dict_dl/en_MWThesaurus/sta_MWT.json
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{
"stability":{
"the ability to withstand force or stress without being distorted, dislodged, or damaged":{
"examples":[
"the bridge was designed with such great stability that it supposedly will not collapse even under the harshest weather conditions"
],
"synonyms":[
"firmness",
"soundness",
"strength",
"sturdiness"
],
"near synonyms":[
"dependability",
"durability",
"reliability",
"solidity",
"solidness",
"cohesion",
"toughness"
],
"near antonyms":[
"insubstantiality",
"unsoundness",
"unsubstantiality",
"weakness"
],
"antonyms":[
"insecurity",
"instability",
"precariousness",
"shakiness",
"unstableness",
"unsteadiness"
]
},
"the state of continuing without change":{
"examples":[
"the stability of the regime is in jeopardy"
],
"synonyms":[
"changelessness",
"constancy",
"fixedness",
"immutability",
"immutableness",
"invariability",
"steadiness",
"unchangeableness"
],
"near synonyms":[
"consistency",
"regularity",
"sameness",
"uniformity",
"durability",
"enduringness",
"lastingness",
"permanence"
],
"near antonyms":[
"aperiodicity",
"inconsistence",
"inconsistency",
"irregularity",
"unevenness",
"caducity",
"evanescence",
"impermanence"
],
"antonyms":[
"capriciousness",
"changeability",
"changeableness",
"fickleness",
"instability",
"mutability",
"unpredictability",
"unsteadiness",
"variability",
"variableness",
"volatileness",
"volatility"
]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"stabilize":{
"as in plateau":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"plateau"
],
"near antonyms":[
"change",
"fluctuate",
"mutate",
"shift",
"snap",
"vary",
"metamorphose",
"morph",
"transmute",
"better",
"improve"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"as in fix , set":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"fix",
"freeze",
"set"
],
"near antonyms":[
"alter",
"change",
"make over",
"modify",
"recast",
"redo",
"refashion",
"remake",
"remodel",
"revamp",
"revise",
"rework",
"vary",
"deform",
"metamorphose",
"mutate",
"regenerate",
"revolutionize",
"transfigure",
"transform",
"transmute"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"stabled":{
"as in":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[],
"near antonyms":[],
"related":[],
"synonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"stack":{
"a considerable amount":{
"examples":[
"earned a stack of money for writing the screenplay"
],
"synonyms":[
"abundance",
"barrel",
"basketful",
"boatload",
"bucket",
"bunch",
"bundle",
"bushel",
"carload",
"chunk",
"deal",
"dozen",
"fistful",
"gobs",
"good deal",
"heap",
"hundred",
"lashings",
"lashins",
"loads",
"lot",
"mass",
"mess",
"mountain",
"much",
"multiplicity",
"myriad",
"oodles",
"pack",
"passel",
"peck",
"pile",
"plateful",
"plenitude",
"plentitude",
"plenty",
"pot",
"potful",
"profusion",
"quantity",
"raft",
"reams",
"scads",
"sheaf",
"shipload",
"sight",
"slew",
"spate",
"store",
"ton",
"truckload",
"volume",
"wad",
"wealth",
"yard"
],
"near synonyms":[
"epidemic",
"plague",
"rash",
"bonanza",
"embarrassment",
"excess",
"overabundance",
"overage",
"overkill",
"overmuch",
"oversupply",
"plethora",
"redundancy",
"superabundance",
"superfluity",
"surfeit",
"surplus",
"deluge",
"flood",
"overflow",
"army",
"bevy",
"cram",
"crowd",
"crush",
"drove",
"flock",
"herd",
"horde",
"host",
"legion",
"mob",
"multitude",
"press",
"score",
"sea",
"swarm",
"throng",
"gazillion",
"jillion",
"kazillion",
"million",
"thousands",
"trillion",
"zillion"
],
"near antonyms":[
"atom",
"crumb",
"dot",
"fleck",
"flyspeck",
"fragment",
"grain",
"granule",
"iota",
"jot",
"modicum",
"molecule",
"mote",
"nubbin",
"particle",
"ray",
"scintilla",
"scrap",
"shred",
"tittle",
"whit",
"smatter",
"smattering",
"dash",
"drop",
"morsel",
"shot",
"piece",
"portion",
"section",
"absence",
"dearth",
"famine",
"lack",
"paucity",
"poverty",
"scarceness",
"scarcity",
"shortage",
"undersupply",
"want",
"deficiency",
"deficit",
"inadequacy",
"insufficiency",
"meagerness",
"scantiness",
"scantness",
"skimpiness"
],
"antonyms":[
"ace",
"bit",
"dab",
"dram",
"driblet",
"glimmer",
"handful",
"hint",
"lick",
"little",
"mite",
"mouthful",
"nip",
"ounce",
"peanuts",
"pinch",
"pittance",
"scruple",
"shade",
"shadow",
"smidgen",
"smidgeon",
"smidgin",
"smidge",
"speck",
"spot",
"sprinkle",
"sprinkling",
"strain",
"streak",
"suspicion",
"tad",
"taste",
"touch",
"trace"
]
},
"a quantity of things thrown or stacked on one another":{
"examples":[
"a stack of playing cards"
],
"synonyms":[
"cock",
"heap",
"hill",
"mound",
"mountain",
"pile"
],
"near synonyms":[
"bank",
"bar",
"drift",
"embankment",
"bed",
"layer",
"mow",
"pyramid",
"rick",
"barrow",
"cairn",
"pyre",
"accumulation",
"aggregate",
"array",
"assemblage",
"collection",
"conglomeration",
"gathering",
"grouping",
"hoard",
"huddle",
"jumble",
"knot",
"pileup"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to lay or throw on top of one another":{
"examples":[
"stacked the split logs by the house"
],
"synonyms":[
"heap",
"mound",
"pile"
],
"near synonyms":[
"bank",
"layer",
"pyramid",
"accumulate",
"amass",
"assemble",
"collect",
"concentrate",
"garner",
"gather",
"group",
"mass",
"bunch",
"clump",
"lump"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun",
"verb"
]
},
"stacking (up)":{
"to gradually form into a layer, pile, or mass":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"those newspapers have been stacking up in the basement since we moved here"
],
"near antonyms":[
"dispersing",
"dissipating",
"scattering"
],
"related":[
"agglutinating",
"clumping",
"lumping",
"banking",
"drifting",
"ridging"
],
"synonyms":[
"accreting",
"accumulating",
"amassing",
"building up",
"collecting",
"concentrating",
"conglomerating",
"gathering",
"massing",
"piling (up)"
]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"staffer":{
"as in sportswriter , photojournalist":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"muckraker",
"photojournalist",
"police reporter",
"sportswriter",
"stringer",
"correspondent",
"intelligencer",
"journalist",
"newshound",
"newsman",
"newsperson",
"pressman",
"reporter",
"announcer",
"broadcaster",
"newscaster",
"newspaperman",
"newspaperwoman",
"newswoman",
"anchor",
"anchorman",
"anchorperson",
"anchorwoman",
"byliner",
"columnist",
"commentator",
"copyreader",
"editor"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"stage-managed":{
"as in micromanaged":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"micromanaged",
"guarded",
"protected",
"safeguarded",
"codirected",
"co-directed",
"comanaged",
"co-managed",
"led",
"piloted",
"steered",
"cared (for)",
"minded",
"watched",
"administered",
"administrated",
"carried on",
"conducted",
"controlled",
"directed",
"governed",
"guided",
"handled",
"kept",
"managed",
"operated",
"overlooked",
"oversaw",
"presided (over)",
"ran",
"run",
"regulated",
"stewarded",
"superintended",
"supervised",
"tended"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"staggeringly":{
"to a large extent or degree":{
"examples":[
"a staggeringly inappropriate comment to make at a funeral"
],
"synonyms":[
"astronomically",
"big-time",
"broadly",
"colossally",
"considerably",
"enormously",
"extensively",
"greatly",
"highly",
"hugely",
"largely",
"massively",
"monstrously",
"monumentally",
"much",
"sizably",
"stupendously",
"tremendously",
"utterly",
"vastly"
],
"near synonyms":[
"appreciably",
"noticeably",
"significantly",
"abundantly",
"amply",
"copiously",
"healthily",
"plentifully"
],
"near antonyms":[
"modestly",
"fractionally",
"imperceptibly",
"infinitesimally",
"insignificantly",
"invisibly",
"microscopically",
"minutely",
"barely",
"hardly",
"just",
"minimally",
"scarcely"
],
"antonyms":[
"little",
"negligibly",
"nominally",
"slightly"
]
},
"type":[
"adverb"
]
},
"stain":{
"a mark of guilt or disgrace":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"the stain of this cowardly act would haunt him for the rest of his career"
],
"near antonyms":[
"award",
"credit",
"honor",
"chasteness",
"chastity",
"modesty",
"purity",
"stainlessness",
"good",
"right",
"honesty",
"integrity",
"legitimacy",
"probity",
"rectitude",
"scrupulousness",
"uprightness",
"goodness",
"righteousness",
"virtuousness",
"fame",
"glory",
"renown",
"repute"
],
"related":[
"black eye",
"discredit",
"disesteem",
"disgrace",
"dishonor",
"disrepute",
"guilt",
"ignominy",
"infamy",
"obloquy",
"odium",
"opprobrium",
"reproach",
"shame",
"corruption",
"debauchery",
"depravity",
"immorality",
"iniquity",
"licentiousness",
"sin",
"unscrupulousness",
"vice"
],
"synonyms":[
"blot",
"brand",
"onus",
"slur",
"smirch",
"smudge",
"spot",
"stigma",
"taint"
]
},
"a substance used to color other materials":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"applied several coats of stain to the wood"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"related":[
"tint",
"toner",
"cast",
"hue",
"shade",
"tinge"
],
"synonyms":[
"color",
"colorant",
"coloring",
"dye",
"dyestuff",
"pigment"
]
},
"to affect slightly with something morally bad or undesirable":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"her poor choice of companions stained her reputation somewhat"
],
"near antonyms":[
"cleanse",
"purify",
"dignify",
"elevate",
"ennoble",
"enshrine",
"glorify",
"hallow",
"magnify",
"uplift"
],
"related":[
"begrime",
"besmear",
"besmirch",
"blacken",
"blur",
"cloud",
"dirty",
"discolor",
"pollute",
"smear",
"smirch",
"smudge",
"smut",
"soil",
"sully",
"tar",
"abase",
"cheapen",
"debase",
"degrade",
"demean",
"discredit",
"disgrace",
"dishonor",
"foul",
"lower",
"shame",
"sink",
"bastardize",
"corrupt",
"debauch",
"demoralize",
"deprave",
"pervert",
"subvert",
"color",
"distort",
"twist"
],
"synonyms":[
"blemish",
"darken",
"mar",
"poison",
"spoil",
"taint",
"tarnish",
"touch",
"vitiate"
]
},
"to give color or a different color to":{
"antonyms":[
"decolorize"
],
"examples":[
"stained the table to look like cherry"
],
"near antonyms":[
"blanch",
"bleach",
"whiten"
],
"related":[
"brighten",
"lighten",
"darken",
"embrown",
"tone (down)",
"checker",
"dapple",
"daub",
"fleck",
"marble",
"mottle",
"pattern",
"polychrome",
"speck",
"speckle",
"streak",
"striate",
"stripe",
"variegate"
],
"synonyms":[
"bepaint",
"color",
"dye",
"paint",
"pigment",
"tincture",
"tinge",
"tint"
]
},
"to make dirty":{
"antonyms":[
"clean",
"cleanse"
],
"examples":[
"oil stained his work pants"
],
"near antonyms":[
"decontaminate",
"purge",
"purify",
"disinfect",
"sanitize",
"brush",
"dry-clean",
"dust",
"launder",
"mop",
"rinse",
"scour",
"scrub",
"sweep",
"wash",
"wipe",
"brighten",
"deodorize",
"freshen",
"renew",
"spruce (up)",
"straighten (up)",
"tidy (up)"
],
"related":[
"contaminate",
"defile",
"pollute",
"taint",
"discolor",
"confuse",
"disarrange",
"disarray",
"dishevel",
"disorder",
"draggle",
"jumble",
"mess",
"muddle",
"colly",
"crock"
],
"synonyms":[
"befoul",
"begrime",
"bemire",
"besmirch",
"blacken",
"daub",
"dirty",
"distain",
"foul",
"gaum",
"grime",
"mire",
"muck",
"muddy",
"smirch",
"smudge",
"soil",
"sully"
]
},
"type":[
"noun",
"verb"
]
},
"stained":{
"not clean":{
"antonyms":[
"clean",
"cleanly",
"immaculate",
"spick-and-span",
"spic-and-span",
"spotless",
"stainless",
"ultraclean",
"unsoiled",
"unstained",
"unsullied"
],
"examples":[
"always seen wearing stained clothes, which he apparently hoped would mark him as an antibourgeois bohemian"
],
"near antonyms":[
"clear",
"limpid",
"pure",
"cleaned",
"cleansed",
"combed",
"groomed",
"neat",
"ordered",
"orderly",
"tidy",
"bleached",
"purified",
"whitened",
"bright",
"flawless",
"perfect",
"shiny",
"sparkling",
"unspotted",
"untouched",
"taintless",
"unblemished",
"undefiled",
"unpolluted",
"untainted",
"virgin",
"wholesome"
],
"related":[
"contaminated",
"defiled",
"germy",
"impure",
"polluted",
"tainted",
"insanitary",
"uncleaned",
"unsanitary",
"unsterile",
"unsterilized",
"unwashed",
"greasy",
"gunky",
"chaotic",
"cluttered",
"confused",
"disarranged",
"disarrayed",
"disheveled",
"dishevelled",
"disordered",
"jumbled",
"littered",
"messed",
"messy",
"muddled",
"mussed",
"mussy",
"rumpled",
"scruffy",
"sloppy",
"slovenly",
"unkempt",
"untidy",
"raunchy",
"scuzzy",
"shabby",
"skanky",
"sleazy",
"squalid",
"collied",
"crocked",
"fuliginous",
"sooty"
],
"synonyms":[
"bedraggled",
"befouled",
"begrimed",
"bemired",
"besmirched",
"black",
"blackened",
"cruddy",
"dingy",
"dirty",
"draggled",
"dusty",
"filthy",
"foul",
"grimy",
"grotty",
"grubby",
"grungy",
"mucky",
"muddy",
"nasty",
"smudged",
"smutty",
"soiled",
"sordid",
"sullied",
"unclean",
"uncleanly"
]
},
"to affect slightly with something morally bad or undesirable":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"her poor choice of companions stained her reputation somewhat"
],
"near antonyms":[
"cleansed",
"purified",
"dignified",
"elevated",
"ennobled",
"enshrined",
"glorified",
"hallowed",
"magnified",
"uplifted"
],
"related":[
"begrimed",
"besmeared",
"besmirched",
"blackened",
"blurred",
"clouded",
"dirtied",
"discolored",
"polluted",
"smeared",
"smirched",
"smudged",
"smutted",
"soiled",
"sullied",
"tarred",
"abased",
"cheapened",
"debased",
"degraded",
"demeaned",
"discredited",
"disgraced",
"dishonored",
"fouled",
"lowered",
"sank",
"sunk",
"shamed",
"bastardized",
"corrupted",
"debauched",
"demoralized",
"depraved",
"perverted",
"subverted",
"colored",
"distorted",
"twisted"
],
"synonyms":[
"blemished",
"darkened",
"marred",
"poisoned",
"spoiled",
"spoilt",
"tainted",
"tarnished",
"touched",
"vitiated"
]
},
"to give color or a different color to":{
"antonyms":[
"decolorized"
],
"examples":[
"stained the table to look like cherry"
],
"near antonyms":[
"blanched",
"bleached",
"whitened"
],
"related":[
"brightened",
"lightened",
"darkened",
"embrowned",
"toned (down)",
"checkered",
"dappled",
"daubed",
"flecked",
"marbled",
"mottled",
"patterned",
"polychromed",
"specked",
"speckled",
"streaked",
"striated",
"striped",
"variegated"
],
"synonyms":[
"bepainted",
"colored",
"dyed",
"painted",
"pigmented",
"tinctured",
"tinged",
"tinted"
]
},
"to make dirty":{
"antonyms":[
"cleaned",
"cleansed"
],
"examples":[
"oil stained his work pants"
],
"near antonyms":[
"decontaminated",
"purged",
"purified",
"disinfected",
"sanitized",
"brushed",
"dry-cleaned",
"dusted",
"laundered",
"mopped",
"rinsed",
"scoured",
"scrubbed",
"swept",
"washed",
"wiped",
"brightened",
"deodorized",
"freshened",
"renewed",
"spruced (up)",
"straightened (up)",
"tidied (up)"
],
"related":[
"contaminated",
"defiled",
"polluted",
"tainted",
"discolored",
"confused",
"disarranged",
"disarrayed",
"disheveled",
"dishevelled",
"disordered",
"draggled",
"jumbled",
"messed",
"muddled",
"collied",
"crocked"
],
"synonyms":[
"befouled",
"begrimed",
"bemired",
"besmirched",
"blackened",
"daubed",
"dirtied",
"distained",
"fouled",
"gaumed",
"grimed",
"mired",
"mucked",
"muddied",
"smirched",
"smudged",
"soiled",
"sullied"
]
},
"type":[
"adjective",
"verb"
]
},
"stainlessness":{
"as in purity , modesty":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"chasteness",
"chastity",
"modesty",
"purity",
"award",
"credit",
"honor",
"good",
"right",
"honesty",
"integrity",
"legitimacy",
"probity",
"rectitude",
"scrupulousness",
"uprightness",
"goodness",
"righteousness",
"virtuousness",
"fame",
"glory",
"renown",
"repute"
],
"near antonyms":[
"blot",
"brand",
"onus",
"slur",
"smirch",
"smudge",
"spot",
"stain",
"stigma",
"taint",
"black eye",
"discredit",
"disesteem",
"disgrace",
"dishonor",
"disrepute",
"guilt",
"ignominy",
"infamy",
"obloquy",
"odium",
"opprobrium",
"reproach",
"shame",
"corruption",
"debauchery",
"depravity",
"immorality",
"iniquity",
"licentiousness",
"sin",
"unscrupulousness",
"vice"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"stains":{
"a mark of guilt or disgrace":{
"examples":[
"the stain of this cowardly act would haunt him for the rest of his career"
],
"synonyms":[
"blots",
"brands",
"onuses",
"slurs",
"smirches",
"smudges",
"spots",
"stigmas",
"stigmata",
"taints"
],
"near synonyms":[
"black eyes",
"discredit",
"disesteems",
"disgraces",
"dishonors",
"disreputes",
"guilts",
"ignominies",
"infamies",
"obloquies",
"odiums",
"opprobriums",
"reproaches",
"shames",
"corruptions",
"debaucheries",
"depravities",
"immoralities",
"iniquities",
"sins",
"vices"
],
"near antonyms":[
"awards",
"credits",
"honors",
"chastities",
"modesties",
"purities",
"goods",
"rights",
"honesties",
"integrities",
"legitimacies",
"probities",
"rectitudes",
"fames",
"glories",
"renowns",
"reputes"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"a substance used to color other materials":{
"examples":[
"applied several coats of stain to the wood"
],
"synonyms":[
"colorants",
"colorings",
"colors",
"dyes",
"dyestuffs",
"pigments"
],
"near synonyms":[
"tints",
"toners",
"casts",
"hues",
"shades",
"tinges"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to affect slightly with something morally bad or undesirable":{
"examples":[
"her poor choice of companions stained her reputation somewhat"
],
"synonyms":[
"blemishes",
"darkens",
"mars",
"poisons",
"spoils",
"taints",
"tarnishes",
"touches",
"vitiates"
],
"near synonyms":[
"begrimes",
"besmears",
"besmirches",
"blackens",
"blurs",
"clouds",
"dirties",
"discolors",
"pollutes",
"smears",
"smirches",
"smudges",
"smuts",
"soils",
"sullies",
"tars",
"tarres",
"abases",
"cheapens",
"debases",
"degrades",
"demeans",
"discredits",
"disgraces",
"dishonors",
"fouls",
"lowers",
"shames",
"sinks",
"bastardizes",
"corrupts",
"debauches",
"demoralizes",
"depraves",
"perverts",
"subverts",
"colors",
"distorts",
"twists"
],
"near antonyms":[
"cleanses",
"purifies",
"dignifies",
"elevates",
"ennobles",
"enshrines",
"glorifies",
"hallows",
"magnifies",
"uplifts"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to give color or a different color to":{
"examples":[
"stained the table to look like cherry"
],
"synonyms":[
"bepaints",
"colors",
"dyes",
"paints",
"pigments",
"tinctures",
"tinges",
"tints"
],
"near synonyms":[
"brightens",
"lightens",
"darkens",
"embrowns",
"tones (down)",
"checkers",
"dapples",
"daubs",
"flecks",
"marbles",
"mottles",
"patterns",
"polychromes",
"speckles",
"specks",
"streaks",
"striates",
"stripes",
"variegates"
],
"near antonyms":[
"blanches",
"bleaches",
"whitens"
],
"antonyms":[
"decolorizes"
]
},
"to make dirty":{
"examples":[
"oil stained his work pants"
],
"synonyms":[
"befouls",
"begrimes",
"bemires",
"besmirches",
"blackens",
"daubs",
"dirties",
"distains",
"fouls",
"gaums",
"grimes",
"mires",
"mucks",
"muddies",
"smirches",
"smudges",
"soils",
"sullies"
],
"near synonyms":[
"contaminates",
"defiles",
"pollutes",
"taints",
"discolors",
"confuses",
"disarranges",
"disarrays",
"dishevels",
"disorders",
"draggles",
"jumbles",
"messes",
"muddles",
"collies",
"crocks"
],
"near antonyms":[
"decontaminates",
"purges",
"purifies",
"disinfects",
"sanitizes",
"brushes",
"dry-cleans",
"dusts",
"launders",
"mops",
"rinses",
"scours",
"scrubs",
"sweeps",
"washes",
"wipes",
"brightens",
"deodorizes",
"freshens",
"renews",
"spruces (up)",
"straightens (up)",
"tidies (up)"
],
"antonyms":[
"cleans",
"cleanses"
]
},
"type":[
"noun",
"verb"
]
},
"stale":{
"causing weariness, restlessness, or lack of interest":{
"antonyms":[
"absorbing",
"engaging",
"engrossing",
"gripping",
"interesting",
"intriguing",
"involving",
"riveting"
],
"examples":[
"the sequel is basically a stale remake of the first movie"
],
"near antonyms":[
"amazing",
"astonishing",
"astounding",
"awesome",
"eye-opening",
"fabulous",
"marvelous",
"marvellous",
"sensational",
"spectacular",
"surprising",
"wonderful",
"wondrous",
"animating",
"breathtaking",
"electrifying",
"energizing",
"enlivening",
"exciting",
"exhilarating",
"galvanizing",
"hair-raising",
"inspiring",
"invigorating",
"rip-roaring",
"rousing",
"stimulating",
"stirring",
"thrilling",
"amusing",
"diverting",
"entertaining",
"moving",
"poignant",
"touching",
"alluring",
"attracting",
"attractive",
"beguiling",
"bewitching",
"captivating",
"charming",
"enchanting",
"enthralling",
"entrancing",
"fascinating",
"mesmerizing",
"spellbinding",
"suspenseful",
"arresting",
"provocative",
"tantalizing"
],
"related":[
"aseptic",
"barren",
"blah",
"dullish",
"pleasureless",
"prosaic",
"prosy",
"soggy",
"spiritless",
"blank",
"earthbound",
"gray",
"grey",
"inanimate",
"pallid",
"pedantic",
"sterile",
"suspenseless",
"undramatic",
"uneventful",
"unexciting",
"unimaginative",
"uninspiring",
"unnewsworthy",
"unrewarding",
"unsensational",
"unspectacular",
"annoying",
"bothersome",
"irksome",
"irritating",
"longsome",
"palling",
"draining",
"enervating",
"exhausting",
"fatiguing",
"wearing",
"debilitating",
"enfeebling",
"demoralizing",
"discouraging",
"disheartening",
"dispiriting",
"common",
"commonplace",
"ordinary",
"tepid",
"unexceptional",
"unsurprising",
"vapid",
"cumbersome",
"lumbering",
"plodding",
"poky",
"pokey"
],
"synonyms":[
"arid",
"boring",
"colorless",
"drab",
"dreary",
"drudging",
"dry",
"dull",
"dusty",
"flat",
"heavy",
"ho-hum",
"humdrum",
"jading",
"jejune",
"leaden",
"mind-numbing",
"monochromatic",
"monotonous",
"numbing",
"old",
"pedestrian",
"ponderous",
"slow",
"stodgy",
"stuffy",
"stupid",
"tame",
"tedious",
"tiresome",
"tiring",
"uninteresting",
"wearisome",
"weary",
"wearying"
]
},
"type":[
"adjective"
],
"used or heard so often as to be dull":{
"antonyms":[
"fresh",
"new",
"novel",
"original",
"unclich\u00e9d",
"unhackneyed"
],
"examples":[
"viewers were bored by the stale story lines of the new crop of sitcoms"
],
"near antonyms":[
"animating",
"energizing",
"enlivening",
"exciting",
"galvanizing",
"invigorating",
"stimulating",
"absorbing",
"engaging",
"engrossing",
"gripping",
"interesting",
"intriguing",
"involving",
"riveting",
"atypical",
"extraordinary",
"strange",
"unaccustomed",
"uncommon",
"unfamiliar",
"unheard-of",
"unknown",
"unprecedented",
"unusual",
"pathbreaking",
"pioneering",
"trailblazing"
],
"related":[
"twice-told",
"bromidic",
"platitudinal",
"platitudinous",
"canned",
"cardboard",
"conventional",
"cookie-cutter",
"derivative",
"imitative",
"ready-made",
"tried-and-true",
"unimaginative",
"uninspired",
"unoriginal",
"normal",
"ordinary",
"rote",
"routine",
"standard",
"stock",
"typical",
"usual",
"arid",
"barren",
"boring",
"colorless",
"drab",
"dreary",
"drudging",
"dry",
"dull",
"dusty",
"flat",
"heavy",
"ho-hum",
"humdrum",
"jading",
"jejune",
"leaden",
"mind-numbing",
"monotonous",
"numbing",
"old",
"pedantic",
"pedestrian",
"ponderous",
"prosaic",
"stodgy",
"stuffy",
"tame",
"tedious",
"tiresome",
"tiring",
"undramatic",
"uninteresting",
"vapid",
"wearisome",
"weary",
"wearying",
"old-fashioned",
"old hat"
],
"synonyms":[
"banal",
"clich\u00e9",
"cliche",
"clich\u00e9d",
"cobwebby",
"commonplace",
"hack",
"hackney",
"hackneyed",
"moth-eaten",
"musty",
"obligatory",
"shopworn",
"stereotyped",
"threadbare",
"timeworn",
"tired",
"trite",
"well-worn"
]
}
},
"staleness":{
"as in mustiness , rancidity":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"acridness",
"fetidness",
"foulness",
"fustiness",
"malodorousness",
"mustiness",
"odoriferousness",
"odorousness",
"rancidity",
"rankness",
"funk",
"reek",
"stench",
"stink",
"badness",
"vileness",
"dirt",
"dirtiness",
"filth",
"filthiness",
"nastiness",
"effluvium",
"effluvia",
"emission",
"odor",
"redolence",
"scent",
"sniff"
],
"near antonyms":[
"aroma",
"fragrance",
"perfume",
"floweriness",
"lusciousness",
"savoriness",
"spiciness",
"sweetness",
"bouquet",
"ambrosia"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"stalking":{
"as in hunting":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"hunting",
"capture",
"entrapment",
"mousetrap",
"snare",
"assault",
"attack",
"charge",
"sally",
"ambuscade",
"ambush",
"ambushment",
"surprise",
"surprize",
"trap"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to seek out (game) for food or sport":{
"examples":[
"lions stalking gazelles on the plains"
],
"synonyms":[
"chasing",
"hunting"
],
"near synonyms":[
"capturing",
"dragging",
"netting",
"snaring",
"trapping",
"dogging",
"ferreting",
"hawking",
"hounding",
"coursing",
"pursuing",
"running",
"running down",
"spooring",
"tracking",
"trailing",
"gunning (for)",
"harpooning",
"killing",
"shooting",
"poaching",
"culling"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to walk with exaggerated arm and leg movements":{
"examples":[
"the irate customer stalked off in a huff"
],
"synonyms":[
"prancing",
"sashaying",
"strutting",
"swaggering"
],
"near synonyms":[
"flouncing",
"mincing",
"traipsing",
"pussyfooting",
"tiptoeing",
"sweeping",
"parading",
"promenading",
"padding",
"stepping",
"treading",
"pacing",
"striding",
"lumbering",
"lurching",
"pounding",
"shambling",
"shuffling",
"staggering"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun",
"verb"
]
},
"stalks":{
"to seek out (game) for food or sport":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"lions stalking gazelles on the plains"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"related":[
"captures",
"drags",
"nets",
"snares",
"traps",
"dogs",
"ferrets",
"hawks",
"hounds",
"courses",
"pursues",
"runs",
"runs down",
"spoors",
"tracks",
"trails",
"guns (for)",
"harpoons",
"kills",
"shoots",
"poaches",
"culls"
],
"synonyms":[
"chases",
"hunts"
]
},
"to walk with exaggerated arm and leg movements":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"the irate customer stalked off in a huff"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"related":[
"flounces",
"minces",
"traipses",
"pussyfoots",
"tiptoes",
"sweeps",
"parades",
"promenades",
"pads",
"steps",
"treads",
"paces",
"strides",
"lumbers",
"lurches",
"pounds",
"shambles",
"shuffles",
"staggers"
],
"synonyms":[
"prances",
"sashays",
"struts",
"swaggers"
]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"stall":{
"as in":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[],
"near antonyms":[],
"related":[],
"synonyms":[]
},
"to bring (something) to a standstill":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"endless complaints stalled the process of selecting the winning design for the memorial"
],
"near antonyms":[
"carry on",
"continue",
"follow through (with)",
"keep (on)",
"keep up",
"persist",
"run on",
"advance",
"fare",
"go along",
"march",
"move",
"proceed",
"progress",
"wend",
"actuate",
"budge",
"drive",
"goad",
"impel",
"propel",
"push",
"spur",
"stir"
],
"related":[
"baffle",
"balk",
"block",
"blockade",
"bottleneck",
"clog",
"dam",
"detain",
"hinder",
"hold",
"hold back",
"impede",
"obstruct",
"snag",
"stem",
"conclude",
"cut off",
"end",
"terminate",
"call",
"discontinue",
"suspend",
"choke off",
"rein (in)",
"repress",
"squash",
"squelch",
"stanch",
"staunch",
"stunt",
"suppress",
"turn back"
],
"synonyms":[
"arrest",
"bring up",
"catch",
"check",
"draw up",
"fetch up",
"halt",
"hold up",
"pull up",
"stay",
"still",
"stop"
]
},
"to stop functioning":{
"antonyms":[
"start (up)"
],
"examples":[
"the engine stalls sometimes when it's very cold outside"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"related":[
"fizzle",
"sputter",
"wheeze",
"act up",
"malfunction",
"jam"
],
"synonyms":[
"break",
"break down",
"conk (out)",
"crash",
"cut out",
"die",
"fail",
"give out"
]
},
"type":[
"noun",
"verb"
]
},
"stalled":{
"as in arrested , stopped":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[],
"near antonyms":[],
"related":[],
"synonyms":[]
},
"to bring (something) to a standstill":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"endless complaints stalled the process of selecting the winning design for the memorial"
],
"near antonyms":[
"carried on",
"continued",
"followed through (with)",
"kept (on)",
"kept up",
"persisted",
"ran on",
"advanced",
"fared",
"marched",
"moved",
"proceeded",
"progressed",
"wended",
"went along",
"actuated",
"budged",
"drove",
"goaded",
"impelled",
"propelled",
"pushed",
"spurred",
"stirred"
],
"related":[
"baffled",
"balked",
"blockaded",
"blocked",
"bottlenecked",
"clogged",
"dammed",
"detained",
"held",
"held back",
"hindered",
"impeded",
"obstructed",
"snagged",
"stemmed",
"concluded",
"cut off",
"ended",
"terminated",
"called",
"discontinued",
"suspended",
"choked off",
"reined (in)",
"repressed",
"squashed",
"squelched",
"stanched",
"staunched",
"stunted",
"suppressed",
"turned back"
],
"synonyms":[
"arrested",
"brought up",
"caught",
"checked",
"drew up",
"fetched up",
"halted",
"held up",
"pulled up",
"stayed",
"stilled",
"stopped"
]
},
"to stop functioning":{
"antonyms":[
"started (up)"
],
"examples":[
"the engine stalls sometimes when it's very cold outside"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"related":[
"fizzled",
"sputtered",
"wheezed",
"acted up",
"malfunctioned",
"jammed"
],
"synonyms":[
"broke",
"broke down",
"conked (out)",
"crashed",
"cut out",
"died",
"failed",
"gave out"
]
},
"type":[
"adjective",
"verb"
]
},
"stamp (out)":{
"to destroy all traces of":{
"examples":[
"working to stamp out racism in this country"
],
"synonyms":[
"abolish",
"annihilate",
"black out",
"blot out",
"cancel",
"clean (up)",
"efface",
"eradicate",
"erase",
"expunge",
"exterminate",
"extirpate",
"liquidate",
"obliterate",
"root (out)",
"rub out",
"snuff (out)",
"sweep (away)",
"wipe out"
],
"near synonyms":[
"decimate",
"demolish",
"destroy",
"devastate",
"ravage",
"dismantle",
"flatten",
"mow (down)",
"raze",
"tear down",
"ruin",
"total",
"waste",
"wreck",
"blast",
"blow up",
"dash",
"dynamite",
"smash",
"atomize",
"consume",
"devour",
"dissolve",
"fragment",
"powder",
"pulverize",
"shatter",
"splinter",
"doom",
"finish",
"kill",
"kill off",
"terminate",
"zap",
"cut",
"discard",
"ditch",
"eject",
"excise",
"expel",
"jettison",
"oust",
"throw out"
],
"near antonyms":[
"conserve",
"preserve",
"protect",
"save",
"build",
"construct",
"create",
"fabricate",
"fashion",
"forge",
"form",
"frame",
"make",
"manufacture",
"shape",
"fix",
"mend",
"patch",
"rebuild",
"recondition",
"reconstruct",
"renew",
"renovate",
"repair",
"restore",
"revamp"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"stampedes":{
"a large group of animals or people moving together in a quick and disordered way":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"During the morning rush hour, the coffee shop gets hit with a stampede of customers."
],
"near antonyms":[],
"related":[],
"synonyms":[]
},
"to move together in a quick and disordered manner and usually in a large group":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"At the sound of the lunch bell, all five hundred students in the building stampeded toward the cafeteria."
],
"near antonyms":[],
"related":[],
"synonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun",
"verb"
]
},
"stampeding":{
"to move together in a quick and disordered manner and usually in a large group":{
"examples":[
"At the sound of the lunch bell, all five hundred students in the building stampeded toward the cafeteria."
],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"streaking",
"whizzing",
"beetling",
"darting",
"flitting",
"scampering",
"scudding",
"scuffling",
"galloping",
"jogging",
"sprinting",
"accelerating",
"quickening",
"stepping out",
"catching up",
"fast-forwarding",
"outpacing",
"outrunning",
"outstripping",
"overtaking",
"arrowing",
"beelining",
"charging",
"barreling",
"barrelling",
"belting",
"blasting",
"blazing",
"blowing",
"bolting",
"bombing",
"bowling",
"breezing",
"bundling",
"bustling",
"buzzing",
"cannonballing",
"careening",
"careering",
"chasing",
"coursing",
"cracking (on)",
"dashing",
"driving",
"flying",
"haring",
"hastening",
"highballing",
"hotfooting (it)",
"humping",
"hurling",
"hurrying",
"hurtling",
"hustling",
"hying",
"hieing",
"jetting",
"jumping",
"motoring",
"nipping",
"pelting",
"racing",
"ramming",
"ripping",
"rocketing",
"running",
"rushing",
"rustling",
"scooting",
"scurrying",
"scuttling",
"shooting",
"speeding",
"stepping",
"tearing",
"traveling",
"travelling",
"trotting",
"whirling",
"whisking",
"zipping",
"zooming"
],
"near antonyms":[
"dallying",
"dawdling",
"dillydallying",
"dragging",
"hanging (around or out)",
"lagging",
"lingering",
"loitering",
"poking",
"tarrying",
"ambling",
"lumbering",
"plodding",
"sauntering",
"shuffling",
"strolling",
"decelerating",
"slowing (down or up)",
"crawling",
"creeping",
"poking"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"stamps":{
"a perceptible trace left by pressure":{
"examples":[
"a stamp left in the mud by some prehistoric beast"
],
"synonyms":[
"impresses",
"impressions",
"imprints",
"prints"
],
"near synonyms":[
"dents",
"hollows",
"indentations",
"indents",
"indentures",
"marks",
"signs"
],
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"antonyms":[]
},
"something that sets apart an individual from others of the same kind":{
"examples":[
"virtually without exception Van Gogh's portraits bear the stamp of genius"
],
"synonyms":[
"affections",
"attributes",
"attributions",
"characteristics",
"characters",
"criteria",
"criterions",
"diagnostics",
"differentiae",
"features",
"fingerprints",
"hallmarks",
"markers",
"marks",
"notes",
"particularities",
"peculiarities",
"points",
"properties",
"qualities",
"specifics",
"touches",
"traits"
],
"near synonyms":[
"badges",
"indications",
"signs",
"emblems",
"symbols",
"tokens",
"charms",
"graces",
"excellences",
"merits",
"virtues",
"eccentricities",
"idiosyncrasies",
"oddities",
"quirks",
"individualities",
"singularities"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to move heavily or clumsily":{
"examples":[
"stamping around in oversized boots"
],
"synonyms":[
"barges",
"clumps",
"flogs",
"flounders",
"galumphs",
"lumbers",
"lumps",
"plods",
"pounds",
"scuffles",
"scuffs",
"shambles",
"shuffles",
"slogs",
"sloughs",
"stomps",
"stumbles",
"stumps",
"tramps",
"tromps",
"trudges"
],
"near synonyms":[
"drags",
"flops",
"hauls",
"blunders",
"careens",
"dodders",
"lurches",
"reels",
"staggers",
"sways",
"teeters",
"totters",
"waddles",
"weaves",
"wobbles",
"wabbles"
],
"near antonyms":[
"drifts",
"floats",
"hangs",
"hovers",
"poises",
"wafts"
],
"antonyms":[
"breezes",
"coasts",
"glides",
"slides",
"waltzes",
"whisks"
]
},
"to tread on heavily so as to crush or injure":{
"examples":[
"stamped the grass down in a circle"
],
"synonyms":[
"champs",
"stomps",
"tramples",
"tramps",
"tromps"
],
"near synonyms":[
"overrides",
"runs down",
"runs over",
"steps (on)",
"mashes",
"pulps",
"smashes",
"squashes",
"squelches",
"boots",
"hoofs",
"kicks"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun",
"verb"
]
},
"stance":{
"a general way of holding the body":{
"examples":[
"a slightly aggressive stance"
],
"synonyms":[
"attitude",
"carriage",
"poise",
"posture",
"station"
],
"near synonyms":[
"attention",
"body language",
"pose",
"seat",
"bearing",
"behavior",
"conduct",
"demeanor",
"deportment",
"air",
"presence",
"aspect",
"look",
"mien"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"stanchion":{
"an upright shaft that supports an overhead structure":{
"examples":[
"the stanchion of an arch"
],
"synonyms":[
"column",
"pier",
"pilaster",
"pillar",
"post"
],
"near synonyms":[
"caryatid",
"pedestal",
"buttress",
"flying buttress",
"needle",
"obelisk",
"pile",
"piling"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"stand by":{
"to give steadfast support to":{
"examples":[
"no matter how much people object, I will stand by my decision"
],
"synonyms":[
"adhere (to)",
"cling (to)",
"hew (to)",
"keep (to)",
"stick (to or with)"
],
"near synonyms":[
"cleave (to)",
"advocate",
"back",
"champion",
"confirm",
"defend",
"endorse",
"indorse",
"espouse",
"support",
"uphold",
"accept",
"adopt",
"cherish",
"cultivate",
"embrace",
"follow",
"foster",
"heed",
"backstop",
"bolster",
"boost",
"buttress",
"enforce",
"reinforce",
"reenforce"
],
"near antonyms":[
"abandon",
"abnegate",
"desert",
"forsake",
"give up",
"relinquish",
"spurn",
"surrender",
"abjure",
"recall",
"recant",
"reconsider",
"renege",
"renounce",
"retract",
"revoke",
"take back",
"unsay",
"withdraw",
"controvert",
"disagree (with)",
"disprove",
"dispute",
"rebut",
"refute",
"contradict",
"deny",
"disavow",
"disclaim",
"disown",
"gainsay",
"negate",
"negative",
"repudiate",
"back down",
"back off",
"backtrack"
],
"antonyms":[
"defect (from)"
]
},
"something or someone to which one looks for support":{
"examples":[
"our old standby in times of trouble"
],
"synonyms":[
"anchor",
"buttress",
"dependence",
"dependance",
"mainstay",
"pillar",
"reliance"
],
"near synonyms":[
"backbone",
"sinew(s)",
"spine",
"right hand",
"bolsterer",
"crutch",
"handmaiden",
"handmaid",
"prop",
"stay",
"anchorage",
"harbor",
"refuge"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun",
"verb"
]
},
"standard-bearer":{
"as in manager , steward":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"leadman",
"manager",
"overseer",
"principal",
"skipper",
"steward",
"straw boss",
"superintendent",
"superior",
"supervisor",
"boss",
"boss man",
"captain",
"chief",
"foreman",
"head",
"headman",
"helmsman",
"honcho",
"jefe",
"kingpin",
"leader",
"master",
"mistress",
"taskmaster",
"administrator",
"commander",
"director",
"executive",
"general",
"governor",
"hierarch",
"higher-up",
"overlord",
"potentate",
"ruler",
"sovereign",
"sovran",
"figurehead",
"baron",
"czar",
"tsar",
"tzar",
"czarina",
"tsarina",
"tzarina",
"king",
"magnate",
"mogul",
"president",
"prince",
"princess",
"queen",
"big cheese",
"big gun",
"bigwig",
"top dog",
"top gun",
"cohead",
"coleader",
"employer",
"gaffer",
"ganger"
],
"near antonyms":[
"dependent",
"inferior",
"junior",
"secondary",
"subject",
"subordinate",
"underling"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"standards":{
"the code of good conduct for an individual or group":{
"examples":[
"a life guided by high standards"
],
"synonyms":[
"ethics",
"ethos",
"morality",
"morals",
"norms",
"principles"
],
"near synonyms":[
"customs",
"dictates",
"etiquette",
"manners",
"mores",
"values",
"beliefs",
"dogma",
"faith",
"tenets"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"standpat":{
"tending to favor established ideas, conditions, or institutions":{
"antonyms":[
"broad-minded",
"large-minded",
"liberal",
"nonconservative",
"nonconventional",
"nonorthodox",
"nontraditional",
"open-minded",
"progressive",
"unconventional",
"unorthodox"
],
"examples":[
"the standpat chefs were having none of this low-calorie stuff that the food police were pushing"
],
"near antonyms":[
"anticonventional",
"antiestablishment",
"antitraditional",
"extremist",
"radical",
"revolutionary",
"nonconformist",
"advanced",
"contemporary",
"modern",
"lefty",
"radical",
"ultraleft",
"ultraleftist",
"ultraprogressive",
"ultraradical"
],
"related":[
"conventional",
"square",
"devoted",
"faithful",
"loyal",
"staunch",
"stanch",
"steadfast",
"steady",
"true",
"true-blue",
"blimpish",
"neoconservative",
"Tory",
"ultraright",
"ultrarightist",
"dowdy",
"fogyish",
"fogeyish",
"fuddy-duddy",
"ossified",
"set",
"stodgy",
"right",
"right-wing",
"antiliberal",
"antimodern",
"antiprogressive",
"antireform",
"antirevolutionary"
],
"synonyms":[
"archconservative",
"brassbound",
"button-down",
"buttoned-down",
"conservative",
"die-hard",
"hidebound",
"mossbacked",
"old-fashioned",
"old-line",
"old-school",
"orthodox",
"paleoconservative",
"reactionary",
"traditional",
"traditionalistic",
"ultraconservative",
"unprogressive"
]
},
"type":[
"adjective"
]
},
"starch":{
"active strength of body or mind":{
"antonyms":[
"lethargy",
"listlessness",
"sluggishness",
"torpidity"
],
"examples":[
"a middle-aged woman who has retained the starch of youth"
],
"near antonyms":[
"indolence",
"laziness",
"debilitation",
"debility",
"delicacy",
"disablement",
"enfeeblement",
"faintness",
"feebleness",
"frailness",
"frailty",
"impotence",
"impotency",
"infirmity",
"powerlessness",
"puniness",
"slightness",
"softness",
"tenderness",
"weakness",
"enervation",
"exhaustion",
"inanition",
"prostration"
],
"related":[
"animal spirits",
"animation",
"briskness",
"jauntiness",
"liveliness",
"snappiness",
"spirit",
"spiritedness",
"sprightliness",
"spunk",
"spunkiness",
"vibrance",
"vibrancy",
"vivaciousness",
"vivacity",
"ardor",
"\u00e9lan",
"fervor",
"fire",
"passion",
"zeal",
"main",
"metal",
"mettle",
"might",
"muscle",
"potency",
"power",
"puissance",
"stamina",
"strength",
"brawniness",
"fitness",
"hardiness",
"huskiness",
"sturdiness",
"virility",
"health",
"healthiness",
"soundness",
"verdure",
"wellness"
],
"synonyms":[
"beans",
"bounce",
"brio",
"dash",
"drive",
"dynamism",
"energy",
"esprit",
"gas",
"get-up-and-go",
"ginger",
"go",
"gusto",
"hardihood",
"juice",
"life",
"moxie",
"oomph",
"pep",
"punch",
"sap",
"snap",
"verve",
"vigor",
"vim",
"vinegar",
"vitality",
"zing",
"zip"
]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"stare daggers":{
"to look with anger or disapproval":{
"antonyms":[
"beam",
"grin",
"smile"
],
"examples":[
"He saw his brother look daggers at him and he realized he had said too much."
