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{
"fabricate":{
"to bring into being by combining, shaping, or transforming materials":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"with a few inexpensive materials from a craft shop, we were able to fabricate our own holiday wreath"
],
"near antonyms":[
"disassemble",
"dismantle",
"take apart",
"break up",
"dismember",
"abolish",
"annihilate",
"demolish",
"destroy",
"devastate",
"eradicate",
"exterminate",
"extinguish",
"flatten",
"pulverize",
"raze",
"ruin",
"shatter",
"smash",
"wreck",
"blow up",
"explode"
],
"related":[
"assemble",
"build",
"construct",
"erect",
"make up",
"put up",
"raise",
"rear",
"set up",
"structure",
"throw up",
"craft",
"handcraft",
"hew",
"forge",
"mold",
"shape",
"cobble (together or up)",
"knock out",
"patch (together)",
"throw up",
"prefabricate",
"create",
"invent",
"mint",
"originate",
"establish",
"father",
"institute",
"organize",
"concoct",
"contrive",
"cook (up)",
"design",
"devise",
"imagine",
"think (up)",
"conceive",
"envisage",
"picture",
"visualize",
"refashion",
"remake",
"remanufacture"
],
"synonyms":[
"fashion",
"form",
"frame",
"make",
"manufacture",
"produce"
]
},
"to create or think of by clever use of the imagination":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"fabricated a daring plan to create an underground explosion that would take the enemy totally by surprise"
],
"near antonyms":[
"clone",
"copy",
"copycat",
"duplicate",
"imitate",
"mimic",
"reduplicate",
"replicate",
"reproduce"
],
"related":[
"coin",
"design",
"hatch",
"produce",
"daydream",
"dream",
"fantasize",
"conceive",
"envisage",
"envision",
"imagine",
"picture",
"vision",
"visualize",
"ad-lib",
"extemporize",
"improvise"
],
"synonyms":[
"concoct",
"construct",
"contrive",
"cook (up)",
"devise",
"drum up",
"excogitate",
"invent",
"make up",
"manufacture",
"think (up)",
"trump up",
"vamp (up)"
]
},
"to form by putting together parts or materials":{
"antonyms":[
"demount",
"disassemble",
"dismantle",
"dismember",
"knock down",
"strike",
"take down",
"tear down"
],
"examples":[
"the house was essentially fabricated at the factory and then shipped to the site for assembly"
],
"near antonyms":[
"demolish",
"destroy",
"devastate",
"flatten",
"level",
"pull down",
"pulverize",
"raze",
"ruin",
"ruinate",
"shatter",
"smash",
"wreck",
"blow up",
"explode",
"detach",
"disengage",
"disconnect",
"disjoin",
"disunite",
"divide",
"separate"
],
"related":[
"carpenter",
"fashion",
"forge",
"frame",
"hammer",
"handcraft",
"manufacture",
"mold",
"produce",
"shape",
"prefabricate",
"begin",
"coin",
"create",
"generate",
"inaugurate",
"initiate",
"innovate",
"invent",
"originate",
"constitute",
"establish",
"father",
"found",
"institute",
"organize",
"conceive",
"concoct",
"contrive",
"cook (up)",
"design",
"devise",
"imagine",
"think (up)",
"reassemble",
"rebuild",
"reconstruct",
"redevelop",
"reedify",
"retrofit",
"jerry-build",
"rig (up)",
"throw up",
"combine",
"unite"
],
"synonyms":[
"assemble",
"build",
"confect",
"construct",
"erect",
"make",
"make up",
"piece",
"put up",
"raise",
"rear",
"set up"
]
},
"to make a statement one knows to be untrue":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"since he didn't have a good excuse for not having done his homework, he would have to fabricate one"
],
"near antonyms":[
"assert",
"swear",
"testify",
"authenticate",
"confirm",
"substantiate",
"validate",
"verify"
],
"related":[
"forswear",
"foreswear",
"perjure",
"equivocate",
"fudge",
"palter",
"beguile",
"cozen",
"deceive",
"delude",
"dupe",
"fool",
"gull",
"hoax",
"hoodwink",
"kid",
"snow",
"take in",
"trick",
"defame",
"libel",
"slander",
"traduce",
"falsify",
"misreport",
"misrepresent",
"misstate",
"distort",
"garble",
"dissemble",
"dissimulate",
"misguide",
"misinform",
"mislead"
],
"synonyms":[
"fib",
"lie",
"prevaricate"
]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"fabrications":{
"a statement known by its maker to be untrue and made in order to deceive":{
"antonyms":[
"truths"
],
"examples":[
"her claim that she had been a nurse during the war proved to be a total fabrication"
],
"near antonyms":[
"facts",
"truisms",
"verities",
"honesties",
"veracities",
"authentications",
"confirmations",
"substantiations",
"validations",
"verifications"
],
"related":[
"distortions",
"exaggerations",
"half-truths",
"ambiguities",
"equivocations",
"obliquities",
"defamations",
"libels",
"slanders",
"perjuries",
"bluffs",
"fictions",
"poses",
"pretenses",
"pretences",
"humbug",
"jives",
"nonsense",
"canards",
"fallacies",
"misconceptions",
"myths",
"falsifications",
"misinformation",
"misreports",
"misrepresentations",
"misstatements",
"deceits",
"dishonesties",
"duplicities",
"fraudulences"
],
"synonyms":[
"fables",
"fairy tales",
"falsehoods",
"falsities",
"fibs",
"lies",
"mendacities",
"prevarications",
"stories",
"tales",
"taradiddles",
"tarradiddles",
"untruths",
"whoppers"
]
},
"something that is the product of the imagination":{
"antonyms":[
"facts",
"materialities",
"realities"
],
"examples":[
"the notion that the Colossus of Rhodes could straddle the harbor was a fabrication of medieval writers"
],
"near antonyms":[
"actualities"
],
"related":[
"anecdotes",
"anecdota",
"narratives",
"novels",
"stories",
"tales",
"yarns",
"fairy tales",
"falsehoods",
"falsities",
"fibs",
"lies",
"mendacities",
"misrepresentations",
"prevarications",
"untruths",
"whoppers",
"make-believe"
],
"synonyms":[
"fables",
"fantasies",
"phantasies",
"fictions",
"figments",
"inventions"
]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"faced":{
"to stand or sit with the face or front toward":{
"examples":[
"the house faces the sparkling blue waters of the Pacific Ocean"
],
"synonyms":[
"fronted",
"looked (toward)",
"pointed (toward)"
],
"near synonyms":[
"abutted",
"adjoined",
"bordered",
"bounded",
"fringed",
"margined",
"met",
"neighbored",
"rimmed",
"skirted",
"touched",
"commanded",
"dominated",
"overlooked",
"looked down (on)"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to oppose (something hostile or dangerous) with firmness or courage":{
"examples":[
"movie superheroes who are ever ready to face danger without blinking an eye"
],
"synonyms":[
"bearded",
"braved",
"brazened",
"breasted",
"confronted",
"dared",
"defied",
"outbraved",
"outfaced"
],
"near synonyms":[
"faced up (to)",
"fronted",
"affronted",
"challenged",
"encountered",
"met",
"accosted",
"approached",
"cornered",
"repelled",
"resisted",
"stood",
"withstood",
"battled",
"combated",
"combatted",
"contended (with)",
"fought",
"opposed",
"squared (off)"
],
"near antonyms":[
"avoided",
"eschewed",
"shunned",
"eluded",
"escaped",
"evaded",
"shook"
],
"antonyms":[
"dodged",
"ducked",
"funked",
"shirked",
"sidestepped"
]
},
"to cover with something that protects":{
"examples":[
"we decided to face our old frame house with aluminum siding"
],
"synonyms":[
"clad",
"cladded",
"sheathed"
],
"near synonyms":[
"appareled",
"apparelled",
"arrayed",
"clothed",
"clad",
"dressed",
"garbed",
"robed",
"sided",
"skinned",
"embosomed",
"embowered",
"embraced",
"encased",
"enclosed",
"inclosed",
"encompassed",
"enshrouded",
"enveloped",
"enwrapped",
"invested",
"lapped",
"mantled",
"shrouded",
"surrounded",
"swathed",
"veiled",
"wrapped",
"blanketed",
"overlaid",
"overspread"
],
"near antonyms":[
"bared",
"denuded",
"exposed",
"stripped",
"stript",
"unswathed"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to enter into contest or conflict with":{
"examples":[
"the Boston Red Sox were eager to face their traditional rivals, the Yankees, in the play-offs"
],
"synonyms":[
"battled",
"encountered",
"engaged",
"met",
"took on"
],
"near synonyms":[
"emulated",
"rivaled",
"rivalled",
"contended",
"fought",
"opposed"
],
"near antonyms":[
"eluded",
"escaped",
"evaded",
"retreated"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"facelessness":{
"the quality or state of being mostly or completely unknown":{
"examples":[
"the facelessness of those early participants in the American civil rights movement"
],
"synonyms":[
"anonymity",
"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"
]
},
"facile":{
"having or showing a lack of depth of understanding or character":{
"examples":[
"the movie takes a facile look at what happens when teens enter into serious romantic relationships"
],
"synonyms":[
"one-dimensional",
"shallow",
"skin-deep",
"superficial"
],
"near synonyms":[
"cursory",
"hasty",
"oversimple",
"passing",
"sketchy",
"aimless",
"desultory",
"haphazard",
"hit-or-miss",
"random",
"limited",
"narrow",
"restricted"
],
"near antonyms":[
"discerning",
"penetrant",
"penetrating",
"definitive",
"hard",
"broad",
"complete",
"comprehensive",
"exhaustive",
"extensive",
"far-reaching",
"wide",
"general",
"global",
"inclusive",
"detailed",
"in-depth",
"critical"
],
"antonyms":[
"deep",
"profound"
]
},
"involving minimal difficulty or effort":{
"examples":[
"a few early facile victories misled the country into thinking that the war would be short and relatively painless"
],
"synonyms":[
"cheap",
"downhill",
"easy",
"effortless",
"fluent",
"fluid",
"hands-down",
"light",
"painless",
"ready",
"royal",
"simple",
"smooth",
"snap",
"soft"
],
"near synonyms":[
"idiotproof",
"mindless",
"quick",
"straightforward",
"unchallenging",
"uncomplicated",
"apparent",
"clear",
"clear-cut",
"distinct",
"evident",
"manifest",
"obvious",
"open-and-shut",
"palpable",
"patent",
"perspicuous",
"plain",
"transparent",
"unambiguous",
"unequivocal",
"unmistakable"
],
"near antonyms":[
"burdensome",
"exhausting",
"onerous",
"oppressive",
"painful",
"stressful",
"taxing",
"troublesome",
"abstruse",
"complex",
"complicated",
"intricate",
"involved",
"knotty",
"problematic",
"problematical",
"recondite"
],
"antonyms":[
"arduous",
"demanding",
"difficult",
"exacting",
"formidable",
"grueling",
"gruelling",
"hard",
"herculean",
"killer",
"labored",
"laborious",
"murderous",
"rough",
"severe",
"stiff",
"strenuous",
"toilful",
"toilsome",
"tough"
]
},
"type":[
"adjective"
]
},
"facilely":{
"without difficulty":{
"examples":[
"most TV sitcoms give the impression that family problems can be solved facilely and in less than 30 minutes"
],
"synonyms":[
"easily",
"easy",
"effortlessly",
"fluently",
"freely",
"handily",
"hands down",
"lightly",
"painlessly",
"readily",
"smoothly",
"well"
],
"near synonyms":[
"ably",
"adeptly",
"adroitly",
"competently",
"deftly",
"dexterously",
"efficiently",
"expertly",
"masterfully",
"proficiently",
"skillfully",
"instinctively",
"intuitively",
"naturally",
"spontaneously"
],
"near antonyms":[
"awkwardly",
"clumsily",
"gracelessly",
"ham-handedly",
"ineptly",
"maladroitly",
"unskillfully",
"meticulously",
"painfully",
"painstakingly",
"thoroughly",
"assiduously",
"diligently",
"indefatigably",
"industriously",
"intensely",
"intently",
"mightily",
"sedulously",
"tirelessly"
],
"antonyms":[
"arduously",
"hardly",
"laboriously",
"strenuously"
]
},
"type":[
"adverb"
]
},
"facilitated":{
"to free from obstruction or difficulty":{
"antonyms":[
"complicated"
],
"examples":[
"several religious organizations are involved in the effort to facilitate the settlement of the immigrants arriving in the area"
],
"near antonyms":[
"hindered",
"impeded",
"retarded",
"aggravated",
"worsened",
"perplexed",
"sophisticated"
],
"related":[
"accelerated",
"expedited",
"hastened",
"hurried",
"quickened",
"rushed",
"sped",
"speeded",
"advanced",
"forwarded",
"furthered",
"promoted",
"abetted",
"aided",
"assisted",
"helped",
"improved",
"disentangled",
"straightened (out)",
"untangled",
"simplified",
"streamlined"
],
"synonyms":[
"eased",
"greased",
"loosened (up)",
"smoothed",
"unclogged"
]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"facilitates":{
"to free from obstruction or difficulty":{
"examples":[
"several religious organizations are involved in the effort to facilitate the settlement of the immigrants arriving in the area"
],
"synonyms":[
"eases",
"greases",
"loosens (up)",
"smooths",
"smoothes",
"unclogs"
],
"near synonyms":[
"accelerates",
"expedites",
"hastens",
"hurries",
"quickens",
"rushes",
"speeds",
"advances",
"forwards",
"furthers",
"promotes",
"abets",
"aids",
"assists",
"helps",
"improves",
"disentangles",
"straightens (out)",
"untangles",
"simplifies",
"streamlines"
],
"near antonyms":[
"hinders",
"impedes",
"retards",
"aggravates",
"worsens",
"perplexes",
"sophisticates"
],
"antonyms":[
"complicates"
]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"facilitating":{
"as in easing , smoothing":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"easing",
"smoothing",
"abetting",
"aiding",
"assisting",
"encouraging",
"forwarding",
"fostering",
"furthering",
"nurturing",
"promoting"
],
"near antonyms":[
"precautionary",
"preventative",
"preventive",
"prophylactic",
"deterrent",
"deterring",
"negating",
"neutralizing",
"nullifying"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to free from obstruction or difficulty":{
"examples":[
"several religious organizations are involved in the effort to facilitate the settlement of the immigrants arriving in the area"
],
"synonyms":[
"easing",
"greasing",
"loosening (up)",
"smoothing",
"unclogging"
],
"near synonyms":[
"accelerating",
"expediting",
"hastening",
"hurrying",
"quickening",
"rushing",
"speeding",
"advancing",
"forwarding",
"furthering",
"promoting",
"abetting",
"aiding",
"assisting",
"helping",
"improving",
"disentangling",
"straightening (out)",
"untangling",
"simplifying",
"streamlining"
],
"near antonyms":[
"hindering",
"impeding",
"retarding",
"aggravating",
"worsening",
"perplexing",
"sophisticating"
],
"antonyms":[
"complicating"
]
},
"type":[
"adjective",
"verb"
]
},
"fact":{
"the quality of being actual":{
"examples":[
"like other scientists, astronomers deal in the realm of fact , not speculation"
],
"synonyms":[
"actuality",
"factuality",
"materiality",
"reality"
],
"near synonyms":[
"authenticity",
"genuineness",
"truth",
"verity"
],
"near antonyms":[
"fancy",
"fantasy",
"phantasy",
"fiction",
"fictitiousness",
"dreaminess",
"surreality"
],
"antonyms":[
"irreality",
"unreality"
]
},
"something that actually exists":{
"examples":[
"once considered a wild fantasy, the Internet is now a fact of everyday life"
],
"synonyms":[
"actuality",
"case",
"materiality",
"reality"
],
"near synonyms":[
"certainty",
"inevitability",
"circumstance",
"event",
"occurrence",
"phenomenon",
"element",
"item",
"particular",
"thing"
],
"near antonyms":[
"eventuality",
"possibility",
"potentiality",
"probability"
],
"antonyms":[
"fantasy",
"phantasy",
"fiction",
"illusion"
]
},
"a single piece of information":{
"examples":[
"a book of little-known facts about famous people"
],
"synonyms":[
"datum",
"detail",
"nicety",
"particular",
"particularity",
"point",
"specific"
],
"near synonyms":[
"article",
"item",
"component",
"constituent",
"element",
"ingredient",
"member",
"part",
"aspect",
"circumstance",
"facet",
"factor",
"evidence",
"exhibit",
"database",
"information",
"knowledge"
],
"near antonyms":[
"error",
"fallacy",
"falsehood",
"inaccuracy",
"misconception",
"misstatement",
"myth"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"a collection of factual knowledge about something":{
"examples":[
"after reading the facts on the situation, the president concluded that an outbreak of hostilities was all but certain"
],
"synonyms":[
"data",
"information"
],
"near synonyms":[
"findings",
"intelligence"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"faction":{
"a group of people acting together within a larger group":{
"examples":[
"several factions within the environmental movement have joined forces to save this wilderness area"
],
"synonyms":[
"bloc",
"block",
"body",
"coalition",
"party",
"sect",
"set",
"side",
"wing"
],
"near synonyms":[
"splinter",
"split",
"crew",
"gang",
"pack",
"team",
"denomination",
"persuasion",
"schism",
"scission",
"caucus",
"movement"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"fade":{
"as in crop , trim":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[],
"near antonyms":[],
"related":[],
"synonyms":[]
},
"to cease to be visible":{
"antonyms":[
"appear",
"materialize"
],
"examples":[
"the departing ship gradually faded over the horizon"
],
"near antonyms":[
"arrive",
"break out",
"come out",
"emerge",
"issue",
"loom",
"show up"
],
"related":[
"blank (out)",
"clear",
"die (away or down or out)",
"disperse",
"dissipate",
"dry up",
"blur",
"dim"
],
"synonyms":[
"dematerialize",
"disappear",
"dissolve",
"evanesce",
"evaporate",
"flee",
"fly",
"melt",
"sink",
"vanish"
]
},
"to lose bodily strength or vigor":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"began to fade after battling the disease for years"
],
"near antonyms":[
"convalesce",
"rally",
"rebound",
"recover",
"recuperate",
"gain"
],
"related":[
"break down",
"wear out",
"yield",
"degenerate",
"deteriorate",
"rot",
"run down"
],
"synonyms":[
"decay",
"droop",
"emaciate",
"fail",
"flag",
"go",
"lag",
"languish",
"sag",
"sink",
"waste (away)",
"weaken",
"wilt",
"wither"
]
},
"to make white or whiter by removing color":{
"antonyms":[
"darken",
"deepen",
"embrown"
],
"examples":[
"years of harsh sunlight had faded the car, which was once fire-engine red"
],
"near antonyms":[
"blacken",
"blotch",
"checker",
"dapple",
"daub",
"discolor",
"fleck",
"marble",
"mottle",
"pattern",
"polychrome",
"shade",
"speck",
"speckle",
"splotch",
"spot",
"streak",
"striate",
"stripe",
"tarnish",
"variegate",
"color",
"dye",
"paint",
"pigment",
"stain",
"tincture",
"tinge",
"tint",
"burnish",
"polish",
"shine"
],
"related":[
"brighten",
"lighten",
"dim",
"mat",
"matte",
"matt",
"etiolate",
"whitewash",
"frost",
"silver"
],
"synonyms":[
"blanch",
"bleach",
"blench",
"decolorize",
"dull",
"pale",
"snow",
"wash out",
"whiten"
]
},
"type":[
"noun",
"verb"
]
},
"fade (away)":{
"as in give out , melt (away)":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[],
"near antonyms":[],
"related":[],
"synonyms":[]
},
"as in melting , passing":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[],
"near antonyms":[],
"related":[],
"synonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun",
"verb"
]
},
"fades (away)":{
"as in gives out , melts (away)":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[],
"near antonyms":[],
"related":[],
"synonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"fag end":{
"an unused or unwanted piece or item typically of small size or value":{
"examples":[
"a patchwork quilt sewn together from the fag ends of many bolts of cloth"
],
"synonyms":[
"end",
"leftover",
"oddment",
"remainder",
"remnant",
"scrap",
"stub"
],
"near synonyms":[
"leavings",
"odds and ends",
"pickings",
"refuse",
"remains",
"residual",
"residue",
"scraping(s)",
"stump",
"vestige",
"balance",
"rest",
"chip",
"flake",
"fragment",
"piece",
"sliver",
"splinter",
"ribbon(s)",
"shred",
"tatter"
],
"near antonyms":[
"whole"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"fags":{
"a person who does very hard or dull work":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"a rigid class system, with fags at the very bottom of it"
],
"near antonyms":[
"goldbricks",
"shirkers",
"idlers",
"lazybones",
"loafers",
"slouches",
"sluggards",
"slugs"
],
"related":[
"workhorses",
"serfs"
],
"synonyms":[
"dogsbodies",
"drones",
"drudgers",
"drudges",
"foot soldiers",
"grubbers",
"grubs",
"grunts",
"laborers",
"peons",
"peones",
"pluggers",
"slaves",
"sloggers",
"toilers",
"workers"
]
},
"to devote serious and sustained effort":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"the road crew fagged mightily to move the boulder out of the way"
],
"near antonyms":[
"breaks",
"eases (up)",
"lets up",
"slackens",
"bums",
"chills",
"dallies",
"dillydallies",
"footles",
"goldbricks",
"goofs (off)",
"hacks (around)",
"hangs (around or out)",
"idles",
"lazes",
"loafs",
"lounges",
"shirks",
"slacks (off)",
"vegges out",
"veges out",
"basks",
"lolls",
"relaxes",
"reposes",
"rests",
"unwinds",
"dabbles",
"doodles",
"fools around",
"fribbles",
"goofs (around)",
"hangs",
"hangs about",
"messes around",
"monkeys (around)",
"plays",
"potters (around)",
"putters (around)",
"trifles"
],
"related":[
"applies (oneself)",
"buckles (down)",
"digs in",
"hammers (away)",
"knuckles down",
"pitches in",
"attacks",
"drives",
"essays",
"tries",
"exercises",
"exerts",
"overexerts",
"overworks",
"ekes out",
"grinds (out)",
"puts out",
"scrabbles",
"scratches",
"trudges",
"wades"
],
"synonyms":[
"bangs away",
"beavers (away)",
"digs (away)",
"drudges",
"endeavors",
"grubs",
"humps",
"hustles",
"labors",
"moils",
"pegs (away)",
"plods",
"plows",
"plugs",
"slaves",
"slogs",
"strains",
"strives",
"struggles",
"sweats",
"toils",
"travails",
"tugs",
"works"
]
},
"to use up all the physical energy of":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"the long hike up the mountain had fagged us out"
],
"near antonyms":[
"activates",
"energizes",
"invigorates",
"rejuvenates",
"strengthens",
"vitalizes",
"relaxes",
"rests",
"unwinds"
],
"related":[
"debilitates",
"enervates",
"enfeebles",
"saps",
"wastes",
"weakens"
],
"synonyms":[
"breaks",
"burns out",
"busts",
"does in",
"does up",
"drains",
"exhausts",
"fatigues",
"frazzles",
"harasses",
"kills",
"knocks out",
"outwears",
"tires",
"tuckers (out)",
"washes out",
"wearies",
"wears",
"wears out"
]
},
"type":[
"noun",
"verb"
]
},
"faintheartedness":{
"lack of willingness to assert oneself and take risks":{
"examples":[
"his faintheartedness got the better of him, and he backed off from the ski trail intended for experts"
],
"synonyms":[
"timidity",
"timidness",
"timorousness"
],
"near synonyms":[
"bashfulness",
"constraint",
"embarrassment",
"inhibition",
"restraint",
"shyness",
"skittishness",
"hesitation",
"indecision",
"indecisiveness",
"irresoluteness",
"irresolution",
"alarm",
"alarum",
"anxiety",
"apprehension",
"concern",
"discomposure",
"dismay",
"fear",
"panic",
"upset",
"worry",
"cowardice",
"cowardliness",
"cravenness",
"spinelessness"
],
"near antonyms":[
"assurance",
"confidence",
"self-assertiveness",
"self-assurance",
"self-confidence",
"composure",
"coolness",
"insouciance",
"nonchalance",
"unconcern",
"backbone",
"decisiveness",
"determination",
"fiber",
"firmness",
"fortitude",
"gameness",
"grit",
"gumption",
"mettle",
"resoluteness",
"resolution",
"spunk",
"bravery",
"courage",
"courageousness",
"daring",
"dauntlessness",
"doughtiness",
"fearlessness",
"gutsiness",
"intrepidity",
"intrepidness",
"valor",
"brazenness",
"cheek",
"effrontery",
"gall",
"temerity"
],
"antonyms":[
"audaciousness",
"audacity",
"boldness",
"cojones",
"guts",
"nerve"
]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"faintly":{
"as in quietly , softly":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"feebly",
"low",
"noiselessly",
"quietly",
"softly",
"inaudibly",
"silently",
"soundlessly",
"voicelessly"
],
"near antonyms":[
"aloud",
"audibly",
"out",
"out loud",
"verbally",
"vocally",
"clearly",
"discernibly",
"distinctly",
"distinguishably",
"perceptibly",
"plainly"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"adverb"
]
},
"fair":{
"a public showing of objects of interest":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"a dazzling array of sleek cabin cruisers at the annual boat fair"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"related":[
"demonstration",
"performance",
"presentation",
"production",
"extravaganza",
"pageant",
"spectacle",
"auction",
"offering",
"presentment",
"sale"
],
"synonyms":[
"display",
"exhibit",
"exhibition",
"expo",
"exposition",
"show"
]
},
"according to the rules or the law":{
"antonyms":[
"dirty",
"illegally"
],
"examples":[
"we expect everyone on this basketball court to play fair"
],
"near antonyms":[
"ignobly",
"immorally",
"underhandedly",
"unethically",
"dishonorably"
],
"related":[
"ethically",
"high-mindedly",
"morally",
"nobly",
"honorably"
],
"synonyms":[
"clean",
"cleanly",
"fairly",
"legally"
]
},
"being what is called for by accepted standards of right and wrong":{
"antonyms":[
"undeserved",
"undue",
"unfair",
"unjust",
"unjustified",
"unmerited",
"unwarranted"
],
"examples":[
"most thought his dismissal was fair since he had been given many chances to clean up his act"
],
"near antonyms":[
"incoherent",
"incorrect",
"irrelative",
"irrelevant",
"improper",
"inapplicable",
"inapposite",
"inappropriate",
"inapt",
"indefensible",
"unjustifiable",
"unreasonable",
"unsuitable",
"biased",
"inequitable",
"partial",
"unequal",
"arbitrary",
"despotic",
"illegitimate",
"unlawful"
],
"related":[
"applicable",
"appropriate",
"apt",
"fit",
"fitting",
"meet",
"proper",
"requisite",
"suitable",
"lawful",
"legal",
"legitimate",
"accurate",
"correct",
"true",
"rhadamanthine",
"strict",
"stringent",
"uncompromising",
"equitable",
"impartial",
"square"
],
"synonyms":[
"competent",
"condign",
"deserved",
"due",
"just",
"justified",
"merited",
"right",
"rightful",
"warranted"
]
},
"following or according to the rules":{
"antonyms":[
"dirty",
"foul",
"nasty",
"unfair",
"unsportsmanlike"
],
"examples":[
"a hockey player who is respected for his fair play"
],
"near antonyms":[
"immoral",
"unethical",
"unprincipled",
"unrighteous",
"unscrupulous",
"vicious",
"wrong"
],
"related":[
"just",
"law-abiding",
"ethical",
"moral",
"principled",
"scrupulous",
"honorable",
"irreproachable",
"unimpeachable"
],
"synonyms":[
"clean",
"legal",
"sportsmanlike",
"sportsmanly"
]
},
"free from dirt or stain":{
"antonyms":[
"besmirched",
"dirty",
"filthy",
"foul",
"grubby",
"smirched",
"soiled",
"spotted",
"stained",
"sullied",
"unclean",
"uncleaned"
],
"examples":[
"a handwritten thank-you letter requires nothing less than a sheet of fair white paper"
],
"near antonyms":[
"dingy",
"greasy",
"grimy",
"mucky",
"muddy",
"unwashed",
"defiled",
"germy",
"polluted",
"tainted",
"unsterile",
"unsterilized",
"blackened",
"discolored"
],
"related":[
"pure",
"taintless",
"undefiled",
"unpolluted",
"untainted",
"wholesome",
"cleanly",
"germfree",
"hygienic",
"sanitary",
"sterile",
"abluted",
"bleached",
"cleansed",
"purified",
"scrubbed",
"washed",
"whitened",
"milky",
"snowy",
"white",
"flawless",
"unblemished",
"bright",
"shiny",
"sparkling"
],
"synonyms":[
"antiseptic",
"chaste",
"clean",
"immaculate",
"pristine",
"spick-and-span",
"spic-and-span",
"spotless",
"squeaky-clean",
"stainless",
"unsoiled",
"unstained",
"unsullied"
]
},
"having no exceptions or restrictions":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"it would take a fair miracle for that project to be finished on time"
],
"near antonyms":[
"doubtful",
"dubious",
"equivocal",
"qualified",
"questionable",
"restricted",
"uncertain"
],
"related":[
"authentic",
"classic",
"genuine",
"real",
"veritable",
"constant",
"endless",
"eternal",
"perpetual",
"undying",
"unremitting",
"extreme",
"unrestricted",
"confirmed",
"habitual",
"hopeless",
"inveterate",
"extraordinary",
"frightful",
"horrible",
"huge",
"main",
"superlative",
"supreme",
"surpassing",
"terrible",
"terrific"
],
"synonyms":[
"absolute",
"all-out",
"arrant",
"blank",
"blooming",
"bodacious",
"categorical",
"categoric",
"clean",
"complete",
"consummate",
"crashing",
"damn",
"damned",
"dead",
"deadly",
"definite",
"downright",
"dreadful",
"flat",
"flat-out",
"out-and-out",
"outright",
"perfect",
"plumb",
"profound",
"pure",
"rank",
"regular",
"sheer",
"simple",
"stark",
"stone",
"straight-out",
"thorough",
"thoroughgoing",
"total",
"unadulterated",
"unalloyed",
"unconditional",
"unmitigated",
"unqualified",
"utter",
"very"
]
},
"having qualities which inspire hope":{
"antonyms":[
"bleak",
"dark",
"depressing",
"desperate",
"discouraging",
"disheartening",
"dismal",
"downbeat",
"dreary",
"gloomy",
"hopeless",
"inauspicious",
"pessimistic",
"unencouraging",
"unlikely",
"unpromising",
"unpropitious"
],
"examples":[
"as long as the team keeps playing as hard as they can, they have a fair chance of winning\u2014no matter what the scoreboard says"
],
"near antonyms":[
"cheerless",
"comfortless",
"doubtful",
"dubious",
"uncertain",
"bearish",
"grim",
"negative",
"unfavorable",
"funereal",
"glum",
"gray",
"grey",
"miserable",
"wretched"
],
"related":[
"cheering",
"comforting",
"reassuring",
"soothing",
"assured",
"confident",
"decisive",
"doubtless",
"positive",
"sure",
"unhesitating",
"beamish",
"bullish",
"eupeptic",
"favorable",
"good"
],
"synonyms":[
"auspicious",
"bright",
"encouraging",
"golden",
"heartening",
"hopeful",
"likely",
"optimistic",
"promising",
"propitious",
"rose-colored",
"roseate",
"rosy",
"upbeat"
]
},
"marked by justice, honesty, and freedom from bias":{
"antonyms":[
"biased",
"ex parte",
"inequitable",
"nonobjective",
"one-sided",
"partial",
"parti pris",
"partisan",
"prejudiced",
"unjust"
],
"examples":[
"a commanding officer who enjoyed the respect of his soldiers because his decisions were always fair"
],
"near antonyms":[
"deceitful",
"deceptive",
"dishonest",
"arbitrary",
"unconscionable",
"unreasonable",
"jaundiced",
"unfriendly",
"unsympathetic",
"colored",
"distorted",
"warped"
],
"related":[
"frank",
"forthright",
"open",
"straight",
"straightforward",
"balanced",
"rational",
"reasonable"
],
"synonyms":[
"candid",
"disinterested",
"dispassionate",
"equal",
"equitable",
"evenhanded",
"impartial",
"indifferent",
"just",
"nonpartisan",
"objective",
"square",
"unbiased",
"unprejudiced"
]
},
"not stormy or cloudy":{
"antonyms":[
"bleak",
"cloudy",
"dirty",
"foul",
"nasty",
"overcast",
"rainy",
"raw",
"rough",
"squally",
"stormy",
"sunless",
"tempestuous",
"turbulent"
],
"examples":[
"we prayed for fair weather during our vacation at the beach"
],
"near antonyms":[
"harsh",
"inclement",
"severe",
"blustering",
"blustery",
"breezy",
"gusty",
"foggy",
"hazy",
"misty",
"murky",
"soupy"
],
"related":[
"balmy",
"clement",
"gentle",
"mild",
"moderate",
"temperate",
"calm",
"halcyon",
"peaceful",
"placid",
"serene",
"tranquil",
"fine",
"pleasant"
],
"synonyms":[
"bright",
"clear",
"cloudless",
"sunny",
"sunshiny",
"unclouded"
]
},
"of a pale yellow or yellowish brown color":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"the abundance of people with fair hair in Scandinavia"
],
"near antonyms":[
"black-a-vised",
"brown",
"brunet",
"brunette",
"dark",
"olive",
"swart",
"swarthy",
"black",
"ebony",
"raven"
],
"related":[
"ocherous",
"ochreous",
"ash-blond",
"ash-blonde",
"blondish",
"strawberry blonde",
"strawberry blond",
"towheaded",
"gold",
"light",
"white"
],
"synonyms":[
"blond",
"blonde",
"flaxen",
"golden",
"sandy",
"straw",
"tawny"
]
},
"of average to below average quality":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"for what they charged us, the painters should have done better than a fair job of painting the house"
],
"near antonyms":[
"A1",
"capital",
"choice",
"classic",
"distinguished",
"excellent",
"exceptional",
"exquisite",
"fabulous",
"fantastic",
"first-class",
"first-rate",
"grand",
"great",
"marvelous",
"marvellous",
"matchless",
"maximum",
"nifty",
"number one",
"No. 1",
"optimal",
"optimum",
"outstanding",
"par excellence",
"peerless",
"preeminent",
"prime",
"sensational",
"special",
"splendid",
"stellar",
"sterling",
"superb",
"superior",
"superlative",
"supreme",
"swell",
"terrific",
"tip-top",
"top",
"top-notch",
"unmatched",
"unparalleled",
"unsurpassed",
"deficient",
"inadequate",
"insufficient",
"lacking",
"unacceptable",
"unsatisfactory",
"wanting"
],
"related":[
"acceptable",
"adequate",
"all right",
"alright",
"decent",
"OK",
"okay",
"reasonable",
"satisfactory",
"sufficient",
"sufficing",
"tolerable",
"moderate",
"modest",
"presentable",
"respectable",
"minimal",
"unexceptional",
"fine",
"good",
"nice"
],
"synonyms":[
"common",
"indifferent",
"mediocre",
"medium",
"middling",
"ordinary",
"passable",
"run-of-the-mill",
"run-of-the-mine",
"run-of-mine",
"second-class",
"second-rate",
"so-so"
]
},
"of light complexion":{
"antonyms":[
"black",
"brunet",
"brunette",
"dark",
"swart",
"swarthy"
],
"examples":[
"fair people tend to sunburn easily"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"related":[
"ashen",
"ashy",
"pale",
"paled",
"palish",
"pallid",
"pasty",
"peaked",
"peaky",
"sallow",
"sallowish",
"wan",
"white"
],
"synonyms":[
"light"
]
},
"type":[
"adjective",
"adverb",
"noun"
],
"very close to but not completely":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"it fair takes your breath away when you find out what properties in London are going for"
],
"near antonyms":[
"absolutely",
"altogether",
"completely",
"entirely",
"fully",
"plain",
"plumb",
"quite",
"thoroughly",
"totally",
"utterly",
"well",
"wholly",
"barely",
"hardly",
"scarcely"
],
"related":[
"appreciably",
"by and large",
"chiefly",
"largely",
"mainly",
"mostly",
"kind of",
"partially",
"partly",
"somewhat"
],
"synonyms":[
"about",
"all but",
"almost",
"borderline",
"fairly",
"feckly",
"more or less",
"most",
"much",
"near",
"nearly",
"next to",
"nigh",
"practically",
"somewhere",
"virtually",
"well-nigh"
]
},
"very pleasing to look at":{
"antonyms":[
"grotesque",
"hideous",
"homely",
"ill-favored",
"plain",
"ugly",
"unaesthetic",
"unattractive",
"unbeautiful",
"uncomely",
"uncute",
"unhandsome",
"unlovely",
"unpleasing",
"unpretty",
"unsightly"
],
"examples":[
"generally considered the fairest girl in town, she had no lack of boyfriends"
],
"near antonyms":[
"abhorrent",
"abominable",
"bad",
"disagreeable",
"disgusting",
"dreadful",
"foul",
"frightful",
"ghastly",
"horrible",
"loathsome",
"nasty",
"nauseating",
"objectionable",
"offensive",
"repellent",
"repellant",
"repugnant",
"repulsive",
"revolting",
"shocking",
"sickening",
"terrible",
"vile",
"unappealing",
"unappetizing",
"unimposing",
"unpleasant",
"unprepossessing",
"frumpish",
"frumpy",
"unbecoming",
"unshapely"
],
"related":[
"alluring",
"appealing",
"charming",
"cunning",
"delightful",
"engaging",
"fascinating",
"glamorous",
"glamourous",
"prepossessing",
"elegant",
"exquisite",
"glorious",
"Junoesque",
"magnificent",
"resplendent",
"splendid",
"statuesque",
"sublime",
"superb",
"flawless",
"perfect",
"radiant",
"dainty",
"delicate",
"personable",
"pleasant",
"presentable",
"chocolate-box",
"prettyish",
"desirable",
"dishy",
"dollish",
"foxy",
"hot",
"luscious",
"nubile",
"pulchritudinous",
"seductive",
"sexy",
"toothsome",
"hunky",
"studly",
"arresting",
"eye-catching",
"flamboyant",
"flashy",
"glossy",
"showstopping",
"showy",
"slick",
"snazzy",
"splashy",
"striking",
"zingy",
"photogenic",
"telegenic"
],
"synonyms":[
"aesthetic",
"esthetic",
"aesthetical",
"esthetical",
"attractive",
"beauteous",
"beautiful",
"bonny",
"bonnie",
"comely",
"cute",
"drop-dead",
"fetching",
"good",
"good-looking",
"goodly",
"gorgeous",
"handsome",
"knockout",
"likely",
"lovely",
"lovesome",
"pretty",
"ravishing",
"seemly",
"sightly",
"stunning",
"taking",
"well-favored"
]
}
},
"fair shake":{
"the practice of giving to others what is their due":{
"antonyms":[
"inequity",
"injustice",
"raw deal",
"wrong"
],
"examples":[
"it's going to be tough to get a fair shake the way this country's legal system is set up"
],
"near antonyms":[
"bias",
"one-sidedness",
"partiality",
"prejudice",
"unfairness",
"unjustness",
"wrongfulness",
"corruption",
"impropriety",
"crime",
"offense",
"offence",
"wrongdoing",
"disservice",
"harm"
],
"related":[
"equitability",
"equitableness",
"evenhandedness",
"fair-mindedness",
"fairness",
"impartiality",
"goodness",
"righteousness",
"virtue",
"honor",
"integrity",
"uprightness"
],
"synonyms":[
"equity",
"justice",
"right"
]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"fair-haired":{
"granted special treatment or attention":{
"examples":[
"she had been the teacher's fair-haired pupil\u2014the one who could do no wrong"
],
"synonyms":[
"beloved",
"cherished",
"darling",
"dear",
"favored",
"favorite",
"fond",
"loved",
"pet",
"precious",
"special",
"sweet",
"white-headed"
],
"near synonyms":[
"admired",
"adored",
"appreciated",
"esteemed",
"relished",
"revered",
"prized",
"treasured",
"preferred"
],
"near antonyms":[
"abhorred",
"abominated",
"despised",
"detested",
"disdained",
"disfavored",
"disliked",
"execrated",
"hated",
"loathed",
"unfavorite",
"abandoned",
"forgotten",
"ignored",
"alienated",
"estranged"
],
"antonyms":[
"unbeloved"
]
},
"type":[
"adjective"
]
},
"fairy tales":{
"a statement known by its maker to be untrue and made in order to deceive":{
"antonyms":[
"truths"
],
"examples":[
"did you really see a bear, or are you telling us another one of your fairy tales ?"
