerably":{
"to a large extent or degree":{
"antonyms":[
"little",
"negligibly",
"nominally",
"slightly"
],
"examples":[
"home electronic devices that have fallen considerably in price"
],
"near antonyms":[
"modestly",
"fractionally",
"imperceptibly",
"infinitesimally",
"insignificantly",
"invisibly",
"microscopically",
"minutely",
"barely",
"hardly",
"just",
"minimally",
"scarcely"
],
"related":[
"appreciably",
"noticeably",
"significantly",
"abundantly",
"amply",
"copiously",
"healthily",
"plentifully"
],
"synonyms":[
"astronomically",
"big-time",
"broadly",
"colossally",
"enormously",
"extensively",
"greatly",
"highly",
"hugely",
"largely",
"massively",
"monstrously",
"monumentally",
"much",
"sizably",
"staggeringly",
"stupendously",
"tremendously",
"utterly",
"vastly"
]
},
"type":[
"adverb"
]
},
"considerateness":{
"as in concern , kindness":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[],
"near antonyms":[],
"related":[],
"synonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"considerations":{
"a careful weighing of the reasons for or against something":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"after much consideration we decided to make an offer on the house"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"related":[
"cogitations",
"contemplations",
"meditations",
"ruminations",
"introspections",
"hesitations",
"indecisions",
"premeditations"
],
"synonyms":[
"accounts",
"advisements",
"debates",
"deliberations",
"reflections",
"studies",
"thoughts"
]
},
"something (as money) that is given or received in return for goods or services":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"since it was pro bono work, no consideration was made"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"related":[
"salaries",
"stipends",
"wages",
"disbursements",
"expenditures",
"outlays",
"rebates",
"refunds",
"indemnities",
"recoupments",
"redresses",
"reparations",
"restitutions",
"adjustments",
"settlements",
"deposits",
"reimbursements",
"repayments",
"prepayments",
"overpayments",
"rentals",
"rents"
],
"synonyms":[
"compensations",
"payments",
"pays",
"recompenses",
"remittances",
"remunerations",
"requitals"
]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"considers":{
"to give consideration to (as unexpected circumstances or contingencies)":{
"antonyms":[
"discounts",
"disregards"
],
"examples":[
"I had to consider the commute in deciding whether to take the job"
],
"near antonyms":[
"factors (out)"
],
"related":[
"accommodates",
"adapts",
"adjusts",
"conditions",
"anticipates",
"contemplates",
"envisages",
"expects",
"foresees",
"assumes",
"presumes",
"presupposes",
"plans",
"calculates",
"faces"
],
"synonyms":[
"allows (for)",
"factors (in or into)",
"provides (for)",
"regards"
]
},
"to give serious and careful thought to":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"carefully considering our options"
],
"near antonyms":[
"disregards",
"ignores",
"overlooks",
"slights",
"dismisses",
"pooh-poohs",
"poohs",
"rejects"
],
"related":[
"muses (upon)",
"reflects (on or upon)",
"reminisces",
"analyzes",
"explores",
"reviews",
"concludes",
"reasons",
"second-guesses",
"speculates (about)",
"broods (about or over)",
"dwells (on or upon)",
"fixates (on or upon)",
"frets (about or over)",
"obsesses (about or over)",
"believes",
"conceives",
"opines",
"absorbs",
"assimilates",
"digests",
"drinks (in)"
],
"synonyms":[
"chews over",
"cogitates",
"contemplates",
"debates",
"deliberates",
"entertains",
"eyes",
"kicks around",
"meditates",
"mulls (over)",
"perpends",
"ponders",
"pores (over)",
"questions",
"revolves",
"ruminates",
"studies",
"thinks (about or over)",
"turns",
"weighs",
"wrestles (with)"
]
},
"to have as an opinion":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"consider the price too high"
],
"near antonyms":[
"distrusts",
"doubts",
"mistrusts",
"questions",
"suspects",
"disbelieves",
"discredits",
"rejects"
],
"related":[
"regards",
"views",
"accepts",
"perceives",
"depends",
"relies",
"trusts",
"assumes",
"presumes",
"presupposes",
"surmises",
"concludes",
"deduces",
"infers"
],
"synonyms":[
"allows",
"believes",
"conceives",
"deems",
"esteems",
"feels",
"figures",
"guesses",
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"favors",
"grooves (on)",
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"loves",
"adores",
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"dotes (on)",
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"idolizes",
"reverences",
"reveres",
"venerates",
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"loves",
"prizes",
"treasures",
"values"
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"garnered",
"got",
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"procured",
"secured"
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"gave over",
"handed",
"handed over",
"left",
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"embraced",
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"entailed",
"included",
"involved",
"took in",
"assimilated",
"embodied",
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"breakfront",
"chest",
"china closet",
"credence",
"credenza",
"\u00e9tag\u00e8re",
"etagere",
"secretary",
"showcase",
"taboret",
"tabouret",
"vitrine",
"cuddy",
"dresser",
"pie safe",
"armoire",
"clothespress",
"garderobe",
"wardrobe",
"cabinetry",
"shelving"
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"cabinet",
"closet",
"cupboard",
"hutch",
"locker",
"press",
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"torment",
"torture",
"trouble"
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"discourage",
"dishearten",
"fret",
"upset",
"worry",
"aggravate",
"intensify",
"worsen",
"annoy",
"irk",
"irritate",
"harass",
"pester"
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"empathize",
"sympathize",
"boost",
"buoy (up)",
"elevate",
"lift",
"uplift",
"allay",
"alleviate",
"assuage",
"relieve",
"calm",
"quiet",
"relax",
"tranquilize",
"tranquillize"
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"cheer",
"comfort",
"reassure",
"solace",
"soothe"
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"verb"
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"members of the conspiracy recognized each other by a secret handshake"
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"circles",
"clans",
"cliques",
"coteries",
"covens",
"crowds",
"gal\u00e8res",
"lots",
"networks",
"packs",
"sets",
"juntas",
"oligarchies"
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"crews",
"gangs",
"Mafias",
"mobs",
"rings",
"syndicates"
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"examples":[
"a conspiracy among the leading manufacturers to fix prices"
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"skulduggeries",
"skullduggeries",
"double-dealings",
"duplicities",
"cover-ups",
"frame-ups",
"setups",
"conspirations",
"intrigues",
"plots",
"schemes"
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"complicities",
"connivances"
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"several generals were engaged in a conspiracy to overthrow the government"
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"counter-conspiracies",
"counterplots",
"frame-ups",
"manipulations",
"subterfuges",
"trickeries",
"artifices",
"contrivances",
"cover-ups",
"dodges",
"drafts",
"maneuvers",
"stratagems",
"tricks",
"cabals",
"confederacies",
"rings",
"games",
"gimmicks",
"rackets",
"ground plans",
"programs",
"strategies",
"systems",
"collusions",
"complicities",
"connivances",
"conspirations"
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"intrigues",
"machinations",
"plots",
"schemes"
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"noun"
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"as in covertly , clandestinely":{
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"examples":[
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"brews",
"concocts",
"cooks (up)",
"devises",
"hatches",
"engineers",
"jockeys",
"maneuvers",
"manipulates",
"designs",
"frames",
"lays out",
"maps",
"plans",
"shapes"
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"compasses",
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"plots",
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"allies",
"associates",
"combines",
"confederates",
"hangs together",
"interfaces"
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"concerts",
"concurs",
"conjoins",
"cooperates",
"joins",
"leagues",
"teams (up)",
"unites"
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"verb"
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"appearing or occurring repeatedly from time to time":{
"antonyms":[
"inconstant",
"infrequent",
"irregular"
],
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"I get constant headaches during humid weather"
],
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"episodical",
"occasional",
"unexpected",
"unusual"
],
"related":[
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"intermittent",
"recurrent",
"recurring",
"cyclic",
"cyclical",
"around-the-clock",
"hourly",
"round-the-clock",
"24-7",
"24/7",
"chronic",
"confirmed",
"inveterate",
"expected",
"usual"
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"habitual",
"periodic",
"periodical",
"regular",
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"steady"
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"firm in one's allegiance to someone or something":{
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"faithless",
"false",
"fickle",
"inconstant",
"perfidious",
"recreant",
"traitorous",
"treacherous",
"unfaithful",
"untrue"
],
"examples":[
"constant friends during times both good and bad"
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"irresponsible",
"undependable",
"unreliable",
"untrustworthy",
"faltering",
"hesitant",
"vacillating",
"wavering",
"dubious",
"irresolute",
"shaky",
"uncertain",
"apathetic",
"dispassionate",
"uninterested"
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"related":[
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"dutiful",
"reliable",
"responsible",
"solid",
"tried",
"tried-and-true",
"trustworthy",
"trusty",
"unfaltering",
"unhesitating",
"unwavering",
"determined",
"intent",
"resolute",
"confirmed",
"dyed-in-the-wool",
"inveterate",
"sworn",
"ardent",
"avid",
"enthusiastic",
"fervent",
"fervid",
"gung ho",
"impassioned",
"passionate",
"serious"
],
"synonyms":[
"dedicated",
"devoted",
"devout",
"down-the-line",
"faithful",
"fast",
"good",
"loyal",
"pious",
"staunch",
"stanch",
"steadfast",
"steady",
"true",
"true-blue"
]
},
"not undergoing a change in condition":{
"antonyms":[
"capricious",
"changeful",
"changing",
"fickle",
"fluctuating",
"fluid",
"inconstant",
"mercurial",
"skittish",
"uncertain",
"unpredictable",
"unsettled",
"unstable",
"unsteady",
"varying",
"volatile"
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"examples":[
"change is the only constant thing in the world of fashion"
],
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"adaptable",
"alterable",
"changeable",
"flexible",
"mutable",
"variable",
"ephemeral",
"evanescent",
"fleeting",
"momentary",
"transient",
"transitory",
"kaleidoscopic",
"phantasmagoric",
"phantasmagorical"
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"related":[
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"fixed",
"hard-and-fast",
"immutable",
"inflexible",
"invariable",
"unalterable",
"unchangeable",
"established",
"set",
"settled",
"ceaseless",
"continuing",
"durable",
"enduring",
"lasting",
"permanent"
],
"synonyms":[
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"stable",
"stationary",
"steady",
"unchanging",
"unvarying"
]
},
"type":[
"adjective"
]
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"constellated":{
"to bring together in one body or place":{
"antonyms":[
"dispelled",
"dispersed",
"dissipated",
"scattered"
],
"examples":[
"the museum has constellated many of the artist's most glorious paintings into one stunning exhibition"
],
"near antonyms":[
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"disbanded",
"disintegrated",
"dissolved",
"separated",
"severed",
"split (up)",
"dismissed",
"sent"
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"related":[
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"batched",
"bunched",
"clustered",
"huddled",
"heaped",
"piled",
"stacked",
"banded",
"brigaded",
"mustered",
"raised",
"rallied",
"flocked",
"herded",
"hived",
"packed",
"pressed",
"swarmed",
"thronged",
"combined",
"connected",
"joined",
"linked",
"merged",
"pooled",
"united",
"archived",
"arranged",
"collated",
"compiled",
"organized",
"systematized",
"scraped (up or together)",
"re-collected",
"regathered",
"regrouped"
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"synonyms":[
"accumulated",
"amassed",
"assembled",
"bulked (up)",
"collected",
"concentrated",
"congregated",
"corralled",
"garnered",
"gathered",
"grouped",
"lumped",
"picked up",
"rounded up"
]
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"type":[
"verb"
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"a number of things considered as a unit":{
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"examples":[
"the constellation of beliefs, attitudes, and values that serve to define liberalism today"
],
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"entity",
"item",
"single",
"unit"
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"related":[
"accumulation",
"aggregate",
"aggregation",
"conglomeration",
"agglomeration",
"assortment",
"hodgepodge",
"jumble",
"miscellany",
"mixture",
"odds and ends",
"sundries",
"variety",
"cycle",
"run",
"series",
"suit"
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"synonyms":[
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"assemblage",
"band",
"bank",
"batch",
"battery",
"block",
"bunch",
"clot",
"clump",
"cluster",
"clutch",
"collection",
"group",
"grouping",
"huddle",
"knot",
"lot",
"muster",
"package",
"parcel",
"passel",
"set",
"suite"
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"a usually small number of persons considered as a unit":{
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"examples":[
"the organization invited an impressive constellation of guest speakers"
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"individual",
"single"
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"related":[
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"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"
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"array",
"band",
"batch",
"battery",
"body",
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"bunch",
"cluster",
"clutch",
"consort",
"crop",
"group",
"grouping",
"huddle",
"knot",
"lot",
"parcel",
"party",
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"the way in which the elements of something (as a work of art) are arranged":{
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"examples":[
"there's a constantly shifting constellation of relationships among the characters of the novel"
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"related":[
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"theme"
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"arrangement",
"composition",
"configuration",
"design",
"form",
"format",
"getup",
"layout",
"makeup",
"ordonnance",
"pattern"
]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
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"consternation":{
"a strong feeling of surprise or sudden disappointment that causes confusion":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"The candidate caused consternation among his supporters by changing positions on a key issue.",
"Much to her parents' consternation , she had decided to not go to college."
],
"near antonyms":[],
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"synonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
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"a strong feeling of surprise or sudden disappointment that causes confusion":{
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"examples":[
"The candidate caused consternation among his supporters by changing positions on a key issue.",
"Much to her parents' consternation , she had decided to not go to college."
],
"near antonyms":[],
"related":[],
"synonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
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"constituent":{
"as in component":{
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"examples":[],
"near antonyms":[],
"related":[],
"synonyms":[]
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"one of the parts that make up a whole":{
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"whole"
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"examples":[
"the soil contained all of the necessary constituents for growing crops"
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"near antonyms":[
"aggregate",
"composite",
"compound",
"mass",
"entirety",
"sum",
"summation",
"total",
"totality",
"admixture",
"amalgam",
"amalgamation",
"blend",
"combination",
"intermixture",
"mix",
"mixture"
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"related":[
"basis",
"part and parcel",
"detail",
"item",
"particular",
"point",
"aspect",
"characteristic",
"facet",
"feature",
"trait",
"division",
"fragment",
"particle",
"partition",
"piece",
"portion",
"section",
"sector",
"segment",
"subcomponent"
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"synonyms":[
"building block",
"component",
"element",
"factor",
"ingredient",
"member"
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},
"type":[
"adjective",
"noun"
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"to be all the substance of":{
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"examples":[
"nine players constitute a baseball team"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"related":[
"embodied",
"epitomized",
"incarnated",
"incorporated",
"integrated",
"materialized",
"personified",
"substantiated",
"complemented",
"completed",
"supplemented",
"filled (out)",
"fleshed (out)"
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"synonyms":[
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"comprised",
"formed",
"made up"
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},
"to be responsible for the creation and early operation or use of":{
"antonyms":[
"closed (down)",
"phased out",
"shut (up)"
],
"examples":[
"a fund was constituted to help needy students attend the prep school"
],
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"abolished",
"annihilated",
"annulled",
"nullified",
"ended",
"finished",
"halted",
"stopped",
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"rounded (off or out)",
"wound up",
"winded up",
"wrapped up"
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"related":[
"authored",
"fathered",
"originated",
"conceived",
"concocted",
"contrived",
"cooked (up)",
"created",
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"made up",
"manufactured",
"produced",
"thought (up)",
"constructed",
"put up",
"developed",
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"expanded",
"endowed",
"financed",
"funded",
"subsidized",
"arranged",
"organized",
"systematized",
"systemized",
"refounded",
"reinitiated",
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"synonyms":[
"began",
"established",
"founded",
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"initiated",
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"instituted",
"introduced",
"launched",
"pioneered",
"planted",
"set up",
"started"
]
},
"to pick (someone) by one's authority for a specific position or duty":{
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"discharged",
"dismissed",
"expelled",
"fired"
],
"examples":[
"the legally constituted authorities with jurisdiction in this matter"
],
"near antonyms":[
"blackballed",
"deposed",
"dethroned",
"displaced",
"ejected",
"evicted",
"ousted",
"overthrew",
"removed",
"threw out",
"uncrowned",
"unmade",
"unseated"
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"related":[
"authorized",
"delegated",
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"deputized",
"anointed",
"consecrated",
"created",
"inaugurated",
"inducted",
"installed",
"instated",
"instituted",
"invested",
"made",
"ordained",
"crowned",
"enthroned",
"throned",
"chose",
"destined",
"drafted",
"elected",
"handpicked",
"selected",
"singled (out)",
"voted (in)"
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"synonyms":[
"appointed",
"assigned",
"attached",
"commissioned",
"designated",
"detailed",
"named",
"nominated",
"placed"
]
},
"to put into effect through legislative or authoritative action":{
"antonyms":[
"repealed",
"rescinded",
"revoked"
],
"examples":[
"charged with enforcing such regulations as are constituted by the government"
],
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"bill",
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"flavor",
"hallmark",
"mark",
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"savour",
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"sort",
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"essence",
"essentiality",
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"interiority",
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"spirit",
"metal",
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"substance",
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"figure",
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"noun"
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"legislations"
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"codes",
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"features",
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"marks",
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"savours",
"stamps",
"traits",
"dispositions",
"grains",
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"tempers",
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"spirits",
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"habits",
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"noun"
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"to become smaller in size or volume through the drawing together of particles of matter":{
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"swelled"
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"ballooned",
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"puffed (up)"
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"flattened",
"dried up",
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"shrivelled",
"wilted",
"withered",
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"opened",
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"dissipated",
"scattered",
"distended",
"inflated",
"swelled"
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"related":[
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"crowded",
"jammed",
"jam-packed",
"packed",
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"abridged",
"curtailed",
"shortened",
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"shrunk",
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"diminished",
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"verb"
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"dissipate",
"scatter",
"distend",
"inflate",
"swell"
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"verb"
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"copy",
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"duplicate",
"imitate",
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"reduplicate",
"replicate",
"reproduce"
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"related":[
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"daydream",
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"fantasize",
"conceive",
"envisage",
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"imagine",
"picture",
"vision",
"visualize",
"ad-lib",
"extemporize",
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"contrive",
"cook (up)",
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"drum up",
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"fabricate",
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"make up",
"manufacture",
"think (up)",
"trump up",
"vamp (up)"
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"to form by putting together parts or materials":{
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"dismantle",
"dismember",
"knock down",
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"destroy",
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"flatten",
"level",
"pull down",
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"raze",
"ruin",
"ruinate",
"shatter",
"smash",
"wreck",
"blow up",
"explode",
"detach",
"disengage",
"disconnect",
"disjoin",
"disunite",
"divide",
"separate"
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"forge",
"frame",
"hammer",
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"begin",
"coin",
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"contrive",
"cook (up)",
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"think (up)",
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"rebuild",
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"redevelop",
"reedify",
"retrofit",
"jerry-build",
"rig (up)",
"throw up",
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"unite"
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"build",
"confect",
"erect",
"fabricate",
"make",
"make up",
"piece",
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"raise",
"rear",
"set up"
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"verb"
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"the role of the justices of the Supreme Court in construing the constitution"
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"cloud",
"confound",
"confuse",
"obfuscate"
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"decode",
"analyze",
"break down",
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"undo",
"unravel",
"unscramble",
"untangle",
"resolve",
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"define",
"specify",
"annotate",
"commentate",
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"clear (up)",
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"explain",
"explicate",
"expound",
"get across",
"illuminate",
"illustrate",
"interpret",
"simplify",
"spell out",
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"type":[
"verb"
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"to make plain or understandable":{
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"examples":[
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"clouded",
"confounded",
"confused",
"obfuscated"
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"related":[
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"decoded",
"analyzed",
"broke down",
"disentangled",
"undid",
"unraveled",
"unscrambled",
"untangled",
"resolved",
"solved",
"defined",
"specified",
"annotated",
"commentated",
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"cleared (up)",
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"explained",
"explicated",
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"got across",
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"illustrated",
"interpreted",
"simplified",
"spelled out",
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"verb"
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"examples":[
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"related":[
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"chat room",
"forum",
"meeting",
"roundtable",
"seminar",
"skull session",
"skull practice",
"symposium",
"talkathon",
"chat",
"conversation",
"rap",
"words",
"discourse",
"disquisition",
"bargaining",
"consultancy",
"negotiation",
"pourparler"
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"argumentation",
"argy-bargy",
"back-and-forth",
"colloquy",
"confab",
"confabulation",
"conference",
"consult",
"council",
"counsel",
"debate",
"deliberation",
"dialogue",
"dialog",
"discussion",
"give-and-take",
"palaver",
"parley",
"talk"
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"preserve",
"protect",
"save",
"build",
"construct",
"erect",
"put up",
"raise"
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"related":[
"gut",
"deplete",
"drain",
"exhaust",
"expend",
"spend",
"use up",
"annihilate",
"decimate",
"demolish",
"desolate",
"devastate",
"do in",
"pulverize",
"raze",
"ruin",
"shatter",
"smash",
"tear down",
"waste",
"wreck",
"annihilate",
"blot out",
"eradicate",
"exterminate",
"extinguish",
"extirpate",
"obliterate",
"remove",
"rub out",
"stamp (out)",
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"devour",
"eat (up)"
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"to make complete use of":{
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"replace"
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"enlarge",
"increase",
"bolster",
"enforce",
"fortify",
"reinforce",
"reenforce",
"strengthen",
"rebuild",
"repair",
"restore",
"revive",
"conserve",
"preserve",
"save"
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"related":[
"abate",
"decrease",
"de-escalate",
"diminish",
"downsize",
"dwindle",
"lessen",
"lower",
"reduce",
"eat",
"use",
"bankrupt",
"clean (out)",
"impoverish",
"cripple",
"debilitate",
"disable",
"enfeeble",
"sap",
"undermine",
"weaken",
"dry up",
"empty",
"blow",
"dissipate",
"fritter (away)",
"guzzle",
"lavish",
"misspend",
"run through",
"squander",
"throw away",
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"absorb",
"burn",
"deplete",
"devour",
"drain",
"draw down",
"exhaust",
"expend",
"play out",
"spend",
"use up"
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"examples":[
"hungry enough to consume most of the pie"
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"related":[
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"down",
"mouth (down)",
"swallow",
"bolt",
"chow (down on)",
"devour",
"glut (on)",
"gobble (up or down)",
"gorge",
"gulp",
"scoff",
"slop",
"snarf (down)",
"swill",
"wolf",
"chew",
"gnaw (at or on)",
"gum",
"lap",
"lick",
"nibble (on)",
"nurse",
"pick (at)",
"relish",
"savor",
"savour",
"taste",
"banquet",
"dine",
"fare",
"feast",
"gormandize",
"pig out",
"regale",
"dispatch",
"polish off",
"breakfast",
"lunch",
"sup",
"munch",
"nosh",
"snack"
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"ingest",
"partake (of)",
"put away",
"put down",
"tuck (away or in)"
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},
"type":[
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"holding the attention or provoking interest":{
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"drab",
"dry",
"dull",
"heavy",
"monotonous",
"tedious",
"uninteresting"
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"examples":[
"didn't find the plot of the novel particularly consuming"
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"tiresome",
"tiring",
"wearisome",
"wearying",
"sterile",
"unexciting",
"dreary",
"humdrum",
"pedantic",
"pedestrian",
"demoralizing",
"discouraging",
"disheartening",
"dispiriting"
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"electric",
"electrifying",
"exciting",
"exhilarating",
"galvanizing",
"inspiring",
"rousing",
"stimulating",
"stirring",
"thrilling",
"provocative",
"tantalizing",
"emphatic",
"showy",
"splashy",
"striking",
"alluring",
"attractive",
"bewitching",
"captivating",
"charming",
"enchanting",
"spellbinding",
"hypnotizing",
"mesmerizing",
"curious",
"odd",
"unusual",
"weird",
"amazing",
"astonishing",
"astounding",
"eventful",
"eye-opening",
"fabulous",
"marvelous",
"marvellous",
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"wonderful",
"wondrous",
"amusing",
"entertaining"
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"protecting",
"saving",
"building",
"constructing",
"erecting",
"putting up",
"raising"
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"depleting",
"draining",
"exhausting",
"expending",
"spending",
"using up",
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"decimating",
"demolishing",
"desolating",
"devastating",
"doing in",
"pulverizing",
"razing",
"ruining",
"shattering",
"smashing",
"tearing down",
"wasting",
"wrecking",
"annihilating",
"blotting out",
"eradicating",
"exterminating",
"extinguishing",
"extirpating",
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"rubbing out",
"stamping (out)",
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"enlarging",
"increasing",
"bolstering",
"enforcing",
"fortifying",
"reinforcing",
"reenforcing",
"strengthening",
"rebuilding",
"repairing",
"restoring",
"reviving",
"conserving",
"preserving",
"saving"
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"decreasing",
"de-escalating",
"diminishing",
"downsizing",
"dwindling",
"lessening",
"lowering",
"reducing",
"eating",
"using",
"bankrupting",
"cleaning (out)",
"impoverishing",
"crippling",
"debilitating",
"disabling",
"enfeebling",
"sapping",
"undermining",
"weakening",
"drying up",
"emptying",
"blowing",
"dissipating",
"frittering (away)",
"guzzling",
"lavishing",
"misspending",
"running through",
"squandering",
"throwing away",
"wasting"
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"mouthing (down)",
"swallowing",
"bolting",
"chowing (down on)",
"devouring",
"glutting (on)",
"gobbling (up or down)",
"gorging",
"gulping",
"scoffing",
"slopping",
"snarfing (down)",
"swilling",
"wolfing",
"chewing",
"gnawing (at or on)",
"gumming",
"lapping",
"licking",
"nibbling (on)",
"nursing",
"picking (at)",
"relishing",
"savoring",
"savouring",
"tasting",
"banqueting",
"dining",
"faring",
"feasting",
"gormandizing",
"pigging out",
"regaling",
"dispatching",
"polishing off",
"breakfasting",
"lunching",
"supping",
"munching",
"noshing",
"snacking"
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"ingesting",
"partaking (of)",
"putting away",
"putting down",
"tucking (away or in)"
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"verb"
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"willing to do whatever it takes to consummate a business deal"
],
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"deserts",
"discontinues",
"drops",
"forsakes",
"quits"
],
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"sticks out",
"accomplishes",
"achieves",
"effects",
"carries out",
"carries through",
"discharges",
"does",
"executes",
"fulfills",
"fulfils",
"performs",
"ameliorates",
"amends",
"betters",
"enhances",
"enriches",
"improves",
"meliorates",
"machines",
"refines",
"rounds (off or out)",
"shines",
"touches up"
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"finalizes",
"finishes",
"perfects",
"polishes"
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"deserting",
"discontinuing",
"dropping",
"forsaking",
"quitting"
],
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"sticking out",
"accomplishing",
"achieving",
"effecting",
"carrying out",
"carrying through",
"discharging",
"doing",
"executing",
"fulfilling",
"performing",
"ameliorating",
"amending",
"bettering",
"enhancing",
"enriching",
"improving",
"meliorating",
"machining",
"refining",
"rounding (off or out)",
"shining",
"touching up"
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"finalizing",
"finishing",
"perfecting",
"polishing"
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"contacted":{
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"you can contact me at this number"
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"advised",
"apprised",
"briefed",
"clued",
"enlightened",
"familiarized",
"filled in",
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"instructed",
"notified",
"told",
"wised (up)",
"buzzed",
"called",
"phoned",
"rang (up)",
"telephoned",
"kept up (with)"
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"communicated (with)",
"got",
"reached"
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"verb"
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"you can contact me at this number"
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"advising",
"apprising",
"briefing",
"clueing",
"cluing",
"enlightening",
"familiarizing",
"filling in",
"informing",
"instructing",
"notifying",
"telling",
"wising (up)",
"buzzing",
"calling",
"phoning",
"ringing (up)",
"telephoning",
"keeping up (with)"
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"communicating (with)",
"getting",
"reaching"
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"verb"
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"noun"
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"noncommunicable"
],
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"noninfectious"
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"related":[
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"infective"
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"communicable",
"pestilent",
"transmissible",
"transmittable"
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"examples":[
"the enthusiasm of the new club members was contagious"
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"perceptible",
"tangible",
"irresistible",
"irresistable",
"overpowering",
"overwhelming",
"disarming",
"endearing",
"fetching",
"inviting",
"winning",
"winsome"
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"synonyms":[
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"epidemic",
"infectious",
"spreading"
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"type":[
"adjective"
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"containership":{
"as in":{
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"type":[
"noun"
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"type":[
"noun"
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"contemplations":{
"long or deep thinking about spiritual matters":{
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"the decision to enter a monastery and to spend one's life in prayer and contemplation"
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"related":[
"brown studies",
"introspections",
"muses",
"reflections",
"retrospections",
"reveries",
"studies",
"trances",
"woolgatherings",
"cogitations",
"deliberations",
"musings",
"ruminations"
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"meditations"
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"the act or state of looking forward to some occurrence":{
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"examples":[
"in contemplation of their children's college expenses, they started saving early"
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"related":[
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"alarums",
"apprehensions",
"dreads",
"forebodings",
"misgivings"
],
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"anticipations",
"expectances",
"expectancies",
"expectations",
"prospects"
]
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"type":[
"noun"
]
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"content":{
"a major object of interest or concern (as in a discussion or artistic composition)":{
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"examples":[
"although I appreciate the poem's lyrical qualities, I don't understand its content"
],
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"aside",
"digression",
"excursion",
"interjection",
"parenthesis",
"tangent"
],
"related":[
"subject matter",
"talking point",
"count",
"idea",
"point",
"purpose",
"consideration",
"issue",
"problem",
"body",
"bulk",
"burden",
"centerpiece",
"core",
"crux",
"essence",
"fundamental",
"generality",
"gist",
"grist",
"heart",
"kernel",
"keynote",
"main",
"marrow",
"mass",
"net",
"nub",
"nubbin",
"nucleus",
"pith",
"pivot",
"purport",
"quick",
"staple",
"substance",
"sum",
"basis",
"bottom",
"essential",
"essentiality",
"affair",
"argument",
"debate"
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"motif",
"motive",
"question",
"subject",
"theme",
"topic"
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"discontent",
"discontented",
"displeased",
"dissatisfied",
"malcontent",
"malcontented",
"unhappy"
],
"examples":[
"are you content with your present salary?"