],
"near antonyms":[],
"related":[
"gape",
"gaze",
"ogle",
"stare",
"grimace",
"pout",
"sulk",
"growl",
"snarl",
"sneer",
"snigger"
],
"synonyms":[
"frown",
"glare",
"gloom",
"glower",
"lower",
"lour",
"scowl"
]
},
"type":[
"phrase"
]
},
"starkers":{
"lacking or shed of clothing":{
"examples":[
"room service in one London hotel informs its employees to get used to the idea of walking in on guests who are starkers"
],
"synonyms":[
"au naturel",
"bare",
"bottomless",
"disrobed",
"mother-naked",
"naked",
"nude",
"raw",
"stripped",
"unclad",
"unclothed",
"undressed"
],
"near synonyms":[
"seminude",
"topless",
"denuded",
"peeled",
"unveiled"
],
"near antonyms":[
"covered",
"veiled",
"arrayed",
"caparisoned",
"decked (out)",
"rigged (out)",
"tricked (out)",
"vested",
"decent"
],
"antonyms":[
"appareled",
"apparelled",
"attired",
"clad",
"clothed",
"dressed",
"garbed",
"invested",
"robed",
"suited"
]
},
"type":[
"adjective"
]
},
"starlike":{
"as in":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[],
"near antonyms":[],
"related":[],
"synonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"adjective"
]
},
"starlit":{
"as in sunlit , moonlit":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"moonlit",
"moony",
"sunlit",
"floodlit",
"floodlighted",
"highlighted",
"spotlighted",
"spotlit",
"glossy",
"lustrous",
"shiny",
"ultrabright",
"ablaze",
"agleam",
"aglitter",
"alight",
"beaming",
"beamy",
"effulgent",
"glaring",
"glowing",
"incandescent",
"lambent",
"radiant",
"relucent",
"resplendent",
"shining",
"sparkling",
"bright",
"brightened",
"brilliant",
"illuminated",
"illumined",
"light",
"lightsome",
"lit",
"lighted",
"lucent",
"lucid",
"luminous"
],
"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"
]
},
"started":{
"to move suddenly and sharply (as in surprise)":{
"examples":[
"I started from my chair when I heard the sudden scream"
],
"synonyms":[
"bolted",
"jumped",
"startled"
],
"near synonyms":[
"jerked",
"jolted",
"twitched",
"blenched",
"cringed",
"flinched",
"quailed",
"recoiled",
"shrank",
"shrunk",
"spooked",
"squinched",
"winced",
"bounded",
"leaped",
"leapt",
"sprang",
"sprung",
"reacted",
"responded"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to be responsible for the creation and early operation or use of":{
"examples":[
"started the impressionist movement in art"
],
"synonyms":[
"began",
"constituted",
"established",
"founded",
"inaugurated",
"initiated",
"innovated",
"instituted",
"introduced",
"launched",
"pioneered",
"planted",
"set up"
],
"near synonyms":[
"authored",
"fathered",
"originated",
"conceived",
"concocted",
"contrived",
"cooked (up)",
"created",
"devised",
"fabricated",
"invented",
"made up",
"manufactured",
"produced",
"thought (up)",
"constructed",
"put up",
"developed",
"enlarged",
"expanded",
"endowed",
"financed",
"funded",
"subsidized",
"arranged",
"organized",
"systematized",
"systemized",
"refounded",
"reinitiated",
"reinstituted",
"relaunched"
],
"near antonyms":[
"abolished",
"annihilated",
"annulled",
"nullified",
"ended",
"finished",
"halted",
"stopped",
"terminated",
"rounded (off or out)",
"wound up",
"winded up",
"wrapped up"
],
"antonyms":[
"closed (down)",
"phased out",
"shut (up)"
]
},
"to cause to function":{
"examples":[
"trying to start the car on a frigid morning"
],
"synonyms":[
"activated",
"actuated",
"cranked (up)",
"drove",
"moved",
"ran",
"run",
"set off",
"sparked",
"touched off",
"triggered",
"turned on"
],
"near synonyms":[
"kicked over",
"turned over",
"charged",
"electrified",
"energized",
"fired",
"fueled",
"fuelled",
"generated",
"powered",
"pushed",
"discharged",
"launched",
"released",
"switched",
"tripped",
"reactivated",
"recharged",
"aroused",
"excited",
"jump-started",
"kick-started",
"stimulated",
"vitalized",
"ignited",
"incited",
"instigated",
"provoked",
"quickened",
"stirred up",
"accelerated",
"catalyzed",
"sped (up)",
"speeded (up)",
"stepped up"
],
"near antonyms":[
"arrested",
"braked",
"checked",
"cut off",
"drew up",
"halted",
"jammed",
"stalled",
"stopped",
"stuck",
"decelerated",
"repressed",
"slowed",
"stunted",
"suppressed"
],
"antonyms":[
"cut",
"cut out",
"deactivated",
"killed",
"shut off",
"turned off"
]
},
"to come into existence":{
"examples":[
"the fight started when one child tripped the other"
],
"synonyms":[
"actualized",
"appeared",
"arose",
"began",
"broke",
"commenced",
"dawned",
"engendered",
"formed",
"materialized",
"originated",
"set in",
"sprang",
"sprung"
],
"near synonyms":[
"breathed",
"existed",
"lived",
"subsisted",
"was",
"arrived",
"came on",
"emerged",
"coalesced",
"cohered",
"shaped (up)",
"continued",
"endured",
"lasted",
"persisted",
"survived"
],
"near antonyms":[
"concluded",
"desisted",
"discontinued",
"finished",
"halted",
"quit",
"quitted",
"terminated",
"disappeared",
"dissolved",
"evaporated",
"vanished",
"departed",
"died",
"expired",
"passed away",
"perished"
],
"antonyms":[
"ceased",
"ended",
"stopped"
]
},
"to extend outward beyond a usual point":{
"examples":[
"frightened horses with starting eyes"
],
"synonyms":[
"bagged",
"ballooned",
"beetled",
"bellied",
"billowed",
"bulged",
"bunched",
"jutted",
"overhung",
"poked",
"pooched",
"pouched",
"pouted",
"projected",
"protruded",
"stood out",
"stuck out",
"swelled"
],
"near synonyms":[
"domed",
"blew up",
"inflated",
"dilated",
"distended",
"expanded",
"mushroomed",
"snowballed",
"elongated",
"extended",
"lengthened",
"stretched"
],
"near antonyms":[
"compressed",
"condensed",
"constricted",
"contracted",
"shrank",
"shrunk"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to take the first step in (a process or course of action)":{
"examples":[
"we'll be ready to start the concert in a moment"
],
"synonyms":[
"began",
"commenced",
"embarked (on or upon)",
"entered (into or upon)",
"fell (to)",
"got off",
"kicked off",
"launched",
"led off",
"opened",
"struck (into)"
],
"near synonyms":[
"created",
"generated",
"inaugurated",
"initiated",
"innovated",
"invented",
"originated",
"adopted",
"embraced",
"took on",
"took up",
"established",
"fathered",
"founded",
"instituted",
"organized",
"pioneered",
"set up",
"spawned",
"got around (to)",
"got down (to)",
"got round (to)"
],
"near antonyms":[
"ceased",
"desisted",
"discontinued",
"halted",
"knocked off",
"laid off",
"quit",
"quitted",
"stopped",
"closed",
"completed",
"abandoned",
"forsook",
"left",
"abolished",
"demolished",
"destroyed",
"exterminated",
"extinguished",
"phased out"
],
"antonyms":[
"concluded",
"ended",
"finished",
"terminated"
]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"state-of-the-art":{
"being or employing the latest concepts, styles, or techniques":{
"examples":[
"a medical center that prides itself on being a leader in state-of-the-art microsurgery"
],
"synonyms":[
"advanced",
"avant",
"avant-garde",
"cutting-edge",
"progressive"
],
"near synonyms":[
"pioneering",
"revolutionary",
"trailblazing",
"alternative",
"antiestablishment",
"nontraditional",
"unconventional",
"underground",
"bizarre",
"far-out",
"outr\u00e9",
"way-out",
"fresh",
"new",
"novel",
"original",
"strange",
"unaccustomed",
"unfamiliar",
"unheard-of",
"unknown",
"unprecedented",
"contemporary",
"current",
"hot",
"mod",
"modern",
"modernistic",
"newfangled",
"new-fashioned",
"present-day",
"red-hot",
"space-age",
"ultramodern",
"up-to-date"
],
"near antonyms":[
"conventional",
"customary",
"established",
"orthodox",
"traditional"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"being or involving the latest methods, concepts, information, or styles":{
"examples":[
"he spent a boatload of money on a state-of-the-art home theater"
],
"synonyms":[
"contemporary",
"current",
"designer",
"hot",
"mod",
"modern",
"modernistic",
"new",
"new age",
"new-fashioned",
"newfangled",
"present-day",
"red-hot",
"space-age",
"ultramodern",
"up-to-date",
"up-to-the-minute"
],
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"happening",
"in",
"modish",
"nouvelle",
"now",
"stylish",
"last",
"latest",
"modernized",
"updated",
"futuristic",
"high-tech",
"hi-tech",
"latter-day",
"recent"
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"aged",
"age-old",
"ancient",
"antediluvian",
"hoary",
"old",
"venerable",
"bygone",
"former",
"late",
"olden",
"past",
"antique",
"historic",
"historical",
"retro",
"retrograde",
"kaput",
"kaputt",
"obsolete",
"outmoded",
"outworn",
"unmodernized",
"old-world",
"discarded",
"disused",
"moth-eaten",
"forgotten",
"remote",
"ageless",
"dateless",
"timeless"
],
"antonyms":[
"antiquated",
"archaic",
"dated",
"fusty",
"musty",
"oldfangled",
"old-fashioned",
"old-time",
"out-of-date",
"pass\u00e9"
]
},
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"adjective"
]
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"statics":{
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"arguments",
"conflicts",
"debates",
"disputes",
"dissents",
"hassles",
"quarrels",
"squabbles",
"cavils",
"niggles",
"quibbles",
"censures",
"criticisms",
"misunderstandings",
"defiances",
"disobediences",
"rebellions",
"compunctions",
"doubts",
"misgivings",
"qualms",
"scruples",
"distrust",
"dubieties",
"dubitations",
"incertitudes",
"indeterminations",
"misdoubts",
"mistrust",
"reservations",
"skepticism",
"suspicions",
"uncertainties",
"challenges",
"complaints",
"demurrals",
"demurrers",
"demurs",
"difficulties",
"exceptions",
"expostulations",
"fusses",
"kicks",
"objections",
"protests",
"questions",
"remonstrances",
"stinks",
"reluctances"
],
"near antonyms":[
"approvals",
"sanctions",
"acceptances",
"acquiescences",
"agreements",
"assents",
"compliances",
"obediences"
],
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},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"station":{
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"the soldiers remained at their station even though a huge enemy force was approaching"
],
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"position",
"post",
"quarter"
],
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"assignment",
"brief",
"business",
"charge",
"detail",
"job",
"operation"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"a regular stopping place":{
"examples":[
"the historic house was once a station on the Underground Railroad, the network that helped slaves reach freedom in the North"
],
"synonyms":[
"stop",
"way station"
],
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"depot",
"terminal",
"layover",
"stopover",
"outstation"
],
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"antonyms":[]
},
"the placement of someone or something in relation to others in a vertical arrangement":{
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"in colonial America, women occupied the lowest station in society and were not allowed to take part in public life"
],
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"echelon",
"footing",
"level",
"place",
"position",
"rank",
"ranking",
"reach(es)",
"rung",
"situation",
"standing",
"status",
"stratum"
],
"near synonyms":[
"condition",
"estate",
"order",
"walk",
"capacity",
"function",
"rating"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"a general way of holding the body":{
"examples":[
"the palace guards are required to maintain a rigid station"
],
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"attitude",
"carriage",
"poise",
"posture",
"stance"
],
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"attention",
"body language",
"pose",
"seat",
"bearing",
"behavior",
"conduct",
"demeanor",
"deportment",
"air",
"presence",
"aspect",
"look",
"mien"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to assign to a place or position":{
"examples":[
"stationed guards around the perimeter of the encampment"
],
"synonyms":[
"detail",
"post"
],
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"set",
"appoint",
"place",
"position"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun",
"verb"
]
},
"statute":{
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"examples":[
"a new antilittering statute"
],
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"related":[
"command",
"commandment",
"decree",
"dictate",
"directive",
"edict",
"fiat",
"ruling",
"bylaw",
"ground rule",
"regulation",
"rule",
"amendment",
"legislation",
"common law",
"martial law",
"blue law",
"prohibition",
"proscription",
"restriction",
"canon",
"capitulary",
"encyclical"
],
"synonyms":[
"act",
"bill",
"constitution",
"enactment",
"law",
"ordinance"
]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"staunches":{
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"examples":[],
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},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"stave":{
"as in brace , stick":{
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"synonyms":[],
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"beam",
"brace",
"pile",
"post",
"ridgepole",
"sill",
"splint",
"stake",
"stick",
"lumber",
"timber",
"wood",
"bar",
"billet",
"block",
"cordwood",
"firewood"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"as in birch , hickory":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"birch",
"crabstick",
"hickory",
"rattan",
"switch",
"blackjack",
"knobkerrie",
"mace",
"beetle",
"gavel",
"hammer",
"mallet",
"maul",
"sledgehammer",
"bastinado",
"bastinade",
"bat",
"baton",
"billy",
"billy club",
"bludgeon",
"cane",
"club",
"cudgel",
"nightstick",
"rod",
"rung",
"sap",
"shillelagh",
"shillalah",
"staff",
"truncheon",
"waddy",
"crook",
"crosier",
"crozier",
"walking stick",
"whangee"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"staved off":{
"to drive back":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"managed to stave off the invaders"
],
"near antonyms":[
"embraced",
"hailed",
"welcomed"
],
"related":[
"defied",
"fought",
"held off",
"opposed",
"resisted",
"stood off",
"withstood",
"deflected",
"warded (off)",
"rebuffed",
"snubbed",
"spurned"
],
"synonyms":[
"beat off",
"fended (off)",
"rebutted",
"repelled",
"repulsed",
"turned away",
"turned back"
]
},
"to keep from happening by taking action in advance":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"the quartermaster staved off a shortage by requisitioning more than enough supplies"
],
"near antonyms":[
"abetted",
"aided",
"assisted",
"eased",
"facilitated",
"smoothed",
"unclogged",
"advanced",
"cultivated",
"encouraged",
"forwarded",
"fostered",
"furthered",
"nurtured",
"promoted",
"allowed",
"left",
"let",
"permitted"
],
"related":[
"anticipated",
"provided",
"negated",
"neutralized",
"nullified",
"saved",
"baffled",
"balked",
"checkmated",
"deterred",
"foiled",
"frustrated",
"thwarted",
"barred",
"blocked",
"hampered",
"hindered",
"impeded",
"interfered (with)",
"retarded",
"stalled",
"deflected",
"fended (off)",
"stopped",
"warded (off)",
"avoided",
"circumvented",
"dodged",
"ducked",
"eluded",
"escaped",
"eschewed",
"evaded",
"shirked",
"shook",
"shunned",
"forbade",
"forbad",
"inhibited",
"prohibited",
"arrested",
"checked",
"halted",
"stopped",
"compensated (for)",
"counteracted",
"counterbalanced",
"made up (for)",
"offset"
],
"synonyms":[
"averted",
"forestalled",
"headed off",
"helped",
"obviated",
"precluded",
"prevented"
]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"stay":{
"a structure that holds up or serves as a foundation for something else":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"a free press is one of the principal stays of a democratic society"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"related":[
"shoring",
"column",
"pedestal",
"pilaster",
"pillar",
"arch",
"bolster",
"bracket",
"cantilever",
"girder",
"bearing",
"crutch",
"peg",
"post",
"stake",
"stanchion",
"stand",
"stilt",
"strut",
"truss",
"base",
"foundation",
"frame"
],
"synonyms":[
"brace",
"buttress",
"mount",
"mounting",
"prop",
"reinforcement",
"shore",
"spur",
"support",
"underpinning"
]
},
"a temporary residing as another's guest":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"my mother-in-law is coming for a brief stay next week"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"related":[
"field trip",
"homestay",
"sleepover",
"layover",
"stop",
"stopover"
],
"synonyms":[
"sojourn",
"tarry",
"visit"
]
},
"the stopping of a process or activity":{
"antonyms":[
"continuance",
"continuation"
],
"examples":[
"we must work without stay if we are ever to reach our goal of equal rights for everyone"
],
"near antonyms":[
"extension",
"persistence",
"prolongation"
],
"related":[
"mop-up",
"phaseout",
"abeyance",
"break",
"interruption",
"layoff",
"letup",
"moratorium",
"pause",
"standstill",
"suspension"
],
"synonyms":[
"arrest",
"arrestment",
"cease",
"cessation",
"check",
"close",
"closedown",
"closure",
"conclusion",
"cutoff",
"discontinuance",
"discontinuation",
"end",
"ending",
"expiration",
"finish",
"halt",
"lapse",
"offset",
"shutdown",
"shutoff",
"stop",
"stoppage",
"surcease",
"termination"
]
},
"to bring (something) to a standstill":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"stay the trial until this new evidence has been processed"
],
"near antonyms":[
"carry on",
"continue",
"follow through (with)",
"keep (on)",
"keep up",
"persist",
"run on",
"advance",
"fare",
"go along",
"march",
"move",
"proceed",
"progress",
"wend",
"actuate",
"budge",
"drive",
"goad",
"impel",
"propel",
"push",
"spur",
"stir"
],
"related":[
"baffle",
"balk",
"block",
"blockade",
"bottleneck",
"clog",
"dam",
"detain",
"hinder",
"hold",
"hold back",
"impede",
"obstruct",
"snag",
"stem",
"conclude",
"cut off",
"end",
"terminate",
"call",
"discontinue",
"suspend",
"choke off",
"rein (in)",
"repress",
"squash",
"squelch",
"stanch",
"staunch",
"stunt",
"suppress",
"turn back"
],
"synonyms":[
"arrest",
"bring up",
"catch",
"check",
"draw up",
"fetch up",
"halt",
"hold up",
"pull up",
"stall",
"still",
"stop"
]
},
"to continue to be in a place for a significant amount of time":{
"antonyms":[
"bail",
"bail out",
"bug out",
"buzz (off)",
"clear off",
"clear out",
"cut out",
"depart",
"exit",
"get off",
"go",
"go off",
"leave",
"move",
"pack (up or off)",
"peel off",
"pike (out or off)",
"pull out",
"push off",
"push on",
"quit",
"shove (off)",
"take off",
"vamoose",
"walk out"
],
"examples":[
"let's stay inside this pavilion until it stops raining"
],
"near antonyms":[
"abscond",
"book",
"decamp",
"escape",
"evacuate",
"flee",
"fly",
"get out",
"run away",
"scat",
"scram",
"skip",
"abandon",
"desert",
"forsake",
"vacate"
],
"related":[
"await",
"hang on",
"hold on",
"wait",
"dally",
"dawdle",
"linger",
"loiter",
"outstay",
"overstay"
],
"synonyms":[
"abide",
"dwell",
"hang around",
"remain",
"stick around",
"tarry"
]
},
"to hold up or serve as a foundation for":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"beams being used to stay the bridge while it is undergoing repairs"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"related":[
"steady",
"truss",
"underlie"
],
"synonyms":[
"bear",
"bolster",
"brace",
"buttress",
"carry",
"prop (up)",
"shore (up)",
"support",
"sustain",
"undergird",
"underpin",
"uphold"
]
},
"to remain in place in readiness or expectation of something":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"we'll stay for a while longer and see if anyone shows up"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"related":[
"hang around",
"linger",
"remain",
"stick around",
"tarry",
"stand by",
"anticipate",
"expect",
"watch (for)"
],
"synonyms":[
"await",
"bide",
"hold on",
"wait"
]
},
"to reside as a temporary guest":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"let's stay at a quaint inn rather than at some generic motel"
],
"near antonyms":[
"abide",
"dwell",
"live",
"reside"
],
"related":[
"come by",
"come over",
"drop by",
"drop in",
"run in",
"step in",
"stop (by)",
"frequent",
"hang (around or out)",
"haunt",
"inhabit",
"occupy"
],
"synonyms":[
"crash",
"sojourn",
"tarry",
"visit"
]
},
"type":[
"noun",
"verb"
]
},
"stay clear of":{
"to get or keep away from (as a responsibility) through cleverness or trickery":{
"examples":[
"He adroitly changed the subject to stay clear of having to admit what he'd done."
],
"synonyms":[
"avoid",
"dodge",
"duck",
"elude",
"escape",
"eschew",
"evade",
"finesse",
"get around",
"scape",
"shake",
"shirk",
"shuffle (out of)",
"shun",
"weasel (out of)"
],
"near synonyms":[
"miss",
"avert",
"deflect",
"divert",
"obviate",
"parry",
"prevent",
"ward (off)",
"ban",
"bar",
"debar",
"eliminate",
"except",
"exclude",
"preclude",
"rule out",
"bypass",
"circumvent",
"skirt",
"foil",
"fox",
"frustrate",
"outfox",
"outsmart",
"outwit",
"overreach",
"thwart"
],
"near antonyms":[
"accept",
"court",
"embrace",
"pursue",
"seek",
"welcome",
"catch",
"contract",
"incur"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"phrase"
]
},
"stainless":{
"free from dirt or stain":{
"examples":[
"nothing less than a perfectly stainless sheet of parchment would do for a diploma"
],
"synonyms":[
"antiseptic",
"chaste",
"clean",
"fair",
"immaculate",
"pristine",
"spick-and-span",
"spic-and-span",
"spotless",
"squeaky-clean",
"unsoiled",
"unstained",
"unsullied"
],
"near synonyms":[
"pure",
"taintless",
"undefiled",
"unpolluted",
"untainted",
"wholesome",
"cleanly",
"germfree",
"hygienic",
"sanitary",
"sterile",
"abluted",
"bleached",
"cleansed",
"purified",
"scrubbed",
"washed",
"whitened",
"milky",
"snowy",
"white",
"flawless",
"unblemished",
"bright",
"shiny",
"sparkling"
],
"near antonyms":[
"dingy",
"greasy",
"grimy",
"mucky",
"muddy",
"unwashed",
"defiled",
"germy",
"polluted",
"tainted",
"unsterile",
"unsterilized",
"blackened",
"discolored"
],
"antonyms":[
"besmirched",
"dirty",
"filthy",
"foul",
"grubby",
"smirched",
"soiled",
"spotted",
"stained",
"sullied",
"unclean",
"uncleaned"
]
},
"type":[
"adjective"
]
},
"stands by":{
"to give steadfast support to":{
"examples":[
"no matter how much people object, I will stand by my decision"
],
"synonyms":[
"adheres (to)",
"clings (to)",
"hews (to)",
"keeps (to)",
"sticks (to or with)"
],
"related":[
"cleaves (to)",
"advocates",
"backs",
"champions",
"confirms",
"defends",
"endorses",
"indorses",
"espouses",
"supports",
"upholds",
"accepts",
"adopts",
"cherishes",
"cultivates",
"embraces",
"follows",
"fosters",
"heeds",
"backstops",
"bolsters",
"boosts",
"buttresses",
"enforces",
"reinforces",
"reenforces"
],
"near antonyms":[
"abandons",
"abnegates",
"deserts",
"forsakes",
"gives up",
"relinquishes",
"spurns",
"surrenders",
"abjures",
"recalls",
"recants",
"reconsiders",
"reneges",
"renounces",
"retracts",
"revokes",
"takes back",
"unsays",
"withdraws",
"controverts",
"disagrees (with)",
"disproves",
"disputes",
"rebuts",
"refutes",
"contradicts",
"denies",
"disavows",
"disclaims",
"disowns",
"gainsays",
"negates",
"negatives",
"repudiates",
"backs down",
"backs off",
"backtracks"
],
"antonyms":[
"defects (from)"
]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"star":{
"a ball-shaped gaseous celestial body that shines by its own light":{
"examples":[
"it's difficult to see the stars at night in the middle of the city because of all the streetlights"
],
"synonyms":[
"luminary",
"sphere",
"sun"
],
"near synonyms":[
"cluster",
"constellation",
"galaxy",
"binary star",
"brown dwarf",
"dwarf",
"fixed star",
"gasser",
"giant star",
"lodestar",
"loadstar",
"neutron star",
"nova",
"pulsar",
"quasar",
"red dwarf",
"red giant",
"red star",
"subdwarf",
"supercluster",
"supergiant",
"supernova",
"variable",
"variable star",
"white dwarf"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"the person who has the most important role in a play, movie, or TV show":{
"examples":[
"when the star of the school play came down with the flu on opening night, her understudy got to go on"
],
"synonyms":[
"headliner",
"lead",
"principal"
],
"near synonyms":[
"leading lady",
"leading man",
"superstar",
"ingenue",
"ing\u00e9nue",
"starlet",
"star turn",
"coprincipal",
"costar"
],
"near antonyms":[
"extra",
"supernumerary"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"a person who is widely known and usually much talked about":{
"examples":[
"the public's endless fascination with stars"
],
"synonyms":[
"cause c\u00e9l\u00e8bre",
"cause celebre",
"celeb",
"celebrity",
"figure",
"icon",
"ikon",
"light",
"luminary",
"megastar",
"name",
"notability",
"notable",
"notoriety",
"personage",
"personality",
"somebody",
"standout",
"superstar",
"VIP"
],
"near synonyms":[
"favorite",
"heartthrob",
"hero",
"idol",
"demigod",
"dignitary",
"eminence",
"immortal",
"monument",
"pillar",
"worthy",
"baron",
"big shot",
"bigwig",
"kahuna",
"magnate",
"mogul",
"nabob",
"panjandrum"
],
"near antonyms":[
"lightweight",
"mediocrity",
"has-been"
],
"antonyms":[
"nobody",
"noncelebrity"
]
},
"of or relating to the stars":{
"examples":[
"star observations"
],
"synonyms":[
"astral",
"starry",
"stellar"
],
"near synonyms":[
"celestial",
"empyrean",
"heavenly",
"intergalactic",
"interstellar",
"astronomical",
"astronomic",
"astrophysical",
"astronautic",
"astronautical",
"starlike",
"star-spangled"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"standing above others in rank, importance, or achievement":{
"examples":[
"the teacher's star pupil"
],
"synonyms":[
"astral",
"bright",
"distinguished",
"eminent",
"illustrious",
"luminous",
"noble",
"notable",
"noteworthy",
"outstanding",
"preeminent",
"prestigious",
"redoubtable",
"signal",
"superior"
],
"near synonyms":[
"celebrated",
"exalted",
"famed",
"famous",
"glorious",
"honored",
"renowned",
"reputable",
"infamous",
"notorious",
"dominant",
"paramount",
"predominant"
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"insignificant",
"minor",
"unimportant",
"average",
"inferior",
"mediocre",
"obscure",
"uncelebrated",
"unsung"
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"looking for star actors to play the leads"
],
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"celebrated",
"famed",
"famous",
"noted",
"notorious",
"prominent",
"renowned",
"visible",
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],
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"fabled",
"fabulous",
"legendary",
"infamous",
"distinguished",
"eminent",
"exceptional",
"great",
"illustrious",
"leading",
"notable",
"noteworthy",
"outstanding",
"preeminent",
"prestigious",
"remarkable",
"supereminent",
"superior",
"important",
"significant",
"acknowledged",
"recognized",
"respected",
"favorite",
"popular",
"preferred",
"estimable",
"honorable",
"reputable",
"respectable",
"formidable",
"redoubtable"
],
"near antonyms":[
"insignificant",
"unimportant",
"inconspicuous",
"undistinguished",
"unexceptional",
"unpopular"
],
"antonyms":[
"anonymous",
"nameless",
"obscure",
"uncelebrated",
"unfamous",
"unknown",
"unsung"
]
},
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"adjective",
"noun"
]
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"state aids":{
"as in reliefs , foreign aids":{
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"foreign aids",
"reliefs",
"aids",
"assistances",
"block grants",
"grants-in-aid",
"set-asides",
"advances",
"allowances",
"benefits",
"bequests",
"endowments",
"funds",
"legacies",
"stipends",
"trust funds",
"trusts",
"allocations",
"allotments",
"annuities",
"appropriations",
"entitlements",
"grants",
"subsidies",
"subventions"
],
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},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"started (up)":{
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"examples":[
"I started from my chair when I heard the sudden scream"
],
"synonyms":[
"bolted",
"jumped",
"startled"
],
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"jerked",
"jolted",
"twitched",
"blenched",
"cringed",
"flinched",
"quailed",
"recoiled",
"shrank",
"shrunk",
"spooked",
"squinched",
"winced",
"bounded",
"leaped",
"leapt",
"sprang",
"sprung",
"reacted",
"responded"
],
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"to be responsible for the creation and early operation or use of":{
"examples":[
"started the impressionist movement in art"
],
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"began",
"constituted",
"established",
"founded",
"inaugurated",
"initiated",
"innovated",
"instituted",
"introduced",
"launched",
"pioneered",
"planted",
"set up"
],
"near synonyms":[
"authored",
"fathered",
"originated",
"conceived",
"concocted",
"contrived",
"cooked (up)",
"created",
"devised",
"fabricated",
"invented",
"made up",
"manufactured",
"produced",
"thought (up)",
"constructed",
"put up",
"developed",
"enlarged",
"expanded",
"endowed",
"financed",
"funded",
"subsidized",
"arranged",
"organized",
"systematized",
"systemized",
"refounded",
"reinitiated",
"reinstituted",
"relaunched"
],
"near antonyms":[
"abolished",
"annihilated",
"annulled",
"nullified",
"ended",
"finished",
"halted",
"stopped",
"terminated",
"rounded (off or out)",
"wound up",
"winded up",
"wrapped up"
],
"antonyms":[
"closed (down)",
"phased out",
"shut (up)"
]
},
"to cause to function":{
"examples":[
"trying to start the car on a frigid morning"
],
"synonyms":[
"activated",
"actuated",
"cranked (up)",
"drove",
"moved",
"ran",
"run",
"set off",
"sparked",
"touched off",
"triggered",
"turned on"
],
"near synonyms":[
"kicked over",
"turned over",
"charged",
"electrified",
"energized",
"fired",
"fueled",
"fuelled",
"generated",
"powered",
"pushed",
"discharged",
"launched",
"released",
"switched",
"tripped",
"reactivated",
"recharged",
"aroused",
"excited",
"jump-started",
"kick-started",
"stimulated",
"vitalized",
"ignited",
"incited",
"instigated",
"provoked",
"quickened",
"stirred up",
"accelerated",
"catalyzed",
"sped (up)",
"speeded (up)",
"stepped up"
],
"near antonyms":[
"arrested",
"braked",
"checked",
"cut off",
"drew up",
"halted",
"jammed",
"stalled",
"stopped",
"stuck",
"decelerated",
"repressed",
"slowed",
"stunted",
"suppressed"
],
"antonyms":[
"cut",
"cut out",
"deactivated",
"killed",
"shut off",
"turned off"
]
},
"to come into existence":{
"examples":[
"the fight started when one child tripped the other"
],
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"actualized",
"appeared",
"arose",
"began",
"broke",
"commenced",
"dawned",
"engendered",
"formed",
"materialized",
"originated",
"set in",
"sprang",
"sprung"
],
"near synonyms":[
"breathed",
"existed",
"lived",
"subsisted",
"was",
"arrived",
"came on",
"emerged",
"coalesced",
"cohered",
"shaped (up)",
"continued",
"endured",
"lasted",
"persisted",
"survived"
],
"near antonyms":[
"concluded",
"desisted",
"discontinued",
"finished",
"halted",
"quit",
"quitted",
"terminated",
"disappeared",
"dissolved",
"evaporated",
"vanished",
"departed",
"died",
"expired",
"passed away",
"perished"
],
"antonyms":[
"ceased",
"ended",
"stopped"
]
},
"to extend outward beyond a usual point":{
"examples":[
"frightened horses with starting eyes"
],
"synonyms":[
"bagged",
"ballooned",
"beetled",
"bellied",
"billowed",
"bulged",
"bunched",
"jutted",
"overhung",
"poked",
"pooched",
"pouched",
"pouted",
"projected",
"protruded",
"stood out",
"stuck out",
"swelled"
],
"near synonyms":[
"domed",
"blew up",
"inflated",
"dilated",
"distended",
"expanded",
"mushroomed",
"snowballed",
"elongated",
"extended",
"lengthened",
"stretched"
],
"near antonyms":[
"compressed",
"condensed",
"constricted",
"contracted",
"shrank",
"shrunk"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to take the first step in (a process or course of action)":{
"examples":[
"we'll be ready to start the concert in a moment"
],
"synonyms":[
"began",
"commenced",
"embarked (on or upon)",
"entered (into or upon)",
"fell (to)",
"got off",
"kicked off",
"launched",
"led off",
"opened",
"struck (into)"
],
"near synonyms":[
"created",
"generated",
"inaugurated",
"initiated",
"innovated",
"invented",
"originated",
"adopted",
"embraced",
"took on",
"took up",
"established",
"fathered",
"founded",
"instituted",
"organized",
"pioneered",
"set up",
"spawned",
"got around (to)",
"got down (to)",
"got round (to)"
],
"near antonyms":[
"ceased",
"desisted",
"discontinued",
"halted",
"knocked off",
"laid off",
"quit",
"quitted",
"stopped",
"closed",
"completed",
"abandoned",
"forsook",
"left",
"abolished",
"demolished",
"destroyed",
"exterminated",
"extinguished",
"phased out"
],
"antonyms":[
"concluded",
"ended",
"finished",
"terminated"
]
},
"the point at which something begins":{
"examples":[
"knew from the start of the game that he would win easily"
],
"synonyms":[
"alpha",
"baseline",
"beginning",
"birth",
"commencement",
"dawn",
"day one",
"genesis",
"get-go",
"git-go",
"inception",
"incipience",
"incipiency",
"kickoff",
"launch",
"morning",
"nascence",
"nascency",
"onset",
"outset",
"threshold"
],
"near synonyms":[
"drawing board",
"first base",
"ground zero",
"square one",
"creation",
"founding",
"inauguration",
"initiation",
"institution",
"origination",
"cradle",
"fountain",
"fountainhead",
"germ",
"origin",
"root",
"seedbed",
"source",
"spring",
"well",
"wellspring",
"dawning",
"opening",
"advent",
"appearance",
"arrival",
"debut",
"d\u00e9but",
"emergence",
"childhood",
"infancy",
"youth"
],
"near antonyms":[
"cessation",
"closing",
"closure",
"completion",
"finale",
"finish",
"period",
"stop",
"termination",
"windup"
],
"antonyms":[
"close",
"conclusion",
"end",
"ending",
"omega"
]
},
"type":[
"noun",
"verb"
]
},
"stands on":{
"to place reliance or trust":{
"examples":[
"She plans to be standing on her own by this time next month."
