dict_dl/en_MWThesaurus/hum_MWT.json
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{
"human being":{
"a member of the human race":{
"examples":[
"we're all human beings , regardless of our differences"
],
"synonyms":[
"baby",
"being",
"bird",
"bod",
"body",
"character",
"cookie",
"cooky",
"creature",
"customer",
"devil",
"duck",
"egg",
"face",
"fish",
"guy",
"head",
"human",
"individual",
"life",
"man",
"mortal",
"party",
"person",
"personage",
"scout",
"slob",
"sort",
"soul",
"specimen",
"stiff",
"thing",
"wight"
],
"near synonyms":[
"hominid",
"homo",
"humanoid",
"brother",
"fellow",
"fellowman",
"neighbor",
"celebrity",
"personality",
"self",
"somebody"
],
"near antonyms":[
"animal",
"beast",
"beastie",
"brute",
"critter"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"humane":{
"having or marked by sympathy and consideration for others":{
"examples":[
"humane guards who treated the prisoners decently",
"the Geneva conventions spelled out standards for the humane treatment of prisoners of war"
],
"synonyms":[
"beneficent",
"benevolent",
"benignant",
"compassionate",
"good-hearted",
"kind",
"kindhearted",
"kindly",
"softhearted",
"sympathetic",
"tender",
"tenderhearted",
"warmhearted"
],
"near synonyms":[
"attentive",
"considerate",
"solicitous",
"thoughtful",
"affable",
"amicable",
"benign",
"companionable",
"comradely",
"cordial",
"friendly",
"genial",
"gentle",
"good",
"good-natured",
"good-tempered",
"gracious",
"mild",
"neighborly",
"nice",
"pleasant",
"sweet",
"warm",
"clement",
"forbearing",
"forgiving",
"lenient",
"merciful",
"soft",
"patient",
"pitying",
"tolerant",
"understanding",
"altruistic",
"brotherly",
"charitable",
"freehanded",
"generous",
"greathearted",
"humanitarian",
"liberal",
"magnanimous",
"munificent",
"noble",
"openhearted",
"philanthropic",
"philanthropical",
"selfless",
"unselfish",
"unsparing",
"anticruelty",
"cruelty-free"
],
"near antonyms":[
"ironhearted",
"merciless",
"pitiless",
"ruthless",
"stonyhearted",
"inconsiderate",
"insensitive",
"thoughtless",
"uncaring",
"unthinking",
"grim",
"hard-boiled",
"harsh",
"heavy-handed",
"severe",
"stern",
"tough",
"unsentimental",
"hateful",
"malevolent",
"malicious",
"malign",
"malignant",
"mean",
"nasty",
"spiteful",
"virulent",
"antihumanitarian",
"uncharitable"
],
"antonyms":[
"atrocious",
"barbaric",
"barbarous",
"bestial",
"brutal",
"brute",
"brutish",
"callous",
"cold-blooded",
"cruel",
"fiendish",
"hard-hearted",
"heartless",
"inhuman",
"inhumane",
"insensate",
"sadistic",
"savage",
"truculent",
"uncompassionate",
"unfeeling",
"unkind",
"unkindly",
"unsympathetic",
"vicious",
"wanton"
]
},
"having or showing the capacity for sharing the feelings of another":{
"examples":[
"the movie's humane depiction of people who are physically and mentally challenged"
],
"synonyms":[
"commiserative",
"compassionate",
"empathetic",
"empathic",
"sympathetic",
"understanding"
],
"near synonyms":[
"feeling",
"perceptive",
"sensitive",
"considerate",
"gentle",
"softhearted",
"tender",
"tenderhearted",
"warm",
"warmhearted",
"benevolent",
"benignant",
"bighearted",
"charitable",
"kind",
"kindhearted",
"kindly",
"largehearted",
"magnanimous",
"clement",
"lenient",
"merciful",
"tolerant",
"pitying",
"ruthful",
"congenial",
"cordial",
"friendly",
"genial",
"good-natured",
"good-tempered",
"gracious",
"well-disposed",
"affectionate",
"loving"
],
"near antonyms":[
"inconsiderate",
"insensitive",
"thoughtless",
"unthinking",
"aloof",
"cool",
"indifferent",
"uncaring",
"uninterested",
"unaffectionate",
"unfriendly",
"unloving",
"merciless",
"pitiless",
"ruthless",
"bigoted",
"blinkered",
"narrow-minded",
"small-minded",
"brutal",
"grim",
"hard-bitten",
"hard-boiled",
"harsh",
"oppressive",
"rough",
"severe",
"stern",
"tough",
"ungentle",
"unrelenting",
"abusive",
"acrimonious",
"disagreeable",
"hateful",
"hostile",
"ill-natured",
"ill-tempered",
"malevolent",
"malicious",
"mean",
"rancorous",
"spiteful",
"surly",
"unkind",
"virulent"
],
"antonyms":[
"callous",
"cold-blooded",
"coldhearted",
"hard",
"hard-hearted",
"heartless",
"inhuman",
"inhumane",
"insensate",
"obdurate",
"unfeeling",
"unsympathetic"
]
},
"type":[
"adjective"
]
},
"humanitarianism":{
"as in":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[],
"near antonyms":[],
"related":[],
"synonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"humanoid":{
"as in homo , hominid":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[],
"near antonyms":[],
"related":[],
"synonyms":[]
},
"looking or acting like a human being":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"humanoid robots",
"The movie is about humanoid aliens invading Earth."
],
"near antonyms":[],
"related":[],
"synonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"adjective",
"noun"
]
},
"humble":{
"not having or showing any feelings of superiority, self-assertiveness, or showiness":{
"examples":[
"a medical scientist who remained remarkably humble even after winning the Nobel Prize",
"even though she'd been proven wrong, her attitude was still far from humble"
],
"synonyms":[
"demure",
"down-to-earth",
"lowly",
"meek",
"modest",
"unassuming",
"unpretentious"
],
"near synonyms":[
"acquiescent",
"compliant",
"deferential",
"resigned",
"submissive",
"unaggressive",
"unassertive",
"yielding",
"cowering",
"cringing",
"shrinking",
"ingenuous",
"naive",
"na\u00efve",
"plain",
"simple",
"unaffected",
"bashful",
"diffident",
"introverted",
"mousy",
"mousey",
"overmodest",
"passive",
"quiet",
"reserved",
"retiring",
"sheepish",
"shy",
"subdued",
"timid",
"unobtrusive",
"aw-shucks",
"self-deprecating",
"self-deprecatory",
"self-effacing"
],
"near antonyms":[
"aggressive",
"assertive",
"audacious",
"bold",
"brash",
"brassy",
"cheeky",
"forward",
"impertinent",
"impudent",
"saucy",
"cocksure",
"cocky",
"confident",
"hubristic",
"overconfident",
"self-confident",
"egocentric",
"egoistic",
"egoistical",
"narcissistic",
"prideful",
"self-affected",
"self-centered",
"self-complacent",
"self-conceited",
"self-congratulatory",
"self-contented",
"self-engrossed",
"self-important",
"self-obsessed",
"self-pleased",
"self-satisfied",
"smug",
"stuck-up",
"swelled-headed",
"boastful",
"bombastic",
"braggy",
"swaggering",
"vain",
"vainglorious",
"condescending",
"disdainful",
"dominant",
"dominating",
"domineering",
"magisterial",
"overbearing",
"patronizing",
"pontificating",
"flamboyant",
"ostentatious",
"showy",
"extroverted",
"extraverted",
"immodest",
"outgoing",
"uninhibited",
"unreserved"
],
"antonyms":[
"arrogant",
"bumptious",
"chesty",
"conceited",
"egotistic",
"egotistical",
"fastuous",
"haughty",
"highfalutin",
"hifalutin",
"high-and-mighty",
"high-handed",
"high-hat",
"hoity-toity",
"huffish",
"huffy",
"imperious",
"lordly",
"overweening",
"peremptory",
"pompous",
"presuming",
"presumptuous",
"pretentious",
"self-asserting",
"self-assertive",
"supercilious",
"superior",
"toplofty",
"toploftical",
"uppish",
"uppity"
]
},
"belonging to the class of people of low social or economic rank":{
"examples":[
"a humble peasant girl who claimed she was chosen by God to restore the French king to his throne"
],
"synonyms":[
"baseborn",
"common",
"ignoble",
"inferior",
"low",
"low-life",
"lowborn",
"lower-class",
"lowly",
"lumpen",
"mean",
"plebeian",
"prole",
"proletarian",
"unwashed",
"vulgar"
],
"near synonyms":[
"bourgeois",
"middle-class",
"plain",
"poor",
"simple",
"working-class",
"d\u00e9class\u00e9",
"down-market",
"downscale"
],
"near antonyms":[
"eminent",
"illustrious",
"notable",
"prominent"
],
"antonyms":[
"aristocratic",
"blue-blooded",
"genteel",
"gentle",
"grand",
"great",
"high",
"highborn",
"highbred",
"lofty",
"noble",
"patrician",
"upper-class",
"upper-crust",
"wellborn"
]
},
"showing, expressing, or offered in a spirit of humility or unseemly submissiveness":{
"examples":[
"please accept my humble thanks for this unexpected favor"
],
"synonyms":[
"abject",
"base",
"menial",
"servile",
"slavish"
],
"near synonyms":[
"hangdog",
"lamblike",
"sheepish",
"demure",
"lowly",
"meek",
"modest",
"retiring",
"unassuming",
"unpretentious",
"fawning",
"sycophant",
"sycophantic",
"toadyish"
],
"near antonyms":[
"arrogant",
"haughty",
"high-handed",
"imperious",
"lordly",
"supercilious",
"superior",
"uppity"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to reduce to a lower standing in one's own eyes or in others' eyes":{
"examples":[
"Philip was utterly humbled by a crushing defeat in the first round of the state chess tournament"
],
"synonyms":[
"abase",
"chasten",
"cheapen",
"debase",
"degrade",
"demean",
"discredit",
"disgrace",
"dishonor",
"foul",
"humiliate",
"lower",
"shame",
"sink",
"smirch",
"take down"
],
"near synonyms":[
"abash",
"confound",
"confuse",
"discomfit",
"disconcert",
"discountenance",
"embarrass",
"faze",
"fluster",
"mortify",
"nonplus",
"rattle",
"belittle",
"castigate",
"criticize",
"cry down",
"decry",
"depreciate",
"detract",
"diminish",
"discount",
"disparage",
"minimize",
"put down",
"ridicule",
"write off",
"bad-mouth",
"defame",
"defile",
"libel",
"malign",
"slander",
"affront",
"insult",
"censure",
"condemn",
"damn",
"denounce",
"execrate",
"reprehend",
"reprobate"
],
"near antonyms":[
"acclaim",
"applaud",
"boast",
"celebrate",
"cheer",
"cite",
"commend",
"compliment",
"congratulate",
"decorate",
"eulogize",
"extol",
"extoll",
"fete",
"f\u00eate",
"hail",
"honor",
"laud",
"praise",
"salute",
"tout",
"acknowledge",
"recognize",
"highlight",
"play up",
"spotlight",
"dignify",
"ennoble",
"enshrine",
"ensky",
"enthrone",
"glorify",
"magnify",
"advance",
"boost",
"lift",
"promote",
"raise",
"upgrade",
"uplift",
"idealize",
"romanticize"
],
"antonyms":[
"aggrandize",
"canonize",
"deify",
"elevate",
"exalt"
]
},
"type":[
"adjective",
"verb"
]
},
"humbles":{
"to reduce to a lower standing in one's own eyes or in others' eyes":{
"examples":[
"Philip was utterly humbled by a crushing defeat in the first round of the state chess tournament"
],
"synonyms":[
"abases",
"chastens",
"cheapens",
"debases",
"degrades",
"demeans",
"discredits",
"disgraces",
"dishonors",
"fouls",
"humiliates",
"lowers",
"shames",
"sinks",
"smirches",
"takes down"
],
"near synonyms":[
"abashes",
"confounds",
"confuses",
"discomfits",
"disconcerts",
"discountenances",
"embarrasses",
"fazes",
"flusters",
"mortifies",
"nonpluses",
"nonplusses",
"rattles",
"belittles",
"castigates",
"cries down",
"criticizes",
"decries",
"depreciates",
"detracts",
"diminishes",
"discounts",
"disparages",
"minimizes",
"puts down",
"ridicules",
"writes off",
"bad-mouths",
"defames",
"defiles",
"libels",
"maligns",
"slanders",
"affronts",
"insults",
"censures",
"condemns",
"damns",
"denounces",
"execrates",
"reprehends",
"reprobates"
],
