dict_dl/en_MW_thesaurus/ri_mwt.json
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{
"ribber":{
"as in heckler , tormentor":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[],
"near antonyms":[],
"related":[],
"synonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"rich":{
"containing much seasoning, fat, or sugar":{
"antonyms":[
"light",
"lite"
],
"examples":[
"stay away from rich foods before you sing tonight"
],
"near antonyms":[
"natural",
"plain",
"simple",
"unseasoned",
"diet",
"nonfattening",
"slimming",
"nonfat"
],
"related":[
"buttery",
"fat",
"fatty",
"greasy",
"oily",
"caloric",
"calorific",
"fattening",
"cloying",
"oversweet",
"filling",
"overfilling",
"satiating",
"sating",
"spicy",
"sugary",
"sweet",
"creamy",
"sauced"
],
"synonyms":[
"heavy"
]
},
"having an abundance of some characteristic quality (as flavor)":{
"antonyms":[
"delicate",
"light",
"mild",
"thin",
"thinned",
"weak",
"weakened"
],
"examples":[
"rich wines complemented the meal"
],
"near antonyms":[
"dilute",
"diluted",
"watered-down",
"watery"
],
"related":[
"heavy",
"straight",
"undiluted",
"unmixed",
"high-octane",
"high-test",
"enriched",
"fortified"
],
"synonyms":[
"big",
"concentrated",
"full",
"full-bodied",
"heady",
"lusty",
"muscular",
"plush",
"potent",
"robust",
"strong"
]
},
"having goods, property, or money in abundance":{
"antonyms":[
"destitute",
"impecunious",
"impoverished",
"indigent",
"needy",
"penniless",
"penurious",
"poor",
"poverty-stricken"
],
"examples":[
"you would have to be quite rich to be able to afford a home in that neighborhood"
],
"near antonyms":[
"unaffluent",
"deprived",
"disadvantaged",
"hand-to-mouth",
"underprivileged",
"bankrupt",
"bankrupted",
"beggared",
"broke",
"indebted",
"insolvent",
"pauperized",
"ruined",
"skint",
"depressed",
"pinched",
"reduced",
"straitened",
"low",
"short"
],
"related":[
"better-off",
"comfortable",
"propertied",
"prosperous",
"substantial",
"successful",
"flourishing",
"prospering",
"thriving",
"advantaged",
"blessed",
"blest",
"privileged"
],
"synonyms":[
"affluent",
"deep-pocketed",
"fat",
"fat-cat",
"flush",
"loaded",
"moneyed",
"monied",
"opulent",
"silk-stocking",
"wealthy",
"well-endowed",
"well-fixed",
"well-heeled",
"well-off",
"well-to-do"
]
},
"producing abundantly":{
"antonyms":[
"barren",
"dead",
"infertile",
"sterile",
"unfertile",
"unfruitful",
"unproductive"
],
"examples":[
"rich farmland"
],
"near antonyms":[
"meager",
"meagre",
"scant",
"scanty",
"skimp",
"skimpy",
"spare",
"sparse"
],
"related":[
"bearing",
"generative",
"producing",
"yielding",
"abounding",
"abundant",
"bountiful",
"copious",
"generous",
"liberal",
"plenteous",
"plentiful",
"plenitudinous",
"blooming",
"bursting",
"flourishing",
"swarming",
"teeming",
"thriving",
"creative",
"inventive",
"original"
],
"synonyms":[
"cornucopian",
"fat",
"fecund",
"fertile",
"fructuous",
"fruitful",
"lush",
"luxuriant",
"productive",
"prolific"
]
},
"type":[
"adjective"
]
},
"rick":{
"as in":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[],
"near antonyms":[],
"related":[],
"synonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"ricochet":{
"to strike and fly off at an angle":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"the ball ricocheted off the fielder's glove and went over the fence for a home run"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"related":[
"brush",
"graze",
"nudge",
"rake",
"shave",
"sweep",
"bump",
"contact",
"hit",
"kiss",
"touch",
"sideswipe",
"reflect"
],
"synonyms":[
"bounce",
"carom",
"glance",
"rebound",
"skim",
"skip"
]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"riddling":{
"to make a hole or series of holes in":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"several signs along the highway were riddled by buckshot"
],
"near antonyms":[
"filling",
"patching",
"plugging",
"sealing"
],
"related":[
"broaching",
"tapping",
"poking",
"pricking",
"prickling",
"penetrating",
"burrowing (into)",
"excavating",
"gouging",
"grooving",
"hollowing",
"breaking",
"cutting",
"gashing",
"notching",
"rending",
"rupturing",
"slashing",
"slitting",
"splitting"
],
"synonyms":[
"boring",
"drilling",
"holing",
"perforating",
"piercing",
"punching",
"puncturing"
]
},
"to spread throughout":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"the newspaper expos\u00e9 revealed a gaming commission that is riddled with corruption"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"related":[
"diffusing (through)",
"impregnating",
"passing (into)",
"penetrating",
"filling (up)",
"drenching",
"imbuing",
"infusing",
"saturating",
"soaking",
"steeping",
"flooding",
"glutting"
],
"synonyms":[
"interpenetrating",
"percolating (into)",
"permeating",
"pervading",
"suffusing",
"transfusing"
]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"riddling (out)":{
"to find an answer for through reasoning":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"with the discovery of the Rosetta stone, archaeologists at long last were able to riddle out the mystery of Egyptian hieroglyphics"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"related":[
"concluding",
"deciding",
"deducing",
"gathering",
"inferring",
"judging",
"reasoning",
"clearing (up)",
"ironing out",
"straightening (out)",
"unscrambling",
"untangling",
"untying",
"untieing",
"assuming",
"conjecturing",
"divining",
"guessing",
"presuming",
"speculating",
"deciphering",
"decoding"
],
"synonyms":[
"answering",
"breaking",
"cracking",
"doping (out)",
"figuring out",
"puzzling (out)",
"resolving",
"solving",
"unraveling",
"unriddling",
"working",
"working out"
]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"rides herd on":{
"to be in charge of":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"Teachers must sometimes ride herd on more than 25 students at once."
