dict_dl/en_MWThesaurus/hap_MWT.json
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{
"hap":{
"something that happens":{
"examples":[
"we must make the best of both the good and the bad haps of life"
],
"synonyms":[
"affair",
"circumstance",
"episode",
"event",
"happening",
"incident",
"occasion",
"occurrence",
"thing"
],
"near synonyms":[
"coincidence",
"co-occurrence",
"fluke",
"freak",
"landmark",
"milepost",
"milestone",
"page",
"phenomenon",
"turning point",
"adventure",
"experience",
"time",
"happenchance",
"happenstance",
"accident",
"crisis",
"emergency",
"juncture",
"achievement",
"deed",
"exploit",
"feat",
"news",
"tidings"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"the uncertain course of events":{
"examples":[
"by hap and circumstance, he ended up as a cartoonist in New York"
],
"synonyms":[
"accident",
"casualty",
"chance",
"circumstance",
"hazard",
"luck"
],
"near synonyms":[
"fortuitousness",
"fortuity",
"haphazardry",
"randomness",
"uncertainty",
"fluke",
"happenchance",
"happenstance",
"destiny",
"doom",
"fate",
"fortune",
"lot",
"danger",
"peril",
"risk"
],
"near antonyms":[
"intent",
"intention",
"purpose",
"design",
"outline",
"plan",
"scheme"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"a decorative cloth used as a top covering for a bed":{
"examples":[
"the hap was a patchwork quilt that the old woman had made herself"
],
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"bedcover",
"bedcovering",
"bedspread",
"counterpane",
"coverlet",
"spread"
],
"near synonyms":[
"comforter",
"puff",
"quilt",
"bedclothes",
"bedding",
"clothes"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to take place":{
"examples":[
"what wondrous events hath happed this Christmas Day?"
],
"synonyms":[
"be",
"befall",
"betide",
"chance",
"come",
"come about",
"come down",
"come off",
"cook",
"do",
"go down",
"go on",
"happen",
"occur",
"pass",
"transpire"
],
"near synonyms":[
"break",
"develop",
"rise",
"shape (up)",
"arise",
"come up",
"crop (up)",
"materialize",
"spring (up)",
"intervene",
"fall out",
"follow",
"result",
"turn out",
"go off",
"proceed"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun",
"verb"
]
},
"happed":{
"to take place":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"what wondrous events hath happed this Christmas Day?"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"related":[
"broke",
"developed",
"rose",
"shaped (up)",
"arose",
"came up",
"cropped (up)",
"materialized",
"sprang (up)",
"sprung (up)",
"intervened",
"fell out",
"followed",
"resulted",
"turned out",
"proceeded",
"went off"
],
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"befell",
"betided",
"came",
"came about",
"came down",
"came off",
"chanced",
"cooked",
"did",
"happened",
"occurred",
"passed",
"transpired",
"was",
"went down",
"went on"
]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"happen (by)":{
"as in bop (into)":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"bop (into)",
"look up",
"see",
"frequent",
"hang (at)",
"haunt",
"resort (to)",
"barge (in)",
"call",
"come by",
"come over",
"drop by",
"drop in",
"pop (in)",
"run (over)",
"run in",
"step in",
"stop (by or in)",
"visit"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"happened":{
"to take place":{
"examples":[
"did anything exciting happen over the summer?"
],
"synonyms":[
"befell",
"betided",
"came",
"came about",
"came down",
"came off",
"chanced",
"cooked",
"did",
"happed",
"occurred",
"passed",
"transpired",
"was",
"went down",
"went on"
],
"near synonyms":[
"broke",
"developed",
"rose",
"shaped (up)",
"arose",
"came up",
"cropped (up)",
"materialized",
"sprang (up)",
"sprung (up)",
"intervened",
"fell out",
"followed",
"resulted",
"turned out",
"proceeded",
"went off"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"happening (by)":{
"as in bopping (into)":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"bopping (into)",
"looking up",
"seeing",
"frequenting",
"hanging (at)",
"haunting",
"resorting (to)",
"barging (in)",
"calling",
"coming by",
"coming over",
"dropping by",
"dropping in",
"popping (in)",
"running (over)",
"running in",
"stepping in",
"stopping (by or in)",
"visiting"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"happy campers":{
"as in optimists , Pollyannas":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"optimists",
"Pollyannas"
],
"near antonyms":[
"bears",
"bellyachers",
"complainers",
"crabs",
"cranks",
"croakers",
"crosspatches",
"curmudgeons",
"fussers",
"gripers",
"grouches",
"grousers",
"growlers",
"grumblers",
"grumps",
"murmurers",
"mutterers",
"sourpusses",
"whiners",
"hunks",
"malcontents",
"soreheads"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"happy-go-lucky":{
"having a relaxed, casual manner":{
"antonyms":[
"high-strung",
"uptight"
],
"examples":[
"he is completely happy-go-lucky on fishing trips\u2014if he catches something, fine; if he doesn't, that's fine, too"
],
"near antonyms":[
