dict_dl/en_MW_thesaurus/lu_mwt.json
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{
"Lucullan":{
"showing obvious signs of wealth and comfort":{
"antonyms":[
"ascetic",
"ascetical",
"austere",
"humble",
"no-frills",
"spartan"
],
"examples":[
"a Lucullan lifestyle that included the requisite mansion and yacht"
],
"near antonyms":[
"economical",
"frugal",
"meager",
"meagre",
"spare",
"stingy",
"thrifty"
],
"related":[
"costly",
"dear",
"expensive",
"precious",
"premium",
"rich",
"extravagant",
"grandiose",
"ostentatious",
"pretentious",
"showy",
"august",
"awesome",
"awful",
"baronial",
"beautiful",
"gorgeous",
"grand",
"heroic",
"heroical",
"imposing",
"impressive",
"kingly",
"magnificent",
"majestic",
"monumental",
"noble",
"proud",
"regal",
"royal",
"splendid",
"stately",
"comfortable",
"cozy",
"homelike",
"homey",
"homy",
"snug"
],
"synonyms":[
"Babylonian",
"deluxe",
"lavish",
"luxe",
"luxuriant",
"luxurious",
"luxury",
"opulent",
"palace",
"palatial",
"plush",
"plushy",
"silken",
"sumptuous"
]
},
"type":[
"adjective"
]
},
"lubberly":{
"as in wobbly , unsteady":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[],
"near antonyms":[],
"related":[],
"synonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"adjective"
]
},
"lubricious":{
"having a strong sexual desire":{
"antonyms":[
"frigid",
"undersexed"
],
"examples":[
"played a lubricious soap opera character who was in multiple relationships"
],
"near antonyms":[
"celibate",
"chaste",
"decent",
"immaculate",
"modest",
"moral",
"pure",
"virtuous",
"monastic",
"monkish",
"maidenly",
"virginal",
"innocent",
"lily-white",
"priggish",
"prim",
"prudish",
"puritanical",
"straitlaced",
"straightlaced",
"Victorian"
],
"related":[
"aroused",
"excited",
"easy",
"fast",
"loose",
"promiscuous",
"dissipated",
"dissolute",
"libertine",
"corrupt",
"debased",
"debauched",
"decadent",
"degenerate",
"degraded",
"demoralized",
"depraved",
"dissipated",
"dissolute",
"immoral",
"indecent"
],
"synonyms":[
"concupiscent",
"goatish",
"horny",
"hot",
"hypersexual",
"itchy",
"lascivious",
"lecherous",
"lewd",
"libidinous",
"licentious",
"lustful",
"oversexed",
"passionate",
"randy",
"salacious",
"satyric",
"wanton"
]
},
"type":[
"adjective"
]
},
"lucency":{
"the state or quality of being easily seen through":{
"antonyms":[
"cloudiness",
"opacity",
"opaqueness",
"turbidity",
"turbidness"
],
"examples":[
"the lucency of the membrane"
],
"near antonyms":[
"fogginess",
"haziness",
"milkiness",
"mistiness",
"murkiness"
],
"related":[
"brightness",
"brilliance",
"effulgence",
"luminosity",
"luminousness",
"definition",
"resolution",
"sharpness",
"apparentness",
"observability",
"visibility"
],
"synonyms":[
"clarity",
"clearness",
"limpidity",
"limpidness",
"translucence",
"translucency",
"transparency"
]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"lucidness":{
"clearness of expression":{
"antonyms":[
"obscureness",
"obscurity",
"unclarity"
],
"examples":[
"she was impressed by the lucidness of her surgeon's explanation of the operation"
],
"near antonyms":[
"ambiguity",
"ambiguousness",
"equivocalness",
"equivocation",
"inscrutability",
"inscrutableness",
"obliqueness",
"obliquity",
"opacity",
"opaqueness",
"impenetrability",
"incomprehensibility",
"incomprehensibleness",
"unintelligibility",
"unintelligibleness",
"circuitousness",
"deviousness",
"indirectness",
"indistinctness",
"dimness",
"disjointedness",
"incoherence",
"faintness",
"fuzziness",
"muddiness",
"nebulousness",
"vagueness"
],
"related":[
"incision",
"incisiveness",
"directness",
"forthrightness",
"openness",
"straightforwardness",
"readability",
"readableness",
"comprehensibility",
"intelligibility",
"legibility"
],
"synonyms":[
"clarity",
"explicitness",
"lucidity",
"perspicuity",
"perspicuousness",
"simplicity"
]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"luck":{
"success that is partly the result of chance":{
"antonyms":[
"mischance",
"misfortune",
"unluckiness"
],
"examples":[
"some people have all the luck"
],
"near antonyms":[
"knock",
"misadventure",
"mishap",
"adversity",
"curse",
"debacle",
"d\u00e9b\u00e2cle",
"sorrow",
"tragedy",
"trouble",
"calamity",
"cataclysm",
"catastrophe",
"disaster",
"defeat",
"failure",
"fizzle",
"nonachievement",
"nonsuccess",
"accident",
"casualty",
"disappointment",
"lapse",
"letdown",
"reversal",
"reverse",
"setback",
"slipup",
"circumstance",
"destiny",
"doom",
"fate",
"lot",
"portion",
"hex",
"jinx"
],
"related":[
"blessing",
"boon",
"fluke",
"godsend",
"hit",
"serendipity",
"strike",
"windfall",
"break",
"chance",
"opportunity",
"coup",
"stroke"
],
"synonyms":[
"fortunateness",
"fortune",
"luckiness"
]
},
"the uncertain course of events":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"let's plan our vacation rather than leave everything to luck"
],
"near antonyms":[
"intent",
"intention",
"purpose",
"design",
"outline",
"plan",
"scheme"
],
"related":[
"fortuitousness",
"fortuity",
"haphazardry",
"randomness",
"uncertainty",
"fluke",
"happenchance",
"happenstance",
"destiny",
"doom",
"fate",
"fortune",
"lot",
"danger",
"peril",
"risk"
],
"synonyms":[
"accident",
"casualty",
"chance",
"circumstance",
"hap",
"hazard"
]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"luckily":{
"by good fortune or luck":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"Luckily , none of our dishes broke during the move."