],
"near antonyms":[],
"related":[
"administers",
"commands",
"controls",
"directs",
"guides",
"manages",
"orders",
"runs",
"shepherds",
"shows",
"steers",
"monitors",
"presides (over)",
"governs",
"reigns",
"rules"
],
"synonyms":[
"bosses",
"captains",
"handles",
"heads",
"overlooks",
"oversees",
"quarterbacks",
"superintends",
"supervises"
]
},
"type":[
"phrase"
]
},
"ridiculed":{
"to make (someone or something) the object of unkind laughter":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"the term \"big bang theory\" was originally coined to ridicule the belief that the universe was created by a giant explosion"
],
"near antonyms":[
"applauded",
"approved",
"commended",
"endorsed",
"indorsed",
"sanctioned"
],
"related":[
"scoffed (at)",
"scorned",
"sneered (at)",
"bad-mouthed",
"belittled",
"decried",
"disparaged",
"pooh-poohed",
"poohed",
"put down",
"chaffed",
"jived",
"joshed",
"kidded",
"quizzed",
"rallied",
"razzed",
"ribbed",
"rode",
"rid",
"teased",
"tweaked",
"twitted",
"baited",
"barracked",
"bugged",
"catcalled",
"harassed",
"harried",
"hassled",
"heckled",
"needled",
"pestered",
"ragged",
"targeted",
"taunted",
"tormented",
"aped",
"burlesqued",
"caricatured",
"imitated",
"lampooned",
"mimicked",
"parodied",
"parroted",
"pilloried",
"satirized",
"took off (on)",
"travestied"
],
"synonyms":[
"derided",
"gibed",
"jibed",
"jeered",
"laughed (at)",
"mocked",
"scouted",
"shot down",
"skewered"
]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"ridiculer":{
"a person who causes repeated emotional pain, distress, or annoyance to another":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"any person of great vision has his or her ridiculers , who inevitably fail to appreciate genius and originality"
],
"near antonyms":[
"defender",
"deliverer",
"guard",
"protector",
"rescuer",
"savior",
"saviour",
"comforter",
"solace",
"soother",
"succorer",
"bodyguard",
"champion"
],
"related":[
"belittler",
"derider",
"detractor",
"giber",
"jiber",
"insulter",
"jeerer",
"scoffer",
"scorner",
"trash-talker",
"smart aleck",
"smart alec",
"smarty",
"smartie",
"smarty-pants",
"wiseacre",
"wise guy",
"kidder",
"lampooner",
"satirist",
"accuser",
"blamer",
"troublemaker",
"assailant",
"attacker",
"molester",
"victimizer",
"bother",
"disturber",
"pest"
],
"synonyms":[
"baiter",
"harasser",
"heckler",
"mocker",
"needler",
"persecutor",
"quiz",
"quizzer",
"taunter",
"tease",
"teaser",
"tormentor",
"tormenter",
"torturer"
]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"ridicules":{
"the making of unkind jokes as a way of showing one's scorn for someone or something":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"the early efforts by the suffragists to obtain voting rights for women were met with ridicule"
],
"near antonyms":[
"applauses",
"approvals",
"commendations",
"praises"
],
"related":[
"contempts",
"disdains",
"scorns",
"belittlements",
"deprecations",
"disparagements",
"catcalls",
"insults",
"put-downs",
"laughters",
"burlesques",
"caricatures",
"mimicries",
"pasquinades",
"satires"
],
"synonyms":[
"derisions",
"mockeries",
"sports"
]
},
"to make (someone or something) the object of unkind laughter":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"the term \"big bang theory\" was originally coined to ridicule the belief that the universe was created by a giant explosion"
],
"near antonyms":[
"applauds",
"approves",
"commends",
"endorses",
"indorses",
"sanctions"
],
"related":[
"scoffs (at)",
"scorns",
"sneers (at)",
"bad-mouths",
"belittles",
"decries",
"disparages",
"pooh-poohs",
"poohs",
"puts down",
"chaffs",
"jives",
"joshes",
"kids",
"quizzes",
"rallies",
"razzes",
"ribs",
"rides",
"teases",
"tweaks",
"twits",
"baits",
"barracks",
"bugs",
"catcalls",
"harasses",
"harries",
"hassles",
"heckles",
"needles",
"pesters",
"rags",
"targets",
"taunts",
"torments",
"apes",
"burlesques",
"caricatures",
"imitates",
"lampoons",
"mimics",
"parodies",
"parrots",
"pillories",
"satirizes",
"takes off (on)",
"travesties"
],
"synonyms":[
"derides",
"gibes",
"jibes",
"jeers",
"laughs (at)",
"mocks",
"scouts",
"shoots down",
"skewers"
]
},
"type":[
"noun",
"verb"
]
},
"riding":{
"to attack repeatedly with mean put-downs or insults":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"that supervisor is always riding everyone for every little thing"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"related":[
"deriding",
"gibing",
"jibing",
"jeering",
"mocking",
"ridiculing",
"annoying",
"bothering",
"bugging",
"burning (up)",
"chafing",
"fretting",
"frosting",
"galling",
"getting",
"gnawing (at)",
"grating",
"griping",
"hacking (off)",
"hagriding",
"irking",
"irritating",
"itching",
"nagging",
"narking",
"nettling",
"peeving",
"pestering",
"piquing",
"putting out",
"rasping",
"riling",
"ruffling",
"spiting",
"troubling",
"vexing",
"aggravating",
"exasperating",
"goading",
"testing",
"trying",
"aggrieving",
"agitating",
"bedeviling",
"beleaguering",
"discomforting",
"disturbing",
"perturbing",
"badgering",
"dogging",
"hounding",
"browbeating",
"bullying",
"hectoring",
"harassing",
"harrying",
"persecuting",
"plaguing",
"terrorizing",
"tormenting",
"torturing"
],
"synonyms":[
"baiting",
"hassling",
"hazing",
"heckling",
"needling",
"taunting",
"teasing"
]
},
"to be determined by, based on, or subject (to)":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"our plan for the party rides on whether he can come"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"related":[
"basing",
"establishing",
"founding",
"resting",
"staying",
"grounding"
],
"synonyms":[
"depending",
"hanging",
"hinging",
"turning"
]
},
"to make fun of in a good-natured way":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"his wife couldn't resist riding him for forgetting his own birthday"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"related":[
"bantering",
"fooling",
"funning",
"stringing along",
"jesting",
"quipping",
"wisecracking",
"gagging",
"japing",
"jollying",
"yukking",
"yucking"
],
"synonyms":[
"chaffing",
"jiving",
"joking",
"joshing",
"kidding",
"rallying",
"razzing",
"ribbing",
"roasting",
"teasing"
]
},
"to rest or move along the surface of a liquid or in the air":{
"antonyms":[
"settling",
"sinking"
],
"examples":[
"a condor riding high in the sky"
],
"near antonyms":[
"diving",
"lunging",
"plunging",
"dipping",
"immersing",
"submerging",
"submersing"
],
"related":[
"bobbing",
"dangling",
"suspending",
"buoying",
"ballooning",
"rafting"
],
"synonyms":[
"drifting",
"floating",
"gliding",
"hanging",
"hovering",
"poising",
"sailing",
"swimming",
"wafting"
]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"riff":{
"a distinct treatment of something (as a story or a play)":{
"examples":[
"a mock news program with humorous riffs on current events"
],
"synonyms":[
"interpretation",
"take",
"variation"
],
"near synonyms":[
"version",
"adaptation",
"translation"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"riffles":{
"as in ripples , wavelets":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[],
"near antonyms":[],
"related":[],
"synonyms":[]
},
"to turn over pages in an idle or cursory manner":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"Web research is convenient but doesn't offer the tactile pleasures of riffling through heavy old books"
],
"near antonyms":[
"pores (over)",
"studies"
],
"related":[
"browses",
"dips",
"glances (at)",
"looks over",
"scans"
],
"synonyms":[
"flips",
"leafs",
"skims",
"thumbs"
]
},
"type":[
"noun",
"verb"
]
},
"riffling":{
"to turn over pages in an idle or cursory manner":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"Web research is convenient but doesn't offer the tactile pleasures of riffling through heavy old books"
],
"near antonyms":[
"poring (over)",
"studying"
],
"related":[
"browsing",
"dipping",
"glancing (at)",
"looking over",
"scanning"
],
"synonyms":[
"flipping",
"leafing",
"skimming",
"thumbing"
]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"riffraff":{
"discarded or useless material":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"the sight of piles and piles of riffraff at the town dump was a sobering reminder that we are indeed a society of consumers"
],
"near antonyms":[
"catch",
"gem",
"goody",
"goodie",
"jewel",
"pearl",
"plum",
"prize",
"treasure",
