dict_dl/en_MW_thesaurus/ga_mwt.json
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{
"gabble":{
"to engage in casual or rambling conversation":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"heard her parents' guests still gabbling in the living room late into the night"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"related":[
"gossip",
"tattle",
"descant",
"discuss",
"expatiate",
"yak",
"yack",
"yammer",
"yap"
],
"synonyms":[
"babble",
"blab",
"cackle",
"chaffer",
"chat",
"chatter",
"chin",
"converse",
"gab",
"gas",
"jabber",
"jaw",
"kibitz",
"kibbitz",
"natter",
"palaver",
"patter",
"prate",
"prattle",
"rap",
"rattle",
"run on",
"schmooze",
"shmooze",
"talk",
"twitter",
"visit"
]
},
"to speak rapidly, inarticulately, and usually unintelligibly":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"during the filming of the party scene the extras were told to just gabble and act like they were having a great time"
],
"near antonyms":[
"articulate",
"enunciate",
"pronounce"
],
"related":[
"blabber",
"blather",
"bleat",
"blither",
"gab",
"jangle",
"jaw",
"patter",
"prate",
"rattle",
"run on",
"smatter",
"tittle-tattle",
"troll",
"yak",
"yack",
"chunter",
"maunder",
"mouth",
"mumble",
"murmur",
"mutter",
"stammer",
"stutter",
"screech",
"shout",
"shriek"
],
"synonyms":[
"babble",
"bumble",
"chat",
"chatter",
"drivel",
"drool",
"gibber",
"jabber",
"prattle",
"sputter"
]
},
"type":[
"noun",
"verb"
],
"unintelligible or meaningless talk":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"their discussion about the complexities of international trade was gabble to those of us who didn't study that subject"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"related":[
"blah",
"blah-blah",
"hocus-pocus",
"hokeypokey",
"twaddle",
"chatter",
"gab",
"patter",
"prate",
"tattle",
"twitter",
"cackle",
"clack",
"clatter"
],
"synonyms":[
"abracadabra",
"babble",
"blabber",
"burble",
"double Dutch",
"double-talk",
"drivel",
"gibber",
"gibberish",
"jabber",
"jabberwocky",
"mumbo jumbo",
"nonsense",
"prattle",
"slobber"
]
}
},
"gabby":{
"fond of talking or conversation":{
"examples":[
"a gabby talk-show host whose interviews were almost as much about herself as about her celebrity guests"
],
"synonyms":[
"blabby",
"chatty",
"conversational",
"garrulous",
"loquacious",
"motormouthed",
"mouthy",
"talkative",
"talky"
],
"near synonyms":[
"communicative",
"expansive",
"demonstrative",
"effusive",
"gushing",
"free-spoken",
"outspoken",
"unreserved",
"vocal",
"articulate",
"fluent",
"glib",
"voluble",
"well-spoken",
"gossipy",
"talebearing",
"tale-telling",
"long-winded",
"prolix",
"rambling",
"verbose",
"windy",
"wordy",
"extroverted",
"extraverted",
"gregarious",
"outgoing",
"sociable"
],
"near antonyms":[
"quiet",
"shy",
"mum",
"mute",
"silent",
"speechless",
"tongue-tied",
"wordless",
"evasive",
"nonvocal",
"secretive",
"self-contained",
"aloof",
"indrawn",
"inhibited",
"introverted",
"retiring",
"unsociable",
"withdrawn"
],
"antonyms":[
"closemouthed",
"laconic",
"reserved",
"reticent",
"taciturn",
"tight-lipped",
"uncommunicative"
]
},
"type":[
"adjective"
]
},
"gad (about)":{
"a person who roams about without a fixed route or destination":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"she was a thoughtful gadabout , always picking up souvenirs for her friends from wherever her travels took her"
],
"near antonyms":[
"homebody",
"denizen",
"dweller",
"habitant",
"inhabitant",
"resident",
"settler"
],
"related":[
"laggard",
"straggler",
"lingerer",
"loiterer",
"sojourner",
"bum",
"hobo",
"tramp",
"passenger",
"sightseer",
"traveler",
"traveller",
"migrant",
"transient",
"vagrant",
"ambler",
"saunterer"
],
"synonyms":[
"drifter",
"gypsy",
"knockabout",
"maunderer",
"nomad",
"rambler",
"roamer",
"rover",
"stroller",
"vagabond",
"wanderer",
"wayfarer"
]
},
"as in gallivanting , sauntering":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[],
"near antonyms":[],
"related":[],
"synonyms":[]
},
"to move about from place to place aimlessly":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"he gads about town every Saturday, flirting and gossiping with various shopkeepers and locals"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"related":[
"amble",
"saunter",
"stroll",
"dawdle",
"mope",
"gypsy",
"hobo",
"tramp",
"vagabond",
"mill (about or around)",
"straggle",
"stray"
],
"synonyms":[
"bat",
"cruise",
"drift",
"float",
"gallivant",
"galavant",
"kick around",
"knock (about)",
"maunder",
"meander",
"mooch",
"ramble",
"range",
"roam",
"rove",
"traipse",
"wander"
]
},
"type":[
"adjective",
"noun",
"verb"
]
},
"gadding (about)":{
"to move about from place to place aimlessly":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"he gads about town every Saturday, flirting and gossiping with various shopkeepers and locals"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"related":[
"ambling",
"sauntering",
"strolling",
"dawdling",
"moping",
"gypsying",
"hoboing",
"tramping",
"vagabonding",
"milling (about or around)",
"straggling",
"straying"
],
"synonyms":[
"batting",
"cruising",
"drifting",
"floating",
"gallivanting",
"galavanting",
"kicking around",
"knocking (about)",
"maundering",
"meandering",
"mooching",
"rambling",
"ranging",
"roaming",
"roving",
"traipsing",
"wandering"
]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"gaffe":{
"a socially improper or unsuitable act or remark":{
"antonyms":[
"amenity",
"attention",
"civility",
"courtesy",
"formality",
"gesture",
"pleasantry"
],
"examples":[
"committed a huge gaffe when she started drinking from the finger bowl"
],
"near antonyms":[
"form",
"manners",
"mores",
"proprieties"
],
"related":[
"blunder",
"error",
"flub",
"fumble",
"goof",
"lapse",
"miscue",
"misstep",
"mistake",
"oversight",
"slip",
"slipup",
"stumble",
"discourtesy",
"incivility",
"offense",
"offence",
"boner",
"howler",
"foul-up",
"muff",
"misapprehension",
"miscalculation",
"misconception",
"misjudgment",
"misstatement",
"misunderstanding"
],
"synonyms":[
"familiarity",
"faux pas",
"gaff",
"impropriety",
"indiscretion",
"solecism"
]
},
"an unintentional departure from truth or accuracy":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"so-called debates, which seemed to be mainly about seeing which candidate made the most gaffes"
],
"near antonyms":[
"accuracy",
"correctness",
"exactitude",
"exactness",
"preciseness",
"precision",
"strictness",
"inerrancy",
"infallibility",
"perfection"
],
"related":[
"bloomer",
"blooper",
"boner",
"howler",
"pratfall",
"foul-up",
"snafu",
"misapprehension",
"miscalculation",
"miscomprehension",
"misconception",
"misconstruction",
"misdescription",
"misimpression",
"misinterpretation",
"misjudgment",
"misreading",
"misstatement",
"misunderstanding"
],
"synonyms":[
"blunder",
"bobble",
"boo-boo",
"boob",
"brick",
"clanger",
"clinker",
"error",
"fault",
"flub",
"fluff",
"fumble",
"gaff",
"goof",
"inaccuracy",
"lapse",
"miscue",
"misstep",
"mistake",
"oversight",
"screwup",
"slip",
"slipup",
"stumble",
"trip"
]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"gag":{
"a playful or mischievous act intended as a joke":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"played a gag on their teammate by putting shaving cream in his hat"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"related":[
"skylarking",
"adventure",
"experience",
"game",
"lark",
"time",
"high jinks",
"hijinks",
"horseplay",
"play",
"roughhousing",
"rowdyism",
"shenanigan(s)",
"tomfoolery",
"joking",
"kidding",
"teasing",
"gambit",
"hoax",
"maneuver",
"ploy",
"deed",
"feat",
"mission",
"performance",
"stunt",
"caprice",
"conceit",
"fancy",
"vagary",
"whim",
"whimsy",
"whimsey",
"deceit",
"deception",
"delusion",
"fooling",
"fraud",
"hanky-panky",
"hoodwinking",
"ruse",
"sham",
"stratagem",
"subterfuge",
"trickery",
"wile"
],
"synonyms":[
"antic",
"caper",
"capriccio",
"dido",
"escapade",
"frolic",
"jest",
"knavery",
"monkeyshine(s)",
"practical joke",
"prank",
"rag",
"roguery",
"shavie",
"shine(s)",
"trick",
"waggery"
]
},
"something said or done to cause laughter":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"the movie featured a gag involving a chicken driving a car that audiences thought was hysterically funny"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"related":[
"funning",
"joking",
"wisecracking",
"knee-slapper",
"panic",
"riot",
"scream",
"thigh-slapper",
"antic",
"buffoonery",
"caper",
"leg-pull",
"monkeyshine(s)",
"practical joke",
"prank",
"trick",
"burlesque",
"caricature",
"lampoon",
"mock",
"mockery",
"parody",
"put-on",
"riff",
"banter",
"kidding",
"persiflage",
"raillery",
"repartee",
"drollness",
"facetiousness",
"funniness",
"hilariousness",
"humorousness",
"comedy",
"humor",
"wit",
"wordplay"
],
"synonyms":[
"boff",
"boffo",
"boffola",
"crack",
"drollery",
"funny",
"giggle",
"jape",
"jest",
"joke",
"josh",
"laugh",
"nifty",
"one-liner",
"pleasantry",
"quip",
"rib",
"sally",
"waggery",
"wisecrack",
"witticism",
"yuk",
"yuck",
"yak",
"yock"
]
},
"to discharge the contents of the stomach through the mouth":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"the terrible smell of rotting fish made me gag"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"related":[
"disgorge",
"regurgitate",
"eject",
"expel",
"nauseate"
],
"synonyms":[
"barf",
"heave",
"hurl",
"puke",
"retch",
"spew",
"spit up",
"throw up",
"upchuck",
"vomit"
]
},
"to experience complete or partial blockage of the windpipe":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"took a bite that was too large and began to gag"
],
"near antonyms":[
"breathe",
"respire",
"expire",
"inspire"
],
"related":[
"heave",
"retch",
"throw up",
"vomit",
"asphyxiate",
"smother",
"stifle"
],
"synonyms":[
"choke",
"suffocate"
]
},
"to make jokes":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"the actor typically mugs and gags through his movies, but in his latest vehicle he plays it straight"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"related":[
"gibe",
"jibe",
"haze",
"jeer",
"mock",
"rag",
"rally",
"razz",
"rib",
"ridicule",
"tease",
"caricature",
"lampoon",
"parody",
"satirize",
"amuse",
"divert",
"entertain"
],
"synonyms":[
"banter",
"chaff",
"fool",
"fun",
"jape",
"jest",
"jive",
"joke",
"jolly",
"josh",
"kid",
"quip",
"wisecrack",
"yuk",
"yuck"
]
},
"type":[
"noun",
"verb"
]
},
"gaga":{
"having or showing a very abnormal or sick state of mind":{
"antonyms":[
"balanced",
"compos mentis",
"sane",
"sound",
"uncrazy"
],
"examples":[
"after years of being alone in that remote outpost he had become totally gaga"
],
"near antonyms":[
"clear",
"lucid",
"rational",
"reasonable",
"judicious",
"sensible",
"wise",
"healthy",
"normal",
"well-adjusted",
"unneurotic"
],
"related":[
"dotty",
"fey",
"loopy",
"off",
"potty",
"teched",
"tetched",
"touched",
"aberrant",
"delirious",
"delusional",
"delusionary",
"disordered",
"disturbed",
"neurotic",
"obsessive-compulsive",
"paranoiac",
"paranoic",
"paranoid",
"paranoidal",
"schizoid",
"schizophrenic",
"sociopathic",
"eccentric",
"odd",
"oddball",
"pixilated",
"pixillated",
"queer",
"strange",
"foolish",
"senseless",
"witless",
"irrational",
"unreasonable",
"amok",
"amuck",
"ape",
"ballistic",
"bananas",
"berserk",
"nuclear",
"depressed",
"distracted",
"distraught",
"frantic",
"frenzied",
"hysterical",
"hysteric",
"raving",
"wigged-out",
"fixated",
"monomaniac",
"monomaniacal",
"obsessed"
],
"synonyms":[
"balmy",
"barmy",
"bats",
"batty",
"bedlam",
"bonkers",
"brainsick",
"bughouse",
"certifiable",
"crackbrained",
"cracked",
"crackers",
"crackpot",
"cranky",
"crazed",
"crazy",
"cuckoo",
"daffy",
"daft",
"demented",
"deranged",
"fruity",
"haywire",
"insane",
"kooky",
"kookie",
"loco",
"loony",
"looney",
"loony tunes",
"looney tunes",
"lunatic",
"mad",
"maniacal",
"maniac",
"mental",
"meshuga",
"meshugge",
"meshugah",
"meshuggah",
"moonstruck",
"non compos mentis",
"nuts",
"nutty",
"psycho",
"psychotic",
"scatty",
"screwy",
"unbalanced",
"unhinged",
"unsound",
"wacko",
"whacko",
"wacky",
"whacky",
"wud"
]
},
"type":[
"adjective"
]
},
"gagged":{
"to discharge the contents of the stomach through the mouth":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"the terrible smell of rotting fish made me gag"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"related":[
"disgorged",
"regurgitated",
"ejected",
"expelled",
"nauseated"
],
"synonyms":[
"barfed",
"heaved",
"hove",
"hurled",
"puked",
"retched",
"spewed",
"spit up",
"spat up",
"threw up",
"upchucked",
"vomited"
]
},
"to experience complete or partial blockage of the windpipe":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"took a bite that was too large and began to gag"
],
"near antonyms":[
"breathed",
"respired",
"expired",
"inspired"
],
"related":[
"heaved",
"hove",
"retched",
"threw up",
"vomited",
"asphyxiated",
"smothered",
"stifled"
],
"synonyms":[
"choked",
"suffocated"
]
},
"to make jokes":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"the actor typically mugs and gags through his movies, but in his latest vehicle he plays it straight"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"related":[
"gibed",
"jibed",
"hazed",
"jeered",
"mocked",
"ragged",
"rallied",
"razzed",
"ribbed",
"ridiculed",
"teased",
"caricatured",
"lampooned",
"parodied",
"satirized",
"amused",
"diverted",
"entertained"
],
"synonyms":[
"bantered",
"chaffed",
"fooled",
"funned",
"japed",
"jested",
"jived",
"joked",
"jollied",
"joshed",
"kidded",
"quipped",
"wisecracked",
"yukked",
"yucked"
]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"gaggers":{
"a person (as a writer) noted for or specializing in humor":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"got her start in comedy as a gagger for the host of a talk show"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"related":[
"comediennes",
"entertainers",
"banterers",
"cutups",
"kidders",
"knockabouts",
"practical jokers",
"pranksters",
"quippers",
"quipsters",
"teasers",
"wisecrackers",
"buffoons",
"clowns",
"fools",
"harlequins",
"zanies",
"caricaturists",
"lampooners",
"parodists",
"satirists"
],
"synonyms":[
"cards",
"comedians",
"comics",
"drolls",
"farceurs",
"funnymen",
"gagmen",
"gagsters",
"humorists",
"jesters",
"jokers",
"jokesters",
"wags",
"wits"
]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"gain ground":{
"to move forward along a course":{
"antonyms":[
"remain",
"stand",
"stay",
"stop"
],
"examples":[
"The winning horse quickly gained ground ahead of the others."
