dict_dl/en_MW_thesaurus/an_mwt.json
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{
"anal-retentive":{
"extremely or overly neat, careful, or precise":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"My anal-retentive brother keeps records of everything that happens in his life."
],
"near antonyms":[],
"related":[],
"synonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"adjective"
]
},
"analog":{
"something that is similar to something else in design, origin, use, etc.; something that is analogous to something else":{
"examples":[
"a modern analog to what happened before",
"the synthetic analog of a chemical found in a tropical tree",
"a meat analogue such as tofu"
],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"parallel",
"alter ego",
"carbon",
"carbon copy",
"clone",
"counterpart",
"doppelg\u00e4nger",
"doppelganger",
"double",
"duplicate",
"duplication",
"facsimile",
"fetch",
"image",
"likeness",
"look-alike",
"match",
"mirror image",
"picture",
"replica",
"ringer",
"spit",
"spitting image",
"twin",
"Chinese copy",
"effigy",
"portrait",
"portrayal",
"companion",
"fellow",
"mate",
"equal",
"equivalent"
],
"near antonyms":[
"antithesis",
"converse",
"opposite",
"reverse"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"analyze":{
"to identify and examine the basic elements or parts of (something) especially for discovering interrelationships":{
"examples":[
"analyze the park's ecosystem before deciding whether hunting should be allowed"
],
"synonyms":[
"anatomize",
"assay",
"break down",
"cut",
"deconstruct",
"dissect"
],
"near synonyms":[
"assess",
"diagnose",
"evaluate",
"examine",
"inspect",
"investigate",
"scrutinize",
"arrange",
"assort",
"catalog",
"catalogue",
"categorize",
"classify",
"codify",
"diagram",
"enumerate",
"index",
"order",
"schematize",
"sort",
"tabulate",
"divide",
"reduce",
"segment",
"separate",
"subdivide"
],
"near antonyms":[
"agglomerate",
"aggregate",
"amalgamate",
"assimilate",
"coalesce",
"conglomerate",
"consolidate",
"integrate",
"synthesize",
"unify"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"analyzing":{
"to identify and examine the basic elements or parts of (something) especially for discovering interrelationships":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"analyze the park's ecosystem before deciding whether hunting should be allowed"
],
"near antonyms":[
"agglomerating",
"aggregating",
"amalgamating",
"assimilating",
"coalescing",
"conglomerating",
"consolidating",
"integrating",
"synthesizing",
"unifying"
],
"related":[
"assessing",
"diagnosing",
"evaluating",
"examining",
"inspecting",
"investigating",
"scrutinizing",
"arranging",
"assorting",
"cataloging",
"cataloguing",
"categorizing",
"classifying",
"codifying",
"diagramming",
"diagraming",
"enumerating",
"indexing",
"ordering",
"schematizing",
"sorting",
"tabulating",
"dividing",
"reducing",
"segmenting",
"separating",
"subdividing"
],
"synonyms":[
"anatomizing",
"assaying",
"breaking down",
"cutting",
"deconstructing",
"dissecting"
]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"anamneses":{
"a particular act or instance of recalling or the thing remembered":{
"examples":[
"an extended, highly fruitful anamnesis that was triggered by the simple act of biting into a madeleine"
],
"synonyms":[
"memories",
"recalls",
"recollections",
"remembrances",
"reminiscences"
],
"near synonyms":[
"flashbacks",
"mementos",
"mementoes",
"memorials",
"reminders",
"souvenirs",
"tokens",
"associations"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"anathema":{
"a prayer that harm will come to someone":{
"examples":[
"uttered an anathema before driving the would-be robber from the his shop"
],
"synonyms":[
"ban",
"curse",
"execration",
"imprecation",
"malediction",
"malison",
"winze"
],
"near synonyms":[
"censure",
"condemnation",
"damnation",
"denunciation",
"excommunication",
"hex",
"hoodoo",
"jinx",
"mojo",
"spell",
"voodoo",
"whammy",
"pox"
],
"near antonyms":[
"citation",
"commendation",
"endorsement",
"indorsement"
],
"antonyms":[
"benediction",
"benison",
"blessing"
]
},
"something or someone that is hated":{
"examples":[
"the use of animals in the testing of cosmetics is anathema to animal-rights activists"
],
"synonyms":[
"abhorrence",
"abomination",
"antipathy",
"aversion",
"b\u00eate noire",
"detestation",
"execration",
"hate"
],
"near synonyms":[
"dread",
"hang-up",
"horror",
"phobia",
"bogey",
"bogie",
"bogy",
"bugaboo",
"bugbear",
"adversary",
"enemy",
"annoyance",
"grievance",
"hassle",
"nuisance",
"peeve"
],
"near antonyms":[
"beloved",
"darling",
"dear",
"honey",
"sweetheart",
"delight",
"enjoyment",
"felicity",
"joy",
"pleasure",
"favorite",
"like",
"preference",
"treasure"
],
"antonyms":[
"love"
]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"anatomize":{
"to identify and examine the basic elements or parts of (something) especially for discovering interrelationships":{
"examples":[
"if you anatomize the problem, you'll see it stems from a combination of her bad behavior and your unwillingness to speak to her about it"
],
"synonyms":[
"analyze",
"assay",
"break down",
"cut",
"deconstruct",
"dissect"
],
"near synonyms":[
"assess",
"diagnose",
"evaluate",
"examine",
"inspect",
"investigate",
"scrutinize",
"arrange",
"assort",
"catalog",
"catalogue",
"categorize",
"classify",
"codify",
"diagram",
"enumerate",
"index",
"order",
"schematize",
"sort",
"tabulate",
"divide",
"reduce",
"segment",
"separate",
"subdivide"
],
"near antonyms":[
"agglomerate",
"aggregate",
"amalgamate",
"assimilate",
"coalesce",
"conglomerate",
"consolidate",
"integrate",
"synthesize",
"unify"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"anatomizes":{
"to identify and examine the basic elements or parts of (something) especially for discovering interrelationships":{
"examples":[
"if you anatomize the problem, you'll see it stems from a combination of her bad behavior and your unwillingness to speak to her about it"
],
"synonyms":[
"analyzes",
"assays",
"breaks down",
"cuts",
"deconstructs",
"dissects"
],
"near synonyms":[
"assesses",
"diagnoses",
"evaluates",
"examines",
"inspects",
"investigates",
"scrutinizes",
"arranges",
"assorts",
"catalogs",
"catalogues",
"categorizes",
"classifies",
"codifies",
"diagrams",
"enumerates",
"indexes",
"orders",
"schematizes",
"sorts",
"tabulates",
"divides",
"reduces",
"segments",
"separates",
"subdivides"
],
"near antonyms":[
"agglomerates",
"aggregates",
"amalgamates",
"assimilates",
"coalesces",
"conglomerates",
"consolidates",
"integrates",
"synthesizes",
"unifies"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"anchorage":{
"a part of a body of water protected and deep enough to be a place of safety for ships":{
"examples":[
"sailed into a quiet anchorage to wait out the storm"
],
"synonyms":[
"harbor",
"harborage",
"haven",
"port"
],
"near synonyms":[
"basin",
"dock",
"marina",
"moorage",
"mooring",
"arm",
"bay",
"bight",
"cove",
"creek",
"embayment",
"estuary",
"firth",
"fjord",
"fiord",
"gulf",
"inlet",
"lagoon",
"loch",
"lough",
"narrow",
"roads",
"roadstead",
"canal",
"channel",
"sound",
"strait",
"containerport",
"home port",
"seaport"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"anchorwoman":{
"as in anchorman , coanchor":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[],
"near antonyms":[],
"related":[],
"synonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"anesthetizing":{
"as in numbing , anesthetic":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"analgesic",
"anesthetic",
"benumbing",
"deadening",
"dulling",
"numbing",
"calming",
"comforting",
"lulling",
"pacifying",
"quieting",
"relaxing",
"restful",
"settling",
"soothing",
"hypnotizing",
"mesmerizing",
"stupefying",
"depressant",
"relaxant",
"sedative",
"tranquilizing",
"tranquillizing",
"drowsy",
"hypnotic",
"narcotic",
"opiate",
"sleepy",
"slumberous",
"slumbrous",
"somniferous",
"somnolent",
"soporific"
],
"near antonyms":[
"stimulant",
"arousing",
"awakening",
"energizing",
"invigorating",
"rousing",
"stimulating",
"wakening",
"waking",
"bracing",
"refreshing",
"restorative",
"reviving",
"stimulative",
"stimulatory"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"adjective"
]
},
"angered":{
"feeling or showing anger":{
"antonyms":[
"angerless",
"delighted",
"pleased"
],
"examples":[
"angered residents demanded to know why their street hadn't been plowed three days after the snowstorm"
],
"near antonyms":[
"accepting",
"accommodating",
"obliging",
"agreeable",
"amenable",
"complaisant",
"amicable",
"cordial",
"friendly",
"content",
"happy",
"satisfied",
"empathetic",
"sympathetic",
"tolerant",
"understanding",
"calm",
"pacific",
"peaceable",
"placid",
"serene",
"tranquil",
"unembittered",
"affable",
"amiable",
"easygoing",
"genial",
"good-natured",
"good-tempered",
"kind",
"pleasant",
"sweet"
],
"related":[
"ranting",
"raving",
"stormy",
"boiling",
"bristling",
"bristly",
"burning",
"cross",
"huffy",
"passionate",
"seething",
"sizzling",
"smoldering",
"smouldering",
"worked up",
"wrought (up)",
"acrid",
"acrimonious",
"antagonistic",
"antipathetic",
"bitter",
"embittered",
"inimical",
"malevolent",
"piqued",
"rancorous",
"resentful",
"spiteful",
"vengeful",
"vindictive",
"virulent",
"vitriolic",
"antisocial",
"cold",
"cool",
"disagreeable",
"disapproving",
"distant",
"frigid",
"icy",
"ill-tempered",
"sorehead",
"soreheaded",
"sulky",
"unfriendly",
"unpleasant",
"aggravated",
"annoyed",
"bearish",
"bilious",
"cantankerous",
"churlish",
"crabby",
"cranky",
"dyspeptic",
"exasperated",
"fretful",
"fussy",
"grouchy",
"grumpy",
"ill-humored",
"inflammable",
"irascible",
"irritable",
"peevish",
"perturbed",
"petulant",
"put out",
"quick-tempered",
"snappish",
"testy",
"touchy",
"argumentative",
"belligerent",
"contentious",
"contrary",
"disputatious",
"ornery",
"pugnacious",
"quarrelsome",
"querulous"
],
"synonyms":[
"angry",
"apoplectic",
"ballistic",
"cheesed off",
"choleric",
"enraged",
"foaming",
"fuming",
"furious",
"hopping",
"horn-mad",
"hot",
"incensed",
"indignant",
"inflamed",
"enflamed",
"infuriate",
"infuriated",
"irate",
"ireful",
"livid",
"mad",
"outraged",
"rabid",
"rankled",
"riled",
"riley",
"roiled",
"shirty",
"sore",
"steamed up",
"steaming",
"teed off",
"ticked",
"wrathful",
"wroth"
]
},
"to make angry":{
"antonyms":[
"delighted",
"gratified",
"pleased"
],
"examples":[
"it's virtually impossible to anger Mrs. Peterson\u2014she's the most easygoing person I've ever known"
],
"near antonyms":[
"allayed",
"assuaged",
"relieved",
"comforted",
"consoled",
"soothed",
"appeased",
"conciliated",
"mollified",
"pacified",
"placated",
"calmed",
"lulled",
"quieted",
"settled",
"beguiled",
"bewitched",
"captivated",
"charmed",
"disarmed",
"enchanted"
],
"related":[
"affronted",
"aggravated",
"annoyed",
"burned (up)",
"burnt (up)",
"crossed",
"exasperated",
"got",
"huffed",
"irritated",
"miffed",
"nettled",
"offended",
"peeved",
"piqued",
"provoked",
"put out",
"ruffled",
"vexed",
"vext",
"antagonized",
"embittered",
"envenomed"
],
"synonyms":[
"enraged",
"incensed",
"inflamed",
"enflamed",
"infuriated",
"ired",
"madded",
"maddened",
"outraged",
"rankled",
"riled",
"roiled",
"steamed up",
"ticked off"
]
},
"type":[
"adjective",
"verb"
]
},
"angle":{
"a certain way in which something appears or may be regarded":{
"examples":[
"from this angle , that car looks gray, not brown"
],
"synonyms":[
"aspect",
"facet",
"hand",
"phase",
"side"
],
"near synonyms":[
"air",
"appearance",
"character",
"color",
"complexion",
"condition",
"face",
"look",
"semblance",
"shape",
"state",
"visage",
"period",
"stage",
"step",
"outlook",
"perspective",
"position",
"posture",
"shoes",
"slant",
"stance",
"standpoint",
"view",
"viewpoint",
"interpretation",
"reading",
"rendering",
"translation",
"version",
"article",
"case",
"component",
"count",
"detail",
"dimension",
"element",
"factor",
"instance",
"item",
"matter",
"part",
"particular",
"point",
"regard",
"respect"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"a way of looking at or thinking about something":{
"examples":[
"what's your angle on the problem?"
],
"synonyms":[
"eye view",
"outlook",
"perspective",
"shoes",
"slant",
"standpoint",
"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":[]
},
"something that curves or is curved":{
"examples":[
"the road around the peninsula is all angles and hairpin turns"
],
"synonyms":[
"arc",
"arch",
"bend",
"bow",
"crook",
"curvature",
"curve",
"inflection",
"turn",
"wind"
],
"near synonyms":[
"kink",
"warp",
"circle",
"ring",
"ringlet",
"round",
"coil",
"curl",
"curlicue",
"curlycue",
"buckle",
"convolution",
"flexure",
"fold",
"loop",
"spiral",
"swirl",
"twist",
"winding",
"incurvature",
"reflection",
"decline",
"inclination",
"incline",
"slope",
"corner",
"turnoff",
"dogleg",
"hairpin"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to set or cause to be at an angle":{
"examples":[
"angle the camera this way and the Leaning Tower of Pisa will look straight"
],
"synonyms":[
"cant",
"cock",
"heel",
"incline",
"lean",
"list",
"pitch",
"slant",
"slope",
"tilt",
"tip"
],
"near synonyms":[
"bank",
"bend",
"deviate",
"swerve",
"veer",
"decline",
"descend",
"recline",
"retreat"
],
"near antonyms":[
"even",
"flatten",
"level",
"straighten"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun",
"verb"
]
},
"angle (for)":{
"as in fish (for)":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"fish (for)",
"ask (for)",
"court",
"flirt (with)",
"invite",
"woo",
"hunt",
"search",
"seek",
"provoke",
"tempt"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"as in plot , intrigue":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"compass",
"intrigue",
"plot",
"scheme",
"arrange",
"concert",
"conclude",
"hammer out",
"work out",
"connive",
"contrive",
"engineer",
"finagle",
"finesse",
"frame",
"machinate",
"maneuver",
"manipulate",
"mastermind",
"negotiate",
"wangle",
"brew",
"concoct",
"cook (up)",
"hatch",
"captain",
"command",
"conduct",
"direct",
"handle",
"manage",
"quarterback",
"run",
"gerrymander"
],
"near antonyms":[
"blow",
"bobble",
"botch",
"bungle",
"butcher",
"flub",
"fumble",
"gum (up)",
"louse up",
"mangle",
"mess (up)",
"mishandle",
"muff"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"angling":{
"the act of positioning or an instance of being positioned at an angle":{
"examples":[
"his angling of the picture made everything else on the wall look crooked"
],
"synonyms":[
"bend",
"cock",
"inclination",
"list",
"tilt",
"tip"
],
"near synonyms":[
"turn",
"twist",
"veer",
"bow",
"dip",
"nod"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to set or cause to be at an angle":{
"examples":[
"angle the camera this way and the Leaning Tower of Pisa will look straight"
],
"synonyms":[
"canting",
"cocking",
"heeling",
"inclining",
"leaning",
"listing",
"pitching",
"slanting",
"sloping",
"tilting",
"tipping"
],
"near synonyms":[
"banking",
"bending",
"deviating",
"swerving",
"veering",
"declining",
"descending",
"reclining",
"retreating"
],
"near antonyms":[
"evening",
"flattening",
"leveling",
"levelling",
"straightening"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun",
"verb"
]
},
"angry":{
"feeling or showing anger":{
"examples":[
"my sister gets really angry and practically throws a tantrum if her soccer team loses"
],
"synonyms":[
"angered",
"apoplectic",
"ballistic",
"cheesed off",
"choleric",
"enraged",
"foaming",
"fuming",
"furious",
"hopping",
"horn-mad",
"hot",
"incensed",
"indignant",
"inflamed",
"enflamed",
"infuriate",
"infuriated",
"irate",
"ireful",
"livid",
"mad",
"outraged",
"rabid",
"rankled",
"riled",
"riley",
"roiled",
"shirty",
"sore",
"steamed up",
"steaming",
"teed off",
"ticked",
"wrathful",
"wroth"
],
"near synonyms":[
"ranting",
"raving",
"stormy",
"boiling",
"bristling",
"bristly",
"burning",
"cross",
"huffy",
"passionate",
"seething",
"sizzling",
"smoldering",
"smouldering",
"worked up",
"wrought (up)",
"acrid",
"acrimonious",
"antagonistic",
"antipathetic",
"bitter",
"embittered",
"inimical",
"malevolent",
"piqued",
"rancorous",
"resentful",
"spiteful",
"vengeful",
"vindictive",
"virulent",
"vitriolic",
"antisocial",
"cold",
"cool",
"disagreeable",
"disapproving",
"distant",
"frigid",
"icy",
"ill-tempered",
"sorehead",
"soreheaded",
"sulky",
"unfriendly",
"unpleasant",
"aggravated",
"annoyed",
"bearish",
"bilious",
"cantankerous",
"churlish",
"crabby",
"cranky",
"dyspeptic",
"exasperated",
"fretful",
"fussy",
"grouchy",
"grumpy",
"ill-humored",
"inflammable",
"irascible",
"irritable",
"peevish",
"perturbed",
"petulant",
"put out",
"quick-tempered",
"snappish",
"testy",
"touchy",
"argumentative",
"belligerent",
"contentious",
"contrary",
"disputatious",
"ornery",
"pugnacious",
"quarrelsome",
"querulous"
],
"near antonyms":[
"accepting",
"accommodating",
"obliging",
"agreeable",
"amenable",
"complaisant",
"amicable",
"cordial",
"friendly",
"content",
"happy",
"satisfied",
"empathetic",
"sympathetic",
"tolerant",
"understanding",
"calm",
"pacific",
"peaceable",
"placid",
"serene",
"tranquil",
"unembittered",
"affable",
"amiable",
"easygoing",
"genial",
"good-natured",
"good-tempered",
"kind",
"pleasant",
"sweet"
],
"antonyms":[
"angerless",
"delighted",
"pleased"
]
},
"type":[
"adjective"
]
},
"anguishing":{
"to cause persistent suffering to":{
"examples":[
"she was anguished by the fear that her sons would die in the war"
],
"synonyms":[
"afflicting",
"agonizing",
"bedeviling",
"besetting",
"besieging",
"cursing",
"excruciating",
"harrowing",
"persecuting",
"plaguing",
"racking",
"tormenting",
"torturing"
],
"near synonyms":[
"assailing",
"attacking",
"badgering",
"dogging",
"hounding",
"pursuing",
"riding",
"aggravating",
"agitating",
"annoying",
"bothering",
"bugging",
"chafing",
"distressing",
"disturbing",
"exasperating",
"galling",
"getting",
"grating",
"griping",
"hagriding",
"harassing",
"harrying",
"irking",
"irritating",
"molesting",
"nettling",
"peeving",
"pestering",
"piquing",
"putting out",
"rasping",
"riling",
"vexing",
"discomforting",
"discomposing",
"disquieting",
"flustering",
"grieving",
"perturbing",
"straining",
"stressing",
"troubling",
"trying",
"upsetting",
"worrying",
"crushing",
"oppressing",
"overpowering",
"overwhelming",
"smiting",
"striking",
"tyrannizing",
"victimizing",
"hurting",
"paining",
"panging",
"pricking",
"smarting",
"stabbing",
"stinging",
"wringing",
"martyring"
],
"near antonyms":[
"abetting",
"aiding",
"assisting",
"helping",
"delivering",
"releasing",
"relieving",
"reprieving",
"comforting",
"consoling",
"contenting",
"quieting",
"solacing",
"soothing",
"succoring"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to feel deep sadness or mental pain":{
"examples":[
"I anguished over the loss of my father for years afterwards"
],
"synonyms":[
"agonizing",
"bleeding",
"grieving",
"hurting",
"mourning",
"sorrowing",
"suffering"
],
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"aching",
"longing (for)",
"pining (away)",
"sighing",
"smarting",
"racking",
"tormenting",
"torturing",
"bemoaning",
"bewailing",
"deploring",
"lamenting",
"ruing",
"bawling",
"blubbering",
"crying",
"groaning",
"howling",
"keening",
"moaning",
"sobbing",
"taking on",
"wailing",
"weeping",
"yammering",
"yowling",
"languishing",
"regretting"
],
"near antonyms":[
"beaming",
"cheering",
"crowing",
"delighting",
"exulting",
"glorying",
"joying",
"laughing",
"ravishing",
"rejoicing",
"triumphing",
"assuring",
"cheering",
"comforting",
"commiserating",
"consoling",
"reassuring",
"solacing",
"soothing",
"sympathizing"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"animated":{
"having much high-spirited energy and movement":{
"antonyms":[
"dead",
"inactive",
"inanimate",
"lackadaisical",
"languid",
"languishing",
"languorous",
"leaden",
"lifeless",
"limp",
"listless",
"spiritless",
"vapid"
],
"examples":[
"an animated group of girls loudly running down the hall"
],
"near antonyms":[
"indolent",
"lazy",
"unambitious",
"inert",
"lethargic",
"sleepy",
"sluggish",
"tired",
"torpid",
"weary",
"apathetic",
"impassive",
"phlegmatic",
"stolid",
"boring",
"dull",
"irksome",
"tedious"
],
"related":[
"dapper",
"dashing",
"spiffy",
"agog",
"alert",
"awake",
"open-eyed",
"up",
"wide-awake",
"agile",
"nimble",
"spry",
"bright",
"buoyant",
"cheerful",
"chipper",
"chirpy",
"chirrupy",
"effervescent",
"sparkly",
"upbeat",
"eager",
"enthusiastic",
"keen",
"frolicsome",
"impish",
"pixieish",
"playful",
"boisterous",
"bubbly",
"ebullient",
"exuberant",
"high-spirited",
"high-strung",
"nervous",
"skittish"
],
"synonyms":[
"active",
"airy",
"animate",
"bouncing",
"brisk",
"energetic",
"frisky",
"gay",
"jaunty",
"jazzy",
"kinetic",
"lively",
"mettlesome",
"peppy",
"perky",
"pert",
"pizzazzy",
"pizazzy",
"racy",
"snappy",
"spanking",
"sparky",
"spirited",
"sprightly",
"springy",
"vital",
"vivacious",
"zippy"
]
},
"marked by much life, movement, or activity":{
"antonyms":[
"asleep",
"dead",
"inactive",
"lifeless",
"sleepy"
],
"examples":[
"an animated marketplace full of vendors and holiday shoppers"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"related":[
"abounding",
"crowded",
"overflowing",
"populous",
"swarming",
"teeming",
"thronging"
],
"synonyms":[
"aboil",
"abubble",
"abuzz",
"alive",
"astir",
"brisk",
"bustling",
"busy",
"buzzing",
"flourishing",
"happening",
"hopping",
"humming",
"kinetic",
"lively",
"rousing",
"stirring",
"thriving",
"vibrant"
]
},
"to give life, vigor, or spirit to":{
"antonyms":[
"damped",
"dampened",
"deadened",
"dulled",
"killed"
],
"examples":[
"Mr. Clark animates history for his sixth graders by frequently showing up for class dressed like some famous historical figure"
],
"near antonyms":[
"burned out",
"burnt out",
"debilitated",
"did in",
"drained",
"enervated",
"enfeebled",
"exhausted",
"fagged",
"fatigued",
"harassed",
"kayoed",
"knocked out",
"sapped",
"tuckered (out)",
"undermined",
"washed out",
"weakened",
"wearied",
"wore",
"wore out",
"checked",
"curbed",
"inhibited",
"jaded",
"quelled",
"quenched",
"repressed",
"restrained",
"slowed",
"stilled",
"stunted",
"suppressed",
"daunted",
"demoralized",
"discouraged",
"disheartened",
"dispirited"
],
"related":[
"aroused",
"awakened",
"awoke",
"awaked",
"raised",
"roused",
"stirred",
"woke (up)",
"waked (up)",
"activated",
"actuated",
"drove",
"impelled",
"motivated",
"motived",
"moved",
"propelled",
"charged",
"electrified",
"galvanized",
"enkindled",
"excited",
"fermented",
"fomented",
"incited",
"inflamed",
"enflamed",
"instigated",
"kindled",
"provoked",
"set off",
"sparked",
"triggered",
"turned on",
"whipped (up)",
"abetted",
"boosted",
"buoyed",
"cheered",
"emboldened",
"fortified",
"heartened",
"infused",
"inspired",
"lifted",
"rallied",
"steeled",
"strengthened",
"reactivated",
"reanimated",
"reawakened",
"reawoke",
"reawaked",
"recharged",
"recreated",
"reenergized",
"re-energized",
"refreshed",
"refreshened",
"regenerated",
"reinvigorated",
"rejuvenated",
"rekindled",
"renewed",
"restimulated",
"resurrected",
"resuscitated",
"revitalized",
"revived"
],
"synonyms":[
"amped (up)",
"braced",
"energized",
"enlivened",
"filliped",
"fired",
"gingered (up)",
"invigorated",
"jazzed (up)",
"juiced up",
"jump-started",
"livened (up)",
"pepped (up)",
"quickened",
"spiked",
"stimulated",
"vitalized",
"vivified",
"zipped (up)"
]
},
"type":[
"adjective",
"verb"
]
},
"animateness":{
"as in exuberance , vibrancy":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[],
"near antonyms":[],
"related":[],
"synonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"animosity":{
"a deep-seated ill will":{
"examples":[
"his open animosity towards us made our meeting very uncomfortable"
],
"synonyms":[
"animus",
"antagonism",
"antipathy",
"bad blood",
"bitterness",
"enmity",
"gall",
"grudge",
"hostility",
"jaundice",
"rancor"
],
"near synonyms":[
"blood feud",
"feud",
"score",
"vendetta",
"hate",
"hatred",
"loathing",
"vindictiveness",
"virulence",
"vitriol",
"alienation",
"disaffection",
"estrangement",
"conflict",
"coolness",
"discord",
"friction",
"strain",
"tension",
"inhospitableness",
"unfriendliness",
"malice",
"malignancy",
"malignity",
"spite",
"spitefulness",
"venom"
],
"near antonyms":[
"amiability",
"amicability",
"civility",
"cordiality",
"friendliness",
"hospitality",
"neighborliness",
"comity",
"empathy",
"friendship",
"goodwill",
"sympathy",
"understanding"
],
"antonyms":[
"amity"
]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"annexation":{
"as in confiscation , assumption":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"assumption",
"attachment",
"confiscation",
"grab",
"impoundment",
"repossession",
"sequestration",
"appropriation",
"arrogation",
"commandeering",
"detainer",
"expropriation",
"preemption",
"seizure",
"takeover",
"usurpation",
"defalcation",
"embezzlement",
"misapplication",
"misappropriation",
"misuse",
"peculation",
"theft",
"despoilment",
"looting",
"pillaging",
"encroachment",
"infringement",
"piracy",
"invasion",
"occupancy",
"occupation",
"preoccupancy",
"trespass",
"deforcement",
"disfurnishment",
"dispossession",
"ejection",
"stripping"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"annexed":{
"to join (something) to a mass, quantity, or number so as to bring about an overall increase":{
"antonyms":[
"abated",
"bated",
"deducted",
"knocked off",
"removed",
"subtracted",
"took off"
],
"examples":[
"plans to annex the supply room so as to make the classroom bigger"
],
"near antonyms":[
"detached",
"disconnected",
"disjoined",
"separated",
"unfastened",
"amputated",
"cut",
"excised",
"lopped (off)",
"severed",
"contracted",
"decreased",
"diminished",
"lessened",
"lowered",
"reduced",
"abbreviated",
"abridged",
"curtailed",
"shortened",
"compressed",
"condensed",
"constricted",
"cut back",
"retrenched"
],
"related":[
"affixed",
"attached",
"fastened",
"fixed",
"grafted",
"hitched",
"tagged",
"tied",
"infused",
"injected",
"inserted",
"interfused",
"introduced",
"aggrandized",
"amplified",
"augmented",
"beefed (up)",
"boosted",
"compounded",
"enlarged",
"escalated",
"expanded",
"extended",
"increased",
"multiplied",
"raised",
"swelled (up)",
"elongated",
"lengthened",
"prolonged",
"protracted",
"enhanced",
"heightened",
"intensified",
"magnified",
"complemented",
"supplemented",
"supplied",
"enforced",
"reinforced",
"reenforced",
"strengthened",
"maximized"
],
"synonyms":[
"added",
"adjoined",
"appended",
"subjoined",
"tacked (on)"
]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"annexing":{
"to join (something) to a mass, quantity, or number so as to bring about an overall increase":{
"examples":[
"plans to annex the supply room so as to make the classroom bigger"
],
"synonyms":[
"adding",
"adjoining",
"appending",
"subjoining",
"tacking (on)"
],
"near synonyms":[
"affixing",
"attaching",
"fastening",
"fixing",
"grafting",
"hitching",
"tagging",
"tying",
"tieing",
"infusing",
"injecting",
"inserting",
"interfusing",
"introducing",
"aggrandizing",
"amplifying",
"augmenting",
"beefing (up)",
"boosting",
"compounding",
"enlarging",
"escalating",
"expanding",
"extending",
"increasing",
"multiplying",
"raising",
"swelling (up)",
"elongating",
"lengthening",
"prolonging",
"protracting",
"enhancing",
"heightening",
"intensifying",
"magnifying",
"complementing",
"supplementing",
"supplying",
"enforcing",
"reinforcing",
"reenforcing",
"strengthening",
"maximizing"
],
"near antonyms":[
"detaching",
"disconnecting",
"disjoining",
"separating",
"unfastening",
"amputating",
"cutting",
"excising",
"lopping (off)",
"severing",
"contracting",
"decreasing",
"diminishing",
"lessening",
"lowering",
"reducing",
"abbreviating",
"abridging",
"curtailing",
"shortening",
"compressing",
"condensing",
"constricting",
"cutting back",
"retrenching"
],
"antonyms":[
"abating",
"bating",
"deducting",
"knocking off",
"removing",
"subtracting",
"taking off"
]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"annihilate":{
"to destroy all traces of":{
"examples":[
"the family's attempts to annihilate the roach population in their apartment had met with little success"
],
"synonyms":[
"abolish",
"black out",
"blot out",
"cancel",
"clean (up)",
"efface",
"eradicate",
"erase",
"expunge",
"exterminate",
"extirpate",
"liquidate",
"obliterate",
"root (out)",
"rub out",
"snuff (out)",
"stamp (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":[]
},
"to bring to a complete end the physical soundness, existence, or usefulness of":{
"examples":[
"the tornado simply annihilated the family's home"
],
"synonyms":[
"cream",
"decimate",
"demolish",
"desolate",
"destroy",
"devastate",
"do in",
"extinguish",
"nuke",
"pull down",
"pulverize",
"raze",
"rub out",
"ruin",
"shatter",
"smash",
"tear down",
"total",
"vaporize",
"waste",
"wrack",
"wreck"
],
"near synonyms":[
"beat",
"best",
"clobber",
"conquer",
"crush",
"defeat",
"drub",
"lick",
"master",
"overbear",
"overcome",
"overmatch",
"prevail (over)",
"rout",
"scotch",
"skunk",
"subdue",
"surmount",
"thrash",
"trim",
"triumph (over)",
"trounce",
"wallop",
"whip",
"win (against)",
"blast",
"blow up",
"break",
"cripple",
"damage",
"deface",
"deteriorate",
"disfigure",
"disintegrate",
"dissolve",
"dynamite",
"harm",
"impair",
"injure",
"mangle",
"mar",
"mutilate",
"spoil",
"vitiate",
"erode",
"scour",
"sweep (away)",
"wash out",
"wear (away)",
"dilapidate",
"disassemble",
"dismantle",
"gut",
"take down",
"unbuild",
"undo",
"unmake",
"blot out",
"efface",
"eradicate",
"expunge",
"exterminate",
"extirpate",
"liquidate",
"obliterate",
"remove",
"root (out)",
"snuff (out)",
"stamp (out)",
"wipe out",
"despoil",
"havoc",
"loot",
"pillage",
"plunder",
"ravage",
"sack",
"trample",
"trash",
"vandalize",
"assassinate",
"butcher",
"cut down",
"dispatch",
"execute",
"fell",
"kill",
"kill off",
"massacre",
"mow (down)",
"murder",
"slaughter",
"slay",
"take out",
"zap"
],
"near antonyms":[
"doctor",
"fix",
"mend",
"patch",
"recondition",
"repair",
"revamp",
"create",
"invent",
"assemble",
"fabricate",
"fashion",
"forge",
"form",
"frame",
"make",
"manufacture",
"mold",
"produce",
"shape",
"bring about",
"constitute",
"establish",
"father",
"found",
"institute",
"organize",
"conserve",
"preserve",
"protect",
"save",
"rebuild",
"reconstruct",
"remodel",
"renovate",
"restore"
],
"antonyms":[
"build",
"construct",
"erect",
"put up",
"raise",
"rear",
"set up"
]
},
"to defeat by a large margin":{
"examples":[
"we didn't just win; we absolutely annihilated them!"
],
"synonyms":[
"blow away",
"bomb",
"bury",
"clobber",
"cream",
"drub",
"dust",
"flatten",
"paste",
"rout",
"shellac",
"skin",
"skunk",
"smoke",
"smother",
"snow under",
"thrash",
"trim",
"tromp",
"trounce",
"wallop",
"wax",
"whip",
"whomp",
"whop",
"whap",
"whup"
],
"near synonyms":[
"sweep",
"upset",
"beat",
"best",
"conquer",
"dispatch",
"hurdle",
"lick",
"master",
"overbear",
"overcome",
"overmatch",
"prevail (over)",
"subdue",
"surmount",
"take",
"throw",
"triumph (over)",
"win (against)",
"worst",
"crush",
"knock off",
"knock over",
"overpower",
"overthrow",
"overwhelm",
"subjugate",
"upend",
"vanquish",
"ace (out)",
"better",
"eclipse",
"exceed",
"outdistance",
"outdo",
"outfight",
"outshine",
"outstrip",
"overtop",
"surpass",
"top",
"transcend",
"edge (out)",
"nose out",
"pip",
"cap",
"excel",
"flourish",
"score",
"succeed",
"break",
"destroy",
"do in",
"finish",
"sink",
"slaughter"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"annihilated":{
"to destroy all traces of":{
"examples":[
"the family's attempts to annihilate the roach population in their apartment had met with little success"
],
"synonyms":[
"abolished",
"blacked out",
"blotted out",
"canceled",
"cancelled",
"cleaned (up)",
"effaced",
"eradicated",
"erased",
"expunged",
"exterminated",
"extirpated",
"liquidated",
"obliterated",
"rooted (out)",
"rubbed out",
"snuffed (out)",
"stamped (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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},
"to bring to a complete end the physical soundness, existence, or usefulness of":{
"examples":[
"the tornado simply annihilated the family's home"
],
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"creamed",
"decimated",
"demolished",
"desolated",
"destroyed",
"devastated",
"did in",
"extinguished",
"nuked",
"pulled down",
"pulverized",
"razed",
"rubbed out",
"ruined",
"shattered",
"smashed",
"tore down",
"totaled",
"totalled",
"vaporized",
"wasted",
"wracked",
"wrecked"
],
"near synonyms":[
"beat",
"bested",
"clobbered",
"conquered",
"crushed",
"defeated",
"drubbed",
"licked",
"mastered",
"overbore",
"overcame",
"overmatched",
"prevailed (over)",
"routed",
"scotched",
"skunked",
"subdued",
"surmounted",
"thrashed",
"trimmed",
"triumphed (over)",
"trounced",
"walloped",
"whipped",
"won (against)",
"blasted",
"blew up",
"broke",
"crippled",
"damaged",
"defaced",
"deteriorated",
"disfigured",
"disintegrated",
"dissolved",
"dynamited",
"harmed",
"impaired",
"injured",
"mangled",
"marred",
"mutilated",
"spoiled",
"spoilt",
"vitiated",
"eroded",
"scoured",
"swept (away)",
"washed out",
"wore (away)",
"dilapidated",
"disassembled",
"dismantled",
"gutted",
"took down",
"unbuilt",
"undid",
"unmade",
"blotted out",
"effaced",
"eradicated",
"expunged",
"exterminated",
"extirpated",
"liquidated",
"obliterated",
"removed",
"rooted (out)",
"snuffed (out)",
"stamped (out)",
"wiped out",
"despoiled",
"havocked",
"looted",
"pillaged",
"plundered",
"ravaged",
"sacked",
"trampled",
"trashed",
"vandalized",
"assassinated",
"butchered",
"cut down",
"dispatched",
"executed",
"felled",
"killed",
"killed off",
"massacred",
"mowed (down)",
"murdered",
"slaughtered",
"slew",
"took out",
"zapped"
],
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"doctored",
"fixed",
"mended",
"patched",
"reconditioned",
"repaired",
"revamped",
"created",
"invented",
"assembled",
"fabricated",
"fashioned",
"forged",
"formed",
"framed",
"made",
"manufactured",
"molded",
"produced",
"shaped",
"brought about",
"constituted",
"established",
"fathered",
"founded",
"instituted",
"organized",
"conserved",
"preserved",
"protected",
"saved",
"rebuilt",
"reconstructed",
"remodeled",
"renovated",
"restored"
],
"antonyms":[
"built",
"constructed",
"erected",
"put up",
"raised",
"reared",
"set up"
]
},
"to defeat by a large margin":{
"examples":[
"we didn't just win; we absolutely annihilated them!"
