dict_dl/en_MWThesaurus/rel_MWT.json
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{
"relabelling":{
"as in renaming , rechristening":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"rechristening",
"renaming",
"code-naming",
"nicknaming",
"surnaming",
"miscalling",
"misnaming",
"mistitling",
"denoting",
"specifying",
"branding",
"stigmatizing",
"tagging",
"baptizing",
"baptising",
"calling",
"christening",
"cleping",
"denominating",
"designating",
"dubbing",
"entitling",
"labeling",
"labelling",
"naming",
"nominating",
"styling",
"terming",
"titling"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"relapses":{
"the act or an instance of returning to a usually worse state or condition":{
"examples":[
"She discussed some ways to help avoid a relapse after quitting smoking.",
"After a long period of cancer remission, he suffered a relapse ."
],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"backslides",
"lapses",
"atavisms",
"returns",
"recessions",
"regressions",
"retrogressions",
"reversions",
"breakdowns",
"collapses",
"crashes",
"meltdowns",
"ruins",
"undoings",
"nondevelopments",
"declines",
"degenerations",
"knocks",
"reversals",
"setbacks",
"recrudescences",
"recurrences",
"renewals",
"bursts",
"flares",
"flare-ups",
"flashes",
"flickers",
"flurries",
"flutters",
"outbreaks",
"outbursts",
"spurts"
],
"near antonyms":[
"gestations",
"growths",
"maturations",
"advancements",
"developments",
"evolutions",
"progressions"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to return to a usually worse state or condition":{
"examples":[
"After a few good months of keeping their rooms clean, the kids relapsed into their old untidy habits."
],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"backslides",
"lapses",
"regresses",
"retrogresses",
"returns",
"reverts",
"throws back",
"ebbs",
"declines",
"degenerates",
"drops",
"falls",
"retrogrades",
"worsens"
],
"near antonyms":[
"grows",
"matures",
"ripens",
"advances",
"develops",
"evolves",
"progresses"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun",
"verb"
]
},
"relate":{
"to form a close personal relationship":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"she and I relate so well it's almost like we're siblings"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"related":[
"befriend",
"empathize",
"identify",
"sympathize"
],
"synonyms":[
"bond",
"click",
"commune"
]
},
"to give an oral or written account of in some detail":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"we asked our uncle to relate the story of his visit to communist Russia many years ago"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"related":[
"deliver",
"give",
"reel off",
"state",
"utter",
"voice",
"detail",
"enumerate",
"itemize",
"particularize",
"bare",
"disclose",
"divulge",
"expose",
"let on (about)",
"reveal",
"delineate",
"depict",
"express",
"render",
"sketch"
],
"synonyms":[
"chart",
"chronicle",
"describe",
"narrate",
"recite",
"recount",
"rehearse",
"report",
"tell"
]
},
"to have a relation or connection":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"how does your comment relate to what the rest of us have been talking about for the last hour?"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"related":[
"affect",
"concern",
"interest",
"involve",
"touch",
"associate",
"connect",
"couple",
"interrelate",
"link",
"tie in",
"deal (with)",
"treat"
],
"synonyms":[
"appertain",
"apply",
"bear",
"pertain",
"refer"
]
},
"to think of (something) in combination":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"most Americans probably relate tea to the United Kingdom and coffee to the U.S."
],
"near antonyms":[
"contrast",
"differentiate",
"discriminate",
"distinguish",
"separate",
"set off"
],
"related":[
"compare",
"equate",
"liken",
"group",
"join",
"lump (together)",
"tie (together)"
],
"synonyms":[
"associate",
"connect",
"correlate",
"identify",
"link"
]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"related (to)":{
"as in referred (to) , applied (to)":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"appertained (to)",
"applied (to)",
"bore (on)",
"pertained (to)",
"referred (to)",
"affected",
"concerned",
"involved",
"touched",
"embroiled",
"ensnared",
"entangled",
"implicated"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"relates":{
"to form a close personal relationship":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"she and I relate so well it's almost like we're siblings"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"related":[
"befriends",
"empathizes",
"identifies",
"sympathizes"
],
"synonyms":[
"bonds",
"clicks",
"communes"
]
},
"to give an oral or written account of in some detail":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"we asked our uncle to relate the story of his visit to communist Russia many years ago"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"related":[
"delivers",
"gives",
"reels off",
"states",
"utters",
"voices",
"details",
"enumerates",
"itemizes",
"particularizes",
"bares",
"discloses",
"divulges",
"exposes",
"lets on (about)",
"reveals",
"delineates",
"depicts",
"expresses",
"renders",
"sketches"
],
"synonyms":[
"charts",
"chronicles",
"describes",
"narrates",
"recites",
"recounts",
"rehearses",
"reports",
"tells"
]
},
"to have a relation or connection":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"how does your comment relate to what the rest of us have been talking about for the last hour?"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"related":[
"affects",
"concerns",
"interests",
"involves",
"touches",
"associates",
"connects",
"couples",
"interrelates",
"links",
"ties in",
"deals (with)",
"treats"
],
"synonyms":[
"appertains",
"applies",
"bears",
"pertains",
"refers"
]
},
"to think of (something) in combination":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"most Americans probably relate tea to the United Kingdom and coffee to the U.S."
],
"near antonyms":[
"contrasts",
"differentiates",
"discriminates",
"distinguishes",
"separates",
"sets off"
],
"related":[
"compares",
"equates",
"likens",
"groups",
"joins",
"lumps (together)",
"ties (together)"
],
"synonyms":[
"associates",
"connects",
"correlates",
"identifies",
"links"
]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"relatives":{
"a person connected with another by blood or marriage":{
"examples":[
"it's always fun to see all your relatives at a big family gathering"
],
"synonyms":[
"cousins",
"kins",
"kinsmen",
"relations"
],
"near synonyms":[
"in-laws",
"kissing cousins",
"kinswomen",
"blood",
"clans",
"families",
"folk",
"folks",
"houses",
"kindreds",
"kinfolks",
"kinsfolk",
"lineages",
"lines",
"people",
"races",
"stocks",
"tribes"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"relaunching":{
"as in reinstituting , reinitiating":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[],
"near antonyms":[],
"related":[],
"synonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"relax":{
"to get rid of nervous tension or anxiety":{
"examples":[
"she took deep breaths to relax before going on stage"
],
"synonyms":[
"chill",
"chill out",
"decompress",
"de-stress",
"loosen up",
"mellow (out)",
"unwind",
"wind down"
],
"near synonyms":[
"unbend",
"bask",
"kick back",
"loll",
"lounge",
"repose",
"rest",
"bum",
"dally",
"dawdle",
"dillydally",
"drone",
"footle",
"goof (off)",
"hack (around)",
"hang (around or out)",
"idle",
"laze",
"loaf",
"vegetate",
"veg out",
"zone out",
"alleviate",
"comfort",
"ease",
"relieve",
"calm",
"compose",
"cool",
"quiet",
"settle"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[
"tense (up)"
]
},
"to make less taut":{
"examples":[
"relax the rope a bit so I can pick up the slack and tie this knot"
],
"synonyms":[
"ease",
"loosen",
"slack",
"slacken"
],
"near synonyms":[
"detach",
"free",
"unbind",
"undo",
"unfasten",
"untie"
],
"near antonyms":[
"attach",
"bind",
"fasten",
"tie",
"constrain",
"restrain"
],
"antonyms":[
"strain",
"stretch",
"tense",
"tension",
"tighten"
]
},
"to refrain from labor or exertion":{
"examples":[
"I just want to kick back and relax after mowing that huge lawn"
],
"synonyms":[
"bask",
"kick back",
"loll",
"lounge",
"repose",
"rest"
],
"near synonyms":[
"bum",
"goldbrick",
"hang",
"hang about",
"hang around",
"idle",
"loaf",
"slack (off)",
"veg out"
],
"near antonyms":[
"drudge",
"grub",
"hump",
"hustle",
"labor",
"moil",
"peg (away)",
"plod",
"plow",
"plug",
"slave",
"slog",
"strain",
"strive",
"struggle",
"sweat",
"toil",
"travail",
"work",
"exercise",
"work out"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"relay":{
"to give something (such as information or an object) to someone else":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"They relayed the good news to their children just before leaving for work."
],
"near antonyms":[],
"related":[],
"synonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"releases":{
"a document containing a declaration of an intentional giving up of a right, claim, or privilege":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"we had to sign a liability release before they'd let us go rock climbing on their property"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"related":[
"dispensations",
"exemptions",
"indemnities",
"abdications",
"relinquishments",
"renouncements",
"handovers",
"renunciations",
"surrenders"
],
"synonyms":[
"disclaimers",
"quitclaims",
"waivers"
]
},
"a freeing from an obligation or responsibility":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"because they had legally declared bankruptcy, they received release from their debt"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"related":[
"dispensations",
"exemptions",
"immunities",
"waivers"
],
"synonyms":[
"deliveries",
"discharges",
"quietuses",
"quittances"
]
},
"a published statement informing the public of a matter of general interest":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"a press release announcing that the governor would not run for a second term"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"related":[
"broadsides",
"brochures",
"circulars",
"flyers",
"fliers",
"fly sheets",
"gazettes",
"handbills",
"handouts",
"billboards",
"bills",
"placards",
"playbills",
"posters",
"show bills",
"signs",
"broadcasts",
"cablecasts",
"newscasts",
"telecasts",
"advertisings",
"billings",
"blurbs",
"come-ons",
"commercials",
"messages",
"pitches",
"plugolas",
"spots",
"words",
"communications",
"dispatches",
"reports",
"annunciations",
"declarations",
"edicts",
"proclamations",
"promulgations",
"pronouncements",
"pronunciamentos",
"pronunciamentoes",
"rescripts",
"significations",
"ballyhoos",
"boosts",
"buildups",
"campaigns",
"plugs",
"promos",
"promotions",
"propagandas",
"publicities"
],
"synonyms":[
"ads",
"advertisements",
"adverts",
"announcements",
"bulletins",
"communiqu\u00e9s",
"notices",
"notifications",
"postings"
]
},
"reduction of or freedom from pain":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"only sleep offered any release from the agony of the migraine"
],
"near antonyms":[
"discomforts",
"agonies",
"anguishes",
"miseries",
"sufferings",
"torments",
"tortures",
"aches",
"pains",
"pangs",
"pricks",
"smarts",
"stings",
"stitches",
"throes",
"tingles",
"twinges"
],
"related":[
"appeasements",
"assuagements",
"decreases",
"diminishments",
"mitigations",
"moderations",
"mollifications"
],
"synonyms":[
"alleviations",
"comforts",
"eases",
"reliefs"
]
},
"to find emotional release for":{
"antonyms":[
"bottles (up)",
"represses",
"suppresses"
],
"examples":[
"tried to find other ways of releasing tension than by chewing her fingernails"
],
"near antonyms":[
"controls",
"governs",
"handles",
"manages",
"bridles",
"checks",
"constrains",
"contains",
"curbs",
"holds back",
"pulls in",
"quells",
"reins (in)",
"restrains",
"smothers",
"tames",
"allays",
"lulls",
"quiets",
"soothes",
"stills",
"chokes",
"inhibits",
"muffles",
"pockets",
"represses",
"stifles",
"strangles",
"swallows"
],
"related":[
"acts out",
"airs",
"expresses",
"states",
"ventilates",
"voices"
],
"synonyms":[
"looses",
"takes out",
"unleashes",
"vents"
]
},
"to let go from office, service, or employment":{
"antonyms":[
"employs",
"engages",
"hires",
"retains",
"signs (up or on)",
"takes on"
],
"examples":[
"they released the workers who couldn't handle the new technology"
],
"near antonyms":[
"keeps",
"reemploys",
"rehires",
"contracts",
"subcontracts",
"recruits"
],
"related":[
"downsizes",
"excesses",
"furloughs",
"lays off",
"trims",
"boots (out)",
"chucks (out)",
"drums (out)",
"kicks out",
"throws out",
"unseats",
"separates"
],
"synonyms":[
"axes",
"bounces",
"cans",
"cashiers",
"discharges",
"dismisses",
"fires",
"musters out",
"pink-slips",
"removes",
"retires",
"sacks",
"terminates",
"turns off"
]
},
"to make known openly or publicly":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"the panel of nutritionists released their findings on the safety and effectiveness of various diets"
],
"near antonyms":[
"conceals",
"hushes (up)",
"silences",
"suppresses",
"withholds",
"recalls",
"recants",
"retracts",
"revokes"
],
"related":[
"barks",
"calls (off or out)",
"cries",
"billboards",
"bills",
"bulletins",
"gazettes",
"knells",
"rings",
"tolls",
"blurbs",
"features",
"pitches",
"plugs",
"promotes",
"puffs",
"disseminates",
"spreads",
"discloses",
"divulges",
"introduces",
"kithes",
"manifests",
"reports",
"reveals",
"shows",
"advises",
"apprises",
"hands down",
"informs",
"notifies",
"communicates",
"imparts",
"intimates"
],
"synonyms":[
"advertises",
"announces",
"annunciates",
"blares",
"blazes",
"blazons",
"broadcasts",
"declares",
"enunciates",
"flashes",
"gives out",
"heralds",
"placards",
"posts",
"proclaims",
"promulgates",
"publicizes",
"publishes",
"sounds",
"trumpets"
]
},
"to set free (as from slavery or confinement)":{
"antonyms":[
"binds",
"confines",
"enchains",
"fetters",
"restrains"
],
"examples":[
"release the prisoners immediately"
],
"near antonyms":[
"handcuffs",
"manacles",
"shackles",
"trammels",
"commits",
"immures",
"imprisons",
"incarcerates",
"interns",
"jails",
"locks (up)",
"conquers",
"enslaves",
"subdues",
"subjugates"
],
"related":[
"bails (out)",
"delivers",
"paroles",
"ransoms",
"redeems",
"rescues",
"saves",
"disembarrasses",
"disencumbers",
"disengages",
"disentangles",
"extricates",
"unshackles"
],
"synonyms":[
"discharges",
"disenthralls",
"disenthrals",
"emancipates",
"enfranchises",
"enlarges",
"frees",
"liberates",
"loosens",
"looses",
"manumits",
"springs",
"unbinds",
"uncages",
"unchains",
"unfetters"
]
},
"to set free (from a state of being held in check)":{
"antonyms":[
"bridles",
"checks",
"constrains",
"contains",
"controls",
"curbs",
"governs",
"holds",
"inhibits",
"regulates",
"reins (in)",
"restrains",
"smothers",
"tames"
],
"examples":[
"the losing player released his anger with a great yell of frustration"
],
"near antonyms":[
"handcuffs",
"manacles",
"shackles",
"trammels",
"binds",
"confines",
"enchains",
"fetters",
"halters",
"hampers"
],
"related":[
"discharges",
"emancipates",
"enfranchises",
"frees",
"liberates",
"manumits",
"springs",
"unbinds",
"uncages",
"unchains",
"unfetters",
"unmoors",
"unshackles",
"airs",
"expresses",
"takes out",
"vents"
],
"synonyms":[
"loosens",
"looses",
"uncorks",
"unleashes",
"unlocks",
"unloosens",
"unlooses"
]
},
"to set free from entanglement or difficulty":{
"antonyms":[
"embroils",
"entangles"
],
"examples":[
"the new governor finally managed to release himself from his rash campaign promise"
],
"near antonyms":[
"blocks",
"hampers",
"hinders",
"impedes",
"obstructs",
"burdens",
"encumbers",
"loads",
"weighs"
],
"related":[
"delivers",
"redeems",
"rescues",
"saves",
"disburdens",