],
"near antonyms":[
"arrest",
"balk",
"block",
"check",
"detain",
"halt",
"hinder",
"hold back",
"impede",
"nip",
"obstruct",
"slow (down or up)",
"stem",
"repress",
"retard",
"stunt",
"suppress",
"delay",
"interrupt",
"stall",
"cramp",
"hamper",
"inhibit",
"cease",
"let up",
"pause",
"regress",
"wait"
],
"related":[
"accelerate",
"fast-forward",
"speed",
"approach",
"near",
"journey",
"pass",
"repair",
"run",
"travel",
"wend",
"actuate",
"drive",
"impel",
"propel",
"push",
"take out"
],
"synonyms":[
"advance",
"come",
"come along",
"do",
"fare",
"forge",
"get along",
"get on",
"go",
"go along",
"go off",
"march",
"pace",
"proceed",
"progress"
]
},
"type":[
"phrase"
]
},
"gains":{
"an increase usually measured in money that comes from labor, business, or property":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"net gains this year were better than last"
],
"near antonyms":[
"charge",
"cost",
"disbursement",
"expenditures",
"expenses",
"outgo",
"outlay"
],
"related":[
"killing",
"windfall",
"salary",
"take-home pay",
"tips",
"wages",
"bankroll",
"capital",
"coffers",
"exchequer",
"finances",
"funds",
"money",
"pocket",
"pocketbook",
"resources",
"wherewithal"
],
"synonyms":[
"earnings",
"income",
"incoming(s)",
"proceeds",
"profit",
"return",
"revenue",
"yield"
]
},
"to become greater in size, extent, volume, amount, or number":{
"antonyms":[
"contracts",
"decreases",
"diminishes",
"dwindles",
"lessens",
"recedes",
"wanes"
],
"examples":[
"the new version of the car gained in both width and length compared to the earlier model"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"related":[
"jumps",
"rockets",
"skyrockets",
"surges",
"heightens",
"intensifies",
"redoubles",
"blows up",
"bulks",
"distends",
"inflates",
"puffs (up)",
"crescendoes",
"crests",
"peaks"
],
"synonyms":[
"accelerates",
"accumulates",
"appreciates",
"balloons",
"booms",
"builds up",
"burgeons",
"bourgeons",
"climbs",
"enlarges",
"escalates",
"expands",
"increases",
"mounts",
"multiplies",
"mushrooms",
"proliferates",
"rises",
"rolls up",
"snowballs",
"spreads",
"swells",
"waxes"
]
},
"to become healthy and strong again after illness or weakness":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"is steadily gaining after his bout with the flu and will be back on his feet soon"
],
"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"
],
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"comes back",
"convalesces",
"heals",
"mends",
"pulls round",
"rallies",
"recoups",
"recovers",
"recuperates",
"snaps back"
]
},
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"examples":[
"the radical party was able to gain some supporters with intense recruitment on college campuses"
],
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"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)"
],
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"argues",
"brings",
"brings around",
"converts",
"convinces",
"gets",
"induces",
"moves",
"persuades",
"prevails (on or upon)",
"satisfies",
"talks (into)",
"wins (over)"
]
},
"to gradually increase in":{
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"decreases (in)",
"loses"
],
"examples":[
"our hopes were raised as the movement gained strength"
],
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"abates",
"declines (in)",
"diminishes (in)",
"dips",
"dwindles",
"falls (in)",
"lessens",
"tapers",
"tapers off"
],
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"doubles (in)",
"triples (in)",
"accrues",
"accumulates",
"amasses",
"excites",
"stimulates",
"enhances",
"enlarges",
"enriches",
"expands",
"extends",
"maximizes",
"boosts",
"elevates",
"jacks (up)",
"mounts",
"ramps (up)",
"steps up"
],
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"builds up",
"gathers",
"grows (in)",
"picks up"
]
},
"to obtain (as a goal) through effort":{
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"examples":[
"vowed to gain control of the company by any means necessary"
],
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"falls short (of)",
"misses",
"fails (at)",
"loses"
],
"related":[
"acquires",
"captures",
"carries",
"draws",
"garners",
"gets",
"lands",
"obtains",
"procures",
"realizes",
"secures",
"amounts (to)",
"approaches",
"equals",
"matches",
"measures up (to)",
"meets",
"rivals",
"ties",
"touches",
"beats",
"excels",
"outdoes",
"surpasses",
"tops"
],
"synonyms":[
"achieves",
"attains",
"bags",
"chalks up",
"clocks (up)",
"hits",
"logs",
"makes",
"notches (up)",
"racks up",
"rings up",
"scores",
"wins"
]
},
"to receive as return for effort":{
"antonyms":[
"forfeits",
"loses"
],
"examples":[
"gained her affections with his boyishly shy manner"
],
"near antonyms":[
"accords",
"gives",
"grants",
"pays",
"gives up",
"hands over",
"parts (with)",
"relinquishes",
"surrenders",
"yields"
],
"related":[
"clears",
"grosses",
"nets",
"accomplishes",
"achieves",
"notches (up)",
"scores",
"accumulates",
"amasses",
"racks up",
"catches",
"picks up",
"annexes",
"occupies",
"takes over",
"reacquires",
"reattains",
"recaptures",
"regains",
"remakes"
],
"synonyms":[
"acquires",
"attains",
"bags",
"brings in",
"captures",
"carries",
"comes by",
"draws",
"earns",
"garners",
"gets",
"knocks down",
"lands",
"makes",
"obtains",
"procures",
"pulls down",
"realizes",
"reaps",
"secures",
"wins"
]
},
"type":[
"noun",
"verb"
]
},
"gainsaid":{
"to declare not to be true":{
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"acknowledged",
"admitted",
"allowed",
"avowed",
"conceded",
"confirmed",
"owned"
],
"examples":[
"it can't be gainsaid that most people wish they had more time and money"
],
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"accepted",
"adopted",
"embraced",
"espoused",
"affirmed",
"announced",
"asserted",
"averred",
"claimed",
"declared",
"maintained",
"professed",
"submitted",
"authenticated",
"corroborated",
"substantiated",
"validated",
"verified"
],
"related":[
"traversed",
"challenged",
"confuted",
"disproved",
"rebutted",
"disagreed (with)",
"disputed"
],
"synonyms":[
"contradicted",
"denied",
"disaffirmed",
"disallowed",
"disavowed",
"disclaimed",
"disconfirmed",
"disowned",
"negated",
"negatived",
"refuted",
"rejected",
"repudiated"
]
},
"to make an assertion that is contrary to one made by (another)":{
"antonyms":[
"agreed (with)",
"concurred (with)"
],
"examples":[
"repeatedly tried to gainsay me, though every point I made was backed up by facts"
],
"near antonyms":[
"confirmed",
"corroborated",
"substantiated",
"verified",
"attested",
"authenticated",
"avouched",
"certified",
"testified (to)",
"vouched (for)",
"witnessed"
],
"related":[
"challenged",
"contested",
"disputed",
"questioned",
"confuted",
"rebutted",
"refuted",
"crossed",
"fought",
"opposed",
"resisted"
],
"synonyms":[
"contradicted",
"disagreed (with)"
]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"gainsay":{
"to declare not to be true":{
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"acknowledge",
"admit",
"allow",
"avow",
"concede",
"confirm",
"own"
],
"examples":[
"it can't be gainsaid that most people wish they had more time and money"
],
"near antonyms":[
"accept",
"adopt",
"embrace",
"espouse",
"affirm",
"announce",
"assert",
"aver",
"claim",
"declare",
"maintain",
"profess",
"submit",
"authenticate",
"corroborate",
"substantiate",
"validate",
"verify"
],
"related":[
"traverse",
"challenge",
"confute",
"disprove",
"rebut",
"disagree (with)",
"dispute"
],
"synonyms":[
"contradict",
"deny",
"disaffirm",
"disallow",
"disavow",
"disclaim",
"disconfirm",
"disown",
"negate",
"negative",
"refute",
"reject",
"repudiate"
]
},
"to make an assertion that is contrary to one made by (another)":{
"antonyms":[
"agree (with)",
"concur (with)"
],
"examples":[
"repeatedly tried to gainsay me, though every point I made was backed up by facts"
],
"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":[
"contradict",
"disagree (with)"
]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"gainsaying":{
"to declare not to be true":{
"antonyms":[
"acknowledging",
"admitting",
"allowing",
"avowing",
"conceding",
"confirming",
"owning"
],
"examples":[
"it can't be gainsaid that most people wish they had more time and money"
],
"near antonyms":[
"accepting",
"adopting",
"embracing",
"espousing",
"affirming",
"announcing",
"asserting",
"averring",
"claiming",
"declaring",
"maintaining",
"professing",
"submitting",
"authenticating",
"corroborating",
"substantiating",
"validating",
"verifying"
],
"related":[
"traversing",
"challenging",
"confuting",
"disproving",
"rebutting",
"disagreeing (with)",
"disputing"
],
"synonyms":[
"contradicting",
"denying",
"disaffirming",
"disallowing",
"disavowing",
"disclaiming",
"disconfirming",
"disowning",
"negating",
"negativing",
"refuting",
"rejecting",
"repudiating"
]
},
"to make an assertion that is contrary to one made by (another)":{
"antonyms":[
"agreeing (with)",
"concurring (with)"
],
"examples":[
"repeatedly tried to gainsay me, though every point I made was backed up by facts"
],
"near antonyms":[
"confirming",
"corroborating",
"substantiating",
"verifying",
"attesting",
"authenticating",
"avouching",
"certifying",
"testifying (to)",
"vouching (for)",
"witnessing"
],
"related":[
"challenging",
"contesting",
"disputing",
"questioning",
"confuting",
"rebutting",
"refuting",
"crossing",
"fighting",
"opposing",
"resisting"
],
"synonyms":[
"contradicting",
"disagreeing (with)"
]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"gala":{
"a time or program of special events and entertainment in honor of something":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"attended the gala celebrating the reopening of the museum"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"related":[
"jamboree",
"jollification",
"jollity",
"merriment",
"merrymaking",
"rejoicing",
"revel",
"revelry",
"exhibit",
"exhibition",
"exposition",
"fair",
"show",
"exercises",
"honors"
],
"synonyms":[
"carnival",
"celebration",
"fest",
"festival",
"festivity",
"fete",
"f\u00eate",
"fiesta",
"jubilee"
]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"galactic":{
"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 galactic serving of soda that would have been enough for three moviegoers"
],
"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",
"cosmic",
"cosmical",
"cyclopean",
"elephantine",
"enormous",
"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"
]
}
},
"galilee":{
"as in portico":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[],
"near antonyms":[],
"related":[],
"synonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"gallantry":{
"strength of mind to carry on in spite of danger":{
"antonyms":[
"cowardice",
"cowardliness",
"cravenness",
"dastardliness",
"poltroonery",
"spinelessness"
],
"examples":[
"commended the rescuers for their gallantry"
],
"near antonyms":[
"cold feet",
"faintheartedness",
"fearfulness",
"mousiness",
"timidity",
"timorousness",
"feebleness",
"softness",
"weakness",
"impotence",
"ineffectualness",
"hesitation",
"indecision",
"indecisiveness",
"irresolution"
],
"related":[
"backbone",
"fiber",
"fortitude",
"grit",
"gumption",
"mettle",
"pluck",
"pluckiness",
"spunk",
"temper",
"determination",
"perseverance",
"resolution",
"endurance",
"stamina",
"stomach",
"tenacity",
"audacity",
"boldness",
"brazenness",
"cheek",
"cojones",
"effrontery",
"gall",
"temerity"
],
"synonyms":[
"bottle",
"bravery",
"courage",
"courageousness",
"daring",
"daringness",
"dauntlessness",
"doughtiness",
"fearlessness",
"greatheartedness",
"guts",
"gutsiness",
"hardihood",
"heart",
"heroism",
"intestinal fortitude",
"intrepidity",
"intrepidness",
"moxie",
"nerve",
"pecker",
"prowess",
"stoutness",
"valor",
"virtue"
]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"galleon":{
"a large sailing ship used especially by the Spanish in the 1500s and 1600s":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[],
"near antonyms":[],
"related":[],
"synonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"galore":{
"being more than enough without being excessive":{
"antonyms":[
"bare",
"minimal",
"scant",
"spare"
],
"examples":[
"with restaurants galore , the city is an epicure's delight"
],
"near antonyms":[
"deficient",
"inadequate",
"insufficient",
"lacking",
"wanting",
"meager",
"meagre",
"niggardly",
"stingy",
"skimpy",
"least",
"minimum",
"light",
"slight",
"small",
"barren",
"infertile",
"sterile",
"unfruitful",
"unproductive"
],
"related":[
"extra",
"supernumerary",
"surplus",
"abounding",
"blooming",
"overflowing",
"plump",
"replete",
"rich",
"rife",
"teeming",
"wealthy",
"adequate",
"enough",
"sufficient",
"fat",
"fecund",
"fertile",
"fruitful",
"luxuriant",
"prodigal",
"prolific",
"copious",
"fulsome",
"lavish",
"profuse"
],
"synonyms":[
"abundant",
"ample",
"aplenty",
"bounteous",
"bountiful",
"comfortable",
"cornucopian",
"generous",
"liberal",
"plenteous",
"plentiful",
"plenty"
]
},
"pouring forth in great amounts":{
"antonyms":[
"dribbling",
"trickling"
],
"examples":[
"there was food galore at our Thanksgiving meal"
],
"near antonyms":[
"meager",