"treasure trove",
"trove",
"valuable",
"booty",
"find",
"salvage"
],
"related":[
"crud",
"sewage",
"slop",
"swill",
"wash",
"detritus",
"remains",
"rubble",
"ruins",
"dump",
"scrap heap",
"lumber",
"odds and ends",
"trumpery",
"flotsam",
"jetsam",
"wreckage",
"castoff",
"cull",
"discard",
"hand-me-down",
"reject",
"throwaway",
"nothing",
"straw",
"two bits"
],
"synonyms":[
"chaff",
"deadwood",
"debris",
"dreck",
"drek",
"dross",
"dust",
"effluvium",
"effluvia",
"garbage",
"junk",
"litter",
"offal",
"offscouring",
"raffle",
"refuse",
"rubbish",
"scrap",
"spilth",
"trash",
"truck",
"waste"
]
},
"people looked down upon as ignorant and of the lowest class":{
"antonyms":[
"A-list",
"aristocracy",
"elite",
"gentry",
"quality",
"society",
"upper class",
"upper crust"
],
"examples":[
"local ordinances that are intended to keep the riffraff out of the town"
],
"near antonyms":[
"elect",
"establishment",
"gentlefolk",
"gentlefolks",
"nobility",
"peerage"
],
"related":[
"dregs",
"commoners",
"commons",
"herd",
"hoi polloi",
"masses",
"millions",
"mob",
"multitude",
"people",
"plebeians",
"populace",
"public",
"rank and file",
"bourgeoisie",
"middle class",
"working class"
],
"synonyms":[
"proletariat",
"rabble",
"rabblement",
"ragtag and bobtail",
"rout",
"scum",
"tag, rag, and bobtail",
"tagrag and bobtail",
"trash",
"unwashed"
]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"rift":{
"an irregular usually narrow break in a surface created by pressure":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"a small rift opened in the earth's crust"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"related":[
"crevasse",
"craze",
"hairline",
"fracture",
"rupture",
"breach",
"gap",
"opening",
"cut",
"gash",
"incision",
"slit"
],
"synonyms":[
"check",
"chink",
"cleft",
"crack",
"cranny",
"crevice",
"fissure",
"split"
]
},
"an open space in a barrier (as a wall or hedge)":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"it was possible to peek through the rift in the fence and see the ball game"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"related":[
"chink",
"cleft",
"crack",
"cranny",
"crevice",
"fissure",
"notch",
"slit",
"slot",
"split",
"interspace",
"pore",
"abyss",
"aperture",
"cavity",
"chasm",
"gape",
"orifice",
"fracture",
"rupture",
"severance",
"sundering"
],
"synonyms":[
"breach",
"break",
"discontinuity",
"gap",
"gulf",
"hiatus",
"hole",
"interstice",
"interval",
"opening",
"rent",
"separation",
"void"
]
},
"as in break , tear":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[],
"near antonyms":[],
"related":[],
"synonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun",
"verb"
]
},
"rifting":{
"as in breaking , tearing":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[],
"near antonyms":[],
"related":[],
"synonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"rigged":{
"to provide (someone) with what is needed for a task or activity":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"carefully rigged each diver with the required equipment before starting out"
],
"near antonyms":[
"deprived",
"dispossessed",
"divested",
"stripped",
"stript"
],
"related":[
"stocked",
"stored",
"bestowed",
"contributed",
"donated",
"gave",
"presented",
"apportioned",
"dealt (out)",
"dispensed",
"distributed",
"doled out",
"handed out",
"meted (out)",
"parceled (out)",
"parcelled (out)",
"portioned",
"prorated",
"allocated",
"allotted",
"assigned",
"armed",
"fortified",
"prepared",
"reequipped",
"re-equipped",
"refitted",
"refurnished",
"reoutfitted"
],
"synonyms":[
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"accoutered",
"equipped",
"fitted (out)",
"fit (out)",
"furnished",
"girded",
"girt",
"kitted (up or out)",
"outfitted",
"provisioned",
"supplied"
]
},
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"verb"
]
},
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"as in man Friday":{
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"noun"
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},
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"dishonest",
"dishonorable",
"evil",
"evil-minded",
"immoral",
"indecent",
"sinful",
"unethical",
"unrighteous",
"wicked",
"wrong"
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"examples":[
"a group of right-minded people working for social change"
],
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"incorrect",
"indecorous",
"naughty",
"unbecoming",
"unseemly",
"corrupt",
"debased",
"debauched",
"degenerate",
"depraved",
"dissolute",
"libertine",
"perverted",
"reprobate",
"unprincipled",
"unscrupulous",
"atrocious",
"infamous",
"villainous",
"base",
"low",
"mean",
"vicious",
"vile",
"blameworthy",
"objectionable",
"offensive",
"iniquitous",
"nefarious",
"errant",
"erring",
"fallen"
],
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"correct",
"decorous",
"proper",
"seemly",
"high-minded",
"noble",
"principled",
"commendable",
"creditable",
"exemplary",
"legitimate",
"esteemed",
"law-abiding",
"menschy",
"reputable",
"respected",
"upstanding",
"worthy",
"blameless",
"clean",
"guiltless",
"immaculate",
"incorrupt",
"incorrupted",
"incorruptible",
"innocent",
"inoffensive",
"irreproachable",
"unobjectionable",
"angelic",
"angelical",
"lily-white",
"pure",
"scrupulous",
"spotless",
"uncorrupted",
"unerring",
"goody-goody",
"moralistic",
"pharisaical",
"rectitudinous",
"sanctimonious",
"self-righteous"
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"all right",
"decent",
"ethical",
"good",
"honest",
"honorable",
"just",
"moral",
"nice",
"right",
"righteous",
"straight",
"true",
"upright",
"virtuous"
]
},
"type":[
"adjective"
]
},
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"examples":[
"what right do you have to tell us what to do?"
],
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"disclaimers",
"quitclaims",
"releases",
"waivers"
],
"related":[
"birthrights",
"prerogatives",
"titles",
"favors",
"privileges",
"refusals"
],
"synonyms":[
"calls",
"claims",
"dibs",
"pretenses",
"pretences",
"pretensions"
]
},
"as in redresses":{
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},
"something to which one has a just claim":{
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"everyone has the right to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness"
],
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"dibs",
"dues",
"entitlements",
"perquisites",
"pretenses",
"pretences",
"pretensions",
"privileges"
],
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"appanages",
"apanages",
"birthrights",
"prerogatives"
]
},
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"noun",
"verb"
]
},
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"given to exacting standards of discipline and self-restraint":{
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"clement",
"forbearing",
"gentle",
"indulgent",
"lax",
"lenient",
"tolerant"
],
"examples":[
"a rigid man who cannot seem to relax"
],
"near antonyms":[
"easy",
"easygoing",
"laid-back",
"undemanding",
"charitable",
"kind",
"merciful",
"mild",
"patient",
"soft",
"softhearted",
"accepting",
"compromising",
"yielding",
"responsive",
"willing",
"acquiescent",
"agreeable",
"amenable",
"complaisant",
"compliant",
"flexible",
"pliable",
"pliant"
],
"related":[
"demanding",
"exacting",
"uncharitable",
"unforgiving",
"adamant",
"adamantine",
"callous",
"hardened",
"hard-hearted",
"hard-line",
"immovable",
"implacable",
"inflexible",
"merciless",
"ossified",
"pitiless",
"relentless",
"rock-ribbed",
"stiff",
"unbending",
"uncompromising",
"unrelenting",
"unsparing",
"unyielding",
"dour",
"gruff",
"ascetic",
"ascetical",
"monastic",
"monkish",
"browbeating",
"bullying",
"determined",
"firm",
"resolved",
"single-minded",
"steadfast",
"unflinching",
"dogged",
"intractable",
"obstinate",
"relentless"
],
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"austere",
"authoritarian",
"flinty",
"hard",
"harsh",
"heavy-handed",
"ramrod",
"rigorous",
"severe",
"stern",
"strict",
"tough"
]
},
"having a consistency that does not easily yield to pressure":{
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"flabby",
"soft",
"spongy",
"squashy",
"squishy"
],
"examples":[
"rigid steel bars that should be able to hold the weight"
],
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"loose",