"near antonyms":[
"acclaims",
"applauds",
"boasts",
"celebrates",
"cheers",
"cites",
"commends",
"compliments",
"congratulates",
"decorates",
"eulogizes",
"extols",
"extolls",
"fetes",
"f\u00eates",
"hails",
"honors",
"lauds",
"praises",
"salutes",
"touts",
"acknowledges",
"recognizes",
"highlights",
"plays up",
"spotlights",
"dignifies",
"ennobles",
"enshrines",
"enskies",
"enthrones",
"glorifies",
"magnifies",
"advances",
"boosts",
"lifts",
"promotes",
"raises",
"upgrades",
"uplifts",
"idealizes",
"romanticizes"
],
"antonyms":[
"aggrandizes",
"canonizes",
"deifies",
"elevates",
"exalts"
]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"humbug":{
"an imitation that is passed off as genuine":{
"examples":[
"tests showed that the \"old\" map of America was a cleverly made humbug"
],
"synonyms":[
"counterfeit",
"fake",
"forgery",
"hoax",
"phony",
"phoney",
"sham"
],
"near synonyms":[
"copycat",
"knockoff",
"copy",
"facsimile",
"replica",
"reproduction",
"dummy",
"mock-up",
"fraud",
"gaff",
"imposture",
"spoof",
"swindle",
"simulation",
"synthetic",
"bastard",
"brummagem",
"duffer",
"shoddy"
],
"near antonyms":[
"original"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"language, behavior, or ideas that are absurd and contrary to good sense":{
"examples":[
"those UFO stories are a lot of humbug"
],
"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",
"garbage",
"guff",
"hogwash",
"hokeypokey",
"hokum",
"hoodoo",
"hooey",
"horsefeathers",
"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"
],
"near synonyms":[
"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"
],
"near antonyms":[
"levelheadedness",
"rationality",
"reasonability",
"reasonableness",
"sensibleness",
"common sense",
"horse sense",
"sense",
"discernment",
"judgment",
"judgement",
"wisdom"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"one who makes false claims of identity or expertise":{
"examples":[
"one humbug after another claimed to be the miraculously surviving daughter of the Russian czar"
],
"synonyms":[
"charlatan",
"fake",
"faker",
"fakir",
"fraud",
"hoaxer",
"impostor",
"imposter",
"mountebank",
"phony",
"phoney",
"pretender",
"quack",
"quacksalver",
"ringer",
"sham"
],
"near synonyms":[
"copycat",
"imitator",
"impersonator",
"mimic",
"actor",
"bluffer",
"counterfeiter",
"deceiver",
"dissembler",
"duper",
"feigner",
"misleader",
"operator",
"trickster",
"poseur",
"cozener",
"defrauder",
"dodger",
"fraudster",
"scammer",
"scamster",
"sharper",
"sharpie",
"sharpy",
"skinner",
"swindler"
],
"near antonyms":[
"ace",
"adept",
"authority",
"crackerjack",
"crackajack",
"expert",
"maestro",
"master",
"past master",
"professional",
"virtuoso",
"whiz",
"wizard"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to cause to believe what is untrue":{
"examples":[
"humbugged into believing that the bones were the skeleton of a prehistoric human being"
],
"synonyms":[
"bamboozle",
"beguile",
"bluff",
"buffalo",
"burn",
"catch",
"con",
"cozen",
"deceive",
"delude",
"dupe",
"fake out",
"fool",
"gaff",
"gammon",
"gull",
"have",
"have on",
"hoax",
"hoodwink",
"hornswoggle",
"juggle",
"misguide",
"misinform",
"mislead",
"snooker",
"snow",
"spoof",
"string along",
"suck in",
"sucker",
"take in",
"trick"
],
"near synonyms":[
"kid",
"put on",
"tease",
"bleed",
"cheat",
"chisel",
"defraud",
"diddle",
"euchre",
"fleece",
"flimflam",
"hustle",
"mulct",
"rook",
"shortchange",
"skin",
"squeeze",
"stick",
"sting",
"swindle"
],
"near antonyms":[
"debunk",
"expose",
"reveal",
"show up",
"uncloak",
"uncover",
"unmask",
"disclose",
"divulge",
"tell",
"unveil",
"disabuse",
"disenchant",
"disillusion"
],
"antonyms":[
"undeceive"
]
},
"type":[
"noun",
"verb"
]
},
"humbuggery":{
"language, behavior, or ideas that are absurd and contrary to good sense":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"a lot of humbuggery about a mean old witch that lives in the woods"
],
"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",
"garbage",
"guff",
"hogwash",
"hokeypokey",
"hokum",
"hoodoo",
"hooey",
"horsefeathers",
"humbug",
"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"
]
},
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"as in debasement , abasement":{
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"debasement",
"dismissal",
"firing",
"layoff",
"sacking",
"disrating",
"downgrade",
"bump",
"demotion",
"reduction"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
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"unusually large":{
"examples":[
"I'm sleepy because I ate a humongous lunch"
],
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"astronomic",
"Brobdingnagian",
"bumper",
"colossal",
"cosmic",
"cosmical",
"cyclopean",
"elephantine",
"enormous",
"galactic",
"gargantuan",
"giant",
"gigantesque",
"gigantic",
"grand",
"herculean",
"heroic",
"heroical",
"Himalayan",
"huge",
"immense",
"jumbo",
"king-size",
"king-sized",
"leviathan",
"mammoth",
"massive",
"mega",
"mighty",
"monster",
"monstrous",
"monumental",
"mountainous",
"oceanic",
"pharaonic",
"planetary",
"prodigious",
"super",
"super-duper",
"supersize",
"supersized",
"titanic",
"tremendous",
"vast",
"vasty",
"walloping",
"whacking",
"whopping"
],
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"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"
],
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"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"
]
},
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"to devote serious and sustained effort":{
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"examples":[
"the farmers had to really hump to get the harvest in before the rains"
],
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"broke",
"eased (up)",
"let up",
"slackened",
"bummed",
"chilled",
"dallied",
"dillydallied",
"footled",
"goldbricked",
"goofed (off)",
"hacked (around)",
"hung (around or out)",
"hanged (around or out)",
"idled",
"lazed",
"loafed",
"lounged",
"shirked",
"slacked (off)",
"vegged out",
"basked",
"lolled",
"relaxed",
"reposed",
"rested",
"unwound",
"dabbled",
"doodled",
"fooled around",
"fribbled",
"goofed (around)",
"hung",
"hanged",
"hung about",
"messed around",
"monkeyed (around)",
"played",
"pottered (around)",
"puttered (around)",
"trifled"
],
"related":[
"applied (oneself)",
"buckled (down)",
"dug in",
"hammered (away)",
"knuckled down",
"pitched in",
"attacked",
"drove",
"essayed",
"tried",
"exercised",
"exerted",
"overexerted",
"overworked",
"eked out",
"ground (out)",
"put out",
"scrabbled",
"scratched",
"trudged",
"waded"
],
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"banged away",
"beavered (away)",
"drudged",
"dug (away)",
"endeavored",
"fagged",
"grubbed",
"hustled",
"labored",
"moiled",
"pegged (away)",
"plodded",
"plowed",
"plugged",
"slaved",
"slogged",
"strained",
"strove",
"strived",
"struggled",
"sweat",
"sweated",
"toiled",
"travailed",
"tugged",
"worked",
"wrought"
]
},
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"antonyms":[
"crawled",
"crept",
"poked"
],
"examples":[
"the boat was really humping before the motor started to sputter all of a sudden"
],
"near antonyms":[
"dallied",
"dawdled",
"dillydallied",
"dragged",
"hung (around or out)",
"hanged (around or out)",
"lagged",
"lingered",
"loitered",
"poked",
"tarried",
"ambled",
"lumbered",
"plodded",
"sauntered",
"shuffled",
"strolled",
"decelerated",
"slowed (down or up)"
],
"related":[
"beetled",
"darted",
"flitted",
"scampered",
"scudded",
"scuffled",
"stampeded",
"streaked",
"whizzed",
"galloped",
"jogged",
"sprinted",
"accelerated",
"quickened",
"stepped out",
"caught up",
"fast-forwarded",
"outpaced",
"outran",
"outstripped",
"overtook",
"arrowed",
"beelined"
],
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"barreled",
"barrelled",
"belted",
"blasted",
"blazed",
"blew",
"bolted",
"bombed",
"bowled",
"breezed",
"bundled",
"bustled",
"buzzed",
"cannonballed",
"careened",
"careered",
"chased",
"coursed",
"cracked (on)",
"dashed",
"drove",
"flew",
"hared",
"hastened",
"hied",
"highballed",
"hotfooted (it)",
"hurled",
"hurried",
"hurtled",
"hustled",
"jetted",
"jumped",
"motored",
"nipped",
"pelted",
"raced",
"rammed",
"ran",
"run",
"ripped",
"rocketed",
"rushed",
"rustled",
"scooted",
"scurried",
"scuttled",
"shot",
"sped",
"speeded",
"stepped",
"tore",
"traveled",
"travelled",
"trotted",
"whirled",
"whisked",
"zipped",
"zoomed"
]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"humps":{
"an area of high ground":{
"antonyms":[
"lowlands"
],
"examples":[
"the grassy hump at the center of the park is a popular sledding spot during the winter"
],
"near antonyms":[
"dales",
"dells",
"depressions",
"dingles",
"glens",
"hollows",
"vales",
"valleys",
"basins",
"bottomlands",
"bottoms",
"fens",
"flats",
"floodplains",
"plains",
"tidewaters"
],
"related":[
"alps",
"mountains",
"mounts",
"peaks",
"buttes",
"mesas",
"plateaus",
"plateaux",
"tablelands",
"tables",
"bluffs",
"cliffs",
"crags",
"precipices",
"steeps",
"tors",
"ridges",
"sierras",
"domes",
"sugarloafs",
"sugarloaves",
"foothills",
"hillocks",
"hummocks",
"knobs",
"knolls",
"downs"
],
"synonyms":[
"altitudes",
"elevations",
"eminences",
"heights",
"highlands",
"hills",
"mounds",
"prominences",
"rises",
"uplands"
]
},
"an elevation of land higher than a hill":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"a cloud-capped hump straddles the border separating the two countries"
],
"near antonyms":[
"basins",
"bowls",
"depressions",
"hollows",
"vales",
"valleys"
],
"related":[
"cordilleras",
"mountain ranges",
"ranges",
"sierras",
"inselbergs",
"inselberge",
"knobs",
"seamounts",
"aiguilles",
"horns",
"mountaintops",
"pinnacles",
"summits"
],
"synonyms":[
"alps",
"mountains",
"mounts",
"peaks"
]
},
"to devote serious and sustained effort":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"the farmers had to really hump to get the harvest in before the rains"
],
"near antonyms":[
"breaks",
"eases (up)",
"lets up",
"slackens",
"bums",
"chills",
"dallies",
"dillydallies",
"footles",
"goldbricks",
"goofs (off)",
"hacks (around)",
"hangs (around or out)",
"idles",
"lazes",
"loafs",
"lounges",
"shirks",
"slacks (off)",
"vegges out",
"veges out",
"basks",
"lolls",
"relaxes",
"reposes",
"rests",
"unwinds",
"dabbles",
"doodles",
"fools around",
"fribbles",
"goofs (around)",
"hangs",
"hangs about",
"messes around",
"monkeys (around)",
"plays",
"potters (around)",
"putters (around)",
"trifles"
],
"related":[
"applies (oneself)",
"buckles (down)",
"digs in",
"hammers (away)",
"knuckles down",
"pitches in",
"attacks",
"drives",
"essays",
"tries",
"exercises",
"exerts",
"overexerts",
"overworks",
"ekes out",
"grinds (out)",
"puts out",
"scrabbles",
"scratches",