],
"near antonyms":[],
"related":[],
"synonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"adverb"
]
},
"luckiness":{
"success that is partly the result of chance":{
"antonyms":[
"mischance",
"misfortune",
"unluckiness"
],
"examples":[
"the supposed luckiness of a rabbit's foot was the reason he kept one on his keychain"
],
"near antonyms":[
"knock",
"misadventure",
"mishap",
"adversity",
"curse",
"debacle",
"d\u00e9b\u00e2cle",
"sorrow",
"tragedy",
"trouble",
"calamity",
"cataclysm",
"catastrophe",
"disaster",
"defeat",
"failure",
"fizzle",
"nonachievement",
"nonsuccess",
"accident",
"casualty",
"disappointment",
"lapse",
"letdown",
"reversal",
"reverse",
"setback",
"slipup",
"circumstance",
"destiny",
"doom",
"fate",
"lot",
"portion",
"hex",
"jinx"
],
"related":[
"blessing",
"boon",
"fluke",
"godsend",
"hit",
"serendipity",
"strike",
"windfall",
"break",
"chance",
"opportunity",
"coup",
"stroke"
],
"synonyms":[
"fortunateness",
"fortune",
"luck"
]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"lucubrations":{
"as in grinds , heavy liftings":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[],
"near antonyms":[],
"related":[],
"synonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"luculent":{
"not subject to misinterpretation or more than one interpretation":{
"antonyms":[
"ambiguous",
"clouded",
"cryptic",
"dark",
"enigmatic",
"enigmatical",
"equivocal",
"indistinct",
"mysterious",
"nonobvious",
"obfuscated",
"obscure",
"unapparent",
"unclarified",
"unclear"
],
"examples":[
"the district attorney's brilliant, luculent summation sealed the case for the prosecution"
],
"near antonyms":[
"incomprehensible",
"indecipherable",
"unfathomable",
"unintelligible",
"unknowable",
"impalpable",
"imperceptible",
"inappreciable",
"indiscernible",
"insensible",
"cloudy",
"gauzy",
"gray",
"grey",
"hazy",
"imprecise",
"indefinite",
"indeterminate",
"misty",
"murky",
"nebulous",
"noncommittal",
"sketchy",
"slippery",
"subtle",
"vague",
"illegible",
"undecipherable",
"unreadable"
],
"related":[
"cognizable",
"cognoscible",
"comprehendible",
"comprehensible",
"digestible",
"fathomable",
"graspable",
"intelligible",
"knowable",
"understandable",
"self-evident",
"self-explanatory",
"clean-cut",
"simple",
"tidy",
"uncomplicated",
"overt",
"undisguised",
"appreciable",
"perceptible",
"recognizable",
"sensible",
"tangible",
"discernible",
"discernable",
"noticeable",
"observable",
"visible",
"black-and-white",
"explicit",
"trenchant",
"well-defined",
"clean",
"decipherable",
"fair",
"legible",
"readable"
],
"synonyms":[
"apparent",
"bald",
"bald-faced",
"barefaced",
"bright-line",
"broad",
"clear",
"clear-cut",
"crystal clear",
"decided",
"distinct",
"evident",
"lucid",
"luminous",
"manifest",
"nonambiguous",
"obvious",
"open-and-shut",
"palpable",
"patent",
"pellucid",
"perspicuous",
"plain",
"ringing",
"straightforward",
"transparent",
"unambiguous",
"unambivalent",
"unequivocal",
"unmistakable"
]
},
"type":[
"adjective"
]
},
"lugubrious":{
"causing or marked by an atmosphere lacking in cheer":{
"antonyms":[
"bright",
"cheerful",
"cheering",
"cheery",
"comforting",
"cordial",
"festive",
"friendly",
"gay",
"heartwarming",
"sunshiny"
],
"examples":[
"the diner's dim lighting makes eating there a particularly lugubrious experience"
],
"near antonyms":[
"blithe",
"blithesome",
"buoyant",
"gay",
"jocund",
"jolly",
"joyful",
"joyous",
"merry",
"mirthful",
"encouraging",
"hopeful",
"optimistic",
"lighthearted",
"lightsome"
],
"related":[
"blue",
"dejected",
"depressed",
"despondent",
"down",
"droopy",
"hangdog",
"inconsolable",
"low",
"melancholic",
"melancholy",
"mirthless",
"sad",
"unhappy",
"woebegone",
"woeful",
"dim",
"discomfiting",
"discouraging",
"disheartening",
"dismaying",
"dispiriting",
"distressful",
"distressing",
"upsetting",
"desperate",
"hopeless",
"pessimistic",
"lamentable",
"mournful",
"plaintive",
"sorrowful",
"colorless",
"drab",
"dull",
"dour",
"grim",
"lowering",
"louring",
"lowery",
"loury",
"menacing",
"negative",
"oppressive",
"threatening"
],
"synonyms":[
"black",
"bleak",
"cheerless",
"chill",
"Cimmerian",
"cloudy",
"cold",
"comfortless",
"dark",
"darkening",
"depressing",
"depressive",
"desolate",
"dire",
"disconsolate",
"dismal",
"drear",
"dreary",
"dreich",
"elegiac",
"elegiacal",
"forlorn",
"funereal",
"gloomy",
"glum",
"godforsaken",
"gray",
"grey",
"lonely",
"lonesome",
"miserable",
"morbid",
"morose",
"murky",
"plutonian",
"saturnine",
"sepulchral",
"solemn",
"somber",
"sombre",
"sullen",
"sunless",
"tenebrific",
"tenebrous",
"wretched"
]
},
"expressing or suggesting mourning":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"in Victorian times, people who could affect particularly lugubrious expressions were hired to march in funeral processions as professional mourners"
],
"near antonyms":[
"delighted",
"exulting",
"glorying",
"happy",
"joyful",
"rejoicing",
"triumphant",
"bright",
"cheerful",
"cheering",
"cheery",
"laughing",
"smiling",
"blissful",
"blithe",
"blithesome",
"buoyant",
"jocund",
"jolly",
"joyous",
"lighthearted",
"merry",
"mirthful",
"encouraging",
"hopeful",
"optimistic",
"ecstatic",
"elated",
"euphoric",
"exhilarated",
"giddy",
"heady",
"rapturous",
"rhapsodic",
"rhapsodical"
],
"related":[
"dirgelike",
"elegiac",
"elegiacal",
"melancholy",
"dejected",
"depressed",
"despondent",
"disconsolate",
"dispirited",
"downcast",
"downhearted",
"heartsick",
"heartsore",
"inconsolable",
"tearful",
"brokenhearted",
"careworn",
"crestfallen",
"downcast",
"downhearted",
"forlorn",
"gloomy",
"glum",
"low-spirited",
"miserable",
"sad",
"triste",
"unhappy",
"woebegone",
"bawling",
"crying",
"groaning",
"howling",
"keening",
"moaning",
"yammering",
"bleeding",
"suffering",
"black",
"bleak",
"cheerless",
"comfortless",
"dark",
"darkening",
"desolate",
"dismal",
"dreary",
"funereal",
"gloomy",
"glum",
"gray",
"grey",
"joyless",
"low",
"miserable",
"moody",
"morbid",
"morose",
"pathetic",
"pessimistic",
"piteous",
"saturnine",
"somber",
"sombre",
"sullen",
"wretched"
],
"synonyms":[
"aching",
"agonized",
"anguished",
"bemoaning",
"bewailing",
"bitter",
"deploring",
"doleful",
"dolesome",
"dolorous",
"funeral",
"grieving",
"heartbroken",
"lamentable",
"mournful",
"plaintive",
"plangent",
"regretful",
"rueful",
"sorrowful",
"sorry",
"wailing",
"weeping",
"woeful"
]
},
"type":[
"adjective"
]
},
"lugubriously":{
"type":[
"adverb"
],
"with feelings of bitterness or grief":{
"antonyms":[
"blissfully",
"gladly",
"happily",
"joyfully",
"joyously"
],
"examples":[
"18th-century gravestones typically have inscriptions in which the brevity of life and the certainty of death are lugubriously noted"
],
"near antonyms":[
"cheerfully",
"cheerily",
"delightedly",
"gaily",
"gayly",
"gleefully",
"good-naturedly",
"lightheartedly",
"merrily",
"mirthfully",
"rejoicingly",
"sunnily",
"blithely",
"blithesomely",
"calmly",
"casually",
"dispassionately",
"easily",
"impassively",
"indifferently",
"lightly",
"nonchalantly",
"stoically",
"unconcernedly",
"favorably",
"well"
],
"related":[
"abjectly",
"cheerlessly",
"crestfallenly",
"dejectedly",
"despairingly",