],
"synonyms":[
"calculates",
"counts",
"depends",
"leans",
"reckons",
"relies"
],
"near synonyms":[
"commits",
"confides",
"entrusts",
"intrusts",
"trusts"
],
"near antonyms":[
"distrusts",
"mistrusts",
"questions",
"suspects"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"phrase"
]
},
"standing off":{
"as in fighting , resisting":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"defying",
"fighting",
"holding off",
"opposing",
"resisting",
"withstanding",
"beating off",
"fending (off)",
"rebutting",
"repelling",
"repulsing",
"staving off",
"turning away",
"turning back",
"deflecting",
"warding (off)",
"rebuffing",
"snubbing",
"spurning"
],
"near antonyms":[
"embracing",
"hailing",
"welcoming"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"stanches":{
"as in suppresses , represses":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"related":[],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"staggered":{
"as in overwhelmed , stunned":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"overwhelmed",
"stunned",
"stupefied",
"bemused",
"bewildered",
"puzzled",
"startled",
"surprised",
"surprized",
"amazed",
"astonished",
"astounded",
"awed",
"awestruck",
"awestricken",
"dumbfounded",
"dumfounded",
"flabbergasted",
"marveling",
"marvelling",
"openmouthed",
"wondering"
],
"near antonyms":[
"unimpressed",
"disinterested",
"incurious",
"indifferent",
"unconcerned",
"uninterested",
"dispassionate",
"emotionless",
"impassive",
"unemotional",
"bored",
"jaded"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to move forward while swaying from side to side":{
"examples":[
"I was so tired last night that I just staggered upstairs to bed without eating dinner"
],
"synonyms":[
"careened",
"doddered",
"lurched",
"reeled",
"teetered",
"tottered",
"waddled"
],
"near synonyms":[
"rocked",
"rolled",
"seesawed",
"swagged",
"swayed",
"wavered",
"weaved",
"wobbled",
"wabbled",
"barged",
"blundered",
"clomped",
"clumped",
"floundered",
"galumphed",
"lumbered",
"lumped",
"pounded",
"scuffed",
"scuffled",
"shambled",
"shuffled",
"stamped",
"stomped",
"stumbled",
"tramped",
"tromped"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to show uncertainty about the right course of action":{
"examples":[
"a daunting problem that would make even the most decisive person stagger just a bit"
],
"synonyms":[
"balanced",
"dithered",
"faltered",
"halted",
"hesitated",
"hung back",
"scrupled",
"shilly-shallied",
"teetered",
"vacillated",
"wavered",
"wobbled",
"wabbled"
],
"near synonyms":[
"hawed",
"hemmed",
"dallied",
"dawdled",
"delayed",
"lingered",
"paused",
"procrastinated",
"waited",
"backed down",
"chickened (out)",
"considered",
"debated",
"deliberated",
"pondered",
"weighed",
"oscillated",
"swayed",
"equivocated",
"hedged",
"pussyfooted",
"waffled"
],
"near antonyms":[
"decided",
"budged",
"stirred",
"advanced",
"continued"
],
"antonyms":[
"dived (in)",
"dove (in)",
"plunged (in)"
]
},
"type":[
"adjective",
"verb"
]
},
"stabling":{
"as in securing , shedding":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"related":[],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"standings":{
"the period during which something exists, lasts, or is in progress":{
"examples":[
"a tradition of long standing"
],
"synonyms":[
"continuances",
"dates",
"durations",
"life spans",
"lifetimes",
"lives",
"runs",
"times"
],
"near synonyms":[
"spells",
"stretches",
"spans",
"tenures",
"terms",
"hitches",
"tours",
"turns",
"half-lifes",
"half-lives",
"ages",
"longevities"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"the placement of someone or something in relation to others in a vertical arrangement":{
"examples":[
"my standing in the class at the time of graduation"
],
"synonyms":[
"degrees",
"echelons",
"footings",
"levels",
"places",
"positions",
"rankings",
"ranks",
"reaches",
"rungs",
"situations",
"stations",
"statuses",
"strata"
],
"near synonyms":[
"conditions",
"estates",
"orders",
"walks",
"capacities",
"functions",
"ratings"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"stacks (up)":{
"to gradually form into a layer, pile, or mass":{
"examples":[
"those newspapers have been stacking up in the basement since we moved here"
],
"synonyms":[
"accretes",
"accumulates",
"amasses",
"builds up",
"collects",
"concentrates",
"conglomerates",
"gathers",
"masses",
"piles (up)"
],
"near synonyms":[
"agglutinates",
"clumps",
"lumps",
"banks",
"drifts",
"ridges"
],
"near antonyms":[
"disperses",
"dissipates",
"scatters"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"stalwart":{
"feeling or displaying no fear by temperament":{
"examples":[
"the stalwart soldiers in the army of Alexander the Great, who willingly followed him to the ends of the known world"
],
"synonyms":[
"bold",
"brave",
"courageous",
"dauntless",
"doughty",
"fearless",
"gallant",
"greathearted",
"gutsy",
"gutty",
"heroic",
"heroical",
"intrepid",
"lionhearted",
"manful",
"stout",
"stouthearted",
"undauntable",
"undaunted",
"valiant",
"valorous"
],
"near synonyms":[
"determined",
"firm",
"game",
"gamy",
"gamey",
"gritty",
"plucky",
"resolute",
"Spartan",
"undeterred",
"undismayed",
"unflinching",
"unswerving",
"mettlesome",
"spirited",
"spunky",
"adventuresome",
"adventurous",
"audacious",
"daring",
"dashing",
"hardy",
"venturesome",
"venturous",
"crazy",
"foolish",
"half-witted",
"insane",
"lunatic",
"mad",
"nutty",
"brash",
"brazen",
"daredevil",
"foolhardy",
"heedless",
"hotheaded",
"impetuous",
"imprudent",
"impulsive",
"incautious",
"madcap",
"overbold",
"overconfident",
"rash",
"reckless",
"thoughtless",
"wild",
"hasty",
"headlong",
"precipitate",
"comforted",
"emboldened",
"encouraged",
"heartened",
"reassured",
"unafraid"
],
"near antonyms":[
"diffident",
"mousy",
"mousey",
"scary",
"shy",
"skittish",
"timid",
"anxious",
"apprehensive",
"nervous",
"careful",
"cautious",
"heedful",
"prudent",
"unadventurous",
"afraid",
"agitated",
"disconcerted",
"disquieted",
"disturbed",
"frightened",
"horrified",
"panicked",
"panic-stricken",
"perturbed",
"scared",
"shocked",
"spooked",
"startled",
"terrified",
"terrorized",
"unnerved",
"upset",
"appalled",
"concerned",
"dismayed",
"worried",
"unmanly",
"weak",
"wimpy"
],
"antonyms":[
"chicken",
"chickenhearted",
"chicken-livered",
"coward",
"cowardly",
"craven",
"dastardly",
"fainthearted",
"fearful",
"gutless",
"lily-livered",
"milk-livered",
"nerveless",
"poltroon",
"poor-spirited",
"pusillanimous",
"spineless",
"spiritless",
"timorous",
"uncourageous",
"ungallant",
"unheroic",
"weakhearted",
"yellow"
]
},
"having muscles capable of exerting great physical force":{
"examples":[
"a stalwart yet lithe athlete"
],
"synonyms":[
"brawny",
"muscular",
"rugged",
"sinewy",
"stout",
"strong"
],
"near synonyms":[
"forceful",
"forcible",
"mighty",
"potent",
"powerful",
"puissant",
"able-bodied",
"athletic",
"fit",
"trim",
"beefy",
"burly",
"husky",
"strapping",
"masculine",
"virile",
"hard",
"inured",
"strengthened",
"sturdy",
"tough",
"toughened",
"energetic",
"energized",
"invigorated",
"lusty",
"red-blooded",
"robust",
"vigorous",
"vitalized",
"hale",
"healthy",
"hearty",
"sound"
],
"near antonyms":[
"challenged",
"disabled",
"incapacitated",
"paralyzed",
"impotent",
"powerless",
"puny",
"slight",
"small",
"unathletic",
"unfit",
"unhealthy"
],
"antonyms":[
"delicate",
"feeble",
"frail",
"weak",
"weakling",
"wimpy"
]
},
"marked by the ability to withstand stress without structural damage or distortion":{
"examples":[
"the stalwart walls of the castle"
],
"synonyms":[
"bombproof",
"fast",
"firm",
"sound",
"stable",
"strong",
"sturdy"
],
"near synonyms":[
"dependable",
"durable",
"reliable",
"infrangible",
"irrefragable",
"unbreakable",
"beefy",
"solid",
"cohesive",
"tough"
],
"near antonyms":[
"infirm",
"insecure",
"weak",
"shaky",
"tottering",
"tottery",
"unbalanced",
"wobbly",
"wabbly",
"unsubstantial"
],
"antonyms":[
"rickety",
"unsound",
"unstable",
"unsteady"
]
},
"as in supporter , activist":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"activist",
"advocate",
"apostle",
"backer",
"champion",
"evangelist",
"patron",
"promoter",
"supporter",
"crusader",
"fanatic",
"ideologue",
"idealogue",
"militant",
"partisan",
"partizan",
"red hot",
"true believer",
"zealot",
"demonstrator",
"marcher",
"objector",
"picketer",
"protester",
"protestor",
"dreamer",
"idealist",
"visionary"
],
"near antonyms":[
"dabbler",
"dilettante",
"nonmilitant"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"adjective",
"noun"
]
},
"stared":{
"to look long and hard in wonder or surprise":{
"examples":[
"her friends stared in disbelief upon seeing her walking arm in arm with her ex-husband"
],
"synonyms":[
"blinked",
"gaped",
"gawked",
"gawped",
"gazed",
"goggled",
"peered",
"rubbernecked"
],
"near synonyms":[
"glared",
"gloated",
"glowered",
"considered",
"eyed",
"fixated",
"observed",
"regarded",
"watched",
"leered",
"ogled",
"perused",
"pored (over)",
"studied",
"outfaced",
"outstared",
"stared down"
],
"near antonyms":[
"glanced",
"glimpsed",
"peeked",
"peeped",
"browsed",
"dipped (into)",
"scanned",
"winked (at)"
],
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},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
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"as in micromanage":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
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"micromanage",
"guard",
"protect",
"safeguard",
"codirect",
"comanage",
"lead",
"pilot",
"steer",
"care (for)",
"mind",
"watch",
"administer",
"administrate",
"carry on",
"conduct",
"control",
"direct",
"govern",
"guide",
"handle",
"keep",
"manage",
"operate",
"overlook",
"oversee",
"preside (over)",
"regulate",
"run",
"steward",
"superintend",
"supervise",
"tend"
],
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"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"stare":{
"to look long and hard in wonder or surprise":{
"examples":[
"her friends stared in disbelief upon seeing her walking arm in arm with her ex-husband"
],
"synonyms":[
"blink",
"gape",
"gawk",
"gawp",
"gaze",
"goggle",
"peer",
"rubberneck"
],
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"glare",
"gloat",
"glower",
"consider",
"eye",
"fixate",
"observe",
"regard",
"watch",
"leer",
"ogle",
"peruse",
"pore (over)",
"study",
"outface",
"outstare",
"stare down"
],
"near antonyms":[
"glance",
"glimpse",
"peek",
"peep",
"browse",
"dip (into)",
"scan",
"wink (at)"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"a fixed intent look":{
"examples":[
"caught the child's wide-eyed stare on film"
],
"synonyms":[
"aspect",
"eye",
"gape",
"gaze",
"regard",
"scrutiny"
],
"near synonyms":[
"glare",
"glower",
"contemplation",
"fixation",
"attention",
"observance",
"observation",
"surveillance",
"watch",
"examination",
"inspection",
"perusal",
"study",
"survey"
],
"near antonyms":[
"blink",
"flash",
"glance",
"glimpse",
"peek",
"peep",
"sight",
"stime",
"oeillade",
"ogle",
"browse",
"scan"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun",
"verb"
]
},
"stakes":{
"a legal right to participation in the advantages, profits, and responsibility of something":{
"examples":[
"if I invest in your business, I expect a stake in it in return"
],
"synonyms":[
"claims",
"interests",
"shares"
],
"near synonyms":[
"co-ownerships",
"ownerships",
"partnerships",
"parts",
"possessions",
"titles"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"the money or thing risked on the outcome of an uncertain event":{
"examples":[
"lost his entire stake with a single roll of the dice"
],
"synonyms":[
"bets",
"wagers"
],
"near synonyms":[
"collaterals",
"handles",
"jackpots",
"kitties",
"pools",
"pots"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to provide money for":{
"examples":[
"the actor staked the entire production of the film with his own money"
],
"synonyms":[
"bankrolls",
"capitalizes",
"endows",
"finances",
"funds",
"subsidizes",
"underwrites"
],
"near synonyms":[
"grubstakes",
"cofinances",
"refinances",
"advocates",
"aids",
"backs",
"champions",
"endorses",
"indorses",
"patronizes",
"sponsors",
"supports",
"maintains",
"nourishes",
"provides (for)",
"clears",
"defrays",
"discharges",
"foots",
"liquidates",
"pays",
"pays off",
"pays up",
"quits",
"recompenses",
"settles",
"springs (for)",
"stands",
"refunds"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[
"defunds"
]
},
"to risk (something) on the outcome of an uncertain event":{
"examples":[
"I'd stake a year's salary that she'll win the general election"
],
"synonyms":[
"bets",
"gambles",
"goes",
"lays",
"plays",
"puts",
"wagers"
],
"near synonyms":[
"bids",
"offers",
"adventures",
"chances",
"hazards",
"speculates",
"ventures",
"endangers",
"imperils",
"jeopardizes"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun",
"verb"
]
},
"standard-bearers":{
"as in managers , stewards":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"leadmen",
"managers",
"overseers",
"principals",
"skippers",
"stewards",
"straw bosses",
"superintendents",
"superiors",
"supervisors",
"bosses",
"boss men",
"captains",
"chiefs",
"foremen",
"headmen",
"heads",
"helmsmen",
"honchos",
"jefes",
"kingpins",
"leaders",
"masters",
"mistresses",
"taskmasters",
"administrators",
"commanders",
"directors",
"executives",
"generals",
"governors",
"hierarchs",
"higher-ups",
"overlords",
"potentates",
"rulers",
"sovereigns",
"sovrans",
"figureheads",
"barons",
"czarinas",
"tsarinas",
"tzarinas",
"czars",
"tsars",
"tzars",
"kings",
"magnates",
"moguls",
"presidents",
"princes",
"princesses",
"queens",
"big cheeses",
"big guns",
"bigwigs",
"top dogs",
"top guns",
"coheads",
"co-heads",
"coleaders",
"co-leaders",
"employers",
"gaffers",
"gangers"
],
"near antonyms":[
"dependents",
"inferiors",
"juniors",
"secondaries",
"subjects",
"subordinates",
"underlings"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"starvation":{
"suffering or death caused by having nothing to eat or not enough to eat; the condition of someone who is starving":{
"examples":[
"The famine brought mass starvation .",
"Millions of people face starvation every day.",
"They died from starvation ."
],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"malnutrition",
"undernourishment",
"appetite",
"belly",
"emptiness",
"famishment",
"hunger",
"munchies",
"stomach",
"rapaciousness",
"rapacity",
"ravenousness",
"voraciousness",
"voracity",
"craving",
"sweet tooth",
"famine",
"fast",
"hunger strike",
"gluttony",
"gourmandism",
"greed",
"hoggishness"
],
"near antonyms":[
"fill",
"fullness",
"glut",
"repleteness",
"repletion",
"satiation",
"satiety",
"satisfaction",
"surfeit",
"inappetence"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"stare down":{
"as in outstare , outface":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"outface",
"outstare",
"peruse",
"pore (over)",
"study",
"leer",
"ogle",
"consider",
"eye",
"fixate",
"observe",
"regard",
"watch",
"glare",
"gloat",
"glower",
"blink",
"gape",
"gawk",
"gawp",
"gaze",
"goggle",
"peer",
"rubberneck",
"stare"
],
"near antonyms":[
"glance",
"glimpse",
"peek",
"peep",
"browse",
"dip (into)",
"scan",
"wink (at)"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"stands up for":{
"to drive danger or attack away from":{
"examples":[
"She always stood up for her little sister on the playground."
],
"synonyms":[
"bulwarks",
"covers",
"defends",
"fences",
"fends",
"forfends",
"guards",
"keeps",
"protects",
"safeguards",
"screens",
"secures",
"shields",
"wards"
],
"near synonyms":[
"averts",
"prevents",
"opposes",
"resists",
"withstands",
"battles",
"contends",
"fights",
"wars",
"conserves",
"preserves",
"saves",
"buffers",
"palisades",
"pickets",
"walls"
],
"near antonyms":[
"bombards",
"storms",
"besets",
"besieges",
"overruns",
"capitulates",
"caves",
"submits",
"yields"
],
"antonyms":[
"assails",
"assaults",
"attacks"
]
},
"to continue to declare to be true or proper despite opposition or objections":{
"examples":[
"You have to stand up for the rules or there will be chaos."
],
"synonyms":[
"defends",
"justifies",
"maintains",
"supports",
"upholds"
],
"near synonyms":[
"advocates",
"champions",
"espouses",
"confirms",
"vindicates",
"warrants",
"affirms",
"asserts",
"avers",
"avouches",
"avows",
"claims",
"contends",
"insists",
"pleads",
"proclaims",
"professes",
"protests",
"states",
"argues",
"debates",
"discusses",
"emphasizes",
"stresses",
"underlines",
"underscores"
],
"near antonyms":[
"abandons",
"abjures",
"forsakes",
"recants",
"retracts",
"takes back",
"withdraws",
"reverses",
"switches",
"controverts",
"disproves",
"rebuts",
"refutes"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to promote the interests or cause of":{
"examples":[
"He stood up for the rights of those without a voice."
],
"synonyms":[
"advocates",
"backs",
"champions",
"endorses",
"indorses",
"patronizes",
"plumps (for)",
"plunks (for)",
"plonks (for)",
"supports"
],
"near synonyms":[
"adopts",
"embraces",
"espouses",
"abets",
"aids",
"assists",
"helps",
"props (up)",
"seconds",
"sides (with)",
"backstops",
"bolsters",
"boosts",
"buttresses",
"reinforces",
"reenforces",
"advances",
"forwards",
"furthers",
"plugs",
"preaches",
"talks up",
"bails out",
"delivers",
"rescues",
"saves"
],
"near antonyms":[
"baffles",
"foils",
"frustrates",
"interferes",
"opposes",
"sabotages",
"thwarts",
"deserts",
"disappoints",
"fails",
"lets down"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"phrase"
]
},
"stagecoaches":{
"as in hansoms , phaetons":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"barouches",
"broughams",
"buckboards",
"buggies",
"cabriolets",
"cabs",
"calashes",
"cal\u00e8ches",
"caleches",
"caroches",
"carryalls",
"chaises",
"chariots",
"coaches",
"coup\u00e9s",
"coupes",
"curricles",
"diligences",
"dogcarts",
"droshkies",
"droskies",
"four-in-hands",
"gigs",
"go-carts",
"hackneys",
"hansoms",
"hansom cabs",
"jaunting cars",
"landaus",
"phaetons",
"post chaises",
"roadsters",
"rockaways",
"stages",
"stanhopes",
"surreys",
"tandems",
"tilburies",
"tongas",
"traps",
"troikas",
"victorias",
"carriages",
"equipages",
"rigs",
"turnouts"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"stanhope":{
"as in hackney , landau":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"barouche",
"brougham",
"buckboard",
"buggy",
"cab",
"cabriolet",
"calash",
"cal\u00e8che",
"caleche",
"caroche",
"carryall",
"chaise",
"chariot",
"coach",
"coup\u00e9",
"coupe",
"curricle",
"diligence",
"dogcart",
"droshky",
"drosky",
"four-in-hand",
"gig",
"go-cart",
"hackney",
"hansom",
"hansom cab",
"jaunting car",
"landau",
"phaeton",
"post chaise",
"roadster",
"rockaway",
"stage",
"stagecoach",
"surrey",
"tandem",
"tilbury",
"tonga",
"trap",
"troika",
"victoria",
"carriage",
"equipage",
"rig",
"turnout"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"stacks":{
"a considerable amount":{
"examples":[
"earned a stack of money for writing the screenplay"
],
"synonyms":[
"abundances",
"barrels",
"basketfuls",
"basketsful",
"boatloads",
"buckets",
"bunches",
"bundles",
"bushels",
"carloads",
"chunks",
"deals",
"dozens",
"dozen",
"fistfuls",
"gobs",
"good deals",
"heaps",
"hundreds",
"hundred",
"lashings",
"lashins",
"loads",
"lots",
"masses",
"messes",
"mountains",
"much",
"multiplicities",
"myriads",
"oodles",
"packs",
"passels",
"pecks",
"piles",
"platefuls",
"plenitudes",
"plenties",
"plentitudes",
"potfuls",
"pots",
"profusions",
"quantities",
"rafts",
"reams",
"scads",
"sheaves",
"shiploads",
"sights",
"slews",
"spates",
"stores",
"tons",
"truckloads",
"volumes",
"wads",
"wealths",
"yards"
],
"near synonyms":[
"epidemics",
"plagues",
"rashes",
"bonanzas",
"embarrassments",
"excesses",
"overabundances",
"overages",
"overkills",
"overmuch",
"oversupplies",
"plethoras",
"redundancies",
"superabundances",
"superfluities",
"surfeits",
"surpluses",
"deluges",
"floods",
"overflows",
"armies",
"bevies",
"crams",
"crowds",
"crushes",
"droves",
"flocks",
"herds",
"hordes",
"hosts",
"legions",
"mobs",
"multitudes",
"presses",
"scores",
"seas",
"swarms",
"throngs",
"gazillions",
"jillions",
"kazillions",
"millions",
"million",
"thousands",
"trillions",
"zillions"
],
"near antonyms":[
"atoms",
"crumbs",
"dots",
"flecks",
"flyspecks",
"fragments",
"grains",
"granules",
"iotas",
"jots",
"modicums",
"molecules",
"motes",
"nubbins",
"particles",
"rays",
"scintillas",
"scraps",
"shreds",
"tittles",
"whits",
"smatterings",
"smatters",
"dashes",
"drops",
"morsels",
"shots",
"pieces",
"portions",
"sections",
"absences",
"dearths",
"famines",
"lacks",
"paucities",
"poverties",
"scarcities",
"shortages",
"undersupplies",
"wants",
"deficiencies",
"deficits",
"inadequacies",
"insufficiencies"
],
"antonyms":[
"aces",
"bits",
"dabs",
"drams",
"driblets",
"glimmers",
"handfuls",
"handsful",
"hints",
"licks",
"little",
"mites",
"mouthfuls",
"nips",
"ounces",
"peanuts",
"pinches",
"pittances",
"scruples",
"shades",
"shadows",
"smidgens",
"smidgeons",
"smidgins",
"smidges",
"specks",
"spots",
"sprinkles",
"sprinklings",
"strains",
"streaks",
"suspicions",
"tastes",
"touches",
"traces"
]
},
"a quantity of things thrown or stacked on one another":{
"examples":[
"a stack of playing cards"
],
"synonyms":[
"cocks",
"heaps",
"hills",
"mounds",
"mountains",
"piles"
],
"near synonyms":[
"banks",
"bars",
"drifts",
"embankments",
"beds",
"layers",
"mows",
"pyramids",
"ricks",
"barrows",
"cairns",
"pyres",
"accumulations",
"aggregates",
"arrays",
"assemblages",
"collections",
"conglomerations",
"gatherings",
"groupings",
"hoards",
"huddles",
"jumbles",
"knots",
"pileups"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to lay or throw on top of one another":{
"examples":[
"stacked the split logs by the house"
],
"synonyms":[
"heaps",
"mounds",
"piles"
],
"near synonyms":[
"banks",
"layers",
"pyramids",
"accumulates",
"amasses",
"assembles",
"collects",
"concentrates",
"garners",
"gathers",
"groups",
"masses",
"bunches",
"clumps",
"lumps"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun",
"verb"
]
},
"staunchness":{
"as in loyalty , devotion":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"allegiance",
"constancy",
"devotion",
"faithfulness",
"fealty",
"loyalty",
"steadfastness",
"jingoism",
"fervency",
"fervidness",
"passion",
"chauvinism",
"nationalism",
"patriotism"
],
"near antonyms":[
"desertion",
"treason",
"disaffection",
"disloyalty",
"faithlessness",
"falseness",
"fickleness",
"inconstancy",
"perfidiousness",
"treachery",
"unfaithfulness"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"stating":{
"to convey in appropriate or telling terms":{
"examples":[
"please state the vehicle's mechanical problem as clearly and briefly as possible"
],
"synonyms":[
"articulating",
"clothing",
"couching",
"expressing",
"formulating",
"phrasing",
"putting",
"saying",
"wording"
],
"near synonyms":[
"crafting",
"framing",
"hinting",
"implying",
"insinuating",
"intimating",
"suggesting",
"paraphrasing",
"rephrasing",
"restating",
"rewording",
"summarizing",
"translating",
"communicating",
"disclosing",
"speaking",
"talking",
"telling",
"uttering",
"verbalizing",
"vocalizing",
"describing",
"rendering",
"writing up"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to express (a thought or emotion) in words":{
"examples":[
"\"I believe this theory is wrong,\" she stated"
],
"synonyms":[
"articulating",
"bringing out",
"enunciating",
"passing",
"saying",
"speaking",
"talking",
"telling",
"uttering",
"verbalizing",
"vocalizing"
],
"near synonyms":[
"airing",
"discussing",
"giving",
"looking",
"sharing",
"sounding",
"ventilating",
"venting",
"voicing",
"blabbering",
"blurting",
"bolting",
"getting off",
"shooting",
"advertising",
"announcing",
"blazing",
"broadcasting",
"declaring",
"posting",
"proclaiming",
"promulgating",
"publicizing",
"publishing",
"affirming",
"alleging",
"asserting",
"averring",
"avouching",
"avowing",
"breathing",
"chirping",
"drawling",
"gasping",
"lipping",
"mouthing",
"murmuring",
"purring",
"shouting",
"spluttering",
"spouting",
"whispering",
"clothing",
"couching",
"formulating",
"formulizing",
"phrasing",
"putting",
"wording",
"commenting",
"piping up (with)",
"remarking",
"ripping (out)",
"snarling"
],
"near antonyms":[
"stifling",
"suppressing"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to make known (as an idea, emotion, or opinion)":{
"examples":[
"everyone has a right to state his or her opinion, no matter how unpopular it may be"
],
"synonyms":[
"airing",
"expounding",
"expressing",
"giving",
"looking",
"raising",
"sounding",
"ventilating",
"venting",
"voicing"
],
"near synonyms":[
"advertising",
"announcing",
"declaring",
"enouncing",
"enunciating",
"proclaiming",
"saying",
"broadcasting",
"circulating",
"disseminating",
"publishing",
"describing",
"writing",
"writing up",
"sounding off",
"speaking out",
"speaking up",
"chiming in",
"communicating",
"conveying",
"putting across",
"putting over",
"offering",
"submitting"
],
"near antonyms":[
"censoring",
"restraining",
"restricting"
],
"antonyms":[
"stifling",
"suppressing"
]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"startles":{
"to make a strong impression on (someone) with something unexpected":{
"examples":[
"the lightning startled the children and sent them scurrying for cover"
],
"synonyms":[
"amazes",
"astonishes",
"astounds",
"bowls over",
"dumbfounds",
"dumfounds",
"flabbergasts",
"floors",
"rocks",
"shocks",
"stuns",
"stupefies",
"surprises",
"surprizes",
"thunderstrikes"
],
"near synonyms":[
"befuddles",
"bewilders",
"blindsides",
"blows away",
"confounds",
"confuses",
"dazes",
"discomfits",
"disconcerts",
"dismays",
"jars",
"muddles",
"nonpluses",
"nonplusses",
"perplexes",
"shakes up"
],
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"antonyms":[]
},
"to move suddenly and sharply (as in surprise)":{
"examples":[
"the cat startled when the door slammed shut with a bang"
],
"synonyms":[
"bolts",
"jumps",
"starts"
],
"near synonyms":[
"jerks",
"jolts",
"twitches",
"blenches",
"cringes",
"flinches",
"quails",
"recoils",
"shrinks",
"spooks",
"squinches",
"winces",
"bounds",
"leaps",
"springs",
"reacts",
"responds"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to strike with fear":{
"examples":[
"loud noises always startle her"
],
"synonyms":[
"affrights",
"alarms",
"alarums",
"frightens",
"frights",
"horrifies",
"panics",
"scares",
"scarifies",
"shocks",
"spooks",
"terrifies",
"terrorizes"
],
"near synonyms":[
"appalls",
"appals",
"bowls over",
"dismays",
"floors",
"jolts",
"shakes",
"shakes up",
"amazes",
"astounds",
"awes",
"chills",
"daunts",
"demoralizes",
"dispirits",
"emasculates",
"psychs (out)",
"undoes",
"unmans",
"unnerves",
"unstrings",
"discomforts",
"discomposes",
"disconcerts",
"disquiets",
"distracts",
"distresses",
"disturbs",
"perturbs",
"unsettles",
"upsets",
"worries"
],
"near antonyms":[
"assures",
"cheers",
"comforts",
"consoles",
"solaces",
"soothes",
"emboldens",
"encourages",
"heartens",
"inspires",
"steels"
],
"antonyms":[
"reassures"
]
},
"as in surprises , astonishments":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"amazements",
"astonishments",
"shocks",
"startlements",
"stupefactions",
"surprises",
"surprizes",
"bewilderments",
"confusions",
"consternations",
"discomfitures",
"dismays",
"awes",
"wonderments",
"wonders"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun",
"verb"
]
},
"staunch":{
"firm in one's allegiance to someone or something":{
"examples":[
"a staunch believer in the democratic system"
],
"synonyms":[
"constant",
"dedicated",
"devoted",
"devout",
"down-the-line",
"faithful",
"fast",
"good",
"loyal",
"pious",
"steadfast",
"steady",
"true",
"true-blue"
],
"near synonyms":[
"dependable",
"dutiful",
"reliable",
"responsible",
"solid",
"tried",
"tried-and-true",
"trustworthy",
"trusty",
"unfaltering",
"unhesitating",
"unwavering",
"determined",
"intent",
"resolute",
"confirmed",
"dyed-in-the-wool",
"inveterate",
"sworn",
"ardent",
"avid",
"enthusiastic",
"fervent",
"fervid",
"gung ho",
"impassioned",
"passionate",
"serious"
],
"near antonyms":[
"irresponsible",
"undependable",
"unreliable",
"untrustworthy",
"faltering",
"hesitant",
"vacillating",
"wavering",
"dubious",
"irresolute",
"shaky",
"uncertain",
"apathetic",
"dispassionate",
"uninterested"
],
"antonyms":[
"disloyal",
"faithless",
"false",
"fickle",
"inconstant",
"perfidious",
"recreant",
"traitorous",
"treacherous",
"unfaithful",
"untrue"
]
},
"type":[
"adjective"
]
},
"stalemate":{
"a point in a struggle where neither side is capable of winning or willing to give in":{
"examples":[
"a new negotiator finally got both sides past the stalemate"
],
"synonyms":[
"deadlock",
"gridlock",
"halt",
"impasse",
"logjam",
"Mexican standoff",
"standoff",
"standstill"
],
"near synonyms":[
"dead end",
"bind",
"bottleneck",
"corner",
"dilemma",
"fix",
"hole",
"jam",
"morass",
"pickle",
"pinch",
"plight",
"predicament",
"quagmire",
"quandary",
"spot",
"difficulty",
"problem"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"a situation in which neither participant in a contest, competition, or struggle comes out ahead of the other":{
"examples":[
"after playing chess for 16 hours, we ended the game in a stalemate"
],
"synonyms":[
"dead heat",
"draw",
"standoff",
"tie"
],
"near synonyms":[
"deadlock",
"impasse",
"seesaw",
"photo finish",
"horse race",
"toss-up"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"stanks":{
"a small often deep body of water":{
"examples":[
"the Scottish innkeeper advised swimming in the nearby stank only if the prospect of hypothermia seemed appealing"
],
"synonyms":[
"billabongs",
"meres",
"pools",
"puddles",
"wells"
],
"near synonyms":[
"basins",
"holes",
"sinkholes",
"swimming pools",
"lakes",
"ponds",
"water holes"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"stays":{
"to continue to be in a place for a significant amount of time":{
"examples":[
"let's stay inside this pavilion until it stops raining"
],
"synonyms":[
"abides",
"dwells",
"hangs around",
"remains",
"sticks around",
"tarries"
],
"near synonyms":[
"awaits",
"hangs on",
"holds on",
"waits",
"dallies",
"dawdles",
"lingers",
"loiters",
"outstays",
"overstays"
],
"near antonyms":[
"absconds",
"books",
"decamps",
"escapes",
"evacuates",
"flees",
"flies",
"gets out",
"runs away",
"scats",
"scrams",
"skips",
"abandons",
"deserts",
"forsakes",
"vacates"
],
"antonyms":[
"bails",
"bails out",
"bugs out",
"buzzes (off)",
"clears off",
"clears out",
"cuts out",
"departs",
"exits",
"gets off",
"goes",
"goes off",
"leaves",
"moves",
"packs (up or off)",
"peels off",
"pikes (out or off)",
"pulls out",
"pushes off",
"pushes on",
"quits",
"shoves (off)",
"takes off",
"vamooses",
"walks out"
]
},
"to bring (something) to a standstill":{
"examples":[
"stay the trial until this new evidence has been processed"
],
"synonyms":[
"arrests",
"brings up",
"catches",
"checks",
"draws up",
"fetches up",
"halts",
"holds up",
"pulls up",
"stalls",
"stills",
"stops"
],
"near synonyms":[
"baffles",
"balks",
"blockades",
"blocks",
"bottlenecks",
"clogs",
"dams",
"detains",
"hinders",
"holds",
"holds back",
"impedes",
"obstructs",
"snags",
"stems",
"concludes",
"cuts off",
"ends",
"terminates",
"calls",
"discontinues",
"suspends",
"chokes off",
"reins (in)",
"represses",
"squashes",
"squelches",
"stanches",
"staunches",
"stunts",
"suppresses",
"turns back"
],
"near antonyms":[
"carries on",
"continues",
"follows through (with)",
"keeps (on)",
"keeps up",
"persists",
"runs on",
"advances",
"fares",
"goes along",
"marches",
"moves",
"proceeds",
"progresses",
"wends",
"actuates",
"budges",
"drives",
"goads",
"impels",
"propels",
"pushes",
"spurs",
"stirs"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to remain in place in readiness or expectation of something":{
"examples":[
"we'll stay for a while longer and see if anyone shows up"
],
"synonyms":[
"awaits",
"bides",
"holds on",
"waits"
],
"near synonyms":[
"hangs around",
"lingers",
"remains",
"sticks around",
"tarries",
"stands by",
"anticipates",
"expects",
"watches (for)"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to reside as a temporary guest":{
"examples":[
"let's stay at a quaint inn rather than at some generic motel"
],
"synonyms":[
"crashes",
"sojourns",
"tarries",
"visits"
],
"near synonyms":[
"comes by",
"comes over",
"drops by",
"drops in",
"runs in",
"steps in",
"stops (by)",
"frequents",
"hangs (around or out)",
"haunts",
"inhabits",
"occupies"
],
"near antonyms":[
"abides",
"dwells",
"lives",
"resides"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to hold up or serve as a foundation for":{
"examples":[
"beams being used to stay the bridge while it is undergoing repairs"
],
"synonyms":[
"bears",
"bolsters",
"braces",
"buttresses",
"carries",
"props (up)",
"shores (up)",
"supports",
"sustains",
"undergirds",
"underpins",
"upholds"
],
"near synonyms":[
"steadies",
"trusses",
"underlies"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"a temporary residing as another's guest":{
"examples":[
"my mother-in-law is coming for a brief stay next week"
],
"synonyms":[
"sojourns",
"tarries",
"visits"
],
"near synonyms":[
"field trips",
"homestays",
"sleepovers",
"layovers",
"stopovers",
"stops"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"the stopping of a process or activity":{
"examples":[
"we must work without stay if we are ever to reach our goal of equal rights for everyone"
],
"synonyms":[
"arrestments",
"arrests",
"ceases",
"cessations",
"checks",
"closedowns",
"closes",
"closures",
"conclusions",
"cutoffs",
"discontinuances",
"discontinuations",
"endings",
"ends",
"expirations",
"finishes",
"halts",
"lapses",
"offsets",
"shutdowns",
"shutoffs",
"stoppages",
"stops",
"surceases",
"terminations"
],
"near synonyms":[
"mop-ups",
"phaseouts",
"abeyances",
"breaks",
"interruptions",
"layoffs",
"letups",
"moratoriums",
"moratoria",
"pauses",
"standstills",
"suspensions"
],
"near antonyms":[
"extensions",
"persistences",
"prolongations"
],
"antonyms":[
"continuances",
"continuations"
]
},
"a structure that holds up or serves as a foundation for something else":{
"examples":[
"a free press is one of the principal stays of a democratic society"
],
"synonyms":[
"braces",
"buttresses",
"mountings",
"mounts",
"props",
"reinforcements",
"shores",
"spurs",
"supports",
"underpinnings"
],
"near synonyms":[
"shorings",
"columns",
"pedestals",
"pilasters",
"pillars",
"arches",
"bolsters",
"brackets",
"cantilevers",
"girders",
"bearings",
"crutches",
"pegs",
"posts",
"stakes",
"stanchions",
"stands",
"stilts",
"struts",
"trusses",
"bases",
"foundations",
"frames"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun",
"verb"
]
},
"starved":{
"feeling a desire or need for food":{
"examples":[
"after that long soccer practice, the children were really starved"
],
"synonyms":[
"empty",
"famished",
"hungry",
"peckish",
"starving"
],
"near synonyms":[
"rapacious",
"ravenous",
"voracious",
"wolfish",
"malnourished",
"underfed",
"undernourished",
"gluttonous",
"gormandizing",
"greedy",
"hoggish",
"insatiable",
"piggish",
"piggy"
],
"near antonyms":[
"engorged",
"glutted",
"gorged",
"overfed",
"overfull",
"overstuffed",
"replete",
"stuffed",
"surfeited"
],
"antonyms":[
"full",
"sated",
"satiate",
"satiated",
"satisfied"
]
},
"type":[
"adjective"
]
},
"stand on":{
"to place reliance or trust":{
"examples":[
"She plans to be standing on her own by this time next month."
],
"synonyms":[
"calculate",
"count",
"depend",
"lean",
"reckon",
"rely"
],
"near synonyms":[
"commit",
"confide",
"entrust",
"intrust",
"trust"
],
"near antonyms":[
"distrust",
"mistrust",
"question",
"suspect"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"phrase"
]
},
"stammer":{
"to speak with many pauses and repetitions":{
"examples":[
"He stammers when he's nervous."