"trudges",
"wades"
],
"synonyms":[
"bangs away",
"beavers (away)",
"digs (away)",
"drudges",
"endeavors",
"fags",
"grubs",
"hustles",
"labors",
"moils",
"pegs (away)",
"plods",
"plows",
"plugs",
"slaves",
"slogs",
"strains",
"strives",
"struggles",
"sweats",
"toils",
"travails",
"tugs",
"works"
]
},
"to proceed or move quickly":{
"antonyms":[
"crawls",
"creeps",
"pokes"
],
"examples":[
"the boat was really humping before the motor started to sputter all of a sudden"
],
"near antonyms":[
"dallies",
"dawdles",
"dillydallies",
"drags",
"hangs (around or out)",
"lags",
"lingers",
"loiters",
"pokes",
"tarries",
"ambles",
"lumbers",
"plods",
"saunters",
"shuffles",
"strolls",
"decelerates",
"slows (down or up)"
],
"related":[
"beetles",
"darts",
"flits",
"scampers",
"scuds",
"scuffles",
"stampedes",
"streaks",
"whizzes",
"gallops",
"jogs",
"sprints",
"accelerates",
"quickens",
"steps out",
"catches up",
"fast-forwards",
"outpaces",
"outruns",
"outstrips",
"overtakes",
"arrows",
"beelines"
],
"synonyms":[
"barrels",
"belts",
"blasts",
"blazes",
"blows",
"bolts",
"bombs",
"bowls",
"breezes",
"bundles",
"bustles",
"buzzes",
"cannonballs",
"careens",
"careers",
"chases",
"courses",
"cracks (on)",
"dashes",
"drives",
"flies",
"hares",
"hastens",
"hies",
"highballs",
"hotfoots (it)",
"hurls",
"hurries",
"hurtles",
"hustles",
"jets",
"jumps",
"motors",
"nips",
"pelts",
"races",
"rams",
"rips",
"rockets",
"runs",
"rushes",
"rustles",
"scoots",
"scurries",
"scuttles",
"shoots",
"speeds",
"steps",
"tears",
"travels",
"trots",
"whirls",
"whisks",
"zips",
"zooms"
]
},
"type":[
"noun",
"verb"
]
},
"humiliations":{
"as in debasements , abasements":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"abasements",
"debasements",
"dismissals",
"firings",
"layoffs",
"sackings",
"downgrades",
"bumps",
"demotions",
"reductions"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"humoristic":{
"causing or intended to cause laughter":{
"examples":[
"a somewhat humoristic scene in an otherwise dark and brooding drama"
],
"synonyms":[
"antic",
"chucklesome",
"comedic",
"comic",
"comical",
"droll",
"farcical",
"funny",
"hilarious",
"humorous",
"hysterical",
"hysteric",
"killing",
"laughable",
"ludicrous",
"ridiculous",
"riotous",
"risible",
"screaming",
"sidesplitting",
"uproarious"
],
"near synonyms":[
"amusing",
"diverting",
"entertaining",
"clownish",
"knockabout",
"slapstick",
"slapsticky",
"zany",
"facetious",
"flip",
"flippant",
"pert",
"smart",
"smart-aleck",
"smart-alecky",
"snickery",
"jocular",
"playful",
"waggish",
"campy",
"jokey",
"joky",
"priceless",
"rich",
"whimsical",
"witty",
"wry",
"blithesome",
"gleeful",
"jocose",
"jocund",
"jolly",
"jovial",
"laughing",
"mad",
"merry",
"mirthful"
],
"near antonyms":[
"earnest",
"grave",
"no-nonsense",
"sedate",
"serious",
"severe",
"sober",
"sobersided",
"solemn",
"somber",
"sombre",
"staid",
"unsmiling",
"weighty",
"affecting",
"moving",
"poignant",
"touching",
"tragic",
"tragical",
"lachrymose",
"mournful",
"sad",
"sorrowful",
"tearful",
"woeful"
],
"antonyms":[
"humorless",
"lame",
"unamusing",
"uncomic",
"unfunny",
"unhumorous",
"unhysterical"
]
},
"type":[
"adjective"
]
},
"humored":{
"to give in to (a desire)":{
"examples":[
"humored her grandfather by listening to his war stories for the hundredth time"
],
"synonyms":[
"catered (to)",
"gratified",
"indulged"
],
"near synonyms":[
"basked",
"luxuriated",
"reveled",
"revelled",
"wallowed",
"coddled",
"mollycoddled",
"pampered",
"spoiled",
"spoilt",
"delighted",
"pleased",
"pleasured",
"sated",
"satiated",
"satisfied"
],
"near antonyms":[
"bridled",
"checked",
"constrained",
"curbed",
"inhibited",
"restrained",
"stifled"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"hummocks":{
"a small hill":{
"examples":[
"The hummocks of grass dotting the landscape were easy to traverse."
],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"foothills",
"hillocks",
"knobs",
"knolls",
"altitudes",
"elevations",
"eminences",
"heights",
"highlands",
"humps",
"mounds",
"prominences",
"rises",
"uplands",
"alps",
"mountains",
"mounts",
"peaks",
"buttes",
"mesas",
"plateaus",
"plateaux",
"tablelands",
"tables",
"bluffs",
"cliffs",
"crags",
"precipices",
"steeps",
"tors",
"ridges",
"sierras",
"domes",
"sugarloafs",
"sugarloaves",
"downs"
],
"near antonyms":[
"dales",
"dells",
"depressions",
"dingles",
"glens",
"hollows",
"vales",
"valleys",
"canyons",
"gorges",
"ravines",
"basins",
"bottomlands",
"bottoms",
"fens",
"flats",
"floodplains",
"plains",
"tidewaters",
"lowlands"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"hump":{
"a state of resentful silence or irritability":{
"examples":[
"failing her A-levels has certainly given her the hump"
],
"synonyms":[
"grouch",
"pet",
"pouts",
"snit",
"sulk",
"sulkiness",
"sullenness"
],
"near synonyms":[
"blues",
"dumps",
"mopes",
"surliness",
"biliousness",
"choler",
"crankiness",
"crossness",
"crotchetiness",
"fantods",
"grouchiness",
"grumpiness",
"huffiness",
"irascibility",
"irascibleness",
"irritability",
"irritableness",
"peevishness",
"perverseness",
"perversity",
"pettishness",
"petulance",
"surliness",
"testiness",
"waspishness",
"cantankerousness",
"disagreeableness",
"dyspepsia",
"fretfulness",
"orneriness",
"fussiness",
"querulousness",
"oversensitiveness",
"sensitivity"
],
"near antonyms":[
"cheerfulness",
"gaiety",
"gayety",
"gladsomeness",
"high-spiritedness",
"lightheartedness",
"perkiness",
"affability",
"agreeableness",
"amenity",
"amicability",
"cordiality",
"friendliness",
"geniality",
"graciousness",
"pleasantness",
"sociability",
"sociality",
"amiability",
"amiableness",
"good-humoredness",
"good-naturedness",
"good-temperedness"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"an elevation of land higher than a hill":{
"examples":[
"a cloud-capped hump straddles the border separating the two countries"
],
"synonyms":[
"alp",
"mount",
"mountain",
"peak"
],
"near synonyms":[
"cordillera",
"mountain range",
"range",
"sierra",
"inselberg",
"knob",
"seamount",
"aiguille",
"horn",
"mountaintop",
"pinnacle",
"summit"
],
"near antonyms":[
"basin",
"bowl",
"depression",
"hollow",
"vale",
"valley"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"an area of high ground":{
"examples":[
"the grassy hump at the center of the park is a popular sledding spot during the winter"
],
"synonyms":[
"altitude(s)",
"elevation",
"eminence",
"height",
"highland",
"hill",
"mound",
"prominence",
"rise",
"upland"
],
"near synonyms":[
"alp",
"mount",
"mountain",
"peak",
"butte",
"mesa",
"plateau",
"table",
"tableland",
"bluff",
"cliff",
"crag",
"precipice",
"steep",
"tor",
"ridge",
"sierra",
"dome",
"sugarloaf",
"foothill",
"hillock",
"hummock",
"knob",
"knoll",
"downs"
],
"near antonyms":[
"dale",
"dell",
"depression",
"dingle",
"glen",
"hollow",
"vale",
"valley",
"basin",
"bottom",
"bottomland",
"fen",
"flat",
"floodplain",
"plain",
"tidewater"
],
"antonyms":[
"lowland"
]
},
"to devote serious and sustained effort":{
"examples":[
"the farmers had to really hump to get the harvest in before the rains"
],
"synonyms":[
"bang away",
"beaver (away)",
"dig (away)",
"drudge",
"endeavor",
"fag",
"grub",
"hustle",
"labor",
"moil",
"peg (away)",
"plod",
"plow",
"plug",
"slave",
"slog",
"strain",
"strive",
"struggle",
"sweat",
"toil",
"travail",
"tug",
"work"
],
"near synonyms":[
"apply (oneself)",
"buckle (down)",
"dig in",
"hammer (away)",
"knuckle down",
"pitch in",
"attack",
"drive",
"essay",
"try",
"exercise",
"exert",
"overexert",
"overwork",
"eke out",
"grind (out)",
"put out",
"scrabble",
"scratch",
"trudge",
"wade"
],
"near antonyms":[
"break",
"ease (up)",
"let up",
"slacken",
"bum",
"chill",
"dally",
"dillydally",
"footle",
"goldbrick",
"goof (off)",
"hack (around)",
"hang (around or out)",
"idle",
"laze",
"loaf",
"lounge",
"shirk",
"slack (off)",
"veg out",
"bask",
"loll",
"relax",
"repose",
"rest",
"unwind",
"dabble",
"doodle",
"fool around",
"fribble",
"goof (around)",
"hang",
"hang about",
"mess around",
"monkey (around)",
"play",
"potter (around)",
"putter (around)",
"trifle"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to proceed or move quickly":{
"examples":[
"the boat was really humping before the motor started to sputter all of a sudden"
],
"synonyms":[
"barrel",
"belt",
"blast",
"blaze",
"blow",
"bolt",
"bomb",
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"career",
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"course",
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"whizz",
"gallop",
"jog",
"sprint",
"accelerate",
"quicken",
"step out",
"catch up",
"fast-forward",
"outpace",
"outrun",
"outstrip",
"overtake",
"arrow",
"beeline"
],
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"dally",
"dawdle",
"dillydally",
"drag",
"hang (around or out)",
"lag",
"linger",
"loiter",
"poke",
"tarry",
"amble",
"lumber",
"plod",
"saunter",
"shuffle",
"stroll",
"decelerate",
"slow (down or up)"
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"creep",
"poke"
]
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"noun",
"verb"
]
},
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"examples":[
"all humankind shares the desire for peace"
],
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"folks",
"humanity",
"people",
"public",
"species",
"world"
],
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"community",
"society",
"crowd",
"masses",
"mob",
"populace",
"proletariat",
"rabble",
"rabblement",
"riffraff"
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"examples":[
"perhaps someday humankind will find the key that unlocks the mystery of the universe"
],
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"Homo sapiens",
"humanity",
"man",
"mankind"
],
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"being",
"body",
"creature",
"fellowman",
"human",
"individual",
"mortal",
"party",
"person"
],
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},
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"noun"
]
},
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"the absence of any feelings of being better than others":{
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"in a display of true humbleness he gave much of the credit for his discovery to others"
],
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"down-to-earthness",
"humility",
"lowliness",
"meekness",
"modesty"
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"acquiescence",
"compliance",
"deference",
"passivity",
"resignedness",
"submission",
"submissiveness",
"ingenuousness",
"na\u00efvet\u00e9",
"naivete",
"naivet\u00e9",
"directness",
"plainness",
"simpleness",
"bashfulness",
"diffidence",
"mousiness",
"quietness",
"reserve",
"reservedness",
"retiringness",