],
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"blew away",
"bombed",
"buried",
"clobbered",
"creamed",
"drubbed",
"dusted",
"flattened",
"pasted",
"routed",
"shellacked",
"skinned",
"skunked",
"smoked",
"smothered",
"snowed under",
"thrashed",
"trimmed",
"tromped",
"trounced",
"walloped",
"waxed",
"whipped",
"whomped",
"whopped",
"whapped",
"whupped"
],
"near synonyms":[
"swept",
"upset",
"beat",
"bested",
"conquered",
"dispatched",
"hurdled",
"licked",
"mastered",
"overbore",
"overcame",
"overmatched",
"prevailed (over)",
"subdued",
"surmounted",
"threw",
"took",
"triumphed (over)",
"won (against)",
"worsted",
"crushed",
"knocked off",
"knocked over",
"overpowered",
"overthrew",
"overwhelmed",
"subjugated",
"upended",
"vanquished",
"aced (out)",
"bettered",
"eclipsed",
"exceeded",
"outdid",
"outdistanced",
"outfought",
"outshone",
"outshined",
"outstripped",
"overtopped",
"surpassed",
"topped",
"transcended",
"edged (out)",
"nosed out",
"pipped",
"capped",
"excelled",
"flourished",
"scored",
"succeeded",
"broke",
"destroyed",
"did in",
"finished",
"sank",
"sunk",
"slaughtered"
],
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"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"annihilation":{
"the state or fact of being rendered nonexistent, physically unsound, or useless":{
"examples":[
"idealists who seek the annihilation of all forms of prejudice"
],
"synonyms":[
"decimation",
"demolishment",
"demolition",
"desolation",
"destruction",
"devastation",
"extermination",
"extinction",
"havoc",
"loss",
"mincemeat",
"obliteration",
"ruin",
"ruination",
"wastage",
"wreckage"
],
"near synonyms":[
"depredation",
"despoilment",
"despoliation",
"breakup",
"collapse",
"disintegration",
"dissolution",
"assassination",
"execution",
"killing",
"massacre",
"slaughter",
"dismantlement",
"effacement",
"eradication"
],
"near antonyms":[
"rescue",
"salvage",
"salvation",
"saving",
"conservation",
"preservation",
"protection",
"reclamation",
"reconstruction",
"re-creation",
"refurbishment",
"regeneracy",
"remodeling",
"renovation",
"restoration"
],
"antonyms":[
"building",
"construction",
"erection",
"raising"
]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"annotator":{
"as in analyst , commentator":{
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"near synonyms":[
"analyst",
"columnist",
"commentator",
"observer",
"critic",
"pundit",
"reviewer",
"appraiser",
"evaluator",
"judge",
"referee"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"announced":{
"as in published , declared":{
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"near synonyms":[
"advertised",
"aired",
"broadcast",
"declared",
"disclosed",
"divulged",
"heralded",
"posted",
"proclaimed",
"promulgated",
"publicized",
"published",
"spotlighted",
"nonclassified",
"unclassified",
"well-known",
"current",
"prevalent",
"rife",
"widespread",
"general",
"popular",
"communal",
"shared",
"open",
"public",
"reported",
"reputed",
"rumored"
],
"near antonyms":[
"confidential",
"private",
"privy",
"secret",
"classified",
"unadvertised",
"unannounced",
"undisclosed",
"clandestine",
"collusive",
"conspiratorial",
"covert",
"surreptitious",
"undercover",
"underhand",
"underhanded",
"intimate",
"personal",
"concealed",
"repressed",
"reserved",
"silenced",
"stifled",
"suppressed",
"withheld",
"recanted",
"retracted",
"revoked"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to make known openly or publicly":{
"examples":[
"the excited coworker announced to everyone within hearing distance that she and her husband were expecting"
],
"synonyms":[
"advertised",
"annunciated",
"blared",
"blazed",
"blazoned",
"broadcast",
"broadcasted",
"declared",
"enunciated",
"flashed",
"gave out",
"heralded",
"placarded",
"posted",
"proclaimed",
"promulgated",
"publicized",
"published",
"released",
"sounded",
"trumpeted"
],
"near synonyms":[
"barked",
"called (off or out)",
"cried",
"billboarded",
"billed",
"bulletined",
"gazetted",
"knelled",
"rang",
"tolled",
"blurbed",
"featured",
"pitched",
"plugged",
"promoted",
"puffed",
"disseminated",
"spread",
"disclosed",
"divulged",
"introduced",
"kithed",
"kythed",
"manifested",
"reported",
"revealed",
"showed",
"advised",
"apprised",
"handed down",
"informed",
"notified",
"communicated",
"imparted",
"intimated"
],
"near antonyms":[
"concealed",
"hushed (up)",
"silenced",
"suppressed",
"withheld",
"recalled",
"recanted",
"retracted",
"revoked"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"adjective",
"verb"
]
},
"announcements":{
"a published statement informing the public of a matter of general interest":{
"examples":[
"an announcement was in today's paper regarding the merger of the two banks"
],
"synonyms":[
"ads",
"advertisements",
"adverts",
"bulletins",
"communiqu\u00e9s",
"notices",
"notifications",
"postings",
"releases"
],
"near synonyms":[
"broadsides",
"brochures",
"circulars",
"flyers",
"fliers",
"fly sheets",
"gazettes",
"handbills",
"handouts",
"billboards",
"bills",
"placards",
"playbills",
"posters",
"show bills",
"signs",
"broadcasts",
"cablecasts",
"newscasts",
"telecasts",
"advertisings",
"billings",
"blurbs",
"come-ons",
"commercials",
"messages",
"pitches",
"plugolas",
"spots",
"words",
"communications",
"dispatches",
"reports",
"annunciations",
"declarations",
"edicts",
"proclamations",
"promulgations",
"pronouncements",
"pronunciamentos",
"pronunciamentoes",
"rescripts",
"significations",
"ballyhoos",
"boosts",
"buildups",
"campaigns",
"plugs",
"promos",
"promotions",
"propagandas",
"publicities"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"annoyance":{
"one who is obnoxiously annoying":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"younger brothers can be an annoyance sometimes"
],
"near antonyms":[
"charmer",
"smoothy",
"smoothie",
"comforter",
"solacer",
"soother"
],
"related":[
"headache",
"harrier",
"heckler",
"interrupter",
"interruptor",
"hassle",
"plague",
"harasser",
"molester",
"tormentor",
"tormenter",
"torturer"
],
"synonyms":[
"annoyer",
"bother",
"gadfly",
"gnawer",
"nudnik",
"nudnick",
"nuisance",
"pain",
"persecutor",
"pest",
"tease",
"teaser"
]
},
"something that is a source of irritation":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"flashing ads, visual clutter, and other annoyances that are the price for free information on the Internet"
],
"near antonyms":[
"delight",
"joy",
"pleasure"
],
"related":[
"discomfort",
"fleabite",
"pinprick",
"affront",
"insult",
"offense",
"offence",
"upset",
"worry",
"affliction",
"albatross",
"burden",
"cross",
"curse",
"menace",
"millstone",
"plague",
"sore",
"anxiety",
"plight",
"predicament",
"tribulation",
"trouble",
"hang-up",
"pet peeve",
"problem",
"annoyer",
"disturber",
"harasser",
"mischief",
"offender",
"pandora's box"
],
"synonyms":[
"aggravation",
"aggro",
"bother",
"botheration",
"bugbear",
"exasperation",
"frustration",
"hair shirt",
"hassle",
"headache",
"inconvenience",
"irk",
"irritant",
"nuisance",
"peeve",
"pest",
"rub",
"ruffle",
"thorn",
"trial",
"vexation"
]
},
"the act of making unwelcome intrusions upon another":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"they have an unlisted number in the hopes that it will reduce the constant annoyance by telemarketers"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"related":[
"aggro",
"molestation",
"offense",
"offence",
"persecution",
"provocation",
"torment",
"torture",
"devilment",
"devilry",
"mischief"
],
"synonyms":[
"aggravation",
"bedevilment",
"botheration",
"bothering",
"bugging",
"disturbance",
"harassment",
"harrying",
"importunity",
"pestering",
"teasing",
"vexation"
]
},
"the feeling of impatience or anger caused by another's repeated disagreeable acts":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"Carlene made known her annoyance at having to pick up her sister's dirty clothes"
],
"near antonyms":[
"delight",
"pleasure"
],
"related":[
"agitation",
"discomfort",
"displeasure",
"distress",
"disturbance",
"upset",
"irritability",
"irritableness",
"peeve",
"perturbation",
"pet",
"pique",
"resentment",
"snappishness",
"trouble",
"anger",
"angriness",
"chafe",
"dander",
"dudgeon",
"gall",
"huff",
"indignation",
"irateness",
"ire",
"outrage",
"umbrage"
],
"synonyms":[
"aggravation",
"aggro",
"bother",
"botheration",
"exasperation",
"frustration",
"grief",
"irritation",
"pip",
"vexation"
]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"annoyer":{
"one who is obnoxiously annoying":{
"examples":[
"a bratty annoyer who wouldn't leave me alone"
],
"synonyms":[
"annoyance",
"bother",
"gadfly",
"gnawer",
"nudnik",
"nudnick",
"nuisance",
"pain",
"persecutor",
"pest",
"tease",
"teaser"
],
"near synonyms":[
"headache",
"harrier",
"heckler",
"interrupter",
"interruptor",
"hassle",
"plague",
"harasser",
"molester",
"tormentor",
"tormenter",
"torturer"
],
"near antonyms":[
"charmer",
"smoothy",
"smoothie",
"comforter",
"solacer",
"soother"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"annoys":{
"to disturb the peace of mind of (someone) especially by repeated disagreeable acts":{
"examples":[
"deliberately annoyed the elderly neighbor by walking across his lawn"
],
"synonyms":[
"aggravates",
"bothers",
"bugs",
"burns (up)",
"chafes",
"eats",
"exasperates",
"frosts",
"galls",
"gets",
"grates",
"gripes",
"hacks (off)",
"irks",
"irritates",
"itches",
"narks",
"nettles",
"peeves",
"persecutes",
"piques",
"puts out",
"rasps",
"riles",
"ruffles",
"spites",
"vexes"
],
"near synonyms":[
"hassles",
"heckles",
"nags",
"inflames",
"enflames",
"provokes",
"rouses",
"badgers",
"baits",
"bullyrags",
"ballyrags",
"devils",
"hagrides",
"harasses",
"harries",
"pesters",
"plagues",
"teases",
"angers",
"antagonizes",
"enrages",
"incenses",
"infuriates",
"maddens",
"rankles",
"roils",
"agitates",
"discomforts",
"discomposes",
"disquiets",
"distresses",
"exercises",
"freaks (out)",
"frets",
"perturbs",
"undoes",
"unhinges",
"unsettles",
"upsets",
"worries",
"affronts",
"insults",
"miffs",
"offends",
"outrages"
],
"near antonyms":[
"appeases",
"conciliates",
"mollifies",
"obliges",
"pacifies",
"placates",
"propitiates",
"delights",
"gladdens",
"gratifies",
"pleases",
"satisfies",
"assures",
"cheers",
"comforts",
"consoles",
"contents",
"quiets",
"reassures",
"solaces",
"soothes"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"annul":{
"to balance with an equal force so as to make ineffective":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"unfortunately, his arrogant attitude annuls the many generous favors he does for people"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"related":[
"invalidate",
"negate",
"neuter",
"nullify",
"atone (for)",
"outbalance",
"outweigh",
"redeem",
"redress",
"relieve",
"remedy",
"override",
"overrule"
],
"synonyms":[
"cancel (out)",
"compensate (for)",
"correct",
"counteract",
"counterbalance",
"counterpoise",
"make up (for)",
"negative",
"neutralize",
"offset"
]
},
"to put an end to by formal action":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"plans to annul their short-lived, ill-advised marriage"
],
"near antonyms":[
"enact",
"lay down",
"legislate",
"establish",
"found",
"institute",
"formalize",
"legalize",
"legitimate",
"legitimize",
"validate",
"pass",
"ratify",
"allow",
"approve",
"authorize",
"clear",
"endorse",
"indorse",
"permit",
"sanction",
"warrant",
"command",
"decree",
"mandate",
"order",
"prescribe"
],
"related":[
"countermand",
"override",
"overrule",
"overturn",
"veto",
"abort",
"call",
"call off",
"drop",
"recall",
"retract",
"reverse",
"revoke",
"suspend",
"withdraw",
"ban",
"enjoin",
"forbid",
"outlaw",
"prohibit",
"disallow",
"dismiss",
"reject",
"annihilate",
"break down",
"eliminate",
"eradicate",
"erase",
"liquidate",
"remove",
"throw out",
"write off"
],
"synonyms":[
"abate",
"abolish",
"abrogate",
"avoid",
"cancel",
"disannul",
"dissolve",
"invalidate",
"negate",
"null",
"nullify",
"quash",
"repeal",
"rescind",
"roll back",
"strike down",
"vacate",
"void"
]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"annular":{
"as in circular , discoidal":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"circular",
"disciform",
"discoid",
"discoidal",
"disklike",
"hooplike",
"ringlike",
"global",
"globular",
"round",
"spherical",
"curved",
"looped",
"spiral",
"balled",
"bulbous",
"rotund",
"rounded",
"roundish",
"cylindrical",
"cylindric",
"elliptical",
"elliptic",
"oblong",
"oval",
"ovate",
"ovoid",
"ovoidal"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"adjective"
]
},
"annulling":{
"to balance with an equal force so as to make ineffective":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"unfortunately, his arrogant attitude annuls the many generous favors he does for people"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"related":[
"invalidating",
"negating",
"neutering",
"nullifying",
"atoning (for)",
"outbalancing",
"outweighing",
"redeeming",
"redressing",
"relieving",
"remedying",
"overriding",
"overruling"
],
"synonyms":[
"canceling (out)",
"cancelling (out)",
"compensating (for)",
"correcting",
"counteracting",
"counterbalancing",
"counterpoising",
"making up (for)",
"negativing",
"neutralizing",
"offsetting"
]
},
"to put an end to by formal action":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"plans to annul their short-lived, ill-advised marriage"
],
"near antonyms":[
"enacting",
"laying down",
"legislating",
"establishing",
"founding",
"instituting",
"formalizing",
"legalizing",
"legitimating",
"legitimizing",
"validating",
"passing",
"ratifying",
"allowing",
"approving",
"authorizing",
"clearing",
"endorsing",
"indorsing",
"permitting",
"sanctioning",
"warranting",
"commanding",
"decreeing",
"mandating",
"ordering",
"prescribing"
],
"related":[
"countermanding",
"overriding",
"overruling",
"overturning",
"vetoing",
"aborting",
"calling",
"calling off",
"dropping",
"recalling",
"retracting",
"reversing",
"revoking",
"suspending",
"withdrawing",
"banning",
"enjoining",
"forbidding",
"outlawing",
"prohibiting",
"disallowing",
"dismissing",
"rejecting",
"annihilating",
"breaking down",
"eliminating",
"eradicating",
"erasing",
"liquidating",
"removing",
"throwing out",
"writing off"
],
"synonyms":[
"abating",
"abolishing",
"abrogating",
"avoiding",
"canceling",
"cancelling",
"disannulling",
"dissolving",
"invalidating",
"negating",
"nullifying",
"nulling",
"quashing",
"repealing",
"rescinding",
"rolling back",
"striking down",
"vacating",
"voiding"
]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"annulment":{
"the doing away with something by formal action":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"an annulment of that hastily conceived marriage can't come too soon"
],
"near antonyms":[
"enactment",
"legislation",
"establishment",
"founding",
"institution",
"formalization",
"legalization",
"legitimation",
"legitimization",
"validation",
"passing",
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"override",
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"overturn",
"veto",
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"reversal",
"revocation",
"suspension",
"withdrawal",
"banning",
"enjoining",
"forbiddance",
"outlawing",
"prohibition",
"disallowance",
"dismissal",
"rejection",
"elimination",
"eradication",
"erasure",
"liquidation",
"removal"
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"abolishment",
"abolition",
"abrogation",
"avoidance",
"cancellation",
"cancelation",
"defeasance",
"dissolution",
"invalidation",
"negation",
"nullification",
"quashing",
"repeal",
"rescindment",
"voiding"
]
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"noun"
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"a politician is wise to annunciate past minor transgressions before the media make something major of them"
],
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"blares",
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"blazons",
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"gives out",
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"placards",
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"publicizes",
"publishes",
"releases",
"sounds",
"trumpets"
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"calls (off or out)",
"cries",
"billboards",
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"gazettes",
"knells",
"rings",
"tolls",
"blurbs",
"features",
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"plugs",
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"kithes",
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"reports",
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"shows",
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"apprises",
"hands down",
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"hushes (up)",
"silences",
"suppresses",
"withholds",
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"recants",
"retracts",
"revokes"
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"sounding",
"trumpeting"
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"gazetting",
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"showing",
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"apprising",
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"withholding",
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"retracting",
"revoking"
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"telecast",
"advertising",
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"pitch",
"plugola",
"spot",
"word",
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"dispatch",
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"boost",
"buildup",
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"plug",
"promo",
"promotion",
"propaganda",
"publicity"
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"the otherwise anodyne comments sounded quite inflammatory when taken out of context"
],
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"harmless",
"hurtless",
"innocent",
"innocuous",
"inoffensive",
"safe",
"white"
],
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"healthy",
"salubrious",
"wholesome",
"benignant",
"sound",
"trustworthy",
"gentle",
"gracious",
"mild",
"nonthreatening",
"painless",
"unobjectionable",
"noncorrosive",
"nondestructive",
"nonfatal",
"noninfectious",
"nonlethal",
"nonpoisonous",
"nonpolluting",
"nontoxic",
"nonvenomous"
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"venomous",
"menacing",
"ominous",
"sinister",
"threatening",
"hazardous",
"imperiling",
"imperilling",
"jeopardizing",
"parlous",
"perilous",
"risky",
"unsafe",
"unsound",
"nasty",
"noisome",
"unhealthful",
"unhealthy",
"unwholesome",
"offensive",
"painful",
"scathing",
"wounding",
"deadly",
"fatal",
"lethal",
"ruinous",
"destructive",
"insidious",
"malignant",
"noxious",
"pestilent",
"polluted",
"tainted"
],
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"bad",
"baleful",
"baneful",
"damaging",
"dangerous",
"deleterious",
"detrimental",
"evil",
"harmful",
"hurtful",
"ill",
"injurious",
"mischievous",
"nocuous",
"noxious",
"pernicious",
"prejudicial",
"wicked"
]
},
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"the dentist prescribed an anodyne after the root canal"
],
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"analgesic",
"anesthetic",
"painkiller"
],
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"sedative",
"tranquilizer",
"tranquillizer",
"narcotic",
"opiate"
],
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"antonyms":[]
},
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"examples":[
"as an anodyne for the stress and superficiality of the modern world, there's nothing better than reading a literary classic of substance and insight"
],
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"anesthetic",
"narcotic",
"opiate"
],
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"security blanket",
"pacifier",
"palliative",
"hypnotic",
"sedative",
"soporific",
"tranquilizer",
"tranquillizer"
],
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},
"type":[
"adjective",
"noun"
]
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"average",
"norm",
"normal",
"par",
"standard"
],
"examples":[
"snow in July is an anomaly in most of the northern hemisphere"
],
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"sample",
"specimen",
"commonplace",
"usual"
],
"related":[
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"malformation",
"miscreation",
"mutant",
"mutation",
"character",
"crackbrain",
"crackpot",
"crank",
"eccentric",
"kook",
"nut",
"oddball",
"screwball",
"weirdo",
"aberrant",
"deviant",
"individualist",
"maverick",
"nonconformist",
"curiosity",
"peculiarity",
"singularity",
"aberration",
"exception",
"irregularity",
"oddity",
"rarity"
],
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"abnormality",
"freak",
"monster",
"monstrosity"
]
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"examples":[
"her C grade is an anomaly , as she's never made anything except A's and B's before"
],
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"norm",
"ordinary",
"usual"
],
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"peculiarity",
"singularity",
"accident",
"bizarrerie",
"phenomenon",
"quirk",
"vagary",
"distortion",
"kink",
"mutation",
"variation",
"difference",
"disparity",
"inconsistence",
"inconsistency",
"error",
"mistake",
"contradiction",
"paradox"
],
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"abnormality",
"exception",
"oddity",
"oddment",
"rarity"
]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
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"known but not named":{
"examples":[
"I heard the news from a person who will remain anonymous"
],
"synonyms":[
"certain",
"given",
"one",
"some",
"unidentified",
"unnamed",
"unspecified"
],
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"particular",
"specific"
],
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"known",
"named",
"specified"
],
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},
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"examples":[
"a beautiful manuscript illuminated by an anonymous medieval monk"
],
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"faceless",
"incognito",
"innominate",
"nameless",
"unbaptized",
"unchristened",
"unidentified",
"unnamed",
"untitled"
],
"near synonyms":[
"undetermined",
"unspecified",
"obscure",
"uncelebrated",
"unheard-of",
"unheralded",
"unknown",
"unsung",
"unexceptional",
"unremarkable"
],
"near antonyms":[
"denominated",
"designated",
"specified",
"labeled",
"labelled",
"tabbed",
"titled",
"celebrated",
"famed",
"famous",
"known",
"notable",
"noted",
"noteworthy",
"remarkable",
"renowned",
"well-known",
"exceptional"
],
"antonyms":[
"baptized",
"christened",
"dubbed",
"named",
"termed"
]
},
"type":[
"adjective"
]
},
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"as in emaciated , anorexic":{
"examples":[],
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"near synonyms":[
"anorexic",
"cadaverous",
"emaciated",
"gaunt",
"haggard",
"pinched",
"skeletal",
"wasted",
"wizened",
"lank",
"lanky",
"rangy",
"reedy",
"spindling",
"spindly",
"stringy",
"twiggy",
"waspish",
"weedy",
"meager",
"meagre",
"puny",
"slight",
"angular",
"rawboned",
"scraggy",
"scrawny",
"sinewy",
"wiry",
"sylphlike",
"willowy",
"clean-limbed",
"trim",
"bony",
"boney",
"fatless",
"lean",
"lithe",
"skinny",
"slender",
"slim",
"spare",
"svelte",
"thin"
],
"near antonyms":[
"chubby",
"corpulent",
"fat",
"gross",
"obese",
"overweight",
"plump",
"portly",
"rotund",
"tubby",
"beefy",
"bulky",
"chunky",
"fleshy",
"heavy",
"heavyset",
"stocky",
"stout",
"thick",
"thickset",
"weighty",
"brawny",
"burly",
"husky",
"dumpy",
"pudgy",
"roly-poly",
"squat",
"stubby",
"paunchy",
"potbellied",
"flabby",
"soft",
"buxom",
"zaftig",
"zoftig",
"full",
"hippy",
"round"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"adjective"
]
},
"another":{
"resulting in an increase in amount or number":{
"examples":[
"add another thing to the shopping list"
],
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"added",
"additional",
"else",
"farther",
"fresh",
"further",
"more",
"other"
],
"near synonyms":[
"accessory",
"adjunct",
"collateral",
"extraneous",
"peripheral",
"side",
"supplemental",
"supplementary",
"new",
"excess",
"extra",
"plus",
"spare",
"supernumerary",
"supervenient",
"surplus",
"complementary",
"contributory"
],
"near antonyms":[
"fewer",
"less"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"adjective"
]
},
"answers":{
"something spoken or written in reaction especially to a question":{
"examples":[
"the standard answer of \"Fine, thank you\" when asked, \"How are you?\""
],
"synonyms":[
"comebacks",
"rejoinders",
"replications",
"replies",
"responses",
"retorts",
"returns"
],
"near synonyms":[
"back talks",
"banters",
"persiflages",
"repartees",
"acknowledgments",
"acknowledgements",
"comments",
"communications",
"correspondences",
"feedback",
"non sequiturs",
"observations",
"reactions",
"remarks",
"defenses",
"explanations",
"justifications",
"pleas",
"rebuttals",
"refutations"
],
"near antonyms":[
"challenges",
"charges",
"cross-examinations",
"interrogations",
"interrogatories",
"quizzes",
"polls",
"questionnaires",
"surveys"
],
"antonyms":[
"inquiries",
"queries",
"questions"
]
},
"something attained by mental effort and especially by computation":{
"examples":[
"the answers to the odd-numbered problems are at the back of the book"
],
"synonyms":[
"results",
"solutions"
],
"near synonyms":[
"conclusions",
"determinations",
"explanations",
"findings",
"clues",
"keys"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"action or behavior that is done in return to other action or behavior":{
"examples":[
"a cold stare was her withering answer to that gratuitous insult"
],
"synonyms":[
"reactions",
"replies",
"responses",
"takes"
],
"near synonyms":[
"backlashes",
"kickbacks",
"rebounds",
"recoils",
"reflexes",
"revulsions",
"rises",
"counterreactions",
"counter-reactions",
"counterresponses",
"counter-responses"
],
"near antonyms":[
"actions",
"behaviors",
"causes",
"effects"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to speak or write in reaction to a question or to another reaction":{
"examples":[
"didn't answer right away when the detective asked him where he'd been for the last three hours"
],
"synonyms":[
"comes back",
"rejoins",
"replies",
"responds",
"retorts",
"returns",
"ripostes"
],
"near synonyms":[
"acknowledges",
"comments",
"communicates",
"corresponds",
"reacts",
"remarks",
"counters",
"defends",
"denies",
"explains",
"fields",
"rebuts",
"refutes"
],
"near antonyms":[
"challenges",
"cross-examines",
"examines",
"grills",
"interrogates",
"pumps",
"quizzes",
"polls",
"queries",
"surveys"
],
"antonyms":[
"asks",
"inquires",
"questions"
]
},
"to be in agreement on every point":{
"examples":[
"sorry, I haven't seen anyone answering to that description"
],
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"accords",
"agrees",
"checks",
"chords",
"coheres",
"coincides",
"comports",
"conforms",
"consists",
"corresponds",
"dovetails",
"fits",
"goes",
"harmonizes",
"jibes",
"rhymes",
"rimes",
"sorts",
"squares",
"tallies"
],
"near synonyms":[
"equals",
"matches",
"parallels",
"aligns",
"alines",
"lines up",
"registers"
],
"near antonyms":[
"contradicts",
"disputes",
"gainsays",
"negates",
"nullifies",
"clashes",
"conflicts",
"jars"
],
"antonyms":[
"differs (from)",
"disagrees (with)"
]
},
"to do what is required by the terms of":{
"examples":[
"I don't have a box cutter as such, but will this knife answer the purpose?"
],
"synonyms":[
"completes",
"complies (with)",
"fills",
"fulfills",
"fulfils",
"keeps",
"meets",
"redeems",
"satisfies"
],
"near synonyms":[
"concludes",
"consummates",
"finalizes",
"finishes",
"perfects",
"accomplishes",
"achieves",
"brings about",
"brings off",
"carries out",
"effects",
"commits",
"compasses",
"discharges",
"executes",
"follows through (with)",
"makes",
"performs"
],
"near antonyms":[
"defaults (on)",
"disregards",
"forgets",
"ignores",
"neglects",
"overlooks",
"overpasses",
"passes over",
"slights"
],
"antonyms":[
"breaches",
"breaks",
"transgresses",
"violates"
]
},
"to find an answer for through reasoning":{
"examples":[
"try to answer this riddle"
],
"synonyms":[
"breaks",
"cracks",
"dopes (out)",
"figures out",
"puzzles (out)",
"resolves",
"riddles (out)",
"solves",
"unravels",
"unriddles",
"works",
"works out"
],
"near synonyms":[
"concludes",
"decides",
"deduces",
"gathers",
"infers",
"judges",
"reasons",
"clears (up)",
"irons out",
"straightens (out)",
"unscrambles",
"untangles",
"unties",
"assumes",
"conjectures",
"divines",
"guesses",
"presumes",
"speculates",
"deciphers",
"decodes"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun",
"verb"
]
},
"antagonist":{
"one that is hostile toward another":{
"examples":[
"please name the novel's hero and his antagonist"
],
"synonyms":[
"adversary",
"enemy",
"foe",
"hostile",
"opponent"
],
"near synonyms":[
"archenemy",
"archfoe",
"nemesis",
"ill-wisher",
"bane",
"b\u00eate noire",
"assailant",
"attacker",
"combatant",
"invader",
"competitor",
"emulator",
"rival"
],
"near antonyms":[
"buddy",
"chum",
"compadre",
"crony",
"fellow",
"hail-fellow",
"hail-fellow-well-met",
"hearty",
"hobnobber",
"mate",
"musketeer",
"pal",
"abettor",
"abetter",
"accomplice",
"ally",
"collaborator",
"colleague",
"comrade",
"confederate",
"friendly",
"partner",
"adherent",
"disciple",
"follower",
"backer",
"benefactor",
"exponent",
"supporter",
"sympathizer",
"well-wisher"
],
"antonyms":[
"amigo",
"friend"
]
},
"one that takes a position opposite another in a competition or conflict":{
"examples":[
"his antagonist in the boxing match"
],
"synonyms":[
"adversary",
"foe",
"opponent",
"rival"
],
"near synonyms":[
"equal",
"match",
"enemy",
"archenemy",
"nemesis",
"competitor",
"contestant",
"bane",
"b\u00eate noire",
"curse",
"assailant",
"attacker",
"combatant",
"invader"
],
"near antonyms":[
"accomplice",
"ally",
"confederate",
"partner",
"advocate",
"champion",
"exponent",
"proponent",
"supporter",
"sympathizer"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"antagonists":{
"one that is hostile toward another":{
"examples":[
"please name the novel's hero and his antagonist"
],
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"adversaries",
"enemies",
"foes",
"hostiles",
"opponents"
],
"near synonyms":[
"archenemies",
"archfoes",
"nemeses",
"ill-wishers",
"banes",
"b\u00eates noires",
"assailants",
"attackers",
"combatants",
"invaders",
"competitors",
"emulators",
"rivals"
],
"near antonyms":[
"buddies",
"chums",
"compadres",
"cronies",
"fellows",
"hail-fellows",
"hail-fellows-well-met",
"hearties",
"hobnobbers",
"mates",
"musketeers",
"pals",
"abettors",
"abetters",
"accomplices",
"allies",
"collaborators",
"colleagues",
"comrades",
"confederates",
"friendlies",
"partners",
"adherents",
"disciples",
"followers",
"backers",
"benefactors",
"exponents",
"supporters",
"sympathizers",
"well-wishers"
],
"antonyms":[
"amigos",
"friends"
]
},
"one that takes a position opposite another in a competition or conflict":{
"examples":[
"his antagonist in the boxing match"
],
"synonyms":[
"adversaries",
"foes",
"opponents",
"rivals"
],
"near synonyms":[
"equals",
"matches",
"enemies",
"archenemies",
"nemeses",
"competitors",
"contestants",
"banes",
"b\u00eates noires",
"curses",
"assailants",
"attackers",
"combatants",
"invaders"
],
"near antonyms":[
"accomplices",
"allies",
"confederates",
"partners",
"advocates",
"champions",
"exponents",
"proponents",
"supporters",
"sympathizers"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
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"to implant bitter feelings in":{
"examples":[
"everything he said just antagonized the other side even more"
],
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"empoison",
"envenom"
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"anger",
"enrage",
"incense",
"infuriate",
"madden",
"alienate",
"disaffect",
"disgruntle",
"estrange",
"set (against)",
"curdle",
"sour"
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"endear",
"ingratiate",
"appease",
"assuage",
"mollify",
"pacify",
"placate",
"propitiate",
"sweeten"
],
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},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
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"as in predecessor":{
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"ancestor",
"father",
"forebear",
"forbear",
"forebearer",
"forefather",
"grandfather",
"primogenitor",
"progenitor",
"ancestress",
"foremother",
"grandmother",
"matriarch",
"grandsire",
"patriarch",
"sire",
"ancestry",
"antecedents",
"roots"
],
"near antonyms":[
"descendant",
"descendent",
"children",
"family",
"issue",
"lineage",
"offspring",
"posterity",
"progeny",
"seed",
"stock",
"daughter",
"heir",
"inheritor",
"scion",
"son",
"successor"
],
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},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"antelopes":{
"as in ostrich , crocodile":{
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"alligator",
"buckskin",
"cabretta",
"calfskin",
"capeskin",
"chamois",
"cordovan",
"cowhide",
"crocodile",
"deerskin",
"doeskin",
"goatskin",
"horsehide",
"kid",
"kidskin",
"lambskin",
"morocco",
"ostrich",
"pigskin",
"seal",
"sharkskin",
"sheepskin",
"snakeskin",
"coat",
"fleece",
"fur",
"pelt",
"nubuck",
"patent leather",
"suede",
"hide",
"leather",
"skin"
],
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},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"anteriorly":{
"so as to precede something in order of time":{
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"after",
"afterward",
"afterwards",
"later"
],
"examples":[
"archaeological artifacts are all that we have of those ancient people who flourished anteriorly of the invention of writing"
],
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"behind",
"by and by",
"next",
"subsequently"
],
"related":[
"a priori",
"early",
"prematurely",
"first",
"first off",
"now",
"before long",
"erelong",
"presently",
"shortly",
"soon"
],
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"afore",
"ahead",
"already",
"antecedently",
"before",
"beforehand",
"earlier",
"formerly",
"preliminarily",
"previously"
]
},
"type":[
"adverb"
]
},
"anticipation":{
"the act or state of looking forward to some occurrence":{
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"examples":[
"in anticipation of a job offer, she had already begun looking for an apartment in the city where the company was based"
],
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"related":[
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"alarum",
"apprehension",
"dread",
"foreboding",
"misgiving"
],
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"contemplation",
"expectance",
"expectancy",
"expectation",
"prospect"
]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
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"a dull or disappointing ending or result":{
"examples":[
"The last chapter of the book was an anticlimax ."
],
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"aftermaths",
"codas",
"epilogues",
"epilogs",
"postscripts",
"cappers",
"closes",
"closings",
"conclusions",
"consummations",
"endgames",
"endings",
"ends",
"finales",
"finises",
"finishes",
"grand finales",
"homestretches",
"mop-ups",
"windups",
"wrap-ups",
"acmes",
"apexes",
"apices",
"capstones",
"climaxes",
"copestones",
"coups de gr\u00e2ce",
"coups de grace",
"crescendos",
"crescendoes",
"crescendi",
"crowns",
"culminations",
"high-water marks",
"meridians",
"peaks",
"pinnacles",
"summits",
"tip-tops",
"tops",
"zeniths",
"shanks",
"tag ends",
"tail ends"
],
"near antonyms":[
"forewords",
"introductions",
"overtures",
"preambles",
"prefaces",
"preludes",
"prologues",
"prologs",
"baselines",
"beginnings",
"dawns",
"day ones",
"nascences",
"nascencies",
"openings",
"starts"
],
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},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"antics":{
"a playful or mischievous act intended as a joke":{
"examples":[
"we'll have no more of your antics , so just settle down"
],
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"capers",
"capriccios",
"didoes",
"didos",
"escapades",
"frolics",
"gags",
"jests",
"knaveries",
"monkeyshines",
"practical jokes",
"pranks",
"rags",
"rogueries",
"shavies",
"shines",
"tricks",
"waggeries"
],
"near synonyms":[
"adventures",
"experiences",
"games",
"larks",
"times",
"high jinks",
"hijinks",
"horseplays",
"plays",
"rowdyisms",
"shenanigans",
"tomfooleries",
"gambits",
"hoaxes",
"maneuvers",
"ploys",
"deeds",
"feats",
"missions",
"performances",
"stunts",
"caprices",
"conceits",
"fancies",
"vagaries",
"whims",
"whimsies",
"whimseys",
"deceits",
"deceptions",
"delusions",
"frauds",
"hanky-pankies",
"ruses",
"shams",
"stratagems",
"subterfuges",
"trickeries",
"wiles"
],
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"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"antinomy":{
"as in contradiction , paradox":{
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"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"conundrum",
"enigma",
"mystery",
"mystification",
"puzzle",
"puzzlement",
"riddle",
"contradiction",
"dichotomy",
"incongruity",
"paradox"
],
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"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"antipodal":{
"being as different as possible":{
"examples":[
"love is antipodal to hate"
],
"synonyms":[
"antipodean",
"antithetical",
"contradictory",
"contrary",
"diametric",
"diametrical",
"opposite",
"polar"
],
"near synonyms":[
"adverse",
"negative",
"unfavorable",
"antagonistic",
"antipathetic",
"counter",
"cross",
"hostile",
"converse",
"inverse",
"obverse",
"reverse",
"alien",
"disparate",
"dissimilar",
"divergent",
"unalike",
"unlike"
],
"near antonyms":[
"alike",
"analogous",
"like",
"similar",
"equivalent",
"identical",
"same",
"synonymous"
],
"antonyms":[
"noncontradictory"
]
},
"type":[
"adjective"
]
},
"anthologizing":{
"to bring together from several sources into a single volume or list":{
"examples":[
"anthologized an impressive array of essays championing freedom of the press"
],
"synonyms":[
"collecting",
"compiling"
],
"related":[
"editing",
"recompiling",
"redacting",
"redrafting",
"reediting",
"revamping",
"revising",
"reworking",
"accumulating",
"amassing",
"assembling",
"collating",
"gathering",
"grouping"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"anguish":{
"a state of great suffering of body or mind":{
"examples":[
"as a new teacher, she was in real anguish over the decision to report the cheating"
],
"synonyms":[
"affliction",
"agony",
"distress",
"excruciation",
"hurt",
"misery",
"pain",
"rack",
"strait(s)",
"torment",
"torture",
"travail",
"tribulation",
"woe"
],
"near synonyms":[
"discomfort",
"cross",
"crucible",
"trial",
"heartache",
"heartbreak",
"joylessness",
"sadness",
"sorrow",
"unhappiness",
"emergency",
"pinch",
"asperity",
"difficulty",
"hardship",
"rigor",
"ache",
"pang",
"smarting",
"soreness",
"stitch",
"throe",
"twinge",
"danger",
"jeopardy",
"trouble"
],
"near antonyms":[
"comfort",
"consolation",
"solace",
"alleviation",
"assuagement",
"ease",
"relief",
"peace",
"security",
"well-being"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"deep sadness especially for the loss of someone or something loved":{
"examples":[
"words can't express my anguish at losing my cat"
],
"synonyms":[
"affliction",
"dolefulness",
"dolor",
"grief",
"heartache",
"heartbreak",
"sorriness",
"sorrow",
"woe"
],
"near synonyms":[
"agony",
"distress",
"pain",
"suffering",
"torment",
"blue devils",
"blues",
"dejection",
"depression",
"desolateness",
"desolation",
"despair",
"despondence",
"despondency",
"disconsolateness",
"dispiritedness",
"distress",
"doldrums",
"downheartedness",
"dreariness",
"dumps",
"forlornness",
"gloom",
"gloominess",
"glumness",
"heartsickness",
"joylessness",
"melancholy",
"miserableness",
"misery",
"mopes",
"oppression",
"sorrowfulness",
"unhappiness",
"woefulness",
"wretchedness",
"contrition",
"guilt",
"regret",
"remorse",
"rue",
"self-reproach",
"shame",
"melancholia",
"self-pity"
],
"near antonyms":[
"gaiety",
"gayety",
"gayness",
"humor",
"jollity",
"joviality",
"lightheartedness",
"merriment",
"merrymaking",
"mirth",
"mirthfulness",
"hopefulness",
"optimism",
"sunniness",
"enjoyment",
"content",
"contentedness",
"contentment"
],
"antonyms":[
"blessedness",
"bliss",
"blissfulness",
"cheer",
"cheerfulness",
"cheeriness",
"delight",
"ecstasy",
"elatedness",
"elation",
"euphoria",
"exhilaration",
"exuberance",
"exultation",
"felicity",
"gladness",
"gladsomeness",
"glee",
"gleefulness",
"happiness",
"joy",
"joyfulness",
"joyousness",
"jubilation",
"pleasure",
"rapture",
"rapturousness"
]
},
"to cause persistent suffering to":{
"examples":[
"she was anguished by the fear that her sons would die in the war"
],
"synonyms":[
"afflict",
"agonize",
"bedevil",
"beset",
"besiege",
"curse",
"excruciate",
"harrow",
"persecute",
"plague",
"rack",
"torment",
"torture"
],
"near synonyms":[
"assail",
"attack",
"badger",
"dog",
"hound",
"pursue",
"ride",
"aggravate",
"agitate",
"annoy",
"bother",
"bug",
"chafe",
"distress",
"disturb",
"exasperate",
"gall",
"get",
"grate",
"gripe",
"hagride",
"harass",
"harry",
"irk",
"irritate",
"molest",
"nettle",
"peeve",
"pester",
"pique",
"put out",
"rasp",
"rile",
"vex",
"discomfort",
"discompose",
"disquiet",
"fluster",
"grieve",
"perturb",
"strain",
"stress",
"trouble",
"try",
"upset",
"worry",
"crush",
"oppress",
"overpower",
"overwhelm",
"smite",
"strike",
"tyrannize",
"victimize",
"hurt",
"pain",
"pang",
"prick",
"smart",
"stab",
"sting",
"wring",
"martyr"
],
"near antonyms":[
"abet",
"aid",
"assist",
"help",
"deliver",
"release",
"relieve",
"reprieve",
"comfort",
"console",
"content",
"quiet",
"solace",
"soothe",
"succor"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to feel deep sadness or mental pain":{
"examples":[
"I anguished over the loss of my father for years afterwards"
],
"synonyms":[
"agonize",
"bleed",
"grieve",
"hurt",
"mourn",
"sorrow",
"suffer"
],
"near synonyms":[
"ache",
"long (for)",
"pine (away)",
"sigh",
"smart",
"rack",
"torment",
"torture",
"bemoan",
"bewail",
"deplore",
"lament",
"rue",
"bawl",
"blubber",
"cry",
"groan",
"howl",
"keen",
"moan",
"sob",
"take on",
"wail",
"weep",
"yammer",
"yowl",
"languish",
"regret"
],
"near antonyms":[
"beam",
"cheer",
"crow",
"delight",
"exult",
"glory",
"joy",
"laugh",
"ravish",
"rejoice",
"triumph",
"assure",
"cheer",
"comfort",
"commiserate",
"console",
"reassure",
"solace",
"soothe",
"sympathize"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun",
"verb"
]
},
"anyway":{
"in spite of everything":{
"examples":[
"I know I really can't afford it, but I'm buying that new car anyway"
],
"synonyms":[
"anyhow",
"anyways",
"regardless",
"whatever"
],
"near synonyms":[
"after all",
"however",
"nevertheless",
"always"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"without definite aim, direction, rule, or method":{
"examples":[
"do it anyway you feel like"
],
"synonyms":[
"aimlessly",
"anyhow",
"anywise",
"desultorily",
"erratically",
"haphazard",
"haphazardly",
"helter-skelter",
"hit or miss",
"irregularly",
"randomly",
"willy-nilly"
],
"near synonyms":[
"arbitrarily",
"capriciously",
"carelessly",
"casually",
"indiscriminately",
"informally",
"offhand",
"offhandedly",
"promiscuously",
"whimsically",
"accidentally",
"fortuitously",
"inadvertently",
"unconsciously",
"unintentionally",
"unwittingly",
"disconnectedly",
"disjointedly",
"fitfully",
"intermittently",
"spottily",
"unpredictably",
"higgledy-piggledy",
"topsy-turvy"
],
"near antonyms":[
"carefully",
"formally",
"gingerly",
"meticulously",
"orderly",
"punctiliously",
"deliberately",
"intentionally",
"purposefully",
"purposely"
],
"antonyms":[
"methodically",
"systematically"
]
},
"whatever else is done or is the case":{
"examples":[
"pack an extra sweater anyway , as you never know when you might end up needing it"
],
"synonyms":[
"always",
"anyhow",
"leastways",
"leastwise"
],
"near synonyms":[],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"adverb"
]
},
"analyses":{
"the separation and identification of the parts of a whole":{
"examples":[
"investigators took the mysterious powder to the lab for analysis"
],
"synonyms":[
"anatomies",
"assays",
"breakdowns",
"deconstructions",
"dissections"
],
"near synonyms":[
"assessments",
"diagnoses",
"evaluations",
"examinations",
"inspections",
"investigations",
"musters",
"scrutinies",
"arrangements",
"assortments",
"categorizations",
"classifications",
"codifications",
"indexings",
"enumerations",
"inventories",
"itemizations",
"tabulations",
"divisions",
"reductions",
"segmentations",
"separations",
"subdivisions"
],
"near antonyms":[
"agglomerations",
"aggregations",
"amalgamations",
"assimilations",
"coalescences",
"conglomerations",
"consolidations",
"integrations",
"syntheses",
"unifications"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"a series of explanations or observations on something (as an event)":{
"examples":[
"gave a thorough analysis of the main character's motives"
],
"synonyms":[
"commentaries",
"comments",
"expositions",
"play-by-plays"
],
"near synonyms":[
"annotations",
"explications",
"descants",
"discants",
"notes",
"observations",
"remarks",
"reports",
"reviews",
"write-ups"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"animators":{
"someone or something that gives life or vigor to":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"activators",
"catalysts",
"drivers",
"energizers",
"executors",
"generators",
"impetuses",
"incentives",
"inspirations",
"instigations",
"instigators",
"launchers",
"movers",
"powers",
"stimuli",
"triggers",
"agencies",
"agents",
"instrumentalities",
"instruments",
"machineries",
"means",
"mediums",
"media",
"ministries",
"organs",
"vehicles",
"determinants",
"expedients",
"factors",
"influences",
"ingredients",
"mechanisms",
"tools",
"weapons",
"antecedents",
"causes",
"occasions",
"reasons",
"subagencies",
"sub-agencies",
"subagents",
"sub-agents"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"anchor":{
"one who reads and introduces news reports on a news program":{
"examples":[
"the news anchor coordinated the reports of the correspondents from around the state"
],
"synonyms":[
"anchorperson",
"newscaster",
"newsreader"
],
"near synonyms":[
"anchorman",
"anchorwoman",
"coanchor",
"announcer",
"broadcaster",
"commentator",
"linkman",
"telecaster",
"correspondent",
"foreign correspondent",
"interviewer",
"journalist",
"newshound",
"newsie",
"newsman",
"newsperson",
"newswoman",
"reporter",
"stringer"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"something or someone to which one looks for support":{
"examples":[
"my best friend has been my anchor throughout this crisis"
],
"synonyms":[
"buttress",
"dependence",
"dependance",
"mainstay",
"pillar",
"reliance",
"standby"
],
"near synonyms":[
"backbone",
"sinew(s)",
"spine",
"right hand",
"bolsterer",
"crutch",
"handmaiden",
"handmaid",
"prop",
"stay",
"anchorage",
"harbor",
"refuge"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to put securely in place or in a desired position":{
"examples":[
"used ropes and sandbags to anchor the hot-air balloon to the ground"
],
"synonyms":[
"catch",
"clamp",
"fasten",
"fix",
"hitch",
"moor",
"secure",
"set"
],
"near synonyms":[
"embed",
"imbed",
"entrench",
"intrench",
"implant",
"ingrain",
"engrain",
"lodge",
"stuff",
"wedge"
],
"near antonyms":[
"extract",
"prize",
"pry",
"pull",
"root (out)",
"tear (out)",
"uproot",
"wrest",
"yank"
],
"antonyms":[
"loose",
"loosen",
"unfasten",
"unfix",
"unloose",
"unloosen"
]
},
"to stop at or near a place along the shore":{
"examples":[
"we'll anchor at Praia, Cape Verde"
],
"synonyms":[
"dock",
"land"
],
"near synonyms":[
"berth",
"moor",
"tie up",
"beach",
"ground",
"harbor",
"arrive",
"reach",
"show up",
"turn up",
"debark",
"disembark"
],
"near antonyms":[
"embark",
"launch",
"sail"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun",