],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"stutter",
"babble",
"bumble",
"chat",
"chatter",
"drivel",
"drool",
"gabble",
"gibber",
"jabber",
"prattle",
"sputter",
"blabber",
"blather",
"bleat",
"blither",
"gab",
"jangle",
"jaw",
"patter",
"prate",
"rattle",
"run on",
"smatter",
"tittle-tattle",
"troll",
"yak",
"yack",
"chunter",
"maunder",
"mouth",
"mumble",
"murmur",
"mutter",
"screech",
"shout",
"shriek"
],
"near antonyms":[
"articulate",
"enunciate",
"pronounce"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"stave off":{
"to drive back":{
"examples":[
"managed to stave off the invaders"
],
"synonyms":[
"beat off",
"fend (off)",
"rebut",
"repel",
"repulse",
"turn away",
"turn back"
],
"near synonyms":[
"defy",
"fight",
"hold off",
"oppose",
"resist",
"stand off",
"withstand",
"deflect",
"ward (off)",
"rebuff",
"snub",
"spurn"
],
"near antonyms":[
"embrace",
"hail",
"welcome"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to keep from happening by taking action in advance":{
"examples":[
"the quartermaster staved off a shortage by requisitioning more than enough supplies"
],
"synonyms":[
"avert",
"forestall",
"head off",
"help",
"obviate",
"preclude",
"prevent"
],
"near synonyms":[
"anticipate",
"provide",
"negate",
"neutralize",
"nullify",
"save",
"baffle",
"balk",
"checkmate",
"deter",
"foil",
"frustrate",
"thwart",
"bar",
"block",
"hamper",
"hinder",
"impede",
"interfere (with)",
"retard",
"stall",
"deflect",
"fend (off)",
"stop",
"ward (off)",
"avoid",
"circumvent",
"dodge",
"duck",
"elude",
"escape",
"eschew",
"evade",
"shake",
"shirk",
"shun",
"forbid",
"inhibit",
"prohibit",
"arrest",
"check",
"halt",
"stop",
"compensate (for)",
"counteract",
"counterbalance",
"make up (for)",
"offset"
],
"near antonyms":[
"abet",
"aid",
"assist",
"ease",
"facilitate",
"smooth",
"unclog",
"advance",
"cultivate",
"encourage",
"forward",
"foster",
"further",
"nurture",
"promote",
"allow",
"leave",
"let",
"permit"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"staging area":{
"as in staging ground":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"staging ground",
"base",
"bridgehead",
"foothold",
"beachhead",
"camp",
"center",
"emplacement",
"footing",
"front",
"headquarters",
"installation",
"station",
"airbase",
"bastion",
"fastness",
"fortress",
"stronghold",
"battlefront",
"field",
"toehold"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"stapled":{
"as in tied , stuck":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"adhered",
"bolted",
"cinched",
"clamped",
"clasped",
"clenched",
"clinched",
"clipped",
"glued",
"harnessed",
"hasped",
"hung",
"hanged",
"laced",
"lashed",
"latched",
"nailed",
"pasted",
"pinned",
"plastered",
"riveted",
"screwed",
"shackled",
"strapped",
"stuck",
"tacked",
"tackled",
"tied",
"toggled",
"yoked",
"affixed",
"attached",
"bent",
"fastened",
"fixed",
"coapted",
"connected",
"joined",
"linked",
"united",
"reaffixed",
"reattached",
"refastened",
"refixed",
"resecured",
"battened",
"belayed",
"buttoned",
"did up"
],
"near antonyms":[
"detached",
"undid",
"unfastened",
"unhooked",
"broke up",
"disconnected",
"disjoined",
"disjointed",
"dissevered",
"dissociated",
"disunited",
"divided",
"divorced",
"parted",
"separated",
"severed",
"split",
"sundered",
"uncoupled",
"unlinked",
"unyoked",
"loosed",
"loosened",
"unbound",
"unfixed",
"unlashed",
"untied"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"stars (in)":{
"as in does , acts out":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"acts",
"does",
"impersonates",
"interprets",
"performs",
"plays",
"portrays",
"apes",
"clowns",
"hams",
"imitates",
"masquerades",
"mimes",
"mimics",
"poses (as)",
"acts out",
"enacts",
"pantomimes",
"playacts",
"role-plays",
"takes on",
"depicts",
"dramatizes",
"renders",
"represents",
"coacts",
"costars",
"overacts",
"overplays",
"underplays"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"standpatter":{
"as in square , stuffed shirt":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"fuddy-duddy",
"square",
"stuffed shirt",
"traditionalist",
"middle-of-the-roader",
"moderate",
"conformer",
"conformist",
"conventionalist",
"follower"
],
"near antonyms":[
"bohemian",
"boho",
"counterculturist",
"deviant",
"enfant terrible",
"free spirit",
"heretic",
"iconoclast",
"individualist",
"loner",
"lone ranger",
"lone wolf",
"maverick",
"nonconformer",
"nonconformist",
"freethinker",
"renegade"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"standing by":{
"to give steadfast support to":{
"examples":[
"no matter how much people object, I will stand by my decision"
],
"synonyms":[
"adhering (to)",
"clinging (to)",
"hewing (to)",
"keeping (to)",
"sticking (to or with)"
],
"near synonyms":[
"cleaving (to)",
"advocating",
"backing",
"championing",
"confirming",
"defending",
"endorsing",
"indorsing",
"espousing",
"supporting",
"upholding",
"accepting",
"adopting",
"cherishing",
"cultivating",
"embracing",
"following",
"fostering",
"heeding",
"backstopping",
"bolstering",
"boosting",
"buttressing",
"enforcing",
"reinforcing",
"reenforcing"
],
"near antonyms":[
"abandoning",
"abnegating",
"deserting",
"forsaking",
"giving up",
"relinquishing",
"spurning",
"surrendering",
"abjuring",
"recalling",
"recanting",
"reconsidering",
"reneging",
"renouncing",
"retracting",
"revoking",
"taking back",
"unsaying",
"withdrawing",
"controverting",
"disagreeing (with)",
"disproving",
"disputing",
"rebutting",
"refuting",
"contradicting",
"denying",
"disavowing",
"disclaiming",
"disowning",
"gainsaying",
"negating",
"negativing",
"repudiating",
"backing down",
"backing off",
"backtracking"
],
"antonyms":[
"defecting (from)"
]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"stanhopes":{
"as in hackneys , landaus":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"barouches",
"broughams",
"buckboards",
"buggies",
"cabriolets",
"cabs",
"calashes",
"cal\u00e8ches",
"caleches",
"caroches",
"carryalls",
"chaises",
"chariots",
"coaches",
"coup\u00e9s",
"coupes",
"curricles",
"diligences",
"dogcarts",
"droshkies",
"droskies",
"four-in-hands",
"gigs",
"go-carts",
"hackneys",
"hansoms",
"hansom cabs",
"jaunting cars",
"landaus",
"phaetons",
"post chaises",
"roadsters",
"rockaways",
"stagecoaches",
"stages",
"surreys",
"tandems",
"tilburies",
"tongas",
"traps",
"troikas",
"victorias",
"carriages",
"equipages",
"rigs",
"turnouts"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
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"astronautic",
"astronautical",
"astronomical",
"astronomic",
"astrophysical",
"intergalactic",
"interstellar",
"celestial",
"empyrean",
"heavenly",
"astral",
"star",
"starry",
"stellar"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"adjective"
]
},
"stage":{
"a level usually raised surface":{
"examples":[
"spoke to the audience from a small stage in front"
],
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"dais",
"platform",
"podium",
"rostrum",
"stand",
"tribune"
],
"near synonyms":[
"altar",
"bimah",
"bima",
"footpace",
"pulpit",
"riser",
"scaffold",
"balcony",
"gallery"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"a portion of a trip":{
"examples":[
"this is only the first stage of the journey"
],
"synonyms":[
"lap",
"leg"
],
"near synonyms":[
"layover",
"stopover"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"an individual part of a process, series, or ranking":{
"examples":[
"in the last stage of the project"
],
"synonyms":[
"chapter",
"cut",
"degree",
"grade",
"inch",
"notch",
"peg",
"phase",
"place",
"point",
"step"
],
"near synonyms":[
"angle",
"aspect",
"facet",
"side",
"amount",
"measure",
"plane",
"decrement",
"increment"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"the public performance of plays":{
"examples":[
"drawn to the stage as a career"
],
"synonyms":[
"drama",
"dramatics",
"theater",
"theatre",
"theatricals",
"theatrics"
],
"near synonyms":[
"boards",
"acting",
"footlights",
"entertainment",
"showbiz",
"show business",
"amusement",
"distraction",
"diversion",
"recreation",
"exhibition",
"pageant",
"pageantry",
"presentation",
"production",
"show",
"spectacle"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to bring before the public in performance or exhibition":{
"examples":[
"staged the full body of Shakespeare's plays in the course of a year"
],
"synonyms":[
"carry",
"give",
"mount",
"offer",
"present"
],
"near synonyms":[
"display",
"exhibit",
"expose",
"parade",
"show",
"show off",
"unveil",
"preview",
"act",
"impersonate",
"perform",
"play",
"portray",
"depict",
"dramatize",
"enact",
"render",
"represent",
"extend",
"proffer",
"tender"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun",
"verb"
]
},
"stalked":{
"to seek out (game) for food or sport":{
"examples":[
"lions stalking gazelles on the plains"
],
"synonyms":[
"chased",
"hunted"
],
"near synonyms":[
"captured",
"dragged",
"netted",
"snared",
"trapped",
"dogged",
"ferreted",
"hawked",
"hounded",
"coursed",
"pursued",
"ran",
"run",
"ran down",
"spoored",
"tracked",
"trailed",
"gunned (for)",
"harpooned",
"killed",
"shot",
"poached",
"culled"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to walk with exaggerated arm and leg movements":{
"examples":[
"the irate customer stalked off in a huff"
],
"synonyms":[
"pranced",
"sashayed",
"strutted",
"swaggered"
],
"near synonyms":[
"flounced",
"minced",
"traipsed",
"pussyfooted",
"tiptoed",
"swept",
"paraded",
"promenaded",
"padded",
"stepped",
"trod",
"treaded",
"paced",
"strode",
"lumbered",
"lurched",
"pounded",
"shambled",
"shuffled",
"staggered"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"stamps (out)":{
"to destroy all traces of":{
"examples":[
"working to stamp out racism in this country"
],
"synonyms":[
"abolishes",
"annihilates",
"blacks out",
"blots out",
"cancels",
"cleans (up)",
"effaces",
"eradicates",
"erases",
"expunges",
"exterminates",
"extirpates",
"liquidates",
"obliterates",
"roots (out)",
"rubs out",
"snuffs (out)",
"sweeps (away)",
"wipes out"
],
"near synonyms":[
"decimates",
"demolishes",
"destroys",
"devastates",
"ravages",
"dismantles",
"flattens",
"mows (down)",
"razes",
"tears down",
"ruins",
"totals",
"wastes",
"wrecks",
"blasts",
"blows up",
"dashes",
"dynamites",
"smashes",
"atomizes",
"consumes",
"devours",
"dissolves",
"fragments",
"powders",
"pulverizes",
"shatters",
"splinters",
"dooms",
"finishes",
"kills",
"kills off",
"terminates",
"zaps",
"cuts",
"discards",
"ditches",
"ejects",
"excises",
"expels",
"jettisons",
"ousts",
"throws out"
],
"near antonyms":[
"conserves",
"preserves",
"protects",
"saves",
"builds",
"constructs",
"creates",
"fabricates",
"fashions",
"forges",
"forms",
"frames",
"makes",
"manufactures",
"shapes",
"fixes",
"mends",
"patches",
"rebuilds",
"reconditions",
"reconstructs",
"renews",
"renovates",
"repairs",
"restores",
"revamps"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"standing":{
"high position within society":{
"examples":[
"a man of standing in his community"
],
"synonyms":[
"class",
"dignity",
"fashion",
"quality",
"rank",
"state"
],
"near synonyms":[
"gentility",
"gentleness",
"nobility",
"nobleness",
"grandness",
"highness",
"loftiness",
"distinction",
"dominance",
"precedence",
"preeminence",
"primacy",
"superiority",
"caste",
"station",
"status",
"preferment"
],
"near antonyms":[
"debasement",
"degradation",
"subordinateness",
"subordination",
"baseness",
"commonness",
"inferiority",
"lowliness",
"lowness"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"the period during which something exists, lasts, or is in progress":{
"examples":[
"a tradition of long standing"
],
"synonyms":[
"continuance",
"date",
"duration",
"life",
"life span",
"lifetime",
"run",
"time"
],
"near synonyms":[
"spell",
"stretch",
"span",
"tenure",
"term",
"hitch",
"tour",
"turn",
"half-life",
"age",
"longevity"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"the placement of someone or something in relation to others in a vertical arrangement":{
"examples":[
"my standing in the class at the time of graduation"
],
"synonyms":[
"degree",
"echelon",
"footing",
"level",
"place",
"position",
"rank",
"ranking",
"reach(es)",
"rung",
"situation",
"station",
"status",
"stratum"
],
"near synonyms":[
"condition",
"estate",
"order",
"walk",
"capacity",
"function",
"rating"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"fixed in a place or position":{
"examples":[
"bought the house and all standing appliances and fixtures"
],
"synonyms":[
"immobile",
"nonmoving",
"static",
"stationary"
],
"near synonyms":[
"immotile",
"immovable",
"irremovable",
"nonmotile",
"unmovable",
"frozen",
"motionless",
"moveless",
"stagnant",
"still",
"stuck",
"unbudging",
"wedged",
"fast",
"rooted",
"steadfast"
],
"near antonyms":[
"motile",
"adjustable",
"flexible",
"modular",
"displaceable",
"portable",
"removable",
"removeable",
"transferable",
"transferrable",
"transportable",
"unbalanced",
"unstable",
"unsteady"
],
"antonyms":[
"mobile",
"movable",
"moveable",
"moving",
"nonstationary"
]
},
"rising straight up":{
"examples":[
"all standing timbers are in sound condition"
],
"synonyms":[
"erect",
"perpendicular",
"plumb",
"raised",
"stand-up",
"upright",
"upstanding",
"vertical"
],
"near synonyms":[
"elevated",
"lifted",
"upended",
"upraised",
"semierect",
"freestanding",
"stand-alone"
],
"near antonyms":[
"prostrate",
"supine",
"diagonal",
"hanging",
"sagging",
"slant",
"slanted",
"slanting",
"slanty"
],
"antonyms":[
"flat",
"recumbent"
]
},
"to occupy a place or location":{
"examples":[
"the monument stands in the middle of the town plaza"
],
"synonyms":[
"bearing",
"being",
"lying",
"sitting"
],
"near synonyms":[
"commanding",
"overlooking",
"hanging around",
"remaining",
"resting",
"staying",
"sticking around",
"tarrying",
"awaiting",
"waiting",
"posting",
"stationing",
"dwelling",
"residing"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to put up with (something painful or difficult)":{
"examples":[
"I don't know how you can stand that job"
],
"synonyms":[
"abiding",
"absorbing",
"accepting",
"bearing",
"biding",
"brooking",
"countenancing",
"enduring",
"going",
"hacking",
"handling",
"meeting",
"pocketing",
"sticking out",
"stomaching",
"supporting",
"sustaining",
"sweating out",
"taking",
"tolerating",
"wearing"
],
"near synonyms":[
"allowing",
"permitting",
"suffering",
"swallowing",
"reconciling (to)",
"acquiescing",
"agreeing (with or to)",
"assenting (to)",
"capitulating",
"consenting (to)",
"respecting",
"submitting (to)",
"yielding (to)"
],
"near antonyms":[
"declining",
"dismissing",
"refusing",
"rejecting",
"repudiating",
"spurning",
"turning down",
"combating",
"combatting",
"contesting",
"fighting",
"opposing",
"resisting",
"avoiding",
"bypassing",
"circumventing",
"dodging",
"eluding",
"escaping",
"evading",
"missing",
"abstaining (from)",
"forbearing",
"refraining (from)"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to give what is owed for":{
"examples":[
"I'll stand lunch, and you can pay me back later"
],
"synonyms":[
"anteing (up)",
"balancing",
"clearing",
"discharging",
"footing",
"liquidating",
"meeting",
"paying",
"paying off",
"paying up",
"ponying up",
"quitting",
"recompensing",
"settling",
"springing (for)"
],
"near synonyms":[],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[
"repudiating"
]
},
"to take or have a certain position within a group arranged in vertical classes":{
"examples":[
"if the city's baseball team wins today, they will stand first in the league"
],
"synonyms":[
"being",
"grading",
"placing",
"ranking",
"rating"
],
"near synonyms":[
"seeding",
"counting",
"categorizing",
"classifying",
"classing",
"codifying",
"compartmentalizing",
"grouping",
"separating",
"setting",
"sorting",
"installing",
"instating"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"adjective",
"noun",
"verb"
]
},
"starts":{
"to move suddenly and sharply (as in surprise)":{
"examples":[
"I started from my chair when I heard the sudden scream"
],
"synonyms":[
"bolts",
"jumps",
"startles"
],
"near synonyms":[
"jerks",
"jolts",
"twitches",
"blenches",
"cringes",
"flinches",
"quails",
"recoils",
"shrinks",
"spooks",
"squinches",
"winces",
"bounds",
"leaps",
"springs",
"reacts",
"responds"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to be responsible for the creation and early operation or use of":{
"examples":[
"started the impressionist movement in art"
],
"synonyms":[
"begins",
"constitutes",
"establishes",
"founds",
"inaugurates",
"initiates",
"innovates",
"institutes",
"introduces",
"launches",
"pioneers",
"plants",
"sets up"
],
"near synonyms":[
"authors",
"fathers",
"originates",
"conceives",
"concocts",
"contrives",
"cooks (up)",
"creates",
"devises",
"fabricates",
"invents",
"makes up",
"manufactures",
"produces",
"thinks (up)",
"constructs",
"puts up",
"develops",
"enlarges",
"expands",
"endows",
"finances",
"funds",
"subsidizes",
"arranges",
"organizes",
"systematizes",
"systemizes",
"refounds",
"reinitiates",
"reinstitutes",
"relaunches"
],
"near antonyms":[
"abolishes",
"annihilates",
"annuls",
"nullifies",
"ends",
"finishes",
"halts",
"stops",
"terminates",
"rounds (off or out)",
"winds up",
"wraps up"
],
"antonyms":[
"closes (down)",
"phases out",
"shuts (up)"
]
},
"to cause to function":{
"examples":[
"trying to start the car on a frigid morning"
],
"synonyms":[
"activates",
"actuates",
"cranks (up)",
"drives",
"moves",
"runs",
"sets off",
"sparks",
"touches off",
"triggers",
"turns on"
],
"near synonyms":[
"kicks over",
"turns over",
"charges",
"electrifies",
"energizes",
"fires",
"fuels",
"generates",
"powers",
"pushes",
"discharges",
"launches",
"releases",
"switches",
"trips",
"reactivates",
"recharges",
"arouses",
"excites",
"jump-starts",
"kick-starts",
"stimulates",
"vitalizes",
"ignites",
"incites",
"instigates",
"provokes",
"quickens",
"stirs up",
"accelerates",
"catalyzes",
"speeds (up)",
"steps up"
],
"near antonyms":[
"arrests",
"brakes",
"checks",
"cuts off",
"draws up",
"halts",
"jams",
"stalls",
"sticks",
"stops",
"decelerates",
"represses",
"slows",
"stunts",
"suppresses"
],
"antonyms":[
"cuts",
"cuts out",
"deactivates",
"kills",
"shuts off",
"turns off"
]
},
"to come into existence":{
"examples":[
"the fight started when one child tripped the other"
],
"synonyms":[
"actualizes",
"appears",
"arises",
"begins",
"breaks",
"commences",
"dawns",
"engenders",
"forms",
"materializes",
"originates",
"sets in",
"springs"
],
"near synonyms":[
"breathes",
"exists",
"is",
"lives",
"subsists",
"arrives",
"comes on",
"emerges",
"coalesces",
"coheres",
"shapes (up)",
"continues",
"endures",
"lasts",
"persists",
"survives"
],
"near antonyms":[
"concludes",
"desists",
"discontinues",
"finishes",
"halts",
"quits",
"terminates",
"disappears",
"dissolves",
"evaporates",
"vanishes",
"departs",
"dies",
"expires",
"passes away",
"perishes"
],
"antonyms":[
"ceases",
"ends",
"stops"
]
},
"to extend outward beyond a usual point":{
"examples":[
"frightened horses with starting eyes"
],
"synonyms":[
"bags",
"balloons",
"beetles",
"bellies",
"billows",
"bulges",
"bunches",
"juts",
"overhangs",
"pokes",
"pooches",
"pouches",
"pouts",
"projects",
"protrudes",
"stands out",
"sticks out",
"swells"
],
"near synonyms":[
"domes",
"blows up",
"inflates",
"dilates",
"distends",
"expands",
"mushrooms",
"snowballs",
"elongates",
"extends",
"lengthens",
"stretches"
],
"near antonyms":[
"compresses",
"condenses",
"constricts",
"contracts",
"shrinks"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to take the first step in (a process or course of action)":{
"examples":[
"we'll be ready to start the concert in a moment"
],
"synonyms":[
"begins",
"commences",
"embarks (on or upon)",
"enters (into or upon)",
"falls (to)",
"gets off",
"kicks off",
"launches",
"leads off",
"opens",
"strikes (into)"
],
"near synonyms":[
"creates",
"generates",
"inaugurates",
"initiates",
"innovates",
"invents",
"originates",
"adopts",
"embraces",
"takes on",
"takes up",
"establishes",
"fathers",
"founds",
"institutes",
"organizes",
"pioneers",
"sets up",
"spawns",
"gets around (to)",
"gets down (to)",
"gets round (to)"
],
"near antonyms":[
"ceases",
"desists",
"discontinues",
"halts",
"knocks off",
"lays off",
"quits",
"stops",
"closes",
"completes",
"abandons",
"forsakes",
"leaves",
"abolishes",
"demolishes",
"destroys",
"exterminates",
"extinguishes",
"phases out"
],
"antonyms":[
"concludes",
"ends",
"finishes",
"terminates"
]
},
"the point at which something begins":{
"examples":[
"knew from the start of the game that he would win easily"
],
"synonyms":[
"alphas",
"baselines",
"beginnings",
"births",
"commencements",
"dawns",
"day ones",
"geneses",
"get-goes",
"git-goes",
"inceptions",
"incipiences",
"incipiencies",
"kickoffs",
"launches",
"mornings",
"nascences",
"nascencies",
"onsets",
"outsets",
"thresholds"
],
"near synonyms":[
"drawing boards",
"first bases",
"ground zeros",
"square ones",
"creations",
"inaugurations",
"initiations",
"institutions",
"originations",
"cradles",
"fountainheads",
"fountains",
"germs",
"origins",
"roots",
"seedbeds",
"sources",
"springs",
"wells",
"wellsprings",
"openings",
"advents",
"appearances",
"arrivals",
"debuts",
"d\u00e9buts",
"emergences",
"childhoods",
"infancies",
"youths"
],
"near antonyms":[
"cessations",
"closings",
"closures",
"completions",
"finales",
"finishes",
"periods",
"stops",
"terminations",
"windups"
],
"antonyms":[
"closes",
"conclusions",
"endings",
"ends",
"omegas"
]
},
"type":[
"noun",
"verb"
]
},
"star turn":{
"as in star , leading man":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"headliner",
"lead",
"principal",
"star",
"leading lady",
"leading man",
"coprincipal",
"costar",
"ingenue",
"ing\u00e9nue",
"starlet",
"superstar"
],
"near antonyms":[
"extra",
"supernumerary"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"stabilized":{
"as in stable , steady":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"balanced",
"equilibrated",
"stable",
"steady",
"even",
"level",
"straight",
"sound",
"sturdy",
"substantial"
],
"near antonyms":[
"unbalanced",
"unstable",
"unsteady",
"rocky",
"shaky",
"tippy",
"tipsy",
"wavery",
"wobbly",
"wabbly",
"wonky",
"infirm",
"insecure",
"precarious",
"unsound"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"as in plateaued":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"plateaued"
],
"near antonyms":[
"changed",
"fluctuated",
"mutated",
"shifted",
"snapped",
"varied",
"metamorphosed",
"morphed",
"transmuted",
"bettered",
"improved"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"as in fixed , set":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"fixed",
"froze",
"set"
],
"near antonyms":[
"altered",
"changed",
"made over",
"modified",
"recast",
"redid",
"refashioned",
"remade",
"remodeled",
"revamped",
"revised",
"reworked",
"varied",
"deformed",
"metamorphosed",
"mutated",
"regenerated",
"revolutionized",
"transfigured",
"transformed",
"transmuted"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"adjective",
"verb"
]
},
"stapling":{
"as in tying , sticking":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"adhering",
"bolting",
"cinching",
"clamping",
"clasping",
"clenching",
"clinching",
"clipping",
"gluing",
"glueing",
"hanging",
"harnessing",
"hasping",
"lacing",
"lashing",
"latching",
"nailing",
"pasting",
"pinning",
"plastering",
"riveting",
"screwing",
"shackling",
"sticking",
"strapping",
"tacking",
"tackling",
"toggling",
"tying",
"tieing",
"yoking",
"affixing",
"attaching",
"bending",
"fastening",
"fixing",
"coapting",
"connecting",
"joining",
"linking",
"uniting",
"reaffixing",
"reattaching",
"refastening",
"refixing",
"resecuring",
"battening",
"belaying",
"buttoning",
"doing up"
],
"near antonyms":[
"detaching",
"undoing",
"unfastening",
"unhooking",
"breaking up",
"disconnecting",
"disjoining",
"disjointing",
"dissevering",
"dissociating",
"disuniting",
"dividing",
"divorcing",
"parting",
"separating",
"severing",
"splitting",
"sundering",
"uncoupling",
"unlinking",
"unyoking",
"loosening",
"loosing",
"unbinding",
"unfixing",
"unlashing",
"untying",
"untieing"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"star (in)":{
"as in do , act out":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"act",
"do",
"impersonate",
"interpret",
"perform",
"play",
"portray",
"ape",
"clown",
"ham",
"imitate",
"masquerade",
"mime",
"mimic",
"pose (as)",
"act out",
"enact",
"pantomime",
"playact",
"role-play",
"take on",
"depict",
"dramatize",
"render",
"represent",
"coact",
"costar",
"overact",
"overplay",
"underplay"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"stayed":{
"to continue to be in a place for a significant amount of time":{
"examples":[
"let's stay inside this pavilion until it stops raining"
],
"synonyms":[
"abided",
"abode",
"dwelled",
"dwelt",
"hung around",
"remained",
"stuck around",
"tarried"
],
"near synonyms":[
"awaited",
"held on",
"hung on",
"waited",
"dallied",
"dawdled",
"lingered",
"loitered",
"outstayed",
"overstayed"
],
"near antonyms":[
"absconded",
"booked",
"decamped",
"escaped",
"evacuated",
"fled",
"flew",
"got out",
"ran away",
"scatted",
"scrammed",
"skipped",
"abandoned",
"deserted",
"forsook",
"vacated"
],
"antonyms":[
"bailed",
"bailed out",
"bugged out",
"buzzed (off)",
"cleared off",
"cleared out",
"cut out",
"departed",
"exited",
"got off",
"left",
"moved",
"packed (up or off)",
"peeled off",
"piked (out or off)",
"pulled out",
"pushed off",
"pushed on",
"quit",
"quitted",
"shoved (off)",
"took off",
"vamoosed",
"walked out",
"went",
"went off"
]
},
"to bring (something) to a standstill":{
"examples":[
"stay the trial until this new evidence has been processed"
],
"synonyms":[
"arrested",
"brought up",
"caught",
"checked",
"drew up",
"fetched up",
"halted",
"held up",
"pulled up",
"stalled",
"stilled",
"stopped"
],
"near synonyms":[
"baffled",
"balked",
"blockaded",
"blocked",
"bottlenecked",
"clogged",
"dammed",
"detained",
"held",
"held back",
"hindered",
"impeded",
"obstructed",
"snagged",
"stemmed",
"concluded",
"cut off",
"ended",
"terminated",
"called",
"discontinued",
"suspended",
"choked off",
"reined (in)",
"repressed",
"squashed",
"squelched",
"stanched",
"staunched",
"stunted",
"suppressed",
"turned back"
],
"near antonyms":[
"carried on",
"continued",
"followed through (with)",
"kept (on)",
"kept up",
"persisted",
"ran on",
"advanced",
"fared",
"marched",
"moved",
"proceeded",
"progressed",
"wended",
"went along",
"actuated",
"budged",
"drove",
"goaded",
"impelled",
"propelled",
"pushed",
"spurred",
"stirred"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to remain in place in readiness or expectation of something":{
"examples":[
"we'll stay for a while longer and see if anyone shows up"
],
"synonyms":[
"awaited",
"bode",
"bided",
"held on",
"waited"
],
"near synonyms":[
"hung around",
"lingered",
"remained",
"stuck around",
"tarried",
"stood by",
"anticipated",
"expected",
"watched (for)"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to reside as a temporary guest":{
"examples":[
"let's stay at a quaint inn rather than at some generic motel"
],
"synonyms":[
"crashed",
"sojourned",
"tarried",
"visited"
],
"near synonyms":[
"came by",
"came over",
"dropped by",
"dropped in",
"ran in",
"stepped in",
"stopped (by)",
"frequented",
"haunted",
"hung (around or out)",
"hanged (around or out)",
"inhabited",
"occupied"
],
"near antonyms":[
"abided",
"abode",
"dwelled",
"dwelt",
"lived",
"resided"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to hold up or serve as a foundation for":{
"examples":[
"beams being used to stay the bridge while it is undergoing repairs"
],
"synonyms":[
"bolstered",
"bore",
"braced",
"buttressed",
"carried",
"propped (up)",
"shored (up)",
"supported",
"sustained",
"undergirded",
"underpinned",
"upheld"
],
"near synonyms":[
"steadied",
"trussed",
"underlay"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"stack up (against":{
"to come near or nearer to in character or quality":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[
"approach",
"approximate",
"compare (with)",
"measure up (to)"
],
"near synonyms":[
"add up (to)",
"amount (to)",
"come (to)",
"duplicate",
"equal",
"match",
"mirror",
"parallel",
"reflect",
"border (on)",
"touch (on)",
"verge (on)"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[]
},
"stalwarts":{
"as in supporters , activists":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"activists",
"advocates",
"apostles",
"backers",
"champions",
"evangelists",
"patrons",
"promoters",
"supporters",
"crusaders",
"fanatics",
"ideologues",
"idealogues",
"militants",
"partisans",
"partizans",
"red hots",
"true believers",
"zealots",
"demonstrators",
"marchers",
"objectors",
"picketers",
"protesters",
"protestors",
"dreamers",
"idealists",
"visionaries"
],
"near antonyms":[
"dabblers",
"dilettantes",
"dilettanti",
"nonmilitants"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"standing up to":{
"to oppose (something hostile or dangerous) with firmness or courage":{
"examples":[
"He found peace after standing up to his greatest fears."
],
"synonyms":[
"bearding",
"braving",
"brazening",
"breasting",
"confronting",
"daring",
"defying",
"facing",
"outbraving",
"outfacing"
],
"near synonyms":[
"facing up (to)",
"fronting",
"affronting",
"challenging",
"encountering",
"meeting",
"accosting",
"approaching",
"cornering",
"repelling",
"resisting",
"standing",
"withstanding",
"battling",
"combating",
"combatting",
"contending (with)",
"fighting",
"opposing",
"squaring (off)"
],
"near antonyms":[
"avoiding",
"eschewing",
"shunning",
"eluding",
"escaping",
"evading",
"shaking"
],
"antonyms":[
"dodging",
"ducking",
"funking",
"shirking",
"sidestepping"
]
},
"type":[
"phrase"
]
},
"stagey":{
"given to or marked by attention-getting behavior suggestive of stage acting":{
"examples":[
"a motivational speaker whose stagy presentations motivate some listeners to head for the nearest exit"
],
"synonyms":[
"dramatic",
"hammy",
"histrionic",
"melodramatic",
"theatrical",
"theatric"
],
"near synonyms":[
"actorish",
"actorly",
"actressy",
"overacted",
"overdone",
"sensational",
"staged",
"conspicuous",
"elaborate",
"flamboyant",
"grandiose",
"ostentatious",
"showy",
"affected",
"artificial",
"exaggerated",
"mannered",
"pretentious",
"self-conscious",
"studied",
"unnatural"
],
"near antonyms":[
"nondramatic",
"nontheatrical",
"unaffected",
"underplayed",
"unpretentious",
"muted",
"restrained",
"subdued",
"toned (down)",
"conservative",
"discreet",
"inconspicuous",
"modest",
"plain",
"quiet",
"simple"
],
"antonyms":[
"undramatic"
]
},
"having the general quality or effect of a stage performance":{
"examples":[
"the president's and the prime minister's public display of mutual admiration was a little too stagy to be convincing"
],
"synonyms":[
"dramatic",
"histrionic",
"melodramatic",
"operatic",
"theatrical",
"theatric"
],
"near synonyms":[
"affected",
"emotional",
"emotionalistic",
"sensational",
"actorish",
"actorly",
"actressy",
"dramaturgic",
"dramaturgical",
"ham",
"hammy",
"amazing",
"astonishing",
"astounding",
"awesome",
"exciting",
"eye-opening",
"fabulous",
"marvelous",
"marvellous",
"spectacular",
"surprising",
"wonderful",
"wondrous",
"overdramatic"
],
"near antonyms":[
"matter-of-fact",
"monotonous",
"uneventful",
"unexciting",
"uninspiring",
"unnewsworthy",
"unrewarding",
"unsensational",
"unspectacular",
"common",
"commonplace",
"ordinary",
"stale",
"unexceptional"
],
"antonyms":[
"undramatic"
]
},
"type":[
"adjective"
]
},
"stabbing":{
"as in scratching , jabbing":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"jabbing",
"jagged",
"lacerating",
"piercing",
"scratching",
"clawlike",
"daggerlike",
"knifelike",
"pointed",
"pointy",
"spiky",
"spikey",
"cutting",
"edged",
"edgy",
"ground",
"honed",
"keen",
"sharp",
"sharpened",
"stropped",
"trenchant",
"whetted"
],
"near antonyms":[
"blunt",
"blunted",
"dull",
"dulled",
"obtuse",
"rounded",
"smooth",
"soft",
"even",
"flat",
"level",
"slick"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to penetrate or hold (something) with a pointed object":{
"examples":[
"stabbed the pesky leaf with the tines of the rake"
],
"synonyms":[
"goring",
"harpooning",
"impaling",
"jabbing",
"lancing",
"pecking",
"picking",
"piercing",
"pinking",
"puncturing",
"running through",
"skewering",
"spearing",
"spiking",
"spitting",
"sticking",
"transfixing",
"transpiercing"
],
"near synonyms":[
"spindling",
"perforating",
"riddling",
"bayoneting",
"bayonetting",
"dirking",
"gimleting",
"piking",
"poniarding",
"pronging",
"quilling",
"pinpricking",
"poking",
"pricking",
"punching",
"thrusting",
"cutting",
"knifing",
"slicing"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"adjective",
"verb"
]
},
"staffs":{
"a body of persons at work or available for work":{
"examples":[
"we're working with a short staff at the office today"
],
"synonyms":[
"forces",
"help",
"labor forces",
"manpowers",
"personnels",
"pools",
"workforces"
],
"near synonyms":[
"labors",
"proletariats",
"rank and files",
"bands",
"companies",
"crews",
"gangs",
"outfits",
"parties",
"squads",
"teams",
"employees",
"employes",
"helpers",
"hirelings",
"workers",
"blood",
"supports"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"a heavy rigid stick used as a weapon or for punishment":{
"examples":[
"carried a staff for self-defense when walking alone at night"
],
"synonyms":[
"bastinadoes",
"bastinades",
"batons",
"bats",
"billies",
"billy clubs",
"bludgeons",
"canes",
"clubs",
"cudgels",
"nightsticks",
"rods",
"rungs",
"saps",
"shillelaghs",
"shillalahs",
"truncheons",
"waddies"
],
"near synonyms":[
"blackjacks",
"knobkerries",
"maces",
"birches",
"crabsticks",
"hickories",
"rattans",
"staves",
"switches",
"beetles",
"gavels",
"hammers",
"mallets",
"mauls",
"sledgehammers",
"crooks",
"crosiers",
"croziers",
"walking sticks",
"whangees"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"staying":{
"as in permanent , stable":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"durable",
"enduring",
"everlasting",
"immortal",
"imperishable",
"lasting",
"permanent",
"stable",
"staunch",
"stanch",
"tenacious",
"unyielding",
"flinty",
"leathery",
"resilient",
"stalwart",
"flourishing",
"prospering",
"thriving",
"cast-iron",
"hard",
"hard-bitten",
"hardened",
"hardy",
"inured",
"rugged",
"stout",
"strong",
"sturdy",
"tough",
"toughened",
"vigorous",
"able-bodied",
"brawny",
"muscular",
"fit",
"fortified",
"hale",
"healthy",
"husky",
"lusty",
"red-blooded",
"robust",
"sound",
"strapping",
"virile",
"annealed",
"seasoned",
"tempered"
],
"near antonyms":[
"delicate",
"nonhardy",
"soft",
"tender",
"weak",
"emasculated",
"enervated",
"enfeebled",
"exhausted",
"run-down",
"sapped",
"wasted",
"weakened",
"worn",
"worn-out",
"crippled",
"debilitated",
"diseased",
"incapacitated",
"infirm",
"unsound",
"fragile",
"frail",
"puny",
"resistless",
"sensitive",
"susceptible",
"unresistant",
"vulnerable",
"yielding",
"mortal",
"perishable",
"temporary",
"transient"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to continue to be in a place for a significant amount of time":{
"examples":[
"let's stay inside this pavilion until it stops raining"
],
"synonyms":[
"abiding",
"dwelling",
"hanging around",
"remaining",
"sticking around",
"tarrying"
],
"near synonyms":[
"awaiting",
"hanging on",
"holding on",
"waiting",
"dallying",
"dawdling",
"lingering",
"loitering",
"outstaying",
"overstaying"
],
"near antonyms":[
"absconding",
"booking",
"decamping",
"escaping",
"evacuating",
"fleeing",
"flying",
"getting out",
"running away",
"scatting",
"scramming",
"skipping",
"abandoning",
"deserting",
"forsaking",
"vacating"
],
"antonyms":[
"bailing",
"bailing out",
"bugging out",
"buzzing (off)",
"clearing off",
"clearing out",
"cutting out",
"departing",
"exiting",
"getting off",
"going",
"going off",
"leaving",
"moving",
"packing (up or off)",
"peeling off",
"piking (out or off)",
"pulling out",
"pushing off",
"pushing on",
"quitting",
"shoving (off)",
"taking off",
"vamoosing",
"walking out"
]
},
"to bring (something) to a standstill":{
"examples":[
"stay the trial until this new evidence has been processed"
],
"synonyms":[
"arresting",
"bringing up",
"catching",
"checking",
"drawing up",
"fetching up",
"halting",
"holding up",
"pulling up",
"stalling",
"stilling",
"stopping"
],
"near synonyms":[
"baffling",
"balking",
"blockading",
"blocking",
"bottlenecking",
"clogging",
"damming",
"detaining",
"hindering",
"holding",
"holding back",
"impeding",
"obstructing",
"snagging",
"stemming",
"concluding",
"cutting off",
"ending",
"terminating",
"calling",
"discontinuing",
"suspending",
"choking off",
"reining (in)",
"repressing",
"squashing",
"squelching",
"stanching",
"staunching",
"stunting",
"suppressing",
"turning back"
],
"near antonyms":[
"carrying on",
"continuing",
"following through (with)",
"keeping (on)",
"keeping up",
"persisting",
"running on",
"advancing",
"faring",
"going along",
"marching",
"moving",
"proceeding",
"progressing",
"wending",
"actuating",
"budging",
"driving",
"goading",
"impelling",
"propelling",
"pushing",
"spurring",
"stirring"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to remain in place in readiness or expectation of something":{
"examples":[
"we'll stay for a while longer and see if anyone shows up"
],
"synonyms":[
"awaiting",
"biding",
"holding on",
"waiting"
],
"near synonyms":[
"hanging around",
"lingering",
"remaining",
"sticking around",
"tarrying",
"standing by",
"anticipating",
"expecting",
"watching (for)"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to reside as a temporary guest":{
"examples":[
"let's stay at a quaint inn rather than at some generic motel"
],
"synonyms":[
"crashing",
"sojourning",
"tarrying",
"visiting"
],
"near synonyms":[
"coming by",
"coming over",
"dropping by",
"dropping in",
"running in",
"stepping in",
"stopping (by)",
"frequenting",
"hanging (around or out)",
"haunting",
"inhabiting",
"occupying"
],
"near antonyms":[
"abiding",
"dwelling",
"living",
"residing"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to hold up or serve as a foundation for":{
"examples":[
"beams being used to stay the bridge while it is undergoing repairs"
],
"synonyms":[
"bearing",
"bolstering",
"bracing",
"buttressing",
"carrying",
"propping (up)",
"shoring (up)",
"supporting",
"sustaining",
"undergirding",
"underpinning",
"upholding"
],
"near synonyms":[
"steadying",
"trussing",
"underlying"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"adjective",
"verb"
]
},
"stamped (out)":{
"as in dead , snuffed (out)":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"choked",
"damped",
"dead",
"doused",
"dowsed",
"extinguished",
"quenched",
"smothered",
"snuffed (out)",
"suffocated"
],
"near antonyms":[
"ablaze",
"afire",
"aflame",
"alight",
"blazing",
"burning",
"combusting",
"conflagrant",
"fiery",
"flaming",
"ignited",
"inflamed",
"enflamed",
"kindled",
"lit",
"lighted",
"aglow",
"flaring",
"flickering",
"glowing",
"live",
"smoldering",
"smouldering",
"broiling",
"hot",
"piping hot",
"red-hot",
"roasting",
"scalding",
"scorching",
"searing",
"sizzling"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to destroy all traces of":{
"examples":[
"working to stamp out racism in this country"
],
"synonyms":[
"abolished",
"annihilated",
"blacked out",
"blotted out",
"canceled",
"cancelled",
"cleaned (up)",
"effaced",
"eradicated",
"erased",
"expunged",
"exterminated",
"extirpated",
"liquidated",
"obliterated",
"rooted (out)",
"rubbed out",
"snuffed (out)",
"swept (away)",
"wiped out"
],
"near synonyms":[
"decimated",
"demolished",
"destroyed",
"devastated",
"ravaged",
"dismantled",
"flattened",
"mowed (down)",
"razed",
"tore down",
"ruined",
"totaled",
"totalled",
"wasted",
"wrecked",
"blasted",
"blew up",
"dashed",
"dynamited",
"smashed",
"atomized",
"consumed",
"devoured",
"dissolved",
"fragmented",
"powdered",
"pulverized",
"shattered",
"splintered",
"doomed",
"finished",
"killed",
"killed off",
"terminated",
"zapped",
"cut",
"discarded",
"ditched",
"ejected",
"excised",
"expelled",
"jettisoned",
"ousted",
"threw out"
],
"near antonyms":[
"conserved",
"preserved",
"protected",
"saved",
"built",
"constructed",
"created",
"fabricated",
"fashioned",
"forged",
"formed",
"framed",
"made",
"manufactured",
"shaped",
"fixed",
"mended",
"patched",
"rebuilt",
"reconditioned",
"reconstructed",
"renewed",
"renovated",
"repaired",
"restored",
"revamped"
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"reining (in)",
"repressing",
"squashing",
"squelching",
"stunting",
"suppressing",
"turning back",
"calling",
"discontinuing",
"suspending",
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"blocking",
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"damming",
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"holding",
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"impeding",
"obstructing",
"snagging",
"stemming",
"arresting",
"bringing up",
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"checking",
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"fetching up",
"halting",
"holding up",
"pulling up",
"stalling",
"staying",
"stilling",
"stopping"
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"carrying on",
"continuing",
"following through (with)",
"keeping (on)",
"keeping up",
"persisting",
"running on",
"advancing",
"faring",
"going along",
"marching",
"moving",
"proceeding",
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"wending",
"actuating",
"budging",
"driving",
"goading",
"impelling",
"propelling",
"pushing",
"spurring",
"stirring"
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"verb"
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"as in subcommittees , steering committees":{
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"steering committees",
"subcommittees",
"commissions",
"panels",
"delegations",
"missions",
"assemblies",
"bodies",
"congresses",
"convocations",
"councils",
"synods"
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"type":[
"noun"
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"stadium":{
"a large usually roofless building for sporting events with tiers of seats for spectators":{
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"the football game will be held at the new stadium , which seats 100,000 people"
],
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"bowl",
"circus",
"coliseum",
"colosseum"
],
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"ballpark",
"park",
"gym",
"gymnasium",
"spa",
"arena",
"dome",
"hippodrome"
],
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"type":[
"noun"
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"stage manager":{
"as in producer , impresario":{
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"impresario",
"producer",
"director",
"regisseur",
"stage director",
"auteur",
"directress"
],
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},
"type":[
"noun"
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"as in homemakers , housewives":{
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"homemakers",
"househusbands",
"housekeepers",
"housewives",
"better halves",
"companions",
"consorts",
"husbands",
"mates",
"partners",
"significant others",
"soul mates",
"spouses",
"wives"
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"type":[
"noun"
]
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"examples":[
"Her best friend stabbed her in the back and they never spoke to each other again."