"scattered",
"thin",
"bendable",
"elastic",
"flexible",
"malleable",
"pliable",
"pliant",
"supple",
"droopy",
"flaccid",
"floppy",
"lank",
"limp",
"slack",
"airy",
"light",
"permeable",
"porous",
"ultrasoft"
],
"related":[
"case-hardened",
"compacted",
"compressed",
"hardened",
"indurated",
"stiffened",
"tempered",
"close",
"dense",
"heavy",
"thick",
"thickset",
"inelastic",
"inflexible",
"ramrod",
"unbending",
"compressed",
"condensed",
"adamantine",
"rocklike",
"sturdy",
"substantial",
"impenetrable",
"impermeable",
"nonporous"
],
"synonyms":[
"compact",
"firm",
"hard",
"solid",
"stiff",
"unyielding"
]
},
"incapable of or highly resistant to bending":{
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"flexible",
"floppy",
"pliable",
"pliant",
"supple",
"yielding"
],
"examples":[
"corsets, those rigid undergarments for women, must have been murder to wear"
],
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"elastic",
"resilient",
"springy",
"stretchy",
"workable",
"malleable",
"plastic",
"semiflexible",
"droopy",
"flabby",
"flaccid",
"mushy",
"semisoft",
"soft",
"squashy",
"squishy",
"lank",
"limber",
"limp",
"lissome",
"lissom",
"lithe",
"lithesome",
"willowy"
],
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"inelastic",
"firm",
"hard",
"solid",
"sound",
"strong",
"brittle",
"crisp",
"compact",
"dense",
"substantial",
"arthritic",
"rheumatic",
"nonelastic",
"nonmalleable"
],
"synonyms":[
"inflexible",
"stiff",
"stiffened",
"unyielding"
]
},
"not allowing for any exceptions or loosening of standards":{
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"flexible",
"lax",
"loose",
"relaxed",
"slack"
],
"examples":[
"rigid enforcement of drug laws"
],
"near antonyms":[
"acquiescent",
"compliant",
"compromising",
"pliable",
"pliant",
"relenting",
"yielding",
"easy",
"easygoing",
"gentle",
"indulgent",
"kindly",
"lenient",
"merciful",
"mild",
"pampering",
"soft",
"spoiling",
"tolerant",
"neglectful",
"negligent",
"remiss",
"slipshod",
"sloppy",
"slovenly",
"unfussy"
],
"related":[
"close",
"conscientious",
"exact",
"fussy",
"meticulous",
"painstaking",
"punctilious",
"scrupulous",
"undeviating",
"adamant",
"adamantine",
"determined",
"dogged",
"firm",
"relentless",
"resolved",
"single-minded",
"steadfast",
"stubborn",
"tenacious",
"unbending",
"unflinching",
"immovable",
"implacable",
"unappeasable",
"unrelenting",
"unsparing",
"unyielding",
"austere",
"demanding",
"flinty",
"grim",
"hard",
"hardened",
"hard-hearted",
"harsh",
"ironbound",
"severe",
"stern",
"tough"
],
"synonyms":[
"brassbound",
"cast-iron",
"exacting",
"hard-line",
"inflexible",
"rigorous",
"strict",
"stringent",
"uncompromising"
]
},
"stretched with little or no give":{
"antonyms":[
"lax",
"loose",
"slack"
],
"examples":[
"make sure that the clothesline is rigid so that the longer garments don't drag on the ground"
],
"near antonyms":[
"drooping",
"droopy",
"flaccid",
"floppy",
"hanging",
"lank",
"limp",
"loosened",
"relaxed",
"sagging",
"slackened",
"yielding",
"elastic",
"flexible",
"pliant",
"resilient",
"springy",
"stretchy",
"supple"
],
"related":[
"firm",
"inflexible",
"stiff",
"tightened",
"unrelaxed",
"unyielding"
],
"synonyms":[
"taut",
"tense",
"tight"
]
},
"type":[
"adjective"
]
},
"rigidness":{
"the quality or state of being demanding or unyielding (as in discipline or criticism)":{
"antonyms":[
"flexibility",
"gentleness",
"laxness",
"mildness"
],
"examples":[
"no one even asked anymore, as their father's rigidness regarding bedtime was legendary"
],
"near antonyms":[
"forbearance",
"indulgence",
"kindness",
"lenience",
"patience",
"softness",
"tenderness",
"tolerance",
"responsiveness",
"willingness",
"compliance",
"pliability",
"pliancy"
],
"related":[
"callousness",
"hard-heartedness",
"implacability",
"obduracy",
"obdurateness",
"pitilessness",
"dourness",
"gruffness",
"asceticism",
"austereness",
"austerity",
"monasticism",
"determination",
"firmness",
"resolve",
"steadfastness",
"obstinacy",
"stubbornness"
],
"synonyms":[
"exactingness",
"hardness",
"harshness",
"inflexibility",
"rigidity",
"rigor",
"rigorousness",
"severity",
"sternness",
"strictness",
"stringency"
]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"rigmarole":{
"language marked by abstractions, jargon, euphemisms, and circumlocutions":{
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"examples":[
"the security guard gave me some kind of rigmarole about passes and authorizations"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"related":[
"bureaucratese",
"computerese",
"educationese",
"governmentese",
"legalese",
"Pentagonese",
"psychobabble",
"technobabble",
"bombast",
"fustian",
"gas",
"grandiloquence",
"hot air",
"hype",
"oratory",
"rhetoric",
"wind"
],
"synonyms":[
"bafflegab",
"double-talk",
"gibberish",
"gobbledygook",
"gobbledegook",
"song and dance"
]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"rigorousness":{
"the quality or state of being demanding or unyielding (as in discipline or criticism)":{
"antonyms":[
"flexibility",
"gentleness",
"laxness",
"mildness"
],
"examples":[
"the rigorousness of the training paid off when the dance students performed brilliantly at the recital"
],
"near antonyms":[
"forbearance",
"indulgence",
"kindness",
"lenience",
"patience",
"softness",
"tenderness",
"tolerance",
"responsiveness",
"willingness",
"compliance",
"pliability",
"pliancy"
],
"related":[
"callousness",
"hard-heartedness",
"implacability",
"obduracy",
"obdurateness",
"pitilessness",
"dourness",
"gruffness",
"asceticism",
"austereness",
"austerity",
"monasticism",
"determination",
"firmness",
"resolve",
"steadfastness",
"obstinacy",
"stubbornness"
],
"synonyms":[
"exactingness",
"hardness",
"harshness",
"inflexibility",
"rigidity",
"rigidness",
"rigor",
"severity",
"sternness",
"strictness",
"stringency"
]
},
"the quality or state of being very accurate":{
"antonyms":[
"coarseness",
"impreciseness",
"imprecision",
"inaccuracy",
"inexactitude",
"inexactness",
"roughness"
],
"examples":[
"these days the rigorousness of electronic timing is necessary to measure the minute differences in the performances of Olympic athletes"
],
"near antonyms":[
"approximation",
"roundness",
"falseness",
"falsity",
"incorrectness",
"wrongness",
"carelessness",
"guesswork",
"looseness",
"indefiniteness",
"vagueness"
],
"related":[
"correctness",
"fidelity",
"rightness",
"strictness",
"truth",
"definiteness",
"definitiveness",
"definitude",
"determinacy",
"subtlety",
"care",
"carefulness",
"fastidiousness",
"meticulousness",
"persnicketiness"
],
"synonyms":[
"accuracy",
"accurateness",
"closeness",
"delicacy",
"exactitude",
"exactness",
"fineness",
"nicety",
"perfection",
"preciseness",
"precision",
"rigor",
"ultraprecision",
"veracity"
]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"rile":{
"to disturb the peace of mind of (someone) especially by repeated disagreeable acts":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"one sure way to rile me is to keep yelling for me"
],
"near antonyms":[
"appease",
"conciliate",
"mollify",
"oblige",
"pacify",
"placate",
"propitiate",
"delight",
"gladden",
"gratify",
"please",
"satisfy",
"assure",
"cheer",
"comfort",
"console",
"content",
"quiet",
"reassure",
"solace",
"soothe"
],
"related":[
"hassle",
"heckle",
"nag",
"inflame",
"enflame",
"provoke",
"rouse",
"badger",
"bait",
"bullyrag",
"ballyrag",
"devil",
"hagride",
"harass",
"harry",
"pester",
"plague",
"tease",
"anger",
"antagonize",
"enrage",
"incense",
"infuriate",
"madden",
"rankle",
"roil",
"agitate",
"discomfort",
"discompose",
"disquiet",
"distress",
"exercise",
"freak (out)",
"fret",
"perturb",
"undo",
"unhinge",
"unsettle",
"upset",
"worry",
"affront",
"insult",
"miff",
"offend",
"outrage"
],
"synonyms":[
"aggravate",
"annoy",
"bother",
"bug",
"burn (up)",
"chafe",
"eat",
"exasperate",
"frost",
"gall",
"get",
"grate",
"gripe",
"hack (off)",
"irk",
"irritate",
"itch",
"nark",
"nettle",
"peeve",
"persecute",
"pique",
"put out",
"rasp",
"ruffle",
"spite",
"vex"
]
},
"to make angry":{
"antonyms":[
"delight",
"gratify",
"please"
],
"examples":[
"her husband isn't easily riled , but once he is, he stays that way for days"
],
"near antonyms":[
"allay",
"assuage",
"relieve",
"comfort",
"console",
"soothe",
"appease",
"conciliate",
"mollify",
"pacify",
"placate",