],
"near antonyms":[
"facts",
"truisms",
"verities",
"honesties",
"veracities",
"authentications",
"confirmations",
"substantiations",
"validations",
"verifications"
],
"related":[
"distortions",
"exaggerations",
"half-truths",
"ambiguities",
"equivocations",
"obliquities",
"defamations",
"libels",
"slanders",
"perjuries",
"bluffs",
"fictions",
"poses",
"pretenses",
"pretences",
"humbug",
"jives",
"nonsense",
"canards",
"fallacies",
"misconceptions",
"myths",
"falsifications",
"misinformation",
"misreports",
"misrepresentations",
"misstatements",
"deceits",
"dishonesties",
"duplicities",
"fraudulences"
],
"synonyms":[
"fables",
"fabrications",
"falsehoods",
"falsities",
"fibs",
"lies",
"mendacities",
"prevarications",
"stories",
"tales",
"taradiddles",
"tarradiddles",
"untruths",
"whoppers"
]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"faked":{
"as in fake , phony":{
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"examples":[],
"near antonyms":[],
"related":[],
"synonyms":[]
},
"to elude (an opponent in a sports contest) by making a deceptive or agile movement":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"the running back faked the defense by stepping to his left and then quickly cutting to the right"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"related":[
"dodged",
"evaded",
"sidestepped",
"slipped",
"pump-faked",
"stutter-stepped",
"maneuvered (around)"
],
"synonyms":[
"deked",
"faked out",
"juked"
]
},
"to imitate or copy especially in order to deceive":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"pranksters faked giant footprints and then claimed that they had seen Bigfoot"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"related":[
"simulated",
"duplicated",
"reduplicated",
"replicated",
"reproduced",
"cribbed",
"plagiarized",
"adulterated",
"doctored",
"fudged",
"juggled",
"manipulated",
"tampered (with)",
"concocted",
"cooked (up)",
"fabricated",
"invented"
],
"synonyms":[
"counterfeited",
"forged",
"phonied"
]
},
"to perform, make, or do without preparation":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"if you give me the gist of the plan, I can probably fake enough for the speech"
],
"near antonyms":[
"arranged",
"laid",
"prepared",
"readied",
"considered",
"contemplated",
"pondered",
"studied",
"exercised",
"practiced",
"practised",
"rehearsed"
],
"related":[
"concocted",
"contrived",
"cooked (up)",
"devised",
"fabricated",
"hatched",
"invented",
"made up",
"manufactured",
"thought (up)",
"cobbled (together or up)",
"dashed (off)"
],
"synonyms":[
"ad-libbed",
"clapped (together or up)",
"clapt (together or up)",
"extemporized",
"improvised"
]
},
"to present a false appearance of":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"while running for class president, Dan was not above faking friendship with people just to get their votes"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"related":[
"dissimulated",
"impersonated",
"let on",
"masqueraded",
"playacted",
"played",
"posed",
"forged",
"imitated",
"camouflaged",
"concealed",
"disguised",
"masked",
"feinted",
"malingered"
],
"synonyms":[
"acted",
"affected",
"assumed",
"bluffed",
"counterfeited",
"dissembled",
"feigned",
"passed (for)",
"pretended",
"professed",
"put on",
"shammed",
"simulated"
]
},
"type":[
"adjective",
"verb"
]
},
"fakeries":{
"being such in appearance only and made with or manufactured from usually cheaper materials":{
"examples":[
"opposed to the unnecessary killing of animals, she'll consider wearing only fake furs"
],
"synonyms":[
"artificial",
"bogus",
"dummy",
"ersatz",
"factitious",
"false",
"faux",
"imitation",
"imitative",
"man-made",
"mimic",
"mock",
"pretend",
"sham",
"simulated",
"substitute",
"synthetic"
],
"near synonyms":[
"cultured",
"manufactured",
"process",
"unauthentic",
"adulterated",
"designer",
"doctored",
"engineered",
"fudged",
"juggled",
"manipulated",
"tampered (with)",
"concocted",
"fabricated",
"counterfeit",
"deceptive",
"forged",
"fraudulent",
"misleading",
"phony",
"phoney",
"affected",
"brummagem",
"feigned",
"pinchbeck",
"pseudo",
"spurious"
],
"near antonyms":[
"authentic",
"bona fide",
"legitimate",
"true",
"premium",
"quality",
"valuable",
"pure",
"unadulterated"
],
"antonyms":[
"genuine",
"natural",
"real"
]
},
"being such in appearance only and made or manufactured with the intention of committing fraud":{
"examples":[
"arrested for peddling \"designer\" watches that were fake"
],
"synonyms":[
"bogus",
"counterfeit",
"false",
"forged",
"inauthentic",
"phony",
"phoney",
"queer",
"sham",
"snide",
"spurious",
"unauthentic"
],
"near synonyms":[
"artificial",
"factitious",
"imitation",
"man-made",
"mimic",
"mock",
"simulated",
"substitute",
"synthetic",
"dummy",
"nonfunctioning",
"ornamental",
"cultured",
"fabricated",
"manufactured",
"deceptive",
"delusive",
"misleading"
],
"near antonyms":[
"natural",
"actual",
"true",
"valid"
],
"antonyms":[
"authentic",
"bona fide",
"genuine",
"real",
"unfaked"
]
},
"lacking in natural or spontaneous quality":{
"examples":[
"the boss's pitiful attempts at humor were met with fake laughter"
],
"synonyms":[
"affected",
"artificial",
"assumed",
"bogus",
"contrived",
"factitious",
"false",
"feigned",
"forced",
"mechanical",
"mock",
"phony",
"phoney",
"plastic",
"pretended",
"pseudo",
"put-on",
"sham",
"simulated",
"spurious",
"strained",
"unnatural"
],
"near synonyms":[
"automatic",
"canned",
"concocted",
"fabricated",
"hokey",
"labored",
"manufactured",
"pat",
"unauthentic",
"unreal",
"unrealistic",
"double-dealing",
"empty",
"facile",
"hollow",
"hypocritical",
"insincere",
"left-handed",
"mealy",
"mealymouthed",
"two-faced",
"unctuous",
"exaggerated",
"histrionic",
"melodramatic",
"overacted",
"overdone",
"theatrical",
"theatric",
"cute",
"cutesy",
"genteel",
"goody-goody",
"mincing",
"overrefined",
"simpering",
"conventional",
"formal",
"impersonal",
"inflexible",
"rigid",
"stiff",
"stylized",
"wooden",
"artful",
"calculated",
"conscious",
"cultivated",
"deliberate",
"premeditated",
"studied"
],
"near antonyms":[
"authentic",
"bona fide",
"real",
"realistic",
"right",
"true",
"honest",
"ingenuous",
"sincere",
"unpretending",
"easy",
"effortless",
"smooth",
"extemporaneous",
"impromptu",
"impulsive",
"instinctive",
"unconscious",
"unprompted",
"unrehearsed",
"unstudied"
],
"antonyms":[
"artless",
"genuine",
"natural",
"spontaneous",
"unaffected",
"uncontrived",
"unfeigned",
"unforced"
]
},
"not being or expressing what one appears to be or express":{
"examples":[
"the fake friendliness of the sales rep made me want to gag"
],
"synonyms":[
"artificial",
"backhanded",
"counterfeit",
"double",
"double-dealing",
"double-faced",
"feigned",
"hypocritical",
"insincere",
"Janus-faced",
"jive",
"left-handed",
"lip",
"mealy",
"mealymouthed",
"Pecksniffian",
"phony",
"phoney",
"phony-baloney",
"phoney-baloney",
"pretended",
"two-faced",
"unctuous"
],
"near synonyms":[
"affected",
"assumed",
"claptrap",
"contrived",
"forced",
"mechanical",
"put-on",
"simulated",
"strained",
"unnatural",
"empty",
"hollow",
"meaningless",
"deceitful",
"devious",
"dishonest",
"false",
"untruthful",
"facile",
"glib",
"superficial",
"bogus",
"sham",
"campy",
"facetious",
"jocular",
"tongue-in-cheek",
"canting",
"pharisaical",
"pious",
"sanctimonious",
"self-righteous",
"simon-pure"
],
"near antonyms":[
"direct",
"forthright",
"frank",
"heart-to-heart",
"open",
"plain",
"straightforward"
],
"antonyms":[
"artless",
"candid",
"genuine",
"heartfelt",
"honest",
"sincere",
"undesigning",
"unfeigned"
]
},
"an imitation that is passed off as genuine":{
"examples":[
"experts declared that one of the museum's prized paintings was actually a fake"
],
"synonyms":[
"counterfeit",
"forgery",
"hoax",
"humbug",
"phony",
"phoney",
"sham"
],
"near synonyms":[
"copycat",
"knockoff",
"copy",
"facsimile",
"replica",
"reproduction",
"dummy",
"mock-up",
"fraud",
"gaff",
"imposture",
"spoof",
"swindle",
"simulation",
"synthetic",
"bastard",
"brummagem",
"duffer",
"shoddy"
],
"near antonyms":[
"original"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"one who makes false claims of identity or expertise":{
"examples":[
"a hidden-camera investigation revealed that the so-called psychic was a fake"
],
"synonyms":[
"charlatan",
"faker",
"fakir",
"fraud",
"hoaxer",
"humbug",
"impostor",
"imposter",
"mountebank",
"phony",
"phoney",
"pretender",
"quack",
"quacksalver",
"ringer",
"sham"
],
"near synonyms":[
"copycat",
"imitator",
"impersonator",
"mimic",
"actor",
"bluffer",
"counterfeiter",
"deceiver",
"dissembler",
"duper",
"feigner",
"misleader",
"operator",
"trickster",
"poseur",
"cozener",
"defrauder",
"dodger",
"fraudster",
"scammer",
"scamster",
"sharper",
"sharpie",
"sharpy",
"skinner",
"swindler"
],
"near antonyms":[
"ace",
"adept",
"authority",
"crackerjack",
"crackajack",
"expert",
"maestro",
"master",
"past master",
"professional",
"virtuoso",
"whiz",
"wizard"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to imitate or copy especially in order to deceive":{
"examples":[
"pranksters faked giant footprints and then claimed that they had seen Bigfoot"
],
"synonyms":[
"counterfeit",
"forge",
"phony"
],
"near synonyms":[
"simulate",
"duplicate",
"reduplicate",
"replicate",
"reproduce",
"crib",
"plagiarize",
"adulterate",
"doctor",
"fudge",
"juggle",
"manipulate",
"tamper (with)",
"concoct",
"cook (up)",
"fabricate",
"invent"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to present a false appearance of":{
"examples":[
"while running for class president, Dan was not above faking friendship with people just to get their votes"
],
"synonyms":[
"act",
"affect",
"assume",
"bluff",
"counterfeit",
"dissemble",
"feign",
"pass (for)",
"pretend",
"profess",
"put on",
"sham",
"simulate"
],
"near synonyms":[
"dissimulate",
"impersonate",
"let on",
"masquerade",
"play",
"playact",
"pose",
"forge",
"imitate",
"camouflage",
"conceal",
"disguise",
"mask",
"feint",
"malinger"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to perform, make, or do without preparation":{
"examples":[
"if you give me the gist of the plan, I can probably fake enough for the speech"
],
"synonyms":[
"ad-lib",
"clap (together or up)",
"extemporize",
"improvise"
],
"near synonyms":[
"concoct",
"contrive",
"cook (up)",
"devise",
"fabricate",
"hatch",
"invent",
"make up",
"manufacture",
"think (up)",
"cobble (together or up)",
"dash (off)"
],
"near antonyms":[
"arrange",
"lay",
"prepare",
"ready",
"consider",
"contemplate",
"ponder",
"study",
"exercise",
"practice",
"practise",
"rehearse"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to elude (an opponent in a sports contest) by making a deceptive or agile movement":{
"examples":[
"the running back faked the defense by stepping to his left and then quickly cutting to the right"
],
"synonyms":[
"deke",
"fake out",
"juke"
],
"near synonyms":[
"dodge",
"evade",
"sidestep",
"slip",
"pump-fake",
"stutter-step",
"maneuver (around)"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"the inclination or practice of misleading others through lies or trickery":{
"examples":[
"if the product were any good, the company wouldn't have to resort to fakery to get people to buy it"
],
"synonyms":[
"artifice",
"cheating",
"cozenage",
"craft",
"craftiness",
"crookedness",
"crookery",
"cunning",
"cunningness",
"deceit",
"deceitfulness",
"deception",
"deceptiveness",
"dishonesty",
"dissembling",
"dissimulation",
"double-dealing",
"dupery",
"duplicity",
"foxiness",
"fraud",
"guile",
"guilefulness",
"wiliness"
],
"near synonyms":[
"equivocation",
"lying",
"mendacity",
"prevarication",
"chicane",
"chicanery",
"fraudulence",
"hanky-panky",
"jugglery",
"legerdemain",
"mountebankery",
"obliquity",
"skulduggery",
"skullduggery",
"subterfuge",
"swindling",
"trickery",
"wile",
"falsehood",
"falsity",
"fib",
"untruth",
"hypocrisy",
"insincerity",
"sanctimoniousness",
"two-facedness",
"artfulness",
"caginess",
"cageyness",
"deviousness",
"shrewdness",
"treacherousness",
"underhandedness",
"unscrupulousness",
"covertness",
"furtiveness",
"secrecy",
"shadiness",
"sneakiness",
"stealthiness",
"oiliness",
"shiftiness",
"slickness",
"slipperiness",
"slyness",
"smoothness"
],
"near antonyms":[
"candidness",
"candor",
"directness",
"frankness",
"openness",
"plainness",
"plainspokenness",
"honesty",
"probity",
"dependability",
"reliability",
"reliableness",
"solidity",
"trustability",
"trustiness",
"trustworthiness",
"decency",
"goodness",
"incorruptibility",
"integrity",
"righteousness",
"truthfulness",
"uprightness",
"virtuousness"
],
"antonyms":[
"artlessness",
"forthrightness",
"good faith",
"guilelessness",
"ingenuousness",
"sincerity"
]
},
"type":[
"adjective",
"noun",
"verb"
]
},
"fakery":{
"the inclination or practice of misleading others through lies or trickery":{
"examples":[
"if the product were any good, the company wouldn't have to resort to fakery to get people to buy it"
],
"synonyms":[
"artifice",
"cheating",
"cozenage",
"craft",
"craftiness",
"crookedness",
"crookery",
"cunning",
"cunningness",
"deceit",
"deceitfulness",
"deception",
"deceptiveness",
"dishonesty",
"dissembling",
"dissimulation",
"double-dealing",
"dupery",
"duplicity",
"foxiness",
"fraud",
"guile",
"guilefulness",
"wiliness"
],
"near synonyms":[
"equivocation",
"lying",
"mendacity",
"prevarication",
"chicane",
"chicanery",
"fraudulence",
"hanky-panky",
"jugglery",
"legerdemain",
"mountebankery",
"obliquity",
"skulduggery",
"skullduggery",
"subterfuge",
"swindling",
"trickery",
"wile",
"falsehood",
"falsity",
"fib",
"untruth",
"hypocrisy",
"insincerity",
"sanctimoniousness",
"two-facedness",
"artfulness",
"caginess",
"cageyness",
"deviousness",
"shrewdness",
"treacherousness",
"underhandedness",
"unscrupulousness",
"covertness",
"furtiveness",
"secrecy",
"shadiness",
"sneakiness",
"stealthiness",
"oiliness",
"shiftiness",
"slickness",
"slipperiness",
"slyness",
"smoothness"
],
"near antonyms":[
"candidness",
"candor",
"directness",
"frankness",
"openness",
"plainness",
"plainspokenness",
"honesty",
"probity",
"dependability",
"reliability",
"reliableness",
"solidity",
"trustability",
"trustiness",
"trustworthiness",
"decency",
"goodness",
"incorruptibility",
"integrity",
"righteousness",
"truthfulness",
"uprightness",
"virtuousness"
],
"antonyms":[
"artlessness",
"forthrightness",
"good faith",
"guilelessness",
"ingenuousness",
"sincerity"
]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"fakes":{
"an imitation that is passed off as genuine":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"experts declared that one of the museum's prized paintings was actually a fake"
],
"near antonyms":[
"originals"
],
"related":[
"copycats",
"knockoffs",
"copies",
"facsimiles",
"replicas",
"reproductions",
"dummies",
"mock-ups",
"frauds",
"gaffs",
"impostures",
"spoofs",
"swindles",
"simulations",
"synthetics",
"bastards",
"brummagems",
"duffers",
"shoddies"
],
"synonyms":[
"counterfeits",
"forgeries",
"hoaxes",
"humbug",
"phonies",
"phoneys",
"shams"
]
},
"one who makes false claims of identity or expertise":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"a hidden-camera investigation revealed that the so-called psychic was a fake"
],
"near antonyms":[
"aces",
"adepts",
"authorities",
"crackerjacks",
"crackajacks",
"experts",
"maestros",
"maestri",
"masters",
"past masters",
"professionals",
"virtuosos",
"virtuosi",
"whizzes",
"wizards"
],
"related":[
"copycats",
"imitators",
"impersonators",
"mimics",
"actors",
"bluffers",
"counterfeiters",
"deceivers",
"dissemblers",
"duper",
"feigners",
"misleaders",
"operators",
"tricksters",
"poseurs",
"cozeners",
"defrauders",
"dodgers",
"fraudsters",
"scammers",
"scamsters",
"sharpers",
"sharpies",
"skinners",
"swindlers"
],
"synonyms":[
"charlatans",
"fakers",
"fakirs",
"frauds",
"hoaxers",
"humbugs",
"impostors",
"imposters",
"mountebanks",
"phonies",
"phoneys",
"pretenders",
"quacks",
"quacksalvers",
"ringers",
"shams"
]
},
"to elude (an opponent in a sports contest) by making a deceptive or agile movement":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"the running back faked the defense by stepping to his left and then quickly cutting to the right"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"related":[
"dodges",
"evades",
"sidesteps",
"slips",
"pump-fakes",
"stutter-steps",
"maneuvers (around)"
],
"synonyms":[
"dekes",
"fakes out",
"jukes"
]
},
"to imitate or copy especially in order to deceive":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"pranksters faked giant footprints and then claimed that they had seen Bigfoot"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"related":[
"simulates",
"duplicates",
"reduplicates",
"replicates",
"reproduces",
"cribs",
"plagiarizes",
"adulterates",
"doctors",
"fudges",
"juggles",
"manipulates",
"tampers (with)",
"concocts",
"cooks (up)",
"fabricates",
"invents"
],
"synonyms":[
"counterfeits",
"forges",
"phonies"
]
},
"to perform, make, or do without preparation":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"if you give me the gist of the plan, I can probably fake enough for the speech"
],
"near antonyms":[
"arranges",
"lays",
"prepares",
"readies",
"considers",
"contemplates",
"ponders",
"studies",
"exercises",
"practices",
"practises",
"rehearses"
],
"related":[
"concocts",
"contrives",
"cooks (up)",
"devises",
"fabricates",
"hatches",
"invents",
"makes up",
"manufactures",
"thinks (up)",
"cobbles (together or up)",
"dashes (off)"
],
"synonyms":[
"ad-libs",
"claps (together or up)",
"extemporizes",
"improvises"
]
},
"to present a false appearance of":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"while running for class president, Dan was not above faking friendship with people just to get their votes"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"related":[
"dissimulates",
"impersonates",
"lets on",
"masquerades",
"playacts",
"plays",
"poses",
"forges",
"imitates",
"camouflages",
"conceals",
"disguises",
"masks",
"feints",
"malingers"
],
"synonyms":[
"acts",
"affects",
"assumes",
"bluffs",
"counterfeits",
"dissembles",
"feigns",
"passes (for)",
"pretends",
"professes",
"puts on",
"shams",
"simulates"
]
},
"type":[
"noun",
"verb"
]
},
"falderal":{
"language, behavior, or ideas that are absurd and contrary to good sense":{
"examples":[
"wanted a dignified, simple wedding and not the folderol that the wedding planner was trying to foist on them"
],
"synonyms":[
"applesauce",
"balderdash",
"baloney",
"boloney",
"beans",
"bilge",
"blah",
"blah-blah",
"blarney",
"blather",
"blatherskite",
"blither",
"bosh",
"bull",
"bunk",
"bunkum",
"buncombe",
"claptrap",
"codswallop",
"crapola",
"crock",
"drivel",
"drool",
"fiddle",
"fiddle-faddle",
"fiddlesticks",
"flannel",
"flapdoodle",
"folly",
"foolishness",
"fudge",
"garbage",
"guff",
"hogwash",
"hokeypokey",
"hokum",
"hoodoo",
"hooey",
"horsefeathers",
"humbug",
"humbuggery",
"jazz",
"malarkey",
"malarky",
"moonshine",
"muck",
"nerts",
"nonsense",
"nuts",
"piffle",
"poppycock",
"punk",
"rot",
"rubbish",
"senselessness",
"silliness",
"slush",
"stupidity",
"taradiddle",
"tarradiddle",
"tommyrot",
"tosh",
"trash",
"trumpery",
"twaddle"
],
"near synonyms":[
"absurdity",
"asininity",
"fatuity",
"foolery",
"idiocy",
"imbecility",
"inaneness",
"inanity",
"insanity",
"kookiness",
"lunacy",
"absurdness",
"craziness",
"madness",
"witlessness",
"hoity-toity",
"monkey business",
"monkeyshine(s)",
"shenanigan(s)",
"tomfoolery",
"gas",
"hot air",
"rigmarole",
"rigamarole",
"double-talk",
"greek",
"hocus-pocus"
],
"near antonyms":[
"levelheadedness",
"rationality",
"reasonability",
"reasonableness",
"sensibleness",
"common sense",
"horse sense",
"sense",
"discernment",
"judgment",
"judgement",
"wisdom"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"fall":{
"to go down from an upright position suddenly and involuntarily":{
"examples":[
"better sand that walkway before somebody falls on the ice"
],
"synonyms":[
"slip",
"stumble",
"topple",
"trip",
"tumble"
],
"near synonyms":[
"collapse",
"crumple",
"drop",
"flump",
"keel",
"plop",
"plunk",
"plonk",
"slump (over)",
"crash",
"free-fall",
"nose-dive",
"plummet",
"plunge",
"precipitate",
"wipe out",
"skid",
"slide"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[
"get up",
"rise",
"stand (up)",
"uprise"
]
},
"to yield to the control or power of enemy forces":{
"examples":[
"the city fell after weeks of merciless bombardment"
],
"synonyms":[
"capitulate",
"give up",
"knuckle under",
"submit",
"succumb",
"surrender"
],
"near synonyms":[
"bow",
"buckle",
"cave (in)",
"collapse",
"give (in)",
"hand over",
"relinquish",
"lose",
"concede",
"fail",
"fold"
],
"near antonyms":[
"buck",
"defy",
"fight",
"oppose",
"repel",
"resist",
"withstand",
"beat",
"overcome",
"win",
"conquer",
"prevail",
"triumph"
],
"antonyms":[
"endure",
"stand"
]
},
"to go to a lower level especially abruptly":{
"examples":[
"word soon got out that the movie was no good, and box-office receipts fell like a rock"
],
"synonyms":[
"crash",
"crater",
"decline",
"descend",
"dip",
"dive",
"drop",
"lower",
"nose-dive",
"plummet",
"plunge",
"sink",
"skid",
"tumble"
],
"near synonyms":[
"abate",
"decrease",
"de-escalate",
"die (down)",
"diminish",
"droop",
"dwindle",
"ebb",
"lessen",
"let up",
"moderate",
"subside",
"taper off",
"wane",
"recede",
"retreat"
],
"near antonyms":[
"accumulate",
"balloon",
"build",
"burgeon",
"bourgeon",
"enlarge",
"escalate",
"expand",
"grow",
"increase",
"intensify",
"mushroom",
"pick up",
"snowball",
"swell",
"wax"
],
"antonyms":[
"arise",
"ascend",
"lift",
"mount",
"rise",
"soar",
"spike",
"up"
]
},
"to grow less in scope or intensity especially gradually":{
"examples":[
"manufacturing in the area is falling , and closing signs are going up all over"
],
"synonyms":[
"abate",
"de-escalate",
"decline",
"decrease",
"die (away or down or out)",
"diminish",
"drain (away)",
"drop (off)",
"dwindle",
"ease",
"ebb",
"fall away",
"lessen",
"let up",
"lower",
"moderate",
"pall",
"phase down",
"ratchet (down)",
"rachet (down)",
"recede",
"relent",
"remit",
"shrink",
"subside",
"taper",
"taper off",
"wane"
],
"near synonyms":[
"compress",
"condense",
"constrict",
"contract",
"evaporate",
"fade (away)",
"fritter (away)",
"give out",
"melt (away)",
"peter (out)",
"tail (off)",
"vanish",
"slacken",
"slow (down)",
"alleviate",
"relax",
"flag",
"sink",
"weaken",
"cave (in)",
"collapse",
"deflate"
],
"near antonyms":[
"appear",
"emerge",
"show up",
"blow up",
"distend",
"elongate",
"lengthen"
],
"antonyms":[
"accumulate",
"balloon",
"build",
"burgeon",
"bourgeon",
"enlarge",
"escalate",
"expand",
"grow",
"increase",
"intensify",
"mount",
"mushroom",
"pick up",
"rise",
"snowball",
"soar",
"swell",
"wax"
]
},
"to lead or extend downward":{
"examples":[
"the lake bottom falls sharply just a few feet from the shoreline, so be careful"
],
"synonyms":[
"decline",
"descend",
"dip",
"drop",
"plunge",
"sink"
],
"near synonyms":[
"angle",
"cant",
"cock",
"heel",
"incline",
"lean",
"list",
"recline",
"slant",
"slope",
"tilt",
"tip"
],
"near antonyms":[
"even",
"flatten",
"level",
"plane",
"smooth",
"straighten"
],
"antonyms":[
"arise",
"ascend",
"climb",
"mount",
"rise",
"uprise",
"upsweep",
"upturn"
]
},
"to undergo defeat":{
"examples":[
"not surprisingly, the novice player fell to a much stronger opponent"
],
"synonyms":[
"bow out",
"lose"
],
"near synonyms":[
"falter",
"tank",
"throw",
"forfeit",
"bomb",
"collapse",
"crack (up)",
"fail",
"flop",
"flunk",
"fold",
"founder",
"miss",
"strike out",
"wash out"
],
"near antonyms":[
"flourish",
"prosper",
"succeed",
"thrive"
],
"antonyms":[
"conquer",
"prevail",
"triumph",
"win"
]
},
"to commit an offense":{
"examples":[
"even saints can fall"
],
"synonyms":[
"err",
"offend",
"sin",
"stray",
"transgress",
"trespass",
"wander"
],
"near synonyms":[
"breach",
"break",
"infringe",
"violate",
"backslide",
"lapse",
"mess up"
],
"near antonyms":[
"forgive",
"justify",
"pardon",
"regret",
"repent",
"rue"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to stop living":{
"examples":[
"if their brave leader falls , the men will lose their courage"
],
"synonyms":[
"check out",
"conk (out)",
"croak",
"decease",
"demise",
"depart",
"die",
"drop",
"end",
"exit",
"expire",
"flatline",
"go",
"kick in",
"kick off",
"part",
"pass (on)",
"pass away",
"peg out",
"perish",
"pop off",
"step out",
"succumb"
],
"near synonyms":[
"predecease",
"consume",
"disappear",
"dry up",
"fade",
"fail"
],
"near antonyms":[
"come to",
"revive",
"linger",
"be",
"exist",
"subsist",
"flourish",
"prosper",
"thrive"
],
"antonyms":[
"breathe",
"live"
]
},
"the act of going down from an upright position suddenly and involuntarily":{
"examples":[
"a bad fall that resulted in several broken bones"
],
"synonyms":[
"slip",
"spill",
"stumble",
"tumble"
],
"near synonyms":[
"header",
"pratfall",
"misstep",
"trip",
"descent",
"dive",
"plunge",
"skid",
"slide",
"free-fall"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"a change to a lower state or level":{
"examples":[
"last night's record fall in temperature was a sure sign that winter's coming, like it or not"
],
"synonyms":[
"decadence",
"declension",
"declination",
"decline",
"degeneracy",
"degeneration",
"degradation",
"d\u00e9gringolade",
"descent",
"deterioration",
"devolution",
"downfall",
"downgrade",
"ebb",
"eclipse"
],
"near synonyms":[
"dark age",
"nadir",
"sunset",
"decay",
"rotting",
"spoiling",
"breakup",
"crumbling",
"decomposition",
"disintegration",
"dissolution",
"abasement",
"debasement",
"depreciation",
"lessening",
"decimation",
"demolishment",
"demolition",
"desolation",
"destruction",
"havoc",
"ruin",
"ruination",
"abatement",
"decrease",
"decrement",
"de-escalation",
"deflation",
"diminishment",
"diminution",
"dip",
"downslide",
"downtrend",
"downturn",
"drop",
"drop-off",
"falloff",
"loss",
"lowering",
"reduction",
"sag",
"shrinkage",
"slip",
"slump"
],
"near antonyms":[
"advancement",
"development",
"evolution",
"growth",
"blossoming",
"flourishing",
"flowering",
"renewal",
"restoration",
"revitalization",
"heightening",
"accretion",
"accrual",
"addendum",
"addition",
"augmentation",
"boost",
"enhancement",
"gain",
"increase",
"increment",
"raise",
"supplement"
],
"antonyms":[
"ascent",
"rise",
"upswing"
]
},
"a loss of status":{
"examples":[
"being sent back to the minor leagues was quite a fall for the once-promising pitcher"
],
"synonyms":[
"comedown",
"decline",
"d\u00e9gringolade",
"demise",
"descent",
"down",
"downfall",
"flameout",
"G\u00f6tterd\u00e4mmerung"
],
"near synonyms":[
"breakdown",
"burnout",
"collapse",
"crash",
"meltdown",
"ruin",
"undoing",
"defeat",
"disappointment",
"reversal",
"setback",
"bottom",
"nadir",
"abasement",
"disgrace",
"humiliation"
],
"near antonyms":[
"advance",
"headway",
"progress",
"flower",
"heyday",
"prime"
],
"antonyms":[
"aggrandizement",
"ascent",
"exaltation",
"rise",
"up"
]
},
"the act or process of going to a lower level or altitude":{
"examples":[
"panicked during his first unassisted fall when his parachute's rip cord didn't respond to the first tug"
],
"synonyms":[
"descent",
"dip",
"dive",
"down",
"drop",
"nosedive",
"plunge"
],
"near synonyms":[
"comedown",
"decline",
"downfall",
"downgrade",
"plummeting",
"sinking"
],
"near antonyms":[
"advance",
"headway",
"progress",
"progression",
"betterment",
"improvement"
],
"antonyms":[
"ascent",
"climb",
"rise",
"rising",
"soaring",
"upswing",
"upturn"
]
},
"the amount by which something is lessened":{
"examples":[
"that year the fall in prices was 10 cents for a gallon of regular gas"
],
"synonyms":[
"abatement",
"decline",
"decrease",
"decrement",
"dent",
"depletion",
"depression",
"diminishment",
"diminution",
"drop",
"drop-off",
"falloff",
"loss",
"reduction",
"shrinkage",
"step-down"
],
"near synonyms":[
"deduction",
"subtraction",
"downturn",
"slip",
"slump",
"curtailment",
"cut",
"cutback",
"retrenchment",
"shortening"
],
"near antonyms":[
"accretion",
"accrual",
"accumulation",
"addition",
"supplement",
"continuation",
"extension",
"upswing",
"uptrend",
"upturn"
],
"antonyms":[
"boost",
"enlargement",
"gain",
"increase",
"increment",
"raise",
"rise",
"step-up",
"uptick"
]
},
"a fall of water usually from a great height":{
"examples":[
"tourists were shocked to see a man jump into the water and go over the falls"
],
"synonyms":[
"cascade",
"cataract",
"waterfall"
],
"near synonyms":[
"flume",
"chute",
"shute",
"rapid(s)",
"shoot",
"white water"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"a downward slope":{
"examples":[
"the sharp fall of the land sends rivers rushing to the seas"
],
"synonyms":[
"declension",
"decline",
"declivity",
"descent",
"dip",
"downgrade",
"downhill",
"hang",
"hanging"
],
"near synonyms":[
"basin",
"depression",
"hollow"
],
"near antonyms":[
"glacis",
"grade",
"gradient",
"hill",
"inclination",
"incline",
"lean",
"pitch",
"rake",
"tilt"
],
"antonyms":[
"acclivity",
"ascent",
"rise",
"upgrade",
"uphill",
"uprise"
]
},
"type":[
"noun",
"verb"
]
},
"fall (off)":{
"the amount by which something is lessened":{
"antonyms":[
"boost",
"enlargement",
"gain",
"increase",
"increment",
"raise",
"rise",
"step-up",
"uptick"
],
"examples":[
"the falloff in sales was more than the store could weather and so its closing was inevitable"
],
"near antonyms":[
"accretion",
"accrual",
"accumulation",
"addition",
"supplement",
"continuation",
"extension",
"upswing",
"uptrend",
"upturn"
],
"related":[
"deduction",
"subtraction",
"downturn",
"slip",
"slump",
"curtailment",
"cut",
"cutback",
"retrenchment",
"shortening"
],
"synonyms":[
"abatement",
"decline",
"decrease",
"decrement",
"dent",
"depletion",
"depression",
"diminishment",
"diminution",
"drop",
"drop-off",
"fall",
"loss",
"reduction",
"shrinkage",
"step-down"
]
},
"to turn away from a straight line or course":{
"antonyms":[
"straighten"
],
"examples":[
"the coastline falls off toward the north after you round the bay"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"related":[
"circle",
"coil",
"curlicue",
"curl",
"loop",
"spiral",
"turn",
"twist",
"wind",
"deviate",
"veer"
],
"synonyms":[
"arc",
"arch",
"bend",
"bow",
"crook",
"curve",
"hook",
"round",
"sweep",
"swerve",
"trend",
"wheel"
]
},
"type":[
"noun",
"verb"
]
},
"fall (to)":{
"to take the first step in (a process or course of action)":{
"examples":[
"after some refreshments, she fell to working with renewed vigor"
],
"synonyms":[
"begin",
"commence",
"embark (on or upon)",
"enter (into or upon)",
"get off",
"kick off",
"launch",
"lead off",
"open",
"start",
"strike (into)"
],
"near synonyms":[
"create",
"generate",
"inaugurate",
"initiate",
"innovate",
"invent",
"originate",
"adopt",
"embrace",
"take on",
"take up",
"establish",
"father",
"found",
"institute",
"organize",
"pioneer",
"set up",
"spawn",
"get around (to)",
"get down (to)",
"get round (to)"
],
"near antonyms":[
"cease",
"desist",
"discontinue",
"halt",
"knock off",
"lay off",
"quit",
"stop",
"close",
"complete",
"abandon",
"forsake",
"leave",
"abolish",
"demolish",
"destroy",
"exterminate",
"extinguish",
"phase out"
],
"antonyms":[
"conclude",
"end",
"finish",
"terminate"
]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"fallacies":{
"a false idea or belief":{
"examples":[
"the once-common fallacy that girls just weren't any good at math"
],
"synonyms":[
"delusions",
"errors",
"falsehoods",
"falsities",
"hallucinations",
"illusions",
"misbeliefs",
"misconceptions",
"myths",
"old wives' tales",
"untruths"
],
"near synonyms":[
"factoids",
"superstitions",
"fictions",
"pretenses",
"pretences",
"distortions",
"inaccuracies",
"misapprehensions",
"miscomprehensions",
"misinterpretations",
"misjudgments",
"misperceptions",
"misunderstandings",
"misinformation",
"misknowledges",
"misreports",
"misrepresentations",
"misstatements",
"sophisms",
"sophistries",
"fibs",
"half-truths",
"lies",
"stories",
"tales"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[
"truths",
"verities"
]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"falling (off)":{
"to turn away from a straight line or course":{
"antonyms":[
"straightening"
],
"examples":[
"the coastline falls off toward the north after you round the bay"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"related":[
"circling",
"coiling",
"curlicuing",
"curling",
"looping",
"spiraling",
"spiralling",
"turning",
"twisting",
"winding",
"deviating",
"veering"
],
"synonyms":[
"arching",
"arcing",
"bending",
"bowing",
"crooking",
"curving",
"hooking",
"rounding",
"sweeping",
"swerving",
"trending",
"wheeling"
]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"falling back":{
"to move back or away (as from something difficult, dangerous, or disagreeable)":{
"examples":[
"resistance from native forces was greater than expected, and the invading army was forced to fall back"
],
"synonyms":[
"backing away",
"dropping back",
"pulling out",
"receding",
"retiring",
"retreating",
"withdrawing"
],
"near synonyms":[
"fleeing",
"flying",
"flinching",
"recoiling",
"shrinking",
"chickening (out)",
"bowing out",
"backing down",
"backpedaling",
"backtracking",
"climbing down",
"detaching",
"disengaging",
"disentangling",
"pulling away",
"abandoning",
"departing",
"evacuating",
"going",
"leaving",
"quitting",
"vacating"
],
"near antonyms":[
"bearding",
"braving",
"brazening",
"breasting",
"confronting",
"daring",
"defying",
"facing",
"outbraving"
],
"antonyms":[
"advancing"
]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"falloff":{
"the amount by which something is lessened":{
"examples":[
"the falloff in sales was more than the store could weather and so its closing was inevitable"
],
"synonyms":[
"abatement",
"decline",
"decrease",
"decrement",
"dent",
"depletion",
"depression",
"diminishment",
"diminution",
"drop",
"drop-off",
"fall",
"loss",
"reduction",
"shrinkage",
"step-down"
],
"near synonyms":[
"deduction",
"subtraction",
"downturn",
"slip",
"slump",
"curtailment",
"cut",
"cutback",
"retrenchment",
"shortening"
],
"near antonyms":[
"accretion",
"accrual",
"accumulation",
"addition",
"supplement",
"continuation",
"extension",
"upswing",
"uptrend",
"upturn"
],
"antonyms":[
"boost",
"enlargement",
"gain",
"increase",
"increment",
"raise",
"rise",
"step-up",
"uptick"
]
},
"to turn away from a straight line or course":{
"examples":[
"the coastline falls off toward the north after you round the bay"
],
"synonyms":[
"arc",
"arch",
"bend",
"bow",
"crook",
"curve",
"hook",
"round",
"sweep",
"swerve",
"trend",
"wheel"
],
"near synonyms":[
"circle",
"coil",
"curlicue",
"curl",
"loop",
"spiral",
"turn",
"twist",
"wind",
"deviate",
"veer"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[
"straighten"
]
},
"type":[
"noun",
"verb"
]
},
"falloffs":{
"the amount by which something is lessened":{
"examples":[
"the falloff in sales was more than the store could weather and so its closing was inevitable"
],
"synonyms":[
"abatements",
"declines",
"decreases",
"decrements",
"dents",
"depletions",
"depressions",
"diminishments",
"diminutions",
"drop-offs",
"drops",
"falls",
"losses",
"reductions",
"shrinkages",
"step-downs"
],
"near synonyms":[
"deductions",
"subtractions",
"downturns",
"slips",
"slumps",
"curtailments",
"cutbacks",
"cuts",
"retrenchments",
"shortenings"
],
"near antonyms":[
"accretions",
"accruals",
"accumulations",
"additions",
"supplements",
"continuations",
"extensions",
"upswings",
"uptrends",
"upturns"
],
"antonyms":[
"boosts",
"enlargements",
"gains",
"increases",
"increments",
"raises",
"rises",
"step-ups",
"upticks"
]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"falls behind":{
"to move or act slowly":{
"examples":[
"He lost his footing and fell behind in the relay."
],
"synonyms":[
"crawls",
"creeps",
"dallies",
"dawdles",
"delays",
"diddles",
"dillydallies",
"drags",
"lags",
"lingers",
"loiters",
"lollygags",
"lallygags",
"mopes",
"pokes",
"shilly-shallies",
"tarries"
],
"near synonyms":[
"fiddles (around)",
"fools around",
"messes around",
"monkeys (around)",
"plays",
"potters (around)",
"putters (around)",
"trifles",
"hangs (around or out)",
"idles",
"loafs",
"lolls",
"lounges",
"ambles",
"eases",
"inches",
"lumbers",
"plods",
"saunters",
"shuffles",
"staggers",
"strolls",
"decelerates",
"slows (down or up)",
"filibusters",
"procrastinates",
"stalls",
"temporizes"
],
"near antonyms":[
"bowls",
"breezes",
"darts",
"humps",
"hurtles",
"hustles",
"scrambles",
"stampedes",
"gallops",
"jogs",
"runs",
"sprints",
"trots",
"accelerates",
"quickens",
"speeds (up)",
"catches up",
"fast-forwards",
"outpaces",
"outruns",
"outstrips",
"overtakes"
],
"antonyms":[
"barrels",
"bolts",
"careers",
"courses",
"dashes",
"flies",
"hastens",
"hotfoots (it)",
"hurries",
"races",
"rips",
"rockets",
"runs",
"rushes",
"scoots",
"scuds",
"scurries",
"speeds",
"tears",
"whirls",
"whisks",
"whizzes",
"zips"
]
},
"type":[
"phrase"
]
},
"falls on one's face":{
"to be unsuccessful":{
"examples":[
"Remembering how she fell on her face giving the speech the first time spurred her to practice it till she had it down."
],
"synonyms":[
"bombs",
"collapses",
"craters",
"fails",
"flames out",
"flops",
"flunks",
"folds",
"founders",
"misses",
"strikes out",
"tanks",
"washes out"
],
"near synonyms":[
"flounders",
"struggles",
"declines",
"sinks",
"skids",
"slips",
"slumps",
"wanes",
"crashes",
"crumbles",
"miscarries",
"misfires",
"goes under",
"implodes",
"self-destructs"
],
"near antonyms":[
"cooks",
"flourishes",
"prospers",
"thrives",
"prevails",
"triumphs",
"wins"
],
"antonyms":[
"clicks",
"comes off",
"delivers",
"goes",
"goes over",
"pans out",
"succeeds",
"works out"
]
},
"type":[
"phrase"
]
},
"faltering":{
"a state or an instance of temporary inaction because of uncertainty about the right course of action":{
"examples":[
"when it's so clear that this is the right thing to do, there's no excuse for faltering"
],
"synonyms":[
"fence-sitting",
"hesitance",
"hesitancy",
"hesitation",
"indecision",
"irresolution",
"pause",
"shilly-shally",
"shilly-shallying",
"vacillation",
"wavering",
"wobbling",
"wabbling"
],
"near synonyms":[
"delay",
"hawing",
"procrastination",
"waiting",
"arri\u00e8re-pens\u00e9e",
"misgiving",
"second thought",
"consideration",
"debate",
"deliberation",
"doubt",
"incertitude",
"indecisiveness",
"indetermination",
"uncertainness",
"uncertainty",
"avoidance",
"equivocation",
"aversion",
"disinclination",
"indisposition",
"reluctance",
"unwillingness",
"faintheartedness",
"shyness",
"timidity",
"timidness"
],
"near antonyms":[
"certainty",
"certitude",
"confidence",
"decisiveness",
"determination",
"firmness",
"resoluteness",
"resolution",
"sureness",
"alacrity",
"eagerness",
"readiness"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"as in uncertain , unsure":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"doubtful",
"irresolute",
"questioning",
"uncertain",
"undecided",
"unsure",
"vacillating",
"wobbly",
"wabbly",
"ambivalent",
"conflicted",
"equivocal",
"afraid",
"disinclined",
"dubious",
"hesitant",
"indisposed",
"loath",
"loth",
"loathe",
"reluctant"
],
"near antonyms":[
"unambivalent",
"certain",
"decided",
"resolute",
"sure",
"unquestioning"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to show uncertainty about the right course of action":{
"examples":[
"William Lloyd Garrison never once faltered in his demand that slavery be unconditionally abolished"
],
"synonyms":[
"balancing",
"dithering",
"halting",
"hanging back",
"hesitating",
"scrupling",
"shilly-shallying",
"staggering",
"teetering",
"vacillating",
"wavering",
"wobbling",
"wabbling"
],
"near synonyms":[
"hawing",
"hemming",
"dallying",
"dawdling",
"delaying",
"lingering",
"pausing",
"procrastinating",
"waiting",
"backing down",
"chickening (out)",
"considering",
"debating",
"deliberating",
"pondering",
"weighing",
"oscillating",
"swaying",
"equivocating",
"hedging",
"pussyfooting",
"waffling"
],
"near antonyms":[
"deciding",
"budging",
"stirring",
"advancing",
"continuing"
],
"antonyms":[
"diving (in)",
"plunging (in)"
]
},
"to swing unsteadily back and forth or from side to side":{
"examples":[
"the cut tree seemed to falter for a moment before crashing to the ground"
],
"synonyms":[
"rocking",
"teetering",
"tottering",
"wavering",
"wobbling",
"wabbling"
],
"near synonyms":[
"floundering",
"lurching",
"stumbling",
"toddling",
"quaking",
"quavering",
"quivering",
"shaking",
"shuddering",
"trembling",
"vibrating",
"careening",
"reeling",
"staggering",
"weaving"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"adjective",
"noun",
"verb"
]
},
"familiarity":{
"the state of being in a very personal or private relationship":{
"examples":[
"the elderly couple enjoys a familiarity that is the result of many years of happy marriage"
],
"synonyms":[
"belonging",
"chumminess",
"closeness",
"inseparability",
"intimacy",
"nearness"
],
"near synonyms":[
"immediacy",
"affinity",
"kinship",
"commitment",
"devotedness",
"devotion",
"affection",
"attachment",
"fondness",
"love",
"passion",
"constancy",
"faithfulness",
"fidelity",
"amity",
"fellowship",
"friendship",
"goodwill",
"affability",
"conviviality",
"cordiality",
"geniality",
"mutuality",
"cliquishness",
"clubbiness"
],
"near antonyms":[
"aloofness",
"coldness",
"coolness",
"remoteness",
"reserve"
],
"antonyms":[
"distance"
]
},
"a socially improper or unsuitable act or remark":{
"examples":[
"placing his hand on my shoulder was just one familiarity by the car salesman that I did not appreciate"
],
"synonyms":[
"faux pas",
"gaff",
"gaffe",
"impropriety",
"indiscretion",
"solecism"
],
"near synonyms":[
"blunder",
"error",
"flub",
"fumble",
"goof",
"lapse",
"miscue",
"misstep",
"mistake",
"oversight",
"slip",
"slipup",
"stumble",
"discourtesy",
"incivility",
"offense",
"offence",
"boner",
"howler",
"foul-up",
"muff",
"misapprehension",
"miscalculation",
"misconception",
"misjudgment",
"misstatement",
"misunderstanding"
],
"near antonyms":[
"form",
"manners",
"mores",
"proprieties"
],
"antonyms":[
"amenity",
"attention",
"civility",
"courtesy",
"formality",
"gesture",
"pleasantry"
]
},
"knowledge gained by personal experience":{
"examples":[
"the restaurant critic's considerable familiarity with restaurant kitchens should stand her in good stead"
],
"synonyms":[
"acquaintance",
"cognizance"
],
"near synonyms":[
"association",
"experience",
"exposure",
"intimacy",
"involvement",
"initiation",
"introduction",
"awareness",
"comprehension",
"conception",
"inkling",
"notion",
"understanding",
"education",
"enlightenment",
"grounding",
"information",
"instruction",
"learning",
"schooling",
"training"
],
"near antonyms":[
"callowness",
"greenness",
"ignorance",
"inexperience"
],
"antonyms":[
"unfamiliarity"
]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"familiarizes":{
"to give information to":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"the general's day-to-day duties included familiarizing the president on international developments"
],
"near antonyms":[
"misinforms",
"misleads"
],
"related":[
"advertises",
"alerts",
"notifies",
"announces (to)",
"discloses (to)",
"assures",
"certifies",
"convinces",
"reassures",
"warrants",
"educates",
"lectures",
"schools",
"teaches",
"tutors",
"disabuses",
"disenchants",
"disillusions",
"undeceives"
],
"synonyms":[
"acquaints",
"advises",
"apprises",
"briefs",
"catches up",
"clears",
"clues (in)",
"enlightens",
"fills in",
"hips",
"informs",
"instructs",
"tells",
"verses",
"wises (up)"
]
},
"to impart knowledge of a new thing or situation to":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"one office worker is assigned with the task of familiarizing new staffers with the use of electronic equipment around the office"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"related":[
"habituates",
"wonts",
"apprises",
"briefs",
"clues (in)",
"fills in",
"informs",
"educates",
"enlightens",
"grounds",
"instructs",
"schools",
"trains",
"verses",
"exposes",
"presents",
"subjects",
"advises",
"tells",
"tips (off)",
"warns",
"wises (up)",
"reacquaints"
],
"synonyms":[
"accustoms",
"acquaints",
"initiates",
"introduces",
"orientates",
"orients"
]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"famished":{
"feeling a desire or need for food":{
"antonyms":[
"full",
"sated",
"satiate",
"satiated",
"satisfied"
],
"examples":[
"after a full day of skiing, I was feeling absolutely famished"
],
"near antonyms":[
"engorged",
"glutted",
"gorged",
"overfed",
"overfull",
"overstuffed",
"replete",
"stuffed",
"surfeited"
],
"related":[
"rapacious",
"ravenous",
"voracious",
"wolfish",
"malnourished",
"underfed",
"undernourished",
"gluttonous",
"gormandizing",
"greedy",
"hoggish",
"insatiable",
"piggish",
"piggy"
],
"synonyms":[
"empty",
"hungry",
"peckish",
"starved",
"starving"
]
},
"lacking money or material possessions":{
"antonyms":[
"affluent",
"deep-pocketed",
"fat",
"fat-cat",
"flush",
"moneyed",
"monied",
"opulent",
"rich",
"silk-stocking",
"wealthy",
"well-heeled",
"well-off",
"well-to-do"
],
"examples":[
"a group of local citizens working to ease the plight of the famished families in their community"
],
"near antonyms":[
"comfortable",
"prosperous"
],
"related":[
"deprived",
"disadvantaged",
"dispossessed",
"unaffluent",
"underprivileged",
"bankrupt",
"bankrupted",
"bust",
"busted",
"insolvent",
"possessionless",
"ruined",
"depressed",
"distressed",
"hand-to-mouth",
"hardscrabble",
"pinched",
"poorish",
"reduced",
"straitened",
"cash-strapped",
"low",
"short",
"tapped out"
],
"synonyms":[
"beggared",
"beggarly",
"broke",
"destitute",
"dirt-poor",
"down-and-out",
"hard up",
"impecunious",
"impoverished",
"indigent",
"necessitous",
"needful",
"needy",
"pauperized",
"penniless",
"penurious",
"poor",
"poverty-stricken",
"skint",
"threadbare"
]
},
"type":[
"adjective"
]
},
"fanatically":{
"as in zealously , rabidly":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"rabidly",
"warmly",
"zealously",
"avidly",
"eagerly",
"excitedly",
"impatiently",
"keenly",
"enthusiastically",
"exuberantly",
"madly",
"rhapsodically",
"sky-high"
],
"near antonyms":[
"apathetically",
"indifferently",
"lukewarmly",
"perfunctorily",
"aloofly",
"disinterestedly",
"impassively",
"incuriously",
"hesitantly",
"reluctantly",
"unwillingly"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"adverb"
]
},
"fancier":{
"a person with a strong and habitual liking for something":{
"antonyms":[
"nonfan"
],
"examples":[
"many chocolate fanciers like their favorite confection without the addition of milk or a lot of sugar"
],
"near antonyms":[
"nonadmirer",
"belittler",
"carper",
"critic",
"detractor"
],
"related":[
"groupie",
"admirer",
"amateur",
"collector",
"connoisseur",
"dilettante",
"authority",
"expert",
"adherent",
"convert",
"cultist",
"disciple",
"follower",
"hanger-on",
"votary",
"advocate",
"apostle",
"backer",
"champion",
"evangelist",
"exponent",
"friend",
"patron",
"promoter",
"proponent",
"supporter",
"partisan",
"partizan",
"zealot",
"booster",
"rooter",
"well-wisher",
"faddist"
],
"synonyms":[
"addict",
"aficionado",
"afficionado",
"buff",
"bug",
"devotee",
"enthusiast",
"fan",
"fanatic",
"fiend",
"fool",
"freak",
"habitu\u00e9",
"habitue",
"head",
"hound",
"junkie",
"junky",
"lover",
"maniac",
"maven",
"mavin",
"nut",
"sucker"
]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"fanciful":{
"conceived or made without regard for reason or reality":{
"examples":[
"she harbors the fanciful notion that she has a talent for singing"
],
"synonyms":[
"absurd",
"bizarre",
"crazy",
"fantastic",
"fantastical",
"foolish",
"insane",
"nonsensical",
"preposterous",
"unreal",
"wild"
],
"near synonyms":[
"implausible",
"inconceivable",
"incredible",
"unbelievable",
"unimaginable",
"unthinkable",
"extravagant",
"grotesque",
"bizarro",
"curious",
"eccentric",
"far-out",
"funny",
"kinky",
"kooky",
"kookie",
"odd",
"outlandish",
"out-of-the-way",
"outr\u00e9",
"peculiar",
"quaint",
"queer",
"queerish",
"quirky",
"screwy",
"strange",
"wacky",
"whacky",
"way-out",
"weird",
"farcical",
"laughable",
"ludicrous",
"ridiculous",
"Alice-in-Wonderland",
"Kafkaesque",
"nightmarish",
"dreamlike",
"surreal"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[
"realistic",
"reasonable"
]
},
"not real and existing only in the imagination":{
"examples":[
"the fanciful creatures that J.R.R. Tolkien created for his Middle Earth novels"
],
"synonyms":[
"chimerical",
"chimeric",
"fabulous",
"fantasied",
"fantastic",
"fantastical",
"fictional",
"fictitious",
"ideal",
"imaginal",
"imaginary",
"imagined",
"invented",
"made-up",
"make-believe",
"mythical",
"mythic",
"notional",
"phantasmal",
"phantasmic",
"phantom",
"pretend",
"unreal",
"visionary"
],
"near synonyms":[
"fabled",
"legendary",
"romantic",
"abstract",
"hypothetical",
"theoretical",
"theoretic",
"unbelievable",
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"illusory",
"phantasmagoric",
"phantasmagorical",
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"fabricated",
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"inexistent",
"nonexistent"
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"genuine",
"true",
"factual",
"verifiable",
"verified",
"believable",
"convincing",
"realistic",
"corporeal",
"material",
"physical",
"solid",
"substantial",
"palpable",
"tangible"
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"actual",
"existent",
"existing",
"real"
]
},
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"adjective"
]
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"bloated",
"grandiose",
"inflated",
"pompous",
"pretentious",
"stilted",
"aureate",
"florid",
"flowery",
"grandiloquent",
"highfalutin",
"hifalutin",
"high-flown",
"high-sounding",
"magnific",
"ornate",
"purple",
"rhetorical",
"rhetoric",
"excessive",
"flattering",
"fulsome",
"boastful",
"bombastic",
"elevated",
"eloquent",
"lofty",
"bookish",
"inkhorn",
"learned"
],
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"prosaic",
"unpoetic",
"bald",
"direct",
"lean",
"matter-of-fact",
"plain",
"plainspoken",
"simple",
"spare",
"stark",
"straightforward",
"unadorned",
"natural",
"unaffected",
"unpretentious"
],
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},
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"adjective"
]
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"to form a mental picture of":{
"examples":[
"try to fancy , if you can, our mother on an elephant when she was touring India"
],
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"conceiting",
"conceiving",
"conjuring (up)",
"dreaming",
"envisaging",
"envisioning",
"fantasizing",
"fantasying",
"featuring",
"ideating",
"imaging",
"imagining",
"picturing",
"seeing",
"visioning",
"visualizing"
],
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"daydreaming",
"stargazing",
"hallucinating",
"re-creating",
"recreating",
"reflecting",
"reliving",
"reminiscing",
"contemplating",
"meditating",
"musing",
"pondering",
"ruminating",
"concocting",
"fabricating",
"inventing",
"making up",
"manufacturing",
"planning",
"projecting",
"foreseeing",
"prefiguring"
],
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},
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"examples":[
"the teacher didn't fancy the idea of failing the student, even if he was the class clown"
],
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"adoring",
"delighting (in)",
"digging",
"enjoying",
"getting off (on)",
"grooving (on)",
"liking",
"loving",
"rejoicing (in)",
"relishing",
"reveling (in)",
"revelling (in)",
"savoring",
"savouring"
],
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"admiring",
"appreciating",
"cherishing",
"revering",
"venerating",
"worshipping",
"worshiping",
"prizing",
"treasuring",
"valuing",
"devouring",
"drinking (in)",
"eating (up)",
"feasting (on)",
"doting (on)",
"idolizing",
"cottoning (to)",
"favoring",
"preferring",
"indulging (in)",
"luxuriating (in)",
"wallowing (in)"
],
"near antonyms":[
"abhorring",
"abominating",
"detesting",
"disliking",
"hating",
"loathing",
"condemning",
"despising",
"scorning"
],
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},
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"fancywork":{
"as in embroidery , appliqu\u00e9":{
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"appliqu\u00e9",
"embossment",
"embroidery",
"enhancement",
"enrichment",
"improvement",
"bedizenment",
"gilt",
"glitter",
"fal-lal",
"flounce",
"flourish",
"furbelow",
"ruffle",
"design",
"figure",
"pattern",
"apparel",
"bells and whistles",
"blazonry",
"bric-a-brac",
"chichi",
"emblazonry",
"filigree",
"finery",
"foofaraw",
"frippery",
"frosting",
"froufrou",
"furnishings",
"regalia",
"trappings",
"adornment",
"beautifier",
"caparison",
"decoration",
"doodad",
"embellisher",
"embellishment",
"frill",
"garnish",
"garnishment",
"garniture",
"ornament",
"ornamentation",
"setoff",
"trim"
],
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"blemish",
"defacement",
"disfigurement",
"scar",
"blot",
"spot",
"stain"
],
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},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
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"the accordionist smoothly fanned out the bellows of his instrument as he played"
],
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"extended",
"flared (out)",
"opened",
"outspread",
"outstretched",
"spread (out)",
"stretched (out)",
"unfolded",
"unfurled"
],
"near synonyms":[
"overspread"
],
"near antonyms":[
"compacted",
"compressed",
"condensed",
"reduced"
],
"antonyms":[
"closed",
"contracted",
"folded"
]
},
"to extend outwards from or as if from a central point":{
"examples":[
"most of the city's subway lines fan out from this central station"
],
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"branched",
"radiated",
"rayed"
],
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"diffused",
"dispelled",
"dispersed",
"dissipated",
"forked",
"stemmed",
"diverged",
"divided",
"parted",
"ramified",
"separated",
"split",
"uncoupled",
"unlinked",
"unyoked",
"scattered",
"splayed",
"spread",
"arose",
"derived",
"emanated",
"flowed",
"issued",
"proceeded",
"sprang",
"sprung"
],
"near antonyms":[
"approached",
"closed in (on)",
"neared",
"centered (on)",
"centralized",
"connected",
"coupled",
"joined",
"linked",
"united"
],
"antonyms":[
"concentrated",
"converged",
"focused",
"focussed",
"funneled",
"funnelled",
"met"
]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
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"not real and existing only in the imagination":{
"examples":[
"most of those auditioning had only a fantasied talent for singing"
],
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"chimerical",
"chimeric",
"fabulous",
"fanciful",
"fantastic",
"fantastical",
"fictional",
"fictitious",
"ideal",
"imaginal",
"imaginary",
"imagined",
"invented",
"made-up",
"make-believe",
"mythical",
"mythic",
"notional",
"phantasmal",
"phantasmic",
"phantom",
"pretend",
"unreal",
"visionary"
],
"near synonyms":[
"fabled",
"legendary",
"romantic",
"abstract",
"hypothetical",
"theoretical",
"theoretic",
"unbelievable",
"unconvincing",
"unlikely",
"conceived",
"envisaged",
"envisioned",
"pictured",
"visualized",
"daydreamlike",
"deceptive",
"delusional",
"delusive",
"hallucinatory",
"illusory",
"phantasmagoric",
"phantasmagorical",
"concocted",
"fabricated",
"feigned",
"fictive",
"inexistent",
"nonexistent"
],
"near antonyms":[
"authentic",
"genuine",
"true",
"factual",
"verifiable",
"verified",
"believable",
"convincing",
"realistic",
"corporeal",
"material",
"physical",
"solid",
"substantial",
"palpable",
"tangible"
],
"antonyms":[
"actual",
"existent",
"existing",
"real"
]
},
"to form a mental picture of":{
"examples":[
"She regularly fantasies exciting adventures."