"despondently",
"disconsolately",
"dispiritedly",
"downheartedly",
"low-spiritedly",
"blackly",
"darkly",
"dismally",
"distressfully",
"distressingly",
"dourly",
"drearily",
"forlornly",
"gloomily",
"glumly",
"joylessly",
"mirthlessly",
"miserably",
"morosely",
"pessimistically",
"somberly",
"sullenly",
"acutely",
"harshly",
"keenly",
"piercingly",
"poignantly",
"severely",
"sharply",
"cruelly",
"hurtfully",
"ill",
"rancorously"
],
"synonyms":[
"agonizingly",
"bitterly",
"dolefully",
"dolorously",
"grievously",
"hard",
"hardly",
"inconsolably",
"mournfully",
"painfully",
"plaintively",
"regretfully",
"resentfully",
"ruefully",
"sadly",
"sorely",
"sorrowfully",
"unhappily",
"wailfully",
"woefully",
"wretchedly"
]
}
},
"lumbering":{
"as in cumbersome , plodding":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[],
"near antonyms":[],
"related":[],
"synonyms":[]
},
"as in wobbly , shambling":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[],
"near antonyms":[],
"related":[],
"synonyms":[]
},
"to make a low heavy rolling sound":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"the horse-drawn wagon lumbered along the trail"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"related":[
"booming",
"drumming",
"thundering",
"bellowing"
],
"synonyms":[
"growling",
"grumbling",
"rolling",
"rumbling"
]
},
"to move heavily or clumsily":{
"antonyms":[
"breezing",
"coasting",
"gliding",
"sliding",
"waltzing",
"whisking"
],
"examples":[
"the elephant lumbered through the jungle"
],
"near antonyms":[
"drifting",
"floating",
"hanging",
"hovering",
"poising",
"wafting"
],
"related":[
"dragging",
"flopping",
"hauling",
"blundering",
"careening",
"doddering",
"lurching",
"reeling",
"staggering",
"swaying",
"teetering",
"tottering",
"waddling",
"weaving",
"wobbling",
"wabbling"
],
"synonyms":[
"barging",
"clumping",
"flogging",
"floundering",
"galumphing",
"lumping",
"plodding",
"pounding",
"scuffing",
"scuffling",
"shambling",
"shuffling",
"slogging",
"sloughing",
"stamping",
"stomping",
"stumbling",
"stumping",
"tramping",
"tromping",
"trudging"
]
},
"to place a weight or burden on":{
"antonyms":[
"disburdening",
"discharging",
"disencumbering",
"unburdening",
"unlading",
"unloading"
],
"examples":[
"preparations that will lumber the expedition with unnecessary equipment and supplies"
],
"near antonyms":[
"alleviating",
"easing",
"lightening",
"relieving"
],
"related":[
"clogging",
"cluttering",
"filling",
"packing",
"heaping",
"mounding",
"piling",
"stacking",
"pressing",
"weighing",
"straining",
"taxing",
"overburdening",
"overloading",
"overtaxing",
"surcharging",
"hampering",
"handicapping",
"afflicting",
"oppressing"
],
"synonyms":[
"burdening",
"encumbering",
"freighting",
"ladening",
"lading",
"loading",
"saddling",
"weighting"
]
},
"to proceed or act clumsily or ineffectually":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"the novel's plot lumbers to its predictable conclusion after 500 long pages"
],
"near antonyms":[
"coasting",
"flying",
"gliding",
"kilting",
"sailing",
"zipping",
"zooming"
],
"related":[
"jogging",
"shambling",
"shuffling",
"wallowing",
"weltering",
"faltering",
"lurching",
"reeling",
"staggering",
"swaying",
"teetering",
"tottering",
"fumbling",
"muddling"
],
"synonyms":[
"blundering",
"bumbling",
"flogging",
"floundering",
"limping",
"plodding",
"struggling",
"stumbling",
"trudging"
]
},
"type":[
"adjective",
"verb"
]
},
"luminescences":{
"the steady giving off of the form of radiation that makes vision possible":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"we could see inside the cave even without a flashlight because of the luminescence coming from some of the fungus on the walls"
],
"near antonyms":[
"darks",
"dusks",
"glooms",
"nights",
"shadows"
],
"related":[
"flashes",
"glimmers",
"glints",
"glitters",
"scintillations",
"shimmers",
"sparkles",
"twinkles",
"daylights",
"moonlights",
"sunlights",
"sunshines",
"afterglows",
"aureoles",
"aureolae",
"auroras",
"aurorae",
"beams",
"halos",
"haloes",
"rays",
"shafts",
"streaks",
"streams",
"sunbeams",
"glistens",
"glosses",
"lusters",
"lustres",
"polishes",
"reflections",
"sheens"
],
"synonyms":[
"blazes",
"flares",
"fluorescences",
"glares",
"gleams",
"glows",
"illuminations",
"incandescences",
"lights",
"radiances",
"shines"
]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
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"as in fires , glows":{
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"examples":[],
"near antonyms":[],
"related":[],
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},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
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"the quality or state of having or giving off light":{
"antonyms":[
"blackness",
"dark",
"darkness",
"dullness",
"dulness",
"duskiness"
],
"examples":[
"there's a special luminousness to the air over the island that painters and photographers have long sought to capture"
],
"near antonyms":[
"dimness",
"gloominess",
"somberness",
"cloudiness",
"haziness",
"murkiness",
"obscureness",
"obscurity",
"colorlessness",
"grayness",
"lackluster",
"paleness",
"shadiness",
"shadowiness"
],
"related":[
"blaze",
"flare",
"flash",
"flicker",
"light",
"fluorescence",
"incandescence",
"luminescence",
"burnish",
"gloss",
"polish",
"sheen",
"shine",
"shininess",
"fire",
"flame",
"glare",
"glow",
"flash",
"gleam",
"glimmer",
"glint",
"glisten",
"glitter",
"scintillation",
"shimmer",
"sparkle",
"twinkle"
],
"synonyms":[
"brightness",
"brilliance",
"brilliancy",
"candor",
"dazzle",
"effulgence",
"illumination",
"lambency",
"lightness",
"luminance",
"luminosity",
"luster",
"lustre",
"lustrousness",
"radiance",
"refulgence",
"splendor"
]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"lump":{
"a big clumsy often slow-witted person":{
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"examples":[
"standing next to those ballet dancers, with their graceful way of moving, I felt like a lump"
],
"near antonyms":[
"brain",
"brainiac",
"genius",
"intellectual",
"sage",
"thinker",
"whiz",
"wizard"
],
"related":[
"chump",
"loser",
"schlemiel",
"shlemiel",
"turkey",
"slouch",
"airhead",
"birdbrain",
"blockhead",
"blunderer",
"bonehead",
"bubblehead",
"chowderhead",
"chucklehead",
"clodpoll",
"clodpole",
"clot",
"cluck",
"clunk",
"cuddy",
"cuddie",
"deadhead",
"dim bulb",
"dimwit",
"dip",
"dodo",
"dolt",
"donkey",
"doofus",
"dope",
"dork",
"dullard",
"dumbbell",
"dumbhead",
"dum-dum",
"dummkopf",
"dummy",
"dunce",
"dunderhead",
"fathead",
"galoot",
"gander",
"golem",
"goof",
"goon",
"half-wit",
"hammerhead",
"hardhead",
"idiot",
"ignoramus",
"imbecile",
"jackass",
"know-nothing",
"knucklehead",
"lamebrain",
"loggerhead",
"loon",
"lunkhead",
"meathead",
"mome",
"moron",
"mug",
"mutt",
"natural",
"nimrod",
"nincompoop",
"ninny",
"ninnyhammer",
"nit",
"nitwit",
"noddy",
"noodle",
"numskull",
"numbskull",
"pinhead",
"prat",
"ratbag",
"saphead",
"schlub",
"shlub",
"schnook",
"simp",
"simpleton",
"stock",
"stupe",
"stupid",
"thickhead",
"turkey",
"woodenhead",
"yahoo",
"yo-yo",
"anthropoid",
"ape",
"beast",