"meagre",
"niggardly",
"poor",
"scant",
"scanty",
"spare",
"sparse",
"stingy",
"deficient",
"inadequate",
"incomplete",
"insufficient",
"lacking",
"scarce",
"unsatisfactory",
"wanting",
"bare",
"mere",
"minimal"
],
"related":[
"abounding",
"abundant",
"ample",
"bounteous",
"bountiful",
"liberal",
"plenteous",
"plentiful",
"extravagant",
"luxuriant",
"fat",
"fecund",
"fertile",
"free",
"munificent",
"openhanded",
"unsparing",
"unstinting",
"excessive",
"immoderate",
"redundant",
"adequate",
"complete",
"enough",
"sufficient"
],
"synonyms":[
"copious",
"gushing",
"lavish",
"profuse",
"riotous"
]
},
"type":[
"adjective"
]
},
"gamble (with)":{
"to place in danger":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"you don't want to gamble with your life, so buckle up"
],
"near antonyms":[
"guard",
"protect",
"shelter",
"shield",
"preserve",
"resume",
"save"
],
"related":[
"intimidate",
"threaten",
"expose",
"subject",
"chance",
"wager"
],
"synonyms":[
"adventure",
"compromise",
"endanger",
"hazard",
"imperil",
"jeopard",
"jeopardize",
"menace",
"peril",
"risk",
"venture"
]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"gambled (on)":{
"to take a chance on":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"a movie studio willing to gamble on a new actress for its summer blockbuster"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"related":[
"bearded",
"braved",
"brazened",
"breasted",
"challenged",
"confronted",
"dared",
"defied",
"faced",
"outbraved",
"compromised",
"endangered",
"imperiled",
"imperilled",
"jeopardized",
"menaced",
"exposed",
"subjected",
"bet (on)",
"betted (on)",
"wagered"
],
"synonyms":[
"adventured",
"chanced",
"hazarded",
"risked",
"tempted",
"ventured"
]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"gambled (with)":{
"to place in danger":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"you don't want to gamble with your life, so buckle up"
],
"near antonyms":[
"guarded",
"protected",
"sheltered",
"shielded",
"preserved",
"resumed",
"saved"
],
"related":[
"intimidated",
"threatened",
"exposed",
"subjected",
"chanced",
"wagered"
],
"synonyms":[
"adventured",
"compromised",
"endangered",
"hazarded",
"imperiled",
"imperilled",
"jeoparded",
"jeopardized",
"menaced",
"periled",
"perilled",
"risked",
"ventured"
]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"gamboled":{
"to play and run about happily":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"dog owners chat while their pooches gambol on the park's great lawn"
],
"near antonyms":[
"moped",
"pouted",
"stewed",
"sulked"
],
"related":[
"bounded",
"hopped",
"leaped",
"leapt",
"loped",
"skipped",
"sprang",
"sprung",
"tripped",
"tumbled",
"curvetted",
"curveted",
"danced",
"pranced",
"caroused",
"reveled",
"revelled",
"roistered",
"carried on",
"fooled around",
"horsed around",
"clowned",
"cut up",
"joyrode",
"roughhoused",
"skylarked",
"kited"
],
"synonyms":[
"capered",
"cavorted",
"disported",
"frisked",
"frolicked",
"larked",
"rollicked",
"romped",
"sported"
]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"gambolled":{
"to play and run about happily":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"dog owners chat while their pooches gambol on the park's great lawn"
],
"near antonyms":[
"moped",
"pouted",
"stewed",
"sulked"
],
"related":[
"bounded",
"hopped",
"leaped",
"leapt",
"loped",
"skipped",
"sprang",
"sprung",
"tripped",
"tumbled",
"curvetted",
"curveted",
"danced",
"pranced",
"caroused",
"reveled",
"revelled",
"roistered",
"carried on",
"fooled around",
"horsed around",
"clowned",
"cut up",
"joyrode",
"roughhoused",
"skylarked",
"kited"
],
"synonyms":[
"capered",
"cavorted",
"disported",
"frisked",
"frolicked",
"larked",
"rollicked",
"romped",
"sported"
]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"gambolling":{
"as in romping":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[],
"near antonyms":[],
"related":[],
"synonyms":[]
},
"to play and run about happily":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"dog owners chat while their pooches gambol on the park's great lawn"
],
"near antonyms":[
"moping",
"pouting",
"stewing",
"sulking"
],
"related":[
"bounding",
"hopping",
"leaping",
"loping",
"skipping",
"springing",
"tripping",
"tumbling",
"curvetting",
"curveting",
"dancing",
"prancing",
"carousing",
"reveling",
"revelling",
"roistering",
"carrying on",
"fooling around",
"horsing around",
"clowning",
"cutting up",
"joyriding",
"roughhousing",
"skylarking",
"kiting"
],
"synonyms":[
"capering",
"cavorting",
"disporting",
"frisking",
"frolicking",
"larking",
"rollicking",
"romping",
"sporting"
]
},
"type":[
"noun",
"verb"
]
},
"gamesman":{
"as in prankster , adventurer":{
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"near antonyms":[],
"related":[],
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},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"gamesmanship":{
"the use of clever underhanded actions to achieve an end":{
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"examples":[
"that author doesn't go in for literary gamesmanship , so the reader is never led astray by the novel's narrator"
],
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"artlessness",
"forthrightness",
"guilelessness",
"ingenuousness",
"sincerity",
"candidness",
"candor",
"directness",
"openness",
"plainness",
"plainspokenness"
],
"related":[
"artfulness",
"caginess",
"cageyness",
"craftiness",
"cunning",
"deviousness",
"foxiness",
"oiliness",
"shadiness",
"sharpness",
"shiftiness",
"shrewdness",
"slickness",
"slipperiness",
"slyness",
"sneakiness",
"treachery",
"underhandedness",
"wiliness",
"crookedness",
"crookery",
"cunning",
"deceit",
"deceitfulness",
"deception",
"deceptiveness",
"dishonesty",
"dissimulation",
"double-dealing",
"dupery",
"duplicity",
"guile",
"guilefulness",
"hypocrisy",
"insincerity",
"fakery",
"humbuggery",
"imposture",
"quackery",
"dirty pool",
"dirty tricks",
"design",
"plotting",
"scheming",
"secrecy",
"stealth"
],
"synonyms":[
"artifice",
"chicane",
"chicanery",
"hanky-panky",
"jiggery-pokery",
"jugglery",
"legerdemain",
"skulduggery",
"skullduggery",
"subterfuge",
"trickery",
"wile"
]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"gamine":{
"as in":{
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"examples":[],
"near antonyms":[],
"related":[],
"synonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"gammoning":{
"to cause to believe what is untrue":{
"antonyms":[
"undeceiving"
],
"examples":[
"good-hearted contributors have been gammoned into believing that most of the charity's funds go to the needy and not into the pockets of the administrators"
],
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"debunking",
"exposing",
"revealing",
"showing up",
"uncloaking",
"uncovering",
"unmasking",
"disclosing",
"divulging",
"telling",
"unveiling",
"disabusing",
"disenchanting",
"disillusioning"
],
"related":[
"kidding",
"putting on",
"teasing",
"bleeding",
"cheating",
"chiseling",
"chiselling",
"defrauding",
"diddling",
"euchring",
"fleecing",
"flimflamming",
"hustling",
"mulcting",
"rooking",
"shortchanging",
"skinning",
"squeezing",
"sticking",
"stinging",
"swindling"
],
"synonyms":[
"bamboozling",
"beguiling",
"bluffing",
"buffaloing",
"burning",
"catching",
"conning",
"cozening",
"deceiving",
"deluding",
"duping",
"faking out",
"fooling",
"gaffing",
"gulling",
"having",
"having on",
"hoaxing",
"hoodwinking",
"hornswoggling",
"humbugging",
"juggling",
"misguiding",
"misinforming",
"misleading",
"snookering",
"snowing",
"spoofing",
"stringing along",
"suckering",
"sucking in",
"taking in",
"tricking"
]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"gamy":{
"hinting at or intended to call to mind matters regarded as indecent":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"a singles bar where the conversations and come-on lines tend to be gamy"
],
"near antonyms":[
"clean",
"decent",
"G-rated",
"nonobscene",
"innocuous",
"inoffensive",
"priggish",
"prim",
"prudish",
"puritanical",
"staid",
"straitlaced",
"straightlaced",
"Victorian",
"correct",
"decorous",
"genteel",
"nice",
"polite",
"proper",
"respectable",
"seemly"
],
"related":[
"leering",
"barnyard",
"coarse",
"coarse-grained",
"crude",
"earthy",
"foul",
"gross",
"vulgar",
"dirty",
"filthy",
"gutter",
"indecent",
"lascivious",
"locker-room",
"nasty",
"obscene",
"pornographic",
"porny",
"prurient",
"raunchy",
"smutty",
"stag",
"unprintable",
"unpublishable",
"warm",
"X-rated",
"immodest",
"indecorous",
"indelicate",
"naughty"
],
"synonyms":[
"bawdy",
"blue",
"lewd",
"off",
"off-color",
"off-colored",
"racy",
"ribald",
"risqu\u00e9",
"salty",
"spicy",
"suggestive"
]
},
"type":[
"adjective"
]
},
"ganders":{
"a stupid person":{
"antonyms":[
"brains",
"geniuses",
"genii"
],
"examples":[
"the village's chief of police was an ineffectual albeit pleasant gander"
],
"near antonyms":[
"intellects",
"intellectuals",
"sages",
"thinkers",
"whizzes",
"wizards",
"polymaths",
"Renaissance men",
"sharpies"
],
"related":[
"boobies",
"buffoons",
"fools",
"geese",
"loonies",
"lunatics",
"madmen",
"nuts",
"zanies",
"losers",
"gawks",
"featherbrains",
"scatterbrains",
"beasts",
"boors",
"cads",
"churls",
"clowns",
"creeps",
"curs",
"heels",
"jerks",
"skunks",
"skunk",
"snakes",
"stinkers",
"villains"
],
"synonyms":[
"airheads",
"birdbrains",
"blockheads",
"boneheads",
"bubbleheads",
"chowderheads",
"chuckleheads",
"clodpolls",
"clodpoles",
"clots",
"clucks",
"clunks",
"cretins",
"cuddies",
"deadheads",
"dim bulbs",
"dimwits",
"dips",
"dodoes",
"dodos",
"dolts",
"donkeys",
"doofuses",
"dufuses",
"dopes",
"dorks",
"dullards",
"dumbbells",
"dumbheads",
"dum-dums",
"dummies",
"dummkopfs",
"dunces",
"dunderheads",
"fatheads",
"golems",
"goofs",
"goons",
"half-wits",
"hammerheads",
"hardheads",
"idiots",
"ignoramuses",
"ignorami",
"imbeciles",
"jackasses",
"know-nothings",
"knuckleheads",
"lamebrains",
"loggerheads",
"loons",
"lumps",
"lunkheads",
"meatheads",
"momes",
"morons",
"mugs",
"mutts",
"naturals",
"nimrods",
"nincompoops",
"ninnies",
"ninnyhammers",
"nits",
"nitwits",
"noddies",
"noodles",
"numskulls",
"numbskulls",
"oafs",
"pinheads",
"prats",
"ratbags",
"sapheads",
"schlubs",
"shlubs",
"schnooks",
"simpletons",
"stocks",
"stupes",
"stupids",
"thickheads",
"turkeys",
"woodenheads",
"yahoos",
"yo-yos"
]
},
"an instance of looking especially briefly":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"suggested that they take a gander at the display of classic cars"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"related":[
"gapes",
"gazes",
"glares",
"leers",
"ogles",
"stares",
"side-glances",
"squinnies",
"squints",
"coups d'oeil"
],
"synonyms":[
"casts",
"eyes",
"glances",
"glimpses",
"looks",
"peeks",
"peeps",
"regards",
"sights",
"views"
]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"gang up":{
"as in team (up) , hang together":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[],
"near antonyms":[],
"related":[],
"synonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"gang up (on)":{
"as in swarm , mob":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[],
"near antonyms":[],
"related":[],
"synonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"gangbanger":{
"a violent, brutal person who is often a member of an organized gang":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"the argument that the DEA needs to focus more on the kingpins of the drug trade and less on the gangbangers in the street"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"related":[
"cutthroat",
"scoundrel",
"villain",
"assassin",
"bandit",
"bravo",
"brigand",
"criminal",
"crook",
"desperado",
"felon",
"gunman",
"highwayman",
"lawbreaker",
"mafioso",
"malefactor",
"offender",
"outlaw",
"perp",
"perpetrator",
"pirate",
"pickpocket",
"racketeer",
"robber",
"swindler",
"thief",
"vandal",
"juvenile delinquent",
"tearaway"
],
"synonyms":[
"bully",
"gangsta",
"gangster",
"goon",
"gorilla",
"hood",
"hoodlum",
"hooligan",
"mobster",
"mug",
"plug-ugly",
"punk",
"roughneck",
"rowdy",
"ruffian",
"thug",
"tough",
"toughie",
"toughy",
"yob",
"yobbo"
]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"gangsta":{
"a violent, brutal person who is often a member of an organized gang":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"the short, violence-filled life of an inner-city gangsta"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"related":[
"cutthroat",
"scoundrel",
"villain",
"assassin",
"bandit",
"bravo",
"brigand",
"criminal",
"crook",
"desperado",
"felon",
"gunman",
"highwayman",
"lawbreaker",
"mafioso",
"malefactor",
"offender",
"outlaw",
"perp",
"perpetrator",
"pirate",
"pickpocket",
"racketeer",
"robber",
"swindler",
"thief",
"vandal",
"juvenile delinquent",
"tearaway"
],
"synonyms":[
"bully",
"gangbanger",
"gangster",
"goon",
"gorilla",
"hood",
"hoodlum",
"hooligan",
"mobster",
"mug",
"plug-ugly",
"punk",
"roughneck",
"rowdy",
"ruffian",
"thug",
"tough",
"toughie",
"toughy",
"yob",
"yobbo"
]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"garage":{