],
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"disaffected",
"disgruntled",
"displeased",
"unsatisfied",
"abject",
"aggrieved",
"anguished",
"brokenhearted",
"dejected",
"depressed",
"despondent",
"disconsolate",
"discouraged",
"disheartened",
"dispirited",
"downcast",
"downhearted"
],
"related":[
"blissful",
"delighted",
"glad",
"joyful",
"joyous",
"jubilant",
"rejoicing",
"tickled",
"ecstatic",
"elated",
"enraptured",
"euphoric",
"overjoyed",
"rapturous",
"thrilled",
"appeased",
"mollified",
"pacified",
"placated"
],
"synonyms":[
"contented",
"gratified",
"happy",
"pleased",
"satisfied"
]
},
"the amount of something (as subject matter) included":{
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"examples":[
"judging from the table of contents , I'd have to say that this book covers most of the major topics in American history"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"related":[
"compass",
"gamut",
"range",
"scope",
"sweep",
"membership",
"participation"
],
"synonyms":[
"coverage"
]
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"the feeling experienced when one's wishes are met":{
"antonyms":[
"discontent",
"discontentedness",
"discontentment",
"displeasure",
"dissatisfaction",
"unhappiness"
],
"examples":[
"slept to her heart's content on weekends"
],
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"misery",
"sadness",
"unhappiness",
"wretchedness",
"anguish",
"desolation",
"joylessness",
"sorrow",
"woe",
"dejection",
"depression",
"despondency",
"dispiritedness",
"gloom",
"melancholy",
"aggravation",
"annoyance",
"exasperation",
"irritation",
"pique",
"vexation",
"anger",
"fury",
"rage",
"agitation",
"distress",
"disturbance",
"upset",
"discomfort",
"restlessness",
"uneasiness"
],
"related":[
"afterglow",
"bliss",
"felicity",
"glee",
"gleefulness",
"joy",
"pleasance",
"amusement",
"diversion",
"entertainment",
"elatedness",
"elation",
"exhilaration",
"exultation",
"intoxication",
"ecstasy",
"euphoria",
"heaven",
"rapture",
"cheer",
"cheerfulness",
"exuberance",
"gaiety",
"gayety",
"jollity",
"joyfulness",
"jubilation",
"joie de vivre",
"comfort",
"ease",
"restfulness"
],
"synonyms":[
"contentedness",
"contentment",
"delectation",
"delight",
"enjoyment",
"gladness",
"gratification",
"happiness",
"pleasure",
"relish",
"satisfaction"
]
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"the idea that is conveyed or intended to be conveyed to the mind by language, symbol, or action":{
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"examples":[
"the speech was filled with fine words but devoid of any real content"
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"related":[
"connotation",
"clue",
"cue",
"hint",
"implication",
"indication",
"inkling",
"intimation",
"suggestion",
"message",
"tenor",
"theme",
"bottom",
"essence",
"essentiality",
"nature",
"soul",
"spirit",
"stuff",
"acceptance",
"acceptation",
"definition",
"burden",
"crux",
"gist",
"core",
"heart",
"kernel",
"marrow",
"nub",
"nucleus",
"pith",
"point",
"quick",
"matter",
"motif",
"motive",
"question",
"subject",
"topic"
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"synonyms":[
"denotation",
"drift",
"import",
"intent",
"intention",
"meaning",
"purport",
"sense",
"significance",
"signification"
]
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"to give satisfaction to":{
"antonyms":[
"displease"
],
"examples":[
"a person easily contented by life's simple pleasures"
],
"near antonyms":[
"aggravate",
"annoy",
"bother",
"bug",
"chafe",
"cross",
"exasperate",
"gall",
"get",
"grate",
"irk",
"irritate",
"nettle",
"peeve",
"perturb",
"pique",
"put out",
"ruffle",
"vex",
"anger",
"enrage",
"incense",
"inflame",
"enflame",
"infuriate",
"madden",
"outrage",
"rankle",
"rile",
"roil",
"steam up",
"provoke",
"rouse",
"agitate",
"distress",
"disturb",
"fret",
"upset",
"harass",
"harry",
"pester",
"affront",
"insult",
"offend"
],
"related":[
"appease",
"mollify",
"pacify",
"placate",
"soothe",
"assuage",
"quench",
"sate",
"satiate",
"excite",
"tickle",
"titillate",
"amuse",
"divert",
"entertain",
"treat",
"captivate",
"charm",
"galvanize",
"thrill",
"calm",
"comfort",
"cater (to)",
"humor",
"indulge",
"coddle",
"mollycoddle",
"pamper",
"spoil"
],
"synonyms":[
"agree (with)",
"delight",
"feast",
"gas",
"glad",
"gladden",
"gratify",
"please",
"pleasure",
"rejoice",
"satisfy",
"suit",
"warm"
]
},
"type":[
"adjective",
"noun",
"verb"
]
},
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"the feeling experienced when one's wishes are met":{
"antonyms":[
"discontent",
"discontentedness",
"discontentment",
"displeasure",
"dissatisfaction",
"unhappiness"
],
"examples":[
"the look of contentedness on the sleeping child's face"
],
"near antonyms":[
"misery",
"sadness",
"unhappiness",
"wretchedness",
"anguish",
"desolation",
"joylessness",
"sorrow",
"woe",
"dejection",
"depression",
"despondency",
"dispiritedness",
"gloom",
"melancholy",
"aggravation",
"annoyance",
"exasperation",
"irritation",
"pique",
"vexation",
"anger",
"fury",
"rage",
"agitation",
"distress",
"disturbance",
"upset",
"discomfort",
"restlessness",
"uneasiness"
],
"related":[
"afterglow",
"bliss",
"felicity",
"glee",
"gleefulness",
"joy",
"pleasance",
"amusement",
"diversion",
"entertainment",
"elatedness",
"elation",
"exhilaration",
"exultation",
"intoxication",
"ecstasy",
"euphoria",
"heaven",
"rapture",
"cheer",
"cheerfulness",
"exuberance",
"gaiety",
"gayety",
"jollity",
"joyfulness",
"jubilation",
"joie de vivre",
"comfort",
"ease",
"restfulness"
],
"synonyms":[
"content",
"contentment",
"delectation",
"delight",
"enjoyment",
"gladness",
"gratification",
"happiness",
"pleasure",
"relish",
"satisfaction"
]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
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"the feeling experienced when one's wishes are met":{
"antonyms":[
"discontent",
"discontentedness",
"discontentment",
"displeasure",
"dissatisfaction",
"unhappiness"
],
"examples":[
"a couple of golden-agers looking over their life together with a feeling of contentment and accomplishment"
],
"near antonyms":[
"misery",
"sadness",
"unhappiness",
"wretchedness",
"anguish",
"desolation",
"joylessness",
"sorrow",
"woe",
"dejection",
"depression",
"despondency",
"dispiritedness",
"gloom",
"melancholy",
"aggravation",
"annoyance",
"exasperation",
"irritation",
"pique",
"vexation",
"anger",
"fury",
"rage",
"agitation",
"distress",
"disturbance",
"upset",
"discomfort",
"restlessness",
"uneasiness"
],
"related":[
"afterglow",
"bliss",
"felicity",
"glee",
"gleefulness",
"joy",
"pleasance",
"amusement",
"diversion",
"entertainment",
"elatedness",
"elation",
"exhilaration",
"exultation",
"intoxication",
"ecstasy",
"euphoria",
"heaven",
"rapture",
"cheer",
"cheerfulness",
"exuberance",
"gaiety",
"gayety",
"jollity",
"joyfulness",
"jubilation",
"joie de vivre",
"comfort",
"ease",
"restfulness"
],
"synonyms":[
"content",
"contentedness",
"delectation",
"delight",
"enjoyment",
"gladness",
"gratification",
"happiness",
"pleasure",
"relish",
"satisfaction"
]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"conterminous":{
"having a border in common":{
"antonyms":[
"nonadjacent",
"noncontiguous"
],
"examples":[
"for two nations that are conterminous from the Atlantic to the Pacific, the U.S. and Canada have had remarkably little strife"
],
"near antonyms":[
"apart",
"detached",
"disconnected",
"discrete",
"free-standing",
"isolate",
"isolated",
"removed",
"separate",
"single",
"unattached",
"unconnected",
"unlinked",
"away",
"distant",
"far",
"faraway",
"far-off",
"farthest",
"remote",
"discontinuous",
"noncontinuous",
"broken up",
"disjoined",
"dissevered",
"dissociated",
"disunited",
"divided",
"divorced",
"parted",
"ramified",
"resolved",
"severed",
"split",
"sundered",
"uncoupled",
"unyoked"
],
"related":[
"approximate",
"close",
"closest",
"immediate",
"near",
"nearby",
"nearest",
"next-door",
"nigh",
"attached",
"communicating",
"connected",
"connecting",
"interconnecting",
"joined",
"linked",
"united",
"bounding",
"circumjacent",
"embracing",
"encircling",
"enclosing",
"inclosing",
"fencing",
"rimming",
"surrounding",
"marginal",
"peripheral",
"tangent",
"tangential",
"ambient",
"encompassing"
],
"synonyms":[
"abutting",
"adjacent",
"adjoining",
"bordering",
"contiguous",
"flanking",
"flush",
"fringing",
"joining",
"juxtaposed",
"neighboring",
"skirting",
"touching",
"verging"
]
},
"occupying the same space":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"the county and the school district are conterminous"
],
"near antonyms":[
"nonconcurrent",
"noncongruent"
],
"related":[
"allover",
"overlaying",
"superimposed",
"superposed",
"underlying",
"conjoining",
"crisscrossing",
"intersecting",
"overlapping",
"coaxial",
"concurrent",
"convergent",
"congruent",
"conjunctional"
],
"synonyms":[
"coextensive",
"coincident",
"coinciding",
"coterminous"
]
},
"type":[
"adjective"
]
},
"contestant":{
"one who strives for the same thing as another":{
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"voracious",
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"voluptuary",
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"islet",
"atoll",
"barrier reef",
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"coral reef",
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"cape",
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"peninsula",
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"supercontinent"
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"noun"
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"crumb",
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"driblet",
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"hint",
"little",
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"nip",
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"particle",
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"pin",
"ray",
"scrap",
"scruple",
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"shade",
"shadow",
"shred",
"skosh",
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"smidgeon",
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"streak",
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"touch",
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"darn",
"durn",
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"doodley-squat",
"doodly-squat",
"fig",
"ghost",
"hoot",
"iota",
"jot",
"lick",
"modicum",
"rap",
"squat",
"syllable",
"tittle",
"whit",
"whoop"
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"noun"
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"bits",
"crumbs",
"dabs",
"driblets",
"glimmers",
"hints",
"little",
"mites",
"nips",
"ounces",
"particles",
"peanuts",
"pins",
"rays",
"scraps",
"scruples",
"semblances",
"shades",
"shadows",
"shreds",
"skoshes",
"smidgens",
"smidgeons",
"smidgins",
"smidges",
"snaps",
"specks",
"spots",
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"strains",
"streaks",
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"traces"
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"ghosts",
"hoots",
"iotas",
"jots",
"licks",
"modicums",
"raps",
"squats",
"syllables",
"tittles",
"whits",
"whoops"
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"noun"
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"accidents",
"chances",
"haps",
"hazards",
"risks"
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"contingents",
"events",
"eventualities",
"possibilities"
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"terms",
"preconditions",
"prerequisites",
"requirements",
"requisites",
"limitations",
"modifications",
"restrictions",
"exceptions",
"exemptions",
"demands",
"essentials",
"musts",
"necessities",
"needs"
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"ifs",
"provisions",
"provisos",
"provisoes",
"qualifications",
"reservations",
"stipulations"
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"type":[
"noun"
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"stretch",
"span",
"tenure",
"term",
"hitch",
"tour",
"turn",
"half-life",
"age",
"longevity"
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"duration",
"life",
"life span",
"lifetime",
"run",
"standing",
"time"
]
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"noun"
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"close",
"discontinuance",
"discontinuity",
"end",
"ending",
"expiration",
"finish",
"stoppage",
"surcease",
"termination"
],
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],
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"abridgement",
"curtailment",
"cutback",
"shortening"
],
"related":[
"drawing out",
"elongation",
"extension",
"lengthening",
"prolongation",
"prolonging",
"stretching",
"enduringness",
"permanence",
"survival"
],
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"abidance",
"ceaselessness",
"continuation",
"continuity",
"continuousness",
"durability",
"duration",
"endurance",
"persistence",
"subsistence"
]
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"noncontinuous"
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"the continued drought is starting to take its toll on the region's farms"
],
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"intermittent",
"periodic",
"periodical",
"recurrent",
"recurring",
"alternate",
"alternating",
"cyclic",
"cyclical",
"rhythmic",
"rhythmical",
"seasonal",
"serial",
"erratic",
"fitful",
"irregular",
"occasional",
"spasmodic",
"sporadic",
"spotty",
"unsteady"
],
"related":[
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"deathless",
"endless",
"eternal",
"everlasting",
"immortal",
"interminable",
"permanent",
"undying",
"unending",
"changeless",
"constant",
"stable",
"steady",
"unchanging",
"unvarying",
"durable",
"enduring",
"lasting",
"persistent",
"imperishable",
"indestructible"
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"continual",
"continuing",
"continuous",
"incessant",
"nonstop",
"perpetual",
"running",
"unbroken",
"unceasing",
"uninterrupted",
"unremitting"
]
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"to begin again or return to after an interruption":{
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"examples":[
"we'll continue this discussion after we've eaten"
],
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"completed",
"concluded",
"consummated",
"ended",
"finalized",
"finished",
"belayed",
"broke",
"canned",
"ceased",
"checked",
"cut",
"desisted",
"discontinued",
"dropped",
"halted",
"knocked off",
"left off",
"quit",
"quitted",
"scuttled",
"shut off",
"stayed",
"stopped",
"terminated"
],
"related":[
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"revived",
"recrudesced"
],
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"proceeded (with)",
"renewed",
"reopened",
"restarted",
"resumed"
]
},
"to remain indefinitely in existence or in the same state":{
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"ceased",
"closed",
"concluded",
"desisted",
"died",
"discontinued",
"ended",
"expired",
"finished",
"lapsed",
"left off",
"passed",
"quit",
"quitted",
"stopped",
"terminated",
"wound up",
"winded up"
],
"examples":[
"the heavy snow continued throughout the night"
],
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"abated",
"died (down)",
"ebbed",
"let up",
"moderated",
"subsided",
"waned"
],
"related":[
"lingered",
"stayed",
"stuck around",
"tarried",
"carried through",
"prevailed",
"survived"
],
"synonyms":[
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"abode",
"bode",
"bided",
"endured",
"held on",
"held up",
"kept up",
"lasted",
"perdured",
"persisted",
"ran on",
"remained"
]
},
"type":[
"adjective",
"verb"
]
},
"continuousness":{
"type":[
"noun"
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"uninterrupted or lasting existence":{
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"close",
"discontinuance",
"discontinuity",
"end",
"ending",
"expiration",
"finish",
"stoppage",
"surcease",
"termination"
],
"examples":[
"although their bickering wasn't particularly vicious, its merciless continuousness was wearying"
],
"near antonyms":[
"abridgment",
"abridgement",
"curtailment",
"cutback",
"shortening"
],
"related":[
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"elongation",
"extension",
"lengthening",
"prolongation",
"prolonging",
"stretching",
"enduringness",
"permanence",
"survival"
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"abidance",
"ceaselessness",
"continuance",
"continuation",
"continuity",
"durability",
"duration",
"endurance",
"persistence",
"subsistence"
]
}
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"examples":[
"the comedian is renowned for his seemingly endless variety of facial contortions"
],
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"related":[
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"deformity",
"disfigurement",
"malformation"
],
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"deformation",
"distortion",
"misshaping",
"screwing",
"squinching",
"torturing",
"warping"
]
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"type":[
"noun"
]
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"contracted":{
"as in close , tight":{
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"examples":[],
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"synonyms":[]
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"to become affected with (a disease or disorder)":{
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"examples":[
"before vaccines were invented, people lived in fear of contracting polio"
],
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"came back",
"gained",
"healed",
"mended",
"recouped",
"recovered",
"recuperated",
"snapped back",
"rallied",
"rebounded",
"recovered (from)",
"shook (off)"
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"related":[
"broke out (with)",
"died (from)",
"succumbed (to)",
"failed",
"languished",
"sank",
"sunk",
"wasted (away)",
"weakened",
"wilted",
"withered",
"worsened"
],
"synonyms":[
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"caught",
"got",
"sickened (with)",
"took",
"went down (with)"
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},
"to become smaller in size or volume through the drawing together of particles of matter":{
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"ballooned",
"expanded",
"snowballed",
"swelled"
],
"examples":[
"metal contracts at low temperatures"
],
"near antonyms":[
"accumulated",
"grew",
"increased",
"ballooned",
"inflated",
"puffed (up)"
],
"related":[
"collapsed",
"deflated",
"flattened",
"dried up",
"shriveled",
"shrivelled",
"wilted",
"withered",
"abated",
"decreased",
"diminished",
"dwindled",
"lessened",
"receded",
"retreated",
"withdrew"
],
"synonyms":[
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"condensed",
"constricted",
"shrank",
"shrunk"
]
},
"to come to an arrangement as to a course of action":{
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"disagreed"
],
"examples":[
"the farmer contracted for delivery of the hay by the first of July"
],
"near antonyms":[
"differed",
"dissented",
"canceled",
"cancelled",
"reneged",
"revoked",
"argued",
"contested",
"disputed",
"objected"
],
"related":[
"came around",
"came round",
"subscribed",
"underwrote",
"arranged",
"settled"
],
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"agreed",
"bargained",
"covenanted"
]
},
"to reduce in size or volume by or as if by pressing parts or members together":{
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"decompressed",
"expanded",
"opened",
"outspread",
"outstretched"
],
"examples":[
"contract the calf muscles in your legs"
],
"near antonyms":[
"dilated",
"dispersed",
"dissipated",
"scattered",
"distended",
"inflated",
"swelled"
],
"related":[
"crammed",
"crowded",
"jammed",
"jam-packed",
"packed",
"abbreviated",
"abridged",
"curtailed",
"shortened",
"boiled down",
"downsized",
"shrank",
"shrunk",
"concentrated",
"consolidated",
"simplified",
"streamlined",
"decreased",
"diminished",
"lessened"
],
"synonyms":[
"capsuled",
"capsulized",
"collapsed",
"compacted",
"compressed",
"condensed",
"constricted",
"constringed",
"narrowed (down)",
"squeezed",
"telescoped"
]
},
"type":[
"adjective",
"verb"
]
},
"contradict":{
"to declare not to be true":{
"antonyms":[
"acknowledge",
"admit",
"allow",
"avow",
"concede",
"confirm",
"own"
],
"examples":[
"his account contradicted the story that they had gotten earlier"
],
"near antonyms":[
"accept",
"adopt",
"embrace",
"espouse",
"affirm",
"announce",
"assert",
"aver",
"claim",
"declare",
"maintain",
"profess",
"submit",
"authenticate",
"corroborate",
"substantiate",
"validate",
"verify"
],
"related":[
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"challenge",
"confute",
"disprove",
"rebut",
"disagree (with)",
"dispute"
],
"synonyms":[
"deny",
"disaffirm",
"disallow",
"disavow",
"disclaim",
"disconfirm",
"disown",
"gainsay",
"negate",
"negative",
"refute",
"reject",
"repudiate"
]
},
"to make an assertion that is contrary to one made by (another)":{
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"agree (with)",
"concur (with)"
],
"examples":[
"no matter what I say, you always have to contradict me"
],
"near antonyms":[
"confirm",
"corroborate",
"substantiate",
"verify",
"attest",
"authenticate",
"avouch",
"certify",
"testify (to)",
"vouch (for)",
"witness"
],
"related":[
"challenge",
"contest",
"dispute",
"question",
"confute",
"rebut",
"refute",
"cross",
"fight",
"oppose",
"resist"
],
"synonyms":[
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"gainsay"
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},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"contradictable":{
"as in refutable":{
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"examples":[],
"near antonyms":[],
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"synonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"adjective"
]
},
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"to declare not to be true":{
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"acknowledged",
"admitted",
"allowed",
"avowed",
"conceded",
"confirmed",
"owned"
],
"examples":[
"his account contradicted the story that they had gotten earlier"
],
"near antonyms":[
"accepted",
"adopted",
"embraced",
"espoused",
"affirmed",
"announced",
"asserted",
"averred",
"claimed",
"declared",
"maintained",
"professed",
"submitted",
"authenticated",
"corroborated",
"substantiated",
"validated",
"verified"
],
"related":[
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"challenged",
"confuted",
"disproved",
"rebutted",
"disagreed (with)",
"disputed"
],
"synonyms":[
"denied",
"disaffirmed",
"disallowed",
"disavowed",
"disclaimed",
"disconfirmed",
"disowned",
"gainsaid",
"negated",
"negatived",
"refuted",
"rejected",
"repudiated"
]
},
"to make an assertion that is contrary to one made by (another)":{
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"agreed (with)",
"concurred (with)"
],
"examples":[
"no matter what I say, you always have to contradict me"
],
"near antonyms":[
"confirmed",
"corroborated",
"substantiated",
"verified",
"attested",
"authenticated",
"avouched",
"certified",
"testified (to)",
"vouched (for)",
"witnessed"
],
"related":[
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"contested",
"disputed",
"questioned",
"confuted",
"rebutted",
"refuted",
"crossed",
"fought",
"opposed",
"resisted"
],
"synonyms":[
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"gainsaid"
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},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"contradistinguish":{
"as in know , understand":{
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"examples":[],
"near antonyms":[],
"related":[],
"synonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"contrariwise":{
"just the opposite being true":{
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"examples":[
"the rock singer is hardly a carouser; contrariwise , he totally abstains from alcohol"
],
"near antonyms":[
"even",
"indeed",
"nay",
"true",
"truly",
"verily",
"yea"
],
"related":[],
"synonyms":[
"again",
"contrarily",
"conversely"
]
},
"type":[
"adverb"
]
},
"contrast":{
"the quality or state of being different":{
"antonyms":[
"alikeness",
"analogousness",
"analogy",
"community",
"likeness",
"resemblance",
"sameness",
"similarity"
],
"examples":[
"the contrast between the two approaches to the problem of overeating could not be greater"
],
"near antonyms":[
"identicalness",
"identity",
"accordance",
"agreement",
"conformity",
"congruity",
"correspondence",
"parallelism",
"similitude",
"equality",
"equivalence",
"equivalency",
"homogeneity",
"homogeneousness",
"uniformity"
],
"related":[
"deviance",
"divergence",
"differentiability",
"discriminability",
"distinguishability",
"change",
"modification",
"variation",
"conflict",
"discord",
"discordance",
"dissension",
"dissention",
"dissent",
"dissidence",
"disunity",
"friction",
"strife",
"variability",
"variance",
"anomalousness",
"dichotomy",
"incompatibility",
"incongruence",
"incongruity",
"incongruousness",
"nonconformity",
"disproportion",
"imbalance",
"inequality",
"nonequivalence"
],
"synonyms":[
"difference",
"disagreement",
"discrepancy",
"disparateness",
"disparity",
"dissimilarity",
"dissimilitude",
"distance",
"distinction",
"distinctiveness",
"distinctness",
"diverseness",
"diversity",
"otherness",
"unlikeness"
]
},
"to be unlike; to not be the same":{
"antonyms":[
"compare",
"match"
],
"examples":[
"her depressed mood today contrasts sharply with her good spirits yesterday"
],
"near antonyms":[
"accord",
"agree",
"conform",
"correspond"
],
"related":[
"deviate",
"diverge",
"divide",
"fluctuate",
"separate"
],
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"verb"
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"matching"
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"her depressed mood today contrasts sharply with her good spirits yesterday"
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"agreeing",
"conforming",
"corresponding"
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"diverging",
"dividing",
"fluctuating",
"separating"
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"varying"
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"verb"
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"her depressed mood today contrasts sharply with her good spirits yesterday"
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"agrees",
"conforms",
"corresponds"
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"divides",
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"separates"
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"verb"
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"conform (to)",
"follow",
"mind",
"obey",
"observe"
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"the unauthorized reproduction of the image contravenes copyright laws"
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"serve",
"submit (to)",
"surrender (to)",
"yield (to)",
"attend",
"hear",
"heed",
"listen (to)",
"mark",
"note",
"notice",
"regard",
"watch"
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"rebel",
"blow off",
"brush (off)",
"disregard",
"flout",
"ignore",
"neglect",
"overlook",
"overpass",
"pass over",
"slight",
"tune out",
"wink (at)",
"dismiss",
"pooh-pooh",
"pooh",
"scorn",
"shrug off",
"defy",
"resist",
"withstand"
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"break",
"fracture",
"infringe (on or upon)",
"offend",
"traduce",
"transgress",
"violate"
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"run-in",
"skirmish",
"tangle",
"tussle",
"logomachy",
"feud",
"vendetta",
"attack",
"contention",
"dissension",
"dissention",
"debate",
"difference",
"disputation",
"fuss",
"objection",
"protest",
"protestation",
"affray",
"fisticuffs",
"fracas",
"fray",
"free-for-all",
"melee",
"m\u00eal\u00e9e",
"catfight"
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"argle-bargle",
"argument",
"argy-bargy",
"battle royal",
"bicker",
"brawl",
"controversy",
"cross fire",
"disagreement",
"dispute",
"donnybrook",
"falling-out",
"fight",
"hassle",
"imbroglio",
"kickup",
"misunderstanding",
"quarrel",
"rhubarb",
"row",
"scrap",
"set-to",
"spat",
"squabble",
"tiff",
"wrangle"
]
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"noun"
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"would you like to contribute to the Thanksgiving fund for needy families?"
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"donate",
"give",
"present",
"award",
"confer",
"dole (out)",
"endow",
"afford",
"furnish",
"provide"
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"kick in",
"pitch in"
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"examples":[
"contributes money to a variety of worthy causes"
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"keep",
"pocket",
"retain",
"withhold",
"preserve",
"save",
"advance",
"lend",
"loan",
"sell"
],
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"kick in",
"pitch in",
"throw in",
"award",
"confer",
"endow",
"endue",
"indue",
"render",
"afford",
"comp",
"furnish",
"provide",
"lavish",
"regale",
"aid",
"assist",
"benefit",
"help",
"administer",
"dish out",
"dispense",
"dole out",
"hand out",
"impart",
"issue",
"mete (out)",
"extend",
"fork (over, out, or up)",
"offer",
"pay",
"proffer",
"pungle (up)",
"put up",
"tender",
"sacrifice"
],
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"bestow",
"donate",
"give",
"give away",
"present",
"volunteer"
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},
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"verb"
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"to make a donation as part of a group effort":{
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"would you like to contribute to the Thanksgiving fund for needy families?"
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"giving",
"presenting",
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"conferring",
"doling (out)",
"endowing",
"affording",
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"kicking in",
"pitching in"
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"keeping",
"pocketing",
"retaining",
"withholding",
"preserving",
"saving",
"advancing",
"lending",
"loaning",
"selling"
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"enduing",
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"rendering",
"affording",
"comping",
"furnishing",
"providing",
"lavishing",
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"aiding",
"assisting",
"benefiting",
"benefitting",
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"dispensing",
"doling out",
"handing out",
"imparting",
"issuing",
"meting (out)",
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"forking (over, out, or up)",
"offering",
"paying",
"proffering",
"pungling (up)",
"putting up",
"tendering",
"sacrificing"
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"giving",
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"presenting",
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"verb"
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"impenitence",
"remorselessness"
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"we were moved to forgive by his tearful expressions of contrition"
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"compunction",
"misgiving",
"prick",
"qualm",
"scruple",
"blame",
"culpability",
"fault",
"liability",
"rap",
"responsibility",
"chagrin",
"embarrassment",
"anguish",
"distress",
"grief",
"ruth",
"sadness",
"sorrow",
"bloodguilt",
"bloodguiltiness",
"apology",
"excuses",
"hand-wringing",
"mea culpa"
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"contriteness",
"guilt",
"penitence",
"regret",
"remorse",
"remorsefulness",
"repentance",
"rue",
"self-reproach",
"shame"
]
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"type":[
"noun"
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"impenitence",
"remorselessness"
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"we were moved to forgive by his tearful expressions of contrition"
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"misgiving",
"prick",
"qualm",
"scruple",
"blame",
"culpability",
"fault",
"liability",
"rap",
"responsibility",
"chagrin",
"embarrassment",
"anguish",
"distress",
"grief",
"ruth",
"sadness",
"sorrow",
"bloodguilt",
"bloodguiltiness",
"apology",
"excuses",
"hand-wringing",
"mea culpa"
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"synonyms":[
"contriteness",
"guilt",
"penitence",
"regret",
"remorse",
"remorsefulness",
"repentance",
"rue",
"self-reproach",
"shame"
]
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"type":[
"noun"
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"contriving":{
"to create or think of by clever use of the imagination":{
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"examples":[
"contrived abstract metal sculptures using old household utensils"
],
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"cloning",
"copycatting",
"copying",
"duplicating",
"imitating",
"mimicking",
"reduplicating",
"replicating",
"reproducing"
],
"related":[
"coining",
"designing",
"hatching",
"producing",
"daydreaming",
"dreaming",
"fantasizing",
"conceiving",
"envisaging",
"envisioning",
"imagining",
"picturing",
"visioning",
"visualizing",
"ad-libbing",
"extemporizing",
"improvising"
],
"synonyms":[
"concocting",
"constructing",
"cooking (up)",
"devising",
"drumming up",
"excogitating",
"fabricating",
"inventing",
"making up",
"manufacturing",
"thinking (up)",
"trumping up",
"vamping (up)"
]
},
"to engage in a secret plan to accomplish evil or unlawful ends":{
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"examples":[
"the mischievous boys were always contriving and trying to pull the prank that would be the talk of the school"
],
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"related":[
"counterplotting",
"brewing",
"concocting",
"cooking (up)",
"devising",
"hatching",
"engineering",
"jockeying",
"maneuvering",
"manipulating",
"designing",
"framing",
"laying out",
"mapping",
"planning",
"shaping"
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"synonyms":[
"colluding",
"compassing",
"conniving",
"conspiring",
"intriguing",
"machinating",
"plotting",
"putting up",
"scheming"
]
},
"to plan out usually with subtle skill or care":{
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"examples":[
"contrived a way of planning the surprise party without their catching on to it"
],
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"blowing",
"bobbling",
"botching",
"bungling",
"butchering",
"flubbing",
"fumbling",
"gumming (up)",
"lousing up",
"mangling",
"messing (up)",
"mishandling",
"muffing"
],
"related":[
"arranging",
"concerting",
"concluding",
"hammering out",
"working out",
"angling (for)",
"compassing",
"intriguing",
"plotting",
"scheming",
"conniving",
"brewing",
"concocting",
"cooking (up)",
"hatching",
"captaining",
"commanding",
"conducting",
"directing",
"handling",
"managing",
"quarterbacking",
"running",
"gerrymandering"
],
"synonyms":[
"engineering",
"finagling",
"finessing",
"framing",
"machinating",
"maneuvering",
"manipulating",
"masterminding",
"negotiating",
"wangling"
]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
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"contusing":{
"as in cutting , blowing out":{
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"examples":[],
"near antonyms":[],
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"synonyms":[]
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"type":[
"verb"
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},
"contusion":{
"a bodily injury in which small blood vessels are broken but the overlying skin is not":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"suffered multiple contusions as a result of a car accident"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"related":[
"abrasion",
"boo-boo",
"bump",
"lump",
"scrape",
"scratch",
"black eye",
"hickey",
"discoloration"
],
"synonyms":[
"bruise"
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"type":[
"noun"
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"convalesce":{
"to become healthy and strong again after illness or weakness":{
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"examples":[
"the long months that the soldier spent in the hospital slowly convalescing"
],
"near antonyms":[
"ail",
"collapse",
"come down",
"sicken",
"decline",
"degenerate",
"deteriorate",
"fade",
"fail",
"languish",
"sink",
"waste (away)",
"weaken",
"wilt",
"wither",
"worsen",
"regress",
"relapse"
],
"related":[
"come around",
"come round",
"come to",
"improve",
"pick up",
"revive",
"cheer (up)",
"perk (up)",
"pull through",
"survive",
"recruit"
],
"synonyms":[
"come back",
"gain",
"heal",
"mend",
"pull round",
"rally",
"recoup",
"recover",
"recuperate",
"snap back"
]
},
"type":[
"verb"
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"to become healthy and strong again after illness or weakness":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"the long months that the soldier spent in the hospital slowly convalescing"
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"near antonyms":[
"ails",
"collapses",
"comes down",
"sickens",
"declines",
"degenerates",
"deteriorates",
"fades",
"fails",
"languishes",
"sinks",
"wastes (away)",
"weakens",
"wilts",
"withers",
"worsens",
"regresses",
"relapses"
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"related":[
"comes around",
"comes round",
"comes to",
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"picks up",
"revives",
"cheers (up)",
"perks (up)",
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"survives",
"recruits"
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"synonyms":[
"comes back",
"gains",
"heals",
"mends",
"pulls round",
"rallies",
"recoups",
"recovers",
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"snaps back"
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},
"type":[
"verb"
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"convened":{
"to bring together in assembly by or as if by command":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"convened the members of the council for an emergency session"
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"near antonyms":[
"broke up",
"dissolved"
],
"related":[
"rallied",
"called in",
"called out",
"called up",
"knelled",
"amassed",
"collected",
"gathered",
"grouped",
"rounded up",
"reassembled",
"reconvened"
],
"synonyms":[
"assembled",
"called",
"convoked",
"mustered",
"summoned"
]
},
"to come together into one body or place":{
"antonyms":[
"broke up",
"disbanded",
"dispersed",
"split (up)"
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"examples":[
"the conventioneers convened in the auditorium to hear the guest speaker"
],
"near antonyms":[
"departed",
"left",
"took off",
"disjoined",
"dissociated",
"disunited"
],
"related":[
"affiliated",
"allied",
"associated",
"banded (together)",
"caucused",
"clubbed",
"collaborated",
"confederated",
"conjoined",
"consolidated",
"consorted",
"cooperated",
"coupled",
"federated",
"ganged up",
"joined",
"merged",
"united",
"reassembled",
"reconvened",
"regathered",
"remet"
],
"synonyms":[
"assembled",
"clustered",
"collected",
"concentered",
"concentrated",
"conglomerated",
"congregated",
"converged",
"forgathered",
"foregathered",
"gathered",
"met",
"rendezvoused"
]
},
"type":[
"verb"
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"conventicles":{
"as in":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[],
"near antonyms":[],
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"synonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"convention":{
"a coming together of a number of persons for a specified purpose":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"attended a convention of mathematicians in California"
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"near antonyms":[],
"related":[
"clinic",
"workshop",
"cabinet",
"caucus",
"conclave",
"synod",
"demonstration",
"rally",
"confab",
"conversation",
"dialogue",
"dialog",
"discourse",
"discussion",
"palaver",
"talk",
"negotiation",
"parley",
"summit",
"conference",
"forum",
"round-robin",
"roundtable",
"seminar",
"symposium",
"audience",
"interview",
"session"
],
"synonyms":[
"assembly",
"congress",
"convocation",
"council",
"gathering",
"get-together",
"huddle",
"meeting"
]
},
"a formal agreement between two or more nations or peoples":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"an international convention banning the spread of nuclear weapons"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"related":[
"entente",
"entente cordiale",
"bargain",
"bond",
"charter",
"concord",
"contract",
"deal",
"settlement",
"understanding",
"projet"
],
"synonyms":[
"accord",
"alliance",
"compact",
"covenant",
"pact",
"treaty"
]
},
"an arrangement about action to be taken":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"the Geneva Convention details proper treatment of prisoners of war"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"related":[
"charter",
"treaty",
"binder",
"pledge",
"promise",
"alliance",
"association",
"entente",
"entente cordiale",
"league",
"partnership",
"acceptance",
"approval",
"assent",
"concurrence",
"consent",
"OK",
"okay"
],
"synonyms":[
"accord",
"agreement",
"bargain",
"compact",
"contract",
"covenant",
"deal",
"disposition",
"pact",
"settlement",
"understanding"
]
},
"an inherited or established way of thinking, feeling, or doing":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"the bride decided to follow convention and to have her father give her away"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"related":[
"ethic",
"form",
"mode",
"mores",
"norm",
"principles",
"standards",
"values",
"birthright",
"inheritance",
"legacy",
"folklore",
"lore",
"superstition",
"culture",
"lifestyle"
],
"synonyms":[
"custom",
"heritage",
"prescription",
"rubric",
"rule",
"tradition"
]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"converges":{
"to come together into one body or place":{
"antonyms":[
"breaks up",
"disbands",
"disperses",
"splits (up)"
],
"examples":[
"hungry students converged on the cafeteria almost as soon as the class bell rang"
],
"near antonyms":[
"departs",
"leaves",
"takes off",
"disjoins",
"dissociates",
"disunites"
],
"related":[
"affiliates",
"allies",
"associates",
"bands (together)",
"caucuses",
"clubs",
"collaborates",
"confederates",
"conjoins",
"consolidates",
"consorts",
"cooperates",
"couples",
"federates",
"gangs up",
"joins",
"merges",
"unites",
"reassembles",
"reconvenes",
"regathers",
"remeets"
],
"synonyms":[
"assembles",
"clusters",
"collects",
"concenters",
"concentrates",
"conglomerates",
"congregates",
"convenes",
"forgathers",
"foregathers",
"gathers",
"meets",
"rendezvouses"
]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"conversations":{
"talking or a talk between two or more people":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"Thomas Jefferson was celebrated for his brilliant, wide-ranging conversations with a host of friends and acquaintances"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"related":[
"banters",
"chaff",
"cross fires",
"give-and-takes",
"persiflages",
"railleries",
"repartees",
"conferences",
"parleys",
"babbles",
"chatter",
"chin-wag",
"chitchats",
"confabulations",
"gabfests",
"gossip",
"natters",
"palavers",
"prates",
"prattles",
"raps",
"small talk",
"table talk",
"round-robins",
"roundtables",
"round tables",
"symposia",
"symposiums",
"debates",
"deliberations"
],
"synonyms":[
"chats",
"colloquies",
"converses",
"dialogues",
"dialogs",
"discourses",
"discussions",
"exchanges"
]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"conversed":{
"to engage in casual or rambling conversation":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"jurors are not allowed to converse while the attorneys go off to one side to confer with the judge"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"related":[
"gossiped",
"tattled",
"descanted",
"discussed",
"expatiated",
"yakked",
"yacked",
"yammered",
"yapped"
],
"synonyms":[
"babbled",
"blabbed",
"cackled",
"chaffered",
"chatted",
"chattered",
"chinned",
"gabbed",
"gabbled",
"gassed",
"jabbered",
"jawed",
"kibitzed",
"kibbitzed",
"nattered",
"palavered",
"pattered",
"prated",
"prattled",
"ran on",
"rapped",
"rattled",
"schmoozed",
"shmoozed",
"talked",
"twittered",
"visited"
]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"conversed (with)":{
"to communicate with by means of spoken words":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"in a press conference, the president is not just addressing reporters\u2014he's conversing with the public"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"related":[
"accosted",
"addressed",
"boarded",
"collared",
"greeted",
"hailed",
"heralded",
"informed",
"notified",
"told"
],
"synonyms":[
"chatted (with)",
"spoke (to or with)",
"talked (to)"
]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"conversely":{
"just the opposite being true":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"she cannot stand sugary food; conversely , her husband is fond of sweets"
],
"near antonyms":[
"even",
"indeed",
"nay",
"true",
"truly",
"verily",
"yea"
],
"related":[],
"synonyms":[
"again",
"contrarily",
"contrariwise"
]
},
"type":[
"adverb"
]
},
"convertaplanes":{
"as in tilt-rotors , gyroplanes":{
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"examples":[],
"near antonyms":[],
"related":[],
"synonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"convertible":{
"as in wagon , SUV":{
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"examples":[],
"near antonyms":[],
"related":[],
"synonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"convertibles":{
"as in wagons , SUVs":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[],
"near antonyms":[],
"related":[],
"synonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"conveyance":{
"something used to carry goods or passengers":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"the covered wagon was the major conveyance that transported settlers and their belongings across the frontier"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"related":[
"carrier",
"hauler",
"mover",
"transit"
],
"synonyms":[
"transport",
"transportation",
"vehicle"
]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"conveying":{
"to cause (something) to pass from one to another":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"intends to personally convey the message to the governor"
],
"near antonyms":[
"catching",
"coming down (with)",
"contracting"
],
"related":[
"delivering",
"handing over",
"surrendering",
"turning over",
"broadcasting",
"diffusing",
"disseminating",
"propagating",
"handing down",
"handing on",
"contaminating",
"infecting",
"poisoning"
],
"synonyms":[
"communicating",
"conducting",
"giving",
"imparting",
"spreading",
"transferring",
"transfusing",
"transmitting"
]
},
"to give over the legal possession or ownership of":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"upon her death, the house will be conveyed to a predesignated charity"
],
"near antonyms":[
"expropriating"
],
"related":[
"bequeathing",
"handing down",
"leaving",
"passing (down)",
"willing",
"bestowing",
"commending",
"committing",
"conferring",
"contributing",
"delivering",
"donating",
"granting",
"handing over",
"moving",
"passing",
"presenting",
"releasing",
"relinquishing",
"surrendering",
"transmitting",
"turning in",
"turning over",
"vesting",
"yielding",
"consigning",
"entrusting",
"intrusting",
"trusting",
"leasing",
"lending",
"letting",
"loaning",
"renting"
],
"synonyms":[
"alienating",
"aliening",
"assigning",
"ceding",
"deeding",
"making over",
"transferring"
]
},
"to support and take from one place to another":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"conveying a package to his grandmother for his parents"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"related":[
"delivering",
"handing over",
"transferring",
"forwarding",
"sending",
"shipping",
"transmitting",
"bringing",
"fetching",
"taking",
"moving",
"removing",
"shifting"
],
"synonyms":[
"bearing",
"carrying",
"carting",
"ferrying",
"hauling",
"lugging",
"packing",
"toting",
"transporting"
]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"convinced":{
"as in influenced , persuaded":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[],
"near antonyms":[],
"related":[],
"synonyms":[]
},
"as in sure , believing":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[],
"near antonyms":[],
"related":[],
"synonyms":[]
},
"to cause (someone) to agree with a belief or course of action by using arguments or earnest requests":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"we convinced him to keep silent about our activities until we could spring the surprise"
],
"near antonyms":[
"deterred",
"discouraged",
"dissuaded",
"unsold"
],
"related":[
"blandished",
"blarneyed",
"cajoled",
"coaxed",
"entreated",
"exhorted",
"fast-talked",
"urged",
"wheedled",
"allured",
"beguiled",
"led on",
"lured",
"seduced",
"snowed",
"tempted",
"brainwashed",
"overpersuaded",
"inclined",
"influenced",
"prompted",
"sold",
"swayed",
"attracted",
"drew",
"enticed",
"interested",
"chewed over",
"conversed",
"debated",
"discussed",
"disputed",
"hashed (over)",
"mooted",
"reasoned (with)"
],
"synonyms":[
"argued",
"brought",
"brought around",
"converted",
"gained",
"got",
"induced",
"moved",
"persuaded",
"prevailed (on or upon)",
"satisfied",
"talked (into)",
"won (over)"
]
},
"type":[
"adjective",
"verb"
]
},
"convinces":{
"to cause (someone) to agree with a belief or course of action by using arguments or earnest requests":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"we convinced him to keep silent about our activities until we could spring the surprise"
],
"near antonyms":[
"deters",
"discourages",
"dissuades",
"unsells"
],
"related":[
"blandishes",
"blarneys",
"cajoles",
"coaxes",
"entreats",
"exhorts",
"fast-talks",
"urges",
"wheedles",
"allures",
"beguiles",
"leads on",
"lures",
"seduces",
"snows",
"tempts",
"brainwashes",
"overpersuades",
"inclines",
"influences",
"prompts",
"sells",
"sways",
"attracts",
"draws",
"entices",
"interests",
"chews over",
"converses",
"debates",
"discusses",
"disputes",
"hashes (over)",
"moots",
"reasons (with)"
],
"synonyms":[
"argues",
"brings",
"brings around",
"converts",
"gains",
"gets",
"induces",
"moves",
"persuades",
"prevails (on or upon)",
"satisfies",
"talks (into)",
"wins (over)"
]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"conviviality":{
"joyful or festive activity":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"fondly remembers the many evenings spent in conviviality with her basketball teammates"
],
"near antonyms":[
"blackness",
"darkness",
"dolefulness",
"dolor",
"gloom",
"gloominess",
"glumness",
"grief",
"heartache",
"heartbreak",
"heartsickness",
"miserableness",
"misery",
"mournfulness",
"mourning",
"woe",
"wretchedness",
"dejection",
"depression",