"boor",
"brute",
"cad",
"churl",
"clown",
"creep",
"cretin",
"cur",
"heel",
"louse",
"skunk",
"snake",
"stinker",
"tyke",
"tike",
"villain",
"booby",
"fool",
"goose",
"loony",
"looney",
"lunatic",
"madman",
"nut",
"featherbrain",
"scatterbrain",
"rascal",
"rogue",
"scamp"
],
"synonyms":[
"clod",
"clodhopper",
"gawk",
"hulk",
"lout",
"lubber",
"lug",
"Neanderthal",
"oaf",
"palooka"
]
},
"a small rounded mass of swollen tissue":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"I got a good-sized lump on my head from that fall"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"related":[
"growth",
"tumor",
"wart",
"hump",
"hunch",
"bruise",
"contusion",
"welt",
"blister",
"boil",
"blob",
"chunk",
"clod",
"clump",
"gob",
"gobbet",
"hunk",
"knob",
"nub",
"nubble",
"nugget",
"wad"
],
"synonyms":[
"bump",
"knot",
"node",
"nodule",
"swelling"
]
},
"a small uneven mass":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"she dumped a lump of clay on the table and started to sculpt"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"related":[
"bead",
"drop",
"globule",
"block",
"body",
"bulk",
"particle",
"piece",
"portion",
"bit",
"chip",
"crumb",
"granule",
"morsel",
"nubbin",
"patch",
"scrap"
],
"synonyms":[
"blob",
"chunk",
"clod",
"clot",
"clump",
"dollop",
"glob",
"gob",
"gobbet",
"hunk",
"knob",
"nub",
"nubble",
"nugget",
"wad"
]
},
"a stupid person":{
"antonyms":[
"brain",
"genius"
],
"examples":[
"gazed disgustedly at the lump her daughter had married"
],
"near antonyms":[
"intellect",
"intellectual",
"sage",
"thinker",
"whiz",
"wizard",
"polymath",
"Renaissance man",
"sharpie",
"sharpy"
],
"related":[
"booby",
"buffoon",
"fool",
"goose",
"loony",
"lunatic",
"madman",
"nut",
"zany",
"loser",
"gawk",
"featherbrain",
"scatterbrain",
"beast",
"boor",
"cad",
"churl",
"clown",
"creep",
"cur",
"heel",
"jerk",
"skunk",
"snake",
"stinker",
"villain"
],
"synonyms":[
"airhead",
"birdbrain",
"blockhead",
"bonehead",
"bubblehead",
"chowderhead",
"chucklehead",
"clodpoll",
"clodpole",
"clot",
"cluck",
"clunk",
"cretin",
"cuddy",
"cuddie",
"deadhead",
"dim bulb",
"dimwit",
"dip",
"dodo",
"dolt",
"donkey",
"doofus",
"dope",
"dork",
"dullard",
"dum-dum",
"dumbbell",
"dumbhead",
"dummkopf",
"dummy",
"dunce",
"dunderhead",
"fathead",
"gander",
"golem",
"goof",
"goon",
"half-wit",
"hammerhead",
"hardhead",
"idiot",
"ignoramus",
"imbecile",
"jackass",
"know-nothing",
"knucklehead",
"lamebrain",
"loggerhead",
"loon",
"lunkhead",
"meathead",
"mome",
"moron",
"mug",
"mutt",
"natural",
"nimrod",
"nincompoop",
"ninny",
"ninnyhammer",
"nit",
"nitwit",
"noddy",
"noodle",
"numskull",
"numbskull",
"oaf",
"pinhead",
"prat",
"ratbag",
"saphead",
"schlub",
"shlub",
"schnook",
"simpleton",
"stock",
"stupe",
"stupid",
"thickhead",
"turkey",
"woodenhead",
"yahoo",
"yo-yo"
]
},
"an abnormal mass of tissue":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"advised by her doctor to examine her breasts regularly for unusual lumps"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"related":[
"outgrowth",
"cancer",
"carcinoma",
"lymphoma",
"malignancy",
"melanoma",
"polyp",
"cyst",
"tubercle",
"wart"
],
"synonyms":[
"excrescence",
"excrescency",
"growth",
"neoplasm",
"tumor"
]
},
"as in":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[],
"near antonyms":[],
"related":[],
"synonyms":[]
},
"failure to win a contest":{
"antonyms":[
"success",
"triumph",
"victory",
"win"
],
"examples":[
"you can't win all the time, so learn to take your lumps in stride"
],
"near antonyms":[
"accomplishment",
"achievement",
"blowout",
"cakewalk",
"landslide",
"romp",
"runaway",
"sweep",
"walkaway",
"walkover"
],
"related":[
"collapse",
"debacle",
"d\u00e9b\u00e2cle",
"failure",
"fiasco",
"fizzle",
"flop",
"nonsuccess",
"setback",
"upset",
"lurch",
"shutout",
"washout",
"whitewash"
],
"synonyms":[
"beating",
"defeat",
"drubbing",
"licking",
"loss",
"overthrow",
"plastering",
"rout",
"shellacking",
"trimming",
"trouncing",
"whipping"
]
},
"to bring together in one body or place":{
"antonyms":[
"dispel",
"disperse",
"dissipate",
"scatter"
],
"examples":[
"when we lumped all of our pocket change together, we found that we had just enough a buy a carton of ice cream"
],
"near antonyms":[
"break up",
"disband",
"disintegrate",
"dissolve",
"separate",
"sever",
"split (up)",
"dismiss",
"send"
],
"related":[
"ball",
"batch",
"bunch",
"cluster",
"huddle",
"heap",
"pile",
"stack",
"band",
"brigade",
"muster",
"raise",
"rally",
"flock",
"herd",
"hive",
"pack",
"press",
"swarm",
"throng",
"combine",
"connect",
"join",
"link",
"merge",
"pool",
"unite",
"archive",
"arrange",
"collate",
"compile",
"organize",
"systematize",
"scrape (up or together)",
"re-collect",
"regather",
"regroup"
],
"synonyms":[
"accumulate",
"amass",
"assemble",
"bulk (up)",
"collect",
"concentrate",
"congregate",
"constellate",
"corral",
"garner",
"gather",
"group",
"pick up",
"round up"
]
},
"to move heavily or clumsily":{
"antonyms":[
"breeze",
"coast",
"glide",
"slide",
"waltz",
"whisk"
],
"examples":[
"while I was on crutches, I was lumping about the house like an elephant"
],
"near antonyms":[
"drift",
"float",
"hang",
"hover",
"poise",
"waft"
],
"related":[
"drag",
"flop",
"haul",
"blunder",
"careen",
"dodder",
"lurch",
"reel",
"stagger",
"sway",
"teeter",
"totter",
"waddle",
"weave",
"wobble",
"wabble"
],
"synonyms":[
"barge",
"clump",
"flog",
"flounder",
"galumph",
"lumber",
"plod",
"pound",
"scuff",
"scuffle",
"shamble",
"shuffle",
"slog",
"slough",
"stamp",
"stomp",
"stumble",
"stump",
"tramp",
"tromp",
"trudge"
]
},
"type":[
"adjective",
"noun",
"verb"
]
},
"lump (together)":{
"as in confuse , conflate":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[],
"near antonyms":[],
"related":[],
"synonyms":[]
},
"as in join , tie (together)":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[],
"near antonyms":[],
"related":[],
"synonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"lumpish":{
"as in burdensome , leaden":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[],
"near antonyms":[],
"related":[],
"synonyms":[]
},
"as in knobbly , knobby":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[],
"near antonyms":[],
"related":[],
"synonyms":[]
},
"as in wobbly , shambling":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[],
"near antonyms":[],
"related":[],
"synonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"adjective"
]
},
"lunch":{
"as in breakfast , sup":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[],
"near antonyms":[],
"related":[],
"synonyms":[]
},
"as in dinner , breakfast":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[],
"near antonyms":[],
"related":[],
"synonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun",
"verb"
]
},
"lurching":{
"to make a series of unsteady side-to-side motions":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"the room lurched with every jolt of the earthquake"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"related":[
"blundering",
"bucking",
"doddering",
"faltering",
"floundering",
"halting",
"hitching",
"hobbling",
"jerking",
"jolting",