],
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"backstab",
"betray",
"cross",
"double-cross",
"sell (out)",
"two-time"
],
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"give away",
"inform (on)",
"peach",
"rat (on)",
"shop",
"snitch (on)",
"split (on)",
"tell (on)",
"turn in"
],
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"defend",
"guard",
"protect",
"safeguard",
"save",
"shield"
],
"antonyms":[
"stand by"
]
},
"type":[
"phrase"
]
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"as in suppressing , repressing":{
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"choking off",
"reining (in)",
"repressing",
"squashing",
"squelching",
"stunting",
"suppressing",
"turning back",
"calling",
"discontinuing",
"suspending",
"concluding",
"cutting off",
"ending",
"terminating",
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"balking",
"blockading",
"blocking",
"bottlenecking",
"clogging",
"damming",
"detaining",
"hindering",
"holding",
"holding back",
"impeding",
"obstructing",
"snagging",
"stemming",
"arresting",
"bringing up",
"catching",
"checking",
"drawing up",
"fetching up",
"halting",
"holding up",
"pulling up",
"stalling",
"staying",
"stilling",
"stopping"
],
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"continuing",
"following through (with)",
"keeping (on)",
"keeping up",
"persisting",
"running on",
"advancing",
"faring",
"going along",
"marching",
"moving",
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"progressing",
"wending",
"actuating",
"budging",
"driving",
"goading",
"impelling",
"propelling",
"pushing",
"spurring",
"stirring"
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"verb"
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"standpipe":{
"as in drain , hydrant":{
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"drain",
"drainpipe",
"funnel",
"hydrant",
"main",
"smokestack",
"spout",
"stovepipe",
"tile",
"waste pipe",
"waterspout",
"channel",
"conduit",
"duct",
"leader",
"line",
"penstock",
"pipe",
"trough",
"tube",
"pipage",
"pipeage",
"pipeline",
"piping"
],
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},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"starlet":{
"as in actress":{
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"actress",
"actor",
"impersonator",
"mummer",
"player",
"thesp",
"thespian",
"trouper",
"barnstormer",
"enactor",
"entertainer",
"performer",
"lead",
"leading lady",
"leading man",
"star",
"coactor",
"costar",
"extra",
"spear-carrier",
"supernumerary",
"walk-on",
"monologuist",
"monologist",
"prima donna",
"scene-stealer",
"double",
"understudy"
],
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},
"type":[
"noun"
]
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"stationed":{
"to assign to a place or position":{
"examples":[
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],
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"detailed",
"posted"
],
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"set",
"appointed",
"placed",
"positioned"
],
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},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"stand (up)":{
"following the accepted rules of moral conduct":{
"examples":[
"a real stand-up guy, he's willing to raise the child\u2014by himself if necessary"
],
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"decent",
"ethical",
"honest",
"honorable",
"just",
"noble",
"principled",
"respectable",
"righteous",
"upright",
"upstanding"
],
"near synonyms":[
"blameless",
"guiltless",
"irreproachable",
"unassailable",
"unimpeachable",
"chivalrous",
"classy",
"high-minded",
"menschy",
"right-minded",
"conscientious",
"fair",
"good",
"incorruptible",
"moral",
"reputable",
"respected",
"scrupulous",
"uncorrupted",
"virtuous",
"decorous",
"nice",
"polite",
"proper",
"seemly"
],
"near antonyms":[
"bad",
"blackguardly",
"corrupt",
"criminal",
"crooked",
"evil",
"immoral",
"iniquitous",
"knavish",
"mean",
"nefarious",
"rascally",
"reprehensible",
"roguish",
"rotten",
"scoundrelly",
"sinful",
"unfair",
"unscrupulous",
"vile",
"villainous",
"wicked",
"wretched",
"blamable",
"blameworthy",
"censurable",
"culpable",
"debased",
"debauched",
"decadent",
"degenerate",
"degraded",
"demoralized",
"depraved",
"disgraceful",
"disreputable",
"dissipated",
"dissolute",
"libertine",
"loose",
"perverse",
"perverted",
"profligate",
"reprobate",
"shameful",
"venal"
],
"antonyms":[
"base",
"dishonest",
"dishonorable",
"ignoble",
"low",
"unethical",
"unjust",
"unprincipled",
"unrighteous",
"unworthy"
]
},
"rising straight up":{
"examples":[
"a puppy with stand-up ears"
],
"synonyms":[
"erect",
"perpendicular",
"plumb",
"raised",
"standing",
"upright",
"upstanding",
"vertical"
],
"near synonyms":[
"elevated",
"lifted",
"upended",
"upraised",
"semierect",
"freestanding",
"stand-alone"
],
"near antonyms":[
"prostrate",
"supine",
"diagonal",
"hanging",
"sagging",
"slant",
"slanted",
"slanting",
"slanty"
],
"antonyms":[
"flat",
"recumbent"
]
},
"to withstand scrutiny and gain acceptance or approval":{
"examples":[
"a hypothesis that won't stand up to close analysis"
],
"synonyms":[
"fly",
"hold up",
"pass",
"wash"
],
"near synonyms":[
"get through",
"go down",
"go over",
"go through",
"play",
"take",
"work"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"as in improv":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"improv",
"burlesque",
"parody",
"satire",
"banter",
"drollery",
"persiflage",
"wit",
"high comedy",
"low comedy",
"foolery",
"fun",
"horseplay",
"knockabout",
"monkeyshine(s)",
"shenanigan(s)",
"comedy",
"farce",
"humor",
"slapstick"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"adjective",
"noun",
"verb"
]
},
"statements":{
"a record of goods sold or services performed together with the costs due":{
"examples":[
"received a statement from the plumber in the mail"
],
"synonyms":[
"accounts",
"bills",
"checks",
"invoices",
"tabs"
],
"near synonyms":[
"receipts",
"reckonings",
"documents",
"ledgers",
"records",
"charges",
"costs",
"expenses",
"fees",
"prices",
"rates",
"tolls",
"scores",
"tallies"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"an act, process, or means of putting something into words":{
"examples":[
"a careful statement of the legal case before the court"
],
"synonyms":[
"articulations",
"expressions",
"formulations",
"phrasings",
"utterances",
"verbalisms",
"voices",
"wordings"
],
"near synonyms":[
"outlets",
"vents",
"observations",
"reflections",
"remarks",
"thoughts",
"speeches",
"tongues"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"something that is said":{
"examples":[
"her statement was met with considerable skepticism"
],
"synonyms":[
"utterances",
"words"
],
"near synonyms":[
"communications",
"messages",
"announcements",
"declamations",
"declarations",
"manifestos",
"manifestoes",
"proclamations",
"pronouncements",
"verbalizations",
"vocalizations"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"stands out":{
"to extend outward beyond a usual point":{
"examples":[
"the relief figures stand out from the wall quite strikingly"
],
"synonyms":[
"bags",
"balloons",
"beetles",
"bellies",
"billows",
"bulges",
"bunches",
"juts",
"overhangs",
"pokes",
"pooches",
"pouches",
"pouts",
"projects",
"protrudes",
"starts",
"sticks out",
"swells"
],
"near synonyms":[
"domes",
"blows up",
"inflates",
"dilates",
"distends",
"expands",
"mushrooms",
"snowballs",
"elongates",
"extends",
"lengthens",
"stretches"
],
"near antonyms":[
"compresses",
"condenses",
"constricts",
"contracts",
"shrinks"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"staggery":{
"as in rocky , unstable":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"rocky",
"unstable",
"unsteady",
"wavering",
"wavery",
"shivering",
"shivery",
"palpitating",
"pulsating",
"throbbing",
"convulsive",
"aquiver",
"atremble",
"quaking",
"quavery",
"quivering",
"shaking",
"shaky",
"shuddering",
"shuddery",
"tottering",
"tottery",
"trembling",
"trembly",
"tremulous",
"wobbling",
"wabbling",
"wobbly",
"wabbly"
],
"near antonyms":[
"controlled",
"firm",
"settled",
"stable",
"steady"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"adjective"
]
},
"stardom":{
"the state of being a very famous performer":{
"examples":[
"an actress who has achieved movie stardom",
"When he went to Hollywood he had dreams of stardom .",
"the path to stardom"
],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"megastardom",
"popularity",
"superstardom",
"celebrity",
"fame",
"notoriety",
"renown",
"infamy",
"character",
"mark",
"name",
"report",
"reputability",
"reputation",
"repute",
"cachet",
"place",
"position",
"prestige",
"rank",
"standing",
"stature",
"status",
"distinction",
"eminence",
"glory",
"greatness",
"honor",
"illustriousness",
"note",
"preeminence",
"prominence",
"visibility",
"acclaim",
"accolade",
"acknowledgment",
"acknowledgement",
"homage",
"kudos",
"laurels",
"praise",
"recognition",
"adoration",
"idolization"
],
"near antonyms":[
"disgrace",
"dishonor",
"disrepute",
"ignominy",
"odium",
"opprobrium",
"shame",
"inconspicuousness",
"invisibility",
"unpopularity",
"anonymity",
"oblivion",
"obscureness",
"obscurity"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"stabilization":{
"as in fixation":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"fixation"
],
"near antonyms":[
"alteration",
"change",
"difference",
"modification",
"redoing",
"refashioning",
"remaking",
"remodeling",
"revamping",
"review",
"revise",
"revision",
"reworking",
"variation",
"amendment",
"correction",
"rectification",
"reform",
"conversion",
"deformation",
"distortion",
"metamorphosis",
"mutation",
"transfiguration",
"transformation"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"stars":{
"a ball-shaped gaseous celestial body that shines by its own light":{
"examples":[
"it's difficult to see the stars at night in the middle of the city because of all the streetlights"
],
"synonyms":[
"luminaries",
"spheres",
"suns"
],
"near synonyms":[
"clusters",
"constellations",
"galaxies",
"binary stars",
"brown dwarfs",
"brown dwarves",
"dwarfs",
"dwarves",
"fixed stars",
"gassers",
"giant stars",
"lodestars",
"loadstars",
"neutron stars",
"novas",
"novae",
"pulsars",
"quasars",
"red dwarfs",
"red giants",
"red stars",
"subdwarfs",
"superclusters",
"supergiants",
"supernovas",
"supernovae",
"variables",
"variable stars",
"white dwarfs"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"the person who has the most important role in a play, movie, or TV show":{
"examples":[
"when the star of the school play came down with the flu on opening night, her understudy got to go on"
],
"synonyms":[
"headliners",
"leads",
"principals"
],
"near synonyms":[
"leading ladies",
"leading men",
"superstars",
"ingenues",
"ing\u00e9nues",
"starlets",
"star turns",
"coprincipals",
"co-principals",
"costars",
"co-stars"
],
"near antonyms":[
"extras",
"supernumeraries"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"a person who is widely known and usually much talked about":{
"examples":[
"the public's endless fascination with stars"
],
"synonyms":[
"causes c\u00e9l\u00e8bres",
"causes celebres",
"celebrities",
"celebs",
"figures",
"icons",
"ikons",
"lights",
"luminaries",
"megastars",
"names",
"notabilities",
"notables",
"notorieties",
"personages",
"personalities",
"somebodies",
"standouts",
"superstars",
"VIPs"
],
"near synonyms":[
"favorites",
"heartthrobs",
"heroes",
"idols",
"demigods",
"dignitaries",
"eminences",
"immortals",
"monuments",
"pillars",
"worthies",
"barons",
"big shots",
"bigwigs",
"kahunas",
"magnates",
"moguls",
"nabobs",
"panjandrums",
"panjandra"
],
"near antonyms":[
"lightweights",
"mediocrities",
"has-beens"
],
"antonyms":[
"nobodies",
"noncelebrities"
]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"statutes":{
"a rule of conduct or action laid down by a governing authority and especially a legislature":{
"examples":[
"a new antilittering statute"
],
"synonyms":[
"acts",
"bills",
"constitutions",
"enactments",
"laws",
"ordinances"
],
"near synonyms":[
"commandments",
"commands",
"decrees",
"dictates",
"directives",
"edicts",
"fiats",
"rulings",
"bylaws",
"ground rules",
"regulations",
"rules",
"amendments",
"legislations",
"common law",
"blue laws",
"prohibitions",
"proscriptions",
"restrictions",
"canons",
"capitularies",
"encyclicals"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"stalag":{
"as in gulag , concentration camp":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"concentration camp",
"gulag",
"labor camp",
"prison camp",
"work camp",
"bastille",
"big house",
"bridewell",
"brig",
"calaboose",
"can",
"clink",
"cooler",
"coop",
"guardroom",
"hock",
"hold",
"hoosegow",
"jail",
"jailhouse",
"joint",
"jug",
"lockup",
"nick",
"pen",
"penitentiary",
"pokey",
"prison",
"quod",
"slam",
"slammer",
"stir",
"stockade",
"tolbooth",
"bull pen",
"cage",
"cell",
"hole",
"tank",
"block",
"ward",
"glasshouse",
"guardhouse",
"hulk(s)",
"dungeon",
"keep",
"oubliette",
"reformatory",
"reform school",
"training school"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"state's evidence":{
"as in evidence":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"evidence",
"collaborationist",
"collaborator",
"informant",
"informer",
"companion",
"comrade",
"crony",
"henchman",
"partner",
"abettor",
"abetter",
"accessory",
"accessary",
"accomplice",
"cohort",
"confederate",
"conspirator",
"plotter",
"traitor",
"gangster",
"mobster",
"racketeer"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"stamping grounds":{
"a place for spending time or for socializing":{
"examples":[
"if she isn't at home, you can usually find her at the local library, her favorite stamping ground"
],
"synonyms":[
"hangouts",
"haunts",
"purlieus",
"rendezvous",
"resorts",
"stomping grounds"
],
"near synonyms":[
"camps",
"canteens",
"clubhouses",
"clubs",
"country clubs",
"key clubs",
"service clubs",
"unions",
"harborages",
"harbors",
"havens",
"nests",
"refuges",
"retreats",
"sanctuaries"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"stacked up (against or with)":{
"to come near or nearer to in character or quality":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[
"approached",
"approximated",
"compared (with)",
"measured up (to)"
],
"near synonyms":[
"added up (to)",
"amounted (to)",
"came (to)",
"duplicated",
"equaled",
"equalled",
"matched",
"mirrored",
"paralleled",
"reflected",
"bordered (on)",
"touched (on)",
"verged (on)"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[]
},
"stallions":{
"an adult male horse and especially one that is used for breeding":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"colts",
"fillies",
"foals",
"geldings",
"mares",
"equines",
"nags",
"steeds",
"equids",
"broncos",
"bronchos",
"mustangs",
"ponies",
"chargers",
"coursers",
"cow ponies",
"cutting horses",
"gallopers",
"hackneys",
"hacks",
"mounts",
"packhorses",
"prancers",
"quarter horses",
"racehorses",
"saddle horses",
"trotters",
"warhorses",
"workhorses",
"bays",
"blacks",
"buckskins",
"chestnuts",
"duns",
"palominos",
"pintos",
"pintoes",
"roans",
"skewbalds",
"sorrels",
"cobs",
"dobbins",
"jades",
"plugs",
"skates"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"status quo":{
"the state or fact of being the way things usually are":{
"examples":[
"civic leaders who are afraid to do anything that might change the town's status quo"
],
"synonyms":[
"normalcy",
"normality"
],
"near synonyms":[
"groove",
"routine",
"rut",
"currency",
"prevalence",
"conventionality",
"harmony",
"orderliness",
"peace"
],
"near antonyms":[
"irregularity",
"uncommonness",
"unusualness",
"disorderliness",
"disruptiveness",
"disruption",
"disturbance",
"anomalousness",
"deviance",
"exceptionalness",
"extraordinariness",
"noteworthiness",
"remarkableness",
"unconventionality"
],
"antonyms":[
"abnormality"
]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"stand up to":{
"to oppose (something hostile or dangerous) with firmness or courage":{
"examples":[
"He found peace after standing up to his greatest fears."
],
"synonyms":[
"beard",
"brave",
"brazen",
"breast",
"confront",
"dare",
"defy",
"face",
"outbrave",
"outface"
],
"near synonyms":[
"face up (to)",
"front",
"affront",
"challenge",
"encounter",
"meet",
"accost",
"approach",
"corner",
"repel",
"resist",
"stand",
"withstand",
"battle",
"combat",
"contend (with)",
"fight",
"oppose",
"square (off)"
],
"near antonyms":[
"avoid",
"eschew",
"shun",
"elude",
"escape",
"evade",
"shake"
],
"antonyms":[
"dodge",
"duck",
"funk",
"shirk",
"sidestep"
]
},
"type":[
"phrase"
]
},
"standpipes":{
"as in drains , hydrants":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"drainpipes",
"drains",
"funnels",
"hydrants",
"mains",
"smokestacks",
"spouts",
"stovepipes",
"tiles",
"waste pipes",
"waterspouts",
"channels",
"conduits",
"ducts",
"leaders",
"lines",
"penstocks",
"pipes",
"troughs",
"tubes",
"pipages",
"pipeages",
"pipelines",
"pipings"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"starchy":{
"marked by or showing careful attention to set forms and details":{
"examples":[
"a starchy and demanding teacher"
],
"synonyms":[
"ceremonious",
"correct",
"decorous",
"formal",
"nice",
"proper",
"punctilious",
"stiff",
"stiff-necked",
"stilted"
],
"near synonyms":[
"sober",
"solemn",
"stately",
"chivalrous",
"courtly",
"gallant",
"genteel",
"polished",
"refined",
"civil",
"courteous",
"polite",
"red-carpet"
],
"near antonyms":[
"improper",
"indecorous",
"unmannerly",
"discourteous",
"impolite",
"rude"
],
"antonyms":[
"casual",
"easygoing",
"informal",
"laid-back",
"unceremonious"
]
},
"type":[
"adjective"
]
},
"standing in":{
"to serve as a replacement usually for a time only":{
"examples":[
"she will be standing in for the regular teacher for a week"
],
"synonyms":[
"covering",
"filling in",
"pinch-hitting",
"stepping in",
"subbing",
"substituting",
"taking over"
],
"near synonyms":[
"understudying",
"relieving",
"spelling",
"doubling (as)"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"staining":{
"as in discoloration":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"discoloration",
"blackness",
"dinge",
"dinginess",
"dirtiness",
"dustiness",
"filthiness",
"foulness",
"griminess",
"grubbiness",
"nastiness",
"smuttiness",
"soilage",
"sordidness",
"squalidness",
"uncleanliness",
"uncleanness",
"impureness",
"impurity",
"messiness",
"mussiness",
"sloppiness",
"untidiness",
"insanitation",
"squalor",
"muddiness",
"sootiness"
],
"near antonyms":[
"cleanliness",
"spotlessness",
"purity"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to affect slightly with something morally bad or undesirable":{
"examples":[
"her poor choice of companions stained her reputation somewhat"
],
"synonyms":[
"blemishing",
"darkening",
"marring",
"poisoning",
"spoiling",
"tainting",
"tarnishing",
"touching",
"vitiating"
],
"near synonyms":[
"begriming",
"besmearing",
"besmirching",
"blackening",
"blurring",
"clouding",
"dirtying",
"discoloring",
"polluting",
"smearing",
"smirching",
"smudging",
"smutting",
"soiling",
"sullying",
"tarring",
"abasing",
"cheapening",
"debasing",
"degrading",
"demeaning",
"discrediting",
"disgracing",
"dishonoring",
"fouling",
"lowering",
"shaming",
"sinking",
"bastardizing",
"corrupting",
"debauching",
"demoralizing",
"depraving",
"perverting",
"subverting",
"coloring",
"distorting",
"twisting"
],
"near antonyms":[
"cleansing",
"purifying",
"dignifying",
"elevating",
"ennobling",
"enshrining",
"glorifying",
"hallowing",
"magnifying",
"uplifting"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to give color or a different color to":{
"examples":[
"stained the table to look like cherry"
],
"synonyms":[
"bepainting",
"coloring",
"dyeing",
"painting",
"pigmenting",
"tincturing",
"tingeing",
"tinging",
"tinting"
],
"near synonyms":[
"brightening",
"lightening",
"darkening",
"embrowning",
"toning (down)",
"checkering",
"dappling",
"daubing",
"flecking",
"marbling",
"mottling",
"patterning",
"polychroming",
"specking",
"speckling",
"streaking",
"striating",
"striping",
"variegating"
],
"near antonyms":[
"blanching",
"bleaching",
"whitening"
],
"antonyms":[
"decolorizing"
]
},
"to make dirty":{
"examples":[
"oil stained his work pants"
],
"synonyms":[
"befouling",
"begriming",
"bemiring",
"besmirching",
"blackening",
"daubing",
"dirtying",
"distaining",
"fouling",
"gauming",
"griming",
"miring",
"mucking",
"muddying",
"smirching",
"smudging",
"soiling",
"sullying"
],
"near synonyms":[
"contaminating",
"defiling",
"polluting",
"tainting",
"discoloring",
"confusing",
"disarranging",
"disarraying",
"disheveling",
"dishevelling",
"disordering",
"draggling",
"jumbling",
"messing",
"muddling",
"collying",
"crocking"
],
"near antonyms":[
"decontaminating",
"purging",
"purifying",
"disinfecting",
"sanitizing",
"brushing",
"dry-cleaning",
"dusting",
"laundering",
"mopping",
"rinsing",
"scouring",
"scrubbing",
"sweeping",
"washing",
"wiping",
"brightening",
"deodorizing",
"freshening",
"renewing",
"sprucing (up)",
"straightening (up)",
"tidying (up)"
],
"antonyms":[
"cleaning",
"cleansing"
]
},
"type":[
"noun",
"verb"
]
},
"stammering":{
"as in stuttering , mumbling":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"faltering",
"halting",
"hesitant",
"maundering",
"mumbling",
"muttering",
"sputtering",
"stumbling",
"stuttering",
"inarticulate",
"ineloquent",
"unvocal",
"mute",
"speechless",
"tongueless",
"tongue-tied",
"voiceless"
],
"near antonyms":[
"articulate",
"eloquent",
"fluent",
"silver-tongued",
"well-spoken",
"facile",
"glib",
"smooth-tongued",
"voluble",
"expressive",
"outspoken",
"verbal",
"vocal"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to speak with many pauses and repetitions":{
"examples":[
"He stammers when he's nervous."
],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"stuttering",
"babbling",
"bumbling",
"chattering",
"chatting",
"driveling",
"drivelling",
"drooling",
"gabbling",
"gibbering",
"jabbering",
"prattling",
"sputtering",
"blabbering",
"blathering",
"bleating",
"blithering",
"gabbing",
"jangling",
"jawing",
"pattering",
"prating",
"rattling",
"running on",
"smattering",
"tittle-tattling",
"trolling",
"yakking",
"yacking",
"chuntering",
"maundering",
"mouthing",
"mumbling",
"murmuring",
"muttering",
"screeching",
"shouting",
"shrieking"
],
"near antonyms":[
"articulating",
"enunciating",
"pronouncing"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"adjective",
"verb"
]
},
"standout":{
"to extend outward beyond a usual point":{
"examples":[
"the relief figures stand out from the wall quite strikingly"
],
"synonyms":[
"bag",
"balloon",
"beetle",
"belly",
"billow",
"bulge",
"bunch",
"jut",
"overhang",
"poke",
"pooch",
"pouch",
"pout",
"project",
"protrude",
"start",
"stick out",
"swell"
],
"near synonyms":[
"dome",
"blow up",
"inflate",
"dilate",
"distend",
"expand",
"mushroom",
"snowball",
"elongate",
"extend",
"lengthen",
"stretch"
],
"near antonyms":[
"compress",
"condense",
"constrict",
"contract",
"shrink"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"a person who is widely known and usually much talked about":{
"examples":[
"several standouts from showbiz were at the gala"
],
"synonyms":[
"cause c\u00e9l\u00e8bre",
"cause celebre",
"celeb",
"celebrity",
"figure",
"icon",
"ikon",
"light",
"luminary",
"megastar",
"name",
"notability",
"notable",
"notoriety",
"personage",
"personality",
"somebody",
"star",
"superstar",
"VIP"
],
"near synonyms":[
"favorite",
"heartthrob",
"hero",
"idol",
"demigod",
"dignitary",
"eminence",
"immortal",
"monument",
"pillar",
"worthy",
"baron",
"big shot",
"bigwig",
"kahuna",
"magnate",
"mogul",
"nabob",
"panjandrum"
],
"near antonyms":[
"lightweight",
"mediocrity",
"has-been"
],
"antonyms":[
"nobody",
"noncelebrity"
]
},
"something very good of its kind":{
"examples":[
"his debut novel was a standout in an otherwise lackluster year"
],
"synonyms":[
"beaut",
"beauty",
"bee's knees",
"cat's meow",
"corker",
"crackerjack",
"crackajack",
"daisy",
"dandy",
"dilly",
"doozy",
"doozie",
"doozer",
"dream",
"honey",
"hot stuff",
"humdinger",
"hummer",
"jim-dandy",
"knockout",
"lollapalooza",
"lulu",
"nifty",
"peach",
"pip",
"pippin",
"ripper",
"ripsnorter",
"snorter",
"sockdolager",
"sockdologer",
"sweetheart"
],
"near synonyms":[
"marvel",
"phenomenon",
"prodigy",
"sensation",
"wonder",
"catch",
"crown jewel",
"diamond",
"gem",
"imperial",
"jewel",
"pearl",
"plum",
"treasure"
],
"near antonyms":[
"bust",
"disappointment",
"dud",
"failure",
"flop",
"lemon",
"letdown",
"loser",
"stinker",
"turkey"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun",
"verb"
]
},
"stalker":{
"as in spy , snake":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"lurker",
"skulk",
"skulker",
"slyboots",
"sneak",
"sneaker",
"skunk",
"snake",
"weasel",
"snoop",
"snooper",
"spy",
"sharper",
"sharpie",
"sharpy",
"slicker",
"swindler"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"stares down":{
"as in outstares , outfaces":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"outfaces",
"outstares",
"peruses",
"pores (over)",
"studies",
"leers",
"ogles",
"considers",
"eyes",
"fixates",
"observes",
"regards",
"watches",
"glares",
"gloats",
"glowers",
"blinks",
"gapes",
"gawks",
"gawps",
"gazes",
"goggles",
"peers",
"rubbernecks",
"stares"
],
"near antonyms":[
"glances",
"glimpses",
"peeks",
"peeps",
"browses",
"dips (into)",
"scans",
"winks (at)"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"stagger":{
"to move forward while swaying from side to side":{
"examples":[
"I was so tired last night that I just staggered upstairs to bed without eating dinner"
],
"synonyms":[
"careen",
"dodder",
"lurch",
"reel",
"teeter",
"totter",
"waddle"
],
"near synonyms":[
"rock",
"roll",
"seesaw",
"swag",
"sway",
"waver",
"weave",
"wobble",
"wabble",
"barge",
"blunder",
"clomp",
"clump",
"flounder",
"galumph",
"lumber",
"lump",
"pound",
"scuff",
"scuffle",
"shamble",
"shuffle",
"stamp",
"stomp",
"stumble",
"tramp",
"tromp"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to show uncertainty about the right course of action":{
"examples":[
"a daunting problem that would make even the most decisive person stagger just a bit"
],
"synonyms":[
"balance",
"dither",
"falter",
"halt",
"hang back",
"hesitate",
"scruple",
"shilly-shally",
"teeter",
"vacillate",
"waver",
"wobble",
"wabble"
],
"near synonyms":[
"haw",
"hem",
"dally",
"dawdle",
"delay",
"linger",
"pause",
"procrastinate",
"wait",
"back down",
"chicken (out)",
"consider",
"debate",
"deliberate",
"ponder",
"weigh",
"oscillate",
"sway",
"equivocate",
"hedge",
"pussyfoot",
"waffle"
],
"near antonyms":[
"decide",
"budge",
"stir",
"advance",
"continue"
],
"antonyms":[
"dive (in)",
"plunge (in)"
]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"Stalinist":{
"as in Bolshevik , Leninist":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"Bolshevik",
"Leninist",
"Leninite",
"Maoist",
"Marxist",
"Trotskyist",
"Trotskyite",
"leftist",
"lefty",
"pink",
"pinko",
"social democrat",
"extremist",
"radical",
"revolutionary",
"revolutionist",
"commie",
"communist",
"comrade",
"Red",
"socialist"
],
"near antonyms":[
"capitalist"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"standardizing":{
"to make agree with a single established standard or model":{
"examples":[
"the plan is to standardize the test for reading comprehension so that we can see how students across the state compare"
],
"synonyms":[
"formalizing",
"homogenizing",
"normalizing",
"regularizing"
],
"near synonyms":[
"codifying",
"marshaling",
"marshalling",
"methodizing",
"ordering",
"organizing",
"systematizing",
"systemizing",
"averaging",
"equalizing",
"evening",
"squaring",
"accrediting",
"certifying",
"controlling",
"governing",
"regulating",
"ruling",
"conciliating",
"conforming",
"coordinating",
"harmonizing",
"integrating",
"reconciling",
"synthesizing"
],
"near antonyms":[
"customizing",
"individualizing",
"tailoring"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"stage-managing":{
"as in micromanaging":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"micromanaging",
"guarding",
"protecting",
"safeguarding",
"codirecting",
"co-directing",
"comanaging",
"co-managing",
"leading",
"piloting",
"steering",
"caring (for)",
"minding",
"watching",
"administering",
"administrating",
"carrying on",
"conducting",
"controlling",
"directing",
"governing",
"guiding",
"handling",
"keeping",
"managing",
"operating",
"overlooking",
"overseeing",
"presiding (over)",
"regulating",
"running",
"stewarding",
"superintending",
"supervising",
"tending"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"stand-up":{
"following the accepted rules of moral conduct":{
"examples":[
"a real stand-up guy, he's willing to raise the child\u2014by himself if necessary"
],
"synonyms":[
"decent",
"ethical",
"honest",
"honorable",
"just",
"noble",
"principled",
"respectable",
"righteous",
"upright",
"upstanding"
],
"near synonyms":[
"blameless",
"guiltless",
"irreproachable",
"unassailable",
"unimpeachable",
"chivalrous",
"classy",
"high-minded",
"menschy",
"right-minded",
"conscientious",
"fair",
"good",
"incorruptible",
"moral",
"reputable",
"respected",
"scrupulous",
"uncorrupted",
"virtuous",
"decorous",
"nice",
"polite",
"proper",
"seemly"
],
"near antonyms":[
"bad",
"blackguardly",
"corrupt",
"criminal",
"crooked",
"evil",
"immoral",
"iniquitous",
"knavish",
"mean",
"nefarious",
"rascally",
"reprehensible",
"roguish",
"rotten",
"scoundrelly",
"sinful",
"unfair",
"unscrupulous",
"vile",
"villainous",
"wicked",
"wretched",
"blamable",
"blameworthy",
"censurable",
"culpable",
"debased",
"debauched",
"decadent",
"degenerate",
"degraded",
"demoralized",
"depraved",
"disgraceful",
"disreputable",
"dissipated",
"dissolute",
"libertine",
"loose",
"perverse",
"perverted",
"profligate",
"reprobate",
"shameful",
"venal"
],
"antonyms":[
"base",
"dishonest",
"dishonorable",
"ignoble",
"low",
"unethical",
"unjust",
"unprincipled",
"unrighteous",
"unworthy"
]
},
"rising straight up":{
"examples":[
"a puppy with stand-up ears"
],
"synonyms":[
"erect",
"perpendicular",
"plumb",
"raised",
"standing",
"upright",
"upstanding",
"vertical"
],
"near synonyms":[
"elevated",
"lifted",
"upended",
"upraised",
"semierect",
"freestanding",
"stand-alone"
],
"near antonyms":[
"prostrate",
"supine",
"diagonal",
"hanging",
"sagging",
"slant",
"slanted",
"slanting",
"slanty"
],
"antonyms":[
"flat",
"recumbent"
]
},
"to withstand scrutiny and gain acceptance or approval":{
"examples":[
"a hypothesis that won't stand up to close analysis"
],
"synonyms":[
"fly",
"hold up",
"pass",
"wash"
],
"near synonyms":[
"get through",
"go down",
"go over",
"go through",
"play",
"take",
"work"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"as in improv":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"improv",
"burlesque",
"parody",
"satire",
"banter",
"drollery",
"persiflage",
"wit",
"high comedy",
"low comedy",
"foolery",
"fun",
"horseplay",
"knockabout",
"monkeyshine(s)",
"shenanigan(s)",
"comedy",
"farce",
"humor",
"slapstick"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"adjective",
"noun",
"verb"
]
},
"starts (up)":{
"to move suddenly and sharply (as in surprise)":{
"examples":[
"I started from my chair when I heard the sudden scream"
],
"synonyms":[
"bolts",
"jumps",
"startles"
],
"near synonyms":[
"jerks",
"jolts",
"twitches",
"blenches",
"cringes",
"flinches",
"quails",
"recoils",
"shrinks",
"spooks",
"squinches",
"winces",
"bounds",
"leaps",
"springs",
"reacts",
"responds"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to be responsible for the creation and early operation or use of":{
"examples":[
"started the impressionist movement in art"
],
"synonyms":[
"begins",
"constitutes",
"establishes",
"founds",
"inaugurates",
"initiates",
"innovates",
"institutes",
"introduces",
"launches",
"pioneers",
"plants",
"sets up"
],
"near synonyms":[
"authors",
"fathers",
"originates",
"conceives",
"concocts",
"contrives",
"cooks (up)",
"creates",
"devises",
"fabricates",
"invents",
"makes up",
"manufactures",
"produces",
"thinks (up)",
"constructs",
"puts up",
"develops",
"enlarges",
"expands",
"endows",
"finances",
"funds",
"subsidizes",
"arranges",
"organizes",
"systematizes",
"systemizes",
"refounds",
"reinitiates",
"reinstitutes",
"relaunches"
],
"near antonyms":[
"abolishes",
"annihilates",
"annuls",
"nullifies",
"ends",
"finishes",
"halts",
"stops",
"terminates",
"rounds (off or out)",
"winds up",
"wraps up"
],
"antonyms":[
"closes (down)",
"phases out",
"shuts (up)"
]
},
"to cause to function":{
"examples":[
"trying to start the car on a frigid morning"
],
"synonyms":[
"activates",
"actuates",
"cranks (up)",
"drives",
"moves",
"runs",
"sets off",
"sparks",
"touches off",
"triggers",
"turns on"
],
"near synonyms":[
"kicks over",
"turns over",
"charges",
"electrifies",
"energizes",
"fires",
"fuels",
"generates",
"powers",
"pushes",
"discharges",
"launches",
"releases",
"switches",
"trips",
"reactivates",
"recharges",
"arouses",
"excites",
"jump-starts",
"kick-starts",
"stimulates",
"vitalizes",
"ignites",
"incites",
"instigates",
"provokes",
"quickens",
"stirs up",
"accelerates",
"catalyzes",
"speeds (up)",
"steps up"
],
"near antonyms":[
"arrests",
"brakes",
"checks",
"cuts off",
"draws up",
"halts",
"jams",
"stalls",
"sticks",
"stops",
"decelerates",
"represses",
"slows",
"stunts",
"suppresses"
],
"antonyms":[
"cuts",
"cuts out",
"deactivates",
"kills",
"shuts off",
"turns off"
]
},
"to come into existence":{
"examples":[
"the fight started when one child tripped the other"
],
"synonyms":[
"actualizes",
"appears",
"arises",
"begins",
"breaks",
"commences",
"dawns",
"engenders",
"forms",
"materializes",
"originates",
"sets in",
"springs"
],
"near synonyms":[
"breathes",
"exists",
"is",
"lives",
"subsists",
"arrives",
"comes on",
"emerges",
"coalesces",
"coheres",
"shapes (up)",
"continues",
"endures",
"lasts",
"persists",
"survives"
],
"near antonyms":[
"concludes",
"desists",
"discontinues",
"finishes",
"halts",
"quits",
"terminates",
"disappears",
"dissolves",
"evaporates",
"vanishes",
"departs",
"dies",
"expires",
"passes away",
"perishes"
],
"antonyms":[
"ceases",
"ends",
"stops"
]
},
"to extend outward beyond a usual point":{
"examples":[
"frightened horses with starting eyes"
],
"synonyms":[
"bags",
"balloons",
"beetles",
"bellies",
"billows",
"bulges",
"bunches",
"juts",
"overhangs",
"pokes",
"pooches",
"pouches",
"pouts",
"projects",
"protrudes",
"stands out",
"sticks out",
"swells"
],
"near synonyms":[
"domes",
"blows up",
"inflates",
"dilates",
"distends",
"expands",
"mushrooms",
"snowballs",
"elongates",
"extends",
"lengthens",
"stretches"
],
"near antonyms":[
"compresses",
"condenses",
"constricts",
"contracts",
"shrinks"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to take the first step in (a process or course of action)":{
"examples":[
"we'll be ready to start the concert in a moment"
],
"synonyms":[
"begins",
"commences",
"embarks (on or upon)",
"enters (into or upon)",
"falls (to)",
"gets off",
"kicks off",
"launches",
"leads off",
"opens",
"strikes (into)"
],
"near synonyms":[
"creates",
"generates",
"inaugurates",
"initiates",
"innovates",
"invents",
"originates",
"adopts",
"embraces",
"takes on",
"takes up",
"establishes",
"fathers",
"founds",
"institutes",
"organizes",
"pioneers",
"sets up",
"spawns",
"gets around (to)",
"gets down (to)",
"gets round (to)"
],
"near antonyms":[
"ceases",
"desists",
"discontinues",
"halts",
"knocks off",
"lays off",
"quits",
"stops",
"closes",
"completes",
"abandons",
"forsakes",
"leaves",
"abolishes",
"demolishes",
"destroys",
"exterminates",
"extinguishes",
"phases out"
],
"antonyms":[
"concludes",
"ends",
"finishes",
"terminates"
]
},
"the point at which something begins":{
"examples":[
"knew from the start of the game that he would win easily"
],
"synonyms":[
"alphas",
"baselines",
"beginnings",
"births",
"commencements",
"dawns",
"day ones",
"geneses",
"get-goes",
"git-goes",
"inceptions",
"incipiences",
"incipiencies",
"kickoffs",
"launches",
"mornings",
"nascences",
"nascencies",
"onsets",
"outsets",
"thresholds"
],
"near synonyms":[
"drawing boards",
"first bases",
"ground zeros",
"square ones",
"creations",
"inaugurations",
"initiations",
"institutions",
"originations",
"cradles",
"fountainheads",
"fountains",
"germs",
"origins",
"roots",
"seedbeds",
"sources",
"springs",
"wells",
"wellsprings",
"openings",
"advents",
"appearances",
"arrivals",
"debuts",
"d\u00e9buts",
"emergences",
"childhoods",
"infancies",
"youths"
],
"near antonyms":[
"cessations",
"closings",
"closures",
"completions",
"finales",
"finishes",
"periods",
"stops",
"terminations",
"windups"
],
"antonyms":[
"closes",
"conclusions",
"endings",
"ends",
"omegas"
]
},
"type":[
"noun",
"verb"
]
},
"stag":{
"depicting or referring to sexual matters in a way that is unacceptable in polite society":{
"examples":[
"a stash of stag flicks that were hidden in the basement"
],
"synonyms":[
"bawdy",
"blue",
"coarse",
"crude",
"dirty",
"filthy",
"foul",
"gross",
"gutter",
"impure",
"indecent",
"lascivious",
"lewd",
"locker-room",
"nasty",
"obscene",
"pornographic",
"porny",
"profane",
"raunchy",
"ribald",
"smutty",
"trashy",
"unprintable",
"vulgar",
"wanton",
"X-rated"
],
"near synonyms":[
"broad",
"coarse-grained",
"gamy",
"gamey",
"off",
"off-color",
"off-colored",
"racy",
"risqu\u00e9",
"salacious",
"salty",
"suggestive",
"barnyard",
"earthy",
"scatological",
"immodest",
"indecorous",
"indelicate",
"low",
"unbecoming",
"depraved",
"kinky",
"louche",
"naughty",
"perverse",
"perverted",
"wicked",
"exceptionable",
"objectionable",
"unacceptable",
"undesirable",
"unwanted",
"unwelcome",
"abhorrent",
"debasing",
"disgusting",
"loathsome",
"offensive",
"repellent",
"repellant",
"repugnant",
"repulsive",
"revolting",
"distasteful",
"obnoxious",
"unpleasant",
"blamable",
"blameworthy",
"censurable",
"reprehensible",
"atrocious",
"infamous",
"abusive",
"scurrilous",
"hard-core",
"soft",
"soft-core"
],
"near antonyms":[
"priggish",
"prim",
"prudish",
"puritanical",
"staid",
"straitlaced",
"straightlaced",
"Victorian",
"correct",
"decorous",
"genteel",
"nice",
"polite",
"proper",
"respectable",
"seemly",
"innocuous",
"inoffensive",
"acceptable",
"agreeable",
"desirable",
"pleasant",
"pleasing",
"welcome",
"appropriate",
"becoming",
"fit",
"meet",
"suitable",
"immaculate",
"perfect",
"pure",
"spotless",
"virginal",
"approved",
"endorsed",
"indorsed",
"sanctioned"
],
"antonyms":[
"clean",
"decent",
"G-rated",
"nonobscene",
"wholesome"
]
},
"as in soiree , shower":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"bake",
"clambake",
"cocktail party",
"hen party",
"house party",
"housewarming",
"icebreaker",
"kaffeeklatsch",
"kegger",
"keg party",
"klatch",
"klatsch",
"masquerade",
"meet and greet",
"mixer",
"salon",
"shower",
"social",
"soiree",
"soir\u00e9e",
"supper",
"symposium",
"tea",
"tea party",
"affair",
"bash",
"binge",
"blast",
"blowout",
"do",
"event",
"fete",
"f\u00eate",
"function",
"get-together",
"party",
"reception",
"shindig",
"benefit",
"fund-raiser",
"ball",
"dance",
"formal",
"prom",
"celebration",
"gala",
"occasion",
"bacchanal",
"bacchanalia",
"orgy",
"saturnalia"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"adjective",
"noun"
]
},
"startlement":{
"the state of being strongly impressed by something unexpected or unusual":{
"examples":[
"the look of startlement in her eyes when she found herself at the wedding seated next to her ex-boyfriend"
],
"synonyms":[
"amazement",
"astonishment",
"shock",
"stupefaction",
"surprise",
"surprize"
],
"near synonyms":[
"awe",
"wonder",
"wonderment",
"startle",
"bewilderment",
"confusion",
"consternation",
"discomfiture",
"dismay"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"station wagons":{
"as in wagons , sports cars":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"convertibles",
"fastbacks",
"hardtops",
"hatchbacks",
"notchbacks",
"ragtops",
"sports cars",
"sport-utility vehicles",
"SUVs",
"town cars",
"wagons",
"woodies",
"coaches",
"jitneys",
"microbuses",
"microbusses",
"minibuses",
"minibusses",
"minivans",
"omnibuses",
"vans",
"compacts",
"coupes",
"coup\u00e9s",
"intermediates",
"limousines",
"minicars",
"minis",
"sedans",
"subcompacts",
"V-8s",
"automobiles",
"autos",
"buses",
"busses",
"cars",
"horseless carriages",
"machines",
"motorcars",
"motors",
"motor vehicles",
"wheels",
"gas-guzzlers",
"land yachts",
"muscle cars",
"stock cars",
"turbocars",
"beaters",
"clunkers",
"crates",
"flivvers",
"jalopies",
"junkers",
"cream puffs",
"phaetons",
"roadsters",
"tin lizzies",
"touring cars",
"hybrids"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"statutory":{
"as in regulation , de jure":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"de jure",
"regulation",
"constitutional",
"good",
"innocent",
"just",
"proper",
"right",
"justifiable",
"warrantable",
"allowable",
"authorized",
"noncriminal",
"permissible",
"lawful",
"legal",
"legit",
"legitimate",
"licit"
],
"near antonyms":[
"illegal",
"illegitimate",
"illicit",
"lawless",
"unlawful",
"wrongful",
"bad",
"corrupt",
"evil",
"immoral",
"iniquitous",
"reprobate",
"sinful",
"wicked",
"wrong",
"banned",
"criminal",
"forbidden",
"guilty",
"impermissible",
"outlawed",
"prohibited",
"unauthorized",
"unjust",
"under-the-counter",
"under-the-table",
"nonconstitutional",
"unconstitutional"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"adjective"
]
},
"startle":{
"to make a strong impression on (someone) with something unexpected":{
"examples":[
"the lightning startled the children and sent them scurrying for cover"
],
"synonyms":[
"amaze",
"astonish",
"astound",
"bowl over",
"dumbfound",
"dumfound",
"flabbergast",
"floor",
"rock",
"shock",
"stun",
"stupefy",
"surprise",
"surprize",
"thunderstrike"
],
"near synonyms":[
"befuddle",
"bewilder",
"blindside",
"blow away",
"confound",
"confuse",
"daze",
"discomfit",
"disconcert",
"dismay",
"jar",
"muddle",
"nonplus",
"perplex",
"shake up"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to move suddenly and sharply (as in surprise)":{
"examples":[
"the cat startled when the door slammed shut with a bang"
],
"synonyms":[
"bolt",
"jump",
"start"
],
"near synonyms":[
"jerk",
"jolt",
"twitch",
"blench",
"cringe",
"flinch",
"quail",
"recoil",
"shrink",
"spook",
"squinch",
"wince",
"bound",
"leap",
"spring",
"react",
"respond"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to strike with fear":{
"examples":[
"loud noises always startle her"
],
"synonyms":[
"affright",
"alarm",
"alarum",
"fright",
"frighten",
"horrify",
"panic",
"scare",
"scarify",
"shock",
"spook",
"terrify",
"terrorize"
],
"near synonyms":[
"appall",
"appal",
"bowl over",
"dismay",
"floor",
"jolt",
"shake",
"shake up",
"amaze",
"astound",
"awe",
"chill",
"daunt",
"demoralize",
"dispirit",
"emasculate",
"psych (out)",
"undo",
"unman",
"unnerve",
"unstring",
"discomfort",
"discompose",
"disconcert",
"disquiet",
"distract",
"distress",
"disturb",
"perturb",
"unsettle",
"upset",
"worry"
],
"near antonyms":[
"assure",
"cheer",
"comfort",
"console",
"solace",
"soothe",
"embolden",
"encourage",
"hearten",
"inspire",
"steel"
],
"antonyms":[
"reassure"
]
},
"as in surprise , astonishment":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"amazement",
"astonishment",
"shock",
"startlement",
"stupefaction",
"surprise",
"surprize",
"bewilderment",
"confusion",
"consternation",
"discomfiture",
"dismay",
"awe",
"wonder",
"wonderment"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun",
"verb"
]
},
"stacking up (against or with)":{
"to come near or nearer to in character or quality":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[
"approaching",
"approximating",
"comparing (with)",
"measuring up (to)"
],
"near synonyms":[
"adding up (to)",
"amounting (to)",
"coming (to)",
"duplicating",
"equaling",
"equalling",
"matching",
"mirroring",
"paralleling",
"reflecting",
"bordering (on)",
"touching (on)",
"verging (on)"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[]
},
"stabs in the back":{
"to be unfaithful or disloyal to":{
"examples":[
"Her best friend stabbed her in the back and they never spoke to each other again."
],
"synonyms":[
"backstabs",
"betrays",
"crosses",
"double-crosses",
"sells (out)",
"two-times"
],
"near synonyms":[
"gives away",
"informs (on)",
"peaches",
"rats (on)",
"shops",
"snitches (on)",
"splits (on)",
"tells (on)",
"turns in"
],
"near antonyms":[
"defends",
"guards",
"protects",
"safeguards",
"saves",
"shields"
],
"antonyms":[
"stands by"
]
},
"type":[
"phrase"
]
},
"stashed":{
"to put (something of future use or value) in a safe or secret place":{
"examples":[
"stashed the extra antifreeze in the trunk of the car"
],
"synonyms":[
"cached",
"hoarded",
"laid away",
"laid by",
"laid in",
"laid up",
"put by",
"salted away",
"squirreled (away)",
"squirrelled (away)",
"stockpiled",
"stored",
"stowed",
"treasured"
],
"near synonyms":[
"accumulated",
"acquired",
"amassed",
"assembled",
"collected",
"concentrated",
"garnered",
"gathered",
"picked up",
"rounded up",
"scraped (together)",
"heaped",
"piled",
"stacked",
"conserved",
"husbanded",
"preserved",
"banked",
"coffered",
"deposited",
"held",
"kept",
"reserved",
"retained",
"saved",
"set by",
"stocked",
"withheld",
"buried",
"concealed",
"ensconced",
"secreted"
],
"near antonyms":[
"cast",
"discarded",
"ditched",
"dumped",
"flung (off or away)",
"jettisoned",
"threw away",
"threw out",
"unloaded",
"consumed",
"squandered",
"used up",
"wasted",
"handed out",
"handed over",
"relinquished",
"surrendered",
"blew",
"dissipated",
"frittered (away)",
"lavished",
"misspent",
"ran through",
"spent",
"depleted",
"exhausted",
"expended",
"impoverished",
"dispelled",
"dispersed",
"dissipated",
"scattered"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"stayed clear of":{
"to get or keep away from (as a responsibility) through cleverness or trickery":{
"examples":[
"He adroitly changed the subject to stay clear of having to admit what he'd done."