"despondence",
"despondency",
"disconsolateness",
"dispiritedness",
"doldrums",
"downheartedness",
"dumps",
"forlornness",
"joylessness",
"melancholy",
"sorrow",
"unhappiness"
],
"related":[
"carousal",
"carouse",
"delight",
"diversion",
"entertainment",
"fun",
"mischief",
"pleasure",
"recreation",
"riot",
"cheer",
"cheerfulness",
"cheeriness",
"glee",
"gleefulness",
"hilarity",
"joviality",
"merriness",
"mirth",
"mirthfulness",
"carnival",
"celebration",
"festival",
"party",
"revel",
"frolicking",
"gamboling",
"gambolling",
"rollicking",
"romping",
"enjoyment",
"happiness",
"joy",
"binge",
"fling",
"frolic",
"gambol",
"lark",
"rollick",
"romp",
"spree",
"buffoonery",
"clownery",
"clownishness",
"flippancy",
"frivolity",
"funning",
"jesting",
"jocularity",
"joking",
"joshing",
"levity",
"lightheartedness",
"playfulness",
"zaniness"
],
"synonyms":[
"festivity",
"gaiety",
"gayety",
"jollification",
"jollity",
"merriment",
"merrymaking",
"rejoicing",
"reveling",
"revelling",
"revelry",
"whoopee"
]
},
"the quality or state of being social":{
"antonyms":[
"unsociability",
"unsociableness"
],
"examples":[
"his conviviality , warmth, and good nature are irresistible"
],
"near antonyms":[
"bashfulness",
"coyness",
"diffidence",
"shyness",
"timidity",
"timidness",
"introversion",
"reclusion",
"modesty",
"retiringness"
],
"related":[
"amiability",
"cordiality",
"folksiness",
"friendliness",
"neighborliness",
"camaraderie",
"companionship",
"fellowship",
"boldness",
"brashness",
"extroversion",
"extraversion",
"forwardness",
"immodesty"
],
"synonyms":[
"gregariousness",
"sociability"
]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"cook (up)":{
"to create or think of by clever use of the imagination":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"cooked up a scheme to get out of doing the dishes"
],
"near antonyms":[
"clone",
"copy",
"copycat",
"duplicate",
"imitate",
"mimic",
"reduplicate",
"replicate",
"reproduce"
],
"related":[
"coin",
"design",
"hatch",
"produce",
"daydream",
"dream",
"fantasize",
"conceive",
"envisage",
"envision",
"imagine",
"picture",
"vision",
"visualize",
"ad-lib",
"extemporize",
"improvise"
],
"synonyms":[
"concoct",
"construct",
"contrive",
"devise",
"drum up",
"excogitate",
"fabricate",
"invent",
"make up",
"manufacture",
"think (up)",
"trump up",
"vamp (up)"
]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"cooked (up)":{
"to create or think of by clever use of the imagination":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"cooked up a scheme to get out of doing the dishes"
],
"near antonyms":[
"cloned",
"copied",
"copycatted",
"duplicated",
"imitated",
"mimicked",
"reduplicated",
"replicated",
"reproduced"
],
"related":[
"coined",
"designed",
"hatched",
"produced",
"daydreamed",
"dreamed",
"dreamt",
"fantasized",
"conceived",
"envisaged",
"envisioned",
"imagined",
"pictured",
"visioned",
"visualized",
"ad-libbed",
"extemporized",
"improvised"
],
"synonyms":[
"concocted",
"constructed",
"contrived",
"devised",
"drummed up",
"excogitated",
"fabricated",
"invented",
"made up",
"manufactured",
"thought (up)",
"trumped up",
"vamped (up)"
]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"cookie":{
"a lovely woman":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"every time I see him, he's got some new cookie on his arm"
],
"near antonyms":[
"bag",
"frump",
"crone",
"hag",
"witch"
],
"related":[
"belle",
"charmer",
"peach",
"bathing beauty",
"cover girl",
"pinup girl",
"houri",
"cutie-pie",
"dish",
"doll",
"dreamboat",
"hottie",
"looker",
"pretty",
"coquette",
"femme fatale",
"siren",
"temptress",
"vamp"
],
"synonyms":[
"babe",
"beauty",
"beauty queen",
"cutie",
"cutey",
"dolly bird",
"enchantress",
"eyeful",
"fox",
"goddess",
"honey",
"knockout",
"queen",
"stunner"
]
},
"a member of the human race":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"the new CEO is said to be one sharp cookie"
],
"near antonyms":[
"animal",
"beast",
"beastie",
"brute",
"critter"
],
"related":[
"hominid",
"homo",
"humanoid",
"brother",
"fellow",
"fellowman",
"neighbor",
"celebrity",
"personality",
"self",
"somebody"
],
"synonyms":[
"baby",
"being",
"bird",
"bod",
"body",
"character",
"creature",
"customer",
"devil",
"duck",
"egg",
"face",
"fish",
"guy",
"head",
"human",
"human being",
"individual",
"life",
"man",
"mortal",
"party",
"person",
"personage",
"scout",
"slob",
"sort",
"soul",
"specimen",
"stiff",
"thing",
"wight"
]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"cooks":{
"a person who prepares food by some manner of heating":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"the hearty meals prepared by the cook at summer camp"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"related":[
"bakers",
"p\u00e2tissiers",
"patissiers",
"barbecuers",
"grillers"
],
"synonyms":[
"chefs",
"cookers",
"culinarians"
]
},
"to change so much as to create a wrong impression or alter the meaning of":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"it turns out the pharmaceutical researcher had cooked her data"
],
"near antonyms":[
"clarifies",
"clears (up)",
"explains",
"illuminates",
"illustrates",
"interprets",
"spells out",
"deciphers"
],
"related":[
"misdescribes",
"misspeaks",
"mistranslates",
"belies",
"camouflages",
"disguises",
"dissembles",
"glosses (over)",
"masks",
"veils",
"whitewashes",
"bowdlerizes",
"censors",
"complicates",
"confounds",
"confuses",
"mistakes",
"mixes (up)",
"mystifies",
"obscures",
"equivocates",
"fibs",
"lies",
"palters",
"prevaricates"
],
"synonyms":[
"bends",
"colors",
"distorts",
"falsifies",
"fudges",
"garbles",
"misinterprets",
"misrelates",
"misrepresents",
"misstates",
"perverts",
"slants",
"twists",
"warps"
]
},
"to take place":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"wondered what was cooking when several police cars pulled up to their neighbor's house"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"related":[
"breaks",
"develops",
"rises",
"shapes (up)",
"arises",
"comes up",
"crops (up)",
"materializes",
"springs (up)",
"intervenes",
"falls out",
"follows",
"results",
"turns out",
"goes off",
"proceeds"
],
"synonyms":[
"befalls",
"betides",
"chances",
"comes",
"comes about",
"comes down",
"comes off",
"does",
"goes down",
"goes on",
"happens",
"haps",
"is",
"occurs",
"passes",
"transpires"
]
},
"type":[
"noun",
"verb"
]
},
"cool":{
"being in the latest or current fashion":{
"antonyms":[
"dowdy",
"out",
"outmoded",
"styleless",
"unchic",
"uncool",
"unfashionable",
"unmodish",
"unstylish"
],
"examples":[
"had a cool new hairstyle"
],
"near antonyms":[
"cheesy",
"tacky",
"unattractive",
"unbecoming",
"graceless",
"inelegant",
"tasteless",
"trashy",
"unhandsome",
"frowsy",
"frowzy",
"sloppy",
"slovenly",
"unkempt",
"untidy",
"disheveled",
"dishevelled",
"messy",
"mussy",
"rumpled",
"wrinkled",
"shabby",
"sleazy"
],
"related":[
"downtown",
"edgy",
"funky",
"dapper",
"dashing",
"dressy",
"kicky",
"natty",
"rakish",
"sassy",
"saucy",
"spiffy",
"spruce",
"chichi",
"classy",
"flossy",
"haute",
"haut",
"nobby",
"posh",
"ritzy",
"soign\u00e9",
"soign\u00e9e",
"swank",
"swanky",
"elegant",
"graceful",
"handsome",
"majestic",
"refined",
"sophisticated",
"stately",
"tasteful",
"understated",
"doggish",
"doggy",
"flashy",
"gallant",
"dandyish",
"dudish",
"foppish",
"ultrachic",
"ultracool",
"ultrahip",
"ultraposh",
"ultrasmart",
"ultrasophisticated"
],
"synonyms":[
"\u00e0 la mode",
"a la mode",
"au courant",
"chic",
"exclusive",
"fashionable",
"fresh",
"happening",
"hip",
"in",
"modish",
"sharp",
"smart",
"snappy",
"stylish",
"supercool",
"swell",
"swish",
"trendy",
"voguish"
]
},
"evenness of emotions or temper":{
"antonyms":[
"agitation",
"discomposure",
"perturbation"
],
"examples":[
"despite the flood of insults, the fledgling stand-up comic never lost his cool"
],
"near antonyms":[
"alarm",
"alarum",
"anxiety",
"anxiousness",
"apprehension",
"apprehensiveness",
"care",
"concern",
"disquiet",
"solicitude",
"uneasiness",
"worry",
"excitability",
"excitableness",
"nervousness",
"disturbance"
],
"related":[
"assurance",
"confidence",
"poise",
"self-assurance",
"self-assuredness",
"self-confidence",
"self-trust",
"easygoingness",
"laid-backness",
"apathy",
"detachment",
"impassivity",
"indifference",
"insensibility",
"numbness",
"phlegm",
"unconcern"
],
"synonyms":[
"aplomb",
"calmness",
"collectedness",
"composedness",
"composure",
"coolness",
"countenance",
"equanimity",
"equilibrium",
"imperturbability",
"placidity",
"repose",
"sangfroid",
"self-composedness",
"self-possession",
"serenity",
"tranquillity",
"tranquility",
"tranquilness"
]
},
"free from emotional or mental agitation":{
"antonyms":[
"agitated",
"discomposed",
"disturbed",
"flustered",
"perturbed",
"unglued",
"unhinged",
"unstrung",
"upset"
],
"examples":[
"in a crisis keep a cool head, even if no one else is"
],
"near antonyms":[
"anxious",
"bothered",
"distressed",
"uneasy",
"unquiet",
"unsettled",
"worried",
"jittery",
"jumpy",
"nervous",
"restless",
"skittish",
"tense",
"high-strung",
"unstable",
"uptight"
],
"related":[
"even",
"even-keeled",
"steady",
"well-adjusted",
"well-balanced",
"imperturbable",
"nerveless",
"unflappable",
"unshakable",
"centered",
"disciplined",
"equable",
"self-contained",
"self-controlled",
"affable",
"breezy",
"devil-may-care",
"easygoing",
"happy-go-lucky",
"laid-back",
"loosey-goosey",
"mellow",
"carefree",
"nonchalant",
"unconcerned",
"assured",
"confident",
"self-assured",
"aloof",
"detached",
"dispassionate",
"indifferent",
"bovine",
"impassive",
"phlegmatic",
"sober",
"stolid",
"relaxed",
"relieved",
"tranquilized",
"tranquillized"
],
"synonyms":[
"calm",
"collected",
"composed",
"coolheaded",
"equal",
"level",
"limpid",
"peaceful",
"placid",
"possessed",
"recollected",
"sedate",
"self-composed",
"self-possessed",
"serene",
"smooth",
"together",
"tranquil",
"undisturbed",
"unperturbed",
"unruffled",
"unshaken",
"untroubled",
"unworried"
]
},
"having a low or subnormal temperature":{
"antonyms":[
"ardent",
"blazing",
"boiling",
"broiling",
"burning",
"fervent",
"fervid",
"fiery",
"glowing",
"hot",
"igneous",
"molten",
"piping hot",
"red-hot",
"roasting",
"scalding",
"scorching",
"searing",
"seething",
"sizzling",
"sultry",
"sweltering",
"torrid",
"ultrahot",
"warming",
"white-hot"
],
"examples":[
"a cool basement that would be perfect for storing wine"
],
"near antonyms":[
"lukewarm",
"tepid",
"heated",
"overheated",
"reheated",
"warmed",
"snug",
"toasty",
"warm",
"feverish",
"flushed",
"inflamed",
"enflamed",
"canicular",
"equatorial",
"muggy",
"steamy",
"summery",
"tropical"
],
"related":[
"cryogenic",
"subfreezing",
"subzero",
"ultracold",
"cutting",
"keen",
"penetrating",
"piercing",
"sharp",
"bracing",
"brisk",
"crisp",
"invigorating",
"rigorous",
"chilled",
"cooled",
"frosted",
"frozen",
"iced",
"refrigerated",
"unheated"
],
"synonyms":[
"algid",
"arctic",
"bitter",
"bone-chilling",
"chill",
"chilly",
"cold",
"coldish",
"coolish",
"freezing",
"frigid",
"frosty",
"gelid",
"glacial",
"ice-cold",
"icy",
"nipping",
"nippy",
"numbing",
"polar",
"shivery",
"snappy",
"wintry",
"wintery"
]
},
"having or showing a lack of friendliness or interest in others":{
"antonyms":[
"cordial",
"friendly",
"sociable",
"social",
"warm"
],
"examples":[
"the locals were cool towards outsiders",
"the schoolmaster's cool manner did not encourage chitchat"
],
"near antonyms":[
"boon",
"clubbable",
"clubable",
"clubby",
"companionable",
"convivial",
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"outgoing",
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"garrulous",
"talkative",
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"gracious",
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"clinical",
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"professional",
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"incurious",
"uninterested",
"reticent",
"silent",
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"diffident",
"shy",
"timid",
"cliquey",
"cliquish",
"clubbish"
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"antisocial",
"asocial",
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"cold",
"cold-eyed",
"detached",
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"dry",
"frosty",
"offish",
"remote",
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"standoffish",
"unbending",
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"uncool",
"unhip",
"untrendy"
],
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],
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"nerdish",
"nerdy",
"dowdy",
"styleless",
"unfashionable",
"unstylish"
],
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"\u00e0 la mode",
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"chic",
"fashionable",
"modish",
"sharp",
"smart",
"snappy",
"stylish",
"voguish"
],
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"au courant",
"def",
"downtown",
"groovy",
"hep",
"hip",
"in",
"mod",
"now",
"trendy",
"turned-on",
"with-it"
]
},
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"friendly",
"genial",
"happy",
"hearty",
"sympathetic",
"warm",
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"warmhearted"
],
"examples":[
"directed a cool glance at the student who was sneaking into class late"
],
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"kind",
"kindhearted",
"demonstrative",
"emotional",
"expressive",
"eager",
"enthusiastic",
"passionate"
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"heartless",
"kindless",
"pitiless",
"uncaring",
"unfeeling",
"reserved",
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"undemonstrative",
"unemotional",
"unresponsive",
"apathetic",
"indifferent",
"unenthusiastic",
"uninterested",
"aloof",
"detached",
"dispassionate",
"impersonal",
"offish",
"standoffish",
"antisocial",
"unsociable",
"unsocial"
],
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"arctic",
"brittle",
"chill",
"chilly",
"clammy",
"cold",
"cold-blooded",
"cold-eyed",
"coldish",
"frigid",
"frosty",
"frozen",
"gelid",
"glacial",
"hard-eyed",
"icy",
"uncordial",
"unfriendly",
"unsympathetic",
"wintry",
"wintery"
]
},
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"atrocious",
"awful",
"execrable",
"lousy",
"pathetic",
"poor",
"rotten",
"terrible",
"vile",
"wretched"
],
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"a really cool garage band that's starting to get some attention from the music industry"
],
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"inferior",
"low-grade",
"substandard",
"unsatisfactory",
"mediocre",
"middling",
"second-class",
"second-rate"
],
"related":[
"acceptable",
"adequate",
"all right",
"decent",
"good",
"OK",
"okay",
"passable",
"satisfactory",
"tolerable",
"better",
"exceptional",
"fancy",
"high-grade",
"high-test",
"premium",
"select",
"special",
"superfine",
"classical",
"standard",
"traditional"
],
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"A-OK",
"A1",
"awesome",
"bang-up",
"banner",
"beautiful",
"blue-chip",
"blue-ribbon",
"boffo",
"bonny",
"bonnie",
"boss",
"brag",
"brave",
"bully",
"bumper",
"capital",
"choice",
"classic",
"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"
]
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"the judge's customary cool stood her in good stead during the sensational trial"
],
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"emotionalism",
"bias",
"favor",
"one-sidedness",
"partiality",
"partisanship",
"prejudice"
],
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"equitability",
"equitableness",
"fairness",
"disinterest",
"disinterestedness",
"impartiality",
"nonpartisanship",
"objectivity",
"unbiasedness",
"balance",
"rationality",
"rationalness",
"reasonability",
"reasonableness",
"calm",
"calmness",
"peace",
"peacefulness",
"placidity",
"quiet",
"quietness",
"quietude",
"repose",
"restfulness",
"sereneness",
"serenity",
"tranquillity",
"tranquility",
"tranquilness",
"reserve",
"undemonstrativeness",
"unresponsiveness",
"apathy",
"indifference"
],
"synonyms":[
"coldness",
"detachment",
"dispassion",
"dispassionateness"
]
},
"the quality or state of being fashionable":{
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"unfashionableness"
],
"examples":[
"a designer who was the arbiter of cool"
],
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"flashiness",
"garishness",
"gaudiness",
"gracelessness",
"grotesqueness",
"tackiness",
"tastelessness",
"tawdriness"
],
"related":[
"chic",
"chicness",
"dapperness",
"elegance",
"poshness",
"smartness",
"style",
"swank",
"swankiness",
"class",
"grace",
"gracefulness",
"majesty",
"stateliness",
"artfulness",
"polish",
"sophistication",
"taste",
"tastefulness"
],
"synonyms":[
"coolness",
"fashionableness",
"hip",
"hipness",
"hipsterism",
"modishness",
"stylishness",
"trendiness",
"voguishness"
]
},
"to become still and orderly":{
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"act up",
"carry on",
"cut up"
],
"examples":[
"after the recess, tempers had cooled , and we could have a civil, rational discussion"
],
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"clown (around)",
"fool around",
"horse around",
"monkey (around)",
"show off",
"skylark"
],
"related":[
"dry up",
"relax",
"tranquilize",
"tranquillize",
"unwind",
"zone out"
],
"synonyms":[
"calm (down)",
"chill out",
"hush",
"pipe down",
"quiet",
"settle (down)"
]
},
"to cause to lose heat":{
"antonyms":[
"heat",
"toast",
"warm"
],
"examples":[
"cool your drinks in the icy mountain stream"
],
"near antonyms":[
"bake",
"boil",
"broil",
"steam",
"heat-treat",
"temper",
"microwave"
],
"related":[
"air-condition",
"freeze",
"frost",
"ice",
"quick-freeze",
"supercool",
"ventilate"
],
"synonyms":[
"chill",
"refrigerate"
]
},
"type":[
"adjective",
"noun",
"verb"
]
},
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"a place of confinement for persons held in lawful custody":{
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"examples":[
"plea-bargained to avoid spending time in the cooler"
],
"near antonyms":[
"outside"
],
"related":[
"bull pen",
"cage",
"cell",
"hole",
"tank",
"block",
"ward",
"glasshouse",
"guardhouse",
"hulk(s)",
"concentration camp",
"gulag",
"labor camp",
"prison camp",
"stalag",
"work camp",
"dungeon",
"keep",
"oubliette",
"reformatory",
"reform school",
"training school"
],
"synonyms":[
"bastille",
"big house",
"bridewell",
"brig",
"calaboose",
"can",
"clink",
"coop",
"guardroom",
"hock",
"hold",
"hoosegow",
"jail",
"jailhouse",
"joint",
"jug",
"lockup",
"nick",
"pen",
"penitentiary",
"pokey",
"prison",
"quod",
"slam",
"slammer",
"stir",
"stockade",
"tolbooth"
]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"coolheaded":{
"free from emotional or mental agitation":{
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"agitated",
"discomposed",
"disturbed",
"flustered",
"perturbed",
"unglued",
"unhinged",
"unstrung",
"upset"
],
"examples":[
"was praised for having a coolheaded response to the crisis"
],
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"anxious",
"bothered",
"distressed",
"uneasy",
"unquiet",
"unsettled",
"worried",
"jittery",
"jumpy",
"nervous",
"restless",
"skittish",
"tense",
"high-strung",
"unstable",
"uptight"
],
"related":[
"even",
"even-keeled",
"steady",
"well-adjusted",
"well-balanced",
"imperturbable",
"nerveless",
"unflappable",
"unshakable",
"centered",
"disciplined",
"equable",
"self-contained",
"self-controlled",
"affable",
"breezy",
"devil-may-care",
"easygoing",
"happy-go-lucky",
"laid-back",
"loosey-goosey",
"mellow",
"carefree",
"nonchalant",
"unconcerned",
"assured",
"confident",
"self-assured",
"aloof",
"detached",
"dispassionate",
"indifferent",
"bovine",
"impassive",
"phlegmatic",
"sober",
"stolid",
"relaxed",
"relieved",
"tranquilized",
"tranquillized"
],
"synonyms":[
"calm",
"collected",
"composed",
"cool",
"equal",
"level",
"limpid",
"peaceful",
"placid",
"possessed",
"recollected",
"sedate",
"self-composed",
"self-possessed",
"serene",
"smooth",
"together",
"tranquil",
"undisturbed",
"unperturbed",
"unruffled",
"unshaken",
"untroubled",
"unworried"
]
},
"type":[
"adjective"
]
},
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"agitation",
"discomposure",
"perturbation"
],
"examples":[
"his coolness under pressure makes him everyone's first choice to head a project with an ironclad deadline"
],
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"alarm",
"alarum",
"anxiety",
"anxiousness",
"apprehension",
"apprehensiveness",
"care",
"concern",
"disquiet",
"solicitude",
"uneasiness",
"worry",
"excitability",
"excitableness",
"nervousness",
"disturbance"
],
"related":[
"assurance",
"confidence",
"poise",
"self-assurance",
"self-assuredness",
"self-confidence",
"self-trust",
"easygoingness",
"laid-backness",
"apathy",
"detachment",
"impassivity",
"indifference",
"insensibility",
"numbness",
"phlegm",
"unconcern"
],
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"aplomb",
"calmness",
"collectedness",
"composedness",
"composure",
"cool",
"countenance",
"equanimity",
"equilibrium",
"imperturbability",
"placidity",
"repose",
"sangfroid",
"self-composedness",
"self-possession",
"serenity",
"tranquillity",
"tranquility",
"tranquilness"
]
},
"the quality or state of being fashionable":{
"antonyms":[
"unfashionableness"
],
"examples":[
"the coolness of their clothes is something that high schoolers tend to obsess over"
],
"near antonyms":[
"flashiness",
"garishness",
"gaudiness",
"gracelessness",
"grotesqueness",
"tackiness",
"tastelessness",
"tawdriness"
],
"related":[
"chic",
"chicness",
"dapperness",
"elegance",
"poshness",
"smartness",
"style",
"swank",
"swankiness",
"class",
"grace",
"gracefulness",
"majesty",
"stateliness",
"artfulness",
"polish",
"sophistication",
"taste",
"tastefulness"
],
"synonyms":[
"cool",
"fashionableness",
"hip",
"hipness",
"hipsterism",
"modishness",
"stylishness",
"trendiness",
"voguishness"
]
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"type":[
"noun"
]
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"coombe":{
"as in glen , canyon":{
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"examples":[],
"near antonyms":[],
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},
"type":[
"noun"
]
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"a place of confinement for persons held in lawful custody":{
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"examples":[
"was thrown in the coop for disturbing the peace"
],
"near antonyms":[
"outside"
],
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"cage",
"cell",
"hole",
"tank",
"block",
"ward",
"glasshouse",
"guardhouse",
"hulk(s)",
"concentration camp",
"gulag",
"labor camp",
"prison camp",
"stalag",
"work camp",
"dungeon",
"keep",
"oubliette",
"reformatory",
"reform school",
"training school"
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"bastille",
"big house",
"bridewell",
"brig",
"calaboose",
"can",
"clink",
"cooler",
"guardroom",
"hock",
"hold",
"hoosegow",
"jail",
"jailhouse",
"joint",
"jug",
"lockup",
"nick",
"pen",
"penitentiary",
"pokey",
"prison",
"quod",
"slam",
"slammer",
"stir",
"stockade",
"tolbooth"
]
},
"an enclosure with an open framework for keeping animals":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"a chicken coop"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"related":[
"kennel",
"run",
"kraal",
"stockade",
"cote",
"dovecote",
"dovecot",
"henhouse",
"fold",
"sheepfold",
"pigpen",
"aquarium",
"terrarium",
"live-box",
"fence"
],
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"cage",
"corral",
"hutch",
"pen",
"pound"
]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"cooperate":{
"to form or enter into an association that furthers the interests of its members":{
"antonyms":[
"break up",
"disband"
],
"examples":[
"several industrialized nations cooperated in a trade agreement to reduce or eliminate tariffs"
],
"near antonyms":[
"detach",
"disengage",
"dissolve",
"disunite",
"divorce",
"part",
"segregate",
"separate",
"sever",
"split",
"sunder",
"alienate",
"estrange",
"fall out"
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"related":[
"cabal",
"collaborate",
"gang up",
"hang together",
"team (up)",
"incorporate",
"organize",
"unionize",
"affiliate",
"amalgamate",
"combine",
"conglomerate",
"consolidate",
"converge",
"group",
"join",
"merge",
"knot",
"link",
"tie",
"wed"
],
"synonyms":[
"ally",
"associate",
"band (together)",
"club",
"coalesce",
"cohere",
"confederate",
"conjoin",
"federate",
"league",
"unite"
]
},
"to participate or assist in a joint effort to accomplish an end":{
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"examples":[
"conservation groups cooperated with state authorities to find a humane way to manage the area's overpopulation of deer"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"related":[
"connive",
"affiliate",
"ally",
"associate",
"combine",
"confederate",
"hang together",
"interface"
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"synonyms":[
"band (together)",
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"concert",
"concur",
"conjoin",
"conspire",
"join",
"league",
"team (up)",
"unite"
]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"cooperated":{
"to form or enter into an association that furthers the interests of its members":{
"antonyms":[
"broke up",
"disbanded"
],
"examples":[
"several industrialized nations cooperated in a trade agreement to reduce or eliminate tariffs"
],
"near antonyms":[
"detached",
"disengaged",
"dissolved",
"disunited",
"divorced",
"parted",
"segregated",
"separated",
"severed",
"split",
"sundered",
"alienated",
"estranged",
"fell out"
],
"related":[
"caballed",
"collaborated",
"ganged up",
"hung together",
"teamed (up)",
"incorporated",
"organized",
"unionized",
"affiliated",
"amalgamated",
"combined",
"conglomerated",
"consolidated",
"converged",
"grouped",
"joined",
"merged",
"knotted",
"linked",
"tied",
"wedded",
"wed"
],
"synonyms":[
"allied",
"associated",
"banded (together)",
"clubbed",
"coalesced",
"cohered",
"confederated",
"conjoined",
"federated",
"leagued",
"united"
]
},
"to participate or assist in a joint effort to accomplish an end":{
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"examples":[
"conservation groups cooperated with state authorities to find a humane way to manage the area's overpopulation of deer"
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"related":[
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"affiliated",
"allied",
"associated",
"combined",
"confederated",
"hung together",
"interfaced"
],
"synonyms":[
"banded (together)",
"collaborated",
"concerted",
"concurred",
"conjoined",
"conspired",
"joined",
"leagued",
"teamed (up)",
"united"
]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"cooperations":{
"the state of having shared interests or efforts (as in social or business matters)":{
"antonyms":[
"disaffiliations",
"dissociations"
],
"examples":[
"a series of televised announcements made in cooperation with the tobacco companies warning teenagers about the hazards of smoking"
],
"near antonyms":[
"breakups",
"dissolutions",
"disunions",
"divisions",
"partings",
"separations",
"severances",
"splits",
"alienations",
"divorces",
"estrangements"
],
"related":[
"businesses",
"dealings",
"interactions",
"exchanges",
"interconnections",
"interrelations",
"mutualisms",
"reciprocities",
"symbioses",
"incorporations",
"integrations",
"mergers",
"unifications",
"affinities",
"attachments",
"intimacies",
"rapports",
"sympathies",
"kinships",
"solidarities",
"unities",
"colleagueships",
"companies",
"companionships",
"fellowships",
"beds",
"cahoots",
"leagues"
],
"synonyms":[
"affiliations",
"alliances",
"associations",
"collaborations",
"confederations",
"connections",
"hookups",
"liaisons",
"linkups",
"partnerships",
"relations",
"relationships",
"tie-ups",
"unions"
]
},
"the work and activity of a number of persons who individually contribute toward the efficiency of the whole":{
"antonyms":[
"noncooperations"
],
"examples":[
"everyone's cooperation will make the project go much faster"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"related":[
"collegialities",
"fellowships",
"partnerships",
"communities",
"mutualisms",
"reciprocities",
"symbioses",
"synergies",
"synergisms",
"communions",
"kinships",
"solidarities",
"unities"
],
"synonyms":[
"collaborations",
"coordinations",
"teamworks"
]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"cooperatives":{
"as in":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[],
"near antonyms":[],
"related":[],
"synonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"cop (to)":{
"to make an acknowledgment of something unpleasant as true or valid":{
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"examples":[
"the defendant made a deal with the prosecutor and copped to a lesser charge"
],
"near antonyms":[
"clam up",
"hush",
"quiet (down)",
"shut up"
],
"related":[
"blab",
"talk",
"tattle",
"babble",
"spill"
],
"synonyms":[
"admit",
"confess",
"fess (up)",
"own (up)"
]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"cope":{
"something that covers or conceals like a piece of cloth":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"committed their nefarious deeds under the dark cope of night"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"related":[
"blind",
"concealer",
"screen",
"shield",
"fig leaf",
"Potemkin village",
"Trojan horse",
"camouflage",
"disguise",
"facade",
"fa\u00e7ade",
"face",
"veneer",
"gloss",
"varnish"
],
"synonyms":[
"blanket",
"cloak",
"cover",
"cover-up",
"covering",
"coverture",
"curtain",
"hood",
"mantle",
"mask",
"pall",
"penumbra",
"robe",
"shroud",
"veil",
"wraps"
]
},
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"examples":[
"a young man learning to cope on his own at college"
],
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"collapse",
"fail",
"fall short",
"fizzle",
"flounder",
"decline",
"peter (out)",
"slump",
"wane",
"give up"
],
"related":[
"carry on",
"contrive",
"scrape (by or through)",
"scrounge",
"last",
"survive",
"eke out",
"scrape (out)",
"squeeze",
"wrest",
"wring",
"afford",
"swing"
],
"synonyms":[
"do",
"fare",
"get along",
"get by",
"get on",
"make out",
"manage",
"shift"
]
},
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"noun",
"verb"
]
},
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"as in":{
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"examples":[],
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},
"type":[
"adverb"
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"as in print , cursive":{
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"examples":[],
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"related":[],
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"type":[
"noun"
]
},
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"examples":[
"I copped a great outfit for only $50"
],
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"dealing (in)",
"marketing",
"merchandising",
"merchandizing",
"retailing",
"selling",
"vending"
],
"related":[
"acquiring",
"gaining",
"garnering",
"getting",
"obtaining",
"procuring",
"securing",
"winning",
"financing",
"paying (for)",
"springing (for)",
"bartering (for)",
"dealing (for)",
"dickering (over)",
"exchanging (for)",
"haggling (for)",
"negotiating (about)",
"trading (for)",
"bargaining (with)",
"chaffering (with)",
"horse-trading (with)",
"paltering (with)",
"bidding",
"offering",
"rebuying",
"repurchasing"
],
"synonyms":[
"buying",
"picking up",
"purchasing",
"taking"
]
},
"to take physical control or possession of (something) suddenly or forcibly":{
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"missing"
],
"examples":[
"some concertgoers rushed pell-mell through the doors so that they could cop the seats down front"
],
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"discharging",
"freeing",
"liberating",
"releasing",
"dropping",
"loosening",
"unhanding"
],
"related":[
"gloving",
"haltering",
"lassoing",
"roping",
"apprehending",
"arresting",
"detaining",
"baying",
"cornering",
"clasping",
"clutching",
"fastening (on)",
"fisting",
"grasping",
"gripping",
"holding",
"latching (on or onto)",
"securing",
"rending",
"wresting",
"enmeshing",
"immeshing",
"ensnaring",
"entangling",
"entrapping",
"meshing",
"abducting",
"kidnapping",
"kidnaping",
"spiriting (away or off)"
],
"synonyms":[
"bagging",
"capturing",
"catching",
"collaring",
"corralling",
"getting",
"glomming",
"grabbing",
"grappling",
"hooking",
"landing",
"nabbing",
"nailing",
"netting",
"nobbling",
"rapping",
"seizing",
"snagging",
"snapping (up)",
"snaring",
"snatching",
"trapping"
]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"coprincipals":{
"as in costars":{
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"examples":[],
"near antonyms":[],
"related":[],
"synonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"cops":{
"a member of a force charged with law enforcement at the local level":{
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"a cop stopped her for speeding"
],
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"bobbies",
"bulls",
"constables",
"coppers",
"flatfeet",
"fuzzes",
"gendarmes",
"lawmen",
"officers",
"policemen",
"police officers",
"shamuses"
],
"near synonyms":[
"patrolmen",
"policewomen",
"detectives",
"dicks",
"gumshoes",
"hawkshaws",
"inspectors",
"investigators",
"plainclothesmen",
"sherlocks",
"sleuthhounds",
"sleuths",
"marshals",
"marshalls",
"sheriffs",
"troopers",
"peace officers",
"captains",
"lieutenants",
"sergeants",
"constabularies",
"heat",
"men",
"police",
"police forces",
"operatives",
"private detectives",
"private eyes",
"private investigators"
],
"near antonyms":[
"civilians"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to get possession of (something) by giving money in exchange for":{
"examples":[
"I copped a great outfit for only $50"
],
"synonyms":[
"buys",
"picks up",
"purchases",
"takes"
],
"near synonyms":[
"acquires",
"gains",
"garners",
"gets",
"obtains",
"procures",
"secures",
"wins",
"finances",
"pays (for)",
"springs (for)",
"barters (for)",
"deals (for)",
"dickers (over)",
"exchanges (for)",
"haggles (for)",
"negotiates (about)",
"trades (for)",
"bargains (with)",
"chaffers (with)",
"horse-trades (with)",
"palters (with)",
"bids",
"offers",
"rebuys",
"repurchases"
],
"near antonyms":[
"deals (in)",
"markets",
"merchandises",
"merchandizes",
"retails",
"sells",
"vends"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to take physical control or possession of (something) suddenly or forcibly":{
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"some concertgoers rushed pell-mell through the doors so that they could cop the seats down front"
],
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"captures",
"catches",
"collars",
"corrals",
"gets",
"gloms",
"grabs",
"grapples",
"hooks",
"lands",
"nabs",
"nails",
"nets",
"nobbles",
"raps",
"seizes",
"snags",
"snaps (up)",
"snares",
"snatches",
"traps"
],
"near synonyms":[
"gloves",
"halters",
"lassos",
"ropes",
"apprehends",
"arrests",
"detains",
"bays",
"corners",
"clasps",
"clutches",
"fastens (on)",
"fists",
"grasps",
"grips",
"holds",
"latches (on or onto)",
"secures",
"rends",
"wrests",
"enmeshes",
"immeshes",
"ensnares",
"entangles",
"entraps",
"meshes",
"abducts",
"kidnaps",
"spirits (away or off)"
],
"near antonyms":[
"discharges",
"frees",
"liberates",
"releases",
"drops",
"loosens",
"unhands"
],
"antonyms":[
"misses"
]
},
"type":[
"noun",
"verb"
]
},
"copyedited":{
"as in read , subedited":{
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"examples":[],
"near antonyms":[],
"related":[],
"synonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"cord":{
"a length of braided, flexible material that is used for tying or connecting things":{
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"examples":[
"a vacuum cleaner with an extra long cord"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"related":[
"guy",
"halyard",
"lanyard",
"stay",
"bungee cord",
"whipcord"
],
"synonyms":[
"cable",
"lace",
"lacing",
"line",
"rope",
"string",
"wire"
]
},
"a uniting or binding force or influence":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"the cords of trust and affection that exist between the longtime friends"
],
"near antonyms":[
"detaching",
"disengaging",
"parting",
"separation",
"unbinding",
"unfastening",
"unfettering",
"untying",
"untieing",
"emancipation",
"freedom",
"liberation",
"release"
],
"related":[
"attachment",
"connection",
"fastening",
"hookup",
"joint",
"linkage",
"linkup",
"nexus",
"tie-up",
"union",
"yoke",
"affection",
"fondness",
"sympathy",
"fetter",
"handcuff",
"manacle",
"shackle",
"trammel",
"constraint",
"curb",
"hampering",
"limit",
"limitation",
"restraint",
"restriction"
],
"synonyms":[
"bond",
"cement",
"knot",
"ligature",
"link",
"tie"
]
},
"as in":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[],
"near antonyms":[],
"related":[],
"synonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun",
"verb"
]
},
"cordial":{
"as in":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[],
"near antonyms":[],
"related":[],
"synonyms":[]
},
"having a renewing effect on the state of the body or mind":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"he insisted that a cordial nip of brandy would be just the thing for someone suffering from shock"
],
"near antonyms":[
"deadening",
"debilitating",
"draining",
"enervating",
"enfeebling",
"exhausting",
"numbing",
"sapping",
"weakening",
"wearying",
"deleterious",
"injurious",
"pernicious",
"insalubrious",
"noxious",
"unhealthful",
"unhealthy",
"unwholesome"
],
"related":[
"life-giving",
"conditioning",
"strengthening",
"animating",
"exhilarating",
"exhilarative",
"quickening",
"sharp",
"corrective",
"curative",
"curing",
"medicinal",
"rectifying",
"recuperative",
"reformative",
"reformatory",
"rehabilitative",
"remedial",
"remedying",
"reparative",
"therapeutic",
"beneficial",
"healthful",
"healthy",
"helpful",
"salubrious",
"salutary",
"wholesome"
],
"synonyms":[
"bracing",
"invigorating",
"refreshing",
"rejuvenating",
"restorative",
"reviving",
"stimulating",
"stimulative",
"tonic",
"vital",
"vitalizing"
]
},
"having or showing kindly feeling and sincere interest":{
"antonyms":[
"antagonistic",
"hostile",
"unfriendly"
],
"examples":[
"a cordial inquiry about her mother's health"
],
"near antonyms":[
"alienated",
"estranged",
"chilly",
"cold",
"cold-blooded",
"cool",
"frigid",
"frosty",
"glacial",
"icy",
"wintry",
"wintery",
"unsociable",
"unsocial",
"aggressive",
"argumentative",
"bellicose",
"belligerent",
"combative",
"contentious",
"disputatious",
"pugnacious",
"quarrelsome",
"scrappy",
"truculent",
"inhospitable",
"inimical"
],
"related":[
"affable",
"agreeable",
"approachable",
"good-natured",
"good-tempered",
"gracious",
"nice",
"sweet",
"clubby",
"convivial",
"folksy",
"gregarious",
"hospitable",
"sociable",
"social",
"jolly",
"jovial",
"merry",
"extroverted",
"extraverted",
"outgoing",
"brotherly",
"fraternal",
"sisterly",
"close",
"familiar",
"intimate",
"adoring",
"affectionate",
"devoted",
"fond",
"lovesome",
"loving",
"tender",
"tenderhearted"
],
"synonyms":[
"amicable",
"bonhomous",
"buddy-buddy",
"chummy",
"collegial",
"companionable",
"comradely",
"friendly",
"genial",
"hail-fellow",
"hail-fellow-well-met",
"hearty",
"matey",
"neighborly",
"palsy",
"palsy-walsy",
"warm",
"warmhearted"
]
},
"showing a natural kindness and courtesy especially in social situations":{
"antonyms":[
"inhospitable",
"ungenial",
"ungracious",
"unsociable"
],
"examples":[
"a cordial hostess who makes sure everyone is comfortable"
],
"near antonyms":[
"boorish",
"churlish",
"abrupt",
"blunt",
"brusque",
"brusk",
"curt",
"gruff",
"sharp",
"snippy",
"antisocial",
"disagreeable",
"discourteous",
"ill-mannered",
"impolite",
"rude",
"sullen",
"surly",
"uncivil",
"unfriendly",
"unkind",
"unmannerly",
"crabbed",
"crabby",
"cross",
"crusty",
"grumpy"
],
"related":[
"agreeable",
"amiable",
"benign",
"benignant",
"congenial",
"convivial",
"friendly",
"kind",
"kindly",
"neighborly",
"accommodating",
"obliging",
"considerate",
"courteous",
"polite",
"thoughtful",
"cosmopolitan",
"sophisticated",
"urbane",
"approachable",
"attentive",
"outgoing"
],
"synonyms":[
"affable",
"genial",
"gracious",
"hospitable",
"sociable"
]
},
"type":[
"adjective",
"noun"
]
},
"cordialness":{
"kindly concern, interest, or support":{
"antonyms":[
"ill will",
"malevolence",
"venom"
],
"examples":[
"an affluent suburb that has never been known for its cordialness toward the downtrodden"
],
"near antonyms":[
"disfavor",
"intolerance",
"animosity",
"antagonism",
"antipathy",
"enmity",
"hate",
"hatred",
"hostility",
"incivility",
"malice",
"rancor",
"belligerency",
"quarrelsomeness",
"querulousness"
],
"related":[
"bonhomie",
"camaraderie",
"collegiality",
"community",
"companionship",
"company",
"comradeship",
"civility",
"comity",
"concord",
"harmony",
"rapport",
"rapprochement",
"generosity",
"affinity",
"communion",
"empathy",
"kindness",
"sympathy",
"tolerance",
"altruism",
"philanthropy",
"selflessness",
"unselfishness"
],
"synonyms":[
"amity",
"benevolence",
"brotherhood",
"charity",
"cordiality",
"fellowship",
"friendliness",
"friendship",
"gem\u00fctlichkeit",
"good-fellowship",
"goodwill",
"kindliness",
"neighborliness"
]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"cordovan":{
"as in calfskin , deerskin":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[],
"near antonyms":[],
"related":[],
"synonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"cores":{
"a thing or place that is of greatest importance to an activity or interest":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"the capitol building is the core of the political life of the state"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"related":[
"headquarters",
"happy hunting grounds",
"hives",
"hotbeds",
"hot spots",
"playgrounds",
"playlands",
"kernels",
"nubs",
"piths",
"deeps",
"thicks",
"essences",
"quintessences",
"souls",
"attractions",
"lodestones",
"loadstones",
"magnets",
"polestars"
],
"synonyms":[
"axes",
"bases",
"capitals",
"centers",
"centrals",
"cynosures",
"epicenters",
"eyes",
"foci",
"focuses",
"ground zeros",
"hearts",
"hubs",
"loci",
"meccas",
"navels",
"nerve centers",
"nexuses",
"nexus",
"nuclei",
"nucleuses",
"omphali",
"seats"
]
},
"an area or point that is an equal distance from all points along an edge or outer surface":{
"antonyms":[
"perimeters",
"peripheries"
],
"examples":[
"the mountain rises from ground that is almost precisely at the island's core"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"related":[
"insides",
"interiors"
],
"synonyms":[
"centers",
"middles",
"midpoints",
"midsts"
]
},
"the central part or aspect of something under consideration":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"at last, we come to the core of the issue that has been dividing us"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"related":[
"courses",
"directions",
"drifts",
"tenors",
"bodies",
"contents",
"substances",
"hypotheses",
"propositions",
"purports",
"subjects",
"themes",
"theses"
],
"synonyms":[
"bottom lines",
"bull's-eyes",
"bullseyes",
"centerpieces",
"cruxes",
"cruces",
"essences",
"gists",
"hearts",
"kernels",
"keynotes",
"meat and potatoes",
"meats",
"nets",
"nubbins",
"nubs",
"nuclei",
"nucleuses",
"piths",
"pivots",
"points",
"roots",
"sums"
]
},
"the main or greater part of something as distinguished from its subordinate parts":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"a starfish can even survive the division of its core into two parts; both halves then regenerate"
],
"near antonyms":[
"accessories",
"accessaries",
"adjuncts",
"appendages",
"extensions",
"offshoots",
"components",
"constituents",
"elements",
"ingredients",
"divisions",
"parts",
"pieces",
"sections",
"segments",
"angles",
"aspects",
"facets",
"features",
"qualities",
"sides"
],
"related":[
"majorities",
"aggregates",
"amounts",
"entireties",
"quanta",
"sums",
"sum totals",
"totalities",
"totals",
"wholes",
"bottoms",
"essences",
"essentialities",
"marrows",
"meats",
"natures",
"piths",
"quintessences",
"roots",
"souls",
"stuff",
"substances",
"centers",
"hearts",
"hubs",
"kernels",
"middles",
"nuclei",
"nucleuses",
"nuts",
"seats",
"affairs",
"arguments",
"burdens",
"cruxes",
"cruces",
"foci",
"focuses",
"gists",
"nubs",
"pitches",
"points",
"purports",
"matters",
"motifs",
"subjects",
"texts",
"themes",
"topics"
],
"synonyms":[
"bodies",
"brunts",
"bulks",
"chiefs",
"generalities",
"hefts",
"mains",
"masses",
"staples",
"weights"
]
},
"the seat of one's deepest thoughts and emotions":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"in my very core I knew that an injustice was being committed"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"related":[
"consciences",
"minds"
],
"synonyms":[
"bellies",
"blood",
"bones",
"bosoms",
"breasts",
"guts",
"hearts",
"heartstrings",
"inner spaces",
"insides",
"quicks",
"souls"
]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"corner":{
"a difficult, puzzling, or embarrassing situation from which there is no easy escape":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"the writers have gotten themselves into a corner on that TV show"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"related":[
"difficulty",
"node",
"hot water",
"soup",
"pinch",
"plight",
"quandary",
"scrape",
"trouble",
"deadlock",
"halt",
"logjam",
"stalemate",
"standstill",
"clutch",
"crisis",
"crossroad",
"emergency",
"exigency",
"juncture",
"strait"
],
"synonyms":[
"bind",
"box",
"catch-22",
"dilemma",
"fix",
"hole",
"impasse",
"jackpot",
"jam",
"mire",
"pickle",
"predicament",
"quagmire",
"rabbit hole",
"rattrap",
"spot",
"sticky wicket",
"swamp"
]
},
"a place where roads meet":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"we'll meet at the corner tomorrow"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"related":[
"cloverleaf",
"interchange",
"overpass",
"underpass",
"circle",
"rotary",
"roundabout",
"traffic circle"
],
"synonyms":[
"carrefour",
"crossing",
"crossroad",
"crossway(s)",
"intersection",
"junction"
]
},
"a point in a chain of events at which an important change (as in one's fortunes) occurs":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"the president believes that we have turned a corner in the war on drugs"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"related":[
"break",
"capper",
"clincher",
"crusher",
"highlight",
"topper",
"conversion",
"metamorphosis",
"transfiguration",
"transformation",
"turnabout",
"turnaround",
"boiling point",
"breaking point",
"clutch",
"conjuncture",
"crisis",
"crossroad(s)",
"crunch",
"crunch time",
"Dunkirk",
"emergency",
"exigency",
"extremity",
"flash point",
"head",
"juncture",
"zero hour"
],
"synonyms":[
"climacteric",
"climax",
"landmark",
"milepost",
"milestone",
"turning point",
"watershed"
]
},
"as in approach , accost":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[],
"near antonyms":[],
"related":[],
"synonyms":[]
},
"as in hog , bogart":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[],
"near antonyms":[],
"related":[],
"synonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun",
"verb"
]
},
"cornered":{
"as in":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[],
"near antonyms":[],
"related":[],
"synonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"cornering":{
"as in":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[],
"near antonyms":[],
"related":[],
"synonyms":[]
},
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"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"
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"basis",
"bedrock",
"bottom",
"footing",
"foundation",
"ground",
"groundwork",
"keystone",
"root",
"underpinning",
"warp",
"warp and woof"
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"noun"
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"longitudinally"
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"bias",
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"crossways",
"crosswise",
"diagonally",
"kitty-corner",
"catty-corner",
"catercorner",
"kitty-cornered",
"catty-cornered",
"catercornered",
"obliquely",
"transversely"
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"adverb"
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"nonsalable",
"uncommercial",
"unmarketable",
"unsalable"
],
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"wholesale"
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"marketable",
"mass-market",
"salable",
"saleable"
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"herd",
"hoi polloi",
"masses",
"millions",
"mob",
"multitude",
"rank and file",
"unwashed"
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"gentry",
"nobility",
"quality",
"society",
"top",
"top drawer",
"upper class",
"caviar",
"caviare",
"who's who"
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"aristocracy",
"best",
"choice",
"cream",
"cr\u00e8me de la cr\u00e8me",
"elect",
"elite",
"fat",
"flower",
"illuminati",
"pick",
"pink",
"pride",
"priesthood",
"prime",
"royalty",
"upper crust"
]
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"noun"
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"related":[
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"carnage",
"carrion",
"ashes",
"deceased",
"decedent"
],
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"bones",
"cadaver",
"carcass",
"corpse",
"corse",
"relics",
"remains",
"stiff"
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"Jane Austen's corpus is modest in number but magnificent in achievement"
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"canon"
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"oeuvre"
]
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"type":[
"noun"
]
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"the copy editor's corrections were marked in red"
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"cut",
"deletion",
"addition",
"amplification",
"supplement",
"adjustment",
"alteration",
"modification",
"revision",
"improvement",
"renovation",
"clarification",
"explanation",
"explication"
],
"synonyms":[
"amendment",
"emendation"
]
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"received a severe correction after the third offense"
],
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"indemnity",
"pardon",
"parole",
"acquittal",
"exculpation",
"exoneration",
"vindication",
"exemption",
"immunity",
"impunity",
"release",
"commutation",
"reprieve",
"absolution",
"forgiveness",
"remission",
"remitment",
"condonation",
"disregard",
"overlooking"
],
"related":[
"reprisal",
"retaliation",
"retribution",
"revenge",
"vengeance",
"assessment",
"charge",
"fine",
"mulct",
"example",
"sentence",
"confinement",
"imprisonment",
"incarceration",
"condemnation",
"damnation",
"denouncement",
"censure",
"criticism",
"rebuke",
"reprimand",
"reproof"
],
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"chastisement",
"comeuppance",
"desert(s)",
"discipline",
"nemesis",
"penalty",
"punishment",
"wrath"
]
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"noun"
