dict_dl/en_MWThesaurus/ray_MWT.json
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{
"ray":{
"a narrow sharply defined line of light radiating from an object":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"two red eyes reflected in the ray of light from the flashlight"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"related":[
"moonbeam",
"sunbeam",
"sunburst",
"laser",
"spotlight"
],
"synonyms":[
"beam",
"shaft"
]
},
"a very small amount":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"the tapping sound ceased, extinguishing the last ray of hope that the trapped miners were still alive"
],
"near antonyms":[
"abundance",
"barrel",
"boatload",
"bucket",
"bundle",
"bushel",
"deal",
"fistful",
"gobs",
"heaps",
"lashings",
"lashins",
"loads",
"lot",
"mass",
"mess",
"mountain",
"much",
"oodles",
"passel",
"peck",
"pile",
"plenty",
"potful",
"profusion",
"quantity",
"raft",
"reams",
"scads",
"stack",
"wad",
"wealth",
"volume",
"bonanza",
"embarrassment",
"excess",
"overabundance",
"overage",
"overflow",
"overkill",
"overmuch",
"oversupply",
"superabundance",
"superfluity",
"surfeit",
"surplus",
"chunk",
"hunk",
"lump",
"slab"
],
"related":[
"hoot",
"iota",
"jot",
"minim",
"minimum",
"modicum",
"semblance",
"syllable",
"tittle",
"vestige",
"whit",
"atom",
"dot",
"fleck",
"flyspeck",
"grain",
"granule",
"molecule",
"morsel",
"mote",
"nubbin",
"patch",
"scrap",
"dash",
"drop",
"pinch",
"part",
"portion",
"section",
"bite",
"nibble",
"taste",
"handful",
"scattering",
"smatter",
"smattering",
"dose",
"shot",
"chip",
"flake",
"fragment",
"shard",
"shiver",
"sliver",
"smithereens",
"splinter",
"tatter",
"clipping",
"paring",
"shaving"
],
"synonyms":[
"ace",
"bit",
"crumb",
"dab",
"dram",
"driblet",
"glimmer",
"hint",
"lick",
"little",
"mite",
"nip",
"ounce",
"particle",
"peanuts",
"scintilla",
"scruple",
"shade",
"shadow",
"shred",
"skosh",
"smack",
"smell",
"smidgen",
"smidgeon",
"smidgin",
"smidge",
"snap",
"soup\u00e7on",
"spark",
"spatter",
"speck",
"splash",
"spot",
"sprinkling",
"strain",
"streak",
"suspicion",
"tad",
"touch",
"trace"
]
},
"to emit rays of light":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"klieg lights were raying against the nighttime sky at the Hollywood premiere"
],
"near antonyms":[
"blacken",
"darken",
"lower",
"lour"
],
"related":[
"blaze",
"burn",
"fire",
"flame",
"gleam",
"glimmer",
"glint",
"glisten",
"glister",
"glitter",
"glow",
"luminesce",
"sheen",
"shimmer",
"blink",
"coruscate",
"flare",
"flash",
"flicker",
"luster",
"lustre",
"scintillate",
"spangle",
"sparkle",
"twinkle",
"wink",
"winkle",
"beat (down)",
"glare",
"brighten",
"illuminate",
"illumine",
"irradiate",
"light",
"lighten",
"bedazzle",
"blind",
"daze",
"dazzle"
],
"synonyms":[
"beam",
"radiate",
"shine"
]
},
"to extend outwards from or as if from a central point":{
"antonyms":[
"concentrate",
"converge",
"focus",
"funnel",
"meet"
],
"examples":[
"laugh wrinkles rayed out from the corners of the old man's eyes"
],
"near antonyms":[
"approach",
"close in (on)",
"near",
"center (on)",
"centralize",
"connect",
"couple",
"join",
"link",
"unite"
],
"related":[
"diffuse",
"dispel",
"disperse",
"dissipate",
"fork",
"stem",
"diverge",
"divide",
"part",
"ramify",
"separate",
"split",
"uncouple",
"unlink",
"unyoke",
"scatter",
"splay",
"spread",
"arise",
"derive",
"emanate",
"flow",
"issue",
"proceed",
"spring"
],
"synonyms":[
"branch",
"fan (out)",
"radiate"
]
},
"type":[
"noun",
"verb"
]
},
"rayless":{
"being without light or without much light":{
"examples":[
"the strange creatures that lurk in the rayless depths of the sea"
],
"synonyms":[
"black",
"caliginous",
"dark",
"darkened",
"darkish",
"darkling",
"darksome",
"dim",
"dimmed",
"dusk",
"dusky",
"gloomy",
"lightless",
"murky",
"obscure",
"obscured",
"pitch-black",
"pitch-dark",
"pitchy",
"somber",
"sombre",
"stygian",
"tenebrific",
"tenebrous",
"unlit"
],
"near synonyms":[
"crepuscular",
"twilit",
"moonless",
"starless",
"sunless",
"cloudy",
"dull",
"dulled",
"lackluster",
"shadowlike",
"shadowy",
"shady",
"gray",
"grey",
"leaden",
"pale",
"beclouded",
"befogged",
"clouded",
"foggy",
"fuliginous",
"misty",
"smoggy",
"soupy"
],
"near antonyms":[
"ablaze",
"agleam",
"aglitter",
"alight",
"beaming",
"beamy",
"effulgent",
"glaring",
"glowing",
"incandescent",
"lambent",
"radiant",
"relucent",
"resplendent",
"shining",
"sparkling",
"ultrabright",
"glossy",
"lustrous",
"shiny",
"floodlit",
"floodlighted",
"highlighted",
"spotlighted",
"spotlit",
"moonlit",
"moony",
"starlit",
"sunlit"
],
"antonyms":[
"bright",
"brightened",
"brilliant",
"illuminated",
"illumined",
"light",
"lit",
"lighted",
"lightsome",
"lucent",
"lucid",
"luminous"
]
},
"type":[
"adjective"
]
}
}