"sheepishness",
"shyness",
"timidity",
"timidness"
],
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"aggressiveness",
"assertiveness",
"attitude",
"audaciousness",
"boldness",
"brashness",
"brassiness",
"cheek",
"cheekiness",
"cockiness",
"cocksureness",
"forwardness",
"overconfidence",
"swagger",
"swash",
"temerity",
"impertinence",
"impudence",
"insolence",
"nerve",
"sauciness",
"boastfulness",
"chest-thumping",
"self-applause",
"self-assumption",
"self-centeredness",
"self-complacency",
"self-conceit",
"self-glorification",
"self-importance",
"self-opinion",
"self-partiality",
"self-satisfaction",
"vaingloriousness",
"vanity",
"condescension",
"disdain",
"scorn",
"flamboyance",
"ostentation",
"ostentatiousness",
"showiness"
],
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"arrogance",
"assumption",
"bumptiousness",
"conceit",
"egoism",
"egotism",
"haughtiness",
"hauteur",
"huffiness",
"imperiousness",
"loftiness",
"lordliness",
"peremptoriness",
"pomposity",
"pompousness",
"presumptuousness",
"pretense",
"pretence",
"pretension",
"pretentiousness",
"pride",
"pridefulness",
"superciliousness",
"superiority",
"toploftiness"
]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
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"to reduce to a lower standing in one's own eyes or in others' eyes":{
"examples":[
"the reigning tennis champ was humiliated on the court by a newcomer who defeated him in straight sets"
],
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"abase",
"chasten",
"cheapen",
"debase",
"degrade",
"demean",
"discredit",
"disgrace",
"dishonor",
"foul",
"humble",
"lower",
"shame",
"sink",
"smirch",
"take down"
],
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"abash",
"confound",
"confuse",
"discomfit",
"disconcert",
"discountenance",
"embarrass",
"faze",
"fluster",
"mortify",
"nonplus",
"rattle",
"belittle",
"castigate",
"criticize",
"cry down",
"decry",
"depreciate",
"detract",
"diminish",
"discount",
"disparage",
"minimize",
"put down",
"ridicule",
"write off",
"bad-mouth",
"defame",
"defile",
"libel",
"malign",
"slander",
"affront",
"insult",
"censure",
"condemn",
"damn",
"denounce",
"execrate",
"reprehend",
"reprobate"
],
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"acclaim",
"applaud",
"boast",
"celebrate",
"cheer",
"cite",
"commend",
"compliment",
"congratulate",
"decorate",
"eulogize",
"extol",
"extoll",
"fete",
"f\u00eate",
"hail",
"honor",
"laud",
"praise",
"salute",
"tout",
"acknowledge",
"recognize",
"highlight",
"play up",
"spotlight",
"dignify",
"ennoble",
"enshrine",
"ensky",
"enthrone",
"glorify",
"magnify",
"advance",
"boost",
"lift",
"promote",
"raise",
"upgrade",
"uplift",
"idealize",
"romanticize"
],
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"aggrandize",
"canonize",
"deify",
"elevate",
"exalt"
]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"humdrum":{
"causing weariness, restlessness, or lack of interest":{
"examples":[
"she leads a humdrum life that will never be made into a major motion picture",
"a humdrum meal"
],
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"arid",
"boring",
"colorless",
"drab",
"dreary",
"drudging",
"dry",
"dull",
"dusty",
"flat",
"heavy",
"ho-hum",
"jading",
"jejune",
"leaden",
"mind-numbing",
"monochromatic",
"monotonous",
"numbing",
"old",
"pedestrian",
"ponderous",
"slow",
"stale",
"stodgy",
"stuffy",
"stupid",
"tame",
"tedious",
"tiresome",
"tiring",
"uninteresting",
"wearisome",
"weary",
"wearying"
],
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"aseptic",
"barren",
"blah",
"dullish",
"pleasureless",
"prosaic",
"prosy",
"soggy",
"spiritless",
"blank",
"earthbound",
"gray",
"grey",
"inanimate",
"pallid",
"pedantic",
"sterile",
"suspenseless",
"undramatic",
"uneventful",
"unexciting",
"unimaginative",
"uninspiring",
"unnewsworthy",
"unrewarding",
"unsensational",
"unspectacular",
"annoying",
"bothersome",
"irksome",
"irritating",
"longsome",
"palling",
"draining",
"enervating",
"exhausting",
"fatiguing",
"wearing",
"debilitating",
"enfeebling",
"demoralizing",
"discouraging",
"disheartening",
"dispiriting",
"common",
"commonplace",
"ordinary",
"tepid",
"unexceptional",
"unsurprising",
"vapid",
"cumbersome",
"lumbering",
"plodding",
"poky",
"pokey"
],
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"amazing",
"astonishing",
"astounding",
"awesome",
"eye-opening",
"fabulous",
"marvelous",
"marvellous",
"sensational",
"spectacular",
"surprising",
"wonderful",
"wondrous",
"animating",
"breathtaking",
"electrifying",
"energizing",
"enlivening",
"exciting",
"exhilarating",
"galvanizing",
"hair-raising",
"inspiring",
"invigorating",
"rip-roaring",
"rousing",
"stimulating",
"stirring",
"thrilling",
"amusing",
"diverting",
"entertaining",
"moving",
"poignant",
"touching",
"alluring",
"attracting",
"attractive",
"beguiling",
"bewitching",
"captivating",
"charming",
"enchanting",
"enthralling",
"entrancing",
"fascinating",
"mesmerizing",
"spellbinding",
"suspenseful",
"arresting",
"provocative",
"tantalizing"
],
"antonyms":[
"absorbing",
"engaging",
"engrossing",
"gripping",
"interesting",
"intriguing",
"involving",
"riveting"
]
},
"a tedious lack of variety":{
"examples":[
"loathed the humdrum of daily life in a small town"
],
"synonyms":[
"monotone",
"monotonousness",
"monotony",
"sameness"
],
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"uniformity",
"blahs",
"boredom",
"drabness",
"dullness",
"dulness",
"ennui",
"restlessness",
"tediousness",
"tedium",
"tiresomeness",
"weariness",
"wearisomeness"
],
"near antonyms":[
"diversity",
"multiplicity",
"variety",
"variability",
"variation",
"absorption",
"engagement",
"engrossment",
"enthrallment",
"fascination",
"grip",
"interest",
"intrigue",
"involvement",
"animation",
"enlivenment",
"excitement",
"invigoration",
"stimulation"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"adjective",
"noun"
]
},
"humorlessness":{
"as in gravitas":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
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"gravitas",
"earnest",
"earnestness",
"graveness",
"gravity",
"intentness",
"serious-mindedness",
"seriousness",
"soberness",
"sobriety",
"solemnity",
"solemnness",
"staidness",
"decisiveness",
"deliberation",
"determination",
"firmness",
"purposefulness",
"resoluteness",
"resolve",
"absorption",
"attentiveness",
"concentration",
"engrossment",
"enthrallment",
"immersion",
"intensity"
],
"near antonyms":[
"facetiousness",
"flightiness",
"flippancy",
"frivolity",
"frivolousness",
"levity",
"lightheartedness",
"lightness",
"play",
"unseriousness",
"lightness",
"shallowness",
"superficiality",
"dalliance",
"dilettantism",
"cheerfulness",
"gaiety",
"gayety",
"glee",
"high-spiritedness",
"merriment",
"mirth"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"humorist":{
"a person (as a writer) noted for or specializing in humor":{
"examples":[
"Mark Twain is perhaps America's most beloved humorist"
],
"synonyms":[
"card",
"comedian",
"comic",
"droll",
"farceur",
"funnyman",
"gagger",
"gagman",
"gagster",
"jester",
"joker",
"jokester",
"wag",
"wit"
],
"near synonyms":[
"comedienne",
"entertainer",
"banterer",
"cutup",
"kidder",
"knockabout",
"practical joker",
"prankster",
"quipper",
"quipster",
"teaser",
"wisecracker",
"buffoon",
"clown",
"fool",
"harlequin",
"zany",
"caricaturist",
"lampooner",
"parodist",
"satirist"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"humaneness":{
"sympathetic concern for the well-being of others":{
"examples":[
"with more humaneness than good sense, I decided to take in yet another stray cat"
],
"synonyms":[
"beneficence",
"benevolence",
"benignancy",
"benignity",
"compassionateness",
"good-heartedness",
"kindheartedness",
"kindliness",
"kindness",
"softheartedness",
"tenderheartedness",
"tenderness",
"warmheartedness"
],
"near synonyms":[
"attentiveness",
"considerateness",
"thoughtfulness",
"affability",
"friendliness",
"good-naturedness",
"good-temperedness",
"warmth",
"graciousness",
"niceness",
"pleasantness",
"clemency",
"leniency",
"mercifulness",
"patience",
"tolerance",
"understanding",
"altruism",
"charitableness",
"charity",
"generosity",
"greatheartedness",
"magnanimity",
"philanthropy",
"unselfishness"
],
"near antonyms":[
"mercilessness",
"pitilessness",
"ruthlessness",
"inconsiderateness",
"insensitivity",
"thoughtlessness",
"grimness",
"harshness",
"severity",
"sternness",
"toughness",
"hatefulness",
"malevolence",
"maliciousness",
"meanness",
"spitefulness",
"virulence",
"vitriol"
],
"antonyms":[
"barbarity",
"barbarousness",
"bestiality",
"brutality",
"brutishness",
"callousness",
"cold-bloodedness",
"cruelty",
"hard-heartedness",
"heartlessness",
"inhumanity",
"savageness",
"savagery",
"unfeelingness",
"unkindliness",
"unkindness"
]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"humbugs":{
"one who makes false claims of identity or expertise":{
"examples":[
"one humbug after another claimed to be the miraculously surviving daughter of the Russian czar"
],
"synonyms":[
"charlatans",
"fakers",
"fakes",
"fakirs",
"frauds",
"hoaxers",
"impostors",
"imposters",
"mountebanks",
"phonies",
"phoneys",
"pretenders",
"quacks",
"quacksalvers",
"ringers",
"shams"
],
"near synonyms":[
"copycats",
"imitators",
"impersonators",
"mimics",
"actors",
"bluffers",
"counterfeiters",
"deceivers",
"dissemblers",
"duper",
"feigners",
"misleaders",
"operators",
"tricksters",
"poseurs",
"cozeners",
"defrauders",
"dodgers",
"fraudsters",
"scammers",
"scamsters",
"sharpers",
"sharpies",
"skinners",
"swindlers"
],
"near antonyms":[
"aces",
"adepts",
"authorities",
"crackerjacks",
"crackajacks",
"experts",
"maestros",
"maestri",
"masters",
"past masters",
"professionals",
"virtuosos",
"virtuosi",
"whizzes",
"wizards"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to cause to believe what is untrue":{
"examples":[
"humbugged into believing that the bones were the skeleton of a prehistoric human being"
],
"synonyms":[
"bamboozles",
"beguiles",
"bluffs",
"buffaloes",
"burns",
"catches",
"cons",
"cozens",
"deceives",
"deludes",
"dupes",
"fakes out",
"fools",
"gaffs",
"gammons",
"gulls",
"has",
"has on",
"hoaxes",
"hoodwinks",
"hornswoggles",
"juggles",
"misguides",
"misinforms",
"misleads",
"snookers",
"snows",
"spoofs",
"strings along",
"suckers",
"sucks in",
"takes in",
"tricks"
],
"near synonyms":[
"kids",
"puts on",
"teases",
"bleeds",
"cheats",
"chisels",
"defrauds",
"diddles",
"euchres",
"fleeces",
"flimflams",
"hustles",
"mulcts",
"rooks",
"shortchanges",
"skins",
"squeezes",
"sticks",
"stings",
"swindles"
],
"near antonyms":[
"debunks",
"exposes",
"reveals",
"shows up",
"uncloaks",
"uncovers",
"unmasks",
"discloses",
"divulges",
"tells",
"unveils",