"ceremonious",
"decorous",
"formal",
"rigid",
"strict",
"anxious",
"bothered",
"distressed",
"worried",
"jittery",
"jumpy",
"nervous",
"skittish",
"tense"
],
"related":[
"carefree",
"casual",
"d\u00e9gag\u00e9",
"lackadaisical",
"nonchalant",
"unaffected",
"unconcerned",
"unfussy",
"unperturbed",
"untroubled",
"unworried",
"familiar",
"homey",
"homy",
"informal",
"flexible",
"lax",
"lenient",
"permissive",
"pliable",
"pliant",
"soft",
"accessible",
"approachable",
"imperturbable",
"nerveless",
"unflappable",
"unshakable",
"amicable",
"companionable",
"comradely",
"cordial",
"genial",
"hail-fellow-well-met",
"hearty",
"neighborly",
"warm",
"warmhearted"
],
"synonyms":[
"affable",
"breezy",
"devil-may-care",
"easygoing",
"laid-back",
"low-pressure",
"mellow"
]
},
"having or showing freedom from worries or trouble":{
"antonyms":[
"careworn"
],
"examples":[
"went on her happy-go-lucky way, totally unaware that she was strewing litter behind her"
],
"near antonyms":[
"earnest",
"grave",
"serious",
"serious-minded",
"somber",
"sombre",
"careful",
"cautious",
"heedful",
"wary",
"anxious",
"concerned",
"upset",
"worried",
"long-suffering",
"overburdened",
"sorrowful"
],
"related":[
"blas\u00e9",
"blase",
"breezy",
"cavalier",
"nonchalant",
"casual",
"easygoing",
"informal",
"laid-back",
"low-pressure",
"relaxed",
"unfussy"
],
"synonyms":[
"blithe",
"carefree",
"debonair",
"devil-may-care",
"gay",
"insouciant",
"lighthearted",
"lightsome",
"slaphappy",
"unconcerned"
]
},
"type":[
"adjective"
]
},
"happiness":{
"a feeling or state of well-being and contentment":{
"examples":[
"her happiness was complete when she got her very own house"
],
"synonyms":[
"beatitude",
"blessedness",
"bliss",
"blissfulness",
"felicity",
"gladness",
"joy",
"warm fuzzies"
],
"related":[
"elatedness",
"elation",
"exhilaration",
"exultation",
"high",
"intoxication",
"ecstasy",
"euphoria",
"glory",
"heaven",
"nirvana",
"paradise",
"rapture",
"rapturousness",
"ravishment",
"seventh heaven",
"transport",
"delectation",
"delight",
"enjoyment",
"pleasure",
"cheer",
"cheerfulness",
"comfort",
"exuberance",
"gaiety",
"gayety",
"gladsomeness",
"glee",
"gleefulness",
"jocundity",
"jollity",
"joyfulness",
"joyousness",
"jubilance",
"jubilation",
"lightheartedness",
"merriness",
"mirth",
"content",
"contentedness",
"gratification",
"satisfaction",
"triumph"
],
"near antonyms":[
"agony",
"anguish",
"desolation",
"joylessness",
"sorrow",
"sufferance",
"woe",
"woefulness",
"blues",
"cheerlessness",
"dejection",
"depression",
"desolateness",
"despondency",
"disheartenment",
"dispiritedness",
"doldrums",
"downheartedness",
"gloom",
"gloominess",
"melancholy",
"mournfulness",
"plaintiveness",
"Gehenna",
"hell",
"purgatory"
],
"antonyms":[
"calamity",
"ill-being",
"misery",
"sadness",
"unhappiness",
"wretchedness"
]
},
"the feeling experienced when one's wishes are met":{
"examples":[
"finally found true happiness as a doctor in a poor rural area"
],
"synonyms":[
"content",
"contentedness",
"contentment",
"delectation",
"delight",
"enjoyment",
"gladness",
"gratification",
"pleasure",
"relish",
"satisfaction"
],
"related":[
"afterglow",
"bliss",
"felicity",
"glee",
"gleefulness",
"joy",
"pleasance",
"amusement",
"diversion",
"entertainment",
"elatedness",
"elation",
"exhilaration",
"exultation",
"intoxication",
"ecstasy",
"euphoria",
"heaven",
"rapture",
"cheer",
"cheerfulness",
"exuberance",
"gaiety",
"gayety",
"jollity",
"joyfulness",
"jubilation",
"joie de vivre",
"comfort",
"ease",
"restfulness"
],
"near antonyms":[
"misery",
"sadness",
"unhappiness",
"wretchedness",
"anguish",
"desolation",
"joylessness",
"sorrow",
"woe",
"dejection",
"depression",
"despondency",
"dispiritedness",
"gloom",
"melancholy",
"aggravation",
"annoyance",
"exasperation",
"irritation",
"pique",
"vexation",
"anger",
"fury",
"rage",
"agitation",
"distress",
"disturbance",
"upset",
"discomfort",
"restlessness",
"uneasiness"
],
"antonyms":[
"discontent",
"discontentedness",
"discontentment",
"displeasure",
"dissatisfaction",
"unhappiness"
]
},
"the quality or state of being especially suitable or fitting":{
"examples":[
"the striking happiness of the phrase \"fatal attraction\" as the title for an erotic thriller"
],
"synonyms":[
"appositeness",
"appropriateness",
"aptness",
"felicitousness",
"felicity",
"fitness",
"fittingness",
"properness",
"propriety",
"rightness",
"seemliness",
"suitability",
"suitableness"
],
"related":[
"agreeableness",
"compatibility",
"congruity",
"harmoniousness",
"applicability",
"bearing",
"connection",
"justifiability",
"materiality",
"pertinence",
"relevance",
"relevancy",
"validity",
"acceptability",
"adequacy",
"adequateness",
"convenience",
"expedience",
"expediency",
"satisfactoriness",
"serviceableness",
"usefulness"
],
"near antonyms":[
"disagreeableness",
"incompatibility",
"incongruence",
"incongruity",
"incongruousness",
"inexpedience",
"inexpediency",
"inharmoniousness",
"unbecomingness",