"disencumbers",
"unburdens",
"unravels",
"unsnarls",
"unties",
"untwines"
],
"synonyms":[
"clears",
"disembarrasses",
"disengages",
"disentangles",
"extricates",
"frees",
"liberates",
"untangles"
]
},
"to throw or give off":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"an air freshener that releases a pleasing scent into the room"
],
"near antonyms":[
"absorbs",
"inhales",
"soaks (up)",
"sponges",
"sucks (up)",
"takes up"
],
"related":[
"eliminates",
"evacuates",
"excretes",
"exudes",
"oozes",
"secretes",
"ejects",
"erupts",
"gushes",
"jets",
"outpours",
"pours",
"spews",
"spouts",
"sprays",
"spurts",
"squirts"
],
"synonyms":[
"casts",
"discharges",
"emanates",
"emits",
"evolves",
"exhales",
"expels",
"expires",
"gives out",
"irradiates",
"issues",
"radiates",
"sends (out)",
"shoots",
"throws out",
"vents"
]
},
"type":[
"noun",
"verb"
]
},
"relents":{
"to cease resistance (as to another's arguments, demands, or control)":{
"examples":[
"the supervisor finally relented in the face of the petition, and allowed employees to take longer lunch breaks"
],
"synonyms":[
"blinks",
"bows",
"budges",
"capitulates",
"concedes",
"gives in",
"knuckles under",
"quits",
"submits",
"succumbs",
"surrenders",
"yields"
],
"near synonyms":[
"acquiesces",
"defers"
],
"near antonyms":[
"contends",
"fights",
"holds off",
"battles",
"breasts",
"combats",
"confronts",
"counters",
"defies",
"faces",
"meets",
"objects",
"opposes",
"repels",
"thwarts",
"withstands"
],
"antonyms":[
"resists"
]
},
"to grow less in scope or intensity especially gradually":{
"examples":[
"the fury of the storm relented , and the next day the sun finally broke through the clouds"
],
"synonyms":[
"abates",
"declines",
"decreases",
"de-escalates",
"dies (away or down or out)",
"diminishes",
"drains (away)",
"drops (off)",
"dwindles",
"eases",
"ebbs",
"falls",
"falls away",
"lessens",
"lets up",
"lowers",
"moderates",
"palls",
"phases down",
"ratchets (down)",
"rachets (down)",
"recedes",
"remits",
"shrinks",
"subsides",
"tapers",
"tapers off",
"wanes"
],
"near synonyms":[
"compresses",
"condenses",
"constricts",
"contracts",
"evaporates",
"fades (away)",
"fritters (away)",
"gives out",
"melts (away)",
"peters (out)",
"tails (off)",
"vanishes",
"slackens",
"slows (down)",
"alleviates",
"relaxes",
"flags",
"sinks",
"weakens",
"caves (in)",
"collapses",
"deflates"
],
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"appears",
"emerges",
"shows up",
"blows up",
"distends",
"elongates",
"lengthens"
],
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"accumulates",
"balloons",
"builds",
"burgeons",
"bourgeons",
"enlarges",
"escalates",
"expands",
"grows",
"increases",
"intensifies",
"mounts",
"mushrooms",
"picks up",
"rises",
"snowballs",
"soars",
"swells",
"waxes"
]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
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"the fact or state of being pertinent":{
"examples":[
"I appreciate that you did the dishes tonight, but that has no relevance to my enforcement of the punishment you got earlier this week"
],
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"applicability",
"bearing",
"connection",
"materiality",
"pertinence",
"relevancy"
],
"near synonyms":[
"appositeness",
"appropriateness",
"aptness",
"felicitousness",
"fitness",
"fittingness",
"rightness",
"seemliness",
"suitability",
"suitableness",
"importance",
"significance",
"usefulness"
],
"near antonyms":[
"inappositeness",
"inappropriateness",
"inaptness",
"infelicity",
"unfitness",
"unsuitability",
"insignificance",
"meaninglessness",
"pointlessness",
"uselessness"
],
"antonyms":[
"extraneousness",
"inapplicability",
"irrelevance",
"irrelevancy"
]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"relevant":{
"having to do with the matter at hand":{
"examples":[
"make sure your comments during the interview are short and relevant"
],
"synonyms":[
"applicable",
"apposite",
"apropos",
"germane",
"material",
"pertinent",
"pointed",
"relative"
],
"near synonyms":[
"appropriate",
"apt",
"fit",
"fitting",
"suitable",
"important",
"meaningful",
"significant",
"sensible",
"useful",
"admissible",
"allowable"
],
"near antonyms":[
"frivolous",
"inconsequential",
"insignificant",
"little",
"minor",
"negligible",
"slight",
"trifling",
"trivial",
"unimportant",
"meaningless",
"purposeless",
"senseless",
"useless",
"inappropriate",
"inapt",
"unsuitable",
"inadmissible"
],
"antonyms":[
"extraneous",
"immaterial",
"impertinent",
"inapplicable",
"inapposite",
"irrelative",
"irrelevant",
"pointless"
]
},
"type":[
"adjective"
]
},
"reliable":{
"worthy of one's trust":{
"examples":[
"I need a reliable car that's not going to break down constantly"
],
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"calculable",
"dependable",
"good",
"responsible",
"safe",
"secure",
"solid",
"steady",
"sure",
"tried",
"tried-and-true",
"true",
"trustable",
"trustworthy",
"trusty"
],
"near synonyms":[
"constant",
"devoted",
"faithful",
"fast",
"loyal",
"staunch",
"stanch",
"steadfast",
"true-blue",
"honest",
"sincere",
"single-minded",
"infallible",
"unerring",
"bedrock",
"firm",
"sound",
"strong",
"effective",
"telling",
"attested",
"authenticated",
"confirmed",
"proven",
"valid",
"validated",
"verified",
"blameless",
"faultless",
"guiltless",
"impeccable",
"inerrant",
"irreproachable",
"unimpeachable",
"unquestionable"
],
"near antonyms":[
"disloyal",
"faithless",
"false",
"fickle",
"inconstant",
"perfidious",
"recreant",
"traitorous",
"treacherous",
"unfaithful",
"untrue",
"deceitful",
"dishonest",
"lying",
"mendacious",
"untruthful",
"debatable",
"disputable",
"doubtable",
"doubtful",
"dubious",
"fishy",
"problematic",
"problematical",
"questionable",
"shady",
"shaky",
"suspect",
"uncertain",
"unsound",
"hazardous",
"risky",
"unconfirmed",
"untried"
],
"antonyms":[
"dodgy",
"uncertain",
"undependable",
"unreliable",
"unsafe",
"untrustworthy"
]
},
"type":[
"adjective"
]
},
"reliableness":{
"worthiness as the recipient of another's trust or confidence":{
"examples":[
"the proven reliableness of that brand of household appliances"
],
"synonyms":[
"dependability",
"dependableness",
"reliability",
"responsibility",
"solidity",
"solidness",
"sureness",
"trustability",
"trustworthiness"
],
"near synonyms":[
"inerrancy",
"infallibility",
"credibility",
"creditability",
"creditableness"
],
"near antonyms":[
"doubtfulness",
"dubiousness",
"questionableness",
"shakiness",
"uncertainness"
],
"antonyms":[
"dodginess",
"unreliability"
]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"relic":{
"a dead body":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"though it is believed that missionary died in New Guinea, his relics have never been found"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"related":[
"mummy",
"carnage",
"carrion",
"ashes",
"deceased",
"decedent"
],
"synonyms":[
"bones",
"cadaver",
"carcass",
"corpse",
"corpus",
"corse",
"remains",
"stiff"
]
},
"a tiny often physical indication of something lost or vanished":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"a crude stone ax and other relics of the Neanderthals"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"related":[
"memento",
"remembrance",
"reminder",
"artifact",
"afterimage",
"aftertaste",
"balance",
"corpse",
"hangover",
"leftover",
"oddment",
"remainder",
"remnant",
"scrap",
"dreg(s)",
"leavings",
"remain(s)",
"residual",
"residue",
"rest"
],
"synonyms":[
"echo",
"ghost",
"shadow",
"trace",
"vestige"
]
},
"one that has passed the peak of effectiveness or popularity":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"his courtly manners marked him as a relic of a more refined and formal era"
],
"near antonyms":[
"comer",
"rising star",
"up-and-comer"
],
"related":[
"dodo",
"fogy",
"fogey",
"fossil",
"old-timer",
"fuddy-duddy",
"mossback",
"stick-in-the-mud",
"stodge",
"troglodyte",
"throwback"
],
"synonyms":[
"dinosaur",
"has-been"
]
},
"something belonging to or surviving from an earlier period":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"in my grandparents' attic are many \"groovy\" relics from the 1960s"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"related":[
"artifact",
"fossil",
"dinosaur",
"antiquities",
"ruins",
"hangover",
"remains",
"remnant",
"trace",
"vestige"
],
"synonyms":[
"antique",
"museum piece"
]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"relief":{
"a feeling of ease from grief or trouble":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"my coworkers' kind words gave me some relief from the grief that I was feeling upon the death of my partner"
],
"near antonyms":[
"anguish",
"distress",
"heartache",
"heartbreak",
"torment",
"torture"
],
"related":[
"encouragement",
"inspiration",
"uplift",
"assurance",
"reassurance",
"alleviation",
"assuagement",
"mitigation",
"contentment",
"gladness",
"happiness",
"commiseration",
"empathy",
"sympathy",
"aid",
"assistance",
"help",
"succor"
],
"synonyms":[
"cheer",
"comfort",
"consolation",
"solace"
]
},
"a person or thing that takes the place of another":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"I can't go home from my nursing shift until my relief shows up to take over"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"related":[
"alternate",
"understudy",
"apology",
"makeshift",
"stopgap",
"agent",
"assignee",
"attorney",
"commissary",
"delegate",
"deputy",
"envoy",
"factor",
"procurator",
"proxy",
"rep",
"representative",
"surrogate",
"assistant",
"reliever",
"second",
"successor",
"superseder"
],
"synonyms":[
"backup",
"cover",
"designated hitter",
"fill-in",
"locum tenens",
"pinch hitter",
"replacement",
"reserve",
"stand-in",
"sub",
"substitute"
]
},
"reduction of or freedom from pain":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"the aspirin gave him some relief from the headache"
],
"near antonyms":[
"discomfort",
"unrest",
"agony",
"anguish",
"misery",
"suffering",
"torment",
"torture",
"ache",
"pain",
"pang",
"prick",
"smart",
"sting",
"stitch",
"throe",
"tingle",
"twinge"
],
"related":[
"appeasement",
"assuagement",
"decrease",
"diminishment",
"mitigation",
"moderation",
"mollification",
"calming",
"salving",
"soothing"
],
"synonyms":[
"alleviation",
"comfort",
"ease",
"release"
]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"relief maps":{
"as in plans , maps":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"ground plans",
"plans",
"plats",
"plots",
"charts",
"maps"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"reliever":{
"as in":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[],
"near antonyms":[],
"related":[],
"synonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"relieving":{
"as in easing":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[],
"near antonyms":[],
"related":[],
"synonyms":[]
},
"to make more bearable or less severe":{
"antonyms":[
"aggravating",
"exacerbating"
],
"examples":[
"an ice pack will relieve the swelling"
],
"near antonyms":[
"harming",
"hurting",
"impairing",
"injuring",
"heightening",
"intensifying",
"sharpening"
],
"related":[
"abating",
"lightening",
"moderating",
"softening",
"tempering",
"curing",
"healing",
"remedying",
"amending",
"correcting",
"emending",
"fixing",
"mending",
"rectifying",
"reforming",
"repairing",
"ameliorating",
"bettering",
"enhancing",
"enriching",
"improving",
"meliorating",
"perfecting",
"refining"
],
"synonyms":[
"allaying",
"alleviating",
"assuaging",
"easing",
"helping",
"mitigating",
"mollifying",
"palliating",
"soothing"
]
},
"to set (a person or thing) free of something that encumbers":{
"antonyms":[
"burdening",
"encumbering",
"saddling"
],
"examples":[
"the bellhop relieved him of his luggage and led him to the elevator"
],
"near antonyms":[
"bogging (down)",
"fettering",
"hampering",
"restraining",
"shackling",
"subjecting",
"weighing down",
"weighting (down)"
],
"related":[
"discharging",
"emancipating",
"enfranchising",
"liberating",
"loosening",
"loosing",
"manumitting",
"releasing",
"springing",
"unbinding",
"uncaging",
"unchaining",
"unfettering",
"bailing (out)",
"delivering",
"redeeming",
"rescuing",
"disengaging",
"disentangling",
"extricating"
],
"synonyms":[
"clearing",
"disburdening",
"disencumbering",
"divesting",
"freeing",
"ridding",
"unburdening"
]
},
"to take the place of":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"at daybreak a soldier arrived to relieve the one who had spent the night on guard duty"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"related":[
"preempting",
"usurping"
],
"synonyms":[
"cutting out",
"displacing",
"displanting",
"replacing",
"substituting",
"superseding",
"supplanting"
]
},
"type":[
"adjective",
"verb"
]
},
"relishable":{
"as in attractive , tempting":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"alluring",
"attractive",
"desirable",
"enviable",
"inviting",
"tempting",
"agreeable",
"blessed",
"blest",
"congenial",
"darling",
"delectable",
"delicious",
"delightful",
"delightsome",
"dreamy",
"dulcet",
"enjoyable",
"felicitous",
"good",
"grateful",
"gratifying",
"heavenly",
"jolly",
"luscious",
"nice",
"palatable",
"pleasant",
"pleasing",
"pleasurable",
"pretty",
"satisfying",
"savory",
"savoury",
"sweet",
"tasty",
"welcome",
"charming",
"enchanting",
"fascinating",
"admirable",
"estimable",
"laudable",
"affable",
"amiable",
"cheerful",
"cheery",
"comfortable",
"gem\u00fctlich",
"genial",
"goodly",
"good-natured",
"gracious",
"hospitable",
"kindly",
"personable"
],
"near antonyms":[
"undesirable",
"unenviable",
"abominable",
"ghastly",
"god-awful",
"hellish",
"horrid",
"miserable",
"wretched",
"bilious",
"disgusting",
"distasteful",
"obnoxious",
"offensive",
"repellent",
"repellant",
"repugnant",
"repulsive",
"revulsive",
"unsavory",
"vile",
"yucky",
"yukky",
"abhorrent",
"detestable",
"hateful",
"odious",
"deplorable",
"lamentable",
"regrettable",
"disagreeable",
"pleasureless",
"unpalatable",
"unpleasant",
"unwelcome"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"adjective"
]
},
"reluctance":{
"a lack of willingness or desire to do or accept something":{
"examples":[
"the mice showed an odd reluctance to eat the cheese we had put out for them"
],
"synonyms":[
"disinclination",
"hesitance",
"hesitancy",
"reticence",
"unwillingness"
],
"near synonyms":[
"faltering",
"fence-sitting",
"hesitation",
"indecision",
"irresolution",
"shilly-shallying",
"staggering",
"vacillation",
"wavering",
"wobbling",
"wabbling",
"distrust",
"distrustfulness",
"doubt",
"incertitude",
"misdoubt",
"misgiving",
"mistrust",
"mistrustfulness",
"skepticism",
"suspicion",
"uncertainness",
"uncertainty"
],
"near antonyms":[
"assurance",
"assuredness",
"certainty",
"certitude",
"conviction",
"positiveness",
"sureness",
"surety"
],
"antonyms":[
"inclination",
"willingness"
]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"reluctant":{
"slow to begin or proceed with a course of action because of doubts or uncertainty":{
"examples":[
"I'm reluctant to let you borrow my vintage CDs since you never give back anything I lend you"
],
"synonyms":[
"cagey",
"cagy",
"disinclined",
"dubious",
"hesitant",
"indisposed",
"loath",
"loth",
"loathe",
"reticent"
],
"near synonyms":[
"uneager",
"unenthusiastic",
"averse",
"unwilling",
"ambivalent",
"conflicted",
"doubtful",
"faltering",
"halting",
"indecisive",
"infirm",
"irresolute",
"questioning",
"skeptical",
"uncertain",
"undecided",
"unsure",
"vacillating",
"wobbly",
"wabbly",
"fainthearted",
"shy",
"timid"
],
"near antonyms":[
"eager",
"enthusiastic",
"glad",
"happy",
"keen",
"ready",
"willing",
"certain",
"decided",
"determined",
"resolute",
"sure",
"unquestioning"
],
"antonyms":[
"disposed",
"inclined"
]
},
"type":[
"adjective"
]
},
"relabeled":{