"reeling",
"shaking",
"staggering",
"stumbling",
"teetering",
"toddling",
"tottering",
"tumbling",
"vacillating",
"vibrating",
"waddling",
"wavering",
"weaving",
"oscillating",
"undulating",
"wagging",
"waggling"
],
"synonyms":[
"careening",
"pitching",
"rocking",
"rolling",
"seesawing",
"swaying",
"tossing",
"wobbling",
"wabbling"
]
},
"to move forward while swaying from side to side":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"dressed in his zombie costume, the boy lurched down the street in his quest for Halloween candy"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"related":[
"rocking",
"rolling",
"seesawing",
"swagging",
"swaying",
"wavering",
"weaving",
"wobbling",
"wabbling",
"barging",
"blundering",
"clomping",
"clumping",
"floundering",
"galumphing",
"lumbering",
"lumping",
"pounding",
"scuffing",
"scuffling",
"shambling",
"shuffling",
"stamping",
"stomping",
"stumbling",
"tramping",
"tromping"
],
"synonyms":[
"careening",
"doddering",
"reeling",
"staggering",
"teetering",
"tottering",
"waddling"
]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"luring":{
"having an often mysterious or magical power to attract":{
"antonyms":[
"repellent",
"repellant",
"repelling",
"repugnant",
"repulsive",
"revolting",
"unalluring"
],
"examples":[
"the luring sight of sparkling gemstones in a jewelry-store window"
],
"near antonyms":[
"boring",
"irksome",
"tedious",
"tiresome",
"wearisome",
"abhorrent",
"abominable",
"appalling",
"awful",
"distasteful",
"hideous",
"horrendous",
"horrible",
"horrid",
"invidious",
"loathsome",
"nauseating",
"noisome",
"obnoxious",
"odious",
"offensive",
"shocking",
"sickening",
"drab",
"dreary",
"dull",
"flat",
"humdrum",
"jading",
"leaden",
"monotonous",
"pedestrian",
"ponderous"
],
"related":[
"absorbing",
"arresting",
"engrossing",
"enthralling",
"galvanic",
"gripping",
"hypnotic",
"hypnotizing",
"mesmerizing",
"riveting",
"spellbinding",
"enticing",
"tantalizing",
"tempting",
"exciting",
"haunting",
"interesting",
"intriguing",
"titillating",
"beckoning",
"inviting",
"winning",
"darling",
"delightful",
"pleasant",
"pleasing"
],
"synonyms":[
"alluring",
"appealing",
"attractive",
"bewitching",
"captivating",
"charismatic",
"charming",
"elfin",
"enchanting",
"engaging",
"entrancing",
"fascinating",
"fetching",
"glamorous",
"glamourous",
"magnetic",
"seductive"
]
},
"to lead away from a usual or proper course by offering some pleasure or advantage":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"the hunter lured the lion into the open with the antelope carcass"
],
"near antonyms":[
"alerting",
"cautioning",
"forewarning",
"warding (off)",
"warning",
"driving (away or off)",
"repulsing",
"turning away"
],
"related":[
"drawing in",
"inveigling",
"persuading",
"roping (in)",
"snowing",
"catching",
"enmeshing",
"immeshing",
"ensnaring",
"entrapping",
"meshing",
"snaring",
"tangling",
"trapping",
"bewitching",
"captivating",
"charming",
"enchanting",
"fascinating",
"magnetizing",
"wiling"
],
"synonyms":[
"alluring",
"baiting",
"beguiling",
"betraying",
"decoying",
"enticing",
"leading on",
"seducing",
"soliciting",
"tempting"
]
},
"type":[
"adjective",
"verb"
]
},
"lusciousness":{
"the quality of being delicious":{
"examples":[
"it was hard to resist the decadent lusciousness of the three-layer chocolate cake"
],
"synonyms":[
"delectability",
"deliciousness",
"palatability",
"palatableness",
"savor",
"savour",
"savoriness",
"tastiness",
"toothsomeness"
],
"near synonyms":[
"digestibility",
"edibility",
"edibleness",
"choiceness",
"daintiness",
"delicacy"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[
"distastefulness",
"flatness",
"insipidity",
"staleness",
"tastelessness",
"unpalatability"
]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"lust":{
"a strong wish for something":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"the belief that most politicians have a lust for power"
],
"near antonyms":[
"abhorrence",
"abomination",
"allergy",
"averseness",
"aversion",
"disfavor",
"disgust",
"disinclination",
"dislike",
"disliking",
"distaste",
"hatred",
"loathing",
"nausea",
"repugnance",
"repulsion",
"revulsion",
"apathy",
"indifference",
"insouciance",
"nonchalance",
"unconcern"
],
"related":[
"compulsion",
"impulse",
"impulsion",
"will",
"zeal",
"liking",
"love",
"taste",
"weakness",
"eagerness",
"impatience",
"want",
"wish",
"necessity",
"need",
"requirement",
"obsession",
"acquisitiveness",
"avarice",
"avariciousness",
"avidity",
"covetousness",
"cupidity",
"greed",
"greediness",
"rapaciousness",
"rapacity",
"caco\u00ebthes",
"mania"
],
"synonyms":[
"appetency",
"appetite",
"craving",
"desire",
"drive",
"hankering",
"hunger",
"itch",
"jones",
"letch",
"longing",
"passion",
"pining",
"thirst",
"thirstiness",
"urge",
"yearning",
"yen"
]
},
"as in":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[],
"near antonyms":[],
"related":[],
"synonyms":[]
},
"intense sexual desire":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"he was overcome with lust when he saw the images"
],
"near antonyms":[
"frigidity"
],
"related":[
"erotomania",
"nymphomania",
"satyriasis",
"lasciviousness",
"lewdness",
"libidinousness",
"licentiousness",
"lickerishness",
"randiness",
"salaciousness",
"wantonness"
],
"synonyms":[
"ardor",
"concupiscence",
"eros",
"eroticism",
"horniness",
"itch",
"lustfulness",
"passion"
]
},
"sexual appetite":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"a no-strings-attached relationship in which both parties were there merely for the satisfaction of their lust"
],
"near antonyms":[
"abstinence",
"celibacy",
"chastity",
"frigidity",
"frigidness"
],
"related":[
"libido",
"ardor",
"heat",
"rut",
"erotomania",
"hypersexuality",
"lecherousness",
"lechery",
"nymphomania",
"satyriasis",
"venery"
],
"synonyms":[
"concupiscence",
"desire",
"eroticism",
"horniness",
"hots",
"itch",
"lech",
"letch",
"libidinousness",
"lustfulness",
"lustihood",
"passion",
"salaciousness"
]
},
"type":[
"noun",
"verb"
],
"urgent desire or interest":{
"antonyms":[
"apathy",
"indifference"
],
"examples":[
"vacation tours for people with a lust for adventure"
],
"near antonyms":[
"casualness",
"insouciance",
"nonchalance",
"unconcern",
"aloofness",
"detachment",
"impassivity",
"languidness",
"languor",
"halfheartedness",
"lukewarmness"
],
"related":[
"alacrity",
"quickness",
"ambition",
"gusto",
"zest",
"appetence",
"appetency",
"fervency",
"passion",
"warmth",
"zeal",
"amenability",
"readiness",
"willingness"
],
"synonyms":[
"appetite",
"ardor",
"avidity",
"avidness",
"desirousness",
"eagerness",
"enthusiasm",
"excitement",
"hunger",
"impatience",
"keenness",
"thirst"
]
}
},
"lust (for":{
"to have an earnest wish to own or enjoy":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"I'm lusting after that new SUV"
],
"near antonyms":[
"abhor",
"abominate",
"despise",
"detest",
"execrate",
"hate",
"loathe",
"decline",
"refuse",
"reject",
"spurn"
],
"related":[
"spoil (for)",
"adore",
"delight (in)",
"dig",
"enjoy",
"fancy",
"groove (on)",
"like",
"love",
"relish",
"revel (in)",
"favor",
"prefer",
"admire",
"appreciate",