"immateriality",
"inapplicability",
"irrelevance",
"irrelevancy",
"meaninglessness",
"pointlessness"
],
"antonyms":[
"improperness",
"impropriety",
"inappositeness",
"inappropriateness",
"inaptness",
"infelicity",
"unfitness",
"unseemliness",
"unsuitability",
"wrongness"
]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"happening (on or upon)":{
"to come upon unexpectedly or by chance":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[
"chancing (upon)",
"encountering",
"finding",
"hitting (upon)",
"lighting (on or upon)",
"meeting",
"pitching (upon)",
"stumbling (on or onto)",
"tumbling (upon)"
],
"near synonyms":[
"lucking (out, on, onto, or into)",
"confronting",
"facing",
"discovering",
"striking",
"turning up"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[]
},
"haphazard":{
"lacking a definite plan, purpose, or pattern":{
"examples":[
"considering the haphazard way you measured the ingredients, it's a wonder the cookies came out this good"
],
"synonyms":[
"aimless",
"arbitrary",
"catch-as-catch-can",
"desultory",
"erratic",
"helter-skelter",
"hit-or-miss",
"random",
"scattered",
"slapdash",
"stray"
],
"near synonyms":[
"accidental",
"casual",
"chance",
"chancy",
"contingent",
"fluky",
"flukey",
"fortuitous",
"inadvertent",
"incidental",
"lucky",
"unconsidered",
"unintended",
"unintentional",
"unplanned",
"unpremeditated",
"scattershot",
"shotgun",
"irregular",
"odd",
"sporadic",
"spot",
"directionless",
"objectless",
"purposeless",
"indiscriminate",
"unsystematic",
"undirected",
"disorderly",
"disorganized",
"undiscriminating",
"unselective"
],
"near antonyms":[
"established",
"fixed",
"regular",
"set",
"stable",
"steady",
"constant",
"continuous",
"even",
"arranged",
"managed",
"orchestrated",
"ordered",
"planned",
"aware",
"conscious",
"deliberate",
"purposeful",
"thoughtful",
"willful",
"wilful"
],
"antonyms":[
"methodical",
"methodic",
"nonrandom",
"orderly",
"organized",
"regular",
"systematic",
"systematized"
]
},
"without definite aim, direction, rule, or method":{
"examples":[
"shoes were tossed haphazard into the closet"
],
"synonyms":[
"aimlessly",
"anyhow",
"anyway",
"anywise",
"desultorily",
"erratically",
"haphazardly",
"helter-skelter",
"hit or miss",
"irregularly",
"randomly",
"willy-nilly"
],
"near synonyms":[
"arbitrarily",
"capriciously",
"carelessly",
"casually",
"indiscriminately",
"informally",
"offhand",
"offhandedly",
"promiscuously",
"whimsically",
"accidentally",
"fortuitously",
"inadvertently",
"unconsciously",
"unintentionally",
"unwittingly",
"disconnectedly",
"disjointedly",
"fitfully",
"intermittently",
"spottily",
"unpredictably",
"higgledy-piggledy",
"topsy-turvy"
],
"near antonyms":[
"carefully",
"formally",
"gingerly",
"meticulously",
"orderly",
"punctiliously",
"deliberately",
"intentionally",
"purposefully",
"purposely"
],
"antonyms":[
"methodically",
"systematically"
]
},
"type":[
"adjective",
"adverb"
]
},
"happens (by)":{
"as in bops (into)":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"bops (into)",
"looks up",
"sees",
"frequents",
"hangs (at)",
"haunts",
"resorts (to)",
"barges (in)",
"calls",
"comes by",
"comes over",
"drops by",
"drops in",
"pops (in)",
"runs (over)",
"runs in",
"steps in",
"stops (by or in)",
"visits"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"haps":{
"something that happens":{
"examples":[
"we must make the best of both the good and the bad haps of life"
],
"synonyms":[
"affairs",
"circumstances",
"episodes",
"events",
"happenings",
"incidents",
"occasions",
"occurrences",
"things"
],
"near synonyms":[
"coincidences",
"co-occurrences",
"flukes",
"freaks",
"landmarks",
"mileposts",
"milestones",
"pages",
"phenomena",
"phenomenons",
"turning points",
"adventures",
"experiences",
"times",
"happenchances",
"happenstances",
"accidents",
"crises",
"emergencies",
"junctures",
"achievements",
"deeds",
"exploits",
"feats",
"news",
"tidings"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"the uncertain course of events":{
"examples":[
"by hap and circumstance, he ended up as a cartoonist in New York"
],
"synonyms":[
"accidents",
"casualties",
"chances",
"circumstances",
"hazards",
"luck"
],
"near synonyms":[
"fortuities",
"haphazardries",
"uncertainties",
"flukes",
"happenchances",
"happenstances",
"destinies",
"dooms",
"fates",
"fortunes",
"lots",
"dangers",
"perils",
"risks"
],
"near antonyms":[
"intentions",
"intents",
"purposes",
"designs",
"outlines",
"plans",
"schemes"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"a decorative cloth used as a top covering for a bed":{
"examples":[
"the hap was a patchwork quilt that the old woman had made herself"
],
"synonyms":[
"bedcovers",
"bedcoverings",
"bedspreads",
"counterpanes",
"coverlets",
"spreads"
],
"near synonyms":[
"comforters",
"puffs",
"quilts",
"bedclothes",
"beddings",
"clothes"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to take place":{
"examples":[
"what wondrous events hath happed this Christmas Day?"