"as in renamed , rechristened":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"related":[],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"relucent":{
"as in glowing , agleam":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"ablaze",
"agleam",
"aglitter",
"alight",
"beaming",
"beamy",
"effulgent",
"glaring",
"glowing",
"incandescent",
"lambent",
"radiant",
"resplendent",
"shining",
"sparkling",
"bright",
"brightened",
"brilliant",
"illuminated",
"illumined",
"light",
"lightsome",
"lit",
"lighted",
"lucent",
"lucid",
"luminous",
"ultrabright",
"glossy",
"lustrous",
"shiny",
"floodlit",
"floodlighted",
"highlighted",
"spotlighted",
"spotlit",
"moonlit",
"moony",
"starlit",
"sunlit"
],
"near antonyms":[
"black",
"caliginous",
"dark",
"darkened",
"darkish",
"darkling",
"darksome",
"dim",
"dimmed",
"dusk",
"dusky",
"gloomy",
"lightless",
"murky",
"obscure",
"obscured",
"pitch-black",
"pitch-dark",
"pitchy",
"rayless",
"somber",
"sombre",
"stygian",
"tenebrific",
"tenebrous",
"unlit",
"crepuscular",
"twilit",
"moonless",
"starless",
"sunless"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"adjective"
]
},
"relinquished":{
"to give (something) over to the control or possession of another usually under duress":{
"examples":[
"the boy reluctantly relinquished the illegal fireworks to the police officer"
],
"synonyms":[
"ceded",
"coughed up",
"delivered",
"gave up",
"handed over",
"laid down",
"rendered",
"surrendered",
"turned in",
"turned over",
"yielded"
],
"near synonyms":[
"committed",
"consigned",
"entrusted",
"intrusted",
"transferred",
"forfeited",
"released",
"waived",
"abnegated",
"renounced",
"resigned",
"abandoned",
"deserted",
"discarded",
"forsook",
"parted (with)",
"shed"
],
"near antonyms":[
"kept",
"retained",
"withheld"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to give up (as a position of authority) formally":{
"examples":[
"the retiring CEO relinquished his position to the company's vice president with very mixed feelings"
],
"synonyms":[
"abdicated",
"abnegated",
"ceded",
"renounced",
"resigned",
"stepped aside (from)",
"stepped down (from)",
"surrendered"
],
"near synonyms":[
"abjured",
"demitted",
"denied",
"disavowed",
"disclaimed",
"disowned",
"waived",
"forsook",
"gave up",
"handed over",
"yielded",
"abandoned",
"deserted",
"quit",
"quitted",
"vacated"
],
"near antonyms":[
"appropriated",
"arrogated",
"assumed",
"claimed",
"confiscated",
"seized",
"took over",
"usurped",
"wrested",
"defended",
"guarded",
"protected",
"safeguarded",
"secured"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"relief map":{
"as in plan , map":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"ground plan",
"plan",
"plat",
"plot",
"chart",
"map"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"release":{
"to set free (from a state of being held in check)":{
"examples":[
"the losing player released his anger with a great yell of frustration"
],
"synonyms":[
"loose",
"loosen",
"uncork",
"unleash",
"unlock",
"unloose",
"unloosen"
],
"near synonyms":[
"discharge",
"emancipate",
"enfranchise",
"free",
"liberate",
"manumit",
"spring",
"unbind",
"uncage",
"unchain",
"unfetter",
"unmoor",
"unshackle",
"air",
"express",
"take out",
"vent"
],
"near antonyms":[
"handcuff",
"manacle",
"shackle",
"trammel",
"bind",
"confine",
"enchain",
"fetter",
"halter",
"hamper"
],
"antonyms":[
"bridle",
"check",
"constrain",
"contain",
"control",
"curb",
"govern",
"hold",
"inhibit",
"regulate",
"rein (in)",
"restrain",
"smother",
"tame"
]
},
"to find emotional release for":{
"examples":[
"tried to find other ways of releasing tension than by chewing her fingernails"
],
"synonyms":[
"loose",
"take out",
"unleash",
"vent"
],
"near synonyms":[
"act out",
"air",
"express",
"state",
"ventilate",
"voice"
],
"near antonyms":[
"control",
"govern",
"handle",
"manage",
"bridle",
"check",
"constrain",
"contain",
"curb",
"hold back",
"pull in",
"quell",
"rein (in)",
"restrain",
"smother",
"tame",
"allay",
"lull",
"quiet",
"soothe",
"still",
"choke",
"inhibit",
"muffle",
"pocket",
"repress",
"stifle",
"strangle",
"swallow"
],
"antonyms":[
"bottle (up)",
"repress",
"suppress"
]
},
"to set free (as from slavery or confinement)":{
"examples":[
"release the prisoners immediately"
],
"synonyms":[
"discharge",
"disenthrall",
"disenthral",
"emancipate",
"enfranchise",
"enlarge",
"free",
"liberate",
"loose",
"loosen",
"manumit",
"spring",
"unbind",
"uncage",
"unchain",
"unfetter"
],
"near synonyms":[
"bail (out)",
"deliver",
"parole",
"ransom",
"redeem",
"rescue",
"save",
"disembarrass",
"disencumber",
"disengage",
"disentangle",
"extricate",
"unshackle"
],
"near antonyms":[
"handcuff",
"manacle",
"shackle",
"trammel",
"commit",
"immure",
"imprison",
"incarcerate",
"intern",
"jail",
"lock (up)",
"conquer",
"enslave",
"subdue",
"subjugate"
],
"antonyms":[
"bind",
"confine",
"enchain",
"fetter",
"restrain"
]
},
"to set free from entanglement or difficulty":{
"examples":[
"the new governor finally managed to release himself from his rash campaign promise"
],
"synonyms":[
"clear",
"disembarrass",
"disengage",
"disentangle",
"extricate",
"free",
"liberate",
"untangle"
],
"near synonyms":[
"deliver",
"redeem",
"rescue",
"save",
"disburden",
"disencumber",
"unburden",
"unravel",
"unsnarl",
"untie",
"untwine"
],
"near antonyms":[
"block",
"hamper",
"hinder",
"impede",
"obstruct",
"burden",
"encumber",
"load",
"weigh"
],
"antonyms":[
"embroil",
"entangle"
]
},
"to throw or give off":{
"examples":[
"an air freshener that releases a pleasing scent into the room"
],
"synonyms":[
"cast",
"discharge",
"emanate",
"emit",
"evolve",
"exhale",
"expel",
"expire",
"give out",
"irradiate",
"issue",
"radiate",
"send (out)",
"shoot",
"throw out",
"vent"
],
"near synonyms":[
"eliminate",
"evacuate",
"excrete",
"exude",
"ooze",
"secrete",
"eject",
"erupt",
"gush",
"jet",
"outpour",
"pour",
"spew",
"spout",
"spray",
"spurt",
"squirt"
],
"near antonyms":[
"absorb",
"inhale",
"soak (up)",
"sponge",
"suck (up)",
"take up"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to make known openly or publicly":{
"examples":[
"the panel of nutritionists released their findings on the safety and effectiveness of various diets"
],
"synonyms":[
"advertise",
"announce",
"annunciate",
"blare",
"blaze",
"blazon",
"broadcast",
"declare",
"enunciate",
"flash",
"give out",
"herald",
"placard",
"post",
"proclaim",
"promulgate",
"publicize",
"publish",
"sound",
"trumpet"
],
"near synonyms":[
"bark",
"call (off or out)",
"cry",
"bill",
"billboard",
"bulletin",
"gazette",
"knell",
"ring",
"toll",
"blurb",
"feature",
"pitch",
"plug",
"promote",
"puff",
"disseminate",
"spread",
"disclose",
"divulge",
"introduce",
"kithe",
"manifest",
"report",
"reveal",
"show",
"advise",
"apprise",
"hand down",
"inform",
"notify",
"communicate",
"impart",
"intimate"
],
"near antonyms":[
"conceal",
"hush (up)",
"silence",
"suppress",
"withhold",
"recall",
"recant",
"retract",
"revoke"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to let go from office, service, or employment":{
"examples":[
"they released the workers who couldn't handle the new technology"
],
"synonyms":[
"ax",
"axe",
"bounce",
"can",
"cashier",
"discharge",
"dismiss",
"fire",
"muster out",
"pink-slip",
"remove",
"retire",
"sack",
"terminate",
"turn off"
],
"near synonyms":[
"downsize",
"excess",
"furlough",
"lay off",
"trim",
"boot (out)",
"chuck (out)",
"drum (out)",
"kick out",
"throw out",
"unseat",
"separate"
],
"near antonyms":[
"keep",
"reemploy",
"rehire",
"contract",
"subcontract",
"recruit"
],
"antonyms":[
"employ",
"engage",
"hire",
"retain",
"sign (up or on)",
"take on"
]
},
"a freeing from an obligation or responsibility":{
"examples":[
"because they had legally declared bankruptcy, they received release from their debt"
],
"synonyms":[
"delivery",
"discharge",
"quietus",
"quittance"
],
"near synonyms":[
"dispensation",
"exemption",
"immunity",
"waiver"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"a document containing a declaration of an intentional giving up of a right, claim, or privilege":{
"examples":[
"we had to sign a liability release before they'd let us go rock climbing on their property"
],
"synonyms":[
"disclaimer",
"quitclaim",
"waiver"
],
"near synonyms":[
"dispensation",
"exemption",
"indemnity",
"abdication",
"relinquishment",
"renouncement",
"handover",
"renunciation",
"surrender"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"a published statement informing the public of a matter of general interest":{
"examples":[
"a press release announcing that the governor would not run for a second term"
],
"synonyms":[
"ad",
"advert",
"advertisement",
"announcement",
"bulletin",
"communiqu\u00e9",
"notice",
"notification",
"posting"
],
"near synonyms":[
"broadside",
"brochure",
"circular",
"flyer",
"flier",
"fly sheet",
"gazette",
"handbill",
"handout",
"bill",
"billboard",
"placard",
"playbill",
"poster",
"show bill",
"sign",
"broadcast",
"cablecast",
"newscast",
"telecast",
"advertising",
"billing",
"blurb",
"come-on",
"commercial",
"message",
"pitch",
"plugola",
"spot",
"word",
"communication",
"dispatch",
"report",
"annunciation",
"declaration",
"edict",
"proclamation",
"promulgation",
"pronouncement",
"pronunciamento",
"rescript",
"signification",
"ballyhoo",
"boost",
"buildup",
"campaign",
"plug",
"promo",
"promotion",
"propaganda",
"publicity"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"reduction of or freedom from pain":{
"examples":[
"only sleep offered any release from the agony of the migraine"
],
"synonyms":[
"alleviation",
"comfort",
"ease",
"relief"
],
"near synonyms":[
"appeasement",
"assuagement",
"decrease",
"diminishment",
"mitigation",
"moderation",
"mollification",
"calming",
"salving",
"soothing"
],
"near antonyms":[
"discomfort",
"unrest",
"agony",
"anguish",
"misery",
"suffering",
"torment",
"torture",
"ache",
"pain",
"pang",
"prick",
"smart",
"sting",
"stitch",
"throe",
"tingle",
"twinge"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun",
"verb"
]
},
"relishing":{
"to take pleasure in":{
"examples":[
"visit again real soon, for I relish your company"
],
"synonyms":[
"adoring",
"delighting (in)",
"digging",
"enjoying",
"fancying",
"getting off (on)",
"grooving (on)",
"liking",
"loving",
"rejoicing (in)",
"reveling (in)",
"revelling (in)",
"savoring",
"savouring"
],
"near synonyms":[
"admiring",
"appreciating",
"cherishing",
"revering",
"venerating",
"worshipping",
"worshiping",
"prizing",
"treasuring",
"valuing",
"devouring",
"drinking (in)",
"eating (up)",
"feasting (on)",
"doting (on)",
"idolizing",
"cottoning (to)",
"favoring",
"preferring",
"indulging (in)",
"luxuriating (in)",
"wallowing (in)"
],
"near antonyms":[
"abhorring",
"abominating",
"detesting",
"disliking",
"hating",
"loathing",
"condemning",
"despising",
"scorning"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"relieved":{
"as in relaxed , tranquilized":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"relaxed",
"tranquilized",
"tranquillized",
"bovine",
"impassive",
"phlegmatic",
"sober",
"stolid",
"aloof",
"detached",
"dispassionate",
"indifferent",
"assured",
"confident",
"self-assured",
"carefree",
"nonchalant",
"unconcerned",
"affable",
"breezy",
"devil-may-care",
"easygoing",
"happy-go-lucky",
"laid-back",
"loosey-goosey",
"mellow",
"centered",
"disciplined",
"equable",
"self-contained",
"self-controlled",
"imperturbable",
"nerveless",
"unflappable",
"unshakable",
"even",
"even-keeled",
"steady",
"well-adjusted",
"well-balanced"
],
"near antonyms":[
"agitated",
"discomposed",
"disturbed",
"flustered",
"perturbed",
"unglued",
"unhinged",
"unstrung",
"upset",
"anxious",
"bothered",
"distressed",
"uneasy",
"unquiet",
"unsettled",
"worried",
"jittery",
"jumpy",
"nervous",
"restless",
"skittish",
"tense",
"high-strung",
"unstable",
"uptight"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to make more bearable or less severe":{
"examples":[
"an ice pack will relieve the swelling"
],
"synonyms":[
"allayed",
"alleviated",
"assuaged",
"eased",
"helped",
"mitigated",
"mollified",
"palliated",
"soothed"
],
"near synonyms":[
"abated",
"lightened",
"moderated",
"softened",
"tempered",
"cured",
"healed",
"remedied",
"amended",
"corrected",
"emended",
"fixed",
"mended",
"rectified",
"reformed",
"repaired",
"ameliorated",
"bettered",
"enhanced",
"enriched",
"improved",
"meliorated",
"perfected",
"refined"
],
"near antonyms":[
"harmed",
"hurt",
"impaired",
"injured",
"heightened",
"intensified",
"sharpened"
],
"antonyms":[
"aggravated",
"exacerbated"
]
},
"to set (a person or thing) free of something that encumbers":{
"examples":[
"the bellhop relieved him of his luggage and led him to the elevator"
],
"synonyms":[
"cleared",
"disburdened",
"disencumbered",
"divested",
"freed",
"rid",
"ridded",
"unburdened"
],
"near synonyms":[
"discharged",
"emancipated",
"enfranchised",
"liberated",
"loosed",
"loosened",
"manumitted",
"released",
"sprang",
"sprung",
"unbound",
"uncaged",
"unchained",
"unfettered",
"bailed (out)",
"delivered",
"redeemed",
"rescued",
"disengaged",
"disentangled",
"extricated"
],
"near antonyms":[
"bogged (down)",
"fettered",
"hampered",
"restrained",
"shackled",
"subjected",
"weighed down",
"weighted (down)"
],
"antonyms":[
"burdened",
"encumbered",
"saddled"
]
},
"to take the place of":{
"examples":[
"at daybreak a soldier arrived to relieve the one who had spent the night on guard duty"
],
"synonyms":[
"cut out",
"displaced",
"displanted",
"replaced",
"substituted",
"superseded",
"supplanted"
],
"near synonyms":[
"preempted",
"usurped"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"adjective",
"verb"
]
},
"religiose":{
"as in pietistic":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"pietistic",
"ascetic",
"ascetical",
"prayerful",
"reverent",
"reverential",
"spiritual",
"worshipful",
"beatified",
"blessed",
"blest",
"canonized",
"venerable",
"devout",
"godly",
"holy",
"pious",
"religious",
"sainted",
"saintly",
"angelic",
"angelical",
"cherubic",
"chaste",
"moral",
"pure",
"righteous",
"upright",
"virtuous"
],
"near antonyms":[
"antireligious",
"faithless",
"godless",
"impious",
"irreligious",
"ungodly",
"unholy",
"blasphemous",
"desecrating",
"irreverent",
"profanatory",
"profane",
"sacrilegious",
"nonreligious",
"secular",
"unspiritual",
"worldly",
"backsliding",
"unfaithful",
"evil",
"immoral",
"iniquitous",
"miscreant",
"sinful",
"sinning",
"unrighteous",
"wicked"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"adjective"
]
},
"relighted":{
"as in reignited , rekindled":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"reignited",
"rekindled",
"scalded",
"scathed",
"seared",
"banked",
"stoked",
"brightened",
"illuminated",
"illumined",
"irradiated",
"lightened",
"radiated",
"set off",
"ashed",
"cremated",
"incinerated",
"kilned",
"baked",
"broiled",
"cooked",
"charred",
"frizzled",
"scorched",
"deflagrated",
"immolated"
],
"near antonyms":[
"doused",
"dowsed",
"extinguished",
"put out",
"quenched",
"snuffed (out)",
"choked",
"smothered",
"suffocated",
"stamped (out)",
"blackened",
"darkened",
"dimmed",
"dulled",
"obscured"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"relying":{
"to place reliance or trust":{
"examples":[
"rigorously tested the rope before starting out, for the rock climbers would be relying on it with their very lives"
],
"synonyms":[
"calculating",
"counting",
"depending",
"leaning",
"reckoning"
],
"near synonyms":[
"committing",
"confiding",
"entrusting",
"intrusting",
"trusting"
],
"near antonyms":[
"distrusting",
"mistrusting",
"questioning",
"suspecting"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"relive":{
"to experience (something) again in your imagination":{
"examples":[
"an athlete trying to relive his glory days",
"He would sometimes relive the battle in his dreams."
