dict_dl/en_MW_thesaurus/il_mwt.json
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{
"ill wills":{
"an unfriendly feeling; a feeling of dislike":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"We bear no ill will toward each other."
],
"near antonyms":[],
"related":[],
"synonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"ill-bred":{
"lacking in refinement or good taste":{
"antonyms":[
"civilized",
"cultivated",
"cultured",
"genteel",
"polished",
"refined",
"smooth",
"tasteful",
"ultrarefined",
"well-bred"
],
"examples":[
"the ill-bred habit of chewing with the mouth open"
],
"near antonyms":[
"aristocratic",
"courtly",
"patrician",
"elegant",
"graceful",
"restrained",
"considerate",
"gracious",
"sensitive",
"thoughtful",
"citified",
"sophisticated",
"urbane"
],
"related":[
"boorish",
"churlish",
"cloddish",
"clownish",
"loutish",
"ungentlemanly",
"clumsy",
"lubberly",
"lumpish",
"oafish",
"inconsiderate",
"indelicate",
"insensitive",
"thoughtless",
"countrified",
"countryfied",
"provincial",
"rustic",
"rustical",
"unsophisticated",
"graceless",
"inelegant",
"tacky",
"animallike",
"barbaric",
"barbarous",
"uncivilized",
"mannerless",
"unmannered",
"unmannerly"
],
"synonyms":[
"coarse",
"common",
"crass",
"crude",
"gross",
"illiberal",
"incult",
"insensible",
"low",
"lowbred",
"lowbrow",
"raffish",
"rough",
"rough-hewn",
"roughneck",
"rude",
"rugged",
"tasteless",
"uncouth",
"uncultivated",
"uncultured",
"unpolished",
"unrefined",
"vulgar"
]
},
"showing a lack of manners or consideration for others":{
"antonyms":[
"civil",
"considerate",
"courteous",
"genteel",
"gracious",
"mannerly",
"polite",
"thoughtful",
"well-bred"
],
"examples":[
"only an ill-bred , conceited person would demand that everyone cater to their whims"
],
"near antonyms":[
"humble",
"meek",
"modest",
"unassertive",
"deferential",
"dutiful",
"respectful",
"submissive",
"yielding",
"acceptable",
"appropriate",
"becoming",
"befitting",
"correct",
"decent",
"decorous",
"fit",
"fitting",
"good",
"meet",
"proper",
"respectable",
"right",
"seemly",
"suitable",
"affable",
"cordial",
"friendly",
"genial",
"hospitable",
"sociable",
"felicitous",
"graceful",
"chivalrous",
"courtly",
"gallant",
"ceremonious",
"elegant",
"refined"
],
"related":[
"arch",
"audacious",
"bold",
"bold-faced",
"brash",
"brassy",
"brazen",
"cheeky",
"fresh",
"impudent",
"insolent",
"lippy",
"sassy",
"saucy",
"shameless",
"boorish",
"caddish",
"churlish",
"clownish",
"loutish",
"uncouth",
"vulgar",
"abrupt",
"blunt",
"brusque",
"brusk",
"crusty",
"curt",
"gruff",
"sharp",
"snippety",
"snippy",
"antisocial",
"crabbed",
"cross",
"disagreeable",
"grumpy",
"sullen",
"surly",
"improper",
"incorrect",
"indecent",
"indecorous",
"unseemly",
"arrogant",
"bumptious",
"conceited",
"haughty",
"high-handed",
"imperious",
"peremptory",
"pompous",
"presumptuous",
"pretentious",
"supercilious",
"superior"
],
"synonyms":[
"discourteous",
"disrespectful",
"ill-mannered",
"impertinent",
"impolite",
"inconsiderate",
"rude",
"thoughtless",
"uncalled-for",
"uncivil",
"ungracious",
"unhandsome",
"unmannered",
"unmannerly"
]
},
"type":[
"adjective"
]
},
"ill-favored":{
"type":[
"adjective"
],
"unpleasant to look at":{
"antonyms":[
"aesthetic",
"esthetic",
"aesthetical",
"esthetical",
"attractive",
"beauteous",
"beautiful",
"bonny",
"bonnie",
"comely",
"cute",
"drop-dead",
"fair",
"fetching",
"good-looking",
"goodly",
"gorgeous",
"handsome",
"knockout",
"lovely",
"pretty",
"ravishing",
"seemly",
"sightly",
"stunning",
"taking",
"well-favored"
],
"examples":[
"an ill-favored and yapping little dog that reminded people a lot of its owner"
],
"near antonyms":[
"shapely",
"imposing",
"impressive",
"prepossessing"
],
"related":[
"abhorrent",
"abominable",
"appalling",
"awful",
"disgusting",
"distasteful",
"dreadful",
"gross",
"horrible",
"horrid",
"loathsome",
"nauseating",
"nauseous",
"noisome",
"repellent",
"repellant",
"repugnant",
"repulsive",
"revolting",
"sickening",
"frumpish",
"frumpy",
"plain",
"unaesthetic",
"unbecoming",
"unshapely"
],
"synonyms":[
"grotesque",
"hideous",
"homely",
"monstrous",
"ugly",
"unappealing",
"unattractive",
"unbeautiful",
"uncomely",
"unhandsome",
"unlovely",
"unpleasing",
"unpretty",
"unsightly",
"vile"
]
}
},
"ill-natured":{
"having or showing a habitually bad temper":{
"antonyms":[
"amiable",
"good-humored",
"good-natured",
"good-tempered"
],
"examples":[
"an ill-natured and unpleasant old horse that sometimes bites"
],