],
"synonyms":[
"befalls",
"betides",
"chances",
"comes",
"comes about",
"comes down",
"comes off",
"cooks",
"does",
"goes down",
"goes on",
"happens",
"is",
"occurs",
"passes",
"transpires"
],
"near synonyms":[
"breaks",
"develops",
"rises",
"shapes (up)",
"arises",
"comes up",
"crops (up)",
"materializes",
"springs (up)",
"intervenes",
"falls out",
"follows",
"results",
"turns out",
"goes off",
"proceeds"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun",
"verb"
]
},
"happen":{
"to take place":{
"examples":[
"did anything exciting happen over the summer?"
],
"synonyms":[
"be",
"befall",
"betide",
"chance",
"come",
"come about",
"come down",
"come off",
"cook",
"do",
"go down",
"go on",
"hap",
"occur",
"pass",
"transpire"
],
"near synonyms":[
"break",
"develop",
"rise",
"shape (up)",
"arise",
"come up",
"crop (up)",
"materialize",
"spring (up)",
"intervene",
"fall out",
"follow",
"result",
"turn out",
"go off",
"proceed"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"happy hunting ground":{
"as in glory , promised land":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"Beulah",
"glory",
"nirvana",
"promised land",
"Valhalla",
"above",
"bliss",
"elysian fields",
"Elysium",
"empyrean",
"heaven",
"kingdom come",
"New Jerusalem",
"paradise",
"sky",
"Zion",
"Sion",
"afterlife",
"afterworld",
"hereafter",
"otherworld"
],
"near antonyms":[
"Gehenna",
"hell",
"Pandemonium",
"perdition",
"inferno",
"limbo",
"purgatory",
"hades",
"netherworld",
"underworld",
"abyss",
"pit"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"as in playground , hot spot":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"hive",
"hotbed",
"hot spot",
"playground",
"playland",
"headquarters",
"kernel",
"nub",
"pith",
"axis",
"base",
"capital",
"center",
"central",
"core",
"cynosure",
"epicenter",
"eye",
"focus",
"ground zero",
"heart",
"hub",
"locus",
"mecca",
"navel",
"nerve center",
"nexus",
"nucleus",
"omphalos",
"seat",
"deep",
"thick",
"essence",
"quintessence",
"soul",
"attraction",
"lodestone",
"loadstone",
"magnet",
"polestar"
],
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"Our meeting was pure happenstance .",
"We met each other by happenstance ."