"disabuses",
"disenchants",
"disillusions"
],
"antonyms":[
"undeceives"
]
},
"type":[
"noun",
"verb"
]
},
"humorousness":{
"the amusing quality or element in something":{
"examples":[
"the humorousness of falling on a banana peel is usually lost on the person who falls"
],
"synonyms":[
"comedy",
"comic",
"comicality",
"drollery",
"drollness",
"funniness",
"hilariousness",
"humor",
"richness",
"uproariousness"
],
"near synonyms":[
"amusement",
"enjoyment",
"fun",
"pleasure",
"absurdity",
"irony",
"laughableness",
"ludicrousness",
"ridiculousness",
"whimsicality",
"wittiness",
"wryness",
"burlesque",
"caricature",
"farce",
"jest",
"lampoon",
"parody",
"satire",
"slapstick",
"spoof",
"takeoff",
"jocularity",
"jokiness",
"playfulness",
"waggishness"
],
"near antonyms":[
"agony",
"anguish",
"dolor",
"grief",
"heartache",
"heartbreak",
"misery",
"sorrow",
"torment",
"torture",
"tribulation",
"woe",
"gravity",
"seriousness",
"soberness",
"solemnity",
"solemnness",
"somberness"
],
"antonyms":[
"pathos"
]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"human":{
"relating to or characteristic of human beings":{
"examples":[
"it's human nature to care about what people think of us"
],
"synonyms":[
"earthborn",
"mortal",
"natural"
],
"near synonyms":[
"anthropoid",
"creatural",
"hominid",
"humanlike",
"humanoid"
],
"near antonyms":[
"angelic",
"angelical",
"divine",
"godlike",
"preternatural",
"superhuman",
"supernatural",
"supernormal",
"immortal",
"omnipotent",
"omniscient",
"animal",
"beastly",
"bestial",
"brute",
"infrahuman",
"inhuman",
"robotic",
"subhuman"
],
"antonyms":[
"nonhuman"
]
},
"a member of the human race":{
"examples":[
"humans are the only mammals not endowed with a natural defense against the elements, such as fur or a thick hide"
],
"synonyms":[
"baby",
"being",
"bird",
"bod",
"body",
"character",
"cookie",
"cooky",
"creature",
"customer",
"devil",
"duck",
"egg",
"face",
"fish",
"guy",
"head",
"human being",
"individual",
"life",
"man",
"mortal",
"party",
"person",
"personage",
"scout",
"slob",
"sort",
"soul",
"specimen",
"stiff",
"thing",
"wight"
],
"near synonyms":[
"hominid",
"homo",
"humanoid",
"brother",
"fellow",
"fellowman",
"neighbor",
"celebrity",
"personality",
"self",
"somebody"
],
"near antonyms":[
"animal",
"beast",
"beastie",
"brute",
"critter"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"adjective",
"noun"
]
},
"humor":{
"the amusing quality or element in something":{
"examples":[
"we failed to see any humor in his mean and juvenile jokes"
],
"synonyms":[
"comedy",
"comic",
"comicality",
"drollery",
"drollness",
"funniness",
"hilariousness",
"humorousness",
"richness",
"uproariousness"
],
"near synonyms":[
"amusement",
"enjoyment",
"fun",
"pleasure",
"absurdity",
"irony",
"laughableness",
"ludicrousness",
"ridiculousness",
"whimsicality",
"wittiness",
"wryness",
"burlesque",
"caricature",
"farce",
"jest",
"lampoon",
"parody",
"satire",
"slapstick",
"spoof",
"takeoff",
"jocularity",
"jokiness",
"playfulness",
"waggishness"
],
"near antonyms":[
"agony",
"anguish",
"dolor",
"grief",
"heartache",
"heartbreak",
"misery",
"sorrow",
"torment",
"torture",
"tribulation",
"woe",
"gravity",
"seriousness",
"soberness",
"solemnity",
"solemnness",
"somberness"
],
"antonyms":[
"pathos"
]
},
"humorous entertainment":{
"examples":[
"a screenwriter best known for lowbrow humor"
],
"synonyms":[
"comedy",
"farce",
"slapstick"
],
"near synonyms":[
"high comedy",
"low comedy",
"burlesque",
"parody",
"satire",
"improv",
"stand-up",
"banter",
"drollery",
"persiflage",
"wit",
"foolery",
"fun",
"horseplay",
"knockabout",
"monkeyshine(s)",
"shenanigan(s)"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"a state of mind dominated by a particular emotion":{
"examples":[
"the prospect of going out to dinner put her in a good humor all day"
],
"synonyms":[
"cheer",
"feather",
"mode",
"mood",
"spirit",
"temper"
],
"near synonyms":[
"angle",
"attitude",
"mind-set",
"outlook",
"perspective",
"slant",
"standpoint",
"viewpoint",
"emotion",
"feeling",
"heart",
"passion",
"sentiment",
"strain",
"belief",
"conviction",
"judgment",
"judgement",
"mind",
"opinion",
"expression",
"tone",
"vein",
"character",
"disposition",
"identity",
"individuality",
"makeup",
"mettle",
"personality",
"selfhood",
"self-identity",
"temperament",
"responsiveness",
"sensibility",
"sensitiveness",
"sensitivity"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"a sudden impulsive and apparently unmotivated idea or action":{
"examples":[
"she was seized by a sudden humor to contact an old college friend that she hadn't seen in ages"
],
"synonyms":[
"bee",
"caprice",
"crank",
"fancy",
"freak",
"kink",
"maggot",
"megrim",
"notion",
"vagary",
"vagrancy",
"whim",
"whimsy",
"whimsey"
],
"near synonyms":[
"capriciousness",
"fancifulness",
"fantasy",
"phantasy",
"freakishness",
"impetuosity",
"whimsicality",
"conceit",
"concept",
"conception",
"image",
"impression",
"mind's eye",
"picture",
"thought",
"brainstorm",
"inspiration"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to give in to (a desire)":{
"examples":[
"humored her grandfather by listening to his war stories for the hundredth time"
],
"synonyms":[
"cater (to)",
"gratify",
"indulge"
],
"near synonyms":[
"bask",
"luxuriate",
"revel",
"wallow",
"coddle",
"mollycoddle",
"pamper",
"spoil",
"delight",
"please",
"pleasure",
"sate",
"satiate",
"satisfy"
],
"near antonyms":[
"bridle",
"check",
"constrain",
"curb",
"inhibit",
"restrain",
"stifle"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun",
"verb"
]
},
"humdinger":{
"something very good of its kind":{
"examples":[
"the concert concluded with a humdinger of a fireworks display"
],
"synonyms":[
"beaut",
"beauty",
"bee's knees",
"cat's meow",
"corker",
"crackerjack",
"crackajack",
"daisy",
"dandy",
"dilly",
"doozy",
"doozie",
"doozer",
"dream",
"honey",
"hot stuff",
"hummer",
"jim-dandy",
"knockout",
"lollapalooza",
"lulu",
"nifty",
"peach",
"pip",
"pippin",
"ripper",
"ripsnorter",
"snorter",
"sockdolager",
"sockdologer",
"standout",
"sweetheart"
],
"near synonyms":[
"marvel",
"phenomenon",
"prodigy",
"sensation",
"wonder",
"catch",
"crown jewel",
"diamond",
"gem",
"imperial",
"jewel",
"pearl",
"plum",
"treasure"
],
"near antonyms":[
"bust",
"disappointment",
"dud",
"failure",
"flop",
"lemon",
"letdown",
"loser",
"stinker",
"turkey"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"humidifies":{
"as in moistens , moisturizes":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"asperses",
"bedews",
"dampens",
"damps",
"drizzles",
"hydrates",
"mists",
"moistens",
"moisturizes",
"showers",
"sprinkles",
"bathes",
"bedraggles",
"douses",
"dowses",
"drenches",
"drowns",
"soaks",
"soddens",
"sops",
"souses",
"washes",
"waterlogs",
"waters",
"water-soaks",
"wets",
"wets down",
"deluges",
"floods",
"hoses (down)",
"inundates",
"overflows",
"submerges",
"swamps",
"splashes",
"impregnates",
"saturates",
"steeps",
"flushes",
"irrigates",
"laves",
"rinses",
"sloshes",
"sluices",
"dips",
"ducks",
"dunks",
"rehydrates",
"rewashes",
"rewets"
],
"near antonyms":[
"dehydrates",
"desiccates",
"dries",
"parches",
"scorches",
"sears",
"dewaters",
"evaporates",
"freeze-dries",
"drip-dries",
"wrings",
"dehumidifies"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"humbugged":{
"to cause to believe what is untrue":{
"examples":[
"humbugged into believing that the bones were the skeleton of a prehistoric human being"
],
"synonyms":[
"bamboozled",
"beguiled",
"bluffed",
"buffaloed",
"burned",
"burnt",
"caught",
"conned",
"cozened",
"deceived",
"deluded",
"duped",
"faked out",
"fooled",
"gaffed",
"gammoned",
"gulled",
"had",
"had on",
"hoaxed",
"hoodwinked",
"hornswoggled",
"juggled",
"misguided",
"misinformed",
"misled",
"snookered",
"snowed",
"spoofed",
"strung along",
"sucked in",
"suckered",
"took in",
"tricked"
],
"near synonyms":[
"kidded",
"put on",
"teased",
"bled",
"cheated",
"chiseled",
"chiselled",
"defrauded",
"diddled",
"euchred",
"fleeced",
"flimflammed",
"hustled",
"mulcted",
"rooked",
"shortchanged",
"skinned",
"squeezed",
"stuck",
"stung",
"swindled"
],
"near antonyms":[
"debunked",
"exposed",
"revealed",
"showed up",
"uncloaked",
"uncovered",
"unmasked",
"disclosed",
"divulged",
"told",
"unveiled",
"disabused",
"disenchanted",
"disillusioned"
],
"antonyms":[
"undeceived"
]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"humbled":{
"to reduce to a lower standing in one's own eyes or in others' eyes":{
"examples":[
"Philip was utterly humbled by a crushing defeat in the first round of the state chess tournament"
],
"synonyms":[
"abased",
"chastened",
"cheapened",
"debased",
"degraded",
"demeaned",
"discredited",
"disgraced",
"dishonored",
"fouled",
"humiliated",
"lowered",
"sank",
"sunk",
"shamed",
"smirched",
"took down"
],
"near synonyms":[
"abashed",
"confounded",
"confused",
"discomfited",
"disconcerted",
"discountenanced",
"embarrassed",
"fazed",
"flustered",
"mortified",
"nonplussed",
"nonplused",
"rattled",
"belittled",
"castigated",
"cried down",
"criticized",
"decried",
"depreciated",
"detracted",
"diminished",
"discounted",
"disparaged",
"minimized",
"put down",
"ridiculed",
"wrote off",
"bad-mouthed",
"defamed",
"defiled",
"libeled",
"libelled",
"maligned",
"slandered",
"affronted",
"insulted",
"censured",
"condemned",
"damned",
"denounced",
"execrated",
"reprehended",
"reprobated"
],
"near antonyms":[
"acclaimed",
"applauded",
"boasted",
"celebrated",
"cheered",
"cited",
"commended",
"complimented",
"congratulated",
"decorated",
"eulogized",
"extolled",
"feted",
"f\u00eated",
"hailed",
"honored",
"lauded",
"praised",
"saluted",
"touted",
"acknowledged",
"recognized",
"highlighted",
"played up",
"spotlighted",
"spotlit",
"dignified",
"ennobled",
"enshrined",
"enskied",
"enthroned",
"glorified",
"magnified",
"advanced",
"boosted",
"lifted",
"promoted",
"raised",
"upgraded",
"uplifted",
"idealized",
"romanticized"
],
"antonyms":[
"aggrandized",
"canonized",
"deified",
"elevated",
"exalted"
]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"humbuggeries":{
"an imitation that is passed off as genuine":{
"examples":[
"tests showed that the \"old\" map of America was a cleverly made humbug"
],
"synonyms":[
"counterfeit",
"fake",
"forgery",
"hoax",
"phony",
"phoney",
"sham"
],
"near synonyms":[
"copycat",
"knockoff",
"copy",
"facsimile",
"replica",
"reproduction",
"dummy",
"mock-up",
"fraud",
"gaff",
"imposture",
"spoof",
"swindle",
"simulation",
"synthetic",
"bastard",
"brummagem",
"duffer",
"shoddy"
],
"near antonyms":[
"original"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"language, behavior, or ideas that are absurd and contrary to good sense":{
"examples":[
"a lot of humbuggery about a mean old witch that lives in the woods"