"cherish",
"prize",
"treasure",
"value"
],
"synonyms":[
"ache (for)",
"covet",
"crave",
"desiderate",
"desire",
"die (for)",
"hanker (for or after)",
"hunger (for)",
"itch (for)",
"jones (for)",
"long (for)",
"pant (after)",
"pine (for)",
"repine (for)",
"salivate (for)",
"sigh (for)",
"thirst (for)",
"want",
"wish (for)",
"yearn (for)",
"yen (for)"
]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"lustiness":{
"the quality or state of having abundant or intense activity":{
"antonyms":[
"inactivity",
"lifelessness"
],
"examples":[
"campaign volunteers working for their candidate with a lustiness that is inspiring"
],
"near antonyms":[
"indolence",
"laziness",
"anemia",
"bloodlessness",
"languidness",
"languor",
"lethargy",
"limpness",
"listlessness",
"sleepiness",
"sluggishness",
"spiritlessness",
"torpidity",
"torpor",
"weariness",
"apathy",
"impassivity",
"dullness",
"dulness",
"pallidness",
"tediousness",
"tedium",
"vapidity",
"vapidness"
],
"related":[
"buoyancy",
"jauntiness",
"springiness",
"brightness",
"cheer",
"cheerfulness",
"chirpiness",
"effervescence",
"friskiness",
"pizzazz",
"pizazz",
"sparkle",
"spirit",
"verve",
"vivaciousness",
"vivacity",
"eagerness",
"ebullience",
"ebulliency",
"enthusiasm",
"keenness",
"spiritedness",
"impishness",
"pertness",
"playfulness"
],
"synonyms":[
"animation",
"briskness",
"exuberance",
"jazziness",
"liveliness",
"peppiness",
"robustness",
"sprightliness",
"vibrance",
"vibrancy",
"vigorousness",
"vitality"
]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"lusting (for or after)":{
"to have an earnest wish to own or enjoy":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"I'm lusting after that new SUV"
],
"near antonyms":[
"abhorring",
"abominating",
"despising",
"detesting",
"execrating",
"hating",
"loathing",
"declining",
"refusing",
"rejecting",
"spurning"
],
"related":[
"spoiling (for)",
"adoring",
"delighting (in)",
"digging",
"enjoying",
"fancying",
"grooving (on)",
"liking",
"loving",
"relishing",
"reveling (in)",
"revelling (in)",
"favoring",
"preferring",
"admiring",
"appreciating",
"cherishing",
"prizing",
"treasuring",
"valuing"
],
"synonyms":[
"aching (for)",
"coveting",
"craving",
"desiderating",
"desiring",
"dying (for)",
"hankering (for or after)",
"hungering (for)",
"itching (for)",
"jonesing (for)",
"longing (for)",
"panting (after)",
"pining (for)",
"repining (for)",
"salivating (for)",
"sighing (for)",
"thirsting (for)",
"wanting",
"wishing (for)",
"yearning (for)",
"yenning (for)"
]
},
"type":[]
},
"lustrate":{
"as in cleanse , purify":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[],
"near antonyms":[],
"related":[],
"synonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"lustrous":{
"giving off or reflecting much light":{
"antonyms":[
"dim",
"dull",
"lackluster",
"unbright",
"unbrilliant"
],
"examples":[
"the lustrous finish on the satin bedspread adds to the feeling of luxury"
],
"near antonyms":[
"blackened",
"dark",
"darkened",
"darkish",
"darkling",
"darksome",
"dimmed",
"dusky",
"gloomy",
"lightless",
"murky",
"obscure",
"obscured",
"pitch-black",
"pitch-dark",
"somber",
"sombre",
"sunless",
"tenebrous",
"unlit",
"cloudy",
"shadowlike",
"shadowy",
"shady",
"gray",
"grey",
"leaden",
"pale",
"palish"
],
"related":[
"ablaze",
"ardent",
"blazing",
"burning",
"combusting",
"fiery",
"flaming",
"red-hot",
"agleam",
"aglitter",
"blinding",
"coruscant",
"flaring",
"flashing",
"flickering",
"gemmy",
"glancing",
"glaring",
"gleaming",
"glimmering",
"glinting",
"glistening",
"glistering",
"glittering",
"scintillant",
"scintillating",
"shimmering",
"shimmery",
"sparkling",
"sunny",
"twinkling",
"winking",
"burnished",
"polished",
"shined",
"superbright",
"ultrabright"
],
"synonyms":[
"beaming",
"bedazzling",
"bright",
"brilliant",
"candescent",
"clear",
"dazzling",
"effulgent",
"fulgent",
"glowing",
"incandescent",
"lambent",
"lucent",
"lucid",
"luminous",
"radiant",
"refulgent",
"sheeny",
"shining",
"shiny",
"splendid"
]
},
"having a shiny surface or finish":{
"antonyms":[
"dim",
"dull",
"flat",
"lusterless",
"matte",
"mat",
"matt"
],
"examples":[
"lustrous silver jewelry adorned her neck"
],
"near antonyms":[
"lackluster",
"unvarnished"
],
"related":[
"brushed",
"eggshell",
"semigloss",
"semilustrous",
"silken",
"silky",
"slick",
"slippery",
"glassy",
"glazed",
"lacquered",
"shellacked",
"varnished",
"gleaming",
"glittering",
"reflective",
"shining"
],
"synonyms":[
"buffed",
"burnished",
"glistening",
"glossy",
"polished",
"rubbed",
"satin",
"satiny",
"sleek"
]
},
"type":[
"adjective"
]
},
"luxe":{
"showing obvious signs of wealth and comfort":{
"antonyms":[
"ascetic",
"ascetical",
"austere",
"humble",
"no-frills",
"spartan"
],
"examples":[
"we stayed only in luxe accommodations on the trip through the Loire Valley"
],
"near antonyms":[
"economical",
"frugal",
"meager",
"meagre",
"spare",
"stingy",
"thrifty"
],
"related":[
"costly",
"dear",
"expensive",
"precious",
"premium",
"rich",
"extravagant",
"grandiose",
"ostentatious",
"pretentious",
"showy",
"august",
"awesome",
"awful",
"baronial",
"beautiful",
"gorgeous",
"grand",
"heroic",
"heroical",
"imposing",
"impressive",
"kingly",
"magnificent",
"majestic",
"monumental",
"noble",
"proud",
"regal",
"royal",
"splendid",
"stately",
"comfortable",
"cozy",
"homelike",
"homey",
"homy",
"snug"
],
"synonyms":[
"Babylonian",
"deluxe",
"lavish",
"Lucullan",
"Lucullian",
"luxuriant",
"luxurious",
"luxury",
"opulent",
"palace",
"palatial",
"plush",
"plushy",
"silken",
"sumptuous"
]
},
"type":[
"adjective"
]
},
"luxuriance":{
"as in luxuriousness , plushiness":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[],
"near antonyms":[],
"related":[],
"synonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"luxuriating (in)":{
"as in indulging (in) , wallowing (in)":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[],
"near antonyms":[],
"related":[],
"synonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"luxuriousness":{
"as in":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[],
"near antonyms":[],
"related":[],
"synonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"lumping":{
"to bring together in one body or place":{
"examples":[
"when we lumped all of our pocket change together, we found that we had just enough a buy a carton of ice cream"
],
"synonyms":[
"accumulating",
"amassing",
"assembling",
"bulking (up)",
"collecting",
"concentrating",
"congregating",
"constellating",
"corralling",
"garnering",
"gathering",
"grouping",
"picking up",
"rounding up"
],
"related":[
"balling",
"batching",
"bunching",
"clustering",
"huddling",
"heaping",
"piling",
"stacking",
"banding",
"brigading",
"mustering",
"raising",
"rallying",
"flocking",
"herding",
"hiving",
"packing",
"pressing",
"swarming",
"thronging",
"combining",
"connecting",
"joining",
"linking",
"merging",
"pooling",
"uniting",
"archiving",
"arranging",
"collating",
"compiling",
"organizing",
"systematizing",
"scraping (up or together)",
"re-collecting",
"regathering",
"regrouping"
],
"near antonyms":[
"breaking up",
"disbanding",
"disintegrating",
"dissolving",
"separating",