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"those are some happening duds, man"
],
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"saucy",
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"chichi",
"classy",
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"haute",
"haut",
"nobby",
"posh",
"ritzy",
"soign\u00e9",
"soign\u00e9e",
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"handsome",
"majestic",
"refined",
"sophisticated",
"stately",
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"doggy",
"flashy",
"gallant",
"dandyish",
"dudish",
"foppish",
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"ultracool",
"ultrahip",
"ultraposh",
"ultrasmart",
"ultrasophisticated"
],
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"unattractive",
"unbecoming",
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"inelegant",
"tasteless",
"trashy",
"unhandsome",
"frowsy",
"frowzy",
"sloppy",
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"unkempt",
"untidy",
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"dishevelled",
"messy",
"mussy",
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"wrinkled",
"shabby",
"sleazy"
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"out",
"outmoded",
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"uncool",
"unfashionable",
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"abubble",
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"bustling",
"busy",
"buzzing",
"flourishing",
"hopping",
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"stirring",
"thriving",
"vibrant"
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"abounding",
"crowded",
"overflowing",
"populous",
"swarming",
"teeming",
"thronging"
],
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"asleep",
"dead",
"inactive",
"lifeless",
"sleepy"
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"that might be a happening outfit right now, but not on a woman who'll never see 40 again"
],
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"big",
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"du jour",
"faddish",
"faddy",
"fashionable",
"favorite",
"hot",
"in",
"large",
"modish",
"pop",
"popular",
"popularized",
"red-hot",
"vogue",
"voguish"
],
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"semipopular",
"preferred",
"selected",
"desirable",
"liked",
"wanted",
"celebrated",
"famed",
"famous",
"noted",
"notorious",
"prominent",
"renowned",
"well-known",
"fabled",
"fabulous",
"legendary",
"leading",
"notable",
"outstanding",
"prominent",
"remarkable",
"important",
"significant"
],
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"washed-up",
"despised",
"detested",
"disliked",
"hated",
"rejected",
"insignificant",
"unimportant",
"indistinguished",
"unexceptional",
"anonymous",
"nameless",
"obscure",
"unknown",
"inconspicuous"
],
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"out",
"unfashionable",
"unpopular"
]
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"the President's visit to the school was a real happening for teachers and students alike"
],
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"emprise",
"experience",
"exploit",
"gest",
"geste",
"time"
],
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"escapade",
"lark",
"ploy",
"act",
"action",
"deed",
"doing",
"feat",
"episode",
"occasion",
"baptism",
"ordeal",
"test",
"trial",
"tribulation",
"enterprise",
"risk",
"venture",
"expedition",
"exploration",
"mission",
"performance",
"quest",
"stunt"
],
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"bore",
"bummer",
"bust",
"downer",
"drag"
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},
"something that happens":{
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"gave a detailed account of all the happenings of the weekend"
],
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"circumstance",
"episode",
"event",
"hap",
"incident",
"occasion",
"occurrence",
"thing"
],
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"coincidence",
"co-occurrence",
"fluke",
"freak",
"landmark",
"milepost",
"milestone",
"page",
"phenomenon",
"turning point",
"adventure",
"experience",
"time",
"happenchance",
"happenstance",
"accident",
"crisis",
"emergency",
"juncture",
"achievement",
"deed",
"exploit",
"feat",
"news",
"tidings"
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"to take place":{
"examples":[
"did anything exciting happen over the summer?"
],
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"befalling",
"being",
"betiding",
"chancing",
"coming",
"coming about",
"coming down",
"coming off",
"cooking",
"doing",
"going down",
"going on",
"happing",
"occurring",
"passing",
"transpiring"
],
"near synonyms":[
"breaking",
"developing",
"rising",
"shaping (up)",
"arising",
"coming up",
"cropping (up)",
"materializing",
"springing (up)",
"intervening",
"falling out",
"following",
"resulting",
"turning out",
"going off",
"proceeding"
],
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},
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"adjective",
"noun",
"verb"
]
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"happened upon the hotel manager in the lobby and promptly complained about the room"
],
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"encountered",
"met",
"stumbled (upon)"
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"accosted",
"confronted",
"faced",
"greeted",
"saluted",
"collided (with)",
"crashed (into)",
"crisscrossed",
"crossed",
"passed",
"hit (upon)",
"lit (upon)",
"lighted (upon)",
"tumbled (to)",
"reencountered",
"re-encountered",
"remet"
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"near antonyms":[
"avoided",
"dodged",
"ducked",
"eluded",
"escaped",
"evaded",
"shook",
"shunned"
],
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},
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"verb"
]
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"as in uncertainties , fortuities":{
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"fortuities",
"uncertainties",
"accidents",
"casualties",
"chances",
"circumstances",
"haps",
"hazards",
"luck",
"flukes",
"happenchances",
"happenstances",
"destinies",
"dooms",
"fates",
"fortunes",
"lots",
"dangers",
"perils",
"risks"
],
"near antonyms":[
"intentions",
"intents",
"purposes",
"designs",
"outlines",
"plans",
"schemes"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"happens":{
"to take place":{
"examples":[
"did anything exciting happen over the summer?"
],
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"befalls",
"betides",
"chances",
"comes",
"comes about",
"comes down",
"comes off",
"cooks",
"does",
"goes down",
"goes on",
"haps",
"is",
"occurs",
"passes",
"transpires"
],
"near synonyms":[
"breaks",
"develops",
"rises",
"shapes (up)",
"arises",
"comes up",
"crops (up)",
"materializes",
"springs (up)",
"intervenes",
"falls out",
"follows",
"results",
"turns out",
"goes off",
"proceeds"
],
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},
"type":[
"verb"
]
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"to come upon face-to-face or as if face-to-face":{
"examples":[
"happened upon the hotel manager in the lobby and promptly complained about the room"
],
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"catches",
"chances (upon)",
"encounters",
"meets",
"stumbles (upon)"
],
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"accosts",
"confronts",
"faces",
"greets",
"salutes",
"collides (with)",
"crashes (into)",
"crisscrosses",
"crosses",
"passes",
"hits (upon)",
"lights (upon)",
"tumbles (to)",
"reencounters",
"remeets"
],
"near antonyms":[
"avoids",
"dodges",
"ducks",
"eludes",
"escapes",
"evades",
"shakes",
"shuns"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
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"an exciting or noteworthy event that one experiences firsthand":{
"examples":[
"the President's visit to the school was a real happening for teachers and students alike"
],
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"adventures",
"emprises",
"experiences",
"exploits",
"gests",
"gestes",
"times"
],
"near synonyms":[
"escapades",
"larks",
"ploys",
"actions",
"acts",
"deeds",
"doings",
"feats",
"episodes",
"occasions",
"baptisms",
"ordeals",
"tests",
"trials",
"tribulations",
"enterprises",
"risks",
"ventures",
"expeditions",
"explorations",
"missions",
"performances",
"quests",
"stunts"
],
"near antonyms":[
"bores",
"bummers",
"busts",
"downers",
"drags"
],
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},
"something that happens":{
"examples":[
"gave a detailed account of all the happenings of the weekend"
],
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"affairs",
"circumstances",
"episodes",
"events",
"haps",
"incidents",
"occasions",
"occurrences",
"things"
],
"near synonyms":[
"coincidences",
"co-occurrences",
"flukes",
"freaks",
"landmarks",
"mileposts",
"milestones",
"pages",
"phenomena",
"phenomenons",
"turning points",
"adventures",
"experiences",
"times",
"happenchances",
"happenstances",
"accidents",
"crises",
"emergencies",
"junctures",
"achievements",
"deeds",
"exploits",
"feats",
"news",
"tidings"
],
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},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
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"something that happens by chance":{
"examples":[
"Our meeting was pure happenstance .",
"We met each other by happenstance ."