"verb"
]
},
"anted (up)":{
"to give what is owed for":{
"examples":[
"if we can't ante up at least half of the overdue rent, we are going to be evicted"
],
"synonyms":[
"balanced",
"cleared",
"discharged",
"footed",
"liquidated",
"met",
"paid",
"paid off",
"paid up",
"ponied up",
"quit",
"quitted",
"recompensed",
"settled",
"sprang (for)",
"sprung (for)",
"stood"
],
"related":[],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[
"repudiated"
]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"animator":{
"someone or something that gives life or vigor to":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"activator",
"catalyst",
"driver",
"energizer",
"executor",
"generator",
"impetus",
"incentive",
"inspiration",
"instigation",
"instigator",
"launcher",
"mover",
"power",
"stimulus",
"trigger",
"agency",
"agent",
"instrument",
"instrumentality",
"machinery",
"means",
"medium",
"ministry",
"organ",
"vehicle",
"determinant",
"expedient",
"factor",
"influence",
"ingredient",
"mechanism",
"tool",
"weapon",
"antecedent",
"cause",
"occasion",
"reason",
"subagency",
"subagent"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"analyzed":{
"to identify and examine the basic elements or parts of (something) especially for discovering interrelationships":{
"examples":[
"analyze the park's ecosystem before deciding whether hunting should be allowed"
],
"synonyms":[
"anatomized",
"assayed",
"broke down",
"cut",
"deconstructed",
"dissected"
],
"near synonyms":[
"assessed",
"diagnosed",
"evaluated",
"examined",
"inspected",
"investigated",
"scrutinized",
"arranged",
"assorted",
"cataloged",
"catalogued",
"categorized",
"classified",
"codified",
"diagrammed",
"diagramed",
"enumerated",
"indexed",
"ordered",
"schematized",
"sorted",
"tabulated",
"divided",
"reduced",
"segmented",
"separated",
"subdivided"
],
"near antonyms":[
"agglomerated",
"aggregated",
"amalgamated",
"assimilated",
"coalesced",
"conglomerated",
"consolidated",
"integrated",
"synthesized",
"unified"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"annihilations":{
"the state or fact of being rendered nonexistent, physically unsound, or useless":{
"examples":[
"idealists who seek the annihilation of all forms of prejudice"
],
"synonyms":[
"decimations",
"demolishments",
"demolitions",
"desolations",
"destructions",
"devastations",
"exterminations",
"extinctions",
"havoc",
"losses",
"mincemeats",
"obliterations",
"ruinations",
"ruins",
"wastages",
"wreckages"
],
"near synonyms":[
"depredations",
"despoilments",
"despoliations",
"breakups",
"collapses",
"disintegrations",
"dissolutions",
"assassinations",
"executions",
"killings",
"massacres",
"slaughters",
"dismantlements",
"effacements",
"eradications"
],
"near antonyms":[
"rescues",
"salvages",
"salvations",
"savings",
"conservations",
"preservations",
"protections",
"reclamations",
"reconstructions",
"re-creations",
"refurbishments",
"regeneracies",
"renovations",
"restorations"
],
"antonyms":[
"buildings",
"constructions",
"erections"
]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"antipathies":{
"something or someone that is hated":{
"examples":[
"cruelty to animals is one of my most deeply felt antipathies"
],
"synonyms":[
"abhorrences",
"abominations",
"anathemas",
"aversions",
"b\u00eates noires",
"detestations",
"execrations",
"hates"
],
"near synonyms":[
"dreads",
"hang-ups",
"horrors",
"phobias",
"bogeys",
"bogies",
"bugaboos",
"bugbears",
"adversaries",
"enemies",
"annoyances",
"grievances",
"hassles",
"nuisances",
"peeves"
],
"near antonyms":[
"beloveds",
"darlings",
"dears",
"honeys",
"sweethearts",
"delights",
"enjoyments",
"felicities",
"joys",
"pleasures",
"favorites",
"likes",
"preferences",
"treasures"
],
"antonyms":[
"loves"
]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"anointed":{
"to rub an oily or sticky substance over":{
"examples":[
"anoint the wound with antiseptic to prevent infection"
],
"synonyms":[
"bedaubed",
"besmeared",
"daubed",
"smeared"
],
"near synonyms":[
"coated",
"painted",
"plastered",
"greased",
"oiled",
"gummed",
"larded",
"pitched",
"tarred",
"befouled",
"begrimed",
"bemired",
"besmirched",
"blackened",
"dirtied",
"fouled",
"gaumed",
"grimed",
"mired",
"mucked",
"muddied",
"smirched",
"smudged",
"soiled",
"stained",
"sullied"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"announce (to)":{
"as in disclose (to)":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"disclose (to)",
"advertise",
"alert",
"notify",
"assure",
"certify",
"convince",
"reassure",
"warrant",
"acquaint",
"advise",
"apprise",
"brief",
"catch up",
"clear",
"clue (in)",
"enlighten",
"familiarize",
"fill in",
"hip",
"inform",
"instruct",
"tell",
"verse",
"wise (up)",
"educate",
"lecture",
"school",
"teach",
"tutor",
"disabuse",
"disenchant",
"disillusion",
"undeceive"
],
"near antonyms":[
"misinform",
"mislead"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"answerable":{
"being the one who must meet an obligation or suffer the consequences for failing to do so":{
"examples":[
"you are answerable for your own conduct at all times"
],
"synonyms":[
"accountable",
"amenable",
"liable",
"responsible"
],
"near synonyms":[
"beholden",
"indebted",
"obligated",
"obliged"
],
"near antonyms":[
"exempt",
"immune"
],
"antonyms":[
"irresponsible",
"nonaccountable",
"unaccountable"
]
},
"capable of having the reason for or cause of determined":{
"examples":[
"they say this equation is not answerable"
],
"synonyms":[
"explainable",
"explicable",
"resolvable",
"soluble",
"solvable"
],
"near synonyms":[
"analyzable",
"decipherable",
"feasible",
"workable"
],
"near antonyms":[
"difficult",
"inextricable",
"knotty",
"impossible",
"insuperable",
"absurd",
"fantastic",
"fantastical",
"outlandish",
"preposterous",
"ridiculous"
],
"antonyms":[
"hopeless",
"inexplicable",
"insoluble",
"insolvable",
"unexplainable",
"unresolvable",
"unsolvable"
]
},
"type":[
"adjective"
]
},
"anxious":{
"feeling or showing uncomfortable feelings of uncertainty":{
"examples":[
"was anxious about the play tryouts scheduled for the following day"
],
"synonyms":[
"aflutter",
"antsy",
"atwitter",
"dithery",
"edgy",
"goosey",
"het up",
"hinky",
"hung up",
"ill at ease",
"insecure",
"jittery",
"jumpy",
"nervous",
"nervy",
"perturbed",
"queasy",
"queazy",
"tense",
"troubled",
"uneasy",
"unquiet",
"upset",
"uptight",
"worried"
],
"near synonyms":[
"aggrieved",
"bothered",
"concerned",
"disquieted",
"distraught",
"distressed",
"disturbed",
"freaked",
"freaked-out",
"shook-up",
"apprehensive",
"foreboding",
"hesitant",
"misgiving",
"fretful",
"fretting",
"stewing",
"vexed",
"qualmish",
"qualmy",
"flustered",
"twittered",
"undone",
"unnerved",
"unstrung",
"obsessed",
"preoccupied",
"restless",
"fidgety",
"flighty",
"fluttery",
"high-strung",
"hypertense",
"skittish",
"spooky"
],
"near antonyms":[
"confident",
"self-assured",
"self-confident",
"sure",
"controlled",
"self-controlled"
],
"antonyms":[
"calm",
"collected",
"cool",
"easy",
"happy-go-lucky",
"nerveless",
"relaxed"
]
},
"marked by or causing agitation or uncomfortable feelings":{
"examples":[
"the whole crowd seemed to make an anxious gasp as the home team almost fumbled the ball"
],
"synonyms":[
"agitating",
"creepy",
"disquieting",
"distressful",
"distressing",
"disturbing",
"fraught",
"hairy",
"nail-biting",
"nerve-racking",
"nerve-wracking",
"nervous",
"restless",
"tense",
"uneasy",
"unnerving",
"unsettling",
"worrisome"
],
"near synonyms":[
"bothersome",
"troublesome",
"foreboding",
"misgiving",
"discouraging",
"disheartening",
"strained",
"restive",
"unrestful",
"awkward",
"embarrassing"
],
"near antonyms":[
"restful",
"pacific"
],
"antonyms":[
"calming",
"comfortable",
"easy",
"peaceful",
"quiet",
"quieting",
"tranquil"
]
},
"showing urgent desire or interest":{
"examples":[
"I'm anxious for my birthday party"
],
"synonyms":[
"agog",
"antsy",
"ardent",
"athirst",
"avid",
"crazy",
"desirous",
"eager",
"enthused",
"enthusiastic",
"excited",
"geeked",
"great",
"greedy",
"gung ho",
"hepped up",
"hopped-up",
"hot",
"hungry",
"impatient",
"juiced",
"keen",
"nuts",
"pumped",
"raring",
"solicitous",
"stoked",
"thirsty",
"voracious",
"wild"
],
"near synonyms":[
"engaged",
"interested",
"happy",
"hung up",
"obsessed",
"ambitious",
"appetent",
"covetous",
"craving",
"hankering",
"longing",
"pining",
"breathless",
"restive",
"restless",
"amenable",
"disposed",
"game",
"glad",
"inclined",
"ready",
"unreluctant",
"willing"
],
"near antonyms":[
"casual",
"incurious",
"insouciant",
"nonchalant",
"unconcerned",
"uninterested",
"aloof",
"detached",
"disinterested",
"impassive",
"stolid",
"halfhearted",
"lackadaisical",
"languid",
"languorous",
"lukewarm",
"spiritless",
"averse",
"disinclined",
"hesitant",
"loath",
"loth",
"loathe",
"reluctant",
"unwilling"
],
"antonyms":[
"apathetic",
"indifferent",
"uneager",
"unenthusiastic"
]
},
"type":[
"adjective"
]
},
"anyhow":{
"in spite of everything":{
"examples":[
"even though it's raining, I'm going to the golf course anyhow"
],
"synonyms":[
"anyway",
"anyways",
"regardless",
"whatever"
],
"near synonyms":[
"after all",
"however",
"nevertheless",
"always"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"without definite aim, direction, rule, or method":{
"examples":[
"clothes that were hurriedly stuffed anyhow into the suitcase"
],
"synonyms":[
"aimlessly",
"anyway",
"anywise",
"desultorily",
"erratically",
"haphazard",
"haphazardly",
"helter-skelter",
"hit or miss",
"irregularly",
"randomly",
"willy-nilly"
],
"near synonyms":[
"arbitrarily",
"capriciously",
"carelessly",
"casually",
"indiscriminately",
"informally",
"offhand",
"offhandedly",
"promiscuously",
"whimsically",
"accidentally",
"fortuitously",
"inadvertently",
"unconsciously",
"unintentionally",
"unwittingly",
"disconnectedly",
"disjointedly",
"fitfully",
"intermittently",
"spottily",
"unpredictably",
"higgledy-piggledy",
"topsy-turvy"
],
"near antonyms":[
"carefully",
"formally",
"gingerly",
"meticulously",
"orderly",
"punctiliously",
"deliberately",
"intentionally",
"purposefully",
"purposely"
],
"antonyms":[
"methodically",
"systematically"
]
},
"whatever else is done or is the case":{
"examples":[
"your mother called and said you don't need to stop by, but I think you should anyhow"
],
"synonyms":[
"always",
"anyway",
"leastways",
"leastwise"
],
"near synonyms":[],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"adverb"
]
},
"anoint":{
"to rub an oily or sticky substance over":{
"examples":[
"anoint the wound with antiseptic to prevent infection"
],
"synonyms":[
"bedaub",
"besmear",
"daub",
"smear"
],
"near synonyms":[
"coat",
"paint",
"plaster",
"grease",
"oil",
"gum",
"lard",
"pitch",
"tar",
"befoul",
"begrime",
"bemire",
"besmirch",
"blacken",
"dirty",
"foul",
"gaum",
"grime",
"mire",
"muck",
"muddy",
"smirch",
"smudge",
"soil",
"stain",
"sully"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"annealed":{
"as in seasoned , tempered":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"seasoned",
"tempered",
"fit",
"fortified",
"hale",
"healthy",
"husky",
"lusty",
"red-blooded",
"robust",
"sound",
"strapping",
"virile",
"able-bodied",
"brawny",
"muscular",
"flourishing",
"prospering",
"thriving",
"durable",
"enduring",
"everlasting",
"immortal",
"imperishable",
"lasting",
"permanent",
"stable",
"staunch",
"stanch",
"staying",
"tenacious",
"unyielding",
"flinty",
"leathery",
"resilient",
"stalwart",
"cast-iron",
"hard",
"hard-bitten",
"hardened",
"hardy",
"inured",
"rugged",
"stout",
"strong",
"sturdy",
"tough",
"toughened",
"vigorous"
],
"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 make stronger (as through hardship)":{
"examples":[
"She was annealed by the tragedies of her childhood."
],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"tempered",
"fortified",
"hardened",
"indurated",
"inured",
"seasoned",
"steeled",
"strengthened",
"toughened",
"acclimated",
"acclimatized",
"adapted",
"adjusted",
"invigorated",
"vitalized",
"immunized",
"bolstered",
"boosted",
"braced",
"buttressed",
"enforced",
"forearmed",
"propped (up)",
"reinforced",
"reenforced",
"supported",
"broke in",
"limbered (up)",
"trained",
"accustomed",
"conditioned",
"habituated",
"naturalized"
],
"near antonyms":[
"enervated",
"enfeebled",
"exhausted",
"sapped",
"weakened",
"crippled",
"debilitated",
"hamstrung",
"incapacitated",
"sensitized",
"softened"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"adjective",
"verb"
]
},
"antidepression":{
"as in antidepressant , antianxiety":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"antianxiety",
"antidepressant",
"antistress",
"analgesic",
"anesthetic",
"anodyne",
"deadening",
"depressant",
"numbing",
"hypnotic",
"opiate",
"calming",
"comforting",
"dreamy",
"lulling",
"narcotic",
"pacifying",
"quieting",
"relaxing",
"sedative",
"soothing",
"tranquilizing",
"tranquillizing"
],
"near antonyms":[
"painful",
"stressful",
"tiresome",
"troubling",
"trying",
"unsettling",
"worrisome",
"energizing",
"invigorating",
"stimulant",
"stimulating",
"aggravating",
"annoying",
"bothersome",
"disturbing",
"exasperating",
"frustrating",
"galling",
"grating",
"harassing",
"irksome",
"irritating",
"maddening",
"nettlesome",
"troublesome",
"vexatious",
"vexing"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"adjective"
]
},
"annotations":{
"a written explanation, observation, etc. that is added to something (such as a book)":{
"examples":[
"The translator's annotations to the text explain some of its cultural and historical context."
],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"comments",
"notes",
"reflections",
"remarks",
"analyses",
"commentaries",
"expositions",
"asides",
"obiter dicta",
"beliefs",
"convictions",
"eyes",
"feelings",
"judgments",
"judgements",
"minds",
"notions",
"persuasions",
"sentiments",
"verdicts",
"views",
"advice",
"inputs"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"antic":{
"causing or intended to cause laughter":{
"examples":[
"antic shenanigans that made me nearly fall over with laughter"
],
"synonyms":[
"chucklesome",
"comedic",
"comic",
"comical",
"droll",
"farcical",
"funny",
"hilarious",
"humoristic",
"humorous",
"hysterical",
"hysteric",
"killing",
"laughable",
"ludicrous",
"ridiculous",
"riotous",
"risible",
"screaming",
"sidesplitting",
"uproarious"
],
"near synonyms":[
"amusing",
"diverting",
"entertaining",
"clownish",
"knockabout",
"slapstick",
"slapsticky",
"zany",
"facetious",
"flip",
"flippant",
"pert",
"smart",
"smart-aleck",
"smart-alecky",
"snickery",
"jocular",
"playful",
"waggish",
"campy",
"jokey",
"joky",
"priceless",
"rich",
"whimsical",
"witty",
"wry",
"blithesome",
"gleeful",
"jocose",
"jocund",
"jolly",
"jovial",
"laughing",
"mad",
"merry",
"mirthful"
],
"near antonyms":[
"earnest",
"grave",
"no-nonsense",
"sedate",
"serious",
"severe",
"sober",
"sobersided",
"solemn",
"somber",
"sombre",
"staid",
"unsmiling",
"weighty",
"affecting",
"moving",
"poignant",
"touching",
"tragic",
"tragical",
"lachrymose",
"mournful",
"sad",
"sorrowful",
"tearful",
"woeful"
],
"antonyms":[
"humorless",
"lame",
"unamusing",
"uncomic",
"unfunny",
"unhumorous",
"unhysterical"
]
},
"given to good-natured joking or teasing":{
"examples":[
"an antic group of kids at summer camp"
],
"synonyms":[
"coltish",
"elfish",
"fay",
"frisky",
"frolicsome",
"larky",
"playful",
"rollicking",
"sportful",
"sportive"
],
"near synonyms":[
"coy",
"kittenish",
"gay",
"happy",
"lighthearted",
"whimsical",
"energetic",
"frolic",
"jocund",
"lively",
"merry",
"spirited",
"sprightly",
"spunky",
"vivacious",
"devilish",
"impish",
"knavish",
"mischievous",
"pixie",
"pixy",
"rascally",
"roguish",
"amusing",
"diverting",
"enjoyable",
"entertaining",
"fun",
"pleasurable",
"dabbling",
"frivolous",
"goofy",
"silly",
"trifling",
"delightful",
"pleasant",
"pleasing",
"jesting",
"jocose",
"jocular",
"joking",
"prankish",
"teasing"
],
"near antonyms":[
"dutiful",
"responsible",
"grave",
"grim",
"serious",
"solemn",
"somber",
"sombre",
"stern",
"stolid",
"no-nonsense",
"priggish",
"starchy",
"stuffy",
"decorous",
"formal",
"proper",
"sedate",
"staid",
"guarded",
"inhibited",
"restrained"
],
"antonyms":[
"earnest",
"serious-minded",
"sober",
"sobersided"
]
},
"a playful or mischievous act intended as a joke":{
"examples":[
"we'll have no more of your antics , so just settle down"
],
"synonyms":[
"caper",
"capriccio",
"dido",
"escapade",
"frolic",
"gag",
"jest",
"knavery",
"monkeyshine(s)",
"practical joke",
"prank",
"rag",
"roguery",
"shavie",
"shine(s)",
"trick",
"waggery"
],
"near synonyms":[
"skylarking",
"adventure",
"experience",
"game",
"lark",
"time",
"high jinks",
"hijinks",
"horseplay",
"play",
"roughhousing",
"rowdyism",
"shenanigan(s)",
"tomfoolery",
"joking",
"kidding",
"teasing",
"gambit",
"hoax",
"maneuver",
"ploy",
"deed",
"feat",
"mission",
"performance",
"stunt",
"caprice",
"conceit",
"fancy",
"vagary",
"whim",
"whimsy",
"whimsey",
"deceit",
"deception",
"delusion",
"fooling",
"fraud",
"hanky-panky",
"hoodwinking",
"ruse",
"sham",
"stratagem",
"subterfuge",
"trickery",
"wile"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"adjective",
"noun"
]
},
"anointing":{
"as in anointment , ordination":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"anointment",
"induction",
"installation",
"installment",
"instalment",
"instating",
"investiture",
"investment",
"ordination",
"authorization",
"delegation",
"deputation",
"emplacement",
"placement",
"ranking",
"choice",
"choosing",
"destination",
"election",
"nomination",
"picking",
"selection",
"singling (out)",
"billet",
"gig",
"job",
"office",
"place",
"position",
"situation",
"spot",
"station",
"appointment",
"assignment",
"commission",
"designation"
],
"near antonyms":[
"discharge",
"dismissal",
"dismission",
"expulsion",
"firing",
"blackball",
"rejection",
"deposition",
"dethronement",
"ejection",
"eviction",
"ouster",
"overthrow",
"removal"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to rub an oily or sticky substance over":{
"examples":[
"anoint the wound with antiseptic to prevent infection"
],
"synonyms":[
"bedaubing",
"besmearing",
"daubing",
"smearing"
],
"near synonyms":[
"coating",
"painting",
"plastering",
"greasing",
"oiling",
"gumming",
"larding",
"pitching",
"tarring",
"befouling",
"begriming",
"bemiring",
"besmirching",
"blackening",
"dirtying",
"fouling",
"gauming",
"griming",
"miring",
"mucking",
"muddying",
"smirching",
"smudging",
"soiling",
"staining",
"sullying"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun",
"verb"
]
},
"antedated":{
"to go or come before in time":{
"examples":[
"dinosaurs antedate humans by millions of years"
],
"synonyms":[
"anteceded",
"forewent",
"preceded",
"predated",
"preexisted"
],
"near synonyms":[],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[
"followed",
"postdated",
"succeeded"
]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"annealing":{
"to make stronger (as through hardship)":{
"examples":[
"She was annealed by the tragedies of her childhood."
],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"tempering",
"fortifying",
"hardening",
"indurating",
"inuring",
"seasoning",
"steeling",
"strengthening",
"toughening",
"acclimating",
"acclimatizing",
"adapting",
"adjusting",
"invigorating",
"vitalizing",
"immunizing",
"bolstering",
"boosting",
"bracing",
"buttressing",
"enforcing",
"forearming",
"propping (up)",
"reinforcing",
"reenforcing",
"supporting",
"breaking in",
"limbering (up)",
"training",
"accustoming",
"conditioning",
"habituating",
"naturalizing"
],
"near antonyms":[
"enervating",
"enfeebling",
"exhausting",
"sapping",
"weakening",
"crippling",
"debilitating",
"hamstringing",
"incapacitating",
"sensitizing",
"softening"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"antonyms":{
"a word having the opposite meaning as another word":{
"examples":[
"She needed an antonym for \"hot,\" and decided to settle on \"chilly.\""
],
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"near synonyms":[
"antipodes",
"antitheses",
"contraries",
"counters",
"negatives",
"obverses",
"opposites",
"reverses",
"negations",
"counterpoints",
"converses",
"inverses",
"mirror images"
],
"near antonyms":[
"synonyms",
"analogues",
"analogs",
"counterparts",
"carbon copies",
"copies",
"duplicates",
"replicas"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"anchoring":{
"to put securely in place or in a desired position":{
"examples":[
"used ropes and sandbags to anchor the hot-air balloon to the ground"
],
"synonyms":[
"catching",
"clamping",
"fastening",
"fixing",
"hitching",
"mooring",
"securing",
"setting"
],
"near synonyms":[
"embedding",
"imbedding",
"entrenching",
"intrenching",
"implanting",
"ingraining",
"engraining",
"lodging",
"stuffing",
"wedging"
],
"near antonyms":[
"extracting",
"prizing",
"prying",
"pulling",
"rooting (out)",
"tearing (out)",
"uprooting",
"wresting",
"yanking"
],
"antonyms":[
"loosening",
"loosing",
"unfastening",
"unfixing",
"unloosening",
"unloosing"
]
},
"to stop at or near a place along the shore":{
"examples":[
"we'll anchor at Praia, Cape Verde"
],
"synonyms":[
"docking",
"landing"
],
"near synonyms":[
"berthing",
"mooring",
"tying up",
"tieing up",
"beaching",
"grounding",
"harboring",
"arriving",
"reaching",
"showing up",
"turning up",
"debarking",
"disembarking"
],
"near antonyms":[
"embarking",
"launching",
"sailing"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"anticlimactical":{
"as in inconsequential , trivial":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"inconsequential",
"indecisive",
"insignificant",
"noncritical",
"trivial",
"unimportant"
],
"near antonyms":[
"apocalyptic",
"apocalyptical",
"climacteric",
"climactic",
"apical",
"apogean",
"crestal",
"crowning",
"culminating",
"high",
"highest",
"meridian",
"critical",
"crossover",
"crucial",
"fateful",
"life-and-death",
"life-or-death",
"vital"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"adjective"
]
},
"antipodes":{
"something that is as different as possible from something else":{
"examples":[
"our little pug is an antipode to our other dog, a mastiff"
],
"synonyms":[
"antitheses",
"contraries",
"counters",
"negatives",
"obverses",
"opposites",
"reverses"
],
"near synonyms":[
"negations",
"antonyms",
"counterpoints",
"converses",
"inverses",
"mirror images"
],
"near antonyms":[
"synonyms",
"analogues",
"analogs",
"counterparts",
"carbon copies",
"copies",
"duplicates",
"replicas"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"anguishes":{
"a state of great suffering of body or mind":{
"examples":[
"as a new teacher, she was in real anguish over the decision to report the cheating"
],
"synonyms":[
"afflictions",
"agonies",
"distresses",
"excruciations",
"hurts",
"miseries",
"pains",
"racks",
"straits",
"torments",
"tortures",
"travails",
"tribulations",
"woes"
],
"near synonyms":[
"discomforts",
"crosses",
"crucibles",
"trials",
"heartaches",
"heartbreaks",
"sorrows",
"emergencies",
"pinches",
"asperities",
"difficulties",
"hardships",
"rigors",
"aches",
"pangs",
"stitches",
"throes",
"twinges",
"dangers",
"jeopardies",
"troubles"
],
"near antonyms":[
"comforts",
"consolations",
"solaces",
"alleviations",
"assuagements",
"eases",
"reliefs",
"peaces",
"securities",
"well-beings"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to cause persistent suffering to":{
"examples":[
"she was anguished by the fear that her sons would die in the war"
],
"synonyms":[
"afflicts",
"agonizes",
"bedevils",
"besets",
"besieges",
"curses",
"excruciates",
"harrows",
"persecutes",
"plagues",
"racks",
"torments",
"tortures"
],
"near synonyms":[
"assails",
"attacks",
"badgers",
"dogs",
"hounds",
"pursues",
"rides",
"aggravates",
"agitates",
"annoys",
"bothers",
"bugs",
"chafes",
"distresses",
"disturbs",
"exasperates",
"galls",
"gets",
"grates",
"gripes",
"hagrides",
"harasses",
"harries",
"irks",
"irritates",
"molests",
"nettles",
"peeves",
"pesters",
"piques",
"puts out",
"rasps",
"riles",
"vexes",
"discomforts",
"discomposes",
"disquiets",
"flusters",
"grieves",
"perturbs",
"strains",
"stresses",
"tries",
"troubles",
"upsets",
"worries",
"crushes",
"oppresses",
"overpowers",
"overwhelms",
"smites",
"strikes",
"tyrannizes",
"victimizes",
"hurts",
"pains",
"pangs",
"pricks",
"smarts",
"stabs",
"stings",
"wrings",
"martyrs"
],
"near antonyms":[
"abets",
"aids",
"assists",
"helps",
"delivers",
"releases",
"relieves",
"reprieves",
"comforts",
"consoles",
"contents",
"quiets",
"solaces",
"soothes",
"succors"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to feel deep sadness or mental pain":{
"examples":[
"I anguished over the loss of my father for years afterwards"
],
"synonyms":[
"agonizes",
"bleeds",
"grieves",
"hurts",
"mourns",
"sorrows",
"suffers"
],
"near synonyms":[
"aches",
"longs (for)",
"pines (away)",
"sighs",
"smarts",
"racks",
"torments",
"tortures",
"bemoans",
"bewails",
"deplores",
"laments",
"rues",
"bawls",
"blubbers",
"cries",
"groans",
"howls",
"keens",
"moans",
"sobs",
"takes on",
"wails",
"weeps",
"yammers",
"yowls",
"languishes",
"regrets"
],
"near antonyms":[
"beams",
"cheers",
"crows",
"delights",
"exults",
"glories",
"joys",
"laughs",
"ravishes",
"rejoices",
"triumphs",
"assures",
"cheers",
"comforts",
"commiserates",
"consoles",
"reassures",
"solaces",
"soothes",
"sympathizes"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun",
"verb"
]
},
"announce":{
"to make known openly or publicly":{
"examples":[
"the excited coworker announced to everyone within hearing distance that she and her husband were expecting"
],
"synonyms":[
"advertise",
"annunciate",
"blare",
"blaze",
"blazon",
"broadcast",
"declare",
"enunciate",
"flash",
"give out",
"herald",
"placard",
"post",
"proclaim",
"promulgate",
"publicize",
"publish",
"release",
"sound",
"trumpet"
],
"near synonyms":[
"bark",
"call (off or out)",
"cry",
"bill",
"billboard",
"bulletin",
"gazette",
"knell",
"ring",
"toll",
"blurb",
"feature",
"pitch",
"plug",
"promote",
"puff",
"disseminate",
"spread",
"disclose",
"divulge",
"introduce",
"kithe",
"manifest",
"report",
"reveal",
"show",
"advise",
"apprise",
"hand down",
"inform",
"notify",
"communicate",
"impart",
"intimate"
],
"near antonyms":[
"conceal",
"hush (up)",
"silence",
"suppress",
"withhold",
"recall",
"recant",
"retract",
"revoke"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"angelic":{
"as in blissful , beatific":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"beatific",
"blissful",
"supernatural",
"transcendent",
"transcendental",
"unearthly",
"unworldly",
"Olympian",
"paradisiacal",
"paradisiac",
"utopian",
"celestial",
"elysian",
"empyreal",
"empyrean",
"ethereal",
"heavenly",
"supernal",
"cosmic",
"cosmical",
"galactic",
"stellar"
],
"near antonyms":[
"chthonic",
"chthonian",
"hellish",
"infernal",
"plutonian",
"sulfurous",
"Tartarean",
"earthly",
"mundane",
"terrestrial",
"worldly",
"anti-utopian",
"dystopian"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"as in cherubic":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"cherubic",
"beatified",
"blessed",
"blest",
"canonized",
"venerable",
"chaste",
"moral",
"pure",
"righteous",
"upright",
"virtuous",
"pietistic",
"religiose",
"ascetic",
"ascetical",
"prayerful",
"reverent",
"reverential",
"spiritual",
"worshipful",
"devout",
"godly",
"holy",
"pious",
"religious",
"sainted",
"saintly"
],
"near antonyms":[
"antireligious",
"faithless",
"godless",
"impious",
"irreligious",
"ungodly",
"unholy",
"blasphemous",
"desecrating",
"irreverent",
"profanatory",
"profane",
"sacrilegious",
"nonreligious",
"secular",
"unspiritual",
"worldly",
"backsliding",
"unfaithful",
"evil",
"immoral",
"iniquitous",
"miscreant",
"sinful",
"sinning",
"unrighteous",
"wicked"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"adjective"
]
},
"antireform":{
"as in antirevolutionary , antiliberal":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"antiliberal",
"antimodern",
"antiprogressive",
"antirevolutionary",
"right",
"right-wing",
"dowdy",
"fogyish",
"fogeyish",
"fuddy-duddy",
"ossified",
"set",
"stodgy",
"blimpish",
"neoconservative",
"Tory",
"ultraright",
"ultrarightist",
"devoted",
"faithful",
"loyal",
"staunch",
"stanch",
"steadfast",
"steady",
"true",
"true-blue",
"conventional",
"square",
"archconservative",
"brassbound",
"button-down",
"buttoned-down",
"conservative",
"die-hard",
"hidebound",
"mossbacked",
"old-fashioned",
"old-line",
"old-school",
"orthodox",
"paleoconservative",
"reactionary",
"standpat",
"traditional",
"traditionalistic",
"ultraconservative",
"unprogressive"
],
"near antonyms":[
"broad-minded",
"large-minded",
"liberal",
"nonconservative",
"nonconventional",
"nonorthodox",
"nontraditional",
"open-minded",
"progressive",
"unconventional",
"unorthodox",
"anticonventional",
"antiestablishment",
"antitraditional",
"extremist",
"radical",
"revolutionary",
"nonconformist",
"advanced",
"contemporary",
"modern",
"lefty",
"radical",
"ultraleft",
"ultraleftist",
"ultraprogressive",
"ultraradical"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"adjective"
]
},
"animatedly":{
"in a quick and spirited manner":{
"examples":[
"animatedly raced into the living room to open Christmas presents"
],
"synonyms":[
"airily",
"animately",
"bouncily",
"buoyantly",
"gaily",
"gayly",
"high-spiritedly",
"livelily",
"lively",
"perkily",
"pertly",
"snappily",
"sparkily",
"spiritedly",
"sprightly",
"trippingly",
"vivaciously"
],
"near synonyms":[
"friskily",
"gamesomely",
"playfully",
"skittishly",
"sportively",
"briskly",
"crisply",
"effervescently",
"energetically",
"jazzily",
"racily",
"springily",
"breezily",
"cockily",
"dapperly",
"dashingly",
"jauntily",
"agilely",
"nimbly",
"spryly",
"allegro"
],
"near antonyms":[
"halfheartedly",
"idly",
"indolently",
"lazily",
"lethargically",
"slothfully",
"heavily",
"inactively",
"listlessly",
"tiredly",
"wearily"
],
"antonyms":[
"dully",
"inanimately",
"sluggishly",
"tardily"
]
},
"type":[
"adverb"
]
},
"analogue":{
"something that is similar to something else in design, origin, use, etc.; something that is analogous to something else":{
"examples":[
"a modern analog to what happened before",
"the synthetic analog of a chemical found in a tropical tree",
"a meat analogue such as tofu"
],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"parallel",
"alter ego",
"carbon",
"carbon copy",
"clone",
"counterpart",
"doppelg\u00e4nger",
"doppelganger",
"double",
"duplicate",
"duplication",
"facsimile",
"fetch",
"image",
"likeness",
"look-alike",
"match",
"mirror image",
"picture",
"replica",
"ringer",
"spit",
"spitting image",
"twin",
"Chinese copy",
"effigy",
"portrait",
"portrayal",
"companion",
"fellow",
"mate",
"equal",
"equivalent"
],
"near antonyms":[
"antithesis",
"converse",
"opposite",
"reverse"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"anywise":{
"in any way or respect":{
"examples":[
"nor is it anywise important what you wear to the party"
],
"synonyms":[
"at all",
"ever",
"half"
],
"near synonyms":[
"somehow",
"someway",
"someways",
"remotely"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"without definite aim, direction, rule, or method":{
"examples":[
"just stuffed his newly cleaned clothes anywise back into the drawers"
],
"synonyms":[
"aimlessly",
"anyhow",
"anyway",
"desultorily",
"erratically",
"haphazard",
"haphazardly",
"helter-skelter",
"hit or miss",
"irregularly",
"randomly",
"willy-nilly"
],
"near synonyms":[
"arbitrarily",
"capriciously",
"carelessly",
"casually",
"indiscriminately",
"informally",
"offhand",
"offhandedly",
"promiscuously",
"whimsically",
"accidentally",
"fortuitously",
"inadvertently",
"unconsciously",
"unintentionally",
"unwittingly",
"disconnectedly",
"disjointedly",
"fitfully",
"intermittently",
"spottily",
"unpredictably",
"higgledy-piggledy",
"topsy-turvy"
],
"near antonyms":[
"carefully",
"formally",
"gingerly",
"meticulously",
"orderly",
"punctiliously",
"deliberately",
"intentionally",
"purposefully",
"purposely"
],
"antonyms":[
"methodically",
"systematically"
]
},
"type":[
"adverb"
]
},
"announces (to)":{
"as in discloses (to)":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"discloses (to)",
"advertises",
"alerts",
"notifies",
"assures",
"certifies",
"convinces",
"reassures",
"warrants",
"acquaints",
"advises",
"apprises",
"briefs",
"catches up",
"clears",
"clues (in)",
"enlightens",
"familiarizes",
"fills in",
"hips",
"informs",
"instructs",
"tells",
"verses",
"wises (up)",
"educates",
"lectures",
"schools",
"teaches",
"tutors",
"disabuses",
"disenchants",
"disillusions",
"undeceives"
],
"near antonyms":[
"misinforms",
"misleads"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"animosities":{
"a deep-seated ill will":{
"examples":[
"his open animosity towards us made our meeting very uncomfortable"
],
"synonyms":[
"animus",
"antagonism",
"antipathy",
"bad blood",
"bitterness",
"enmity",
"gall",
"grudge",
"hostility",
"jaundice",
"rancor"
],
"near synonyms":[
"blood feud",
"feud",
"score",
"vendetta",
"hate",
"hatred",
"loathing",
"vindictiveness",
"virulence",
"vitriol",
"alienation",
"disaffection",
"estrangement",
"conflict",
"coolness",
"discord",
"friction",
"strain",
"tension",
"inhospitableness",
"unfriendliness",
"malice",
"malignancy",
"malignity",
"spite",
"spitefulness",
"venom"
],
"near antonyms":[
"amiability",
"amicability",
"civility",
"cordiality",
"friendliness",
"hospitality",
"neighborliness",
"comity",
"empathy",
"friendship",
"goodwill",
"sympathy",
"understanding"
],
"antonyms":[
"amity"
]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"anointments":{
"as in investitures , ordinations":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"inductions",
"installations",
"installments",
"instalments",
"investitures",
"investments",
"ordinations",
"authorizations",
"delegations",
"deputations",
"emplacements",
"placements",
"rankings",
"choices",
"destinations",
"elections",
"nominations",
"selections",
"billets",
"gigs",
"jobs",
"offices",
"places",
"positions",
"situations",
"spots",
"stations",
"appointments",
"assignments",
"commissions",
"designations"
],
"near antonyms":[
"discharges",
"dismissals",
"dismissions",
"expulsions",
"firings",
"blackballs",
"rejections",
"depositions",
"dethronements",
"ejections",
"evictions",
"ousters",
"overthrows",
"removals"
],
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},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"anesthesiologists":{
"as in pediatricians , dermatologists":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"dermatologists",
"gynecologists",
"internists",
"neurologists",
"ob-gyns",
"obstetricians",
"ophthalmologists",
"optometrists",
"orthopedists",
"pathologists",
"pediatricians",
"pediatrists",
"physiatrists",
"podiatrists",
"radiologists",
"urologists",
"croakers",
"docs",
"doctors",
"medicos",
"medics",
"physicians",
"sawbones",
"sawboneses",
"family doctors",
"family physicians",
"family practitioners",
"general practitioners",
"attendings",
"clinicians",
"hospitalists",
"specialists",
"plastic surgeons",
"surgeons",
"interns",
"internes",
"residents",
"aidmen",
"nurse-practitioners",
"nurses",
"EMTs",
"paramedics",
"paramedicals"
],
"near antonyms":[
"nondoctors",
"nonphysicians"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"answerers":{
"as in responders , repliers":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"repliers",
"responders",
"interviewees",
"pollees",
"respondents",
"attesters",
"informants",
"reporters",
"testifiers",
"witnesses"
],
"near antonyms":[
"canvassers",
"canvasers",
"interviewers",
"pollers",
"pollsters",
"askers",
"inquirers",
"queriers",
"querists",
"questioners"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"anesthetized":{
"as in drugged , deadened":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"cocainized",
"deadened",
"drugged",
"stupefied",
"chilled",
"nipped",
"blunted",
"dulled",
"obtunded",
"asleep",
"benumbed",
"dead",
"insensitive",
"numb",
"numbed",
"torpid",
"unfeeling",
"insensible",
"senseless",
"unconscious",
"inanimate",
"insensate"
],
"near antonyms":[
"feeling",
"sensible",
"sensitive",
"awake"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"adjective"
]
},
"angled":{
"as in inclined , slanted":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"canted",
"cocked",
"heeled",
"inclined",
"listed",
"slanted",
"sloped",
"tilted",
"tipped",
"craggy",
"hillocky",
"hilly",
"mountainous",
"scarped",
"perpendicular",
"plumb",
"straight",
"vertical",
"abrupt",
"bold",
"precipitous",
"sheer",
"steep"
],
"near antonyms":[
"easy",
"gentle",
"gradual",
"moderate",
"soft",
"even",
"flat",
"flush",
"horizontal",
"level",
"plane",
"smooth",
"unruffled",
"unwrinkled"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to set or cause to be at an angle":{
"examples":[
"angle the camera this way and the Leaning Tower of Pisa will look straight"
],
"synonyms":[
"canted",
"cocked",
"heeled",
"inclined",
"leaned",
"listed",
"pitched",
"slanted",
"sloped",
"tilted",
"tipped"
],
"near synonyms":[
"banked",
"bent",
"deviated",
"swerved",
"veered",
"declined",
"descended",
"reclined",
"retreated"
],
"near antonyms":[
"evened",
"flattened",
"leveled",
"levelled",
"straightened"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"adjective",
"verb"
]
},
"angled (for)":{
"as in fished (for)":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"fished (for)",
"asked (for)",
"courted",
"flirted (with)",
"invited",
"wooed",
"hunted",
"searched",
"sought",
"provoked",
"tempted"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"as in plotted , intrigued":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"compassed",
"intrigued",
"plotted",
"schemed",
"arranged",
"concerted",
"concluded",
"hammered out",
"worked out",
"connived",
"contrived",
"engineered",
"finagled",
"finessed",
"framed",
"machinated",
"maneuvered",
"manipulated",
"masterminded",
"negotiated",
"wangled",
"brewed",
"concocted",
"cooked (up)",
"hatched",
"captained",
"commanded",
"conducted",
"directed",
"handled",
"managed",
"quarterbacked",
"ran",
"run",
"gerrymandered"
],
"near antonyms":[
"blew",
"bobbled",
"botched",
"bungled",
"butchered",
"flubbed",
"fumbled",
"gummed (up)",
"loused up",
"mangled",
"messed (up)",
"mishandled",
"muffed"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"ancestries":{
"the line of ancestors from whom a person is descended":{
"examples":[
"a Cambodian immigrant who can trace her Khmer ancestry as far back as the 16th century"
],
"synonyms":[
"births",
"blood",
"bloodlines",
"breedings",
"descents",
"extractions",
"family trees",
"genealogies",
"lineages",
"lines",
"origins",
"parentages",
"pedigrees",
"stocks",
"strains"
],
"near synonyms":[
"heredities",
"successions",
"families",
"houses",
"kindreds",
"kins",
"relations",
"relatives",
"races"
],
"near antonyms":[
"offspring",
"offsprings",
"children",
"heirs",
"inheritors",
"sons",
"successors"
],
"antonyms":[
"issues",
"posterities",
"progenies",
"seed",
"seeds"
]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"animal magnetism":{
"the power of irresistible attraction":{
"examples":[
"a photograph that captures the athlete's animal magnetism"
],
"synonyms":[
"allure",
"appeal",
"attractiveness",
"captivation",
"charisma",
"charm",
"duende",
"enchantment",
"fascination",
"force field",
"glamour",
"glamor",
"magic",
"magnetism",
"oomph",
"pizzazz",
"pizazz",
"seductiveness",
"witchery"
],
"near synonyms":[
"allurement",
"attraction",
"call",
"lure",
"seduction",
"agreeableness",
"darlingness",
"delightfulness",
"desirability",
"desirableness",
"niceness",
"pleasantness",
"pleasingness",
"sweetness",
"sex appeal"
],
"near antonyms":[
"disagreeableness",
"distastefulness",
"obnoxiousness",
"offensiveness",
"unpleasantness"
],
"antonyms":[
"repulsion",
"repulsiveness"
]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"anti-imperialism":{
"as in antimilitarism , antiaggression":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"antiaggression",
"antimilitarism",
"nonaggression",
"pacifism"
],
"near antonyms":[
"imperialism",
"jingoism",
"militarism",
"antagonism",
"fierceness",
"hostility",
"hyperaggressiveness",
"unfriendliness",
"aggression",
"aggressiveness",
"assaultiveness",
"bellicosity",
"belligerence",
"belligerency",
"combativeness",
"contentiousness",
"defiance",
"disputatiousness",
"feistiness",
"fight",
"militance",
"militancy",
"militantness",
"pugnacity",
"quarrelsomeness",
"scrappiness",
"truculence"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"anathematized":{
"to ask a divine power to send harm or evil upon":{
"examples":[
"heretics anathematized by the church leaders"
],
"synonyms":[
"beshrewed",
"cursed",
"imprecated",
"maledicted"
],
"near synonyms":[
"condemned",
"damned",
"denounced",
"execrated",
"reprobated",
"hexed",
"jinxed",
"voodooed",
"danged",
"darned",
"durned",
"dashed",
"cussed (out)",
"fulminated (against)",
"railed (against)",
"reviled"
],
"near antonyms":[
"applauded",
"commended",
"congratulated"
],
"antonyms":[
"blessed",
"blest"
]
},
"to declare to be morally wrong or evil":{
"examples":[
"fundamentalist preachers who anathematize any departure from a literal interpretation of the Bible"
],
"synonyms":[
"censured",
"condemned",
"damned",
"decried",
"denounced",
"execrated",
"reprehended",
"reprobated"
],
"near synonyms":[
"attacked",
"blamed",
"blasted",
"criticized",
"dispraised",
"dissed",
"faulted",
"knocked",
"panned",
"slammed",
"belittled",
"deprecated",
"disparaged",
"doomed",
"sentenced",
"convicted",
"blacklisted",
"excommunicated",
"ostracized",
"castigated",
"chastised",
"rebuked",
"reprimanded",
"reproached",
"admonished",
"chid",
"chided",
"reproved",
"berated",
"lambasted",
"raked",
"scolded",
"upbraided",
"vituperated",
"cursed",
"imprecated",
"abhorred",
"abominated",
"detested",
"hated",
"loathed",
"reviled"
],
"near antonyms":[
"approved",
"endorsed",
"indorsed",
"sanctioned",
"eulogized",
"exalted",
"extolled",
"glorified",
"lauded",
"praised",
"acclaimed",
"applauded",
"commended",
"hailed",
"saluted",
"touted",
"consecrated",
"hallowed",
"sanctified",
"honored",
"revered",
"venerated"
],
"antonyms":[
"blessed",
"blest"
]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"antiracism":{
"as in antidiscrimination , antisegregation":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"antidiscrimination",
"antisegregation",
"assimilationism"
],
"near antonyms":[
"prejudice",
"racialism",
"racism",
"race-baiting",
"apartheid",
"Jim Crow",
"segregation",
"separatism"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"answerer":{
"as in responder , replier":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"replier",
"responder",
"interviewee",
"pollee",
"respondent",
"attester",
"informant",
"reporter",
"testifier",
"witness"
],
"near antonyms":[
"canvasser",
"canvaser",
"interviewer",
"poller",
"pollster",
"asker",
"inquirer",
"querier",
"querist",
"questioner"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"anatomizing":{
"the separation and identification of the parts of a whole":{
"examples":[
"your anatomizing of the situation is quite insightful"
],
"synonyms":[
"analysis",
"anatomy",
"assay",
"breakdown",
"deconstruction",
"dissection"
],
"near synonyms":[
"assessment",
"diagnosis",
"evaluation",
"examination",
"inspection",
"investigation",
"muster",
"scrutiny",
"arrangement",
"assortment",
"cataloging",
"cataloguing",
"categorization",
"classification",
"codification",
"indexing",
"enumeration",
"inventory",
"itemization",
"tabulation",
"division",
"reduction",
"segmentation",
"separation",
"subdivision"
],
"near antonyms":[
"agglomeration",
"aggregation",
"amalgamation",
"assimilation",
"coalescence",
"conglomeration",
"consolidation",
"integration",
"synthesis",
"unification"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to identify and examine the basic elements or parts of (something) especially for discovering interrelationships":{
"examples":[
"if you anatomize the problem, you'll see it stems from a combination of her bad behavior and your unwillingness to speak to her about it"
],
"synonyms":[
"analyzing",
"assaying",
"breaking down",
"cutting",
"deconstructing",
"dissecting"
],
"near synonyms":[
"assessing",
"diagnosing",
"evaluating",
"examining",
"inspecting",
"investigating",
"scrutinizing",
"arranging",
"assorting",
"cataloging",
"cataloguing",
"categorizing",
"classifying",
"codifying",
"diagramming",
"diagraming",
"enumerating",
"indexing",
"ordering",
"schematizing",
"sorting",
"tabulating",
"dividing",
"reducing",
"segmenting",
"separating",
"subdividing"
],
"near antonyms":[
"agglomerating",
"aggregating",
"amalgamating",
"assimilating",
"coalescing",
"conglomerating",
"consolidating",
"integrating",
"synthesizing",
"unifying"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun",
"verb"
]
},
"annulets":{
"as in curls , spirals":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"beckets",
"coils",
"curls",
"furls",
"hanks",
"spirals",
"spires",
"twirls",
"whorls",
"wreaths",
"belts",
"cinctures",
"collars",
"girdles",
"bands",
"circles",
"eyes",
"hoops",
"loops",
"rings",
"rounds"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"anteroom":{
"a small room that is connected to a larger room and used as a place for people to wait before going into the larger room":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"antechamber",
"lounge",
"waiting room",
"entranceway",
"entry",
"entryway",
"foyer",
"hall",
"hallway",
"lobby",
"vestibule",
"door",
"doorway",
"entrance",
"portal",
"threshold"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"animation":{
"the quality or state of having abundant or intense activity":{
"examples":[
"the animation of any city depends upon an abundance of street-level restaurants, shops, and places of entertainment"
],
"synonyms":[
"briskness",
"exuberance",
"jazziness",
"liveliness",
"lustiness",
"peppiness",
"robustness",
"sprightliness",
"vibrance",
"vibrancy",
"vigorousness",
"vitality"
],
"near synonyms":[
"buoyancy",
"jauntiness",
"springiness",
"brightness",
"cheer",
"cheerfulness",
"chirpiness",
"effervescence",
"friskiness",
"pizzazz",
"pizazz",
"sparkle",
"spirit",
"verve",
"vivaciousness",
"vivacity",
"eagerness",
"ebullience",
"ebulliency",
"enthusiasm",
"keenness",
"spiritedness",
"impishness",
"pertness",
"playfulness"
],
"near antonyms":[
"indolence",
"laziness",
"anemia",
"bloodlessness",
"languidness",
"languor",
"lethargy",
"limpness",
"listlessness",
"sleepiness",
"sluggishness",
"spiritlessness",
"torpidity",
"torpor",
"weariness",
"apathy",
"impassivity",
"dullness",
"dulness",
"pallidness",
"tediousness",
"tedium",
"vapidity",
"vapidness"
],
"antonyms":[
"inactivity",
"lifelessness"
]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"answered":{
"to speak or write in reaction to a question or to another reaction":{
"examples":[
"didn't answer right away when the detective asked him where he'd been for the last three hours"
],
"synonyms":[
"came back",
"rejoined",
"replied",
"responded",
"retorted",
"returned",
"riposted"
],
"near synonyms":[
"acknowledged",
"commented",
"communicated",
"corresponded",
"reacted",
"remarked",
"countered",
"defended",
"denied",
"explained",
"fielded",
"rebutted",
"refuted"
],
"near antonyms":[
"challenged",
"cross-examined",
"examined",
"grilled",
"interrogated",
"pumped",
"quizzed",
"polled",
"queried",
"surveyed"
],
"antonyms":[
"asked",
"inquired",
"questioned"
]
},
"to be in agreement on every point":{
"examples":[
"sorry, I haven't seen anyone answering to that description"
],
"synonyms":[
"accorded",
"agreed",
"checked",
"chorded",
"cohered",
"coincided",
"comported",
"conformed",
"consisted",
"corresponded",
"dovetailed",
"fitted",
"fit",
"harmonized",
"jibed",
"rhymed",
"rimed",
"sorted",
"squared",
"tallied",
"went"
],
"near synonyms":[
"equaled",
"equalled",
"matched",
"paralleled",
"aligned",
"alined",
"lined up",
"registered"
],
"near antonyms":[
"contradicted",
"disputed",
"gainsaid",
"negated",
"nullified",
"clashed",
"conflicted",
"jarred"
],
"antonyms":[
"differed (from)",
"disagreed (with)"
]
},
"to do what is required by the terms of":{
"examples":[
"I don't have a box cutter as such, but will this knife answer the purpose?"