],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"re-create",
"reflect",
"remember",
"reminisce",
"conceit",
"conceive",
"conjure (up)",
"dream",
"envisage",
"envision",
"fancy",
"fantasize",
"fantasy",
"feature",
"ideate",
"imagine",
"image",
"picture",
"reimagine",
"see",
"vision",
"visualize",
"daydream",
"stargaze",
"hallucinate",
"contemplate",
"meditate",
"muse",
"ponder",
"ruminate",
"concoct",
"fabricate",
"invent",
"make up",
"manufacture",
"plan",
"project",
"foresee",
"prefigure"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"relaying":{
"to give something (such as information or an object) to someone else":{
"examples":[
"They relayed the good news to their children just before leaving for work."
],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"communicating",
"conveying",
"giving",
"imparting",
"spreading",
"transferring",
"transmitting",
"bearing",
"carrying",
"bucking",
"handing",
"handing over",
"passing",
"reaching",
"broadcasting",
"disseminating",
"propagating",
"spreading",
"ceding",
"delivering",
"giving",
"giving up",
"releasing",
"relinquishing",
"rendering",
"surrendering",
"turning over",
"yielding"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"relenting":{
"as in pliant , amenable":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"acquiescent",
"agreeable",
"amenable",
"compliant",
"complying",
"flexible",
"pliable",
"pliant",
"yielding",
"docile",
"obedient",
"placable",
"submissive",
"tractable",
"accepting",
"persuadable",
"receptive",
"responsive",
"willing",
"governable",
"manageable",
"reasonable",
"temperate",
"slavish",
"subservient"
],
"near antonyms":[
"adamant",
"adamantine",
"bullheaded",
"dogged",
"hard",
"hardened",
"hardheaded",
"hard-nosed",
"headstrong",
"immovable",
"implacable",
"inconvincible",
"inflexible",
"intransigent",
"mulish",
"obdurate",
"obstinate",
"opinionated",
"ossified",
"pat",
"pertinacious",
"perverse",
"pigheaded",
"self-opinionated",
"self-willed",
"stiff-necked",
"stubborn",
"unbending",
"uncompromising",
"unrelenting",
"unyielding",
"willful",
"wilful",
"anal-retentive",
"obsessive",
"wayward",
"wrongheaded"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"as in forgiving , merciful":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"charitable",
"forgiving",
"merciful",
"benevolent",
"benign",
"benignant",
"loving",
"brotherly",
"compassionate",
"good",
"good-hearted",
"kind",
"kindhearted",
"kindly",
"sympathetic",
"warm",
"warmhearted",
"altruistic",
"humane",
"humanitarian",
"philanthropic",
"philanthropical",
"sweet",
"tender",
"tenderhearted",
"high-minded",
"magnanimous",
"noble"
],
"near antonyms":[
"revengeful",
"vengeful",
"vindictive",
"avenging",
"retaliatory",
"resentful",
"uncharitable",
"unforgiving"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to cease resistance (as to another's arguments, demands, or control)":{
"examples":[
"the supervisor finally relented in the face of the petition, and allowed employees to take longer lunch breaks"
],
"synonyms":[
"blinking",
"bowing",
"budging",
"capitulating",
"conceding",
"giving in",
"knuckling under",
"quitting",
"submitting",
"succumbing",
"surrendering",
"yielding"
],
"near synonyms":[
"acquiescing",
"deferring"
],
"near antonyms":[
"contending",
"fighting",
"holding off",
"battling",
"breasting",
"combating",
"combatting",
"confronting",
"countering",
"defying",
"facing",
"meeting",
"objecting",
"opposing",
"repelling",
"thwarting",
"withstanding"
],
"antonyms":[
"resisting"
]
},
"to grow less in scope or intensity especially gradually":{
"examples":[
"the fury of the storm relented , and the next day the sun finally broke through the clouds"
],
"synonyms":[
"abating",
"declining",
"decreasing",
"de-escalating",
"diminishing",
"draining (away)",
"dropping (off)",
"dwindling",
"dying (away or down or out)",
"easing",
"ebbing",
"falling",
"falling away",
"lessening",
"letting up",
"lowering",
"moderating",
"palling",
"phasing down",
"ratcheting (down)",
"racheting (down)",
"receding",
"remitting",
"shrinking",
"subsiding",
"tapering",
"tapering off",
"waning"
],
"near synonyms":[
"compressing",
"condensing",
"constricting",
"contracting",
"evaporating",
"fading (away)",
"frittering (away)",
"giving out",
"melting (away)",
"petering (out)",
"tailing (off)",
"vanishing",
"slackening",
"slowing (down)",
"alleviating",
"relaxing",
"flagging",
"sinking",
"weakening",
"caving (in)",
"collapsing",
"deflating"
],
"near antonyms":[
"appearing",
"emerging",
"showing up",
"blowing up",
"distending",
"elongating",
"lengthening"
],
"antonyms":[
"accumulating",
"ballooning",
"building",
"burgeoning",
"bourgeoning",
"enlarging",
"escalating",
"expanding",
"growing",
"increasing",
"intensifying",
"mounting",
"mushrooming",
"picking up",
"rising",
"snowballing",
"soaring",
"swelling",
"waxing"
]
},
"type":[
"adjective",
"verb"
]
},
"relapsed":{
"to return to a usually worse state or condition":{
"examples":[
"After a few good months of keeping their rooms clean, the kids relapsed into their old untidy habits."
],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"backslid",
"lapsed",
"regressed",
"retrogressed",
"returned",
"reverted",
"threw back",
"ebbed",
"declined",
"degenerated",
"dropped",
"fell",
"retrograded",
"worsened"
],
"near antonyms":[
"grew",
"matured",
"ripened",
"advanced",
"developed",
"evolved",
"progressed"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"relocates":{
"to change the place or position of":{
"examples":[
"those volumes have been relocated to the second floor of the library"
],
"synonyms":[
"budges",
"dislocates",
"displaces",
"disturbs",
"moves",
"removes",
"repositions",
"shifts",
"transfers",
"transposes"
],
"near synonyms":[
"bears",
"carries",
"carts",
"conveys",
"drives",
"hauls",
"lugs",
"totes",
"transmits",
"transplants",
"transports",
"replaces",
"supersedes",
"supplants",
"alters",
"makes over",
"modifies",
"redoes",
"refashions",
"remakes",
"remodels",
"revamps",
"revises",
"reworks",
"varies"
],
"near antonyms":[
"anchors",
"fixes",
"freezes",
"moors",
"secures",
"sets",
"stabilizes",
"embeds",
"imbeds",
"entrenches",
"intrenches",
"implants",
"ingrains",
"engrains",
"lodges",
"roots"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"relentless":{
"showing no signs of slackening or yielding in one's purpose":{
"examples":[
"the team's offense was relentless in trying to score a touchdown"
],
"synonyms":[
"determined",
"dogged",
"grim",
"implacable",
"unappeasable",
"unflinching",
"unrelenting",
"unyielding"
],
"near synonyms":[
"persevering",
"persistent",
"tenacious",
"hard",
"hardheaded",
"headstrong",
"intractable",
"mulish",
"obdurate",
"opinionated",
"peevish",
"pertinacious",
"perverse",
"pigheaded",
"self-willed",
"stubborn",
"uncooperative",
"willful",
"wilful",
"merciless",
"ruthless",
"unforgiving"
],
"near antonyms":[
"slackening",
"softening",
"yielding",
"impotent",
"invertebrate",
"slack",
"spineless",
"weak",
"complaisant",
"obliging",
"pliable",
"pliant"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"adjective"
]
},
"released":{
"as in delivered , freed":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"delivered",
"freed",
"liberated",
"disencumbered",
"free",
"quit",
"shut (of)",
"unburdened",
"unhampered",
"unimpeded"
],
"near antonyms":[
"encumbered",
"handicapped",
"hindered",
"hobbled"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to set free (from a state of being held in check)":{
"examples":[
"the losing player released his anger with a great yell of frustration"
],
"synonyms":[
"loosed",
"loosened",
"uncorked",
"unleashed",
"unlocked",
"unloosed",
"unloosened"
],
"near synonyms":[
"discharged",
"emancipated",
"enfranchised",
"freed",
"liberated",
"manumitted",
"sprang",
"sprung",
"unbound",
"uncaged",
"unchained",
"unfettered",
"unmoored",
"unshackled",
"aired",
"expressed",
"took out",
"vented"
],
"near antonyms":[
"handcuffed",
"manacled",
"shackled",
"trammeled",
"trammelled",
"bound",
"confined",
"enchained",
"fettered",
"haltered",
"hampered"
],
"antonyms":[
"bridled",
"checked",
"constrained",
"contained",
"controlled",
"curbed",
"governed",
"held",
"inhibited",
"regulated",
"reined (in)",
"restrained",
"smothered",
"tamed"
]
},
"to find emotional release for":{
"examples":[
"tried to find other ways of releasing tension than by chewing her fingernails"
],
"synonyms":[
"loosed",
"took out",
"unleashed",
"vented"
],
"near synonyms":[
"acted out",
"aired",
"expressed",
"stated",
"ventilated",
"voiced"
],
"near antonyms":[
"controlled",
"governed",
"handled",
"managed",
"bridled",
"checked",
"constrained",
"contained",
"curbed",
"held back",
"pulled in",
"quelled",
"reined (in)",
"restrained",
"smothered",
"tamed",
"allayed",
"lulled",
"quieted",
"soothed",
"stilled",
"choked",
"inhibited",
"muffled",
"pocketed",
"repressed",
"stifled",
"strangled",
"swallowed"
],
"antonyms":[
"bottled (up)",
"repressed",
"suppressed"
]
},
"to set free (as from slavery or confinement)":{
"examples":[
"release the prisoners immediately"
],
"synonyms":[
"discharged",
"disenthralled",
"disenthraled",
"emancipated",
"enfranchised",
"enlarged",
"freed",
"liberated",
"loosed",
"loosened",
"manumitted",
"sprang",
"sprung",
"unbound",
"uncaged",
"unchained",
"unfettered"
],
"near synonyms":[
"bailed (out)",
"delivered",
"paroled",
"ransomed",
"redeemed",
"rescued",
"saved",
"disembarrassed",
"disencumbered",
"disengaged",
"disentangled",
"extricated",
"unshackled"
],
"near antonyms":[
"handcuffed",
"manacled",
"shackled",
"trammeled",
"trammelled",
"committed",
"immured",
"imprisoned",
"incarcerated",
"interned",
"jailed",
"locked (up)",
"conquered",
"enslaved",
"subdued",
"subjugated"
],
"antonyms":[
"bound",
"confined",
"enchained",
"fettered",
"restrained"
]
},
"to set free from entanglement or difficulty":{
"examples":[
"the new governor finally managed to release himself from his rash campaign promise"
],
"synonyms":[
"cleared",
"disembarrassed",
"disengaged",
"disentangled",
"extricated",
"freed",
"liberated",
"untangled"
],
"near synonyms":[
"delivered",
"redeemed",
"rescued",
"saved",
"disburdened",
"disencumbered",
"unburdened",
"unraveled",
"unsnarled",
"untied",
"untwined"
],
"near antonyms":[
"blocked",
"hampered",
"hindered",
"impeded",
"obstructed",
"burdened",
"encumbered",
"loaded",
"weighed"
],
"antonyms":[
"embroiled",
"entangled"
]
},
"to throw or give off":{
"examples":[
"an air freshener that releases a pleasing scent into the room"
],
"synonyms":[
"cast",
"discharged",
"emanated",
"emitted",
"evolved",
"exhaled",
"expelled",
"expired",
"gave out",
"irradiated",
"issued",
"radiated",
"sent (out)",
"shot",
"threw out",
"vented"
],
"near synonyms":[
"eliminated",
"evacuated",
"excreted",
"exuded",
"oozed",
"secreted",
"ejected",
"erupted",
"gushed",
"jetted",
"outpoured",
"poured",
"spewed",
"spouted",
"sprayed",
"spurted",
"squirted"
],
"near antonyms":[
"absorbed",
"inhaled",
"soaked (up)",
"sponged",
"sucked (up)",
"took up"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to make known openly or publicly":{
"examples":[
"the panel of nutritionists released their findings on the safety and effectiveness of various diets"
],
"synonyms":[
"advertised",
"announced",
"annunciated",
"blared",
"blazed",
"blazoned",
"broadcast",
"broadcasted",
"declared",
"enunciated",
"flashed",
"gave out",
"heralded",
"placarded",
"posted",
"proclaimed",
"promulgated",
"publicized",
"published",
"sounded",
"trumpeted"
],
"near synonyms":[
"barked",
"called (off or out)",
"cried",
"billboarded",
"billed",
"bulletined",
"gazetted",
"knelled",
"rang",
"tolled",
"blurbed",
"featured",
"pitched",
"plugged",
"promoted",
"puffed",
"disseminated",
"spread",
"disclosed",
"divulged",
"introduced",
"kithed",
"kythed",
"manifested",
"reported",
"revealed",
"showed",
"advised",
"apprised",
"handed down",
"informed",
"notified",
"communicated",
"imparted",
"intimated"
],
"near antonyms":[
"concealed",
"hushed (up)",
"silenced",
"suppressed",
"withheld",
"recalled",
"recanted",
"retracted",
"revoked"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to let go from office, service, or employment":{
"examples":[
"they released the workers who couldn't handle the new technology"
],
"synonyms":[
"axed",
"bounced",
"canned",
"cashiered",
"discharged",
"dismissed",
"fired",
"mustered out",
"pink-slipped",
"removed",
"retired",
"sacked",
"terminated",
"turned off"
],
"near synonyms":[
"downsized",
"excessed",
"furloughed",
"laid off",
"trimmed",
"booted (out)",
"chucked (out)",
"drummed (out)",
"kicked out",
"threw out",
"unseated",
"separated"
],
"near antonyms":[
"kept",
"reemployed",
"re-employed",
"rehired",
"contracted",
"subcontracted",
"recruited"
],
"antonyms":[
"employed",
"engaged",
"hired",
"retained",
"signed (up or on)",
"took on"
]
},
"type":[
"adjective",
"verb"
]
},
"relying (on)":{
"as in depending (on)":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"depending (on)",
"employing",
"using",
"utilizing",
"consulting",
"going (to)",
"referring (to)",
"resorting (to)",
"turning (to)"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"relaxant":{
"as in sedative , depressant":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"depressant",
"sedative",
"tranquilizing",
"tranquillizing",
"drowsy",
"hypnotic",
"narcotic",
"opiate",
"sleepy",
"slumberous",
"slumbrous",
"somniferous",
"somnolent",
"soporific",
"calming",
"comforting",
"lulling",
"pacifying",
"quieting",
"relaxing",
"restful",
"settling",
"soothing",
"analgesic",
"anesthetic",
"anesthetizing",
"benumbing",
"deadening",
"dulling",
"numbing",
"hypnotizing",
"mesmerizing",
"stupefying"
],
"near antonyms":[
"stimulant",
"arousing",
"awakening",
"energizing",
"invigorating",
"rousing",
"stimulating",
"wakening",
"waking",
"bracing",
"refreshing",
"restorative",
"reviving",
"stimulative",
"stimulatory"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"adjective"
]
},
"relapsing":{
"to return to a usually worse state or condition":{
"examples":[
"After a few good months of keeping their rooms clean, the kids relapsed into their old untidy habits."