],
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"happenchance",
"affair",
"circumstance",
"episode",
"event",
"hap",
"happening",
"incident",
"occasion",
"occurrence",
"thing",
"coincidence",
"co-occurrence",
"fluke",
"freak",
"landmark",
"milepost",
"milestone",
"page",
"phenomenon",
"turning point",
"adventure",
"experience",
"time",
"accident",
"crisis",
"emergency",
"juncture"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"happy talk":{
"as in crosstalk":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"crosstalk",
"debate",
"dialogue",
"dialog",
"exchange",
"give-and-take",
"yak",
"yack",
"yammer",
"yap",
"colloquy",
"conference",
"discourse",
"parley",
"symposium",
"backchat",
"cackle",
"causerie",
"chat",
"chatter",
"chin music",
"chin-wag",
"chitchat",
"confab",
"confabulation",
"gab",
"gabfest",
"gossip",
"jangle",
"jaw",
"natter",
"palaver",
"patter",
"rap",
"schmooze",
"small talk",
"table talk",
"talk",
"t\u00eate-\u00e0-t\u00eate"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"happily":{
"in a cheerful or happy manner":{
"examples":[
"happily accepted the invitation to dinner"
],
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"brightly",
"cheerfully",
"cheerily",
"gaily",
"gayly",
"heartily",
"jocosely",
"jovially",
"merrily",
"mirthfully",
"smilingly"
],
"near synonyms":[
"amusedly",
"exuberantly",
"giddily",
"gigglingly",
"joyfully",
"joyously",
"blithely",
"blithesomely",
"breezily",
"gladly",
"gladsomely",
"laughingly",
"lightheartedly",
"sunnily",
"amicably",
"friendlily",
"friendly",
"good-humoredly",
"good-naturedly",
"jocularly",
"hopefully",
"optimistically",
"sanguinely",
"blissfully",
"elatedly",
"euphorically",
"rapturously"
],
"near antonyms":[
"abjectly",
"dejectedly",
"despondently",
"disconsolately",
"dispiritedly",
"wretchedly",
"dolefully",
"dolorously",
"forlornly",
"mournfully",
"plaintively",
"sorrowfully",
"dourly",
"glumly",
"mirthlessly",
"sourly",
"sternly",
"sulkily",
"sullenly",
"blackly",
"dismally",
"drearily",
"gloomily",
"pessimistically"
],
"antonyms":[
"bleakly",
"cheerlessly",
"darkly",
"heavily",
"miserably",
"morosely",
"unhappily"
]
},
"in a manner suitable for the occasion or purpose":{
"examples":[
"one of those rare occasions on which business and pleasure happily mixed"
],
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"appositely",
"appropriately",
"congruously",
"correctly",
"duly",
"fittingly",
"meetly",
"properly",
"right",
"rightly",
"suitably"
],
"near synonyms":[
"well",
"acceptably",
"adequately",
"passably",
"satisfactorily",
"tolerably",
"decently",
"decorously"
],
"near antonyms":[
"unacceptably",
"unsatisfactorily",
"inopportunely",
"unfortunately",
"unseasonably",
"inappositely",
"inaptly",
"irrelevantly",
"awkwardly",
"ungracefully"
],
"antonyms":[
"improperly",
"inappropriately",
"incongruously",
"incorrectly",
"unseemly",
"unsuitably",
"wrongly"
]
},
"type":[
"adverb"
]
},
"happen (on or upon)":{
"to come upon unexpectedly or by chance":{
"examples":[
"happened on the filming of a movie"
],
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"chance (upon)",
"encounter",
"find",
"hit (upon)",
"light (on or upon)",
"meet",
"pitch (upon)",
"stumble (on or onto)",
"tumble (upon)"
],
"near synonyms":[
"luck (out, on, onto, or into)",
"confront",
"face",
"discover",
"strike",
"turn up"
],
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"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"haphazardry":{
"as in uncertainty , fortuity":{
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"near synonyms":[
"fortuitousness",
"fortuity",
"randomness",
"uncertainty",
"accident",
"casualty",
"chance",
"circumstance",
"hap",
"hazard",
"luck",
"fluke",
"happenchance",
"happenstance",
"destiny",
"doom",
"fate",
"fortune",
"lot",
"danger",
"peril",
"risk"
],
"near antonyms":[
"intent",
"intention",
"purpose",
"design",
"outline",
"plan",
"scheme"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
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"coming or happening by good luck especially unexpectedly":{