"as in":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[],
"near antonyms":[],
"related":[],
"synonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"garb":{
"clothing chosen as appropriate for a specific situation":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"decided to clothe himself in traditional Scottish garb for the celebration"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"related":[
"apparel",
"attire",
"clothes",
"duds",
"habiliment(s)",
"raiment",
"fashion",
"mode",
"style",
"array",
"caparison",
"vestments"
],
"synonyms":[
"costume",
"drag",
"dress",
"getup",
"guise",
"outfit",
"togs"
]
},
"the outward form of someone or something especially as indicative of a quality":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"a fable about personal redemption presented in the garb of a conventional horror story"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"related":[
"air",
"attitude",
"bearing",
"behavior",
"comportment",
"demeanor",
"deportment",
"manner",
"poise",
"pose",
"carriage",
"posture",
"stance",
"cast",
"mold",
"shape",
"turn",
"color",
"coloring",
"complexion",
"countenance",
"face",
"features",
"habit",
"habitus",
"person",
"physiognomy",
"superficies",
"visage"
],
"synonyms":[
"appearance",
"aspect",
"dress",
"figure",
"look",
"mien",
"outside",
"presence",
"regard"
]
},
"to outfit with clothes and especially fine or special clothes":{
"antonyms":[
"disarray",
"disrobe",
"strip",
"unclothe",
"undress",
"untruss"
],
"examples":[
"firefighters garbed in protective gear"
],
"near antonyms":[
"denude",
"divest",
"uncover",
"undrape",
"unveil"
],
"related":[
"cloak",
"frock",
"jacket",
"mantle",
"vest",
"drape",
"enswathe",
"hap",
"huddle",
"swaddle",
"swathe",
"wrap",
"accoutre",
"accouter",
"bedight",
"equip",
"furnish",
"habilitate",
"outfit",
"tailor",
"uniform",
"dress down",
"underdress"
],
"synonyms":[
"apparel",
"array",
"attire",
"bedeck",
"caparison",
"clothe",
"costume",
"deck (out)",
"do up",
"dress",
"dress up",
"enrobe",
"garment",
"get up",
"gown",
"habit",
"invest",
"rig (out)",
"robe",
"suit",
"tog (up or out)",
"toilet",
"vesture"
]
},
"type":[
"noun",
"verb"
]
},
"garbage":{
"discarded or useless material":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"the stray dogs were looking for leftover food in the family's garbage"
],
"near antonyms":[
"catch",
"gem",
"goody",
"goodie",
"jewel",
"pearl",
"plum",
"prize",
"treasure",
"treasure trove",
"trove",
"valuable",
"booty",
"find",
"salvage"
],
"related":[
"crud",
"sewage",
"slop",
"swill",
"wash",
"detritus",
"remains",
"rubble",
"ruins",
"dump",
"scrap heap",
"lumber",
"odds and ends",
"trumpery",
"flotsam",
"jetsam",
"wreckage",
"castoff",
"cull",
"discard",
"hand-me-down",
"reject",
"throwaway",
"nothing",
"straw",
"two bits"
],
"synonyms":[
"chaff",
"deadwood",
"debris",
"dreck",
"drek",
"dross",
"dust",
"effluvium",
"effluvia",
"junk",
"litter",
"offal",
"offscouring",
"raffle",
"refuse",
"riffraff",
"rubbish",
"scrap",
"spilth",
"trash",
"truck",
"waste"
]
},
"language, behavior, or ideas that are absurd and contrary to good sense":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"she was just talking garbage when she said that she was taking a loss on the sale of the house"
],
"near antonyms":[
"levelheadedness",
"rationality",
"reasonability",
"reasonableness",
"sensibleness",
"common sense",
"horse sense",
"sense",
"discernment",
"judgment",
"judgement",
"wisdom"
],
"related":[
"absurdity",
"asininity",
"fatuity",
"foolery",
"idiocy",
"imbecility",
"inaneness",
"inanity",
"insanity",
"kookiness",
"lunacy",
"absurdness",
"craziness",
"madness",
"witlessness",
"hoity-toity",
"monkey business",
"monkeyshine(s)",
"shenanigan(s)",
"tomfoolery",
"gas",
"hot air",
"rigmarole",
"rigamarole",
"double-talk",
"greek",
"hocus-pocus"
],
"synonyms":[
"applesauce",
"balderdash",
"baloney",
"boloney",
"beans",
"bilge",
"blah",
"blah-blah",
"blarney",
"blather",
"blatherskite",
"blither",
"bosh",
"bull",
"bunk",
"bunkum",
"buncombe",
"claptrap",
"codswallop",
"crapola",
"crock",
"drivel",
"drool",
"fiddle",
"fiddle-faddle",
"fiddlesticks",
"flannel",
"flapdoodle",
"folderol",
"falderal",
"folly",
"foolishness",
"fudge",
"guff",
"hogwash",
"hokeypokey",
"hokum",
"hoodoo",
"hooey",
"horsefeathers",
"humbug",
"humbuggery",
"jazz",
"malarkey",
"malarky",
"moonshine",
"muck",
"nerts",
"nonsense",
"nuts",
"piffle",
"poppycock",
"punk",
"rot",
"rubbish",
"senselessness",
"silliness",
"slush",
"stupidity",
"taradiddle",
"tarradiddle",
"tommyrot",
"tosh",
"trash",
"trumpery",
"twaddle"
]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"garbed":{
"as in dressed , attired":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[],
"near antonyms":[],
"related":[],
"synonyms":[]
},
"to outfit with clothes and especially fine or special clothes":{
"antonyms":[
"disarrayed",
"disrobed",
"stripped",
"stript",
"unclothed",
"undressed",
"untrussed"
],
"examples":[
"firefighters garbed in protective gear"
],
"near antonyms":[
"denuded",
"divested",
"uncovered",
"undraped",
"unveiled"
],
"related":[
"cloaked",
"frocked",
"jacketed",
"mantled",
"vested",
"draped",
"enswathed",
"happed",
"huddled",
"swaddled",
"swathed",
"wrapped",
"accoutred",
"accoutered",
"bedighted",
"bedight",
"equipped",
"furnished",
"habilitated",
"outfitted",
"tailored",
"uniformed",
"dressed down",
"underdressed"
],
"synonyms":[
"appareled",
"apparelled",
"arrayed",
"attired",
"bedecked",
"caparisoned",
"clothed",
"clad",
"costumed",
"decked (out)",
"did up",
"dressed",
"dressed up",
"enrobed",
"garmented",
"got up",
"gowned",
"habited",
"invested",
"rigged (out)",
"robed",
"suited",
"togged (up or out)",
"toileted",
"vestured"
]
},
"type":[
"adjective",
"verb"
]
},
"garderobe":{
"as in outhouse , privy":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[],
"near antonyms":[],
"related":[],
"synonyms":[]
},
"as in wardrobe":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[],
"near antonyms":[],
"related":[],
"synonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"garmented":{
"to outfit with clothes and especially fine or special clothes":{
"antonyms":[
"disarrayed",
"disrobed",
"stripped",
"stript",
"unclothed",
"undressed",
"untrussed"
],
"examples":[
"a socialite who was among the most gorgeously garmented women of her time"
],
"near antonyms":[
"denuded",
"divested",
"uncovered",
"undraped",
"unveiled"
],
"related":[
"cloaked",
"frocked",
"jacketed",
"mantled",
"vested",
"draped",
"enswathed",
"happed",
"huddled",
"swaddled",
"swathed",
"wrapped",
"accoutred",
"accoutered",
"bedighted",
"bedight",
"equipped",
"furnished",
"habilitated",
"outfitted",
"tailored",
"uniformed",
"dressed down",
"underdressed"
],
"synonyms":[
"appareled",
"apparelled",
"arrayed",
"attired",
"bedecked",
"caparisoned",
"clothed",
"clad",
"costumed",
"decked (out)",
"did up",
"dressed",
"dressed up",
"enrobed",
"garbed",
"got up",
"gowned",
"habited",
"invested",
"rigged (out)",
"robed",
"suited",
"togged (up or out)",
"toileted",
"vestured"
]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"garments":{
"covering for the human body":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"chimney sweeps wearing the traditional garments of their trade"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"related":[
"garderobe",
"wardrobe",
"array",
"bravery",
"caparison",
"finery",
"gaiety",
"gayety",
"glad rags",
"pretties",
"regalia",
"trim",
"foofaraw",
"frippery",
"gaudery",
"tawdry",
"trumpery",
"tatters",
"costume",
"ensemble",
"frock",
"garb",
"getup",
"guise",
"livery",
"outfit",
"civvies",
"civies",
"mufti",
"couture",
"pr\u00eat-\u00e0-porter",
"pret-a-porter",
"ready-to-wear",
"tailoring",
"activewear",
"loungewear",
"outerwear",
"playwear",
"sportswear",
"nightclothes",
"sleepwear",
"smallclothes",
"underclothes",
"underwear",
"haberdashery",
"menswear"
],
"synonyms":[
"apparel",
"attire",
"clobber",
"clothes",
"clothing",
"costumery",
"dress",
"duds",
"gear",
"habiliment(s)",
"habit",
"rags",
"raiment",
"rig",
"rigging",
"threads",
"toggery",
"togs",
"vestiary",
"vestments",
"vesture",
"wear",
"wearables",
"weeds"
]
},
"to outfit with clothes and especially fine or special clothes":{
"antonyms":[
"disarrays",
"disrobes",
"strips",
"unclothes",
"undresses",
"untrusses"
],
"examples":[
"a socialite who was among the most gorgeously garmented women of her time"
],
"near antonyms":[
"denudes",
"divests",
"uncovers",
"undrapes",
"unveils"
],
"related":[
"cloaks",
"frocks",
"jackets",
"mantles",
"vests",
"drapes",
"enswathes",
"haps",
"huddles",
"swaddles",
"swathes",
"wraps",
"accoutres",
"accouters",
"bedights",
"equips",
"furnishes",
"habilitates",
"outfits",
"tailors",
"uniforms",
"dresses down",
"underdresses"
],
"synonyms":[
"apparels",
"arrays",
"attires",
"bedecks",
"caparisons",
"clothes",
"costumes",
"decks (out)",
"does up",
"dresses",
"dresses up",
"enrobes",
"garbs",
"gets up",
"gowns",
"habits",
"invests",
"rigs (out)",
"robes",
"suits",
"togs (up or out)",
"toilets",
"vestures"
]
},
"type":[
"plural noun",
"verb"
]
},
"garners":{
"to bring together in one body or place":{
"antonyms":[
"dispels",
"disperses",
"dissipates",
"scatters"
],
"examples":[
"a prisoner garnering food bit by bit and hiding it in his pillow",
"an array of rock bands garnered from all over the country by the promoters of the festival"
],
"near antonyms":[
"breaks up",
"disbands",
"disintegrates",
"dissolves",
"separates",
"severs",
"splits (up)",
"dismisses",
"sends"
],
"related":[
"balls",
"batches",
"bunches",
"clusters",
"huddles",
"heaps",
"piles",
"stacks",
"bands",
"brigades",
"musters",
"raises",
"rallies",
"flocks",
"herds",
"hives",
"packs",
"presses",
"swarms",
"throngs",
"combines",
"connects",
"joins",
"links",
"merges",
"pools",
"unites",
"archives",
"arranges",
"collates",
"compiles",
"organizes",
"systematizes",
"scrapes (up or together)",
"re-collects",
"regathers",
"regroups"
],
"synonyms":[
"accumulates",
"amasses",
"assembles",
"bulks (up)",
"collects",
"concentrates",
"congregates",
"constellates",
"corrals",
"gathers",
"groups",
"lumps",
"picks up",
"rounds up"
]
},
"to receive as return for effort":{
"antonyms":[
"forfeits",
"loses"
],
"examples":[
"a novelist that has garnered praise for his literate police procedurals"
],
"near antonyms":[
"accords",
"gives",
"grants",
"pays",
"gives up",
"hands over",
"parts (with)",
"relinquishes",
"surrenders",
"yields"
],
"related":[
"clears",
"grosses",
"nets",
"accomplishes",
"achieves",
"notches (up)",
"scores",
"accumulates",
"amasses",
"racks up",
"catches",
"picks up",
"annexes",
"occupies",
"takes over",
"reacquires",
"reattains",
"recaptures",
"regains",
"remakes"
],
"synonyms":[
"acquires",
"attains",
"bags",
"brings in",
"captures",
"carries",
"comes by",
"draws",
"earns",
"gains",
"gets",
"knocks down",
"lands",
"makes",
"obtains",
"procures",
"pulls down",
"realizes",
"reaps",
"secures",
"wins"
]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"garnished":{
"as in dressed , decorated":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[],
"near antonyms":[],
"related":[],
"synonyms":[]
},
"to make more attractive by adding something that is beautiful or becoming":{
"antonyms":[
"blemished",
"defaced",
"disfigured",
"marred",
"scarred",
"spoiled",
"spoilt"
],
"examples":[
"a chef who never served any dish without first garnishing it"
],
"near antonyms":[
"simplified",
"streamlined",
"bared",
"denuded",
"dismantled",
"displayed",
"divested",
"exposed",
"revealed",
"stripped",
"stript",
"uncovered",
"uglified"
],
"related":[
"accessorized",
"dressed up",
"trapped",
"tricked (out)",
"brightened",
"freshened",
"smartened",
"spruced (up)",
"bossed",
"chased",
"braided",
"embroidered",
"feathered",
"figured",
"filigreed",
"filleted",
"flounced",
"frilled",
"fringed",
"furbelowed",
"garlanded",
"hung",
"hanged",
"laced",
"ribboned",
"swagged",
"wreathed",
"appliqu\u00e9d",
"gilded",
"gilt",
"painted",
"diamonded",
"gemmed",
"impearled",
"jeweled",
"jewelled",
"pearled",
"redecorated",
"redid"
],
"synonyms":[
"adorned",
"arrayed",
"beautified",
"bedecked",
"bedizened",
"blazoned",
"caparisoned",
"decked",
"decorated",
"did",
"did up",
"dolled up",
"draped",
"dressed",
"embellished",
"emblazed",
"embossed",
"enriched",
"fancied up",
"fancified",
"festooned",
"glitzed (up)",
"graced",
"gussied up",
"ornamented",
"prettied (up)",
"trimmed"
]
},
"type":[
"adjective",
"verb"
]
},
"garnishee":{
"as in":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[],
"near antonyms":[],
"related":[],
"synonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"garnishment":{
"something that decorates or beautifies":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"a high-end caterer whose dishes feature an array of over-the-top garnishments"
],
"near antonyms":[
"blemish",
"defacement",
"disfigurement",
"scar",
"blot",
"spot",
"stain"
],
"related":[
"apparel",
"bells and whistles",
"blazonry",
"bric-a-brac",
"chichi",
"emblazonry",
"filigree",
"finery",
"foofaraw",
"frippery",
"frosting",