],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"backsliding",
"lapsing",
"regressing",
"retrogressing",
"returning",
"reverting",
"throwing back",
"ebbing",
"declining",
"degenerating",
"dropping",
"falling",
"retrograding",
"worsening"
],
"near antonyms":[
"growing",
"maturing",
"ripening",
"advancing",
"developing",
"evolving",
"progressing"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"relapsers":{
"as in repeaters , recidivists":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"backsliders",
"recidivists",
"repeaters",
"criminals",
"crooks",
"culprits",
"lawbreakers",
"malefactors",
"miscreants",
"offenders",
"misdemeanants",
"accomplices",
"principals",
"desperadoes",
"desperados",
"outlaws",
"convicts",
"jailbirds",
"perpetrators",
"perps",
"evildoers",
"gallows birds",
"misdoers",
"misfeasors",
"sinners",
"transgressors",
"trespassers",
"villains",
"wrongdoers",
"blackhanders",
"button men",
"gangsters",
"hoodlums",
"hooligans",
"mobsters",
"racketeers",
"thugs"
],
"near antonyms":[
"gangbusters",
"lawmen"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"religionless":{
"lacking religious emotions, principles, or practices":{
"examples":[
"some people of faith had misgivings about electing a religionless politician"
],
"synonyms":[
"godless",
"irreligious",
"nonreligious"
],
"near synonyms":[
"churchless",
"unchurched",
"heathen",
"pagan",
"paganish",
"ungodly",
"unholy",
"blasphemous",
"impious",
"irreverent",
"profanatory",
"sacrilegious",
"agnostic",
"atheistic",
"atheistical",
"unconsecrated",
"unhallowed",
"profane",
"secular",
"temporal",
"worldly"
],
"near antonyms":[
"devout",
"God-fearing",
"godly",
"holy",
"pious",
"prayerful",
"reverent",
"sainted",
"saintly",
"worshipful",
"worshipping",
"worshiping",
"sanctimonious",
"blessed",
"blest",
"consecrated",
"hallowed",
"sacred",
"sacrosanct",
"sanctified",
"devotional",
"spiritual"
],
"antonyms":[
"religious"
]
},
"type":[
"adjective"
]
},
"relabels":{
"as in renames , rechristens":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"rechristens",
"renames",
"code-names",
"nicknames",
"surnames",
"miscalls",
"misnames",
"mistitles",
"denotes",
"specifies",
"brands",
"stigmatizes",
"tags",
"baptizes",
"calls",
"christens",
"clepes",
"denominates",
"designates",
"dubs",
"entitles",
"labels",
"names",
"nominates",
"styles",
"terms",
"titles"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"religionist":{
"one who professes a religious faith":{
"examples":[
"makes the case that one need not be a religionist to have basic moral values"
],
"synonyms":[
"believer"
],
"near synonyms":[
"fundamentalist",
"cultist",
"pietist",
"zealot",
"deist",
"monotheist",
"polytheist",
"theist",
"churchgoer",
"communicant",
"congregant"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"reloaded":{
"as in refreshed , replenished":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"refilled",
"refreshed",
"repacked",
"replenished",
"brimmed",
"charged",
"crammed",
"heaped",
"jammed",
"jam-packed",
"loaded",
"packed",
"stuffed",
"drenched",
"flooded",
"glutted",
"swamped",
"bloated",
"bulked",
"crowded",
"crushed",
"matted",
"pressed",
"rammed",
"shoved",
"squashed",
"squeezed",
"overcharged",
"overfilled",
"overflowed",
"saturated",
"honeycombed",
"penetrated"
],
"near antonyms":[
"lightened",
"depleted",
"drained",
"eliminated",
"exhausted",
"bled",
"drew (off)",
"cleaned",
"flushed",
"purged",
"scoured",
"swept",
"cleared",
"emptied",
"evacuated",
"vacated",
"voided"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"relegates":{
"to force to leave a country":{
"examples":[
"courtiers and generals who incurred the emperor's disfavor were soon relegated to the farther reaches of the empire"
],
"synonyms":[
"banishes",
"deports",
"displaces",
"exiles",
"expatriates",
"transports"
],
"near synonyms":[
"casts out",
"dismisses",
"ejects",
"eliminates",
"evicts",
"excludes",
"expels",
"expulses",
"kicks out",
"ousts",
"runs out",
"throws out",
"excommunicates",
"ostracizes",
"rejects",
"repudiates",
"spurns",
"dispossesses"
],
"near antonyms":[
"naturalizes",
"repatriates",
"accepts",
"admits",
"receives",
"takes in",
"entertains",
"harbors",
"houses",
"shelters"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to arrange or assign according to type":{
"examples":[
"some psychologists argue that the syndrome should be relegated to a different class of autism"
],
"synonyms":[
"assorts",
"breaks down",
"categorizes",
"classes",
"classifies",
"codifies",
"compartmentalizes",
"compartments",
"digests",
"distinguishes",
"distributes",
"grades",
"groups",
"pegs",
"places",
"ranges",
"ranks",
"separates",
"sorts",
"types"
],
"near synonyms":[
"arrays",
"disposes",
"draws up",
"marshals",
"marshalls",
"orders",
"organizes",
"systematizes",
"alphabetizes",
"catalogs",
"catalogues",
"files",
"indexes",
"lists",
"refers",
"pigeonholes",
"shelves",
"identifies",
"recognizes",
"culls",
"screens",
"sets",
"sieves",
"sifts",
"winnows",
"clumps",
"clusters",
"colligates",
"recategorizes",
"reclassifies",
"regroups",
"subcategorizes"
],
"near antonyms":[
"confuses",
"disarranges",
"jumbles",
"lumps",
"mixes (up)",
"scrambles",
"misclassifies",
"missorts",
"mistypes"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"relied (on or upon)":{
"as in waited (for) , counted (on or upon)":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"banked on",
"counted (on or upon)",
"depended (on or upon)",
"waited (for)",
"anticipated",
"awaited",
"expected",
"hoped (for)",
"watched (for)",
"envisaged",
"envisioned",
"foresaw",
"foretold",
"predicted",
"prophesied",
"assumed",
"presumed",
"presupposed",
"contemplated",
"eyed",
"viewed"
],
"near antonyms":[
"doubted",
"questioned"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"relies (on or upon)":{
"as in waits (for) , counts (on or upon)":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"banks on",
"counts (on or upon)",
"depends (on or upon)",
"waits (for)",
"anticipates",
"awaits",
"expects",
"hopes (for)",
"watches (for)",
"envisages",
"envisions",
"foresees",
"foretells",
"predicts",
"prophesies",
"assumes",
"presumes",
"presupposes",
"contemplates",
"eyes",
"views"
],
"near antonyms":[
"doubts",
"questions"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"relegation":{
"the forced removal from a homeland":{
"examples":[
"the relegation of Japanese-Americans to internment camps during World War II"
],
"synonyms":[
"banishment",
"deportation",
"displacement",
"exile",
"expatriation",
"expulsion"
],
"near synonyms":[
"ostracism",
"extradition",
"diaspora",
"dispersion",
"scattering",
"emigration",
"migration",
"evacuation",
"ethnic cleansing",
"transportation",
"dispossession",
"ejection",
"ouster"
],
"near antonyms":[
"repatriation",
"return"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"relights":{
"as in reignites , rekindles":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"reignites",
"rekindles",
"scalds",
"scathes",
"sears",
"banks",
"stokes",
"brightens",
"illuminates",
"illumines",
"irradiates",
"lightens",
"radiates",
"sets off",
"ashes",
"cremates",
"incinerates",
"kilns",
"bakes",
"broils",
"cooks",
"chars",
"frizzles",
"scorches",
"deflagrates",
"immolates"
],
"near antonyms":[
"douses",
"dowses",
"extinguishes",
"puts out",
"quenches",
"snuffs (out)",
"chokes",
"smothers",
"suffocates",
"stamps (out)",
"blackens",
"darkens",
"dims",
"dulls",
"obscures"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"relaunched":{
"as in reinstituted , reinitiated":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"refounded",
"reinitiated",
"reinstituted",
"arranged",
"organized",
"systematized",
"systemized",
"endowed",
"financed",
"funded",
"subsidized",
"developed",
"enlarged",
"expanded",
"constructed",
"put up",
"conceived",
"concocted",
"contrived",
"cooked (up)",
"created",
"devised",
"fabricated",
"invented",
"made up",
"manufactured",
"produced",
"thought (up)",
"authored",
"fathered",
"originated",
"began",
"constituted",
"established",
"founded",
"inaugurated",
"initiated",
"innovated",
"instituted",
"introduced",
"launched",
"pioneered",
"planted",
"set up",
"started"
],
"near antonyms":[
"closed (down)",
"phased out",
"shut (up)",
"abolished",
"annihilated",
"annulled",
"nullified",
"ended",
"finished",
"halted",
"stopped",
"terminated",
"rounded (off or out)",
"wound up",
"winded up",
"wrapped up"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"religionists":{
"one who professes a religious faith":{
"examples":[
"makes the case that one need not be a religionist to have basic moral values"
],
"synonyms":[
"believers"
],
"near synonyms":[
"fundamentalists",
"cultists",
"pietists",
"zealots",
"deists",
"monotheists",
"polytheists",
"theist",
"churchgoers",
"communicants",
"congregants"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"relies":{
"to place reliance or trust":{
"examples":[
"rigorously tested the rope before starting out, for the rock climbers would be relying on it with their very lives"
],
"synonyms":[
"calculates",
"counts",
"depends",
"leans",
"reckons"
],
"near synonyms":[
"commits",
"confides",
"entrusts",
"intrusts",
"trusts"
],
"near antonyms":[
"distrusts",
"mistrusts",
"questions",
"suspects"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"relaxing":{
"tending to calm the emotions and relieve stress":{
"examples":[
"a relaxing cup of chamomile tea"
],
"synonyms":[
"calming",
"comforting",
"dreamy",
"lulling",
"narcotic",
"pacifying",
"quieting",
"sedative",
"soothing",
"tranquilizing",
"tranquillizing"
],
"near synonyms":[
"hypnotic",
"opiate",
"analgesic",
"anesthetic",
"anodyne",
"deadening",
"depressant",
"numbing",
"antianxiety",
"antidepressant",
"antidepression",
"antistress"
],
"near antonyms":[
"painful",
"stressful",
"tiresome",
"troubling",
"trying",
"unsettling",
"worrisome",
"energizing",
"invigorating",
"stimulant",
"stimulating",
"aggravating",
"annoying",
"bothersome",
"disturbing",
"exasperating",
"frustrating",
"galling",
"grating",
"harassing",
"irksome",
"irritating",
"maddening",
"nettlesome",
"troublesome",
"vexatious",
"vexing"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to get rid of nervous tension or anxiety":{
"examples":[
"she took deep breaths to relax before going on stage"
],
"synonyms":[
"chilling",
"chilling out",
"decompressing",
"de-stressing",
"loosening up",
"mellowing (out)",
"unwinding",
"winding down"
],
"near synonyms":[
"unbending",
"basking",
"kicking back",
"lolling",
"lounging",
"reposing",
"resting",
"bumming",
"dallying",
"dawdling",
"dillydallying",
"droning",
"footling",
"goofing (off)",
"hacking (around)",
"hanging (around or out)",
"idling",
"lazing",
"loafing",
"vegetating",
"vegging out",
"zoning out",
"alleviating",
"comforting",
"easing",
"relieving",
"calming",
"composing",
"cooling",
"quieting",
"settling"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[
"tensing (up)"
]
},
"to make less taut":{
"examples":[
"relax the rope a bit so I can pick up the slack and tie this knot"
],
"synonyms":[
"easing",
"loosening",
"slackening",
"slacking"
],
"near synonyms":[
"detaching",
"freeing",
"unbinding",
"undoing",
"unfastening",
"untying",
"untieing"
],
"near antonyms":[
"attaching",
"binding",
"fastening",
"tying",
"tieing",
"constraining",
"restraining"
],
"antonyms":[
"straining",
"stretching",
"tensing",
"tensioning",
"tightening"
]
},
"to refrain from labor or exertion":{
"examples":[
"I just want to kick back and relax after mowing that huge lawn"
],
"synonyms":[
"basking",
"kicking back",
"lolling",
"lounging",
"reposing",
"resting"
],
"near synonyms":[
"bumming",
"goldbricking",
"hanging",
"hanging about",
"hanging around",
"idling",
"loafing",
"slacking (off)",
"vegging out"
],
"near antonyms":[
"drudging",
"grubbing",
"humping",
"hustling",
"laboring",
"moiling",
"pegging (away)",
"plodding",
"plowing",
"plugging",
"slaving",
"slogging",
"straining",
"striving",
"struggling",
"sweating",
"toiling",
"travailing",
"working",
"exercising",
"working out"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"adjective",
"verb"
]
},
"relocatees":{
"as in refugees , exiles":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"defectors",
"deportees",
"evacuees",
"exiles",
"expatriates",
"refugees",
"repatriates",
"emigrants",
"\u00e9migr\u00e9s",
"emigr\u00e9s",
"immigrants",
"incomers",
"in-migrants",
"migrants",
"out-migrants",
"settlers",
"aliens",
"foreigners",
"noncitizens",
"nonnatives",
"colonists",
"newcomers",
"squatters",
"migrators",
"pilgrims",
"pioneers",
"trekkers"
],
"near antonyms":[
"nonimmigrants",
"aborigines",
"natives",
"citizens",
"habitants",
"inhabitants",
"nationals",
"residents"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"reliability":{
"worthiness as the recipient of another's trust or confidence":{
"examples":[
"we never had reason to question the reliability of the park rangers in the event of an emergency"
],
"synonyms":[
"dependability",
"dependableness",
"reliableness",
"responsibility",
"solidity",
"solidness",
"sureness",
"trustability",
"trustworthiness"
],
"near synonyms":[
"inerrancy",
"infallibility",
"credibility",
"creditability",
"creditableness"
],
"near antonyms":[
"doubtfulness",
"dubiousness",
"questionableness",
"shakiness",
"uncertainness"
],
"antonyms":[
"dodginess",
"unreliability"
]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"relocate":{
"to change the place or position of":{
"examples":[
"those volumes have been relocated to the second floor of the library"
],
"synonyms":[
"budge",
"dislocate",
"displace",
"disturb",
"move",
"remove",
"reposition",
"shift",
"transfer",
"transpose"
],
"near synonyms":[
"bear",
"carry",
"cart",
"convey",
"drive",
"haul",
"lug",
"tote",
"transmit",
"transplant",
"transport",
"replace",
"supersede",
"supplant",
"alter",
"make over",
"modify",
"redo",
"refashion",
"remake",
"remodel",
"revamp",
"revise",
"rework",
"vary"
],
"near antonyms":[
"anchor",
"fix",
"freeze",
"moor",
"secure",
"set",
"stabilize",
"embed",
"imbed",
"entrench",
"intrench",
"implant",
"ingrain",
"engrain",
"lodge",
"root"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"reloading":{
"as in refreshing , replenishing":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"refilling",
"refreshing",
"repacking",
"replenishing",
"brimming",
"charging",
"cramming",
"heaping",
"jamming",
"jam-packing",
"loading",
"packing",
"stuffing",
"drenching",
"flooding",
"glutting",
"swamping",
"bloating",
"bulking",
"crowding",
"crushing",
"matting",
"pressing",
"ramming",
"shoving",
"squashing",
"squeezing",
"overcharging",
"overfilling",
"overflowing",
"saturating",
"honeycombing",
"penetrating"
],
"near antonyms":[
"lightening",
"depleting",
"draining",
"eliminating",
"exhausting",
"bleeding",
"drawing (off)",
"cleaning",
"flushing",
"purging",
"scouring",
"sweeping",
"clearing",
"emptying",
"evacuating",
"vacating",
"voiding"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"relives":{
"to experience (something) again in your imagination":{
"examples":[
"an athlete trying to relive his glory days",
"He would sometimes relive the battle in his dreams."