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"noun"
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"rebutted",
"refuted"
],
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"the witnesses corroborated the policeman's testimony"
],
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"gainsaid",
"denied",
"disavowed",
"disclaimed",
"challenged",
"contested",
"disputed",
"questioned"
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"related":[
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"backed (up)",
"testified (to)",
"vouched (for)",
"witnessed",
"guaranteed",
"warranted",
"affirmed",
"asserted",
"averred",
"avowed",
"declared",
"professed",
"demonstrated",
"documented",
"established",
"proved",
"reinforced",
"reenforced"
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"attested",
"authenticated",
"bore out",
"certified",
"confirmed",
"substantiated",
"supported",
"validated",
"verified",
"vindicated"
]
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"examples":[
"my personal experience does not corroborate your faith in the essential goodness of people"
],
"near antonyms":[
"undercut",
"undermined",
"weakened"
],
"related":[
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"established",
"proved",
"verified",
"affirmed",
"avouched",
"validated"
],
"synonyms":[
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"bolstered",
"buttressed",
"reinforced",
"reenforced",
"shored (up)",
"substantiated",
"supported"
]
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"type":[
"adjective",
"verb"
]
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"a gradual weakening, loss, or destruction":{
"antonyms":[
"buildup"
],
"examples":[
"the corrosion of family values that is often brought on by great wealth"
],
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"gain",
"increase"
],
"related":[
"breakdown",
"decay",
"decomposition",
"disintegration",
"dissolution"
],
"synonyms":[
"attrition",
"erosion",
"undermining",
"waste"
]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
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"examples":[
"a corrosive satire on the fashion industry and its movers and shakers"
],
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"droll",
"merry",
"playful",
"sportive",
"waggish",
"gentle",
"mild",
"bland",
"good-humored",
"good-natured",
"diplomatic",
"polite",
"smooth",
"suave",
"urbane",
"affable",
"cordial",
"genial",
"gracious",
"hospitable",
"sociable"
],
"related":[
"brisk",
"cross",
"sharp-tongued",
"sour",
"sourish",
"spiky",
"spikey",
"tartish",
"incisive",
"keen",
"poignant",
"trenchant",
"cynical",
"dry",
"ironic",
"ironical",
"wry",
"facetious",
"flippant",
"tongue-in-cheek",
"acrimonious",
"bitter",
"resentful",
"vitriolic",
"harsh",
"rough",
"severe",
"stringent",
"abrupt",
"blunt",
"brusque",
"brusk",
"concise",
"crisp",
"curt",
"gruff",
"pithy",
"snippety",
"snippy",
"succinct",
"terse",
"backhanded",
"insincere"
],
"synonyms":[
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"acerbic",
"acid",
"acidic",
"acidulous",
"acrid",
"barbed",
"biting",
"caustic",
"cutting",
"mordant",
"pungent",
"sarcastic",
"sardonic",
"satiric",
"satirical",
"scalding",
"scathing",
"sharp",
"smart-aleck",
"smart-alecky",
"smart-mouthed",
"snarky",
"tart"
]
},
"type":[
"adjective"
]
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"incorruptible"
],
"examples":[
"there's a rumor that that judge is eminently corruptible"
],
"near antonyms":[
"ethical",
"honest",
"principled",
"scrupulous",
"good",
"moral",
"righteous",
"upright",
"virtuous"
],
"related":[
"temptable",
"hack",
"mercenary",
"crooked",
"cutthroat",
"dishonest",
"Machiavellian",
"unethical",
"unmoral",
"unprincipled",
"unscrupulous",
"corrupt",
"corrupted",
"debased",
"debauched",
"defiled",
"degenerate",
"degraded",
"demoralized",
"depraved",
"dissipated",
"dissolute",
"perverse",
"perverted",
"reprobate",
"sleazy",
"vitiated",
"warped",
"bad",
"evil",
"immoral",
"iniquitous",
"nefarious",
"sinful",
"vicious",
"wicked"
],
"synonyms":[
"bribable",
"dirty",
"purchasable",
"venal"
]
},
"type":[
"adjective"
]
},
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"to go through decomposition":{
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"examples":[
"a dead mouse corrupting in the walls produced a terrible smell"
],
"near antonyms":[
"aging",
"ageing",
"developing",
"growing",
"maturing",
"ripening",
"refreshing",
"renewing",
"restoring",
"cleansing",
"purifying",
"assembling",
"composing",
"integrating",
"ameliorating",
"bettering",
"improving",
"meliorating"
],
"related":[
"souring",
"turning",
"turning off",
"contaminating",
"defiling",
"polluting",
"tainting",
"addling",
"curdling",
"fermenting",
"mortifying",
"rusting",
"crumbling",
"declining",
"degenerating",
"descending",
"deteriorating",
"dilapidating",
"sinking",
"withering"
],
"synonyms":[
"breaking down",
"decaying",
"decomposing",
"disintegrating",
"festering",
"fouling",
"moldering",
"molding",
"perishing",
"putrefying",
"rotting",
"spoiling"
]
},
"to influence someone with a bribe":{
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"examples":[
"he bragged about having corrupted half of the officials on the city council"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"related":[
"fixing",
"tampering (with)",
"abasing",
"debasing",
"debauching",
"defiling",
"degrading",
"demeaning",
"depraving",
"dishonoring",
"perverting",
"poisoning",
"profaning",
"prostituting",
"subverting",
"tainting",
"warping",
"alluring",
"baiting",
"beguiling",
"enticing",
"leading on",
"luring",
"seducing",
"tempting",
"motivating",
"provoking",
"spurring",
"stimulating",
"goading",
"inducing",
"flattering",
"persuading",
"snaring",
"trapping"
],
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"buying",
"having",
"paying off",
"squaring"
]
},
"to lower in character, dignity, or quality":{
"antonyms":[
"elevating",
"ennobling",
"uplifting"
],
"examples":[
"some observers believe that grossly violent movies corrupt the people who watch them as well as the people who make them"
],
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"dignifying",
"exalting",
"honoring",
"ameliorating",
"amending",
"bettering",
"enhancing",
"enriching",
"improving",
"meliorating",
"perfecting",
"clarifying",
"cleaning",
"cleansing",
"purifying",
"refining",
"restoring",
"respecting"
],
"related":[
"befouling",
"begriming",
"contaminating",
"defiling",
"diluting",
"dirtying",
"polluting",
"tainting",
"thinning",
"watering down",
"weakening",
"descending",
"disgracing",
"dishonoring",
"humbling",
"humiliating",
"shaming",
"taking down",
"blemishing",
"damaging",
"defacing",
"destroying",
"flawing",
"harming",
"hurting",
"impairing",
"marring",
"ruining",
"spoiling",
"staining",
"tarnishing",
"wrecking",
"depreciating",
"downgrading"
],
"synonyms":[
"abasing",
"bastardizing",
"cankering",
"cheapening",
"debasing",
"debauching",
"degrading",
"demeaning",
"demoralizing",
"depraving",
"deteriorating",
"lessening",
"perverting",
"poisoning",
"profaning",
"prostituting",
"subverting",
"vitiating",
"warping"
]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
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"a body of employees or servants who accompany and wait on a person":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"the movie star's cortege included her hair stylist, makeup artist, personal assistant, and press agent"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"related":[
"crews",
"personnels",
"staffs",
"staves",
"courts",
"assistants",
"attendants",
"helpers",
"retainers"
],
"synonyms":[
"entourages",
"followings",
"posses",
"retinues",
"suites",
"tails",
"trains"
]
},
"a body of individuals moving along in an orderly and often ceremonial way":{
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"examples":[
"the funeral cortege of mourners stretched for three city blocks"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"related":[
"progresses",
"callithumps",
"columns",
"lines",
"strings",
"trains"
],
"synonyms":[
"parades",
"processions"
]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"coruscate":{
"to shoot forth bursts of light":{
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"examples":[
"a classic car from the 1950s, replete with yards of coruscating chrome"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"related":[
"beam",
"radiate",
"shine",
"bedazzle",
"blind",
"daze",
"dazzle",
"blaze",
"burn",
"flare",
"glare",
"glow"
],
"synonyms":[
"flame",
"flash",
"glance",
"gleam",
"glimmer",
"glint",
"glisten",
"glister",
"glitter",
"luster",
"lustre",
"scintillate",
"shimmer",
"spangle",
"sparkle",
"twinkle",
"wink",
"winkle"
]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
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"coruscates":{
"to shoot forth bursts of light":{
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"examples":[
"a classic car from the 1950s, replete with yards of coruscating chrome"
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"near antonyms":[],
"related":[
"beams",
"radiates",
"shines",
"bedazzles",
"blinds",
"dazes",
"dazzles",
"blazes",
"burns",
"flares",
"glares",
"glows"
],
"synonyms":[
"flames",
"flashes",
"glances",
"gleams",
"glimmers",
"glints",
"glistens",
"glisters",
"glitters",
"lusters",
"lustres",
"scintillates",
"shimmers",
"spangles",
"sparkles",
"twinkles",
"winkles",
"winks"
]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
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"cosmetic cases":{
"as in traveling cases":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[],
"near antonyms":[],
"related":[],
"synonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
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},
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"as in spruces , dolls up":{
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"examples":[],
"near antonyms":[],
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"type":[
"verb"
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},
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"type":[
"adjective"
],
"unusually large":{
"antonyms":[
"bantam",
"bitty",
"diminutive",
"infinitesimal",
"Lilliputian",
"little bitty",
"micro",
"microminiature",
"microscopic",
"microscopical",
"midget",
"miniature",
"minuscule",
"minute",
"pocket",
"pygmy",
"teensy",
"teensy-weensy",
"teeny",
"teeny-weeny",
"tiny",
"wee"
],
"examples":[
"predicted that the war would forever be regarded as a cosmic error"
],
"near antonyms":[
"little",
"mini",
"petite",
"pint-size",
"pint-sized",
"puny",
"small",
"smallish",
"undersized",
"undersize",
"dinky",
"dwarfish",
"half-pint"
],
"related":[
"big",
"bulky",
"considerable",
"extensive",
"good",
"goodly",
"great",
"gross",
"handsome",
"hefty",
"hulking",
"largish",
"major",
"outsize",
"outsized",
"overgrown",
"oversize",
"oversized",
"sizable",
"sizeable",
"substantial",
"tidy",
"voluminous",
"august",
"formidable",
"grandiose",
"imposing",
"lofty",
"majestic",
"cavernous",
"monolithic",
"overwhelming",
"staggering",
"stupendous",
"towering",
"boundless",
"immeasurable",
"infinite"
],
"synonyms":[
"astronomical",
"astronomic",
"Brobdingnagian",
"bumper",
"colossal",
"cyclopean",
"elephantine",
"enormous",
"galactic",
"gargantuan",
"giant",
"gigantesque",
"gigantic",
"grand",
"herculean",
"heroic",
"heroical",
"Himalayan",
"huge",
"humongous",
"humungous",
"immense",
"jumbo",
"king-size",
"king-sized",
"leviathan",
"mammoth",
"massive",
"mega",
"mighty",
"monster",
"monstrous",
"monumental",
"mountainous",
"oceanic",
"pharaonic",
"planetary",
"prodigious",
"super",
"super-duper",
"supersize",
"supersized",
"titanic",
"tremendous",
"vast",
"vasty",
"walloping",
"whacking",
"whopping"
]
}
},
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"as in":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[],
"near antonyms":[],
"related":[],
"synonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"costly":{
"commanding a large price":{
"antonyms":[
"cheap",
"inexpensive"
],
"examples":[
"running is one sport that does not require a lot of costly equipment"
],
"near antonyms":[
"moderate",
"reasonable",
"valueless",
"worthless",
"discounted"
],
"related":[
"exorbitant",
"overpriced",
"prohibitive",
"sky-high",
"steep",
"stiff",
"unaffordable",
"uneconomic",
"uneconomical",
"unreasonable",
"inestimable",
"invaluable",
"deluxe",
"luxurious",
"sumptuous"
],
"synonyms":[
"big-ticket",
"dear",
"expensive",
"extravagant",
"high",
"high-end",
"high-ticket",
"precious",
"premium",
"priceless",
"pricey",
"pricy",
"spendy",
"ultraexpensive",
"valuable"
]
},
"type":[
"adjective"
]
},
"cot":{
"as in bungalow":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[],
"near antonyms":[],
"related":[],
"synonyms":[]
},
"as in couch , sofa":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[],
"near antonyms":[],
"related":[],
"synonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
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"as in enjoy , revel (in)":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[],
"near antonyms":[],
"related":[],
"synonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
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"to have a clear idea of":{
"antonyms":[
"missed"
],
"examples":[
"failed to cotton on to the fact that her senatorial campaign was going nowhere"
],
"near antonyms":[
"misapprehended",
"misconceived",
"misconstrued",
"misinterpreted",
"misperceived",
"misread",
"mistook",
"misunderstood"
],
"related":[
"absorbed",
"digested",
"took in",
"realized",
"fathomed",
"penetrated",
"pierced"
],
"synonyms":[
"appreciated",
"apprehended",
"assimilated",
"beheld",
"caught",
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"faces",
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"verb"
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"impeachments",
"implications",
"imputations",
"innuendos",
"innuendoes",
"insinuations",
"censures",
"condemnations",
"denunciations",
"incriminations",
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"examples":[
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"related":[
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"amounts (to)"
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"examples":[
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"totals",
"calculates",
"computes",
"reckons",
"tables",
"tabulates",
"checks",
"marks",
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"numbers",
"tells"
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"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
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"near antonyms":[
"distrusts",
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"questions",
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"related":[
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"entrusts",
"intrusts",
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"leans",
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"examples":[
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"related":[
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"deems",
"feels",
"senses",
"thinks",
"conceives",
"fancies",
"imagines"
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"synonyms":[
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"esteems",
"holds",
"looks (on or upon)",
"rates",
"reckons",
"regards",
"sets down",
"views"
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"type":[
"noun",
"verb"
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"to prevent the participation, consideration, or inclusion of":{
"antonyms":[
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"related":[
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"banishes",
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"expels",
"ousts",
"throws out",
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"prevents",
"prohibits",
"blocks",
"hinders",
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"deters",
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"excepts",
"excludes",
"freezes out",
"rules out",
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"type":[
"verb"
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"as in cabriolet , roadster":{
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"examples":[],
"near antonyms":[],
"related":[],
"synonyms":[]
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"as in sedan , subcompact":{
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"type":[
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"coup\u00e9s":{
"as in roadsters , cabriolets":{
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"feebleness",
"softness",
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"resolution",
"endurance",
"stamina",
"stomach",
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"audacity",
"boldness",
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"cheek",
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"gall",
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"fearlessness",
"gallantry",
"greatheartedness",
"guts",
"gutsiness",
"hardihood",
"heart",
"heroism",
"intestinal fortitude",
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"intrepidness",
"moxie",
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"pecker",
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"stoutness",
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"virtue"
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"institute",
"seminar",
"survey course",
"minicourse",
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"mode",
"style",
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"scheme",
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"achievement",
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"enterprise",
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"work",
"activity",
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"plan",
"scheme",
"strategy",
"intent",
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"purpose",
"approach",
"direction",
"method",
"path",
"pathway",
"tack"
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"procedure",
"program"
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"millstream",
"floodway",
"sluice",
"sluiceway",
"spillway",
"swash",
"tideway",
"torrent",
"gutter",
"trough",
"river",
"rivulet",
"stream"
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"canal",
"channel",
"conduit",
"flume",
"racecourse",
"raceway",
"watercourse",
"waterway"
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"circuit",
"loop",
"orbit",
"arc",
"flight path",
"trajectory",
"ascent",
"descent"
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"path",
"pathway",
"route",
"routeway",
"steps",
"track",
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"pilot"
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"search (for)",
"seek",
"eye",
"observe",
"watch"
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"dog",
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"hound",
"pursue",
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"shadow",
"tag",
"tail",
"trace",
"track",
"trail"
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"once the threat of terrorism became apparent, fighter jets began coursing that corridor on a daily basis"
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"traipse",
"tramp",
"tread",
"walk",
"ride",
"run",
"crisscross"
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"cut (across)",
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"go",
"navigate",
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"track",
"transit",
"travel",
"traverse"
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"poke"
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"dawdle",
"dillydally",
"drag",
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"linger",
"loiter",
"poke",
"tarry",
"amble",
"lumber",
"plod",
"saunter",
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"stroll",
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"slow (down or up)"
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"flit",
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"scuffle",
"stampede",
"streak",
"whiz",
"whizz",
"gallop",
"jog",
"sprint",
"accelerate",
"quicken",
"step out",
"catch up",
"fast-forward",
"outpace",
"outrun",
"outstrip",
"overtake",
"arrow",
"beeline"
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"belt",
"blast",
"blaze",
"blow",
"bolt",
"bomb",
"bowl",
"breeze",
"bundle",
"bustle",
"buzz",
"cannonball",
"careen",
"career",
"chase",
"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"
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"verb"
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"leading",
"piloting"
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"searching (for)",
"seeking",
"eyeing",
"eying",
"observing",
"watching"
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"dogging",
"following",
"hounding",
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"running",
"shadowing",
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"tailing",
"tracing",
"tracking",
"trailing"
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"traipsing",
"tramping",
"treading",
"walking",
"riding",
"running",
"crisscrossing"
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"crossing",
"cutting (across)",
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"going",
"navigating",
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"peregrinating",
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"tracking",
"transiting",
"traveling",
"travelling",
"traversing"
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"creeping",
"poking"
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"dawdling",
"dillydallying",
"dragging",
"hanging (around or out)",
"lagging",
"lingering",
"loitering",
"poking",
"tarrying",
"ambling",
"lumbering",
"plodding",
"sauntering",
"shuffling",
"strolling",
"decelerating",
"slowing (down or up)"
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"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"
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"barrelling",
"belting",
"blasting",
"blazing",
"blowing",
"bolting",
"bombing",
"bowling",
"breezing",
"bundling",
"bustling",
"buzzing",
"cannonballing",
"careening",
"careering",
"chasing",
"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"
]
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"related":[
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"circuit judge",
"justice of the peace",
"squire",
"auditor",
"master",
"jurisconsult",
"jurisprudent"
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"beak",
"bench",
"judge",
"jurist",
"justice",
"magistrate"
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"an assembly of persons for the administration of justice":{
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"this court is now called to order"
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"judicatory",
"judicature",
"judiciary",
"high court",
"supreme court",
"court-martial",
"drumhead court-martial",
"inquisition",
"kangaroo court"
],
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"bar",
"bench",
"forum",
"tribunal"
]
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"an open space wholly or partly enclosed (as by buildings or walls)":{
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"examples":[
"the art museum boasts a glass-sided court that is filled with an array of greenery and sculpture"
],
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"related":[
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"galleria",
"parvis",
"parvise",
"peristyle",
"forecourt",
"place",
"plaza",
"square",
"deck",
"terrace",
"curtilage"
],
"synonyms":[
"close",
"courtyard",
"enclosure",
"inclosure",
"patio",
"quad",
"quadrangle",
"yard"
]
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"examples":[
"Hampton Court was the imposing residence of King Henry VIII"
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"near antonyms":[],
"related":[
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"ch\u00e2teau",
"estate",
"mansion",
"villa",
"alcazar",
"seraglio"
],
"synonyms":[
"palace"
]
},
"to act so as to make (something) more likely":{
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"examples":[
"you're courting disaster if you keep playing with matches"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"related":[
"angle (for)",
"fish (for)",
"hunt",
"search",
"seek",
"provoke",
"tempt"
],
"synonyms":[
"ask (for)",
"flirt (with)",
"invite",
"woo"
]
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"to go on dates that may eventually lead to marriage":{
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"examples":[
"they courted for a year before getting married"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"related":[
"attend",
"gallant",
"romance",
"spark",
"woo",
"escort",
"see",
"take out",
"go out",
"step out"
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"synonyms":[
"date"
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},
"type":[
"noun",
"verb"
]
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"to act so as to make (something) more likely":{
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"examples":[
"you're courting disaster if you keep playing with matches"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"related":[
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"fished (for)",
"hunted",
"searched",
"sought",
"provoked",
"tempted"
],
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"flirted (with)",
"invited",
"wooed"
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"they courted for a year before getting married"
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"gallanted",
"romanced",
"sparked",
"wooed",
"escorted",
"saw",
"took out",
"stepped out",
"went out"
],
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"type":[
"verb"
]
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"dignified or restrained beauty of form, appearance, or style":{
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"inelegance"
],
"examples":[
"there's a courtliness to rococo furniture that makes you feel like you should be wearing fine clothes and sipping champagne"
],
"near antonyms":[
"coarseness",
"crudeness",
"flamboyance",
"flashiness",
"garishness",
"gaudiness",
"glitz",
"grotesqueness",
"grotesquerie",
"grotesquery",
"kitsch",
"tastelessness",
"tawdriness",
"vulgarity"
],
"related":[
"augustness",
"brilliance",
"gloriousness",
"glory",
"grandeur",
"grandness",
"lavishness",
"luxuriance",
"luxuriousness",
"luxury",
"magnificence",
"nobility",
"nobleness",
"opulence",
"ornateness",
"plushiness",
"plushness",
"resplendence",
"resplendency",
"richness",
"splendor",
"sumptuousness",
"artfulness",
"chic",
"polish",
"sophistication",
"taste",
"tastefulness",
"choiceness",
"classicism",
"dignity",
"exquisiteness",
"restraint",
"simplicity",
"affectedness",
"grandiosity",
"ostentation",
"ostentatiousness",
"pretentiousness",
"showiness"
],
"synonyms":[
"class",
"classiness",
"elegance",
"elegancy",
"fineness",
"grace",
"gracefulness",
"handsomeness",
"majesty",
"refinement",
"stateliness"
]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
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"the series of social engagements shared by a couple looking to get married":{
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"examples":[
"a long-married couple who look back on their whirlwind courtship with fondness and laughter"
],
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"related":[
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"affair",
"affaire",
"love affair",
"romance",
"betrothal",
"engagement"
],
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"dating",
"lovemaking",
"suit"
]
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"type":[
"noun"
]
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"we both were surprised to learn that we are distant cousins"
],
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"related":[
"in-laws",
"kissing cousins",
"kinswomen",
"blood",
"clans",
"families",
"folk",
"folks",
"houses",
"kindreds",
"kinfolks",
"kinsfolk",
"lineages",
"lines",
"people",
"races",
"stocks",
"tribes"
],
"synonyms":[
"kins",
"kinsmen",
"relations",
"relatives"
]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"cover":{
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"examples":[
"people may only skip their shifts if they find a cover for themselves first"
],
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"understudy",
"apology",
"makeshift",
"stopgap",
"agent",
"assignee",
"attorney",
"commissary",
"delegate",
"deputy",
"envoy",
"factor",
"procurator",
"proxy",
"rep",
"representative",
"surrogate",
"assistant",
"reliever",
"second",
"successor",
"superseder"
],
"synonyms":[
"backup",
"designated hitter",
"fill-in",
"locum tenens",
"pinch hitter",
"relief",
"replacement",
"reserve",
"stand-in",
"sub",
"substitute"
]
},
"a piece placed over an open container to hold in, protect, or conceal its contents":{
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"examples":[
"where's the cover for the cookie jar?"
],
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"dome",
"hood",
"roof",
"capsule",
"case",
"casing",
"covering",
"housing",
"jacket",
"sheath",
"shell"
],
"synonyms":[
"cap",
"lid",
"top"
]
},
"a raised covering over something for decoration or protection":{
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"examples":[
"all of the exhibits at the fair are under cover , so the weather won't be a factor"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"related":[
"dome",
"marquee",
"pavilion",
"arbor",
"bower",
"pergola",
"screen",
"shade",
"shelter",
"shield",
"sunshade",
"umbrella",
"canvas",
"canvass",
"fly"
],
"synonyms":[
"awning",
"canopy",
"ceiling",
"roof",
"tent"
]
},
"means or method of defending":{
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"examples":[
"provided cover while their comrades ran for safety"
],
"near antonyms":[
"aggression",
"assault",
"attack",
"offense",
"offence",
"offensive"
],
"related":[
"arm",
"armament",
"munitions",
"weapon",
"weaponry",
"fastness",
"fort",
"fortress",
"palisade",
"stronghold"
],
"synonyms":[
"aegis",
"egis",
"ammunition",
"armor",
"buckler",
"defense",
"guard",
"protection",
"safeguard",
"screen",
"security",
"shield",
"wall",
"ward"
]
},
"something that covers or conceals like a piece of cloth":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"under cover of friendship the con man insinuated himself in the lives of the unsuspecting couple"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"related":[
"blind",
"concealer",
"screen",
"shield",
"fig leaf",
"Potemkin village",
"Trojan horse",
"camouflage",
"disguise",
"facade",
"fa\u00e7ade",
"face",
"veneer",
"gloss",
"varnish"
],
"synonyms":[
"blanket",
"cloak",
"cope",
"cover-up",
"covering",
"coverture",
"curtain",
"hood",
"mantle",
"mask",
"pall",
"penumbra",
"robe",
"shroud",
"veil",
"wraps"
]
},
"something that encloses another thing especially to protect it":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"put the restaurant menus in clear plastic covers so that they would last longer"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"related":[
"cartridge",
"cassette",
"casette",
"bark",
"crust",
"carapace",
"house",
"mail",
"panoply",
"plate",
"plating",
"shield",
"cuticle",
"hide",
"skin",
"envelope",
"package",
"wrapper",
"backing",
"coating",
"coverture",
"facing"
],
"synonyms":[
"armor",
"capsule",
"case",
"casing",
"cocoon",
"covering",
"encasement",
"housing",
"hull",
"husk",
"jacket",
"pod",
"sheath",
"shell"
]
},
"to drive danger or attack away from":{
"antonyms":[
"assail",
"assault",
"attack"
],
"examples":[
"covered the wounded soldier until he could be rescued from the downed chopper"
],
"near antonyms":[
"bombard",
"storm",
"beset",
"besiege",
"overrun",
"capitulate",
"cave",
"submit",
"yield"
],
"related":[
"avert",
"prevent",
"oppose",
"resist",
"withstand",
"battle",
"contend",
"fight",
"war",
"conserve",
"preserve",
"save",
"buffer",
"palisade",
"picket",
"wall"
],
"synonyms":[
"bulwark",
"defend",
"fence",
"fend",
"forfend",
"guard",
"keep",
"protect",
"safeguard",
"screen",
"secure",
"shield",
"ward"
]
},
"to form a layer over":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"by morning a foot of snow covered the ground"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"related":[
"enclose",
"inclose",
"enrobe",
"enshroud",
"enswathe",
"envelop",
"enwrap",
"mantle",
"shawl",
"shroud",
"swathe",
"wrap",
"cloak",
"clothe",
"curtain",
"veil",
"circle",
"encircle",
"encompass"
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"carpet",
"coat",
"overlay",
"overlie",
"overspread",
"sheet"
]
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],
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"exclude",
"omit",
"disregard",
"forget",
"ignore",
"neglect",
"overlook",
"overpass",
"pass over",
"slight",
"slur (over)",
"brush (aside or off)",
"reject",
"shrug off"
],
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"bear (on or upon)",
"refer (to)",
"relate (to)",
"advert (to)",
"allude (to)",
"cite",
"glance (upon)",
"instance",
"mention",
"name",
"note",
"notice",
"quote",
"specify",
"touch (upon)",
"offer",
"present",
"contain",
"embrace",
"encompass",
"entail",
"include",
"incorporate"
],
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"concern",
"deal (with)",
"pertain (to)",
"treat (of)"
]
},
"to keep secret or shut off from view":{
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"bare",
"disclose",
"display",
"divulge",
"expose",
"reveal",
"show",
"uncloak",
"uncover",
"unmask",
"unveil"
],
"examples":[
"covered the foxhole with grass and leaves"
],
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"bring out",
"present",
"clarify",
"illuminate",
"advertise",
"air",
"broadcast",
"get out",
"proclaim",
"publicize",
"publish",
"spread"
],
"related":[
"bury",
"camouflage",
"cover (up)",
"smother",
"gild",
"gloss (over)",
"varnish",
"whitewash",
"becloud",
"bedim",
"befog",
"block",
"cloud",
"darken",
"eclipse",
"obstruct",
"occlude",
"overcast",
"overshadow",
"shade"
],
"synonyms":[
"belie",
"blanket",
"blot out",
"cloak",
"conceal",
"curtain",
"disguise",
"enshroud",
"hide",
"mask",
"obscure",
"occult",
"paper over",
"screen",
"shroud",
"suppress",
"veil"
]
},
"to make one's way through, across, or over":{
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"examples":[
"we usually manage to cover a lot of ground in a single day"
],
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"related":[
"hike",
"traipse",
"tramp",
"tread",
"walk",
"ride",
"run",
"crisscross"
],
"synonyms":[
"course",
"cross",
"cut (across)",
"follow",
"go",
"navigate",
"pass (over)",
"perambulate",
"peregrinate",
"proceed (along)",
"track",
"transit",
"travel",
"traverse"
]
},
"to pay continued close attention to (something) for a particular purpose":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"I'll cover the reception desk while you take a break"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"related":[
"surveil",
"eye",
"behold",
"espy",
"look",
"note",
"notice",
"observe",
"regard",
"see",
"sight",
"spy",
"view",
"witness",
"gape",
"gawk",
"gaze",
"glare",
"goggle",
"peer",
"rubberneck",
"stare",
"glance",
"glimpse",
"peek",
"peep"
],
"synonyms":[
"monitor",
"watch"
]
},
"to place a protective layer over":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"better cover your skin with sunblock if you don't want a sunburn, not to mention skin cancer"
],
"near antonyms":[
"bare",
"expose",
"uncover"
],
"related":[
"cloak",
"clothe",
"veil",
"drape",
"pall",
"canopy",
"cap",
"crown",
"disguise",
"mask",
"obscure"
],
"synonyms":[
"screen",
"shield"
]
},
"to serve as a replacement usually for a time only":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"a friend covered for me as a hospital volunteer while my family went on vacation"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"related":[
"understudy",
"relieve",
"spell",
"double (as)"
],
"synonyms":[
"fill in",
"pinch-hit",
"stand in",
"step in",
"sub",
"substitute",
"take over"
]
},
"type":[
"noun",
"verb"
]
},
"cover (up)":{
"something that covers or conceals like a piece of cloth":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"that contrived burglary was just a cover-up for murder"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"related":[
"blind",
"concealer",
"screen",
"shield",
"fig leaf",
"Potemkin village",
"Trojan horse",
"camouflage",
"disguise",
"facade",
"fa\u00e7ade",
"face",
"veneer",
"gloss",
"varnish"
],
"synonyms":[
"blanket",
"cloak",
"cope",
"cover",
"covering",
"coverture",
"curtain",
"hood",
"mantle",
"mask",
"pall",
"penumbra",
"robe",
"shroud",
"veil",
"wraps"
]
},
"to keep from being publicly known":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"the governor vainly tried to cover up the growing scandal"
],
"near antonyms":[
"debunk",
"expose",
"reveal",
"show up",
"uncloak",
"uncover",
"unmask",
"blab",
"disclose",
"divulge",
"spill",
"tell",
"unveil",
"broadcast",
"circulate",
"publish",
"spread",
"describe",
"narrate",
"recite",
"recount",
"rehearse",
"relate",
"report"
],
"related":[
"black out",
"censor",
"gag",
"muzzle",
"silence",
"quash",
"repress",
"smother",
"spike",
"squash",
"squelch",
"stifle",
"strangle",
"throttle"
],
"synonyms":[
"burke",
"hush (up)",
"suppress"
]
},
"type":[
"noun",
"verb"
]
},
"cover-up":{
"something that covers or conceals like a piece of cloth":{
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"examples":[
"that contrived burglary was just a cover-up for murder"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"related":[
"blind",
"concealer",
"screen",
"shield",
"fig leaf",
"Potemkin village",
"Trojan horse",
"camouflage",
"disguise",
"facade",
"fa\u00e7ade",
"face",
"veneer",
"gloss",
"varnish"
],
"synonyms":[
"blanket",
"cloak",
"cope",
"cover",
"covering",
"coverture",
"curtain",
"hood",
"mantle",
"mask",
"pall",
"penumbra",
"robe",
"shroud",
"veil",
"wraps"
]
},
"to keep from being publicly known":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"the governor vainly tried to cover up the growing scandal"
],
"near antonyms":[
"debunk",
"expose",
"reveal",
"show up",
"uncloak",
"uncover",
"unmask",
"blab",
"disclose",
"divulge",
"spill",
"tell",
"unveil",
"broadcast",
"circulate",
"publish",
"spread",
"describe",
"narrate",
"recite",
"recount",
"rehearse",
"relate",
"report"
],
"related":[
"black out",
"censor",
"gag",
"muzzle",
"silence",
"quash",
"repress",
"smother",
"spike",
"squash",
"squelch",
"stifle",
"strangle",
"throttle"
],
"synonyms":[
"burke",
"hush (up)",
"suppress"
]
},
"type":[
"noun",
"verb"
]
},
"covered":{
"as in sheltered , canopied":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[],
"near antonyms":[],
"related":[],
"synonyms":[]
},
"to drive danger or attack away from":{
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"assailed",
"assaulted",
"attacked"
],
"examples":[
"covered the wounded soldier until he could be rescued from the downed chopper"
],
"near antonyms":[
"bombarded",
"stormed",
"beset",
"besieged",
"overran",
"capitulated",
"caved",
"submitted",
"yielded"
],
"related":[
"averted",
"prevented",
"opposed",
"resisted",
"withstood",
"battled",
"contended",
"fought",
"warred",
"conserved",
"preserved",
"saved",
"buffered",
"palisaded",
"picketed",
"walled"
],
"synonyms":[
"bulwarked",
"defended",
"fenced",
"fended",
"forfended",
"guarded",
"kept",
"protected",
"safeguarded",
"screened",
"secured",
"shielded",
"warded"
]
},
"to form a layer over":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"by morning a foot of snow covered the ground"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"related":[
"enclosed",
"inclosed",
"enrobed",
"enshrouded",
"enswathed",
"enveloped",
"enwrapped",
"mantled",
"shawled",
"shrouded",
"swathed",
"wrapped",
"cloaked",
"clothed",
"clad",
"curtained",
"veiled",
"circled",
"encircled",
"encompassed"
],
"synonyms":[
"blanketed",
"carpeted",
"coated",
"overlaid",
"overlay",
"overspread",
"sheeted"
]
},
"to have (something) as a subject matter":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"this section of the book covers kitchen makeovers for the enterprising do-it-yourselfer"
],
"near antonyms":[
"excluded",
"omitted",
"disregarded",
"forgot",
"ignored",
"neglected",
"overlooked",
"overpassed",
"passed over",
"slighted",
"slurred (over)",
"brushed (aside or off)",
"rejected",
"shrugged off"
],
"related":[
"appertained (to)",
"bore (on or upon)",
"referred (to)",
"related (to)",
"adverted (to)",
"alluded (to)",
"cited",
"glanced (upon)",
"instanced",
"mentioned",
"named",
"noted",
"noticed",
"quoted",
"specified",
"touched (upon)",
"offered",
"presented",
"contained",
"embraced",
"encompassed",
"entailed",
"included",
"incorporated"
],
"synonyms":[
"concerned",
"dealt (with)",
"pertained (to)",
"treated (of)"
]
},
"to keep secret or shut off from view":{
"antonyms":[
"bared",
"disclosed",
"displayed",
"divulged",
"exposed",
"revealed",
"showed",
"uncloaked",
"uncovered",
"unmasked",
"unveiled"
],
"examples":[
"covered the foxhole with grass and leaves"
],
"near antonyms":[
"brought out",
"presented",
"clarified",
"illuminated",
"advertised",
"aired",
"broadcast",
"broadcasted",
"got out",
"proclaimed",
"publicized",
"published",
"spread"
],
"related":[
"buried",
"camouflaged",
"covered (up)",
"smothered",
"gilded",
"gilt",
"glossed (over)",
"varnished",
"whitewashed",
"beclouded",
"bedimmed",
"befogged",
"blocked",
"clouded",
"darkened",
"eclipsed",
"obstructed",
"occluded",
"overcast",
"overshadowed",
"shaded"
],
"synonyms":[
"belied",
"blanketed",
"blotted out",
"cloaked",
"concealed",
"curtained",
"disguised",
"enshrouded",
"hid",
"masked",
"obscured",
"occulted",
"papered over",
"screened",
"shrouded",
"suppressed",
"veiled"
]
},
"to make one's way through, across, or over":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"we usually manage to cover a lot of ground in a single day"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"related":[
"hiked",
"traipsed",
"tramped",
"trod",
"treaded",
"walked",
"ran",
"run",
"rode",
"rid",
"crisscrossed"
],
"synonyms":[
"coursed",
"crossed",
"cut (across)",
"followed",
"navigated",
"passed (over)",
"perambulated",
"peregrinated",
"proceeded (along)",
"tracked",
"transited",
"traveled",
"travelled",
"traversed",
"went"
]
},
"to pay continued close attention to (something) for a particular purpose":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"I'll cover the reception desk while you take a break"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"related":[
"surveilled",
"eyed",
"beheld",
"espied",
"looked",
"noted",
"noticed",
"observed",
"regarded",
"saw",
"sighted",
"spied",
"viewed",
"witnessed",
"gaped",
"gawked",
"gazed",
"glared",
"goggled",
"peered",
"rubbernecked",
"stared",
"glanced",
"glimpsed",
"peeked",
"peeped"
],
"synonyms":[
"monitored",
"watched"
]
},
"to place a protective layer over":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"better cover your skin with sunblock if you don't want a sunburn, not to mention skin cancer"
],
"near antonyms":[
"bared",
"exposed",
"uncovered"
],
"related":[
"cloaked",
"clothed",
"clad",
"veiled",
"draped",
"palled",
"canopied",
"capped",
"crowned",
"disguised",
"masked",
"obscured"
],
"synonyms":[
"screened",
"shielded"
]
},
"to serve as a replacement usually for a time only":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"a friend covered for me as a hospital volunteer while my family went on vacation"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"related":[
"understudied",
"relieved",
"spelled",
"doubled (as)"
],
"synonyms":[
"filled in",
"pinch-hit",
"stepped in",
"stood in",
"subbed",
"substituted",
"took over"
]
},
"type":[
"adjective",
"verb"
]
},
"covering (up)":{
"to keep from being publicly known":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"the governor vainly tried to cover up the growing scandal"
],
"near antonyms":[
"debunking",
"exposing",
"revealing",
"showing up",
"uncloaking",
"uncovering",
"unmasking",
"blabbing",
"disclosing",
"divulging",
"spilling",
"telling",
"unveiling",
"broadcasting",
"circulating",
"publishing",
"spreading",
"describing",
"narrating",
"reciting",
"recounting",
"rehearsing",
"relating",
"reporting"
],
"related":[
"blacking out",
"censoring",
"gagging",
"muzzling",
"silencing",
"quashing",
"repressing",
"smothering",
"spiking",
"squashing",
"squelching",
"stifling",
"strangling",
"throttling"
],
"synonyms":[
"burking",
"hushing (up)",
"suppressing"
]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"coverlet":{
"a decorative cloth used as a top covering for a bed":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"bought a beautiful new coverlet to match the sheets"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"related":[
"comforter",
"puff",
"quilt",
"bedclothes",
"bedding",
"clothes"
],
"synonyms":[
"bedcover",
"bedcovering",
"bedspread",
"counterpane",
"hap",
"spread"
]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"covertness":{
"as in concealment , subterfuge":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[],
"near antonyms":[],
"related":[],
"synonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"coverts":{
"a place where a person goes to hide or to avoid others":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"set up a covert from which to watch wildlife without being detected"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"related":[
"blinds",
"covers",
"nooks",
"recesses",
"hangouts",
"harborages",
"harbors",
"haunts",
"havens",
"redoubts",
"refuges",
"retreats",
"shelters"
],
"synonyms":[
"concealments",
"dens",
"hermitages",
"hideaways",
"hideouts",
"hidey-holes",
"hidy-holes",
"lairs",
"nests"
]
},
"a thick patch of shrubbery, small trees, or underbrush":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"the rabbit rushed to the safety of the nearest covert"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"related":[
"canebrakes",
"brushes",
"bushes",
"scrublands",
"scrubs",
"brambles",
"jungles",
"tangles",
"groves",
"hedges",
"stands",
"woodlots",
"forests",
"greenwoods",
"wildwoods",
"woodlands",
"woods"
],
"synonyms":[
"boscages",
"boskages",
"bosks",
"bosques",
"bosquets",
"brakes",
"brushwoods",
"chaparrals",
"coppices",
"copses",
"thickets"
]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"coveting":{
"having or marked by an eager and often selfish desire especially for material possessions":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"cast a coveting glance at her friend's diamond necklace"
],
"near antonyms":[
"nonmaterialistic",
"altruistic",
"bounteous",
"bountiful",
"charitable",
"freehanded",
"generous",
"greathearted",
"handsome",
"liberal",
"magnanimous",
"munificent",
"openhanded",
"openhearted",
"selfless",
"unselfish",
"unsparing",
"controlled",
"moderate",
"restrained",
"temperate",
"content",
"sated",
"satisfied"
],
"related":[
"commercialistic",
"materialistic",
"philistine",
"desirous",
"eager",
"itchy",
"lickerish",
"miserly",
"hoggish",
"piggish",
"piggy",
"swinish",
"devouring",
"gluttonous",
"gobbling",
"insatiable",
"ravenous",
"unquenchable",
"voracious",
"egocentric",
"egoistic",
"egoistical",
"egotistic",
"egotistical",
"self-centered",
"self-seeking",
"discontent",
"discontented",
"malcontent",
"unsatisfied",
"begrudging",
"grudging",
"resentful"
],
"synonyms":[
"acquisitive",
"avaricious",
"avid",
"covetous",
"grabby",
"grasping",
"greedy",
"mercenary",
"moneygrubbing",
"rapacious"
]
},
"to have an earnest wish to own or enjoy":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"I've been coveting that sleek sports car in the showroom for some time now"
],
"near antonyms":[
"abhorring",
"abominating",
"despising",
"detesting",
"execrating",
"hating",
"loathing",
"declining",
"refusing",
"rejecting",
"spurning"
],
"related":[
"spoiling (for)",
"adoring",
"delighting (in)",
"digging",
"enjoying",
"fancying",
"grooving (on)",
"liking",
"loving",
"relishing",
"reveling (in)",
"revelling (in)",
"favoring",
"preferring",
"admiring",
"appreciating",
"cherishing",
"prizing",
"treasuring",
"valuing"
],
"synonyms":[
"aching (for)",
"craving",
"desiderating",
"desiring",
"dying (for)",
"hankering (for or after)",
"hungering (for)",
"itching (for)",
"jonesing (for)",
"longing (for)",
"lusting (for or after)",
"panting (after)",
"pining (for)",
"repining (for)",
"salivating (for)",
"sighing (for)",
"thirsting (for)",
"wanting",
"wishing (for)",
"yearning (for)",
"yenning (for)"
]
},
"type":[
"adjective",
"verb"
]
},
"cow":{
"to make timid or fearful by or as if by threats":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"a sharp glare cowed the child into being quiet"
],
"near antonyms":[
"cheer",
"comfort",
"console",
"reassure",
"solace",
"soothe",
"embolden",
"encourage",
"hearten",
"steel",
"convince",
"persuade"
],
"related":[
"bluster",
"trash-talk",
"affright",
"alarm",
"alarum",
"frighten",
"horrify",
"scare",
"shock",
"spook",
"startle",
"terrify",
"menace",
"terrorize",
"threaten",
"badger",
"harass",
"hound",
"bludgeon",
"coerce",
"compel",
"constrain",
"dragoon",
"force",
"make",
"oblige",
"press",
"pressure",
"push around",
"demoralize",
"psych (out)",
"unman",
"unnerve",
"discompose",
"disconcert",
"disquiet",
"distress",
"disturb",
"perturb",
"upset"
],
"synonyms":[
"blackjack",
"bogart",
"browbeat",
"bulldoze",
"bully",
"bullyrag",
"hector",
"intimidate",
"strong-arm"
]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"coward":{
"a person who shows a shameful lack of courage in the face of danger":{
"antonyms":[
"hero",
"stalwart",
"valiant"
],
"examples":[
"the soldiers who ran as soon as the first shots were fired were branded as cowards"
],
"near antonyms":[
"daredevil"
],
"related":[
"defeatist",
"quitter",
"cream puff",
"milquetoast",
"pushover",
"pussy",
"weakling",
"wimp",
"caitiff",
"snake",
"sneak",
"ostrich",
"scaramouch",
"scaramouche"
],
"synonyms":[
"chicken",
"craven",
"cur",
"dastard",
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"verb"
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"leathering",
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"tanning",
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"verb"
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"noun"
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"conjoined",
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"leagued",
"teamed (up)",
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"associated",
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"hung together",
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"verb"
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"noun"
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"a cooperative space project undertaken by Russia and the U.S."