"froufrou",
"fal-lal",
"flounce",
"flourish",
"furbelow",
"ruffle",
"enhancement",
"enrichment",
"improvement",
"appliqu\u00e9",
"embossment",
"embroidery",
"fancywork",
"bedizenment",
"gilt",
"glitter",
"design",
"figure",
"pattern",
"furnishings",
"regalia",
"trappings"
],
"synonyms":[
"adornment",
"beautifier",
"caparison",
"decoration",
"doodad",
"embellisher",
"embellishment",
"frill",
"garnish",
"garniture",
"ornament",
"ornamentation",
"setoff",
"trim"
]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"garniture":{
"something that decorates or beautifies":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"she prefers a spare style of interior decoration and doesn't go in for a lot of garnitures"
],
"near antonyms":[
"blemish",
"defacement",
"disfigurement",
"scar",
"blot",
"spot",
"stain"
],
"related":[
"apparel",
"bells and whistles",
"blazonry",
"bric-a-brac",
"chichi",
"emblazonry",
"filigree",
"finery",
"foofaraw",
"frippery",
"frosting",
"froufrou",
"fal-lal",
"flounce",
"flourish",
"furbelow",
"ruffle",
"enhancement",
"enrichment",
"improvement",
"appliqu\u00e9",
"embossment",
"embroidery",
"fancywork",
"bedizenment",
"gilt",
"glitter",
"design",
"figure",
"pattern",
"furnishings",
"regalia",
"trappings"
],
"synonyms":[
"adornment",
"beautifier",
"caparison",
"decoration",
"doodad",
"embellisher",
"embellishment",
"frill",
"garnish",
"garnishment",
"ornament",
"ornamentation",
"setoff",
"trim"
]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"garotted":{
"to keep (someone) from breathing by exerting pressure on the windpipe":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"the goons sent by the loan shark threatened to garrote the hero with his own necktie"
],
"near antonyms":[
"restored",
"resuscitated",
"revived"
],
"related":[
"asphyxiated",
"smothered",
"stifled",
"scragged"
],
"synonyms":[
"choked",
"strangled",
"suffocated",
"throttled"
]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"gasbag":{
"a person who talks constantly":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"that gasbag will talk your ear off about anything"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"related":[
"gossip",
"gossiper",
"talebearer",
"tattler",
"tattletale",
"blatherer",
"blatherskite",
"converser",
"discourser"
],
"synonyms":[
"babbler",
"blabber",
"blabbermouth",
"blowhard",
"cackler",
"chatterbox",
"chatterer",
"conversationalist",
"gabbler",
"jabberer",
"jay",
"magpie",
"motormouth",
"prattler",
"talker",
"windbag"
]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"gassing":{
"to engage in casual or rambling conversation":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"a group of kids in the mall, gassing about their favorite music"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"related":[
"gossiping",
"tattling",
"descanting",
"discussing",
"expatiating",
"yakking",
"yacking",
"yammering",
"yapping"
],
"synonyms":[
"babbling",
"blabbing",
"cackling",
"chaffering",
"chattering",
"chatting",
"chinning",
"conversing",
"gabbing",
"gabbling",
"jabbering",
"jawing",
"kibitzing",
"kibbitzing",
"nattering",
"palavering",
"pattering",
"prating",
"prattling",
"rapping",
"rattling",
"running on",
"schmoozing",
"shmoozing",
"talking",
"twittering",
"visiting"
]
},
"to give satisfaction to":{
"antonyms":[
"displeasing"
],
"examples":[
"a swinging jazz set that really gassed the crowd"
],
"near antonyms":[
"aggravating",
"annoying",
"bothering",
"bugging",
"chafing",
"crossing",
"exasperating",
"galling",
"getting",
"grating",
"irking",
"irritating",
"nettling",
"peeving",
"perturbing",
"piquing",
"putting out",
"ruffling",
"vexing",
"angering",
"enraging",
"incensing",
"inflaming",
"enflaming",
"infuriating",
"maddening",
"outraging",
"rankling",
"riling",
"roiling",
"steaming up",
"provoking",
"rousing",
"agitating",
"distressing",
"disturbing",
"fretting",
"upsetting",
"harassing",
"harrying",
"pestering",
"affronting",
"insulting",
"offending"
],
"related":[
"appeasing",
"mollifying",
"pacifying",
"placating",
"soothing",
"assuaging",
"quenching",
"satiating",
"sating",
"exciting",
"tickling",
"titillating",
"amusing",
"diverting",
"entertaining",
"treating",
"captivating",
"charming",
"galvanizing",
"thrilling",
"calming",
"comforting",
"catering (to)",
"humoring",
"indulging",
"coddling",
"mollycoddling",
"pampering",
"spoiling"
],
"synonyms":[
"agreeing (with)",
"contenting",
"delighting",
"feasting",
"gladdening",
"gladding",
"gratifying",
"pleasing",
"pleasuring",
"rejoicing",
"satisfying",
"suiting",
"warming"
]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"gauchos":{
"as in cowboys , vaqueros":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[],
"near antonyms":[],
"related":[],
"synonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"gaudiness":{
"excessive or unnecessary display":{
"antonyms":[
"austerity",
"plainness",
"severity"
],
"examples":[
"the gaudiness of the velvety wallpaper and cut-glass lamps made the guests giggle in amusement"
],
"near antonyms":[
"conservativeness",
"moderation",
"modesty",
"restraint",
"simplicity",
"understatement",
"elegance",
"gracefulness",
"tastefulness",
"minimalism"
],
"related":[
"pretense",
"pretence",
"\u00e9clat",
"extravaganza",
"mummery",
"pageant",
"parade",
"show",
"dazzle",
"fanfare",
"foofaraw",
"pageantry",
"pomp",
"razzle-dazzle",
"razzmatazz",
"spectacle",
"adornment",
"decoration",
"dressing",
"embellishment",
"garnishment",
"ornamentation",
"trimming",
"extravagance",
"fanciness",
"luxuriance",
"luxuriousness",
"magnificence",
"opulence",
"richness",
"sumptuousness",
"luridness",
"meretriciousness",
"tawdriness",
"vulgarity"
],
"synonyms":[
"flamboyance",
"flash",
"flashiness",
"garishness",
"glitz",
"ostentation",
"ostentatiousness",
"pretentiousness",
"showiness",
"swank"
]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"gauzy":{
"being of a material lacking in sturdiness or substance":{
"antonyms":[
"sturdy",
"substantial"
],
"examples":[
"gauzy spiderwebs"
],
"near antonyms":[
"durable",
"knockabout",
"lasting",
"tough",
"coarse",
"heavy",
"rough",
"rude"
],
"related":[
"dainty",
"delicate",
"fine",
"feeble",
"fragile",
"frail",
"diaphanous",
"sheer",
"transparent"
],
"synonyms":[
"cobwebby",
"filmy",
"flimsy",
"frothy",
"gossamer",
"gossamery",
"insubstantial",
"sleazy",
"unsubstantial"
]
},
"filled with or dimmed by fine particles (as of dust or water) in suspension":{
"antonyms":[
"clear",
"cloudless",
"limpid",
"pellucid",
"unclouded"
],
"examples":[
"the valley was bathed in the soft gauzy light of an October morn"
],
"near antonyms":[
"bright",
"clean",
"clement",
"fair",
"sunny",
"sunshiny",
"translucent",
"transparent"
],
"related":[
"overcast",
"rainy",
"stormy",
"thick",
"dirty",
"miry",
"mucky",
"muddy",
"slimy",
"slushy",
"turbid",
"miasmal",
"miasmatic",
"miasmic",
"smoky",
"smokey",
"smudgy",
"sooty",
"filmy",
"milky",
"opaque"
],
"synonyms":[
"beclouded",
"befogged",
"brumous",
"clouded",
"cloudy",
"foggy",
"hazy",
"misty",
"murky",
"smoggy",
"soupy"
]
},
"not seen or understood clearly":{
"antonyms":[
"clear",
"definite",
"pellucid"
],
"examples":[
"I have only a gauzy recollection of those long-ago events"
],
"near antonyms":[
"bright",
"distinct",
"evident",
"obvious",
"plain",
"certain",
"firm",
"strong",
"sure"
],
"related":[
"dark",
"dusky",
"gloomy",
"impalpable",
"inappreciable",
"intangible",
"invisible",
"hieroglyphic",
"hieroglyphical",
"incomprehensible",
"indecipherable",
"indiscernible",
"inexplicable",
"mysterious",
"obfuscatory",
"puzzling"
],
"synonyms":[
"blear",
"bleary",
"blurry",
"dim",
"faint",
"foggy",
"fuzzy",
"hazy",
"indefinite",
"indistinct",
"indistinguishable",
"misty",
"murky",
"nebulous",
"obscure",
"opaque",
"pale",
"shadowy",
"unclear",
"undefined",
"undetermined",
"vague"
]
},
"type":[
"adjective"
],
"very thin and easy to see through":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"gauzy curtains that let plenty of light through"
],
"near antonyms":[
"opaque",
"cloudy",
"foggy",
"hazy",
"misty",
"murky",
"nebulous",
"smoky",
"smokey",
"drab",
"dull",
"lackluster",
"lusterless"
],
"related":[
"peekaboo",
"clear",
"crystal",
"crystalline",
"limpid",
"liquid",
"lucent",
"pellucid",
"lucid",
"translucent",
"dainty",
"delicate",
"flimsy",
"fragile",
"frail",
"insubstantial",
"unsubstantial",
"colorless",
"uncolored"
],
"synonyms":[
"cobwebby",
"diaphanous",
"filmy",
"gauzelike",
"gossamer",
"gossamery",
"see-through",
"sheer",
"transparent"
]
}
},
"gave air to":{
"to make known (as an idea, emotion, or opinion)":{
"antonyms":[
"stifled",
"suppressed"
],
"examples":[
"He gave air to his concerns about the proposal."
],
"near antonyms":[
"censored",
"restrained",
"restricted"
],
"related":[
"advertised",
"announced",
"declared",
"enounced",
"enunciated",
"proclaimed",
"said",
"broadcast",
"broadcasted",
"circulated",
"disseminated",
"published",
"described",
"wrote",
"wrote up",
"sounded off",
"spoke out",
"spoke up",
"chimed in",
"communicated",
"conveyed",
"put across",
"put over",
"offered",
"submitted"
],
"synonyms":[
"aired",
"expounded",
"expressed",
"gave",
"looked",
"raised",
"sounded",
"stated",
"vented",
"ventilated",
"voiced"
]
},
"type":[
"phrase"
]
},
"gave ground":{
"to move back or away (as from something difficult, dangerous, or disagreeable)":{
"antonyms":[
"advanced"
],
"examples":[
"There is wildlife in the area, so give ground if you see any when hiking."
],
"near antonyms":[
"bearded",
"braved",
"brazened",
"breasted",
"confronted",
"dared",
"defied",
"faced",
"outbraved"
],
"related":[
"fled",
"flew",
"flinched",
"recoiled",
"shrank",
"shrunk",
"chickened (out)",
"bowed out",
"backed down",
"backpedaled",
"backtracked",
"climbed down",
"detached",
"disengaged",
"disentangled",
"pulled away",
"abandoned",
"departed",
"evacuated",
"left",
"quit",
"quitted",
"vacated",
"went"
],
"synonyms":[
"backed away",
"dropped back",
"fell back",
"pulled out",
"receded",
"retired",
"retreated",
"withdrew"
]
},
"type":[
"phrase"
]
},
"gave in":{
"to cease resistance (as to another's arguments, demands, or control)":{
"antonyms":[
"resisted"
],
"examples":[
"after withstanding hours of begging, their father finally gave in and let them go to the amusement park"
],
"near antonyms":[
"contended",
"fought",
"held off",
"battled",
"breasted",
"combated",
"combatted",
"confronted",
"countered",
"defied",
"faced",
"met",
"objected",
"opposed",
"repelled",
"thwarted",
"withstood"
],
"related":[
"acquiesced",
"deferred"
],
"synonyms":[
"blinked",
"bowed",
"budged",
"capitulated",
"conceded",
"knuckled under",
"quit",
"quitted",
"relented",
"submitted",
"succumbed",
"surrendered",
"yielded"
]
},
"to give up and cease resistance (as to a liking, temptation, or habit)":{
"antonyms":[
"held off",
"resisted"
],
"examples":[
"give in and have some chocolate"
],
"near antonyms":[
"battled",
"breasted",
"combated",
"combatted",
"confronted",
"countered",
"defied",
"faced",
"fought",
"met",
"objected",
"opposed",
"repelled",
"thwarted",
"withstood",
"rejected",
"bridled",
"checked",
"constrained",
"curbed",
"inhibited",
"restrained",
"stifled"
],
"related":[
"catered (to)",
"gratified",
"indulged",
"wallowed",
"acquiesced (to)",
"conceded (to)",
"buckled (under)",
"knuckled under",
"gave over (to)"
],
"synonyms":[
"bowed",
"caved (in)",
"submitted",
"succumbed",
"surrendered",
"yielded"
]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"gave in (to)":{
"as in submitted (to) , succumbed (to)":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[],
"near antonyms":[],
"related":[],
"synonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"gave the lie to":{
"to prove to be false":{
"antonyms":[
"confirmed",
"established",
"proved",
"validated",
"verified"
],
"examples":[
"New methodologies give the lie to the notion that students who struggle with standardized tests lack intelligence."
],
"near antonyms":[
"documented",
"evidenced",
"evinced",
"recorded",
"showed",
"supported",
"witnessed",
"backed (up)",
"buttressed",
"corroborated",
"substantiated",
"adduced",
"attested",
"authenticated",
"certified",
"identified",
"demonstrated",
"displayed",
"illustrated",
"manifested"
],
"related":[
"overthrew",
"overturned",
"challenged",
"contested",
"queried",
"questioned",
"doubted",
"mistrusted",
"debated",
"discussed",
"hashed (over)",
"mooted",
"talked over"
],
"synonyms":[
"belied",
"confounded",
"confuted",
"debunked",
"disconfirmed",
"discredited",
"disproved",
"falsified",
"rebutted",
"refuted",
"shot down"
]
},
"type":[
"phrase"
]
},
"gave way":{
"to fall down or in as a result of physical pressure":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"That old chair is going to give way soon."
],
"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)",
"collapsed",
"crumpled",
"foundered",
"gave",
"imploded",
"tumbled",
"went",
"went out",
"yielded"
]
},
"to move back or away (as from something difficult, dangerous, or disagreeable)":{
"antonyms":[
"advanced"
],
"examples":[
"They were urged to give way but chose to stand their ground."