],
"synonyms":[
"completed",
"complied (with)",
"filled",
"fulfilled",
"kept",
"met",
"redeemed",
"satisfied"
],
"near synonyms":[
"concluded",
"consummated",
"finalized",
"finished",
"perfected",
"accomplished",
"achieved",
"brought about",
"brought off",
"carried out",
"effected",
"committed",
"compassed",
"discharged",
"executed",
"followed through (with)",
"made",
"performed"
],
"near antonyms":[
"defaulted (on)",
"disregarded",
"forgot",
"ignored",
"neglected",
"overlooked",
"overpassed",
"passed over",
"slighted"
],
"antonyms":[
"breached",
"broke",
"transgressed",
"violated"
]
},
"to find an answer for through reasoning":{
"examples":[
"try to answer this riddle"
],
"synonyms":[
"broke",
"cracked",
"doped (out)",
"figured out",
"puzzled (out)",
"resolved",
"riddled (out)",
"solved",
"unraveled",
"unriddled",
"worked",
"wrought",
"worked out"
],
"near synonyms":[
"concluded",
"decided",
"deduced",
"gathered",
"inferred",
"judged",
"reasoned",
"cleared (up)",
"ironed out",
"straightened (out)",
"unscrambled",
"untangled",
"untied",
"assumed",
"conjectured",
"divined",
"guessed",
"presumed",
"speculated",
"deciphered",
"decoded"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"anthem":{
"a religious song":{
"examples":[
"fervently sang an anthem of praise to the Lord"
],
"synonyms":[
"canticle",
"carol",
"chorale",
"hymn",
"psalm",
"spiritual"
],
"near synonyms":[
"dirge",
"lament",
"requiem",
"threnody",
"Gloria Patri",
"hallelujah",
"paean",
"mass",
"oratorio",
"processional",
"recessional"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"animates":{
"to give life, vigor, or spirit to":{
"examples":[
"Mr. Clark animates history for his sixth graders by frequently showing up for class dressed like some famous historical figure"
],
"synonyms":[
"amps (up)",
"braces",
"energizes",
"enlivens",
"fillips",
"fires",
"gingers (up)",
"invigorates",
"jazzes (up)",
"juices up",
"jump-starts",
"livens (up)",
"peps (up)",
"quickens",
"spikes",
"stimulates",
"vitalizes",
"vivifies",
"zips (up)"
],
"near synonyms":[
"arouses",
"awakens",
"awakes",
"raises",
"rouses",
"stirs",
"wakes (up)",
"activates",
"actuates",
"drives",
"impels",
"motivates",
"motives",
"moves",
"propels",
"charges",
"electrifies",
"galvanizes",
"enkindles",
"excites",
"ferments",
"foments",
"incites",
"inflames",
"enflames",
"instigates",
"kindles",
"provokes",
"sets off",
"sparks",
"triggers",
"turns on",
"whips (up)",
"abets",
"boosts",
"buoys",
"cheers",
"emboldens",
"fortifies",
"heartens",
"infuses",
"inspires",
"lifts",
"rallies",
"steels",
"strengthens",
"reactivates",
"reanimates",
"reawakens",
"reawakes",
"recharges",
"recreates",
"reenergizes",
"refreshens",
"refreshes",
"regenerates",
"reinvigorates",
"rejuvenates",
"rekindles",
"renews",
"restimulates",
"resurrects",
"resuscitates",
"revitalizes",
"revives"
],
"near antonyms":[
"burns out",
"debilitates",
"does in",
"drains",
"enervates",
"enfeebles",
"exhausts",
"fags",
"fatigues",
"harasses",
"kayoes",
"knocks out",
"saps",
"tuckers (out)",
"undermines",
"washes out",
"weakens",
"wearies",
"wears",
"wears out",
"checks",
"curbs",
"inhibits",
"jades",
"quells",
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"restrains",
"slows",
"stills",
"stunts",
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"dampens",
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"deadens",
"dulls",
"kills"
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"verb"
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"a substance that is used to kill harmful bacteria and to cure infections":{
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"antiseptics",
"sera",
"serums",
"cures",
"drugs",
"medicaments",
"medications",
"medicinals",
"medicines",
"pharmaceuticals",
"physics",
"remedies",
"specifics",
"cure-alls",
"nostrums",
"panaceas",
"botanicals",
"patent medicines",
"prescription drugs",
"prescriptions",
"cordials",
"potions",
"tonics",
"miracle drugs",
"wonder drugs",
"caps",
"capsules",
"pills",
"tablets",
"injections",
"shots",
"embrocations",
"liniments",
"lotions",
"ointments",
"potions",
"poultices",
"salves",
"syrups",
"sirups",
"tinctures",
"cathartics",
"purgatives"
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"type":[
"noun"
]
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"dating or surviving from the distant past":{
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"found evidence in the Middle East of an antediluvian people previously unknown to history"
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"age-old",
"aged",
"ancient",
"antique",
"dateless",
"hoar",
"hoary",
"immemorial",
"old",
"venerable"
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"aging",
"ageing",
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"archaic",
"archaistic",
"dated",
"fusty",
"geriatric",
"medieval",
"mediaeval",
"moldy",
"Noachian",
"obsolete",
"outmoded",
"out-of-date",
"pass\u00e9",
"old-fashioned",
"old-time",
"old-world",
"retro",
"vintage",
"durable",
"enduring",
"lasting",
"long-lived",
"permanent",
"ageless",
"hallowed",
"time-honored",
"timeless",
"time-tested",
"timeworn",
"traditional",
"tried",
"tried-and-true",
"classic",
"classical",
"prehistoric",
"prehistorical",
"primeval",
"primordial"
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"fresh",
"vernal",
"young",
"youthful",
"contemporary",
"current",
"latest",
"mod",
"novel",
"present-day",
"ultramodern",
"untested",
"untried",
"brand-new",
"unused",
"unworn"
],
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"modern",
"new",
"recent"
]
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"thought his dad was an antediluvian for refusing to use any social media"
],
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"Colonel Blimp",
"dodo",
"fogy",
"fogey",
"fossil",
"fud",
"fuddy-duddy",
"mossback",
"reactionary",
"stick-in-the-mud",
"stuffed shirt"
],
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"conservative",
"rightist",
"Tory",
"mandarin",
"old hand",
"old-timer",
"veteran",
"old maid"
],
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"liberal",
"progressive",
"radical"
],
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"hipster",
"modern",
"trendy"
]
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"type":[
"adjective",
"noun"
]
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"as in radical , extremist":{
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"anticonventional",
"antiestablishment",
"extremist",
"radical",
"revolutionary",
"broad-minded",
"large-minded",
"liberal",
"nonconservative",
"nonconventional",
"nonorthodox",
"nontraditional",
"open-minded",
"progressive",
"unconventional",
"unorthodox",
"nonconformist",
"advanced",
"contemporary",
"modern",
"lefty",
"radical",
"ultraleft",
"ultraleftist",
"ultraprogressive",
"ultraradical"
],
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"archconservative",
"brassbound",
"button-down",
"buttoned-down",
"conservative",
"die-hard",
"hidebound",
"mossbacked",
"old-fashioned",
"old-line",
"old-school",
"orthodox",
"paleoconservative",
"reactionary",
"standpat",
"traditional",
"traditionalistic",
"ultraconservative",
"unprogressive",
"conventional",
"square",
"devoted",
"faithful",
"loyal",
"staunch",
"stanch",
"steadfast",
"steady",
"true",
"true-blue"
],
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},
"type":[
"adjective"
]
},
"antiphonary":{
"as in antiphonal":{
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"near synonyms":[
"antiphonal",
"songbook",
"songster",
"breviary",
"missal",
"Psalter",
"hymnal",
"hymnary",
"hymnbook",
"psalmody"
],
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},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"analgesic":{
"something (as a drug) that relieves pain":{
"examples":[
"the doctor prescribed an analgesic and rest for my injured knee"
],
"synonyms":[
"anesthetic",
"anodyne",
"painkiller"
],
"near synonyms":[
"sedative",
"tranquilizer",
"tranquillizer",
"narcotic",
"opiate"
],
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"as in numbing , anesthetic":{
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"anesthetic",
"anodyne",
"deadening",
"depressant",
"numbing",
"hypnotic",
"opiate",
"antianxiety",
"antidepressant",
"antidepression",
"antistress",
"calming",
"comforting",
"dreamy",
"lulling",
"narcotic",
"pacifying",
"quieting",
"relaxing",
"sedative",
"soothing",
"tranquilizing",
"tranquillizing"
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"painful",
"stressful",
"tiresome",
"troubling",
"trying",
"unsettling",
"worrisome",
"energizing",
"invigorating",
"stimulant",
"stimulating",
"aggravating",
"annoying",
"bothersome",
"disturbing",
"exasperating",
"frustrating",
"galling",
"grating",
"harassing",
"irksome",
"irritating",
"maddening",
"nettlesome",
"troublesome",
"vexatious",
"vexing"
],
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},
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"adjective",
"noun"
]
},
"antiquity":{
"the state of being something old":{
"examples":[
"despite their indisputable antiquity , many of the carvings look like they could have been made yesterday"
],
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"age",
"agedness",
"ancientness",
"hoariness"
],
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"antiquation",
"datedness",
"obsolescence",
"obsoleteness",
"old-fashionedness",
"fustiness",
"agelessness"
],
"near antonyms":[
"currency",
"currentness",
"freshness",
"modernity",
"modernness",
"novelty",
"recentness"
],
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"newness"
]
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"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"anomalous":{
"being out of the ordinary":{
"examples":[
"that was an anomalous year for the housing industry, so the number of starts is anything but typical"
],
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"aberrant",
"aberrated",
"abnormal",
"atypical",
"especial",
"exceeding",
"exceptional",
"extraordinaire",
"extraordinary",
"freak",
"odd",
"peculiar",
"phenomenal",
"preternatural",
"rare",
"singular",
"uncommon",
"uncustomary",
"unique",
"unusual",
"unwonted"
],
"near synonyms":[
"conspicuous",
"notable",
"noticeable",
"outstanding",
"prominent",
"remarkable",
"salient",
"striking",
"bizarre",
"deviant",
"eccentric",
"freakish",
"monstrous",
"oddball",
"outlandish",
"quaint",
"strange",
"weird",
"incomprehensible",
"inconceivable",
"incredible",
"unimaginable",
"unthinkable"
],
"near antonyms":[
"everyday",
"familiar",
"frequent"
],
"antonyms":[
"common",
"customary",
"normal",
"ordinary",
"typical",
"unexceptional",
"unextraordinary",
"usual"
]
},
"departing from some accepted standard of what is normal":{
"examples":[
"an anomalous burst of anger from this usually easygoing person"
],
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"aberrant",
"aberrational",
"abnormal",
"atypical",
"deviant",
"deviate",
"devious",
"irregular",
"unnatural",
"untypical"
],
"near synonyms":[
"unrepresentative",
"extraordinary",
"preternatural",
"rare",
"uncommon",
"uncustomary",
"unusual",
"unwonted",
"bizarre",
"curious",
"far-out",
"funny",
"kinky",
"odd",
"outlandish",
"out-of-the-way",
"outr\u00e9",
"peculiar",
"quaint",
"queer",
"queerish",
"quirky",
"remarkable",
"screwy",
"strange",
"wacky",
"whacky",
"way-out",
"weird",
"wild",
"eccentric",
"freakish",
"idiosyncratic",
"nonconformist",
"unconventional",
"unorthodox",
"extraordinary",
"preternatural",
"rare",
"uncommon",
"uncustomary",
"unusual",
"unwonted",
"odd",
"peculiar",
"strange"
],
"near antonyms":[
"common",
"commonplace",
"everyday",
"familiar",
"ordinary",
"routine",
"run-of-the-mill",
"run-of-the-mine",
"run-of-mine",
"unexceptional",
"unremarkable",
"workaday",
"customary",
"usual",
"wonted",
"archetypal",
"archetypical",
"average",
"characteristic",
"representative"
],
"antonyms":[
"natural",
"normal",
"regular",
"standard",
"typical"
]
},
"type":[
"adjective"
]
},
"anarchist":{
"a person who believes that government and laws are not necessary":{
"examples":[
"The anarchists decided to move to a remote location that was, for all intents and purposes, lawless."
],
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"near synonyms":[
"anarch",
"subversive",
"crazy",
"extremist",
"radical",
"revolutionary",
"revolutionist",
"young Turk",
"agitator",
"insurgent",
"insurrectionist",
"rebel",
"challenger",
"defier",
"insubordinate",
"oppositionist",
"recusant",
"refuser",
"resistant",
"resister"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"anarchy":{
"a state in which there is widespread wrongdoing and disregard for rules and authority":{
"examples":[
"the anarchy that the country experienced after the dictator drained the treasury and fled the country"
],
"synonyms":[
"lawlessness",
"misrule"
],
"near synonyms":[
"anarchism",
"commotion",
"tumult",
"uproar",
"chaos",
"confusion",
"disarray",
"disorder",
"disorderliness",
"disorganization",
"misorder",
"disruption",
"disturbance",
"havoc",
"riot",
"strife",
"turbulence",
"turmoil",
"unrest",
"upheaval",
"mutiny",
"rebellion",
"revolution",
"uprising",
"criminality",
"outlawry"
],
"near antonyms":[
"law",
"law-abidingness",
"lawfulness",
"legality",
"legitimacy",
"rule",
"calmness",
"harmony",
"order",
"orderliness",
"peace",
"peaceableness",
"peacefulness",
"quiet",
"tranquillity",
"tranquility"
],
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},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"aniseikonia":{
"as in squint , astigmatism":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"astigmatism",
"diplopia",
"squint",
"strabismus",
"eye",
"eyesight",
"sight",
"vision",
"myopia",
"nearsightedness",
"farsightedness",
"hypermetropia",
"hyperopia",
"presbyopia",
"double vision"
],
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"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"annotating":{
"to add notes or comments to (a text, book, drawing, etc.)":{
"examples":[
"He annotated the text at several places.",
"annotate a list"
],
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"near synonyms":[
"commentating",
"glossing",
"clarifying",
"clearing (up)",
"construing",
"demonstrating",
"demystifying",
"elucidating",
"explaining",
"explicating",
"expounding",
"getting across",
"illuminating",
"illustrating",
"interpreting",
"simplifying",
"spelling out",
"unriddling",
"deciphering",
"decoding",
"analyzing",
"breaking down",
"disentangling",
"undoing",
"unraveling",
"unscrambling",
"untangling",
"resolving",
"solving",
"defining",
"specifying"
],
"near antonyms":[
"befogging",
"clouding",
"confounding",
"confusing",
"obfuscating",
"obscuring"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"antipodean":{
"being as different as possible":{
"examples":[
"the convincing yet antipodean arguments presented by the two speakers left many members of the audience unsure of which side to support"
],
"synonyms":[
"antipodal",
"antithetical",
"contradictory",
"contrary",
"diametric",
"diametrical",
"opposite",
"polar"
],
"near synonyms":[
"adverse",
"negative",
"unfavorable",
"antagonistic",
"antipathetic",
"counter",
"cross",
"hostile",
"converse",
"inverse",
"obverse",
"reverse",
"alien",
"disparate",
"dissimilar",
"divergent",
"unalike",
"unlike"
],
"near antonyms":[
"alike",
"analogous",
"like",
"similar",
"equivalent",
"identical",
"same",
"synonymous"
],
"antonyms":[
"noncontradictory"
]
},
"type":[
"adjective"
]
},
"anecdota":{
"a brief account of something interesting that happened especially to one personally":{
"examples":[
"told us once again that anecdote about the dog and the bike"
],
"synonyms":[
"stories",
"tales",
"yarns"
],
"near synonyms":[
"episodes",
"events",
"happenings",
"incidents",
"occurrences",
"recitals",
"recitations"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"antiracist":{
"as in antidiscrimination , antisegregation":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"antidiscrimination",
"antisegregation",
"assimilationism"
],
"near antonyms":[
"prejudice",
"racialism",
"racism",
"race-baiting",
"apartheid",
"Jim Crow",
"segregation",
"separatism"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"annoyers":{
"one who is obnoxiously annoying":{
"examples":[
"a bratty annoyer who wouldn't leave me alone"
],
"synonyms":[
"annoyances",
"bothers",
"gadflies",
"gnawers",
"nudniks",
"nudnicks",
"nuisances",
"pains",
"persecutors",
"pests",
"teasers",
"teases"
],
"near synonyms":[
"headaches",
"harriers",
"hecklers",
"interrupters",
"interruptors",
"hassles",
"plagues",
"harassers",
"molesters",
"tormentors",
"tormenters",
"torturers"
],
"near antonyms":[
"charmers",
"smoothies",
"comforters",
"solacers",
"soothers"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"anemia":{
"as in bloodlessness":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"bloodlessness",
"indolence",
"laziness",
"languidness",
"languor",
"lethargy",
"limpness",
"listlessness",
"sleepiness",
"sluggishness",
"spiritlessness",
"torpidity",
"torpor",
"weariness",
"inactivity",
"lifelessness",
"apathy",
"impassivity",
"dullness",
"dulness",
"pallidness",
"tediousness",
"tedium",
"vapidity",
"vapidness"
],
"near antonyms":[
"animation",
"briskness",
"exuberance",
"jazziness",
"liveliness",
"lustiness",
"peppiness",
"robustness",
"sprightliness",
"vibrance",
"vibrancy",
"vigorousness",
"vitality",
"buoyancy",
"jauntiness",
"springiness",
"brightness",
"cheer",
"cheerfulness",
"chirpiness",
"effervescence",
"friskiness",
"pizzazz",
"pizazz",
"sparkle",
"spirit",
"verve",
"vivaciousness",
"vivacity"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"anthropical":{
"as in anthropocentric":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"anthropocentric",
"unspiritual",
"daily",
"diurnal",
"animal",
"bodily",
"corporal",
"corporeal",
"physical",
"carnal",
"earthborn",
"earthbound",
"earthly",
"fleshly",
"material",
"mundane",
"sublunary",
"temporal",
"terrene",
"terrestrial",
"worldly"
],
"near antonyms":[
"heavenly",
"nontemporal",
"unearthly",
"unworldly",
"celestial",
"Elysian",
"empyreal",
"empyrean",
"supernal",
"metaphysical",
"devotional",
"divine",
"religious",
"sacred",
"spiritual",
"utopian",
"ethereal",
"supernatural",
"transcendent",
"transcendental"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"adjective"
]
},
"animalized":{
"to make (someone) feel or behave more like an animal than a human being":{
"examples":[
"six months of solitary living in the jungle would animalize anyone"
],
"synonyms":[
"bestialized",
"brutalized",
"dehumanized"
],
"near synonyms":[
"abased",
"corrupted",
"debauched",
"degraded",
"demeaned",
"depraved",
"perverted",
"poisoned",
"profaned",
"prostituted",
"subverted",
"warped",
"contaminated",
"polluted",
"tainted",
"disgraced",
"humbled",
"humiliated"
],
"near antonyms":[
"dignified",
"exalted",
"honored",
"amended",
"improved",
"cleansed",
"purified",
"restored",
"respected",
"elevated",
"ennobled",
"uplifted"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"anchorpeople":{
"one who reads and introduces news reports on a news program":{
"examples":[
"the new anchorperson did an admirable job of dealing with the late-breaking news story"
],
"synonyms":[
"anchors",
"newscasters",
"newsreaders"
],
"near synonyms":[
"anchormen",
"anchorwomen",
"coanchors",
"co-anchors",
"announcers",
"broadcasters",
"commentators",
"linkmen",
"telecasters",
"correspondents",
"foreign correspondents",
"interviewers",
"journalists",
"newshounds",
"newsies",
"newsmen",
"newspeople",
"newswomen",
"reporters",
"stringers"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"anticipated":{
"being in accordance with the prescribed, normal, or logical course of events":{
"examples":[
"the anticipated date of delivery is July 14th"
],
"synonyms":[
"awaited",
"due",
"expected",
"scheduled",
"slated"
],
"near synonyms":[],
"near antonyms":[
"behind",
"behindhand",
"belated",
"delinquent",
"dilatory",
"late",
"latish",
"overdue",
"tardy",
"early",
"premature",
"untimely",
"unanticipated",
"unforeseen",
"unlooked-for"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to believe in the future occurrence of (something)":{
"examples":[
"I anticipate that we'll be seeing you for New Year's"
],
"synonyms":[
"awaited",
"expected",
"hoped (for)",
"watched (for)"
],
"near synonyms":[
"banked on",
"counted (on or upon)",
"depended (on or upon)",
"relied (on or upon)",
"waited (for)",
"envisaged",
"envisioned",
"foresaw",
"foretold",
"predicted",
"prophesied",
"assumed",
"presumed",
"presupposed",
"contemplated",
"eyed",
"viewed"
],
"near antonyms":[
"doubted",
"questioned"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to realize or know about beforehand":{
"examples":[
"I anticipated this unhelpful response"
],
"synonyms":[
"divined",
"forefelt",
"foreknew",
"foresaw",
"previsioned"
],
"near synonyms":[
"augured",
"forecast",
"forecasted",
"foretold",
"predicted",
"presaged",
"prognosticated",
"prophesied",
"envisaged",
"envisioned",
"foreshadowed",
"prefigured",
"visualized",
"alerted",
"cautioned",
"foretokened",
"forewarned",
"previewed",
"descried",
"discerned",
"perceived",
"apprehended",
"dreaded",
"feared"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"adjective",
"verb"
]
},
"androgyny":{
"suitable to or for either sex":{
"examples":[
"the androgynous hairdos favored by the hip",
"an actor whose androgynous looks are at the heart of his appeal"
],
"synonyms":[
"genderless",
"unisex",
"unisexual"
],
"near synonyms":[
"asexual",
"epicene",
"neuter",
"sexless"
],
"near antonyms":[
"feminine",
"masculine"
],
"antonyms":[
"gendered"
]
},
"type":[
"adjective"
]
},
"announcer":{
"a person who conducts a program of entertainment by making introductions and providing continuity":{
"examples":[
"announcer for the Indy 500"
],
"synonyms":[
"emcee",
"host",
"MC"
],
"near synonyms":[
"mistress of ceremonies",
"DJ",
"disc jockey",
"disk jockey",
"shock jock",
"veejay",
"VJ",
"huckster",
"pitchman",
"anchor",
"anchorman",
"anchorperson",
"anchorwoman",
"newscaster",
"CBer",
"ham",
"radioman"
],
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"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"anamnesis":{
"a particular act or instance of recalling or the thing remembered":{
"examples":[
"an extended, highly fruitful anamnesis that was triggered by the simple act of biting into a madeleine"
],
"synonyms":[
"memory",
"recall",
"recollection",
"remembrance",
"reminiscence"
],
"near synonyms":[
"flashback",
"memento",
"memorial",
"reminder",
"souvenir",
"token",
"association"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"antagonisms":{
"a deep-seated ill will":{
"examples":[
"the antagonism between them was so bad they couldn't even sit near each other"
],
"synonyms":[
"animosity",
"animus",
"antipathy",
"bad blood",
"bitterness",
"enmity",
"gall",
"grudge",
"hostility",
"jaundice",
"rancor"
],
"near synonyms":[
"blood feud",
"feud",
"score",
"vendetta",
"hate",
"hatred",
"loathing",
"vindictiveness",
"virulence",
"vitriol",
"alienation",
"disaffection",
"estrangement",
"conflict",
"coolness",
"discord",
"friction",
"strain",
"tension",
"inhospitableness",
"unfriendliness",
"malice",
"malignancy",
"malignity",
"spite",
"spitefulness",
"venom"
],
"near antonyms":[
"amiability",
"amicability",
"civility",
"cordiality",
"friendliness",
"hospitality",
"neighborliness",
"comity",
"empathy",
"friendship",
"goodwill",
"sympathy",
"understanding"
],
"antonyms":[
"amity"
]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"anacreontic":{
"as in English sonnet , ode":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"clerihew",
"dithyramb",
"eclogue",
"elegy",
"English sonnet",
"epic",
"epigram",
"epode",
"epopee",
"epos",
"georgic",
"idyll",
"idyl",
"jingle",
"lament",
"limerick",
"madrigal",
"ode",
"pastoral",
"pastorale",
"psalm",
"rondeau",
"rondel",
"rondelle",
"rondelet",
"sonnet",
"triolet",
"villanelle",
"lyric",
"poem",
"rune",
"song",
"rhyme",
"rime",
"ballad",
"lay",
"haiku",
"senryu",
"tanka",
"blank verse",
"free verse",
"minstrelsy",
"poesy",
"poetry",
"versification",
"vers libre"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"anal":{
"extremely or overly neat, careful, or precise":{
"examples":[
"I've always been anal about arranging my books alphabetically by author."
],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"anal-retentive",
"obsessive",
"adamant",
"adamantine",
"bullheaded",
"dogged",
"hard",
"hardened",
"hardheaded",
"hard-nosed",
"headstrong",
"immovable",
"implacable",
"inconvincible",
"inflexible",
"intransigent",
"mulish",
"obdurate",
"obstinate",
"opinionated",
"ossified",
"pat",
"pertinacious",
"perverse",
"pigheaded",
"self-opinionated",
"self-willed",
"stiff-necked",
"stubborn",
"unbending",
"uncompromising",
"unrelenting",
"unyielding",
"willful",
"wilful",
"wayward",
"wrongheaded",
"determined",
"hell-bent",
"inexorable",
"persistent",
"relentless",
"resolved",
"set",
"single-minded",
"steadfast",
"stouthearted",
"tenacious",
"unflinching",
"firm",
"hard-line",
"hard-shell",
"hard-shelled",
"iron",
"severe",
"stern",
"strict",
"hidebound",
"narrow-minded",
"rigid",
"bloody-minded",
"cantankerous",
"contrary",
"cussed",
"contumacious",
"disobedient",
"froward",
"insubordinate",
"intractable",
"recalcitrant",
"refractory",
"uncooperative",
"ungovernable",
"unmanageable",
"unruly",
"defiant",
"insurgent",
"mutinous",
"indomitable",
"invincible",
"unconquerable",
"confirmed",
"inveterate",
"unregenerate",
"demanding",
"exacting"
],
"near antonyms":[
"docile",
"obedient",
"placable",
"submissive",
"tractable",
"accepting",
"persuadable",
"receptive",
"responsive",
"willing",
"governable",
"manageable",
"reasonable",
"temperate",
"slavish",
"subservient",
"acquiescent",
"agreeable",
"amenable",
"compliant",
"complying",
"flexible",
"pliable",
"pliant",
"relenting",
"yielding"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"adjective"
]
},
"antiphonaries":{
"as in antiphonals":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"antiphonals",
"songbooks",
"songsters",
"breviaries",
"missals",
"Psalters",
"hymnals",
"hymnaries",
"hymnbooks",
"psalmodies"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"anteing (up)":{
"to give what is owed for":{
"examples":[
"if we can't ante up at least half of the overdue rent, we are going to be evicted"
],
"synonyms":[
"balancing",
"clearing",
"discharging",
"footing",
"liquidating",
"meeting",
"paying",
"paying off",
"paying up",
"ponying up",
"quitting",
"recompensing",
"settling",
"springing (for)",
"standing"
],
"near synonyms":[],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[
"repudiating"
]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"anchorman":{
"as in anchorwoman , coanchor":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"anchorwoman",
"coanchor",
"anchor",
"anchorperson",
"newscaster",
"newsreader",
"announcer",
"broadcaster",
"commentator",
"linkman",
"telecaster",
"correspondent",
"foreign correspondent",
"interviewer",
"journalist",
"newshound",
"newsie",
"newsman",
"newsperson",
"newswoman",
"reporter",
"stringer"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"antielitist":{
"as in democratic , modest":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"egoless",
"humble",
"modest",
"unpretentious",
"democratic",
"egalitarian"
],
"near antonyms":[
"aristocratic",
"elitist",
"high-hat",
"persnickety",
"potty",
"ritzy",
"snobbish",
"snobby",
"snooty",
"snotty",
"toffee-nosed",
"aloof",
"arrogant",
"bumptious",
"haughty",
"high-and-mighty",
"highfalutin",
"hifalutin",
"high-handed",
"hoity-toity",
"huffish",
"huffy",
"imperious",
"lordly",
"overweening",
"peremptory",
"pompous",
"presumptuous",
"pretentious",
"supercilious",
"superior",
"toplofty",
"toploftical",
"uppity",
"biggety",
"biggity",
"bigheaded",
"egoistic",
"egoistical",
"egotistic",
"egotistical",
"prideful",
"self-conceited",
"self-important",
"self-satisfied",
"smug",
"stuck-up",
"swelled-headed",
"swellheaded"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"adjective"
]
},
"anesthetic":{
"something (as a drug) that relieves pain":{
"examples":[
"the dentist waited until the anesthetic took effect"
],
"synonyms":[
"analgesic",
"anodyne",
"painkiller"
],
"near synonyms":[
"sedative",
"tranquilizer",
"tranquillizer",
"narcotic",
"opiate"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"something that soothes, calms, or induces passivity or a sense of security":{
"examples":[
"he used total immersion in his job as an anesthetic for the empty shell that his marriage had become"
],
"synonyms":[
"anodyne",
"narcotic",
"opiate"
],
"near synonyms":[
"security blanket",
"pacifier",
"palliative",
"hypnotic",
"sedative",
"soporific",
"tranquilizer",
"tranquillizer"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"as in numbing , analgesic":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"analgesic",
"anodyne",
"deadening",
"depressant",
"numbing",
"hypnotic",
"opiate",
"antianxiety",
"antidepressant",
"antidepression",
"antistress",
"calming",
"comforting",
"dreamy",
"lulling",
"narcotic",
"pacifying",
"quieting",
"relaxing",
"sedative",
"soothing",
"tranquilizing",
"tranquillizing"
],
"near antonyms":[
"painful",
"stressful",
"tiresome",
"troubling",
"trying",
"unsettling",
"worrisome",
"energizing",
"invigorating",
"stimulant",
"stimulating",
"aggravating",
"annoying",
"bothersome",
"disturbing",
"exasperating",
"frustrating",
"galling",
"grating",
"harassing",
"irksome",
"irritating",
"maddening",
"nettlesome",
"troublesome",
"vexatious",
"vexing"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"adjective",
"noun"
]
},
"annihilates":{
"to destroy all traces of":{
"examples":[
"the family's attempts to annihilate the roach population in their apartment had met with little success"
],
"synonyms":[
"abolishes",
"blacks out",
"blots out",
"cancels",
"cleans (up)",
"effaces",
"eradicates",
"erases",
"expunges",
"exterminates",
"extirpates",
"liquidates",
"obliterates",
"roots (out)",
"rubs out",
"snuffs (out)",
"stamps (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":[]
},
"to bring to a complete end the physical soundness, existence, or usefulness of":{
"examples":[
"the tornado simply annihilated the family's home"
],
"synonyms":[
"creams",
"decimates",
"demolishes",
"desolates",
"destroys",
"devastates",
"does in",
"extinguishes",
"nukes",
"pulls down",
"pulverizes",
"razes",
"rubs out",
"ruins",
"shatters",
"smashes",
"tears down",
"totals",
"vaporizes",
"wastes",
"wracks",
"wrecks"
],
"near synonyms":[
"beats",
"bests",
"clobbers",
"conquers",
"crushes",
"defeats",
"drubs",
"licks",
"masters",
"overbears",
"overcomes",
"overmatches",
"prevails (over)",
"routs",
"scotches",
"skunks",
"subdues",
"surmounts",
"thrashes",
"trims",
"triumphs (over)",
"trounces",
"wallops",
"whips",
"wins (against)",
"blasts",
"blows up",
"breaks",
"cripples",
"damages",
"defaces",
"deteriorates",
"disfigures",
"disintegrates",
"dissolves",
"dynamites",
"harms",
"impairs",
"injures",
"mangles",
"mars",
"mutilates",
"spoils",
"vitiates",
"erodes",
"scours",
"sweeps (away)",
"washes out",
"wears (away)",
"dilapidates",
"disassembles",
"dismantles",
"guts",
"takes down",
"unbuilds",
"undoes",
"unmakes",
"blots out",
"effaces",
"eradicates",
"expunges",
"exterminates",
"extirpates",
"liquidates",
"obliterates",
"removes",
"roots (out)",
"snuffs (out)",
"stamps (out)",
"wipes out",
"despoils",
"havocs",
"loots",
"pillages",
"plunders",
"ravages",
"sacks",
"tramples",
"trashes",
"vandalizes",
"assassinates",
"butchers",
"cuts down",
"dispatches",
"executes",
"fells",
"kills",
"kills off",
"massacres",
"mows (down)",
"murders",
"slaughters",
"slays",
"takes out",
"zaps"
],
"near antonyms":[
"doctors",
"fixes",
"mends",
"patches",
"reconditions",
"repairs",
"revamps",
"creates",
"invents",
"assembles",
"fabricates",
"fashions",
"forges",
"forms",
"frames",
"makes",
"manufactures",
"molds",
"produces",
"shapes",
"brings about",
"constitutes",
"establishes",
"fathers",
"founds",
"institutes",
"organizes",
"conserves",
"preserves",
"protects",
"saves",
"rebuilds",
"reconstructs",
"remodels",
"renovates",
"restores"
],
"antonyms":[
"builds",
"constructs",
"erects",
"puts up",
"raises",
"rears",
"sets up"
]
},
"to defeat by a large margin":{
"examples":[
"we didn't just win; we absolutely annihilated them!"