],
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"conceited",
"conceived",
"conjured (up)",
"dreamed",
"dreamt",
"envisaged",
"envisioned",
"fancied",
"fantasized",
"featured",
"ideated",
"imaged",
"imagined",
"pictured",
"saw",
"visioned",
"visualized"
],
"near synonyms":[
"daydreamed",
"stargazed",
"hallucinated",
"re-created",
"recreated",
"reflected",
"relived",
"reminisced",
"contemplated",
"meditated",
"mused",
"pondered",
"ruminated",
"concocted",
"fabricated",
"invented",
"made up",
"manufactured",
"planned",
"projected",
"foresaw",
"prefigured"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"adjective",
"verb"
]
},
"fantasizing":{
"to form a mental picture of":{
"examples":[
"all those lottery players fantasizing themselves as living in extravagant luxury"
],
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"conceiting",
"conceiving",
"conjuring (up)",
"dreaming",
"envisaging",
"envisioning",
"fancying",
"fantasying",
"featuring",
"ideating",
"imaging",
"imagining",
"picturing",
"seeing",
"visioning",
"visualizing"
],
"near synonyms":[
"daydreaming",
"stargazing",
"hallucinating",
"re-creating",
"recreating",
"reflecting",
"reliving",
"reminiscing",
"contemplating",
"meditating",
"musing",
"pondering",
"ruminating",
"concocting",
"fabricating",
"inventing",
"making up",
"manufacturing",
"planning",
"projecting",
"foreseeing",
"prefiguring"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"fantast":{
"one whose conduct is guided more by the image of perfection than by the real world":{
"antonyms":[
"hardnose",
"pragmatist",
"realist"
],
"examples":[
"yet another short-lived utopian community that was the brainchild of a naive fantast"
],
"near antonyms":[
"cynic",
"defeatist",
"pessimist",
"empiric",
"empiricist"
],
"related":[
"emotionalist",
"sentimentalist",
"daydreamer",
"fantasizer",
"woolgatherer",
"Micawber",
"optimist",
"Pollyanna",
"do-gooder",
"reformer",
"perfectionist",
"doctrinaire",
"theorist",
"thinker"
],
"synonyms":[
"Don Quixote",
"dreamer",
"idealist",
"idealizer",
"ideologue",
"idealogue",
"romantic",
"romanticist",
"utopian",
"visionary"
]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"fantastic":{
"conceived or made without regard for reason or reality":{
"examples":[
"a fantastic scheme for getting rich quick"
],
"synonyms":[
"absurd",
"bizarre",
"crazy",
"fanciful",
"foolish",
"insane",
"nonsensical",
"preposterous",
"unreal",
"wild"
],
"near synonyms":[
"implausible",
"inconceivable",
"incredible",
"unbelievable",
"unimaginable",
"unthinkable",
"extravagant",
"grotesque",
"bizarro",
"curious",
"eccentric",
"far-out",
"funny",
"kinky",
"kooky",
"kookie",
"odd",
"outlandish",
"out-of-the-way",
"outr\u00e9",
"peculiar",
"quaint",
"queer",
"queerish",
"quirky",
"screwy",
"strange",
"wacky",
"whacky",
"way-out",
"weird",
"farcical",
"laughable",
"ludicrous",
"ridiculous",
"Alice-in-Wonderland",
"Kafkaesque",
"nightmarish",
"dreamlike",
"surreal"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[
"realistic",
"reasonable"
]
},
"excitingly or mysteriously unusual":{
"examples":[
"to European explorers, the Far East was a fantastic land filled with unimaginable riches"
],
"synonyms":[
"bizarro",
"exotic",
"glamorous",
"glamourous",
"marvelous",
"marvellous",
"outlandish",
"romantic",
"strange"
],
"near synonyms":[
"colorful",
"picture-book",
"picturesque",
"quaint",
"alien",
"foreign",
"dark",
"distant",
"faraway",
"remote",
"alluring",
"captivating",
"enchanting",
"fascinating",
"magical"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[
"familiar",
"nonexotic",
"nonglamorous",
"plain-Jane",
"unexotic",
"unglamorous",
"unromantic"
]
},
"not real and existing only in the imagination":{
"examples":[
"a science fiction writer who can conjure up fantastic worlds and make them seem as real as our own"
],
"synonyms":[
"chimerical",
"chimeric",
"fabulous",
"fanciful",
"fantasied",
"fictional",
"fictitious",
"ideal",
"imaginal",
"imaginary",
"imagined",
"invented",
"made-up",
"make-believe",
"mythical",
"mythic",
"notional",
"phantasmal",
"phantasmic",
"phantom",
"pretend",
"unreal",
"visionary"
],
"near synonyms":[
"fabled",
"legendary",
"romantic",
"abstract",
"hypothetical",
"theoretical",
"theoretic",
"unbelievable",
"unconvincing",
"unlikely",
"conceived",
"envisaged",
"envisioned",
"pictured",
"visualized",
"daydreamlike",
"deceptive",
"delusional",
"delusive",
"hallucinatory",
"illusory",
"phantasmagoric",
"phantasmagorical",
"concocted",
"fabricated",
"feigned",
"fictive",
"inexistent",
"nonexistent"
],
"near antonyms":[
"authentic",
"genuine",
"true",
"factual",
"verifiable",
"verified",
"believable",
"convincing",
"realistic",
"corporeal",
"material",
"physical",
"solid",
"substantial",
"palpable",
"tangible"
],
"antonyms":[
"actual",
"existent",
"existing",
"real"
]
},
"too extraordinary or improbable to believe":{
"examples":[
"concocted some fantastic story to try to explain why they had returned home so late"
],
"synonyms":[
"implausible",
"inconceivable",
"incredible",
"incredulous",
"unbelievable",
"uncompelling",
"unconceivable",
"unconvincing",
"unimaginable",
"unthinkable"
],
"near synonyms":[
"debatable",
"disputable",
"dodgy",
"doubtable",
"doubtful",
"dubious",
"dubitable",
"far-fetched",
"fishy",
"flimsy",
"questionable",
"shaky",
"suspect",
"suspicious",
"unlikely",
"unreasonable",
"hopeless",
"impossible",
"absurd",
"comical",
"farcical",
"laughable",
"ludicrous",
"outlandish",
"preposterous",
"ridiculous",
"risible",
"silly",
"indefensible",
"insupportable",
"untenable"
],
"near antonyms":[
"likely",
"possible",
"probable",
"reasonable",
"certain",
"incontestable",
"indisputable",
"indubitable",
"questionless",
"sure",
"undeniable",
"undoubted",
"unquestionable"
],
"antonyms":[
"believable",
"cogitable",
"conceivable",
"convincing",
"credible",
"creditable",
"imaginable",
"plausible",
"supposable",
"thinkable"
]
},
"of the very best kind":{
"examples":[
"surfing conditions were simply fantastic"
],
"synonyms":[
"A-OK",
"A1",
"awesome",
"bang-up",
"banner",
"beautiful",
"blue-chip",
"blue-ribbon",
"boffo",
"bonny",
"bonnie",
"boss",
"brag",
"brave",
"bully",
"bumper",
"capital",
"choice",
"classic",
"cool",
"corking",
"crackerjack",
"cracking",
"dandy",
"divine",
"dope",
"down",
"dynamite",
"excellent",
"fab",
"fabulous",
"famous",
"fantabulous",
"fine",
"first-class",
"first-rate",
"first-string",
"five-star",
"four-star",
"frontline",
"gangbusters",
"gangbuster",
"gilt-edged",
"gilt-edge",
"gone",
"grand",
"great",
"groovy",
"heavenly",
"high-class",
"hot",
"hype",
"immense",
"jim-dandy",
"keen",
"lovely",
"marvelous",
"marvellous",
"mean",
"neat",
"nifty",
"noble",
"number one",
"No. 1",
"numero uno",
"out-of-sight",
"par excellence",
"peachy",
"peachy keen",
"phat",
"prime",
"primo",
"prize",
"prizewinning",
"quality",
"radical",
"righteous",
"sensational",
"slick",
"splendid",
"stellar",
"sterling",
"superb",
"superior",
"superlative",
"supernal",
"swell",
"terrific",
"tip-top",
"top",
"top-notch",
"top-of-the-line",
"top-shelf",
"topflight",
"topping",
"unsurpassed",
"wizard",
"wonderful"
],
"near synonyms":[
"acceptable",
"adequate",
"all right",
"decent",
"good",
"OK",
"okay",
"passable",
"satisfactory",
"tolerable",
"better",
"exceptional",
"fancy",
"high-grade",
"high-test",
"premium",
"select",
"special",
"superfine",
"classical",
"standard",
"traditional"
],
"near antonyms":[
"bad",
"inferior",
"low-grade",
"substandard",
"unsatisfactory",
"mediocre",
"middling",
"second-class",
"second-rate"
],
"antonyms":[
"atrocious",
"awful",
"execrable",
"lousy",
"pathetic",
"poor",
"rotten",
"terrible",
"vile",
"wretched"
]
},
"type":[
"adjective"
]
},
"fantastical":{
"conceived or made without regard for reason or reality":{
"examples":[
"a fantastic scheme for getting rich quick"
],
"synonyms":[
"absurd",
"bizarre",
"crazy",
"fanciful",
"foolish",
"insane",
"nonsensical",
"preposterous",
"unreal",
"wild"
],
"near synonyms":[
"implausible",
"inconceivable",
"incredible",
"unbelievable",
"unimaginable",
"unthinkable",
"extravagant",
"grotesque",
"bizarro",
"curious",
"eccentric",
"far-out",
"funny",
"kinky",
"kooky",
"kookie",
"odd",
"outlandish",
"out-of-the-way",
"outr\u00e9",
"peculiar",
"quaint",
"queer",
"queerish",
"quirky",
"screwy",
"strange",
"wacky",
"whacky",
"way-out",
"weird",
"farcical",
"laughable",
"ludicrous",
"ridiculous",
"Alice-in-Wonderland",
"Kafkaesque",
"nightmarish",
"dreamlike",
"surreal"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[
"realistic",
"reasonable"
]
},
"excitingly or mysteriously unusual":{
"examples":[
"to European explorers, the Far East was a fantastic land filled with unimaginable riches"
],
"synonyms":[
"bizarro",
"exotic",
"glamorous",
"glamourous",
"marvelous",
"marvellous",
"outlandish",
"romantic",
"strange"
],
"near synonyms":[
"colorful",
"picture-book",
"picturesque",
"quaint",
"alien",
"foreign",
"dark",
"distant",
"faraway",
"remote",
"alluring",
"captivating",
"enchanting",
"fascinating",
"magical"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[
"familiar",
"nonexotic",
"nonglamorous",
"plain-Jane",
"unexotic",
"unglamorous",
"unromantic"
]
},
"not real and existing only in the imagination":{
"examples":[
"a science fiction writer who can conjure up fantastic worlds and make them seem as real as our own"
],
"synonyms":[
"chimerical",
"chimeric",
"fabulous",
"fanciful",
"fantasied",
"fictional",
"fictitious",
"ideal",
"imaginal",
"imaginary",
"imagined",
"invented",
"made-up",
"make-believe",
"mythical",
"mythic",
"notional",
"phantasmal",
"phantasmic",
"phantom",
"pretend",
"unreal",
"visionary"
],
"near synonyms":[
"fabled",
"legendary",
"romantic",
"abstract",
"hypothetical",
"theoretical",
"theoretic",
"unbelievable",
"unconvincing",
"unlikely",
"conceived",
"envisaged",
"envisioned",
"pictured",
"visualized",
"daydreamlike",
"deceptive",
"delusional",
"delusive",
"hallucinatory",
"illusory",
"phantasmagoric",
"phantasmagorical",
"concocted",
"fabricated",
"feigned",
"fictive",
"inexistent",
"nonexistent"
],
"near antonyms":[
"authentic",
"genuine",
"true",
"factual",
"verifiable",
"verified",
"believable",
"convincing",
"realistic",
"corporeal",
"material",
"physical",
"solid",
"substantial",
"palpable",
"tangible"
],
"antonyms":[
"actual",
"existent",
"existing",
"real"
]
},
"too extraordinary or improbable to believe":{
"examples":[
"concocted some fantastic story to try to explain why they had returned home so late"
],
"synonyms":[
"implausible",
"inconceivable",
"incredible",
"incredulous",
"unbelievable",
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"blue-chip",
"blue-ribbon",
"boffo",
"bonny",
"bonnie",
"boss",
"brag",
"brave",
"bully",
"bumper",
"capital",
"choice",
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"corking",
"crackerjack",
"cracking",
"dandy",
"divine",
"dope",
"down",
"dynamite",
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"fab",
"fabulous",
"famous",
"fantabulous",
"fine",
"first-class",
"first-rate",
"first-string",
"five-star",
"four-star",
"frontline",
"gangbusters",
"gangbuster",
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"gilt-edge",
"gone",
"grand",
"great",
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"jim-dandy",
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"marvellous",
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"nifty",
"noble",
"number one",
"No. 1",
"numero uno",
"out-of-sight",
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"peachy",
"peachy keen",
"phat",
"prime",
"primo",
"prize",
"prizewinning",
"quality",
"radical",
"righteous",
"sensational",
"slick",
"splendid",
"stellar",
"sterling",
"superb",
"superior",
"superlative",
"supernal",
"swell",
"terrific",
"tip-top",
"top",
"top-notch",
"top-of-the-line",
"top-shelf",
"topflight",
"topping",
"unsurpassed",
"wizard",
"wonderful"
],
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"adequate",
"all right",
"decent",
"good",
"OK",
"okay",
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"satisfactory",
"tolerable",
"better",
"exceptional",
"fancy",
"high-grade",
"high-test",
"premium",
"select",
"special",
"superfine",
"classical",
"standard",
"traditional"
],
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"inferior",
"low-grade",
"substandard",
"unsatisfactory",
"mediocre",
"middling",
"second-class",
"second-rate"
],
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"awful",
"execrable",
"lousy",
"pathetic",
"poor",
"rotten",
"terrible",
"vile",
"wretched"
]
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"a community production of the classic musical that featured fantastically bad singing"
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"almighty",
"archly",
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"awfully",
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"beastly",
"blisteringly",
"bone",
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"corking",
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"jolly",
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"mighty",
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"rattling",
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"right",
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"spanking",
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"stinking",
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"supremely",
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"thumping",
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"unco",
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"wicked",
"wildly"
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"plainly",
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"scantily",
"barely",
"hardly",
"just",
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"scarcely"
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]
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"the solid advice that if you can't say something good about a person, it is far better to say nothing at all"
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"almighty",
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"awfully",
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"blisteringly",
"bone",
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"cracking",
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"right",
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"spanking",
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"thumping",
"too",
"unco",
"uncommonly",
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"very",
"vitally",
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"whacking",
"wicked",
"wildly"
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"altogether",
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"downright",
"entirely",
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"plainly",
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"scantily",
"barely",
"hardly",
"just",
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"minimally",
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"the primitive rafts that ancient peoples built for their far journeys across the wide expanses of Oceania"
],
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"great",
"lengthy",
"long",
"long-drawn-out",
"long-drawn",
"long-lived",
"long-term",
"marathon"
],
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"aeonian",
"aeonic",
"endless",
"everlasting",
"interminable",
"persistent",
"longish",
"overlong",
"prolonged",
"protracted",
"permanent",
"all-day",
"all-night",
"multiday",
"multiyear"
],
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"abrupt",
"sudden",
"abbreviated",
"condensed",
"curtailed",
"shortened",
"ephemeral",
"fleeting",
"momentary",
"transient",
"transitory",
"impermanent",
"short-range"
],
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"little",
"mini",
"short",
"shortish",
"short-lived",
"short-term"
]
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"examples":[
"the dream of someday sending manned spacecraft to explore the far reaches of our solar system"
],
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"deep",
"distant",
"far-flung",
"far-off",
"faraway",
"remote",
"removed"
],
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"apart",
"devious",
"isolated",
"lonesome",
"nowhere",
"obscure",
"odd",
"outlying",
"out-of-the-way",
"retired",
"secluded",
"secret",
"sequestered"
],
"near antonyms":[
"adjacent",
"adjoining",
"contiguous"
],
"antonyms":[
"close",
"near",
"nearby",
"nigh"
]
},
"type":[
"adjective",
"adverb"
]
},
"fare":{
"substances intended to be eaten":{
"examples":[
"that restaurant is well-known for serving only fresh, seasonal fare from local suppliers"
],
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"bread",
"chow",
"chuck",
"comestibles",
"eatables",
"eats",
"edibles",
"food",
"foodstuffs",
"grub",
"meat",
"provender",
"provisions",
"table",
"tucker",
"viands",
"victuals",
"vittles"
],
"near synonyms":[
"commissary",
"rations",
"supplies",
"aliment",
"nutriment",
"diet",
"nourishment",
"nurture",
"sustenance",
"mess",
"pap",
"ensilage",
"feed",
"fodder",
"forage",
"silage",
"slop",
"swill",
"feast",
"meal",
"refreshments",
"regale",
"repast",
"spread",
"board",
"dish",
"plate",
"platter",
"serving",
"finger food",
"natural food"
],
"near antonyms":[
"bane",
"poison",
"toxin",
"venom"
],
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"to meet one's day-to-day needs":{
"examples":[
"residents of the flood-ravaged town are faring much better than one might have expected"
],
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"cope",
"do",
"get along",
"get by",
"get on",
"make out",
"manage",
"shift"
],
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"carry on",
"contrive",
"scrape (by or through)",
"scrounge",
"last",
"survive",
"eke out",
"scrape (out)",
"squeeze",
"wrest",
"wring",
"afford",
"swing"
],
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"collapse",
"fail",
"fall short",
"fizzle",
"flounder",
"decline",
"peter (out)",
"slump",
"wane",
"give up"
],
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"examples":[
"families can be seen faring along the road to the campground while driving or towing all manner of conveyance"
],
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"come",
"come along",
"do",
"forge",
"get along",
"get on",
"go",
"go along",
"go off",
"march",
"pace",
"proceed",
"progress"
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"accelerate",
"fast-forward",
"speed",
"approach",
"near",
"journey",
"pass",
"repair",
"run",
"travel",
"wend",
"actuate",
"drive",
"impel",
"propel",
"push",
"take out"
],
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"arrest",
"balk",
"block",
"check",
"detain",
"halt",
"hinder",
"hold back",
"impede",
"nip",
"obstruct",
"slow (down or up)",
"stem",
"repress",
"retard",
"stunt",
"suppress",
"delay",
"interrupt",
"stall",
"cramp",
"hamper",
"inhibit",
"cease",
"let up",
"pause",
"regress",
"wait"
],
"antonyms":[
"remain",
"stand",
"stay",
"stop"
]
},
"to take a meal":{
"examples":[
"diners at this charming country inn will fare sumptuously in an authentic colonial atmosphere"
],
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"dine",
"eat",
"feed",
"partake",
"refresh",
"victual"
],
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"banquet",
"feast",
"repast",
"chow (down)",
"dig in",
"glut",
"gorge",
"gormandize",
"overeat",
"overfeed",
"pig out",
"graze",
"nibble",
"nosh",
"pick",
"snack",
"board",
"mess",
"dine out",
"breakfast",
"lunch",
"sup",
"picnic"
],
"near antonyms":[
"diet",
"fast"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun",
"verb"
]
},
"farthermost":{
"most distant from a center":{
"examples":[
"it's a long trip to a major hospital for residents of the farthermost corners of the state"
],
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"extreme",
"farthest",
"furthermost",
"furthest",
"outermost",
"outmost",
"remotest",
"ultimate",
"utmost"
],
"near synonyms":[
"aftermost",
"rearmost",
"sternmost"
],
"near antonyms":[
"intermediate",
"medial",
"median",
"mid",
"middle",
"midmost"
],
"antonyms":[
"inmost",
"innermost",
"nearest"
]
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"type":[
"adjective"
]
},
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"to bring into being by combining, shaping, or transforming materials":{
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"for the Christmas pageant the boy's mother was able to fashion the length of fabric into something that could pass as a shepherd's outfit"
],
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"disassembled",
"dismantled",
"took apart",
"broke up",
"dismembered",
"abolished",
"annihilated",
"demolished",
"destroyed",
"devastated",
"eradicated",
"exterminated",
"extinguished",
"flattened",
"pulverized",
"razed",
"ruined",
"shattered",
"smashed",
"wrecked",
"blew up",
"exploded"
],
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"built",
"constructed",
"erected",
"made up",
"put up",
"raised",
"reared",
"set up",
"structured",
"threw up",
"crafted",
"handcrafted",
"hewed",
"forged",
"molded",
"shaped",
"cobbled (together or up)",
"knocked out",
"patched (together)",
"threw up",
"prefabricated",
"created",
"invented",
"minted",
"originated",
"established",
"fathered",
"instituted",
"organized",
"concocted",
"contrived",
"cooked (up)",
"designed",
"devised",
"imagined",
"thought (up)",
"conceived",
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"pictured",
"visualized",
"refashioned",
"remade",
"remanufactured"
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"formed",
"framed",
"made",
"manufactured",
"produced"
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"examples":[
"the ex-governor seems to be fashioning his political beliefs to win favor with a more conservative national electorate"
],
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"misadjusted"
],
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"readjusted",
"customized",
"geared",
"matched",
"modeled",
"modelled",
"patterned",
"attuned",
"corrected",
"harmonized",
"squared",
"tuned",
"established",
"rooted",
"settled",
"acquainted",
"familiarized",
"orientated",
"oriented",
"equipped",
"prepared",
"primed",
"rehearsed",
"hardened",
"inured",
"seasoned",
"toughened",
"altered",
"converted",
"made over",
"modified",
"recast",
"reclaimed",
"recycled",
"redesigned",
"redeveloped",
"redid",
"reengineered",
"refashioned",
"refigured",
"refitted",
"refocused",
"reinvented",
"rejiggered",
"remade",
"remodeled",
"revamped",
"revised",
"reworked",
"transformed",
"accustomed",
"habilitated",
"habituated",
"naturalized",
"readied",
"trained",
"bent",
"fiddled (with)",
"fine-tuned",
"phased",
"registered",
"regulated",
"rigged"
],
"synonyms":[
"acclimated",
"acclimatized",
"accommodated",
"adapted",
"adjusted",
"conditioned",
"conformed",
"doctored",
"edited",
"fitted",
"fit",
"put",
"shaped",
"suited",
"tailored"
]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
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"to bring into being by combining, shaping, or transforming materials":{
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"examples":[
"for the Christmas pageant the boy's mother was able to fashion the length of fabric into something that could pass as a shepherd's outfit"
],
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"disassembling",
"dismantling",
"taking apart",
"breaking up",
"dismembering",
"abolishing",
"annihilating",
"demolishing",
"destroying",
"devastating",
"eradicating",
"exterminating",
"extinguishing",
"flattening",
"pulverizing",
"razing",
"ruining",
"shattering",
"smashing",
"wrecking",
"blowing up",
"exploding"
],
"related":[
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"building",
"constructing",
"erecting",
"making up",
"putting up",
"raising",
"rearing",
"setting up",
"structuring",
"throwing up",
"crafting",
"handcrafting",
"hewing",
"forging",
"molding",
"shaping",
"cobbling (together or up)",
"knocking out",
"patching (together)",
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"creating",
"inventing",
"minting",
"originating",
"establishing",
"fathering",
"instituting",
"organizing",
"concocting",
"contriving",
"cooking (up)",
"designing",
"devising",
"imagining",
"thinking (up)",
"conceiving",
"envisaging",
"picturing",
"visualizing",
"refashioning",
"remaking",
"remanufacturing"
],
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"forming",
"framing",
"making",
"manufacturing",
"producing"
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"examples":[
"the ex-governor seems to be fashioning his political beliefs to win favor with a more conservative national electorate"
],
"near antonyms":[
"misadjusting"
],
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"readjusting",
"customizing",
"gearing",
"matching",
"modeling",
"modelling",
"patterning",
"attuning",
"correcting",
"harmonizing",
"squaring",
"tuning",
"establishing",
"rooting",
"settling",
"acquainting",
"familiarizing",
"orientating",
"orienting",
"equipping",
"preparing",
"priming",
"rehearsing",
"hardening",
"inuring",
"seasoning",
"toughening",
"altering",
"converting",
"making over",
"modifying",
"recasting",
"reclaiming",
"recycling",
"redesigning",
"redeveloping",
"redoing",
"reengineering",
"refashioning",
"refiguring",
"refitting",
"refocusing",
"reinventing",
"rejiggering",
"remaking",
"remodeling",
"revamping",
"revising",
"reworking",
"transforming",
"accustoming",
"habilitating",
"habituating",
"naturalizing",
"readying",
"training",
"bending",
"fiddling (with)",
"fine-tuning",
"phasing",
"registering",
"regulating",
"rigging"
],
"synonyms":[
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"acclimatizing",
"accommodating",
"adapting",
"adjusting",
"conditioning",
"conforming",
"doctoring",
"editing",
"fitting",
"putting",
"shaping",
"suiting",
"tailoring"
]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"fast":{
"with great speed":{
"examples":[
"run as fast as you can to get help"
],
"synonyms":[
"apace",
"briskly",
"chop-chop",
"double-quick",
"fleetly",
"full tilt",
"hastily",
"hell-for-leather",
"hot",
"lickety-split",
"posthaste",
"presto",
"pronto",
"quick",
"quickly",
"rapidly",
"snappily",
"soon",
"speedily",
"swift",
"swiftly"
],
"near synonyms":[
"immediately",
"promptly",
"readily",
"impetuously",
"impulsively",
"rashly",
"recklessly",
"abruptly",
"suddenly",
"energetically",
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"lingeringly",
"ploddingly",
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"deliberately",
"leisurely",
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"tardily"
],
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},
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],
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"all of",
"all over",
"altogether",
"clean",
"completely",
"dead",
"enough",
"entire",
"entirely",
"even",
"exactly",
"flat",
"full",
"fully",
"heartily",
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"plumb",
"quite",
"soundly",
"thoroughly",
"through and through",
"totally",
"utterly",
"well",
"wholly",
"wide"
],
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"absolutely",
"categorically",
"cold",
"downright",
"hands down",
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"stone-cold",
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"basically",
"by and large",
"chiefly",
"generally",
"largely",
"mainly",
"more or less",
"mostly",
"overall",
"predominantly",
"predominately",
"primarily",
"principally",
"substantially",
"abundantly",
"copiously",
"generously",
"greatly"
],
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"barely",
"hardly",
"just",
"kind of",
"marginally",
"minimally",
"scarcely",
"slightly",
"superficially",
"approximately",
"roughly",
"somewhat"
],
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"half",
"halfway",
"incompletely",
"part",
"partially",
"partly"
]
},
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"examples":[
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],
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"blistering",
"breakneck",
"breathless",
"brisk",
"dizzy",
"fleet",
"fleet-footed",
"flying",
"galloping",
"hasty",
"hot",
"lightning",
"nippy",
"quick",
"rapid",
"rapid-fire",
"rattling",
"snappy",
"speedy",
"splitting",
"swift",
"whirlwind",
"zippy"
],
"near synonyms":[
"expeditious",
"prompt",
"ready",
"accelerated",
"hastened",
"hurried",
"quickened",
"rushed",
"breathtaking",
"energetic",
"strenuous",
"strong",
"vigorous",
"high-speed",
"rush",
"ultrafast",
"ultrarapid"
],
"near antonyms":[
"crawling",
"dallying",
"dawdling",
"dillydallying",
"dragging",
"laggard",
"languid",
"lingering",
"plodding",
"poking",
"poky",
"pokey",
"slowish",
"sluggish",
"unhurried",
"deliberate",
"leisurely",
"measured",
"dilatory",
"late",
"tardy",
"ultraslow"
],
"antonyms":[
"slow"
]
},
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"examples":[
"the two girls soon became fast and inseparable friends"
],
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"constant",
"dedicated",
"devoted",
"devout",
"down-the-line",
"faithful",
"good",
"loyal",
"pious",
"staunch",
"stanch",
"steadfast",
"steady",
"true",
"true-blue"
],
"near synonyms":[
"dependable",
"dutiful",
"reliable",
"responsible",
"solid",
"tried",
"tried-and-true",
"trustworthy",
"trusty",
"unfaltering",
"unhesitating",
"unwavering",
"determined",
"intent",
"resolute",
"confirmed",
"dyed-in-the-wool",
"inveterate",
"sworn",
"ardent",
"avid",
"enthusiastic",
"fervent",
"fervid",
"gung ho",
"impassioned",
"passionate",
"serious"
],
"near antonyms":[
"irresponsible",
"undependable",
"unreliable",
"untrustworthy",
"faltering",
"hesitant",
"vacillating",
"wavering",
"dubious",
"irresolute",
"shaky",
"uncertain",
"apathetic",
"dispassionate",
"uninterested"
],
"antonyms":[
"disloyal",
"faithless",
"false",
"fickle",
"inconstant",
"perfidious",
"recreant",
"traitorous",
"treacherous",
"unfaithful",
"untrue"
]
},
"firmly positioned in place and difficult to dislodge":{
"examples":[
"the rusty, old screws are so fast in the fitting that there's no hope of getting them out"
],
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"firm",
"frozen",
"jammed",
"lodged",
"set",
"snug",
"stuck",
"tight",
"wedged"
],
"near synonyms":[
"bonded",
"cemented",
"glued",
"anchored",
"clamped",
"embedded",
"imbedded",
"entrenched",
"intrenched",
"impacted",
"implanted",
"attached",
"bound",
"fastened",
"secured",
"immovable",
"unyielding"
],
"near antonyms":[
"detached",
"dislodged",
"freed",
"loosened",
"unattached",
"unbound",
"undone",
"unfastened",
"unsecured",
"movable",
"moveable",
"yielding"
],
"antonyms":[
"insecure",
"loose"
]
},
"given to or marked by cheating and deception":{
"examples":[
"rolling back odometers was just one of the fast practices that the used-car dealer was guilty of"
],
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"bent",
"crooked",
"deceptive",
"dishonest",
"double-dealing",
"duplicitous",
"fraudulent",
"guileful",
"rogue",
"shady",
"sharp",
"shifty",
"underhand",
"underhanded"
],
"near synonyms":[
"unconscionable",
"unethical",
"unprincipled",
"unscrupulous",
"deceitful",
"deceiving",
"deluding",
"delusive",
"delusory",
"false",
"artful",
"beguiling",
"cagey",
"cagy",
"crafty",
"cunning",
"foxy",
"slick",
"sly",
"subtle",
"wily",
"defrauding",
"devious",
"furtive",
"slippery",
"sneaking",
"sneaky",
"trickish",
"tricky",
"insidious",
"perfidious",
"treacherous"
],
"near antonyms":[
"conscientious",
"decent",
"ethical",
"honorable",
"just",
"scrupulous",
"upright",
"forthright",
"straightforward"
],
"antonyms":[
"aboveboard",
"honest",
"straight"
]
},
"marked by the ability to withstand stress without structural damage or distortion":{
"examples":[
"as the storm approached, we checked to see that every thing on the outside of the house was fast and locked in position"
],
"synonyms":[
"bombproof",
"firm",
"sound",
"stable",
"stalwart",
"strong",
"sturdy"
],
"near synonyms":[
"dependable",
"durable",
"reliable",
"infrangible",
"irrefragable",
"unbreakable",
"beefy",
"solid",
"cohesive",
"tough"
],
"near antonyms":[
"infirm",
"insecure",
"weak",
"shaky",
"tottering",
"tottery",
"unbalanced",
"wobbly",
"wabbly",
"unsubstantial"
],
"antonyms":[
"rickety",
"unsound",
"unstable",
"unsteady"
]
},
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"examples":[
"after a fast explanation of the procedure, we were turned loose to do the work"
],
"synonyms":[
"brief",
"little",
"short"
],
"near synonyms":[
"shortish",
"abbreviated",
"abridged",
"curtailed",
"cut-back",
"shortened",
"syncopated",
"compact",
"condensed",
"abrupt",
"sudden",
"ephemeral",
"fleeting",
"momentary",
"short-lived",
"transient",
"transitory",
"impermanent",
"compendious",
"concise",
"crisp",
"epigrammatic",
"laconic",
"pithy",
"succinct",
"summary",
"terse",
"short-range",
"short-term"
],
"near antonyms":[
"endless",
"everlasting",
"interminable",
"persistent",
"unending",
"longish",
"overlong",
"prolonged",
"protracted",
"permanent",
"enlarged",
"expanded",
"supplemented",
"long-range",
"long-term"
],
"antonyms":[
"extended",
"far",
"great",
"lengthy",
"long",
"long-drawn-out",
"long-drawn",
"long-lived"
]
},
"having or showing quickness of mind":{
"examples":[
"I don't know how to operate this machine, but I'm a fast learner"
],
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"alert",
"brainy",
"bright",
"brilliant",
"clever",
"exceptional",
"hyperintelligent",
"intelligent",
"keen",
"nimble",
"quick",
"quick-witted",
"sharp",
"sharp-witted",
"smart",
"supersmart",
"ultrasmart"
],
"near synonyms":[
"apt",
"ingenious",
"resourceful",
"acute",
"astute",
"discerning",
"heady",
"insightful",
"knowing",
"perceptive",
"percipient",
"perspicacious",
"sagacious",
"sapient",
"savvy",
"wise",
"cerebral",
"erudite",
"genial",
"highbrow",
"knowledgeable",
"learned",
"literate",
"scholarly",
"well-read",
"educated",
"informed",
"schooled",
"skilled",
"trained",
"creative",
"inventive",
"judicious",
"prudent",
"sage",
"sane",
"sapient",
"sensible",
"sound",
"wise",
"crafty",
"cunning",
"foxy",
"shrewd",
"wily",
"logical",
"rational",
"reasonable"
],
"near antonyms":[
"feebleminded",
"simpleminded",
"boobish",
"foolish",
"half-baked",
"idiotic",
"idiotical",
"imbecile",
"imbecilic",
"moronic",
"silly",
"ignorant",
"illiterate",
"lowbrow",
"nonintellectual",
"unacademic",
"uneducated",
"uninformed",
"unintellectual",
"untaught",
"unthinking",
"absurd",
"asinine",
"balmy",
"cockeyed",
"crackpot",
"crazy",
"cuckoo",
"daffy",
"daft",
"dippy",
"dotty",
"featherheaded",
"fool",
"half-baked",
"harebrained",
"insane",
"kooky",
"kookie",
"loony",
"looney",
"lunatic",
"mad",
"nonsensical",
"nutty",
"preposterous",
"sappy",
"screwball",
"tomfool",
"unwise",
"wacky",
"whacky",
"zany"
],
"antonyms":[
"airheaded",
"birdbrained",
"boneheaded",
"brain-dead",
"brainless",
"bubbleheaded",
"chuckleheaded",
"dense",
"dim",
"dim-witted",
"doltish",
"dopey",
"dopy",
"dorky",
"dull",
"dumb",
"dunderheaded",
"empty-headed",
"fatuous",
"gormless",
"half-witted",
"knuckleheaded",
"lamebrain",
"lamebrained",
"lunkheaded",
"mindless",
"obtuse",
"opaque",
"pinheaded",
"senseless",
"simple",
"slow",
"slow-witted",
"soft",
"softheaded",
"stupid",
"thick",
"thickheaded",
"thick-witted",
"unbrilliant",
"unintelligent",
"unsmart",
"vacuous",
"weak-minded",
"witless"
]
},
"as in famine , hunger strike":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"famine",
"hunger strike",
"craving",
"sweet tooth",
"gluttony",
"gourmandism",
"greed",
"hoggishness",
"malnutrition",
"starvation",
"undernourishment",
"rapaciousness",
"rapacity",
"ravenousness",
"voraciousness",
"voracity",
"appetite",
"belly",
"emptiness",
"famishment",
"hunger",
"munchies",
"stomach"
],
"near antonyms":[
"inappetence",
"fill",
"fullness",
"glut",
"repleteness",
"repletion",
"satiation",
"satiety",
"satisfaction",
"surfeit"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"as in diet":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"diet"
],
"near antonyms":[
"cram",
"glut",
"gorge",
"sate",
"stuff",
"surfeit",
"gobble",
"gormandize",
"pig out",
"gulp",
"guzzle"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"adjective",
"adverb",
"noun",
"verb"
]
},
"fast-forward":{
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"examples":[],
"near antonyms":[],
"related":[],
"synonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"fast-forwarded":{
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"examples":[],
"near antonyms":[],
"related":[],
"synonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"fasten":{
"to cause (something) to hold to another":{
"antonyms":[
"detach",
"undo",
"unfasten",
"unhook"
],
"examples":[
"use this paper clip to fasten your picture to the application form"
],
"near antonyms":[
"break up",
"disconnect",
"disjoin",
"disjoint",
"dissever",
"dissociate",
"disunite",
"divide",
"divorce",
"part",
"separate",
"sever",
"split",
"sunder",
"uncouple",
"unlink",
"unyoke",
"loose",
"loosen",
"unbind",
"unfix",
"unlash",
"untie"
],
"related":[
"adhere",
"bolt",
"cinch",
"clamp",
"clasp",
"clench",
"clinch",
"clip",
"glue",
"hang",
"harness",
"hasp",
"lace",
"lash",
"latch",
"nail",
"paste",
"pin",
"plaster",
"rivet",
"screw",
"shackle",
"staple",
"stick",
"strap",
"tack",
"tackle",
"tie",
"toggle",
"yoke",
"coapt",
"connect",
"join",
"link",
"unite",
"reaffix",
"reattach",
"refasten",
"refix",
"resecure",
"batten",
"belay",
"button",
"do up"
],
"synonyms":[
"affix",
"attach",
"bend",
"fix"
]
},
"to fix (as one's attention) steadily toward a central objective":{
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"examples":[
"if you could fasten your attention on one task for more than a minute, you just might get something done"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"related":[
"aim",
"direct",
"home (in on)",
"hone in (on)",
"level",
"nail",
"point",
"set",
"zero (in on)",
"attend",
"heed",
"mind",
"fixate (on)",
"obsess (over)",
"refocus"
],
"synonyms":[
"center",
"concentrate",
"focus",
"rivet",
"train"
]
},
"to put securely in place or in a desired position":{
"antonyms":[
"loose",
"loosen",
"unfasten",
"unfix",
"unloose",
"unloosen"
],
"examples":[
"don't forget to fasten all the lines on your tent"
],
"near antonyms":[
"extract",
"prize",
"pry",
"pull",
"root (out)",
"tear (out)",
"uproot",
"wrest",
"yank"
],
"related":[
"embed",
"imbed",
"entrench",
"intrench",
"implant",
"ingrain",
"engrain",
"lodge",
"stuff",
"wedge"
],
"synonyms":[
"anchor",
"catch",
"clamp",
"fix",
"hitch",
"moor",
"secure",
"set"
]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"fasten (on)":{
"as in hold , latch (on or onto)":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"clasp",
"clutch",
"fist",
"grasp",
"grip",
"hold",
"latch (on or onto)",
"secure",
"bay",
"corner",
"rend",
"wrest",
"apprehend",
"arrest",
"detain",
"enmesh",
"immesh",
"ensnare",
"entangle",
"entrap",
"mesh",
"glove",
"halter",
"lasso",
"rope",
"abduct",
"kidnap",
"spirit (away or off)",
"bag",
"capture",
"catch",
"collar",
"cop",
"corral",
"get",
"glom",
"grab",
"grapple",
"hook",
"land",
"nab",
"nail",
"net",
"nobble",
"rap",
"seize",
"snag",
"snap (up)",
"snare",
"snatch",
"trap"
],
"near antonyms":[
"miss",
"discharge",
"free",
"liberate",
"release",
"drop",
"loosen",
"unhand"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"fastenings":{
"as in connections , attachments":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"attachments",
"connections",
"hookups",
"joints",
"linkages",
"linkups",
"nexuses",
"nexus",
"tie-ups",
"unions",
"yokes",
"bonds",
"cements",
"cords",
"knots",
"ligatures",
"links",
"ties",
"affections",
"sympathies",
"fetters",
"handcuffs",
"manacles",
"shackles",
"trammels",
"constraints",
"curbs",
"limitations",
"limits",
"restraints",
"restrictions"
],
"near antonyms":[
"partings",
"separations",
"emancipations",
"freedoms",
"liberations",
"releases"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"fastens (on)":{
"as in holds , latches (on or onto)":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"clasps",
"clutches",
"fists",
"grasps",
"grips",
"holds",
"latches (on or onto)",
"secures",
"bays",
"corners",
"rends",
"wrests",
"apprehends",
"arrests",
"detains",
"enmeshes",
"immeshes",
"ensnares",
"entangles",
"entraps",
"meshes",
"gloves",
"halters",
"lassos",
"ropes",
"abducts",
"kidnaps",
"spirits (away or off)",
"bags",
"captures",
"catches",
"collars",
"cops",
"corrals",
"gets",
"gloms",
"grabs",
"grapples",
"hooks",
"lands",
"nabs",
"nails",
"nets",
"nobbles",
"raps",
"seizes",
"snags",
"snaps (up)",
"snares",
"snatches",
"traps"
],
"near antonyms":[
"misses",
"discharges",
"frees",
"liberates",
"releases",
"drops",
"loosens",
"unhands"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"fat cat":{
"a wealthy person":{
"antonyms":[
"have-not",
"pauper"
],
"examples":[
"that last recession was particularly hard on the poor, but the fat cats barely noticed a dip in their bank accounts"
],
"near antonyms":[
"bankrupt",
"beggar"
],
"related":[
"moneymaker",
"money-spinner",
"magnate",
"nabob",
"tycoon",
"billionaire",
"gazillionaire",
"millionaire",
"multibillionaire",
"multimillionaire",
"multimillionairess",
"zillionaire",
"heir",
"heiress",
"jet-setter",
"jeunesse dor\u00e9e"
],
"synonyms":[
"capitalist",
"Croesus",
"deep pocket",
"have",
"money",
"moneybags",
"plutocrat",
"silk stocking"
]
},
"having goods, property, or money in abundance":{
"antonyms":[
"destitute",
"impecunious",
"impoverished",
"indigent",
"needy",
"penniless",
"penurious",
"poor",
"poverty-stricken"
],
"examples":[
"the economy was in recession, but the fat-cat financiers on Wall Street didn't seem to be suffering"
],
"near antonyms":[
"unaffluent",
"deprived",
"disadvantaged",
"hand-to-mouth",
"underprivileged",
"bankrupt",
"bankrupted",
"beggared",
"broke",
"indebted",
"insolvent",
"pauperized",
"ruined",
"skint",
"depressed",
"pinched",
"reduced",
"straitened",
"low",
"short"
],
"related":[
"better-off",
"comfortable",
"propertied",
"prosperous",
"substantial",
"successful",
"flourishing",
"prospering",
"thriving",
"advantaged",
"blessed",
"blest",
"privileged"
],
"synonyms":[
"affluent",
"deep-pocketed",
"fat",
"flush",
"loaded",
"moneyed",
"monied",
"opulent",
"rich",
"silk-stocking",
"wealthy",
"well-endowed",
"well-fixed",
"well-heeled",
"well-off",
"well-to-do"
]
},
"one of high position or importance within a group":{
"antonyms":[
"lightweight",
"nobody",
"nonentity",
"nothing",
"shrimp",
"twerp",
"whippersnapper",
"zero",
"zilch"
],
"examples":[
"a candidate that has the backing of most of the party's fat cats"
],
"near antonyms":[
"inferior",
"subordinate",
"underling",
"mediocrity",
"obscurity"
],
"related":[
"baron",
"czar",
"tsar",
"tzar",
"king",
"lion",
"magnate",
"mogul",
"prince",
"princess",
"queen",
"tycoon",
"VIP"
],
"synonyms":[
"big",
"big boy",
"big cheese",
"big gun",
"big leaguer",
"big shot",
"big wheel",
"big-timer",
"bigfoot",
"biggie",
"bigwig",
"heavy",
"heavy hitter",
"heavyweight",
"high-muck-a-muck",
"high-muckety-muck",
"honcho",
"kahuna",
"kingfish",
"kingpin",
"major leaguer",
"muckety-muck",
"muck-a-muck",
"mucky-muck",
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"nawab",
"nibs",
"nob",
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"poo-bah",
"wheel"
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"noun"
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"inexorable",
"relentless",
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"decided",
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"settled",
"certain",
"ineluctable",
"ineludible",
"inescapable",
"inevitable",
"necessary",
"sure",
"unavoidable",
"unescapable"
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"avoidable",
"evadable",
"uncertain",
"unsure",
"preventable",
"preventible",
"doubtful",
"dubious",
"questionable",
"shaky",
"unclear",
"undecided",
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"the warning that the lack of an advanced education will fate a person to a lifetime of below-average earnings"
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"doomed",
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"foreordained",
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"predetermined",
"preordained"
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"augured",
"forecast",
"forecasted",
"foretold",
"predicted",
"presaged",
"prognosticated",
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"preconceived",
"prejudged",
"condemned",
"sentenced",
"boded",
"foreboded",
"forboded",
"portended",
"anticipated",
"divined",
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"foresaw"
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"verb"
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"flukey",
"fortuitous",
"fortunate",
"happy",
"lucky",
"providential",
"auspicious",
"bright",
"encouraging",
"fair",
"golden",
"heartening",
"hopeful",
"optimistic",
"promising",
"propitious",
"rose-colored",
"rosy",
"upbeat"
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"hapless",
"ill-fated",
"ill-starred",
"luckless",
"adverse",
"baleful",
"baneful",
"damaging",
"deleterious",
"detrimental",
"evil",
"harmful",
"hurtful",
"ill",
"injurious",
"noxious",
"pernicious",
"prejudicial"
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"cataclysmal",
"cataclysmic",
"catastrophic",
"damning",
"destructive",
"disastrous",
"fatal",
"ruinous",
"unfortunate"
]
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"adjective"
]
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"a state or end that seemingly has been decided beforehand":{
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"the belief that it was this country's fate to extend from sea to sea"
],
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"destinies",
"dooms",
"fortunes",
"kismets",
"lots",
"portions"
],
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"accidents",
"casualties",
"chances",
"happenchances",
"happenstances",
"haps",
"hazards",
"luck",
"predestinations",
"aftereffects",
"aftermaths",
"conclusions",
"consequences",
"developments",
"effects",
"fruits",
"issues",
"outcomes",
"outgrowths",
"resultants",
"results",
"sequels",
"sequences",
"upshots"
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"the fate of the presidential election hinged on a few thousand votes in a single state"
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"aftermaths",
"backwashes",
"children",
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"corollaries",
"developments",
"effects",
"fruits",
"issues",
"outcomes",
"outgrowths",
"precipitates",
"products",
"resultants",
"results",
"sequels",
"sequences",
"upshots"
],
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"ramifications",
"denouements",
"d\u00e9nouements",
"echoes",
"echos",
"implications",
"repercussions",
"afterclaps",
"afterglows",
"aftershocks",
"blowbacks",
"by-products",
"byproducts",
"fallouts",
"offshoots",
"ripples",
"side effects",
"side reactions",
"spin-offs"
],
"near antonyms":[
"considerations",
"determinants",
"factors",
"bases",
"bases",
"foundations",
"grounds",
"groundworks",
"impetuses",
"incentives",
"inspirations",
"instigations",
"stimuli",
"mothers",
"origins",
"roots",
"sources",
"springs"
],
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"causations",
"causes",
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"reasons"
]
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"he met his fate in a tragic highway accident"
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"deaths",
"deceases",
"demises",
"dissolutions",
"dooms",
"ends",
"exits",
"expirations",
"expiries",
"graves",
"great divides",
"passages",
"passings",
"quietuses",
"sleeps"
],
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"casualties",
"fatalities",
"martyrdoms",
"self-destructions",
"self-murders",
"self-slaughters",
"suicides",
"annihilations",
"destructions",
"endings",
"exterminations",
"ruins",
"assassinations",
"executions",
"killings",
"massacres",
"slaughters"
],
"near antonyms":[
"existences",
"lives",
"creations",
"geneses",
"originations",
"rises"
],
"antonyms":[
"births",
"nativities"
]
},
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"the warning that the lack of an advanced education will fate a person to a lifetime of below-average earnings"
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"destines",
"dooms",
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"foreordains",
"ordains",
"predestines",
"predetermines",
"preordains"
],
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"augurs",
"forecasts",
"foretells",
"predicts",
"presages",
"prognosticates",
"prophesies",
"preconceives",
"prejudges",
"condemns",
"sentences",
"bodes",
"forebodes",
"forbodes",
"portends",
"anticipates",
"divines",
"foreknows",
"foresees"
],
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"antonyms":[]
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"type":[
"noun",
"verb"
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},
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"as in father figures":{
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"daddies",
"dads",
"fathers",
"old men",
"papas",
"poppas",
"pas",
"paters",
"pops",
"sires",
"patresfamilias",
"patriarchs",
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],
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"type":[
"noun"
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"to become the father of":{
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"Paul Revere somehow found room in his small house for the large family he had fathered"
],
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"procreated",
"propagated",
"reproduced",
"spawned",
"bore",
"engendered",
"gendered",
"generated",
"produced"
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"begat",
"got",
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]
},
"type":[
"verb"
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"a male human parent":{
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"the special relationship that exists between fathers and sons"
],
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"daddies",
"dads",
"old men",
"papas",
"poppas",
"pas",
"paters",
"pops",
"sires"
],
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"patriarchs",
"father figures",
"father images",
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],
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},
"a person who establishes a whole new field of endeavor":{
"examples":[
"Sir Isaac Newton is regarded by many as the father of modern science"
],
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"authors",
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"creators",
"establishers",
"founders",
"founding fathers",
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"initiators",
"instituters",
"institutors",
"originators",
"sires"
],
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"cocreators",
"co-creators",
"cofounders",
"co-founders",
"conceivers",
"contrivers",
"designers",
"devisers",
"formulators",
"innovators",
"introducers",
"inventors",
"spawners",
"builders",
"makers",
"producers",
"developers",
"pioneers",
"researchers",
"researchists",
"organizers",
"promoters",
"encouragers",
"galvanizers",
"inspirations",
"inspirers"
],
"near antonyms":[
"disciples",
"followers",
"pupils",
"students",
"supporters"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"a person who is several generations earlier in an individual's line of descent":{
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"our fathers founded this nation on the fundamental belief that no person is entitled to rule by divine right"
],
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"ancestors",
"forebearers",
"forebears",
"forbears",
"forefathers",
"grandfathers",
"primogenitors",
"progenitors"
],
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"antecessors",
"predecessors",
"ancestresses",
"foremothers",
"grandmothers",
"matriarchs",
"grandsires",
"patriarchs",
"sires",
"ancestries",
"antecedents",
"roots"
],
"near antonyms":[
"children",
"families",
"issues",
"lineages",
"offspring",
"offsprings",
"posterities",
"progenies",
"seed",
"seeds",
"stocks",
"daughters",
"heirs",
"inheritors",
"scions",
"sons",
"successors"
],
"antonyms":[
"descendants",
"descendents"
]
},
"to become the father of":{
"examples":[
"Paul Revere somehow found room in his small house for the large family he had fathered"
],
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"begets",
"gets",
"sires"
],
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"procreates",
"propagates",
"reproduces",
"spawns",
"bears",
"engenders",
"genders",
"generates",
"produces"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun",
"verb"
]
},
"fathers (on)":{
"as in charges , blames":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"blames",
"charges",
"imputes (to)",
"pins (on)",
"accredits",
"ascribes",
"attributes",
"chalks up",
"credits",
"imputes",
"lays",
"puts down",
"assigns",
"refers",
"associates",
"attaches",
"connects",
"links"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"fathomable":{
"capable of being understood":{
"antonyms":[
"incoherent",
"incomprehensible",
"inscrutable",
"insensible"
],
"examples":[
"acts of vandalism that were committed for no fathomable reason"
],
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"inarticulate",
"cryptic",
"esoteric",
"mysterious",
"obscure"
],
"related":[
"decipherable",
"plain",
"simple",
"straightforward",
"articulate",
"fluent",
"well-spoken"
],
"synonyms":[
"accessible",
"apprehensible",
"coherent",
"comprehendible",
"comprehensible",
"graspable",
"intelligible",
"legible",
"scrutable",
"understandable"
]
},
"type":[
"adjective"
]
},
"fathoming":{
"to measure the depth of (as a body of water) typically with a weighted line":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"the pilot had to continually fathom the river, which drought conditions had lowered to unprecedented levels"
],
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"related":[
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"gaging",
"scaling",
"spanning",
"remeasuring",
"replumbing"
],
"synonyms":[
"plumbing",
"sounding"
]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"fatigues":{
"to use up all the physical energy of":{
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"examples":[
"the rescue workers pressed on, though their efforts to reach the miners had almost completely fatigued them"
],
"near antonyms":[
"activates",
"energizes",
"invigorates",
"rejuvenates",
"strengthens",
"vitalizes",
"relaxes",
"rests",
"unwinds"
],
"related":[
"debilitates",
"enervates",
"enfeebles",
"saps",
"wastes",
"weakens"
],
"synonyms":[
"breaks",
"burns out",
"busts",
"does in",
"does up",
"drains",
"exhausts",
"fags",
"frazzles",
"harasses",
"kills",
"knocks out",
"outwears",
"tires",
"tuckers (out)",
"washes out",
"wearies",
"wears",
"wears out"
]
},
"type":[
"noun",
"verb"
],
"very hard or unpleasant work":{
"antonyms":[
"fun",
"plays"
],
"examples":[
"although he had joined the army for action and adventure, much of his day seemed to be devoted to mindless fatigues"
],
"near antonyms":[
"decompressions",
"eases",
"leisures",
"relaxations",
"reposes",
"rests",
"amusements",
"dalliances",
"diversions",
"entertainments",
"recreations",
"sports",
"dormancies",
"inactivities",
"inertias"
],
"related":[
"spadeworks",
"efforts",
"exertions",
"pains",
"struggles",
"troubles",
"chores",
"duties",
"jobs",
"obligations",
"responsibilities",
"routines",
"tediums",
"treadmills"
],
"synonyms":[
"donkeyworks",
"drudgeries",
"drudges",
"grinds",
"labors",
"moils",
"slaveries",
"sweats",
"toils",
"travails"
]
}
},
"fatty":{
"containing animal fat especially in unusual amounts":{
"antonyms":[
"defatted",
"lean"
],
"examples":[
"fatty ground beef that was the cheapest available"
],
"near antonyms":[
"fibrous",
"gristly",
"stringy",
"tough",
"nonfat"
],
"related":[
"blubbery",
"greasy",
"oily",
"lardy",
"rich"
],
"synonyms":[
"adipose"
]
},
"type":[
"adjective"
]
},
"fatuity":{
"a foolish act or idea":{
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"examples":[
"opening another auto dealership in an area that already has a surplus of them seems like a gross fatuity"
],
"near antonyms":[
"discretion",
"forethought",
"prudence",
"sagacity",
"wisdom",
"brainstorm",
"inspiration"
],
"related":[
"absurdness",
"craziness",
"foolishness",
"inaneness",
"madness",
"senselessness",
"witlessness",
"buffoonery",
"monkeyshine(s)",
"shenanigan(s)",
"tomfoolery",
"drivel",
"humbug",
"nonsense",
"twaddle",
"blunder",
"bungle",
"flub",
"goof",
"howler"
],
"synonyms":[
"absurdity",
"asininity",
"b\u00eatise",
"folly",
"foolery",
"foppery",
"idiocy",
"imbecility",
"inanity",
"insanity",
"lunacy",
"stupidity"
]
},
"lack of good sense or judgment":{
"antonyms":[
"prudence",
"sagaciousness",
"sagacity",
"sageness",
"sanity",
"sapience",
"sensibleness",
"soundness",
"wisdom"
],
"examples":[
"local morning DJs lambasted the fatuity of the homeowner who used gasoline to burn a pile of brushwood"
],
"near antonyms":[
"logicality",
"logicalness",
"rationality",
"rationalness",
"reasonability",
"reasonableness",
"validity",
"discernment",
"insight",
"perception",
"percipience"
],
"related":[
"denseness",
"dim-wittedness",
"doltishness",
"dopiness",
"dullness",
"dulness",
"dumbness",
"feeblemindedness",
"gormlessness",
"idiocy",
"mindlessness",
"oafishness",
"obtuseness",
"simplemindedness",
"simpleness",
"slowness",
"stupidity",
"stupidness",
"vacuity",
"fallacy",
"irrationality",
"unreasonableness",
"kookiness",
"weirdness",
"laughableness",
"ludicrousness",
"ridiculousness"
],
"synonyms":[
"absurdity",
"asininity",
"balminess",
"brainlessness",
"craziness",
"daftness",
"dippiness",
"dottiness",
"fatuousness",
"folly",
"foolishness",
"imbecility",
"inanity",
"insanity",
"lunacy",
"madness",
"nonsensicalness",
"nuttiness",
"preposterousness",
"senselessness",
"silliness",
"simplicity",
"unwisdom",
"wackiness",
"witlessness",
"zaniness"
]
},
"the quality or state of lacking intelligence or quickness of mind":{
"antonyms":[
"braininess",
"brightness",
"brilliance",
"cleverness",
"intelligence",
"keenness",
"quickness",
"quick-wittedness",
"sharpness",
"smartness"
],
"examples":[
"the fatuity of the characters on that TV sitcom actually gets laughs"
],
"near antonyms":[
"acumen",
"alertness",
"astuteness",
"discernment",
"insight",
"judgment",
"judgement",
"perception",
"percipience",
"perspicacity",
"sagacity",
"sageness",
"sapience",
"wisdom",
"wit",
"logicality",
"logicalness",
"rationality",
"rationalness",
"reasonableness",
"soundness",
"validity"
],
"related":[
"feeblemindedness",
"simplemindedness",
"absurdity",
"asininity",
"balminess",
"craziness",
"daftness",
"dippiness",
"dottiness",
"fatuousness",
"folly",
"idiocy",
"inaneness",
"inanity",
"insanity",
"lunacy",
"madness",
"nincompoopery",
"nonsensicalness",
"nuttiness",
"preposterousness",
"silliness",
"simplicity",
"wackiness",
"zaniness",
"fallacy",
"irrationality",
"unreasonableness",
"mental deficiency",
"mental retardation"
],
"synonyms":[
"boneheadedness",
"brainlessness",
"denseness",
"density",
"dim-wittedness",