],
"near antonyms":[
"bearded",
"braved",
"brazened",
"breasted",
"confronted",
"dared",
"defied",
"faced",
"outbraved"
],
"related":[
"fled",
"flew",
"flinched",
"recoiled",
"shrank",
"shrunk",
"chickened (out)",
"bowed out",
"backed down",
"backpedaled",
"backtracked",
"climbed down",
"detached",
"disengaged",
"disentangled",
"pulled away",
"abandoned",
"departed",
"evacuated",
"left",
"quit",
"quitted",
"vacated",
"went"
],
"synonyms":[
"backed away",
"dropped back",
"fell back",
"pulled out",
"receded",
"retired",
"retreated",
"withdrew"
]
},
"type":[
"phrase"
]
},
"gawkish":{
"having or showing an inability to move in a graceful manner":{
"antonyms":[
"coordinated",
"graceful"
],
"examples":[
"the kind of gawkish girl who trips while receiving her high school diploma"
],
"near antonyms":[
"light",
"light-footed",
"light-foot",
"lissome",
"lissom",
"lithe",
"nimble",
"sure-footed"
],
"related":[
"galumphing",
"larruping",
"lubberly",
"lumbering",
"lumpish",
"shambling",
"shuffling",
"unsteady",
"wobbly",
"wabbly"
],
"synonyms":[
"awkward",
"clumsy",
"gawky",
"graceless",
"klutzy",
"uncoordinated",
"ungainly"
]
},
"type":[
"adjective"
]
},
"gay":{
"having much high-spirited energy and movement":{
"antonyms":[
"dead",
"inactive",
"inanimate",
"lackadaisical",
"languid",
"languishing",
"languorous",
"leaden",
"lifeless",
"limp",
"listless",
"spiritless",
"vapid"
],
"examples":[
"couples dancing a gay , fast-paced jig"
],
"near antonyms":[
"indolent",
"lazy",
"unambitious",
"inert",
"lethargic",
"sleepy",
"sluggish",
"tired",
"torpid",
"weary",
"apathetic",
"impassive",
"phlegmatic",
"stolid",
"boring",
"dull",
"irksome",
"tedious"
],
"related":[
"dapper",
"dashing",
"spiffy",
"agog",
"alert",
"awake",
"open-eyed",
"up",
"wide-awake",
"agile",
"nimble",
"spry",
"bright",
"buoyant",
"cheerful",
"chipper",
"chirpy",
"chirrupy",
"effervescent",
"sparkly",
"upbeat",
"eager",
"enthusiastic",
"keen",
"frolicsome",
"impish",
"pixieish",
"playful",
"boisterous",
"bubbly",
"ebullient",
"exuberant",
"high-spirited",
"high-strung",
"nervous",
"skittish"
],
"synonyms":[
"active",
"airy",
"animate",
"animated",
"bouncing",
"brisk",
"energetic",
"frisky",
"jaunty",
"jazzy",
"kinetic",
"lively",
"mettlesome",
"peppy",
"perky",
"pert",
"pizzazzy",
"pizazzy",
"racy",
"snappy",
"spanking",
"sparky",
"spirited",
"sprightly",
"springy",
"vital",
"vivacious",
"zippy"
]
},
"having or showing a good mood or disposition":{
"antonyms":[
"dour",
"gloomy",
"glum",
"morose",
"saturnine",
"sulky",
"sullen"
],
"examples":[
"with a gay toss of his coat over his shoulder, the dapper old gentleman set off for the party"
],
"near antonyms":[
"joyless",
"sad",
"unhappy",
"unsatisfied",
"dull",
"lethargic",
"listless",
"sluggish",
"torpid",
"blue",
"brokenhearted",
"crestfallen",
"dejected",
"depressed",
"despondent",
"disconsolate",
"disheartened",
"down",
"downcast",
"downhearted",
"droopy",
"forlorn",
"hangdog",
"heavyhearted",
"inconsolable",
"low",
"low-spirited",
"melancholy",
"mirthless",
"sorrowful"
],
"related":[
"hopeful",
"optimistic",
"rosy",
"sanguine",
"animated",
"chirpy",
"jaunty",
"lilting",
"lively",
"perky",
"sprightful",
"sprightly",
"vivacious",
"carefree",
"careless",
"cavalier",
"devil-may-care",
"easygoing",
"happy-go-lucky",
"insouciant",
"lighthearted",
"unconcerned",
"boon",
"gleeful",
"jocund",
"jolly",
"jovial",
"merry",
"mirthful",
"blissful",
"delighted",
"glad",
"gratified",
"happy",
"joyful",
"joyous",
"pleased",
"satisfied",
"tickled",
"beaming",
"grinning",
"laughing",
"smiling"
],
"synonyms":[
"blithe",
"blithesome",
"bright",
"buoyant",
"canty",
"cheerful",
"cheery",
"chipper",
"eupeptic",
"gladsome",
"lightsome",
"sunny",
"upbeat",
"winsome"
]
},
"having or showing freedom from worries or trouble":{
"antonyms":[
"careworn"
],
"examples":[
"a gay , thoughtless girl who didn't care whether her work was done or not"
],
"near antonyms":[
"earnest",
"grave",
"serious",
"serious-minded",
"somber",
"sombre",
"careful",
"cautious",
"heedful",
"wary",
"anxious",
"concerned",
"upset",
"worried",
"long-suffering",
"overburdened",
"sorrowful"
],
"related":[
"blas\u00e9",
"blase",
"breezy",
"cavalier",
"nonchalant",
"casual",
"easygoing",
"informal",
"laid-back",
"low-pressure",
"relaxed",
"unfussy"
],
"synonyms":[
"blithe",
"carefree",
"debonair",
"devil-may-care",
"happy-go-lucky",
"insouciant",
"lighthearted",
"lightsome",
"slaphappy",
"unconcerned"
]
},
"indicative of or marked by high spirits or good humor":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"had a gay old time at the party"
],
"near antonyms":[
"abject",
"aggrieved",
"anguished",
"blue",
"brokenhearted",
"crestfallen",
"dejected",
"depressed",
"despondent",
"disconsolate",
"disheartened",
"dispirited",
"downcast",
"downhearted",
"forlorn",
"glum",
"heartbroken",
"heartsick",
"heavyhearted",
"low-spirited",
"melancholy",
"sad",
"saddened",
"sorrowful",
"unhappy",
"crying",
"groaning",
"moaning",
"sobbing",
"wailing",
"weeping",
"discontented",
"disgruntled",
"moody",
"doleful",
"dolorous",
"joyless",
"lachrymose",
"lugubrious",
"mournful",
"plaintive",
"sorry",
"woeful",
"black",
"bleak",
"cheerless",
"comfortless",
"dark",
"depressing",
"desolate",
"dismal",
"dreary",
"gloomy",
"glum",
"gray",
"grey",
"morose",
"saturnine",
"somber",
"sombre",
"sullen",
"miserable",
"woebegone",
"wretched",
"dull",
"lethargic",
"listless",
"sluggish",
"torpid"
],
"related":[
"amused",
"beaming",
"chuckling",
"giggling",
"smiling",
"bright",
"buoyant",
"carefree",
"cheerful",
"cheery",
"chipper",
"lighthearted",
"lightsome",
"upbeat",
"animated",
"bouncing",
"frisky",
"jaunty",
"lively",
"peppy",
"perky",
"spirited",
"sprightful",
"sprightly",
"vivacious",
"zippy",
"blessed",
"blest",
"blissful",
"delighted",
"ecstatic",
"elated",
"enraptured",
"entranced",
"euphoric",
"exhilarated",
"exuberant",
"exultant",
"gladsome",
"happy",
"high",
"joyful",
"joyous",
"jubilant",
"overjoyed",
"radiant",
"rapturous",
"ravished",
"thrilled",
"tickled",
"amusing",
"facetious",
"flippant",
"frolicsome",
"funny",
"hilarious",
"jesting",
"joking",
"joshing",
"playful",
"sportive",
"witty",
"cavalier",
"devil-may-care",
"easygoing",
"happy-go-lucky",
"insouciant",
"unconcerned",
"hopeful",
"optimistic",
"rosy",
"sanguine",
"antic",
"comic",
"comical",
"farcical",
"humorous",
"riotous",
"sidesplitting",
"uproarious"
],
"synonyms":[
"blithe",
"blithesome",
"festive",
"gleeful",
"jocose",
"jocular",
"jocund",
"jolly",
"jovial",
"laughing",
"merry",
"mirthful",
"sunny"
]
},
"joyously unrestrained":{
"antonyms":[
"low-spirited",
"sullen"
],
"examples":[
"it was the era of the flappers, and young women were gay , bold, and defiant of convention"
],
"near antonyms":[
"constrained",
"inhibited",
"repressed",
"restrained",
"subdued",
"impassive",
"phlegmatic",
"stoic",
"stoical",
"stolid",
"depressed",
"dour",
"glum",
"morose",
"surly"
],
"related":[
"extroverted",
"extraverted",
"outgoing",
"uninhibited",
"carefree",
"happy-go-lucky",
"insouciant",
"joyful",
"lighthearted",
"lively",
"sprightly",
"boisterous",
"raucous",
"rollicking",
"rowdy",
"giddy",
"light-headed",
"overexuberant",
"silly",
"ecstatic",
"euphoric",
"lyric",
"rapturous",
"audacious",
"bold",
"brash",
"brazen",
"impertinent",
"impudent",
"insolent",
"saucy"
],
"synonyms":[
"bouncy",
"bubbly",
"buoyant",
"crank",
"effervescent",
"exuberant",
"frolic",
"frolicsome",
"gamesome",
"high-spirited",
"vivacious"
]
},
"serving to lift one's spirits":{
"antonyms":[
"bleak",
"cheerless",
"dark",
"depressing",
"dismal",
"dreary",
"gloomy",
"gray",
"grey"
],
"examples":[
"the skylark's gay song lifted me out of my gloom"
],
"near antonyms":[
"discouraging",
"disheartening",
"colorless",
"drab",
"dull",
"lackluster",
"lusterless",
"black",
"desolate",
"dispiriting"
],
"related":[
"gladdening",
"heartening",
"heartwarming",
"gleaming",
"radiant",
"sparkling"
],
"synonyms":[
"bright",
"cheerful",
"cheering",
"cheery",
"glad"
]
},
"type":[
"adjective"
]
},
"gayness":{
"a mood characterized by high spirits and amusement and often accompanied by laughter":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"the melancholy-tinged gayness of college-bound friends on their last fling together before going their separate ways"
],
"near antonyms":[
"blues",
"dejection",
"depression",
"despondence",
"forlornness",
"sadness",
"sorrow",
"unhappiness",
"bile",
"gloom",
"melancholy",
"sourness",
"spleen",
"earnestness",
"graveness",
"gravity",
"grimness",
"seriousness",
"soberness",
"sobersidedness",
"solemnity",
"solemnness",
"discontent",
"disgruntlement",
"moodiness",
"dolefulness",
"dolorousness",
"joylessness",
"mournfulness",
"plaintiveness",
"woe",
"woefulness",
"blackness",
"darkness",
"gloominess",
"glumness",
"desolateness",
"desolation",
"heartbreak",
"miserableness",
"misery",
"mourning",
"wretchedness"
],
"related":[
"frivolity",
"levity",
"jollification",
"jollity",
"reveling",
"revelling",
"revelry",
"brightness",
"buoyancy",
"good-humoredness",
"good-naturedness",
"humor",
"sunniness",
"gamesomeness",
"insouciance",
"lightheartedness",
"playfulness",
"sportiveness",
"buffoonery",
"clownishness",
"flippancy",
"funning",
"jest",
"jesting",
"jocoseness",
"jocosity",
"jocularity",
"joking",
"joshing",
"animation",
"giddiness",
"jauntiness",
"liveliness",
"perkiness",
"vivacity",
"joyfulness",
"joyousness",
"jubilance",
"rejoicing",
"frolicking",
"gamboling",
"gambolling",
"rollicking",
"romping"
],
"synonyms":[
"cheer",
"cheerfulness",
"cheeriness",
"festivity",
"gaiety",
"gayety",
"glee",
"gleefulness",
"hilarity",
"jocundity",
"joviality",
"merriment",
"merriness",
"mirth",
"mirthfulness"
]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"gaze":{
"a fixed intent look":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"suddenly aware of her admiring gaze , he became self-conscious and uncomfortable"
],
"near antonyms":[
"blink",
"flash",
"glance",
"glimpse",
"peek",
"peep",
"sight",
"stime",
"oeillade",
"ogle",
"browse",
"scan"
],
"related":[
"glare",
"glower",
"contemplation",
"fixation",
"attention",
"observance",
"observation",
"surveillance",
"watch",
"examination",
"inspection",
"perusal",
"study",
"survey"
],
"synonyms":[
"aspect",
"eye",
"gape",
"regard",
"scrutiny",
"stare"
]
},
"to look long and hard in wonder or surprise":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"just sat there and gazed at the panorama before us until it got too dark to see"
],
"near antonyms":[
"glance",
"glimpse",
"peek",
"peep",
"browse",
"dip (into)",
"scan",
"wink (at)"
],
"related":[
"glare",
"gloat",
"glower",
"consider",
"eye",
"fixate",
"observe",
"regard",
"watch",
"leer",
"ogle",
"peruse",
"pore (over)",
"study",
"outface",
"outstare",
"stare down"
],
"synonyms":[
"blink",
"gape",
"gawk",
"gawp",
"goggle",
"peer",
"rubberneck",
"stare"
]
},
"type":[
"noun",
"verb"
]
},
"gab":{
"to engage in casual or rambling conversation":{
"examples":[
"spent the time she should have been working gabbing with friends instead"
],
"synonyms":[
"babble",
"blab",
"cackle",
"chaffer",
"chat",
"chatter",
"chin",
"converse",
"gabble",
"gas",
"jabber",
"jaw",
"kibitz",
"kibbitz",
"natter",
"palaver",
"patter",
"prate",
"prattle",
"rap",
"rattle",
"run on",
"schmooze",
"shmooze",
"talk",
"twitter",
"visit"
],
"related":[
"gossip",
"tattle",
"descant",
"discuss",
"expatiate",
"yak",
"yack",
"yammer",
"yap"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"friendly, informal conversation or an instance of this":{
"examples":[
"a car salesman with the proverbial gift for gab"
],
"synonyms":[
"backchat",
"cackle",
"causerie",
"chat",
"chatter",
"chin music",
"chin-wag",
"chitchat",
"confab",
"confabulation",
"gabfest",
"gossip",
"jangle",
"jaw",
"natter",
"palaver",
"patter",
"rap",
"schmooze",
"small talk",
"table talk",
"talk",
"t\u00eate-\u00e0-t\u00eate"
],
"related":[
"colloquy",
"conference",
"discourse",
"parley",
"symposium",
"debate",
"dialogue",
"dialog",
"exchange",
"give-and-take",
"crosstalk",
"happy talk",
"yak",
"yack",
"yammer",
"yap"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun",
"verb"
]
},
"galumphed":{
"to move heavily or clumsily":{
"examples":[
"the Great Dane galumphed across the floor to greet us"
],
"synonyms":[
"barged",
"clumped",
"flogged",
"floundered",
"lumbered",
"lumped",
"plodded",
"pounded",
"scuffed",
"scuffled",
"shambled",
"shuffled",
"slogged",
"sloughed",
"stamped",
"stomped",
"stumbled",
"stumped",
"tramped",
"tromped",
"trudged"
],
"related":[
"dragged",
"flopped",
"hauled",
"blundered",
"careened",
"doddered",
"lurched",
"reeled",
"staggered",
"swayed",
"teetered",
"tottered",
"waddled",
"weaved",
"wobbled",
"wabbled"
],
"near antonyms":[
"drifted",
"floated",
"hovered",
"hung",
"hanged",
"poised",
"wafted"
],
"antonyms":[
"breezed",
"coasted",
"glided",
"slid",
"waltzed",
"whisked"
]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"gamines":{