],
"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",
"garbage",
"guff",
"hogwash",
"hokeypokey",
"hokum",
"hoodoo",
"hooey",
"horsefeathers",
"humbug",
"jazz",
"malarkey",
"malarky",
"moonshine",
"muck",
"nerts",
"nonsense",
"nuts",
"piffle",
"poppycock",
"punk",
"rot",
"rubbish",
"senselessness",
"silliness",
"slush",
"stupidity",
"taradiddle",
"tarradiddle",
"tommyrot",
"tosh",
"trash",
"trumpery",
"twaddle"
],
"near synonyms":[
"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"
],
"near antonyms":[
"levelheadedness",
"rationality",
"reasonability",
"reasonableness",
"sensibleness",
"common sense",
"horse sense",
"sense",
"discernment",
"judgment",
"judgement",
"wisdom"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"one who makes false claims of identity or expertise":{
"examples":[
"one humbug after another claimed to be the miraculously surviving daughter of the Russian czar"
],
"synonyms":[
"charlatan",
"fake",
"faker",
"fakir",
"fraud",
"hoaxer",
"impostor",
"imposter",
"mountebank",
"phony",
"phoney",
"pretender",
"quack",
"quacksalver",
"ringer",
"sham"
],
"near synonyms":[
"copycat",
"imitator",
"impersonator",
"mimic",
"actor",
"bluffer",
"counterfeiter",
"deceiver",
"dissembler",
"duper",
"feigner",
"misleader",
"operator",
"trickster",
"poseur",
"cozener",
"defrauder",
"dodger",
"fraudster",
"scammer",
"scamster",
"sharper",
"sharpie",
"sharpy",
"skinner",
"swindler"
],
"near antonyms":[
"ace",
"adept",
"authority",
"crackerjack",
"crackajack",
"expert",
"maestro",
"master",
"past master",
"professional",
"virtuoso",
"whiz",
"wizard"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to cause to believe what is untrue":{
"examples":[
"humbugged into believing that the bones were the skeleton of a prehistoric human being"
],
"synonyms":[
"bamboozle",
"beguile",
"bluff",
"buffalo",
"burn",
"catch",
"con",
"cozen",
"deceive",
"delude",
"dupe",
"fake out",
"fool",
"gaff",
"gammon",
"gull",
"have",
"have on",
"hoax",
"hoodwink",
"hornswoggle",
"juggle",
"misguide",
"misinform",
"mislead",
"snooker",
"snow",
"spoof",
"string along",
"suck in",
"sucker",
"take in",
"trick"
],
"near synonyms":[
"kid",
"put on",
"tease",
"bleed",
"cheat",
"chisel",
"defraud",
"diddle",
"euchre",
"fleece",
"flimflam",
"hustle",
"mulct",
"rook",
"shortchange",
"skin",
"squeeze",
"stick",
"sting",
"swindle"
],
"near antonyms":[
"debunk",
"expose",
"reveal",
"show up",
"uncloak",
"uncover",
"unmask",
"disclose",
"divulge",
"tell",
"unveil",
"disabuse",
"disenchant",
"disillusion"
],
"antonyms":[
"undeceive"
]
},
"type":[
"noun",
"verb"
]
},
"humping":{
"to devote serious and sustained effort":{
"examples":[
"the farmers had to really hump to get the harvest in before the rains"
],
"synonyms":[
"banging away",
"beavering (away)",
"digging (away)",
"drudging",
"endeavoring",
"fagging",
"grubbing",
"hustling",
"laboring",
"moiling",
"pegging (away)",
"plodding",
"plowing",
"plugging",
"slaving",
"slogging",
"straining",
"striving",
"struggling",
"sweating",
"toiling",
"travailing",
"tugging",
"working"
],
"near synonyms":[
"applying (oneself)",
"buckling (down)",
"digging in",
"hammering (away)",
"knuckling down",
"pitching in",
"attacking",
"driving",
"essaying",
"trying",
"exercising",
"exerting",
"overexerting",
"overworking",
"eking out",
"grinding (out)",
"putting out",
"scrabbling",
"scratching",
"trudging",
"wading"
],
"near antonyms":[
"breaking",
"easing (up)",
"letting up",
"slackening",
"bumming",
"chilling",
"dallying",
"dillydallying",
"footling",
"goldbricking",
"goofing (off)",
"hacking (around)",
"hanging (around or out)",
"idling",
"lazing",
"loafing",
"lounging",
"shirking",
"slacking (off)",
"vegging out",
"basking",
"lolling",
"relaxing",
"reposing",
"resting",
"unwinding",
"dabbling",
"doodling",
"fooling around",
"fribbling",
"goofing (around)",
"hanging",
"hanging about",
"messing around",
"monkeying (around)",
"playing",
"pottering (around)",
"puttering (around)",
"trifling"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to proceed or move quickly":{
"examples":[
"the boat was really humping before the motor started to sputter all of a sudden"
],
"synonyms":[
"barreling",
"barrelling",
"belting",
"blasting",
"blazing",
"blowing",
"bolting",
"bombing",
"bowling",
"breezing",
"bundling",
"bustling",
"buzzing",
"cannonballing",
"careening",
"careering",
"chasing",
"coursing",
"cracking (on)",
"dashing",
"driving",
"flying",
"haring",
"hastening",
"highballing",
"hotfooting (it)",
"hurling",
"hurrying",
"hurtling",
"hustling",
"hying",
"hieing",
"jetting",
"jumping",
"motoring",
"nipping",
"pelting",
"racing",
"ramming",
"ripping",
"rocketing",
"running",
"rushing",
"rustling",
"scooting",
"scurrying",
"scuttling",
"shooting",
"speeding",
"stepping",
"tearing",
"traveling",
"travelling",
"trotting",
"whirling",
"whisking",
"zipping",
"zooming"
],
"near synonyms":[
"beetling",
"darting",
"flitting",
"scampering",
"scudding",
"scuffling",
"stampeding",
"streaking",
"whizzing",
"galloping",
"jogging",
"sprinting",
"accelerating",
"quickening",
"stepping out",
"catching up",
"fast-forwarding",
"outpacing",
"outrunning",
"outstripping",
"overtaking",
"arrowing",
"beelining"
],
"near antonyms":[
"dallying",
"dawdling",
"dillydallying",
"dragging",
"hanging (around or out)",
"lagging",
"lingering",
"loitering",
"poking",
"tarrying",
"ambling",
"lumbering",
"plodding",
"sauntering",
"shuffling",
"strolling",
"decelerating",
"slowing (down or up)"
],
"antonyms":[
"crawling",
"creeping",
"poking"
]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"humans":{
"a member of the human race":{
"examples":[
"humans are the only mammals not endowed with a natural defense against the elements, such as fur or a thick hide"
],
"synonyms":[
"babies",
"beings",
"birds",
"bodies",
"bods",
"characters",
"cookies",
"creatures",
"customers",
"devils",
"ducks",
"eggs",
"faces",
"fish",
"fishes",
"guys",
"heads",
"human beings",
"individuals",
"lives",
"men",
"mortals",
"parties",
"people",
"personages",
"scouts",
"slobs",
"sorts",
"souls",
"specimens",
"stiffs",
"things",
"wights"
],
"near synonyms":[
"hominids",
"homos",
"humanoids",
"brothers",
"brethren",
"fellowmen",
"fellows",
"neighbors",
"celebrities",
"personalities",
"selves",
"somebodies"
],
"near antonyms":[
"animals",
"beasties",
"beasts",
"brutes",
"critters"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"hummer":{
"an ambitious person who eagerly goes after what is desired":{
"examples":[
"he's a real hummer when it comes to getting new clients for his advertising agency"
],
"synonyms":[
"bootstrapper",
"go-ahead",
"go-getter",
"highflier",
"highflyer",
"hustler",
"live wire",
"powerhouse",
"self-starter"
],
"near synonyms":[
"eager beaver",
"achiever",
"comer",
"doer",
"enterpriser",
"he-man",
"individualist"
],
"near antonyms":[
"dawdler",
"idler",
"loafer",
"lounger",
"putterer",
"trifler",
"goldbrick",
"malingerer",
"procrastinator",
"shirker",
"slacker",
"drone",
"lazybones",
"sluggard",
"dallier",
"laggard",
"lingerer",
"loiterer",
"slowpoke",
"stick-in-the-mud",
"ignorer",
"ne'er-do-well",
"neglecter",
"daydreamer",
"dreamer",
"dropout",
"quitter"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"something very good of its kind":{
"examples":[
"this is the author's first mystery novel, and it's a hummer"
],
"synonyms":[
"beaut",
"beauty",
"bee's knees",
"cat's meow",
"corker",
"crackerjack",
"crackajack",
"daisy",
"dandy",
"dilly",
"doozy",
"doozie",
"doozer",
"dream",
"honey",
"hot stuff",
"humdinger",
"jim-dandy",
"knockout",
"lollapalooza",
"lulu",
"nifty",
"peach",
"pip",
"pippin",
"ripper",
"ripsnorter",
"snorter",
"sockdolager",
"sockdologer",
"standout",
"sweetheart"
],
"near synonyms":[
"marvel",
"phenomenon",
"prodigy",
"sensation",
"wonder",
"catch",
"crown jewel",
"diamond",
"gem",
"imperial",
"jewel",
"pearl",
"plum",
"treasure"
],
"near antonyms":[
"bust",
"disappointment",
"dud",
"failure",
"flop",
"lemon",
"letdown",
"loser",
"stinker",
"turkey"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"humanitarians":{
"as in philanthropists , altruists":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"altruists",
"philanthropists"
],
"near antonyms":[
"egocentrics",
"egoists",
"egomaniacs",
"egotists",
"ego-trippers",
"narcissists",
"megalomaniacs",
"beasts",
"boors",
"cads",
"churls",
"clowns",
"creeps",
"cretins",
"curs",
"heels",
"jerks",
"jokers",
"louses",
"louts",
"skunks",
"skunk",
"slobs",
"snakes",
"stinkers"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"humorists":{
"a person (as a writer) noted for or specializing in humor":{
"examples":[
"Mark Twain is perhaps America's most beloved humorist"
],
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"comedians",
"comics",
"drolls",
"farceurs",
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"gagmen",
"gagsters",
"jesters",
"jokers",
"jokesters",
"wags",
"wits"
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"entertainers",
"banterers",
"cutups",
"kidders",
"knockabouts",
"practical jokers",
"pranksters",
"quippers",
"quipsters",
"teasers",
"wisecrackers",
"buffoons",
"clowns",
"fools",
"harlequins",
"zanies",
"caricaturists",
"lampooners",
"parodists",
"satirists"
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},
"type":[
"noun"
]
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"a brown or black material in soil that is formed when plants and animals decay":{
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"loam",
"topsoil",
"clod",
"dirt",
"earth",
"ground",
"mold",
"blackland",
"clay",
"gault",
"gley",
"guck",
"gook",
"gumbo",
"kaolin",
"muck",
"mud",
"dust",
"gravel",
"sand",
"alluvium",
"colluvium",
"detritus",
"loess",
"marl",
"sediment",
"shingle",
"silt",
"duff",
"mull",
"subsoil",
"substratum"
],
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},
"type":[
"noun"
]
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"to be copiously supplied":{
"examples":[
"one restaurant was humming with diners, while a neighboring eatery was practically empty"
],
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"abounded",
"brimmed",
"bristled",
"bulged",
"burst",
"bursted",
"bustled",
"buzzed",
"crawled",
"overflowed",
"pullulated",
"swarmed",
"teemed"
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"lacked",
"needed",
"wanted"
],
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},
"to fly, turn, or move rapidly with a fluttering or vibratory sound":{
"examples":[
"a helicopter hummed overhead"
],
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"bumbled",
"burred",
"buzzed",
"droned",
"whirred",
"whished",
"whizzed",
"zipped",
"zoomed"
],
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"chirred",