"doltishness",
"dopiness",
"dorkiness",
"dullness",
"dulness",
"dumbness",
"foolishness",
"gormlessness",
"mindlessness",
"oafishness",
"obtuseness",
"senselessness",
"simpleness",
"slowness",
"stupidity",
"stupidness",
"thickness",
"vacuity",
"weak-mindedness",
"witlessness"
]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"faulted":{
"to express one's unfavorable opinion of the worth or quality of":{
"antonyms":[
"extolled",
"lauded",
"praised"
],
"examples":[
"you should look at your own work before faulting what others have done"
],
"near antonyms":[
"approved",
"commended",
"endorsed",
"indorsed",
"recommended",
"sanctioned"
],
"related":[
"skewered",
"tweaked",
"assailed",
"attacked",
"blasted",
"clobbered",
"slammed",
"slashed",
"nicked (at)",
"sniped (at)",
"beefed",
"bellyached",
"bitched",
"carped",
"caviled",
"cavilled",
"complained",
"crabbed",
"croaked",
"fussed",
"griped",
"groused",
"growled",
"grumbled",
"kicked",
"kvetched",
"moaned",
"murmured",
"muttered",
"niggled",
"quibbled",
"whined",
"admonished",
"chid",
"chided",
"drubbed",
"rebuked",
"reprimanded",
"reproached",
"reproved",
"berated",
"castigated",
"crucified",
"excoriated",
"flayed",
"gibbeted",
"hammered",
"keelhauled",
"lambasted",
"lashed",
"pilloried",
"scolded",
"upbraided",
"bad-mouthed",
"belittled",
"decried",
"derided",
"discommended",
"disparaged",
"put down"
],
"synonyms":[
"blamed",
"censured",
"condemned",
"criticized",
"denounced",
"dispraised",
"dissed",
"knocked",
"panned",
"reprehended",
"slagged"
]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"faultless":{
"being entirely without fault or flaw":{
"examples":[
"this 18th-century chest of drawers is considered a faultless example of early American craftsmanship"
],
"synonyms":[
"absolute",
"flawless",
"ideal",
"immaculate",
"impeccable",
"indefectible",
"irreproachable",
"letter-perfect",
"perfect",
"picture-book",
"picture-perfect",
"seamless",
"unblemished"
],
"near synonyms":[
"consummate",
"expert",
"masterly",
"classic",
"dandy",
"excellent",
"fabulous",
"fine",
"first-class",
"first-rate",
"grand",
"great",
"marvelous",
"marvellous",
"prime",
"superb",
"superior",
"superlative",
"terrific",
"top",
"top-notch",
"unsurpassed",
"completed",
"finished",
"perfected",
"polished",
"complete",
"entire",
"intact",
"whole",
"mint",
"unbruised",
"undamaged",
"unimpaired",
"uninjured",
"unmarred",
"unspoiled",
"exceptional",
"fancy",
"high-grade",
"special",
"airtight",
"bulletproof",
"accurate",
"correct",
"exact",
"precise",
"inerrant",
"infallible",
"unerring",
"unfailing"
],
"near antonyms":[
"deficient",
"inadequate",
"incomplete",
"insufficient",
"wanting",
"unfinished",
"unpolished",
"fallible",
"blemished",
"blighted",
"broken",
"damaged",
"defaced",
"disfigured",
"impaired",
"injured",
"malformed",
"marred",
"misshapen",
"spoiled",
"vitiated",
"atrocious",
"execrable",
"wretched",
"imprecise",
"inaccurate",
"incorrect",
"inexact",
"wrong"
],
"antonyms":[
"amiss",
"bad",
"censurable",
"defective",
"faulty",
"flawed",
"imperfect",
"reproachable"
]
},
"free from guilt or blame":{
"examples":[
"I may have broken my share of things in the past, but in this instance I am entirely faultless"
],
"synonyms":[
"blameless",
"cleanhanded",
"clear",
"guiltless",
"impeccable",
"inculpable",
"innocent",
"irreproachable",
"lily-white"
],
"near synonyms":[
"absolved",
"acquitted",
"cleared",
"exonerated",
"vindicated",
"ethical",
"law-abiding",
"moral",
"righteous",
"upright",
"virtuous"
],
"near antonyms":[
"blamable",
"blameworthy",
"censurable",
"culpable",
"impeachable",
"indictable",
"punishable",
"accused",
"impeached",
"indicted",
"condemned",
"convicted",
"hangdog",
"shamed",
"shamefaced"
],
"antonyms":[
"guilty"
]
},
"type":[
"adjective"
]
},
"faultlessly":{
"without any flaws or errors":{
"examples":[
"at the recital the young piano student performed the sonata faultlessly"
],
"synonyms":[
"flawlessly",
"ideally",
"immaculately",
"impeccably",
"pat",
"perfectly"
],
"near synonyms":[
"excellently",
"fabulously",
"finely",
"grandly",
"greatly",
"marvelously",
"superbly",
"superiorly",
"superlatively",
"terrifically",
"exceptionally",
"fancily",
"specially"
],
"near antonyms":[
"deficiently",
"inadequately",
"incompletely",
"insufficiently",
"fallibly",
"atrociously",
"execrably",
"wretchedly"
],
"antonyms":[
"amiss",
"badly",
"defectively",
"faultily",
"imperfectly"
]
},
"type":[
"adverb"
]
},
"faulty":{
"having a fault":{
"examples":[
"the cause of the plane crash was traced to faulty wiring"
],
"synonyms":[
"amiss",
"bad",
"defective",
"flawed",
"imperfect"
],
"near synonyms":[
"fallible",
"blemished",
"broken",
"crippled",
"damaged",
"defaced",
"disfigured",
"harmed",
"hurt",
"impaired",
"injured",
"marred",
"spoiled",
"vitiated",
"deficient",
"inadequate",
"incomplete",
"insufficient",
"wanting"
],
"near antonyms":[
"complete",
"entire",
"intact",
"whole",
"unblemished",
"undamaged",
"unimpaired",
"unspoiled"
],
"antonyms":[
"faultless",
"flawless",
"impeccable",
"perfect"
]
},
"type":[
"adjective"
]
},
"favorably":{
"in a pleasing way":{
"antonyms":[
"badly",
"disagreeably",
"ill",
"unpleasantly"
],
"examples":[
"her violin teacher has been favorably impressed with her progress"
],
"near antonyms":[
"abominably",
"appallingly",
"awfully",
"dreadfully",
"horrendously",
"horribly",
"horridly",
"shockingly",
"sickeningly",
"terribly",
"vilely",
"annoyingly",
"disgustingly",
"distressingly",
"irritatingly",
"vexingly"
],
"related":[
"finely",
"grandly",
"magnificently",
"advantageously",
"helpfully",
"blessedly",
"fortunately",
"happily",
"luckily",
"excellently",
"superbly",
"marvelously",
"sensationally",
"wonderfully",
"attractively",
"beautifully",
"handsomely",
"appealingly",
"appetizingly",
"enticingly",
"invitingly",
"temptingly"
],
"synonyms":[
"agreeably",
"charmingly",
"delectably",
"deliciously",
"delightfully",
"dreamily",
"enchantingly",
"enjoyably",
"felicitously",
"fetchingly",
"gloriously",
"gratifyingly",
"great",
"nicely",
"palatably",
"pleasantly",
"pleasingly",
"pleasurably",
"prettily",
"satisfyingly",
"splendidly",
"sweetly",
"swimmingly",
"welcomely",
"well",
"winningly"
]
},
"in an approving manner":{
"antonyms":[
"adversely",
"disapprovingly",
"negatively",
"unfavorably"
],
"examples":[
"most critics reviewed the movie favorably"
],
"near antonyms":[
"captiously",
"hypercritically",
"deploringly",
"disdainfully",
"scornfully",
"unflatteringly"
],
"related":[
"lovingly",
"regardfully",
"respectfully",
"reverently",
"worshipfully"
],
"synonyms":[
"admiringly",
"appreciatively",
"approvingly",
"complimentarily",
"positively"
]
},
"type":[
"adverb"
]
},
"favorite":{
"granted special treatment or attention":{
"examples":[
"that teacher claims not to have any favorite students, although many in the class would disagree"
],
"synonyms":[
"beloved",
"cherished",
"darling",
"dear",
"fair-haired",
"favored",
"fond",
"loved",
"pet",
"precious",
"special",
"sweet",
"white-headed"
],
"near synonyms":[
"admired",
"adored",
"appreciated",
"esteemed",
"relished",
"revered",
"prized",
"treasured",
"preferred"
],
"near antonyms":[
"abhorred",
"abominated",
"despised",
"detested",
"disdained",
"disfavored",
"disliked",
"execrated",
"hated",
"loathed",
"unfavorite",
"abandoned",
"forgotten",
"ignored",
"alienated",
"estranged"
],
"antonyms":[
"unbeloved"
]
},
"singled out from a number or group as more to one's liking":{
"examples":[
"mint chocolate chip is my favorite flavor of ice cream"
],
"synonyms":[
"cherry-picked",
"choice",
"chosen",
"elect",
"favored",
"first-line",
"handpicked",
"picked",
"preferred",
"select",
"selected"
],
"near synonyms":[
"fashionable",
"exclusive",
"culled",
"picked over",
"screened",
"weeded (out)",
"winnowed (out)"
],
"near antonyms":[
"average",
"common",
"commonplace",
"ordinary",
"run-of-the-mill"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"enjoying widespread favor or approval":{
"examples":[
"a radio station that mostly plays favorite songs from the 1960s and 1970s"
],
"synonyms":[
"big",
"crowd-pleasing",
"du jour",
"faddish",
"faddy",
"fashionable",
"happening",
"hot",
"in",
"large",
"modish",
"pop",
"popular",
"popularized",
"red-hot",
"vogue",
"voguish"
],
"near synonyms":[
"semipopular",
"preferred",
"selected",
"desirable",
"liked",
"wanted",
"celebrated",
"famed",
"famous",
"noted",
"notorious",
"prominent",
"renowned",
"well-known",
"fabled",
"fabulous",
"legendary",
"leading",
"notable",
"outstanding",
"prominent",
"remarkable",
"important",
"significant"
],
"near antonyms":[
"washed-up",
"despised",
"detested",
"disliked",
"hated",
"rejected",
"insignificant",
"unimportant",
"indistinguished",
"unexceptional",
"anonymous",
"nameless",
"obscure",
"unknown",
"inconspicuous"
],
"antonyms":[
"out",
"unfashionable",
"unpopular"
]
},
"a person or thing that is preferred over others":{
"examples":[
"the youngest child was always Mother's favorite"
],
"synonyms":[
"darling",
"fave",
"minion",
"pet",
"preference",
"speed"
],
"near synonyms":[
"beloved",
"dear",
"sweetheart",
"jewel",
"prize",
"treasure"
],
"near antonyms":[
"abomination",
"anathema",
"b\u00eate noire",
"bugbear"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"adjective",
"noun"
]
},
"favors":{
"an act of kind assistance":{
"examples":[
"a good and generous friend who is always doing favors for others"
],
"synonyms":[
"benevolences",
"boons",
"courtesies",
"graces",
"indulgences",
"mercies",
"services",
"turns"
],
"near synonyms":[
"dispensations",
"waivers",
"advantages",
"benefits",
"blessings",
"godsends",
"mannas",
"liberties",
"licenses",
"licences",
"privileges"
],
"near antonyms":[
"hindrances",
"hurdles",
"impediments",
"interferences",
"obstacles"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"a feeling of great approval and liking":{
"examples":[
"entertainers often learn that the favor of the public can be fickle indeed"
],
"synonyms":[
"accounts",
"admirations",
"appreciations",
"esteems",
"estimations",
"regards",
"respects"
],
"near synonyms":[
"appetites",
"fancies",
"likes",
"loves",
"partialities",
"preferences",
"relishes",
"shines",
"tastes",
"uses",
"acclamations",
"adorations",
"adulations",
"approbations",
"deferences",
"hero worships",
"homages",
"honors",
"idolatries",
"infatuations",
"lionizations",
"praises",
"props",
"reverences",
"venerations",
"worships",
"delights",
"enjoyments",
"amazements",
"awes",
"wonderments",
"wonders",
"enthusiasms",
"interests",
"passions",
"biases",
"prejudices",
"affections",
"attachments",
"devotions",
"passions"
],
"near antonyms":[
"condemnations",
"disapprovals",
"disdains",
"opprobriums",
"scorns",
"disappointments",
"discontents",
"disenchantments",
"disgruntlements",
"disillusionments",
"displeasures",
"indignations",
"aversions",
"contempts",
"disfavors",
"disgusts",
"disinclinations",
"dislikes",
"disregards",
"distastes",
"hates",
"hatreds",
"loathings",
"nauseas",
"repugnances",
"repulsions",
"revulsions",
"abominations",
"antipathies",
"detestations",
"deprecations",
"displeasures",
"dissatisfactions"
],
"antonyms":[
"disfavors"
]
},
"an acceptance of something as satisfactory":{
"examples":[
"over the years that kind of movie fell out of favor with the mass audience"
],
"synonyms":[
"approbations",
"approvals",
"blessings",
"imprimaturs",
"OKs",
"okays"
],
"near synonyms":[
"backings",
"cachets",
"endorsements",
"indorsements",
"finalizations",
"formalizations",
"homologations",
"nods",
"ratifications",
"rubber stamps",
"sanctions",
"supports",
"thumbs-ups",
"votes",
"benedictions",
"goodwills",
"acceptations",
"accessions",
"agreements",
"assents",
"concurrences",
"consents",
"countenances",
"likings",
"satisfactions"
],
"near antonyms":[
"refusals",
"rejections",
"repudiations",
"dislikes",
"dissatisfactions",
"censures",
"condemnations",
"criticisms",
"denunciations",
"deprecations",
"depreciations",
"disparagements",
"opprobriums",
"reprehensions",
"reproaches",
"reprobations"
],
"antonyms":[
"disapprobations",
"disapprovals",
"disfavors"
]
},
"positive regard for something":{
"examples":[
"was willing to do just about anything to keep the boss's favor"
],
"synonyms":[
"appetites",
"fancies",
"likes",
"likings",
"love affairs",
"loves",
"partialities",
"preferences",
"relishes",
"shines",
"tastes",
"uses"
],
"near synonyms":[
"cravings",
"desires",
"longings",
"thirsts",
"yens",
"enthusiasms",
"gustoes",
"interests",
"passions",
"biases",
"prejudices",
"bents",
"inclinations",
"leanings",
"propensities",
"tendencies",
"teeth",
"palates",
"weaknesses"
],
"near antonyms":[
"apathies",
"disinclinations",
"indifferences"
],
"antonyms":[
"aversions",
"disfavors",
"disgusts",
"dislikes",
"distastes",
"hatreds",
"loathings",
"mislikes"
]
},
"to do a service or favor for":{
"examples":[
"although she was at the party as a guest, the singer favored us with a song"
],
"synonyms":[
"accommodates",
"obliges"
],
"near synonyms":[
"humors",
"indulges",
"coddles",
"mollycoddles",
"pampers",
"appeases",
"conciliates",
"mollifies",
"pacifies",
"placates",
"delights",
"gladdens",
"gratifies",
"pleases",
"satisfies",
"abets",
"aids",
"assists",
"helps",
"supports",
"attends",
"cares (for)",
"comforts",
"ministers (to)",
"relieves",
"succors"
],
"near antonyms":[
"bothers",
"discommodes",
"disturbs",
"incommodes",
"inconveniences",
"troubles",
"burdens",
"encumbers",
"saddles",
"weighs",
"deserts",
"disappoints",
"fails",
"lets down",
"constrains",
"hampers",
"hamstrings",
"hinders",
"hobbles",
"holds back",
"impedes",
"obstructs",
"restrains",
"frustrates",
"opposes",
"sabotages",
"thwarts"
],
"antonyms":[
"disobliges"
]
},
"to have a favorable opinion of":{
"examples":[
"if this measure will reduce our property taxes, then I favor it"
],
"synonyms":[
"accepts",
"approves (of)",
"cares (for)",
"countenances",
"OKs",
"okays",
"subscribes (to)"
],
"near synonyms":[
"acclaims",
"applauds",
"lauds",
"praises",
"salutes",
"backs (up)",
"concurs (in)",
"stands by",
"supports",
"sustains",
"upholds",
"bears",
"endures",
"tolerates",
"assents (to)",
"consents (to)",
"commends",
"recommends",
"enjoys",
"likes"
],
"near antonyms":[
"blacklists",
"censures",
"condemns",
"criticizes",
"damns",
"denounces",
"deprecates",
"depreciates",
"disparages",
"reprehends",
"reprobates",
"dislikes",
"minds",
"detests",
"hates",
"loathes",
"dissents (from)",
"objects (to)",
"opposes"
],
"antonyms":[
"disapproves (of)",
"discountenances",
"disfavors",
"frowns (on or upon)"
]
},
"to show partiality toward":{
"examples":[
"older moviegoers tend to favor films that have certain extras\u2014like a plot and developed characters"
],
"synonyms":[
"cares (for)",
"leans (toward or towards)",
"likes",
"prefers"
],
"near synonyms":[
"adores",
"cottons (to)",
"delights (in)",
"digs",
"enjoys",
"fancies",
"grooves (on)",
"relishes",
"revels (in)",
"chooses",
"culls",
"handpicks",
"names",
"picks",
"selects",
"singles (out)",
"takes",
"covets",
"craves",
"desires",
"hankers (for or after)",
"wants",
"wishes (for)",
"biases",
"biasses",
"prejudices",
"inclines (toward)",
"tends (to)",
"admires",
"appreciates",
"cherishes",
"prizes",
"treasures",
"values"
],
"near antonyms":[
"disfavors",
"dislikes",
"mislikes",
"abhors",
"abominates",
"detests",
"hates",
"loathes",
"declines",
"refuses",
"rejects",
"turns down",
"discards",
"jettisons",
"throws away",
"throws out"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to furnish freely or naturally with some power, quality, or attribute":{
"examples":[
"favored with good looks"
],
"synonyms":[
"blesses",
"endows",
"endues",
"indues",
"gifts",
"invests"
],
"near synonyms":[
"equips",
"provides",
"supplies",
"bestows (on or upon)",
"clothes",
"confers (on)",
"covers",
"accords",
"awards",
"grants",
"empowers",
"enables",
"enhances",
"enriches",
"heightens",
"bequeaths",
"wills"
],
"near antonyms":[
"dispossesses",
"divests",
"strips",
"depletes",
"drains",
"exhausts",
"skimps",
"stints"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun",
"verb"
]
},
"fawning":{
"as in obsequious , subservient":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"kowtowing",
"obeisant",
"obsequious",
"servile",
"slavish",
"subordinate",
"subservient",
"amenable",
"biddable",
"compliant",
"conformable",
"docile",
"law-abiding",
"obedient",
"submissive",
"tractable",
"acquiescent",
"agreeable",
"amiable",
"duteous",
"dutiful",
"obliging",
"placable",
"soft",
"surrendering",
"yielding",
"decorous",
"disciplined",
"mannerly",
"orderly",
"constrained",
"curbed",
"inhibited",
"repressed",
"restrained",
"controllable",
"disciplinable",
"governable",
"handleable",
"manageable",
"tame",
"teachable",
"tractable",
"trainable",
"gentle",
"meek",
"mild"
],
"near antonyms":[
"insurgent",
"mutinous",
"dogged",
"hardheaded",
"headstrong",
"mulish",
"obdurate",
"obstinate",
"peevish",
"pigheaded",
"self-willed",
"stubborn",
"unyielding",
"uncontrollable",
"unmanageable",
"wild",
"balky",
"defiant",
"perverse",
"resistant",
"bad",
"disorderly",
"errant",
"misbehaving",
"mischievous",
"naughty",
"ill-bred",
"undisciplined",
"dissident",
"nonconformist",
"disrespectful",
"ill-mannered",
"impolite",
"impudent",
"insolent",
"rude",
"balky",
"contrary",
"contumacious",
"defiant",
"disobedient",
"froward",
"incompliant",
"insubordinate",
"intractable",
"noncompliant",
"obstreperous",
"rebel",
"rebellious",
"recalcitrant",
"refractory",
"restive",
"unamenable",
"ungovernable",
"unruly",
"untoward",
"wayward",
"willful",
"wilful"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"as in sycophancy , toadying":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"sycophancy",
"toadying",
"adoration",
"idolatry",
"worship",
"cajolement",
"cajolery",
"ingratiation",
"smarm",
"caresses",
"compliments",
"congratulations",
"felicitations",
"greetings",
"regards",
"respects",
"acclaim",
"applause",
"commendation",
"praise",
"allurements",
"blandishments",
"endearments",
"adulation",
"blarney",
"butter",
"flannel",
"flattery",
"incense",
"overpraise",
"soft soap",
"sweet talk",
"taffy"
],
"near antonyms":[
"bad-mouthing",
"belittlement",
"depreciation",
"detraction",
"disparagement",
"put-down"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to use flattery or the doing of favors in order to win approval especially from a superior":{
"examples":[
"a student who could not wait to fawn over the new teacher"
],
"synonyms":[
"apple-polishing",
"bootlicking",
"fussing",
"kowtowing",
"sucking (up)",
"toadying",
"truckling"
],
"near synonyms":[
"drooling",
"gushing",
"slavering",
"slobbering",
"endearing",
"ingratiating",
"courting",
"wooing",
"adulating",
"idolizing",
"worshipping",
"worshiping",
"blandishing",
"cajoling",
"coaxing",
"flattering",
"overpraising",
"soft-soaping",
"cowering",
"cringing",
"groveling",
"grovelling",
"abasing",
"debasing",
"demeaning",
"deferring",
"submitting",
"yielding"
],
"near antonyms":[
"despising",
"disdaining",
"scorning",
"gibing",
"jibing",
"jeering",
"scoffing",
"braving",
"challenging",
"defying"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
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"noun",
"verb"
]
},
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"examples":[
"all of the stores in the mall have facades that are in keeping with the style of a 19th-century American village"
],
"synonyms":[
"face",
"forehead",
"forepart",
"front"
],
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"outside",
"skin",
"surface",
"veneer"
],
"near antonyms":[
"innards",
"inside",
"interior"
],
"antonyms":[
"back",
"rear",
"rearward",
"reverse"
]
},
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"examples":[
"his interest in acting is just a facade \u2014he joined the drama club to meet girls"
],
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"act",
"airs",
"charade",
"disguise",
"front",
"guise",
"masquerade",
"playacting",
"pose",
"pretense",
"pretence",
"put-on",
"semblance",
"show"
],
"near synonyms":[
"impersonation",
"performance",
"portrayal",
"image",
"persona",
"appearance",
"color",
"gloss",
"camouflage",
"cloak",
"affectation",
"deceit",
"deception",
"dissembling",
"dissimulation",
"double-dealing",
"duplicity",
"fakery",
"fraud",
"guile",
"betrayal",
"double cross",
"faithlessness",
"falseness",
"falsity",
"infidelity",
"perfidy",
"treachery",
"treason",
"unfaithfulness",
"excuse",
"pretext"
],
"near antonyms":[
"bluntness",
"candidness",
"candor",
"directness",
"forthrightness",
"frankness",
"openheartedness",
"outspokenness",
"plainspokenness",
"sincerity",
"straightforwardness",
"artlessness",
"genuineness",
"na\u00efvet\u00e9",
"naivete",
"naivet\u00e9"
],
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},
"a deceptively attractive external appearance":{
"examples":[
"the company's facade of success collapsed when it was revealed that its financial officers had been cooking the books for years"
],
"synonyms":[
"gloss",
"veneer",
"window dressing"
],
"near synonyms":[
"cotton candy",
"fluff",
"tinsel",
"fig leaf",
"charade",
"front",
"guise",
"masquerade",
"pose",
"semblance",
"show"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"fa\u00e7ades":{
"a deceptively attractive external appearance":{
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"examples":[
"the company's facade of success collapsed when it was revealed that its financial officers had been cooking the books for years"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"related":[
"cotton candies",
"fluffs",
"tinsels",
"fig leafs",
"fig leaves",
"charades",
"fronts",
"guises",
"masquerades",
"poses",
"semblances",
"shows"
],
"synonyms":[
"glosses",
"veneers",
"window dressings"
]
},
"a display of emotion or behavior that is insincere or intended to deceive":{
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"examples":[
"his interest in acting is just a facade \u2014he joined the drama club to meet girls"
],
"near antonyms":[
"candors",
"sincerities",
"na\u00efvet\u00e9s",
"naivetes",
"naivet\u00e9s"
],
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"impersonations",
"performances",
"portrayals",
"images",
"personae",
"personas",
"appearances",
"colors",
"glosses",
"camouflages",
"cloaks",
"affectations",
"deceits",
"deceptions",
"dissimulations",
"double-dealings",
"duplicities",
"fakeries",
"frauds",
"guiles",
"betrayals",
"double crosses",
"falsities",
"infidelities",
"perfidies",
"treacheries",
"treasons",
"excuses",
"pretexts"
],
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"acts",
"airs",
"charades",
"disguises",
"fronts",
"guises",
"masquerades",
"poses",
"pretenses",
"pretences",
"put-ons",
"semblances",
"shows"
]
},
"a forward part or surface":{
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"backs",
"rears",
"rearwards",
"reverses"
],
"examples":[
"all of the stores in the mall have facades that are in keeping with the style of a 19th-century American village"
],
"near antonyms":[
"innards",
"insides",
"interiors"
],
"related":[
"outsides",
"skins",
"surfaces",
"veneers"
],
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"faces",
"foreheads",
"foreparts",
"fronts"
]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"fall down":{
"as in go under":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"related":[],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"fatality":{
"a person or thing harmed, lost, or destroyed":{
"examples":[
"the grim reminder that every holiday weekend inevitably results in a slew of highway fatalities"
],
"synonyms":[
"casualty",
"loss",
"prey",
"victim"
],
"near synonyms":[
"loser",
"underdog",
"martyr",
"sacrifice",
"collateral damage",
"murderee"
],
"near antonyms":[
"gainer",
"victor",
"winner",
"harmer",
"injurer",
"assassin",
"killer",
"murderer"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"fames":{
"the fact or state of being known to the public":{
"examples":[
"many go to Hollywood in search of fame and fortune"
],
"synonyms":[
"celebrities",
"notorieties",
"renowns"
],
"related":[
"infamies",
"characters",
"marks",
"names",
"reports",
"reputabilities",
"reputations",
"reputes",
"cachets",
"places",
"positions",
"prestiges",
"ranks",
"standings",
"statures",
"statuses",
"megastardoms",
"popularities",
"stardoms",
"superstardoms",
"distinctions",
"eminences",
"glories",
"honors",
"notes",
"preeminences",
"prominences",
"visibilities",
"acclaim",
"accolades",
"acknowledgments",
"acknowledgements",
"homages",
"kudos",
"laurels",
"praises",
"recognitions",
"adorations",
"idolizations"
],
"near antonyms":[
"disgraces",
"dishonors",
"disreputes",
"ignominies",
"odiums",
"opprobriums",
"shames",
"invisibilities",
"unpopularity"
],
"antonyms":[
"anonymities",
"oblivions",
"obscurities"
]
},
"overall quality as seen or judged by people in general":{
"examples":[
"he has some fame locally as an honest antiques dealer"
],
"synonyms":[
"characters",
"marks",
"names",
"notes",
"odors",
"reports",
"reps",
"reputations",
"reputes"
],
"related":[
"credits",
"honors",
"celebrities",
"notorieties",
"renowns",
"images",
"personae",
"personas",
"admirations",
"regards",
"reverences"
],
"near antonyms":[
"discredit",
"disgraces",
"dishonors",
"disreputes",
"ignominies",
"infamies",
"obloquies",
"odiums",
"opprobriums",
"reproaches",
"shames"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"fabulous":{
"based on, described in, or being a myth":{
"examples":[
"the city of Phoenix is named after a fabulous bird that every 500 years destroys itself with fire, only to rise again from its own ashes"
],
"synonyms":[
"fabled",
"legendary",
"mythical",
"mythic"
],
"near synonyms":[
"famed",
"romanticized",
"storied",
"chimerical",
"chimeric",
"fabricated",
"fantastic",
"fantastical",
"fictional",
"fictitious",
"fanciful",
"imaginary",
"imagined",
"invented",
"made-up",
"make-believe",
"pretend",
"unreal",
"allegorical",
"mythological",
"mythologic",
"semilegendary"
],
"near antonyms":[
"actual",
"existent",
"real",
"real-world",
"historical",
"factual",
"true",
"attested",
"authenticated",
"confirmed",
"established",
"proven",
"substantiated",
"validated",
"verified",
"authentic",
"bona fide",
"genuine",
"real-life"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"causing wonder or astonishment":{
"examples":[
"the fabulous sites of dazzlingly lit Las Vegas"
],
"synonyms":[
"amazing",
"astonishing",
"astounding",
"awesome",
"awful",
"eye-opening",
"marvelous",
"marvellous",
"miraculous",
"portentous",
"prodigious",
"staggering",
"stunning",
"stupendous",
"sublime",
"surprising",
"wonderful",
"wondrous"
],
"near synonyms":[
"incomprehensible",
"inconceivable",
"incredible",
"unbelievable",
"unimaginable",
"unthinkable",
"extraordinary",
"phenomenal",
"rare",
"sensational",
"spectacular",
"singular",
"uncommon",
"unique",
"unusual",
"unwonted",
"conspicuous",
"notable",
"noticeable",
"outstanding",
"remarkable",
"impressive",
"smashing",
"striking",
"mind-bending",
"mind-blowing",
"mind-boggling",
"animating",
"energizing",
"enlightening",
"enlivening",
"exciting",
"galvanizing",
"invigorating",
"stimulating",
"alluring",
"attracting",
"attractive",
"beguiling",
"bewitching",
"captivating",
"charming",
"enchanting",
"entertaining",
"enthralling",
"fascinating",
"interesting"
],
"near antonyms":[
"unimpressive",
"uninspiring",
"unremarkable",
"boring",
"dull",
"jading",
"monotonous",
"tedious",
"tiring",
"uninspired",
"uninteresting",
"wearisome",
"weary",
"wearying",
"common",
"customary",
"mundane",
"normal",
"ordinary",
"typical",
"unexceptional",
"usual",
"draining",
"enervating",
"exhausting",
"fatiguing",
"wearing",
"debilitating",
"enfeebling",
"demoralizing",
"discouraging",
"disheartening",
"dispiriting"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"not real and existing only in the imagination":{
"examples":[
"a story of a fabulous land where the people know nothing of war and live together in perfect harmony"
],
"synonyms":[
"chimerical",
"chimeric",
"fanciful",
"fantasied",
"fantastic",
"fantastical",
"fictional",
"fictitious",
"ideal",
"imaginal",
"imaginary",
"imagined",
"invented",
"made-up",
"make-believe",
"mythical",
"mythic",
"notional",
"phantasmal",
"phantasmic",
"phantom",
"pretend",
"unreal",
"visionary"
],
"near synonyms":[
"fabled",
"legendary",
"romantic",
"abstract",
"hypothetical",
"theoretical",
"theoretic",
"unbelievable",
"unconvincing",
"unlikely",
"conceived",
"envisaged",
"envisioned",
"pictured",
"visualized",
"daydreamlike",
"deceptive",
"delusional",
"delusive",
"hallucinatory",
"illusory",
"phantasmagoric",
"phantasmagorical",
"concocted",
"fabricated",
"feigned",
"fictive",
"inexistent",
"nonexistent"
],
"near antonyms":[
"authentic",
"genuine",
"true",
"factual",
"verifiable",
"verified",
"believable",
"convincing",
"realistic",
"corporeal",
"material",
"physical",
"solid",
"substantial",
"palpable",
"tangible"
],
"antonyms":[
"actual",
"existent",
"existing",
"real"
]
},
"of the very best kind":{
"examples":[
"we had a fabulous time on our vacation"
],
"synonyms":[
"A-OK",
"A1",
"awesome",
"bang-up",
"banner",
"beautiful",
"blue-chip",
"blue-ribbon",
"boffo",
"bonny",
"bonnie",
"boss",
"brag",
"brave",
"bully",
"bumper",
"capital",
"choice",
"classic",
"cool",
"corking",
"crackerjack",
"cracking",
"dandy",
"divine",
"dope",
"down",
"dynamite",
"excellent",
"fab",
"famous",
"fantabulous",
"fantastic",
"fine",
"first-class",
"first-rate",
"first-string",
"five-star",
"four-star",
"frontline",
"gangbusters",
"gangbuster",
"gilt-edged",
"gilt-edge",
"gone",
"grand",
"great",
"groovy",
"heavenly",
"high-class",
"hot",
"hype",
"immense",
"jim-dandy",
"keen",
"lovely",
"marvelous",
"marvellous",
"mean",
"neat",
"nifty",
"noble",
"number one",
"No. 1",
"numero uno",
"out-of-sight",
"par excellence",
"peachy",
"peachy keen",
"phat",
"prime",
"primo",
"prize",
"prizewinning",
"quality",
"radical",
"righteous",
"sensational",
"slick",
"splendid",
"stellar",
"sterling",
"superb",
"superior",
"superlative",
"supernal",
"swell",
"terrific",
"tip-top",
"top",
"top-notch",
"top-of-the-line",
"top-shelf",
"topflight",
"topping",
"unsurpassed",
"wizard",
"wonderful"
],
"near synonyms":[
"acceptable",
"adequate",
"all right",
"decent",
"good",
"OK",
"okay",
"passable",
"satisfactory",
"tolerable",
"better",
"exceptional",
"fancy",
"high-grade",
"high-test",
"premium",
"select",
"special",
"superfine",
"classical",
"standard",
"traditional"
],
"near antonyms":[
"bad",
"inferior",
"low-grade",
"substandard",
"unsatisfactory",
"mediocre",
"middling",
"second-class",
"second-rate"
],
"antonyms":[
"atrocious",
"awful",
"execrable",
"lousy",
"pathetic",
"poor",
"rotten",
"terrible",
"vile",
"wretched"
]
},
"type":[
"adjective"
]
},
"fancying up":{
"to make more attractive by adding something that is beautiful or becoming":{
"examples":[
"had fancied up his van so much that it was virtually a palace on wheels"
],
"synonyms":[
"adorning",
"arraying",
"beautifying",
"bedecking",
"bedizening",
"blazoning",
"caparisoning",
"decking",
"decorating",
"doing",
"doing up",
"dolling up",
"draping",
"dressing",
"embellishing",
"emblazing",
"embossing",
"enriching",
"fancifying",
"festooning",
"garnishing",
"glitzing (up)",
"gracing",
"gussying up",
"ornamenting",
"prettying (up)",
"trimming"
],
"near synonyms":[
"accessorizing",
"dressing up",
"trapping",
"tricking (out)",
"brightening",
"freshening",
"smartening",
"sprucing (up)",
"bossing",
"chasing",
"braiding",
"embroidering",
"feathering",
"figuring",
"filigreeing",
"filleting",
"flouncing",
"frilling",
"fringing",
"furbelowing",
"garlanding",
"hanging",
"lacing",
"ribboning",
"swagging",
"wreathing",
"appliqu\u00e9ing",
"gilding",
"painting",
"diamonding",
"gemming",
"impearling",
"jeweling",
"jewelling",
"pearling",
"redecorating",
"redoing"
],
"near antonyms":[
"simplifying",
"streamlining",
"baring",
"denuding",
"dismantling",
"displaying",
"divesting",
"exposing",
"revealing",
"stripping",
"uncovering",
"uglifying"
],
"antonyms":[
"blemishing",
"defacing",
"disfiguring",
"marring",
"scarring",
"spoiling"
]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"fashionably":{
"as in elegantly , stylishly":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"elegantly",
"modishly",
"stylishly",
"swankily",
"neatly",
"orderly",
"tidily",
"trimly",
"carefully",
"fastidiously",
"fussily",
"meticulously",
"dashingly",
"nattily",
"sharply",
"smartly",
"snappily",
"sprucely",
"cleanly",
"immaculately",
"pristinely",
"spotlessly"
],
"near antonyms":[
"sloppily",
"slovenly",
"dowdily",
"inelegantly",
"slatternly",
"messily",
"mussily",
"untidily",
"scruffily",
"shabbily",
"sleazily",
"dingily",
"dirtily",
"filthily",
"foully",
"grubbily",
"nastily"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"adverb"
]
},
"farmhouse":{
"as in plantation , homestead":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"hacienda",
"homestead",
"manor",
"plantation",
"spread",
"cropland",
"farmland",
"farmyard",
"croft",
"smallholding",
"station",
"steading",
"estate",
"farm",
"farmstead",
"grange",
"ranch",
"garden",
"orchard"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"faceless":{
"lacking in distinctive features or qualities":{
"examples":[
"it was precisely because he was a faceless individual that the serial killer was able to go on for so long without detection"
],
"synonyms":[
"beige",
"characterless",
"featureless",
"indistinctive",
"neutral",
"noncommittal",
"nondescript",
"vanilla"
],
"related":[
"boring",
"drab",
"dreary",
"dry",
"dull",
"flat",
"humdrum",
"leaden",
"monotonous",
"pedestrian",
"stodgy",
"stuffy",
"tame",
"tedious",
"tiresome",
"tiring",
"uninteresting",
"wearisome",
"weary",
"wearying"
],
"near antonyms":[
"arresting",
"bold",
"catchy",
"dramatic",
"emphatic",
"eye-catching",
"flamboyant",
"showy",
"splashy",
"striking"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"not named or identified by a name":{
"examples":[
"faceless gossipmongers had been spreading rumors about the actor's sexual identity for years"
],
"synonyms":[
"anonymous",
"incognito",
"innominate",
"nameless",
"unbaptized",
"unchristened",
"unidentified",
"unnamed",
"untitled"
],
"related":[
"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"
]
},
"falsity":{
"a false idea or belief":{
"examples":[
"a papal letter condemning secularism and other movements that the church considered to be falsities of the modern age"
],
"synonyms":[
"delusion",
"error",
"fallacy",
"falsehood",
"hallucination",
"illusion",
"misbelief",
"misconception",
"myth",
"old wives' tale",
"untruth"
],
"near synonyms":[
"factoid",
"superstition",
"fiction",
"pretense",
"pretence",
"distortion",
"inaccuracy",
"misapprehension",
"miscomprehension",
"misinterpretation",
"misjudgment",
"misperception",
"misunderstanding",
"misinformation",
"misknowledge",
"misreport",
"misrepresentation",
"misstatement",
"sophism",
"sophistry",
"fib",
"half-truth",
"lie",
"story",
"tale"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[
"truth",
"verity"
]
},
"a statement known by its maker to be untrue and made in order to deceive":{
"examples":[
"when questioned by his parents about his drug use, the teenager told one blatant falsity after another"
],
"synonyms":[
"fable",
"fabrication",
"fairy tale",
"falsehood",
"fib",
"lie",
"mendacity",
"prevarication",
"story",
"tale",
"taradiddle",
"tarradiddle",
"untruth",
"whopper"
],
"near synonyms":[
"distortion",
"exaggeration",
"half-truth",
"ambiguity",
"equivocation",
"obliquity",
"defamation",
"libel",
"slander",
"perjury",
"bluff",
"fiction",
"pose",
"pretense",
"pretence",
"humbug",
"jive",
"nonsense",
"canard",
"fallacy",
"misconception",
"myth",
"falsification",
"misinformation",
"misreport",
"misrepresentation",
"misstatement",
"deceit",
"deceitfulness",
"dishonesty",
"duplicity",
"fraudulence"
],
"near antonyms":[
"fact",
"truism",
"verity",
"honesty",
"truthfulness",
"veracity",
"authentication",
"confirmation",
"substantiation",
"validation",
"verification"
],
"antonyms":[
"truth"
]
},
"lack of faithfulness especially to one's husband or wife":{
"examples":[
"the falsity of Guinevere usually figures prominently in medieval and modern tellings of the legend of King Arthur"
],
"synonyms":[
"disloyalty",
"faithlessness",
"falseness",
"inconstancy",
"infidelity",
"perfidiousness",
"perfidy",
"unfaithfulness"
],
"near synonyms":[
"adultery",
"betrayal",
"double cross",
"double-dealing",
"duplicity",
"sellout",
"treachery",
"treason",
"deceit",
"deception",
"lying"
],
"near antonyms":[
"staunchness",
"steadfastness",
"dependability",
"reliability",
"honesty",
"trustworthiness"
],
"antonyms":[
"allegiance",
"constancy",
"devotedness",
"devotion",
"faith",
"faithfulness",
"fealty",
"fidelity",
"loyalty"
]
},
"the act or fact of violating the trust or confidence of another":{
"examples":[
"despite being offered a fortune to spill the president's secrets, the trusted aide declared that he'd sooner die than be guilty of such falsity"
],
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"backstabbing",
"betrayal",
"business",
"disloyalty",
"double cross",
"faithlessness",
"falseness",
"infidelity",
"perfidy",
"sellout",
"treachery",
"treason",
"two-timing",
"unfaithfulness"
],
"near synonyms":[
"abandonment",
"desertion",
"deceit",
"deception",
"double-dealing",
"duplicity",
"guile",
"two-facedness",
"fraud",
"informing",
"lying",
"snitching",
"talebearing",
"trickery"
],
"near antonyms":[
"dependability",
"reliability",
"trustworthiness",
"defense",
"protection",
"safeguard",
"shield"
],
"antonyms":[
"allegiance",
"devotion",
"faithfulness",
"fealty",
"fidelity",
"loyalty",
"staunchness",
"steadfastness"
]
},
"the quality or state of being false":{
"examples":[
"the falsity of Columbus's estimate of the earth's circumference was pretty much demonstrated when he made a head-on collision with the western hemisphere"
],
"synonyms":[
"erroneousness",
"fallaciousness",
"fallacy",
"falsehood",
"falseness",
"untruth"
],
"near synonyms":[
"speciousness",
"spuriousness",
"deception",
"deceptiveness",
"delusion",
"inaccuracy",
"incorrectness",
"dishonesty",
"mendaciousness",
"mendacity",
"untruthfulness"
],
"near antonyms":[
"accuracy",
"actuality",
"correctness",
"factuality",
"factualness",
"genuineness",
"credibility",
"honesty",
"trustworthiness",
"truthfulness",
"veracity"
],
"antonyms":[
"truth",
"verity"
]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"faithlessness":{
"lack of faithfulness especially to one's husband or wife":{
"examples":[
"a wife who long ago became resigned to the chronic faithlessness of her husband"
],
"synonyms":[
"disloyalty",
"falseness",
"falsity",
"inconstancy",
"infidelity",
"perfidiousness",
"perfidy",
"unfaithfulness"
],
"near synonyms":[
"adultery",
"betrayal",
"double cross",
"double-dealing",
"duplicity",
"sellout",
"treachery",
"treason",
"deceit",
"deception",
"lying"
],
"near antonyms":[
"staunchness",
"steadfastness",
"dependability",
"reliability",
"honesty",
"trustworthiness"
],
"antonyms":[
"allegiance",
"constancy",
"devotedness",
"devotion",
"faith",
"faithfulness",
"fealty",
"fidelity",
"loyalty"
]
},
"the act or fact of violating the trust or confidence of another":{
"examples":[
"the former butler's mercenary faithlessness shocked and offended the royal family"
],
"synonyms":[
"backstabbing",
"betrayal",
"business",
"disloyalty",
"double cross",
"falseness",
"falsity",
"infidelity",
"perfidy",
"sellout",
"treachery",
"treason",
"two-timing",
"unfaithfulness"
],
"near synonyms":[
"abandonment",
"desertion",
"deceit",
"deception",
"double-dealing",
"duplicity",
"guile",
"two-facedness",
"fraud",
"informing",
"lying",
"snitching",
"talebearing",
"trickery"
],
"near antonyms":[
"dependability",
"reliability",
"trustworthiness",
"defense",
"protection",
"safeguard",
"shield"
],
"antonyms":[
"allegiance",
"devotion",
"faithfulness",
"fealty",
"fidelity",
"loyalty",
"staunchness",
"steadfastness"
]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"fantasizers":{
"as in daydreamers , woolgatherers":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"daydreamers",
"woolgatherers",
"emotionalists",
"sentimentalists",
"Micawbers",
"optimists",
"Pollyannas",
"Don Quixotes",
"dreamers",
"fantasts",
"idealists",
"idealizers",
"ideologues",
"idealogues",
"romanticists",
"romantics",
"utopians",
"visionaries",
"do-gooders",
"reformers",
"perfectionists",
"doctrinaires",
"theorists",
"thinkers"
],
"near antonyms":[
"hardnoses",
"pragmatists",
"realists",
"cynics",
"defeatists",
"pessimists",
"empiricists",
"empirics"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"fabulousness":{
"as in greatness , specialness":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"choiceness",
"distinction",
"excellence",
"excellency",
"exquisiteness",
"first-rateness",
"grandness",
"greatness",
"marvelousness",
"marvellousness",
"perfection",
"preeminence",
"primeness",
"specialness",
"splendidness",
"sterlingness",
"superbness",
"superiority",
"superlativeness",
"supremacy",
"supremeness",
"exceptionality",
"exceptionalness",
"extraordinariness",
"consequence",
"importance",
"notability",
"faultlessness",
"flawlessness",
"impeccability",
"perfectness",
"goodness",
"value",
"worth",
"deficiency",
"unacceptability",
"inadequacy",
"inadequateness",
"insufficiency",
"unsatisfactoriness"
],
"near antonyms":[
"averageness",
"mediocrity",
"ordinariness",
"commonness",
"commonplaceness",
"everydayness",
"fairness",
"mundaneness",
"mundanity",
"normality",
"normalness",
"passibility",
"routine",
"second-rateness",
"typicality",
"typicalness",
"unremarkableness",
"usualness",
"acceptability",
"adequacy",
"satisfactoriness",
"sufficiency"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"familial":{
"of or relating to a household or family":{
"examples":[
"it's a familial duty as well as a tradition for everyone in my family to eat dinner together"
],
"synonyms":[
"domestic",
"household"
],
"related":[
"homelike",
"homely",
"homey",
"homy",
"residential"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[
"nondomestic",
"nonfamilial"
]
},
"type":[
"adjective"
]
},
"fascination":{
"the power of irresistible attraction":{
"examples":[
"the fascination that the subject of dinosaurs has for most children"
],
"synonyms":[
"allure",
"animal magnetism",
"appeal",
"attractiveness",
"captivation",
"charisma",
"charm",
"duende",
"enchantment",
"force field",
"glamour",
"glamor",
"magic",
"magnetism",
"oomph",
"pizzazz",
"pizazz",
"seductiveness",
"witchery"
],
"related":[
"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"
]
},
"fainting":{
"to lose consciousness":{
"examples":[
"the kind of person who faints at the sight of blood"
],
"synonyms":[
"blacking out",
"conking (out)",
"keeling (over)",
"passing out",
"swooning"
],
"near synonyms":[
"breaking down",
"collapsing",
"zonking (out)"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[
"coming around",
"coming round",
"coming to",
"reviving"
]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"faking out":{
"to cause to believe what is untrue":{
"examples":[
"my friends faked me out for a whole day, letting me think that they had forgotten my birthday"
],
"synonyms":[
"bamboozling",
"beguiling",
"bluffing",
"buffaloing",
"burning",
"catching",
"conning",
"cozening",
"deceiving",
"deluding",
"duping",
"fooling",
"gaffing",
"gammoning",
"gulling",
"having",
"having on",
"hoaxing",
"hoodwinking",
"hornswoggling",
"humbugging",
"juggling",
"misguiding",
"misinforming",
"misleading",
"snookering",
"snowing",
"spoofing",
"stringing along",
"suckering",
"sucking in",
"taking in",
"tricking"
],
"related":[
"kidding",
"putting on",
"teasing",
"bleeding",
"cheating",
"chiseling",
"chiselling",
"defrauding",
"diddling",
"euchring",
"fleecing",
"flimflamming",
"hustling",
"mulcting",
"rooking",
"shortchanging",
"skinning",
"squeezing",
"sticking",
"stinging",
"swindling"
],
"near antonyms":[
"debunking",
"exposing",
"revealing",
"showing up",
"uncloaking",
"uncovering",
"unmasking",
"disclosing",
"divulging",
"telling",
"unveiling",
"disabusing",
"disenchanting",
"disillusioning"
],
"antonyms":[
"undeceiving"
]
},
"to elude (an opponent in a sports contest) by making a deceptive or agile movement":{
"examples":[
"used a quick between-the-legs dribble to fake out the flat-footed defender"
],
"synonyms":[
"dekeing",
"faking",
"juking"
],
"related":[
"dodging",
"evading",
"sidestepping",
"slipping",
"pump-faking",
"stutter-stepping",
"maneuvering (around)"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"fable":{
"a story intended to teach a basic truth or moral about life":{
"examples":[
"this classic Christmas film is essentially a fable showing how every person's life has meaning and touches the lives of others"
],
"synonyms":[
"allegory",
"apologue",
"parable"
],
"near synonyms":[
"beast fable",
"bestiary",
"morality play",
"legend",
"myth",
"mythology",
"narrative",
"tale"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"a traditional but unfounded story that gives the reason for a current custom, belief, or fact of nature":{
"examples":[
"according to an ancient fable the waters of the mountain spring are the tears of a woman weeping for her lost children"
],
"synonyms":[
"legend",
"myth",
"mythos"
],
"near synonyms":[
"allegory",
"parable",
"fabrication",
"fantasy",
"phantasy",
"fiction",
"figment",
"invention",
"narrative",
"saga",
"story",
"tale",
"yarn"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"something that is the product of the imagination":{
"examples":[
"the stories of lost cities of gold may have been fables deliberately concocted by Native Americans to dupe the Spanish"
],
"synonyms":[
"fabrication",
"fantasy",
"phantasy",
"fiction",
"figment",
"invention"
],
"near synonyms":[
"anecdote",
"narrative",
"novel",
"story",
"tale",
"yarn",
"fairy tale",
"falsehood",
"falsity",
"fib",
"lie",
"mendacity",
"misrepresentation",
"prevarication",
"untruth",
"whopper",
"make-believe"
],
"near antonyms":[
"actuality",
"realness"
],
"antonyms":[
"fact",
"materiality",
"reality"
]
},
"a statement known by its maker to be untrue and made in order to deceive":{
"examples":[
"the fables that people tell themselves to rationalize their failures and shortcomings"
],
"synonyms":[
"fabrication",
"fairy tale",
"falsehood",
"falsity",
"fib",
"lie",
"mendacity",
"prevarication",
"story",
"tale",
"taradiddle",
"tarradiddle",
"untruth",
"whopper"
],
"near synonyms":[
"distortion",
"exaggeration",
"half-truth",
"ambiguity",
"equivocation",
"obliquity",
"defamation",
"libel",
"slander",
"perjury",
"bluff",
"fiction",
"pose",
"pretense",
"pretence",
"humbug",
"jive",
"nonsense",
"canard",
"fallacy",
"misconception",
"myth",
"falsification",
"misinformation",
"misreport",
"misrepresentation",
"misstatement",
"deceit",
"deceitfulness",
"dishonesty",
"duplicity",
"fraudulence"
],
"near antonyms":[
"fact",
"truism",
"verity",
"honesty",
"truthfulness",
"veracity",
"authentication",
"confirmation",
"substantiation",
"validation",
"verification"
],
"antonyms":[
"truth"
]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"facets":{
"a certain way in which something appears or may be regarded":{
"examples":[
"there are so many facets to Benjamin Franklin: statesman, scientist, inventor, American original"
],
"synonyms":[
"angles",
"aspects",
"hands",
"phases",
"sides"
],
"related":[
"airs",
"appearances",
"characters",
"colors",
"complexions",
"conditions",
"faces",
"looks",
"semblances",
"shapes",
"states",
"visages",
"periods",
"stages",
"steps",
"outlooks",
"perspectives",
"positions",
"postures",
"shoes",
"slants",
"stances",
"standpoints",
"viewpoints",
"views",
"interpretations",
"readings",
"renderings",
"translations",
"versions",
"articles",
"cases",
"components",
"counts",
"details",
"dimensions",
"elements",
"factors",
"instances",
"items",
"matters",
"particulars",
"parts",
"points",
"regards",
"respects"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"factoring (out)":{
"as in discounting , disregarding":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"discounting",
"disregarding"
],
"near antonyms":[
"allowing (for)",
"considering",
"factoring (in or into)",
"providing (for)",
"regarding",
"accommodating",
"adapting",
"adjusting",
"conditioning",
"anticipating",
"contemplating",
"envisaging",
"expecting",
"foreseeing"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"facelift":{
"as in renovations , refurbishments":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"reclamations",
"reconstructions",
"re-creations",
"refurbishments",
"regeneracies",
"rehabilitations",
"rehabs",
"renovations",
"restorals",
"restorations",
"rallies",
"recoveries",
"recuperations",
"fixings",
"reanimations",
"rebirths",
"regenerations",
"rejuvenations",
"rejuvenescences",
"renewals",
"resurgences",
"resurrections",
"resuscitations",
"revitalizations",
"revivals",
"revivifications",
"renaissances",
"renascences",
"reinventions",
"reactivations"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"famishment":{
"a need or desire for food":{
"examples":[
"there's something about outdoor activity that invariably increases one's famishment"
],
"synonyms":[
"appetite",
"belly",
"emptiness",
"hunger",
"munchies",
"stomach"
],
"near synonyms":[
"rapaciousness",
"rapacity",
"ravenousness",
"voraciousness",
"voracity",
"malnutrition",
"starvation",
"undernourishment",
"craving",
"sweet tooth",
"famine",
"fast",
"hunger strike",
"gluttony",
"gourmandism",
"greed",
"hoggishness"
],
"near antonyms":[
"fill",
"fullness",
"glut",
"repleteness",
"repletion",
"satiation",
"satiety",
"satisfaction",
"surfeit"
],
"antonyms":[
"inappetence"
]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"face-off":{
"an earnest effort for superiority or victory over another":{
"examples":[
"the annual fall face-off between these traditional rivals is a big event for both football-mad colleges"
],
"synonyms":[
"ball game",
"battle",
"combat",
"competition",
"conflict",
"confrontation",
"contention",
"contest",
"dogfight",
"duel",
"grapple",
"match",
"rivalry",
"strife",
"struggle",
"sweepstakes",
"sweep-stake",
"tug-of-war",
"war",
"warfare"
],
"near synonyms":[
"horse race",
"nail-biter",
"showdown",
"clash",
"collision",
"discord",
"friction",
"argument",
"controversy",
"debate",
"disagreement",
"disputation",
"dispute",
"dissension",
"dissention",
"quarrel",
"row",
"wrangle"
],
"near antonyms":[
"concord",
"harmony",
"peace"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to engage in a contest":{
"examples":[
"eager to face off with her longtime tennis rival"
],
"synonyms":[
"battle",
"compete",
"contend",
"fight",
"race",
"rival",
"vie"
],
"near synonyms":[
"challenge",
"engage",
"play",
"jockey",
"jostle",
"maneuver",
"go out",
"try out",
"train",
"work"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun",
"verb"
]
},
"fatherless":{
"as in motherless":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"motherless",
"baseborn",
"bastard",
"illegitimate",
"misbegotten",
"natural",
"spurious",
"supposititious",
"unfathered",
"nameless",
"adopted",
"orphaned"
],
"near antonyms":[
"legitimate"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"adjective"
]
},
"fatiguing":{
"as in exhausting , enervating":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"draining",
"enervating",
"exhausting",
"wearing",
"palling",
"debilitating",
"enfeebling",
"longsome",
"demoralizing",
"discouraging",
"disheartening",
"dispiriting",
"annoying",
"bothersome",
"irksome",
"irritating",
"common",
"commonplace",
"ordinary",
"tepid",
"unexceptional",
"unsurprising",
"vapid",
"blank",
"earthbound",
"gray",
"grey",
"inanimate",
"pallid",
"pedantic",
"sterile",
"suspenseless",
"undramatic",
"uneventful",
"unexciting",
"unimaginative",
"uninspiring",
"unnewsworthy",
"unrewarding",
"unsensational",
"unspectacular",
"cumbersome",
"lumbering",
"plodding",
"poky",
"pokey",
"aseptic",
"barren",
"blah",
"dullish",
"pleasureless",
"prosaic",
"prosy",
"soggy",
"spiritless"
],
"near antonyms":[
"absorbing",
"engaging",
"engrossing",
"gripping",
"interesting",
"intriguing",
"involving",
"riveting",
"amazing",
"astonishing",
"astounding",
"awesome",
"eye-opening",
"fabulous",
"marvelous",
"marvellous",
"sensational",
"spectacular",
"surprising",
"wonderful",
"wondrous",
"animating",
"breathtaking",
"electrifying",
"energizing",
"enlivening",
"exciting",
"exhilarating",
"galvanizing",
"hair-raising",
"inspiring",
"invigorating",
"rip-roaring",
"rousing",
"stimulating",
"stirring",
"thrilling",
"amusing",
"diverting",
"entertaining",
"moving",
"poignant",
"touching",
"alluring",
"attracting",
"attractive",
"beguiling",
"bewitching",
"captivating",
"charming",
"enchanting",
"enthralling",
"entrancing",
"fascinating",
"mesmerizing",
"spellbinding",
"suspenseful",
"arresting",
"provocative",
"tantalizing"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to use up all the physical energy of":{
"examples":[
"the rescue workers pressed on, though their efforts to reach the miners had almost completely fatigued them"
],
"synonyms":[
"breaking",
"burning out",
"busting",
"doing in",
"doing up",
"draining",
"exhausting",
"fagging",
"frazzling",
"harassing",
"killing",
"knocking out",
"outwearing",
"tiring",
"tuckering (out)",
"washing out",
"wearing",
"wearing out",
"wearying"
],
"near synonyms":[
"debilitating",
"enervating",
"enfeebling",
"sapping",
"wasting",
"weakening"
],
"near antonyms":[
"activating",
"energizing",
"invigorating",
"rejuvenating",
"strengthening",
"vitalizing",
"relaxing",
"resting",
"unwinding"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"adjective",
"verb"
]
},
"fawn":{
"to use flattery or the doing of favors in order to win approval especially from a superior":{
"examples":[
"a student who could not wait to fawn over the new teacher"
],
"synonyms":[
"apple-polish",
"bootlick",
"fuss",
"kowtow",
"suck (up)",
"toady",
"truckle"
],
"near synonyms":[
"drool",
"gush",
"slaver",
"slobber",
"endear",
"ingratiate",
"court",
"woo",
"adulate",
"idolize",
"worship",
"blandish",
"cajole",
"coax",
"flatter",
"overpraise",
"soft-soap",
"cower",
"cringe",
"grovel",
"abase",
"debase",
"demean",
"defer",
"submit",
"yield"
],
"near antonyms":[
"despise",
"disdain",
"scorn",
"gibe",
"jibe",
"jeer",
"scoff",
"brave",
"challenge",
"defy"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"facticity":{
"agreement with fact or reality":{
"examples":[
"the facticity of the information is not at issue; it's whether something so private should ever be made public"
],
"synonyms":[
"factuality",
"sooth",
"trueness",
"truth",
"verity"
],
"near synonyms":[
"accuracy",
"accurateness",
"actuality",
"authenticity",
"correctness",
"credibility",
"honesty",
"trustability",
"trustiness",
"trustworthiness",
"truthfulness",
"veracity",
"dependability",
"reliability"
],
"near antonyms":[
"erroneousness",
"fallaciousness",
"fallacy",
"falsehood",
"fiction",
"half-truth",
"lie",
"impreciseness",
"imprecision",
"inaccuracy",
"incorrectness",
"inexactitude",
"inexactness",
"deceit",
"dishonesty",
"equivocation",
"lying",
"mendaciousness",
"mendacity",
"prevarication",
"untruthfulness"
],
"antonyms":[
"falseness",
"falsity",
"untruth"
]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"factory":{
"a building or set of buildings for the manufacturing of goods":{
"examples":[
"the new factory will create hundreds of much-needed jobs"
],
"synonyms":[
"manufactory",
"mill",
"plant",
"shop",
"works",
"workshop"
],
"near synonyms":[
"sweatshop",
"atelier",
"studio",
"workplace",
"workroom",
"yard"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"farceur":{
"a person (as a writer) noted for or specializing in humor":{
"examples":[
"a knockabout comedy that was performed by a trio of accomplished farceurs"
],
"synonyms":[
"card",
"comedian",
"comic",
"droll",
"funnyman",
"gagger",
"gagman",
"gagster",
"humorist",
"jester",
"joker",
"jokester",
"wag",
"wit"
],
"near synonyms":[
"comedienne",
"entertainer",
"banterer",
"cutup",
"kidder",
"knockabout",
"practical joker",
"prankster",
"quipper",
"quipster",
"teaser",
"wisecracker",
"buffoon",
"clown",
"fool",
"harlequin",
"zany",
"caricaturist",
"lampooner",
"parodist",
"satirist"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"faintness":{
"the quality or state of lacking physical strength or vigor":{
"examples":[
"after a year of increasing faintness , the old man quietly died in his sleep"
],
"synonyms":[
"asthenia",
"debilitation",
"debility",
"delicacy",
"enervation",
"enfeeblement",
"feebleness",
"fragility",
"frailness",
"frailty",
"infirmity",
"languidness",
"languor",
"listlessness",
"lowness",
"weakness",
"wimpiness"
],
"near synonyms":[
"decay",
"decrepitude",
"breakdown",
"collapse",
"prostration",
"exhaustion",
"fatigue",
"lassitude",
"weariness",
"defenselessness",
"helplessness",
"impotence",
"impuissance",
"powerlessness",
"effeteness",
"softness",
"tenderness",
"disablement",
"incapacitation",
"invalidism",
"damage",
"harm",
"hurt",
"impairment",
"injury"
],
"near antonyms":[
"energy",
"vitality",
"brawniness",
"fitness",
"heftiness",
"huskiness",
"lustiness",
"muscularity",
"virility",
"hardness",
"ruggedness",
"stoutness",
"sturdiness",
"toughness",
"health",
"healthiness",
"soundness",
"wellness"
],
"antonyms":[
"hardihood",
"hardiness",
"robustness",
"strength",
"vigor"
]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"faultfinders":{
"a person given to harsh judgments and to finding faults":{
"examples":[
"I hate to be a faultfinder , but the invitation has a spelling error"
],
"synonyms":[
"carpers",
"castigators",
"cavilers",
"cavillers",
"censurers",
"criticizers",
"critics",
"disparagers",
"hypercritics",
"knockers",
"nigglers",
"nitpickers"
],
"near synonyms":[
"condemners",
"condemnors",
"denouncers",
"belittlers",
"decriers",
"denigrators",
"deriders",
"detractors",
"assailants",
"attackers",
"crucifiers",
"criticasters",
"hairsplitters",
"pettifoggers",
"quibblers",
"admonishers",
"haranguers",
"railers",
"ranters",
"rebukers",
"reproachers",
"reprovers",
"scolds",
"upbraiders",
"bellyachers",
"complainers",
"crybabies",
"fussers",
"gripers",
"grouches",
"grousers",
"grumblers",
"whiners"
],
"near antonyms":[
"commenders",
"praisers"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"falsification":{
"as in misinformation , misrepresentation":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"misinformation",
"misreport",
"misrepresentation",
"misstatement",
"fable",
"fabrication",
"fairy tale",
"falsehood",
"falsity",
"fib",
"lie",
"mendacity",
"prevarication",
"story",
"tale",
"taradiddle",
"tarradiddle",
"untruth",
"whopper",
"distortion",
"exaggeration",
"half-truth",
"ambiguity",
"equivocation",
"obliquity",
"defamation",
"libel",
"slander",
"perjury",
"bluff",
"fiction",
"pose",
"pretense",
"pretence",
"humbug",
"jive",
"nonsense",
"canard",
"fallacy",
"misconception",
"myth"
],
"near antonyms":[
"fact",
"truism",
"verity",
"honesty",
"truthfulness",
"veracity",
"authentication",
"confirmation",
"substantiation",
"validation",
"verification",
"truth"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"fair market values":{
"as in values , market values":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"market values",
"valuations",
"values",
"antes",
"charges",
"costs",
"damages",
"fees",
"figures",
"freights",
"prices",
"price tags",
"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"
]
},
"fatheads":{
"a stupid person":{
"examples":[
"so who's the fathead who messed around with my movie collection?"