],
"synonyms":[
"avoided",
"dodged",
"ducked",
"eluded",
"escaped",
"eschewed",
"evaded",
"finessed",
"got around",
"scaped",
"shirked",
"shook",
"shuffled (out of)",
"shunned",
"weaseled (out of)"
],
"near synonyms":[
"missed",
"averted",
"deflected",
"diverted",
"obviated",
"parried",
"prevented",
"warded (off)",
"banned",
"barred",
"debarred",
"eliminated",
"excepted",
"excluded",
"precluded",
"ruled out",
"bypassed",
"circumvented",
"skirted",
"foiled",
"foxed",
"frustrated",
"outfoxed",
"outsmarted",
"outwitted",
"overreached",
"thwarted"
],
"near antonyms":[
"accepted",
"courted",
"embraced",
"pursued",
"sought",
"welcomed",
"caught",
"contracted",
"incurred"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"phrase"
]
},
"state aid":{
"as in relief , foreign aid":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"foreign aid",
"relief",
"aid",
"assistance",
"block grant",
"grant-in-aid",
"set-aside",
"advance",
"allowance",
"benefit",
"bequest",
"endowment",
"fund",
"legacy",
"stipend",
"trust",
"trust fund",
"allocation",
"allotment",
"annuity",
"appropriation",
"entitlement",
"grant",
"subsidy",
"subvention"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"stack (up)":{
"to gradually form into a layer, pile, or mass":{
"examples":[
"those newspapers have been stacking up in the basement since we moved here"
],
"synonyms":[
"accrete",
"accumulate",
"amass",
"build up",
"collect",
"concentrate",
"conglomerate",
"gather",
"mass",
"pile (up)"
],
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"agglutinate",
"clump",
"lump",
"bank",
"drift",
"ridge"
],
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"disperse",
"dissipate",
"scatter"
],
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},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"stashing":{
"the placing of something out of sight":{
"examples":[
"the stashing of the title to the house in a strongbox that wasn't fireproof was foolish"
],
"synonyms":[
"caching",
"concealment",
"hiding",
"secretion"
],
"near synonyms":[
"burial",
"burying",
"entombment",
"interment",
"interring"
],
"near antonyms":[
"disinterment",
"unearthing"
],
"antonyms":[
"display",
"exhibition",
"exposure",
"parading",
"showing"
]
},
"to put (something of future use or value) in a safe or secret place":{
"examples":[
"stashed the extra antifreeze in the trunk of the car"
],
"synonyms":[
"caching",
"hoarding",
"laying away",
"laying by",
"laying in",
"laying up",
"putting by",
"salting away",
"squirreling (away)",
"squirrelling (away)",
"stockpiling",
"storing",
"stowing",
"treasuring"
],
"near synonyms":[
"accumulating",
"acquiring",
"amassing",
"assembling",
"collecting",
"concentrating",
"garnering",
"gathering",
"picking up",
"rounding up",
"scraping (together)",
"heaping",
"piling",
"stacking",
"conserving",
"husbanding",
"preserving",
"banking",
"coffering",
"depositing",
"holding",
"keeping",
"reserving",
"retaining",
"saving",
"setting by",
"stocking",
"withholding",
"burying",
"concealing",
"ensconcing",
"secreting"
],
"near antonyms":[
"casting",
"discarding",
"ditching",
"dumping",
"flinging (off or away)",
"jettisoning",
"throwing away",
"throwing out",
"unloading",
"consuming",
"squandering",
"using up",
"wasting",
"handing out",
"handing over",
"relinquishing",
"surrendering",
"blowing",
"dissipating",
"frittering (away)",
"lavishing",
"misspending",
"running through",
"spending",
"depleting",
"exhausting",
"expending",
"impoverishing",
"dispelling",
"dispersing",
"dissipating",
"scattering"
],
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},
"type":[
"noun",
"verb"
]
},
"staying power":{
"the quality or trait that allows someone or something to continue to be effective, successful, popular, etc., for a long period of time":{
"examples":[
"a long-distance runner with a lot of staying power",
"a song with staying power",
"Her staying power as a pop icon is remarkable."
],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"might",
"potency",
"puissance",
"stuff",
"ability",
"capability",
"capableness",
"capacity",
"competence",
"competency",
"faculty",
"aptitude",
"aptness",
"endowment",
"equipment",
"facility",
"gift",
"knack",
"talent",
"address",
"adroitness",
"deftness",
"dexterity",
"hand",
"prowess",
"skill",
"gray matter",
"instinct",
"intelligence",
"ken",
"reason",
"understanding",
"adequacy",
"effectiveness",
"effectualness",
"fitness",
"form",
"influence",
"resourcefulness",
"usefulness",
"means",
"resources",
"wherewithal"
],
"near antonyms":[
"helplessness",
"impotence",
"paralysis",
"powerlessness",
"weakness",
"defectiveness",
"deficiency",
"inadequacy",
"inadequateness",
"ineffectiveness",
"ineffectuality",
"ineffectualness",
"inefficaciousness",
"inefficacy",
"uselessness",
"debilitation",
"disablement",
"impairment",
"incapacitation",
"disability",
"inability",
"incapability",
"incapableness",
"incapacity",
"incompetence",
"incompetency",
"ineptitude",
"ineptness"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"statement":{
"a record of goods sold or services performed together with the costs due":{
"examples":[
"received a statement from the plumber in the mail"
],
"synonyms":[
"account",
"bill",
"check",
"invoice",
"tab"
],
"near synonyms":[
"receipt",
"reckoning",
"document",
"ledger",
"record",
"charge",
"cost",
"expense",
"fee",
"price",
"rate",
"toll",
"score",
"tally"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"an act, process, or means of putting something into words":{
"examples":[
"a careful statement of the legal case before the court"
],
"synonyms":[
"articulation",
"expression",
"formulation",
"phrasing",
"utterance",
"verbalism",
"voice",
"wording"
],
"near synonyms":[
"outlet",
"vent",
"observation",
"reflection",
"remark",
"thought",
"speech",
"tongue"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"something that is said":{
"examples":[
"her statement was met with considerable skepticism"
],
"synonyms":[
"utterance",
"word"
],
"near synonyms":[
"communication",
"message",
"announcement",
"declamation",
"declaration",
"manifesto",
"proclamation",
"pronouncement",
"verbalization",
"vocalization"
],
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"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"startling":{
"causing a strong emotional reaction because of unexpectedness":{
"examples":[
"the startling news that my sister will be having a baby"
],
"synonyms":[
"amazing",
"astonishing",
"astounding",
"blindsiding",
"dumbfounding",
"dumfounding",
"eye-opening",
"flabbergasting",
"jarring",
"jaw-dropping",
"jolting",
"shocking",
"stunning",
"stupefying",
"surprising"
],
"near synonyms":[
"unannounced",
"unanticipated",
"unexpected",
"unforeseen",
"awesome",
"awful",
"breathtaking",
"fabulous",
"heart-stopping",
"marvelous",
"marvellous",
"miraculous",
"portentous",
"prodigious",
"staggering",
"stupendous",
"sublime",
"wonderful",
"wondrous",
"extraordinary",
"phenomenal",
"rare",
"sensational",
"spectacular",
"befuddling",
"bewildering",
"confounding",
"confusing",
"discomfiting",
"disconcerting",
"dismaying",
"flustering",
"muddling",
"nonplussing",
"nonplusing",
"perplexing",
"upsetting",
"incomprehensible",
"inconceivable",
"incredible",
"unbelievable",
"unimaginable",
"unlikely",
"unthinkable",
"singular",
"uncommon",
"unique",
"unusual",
"unwonted",
"conspicuous",
"notable",
"noticeable",
"outstanding",
"remarkable",
"impressive",
"striking"
],
"near antonyms":[
"common",
"customary",
"mundane",
"normal",
"ordinary",
"typical",
"unexceptional",
"unremarkable",
"usual"
],
"antonyms":[
"unsurprising"
]
},
"to make a strong impression on (someone) with something unexpected":{
"examples":[
"the lightning startled the children and sent them scurrying for cover"
],
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"amazing",
"astonishing",
"astounding",
"bowling over",
"dumbfounding",
"dumfounding",
"flabbergasting",
"flooring",
"rocking",
"shocking",
"stunning",
"stupefying",
"surprising",
"surprizing",
"thunderstriking"
],
"near synonyms":[
"befuddling",
"bewildering",
"blindsiding",
"blowing away",
"confounding",
"confusing",
"dazing",
"discomfiting",
"disconcerting",
"dismaying",
"jarring",
"muddling",
"nonplussing",
"nonplusing",
"perplexing",
"shaking up"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to move suddenly and sharply (as in surprise)":{
"examples":[
"the cat startled when the door slammed shut with a bang"
],
"synonyms":[
"bolting",
"jumping",
"starting"
],
"near synonyms":[
"jerking",
"jolting",
"twitching",
"blenching",
"cringing",
"flinching",
"quailing",
"recoiling",
"shrinking",
"spooking",
"squinching",
"wincing",
"bounding",
"leaping",
"springing",
"reacting",
"responding"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to strike with fear":{
"examples":[
"loud noises always startle her"
],
"synonyms":[
"affrighting",
"alarming",
"alaruming",
"frightening",
"frighting",
"horrifying",
"panicking",
"scarifying",
"scaring",
"shocking",
"spooking",
"terrifying",
"terrorizing"
],
"near synonyms":[
"appalling",
"bowling over",
"dismaying",
"flooring",
"jolting",
"shaking",
"shaking up",
"amazing",
"astounding",
"awing",
"chilling",
"daunting",
"demoralizing",
"dispiriting",
"emasculating",
"psyching (out)",
"undoing",
"unmanning",
"unnerving",
"unstringing",
"discomforting",
"discomposing",
"disconcerting",
"disquieting",
"distracting",
"distressing",
"disturbing",
"perturbing",
"unsettling",
"upsetting",
"worrying"
],
"near antonyms":[
"assuring",
"cheering",
"comforting",
"consoling",
"solacing",
"soothing",
"emboldening",
"encouraging",
"heartening",
"inspiring",
"steeling"
],
"antonyms":[
"reassuring"
]
},
"type":[
"adjective",
"verb"
]
},
"stamp":{
"a perceptible trace left by pressure":{
"examples":[
"a stamp left in the mud by some prehistoric beast"
],
"synonyms":[
"impress",
"impression",
"imprint",
"print"
],
"near synonyms":[
"dent",
"hollow",
"indent",
"indentation",
"indenture",
"mark",
"sign"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"something that sets apart an individual from others of the same kind":{
"examples":[
"virtually without exception Van Gogh's portraits bear the stamp of genius"
],
"synonyms":[
"affection",
"attribute",
"attribution",
"character",
"characteristic",
"criterion",
"diagnostic",
"differentia",
"feature",
"fingerprint",
"hallmark",
"mark",
"marker",
"note",
"particularity",
"peculiarity",
"point",
"property",
"quality",
"specific",
"touch",
"trait"
],
"near synonyms":[
"badge",
"indication",
"sign",
"emblem",
"symbol",
"token",
"charm",
"grace",
"excellence",
"merit",
"virtue",
"eccentricity",
"idiosyncrasy",
"oddity",
"quirk",
"individuality",
"singularity",
"uniqueness"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to move heavily or clumsily":{
"examples":[
"stamping around in oversized boots"
],
"synonyms":[
"barge",
"clump",
"flog",
"flounder",
"galumph",
"lumber",
"lump",
"plod",
"pound",
"scuff",
"scuffle",
"shamble",
"shuffle",
"slog",
"slough",
"stomp",
"stumble",
"stump",
"tramp",
"tromp",
"trudge"
],
"near synonyms":[
"drag",
"flop",
"haul",
"blunder",
"careen",
"dodder",
"lurch",
"reel",
"stagger",
"sway",
"teeter",
"totter",
"waddle",
"weave",
"wobble",
"wabble"
],
"near antonyms":[
"drift",
"float",
"hang",
"hover",
"poise",
"waft"
],
"antonyms":[
"breeze",
"coast",
"glide",
"slide",
"waltz",
"whisk"
]
},
"to tread on heavily so as to crush or injure":{
"examples":[
"stamped the grass down in a circle"
],
"synonyms":[
"champ",
"stomp",
"tramp",
"trample",
"tromp"
],
"near synonyms":[
"override",
"run down",
"run over",
"step (on)",
"mash",
"pulp",
"smash",
"squash",
"squelch",
"boot",
"hoof",
"kick"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun",
"verb"
]
},
"standstills":{
"a point in a struggle where neither side is capable of winning or willing to give in":{
"examples":[
"battled each other to a standstill"
],
"synonyms":[
"deadlocks",
"gridlocks",
"halts",
"impasses",
"logjams",
"Mexican standoffs",
"stalemates",
"standoffs"
],
"near synonyms":[
"dead ends",
"binds",
"bottlenecks",
"corners",
"dilemmas",
"fixes",
"holes",
"jams",
"morasses",
"pickles",
"pinches",
"plights",
"predicaments",
"quagmires",
"quandaries",
"spots",
"difficulties",
"problems"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"stage a comeback":{
"to regain a former or normal state":{
"examples":[
"The injury looked gnarly, but she made a quick comeback and was able to finish out the season."
],
"synonyms":[
"bounce (back)",
"come back",
"rally",
"rebound",
"recover",
"snap back"
],
"near synonyms":[
"reanimate",
"revitalize",
"revive"
],
"near antonyms":[
"decline",
"fail",
"worsen"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"phrase"
]
},
"statuettes":{
"a small statue":{
"examples":[
"won a gold-plated statuette as the prize"
],
"synonyms":[
"figures",
"figurines"
],
"near synonyms":[
"dollies",
"dolls",
"hand puppets",
"marionettes",
"puppets",
"busts",
"figureheads",
"carvings",
"models",
"sculptures",
"dummies",
"forms",
"manikins",
"mannikins",
"mannequins"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[
"colossi"
]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"stately":{
"having or showing a formal and serious or reserved manner":{
"examples":[
"the governor watched with stately aloofness as his wife charmed the party guests"
],
"synonyms":[
"august",
"dignified",
"distingu\u00e9",
"distinguished",
"imposing",
"portly",
"solemn",
"staid"
],
"near synonyms":[
"decorous",
"proper",
"seemly",
"grave",
"grim",
"po-faced",
"sober",
"somber",
"sombre",
"aristocratic",
"elegant",
"elevated",
"handsome",
"lordly",
"magisterial",
"majestic",
"noble"
],
"near antonyms":[
"coarse",
"crass",
"crude",
"improper",
"indecent",
"uncouth",
"unseemly",
"vulgar"
],
"antonyms":[
"flighty",
"frivolous",
"giddy",
"goofy",
"silly",
"undignified"
]
},
"having or showing elegance":{
"examples":[
"a stately dowager in an evening gown"
],
"synonyms":[
"classy",
"courtly",
"elegant",
"fine",
"graceful",
"handsome",
"majestic",
"refined",
"tasteful"
],
"near synonyms":[
"august",
"baronial",
"gallant",
"glorious",
"grand",
"heroic",
"heroical",
"imposing",
"lavish",
"luxurious",
"magnificent",
"monumental",
"noble",
"ornate",
"proud",
"regal",
"rich",
"royal",
"splendid",
"superb",
"artful",
"genteel",
"polished",
"sophisticated",
"classic",
"conservative",
"exquisite",
"quiet",
"restrained",
"simple",
"understated",
"aristocratic",
"patrician",
"\u00e0 la mode",
"a la mode",
"chic",
"fashionable",
"in",
"modish",
"posh",
"sharp",
"sleek",
"smart",
"snappy",
"stylish",
"swagger",
"swank",
"swanky",
"affected",
"grandiose",
"ostentatious",
"pretentious",
"recherch\u00e9"
],
"near antonyms":[
"cheesy",
"coarse",
"crude",
"flamboyant",
"flashy",
"garish",
"gaudy",
"glitzy",
"grotesque",
"loud",
"raffish",
"splashy",
"tacky",
"tawdry",
"ticky-tacky",
"ticky-tack",
"rough-edged",
"rough-hewn",
"rude",
"trashy",
"uncouth",
"uncultivated",
"uncultured",
"unpolished",
"unrefined",
"vulgar"
],
"antonyms":[
"dowdy",
"graceless",
"inelegant",
"styleless",
"tasteless",
"unfashionable",
"unhandsome",
"unstylish"
]
},
"large and impressive in size, grandeur, extent, or conception":{
"examples":[
"stately plantation homes that are now open to the public as museums"
],
"synonyms":[
"august",
"baronial",
"epic",
"gallant",
"glorious",
"grand",
"grandiose",
"heroic",
"heroical",
"Homeric",
"imperial",
"imposing",
"magnific",
"magnificent",
"majestic",
"massive",
"monumental",
"noble",
"proud",
"regal",
"royal",
"splendid"
],
"near synonyms":[
"colossal",
"monstrous",
"prodigious",
"stupendous",
"tremendous",
"kingly",
"lordly",
"princely",
"queenly",
"awesome",
"awful",
"cosmic",
"cosmical",
"sublime",
"wondrous",
"formidable",
"impressive",
"prepossessing",
"redoubtable",
"apocalyptic",
"apocalyptical",
"inflated",
"operatic",
"overblown",
"pompous",
"marvelous",
"marvellous",
"superb",
"terrific",
"wonderful",
"extravagant",
"lavish",
"luxurious",
"opulent",
"palatial",
"palatine",
"sumptuous",
"gorgeous",
"resplendent",
"splendiferous",
"extraordinary",
"killer",
"remarkable",
"sensational",
"striking",
"celestial",
"divine",
"heavenly"
],
"near antonyms":[
"lowly",
"modest",
"unprepossessing",
"average",
"common",
"mediocre",
"ordinary",
"run-of-the-mill",
"second-rate",
"abject",
"mean",
"meretricious",
"shabby",
"sordid",
"insignificant",
"measly",
"paltry",
"petty",
"puny",
"trifling",
"trivial"
],
"antonyms":[
"humble",
"unheroic",
"unimposing",
"unimpressive"
]
},
"very dignified in form, tone, or style":{
"examples":[
"a stately composition that has served as the musical accompaniment for countless graduations and other ceremonial occasions"
],
"synonyms":[
"elevated",
"eloquent",
"formal",
"high-flown",
"lofty",
"majestic",
"towering"
],
"near synonyms":[
"affected",
"bombastic",
"declamatory",
"florid",
"flowery",
"grandiloquent",
"grandiose",
"highfalutin",
"hifalutin",
"oratorical",
"pompous",
"pretentious",
"rhetorical",
"rhetoric",
"stilted",
"Attic",
"cultured",
"refined",
"classy",
"courtly",
"fine",
"graceful",
"tasteful",
"aristocratic",
"genteel",
"patrician",
"correct",
"educated",
"grammatical",
"proper",
"academic",
"academical",
"bookish",
"learned",
"literary"
],
"near antonyms":[
"casual",
"colloquial",
"conversational",
"informal",
"nonformal",
"slangy",
"unbookish",
"unliterary",
"vernacular",
"coarse",
"common",
"crass",
"crude",
"gross",
"ill-bred",
"indecent",
"lowbred",
"lowbrow",
"rough",
"rough-hewn",
"rude",
"tasteless",
"uncouth",
"uncultivated",
"uncultured",
"unpolished",
"unrefined",
"vulgar",
"incorrect",
"substandard",
"uneducated",
"ungrammatical",
"unlearned"
],
"antonyms":[
"ineloquent",
"low",
"undignified"
]
},
"type":[
"adjective"
]
},
"staging a comeback":{
"to regain a former or normal state":{
"examples":[
"The injury looked gnarly, but she made a quick comeback and was able to finish out the season."
],
"synonyms":[
"bouncing (back)",
"coming back",
"rallying",
"rebounding",
"recovering",
"snapping back"
],
"near synonyms":[
"reanimating",
"revitalizing",
"reviving"
],
"near antonyms":[
"declining",
"failing",
"worsening"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"phrase"
]
},
"staging ground":{
"as in staging area":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"staging area",
"base",
"bridgehead",
"foothold",
"beachhead",
"camp",
"center",
"emplacement",
"footing",
"front",
"headquarters",
"installation",
"station",
"airbase",
"bastion",
"fastness",
"fortress",
"stronghold",
"battlefront",
"field",
"toehold"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"starred (in)":{
"as in did , acted out":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"acted",
"did",
"impersonated",
"interpreted",
"performed",
"played",
"portrayed",
"aped",
"clowned",
"hammed",
"imitated",
"masqueraded",
"mimed",
"mimicked",
"posed (as)",
"acted out",
"enacted",
"pantomimed",
"playacted",
"role-played",
"took on",
"depicted",
"dramatized",
"rendered",
"represented",
"coacted",
"co-acted",
"costarred",
"co-starred",
"overacted",
"overplayed",
"underplayed"
],
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},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"staying (at)":{
"as in camping (out in) , stopping (over)":{
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"camping (out in)",
"sojourning (at)",
"stopping (over)",
"tarrying (in)",
"calling (on or upon)",
"dropping by",
"dropping in",
"popping (in)",
"running (in)",
"infesting",
"invading",
"overrunning",
"swarming",
"attending",
"taking in",
"patronizing",
"affecting",
"frequenting",
"habituating",
"hanging (at)",
"haunting",
"resorting (to)",
"visiting"
],
"near antonyms":[
"avoiding",
"shunning",
"dodging",
"ducking",
"eluding",
"escaping",
"eschewing",
"evading",
"shaking"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
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"to provide (someone) with what is useful or necessary to achieve an end":{
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"abetting",
"aiding",
"assisting",
"backing",
"backstopping",
"helping",
"propping (up)",
"supporting"
],
"near synonyms":[
"advancing",
"easing",
"facilitating",
"forwarding",
"fostering",
"furthering",
"launching",
"championing",
"endorsing",
"indorsing",
"patronizing",
"promoting",
"sponsoring",
"attending",
"caring (for)",
"comforting",
"ministering (to)",
"succoring",
"sustaining",
"bolstering",
"boosting",
"buttressing",
"reinforcing",
"reenforcing",
"advising",
"counseling",
"counselling",
"guiding",
"mentoring",
"nurturing",
"bailing out",
"delivering",
"rescuing",
"saving",
"emboldening",
"encouraging",
"heartening",
"benefiting",
"benefitting",
"favoring",
"obliging",
"profiting",
"serving"
],
"near antonyms":[
"balking",
"barring",
"blocking",
"constraining",
"hampering",
"handicapping",
"holding back",
"impeding",
"inhibiting",
"obstructing",
"restraining",
"strangling",
"baffling",
"foiling",
"frustrating",
"inconveniencing",
"interfering",
"opposing",
"sabotaging",
"thwarting",
"deserting",
"disappointing",
"failing",
"letting down",
"discouraging",
"disheartening",
"repressing",
"retarding",
"stifling",
"straitening",
"stunting",
"damaging",
"harming",
"hurting",
"injuring"
],
"antonyms":[
"hindering"
]
},
"type":[]
},
"starbursts":{
"as in sunbursts":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"sunbursts",
"aureoles",
"aureolae",
"glories",
"halos",
"haloes",
"nimbi",
"nimbuses",
"auras",
"coronas"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"starter":{
"as in appetizer , cocktail":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"amuse-bouche",
"amuse-gueule",
"antipasto",
"app",
"appetizer",
"canap\u00e9",
"cocktail",
"hors d'oeuvre",
"munchies",
"finger food",
"natural food",
"commissary",
"rations",
"supplies",
"aliment",
"nutriment",
"diet",
"nourishment",
"nurture",
"sustenance",
"mess",
"pap",
"ensilage",
"feed",
"fodder",
"forage",
"silage",
"slop",
"swill",
"feast",
"meal",
"refreshments",
"regale",
"repast",
"spread",
"board",
"dish",
"plate",
"platter",
"serving"
],
"near antonyms":[
"bane",
"poison",
"toxin",
"venom"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"stature":{
"the distance of something or someone from bottom to top":{
"examples":[
"a man of surprisingly great stature"
],
"synonyms":[
"altitude",
"elevation",
"height",
"inches"
],
"near synonyms":[
"rise",
"highness",
"loftiness",
"tallness"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"stand off":{
"a situation in which neither participant in a contest, competition, or struggle comes out ahead of the other":{
"examples":[
"after two hours they had played to a 5-5 standoff"
],
"synonyms":[
"dead heat",
"draw",
"stalemate",
"tie"
],
"near synonyms":[
"deadlock",
"impasse",
"seesaw",
"photo finish",
"horse race",
"toss-up"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"a point in a struggle where neither side is capable of winning or willing to give in":{
"examples":[
"the standoff continued for three days before the fugitive gave himself up to the authorities"
],
"synonyms":[
"deadlock",
"gridlock",
"halt",
"impasse",
"logjam",
"Mexican standoff",
"stalemate",
"standstill"
],
"near synonyms":[
"dead end",
"bind",
"bottleneck",
"corner",
"dilemma",
"fix",
"hole",
"jam",
"morass",
"pickle",
"pinch",
"plight",
"predicament",
"quagmire",
"quandary",
"spot",
"difficulty",
"problem"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"having or showing a lack of friendliness or interest in others":{
"examples":[
"the client's standoff attitude suggested that this was going to be a strictly business relationship"
],
"synonyms":[
"aloof",
"antisocial",
"asocial",
"buttoned-up",
"cold",
"cold-eyed",
"cool",
"detached",
"distant",
"dry",
"frosty",
"offish",
"remote",
"standoffish",
"unbending",
"unclubbable",
"unsociable"
],
"near synonyms":[
"indrawn",
"introverted",
"nongregarious",
"recessive",
"reclusive",
"reserved",
"unsocial",
"withdrawn",
"misanthropic",
"apathetic",
"hard",
"indifferent",
"unconcerned",
"clinical",
"dispassionate",
"impersonal",
"professional",
"disinterested",
"incurious",
"uninterested",
"reticent",
"silent",
"taciturn",
"uncommunicative",
"diffident",
"shy",
"timid",
"cliquey",
"cliquish",
"clubbish"
],
"near antonyms":[
"boon",
"clubbable",
"clubable",
"clubby",
"companionable",
"convivial",
"extroverted",
"extraverted",
"gregarious",
"outgoing",
"communicative",
"expansive",
"garrulous",
"talkative",
"affable",
"folksy",
"genial",
"gracious",
"hospitable",
"agreeable",
"amiable",
"congenial",
"kindly",
"neighborly"
],
"antonyms":[
"cordial",
"friendly",
"sociable",
"social",
"warm"
]
},
"as in fight , resist":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"defy",
"fight",
"hold off",
"oppose",
"resist",
"withstand",
"beat off",
"fend (off)",
"rebut",
"repel",
"repulse",
"stave off",
"turn away",
"turn back",
"deflect",
"ward (off)",
"rebuff",
"snub",
"spurn"
],
"near antonyms":[
"embrace",
"hail",
"welcome"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"adjective",
"noun",
"verb"
]
},
"standpoint":{
"a way of looking at or thinking about something":{
"examples":[
"I never thought about it from that standpoint before"
],
"synonyms":[
"angle",
"eye view",
"outlook",
"perspective",
"shoes",
"slant",
"vantage point",
"viewpoint"
],
"near synonyms":[
"interpretation",
"spin",
"belief",
"conviction",
"eye",
"feeling",
"judgment",
"judgement",
"mind",
"mind-set",
"notion",
"opinion",
"perception",
"persuasion",
"sentiment",
"verdict",
"view",
"impression",
"take"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"stands":{
"to occupy a place or location":{
"examples":[
"the monument stands in the middle of the town plaza"
],
"synonyms":[
"bears",
"is",
"lies",
"sits"
],
"near synonyms":[
"commands",
"overlooks",
"hangs around",
"remains",
"rests",
"stays",
"sticks around",
"tarries",
"awaits",
"waits",
"posts",
"stations",
"dwells",
"resides"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to put up with (something painful or difficult)":{
"examples":[
"I don't know how you can stand that job"
],
"synonyms":[
"abides",
"absorbs",
"accepts",
"bears",
"bides",
"brooks",
"countenances",
"endures",
"goes",
"hacks",
"handles",
"meets",
"pockets",
"sticks out",
"stomachs",
"supports",
"sustains",
"sweats out",
"takes",
"tolerates",
"wears"
],
"near synonyms":[
"allows",
"permits",
"suffers",
"swallows",
"reconciles (to)",
"acquiesces",
"agrees (with or to)",
"assents (to)",
"capitulates",
"consents (to)",
"respects",
"submits (to)",
"yields (to)"
],
"near antonyms":[
"declines",
"dismisses",
"refuses",
"rejects",
"repudiates",
"spurns",
"turns down",
"combats",
"contests",
"fights",
"opposes",
"resists",
"avoids",
"bypasses",
"circumvents",
"dodges",
"eludes",
"escapes",
"evades",
"misses",
"abstains (from)",
"forbears",
"refrains (from)"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to give what is owed for":{
"examples":[
"I'll stand lunch, and you can pay me back later"
],
"synonyms":[
"antes (up)",
"balances",
"clears",
"discharges",
"foots",
"liquidates",
"meets",
"pays",
"pays off",
"pays up",
"ponies up",
"quits",
"recompenses",
"settles",
"springs (for)"
],
"near synonyms":[],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[
"repudiates"
]
},
"to take or have a certain position within a group arranged in vertical classes":{
"examples":[
"if the city's baseball team wins today, they will stand first in the league"
],
"synonyms":[
"grades",
"is",
"places",
"ranks",
"rates"
],
"near synonyms":[
"seeds",
"counts",
"categorizes",
"classes",
"classifies",
"codifies",
"compartmentalizes",
"groups",
"separates",
"sets",
"sorts",
"installs",
"instates"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"a level usually raised surface":{
"examples":[
"marchers passed by the reviewing stand"
],
"synonyms":[
"daises",
"platforms",
"podiums",
"podia",
"rostra",
"rostrums",
"stages",
"tribunes"
],
"near synonyms":[
"altars",
"bimahs",
"bimas",
"footpaces",
"pulpits",
"risers",
"scaffolds",
"balconies",
"galleries"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun",
"verb"
]
},
"stanchions":{
"an upright shaft that supports an overhead structure":{
"examples":[
"the stanchion of an arch"
],
"synonyms":[
"columns",
"piers",
"pilasters",
"pillars",
"posts"
],
"near synonyms":[
"caryatids",
"caryatides",
"pedestals",
"buttresses",
"flying buttresses",
"needles",
"obelisks",
"piles",
"pilings"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"stargaze":{
"as in daydream":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"daydream",
"conceit",
"conceive",
"conjure (up)",
"dream",
"envisage",
"envision",
"fancy",
"fantasize",
"fantasy",
"feature",
"ideate",
"image",
"imagine",
"picture",
"see",
"vision",
"visualize",
"hallucinate",
"re-create",
"reflect",
"relive",
"reminisce",
"contemplate",
"meditate",
"muse",
"ponder",
"ruminate",
"concoct",
"fabricate",
"invent",
"make up",
"manufacture",
"plan",
"project",
"foresee",
"prefigure"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"staying powers":{
"the quality or trait that allows someone or something to continue to be effective, successful, popular, etc., for a long period of time":{
"examples":[
"a long-distance runner with a lot of staying power",
"a song with staying power",
"Her staying power as a pop icon is remarkable."
],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"might",
"potency",
"puissance",
"stuff",
"ability",
"capability",
"capableness",
"capacity",
"competence",
"competency",
"faculty",
"aptitude",
"aptness",
"endowment",
"equipment",
"facility",
"gift",
"knack",
"talent",
"address",
"adroitness",
"deftness",
"dexterity",
"hand",
"prowess",
"skill",
"gray matter",
"instinct",
"intelligence",
"ken",
"reason",
"understanding",
"adequacy",
"effectiveness",
"effectualness",
"fitness",
"form",
"influence",
"resourcefulness",
"usefulness",
"means",
"resources",
"wherewithal"
],
"near antonyms":[
"helplessness",
"impotence",
"paralysis",
"powerlessness",
"weakness",
"defectiveness",
"deficiency",
"inadequacy",
"inadequateness",
"ineffectiveness",
"ineffectuality",
"ineffectualness",
"inefficaciousness",
"inefficacy",
"uselessness",
"debilitation",
"disablement",
"impairment",
"incapacitation",
"disability",
"inability",
"incapability",
"incapableness",
"incapacity",
"incompetence",
"incompetency",
"ineptitude",
"ineptness"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"stargazed":{
"as in daydreamed":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"daydreamed",
"conceited",
"conceived",
"conjured (up)",
"dreamed",
"dreamt",
"envisaged",
"envisioned",
"fancied",
"fantasied",
"fantasized",
"featured",
"ideated",
"imaged",
"imagined",
"pictured",
"saw",
"visioned",
"visualized",
"hallucinated",
"re-created",
"recreated",
"reflected",
"relived",
"reminisced",
"contemplated",
"meditated",
"mused",
"pondered",
"ruminated",
"concocted",
"fabricated",
"invented",
"made up",
"manufactured",
"planned",
"projected",
"foresaw",
"prefigured"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"staging":{
"to bring before the public in performance or exhibition":{
"examples":[
"staged the full body of Shakespeare's plays in the course of a year"
],
"synonyms":[
"carrying",
"giving",
"mounting",
"offering",
"presenting"
],
"near synonyms":[
"displaying",
"exhibiting",
"exposing",
"parading",
"showing",
"showing off",
"unveiling",
"previewing",
"acting",
"impersonating",
"performing",
"playing",
"portraying",
"depicting",
"dramatizing",
"enacting",
"rendering",
"representing",
"extending",
"proffering",
"tendering"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"stamping ground":{
"a place for spending time or for socializing":{
"examples":[
"if she isn't at home, you can usually find her at the local library, her favorite stamping ground"
],
"synonyms":[
"hangout",
"haunt",
"purlieu",
"rendezvous",
"resort",
"stomping ground"
],
"near synonyms":[
"camp",
"canteen",
"club",
"clubhouse",
"country club",
"key club",
"service club",
"union",
"harbor",
"harborage",
"haven",
"nest",
"refuge",
"retreat",
"sanctuary"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"stalls":{
"to bring (something) to a standstill":{
"examples":[
"endless complaints stalled the process of selecting the winning design for the memorial"
],
"synonyms":[
"arrests",
"brings up",
"catches",
"checks",
"draws up",
"fetches up",
"halts",
"holds up",
"pulls up",
"stays",
"stills",
"stops"
],
"near synonyms":[
"baffles",
"balks",
"blockades",
"blocks",
"bottlenecks",
"clogs",
"dams",
"detains",
"hinders",
"holds",
"holds back",
"impedes",
"obstructs",
"snags",
"stems",
"concludes",
"cuts off",
"ends",
"terminates",
"calls",
"discontinues",
"suspends",
"chokes off",
"reins (in)",
"represses",
"squashes",
"squelches",
"stanches",
"staunches",
"stunts",
"suppresses",
"turns back"
],
"near antonyms":[
"carries on",
"continues",
"follows through (with)",
"keeps (on)",
"keeps up",
"persists",
"runs on",
"advances",
"fares",
"goes along",
"marches",
"moves",
"proceeds",
"progresses",
"wends",
"actuates",
"budges",
"drives",
"goads",
"impels",
"propels",
"pushes",
"spurs",
"stirs"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to stop functioning":{
"examples":[
"the engine stalls sometimes when it's very cold outside"
],
"synonyms":[
"breaks",
"breaks down",
"conks (out)",
"crashes",
"cuts out",
"dies",
"fails",
"gives out"
],
"near synonyms":[
"fizzles",
"sputters",
"wheezes",
"acts up",
"malfunctions",
"jams"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[
"starts (up)"
]
},
"as in boxes , booths":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"booths",
"boxes",
"cribs",
"loges",
"cavities",
"holes",
"hollows",
"bunkers",
"crypts",
"vaults",
"cabinets",
"drawers",
"lockers",
"alcoves",
"niches",
"nooks",
"recesses",
"cubbyholes",
"pigeonholes",
"snuggeries",
"bays",
"cabins",
"cells",
"chambers",
"compartments",
"cubes",
"cubicles"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"as in delays , holdups":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"delays",
"holdups",
"embargoes",
"stoppages",
"burdens",
"cumbers",
"loads",
"arrests",
"bits",
"brakes",
"checks",
"constraints",
"curbs",
"hobbles",
"reins",
"restraints",
"dangers",
"hazards",
"perils",
"reefs",
"barriers",
"blockades",
"blockages",
"brick walls",
"stone walls",
"adversities",
"difficulties",
"disadvantages",
"drawbacks",
"hardships",
"catches",
"hitches",
"rubs",
"snags",
"balks",
"bars",
"blocks",
"chains",
"clogs",
"cramps",
"crimps",
"deterrents",
"drags",
"embarrassments",
"encumbrances",
"fetters",
"handicaps",
"hindrances",
"holdbacks",
"hurdles",
"impediments",
"inhibitions",
"interferences",
"lets",
"manacles",
"obstacles",
"obstructions",
"shackles",
"stops",
"stumbling blocks",
"trammels"
],
"near antonyms":[
"catalysts",
"goads",
"impetuses",
"incentives",
"spurs",
"stimulants",
"stimuli",
"advantages",
"breaks",
"edges",
"aids",
"assistances",
"benefits",
"boosts",
"handmaidens",
"handmaids",
"help"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun",
"verb"
]
},
"staging areas":{
"as in staging grounds":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"staging grounds",
"bases",
"bridgeheads",
"footholds",
"beachheads",
"camps",
"centers",
"emplacements",
"footings",
"fronts",
"headquarters",
"installations",
"stations",
"airbases",
"bastions",
"fortresses",
"strongholds",
"battlefronts",
"fields",
"toeholds"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"starry":{
"of or relating to the stars":{
"examples":[
"the starry light of the firmament on a clear night"
],
"synonyms":[
"astral",
"star",
"stellar"
],
"near synonyms":[
"celestial",
"empyrean",
"heavenly",
"intergalactic",
"interstellar",
"astronomical",
"astronomic",
"astrophysical",
"astronautic",
"astronautical",
"starlike",
"star-spangled"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"having or marked by a tendency to be guided more by ideals than by reality":{
"examples":[
"had the starry idea the Western military forces would waltz in there and put an end to rivalries that have been raging for hundreds of years"
],
"synonyms":[
"idealist",
"idealistic",
"quixotic",
"quixotical",
"romantic",
"starry-eyed",
"utopian",
"visionary"
],
"near synonyms":[
"impractical",
"unrealistic",
"crusading",
"messianic",
"zealous",
"dewy-eyed",
"moonstruck",
"moony",
"sentimental",
"tender-minded",
"hopeful",
"optimistic",
"Pollyannaish",
"Pollyannish",
"rosy",
"upbeat",
"doctrinaire",
"ideological",
"ideologic"
],
"near antonyms":[
"hardheaded",
"hard-nosed",
"tough-minded",
"unsentimental",
"practical",
"pragmatic",
"pragmatical",
"realistic"
],
"antonyms":[
"clear-eyed",
"clear-sighted"
]
},
"type":[
"adjective"
]
},
"star turns":{
"as in stars , leading men":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"headliners",
"leads",
"principals",
"stars",
"leading ladies",
"leading men",
"coprincipals",
"co-principals",
"costars",
"co-stars",
"ingenues",
"ing\u00e9nues",
"starlets",
"superstars"
],
"near antonyms":[
"extras",
"supernumeraries"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"stand up for":{
"to drive danger or attack away from":{
"examples":[
"She always stood up for her little sister on the playground."
],
"synonyms":[
"bulwark",
"cover",
"defend",
"fence",
"fend",
"forfend",
"guard",
"keep",
"protect",
"safeguard",
"screen",
"secure",
"shield",
"ward"
],
"near synonyms":[
"avert",
"prevent",
"oppose",
"resist",
"withstand",
"battle",
"contend",
"fight",
"war",
"conserve",
"preserve",
"save",
"buffer",
"palisade",
"picket",
"wall"
],
"near antonyms":[
"bombard",
"storm",
"beset",
"besiege",
"overrun",
"capitulate",
"cave",
"submit",
"yield"
],
"antonyms":[
"assail",
"assault",
"attack"
]
},
"to continue to declare to be true or proper despite opposition or objections":{
"examples":[
"You have to stand up for the rules or there will be chaos."
],
"synonyms":[
"defend",
"justify",
"maintain",
"support",
"uphold"
],
"near synonyms":[
"advocate",
"champion",
"espouse",
"confirm",
"vindicate",
"warrant",
"affirm",
"assert",
"aver",
"avouch",
"avow",
"claim",
"contend",
"insist",
"plead",
"proclaim",
"profess",
"protest",
"state",
"argue",
"debate",
"discuss",
"emphasize",
"stress",
"underline",
"underscore"
],
"near antonyms":[
"abandon",
"abjure",
"forsake",
"recant",
"retract",
"take back",
"withdraw",
"reverse",
"switch",
"controvert",
"disprove",
"rebut",
"refute"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to promote the interests or cause of":{
"examples":[
"He stood up for the rights of those without a voice."