"calm",
"lull",
"quiet",
"settle",
"beguile",
"bewitch",
"captivate",
"charm",
"disarm",
"enchant"
],
"related":[
"affront",
"aggravate",
"annoy",
"burn (up)",
"cross",
"exasperate",
"get",
"huff",
"irritate",
"miff",
"nettle",
"offend",
"peeve",
"pique",
"provoke",
"put out",
"ruffle",
"vex",
"antagonize",
"embitter",
"envenom"
],
"synonyms":[
"anger",
"enrage",
"incense",
"inflame",
"enflame",
"infuriate",
"ire",
"mad",
"madden",
"outrage",
"rankle",
"roil",
"steam up",
"tick off"
]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"rimmed":{
"to serve as a border for":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"long lashes rimmed his eyes"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"related":[
"hemmed",
"trimmed",
"circumscribed",
"defined",
"delineated",
"demarcated",
"outlined",
"silhouetted",
"sketched",
"traced",
"circled",
"compassed",
"encircled",
"enclosed",
"inclosed",
"environed",
"girdled",
"girthed",
"looped",
"ringed",
"rounded",
"surrounded",
"walled",
"checked",
"confined",
"controlled",
"curbed",
"limited",
"restrained",
"restricted"
],
"synonyms":[
"bordered",
"bounded",
"edged",
"framed",
"fringed",
"margined",
"skirted"
]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"rims":{
"the line or relatively narrow space that marks the outer limit of something":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"the rim of a glass"
],
"near antonyms":[
"centers",
"cores",
"hearts",
"inners",
"insides",
"interiors",
"middles",
"withins"
],
"related":[
"ambits",
"brinks",
"crests",
"curbs",
"cusps",
"lips",
"ceilings",
"maxima",
"maximums",
"demarcations",
"extents",
"limitations",
"measures",
"meres",
"restrictions",
"terminations",
"borderlands",
"frontiers",
"marches",
"outskirts",
"pales",
"selvages",
"laps",
"shores"
],
"synonyms":[
"borderlines",
"borders",
"boundaries",
"bounds",
"brims",
"circumferences",
"compasses",
"confines",
"edges",
"edgings",
"ends",
"frames",
"fringes",
"hems",
"margins",
"perimeters",
"peripheries",
"skirtings",
"skirts",
"verges"
]
},
"to serve as a border for":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"long lashes rimmed his eyes"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"related":[
"hems",
"trims",
"circumscribes",
"defines",
"delineates",
"demarcates",
"outlines",
"silhouettes",
"sketches",
"traces",
"circles",
"compasses",
"encircles",
"encloses",
"incloses",
"environs",
"girdles",
"girths",
"loops",
"rings",
"rounds",
"surrounds",
"walls",
"checks",
"confines",
"controls",
"curbs",
"limits",
"restrains",
"restricts"
],
"synonyms":[
"borders",
"bounds",
"edges",
"frames",
"fringes",
"margins",
"skirts"
]
},
"type":[
"noun",
"verb"
]
},
"ring (up)":{
"to make a telephone call to":{
"examples":[
"our friend rang us up to see if we wanted to go to a cricket match"
],
"synonyms":[
"call",
"dial",
"phone",
"telephone"
],
"near synonyms":[
"beep",
"buzz",
"call in",
"cold-call"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to obtain (as a goal) through effort":{
"examples":[
"touted the many diplomatic triumphs that the president supposedly rang up in his first term"
],
"synonyms":[
"achieve",
"attain",
"bag",
"chalk up",
"clock (up)",
"gain",
"hit",
"log",
"make",
"notch (up)",
"rack up",
"score",
"win"
],
"near synonyms":[
"acquire",
"capture",
"carry",
"draw",
"garner",
"get",
"land",
"obtain",
"procure",
"realize",
"secure",
"amount (to)",
"approach",
"equal",
"match",
"measure up (to)",
"meet",
"rival",
"tie",
"touch",
"beat",
"excel",
"outdo",
"surpass",
"top"
],
"near antonyms":[
"fall short (of)",
"miss",
"fail (at)",
"lose"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"ring down the curtain (on)":{
"to bring (an event) to a natural or appropriate stopping point":{
"antonyms":[
"begin",
"commence",
"inaugurate",
"open",
"start"
],
"examples":[
"The singer rang down the curtain on the performance with her most famous song."
],
"near antonyms":[],
"related":[
"climax",
"crown",
"consummate",
"perfect",
"halt",
"stop",
"suspend"
],
"synonyms":[
"close",
"close out",
"complete",
"conclude",
"end",
"finish",
"round (off or out)",
"terminate",
"wind up",
"wrap up"
]
},
"type":[]
},
"ringed":{
"to form a circle around":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"tall cypress trees ringing the park"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"related":[
"circumscribed",
"closed in",
"cordoned (off)",
"fenced (in)",
"hemmed (in)",
"walled",
"beset",
"besieged",
"entrenched",
"intrenched",
"invested",
"swarmed"
],
"synonyms":[
"circled",
"compassed",
"embraced",
"encircled",
"enclosed",
"inclosed",
"encompassed",
"environed",
"girded",
"girt",
"girdled",
"surrounded",
"wreathed"
]
},
"to travel completely around":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"the line of season ticket buyers ringed the block"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"related":[
"circumambulated",
"crossed",
"perambulated",
"traversed"
],
"synonyms":[
"circled",
"circuited",
"circumnavigated",
"circumvented",
"compassed",
"encircled",
"girdled",
"orbited",
"rounded"
]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"ringing":{
"marked by a high volume of sound":{
"antonyms":[
"gentle",
"low",
"soft"
],
"examples":[
"an angry, ringing denial of the charges"
],
"near antonyms":[
"dead",
"quiet",
"silent",
"still",
"stilly",
"ultraquiet",
"calm",
"dreamy",
"peaceful",
"restful",
"serene",
"soothing",
"tranquil",
"hushed",
"muffled",
"muted",
"softened",
"toned (down)"
],
"related":[
"brazen",
"dinning",
"discordant",
"noisy",
"obstreperous",
"raucous",
"rip-roaring",
"vociferous",
"grating",
"harsh",
"overloud",
"sharp",
"shrill",
"squealing",
"strident"
],
"synonyms":[
"blaring",
"blasting",
"booming",
"clamorous",
"clangorous",
"deafening",
"earsplitting",
"loud",
"piercing",
"plangent",
"resounding",
"roaring",
"slam-bang",
"sonorous",
"stentorian",
"thundering",
"thunderous"
]
},
"marked by conspicuously full and rich sounds or tones":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"sings in a ringing baritone that can be heard throughout the hall"
],
"near antonyms":[
"cavernous",
"hollow",
"faint",
"low",
"murmurous",
"muted",
"smothered",
"soft",
"weak",
"thin",
"tinny"
],
"related":[
"deep",
"full",
"mellifluent",
"mellifluous",
"mellow",
"plummy",
"rich",
"loud",
"powerful",
"stentorian",
"thundering",
"thunderous"
],
"synonyms":[
"golden",
"orotund",
"plangent",
"resonant",
"resounding",
"reverberant",
"reverberating",
"reverberative",
"rotund",
"round",
"sonorous",
"vibrant"
]
},
"not subject to misinterpretation or more than one interpretation":{
"antonyms":[
"ambiguous",
"clouded",
"cryptic",
"dark",
"enigmatic",
"enigmatical",
"equivocal",
"indistinct",
"mysterious",
"nonobvious",
"obfuscated",
"obscure",
"unapparent",
"unclarified",
"unclear"
],
"examples":[
"whereas other candidates hedged on that hot-button issue, he delivered a ringing endorsement of the pro-choice position"
],
"near antonyms":[
"incomprehensible",
"indecipherable",
"unfathomable",
"unintelligible",
"unknowable",
"impalpable",
"imperceptible",
"inappreciable",
"indiscernible",
"insensible",
"cloudy",
"gauzy",
"gray",
"grey",
"hazy",
"imprecise",
"indefinite",
"indeterminate",
"misty",
"murky",
"nebulous",
"noncommittal",
"sketchy",
"slippery",
"subtle",
"vague",
"illegible",
"undecipherable",
"unreadable"
],
"related":[
"cognizable",
"cognoscible",
"comprehendible",
"comprehensible",
"digestible",
"fathomable",
"graspable",
"intelligible",
"knowable",
"understandable",
"self-evident",
"self-explanatory",
"clean-cut",
"simple",
"tidy",
"uncomplicated",
"overt",
"undisguised",
"appreciable",
"perceptible",
"recognizable",
"sensible",
"tangible",
"discernible",
"discernable",
"noticeable",
"observable",
"visible",
"black-and-white",
"explicit",
"trenchant",
"well-defined",
"clean",
"decipherable",
"fair",
"legible",
"readable"
],
"synonyms":[
"apparent",
"bald",
"bald-faced",
"barefaced",
"bright-line",
"broad",
"clear",
"clear-cut",
"crystal clear",
"decided",
"distinct",
"evident",
"lucid",
"luculent",
"luminous",
"manifest",
"nonambiguous",
"obvious",
"open-and-shut",
"palpable",
"patent",
"pellucid",
"perspicuous",
"plain",
"straightforward",
"transparent",
"unambiguous",
"unambivalent",
"unequivocal",
"unmistakable"
]
},