"near antonyms":[
"agreeable",
"amicable",
"congenial",
"friendly",
"pleasant",
"benign",
"gentle",
"kind",
"nice",
"sweet",
"bubbly",
"cheerful",
"cheery",
"effervescent",
"exuberant",
"high-spirited",
"joyful",
"lighthearted",
"lively",
"vivacious",
"content",
"glad",
"happy",
"calm",
"placid",
"serene",
"long-suffering",
"patient",
"tolerant"
],
"related":[
"choleric",
"crabby",
"cranky",
"crotchety",
"fussy",
"grouchy",
"grumpy",
"querulous",
"irascible",
"irritable",
"peevish",
"peppery",
"petulant",
"quick-tempered",
"short-tempered",
"snappish",
"snippy",
"testy",
"touchy",
"argumentative",
"contentious",
"contrary",
"cussed",
"angry",
"exasperated",
"indignant",
"irate",
"mad",
"upset",
"uptight",
"depressed",
"dour",
"glum",
"morose",
"sullen",
"anal",
"old-maidish",
"schoolmarmish"
],
"synonyms":[
"acid",
"bearish",
"bilious",
"bloody-minded",
"cantankerous",
"disagreeable",
"dyspeptic",
"ill-humored",
"ill-tempered",
"ornery",
"splenetic",
"surly"
]
},
"type":[
"adjective"
]
},
"ill-tempered":{
"having or showing a habitually bad temper":{
"antonyms":[
"amiable",
"good-humored",
"good-natured",
"good-tempered"
],
"examples":[
"an ill-tempered cat will scratch with little provocation"
],
"near antonyms":[
"agreeable",
"amicable",
"congenial",
"friendly",
"pleasant",
"benign",
"gentle",
"kind",
"nice",
"sweet",
"bubbly",
"cheerful",
"cheery",
"effervescent",
"exuberant",
"high-spirited",
"joyful",
"lighthearted",
"lively",
"vivacious",
"content",
"glad",
"happy",
"calm",
"placid",
"serene",
"long-suffering",
"patient",
"tolerant"
],
"related":[
"choleric",
"crabby",
"cranky",
"crotchety",
"fussy",
"grouchy",
"grumpy",
"querulous",
"irascible",
"irritable",
"peevish",
"peppery",
"petulant",
"quick-tempered",
"short-tempered",
"snappish",
"snippy",
"testy",
"touchy",
"argumentative",
"contentious",
"contrary",
"cussed",
"angry",
"exasperated",
"indignant",
"irate",
"mad",
"upset",
"uptight",
"depressed",
"dour",
"glum",
"morose",
"sullen",
"anal",
"old-maidish",
"schoolmarmish"
],
"synonyms":[
"acid",
"bearish",
"bilious",
"bloody-minded",
"cantankerous",
"disagreeable",
"dyspeptic",
"ill-humored",
"ill-natured",
"ornery",
"splenetic",
"surly"
]
},
"type":[
"adjective"
]
},
"ill-wishers":{
"as in opponents , enemies":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[],
"near antonyms":[],
"related":[],
"synonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"illegal":{
"contrary to or forbidden by law":{
"antonyms":[
"lawful",
"legal",
"legitimate"
],
"examples":[
"it is illegal to import those birds into this country"
],
"near antonyms":[
"ethical",
"good",
"just",
"principled",
"right",
"righteous",
"virtuous",
"allowed",
"permitted",
"authorized",
"licensed",
"approved",
"endorsed",
"indorsed",
"sanctioned",
"abetted",
"encouraged",
"promoted",
"suggested",
"supported",
"correct",
"decent",
"decorous",
"proper",
"seemly"
],
"related":[
"bad",
"evil",
"immoral",
"shameful",
"sinful",
"unethical",
"wicked",
"wrong",
"blamable",
"blameworthy",
"censurable",
"reprehensible",
"banned",
"barred",
"contraband",
"criminalized",
"disallowed",
"discouraged",
"forbidden",
"interdicted",
"outlawed",
"prohibited",
"proscribed",
"adulterine",
"bootleg",
"unauthorized",
"unlicensed",
"unsanctioned",
"under-the-counter",
"under-the-table",
"corrupt",
"unprincipled",
"unscrupulous",
"villainous"
],
"synonyms":[
"criminal",
"felonious",
"illegitimate",
"illicit",
"lawless",
"unlawful",
"wrongful"
]
},
"not being in accordance with the rules or standards of what is fair in sport":{
"antonyms":[
"clean",
"fair",
"legal",
"sportsmanlike",
"sportsmanly"
],
"examples":[
"an illegal pass"
],
"near antonyms":[
"just",
"law-abiding",
"ethical",
"moral",
"principled",
"righteous",
"scrupulous",
"honorable",
"irreproachable",
"unimpeachable"
],
"related":[
"dishonorable",
"shabby",
"shameful",
"ignoble",
"low",
"mean",
"ungentlemanly",
"immoral",
"rotten",
"unchivalrous",
"unethical",
"unjust",
"unprincipled",
"unrighteous",
"unscrupulous"
],
"synonyms":[
"dirty",
"foul",
"nasty",
"unfair",
"unsportsmanlike"
]
},
"type":[
"adjective"
]
},
"illiberal":{
"lacking in refinement or good taste":{
"antonyms":[
"civilized",
"cultivated",
"cultured",
"genteel",
"polished",
"refined",
"smooth",
"tasteful",
"ultrarefined",
"well-bred"
],
"examples":[
"people who had been scorned as illiberal because they were poor"
],
"near antonyms":[
"aristocratic",
"courtly",
"patrician",
"elegant",
"graceful",