],
"synonyms":[
"airheads",
"birdbrains",
"blockheads",
"boneheads",
"bubbleheads",
"chowderheads",
"chuckleheads",
"clodpolls",
"clodpoles",
"clots",
"clucks",
"clunks",
"cretins",
"cuddies",
"deadheads",
"dim bulbs",
"dimwits",
"dips",
"dodoes",
"dodos",
"dolts",
"donkeys",
"doofuses",
"dufuses",
"dopes",
"dorks",
"dullards",
"dumbbells",
"dumbheads",
"dum-dums",
"dummies",
"dummkopfs",
"dunces",
"dunderheads",
"ganders",
"golems",
"goofs",
"goons",
"half-wits",
"hammerheads",
"hardheads",
"idiots",
"ignoramuses",
"ignorami",
"imbeciles",
"jackasses",
"know-nothings",
"knuckleheads",
"lamebrains",
"loggerheads",
"loons",
"lumps",
"lunkheads",
"meatheads",
"momes",
"morons",
"mugs",
"mutts",
"naturals",
"nimrods",
"nincompoops",
"ninnies",
"ninnyhammers",
"nits",
"nitwits",
"noddies",
"noodles",
"numskulls",
"numbskulls",
"oafs",
"pinheads",
"prats",
"ratbags",
"sapheads",
"schlubs",
"shlubs",
"schnooks",
"simpletons",
"stocks",
"stupes",
"stupids",
"thickheads",
"turkeys",
"woodenheads",
"yahoos",
"yo-yos"
],
"near synonyms":[
"boobies",
"buffoons",
"fools",
"geese",
"loonies",
"lunatics",
"madmen",
"nuts",
"zanies",
"losers",
"gawks",
"featherbrains",
"scatterbrains",
"beasts",
"boors",
"cads",
"churls",
"clowns",
"creeps",
"curs",
"heels",
"jerks",
"skunks",
"skunk",
"snakes",
"stinkers",
"villains"
],
"near antonyms":[
"intellects",
"intellectuals",
"sages",
"thinkers",
"whizzes",
"wizards",
"polymaths",
"Renaissance men",
"sharpies"
],
"antonyms":[
"brains",
"geniuses",
"genii"
]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"facilitate":{
"to free from obstruction or difficulty":{
"examples":[
"several religious organizations are involved in the effort to facilitate the settlement of the immigrants arriving in the area"
],
"synonyms":[
"ease",
"grease",
"loosen (up)",
"smooth",
"unclog"
],
"near synonyms":[
"accelerate",
"expedite",
"hasten",
"hurry",
"quicken",
"rush",
"speed",
"advance",
"forward",
"further",
"promote",
"abet",
"aid",
"assist",
"help",
"improve",
"disentangle",
"straighten (out)",
"untangle",
"simplify",
"streamline"
],
"near antonyms":[
"hinder",
"impede",
"retard",
"aggravate",
"worsen",
"perplex",
"sophisticate"
],
"antonyms":[
"complicate"
]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"fascism":{
"rule, control, or leadership by one person with absolute power":{
"examples":[
"A soaring crime rate and civil unrest were harbingers to the rise of fascism in the country."
],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"Big Brother",
"Big Brotherism",
"Communism",
"Nazism",
"absolutism",
"autarchy",
"authoritarianism",
"autocracy",
"Caesarism",
"czarism",
"tsarism",
"tzarism",
"despotism",
"dictatorship",
"totalism",
"totalitarianism",
"tyranny",
"monarchism",
"monarchy",
"monocracy",
"domination",
"oppression"
],
"near antonyms":[
"democracy",
"self-governance",
"self-government",
"self-rule",
"freedom",
"self-determination",
"autonomy",
"sovereignty",
"sovranty"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"factitious":{
"being such in appearance only and made with or manufactured from usually cheaper materials":{
"examples":[
"presumably the statue is of factitious marble, because for that price you're not going to get the real stuff"
],
"synonyms":[
"artificial",
"bogus",
"dummy",
"ersatz",
"fake",
"false",
"faux",
"imitation",
"imitative",
"man-made",
"mimic",
"mock",
"pretend",
"sham",
"simulated",
"substitute",
"synthetic"
],
"near synonyms":[
"cultured",
"manufactured",
"process",
"unauthentic",
"adulterated",
"designer",
"doctored",
"engineered",
"fudged",
"juggled",
"manipulated",
"tampered (with)",
"concocted",
"fabricated",
"counterfeit",
"deceptive",
"forged",
"fraudulent",
"misleading",
"phony",
"phoney",
"affected",
"brummagem",
"feigned",
"pinchbeck",
"pseudo",
"spurious"
],
"near antonyms":[
"authentic",
"bona fide",
"legitimate",
"true",
"premium",
"quality",
"valuable",
"pure",
"unadulterated"
],
"antonyms":[
"genuine",
"natural",
"real"
]
},
"lacking in natural or spontaneous quality":{
"examples":[
"the factitious friendliness shown by the beauty-pageant contestants to one another"
],
"synonyms":[
"affected",
"artificial",
"assumed",
"bogus",
"contrived",
"fake",
"false",
"feigned",
"forced",
"mechanical",
"mock",
"phony",
"phoney",
"plastic",
"pretended",
"pseudo",
"put-on",
"sham",
"simulated",
"spurious",
"strained",
"unnatural"
],
"near synonyms":[
"automatic",
"canned",
"concocted",
"fabricated",
"hokey",
"labored",
"manufactured",
"pat",
"unauthentic",
"unreal",
"unrealistic",
"double-dealing",
"empty",
"facile",
"hollow",
"hypocritical",
"insincere",
"left-handed",
"mealy",
"mealymouthed",
"two-faced",
"unctuous",
"exaggerated",
"histrionic",
"melodramatic",
"overacted",
"overdone",
"theatrical",
"theatric",
"cute",
"cutesy",
"genteel",
"goody-goody",
"mincing",
"overrefined",
"simpering",
"conventional",
"formal",
"impersonal",
"inflexible",
"rigid",
"stiff",
"stylized",
"wooden",
"artful",
"calculated",
"conscious",
"cultivated",
"deliberate",
"premeditated",
"studied"
],
"near antonyms":[
"authentic",
"bona fide",
"real",
"realistic",
"right",
"true",
"honest",
"ingenuous",
"sincere",
"unpretending",
"easy",
"effortless",
"smooth",
"extemporaneous",
"impromptu",
"impulsive",
"instinctive",
"unconscious",
"unprompted",
"unrehearsed",
"unstudied"
],
"antonyms":[
"artless",
"genuine",
"natural",
"spontaneous",
"unaffected",
"uncontrived",
"unfeigned",
"unforced"
]
},
"type":[
"adjective"
]
},
"faculties":{
"a natural ability of the mind or body":{
"examples":[
"although they are well into their 80s, the mental faculties of this couple are as sharp as ever"
],
"synonyms":[
"powers"
],
"near synonyms":[
"functions",
"capabilities",
"capacities",
"aptitudes",
"endowments",
"flairs",
"geniuses",
"genii",
"gifts",
"instincts",
"knacks",
"talents"
],
"near antonyms":[
"inabilities",
"incapabilities",
"incapacities",
"inaptitudes"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"a special and usually inborn ability":{
"examples":[
"even when he was still at a young age, John Singleton Copley's artistic faculties were readily recognizable"
],
"synonyms":[
"aptitudes",
"bents",
"endowments",
"flairs",
"geniuses",
"genii",
"gifts",
"heads",
"knacks",
"talents"
],
"near synonyms":[
"affinities",
"biases",
"dispositions",
"habitudes",
"impulses",
"inclinations",
"leanings",
"partialities",
"penchants",
"predilections",
"predispositions",
"proclivities",
"propensities",
"tendencies",
"turns",
"ears",
"eyes",
"minds",
"noses",
"feels",
"hangs",
"instincts",
"touches",
"ways",
"capabilities",
"competences",
"facilities",
"proficiencies",
"skills",
"capacities",
"potentials",
"powers",
"fortes",
"specialisms",
"specialities",
"specialties"
],
"near antonyms":[
"disabilities",
"handicaps",
"inabilities",
"incapacities",
"shortcomings",
"weaknesses"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"the physical or mental power to do something":{
"examples":[
"the belief that if someone loses their sight, all of their other physical faculties are heightened"
],
"synonyms":[
"abilities",
"capabilities",
"capacities",
"competences",
"competencies"
],
"near synonyms":[
"aptitudes",
"endowments",
"equipments",
"facilities",
"gifts",
"knacks",
"talents",
"addresses",
"dexterities",
"hands",
"prowesses",
"skills",
"gray matters",
"instincts",
"intelligences",
"kens",
"reasons",
"understandings",
"mights",
"potencies",
"puissances",
"staying powers",
"stuff",
"adequacies",
"forms",
"influences",
"means",
"resources",
"wherewithals"
],
"near antonyms":[
"impotences",
"paralyses",
"weaknesses",
"deficiencies",
"inadequacies",
"ineffectualities",
"inefficacies",
"debilitations",
"disablements",
"impairments",
"incapacitations"
],
"antonyms":[
"disabilities",
"inabilities",
"incapabilities",
"incapacities",
"incompetences",
"incompetencies",
"ineptitudes"
]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"fantasies":{
"a conception or image created by the imagination and having no objective reality":{
"examples":[
"a constant daydreamer who started to believe his own fantasies"
],
"synonyms":[
"chimeras",
"conceits",
"daydreams",
"delusions",
"dreams",
"fancies",
"figments",
"hallucinations",
"illusions",
"nonentities",
"phantasms",
"fantasms",
"pipe dreams",
"unrealities",
"visions"
],
"near synonyms":[
"ignes fatui",
"mirages",
"will-o'-the-wisps",
"brainchildren",
"ideas",
"concoctions",
"fables",
"fabrications",
"fictions",
"inventions",
"visualizations",
"cloud-cuckoo-lands",
"cloudlands",
"Shangri-las",
"utopias",
"daymares",
"nightmares"
],
"near antonyms":[
"actualities",
"facts",
"realities"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"something that is the product of the imagination":{
"examples":[
"we were coming to the conclusion that the person Karen \"saw\" in the woods was another one of her fantasies"
],
"synonyms":[
"fables",
"fabrications",
"fictions",
"figments",
"inventions"
],
"near synonyms":[
"anecdotes",
"anecdota",
"narratives",
"novels",
"stories",
"tales",
"yarns",
"fairy tales",
"falsehoods",
"falsities",
"fibs",
"lies",
"mendacities",
"misrepresentations",
"prevarications",
"untruths",
"whoppers",
"make-believe"
],
"near antonyms":[
"actualities"
],
"antonyms":[
"facts",
"materialities",
"realities"
]
},
"to form a mental picture of":{
"examples":[
"She regularly fantasies exciting adventures."
],
"synonyms":[
"conceits",
"conceives",
"conjures (up)",
"dreams",
"envisages",
"envisions",
"fancies",
"fantasizes",
"features",
"ideates",
"images",
"imagines",
"pictures",
"sees",
"visions",
"visualizes"
],
"near synonyms":[
"daydreams",
"stargazes",
"hallucinates",
"re-creates",
"reflects",
"relives",
"reminisces",
"contemplates",
"meditates",
"muses",
"ponders",
"ruminates",
"concocts",
"fabricates",
"invents",
"makes up",
"manufactures",
"plans",
"projects",
"foresees",
"prefigures"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun",
"verb"
]
},
"fashionable":{
"being in the latest or current fashion":{
"examples":[
"a shopping district filled with expensive boutiques selling fashionable clothing from the top designers"
],
"synonyms":[
"\u00e0 la mode",
"a la mode",
"au courant",
"chic",
"cool",
"exclusive",
"fresh",
"happening",
"hip",
"in",
"modish",
"sharp",
"smart",
"snappy",
"stylish",
"supercool",
"swell",
"swish",
"trendy",
"voguish"
],
"near synonyms":[
"downtown",
"edgy",
"funky",
"dapper",
"dashing",
"dressy",
"kicky",
"natty",
"rakish",
"sassy",
"saucy",
"spiffy",
"spruce",
"chichi",
"classy",
"flossy",
"haute",
"haut",
"nobby",
"posh",
"ritzy",
"soign\u00e9",
"soign\u00e9e",
"swank",
"swanky",
"elegant",
"graceful",
"handsome",
"majestic",
"refined",
"sophisticated",
"stately",
"tasteful",
"understated",
"doggish",
"doggy",
"flashy",
"gallant",
"dandyish",
"dudish",
"foppish",
"ultrachic",
"ultracool",
"ultrahip",
"ultraposh",
"ultrasmart",
"ultrasophisticated"
],
"near antonyms":[
"cheesy",
"tacky",
"unattractive",
"unbecoming",
"graceless",
"inelegant",
"tasteless",
"trashy",
"unhandsome",
"frowsy",
"frowzy",
"sloppy",
"slovenly",
"unkempt",
"untidy",
"disheveled",
"dishevelled",
"messy",
"mussy",
"rumpled",
"wrinkled",
"shabby",
"sleazy"
],
"antonyms":[
"dowdy",
"out",
"outmoded",
"styleless",
"unchic",
"uncool",
"unfashionable",
"unmodish",
"unstylish"
]
},
"enjoying widespread favor or approval":{
"examples":[
"that breed of dog became fashionable after it became the preferred dog among Hollywood celebrities"
],
"synonyms":[
"big",
"crowd-pleasing",
"du jour",
"faddish",
"faddy",
"favorite",
"happening",
"hot",
"in",
"large",
"modish",
"pop",
"popular",
"popularized",
"red-hot",
"vogue",
"voguish"
],
"near synonyms":[
"semipopular",
"preferred",
"selected",
"desirable",
"liked",
"wanted",
"celebrated",
"famed",
"famous",
"noted",
"notorious",
"prominent",
"renowned",
"well-known",
"fabled",
"fabulous",
"legendary",
"leading",
"notable",
"outstanding",
"prominent",
"remarkable",
"important",
"significant"
],
"near antonyms":[
"washed-up",
"despised",
"detested",
"disliked",
"hated",
"rejected",
"insignificant",
"unimportant",
"indistinguished",
"unexceptional",
"anonymous",
"nameless",
"obscure",
"unknown",
"inconspicuous"
],
"antonyms":[
"out",
"unfashionable",
"unpopular"
]
},
"type":[
"adjective"
]
},
"factors":{
"a person who acts or does business for another":{
"examples":[
"at the auction the high bidder for the painting was actually a factor for a wealthy art collector"
],
"synonyms":[
"agents",
"assignees",
"attorneys",
"commissaries",
"delegates",
"deputies",
"envoys",
"ministers",
"procurators",
"proxies",
"representatives",
"reps"
],
"near synonyms":[
"ambassadors",
"diplomatists",
"diplomats",
"emissaries",
"foreign ministers",
"legates",
"plenipotentiaries",
"alternates",
"backups",
"pinch hitters",
"reliefs",
"replacements",
"stand-ins",
"subs",
"substitutes",
"surrogates",
"understudies",
"informers",
"operatives",
"spies",
"brokers",
"distributors",
"managers",
"arbiters",
"arbitrators",
"compradors",
"compradores",
"conciliators",
"go-betweens",
"intercessors",
"intermediaries",
"interposers",
"liaisons",
"mediators",
"middlemen",
"peacemakers",
"mouthpieces",
"point men",
"point people",
"prophets",
"speakers",
"spokesmen",
"spokespeople"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"one of the parts that make up a whole":{
"examples":[
"price was only one factor in my decision to buy the car"
],
"synonyms":[
"building blocks",
"components",
"constituents",
"elements",
"ingredients",
"members"
],
"near synonyms":[
"bases",
"part and parcels",
"details",
"items",
"particulars",
"points",
"aspects",
"characteristics",
"facets",
"features",
"traits",
"divisions",
"fragments",
"particles",
"partitions",
"pieces",
"portions",
"sections",
"sectors",
"segments",
"subcomponents",
"sub-components"
],
"near antonyms":[
"aggregates",
"composites",
"compounds",
"masses",
"entireties",
"summations",
"sums",
"totalities",
"totals",
"admixtures",
"amalgamations",
"amalgams",
"blends",
"combinations",
"intermixtures",
"mixes",
"mixtures"
],
"antonyms":[
"wholes"
]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"fascinated":{
"as in captivated , entranced":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"bewitched",
"captivated",
"charmed",
"enchanted",
"entranced",
"foolish",
"silly",
"wild",
"hung up (on)",
"obsessed",
"besotted (by)",
"crazy (about or over)",
"dotty (over)",
"enamored (of)",
"enraptured (by)",
"gaga (over)",
"gone (on)",
"infatuated (with)",
"mad (about)",
"nuts (about)"
],
"near antonyms":[
"cool",
"detached",
"unenchanted",
"unimpressed",
"disenchanted",
"disillusioned",
"heart-free"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to attract or delight as if by magic":{
"examples":[
"for years the zoo's family of giant pandas have fascinated visitors"
],
"synonyms":[
"allured",
"beguiled",
"bewitched",
"captivated",
"charmed",
"enchanted",
"killed",
"magnetized",
"wiled",
"witched"
],
"near synonyms":[
"disarmed",
"drew",
"enticed",
"lured",
"pulled",
"seduced",
"tempted",
"delighted",
"gratified",
"pleased",
"arrested",
"enraptured",
"enthralled",
"entranced",
"appealed (to)",
"interested",
"intrigued",
"beckoned",
"courted",
"invited",
"solicited",
"wooed"
],
"near antonyms":[
"disgusted",
"offended",
"repelled",
"revolted",
"annoyed",
"displeased",
"irked",
"bored",
"tired",
"wearied"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to hold the attention of as if by a spell":{
"examples":[
"I can gaze at the sea for hours, fascinated by the never-ending waves crashing upon the shore"
],
"synonyms":[
"arrested",
"bedazzled",
"caught up",
"enchanted",
"enthralled",
"gripped",
"hypnotized",
"mesmerized",
"spellbound"
],
"near synonyms":[
"enraptured",
"entranced",
"thrilled",
"beguiled",
"bewitched",
"charmed",
"absorbed",
"engaged",
"engrossed",
"involved"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to hold the attention of":{
"examples":[
"the subject of artificial intelligence fascinates me"
],
"synonyms":[
"absorbed",
"bemused",
"busied",
"caught up",
"engaged",
"engrossed",
"enthralled",
"enwrapped",
"gripped",
"immersed",
"interested",
"intrigued",
"involved",
"occupied"
],
"near synonyms":[
"allured",
"attracted",
"beguiled",
"bewitched",
"captivated",
"charmed",
"enchanted",
"obsessed",
"hypnotized",
"mesmerized",
"distracted",
"preoccupied",
"hogged",
"monopolized"
],
"near antonyms":[
"bored",
"jaded",
"palled",
"tired",
"wearied"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"adjective",
"verb"
]
},
"fancies up":{
"to make more attractive by adding something that is beautiful or becoming":{
"examples":[
"had fancied up his van so much that it was virtually a palace on wheels"
],
"synonyms":[
"adorns",
"arrays",
"beautifies",
"bedecks",
"bedizens",
"blazons",
"caparisons",
"decks",
"decorates",
"does",
"does up",
"dolls up",
"drapes",
"dresses",
"embellishes",
"emblazes",
"embosses",
"enriches",
"fancifies",
"festoons",
"garnishes",
"glitzes (up)",
"graces",
"gussies up",
"ornaments",
"pretties (up)",
"trims"
],
"near synonyms":[
"accessorizes",
"dresses up",
"traps",
"tricks (out)",
"brightens",
"freshens",
"smartens",
"spruces (up)",
"bosses",
"chases",
"braids",
"embroiders",
"feathers",
"figures",
"filigrees",
"fillets",
"flounces",
"frills",
"fringes",
"furbelows",
"garlands",
"hangs",
"laces",
"ribbons",
"swags",
"wreathes",
"appliqu\u00e9s",
"gilds",
"paints",
"diamonds",
"gems",
"impearls",
"jewels",
"pearls",
"redecorates",
"redoes"
],
"near antonyms":[
"simplifies",
"streamlines",
"bares",
"denudes",
"dismantles",
"displays",
"divests",
"exposes",
"reveals",
"strips",
"uncovers",
"uglifies"
],
"antonyms":[
"blemishes",
"defaces",
"disfigures",
"mars",
"scars",
"spoils"
]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"fanfaronade":{
"boastful speech or writing":{
"examples":[
"all his talk of how he would easily win the boxing match turned out to be so much fanfaronade"
],
"synonyms":[
"bluster",
"bombast",
"brag",
"braggadocio",
"bull",
"cockalorum",
"gas",
"gasconade",
"grandiloquence",
"hot air",
"magniloquence",
"rant",
"rodomontade",
"rhodomontade"
],
"near synonyms":[
"oratory",
"rhapsody",
"rhetoric",
"pomposity",
"turgidity",
"wind",
"bloviation",
"verbosity",
"windiness",
"babble",
"blab",
"chatter",
"drivel",
"gabble",
"gibber",
"gibberish",
"jabber",
"prattle",
"jawing",
"patter",
"prating",
"yammering",
"egotism",
"self-conceit",
"self-importance",
"swagger",
"vaunt"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"fact-checked":{
"as in published , redacted":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"edited",
"redrafted",
"revamped",
"revised",
"reworked",
"amended",
"annotated",
"corrected",
"emended",
"rectified",
"abridged",
"blue-penciled",
"redacted",
"red-penciled",
"copyedited",
"read",
"subbed",
"subedited",
"got out",
"issued",
"printed",
"published",
"anthologized",
"collected",
"compiled",
"engrossed",
"recopied",
"reedited",
"perfected",
"polished",
"touched up"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"faithful":{
"firm in one's allegiance to someone or something":{
"examples":[
"fans of the Chicago Cubs are famously faithful"
],
"synonyms":[
"constant",
"dedicated",
"devoted",
"devout",
"down-the-line",
"fast",
"good",
"loyal",
"pious",
"staunch",
"stanch",
"steadfast",
"steady",
"true",
"true-blue"
],
"near synonyms":[
"dependable",
"dutiful",
"reliable",
"responsible",
"solid",
"tried",
"tried-and-true",
"trustworthy",
"trusty",
"unfaltering",
"unhesitating",
"unwavering",
"determined",
"intent",
"resolute",
"confirmed",
"dyed-in-the-wool",
"inveterate",
"sworn",
"ardent",
"avid",
"enthusiastic",
"fervent",
"fervid",
"gung ho",
"impassioned",
"passionate",
"serious"
],
"near antonyms":[
"irresponsible",
"undependable",
"unreliable",
"untrustworthy",
"faltering",
"hesitant",
"vacillating",
"wavering",
"dubious",
"irresolute",
"shaky",
"uncertain",
"apathetic",
"dispassionate",
"uninterested"
],
"antonyms":[
"disloyal",
"faithless",
"false",
"fickle",
"inconstant",
"perfidious",
"recreant",
"traitorous",
"treacherous",
"unfaithful",
"untrue"
]
},
"following an original exactly":{
"examples":[
"a faithful filming of Robert Louis Stevenson's novel Treasure Island"
],
"synonyms":[
"accurate",
"authentic",
"exact",
"precise",
"right",
"strict",
"true",
"veracious"
],
"near synonyms":[
"lifelike",
"realistic",
"careful",
"conscientious",
"meticulous",
"punctilious",
"scrupulous",
"authoritative",
"bona fide",
"genuine",
"real",
"veridical"
],
"near antonyms":[
"careless",
"slack",
"slipshod",
"slovenly",
"erroneous",
"incorrect",
"invalid",
"off",
"unsound",
"untrue",
"untruthful",
"wrong"
],
"antonyms":[
"corrupt",
"corrupted",
"false",
"imprecise",
"inaccurate",
"inauthentic",
"inexact",
"loose",
"unfaithful"
]
},
"as in membership , fold":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"fold",
"membership",
"collective",
"commune",
"community",
"cooperative",
"alliance",
"bloc",
"camp",
"coalition",
"partnership",
"body",
"cadre",
"group",
"circle",
"clan",
"clique",
"coterie",
"junta",
"junto",
"klatch",
"klatsch",
"lot",
"set",
"crew",
"outfit",
"party",
"squad",
"team",
"branch",
"chapter",
"local",
"sisterhood",
"sorority",
"cabal",
"camarilla",
"camorra",
"confederacy",
"conspiracy"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"as in loyalist":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"loyalist",
"apostle",
"missionary",
"proselytizer",
"soldier",
"advocate",
"backer",
"champion",
"supporter",
"acolyte",
"adherent",
"convert",
"disciple",
"epigone",
"follower",
"liege man",
"partisan",
"partizan",
"pupil",
"votarist",
"votary",
"prot\u00e9g\u00e9",
"scholar",
"student",
"ideologist",
"ideologue",
"idealogue",
"sectarian",
"admirer",
"cultist",
"devotee",
"enthusiast",
"fan",
"idolater",
"idolator",
"worshipper",
"worshiper",
"zealot",
"apparatchik",
"camp follower",
"flunky",
"flunkey",
"flunkie",
"hanger-on",
"henchman",
"lackey",
"lickspittle",
"minion",
"myrmidon",
"satellite",
"stooge",
"sycophant",
"toady",
"yes-man"
],
"near antonyms":[
"coryphaeus",
"leader",
"apostate",
"defector",
"renegade",
"traitor",
"turncoat"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"adjective",
"noun"
]
},
"favoring":{
"to do a service or favor for":{
"examples":[
"although she was at the party as a guest, the singer favored us with a song"
],
"synonyms":[
"accommodating",
"obliging"
],
"near synonyms":[
"humoring",
"indulging",
"coddling",
"mollycoddling",
"pampering",
"appeasing",
"conciliating",
"mollifying",
"pacifying",
"placating",
"delighting",
"gladdening",
"gratifying",
"pleasing",
"satisfying",
"abetting",
"aiding",
"assisting",
"helping",
"supporting",
"attending",
"caring (for)",
"comforting",
"ministering (to)",
"relieving",
"succoring"
],
"near antonyms":[
"bothering",
"discommoding",
"disturbing",
"incommoding",
"inconveniencing",
"troubling",
"burdening",
"encumbering",
"saddling",
"weighing",
"deserting",
"disappointing",
"failing",
"letting down",
"constraining",
"hampering",
"hamstringing",
"hindering",
"hobbling",
"holding back",
"impeding",
"obstructing",
"restraining",
"frustrating",
"opposing",
"sabotaging",
"thwarting"
],
"antonyms":[
"disobliging"
]
},
"to have a favorable opinion of":{
"examples":[
"if this measure will reduce our property taxes, then I favor it"
],
"synonyms":[
"accepting",
"approving (of)",
"caring (for)",
"countenancing",
"OK'ing",
"okaying",
"subscribing (to)"
],
"near synonyms":[
"acclaiming",
"applauding",
"lauding",
"praising",
"saluting",
"backing (up)",
"concurring (in)",
"standing by",
"supporting",
"sustaining",
"upholding",
"bearing",
"enduring",
"tolerating",
"assenting (to)",
"consenting (to)",
"commending",
"recommending",
"enjoying",
"liking"
],
"near antonyms":[
"blacklisting",
"censuring",
"condemning",
"criticizing",
"damning",
"denouncing",
"deprecating",
"depreciating",
"disparaging",
"reprehending",
"reprobating",
"disliking",
"minding",
"detesting",
"hating",
"loathing",
"dissenting (from)",
"objecting (to)",
"opposing"
],
"antonyms":[
"disapproving (of)",
"discountenancing",
"disfavoring",
"frowning (on or upon)"
]
},
"to show partiality toward":{
"examples":[
"older moviegoers tend to favor films that have certain extras\u2014like a plot and developed characters"
],
"synonyms":[
"caring (for)",
"leaning (toward or towards)",
"liking",
"preferring"
],
"near synonyms":[
"adoring",
"cottoning (to)",
"delighting (in)",
"digging",
"enjoying",
"fancying",
"grooving (on)",
"relishing",
"reveling (in)",
"revelling (in)",
"choosing",
"culling",
"handpicking",
"naming",
"picking",
"selecting",
"singling (out)",
"taking",
"coveting",
"craving",
"desiring",
"hankering (for or after)",
"wanting",
"wishing (for)",
"biasing",
"biassing",
"prejudicing",
"inclining (toward)",
"tending (to)",
"admiring",
"appreciating",
"cherishing",
"prizing",
"treasuring",
"valuing"
],
"near antonyms":[
"disfavoring",
"disliking",
"misliking",
"abhorring",
"abominating",
"detesting",
"hating",
"loathing",
"declining",
"refusing",
"rejecting",
"turning down",
"discarding",
"jettisoning",
"throwing away",
"throwing out"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to furnish freely or naturally with some power, quality, or attribute":{
"examples":[
"favored with good looks"
],
"synonyms":[
"blessing",
"endowing",
"enduing",
"induing",
"gifting",
"investing"
],
"near synonyms":[
"equipping",
"providing",
"supplying",
"bestowing (on or upon)",
"clothing",
"conferring (on)",
"covering",
"according",
"awarding",
"granting",
"empowering",
"enabling",
"enhancing",
"enriching",
"heightening",
"bequeathing",
"willing"
],
"near antonyms":[
"dispossessing",
"divesting",
"stripping",
"depleting",
"draining",
"exhausting",
"skimping",
"stinting"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"fake":{
"being such in appearance only and made with or manufactured from usually cheaper materials":{
"examples":[
"opposed to the unnecessary killing of animals, she'll consider wearing only fake furs"
],
"synonyms":[
"artificial",
"bogus",
"dummy",
"ersatz",
"factitious",
"false",
"faux",
"imitation",
"imitative",
"man-made",
"mimic",
"mock",
"pretend",
"sham",
"simulated",
"substitute",
"synthetic"
],
"near synonyms":[
"cultured",
"manufactured",
"process",
"unauthentic",
"adulterated",
"designer",
"doctored",
"engineered",
"fudged",
"juggled",
"manipulated",
"tampered (with)",
"concocted",
"fabricated",
"counterfeit",
"deceptive",
"forged",
"fraudulent",
"misleading",
"phony",
"phoney",
"affected",
"brummagem",
"feigned",
"pinchbeck",
"pseudo",
"spurious"
],
"near antonyms":[
"authentic",
"bona fide",
"legitimate",
"true",
"premium",
"quality",
"valuable",
"pure",
"unadulterated"
],
"antonyms":[
"genuine",
"natural",
"real"
]
},
"being such in appearance only and made or manufactured with the intention of committing fraud":{
"examples":[
"arrested for peddling \"designer\" watches that were fake"
],
"synonyms":[
"bogus",
"counterfeit",
"false",
"forged",
"inauthentic",
"phony",
"phoney",
"queer",
"sham",
"snide",
"spurious",
"unauthentic"
],
"near synonyms":[
"artificial",
"factitious",
"imitation",
"man-made",
"mimic",
"mock",
"simulated",
"substitute",
"synthetic",
"dummy",
"nonfunctioning",
"ornamental",
"cultured",
"fabricated",
"manufactured",
"deceptive",
"delusive",
"misleading"
],
"near antonyms":[
"natural",
"actual",
"true",
"valid"
],
"antonyms":[
"authentic",
"bona fide",
"genuine",
"real",
"unfaked"
]
},
"lacking in natural or spontaneous quality":{
"examples":[
"the boss's pitiful attempts at humor were met with fake laughter"
],
"synonyms":[
"affected",
"artificial",
"assumed",
"bogus",
"contrived",
"factitious",
"false",
"feigned",
"forced",
"mechanical",
"mock",
"phony",
"phoney",
"plastic",
"pretended",
"pseudo",
"put-on",
"sham",
"simulated",
"spurious",
"strained",
"unnatural"
],
"near synonyms":[
"automatic",
"canned",
"concocted",
"fabricated",
"hokey",
"labored",
"manufactured",
"pat",
"unauthentic",
"unreal",
"unrealistic",
"double-dealing",
"empty",
"facile",
"hollow",
"hypocritical",
"insincere",
"left-handed",
"mealy",
"mealymouthed",
"two-faced",
"unctuous",
"exaggerated",
"histrionic",
"melodramatic",
"overacted",
"overdone",
"theatrical",
"theatric",
"cute",
"cutesy",
"genteel",
"goody-goody",
"mincing",
"overrefined",
"simpering",
"conventional",
"formal",
"impersonal",
"inflexible",
"rigid",
"stiff",
"stylized",
"wooden",
"artful",
"calculated",
"conscious",
"cultivated",
"deliberate",
"premeditated",
"studied"
],
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"authentic",
"bona fide",
"real",
"realistic",
"right",
"true",
"honest",
"ingenuous",
"sincere",
"unpretending",
"easy",
"effortless",
"smooth",
"extemporaneous",
"impromptu",
"impulsive",
"instinctive",
"unconscious",
"unprompted",
"unrehearsed",
"unstudied"
],
"antonyms":[
"artless",
"genuine",
"natural",
"spontaneous",
"unaffected",
"uncontrived",
"unfeigned",
"unforced"
]
},
"not being or expressing what one appears to be or express":{
"examples":[
"the fake friendliness of the sales rep made me want to gag"
],
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"artificial",
"backhanded",
"counterfeit",
"double",
"double-dealing",
"double-faced",
"feigned",
"hypocritical",
"insincere",
"Janus-faced",
"jive",
"left-handed",
"lip",
"mealy",
"mealymouthed",
"Pecksniffian",
"phony",
"phoney",
"phony-baloney",
"phoney-baloney",
"pretended",
"two-faced",
"unctuous"
],
"near synonyms":[
"affected",
"assumed",
"claptrap",
"contrived",
"forced",
"mechanical",
"put-on",
"simulated",
"strained",
"unnatural",
"empty",
"hollow",
"meaningless",
"deceitful",
"devious",
"dishonest",
"false",
"untruthful",
"facile",
"glib",
"superficial",
"bogus",
"sham",
"campy",
"facetious",
"jocular",
"tongue-in-cheek",
"canting",
"pharisaical",
"pious",
"sanctimonious",
"self-righteous",
"simon-pure"
],
"near antonyms":[
"direct",
"forthright",
"frank",
"heart-to-heart",
"open",
"plain",
"straightforward"
],
"antonyms":[
"artless",
"candid",
"genuine",
"heartfelt",
"honest",
"sincere",
"undesigning",
"unfeigned"
]
},
"an imitation that is passed off as genuine":{
"examples":[
"experts declared that one of the museum's prized paintings was actually a fake"
],
"synonyms":[
"counterfeit",
"forgery",
"hoax",
"humbug",
"phony",
"phoney",
"sham"
],
"near synonyms":[
"copycat",
"knockoff",
"copy",
"facsimile",
"replica",
"reproduction",
"dummy",
"mock-up",
"fraud",
"gaff",
"imposture",
"spoof",
"swindle",
"simulation",
"synthetic",
"bastard",
"brummagem",
"duffer",
"shoddy"
],
"near antonyms":[
"original"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"one who makes false claims of identity or expertise":{
"examples":[
"a hidden-camera investigation revealed that the so-called psychic was a fake"
],
"synonyms":[
"charlatan",
"faker",
"fakir",
"fraud",
"hoaxer",
"humbug",
"impostor",
"imposter",
"mountebank",
"phony",
"phoney",
"pretender",
"quack",
"quacksalver",
"ringer",
"sham"
],
"near synonyms":[
"copycat",
"imitator",
"impersonator",
"mimic",
"actor",
"bluffer",
"counterfeiter",
"deceiver",
"dissembler",
"duper",
"feigner",
"misleader",
"operator",
"trickster",
"poseur",
"cozener",
"defrauder",
"dodger",
"fraudster",
"scammer",
"scamster",
"sharper",
"sharpie",
"sharpy",
"skinner",
"swindler"
],
"near antonyms":[
"ace",
"adept",
"authority",
"crackerjack",
"crackajack",
"expert",
"maestro",
"master",
"past master",
"professional",
"virtuoso",
"whiz",
"wizard"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to imitate or copy especially in order to deceive":{
"examples":[
"pranksters faked giant footprints and then claimed that they had seen Bigfoot"
],
"synonyms":[
"counterfeit",
"forge",
"phony"
],
"near synonyms":[
"simulate",
"duplicate",
"reduplicate",
"replicate",
"reproduce",
"crib",
"plagiarize",
"adulterate",
"doctor",
"fudge",
"juggle",
"manipulate",
"tamper (with)",
"concoct",
"cook (up)",
"fabricate",
"invent"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to present a false appearance of":{
"examples":[
"while running for class president, Dan was not above faking friendship with people just to get their votes"
],
"synonyms":[
"act",
"affect",
"assume",
"bluff",
"counterfeit",
"dissemble",
"feign",
"pass (for)",
"pretend",
"profess",
"put on",
"sham",
"simulate"
],
"near synonyms":[
"dissimulate",
"impersonate",
"let on",
"masquerade",
"play",
"playact",
"pose",
"forge",
"imitate",
"camouflage",
"conceal",
"disguise",
"mask",
"feint",
"malinger"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to perform, make, or do without preparation":{
"examples":[
"if you give me the gist of the plan, I can probably fake enough for the speech"
],
"synonyms":[
"ad-lib",
"clap (together or up)",
"extemporize",
"improvise"
],
"near synonyms":[
"concoct",
"contrive",
"cook (up)",
"devise",
"fabricate",
"hatch",
"invent",
"make up",
"manufacture",
"think (up)",
"cobble (together or up)",
"dash (off)"
],
"near antonyms":[
"arrange",
"lay",
"prepare",
"ready",
"consider",
"contemplate",
"ponder",
"study",
"exercise",
"practice",
"practise",
"rehearse"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to elude (an opponent in a sports contest) by making a deceptive or agile movement":{
"examples":[
"the running back faked the defense by stepping to his left and then quickly cutting to the right"
],
"synonyms":[
"deke",
"fake out",
"juke"
],
"near synonyms":[
"dodge",
"evade",
"sidestep",
"slip",
"pump-fake",
"stutter-step",
"maneuver (around)"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"adjective",
"noun",
"verb"
]
},
"fashions":{
"a practice or interest that is very popular for a short time":{
"examples":[
"during the 1990s tattoos once again became a hot fashion especially for young men"
],
"synonyms":[
"buzzes",
"chics",
"crazes",
"dernier cris",
"enthusiasms",
"fads",
"flavors",
"hot tickets",
"last words",
"modes",
"rages",
"sensations",
"styles",
"tons",
"trends",
"vogues"
],
"near synonyms":[
"nine days' wonders",
"nine day wonders",
"new waves",
"crushes",
"infatuations",
"fervors",
"passions",
"furors",
"fusses",
"hullabaloos",
"to-dos",
"uproars",
"bandwagons",
"crusades",
"cults",
"movements",
"novelties",
"wrinkles",
"caprices",
"fancies",
"whims"
],
"near antonyms":[
"classics",
"standards"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"a distinctive way of putting ideas into words":{
"examples":[
"when angry, he tends to express himself in a fashion that shows that he has a mastery of all of the expletives in which the English language abounds"
],
"synonyms":[
"locutions",
"manners",
"modes",
"phraseologies",
"styles",
"tones",
"veins"
],
"near synonyms":[
"addresses",
"deliveries",
"elocution",
"archaisms",
"colloquialisms",
"regionalisms",
"acceptations",
"connotations",
"denotations",
"expressions",
"idioms"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"a usual manner of behaving or doing":{
"examples":[
"it has long been my fashion to rise early"
],
"synonyms":[
"customs",
"habits",
"habitudes",
"patterns",
"practices",
"practises",
"rituals",
"tricks",
"ways",
"wonts"
],
"near synonyms":[
"addictions",
"dispositions",
"bents",
"inclinations",
"proclivities",
"sets",
"tendencies",
"tenors",
"turns",
"bags",
"conventions",
"forms",
"modes",
"styles",
"usages",
"uses",
"deportments",
"manners",
"mores",
"drills",
"grooves",
"jog trots",
"regimens",
"regimes",
"r\u00e9gimes",
"rotes",
"routines",
"ruts",
"affectations",
"airs",
"poses",
"attributes",
"characteristics",
"marks",
"traits",
"eccentricities",
"kinks",
"oddities",
"peculiarities",
"quirks",
"singularities",
"tics"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"the means or procedure for doing something":{
"examples":[
"you can mix the ingredients in any fashion you choose\u2014by hand or by machine"
],
"synonyms":[
"approaches",
"forms",
"hows",
"manners",
"methodologies",
"methods",
"recipes",
"strategies",
"styles",
"systems",
"tacks",
"tactics",
"techniques",
"ways"
],
"near synonyms":[
"modes",
"modi operandi",
"blueprints",
"designs",
"game plans",
"games",
"ground plans",
"intrigues",
"layouts",
"lines",
"models",
"plans",
"plots",
"programs",
"routes",
"schemes",
"expedients",
"moves",
"shifts",
"steps",
"practices",
"practises",
"processes",
"routines",
"policies"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"the outward appearance of something as distinguished from its substance":{
"examples":[
"over the millennia, nature had worked the face of the rocky cliff into the fashion of a man's head"
],
"synonyms":[
"casts",
"configurations",
"conformations",
"figures",
"forms",
"geometries",
"shapes"
],
"near synonyms":[
"contours",
"outlines",
"profiles",
"silhouettes",
"frames",
"frameworks",
"shells",
"skeletons",
"arrangements",
"designs",
"formats",
"layouts",
"makeups",
"organizations",
"patterns",
"plans",
"setups"
],
"near antonyms":[
"compositions",
"materials",
"matters",
"raw materials",
"stuff",
"substances"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to change (something) so as to make it suitable for a new use or situation":{
"examples":[
"the ex-governor seems to be fashioning his political beliefs to win favor with a more conservative national electorate"
],
"synonyms":[
"acclimates",
"acclimatizes",
"accommodates",
"adapts",
"adjusts",
"conditions",
"conforms",
"doctors",
"edits",
"fits",
"puts",
"shapes",
"suits",
"tailors"
],
"near synonyms":[
"readapts",
"readjusts",
"customizes",
"gears",
"matches",
"models",
"patterns",
"attunes",
"corrects",
"harmonizes",
"squares",
"tunes",
"establishes",
"roots",
"settles",
"acquaints",
"familiarizes",
"orientates",
"orients",
"equips",
"prepares",
"primes",
"rehearses",
"hardens",
"inures",
"seasons",
"toughens",
"alters",
"converts",
"makes over",
"modifies",
"recasts",
"reclaims",
"recycles",
"redesigns",
"redevelops",
"redoes",
"reengineers",
"refashions",
"refigures",
"refits",
"refocuses",
"reinvents",
"rejiggers",
"remakes",
"remodels",
"revamps",
"revises",
"reworks",
"transforms",
"accustoms",
"habilitates",
"habituates",
"naturalizes",
"readies",
"trains",
"bends",
"fiddles (with)",
"fine-tunes",
"phases",
"registers",
"regulates",
"rigs"
],
"near antonyms":[
"misadjusts"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to bring into being by combining, shaping, or transforming materials":{
"examples":[
"for the Christmas pageant the boy's mother was able to fashion the length of fabric into something that could pass as a shepherd's outfit"
],
"synonyms":[
"fabricates",
"forms",
"frames",
"makes",
"manufactures",
"produces"
],
"near synonyms":[
"assembles",
"builds",
"constructs",
"erects",
"makes up",
"puts up",
"raises",
"rears",
"sets up",
"structures",
"throws up",
"crafts",
"handcrafts",
"hews",
"forges",
"molds",
"shapes",
"cobbles (together or up)",
"knocks out",
"patches (together)",
"throws up",
"prefabricates",
"creates",
"invents",
"mints",
"originates",
"establishes",
"fathers",
"institutes",
"organizes",
"concocts",
"contrives",
"cooks (up)",
"designs",
"devises",
"imagines",
"thinks (up)",
"conceives",
"envisages",
"pictures",
"visualizes",
"refashions",
"remakes",
"remanufactures"
],
"near antonyms":[
"disassembles",
"dismantles",
"takes apart",
"breaks up",
"dismembers",
"abolishes",
"annihilates",
"demolishes",
"destroys",
"devastates",
"eradicates",
"exterminates",
"extinguishes",
"flattens",
"pulverizes",
"razes",
"ruins",
"shatters",
"smashes",
"wrecks",
"blows up",
"explodes"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun",
"verb"
]
},
"fanny pack":{
"as in school bag , seabag":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"school bag",
"seabag",
"carryall",
"carry-on",
"grip",
"handbag",
"holdall",
"portmanteau",
"suitcase",
"traveling bag",
"overnight bag",
"overnight case",
"weekend bag",
"haversack",
"backpack",
"kit bag",
"knapsack",
"pack",
"packsack",
"rucksack"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"falls back on":{
"to use or seek out as a source of aid, relief, or advantage":{
"examples":[
"If your teaching career doesn't work out, you always have your baking skills to fall back on ."