"to form a circle around":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"tall cypress trees ringing the park"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"related":[
"circumscribing",
"closing in",
"cordoning (off)",
"fencing (in)",
"hemming (in)",
"walling",
"besetting",
"besieging",
"entrenching",
"intrenching",
"investing",
"swarming"
],
"synonyms":[
"circling",
"compassing",
"embracing",
"encircling",
"enclosing",
"inclosing",
"encompassing",
"environing",
"girding",
"girdling",
"surrounding",
"wreathing"
]
},
"to make the clear sound heard when metal vibrates":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"I didn't hear the doorbell ring"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"related":[
"chinking",
"clanging",
"clanking",
"clashing",
"clinking",
"ding-donging",
"dinging",
"gonging",
"jangling",
"jingling",
"pinging",
"plinking",
"plunking",
"plonking",
"tanging",
"tingling",
"tinkling",
"echoing",
"resonating",
"resounding",
"reverberating"
],
"synonyms":[
"bonging",
"chiming",
"knelling",
"pealing",
"tolling"
]
},
"to travel completely around":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"the line of season ticket buyers ringed the block"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"related":[
"circumambulating",
"crossing",
"perambulating",
"traversing"
],
"synonyms":[
"circling",
"circuiting",
"circumnavigating",
"circumventing",
"compassing",
"encircling",
"girdling",
"orbiting",
"rounding"
]
},
"type":[
"adjective",
"verb"
]
},
"rinsing":{
"to pour liquid over or through in order to cleanse":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"rinse that shirt immediately, or the paint will set"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"related":[
"deluging",
"engulfing",
"flooding",
"inundating",
"swamping",
"flowing",
"gushing",
"rushing",
"streaming",
"douching",
"hosing",
"drenching",
"saturating",
"soaking",
"dousing",
"dowsing",
"sloshing",
"splashing"
],
"synonyms":[
"flushing",
"irrigating",
"sluicing",
"washing",
"washing out"
]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"rip off":{
"an instance of theft":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"a daring burglary of the art museum that resulted in one of the greatest rip-offs in history"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"related":[
"break-in",
"burglary",
"holdup",
"mugging",
"stickup"
],
"synonyms":[
"grab",
"heist",
"pinch",
"snatching",
"swiping",
"theft"
]
},
"to remove valuables from (a place) unlawfully":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"the teens ripped off the store where they had been working for the summer"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"related":[
"ransack",
"rifle",
"despoil",
"loot",
"pillage",
"plunder",
"ravish",
"sack",
"spoil",
"strip",
"bleed",
"break in",
"cheat",
"chisel",
"cozen",
"defraud",
"exploit",
"fleece",
"hustle",
"mulct",
"pluck",
"rook",
"shortchange",
"skin",
"squeeze",
"stick",
"sting",
"swindle",
"hold up",
"mug",
"roll",
"stick up"
],
"synonyms":[
"burglarize",
"burgle",
"knock off",
"knock over",
"rob",
"steal (from)",
"take off"
]
},
"to rob by the use of trickery or threats":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"an investigation revealed that a whole slew of suppliers had been ripping off the defense department"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"related":[
"extort",
"wrench",
"wrest",
"wring",
"clip",
"gouge",
"nick",
"overcharge",
"soak",
"exploit",
"milk",
"deceive",
"dupe",
"fool",
"gull",
"trick",
"rope (in)",
"betray",
"bitch",
"double-cross",
"bamboozle",
"fast-talk"
],
"synonyms":[
"beat",
"bilk",
"bleed",
"cheat",
"chisel",
"chouse",
"con",
"cozen",
"defraud",
"diddle",
"do",
"do in",
"euchre",
"fiddle",
"fleece",
"flimflam",
"gaff",
"hose",
"hustle",
"mulct",
"nobble",
"pluck",
"ream",
"rook",
"screw",
"shake down",
"short",
"shortchange",
"skin",
"skunk",
"squeeze",
"stick",
"stiff",
"sting",
"sucker",
"swindle",
"thimblerig",
"victimize"
]
},
"to take (something) without right and with an intent to keep":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"the thief ripped off some jewelry as soon as no one was looking"
],
"near antonyms":[
"buy",
"purchase",
"bestow",
"contribute",
"donate",
"give",
"hand over",
"present"
],
"related":[
"burglarize",
"knock over",
"rob",
"loot",
"pillage",
"plunder",
"sack",
"carjack",
"hijack",
"highjack",
"pick",
"rifle",
"poach",
"rustle",
"shoplift",
"collar",
"grab",
"grasp",
"nail",
"seize",
"snatch",
"take",
"mooch",
"sponge",
"abduct",
"kidnap",
"shanghai",
"spirit"
],
"synonyms":[
"appropriate",
"boost",
"filch",
"heist",
"hook",
"lift",
"misappropriate",
"nick",
"nip",
"pilfer",
"pinch",
"pocket",
"purloin",
"snitch",
"steal",
"swipe",
"thieve"
]
},
"type":[
"noun",
"verb"
]
},
"rip-roaring":{
"causing great emotional or mental stimulation":{
"antonyms":[
"unexciting"
],
"examples":[
"a rip-roaring tale of the Old West"
],
"near antonyms":[
"boring",
"mind-numbing",
"tedious",
"tiresome",
"dreary",
"dull",
"humdrum",
"monotonous",
"uninteresting"
],
"related":[
"arresting",
"interesting",
"intriguing",
"provocative",
"tantalizing",
"titillating",
"absorbing",
"engrossing",
"gripping",
"riveting",
"moving",
"poignant",
"touching",
"enchanting",
"enthralling",
"fascinating",
"spellbinding",
"dynamic",
"energetic",
"high-voltage",
"kinetic",
"lively",
"lusty"
],
"synonyms":[
"breathtaking",
"charged",
"electric",
"electrifying",
"exciting",
"exhilarating",
"exhilarative",
"galvanic",
"galvanizing",
"hair-raising",
"heart-stopping",
"inspiring",
"intoxicating",
"kicky",
"mind-bending",
"mind-blowing",
"mind-boggling",
"rousing",
"stimulating",
"stirring",
"thrilling"
]
},
"type":[
"adjective"
]
},
"ripening":{
"the process of becoming mature":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"the ripening of a pumpkin can take a whole season"
],
"near antonyms":[
"decadence",
"decay",
"decaying",
"declension",
"decline",
"declining",
"degeneration",
"descent",
"deterioration",
"ebbing",
"fading",
"shriveling",
"shrivelling",
"waning",
"wilting",
"withering",
"death",
"decease",
"demise",
"dying",
"end",
"exit",
"expiration",
"expiring",
"expiry",
"perishing",
"regression",
"retrogression",
"reversion"
],
"related":[
"blossoming",
"flourishing",
"flowering",
"mellowing",
"softening",
"evolution",
"evolvement",
"expansion",
"progression",
"coming-of-age",
"maturity"
],
"synonyms":[
"development",
"growth",
"maturation",
"maturing"
]
},
"to become mature":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"pears ripening on the tree"
],
"near antonyms":[
"decaying",
"declining",
"degenerating",
"deteriorating",
"sinking",
"worsening",
"drooping",
"drying",
"fading",
"flagging",
"sagging",
"shriveling",
"shrivelling",
"waning",
"wasting (away)",
"weakening",
"wilting",
"withering",
"regressing",
"retrogressing",
"reverting",
"backsliding",
"lapsing",
"returning"
],
"related":[
"mellowing",
"softening",
"blooming",
"blossoming",
"burgeoning",
"bourgeoning",
"flourishing",
"flowering",
"opening",
"unfolding",
"advancing",
"evolving",
"getting along",
"getting on",
"graying",
"greying"
],
"synonyms":[
"aging",
"ageing",
"developing",
"growing",
"growing up",
"maturing",
"progressing"
]
},
"type":[
"noun",
"verb"
]
},
"riposted":{
"to speak or write in reaction to a question or to another reaction":{
"antonyms":[
"asked",
"inquired",
"questioned"
],
"examples":[
"at cocktail parties she could riposte with lightning speed to even the most unexpected quip"
],
"near antonyms":[
"challenged",
"cross-examined",
"examined",
"grilled",
"interrogated",
"pumped",
"quizzed",
"polled",
"queried",
"surveyed"
],
"related":[
"acknowledged",
"commented",
"communicated",
"corresponded",
"reacted",
"remarked",
"countered",
"defended",
"denied",
"explained",
"fielded",
"rebutted",
"refuted"
],
"synonyms":[
"answered",
"came back",
"rejoined",
"replied",
"responded",
"retorted",
"returned"
]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"ripped (out)":{
"as in":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[],
"near antonyms":[],
"related":[],
"synonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"ripping":{