"restrained",
"considerate",
"gracious",
"sensitive",
"thoughtful",
"citified",
"sophisticated",
"urbane"
],
"related":[
"boorish",
"churlish",
"cloddish",
"clownish",
"loutish",
"ungentlemanly",
"clumsy",
"lubberly",
"lumpish",
"oafish",
"inconsiderate",
"indelicate",
"insensitive",
"thoughtless",
"countrified",
"countryfied",
"provincial",
"rustic",
"rustical",
"unsophisticated",
"graceless",
"inelegant",
"tacky",
"animallike",
"barbaric",
"barbarous",
"uncivilized",
"mannerless",
"unmannered",
"unmannerly"
],
"synonyms":[
"coarse",
"common",
"crass",
"crude",
"gross",
"ill-bred",
"incult",
"insensible",
"low",
"lowbred",
"lowbrow",
"raffish",
"rough",
"rough-hewn",
"roughneck",
"rude",
"rugged",
"tasteless",
"uncouth",
"uncultivated",
"uncultured",
"unpolished",
"unrefined",
"vulgar"
]
},
"not broad or open in views or opinions":{
"antonyms":[
"broad-minded",
"catholic",
"cosmopolitan",
"liberal",
"open",
"open-minded",
"receptive",
"tolerant"
],
"examples":[
"an illiberal society that viewed any artistic depiction of the nude as inherently indecent"
],
"near antonyms":[
"impartial",
"nonpartisan",
"objective",
"unbiased",
"unprejudiced",
"freethinking"
],
"related":[
"inflexible",
"ironbound",
"obdurate",
"obstinate",
"rigid",
"set",
"stubborn",
"unyielding",
"wrongheaded",
"bigoted",
"intolerant",
"biased",
"discriminating",
"discriminatory",
"jaundiced",
"one-sided",
"partial",
"partisan",
"prejudiced",
"brassbound",
"hidebound",
"old-fashioned",
"reactionary",
"stodgy",
"straitlaced",
"straightlaced",
"stuffy",
"dogmatic",
"dogmatical",
"opinionated",
"opinionative",
"limited",
"hick",
"unsophisticated"
],
"synonyms":[
"insular",
"Lilliputian",
"little",
"narrow",
"narrow-minded",
"parochial",
"petty",
"picayune",
"provincial",
"sectarian",
"small",
"small-minded"
]
},
"type":[
"adjective"
],
"unwilling to grant other people social rights or to accept other viewpoints":{
"antonyms":[
"broad-minded",
"liberal",
"open-minded",
"tolerant",
"unprejudiced"
],
"examples":[
"some of the more illiberal residents were opposed to having a hospice for AIDS patients in the neighborhood"
],
"near antonyms":[
"extreme",
"progressive",
"radical",
"impartial",
"objective",
"unbiased"
],
"related":[
"conservative",
"hidebound",
"old-fashioned",
"reactionary",
"blindfolded",
"blinkered",
"insular",
"parochial",
"provincial",
"biased",
"one-sided",
"partial",
"partisan"
],
"synonyms":[
"bigoted",
"intolerant",
"narrow",
"narrow-minded",
"prejudiced",
"small-minded"
]
}
},
"illimitable":{
"being or seeming to be without limits":{
"antonyms":[
"bounded",
"circumscribed",
"confined",
"definite",
"finite",
"limited",
"restricted"
],
"examples":[
"the illimitable expanse of the universe"
],
"near antonyms":[
"fathomable",
"measurable",
"depthless",
"shallow",
"superficial"
],
"related":[
"abysmal",
"countless",
"incalculable",
"incomputable",
"inestimable",
"innumerable",
"unmeasured",
"exhaustless",
"inexhaustible",
"extensive",
"far-flung",
"immense",
"vast"
],
"synonyms":[
"bottomless",
"boundless",
"endless",
"fathomless",
"horizonless",
"immeasurable",
"immensurable",
"indefinite",
"infinite",
"limitless",
"measureless",
"unbounded",
"unfathomable",
"unlimited"
]
},
"type":[
"adjective"
]
},
"illiteracy":{
"the state of being unlearned":{
"antonyms":[
"learning",
"literacy"
],
"examples":[
"far too many children are doomed to a lifetime of illiteracy in that country"
],
"near antonyms":[
"education",
"instruction",
"training",
"enlightenment",
"knowledge",
"erudition",
"scholarship"
],
"related":[
"functional illiteracy",
"innumeracy",
"brainlessness",
"dumbness",
"idiocy",
"imbecility",
"stupidity",
"philistinism",
"foolishness",
"mindlessness",
"senselessness",
"witlessness"
],
"synonyms":[
"ignorance"
]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"illiterate":{
"as in":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[],
"near antonyms":[],
"related":[],
"synonyms":[]
},
"lacking in education or the knowledge gained from books":{
"antonyms":[
"educated",
"knowledgeable",
"lettered",
"literate",
"schooled",
"well-informed",
"well-read"
],
"examples":[
"offered menus with pictures, presumably for the many illiterate people who must eat there"
],
"near antonyms":[
"brilliant",
"intelligent",
"smart",
"experienced",
"expert",
"trained",
"erudite",
"learned",
"polyhistoric",
"polymath",
"polymathic",
"scholarly",
"cultivated",
"cultured",
"highbrow",
"intellectual",
"sophisticated",