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"combined",
"common",
"communal",
"concerted",
"conjoint",
"conjunct",
"joint",
"multiple",
"mutual",
"pooled",
"public",
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"reciprocal",
"symbiotic",
"synergic",
"synergistic",
"two-way",
"mass",
"popular",
"general",
"generic",
"universal"
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"private",
"independent",
"separate",
"several",
"esoteric",
"particular",
"special",
"specialized"
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"one-man",
"one-sided",
"one-way",
"single",
"sole",
"solitary",
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"adjective",
"noun"
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"as in heiress , coheir":{
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"type":[
"noun"
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"to draw out by force or with effort":{
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"extracted",
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"prized",
"pulled",
"rooted (out)",
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"wrested",
"wrung",
"yanked"
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"plucked",
"removed",
"took (out)",
"withdrew"
],
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"implanted",
"inserted",
"installed",
"instilled",
"crammed",
"jammed",
"rammed",
"stuffed",
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"spiraled",
"spiralled",
"twined",
"twisted",
"wound",
"winded"
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"related":[
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"arched",
"bent",
"crooked",
"curved",
"hooked",
"swept",
"swerved",
"turned",
"veered",
"wheeled",
"swirled",
"whirled",
"circled",
"encircled",
"looped",
"enlaced",
"interlaced",
"intertwined",
"laced",
"bowed",
"bulged",
"meandered",
"weaved",
"zigzagged"
],
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"straightened"
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"type":[
"verb"
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"as in definitely , perfectly":{
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"type":[
"adverb"
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"commandeers":{
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"examples":[
"an airliner commandeered by terrorists"
],
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"hijacks",
"highjacks"
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"carjacks",
"skyjacks",
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"confiscates",
"expropriates",
"seizes"
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"to take or make use of under a guise of authority but without actual right":{
"examples":[
"commandeered all of the equipment, as if the chem lab belonged solely to him"
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"appropriates",
"arrogates",
"converts",
"expropriates",
"pirates",
"preempts",
"presses",
"seizes",
"takes over",
"usurps"
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"related":[
"annexes",
"attaches",
"claims",
"confiscates",
"impounds",
"repossesses",
"sequesters",
"assumes",
"collars",
"grabs",
"grasps",
"snatches",
"steals",
"wrenches",
"wrests",
"despoils",
"loots",
"pillages",
"encroaches",
"infringes",
"invades",
"occupies",
"preoccupies",
"trespasses",
"embezzles",
"misapplies",
"misappropriates",
"misuses",
"peculates"
],
"near antonyms":[],
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},
"type":[
"verb"
]
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"coetaneous":{
"existing or occurring at the same period of time":{
"examples":[
"the Spanish founding of San Francisco and the British colonies' declaration of independence from the mother country were coetaneous events that occurred on opposite ends of the continent"
],
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"coexistent",
"coexisting",
"coextensive",
"coincident",
"coincidental",
"concurrent",
"contemporaneous",
"contemporary",
"coterminous",
"simultaneous",
"synchronic",
"synchronous"
],
"related":[
"accompanying",
"attendant",
"attending",
"concomitant",
"incident"
],
"near antonyms":[],
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"asynchronous",
"noncontemporary",
"nonsimultaneous",
"nonsynchronous"
]
},
"type":[
"adjective"
]
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"the state or quality of having many interrelated parts or aspects":{
"examples":[
"the complexity of the company's computer system is such that a full-time employee is needed to maintain it"
],
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"complexness",
"complicacy",
"complicatedness",
"complication",
"elaborateness",
"intricacy",
"intricateness",
"involution",
"knottiness",
"sophistication"
],
"related":[
"diversity",
"heterogeneity",
"heterogeneousness",
"multifariousness",
"impenetrability",
"incomprehensibility",
"inexplicability"
],
"near antonyms":[
"simplification",
"homogeneity",
"uniformity"
],
"antonyms":[
"plainness",
"simpleness",
"simplicity"
]
},
"something that makes a situation more complicated or difficult":{
"examples":[
"the political complexities that the secretary-general must deal with"
],
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"complicacy",
"complication",
"convolution",
"difficulty",
"intricacy"
],
"related":[
"aftereffect",
"ramification",
"side effect",
"side reaction",
"subtlety",
"technicality",
"annoyance",
"bitch",
"bother",
"headache",
"inconvenience",
"matter",
"trouble"
],
"near antonyms":[],
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"type":[
"noun"
]
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"confided":{
"to put (something) into the possession or safekeeping of another":{
"examples":[
"the local SPCA was looking for homes for a number of exotic animals confided to its care"
],
"synonyms":[
"commended",
"committed",
"consigned",
"delegated",
"delivered",
"entrusted",
"intrusted",
"gave",
"gave over",
"handed",
"handed over",
"left",
"passed",
"recommended",
"reposed",
"transferred",
"transmitted",
"trusted",
"turned over",
"vested"
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"related":[
"conferred",
"granted",
"assigned",
"dealt (out)",
"dispensed",
"dispersed",
"distributed",
"divided",
"handed in",
"released",
"relinquished",
"submitted",
"surrendered",
"turned in",
"yielded",
"bequeathed",
"handed down",
"handed on",
"willed",
"advanced",
"lent",
"loaned",
"furnished",
"supplied",
"recommitted",
"redelivered",
"retransferred",
"retransmitted"
],
"near antonyms":[
"detained",
"held back",
"reserved",
"withheld",
"owned",
"possessed",
"accepted",
"received",
"took in",
"occupied",
"took",
"took over"
],
"antonyms":[
"held",
"kept",
"retained"
]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
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"conveys":{
"to cause (something) to pass from one to another":{
"examples":[
"intends to personally convey the message to the governor"
],
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"communicates",
"conducts",
"gives",
"imparts",
"spreads",
"transfers",
"transfuses",
"transmits"
],
"related":[
"delivers",
"hands over",
"surrenders",
"turns over",
"broadcasts",
"diffuses",
"disseminates",
"propagates",
"hands down",
"hands on",
"contaminates",
"infects",
"poisons"
],
"near antonyms":[
"catches",
"comes down (with)",
"contracts"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to support and take from one place to another":{
"examples":[
"conveying a package to his grandmother for his parents"
],
"synonyms":[
"bears",
"carries",
"carts",
"ferries",
"hauls",
"lugs",
"packs",
"totes",
"transports"
],
"related":[
"delivers",
"hands over",
"transfers",
"forwards",
"sends",
"ships",
"transmits",
"brings",
"fetches",
"takes",
"moves",
"removes",
"shifts"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to give over the legal possession or ownership of":{
"examples":[
"upon her death, the house will be conveyed to a predesignated charity"
],
"synonyms":[
"alienates",
"aliens",
"assigns",
"cedes",
"deeds",
"makes over",
"transfers"
],
"related":[
"bequeaths",
"hands down",
"leaves",
"passes (down)",
"wills",
"bestows",
"commends",
"commits",
"confers",
"contributes",
"delivers",
"donates",
"grants",
"hands over",
"moves",
"passes",
"presents",
"releases",
"relinquishes",
"surrenders",
"transmits",
"turns in",
"turns over",
"vests",
"yields",
"consigns",
"entrusts",
"intrusts",
"trusts",
"leases",
"lends",
"lets",
"loans",
"rents"
],
"near antonyms":[
"expropriates"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"conclave":{
"a private or secret meeting or group":{
"examples":[
"a conclave of bishops"
],
"synonyms":[],
"related":[],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"counselors-at-law":{
"a person whose profession is to conduct lawsuits for clients or to advise about legal rights and obligations":{
"examples":[
"enjoyed a distinguished career as a counselor-at-law for more than 40 years"
],
"synonyms":[
"advocates",
"attorneys",
"attorneys-at-law",
"counselors",
"counsellors",
"counsels",
"lawyers",
"legal eagles"
],
"related":[
"cocounsels",
"co-counsels",
"district attorneys",
"prosecuting attorneys",
"prosecutors",
"solicitors",
"criminal lawyers",
"mouthpieces",
"public defenders",
"trial lawyers",
"solicitors",
"jurists",
"lawgivers",
"lawmakers",
"legislators",
"solons",
"ambulance chasers",
"pettifoggers",
"Philadelphia lawyers",
"shysters"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"compartment":{
"one of the parts into which an enclosed space is divided":{
"examples":[
"a backpack with many handy compartments for storing your camping gear"
],
"synonyms":[
"bay",
"cabin",
"cell",
"chamber",
"cube",
"cubicle"
],
"related":[
"cubbyhole",
"pigeonhole",
"snuggery",
"alcove",
"niche",
"nook",
"recess",
"cabinet",
"drawer",
"locker",
"cavity",
"hole",
"hollow",
"booth",
"box",
"crib",
"loge",
"stall",
"bunker",
"crypt",
"vault"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to arrange or assign according to type":{
"examples":[
"compartment the responses according to country of origin"
],
"synonyms":[
"assort",
"break down",
"categorize",
"class",
"classify",
"codify",
"compartmentalize",
"digest",
"distinguish",
"distribute",
"grade",
"group",
"peg",
"place",
"range",
"rank",
"relegate",
"separate",
"sort",
"type"
],
"related":[
"array",
"dispose",
"draw up",
"marshal",
"marshall",
"order",
"organize",
"systematize",
"alphabetize",
"catalog",
"catalogue",
"file",
"index",
"list",
"refer",
"pigeonhole",
"shelve",
"identify",
"recognize",
"cull",
"screen",
"set",
"sieve",
"sift",
"winnow",
"clump",
"cluster",
"colligate",
"recategorize",
"reclassify",
"regroup",
"subcategorize"
],
"near antonyms":[
"confuse",
"disarrange",
"jumble",
"lump",
"mix (up)",
"scramble",
"misclassify",
"missort",
"mistype"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun",
"verb"
]
},
"colony":{
"a settlement in a new country or region":{
"examples":[
"the early history of New York City when it was a Dutch colony"
],
"synonyms":[
"plantation"
],
"related":[
"camp",
"diaspora",
"exclave",
"habitation",
"outpost",
"post",
"dependency",
"mandate",
"possession",
"protectorate",
"territory"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"a group of people with a common interest living in one place":{
"examples":[
"New Hampshire's MacDowell colony was founded as a summer residence for writers and composers"
],
"synonyms":[
"community"
],
"related":[
"circle",
"clique",
"coterie",
"set",
"society",
"band",
"company",
"troop",
"clan",
"family"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"covet":{
"to have an earnest wish to own or enjoy":{
"examples":[
"I've been coveting that sleek sports car in the showroom for some time now"
],
"synonyms":[
"ache (for)",
"crave",
"desiderate",
"desire",
"die (for)",
"hanker (for or after)",
"hunger (for)",
"itch (for)",
"jones (for)",
"long (for)",
"lust (for or after)",
"pant (after)",
"pine (for)",
"repine (for)",
"salivate (for)",
"sigh (for)",
"thirst (for)",
"want",
"wish (for)",
"yearn (for)",
"yen (for)"
],
"related":[
"spoil (for)",
"adore",
"delight (in)",
"dig",
"enjoy",
"fancy",
"groove (on)",
"like",
"love",
"relish",
"revel (in)",
"favor",
"prefer",
"admire",
"appreciate",
"cherish",
"prize",
"treasure",
"value"
],
"near antonyms":[
"abhor",
"abominate",
"despise",
"detest",
"execrate",
"hate",
"loathe",
"decline",
"refuse",
"reject",
"spurn"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"collies":{
"as in crocks":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"related":[],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"co-heads":{
"as in coleaders":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"related":[],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"confirmation":{
"something presented in support of the truth or accuracy of a claim":{
"examples":[
"regards the finding as a confirmation of the theory that extraterrestrial impacts were responsible for the demise of the dinosaurs"
],
"synonyms":[
"attestation",
"corroboration",
"documentation",
"evidence",
"proof",
"substantiation",
"testament",
"testimonial",
"testimony",
"validation",
"voucher",
"witness"
],
"related":[
"(the) goods",
"certificate",
"document",
"exhibit",
"demonstration",
"illustration",
"authentication",
"identification",
"manifestation",
"verification"
],
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"rebuttal",
"refutation",
"accusation",
"allegation",
"charge",
"assumption",
"conjecture",
"guess",
"presumption",
"surmise",
"suspicion"
],
"antonyms":[
"disproof"
]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"corroborate":{
"to give evidence or testimony to the truth or factualness of":{
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"the witnesses corroborated the policeman's testimony"
],
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"argue",
"attest",
"authenticate",
"bear out",
"certify",
"confirm",
"substantiate",
"support",
"validate",
"verify",
"vindicate"
],
"related":[
"avouch",
"back (up)",
"testify (to)",
"vouch (for)",
"witness",
"guarantee",
"warrant",
"affirm",
"assert",
"aver",
"avow",
"declare",
"profess",
"demonstrate",
"document",
"establish",
"prove",
"reinforce",
"reenforce"
],
"near antonyms":[
"contradict",
"gainsay",
"deny",
"disavow",
"disclaim",
"challenge",
"contest",
"dispute",
"question"
],
"antonyms":[
"disprove",
"rebut",
"refute"
]
},
"to provide evidence or information for (as a claim or idea)":{
"examples":[
"my personal experience does not corroborate your faith in the essential goodness of people"
],
"synonyms":[
"back",
"bolster",
"buttress",
"reinforce",
"reenforce",
"shore (up)",
"substantiate",
"support"
],
"related":[
"confirm",
"establish",
"prove",
"verify",
"affirm",
"avouch",
"validate"
],
"near antonyms":[
"undercut",
"undermine",
"weaken"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"coming about":{
"to take place":{
"examples":[
"how did all this come about ?"
],
"synonyms":[
"befalling",
"being",
"betiding",
"chancing",
"coming",
"coming down",
"coming off",
"cooking",
"doing",
"going down",
"going on",
"happening",
"happing",
"occurring",
"passing",
"transpiring"
],
"related":[
"breaking",
"developing",
"rising",
"shaping (up)",
"arising",
"coming up",
"cropping (up)",
"materializing",
"springing (up)",
"intervening",
"falling out",
"following",
"resulting",
"turning out",
"going off",
"proceeding"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"comes out":{
"to come to be":{
"examples":[
"in the end everything came out OK"
],
"synonyms":[
"falls out",
"pans out",
"proves",
"shakes out",
"turns out"
],
"related":[
"develops",
"emerges",
"evolves",
"germinates",
"plays out",
"unfolds",
"works out"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to come into view":{
"examples":[
"come out, come out wherever you are!"
],
"synonyms":[
"appears",
"materializes",
"shows",
"shows up",
"turns up",
"unfolds"
],
"related":[
"reappears",
"resurfaces",
"bulks",
"looms",
"arrives",
"comes",
"dawns",
"debuts",
"arises",
"blossoms",
"bobs (up)",
"breaks",
"breaks out",
"crops (up)",
"emerges",
"erupts",
"issues",
"outcrops",
"rises",
"shoots (up)",
"springs (up)",
"surfaces",
"happens",
"occurs",
"reappears",
"rematerializes"
],
"near antonyms":[
"departs",
"leaves",
"retires",
"withdraws"
],
"antonyms":[
"clears",
"disappears",
"dissolves",
"evanesces",
"evaporates",
"fades",
"goes (away)",
"melts (away)",
"vanishes"
]
},
"to become known":{
"examples":[
"when the truth came out about the state of the company's finances, several top executives lost their jobs"
],
"synonyms":[
"breaks",
"circulates",
"gets about",
"gets around",
"gets out",
"gets round",
"leaks (out)",
"outs",
"spreads"
],
"related":[
"develops",
"transpires",
"unfolds",
"discloses",
"reveals",
"spills",
"tells"
],
"near antonyms":[
"hushes (up)",
"suppresses",
"conceals",
"disguises",
"hides",
"masks",
"secretes"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"corroborating":{
"serving to give support to the truth or factualness of something":{
"examples":[
"corroborating information on the activities of the terrorists"
],
"synonyms":[
"confirmational",
"confirmatory",
"confirming",
"corroborative",
"corroboratory",
"probative",
"probatory",
"substantiating",
"supporting",
"supportive",
"verifying",
"vindicating"
],
"related":[
"auxiliary",
"supplementary",
"beneficial",
"helpful"
],
"near antonyms":[
"contradictory",
"contrary",
"counter",
"opposing"
],
"antonyms":[
"confuting",
"disproving",
"refuting"
]
},
"to give evidence or testimony to the truth or factualness of":{
"examples":[
"the witnesses corroborated the policeman's testimony"
],
"synonyms":[
"arguing",
"attesting",
"authenticating",
"bearing out",
"certifying",
"confirming",
"substantiating",
"supporting",
"validating",
"verifying",
"vindicating"
],
"related":[
"avouching",
"backing (up)",
"testifying (to)",
"vouching (for)",
"witnessing",
"guaranteeing",
"warranting",
"affirming",
"asserting",
"averring",
"avowing",
"declaring",
"professing",
"demonstrating",
"documenting",
"establishing",
"proving",
"reinforcing",
"reenforcing"
],
"near antonyms":[
"contradicting",
"gainsaying",
"denying",
"disavowing",
"disclaiming",
"challenging",
"contesting",
"disputing",
"questioning"
],
"antonyms":[
"disproving",
"rebutting",
"refuting"
]
},
"to provide evidence or information for (as a claim or idea)":{
"examples":[
"my personal experience does not corroborate your faith in the essential goodness of people"
],
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"backing",
"bolstering",
"buttressing",
"reinforcing",
"reenforcing",
"shoring (up)",
"substantiating",
"supporting"
],
"related":[
"confirming",
"establishing",
"proving",
"verifying",
"affirming",
"avouching",
"validating"
],
"near antonyms":[
"undercutting",
"undermining",
"weakening"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"adjective",
"verb"
]
},
"concubine":{
"a female other than his wife with whom a married man has a continuing sexual relationship":{
"examples":[
"the offspring of one of the monarch's concubines"
],
"synonyms":[
"doxy",
"doxie",
"mistress",
"other woman"
],
"related":[
"lover",
"paramour",
"courtesan",
"demimondaine",
"demirep",
"odalisque",
"prostitute",
"whore",
"girlfriend"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"cocounsels":{
"as in counselors-at-law , trial lawyers":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"related":[],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"collusions":{
"a secret agreement or cooperation between two parties for an illegal or dishonest purpose":{
"examples":[
"there was collusion between the two companies to fix prices"
],
"synonyms":[
"complicities",
"connivances",
"conspiracies"
],
"related":[
"chicaneries",
"foul play",
"skulduggeries",
"skullduggeries",
"double-dealings",
"duplicities",
"cover-ups",
"frame-ups",
"setups",
"conspirations",
"intrigues",
"plots",
"schemes"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"counterpoising":{
"to balance with an equal force so as to make ineffective":{
"examples":[
"her overall healthiness largely counterpoised the virulence of the infection"
],
"synonyms":[
"annulling",
"canceling (out)",
"cancelling (out)",
"compensating (for)",
"correcting",
"counteracting",
"counterbalancing",
"making up (for)",
"negativing",
"neutralizing",
"offsetting"
],
"related":[
"invalidating",
"negating",
"neutering",
"nullifying",
"atoning (for)",
"outbalancing",
"outweighing",
"redeeming",
"redressing",
"relieving",
"remedying",
"overriding",
"overruling"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"contortionist":{
"a performer who twists his or her body into unusual positions":{
"examples":[
"The circus included a contortionist who could put both feet behind her head."
],
"synonyms":[],
"related":[],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"cording":{
"as in strapping , wiring":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"related":[],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"combativeness":{
"an inclination to fight or quarrel":{
"examples":[
"the boxer was known more for his unbridled combativeness than for his technical skill"
],
"synonyms":[
"aggression",
"aggressiveness",
"assaultiveness",
"bellicosity",
"belligerence",
"belligerency",
"contentiousness",
"defiance",
"disputatiousness",
"feistiness",
"fight",
"militance",
"militancy",
"militantness",
"pugnacity",
"quarrelsomeness",
"scrappiness",
"truculence"
],
"related":[
"antagonism",
"fierceness",
"hostility",
"hyperaggressiveness",
"unfriendliness",
"imperialism",
"jingoism",
"militarism",
"acidity",
"biliousness",
"captiousness",
"crankiness",
"crossness",
"disagreeableness",
"fractiousness",
"fretfulness",
"grouchiness",
"grumpiness",
"huffiness",
"irascibility",
"irascibleness",
"irritability",
"irritableness",
"orneriness",
"peevishness",
"pettishness",
"petulance",
"querulousness",
"rudeness",
"surliness",
"testiness",
"waspishness"
],
"near antonyms":[
"antiaggression",
"anti-imperialism",
"antimilitarism",
"affability",
"amiability",
"amicability",
"benevolence",
"cordiality",
"friendliness",
"geniality",
"graciousness",
"pleasantness",
"sociability",
"gentleness",
"kindliness",
"mildness",
"amenability",
"complaisance",
"placability"
],
"antonyms":[
"nonaggression",
"pacifism"
]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"cowpokes":{
"a hired hand who tends cattle or horses at a ranch or on the range":{
"examples":[
"it takes a long time to train a good cowpoke"
],
"synonyms":[
"buckaroos",
"buckeroos",
"cowboys",
"cowhands",
"cowmen",
"cowpunchers",
"waddies",
"wranglers"
],
"related":[
"cowgirls",
"caballeros",
"gauchos",
"vaqueros",
"horsemen",
"horsewomen",
"cattlemen",
"ranchers",
"stockmen",
"cowherds",
"drovers",
"herders",
"herdsmen"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"constables":{
"a member of a force charged with law enforcement at the local level":{
"examples":[
"reported the crime to the local constable"
],
"synonyms":[
"bobbies",
"bulls",
"coppers",
"cops",
"flatfeet",
"fuzzes",
"gendarmes",
"lawmen",
"officers",
"policemen",
"police officers",
"shamuses"
],
"related":[
"patrolmen",
"policewomen",
"detectives",
"dicks",
"gumshoes",
"hawkshaws",
"inspectors",
"investigators",
"plainclothesmen",
"sherlocks",
"sleuthhounds",
"sleuths",
"marshals",
"marshalls",
"sheriffs",
"troopers",
"peace officers",
"captains",
"lieutenants",
"sergeants",
"constabularies",
"heat",
"men",
"police",
"police forces",
"operatives",
"private detectives",
"private eyes",
"private investigators"
],
"near antonyms":[
"civilians"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"condolence":{
"a feeling or expression of care and sadness especially when someone is suffering because of the death of a family member, a friend, etc.":{
"examples":[
"The governor issued a statement of condolence to the victims' families.",
"a letter of condolence"
],
"synonyms":[],
"related":[],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"coerced":{
"not made or done willingly or by choice":{
"examples":[
"coerced participation that couldn't last"
],
"synonyms":[
"forced",
"involuntary",
"unintended",
"unintentional",
"unwilling",
"will-less"
],
"related":[
"accidental",
"unplanned",
"unpremeditated",
"automatic",
"impulsive",
"instinctive",
"spontaneous",
"unprompted",
"inadvertent",
"unconscious",
"unknowing",
"unwitting"
],
"near antonyms":[
"advised",
"conscious",
"considered",
"knowing",
"planned",
"premeditated",
"premeditative",
"prepense",
"purposeful",
"volitional",
"self-imposed",
"self-inflicted"
],
"antonyms":[
"deliberate",
"freewill",
"intentional",
"uncoerced",
"unforced",
"voluntary",
"willful",
"wilful",
"willing"
]
},
"to cause (a person) to give in to pressure":{
"examples":[
"was coerced into signing the document"
],
"synonyms":[
"blackjacked",
"compelled",
"constrained",
"dragooned",
"drove",
"forced",
"impelled",
"impressed",
"made",
"muscled",
"obligated",
"obliged",
"pressed",
"pressured",
"sandbagged"
],
"related":[
"browbeat",
"bulldozed",
"bullied",
"cowed",
"hectored",
"intimidated",
"blackmailed",
"high-pressured",
"menaced",
"shamed",
"terrorized",
"threatened",
"dragged",
"badgered",
"harassed",
"hounded"
],
"near antonyms":[
"allowed",
"let",
"permitted",
"argued",
"convinced",
"induced",
"moved",
"persuaded",
"prevailed (on or upon)",
"satisfied",
"talked (into)",
"won (over)"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"adjective",
"verb"
]
},
"confirm":{
"to give evidence or testimony to the truth or factualness of":{
"examples":[
"several eyewitnesses who can confirm the defendant's account of what happened"
],
"synonyms":[
"argue",
"attest",
"authenticate",
"bear out",
"certify",
"corroborate",
"substantiate",
"support",
"validate",
"verify",
"vindicate"
],
"related":[
"avouch",
"back (up)",
"testify (to)",
"vouch (for)",
"witness",
"guarantee",
"warrant",
"affirm",
"assert",
"aver",
"avow",
"declare",
"profess",
"demonstrate",
"document",
"establish",
"prove",
"reinforce",
"reenforce"
],
"near antonyms":[
"contradict",
"gainsay",
"deny",
"disavow",
"disclaim",
"challenge",
"contest",
"dispute",
"question"
],
"antonyms":[
"disprove",
"rebut",
"refute"
]
},
"to give official acceptance of as satisfactory":{
"examples":[
"the senate must confirm an appointment to an ambassadorship"
],
"synonyms":[
"accredit",
"approbate",
"approve",
"authorize",
"clear",
"finalize",
"formalize",
"homologate",
"OK",
"okay",
"ratify",
"sanction",
"warrant"
],
"related":[
"accept",
"acknowledge",
"affirm",
"certify",
"endorse",
"indorse",
"validate",
"bless",
"canonize",
"sanctify",
"initial",
"rubber-stamp",
"sign",
"sign off (on)",
"allow",
"enable",
"legalize",
"license",
"licence",
"pass",
"permit",
"reapprove"
],
"near antonyms":[
"ban",
"enjoin",
"forbid",
"illegalize",
"interdict",
"prohibit",
"proscribe",
"disregard",
"ignore",
"neglect",
"overlook",
"rebuff",
"rebut",
"refuse",
"spurn"
],
"antonyms":[
"decline",
"deny",
"disallow",
"disapprove",
"negative",
"reject",
"turn down",
"veto"
]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"consent (to)":{
"as in comply (with) , accept":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"related":[],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"convenient":{
"situated within easy reach":{
"examples":[
"the shopping mall is convenient to all of the area's major highways"
],
"synonyms":[
"accessible",
"handy",
"reachable"
],
"related":[
"close",
"near",
"nearby",
"nigh",
"abutting",
"adjacent",
"adjoining",
"approachable",
"attainable",
"getatable",
"obtainable",
"ultraconvenient"
],
"near antonyms":[
"away",
"distant",
"far",
"faraway",
"far-off",
"remote",
"removed",
"unapproachable",
"unattainable",
"unavailable",
"unobtainable"
],
"antonyms":[
"inaccessible",
"inconvenient",
"unhandy",
"unreachable",
"untouchable"
]
},
"type":[
"adjective"
]
},
"concave":{
"curved inward":{
"examples":[
"a concave lens"
],
"synonyms":[
"dented",
"depressed",
"dished",
"hollow",
"indented",
"recessed",
"sunken"
],
"related":[
"alveolar",
"cavernous",
"crescentic",
"cuplike",
"cupped",
"cuppy",
"recurved",
"dimpled",
"pockmarked",
"compressed",
"condensed",
"contracted",
"diminished",
"reduced"
],
"near antonyms":[
"ballooning",
"bloated",
"blown up",
"bulbous",
"distended",
"enlarged",
"expanded",
"extended",
"inflated",
"jutting",
"projecting",
"puffed",
"puffy",
"risen",
"swollen",
"domed",
"global",
"globular",
"round",
"rounded",
"spherical"
],
"antonyms":[
"bulging",
"cambered",
"convex",
"protruding",
"protrusive",
"protuberant"
]
},
"as in concavity , cavity":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"related":[],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"adjective",
"noun"
]
},
"coordination":{
"the work and activity of a number of persons who individually contribute toward the efficiency of the whole":{
"examples":[
"an operation requiring precise coordination among all branches of the armed forces"
],
"synonyms":[
"collaboration",
"cooperation",
"teamwork"
],
"related":[
"collegiality",
"fellowship",
"partnership",
"community",
"mutualism",
"reciprocity",
"symbiosis",
"synergism",
"synergy",
"communion",
"cooperativeness",
"kinship",
"oneness",
"solidarity",
"togetherness",
"unity"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[
"noncooperation"
]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"cobweb":{
"as in spiderweb":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"related":[],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"converged":{
"to come together into one body or place":{
"examples":[
"hungry students converged on the cafeteria almost as soon as the class bell rang"
],
"synonyms":[
"assembled",
"clustered",
"collected",
"concentered",
"concentrated",
"conglomerated",
"congregated",
"convened",
"forgathered",
"foregathered",
"gathered",
"met",
"rendezvoused"
],
"related":[
"affiliated",
"allied",
"associated",
"banded (together)",
"caucused",
"clubbed",
"collaborated",
"confederated",
"conjoined",
"consolidated",
"consorted",
"cooperated",
"coupled",
"federated",
"ganged up",
"joined",
"merged",
"united",
"reassembled",
"reconvened",
"regathered",
"remet"
],
"near antonyms":[
"departed",
"left",
"took off",
"disjoined",
"dissociated",
"disunited"
],
"antonyms":[
"broke up",
"disbanded",
"dispersed",
"split (up)"
]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"cookstove":{
"an appliance that prepares food for consumption by heating it":{
"examples":[
"a small cookstove that would be appropriate for an apartment"
],
"synonyms":[
"cooker",
"range"
],
"related":[
"broiler",
"fryer",
"frier",
"microwave",
"microwave oven",
"oven",
"roaster",
"rotisserie",
"stove",
"toaster",
"toaster oven"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"counteroffensives":{
"an attack made to counter an enemy's attack":{
"examples":[
"the army launched a counteroffensive at dawn"
],
"synonyms":[
"counterassaults",
"counter-assaults",
"counterattacks",
"counter-attacks",
"counterpunches",
"counterstrikes",
"counter-strikes"
],
"related":[
"sallies",
"sorties",
"blitzkriegs",
"charges",
"assaults",
"attacks",
"offensives",
"onslaughts"
],
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"dial",
"key",
"knob",
"lever",
"push button",
"selector",
"switch"
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"hand(s)"
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"hold",
"mastery",
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"command",
"dominion",
"helm",
"sway",
"authority",
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"jurisdiction",
"might",
"power",
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"direction",
"governance",
"government",
"guidance",
"management",
"operation",
"oversight",
"regulation",
"running",
"superintendence",
"supervision"
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"weakness",
"impotence",
"impotency",
"powerlessness"
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"direction",
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"handling",
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"operation",
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"presidency",
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"running",
"stewardship",
"superintendence",
"superintendency",
"supervision"
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"leadership",
"rulership",
"agency",
"aegis",
"egis",
"custody",
"guardianship",
"keeping",
"lap",
"protection",
"safekeeping",
"trust",
"tutelage",
"ward",
"engineering",
"logistics",
"machination",
"manipulation",
"coadministration",
"codirection",
"comanagement"
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},
"the fact or state of having (something) at one's disposal":{
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"took control of the process of selecting candidates for the scholarship"
],
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"enjoyment",
"hands",
"keeping",
"possession"
],
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"ownership",
"proprietorship",
"authority",
"command",
"dominion",
"mastery",
"power",
"repossession",
"retention",
"claiming",
"collaring",
"commandeering",
"confiscation",
"procurement"
],
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"dispossession",
"relinquishment",
"surrendering",
"transferal"
],
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"nonpossession"
]
},
"the right or means to command or control others":{
"examples":[
"teachers are responsible for the students under their control"
],
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"arm",
"authority",
"clutch",
"command",
"death grip",
"dominion",
"grip",
"hold",
"mastery",
"power",
"reign",
"rein(s)",
"sway"
],
"related":[
"clout",
"influence",
"leverage",
"pull",
"voice",
"weight",
"jurisdiction",
"direction",
"management",
"dominance",
"imperium",
"predominance",
"sovereignty",
"sovranty",
"supremacy",
"prerogative",
"privilege",
"right",
"eminence",
"importance",
"moment"
],
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"helplessness",
"weakness"
],
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"impotence",
"impotency",
"powerlessness"
]
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"to keep from exceeding a desirable degree or level (as of expression)":{
"examples":[
"you must learn to control your temper"
],
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"bridle",
"check",
"constrain",
"contain",
"curb",
"govern",
"hold",
"inhibit",
"keep",
"measure",
"pull in",
"regulate",
"rein (in)",
"restrain",
"rule",
"tame"
],
"related":[
"bottle (up)",
"choke (back)",
"hold back",
"mince",
"muffle",
"pocket",
"repress",
"sink",
"smother",
"squelch",
"stifle",
"strangle",
"suppress",
"swallow",
"arrest",
"interrupt",
"stop",
"block",
"hamper",
"handcuff",
"hinder",
"impede",
"obstruct",
"gag",
"muzzle",
"silence"
],
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"liberate",
"loose",
"loosen",
"unleash",
"air",
"express",
"take out",
"vent"
],
"antonyms":[
"lose"
]
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"to gain emotional or mental control of":{
"examples":[
"he controlled himself only with the greatest difficulty in the face of his opponent's insulting remarks"
],
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"calm",
"collect",
"compose",
"contain",
"re-collect",
"settle"
],
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"hold back",
"restrain",
"rally",
"recover",
"lull",
"quiet",
"soothe",
"still",
"tranquilize",
"tranquillize"
],
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},
"to exercise authority or power over":{
"examples":[
"circumstances often control the choices we make in life"
],
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"boss",
"captain",
"command",
"govern",
"preside (over)",
"rule",
"sway"
],
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"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"
],
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},
"to look after and make decisions about":{
"examples":[
"during the period that she controlled the company it was highly profitable"
],
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"administer",
"administrate",
"carry on",
"conduct",
"direct",
"govern",
"guide",
"handle",
"keep",
"manage",
"operate",
"overlook",
"oversee",
"preside (over)",
"regulate",
"run",
"steward",
"superintend",
"supervise",
"tend"
],
"related":[
"care (for)",
"mind",
"watch",
"lead",
"pilot",
"steer",
"guard",
"protect",
"safeguard",
"micromanage",
"stage-manage",
"codirect",
"comanage"
],
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},
"type":[
"noun",
"verb"
]
},
"congress":{
"the highest lawmaking body of a political unit":{
"examples":[
"the national emergency required a special session of congress"
],
"synonyms":[
"parliament"
],
"related":[
"assembly",
"chamber",
"council",
"diet",
"house",
"legislative",
"legislature",
"general assembly",
"legislative assembly"
],
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"antonyms":[]
},
"a coming together of a number of persons for a specified purpose":{
"examples":[
"following World War I a great congress of world leaders took place in Paris to plan the postwar world"
],
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"assembly",
"convention",
"convocation",
"council",
"gathering",
"get-together",
"huddle",
"meeting"
],
"related":[
"clinic",
"workshop",
"cabinet",
"caucus",
"conclave",
"synod",
"demonstration",
"rally",
"confab",
"conversation",
"dialogue",
"dialog",
"discourse",
"discussion",
"palaver",
"talk",
"negotiation",
"parley",
"summit",
"conference",
"forum",
"round-robin",
"roundtable",
"seminar",
"symposium",
"audience",
"interview",
"session"
],
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},
"a group of persons formally joined together for some common interest":{
"examples":[
"the Canada Trades and Labor Congress"
],
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"association",
"board",
"brotherhood",
"chamber",
"club",
"college",
"consortium",
"council",
"fellowship",
"fraternity",
"guild",
"gild",
"institute",
"institution",
"league",
"order",
"organization",
"society",
"sodality"
],
"related":[
"collective",
"commune",
"community",
"cooperative",
"alliance",
"bloc",
"camp",
"coalition",
"partnership",
"body",
"cadre",
"group",
"circle",
"clan",
"clique",
"coterie",
"junta",
"junto",
"klatch",
"klatsch",
"lot",
"set",
"crew",
"outfit",
"party",
"squad",
"team",
"branch",
"chapter",
"local",
"faithful",
"fold",
"membership",
"sisterhood",
"sorority",
"cabal",
"camarilla",
"camorra",
"confederacy",
"conspiracy",
"band",
"gang",
"ring",
"cartel",
"combine",
"syndicate"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"sexual union involving penetration of the vagina by the penis":{
"examples":[
"laws that once prohibited congress between people of different races"
],