],
"synonyms":[
"consults",
"goes (to)",
"refers (to)",
"resorts (to)",
"turns (to)"
],
"near synonyms":[
"employs",
"uses",
"utilizes",
"depends (on)",
"relies (on)"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"phrase"
]
},
"faucet":{
"a fixture for controlling the flow of a liquid":{
"examples":[
"don't forget to turn off the faucet"
],
"synonyms":[
"cock",
"gate",
"spigot",
"stopcock",
"tap",
"valve"
],
"near synonyms":[
"hydrant",
"spout",
"petcock"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"faux":{
"being such in appearance only and made with or manufactured from usually cheaper materials":{
"examples":[
"even the celebrity interior designer was fooled by the faux marble"
],
"synonyms":[
"artificial",
"bogus",
"dummy",
"ersatz",
"factitious",
"fake",
"false",
"imitation",
"imitative",
"man-made",
"mimic",
"mock",
"pretend",
"sham",
"simulated",
"substitute",
"synthetic"
],
"near synonyms":[
"cultured",
"manufactured",
"process",
"unauthentic",
"adulterated",
"designer",
"doctored",
"engineered",
"fudged",
"juggled",
"manipulated",
"tampered (with)",
"concocted",
"fabricated",
"counterfeit",
"deceptive",
"forged",
"fraudulent",
"misleading",
"phony",
"phoney",
"affected",
"brummagem",
"feigned",
"pinchbeck",
"pseudo",
"spurious"
],
"near antonyms":[
"authentic",
"bona fide",
"legitimate",
"true",
"premium",
"quality",
"valuable",
"pure",
"unadulterated"
],
"antonyms":[
"genuine",
"natural",
"real"
]
},
"type":[
"adjective"
]
},
"fairness":{
"the qualities in a person or thing that as a whole give pleasure to the senses":{
"examples":[
"a city of incomparable fairness , Venice has enchanted travelers for centuries"
],
"synonyms":[
"aesthetics",
"esthetics",
"attractiveness",
"beauteousness",
"beautifulness",
"beauty",
"comeliness",
"cuteness",
"gorgeousness",
"handsomeness",
"looks",
"loveliness",
"prettiness",
"sightliness"
],
"near synonyms":[
"allure",
"appeal",
"attraction",
"fascination",
"glamour",
"glamor",
"charm",
"delightfulness",
"elegance",
"exquisiteness",
"gloriousness",
"radiance",
"radiancy",
"resplendence",
"resplendency",
"splendidness",
"splendiferousness",
"sublimeness",
"sublimity",
"superbness",
"desirability",
"desirableness",
"foxiness",
"lusciousness",
"nubility",
"pulchritude",
"seductiveness",
"sex appeal",
"sexiness",
"shapeliness",
"flawlessness",
"perfection",
"daintiness",
"delicacy",
"flamboyance",
"flashiness",
"glossiness",
"showiness",
"slickness",
"splashiness"
],
"near antonyms":[
"disagreeableness",
"dreadfulness",
"foulness",
"ghastliness",
"horribleness",
"loathsomeness",
"nastiness",
"offensiveness",
"repellency",
"repulsiveness",
"terribleness",
"vileness",
"blemish",
"flaw",
"imperfection"
],
"antonyms":[
"grotesqueness",
"hideousness",
"homeliness",
"plainness",
"ugliness",
"unattractiveness",
"unbecomingness",
"unloveliness",
"unsightliness"
]
},
"lack of favoritism toward one side or another":{
"examples":[
"fairness was certainly uppermost in the elderly woman's mind as she made arrangements for dividing the family heirlooms among her many grandchildren"
],
"synonyms":[
"detachment",
"disinterest",
"disinterestedness",
"equity",
"evenhandedness",
"fair-mindedness",
"impartiality",
"justice",
"neutralism",
"neutrality",
"nonpartisanship",
"objectiveness",
"objectivity"
],
"near synonyms":[
"apathy",
"indifference",
"unconcern",
"broad-mindedness",
"open-mindedness",
"tolerance",
"fence-sitting",
"straddling"
],
"near antonyms":[
"chauvinism",
"nepotism",
"subjectiveness",
"subjectivity",
"bent",
"inclination",
"leaning",
"penchant",
"predilection",
"predisposition",
"proclivity",
"propensity",
"tendency",
"preconception",
"prejudgment"
],
"antonyms":[
"bias",
"favor",
"favoritism",
"nonobjectivity",
"one-sidedness",
"partiality",
"partisanship",
"prejudice"
]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"factored (out)":{
"as in discounted , disregarded":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"discounted",
"disregarded"
],
"near antonyms":[
"allowed (for)",
"considered",
"factored (in or into)",
"provided (for)",
"regarded",
"accommodated",
"adapted",
"adjusted",
"conditioned",
"anticipated",
"contemplated",
"envisaged",
"expected",
"foresaw"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"fabric":{
"a woven or knitted material (as of cotton or nylon)":{
"examples":[
"a fabric that is supposed to repel rain while at the same time allowing the wearer's perspiration to escape"
],
"synonyms":[
"cloth",
"textile"
],
"near synonyms":[
"fiber",
"thread",
"yarn",
"rag"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"the arrangement of parts that gives something its basic form":{
"examples":[
"you can't expect the fabric of society to survive if you do away with all moral imperatives"
],
"synonyms":[
"architecture",
"armature",
"cadre",
"configuration",
"edifice",
"frame",
"framework",
"framing",
"infrastructure",
"shell",
"skeleton",
"structure"
],
"near synonyms":[
"cage",
"lattice",
"network",
"contour",
"figure",
"outline",
"profile",
"shape",
"silhouette",
"chassis"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"fating":{
"to determine the fate of in advance":{
"examples":[
"the warning that the lack of an advanced education will fate a person to a lifetime of below-average earnings"
],
"synonyms":[
"destining",
"dooming",
"foredooming",
"foreordaining",
"ordaining",
"predestining",
"predetermining",
"preordaining"
],
"near synonyms":[
"predestinating",
"auguring",
"forecasting",
"foretelling",
"predicting",
"presaging",
"prognosticating",
"prophesying",
"preconceiving",
"prejudging",
"condemning",
"sentencing",
"boding",
"foreboding",
"forboding",
"portending",
"anticipating",
"divining",
"foreknowing",
"foreseeing"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"fantasm":{
"a conception or image created by the imagination and having no objective reality":{
"examples":[
"frightened by the phantasms of his own making"
],
"synonyms":[
"chimera",
"conceit",
"daydream",
"delusion",
"dream",
"fancy",
"fantasy",
"phantasy",
"figment",
"hallucination",
"illusion",
"nonentity",
"pipe dream",
"unreality",
"vision"
],
"near synonyms":[
"ignis fatuus",
"mirage",
"will-o'-the-wisp",
"brainchild",
"idea",
"concoction",
"fable",
"fabrication",
"fiction",
"invention",
"envisaging",
"imaging",
"visualization",
"cloud-cuckoo-land",
"cloudland",
"Shangri-la",
"utopia",
"daymare",
"nightmare"
],
"near antonyms":[
"actuality",
"fact",
"reality"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"the soul of a dead person thought of especially as appearing to living people":{
"examples":[
"believed that she'd seen the phantasm of her father on the anniversary of his death"
],
"synonyms":[
"apparition",
"bogey",
"bogie",
"bogy",
"familiar spirit",
"ghost",
"hant",
"haunt",
"materialization",
"phantom",
"poltergeist",
"shade",
"shadow",
"specter",
"spectre",
"spirit",
"spook",
"sprite",
"vision",
"visitant",
"wraith"
],
"near synonyms":[
"angel",
"daimon",
"familiar",
"genie",
"genius",
"jinni",
"jinn",
"djinni",
"djinn",
"shaitan",
"double",
"doppelg\u00e4nger",
"doppelganger",
"fetch",
"lemures",
"manes",
"incubus",
"lamia",
"succubus",
"vampire",
"zombie",
"zombi",
"cacodemon",
"demon",
"daemon",
"devil",
"fiend",
"ghoul",
"imp"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"fame":{
"the fact or state of being known to the public":{
"examples":[
"many go to Hollywood in search of fame and fortune"
],
"synonyms":[
"celebrity",
"notoriety",
"renown"
],
"near synonyms":[
"infamy",
"character",
"mark",
"name",
"report",
"reputability",
"reputation",
"repute",
"cachet",
"place",
"position",
"prestige",
"rank",
"standing",
"stature",
"status",
"megastardom",
"popularity",
"stardom",
"superstardom",
"distinction",
"eminence",
"glory",
"greatness",
"honor",
"illustriousness",
"note",
"preeminence",
"prominence",
"visibility",
"acclaim",
"accolade",
"acknowledgment",
"acknowledgement",
"homage",
"kudos",
"laurels",
"praise",
"recognition",
"adoration",
"idolization"
],
"near antonyms":[
"disgrace",
"dishonor",
"disrepute",
"ignominy",
"odium",
"opprobrium",
"shame",
"inconspicuousness",
"invisibility",
"unpopularity"
],
"antonyms":[
"anonymity",
"oblivion",
"obscureness",
"obscurity"
]
},
"overall quality as seen or judged by people in general":{
"examples":[
"he has some fame locally as an honest antiques dealer"
],
"synonyms":[
"character",
"mark",
"name",
"note",
"odor",
"rep",
"report",
"reputation",
"repute"
],
"near synonyms":[
"credit",
"honor",
"celebrity",
"notoriety",
"renown",
"image",
"persona",
"admiration",
"regard",
"reverence"
],
"near antonyms":[
"discredit",
"disgrace",
"dishonor",
"disrepute",
"ignominy",
"infamy",
"obloquy",
"odium",
"opprobrium",
"reproach",
"shame"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"fasteners":{
"as in ties , hold-downs":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"hobbles",
"hold-downs",
"holdings",
"holds",
"ties",
"collars",
"straitjackets",
"straightjackets",
"entanglements",
"nets",
"trammels",
"traps",
"captivities",
"confinements",
"constraints",
"curbs",
"enchainments",
"enslavements",
"hindrances",
"immurements",
"imprisonments",
"incarcerations",
"restraints",
"restrictions",
"bands",
"binds",
"bonds",
"bracelets",
"chains",
"cuffs",
"fetters",
"handcuffs",
"irons",
"ligatures",
"manacles",
"shackles"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"fan (out)":{
"to arrange the parts of (something) over a wider area":{
"examples":[
"the accordionist smoothly fanned out the bellows of his instrument as he played"
],
"synonyms":[
"expand",
"extend",
"flare (out)",
"open",
"outspread",
"outstretch",
"spread (out)",
"stretch (out)",
"unfold",
"unfurl"
],
"near synonyms":[
"overspread"
],
"near antonyms":[
"compact",
"compress",
"condense",
"reduce"
],
"antonyms":[
"close",
"contract",
"fold"
]
},
"to extend outwards from or as if from a central point":{
"examples":[
"most of the city's subway lines fan out from this central station"
],
"synonyms":[
"branch",
"radiate",
"ray"
],
"near synonyms":[
"diffuse",
"dispel",
"disperse",
"dissipate",
"fork",
"stem",
"diverge",
"divide",
"part",
"ramify",
"separate",
"split",
"uncouple",
"unlink",
"unyoke",
"scatter",
"splay",
"spread",
"arise",
"derive",
"emanate",
"flow",
"issue",
"proceed",
"spring"
],
"near antonyms":[
"approach",
"close in (on)",
"near",
"center (on)",
"centralize",
"connect",
"couple",
"join",
"link",
"unite"
],
"antonyms":[
"concentrate",
"converge",
"focus",
"funnel",
"meet"
]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"fast-talking":{
"as in urging , cajoling":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"blandishing",
"blarneying",
"cajoling",
"coaxing",
"entreating",
"exhorting",
"urging",
"wheedling",
"arguing",
"bringing",
"bringing around",
"converting",
"convincing",
"gaining",
"getting",
"inducing",
"moving",
"persuading",
"prevailing (on or upon)",
"satisfying",
"talking (into)",
"winning (over)",
"alluring",
"beguiling",
"leading on",
"luring",
"seducing",
"snowing",
"tempting",
"brainwashing",
"overpersuading",
"inclining",
"influencing",
"prompting",
"selling",
"swaying",
"attracting",
"drawing",
"enticing",
"interesting",
"chewing over",
"conversing",
"debating",
"discussing",
"disputing",
"hashing (over)",
"mooting",
"reasoning (with)"
],
"near antonyms":[
"deterring",
"discouraging",
"dissuading",
"unselling"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"as in bamboozling":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"bamboozling",
"betraying",
"bitching",
"double-crossing",
"roping (in)",
"deceiving",
"duping",
"fooling",
"gulling",
"tricking",
"exploiting",
"milking",
"clipping",
"gouging",
"nicking",
"overcharging",
"soaking",
"extorting",
"wrenching",
"wresting",
"wringing",
"beating",
"bilking",
"bleeding",
"cheating",
"chiseling",
"chiselling",
"chousing",
"conning",
"cozening",
"defrauding",
"diddling",
"doing",
"doing in",
"euchring",
"fiddling",
"fleecing",
"flimflamming",
"gaffing",
"hosing",
"hustling",
"mulcting",
"nobbling",
"plucking",
"reaming",
"ripping off",
"rooking",
"screwing",
"shaking down",
"shortchanging",
"shorting",
"skinning",
"skunking",
"squeezing",
"sticking",
"stiffing",
"stinging",
"suckering",
"swindling",
"thimblerigging",
"victimizing"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"factoid":{
"as in superstition":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"superstition",
"delusion",
"error",
"fallacy",
"falsehood",
"falsity",
"hallucination",
"illusion",
"misbelief",
"misconception",
"myth",
"old wives' tale",
"untruth",
"fiction",
"pretense",
"pretence",
"distortion",
"inaccuracy",
"misapprehension",
"miscomprehension",
"misinterpretation",
"misjudgment",
"misperception",
"misunderstanding",
"misinformation",
"misknowledge",
"misreport",
"misrepresentation",
"misstatement",
"sophism",
"sophistry",
"fib",
"half-truth",
"lie",
"story",
"tale"
],
"near antonyms":[
"truth",
"verity"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"falling in with":{
"to come or be together as friends":{
"examples":[
"She quickly fell in with a group of students at her new school."
],
"synonyms":[
"associating",
"chumming",
"companying",
"consociating",
"consorting",
"fraternizing",
"hanging (around or out)",
"hobnobbing",
"hooking up",
"messing around",
"palling (around)",
"running",
"sorting",
"traveling",
"travelling"
],
"near synonyms":[
"affiliating",
"allying",
"attaching",
"banding",
"bonding",
"clubbing",
"collaborating",
"colluding",
"confederating",
"conjoining",
"connecting",
"cooperating",
"coupling",
"ganging",
"getting along",
"getting on",
"grouping",
"interrelating",
"joining",
"knotting",
"leaguing",
"linking",
"mingling",
"mixing",
"rallying",
"relating",
"siding",
"socializing",
"teaming",
"tying",
"tieing",
"wedding",
"befriending",
"friending"
],
"near antonyms":[
"avoiding",
"cold-shouldering",
"shunning",
"snubbing",
"alienating",
"estranging",
"breaking up",
"disbanding",
"dispersing",
"splitting (up)",
"disjoining",
"dissociating",
"disuniting",
"divorcing",
"severing",
"splitting",
"sundering"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to be in agreement on every point":{
"examples":[
"The proposal fell right in with our ideas for creating new leadership opportunities."
],
"synonyms":[
"according",
"agreeing",
"answering",
"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 act according to the commands of":{
"examples":[
"She fell in with the strict new regimen with relative ease."
],
"synonyms":[
"adhering (to)",
"complying (with)",
"conforming (to)",
"following",
"goose-stepping (to)",
"minding",
"obeying",
"observing"
],
"near synonyms":[
"deferring (to)",
"submitting (to)",
"surrendering (to)",
"yielding (to)",
"acceding (to)",
"acquiescing (to)",
"agreeing (to)",
"assenting (to)",
"attending",
"hearing",
"heeding",
"listening (to)",
"marking",
"noticing",
"noting",
"regarding",
"taking",
"watching"
],
"near antonyms":[
"disobliging",
"challenging",
"daring",
"refusing",
"renouncing",
"repudiating",
"directing",
"leading",
"brushing (off)",
"disregarding",
"ignoring",
"overlooking",
"overpassing",
"passing over",
"tuning out",
"winking (at)",
"dismissing",
"pooh-poohing",
"poohing",
"shrugging off",
"breaching",
"breaking",
"infringing",
"transgressing",
"violating",
"deriding",
"flouting",
"mocking",
"scoffing (at)",
"scorning",
"mutinying (against)",
"revolting (against)",
"bucking",
"combating",
"combatting",
"contesting",
"disputing",
"fighting",
"opposing",
"resisting",
"withstanding"
],
"antonyms":[
"defying",
"disobeying",
"rebelling (against)"
]
},
"type":[
"phrase"
]
},
"fal-lals":{
"as in ruffles , flourishes":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"flounces",
"flourishes",
"furbelows",
"ruffles",
"apparels",
"bells and whistles",
"blazonries",
"bric-a-brac",
"chichis",
"emblazonries",
"filigrees",
"fineries",
"foofaraws",
"fripperies",
"frostings",
"froufrous",
"frou-frous",
"enhancements",
"enrichments",
"improvements",
"adornments",
"beautifiers",
"caparisons",
"decorations",
"doodads",
"embellishers",
"embellishments",
"frills",
"garnishes",
"garnishments",
"garnitures",
"ornamentations",
"ornaments",
"setoffs",
"trims",
"appliqu\u00e9s",
"embossments",
"embroideries",
"fancyworks",
"bedizenments",
"gilts",
"glitters",
"designs",
"figures",
"patterns",
"furnishings",
"regalia",
"trappings"
],
"near antonyms":[
"blemishes",
"defacements",
"disfigurements",
"scars",
"blots",
"spots",
"stains"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"fair-mindedness":{
"lack of favoritism toward one side or another":{
"examples":[
"fortunately, the person chosen to determine custody for the child is known for her fair-mindedness"
],
"synonyms":[
"detachment",
"disinterest",
"disinterestedness",
"equity",
"evenhandedness",
"fairness",
"impartiality",
"justice",
"neutralism",
"neutrality",
"nonpartisanship",
"objectiveness",
"objectivity"
],
"near synonyms":[
"apathy",
"indifference",
"unconcern",
"broad-mindedness",
"open-mindedness",
"tolerance",
"fence-sitting",
"straddling"
],
"near antonyms":[
"chauvinism",
"nepotism",
"subjectiveness",
"subjectivity",
"bent",
"inclination",
"leaning",
"penchant",
"predilection",
"predisposition",
"proclivity",
"propensity",
"tendency",
"preconception",
"prejudgment"
],
"antonyms":[
"bias",
"favor",
"favoritism",
"nonobjectivity",
"one-sidedness",
"partiality",
"partisanship",
"prejudice"
]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"facilities":{
"a structure that is designed and built for a particular purpose":{
"examples":[
"the city is known for its outstanding medical facilities"
],
"synonyms":[
"complexes",
"establishments",
"installations"
],
"near synonyms":[
"buildings",
"edifices",
"institutes",
"institutions",
"businesses",
"companies",
"concerns",
"outfits"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"fantasying":{
"to form a mental picture of":{
"examples":[
"She regularly fantasies exciting adventures."
],
"synonyms":[
"conceiting",
"conceiving",
"conjuring (up)",
"dreaming",
"envisaging",
"envisioning",
"fancying",
"fantasizing",
"featuring",
"ideating",
"imaging",
"imagining",
"picturing",
"seeing",
"visioning",
"visualizing"
],
"near synonyms":[
"daydreaming",
"stargazing",
"hallucinating",
"re-creating",
"recreating",
"reflecting",
"reliving",
"reminiscing",
"contemplating",
"meditating",
"musing",
"pondering",
"ruminating",
"concocting",
"fabricating",
"inventing",
"making up",
"manufacturing",
"planning",
"projecting",
"foreseeing",
"prefiguring"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"falls away":{
"to grow less in scope or intensity especially gradually":{
"examples":[
"as the years went by, the public's interest in the murder case fell away"
],
"synonyms":[
"abates",
"declines",
"decreases",
"de-escalates",
"dies (away or down or out)",
"diminishes",
"drains (away)",
"drops (off)",
"dwindles",
"eases",
"ebbs",
"falls",
"lessens",
"lets up",
"lowers",
"moderates",
"palls",
"phases down",
"ratchets (down)",
"rachets (down)",
"recedes",
"relents",
"remits",
"shrinks",
"subsides",
"tapers",
"tapers off",
"wanes"
],
"near synonyms":[
"compresses",
"condenses",
"constricts",
"contracts",
"evaporates",
"fades (away)",
"fritters (away)",
"gives out",
"melts (away)",
"peters (out)",
"tails (off)",
"vanishes",
"slackens",
"slows (down)",
"alleviates",
"relaxes",
"flags",
"sinks",
"weakens",
"caves (in)",
"collapses",
"deflates"
],
"near antonyms":[
"appears",
"emerges",
"shows up",
"blows up",
"distends",
"elongates",
"lengthens"
],
"antonyms":[
"accumulates",
"balloons",
"builds",
"burgeons",
"bourgeons",
"enlarges",
"escalates",
"expands",
"grows",
"increases",
"intensifies",
"mounts",
"mushrooms",
"picks up",
"rises",
"snowballs",
"soars",
"swells",
"waxes"
]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"factuality":{
"agreement with fact or reality":{
"examples":[
"some viewers complained that the TV docudrama was short on factuality and long on speculation"
],
"synonyms":[
"facticity",
"sooth",
"trueness",
"truth",
"verity"
],
"near synonyms":[
"accuracy",
"accurateness",
"actuality",
"authenticity",
"correctness",
"credibility",
"honesty",
"trustability",
"trustiness",
"trustworthiness",
"truthfulness",
"veracity",
"dependability",
"reliability"
],
"near antonyms":[
"erroneousness",
"fallaciousness",
"fallacy",
"falsehood",
"fiction",
"half-truth",
"lie",
"impreciseness",
"imprecision",
"inaccuracy",
"incorrectness",
"inexactitude",
"inexactness",
"deceit",
"dishonesty",
"equivocation",
"lying",
"mendaciousness",
"mendacity",
"prevarication",
"untruthfulness"
],
"antonyms":[
"falseness",
"falsity",
"untruth"
]
},
"the quality of being actual":{
"examples":[
"although this account of the scheme seems like it must be fiction, its very factuality makes it all the more fascinating"
],
"synonyms":[
"actuality",
"fact",
"materiality",
"reality"
],
"near synonyms":[
"authenticity",
"genuineness",
"truth",
"verity"
],
"near antonyms":[
"fancy",
"fantasy",
"phantasy",
"fiction",
"fictitiousness",
"dreaminess",
"surreality"
],
"antonyms":[
"irreality",
"unreality"
]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"fainted":{
"to lose consciousness":{
"examples":[
"the kind of person who faints at the sight of blood"
],
"synonyms":[
"blacked out",
"conked (out)",
"keeled (over)",
"passed out",
"swooned"
],
"near synonyms":[
"broke down",
"collapsed",
"zonked (out)"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[
"came around",
"came round",
"came to",
"revived"
]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"fall for":{
"to feel passion, devotion, or tenderness for":{
"examples":[
"It's hard not to fall for a woman like that."
],
"synonyms":[
"adore",
"cherish",
"love",
"worship"
],
"near synonyms":[
"adulate",
"canonize",
"deify",
"idealize",
"idolize",
"revere",
"reverence",
"venerate",
"delight (in)",
"dote (on)"
],
"near antonyms":[
"antagonize",
"displease",
"disapprove (of)",
"disfavor",
"dislike",
"disgust",
"nauseate",
"repel",
"repulse",
"revolt",
"sicken",
"turn off"
],
"antonyms":[
"abhor",
"abominate",
"despise",
"detest",
"execrate",
"hate",
"loathe"
]
},
"type":[
"phrase"
]
},
"fanned":{
"as in ignited , triggered":{
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"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"ignited",
"inflamed",
"enflamed",
"kindled",
"triggered",
"aroused",
"encouraged",
"excited",
"fired (up)",
"impassioned",
"incited",
"instigated",
"moved",
"piqued",
"provoked",
"revved (up)",
"sparked",
"stimulated",
"stirred",
"activated",
"animated",
"drove",
"energized",
"galvanized",
"induced",
"inspired",
"keyed (up)",
"motivated",
"motived",
"pumped up",
"quickened",
"set off",
"vitalized",
"abetted",
"fermented",
"fomented",
"raised",
"whipped (up)",
"angered",
"enraged",
"maddened",
"upset",
"jeered",
"taunted",
"teased",
"aggravated",
"annoyed",
"bothered",
"exasperated",
"galled",
"got",
"irritated",
"vexed",
"vext"
],
"near antonyms":[
"calmed",
"soothed",
"subdued",
"tranquilized",
"tranquillized",
"appeased",
"mollified",
"pacified",
"placated"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"as in swung , swayed":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"oscillated",
"swayed",
"swung",
"flicked",
"flickered",
"flitted",
"undulated",
"waved",
"banged",
"battered",
"buffeted",
"knocked",
"pounded",
"smacked",
"spanked",
"thumped",
"palpitated",
"pulsed",
"throbbed",
"beat",
"flailed",
"flapped",
"flopped",
"fluttered",
"whipped"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"fashionableness":{
"the state of enjoying widespread approval":{
"examples":[
"the fashionableness of that look took a nosedive after it began to show up on some very unfashionable people"
],
"synonyms":[
"fashionability",
"favor",
"hotness",
"modishness",
"popularity",
"vogue",
"voguishness"
],
"near synonyms":[
"craze",
"fad",
"mode",
"rage",
"style",
"trend",
"bandwagon",
"boom",
"fame",
"notoriety",
"prominence",
"renown",
"enthusiasm",
"fervor",
"passion"
],
"near antonyms":[
"oblivion",
"obscurity"
],
"antonyms":[
"disfavor",
"unpopularity"
]
},
"the quality or state of being fashionable":{
"examples":[
"the fashionableness of tight jeans"
],
"synonyms":[
"cool",
"coolness",
"hip",
"hipness",
"hipsterism",
"modishness",
"stylishness",
"trendiness",
"voguishness"
],
"near synonyms":[
"chic",
"chicness",
"dapperness",
"elegance",
"poshness",
"smartness",
"style",
"swank",
"swankiness",
"class",
"grace",
"gracefulness",
"majesty",
"stateliness",
"artfulness",
"polish",
"sophistication",
"taste",
"tastefulness"
],
"near antonyms":[
"flashiness",
"garishness",
"gaudiness",
"gracelessness",
"grotesqueness",
"tackiness",
"tastelessness",
"tawdriness"
],
"antonyms":[
"unfashionableness"
]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"farmyard":{
"as in farmland , cropland":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"cropland",
"farmland",
"estate",
"farm",
"farmstead",
"grange",
"ranch",
"farmhouse",
"hacienda",
"homestead",
"manor",
"plantation",
"spread",
"croft",
"smallholding",
"station",
"steading",
"garden",
"orchard"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"fasted":{
"as in dieted":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"dieted"
],
"near antonyms":[
"crammed",
"glutted",
"gorged",
"sated",
"stuffed",
"surfeited",
"gobbled",
"gormandized",
"pigged out",
"gulped",
"guzzled"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"fall guy":{
"a person or thing taking the blame for others":{
"examples":[
"the sandlot ball players wanted the littlest kid to be the fall guy for the broken window, figuring that he'd have the best chance of escaping punishment"
],
"synonyms":[
"goat",
"scapegoat",
"whipping boy"
],
"near synonyms":[
"victim",
"butt",
"dupe",
"fool",
"laughingstock",
"mark",
"mockery",
"monkey",
"excuse"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"far cry":{
"a long distance":{
"examples":[
"the hotel is a far cry from the train station, so you'd better call a cab"
],
"synonyms":[
"afar",
"country mile",
"long haul",
"mile"
],
"near synonyms":[
"infinity",
"light-year"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[
"hair",
"inch",
"step",
"stone's throw"
]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"falling for":{
"to feel passion, devotion, or tenderness for":{
"examples":[
"It's hard not to fall for a woman like that."
],
"synonyms":[
"adoring",
"cherishing",
"loving",
"worshipping",
"worshiping"
],
"near synonyms":[
"adulating",
"canonizing",
"deifying",
"idealizing",
"idolizing",
"reverencing",
"revering",
"venerating",
"delighting (in)",
"doting (on)"
],
"near antonyms":[
"antagonizing",
"displeasing",
"disapproving (of)",
"disfavoring",
"disliking",
"disgusting",
"nauseating",
"repelling",
"repulsing",
"revolting",
"sickening",
"turning off"
],
"antonyms":[
"abhorring",
"abominating",
"despising",
"detesting",
"execrating",
"hating",
"loathing"
]
},
"type":[
"phrase"
]
},
"fast-track":{
"to cause to move or proceed fast or faster":{
"examples":[
"we're going to fast-track this project so that the product is in the stores for the holiday shopping season"
],
"synonyms":[
"accelerate",
"bundle",
"hasten",
"hurry",
"quicken",
"rush",
"speed (up)",
"whisk"
],
"near synonyms":[
"drive",
"goad",
"prod",
"propel",
"push",
"race",
"spur",
"stir",
"urge",
"aid",
"dispatch",
"ease",
"encourage",
"expedite",
"facilitate"
],
"near antonyms":[
"delay",
"encumber",
"fetter",
"hamper",
"hinder",
"hobble",
"hold back",
"hold up",
"impede",
"interfere (with)",
"manacle",
"rein (in)",
"restrain",
"shackle",
"tie up",
"trammel",
"arrest",
"check",
"stall",
"stay",
"still",
"stop"
],
"antonyms":[
"brake",
"decelerate",
"retard",
"slow (down)"
]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"farragoes":{
"an unorganized collection or mixture of various things":{
"examples":[
"the shop is filled with a whimsical farrago of artwork, antiques, and vintage clothing"
],
"synonyms":[
"agglomerates",
"agglomerations",
"alphabet soups",
"assortments",
"botches",
"clutters",
"collages",
"crazy quilts",
"gallimaufries",
"grab bags",
"gumbos",
"hashes",
"hodgepodges",
"hotchpotches",
"jambalayas",
"jumbles",
"jungles",
"litters",
"mac\u00e9doines",
"medleys",
"m\u00e9langes",
"menageries",
"miscellanea",
"miscellanies",
"mishmashes",
"mixed bags",
"montages",
"motleys",
"muddles",
"olios",
"olla podridas",
"ollas podridas",
"omnium-gatherums",
"pastiches",
"patchwork quilts",
"patchworks",
"potpourris",
"ragbags",
"ragouts",
"rummages",
"salads",
"salmagundis",
"scrambles",
"shuffles",
"smorgasbords",
"stews",
"tumbles",
"varieties",
"welters"
],
"near synonyms":[
"detritus",
"notions",
"oddments",
"odds and ends",
"sundries",
"accumulations",
"aggregates",
"aggregations",
"conglomerates",
"conglomerations",
"catchalls",
"admixtures",
"alloys",
"amalgams",
"blends",
"combinations",
"commixtures",
"composites",
"compounds",
"fusions",
"intermixtures",
"mix-ups",
"bollixes",
"chaoses",
"confusions",
"disarrangements",
"disarrays",
"disorders",
"dog's breakfasts",
"messes",
"morasses",
"shambles",
"imbroglios",
"knots",
"snarls",
"tangles"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"fail-safe":{
"not likely to fail":{
"examples":[
"flowers have been traditionally regarded as the fail-safe gift for Valentine's Day"
],
"synonyms":[
"can't-miss",
"certain",
"infallible",
"sure",
"surefire",
"unfailing"
],
"near synonyms":[
"dependable",
"reliable",
"deadly",
"unerring"
],
"near antonyms":[
"doubtful",
"questionable",
"uncertain"
],
"antonyms":[
"fallible"
]
},
"a measure taken to preclude loss or injury":{
"examples":[
"there are so many fail-safes built into the system that a highly unlikely series of mistakes would have to be made before failure could occur"
],
"synonyms":[
"caution",
"palladium",
"precaution",
"preventive",
"safeguard"
],
"near synonyms":[
"armor",
"cover",
"guard",
"protection",
"screen",
"shield",
"wall",
"ward"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"adjective",
"noun"
]
},
"fastidious":{
"hard to please":{
"examples":[
"he is very fastidious about how he arranges his music collection, and woe to anyone who dares to mess around with it"
],
"synonyms":[
"choosy",
"choosey",
"dainty",
"delicate",
"demanding",
"exacting",
"finical",
"finicking",
"finicky",
"fussbudgety",
"fussy",
"nice",
"old-maidish",
"particular",
"pernickety",
"persnickety",
"picky"
],
"near synonyms":[
"hyperfastidious",
"overdemanding",
"ultrafastidious",
"discerning",
"discriminating",
"selective",
"insightful",
"knowledgeable",
"captious",
"carping",
"caviling",
"cavilling",
"critical",
"faultfinding",
"hypercritical",
"overcritical",
"careful",
"meticulous",
"painstaking",
"punctilious",
"scrupulous",
"queasy",
"queazy",
"squeamish",
"peevish",
"petulant",
"prickly",
"touchy",
"niminy-piminy",
"prim",
"prissy"
],
"near antonyms":[
"affable",
"breezy",
"carefree",
"devil-may-care",
"happy-go-lucky",
"lackadaisical",
"laid-back",
"low-pressure",
"relaxed",
"flexible",
"lax",
"loose",
"lenient",
"permissive",
"uncritical",
"indiscriminating",
"undiscriminating"
],
"antonyms":[
"undemanding",
"unfastidious",
"unfussy"
]
},
"type":[
"adjective"
]
},
"falsified":{
"to change so much as to create a wrong impression or alter the meaning of":{
"examples":[
"taking that statement completely out of context essentially falsifies it, whether that's your intention or not"
],
"synonyms":[
"bent",
"colored",
"cooked",
"distorted",
"fudged",
"garbled",
"misinterpreted",
"misrelated",
"misrepresented",
"misstated",
"perverted",
"slanted",
"twisted",
"warped"
],
"near synonyms":[
"misdescribed",
"misspoke",
"mistranslated",
"belied",
"camouflaged",
"disguised",
"dissembled",
"glossed (over)",
"masked",
"veiled",
"whitewashed",
"bowdlerized",
"censored",
"complicated",
"confounded",
"confused",
"mistook",
"mixed (up)",
"mystified",
"obscured",
"equivocated",
"fibbed",
"lied",
"paltered",
"prevaricated"
],
"near antonyms":[
"clarified",
"cleared (up)",
"explained",
"illuminated",
"illustrated",
"interpreted",
"spelled out",
"deciphered"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to prove to be false":{
"examples":[
"telephone records falsified his claim that he wasn't home that night"
],
"synonyms":[
"belied",
"confounded",
"confuted",
"debunked",
"disconfirmed",
"discredited",
"disproved",
"rebutted",
"refuted",
"shot down"
],
"near synonyms":[
"overthrew",
"overturned",
"challenged",
"contested",
"queried",
"questioned",
"doubted",
"mistrusted",
"debated",
"discussed",
"hashed (over)",
"mooted",
"talked over"
],
"near antonyms":[
"documented",
"evidenced",
"evinced",
"recorded",
"showed",
"supported",
"witnessed",
"backed (up)",
"buttressed",
"corroborated",
"substantiated",
"adduced",
"attested",
"authenticated",
"certified",
"identified",
"demonstrated",
"displayed",
"illustrated",
"manifested"
],
"antonyms":[
"confirmed",
"established",
"proved",
"validated",
"verified"
]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"fatigue":{
"to use up all the physical energy of":{
"examples":[
"the rescue workers pressed on, though their efforts to reach the miners had almost completely fatigued them"
],
"synonyms":[
"break",
"burn out",
"bust",
"do in",
"do up",
"drain",
"exhaust",
"fag",
"frazzle",
"harass",
"kill",
"knock out",
"outwear",
"tire",
"tucker (out)",
"wash out",
"wear",
"wear out",
"weary"
],
"near synonyms":[
"debilitate",
"enervate",
"enfeeble",
"sap",
"waste",
"weaken"
],
"near antonyms":[
"activate",
"energize",
"invigorate",
"rejuvenate",
"strengthen",
"vitalize",
"relax",
"rest",
"unwind"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"a complete depletion of energy or strength":{
"examples":[
"the day-long battle against the blaze left firefighters in a state of utter fatigue"
],
"synonyms":[
"burnout",
"collapse",
"exhaustion",
"frazzle",
"lassitude",
"prostration",
"tiredness",
"weariness"
],
"near synonyms":[
"debilitation",
"debility",
"disablement",
"enervation",
"enfeeblement",
"faintness",
"feebleness",
"frailness",
"frailty",
"impotence",
"infirmity",
"weakness",
"overfatigue",
"languor",
"lethargy",
"listlessness",
"sluggishness",
"slumber",
"stupor",
"torpidity",
"torpor",
"apathy",
"inertia",
"passiveness",
"passivity"
],
"near antonyms":[
"bounce",
"dash",
"drive",
"energy",
"ginger",
"go",
"liveliness",
"pep",
"punch",
"sap",
"snap",
"starch",
"verve",
"vigor",
"vim",
"vitality",
"zing",
"zip",
"might",
"muscle",
"potency",
"power",
"puissance",
"strength",
"briskness",
"jauntiness",
"spiritedness",
"sprightliness",
"vivaciousness",
"vivacity"
],
"antonyms":[
"refreshment",
"rejuvenation",
"rejuvenescence",
"revitalization"
]
},
"very hard or unpleasant work":{
"examples":[
"although he had joined the army for action and adventure, much of his day seemed to be devoted to mindless fatigues"
],
"synonyms":[
"donkeywork",
"drudge",
"drudgery",
"grind",
"labor",
"moil",
"slavery",
"sweat",
"toil",
"travail"
],
"near synonyms":[
"spadework",
"effort",
"exertion",
"pains",
"struggle",
"trouble",
"chore",
"duty",
"job",
"obligation",
"responsibility",
"routine",
"tedium",
"treadmill"
],
"near antonyms":[
"decompression",
"ease",
"leisure",
"relaxation",
"repose",
"rest",
"amusement",
"dalliance",
"diversion",
"entertainment",
"recreation",
"sport",
"dormancy",
"idleness",
"inactivity",
"inertia",
"inertness",
"dallying",
"goldbricking",
"loafing",
"lolling",
"lounging"
],
"antonyms":[
"fun",
"play"
]
},
"type":[
"noun",
"verb"
]
},
"fatuousness":{
"lack of good sense or judgment":{
"examples":[
"the sheer fatuousness of the theory precludes any serious discussion"
],
"synonyms":[
"absurdity",
"asininity",
"balminess",
"brainlessness",
"craziness",
"daftness",
"dippiness",
"dottiness",
"fatuity",
"folly",
"foolishness",
"imbecility",
"inanity",
"insanity",
"lunacy",
"madness",
"nonsensicalness",
"nuttiness",
"preposterousness",
"senselessness",
"silliness",
"simplicity",
"unwisdom",
"wackiness",
"witlessness",
"zaniness"
],
"near synonyms":[
"denseness",
"dim-wittedness",
"doltishness",
"dopiness",
"dullness",
"dulness",
"dumbness",
"feeblemindedness",
"gormlessness",
"idiocy",
"mindlessness",
"oafishness",
"obtuseness",
"simplemindedness",
"simpleness",
"slowness",
"stupidity",
"stupidness",
"vacuity",
"fallacy",
"irrationality",
"unreasonableness",
"kookiness",
"weirdness",
"laughableness",
"ludicrousness",
"ridiculousness"
],
"near antonyms":[
"logicality",
"logicalness",
"rationality",
"rationalness",
"reasonability",
"reasonableness",
"validity",
"discernment",
"insight",
"perception",
"percipience"
],
"antonyms":[
"prudence",
"sagaciousness",
"sagacity",
"sageness",
"sanity",
"sapience",
"sensibleness",
"soundness",
"wisdom"
]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"fabricating":{
"to bring into being by combining, shaping, or transforming materials":{
"examples":[
"with a few inexpensive materials from a craft shop, we were able to fabricate our own holiday wreath"
],
"synonyms":[
"fashioning",
"forming",
"framing",
"making",
"manufacturing",
"producing"
],
"near synonyms":[
"assembling",
"building",
"constructing",
"erecting",
"making up",
"putting up",
"raising",
"rearing",
"setting up",
"structuring",
"throwing up",
"crafting",
"handcrafting",
"hewing",
"forging",
"molding",
"shaping",
"cobbling (together or up)",
"knocking out",
"patching (together)",
"throwing up",
"prefabricating",
"creating",
"inventing",
"minting",
"originating",
"establishing",
"fathering",
"instituting",
"organizing",
"concocting",
"contriving",
"cooking (up)",
"designing",
"devising",
"imagining",
"thinking (up)",
"conceiving",
"envisaging",
"picturing",
"visualizing",
"refashioning",
"remaking",
"remanufacturing"
],
"near antonyms":[
"disassembling",
"dismantling",
"taking apart",
"breaking up",
"dismembering",
"abolishing",
"annihilating",
"demolishing",
"destroying",
"devastating",
"eradicating",
"exterminating",
"extinguishing",
"flattening",
"pulverizing",
"razing",
"ruining",
"shattering",
"smashing",
"wrecking",
"blowing up",
"exploding"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to create or think of by clever use of the imagination":{
"examples":[
"fabricated a daring plan to create an underground explosion that would take the enemy totally by surprise"
],
"synonyms":[
"concocting",
"constructing",
"contriving",
"cooking (up)",
"devising",
"drumming up",
"excogitating",
"inventing",
"making up",
"manufacturing",
"thinking (up)",
"trumping up",
"vamping (up)"
],
"near synonyms":[
"coining",
"designing",
"hatching",
"producing",
"daydreaming",
"dreaming",
"fantasizing",
"conceiving",
"envisaging",
"envisioning",
"imagining",
"picturing",
"visioning",
"visualizing",
"ad-libbing",
"extemporizing",
"improvising"
],
"near antonyms":[
"cloning",
"copycatting",
"copying",
"duplicating",
"imitating",
"mimicking",
"reduplicating",
"replicating",
"reproducing"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to form by putting together parts or materials":{
"examples":[
"the house was essentially fabricated at the factory and then shipped to the site for assembly"
],
"synonyms":[
"assembling",
"building",
"confecting",
"constructing",
"erecting",
"making",
"making up",
"piecing",
"putting up",
"raising",
"rearing",
"setting up"
],
"near synonyms":[
"carpentering",
"fashioning",
"forging",
"framing",
"hammering",
"handcrafting",
"manufacturing",
"molding",
"producing",
"shaping",
"prefabricating",
"beginning",
"coining",
"creating",
"generating",
"inaugurating",
"initiating",
"innovating",
"inventing",
"originating",
"constituting",
"establishing",
"fathering",
"founding",
"instituting",
"organizing",
"conceiving",
"concocting",
"contriving",
"cooking (up)",
"designing",
"devising",
"imagining",
"thinking (up)",
"reassembling",
"rebuilding",
"reconstructing",
"redeveloping",
"reedifying",
"retrofitting",
"jerry-building",
"rigging (up)",
"throwing up",
"combining",
"uniting"
],
"near antonyms":[
"demolishing",
"destroying",
"devastating",
"flattening",
"leveling",
"levelling",
"pulling down",
"pulverizing",
"razing",
"ruinating",
"ruining",
"shattering",
"smashing",
"wrecking",
"blowing up",
"exploding",
"detaching",
"disengaging",
"disconnecting",
"disjoining",
"disuniting",
"dividing",
"separating"
],
"antonyms":[
"demounting",
"disassembling",
"dismantling",
"dismembering",
"knocking down",
"striking",
"taking down",
"tearing down"
]
},
"to make a statement one knows to be untrue":{
"examples":[
"since he didn't have a good excuse for not having done his homework, he would have to fabricate one"
],
"synonyms":[
"fibbing",
"lying",
"prevaricating"
],
"near synonyms":[
"forswearing",
"foreswearing",
"perjuring",
"equivocating",
"fudging",
"paltering",
"beguiling",
"cozening",
"deceiving",
"deluding",
"duping",
"fooling",
"gulling",
"hoaxing",
"hoodwinking",
"kidding",
"snowing",
"taking in",
"tricking",
"defaming",
"libeling",
"libelling",
"slandering",
"traducing",
"falsifying",
"misreporting",
"misrepresenting",
"misstating",
"distorting",
"garbling",
"dissembling",
"dissimulating",
"misguiding",
"misinforming",
"misleading"
],
"near antonyms":[
"asserting",
"swearing",
"testifying",
"authenticating",
"confirming",
"substantiating",
"validating",
"verifying"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"face-offs":{
"an earnest effort for superiority or victory over another":{
"examples":[
"the annual fall face-off between these traditional rivals is a big event for both football-mad colleges"
],
"synonyms":[
"ball games",
"battles",
"combats",
"competitions",
"conflicts",
"confrontations",
"contentions",
"contests",
"dogfights",
"duels",
"grapples",
"matches",
"rivalries",
"strifes",
"struggles",
"sweepstakes",
"sweep-stake",
"tugs-of-war",
"warfares",
"wars"
],
"near synonyms":[
"horse races",
"nail-biters",
"showdowns",
"clashes",
"collisions",
"discords",
"frictions",
"arguments",
"controversies",
"debates",
"disagreements",
"disputations",
"disputes",
"dissensions",
"dissentions",
"quarrels",
"rows",
"wrangles"
],
"near antonyms":[
"concords",
"harmonies",
"peaces"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"facing off":{
"to engage in a contest":{
"examples":[
"eager to face off with her longtime tennis rival"
],
"synonyms":[
"battling",
"competing",
"contending",
"fighting",
"racing",
"rivaling",
"rivalling",
"vying"
],
"near synonyms":[
"challenging",
"engaging",
"playing",
"jockeying",
"jostling",
"maneuvering",
"going out",
"trying out",
"training",
"working"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"falling apart":{
"to go through decomposition":{
"examples":[
"The old house was falling apart before the restoration."