"acquainted",
"aware",
"familiar"
],
"related":[
"functionally illiterate",
"innumerate",
"semiliterate",
"unknowledgeable",
"artless",
"lowbrow",
"philistine",
"uncultivated",
"uncultured",
"callow",
"green",
"inexperienced",
"innocent",
"naive",
"na\u00efve",
"unsophisticated",
"raw",
"unskilled",
"untrained",
"brainless",
"dumb",
"idiotic",
"idiotical",
"imbecile",
"imbecilic",
"moronic",
"stupid",
"witless",
"foolish",
"senseless",
"silly"
],
"synonyms":[
"analphabetic",
"benighted",
"dark",
"ignorant",
"nonliterate",
"rude",
"simple",
"uneducated",
"uninstructed",
"unlearned",
"unlettered",
"unread",
"unschooled",
"untaught",
"untutored"
]
},
"type":[
"adjective",
"noun"
],
"violating approved patterns of speaking and writing":{
"antonyms":[
"grammatical"
],
"examples":[
"most of the messages left on the Web site's bulletin board are illiterate"
],
"near antonyms":[
"idiomatic"
],
"related":[
"unidiomatic",
"nonstandard",
"substandard"
],
"synonyms":[
"ungrammatical"
]
}
},
"illiterateness":{
"as in ignorance , illiteracy":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[],
"near antonyms":[],
"related":[],
"synonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"illumine":{
"to provide (someone) with moral or spiritual understanding":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"readers of great literature are both entertained and illumined"
],
"near antonyms":[
"confuse",
"perplex",
"puzzle",
"becloud",
"cloud",
"darken",
"obscure"
],
"related":[
"elevate",
"ennoble",
"enrich",
"ensoul",
"lift",
"uplift",
"better",
"improve",
"regenerate",
"renew",
"transform",
"exalt",
"glorify",
"transfigure"
],
"synonyms":[
"edify",
"educate",
"enlighten",
"illume",
"illuminate",
"inspire",
"nurture"
]
},
"to supply with light":{
"antonyms":[
"blacken",
"darken",
"obfuscate"
],
"examples":[
"small table lamps illumine the inn's dining room in a most romantic way"
],
"near antonyms":[
"dim",
"dull",
"obscure",
"cover",
"shroud",
"veil",
"douse",
"dowse",
"extinguish",
"put out",
"quench",
"snuff (out)"
],
"related":[
"brighten",
"beam",
"beat (down)",
"radiate",
"shine",
"enhalo",
"halo",
"floodlight",
"highlight",
"spotlight",
"blaze",
"burn",
"fire",
"flame",
"glare",
"glow",
"ignite",
"incinerate",
"kindle",
"bedazzle",
"blind",
"daze",
"dazzle",
"gleam",
"glisten",
"glitter"
],
"synonyms":[
"bathe",
"beacon",
"emblaze",
"illume",
"illuminate",
"irradiate",
"light",
"lighten"
]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"illumined":{
"filled with much light":{
"antonyms":[
"blackened",
"dark",
"darkened",
"darkish",
"darkling",
"dimmed",
"dusk",
"dusky",
"lightless",
"pitch-black",
"pitch-dark",
"tenebrous",
"unlit"
],
"examples":[
"illumined display windows in the street's many shops add much to the holiday glow"
],
"near antonyms":[
"gloomy",
"somber",
"sombre",
"sunless",
"cloudy",
"murky",
"obscured",
"shadowlike",
"shadowy",
"gray",
"grey",
"leaden",
"pale",
"lightproof"
],
"related":[
"floodlit",
"floodlighted",
"highlighted",
"spotlighted",
"spotlit",
"ignited",
"kindled",
"moonlit",
"shiny",
"sunlit",
"sunny",
"sunshiny"
],
"synonyms":[
"ablaze",
"alight",
"bright",
"brightened",
"illuminated",
"light",
"lightsome",
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"doused",
"dowsed",
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"snuffed (out)"
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"beat (down)",
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"floodlit",
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"highlighted",
"spotlighted",
"spotlit",
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"fired",
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"verb"
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"fact",
"reality"
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"fabrication",
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"imaging",
"visualization",
"cloud-cuckoo-land",
"cloudland",
"Shangri-la",
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"daymare",
"nightmare"
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"nonentity",
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"pipe dream",
"unreality",
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"verity"
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"he had no illusions about how much effort and money the renovation project would require"
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"pretence",