"churred",
"thrummed",
"fizzed",
"hissed",
"murmured",
"purred",
"rustled",
"sighed",
"sizzled",
"swished",
"whispered",
"cooed",
"curred",
"wheezed",
"whistled",
"whooshed"
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},
"type":[
"verb"
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"as in moisten , moisturize":{
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"asperse",
"bedew",
"damp",
"dampen",
"drizzle",
"hydrate",
"mist",
"moisten",
"moisturize",
"shower",
"sprinkle",
"bathe",
"bedraggle",
"douse",
"dowse",
"drench",
"drown",
"soak",
"sodden",
"sop",
"souse",
"wash",
"water",
"waterlog",
"water-soak",
"wet",
"wet down",
"deluge",
"flood",
"hose (down)",
"inundate",
"overflow",
"submerge",
"swamp",
"splash",
"impregnate",
"saturate",
"steep",
"flush",
"irrigate",
"lave",
"rinse",
"slosh",
"sluice",
"dip",
"duck",
"dunk",
"rehydrate",
"rewash",
"rewet"
],
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"dehydrate",
"desiccate",
"dry",
"parch",
"scorch",
"sear",
"dewater",
"evaporate",
"freeze-dry",
"drip-dry",
"wring",
"dehumidify"
],
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"verb"
]
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"the amount of water suspended in the air in tiny droplets":{
"examples":[
"the oppressive humidity made the hot day seem even hotter"
],
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"damp",
"dampness",
"moistness",
"moisture"
],
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"mugginess",
"stickiness",
"stuffiness",
"sultriness",
"clamminess",
"dankness",
"soddenness",
"sogginess",
"wetness"
],
"near antonyms":[
"aridity",
"dehumidification",
"dehydration",
"dryness"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
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"as in embarrassed , disconcerted":{
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"abashed",
"discomfited",
"discomforted",
"discomposed",
"disconcerted",
"discountenanced",
"embarrassed",
"awkward",
"clumsy",
"gauche",
"graceless",
"inelegant",
"rough-hewn",
"rustic",
"rustical",
"stiff",
"stilted",
"uncomfortable",
"uneasy",
"ungraceful",
"wooden",
"self-conscious",
"aggravated",
"agitated",
"bothered",
"chagrined",
"dismayed",
"disquieted",
"distressed",
"disturbed",
"fazed",
"flustered",
"irritated",
"jittery",
"jumpy",
"mortified",
"nervous",
"nonplussed",
"nonplused",
"perturbed",
"rattled",
"unhinged",
"unsettled",
"upset"
],
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"assured",
"calm",
"collected",
"composed",
"confident",
"cool",
"placid",
"poised",
"secure",
"self-assured",
"self-confident",
"self-possessed",
"serene",
"tranquil",
"undisturbed",
"unperturbed"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to reduce to a lower standing in one's own eyes or in others' eyes":{
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"the reigning tennis champ was humiliated on the court by a newcomer who defeated him in straight sets"
],
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"abased",
"chastened",
"cheapened",
"debased",
"degraded",
"demeaned",
"discredited",
"disgraced",
"dishonored",
"fouled",
"humbled",
"lowered",
"sank",
"sunk",
"shamed",
"smirched",
"took down"
],
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"abashed",
"confounded",
"confused",
"discomfited",
"disconcerted",
"discountenanced",
"embarrassed",
"fazed",
"flustered",
"mortified",
"nonplussed",
"nonplused",
"rattled",
"belittled",
"castigated",
"cried down",
"criticized",
"decried",
"depreciated",
"detracted",
"diminished",
"discounted",
"disparaged",
"minimized",
"put down",
"ridiculed",
"wrote off",
"bad-mouthed",
"defamed",
"defiled",
"libeled",
"libelled",
"maligned",
"slandered",
"affronted",
"insulted",
"censured",
"condemned",
"damned",
"denounced",
"execrated",
"reprehended",
"reprobated"
],
"near antonyms":[
"acclaimed",
"applauded",
"boasted",
"celebrated",
"cheered",
"cited",
"commended",
"complimented",
"congratulated",
"decorated",
"eulogized",
"extolled",
"feted",
"f\u00eated",
"hailed",
"honored",
"lauded",
"praised",
"saluted",
"touted",
"acknowledged",
"recognized",
"highlighted",
"played up",
"spotlighted",
"spotlit",
"dignified",
"ennobled",
"enshrined",
"enskied",
"enthroned",
"glorified",
"magnified",
"advanced",
"boosted",
"lifted",
"promoted",
"raised",
"upgraded",
"uplifted",
"idealized",
"romanticized"
],
"antonyms":[
"aggrandized",
"canonized",
"deified",
"elevated",
"exalted"
]
},
"type":[
"adjective",
"verb"
]
},
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"human beings in general":{
"examples":[
"all humanity can learn from this tragedy"
],
"synonyms":[
"folks",
"humankind",
"people",
"public",
"species",
"world"
],
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"community",
"society",
"crowd",
"masses",
"mob",
"populace",
"proletariat",
"rabble",
"rabblement",
"riffraff"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"the capacity for feeling for another's unhappiness or misfortune":{
"examples":[
"a country known for the humanity of its liberal immigration policy"
],
"synonyms":[
"bigheartedness",
"charity",
"commiseration",
"compassion",
"feeling",
"good-heartedness",
"heart",
"kindheartedness",
"kindliness",
"kindness",
"largeheartedness",
"mercy",
"pity",
"ruth",
"softheartedness",
"sympathy",
"warmheartedness"
],
"near synonyms":[
"feelings",
"responsiveness",
"sensibility",
"sensitivity",
"affection",
"love",
"regard",
"affinity",
"empathy",
"rapport",
"altruism",
"benevolence",
"benignancy",
"benignity",
"generosity",
"goodwill",
"humaneness",
"humanism",
"humanitarianism",
"philanthropy"
],
"near antonyms":[
"callousness",
"coldness",
"disinterest",
"indifference",
"unconcern",
"cruelty",
"harshness",
"animosity",
"antipathy",
"dislike",
"hatred",
"hostility"
],
"antonyms":[
"coldheartedness",
"hard-heartedness",
"inhumanity",
"inhumanness",
"mercilessness",
"pitilessness"
]
},
"the human race":{
"examples":[
"in Greek mythology, the gods display many of the weaknesses of humanity , such as jealousy, foolishness, and greed"
],
"synonyms":[
"Homo sapiens",
"humankind",
"man",
"mankind"
],
"near synonyms":[
"being",
"body",
"creature",
"fellowman",
"human",
"individual",
"mortal",
"party",
"person"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"humorous":{
"causing or intended to cause laughter":{
"examples":[
"the humorous moments in an otherwise somber affair",
"\"most humorous costume\" went to the girl dressed as Little Bo Peep"
],
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"antic",
"chucklesome",
"comedic",
"comic",
"comical",
"droll",
"farcical",
"funny",
"hilarious",
"humoristic",
"hysterical",
"hysteric",
"killing",
"laughable",
"ludicrous",
"ridiculous",
"riotous",
"risible",
"screaming",
"sidesplitting",
"uproarious"
],
"near synonyms":[
"amusing",
"diverting",
"entertaining",
"clownish",
"knockabout",
"slapstick",
"slapsticky",
"zany",
"facetious",
"flip",
"flippant",
"pert",
"smart",
"smart-aleck",
"smart-alecky",
"snickery",
"jocular",
"playful",
"waggish",
"campy",
"jokey",
"joky",
"priceless",
"rich",
"whimsical",
"witty",
"wry",
"blithesome",
"gleeful",
"jocose",
"jocund",
"jolly",
"jovial",
"laughing",
"mad",
"merry",
"mirthful"
],
"near antonyms":[
"earnest",
"grave",
"no-nonsense",
"sedate",
"serious",
"severe",
"sober",
"sobersided",
"solemn",
"somber",
"sombre",
"staid",
"unsmiling",
"weighty",
"affecting",
"moving",
"poignant",
"touching",
"tragic",
"tragical",
"lachrymose",
"mournful",
"sad",
"sorrowful",
"tearful",
"woeful"
],
"antonyms":[
"humorless",
"lame",
"unamusing",
"uncomic",
"unfunny",
"unhumorous",
"unhysterical"
]
},
"given to or marked by mature intelligent humor":{
"examples":[
"the movie's a humorous look at love and marriage"
],
"synonyms":[
"clever",
"facetious",
"jocular",
"smart",
"witty"
],
"near synonyms":[
"cerebral",
"highbrow",
"highbrowed",
"intellectual",
"bantering",
"frivolous",
"jesting",
"joking",
"joshing",
"teasing",
"antic",
"comic",
"comical",
"droll",
"farcical",
"funny",
"hysterical",
"laughable",
"ludicrous",
"ridiculous",
"riotous",
"risible",
"rollicking",
"screaming",
"sidesplitting",
"uproarious",
"amusing",
"diverting",
"entertaining",
"mischievous",
"playful",
"prankish",
"jocose",
"jocund",
"jolly",
"jovial",
"laughing",
"merry",
"mirthful",
"sunny",
"scintillating",
"sparkling",
"flip",
"flippant",
"pert",
"smart-aleck",
"smart-alecky",
"waggish",
"whimsical"
],
"near antonyms":[
"brainless",
"lowbrow",
"stupid",
"witless",
"corny",
"hackney",
"hackneyed",
"lame",
"humorless",
"unamusing",
"uncomic",
"unfunny",
"earnest",
"grave",
"serious",
"serious-minded",
"sober",
"solemn",
"somber",
"sombre",
"doleful",
"dolorous",
"lachrymose",
"plaintive",
"sorry",
"tearful",
"woeful"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"adjective"
]
},
"humidified":{
"as in moistened , moisturized":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"aspersed",
"bedewed",
"damped",
"dampened",
"drizzled",
"hydrated",
"misted",
"moistened",
"moisturized",
"showered",
"sprinkled",
"bathed",
"bedraggled",
"doused",
"dowsed",
"drenched",
"drowned",
"soaked",
"soddened",
"sopped",
"soused",
"washed",
"watered",
"waterlogged",
"water-soaked",
"wet",
"wetted",
"wet down",
"wetted down",
"deluged",
"flooded",
"hosed (down)",
"inundated",
"overflowed",
"submerged",
"swamped",
"splashed",
"impregnated",
"saturated",
"steeped",
"flushed",
"irrigated",
"laved",
"rinsed",
"sloshed",
"sluiced",
"dipped",
"ducked",
"dunked",
"rehydrated",
"rewashed",
"rewet",
"rewetted"
],
"near antonyms":[
"dehydrated",
"desiccated",
"dried",
"parched",
"scorched",
"seared",
"dewatered",
"evaporated",
"freeze-dried",
"drip-dried",
"wrung",
"dehumidified"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"humble pie":{
"as in shame , confusion":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"agitation",
"bother",
"chagrin",
"discomfort",
"discomposure",
"dismay",
"disquiet",
"distress",
"disturbance",
"perturbation",
"unease",
"uneasiness",
"upset",
"abashment",
"confusion",
"discomfiture",
"disconcertment",
"embarrassment",
"fluster",
"mortification",
"disgrace",
"ignominy",
"shame",
"debasement",
"degradation",
"humiliation"
],
"near antonyms":[
"aplomb",
"assurance",
"composure",
"confidence",
"coolness",
"equanimity",
"poise",
"self-assurance",
"self-confidence",
"self-possession"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"humming":{
"marked by much life, movement, or activity":{
"examples":[
"the new science center is usually humming with school groups on Thursdays"
],
"synonyms":[
"aboil",
"abubble",
"abuzz",
"alive",
"animated",
"astir",
"brisk",
"bustling",
"busy",
"buzzing",
"flourishing",