],
"synonyms":[
"blows away",
"bombs",
"buries",
"clobbers",
"creams",
"drubs",
"dusts",
"flattens",
"pastes",
"routs",
"shellacs",
"skins",
"skunks",
"smokes",
"smothers",
"snows under",
"thrashes",
"trims",
"tromps",
"trounces",
"wallops",
"waxes",
"whips",
"whomps",
"whops",
"whaps",
"whups"
],
"near synonyms":[
"sweeps",
"upsets",
"beats",
"bests",
"conquers",
"dispatches",
"hurdles",
"licks",
"masters",
"overbears",
"overcomes",
"overmatches",
"prevails (over)",
"subdues",
"surmounts",
"takes",
"throws",
"triumphs (over)",
"wins (against)",
"worsts",
"crushes",
"knocks off",
"knocks over",
"overpowers",
"overthrows",
"overwhelms",
"subjugates",
"upends",
"vanquishes",
"aces (out)",
"betters",
"eclipses",
"exceeds",
"outdistances",
"outdoes",
"outfights",
"outshines",
"outstrips",
"overtops",
"surpasses",
"tops",
"transcends",
"edges (out)",
"noses out",
"pips",
"caps",
"excels",
"flourishes",
"scores",
"succeeds",
"breaks",
"destroys",
"does in",
"finishes",
"sinks",
"slaughters"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"anchorite":{
"a person who lives away from others":{
"examples":[
"many Christian saints were anchorites who removed themselves from the world to focus on their spirituality"
],
"synonyms":[
"eremite",
"hermit",
"isolate",
"recluse",
"solitary"
],
"near synonyms":[
"homebody",
"shut-in"
],
"near antonyms":[
"socialite",
"socializer"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"anticonventional":{
"as in radical , extremist":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"antiestablishment",
"antitraditional",
"extremist",
"radical",
"revolutionary",
"broad-minded",
"large-minded",
"liberal",
"nonconservative",
"nonconventional",
"nonorthodox",
"nontraditional",
"open-minded",
"progressive",
"unconventional",
"unorthodox",
"nonconformist",
"advanced",
"contemporary",
"modern",
"lefty",
"radical",
"ultraleft",
"ultraleftist",
"ultraprogressive",
"ultraradical"
],
"near antonyms":[
"archconservative",
"brassbound",
"button-down",
"buttoned-down",
"conservative",
"die-hard",
"hidebound",
"mossbacked",
"old-fashioned",
"old-line",
"old-school",
"orthodox",
"paleoconservative",
"reactionary",
"standpat",
"traditional",
"traditionalistic",
"ultraconservative",
"unprogressive",
"conventional",
"square",
"devoted",
"faithful",
"loyal",
"staunch",
"stanch",
"steadfast",
"steady",
"true",
"true-blue"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"adjective"
]
},
"anonyms":{
"as in pseudonyms , noms de guerre":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"noms de guerre",
"noms de plume",
"pen names",
"pseudonyms",
"appellations",
"denominations",
"denotations",
"designations",
"labels",
"tags",
"titles",
"aliases",
"bynames",
"cognomens",
"cognomina",
"epithets",
"handles",
"monikers",
"monickers",
"nicknames",
"sobriquets",
"soubriquets",
"surnames"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"anti-utopia":{
"as in hell , dystopia":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"dystopia",
"hell",
"fool's paradise"
],
"near antonyms":[
"Camelot",
"Cockaigne",
"Eden",
"Elysium",
"empyrean",
"fantasyland",
"heaven",
"lotusland",
"never-never land",
"New Jerusalem",
"nirvana",
"paradise",
"promised land",
"Shangri-la",
"utopia",
"Zion",
"Sion",
"arcadia",
"dreamland",
"dreamworld",
"fairyland",
"wonderland"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"anticipate":{
"to believe in the future occurrence of (something)":{
"examples":[
"I anticipate that we'll be seeing you for New Year's"
],
"synonyms":[
"await",
"expect",
"hope (for)",
"watch (for)"
],
"near synonyms":[
"bank on",
"count (on or upon)",
"depend (on or upon)",
"rely (on or upon)",
"wait (for)",
"envisage",
"envision",
"foresee",
"foretell",
"predict",
"prophesy",
"assume",
"presume",
"presuppose",
"contemplate",
"eye",
"view"
],
"near antonyms":[
"doubt",
"question"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to realize or know about beforehand":{
"examples":[
"I anticipated this unhelpful response"
],
"synonyms":[
"divine",
"forefeel",
"foreknow",
"foresee",
"prevision"
],
"near synonyms":[
"augur",
"forecast",
"foretell",
"predict",
"presage",
"prognosticate",
"prophesy",
"envisage",
"envision",
"foreshadow",
"prefigure",
"visualize",
"alert",
"caution",
"foretoken",
"forewarn",
"preview",
"descry",
"discern",
"perceive",
"apprehend",
"dread",
"fear"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"angering":{
"as in infuriating , enraging":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"enraging",
"infuriating",
"burdensome",
"discomforting",
"displeasing",
"disquieting",
"distressing",
"importunate",
"importune",
"inconveniencing",
"brattish",
"bratty",
"mischievous",
"offensive",
"troublesome",
"upsetting",
"abrasive",
"aggravating",
"annoying",
"bothersome",
"carking",
"chafing",
"disturbing",
"exasperating",
"frustrating",
"galling",
"irksome",
"irritating",
"maddening",
"nettlesome",
"nettling",
"peeving",
"pesky",
"pestiferous",
"pestilent",
"pestilential",
"pesty",
"plaguey",
"plaguy",
"rankling",
"rebarbative",
"riling",
"vexatious",
"vexing",
"distractive",
"painful",
"stressful",
"tiresome",
"troubling",
"trying",
"worrisome",
"biting",
"grating",
"jangling",
"jarring",
"spiny",
"thorny"
],
"near antonyms":[
"delightful",
"pleasing"
],
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},
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"examples":[
"it's virtually impossible to anger Mrs. Peterson\u2014she's the most easygoing person I've ever known"
],
"synonyms":[
"enraging",
"incensing",
"inflaming",
"enflaming",
"infuriating",
"iring",
"maddening",
"madding",
"outraging",
"rankling",
"riling",
"roiling",
"steaming up",
"ticking off"
],
"near synonyms":[
"affronting",
"aggravating",
"annoying",
"burning (up)",
"crossing",
"exasperating",
"getting",
"huffing",
"irritating",
"miffing",
"nettling",
"offending",
"peeving",
"piquing",
"provoking",
"putting out",
"ruffling",
"vexing",
"antagonizing",
"embittering",
"envenoming"
],
"near antonyms":[
"allaying",
"assuaging",
"relieving",
"comforting",
"consoling",
"soothing",
"appeasing",
"conciliating",
"mollifying",
"pacifying",
"placating",
"calming",
"lulling",
"quieting",
"settling",
"beguiling",
"bewitching",
"captivating",
"charming",
"disarming",
"enchanting"
],
"antonyms":[
"delighting",
"gratifying",
"pleasing"
]
},
"type":[
"adjective",
"verb"
]
},
"animalistic":{
"having or showing the nature and appetites of a lower animal":{
"examples":[
"with animalistic fury the boxer tore into his opponent"
],
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"beastly",
"bestial",
"brutal",
"brute",
"brutish",
"feral",
"ferine",
"subhuman",
"swinish"
],
"near synonyms":[
"animal",
"bodily",
"carnal",
"corporal",
"corporeal",
"fleshly",
"physical",
"sensual",
"barbaric",
"barbarous",
"cruel",
"heartless",
"inhumane",
"sadistic",
"savage",
"vicious",
"wanton",
"coarse",
"crass",
"crude",
"gross",
"ill-bred",
"lowbred",
"rude",
"uncouth",
"uncultivated",
"uncultured",
"unrefined",
"vulgar"
],
"near antonyms":[
"chivalrous",
"elevated",
"gallant",
"great",
"greathearted",
"high",
"high-minded",
"lofty",
"lordly",
"magnanimous",
"noble",
"sublime",
"angelic",
"angelical",
"spiritual",
"beneficent",
"benevolent",
"benignant",
"compassionate",
"good-hearted",
"kind",
"kindhearted",
"kindly",
"softhearted",
"tenderhearted",
"cultivated",
"cultured",
"genteel",
"polished",
"refined",
"well-bred"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"adjective"
]
},
"ancillary":{
"as in inferior":{
"examples":[],
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"near synonyms":[
"inferior",
"secondary",
"subordinate",
"subservient",
"subsidiary",
"accessorial",
"accessory",
"appurtenant",
"auxiliary",
"marginal",
"peripheral",
"supplemental",
"supplementary",
"backup",
"makeshift",
"substitute",
"added",
"additional",
"another",
"further",
"complementary",
"contributory",
"adjuvant",
"assistant",
"assisting",
"helping",
"supportive",
"tributary"
],
"near antonyms":[
"all-important",
"essential",
"imperative",
"indispensable",
"integral",
"necessary",
"needed",
"needful",
"required",
"requisite",
"vital",
"basic",
"fundamental",
"primary",
"prime",
"chief",
"main",
"principal"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"adjective"
]
},
"anecdotes":{
"a brief account of something interesting that happened especially to one personally":{
"examples":[
"told us once again that anecdote about the dog and the bike"
],
"synonyms":[
"stories",
"tales",
"yarns"
],
"near synonyms":[
"episodes",
"events",
"happenings",
"incidents",
"occurrences",
"recitals",
"recitations"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"anarchs":{
"as in anarchists , subversives":{
"examples":[],
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"near synonyms":[
"anarchists",
"subversives",
"crazies",
"extremists",
"radicals",
"revolutionaries",
"revolutionists",
"young Turks",
"agitators",
"insurgents",
"insurrectionists",
"rebels",
"challengers",
"defiers",
"insubordinates",
"oppositionists",
"recusants",
"refusers",
"resistants",
"resisters"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"anguished":{
"expressing or suggesting mourning":{
"examples":[
"an anguished cry",
"the military's explanation of the accident did nothing to console the anguished widow"
],
"synonyms":[
"aching",
"agonized",
"bemoaning",
"bewailing",
"bitter",
"deploring",
"doleful",
"dolesome",
"dolorous",
"funeral",
"grieving",
"heartbroken",
"lamentable",
"lugubrious",
"mournful",
"plaintive",
"plangent",
"regretful",
"rueful",
"sorrowful",
"sorry",
"wailing",
"weeping",
"woeful"
],
"near synonyms":[
"dirgelike",
"elegiac",
"elegiacal",
"melancholy",
"dejected",
"depressed",
"despondent",
"disconsolate",
"dispirited",
"downcast",
"downhearted",
"heartsick",
"heartsore",
"inconsolable",
"tearful",
"brokenhearted",
"careworn",
"crestfallen",
"downcast",
"downhearted",
"forlorn",
"gloomy",
"glum",
"low-spirited",
"miserable",
"sad",
"triste",
"unhappy",
"woebegone",
"bawling",
"crying",
"groaning",
"howling",
"keening",
"moaning",
"yammering",
"bleeding",
"suffering",
"black",
"bleak",
"cheerless",
"comfortless",
"dark",
"darkening",
"desolate",
"dismal",
"dreary",
"funereal",
"gloomy",
"glum",
"gray",
"grey",
"joyless",
"low",
"miserable",
"moody",
"morbid",
"morose",
"pathetic",
"pessimistic",
"piteous",
"saturnine",
"somber",
"sombre",
"sullen",
"wretched"
],
"near antonyms":[
"delighted",
"exulting",
"glorying",
"happy",
"joyful",
"rejoicing",
"triumphant",
"bright",
"cheerful",
"cheering",
"cheery",
"laughing",
"smiling",
"blissful",
"blithe",
"blithesome",
"buoyant",
"jocund",
"jolly",
"joyous",
"lighthearted",
"merry",
"mirthful",
"encouraging",
"hopeful",
"optimistic",
"ecstatic",
"elated",
"euphoric",
"exhilarated",
"giddy",
"heady",
"rapturous",
"rhapsodic",
"rhapsodical"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to cause persistent suffering to":{
"examples":[
"she was anguished by the fear that her sons would die in the war"
],
"synonyms":[
"afflicted",
"agonized",
"bedeviled",
"beset",
"besieged",
"cursed",
"excruciated",
"harrowed",
"persecuted",
"plagued",
"racked",
"tormented",
"tortured"
],
"near synonyms":[
"assailed",
"attacked",
"badgered",
"dogged",
"hounded",
"pursued",
"rode",
"rid",
"aggravated",
"agitated",
"annoyed",
"bothered",
"bugged",
"chafed",
"distressed",
"disturbed",
"exasperated",
"galled",
"got",
"grated",
"griped",
"hagrode",
"harassed",
"harried",
"irked",
"irritated",
"molested",
"nettled",
"peeved",
"pestered",
"piqued",
"put out",
"rasped",
"riled",
"vexed",
"vext",
"discomforted",
"discomposed",
"disquieted",
"flustered",
"grieved",
"perturbed",
"strained",
"stressed",
"tried",
"troubled",
"upset",
"worried",
"crushed",
"oppressed",
"overpowered",
"overwhelmed",
"smote",
"struck",
"tyrannized",
"victimized",
"hurt",
"pained",
"panged",
"pricked",
"smarted",
"stabbed",
"stung",
"wrung",
"martyred"
],
"near antonyms":[
"abetted",
"aided",
"assisted",
"helped",
"delivered",
"released",
"relieved",
"reprieved",
"comforted",
"consoled",
"contented",
"quieted",
"solaced",
"soothed",
"succored"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to feel deep sadness or mental pain":{
"examples":[
"I anguished over the loss of my father for years afterwards"
],
"synonyms":[
"agonized",
"bled",
"grieved",
"hurt",
"mourned",
"sorrowed",
"suffered"
],
"near synonyms":[
"ached",
"longed (for)",
"pined (away)",
"sighed",
"smarted",
"racked",
"tormented",
"tortured",
"bemoaned",
"bewailed",
"deplored",
"lamented",
"rued",
"bawled",
"blubbered",
"cried",
"groaned",
"howled",
"keened",
"moaned",
"sobbed",
"took on",
"wailed",
"wept",
"yammered",
"yowled",
"languished",
"regretted"
],
"near antonyms":[
"beamed",
"cheered",
"crowed",
"delighted",
"exulted",
"gloried",
"joyed",
"laughed",
"ravished",
"rejoiced",
"triumphed",
"assured",
"cheered",
"comforted",
"commiserated",
"consoled",
"reassured",
"solaced",
"soothed",
"sympathized"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"adjective",
"verb"
]
},
"annoy":{
"to disturb the peace of mind of (someone) especially by repeated disagreeable acts":{
"examples":[
"deliberately annoyed the elderly neighbor by walking across his lawn"
],
"synonyms":[
"aggravate",
"bother",
"bug",
"burn (up)",
"chafe",
"eat",
"exasperate",
"frost",
"gall",
"get",
"grate",
"gripe",
"hack (off)",
"irk",
"irritate",
"itch",
"nark",
"nettle",
"peeve",
"persecute",
"pique",
"put out",
"rasp",
"rile",
"ruffle",
"spite",
"vex"
],
"near synonyms":[
"hassle",
"heckle",
"nag",
"inflame",
"enflame",
"provoke",
"rouse",
"badger",
"bait",
"bullyrag",
"ballyrag",
"devil",
"hagride",
"harass",
"harry",
"pester",
"plague",
"tease",
"anger",
"antagonize",
"enrage",
"incense",
"infuriate",
"madden",
"rankle",
"roil",
"agitate",
"discomfort",
"discompose",
"disquiet",
"distress",
"exercise",
"freak (out)",
"fret",
"perturb",
"undo",
"unhinge",
"unsettle",
"upset",
"worry",
"affront",
"insult",
"miff",
"offend",
"outrage"
],
"near antonyms":[
"appease",
"conciliate",
"mollify",
"oblige",
"pacify",
"placate",
"propitiate",
"delight",
"gladden",
"gratify",
"please",
"satisfy",
"assure",
"cheer",
"comfort",
"console",
"content",
"quiet",
"reassure",
"solace",
"soothe"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"anticipations":{
"the act or state of looking forward to some occurrence":{
"examples":[
"in anticipation of a job offer, she had already begun looking for an apartment in the city where the company was based"
],
"synonyms":[
"contemplations",
"expectances",
"expectancies",
"expectations",
"prospects"
],
"near synonyms":[
"alarms",
"alarums",
"apprehensions",
"dreads",
"forebodings",
"misgivings"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"antagonistically":{
"as in caustically , obnoxiously":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"acrimoniously",
"caustically",
"envyingly",
"hostilely",
"invidiously",
"obnoxiously",
"rancorously",
"venomously",
"vindictively",
"vituperatively",
"contemptuously",
"deprecatingly",
"disdainfully",
"scornfully",
"bitterly",
"enviously",
"jealously",
"resentfully",
"bitchily",
"cattily",
"despitefully",
"hatefully",
"malevolently",
"maliciously",
"malignantly",
"meanly",
"nastily",
"spitefully",
"viciously",
"villainously",
"virulently",
"wickedly",
"balefully",
"caddishly",
"callously",
"cruelly",
"evil-mindedly",
"felly",
"hard-heartedly",
"heartlessly",
"inhumanely",
"kindlessly",
"mercilessly",
"pitilessly",
"ruthlessly",
"soullessly",
"unfeelingly",
"disagreeably",
"ill",
"ungraciously",
"unkindly",
"ill-naturedly",
"inconsiderately",
"insensitively",
"thoughtlessly",
"diabolically",
"fiendishly",
"misanthropically"
],
"near antonyms":[
"benevolently",
"benignantly",
"good-heartedly",
"kindheartedly",
"kindly",
"affably",
"agreeably",
"amiably",
"cordially",
"genially",
"good-humoredly",
"good-naturedly",
"graciously",
"nicely",
"pleasantly",
"altruistically",
"humanely",
"considerately",
"feelingly",
"lovingly",
"mercifully",
"sensitively",
"softheartedly",
"solicitously",
"soulfully",
"thoughtfully",
"compassionately",
"sympathetically",
"angelically",
"divinely",
"gently",
"sweetly",
"tenderly"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"adverb"
]
},
"annoyances":{
"the act of making unwelcome intrusions upon another":{
"examples":[
"they have an unlisted number in the hopes that it will reduce the constant annoyance by telemarketers"
],
"synonyms":[
"aggravations",
"bedevilments",
"botherations",
"disturbances",
"harassments",
"importunities",
"vexations"
],
"near synonyms":[
"aggros",
"molestations",
"offenses",
"offences",
"persecutions",
"provocations",
"torments",
"tortures",
"devilments",
"devilries",
"deviltries",
"mischiefs"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"the feeling of impatience or anger caused by another's repeated disagreeable acts":{
"examples":[
"Carlene made known her annoyance at having to pick up her sister's dirty clothes"
],
"synonyms":[
"aggravations",
"aggros",
"botherations",
"bothers",
"exasperations",
"frustrations",
"griefs",
"irritations",
"pips",
"vexations"
],
"near synonyms":[
"agitations",
"discomforts",
"displeasures",
"distresses",
"disturbances",
"upsets",
"irritabilities",
"peeves",
"perturbations",
"pets",
"piques",
"resentments",
"troubles",
"angers",
"chafes",
"danders",
"dudgeons",
"galls",
"huffs",
"indignations",
"ires",
"outrages",
"umbrages"
],
"near antonyms":[
"delights",
"pleasures"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"something that is a source of irritation":{
"examples":[
"flashing ads, visual clutter, and other annoyances that are the price for free information on the Internet"
],
"synonyms":[
"aggravations",
"aggros",
"botherations",
"bothers",
"bugbears",
"exasperations",
"frustrations",
"hair shirts",
"hassles",
"headaches",
"inconveniences",
"irks",
"irritants",
"nuisances",
"peeves",
"pests",
"rubs",
"ruffles",
"thorns",
"trials",
"vexations"
],
"near synonyms":[
"discomforts",
"fleabites",
"pinpricks",
"affronts",
"insults",
"offenses",
"offences",
"upsets",
"worries",
"afflictions",
"albatross",
"albatrosses",
"burdens",
"crosses",
"curses",
"menaces",
"millstones",
"plagues",
"sores",
"anxieties",
"plights",
"predicaments",
"tribulations",
"troubles",
"hang-ups",
"pet peeves",
"problems",
"annoyers",
"disturbers",
"harassers",
"mischiefs",
"offenders",
"pandora's boxes"
],
"near antonyms":[
"delights",
"joys",
"pleasures"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"one who is obnoxiously annoying":{
"examples":[
"younger brothers can be an annoyance sometimes"
],
"synonyms":[
"annoyers",
"bothers",
"gadflies",
"gnawers",
"nudniks",
"nudnicks",
"nuisances",
"pains",
"persecutors",
"pests",
"teasers",
"teases"
],
"near synonyms":[
"headaches",
"harriers",
"hecklers",
"interrupters",
"interruptors",
"hassles",
"plagues",
"harassers",
"molesters",
"tormentors",
"tormenters",
"torturers"
],
"near antonyms":[
"charmers",
"smoothies",
"comforters",
"solacers",
"soothers"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"antipathetic":{
"having a natural dislike for something":{
"examples":[
"a series of adventure books that turned boys who had been antipathetic to reading into avid readers"
],
"synonyms":[
"allergic",
"averse"
],
"near synonyms":[
"afraid",
"disinclined",
"loath",
"loth",
"loathe",
"reluctant",
"unwilling",
"antagonistic",
"hostile",
"intolerant",
"negative",
"opposed",
"opposing",
"resistant",
"resisting",
"uncongenial",
"unfriendly",
"unsympathetic",
"disgusted",
"nauseated",
"repelled",
"repulsed",
"revolted",
"shocked",
"squeamish",
"turned off"
],
"near antonyms":[
"friendly",
"sympathetic",
"tolerant",
"understanding",
"admiring",
"appreciative",
"charmed",
"delighted",
"fond",
"pleased",
"tickled"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"marked by opposition or ill will":{
"examples":[
"the mayor has always had an openly antipathetic relationship with the local press"
],
"synonyms":[
"adversarial",
"adversary",
"antagonistic",
"hostile",
"inhospitable",
"inimical",
"jaundiced",
"mortal",
"negative",
"unfriendly",
"unsympathetic"
],
"near synonyms":[
"adverse",
"argumentative",
"bellicose",
"belligerent",
"clashing",
"combative",
"conflicting",
"contentious",
"contrary",
"disputatious",
"militant",
"opposed",
"pugnacious",
"quarrelsome",
"resisting",
"scrappy",
"truculent",
"antisocial",
"cold",
"cool",
"disagreeable",
"disapproving",
"distant",
"frigid",
"icy",
"biased",
"prejudiced",
"discourteous",
"ill-bred",
"ill-mannered",
"impertinent",
"impolite",
"inconsiderate",
"rude",
"surly",
"uncivil",
"unfavorable",
"unkind",
"unmannerly",
"unpleasant",
"unsociable",
"acrimonious",
"bitter",
"despiteful",
"hateful",
"malevolent",
"malicious",
"malign",
"malignant",
"opprobrious",
"rancorous",
"spiteful",
"unloving",
"vindictive",
"virulent"
],
"near antonyms":[
"affable",
"amiable",
"amicable",
"civil",
"companionable",
"comradely",
"convivial",
"cordial",
"genial",
"good-natured",
"good-tempered",
"gracious",
"gregarious",
"neighborly",
"pleasant",
"sociable",
"social",
"warm",
"affectionate",
"devoted",
"kind",
"kindly",
"loving",
"nice",
"sweet",
"accepting",
"agreeable",
"approving",
"benign",
"empathetic",
"favorable",
"understanding",
"warmhearted",
"welcoming"
],
"antonyms":[
"friendly",
"hospitable",
"nonantagonistic",
"nonhostile",
"sympathetic"
]
},
"type":[
"adjective"
]
},
"angel":{
"an innocent or gentle person":{
"examples":[
"would like to think that her child is a perfect angel"
],
"synonyms":[
"dove",
"innocent",
"lamb",
"sheep"
],
"near synonyms":[
"babe",
"colt",
"cub",
"fledgling",
"greenhorn",
"ingenue",
"ing\u00e9nue",
"na\u00eff",
"naif",
"newbie",
"tenderfoot",
"virgin",
"cherub",
"saint",
"softy",
"softie",
"weakling",
"wimp",
"dupe",
"pigeon",
"sap",
"sucker"
],
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"bully",
"roughneck",
"rowdy",
"tough",
"beast",
"boor",
"cad",
"churl",
"clown",
"creep",
"cretin",
"cur",
"heel",
"jerk",
"joker",
"louse",
"lout",
"slob",
"shark",
"skunk",
"snake",
"stinker",
"devil",
"knave",
"miscreant",
"no-good",
"rapscallion",
"rascal",
"reprobate",
"rogue",
"scalawag",
"scallywag",
"scamp",
"scoundrel",
"varlet",
"villain"
],
"antonyms":[
"wolf"
]
},
"one that announces or indicates the later arrival of another":{
"examples":[
"looking forward to seeing those red-breasted angels of the spring\u2014robins"
],
"synonyms":[
"foregoer",
"forerunner",
"harbinger",
"herald",
"outrider",
"precursor"
],
"near synonyms":[
"foreboder",
"foreshadower",
"foretaste",
"forewarning",
"advertiser",
"announcer",
"blazoner",
"crier",
"proclaimer",
"courier",
"messenger",
"runner",
"augury",
"auspice",
"boding",
"foreboding",
"foreshadowing",
"omen",
"portent",
"prefiguring",
"presage",
"mark",
"sign",
"symptom",
"bellwether"
],
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"antonyms":[]
},
"one that helps another with gifts or money":{
"examples":[
"over the years the industrialist frequently served as the symphony orchestra's anonymous angel"
],
"synonyms":[
"benefactor",
"donator",
"donor",
"fairy godmother",
"Maecenas",
"patron",
"sugar daddy"
],
"near synonyms":[
"benefactress",
"patroness",
"almoner",
"almsgiver",
"philanthropist",
"altruist",
"bestower",
"contributor",
"giver",
"helper",
"subscriber",
"supporter",
"guardian angel",
"protector",
"savior",
"saviour"
],
"near antonyms":[
"beneficiary",
"donee",
"giftee",
"recipient"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"anthropoid":{
"resembling a human in shape or form":{
"examples":[
"They were on the lookout for the famed Sasquatch, a tall anthropoid creature some thought lived deep in these forests."
],
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"near synonyms":[
"creatural",
"hominid",
"human",
"humanlike",
"humanoid",
"earthborn",
"mortal",
"natural"
],
"near antonyms":[
"nonhuman",
"inhuman",
"robotic",
"subhuman"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"as in ape , cretin":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"ape",
"beast",
"boor",
"brute",
"cad",
"churl",
"clown",
"creep",
"cretin",
"cur",
"heel",
"louse",
"skunk",
"snake",
"stinker",
"tyke",
"tike",
"villain",
"airhead",
"birdbrain",
"blockhead",
"blunderer",
"bonehead",
"bubblehead",
"chowderhead",
"chucklehead",
"clodpoll",
"clodpole",
"clot",
"cluck",
"clunk",
"cuddy",
"cuddie",
"deadhead",
"dim bulb",
"dimwit",
"dip",
"dodo",
"dolt",
"donkey",
"doofus",
"dope",
"dork",
"dullard",
"dumbbell",
"dumbhead",
"dum-dum",
"dummkopf",
"dummy",
"dunce",
"dunderhead",
"fathead",
"galoot",
"gander",
"golem",
"goof",
"goon",
"half-wit",
"hammerhead",
"hardhead",
"idiot",
"ignoramus",
"imbecile",
"jackass",
"know-nothing",
"knucklehead",
"lamebrain",
"loggerhead",
"loon",
"lunkhead",
"meathead",
"mome",
"moron",
"mug",
"mutt",
"natural",
"nimrod",
"nincompoop",
"ninny",
"ninnyhammer",
"nit",
"nitwit",
"noddy",
"noodle",
"numskull",
"numbskull",
"pinhead",
"prat",
"ratbag",
"saphead",
"schlub",
"shlub",
"schnook",
"simp",
"simpleton",
"stock",
"stupe",
"stupid",
"thickhead",
"turkey",
"woodenhead",
"yahoo",
"yo-yo",
"booby",
"fool",
"goose",
"loony",
"looney",
"lunatic",
"madman",
"nut",
"slouch",
"featherbrain",
"scatterbrain",
"chump",
"loser",
"schlemiel",
"shlemiel",
"turkey",
"rascal",
"rogue",
"scamp",
"clod",
"clodhopper",
"gawk",
"hulk",
"lout",
"lubber",
"lug",
"lump",
"Neanderthal",
"oaf",
"palooka"
],
"near antonyms":[
"brain",
"brainiac",
"genius",
"intellectual",
"sage",
"thinker",
"whiz",
"wizard"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"adjective",
"noun"
]
},
"annuls":{
"to balance with an equal force so as to make ineffective":{
"examples":[
"unfortunately, his arrogant attitude annuls the many generous favors he does for people"
],
"synonyms":[
"cancels (out)",
"compensates (for)",
"corrects",
"counteracts",
"counterbalances",
"counterpoises",
"makes up (for)",
"negatives",
"neutralizes",
"offsets"
],
"near synonyms":[
"invalidates",
"negates",
"neuters",
"nullifies",
"atones (for)",
"outbalances",
"outweighs",
"redeems",
"redresses",
"relieves",
"remedies",
"overrides",
"overrules"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to put an end to by formal action":{
"examples":[
"plans to annul their short-lived, ill-advised marriage"
],
"synonyms":[
"abates",
"abolishes",
"abrogates",
"avoids",
"cancels",
"disannuls",
"dissolves",
"invalidates",
"negates",
"nullifies",
"nulls",
"quashes",
"repeals",
"rescinds",
"rolls back",
"strikes down",
"vacates",
"voids"
],
"near synonyms":[
"countermands",
"overrides",
"overrules",
"overturns",
"vetoes",
"aborts",
"calls",
"calls off",
"drops",
"recalls",
"retracts",
"reverses",
"revokes",
"suspends",
"withdraws",
"bans",
"enjoins",
"forbids",
"outlaws",
"prohibits",
"disallows",
"dismisses",
"rejects",
"annihilates",
"breaks down",
"eliminates",
"eradicates",
"erases",
"liquidates",
"removes",
"throws out",
"writes off"
],
"near antonyms":[
"enacts",
"lays down",
"legislates",
"establishes",
"founds",
"institutes",
"formalizes",
"legalizes",
"legitimates",
"legitimizes",
"validates",
"passes",
"ratifies",
"allows",
"approves",
"authorizes",
"clears",
"endorses",
"indorses",
"permits",
"sanctions",
"warrants",
"commands",
"decrees",
"mandates",
"orders",
"prescribes"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"antenatal":{
"as in prenatal":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"prenatal",
"big",
"caught",
"enceinte",
"expectant",
"expecting",
"gone",
"gravid",
"heavy",
"pregnant",
"quick",
"parturient",
"childbearing",
"gestational",
"brooding",
"conceiving",
"impregnated"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"adjective"
]
},
"ancestor":{
"a person who is several generations earlier in an individual's line of descent":{
"examples":[
"Bridie's Irish ancestors immigrated to the United States in the 19th century during the Great Potato Famine"
],
"synonyms":[
"father",
"forebear",
"forbear",
"forebearer",
"forefather",
"grandfather",
"primogenitor",
"progenitor"
],
"near synonyms":[
"antecessor",
"predecessor",
"ancestress",
"foremother",
"grandmother",
"matriarch",
"grandsire",
"patriarch",
"sire",
"ancestry",
"antecedents",
"roots"
],
"near antonyms":[
"children",
"family",
"issue",
"lineage",
"offspring",
"posterity",
"progeny",
"seed",
"stock",
"daughter",
"heir",
"inheritor",
"scion",
"son",
"successor"
],
"antonyms":[
"descendant",
"descendent"
]
},
"something belonging to an earlier time from which something else was later developed":{
"examples":[
"pinball machines\u2014the ancestors of today's video games\u2014go back to the 19th century"
],
"synonyms":[
"antecedent",
"archetype",
"daddy",
"foregoer",
"forerunner",
"granddaddy",
"grandaddy",
"precursor",
"predecessor",
"prototype"
],
"near synonyms":[
"model",
"original",
"originator",
"sire",
"father",
"mother"
],
"near antonyms":[
"by-product",
"derivative",
"offshoot",
"outgrowth",
"spin-off",
"daughter",
"son"
],
"antonyms":[
"descendant",
"descendent"
]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"anticipatory":{
"having or showing signs of eagerly awaiting something":{
"examples":[
"couldn't control his anticipatory excitement on Christmas morning"
],
"synonyms":[
"agape",
"agog",
"anticipant",
"expectant"
],
"near synonyms":[
"open-eyed",
"openmouthed",
"alert",
"vigilant",
"watchful",
"anxious",
"athirst",
"breathless",
"eager",
"enthusiastic",
"raring",
"antsy",
"impatient",
"restive",
"restless"
],
"near antonyms":[
"apathetic",
"indifferent",
"unconcerned",
"unimpressed",
"uninterested",
"unmoved"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"adjective"
]
},
"antimilitarism":{
"as in anti-imperialism , antiaggression":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"antiaggression",
"anti-imperialism",
"nonaggression",
"pacifism"
],
"near antonyms":[
"imperialism",
"jingoism",
"militarism",
"antagonism",
"fierceness",
"hostility",
"hyperaggressiveness",
"unfriendliness",
"aggression",
"aggressiveness",
"assaultiveness",
"bellicosity",
"belligerence",
"belligerency",
"combativeness",
"contentiousness",
"defiance",
"disputatiousness",
"feistiness",
"fight",
"militance",
"militancy",
"militantness",
"pugnacity",
"quarrelsomeness",
"scrappiness",
"truculence"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"anathemas":{
"a prayer that harm will come to someone":{
"examples":[
"uttered an anathema before driving the would-be robber from the his shop"
],
"synonyms":[
"bans",
"curses",
"execrations",
"imprecations",
"maledictions",
"malisons",
"winzes"
],
"near synonyms":[
"censures",
"condemnations",
"damnations",
"denunciations",
"excommunications",
"hexes",
"hoodoos",
"jinxes",
"mojoes",
"mojos",
"spells",
"voodoos",
"whammies",
"pox",
"poxes"
],
"near antonyms":[
"citations",
"commendations",
"endorsements",
"indorsements"
],
"antonyms":[
"benedictions",
"benisons",
"blessings"
]
},
"something or someone that is hated":{
"examples":[
"the use of animals in the testing of cosmetics is anathema to animal-rights activists"
],
"synonyms":[
"abhorrences",
"abominations",
"antipathies",
"aversions",
"b\u00eates noires",
"detestations",
"execrations",
"hates"
],
"near synonyms":[
"dreads",
"hang-ups",
"horrors",
"phobias",
"bogeys",
"bogies",
"bugaboos",
"bugbears",
"adversaries",
"enemies",
"annoyances",
"grievances",
"hassles",
"nuisances",
"peeves"
],
"near antonyms":[
"beloveds",
"darlings",
"dears",
"honeys",
"sweethearts",
"delights",
"enjoyments",
"felicities",
"joys",
"pleasures",
"favorites",
"likes",
"preferences",
"treasures"
],
"antonyms":[
"loves"
]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"anchorages":{
"a part of a body of water protected and deep enough to be a place of safety for ships":{
"examples":[
"sailed into a quiet anchorage to wait out the storm"
],
"synonyms":[
"harborages",
"harbors",
"havens",
"ports"
],
"near synonyms":[
"basins",
"docks",
"marinas",
"moorages",
"moorings",
"arms",
"bays",
"bights",
"coves",
"creeks",
"embayments",
"estuaries",
"firths",
"fjords",
"fiords",
"gulfs",
"inlets",
"lagoons",
"lochs",
"loughs",
"narrows",
"roads",
"roadsteads",
"canals",
"channels",
"sounds",
"straits",
"containerports",
"home ports",
"seaports"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"anklet":{
"as in bobby socks , bootee":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"bobby socks",
"bootee",
"kneesock",
"support hose",
"hosiery",
"hose",
"sock",
"stocking"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"antipode":{
"something that is as different as possible from something else":{
"examples":[
"our little pug is an antipode to our other dog, a mastiff"
],
"synonyms":[
"antithesis",
"contrary",
"counter",
"negative",
"obverse",
"opposite",
"reverse"
],
"near synonyms":[
"negation",
"antonym",
"counterpoint",
"converse",
"inverse",
"mirror image"
],
"near antonyms":[
"synonym",
"analogue",
"analog",
"counterpart",
"carbon copy",
"copy",
"duplicate",
"replica"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"anteceded":{
"to go or come before in time":{
"examples":[
"the 19th-century Pre-Raphaelites claimed to base their principles and practices on the Italian art that anteceded Raphael and other masters of the High Renaissance"
],
"synonyms":[
"antedated",
"forewent",
"preceded",
"predated",
"preexisted"
],
"near synonyms":[],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[
"followed",
"postdated",
"succeeded"
]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"anti-utopians":{
"as in naysayers , pragmatists":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"cynics",
"fatalists",
"nihilists",
"hardnoses",
"pragmatists",
"realists",
"defeatists",
"pessimists",
"worriers",
"worrywarts",
"knockers",
"naysayers",
"Cassandras",
"Jeremiahs"
],
"near antonyms":[
"optimists",
"Pollyannas",
"Don Quixotes",
"dreamers",
"fantasts",
"idealists",
"idealizers",
"ideologues",
"idealogues",
"romanticists",
"romantics",
"utopians",
"visionaries",
"sentimentalists"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"analects":{
"as in almanac , symposium":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"almanac",
"ana",
"chapbook",
"digest",
"garland",
"symposium",
"album",
"anthology",
"collectanea",
"compendium",
"compilation",
"florilegium",
"miscellany",
"reader",
"casebook",
"sourcebook",
"archives",
"corpus",
"library",
"miscellanea"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"plural noun"
]
},
"announced (to)":{
"as in disclosed (to)":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"disclosed (to)",
"advertised",
"alerted",
"notified",
"assured",
"certified",
"convinced",
"reassured",
"warranted",
"acquainted",
"advised",
"apprised",
"briefed",
"caught up",
"cleared",
"clued (in)",
"enlightened",
"familiarized",
"filled in",
"hipped",
"informed",
"instructed",
"told",
"versed",
"wised (up)",
"educated",
"lectured",
"schooled",
"taught",
"tutored",
"disabused",
"disenchanted",
"disillusioned",
"undeceived"
],
"near antonyms":[
"misinformed",
"misled"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"animalize":{
"to make (someone) feel or behave more like an animal than a human being":{
"examples":[
"six months of solitary living in the jungle would animalize anyone"
],
"synonyms":[
"bestialize",
"brutalize",
"dehumanize"
],
"near synonyms":[
"abase",
"corrupt",
"debauch",
"degrade",
"demean",
"deprave",
"pervert",
"poison",
"profane",
"prostitute",
"subvert",
"warp",
"contaminate",
"pollute",
"taint",
"disgrace",
"humble",
"humiliate"
],
"near antonyms":[
"dignify",
"exalt",
"honor",
"amend",
"improve",
"cleanse",
"purify",
"restore",
"respect",
"elevate",
"ennoble",
"uplift"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"answer":{
"something spoken or written in reaction especially to a question":{
"examples":[
"the standard answer of \"Fine, thank you\" when asked, \"How are you?\""
],
"synonyms":[
"comeback",
"rejoinder",
"replication",
"reply",
"response",
"retort",
"return"
],
"near synonyms":[
"back talk",
"banter",
"persiflage",
"repartee",
"acknowledgment",
"acknowledgement",
"comment",
"communication",
"correspondence",
"feedback",
"non sequitur",
"observation",
"reaction",
"remark",
"defense",
"explanation",
"justification",
"plea",
"rebuttal",
"refutation"
],
"near antonyms":[
"challenge",
"charge",
"cross-examination",
"grilling",
"interrogation",
"interrogatory",
"quiz",
"poll",
"questionnaire",
"survey"
],
"antonyms":[
"inquiry",
"query",
"question"
]
},
"something attained by mental effort and especially by computation":{
"examples":[
"the answers to the odd-numbered problems are at the back of the book"
],
"synonyms":[
"result",
"solution"
],
"near synonyms":[
"conclusion",
"determination",
"explanation",
"finding",
"clue",
"key"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"action or behavior that is done in return to other action or behavior":{
"examples":[
"a cold stare was her withering answer to that gratuitous insult"
],
"synonyms":[
"reaction",
"reply",
"response",
"take"
],
"near synonyms":[
"backlash",
"kickback",
"rebound",
"recoil",
"reflex",
"revulsion",
"rise",
"counterreaction",
"counterresponse"
],
"near antonyms":[
"action",
"behavior",
"cause",
"effect"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to speak or write in reaction to a question or to another reaction":{
"examples":[
"didn't answer right away when the detective asked him where he'd been for the last three hours"
],
"synonyms":[
"come back",
"rejoin",
"reply",
"respond",
"retort",
"return",
"riposte"
],
"near synonyms":[
"acknowledge",
"comment",
"communicate",
"correspond",
"react",
"remark",
"counter",
"defend",
"deny",
"explain",
"field",
"rebut",
"refute"
],
"near antonyms":[
"challenge",
"cross-examine",
"examine",
"grill",
"interrogate",
"pump",
"quiz",
"poll",
"query",
"survey"
],
"antonyms":[
"ask",
"inquire",
"question"
]
},
"to be in agreement on every point":{
"examples":[
"sorry, I haven't seen anyone answering to that description"
],
"synonyms":[
"accord",
"agree",
"check",
"chord",
"cohere",
"coincide",
"comport",
"conform",
"consist",
"correspond",
"dovetail",
"fit",
"go",
"harmonize",
"jibe",
"rhyme",
"rime",
"sort",
"square",
"tally"
],
"near synonyms":[
"equal",
"match",
"parallel",
"align",
"aline",
"line up",
"register"
],
"near antonyms":[
"contradict",
"dispute",
"gainsay",
"negate",
"nullify",
"clash",
"conflict",
"jar"
],
"antonyms":[
"differ (from)",
"disagree (with)"
]
},
"to do what is required by the terms of":{
"examples":[
"I don't have a box cutter as such, but will this knife answer the purpose?"