"synonyms":[
"coition",
"coitus",
"commerce",
"copulating",
"copulation",
"coupling",
"intercourse",
"lovemaking",
"mating",
"relations",
"sex",
"sex act",
"sexual intercourse",
"sexual relations"
],
"related":[
"fornication",
"safe sex",
"carnality",
"sexuality",
"breeding",
"insemination",
"dalliance",
"hanky-panky",
"whoopee"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"concealments":{
"a place where a person goes to hide or to avoid others":{
"examples":[
"cave-riddled mountains that offer a multitude of concealments where a fugitive could hide indefinitely"
],
"synonyms":[
"coverts",
"dens",
"hermitages",
"hideaways",
"hideouts",
"hidey-holes",
"hidy-holes",
"lairs",
"nests"
],
"related":[
"blinds",
"covers",
"nooks",
"recesses",
"hangouts",
"harborages",
"harbors",
"haunts",
"havens",
"redoubts",
"refuges",
"retreats",
"shelters"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"counterstrikes":{
"an attack made to counter an enemy's attack":{
"examples":[
"after countless strikes and counterstrikes , the positions of both armies remained essentially unchanged"
],
"synonyms":[
"counterassaults",
"counter-assaults",
"counterattacks",
"counter-attacks",
"counteroffensives",
"counterpunches"
],
"related":[
"sallies",
"sorties",
"blitzkriegs",
"charges",
"assaults",
"attacks",
"offensives",
"onslaughts"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"commissary":{
"a person who acts or does business for another":{
"examples":[
"will serve as commissary of religious education for the whole diocese"
],
"synonyms":[
"agent",
"assignee",
"attorney",
"delegate",
"deputy",
"envoy",
"factor",
"minister",
"procurator",
"proxy",
"rep",
"representative"
],
"related":[
"ambassador",
"diplomat",
"diplomatist",
"emissary",
"foreign minister",
"legate",
"plenipotentiary",
"alternate",
"backup",
"pinch hitter",
"relief",
"replacement",
"stand-in",
"sub",
"substitute",
"surrogate",
"understudy",
"informer",
"operative",
"spy",
"broker",
"distributor",
"manager",
"arbiter",
"arbitrator",
"comprador",
"compradore",
"conciliator",
"go-between",
"intercessor",
"intermediary",
"interposer",
"liaison",
"mediator",
"middleman",
"peacemaker",
"mouthpiece",
"point man",
"point person",
"prophet",
"speaker",
"spokesman",
"spokesperson"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"consortia":{
"a group of persons formally joined together for some common interest":{
"examples":[
"a consortium for the prevention of animal cruelty"
],
"synonyms":[
"associations",
"boards",
"brotherhoods",
"chambers",
"clubs",
"colleges",
"congresses",
"councils",
"fellowships",
"fraternities",
"guilds",
"gilds",
"institutes",
"institutions",
"leagues",
"orders",
"organizations",
"societies",
"sodalities"
],
"related":[
"collectives",
"communes",
"communities",
"cooperatives",
"alliances",
"blocs",
"camps",
"coalitions",
"partnerships",
"bodies",
"cadres",
"groups",
"circles",
"clans",
"cliques",
"coteries",
"juntas",
"juntos",
"klatches",
"klatsches",
"lots",
"sets",
"crews",
"outfits",
"parties",
"squads",
"teams",
"branches",
"chapters",
"locals",
"faithfuls",
"folds",
"memberships",
"sisterhoods",
"sororities",
"cabals",
"camarillas",
"camorras",
"confederacies",
"conspiracies",
"bands",
"gangs",
"rings",
"cartels",
"combines",
"syndicates"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"contaminated":{
"containing foreign or lower-grade substances":{
"examples":[
"the hospitals had no choice but to throw out the contaminated blood supply"
],
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"adulterate",
"adulterated",
"alloyed",
"dilute",
"diluted",
"impure",
"polluted",
"tainted",
"thinned",
"weakened"
],
"related":[
"unclarified",
"unfiltered",
"unrefined",
"befouled",
"begrimed",
"bemired",
"besmirched",
"corrupted",
"debased",
"defiled",
"dirtied",
"fouled",
"maculate",
"maculated",
"soiled",
"spoiled",
"sullied",
"blended",
"commingled",
"incorporated",
"intermingled",
"intermixed",
"merged",
"mingled",
"mixed",
"coalesced",
"combined",
"compounded",
"cheapened",
"doctored"
],
"near antonyms":[
"clarified",
"filtered",
"purified",
"refined",
"ultrarefined",
"neat",
"plain",
"straight",
"concentrated",
"strong",
"uncombined",
"pasteurized",
"sterile",
"sterilized",
"clean",
"immaculate",
"spotless",
"stainless",
"unsoiled",
"unsullied"
],
"antonyms":[
"fine",
"pure",
"ultrapure",
"unadulterated",
"unalloyed",
"uncontaminated",
"uncut",
"undiluted",
"unmixed",
"unpolluted",
"untainted"
]
},
"to make unfit for use by the addition of something harmful or undesirable":{
"examples":[
"a supply of drinking water that was contaminated by a toxic waste dump"
],
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"befouled",
"defiled",
"fouled",
"poisoned",
"polluted",
"tainted"
],
"related":[
"infected",
"begrimed",
"besmirched",
"blackened",
"dirtied",
"fouled up",
"grimed",
"mired",
"muddied",
"smirched",
"smudged",
"soiled",
"stained",
"sullied",
"corrupted",
"rotted",
"spoiled",
"spoilt",
"adulterated",
"doctored",
"diluted",
"watered down"
],
"near antonyms":[
"clarified",
"cleaned",
"cleansed",
"cleared",
"distilled",
"purged",
"filtered",
"disinfected",
"sanitized",
"sterilized"
],
"antonyms":[
"decontaminated",
"purified"
]
},
"type":[
"adjective",
"verb"
]
},
"cow ponies":{
"as in quarter horses , saddle horses":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"related":[],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"consultants":{
"a person who gives advice especially professionally":{
"examples":[
"a consultant in public relations to a number of large corporations"
],
"synonyms":[
"advisers",
"advisors",
"consiglieri",
"consiglieres",
"counselors",
"counsellors",
"counsels"
],
"related":[
"authorities",
"experts",
"professionals",
"pros",
"specialists",
"confidants",
"cabinets",
"kitchen cabinets",
"sounding boards"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"conceal":{
"to put into a hiding place":{
"examples":[
"wisely concealed the documents in a drawer beneath a false bottom"
],
"synonyms":[
"bury",
"cache",
"ensconce",
"hide",
"secrete"
],
"related":[
"hoard",
"squirrel (away)",
"stash",
"entomb",
"inter"
],
"near antonyms":[
"bare",
"expose",
"reveal",
"show",
"uncover",
"unmask",
"unveil",
"unwrap",
"flaunt",
"parade",
"show off",
"disinter",
"unearth"
],
"antonyms":[
"display",
"exhibit"
]
},
"to keep secret or shut off from view":{
"examples":[
"the defense attorney accused the prosecutor of trying to conceal exculpatory evidence"
],
"synonyms":[
"belie",
"blanket",
"blot out",
"cloak",
"cover",
"curtain",
"disguise",
"enshroud",
"hide",
"mask",
"obscure",
"occult",
"paper over",
"screen",
"shroud",
"suppress",
"veil"
],
"related":[
"bury",
"camouflage",
"cover (up)",
"smother",
"gild",
"gloss (over)",
"varnish",
"whitewash",
"becloud",
"bedim",
"befog",
"block",
"cloud",
"darken",
"eclipse",
"obstruct",
"occlude",
"overcast",
"overshadow",
"shade"
],
"near antonyms":[
"bring out",
"present",
"clarify",
"illuminate",
"advertise",
"air",
"broadcast",
"get out",
"proclaim",
"publicize",
"publish",
"spread"
],
"antonyms":[
"bare",
"disclose",
"display",
"divulge",
"expose",
"reveal",
"show",
"uncloak",
"uncover",
"unmask",
"unveil"
]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"comfort station":{
"a room furnished with a fixture for flushing body waste":{
"examples":[
"a theme park abundantly supplied with comfort stations"
],
"synonyms":[
"bath",
"bathroom",
"bog",
"can",
"cloakroom",
"convenience",
"head",
"john",
"latrine",
"lavatory",
"loo",
"potty",
"restroom",
"toilet",
"washroom",
"water closet"
],
"related":[
"commode",
"pan",
"pot",
"garderobe",
"jakes",
"outhouse",
"privy",
"half bath",
"powder room",
"ladies",
"ladies' room",
"men's room"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"consecrated":{
"set apart or worthy of veneration by association with God":{
"examples":[
"built the cemetery on consecrated ground"
],
"synonyms":[
"blessed",
"blest",
"consecrate",
"hallowed",
"holy",
"sacral",
"sacred",
"sacrosanct",
"sanctified"
],
"related":[
"adored",
"enshrined",
"glorified",
"revered",
"venerated",
"worshipped",
"worshiped",
"ceremonial",
"liturgical",
"priestly",
"religious",
"ritual",
"sacramental",
"spiritual",
"biblical",
"scriptural"
],
"near antonyms":[
"nonreligious",
"unspiritual",
"earthly",
"mundane",
"profane",
"secular",
"temporal",
"worldly"
],
"antonyms":[
"deconsecrated",
"desacralized",
"unconsecrated",
"unhallowed"
]
},
"to keep or intend for a special purpose":{
"examples":[
"a philanthropist who consecrated his considerable fortune to an array of charitable causes"
],
"synonyms":[
"allocated",
"dedicated",
"devoted",
"earmarked",
"gave up (to)",
"reserved",
"saved",
"set by"
],
"related":[
"blessed",
"blest",
"hallowed",
"sanctified",
"committed",
"confided",
"consigned",
"entrusted",
"intrusted",
"applied",
"bestowed",
"employed",
"used"
],
"near antonyms":[
"ignored",
"neglected",
"misapplied",
"misused"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to make holy through prayers or ritual":{
"examples":[
"plans to consecrate the altar in the new church with great ceremony"
],
"synonyms":[
"blessed",
"blest",
"hallowed",
"sacralized",
"sanctified"
],
"related":[
"baptized",
"baptised",
"canonized",
"spiritualized",
"chastened",
"cleansed",
"lustrated",
"purified",
"exorcised",
"exorcized",
"expurgated",
"committed",
"dedicated",
"devoted",
"reconsecrated"
],
"near antonyms":[
"defiled",
"desecrated",
"profaned",
"dirtied",
"fouled",
"polluted",
"soiled",
"tainted",
"violated",
"blasphemed",
"cursed",
"cussed",
"damned",
"execrated",
"cast out",
"condemned",
"damned",
"punished"
],
"antonyms":[
"deconsecrated",
"desacralized",
"desanctified"
]
},
"type":[
"adjective",
"verb"
]
},
"cotton candy":{
"something attractive but lacking in substance":{
"examples":[
"the beauty pageant is a variety of cotton candy that the public has clearly started to grow tired of"
],
"synonyms":[
"candyfloss",
"eye candy",
"tinsel"
],
"related":[
"window dressing",
"fluff",
"froth",
"gossamer",
"glitter",
"gloss"
],
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},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"contributed (to)":{
"as in conduced (to)":{
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},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"convokes":{
"to bring together in assembly by or as if by command":{
"examples":[
"convoked the leading experts on juvenile delinquency to study the situation"
],
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"assembles",
"calls",
"convenes",
"musters",
"summons"
],
"related":[
"rallies",
"calls in",
"calls out",
"calls up",
"knells",
"amasses",
"collects",
"gathers",
"groups",
"rounds up",
"reassembles",
"reconvenes"
],
"near antonyms":[
"breaks up",
"dissolves"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"counterinsurgency":{
"as in counterrevolution":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"related":[],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"coated":{
"as in glazed , waxed":{
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"synonyms":[],
"related":[],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to form a layer over":{
"examples":[
"thicken the sauce until it will coat the back of a spoon"
],
"synonyms":[
"blanketed",
"carpeted",
"covered",
"overlaid",
"overlay",
"overspread",
"sheeted"
],
"related":[
"enclosed",
"inclosed",
"enrobed",
"enshrouded",
"enswathed",
"enveloped",
"enwrapped",
"mantled",
"shawled",
"shrouded",
"swathed",
"wrapped",
"cloaked",
"clothed",
"clad",
"curtained",
"veiled",
"circled",
"encircled",
"encompassed"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"adjective",
"verb"
]
},
"covers":{
"to serve as a replacement usually for a time only":{
"examples":[
"a friend covered for me as a hospital volunteer while my family went on vacation"
],
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"fills in",
"pinch-hits",
"stands in",
"steps in",
"subs",
"substitutes",
"takes over"
],
"related":[
"understudies",
"relieves",
"spells",
"doubles (as)"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to form a layer over":{
"examples":[
"by morning a foot of snow covered the ground"
],
"synonyms":[
"blankets",
"carpets",
"coats",
"overlays",
"overlies",
"overspreads",
"sheets"
],
"related":[
"encloses",
"incloses",
"enrobes",
"enshrouds",
"enswathes",
"envelops",
"enwraps",
"mantles",
"shawls",
"shrouds",
"swathes",
"wraps",
"cloaks",
"clothes",
"curtains",
"veils",
"circles",
"encircles",
"encompasses"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to place a protective layer over":{
"examples":[
"better cover your skin with sunblock if you don't want a sunburn, not to mention skin cancer"
],
"synonyms":[
"screens",
"shields"
],
"related":[
"cloaks",
"clothes",
"veils",
"drapes",
"palls",
"canopies",
"caps",
"crowns",
"disguises",
"masks",
"obscures"
],
"near antonyms":[
"bares",
"exposes",
"uncovers"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to have (something) as a subject matter":{
"examples":[
"this section of the book covers kitchen makeovers for the enterprising do-it-yourselfer"
],
"synonyms":[
"concerns",
"deals (with)",
"pertains (to)",
"treats (of)"
],
"related":[
"appertains (to)",
"bears (on or upon)",
"refers (to)",
"relates (to)",
"adverts (to)",
"alludes (to)",
"cites",
"glances (upon)",
"instances",
"mentions",
"names",
"notes",
"notices",
"quotes",
"specifies",
"touches (upon)",
"offers",
"presents",
"contains",
"embraces",
"encompasses",
"entails",
"includes",
"incorporates"
],
"near antonyms":[
"excludes",
"omits",
"disregards",
"forgets",
"ignores",
"neglects",
"overlooks",
"overpasses",
"passes over",
"slights",
"slurs (over)",
"brushes (aside or off)",
"rejects",
"shrugs off"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to keep secret or shut off from view":{
"examples":[
"covered the foxhole with grass and leaves"
],
"synonyms":[
"belies",
"blankets",
"blots out",
"cloaks",
"conceals",
"curtains",
"disguises",
"enshrouds",
"hides",
"masks",
"obscures",
"occults",
"papers over",
"screens",
"shrouds",
"suppresses",
"veils"
],
"related":[
"buries",
"camouflages",
"covers (up)",
"smothers",
"gilds",
"glosses (over)",
"varnishes",
"whitewashes",
"beclouds",
"bedims",
"befogs",
"blocks",
"clouds",
"darkens",
"eclipses",
"obstructs",
"occludes",
"overcasts",
"overshadows",
"shades"
],
"near antonyms":[
"brings out",
"presents",
"clarifies",
"illuminates",
"advertises",
"airs",
"broadcasts",
"gets out",
"proclaims",
"publicizes",
"publishes",
"spreads"
],
"antonyms":[
"bares",
"discloses",
"displays",
"divulges",
"exposes",
"reveals",
"shows",
"uncloaks",
"uncovers",
"unmasks",
"unveils"
]
},
"to make one's way through, across, or over":{
"examples":[
"we usually manage to cover a lot of ground in a single day"
],
"synonyms":[
"courses",
"crosses",
"cuts (across)",
"follows",
"goes",
"navigates",
"passes (over)",
"perambulates",
"peregrinates",
"proceeds (along)",
"tracks",
"transits",
"travels",
"traverses"
],
"related":[
"hikes",
"traipses",
"tramps",
"treads",
"walks",
"rides",
"runs",
"crisscrosses"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to pay continued close attention to (something) for a particular purpose":{
"examples":[
"I'll cover the reception desk while you take a break"
],
"synonyms":[
"monitors",
"watches"
],
"related":[
"surveils",
"eyes",
"beholds",
"espies",
"looks",
"notes",
"notices",
"observes",
"regards",
"sees",
"sights",
"spies",
"views",
"witnesses",
"gapes",
"gawks",
"gazes",
"glares",
"goggles",
"peers",
"rubbernecks",
"stares",
"glances",
"glimpses",
"peeks",
"peeps"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to drive danger or attack away from":{
"examples":[
"covered the wounded soldier until he could be rescued from the downed chopper"
],
"synonyms":[
"bulwarks",
"defends",
"fences",
"fends",
"forfends",
"guards",
"keeps",
"protects",
"safeguards",
"screens",
"secures",
"shields",
"wards"
],
"related":[
"averts",
"prevents",
"opposes",
"resists",
"withstands",
"battles",
"contends",
"fights",
"wars",
"conserves",
"preserves",
"saves",
"buffers",
"palisades",
"pickets",
"walls"
],
"near antonyms":[
"bombards",
"storms",
"besets",
"besieges",
"overruns",
"capitulates",
"caves",
"submits",
"yields"
],
"antonyms":[
"assails",
"assaults",
"attacks"
]
},
"a piece placed over an open container to hold in, protect, or conceal its contents":{
"examples":[
"where's the cover for the cookie jar?"
],
"synonyms":[
"caps",
"lids",
"tops"
],
"related":[
"domes",
"hoods",
"roofs",
"capsules",
"cases",
"casings",
"coverings",
"housings",
"jackets",
"sheaths",
"shells"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"means or method of defending":{
"examples":[
"provided cover while their comrades ran for safety"
],
"synonyms":[
"aegises",
"egises",
"ammunitions",
"armors",
"bucklers",
"defenses",
"guards",
"protections",
"safeguards",
"screens",
"securities",
"shields",
"walls",
"wards"
],
"related":[
"armaments",
"arms",
"munitions",
"weaponries",
"weapons",
"fortresses",
"forts",
"palisades",
"strongholds"
],
"near antonyms":[
"aggressions",
"assaults",
"attacks",
"offenses",
"offences",
"offensives"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"something that encloses another thing especially to protect it":{
"examples":[
"put the restaurant menus in clear plastic covers so that they would last longer"
],
"synonyms":[
"armors",
"capsules",
"cases",
"casings",
"cocoons",
"coverings",
"encasements",
"housings",
"hulls",
"husks",
"jackets",
"pods",
"sheaths",
"shells"
],
"related":[
"cartridges",
"cassettes",
"casettes",
"barks",
"crusts",
"carapaces",
"houses",
"mails",
"panoplies",
"plates",
"platings",
"shields",
"cuticles",
"hides",
"skins",
"envelopes",
"packages",
"wrappers",
"backings",
"coatings",
"covertures",
"facings"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"a person or thing that takes the place of another":{
"examples":[
"people may only skip their shifts if they find a cover for themselves first"
],
"synonyms":[
"backups",
"designated hitters",
"fill-ins",
"locum tenentes",
"pinch hitters",
"reliefs",
"replacements",
"reserves",
"stand-ins",
"subs",
"substitutes"
],
"related":[
"alternates",
"understudies",
"apologies",
"makeshifts",
"stopgaps",
"agents",
"assignees",
"attorneys",
"commissaries",
"delegates",
"deputies",
"envoys",
"factors",
"procurators",
"proxies",
"representatives",
"reps",
"surrogates",
"assistants",
"relievers",
"seconds",
"successors",
"superseders"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"a raised covering over something for decoration or protection":{
"examples":[
"all of the exhibits at the fair are under cover , so the weather won't be a factor"
],
"synonyms":[
"awnings",
"canopies",
"ceilings",
"roofs",
"tents"
],
"related":[
"domes",
"marquees",
"pavilions",
"arbors",
"bowers",
"pergolas",
"screens",
"shades",
"shelters",
"shields",
"sunshades",
"umbrellas",
"canvases",
"canvasses",
"flies"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"something that covers or conceals like a piece of cloth":{
"examples":[
"under cover of friendship the con man insinuated himself in the lives of the unsuspecting couple"
],
"synonyms":[
"blankets",
"cloaks",
"copes",
"coverings",
"covertures",
"cover-ups",
"curtains",
"hoods",
"mantles",
"masks",
"palls",
"penumbrae",
"penumbras",
"robes",
"shrouds",
"veils",
"wraps"
],
"related":[
"blinds",
"concealers",
"screens",
"shields",
"fig leafs",
"fig leaves",
"Potemkin villages",
"Trojan horses",
"camouflages",
"disguises",
"facades",
"fa\u00e7ades",
"faces",
"veneers",
"glosses",
"varnishes"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun",
"verb"
]
},
"counterfactual":{
"as in fallacious , untrue":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"related":[],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"adjective"
]
},
"cockalorum":{
"boastful speech or writing":{
"examples":[
"a boxer who was as famous for his prefight cockalorum as for his knockouts in the ring"
],
"synonyms":[
"bluster",
"bombast",
"brag",
"braggadocio",
"bull",
"fanfaronade",
"gas",
"gasconade",
"grandiloquence",
"hot air",
"magniloquence",
"rant",
"rodomontade",
"rhodomontade"
],
"related":[
"oratory",
"rhapsody",
"rhetoric",
"pomposity",
"turgidity",
"wind",
"bloviation",
"verbosity",
"windiness",
"babble",
"blab",
"chatter",
"drivel",
"gabble",
"gibber",
"gibberish",
"jabber",
"prattle",
"jawing",
"patter",
"prating",
"yammering",
"egotism",
"self-conceit",
"self-importance",
"swagger",
"vaunt"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"someone who boasts":{
"examples":[
"Muhammad Ali's reputation as boxing's most colorful cockalorum"
],
"synonyms":[
"blower",
"blowhard",
"boaster",
"brag",
"braggadocio",
"braggart",
"bragger",
"cracker",
"gascon",
"gasconader",
"swaggerer",
"vaunter"
],
"related":[
"blusterer",
"cock",
"self-advertiser",
"self-dramatizer",
"self-promoter"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"concordats":{
"as in treaties , pacts":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"related":[],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"committees":{
"a select group of persons assigned to consider or take action on some matter":{
"examples":[
"a committee in charge of planning the organization's annual Christmas party"
],
"synonyms":[
"commissions",
"panels"
],
"related":[
"standing committees",
"steering committees",
"subcommittees",
"delegations",
"missions",
"assemblies",
"bodies",
"congresses",
"convocations",
"councils",
"synods"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"companioning":{
"to go along with in order to provide assistance, protection, or companionship":{
"examples":[
"movie heroes are often companioned by wisecracking sidekicks"
],
"synonyms":[
"accompanying",
"attending",
"chaperoning",
"companying",
"convoying",
"escorting",
"seeing",
"squiring"
],
"related":[
"walking",
"associating",
"consorting",
"palling (around)",
"teaming (up)",
"defending",
"guarding",
"protecting",
"bringing",
"conducting",
"guiding",
"leading",
"piloting",
"steering",
"ushering",
"following",
"shadowing",
"tagging",
"tagging along",
"tailing",
"hanging (around)",
"hovering (over)"
],
"near antonyms":[
"abandoning",
"deserting",
"ditching",
"dumping",
"forsaking"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"confederating":{
"to form or enter into an association that furthers the interests of its members":{
"examples":[
"the nations confederated in order to lower international trade barriers"
],
"synonyms":[
"allying",
"associating",
"banding (together)",
"clubbing",
"coalescing",
"cohering",
"conjoining",
"cooperating",
"federating",
"leaguing",
"uniting"
],
"related":[
"caballing",
"collaborating",
"ganging up",
"hanging together",
"teaming (up)",
"incorporating",
"organizing",
"unionizing",
"affiliating",
"amalgamating",
"combining",
"conglomerating",
"consolidating",
"converging",
"grouping",
"joining",
"merging",
"knotting",
"linking",
"tying",
"tieing",
"wedding"
],
"near antonyms":[
"detaching",
"disengaging",
"dissolving",
"disuniting",
"divorcing",
"parting",
"segregating",
"separating",
"severing",
"splitting",
"sundering",
"alienating",
"estranging",
"falling out"
],
"antonyms":[
"breaking up",
"disbanding"
]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"commotion":{
"a state of noisy, confused activity":{
"examples":[
"the commotion created when the nation's top rock band arrived in town"
],
"synonyms":[
"ado",
"alarums and excursions",
"ballyhoo",
"blather",
"bluster",
"bobbery",
"bother",
"bustle",
"clatter",
"clutter",
"coil",
"corroboree",
"disturbance",
"do",
"foofaraw",
"fun",
"furor",
"furore",
"fuss",
"helter-skelter",
"hoo-ha",
"hoo-hah",
"hoopla",
"hubble-bubble",
"hubbub",
"hullabaloo",
"hurly",
"hurly-burly",
"hurricane",
"hurry",
"hurry-scurry",
"hurry-skurry",
"kerfuffle",
"moil",
"pandemonium",
"pother",
"row",
"ruckus",
"ruction",
"rumpus",
"shindy",
"splore",
"squall",
"stew",
"stir",
"storm",
"to-do",
"tumult",
"turmoil",
"uproar",
"welter",
"whirl",
"williwaw",
"zoo"
],
"near synonyms":[
"cacophony",
"clamor",
"din",
"howl",
"hue and cry",
"noise",
"outcry",
"racket",
"roar",
"disorder",
"unrest",
"upheaval",
"eruption",
"flare-up",
"flurry",
"flutter",
"outbreak",
"outburst",
"brawl",
"fracas",
"fray",
"hassle",
"melee",
"m\u00eal\u00e9e",
"scuffle",
"dither",
"fever",
"fret",
"lather",
"tizzy"
],
"near antonyms":[
"calm",
"hush",
"peace",
"quiet",
"quietude",
"rest",
"stillness",
"tranquillity",
"tranquility",
"order",
"orderliness"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"coprisoner":{
"as in prisoner , convict":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"captive",
"capture",
"internee",
"prisoner",
"convict",
"jailbird",
"abductee",
"kidnappee",
"kidnapee",
"arrestee"
],
"near antonyms":[
"captor",
"custodian",
"guard",
"guardian",
"jailer",
"jailor",
"keeper",
"marshal",
"marshall",
"warden",
"abductor",
"kidnapper",
"kidnaper"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"coexist":{
"to occur or exist at the same time":{
"examples":[
"two nations that should be able to coexist without conflict"
],
"synonyms":[
"accompany",
"attend",
"co-occur",
"coincide",
"concur",
"synchronize"
],
"near synonyms":[
"chance",
"hap",
"happen",
"transpire"
],
"near antonyms":[
"antedate",
"precede",
"predate",
"follow",
"succeed"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"confining":{
"to set bounds or an upper limit for":{
"examples":[
"will confine my remarks to the subject we came here to discuss"
],
"synonyms":[
"capping",
"circumscribing",
"holding down",
"limiting",
"restricting"
],
"near synonyms":[
"barring",
"blocking",
"hampering",
"hindering",
"impeding",
"obstructing",
"constricting",
"contracting",
"lessening",
"narrowing",
"pinching",
"squeezing",
"tightening",
"quelling",
"repressing",
"suppressing",
"numbering",
"modifying",
"qualifying"
],
"near antonyms":[
"broadening",
"expanding",
"widening",
"overextending",
"overreaching"
],
"antonyms":[
"exceeding"
]
},
"to put in or as if in prison":{
"examples":[
"the accused was confined until the trial could take place"
],
"synonyms":[
"committing",
"immuring",
"imprisoning",
"incarcerating",
"interning",
"jailing",
"jugging",
"locking (up)"
],
"near synonyms":[
"constraining",
"limiting",
"restraining",
"restricting",
"shutting",
"barring",
"gating",
"apprehending",
"arresting",
"busting",
"capturing",
"catching",
"detaining",
"nabbing",
"picking up",
"pinching",
"seizing",
"impressing",
"shanghaiing",
"holding",
"impounding",
"keeping",
"binding",
"enchaining",
"fettering",
"handcuffing",
"manacling",
"shackling",
"trammeling",
"trammelling"
],
"near antonyms":[
"emancipating",
"enfranchising",
"manumitting",
"unbinding",
"uncaging",
"unchaining",
"unfettering"
],
"antonyms":[
"discharging",
"freeing",
"liberating",
"releasing"
]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"concedes (to)":{
"as in consents (to) , confirms":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"accedes (to)",
"assents (to)",
"confirms",
"consents (to)",
"OKs",
"okays",
"ratifies",
"sanctions",
"warrants",
"accepts",
"has",
"takes",
"acquiesces (to)",
"bows (to)",
"capitulates (to)",
"gives in (to)",
"submits (to)",
"succumbs (to)",
"surrenders (to)",
"yields (to)",
"abides",
"bears",
"brooks",
"countenances",
"endures",
"shoulders",
"stands",
"sticks out",
"stomachs",
"supports",
"sustains",
"swallows",
"sweats out",
"tolerates",
"adopts",
"embraces",
"welcomes"
],
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"declines",
"denies",
"disallows",
"disapproves",
"negatives",
"refuses",
"rejects",
"spurns",
"turns down",
"vetoes",
"dissents (to)",
"objects (to)",
"opposes",
"protests",
"holds off",
"resists",
"withstands",
"combats",
"contests",
"fights"
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"verb"
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"corrade":{
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"examples":[
"the desert's windblown sands had corraded much of the ancient stone's inscription"
],
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"abrade",
"chafe",
"erode",
"fray",
"frazzle",
"fret",
"gall",
"rasp",
"rub",
"wear"
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"file",
"gnaw",
"grate",
"graze",
"grind",
"nibble",
"sandblast",
"sandpaper",
"scour",
"scrape",
"scuff",
"shave",
"erase",
"reduce",
"rub out",
"wear out",
"wipe (away)",
"bite",
"break down",
"break up",
"chew",
"corrode",
"decompose",
"disintegrate",
"dissolve",
"eat",
"hone",
"sharpen",
"whet"
],
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},
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"verb"
]
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"complete":{
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"managed to complete the assignment with time to spare"
],
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"consummate",
"finalize",
"finish",
"perfect",
"polish"
],
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"follow through (with)",
"stick out",
"accomplish",
"achieve",
"effect",
"carry out",
"carry through",
"discharge",
"do",
"execute",
"fulfill",
"fulfil",
"perform",
"ameliorate",
"amend",
"better",
"enhance",
"enrich",
"improve",
"meliorate",
"machine",
"refine",
"round (off or out)",
"shine",
"touch up"
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"abandon",
"desert",
"discontinue",
"drop",
"forsake",
"quit"
],
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},
"to serve as a completing element to":{
"examples":[
"the bird's beautiful song simply completes its appeal for pet owners"
],
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"complement",
"round (off or out)"
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"finish (off)",
"flesh (out)",
"adorn",
"beautify",
"decorate",
"embellish",
"better",
"enhance",
"improve",
"constitute",
"form",
"make up",
"enrich",
"perfect"
],
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"to bring (an event) to a natural or appropriate stopping point":{
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"the well-attended concert completed a great weekend of arts and entertainment events"
],
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"close",
"close out",
"conclude",
"end",
"finish",
"round (off or out)",
"terminate",
"wind up",
"wrap up"
],
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"climax",
"crown",
"consummate",
"perfect",
"halt",
"stop",
"suspend"
],
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"begin",
"commence",
"inaugurate",
"open",
"start"
]
},
"to do what is required by the terms of":{
"examples":[
"no payments will be made until the contract is completed"
],
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"answer",
"comply (with)",
"fill",
"fulfill",
"fulfil",
"keep",
"meet",
"redeem",
"satisfy"
],
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"conclude",
"consummate",
"finalize",
"finish",
"perfect",
"accomplish",
"achieve",
"bring about",
"bring off",
"carry out",
"effect",
"commit",
"compass",
"discharge",
"execute",
"follow through (with)",
"make",
"perform"
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"near antonyms":[
"default (on)",
"disregard",
"forget",
"ignore",
"neglect",
"overlook",
"overpass",
"pass over",
"slight"
],
"antonyms":[
"breach",
"break",
"transgress",
"violate"
]
},
"not lacking any part or member that properly belongs to it":{
"examples":[
"a complete deck of cards"
],
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"comprehensive",
"entire",
"full",
"grand",
"intact",
"integral",
"perfect",
"plenary",
"total",
"whole"
],
"near synonyms":[
"unabridged",
"uncut",
"undiminished",
"all-out",
"exhaustive",
"extensive",
"maximal",
"full-blooded",
"full-blown",
"full-bore",
"full-fledged",
"full-on",
"full-out",
"full-scale"
],
"near antonyms":[
"abbreviated",
"abridged",
"cut",
"diminished",
"reduced"
],
"antonyms":[
"imperfect",
"incomplete",
"partial"
]
},
"brought or having come to an end":{
"examples":[
"your education is never complete \u2014there's always something more to learn"
],
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"completed",
"concluded",
"done",
"down",
"ended",
"finished",
"over",
"over with",
"terminated",
"through",
"up"
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"accomplished",
"achieved",
"attained",
"compassed",
"realized",
"dead",
"defunct",
"extinct",
"kaput",
"kaputt",
"obsolete",
"expired"
],
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"continuing",
"incomplete",
"ongoing",
"uncompleted",
"undone",
"unfinished"
]
},
"covering everything or all important points":{
"examples":[
"will present complete coverage of the tennis tournament"
],
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"all-embracing",
"all-in",
"all-inclusive",
"broad-gauge",
"broad-gauged",
"compendious",
"comprehensive",
"cover-all",
"cyclopedic",
"embracive",
"encyclopedic",
"exhaustive",
"full",
"global",
"in-depth",
"inclusive",
"omnibus",
"panoramic",
"thorough",
"universal"
],
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"broad",
"catholic",
"encyclical",
"general",
"inclusionary",
"overall",
"cosmic",
"cosmical",
"extensive",
"far",
"far-reaching",
"grand",
"large",
"panoptic",
"sweeping",
"vast",
"wide",
"wide-ranging",
"blanket",
"indiscriminate",
"unrestricted"
],
"near antonyms":[
"circumscribed",
"limited",
"narrow",
"restricted",
"specialized",
"exact",
"precise",
"individual",
"singular",
"specific",
"incomplete",
"patchy",
"sketchy"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"having no exceptions or restrictions":{
"examples":[
"he's a complete lunatic"
],
"synonyms":[
"absolute",
"all-out",
"arrant",
"blank",
"blooming",
"bodacious",
"categorical",
"categoric",
"clean",
"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"
],
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"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"
],
"near antonyms":[
"doubtful",
"dubious",
"equivocal",
"qualified",
"questionable",
"restricted",
"uncertain"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"trying all possibilities":{
"examples":[
"a complete search of the computer file"
],
"synonyms":[
"all-out",
"clean",
"comprehensive",
"exhaustive",
"full-scale",
"out-and-out",
"thorough",
"thoroughgoing",
"total"
],
"near synonyms":[
"broad",
"extensive",
"far-reaching",
"in-depth",
"sweeping",
"wide",
"wide-ranging",
"general",
"global",
"inclusive",
"methodical",
"methodic",
"systematic",
"no-holds-barred",
"unhampered",
"unrestrained"
],
"near antonyms":[
"aimless",
"desultory",
"haphazard",
"hit-or-miss",
"random",
"cursory",
"shallow",
"slipshod",
"superficial",
"limited",
"narrow",
"restricted"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"having or showing exceptional knowledge, experience, or skill in a field of endeavor":{
"examples":[
"a riding school that will teach you all skills required of the complete equestrian"
],
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"accomplished",
"ace",
"adept",
"compleat",
"consummate",
"crack",
"crackerjack",
"educated",
"experienced",
"expert",
"good",
"great",
"master",
"masterful",
"masterly",
"practiced",
"practised",
"professed",
"proficient",
"skilled",
"skillful",
"versed",
"veteran",
"virtuoso"
],
"near synonyms":[
"adroit",
"clever",
"deft",
"dexterous",
"dextrous",
"handy",
"slick",
"sure-handed",
"gifted",
"talented",
"polished",
"refined",
"effective",
"effectual",
"efficient",
"workmanlike",
"able",
"capable",
"competent",
"employable",
"fit",
"fitted",
"habile",
"qualified",
"knowledgeable",
"schooled",
"taught",
"trained",
"tutored",
"all-around",
"all-round",
"well-rounded",
"long-term",
"old",
"multiskilled",
"multitalented"
],
"near antonyms":[
"incapable",
"incompetent",
"inept",
"unable",
"unfit",
"unfitted",
"unqualified",
"weak",
"artless",
"crude",
"rude",
"ineffective",
"ineffectual",
"inefficient",
"talentless",
"ungifted",
"untalented",
"ignorant",
"unschooled",
"untaught",
"untrained",
"untutored",
"beginning",
"green",
"inexperienced",
"new",
"raw",
"unseasoned",
"untested",
"untried",
"would-be",
"primitive",
"rough",
"unpolished",
"awkward",
"clumsy",
"ham-fisted",
"ham-handed",
"heavy-handed"
],
"antonyms":[
"amateur",
"amateurish",
"inexperienced",
"inexpert",
"jackleg",
"unprofessional",
"unseasoned",
"unskilled",
"unskillful"
]
},
"type":[
"adjective",
"verb"
]
},
"colludes":{
"to engage in a secret plan to accomplish evil or unlawful ends":{
"examples":[
"accused of colluding to block the sale of the vacant land"
],
"synonyms":[
"compasses",
"connives",
"conspires",
"contrives",
"intrigues",
"machinates",
"plots",
"puts up",
"schemes"
],
"near synonyms":[
"counterplots",
"brews",
"concocts",
"cooks (up)",
"devises",
"hatches",
"engineers",
"jockeys",
"maneuvers",
"manipulates",
"designs",
"frames",
"lays out",
"maps",
"plans",
"shapes"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"code-naming":{
"as in nicknaming":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"nicknaming",
"miscalling",
"misnaming",
"mistitling",
"rechristening",
"relabeling",
"relabelling",
"renaming",
"denoting",
"specifying",
"surnaming",
"branding",
"stigmatizing",
"tagging",
"baptizing",
"baptising",
"calling",
"christening",
"cleping",
"denominating",
"designating",
"dubbing",
"entitling",
"labeling",
"labelling",
"naming",
"nominating",
"styling",
"terming",
"titling"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"colliding":{
"to be out of harmony or agreement usually noticeably":{
"examples":[
"the candidate had a reputation as a maverick whose positions often collided with the party platform"
],
"synonyms":[
"clashing",
"conflicting",
"disaccording",
"discording",
"jarring"
],
"near synonyms":[
"battling",
"combating",
"combatting",
"engaging",
"fighting",
"warring (against)",
"chafing",
"galling",
"grating",
"jangling",
"differing",
"disagreeing",
"dissenting"
],
"near antonyms":[
"agreeing",
"assenting",
"coinciding",
"concurring",
"corresponding"
],
"antonyms":[
"according",
"blending",
"conforming (to or with)",
"fitting",
"harmonizing",
"matching"
]
},
"to come into usually forceful contact with something":{
"examples":[
"fortunately, I wasn't hurt when my bike collided with that fence"
],
"synonyms":[
"banging",
"bashing",
"bumping",
"crashing",
"hitting",
"impacting",
"impinging",
"knocking",
"ramming",
"slamming",
"smashing",
"striking",
"swiping",
"thudding"
],
"near synonyms":[
"bouncing",
"caroming",
"clunking",
"glancing",
"rebounding",
"ricocheting",
"ricochetting",
"skimming",
"skipping",
"contacting",
"landing",
"touching",
"brushing",
"grazing",
"kissing",
"nudging",
"scraping",
"shaving",
"sweeping",
"bulldozing",
"jostling",
"muscling",
"pressing",
"pushing"
],
"near antonyms":[
"missing",
"skirting"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"contagion":{
"sickness that can be passed from one person, plant, or animal to another":{
"examples":[
"The rumors spread like a contagion ."