],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"re-creates",
"reflects",
"remembers",
"reminisces",
"conceits",
"conceives",
"conjures (up)",
"dreams",
"envisages",
"envisions",
"fancies",
"fantasies",
"fantasizes",
"features",
"ideates",
"images",
"imagines",
"pictures",
"reimagines",
"sees",
"visions",
"visualizes",
"daydreams",
"stargazes",
"hallucinates",
"contemplates",
"meditates",
"muses",
"ponders",
"ruminates",
"concocts",
"fabricates",
"invents",
"makes up",
"manufactures",
"plans",
"projects",
"foresees",
"prefigures"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"reluctances":{
"a lack of willingness or desire to do or accept something":{
"examples":[
"the mice showed an odd reluctance to eat the cheese we had put out for them"
],
"synonyms":[
"disinclination",
"hesitance",
"hesitancy",
"reticence",
"unwillingness"
],
"near synonyms":[
"faltering",
"fence-sitting",
"hesitation",
"indecision",
"irresolution",
"shilly-shallying",
"staggering",
"vacillation",
"wavering",
"wobbling",
"wabbling",
"distrust",
"distrustfulness",
"doubt",
"incertitude",
"misdoubt",
"misgiving",
"mistrust",
"mistrustfulness",
"skepticism",
"suspicion",
"uncertainness",
"uncertainty"
],
"near antonyms":[
"assurance",
"assuredness",
"certainty",
"certitude",
"conviction",
"positiveness",
"sureness",
"surety"
],
"antonyms":[
"inclination",
"willingness"
]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"religion":{
"a body of beliefs and practices regarding the supernatural and the worship of one or more deities":{
"examples":[
"the Jewish religion has followers in many parts of the globe"
],
"synonyms":[
"credo",
"creed",
"cult",
"faith",
"persuasion"
],
"near synonyms":[
"church",
"communion",
"denomination",
"sect",
"doctrine",
"dogma",
"theology",
"deism",
"heathenism",
"monotheism",
"paganism",
"pantheism",
"polytheism",
"theism"
],
"near antonyms":[
"agnosticism",
"know-nothingism",
"atheism",
"godlessness",
"nonbelief",
"secularism",
"unbelief"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"belief and trust in and loyalty to God":{
"examples":[
"without his religion , he would not have been able to survive all the difficulties he has faced over the years"
],
"synonyms":[
"devotion",
"faith",
"piety"
],
"near synonyms":[
"devoutness",
"piousness",
"religiousness",
"adoration",
"reverence",
"veneration",
"worship",
"profession",
"protestation"
],
"near antonyms":[
"disbelief",
"doubt",
"unbelief",
"unfaith",
"agnosticism",
"know-nothingism",
"apostasy",
"lapse",
"tergiversation"
],
"antonyms":[
"atheism",
"godlessness"
]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"relocated":{
"to change the place or position of":{
"examples":[
"those volumes have been relocated to the second floor of the library"
],
"synonyms":[
"budged",
"dislocated",
"displaced",
"disturbed",
"moved",
"removed",
"repositioned",
"shifted",
"transferred",
"transposed"
],
"near synonyms":[
"bore",
"carried",
"carted",
"conveyed",
"drove",
"hauled",
"lugged",
"toted",
"transmitted",
"transplanted",
"transported",
"replaced",
"superseded",
"supplanted",
"altered",
"made over",
"modified",
"redid",
"refashioned",
"remade",
"remodeled",
"revamped",
"revised",
"reworked",
"varied"
],
"near antonyms":[
"anchored",
"fixed",
"froze",
"moored",
"secured",
"set",
"stabilized",
"embedded",
"imbedded",
"entrenched",
"intrenched",
"implanted",
"ingrained",
"engrained",
"lodged",
"rooted"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"relates (to)":{
"as in refers (to) , applies (to)":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"appertains (to)",
"applies (to)",
"bears (on)",
"pertains (to)",
"refers (to)",
"affects",
"concerns",
"involves",
"touches",
"embroils",
"ensnares",
"entangles",
"implicates"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"relapser":{
"as in repeater , recidivist":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"backslider",
"recidivist",
"repeater",
"criminal",
"crook",
"culprit",
"lawbreaker",
"malefactor",
"miscreant",
"offender",
"misdemeanant",
"accomplice",
"principal",
"desperado",
"outlaw",
"convict",
"jailbird",
"perp",
"perpetrator",
"evildoer",
"gallows bird",
"misdoer",
"misfeasor",
"sinner",
"transgressor",
"trespasser",
"villain",
"wrongdoer",
"blackhander",
"button man",
"gangster",
"hoodlum",
"hooligan",
"mobster",
"racketeer",
"thug"
],
"near antonyms":[
"gangbuster",
"lawman"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"relievers":{
"as in assistants , seconds":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"assistants",
"seconds",
"agents",
"assignees",
"attorneys",
"commissaries",
"delegates",
"deputies",
"envoys",
"factors",
"procurators",
"proxies",
"representatives",
"reps",
"surrogates",
"successors",
"superseders",
"apologies",
"makeshifts",
"stopgaps",
"alternates",
"understudies",
"backups",
"covers",
"designated hitters",
"fill-ins",
"locum tenentes",
"pinch hitters",
"reliefs",
"replacements",
"reserves",
"stand-ins",
"subs",
"substitutes"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"relationships":{
"the state of having shared interests or efforts (as in social or business matters)":{
"examples":[
"the street's shopkeepers have a good business relationship"
],
"synonyms":[
"affiliations",
"alliances",
"associations",
"collaborations",
"confederations",
"connections",
"cooperations",
"hookups",
"liaisons",
"linkups",
"partnerships",
"relations",
"tie-ups",
"unions"
],
"near synonyms":[
"businesses",
"dealings",
"interactions",
"exchanges",
"interconnections",
"interrelations",
"mutualisms",
"reciprocities",
"symbioses",
"incorporations",
"integrations",
"mergers",
"unifications",
"affinities",
"attachments",
"intimacies",
"rapports",
"sympathies",
"kinships",
"solidarities",
"unities",
"colleagueships",
"companies",
"companionships",
"fellowships",
"beds",
"cahoots",
"leagues"
],
"near antonyms":[
"breakups",
"dissolutions",
"disunions",
"divisions",
"partings",
"separations",
"severances",
"splits",
"alienations",
"divorces",
"estrangements"
],
"antonyms":[
"disaffiliations",
"dissociations"
]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"relocated (to)":{
"as in moved (to)":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"moved (to)",
"inhabited",
"colonized",
"peopled",
"populated",
"settled"
],
"near antonyms":[
"depopulated",
"unpeopled"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"reliefs":{
"a feeling of ease from grief or trouble":{
"examples":[
"my coworkers' kind words gave me some relief from the grief that I was feeling upon the death of my partner"
],
"synonyms":[
"cheers",
"comforts",
"consolations",
"solaces"
],
"near synonyms":[
"encouragements",
"inspirations",
"uplifts",
"assurances",
"reassurances",
"alleviations",
"assuagements",
"mitigations",
"contentments",
"commiserations",
"empathies",
"sympathies",
"aids",
"assistances",
"help",
"succors"
],
"near antonyms":[
"anguishes",
"distresses",
"heartaches",
"heartbreaks",
"torments",
"tortures"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"a person or thing that takes the place of another":{
"examples":[
"I can't go home from my nursing shift until my relief shows up to take over"
],
"synonyms":[
"backups",
"covers",
"designated hitters",
"fill-ins",
"locum tenentes",
"pinch hitters",
"replacements",
"reserves",
"stand-ins",
"subs",
"substitutes"
],
"near synonyms":[
"alternates",
"understudies",
"apologies",
"makeshifts",
"stopgaps",
"agents",
"assignees",
"attorneys",
"commissaries",
"delegates",
"deputies",
"envoys",
"factors",
"procurators",
"proxies",
"representatives",
"reps",
"surrogates",
"assistants",
"relievers",
"seconds",
"successors",
"superseders"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"reduction of or freedom from pain":{
"examples":[
"the aspirin gave him some relief from the headache"
],
"synonyms":[
"alleviations",
"comforts",
"eases",
"releases"
],
"near synonyms":[
"appeasements",
"assuagements",
"decreases",
"diminishments",
"mitigations",
"moderations",
"mollifications"
],
"near antonyms":[
"discomforts",
"agonies",
"anguishes",
"miseries",
"sufferings",
"torments",
"tortures",
"aches",
"pains",
"pangs",
"pricks",
"smarts",
"stings",
"stitches",
"throes",
"tingles",
"twinges"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"relied (on)":{
"as in depended (on)":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"depended (on)",
"employed",
"used",
"utilized",
"consulted",
"referred (to)",
"resorted (to)",
"turned (to)",
"went (to)"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"relate (to)":{
"as in refer (to) , apply (to)":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"appertain (to)",
"apply (to)",
"bear (on)",
"pertain (to)",
"refer (to)",
"affect",
"concern",
"involve",
"touch",
"embroil",
"ensnare",
"entangle",
"implicate"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"relied":{
"to place reliance or trust":{
"examples":[
"rigorously tested the rope before starting out, for the rock climbers would be relying on it with their very lives"
],
"synonyms":[
"calculated",
"counted",
"depended",
"leaned",
"reckoned"
],
"near synonyms":[
"committed",
"confided",
"entrusted",
"intrusted",
"trusted"
],
"near antonyms":[
"distrusted",
"mistrusted",
"questioned",
"suspected"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"reliabilities":{
"worthiness as the recipient of another's trust or confidence":{
"examples":[
"we never had reason to question the reliability of the park rangers in the event of an emergency"
],
"synonyms":[
"dependability",
"dependableness",
"reliableness",
"responsibility",
"solidity",
"solidness",
"sureness",
"trustability",
"trustworthiness"
],
"near synonyms":[
"inerrancy",
"infallibility",
"credibility",
"creditability",
"creditableness"
],
"near antonyms":[
"doubtfulness",
"dubiousness",
"questionableness",
"shakiness",
"uncertainness"
],
"antonyms":[
"dodginess",
"unreliability"
]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"relented":{
"to cease resistance (as to another's arguments, demands, or control)":{
"examples":[
"the supervisor finally relented in the face of the petition, and allowed employees to take longer lunch breaks"
],
"synonyms":[
"blinked",
"bowed",
"budged",
"capitulated",
"conceded",
"gave in",
"knuckled under",
"quit",
"quitted",
"submitted",
"succumbed",
"surrendered",
"yielded"
],
"near synonyms":[
"acquiesced",
"deferred"
],
"near antonyms":[
"contended",
"fought",
"held off",
"battled",
"breasted",
"combated",
"combatted",
"confronted",
"countered",
"defied",
"faced",
"met",
"objected",
"opposed",
"repelled",
"thwarted",
"withstood"
],
"antonyms":[
"resisted"
]
},
"to grow less in scope or intensity especially gradually":{
"examples":[
"the fury of the storm relented , and the next day the sun finally broke through the clouds"
],
"synonyms":[
"abated",
"declined",
"decreased",
"de-escalated",
"died (away or down or out)",
"diminished",
"drained (away)",
"dropped (off)",
"dwindled",
"eased",
"ebbed",
"fell",
"fell away",
"lessened",
"let up",
"lowered",
"moderated",
"palled",
"phased down",
"ratcheted (down)",
"racheted (down)",
"receded",
"remitted",
"shrank",
"shrunk",
"subsided",
"tapered",
"tapered off",
"waned"
],
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"compressed",
"condensed",
"constricted",
"contracted",
"evaporated",
"faded (away)",
"frittered (away)",
"gave out",
"melted (away)",
"petered (out)",
"tailed (off)",
"vanished",
"slackened",
"slowed (down)",
"alleviated",
"relaxed",
"flagged",
"sank",
"sunk",
"weakened",
"caved (in)",
"collapsed",
"deflated"
],
"near antonyms":[
"appeared",
"emerged",
"showed up",
"blew up",
"distended",
"elongated",
"lengthened"
],
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"accumulated",
"ballooned",
"built",
"burgeoned",
"bourgeoned",
"enlarged",
"escalated",
"expanded",
"grew",
"increased",
"intensified",
"mounted",
"mushroomed",
"picked up",
"rose",
"snowballed",
"soared",
"swelled",
"waxed"
]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"relocate (to)":{
"as in move (to)":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"move (to)",
"inhabit",
"colonize",
"people",
"populate",
"settle"
],
"near antonyms":[
"depopulate",
"unpeople"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"relativities":{
"the state of having a relation to or connection with or being necessarily reliant upon something else":{
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"reciprocities",
"dependences",
"dependencies",
"reliances",
"confidences",
"credences",
"faiths",
"stocks",
"trusts"
],
"near antonyms":[
"autonomies",
"sovereignties",
"sovranties",
"independences",
"independencies",
"self-reliances",
"self-sufficiencies",
"self-supports"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"relighting":{
"as in reigniting , rekindling":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"reigniting",
"rekindling",
"scalding",
"scathing",
"searing",
"banking",
"stoking",
"brightening",
"illuminating",
"illumining",
"irradiating",
"lightening",
"radiating",
"setting off",
"ashing",
"cremating",
"incinerating",
"kilning",
"baking",
"broiling",
"cooking",
"charring",
"frizzling",
"scorching",
"deflagrating",
"immolating"
],
"near antonyms":[
"dousing",
"dowsing",
"extinguishing",
"putting out",
"quenching",
"snuffing (out)",
"choking",
"smothering",
"suffocating",
"stamping (out)",
"blackening",
"darkening",
"dimming",
"dulling",
"obscuring"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
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"examples":[
"she took deep breaths to relax before going on stage"
],
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"chills",
"chills out",
"decompresses",
"de-stresses",
"loosens up",
"mellows (out)",
"unwinds",
"winds down"
],
"near synonyms":[
"unbends",
"basks",
"kicks back",
"lolls",
"lounges",
"reposes",
"rests",
"bums",
"dallies",
"dawdles",
"dillydallies",
"drones",
"footles",
"goofs (off)",
"hacks (around)",
"hangs (around or out)",
"idles",
"lazes",
"loafs",
"vegetates",
"vegges out",
"veges out",
"zones out",
"alleviates",
"comforts",
"eases",
"relieves",
"calms",
"composes",
"cools",
"quiets",
"settles"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[
"tenses (up)"
]
},
"to make less taut":{
"examples":[
"relax the rope a bit so I can pick up the slack and tie this knot"
],
"synonyms":[
"eases",
"loosens",
"slackens",
"slacks"
],
"near synonyms":[
"detaches",
"frees",
"unbinds",
"undoes",
"unfastens",
"unties"
],
"near antonyms":[
"attaches",
"binds",
"fastens",
"ties",
"constrains",
"restrains"
],
"antonyms":[
"strains",
"stretches",
"tenses",
"tensions",
"tightens"
]
},
"to refrain from labor or exertion":{
"examples":[
"I just want to kick back and relax after mowing that huge lawn"
],
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"basks",
"kicks back",
"lolls",
"lounges",
"reposes",
"rests"
],
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"bums",
"goldbricks",
"hangs",
"hangs about",
"hangs around",
"idles",
"loafs",
"slacks (off)",
"vegges out",
"veges out"
],
"near antonyms":[
"drudges",
"grubs",
"humps",
"hustles",
"labors",
"moils",
"pegs (away)",
"plods",
"plows",
"plugs",
"slaves",
"slogs",
"strains",
"strives",
"struggles",
"sweats",
"toils",
"travails",
"works",
"exercises",
"works out"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"relies (on)":{
"as in depends (on)":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"depends (on)",
"employs",
"uses",
"utilizes",
"consults",
"goes (to)",
"refers (to)",
"resorts (to)",
"turns (to)"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"relaxation":{
"activity engaged in to amuse oneself":{
"examples":[
"what do people in this jerkwater town do for relaxation ?"