],
"synonyms":[
"complete",
"comply (with)",
"fill",
"fulfill",
"fulfil",
"keep",
"meet",
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"bring about",
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"compass",
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"disregard",
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"ignore",
"neglect",
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"overpass",
"pass over",
"slight"
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"crack",
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"solve",
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"unriddle",
"work",
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"untangle",
"untie",
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"divine",
"guess",
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"decode"
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"verb"
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"as in counterclockwise , widdershins":{
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"left-handedly",
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"widdershins",
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"backward",
"rearward",
"rearwards",
"astern",
"sternforemost"
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"along",
"forth",
"forward",
"forwards",
"on",
"onward",
"onwards"
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"as in antivenin , antidote":{
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"antivenin",
"mithridate",
"cure",
"cure-all",
"elixir",
"panacea"
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"bane",
"poison",
"toxic",
"toxin",
"venom",
"cancer",
"contagion",
"disease",
"virus",
"fungicide",
"germicide",
"herbicide",
"insecticide",
"microbicide",
"pesticide",
"toxicant"
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"type":[
"noun"
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"as in ostrich , crocodile":{
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"alligator",
"buckskin",
"cabretta",
"calfskin",
"capeskin",
"chamois",
"cordovan",
"cowhide",
"crocodile",
"deerskin",
"doeskin",
"goatskin",
"horsehide",
"kid",
"kidskin",
"lambskin",
"morocco",
"ostrich",
"pigskin",
"seal",
"sharkskin",
"sheepskin",
"snakeskin",
"coat",
"fleece",
"fur",
"pelt",
"nubuck",
"patent leather",
"suede",
"hide",
"leather",
"skin"
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"type":[
"noun"
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"as in anchormen , coanchors":{
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"coanchors",
"co-anchors",
"anchorpeople",
"anchors",
"newscasters",
"newsreaders",
"announcers",
"broadcasters",
"commentators",
"linkmen",
"telecasters",
"correspondents",
"foreign correspondents",
"interviewers",
"journalists",
"newshounds",
"newsies",
"newsmen",
"newspeople",
"newswomen",
"reporters",
"stringers"
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"type":[
"noun"
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"anyone":{
"as in anybody":{
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"anybody",
"all",
"everybody",
"everyone",
"somebody",
"someone"
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"nobody",
"none",
"no one"
],
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"type":[
"pronoun"
]
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"as in cruelty-free":{
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"altruistic",
"brotherly",
"charitable",
"freehanded",
"generous",
"greathearted",
"humanitarian",
"liberal",
"magnanimous",
"munificent",
"noble",
"openhearted",
"philanthropic",
"philanthropical",
"selfless",
"unselfish",
"unsparing",
"patient",
"pitying",
"tolerant",
"understanding",
"clement",
"forbearing",
"forgiving",
"lenient",
"merciful",
"soft",
"affable",
"amicable",
"benign",
"companionable",
"comradely",
"cordial",
"friendly",
"genial",
"gentle",
"good",
"good-natured",
"good-tempered",
"gracious",
"mild",
"neighborly",
"nice",
"pleasant",
"sweet",
"warm",
"attentive",
"considerate",
"solicitous",
"thoughtful",
"beneficent",
"benevolent",
"benignant",
"compassionate",
"good-hearted",
"humane",
"kind",
"kindhearted",
"kindly",
"softhearted",
"sympathetic",
"tender",
"tenderhearted",
"warmhearted"
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"atrocious",
"barbaric",
"barbarous",
"bestial",
"brutal",
"brute",
"brutish",
"callous",
"cold-blooded",
"cruel",
"fiendish",
"hard-hearted",
"heartless",
"inhuman",
"inhumane",
"insensate",
"sadistic",
"savage",
"truculent",
"uncompassionate",
"unfeeling",
"unkind",
"unkindly",
"unsympathetic",
"vicious",
"wanton",
"ironhearted",
"merciless",
"pitiless",
"ruthless",
"stonyhearted",
"inconsiderate",
"insensitive",
"thoughtless",
"uncaring",
"unthinking",
"grim",
"hard-boiled",
"harsh",
"heavy-handed",
"severe",
"stern",
"tough",
"unsentimental",
"hateful",
"malevolent",
"malicious",
"malign",
"malignant",
"mean",
"nasty",
"spiteful",
"virulent",
"antihumanitarian",
"uncharitable"
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"type":[
"adjective"
]
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"as in antirepublican":{
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"authoritarian",
"jackbooted",
"oppressive",
"totalitarian",
"high-handed",
"magisterial",
"absolute",
"arbitrary",
"autocratic",
"autocratical",
"czarist",
"tsarist",
"tzarist",
"despotic",
"dictatorial",
"monocratic",
"tyrannical",
"tyrannic",
"tyrannous",
"domineering",
"imperious",
"masterful",
"all-powerful",
"almighty",
"omnipotent",
"autonomous",
"self-governing",
"self-ruling",
"sovereign",
"sovran",
"unconditional",
"unlimited"
],
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"limited",
"circumscribed",
"restrained",
"restricted",
"constitutional",
"lawful",
"democratic",
"republican"
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"adjective"
]
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"being at or in the forward part or surface of something":{
"examples":[
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],
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"fore",
"forward",
"front",
"frontal",
"frontward",
"frontwards"
],
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"ventral"
],
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"dorsal"
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"aft",
"after",
"hind",
"hinder",
"hindmost",
"posterior",
"rear",
"rearward"
]
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"examples":[
"fossils from an anterior geologic age"
],
"synonyms":[
"antecedent",
"foregoing",
"former",
"precedent",
"preceding",
"previous",
"prior"
],
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"advance",
"early",
"premature",
"earliest",
"first",
"inaugural",
"initial",
"maiden",
"original",
"pioneer",
"preexisting",
"introductory",
"preliminary",
"erstwhile",
"whilom"
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"near antonyms":[
"advanced",
"late",
"closing",
"concluding",
"final",
"last",
"latest",
"latter",
"terminal",
"ultimate"
],
"antonyms":[
"after",
"ensuing",
"following",
"later",
"posterior",
"subsequent",
"succeeding"
]
},
"type":[
"adjective"
]
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"as in appetizers , cocktails":{
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"amuse-bouches",
"amuses-bouches",
"amuse-gueules",
"appetizers",
"apps",
"canap\u00e9s",
"cocktails",
"hors d'oeuvres",
"hors d'oeuvre",
"munchies",
"starters",
"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"
]
},
"antithetical":{
"being as different as possible":{
"examples":[
"spiritual concerns and ideals that are antithetical to the materialism embraced by modern society"
],
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"antipodal",
"antipodean",
"contradictory",
"contrary",
"diametric",
"diametrical",
"opposite",
"polar"
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"near synonyms":[
"adverse",
"negative",
"unfavorable",
"antagonistic",
"antipathetic",
"counter",
"cross",
"hostile",
"converse",
"inverse",
"obverse",
"reverse",
"alien",
"disparate",
"dissimilar",
"divergent",
"unalike",
"unlike"
],
"near antonyms":[
"alike",
"analogous",
"like",
"similar",
"equivalent",
"identical",
"same",
"synonymous"
],
"antonyms":[
"noncontradictory"
]
},
"type":[
"adjective"
]
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"anchormen":{
"as in anchorwomen , coanchors":{
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"anchorwomen",
"coanchors",
"co-anchors",
"anchorpeople",
"anchors",
"newscasters",
"newsreaders",
"announcers",
"broadcasters",
"commentators",
"linkmen",
"telecasters",
"correspondents",
"foreign correspondents",
"interviewers",
"journalists",
"newshounds",
"newsies",
"newsmen",
"newspeople",
"newswomen",
"reporters",
"stringers"
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"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"analytical":{
"according to the rules of logic":{
"examples":[
"presented a very analytical argument for the defendant's guilt"
],
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"coherent",
"consequent",
"good",
"logical",
"rational",
"reasonable",
"sensible",
"sound",
"valid",
"well-founded",
"well-grounded"
],
"near synonyms":[
"a posteriori",
"a priori",
"syllogistic",
"cognitive",
"empirical",
"empiric",
"defendable",
"defensible",
"justifiable",
"maintainable",
"supportable",
"sustainable",
"tenable"
],
"near antonyms":[
"casuistic",
"casuistical",
"eristic",
"eristical",
"fallacious",
"misleading",
"sophistic",
"sophistical",
"specious",
"unarticulated",
"unscientific",
"absurd",
"cockeyed",
"crazy",
"daffy",
"fatuous",
"half-baked",
"half-witted",
"harebrained",
"insane",
"loony",
"looney",
"mad",
"nonsensical",
"nutty",
"preposterous",
"simpleminded",
"stupid",
"weak-minded",
"witless",
"senseless",
"thoughtless",
"uncompelling",
"unconvincing"
],
"antonyms":[
"illegitimate",
"illogical",
"incoherent",
"inconsequent",
"inconsequential",
"invalid",
"irrational",
"unreasonable",
"unsound",
"weak"
]
},
"type":[
"adjective"
]
},
"annotate":{
"to add notes or comments to (a text, book, drawing, etc.)":{
"examples":[
"He annotated the text at several places.",
"annotate a list"
],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"commentate",
"gloss",
"clarify",
"clear (up)",
"construe",
"demonstrate",
"demystify",
"elucidate",
"explain",
"explicate",
"expound",
"get across",
"illuminate",
"illustrate",
"interpret",
"simplify",
"spell out",
"unriddle",
"decipher",
"decode",
"analyze",
"break down",
"disentangle",
"undo",
"unravel",
"unscramble",
"untangle",
"resolve",
"solve",
"define",
"specify"
],
"near antonyms":[
"befog",
"cloud",
"confound",
"confuse",
"obfuscate",
"obscure"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"antechamber":{
"a room placed before and leading into a chief apartment and serving as a waiting area":{
"examples":[],
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"near synonyms":[
"anteroom",
"lounge",
"waiting room",
"entranceway",
"entry",
"entryway",
"foyer",
"hall",
"hallway",
"lobby",
"vestibule",
"door",
"doorway",
"entrance",
"portal",
"threshold"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"anti":{
"opposed to; not for":{
"examples":[
"if you ask me, she's anti anything that sounds like the least bit of fun"
],
"synonyms":[
"against",
"agin",
"contra"
],
"near synonyms":[
"athwart",
"contrary to",
"versus",
"with"
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"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[
"for",
"pro"
]
},
"type":[
"preposition"
]
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"antidotes":{
"something that corrects or counteracts something undesirable":{
"examples":[
"hoped that taking dance lessons would prove to be an antidote for her loneliness"
],
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"correctives",
"curatives",
"cures",
"rectifiers",
"remedies",
"therapeutics",
"therapies"
],
"near synonyms":[
"cure-alls",
"elixirs",
"panaceas",
"answers",
"solutions",
"aids",
"help",
"reliefs",
"succors",
"balms",
"medicinals",
"medicines",
"palliatives"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"antiphonal":{
"as in antiphonary":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"antiphonary",
"songbook",
"songster",
"breviary",
"missal",
"Psalter",
"hymnal",
"hymnary",
"hymnbook",
"psalmody"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"antiaggression":{
"as in anti-imperialism , antimilitarism":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"anti-imperialism",
"antimilitarism",
"nonaggression",
"pacifism"
],
"near antonyms":[
"imperialism",
"jingoism",
"militarism",
"antagonism",
"fierceness",
"hostility",
"hyperaggressiveness",
"unfriendliness",
"aggression",
"aggressiveness",
"assaultiveness",
"bellicosity",
"belligerence",
"belligerency",
"combativeness",
"contentiousness",
"defiance",
"disputatiousness",
"feistiness",
"fight",
"militance",
"militancy",
"militantness",
"pugnacity",
"quarrelsomeness",
"scrappiness",
"truculence"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"antiquarians":{
"as in booksellers , bibliopoles":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"bibliopoles",
"booksellers",
"bookworms",
"bibliopegists",
"bookbinders",
"bookmakers",
"bibliolaters",
"bibliomaniacs",
"bibliophiles",
"bookmen"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"ancientness":{
"the state of being an old person":{
"examples":[
"if nothing else, the patriarch had achieved a degree of ancientness worthy of veneration"
],
"synonyms":[
"age",
"agedness",
"elderliness",
"maturity"
],
"near synonyms":[
"senectitude",
"venerableness",
"anecdotage",
"anility",
"caducity",
"dotage",
"second childhood",
"senescence",
"senility",
"feebleness",
"infirmity"
],
"near antonyms":[
"freshness",
"prime",
"youthfulness",
"adolescence",
"immaturity",
"juvenility",
"minority",
"nonage"
],
"antonyms":[
"youngness",
"youth"
]
},
"the state of being something old":{
"examples":[
"the ancientness of the papyrus was authenticated by carbon dating"
],
"synonyms":[
"age",
"agedness",
"antiquity",
"hoariness"
],
"near synonyms":[
"antiquation",
"datedness",
"obsolescence",
"obsoleteness",
"old-fashionedness",
"fustiness",
"agelessness"
],
"near antonyms":[
"currency",
"currentness",
"freshness",
"modernity",
"modernness",
"novelty",
"recentness"
],
"antonyms":[
"newness"
]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"antiseptics":{
"as in antibiotics , sera":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"antibiotics",
"sera",
"serums",
"cures",
"drugs",
"medicaments",
"medications",
"medicinals",
"medicines",
"pharmaceuticals",
"physics",
"remedies",
"specifics",
"cure-alls",
"nostrums",
"panaceas",
"botanicals",
"patent medicines",
"prescription drugs",
"prescriptions",
"cordials",
"potions",
"tonics",
"miracle drugs",
"wonder drugs",
"caps",
"capsules",
"pills",
"tablets",
"injections",
"shots",
"embrocations",
"liniments",
"lotions",
"ointments",
"potions",
"poultices",
"salves"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"antirevolutionary":{
"as in antiliberal , antireform":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"antiliberal",
"antimodern",
"antiprogressive",
"antireform",
"right",
"right-wing",
"dowdy",
"fogyish",
"fogeyish",
"fuddy-duddy",
"ossified",
"set",
"stodgy",
"blimpish",
"neoconservative",
"Tory",
"ultraright",
"ultrarightist",
"devoted",
"faithful",
"loyal",
"staunch",
"stanch",
"steadfast",
"steady",
"true",
"true-blue",
"conventional",
"square",
"archconservative",
"brassbound",
"button-down",
"buttoned-down",
"conservative",
"die-hard",
"hidebound",
"mossbacked",
"old-fashioned",
"old-line",
"old-school",
"orthodox",
"paleoconservative",
"reactionary",
"standpat",
"traditional",
"traditionalistic",
"ultraconservative",
"unprogressive"
],
"near antonyms":[
"broad-minded",
"large-minded",
"liberal",
"nonconservative",
"nonconventional",
"nonorthodox",
"nontraditional",
"open-minded",
"progressive",
"unconventional",
"unorthodox",
"anticonventional",
"antiestablishment",
"antitraditional",
"extremist",
"radical",
"revolutionary",
"nonconformist",
"advanced",
"contemporary",
"modern",
"lefty",
"radical",
"ultraleft",
"ultraleftist",
"ultraprogressive",
"ultraradical"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"adjective"
]
},
"antisentimental":{
"as in cynical , hard-boiled":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"cynical",
"hard-boiled",
"hard-edged",
"hardheaded",
"unsentimental"
],
"near antonyms":[
"nostalgic",
"wistful",
"dreamy",
"misty-eyed",
"moonstruck",
"moony",
"starry-eyed",
"melodramatic",
"soap-operatic",
"soapy",
"sudsy"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"adjective"
]
},
"animal":{
"one of the lower animals as distinguished from human beings":{
"examples":[
"we saw a lot of animals at the wildlife refuge\u2014cranes, alligators, deer, a fox, even an armadillo"
],
"synonyms":[
"beast",
"beastie",
"brute",
"creature",
"critter"
],
"near synonyms":[
"blastie",
"varmint",
"vermin",
"biped",
"quadruped",
"carnivore",
"herbivore",
"insectivore",
"invertebrate",
"vertebrate",
"domestic animal",
"pet",
"feral",
"livestock",
"stock"
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"physiological",
"physiologic",
"sensual",
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"cerebral",
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"mental",
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"psychic",
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"nonmaterial",
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"adjective",
"noun"
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"to give what is owed for":{
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"if we can't ante up at least half of the overdue rent, we are going to be evicted"
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"pays off",
"pays up",
"ponies up",
"quits",
"recompenses",
"settles",
"springs (for)",
"stands"
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"repudiates"
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"verb"
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"as in python , boa":{
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"adder",
"asp",
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"blacksnake",
"blue racer",
"boa",
"bull snake",
"bushmaster",
"chicken snake",
"cobra",
"constrictor",
"copperhead",
"coral snake",
"cottonmouth moccasin",
"diamondback rattlesnake",
"fer-de-lance",
"garter snake",
"gopher snake",
"green snake",
"hognose snake",
"horned viper",
"indigo snake",
"king cobra",
"king snake",
"krait",
"mamba",
"milk snake",
"moccasin",
"pine snake",
"pit viper",
"puff adder",
"python",
"racer",
"rat snake",
"rattlesnake",
"sea serpent",
"sea snake",
"sidewinder",
"taipan",
"water moccasin",
"water snake",
"worm snake",
"serpent",
"snake",
"viper"
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"type":[
"noun"
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"belonging to an earlier time period":{
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"antiquated",
"moldy",
"obsolete",
"rinky-dink",
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"oldfangled",
"old-fashioned",
"old-school",
"old-time",
"old-timey",
"old-world",
"quaint",
"retro",
"retrograde",
"vintage",
"historic",
"historical",
"olden",
"traditional",
"old hat",
"outdated",
"outmoded",
"out-of-date",
"outworn",
"pass\u00e9",
"superannuated",
"dated",
"fusty",
"moth-eaten",
"musty",
"stodgy",
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"age-old",
"ancient",
"antediluvian",
"atavistic",
"fossilized",
"hoary",
"venerable",
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"past",
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"ageless",
"dateless",
"timeless"
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"fresh",
"new",
"contemporary",
"current",
"hot",
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"modern",
"modernist",
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"new age",
"newfangled",
"new-fashioned",
"present-day",
"red-hot",
"space-age",
"state-of-the-art",
"ultramodern",
"up-to-date",
"chic",
"designer",
"fashionable",
"smart",
"stylish",
"modernized",
"refurbished",
"remodeled",
"renewed",
"updated",
"last",
"latest",
"futuristic",
"high-tech",
"hi-tech",
"latter-day",
"nontraditional",
"recent"
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"adjective"
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"I'd like to follow up on an antecedent question from another reporter"
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"foregoing",
"former",
"precedent",
"preceding",
"previous",
"prior"
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"advance",
"early",
"premature",
"earliest",
"first",
"inaugural",
"initial",
"maiden",
"original",
"pioneer",
"preexisting",
"introductory",
"preliminary",
"erstwhile",
"whilom"
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"advanced",
"late",
"closing",
"concluding",
"final",
"last",
"latest",
"latter",
"terminal",
"ultimate"
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"after",
"ensuing",
"following",
"later",
"posterior",
"subsequent",
"succeeding"
]
},
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"examples":[
"what are the antecedents of the American Revolutionary War?"
],
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"causality",
"causation",
"cause",
"occasion",
"reason"
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"consideration",
"determinant",
"factor",
"alpha and omega",
"be-all and end-all",
"impetus",
"incentive",
"inspiration",
"instigation",
"stimulus",
"mother",
"origin",
"root",
"source",
"spring"
],
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"ramification",
"denouement",
"d\u00e9nouement",
"repercussion",
"conclusion",
"end",
"by-product",
"side effect",
"side reaction"
],
"antonyms":[
"aftereffect",
"aftermath",
"consequence",
"corollary",
"development",
"effect",
"fate",
"fruit",
"issue",
"outcome",
"outgrowth",
"product",
"result",
"resultant",
"sequel",
"sequence",
"upshot"
]
},
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"examples":[
"the typewriter is the antecedent of the computer keyboard"
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"ancestor",
"archetype",
"daddy",
"foregoer",
"forerunner",
"granddaddy",
"grandaddy",
"precursor",
"predecessor",
"prototype"
],
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"model",
"original",
"originator",
"sire",
"father",
"mother"
],
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"by-product",
"derivative",
"offshoot",
"outgrowth",
"spin-off",
"daughter",
"son"
],
"antonyms":[
"descendant",
"descendent"
]
},
"type":[
"adjective",
"noun"
]
},
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"something that is as different as possible from something else":{
"examples":[
"true love for another is the antithesis of the desire to control that person's life"
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"antipode",
"contrary",
"counter",
"negative",
"obverse",
"opposite",
"reverse"
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"negation",
"antonym",
"counterpoint",
"converse",
"inverse",
"mirror image"
],
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"synonym",
"analogue",
"analog",
"counterpart",
"carbon copy",
"copy",
"duplicate",
"replica"
],
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"type":[
"noun"
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},
"anatomic":{
"of or relating to the structure of living bodies or their parts":{
"examples":[
"The scan revealed some anatomical abnormalities in the patient's brain."
],
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"physiological",
"animal",
"bodily",
"carnal",
"corporal",
"corporeal",
"fleshly",
"material",
"physical",
"somatic",
"sensual",
"sensuous",
"hand-to-hand"
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"cerebral",
"inner",
"intellectual",
"mental",
"psychological",
"psychologic",
"bodiless",
"immaterial",
"incorporeal",
"insubstantial",
"spiritual",
"ethereal",
"metaphysical",
"psychic",
"psychical",
"nonmaterial",
"nonphysical"
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"type":[
"adjective"
]
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"a student or writer of history":{
"examples":[
"a new book by America's best-known annalist of the Civil War"
],
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"chroniclers",
"historians"
],
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"autobiographers",
"biographers",
"archivists",
"chronologists",
"genealogists",
"hagiographers"
],
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},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"anchors":{
"one who reads and introduces news reports on a news program":{
"examples":[
"the news anchor coordinated the reports of the correspondents from around the state"
],
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"anchorpeople",
"newscasters",
"newsreaders"
],
"near synonyms":[
"anchormen",
"anchorwomen",
"coanchors",
"co-anchors",
"announcers",
"broadcasters",
"commentators",
"linkmen",
"telecasters",
"correspondents",
"foreign correspondents",
"interviewers",
"journalists",
"newshounds",
"newsies",
"newsmen",
"newspeople",
"newswomen",
"reporters",
"stringers"
],
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"antonyms":[]
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"something or someone to which one looks for support":{
"examples":[
"my best friend has been my anchor throughout this crisis"
],
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"buttresses",
"dependences",
"dependances",
"mainstays",
"pillars",
"reliances",
"standbys"
],
"near synonyms":[
"backbones",
"sinews",
"spines",
"right hands",
"bolsterers",
"crutches",
"handmaidens",
"handmaids",
"props",
"stays",
"anchorages",
"harbors",
"refuges"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to put securely in place or in a desired position":{
"examples":[
"used ropes and sandbags to anchor the hot-air balloon to the ground"
],
"synonyms":[
"catches",
"clamps",
"fastens",
"fixes",
"hitches",
"moors",
"secures",
"sets"
],
"near synonyms":[
"embeds",
"imbeds",
"entrenches",
"intrenches",
"implants",
"ingrains",
"engrains",
"lodges",
"stuffs",
"wedges"
],
"near antonyms":[
"extracts",
"pries",
"prizes",
"pulls",
"roots (out)",
"tears (out)",
"uproots",
"wrests",
"yanks"
],
"antonyms":[
"loosens",
"looses",
"unfastens",
"unfixes",
"unloosens",
"unlooses"
]
},
"to stop at or near a place along the shore":{
"examples":[
"we'll anchor at Praia, Cape Verde"
],
"synonyms":[
"docks",
"lands"
],
"near synonyms":[
"berths",
"moors",
"ties up",
"beaches",
"grounds",
"harbors",
"arrives",
"reaches",
"shows up",
"turns up",
"debarks",
"disembarks"
],
"near antonyms":[
"embarks",
"launches",
"sails"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun",
"verb"
]
},
"ante":{
"the amount of money that is demanded as payment for something":{
"examples":[
"the base price is $500, but any additional repairs will up the ante"
],
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"charge",
"cost",
"damage",
"fee",
"figure",
"freight",
"price",
"price tag"
],
"near synonyms":[
"fair market value",
"market value",
"valuation",
"value",
"asking price",
"list price",
"sticker price",
"price point",
"rate",
"tariff",
"unit price",
"carrying charge",
"overcharge",
"service charge",
"service fee",
"surcharge",
"deduction",
"discount",
"markdown",
"reduction",
"sale",
"deposit",
"down payment",
"account",
"bill",
"check",
"invoice",
"tab"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"ancresses":{
"as in mother superior , Reverend Mother":{
"examples":[],
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"near synonyms":[
"abbesses",
"cloistresses",
"conventuals",
"mother superior",
"novices",
"prioresses",
"religious",
"Reverend Mother",
"votaries",
"nuns",
"sisters",
"clergywomen",
"deaconesses",
"high priestesses",
"priestesses",
"friars",
"mendicants",
"monastics",
"monks",
"oblates",
"clergypersons",
"clericals",
"clerics",
"clerks",
"deacons",
"divines",
"dominies",
"ecclesiastics",
"high priests",
"ministers",
"preachers",
"reverends",
"abbots",
"archbishops",
"archpriests",
"bishops",
"deans",
"diocesans",
"monsignors",
"monsignori",
"popes",
"prelates",
"presbyters",
"churchmen",
"clergymen",
"fathers",
"Holy Joes",
"padres",
"abb\u00e9s",
"curates",
"cur\u00e9s",
"parsons",
"pastors",
"rectors",
"shepherds",
"vicars",
"chaplains",
"confessors",
"sky pilots",
"evangelists",
"missionaries",
"missioners",
"missionizers",
"revivalists"
],
"near antonyms":[
"lay readers",
"lectors",
"laymen",
"laypeople",
"seculars",
"secular"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"antivenin":{
"as in antidote , antivenom":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"antidote",
"antivenom",
"mithridate",
"cure",
"cure-all",
"elixir",
"panacea"
],
"near antonyms":[
"bane",
"poison",
"toxic",
"toxin",
"venom",
"cancer",
"contagion",
"disease",
"virus",
"fungicide",
"germicide",
"herbicide",
"insecticide",
"microbicide",
"pesticide",
"toxicant"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"anarch":{
"as in anarchist , subversive":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"anarchist",
"subversive",
"crazy",
"extremist",
"radical",
"revolutionary",
"revolutionist",
"young Turk",
"agitator",
"insurgent",
"insurrectionist",
"rebel",
"challenger",
"defier",
"insubordinate",
"oppositionist",
"recusant",
"refuser",
"resistant",
"resister"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"animated cartoon":{
"as in documentary , feature":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"cartoon",
"docudrama",
"documentary",
"feature",
"featurette",
"short",
"short subject",
"film",
"flick",
"flicker",
"motion picture",
"movie",
"moving picture",
"picture",
"silent",
"talkie",
"B movie",
"B picture",
"cofeature"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"analysis":{
"the separation and identification of the parts of a whole":{
"examples":[
"investigators took the mysterious powder to the lab for analysis"
],
"synonyms":[
"anatomizing",
"anatomy",
"assay",
"breakdown",
"deconstruction",
"dissection"
],
"near synonyms":[
"assessment",
"diagnosis",
"evaluation",
"examination",
"inspection",
"investigation",
"muster",
"scrutiny",
"arrangement",
"assortment",
"cataloging",
"cataloguing",
"categorization",
"classification",
"codification",
"indexing",
"enumeration",
"inventory",
"itemization",
"tabulation",
"division",
"reduction",
"segmentation",
"separation",
"subdivision"
],
"near antonyms":[
"agglomeration",
"aggregation",
"amalgamation",
"assimilation",
"coalescence",
"conglomeration",
"consolidation",
"integration",
"synthesis",
"unification"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"a series of explanations or observations on something (as an event)":{
"examples":[
"gave a thorough analysis of the main character's motives"
],
"synonyms":[
"comment",
"commentary",
"exposition",
"play-by-play"
],
"near synonyms":[
"annotation",
"explication",
"descant",
"discant",
"note",
"observation",
"remark",
"report",
"review",
"write-up"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"anomalously":{
"as in irregularly":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"irregularly",
"funnily",
"oddly",
"peculiarly",
"queerly",
"strangely",
"weirdly",
"radically",
"abnormally",
"atypically",
"extraordinarily",
"uncommonly",
"untypically",
"unusually"
],
"near antonyms":[
"commonly",
"generally",
"natch",
"naturally",
"normally",
"ordinarily",
"typically",
"usually",
"customarily",
"habitually",
"regularly",
"routinely",
"familiarly"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"adverb"
]
},
"antirepublican":{
"as in antidemocratic":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"antidemocratic",
"authoritarian",
"jackbooted",
"oppressive",
"totalitarian",
"high-handed",
"magisterial",
"absolute",
"arbitrary",
"autocratic",
"autocratical",
"czarist",
"tsarist",
"tzarist",
"despotic",
"dictatorial",
"monocratic",
"tyrannical",
"tyrannic",
"tyrannous",
"domineering",
"imperious",
"masterful",
"all-powerful",
"almighty",
"omnipotent",
"autonomous",
"self-governing",
"self-ruling",
"sovereign",
"sovran",
"unconditional",
"unlimited"
],
"near antonyms":[
"limited",
"circumscribed",
"restrained",
"restricted",
"constitutional",
"lawful",
"democratic",
"republican"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"adjective"
]
},
"animus":{
"a deep-seated ill will":{
"examples":[
"feeling no animus toward those who had wronged her"
],
"synonyms":[
"animosity",
"antagonism",
"antipathy",
"bad blood",
"bitterness",
"enmity",
"gall",
"grudge",
"hostility",
"jaundice",
"rancor"
],
"near synonyms":[
"blood feud",
"feud",
"score",
"vendetta",
"hate",
"hatred",
"loathing",
"vindictiveness",
"virulence",
"vitriol",
"alienation",
"disaffection",
"estrangement",
"conflict",
"coolness",
"discord",
"friction",
"strain",
"tension",
"inhospitableness",
"unfriendliness",
"malice",
"malignancy",
"malignity",
"spite",
"spitefulness",
"venom"
],
"near antonyms":[
"amiability",
"amicability",
"civility",
"cordiality",
"friendliness",
"hospitality",
"neighborliness",
"comity",
"empathy",
"friendship",
"goodwill",
"sympathy",
"understanding"
],
"antonyms":[
"amity"
]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"analytic":{
"according to the rules of logic":{
"examples":[
"presented a very analytical argument for the defendant's guilt"
],
"synonyms":[
"coherent",
"consequent",
"good",
"logical",
"rational",
"reasonable",
"sensible",
"sound",
"valid",
"well-founded",
"well-grounded"
],
"near synonyms":[
"a posteriori",
"a priori",
"syllogistic",
"cognitive",
"empirical",
"empiric",
"defendable",
"defensible",
"justifiable",
"maintainable",
"supportable",
"sustainable",
"tenable"
],
"near antonyms":[
"casuistic",
"casuistical",
"eristic",
"eristical",
"fallacious",
"misleading",
"sophistic",
"sophistical",
"specious",
"unarticulated",
"unscientific",
"absurd",
"cockeyed",
"crazy",
"daffy",
"fatuous",
"half-baked",
"half-witted",
"harebrained",
"insane",
"loony",
"looney",
"mad",
"nonsensical",
"nutty",
"preposterous",
"simpleminded",
"stupid",
"weak-minded",
"witless",
"senseless",
"thoughtless",
"uncompelling",
"unconvincing"
],
"antonyms":[
"illegitimate",
"illogical",
"incoherent",
"inconsequent",
"inconsequential",
"invalid",
"irrational",
"unreasonable",
"unsound",
"weak"
]
},
"type":[
"adjective"
]
},
"antianxiety":{
"as in antidepressant , antistress":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"antidepressant",
"antidepression",
"antistress",
"analgesic",
"anesthetic",
"anodyne",
"deadening",
"depressant",
"numbing",
"hypnotic",
"opiate",
"calming",
"comforting",
"dreamy",
"lulling",
"narcotic",
"pacifying",
"quieting",
"relaxing",
"sedative",
"soothing",
"tranquilizing",
"tranquillizing"
],
"near antonyms":[
"painful",
"stressful",
"tiresome",
"troubling",
"trying",
"unsettling",
"worrisome",
"energizing",
"invigorating",
"stimulant",
"stimulating",
"aggravating",
"annoying",
"bothersome",
"disturbing",
"exasperating",
"frustrating",
"galling",
"grating",
"harassing",
"irksome",
"irritating",
"maddening",
"nettlesome",
"troublesome",
"vexatious",
"vexing"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"adjective"
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"verb"
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"an announcement was in today's paper regarding the merger of the two banks"
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"noun"
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"kything",
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"apprising",
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"withholding",
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"recanting",
"retracting",
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"alter egos",
"carbon copies",
"carbons",
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"doppelg\u00e4ngers",
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"duplications",
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"images",
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"matches",
"mirror images",
"pictures",
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"ringers",
"spits",
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"portrayals",
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"reverses"
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"noun"
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"maddening",
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"nettlesome",
"nettling",
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"conciliatory",
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"pacifying",
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"placatory",
"propitiatory",
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"peaceful"
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"empoisoning",
"envenoming"
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"angering",
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"incensing",
"infuriating",
"maddening",
"alienating",
"disaffecting",
"disgruntling",
"estranging",
"setting (against)",
"curdling",
"souring"
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"appeasing",
"assuaging",
"mollifying",
"pacifying",
"placating",
"propitiating",
"sweetening"
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"adjective",
"verb"
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"so as to precede something in order of time":{
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"ahead",
"already",
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"before",
"beforehand",
"earlier",
"formerly",
"preliminarily",
"previously"
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"early",
"prematurely",
"first",
"first off",
"now",
"before long",
"erelong",
"presently",
"shortly",
"soon"
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"behind",
"by and by",
"next",
"subsequently"
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"afterward",
"afterwards",
"later"
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"adverb"
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"dating or surviving from the distant past":{
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"studied shards from antique pots made by the Pueblos of the Southwest"
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"aged",
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"antediluvian",
"dateless",
"hoar",
"hoary",
"immemorial",
"old",
"venerable"
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"ageing",
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"archaic",
"archaistic",
"dated",
"fusty",
"geriatric",
"medieval",
"mediaeval",
"moldy",
"Noachian",
"obsolete",
"outmoded",
"out-of-date",
"pass\u00e9",
"old-fashioned",
"old-time",
"old-world",
"retro",
"vintage",
"durable",
"enduring",
"lasting",
"long-lived",
"permanent",
"ageless",
"hallowed",
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"timeless",
"time-tested",
"timeworn",
"traditional",
"tried",
"tried-and-true",
"classic",
"classical",
"prehistoric",
"prehistorical",
"primeval",
"primordial"
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"fresh",
"vernal",
"young",
"youthful",
"contemporary",
"current",
"latest",
"mod",
"novel",
"present-day",
"ultramodern",
"untested",
"untried",
"brand-new",
"unused",
"unworn"
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"modern",
"new",
"recent"
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"loved to collect antique sugar tongs"
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"old-fashioned",
"old-school",
"old-time",
"old-timey",
"old-world",
"oldfangled",
"quaint",
"retro",
"retrograde",
"vintage"
],
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"antiquated",
"moldy",
"obsolete",
"rinky-dink",
"historic",
"historical",
"olden",
"traditional",
"old hat",
"outdated",
"outmoded",
"out-of-date",
"outworn",
"pass\u00e9",
"superannuated",
"dated",
"fusty",
"moth-eaten",
"musty",
"stodgy",
"aged",
"age-old",
"ancient",
"antediluvian",
"atavistic",
"fossilized",
"hoary",
"venerable",
"bygone",
"erstwhile",
"former",
"late",
"past",
"forgotten",
"remote",
"ageless",
"dateless",
"timeless",
"anachronistic",
"anachronic",
"anachronous"
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"fresh",
"new",
"chic",
"designer",
"fashionable",
"smart",
"stylish",
"modernized",
"refurbished",
"remodeled",
"renewed",
"updated",
"last",
"latest",
"futuristic",
"high-tech",
"hi-tech",
"latter-day",
"nontraditional",
"recent"
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"current",
"hot",
"mod",
"modern",
"modernist",
"modernistic",
"new age",
"newfangled",
"new-fashioned",
"present-day",
"red-hot",
"space-age",
"state-of-the-art",
"ultramodern",
"up-to-date"
]
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"their house is filled with rare antiques , including a collection of 19th-century African masks"
],
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"museum piece",
"relic"
],
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"artifact",
"fossil",
"dinosaur",
"antiquities",
"ruins",
"hangover",
"remains",
"remnant",
"trace",
"vestige"
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"type":[
"adjective",
"noun"
]
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"anchorperson":{
"one who reads and introduces news reports on a news program":{
"examples":[
"the new anchorperson did an admirable job of dealing with the late-breaking news story"
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"anchor",
"newscaster",
"newsreader"
],
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"anchorman",
"anchorwoman",
"coanchor",
"announcer",
"broadcaster",
"commentator",
"linkman",
"telecaster",
"correspondent",
"foreign correspondent",
"interviewer",
"journalist",
"newshound",
"newsie",
"newsman",
"newsperson",
"newswoman",
"reporter",
"stringer"
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"type":[
"noun"
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"something that is different from what is ordinary or expected":{
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"her C grade is an anomaly , as she's never made anything except A's and B's before"
],
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"abnormalities",
"exceptions",
"oddities",
"oddments",
"rarities"
],
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"curiosities",
"peculiarities",
"singularities",
"accidents",
"bizarreries",
"phenomena",
"phenomenons",
"quirks",
"vagaries",
"distortions",
"kinks",
"mutations",
"variations",
"differences",
"disparities",
"inconsistences",
"inconsistencies",
"errors",
"mistakes",
"contradictions",
"paradoxes"
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"norms",
"ordinaries",
"usuals"
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"freaks",
"monsters",
"monstrosities"
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"malformations",
"miscreations",
"mutants",
"mutations",
"characters",
"crackbrains",
"crackpots",
"cranks",
"eccentrics",
"kooks",
"nuts",
"oddballs",
"screwballs",
"weirdos",
"aberrants",
"deviants",
"individualists",
"mavericks",
"nonconformists",
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"exceptions",
"irregularities",
"oddities",
"rarities"
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"near antonyms":[
"samples",
"specimens",
"commonplaces",
"usuals"
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"averages",
"normals",
"norms",
"pars",
"standards"
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"type":[
"noun"
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"ancient":{
"dating or surviving from the distant past":{
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"Rome's ancient ruins remain carefully preserved even in the midst of the bustle of the modern city"
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"age-old",
"antediluvian",
"antique",
"dateless",
"hoar",
"hoary",
"immemorial",
"old",
"venerable"
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"ageing",
"mature",
"antiquated",
"archaic",
"archaistic",
"dated",
"fusty",
"geriatric",
"medieval",
"mediaeval",
"moldy",
"Noachian",
"obsolete",
"outmoded",
"out-of-date",
"pass\u00e9",
"old-fashioned",
"old-time",
"old-world",
"retro",
"vintage",
"durable",
"enduring",
"lasting",
"long-lived",
"permanent",
"ageless",
"hallowed",
"time-honored",
"timeless",
"time-tested",
"timeworn",
"traditional",
"tried",
"tried-and-true",
"classic",
"classical",
"prehistoric",
"prehistorical",
"primeval",
"primordial"
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"vernal",
"young",
"youthful",
"contemporary",
"current",
"latest",
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"novel",
"present-day",
"ultramodern",
"untested",
"untried",
"brand-new",
"unused",
"unworn"
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"modern",
"new",
"recent"
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"used to think that age 40 was ancient until I turned 40 myself"
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"aging",
"ageing",
"elderly",
"geriatric",
"long-lived",
"old",
"older",
"over-the-hill",
"senescent",
"senior",
"unyoung"
],
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"centenarian",
"nonagenarian",
"octogenarian",
"septuagenarian",
"sexagenarian",
"oldish",
"adult",
"grown-up",
"mature",
"middle-aged",
"pensioned",
"retired",
"superannuated",
"matriarchal",
"patriarchal",
"venerable",
"anile",
"decrepit",
"doddering",
"senile",
"spavined",
"tottery",
"overage",
"overaged"
],
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"ageless",
"youngish",
"adolescent",
"immature",
"juvenile",
"preteen",
"puerile",
"minor",
"underage",
"callow",
"green",
"inexperienced",
"raw",
"babyish",
"childish",
"childlike",
"infantile",
"infantine",
"kiddish"
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"young",
"youthful"
]
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"relating to or occurring near the beginning of a process, series, or time period":{
"examples":[
"the ancient Inca built a vast network of roads"
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"early",
"primal",
"primeval",
"primitive",
"primordial"
],
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"budding",
"embryonic",
"germinal",
"infant",
"aged",
"age-old",
"antediluvian",
"antiquated",
"antique",
"dateless",
"hoary",
"old",
"prehistoric",
"prehistorical",
"obsolete",
"outmoded",
"out-of-date",
"pass\u00e9"
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"advanced",
"complex",
"developed",
"evolved",
"high",
"higher",
"full-blown",
"full-fledged",
"full-scale"
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"late"
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"a person of advanced years":{
"examples":[
"ancients in the tribe are accorded great respect and valued for their wisdom"
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"elder",
"geriatric",
"golden-ager",
"old-timer",
"oldster",
"senior",
"senior citizen"
],
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"gaffer",
"graybeard",
"patriarch",
"whitebeard",
"beldam",
"beldame",
"dowager",
"grandam",
"grandame",
"adult",
"grown-up",
"dotard"
],
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"adolescent",
"minor",
"child",
"cub",
"juvenile",
"kid",
"kiddie",
"kiddy"
],
"antonyms":[
"youngster",
"youth"
]
},
"type":[
"adjective",
"noun"
]
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"a dull or disappointing ending or result":{
"examples":[
"The last chapter of the book was an anticlimax ."