],
"synonyms":[
"advocate",
"back",
"champion",
"endorse",
"indorse",
"patronize",
"plump (for)",
"plunk (for)",
"plonk (for)",
"support"
],
"near synonyms":[
"adopt",
"embrace",
"espouse",
"abet",
"aid",
"assist",
"help",
"prop (up)",
"second",
"side (with)",
"backstop",
"bolster",
"boost",
"buttress",
"reinforce",
"reenforce",
"advance",
"forward",
"further",
"plug",
"preach",
"talk up",
"bail out",
"deliver",
"rescue",
"save"
],
"near antonyms":[
"baffle",
"foil",
"frustrate",
"interfere",
"oppose",
"sabotage",
"thwart",
"desert",
"disappoint",
"fail",
"let down"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"phrase"
]
},
"stand":{
"to occupy a place or location":{
"examples":[
"the monument stands in the middle of the town plaza"
],
"synonyms":[
"be",
"bear",
"lie",
"sit"
],
"near synonyms":[
"command",
"overlook",
"hang around",
"remain",
"rest",
"stay",
"stick around",
"tarry",
"await",
"wait",
"post",
"station",
"dwell",
"reside"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to put up with (something painful or difficult)":{
"examples":[
"I don't know how you can stand that job"
],
"synonyms":[
"abide",
"absorb",
"accept",
"bear",
"bide",
"brook",
"countenance",
"endure",
"go",
"hack",
"handle",
"meet",
"pocket",
"stick out",
"stomach",
"support",
"sustain",
"sweat out",
"take",
"tolerate",
"wear"
],
"near synonyms":[
"allow",
"permit",
"suffer",
"swallow",
"reconcile (to)",
"acquiesce",
"agree (with or to)",
"assent (to)",
"capitulate",
"consent (to)",
"respect",
"submit (to)",
"yield (to)"
],
"near antonyms":[
"decline",
"dismiss",
"refuse",
"reject",
"repudiate",
"spurn",
"turn down",
"combat",
"contest",
"fight",
"oppose",
"resist",
"avoid",
"bypass",
"circumvent",
"dodge",
"elude",
"escape",
"evade",
"miss",
"abstain (from)",
"forbear",
"refrain (from)"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to give what is owed for":{
"examples":[
"I'll stand lunch, and you can pay me back later"
],
"synonyms":[
"ante (up)",
"balance",
"clear",
"discharge",
"foot",
"liquidate",
"meet",
"pay",
"pay off",
"pay up",
"pony up",
"quit",
"recompense",
"settle",
"spring (for)"
],
"near synonyms":[],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[
"repudiate"
]
},
"to take or have a certain position within a group arranged in vertical classes":{
"examples":[
"if the city's baseball team wins today, they will stand first in the league"
],
"synonyms":[
"be",
"grade",
"place",
"rank",
"rate"
],
"near synonyms":[
"seed",
"count",
"categorize",
"class",
"classify",
"codify",
"compartmentalize",
"group",
"separate",
"set",
"sort",
"install",
"instate"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"a level usually raised surface":{
"examples":[
"marchers passed by the reviewing stand"
],
"synonyms":[
"dais",
"platform",
"podium",
"rostrum",
"stage",
"tribune"
],
"near synonyms":[
"altar",
"bimah",
"bima",
"footpace",
"pulpit",
"riser",
"scaffold",
"balcony",
"gallery"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun",
"verb"
]
},
"startlements":{
"the state of being strongly impressed by something unexpected or unusual":{
"examples":[
"the look of startlement in her eyes when she found herself at the wedding seated next to her ex-boyfriend"
],
"synonyms":[
"amazements",
"astonishments",
"shocks",
"stupefactions",
"surprises",
"surprizes"
],
"near synonyms":[
"awes",
"wonderments",
"wonders",
"startles",
"bewilderments",
"confusions",
"consternations",
"discomfitures",
"dismays"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"stanched":{
"as in suppressed , repressed":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"choked off",
"reined (in)",
"repressed",
"squashed",
"squelched",
"stunted",
"suppressed",
"turned back",
"called",
"discontinued",
"suspended",
"concluded",
"cut off",
"ended",
"terminated",
"baffled",
"balked",
"blockaded",
"blocked",
"bottlenecked",
"clogged",
"dammed",
"detained",
"held",
"held back",
"hindered",
"impeded",
"obstructed",
"snagged",
"stemmed",
"arrested",
"brought up",
"caught",
"checked",
"drew up",
"fetched up",
"halted",
"held up",
"pulled up",
"stalled",
"stayed",
"stilled",
"stopped"
],
"near antonyms":[
"carried on",
"continued",
"followed through (with)",
"kept (on)",
"kept up",
"persisted",
"ran on",
"advanced",
"fared",
"marched",
"moved",
"proceeded",
"progressed",
"wended",
"went along",
"actuated",
"budged",
"drove",
"goaded",
"impelled",
"propelled",
"pushed",
"spurred",
"stirred"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"stashes":{
"a supply stored up and often hidden away":{
"examples":[
"keeps a stash of tissues in her desk in case anyone needs one"
],
"synonyms":[
"caches",
"hoards",
"stockpiles",
"stores"
],
"near synonyms":[
"coffers",
"deposits",
"funds",
"nest eggs",
"savings",
"sinking funds",
"treasures",
"inventories",
"pools",
"reserves",
"reservoirs",
"stocks",
"provisions",
"resources",
"accumulations",
"assemblages",
"collections",
"gatherings",
"harvests",
"repertories"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to put (something of future use or value) in a safe or secret place":{
"examples":[
"stashed the extra antifreeze in the trunk of the car"
],
"synonyms":[
"caches",
"hoards",
"lays away",
"lays by",
"lays in",
"lays up",
"puts by",
"salts away",
"squirrels (away)",
"stockpiles",
"stores",
"stows",
"treasures"
],
"near synonyms":[
"accumulates",
"acquires",
"amasses",
"assembles",
"collects",
"concentrates",
"garners",
"gathers",
"picks up",
"rounds up",
"scrapes (together)",
"heaps",
"piles",
"stacks",
"conserves",
"husbands",
"preserves",
"banks",
"coffers",
"deposits",
"holds",
"keeps",
"reserves",
"retains",
"saves",
"sets by",
"stocks",
"withholds",
"buries",
"conceals",
"ensconces",
"secretes"
],
"near antonyms":[
"casts",
"discards",
"ditches",
"dumps",
"flings (off or away)",
"jettisons",
"throws away",
"throws out",
"unloads",
"consumes",
"squanders",
"uses up",
"wastes",
"hands out",
"hands over",
"relinquishes",
"surrenders",
"blows",
"dissipates",
"fritters (away)",
"lavishes",
"misspends",
"runs through",
"spends",
"depletes",
"exhausts",
"expends",
"impoverishes",
"dispels",
"disperses",
"dissipates",
"scatters"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun",
"verb"
]
},
"staring daggers":{
"to look with anger or disapproval":{
"examples":[
"He saw his brother look daggers at him and he realized he had said too much."
],
"synonyms":[
"frowning",
"glaring",
"glooming",
"glowering",
"lowering",
"louring",
"scowling"
],
"near synonyms":[
"gaping",
"gazing",
"ogling",
"staring",
"grimacing",
"pouting",
"sulking",
"growling",
"snarling",
"sneering",
"sniggering"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[
"beaming",
"grinning",
"smiling"
]
},
"type":[
"phrase"
]
},
"stages":{
"a level usually raised surface":{
"examples":[
"spoke to the audience from a small stage in front"
],
"synonyms":[
"daises",
"platforms",
"podiums",
"podia",
"rostra",
"rostrums",
"stands",
"tribunes"
],
"near synonyms":[
"altars",
"bimahs",
"bimas",
"footpaces",
"pulpits",
"risers",
"scaffolds",
"balconies",
"galleries"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"a portion of a trip":{
"examples":[
"this is only the first stage of the journey"
],
"synonyms":[
"laps",
"legs"
],
"near synonyms":[
"layovers",
"stopovers"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"an individual part of a process, series, or ranking":{
"examples":[
"in the last stage of the project"
],
"synonyms":[
"chapters",
"cuts",
"degrees",
"grades",
"inches",
"notches",
"pegs",
"phases",
"places",
"points",
"steps"
],
"near synonyms":[
"angles",
"aspects",
"facets",
"sides",
"amounts",
"measures",
"planes",
"decrements",
"increments"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to bring before the public in performance or exhibition":{
"examples":[
"staged the full body of Shakespeare's plays in the course of a year"
],
"synonyms":[
"carries",
"gives",
"mounts",
"offers",
"presents"
],
"near synonyms":[
"displays",
"exhibits",
"exposes",
"parades",
"shows",
"shows off",
"unveils",
"previews",
"acts",
"impersonates",
"performs",
"plays",
"portrays",
"depicts",
"dramatizes",
"enacts",
"renders",
"represents",
"extends",
"proffers",
"tenders"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun",
"verb"
]
},
"starring (in)":{
"as in doing , acting out":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"acting",
"doing",
"impersonating",
"interpreting",
"performing",
"playing",
"portraying",
"aping",
"clowning",
"hamming",
"imitating",
"masquerading",
"mimicking",
"miming",
"posing (as)",
"acting out",
"enacting",
"pantomiming",
"playacting",
"role-playing",
"taking on",
"depicting",
"dramatizing",
"rendering",
"representing",
"coacting",
"co-acting",
"costarring",
"co-starring",
"overacting",
"overplaying",
"underplaying"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"standpatters":{
"as in squares , stuffed shirts":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"fuddy-duddies",
"squares",
"stuffed shirts",
"traditionalists",
"middle-of-the-roaders",
"moderates",
"conformers",
"conformists",
"conventionalists",
"followers"
],
"near antonyms":[
"bohemians",
"bohos",
"counterculturists",
"deviants",
"enfants terribles",
"free spirits",
"heretics",
"iconoclasts",
"individualists",
"lone rangers",
"loners",
"lone wolves",
"mavericks",
"nonconformers",
"nonconformists",
"freethinkers",
"renegades"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"standpoints":{
"a way of looking at or thinking about something":{
"examples":[
"I never thought about it from that standpoint before"
],
"synonyms":[
"angles",
"eye views",
"outlooks",
"perspectives",
"shoes",
"slants",
"vantage points",
"viewpoints"
],
"near synonyms":[
"interpretations",
"spins",
"beliefs",
"convictions",
"eyes",
"feelings",
"judgments",
"judgements",
"minds",
"mind-sets",
"notions",
"opinions",
"perceptions",
"persuasions",
"sentiments",
"verdicts",
"views",
"impressions",
"takes"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"staple":{
"the main or greater part of something as distinguished from its subordinate parts":{
"examples":[
"reading is the very staple of a person's education"
],
"synonyms":[
"body",
"brunt",
"bulk",
"chief",
"core",
"generality",
"heft",
"main",
"mass",
"weight"
],
"near synonyms":[
"majority",
"aggregate",
"amount",
"entirety",
"quantum",
"sum",
"sum total",
"total",
"totality",
"whole",
"bottom",
"essence",
"essentiality",
"marrow",
"meat",
"nature",
"pith",
"quintessence",
"root",
"soul",
"stuff",
"substance",
"center",
"heart",
"hub",
"kernel",
"middle",
"nucleus",
"nut",
"seat",
"affair",
"argument",
"burden",
"crux",
"focus",
"gist",
"nub",
"pitch",
"point",
"purport",
"matter",
"motif",
"subject",
"text",
"theme",
"topic"
],
"near antonyms":[
"accessory",
"accessary",
"adjunct",
"appendage",
"extension",
"offshoot",
"component",
"constituent",
"element",
"ingredient",
"division",
"part",
"piece",
"section",
"segment",
"angle",
"aspect",
"facet",
"feature",
"quality",
"side"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"as in tie , stick":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"adhere",
"bolt",
"cinch",
"clamp",
"clasp",
"clench",
"clinch",
"clip",
"glue",
"hang",
"harness",
"hasp",
"lace",
"lash",
"latch",
"nail",
"paste",
"pin",
"plaster",
"rivet",
"screw",
"shackle",
"stick",
"strap",
"tack",
"tackle",
"tie",
"toggle",
"yoke",
"affix",
"attach",
"bend",
"fasten",
"fix",
"coapt",
"connect",
"join",
"link",
"unite",
"reaffix",
"reattach",
"refasten",
"refix",
"resecure",
"batten",
"belay",
"button",
"do up"
],
"near antonyms":[
"detach",
"undo",
"unfasten",
"unhook",
"break up",
"disconnect",
"disjoin",
"disjoint",
"dissever",
"dissociate",
"disunite",
"divide",
"divorce",
"part",
"separate",
"sever",
"split",
"sunder",
"uncouple",
"unlink",
"unyoke",
"loose",
"loosen",
"unbind",
"unfix",
"unlash",
"untie"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun",
"verb"
]
},
"star-crossed":{
"having, prone to, or marked by bad luck":{
"examples":[
"Romeo and Juliet are among literature's most famous star-crossed lovers"
],
"synonyms":[
"hapless",
"hard-luck",
"ill-fated",
"ill-starred",
"jinxed",
"luckless",
"snakebit",
"snakebitten",
"unfortunate",
"unhappy",
"unlucky"
],
"near synonyms":[
"adverse",
"ill",
"inauspicious",
"unfavorable",
"unpromising",
"untoward",
"calamitous",
"catastrophic",
"disastrous",
"accursed",
"accurst",
"damned",
"doomed",
"tragic",
"tragical"
],
"near antonyms":[
"blessed",
"blest",
"favored",
"gifted",
"privileged",
"auspicious",
"fair",
"favorable",
"golden",
"promising",
"propitious"
],
"antonyms":[
"fortunate",
"happy",
"lucky"
]
},
"type":[
"adjective"
]
},
"stands in":{
"to serve as a replacement usually for a time only":{
"examples":[
"she will be standing in for the regular teacher for a week"
],
"synonyms":[
"covers",
"fills in",
"pinch-hits",
"steps in",
"subs",
"substitutes",
"takes over"
],
"near synonyms":[
"understudies",
"relieves",
"spells",
"doubles (as)"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"staging grounds":{
"as in staging areas":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"staging areas",
"bases",
"bridgeheads",
"footholds",
"beachheads",
"camps",
"centers",
"emplacements",
"footings",
"fronts",
"headquarters",
"installations",
"stations",
"airbases",
"bastions",
"fortresses",
"strongholds",
"battlefronts",
"fields",
"toeholds"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"stables":{
"as in forces , hosts":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"forces",
"hosts",
"posses",
"troupes",
"battalions",
"corps",
"troops",
"administrations",
"departments",
"help",
"personnels",
"staffs",
"staves",
"armies",
"bands",
"brigades",
"companies",
"crews",
"gangs",
"outfits",
"parties",
"platoons",
"squads",
"teams"
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"homes",
"roosts",
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"bestows",
"billets",
"bivouacs",
"boards",
"bunks",
"camps",
"chambers",
"domiciles",
"encamps",
"harbors",
"houses",
"lodges",
"puts up",
"quarters",
"roofs",
"rooms",
"shelters",
"takes in",
"barracks",
"beds (down)"
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"ejects",
"evicts"
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},
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"verb"
]
},
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"a field trip to the statehouse to see the legislature in session"
],
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"capitol"
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"meetinghouse",
"chamber",
"hall",
"house",
"senate"
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"noun"
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"stags":{
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"clambakes",
"cocktail parties",
"hen parties",
"house parties",
"housewarmings",
"icebreakers",
"kaffeeklatsches",
"keggers",
"keg parties",
"klatches",
"klatsches",
"masquerades",
"meet and greets",
"mixers",
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"showers",
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"soirees",
"soir\u00e9es",
"suppers",
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"symposiums",
"tea parties",
"teas",
"affairs",
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"binges",
"blasts",
"blowouts",
"dos",
"do's",
"events",
"fetes",
"f\u00eates",
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"parties",
"receptions",
"shindigs",
"benefits",
"fund-raisers",
"balls",
"dances",
"formals",
"proms",
"celebrations",
"galas",
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"bacchanalia",
"bacchanals",
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"saturnalias"
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"noun"
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"examples":[
"a stationary bicycle is good for exercise, but you won't enjoy the scenery very much"
],
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"nonmoving",
"standing",
"static"
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"immovable",
"irremovable",
"nonmotile",
"unmovable",
"frozen",
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"stagnant",
"still",
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"unbudging",
"wedged",
"fast",
"rooted",
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"motile",
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"flexible",
"modular",
"displaceable",
"portable",
"removable",
"removeable",
"transferable",
"transferrable",
"transportable",
"unbalanced",
"unstable",
"unsteady"
],
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"mobile",
"movable",
"moveable",
"moving",
"nonstationary"
]
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"examples":[
"auction prices for that artist's works have been stationary for some time"
],
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"constant",
"stable",
"steady",
"unchanging",
"unvarying"
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"fast",
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"unchangeable",
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"set",
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"continuing",
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"lasting",
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"adaptable",
"alterable",
"changeable",
"flexible",
"mutable",
"variable",
"ephemeral",
"evanescent",
"fleeting",
"momentary",
"transient",
"transitory",
"kaleidoscopic",
"phantasmagoric",
"phantasmagorical"
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"changeful",
"changing",
"fickle",
"fluctuating",
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"varying",
"volatile"
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"adjective"
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"examples":[
"The device can be purchased either as a stand-alone unit or as part of a bundled system.",
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"detached",
"disconnected",
"discrete",
"free",
"freestanding",
"separate",
"single",
"unattached",
"unconnected",
"independent",
"self-contained",
"individual",
"private",
"elevated",
"lifted",
"upended",
"upraised",
"semierect",
"erect",
"perpendicular",
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"standing",
"stand-up",
"upright",
"upstanding",
"vertical"
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"near antonyms":[
"prostrate",
"supine",
"diagonal",
"hanging",
"sagging",
"slant",
"slanted",
"slanting",
"slanty",
"flat",
"recumbent",
"adjoining",
"attached",
"connected",
"joined",
"linked"
],
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},
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"adjective"
]
},
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"a person who supervises the production of a stage show":{
"examples":[
"the stage director spent most of the rehearsal working with the actors to block out the scene"
],
"synonyms":[
"director",
"regisseur",
"r\u00e9gisseur"
],
"near synonyms":[
"auteur",
"impresario",
"producer",
"stage manager",
"directress"
],
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"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"stalk":{
"to seek out (game) for food or sport":{
"examples":[
"lions stalking gazelles on the plains"
],
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"chase",
"hunt"
],
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"capture",
"drag",
"net",
"snare",
"trap",
"dog",
"ferret",
"hawk",
"hound",
"course",
"pursue",
"run",
"run down",
"spoor",
"track",
"trail",
"gun (for)",
"harpoon",
"kill",
"shoot",
"poach",
"cull"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to walk with exaggerated arm and leg movements":{
"examples":[
"the irate customer stalked off in a huff"
],
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"prance",
"sashay",
"strut",
"swagger"
],
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"flounce",
"mince",
"traipse",
"pussyfoot",
"tiptoe",
"sweep",
"parade",
"promenade",
"pad",
"step",
"tread",
"pace",
"stride",
"lumber",
"lurch",
"pound",
"shamble",
"shuffle",
"stagger"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"stalling":{
"as in blocking , impeding":{
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"blocking",
"hampering",
"hindering",
"impeding",
"retardant",
"baffling",
"balking",
"foiling",
"frustrating",
"thwarting",
"negating",
"neutralizing",
"nullifying",
"deterrent",
"deterring",
"precautionary",
"preventative",
"preventive",
"prophylactic"
],
"near antonyms":[
"abetting",
"aiding",
"assisting",
"easing",
"facilitating",
"smoothing",
"encouraging",
"forwarding",
"fostering",
"furthering",
"nurturing",
"promoting"
],
"antonyms":[]
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"as in procrastinating , filibustering":{
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"filibustering",
"procrastinating",
"decelerating",
"slowing",
"strolling",
"ambling",
"heavy-footed",
"inching",
"plodding",
"shuffling",
"slow-footed",
"lingering",
"loitering",
"tarrying",
"inactive",
"inert",
"lethargic",
"loafing",
"lounging",
"deliberate",
"measured",
"crawling",
"creeping",
"dallying",
"dawdling",
"dilatory",
"dillydallying",
"dragging",
"laggard",
"lagging",
"languid",
"leisurely",
"poking",
"poky",
"pokey",
"slow",
"sluggish",
"snaillike",
"snail-paced",
"tardy",
"unhurried"
],
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"barreling",
"bolting",
"breakneck",
"breathless",
"brisk",
"careering",
"dizzy",
"fast",
"fleet",
"flying",
"hasty",
"hurrying",
"lightning",
"meteoric",
"quick",
"racing",
"rapid",
"rocketing",
"running",
"rushing",
"scooting",
"scudding",
"scurrying",
"snappy",
"speeding",
"speedy",
"swift",
"warp-speed",
"whirling",
"whirlwind",
"whisking",
"zipping",
"expeditious",
"prompt",
"ready",
"accelerated",
"hastened",
"quickened",
"hurried",
"rushed"
],
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},
"to bring (something) to a standstill":{
"examples":[
"endless complaints stalled the process of selecting the winning design for the memorial"
],
"synonyms":[
"arresting",
"bringing up",
"catching",
"checking",
"drawing up",
"fetching up",
"halting",
"holding up",
"pulling up",
"staying",
"stilling",
"stopping"
],
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"baffling",
"balking",
"blockading",
"blocking",
"bottlenecking",
"clogging",
"damming",
"detaining",
"hindering",
"holding",
"holding back",
"impeding",
"obstructing",
"snagging",
"stemming",
"concluding",
"cutting off",
"ending",
"terminating",
"calling",
"discontinuing",
"suspending",
"choking off",
"reining (in)",
"repressing",
"squashing",
"squelching",
"stanching",
"staunching",
"stunting",
"suppressing",
"turning back"
],
"near antonyms":[
"carrying on",
"continuing",
"following through (with)",
"keeping (on)",
"keeping up",
"persisting",
"running on",
"advancing",
"faring",
"going along",
"marching",
"moving",
"proceeding",
"progressing",
"wending",
"actuating",
"budging",
"driving",
"goading",
"impelling",
"propelling",
"pushing",
"spurring",
"stirring"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to stop functioning":{
"examples":[
"the engine stalls sometimes when it's very cold outside"
],
"synonyms":[
"breaking",
"breaking down",
"conking (out)",
"crashing",
"cutting out",
"dying",
"failing",
"giving out"
],
"near synonyms":[
"fizzling",
"sputtering",
"wheezing",
"acting up",
"malfunctioning",
"jamming"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[
"starting (up)"
]
},
"type":[
"adjective",
"verb"
]
},
"stable":{
"marked by the ability to withstand stress without structural damage or distortion":{
"examples":[
"the observation tower is stable enough to withstand the strongest winds without collapsing"
],
"synonyms":[
"bombproof",
"fast",
"firm",
"sound",
"stalwart",
"strong",
"sturdy"
],
"near synonyms":[
"dependable",
"durable",
"reliable",
"infrangible",
"irrefragable",
"unbreakable",
"beefy",
"solid",
"cohesive",
"tough"
],
"near antonyms":[
"infirm",
"insecure",
"weak",
"shaky",
"tottering",
"tottery",
"unbalanced",
"wobbly",
"wabbly",
"unsubstantial"
],
"antonyms":[
"rickety",
"unsound",
"unstable",
"unsteady"
]
},
"having been established and usually not subject to change":{
"examples":[
"a troubled nation badly in need of a stable government"
],
"synonyms":[
"certain",
"determinate",
"final",
"firm",
"fixed",
"flat",
"frozen",
"hard",
"hard-and-fast",
"inexpugnable",
"set",
"settled"
],
"near synonyms":[
"nonadjustable",
"noncancelable",
"nonnegotiable",
"unchangeable",
"constant",
"steady",
"unchanging",
"uniform",
"unwavering",
"definite",
"exact",
"explicit",
"specific",
"given",
"stated",
"stipulated",
"dependable",
"good",
"reliable",
"responsible",
"safe",
"solid",
"sure",
"tried",
"tried-and-true",
"true",
"trustworthy",
"trusty"
],
"near antonyms":[
"adjustable",
"changeable",
"negotiable",
"indefinite",
"open-ended",
"unspecified",
"capricious",
"changeful",
"flickery",
"fluctuating",
"fluid",
"inconstant",
"mercurial",
"mutable",
"temperamental",
"uncertain",
"unpredictable",
"unsettled",
"unstable",
"unsteady",
"variable",
"volatile"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"having full use of one's mind and control over one's actions":{
"examples":[
"she made some strange decisions back when she wasn't entirely stable"
],
"synonyms":[
"balanced",
"clearheaded",
"compos mentis",
"lucid",
"normal",
"right",
"sane"
],
"near synonyms":[
"analytic",
"analytical",
"clear",
"coherent",
"logical",
"rational",
"reasonable",
"even-keeled",
"judicious",
"levelheaded",
"sensible",
"wise",
"healthy",
"sound",
"unneurotic",
"well-adjusted",
"well-balanced"
],
"near antonyms":[
"balmy",
"bananas",
"batty",
"bughouse",
"certifiable",
"crackbrained",
"cracked",
"crackpot",
"cranky",
"cuckoo",
"daffy",
"daft",
"dotty",
"fruity",
"gaga",
"loco",
"loony",
"looney",
"loopy",
"meshuga",
"meshugge",
"meshugah",
"meshuggah",
"moonstruck",
"nuts",
"nutty",
"scatty",
"screwy",
"wacko",
"whacko",
"wacky",
"whacky",
"aberrant",
"delirious",
"disordered",
"delusional",
"delusionary",
"disturbed",
"neurotic",
"obsessive-compulsive",
"paranoiac",
"paranoic",
"paranoid",
"paranoidal",
"psycho",
"psychotic",
"schizo",
"schizoid",
"schizophrenic",
"schizy",
"schizzy",
"eccentric",
"odd",
"oddball",
"off",
"pixilated",
"pixillated",
"potty",
"queer",
"strange",
"foolish",
"senseless",
"witless",
"irrational",
"mixed-up",
"unreasonable",
"depressed",
"despondent",
"distracted",
"distraught",
"frantic",
"frenzied",
"haywire",
"hysterical",
"hysteric",
"raving",
"wigged-out",
"amok",
"amuck",
"ape",
"ballistic",
"berserk",
"nuclear",
"fixated",
"monomaniac",
"monomaniacal",
"obsessed"
],
"antonyms":[
"brainsick",
"crazed",
"crazy",
"demented",
"deranged",
"insane",
"lunatic",
"mad",
"maniacal",
"maniac",
"mental",
"unbalanced",
"unsound"
]
},
"not undergoing a change in condition":{
"examples":[
"a stable economic climate is best for business"
],
"synonyms":[
"changeless",
"constant",
"stationary",
"steady",
"unchanging",
"unvarying"
],
"near synonyms":[
"fast",
"fixed",
"hard-and-fast",
"immutable",
"inflexible",
"invariable",
"unalterable",
"unchangeable",
"established",
"set",
"settled",
"ceaseless",
"continuing",
"durable",
"enduring",
"lasting",
"permanent"
],
"near antonyms":[
"adaptable",
"alterable",
"changeable",
"flexible",
"mutable",
"variable",
"ephemeral",
"evanescent",
"fleeting",
"momentary",
"transient",
"transitory",
"kaleidoscopic",
"phantasmagoric",
"phantasmagorical"
],
"antonyms":[
"capricious",
"changeful",
"changing",
"fickle",
"fluctuating",
"fluid",
"inconstant",
"mercurial",
"skittish",
"uncertain",
"unpredictable",
"unsettled",
"unstable",
"unsteady",
"varying",
"volatile"
]
},
"as in force , host":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"force",
"host",
"posse",
"troupe",
"battalion",
"corps",
"troop",
"administration",
"department",
"help",
"personnel",
"staff",
"army",
"band",
"brigade",
"company",
"crew",
"gang",
"outfit",
"party",
"platoon",
"squad",
"team"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"as in secure , shed":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"ensconce",
"home",
"roost",
"secure",
"shed",
"tent",
"accommodate",
"bestow",
"billet",
"bivouac",
"board",
"bunk",
"camp",
"chamber",
"domicile",
"encamp",
"harbor",
"house",
"lodge",
"put up",
"quarter",
"roof",
"room",
"shelter",
"take in",
"barrack",
"bed (down)"
],
"near antonyms":[
"eject",
"evict"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"adjective",
"noun",
"verb"
]
},
"staples":{
"the main or greater part of something as distinguished from its subordinate parts":{
"examples":[
"reading is the very staple of a person's education"
],
"synonyms":[
"bodies",
"brunts",
"bulks",
"chiefs",
"cores",
"generalities",
"hefts",
"mains",
"masses",
"weights"
],
"near synonyms":[
"majorities",
"aggregates",
"amounts",
"entireties",
"quanta",
"sums",
"sum totals",
"totalities",
"totals",
"wholes",
"bottoms",
"essences",
"essentialities",
"marrows",
"meats",
"natures",
"piths",
"quintessences",
"roots",
"souls",
"stuff",
"substances",
"centers",
"hearts",
"hubs",
"kernels",
"middles",
"nuclei",
"nucleuses",
"nuts",
"seats",
"affairs",
"arguments",
"burdens",
"cruxes",
"cruces",
"foci",
"focuses",
"gists",
"nubs",
"pitches",
"points",
"purports",
"matters",
"motifs",
"subjects",
"texts",
"themes",
"topics"
],
"near antonyms":[
"accessories",
"accessaries",
"adjuncts",
"appendages",
"extensions",
"offshoots",
"components",
"constituents",
"elements",
"ingredients",
"divisions",
"parts",
"pieces",
"sections",
"segments",
"angles",
"aspects",
"facets",
"features",
"qualities",
"sides"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"as in ties , sticks":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"adheres",
"bolts",
"cinches",
"clamps",
"clasps",
"clenches",
"clinches",
"clips",
"glues",
"hangs",
"harnesses",
"hasps",
"laces",
"lashes",
"latches",
"nails",
"pastes",
"pins",
"plasters",
"rivets",
"screws",
"shackles",
"sticks",
"straps",
"tackles",
"tacks",
"ties",
"toggles",
"yokes",
"affixes",
"attaches",
"bends",
"fastens",
"fixes",
"coapts",
"connects",
"joins",
"links",
"unites",
"reaffixes",
"reattaches",
"refastens",
"refixes",
"resecures",
"battens",
"belays",
"buttons",
"does up"
],
"near antonyms":[
"detaches",
"undoes",
"unfastens",
"unhooks",
"breaks up",
"disconnects",
"disjoins",
"disjoints",
"dissevers",
"dissociates",
"disunites",
"divides",
"divorces",
"parts",
"separates",
"severs",
"splits",
"sunders",
"uncouples",
"unlinks",
"unyokes",
"loosens",
"looses",
"unbinds",
"unfixes",
"unlashes",
"unties"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun",
"verb"
]
},
"stasis":{
"a condition in which opposing forces are equal to one another":{
"examples":[
"for the time being, the populations of the national park's predators and prey remain in stasis"
],
"synonyms":[
"balance",
"counterpoise",
"equilibration",
"equilibrium",
"equipoise",
"poise"
],
"near synonyms":[
"counterbalance",
"offset",
"firmness",
"fixedness",
"security",
"stability",
"steadiness"
],
"near antonyms":[
"changeability",
"fluctuation",
"inconstancy",
"insecurity",
"instability",
"mutability",
"precariousness",
"shakiness",
"unsteadiness",
"volatility"
],
"antonyms":[
"disequilibration",
"disequilibrium",
"imbalance",
"nonequilibrium",
"unbalance"
]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
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"starters":{
"as in appetizers , cocktails":{
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"amuse-bouches",
"amuses-bouches",
"amuse-gueules",
"antipasti",
"appetizers",
"apps",
"canap\u00e9s",
"cocktails",
"hors d'oeuvres",
"hors d'oeuvre",
"munchies",
"finger foods",
"natural foods",
"commissaries",
"rations",
"supplies",
"aliments",
"nutriments",
"diets",
"nourishments",
"nurtures",
"sustenances",
"messes",
"paps",
"ensilages",
"feeds",
"fodders",
"forages",
"silages",
"slop",
"swills",
"feasts",
"meals",
"refreshments",
"regales",
"repasts",
"spreads",
"boards",
"dishes",
"plates",
"platters",
"servings"
],
"near antonyms":[
"banes",
"poisons",
"toxins",
"venoms"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"standing on":{
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"examples":[
"She plans to be standing on her own by this time next month."