"as in urchins , waifs":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"related":[],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"as in pixies , tomboys":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"related":[],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"gaucheness":{
"as in awkwardness , ungainliness":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"related":[],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"gabbling":{
"as in chatter , babble":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"related":[],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to engage in casual or rambling conversation":{
"examples":[
"heard her parents' guests still gabbling in the living room late into the night"
],
"synonyms":[
"babbling",
"blabbing",
"cackling",
"chaffering",
"chattering",
"chatting",
"chinning",
"conversing",
"gabbing",
"gassing",
"jabbering",
"jawing",
"kibitzing",
"kibbitzing",
"nattering",
"palavering",
"pattering",
"prating",
"prattling",
"rapping",
"rattling",
"running on",
"schmoozing",
"shmoozing",
"talking",
"twittering",
"visiting"
],
"related":[
"gossiping",
"tattling",
"descanting",
"discussing",
"expatiating",
"yakking",
"yacking",
"yammering",
"yapping"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to speak rapidly, inarticulately, and usually unintelligibly":{
"examples":[
"during the filming of the party scene the extras were told to just gabble and act like they were having a great time"
],
"synonyms":[
"babbling",
"bumbling",
"chattering",
"chatting",
"driveling",
"drivelling",
"drooling",
"gibbering",
"jabbering",
"prattling",
"sputtering"
],
"related":[
"blabbering",
"blathering",
"bleating",
"blithering",
"gabbing",
"jangling",
"jawing",
"pattering",
"prating",
"rattling",
"running on",
"smattering",
"tittle-tattling",
"trolling",
"yakking",
"yacking",
"chuntering",
"maundering",
"mouthing",
"mumbling",
"murmuring",
"muttering",
"stammering",
"stuttering",
"screeching",
"shouting",
"shrieking"
],
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"articulating",
"enunciating",
"pronouncing"
],
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},
"type":[
"noun",
"verb"
]
},
"gaggle":{
"as in swarm , school":{
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"synonyms":[],
"related":[],
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"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"gangly":{
"being tall, thin and usually loose-jointed":{
"examples":[
"a gangly teenager who was born to play varsity basketball"
],
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"gangling",
"lanky",
"rangy",
"spindling",
"spindly"
],
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"angular",
"bony",
"boney",
"gaunt",
"lank",
"rawboned",
"scraggy",
"scrawny",
"skinny",
"lean",
"slender",
"slim",
"spare",
"thin",
"racy",
"reedy",
"spidery",
"stringy",
"twiggy",
"waspish",
"weedy",
"willowy",
"wiry",
"spindle-legged",
"spindle-shanked"
],
"near antonyms":[
"beefy",
"bulky",
"chubby",
"chunky",
"heavyset",
"pudgy",
"squat",
"stocky",
"stout",
"stubby",
"stumpy",
"sturdy",
"thickset",
"weighty",
"muscle-bound",
"corpulent",
"fat",
"fleshy",
"full",
"gross",
"obese",
"overweight",
"plump",
"portly",
"roly-poly",
"rotund",
"round",
"tubby"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"adjective"
]
},
"gaper":{
"as in peeper , rubberneck":{
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"synonyms":[],
"related":[],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"gavotte":{
"as in waltz , jitterbug":{
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"synonyms":[],
"related":[],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"galleria":{
"as in atrium , peristyle":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"atrium",
"parvis",
"parvise",
"peristyle",
"close",
"court",
"courtyard",
"enclosure",
"inclosure",
"patio",
"quad",
"quadrangle",
"yard",
"forecourt",
"place",
"plaza",
"square",
"deck",
"terrace",
"curtilage"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"gallanted":{
"as in attended , sparked":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"attended",
"romanced",
"sparked",
"wooed",
"courted",
"dated",
"escorted",
"saw",
"took out",
"stepped out",
"went out"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"gages":{
"something given or held to assure that the giver will keep a promise":{
"examples":[
"in the old days a sheriff would take gage in the form of personal goods from an accused person who then had to appear in court or forfeit the goods"
],
"synonyms":[
"guarantees",
"guaranties",
"pawns",
"pledges",
"securities"
],
"near synonyms":[
"bails",
"bonds",
"deposits",
"down payments",
"earnests",
"handsels",
"sureties",
"warranties",
"assurances",
"oaths",
"promises",
"troths",
"words",
"commitments",
"compacts",
"contracts",
"covenants",
"recognizances"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"gargantuan":{
"unusually large":{
"examples":[
"people seem to be buying ever more gargantuan SUVs these days"
],
"synonyms":[
"astronomical",
"astronomic",
"Brobdingnagian",
"bumper",
"colossal",
"cosmic",
"cosmical",
"cyclopean",
"elephantine",
"enormous",
"galactic",
"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"
],
"near synonyms":[
"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"
],
"near antonyms":[
"little",
"mini",
"petite",
"pint-size",
"pint-sized",
"puny",
"small",
"smallish",
"undersized",
"undersize",
"dinky",
"dwarfish",
"half-pint"
],
"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"
]
},
"type":[
"adjective"
]
},
"gazebo":{
"a freestanding airy structure in a scenic setting (as a park) typically offering commanding views":{
"examples":[
"a gazebo on the mansion's south lawn"
],
"synonyms":[
"alcove",
"belvedere",
"casino",
"kiosk",
"pavilion",
"summerhouse"
],
"near synonyms":[
"trellis"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"gateways":{
"something that allows someone to achieve a desired goal":{
"examples":[
"hopefully, my college degree will be a gateway to a high-paying job"
],
"synonyms":[
"keys",
"open sesames",
"passports",
"secrets",
"tickets"
],
"near synonyms":[
"passwords",
"accomplishments",
"achievements",
"attainments",
"coups",
"successes",
"triumphs",
"approaches",
"manners",
"means",
"methods",
"styles",
"systems",
"techniques",
"ways",
"blueprints",
"designs",
"ground plans",
"plans",
"programs",
"schemes",
"strategies"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"the means or right of entering or participating in":{
"examples":[
"Denver is the gateway to the West"
],
"synonyms":[
"accesses",
"accessions",
"admissions",
"admittances",
"doors",
"doorways",
"entrances",
"entr\u00e9es",
"entrees",
"entries",
"ingresses",
"keys",
"passports",
"tickets"
],
"near synonyms":[
"approvals",
"authorizations",
"certifications",
"permissions",
"qualifications",
"open doors",
"welcome mats"
],
"near antonyms":[
"discharges",
"dismissals",
"ejections",
"expulsions",
"ousters",
"rejections",
"removals"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"the opening through which one can enter or leave a structure":{
"examples":[
"there are security checkpoints at all of the stadium's gateways"
],
"synonyms":[
"doors",
"doorways",
"entrances",
"gates",
"ways"
],
"near synonyms":[
"hatches",
"hatchways"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"gayety":{
"dressy clothing":{
"examples":[
"attendees of the masquerade ball arrived dressed in all their gaiety"
],
"synonyms":[
"array",
"best",
"bravery",
"caparison",
"feather",
"finery",
"frippery",
"full dress",
"glad rags",
"regalia"
],
"near synonyms":[
"apparel",
"attire",
"costume",
"duds",
"habiliment(s)",
"rags",
"raiment",
"rig",
"rigging",
"threads",
"toggery",
"togs",
"vestiary",
"vesture",
"wear"
],
"near antonyms":[
"tatters",
"disarray",
"dishabille"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"joyful or festive activity":{
"examples":[
"loved the gaiety of the annual harvest festival",
"the gaiety of the wedding reception"
],
"synonyms":[
"conviviality",
"festivity",
"jollification",
"jollity",
"merriment",
"merrymaking",
"rejoicing",
"reveling",
"revelling",
"revelry",
"whoopee"
],
"near synonyms":[
"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"
],
"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"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"a mood characterized by high spirits and amusement and often accompanied by laughter":{
"examples":[
"the gaiety of children enjoying an outing at an amusement park"
],
"synonyms":[
"cheer",
"cheerfulness",
"cheeriness",
"festivity",
"gayness",
"glee",
"gleefulness",
"hilarity",
"jocundity",
"joviality",
"merriment",
"merriness",
"mirth",
"mirthfulness"
],
"near synonyms":[
"frivolity",
"levity",
"jollification",
"jollity",
"reveling",
"revelling",
"revelry",
"brightness",
"buoyancy",
"good-humoredness",
"good-naturedness",
"humor",
"sunniness",
"gamesomeness",
"insouciance",
"lightheartedness",
"playfulness",
"sportiveness",
"buffoonery",
"clownishness",
"flippancy",
"funning",
"jest",
"jesting",
"jocoseness",
"jocosity",
"jocularity",
"joking",
"joshing",
"animation",
"giddiness",
"jauntiness",
"liveliness",
"perkiness",
"vivacity",
"joyfulness",
"joyousness",
"jubilance",
"rejoicing",
"frolicking",
"gamboling",
"gambolling",
"rollicking",
"romping"
],
"near antonyms":[
"blues",
"dejection",
"depression",
"despondence",
"forlornness",
"sadness",
"sorrow",
"unhappiness",
"bile",
"gloom",
"melancholy",
"sourness",
"spleen",
"earnestness",
"graveness",
"gravity",
"grimness",
"seriousness",
"soberness",
"sobersidedness",
"solemnity",
"solemnness",
"discontent",
"disgruntlement",
"moodiness",
"dolefulness",
"dolorousness",
"joylessness",
"mournfulness",
"plaintiveness",
"woe",
"woefulness",
"blackness",
"darkness",
"gloominess",
"glumness",
"desolateness",
"desolation",
"heartbreak",
"miserableness",
"misery",
"mourning",
"wretchedness"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"garbles":{
"to change so much as to create a wrong impression or alter the meaning of":{
"examples":[
"the candidate complained that his views had been deliberately garbled by his opponent"
],
"synonyms":[
"bends",
"colors",
"cooks",
"distorts",
"falsifies",
"fudges",
"misinterprets",
"misrelates",
"misrepresents",
"misstates",
"perverts",
"slants",
"twists",
"warps"
],
"near synonyms":[
"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"
],
"near antonyms":[
"clarifies",
"clears (up)",
"explains",
"illuminates",
"illustrates",
"interprets",
"spells out",
"deciphers"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to remove usually visible impurities from":{
"examples":[
"garbled spices are less likely to contaminate a recipe"
],
"synonyms":[
"clarifies",
"clears",
"distills",
"distils",
"filters",
"fines",
"purifies"
],
"near synonyms":[
"processes",
"rectifies",
"refines",
"cleans",
"cleanses",
"decontaminates",
"elutriates",
"purges",
"washes",
"extracts",
"leaches",
"bolts",
"screens",
"sieves",
"sifts",
"disinfects",
"sanitizes"
],
"near antonyms":[
"clouds",
"dulls",
"muddies",
"contaminates",
"dirties",
"soils",
"defiles",
"pollutes",
"taints",
"begrimes",
"besmirches",
"fouls",
"sullies"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"gambado":{
"as in caper , capriole":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"caper",
"capriole",
"gambol",
"bounce",
"lope",
"skip",
"attack",
"pounce",
"bound",
"hop",
"jump",
"leap",
"spring",
"vault",
"dive",
"pitch",
"plunge"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"gameness":{
"cheerful readiness to do something":{
"examples":[
"it requires a certain amount of gustatory gameness to try something like rattlesnake or alligator"
],
"synonyms":[
"alacrity",
"amenability",
"goodwill",
"obligingness",
"willingness"
],
"near synonyms":[
"celerity",
"quickness",
"rapidity",
"speed",
"speediness",
"swiftness",
"dispatch",
"promptitude",
"promptness",
"ardor",
"avidity",
"eagerness",
"enthusiasm",
"exuberance",
"fervor",
"gusto",
"keenness",
"relish",
"zeal",
"zest",
"agreeableness",
"geniality",
"good-naturedness",
"heartiness",
"warmth",
"open-mindedness",
"receptiveness",
"receptivity",
"responsiveness"
],
"near antonyms":[
"leisureliness",
"pokiness",
"slowness",
"sluggishness",
"apathy",
"disinterestedness",
"halfheartedness",
"indifference",
"lukewarmness",
"perfunctoriness",
"delay",
"dilatoriness",
"doubt",
"equivocation",
"hesitance",
"hesitancy",
"hesitation",
"reluctance",
"reservation",
"reticence",
"uncertainty",
"vacillation",
"disinclination",
"indisposition",
"recalcitrance",
"resistance",
"unwillingness",
"antipathy",
"averseness",
"aversion"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"gangsters":{
"a violent, brutal person who is often a member of an organized gang":{
"examples":[
"Al Capone remains one of the most notorious gangsters in American history"
],
"synonyms":[
"bullies",
"gangbangers",
"gangstas",
"goons",
"gorillas",
"hoodlums",
"hoods",
"hooligans",