],
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"aftermath",
"coda",
"epilogue",
"epilog",
"postscript",
"capper",
"close",
"closing",
"conclusion",
"consummation",
"end",
"endgame",
"ending",
"finale",
"finis",
"finish",
"grand finale",
"homestretch",
"mop-up",
"windup",
"wrap-up",
"acme",
"apex",
"capstone",
"climax",
"copestone",
"coup de gr\u00e2ce",
"coup de grace",
"crescendo",
"crown",
"culmination",
"high-water mark",
"meridian",
"peak",
"pinnacle",
"summit",
"tip-top",
"top",
"zenith",
"shank",
"tag end",
"tail end"
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"foreword",
"introduction",
"overture",
"preamble",
"preface",
"prelude",
"prologue",
"prolog",
"baseline",
"beginning",
"dawn",
"day one",
"nascence",
"nascency",
"opening",
"start"
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"type":[
"noun"
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"angles (for)":{
"as in fishes (for)":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"fishes (for)",
"asks (for)",
"courts",
"flirts (with)",
"invites",
"woos",
"hunts",
"searches",
"seeks",
"provokes",
"tempts"
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"antonyms":[]
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"as in plots , intrigues":{
"examples":[],
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"compasses",
"intrigues",
"plots",
"schemes",
"arranges",
"concerts",
"concludes",
"hammers out",
"works out",
"connives",
"contrives",
"engineers",
"finagles",
"finesses",
"frames",
"machinates",
"maneuvers",
"manipulates",
"masterminds",
"negotiates",
"wangles",
"brews",
"concocts",
"cooks (up)",
"hatches",
"captains",
"commands",
"conducts",
"directs",
"handles",
"manages",
"quarterbacks",
"runs",
"gerrymanders"
],
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"blows",
"bobbles",
"botches",
"bungles",
"butchers",
"flubs",
"fumbles",
"gums (up)",
"louses up",
"mangles",
"messes (up)",
"mishandles",
"muffs"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
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"a collection of writings":{
"examples":[
"an anthology of American short stories"
],
"synonyms":[
"albums",
"compendiums",
"compendia",
"compilations",
"florilegia",
"miscellanies",
"readers"
],
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"almanacs",
"ana",
"anas",
"analects",
"chapbooks",
"digests",
"garlands",
"symposia",
"symposiums",
"casebooks",
"sourcebooks",
"archives",
"corpora",
"libraries",
"miscellanea"
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"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
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"as in dichotomy , incongruity":{
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"near synonyms":[
"dichotomy",
"incompatibility",
"incongruence",
"incongruity",
"incongruousness",
"nonconformity",
"variability",
"variance",
"disproportion",
"imbalance",
"inequality",
"nonequivalence",
"conflict",
"discord",
"discordance",
"dissension",
"dissention",
"dissent",
"dissidence",
"disunity",
"friction",
"strife",
"change",
"modification",
"variation",
"differentiability",
"discriminability",
"distinguishability",
"deviance",
"divergence",
"contrast",
"difference",
"disagreement",
"discrepancy",
"disparateness",
"disparity",
"dissimilarity",
"dissimilitude",
"distance",
"distinction",
"distinctiveness",
"distinctness",
"diverseness",
"diversity",
"otherness",
"unlikeness"
],
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"alikeness",
"analogousness",
"analogy",
"community",
"likeness",
"resemblance",
"sameness",
"similarity",
"identicalness",
"identity",
"accordance",
"agreement",
"conformity",
"congruity",
"correspondence",
"parallelism",
"similitude",
"equality",
"equivalence",
"equivalency",
"homogeneity",
"homogeneousness",
"uniformity"
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"type":[
"noun"
]
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"as in inconsequential , trivial":{
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"inconsequential",
"indecisive",
"insignificant",
"noncritical",
"trivial",
"unimportant"
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"apocalyptic",
"apocalyptical",
"climacteric",
"climactic",
"apical",
"apogean",
"crestal",
"crowning",
"culminating",
"high",
"highest",
"meridian",
"critical",
"crossover",
"crucial",
"fateful",
"life-and-death",
"life-or-death",
"vital"
],
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},
"type":[
"adjective"
]
},
"anything":{
"any of various things that might exist or occur":{
"examples":[
"I can't get anything done with this noise distracting me.",
"Despite searching the library multiple times, he was unable to find anything related to the topic of his research."
],
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"something",
"what all",
"whatever",
"whatnot",
"whichever"
],
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},
"type":[
"pronoun"
]
},
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"to implant bitter feelings in":{
"examples":[
"everything he said just antagonized the other side even more"
],
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"embittered",
"empoisoned",
"envenomed"
],
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"aggravated",
"angered",
"enraged",
"incensed",
"infuriated",
"maddened",
"alienated",
"disaffected",
"disgruntled",
"estranged",
"set (against)",
"curdled",
"soured"
],
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"endeared",
"ingratiated",
"appeased",
"assuaged",
"mollified",
"pacified",
"placated",
"propitiated",
"sweetened"
],
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},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"annotation":{
"a written explanation, observation, etc. that is added to something (such as a book)":{
"examples":[
"The translator's annotations to the text explain some of its cultural and historical context."
],
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"comment",
"note",
"reflection",
"remark",
"analysis",
"commentary",
"exposition",
"aside",
"obiter dictum",
"belief",
"conviction",
"eye",
"feeling",
"judgment",
"judgement",
"mind",
"notion",
"persuasion",
"sentiment",
"verdict",
"view",
"advice",
"input"
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},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"annual":{
"occurring once every year":{
"examples":[
"Much of the city's elite attend the museum's annual gala, and it has grown in prominence with each passing year.",
"The couple had booked a cruise for their annual vacation away from the kids."
],
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"yearly",
"bimonthly",
"biweekly",
"daily",
"monthly",
"quarterly",
"semimonthly",
"semiweekly",
"triweekly",
"weekly",
"frequent",
"habitual",
"intermittent",
"perennial",
"periodic",
"recurrent",
"regular",
"repeated",
"routine",
"serial",
"usual"
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"a book or magazine that is published once a year":{
"examples":[
"The society releases an annual that includes all the proceedings of its meetings during the year"
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"bimonthly",
"biweekly",
"daily",
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"quarterly",
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"semiweekly",
"triweekly",
"weekly",
"yearbook",
"book",
"bulletin",
"diurnal",
"gazette",
"journal",
"mag",
"magazine",
"newspaper",
"organ",
"paper",
"periodical",
"rag",
"review",
"serial",
"zine",
"digest",
"little magazine",
"fanzine",
"pictorial",
"slick",
"broadside",
"edition",
"extra",
"sheet",
"supplement",
"tab",
"tabloid",
"newsletter",
"newsmagazine",
"newsweekly"
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"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"adjective",
"noun"
]
},
"anxieties":{
"an uneasy state of mind usually over the possibility of an anticipated misfortune or trouble":{
"examples":[
"Dorothy's anxiety about her brother's operation kept her awake all night"
],
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"agita",
"agitation",
"anxiousness",
"apprehension",
"apprehensiveness",
"care",
"concern",
"concernment",
"disquiet",
"disquietude",
"fear",
"nervosity",
"nervousness",
"perturbation",
"solicitude",
"sweat",
"unease",
"uneasiness",
"worry"
],
"near synonyms":[
"strain",
"stress",
"tension",
"alarm",
"alarum",
"anguish",
"consternation",
"desperateness",
"desperation",
"discomfort",
"discomposure",
"dismay",
"distraction",
"distress",
"disturbance",
"edginess",
"franticness",
"hand-wringing",
"jitters",
"jumpiness",
"panic",
"tremor",
"angst",
"fearfulness",
"torment",
"upset",
"vexation",
"cold feet",
"doubt",
"dread",
"foreboding",
"incertitude",
"misgiving",
"presentiment",
"suspense",
"uncertainty",
"compunction",
"qualm",
"scruple"
],
"near antonyms":[
"calm",
"calmness",
"content",
"contentment",
"ease",
"easiness",
"peace",
"peacefulness",
"placidity",
"placidness",
"quiet",
"quietude",
"sereneness",
"serenity",
"tranquillity",
"tranquility",
"tranquilness",
"comfort",
"consolation",
"relief",
"solace"
],
"antonyms":[
"unconcern"
]
},
"the emotion experienced in the presence or threat of danger":{
"examples":[
"the newly discovered virus is creating considerable anxiety in the public at large"
],
"synonyms":[
"alarm",
"alarum",
"dread",
"fear",
"fearfulness",
"fright",
"horror",
"panic",
"scare",
"terror",
"trepidation"
],
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"phobia",
"creeps",
"jitters",
"nervousness",
"willies",
"pang",
"qualm",
"twinge",
"agitation",
"apprehension",
"consternation",
"discomposure",
"disquiet",
"funk",
"perturbation",
"concern",
"dismay",
"worry",
"cowardice",
"faintheartedness",
"timidity",
"timorousness"
],
"near antonyms":[
"aplomb",
"assurance",
"boldness",
"confidence",
"self-assurance",
"self-confidence",
"bravery",
"courage",
"courageousness",
"daring",
"dauntlessness",
"doughtiness",
"fearlessness",
"fortitude",
"gallantry",
"hardihood",
"intrepidity",
"intrepidness",
"stoutness",
"valor",
"audacity",
"guts",
"nerve"
],
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},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"antres":{
"a naturally formed underground chamber with an opening to the surface":{
"examples":[
"a fantasy in which an intrepid band of adventurers enter a vast antre and discover a hidden world filled with monsters and wonders"
],
"synonyms":[
"caverns",
"caves",
"delves",
"grots",
"grottoes",
"grottos"
],
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"abysses",
"chasms",
"gulfs",
"hollows",
"crawlways",
"galleries",
"subways",
"tunnels",
"excavations",
"mines",
"pits",
"shafts",
"wells",
"bunkers",
"dugouts",
"foxholes",
"burrows",
"coverts",
"dens",
"holes",
"lairs",
"lodges",
"shelters"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"analyzes":{
"to identify and examine the basic elements or parts of (something) especially for discovering interrelationships":{
"examples":[
"analyze the park's ecosystem before deciding whether hunting should be allowed"
],
"synonyms":[
"anatomizes",
"assays",
"breaks down",
"cuts",
"deconstructs",
"dissects"
],
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"assesses",
"diagnoses",
"evaluates",
"examines",
"inspects",
"investigates",
"scrutinizes",
"arranges",
"assorts",
"catalogs",
"catalogues",
"categorizes",
"classifies",
"codifies",
"diagrams",
"enumerates",
"indexes",
"orders",
"schematizes",
"sorts",
"tabulates",
"divides",
"reduces",
"segments",
"separates",
"subdivides"
],
"near antonyms":[
"agglomerates",
"aggregates",
"amalgamates",
"assimilates",
"coalesces",
"conglomerates",
"consolidates",
"integrates",
"synthesizes",
"unifies"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"angling (for)":{
"as in fishing (for)":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"fishing (for)",
"asking (for)",
"courting",
"flirting (with)",
"inviting",
"wooing",
"hunting",
"searching",
"seeking",
"provoking",
"tempting"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"as in plotting , intriguing":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"compassing",
"intriguing",
"plotting",
"scheming",
"arranging",
"concerting",
"concluding",
"hammering out",
"working out",
"conniving",
"contriving",
"engineering",
"finagling",
"finessing",
"framing",
"machinating",
"maneuvering",
"manipulating",
"masterminding",
"negotiating",
"wangling",
"brewing",
"concocting",
"cooking (up)",
"hatching",
"captaining",
"commanding",
"conducting",
"directing",
"handling",
"managing",
"quarterbacking",
"running",
"gerrymandering"
],
"near antonyms":[
"blowing",
"bobbling",
"botching",
"bungling",
"butchering",
"flubbing",
"fumbling",
"gumming (up)",
"lousing up",
"mangling",
"messing (up)",
"mishandling",
"muffing"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"anarchies":{
"a state in which there is widespread wrongdoing and disregard for rules and authority":{
"examples":[
"the anarchy that the country experienced after the dictator drained the treasury and fled the country"
],
"synonyms":[
"lawlessness",
"misrule"
],
"near synonyms":[
"anarchism",
"commotion",
"tumult",
"uproar",
"chaos",
"confusion",
"disarray",
"disorder",
"disorderliness",
"disorganization",
"misorder",
"disruption",
"disturbance",
"havoc",
"riot",
"strife",
"turbulence",
"turmoil",
"unrest",
"upheaval",
"mutiny",
"rebellion",
"revolution",
"uprising",
"criminality",
"outlawry"
],
"near antonyms":[
"law",
"law-abidingness",
"lawfulness",
"legality",
"legitimacy",
"rule",
"calmness",
"harmony",
"order",
"orderliness",
"peace",
"peaceableness",
"peacefulness",
"quiet",
"tranquillity",
"tranquility"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"anxiously":{
"as in uncomfortably , uneasily":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"apprehensively",
"uncomfortably",
"uneasily",
"captiously",
"critically",
"cynically",
"deprecatingly",
"disapprovingly",
"disparagingly",
"negatively",
"reproachfully",
"reproachingly",
"reprovingly",
"unfavorably",
"charily",
"guardedly",
"warily",
"hesitantly",
"hesitatingly",
"incredulously",
"questioningly",
"quizzically",
"unbelievingly",
"askance",
"askant",
"distrustfully",
"doubtfully",
"doubtingly",
"dubiously",
"mistrustfully",
"sideways",
"skeptically",
"suspiciously"
],
"near antonyms":[
"trustfully",
"trustingly",
"approvingly",
"favorably",
"positively",
"confidently",
"sanguinely",
"credulously",
"uncritically",
"unquestioningly"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"adverb"
]
},
"anachronic":{
"belonging to an earlier time period":{
"examples":[
"The fashions that were all the rage just five years ago seem like anachronistic leftovers today."
],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"anachronous",
"antiquated",
"moldy",
"obsolete",
"rinky-dink",
"antique",
"oldfangled",
"old-fashioned",
"old-school",
"old-time",
"old-timey",
"old-world",
"quaint",
"retro",
"retrograde",
"vintage",
"historic",
"historical",
"olden",
"traditional",
"old hat",
"outdated",
"outmoded",
"out-of-date",
"outworn",
"pass\u00e9",
"superannuated",
"dated",
"fusty",
"moth-eaten",
"musty",
"stodgy",
"aged",
"age-old",
"ancient",
"antediluvian",
"atavistic",
"fossilized",
"hoary",
"venerable",
"bygone",
"erstwhile",
"former",
"late",
"past",
"forgotten",
"remote",
"ageless",
"dateless",
"timeless"
],
"near antonyms":[
"fresh",
"new",
"contemporary",
"current",
"hot",
"mod",
"modern",
"modernist",
"modernistic",
"new age",
"newfangled",
"new-fashioned",
"present-day",
"red-hot",
"space-age",
"state-of-the-art",
"ultramodern",
"up-to-date",
"chic",
"designer",
"fashionable",
"smart",
"stylish",
"modernized",
"refurbished",
"remodeled",
"renewed",
"updated",
"last",
"latest",
"futuristic",
"high-tech",
"hi-tech",
"latter-day",
"nontraditional",
"recent"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"adjective"
]
},
"anachronous":{
"belonging to an earlier time period":{
"examples":[
"The politician argued that anachronous laws enacted centuries ago should be revised or repealed."
],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"anachronistic",
"anachronic",
"antiquated",
"moldy",
"obsolete",
"rinky-dink",
"antique",
"oldfangled",
"old-fashioned",
"old-school",
"old-time",
"old-timey",
"old-world",
"quaint",
"retro",
"retrograde",
"vintage",
"historic",
"historical",
"olden",
"traditional",
"old hat",
"outdated",
"outmoded",
"out-of-date",
"outworn",
"pass\u00e9",
"superannuated",
"dated",
"fusty",
"moth-eaten",
"musty",
"stodgy",
"aged",
"age-old",
"ancient",
"antediluvian",
"atavistic",
"fossilized",
"hoary",
"venerable",
"bygone",
"erstwhile",
"former",
"late",
"past",
"forgotten",
"remote",
"ageless",
"dateless",
"timeless"
],
"near antonyms":[
"fresh",
"new",
"contemporary",
"current",
"hot",
"mod",
"modern",
"modernist",
"modernistic",
"new age",
"newfangled",
"new-fashioned",
"present-day",
"red-hot",
"space-age",
"state-of-the-art",
"ultramodern",
"up-to-date",
"chic",
"designer",
"fashionable",
"smart",
"stylish",
"modernized",
"refurbished",
"remodeled",
"renewed",
"updated",
"last",
"latest",
"futuristic",
"high-tech",
"hi-tech",
"latter-day",
"nontraditional",
"recent"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"adjective"
]
},
"anile":{
"as in decrepit , senile":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"decrepit",
"doddering",
"senile",
"spavined",
"tottery",
"aged",
"aging",
"ageing",
"ancient",
"elderly",
"geriatric",
"long-lived",
"old",
"older",
"over-the-hill",
"senescent",
"senior",
"unyoung",
"centenarian",
"nonagenarian",
"octogenarian",
"septuagenarian",
"sexagenarian",
"oldish",
"adult",
"grown-up",
"mature",
"middle-aged",
"pensioned",
"retired",
"superannuated",
"matriarchal",
"patriarchal",
"venerable",
"overage",
"overaged"
],
"near antonyms":[
"ageless",
"youngish",
"adolescent",
"immature",
"juvenile",
"preteen",
"puerile",
"minor",
"underage",
"callow",
"green",
"inexperienced",
"raw",
"babyish",
"childish",
"childlike",
"infantile",
"infantine",
"kiddish",
"young",
"youthful"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"adjective"
]
},
"anthology":{
"a collection of writings":{
"examples":[
"an anthology of American short stories"
],
"synonyms":[
"album",
"collectanea",
"compendium",
"compilation",
"florilegium",
"miscellany",
"reader"
],
"near synonyms":[
"almanac",
"ana",
"analects",
"chapbook",
"digest",
"garland",
"symposium",
"casebook",
"sourcebook",
"archives",
"corpus",
"library",
"miscellanea"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"annexes":{
"a smaller structure added to a main building":{
"examples":[
"a new annex that will serve as the permanent home for the school library"
],
"synonyms":[
"additions",
"extensions",
"penthouses"
],
"near synonyms":[
"arms",
"ells",
"wings"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to join (something) to a mass, quantity, or number so as to bring about an overall increase":{
"examples":[
"plans to annex the supply room so as to make the classroom bigger"
],
"synonyms":[
"adds",
"adjoins",
"appends",
"subjoins",
"tacks (on)"
],
"near synonyms":[
"affixes",
"attaches",
"fastens",
"fixes",
"grafts",
"hitches",
"tags",
"ties",
"infuses",
"injects",
"inserts",
"interfuses",
"introduces",
"aggrandizes",
"amplifies",
"augments",
"beefs (up)",
"boosts",
"compounds",
"enlarges",
"escalates",
"expands",
"extends",
"increases",
"multiplies",
"raises",
"swells (up)",
"elongates",
"lengthens",
"prolongs",
"protracts",
"enhances",
"heightens",
"intensifies",
"magnifies",
"complements",
"supplements",
"supplies",
"enforces",
"reinforces",
"reenforces",
"strengthens",
"maximizes"
],
"near antonyms":[
"detaches",
"disconnects",
"disjoins",
"separates",
"unfastens",
"amputates",
"cuts",
"excises",
"lops (off)",
"severs",
"contracts",
"decreases",
"diminishes",
"lessens",
"lowers",
"reduces",
"abbreviates",
"abridges",
"curtails",
"shortens",
"compresses",
"condenses",
"constricts",
"cuts back",
"retrenches"
],
"antonyms":[
"abates",
"bates",
"deducts",
"knocks off",
"removes",
"subtracts",
"takes off"
]
},
"type":[
"noun",
"verb"
]
},
"anorexic":{
"as in emaciated , gaunt":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"anorectic",
"anoretic",
"cadaverous",
"emaciated",
"gaunt",
"haggard",
"pinched",
"skeletal",
"wasted",
"wizened",
"lank",
"lanky",
"rangy",
"reedy",
"spindling",
"spindly",
"stringy",
"twiggy",
"waspish",
"weedy",
"meager",
"meagre",
"puny",
"slight",
"angular",
"rawboned",
"scraggy",
"scrawny",
"sinewy",
"wiry",
"sylphlike",
"willowy",
"clean-limbed",
"trim",
"bony",
"boney",
"fatless",
"lean",
"lithe",
"skinny",
"slender",
"slim",
"spare",
"svelte",
"thin"
],
"near antonyms":[
"chubby",
"corpulent",
"fat",
"gross",
"obese",
"overweight",
"plump",
"portly",
"rotund",
"tubby",
"beefy",
"bulky",
"chunky",
"fleshy",
"heavy",
"heavyset",
"stocky",
"stout",
"thick",
"thickset",
"weighty",
"brawny",
"burly",
"husky",
"dumpy",
"pudgy",
"roly-poly",
"squat",
"stubby",
"paunchy",
"potbellied",
"flabby",
"soft",
"buxom",
"zaftig",
"zoftig",
"full",
"hippy",
"round"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"adjective"
]
},
"anterooms":{
"a small room that is connected to a larger room and used as a place for people to wait before going into the larger room":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"antechambers",
"lounges",
"waiting rooms",
"entranceways",
"entries",
"entryways",
"foyers",
"halls",
"hallways",
"lobbies",
"vestibules",
"doors",
"doorways",
"entrances",
"portals",
"thresholds"
],
"near antonyms":[],
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},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"antecedes":{
"to go or come before in time":{
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"the 19th-century Pre-Raphaelites claimed to base their principles and practices on the Italian art that anteceded Raphael and other masters of the High Renaissance"
],
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"antedates",
"foregoes",
"precedes",
"predates",
"preexists"
],
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"follows",
"postdates",
"succeeds"
]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"antiques":{
"something belonging to or surviving from an earlier period":{
"examples":[
"their house is filled with rare antiques , including a collection of 19th-century African masks"
],
"synonyms":[
"museum pieces",
"relics"
],
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"artifacts",
"fossils",
"dinosaurs",
"antiquities",
"ruins",
"hangovers",
"remains",
"remnants",
"traces",
"vestiges"
],
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"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"annex":{
"a smaller structure added to a main building":{
"examples":[
"a new annex that will serve as the permanent home for the school library"
],
"synonyms":[
"addition",
"extension",
"penthouse"
],
"near synonyms":[
"arm",
"ell",
"wing"
],
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"antonyms":[]
},
"to join (something) to a mass, quantity, or number so as to bring about an overall increase":{
"examples":[
"plans to annex the supply room so as to make the classroom bigger"
],
"synonyms":[
"add",
"adjoin",
"append",
"subjoin",
"tack (on)"
],
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"affix",
"attach",
"fasten",
"fix",
"graft",
"hitch",
"tag",
"tie",
"infuse",
"inject",
"insert",
"interfuse",
"introduce",
"aggrandize",
"amplify",
"augment",
"beef (up)",
"boost",
"compound",
"enlarge",
"escalate",
"expand",
"extend",
"increase",
"multiply",
"raise",
"swell (up)",
"elongate",
"lengthen",
"prolong",
"protract",
"enhance",
"heighten",
"intensify",
"magnify",
"complement",
"supplement",
"supply",
"enforce",
"reinforce",
"reenforce",
"strengthen",
"maximize"
],
"near antonyms":[
"detach",
"disconnect",
"disjoin",
"separate",
"unfasten",
"amputate",
"cut",
"excise",
"lop (off)",
"sever",
"contract",
"decrease",
"diminish",
"lessen",
"lower",
"reduce",
"abbreviate",
"abridge",
"curtail",
"shorten",
"compress",
"condense",
"constrict",
"cut back",
"retrench"
],
"antonyms":[
"abate",
"bate",
"deduct",
"knock off",
"remove",
"subtract",
"take off"
]
},
"type":[
"noun",
"verb"
]
},
"anyways":{
"in spite of everything":{
"examples":[
"I don't care what you say\u2014I'm going anyways !"
],
"synonyms":[
"anyhow",
"anyway",
"regardless",
"whatever"
],
"near synonyms":[
"after all",
"however",
"nevertheless",
"always"
],
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"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"adverb"
]
},
"anon":{
"at or within a short time":{
"examples":[
"be ready\u2014we will begin our Yuletide Boar's Head Feast anon"
],
"synonyms":[
"before long",
"by and by",
"directly",
"momentarily",
"presently",
"shortly",
"soon"
],
"near synonyms":[
"forthwith",
"immediately",
"incontinently",
"instantaneously",
"instantly",
"now",
"promptly",
"pronto",
"right away",
"right now",
"right off",
"straightaway",
"straightway"
],
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"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"adverb"
]
},
"animately":{
"in a quick and spirited manner":{
"examples":[
"began talking animately about her favorite subject: horses"
],
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"airily",
"animatedly",
"bouncily",
"buoyantly",
"gaily",
"gayly",
"high-spiritedly",
"livelily",
"lively",
"perkily",
"pertly",
"snappily",
"sparkily",
"spiritedly",
"sprightly",
"trippingly",
"vivaciously"
],
"near synonyms":[
"friskily",
"gamesomely",
"playfully",
"skittishly",
"sportively",
"briskly",
"crisply",
"effervescently",
"energetically",
"jazzily",
"racily",
"springily",
"breezily",
"cockily",
"dapperly",
"dashingly",
"jauntily",
"agilely",
"nimbly",
"spryly",
"allegro"
],
"near antonyms":[
"halfheartedly",
"idly",
"indolently",
"lazily",
"lethargically",
"slothfully",
"heavily",
"inactively",
"listlessly",
"tiredly",
"wearily"
],
"antonyms":[
"dully",
"inanimately",
"sluggishly",
"tardily"
]
},
"type":[
"adverb"
]
},
"angst":{
"a strong feeling of being worried or nervous":{
"examples":[
"a film about teenage angst"
],
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"near synonyms":[
"fearfulness",
"torment",
"upset",
"vexation",
"agita",
"agitation",
"anxiety",
"anxiousness",
"apprehension",
"apprehensiveness",
"care",
"concern",
"concernment",
"disquiet",
"disquietude",
"fear",
"nervosity",
"nervousness",
"perturbation",
"solicitude",
"sweat",
"unease",
"uneasiness",
"worry",
"strain",
"stress",
"tension",
"alarm",
"alarum",
"anguish",
"consternation",
"desperateness",
"desperation",
"discomfort",
"discomposure",
"dismay",
"distraction",
"distress",
"disturbance",
"edginess",
"franticness",
"hand-wringing",
"jitters",
"jumpiness",
"panic",
"tremor",
"cold feet",
"doubt",
"dread",
"foreboding",
"incertitude",
"misgiving",
"presentiment",
"suspense",
"uncertainty",
"compunction",
"qualm",
"scruple"
],
"near antonyms":[
"calm",
"calmness",
"content",
"contentment",
"ease",
"easiness",
"peace",
"peacefulness",
"placidity",
"placidness",
"quiet",
"quietude",
"sereneness",
"serenity",
"tranquillity",
"tranquility",
"tranquilness",
"comfort",
"consolation",
"relief",
"solace",
"unconcern"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"antisegregation":{
"as in antidiscrimination , antiracism":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"antidiscrimination",
"antiracism",
"assimilationism"
],
"near antonyms":[
"prejudice",
"racialism",
"racism",
"race-baiting",
"apartheid",
"Jim Crow",
"segregation",
"separatism"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"anti-utopian":{
"as in dystopian":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"dystopian",
"earthly",
"mundane",
"terrestrial",
"worldly",
"chthonic",
"chthonian",
"hellish",
"infernal",
"plutonian",
"sulfurous",
"Tartarean"
],
"near antonyms":[
"celestial",
"elysian",
"empyreal",
"empyrean",
"ethereal",
"heavenly",
"supernal",
"supernatural",
"transcendent",
"transcendental",
"unearthly",
"unworldly",
"angelic",
"angelical",
"beatific",
"blissful"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"as in naysayer , pragmatist":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"cynic",
"fatalist",
"nihilist",
"hardnose",
"pragmatist",
"realist",
"defeatist",
"pessimist",
"worrier",
"worrywart",
"knocker",
"naysayer",
"Cassandra",
"Jeremiah"
],
"near antonyms":[
"optimist",
"Pollyanna",
"Don Quixote",
"dreamer",
"fantast",
"idealist",
"idealizer",
"ideologue",
"idealogue",
"romantic",
"romanticist",
"utopian",
"visionary",
"sentimentalist"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"adjective",
"noun"
]
},
"annulments":{
"the doing away with something by formal action":{
"examples":[
"an annulment of that hastily conceived marriage can't come too soon"
],
"synonyms":[
"abatements",
"abolishments",
"abolitions",
"abrogations",
"avoidances",
"cancellations",
"cancelations",
"defeasances",
"dissolutions",
"invalidations",
"negations",
"nullifications",
"repeals",
"rescindments"
],
"near synonyms":[
"abortions",
"recalls",
"countermands",
"overrides",
"overturns",
"vetoes",
"retractions",
"reversals",
"revocations",
"suspensions",
"withdrawals",
"forbiddances",
"prohibitions",
"disallowances",
"dismissals",
"rejections",
"eliminations",
"eradications",
"erasures",
"liquidations",
"removals"
],
"near antonyms":[
"enactments",
"legislations",
"establishments",
"institutions",
"formalizations",
"legalizations",
"legitimations",
"legitimizations",
"validations",
"passings",
"ratifications",
"approvals",
"authorizations",
"clearances",
"endorsements",
"indorsements",
"permissions",
"commandments",
"orderings",
"prescriptions"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"antisocial":{
"having or showing a lack of friendliness or interest in others":{
"examples":[
"she's not antisocial , just extremely shy"
],
"synonyms":[
"aloof",
"asocial",
"buttoned-up",
"cold",
"cold-eyed",
"cool",
"detached",
"distant",
"dry",
"frosty",
"offish",
"remote",
"standoff",
"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"
]
},
"type":[
"adjective"
]
},
"anti-feminist":{
"as in bigot , misogynist":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"bigot",
"chauvinist",
"misandrist",
"misogynist",
"sexist",
"cynic",
"misanthrope",
"naysayer",
"pessimist",
"doubter",
"negativist",
"skeptic",
"belittler",
"critic",
"derider",
"detractor",
"scoffer",
"malcontent",
"defeatist"
],
"near antonyms":[
"egalitarian",
"feminist",
"optimist",
"positivist",
"idealist"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"antes":{
"the amount of money that is demanded as payment for something":{
"examples":[
"the base price is $500, but any additional repairs will up the ante"
],
"synonyms":[
"charges",
"costs",
"damages",
"fees",
"figures",
"freights",
"prices",
"price tags"
],
"near synonyms":[
"fair market values",
"market values",
"valuations",
"values",
"asking prices",
"list prices",
"sticker prices",
"price points",
"rates",
"tariffs",
"unit prices",
"carrying charges",
"overcharges",
"service charges",
"service fees",
"surcharges",
"deductions",
"discounts",
"markdowns",
"reductions",
"sales",
"deposits",
"down payments",
"accounts",
"bills",
"checks",
"invoices",
"tabs"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"animalizes":{
"to make (someone) feel or behave more like an animal than a human being":{
"examples":[
"six months of solitary living in the jungle would animalize anyone"
],
"synonyms":[
"bestializes",
"brutalizes",
"dehumanizes"
],
"near synonyms":[
"abases",
"corrupts",
"debauches",
"degrades",
"demeans",
"depraves",
"perverts",
"poisons",
"profanes",
"prostitutes",
"subverts",
"warps",
"contaminates",
"pollutes",
"taints",
"disgraces",
"humbles",
"humiliates"
],
"near antonyms":[
"dignifies",
"exalts",
"honors",
"amends",
"improves",
"cleanses",
"purifies",
"restores",
"respects",
"elevates",
"ennobles",
"uplifts"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"anesthetics":{
"something (as a drug) that relieves pain":{
"examples":[
"the dentist waited until the anesthetic took effect"
],
"synonyms":[
"analgesics",
"anodynes",
"painkillers"
],
"near synonyms":[
"sedatives",
"tranquilizers",
"tranquillizers",
"narcotics",
"opiates"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"something that soothes, calms, or induces passivity or a sense of security":{
"examples":[
"he used total immersion in his job as an anesthetic for the empty shell that his marriage had become"
],
"synonyms":[
"anodynes",
"narcotics",
"opiates"
],
"near synonyms":[
"security blankets",
"pacifiers",
"palliatives",
"hypnotics",
"sedatives",
"soporifics",
"tranquilizers",
"tranquillizers"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"anneal":{
"to make stronger (as through hardship)":{
"examples":[
"She was annealed by the tragedies of her childhood."
],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"temper",
"fortify",
"harden",
"indurate",
"inure",
"season",
"steel",
"strengthen",
"toughen",
"acclimate",
"acclimatize",
"adapt",
"adjust",
"invigorate",
"vitalize",
"immunize",
"bolster",
"boost",
"brace",
"buttress",
"enforce",
"forearm",
"prop (up)",
"reinforce",
"reenforce",
"support",
"break in",
"limber (up)",
"train",
"accustom",
"condition",
"habituate",
"naturalize"
],
"near antonyms":[
"enervate",
"enfeeble",
"exhaust",
"sap",
"weaken",
"cripple",
"debilitate",
"hamstring",
"incapacitate",
"sensitize",
"soften"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"antonymous":{
"as in antonymic":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"antonymic",
"different",
"disparate",
"dissimilar",
"distant",
"distinct",
"distinctive",
"distinguishable",
"diverse",
"nonidentical",
"other",
"unalike",
"unlike",
"antipodal",
"antipodean",
"antithetical",
"contradictory",
"contrary",
"diametric",
"diametrical",
"opposite",
"polar",
"differentiable",
"discriminable"
],
"near antonyms":[
"akin",
"alike",
"analogous",
"comparable",
"coordinate",
"correspondent",
"corresponding",
"equivalent",
"like",
"look-alike",
"matching",
"parallel",
"similar",
"such",
"suchlike",
"synonymous",
"tantamount",
"coequal",
"duplicate",
"equal",
"even",
"identical",
"indistinguishable",
"same",
"cognate",
"connate",
"ditto",
"resemblant",
"resembling"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"adjective"
]
},
"anteceding":{
"to go or come before in time":{
"examples":[
"the 19th-century Pre-Raphaelites claimed to base their principles and practices on the Italian art that anteceded Raphael and other masters of the High Renaissance"
],
"synonyms":[
"antedating",
"foregoing",
"preceding",
"predating",
"preexisting"
],
"near synonyms":[],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[
"following",
"postdating",
"succeeding"
]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"analysts":{
"as in commentators , columnists":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"annotators",
"columnists",
"commentators",
"observers",
"critics",
"pundits",
"reviewers",
"appraisers",
"evaluators",
"judges",
"referees"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"any":{
"being one of a group":{
"examples":[
"any person who comes in the store today is eligible for the discount"
],
"synonyms":[
"each",
"every"
],
"near synonyms":[
"all",
"several",
"various",
"particular",
"respective",
"specific",
"either"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"adjective"
]
},
"annunciate":{
"to make known openly or publicly":{
"examples":[
"a politician is wise to annunciate past minor transgressions before the media make something major of them"
],
"synonyms":[
"advertise",
"announce",
"blare",
"blaze",
"blazon",
"broadcast",
"declare",
"enunciate",
"flash",
"give out",
"herald",
"placard",
"post",
"proclaim",
"promulgate",
"publicize",
"publish",
"release",
"sound",
"trumpet"
],
"near synonyms":[
"bark",
"call (off or out)",
"cry",
"bill",
"billboard",
"bulletin",
"gazette",
"knell",
"ring",
"toll",
"blurb",
"feature",
"pitch",
"plug",
"promote",
"puff",
"disseminate",
"spread",
"disclose",
"divulge",
"introduce",
"kithe",
"manifest",
"report",
"reveal",
"show",
"advise",
"apprise",
"hand down",
"inform",
"notify",
"communicate",
"impart",
"intimate"
],
"near antonyms":[
"conceal",
"hush (up)",
"silence",
"suppress",
"withhold",
"recall",
"recant",
"retract",
"revoke"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"annunciated":{
"to make known openly or publicly":{
"examples":[
"a politician is wise to annunciate past minor transgressions before the media make something major of them"
],
"synonyms":[
"advertised",
"announced",
"blared",
"blazed",
"blazoned",
"broadcast",
"broadcasted",
"declared",
"enunciated",
"flashed",
"gave out",
"heralded",
"placarded",
"posted",
"proclaimed",
"promulgated",
"publicized",
"published",
"released",
"sounded",
"trumpeted"
],
"near synonyms":[
"barked",
"called (off or out)",
"cried",
"billboarded",
"billed",
"bulletined",
"gazetted",
"knelled",
"rang",
"tolled",
"blurbed",
"featured",
"pitched",
"plugged",
"promoted",
"puffed",
"disseminated",
"spread",
"disclosed",
"divulged",
"introduced",
"kithed",
"kythed",
"manifested",
"reported",
"revealed",
"showed",
"advised",
"apprised",
"handed down",
"informed",
"notified",
"communicated",
"imparted",
"intimated"
],
"near antonyms":[
"concealed",
"hushed (up)",
"silenced",
"suppressed",
"withheld",
"recalled",
"recanted",
"retracted",
"revoked"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"announces":{
"to make known openly or publicly":{
"examples":[
"the excited coworker announced to everyone within hearing distance that she and her husband were expecting"
],
"synonyms":[
"advertises",
"annunciates",
"blares",
"blazes",
"blazons",
"broadcasts",
"declares",
"enunciates",
"flashes",
"gives out",
"heralds",
"placards",
"posts",
"proclaims",
"promulgates",
"publicizes",
"publishes",
"releases",
"sounds",
"trumpets"
],
"near synonyms":[
"barks",
"calls (off or out)",
"cries",
"billboards",
"bills",
"bulletins",
"gazettes",
"knells",
"rings",
"tolls",
"blurbs",
"features",
"pitches",
"plugs",
"promotes",
"puffs",
"disseminates",
"spreads",
"discloses",
"divulges",
"introduces",
"kithes",
"manifests",
"reports",
"reveals",
"shows",
"advises",
"apprises",
"hands down",
"informs",
"notifies",
"communicates",
"imparts",
"intimates"
],
"near antonyms":[
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"hushes (up)",
"silences",
"suppresses",
"withholds",
"recalls",
"recants",
"retracts",
"revokes"
],
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},
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"verb"
]
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"old-time",
"old-world",
"common",
"habitual",
"orthodox",
"usual",
"aged",
"age-old",
"ancient",
"antediluvian",
"hoary",
"old",
"venerable",
"authentic",
"established",
"fixed",
"historical",
"ageless",
"dateless",
"immemorial",
"timeless",
"classical",
"conventional",
"customary",
"prescriptive",
"traditional"
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"nontraditional",
"unconventional",
"uncustomary",
"untraditional",
"contemporary",
"current",
"modern",
"modernized",
"new",
"new age",
"present-day",
"updated",
"up-to-date",
"futuristic",
"high-tech",
"hi-tech",
"hot",
"latest",
"mod",
"modernistic",
"newfangled",
"new-fashioned",
"red-hot",
"space-age",
"state-of-the-art",
"supermodern",
"ultramodern",
"nonconformist",
"nonorthodox",
"original",
"progressive",
"revolutionary",
"unorthodox",
"unprecedented",
"unusual"
],
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},
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"adjective"
]
},
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"at the present time":{
"examples":[
"they don't sell that kind of sandwich anymore"
],
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"currently",
"now",
"nowadays",
"presently",
"right now",
"today"
],
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"here"
],
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"away",
"far",
"farthest",
"remotest",
"heretofore",
"hitherto",
"since",
"ago",
"previously"
],
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"before",
"formerly",
"long",
"once",
"then"
]
},
"type":[
"adverb"
]
},
"antiquarian":{
"as in bookseller , bibliopole":{
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"bibliopole",
"bookseller",
"bookworm",
"bibliopegist",
"bookbinder",
"bookmaker",
"bibliolater",
"bibliomaniac",
"bibliophile",
"bookman"
],
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"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"analyzable":{
"as in decipherable":{
"examples":[],
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"near synonyms":[
"decipherable",
"answerable",
"explainable",
"explicable",
"resolvable",
"soluble",
"solvable",
"feasible",
"workable"
],
"near antonyms":[
"hopeless",
"inexplicable",
"insoluble",
"insolvable",
"unexplainable",
"unresolvable",
"unsolvable",
"difficult",
"inextricable",
"knotty",
"impossible",
"insuperable",
"absurd",
"fantastic",
"fantastical",
"outlandish",
"preposterous",
"ridiculous"
],
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},
"type":[
"adjective"
]
},
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"an uneasy state of mind usually over the possibility of an anticipated misfortune or trouble":{
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"don't be overcome with anxiousness about things that may never happen"
],
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"agitation",
"anxiety",
"apprehension",
"apprehensiveness",
"care",
"concern",
"concernment",
"disquiet",
"disquietude",
"fear",
"nervosity",
"nervousness",
"perturbation",
"solicitude",
"sweat",
"unease",
"uneasiness",
"worry"
],
"near synonyms":[
"strain",
"stress",
"tension",
"alarm",
"alarum",
"anguish",
"consternation",
"desperateness",
"desperation",
"discomfort",
"discomposure",
"dismay",
"distraction",
"distress",
"disturbance",
"edginess",
"franticness",
"hand-wringing",
"jitters",
"jumpiness",
"panic",
"tremor",
"angst",
"fearfulness",
"torment",
"upset",
"vexation",
"cold feet",
"doubt",
"dread",
"foreboding",
"incertitude",
"misgiving",
"presentiment",
"suspense",
"uncertainty",
"compunction",
"qualm",
"scruple"
],
"near antonyms":[
"calm",
"calmness",
"content",
"contentment",
"ease",
"easiness",
"peace",
"peacefulness",
"placidity",
"placidness",
"quiet",
"quietude",
"sereneness",
"serenity",
"tranquillity",
"tranquility",
"tranquilness",
"comfort",
"consolation",
"relief",
"solace"
],
"antonyms":[
"unconcern"
]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"antimacho":{
"as in feminine , womanlike":{
"examples":[],
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"near synonyms":[
"feminine",
"girlie",
"girly",
"girlish",
"womanlike",
"womanly",
"effeminate",
"effete",
"epicene",
"sissified",
"sissy",
"unmanly",
"womanish",
"old-maidish",
"overnice",
"prissy",
"spinsterish",
"dandyish",
"dudish",
"foppish",
"sappy",
"camp",
"campy"
],
"near antonyms":[
"manlike",
"manly",
"mannish",
"masculine",
"virile"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"adjective"
]
},
"angler":{
"as in trawler , troller":{
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"near synonyms":[
"fly fisherman",
"giller",
"surf caster",
"trawler",
"trawlerman",
"troller",
"fisherfolk",
"fisherwoman",
"waterman",
"fisher",
"fisherman"
],
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"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"ana":{
"as in garland , almanac":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"almanac",
"analects",
"chapbook",
"digest",
"garland",
"symposium",
"album",
"anthology",
"collectanea",
"compendium",
"compilation",
"florilegium",
"miscellany",
"reader",
"casebook",
"sourcebook",
"archives",
"corpus",
"library",
"miscellanea"
],
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"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
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"having passed its time of use or usefulness":{
"examples":[
"saw an antiquated hand-cranked rope-making machine at the textiles museum"
],
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"archaic",
"dated",
"d\u00e9mod\u00e9",
"demoded",
"fossilized",
"kaput",
"kaputt",
"medieval",
"mediaeval",
"moribund",
"mossy",
"moth-eaten",
"neolithic",
"Noachian",
"obsolete",
"out-of-date",
"outdated",
"outmoded",
"outworn",
"pass\u00e9",
"prehistoric",
"prehistorical",
"rusty",
"Stone Age",
"superannuated"
],
"near synonyms":[
"aging",
"ageing",
"obsolescent",
"discarded",
"disused",
"inoperable",
"unusable",
"unworkable",
"useless",
"dead",
"defunct",
"expired",
"extinct",
"vanished",
"dormant",
"fallow",
"free",
"idle",
"inactive",
"inert",
"inoperative",
"latent",
"ancient",
"antediluvian",
"antique",
"dateless",
"fusty",
"musty",
"old",
"oldfangled",
"old-fashioned",
"old-time",
"retro",
"vintage",
"aged",
"age-old",
"hoary",
"venerable",
"atavistic",
"bygone",
"erstwhile",
"former",
"historic",
"historical",
"late",
"old-world",
"past"
],
"near antonyms":[
"contemporary",
"current",
"mod",
"modern",
"new",
"newfangled",
"new-fashioned",
"present-day",
"recent",
"ultramodern",
"up-to-date",
"up-to-the-minute",
"fresh",
"modernized",
"refurbished",
"remodeled",
"renewed",
"functional",
"operable",
"operational",
"workable",
"active",
"alive",
"busy",
"employed",
"functioning",
"operating",
"operative"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"adjective"
]
},
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"the separation and identification of the parts of a whole":{
"examples":[
"a minutely detailed anatomy of the \"perfect crime\""
],
"synonyms":[
"analyses",
"assays",
"breakdowns",
"deconstructions",
"dissections"
],
"near synonyms":[
"assessments",
"diagnoses",
"evaluations",
"examinations",
"inspections",
"investigations",
"musters",
"scrutinies",
"arrangements",
"assortments",
"categorizations",
"classifications",
"codifications",
"indexings",
"enumerations",
"inventories",
"itemizations",
"tabulations",
"divisions",
"reductions",
"segmentations",
"separations",
"subdivisions"
],
"near antonyms":[
"agglomerations",
"aggregations",
"amalgamations",
"assimilations",
"coalescences",
"conglomerations",
"consolidations",
"integrations",
"syntheses",
"unifications"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"anybody":{
"as in anyone":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"anyone",
"all",
"everybody",
"everyone",
"somebody",
"someone"
],
"near antonyms":[
"nobody",
"none",
"no one"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"pronoun"
]
},
"anonymities":{
"the quality or state of being mostly or completely unknown":{
"examples":[
"oddly enough we like the anonymity of being a part of an enormous crowd"
],
"synonyms":[
"facelessness",
"namelessness",
"nowhere",
"nowheresville",
"obscurity",
"silence"
],
"near synonyms":[
"oblivion",
"inconspicuousness",
"invisibility",
"invisibleness",
"insignificance",
"unpopularity"
],
"near antonyms":[
"character",
"mark",
"name",
"note",
"rep",
"report",
"reputation",
"repute",
"favor",
"popularity",
"importance",
"significance",
"distinction",
"eminence",
"glory",
"greatness",
"honor",
"illustriousness",
"note",
"preeminence",
"prominence",
"megastardom",
"superstardom",
"cachet",
"kudos",
"position",
"prestige",
"rank",
"standing",
"stature",
"acclaim",
"acknowledgment",
"acknowledgement",
"praise",
"recognition",
"adoration",
"idolization"
],
"antonyms":[
"celebrity",
"fame",
"notoriety",
"renown"
]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"anadem":{
"as in tiara":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"tiara",
"chaplet",
"coronal",
"coronel",
"coronet",
"crown",
"diadem",
"garland",
"laurel"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"antidepressant":{
"as in antianxiety , antistress":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"antianxiety",
"antidepression",
"antistress",
"analgesic",
"anesthetic",
"anodyne",
"deadening",
"depressant",
"numbing",
"hypnotic",
"opiate",
"calming",
"comforting",
"dreamy",
"lulling",
"narcotic",
"pacifying",
"quieting",
"relaxing",
"sedative",
"soothing",
"tranquilizing",
"tranquillizing"
],
"near antonyms":[
"painful",
"stressful",
"tiresome",
"troubling",
"trying",
"unsettling",
"worrisome",
"energizing",
"invigorating",
"stimulant",
"stimulating",
"aggravating",
"annoying",
"bothersome",
"disturbing",
"exasperating",
"frustrating",
"galling",
"grating",
"harassing",
"irksome",
"irritating",
"maddening",
"nettlesome",
"troublesome",
"vexatious",
"vexing"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"adjective"
]
},
"antidotal":{
"as in counterbalancing , counteractive":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"counteractive",
"counterbalancing",
"beneficial",
"helpful",
"salutary",
"wholesome",
"reparative",
"restorative",
"curative",
"medicinal",
"therapeutic",
"amendatory",
"corrective",
"rectifying",
"reformative",
"reformatory",
"remedial",
"remedying"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"adjective"
]
},
"annalist":{
"a student or writer of history":{
"examples":[
"a new book by America's best-known annalist of the Civil War"
],
"synonyms":[
"chronicler",
"historian"
],
"near synonyms":[
"autobiographer",
"biographer",
"archivist",
"chronologist",
"genealogist",
"hagiographer"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"annunciations":{
"as in declarations , proclamations":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"declarations",
"edicts",
"proclamations",
"promulgations",
"pronouncements",
"pronunciamentos",
"pronunciamentoes",
"rescripts",
"significations",
"bulls",
"decrees",
"diktats",
"directives",
"edicts",
"fiats",
"rescripts",
"rulings",
"ukases",
"statements",
"utterances",
"ads",
"advertisements",
"adverts",
"announcements",
"bulletins",
"communiqu\u00e9s",
"notices",
"notifications",
"postings",
"releases",
"broadcasts",
"cablecasts",
"newscasts",
"telecasts",
"advertisings",
"billings",
"blurbs",
"come-ons",
"commercials",
"messages",
"pitches",
"plugolas",
"spots",
"words",
"communications",
"dispatches",
"reports",
"ballyhoos",
"boosts",
"buildups",
"campaigns",
"plugs",
"promos",
"promotions",
"propagandas",
"publicities"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"anthropic":{
"as in anthropocentric":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"anthropocentric",
"unspiritual",
"daily",
"diurnal",
"animal",
"bodily",
"corporal",
"corporeal",
"physical",
"carnal",
"earthborn",
"earthbound",
"earthly",
"fleshly",
"material",
"mundane",
"sublunary",
"temporal",
"terrene",
"terrestrial",
"worldly"
],
"near antonyms":[
"heavenly",
"nontemporal",
"unearthly",
"unworldly",
"celestial",
"Elysian",
"empyreal",
"empyrean",
"supernal",
"metaphysical",
"devotional",
"divine",
"religious",
"sacred",
"spiritual",
"utopian",
"ethereal",
"supernatural",
"transcendent",
"transcendental"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"adjective"
]
},
"annihilating":{
"to destroy all traces of":{
"examples":[
"the family's attempts to annihilate the roach population in their apartment had met with little success"
],
"synonyms":[
"abolishing",
"blacking out",
"blotting out",
"canceling",
"cancelling",
"cleaning (up)",
"effacing",
"eradicating",
"erasing",
"expunging",
"exterminating",
"extirpating",
"liquidating",
"obliterating",
"rooting (out)",
"rubbing out",
"snuffing (out)",
"stamping (out)",
"sweeping (away)",
"wiping out"
],
"near synonyms":[
"decimating",
"demolishing",
"destroying",
"devastating",
"ravaging",
"dismantling",
"flattening",
"mowing (down)",
"razing",
"tearing down",
"ruining",
"totaling",
"totalling",
"wasting",
"wrecking",
"blasting",
"blowing up",
"dashing",
"dynamiting",
"smashing",
"atomizing",
"consuming",
"devouring",
"dissolving",
"fragmenting",
"powdering",
"pulverizing",
"shattering",
"splintering",
"dooming",
"finishing",
"killing",
"killing off",
"terminating",
"zapping",
"cutting",
"discarding",
"ditching",
"ejecting",
"excising",
"expelling",
"jettisoning",
"ousting",
"throwing out"
],
"near antonyms":[
"conserving",
"preserving",
"protecting",
"saving",
"building",
"constructing",
"creating",
"fabricating",
"fashioning",
"forging",
"forming",
"framing",
"making",
"manufacturing",
"shaping",
"fixing",
"mending",
"patching",
"rebuilding",
"reconditioning",
"reconstructing",
"renewing",
"renovating",
"repairing",
"restoring",
"revamping"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to bring to a complete end the physical soundness, existence, or usefulness of":{
"examples":[
"the tornado simply annihilated the family's home"
],
"synonyms":[
"creaming",
"decimating",
"demolishing",
"desolating",
"destroying",
"devastating",
"doing in",
"extinguishing",
"nuking",
"pulling down",
"pulverizing",
"razing",
"rubbing out",
"ruining",
"shattering",
"smashing",
"tearing down",
"totaling",
"totalling",
"vaporizing",
"wasting",
"wracking",
"wrecking"
],
"near synonyms":[
"beating",
"besting",
"clobbering",
"conquering",
"crushing",
"defeating",
"drubbing",
"licking",
"mastering",
"overbearing",
"overcoming",
"overmatching",
"prevailing (over)",
"routing",
"scotching",
"skunking",
"subduing",
"surmounting",
"thrashing",
"trimming",
"triumphing (over)",
"trouncing",
"walloping",
"whipping",
"winning (against)",
"blasting",
"blowing up",
"breaking",
"crippling",
"damaging",
"defacing",
"deteriorating",
"disfiguring",
"disintegrating",
"dissolving",
"dynamiting",
"harming",
"impairing",
"injuring",
"mangling",
"marring",
"mutilating",
"spoiling",
"vitiating",
"eroding",
"scouring",
"sweeping (away)",
"washing out",
"wearing (away)",
"dilapidating",
"disassembling",
"dismantling",
"gutting",
"taking down",
"unbuilding",
"undoing",
"unmaking",
"blotting out",
"effacing",
"eradicating",
"expunging",
"exterminating",
"extirpating",
"liquidating",
"obliterating",
"removing",
"rooting (out)",
"snuffing (out)",
"stamping (out)",
"wiping out",
"despoiling",
"havocking",
"looting",
"pillaging",
"plundering",
"ravaging",
"sacking",
"trampling",
"trashing",
"vandalizing",
"assassinating",
"butchering",
"cutting down",
"dispatching",
"executing",
"felling",
"killing",
"killing off",
"massacring",
"mowing (down)",
"murdering",
"slaughtering",
"slaying",
"taking out",
"zapping"
],
"near antonyms":[
"doctoring",
"fixing",
"mending",
"patching",
"reconditioning",
"repairing",
"revamping",
"creating",
"inventing",
"assembling",
"fabricating",
"fashioning",
"forging",
"forming",
"framing",
"making",
"manufacturing",
"molding",
"producing",
"shaping",
"bringing about",
"constituting",
"establishing",
"fathering",
"founding",
"instituting",
"organizing",
"conserving",
"preserving",
"protecting",
"saving",
"rebuilding",
"reconstructing",
"remodeling",
"renovating",
"restoring"
],
"antonyms":[
"building",
"constructing",
"erecting",
"putting up",
"raising",
"rearing",
"setting up"
]
},
"to defeat by a large margin":{
"examples":[
"we didn't just win; we absolutely annihilated them!"