"severing",
"splitting (up)",
"dismissing",
"sending"
],
"antonyms":[
"dispelling",
"dispersing",
"dissipating",
"scattering"
]
},
"to move heavily or clumsily":{
"examples":[
"while I was on crutches, I was lumping about the house like an elephant"
],
"synonyms":[
"barging",
"clumping",
"flogging",
"floundering",
"galumphing",
"lumbering",
"plodding",
"pounding",
"scuffing",
"scuffling",
"shambling",
"shuffling",
"slogging",
"sloughing",
"stamping",
"stomping",
"stumbling",
"stumping",
"tramping",
"tromping",
"trudging"
],
"related":[
"dragging",
"flopping",
"hauling",
"blundering",
"careening",
"doddering",
"lurching",
"reeling",
"staggering",
"swaying",
"teetering",
"tottering",
"waddling",
"weaving",
"wobbling",
"wabbling"
],
"near antonyms":[
"drifting",
"floating",
"hanging",
"hovering",
"poising",
"wafting"
],
"antonyms":[
"breezing",
"coasting",
"gliding",
"sliding",
"waltzing",
"whisking"
]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"lunges":{
"a quick thrust":{
"examples":[
"anticipated the swordsman's lunge and jumped aside to avoid being stabbed"
],
"synonyms":[
"dabs",
"digs",
"jabs",
"pokes"
],
"related":[
"punches",
"stabs",
"sticks",
"pushes",
"shoves",
"jams",
"jerks",
"jogs",
"nudges"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"as in plunges , dives":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"related":[],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun",
"verb"
]
},
"ludicrousness":{
"as in absurdity , irony":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"related":[],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"luminous":{
"giving off or reflecting much light":{
"examples":[
"the luminous moon bathed the snow-covered fields with a pearly glow"
],
"synonyms":[
"beaming",
"bedazzling",
"bright",
"brilliant",
"candescent",
"clear",
"dazzling",
"effulgent",
"fulgent",
"glowing",
"incandescent",
"lambent",
"lucent",
"lucid",
"lustrous",
"radiant",
"refulgent",
"sheeny",
"shining",
"shiny",
"splendid"
],
"related":[
"ablaze",
"ardent",
"blazing",
"burning",
"combusting",
"fiery",
"flaming",
"red-hot",
"agleam",
"aglitter",
"blinding",
"coruscant",
"flaring",
"flashing",
"flickering",
"gemmy",
"glancing",
"glaring",
"gleaming",
"glimmering",
"glinting",
"glistening",
"glistering",
"glittering",
"scintillant",
"scintillating",
"shimmering",
"shimmery",
"sparkling",
"sunny",
"twinkling",
"winking",
"burnished",
"polished",
"shined",
"superbright",
"ultrabright"
],
"near antonyms":[
"blackened",
"dark",
"darkened",
"darkish",
"darkling",
"darksome",
"dimmed",
"dusky",
"gloomy",
"lightless",
"murky",
"obscure",
"obscured",
"pitch-black",
"pitch-dark",
"somber",
"sombre",
"sunless",
"tenebrous",
"unlit",
"cloudy",
"shadowlike",
"shadowy",
"shady",
"gray",
"grey",
"leaden",
"pale",
"palish"
],
"antonyms":[
"dim",
"dull",
"lackluster",
"unbright",
"unbrilliant"
]
},
"standing above others in rank, importance, or achievement":{
"examples":[
"some of the most luminous writers in the nation's history have graced that magazine's pages"
],
"synonyms":[
"astral",
"bright",
"distinguished",
"eminent",
"illustrious",
"noble",
"notable",
"noteworthy",
"outstanding",
"preeminent",
"prestigious",
"redoubtable",
"signal",
"star",
"superior"
],
"related":[
"celebrated",
"exalted",
"famed",
"famous",
"glorious",
"honored",
"renowned",
"reputable",
"infamous",
"notorious",
"dominant",
"paramount",
"predominant"
],
"near antonyms":[
"insignificant",
"minor",
"unimportant",
"average",
"inferior",
"mediocre",
"obscure",
"uncelebrated",
"unsung"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"not subject to misinterpretation or more than one interpretation":{
"examples":[
"an author with a simple, luminous prose style that is free of affectation and pretention"
],
"synonyms":[
"apparent",
"bald",
"bald-faced",
"barefaced",
"bright-line",
"broad",
"clear",
"clear-cut",
"crystal clear",
"decided",
"distinct",
"evident",
"lucid",
"luculent",
"manifest",
"nonambiguous",
"obvious",
"open-and-shut",
"palpable",
"patent",
"pellucid",
"perspicuous",
"plain",
"ringing",
"straightforward",
"transparent",
"unambiguous",
"unambivalent",
"unequivocal",
"unmistakable"
],
"related":[
"cognizable",
"cognoscible",
"comprehendible",
"comprehensible",
"digestible",
"fathomable",
"graspable",
"intelligible",
"knowable",
"understandable",
"self-evident",
"self-explanatory",
"clean-cut",
"simple",
"tidy",
"uncomplicated",
"overt",
"undisguised",
"appreciable",
"perceptible",
"recognizable",
"sensible",
"tangible",
"discernible",
"discernable",
"noticeable",
"observable",
"visible",
"black-and-white",
"explicit",
"trenchant",
"well-defined",
"clean",
"decipherable",
"fair",
"legible",
"readable"
],
"near antonyms":[
"incomprehensible",
"indecipherable",
"unfathomable",
"unintelligible",
"unknowable",
"impalpable",
"imperceptible",
"inappreciable",
"indiscernible",
"insensible",
"cloudy",
"gauzy",
"gray",
"grey",
"hazy",
"imprecise",
"indefinite",
"indeterminate",
"misty",
"murky",
"nebulous",
"noncommittal",
"sketchy",
"slippery",
"subtle",
"vague",
"illegible",
"undecipherable",
"unreadable"
],
"antonyms":[
"ambiguous",
"clouded",
"cryptic",
"dark",
"enigmatic",
"enigmatical",
"equivocal",
"indistinct",
"mysterious",
"nonobvious",
"obfuscated",
"obscure",
"unapparent",
"unclarified",
"unclear"
]
},
"type":[
"adjective"
]
},
"lulls":{
"a momentary halt in an activity":{
"examples":[
"we took the opportunity of a lull in the conversation to announce that we were engaged to be married"
],
"synonyms":[
"breaks",
"breathers",
"breaths",
"interruptions",
"pauses",
"recesses"
],
"near synonyms":[
"time-outs",
"interims",
"interludes",
"intermissions",
"intervals",
"respites",
"rests",
"cessations",
"discontinuances",
"downtimes",
"endings",
"expirations",
"hitches",
"lapses",
"stoppages",
"terminations",
"abeyances",
"moratoriums",
"moratoria",
"surceases",
"suspensions",
"discontinuities",
"gaps",
"hiatuses"
],
"near antonyms":[
"continuations",
"endurances",
"persistences",
"progresses",
"progressions",
"extensions",
"prolongations"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to free from distress or disturbance":{
"examples":[
"the absence of attacks for such an extended period had lulled the nation into a false sense of security"
],
"synonyms":[
"becalms",
"calms",
"composes",
"lullabies",
"quietens",
"quiets",
"salves",
"settles",
"soothes",
"stills",
"tranquilizes",
"tranquillizes"
],
"near synonyms":[
"appeases",
"conciliates",
"hushes",
"mollifies",
"pacifies",
"placates",
"allays",
"alleviates",
"assuages",
"eases",
"lays",
"mitigates",
"quells",
"relaxes",
"relieves",
"solaces",
"narcotizes",
"sedates",
"stupefies"
],
"near antonyms":[
"aggravates",
"heightens",
"intensifies",
"arouses",
"excites",
"foments",
"incites",
"rouses",
"stirs (up)",
"works up"
],
"antonyms":[
"agitates",
"discomposes",
"disquiets",
"disturbs",
"keys (up)",
"perturbs",
"upsets",
"vexes"
]
},
"type":[
"noun",
"verb"
]
},
"lumps (it)":{
"to put up with (something painful or difficult)":{
"examples":[
"Like it or lump it , things are going to change around here."