"examples":[
"a happy discovery, finding the letter that would prove her innocence"
],
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"fluky",
"flukey",
"fortuitous",
"fortunate",
"heaven-sent",
"lucky",
"providential"
],
"near synonyms":[
"convenient",
"opportune",
"seasonable",
"timely",
"unexpected",
"unforeseen",
"unlooked-for",
"accidental",
"chance",
"coincidental",
"serendipitous",
"auspicious",
"bright",
"encouraging",
"fair",
"heartening",
"hopeful",
"promising",
"propitious",
"benign",
"favorable",
"golden",
"good",
"halcyon",
"advantageous",
"beneficial",
"profitable"
],
"near antonyms":[
"inconvenient",
"inopportune",
"unseasonable",
"untimely",
"anticipated",
"expected",
"foreseen",
"deliberate",
"intentional",
"planned",
"inauspicious",
"unpromising",
"calamitous",
"catastrophic",
"disastrous"
],
"antonyms":[
"hapless",
"ill-fated",
"ill-starred",
"luckless",
"star-crossed",
"unfortunate",
"unhappy",
"unlucky"
]
},
"experiencing pleasure, satisfaction, or delight":{
"examples":[
"made bread for the first time and was happy with the tasty result"
],
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"blissful",
"chuffed",
"delighted",
"glad",
"gratified",
"joyful",
"joyous",
"pleased",
"satisfied",
"thankful",
"tickled"
],
"near synonyms":[
"beaming",
"blithe",
"blithesome",
"buoyant",
"cheerful",
"cheery",
"gay",
"gladsome",
"lighthearted",
"sunny",
"upbeat",
"gleeful",
"jocund",
"jolly",
"jovial",
"laughing",
"merry",
"mirthful",
"smiling",
"beatific",
"ecstatic",
"elated",
"enraptured",
"entranced",
"euphoric",
"exhilarated",
"intoxicated",
"rapturous",
"rhapsodic",
"rhapsodical",
"exuberant",
"exultant",
"jubilant",
"rapt",
"rejoicing",
"thrilled",
"hopeful",
"optimistic",
"rosy",
"sanguine"
],
"near antonyms":[
"abject",
"aggrieved",
"anguished",
"blue",
"brokenhearted",
"dejected",
"depressed",
"despondent",
"disconsolate",
"disheartened",
"downcast",
"downhearted",
"forlorn",
"melancholy",
"doleful",
"dolorous",
"lachrymose",
"mournful",
"plaintive",
"sorrowful",
"sorry",
"woeful",
"black",
"dark",
"desolate",
"dispirited",
"gloomy",
"glum",
"gray",
"grey",
"grieved",
"heartbroken",
"heartsick",
"miserable",
"woebegone",
"wretched"
],
"antonyms":[
"displeased",
"dissatisfied",
"joyless",
"sad",
"unhappy",
"unpleased",
"unsatisfied"
]
},
"feeling that one's needs or desires have been met":{
"examples":[
"has been much happier ever since she moved"
],
"synonyms":[
"content",
"contented",
"gratified",
"pleased",
"satisfied"
],
"near synonyms":[
"blissful",
"delighted",
"glad",
"joyful",
"joyous",
"jubilant",
"rejoicing",
"tickled",
"ecstatic",
"elated",
"enraptured",
"euphoric",
"overjoyed",
"rapturous",
"thrilled",
"appeased",
"mollified",
"pacified",
"placated"
],
"near antonyms":[
"disaffected",
"disgruntled",
"displeased",
"unsatisfied",
"abject",
"aggrieved",
"anguished",
"brokenhearted",
"dejected",
"depressed",
"despondent",
"disconsolate",
"discouraged",
"disheartened",
"dispirited",
"downcast",
"downhearted"
],
"antonyms":[
"discontent",
"discontented",
"displeased",
"dissatisfied",
"malcontent",
"malcontented",
"unhappy"
]
},
"having good luck":{
"examples":[
"the happy person who is both appreciated and rewarded for all his hard work"
],
"synonyms":[
"fortunate",
"lucky"
],
"near synonyms":[
"blessed",
"blest",
"favored",
"gifted",
"privileged",
"fair",
"golden",
"promising",
"hot"
],
"near antonyms":[
"cursed",
"curst",
"disadvantaged"
],
"antonyms":[
"hapless",
"ill-fated",
"ill-starred",
"luckless",
"snakebit",
"snakebitten",
"star-crossed",
"unfortunate",
"unhappy",
"unlucky"
]
},
"meeting the requirements of a purpose or situation":{
"examples":[
"the wine was a happy complement to such a fine meal"
],
"synonyms":[
"applicable",
"appropriate",
"apt",
"becoming",
"befitting",
"felicitous",
"fit",
"fitted",
"fitting",
"good",
"meet",
"pretty",
"proper",
"right",
"suitable"
],
"near synonyms":[
"condign",
"deserved",
"just",
"justified",
"needed",
"required",
"requisite",
"able",
"capable",