],
"synonyms":[
"breaking down",
"corrupting",
"decaying",
"decomposing",
"disintegrating",
"festering",
"fouling",
"moldering",
"molding",
"perishing",
"putrefying",
"rotting",
"spoiling"
],
"near synonyms":[
"souring",
"turning",
"turning off",
"contaminating",
"defiling",
"polluting",
"tainting",
"addling",
"curdling",
"fermenting",
"mortifying",
"rusting",
"crumbling",
"declining",
"degenerating",
"descending",
"deteriorating",
"dilapidating",
"sinking",
"withering"
],
"near antonyms":[
"aging",
"ageing",
"developing",
"growing",
"maturing",
"ripening",
"refreshing",
"renewing",
"restoring",
"cleansing",
"purifying",
"assembling",
"composing",
"integrating",
"ameliorating",
"bettering",
"improving",
"meliorating"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to yield to mental or emotional stress":{
"examples":[
"He fell apart after his wife left."
],
"synonyms":[
"breaking down",
"breaking up",
"cracking",
"flipping (out)",
"freaking (out)",
"melting down",
"wigging (out)"
],
"near synonyms":[
"choking"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"phrase"
]
},
"fad":{
"a practice or interest that is very popular for a short time":{
"examples":[
"once the fad for that kind of music had passed, nobody would have been caught dead listening to it"
],
"synonyms":[
"buzz",
"chic",
"craze",
"dernier cri",
"enthusiasm",
"fashion",
"flavor",
"go",
"hot ticket",
"last word",
"latest",
"mode",
"rage",
"sensation",
"style",
"ton",
"trend",
"vogue"
],
"near synonyms":[
"nine days' wonder",
"nine day wonder",
"new wave",
"crush",
"infatuation",
"fervor",
"passion",
"furor",
"fuss",
"hullabaloo",
"to-do",
"uproar",
"bandwagon",
"crusade",
"cult",
"movement",
"novelty",
"wrinkle",
"caprice",
"fancy",
"whim"
],
"near antonyms":[
"classic",
"standard"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"famed":{
"widely known":{
"examples":[
"San Francisco's famed Golden Gate Bridge"
],
"synonyms":[
"big-name",
"celebrated",
"famous",
"noted",
"notorious",
"prominent",
"renowned",
"star",
"visible",
"well-known"
],
"near synonyms":[
"fabled",
"fabulous",
"legendary",
"infamous",
"distinguished",
"eminent",
"exceptional",
"great",
"illustrious",
"leading",
"notable",
"noteworthy",
"outstanding",
"preeminent",
"prestigious",
"remarkable",
"supereminent",
"superior",
"important",
"significant",
"acknowledged",
"recognized",
"respected",
"favorite",
"popular",
"preferred",
"estimable",
"honorable",
"reputable",
"respectable",
"formidable",
"redoubtable"
],
"near antonyms":[
"insignificant",
"unimportant",
"inconspicuous",
"undistinguished",
"unexceptional",
"unpopular"
],
"antonyms":[
"anonymous",
"nameless",
"obscure",
"uncelebrated",
"unfamous",
"unknown",
"unsung"
]
},
"type":[
"adjective"
]
},
"fall (in)":{
"as in decline (in) , taper off":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"abate",
"decline (in)",
"diminish (in)",
"dip",
"dwindle",
"lessen",
"taper",
"taper off",
"decrease (in)",
"lose"
],
"near antonyms":[
"build up",
"gain",
"gather",
"grow (in)",
"pick up",
"double (in)",
"triple (in)",
"accrue",
"accumulate",
"amass"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"fact finder":{
"as in empiricist , empiric":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"empiric",
"empiricist",
"monitor",
"observer",
"field-worker",
"experimenter",
"investigator",
"researcher",
"examiner",
"inspector"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"falsifying":{
"to change so much as to create a wrong impression or alter the meaning of":{
"examples":[
"taking that statement completely out of context essentially falsifies it, whether that's your intention or not"
],
"synonyms":[
"bending",
"coloring",
"cooking",
"distorting",
"fudging",
"garbling",
"misinterpreting",
"misrelating",
"misrepresenting",
"misstating",
"perverting",
"slanting",
"twisting",
"warping"
],
"near synonyms":[
"misdescribing",
"misspeaking",
"mistranslating",
"belying",
"camouflaging",
"disguising",
"dissembling",
"glossing (over)",
"masking",
"veiling",
"whitewashing",
"bowdlerizing",
"censoring",
"complicating",
"confounding",
"confusing",
"mistaking",
"mixing (up)",
"mystifying",
"obscuring",
"equivocating",
"fibbing",
"lying",
"paltering",
"prevaricating"
],
"near antonyms":[
"clarifying",
"clearing (up)",
"explaining",
"illuminating",
"illustrating",
"interpreting",
"spelling out",
"deciphering"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to prove to be false":{
"examples":[
"telephone records falsified his claim that he wasn't home that night"
],
"synonyms":[
"belying",
"confounding",
"confuting",
"debunking",
"disconfirming",
"discrediting",
"disproving",
"rebutting",
"refuting",
"shooting down"
],
"near synonyms":[
"overthrowing",
"overturning",
"challenging",
"contesting",
"querying",
"questioning",
"doubting",
"mistrusting",
"debating",
"discussing",
"hashing (over)",
"mooting",
"talking over"
],
"near antonyms":[
"documenting",
"evidencing",
"evincing",
"recording",
"showing",
"supporting",
"witnessing",
"backing (up)",
"buttressing",
"corroborating",
"substantiating",
"adducing",
"attesting",
"authenticating",
"certifying",
"identifying",
"demonstrating",
"displaying",
"illustrating",
"manifesting"
],
"antonyms":[
"confirming",
"establishing",
"proving",
"validating",
"verifying"
]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"faddist":{
"as in well-wisher , true believer":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"addict",
"aficionado",
"afficionado",
"buff",
"bug",
"devotee",
"enthusiast",
"fan",
"fancier",
"fiend",
"fool",
"freak",
"habitu\u00e9",
"habitue",
"head",
"hound",
"junkie",
"junky",
"lover",
"maniac",
"maven",
"mavin",
"nut",
"sucker",
"crusader",
"fanatic",
"ideologue",
"idealogue",
"militant",
"partisan",
"partizan",
"red hot",
"true believer",
"zealot",
"advocate",
"apostle",
"backer",
"champion",
"evangelist",
"patron",
"promoter",
"stalwart",
"supporter",
"cultist",
"disciple",
"follower",
"hanger-on",
"idolizer",
"votary",
"booster",
"rooter",
"well-wisher",
"dreamer",
"idealist",
"visionary",
"activist"
],
"near antonyms":[
"nonmilitant",
"dabbler",
"dilettante"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"falling behind":{
"to move or act slowly":{
"examples":[
"He lost his footing and fell behind in the relay."
],
"synonyms":[
"crawling",
"creeping",
"dallying",
"dawdling",
"delaying",
"diddling",
"dillydallying",
"dragging",
"lagging",
"lingering",
"loitering",
"lollygagging",
"lallygagging",
"moping",
"poking",
"shilly-shallying",
"tarrying"
],
"near synonyms":[
"fiddling (around)",
"fooling around",
"messing around",
"monkeying (around)",
"playing",
"pottering (around)",
"puttering (around)",
"trifling",
"hanging (around or out)",
"idling",
"loafing",
"lolling",
"lounging",
"ambling",
"easing",
"inching",
"lumbering",
"plodding",
"sauntering",
"shuffling",
"staggering",
"strolling",
"decelerating",
"slowing (down or up)",
"filibustering",
"procrastinating",
"stalling",
"temporizing"
],
"near antonyms":[
"bowling",
"breezing",
"darting",
"humping",
"hurtling",
"hustling",
"scrambling",
"stampeding",
"galloping",
"jogging",
"running",
"sprinting",
"trotting",
"accelerating",
"quickening",
"speeding (up)",
"catching up",
"fast-forwarding",
"outpacing",
"outrunning",
"outstripping",
"overtaking"
],
"antonyms":[
"barreling",
"barrelling",
"bolting",
"careering",
"coursing",
"dashing",
"flying",
"hastening",
"hotfooting (it)",
"hurrying",
"racing",
"ripping",
"rocketing",
"running",
"rushing",
"scooting",
"scudding",
"scurrying",
"speeding",
"tearing",
"whirling",
"whisking",
"whizzing",
"zipping"
]
},
"type":[
"phrase"
]
},
"fatness":{
"the condition of having an excess of body fat":{
"examples":[
"advises his patients that fatness is not good for health"
],
"synonyms":[
"adiposity",
"chubbiness",
"corpulence",
"corpulency",
"embonpoint",
"fat",
"fattiness",
"fleshiness",
"grossness",
"obesity",
"plumpness",
"portliness",
"pudginess",
"pursiness",
"rotundity",
"weight"
],
"near synonyms":[
"bulkiness",
"heaviness",
"huskiness",
"stoutness",
"brawniness",
"burliness",
"endomorphy"
],
"near antonyms":[
"fitness",
"trimness",
"gauntness",
"scrawniness",
"skinniness",
"weediness"
],
"antonyms":[
"leanness",
"reediness",
"slenderness",
"slimness",
"svelteness",
"thinness"
]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"favs":{
"a person or thing that is preferred over others":{
"examples":[
"chocolate ice cream is my absolute fave"
],
"synonyms":[
"darlings",
"favorites",
"minions",
"pets",
"preferences",
"speeds"
],
"near synonyms":[
"beloveds",
"dears",
"sweethearts",
"jewels",
"prizes",
"treasures"
],
"near antonyms":[
"abominations",
"anathemas",
"b\u00eates noires",
"bugbears"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"fast-talk":{
"as in urge , cajole":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"blandish",
"blarney",
"cajole",
"coax",
"entreat",
"exhort",
"urge",
"wheedle",
"argue",
"bring",
"bring around",
"convert",
"convince",
"gain",
"get",
"induce",
"move",
"persuade",
"prevail (on or upon)",
"satisfy",
"talk (into)",
"win (over)",
"allure",
"beguile",
"lead on",
"lure",
"seduce",
"snow",
"tempt",
"brainwash",
"overpersuade",
"incline",
"influence",
"prompt",
"sell",
"sway",
"attract",
"draw",
"entice",
"interest",
"chew over",
"converse",
"debate",
"discuss",
"dispute",
"hash (over)",
"moot",
"reason (with)"
],
"near antonyms":[
"deter",
"discourage",
"dissuade",
"unsell"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"as in bamboozle":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"bamboozle",
"betray",
"bitch",
"double-cross",
"rope (in)",
"deceive",
"dupe",
"fool",
"gull",
"trick",
"exploit",
"milk",
"clip",
"gouge",
"nick",
"overcharge",
"soak",
"extort",
"wrench",
"wrest",
"wring",
"beat",
"bilk",
"bleed",
"cheat",
"chisel",
"chouse",
"con",
"cozen",
"defraud",
"diddle",
"do",
"do in",
"euchre",
"fiddle",
"fleece",
"flimflam",
"gaff",
"hose",
"hustle",
"mulct",
"nobble",
"pluck",
"ream",
"rip off",
"rook",
"screw",
"shake down",
"short",
"shortchange",
"skin",
"skunk",
"squeeze",
"stick",
"stiff",
"sting",
"sucker",
"swindle",
"thimblerig",
"victimize"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"factotum":{
"a person whose job involves doing many different types of work":{
"examples":[
"He was the office factotum ."
],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"assistant",
"attendant",
"companion",
"follower",
"daily",
"domestic",
"flunky",
"flunkey",
"flunkie",
"lackey",
"menial",
"retainer",
"servant",
"steward",
"butler",
"footman",
"groom",
"houseboy",
"houseman",
"majordomo",
"man",
"manservant",
"servitor",
"valet",
"handmaiden",
"handmaid",
"housekeeper",
"housemaid",
"lady-in-waiting",
"maid",
"maidservant",
"wench",
"woman",
"dogsbody",
"drudge",
"gofer",
"gopher"
],
"near antonyms":[
"boss",
"captain",
"chief",
"foreman",
"head",
"headman",
"helmsman",
"kingpin",
"leader",
"taskmaster",
"master",
"mistress"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"fallaciously":{
"as in falsely , erroneously":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"erroneously",
"falsely",
"hypocritically",
"insincerely",
"deceitfully",
"mendaciously",
"untruthfully",
"ambiguously",
"circuitously",
"equivocally",
"evasively",
"indirectly",
"civilly",
"courteously",
"diplomatically",
"politely",
"tactfully",
"long-windedly",
"verbosely",
"wordily"
],
"near antonyms":[
"directly",
"forthrightly",
"foursquare",
"plain",
"plainly",
"straight",
"straightforward",
"straightforwards",
"straightforwardly",
"baldly",
"bluffly",
"candidly",
"frankly",
"honestly",
"openheartedly",
"openly",
"unguardedly",
"unreservedly",
"artlessly",
"earnestly",
"simply",
"sincerely"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"adverb"
]
},
"fanny packs":{
"as in school bags , seabags":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"school bags",
"seabags",
"carryalls",
"carry-ons",
"grips",
"handbags",
"holdalls",
"portmanteaus",
"portmanteaux",
"suitcases",
"traveling bags",
"overnight bags",
"overnight cases",
"weekend bags",
"haversacks",
"backpacks",
"kit bags",
"knapsacks",
"packs",
"packsacks",
"rucksacks"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"fanning":{
"as in igniting , triggering":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"igniting",
"inflaming",
"enflaming",
"kindling",
"triggering",
"arousing",
"encouraging",
"exciting",
"firing (up)",
"impassioning",
"inciting",
"instigating",
"moving",
"piquing",
"provoking",
"revving (up)",
"sparking",
"stimulating",
"stirring",
"activating",
"animating",
"driving",
"energizing",
"galvanizing",
"inducing",
"inspiring",
"keying (up)",
"motivating",
"motiving",
"pumping up",
"quickening",
"setting off",
"vitalizing",
"abetting",
"fermenting",
"fomenting",
"raising",
"whipping (up)",
"angering",
"enraging",
"maddening",
"upsetting",
"jeering",
"taunting",
"teasing",
"aggravating",
"annoying",
"bothering",
"exasperating",
"galling",
"getting",
"irritating",
"vexing"
],
"near antonyms":[
"calming",
"soothing",
"subduing",
"tranquilizing",
"tranquillizing",
"appeasing",
"mollifying",
"pacifying",
"placating"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"as in swinging , swaying":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"oscillating",
"swaying",
"swinging",
"flickering",
"flicking",
"flitting",
"undulating",
"waving",
"banging",
"battering",
"buffeting",
"knocking",
"pounding",
"smacking",
"spanking",
"thumping",
"palpitating",
"pulsing",
"throbbing",
"beating",
"flailing",
"flapping",
"flopping",
"fluttering",
"whipping"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"farewells":{
"an expression of good wishes at parting":{
"examples":[
"the exchange student and her host family said their tearful farewells , promising to keep in touch"
],
"synonyms":[
"adieus",
"adieux",
"au revoirs",
"aves",
"bon voyages",
"cong\u00e9s",
"congees",
"Godspeeds",
"good-byes",
"good-bys"
],
"near synonyms":[
"leave-takings",
"send-offs"
],
"near antonyms":[
"greetings",
"salutations",
"salutes",
"welcomes"
],
"antonyms":[
"hellos"
]
},
"the act of leaving a place":{
"examples":[
"before making his final farewell , the company president personally spoke to as many employees as he could"
],
"synonyms":[
"decampments",
"departures",
"exits",
"goings",
"leaves",
"leave-takings",
"outgoes",
"partings"
],
"near synonyms":[
"flights",
"retirements",
"retreats",
"withdrawals",
"diasporas",
"emigrations",
"evacuations",
"exoduses",
"embarkations",
"embarkments",
"disembarkations",
"egresses",
"abandonments",
"relinquishments"
],
"near antonyms":[
"comings",
"approaches",
"entrances",
"ingresses"
],
"antonyms":[
"advents",
"appearances",
"arrivals"
]
},
"the act or process of two or more persons going off in different directions":{
"examples":[
"our farewell was rushed, and we didn't say all that we wanted to before heading off to colleges at opposite ends of the country"
],
"synonyms":[
"leave-takings",
"partings",
"separations"
],
"near synonyms":[
"departures",
"egresses",
"exits",
"exoduses",
"goings",
"decampments",
"flights",
"withdrawals",
"abandonments",
"desertions"
],
"near antonyms":[
"reunions",
"arrivals",
"greetings",
"salutations",
"welcomes",
"gatherings",
"joinings",
"meetings"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"fain":{
"having a desire or inclination (as for a specified course of action)":{
"examples":[
"during the Renaissance most men of science and the arts were fain to express their noblest thoughts in Latin, the lingua franca of the learned"
],
"synonyms":[
"amenable",
"disposed",
"game",
"glad",
"inclined",
"minded",
"ready",
"willing"
],
"near synonyms":[
"predisposed",
"prone",
"accommodating",
"agreeable",
"compliant",
"cooperative",
"obedient",
"obliging",
"submissive",
"favorable",
"receptive",
"prepared",
"prompt",
"quick",
"responsive",
"swift",
"desirous",
"eager",
"enthused",
"enthusiastic",
"excited"
],
"near antonyms":[
"averse",
"loath",
"loth",
"loathe",
"reluctant",
"reticent"
],
"antonyms":[
"disinclined",
"unamenable",
"unwilling"
]
},
"by choice or preference":{
"examples":[
"\"I would fain not marry that suitor, my lord,\" the princess pleaded"
],
"synonyms":[
"first",
"preferably",
"rather",
"readily",
"soon",
"willingly"
],
"near synonyms":[
"alternately",
"alternatively",
"either",
"instead",
"electively",
"optionally",
"desirably",
"gladly",
"wishfully",
"obligingly",
"voluntarily"
],
"near antonyms":[
"reluctantly",
"forcibly",
"willy-nilly"
],
"antonyms":[
"involuntarily",
"unwillingly"
]
},
"type":[
"adjective",
"adverb"
]
},
"face up (to)":{
"as in front":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"front",
"beard",
"brave",
"brazen",
"breast",
"confront",
"dare",
"defy",
"face",
"outbrave",
"outface",
"affront",
"challenge",
"encounter",
"meet",
"accost",
"approach",
"corner",
"repel",
"resist",
"stand",
"withstand",
"battle",
"combat",
"contend (with)",
"fight",
"oppose",
"square (off)"
],
"near antonyms":[
"dodge",
"duck",
"funk",
"shirk",
"sidestep",
"avoid",
"eschew",
"shun",
"elude",
"escape",
"evade",
"shake"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"fallen apart":{
"to go through decomposition":{
"examples":[
"The old house was falling apart before the restoration."
],
"synonyms":[
"broken down",
"corrupted",
"decayed",
"decomposed",
"disintegrated",
"festered",
"fouled",
"molded",
"moldered",
"perished",
"putrefied",
"rotted",
"spoiled",
"spoilt"
],
"near synonyms":[
"soured",
"turned",
"turned off",
"contaminated",
"defiled",
"polluted",
"tainted",
"addled",
"curdled",
"fermented",
"mortified",
"rusted",
"crumbled",
"declined",
"degenerated",
"descended",
"deteriorated",
"dilapidated",
"sunk",
"withered"
],
"near antonyms":[
"aged",
"developed",
"grown",
"matured",
"ripened",
"refreshed",
"renewed",
"restored",
"cleansed",
"purified",
"assembled",
"composed",
"integrated",
"ameliorated",
"bettered",
"improved",
"meliorated"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to yield to mental or emotional stress":{
"examples":[
"He fell apart after his wife left."
],
"synonyms":[
"broken down",
"broken up",
"cracked",
"flipped (out)",
"freaked (out)",
"melted down",
"wigged (out)"
],
"near synonyms":[
"choked"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"phrase"
]
},
"fabulist":{
"a person who tells lies":{
"examples":[
"a once highly admired journalist whose reputation is now that of a disgraced fabulist"
],
"synonyms":[
"fabricator",
"fibber",
"liar",
"prevaricator",
"storyteller"
],
"near synonyms":[
"exaggerator",
"mythomaniac",
"calumniator",
"defamer",
"libeler",
"libelist",
"slanderer",
"perjurer",
"distorter",
"falsifier",
"equivocator",
"palterer",
"gossip",
"gossiper",
"talebearer",
"charlatan",
"cheat",
"cheater",
"counterfeiter",
"cozener",
"deceiver",
"defrauder",
"dissembler",
"dissimulator",
"double-dealer",
"fraud",
"hustler",
"knave",
"mountebank",
"operator",
"pretender"
],
"near antonyms":[
"square shooter"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"faultily":{
"in a mistaken or inappropriate way":{
"examples":[
"discovered that the foreign ambassador's statement had been faultily translated"
],
"synonyms":[
"amiss",
"erroneously",
"improperly",
"inaccurately",
"inappropriately",
"inaptly",
"incorrectly",
"mistakenly",
"unsuitably",
"wrongly"
],
"near synonyms":[
"misguidedly",
"fallibly",
"imperfectly",
"extraneously",
"irrelevantly",
"meaninglessly",
"pointlessly",
"senselessly",
"inadequately",
"insufficiently",
"undesirably",
"unsatisfactorily",
"foolishly",
"unwisely"
],
"near antonyms":[
"infallibly",
"perfectly",
"germanely",
"meaningfully",
"pertinently",
"relevantly",
"sensibly",
"acceptably",
"adequately",
"satisfactorily",
"sufficiently",
"prudently",
"sagely",
"wisely"
],
"antonyms":[
"appropriately",
"aptly",
"correctly",
"fittingly",
"properly",
"right",
"rightly",
"suitably",
"well"
]
},
"type":[
"adverb"
]
},
"factoring (in or into or out)":{
"as in allowing (for) , figuring in":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"allowing (for)",
"deducting",
"figuring in",
"calibrating",
"gauging",
"gaging",
"measuring",
"scaling",
"figuring out",
"solving (for)",
"calculating",
"ciphering",
"computing",
"figuring",
"reckoning",
"working out",
"quantifying",
"quantitating",
"counting",
"itemizing",
"numbering",
"adding up",
"averaging",
"summing",
"tallying",
"totaling",
"totalling",
"totalizing",
"adding",
"dividing",
"multiplying",
"subtracting",
"appraising",
"assessing",
"estimating",
"evaluating",
"rating",
"valuing",
"recalculating",
"recomputing",
"refiguring"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[]
},
"factor (in or into)":{
"to give consideration to (as unexpected circumstances or contingencies)":{
"examples":[
"you should factor in inflation in making investment decisions"
],
"synonyms":[
"allow (for)",
"consider",
"provide (for)",
"regard"
],
"near synonyms":[
"accommodate",
"adapt",
"adjust",
"condition",
"anticipate",
"contemplate",
"envisage",
"expect",
"foresee",
"assume",
"presume",
"presuppose",
"plan",
"calculate",
"face"
],
"near antonyms":[
"factor (out)"
],
"antonyms":[
"discount",
"disregard"
]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"fairy tale":{
"a statement known by its maker to be untrue and made in order to deceive":{
"examples":[
"did you really see a bear, or are you telling us another one of your fairy tales ?"
],
"synonyms":[
"fable",
"fabrication",
"falsehood",
"falsity",
"fib",
"lie",
"mendacity",
"prevarication",
"story",
"tale",
"taradiddle",
"tarradiddle",
"untruth",
"whopper"
],
"near synonyms":[
"distortion",
"exaggeration",
"half-truth",
"ambiguity",
"equivocation",
"obliquity",
"defamation",
"libel",
"slander",
"perjury",
"bluff",
"fiction",
"pose",
"pretense",
"pretence",
"humbug",
"jive",
"nonsense",
"canard",
"fallacy",
"misconception",
"myth",
"falsification",
"misinformation",
"misreport",
"misrepresentation",
"misstatement",
"deceit",
"deceitfulness",
"dishonesty",
"duplicity",
"fraudulence"
],
"near antonyms":[
"fact",
"truism",
"verity",
"honesty",
"truthfulness",
"veracity",
"authentication",
"confirmation",
"substantiation",
"validation",
"verification"
],
"antonyms":[
"truth"
]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"fattening":{
"as in caloric , calorific":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"caloric",
"calorific",
"buttery",
"fat",
"fatty",
"greasy",
"oily",
"cloying",
"oversweet",
"heavy",
"rich",
"filling",
"overfilling",
"satiating",
"sating",
"spicy",
"sugary",
"sweet",
"creamy",
"sauced"
],
"near antonyms":[
"light",
"lite",
"natural",
"plain",
"simple",
"unseasoned",
"diet",
"nonfattening",
"slimming",
"nonfat"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"as in filling , battening":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"battening",
"filling",
"messing",
"force-feeding",
"overfeeding",
"surfeiting",
"banqueting",
"dining",
"feasting",
"regaling",
"underfeeding",
"nourishing",
"nurturing",
"sustaining",
"hand-feeding",
"spoon-feeding",
"serving",
"waiting",
"refeeding",
"reprovisioning",
"boarding",
"catering",
"feeding",
"provisioning",
"victualing",
"victualling"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"adjective",
"verb"
]
},
"faced up (to)":{
"as in fronted":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"fronted",
"bearded",
"braved",
"brazened",
"breasted",
"confronted",
"dared",
"defied",
"faced",
"outbraved",
"outfaced",
"affronted",
"challenged",
"encountered",
"met",
"accosted",
"approached",
"cornered",
"repelled",
"resisted",
"stood",
"withstood",
"battled",
"combated",
"combatted",
"contended (with)",
"fought",
"opposed",
"squared (off)"
],
"near antonyms":[
"dodged",
"ducked",
"funked",
"shirked",
"sidestepped",
"avoided",
"eschewed",
"shunned",
"eluded",
"escaped",
"evaded",
"shook"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"falling on one's face":{
"to be unsuccessful":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[
"bombing",
"collapsing",
"cratering",
"failing",
"flaming out",
"flopping",
"flunking",
"folding",
"foundering",
"missing",
"striking out",
"tanking",
"washing out"
],
"near synonyms":[
"floundering",
"struggling",
"declining",
"sinking",
"skidding",
"slipping",
"slumping",
"waning",
"crashing",
"crumbling",
"miscarrying",
"misfiring",
"going under",
"imploding",
"self-destructing"
],
"near antonyms":[
"cooking",
"flourishing",
"prospering",
"thriving",
"prevailing",
"triumphing",
"winning"
],
"antonyms":[
"clicking",
"coming off",
"delivering",
"going",
"going over",
"panning out",
"succeeding",
"working out"
]
},
"type":[]
},
"fair market value":{
"as in value , market value":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"market value",
"valuation",
"value",
"ante",
"charge",
"cost",
"damage",
"fee",
"figure",
"freight",
"price",
"price tag",
"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"
]
},
"fazes":{
"to throw into a state of self-conscious distress":{
"examples":[
"the collapse of part of the scenery didn't faze the actors one bit, and they just carried on"
],
"synonyms":[
"abashes",
"confounds",
"confuses",
"discomfits",
"disconcerts",
"discountenances",
"embarrasses",
"flusters",
"mortifies",
"nonpluses",
"nonplusses",
"rattles"
],
"near synonyms":[
"agitates",
"bothers",
"chagrins",
"discomforts",
"discomposes",
"dismays",
"disquiets",
"distresses",
"disturbs",
"perturbs",
"puts off",
"puts out",
"unhinges",
"unsettles",
"upsets",
"debases",
"degrades",
"demeans",
"humbles",
"humiliates",
"queers",
"shames"
],
"near antonyms":[
"calms",
"comforts",
"consoles",
"relieves",
"soothes",
"buoys",
"cheers",
"emboldens",
"encourages",
"heartens",
"assures",
"reassures"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"fal-lal":{
"as in ruffle , flourish":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"flounce",
"flourish",
"furbelow",
"ruffle",
"apparel",
"bells and whistles",
"blazonry",
"bric-a-brac",
"chichi",
"emblazonry",
"filigree",
"finery",
"foofaraw",
"frippery",
"frosting",
"froufrou",
"enhancement",
"enrichment",
"improvement",
"adornment",
"beautifier",
"caparison",
"decoration",
"doodad",
"embellisher",
"embellishment",
"frill",
"garnish",
"garnishment",
"garniture",
"ornament",
"ornamentation",
"setoff",
"trim",
"appliqu\u00e9",
"embossment",
"embroidery",
"fancywork",
"bedizenment",
"gilt",
"glitter",
"design",
"figure",
"pattern",
"furnishings",
"regalia",
"trappings"
],
"near antonyms":[
"blemish",
"defacement",
"disfigurement",
"scar",
"blot",
"spot",
"stain"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"fake out":{
"to cause to believe what is untrue":{
"examples":[
"my friends faked me out for a whole day, letting me think that they had forgotten my birthday"
],
"synonyms":[
"bamboozle",
"beguile",
"bluff",
"buffalo",
"burn",
"catch",
"con",
"cozen",
"deceive",
"delude",
"dupe",
"fool",
"gaff",
"gammon",
"gull",
"have",
"have on",
"hoax",
"hoodwink",
"hornswoggle",
"humbug",
"juggle",
"misguide",
"misinform",
"mislead",
"snooker",
"snow",
"spoof",
"string along",
"suck in",
"sucker",
"take in",
"trick"
],
"near synonyms":[
"kid",
"put on",
"tease",
"bleed",
"cheat",
"chisel",
"defraud",
"diddle",
"euchre",
"fleece",
"flimflam",
"hustle",
"mulct",
"rook",
"shortchange",
"skin",
"squeeze",
"stick",
"sting",
"swindle"
],
"near antonyms":[
"debunk",
"expose",
"reveal",
"show up",
"uncloak",
"uncover",
"unmask",
"disclose",
"divulge",
"tell",
"unveil",
"disabuse",
"disenchant",
"disillusion"
],
"antonyms":[
"undeceive"
]
},
"to elude (an opponent in a sports contest) by making a deceptive or agile movement":{
"examples":[
"used a quick between-the-legs dribble to fake out the flat-footed defender"
],
"synonyms":[
"deke",
"fake",
"juke"
],
"near synonyms":[
"dodge",
"evade",
"sidestep",
"slip",
"pump-fake",
"stutter-step",
"maneuver (around)"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"farmhand":{
"as in harvester , reaper":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"field hand",
"gleaner",
"harvester",
"plowman",
"reaper",
"agriculturist",
"agriculturalist",
"agronomist",
"cultivator",
"farmer",
"grower",
"planter",
"tiller",
"workfolk",
"workfolks",
"crofter",
"cropper",
"gentleman farmer",
"sharecropper",
"subsistence farmer",
"tenant farmer",
"yeoman",
"homesteader",
"nester",
"granger",
"rancher",
"ranchero",
"ranchman",
"campesino"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"faerie":{
"an imaginary being usually having a small human form and magical powers":{
"examples":[
"in ancient folklore faeries were often portrayed as powerful beings who could wreak havoc on the lives of humans"
],
"synonyms":[
"brownie",
"dwarf",
"elf",
"fairy",
"fay",
"gnome",
"goblin",
"gremlin",
"hobgoblin",
"kobold",
"leprechaun",
"pixie",
"pixy",
"puck",
"sprite",
"troll"
],
"near synonyms":[
"little people",
"kelpie",
"nixie",
"changeling",
"imp",
"banshee",
"ghoul",
"hag",
"ogre"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"faithfulness":{
"adherence to something to which one is bound by a pledge or duty":{
"examples":[
"put the faithfulness of his disciples to the test"
],
"synonyms":[
"adhesion",
"allegiance",
"attachment",
"commitment",
"constancy",
"dedication",
"devotedness",
"devotion",
"faith",
"fastness",
"fealty",
"fidelity",
"loyalty",
"piety",
"steadfastness",
"troth"
],
"near synonyms":[
"affection",
"fondness",
"determination",
"firmness",
"resolution",
"dependability",
"reliability",
"trustability",
"trustiness",
"trustworthiness"
],
"near antonyms":[
"alienation",
"disaffection",
"estrangement",
"separation"
],
"antonyms":[
"disloyalty",
"faithlessness",
"falseness",
"falsity",
"inconstancy",
"infidelity",
"perfidiousness",
"perfidy",
"treachery",
"unfaithfulness"
]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"far-reaching":{
"having considerable extent":{
"examples":[
"to the pioneers the far-reaching prairies seemed like an endless sea of grass"
],
"synonyms":[
"broad",
"deep",
"expansive",
"extended",
"extensive",
"far-flung",
"rangy",
"sweeping",
"wide",
"wide-ranging",
"widespread"
],
"near synonyms":[
"comprehensive",
"general",
"global",
"inclusive",
"boundless",
"endless",
"infinite",
"limitless",
"unlimited",
"capacious",
"commodious",
"roomy",
"spacious"
],
"near antonyms":[
"circumscribed",
"limited",
"restricted"
],
"antonyms":[
"narrow"
]
},
"type":[
"adjective"
]
},
"fanciers":{
"a person with a strong and habitual liking for something":{
"examples":[
"many chocolate fanciers like their favorite confection without the addition of milk or a lot of sugar"
],
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"addicts",
"aficionados",
"afficionados",
"buffs",
"bugs",
"devotees",
"enthusiasts",
"fanatics",
"fans",
"fiends",
"fools",
"freaks",
"habitu\u00e9s",
"habitues",
"heads",
"hounds",
"junkies",
"lovers",
"maniacs",
"mavens",
"mavins",
"nuts",
"suckers"
],
"near synonyms":[
"groupies",
"admirers",
"amateurs",
"collectors",
"connoisseurs",
"dilettantes",
"dilettanti",
"authorities",
"experts",
"adherents",
"converts",
"cultists",
"disciples",
"followers",
"hangers-on",
"votaries",
"advocates",
"apostles",
"backers",
"champions",
"evangelists",
"exponents",
"friends",
"patrons",
"promoters",
"proponents",
"supporters",
"partisans",
"partizans",
"zealots",
"boosters",
"rooters",
"well-wishers",
"faddists"
],
"near antonyms":[
"nonadmirers",
"belittlers",
"carpers",
"critics",
"detractors"
],
"antonyms":[
"nonfans"
]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"factors (out)":{
"as in discounts , disregards":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"discounts",
"disregards"
],
"near antonyms":[
"allows (for)",
"considers",
"factors (in or into)",
"provides (for)",
"regards",
"accommodates",
"adapts",
"adjusts",
"conditions",
"anticipates",
"contemplates",
"envisages",
"expects",
"foresees"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"far and wide":{
"in every place or in all places":{
"examples":[
"we searched far and wide for a surgeon who could perform that delicate operation"
],
"synonyms":[
"all over",
"everyplace",
"everywhere",
"high and low",
"throughout"
],
"near synonyms":[
"every which way",
"right and left"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[
"nowhere"
]
},
"type":[
"adverb"
]
},
"fast-talkers":{
"as in slicksters , slicks":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"slickers",
"slicks",
"slicksters",
"slyboots",
"smoothies",
"wheeler-dealers",
"adventurers",
"foxes",
"fox",
"gamesmen",
"knaves",
"pranksters",
"rascals",
"rogues",
"plotters",
"schemers",
"sneakers",
"sneaks",
"bluffers",
"charlatans",
"fakers",
"fakes",
"humbugs",
"impostors",
"imposters",
"mountebanks",
"phonies",
"phoneys",
"pretenders",
"quacks",
"quacksalvers",
"ringers",
"shams",
"blacklegs",
"cardsharps",
"cardsharpers",
"double-crossers",
"double-dealers",
"bilkers",
"bilks",
"cheaters",
"cheats",
"chiselers",
"chisellers",
"confidence men",
"cozeners",
"defrauders",
"dodgers",
"fakirs",
"finaglers",
"fraudsters",
"hoaxers",
"scammers",
"scamsters",
"sharks",
"sharpers",
"sharpies",
"skinners",
"swindlers",
"trickers",
"tricksters"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"factors (in or into)":{
"to give consideration to (as unexpected circumstances or contingencies)":{
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"synonyms":[
"allows (for)",
"considers",
"provides (for)",
"regards"
],
"near synonyms":[
"accommodates",
"adapts",
"adjusts",
"conditions",
"anticipates",
"contemplates",
"envisages",
"expects",
"foresees",
"assumes",
"presumes",
"presupposes",
"plans",
"calculates",
"faces"
],
"near antonyms":[
"factors (out)"
],
"antonyms":[
"discounts",
"disregards"
]
},
"type":[]
},
"far and near":{
"in every place or in all places":{
"examples":[
"Protests took place at schools far and near ."
],
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"all over",
"everyplace",
"everywhere",
"far and wide",
"high and low",
"throughout"
],
"near synonyms":[
"every which way",
"right and left"
],
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"antonyms":[
"nowhere"
]
},
"type":[
"phrase"
]
},
"farmyards":{
"as in farmlands , croplands":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"croplands",
"farmlands",
"estates",
"farms",
"farmsteads",
"granges",
"ranches",
"farmhouses",
"haciendas",
"homesteads",
"manors",
"plantations",
"spreads",
"crofts",
"smallholdings",
"stations",
"steadings",
"gardens",
"orchards"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"father figures":{
"an older man who acts in a paternal role to younger people":{
"examples":[
"The coach was a stern, wise father figure to his players."
],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"father images",
"daddies",
"dads",
"fathers",
"old men",
"papas",
"poppas",
"pas",
"paters",
"pops",
"sires",
"patresfamilias",
"patriarchs",
"stepfathers"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"fall from grace":{
"to commit an offense":{
"examples":[
"Once a successful entrepreneur, he fell from grace when accounts of his unethical business practices were revealed."