],
"synonyms":[
"blowing away",
"bombing",
"burying",
"clobbering",
"creaming",
"drubbing",
"dusting",
"flattening",
"pasting",
"routing",
"shellacking",
"skinning",
"skunking",
"smoking",
"smothering",
"snowing under",
"thrashing",
"trimming",
"tromping",
"trouncing",
"walloping",
"waxing",
"whipping",
"whomping",
"whopping",
"whapping",
"whupping"
],
"near synonyms":[
"sweeping",
"upsetting",
"beating",
"besting",
"conquering",
"dispatching",
"hurdling",
"licking",
"mastering",
"overbearing",
"overcoming",
"overmatching",
"prevailing (over)",
"subduing",
"surmounting",
"taking",
"throwing",
"triumphing (over)",
"winning (against)",
"worsting",
"crushing",
"knocking off",
"knocking over",
"overpowering",
"overthrowing",
"overwhelming",
"subjugating",
"upending",
"vanquishing",
"acing (out)",
"bettering",
"eclipsing",
"exceeding",
"outdistancing",
"outdoing",
"outfighting",
"outshining",
"outstripping",
"overtopping",
"surpassing",
"topping",
"transcending",
"edging (out)",
"nosing out",
"pipping",
"capping",
"excelling",
"flourishing",
"scoring",
"succeeding",
"breaking",
"destroying",
"doing in",
"finishing",
"sinking",
"slaughtering"
],
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},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"anthologize":{
"to bring together from several sources into a single volume or list":{
"examples":[
"anthologized an impressive array of essays championing freedom of the press"
],
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"collect",
"compile"
],
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"edit",
"recompile",
"redact",
"redraft",
"reedit",
"revamp",
"revise",
"rework",
"accumulate",
"amass",
"assemble",
"collate",
"gather",
"group"
],
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"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"animallike":{
"as in barbaric , uncivilized":{
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"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"barbaric",
"barbarous",
"uncivilized",
"graceless",
"inelegant",
"tacky",
"mannerless",
"unmannered",
"unmannerly",
"countrified",
"countryfied",
"provincial",
"rustic",
"rustical",
"unsophisticated",
"inconsiderate",
"indelicate",
"insensitive",
"thoughtless",
"clumsy",
"lubberly",
"lumpish",
"oafish",
"boorish",
"churlish",
"cloddish",
"clownish",
"loutish",
"ungentlemanly",
"coarse",
"common",
"crass",
"crude",
"gross",
"ill-bred",
"illiberal",
"incult",
"insensible",
"low",
"lowbred",
"lowbrow",
"raffish",
"rough",
"rough-hewn",
"roughneck",
"rude",
"rugged",
"tasteless",
"uncouth",
"uncultivated",
"uncultured",
"unpolished",
"unrefined",
"vulgar"
],
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"civilized",
"cultivated",
"cultured",
"genteel",
"polished",
"refined",
"smooth",
"tasteful",
"ultrarefined",
"well-bred",
"aristocratic",
"courtly",
"patrician",
"elegant",
"graceful",
"restrained",
"considerate",
"gracious",
"sensitive",
"thoughtful",
"citified",
"sophisticated",
"urbane"
],
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},
"type":[
"adjective"
]
},
"anarchic":{
"not restrained by or under the control of legal authority":{
"examples":[
"the citywide blackouts caused anarchic looting and rioting"
],
"synonyms":[
"disorderly",
"lawbreaking",
"lawless",
"unruly"
],
"near synonyms":[
"defiant",
"insubordinate",
"mutinous",
"rebellious",
"refractory",
"riotous",
"undisciplined",
"criminal",
"felonious",
"illegal",
"illegitimate",
"illicit",
"unlawful",
"wrongful",
"disobedient",
"froward",
"intractable",
"recalcitrant"
],
"near antonyms":[
"lawful",
"legal",
"legalized",
"legitimate",
"amenable",
"compliant",
"docile",
"obedient",
"submissive",
"tractable"
],
"antonyms":[
"law-abiding",
"orderly"
]
},
"type":[
"adjective"
]
},
"answerabilities":{
"willingness or obligation to explain one's actions or to admit being the cause of a problem":{
"examples":[
"Without any answerability to the people, the despot's actions were motivated by a desire for personal enrichment."
],
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"near synonyms":[
"accountability",
"blame",
"fault",
"liability",
"responsibility"
],
"near antonyms":[
"unaccountability"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"being the one who must meet an obligation or suffer the consequences for failing to do so":{
"examples":[
"you are answerable for your own conduct at all times"
],
"synonyms":[
"accountable",
"amenable",
"liable",
"responsible"
],
"near synonyms":[
"beholden",
"indebted",
"obligated",
"obliged"
],
"near antonyms":[
"exempt",
"immune"
],
"antonyms":[
"irresponsible",
"nonaccountable",
"unaccountable"
]
},
"capable of having the reason for or cause of determined":{
"examples":[
"they say this equation is not answerable"
],
"synonyms":[
"explainable",
"explicable",
"resolvable",
"soluble",
"solvable"
],
"near synonyms":[
"analyzable",
"decipherable",
"feasible",
"workable"
],
"near antonyms":[
"difficult",
"inextricable",
"knotty",
"impossible",
"insuperable",
"absurd",
"fantastic",
"fantastical",
"outlandish",
"preposterous",
"ridiculous"
],
"antonyms":[
"hopeless",
"inexplicable",
"insoluble",
"insolvable",
"unexplainable",
"unresolvable",
"unsolvable"
]
},
"type":[
"adjective",
"noun"
]
},
"ancestress":{
"as in grandmother , matriarch":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"foremother",
"grandmother",
"matriarch",
"ancestor",
"forebear",
"forbear",
"forebearer",
"forefather",
"grandfather",
"primogenitor",
"progenitor",
"antecessor",
"predecessor",
"grandsire",
"patriarch",
"sire",
"ancestry",
"antecedents",
"roots"
],
"near antonyms":[
"children",
"family",
"issue",
"lineage",
"offspring",
"posterity",
"progeny",
"seed",
"stock",
"daughter",
"heir",
"inheritor",
"scion",
"son",
"successor",
"descendant",
"descendent"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"angers":{
"to make angry":{
"examples":[
"it's virtually impossible to anger Mrs. Peterson\u2014she's the most easygoing person I've ever known"
],
"synonyms":[
"enrages",
"incenses",
"inflames",
"enflames",
"infuriates",
"ires",
"maddens",
"mads",
"outrages",
"rankles",
"riles",
"roils",
"steams up",
"ticks off"
],
"near synonyms":[
"affronts",
"aggravates",
"annoys",
"burns (up)",
"crosses",
"exasperates",
"gets",
"huffs",
"irritates",
"miffs",
"nettles",
"offends",
"peeves",
"piques",
"provokes",
"puts out",
"ruffles",
"vexes",
"antagonizes",
"embitters",
"envenoms"
],
"near antonyms":[
"allays",
"assuages",
"relieves",
"comforts",
"consoles",
"soothes",
"appeases",
"conciliates",
"mollifies",
"pacifies",
"placates",
"calms",
"lulls",
"quiets",
"settles",
"beguiles",
"bewitches",
"captivates",
"charms",
"disarms",
"enchants"
],
"antonyms":[
"delights",
"gratifies",
"pleases"
]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"anas":{
"as in garland , almanac":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"almanac",
"analects",
"chapbook",
"digest",
"garland",
"symposium",
"album",
"anthology",
"collectanea",
"compendium",
"compilation",
"florilegium",
"miscellany",
"reader",
"casebook",
"sourcebook",
"archives",
"corpus",
"library",
"miscellanea"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"anneals":{
"to make stronger (as through hardship)":{
"examples":[
"She was annealed by the tragedies of her childhood."
],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"tempers",
"fortifies",
"hardens",
"indurates",
"inures",
"seasons",
"steels",
"strengthens",
"toughens",
"acclimates",
"acclimatizes",
"adapts",
"adjusts",
"invigorates",
"vitalizes",
"immunizes",
"bolsters",
"boosts",
"braces",
"buttresses",
"enforces",
"forearms",
"props (up)",
"reinforces",
"reenforces",
"supports",
"breaks in",
"limbers (up)",
"trains",
"accustoms",
"conditions",
"habituates",
"naturalizes"
],
"near antonyms":[
"enervates",
"enfeebles",
"exhausts",
"saps",
"weakens",
"cripples",
"debilitates",
"hamstrings",
"incapacitates",
"sensitizes",
"softens"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"anklets":{
"as in bobby socks , bootees":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"bobby socks",
"bootees",
"kneesocks",
"support hoses",
"hosieries",
"hose",
"hoses",
"socks",
"stockings"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"anacondas":{
"as in pythons , boas":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"adders",
"asps",
"black racers",
"blacksnakes",
"blue racers",
"boas",
"bull snakes",
"bushmasters",
"chicken snakes",
"cobras",
"constrictors",
"copperheads",
"coral snakes",
"cottonmouth moccasins",
"diamondback rattlesnakes",
"fer-de-lance",
"garter snakes",
"gopher snakes",
"green snakes",
"hognose snakes",
"horned vipers",
"indigo snakes",
"king cobras",
"king snakes",
"kraits",
"mambas",
"milk snakes",
"moccasins",
"pine snakes",
"pit vipers",
"puff adders",
"pythons",
"racers",
"rat snakes",
"rattlesnakes",
"sea serpents",
"sea snakes",
"sidewinders",
"taipans",
"water moccasins",
"water snakes",
"worm snakes",
"serpents",
"snakes",
"vipers"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"anarchism":{
"a situation of confused and wild behavior in which the people in a country, group, organization, etc., are not controlled by rules or laws":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"commotion",
"tumult",
"uproar",
"anarchy",
"lawlessness",
"misrule",
"chaos",
"confusion",
"disarray",
"disorder",
"disorderliness",
"disorganization",
"misorder",
"disruption",
"disturbance",
"havoc",
"riot",
"strife",
"turbulence",
"turmoil",
"unrest",
"upheaval",
"mutiny",
"rebellion",
"revolution",
"uprising",
"criminality",
"outlawry"
],
"near antonyms":[
"law",
"law-abidingness",
"lawfulness",
"legality",
"legitimacy",
"rule",
"calmness",
"harmony",
"order",
"orderliness",
"peace",
"peaceableness",
"peacefulness",
"quiet",
"tranquillity",
"tranquility"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"anadems":{
"as in tiaras":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"tiaras",
"chaplets",
"coronals",
"coronels",
"coronets",
"crowns",
"diadems",
"garlands",
"laurels"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"anticipating":{
"to believe in the future occurrence of (something)":{
"examples":[
"I anticipate that we'll be seeing you for New Year's"
],
"synonyms":[
"awaiting",
"expecting",
"hoping (for)",
"watching (for)"
],
"near synonyms":[
"banking on",
"counting (on or upon)",
"depending (on or upon)",
"relying (on or upon)",
"waiting (for)",
"envisaging",
"envisioning",
"foreseeing",
"foretelling",
"predicting",
"prophesying",
"assuming",
"presuming",
"presupposing",
"contemplating",
"eyeing",
"eying",
"viewing"
],
"near antonyms":[
"doubting",
"questioning"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to realize or know about beforehand":{
"examples":[
"I anticipated this unhelpful response"
],
"synonyms":[
"divining",
"forefeeling",
"foreknowing",
"foreseeing",
"previsioning"
],
"near synonyms":[
"auguring",
"forecasting",
"foretelling",
"predicting",
"presaging",
"prognosticating",
"prophesying",
"envisaging",
"envisioning",
"foreshadowing",
"prefiguring",
"visualizing",
"alerting",
"cautioning",
"foretokening",
"forewarning",
"previewing",
"descrying",
"discerning",
"perceiving",
"apprehending",
"dreading",
"fearing"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"analogizing":{
"to describe as similar":{
"examples":[
"analogized the White House scandal to a cancer that was spreading to every internal organ of the body"
],
"synonyms":[
"assimilating",
"bracketing",
"comparing",
"equating",
"likening"
],
"near synonyms":[
"associating",
"connecting",
"coupling",
"linking",
"alluding",
"referring",
"relating",
"equaling",
"equalling",
"matching",
"paralleling"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[
"contrasting"
]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"analogizes":{
"to describe as similar":{
"examples":[
"analogized the White House scandal to a cancer that was spreading to every internal organ of the body"
],
"synonyms":[
"assimilates",
"brackets",
"compares",
"equates",
"likens"
],
"near synonyms":[
"associates",
"connects",
"couples",
"links",
"alludes",
"refers",
"relates",
"equals",
"matches",
"parallels"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[
"contrasts"
]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"animalism":{
"the manifestation of the traits or the gratification of the appetites of a lower animal":{
"examples":[
"without law and order, society would quickly devolve into a state of animalism"
],
"synonyms":[
"animality",
"beastliness",
"bestiality",
"brutality",
"brutishness",
"swinishness"
],
"near synonyms":[
"carnality",
"physicality",
"sensuality",
"boorishness",
"coarseness",
"crudeness",
"grossness",
"loutishness",
"rudeness",
"barbarity",
"cruelty",
"sadism",
"savagery",
"viciousness",
"wantonness"
],
"near antonyms":[
"intellectuality",
"spirituality",
"greatheartedness",
"high-mindedness",
"magnanimity",
"nobility",
"beneficence",
"benevolence",
"benignity",
"compassion",
"good-heartedness",
"kindheartedness",
"kindliness",
"kindness",
"tenderheartedness"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"anointment":{
"as in anointing , investiture":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"anointing",
"induction",
"installation",
"installment",
"instalment",
"instating",
"investiture",
"investment",
"ordination",
"authorization",
"delegation",
"deputation",
"emplacement",
"placement",
"ranking",
"choice",
"choosing",
"destination",
"election",
"nomination",
"picking",
"selection",
"singling (out)",
"billet",
"gig",
"job",
"office",
"place",
"position",
"situation",
"spot",
"station",
"appointment",
"assignment",
"commission",
"designation"
],
"near antonyms":[
"discharge",
"dismissal",
"dismission",
"expulsion",
"firing",
"blackball",
"rejection",
"deposition",
"dethronement",
"ejection",
"eviction",
"ouster",
"overthrow",
"removal"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"anti-intellectuals":{
"as in philistines , lowbrows":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"lowbrows",
"philistines",
"blockheads",
"dolts",
"dopes",
"dumbbells",
"dummies",
"dunces",
"fatheads",
"half-wits",
"imbeciles",
"morons",
"nitwits",
"pinheads",
"simpletons"
],
"near antonyms":[
"double-domes",
"geeks",
"highbrows",
"intellectualists",
"intellectuals",
"longhairs",
"nerds",
"blues",
"bluestockings",
"Brahmins",
"mandarins",
"sages"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"annoyingly":{
"as in distressingly , irritatingly":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"disgustingly",
"distressingly",
"irritatingly",
"vexingly",
"alack",
"alas",
"ay",
"wirra",
"woe",
"alarmingly",
"disturbingly",
"perturbingly",
"traumatically",
"unsettlingly",
"unhappily",
"unluckily",
"abominably",
"appallingly",
"awfully",
"dreadfully",
"horrendously",
"horribly",
"horridly",
"shockingly",
"sickeningly",
"terribly",
"vilely",
"lamentably",
"regrettably",
"sadly",
"tragically",
"unfortunately",
"badly",
"disagreeably",
"ill",
"unpleasantly"
],
"near antonyms":[
"blessedly",
"fortunately",
"happily",
"luckily",
"thankfully",
"advantageously",
"helpfully",
"excellently",
"superbly",
"marvelously",
"sensationally",
"wonderfully",
"agreeably",
"charmingly",
"delectably",
"deliciously",
"delightfully",
"dreamily",
"enchantingly",
"enjoyably",
"favorably",
"felicitously",
"fetchingly",
"gloriously",
"gratifyingly",
"great",
"nicely",
"palatably",
"pleasantly",
"pleasingly",
"pleasurably",
"prettily",
"satisfyingly",
"splendidly",
"sweetly",
"swimmingly",
"welcomely",
"well",
"winningly",
"finely",
"grandly",
"magnificently"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"adverb"
]
},
"anew":{
"yet another time":{
"examples":[
"junked what he had written and began the essay anew"
],
"synonyms":[
"afresh",
"again",
"de novo",
"over"
],
"near synonyms":[
"always",
"consistently",
"constantly",
"continuously",
"endlessly",
"ever",
"evermore",
"forever",
"incessantly",
"invariably",
"perpetually",
"unfailingly",
"continually",
"frequently",
"oft",
"often",
"oftentimes",
"ofttimes",
"recurrently",
"repeatedly",
"freshly",
"newly"
],
"near antonyms":[
"ne'er",
"never",
"infrequently",
"little",
"rarely",
"seldom",
"unusually",
"intermittently",
"occasionally",
"periodically",
"sometimes",
"sporadically"
],
"antonyms":[
"nevermore"
]
},
"type":[
"adverb"
]
},
"answering":{
"to speak or write in reaction to a question or to another reaction":{
"examples":[
"didn't answer right away when the detective asked him where he'd been for the last three hours"
],
"synonyms":[
"coming back",
"rejoining",
"replying",
"responding",
"retorting",
"returning",
"riposting"
],
"near synonyms":[
"acknowledging",
"commenting",
"communicating",
"corresponding",
"reacting",
"remarking",
"countering",
"defending",
"denying",
"explaining",
"fielding",
"rebutting",
"refuting"
],
"near antonyms":[
"challenging",
"cross-examining",
"examining",
"grilling",
"interrogating",
"pumping",
"quizzing",
"polling",
"querying",
"surveying"
],
"antonyms":[
"asking",
"inquiring",
"questioning"
]
},
"to be in agreement on every point":{
"examples":[
"sorry, I haven't seen anyone answering to that description"
],
"synonyms":[
"according",
"agreeing",
"checking",
"chording",
"cohering",
"coinciding",
"comporting",
"conforming",
"consisting",
"corresponding",
"dovetailing",
"fitting",
"going",
"harmonizing",
"jibing",
"rhyming",
"riming",
"sorting",
"squaring",
"tallying"
],
"near synonyms":[
"equaling",
"equalling",
"matching",
"paralleling",
"aligning",
"alining",
"lining up",
"registering"
],
"near antonyms":[
"contradicting",
"disputing",
"gainsaying",
"negating",
"nullifying",
"clashing",
"conflicting",
"jarring"
],
"antonyms":[
"differing (from)",
"disagreeing (with)"
]
},
"to do what is required by the terms of":{
"examples":[
"I don't have a box cutter as such, but will this knife answer the purpose?"
],
"synonyms":[
"completing",
"complying (with)",
"filling",
"fulfilling",
"keeping",
"meeting",
"redeeming",
"satisfying"
],
"near synonyms":[
"concluding",
"consummating",
"finalizing",
"finishing",
"perfecting",
"accomplishing",
"achieving",
"bringing about",
"bringing off",
"carrying out",
"effecting",
"committing",
"compassing",
"discharging",
"executing",
"following through (with)",
"making",
"performing"
],
"near antonyms":[
"defaulting (on)",
"disregarding",
"forgetting",
"ignoring",
"neglecting",
"overlooking",
"overpassing",
"passing over",
"slighting"
],
"antonyms":[
"breaching",
"breaking",
"transgressing",
"violating"
]
},
"to find an answer for through reasoning":{
"examples":[
"try to answer this riddle"
],
"synonyms":[
"breaking",
"cracking",
"doping (out)",
"figuring out",
"puzzling (out)",
"resolving",
"riddling (out)",
"solving",
"unraveling",
"unriddling",
"working",
"working out"
],
"near synonyms":[
"concluding",
"deciding",
"deducing",
"gathering",
"inferring",
"judging",
"reasoning",
"clearing (up)",
"ironing out",
"straightening (out)",
"unscrambling",
"untangling",
"untying",
"untieing",
"assuming",
"conjecturing",
"divining",
"guessing",
"presuming",
"speculating",
"deciphering",
"decoding"
],
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"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"anxiety":{
"an uneasy state of mind usually over the possibility of an anticipated misfortune or trouble":{
"examples":[
"Dorothy's anxiety about her brother's operation kept her awake all night"
],
"synonyms":[
"agita",
"agitation",
"anxiousness",
"apprehension",
"apprehensiveness",
"care",
"concern",
"concernment",
"disquiet",
"disquietude",
"fear",
"nervosity",
"nervousness",
"perturbation",
"solicitude",
"sweat",
"unease",
"uneasiness",
"worry"
],
"near synonyms":[
"strain",
"stress",
"tension",
"alarm",
"alarum",
"anguish",
"consternation",
"desperateness",
"desperation",
"discomfort",
"discomposure",
"dismay",
"distraction",
"distress",
"disturbance",
"edginess",
"franticness",
"hand-wringing",
"jitters",
"jumpiness",
"panic",
"tremor",
"angst",
"fearfulness",
"torment",
"upset",
"vexation",
"cold feet",
"doubt",
"dread",
"foreboding",
"incertitude",
"misgiving",
"presentiment",
"suspense",
"uncertainty",
"compunction",
"qualm",
"scruple"
],
"near antonyms":[
"calm",
"calmness",
"content",
"contentment",
"ease",
"easiness",
"peace",
"peacefulness",
"placidity",
"placidness",
"quiet",
"quietude",
"sereneness",
"serenity",
"tranquillity",
"tranquility",
"tranquilness",
"comfort",
"consolation",
"relief",
"solace"
],
"antonyms":[
"unconcern"
]
},
"the emotion experienced in the presence or threat of danger":{
"examples":[
"the newly discovered virus is creating considerable anxiety in the public at large"
],
"synonyms":[
"alarm",
"alarum",
"dread",
"fear",
"fearfulness",
"fright",
"horror",
"panic",
"scare",
"terror",
"trepidation"
],
"near synonyms":[
"phobia",
"creeps",
"jitters",
"nervousness",
"willies",
"pang",
"qualm",
"twinge",
"agitation",
"apprehension",
"consternation",
"discomposure",
"disquiet",
"funk",
"perturbation",
"concern",
"dismay",
"worry",
"cowardice",
"faintheartedness",
"timidity",
"timorousness"
],
"near antonyms":[
"aplomb",
"assurance",
"boldness",
"confidence",
"self-assurance",
"self-confidence",
"bravery",
"courage",
"courageousness",
"daring",
"dauntlessness",
"doughtiness",
"fearlessness",
"fortitude",
"gallantry",
"hardihood",
"intrepidity",
"intrepidness",
"stoutness",
"valor",
"audacity",
"guts",
"nerve"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"animals":{
"one of the lower animals as distinguished from human beings":{
"examples":[
"we saw a lot of animals at the wildlife refuge\u2014cranes, alligators, deer, a fox, even an armadillo"
],
"synonyms":[
"beasties",
"beasts",
"brutes",
"creatures",
"critters"
],
"near synonyms":[
"blasties",
"varmints",
"vermin",
"bipeds",
"quadrupeds",
"carnivores",
"herbivores",
"insectivores",
"invertebrates",
"vertebrates",
"domestic animals",
"pets",
"ferals",
"livestocks",
"stocks"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"angerless":{
"as in pleased , delighted":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"delighted",
"pleased",
"accepting",
"accommodating",
"obliging",
"agreeable",
"amenable",
"complaisant",
"amicable",
"cordial",
"friendly",
"content",
"happy",
"satisfied",
"empathetic",
"sympathetic",
"tolerant",
"understanding",
"calm",
"pacific",
"peaceable",
"placid",
"serene",
"tranquil",
"unembittered",
"affable",
"amiable",
"easygoing",
"genial",
"good-natured",
"good-tempered",
"kind",
"pleasant",
"sweet"
],
"near antonyms":[
"angered",
"angry",
"apoplectic",
"ballistic",
"cheesed off",
"choleric",
"enraged",
"foaming",
"fuming",
"furious",
"hopping",
"horn-mad",
"hot",
"incensed",
"indignant",
"inflamed",
"enflamed",
"infuriate",
"infuriated",
"irate",
"ireful",
"livid",
"mad",
"outraged",
"rabid",
"rankled",
"riled",
"riley",
"roiled",
"shirty",
"sore",
"steamed up",
"steaming",
"teed off",
"ticked",
"wrathful",
"wroth",
"ranting",
"raving",
"stormy",
"boiling",
"bristling",
"bristly",
"burning",
"cross",
"huffy",
"passionate",
"seething",
"sizzling",
"smoldering",
"smouldering",
"worked up",
"wrought (up)"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"adjective"
]
},
"anti-imperialist":{
"as in antimilitarist , unwarlike":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"antimilitarist",
"unwarlike",
"nonaggressive",
"nonbelligerent",
"pacific",
"peaceable",
"peaceful",
"unbelligerent",
"uncombative",
"uncontentious",
"affable",
"amiable",
"amicable",
"benevolent",
"complaisant",
"conciliatory",
"cordial",
"easygoing",
"friendly",
"genial",
"good-natured",
"good-tempered",
"gracious",
"ingratiating",
"kindhearted",
"obliging",
"pleasant",
"sociable",
"calm",
"quiet",
"relaxed",
"serene",
"tranquil",
"benign",
"gentle",
"kindly",
"mild"
],
"near antonyms":[
"aggressive",
"agonistic",
"argumentative",
"assaultive",
"bellicose",
"belligerent",
"brawly",
"chippy",
"combative",
"confrontational",
"contentious",
"discordant",
"disputatious",
"feisty",
"gladiatorial",
"militant",
"pugnacious",
"quarrelsome",
"scrappy",
"truculent",
"warlike",
"antagonistic",
"fierce",
"hostile",
"hot-tempered",
"acidic",
"bearish",
"bilious",
"bristly",
"choleric",
"crabby",
"cranky",
"cross",
"disagreeable",
"dyspeptic",
"fractious",
"fretful",
"grouchy",
"grumpy",
"huffy",
"ill-humored",
"ill-natured",
"ill-tempered",
"irascible",
"irritable",
"ornery",
"peevish",
"pettish",
"petulant",
"prickly",
"querulous",
"rude",
"snappish",
"snappy",
"stroppy",
"surly",
"testy",
"touchy",
"ugly",
"waspish"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"adjective"
]
},
"antiforeign":{
"as in anti-immigrant , xenophobic":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"anti-immigrant",
"nativist",
"nativistic",
"xenophobic",
"loyal",
"patriotic",
"spread-eagle",
"chauvinist",
"chauvinistic",
"jingoist",
"jingoistic",
"nationalist",
"nationalistic",
"superpatriotic"
],
"near antonyms":[
"internationalist"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"adjective"
]
},
"anthropoids":{
"as in apes , cretins":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"apes",
"beasts",
"boors",
"brutes",
"cads",
"churls",
"clowns",
"creeps",
"cretins",
"curs",
"heels",
"louses",
"skunks",
"skunk",
"snakes",
"stinkers",
"tykes",
"tikes",
"villains",
"airheads",
"birdbrains",
"blockheads",
"blunderers",
"boneheads",
"bubbleheads",
"chowderheads",
"chuckleheads",
"clodpolls",
"clodpoles",
"clots",
"clucks",
"clunks",
"cuddies",
"deadheads",
"dim bulbs",
"dimwits",
"dips",
"dodoes",
"dodos",
"dolts",
"donkeys",
"doofuses",
"dufuses",
"dopes",
"dorks",
"dullards",
"dumbbells",
"dumbheads",
"dum-dums",
"dummies",
"dummkopfs",
"dunces",
"dunderheads",
"fatheads",
"galoots",
"ganders",
"golems",
"goofs",
"goons",
"half-wits",
"hammerheads",
"hardheads",
"idiots",
"ignoramuses",
"ignorami",
"imbeciles",
"jackasses",
"know-nothings",
"knuckleheads",
"lamebrains",
"loggerheads",
"loons",
"lunkheads",
"meatheads",
"momes",
"morons",
"mugs",
"mutts",
"naturals",
"nimrods",
"nincompoops",
"ninnies",
"ninnyhammers",
"nits",
"nitwits",
"noddies",
"noodles",
"numskulls",
"numbskulls",
"pinheads",
"prats",
"ratbags",
"sapheads",
"schlubs",
"shlubs",
"schnooks",
"simpletons",
"simps",
"stocks",
"stupes",
"stupids",
"thickheads",
"turkeys",
"woodenheads",
"yahoos",
"yo-yos",
"boobies",
"fools",
"geese",
"loonies",
"lunatics",
"madmen",
"nuts",
"slouches",
"featherbrains",
"scatterbrains",
"chumps",
"losers",
"schlemiels",
"shlemiels",
"turkeys",
"rascals",
"rogues",
"scamps",
"clodhoppers",
"clods",
"gawks",
"hulks",
"louts",
"lubbers",
"lugs",
"lumps",
"Neanderthals",
"oafs",
"palookas"
],
"near antonyms":[
"brainiacs",
"brains",
"geniuses",
"genii",
"intellectuals",
"sages",
"thinkers",
"whizzes",
"wizards"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"angular":{
"having a noticeably small amount of body fat such that the bones are prominent in appearance":{
"examples":[
"Her angular face emphasized her high cheekbones and strong jawline."
],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"rawboned",
"scraggy",
"scrawny",
"bony",
"boney",
"fatless",
"gracile",
"lean",
"lithe",
"skinny",
"slender",
"slim",
"spare",
"svelte",
"thin",
"sinewy",
"wiry",
"clean-limbed",
"trim",
"sylphlike",
"willowy",
"lank",
"lanky",
"rangy",
"reedy",
"spindling",
"spindly",
"stringy",
"twiggy",
"waspish",
"weedy",
"spindle-legged",
"spindle-shanked",
"gangling",
"gangly",
"anorectic",
"anoretic",
"anorexic",
"cadaverous",
"emaciated",
"gaunt",
"haggard",
"pinched",
"skeletal",
"wasted",
"wizened",
"meager",
"meagre",
"puny",
"slight"
],
"near antonyms":[
"beefy",
"bulky",
"chunky",
"fleshy",
"heavy",
"heavyset",
"stocky",
"stout",
"thick",
"thickset",
"weighty",
"brawny",
"burly",
"husky",
"dumpy",
"pudgy",
"roly-poly",
"squat",
"stubby",
"paunchy",
"potbellied",
"flabby",
"soft",
"buxom",
"zaftig",
"zoftig",
"full",
"hippy",
"round",
"chubby",
"corpulent",
"fat",
"gross",
"obese",
"overweight",
"plump",
"portly",
"rotund",
"tubby"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"having one or more angles":{
"examples":[
"In the fading light, the rooftops formed angular silhouettes against the sky."
],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"peaked",
"pointed",
"pointy",
"sharp",
"spired",
"tipped",
"needlelike",
"spiny",
"barbed",
"jagged",
"pronged",
"spiked",
"spikelike",
"spiky",
"spikey",
"bladelike",
"knifelike",
"broken",
"craggy",
"ragged",
"scraggly",
"scraggy",
"saw-toothed",
"serrate",
"serrated",
"harsh",
"rough",
"roughened",
"rugged",
"bumpy",
"coarse",
"irregular",
"nonuniform"
],
"near antonyms":[
"dull",
"rounded",
"regular",
"uniform",
"flat",
"flush",
"level",
"plane",
"blunt",
"clean",
"even",
"smooth",
"soft",
"unbroken"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"adjective"
]
},
"antimilitaristic":{
"as in antiwar , antimilitarist":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"antimilitarist",
"antiviolence",
"antiwar",
"irenic",
"nonaggressive",
"nonbelligerent",
"noncombative",
"unaggressive",
"unwarlike",
"calm",
"mild",
"neutral",
"quiet",
"relaxed",
"serene",
"tranquil",
"dovish",
"pacific",
"pacifist",
"pacifistic",
"peaceable",
"peaceful",
"affable",
"amiable",
"amicable",
"benevolent",
"genial",
"gentle",
"kind",
"kindly",
"submissive",
"yielding"
],
"near antonyms":[
"bloodthirsty",
"hawkish",
"martial",
"warlike",
"militarist",
"militaristic",
"aggressive",
"bellicose",
"belligerent",
"combative",
"contentious",
"discordant",
"pugnacious",
"quarrelsome",
"scrappy",
"truculent",
"antagonistic",
"argumentative",
"fierce",
"gladiatorial",
"hostile",
"hot-tempered"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"adjective"
]
},
"anchorites":{
"a person who lives away from others":{
"examples":[
"many Christian saints were anchorites who removed themselves from the world to focus on their spirituality"
],
"synonyms":[
"eremites",
"hermits",
"isolates",
"recluses",
"solitaries"
],
"near synonyms":[
"homebodies",
"shut-ins"
],
"near antonyms":[
"socialites",
"socializers"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
}
}