"competent",
"cut out",
"qualified",
"trained",
"pitch-perfect",
"acceptable",
"adequate",
"decent",
"kosher",
"satisfactory",
"serviceable",
"tolerable",
"correct",
"decorous",
"respectable",
"seemly",
"balanced",
"companionate",
"congruous",
"consonant",
"harmonious",
"rightful"
],
"near antonyms":[
"incapable",
"incompetent",
"inept",
"inexpert",
"unqualified",
"unskilled",
"unskillful",
"untrained",
"inadequate",
"intolerable",
"unacceptable",
"unsatisfactory",
"graceless",
"incorrect",
"indecorous",
"incompatible",
"uncongenial"
],
"antonyms":[
"improper",
"inapplicable",
"inapposite",
"inappropriate",
"inapt",
"incongruous",
"indecent",
"infelicitous",
"malapropos",
"misbecoming",
"unapt",
"unbecoming",
"unbeseeming",
"unfit",
"unfitting",
"unhappy",
"unmeet",
"unseemly",
"unsuitable",
"wrong"
]
},
"having extreme or relentless concern":{
"examples":[
"poll- happy pundits just care about which political candidate is winning, and never about the issues"
],
"synonyms":[
"hung up",
"obsessed",
"queer"
],
"near synonyms":[
"absorbed",
"anxious",
"concerned",
"distracted",
"engaged",
"engrossed",
"full",
"involved",
"knee-deep",
"occupied",
"preoccupied",
"prepossessed",
"worried",
"ardent",
"crazy",
"dotty",
"fervent",
"fervid",
"feverish",
"foolish",
"impassioned",
"nuts",
"passionate",
"silly"
],
"near antonyms":[
"apathetic",
"casual",
"cool",
"detached",
"disinterested",
"dispassionate",
"incurious",
"indifferent",
"insouciant",
"nonchalant",
"unconcerned",
"uncurious",
"unenthusiastic",
"uninterested",
"uninvolved"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"adjective"
]
},
"happy hunting grounds":{
"as in glories , promised lands":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"glories",
"nirvanas",
"promised lands",
"Valhallas",
"above",
"blisses",
"elysian fields",
"Elysiums",
"Elysia",
"empyreans",
"heavens",
"kingdom comes",
"New Jerusalems",
"paradises",
"skies",
"Zions",
"Sions",
"afterlives",
"afterworlds",
"hereafters",
"otherworlds"
],
"near antonyms":[
"Gehennas",
"hells",
"Pandemoniums",
"perditions",
"infernos",
"limbos",
"purgatories",
"netherworlds",
"underworlds",
"abysses",
"pits"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"as in playgrounds , hot spots":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"hives",
"hotbeds",
"hot spots",
"playgrounds",
"playlands",
"headquarters",
"kernels",
"nubs",
"piths",
"axes",
"bases",
"capitals",
"centers",
"centrals",
"cores",
"cynosures",
"epicenters",
"eyes",
"foci",
"focuses",
"ground zeros",
"hearts",
"hubs",
"loci",
"meccas",
"navels",
"nerve centers",
"nexuses",
"nexus",
"nuclei",
"nucleuses",
"omphali",
"seats",
"deeps",
"thicks",
"essences",
"quintessences",
"souls",
"attractions",
"lodestones",
"loadstones",
"magnets",
"polestars"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[]
},
"happens (on or upon)":{
"to come upon unexpectedly or by chance":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[
"chances (upon)",
"encounters",
"finds",
"hits (upon)",
"lights (on or upon)",
"meets",
"pitches (upon)",
"stumbles (on or onto)",
"tumbles (upon)"
],
"near synonyms":[
"lucks (out, on, onto, or into)",
"confronts",
"faces",
"discovers",
"strikes",
"turns up"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[]
},
"hapless":{
"having, prone to, or marked by bad luck":{
"examples":[
"the hapless motorist had barely paid his bill and driven away from the body shop when a truck sideswiped his car"
],
"synonyms":[
"hard-luck",
"ill-fated",
"ill-starred",
"jinxed",
"luckless",
"snakebit",
"snakebitten",
"star-crossed",
"unfortunate",
"unhappy",
"unlucky"
],
"near synonyms":[
"adverse",
"ill",
"inauspicious",
"unfavorable",
"unpromising",
"untoward",
"calamitous",
"catastrophic",
"disastrous",
"accursed",
"accurst",
"damned",
"doomed",
"tragic",
"tragical"
],
"near antonyms":[
"blessed",
"blest",
"favored",
"gifted",
"privileged",
"auspicious",
"fair",
"favorable",
"golden",
"promising",
"propitious"
],
"antonyms":[
"fortunate",
"happy",
"lucky"
]
},
"type":[
"adjective"
]
}
}