],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"contagious disease",
"contagium",
"infection",
"virus",
"germ",
"epidemic",
"pandemic",
"pest",
"pestilence",
"plague",
"affection",
"affliction",
"ail",
"ailment",
"blight",
"bug",
"complaint",
"complication",
"condition",
"disease",
"disorder",
"distemper",
"distemperature",
"dysfunction",
"disfunction",
"fever",
"ill",
"illness",
"infirmity",
"malady",
"sickness",
"trouble",
"upset",
"malaise",
"matter",
"pip",
"attack",
"bout",
"fit",
"spell",
"sickishness",
"debilitation",
"debility",
"decrepitude",
"feebleness",
"frailness",
"frailty",
"indisposition",
"invalidism",
"invalidity",
"lameness",
"sickliness",
"unhealthiness",
"unsoundness",
"unwellness",
"weakliness",
"weakness"
],
"near antonyms":[
"antidote",
"antivenin",
"antivenom",
"mithridate",
"cure",
"cure-all",
"elixir",
"panacea",
"fitness",
"healthiness",
"hardiness",
"heartiness",
"lustiness",
"robustness",
"soundness",
"wholeness",
"wholesomeness",
"fettle",
"shape",
"health",
"wellness"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"commitments":{
"something one must do because of prior agreement":{
"examples":[
"they made a commitment to pay the bill upon receipt of their order"
],
"synonyms":[
"burdens",
"charges",
"devoirs",
"dos",
"do's",
"duties",
"imperatives",
"incumbencies",
"needs",
"obligations",
"offices",
"responsibilities"
],
"near synonyms":[
"oaths",
"pledges",
"promises",
"troths",
"vows",
"words",
"arrangements",
"prearrangements",
"pre-arrangements",
"setups",
"compacts",
"contracts",
"covenants",
"pacts",
"trusts",
"debts",
"payments",
"tributes",
"compulsions",
"constraints",
"restraints",
"musts",
"requirements",
"coercions",
"duresses",
"forces",
"appointments",
"engagements",
"reservations",
"onuses"
],
"near antonyms":[
"graces",
"postponements",
"stays",
"discharges",
"eases",
"exemptions",
"releases",
"reliefs",
"waivers",
"loopholes",
"alternatives",
"choices",
"options",
"picks",
"preferences",
"selections"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"cordon":{
"a line of people or objects that are placed around or in front of a person or place to keep people away":{
"examples":[
"A cordon of police kept protesters away from the building."
],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"barricade",
"buffer",
"bumper",
"cocoon",
"cushion",
"cushioning",
"fender",
"pad",
"baffle",
"muffler",
"padding",
"safeguard",
"shield"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"counteractions":{
"a force or influence that makes an opposing force ineffective or less effective":{
"examples":[
"the wind serves as a counteraction to gravity, making it possible for a kite to remain airborne"
],
"synonyms":[
"balances",
"cancelers",
"cancellers",
"correctives",
"counterbalances",
"counterforces",
"counter-forces",
"counterpoises",
"counters",
"counterweights",
"equipoises",
"neutralizers",
"offsets"
],
"near synonyms":[
"trade-offs",
"ballasts",
"weights"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"common school":{
"as in high school , public school":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"elementary school",
"grammar school",
"high school",
"junior high school",
"kindergarten",
"middle school",
"primary school",
"public school",
"secondary school",
"senior high school",
"trade school",
"training school",
"academe",
"academy",
"school",
"seminary",
"boarding school",
"prep",
"preparatory school",
"prep school",
"charter school",
"magnet school",
"minischool",
"madrassa",
"madrasa",
"madrassah",
"madrasah",
"Sunday school",
"yeshiva",
"yeshivah"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"compiling":{
"to bring together from several sources into a single volume or list":{
"examples":[
"compiled the best short stories ever written into one fat book"
],
"synonyms":[
"anthologizing",
"collecting"
],
"near synonyms":[
"editing",
"recompiling",
"redacting",
"redrafting",
"reediting",
"revamping",
"revising",
"reworking",
"accumulating",
"amassing",
"assembling",
"collating",
"gathering",
"grouping"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"composite":{
"made from the joining of two or more parts or elements":{
"examples":[
"the movie's special effects included the use of many composite photographs"
],
"synonyms":[
"amalgamated",
"compound"
],
"near synonyms":[
"blended",
"combined",
"commingled",
"mingled",
"mixed",
"coalescent",
"fused",
"integrated",
"interlaced",
"intermixed",
"intertwined",
"interwoven",
"cut-and-paste"
],
"near antonyms":[
"uncombined",
"unmixed"
],
"antonyms":[
"noncompound",
"simple"
]
},
"a distinct entity formed by the combining of two or more different things":{
"examples":[
"a striking composite of two separate images"
],
"synonyms":[
"admixture",
"alloy",
"amalgam",
"amalgamation",
"blend",
"cocktail",
"combination",
"compound",
"conflation",
"emulsion",
"fusion",
"intermixture",
"meld",
"mix",
"mixture",
"synthesis"
],
"near synonyms":[
"half-and-half",
"absorption",
"blending",
"coalescence",
"coalition",
"commingling",
"commixture",
"compost",
"concretion",
"homogenization",
"immingling",
"immixture",
"incorporation",
"integration",
"interfusion",
"intermingling",
"mergence",
"merger",
"merging",
"mingling",
"assortment",
"hash",
"hodgepodge",
"hotchpotch",
"jumble",
"medley",
"m\u00e9lange",
"mishmash",
"motley",
"patchwork",
"potpourri",
"variety",
"accumulation",
"aggregation",
"conglomeration"
],
"near antonyms":[
"component",
"constituent",
"element",
"ingredient"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to turn into a single mass or entity that is more or less the same throughout":{
"examples":[
"wood chips can be composited or sold as mulch"
],
"synonyms":[
"amalgamate",
"blend",
"combine",
"comingle",
"commingle",
"commix",
"concrete",
"conflate",
"fuse",
"homogenize",
"immingle",
"immix",
"incorporate",
"integrate",
"interfuse",
"intermingle",
"intermix",
"meld",
"merge",
"mingle",
"mix"
],
"near synonyms":[
"add",
"admix",
"beat (in)",
"cut in",
"fold",
"stir",
"toss",
"coalesce",
"compound",
"emulsify",
"conjoin",
"join",
"knit",
"link",
"unite",
"intertwine",
"interweave",
"weave"
],
"near antonyms":[
"cleave",
"disjoin",
"disunite",
"divide",
"divorce",
"part",
"rupture",
"sever",
"sunder",
"disperse",
"dissolve",
"scatter",
"detach",
"disengage",
"split"
],
"antonyms":[
"break down",
"break up",
"separate",
"unmix"
]
},
"type":[
"adjective",
"noun",
"verb"
]
},
"coquettish":{
"affecting shyness or modesty in order to attract masculine interest":{
"examples":[
"an 18th-century painting of a coquettish maiden dallying with a young moonstruck gallant"
],
"synonyms":[
"coy",
"demure",
"kittenish"
],
"near synonyms":[
"flirtatious",
"flirty",
"girlish",
"goody-goody",
"governessy",
"overmodest",
"priggish",
"prim",
"prudish"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"adjective"
]
},
"cogitative":{
"given to or marked by long, quiet thinking":{
"examples":[
"a cogitative woman who was given to long silences, even in the company of her own family"
],
"synonyms":[
"broody",
"contemplative",
"meditative",
"melancholy",
"musing",
"pensive",
"reflective",
"ruminant",
"ruminative",
"thoughtful"
],
"near synonyms":[
"introspective",
"retrospective",
"self-reflective",
"earnest",
"grave",
"sedate",
"serious",
"serious-minded",
"severe",
"sober",
"solemn",
"somber",
"sombre",
"weighty",
"philosophical",
"philosophic",
"analytic",
"analytical",
"logical",
"rational",
"deliberate",
"purposeful",
"absentminded",
"abstracted",
"preoccupied"
],
"near antonyms":[
"featherbrained",
"flighty",
"flippant",
"frivolous",
"goofy",
"harebrained",
"light-headed",
"scatterbrained",
"brainless",
"mindless",
"silly",
"thoughtless",
"unthinking"
],
"antonyms":[
"unreflective"
]
},
"type":[
"adjective"
]
},
"counter-rallies":{
"as in counterprotests , counterdemonstrations":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"counterdemonstrations",
"counter-demonstrations",
"counterprotests",
"counter-protests",
"protests",
"sit-downs",
"sit-ins",
"strikes",
"marches",
"assemblies",
"conferences",
"congresses",
"conventions",
"convocations",
"councils",
"gatherings",
"demonstrations",
"demos",
"rallies"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"combs":{
"to look through (as a place) carefully or thoroughly in an effort to find or discover something":{
"examples":[
"combed the library for the missing book"
],
"synonyms":[
"digs (through)",
"dredges",
"hunts (through)",
"rakes",
"ransacks",
"rifles",
"rummages",
"scours",
"searches",
"sorts (through)",
"trolls"
],
"near synonyms":[
"frisks",
"pats down",
"shakes down",
"audits",
"checks (out)",
"examines",
"inspects",
"investigates",
"reviews",
"scans",
"scrutinizes",
"surveys",
"ascertains",
"descries",
"detects",
"determines",
"discovers",
"ferrets (out)",
"finds",
"finds out",
"gets",
"hits (on or upon)",
"learns",
"locates",
"runs down",
"scares up",
"tracks (down)",
"grubs (about)",
"pokes (around)",
"explores",
"probes",
"prospects",
"skirmishes",
"snoops",
"browses",
"glances (over)",
"looks over",
"peruses",
"studies"
],
"near antonyms":[
"hides",
"abandons",
"loses",
"ignores",
"neglects"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"controlling":{
"as in demanding , domineering":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"demanding",
"domineering",
"grasping",
"jealous",
"possessive",
"covetous",
"envious",
"invidious",
"jaundiced",
"distrustful",
"mistrustful",
"suspicious",
"overprotective",
"protective"
],
"near antonyms":[
"undemanding",
"permissive",
"tolerant",
"tolerating",
"trustful",
"trusting",
"understanding"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"as in dominating , masterful":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"cogent",
"dominating",
"masterful",
"authoritative",
"forceful",
"influential",
"weighty",
"dominant",
"predominant",
"regnant",
"sovereign",
"sovran",
"supreme",
"eminent",
"important",
"momentous"
],
"near antonyms":[
"helpless",
"impotent",
"powerless",
"weak",
"incapable",
"unable"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to keep from exceeding a desirable degree or level (as of expression)":{
"examples":[
"you must learn to control your temper"
],
"synonyms":[
"bridling",
"checking",
"constraining",
"containing",
"curbing",
"governing",
"holding",
"inhibiting",
"keeping",
"measuring",
"pulling in",
"regulating",
"reining (in)",
"restraining",
"ruling",
"taming"
],
"near synonyms":[
"bottling (up)",
"choking (back)",
"holding back",
"mincing",
"muffling",
"pocketing",
"repressing",
"sinking",
"smothering",
"squelching",
"stifling",
"strangling",
"suppressing",
"swallowing",
"arresting",
"interrupting",
"stopping",
"blocking",
"hampering",
"handcuffing",
"hindering",
"impeding",
"obstructing",
"gagging",
"muzzling",
"silencing"
],
"near antonyms":[
"liberating",
"loosening",
"loosing",
"unleashing",
"airing",
"expressing",
"taking out",
"venting"
],
"antonyms":[
"losing"
]
},
"to gain emotional or mental control of":{
"examples":[
"he controlled himself only with the greatest difficulty in the face of his opponent's insulting remarks"
],
"synonyms":[
"calming",
"collecting",
"composing",
"containing",
"re-collecting",
"settling"
],
"near synonyms":[
"holding back",
"restraining",
"rallying",
"recovering",
"lulling",
"quieting",
"soothing",
"stilling",
"tranquilizing",
"tranquillizing"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to exercise authority or power over":{
"examples":[
"circumstances often control the choices we make in life"
],
"synonyms":[
"bossing",
"captaining",
"commanding",
"governing",
"presiding (over)",
"ruling",
"swaying"
],
"near synonyms":[
"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"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to look after and make decisions about":{
"examples":[
"during the period that she controlled the company it was highly profitable"
],
"synonyms":[
"administering",
"administrating",
"carrying on",
"conducting",
"directing",
"governing",
"guiding",
"handling",
"keeping",
"managing",
"operating",
"overlooking",
"overseeing",
"presiding (over)",
"regulating",
"running",
"stewarding",
"superintending",
"supervising",
"tending"
],
"near synonyms":[
"caring (for)",
"minding",
"watching",
"leading",
"piloting",
"steering",
"guarding",
"protecting",
"safeguarding",
"micromanaging",
"stage-managing",
"codirecting",
"co-directing",
"comanaging",
"co-managing"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"adjective",
"verb"
]
},
"congratulated":{
"to express to (someone) admiration for his or her success or good fortune":{
"examples":[
"let me be the first to congratulate you on winning the award"
],
"synonyms":[
"complimented",
"felicitated",
"hugged"
],
"near synonyms":[
"applauded",
"cheered",
"commended",
"hailed",
"saluted",
"extolled",
"glorified",
"lauded",
"praised"
],
"near antonyms":[
"bad-mouthed",
"belittled",
"cried down",
"decried",
"deprecated",
"depreciated",
"diminished",
"discounted",
"disparaged",
"minimized",
"put down",
"wrote off",
"jeered",
"mocked",
"ridiculed",
"taunted",
"teased"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"converted":{
"to persuade to change to one's religious faith":{
"examples":[
"young missionaries who go door-to-door trying to convert people"
],
"synonyms":[
"proselyted",
"proselytized"
],
"near synonyms":[
"missionized",
"brainwashed",
"influenced",
"swayed",
"propagated"
],
"near antonyms":[
"secularized",
"dissuaded"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to change in form, appearance, or use":{
"examples":[
"the old factory was converted into an apartment building"
],
"synonyms":[
"alchemized",
"made over",
"metamorphosed",
"transfigured",
"transformed",
"transmuted",
"transposed",
"transubstantiated"
],
"near synonyms":[
"adjusted",
"altered",
"modified",
"recast",
"redefined",
"redesigned",
"redid",
"reengineered",
"refashioned",
"regenerated",
"remade",
"remodeled",
"revamped",
"revised",
"reworked",
"varied",
"deformed",
"disfigured",
"distorted",
"mutated",
"transmogrified",
"displaced",
"replaced",
"substituted",
"supplanted"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to cause (someone) to agree with a belief or course of action by using arguments or earnest request":{
"examples":[
"many who used to insist that global warming was a myth have since been converted"
],
"synonyms":[
"argued",
"brought",
"brought around",
"convinced",
"gained",
"got",
"induced",
"moved",
"persuaded",
"prevailed (on or upon)",
"satisfied",
"talked (into)",
"won (over)"
],
"near synonyms":[
"blandished",
"blarneyed",
"cajoled",
"coaxed",
"entreated",
"exhorted",
"fast-talked",
"urged",
"wheedled",
"allured",
"beguiled",
"led on",
"lured",
"seduced",
"snowed",
"tempted",
"brainwashed",
"overpersuaded",
"inclined",
"influenced",
"prompted",
"sold",
"swayed",
"attracted",
"drew",
"enticed",
"interested",
"chewed over",
"conversed",
"debated",
"discussed",
"disputed",
"hashed (over)",
"mooted",
"reasoned (with)"
],
"near antonyms":[
"deterred",
"discouraged",
"dissuaded",
"unsold"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to take or make use of under a guise of authority but without actual right":{
"examples":[
"the bailee converted the goods to his own use"
],
"synonyms":[
"appropriated",
"arrogated",
"commandeered",
"expropriated",
"pirated",
"preempted",
"pressed",
"seized",
"took over",
"usurped"
],
"near synonyms":[
"annexed",
"attached",
"claimed",
"confiscated",
"impounded",
"repossessed",
"sequestered",
"assumed",
"collared",
"grabbed",
"grasped",
"snatched",
"stole",
"wrenched",
"wrested",
"despoiled",
"looted",
"pillaged",
"encroached",
"infringed",
"invaded",
"occupied",
"preoccupied",
"trespassed",
"embezzled",
"misapplied",
"misappropriated",
"misused",
"peculated"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"consecration":{
"the act of making something holy through religious ritual":{
"examples":[
"the consecration of the Host during Communion"
],
"synonyms":[
"blessing",
"hallowing",
"sanctification"
],
"near synonyms":[
"purification",
"dedication",
"adoration",
"glorification",
"reverence",
"veneration",
"worship"
],
"near antonyms":[
"debasement",
"defilement",
"desecration",
"impiety",
"irreverence",
"profanation",
"sacrilege"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"computereses":{
"as in bureaucrateses , technobabbles":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"bureaucrateses",
"cyberspeaks",
"educationeses",
"governmenteses",
"journaleses",
"technobabbles",
"slanguages",
"colloquialisms",
"colloquials",
"idioms",
"localisms",
"parlances",
"pidgins",
"provincialisms",
"regionalisms",
"speeches",
"vernacularisms",
"vernaculars",
"argots",
"cants",
"dialects",
"jargons",
"jives",
"languages",
"lingos",
"lingoes",
"patois",
"patter",
"shops",
"shoptalk",
"slangs",
"terminologies",
"vocabularies"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"comic":{
"a person (as a writer) noted for or specializing in humor":{
"examples":[
"a well-known TV comic"
],
"synonyms":[
"card",
"comedian",
"droll",
"farceur",
"funnyman",
"gagger",
"gagman",
"gagster",
"humorist",
"jester",
"joker",
"jokester",
"wag",
"wit"
],
"near synonyms":[
"comedienne",
"entertainer",
"banterer",
"cutup",
"kidder",
"knockabout",
"practical joker",
"prankster",
"quipper",
"quipster",
"teaser",
"wisecracker",
"buffoon",
"clown",
"fool",
"harlequin",
"zany",
"caricaturist",
"lampooner",
"parodist",
"satirist"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"a series of drawings that tell a story or part of a story":{
"examples":[
"posted an especially funny comic by the watercooler"
],
"synonyms":[
"cartoon",
"comic strip",
"funny",
"strip"
],
"near synonyms":[
"comic book",
"funny paper(s)",
"graphic novel",
"animated cartoon",
"animation",
"caricature"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"the amusing quality or element in something":{
"examples":[
"a celebrated humorist who, without fail, could find the comic in even the most mundane of situations"
],
"synonyms":[
"comedy",
"comicality",
"drollery",
"drollness",
"funniness",
"hilariousness",
"humor",
"humorousness",
"richness",
"uproariousness"
],
"near synonyms":[
"amusement",
"enjoyment",
"fun",
"pleasure",
"absurdity",
"irony",
"laughableness",
"ludicrousness",
"ridiculousness",
"whimsicality",
"wittiness",
"wryness",
"burlesque",
"caricature",
"farce",
"jest",
"lampoon",
"parody",
"satire",
"slapstick",
"spoof",
"takeoff",
"jocularity",
"jokiness",
"playfulness",
"waggishness"
],
"near antonyms":[
"agony",
"anguish",
"dolor",
"grief",
"heartache",
"heartbreak",
"misery",
"sorrow",
"torment",
"torture",
"tribulation",
"woe",
"gravity",
"seriousness",
"soberness",
"solemnity",
"solemnness",
"somberness"
],
"antonyms":[
"pathos"
]
},
"causing or intended to cause laughter":{
"examples":[
"a comic monologue about his misadventures as a first-time camper"
],
"synonyms":[
"antic",
"chucklesome",
"comedic",
"comical",
"droll",
"farcical",
"funny",
"hilarious",
"humoristic",
"humorous",
"hysterical",
"hysteric",
"killing",
"laughable",
"ludicrous",
"ridiculous",
"riotous",
"risible",
"screaming",
"sidesplitting",
"uproarious"
],
"near synonyms":[
"amusing",
"diverting",
"entertaining",
"clownish",
"knockabout",
"slapstick",
"slapsticky",
"zany",
"facetious",
"flip",
"flippant",
"pert",
"smart",
"smart-aleck",
"smart-alecky",
"snickery",
"jocular",
"playful",
"waggish",
"campy",
"jokey",
"joky",
"priceless",
"rich",
"whimsical",
"witty",
"wry",
"blithesome",
"gleeful",
"jocose",
"jocund",
"jolly",
"jovial",
"laughing",
"mad",
"merry",
"mirthful"
],
"near antonyms":[
"earnest",
"grave",
"no-nonsense",
"sedate",
"serious",
"severe",
"sober",
"sobersided",
"solemn",
"somber",
"sombre",
"staid",
"unsmiling",
"weighty",
"affecting",
"moving",
"poignant",
"touching",
"tragic",
"tragical",
"lachrymose",
"mournful",
"sad",
"sorrowful",
"tearful",
"woeful"
],
"antonyms":[
"humorless",
"lame",
"unamusing",
"uncomic",
"unfunny",
"unhumorous",
"unhysterical"
]
},
"type":[
"adjective",
"noun"
]
},
"competently":{
"in a skillful or expert manner":{
"examples":[
"performed the piece at least competently , if not superbly"
],
"synonyms":[
"ably",
"adeptly",
"adroitly",
"artfully",
"capably",
"consummately",
"deftly",
"expertly",
"masterfully",
"masterly",
"proficiently",
"skillfully",
"well"
],
"near synonyms":[
"aptly",
"fluently",
"cleanly",
"cleverly",
"dexterously",
"neatly",
"nimbly",
"easily",
"facilely",
"handily"
],
"near antonyms":[
"inaptly",
"awkwardly",
"clumsily",
"crudely"
],
"antonyms":[
"amateurishly",
"artlessly",
"incapably",
"incompetently",
"inefficiently",
"ineptly",
"inexpertly",
"poorly",
"unskillfully"
]
},
"type":[
"adverb"
]
},
"copulation":{
"sexual union involving penetration of the vagina by the penis":{
"examples":[
"female pandas are receptive to copulation for a short time once a year"
],
"synonyms":[
"coition",
"coitus",
"commerce",
"congress",
"copulating",
"coupling",
"intercourse",
"lovemaking",
"mating",
"relations",
"sex",
"sex act",
"sexual intercourse",
"sexual relations"
],
"near synonyms":[
"fornication",
"safe sex",
"carnality",
"sexuality",
"breeding",
"insemination",
"dalliance",
"hanky-panky",
"whoopee"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"conjoining":{
"as in overlapping , crisscrossing":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"crisscrossing",
"intersecting",
"overlapping",
"allover",
"overlaying",
"superimposed",
"superposed",
"underlying",
"coaxial",
"concurrent",
"convergent",
"coextensive",
"coincident",
"coinciding",
"conterminous",
"coterminous",
"congruent",
"conjunctional"
],
"near antonyms":[
"nonconcurrent",
"noncongruent"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to come together to form a single unit":{
"examples":[
"several streets conjoin to form the crossroads known as New York's Times Square"
],
"synonyms":[
"associating",
"coalescing",
"combining",
"conjugating",
"connecting",
"coupling",
"fusing",
"interfusing",
"joining",
"linking (up)",
"marrying",
"unifying",
"uniting"
],
"near synonyms":[
"mating",
"yoking",
"allying",
"confederating",
"leaguing",
"chaining",
"compounding",
"hitching",
"hooking",
"splicing",
"assembling",
"clustering",
"congregating",
"constellating",
"convening",
"gathering",
"meeting",
"recombining",
"reconnecting",
"rejoining",
"reunifying",
"reuniting"
],
"near antonyms":[
"detaching",
"disaffiliating",
"disconnecting",
"disjoining",
"disjointing",
"dissociating",
"disuniting",
"dividing",
"divorcing",
"fractionating",
"isolating",
"resolving",
"uncoupling",
"unyoking",
"disbanding",
"dispersing",
"scattering"
],
"antonyms":[
"breaking up",
"dissevering",
"parting",
"sectioning",
"separating",
"severing",
"splitting",
"sundering",
"unlinking"
]
},
"to form or enter into an association that furthers the interests of its members":{
"examples":[
"small farmers had to conjoin in order to compete with the agricultural conglomerates"
],
"synonyms":[
"allying",
"associating",
"banding (together)",
"clubbing",
"coalescing",
"cohering",
"confederating",
"cooperating",
"federating",
"leaguing",
"uniting"
],
"near synonyms":[
"caballing",
"collaborating",
"ganging up",
"hanging together",
"teaming (up)",
"incorporating",
"organizing",
"unionizing",
"affiliating",
"amalgamating",
"combining",
"conglomerating",
"consolidating",
"converging",
"grouping",
"joining",
"merging",
"knotting",
"linking",
"tying",
"tieing",
"wedding"
],
"near antonyms":[
"detaching",
"disengaging",
"dissolving",
"disuniting",
"divorcing",
"parting",
"segregating",
"separating",
"severing",
"splitting",
"sundering",
"alienating",
"estranging",
"falling out"
],
"antonyms":[
"breaking up",
"disbanding"
]
},
"to participate or assist in a joint effort to accomplish an end":{
"examples":[
"government agencies and private charities have conjoined to bring relief to the famine-stricken nation"
],
"synonyms":[
"banding (together)",
"collaborating",
"concerting",
"concurring",
"conspiring",
"cooperating",
"joining",
"leaguing",
"teaming (up)",
"uniting"
],
"near synonyms":[
"conniving",
"affiliating",
"allying",
"associating",
"combining",
"confederating",
"hanging together",
"interfacing"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"adjective",
"verb"
]
},
"contours":{
"a line that traces the outer limits of an object or surface":{
"examples":[
"a car with flowing contours"
],
"synonyms":[
"figures",
"outlines",
"silhouettes"
],
"near synonyms":[
"delineations",
"sketches",
"profiles",
"skylines",
"casts",
"configurations",
"conformations",
"forms",
"geometries",
"shapes",
"frameworks",
"skeletons"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"congregating":{
"to bring together in one body or place":{
"examples":[
"both captains congregated their team members for some pregame strategizing"
],
"synonyms":[
"accumulating",
"amassing",
"assembling",
"bulking (up)",
"collecting",
"concentrating",
"constellating",
"corralling",
"garnering",
"gathering",
"grouping",
"lumping",
"picking up",
"rounding up"
],
"near synonyms":[
"balling",
"batching",
"bunching",
"clustering",
"huddling",
"heaping",
"piling",
"stacking",
"banding",
"brigading",
"mustering",
"raising",
"rallying",
"flocking",
"herding",
"hiving",
"packing",
"pressing",
"swarming",
"thronging",
"combining",
"connecting",
"joining",
"linking",
"merging",
"pooling",
"uniting",
"archiving",
"arranging",
"collating",
"compiling",
"organizing",
"systematizing",
"scraping (up or together)",
"re-collecting",
"regathering",
"regrouping"
],
"near antonyms":[
"breaking up",
"disbanding",
"disintegrating",
"dissolving",
"separating",
"severing",
"splitting (up)",
"dismissing",
"sending"
],
"antonyms":[
"dispelling",
"dispersing",
"dissipating",
"scattering"
]
},
"to come together into one body or place":{
"examples":[
"pilgrims have been congregating in the town's historic square for centuries"
],
"synonyms":[
"assembling",
"clustering",
"collecting",
"concentering",
"concentrating",
"conglomerating",
"convening",
"converging",
"forgathering",
"foregathering",
"gathering",
"meeting",
"rendezvousing"
],
"near synonyms":[
"affiliating",
"allying",
"associating",
"banding (together)",
"caucusing",
"clubbing",
"collaborating",
"confederating",
"conjoining",
"consolidating",
"consorting",
"cooperating",
"coupling",
"federating",
"ganging up",
"joining",
"merging",
"uniting",
"reassembling",
"reconvening",
"regathering",
"remeeting"
],
"near antonyms":[
"departing",
"leaving",
"taking off",
"disjoining",
"dissociating",
"disuniting"
],
"antonyms":[
"breaking up",
"disbanding",
"dispersing",
"splitting (up)"
]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"cowers":{
"to draw back or crouch down in fearful submission":{
"examples":[
"the abused dog always cowered in the presence of its master"
],
"synonyms":[
"cringes",
"grovels",
"quails"
],
"near synonyms":[
"flinches",
"recoils",
"shrinks",
"squinches",
"blanches",
"blenches",
"whitens",
"fawns",
"kowtows",
"toadies"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"cowing":{
"to make timid or fearful by or as if by threats":{
"examples":[
"a sharp glare cowed the child into being quiet"
],
"synonyms":[
"blackjacking",
"bogarting",
"browbeating",
"bulldozing",
"bullying",
"bullyragging",
"ballyragging",
"hectoring",
"intimidating",
"strong-arming"
],
"near synonyms":[
"blustering",
"trash-talking",
"affrighting",
"alarming",
"alaruming",
"frightening",
"horrifying",
"scaring",
"shocking",
"spooking",
"startling",
"terrifying",
"menacing",
"terrorizing",
"threatening",
"badgering",
"harassing",
"hounding",
"bludgeoning",
"coercing",
"compelling",
"constraining",
"dragooning",
"forcing",
"making",
"obliging",
"pressing",
"pressuring",
"pushing around",
"demoralizing",
"psyching (out)",
"unmanning",
"unnerving",
"discomposing",
"disconcerting",
"disquieting",
"distressing",
"disturbing",
"perturbing",
"upsetting"
],
"near antonyms":[
"cheering",
"comforting",
"consoling",
"reassuring",
"solacing",
"soothing",
"emboldening",
"encouraging",
"heartening",
"steeling",
"convincing",
"persuading"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"commands":{
"a statement of what to do that must be obeyed by those concerned":{
"examples":[
"the captain's commands were followed without question"
],
"synonyms":[
"behests",
"charges",
"commandments",
"decrees",
"dictates",
"directions",
"directives",
"dos",
"do's",
"edicts",
"imperatives",
"injunctions",
"instructions",
"orders",
"words"
],
"near synonyms":[
"demands",
"requirements",
"mandates",
"countermands",
"counterorders",
"counter-orders",
"laws",
"precepts",
"prescriptions",
"prescripts",
"rules",
"ordinances",
"regulations",
"statutes"
],
"near antonyms":[
"appeals",
"entreaties",
"petitions",
"pleas",
"urgings",
"proposals",
"recommendations",
"suggestions"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"a highly developed skill in or knowledge of something":{
"examples":[
"a command of French that is the result of a year spent in France as an exchange student"
],
"synonyms":[
"IQs",
"masteries",
"masterships",
"proficiencies"
],
"near synonyms":[
"virtuosities",
"facilities",
"hangs",
"fluencies",
"literacies",
"experiences",
"expertises",
"know-hows",
"practices",
"practises",
"skills",
"acquaintances",
"familiarities",
"intimacies"
],
"near antonyms":[
"incompetences",
"incompetencies",
"ignorances",
"illiteracies",
"unfamiliarities"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"the place from which a commander runs operations":{
"examples":[
"the general set up his command in the old port city"
],
"synonyms":[
"bases",
"command posts",
"headquarters"
],
"near synonyms":[
"homes",
"seats"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"a place from which authority is exercised":{
"examples":[
"central command"
],
"synonyms":[
"headquarters",
"seats"
],
"near synonyms":[
"high commands",
"centers",
"homes",
"capitals"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"the right or means to command or control others":{
"examples":[
"the army officer in command during the attack"
],
"synonyms":[
"arms",
"authorities",
"clutches",
"controls",
"death grips",
"dominions",
"grips",
"holds",
"masteries",
"powers",
"reigns",
"reins",
"sways"
],
"near synonyms":[
"clouts",
"influences",
"leverages",
"pulls",
"voices",
"weights",
"jurisdictions",
"directions",
"managements",
"dominances",
"imperiums",
"predominances",
"sovereignties",
"sovranties",
"supremacies",
"prerogatives",
"privileges",
"rights",
"eminences",
"importances",
"moments"
],
"near antonyms":[
"weaknesses"
],
"antonyms":[
"impotences",
"impotencies"
]
},
"all that can be seen from a certain point":{
"examples":[
"from his mountain perch, the scout had a command of the entire valley"
],
"synonyms":[
"lookouts",
"outlooks",
"panoramas",
"perspectives",
"prospects",
"views",
"vistas"
],
"near synonyms":[
"landscapes",
"sceneries",
"scenes",
"kens",
"sights",
"visual fields"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to issue orders to (someone) by right of authority":{
"examples":[
"the general commanded his troops with Caesar-like imperiousness"
],
"synonyms":[
"adjures",
"bids",
"bosses (around)",
"charges",
"directs",
"enjoins",
"instructs",
"orders",
"tells"
],
"near synonyms":[
"asks",
"petitions",
"requests",
"begs",
"beseeches",
"entreats",
"advises",
"counsels",
"warns",
"appoints",
"assigns",
"authorizes",
"commissions",
"oversees",
"superintends",
"supervises",
"conducts",
"controls",
"leads",
"manages",
"coerces",
"compels",
"constrains",
"forces",
"obliges",
"requires"
],
"near antonyms":[
"complies (with)",
"follows",
"keeps",
"observes"
],
"antonyms":[
"minds",
"obeys"
]
},
"to request the doing of by virtue of one's authority":{
"examples":[
"the governor has commanded that all state flags be flown at half-mast"
],
"synonyms":[
"calls",
"decrees",
"dictates",
"directs",
"mandates",
"ordains",
"orders"
],
"near synonyms":[
"asks",
"petitions",
"requests",
"demands",
"requires"
],
"near antonyms":[
"cancels",
"countermands",
"rescinds"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to ask for (something) earnestly or with authority":{
"examples":[
"an act of courage that commands the admiration of all who witnessed it"
],
"synonyms":[
"calls (for)",
"claims",
"clamors (for)",
"demands",
"enjoins",
"exacts",
"insists (on)",
"presses (for)",
"quests",
"stipulates (for)"
],
"near synonyms":[
"asks",
"pleads (for)",
"requests",
"wants",
"cries (for)",
"necessitates",
"needs",
"requires",
"takes",
"warrants",
"requisitions",
"imposes",
"badgers",
"duns",
"harasses",
"hounds"
],
"near antonyms":[
"gives up",
"relinquishes",
"surrenders",
"yields"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to exercise authority or power over":{
"examples":[
"a cabinet secretary who commands the largest department in the federal government"
],
"synonyms":[
"bosses",
"captains",
"controls",
"governs",
"presides (over)",
"rules",
"sways"
],
"near synonyms":[
"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"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to keep, control, or experience as one's own":{
"examples":[
"local government does not command the resources that are needed to respond to such a huge disaster"
],
"synonyms":[
"enjoys",
"has",
"holds",
"owns",
"possesses",
"retains"
],
"near synonyms":[
"keeps",
"reserves",
"withholds",
"bears",
"carries",
"boasts",
"shows off",
"sports"
],
"near antonyms":[
"abandons",
"cedes",
"disclaims",
"disowns",
"hands over",
"relinquishes",
"renounces",
"surrenders",
"yields",
"discards",
"dumps",
"declines",
"rejects",
"repudiates",
"spurns",
"needs",
"requires"
],
"antonyms":[
"lacks",
"wants"
]
},
"to look down on":{
"examples":[
"for centuries an imposing castle has commanded that stretch of the river"
],
"synonyms":[
"dominates",
"overlooks"
],
"near synonyms":[
"faces",
"fronts"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to serve as leader of":{
"examples":[
"the head of the agency commands an army of workers trained to respond to the immediate needs of disaster victims"
],
"synonyms":[
"bosses",
"captains",
"heads",
"leads",
"spearheads"
],
"near synonyms":[
"controls",
"dominates",
"directs",
"governs",
"handles",
"manages",
"oversees",
"regulates",
"runs",
"superintends",
"supervises"
],
"near antonyms":[
"bows (to)",
"complies (with)",
"defers (to)",
"follows",
"obeys",
"serves",
"submits (to)",
"yields (to)"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to set or receive as a price":{
"examples":[
"commands a high fee for his decorating services"
],
"synonyms":[
"asks",
"charges",
"demands"
],
"near synonyms":[
"overcharges",
"undercharges",
"brings",
"fetches",
"sells (for)",
"discounts",
"marks down",
"marks up",
"assesses",
"bills",
"invoices",
"prices",
"values"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun",
"verb"
]
},
"countermanding":{
"to cancel (an order) especially by giving a new order":{
"examples":[
"Orders to blow up the bridge were countermanded ."