"mobsters",
"mugs",
"plug-uglies",
"punks",
"roughnecks",
"rowdies",
"ruffians",
"thugs",
"toughies",
"toughs",
"yobbos",
"yobboes",
"yobs"
],
"near synonyms":[
"cutthroats",
"scoundrels",
"villains",
"assassins",
"bandits",
"bravos",
"bravoes",
"brigands",
"criminals",
"crooks",
"desperadoes",
"desperados",
"felons",
"gunmen",
"highwaymen",
"lawbreakers",
"mafiosi",
"malefactors",
"offenders",
"outlaws",
"perpetrators",
"perps",
"pirates",
"pickpockets",
"racketeers",
"robbers",
"swindlers",
"thieves",
"vandals",
"juvenile delinquents",
"tearaways"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"ganging up":{
"as in teaming (up) , hanging together":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"caballing",
"collaborating",
"hanging together",
"teaming (up)",
"allying",
"associating",
"banding (together)",
"clubbing",
"coalescing",
"cohering",
"confederating",
"conjoining",
"cooperating",
"federating",
"leaguing",
"uniting",
"incorporating",
"organizing",
"unionizing",
"affiliating",
"amalgamating",
"combining",
"conglomerating",
"consolidating",
"converging",
"grouping",
"joining",
"merging",
"knotting",
"linking",
"tying",
"tieing",
"wedding"
],
"near antonyms":[
"breaking up",
"disbanding",
"detaching",
"disengaging",
"dissolving",
"disuniting",
"divorcing",
"parting",
"segregating",
"separating",
"severing",
"splitting",
"sundering",
"alienating",
"estranging",
"falling out"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"gave over":{
"to bring (as an action or operation) to an immediate end":{
"examples":[
"his wife suggested that he give over working such long hours if it was making him so unhappy"
],
"synonyms":[
"broke",
"broke off",
"broke up",
"canned",
"ceased",
"cut off",
"cut out",
"desisted (from)",
"discontinued",
"dropped",
"ended",
"halted",
"knocked off",
"laid off",
"left off",
"packed (up or in)",
"quit",
"quitted",
"shut off",
"stopped"
],
"near synonyms":[
"completed",
"concluded",
"finished",
"closed (down)",
"deactivated",
"blockaded",
"blocked",
"dammed",
"delayed",
"detained",
"held",
"held back",
"hindered",
"impeded",
"kiboshed",
"obstructed",
"stemmed",
"called",
"suspended",
"arrested",
"braked",
"checked",
"clamped down",
"reined (in)",
"squashed",
"squelched",
"stamped",
"stanched",
"staunched",
"stunted",
"suppressed",
"turned back",
"paused",
"stayed",
"suspended",
"abolished",
"aborted",
"annulled",
"demolished",
"destroyed",
"dissolved",
"killed",
"ruined",
"scuttled",
"snuffed"
],
"near antonyms":[
"carried on",
"continued",
"followed through (with)",
"kept up",
"ran on",
"advanced",
"proceeded",
"progressed",
"actuated",
"drove",
"impelled",
"propelled",
"stirred"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to put (something) into the possession or safekeeping of another":{
"examples":[
"gave over his entire savings to an investor"
],
"synonyms":[
"commended",
"committed",
"confided",
"consigned",
"delegated",
"delivered",
"entrusted",
"intrusted",
"gave",
"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"
]
},
"gambles (on)":{
"to take a chance on":{
"examples":[
"a movie studio willing to gamble on a new actress for its summer blockbuster"
],
"synonyms":[
"adventures",
"chances",
"hazards",
"risks",
"tempts",
"ventures"
],
"near synonyms":[
"beards",
"braves",
"brazens",
"breasts",
"challenges",
"confronts",
"dares",
"defies",
"faces",
"outbraves",
"compromises",
"endangers",
"imperils",
"jeopardizes",
"menaces",
"exposes",
"subjects",
"bets (on)",
"wagers"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"gaps":{
"an open space in a barrier (as a wall or hedge)":{
"examples":[
"there were several visible gaps in the wall where the drywall had pulled away from the wall framing"
],
"synonyms":[
"breaches",
"breaks",
"discontinuities",
"gulfs",
"hiatuses",
"holes",
"interstices",
"intervals",
"openings",
"rents",
"rifts",
"separations",
"voids"
],
"near synonyms":[
"chinks",
"clefts",
"cracks",
"crannies",
"crevices",
"fissures",
"notches",
"slits",
"slots",
"splits",
"interspaces",
"pores",
"abysses",
"apertures",
"cavities",
"chasms",
"gapes",
"orifices",
"fractures",
"ruptures",
"severances"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"a break in continuity":{
"examples":[
"there was a 15-minute gap between the two televised sporting events"
],
"synonyms":[
"discontinuities",
"hiatuses",
"hiccups",
"hiccoughs",
"interims",
"interludes",
"intermissions",
"interregnums",
"interregna",
"interruptions",
"interstices",
"intervals",
"parentheses"
],
"near synonyms":[
"caesuras",
"caesurae",
"commas",
"interspaces",
"lags",
"pauses",
"spaces",
"time lags",
"windows",
"entr'actes",
"bumpers",
"adjournments",
"discontinuances",
"lapses",
"suspensions",
"lulls",
"recesses",
"respites",
"rests",
"subintervals"
],
"near antonyms":[
"continua",
"continuums",
"runs",
"stretches",
"processions",
"progressions"
],
"antonyms":[
"continuations",
"continuities"
]
},
"a narrow opening between hillsides or mountains that can be used for passage":{
"examples":[
"thought they were stuck until they found a gap in the mountain range that they could hike through"
],
"synonyms":[
"canyons",
"ca\u00f1ons",
"cols",
"couloirs",
"defiles",
"flumes",
"gills",
"gorges",
"gulches",
"gulfs",
"kloofs",
"linns",
"notches",
"passes",
"ravines",
"saddles"
],
"near synonyms":[
"abysses",
"chasms",
"cirques",
"clefts",
"crevasses",
"crevices",
"cwms",
"fissures",
"combes",
"coombes",
"coombs",
"dales",
"dells",
"glens",
"hollows",
"shut-ins",
"vales",
"valleys",
"basins",
"floodplains",
"kettles",
"arroyos",
"barrancas",
"barrancos",
"coulees",
"draws",
"gullies",
"gulleys",
"gutters",
"nullahs",
"trenches",
"troughs",
"wadis",
"washes"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"gasoliers":{
"as in fluorescent lamps , light bulbs":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"arc lamps",
"arc lights",
"candelabra",
"candelabrums",
"candelabras",
"candles",
"chandeliers",
"dark lanterns",
"flares",
"flashbulbs",
"flashcubes",
"flashes",
"flashlights",
"floodlights",
"fluorescent lamps",
"gaslights",
"girandoles",
"headlights",
"incandescent lamps",
"klieg lights",
"kleig lights",
"lanterns",
"light bulbs",
"lighthouses",
"lightings",
"sconces",
"spotlights",
"streetlights",
"sun lamps",
"beacons",
"illuminants",
"lamps"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"ganging up (on)":{
"as in swarming , mobbing":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"bum-rushing",
"mobbing",
"swarming",
"assailing",
"assaulting",
"attacking",
"besetting",
"bushwhacking",
"charging",
"descending (on or upon)",
"going in (on)",
"jumping (on)",
"pouncing (on or upon)",
"raiding",
"rushing",
"setting on",
"siccing",
"sicking",
"storming",
"striking",
"trashing",
"turning (on)",
"mugging",
"robbing",
"ambuscading",
"ambushing",
"surprising",
"surprizing",
"waylaying",
"blitzing",
"bombarding",
"bombing",
"nuking",
"barraging",
"cannonading",
"cannoning",
"banging away (at)",
"battering",
"buffeting",
"plastering",
"beleaguering",
"besieging",
"pressing",
"harrying",
"looting",
"pillaging",
"plundering",
"ravaging",
"sacking",
"foraying",
"invading",
"overrunning"
],
"near antonyms":[
"covering",
"defending",
"guarding",
"protecting",
"securing",
"shielding"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"gallant":{
"feeling or displaying no fear by temperament":{
"examples":[
"a gallant firefighter, rushing into the burning house to save the children",
"a gallant rescue"
],
"synonyms":[
"bold",
"brave",
"courageous",
"dauntless",
"doughty",
"fearless",
"greathearted",
"gutsy",
"gutty",
"heroic",
"heroical",
"intrepid",
"lionhearted",
"manful",
"stalwart",
"stout",
"stouthearted",
"undauntable",
"undaunted",
"valiant",
"valorous"
],
"near synonyms":[
"determined",
"firm",
"game",
"gamy",
"gamey",
"gritty",
"plucky",
"resolute",
"Spartan",
"undeterred",
"undismayed",
"unflinching",
"unswerving",
"mettlesome",
"spirited",
"spunky",
"adventuresome",
"adventurous",
"audacious",
"daring",
"dashing",
"hardy",
"venturesome",
"venturous",
"crazy",
"foolish",
"half-witted",
"insane",
"lunatic",
"mad",
"nutty",
"brash",
"brazen",
"daredevil",
"foolhardy",
"heedless",
"hotheaded",
"impetuous",
"imprudent",
"impulsive",
"incautious",
"madcap",
"overbold",
"overconfident",
"rash",
"reckless",
"thoughtless",
"wild",
"hasty",
"headlong",
"precipitate",
"comforted",
"emboldened",
"encouraged",
"heartened",
"reassured",
"unafraid"
],
"near antonyms":[
"diffident",
"mousy",
"mousey",
"scary",
"shy",
"skittish",
"timid",
"anxious",
"apprehensive",
"nervous",
"careful",
"cautious",
"heedful",
"prudent",
"unadventurous",
"afraid",
"agitated",
"disconcerted",
"disquieted",
"disturbed",
"frightened",
"horrified",
"panicked",
"panic-stricken",
"perturbed",
"scared",
"shocked",
"spooked",
"startled",
"terrified",
"terrorized",
"unnerved",
"upset",
"appalled",
"concerned",
"dismayed",
"worried",
"unmanly",
"weak",
"wimpy"
],
"antonyms":[
"chicken",
"chickenhearted",
"chicken-livered",
"coward",
"cowardly",
"craven",
"dastardly",
"fainthearted",
"fearful",
"gutless",
"lily-livered",
"milk-livered",
"nerveless",
"poltroon",
"poor-spirited",
"pusillanimous",
"spineless",
"spiritless",
"timorous",
"uncourageous",
"ungallant",
"unheroic",
"weakhearted",
"yellow"
]
},
"having, characterized by, or arising from a dignified and generous nature":{
"examples":[
"a gallant knight",
"the members of that service club are known for their gallant service to the community"
],
"synonyms":[
"big",
"chivalrous",
"elevated",
"great",
"greathearted",
"high",
"high-minded",
"lofty",
"lordly",
"magnanimous",
"natural",
"noble",
"sublime"
],
"near synonyms":[
"ennobled",
"exalted",
"glorified",
"heroic",
"heroical",
"honorable",
"valiant",
"venerable",
"worthy",
"knightly",
"princely",
"regal",
"inspiring",
"moving",
"numinous",
"uplifting",
"august",
"magnificent",
"majestic"
],
"near antonyms":[
"sordid",
"squalid",
"vile",
"wretched",
"abominable",
"contemptible",
"despicable",
"detestable",
"hateful",
"offensive",
"repulsive",
"ugly",
"vicious",
"dastardly",
"dirty",
"lousy",
"sorry",
"little",
"mean",
"narrow",
"small-minded",
"degrading",
"discreditable",
"humiliating",
"ignominious",
"coarse",
"crude",
"vulgar"
],
"antonyms":[
"base",
"debased",
"degenerate",
"degraded",
"ignoble",
"low"
]
},
"large and impressive in size, grandeur, extent, or conception":{
"examples":[
"a great and gallant sailing ship"
],
"synonyms":[
"august",
"baronial",
"epic",
"glorious",
"grand",
"grandiose",
"heroic",
"heroical",
"Homeric",
"imperial",
"imposing",
"magnific",
"magnificent",
"majestic",
"massive",
"monumental",
"noble",
"proud",
"regal",
"royal",
"splendid",
"stately"
],
"near synonyms":[
"colossal",
"monstrous",
"prodigious",
"stupendous",
"tremendous",
"kingly",
"lordly",
"princely",
"queenly",
"awesome",
"awful",
"cosmic",
"cosmical",
"sublime",
"wondrous",
"formidable",
"impressive",
"prepossessing",
"redoubtable",
"apocalyptic",
"apocalyptical",
"inflated",
"operatic",
"overblown",
"pompous",
"marvelous",
"marvellous",
"superb",
"terrific",
"wonderful",
"extravagant",
"lavish",
"luxurious",
"opulent",
"palatial",
"palatine",
"sumptuous",
"gorgeous",
"resplendent",
"splendiferous",
"extraordinary",
"killer",
"remarkable",
"sensational",
"striking",
"celestial",
"divine",
"heavenly"
],
"near antonyms":[
"lowly",
"modest",
"unprepossessing",
"average",
"common",
"mediocre",
"ordinary",
"run-of-the-mill",
"second-rate",
"abject",
"mean",
"meretricious",
"shabby",
"sordid",
"insignificant",
"measly",
"paltry",
"petty",
"puny",
"trifling",
"trivial"
],
"antonyms":[
"humble",
"unheroic",
"unimposing",
"unimpressive"
]
},
"a man extremely interested in his clothing and personal appearance":{
"examples":[
"he was quite a gallant , primping more than either of his sisters"
],
"synonyms":[
"beau",
"Beau Brummell",
"buck",
"dandy",
"dude",
"fop",
"jay",
"lounge lizard",
"macaroni",
"pretty boy"
],
"near synonyms":[
"coxcomb",
"fancy Dan",
"popinjay",
"blade",
"cavalier",
"dasher",
"clotheshorse",
"exquisite",
"swell"
],
"near antonyms":[
"slob",
"sloven"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"a man who courts a woman usually with the goal of marrying her":{
"examples":[
"she had a whole host of gallants vying for her hand in marriage"
],
"synonyms":[
"suitor",
"swain",
"wooer"
],
"near synonyms":[
"beau",
"boyfriend",
"fellow",
"man",
"old man",
"significant other",
"squeeze",
"admirer",
"crush",
"steady",
"beloved",
"darling",
"dear",
"favorite",
"flame",
"honey",
"love",
"lover",
"spark",
"sweet",
"sweetheart",
"sweetie",
"sweetie pie",
"valentine",
"date",
"escort",
"fianc\u00e9",
"intended"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"as in attend , spark":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"attend",
"romance",
"spark",
"woo",
"court",
"date",
"escort",
"see",
"take out",
"go out",
"step out"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"adjective",
"noun",
"verb"
]
}
}