"to cause (something) to separate into jagged pieces by violently pulling at it":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"the dog ripped the sleeve of my shirt by grabbing it with his teeth"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"related":[
"breaking",
"cleaving",
"rupturing",
"splitting",
"cutting",
"gashing",
"incising",
"lacerating",
"slashing",
"butchering",
"dismembering",
"dissecting",
"hacking",
"mangling"
],
"synonyms":[
"rending",
"ribboning",
"riving",
"shredding",
"tattering",
"tearing"
]
},
"to penetrate with a sharp edge (as a knife)":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"you can see where someone ripped the painting with a penknife"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"related":[
"crosscutting",
"hacksawing",
"scissoring",
"cleaving",
"riving",
"splitting",
"piercing",
"stabbing",
"bruising",
"butchering",
"hacking",
"haggling",
"lacerating",
"mangling",
"rending",
"tearing",
"carving",
"chipping",
"chiseling",
"chiselling",
"notching",
"anatomizing",
"dissecting",
"sectioning",
"chopping",
"dicing",
"mincing",
"amputating",
"cutting off",
"severing"
],
"synonyms":[
"cutting",
"gashing",
"incising",
"shearing",
"slashing",
"slicing",
"slitting"
]
},
"to proceed or move quickly":{
"antonyms":[
"crawling",
"creeping",
"poking"
],
"examples":[
"the car went ripping down the road"
],
"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)"
],
"related":[
"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"
],
"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)",
"humping",
"hurling",
"hurrying",
"hurtling",
"hustling",
"hying",
"hieing",
"jetting",
"jumping",
"motoring",
"nipping",
"pelting",
"racing",
"ramming",
"rocketing",
"running",
"rushing",
"rustling",
"scooting",
"scurrying",
"scuttling",
"shooting",
"speeding",
"stepping",
"tearing",
"traveling",
"travelling",
"trotting",
"whirling",
"whisking",
"zipping",
"zooming"
]
},
"to separate or remove by forceful pulling":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"rip a sheet off the pad of paper"
],
"near antonyms":[
"reattaching"
],
"related":[
"grabbing",
"nabbing",
"seizing",
"snapping (up)",
"snatching",
"lopping (off)",
"nipping",
"amputating",
"cutting (off)",
"dissevering",
"severing",
"extracting",
"forcing",
"jerking",
"prizing",
"prying",
"pulling",
"rooting (out)",
"uprooting"
],
"synonyms":[
"tearing",
"wrenching",
"wresting",
"yanking"
]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"ripping (out)":{
"as in snarling":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[],
"near antonyms":[],
"related":[],
"synonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"rise (to)":{
"as in clap , bravo":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[],
"near antonyms":[],
"related":[],
"synonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"risks":{
"something that may cause injury or harm":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"mountain climbing is a risk , but the thrill and challenge are worth it"
],
"near antonyms":[
"guards",
"protections",
"safeguards",
"shields",
"wards",
"asylums",
"harbors",
"havens",
"refuges",
"retreats",
"shelters"
],
"related":[
"snares",
"traps",
"booby traps"
],
"synonyms":[
"dangers",
"hazards",
"imminences",
"menaces",
"perils",
"pitfalls",
"threats",
"troubles"
]
},
"to place in danger":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"we refuse to risk our life savings on this investment scheme"
],
"near antonyms":[
"guards",
"protects",
"shelters",
"shields",
"preserves",
"resumes",
"saves"
],
"related":[
"intimidates",
"threatens",
"exposes",
"subjects",
"chances",
"wagers"
],
"synonyms":[
"adventures",
"compromises",
"endangers",
"gambles (with)",
"hazards",
"imperils",
"jeopardizes",
"jeopards",
"menaces",
"perils",
"ventures"
]
},
"to take a chance on":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"Colette didn't want to risk running out of food for her party, so she bought twice what she thought she would actually need"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"related":[
"beards",
"braves",
"brazens",
"breasts",
"challenges",
"confronts",
"dares",
"defies",
"faces",
"outbraves",
"compromises",
"endangers",
"imperils",
"jeopardizes",
"menaces",
"exposes",
"subjects",
"bets (on)",
"wagers"
],
"synonyms":[
"adventures",
"chances",
"gambles (on)",
"hazards",
"tempts",
"ventures"
]
},
"type":[
"noun",
"verb"
]
},
"risky":{
"involving potential loss or injury":{
"antonyms":[
"harmless",
"innocent",
"innocuous",
"nonhazardous",
"nonthreatening",
"safe",
"unthreatening"
],
"examples":[
"a risky new adventure"
],
"near antonyms":[
"advantageous",
"beneficial",
"good",
"ultrasafe"
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"point",
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"decorums",
"etiquettes",
"graces",
"proprieties",
"protocols",
"conventions",
"customs",
"habits",
"manners",
"mores",
"practices",
"practises",
"standards",
"traditions",
"ways",
"celebrations",
"services"
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"noun"
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"reactionary",
"rightist",
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"traditionalist"
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"neocon",
"neoconservative",
"diehard",
"standpatter",
"bourbon",
"Colonel Blimp",
"fuddy-duddy",
"square",
"stuffed shirt"
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"radical",
"red",
"revolutionary",
"revolutionist",
"reformer",
"reformist"
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"left-winger",
"lefty",
"liberal",
"progressive"
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"noun"
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"goodness",
"honesty",
"integrity",
"morality",
"probity",
"rectitude",
"rightness",
"uprightness",
"virtue",
"virtuousness"
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"honor",
"incorruptibility",
"irreproachability",
"irreproachableness",
"right-mindedness",
"scrupulosity",
"scrupulousness",
"appropriateness",
"correctness",
"decorousness",
"decorum",
"etiquette",
"fitness",
"propriety",
"seemliness",
"ethics",
"morals"
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"impropriety",
"indecency",
"indecorum",
"indiscretion",
"debauchery",
"degeneracy",
"degradation",
"depravity",
"perversion",
"pervertedness",
"sinfulness",
"crookedness",
"dishonesty",
"underhandedness",
"unscrupulousness",
"lowness",
"meanness",
"viciousness",
"vileness",
"corruption"
],
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"badness",
"evil",
"evildoing",
"immorality",
"iniquity",
"sin",
"villainy",
"wickedness"
]
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"a life lived with righteousness guarantees that you will always respect yourself"
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"honesty",
"honor",
"integrity",
"probity",
"rectitude",
"uprightness"
],
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"blamelessness",
"character",
"conscientiousness",
"decency",
"fairness",
"high-mindedness",
"incorruptibility",
"irreproachability",
"irreproachableness",
"justice",
"morality",
"nobility",
"reputability",
"respectability",
"right-mindedness",
"scrupulousness",
"virtue",
"virtuousness"
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"corruptibility",
"corruption",
"corruptness",
"debasement",
"debauchery",
"decadence",
"degeneracy",
"degradation",
"depravity",
"disgrace",
"disgracefulness",
"disreputableness",
"dissipatedness",
"dissipation",
"dissoluteness",
"looseness",
"perversion",
"pervertedness",
"profligacy",
"shamelessness",
"venality",
"blameworthiness",
"criminality",
"crookedness",
"dishonesty",
"immorality",
"unrighteousness",
"unscrupulousness",
"knavery",
"rascality",
"roguishness",
"meanness",
"reprehensibleness",
"rottenness",
"sinfulness",
"vileness",
"villainy",
"wickedness",
"wretchedness"
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"baseness",
"dishonor",
"lowness"
]
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"noun"
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"the bill for emergency aid was immediately granted right-of-way"
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"precedences",
"priorities"
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"urgencies",
"ascendancies",
"ascendencies",
"preeminences",
"primacies",
"supremacies",
"transcendences",