],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"overriding",
"overruling",
"overturning",
"vetoing",
"abating",
"abolishing",
"abrogating",
"annulling",
"avoiding",
"canceling",
"cancelling",
"disannulling",
"dissolving",
"invalidating",
"negating",
"nullifying",
"nulling",
"quashing",
"repealing",
"rescinding",
"rolling back",
"striking down",
"vacating",
"voiding",
"aborting",
"calling",
"calling off",
"dropping",
"recalling",
"retracting",
"reversing",
"revoking",
"suspending",
"withdrawing",
"banning",
"enjoining",
"forbidding",
"outlawing",
"prohibiting",
"disallowing",
"dismissing",
"rejecting",
"annihilating",
"breaking down",
"eliminating",
"eradicating",
"erasing",
"liquidating",
"removing",
"throwing out",
"writing off"
],
"near antonyms":[
"enacting",
"laying down",
"legislating",
"establishing",
"founding",
"instituting",
"formalizing",
"legalizing",
"legitimating",
"legitimizing",
"validating",
"passing",
"ratifying",
"allowing",
"approving",
"authorizing",
"clearing",
"endorsing",
"indorsing",
"permitting",
"sanctioning",
"warranting",
"commanding",
"decreeing",
"mandating",
"ordering",
"prescribing"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"cossets":{
"to treat with great or excessive care":{
"examples":[
"a luxury spa where guests are cosseted with no expense spared"
],
"synonyms":[
"babies",
"cockers",
"coddles",
"dandles",
"indulges",
"mollycoddles",
"nurses",
"pampers",
"spoils",
"wet-nurses"
],
"near synonyms":[
"caters (to)",
"humors",
"contents",
"delights",
"gladdens",
"gratifies",
"mothers",
"obliges",
"pleases",
"satisfies",
"appeases",
"mollifies",
"pacifies",
"placates",
"soothes"
],
"near antonyms":[
"controls",
"disciplines",
"restrains",
"oppresses",
"neglects",
"overlooks",
"slights",
"molests",
"outrages",
"violates",
"harasses",
"harms",
"hurts",
"injures",
"oppresses",
"persecutes",
"torments",
"tortures",
"victimizes"
],
"antonyms":[
"abuses",
"ill-treats",
"ill-uses",
"maltreats",
"manhandles",
"mishandles",
"mistreats",
"misuses"
]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"commotions":{
"a state of noisy, confused activity":{
"examples":[
"the commotion created when the nation's top rock band arrived in town"
],
"synonyms":[
"ados",
"alarums and excursions",
"ballyhoos",
"blathers",
"bluster",
"bobberies",
"bothers",
"bustles",
"clatters",
"clutters",
"coils",
"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"
],
"near synonyms":[
"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":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"converse (with)":{
"to communicate with by means of spoken words":{
"examples":[
"in a press conference, the president is not just addressing reporters\u2014he's conversing with the public"
],
"synonyms":[
"chat (with)",
"speak (to or with)",
"talk (to)"
],
"near synonyms":[
"accost",
"address",
"board",
"collar",
"greet",
"hail",
"herald",
"inform",
"notify",
"tell"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"coming into one's own":{
"to reach a desired level of accomplishment":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[
"arriving",
"flourishing",
"prospering",
"succeeding",
"thriving"
],
"near synonyms":[
"prevailing",
"triumphing",
"winning",
"excelling"
],
"near antonyms":[
"floundering",
"struggling"
],
"antonyms":[
"failing"
]
},
"type":[]
},
"confutes":{
"to prove to be false":{
"examples":[
"theories which will eventually be confirmed or confuted by experience"
],
"synonyms":[
"belies",
"confounds",
"debunks",
"disconfirms",
"discredits",
"disproves",
"falsifies",
"rebuts",
"refutes",
"shoots down"
],
"near synonyms":[
"overthrows",
"overturns",
"challenges",
"contests",
"queries",
"questions",
"doubts",
"mistrusts",
"debates",
"discusses",
"hashes (over)",
"moots",
"talks over"
],
"near antonyms":[
"documents",
"evidences",
"evinces",
"records",
"shows",
"supports",
"witnesses",
"backs (up)",
"buttresses",
"corroborates",
"substantiates",
"adduces",
"attests",
"authenticates",
"certifies",
"identifies",
"demonstrates",
"displays",
"illustrates",
"manifests"
],
"antonyms":[
"confirms",
"establishes",
"proves",
"validates",
"verifies"
]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"cohousings":{
"as in condominiums , condos":{
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"near synonyms":[
"bed-sitters",
"bedsits",
"bed-sitting-room",
"condominiums",
"condominia",
"condos",
"duplex apartments",
"duplexes",
"efficiencies",
"efficiency apartments",
"flatlets",
"floor-throughs",
"garden apartments",
"granny flats",
"maisonettes",
"penthouses",
"railroad flats",
"salons",
"saloons",
"studio apartments",
"studios",
"triplexes",
"walk-ups",
"apartments",
"diggings",
"digs",
"flats",
"lodgings",
"suites",
"tenements",
"galleries",
"wings",
"apartment buildings",
"apartment houses",
"tenement houses"
],
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"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"consigning":{
"to cause to go or be taken from one place to another":{
"examples":[
"consigned the prisoner to the dungeon"
],
"synonyms":[
"dispatching",
"packing (off)",
"sending",
"shipping",
"shooting",
"transferring",
"transmitting",
"transporting"
],
"near synonyms":[
"conveying",
"delivering",
"handing over",
"passing",
"rendering",
"advancing",
"dropping",
"launching",
"addressing",
"forwarding",
"exporting",
"importing",
"bestowing",
"contributing",
"donating",
"giving",
"presenting",
"resending",
"returning"
],
"near antonyms":[
"acquiring",
"drawing",
"earning",
"gaining",
"garnering",
"getting",
"obtaining",
"procuring",
"securing"
],
"antonyms":[
"accepting",
"receiving"
]
},
"to put (something) into the possession or safekeeping of another":{
"examples":[
"the deliveryman had consigned our package to a next-door neighbor"
],
"synonyms":[
"commending",
"committing",
"confiding",
"delegating",
"delivering",
"entrusting",
"intrusting",
"giving",
"giving over",
"handing",
"handing over",
"leaving",
"passing",
"recommending",
"reposing",
"transferring",
"transmitting",
"trusting",
"turning over",
"vesting"
],
"near synonyms":[
"conferring",
"granting",
"assigning",
"dealing (out)",
"dispensing",
"dispersing",
"distributing",
"dividing",
"handing in",
"releasing",
"relinquishing",
"submitting",
"surrendering",
"turning in",
"yielding",
"bequeathing",
"handing down",
"handing on",
"willing",
"advancing",
"lending",
"loaning",
"furnishing",
"supplying",
"recommitting",
"redelivering",
"retransferring",
"retransmitting"
],
"near antonyms":[
"detaining",
"holding back",
"reserving",
"withholding",
"owning",
"possessing",
"accepting",
"receiving",
"taking in",
"occupying",
"taking",
"taking over"
],
"antonyms":[
"holding",
"keeping",
"retaining"
]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"co-opts":{
"to make a part of a body or system":{
"examples":[
"the national organization co-opted many formerly independent local groups"
],
"synonyms":[
"absorbs",
"assimilates",
"embodies",
"incorporates",
"integrates"
],
"near synonyms":[
"amalgamates",
"blends",
"combines",
"commingles",
"fuses",
"intermingles",
"merges",
"mingles",
"acculturates",
"accustoms",
"conditions",
"enculturates",
"habituates",
"naturalizes"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"concenter":{
"to bring (something) to a central point or under a single control":{
"examples":[
"you'll have to concenter your nebulous thoughts on the subject before even attempting to write"
],
"synonyms":[
"center",
"centralize",
"compact",
"concentrate",
"consolidate",
"polarize",
"unify",
"unite"
],
"near synonyms":[
"coordinate",
"harmonize",
"integrate",
"orchestrate",
"blend",
"coalesce",
"combine",
"fuse",
"incorporate",
"merge",
"reduce",
"conjoin",
"join",
"link",
"assemble",
"collect",
"colligate",
"gather",
"reunify",
"reunite"
],
"near antonyms":[
"segregate",
"separate"
],
"antonyms":[
"decentralize",
"deconcentrate",
"spread (out)"
]
},
"to come together into one body or place":{
"examples":[
"most of the local motels have concentered around the theme park, which is the region's biggest attraction by far"
],
"synonyms":[
"assemble",
"cluster",
"collect",
"concentrate",
"conglomerate",
"congregate",
"convene",
"converge",
"forgather",
"foregather",
"gather",
"meet",
"rendezvous"
],
"near synonyms":[
"affiliate",
"ally",
"associate",
"band (together)",
"caucus",
"club",
"collaborate",
"confederate",
"conjoin",
"consolidate",
"consort",
"cooperate",
"couple",
"federate",
"gang up",
"join",
"merge",
"unite",
"reassemble",
"reconvene",
"regather",
"remeet"
],
"near antonyms":[
"depart",
"leave",
"take off",
"disjoin",
"dissociate",
"disunite"
],
"antonyms":[
"break up",
"disband",
"disperse",
"split (up)"
]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"coarsen":{
"as in wear out , bore":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"deplete",
"jade",
"tire",
"wear out",
"hackney",
"overexpose",
"overuse",
"stereotype",
"vulgarize",
"bore",
"exhaust",
"overdo",
"popularize"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"cottage":{
"an often small house for recreational or seasonal use":{
"examples":[
"for a month every summer we rent a cottage on the ocean"
],
"synonyms":[
"bach",
"cabin",
"camp",
"chalet",
"lodge"
],
"near synonyms":[
"dacha",
"summerhouse",
"bungalow",
"cot",
"hut",
"shack",
"shanty"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"coapting":{
"as in joining , connecting":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"connecting",
"joining",
"linking",
"uniting",
"adhering",
"bolting",
"cinching",
"clamping",
"clasping",
"clenching",
"clinching",
"clipping",
"gluing",
"glueing",
"hanging",
"harnessing",
"hasping",
"lacing",
"lashing",
"latching",
"nailing",
"pasting",
"pinning",
"plastering",
"riveting",
"screwing",
"shackling",
"stapling",
"sticking",
"strapping",
"tacking",
"tackling",
"toggling",
"tying",
"tieing",
"yoking",
"reaffixing",
"reattaching",
"refastening",
"refixing",
"resecuring",
"affixing",
"attaching",
"bending",
"fastening",
"fixing",
"battening",
"belaying",
"buttoning",
"doing up"
],
"near antonyms":[
"detaching",
"undoing",
"unfastening",
"unhooking",
"breaking up",
"disconnecting",
"disjoining",
"disjointing",
"dissevering",
"dissociating",
"disuniting",
"dividing",
"divorcing",
"parting",
"separating",
"severing",
"splitting",
"sundering",
"uncoupling",
"unlinking",
"unyoking",
"loosening",
"loosing",
"unbinding",
"unfixing",
"unlashing",
"untying",
"untieing"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"confusedness":{
"a state of mental uncertainty":{
"examples":[
"such confusedness was laughable as well as pitiable"
],
"synonyms":[
"bafflement",
"bamboozlement",
"befuddlement",
"bemusement",
"bewilderedness",
"bewilderment",
"confusion",
"discombobulation",
"distraction",
"fog",
"head-scratching",
"maze",
"muddle",
"mystification",
"perplexity",
"puzzlement",
"tangle",
"whirl"
],
"near synonyms":[
"abashment",
"discomfiture",
"disconcertment",
"embarrassment",
"mortification",
"agitation",
"chagrin",
"discomfort",
"dismay",
"disquiet",
"distress",
"disturbance",
"perturbation",
"upset",
"bother",
"commotion",
"dither",
"flurry",
"fluster",
"fuss",
"stew",
"turmoil"
],
"near antonyms":[
"assurance",
"certainty",
"certitude",
"confidence",
"conviction",
"positiveness",
"sureness"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"comanager":{
"as in codirector , co-organizer":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"codirector",
"co-organizer",
"administrant",
"administrator",
"archon",
"director",
"exec",
"executive",
"manager",
"superintendent",
"supervisor",
"middle manager",
"boardman",
"officer",
"official",
"commissioner",
"minister",
"boss",
"chief",
"head",
"leader",
"president"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"come into one's own":{
"to reach a desired level of accomplishment":{
"examples":[
"That intern has really come into her own over the past year."
],
"synonyms":[
"arrive",
"flourish",
"prosper",
"succeed",
"thrive"
],
"near synonyms":[
"prevail",
"triumph",
"win",
"excel"
],
"near antonyms":[
"flounder",
"struggle"
],
"antonyms":[
"fail"
]
},
"type":[
"phrase"
]
},
"counterstrike":{
"an attack made to counter an enemy's attack":{
"examples":[
"after countless strikes and counterstrikes , the positions of both armies remained essentially unchanged"
],
"synonyms":[
"counterassault",
"counterattack",
"counteroffensive",
"counterpunch"
],
"near synonyms":[
"sally",
"sortie",
"blitzkrieg",
"charge",
"assault",
"attack",
"offensive",
"onslaught"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"condoled (with)":{
"to have sympathy for":{
"examples":[
"condole with them in their hour of grief"
],
"synonyms":[
"ached (for)",
"bled (for)",
"commiserated (with)",
"compassionated",
"felt (for)",
"pitied",
"sympathized (with)",
"yearned (over)"
],
"near synonyms":[
"cared (for)",
"grieved (for)",
"sorrowed (for)",
"loved",
"empathized (with)",
"identified (with)",
"tolerated",
"understood"
],
"near antonyms":[
"disregarded",
"ignored",
"neglected",
"overlooked",
"disliked",
"hated",
"scorned"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"counterinfluence":{
"as in moment , authority":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"authority",
"clout",
"credit",
"heft",
"in",
"influence",
"juice",
"leverage",
"pull",
"sway",
"weight",
"command",
"dominance",
"dominion",
"mastery",
"predominance",
"reign",
"scepter",
"sovereignty",
"sovranty",
"supremacy",
"consequence",
"eminence",
"importance",
"moment",
"impact",
"impress",
"impression",
"imprint",
"mark"
],
"near antonyms":[
"helplessness",
"impotence",
"impotency",
"powerlessness",
"weakness"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"commended":{
"to put (something) into the possession or safekeeping of another":{
"examples":[
"I commend my fate into your hands"
],
"synonyms":[
"committed",
"confided",
"consigned",
"delegated",
"delivered",
"entrusted",
"intrusted",
"gave",
"gave over",
"handed",
"handed over",
"left",
"passed",
"recommended",
"reposed",
"transferred",
"transmitted",
"trusted",
"turned over",
"vested"
],
"near synonyms":[
"conferred",
"granted",
"assigned",
"dealt (out)",
"dispensed",
"dispersed",
"distributed",
"divided",
"handed in",
"released",
"relinquished",
"submitted",
"surrendered",
"turned in",
"yielded",
"bequeathed",
"handed down",
"handed on",
"willed",
"advanced",
"lent",
"loaned",
"furnished",
"supplied",
"recommitted",
"redelivered",
"retransferred",
"retransmitted"
],
"near antonyms":[
"detained",
"held back",
"reserved",
"withheld",
"owned",
"possessed",
"accepted",
"received",
"took in",
"occupied",
"took",
"took over"
],
"antonyms":[
"held",
"kept",
"retained"
]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"co-occurs":{
"to occur or exist at the same time":{
"examples":[
"the chronic depression that so often co-occurs with drug abuse"
],
"synonyms":[
"accompanies",
"attends",
"coexists",
"coincides",
"concurs",
"synchronizes"
],
"near synonyms":[
"chances",
"happens",
"haps",
"transpires"
],
"near antonyms":[
"antedates",
"precedes",
"predates",
"follows",
"succeeds"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"collided":{
"to be out of harmony or agreement usually noticeably":{
"examples":[
"the candidate had a reputation as a maverick whose positions often collided with the party platform"
],
"synonyms":[
"clashed",
"conflicted",
"disaccorded",
"discorded",
"jarred"
],
"near synonyms":[
"battled",
"combated",
"combatted",
"engaged",
"fought",
"warred (against)",
"chafed",
"galled",
"grated",
"jangled",
"differed",
"disagreed",
"dissented"
],
"near antonyms":[
"agreed",
"assented",
"coincided",
"concurred",
"corresponded"
],
"antonyms":[
"accorded",
"blended",
"blent",
"conformed (to or with)",
"fitted",
"fit",
"harmonized",
"matched"
]
},
"to come into usually forceful contact with something":{
"examples":[
"fortunately, I wasn't hurt when my bike collided with that fence"
],
"synonyms":[
"banged",
"bashed",
"bumped",
"crashed",
"hit",
"impacted",
"impinged",
"knocked",
"rammed",
"slammed",
"smashed",
"struck",
"swiped",
"thudded"
],
"near synonyms":[
"bounced",
"caromed",
"clunked",
"glanced",
"rebounded",
"ricocheted",
"ricochetted",
"skimmed",
"skipped",
"contacted",
"landed",
"touched",
"brushed",
"grazed",
"kissed",
"nudged",
"scraped",
"shaved",
"swept",
"bulldozed",
"jostled",
"muscled",
"pressed",
"pushed"
],
"near antonyms":[
"missed",
"skirted"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"conn":{
"to operate or control the course of":{
"examples":[
"there was white-knuckle tension as the captain conned the gunboat through the mine-infested harbor"
],
"synonyms":[
"helm",
"navigate",
"pilot",
"steer"
],
"near synonyms":[
"commandeer",
"hijack",
"highjack"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"confirmational":{
"serving to give support to the truth or factualness of something":{
"examples":[
"that's an interesting hypothesis but one that still awaits confirmational data"
],
"synonyms":[
"confirmatory",
"confirming",
"corroborating",
"corroborative",
"corroboratory",
"probative",
"probatory",
"substantiating",
"supporting",
"supportive",
"verifying",
"vindicating"
],
"near synonyms":[
"auxiliary",
"supplementary",
"beneficial",
"helpful"
],
"near antonyms":[
"contradictory",
"contrary",
"counter",
"opposing"
],
"antonyms":[
"confuting",
"disproving",
"refuting"
]
},
"type":[
"adjective"
]
},
"confabulating":{
"to exchange viewpoints or seek advice for the purpose of finding a solution to a problem":{
"examples":[
"an Alzheimer's support group in which caregivers can confabulate as well as commiserate"
],
"synonyms":[
"advising",
"confabbing",
"conferring",
"consulting",
"counseling",
"counselling",
"parleying",
"treating"
],
"near synonyms":[
"arguing",
"bandying",
"batting (around)",
"chewing over",
"debating",
"deliberating",
"discussing",
"disputing",
"hashing (over)",
"kicking around",
"mooting",
"palavering",
"talking",
"talking over",
"ventilating",
"rehashing",
"coaching",
"guiding",
"tutoring",
"recommending",
"suggesting",
"directing",
"referring (to)"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"comme il faut":{
"as in good , right":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"acceptable",
"appropriate",
"becoming",
"befitting",
"correct",
"decent",
"decorous",
"fit",
"fitting",
"good",
"meet",
"proper",
"respectable",
"right",
"seemly",
"suitable",
"deferential",
"dutiful",
"respectful",
"submissive",
"yielding",
"affable",
"cordial",
"friendly",
"genial",
"hospitable",
"pleasant",
"sociable",
"elegant",
"refined",
"felicitous",
"graceful",
"couth",
"formal",
"smooth",
"suave",
"unctuous",
"urbane",
"demure",
"humble",
"meek",
"modest",
"unassertive",
"ceremonial",
"ceremonious",
"red-carpet",
"chivalrous",
"civilized",
"courtly",
"gallant",
"gentlemanlike",
"gentlemanly",
"ladylike",
"attentive",
"careful",
"considerate",
"nice",
"solicitous",
"thoughtful"
],
"near antonyms":[
"discourteous",
"ill-bred",
"ill-mannered",
"impolite",
"inconsiderate",
"mannerless",
"rude",
"thoughtless",
"uncivil",
"ungenteel",
"ungracious",
"unmannered",
"unmannerly",
"heedless",
"inconsiderate",
"thoughtless",
"audacious",
"bold",
"bold-faced",
"brash",
"brassy",
"disrespectful",
"impertinent",
"impudent",
"insolent",
"lippy",
"saucy",
"shameless",
"boorish",
"churlish",
"clodhopping",
"clownish",
"loutish",
"uncouth",
"vulgar",
"casual",
"informal",
"unceremonious",
"improper",
"inappropriate",
"incorrect",
"indecent",
"indecorous",
"uncalled-for",
"unrespectable",
"unseemly",
"arrogant",
"conceited",
"presuming",
"presumptuous",
"pretentious"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"adjective"
]
},
"couch potatoes":{
"a lazy person":{
"examples":[
"a couch potato who refused to budge no matter what needed to be done"
],
"synonyms":[
"deadbeats",
"do-nothings",
"drones",
"idlers",
"layabouts",
"lazybones",
"loafers",
"lotus-eaters",
"slouches",
"slugabeds",
"sluggards",
"slugs"
],
"near synonyms":[
"bums",
"good-for-nothings",
"ne'er-do-wells",
"crawlers",
"creepers",
"dawdlers",
"laggards",
"putterers",
"slowpokes",
"snails",
"stick-in-the-muds",
"stragglers",
"clock-watchers",
"goldbricks",
"malingerers",
"shirkers",
"slackers",
"dalliers",
"lingerers",
"loiterers",
"lollers",
"loungers",
"saunterers",
"delayers",
"procrastinators",
"dropouts",
"quitters"
],
"near antonyms":[
"achievers",
"comers",
"highfliers",
"highflyers",
"live wires",
"powerhouses"
],
"antonyms":[
"doers",
"go-aheads",
"go-getters",
"hummers",
"hustlers",
"self-starters"
]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"comingle":{
"to turn into a single mass or entity that is more or less the same throughout":{
"examples":[
"the chemicals, when comingled , will spontaneously ignite"
],
"synonyms":[
"amalgamate",
"blend",
"combine",
"commingle",
"commix",
"composite",
"concrete",
"conflate",
"fuse",
"homogenize",
"immingle",
"immix",
"incorporate",
"integrate",
"interfuse",
"intermingle",
"intermix",
"meld",
"merge",
"mingle",
"mix"
],
"near synonyms":[
"add",
"admix",
"beat (in)",
"cut in",
"fold",
"stir",
"toss",
"coalesce",
"compound",
"emulsify",
"conjoin",
"join",
"knit",
"link",
"unite",
"intertwine",
"interweave",
"weave"
],
"near antonyms":[
"cleave",
"disjoin",
"disunite",
"divide",
"divorce",
"part",
"rupture",
"sever",
"sunder",
"disperse",
"dissolve",
"scatter",
"detach",
"disengage",
"split"
],
"antonyms":[
"break down",
"break up",
"separate",
"unmix"
]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"concussion":{
"a forceful coming together of two things":{
"examples":[
"the concussion of the two football players sent them both to the ground"
],
"synonyms":[
"bump",
"collision",
"crash",
"impact",
"impingement",
"jar",
"jolt",
"jounce",
"kick",
"shock",
"slam",
"smash",
"strike",
"wallop"
],
"near synonyms":[
"blow",
"buffet",
"hit",
"knock",
"punch",
"rap",
"slap",
"thump",
"bashing",
"battering",
"bludgeoning",
"clobbering",
"hammering",
"lambasting",
"licking",
"pounding",
"pummeling",
"pummelling",
"thrashing",
"contact",
"encounter",
"meeting",
"touch"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"the violent coming together of two bodies into destructive contact":{
"examples":[
"the theory that such a concussion , by a giant asteroid or comet millions of years ago, led to the extinction of the dinosaurs"
],
"synonyms":[
"collision",
"crack-up",
"crash",
"smash",
"smashup",
"wreck"
],
"near synonyms":[
"accident",
"pileup",
"demolishment",
"destruction",
"ruin"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"coming off":{
"to take place":{
"examples":[
"couldn't believe that the wedding would actually come off \u2014they've been \"just dating\" for years"
],
"synonyms":[
"befalling",
"being",
"betiding",
"chancing",
"coming",
"coming about",
"coming down",
"cooking",
"doing",
"going down",
"going on",
"happening",
"happing",
"occurring",
"passing",
"transpiring"
],
"near synonyms":[
"breaking",
"developing",
"rising",
"shaping (up)",
"arising",
"coming up",
"cropping (up)",
"materializing",
"springing (up)",
"intervening",
"falling out",
"following",
"resulting",
"turning out",
"going off",
"proceeding"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to turn out as planned or desired":{
"examples":[
"the attempted revival of the city's downtown never really came off , and even more stores eventually closed"
],
"synonyms":[
"clicking",
"delivering",
"going",
"going over",
"panning out",
"succeeding",
"working out"
],
"near synonyms":[
"catching on",
"flourishing",
"prospering",
"thriving",
"cooking",
"percolating"
],
"near antonyms":[
"languishing",
"floundering",
"struggling",
"declining",
"sinking",
"skidding",
"slipping",
"slumping",
"waning",
"crashing",
"cratering",
"crumbling",
"flaming out",
"choking",
"cracking up",
"miscarrying",
"misfiring",
"falling down",
"going under",
"imploding",
"self-destructing"
],
"antonyms":[
"bombing",
"collapsing",
"failing",
"flopping",
"flunking",
"folding",
"foundering",
"missing",
"striking out",
"washing out"
]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"cogitating":{
"to give serious and careful thought to":{
"examples":[
"by the time he finishes cogitating what to do with his life, it'll be almost over"
],
"synonyms":[
"chewing over",
"considering",
"contemplating",
"debating",
"deliberating",
"entertaining",
"eyeing",
"eying",
"kicking around",
"meditating",
"mulling (over)",
"perpending",
"pondering",
"poring (over)",
"questioning",
"revolving",
"ruminating",
"studying",
"thinking (about or over)",
"turning",
"weighing",
"wrestling (with)"
],
"near synonyms":[
"musing (upon)",
"reflecting (on or upon)",
"reminiscing",
"analyzing",
"exploring",
"reviewing",
"concluding",
"reasoning",
"second-guessing",
"speculating (about)",
"brooding (about or over)",
"dwelling (on or upon)",
"fixating (on or upon)",
"fretting (about or over)",
"obsessing (about or over)",
"believing",
"conceiving",
"opining",
"absorbing",
"assimilating",
"digesting",
"drinking (in)"
],
"near antonyms":[
"disregarding",
"ignoring",
"overlooking",
"slighting",
"dismissing",
"pooh-poohing",
"poohing",
"rejecting"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"commiserating":{
"as in empathizing , sympathizing":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"condoling",
"empathizing",
"sympathizing",
"assuring",
"cheering",
"comforting",
"consoling",
"reassuring",
"solacing",
"soothing",
"boosting",
"buoying (up)",
"elevating",
"lifting",
"uplifting",
"allaying",
"alleviating",
"assuaging",
"relieving",
"calming",
"quieting",
"relaxing",
"tranquilizing",
"tranquillizing"
],
"near antonyms":[
"distressing",
"tormenting",
"torturing",
"troubling",
"demoralizing",
"discouraging",
"disheartening",
"fretting",
"upsetting",
"worrying",
"aggravating",
"intensifying",
"worsening",
"annoying",
"irking",
"irritating",
"harassing",
"pestering"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"correlates":{
"something that serves to complete or make up for a deficiency in something else":{
"examples":[
"the often uneasy relationship between the employer and his correlate , the employee"
],
"synonyms":[
"complements",
"supplements"
],
"near synonyms":[
"addenda",
"addendums",
"additions",
"appendixes",
"appendices",
"adjuncts",
"annexes",
"appendages",
"extensions",
"accessories",
"accessaries",
"accompaniments",
"appliances",
"attachments",
"additives",
"fillers"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to think of (something) in combination":{
"examples":[
"a demanding father who always correlated success with hard work"
],
"synonyms":[
"associates",
"connects",
"identifies",
"links",
"relates"
],
"near synonyms":[
"compares",
"equates",
"likens",
"groups",
"joins",
"lumps (together)",
"ties (together)"
],
"near antonyms":[
"contrasts",
"differentiates",
"discriminates",
"distinguishes",
"separates",
"sets off"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun",
"verb"
]
},
"commandants":{
"one in official command especially of a military force or base":{
"examples":[
"the commandant of a naval district"
],
"synonyms":[
"captains",
"commanders",
"commanding officers"
],
"near synonyms":[
"commissioned officers",
"field officers"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"coercions":{
"the use of power to impose one's will on another":{
"examples":[
"a promise obtained by coercion is never binding"
],
"synonyms":[
"arm-twistings",
"compulsions",
"constraints",
"duresses",
"forces",
"pressures"
],
"near synonyms":[
"browbeatings",
"bulldozings",
"fears",
"intimidations",
"menaces",
"swords",
"terrorisms",
"terrors",
"threats",
"violences",
"squeeze plays",
"squeezes",
"mights",
"muscles",
"potencies",
"puissances",
"strengths",
"self-wills",
"strains",
"stresses"
],
"near antonyms":[
"agreements",
"approvals",
"consents",
"permissions",
"persuasions",
"reasons",
"suasions"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"coming to pass":{
"to take place":{
"examples":[
"After a lengthy process the adoption finally came to pass ."
],
"synonyms":[
"befalling",
"being",
"betiding",
"chancing",
"coming",
"coming about",
"coming down",
"coming off",
"cooking",
"doing",
"going down",
"going on",
"happening",
"happing",
"occurring",
"passing",
"transpiring"
],
"near synonyms":[
"breaking",
"developing",
"rising",
"shaping (up)",
"arising",
"coming up",
"cropping (up)",
"materializing",
"springing (up)",
"intervening",
"falling out",
"following",
"resulting",
"turning out",
"going off",
"proceeding"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"phrase"
]
},
"couriers":{
"a person who imports or exports goods secretly and illegally":{
"examples":[
"under wartime rationing, the only way to obtain some foods was from a courier"
],
"synonyms":[
"bootleggers",
"contrabandists",
"runners",
"smugglers"
],
"near synonyms":[
"coyotes",
"coyote",
"gunrunners",
"mules"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"one that carries a message or does an errand":{
"examples":[
"a courier just delivered a package for you"
],
"synonyms":[
"expresses",
"go-betweens",
"messengers",
"pages",
"runners"
],
"near synonyms":[
"forerunners",
"harbingers",
"heralds",
"agents",
"ambassadors",
"delegates",
"deputies",
"emissaries",
"envoys",
"representatives",
"bearers",
"carriers",
"deliverymen",
"letter carriers",
"mail carriers",
"mailmen"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"continuous":{
"going on and on without any interruptions":{
"examples":[
"a city that has been under continuous bombardment for three days"
],
"synonyms":[
"ceaseless",
"continual",
"continued",
"continuing",
"incessant",
"nonstop",
"perpetual",
"running",
"unbroken",
"unceasing",
"uninterrupted",
"unremitting"
],
"near synonyms":[
"dateless",
"deathless",
"endless",
"eternal",
"everlasting",
"immortal",
"interminable",
"permanent",
"undying",
"unending",
"changeless",
"constant",
"stable",
"steady",
"unchanging",
"unvarying",
"durable",
"enduring",
"lasting",
"persistent",
"imperishable",
"indestructible"
],
"near antonyms":[
"intermittent",
"periodic",
"periodical",
"recurrent",
"recurring",
"alternate",
"alternating",
"cyclic",
"cyclical",
"rhythmic",
"rhythmical",
"seasonal",
"serial",
"erratic",
"fitful",
"irregular",
"occasional",
"spasmodic",
"sporadic",
"spotty",
"unsteady"
],
"antonyms":[
"discontinuous",
"noncontinuous"
]
},
"type":[
"adjective"
]
},
"continues":{
"to remain indefinitely in existence or in the same state":{
"examples":[
"the heavy snow continued throughout the night"
],
"synonyms":[
"abides",
"bides",
"endures",
"holds on",
"holds up",
"keeps up",
"lasts",
"perdures",
"persists",
"remains",
"runs on"
],
"near synonyms":[
"lingers",
"stays",
"sticks around",
"tarries",
"carries through",
"prevails",
"survives"
],
"near antonyms":[
"abates",
"dies (down)",
"ebbs",
"lets up",
"moderates",
"subsides",
"wanes"
],
"antonyms":[
"ceases",
"closes",
"concludes",
"desists",
"dies",
"discontinues",
"ends",
"expires",
"finishes",
"lapses",
"leaves off",
"passes",
"quits",
"stops",
"terminates",
"winds up"
]
},
"to begin again or return to after an interruption":{
"examples":[
"we'll continue this discussion after we've eaten"
],
"synonyms":[
"picks up",
"proceeds (with)",
"renews",
"reopens",
"restarts",
"resumes"
],
"near synonyms":[
"resuscitates",
"revives",
"recrudesces"
],
"near antonyms":[
"completes",
"concludes",
"consummates",
"ends",
"finalizes",
"finishes",
"belays",
"breaks",
"cans",
"ceases",
"checks",
"cuts",
"desists",
"discontinues",
"drops",
"halts",
"knocks off",
"leaves off",
"quits",
"scuttles",
"shuts off",
"stays",
"stops",
"terminates"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"cottoning (to or on to)":{
"to have a clear idea of":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[
"appreciating",
"apprehending",
"assimilating",
"beholding",
"catching",
"catching on (to)",
"cognizing",
"compassing",
"comprehending",
"conceiving",
"deciphering",
"decoding",
"digging",
"discerning",
"getting",
"grasping",
"grokking",
"intuiting",
"knowing",
"making",
"making out",
"perceiving",
"recognizing",
"registering",
"savvying",
"seeing",
"seizing",
"sensing",
"tumbling (to)",
"twigging",
"understanding"
],
"near synonyms":[
"absorbing",
"digesting",
"taking in",
"realizing",
"fathoming",
"penetrating",
"piercing"
],
"near antonyms":[
"misapprehending",
"misconceiving",
"misconstruing",
"misinterpreting",
"misperceiving",
"misreading",
"mistaking",
"misunderstanding"
],
"antonyms":[
"missing"
]
},
"type":[]
},
"counterplots":{
"as in counterconspiracies":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"counterconspiracies",
"counter-conspiracies",
"conspiracies",
"designs",
"intrigues",
"machinations",
"plots",
"schemes",
"frame-ups",
"manipulations",
"subterfuges",
"trickeries",
"artifices",
"contrivances",
"cover-ups",
"dodges",
"drafts",
"maneuvers",
"stratagems",
"tricks",
"cabals",
"confederacies",
"rings",
"games",
"gimmicks",
"rackets",
"ground plans",
"programs",
"strategies",
"systems",
"collusions",
"complicities",
"connivances",
"conspirations"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"as in concocts , contrives":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"colludes",
"compasses",
"connives",
"conspires",
"contrives",
"intrigues",
"machinates",
"plots",
"puts up",
"schemes",
"brews",
"concocts",
"cooks (up)",
"devises",
"hatches",
"engineers",
"jockeys",
"maneuvers",
"manipulates",
"designs",
"frames",
"lays out",
"maps",
"plans",
"shapes"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun",
"verb"
]
},
"comes along":{
"to move forward along a course":{
"examples":[
"our backyard makeover is coming along nicely"
],
"synonyms":[
"advances",
"comes",
"does",
"fares",
"forges",
"gets along",
"gets on",
"goes",
"goes along",
"goes off",
"marches",
"paces",
"proceeds",
"progresses"
],
"near synonyms":[
"accelerates",
"fast-forwards",
"speeds",
"approaches",
"nears",
"journeys",
"passes",
"repairs",
"runs",
"travels",
"wends",
"actuates",
"drives",
"impels",
"propels",
"pushes",
"takes out"
],
"near antonyms":[
"arrests",
"balks",
"blocks",
"checks",
"detains",
"halts",
"hinders",
"holds back",
"impedes",
"nips",
"obstructs",
"slows (down or up)",
"stems",
"represses",
"retards",
"stunts",
"suppresses",
"delays",
"interrupts",
"stalls",
"cramps",
"hampers",
"inhibits",
"ceases",
"lets up",
"pauses",
"regresses",
"waits"
],
"antonyms":[
"remains",
"stands",
"stays",
"stops"
]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"cornucopian":{
"being more than enough without being excessive":{
"examples":[
"there were cornucopian profits for the last three quarters"
],
"synonyms":[
"abundant",
"ample",
"aplenty",
"bounteous",
"bountiful",
"comfortable",
"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"
]
},
"producing abundantly":{
"examples":[
"one of the most cornucopian sources of all of literature, the legend of King Arthur has inspired everything from epic poems to musical dramas"
],
"synonyms":[
"fat",
"fecund",
"fertile",
"fructuous",
"fruitful",
"lush",
"luxuriant",
"productive",
"prolific",
"rich"
],
"near synonyms":[
"bearing",
"generative",
"producing",
"yielding",
"abounding",
"abundant",
"bountiful",
"copious",
"generous",
"liberal",
"plenteous",
"plentiful",
"plenitudinous",
"blooming",
"bursting",
"flourishing",
"swarming",
"teeming",
"thriving",
"creative",
"inventive",
"original"
],
"near antonyms":[
"meager",
"meagre",
"scant",
"scanty",
"skimp",
"skimpy",
"spare",
"sparse"
],
"antonyms":[
"barren",
"dead",
"infertile",
"sterile",
"unfertile",
"unfruitful",
"unproductive"
]
},
"type":[
"adjective"
]
},
"copping (to)":{
"to make an acknowledgment of something unpleasant as true or valid":{
"examples":[
"the defendant made a deal with the prosecutor and copped to a lesser charge"
],
"synonyms":[
"admitting",
"confessing",
"fessing (up)",
"owning (up)"
],
"near synonyms":[
"blabbing",
"talking",
"tattling",
"babbling",
"spilling"
],
"near antonyms":[
"clamming up",
"hushing",
"quieting (down)",
"shutting up"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"counteracts":{
"to balance with an equal force so as to make ineffective":{
"examples":[
"this medication will counteract the symptoms but it won't kill the infection"
],
"synonyms":[
"annuls",
"cancels (out)",
"compensates (for)",
"corrects",
"counterbalances",
"counterpoises",
"makes up (for)",
"negatives",
"neutralizes",
"offsets"
],
"near synonyms":[
"invalidates",
"negates",
"neuters",
"nullifies",
"atones (for)",
"outbalances",
"outweighs",
"redeems",
"redresses",
"relieves",
"remedies",
"overrides",
"overrules"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"commercials":{
"as in advertisings , spots":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"advertisings",
"billings",
"blurbs",
"come-ons",
"messages",
"pitches",
"plugolas",
"spots",
"words",
"ads",
"advertisements",
"adverts",
"announcements",
"bulletins",
"communiqu\u00e9s",
"notices",
"notifications",
"postings",
"releases",
"broadsides",
"brochures",
"circulars",
"flyers",
"fliers",
"fly sheets",
"gazettes",
"handbills",
"handouts",
"billboards",
"bills",
"placards",
"playbills",
"posters",
"show bills",
"signs",
"broadcasts",
"cablecasts",
"newscasts",
"telecasts",
"communications",
"dispatches",
"reports",
"annunciations",
"declarations",
"edicts",
"proclamations",
"promulgations",
"pronouncements",
"pronunciamentos",
"pronunciamentoes",
"rescripts",
"significations",
"ballyhoos",
"boosts",
"buildups",
"campaigns",
"plugs",
"promos",
"promotions",
"propagandas",
"publicities"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"considerable":{
"sufficiently large in size, amount, or number to merit attention":{
"examples":[
"the considerable number of auto accidents that resulted from the surprise snowstorm"
],
"synonyms":[
"biggish",
"good",
"goodly",
"handsome",
"healthy",
"largish",
"major",
"respectable",
"significant",
"sizable",
"sizeable",
"substantial",
"substantive",
"tidy"
],
"near synonyms":[
"big",
"bulky",
"hefty",
"hulking",
"outsize",
"outsized",
"oversize",
"oversized",
"voluminous",
"astronomical",
"astronomic",
"bumper",
"colossal",
"elephantine",
"enormous",
"gigantic",
"great",
"herculean",
"huge",
"immense",
"jumbo",
"king-size",
"king-sized",
"mammoth",
"massive",
"monstrous",
"monumental",
"prodigious",
"titanic",
"tremendous",
"whopping"
],
"near antonyms":[
"measly",
"minute",
"paltry",
"petty",
"picayune",
"picayunish",
"piddling",
"puny",
"trifling",
"trivial",
"unimportant",
"marginal",
"meager",
"meagre",
"slight",
"little",
"small",
"tiny",
"undersized",
"undersize",
"bitty",
"diminutive",
"miniature",
"pint-size",
"pint-sized",
"pocket",
"pocket-size",
"pocket-sized",
"pygmy",
"smallish"
],
"antonyms":[
"inconsequential",
"inconsiderable",
"insignificant",
"insubstantial",
"negligible",
"nominal"
]
},
"of a size greater than average of its kind":{
"examples":[
"a house with a considerable barn in back"
],
"synonyms":[
"big",
"biggish",
"boxcar",
"bulky",
"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"
]
},
"conciliate":{
"to bring to a state free of conflicts, inconsistencies, or differences":{
"examples":[
"it will be hard to conciliate the views of labor and management regarding health benefits"
],
"synonyms":[
"accommodate",
"attune",
"conform",
"coordinate",
"harmonize",
"key",
"reconcile"
],
"near synonyms":[
"adapt",
"tune",
"blend",
"combine",
"connect",
"correlate",
"dovetail",
"fit",
"fuse",
"integrate",
"join",
"match",
"merge",
"orchestrate",
"pair",
"square",
"suit",
"synchronize",
"synthesize",
"unify",
"unite",
"align",
"aline",
"arrange",
"array",
"balance",
"equalize",
"even",
"order",
"proportion",
"regularize",
"standardize"
],
"near antonyms":[
"confuse",
"disarray",
"disorder",
"disorganize",
"disrupt",
"disturb",
"skew",
"upset",
"alienate",
"estrange"
],
"antonyms":[
"disharmonize"
]
},
"to lessen the anger or agitation of":{
"examples":[
"a principal trying to conciliate the parents who did not receive their tickets to the graduation ceremonies"
],
"synonyms":[
"appease",
"assuage",
"disarm",
"gentle",
"mollify",
"pacify",
"placate",
"propitiate"
],
"near synonyms":[
"calm",
"comfort",
"console",
"content",
"hush",
"quiet",
"soothe",
"tranquilize",
"tranquillize",
"endear (to)",
"ingratiate",
"delight",
"gladden",
"gratify",
"please",
"adulate",
"blarney",
"flatter",
"overpraise",
"soft-soap",
"quench",
"sate",
"satiate",
"satisfy",
"cater (to)",
"humor",
"indulge",
"blandish",
"cajole",
"coax",
"sweet-talk",
"wheedle",
"baby",
"coddle",
"mollycoddle",
"pamper",
"spoil",
"dulcify",
"sweeten"
],
"near antonyms":[
"aggravate",
"annoy",
"antagonize",
"bother",
"bug",
"burn (up)",
"chafe",
"cross",
"exasperate",
"gall",
"get",
"grate",
"irk",
"irritate",
"nettle",
"peeve",
"pique",
"put out",
"rankle",
"rile",
"roil",
"ruffle",
"vex",
"provoke",
"rouse",
"harass",
"harry",
"persecute",
"pester",
"agitate",
"discomfort",
"distress",
"disturb",
"fret",
"perturb",
"unhinge",
"unsettle",
"upset",
"worry",
"affront",
"insult",
"offend",
"slight"
],
"antonyms":[
"anger",
"enrage",
"incense",
"inflame",
"enflame",
"infuriate",
"ire",
"madden",
"outrage"
]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
}
}