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"misapprehension",
"miscomprehension",
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"misunderstanding",
"misinformation",
"misknowledge",
"misreport",
"misrepresentation",
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"sophism",
"sophistry",
"fib",
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"lie",
"story",
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"old wives' tale",
"untruth"
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"noun"
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"the magician specializes in creating illusions , so that people believe they have seen something when they really haven't"
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"facts",
"realities"
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"fables",
"fabrications",
"fictions",
"inventions",
"visualizations",
"cloud-cuckoo-lands",
"cloudlands",
"Shangri-las",
"utopias",
"daymares",
"nightmares"
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"visions"
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"verities"
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"lies",
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"tales"
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"noun"
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"an illustrious physicist who is a sure bet for a Nobel Prize"
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"insignificant",
"minor",
"unimportant",
"average",
"inferior",
"mediocre",
"obscure",
"uncelebrated",
"unsung"
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"related":[
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"exalted",
"famed",
"famous",
"glorious",
"honored",
"renowned",
"reputable",
"infamous",
"notorious",
"dominant",
"paramount",
"predominant"
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"eminent",
"luminous",
"noble",
"notable",
"noteworthy",
"outstanding",
"preeminent",
"prestigious",
"redoubtable",
"signal",
"star",
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"adjective"
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"as in honor , glory":{
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"noun"
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"one who practices tricks and illusions for entertainment":{
"examples":[
"tried to figure out how the illusionist made his assistant disappear from the stage"
],
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"conjuror",
"magician",
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"trickster"
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"near synonyms":[
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"enchanter",
"enchantress"
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"antonyms":[]
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"type":[
"noun"
]
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"as in abuses , criminalities":{
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"near synonyms":[
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"criminalities",
"corruptions",
"debaucheries",
"depravities",
"descents",
"downfalls",
"falls",
"immoralities",
"iniquities",
"vices",
"breaks",
"infringements",
"faults",
"foibles",
"peccadilloes",
"peccadillos",
"felonies",
"misconducts",
"misdemeanors",
"misfeasances",
"bias crimes",
"hate crimes",
"breaches",
"crimes",
"debts",
"errors",
"lawbreakings",
"malefactions",
"misdeeds",
"misdoings",
"offenses",
"offences",
"sins",
"transgressions",
"trespasses",
"violations",
"wrongdoings"
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"impeccabilities",
"innocences",
"irreproachabilities",
"moralities",
"virtues"
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"noun"
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"to show or make clear by using examples":{
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"she illustrated her point with a story about her experiences as a field anthropologist"
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"demonstrated",
"exemplified",
"instanced"
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"cited",
"mentioned",
"quoted",
"named",
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"analyzed",
"broke down",
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"cleared (up)",
"explained",
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"expounded",
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"enlightened",