],
"synonyms":[
"abides",
"absorbs",
"accepts",
"bears",
"bides",
"brooks",
"countenances",
"endures",
"goes",
"hacks",
"handles",
"meets",
"pockets",
"stands",
"sticks out",
"stomachs",
"supports",
"sustains",
"sweats out",
"takes",
"tolerates",
"wears"
],
"near synonyms":[
"allows",
"permits",
"suffers",
"swallows",
"reconciles (to)",
"acquiesces",
"agrees (with or to)",
"assents (to)",
"capitulates",
"consents (to)",
"respects",
"submits (to)",
"yields (to)"
],
"near antonyms":[
"declines",
"dismisses",
"refuses",
"rejects",
"repudiates",
"spurns",
"turns down",
"combats",
"contests",
"fights",
"opposes",
"resists",
"avoids",
"bypasses",
"circumvents",
"dodges",
"eludes",
"escapes",
"evades",
"misses",
"abstains (from)",
"forbears",
"refrains (from)"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"phrase"
]
},
"lunch counter":{
"as in cafeteria , lunchroom":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"cafeteria",
"luncheonette",
"lunchroom",
"snack bar",
"beanery",
"caf\u00e9",
"cafe",
"caff",
"diner",
"eatery",
"grill",
"restaurant",
"greasy spoon",
"hash house",
"chophouse",
"steak house",
"pizzeria",
"coffeehouse",
"coffee shop",
"estaminet",
"teahouse",
"tearoom",
"tea shop",
"bar",
"barroom",
"inn",
"tavern"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"lull":{
"a momentary halt in an activity":{
"examples":[
"we took the opportunity of a lull in the conversation to announce that we were engaged to be married"
],
"synonyms":[
"break",
"breath",
"breather",
"interruption",
"pause",
"recess"
],
"near synonyms":[
"time-out",
"interim",
"interlude",
"intermission",
"interval",
"respite",
"rest",
"cessation",
"discontinuance",
"downtime",
"ending",
"expiration",
"finishing",
"hitch",
"lapse",
"stoppage",
"stopping",
"termination",
"abeyance",
"moratorium",
"surcease",
"suspension",
"discontinuity",
"gap",
"hiatus"
],
"near antonyms":[
"continuation",
"endurance",
"persistence",
"progress",
"progression",
"extension",
"prolongation"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to free from distress or disturbance":{
"examples":[
"the absence of attacks for such an extended period had lulled the nation into a false sense of security"
],
"synonyms":[
"becalm",
"calm",
"compose",
"lullaby",
"quiet",
"quieten",
"salve",
"settle",
"soothe",
"still",
"tranquilize",
"tranquillize"
],
"near synonyms":[
"appease",
"conciliate",
"hush",
"mollify",
"pacify",
"placate",
"allay",
"alleviate",
"assuage",
"ease",
"lay",
"mitigate",
"quell",
"relax",
"relieve",
"solace",
"narcotize",
"sedate",
"stupefy"
],
"near antonyms":[
"aggravate",
"heighten",
"intensify",
"arouse",
"excite",
"foment",
"incite",
"rouse",
"stir (up)",
"work up"
],
"antonyms":[
"agitate",
"discompose",
"disquiet",
"disturb",
"key (up)",
"perturb",
"upset",
"vex"
]
},
"type":[
"noun",
"verb"
]
},
"lumbers":{
"to move heavily or clumsily":{
"examples":[
"the elephant lumbered through the jungle"
],
"synonyms":[
"barges",
"clumps",
"flogs",
"flounders",
"galumphs",
"lumps",
"plods",
"pounds",
"scuffles",
"scuffs",
"shambles",
"shuffles",
"slogs",
"sloughs",
"stamps",
"stomps",
"stumbles",
"stumps",
"tramps",
"tromps",
"trudges"
],
"near synonyms":[
"drags",
"flops",
"hauls",
"blunders",
"careens",
"dodders",
"lurches",
"reels",
"staggers",
"sways",
"teeters",
"totters",
"waddles",
"weaves",
"wobbles",
"wabbles"
],
"near antonyms":[
"drifts",
"floats",
"hangs",
"hovers",
"poises",
"wafts"
],
"antonyms":[
"breezes",
"coasts",
"glides",
"slides",
"waltzes",
"whisks"
]
},
"to proceed or act clumsily or ineffectually":{
"examples":[
"the novel's plot lumbers to its predictable conclusion after 500 long pages"
],
"synonyms":[
"blunders",
"bumbles",
"flogs",
"flounders",
"limps",
"plods",
"struggles",
"stumbles",
"trudges"
],
"near synonyms":[
"jogs",
"shambles",
"shuffles",
"wallows",
"welters",
"falters",
"lurches",
"reels",
"staggers",
"sways",
"teeters",
"totters",
"fumbles",
"muddles"
],
"near antonyms":[
"coasts",
"flies",
"glides",
"kilts",
"sails",
"zips",
"zooms"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to make a low heavy rolling sound":{
"examples":[
"the horse-drawn wagon lumbered along the trail"
],
"synonyms":[
"growls",
"grumbles",
"rolls",
"rumbles"
],
"near synonyms":[
"booms",
"drums",
"thunders",
"bellows"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to place a weight or burden on":{
"examples":[
"preparations that will lumber the expedition with unnecessary equipment and supplies"
],
"synonyms":[
"burdens",
"encumbers",
"freights",
"ladens",
"lades",
"loads",
"saddles",
"weights"
],
"near synonyms":[
"clogs",
"clutters",
"fills",
"packs",
"heaps",
"mounds",
"piles",
"stacks",
"presses",
"weighs",
"strains",
"taxes",
"overburdens",
"overloads",
"overtaxes",
"surcharges",
"hampers",
"handicaps",
"afflicts",
"oppresses"
],
"near antonyms":[
"alleviates",
"eases",
"lightens",
"relieves"
],
"antonyms":[
"disburdens",
"discharges",
"disencumbers",
"unburdens",
"unlades",
"unloads"
]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"lulus":{
"something very good of its kind":{
"examples":[
"joked that the streaker gave a lulu of a performance"
],
"synonyms":[
"beauties",
"beauts",
"bee's knees",
"corkers",
"crackerjacks",
"crackajacks",
"daisies",
"dandies",
"dillies",
"doozies",
"doozers",
"dreams",
"honeys",
"hot stuff",
"humdingers",
"hummers",
"jim-dandies",
"knockouts",
"lollapaloozas",
"nifties",
"peaches",
"pippins",
"pips",
"rippers",
"ripsnorters",
"snorters",
"sockdolagers",
"sockdologers",
"standouts",
"sweethearts"
],
"near synonyms":[
"marvels",
"phenomena",
"phenomenons",
"prodigies",
"sensations",
"wonders",
"catches",
"crown jewels",
"diamonds",
"gems",
"imperials",
"jewels",
"pearls",
"plums",
"treasures"
],
"near antonyms":[
"busts",
"disappointments",
"duds",
"failures",
"flops",
"lemons",
"letdowns",
"losers",
"stinkers",
"turkeys"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
}
}