],
"synonyms":[
"dalliance",
"frolic",
"frolicking",
"fun",
"fun and games",
"play",
"recreation",
"rollicking",
"sport"
],
"near synonyms":[
"gamboling",
"gambolling",
"romping",
"amusement",
"diversion",
"entertainment",
"hobby",
"hobbyhorse",
"pastime",
"delight",
"enjoyment",
"pleasance",
"pleasure",
"friskiness",
"playfulness",
"sportiveness",
"wantonness",
"devilment",
"devilry",
"deviltry",
"hanky-panky",
"hob",
"impishness",
"jinks",
"knavery",
"mischief",
"mischievousness",
"rascality",
"roguishness",
"waggery",
"binge",
"fling",
"kick",
"lark",
"revel",
"rollick",
"spree",
"hilarity",
"merriment",
"merrymaking",
"revelry",
"whoopee",
"buffoonery",
"high jinks",
"hijinks",
"horseplay",
"tomfoolery"
],
"near antonyms":[
"drudgery",
"labor",
"work",
"duty",
"obligation",
"responsibility"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"freedom from activity or labor":{
"examples":[
"meditating in a state of total relaxation"
],
"synonyms":[
"decompression",
"ease",
"leisure",
"repose",
"rest"
],
"near synonyms":[
"catnapping",
"dozing",
"lazing",
"napping",
"resting",
"sleep",
"slumber",
"slumbering",
"snoozing",
"quiet",
"silence",
"stillness",
"calm",
"peace",
"peacefulness",
"placidity",
"respite",
"restfulness",
"sereneness",
"serenity",
"tranquillity",
"tranquility",
"tranquilness",
"dolce far niente",
"idleness"
],
"near antonyms":[
"pressure",
"strain",
"stress",
"tenseness",
"tension"
],
"antonyms":[
"exertion",
"labor",
"toil",
"work"
]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"relaxedly":{
"as in informally , unceremoniously":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"informally",
"unceremoniously",
"casually",
"coolly",
"cooly",
"nonchalantly",
"candidly",
"frankly",
"matter-of-factly",
"freely",
"openheartedly",
"openly",
"genuinely",
"honestly",
"simply",
"truly",
"artlessly",
"guilelessly",
"ingenuously",
"innocently",
"naively",
"na\u00efvely",
"naturally",
"sincerely",
"unaffectedly",
"unfeignedly",
"unpretentiously"
],
"near antonyms":[
"affectedly",
"artificially",
"hypocritically",
"insincerely",
"pretentiously",
"unnaturally",
"artfully",
"cannily",
"deceitfully",
"deceptively",
"deviously",
"dishonestly",
"falsely",
"archly",
"calculatingly",
"craftily",
"cunningly",
"furtively",
"insidiously",
"sharply",
"shiftily",
"slickly",
"slyly",
"slily",
"underhand",
"underhanded",
"underhandedly",
"flatteringly",
"sycophantically",
"unctuously"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"adverb"
]
},
"reliances":{
"something or someone to which one looks for support":{
"examples":[
"he's been the family's foremost reliance in times of trouble many times"
],
"synonyms":[
"anchors",
"buttresses",
"dependences",
"dependances",
"mainstays",
"pillars",
"standbys"
],
"near synonyms":[
"backbones",
"sinews",
"spines",
"right hands",
"bolsterers",
"crutches",
"handmaidens",
"handmaids",
"props",
"stays",
"anchorages",
"harbors",
"refuges"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"the quality or state of needing something or someone":{
"examples":[
"a baby's reliance on her parents",
"his reliance on his next-door neighbor for all the local gossip"
],
"synonyms":[
"dependences",
"dependances",
"dependencies"
],
"near synonyms":[
"reciprocities",
"relativities",
"confidences",
"credences",
"faiths",
"stocks",
"trusts"
],
"near antonyms":[
"autonomies",
"sovereignties",
"sovranties"
],
"antonyms":[
"independences",
"independencies",
"self-reliances",
"self-sufficiencies",
"self-supports"
]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"relegating":{
"to force to leave a country":{
"examples":[
"courtiers and generals who incurred the emperor's disfavor were soon relegated to the farther reaches of the empire"
],
"synonyms":[
"banishing",
"deporting",
"displacing",
"exiling",
"expatriating",
"transporting"
],
"near synonyms":[
"casting out",
"dismissing",
"ejecting",
"eliminating",
"evicting",
"excluding",
"expelling",
"expulsing",
"kicking out",
"ousting",
"running out",
"throwing out",
"excommunicating",
"ostracizing",
"rejecting",
"repudiating",
"spurning",
"dispossessing"
],
"near antonyms":[
"naturalizing",
"repatriating",
"accepting",
"admitting",
"receiving",
"taking in",
"entertaining",
"harboring",
"housing",
"sheltering"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to arrange or assign according to type":{
"examples":[
"some psychologists argue that the syndrome should be relegated to a different class of autism"
],
"synonyms":[
"assorting",
"breaking down",
"categorizing",
"classifying",
"classing",
"codifying",
"compartmentalizing",
"compartmenting",
"digesting",
"distinguishing",
"distributing",
"grading",
"grouping",
"pegging",
"placing",
"ranging",
"ranking",
"separating",
"sorting",
"typing"
],
"near synonyms":[
"arraying",
"disposing",
"drawing up",
"marshaling",
"marshalling",
"ordering",
"organizing",
"systematizing",
"alphabetizing",
"cataloging",
"cataloguing",
"filing",
"indexing",
"listing",
"referring",
"pigeonholing",
"shelving",
"identifying",
"recognizing",
"culling",
"screening",
"setting",
"sieving",
"sifting",
"winnowing",
"clumping",
"clustering",
"colligating",
"recategorizing",
"reclassifying",
"regrouping",
"subcategorizing"
],
"near antonyms":[
"confusing",
"disarranging",
"jumbling",
"lumping",
"mixing (up)",
"scrambling",
"misclassifying",
"missorting",
"mis-sorting",
"mistyping"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"relabel":{
"as in rename , rechristen":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"rechristen",
"rename",
"code-name",
"nickname",
"surname",
"miscall",
"misname",
"mistitle",
"denote",
"specify",
"brand",
"stigmatize",
"tag",
"baptize",
"call",
"christen",
"clepe",
"denominate",
"designate",
"dub",
"entitle",
"label",
"name",
"nominate",
"style",
"term",
"title"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"relent":{
"to cease resistance (as to another's arguments, demands, or control)":{
"examples":[
"the supervisor finally relented in the face of the petition, and allowed employees to take longer lunch breaks"
],
"synonyms":[
"blink",
"bow",
"budge",
"capitulate",
"concede",
"give in",
"knuckle under",
"quit",
"submit",
"succumb",
"surrender",
"yield"
],
"near synonyms":[
"acquiesce",
"defer"
],
"near antonyms":[
"contend",
"fight",
"hold off",
"battle",
"breast",
"combat",
"confront",
"counter",
"defy",
"face",
"meet",
"object",
"oppose",
"repel",
"thwart",
"withstand"
],
"antonyms":[
"resist"
]
},
"to grow less in scope or intensity especially gradually":{
"examples":[
"the fury of the storm relented , and the next day the sun finally broke through the clouds"
],
"synonyms":[
"abate",
"de-escalate",
"decline",
"decrease",
"die (away or down or out)",
"diminish",
"drain (away)",
"drop (off)",
"dwindle",
"ease",
"ebb",
"fall",
"fall away",
"lessen",
"let up",
"lower",
"moderate",
"pall",
"phase down",
"ratchet (down)",
"rachet (down)",
"recede",
"remit",
"shrink",
"subside",
"taper",
"taper off",
"wane"
],
"near synonyms":[
"compress",
"condense",
"constrict",
"contract",
"evaporate",
"fade (away)",
"fritter (away)",
"give out",
"melt (away)",
"peter (out)",
"tail (off)",
"vanish",
"slacken",
"slow (down)",
"alleviate",
"relax",
"flag",
"sink",
"weaken",
"cave (in)",
"collapse",
"deflate"
],
"near antonyms":[
"appear",
"emerge",
"show up",
"blow up",
"distend",
"elongate",
"lengthen"
],
"antonyms":[
"accumulate",
"balloon",
"build",
"burgeon",
"bourgeon",
"enlarge",
"escalate",
"expand",
"grow",
"increase",
"intensify",
"mount",
"mushroom",
"pick up",
"rise",
"snowball",
"soar",
"swell",
"wax"
]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"relating":{
"to form a close personal relationship":{
"examples":[
"she and I relate so well it's almost like we're siblings"
],
"synonyms":[
"bonding",
"clicking",
"communing"
],
"near synonyms":[
"befriending",
"empathizing",
"identifying",
"sympathizing"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to give an oral or written account of in some detail":{
"examples":[
"we asked our uncle to relate the story of his visit to communist Russia many years ago"
],
"synonyms":[
"charting",
"chronicling",
"describing",
"narrating",
"reciting",
"recounting",
"rehearsing",
"reporting",
"telling"
],
"near synonyms":[
"delivering",
"giving",
"reeling off",
"stating",
"uttering",
"voicing",
"detailing",
"enumerating",
"itemizing",
"particularizing",
"baring",
"disclosing",
"divulging",
"exposing",
"letting on (about)",
"revealing",
"delineating",
"depicting",
"expressing",
"rendering",
"sketching"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to have a relation or connection":{
"examples":[
"how does your comment relate to what the rest of us have been talking about for the last hour?"
],
"synonyms":[
"appertaining",
"applying",
"bearing",
"pertaining",
"referring"
],
"near synonyms":[
"affecting",
"concerning",
"interesting",
"involving",
"touching",
"associating",
"connecting",
"coupling",
"interrelating",
"linking",
"tying in",
"tieing in",
"dealing (with)",
"treating"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to think of (something) in combination":{
"examples":[
"most Americans probably relate tea to the United Kingdom and coffee to the U.S."
],
"synonyms":[
"associating",
"connecting",
"correlating",
"identifying",
"linking"
],
"near synonyms":[
"comparing",
"equating",
"likening",
"grouping",
"joining",
"lumping (together)",
"tying (together)",
"tieing (together)"
],
"near antonyms":[
"contrasting",
"differentiating",
"discriminating",
"distinguishing",
"separating",
"setting off"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"reloads":{
"as in refreshes , replenishes":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"refills",
"refreshes",
"repacks",
"replenishes",
"brims",
"charges",
"crams",
"heaps",
"jam-packs",
"jams",
"loads",
"packs",
"stuffs",
"drenches",
"floods",
"gluts",
"swamps",
"bloats",
"bulks",
"crowds",
"crushes",
"mats",
"presses",
"rams",
"shoves",
"squashes",
"squeezes",
"overcharges",
"overfills",
"overflows",
"saturates",
"honeycombs",
"penetrates"
],
"near antonyms":[
"lightens",
"depletes",
"drains",
"eliminates",
"exhausts",
"bleeds",
"draws (off)",
"cleans",
"flushes",
"purges",
"scours",
"sweeps",
"clears",
"empties",
"evacuates",
"vacates",
"voids"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"relaunch":{
"as in reinstitute , reinitiate":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"refound",
"reinitiate",
"reinstitute",
"arrange",
"organize",
"systematize",
"systemize",
"endow",
"finance",
"fund",
"subsidize",
"develop",
"enlarge",
"expand",
"construct",
"put up",
"conceive",
"concoct",
"contrive",
"cook (up)",
"create",
"devise",
"fabricate",
"invent",
"make up",
"manufacture",
"produce",
"think (up)",
"author",
"father",
"originate",
"begin",
"constitute",
"establish",
"found",
"inaugurate",
"initiate",
"innovate",
"institute",
"introduce",
"launch",
"pioneer",
"plant",
"set up",
"start"
],
"near antonyms":[
"close (down)",
"phase out",
"shut (up)",
"abolish",
"annihilate",
"annul",
"nullify",
"end",
"finish",
"halt",
"stop",
"terminate",
"round (off or out)",
"wind up",
"wrap up"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"relived":{
"to experience (something) again in your imagination":{
"examples":[
"an athlete trying to relive his glory days",
"He would sometimes relive the battle in his dreams."
],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"re-created",
"recreated",
"reflected",
"remembered",
"reminisced",
"conceited",
"conceived",
"conjured (up)",
"dreamed",
"dreamt",
"envisaged",
"envisioned",
"fancied",
"fantasied",
"fantasized",
"featured",
"ideated",
"imaged",
"imagined",
"pictured",
"reimagined",
"saw",
"visioned",
"visualized",
"daydreamed",
"stargazed",
"hallucinated",
"contemplated",
"meditated",
"mused",
"pondered",
"ruminated",
"concocted",
"fabricated",
"invented",
"made up",
"manufactured",
"planned",
"projected",
"foresaw",
"prefigured"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"religiousness":{
"as in piousness , devoutness":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"devoutness",
"piousness",
"devotion",
"faith",
"piety",
"religion",
"adoration",
"reverence",
"veneration",
"worship",
"profession",
"protestation"
],
"near antonyms":[
"atheism",
"godlessness",
"disbelief",
"doubt",
"unbelief",
"unfaith",
"agnosticism",
"know-nothingism",
"apostasy",
"lapse",
"tergiversation"
],
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},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"relating (to)":{
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"appertaining (to)",
"applying (to)",
"bearing (on)",
"pertaining (to)",
"referring (to)",
"affecting",
"concerning",
"involving",
"touching",
"embroiling",
"ensnaring",
"entangling",
"implicating"
],
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},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"reliquaries":{
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"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"sanctuaries",
"sanctums",
"sancta",
"shrines",
"martyries"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"reliving":{
"to experience (something) again in your imagination":{
"examples":[
"an athlete trying to relive his glory days",
"He would sometimes relive the battle in his dreams."