"illuminated",
"construed",
"interpreted",
"simplified",
"spelled out",
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"enumerated",
"listed"
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"near antonyms":[
"beclouded",
"blurred",
"clouded",
"darkened",
"fogged",
"muddied",
"obscured",
"confused",
"perplexed",
"puzzled"
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"antonyms":[]
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"to supplement with pictorial matter for the purpose of explanation or decoration":{
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"lavishly illustrated the monograph on Caravaggio with color plates"
],
"synonyms":[
"illuminated",
"pictorialized"
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"imaged",
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"to make plain or understandable":{
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"illuminated",
"interpreted",
"simplified",
"spelled out",
"unriddled"
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"deciphered",
"decoded",
"analyzed",
"broke down",
"disentangled",
"undid",
"unraveled",
"unscrambled",
"untangled",
"resolved",
"solved",
"defined",
"specified",
"annotated",
"commentated",
"glossed"
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"near antonyms":[
"befogged",
"clouded",
"confounded",
"confused",
"obfuscated"
],
"antonyms":[
"obscured"
]
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"verb"
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"something that visually explains or decorates a text":{
"examples":[
"this book on birds has gorgeous illustrations"
],
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"diagrams",
"figures",
"graphics",
"plates",
"visuals"
],
"near synonyms":[
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"artworks",
"drawings",
"illuminations",
"images",
"pictograms",
"pictographs",
"pictures",
"captions",
"keys",
"legends",
"insets",
"depictions",
"pictorializations",
"portraits",
"portrayals",
"representations",
"clarifications",
"elucidations",
"explanations",
"explications",
"expositions"
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"antonyms":[]
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"a statement that makes something clear":{
"examples":[
"forced to give several illustrations until she was understood"
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"constructions",
"elucidations",
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"explanations",
"explications",
"expositions",
"illuminations",
"interpretations",
"road maps"
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"restatements",
"translations",
"annotations",
"commentaries",
"comments",
"epexegeses",
"glosses",
"disentanglements",
"analyses",
"edifications",
"enlightenments",
"definitions",
"meanings",
"demonstrations",
"enactments",
"justifications",
"rationales",
"rationalizations",
"reasonings",
"cautions",
"caveats",
"warnings"
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"antonyms":[]
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"a two-dimensional design intended to look like a person or thing":{
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"the doctor sketched an illustration to explain the procedure to the patient"
],
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"icons",
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"images",
"likenesses",
"pictures"
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"depictions",
"representations",
"resemblances",
"views",
"portraits",
"daubs",
"drawings",
"finger paintings",
"etchings",
"silhouettes",
"sketches",
"watercolors",
"caricatures",
"cartoons",
"doodles",
"collages",
"montages",
"photographs",
"hieroglyphics",
"hieroglyphs",
"ideograms",
"ideographs",
"pictographs",
"diagrams"
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"antonyms":[]
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"one of a group or collection that shows what the whole is like":{
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"instances",
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"samples",
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"classics",
"loci classici",
"paradigms",
"cross sections",
"microcosms",
"evidences",
"indications",
"manifestations",
"signs"
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"antonyms":[]
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"noun"
]
}
}