"transcendencies",
"orders",
"progressions",
"sequences",
"successions",
"front burners"
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"comedic",
"comic",
"comical",
"droll",
"farcical",
"funny",
"hilarious",
"humoristic",
"humorous",
"hysterical",
"hysteric",
"killing",
"laughable",
"ludicrous",
"ridiculous",
"risible",
"screaming",
"sidesplitting",
"uproarious"
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"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"
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"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"
],
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"humorless",
"lame",
"unamusing",
"uncomic",
"unfunny",
"unhumorous",
"unhysterical"
]
},
"pouring forth in great amounts":{
"examples":[
"a painting by that artist is usually a riotous display of color"
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"copious",
"galore",
"gushing",
"lavish",
"profuse"
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"ample",
"bounteous",
"bountiful",
"liberal",
"plenteous",
"plentiful",
"extravagant",
"luxuriant",
"fat",
"fecund",
"fertile",
"free",
"munificent",
"openhanded",
"unsparing",
"unstinting",
"excessive",
"immoderate",
"redundant",
"adequate",
"complete",
"enough",
"sufficient"
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"meager",
"meagre",
"niggardly",
"poor",
"scant",
"scanty",
"spare",
"sparse",
"stingy",
"deficient",
"inadequate",
"incomplete",
"insufficient",
"lacking",
"scarce",
"unsatisfactory",
"wanting",
"bare",
"mere",
"minimal"
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"antonyms":[
"dribbling",
"trickling"
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"adjective"
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"riffs":{
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"a mock news program with humorous riffs on current events"
],
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"interpretations",
"takes",
"variations"
],
"related":[
"versions",
"adaptations",
"translations"
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"type":[
"noun"
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"ribaldry":{
"the quality or state of being obscene":{
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"there's a ribaldry in the works of Chaucer that generations of students of English literature have heartily enjoyed"
],
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"bawdiness",
"blueness",
"coarseness",
"crudeness",
"crudity",
"dirt",
"dirtiness",
"filth",
"filthiness",
"foulness",
"grossness",
"impureness",
"impurity",
"indecency",
"lasciviousness",
"lewdness",
"nastiness",
"obscenity",
"profanity",
"raunch",
"raunchiness",
"smut",
"smuttiness",
"vulgarity",
"wantonness"
],
"related":[
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"earthiness",
"gaminess",
"raciness",
"saltiness",
"suggestiveness",
"immodesty",
"indecorousness",
"indelicacy",
"indelicateness",
"lowness",
"unbecomingness",
"lechery",
"depravedness",
"depravity",
"kinkiness",
"naughtiness",
"perverseness",
"perversion",
"perversity",
"pervertedness",
"wickedness",
"exceptionability",
"objectionableness",
"unacceptability",
"undesirability",
"reprehensibility",
"reprehensibleness",
"abusiveness",
"scurrilousness",
"atrociousness",
"atrocity",
"infamy",
"loathsomeness",
"offensiveness",
"repellency",
"repugnance",
"repulsiveness",
"distastefulness",
"obnoxiousness",
"unpleasantness"
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"near antonyms":[
"priggery",
"priggishness",
"primness",
"prudery",
"prudishness",
"puritanism",
"correctness",
"decency",
"decorousness",
"decorum",
"seemliness",
"appropriateness",
"fitness",
"suitability",
"suitableness",
"perfection",
"purity",
"spotlessness"
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"type":[
"noun"
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"rinky-dink":{
"as in obsolete , antiquated":{
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"type":[
"adjective"
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"rigamarole":{
"language marked by abstractions, jargon, euphemisms, and circumlocutions":{
"examples":[
"the security guard gave me some kind of rigmarole about passes and authorizations"
],
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"bafflegab",
"double-talk",
"gibberish",
"gobbledygook",
"gobbledegook",
"song and dance"
],
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"computerese",
"educationese",
"governmentese",
"legalese",
"Pentagonese",
"psychobabble",
"technobabble",
"bombast",
"fustian",
"gas",
"grandiloquence",
"hot air",
"hype",
"oratory",
"rhetoric",
"wind"
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"type":[
"noun"
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"rival":{
"one that is equal to another in status, achievement, or value":{
"examples":[
"a design that is a rival to any produced by a professional graphic artist"
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"coequal",
"compeer",
"coordinate",
"counterpart",
"equal",
"equivalent",
"fellow",
"like",
"match",
"parallel",
"peer"
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"related":[
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"analog",
"double",
"half",
"mate",
"twin",
"associate",
"colleague",
"companion",
"copartner",
"partner",
"competitor"
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"one that takes a position opposite another in a competition or conflict":{
"examples":[
"the boxer's toughest rival thus far"
],
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"adversary",
"antagonist",
"foe",
"opponent"
],
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"match",
"enemy",
"archenemy",
"nemesis",
"competitor",
"contestant",
"bane",
"b\u00eate noire",
"curse",
"assailant",
"attacker",
"combatant",
"invader"
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"accomplice",
"ally",
"confederate",
"partner",
"advocate",
"champion",
"exponent",
"proponent",
"supporter",
"sympathizer"
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"one who strives for the same thing as another":{
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"the four cities that are the top rivals for the site of the next Olympic Games"
],
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"challenger",
"competition",
"competitor",
"contender",
"contestant",
"corrival"
],
"related":[
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"finalist",
"semifinalist",
"also-ran",
"entrant",
"entry",
"player",
"adversary",
"antagonist",
"opponent"
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"as in competing , competitive":{
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"to engage in a contest":{
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"two longtime friends who have rivaled for the same things at every stage of their lives"
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"fight",
"race",
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"play",
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"maneuver",
"go out",
"try out",
"train",
"work"
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"noun",
"verb"
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},
"rightfulness":{
"as in rightness":{
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"near synonyms":[
"rightness",
"lawfulness",
"legality",
"legitimacy",
"permissibility",
"permissibleness"
],
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"illegality",
"illegitimacy",
"unlawfulness",
"wrongfulness",
"badness",
"immorality",
"iniquitousness",
"iniquity",
"sinfulness",
"unjustness",
"wickedness",
"wrongness",
"criminality",
"unconstitutionality"
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},
"type":[
"noun"
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},
"riverfronts":{
"as in banks , riversides":{
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"near synonyms":[
"banks",
"riverbanks",
"riversides",
"oceanfronts",
"shorefronts",
"waterfronts",
"esplanades",
"coastlands",
"coastlines",
"coasts",
"shorelines",
"shores",
"littorals",
"seaboards",
"seacoasts",
"seashores",
"seasides",
"lidos",
"plages",
"beaches",
"beachfronts",
"sands",
"strands"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
}
}