],
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"re-creating",
"recreating",
"reflecting",
"remembering",
"reminiscing",
"conceiting",
"conceiving",
"conjuring (up)",
"dreaming",
"envisaging",
"envisioning",
"fancying",
"fantasizing",
"fantasying",
"featuring",
"ideating",
"imaging",
"imagining",
"picturing",
"reimagining",
"seeing",
"visioning",
"visualizing",
"daydreaming",
"stargazing",
"hallucinating",
"contemplating",
"meditating",
"musing",
"pondering",
"ruminating",
"concocting",
"fabricating",
"inventing",
"making up",
"manufacturing",
"planning",
"projecting",
"foreseeing",
"prefiguring"
],
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"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"relish":{
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"examples":[
"she has great relish for early morning walks, which she takes nearly every day"
],
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"appetite",
"fancy",
"favor",
"fondness",
"like",
"liking",
"love",
"love affair",
"partiality",
"preference",
"shine",
"taste",
"use"
],
"near synonyms":[
"craving",
"desire",
"hankering",
"longing",
"thirst",
"yen",
"enthusiasm",
"gusto",
"interest",
"passion",
"bias",
"prejudice",
"bent",
"inclination",
"leaning",
"propensity",
"tendency",
"tooth",
"palate",
"weakness"
],
"near antonyms":[
"apathy",
"disinclination",
"indifference",
"unconcern"
],
"antonyms":[
"aversion",
"disfavor",
"disgust",
"dislike",
"distaste",
"hatred",
"loathing",
"mislike"
]
},
"the feeling experienced when one's wishes are met":{
"examples":[
"ate the bowl of ice cream with relish"
],
"synonyms":[
"content",
"contentedness",
"contentment",
"delectation",
"delight",
"enjoyment",
"gladness",
"gratification",
"happiness",
"pleasure",
"satisfaction"
],
"near synonyms":[
"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"
]
},
"to take pleasure in":{
"examples":[
"visit again real soon, for I relish your company"
],
"synonyms":[
"adore",
"delight (in)",
"dig",
"enjoy",
"fancy",
"get off (on)",
"groove (on)",
"like",
"love",
"rejoice (in)",
"revel (in)",
"savor",
"savour"
],
"near synonyms":[
"admire",
"appreciate",
"cherish",
"revere",
"venerate",
"worship",
"prize",
"treasure",
"value",
"devour",
"drink (in)",
"eat (up)",
"feast (on)",
"dote (on)",
"idolize",
"cotton (to)",
"favor",
"prefer",
"indulge (in)",
"luxuriate (in)",
"wallow (in)"
],
"near antonyms":[
"abhor",
"abominate",
"detest",
"dislike",
"hate",
"loathe",
"condemn",
"despise",
"scorn"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun",
"verb"
]
},
"relations":{
"doings between individuals or groups":{
"examples":[
"relations between the rival newspapers remained friendly despite their competition for the same stories"
],
"synonyms":[
"commerce",
"dealings",
"interaction",
"intercourse"
],
"near synonyms":[
"interrelationship",
"cross-fertilization",
"cross-pollination",
"companionship",
"company"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"sexual union involving penetration of the vagina by the penis":{
"examples":[
"a law that prohibits relations between close relatives"
],
"synonyms":[
"coition",
"coitus",
"commerce",
"congress",
"copulating",
"copulation",
"coupling",
"intercourse",
"lovemaking",
"mating",
"sex",
"sex act",
"sexual intercourse",
"sexual relations"
],
"near synonyms":[
"fornication",
"safe sex",
"carnality",
"sexuality",
"breeding",
"insemination",
"dalliance",
"hanky-panky",
"whoopee"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"relegations":{
"the forced removal from a homeland":{
"examples":[
"the relegation of Japanese-Americans to internment camps during World War II"
],
"synonyms":[
"banishments",
"deportations",
"displacements",
"exiles",
"expatriations",
"expulsions"
],
"near synonyms":[
"ostracisms",
"extraditions",
"diasporas",
"dispersions",
"scatterings",
"emigrations",
"migrations",
"evacuations",
"ethnic cleansings",
"transportations",
"dispossessions",
"ejections",
"ousters"
],
"near antonyms":[
"repatriations",
"returns"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"relaxed":{
"enjoying physical comfort":{
"examples":[
"the frazzled executive was totally relaxed after the warm bath"
],
"synonyms":[
"canny",
"comfortable",
"comfy",
"cozy",
"snug"
],
"near synonyms":[
"toasty",
"warm",
"content",
"contented",
"pleased",
"satisfied",
"easeful",
"peaceful",
"resting",
"easygoing",
"laid-back",
"undisturbed",
"unperturbed",
"untroubled"
],
"near antonyms":[
"discontented",
"displeased",
"dissatisfied",
"agitated",
"disturbed",
"perturbed",
"troubled"
],
"antonyms":[
"uncomfortable"
]
},
"not bound by rigid standards":{
"examples":[
"we're having a very relaxed staff meeting, and then everyone can get an early start on the long holiday weekend"
],
"synonyms":[
"easygoing",
"flexible",
"lax",
"loose",
"slack",
"unrestrained",
"unrestricted"
],
"near synonyms":[
"careless",
"derelict",
"heedless",
"irresponsible",
"lazy",
"neglectful",
"negligent",
"remiss",
"slipshod",
"sloppy",
"sloven",
"slovenly",
"unfussy"
],
"near antonyms":[
"constrained",
"restrained",
"restricted",
"tight",
"careful",
"conscientious",
"exact",
"fussy",
"meticulous",
"painstaking",
"punctilious",
"scrupulous",
"implacable",
"inflexible"
],
"antonyms":[
"hard",
"harsh",
"rigid",
"rigorous",
"severe",
"stern",
"strict"
]
},
"not tightly fastened, tied, or stretched":{
"examples":[
"the fishing line was relaxed and looped lazily into the pond"
],
"synonyms":[
"insecure",
"lax",
"loose",
"loosened",
"slack",
"slackened",
"unsecured"
],
"near synonyms":[
"detached",
"free",
"unattached",
"unbound",
"undone",
"unfastened",
"untied",
"baggy",
"blousy",
"saggy"
],
"near antonyms":[
"constrained",
"restrained",
"attached",
"bound",
"fastened",
"tied",
"fast",
"firm",
"jammed",
"snug",
"stuck",
"wedged"
],
"antonyms":[
"taut",
"tense",
"tight"
]
},
"to get rid of nervous tension or anxiety":{
"examples":[
"she took deep breaths to relax before going on stage"
],
"synonyms":[
"chilled",
"chilled out",
"decompressed",
"de-stressed",
"loosened up",
"mellowed (out)",
"unwound",
"wound down",
"winded down"
],
"near synonyms":[
"unbent",
"basked",
"kicked back",
"lolled",
"lounged",
"reposed",
"rested",
"bummed",
"dallied",
"dawdled",
"dillydallied",
"droned",
"footled",
"goofed (off)",
"hacked (around)",
"hung (around or out)",
"hanged (around or out)",
"idled",
"lazed",
"loafed",
"vegetated",
"vegged out",
"zoned out",
"alleviated",
"comforted",
"eased",
"relieved",
"calmed",
"composed",
"cooled",
"quieted",
"settled"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[
"tensed (up)"
]
},
"to make less taut":{
"examples":[
"relax the rope a bit so I can pick up the slack and tie this knot"
],
"synonyms":[
"eased",
"loosened",
"slacked",
"slackened"
],
"near synonyms":[
"detached",
"freed",
"unbound",
"undid",
"unfastened",
"untied"
],
"near antonyms":[
"attached",
"bound",
"fastened",
"tied",
"constrained",
"restrained"
],
"antonyms":[
"strained",
"stretched",
"tensed",
"tensioned",
"tightened"
]
},
"to refrain from labor or exertion":{
"examples":[
"I just want to kick back and relax after mowing that huge lawn"
],
"synonyms":[
"basked",
"kicked back",
"lolled",
"lounged",
"reposed",
"rested"
],
"near synonyms":[
"bummed",
"goldbricked",
"hung",
"hanged",
"hung about",
"hung around",
"idled",
"loafed",
"slacked (off)",
"vegged out"
],
"near antonyms":[
"drudged",
"grubbed",
"humped",
"hustled",
"labored",
"moiled",
"pegged (away)",
"plodded",
"plowed",
"plugged",
"slaved",
"slogged",
"strained",
"strove",
"strived",
"struggled",
"sweat",
"sweated",
"toiled",
"travailed",
"worked",
"wrought",
"exercised",
"worked out"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"adjective",
"verb"
]
},
"relatively":{
"to some degree or extent":{
"examples":[
"these newly acquired in-laws felt relatively comfortable at our family reunion"
],
"synonyms":[
"enough",
"fairly",
"kind of",
"kindly",
"like",
"moderately",
"more or less",
"pretty",
"quite",
"rather",
"something",
"somewhat",
"sort of"
],
"near synonyms":[
"acceptably",
"decently",
"passably",
"tolerably",
"little",
"negligibly",
"nominally",
"slightly",
"vaguely",
"half",
"halfway",
"incompletely",
"part",
"partially",
"partly",
"partway"
],
"near antonyms":[
"awfully",
"beastly",
"deadly",
"especially",
"exceedingly",
"exceeding",
"exceptionally",
"extremely",
"frightfully",
"greatly",
"heavily",
"highly",
"hugely",
"mightily",
"mortally",
"particularly",
"surpassingly",
"terribly",
"very",
"considerably",
"extensively",
"significantly",
"substantially"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"adverb"
]
},
"relinquishment":{
"the usually forced yielding of one's person or possessions to the control of another":{
"examples":[
"miraculously, the relinquishment of the hostages was accomplished without bloodshed"
],
"synonyms":[
"capitulating",
"capitulation",
"cession",
"handover",
"rendition",
"submission",
"submitting",
"surrender"
],
"near synonyms":[
"acceptance",
"acquiescence",
"concession",
"compromise",
"appeasement",
"conciliation",
"reconcilement",
"reconciliation",
"capture",
"fall"
],
"near antonyms":[
"resistance"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"relatable":{
"possible to understand because of being like something you have known, experienced, etc.":{
"examples":[
"The show has likable characters in relatable situations."
],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"allied",
"congeneric",
"congenerous",
"congenial",
"connatural",
"kin",
"kindred",
"related",
"akin",
"alike",
"analogous",
"cognate",
"comparable",
"connate",
"correspondent",
"corresponding",
"ditto",
"like",
"matching",
"parallel",
"resemblant",
"resembling",
"similar",
"such",
"suchlike",
"commensurate",
"proportionate",
"tantamount",
"virtual",
"approaching",
"approximating",
"close",
"coextensive",
"coincident",
"conformable",
"conforming",
"consistent",
"consonant",
"duplicate",
"equal",
"equivalent",
"fungible",
"identical",
"indistinguishable",
"interchangeable",
"me-too",
"redundant",
"same",
"selfsame",
"substitutable",
"synonymous",
"twin",
"entire",
"homogeneous",
"homogenous",
"unchanging",
"uniform",
"unvaried",
"unvarying"
],
"near antonyms":[
"disparate",
"distinct",
"distinguishable",
"nonequivalent",
"noninterchangeable",
"variable",
"varied",
"various",
"varying",
"imprecise",
"inaccurate",
"inexact",
"unconnected",
"unrelated",
"different",
"dissimilar",
"diverse",
"unakin",
"unlike"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"adjective"
]
},
"relevancy":{
"the fact or state of being pertinent":{
"examples":[
"this new information has no relevancy to the case"
],
"synonyms":[
"applicability",
"bearing",
"connection",
"materiality",
"pertinence",
"relevance"
],
"near synonyms":[
"appositeness",
"appropriateness",
"aptness",
"felicitousness",
"fitness",
"fittingness",
"rightness",
"seemliness",
"suitability",
"suitableness",
"importance",
"significance",
"usefulness"
],
"near antonyms":[
"inappositeness",
"inappropriateness",
"inaptness",
"infelicity",
"unfitness",
"unsuitability",
"insignificance",
"meaninglessness",
"pointlessness",
"uselessness"
],
"antonyms":[
"extraneousness",
"inapplicability",
"irrelevance",
"irrelevancy"
]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"relocations":{
"as in migrations , dislocations":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"dislocations",
"migrations",
"motions",
"movements",
"moves",
"shifts",
"stirrings",
"stirs",
"locomotions",
"mobilities",
"motilities",
"motivities",
"fiddlings",
"squirms"
],
"near antonyms":[
"immobilities",
"inertias",
"cessations",
"discontinuances",
"endings",
"expirations",
"finishes",
"halts",
"lapses",
"pauses",
"shutdowns",
"shutoffs",
"stoppages",
"stops",
"surceases",
"terminations"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"rely":{
"to place reliance or trust":{
"examples":[
"rigorously tested the rope before starting out, for the rock climbers would be relying on it with their very lives"
],
"synonyms":[
"calculate",
"count",
"depend",
"lean",
"reckon"
],
"near synonyms":[
"commit",
"confide",
"entrust",
"intrust",
"trust"
],
"near antonyms":[
"distrust",
"mistrust",
"question",
"suspect"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"relegated":{
"to force to leave a country":{
"examples":[
"courtiers and generals who incurred the emperor's disfavor were soon relegated to the farther reaches of the empire"
],
"synonyms":[
"banished",
"deported",
"displaced",
"exiled",
"expatriated",
"transported"
],
"near synonyms":[
"cast out",
"dismissed",
"ejected",
"eliminated",
"evicted",
"excluded",
"expelled",
"expulsed",
"kicked out",
"ousted",
"ran out",
"threw out",
"excommunicated",
"ostracized",
"rejected",
"repudiated",
"spurned",
"dispossessed"
],
"near antonyms":[
"naturalized",
"repatriated",
"accepted",
"admitted",
"received",
"took in",
"entertained",
"harbored",
"housed",
"sheltered"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to arrange or assign according to type":{
"examples":[
"some psychologists argue that the syndrome should be relegated to a different class of autism"
],
"synonyms":[
"assorted",
"broke down",
"categorized",
"classed",
"classified",
"codified",
"compartmentalized",
"compartmented",
"digested",
"distinguished",
"distributed",
"graded",
"grouped",
"pegged",
"placed",
"ranged",
"ranked",
"separated",
"sorted",
"typed"
],
"near synonyms":[
"arrayed",
"disposed",
"drew up",
"marshaled",
"marshalled",
"ordered",
"organized",
"systematized",
"alphabetized",
"cataloged",
"catalogued",
"filed",
"indexed",
"listed",
"referred",
"pigeonholed",
"shelved",
"identified",
"recognized",
"culled",
"screened",
"set",
"sieved",
"sifted",
"winnowed",
"clumped",
"clustered",
"colligated",
"recategorized",
"reclassified",
"regrouped",
"subcategorized"
],
"near antonyms":[
"confused",
"disarranged",
"jumbled",
"lumped",
"mixed (up)",
"scrambled",
"misclassified",
"missorted",
"mis-sorted",
"mistyped"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"relishes":{
"positive regard for something":{
"examples":[
"she has great relish for early morning walks, which she takes nearly every day"
],
"synonyms":[
"appetites",
"fancies",
"favors",
"likes",
"likings",
"love affairs",
"loves",
"partialities",
"preferences",
"shines",
"tastes",
"uses"
],
"near synonyms":[
"cravings",
"desires",
"longings",
"thirsts",
"yens",
"enthusiasms",
"gustoes",
"interests",
"passions",
"biases",
"prejudices",
"bents",
"inclinations",
"leanings",
"propensities",
"tendencies",
"teeth",
"palates",
"weaknesses"
],
"near antonyms":[
"apathies",
"disinclinations",
"indifferences"
],
"antonyms":[
"aversions",
"disfavors",
"disgusts",
"dislikes",
"distastes",
"hatreds",
"loathings",
"mislikes"
]
},
"to take pleasure in":{
"examples":[
"visit again real soon, for I relish your company"
],
"synonyms":[
"adores",
"delights (in)",
"digs",
"enjoys",
"fancies",
"gets off (on)",
"grooves (on)",
"likes",
"loves",
"rejoices (in)",
"revels (in)",
"savors",
"savours"
],
"near synonyms":[
"admires",
"appreciates",
"cherishes",
"reveres",
"venerates",
"worships",
"prizes",
"treasures",
"values",
"devours",
"drinks (in)",
"eats (up)",
"feasts (on)",
"dotes (on)",
"idolizes",
"cottons (to)",
"favors",
"prefers",
"indulges (in)",
"luxuriates (in)",
"wallows (in)"
],
"near antonyms":[
"abhors",
"abominates",
"detests",
"dislikes",
"hates",
"loathes",
"condemns",
"despises",
"scorns"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun",
"verb"
]
},
"relight":{
"as in reignite , rekindle":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"reignite",
"rekindle",
"scald",
"scathe",
"sear",
"bank",
"stoke",
"brighten",
"illuminate",
"illumine",
"irradiate",
"lighten",
"radiate",
"set off",
"ash",
"cremate",
"incinerate",
"kiln",
"bake",
"broil",
"cook",
"char",
"frizzle",
"scorch",
"deflagrate",
"immolate"
],
"near antonyms":[
"douse",
"dowse",
"extinguish",
"put out",
"quench",
"snuff (out)",
"choke",
"smother",
"suffocate",
"stamp (out)",
"blacken",
"darken",
"dim",
"dull",
"obscure"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
}
}