"happening",
"hopping",
"kinetic",
"lively",
"rousing",
"stirring",
"thriving",
"vibrant"
],
"near synonyms":[
"abounding",
"crowded",
"overflowing",
"populous",
"swarming",
"teeming",
"thronging"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[
"asleep",
"dead",
"inactive",
"lifeless",
"sleepy"
]
},
"to be copiously supplied":{
"examples":[
"one restaurant was humming with diners, while a neighboring eatery was practically empty"
],
"synonyms":[
"abounding",
"brimming",
"bristling",
"bulging",
"bursting",
"bustling",
"buzzing",
"crawling",
"overflowing",
"pullulating",
"swarming",
"teeming"
],
"near synonyms":[],
"near antonyms":[
"lacking",
"needing",
"wanting"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to fly, turn, or move rapidly with a fluttering or vibratory sound":{
"examples":[
"a helicopter hummed overhead"
],
"synonyms":[
"bumbling",
"burring",
"buzzing",
"droning",
"whirring",
"whishing",
"whizzing",
"zipping",
"zooming"
],
"near synonyms":[
"chirring",
"churring",
"thrumming",
"fizzing",
"hissing",
"murmuring",
"purring",
"rustling",
"sighing",
"sizzling",
"swishing",
"whispering",
"cooing",
"curring",
"wheezing",
"whistling",
"whooshing"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"adjective",
"verb"
]
},
"humph":{
"as in ah , pshaw":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"ah",
"bah",
"boo",
"pish",
"pooh",
"pshaw",
"sheesh",
"tush",
"tut",
"tut-tut",
"faugh",
"fie",
"phew",
"phooey",
"rats",
"ugh",
"yech",
"yecch",
"yuck",
"yuk",
"alack",
"alas",
"woe"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"interjection"
]
},
"humidifying":{
"as in moistening , moisturizing":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"aspersing",
"bedewing",
"dampening",
"damping",
"drizzling",
"hydrating",
"misting",
"moistening",
"moisturizing",
"showering",
"sprinkling",
"bathing",
"bedraggling",
"dousing",
"dowsing",
"drenching",
"drowning",
"soaking",
"soddening",
"sopping",
"sousing",
"washing",
"watering",
"waterlogging",
"water-soaking",
"wetting",
"wetting down",
"deluging",
"flooding",
"hosing (down)",
"inundating",
"overflowing",
"submerging",
"swamping",
"splashing",
"impregnating",
"saturating",
"steeping",
"flushing",
"irrigating",
"laving",
"rinsing",
"sloshing",
"sluicing",
"dipping",
"ducking",
"dunking",
"rehydrating",
"rewashing",
"rewetting"
],
"near antonyms":[
"dehydrating",
"desiccating",
"drying",
"parching",
"scorching",
"searing",
"dewatering",
"evaporating",
"freeze-drying",
"drip-drying",
"wringing",
"dehumidifying"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"humanities":{
"human beings in general":{
"examples":[
"all humanity can learn from this tragedy"
],
"synonyms":[
"folks",
"humankinds",
"people",
"publics",
"species",
"worlds"
],
"near synonyms":[
"communities",
"societies",
"crowds",
"masses",
"mobs",
"populaces",
"proletariats",
"rabblements",
"rabbles",
"riffraffs"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"the human race":{
"examples":[
"in Greek mythology, the gods display many of the weaknesses of humanity , such as jealousy, foolishness, and greed"
],
"synonyms":[
"humankinds",
"men"
],
"near synonyms":[
"beings",
"bodies",
"creatures",
"fellowmen",
"humans",
"individuals",
"mortals",
"parties",
"people"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"humbling":{
"as in humiliating , demeaning":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"debasing",
"degrading",
"demeaning",
"humiliating",
"mortifying",
"unsettling",
"confusing",
"difficult",
"disagreeable",
"impossible",
"inconvenient",
"intolerable",
"troublesome",
"unpleasant",
"unwieldy",
"awkward",
"discomfiting",
"disconcerting",
"disturbing",
"embarrassing",
"flustering",
"uncomfortable"
],
"near antonyms":[
"agreeable",
"comfortable",
"convenient",
"pleasing"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"as in humiliation , abasement":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"abasement",
"debasement",
"debasing",
"degradation",
"dust",
"humiliation",
"deprecation",
"disapprobation",
"disapproval",
"disfavor",
"blot",
"brand",
"shadow",
"slur",
"smirch",
"spot",
"stain",
"stigma",
"taint",
"contempt",
"despite",
"disdain",
"scorn",
"scandal",
"discredit",
"disesteem",
"disgrace",
"dishonor",
"disrepute",
"ignominy",
"infamy",
"obloquy",
"odium",
"opprobrium",
"reproach",
"shame"
],
"near antonyms":[
"esteem",
"honor",
"respect",
"admiration",
"appreciation",
"estimation",
"regard",
"awe",
"fear",
"reverence",
"fame",
"glory",
"renown",
"repute"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to reduce to a lower standing in one's own eyes or in others' eyes":{
"examples":[
"Philip was utterly humbled by a crushing defeat in the first round of the state chess tournament"
],
"synonyms":[
"abasing",
"chastening",
"cheapening",
"debasing",
"degrading",
"demeaning",
"discrediting",
"disgracing",
"dishonoring",
"fouling",
"humiliating",
"lowering",
"shaming",
"sinking",
"smirching",
"taking down"
],
"near synonyms":[
"abashing",
"confounding",
"confusing",
"discomfiting",
"disconcerting",
"discountenancing",
"embarrassing",
"fazing",
"flustering",
"mortifying",
"nonplussing",
"nonplusing",
"rattling",
"belittling",
"castigating",
"criticizing",
"crying down",
"decrying",
"depreciating",
"detracting",
"diminishing",
"discounting",
"disparaging",
"minimizing",
"putting down",
"ridiculing",
"writing off",
"bad-mouthing",
"defaming",
"defiling",
"libeling",
"libelling",
"maligning",
"slandering",
"affronting",
"insulting",
"censuring",
"condemning",
"damning",
"denouncing",
"execrating",
"reprehending",
"reprobating"
],
"near antonyms":[
"acclaiming",
"applauding",
"boasting",
"celebrating",
"cheering",
"citing",
"commending",
"complimenting",
"congratulating",
"decorating",
"eulogizing",
"extolling",
"feting",
"f\u00eating",
"hailing",
"honoring",
"lauding",
"praising",
"saluting",
"touting",
"acknowledging",
"recognizing",
"highlighting",
"playing up",
"spotlighting",
"dignifying",
"ennobling",
"enshrining",
"enskying",
"enthroning",
"glorifying",
"magnifying",
"advancing",
"boosting",
"lifting",
"promoting",
"raising",
"upgrading",
"uplifting",
"idealizing",
"romanticizing"
],
"antonyms":[
"aggrandizing",
"canonizing",
"deifying",
"elevating",
"exalting"
]
},
"type":[
"adjective",
"noun",
"verb"
]
},
"hum":{
"a monotonous sound like that of an insect in motion":{
"examples":[
"we heard the hum of an outboard motor and a few minutes later the small craft came into sight"
],
"synonyms":[
"burr",
"buzz",
"chirr",
"churr",
"drone",
"purr",
"thrum",
"whir",
"whirr",
"whiz",
"whizz",
"zoom"
],
"near synonyms":[
"babble",
"coo",
"gasp",
"gurgle",
"hiss",
"moan",
"murmur",
"rustle",
"sigh",
"suspiration",
"susurration",
"susurrus",
"whisper",
"whish",
"zing",
"zip"
],
"near antonyms":[
"bawl",
"howl",
"roar",
"scream",
"screech",
"shriek",
"squall",
"squeal",
"yelp",
"yell"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to be copiously supplied":{
"examples":[
"one restaurant was humming with diners, while a neighboring eatery was practically empty"
],
"synonyms":[
"abound",
"brim",
"bristle",
"bulge",
"burst",
"bustle",
"buzz",
"crawl",
"overflow",
"pullulate",
"swarm",
"teem"
],
"near synonyms":[],
"near antonyms":[
"lack",
"need",
"want"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to fly, turn, or move rapidly with a fluttering or vibratory sound":{
"examples":[
"a helicopter hummed overhead"
],
"synonyms":[
"bumble",
"burr",
"buzz",
"drone",
"whir",
"whirr",
"whish",
"whiz",
"whizz",
"zip",
"zoom"
],
"near synonyms":[
"chirr",
"churr",
"thrum",
"fizz",
"hiss",
"murmur",
"purr",
"rustle",
"sigh",
"sizzle",
"swish",
"whisper",
"coo",
"curr",
"wheeze",
"whistle",
"whoosh"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun",
"verb"
]
},
"humbugging":{
"to cause to believe what is untrue":{
"examples":[
"humbugged into believing that the bones were the skeleton of a prehistoric human being"
],
"synonyms":[
"bamboozling",
"beguiling",
"bluffing",
"buffaloing",
"burning",
"catching",
"conning",
"cozening",
"deceiving",
"deluding",
"duping",
"faking out",
"fooling",
"gaffing",
"gammoning",
"gulling",
"having",
"having on",
"hoaxing",
"hoodwinking",
"hornswoggling",
"juggling",
"misguiding",
"misinforming",
"misleading",
"snookering",
"snowing",
"spoofing",
"stringing along",
"suckering",
"sucking in",
"taking in",
"tricking"
],
"near synonyms":[
"kidding",
"putting on",
"teasing",
"bleeding",
"cheating",
"chiseling",
"chiselling",
"defrauding",
"diddling",
"euchring",
"fleecing",
"flimflamming",
"hustling",
"mulcting",
"rooking",
"shortchanging",
"skinning",
"squeezing",
"sticking",
"stinging",
"swindling"
],
"near antonyms":[
"debunking",
"exposing",
"revealing",
"showing up",
"uncloaking",
"uncovering",
"unmasking",
"disclosing",
"divulging",
"telling",
"unveiling",
"disabusing",
"disenchanting",
"disillusioning"
],
"antonyms":[
"undeceiving"
]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"humungous":{
"unusually large":{
"examples":[
"I'm sleepy because I ate a humongous lunch"
],
"synonyms":[
"astronomical",
"astronomic",
"Brobdingnagian",
"bumper",
"colossal",
"cosmic",
"cosmical",
"cyclopean",
"elephantine",
"enormous",
"galactic",
"gargantuan",
"giant",
"gigantesque",
"gigantic",
"grand",
"herculean",
"heroic",
"heroical",
"Himalayan",
"huge",
"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"
]
},
"humanitarian":{
"having or showing a concern for the welfare of others":{
"examples":[
"humanitarian efforts to aid the earthquake victims"
],
"synonyms":[
"altruistic",
"beneficent",
"benevolent",
"charitable",
"do-good",
"eleemosynary",
"good",
"philanthropic",
"philanthropical"
],
"near synonyms":[
"selfless",
"self-sacrificing",
"bighearted",
"bounteous",
"bountiful",
"free",
"freehanded",
"generous",
"greathearted",
"handsome",
"liberal",
"magnanimous",
"munificent",
"openhanded",
"openhearted",
"unselfish",
"unsparing",
"compassionate",
"humane",
"kind",
"kindhearted",
"social-minded"
],
"near antonyms":[
"self-indulgent",
"self-seeking",
"cheap",
"closefisted",
"miserly",
"niggardly",
"parsimonious",
"stingy",
"tight",
"tightfisted",
"hard-hearted",
"pitiless",
"unfeeling",
"self-obsessed"
],
"antonyms":[
"self-centered",
"self-concerned",
"selfish"
]
},
"as in philanthropist , altruist":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"altruist",
"philanthropist"
],
"near antonyms":[
"egocentric",
"egoist",
"egomaniac",
"egotist",
"ego-tripper",
"narcissist",
"megalomaniac",
"beast",
"boor",
"cad",
"churl",
"clown",
"creep",
"cretin",
"cur",
"heel",
"jerk",
"joker",
"louse",
"lout",
"skunk",
"slob",
"snake",
"stinker"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"adjective",
"noun"
]
}
}