],
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"calculating",
"counting",
"depending",
"leaning",
"reckoning",
"relying"
],
"near synonyms":[
"committing",
"confiding",
"entrusting",
"intrusting",
"trusting"
],
"near antonyms":[
"distrusting",
"mistrusting",
"questioning",
"suspecting"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"phrase"
]
},
"stalkers":{
"as in spies , snakes":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
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"lurkers",
"skulkers",
"skulks",
"slyboots",
"sneakers",
"sneaks",
"skunks",
"skunk",
"snakes",
"weasels",
"snoopers",
"snoops",
"spies",
"sharpers",
"sharpies",
"slickers",
"swindlers"
],
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"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
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"starburst":{
"as in sunburst":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"sunburst",
"aureole",
"aureola",
"glory",
"halo",
"nimbus",
"aura",
"corona"
],
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"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
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"examples":[
"she proved to be simply shy, not standoffish"
],
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"aloof",
"antisocial",
"asocial",
"buttoned-up",
"cold",
"cold-eyed",
"cool",
"detached",
"distant",
"dry",
"frosty",
"offish",
"remote",
"standoff",
"unbending",
"unclubbable",
"unsociable"
],
"near synonyms":[
"indrawn",
"introverted",
"nongregarious",
"recessive",
"reclusive",
"reserved",
"unsocial",
"withdrawn",
"misanthropic",
"apathetic",
"hard",
"indifferent",
"unconcerned",
"clinical",
"dispassionate",
"impersonal",
"professional",
"disinterested",
"incurious",
"uninterested",
"reticent",
"silent",
"taciturn",
"uncommunicative",
"diffident",
"shy",
"timid",
"cliquey",
"cliquish",
"clubbish"
],
"near antonyms":[
"boon",
"clubbable",
"clubable",
"clubby",
"companionable",
"convivial",
"extroverted",
"extraverted",
"gregarious",
"outgoing",
"communicative",
"expansive",
"garrulous",
"talkative",
"affable",
"folksy",
"genial",
"gracious",
"hospitable",
"agreeable",
"amiable",
"congenial",
"kindly",
"neighborly"
],
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"cordial",
"friendly",
"sociable",
"social",
"warm"
]
},
"type":[
"adjective"
]
},
"stations":{
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"examples":[
"the soldiers remained at their station even though a huge enemy force was approaching"
],
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"positions",
"posts",
"quarters"
],
"near synonyms":[
"assignments",
"briefs",
"businesses",
"charges",
"details",
"jobs",
"operations"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"a regular stopping place":{
"examples":[
"the historic house was once a station on the Underground Railroad, the network that helped slaves reach freedom in the North"
],
"synonyms":[
"stops",
"way stations"
],
"near synonyms":[
"depots",
"terminals",
"layovers",
"stopovers",
"outstations"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"the placement of someone or something in relation to others in a vertical arrangement":{
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"in colonial America, women occupied the lowest station in society and were not allowed to take part in public life"
],
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"echelons",
"footings",
"levels",
"places",
"positions",
"rankings",
"ranks",
"reaches",
"rungs",
"situations",
"standings",
"statuses",
"strata"
],
"near synonyms":[
"conditions",
"estates",
"orders",
"walks",
"capacities",
"functions",
"ratings"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"a general way of holding the body":{
"examples":[
"the palace guards are required to maintain a rigid station"
],
"synonyms":[
"attitudes",
"carriages",
"poises",
"postures",
"stances"
],
"near synonyms":[
"attentions",
"body languages",
"poses",
"seats",
"bearings",
"behaviors",
"conducts",
"demeanors",
"deportments",
"airs",
"presences",
"aspects",
"looks",
"miens"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to assign to a place or position":{
"examples":[
"stationed guards around the perimeter of the encampment"
],
"synonyms":[
"details",
"posts"
],
"near synonyms":[
"sets",
"appoints",
"places",
"positions"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun",
"verb"
]
},
"stand-in":{
"to serve as a replacement usually for a time only":{
"examples":[
"she will be standing in for the regular teacher for a week"
],
"synonyms":[
"cover",
"fill in",
"pinch-hit",
"step in",
"sub",
"substitute",
"take over"
],
"near synonyms":[
"understudy",
"relieve",
"spell",
"double (as)"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"a person or thing that takes the place of another":{
"examples":[
"hired him at the last minute as a stand-in for the person who quit"
],
"synonyms":[
"backup",
"cover",
"designated hitter",
"fill-in",
"locum tenens",
"pinch hitter",
"relief",
"replacement",
"reserve",
"sub",
"substitute"
],
"near synonyms":[
"alternate",
"understudy",
"apology",
"makeshift",
"stopgap",
"agent",
"assignee",
"attorney",
"commissary",
"delegate",
"deputy",
"envoy",
"factor",
"procurator",
"proxy",
"rep",
"representative",
"surrogate",
"assistant",
"reliever",
"second",
"successor",
"superseder"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun",
"verb"
]
},
"staring down":{
"as in outstaring , outfacing":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
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"outfacing",
"outstaring",
"perusing",
"poring (over)",
"studying",
"leering",
"ogling",
"considering",
"eyeing",
"eying",
"fixating",
"observing",
"regarding",
"watching",
"glaring",
"gloating",
"glowering",
"blinking",
"gaping",
"gawking",
"gawping",
"gazing",
"goggling",
"peering",
"rubbernecking",
"staring"
],
"near antonyms":[
"glancing",
"glimpsing",
"peeking",
"peeping",
"browsing",
"dipping (into)",
"scanning",
"winking (at)"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"stacked":{
"as in curvy , curvaceous":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"ample",
"bosomy",
"built",
"busty",
"buxom",
"chesty",
"corn-fed",
"curvaceous",
"curvy",
"full-figured",
"ripe",
"Rubenesque",
"shapely",
"voluptuous",
"well-endowed",
"zaftig",
"zoftig",
"blubbery",
"chubby",
"corpulent",
"fat",
"fleshy",
"full",
"gross",
"lardy",
"obese",
"overweight",
"plump",
"podgy",
"portly",
"pudgy",
"replete",
"roly-poly",
"rotund",
"round",
"tubby",
"Junoesque",
"statuesque",
"beefy",
"bulky",
"chunky",
"heavy",
"heavyset",
"plumpish",
"stocky",
"stout",
"thick",
"thickset",
"weighty",
"brawny",
"burly",
"hefty",
"husky",
"dumpy",
"squat",
"stubby",
"hippy",
"paunchy",
"potbellied",
"flabby",
"soft",
"endomorphic"
],
"near antonyms":[
"angular",
"bony",
"boney",
"gaunt",
"lank",
"lanky",
"rawboned",
"sinewy",
"cadaverous",
"emaciated",
"haggard",
"pinched",
"skeletal",
"wasted",
"puny",
"scraggy",
"scrawny",
"slight",
"rangy",
"reedy",
"spindling",
"spindly",
"stringy",
"svelte",
"sylphlike",
"twiggy",
"waspish",
"weedy",
"willowy",
"ectomorphic",
"anorexic",
"lean",
"skinny",
"slender",
"slim",
"spare",
"thin"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to lay or throw on top of one another":{
"examples":[
"stacked the split logs by the house"
],
"synonyms":[
"heaped",
"mounded",
"piled"
],
"near synonyms":[
"banked",
"layered",
"pyramided",
"accumulated",
"amassed",
"assembled",
"collected",
"concentrated",
"garnered",
"gathered",
"grouped",
"massed",
"bunched",
"clumped",
"lumped"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"adjective",
"verb"
]
},
"staged":{
"as in sensational , overdone":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"overacted",
"overdone",
"sensational",
"actorish",
"actorly",
"actressy",
"conspicuous",
"elaborate",
"flamboyant",
"grandiose",
"ostentatious",
"showy",
"dramatic",
"hammy",
"histrionic",
"melodramatic",
"stagy",
"stagey",
"theatrical",
"theatric",
"affected",
"artificial",
"exaggerated",
"mannered",
"pretentious",
"self-conscious",
"studied",
"unnatural"
],
"near antonyms":[
"undramatic",
"nondramatic",
"nontheatrical",
"unaffected",
"underplayed",
"unpretentious",
"muted",
"restrained",
"subdued",
"toned (down)",
"conservative",
"discreet",
"inconspicuous",
"modest",
"plain",
"quiet",
"simple"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to bring before the public in performance or exhibition":{
"examples":[
"staged the full body of Shakespeare's plays in the course of a year"
],
"synonyms":[
"carried",
"gave",
"mounted",
"offered",
"presented"
],
"near synonyms":[
"displayed",
"exhibited",
"exposed",
"paraded",
"showed",
"showed off",
"unveiled",
"previewed",
"acted",
"impersonated",
"performed",
"played",
"portrayed",
"depicted",
"dramatized",
"enacted",
"rendered",
"represented",
"extended",
"proffered",
"tendered"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"adjective",
"verb"
]
},
"start (up)":{
"to move suddenly and sharply (as in surprise)":{
"examples":[
"I started from my chair when I heard the sudden scream"
],
"synonyms":[
"bolt",
"jump",
"startle"
],
"near synonyms":[
"jerk",
"jolt",
"twitch",
"blench",
"cringe",
"flinch",
"quail",
"recoil",
"shrink",
"spook",
"squinch",
"wince",
"bound",
"leap",
"spring",
"react",
"respond"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to be responsible for the creation and early operation or use of":{
"examples":[
"started the impressionist movement in art"
],
"synonyms":[
"begin",
"constitute",
"establish",
"found",
"inaugurate",
"initiate",
"innovate",
"institute",
"introduce",
"launch",
"pioneer",
"plant",
"set up"
],
"near synonyms":[
"author",
"father",
"originate",
"conceive",
"concoct",
"contrive",
"cook (up)",
"create",
"devise",
"fabricate",
"invent",
"make up",
"manufacture",
"produce",
"think (up)",
"construct",
"put up",
"develop",
"enlarge",
"expand",
"endow",
"finance",
"fund",
"subsidize",
"arrange",
"organize",
"systematize",
"systemize",
"refound",
"reinitiate",
"reinstitute",
"relaunch"
],
"near antonyms":[
"abolish",
"annihilate",
"annul",
"nullify",
"end",
"finish",
"halt",
"stop",
"terminate",
"round (off or out)",
"wind up",
"wrap up"
],
"antonyms":[
"close (down)",
"phase out",
"shut (up)"
]
},
"to cause to function":{
"examples":[
"trying to start the car on a frigid morning"
],
"synonyms":[
"activate",
"actuate",
"crank (up)",
"drive",
"move",
"run",
"set off",
"spark",
"touch off",
"trigger",
"turn on"
],
"near synonyms":[
"kick over",
"turn over",
"charge",
"electrify",
"energize",
"fire",
"fuel",
"generate",
"power",
"push",
"discharge",
"launch",
"release",
"switch",
"trip",
"reactivate",
"recharge",
"arouse",
"excite",
"jump-start",
"kick-start",
"stimulate",
"vitalize",
"ignite",
"incite",
"instigate",
"provoke",
"quicken",
"stir up",
"accelerate",
"catalyze",
"speed (up)",
"step up"
],
"near antonyms":[
"arrest",
"brake",
"check",
"cut off",
"draw up",
"halt",
"jam",
"stall",
"stick",
"stop",
"decelerate",
"repress",
"slow",
"stunt",
"suppress"
],
"antonyms":[
"cut",
"cut out",
"deactivate",
"kill",
"shut off",
"turn off"
]
},
"to come into existence":{
"examples":[
"the fight started when one child tripped the other"
],
"synonyms":[
"actualize",
"appear",
"arise",
"begin",
"break",
"commence",
"dawn",
"engender",
"form",
"materialize",
"originate",
"set in",
"spring"
],
"near synonyms":[
"be",
"breathe",
"exist",
"live",
"subsist",
"arrive",
"come on",
"emerge",
"coalesce",
"cohere",
"shape (up)",
"continue",
"endure",
"last",
"persist",
"survive"
],
"near antonyms":[
"conclude",
"desist",
"discontinue",
"finish",
"halt",
"quit",
"terminate",
"disappear",
"dissolve",
"evaporate",
"vanish",
"depart",
"die",
"expire",
"pass away",
"perish"
],
"antonyms":[
"cease",
"end",
"stop"
]
},
"to extend outward beyond a usual point":{
"examples":[
"frightened horses with starting eyes"
],
"synonyms":[
"bag",
"balloon",
"beetle",
"belly",
"billow",
"bulge",
"bunch",
"jut",
"overhang",
"poke",
"pooch",
"pouch",
"pout",
"project",
"protrude",
"stand out",
"stick out",
"swell"
],
"near synonyms":[
"dome",
"blow up",
"inflate",
"dilate",
"distend",
"expand",
"mushroom",
"snowball",
"elongate",
"extend",
"lengthen",
"stretch"
],
"near antonyms":[
"compress",
"condense",
"constrict",
"contract",
"shrink"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to take the first step in (a process or course of action)":{
"examples":[
"we'll be ready to start the concert in a moment"
],
"synonyms":[
"begin",
"commence",
"embark (on or upon)",
"enter (into or upon)",
"fall (to)",
"get off",
"kick off",
"launch",
"lead off",
"open",
"strike (into)"
],
"near synonyms":[
"create",
"generate",
"inaugurate",
"initiate",
"innovate",
"invent",
"originate",
"adopt",
"embrace",
"take on",
"take up",
"establish",
"father",
"found",
"institute",
"organize",
"pioneer",
"set up",
"spawn",
"get around (to)",
"get down (to)",
"get round (to)"
],
"near antonyms":[
"cease",
"desist",
"discontinue",
"halt",
"knock off",
"lay off",
"quit",
"stop",
"close",
"complete",
"abandon",
"forsake",
"leave",
"abolish",
"demolish",
"destroy",
"exterminate",
"extinguish",
"phase out"
],
"antonyms":[
"conclude",
"end",
"finish",
"terminate"
]
},
"the point at which something begins":{
"examples":[
"knew from the start of the game that he would win easily"
],
"synonyms":[
"alpha",
"baseline",
"beginning",
"birth",
"commencement",
"dawn",
"day one",
"genesis",
"get-go",
"git-go",
"inception",
"incipience",
"incipiency",
"kickoff",
"launch",
"morning",
"nascence",
"nascency",
"onset",
"outset",
"threshold"
],
"near synonyms":[
"drawing board",
"first base",
"ground zero",
"square one",
"creation",
"founding",
"inauguration",
"initiation",
"institution",
"origination",
"cradle",
"fountain",
"fountainhead",
"germ",
"origin",
"root",
"seedbed",
"source",
"spring",
"well",
"wellspring",
"dawning",
"opening",
"advent",
"appearance",
"arrival",
"debut",
"d\u00e9but",
"emergence",
"childhood",
"infancy",
"youth"
],
"near antonyms":[
"cessation",
"closing",
"closure",
"completion",
"finale",
"finish",
"period",
"stop",
"termination",
"windup"
],
"antonyms":[
"close",
"conclusion",
"end",
"ending",
"omega"
]
},
"type":[
"noun",
"verb"
]
},
"staves":{
"a body of persons at work or available for work":{
"examples":[
"we're working with a short staff at the office today"
],
"synonyms":[
"forces",
"help",
"labor forces",
"manpowers",
"personnels",
"pools",
"workforces"
],
"near synonyms":[
"labors",
"proletariats",
"rank and files",
"bands",
"companies",
"crews",
"gangs",
"outfits",
"parties",
"squads",
"teams",
"employees",
"employes",
"helpers",
"hirelings",
"workers",
"blood",
"supports"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"a heavy rigid stick used as a weapon or for punishment":{
"examples":[
"carried a staff for self-defense when walking alone at night"
],
"synonyms":[
"bastinadoes",
"bastinades",
"batons",
"bats",
"billies",
"billy clubs",
"bludgeons",
"canes",
"clubs",
"cudgels",
"nightsticks",
"rods",
"rungs",
"saps",
"shillelaghs",
"shillalahs",
"truncheons",
"waddies"
],
"near synonyms":[
"blackjacks",
"knobkerries",
"maces",
"birches",
"crabsticks",
"hickories",
"rattans",
"staves",
"switches",
"beetles",
"gavels",
"hammers",
"mallets",
"mauls",
"sledgehammers",
"crooks",
"crosiers",
"croziers",
"walking sticks",
"whangees"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"stateliness":{
"a dignified bearing or appearance befitting someone of royal status":{
"examples":[
"the princess has a stateliness that will serve her well when she becomes queen"
],
"synonyms":[
"augustness",
"kingliness",
"majesty",
"royalty"
],
"near synonyms":[
"high-mindedness",
"magnanimity",
"nobility",
"nobleness",
"haughtiness",
"lordliness",
"pomposity",
"pompousness",
"dignity",
"poise",
"gloriousness",
"grandeur",
"grandness",
"greatness",
"impressiveness",
"magnificence",
"resplendence",
"resplendency",
"splendidness",
"splendor",
"class",
"elegance",
"grace"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"dignified or restrained beauty of form, appearance, or style":{
"examples":[
"the refined stateliness of the mansion that has served as the official home of the state's governors since the 18th century"
],
"synonyms":[
"class",
"classiness",
"courtliness",
"elegance",
"elegancy",
"fineness",
"grace",
"gracefulness",
"handsomeness",
"majesty",
"refinement"
],
"near synonyms":[
"augustness",
"brilliance",
"gloriousness",
"glory",
"grandeur",
"grandness",
"lavishness",
"luxuriance",
"luxuriousness",
"luxury",
"magnificence",
"nobility",
"nobleness",
"opulence",
"ornateness",
"plushiness",
"plushness",
"resplendence",
"resplendency",
"richness",
"splendor",
"sumptuousness",
"artfulness",
"chic",
"polish",
"sophistication",
"taste",
"tastefulness",
"choiceness",
"classicism",
"dignity",
"exquisiteness",
"restraint",
"simplicity",
"affectedness",
"grandiosity",
"ostentation",
"ostentatiousness",
"pretentiousness",
"showiness"
],
"near antonyms":[
"coarseness",
"crudeness",
"flamboyance",
"flashiness",
"garishness",
"gaudiness",
"glitz",
"grotesqueness",
"grotesquerie",
"grotesquery",
"kitsch",
"tastelessness",
"tawdriness",
"vulgarity"
],
"antonyms":[
"gracelessness",
"inelegance"
]
},
"impressiveness of beauty on a large scale":{
"examples":[
"the stateliness of this mountain range is best appreciated from one of its summits"
],
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"augustness",
"brilliance",
"gloriousness",
"glory",
"gorgeousness",
"grandeur",
"grandness",
"magnificence",
"majesty",
"nobility",
"nobleness",
"resplendence",
"resplendency",
"splendidness",
"splendiferousness",
"splendor",
"stupendousness",
"sublimeness",
"superbness"
],
"near synonyms":[
"awesomeness",
"formidability",
"marvelousness",
"wonderfulness",
"wondrousness",
"dignity",
"elegance",
"grace",
"lavishness",
"luxuriance",
"luxuriousness",
"luxury",
"opulence",
"princeliness",
"richness",
"sumptuousness",
"grandiosity",
"ostentation",
"pretentiousness",
"elaborateness",
"flashiness",
"gaudiness",
"ornateness",
"poshness",
"ritziness",
"showiness",
"swankiness",
"extraordinariness",
"remarkableness"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"standardize":{
"to make agree with a single established standard or model":{
"examples":[
"the plan is to standardize the test for reading comprehension so that we can see how students across the state compare"
],
"synonyms":[
"formalize",
"homogenize",
"normalize",
"regularize"
],
"near synonyms":[
"codify",
"marshal",
"marshall",
"methodize",
"order",
"organize",
"systematize",
"systemize",
"average",
"equalize",
"even",
"square",
"accredit",
"certify",
"control",
"govern",
"regulate",
"rule",
"conciliate",
"conform",
"coordinate",
"harmonize",
"integrate",
"reconcile",
"synthesize"
],
"near antonyms":[
"customize",
"individualize",
"tailor"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"statuses":{
"position with regard to conditions and circumstances":{
"examples":[
"let me know if your status changes and you're available to work"
],
"synonyms":[
"ball games",
"deals",
"footings",
"pictures",
"postures",
"scenes",
"situations",
"stories"
],
"near synonyms":[
"ranks",
"standings",
"places",
"spots",
"states",
"scores",
"status quos"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"the placement of someone or something in relation to others in a vertical arrangement":{
"examples":[
"resented her lowly status in the organization"
],
"synonyms":[
"degrees",
"echelons",
"footings",
"levels",
"places",
"positions",
"rankings",
"ranks",
"reaches",
"rungs",
"situations",
"standings",
"stations",
"strata"
],
"near synonyms":[
"conditions",
"estates",
"orders",
"walks",
"capacities",
"functions",
"ratings"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"stands one in good stead":{
"to provide (someone) with what is useful or necessary to achieve an end":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[
"abets",
"aids",
"assists",
"backs",
"backstops",
"helps",
"props (up)",
"supports"
],
"near synonyms":[
"advances",
"eases",
"facilitates",
"forwards",
"fosters",
"furthers",
"launches",
"champions",
"endorses",
"indorses",
"patronizes",
"promotes",
"sponsors",
"attends",
"cares (for)",
"comforts",
"ministers (to)",
"succors",
"sustains",
"bolsters",
"boosts",
"buttresses",
"reinforces",
"reenforces",
"advises",
"counsels",
"guides",
"mentors",
"nurtures",
"bails out",
"delivers",
"rescues",
"saves",
"emboldens",
"encourages",
"heartens",
"benefits",
"favors",
"obliges",
"profits",
"serves"
],
"near antonyms":[
"balks",
"bars",
"blocks",
"constrains",
"hampers",
"handicaps",
"holds back",
"impedes",
"inhibits",
"obstructs",
"restrains",
"strangles",
"baffles",
"foils",
"frustrates",
"inconveniences",
"interferes",
"opposes",
"sabotages",
"thwarts",
"deserts",
"disappoints",
"fails",
"lets down",
"discourages",
"disheartens",
"represses",
"retards",
"stifles",
"straitens",
"stunts",
"damages",
"harms",
"hurts",
"injures"
],
"antonyms":[
"hinders"
]
},
"type":[]
},
"stand up":{
"following the accepted rules of moral conduct":{
"examples":[
"a real stand-up guy, he's willing to raise the child\u2014by himself if necessary"
],
"synonyms":[
"decent",
"ethical",
"honest",
"honorable",
"just",
"noble",
"principled",
"respectable",
"righteous",
"upright",
"upstanding"
],
"near synonyms":[
"blameless",
"guiltless",
"irreproachable",
"unassailable",
"unimpeachable",
"chivalrous",
"classy",
"high-minded",
"menschy",
"right-minded",
"conscientious",
"fair",
"good",
"incorruptible",
"moral",
"reputable",
"respected",
"scrupulous",
"uncorrupted",
"virtuous",
"decorous",
"nice",
"polite",
"proper",
"seemly"
],
"near antonyms":[
"bad",
"blackguardly",
"corrupt",
"criminal",
"crooked",
"evil",
"immoral",
"iniquitous",
"knavish",
"mean",
"nefarious",
"rascally",
"reprehensible",
"roguish",
"rotten",
"scoundrelly",
"sinful",
"unfair",
"unscrupulous",
"vile",
"villainous",
"wicked",
"wretched",
"blamable",
"blameworthy",
"censurable",
"culpable",
"debased",
"debauched",
"decadent",
"degenerate",
"degraded",
"demoralized",
"depraved",
"disgraceful",
"disreputable",
"dissipated",
"dissolute",
"libertine",
"loose",
"perverse",
"perverted",
"profligate",
"reprobate",
"shameful",
"venal"
],
"antonyms":[
"base",
"dishonest",
"dishonorable",
"ignoble",
"low",
"unethical",
"unjust",
"unprincipled",
"unrighteous",
"unworthy"
]
},
"rising straight up":{
"examples":[
"a puppy with stand-up ears"
],
"synonyms":[
"erect",
"perpendicular",
"plumb",
"raised",
"standing",
"upright",
"upstanding",
"vertical"
],
"near synonyms":[
"elevated",
"lifted",
"upended",
"upraised",
"semierect",
"freestanding",
"stand-alone"
],
"near antonyms":[
"prostrate",
"supine",
"diagonal",
"hanging",
"sagging",
"slant",
"slanted",
"slanting",
"slanty"
],
"antonyms":[
"flat",
"recumbent"
]
},
"to withstand scrutiny and gain acceptance or approval":{
"examples":[
"a hypothesis that won't stand up to close analysis"
],
"synonyms":[
"fly",
"hold up",
"pass",
"wash"
],
"near synonyms":[
"get through",
"go down",
"go over",
"go through",
"play",
"take",
"work"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"as in improv":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"improv",
"burlesque",
"parody",
"satire",
"banter",
"drollery",
"persiflage",
"wit",
"high comedy",
"low comedy",
"foolery",
"fun",
"horseplay",
"knockabout",
"monkeyshine(s)",
"shenanigan(s)",
"comedy",
"farce",
"humor",
"slapstick"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"adjective",
"noun",
"verb"
]
},
"staid":{
"not joking or playful in mood or manner":{
"examples":[
"everyone was surprised by the racy joke from the usually staid professor"
],
"synonyms":[
"earnest",
"grave",
"humorless",
"no-nonsense",
"po-faced",
"sedate",
"serious",
"severe",
"sober",
"sobersided",
"solemn",
"uncomic",
"unsmiling",
"weighty"
],
"near synonyms":[
"harsh",
"stern",
"strict",
"businesslike",
"professional",
"dignified",
"distinguished",
"elevated",
"serious-minded",
"gloomy",
"grim"
],
"near antonyms":[
"antic",
"comic",
"comical",
"droll",
"farcical",
"funny",
"hilarious",
"hysterical",
"hysteric",
"laughable",
"light",
"light-headed",
"ludicrous",
"ridiculous",
"riotous",
"risible",
"screaming",
"sidesplitting",
"uproarious",
"featherbrained",
"flighty",
"frivolous",
"goofy",
"harebrained",
"lighthearted",
"puerile",
"scatterbrained",
"absurd",
"asinine",
"balmy",
"brainless",
"cockeyed",
"crazy",
"cuckoo",
"daffy",
"daft",
"dotty",
"fatuous",
"foolish",
"half-witted",
"insane",
"jerky",
"kooky",
"kookie",
"loony",
"looney",
"lunatic",
"mad",
"nonsensical",
"nutty",
"preposterous",
"sappy",
"screwball",
"senseless",
"silly",
"unwise",
"wacky",
"whacky",
"weak-minded",
"witless",
"zany"
],
"antonyms":[
"facetious",
"flip",
"flippant",
"humorous",
"jesting",
"jocular",
"joking",
"kittenish",
"ludic",
"playful"
]
},
"having or showing a formal and serious or reserved manner":{
"examples":[
"staid colors that would be good for business attire"
],
"synonyms":[
"august",
"dignified",
"distingu\u00e9",
"distinguished",
"imposing",
"portly",
"solemn",
"stately"
],
"near synonyms":[
"decorous",
"proper",
"seemly",
"grave",
"grim",
"po-faced",
"sober",
"somber",
"sombre",
"aristocratic",
"elegant",
"elevated",
"handsome",
"lordly",
"magisterial",
"majestic",
"noble"
],
"near antonyms":[
"coarse",
"crass",
"crude",
"improper",
"indecent",
"uncouth",
"unseemly",
"vulgar"
],
"antonyms":[
"flighty",
"frivolous",
"giddy",
"goofy",
"silly",
"undignified"
]
},
"type":[
"adjective"
]
},
"stared daggers":{
"to look with anger or disapproval":{
"examples":[
"He saw his brother look daggers at him and he realized he had said too much."
],
"synonyms":[
"frowned",
"glared",
"gloomed",
"glowered",
"lowered",
"loured",
"scowled"
],
"near synonyms":[
"gaped",
"gazed",
"ogled",
"stared",
"grimaced",
"pouted",
"sulked",
"growled",
"snarled",
"sneered",
"sniggered"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[
"beamed",
"grinned",
"smiled"
]
},
"type":[
"phrase"
]
},
"stamping":{
"to move heavily or clumsily":{
"examples":[
"stamping around in oversized boots"
],
"synonyms":[
"barging",
"clumping",
"flogging",
"floundering",
"galumphing",
"lumbering",
"lumping",
"plodding",
"pounding",
"scuffing",
"scuffling",
"shambling",
"shuffling",
"slogging",
"sloughing",
"stomping",
"stumbling",
"stumping",
"tramping",
"tromping",
"trudging"
],
"near synonyms":[
"dragging",
"flopping",
"hauling",
"blundering",
"careening",
"doddering",
"lurching",
"reeling",
"staggering",
"swaying",
"teetering",
"tottering",
"waddling",
"weaving",
"wobbling",
"wabbling"
],
"near antonyms":[
"drifting",
"floating",
"hanging",
"hovering",
"poising",
"wafting"
],
"antonyms":[
"breezing",
"coasting",
"gliding",
"sliding",
"waltzing",
"whisking"
]
},
"to tread on heavily so as to crush or injure":{
"examples":[
"stamped the grass down in a circle"
],
"synonyms":[
"champing",
"stomping",
"tramping",
"trampling",
"tromping"
],
"near synonyms":[
"overriding",
"running down",
"running over",
"stepping (on)",
"mashing",
"pulping",
"smashing",
"squashing",
"squelching",
"booting",
"hoofing",
"kicking"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"staidness":{
"a mental state free of jesting or trifling":{
"examples":[
"the staidness of the Quaker meeting was surprising to those accustomed to more exuberant services"
],
"synonyms":[
"earnest",
"earnestness",
"graveness",
"gravity",
"intentness",
"serious-mindedness",
"seriousness",
"soberness",
"sobriety",
"solemnity",
"solemnness"
],
"near synonyms":[
"gravitas",
"humorlessness",
"decisiveness",
"deliberation",
"determination",
"firmness",
"purposefulness",
"resoluteness",
"resolve",
"absorption",
"attentiveness",
"concentration",
"engrossment",
"enthrallment",
"immersion",
"intensity"
],
"near antonyms":[
"lightness",
"shallowness",
"superficiality",
"dalliance",
"dilettantism",
"cheerfulness",
"gaiety",
"gayety",
"glee",
"high-spiritedness",
"merriment",
"mirth"
],
"antonyms":[
"facetiousness",
"flightiness",
"flippancy",
"frivolity",
"frivolousness",
"levity",
"lightheartedness",
"lightness",
"play",
"unseriousness"
]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"stammered":{
"to speak with many pauses and repetitions":{
"examples":[
"He stammers when he's nervous."
],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"stuttered",
"babbled",
"bumbled",
"chatted",
"chattered",
"driveled",
"drivelled",
"drooled",
"gabbled",
"gibbered",
"jabbered",
"prattled",
"sputtered",
"blabbered",
"blathered",
"bleated",
"blithered",
"gabbed",
"jangled",
"jawed",
"pattered",
"prated",
"ran on",
"rattled",
"smattered",
"tittle-tattled",
"trolled",
"yakked",
"yacked",
"chuntered",
"maundered",
"mouthed",
"mumbled",
"murmured",
"muttered",
"screeched",
"shouted",
"shrieked"
],
"near antonyms":[
"articulated",
"enunciated",
"pronounced"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"standing up":{
"to withstand scrutiny and gain acceptance or approval":{
"examples":[
"a hypothesis that won't stand up to close analysis"
],
"synonyms":[
"flying",
"holding up",
"passing",
"washing"
],
"near synonyms":[
"getting through",
"going down",
"going over",
"going through",
"playing",
"taking",
"working"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"standing up for":{
"to drive danger or attack away from":{
"examples":[
"She always stood up for her little sister on the playground."
],
"synonyms":[
"bulwarking",
"covering",
"defending",
"fencing",
"fending",
"forfending",
"guarding",
"keeping",
"protecting",
"safeguarding",
"screening",
"securing",
"shielding",
"warding"
],
"near synonyms":[
"averting",
"preventing",
"opposing",
"resisting",
"withstanding",
"battling",
"contending",
"fighting",
"warring",
"conserving",
"preserving",
"saving",
"buffering",
"palisading",
"picketing",
"walling"
],
"near antonyms":[
"bombarding",
"storming",
"besetting",
"besieging",
"overrunning",
"capitulating",
"caving",
"submitting",
"yielding"
],
"antonyms":[
"assailing",
"assaulting",
"attacking"
]
},
"to continue to declare to be true or proper despite opposition or objections":{
"examples":[
"You have to stand up for the rules or there will be chaos."
],
"synonyms":[
"defending",
"justifying",
"maintaining",
"supporting",
"upholding"
],
"near synonyms":[
"advocating",
"championing",
"espousing",
"confirming",
"vindicating",
"warranting",
"affirming",
"asserting",
"averring",
"avouching",
"avowing",
"claiming",
"contending",
"insisting",
"pleading",
"proclaiming",
"professing",
"protesting",
"stating",
"arguing",
"debating",
"discussing",
"emphasizing",
"stressing",
"underlining",
"underscoring"
],
"near antonyms":[
"abandoning",
"abjuring",
"forsaking",
"recanting",
"retracting",
"taking back",
"withdrawing",
"reversing",
"switching",
"controverting",
"disproving",
"rebutting",
"refuting"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to promote the interests or cause of":{
"examples":[
"He stood up for the rights of those without a voice."
],
"synonyms":[
"advocating",
"backing",
"championing",
"endorsing",
"indorsing",
"patronizing",
"plumping (for)",
"plunking (for)",
"plonking (for)",
"supporting"
],
"near synonyms":[
"adopting",
"embracing",
"espousing",
"abetting",
"aiding",
"assisting",
"helping",
"propping (up)",
"seconding",
"siding (with)",
"backstopping",
"bolstering",
"boosting",
"buttressing",
"reinforcing",
"reenforcing",
"advancing",
"forwarding",
"furthering",
"plugging",
"preaching",
"talking up",
"bailing out",
"delivering",
"rescuing",
"saving"
],
"near antonyms":[
"baffling",
"foiling",
"frustrating",
"interfering",
"opposing",
"sabotaging",
"thwarting",
"deserting",
"disappointing",
"failing",
"letting down"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"phrase"
]
},
"staves off":{
"to drive back":{
"examples":[
"managed to stave off the invaders"
],
"synonyms":[
"beats off",
"fends (off)",
"rebuts",
"repels",
"repulses",
"turns away",
"turns back"
],
"near synonyms":[
"defies",
"fights",
"holds off",
"opposes",
"resists",
"stands off",
"withstands",
"deflects",
"wards (off)",
"rebuffs",
"snubs",
"spurns"
],
"near antonyms":[
"embraces",
"hails",
"welcomes"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to keep from happening by taking action in advance":{
"examples":[
"the quartermaster staved off a shortage by requisitioning more than enough supplies"
],
"synonyms":[
"averts",
"forestalls",
"heads off",
"helps",
"obviates",
"precludes",
"prevents"
],
"near synonyms":[
"anticipates",
"provides",
"negates",
"neutralizes",
"nullifies",
"saves",
"baffles",
"balks",
"checkmates",
"deters",
"foils",
"frustrates",
"thwarts",
"bars",
"blocks",
"hampers",
"hinders",
"impedes",
"interferes (with)",
"retards",
"stalls",
"deflects",
"fends (off)",
"stops",
"wards (off)",
"avoids",
"circumvents",
"dodges",
"ducks",
"eludes",
"escapes",
"eschews",
"evades",
"shakes",
"shirks",
"shuns",
"forbids",
"inhibits",
"prohibits",
"arrests",
"checks",
"halts",
"stops",
"compensates (for)",
"counteracts",
"counterbalances",
"makes up (for)",
"offsets"
],
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"abets",
"aids",
"assists",
"eases",
"facilitates",
"smooths",
"smoothes",
"unclogs",
"advances",
"cultivates",
"encourages",
"forwards",
"fosters",
"furthers",
"nurtures",
"promotes",
"allows",
"leaves",
"lets",
"permits"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"stab":{
"to penetrate or hold (something) with a pointed object":{
"examples":[
"stabbed the pesky leaf with the tines of the rake"
],
"synonyms":[
"gore",
"harpoon",
"impale",
"jab",
"lance",
"peck",
"pick",
"pierce",
"pink",
"puncture",
"run through",
"skewer",
"spear",
"spike",
"spit",
"stick",
"transfix",
"transpierce"
],
"near synonyms":[
"spindle",
"perforate",
"riddle",
"bayonet",
"dirk",
"gimlet",
"pike",
"poniard",
"prong",
"quill",
"pinprick",
"poke",
"prick",
"punch",
"thrust",
"cut",
"knife",
"slice"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"a mark or small hole made by a pointed instrument":{
"examples":[
"the injection left a small stab on her upper arm"
],
"synonyms":[
"perforation",
"pinhole",
"pinprick",
"prick",
"punch",
"puncture"
],
"near synonyms":[
"gouge",
"groove",
"hollow",
"break",
"cut",
"gash",
"incision",
"laceration",
"notch",
"rent",
"rip",
"rupture",
"slash",
"slit",
"tear"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"an effort to do or accomplish something":{
"examples":[
"everybody will get a stab at solving the problem"
],
"synonyms":[
"assay",
"attempt",
"bash",
"bid",
"crack",
"endeavor",
"essay",
"fling",
"go",
"offer",
"pass",
"shot",
"trial",
"try",
"whack",
"whirl"
],
"near synonyms":[
"striving",
"struggle",
"throes",
"undertaking",
"trial and error"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun",
"verb"
]
},
"stark naked":{
"lacking or shed of clothing":{
"examples":[
"His stress dreams frequently featured him standing stark naked in a crowd of people."
],
"synonyms":[
"au naturel",
"bare",
"bottomless",
"disrobed",
"mother-naked",
"naked",
"nude",
"raw",
"starkers",
"stripped",
"unclad",
"unclothed",
"undressed"
],
"near synonyms":[
"seminude",
"topless",
"denuded",
"peeled",
"unveiled"
],
"near antonyms":[
"covered",
"veiled",
"arrayed",
"caparisoned",
"decked (out)",
"rigged (out)",
"tricked (out)",
"vested",
"decent"
],
"antonyms":[
"appareled",
"apparelled",
"attired",
"clad",
"clothed",
"dressed",
"garbed",
"invested",
"robed",
"suited"
]
},
"type":[
"phrase"
]
},
"stances":{
"a general way of holding the body":{
"examples":[
"a slightly aggressive stance"
],
"synonyms":[
"attitudes",
"carriages",
"poises",
"postures",
"stations"
],
"near synonyms":[
"attentions",
"body languages",
"poses",
"seats",
"bearings",
"behaviors",
"conducts",
"demeanors",
"deportments",
"airs",
"presences",
"aspects",
"looks",
"miens"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"stayed (at)":{
"as in camped (out in) , stopped (over)":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"camped (out in)",
"sojourned (at)",
"stopped (over)",
"tarried (in)",
"called (on or upon)",
"dropped by",
"dropped in",
"popped (in)",
"ran (in)",
"infested",
"invaded",
"overran",
"swarmed",
"attended",
"took in",
"patronized",
"affected",
"frequented",
"habituated",
"haunted",
"hung (at)",
"hanged (at)",
"resorted (to)",
"visited"
],
"near antonyms":[
"avoided",
"shunned",
"dodged",
"ducked",
"eluded",
"escaped",
"eschewed",
"evaded",
"shook"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"Stalinists":{
"as in Bolsheviks , Leninists":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"Bolsheviks",
"Bolsheviki",
"Leninists",
"Leninites",
"Maoists",
"Marxists",
"Trotskyists",
"Trotskyites",
"lefties",
"leftists",
"pinkos",
"pinkoes",
"pinks",
"social democrats",
"extremists",
"radicals",
"revolutionaries",
"revolutionists",
"commies",
"communists",
"comrades",
"Reds",
"socialists"
],
"near antonyms":[
"capitalists"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"stalwartly":{
"in a fearless manner":{
"examples":[
"Rachel Carson stalwartly championed the cause of environmentalism long before it was popular"
],
"synonyms":[
"boldly",
"bravely",
"courageously",
"dauntlessly",
"doughtily",
"fearlessly",
"gallantly",
"gutsily",
"heroically",
"intrepidly",
"manfully",
"stoutheartedly",
"valiantly",
"valorously"
],
"near synonyms":[
"determinedly",
"firmly",
"gamely",
"grittily",
"pluckily",
"resolutely",
"spiritedly",
"spunkily",
"stoutly",
"adventurously",
"audaciously",
"daringly",
"hardily",
"venturesomely",
"venturously",
"self-confidently",
"crazily",
"foolishly",
"insanely",
"brashly",
"brazenly",
"foolhardily",
"heedlessly",
"hotheadedly",
"impetuously",
"imprudently",
"impulsively",
"incautiously",
"overconfidently",
"rashly",
"recklessly",
"thoughtlessly",
"wildly",
"hastily",
"precipitately"
],
"near antonyms":[
"diffidently",
"mousily",
"shyly",
"skittishly",
"timidly",
"anxiously",
"apprehensively",
"nervously",
"carefully",
"cautiously",
"heedfully",
"prudently"
],
"antonyms":[
"cowardly",
"cravenly",
"fearfully",
"pusillanimously",
"spinelessly",
"spiritlessly",
"timorously"
]
},
"type":[
"adverb"
]
},
"stand for":{
"to give permission for or to approve of":{
"examples":[
"They would not stand for their children missing curfew."
],
"synonyms":[
"allow",
"green-light",
"have",
"permit",
"suffer"
],
"near synonyms":[
"authorize",
"commission",
"license",
"licence",
"accede (to)",
"acquiesce",
"agree (to)",
"assent (to)",
"consent (to)",
"OK",
"okay",
"warrant",
"accord",
"concede",
"grant",
"sanction",
"vouchsafe",
"admit",
"brook",
"condone",
"countenance",
"endure",
"support",
"tolerate"
],
"near antonyms":[
"hinder",
"impede",
"obstruct",
"censure",
"disallow",
"disapprove",
"deny",
"interdict",
"refuse",
"reject",
"revoke",
"suppress",
"withhold",
"deplore",
"discountenance",
"disfavor",
"dislike",
"frown (at or on)",
"grudge",
"check",
"curb",
"keep",
"repress",
"restrain"
],
"antonyms":[
"ban",
"enjoin",
"forbid",
"prohibit",
"proscribe",
"veto"
]
},
"to put up with (something painful or difficult)":{
"examples":[
"The nanny did not stand for whining from the children."
],
"synonyms":[
"abide",
"absorb",
"accept",
"bear",
"bide",
"brook",
"countenance",
"endure",
"go",
"hack",
"handle",
"meet",
"pocket",
"stand",
"stick out",
"stomach",
"support",
"sustain",
"sweat out",
"take",
"tolerate",
"wear"
],
"near synonyms":[
"allow",
"permit",
"suffer",
"swallow",
"reconcile (to)",
"acquiesce",
"agree (with or to)",
"assent (to)",
"capitulate",
"consent (to)",
"respect",
"submit (to)",
"yield (to)"
],
"near antonyms":[
"decline",
"dismiss",
"refuse",
"reject",
"repudiate",
"spurn",
"turn down",
"combat",
"contest",
"fight",
"oppose",
"resist",
"avoid",
"bypass",
"circumvent",
"dodge",
"elude",
"escape",
"evade",
"miss",
"abstain (from)",
"forbear",
"refrain (from)"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to serve as a material counterpart of":{
"examples":[
"He got a tattoo that stood for his love of fishing."
],
"synonyms":[
"emblematize",
"represent",
"symbolize"
],
"near synonyms":[
"body",
"embody",
"epitomize",
"incarnate",
"manifest",
"materialize",
"objectify",
"personalize",
"personify",
"exemplify",
"illustrate"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"phrase"
]
},
"stabs":{
"to penetrate or hold (something) with a pointed object":{
"examples":[
"stabbed the pesky leaf with the tines of the rake"
],
"synonyms":[
"gores",
"harpoons",
"impales",
"jabs",
"lances",
"pecks",
"picks",
"pierces",
"pinks",
"punctures",
"runs through",
"skewers",
"spears",
"spikes",
"spits",
"sticks",
"transfixes",
"transpierces"
],
"near synonyms":[
"spindles",
"perforates",
"riddles",
"bayonets",
"dirks",
"gimlets",
"pikes",
"poniards",
"prongs",
"quills",
"pinpricks",
"pokes",
"pricks",
"punches",
"thrusts",
"cuts",
"knifes",
"slices"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"a mark or small hole made by a pointed instrument":{
"examples":[
"the injection left a small stab on her upper arm"
],
"synonyms":[
"perforations",
"pinholes",
"pinpricks",
"pricks",
"punches",
"punctures"
],
"near synonyms":[
"gouges",
"grooves",
"hollows",
"breaks",
"cuts",
"gashes",
"incisions",
"lacerations",
"notches",
"rents",
"rips",
"ruptures",
"slashes",
"slits",
"tears"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"an effort to do or accomplish something":{
"examples":[
"everybody will get a stab at solving the problem"
],
"synonyms":[
"assays",
"attempts",
"bashes",
"bids",
"cracks",
"endeavors",
"essays",
"flings",
"goes",
"offers",
"passes",
"shots",
"trials",
"tries",
"whacks",
"whirls"
],
"near synonyms":[
"strivings",
"struggles",
"throes",
"undertakings",
"trial and errors"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun",
"verb"
]
},
"staving off":{
"to drive back":{
"examples":[
"managed to stave off the invaders"
],
"synonyms":[
"beating off",
"fending (off)",
"rebutting",
"repelling",
"repulsing",
"turning away",
"turning back"
],
"near synonyms":[
"defying",
"fighting",
"holding off",
"opposing",
"resisting",
"standing off",
"withstanding",
"deflecting",
"warding (off)",
"rebuffing",
"snubbing",
"spurning"
],
"near antonyms":[
"embracing",
"hailing",
"welcoming"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to keep from happening by taking action in advance":{
"examples":[
"the quartermaster staved off a shortage by requisitioning more than enough supplies"
],
"synonyms":[
"averting",
"forestalling",
"heading off",
"helping",
"obviating",
"precluding",
"preventing"
],
"near synonyms":[
"anticipating",
"providing",
"negating",
"neutralizing",
"nullifying",
"saving",
"baffling",
"balking",
"checkmating",
"deterring",
"foiling",
"frustrating",
"thwarting",
"barring",
"blocking",
"hampering",
"hindering",
"impeding",
"interfering (with)",
"retarding",
"stalling",
"deflecting",
"fending (off)",
"stopping",
"warding (off)",
"avoiding",
"circumventing",
"dodging",
"ducking",
"eluding",
"escaping",
"eschewing",
"evading",
"shaking",
"shirking",
"shunning",
"forbidding",
"inhibiting",
"prohibiting",
"arresting",
"checking",
"halting",
"stopping",
"compensating (for)",
"counteracting",
"counterbalancing",
"making up (for)",
"offsetting"
],
"near antonyms":[
"abetting",
"aiding",
"assisting",
"easing",
"facilitating",
"smoothing",
"unclogging",
"advancing",
"cultivating",
"encouraging",
"forwarding",
"fostering",
"furthering",
"nurturing",
"promoting",
"allowing",
"leaving",
"letting",
"permitting"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"standing army":{
"as in militia , national guard":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"militia",
"national guard",
"army",
"array",
"battalion",
"host",
"legion",
"infantry",
"ranks",
"regulars",
"soldiers",
"troopers",
"troops"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"stacks up (against or with)":{
"to come near or nearer to in character or quality":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[
"approaches",
"approximates",
"compares (with)",
"measures up (to)"
],
"near synonyms":[
"adds up (to)",
"amounts (to)",
"comes (to)",
"duplicates",
"equals",
"matches",
"mirrors",
"parallels",
"reflects",
"borders (on)",
"touches (on)",
"verges (on)"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[]
},
"states":{
"a body of people composed of one or more nationalities usually with its own territory and government":{
"examples":[
"the British monarch is the head of state , while the prime minister is the head of the government"
],
"synonyms":[
"commonwealths",
"countries",
"lands",
"nations",
"sovereignties",
"sovranties"
],
"near synonyms":[
"city-states",
"microstates",
"ministates",
"nation-states",
"domains",
"dominions",
"empires",
"kingdoms",
"realms",
"republics",
"duchies",
"dukedoms",
"emirates",
"principalities",
"seigniories",
"seignories",
"sultanates",
"democracies",
"dictatorships",
"monarchies",
"monocracies",
"oligarchies",
"sovereigns",
"sovrans",
"theocracies",
"client states",
"colonies",
"condominiums",
"condominia",
"dependencies",
"mandates",
"provinces",
"settlements",
"soil",
"trust territories",
"fatherlands",
"homelands",
"motherlands",
"great powers",
"powers",
"sea powers",
"superpowers",
"world powers",
"welfare states"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to convey in appropriate or telling terms":{
"examples":[
"please state the vehicle's mechanical problem as clearly and briefly as possible"
],
"synonyms":[
"articulates",
"clothes",
"couches",
"expresses",
"formulates",
"phrases",
"puts",
"says",
"words"
],
"near synonyms":[
"crafts",
"frames",
"hints",
"implies",
"insinuates",
"intimates",
"suggests",
"paraphrases",
"rephrases",
"restates",
"rewords",
"summarizes",
"translates",
"communicates",
"discloses",
"speaks",
"talks",
"tells",
"utters",
"verbalizes",
"vocalizes",
"describes",
"renders",
"writes up"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to express (a thought or emotion) in words":{
"examples":[
"\"I believe this theory is wrong,\" she stated"
],
"synonyms":[
"articulates",
"brings out",
"enunciates",
"passes",
"says",
"speaks",
"talks",
"tells",
"utters",
"verbalizes",
"vocalizes"
],
"near synonyms":[
"airs",
"discusses",
"gives",
"looks",
"shares",
"sounds",
"ventilates",
"vents",
"voices",
"blabbers",
"blurts",
"bolts",
"gets off",
"shoots",
"advertises",
"announces",
"blazes",
"broadcasts",
"declares",
"posts",
"proclaims",
"promulgates",
"publicizes",
"publishes",
"affirms",
"alleges",
"asserts",
"avers",
"avouches",
"avows",
"breathes",
"chirps",
"drawls",
"gasps",
"lips",
"mouths",
"murmurs",
"purrs",
"shouts",
"splutters",
"spouts",
"whispers",
"clothes",
"couches",
"formulates",
"formulizes",
"phrases",
"puts",
"words",
"comments",
"pipes up (with)",
"remarks",
"rips (out)",
"snarls"
],
"near antonyms":[
"stifles",
"suppresses"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to make known (as an idea, emotion, or opinion)":{
"examples":[
"everyone has a right to state his or her opinion, no matter how unpopular it may be"
],
"synonyms":[
"airs",
"expounds",
"expresses",
"gives",
"looks",
"raises",
"sounds",
"ventilates",
"vents",
"voices"
],
"near synonyms":[
"advertises",
"announces",
"declares",
"enounces",
"enunciates",
"proclaims",
"says",
"broadcasts",
"circulates",
"disseminates",
"publishes",
"describes",
"writes",
"writes up",
"sounds off",
"speaks out",
"speaks up",
"chimes in",
"communicates",
"conveys",
"puts across",
"puts over",
"offers",
"submits"
],
"near antonyms":[
"censors",
"restrains",
"restricts"
],
"antonyms":[
"stifles",
"suppresses"
]
},
"type":[
"noun",
"verb"
]
},
"standbys":{
"something or someone to which one looks for support":{
"examples":[
"our old standby in times of trouble"
],
"synonyms":[
"anchors",
"buttresses",
"dependences",
"dependances",
"mainstays",
"pillars",
"reliances"
],
"near synonyms":[
"backbones",
"sinews",
"spines",
"right hands",
"bolsterers",
"crutches",
"handmaidens",
"handmaids",
"props",
"stays",
"anchorages",
"harbors",
"refuges"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"starless":{
"as in moonless , sunless":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"moonless",
"sunless",
"crepuscular",
"twilit",
"cloudy",
"dull",
"dulled",
"lackluster",
"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",
"shadowlike",
"shadowy",
"shady",
"gray",
"grey",
"leaden",
"pale",
"beclouded",
"befogged",
"clouded",
"foggy",
"fuliginous",
"misty",
"smoggy",
"soupy"
],
"near antonyms":[
"bright",
"brightened",
"brilliant",
"illuminated",
"illumined",
"light",
"lightsome",
"lit",
"lighted",
"lucent",
"lucid",
"luminous",
"ablaze",
"agleam",
"aglitter",
"alight",
"beaming",
"beamy",
"effulgent",
"glaring",
"glowing",
"incandescent",
"lambent",
"radiant",
"relucent",
"resplendent",
"shining",
"sparkling",
"ultrabright",
"glossy",
"lustrous",
"shiny",
"floodlit",
"floodlighted",
"highlighted",
"spotlighted",
"spotlit",
"moonlit",
"moony",
"starlit",
"sunlit"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"adjective"
]
},
"stadiums":{
"a large usually roofless building for sporting events with tiers of seats for spectators":{
"examples":[
"the football game will be held at the new stadium , which seats 100,000 people"
],
"synonyms":[
"bowls",
"circuses",
"coliseums",
"colosseums"
],
"near synonyms":[
"ballparks",
"parks",
"gymnasiums",
"gymnasia",
"gyms",
"spas",
"arenas",
"domes",
"hippodromes"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"status quos":{
"the state or fact of being the way things usually are":{
"examples":[
"civic leaders who are afraid to do anything that might change the town's status quo"
],
"synonyms":[
"normalcy",
"normality"
],
"near synonyms":[
"groove",
"routine",
"rut",
"currency",
"prevalence",
"conventionality",
"harmony",
"orderliness",
"peace"
],
"near antonyms":[
"irregularity",
"uncommonness",
"unusualness",
"disorderliness",
"disruptiveness",
"disruption",
"disturbance",
"anomalousness",
"deviance",
"exceptionalness",
"extraordinariness",
"noteworthiness",
"remarkableness",
"unconventionality"
],
"antonyms":[
"abnormality"
]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"stay (at)":{
"as in camp (out in) , stop (over)":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"camp (out in)",
"sojourn (at)",
"stop (over)",
"tarry (in)",
"call (on or upon)",
"drop by",
"drop in",
"pop (in)",
"run (in)",
"infest",
"invade",
"overrun",
"swarm",
"attend",
"take in",
"patronize",
"affect",
"frequent",
"habituate",
"hang (at)",
"haunt",
"resort (to)",
"visit"
],
"near antonyms":[
"avoid",
"shun",
"dodge",
"duck",
"elude",
"escape",
"eschew",
"evade",
"shake"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
}
}