],
"synonyms":[
"err",
"fall",
"offend",
"sin",
"stray",
"transgress",
"trespass",
"wander"
],
"near synonyms":[
"breach",
"break",
"infringe",
"violate",
"backslide",
"lapse",
"mess up"
],
"near antonyms":[
"forgive",
"justify",
"pardon",
"regret",
"repent",
"rue"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"phrase"
]
},
"faltered":{
"to show uncertainty about the right course of action":{
"examples":[
"William Lloyd Garrison never once faltered in his demand that slavery be unconditionally abolished"
],
"synonyms":[
"balanced",
"dithered",
"halted",
"hesitated",
"hung back",
"scrupled",
"shilly-shallied",
"staggered",
"teetered",
"vacillated",
"wavered",
"wobbled",
"wabbled"
],
"near synonyms":[
"hawed",
"hemmed",
"dallied",
"dawdled",
"delayed",
"lingered",
"paused",
"procrastinated",
"waited",
"backed down",
"chickened (out)",
"considered",
"debated",
"deliberated",
"pondered",
"weighed",
"oscillated",
"swayed",
"equivocated",
"hedged",
"pussyfooted",
"waffled"
],
"near antonyms":[
"decided",
"budged",
"stirred",
"advanced",
"continued"
],
"antonyms":[
"dived (in)",
"dove (in)",
"plunged (in)"
]
},
"to swing unsteadily back and forth or from side to side":{
"examples":[
"the cut tree seemed to falter for a moment before crashing to the ground"
],
"synonyms":[
"rocked",
"teetered",
"tottered",
"wavered",
"wobbled",
"wabbled"
],
"near synonyms":[
"floundered",
"lurched",
"stumbled",
"toddled",
"quaked",
"quavered",
"quivered",
"shook",
"shuddered",
"trembled",
"vibrated",
"careened",
"reeled",
"staggered",
"weaved"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"fascinating":{
"having an often mysterious or magical power to attract":{
"examples":[
"the fascinating cities and peoples of central Asia have been intriguing travelers at least since the time of Marco Polo"
],
"synonyms":[
"alluring",
"appealing",
"attractive",
"bewitching",
"captivating",
"charismatic",
"charming",
"elfin",
"enchanting",
"engaging",
"entrancing",
"fetching",
"glamorous",
"glamourous",
"luring",
"magnetic",
"seductive"
],
"near synonyms":[
"absorbing",
"arresting",
"engrossing",
"enthralling",
"galvanic",
"gripping",
"hypnotic",
"hypnotizing",
"mesmerizing",
"riveting",
"spellbinding",
"enticing",
"tantalizing",
"tempting",
"exciting",
"haunting",
"interesting",
"intriguing",
"titillating",
"beckoning",
"inviting",
"winning",
"darling",
"delightful",
"pleasant",
"pleasing"
],
"near antonyms":[
"boring",
"irksome",
"tedious",
"tiresome",
"wearisome",
"abhorrent",
"abominable",
"appalling",
"awful",
"distasteful",
"hideous",
"horrendous",
"horrible",
"horrid",
"invidious",
"loathsome",
"nauseating",
"noisome",
"obnoxious",
"odious",
"offensive",
"shocking",
"sickening",
"drab",
"dreary",
"dull",
"flat",
"humdrum",
"jading",
"leaden",
"monotonous",
"pedestrian",
"ponderous"
],
"antonyms":[
"repellent",
"repellant",
"repelling",
"repugnant",
"repulsive",
"revolting",
"unalluring"
]
},
"holding the attention or provoking interest":{
"examples":[
"the fascinating \u2014but dubious\u2014legend that Pocahontas rescued John Smith from certain death"
],
"synonyms":[
"absorbing",
"arresting",
"consuming",
"engaging",
"engrossing",
"enthralling",
"gripping",
"immersing",
"interesting",
"intriguing",
"involving",
"riveting"
],
"near synonyms":[
"breathtaking",
"electric",
"electrifying",
"exciting",
"exhilarating",
"galvanizing",
"inspiring",
"rousing",
"stimulating",
"stirring",
"thrilling",
"provocative",
"tantalizing",
"emphatic",
"showy",
"splashy",
"striking",
"alluring",
"attractive",
"bewitching",
"captivating",
"charming",
"enchanting",
"spellbinding",
"hypnotizing",
"mesmerizing",
"curious",
"odd",
"unusual",
"weird",
"amazing",
"astonishing",
"astounding",
"eventful",
"eye-opening",
"fabulous",
"marvelous",
"marvellous",
"surprising",
"wonderful",
"wondrous",
"amusing",
"entertaining"
],
"near antonyms":[
"operose",
"tiresome",
"tiring",
"wearisome",
"wearying",
"sterile",
"unexciting",
"dreary",
"humdrum",
"pedantic",
"pedestrian",
"demoralizing",
"discouraging",
"disheartening",
"dispiriting"
],
"antonyms":[
"boring",
"drab",
"dry",
"dull",
"heavy",
"monotonous",
"tedious",
"uninteresting"
]
},
"to attract or delight as if by magic":{
"examples":[
"for years the zoo's family of giant pandas have fascinated visitors"
],
"synonyms":[
"alluring",
"beguiling",
"bewitching",
"captivating",
"charming",
"enchanting",
"killing",
"magnetizing",
"wiling",
"witching"
],
"near synonyms":[
"disarming",
"drawing",
"enticing",
"luring",
"pulling",
"seducing",
"tempting",
"delighting",
"gratifying",
"pleasing",
"arresting",
"enrapturing",
"enthralling",
"entrancing",
"appealing (to)",
"interesting",
"intriguing",
"beckoning",
"courting",
"inviting",
"soliciting",
"wooing"
],
"near antonyms":[
"disgusting",
"offending",
"repelling",
"revolting",
"annoying",
"displeasing",
"irking",
"boring",
"tiring",
"wearying"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to hold the attention of as if by a spell":{
"examples":[
"I can gaze at the sea for hours, fascinated by the never-ending waves crashing upon the shore"
],
"synonyms":[
"arresting",
"bedazzling",
"catching up",
"enchanting",
"enthralling",
"gripping",
"hypnotizing",
"mesmerizing",
"spellbinding"
],
"near synonyms":[
"enrapturing",
"entrancing",
"thrilling",
"beguiling",
"bewitching",
"charming",
"absorbing",
"engaging",
"engrossing",
"involving"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to hold the attention of":{
"examples":[
"the subject of artificial intelligence fascinates me"
],
"synonyms":[
"absorbing",
"bemusing",
"busying",
"catching up",
"engaging",
"engrossing",
"enthralling",
"enwrapping",
"gripping",
"immersing",
"interesting",
"intriguing",
"involving",
"occupying"
],
"near synonyms":[
"alluring",
"attracting",
"beguiling",
"bewitching",
"captivating",
"charming",
"enchanting",
"obsessing",
"hypnotizing",
"mesmerizing",
"distracting",
"preoccupying",
"hogging",
"monopolizing"
],
"near antonyms":[
"boring",
"jading",
"palling",
"tiring",
"wearying"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"adjective",
"verb"
]
},
"facedown":{
"as in down , downward":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"below",
"down",
"downward",
"downwards",
"over",
"downgrade",
"downhill",
"downstairs",
"low"
],
"near antonyms":[
"up",
"upward",
"upwards",
"upwardly",
"aloft"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"adverb"
]
},
"falsifiers":{
"as in distorters":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"distorters",
"perjurers",
"equivocators",
"palterers",
"calumniators",
"defamers",
"libelers",
"libelists",
"slanderers",
"gossipers",
"gossips",
"talebearers",
"exaggerators",
"mythomaniacs",
"charlatans",
"cheaters",
"cheats",
"counterfeiters",
"cozeners",
"deceivers",
"defrauders",
"dissemblers",
"dissimulators",
"double-dealers",
"frauds",
"hustlers",
"knaves",
"mountebanks",
"operators",
"pretenders",
"fabricators",
"fabulists",
"fibbers",
"liars",
"prevaricators",
"storytellers"
],
"near antonyms":[
"square shooters"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"fans":{
"a person with a strong and habitual liking for something":{
"examples":[
"lifelong fans of country and western music"
],
"synonyms":[
"addicts",
"aficionados",
"afficionados",
"buffs",
"bugs",
"devotees",
"enthusiasts",
"fanatics",
"fanciers",
"fiends",
"fools",
"freaks",
"habitu\u00e9s",
"habitues",
"heads",
"hounds",
"junkies",
"lovers",
"maniacs",
"mavens",
"mavins",
"nuts",
"suckers"
],
"near synonyms":[
"groupies",
"admirers",
"amateurs",
"collectors",
"connoisseurs",
"dilettantes",
"dilettanti",
"authorities",
"experts",
"adherents",
"converts",
"cultists",
"disciples",
"followers",
"hangers-on",
"votaries",
"advocates",
"apostles",
"backers",
"champions",
"evangelists",
"exponents",
"friends",
"patrons",
"promoters",
"proponents",
"supporters",
"partisans",
"partizans",
"zealots",
"boosters",
"rooters",
"well-wishers",
"faddists"
],
"near antonyms":[
"nonadmirers",
"belittlers",
"carpers",
"critics",
"detractors"
],
"antonyms":[
"nonfans"
]
},
"as in ignites , triggers":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"ignites",
"inflames",
"enflames",
"kindles",
"triggers",
"arouses",
"encourages",
"excites",
"fires (up)",
"impassions",
"incites",
"instigates",
"moves",
"piques",
"provokes",
"revs (up)",
"sparks",
"stimulates",
"stirs",
"activates",
"animates",
"drives",
"energizes",
"galvanizes",
"induces",
"inspires",
"keys (up)",
"motivates",
"motives",
"pumps up",
"quickens",
"sets off",
"vitalizes",
"abets",
"ferments",
"foments",
"raises",
"whips (up)",
"angers",
"enrages",
"maddens",
"upsets",
"jeers",
"taunts",
"teases",
"aggravates",
"annoys",
"bothers",
"exasperates",
"galls",
"gets",
"irritates",
"vexes"
],
"near antonyms":[
"calms",
"soothes",
"subdues",
"tranquilizes",
"tranquillizes",
"appeases",
"mollifies",
"pacifies",
"placates"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"as in swings , sways":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"oscillates",
"sways",
"swings",
"flickers",
"flicks",
"flits",
"undulates",
"waves",
"bangs",
"batters",
"buffets",
"knocks",
"pounds",
"smacks",
"spanks",
"thumps",
"palpitates",
"pulses",
"throbs",
"beats",
"flails",
"flaps",
"flops",
"flutters",
"whips"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun",
"verb"
]
},
"falling away":{
"to grow less in scope or intensity especially gradually":{
"examples":[
"as the years went by, the public's interest in the murder case fell away"
],
"synonyms":[
"abating",
"declining",
"decreasing",
"de-escalating",
"diminishing",
"draining (away)",
"dropping (off)",
"dwindling",
"dying (away or down or out)",
"easing",
"ebbing",
"falling",
"lessening",
"letting up",
"lowering",
"moderating",
"palling",
"phasing down",
"ratcheting (down)",
"racheting (down)",
"receding",
"relenting",
"remitting",
"shrinking",
"subsiding",
"tapering",
"tapering off",
"waning"
],
"near synonyms":[
"compressing",
"condensing",
"constricting",
"contracting",
"evaporating",
"fading (away)",
"frittering (away)",
"giving out",
"melting (away)",
"petering (out)",
"tailing (off)",
"vanishing",
"slackening",
"slowing (down)",
"alleviating",
"relaxing",
"flagging",
"sinking",
"weakening",
"caving (in)",
"collapsing",
"deflating"
],
"near antonyms":[
"appearing",
"emerging",
"showing up",
"blowing up",
"distending",
"elongating",
"lengthening"
],
"antonyms":[
"accumulating",
"ballooning",
"building",
"burgeoning",
"bourgeoning",
"enlarging",
"escalating",
"expanding",
"growing",
"increasing",
"intensifying",
"mounting",
"mushrooming",
"picking up",
"rising",
"snowballing",
"soaring",
"swelling",
"waxing"
]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"fashionability":{
"the state of enjoying widespread approval":{
"examples":[
"doesn't regard the fashionability of his fiction as prima facie evidence that it has no literary merit"
],
"synonyms":[
"fashionableness",
"favor",
"hotness",
"modishness",
"popularity",
"vogue",
"voguishness"
],
"near synonyms":[
"craze",
"fad",
"mode",
"rage",
"style",
"trend",
"bandwagon",
"boom",
"fame",
"notoriety",
"prominence",
"renown",
"enthusiasm",
"fervor",
"passion"
],
"near antonyms":[
"oblivion",
"obscurity"
],
"antonyms":[
"disfavor",
"unpopularity"
]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"fatherhood":{
"as in paternity , fathering":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"fathering",
"paternity",
"raising",
"rearing",
"upbringing",
"maternity",
"motherhood",
"mothering",
"parenthood",
"parenting",
"caregiving",
"caretaking"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"fawners":{
"a person who flatters another in order to get ahead":{
"examples":[
"having surrounded himself with fawners who gave him only good news, the governor had no idea of the true state of affairs"
],
"synonyms":[
"apple-polishers",
"bootlickers",
"brownnosers",
"flunkies",
"flunkeys",
"lickspittles",
"suck-ups",
"sycophants",
"toadies"
],
"near synonyms":[
"yes-men",
"apparatchiks",
"apparatchiki",
"company men",
"hangers-on",
"leeches",
"parasites",
"spongers",
"sponges",
"henchmen",
"lackeys",
"lapdogs",
"minions",
"running dogs",
"satellites",
"slaves",
"stooges",
"admirers",
"cultists",
"devotees",
"enthusiasts",
"fans",
"grovelers",
"idolaters",
"idolators",
"worshippers",
"worshipers",
"zealots",
"adherents",
"camp followers",
"converts",
"disciples",
"followers",
"me-tooers",
"partisans",
"partizans",
"pupils",
"votaries"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"fails":{
"to stop functioning":{
"examples":[
"my car failed just as I was about to head to work"
],
"synonyms":[
"breaks",
"breaks down",
"conks (out)",
"crashes",
"cuts out",
"dies",
"gives out",
"stalls"
],
"near synonyms":[
"fizzles",
"sputters",
"wheezes",
"acts up",
"malfunctions",
"jams"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[
"starts (up)"
]
},
"to be unsuccessful":{
"examples":[
"despite all the publicity, the movie failed miserably at the box office"
],
"synonyms":[
"bombs",
"collapses",
"craters",
"flames out",
"flops",
"flunks",
"folds",
"founders",
"misses",
"strikes out",
"tanks",
"washes out"
],
"near synonyms":[
"flounders",
"struggles",
"declines",
"sinks",
"skids",
"slips",
"slumps",
"wanes",
"crashes",
"crumbles",
"miscarries",
"misfires",
"goes under",
"implodes",
"self-destructs"
],
"near antonyms":[
"cooks",
"flourishes",
"prospers",
"thrives",
"prevails",
"triumphs",
"wins"
],
"antonyms":[
"clicks",
"comes off",
"delivers",
"goes",
"goes over",
"pans out",
"succeeds",
"works out"
]
},
"to fall short in satisfying the expectation or hope of":{
"examples":[
"although the minor-league franchise continues to fail local fans, hope springs eternal"
],
"synonyms":[
"cheats",
"disappoints",
"dissatisfies",
"lets down"
],
"near synonyms":[
"bums (out)",
"chagrins",
"discontents",
"disgruntles",
"displeases",
"distresses",
"upsets",
"disenchants",
"disillusions",
"deceives",
"deludes",
"mocks"
],
"near antonyms":[
"fulfills",
"fulfils",
"gladdens"
],
"antonyms":[
"contents",
"gratifies",
"satisfies"
]
},
"to lose bodily strength or vigor":{
"examples":[
"ever since she reached the age of 90, Grandma has been noticeably failing"
],
"synonyms":[
"decays",
"droops",
"emaciates",
"fades",
"flags",
"goes",
"lags",
"languishes",
"sags",
"sinks",
"wastes (away)",
"weakens",
"wilts",
"withers"
],
"near synonyms":[
"breaks down",
"wears out",
"yields",
"degenerates",
"deteriorates",
"rots",
"runs down"
],
"near antonyms":[
"convalesces",
"rallies",
"rebounds",
"recovers",
"recuperates",
"gains"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to miss the opportunity or obligation":{
"examples":[
"failed to mention that he was looking for new job"
],
"synonyms":[
"forgets",
"neglects",
"omits"
],
"near synonyms":[
"disregards",
"ignores",
"overlooks",
"overpasses",
"passes over",
"pretermits",
"slights",
"slides",
"slips",
"defaults",
"skips"
],
"near antonyms":[
"heeds",
"minds",
"remembers",
"keeps",
"observes",
"carries out",
"does",
"executes",
"performs",
"practices",
"practises",
"discharges",
"fulfills",
"fulfils",
"meets",
"satisfies",
"complies (with)"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"fatless":{
"having a noticeably small amount of body fat":{
"examples":[
"a lineup of competitive body builders with fatless bodies"
],
"synonyms":[
"bony",
"boney",
"lean",
"lithe",
"skinny",
"slender",
"slim",
"spare",
"svelte",
"thin"
],
"near synonyms":[
"clean-limbed",
"trim",
"sylphlike",
"willowy",
"angular",
"rawboned",
"scraggy",
"scrawny",
"sinewy",
"wiry",
"lank",
"lanky",
"rangy",
"reedy",
"spindling",
"spindly",
"stringy",
"twiggy",
"waspish",
"weedy",
"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"
],
"antonyms":[
"chubby",
"corpulent",
"fat",
"gross",
"obese",
"overweight",
"plump",
"portly",
"rotund",
"tubby"
]
},
"type":[
"adjective"
]
},
"faves":{
"a person or thing that is preferred over others":{
"examples":[
"chocolate ice cream is my absolute fave"
],
"synonyms":[
"darlings",
"favorites",
"minions",
"pets",
"preferences",
"speeds"
],
"near synonyms":[
"beloveds",
"dears",
"sweethearts",
"jewels",
"prizes",
"treasures"
],
"near antonyms":[
"abominations",
"anathemas",
"b\u00eates noires",
"bugbears"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"fairylands":{
"as in wonderlands , dreamlands":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"dreamlands",
"dreamworlds",
"wonderlands",
"Camelots",
"Cockaignes",
"Edens",
"Elysiums",
"Elysia",
"empyreans",
"fantasylands",
"heavens",
"lotuslands",
"never-never lands",
"New Jerusalems",
"nirvanas",
"paradises",
"promised lands",
"Shangri-las",
"utopias",
"Zions",
"Sions",
"arcadias",
"blisses",
"euphorias",
"joys"
],
"near antonyms":[
"fool's paradises",
"anti-utopias",
"dystopias",
"hells"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"fair-trading":{
"as in selling , retailing":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"distributing",
"marketing",
"peddling",
"retailing",
"selling",
"supplying",
"vending",
"wholesaling",
"buying",
"picking up",
"purchasing",
"taking",
"black-marketing",
"bootlegging",
"fencing",
"smuggling",
"auctioning",
"exchanging",
"merchandising",
"merchandizing",
"rebuying",
"reselling",
"swapping",
"cornering",
"engrossing",
"monopolizing",
"underselling",
"bargaining",
"bartering",
"horse-trading",
"negotiating",
"transacting",
"day-trading",
"investing",
"speculating",
"dealing",
"trading",
"trafficking"
],
"near antonyms":[
"blackballing",
"blacking",
"boycotting"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"father (on)":{
"as in charge , blame":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"blame",
"charge",
"impute (to)",
"pin (on)",
"accredit",
"ascribe",
"attribute",
"chalk up",
"credit",
"impute",
"lay",
"put down",
"assign",
"refer",
"associate",
"attach",
"connect",
"link"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"fallacy":{
"a false idea or belief":{
"examples":[
"the once-common fallacy that girls just weren't any good at math"
],
"synonyms":[
"delusion",
"error",
"falsehood",
"falsity",
"hallucination",
"illusion",
"misbelief",
"misconception",
"myth",
"old wives' tale",
"untruth"
],
"near synonyms":[
"factoid",
"superstition",
"fiction",
"pretense",
"pretence",
"distortion",
"inaccuracy",
"misapprehension",
"miscomprehension",
"misinterpretation",
"misjudgment",
"misperception",
"misunderstanding",
"misinformation",
"misknowledge",
"misreport",
"misrepresentation",
"misstatement",
"sophism",
"sophistry",
"fib",
"half-truth",
"lie",
"story",
"tale"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[
"truth",
"verity"
]
},
"the quality or state of being false":{
"examples":[
"the fallacy of the notion of spontaneous generation was demonstrated by the Dutch naturalist Leeuwenhoek"
],
"synonyms":[
"erroneousness",
"fallaciousness",
"falsehood",
"falseness",
"falsity",
"untruth"
],
"near synonyms":[
"speciousness",
"spuriousness",
"deception",
"deceptiveness",
"delusion",
"inaccuracy",
"incorrectness",
"dishonesty",
"mendaciousness",
"mendacity",
"untruthfulness"
],
"near antonyms":[
"accuracy",
"actuality",
"correctness",
"factuality",
"factualness",
"genuineness",
"credibility",
"honesty",
"trustworthiness",
"truthfulness",
"veracity"
],
"antonyms":[
"truth",
"verity"
]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"fairly":{
"to some degree or extent":{
"examples":[
"for someone without professional training, she sings fairly well"
],
"synonyms":[
"enough",
"kindly",
"kind of",
"like",
"moderately",
"more or less",
"pretty",
"quite",
"rather",
"relatively",
"something",
"somewhat",
"sort of"
],
"near synonyms":[
"acceptably",
"decently",
"passably",
"tolerably",
"little",
"negligibly",
"nominally",
"slightly",
"vaguely",
"half",
"halfway",
"incompletely",
"part",
"partially",
"partly",
"partway"
],
"near antonyms":[
"awfully",
"beastly",
"deadly",
"especially",
"exceedingly",
"exceeding",
"exceptionally",
"extremely",
"frightfully",
"greatly",
"heavily",
"highly",
"hugely",
"mightily",
"mortally",
"particularly",
"surpassingly",
"terribly",
"very",
"considerably",
"extensively",
"significantly",
"substantially"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"according to the rules or the law":{
"examples":[
"had acquired the land fairly"
],
"synonyms":[
"clean",
"cleanly",
"fair",
"legally"
],
"near synonyms":[
"ethically",
"high-mindedly",
"morally",
"nobly",
"honorably"
],
"near antonyms":[
"ignobly",
"immorally",
"underhandedly",
"unethically",
"dishonorably"
],
"antonyms":[
"dirty",
"illegally"
]
},
"very close to but not completely":{
"examples":[
"he fairly knocked me flat on my face as he ran by"
],
"synonyms":[
"about",
"all but",
"almost",
"borderline",
"fair",
"feckly",
"more or less",
"most",
"much",
"near",
"nearly",
"next to",
"nigh",
"practically",
"somewhere",
"virtually",
"well-nigh"
],
"near synonyms":[
"appreciably",
"by and large",
"chiefly",
"largely",
"mainly",
"mostly",
"kind of",
"partially",
"partly",
"somewhat"
],
"near antonyms":[
"absolutely",
"altogether",
"completely",
"entirely",
"fully",
"plain",
"plumb",
"quite",
"thoroughly",
"totally",
"utterly",
"well",
"wholly",
"barely",
"hardly",
"scarcely"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"adverb"
]
},
"faddish":{
"enjoying widespread favor or approval":{
"examples":[
"a faddish novelist who impressed some critics, at least for a time"
],
"synonyms":[
"big",
"crowd-pleasing",
"du jour",
"faddy",
"fashionable",
"favorite",
"happening",
"hot",
"in",
"large",
"modish",
"pop",
"popular",
"popularized",
"red-hot",
"vogue",
"voguish"
],
"near synonyms":[
"semipopular",
"preferred",
"selected",
"desirable",
"liked",
"wanted",
"celebrated",
"famed",
"famous",
"noted",
"notorious",
"prominent",
"renowned",
"well-known",
"fabled",
"fabulous",
"legendary",
"leading",
"notable",
"outstanding",
"prominent",
"remarkable",
"important",
"significant"
],
"near antonyms":[
"washed-up",
"despised",
"detested",
"disliked",
"hated",
"rejected",
"insignificant",
"unimportant",
"indistinguished",
"unexceptional",
"anonymous",
"nameless",
"obscure",
"unknown",
"inconspicuous"
],
"antonyms":[
"out",
"unfashionable",
"unpopular"
]
},
"type":[
"adjective"
]
},
"falls (off)":{
"to turn away from a straight line or course":{
"examples":[
"the coastline falls off toward the north after you round the bay"
],
"synonyms":[
"arches",
"arcs",
"bends",
"bows",
"crooks",
"curves",
"hooks",
"rounds",
"sweeps",
"swerves",
"trends",
"wheels"
],
"near synonyms":[
"circles",
"coils",
"curlicues",
"curls",
"loops",
"spirals",
"turns",
"twists",
"winds",
"deviates",
"veers"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[
"straightens"
]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"fag":{
"a person who does very hard or dull work":{
"examples":[
"a rigid class system, with fags at the very bottom of it"
],
"synonyms":[
"dogsbody",
"drone",
"drudge",
"drudger",
"foot soldier",
"grub",
"grubber",
"grunt",
"laborer",
"peon",
"plugger",
"slave",
"slogger",
"toiler",
"worker"
],
"near synonyms":[
"workhorse",
"serf"
],
"near antonyms":[
"goldbrick",
"shirker",
"idler",
"lazybones",
"loafer",
"slouch",
"slug",
"sluggard"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to devote serious and sustained effort":{
"examples":[
"the road crew fagged mightily to move the boulder out of the way"
],
"synonyms":[
"bang away",
"beaver (away)",
"dig (away)",
"drudge",
"endeavor",
"grub",
"hump",
"hustle",
"labor",
"moil",
"peg (away)",
"plod",
"plow",
"plug",
"slave",
"slog",
"strain",
"strive",
"struggle",
"sweat",
"toil",
"travail",
"tug",
"work"
],
"near synonyms":[
"apply (oneself)",
"buckle (down)",
"dig in",
"hammer (away)",
"knuckle down",
"pitch in",
"attack",
"drive",
"essay",
"try",
"exercise",
"exert",
"overexert",
"overwork",
"eke out",
"grind (out)",
"put out",
"scrabble",
"scratch",
"trudge",
"wade"
],
"near antonyms":[
"break",
"ease (up)",
"let up",
"slacken",
"bum",
"chill",
"dally",
"dillydally",
"footle",
"goldbrick",
"goof (off)",
"hack (around)",
"hang (around or out)",
"idle",
"laze",
"loaf",
"lounge",
"shirk",
"slack (off)",
"veg out",
"bask",
"loll",
"relax",
"repose",
"rest",
"unwind",
"dabble",
"doodle",
"fool around",
"fribble",
"goof (around)",
"hang",
"hang about",
"mess around",
"monkey (around)",
"play",
"potter (around)",
"putter (around)",
"trifle"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to use up all the physical energy of":{
"examples":[
"the long hike up the mountain had fagged us out"
],
"synonyms":[
"break",
"burn out",
"bust",
"do in",
"do up",
"drain",
"exhaust",
"fatigue",
"frazzle",
"harass",
"kill",
"knock out",
"outwear",
"tire",
"tucker (out)",
"wash out",
"wear",
"wear out",
"weary"
],
"near synonyms":[
"debilitate",
"enervate",
"enfeeble",
"sap",
"waste",
"weaken"
],
"near antonyms":[
"activate",
"energize",
"invigorate",
"rejuvenate",
"strengthen",
"vitalize",
"relax",
"rest",
"unwind"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun",
"verb"
]
},
"fall in with":{
"to come or be together as friends":{
"examples":[
"She quickly fell in with a group of students at her new school."
],
"synonyms":[
"associate",
"chum",
"company",
"consociate",
"consort",
"fraternize",
"hang (around or out)",
"hobnob",
"hook up",
"mess around",
"pal (around)",
"run",
"sort",
"travel"
],
"near synonyms":[
"affiliate",
"ally",
"attach",
"band",
"bond",
"club",
"collaborate",
"collude",
"confederate",
"conjoin",
"connect",
"cooperate",
"couple",
"gang",
"get along",
"get on",
"group",
"interrelate",
"join",
"knot",
"league",
"link",
"mingle",
"mix",
"rally",
"relate",
"side",
"socialize",
"team",
"tie",
"wed",
"befriend",
"friend"
],
"near antonyms":[
"avoid",
"cold-shoulder",
"shun",
"snub",
"alienate",
"estrange",
"break up",
"disband",
"disperse",
"split (up)",
"disjoin",
"dissociate",
"disunite",
"divorce",
"sever",
"split",
"sunder"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to be in agreement on every point":{
"examples":[
"The proposal fell right in with our ideas for creating new leadership opportunities."
],
"synonyms":[
"accord",
"agree",
"answer",
"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 act according to the commands of":{
"examples":[
"She fell in with the strict new regimen with relative ease."
],
"synonyms":[
"adhere (to)",
"comply (with)",
"conform (to)",
"follow",
"goose-step (to)",
"mind",
"obey",
"observe"
],
"near synonyms":[
"defer (to)",
"submit (to)",
"surrender (to)",
"yield (to)",
"accede (to)",
"acquiesce (to)",
"agree (to)",
"assent (to)",
"attend",
"hear",
"heed",
"listen (to)",
"mark",
"note",
"notice",
"regard",
"take",
"watch"
],
"near antonyms":[
"disoblige",
"challenge",
"dare",
"refuse",
"renounce",
"repudiate",
"direct",
"lead",
"brush (off)",
"disregard",
"ignore",
"overlook",
"overpass",
"pass over",
"tune out",
"wink (at)",
"dismiss",
"pooh-pooh",
"pooh",
"shrug off",
"breach",
"break",
"infringe",
"transgress",
"violate",
"deride",
"flout",
"mock",
"scoff (at)",
"scorn",
"mutiny (against)",
"revolt (against)",
"buck",
"combat",
"contest",
"dispute",
"fight",
"oppose",
"resist",
"withstand"
],
"antonyms":[
"defy",
"disobey",
"rebel (against)"
]
},
"type":[
"phrase"
]
},
"falling flat":{
"to be unsuccessful":{
"examples":[
"Her performance fell flat despite weeks of rehearsing."
],
"synonyms":[
"bombing",
"collapsing",
"cratering",
"failing",
"flaming out",
"flopping",
"flunking",
"folding",
"foundering",
"missing",
"striking out",
"tanking",
"washing out"
],
"near synonyms":[
"floundering",
"struggling",
"declining",
"sinking",
"skidding",
"slipping",
"slumping",
"waning",
"crashing",
"crumbling",
"miscarrying",
"misfiring",
"going under",
"imploding",
"self-destructing"
],
"near antonyms":[
"cooking",
"flourishing",
"prospering",
"thriving",
"prevailing",
"triumphing",
"winning"
],
"antonyms":[
"clicking",
"coming off",
"delivering",
"going",
"going over",
"panning out",
"succeeding",
"working out"
]
},
"to go wrong":{
"examples":[
"Their game plan fell flat when their star player suffered an injury."
],
"synonyms":[
"miscarrying",
"misfiring"
],
"near synonyms":[
"missing",
"breaking down",
"busting",
"conking (out)",
"crashing",
"dying",
"failing",
"foundering",
"stalling",
"bombing",
"fizzling",
"flaming out",
"flopping",
"flunking",
"folding",
"washing out",
"floundering",
"struggling",
"declining",
"skidding",
"slipping",
"slumping",
"tanking",
"waning"
],
"near antonyms":[
"prevailing",
"succeeding",
"flourishing",
"prospering",
"thriving"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"phrase"
]
},
"fay":{
"given to good-natured joking or teasing":{
"examples":[
"with her slight build and perky manner, the actress was usually cast as the fay young woman who charms all the men in town"
],
"synonyms":[
"antic",
"coltish",
"elfish",
"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"
]
},
"an imaginary being usually having a small human form and magical powers":{
"examples":[
"in the tale a fay appears in the form of a beautiful and serene woman with an angelic air and a billowy gown"
],
"synonyms":[
"brownie",
"dwarf",
"elf",
"faerie",
"faery",
"fairy",
"gnome",
"goblin",
"gremlin",
"hobgoblin",
"kobold",
"leprechaun",
"pixie",
"pixy",
"puck",
"sprite",
"troll"
],
"near synonyms":[
"little people",
"kelpie",
"nixie",
"changeling",
"imp",
"banshee",
"ghoul",
"hag",
"ogre"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"adjective",
"noun"
]
},
"facades":{
"a forward part or surface":{
"examples":[
"all of the stores in the mall have facades that are in keeping with the style of a 19th-century American village"
],
"synonyms":[
"faces",
"foreheads",
"foreparts",
"fronts"
],
"near synonyms":[
"outsides",
"skins",
"surfaces",
"veneers"
],
"near antonyms":[
"innards",
"insides",
"interiors"
],
"antonyms":[
"backs",
"rears",
"rearwards",
"reverses"
]
},
"a display of emotion or behavior that is insincere or intended to deceive":{
"examples":[
"his interest in acting is just a facade \u2014he joined the drama club to meet girls"
],
"synonyms":[
"acts",
"airs",
"charades",
"disguises",
"fronts",
"guises",
"masquerades",
"poses",
"pretenses",
"pretences",
"put-ons",
"semblances",
"shows"
],
"near synonyms":[
"impersonations",
"performances",
"portrayals",
"images",
"personae",
"personas",
"appearances",
"colors",
"glosses",
"camouflages",
"cloaks",
"affectations",
"deceits",
"deceptions",
"dissimulations",
"double-dealings",
"duplicities",
"fakeries",
"frauds",
"guiles",
"betrayals",
"double crosses",
"falsities",
"infidelities",
"perfidies",
"treacheries",
"treasons",
"excuses",
"pretexts"
],
"near antonyms":[
"candors",
"sincerities",
"na\u00efvet\u00e9s",
"naivetes",
"naivet\u00e9s"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"a deceptively attractive external appearance":{
"examples":[
"the company's facade of success collapsed when it was revealed that its financial officers had been cooking the books for years"
],
"synonyms":[
"glosses",
"veneers",
"window dressings"
],
"near synonyms":[
"cotton candies",
"fluffs",
"tinsels",
"fig leafs",
"fig leaves",
"charades",
"fronts",
"guises",
"masquerades",
"poses",
"semblances",
"shows"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"fatalists":{
"as in pessimists , defeatists":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"defeatists",
"pessimists",
"handwringers",
"nervous Nellies",
"worriers",
"worrywarts"
],
"near antonyms":[
"optimists",
"Pollyannas"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"falling short (of)":{
"as in missing":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"missing",
"failing (at)",
"losing"
],
"near antonyms":[
"achieving",
"attaining",
"bagging",
"chalking up",
"clocking (up)",
"gaining",
"hitting",
"logging",
"making",
"notching (up)",
"racking up",
"ringing up",
"scoring",
"winning",
"acquiring",
"capturing",
"carrying",
"drawing",
"garnering",
"getting",
"landing",
"obtaining",
"procuring",
"realizing",
"securing",
"amounting (to)",
"approaching",
"equaling",
"equalling",
"matching",
"measuring up (to)",
"meeting",
"rivaling",
"rivalling",
"touching",
"tying",
"tieing"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"factors (in or into or out)":{
"as in allows (for) , figures in":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"allows (for)",
"deducts",
"figures in",
"calibrates",
"gauges",
"gages",
"measures",
"scales",
"figures out",
"solves (for)",
"calculates",
"ciphers",
"computes",
"figures",
"reckons",
"works out",
"quantifies",
"quantitates",
"counts",
"itemizes",
"numbers",
"adds up",
"averages",
"sums",
"tallies",
"totalizes",
"totals",
"adds",
"divides",
"multiplies",
"subtracts",
"appraises",
"assesses",
"estimates",
"evaluates",
"rates",
"values",
"recalculates",
"recomputes",
"refigures"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[]
},
"fastuous":{
"as in toplofty , arrogant":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"arrogant",
"assumptive",
"disdainful",
"haughty",
"high-and-mighty",
"highfalutin",
"hifalutin",
"high-hat",
"huffy",
"important",
"lofty",
"lordly",
"overweening",
"presuming",
"presumptuous",
"pretentious",
"proud",
"self-asserting",
"supercilious",
"superior",
"toplofty",
"toploftical",
"uppish",
"uppity",
"authoritarian",
"authoritative",
"autocratic",
"autocratical",
"bossy",
"despotic",
"dictatorial",
"domineering",
"imperious",
"masterful",
"overbearing",
"peremptory",
"tyrannical",
"tyrannic",
"tyrannous",
"commanding",
"controlling",
"dictating",
"regimental",
"arbitrary",
"high-handed",
"imperial",
"directorial",
"magisterial",
"aggressive",
"assertive",
"self-assertive",
"imperative",
"conceited",
"narcissistic",
"pompous",
"vain",
"all-powerful",
"almighty",
"omnipotent",
"firm",
"stern"
],
"near antonyms":[
"humble",
"meek",
"modest",
"unassuming",
"amenable",
"docile",
"obedient",
"tractable",
"indecisive",
"irresolute",
"acquiescent",
"compliant",
"passive",
"resigned",
"submissive",
"yielding"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"adjective"
]
},
"facing up (to)":{
"as in fronting":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"fronting",
"bearding",
"braving",
"brazening",
"breasting",
"confronting",
"daring",
"defying",
"facing",
"outbraving",
"outfacing",
"affronting",
"challenging",
"encountering",
"meeting",
"accosting",
"approaching",
"cornering",
"repelling",
"resisting",
"standing",
"withstanding",
"battling",
"combating",
"combatting",
"contending (with)",
"fighting",
"opposing",
"squaring (off)"
],
"near antonyms":[
"dodging",
"ducking",
"funking",
"shirking",
"sidestepping",
"avoiding",
"eschewing",
"shunning",
"eluding",
"escaping",
"evading",
"shaking"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"fatigued":{
"depleted in strength, energy, or freshness":{
"examples":[
"the fatigued hikers paused for some much-needed rest beside the woodland stream"
],
"synonyms":[
"all in",
"aweary",
"beat",
"beaten",
"bleary",
"burned-out",
"burnt-out",
"bushed",
"dead",
"done",
"drained",
"exhausted",
"jaded",
"knackered",
"limp",
"logy",
"loggy",
"played out",
"pooped",
"prostrate",
"spent",
"tapped out",
"tired",
"tuckered (out)",
"washed-out",
"wearied",
"weary",
"wiped out",
"worn",
"worn-out"
],
"near synonyms":[
"overfatigued",
"overtaxed",
"overworked",
"broken-down",
"run-down",
"debilitated",
"enervate",
"enervated",
"enfeebled",
"sapped",
"weakened",
"drowsy",
"heavy",
"sleepy",
"lethargic",
"sluggish"
],
"near antonyms":[
"fresh",
"refreshed",
"rejuvenated",
"relaxed",
"rested",
"revitalized",
"active",
"energetic",
"invigorated",
"peppy",
"strengthened",
"strong",
"tireless",
"vitalized",
"weariless"
],
"antonyms":[
"unwearied"
]
},
"to use up all the physical energy of":{
"examples":[
"the rescue workers pressed on, though their efforts to reach the miners had almost completely fatigued them"
],
"synonyms":[
"broke",
"burned out",
"burnt out",
"busted",
"bust",
"did in",
"did up",
"drained",
"exhausted",
"fagged",
"frazzled",
"harassed",
"killed",
"knocked out",
"outwore",
"tired",
"tuckered (out)",
"washed out",
"wearied",
"wore",
"wore out"
],
"near synonyms":[
"debilitated",
"enervated",
"enfeebled",
"sapped",
"wasted",
"weakened"
],
"near antonyms":[
"activated",
"energized",
"invigorated",
"rejuvenated",
"strengthened",
"vitalized",
"relaxed",
"rested",
"unwound"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"adjective",
"verb"
]
},
"faced off":{
"to engage in a contest":{
"examples":[
"eager to face off with her longtime tennis rival"
],
"synonyms":[
"battled",
"competed",
"contended",
"fought",
"raced",
"rivaled",
"rivalled",
"vied"
],
"near synonyms":[
"challenged",
"engaged",
"played",
"jockeyed",
"jostled",
"maneuvered",
"tried out",
"went out",
"trained",
"worked",
"wrought"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"falling (to)":{
"to take the first step in (a process or course of action)":{
"examples":[
"after some refreshments, she fell to working with renewed vigor"
],
"synonyms":[
"beginning",
"commencing",
"embarking (on or upon)",
"entering (into or upon)",
"getting off",
"kicking off",
"launching",
"leading off",
"opening",
"starting",
"striking (into)"
],
"near synonyms":[
"creating",
"generating",
"inaugurating",
"initiating",
"innovating",
"inventing",
"originating",
"adopting",
"embracing",
"taking on",
"taking up",
"establishing",
"fathering",
"founding",
"instituting",
"organizing",
"pioneering",
"setting up",
"spawning",
"getting around (to)",
"getting down (to)",
"getting round (to)"
],
"near antonyms":[
"ceasing",
"desisting",
"discontinuing",
"halting",
"knocking off",
"laying off",
"quitting",
"stopping",
"closing",
"completing",
"abandoning",
"forsaking",
"leaving",
"abolishing",
"demolishing",
"destroying",
"exterminating",
"extinguishing",
"phasing out"
],
"antonyms":[
"concluding",
"ending",
"finishing",
"terminating"
]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"falteringly":{
"as in tentatively , hesitantly":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"haltingly",
"hesitantly",
"hesitatingly",
"tentatively",
"calculatingly",
"circumspectly",
"designedly",
"leisurely",
"slowly",
"deliberately",
"studiedly"
],
"near antonyms":[
"cursorily",
"hastily",
"headlong",
"hotfoot",
"hurriedly",
"pell-mell",
"precipitately",
"precipitously",
"rashly",
"headfirst",
"headily",
"hotheadedly",
"impatiently",
"impetuously",
"impulsively",
"recklessly",
"thoughtlessly",
"automatically",
"glancingly",
"haphazardly"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"adverb"
]
},
"fandom":{
"as in audience , cult":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"audience",
"cult",
"followership",
"following",
"discipleship"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"fancy-free":{
"as in footloose":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"footloose",
"single",
"unattached",
"unmarried",
"unwed",
"marriageable",
"unpaired",
"divorced",
"separated"
],
"near antonyms":[
"attached",
"espoused",
"hitched",
"married",
"wedded",
"wed",
"mated",
"paired",
"affianced",
"betrothed",
"committed",
"engaged",
"pledged",
"promised",
"remarried"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"adjective"
]
},
"family trees":{
"the line of ancestors from whom a person is descended":{
"examples":[
"his family tree includes writers, musical composers, and other notables in the arts"
],
"synonyms":[
"ancestries",
"births",
"blood",
"bloodlines",
"breedings",
"descents",
"extractions",
"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"
]
},
"faraway":{
"not close in time or space":{
"examples":[
"growing up in a seaport instilled in the youth a restless desire to travel to faraway places"
],
"synonyms":[
"away",
"deep",
"distant",
"far",
"far-flung",
"far-off",
"remote",
"removed"
],
"near synonyms":[
"apart",
"devious",
"isolated",
"lonesome",
"nowhere",
"obscure",
"odd",
"outlying",
"out-of-the-way",
"retired",
"secluded",
"secret",
"sequestered"
],
"near antonyms":[
"adjacent",
"adjoining",
"contiguous"
],
"antonyms":[
"close",
"near",
"nearby",
"nigh"
]
},
"type":[
"adjective"
]
},
"faded":{
"lacking intensity of color":{
"examples":[
"rather than buy faded jeans, I get the dark blues and let time and the washing machine do their thing"
],
"synonyms":[
"dull",
"dulled",
"light",
"pale",
"pastel",
"washed-out",
"washy"
],
"near synonyms":[
"flat",
"lackluster",
"lusterless",
"matte",
"mat",
"matt",
"dim",
"faint",
"dirty",
"muddy",
"achromatic",
"colorless",
"uncolored",
"undyed",
"unpainted",
"unstained",
"blanched",
"bleached",
"washed",
"white",
"whitened",
"gray",
"grey",
"indistinct",
"neutral"
],
"near antonyms":[
"bright",
"brilliant",
"vibrant",
"vivid",
"chromatic",
"colored",
"dyed",
"painted",
"stained",
"tinged",
"tinted",
"colorful",
"motley",
"multicolored",
"polychromatic",
"polychrome",
"prismatic",
"rainbow",
"varicolored",
"variegated",
"flashy",
"garish",
"gaudy",
"loud",
"showy",
"splashy"
],
"antonyms":[
"dark",
"deep",
"gay",
"rich"
]
},
"to cease to be visible":{
"examples":[
"the departing ship gradually faded over the horizon"
],
"synonyms":[
"dematerialized",
"disappeared",
"dissolved",
"evanesced",
"evaporated",
"fled",
"flew",
"melted",
"sank",
"sunk",
"vanished"
],
"near synonyms":[
"blanked (out)",
"cleared",
"died (away or down or out)",
"dispersed",
"dissipated",
"dried up",
"blurred",
"dimmed"
],
"near antonyms":[
"arrived",
"broke out",
"came out",
"emerged",
"issued",
"loomed",
"showed up"
],
"antonyms":[
"appeared",
"materialized"
]
},
"to make white or whiter by removing color":{
"examples":[
"years of harsh sunlight had faded the car, which was once fire-engine red"
],
"synonyms":[
"blanched",
"bleached",
"blenched",
"decolorized",
"dulled",
"paled",
"snowed",
"washed out",
"whitened"
],
"near synonyms":[
"brightened",
"lightened",
"dimmed",
"matted",
"etiolated",
"whitewashed",
"frosted",
"silvered"
],
"near antonyms":[
"blackened",
"blotched",
"checkered",
"dappled",
"daubed",
"discolored",
"flecked",
"marbled",
"mottled",
"patterned",
"polychromed",
"shaded",
"specked",
"speckled",
"splotched",
"spotted",
"streaked",
"striated",
"striped",
"tarnished",
"variegated",
"colored",
"dyed",
"painted",
"pigmented",
"stained",
"tinctured",
"tinged",
"tinted",
"burnished",
"polished",
"shone",
"shined"
],
"antonyms":[
"darkened",
"deepened",
"embrowned"
]
},
"to lose bodily strength or vigor":{
"examples":[
"began to fade after battling the disease for years"
],
"synonyms":[
"decayed",
"drooped",
"emaciated",
"failed",
"flagged",
"lagged",
"languished",
"sagged",
"sank",
"sunk",
"wasted (away)",
"weakened",
"went",
"wilted",
"withered"
],
"near synonyms":[
"broke down",
"wore out",
"yielded",
"degenerated",
"deteriorated",
"ran down",
"rotted"
],
"near antonyms":[
"convalesced",
"rallied",
"rebounded",
"recovered",
"recuperated",
"gained"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"adjective",
"verb"
]
},
"faucets":{
"a fixture for controlling the flow of a liquid":{
"examples":[
"don't forget to turn off the faucet"
],
"synonyms":[
"cocks",
"gates",
"spigots",
"stopcocks",
"taps",
"valves"
],
"near synonyms":[
"hydrants",
"spouts",
"petcocks"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"face":{
"to stand or sit with the face or front toward":{
"examples":[
"the house faces the sparkling blue waters of the Pacific Ocean"
],
"synonyms":[
"front",
"look (toward)",
"point (toward)"
],
"near synonyms":[
"abut",
"adjoin",
"border",
"bound",
"fringe",
"margin",
"meet",
"neighbor",
"rim",
"skirt",
"touch",
"command",
"dominate",
"overlook",
"look down (on)"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to oppose (something hostile or dangerous) with firmness or courage":{
"examples":[
"movie superheroes who are ever ready to face danger without blinking an eye"
],
"synonyms":[
"beard",
"brave",
"brazen",
"breast",
"confront",
"dare",
"defy",
"outbrave",
"outface"
],
"near synonyms":[
"face up (to)",
"front",
"affront",
"challenge",
"encounter",
"meet",
"accost",
"approach",
"corner",
"repel",
"resist",
"stand",
"withstand",
"battle",
"combat",
"contend (with)",
"fight",
"oppose",
"square (off)"
],
"near antonyms":[
"avoid",
"eschew",
"shun",
"elude",
"escape",
"evade",
"shake"
],
"antonyms":[
"dodge",
"duck",
"funk",
"shirk",
"sidestep"
]
},
"to cover with something that protects":{
"examples":[
"we decided to face our old frame house with aluminum siding"
],
"synonyms":[
"clad",
"sheathe",
"sheath"
],
"near synonyms":[
"apparel",
"array",
"clothe",
"dress",
"garb",
"robe",
"side",
"skin",
"embosom",
"embower",
"embrace",
"encase",
"enclose",
"inclose",
"encompass",
"enshroud",
"envelop",
"enwrap",
"invest",
"lap",
"mantle",
"shroud",
"surround",
"swathe",
"veil",
"wrap",
"blanket",
"overlay",
"overspread"
],
"near antonyms":[
"bare",
"denude",
"expose",
"strip",
"unswathe"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to enter into contest or conflict with":{
"examples":[
"the Boston Red Sox were eager to face their traditional rivals, the Yankees, in the play-offs"
],
"synonyms":[
"battle",
"encounter",
"engage",
"meet",
"take on"
],
"near synonyms":[
"emulate",
"rival",
"contend",
"fight",
"oppose"
],
"near antonyms":[
"elude",
"escape",
"evade",
"retreat"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"the front part of the head":{
"examples":[
"the criminal hid his face from the news cameras as he slumped into the patrol car"
],
"synonyms":[
"countenance",
"kisser",
"mug",
"pan",
"puss",
"visage"
],
"near synonyms":[
"appearance",
"aspect",
"features",
"lineaments",
"looks",
"mien",
"presence",
"expression",
"physiognomy"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"a forward part or surface":{
"examples":[
"the face of the store building has been altered many times over the years to meet changing tastes and needs"
],
"synonyms":[
"facade",
"fa\u00e7ade",
"forehead",
"forepart",
"front"
],
"near synonyms":[
"outside",
"skin",
"surface",
"veneer"
],
"near antonyms":[
"innards",
"inside",
"interior"
],
"antonyms":[
"back",
"rear",
"rearward",
"reverse"
]
},
"a twisting of the facial features in disgust or disapproval":{
"examples":[
"it's rude to make a face when your dinner hostess offers you broccoli"
],
"synonyms":[
"frown",
"grimace",
"lower",
"lour",
"moue",
"mouth",
"mow",
"mug",
"pout",
"scowl",
"snoot"
],
"near synonyms":[
"flinch",
"squinch",
"wince",
"growl",
"snarl",
"rictus",
"simper",
"smirk",
"scoff",
"sneer",
"glare",
"glower",
"look",
"stare"
],
"near antonyms":[
"grin",
"laugh",
"smile"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"an outer part or layer":{
"examples":[
"a much-needed sandblasting revealed that the face of the old stone church is actually a pinkish granite"
],
"synonyms":[
"exterior",
"outside",
"shell",
"skin",
"surface",
"veneer"
],
"near synonyms":[
"facade",
"fa\u00e7ade",
"front",
"top",
"cover",
"covering",
"facing",
"appearance",
"disguise",
"guise",
"mask",
"semblance",
"show"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[
"inside",
"interior"
]
},
"facial appearance regarded as an indication of mood or feeling":{
"examples":[
"a rainy day is no excuse for just moping around with a long face , so let's do something"
],
"synonyms":[
"cast",
"countenance",
"expression",
"look",
"visage"
],
"near synonyms":[
"frown",
"grimace",
"lower",
"lour",
"mouth",
"pout",
"scowl",
"grin",
"smile",
"air",
"appearance",
"aspect",
"bearing",
"demeanor",
"manner",
"mien",
"presence"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"outward and often deceptive indication":{
"examples":[
"on the face of it, the country went to war for noble reasons"
],
"synonyms":[
"appearance",
"guise",
"name",
"outward",
"seeming",
"semblance",
"show"
],
"near synonyms":[
"air",
"effect",
"impression",
"hint",
"implication",
"insinuation",
"resemblance",
"suggestion",
"affectation",
"demonstration",
"display",
"fiction",
"image",
"imitation",
"imposture",
"likeness",
"make-believe",
"make-belief",
"pose",
"pretense",
"pretence",
"representation",
"simulation",
"cloak",
"disguise",
"exterior",
"facade",
"fa\u00e7ade",
"front",
"gloss",
"mask",
"masquerade",
"patina",
"Potemkin village",
"shape",
"shell",
"surface",
"veneer"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"a member of the human race":{
"examples":[
"I see they've hired some new faces"
],
"synonyms":[
"baby",
"being",
"bird",
"bod",
"body",
"character",
"cookie",
"cooky",
"creature",
"customer",
"devil",
"duck",
"egg",
"fish",
"guy",
"head",
"human",
"human being",
"individual",
"life",
"man",
"mortal",
"party",
"person",
"personage",
"scout",
"slob",
"sort",
"soul",
"specimen",
"stiff",
"thing",
"wight"
],
"near synonyms":[
"hominid",
"homo",
"humanoid",
"brother",
"fellow",
"fellowman",
"neighbor",
"celebrity",
"personality",
"self",
"somebody"
],
"near antonyms":[
"animal",
"beast",
"beastie",
"brute",
"critter"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"shameless boldness":{
"examples":[
"you have to wonder how anyone has the face to ask such a personal question"
],
"synonyms":[
"audaciousness",
"audacity",
"brashness",
"brass",
"brassiness",
"brazenness",
"cheek",
"cheekiness",
"chutzpah",
"chutzpa",
"hutzpah",
"hutzpa",
"crust",
"effrontery",
"gall",
"nerve",
"nerviness",
"pertness",
"presumption",
"presumptuousness",
"sauce",
"sauciness",
"temerity"
],
"near synonyms":[
"arrogance",
"assurance",
"cockiness",
"confidence",
"hardihood",
"overconfidence",
"sanguinity",
"self-assurance",
"self-confidence",
"discourteousness",
"disrespect",
"impertinence",
"impoliteness",
"impudence",
"incivility",
"inconsiderateness",
"inconsideration",
"insolence",
"rudeness",
"ungraciousness",
"back talk",
"sass",
"swagger",
"swash"
],
"near antonyms":[
"bashfulness",
"diffidence",
"faintheartedness",
"hesitancy",
"modesty",
"shyness",
"timidity",
"timidness",
"timorousness",
"civility",
"courteousness",
"courtesy",
"gentility",
"graciousness",
"mannerliness",
"manners"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"a state of mind in which one is free from doubt":{
"examples":[
"he managed to maintain face despite the endless series of crises"
],
"synonyms":[
"assurance",
"assuredness",
"certainty",
"certitude",
"cocksureness",
"confidence",
"conviction",
"doubtlessness",
"positiveness",
"satisfaction",
"sureness",
"surety"
],
"near synonyms":[
"authoritarianism",
"dogmatism",
"decisiveness",
"determination",
"firmness",
"purposefulness",
"resoluteness",
"resolution",
"resolve"
],
"near antonyms":[
"hesitancy",
"hesitation",
"indecisiveness",
"irresolution",
"disbelief",
"incredulity",
"unbelief",
"anxiety",
"concern",
"misgiving",
"distrust",
"mistrust",
"suspicion"
],
"antonyms":[
"doubt",
"incertitude",
"nonconfidence",
"uncertainty"
]
},
"type":[
"noun",
"verb"
]
},
"fanning (out)":{
"to arrange the parts of (something) over a wider area":{
"examples":[
"the accordionist smoothly fanned out the bellows of his instrument as he played"
],
"synonyms":[
"expanding",
"extending",
"flaring (out)",
"opening",
"outspreading",
"outstretching",
"spreading (out)",
"stretching (out)",
"unfolding",
"unfurling"
],
"near synonyms":[
"overspreading"
],
"near antonyms":[
"compacting",
"compressing",
"condensing",
"reducing"
],
"antonyms":[
"closing",
"contracting",
"folding"
]
},
"to extend outwards from or as if from a central point":{
"examples":[
"most of the city's subway lines fan out from this central station"
],
"synonyms":[
"branching",
"radiating",
"raying"
],
"near synonyms":[
"diffusing",
"dispelling",
"dispersing",
"dissipating",
"forking",
"stemming",
"diverging",
"dividing",
"parting",
"ramifying",
"separating",
"splitting",
"uncoupling",
"unlinking",
"unyoking",
"scattering",
"splaying",
"spreading",
"arising",
"deriving",
"emanating",
"flowing",
"issuing",
"proceeding",
"springing"
],
"near antonyms":[
"approaching",
"closing in (on)",
"nearing",
"centering (on)",
"centralizing",
"connecting",
"coupling",
"joining",
"linking",
"uniting"
],
"antonyms":[
"concentrating",
"converging",
"focusing",
"focussing",
"funneling",
"funnelling",
"meeting"
]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"fakes out":{
"to cause to believe what is untrue":{
"examples":[
"my friends faked me out for a whole day, letting me think that they had forgotten my birthday"
],
"synonyms":[
"bamboozles",
"beguiles",
"bluffs",
"buffaloes",
"burns",
"catches",
"cons",
"cozens",
"deceives",
"deludes",
"dupes",
"fools",
"gaffs",
"gammons",
"gulls",
"has",
"has on",
"hoaxes",
"hoodwinks",
"hornswoggles",
"humbugs",
"juggles",
"misguides",
"misinforms",
"misleads",
"snookers",
"snows",
"spoofs",
"strings along",
"suckers",
"sucks in",
"takes in",
"tricks"
],
"near synonyms":[
"kids",
"puts on",
"teases",
"bleeds",
"cheats",
"chisels",
"defrauds",
"diddles",
"euchres",
"fleeces",
"flimflams",
"hustles",
"mulcts",
"rooks",
"shortchanges",
"skins",
"squeezes",
"sticks",
"stings",
"swindles"
],
"near antonyms":[
"debunks",
"exposes",
"reveals",
"shows up",
"uncloaks",
"uncovers",
"unmasks",
"discloses",
"divulges",
"tells",
"unveils",
"disabuses",
"disenchants",
"disillusions"
],
"antonyms":[
"undeceives"
]
},
"to elude (an opponent in a sports contest) by making a deceptive or agile movement":{
"examples":[
"used a quick between-the-legs dribble to fake out the flat-footed defender"
],
"synonyms":[
"dekes",
"fakes",
"jukes"
],
"near synonyms":[
"dodges",
"evades",
"sidesteps",
"slips",
"pump-fakes",
"stutter-steps",
"maneuvers (around)"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"factories":{
"a building or set of buildings for the manufacturing of goods":{
"examples":[
"the new factory will create hundreds of much-needed jobs"
],
"synonyms":[
"manufactories",
"mills",
"plants",
"shops",
"works",
"workshops"
],
"near synonyms":[
"sweatshops",
"ateliers",
"studios",
"workplaces",
"workrooms",
"yards"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"falconers":{
"as in birders , hawkers":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"birders",
"fowlers",
"hawkers",
"archers",
"gunners",
"hunter-gatherers",
"trappers",
"huntresses",
"sportsmen",
"sportswomen",
"poachers",
"hunters",
"huntsmen",
"nimrods"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"fall on one's face":{
"to be unsuccessful":{
"examples":[
"Remembering how she fell on her face giving the speech the first time spurred her to practice it till she had it down."
],
"synonyms":[
"bomb",
"collapse",
"crater",
"fail",
"flame out",
"flop",
"flunk",
"fold",
"founder",
"miss",
"strike out",
"tank",
"wash out"
],
"near synonyms":[
"flounder",
"struggle",
"decline",
"sink",
"skid",
"slip",
"slump",
"wane",
"crash",
"crumble",
"miscarry",
"misfire",
"go under",
"implode",
"self-destruct"
],
"near antonyms":[
"cook",
"flourish",
"prosper",
"thrive",
"prevail",
"triumph",
"win"
],
"antonyms":[
"click",
"come off",
"deliver",
"go",
"go over",
"pan out",
"succeed",
"work out"
]
},
"type":[
"phrase"
]
},
"farmers":{
"a person who cultivates the land and grows crops on it":{
"examples":[
"a young farmer whose family has been growing wheat for many generations"
],
"synonyms":[
"agriculturists",
"agriculturalists",
"agronomists",
"cultivators",
"growers",
"planters",
"tillers"
],
"near synonyms":[
"farmhands",
"field hands",
"gleaners",
"harvesters",
"plowmen",
"reapers",
"workfolks",
"crofters",
"croppers",
"gentlemen farmers",
"sharecroppers",
"subsistence farmers",
"tenant farmers",
"yeomen",
"homesteaders",
"nesters",
"grangers",
"rancheros",
"ranchers",
"ranchmen",
"campesinos"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"fashion":{
"a practice or interest that is very popular for a short time":{
"examples":[
"during the 1990s tattoos once again became a hot fashion especially for young men"
],
"synonyms":[
"buzz",
"chic",
"craze",
"dernier cri",
"enthusiasm",
"fad",
"flavor",
"go",
"hot ticket",
"last word",
"latest",
"mode",
"rage",
"sensation",
"style",
"ton",
"trend",
"vogue"
],
"near synonyms":[
"nine days' wonder",
"nine day wonder",
"new wave",
"crush",
"infatuation",
"fervor",
"passion",
"furor",
"fuss",
"hullabaloo",
"to-do",
"uproar",
"bandwagon",
"crusade",
"cult",
"movement",
"novelty",
"wrinkle",
"caprice",
"fancy",
"whim"
],
"near antonyms":[
"classic",
"standard"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"a distinctive way of putting ideas into words":{
"examples":[
"when angry, he tends to express himself in a fashion that shows that he has a mastery of all of the expletives in which the English language abounds"
],
"synonyms":[
"locution",
"manner",
"mode",
"phraseology",
"style",
"tone",
"vein"
],
"near synonyms":[
"address",
"delivery",
"elocution",
"archaism",
"colloquialism",
"regionalism",
"acceptation",
"connotation",
"denotation",
"expression",
"idiom"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"a usual manner of behaving or doing":{
"examples":[
"it has long been my fashion to rise early"
],
"synonyms":[
"custom",
"habit",
"habitude",
"pattern",
"practice",
"practise",
"ritual",
"second nature",
"trick",
"way",
"wont"
],
"near synonyms":[
"addiction",
"disposition",
"bent",
"inclination",
"proclivity",
"set",
"tendency",
"tenor",
"turn",
"bag",
"convention",
"form",
"mode",
"style",
"usage",
"use",
"deportment",
"manners",
"mores",
"drill",
"groove",
"jog trot",
"regime",
"r\u00e9gime",
"regimen",
"rote",
"routine",
"rut",
"affectation",
"airs",
"pose",
"attribute",
"characteristic",
"mark",
"trait",
"eccentricity",
"kink",
"oddity",
"peculiarity",
"quirk",
"singularity",
"tic"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"the means or procedure for doing something":{
"examples":[
"you can mix the ingredients in any fashion you choose\u2014by hand or by machine"
],
"synonyms":[
"approach",
"form",
"how",
"manner",
"method",
"methodology",
"recipe",
"strategy",
"style",
"system",
"tack",
"tactics",
"technique",
"way"
],
"near synonyms":[
"mode",
"modus operandi",
"blueprint",
"design",
"game",
"game plan",
"ground plan",
"intrigue",
"layout",
"line",
"model",
"plan",
"plot",
"program",
"route",
"scheme",
"expedient",
"move",
"shift",
"step",
"practice",
"practise",
"process",
"routine",
"policy"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"high position within society":{
"examples":[
"a literary salon attended by people of fashion from all over the city"
],
"synonyms":[
"class",
"dignity",
"quality",
"rank",
"standing",
"state"
],
"near synonyms":[
"gentility",
"gentleness",
"nobility",
"nobleness",
"grandness",
"highness",
"loftiness",
"distinction",
"dominance",
"precedence",
"preeminence",
"primacy",
"superiority",
"caste",
"station",
"status",
"preferment"
],
"near antonyms":[
"debasement",
"degradation",
"subordinateness",
"subordination",
"baseness",
"commonness",
"inferiority",
"lowliness",
"lowness"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"the outward appearance of something as distinguished from its substance":{
"examples":[
"over the millennia, nature had worked the face of the rocky cliff into the fashion of a man's head"
],
"synonyms":[
"cast",
"configuration",
"conformation",
"figure",
"form",
"geometry",
"shape"
],
"near synonyms":[
"contour",
"outline",
"profile",
"silhouette",
"frame",
"framework",
"shell",
"skeleton",
"arrangement",
"design",
"format",
"layout",
"makeup",
"organization",
"pattern",
"plan",
"setup"
],
"near antonyms":[
"composition",
"material",
"matter",
"raw material",
"stuff",
"substance"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to change (something) so as to make it suitable for a new use or situation":{
"examples":[
"the ex-governor seems to be fashioning his political beliefs to win favor with a more conservative national electorate"
],
"synonyms":[
"acclimate",
"acclimatize",
"accommodate",
"adapt",
"adjust",
"condition",
"conform",
"doctor",
"edit",
"fit",
"put",
"shape",
"suit",
"tailor"
],
"near synonyms":[
"readapt",
"readjust",
"customize",
"gear",
"match",
"model",
"pattern",
"attune",
"correct",
"harmonize",
"square",
"tune",
"establish",
"root",
"settle",
"acquaint",
"familiarize",
"orient",
"orientate",
"equip",
"prepare",
"prime",
"rehearse",
"harden",
"inure",
"season",
"toughen",
"alter",
"convert",
"make over",
"modify",
"recast",
"reclaim",
"recycle",
"redesign",
"redevelop",
"redo",
"reengineer",
"refashion",
"refigure",
"refit",
"refocus",
"reinvent",
"rejigger",
"remake",
"remodel",
"revamp",
"revise",
"rework",
"transform",
"accustom",
"habilitate",
"habituate",
"naturalize",
"ready",
"train",
"bend",
"fiddle (with)",
"fine-tune",
"phase",
"register",
"regulate",
"rig"
],
"near antonyms":[
"misadjust"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to bring into being by combining, shaping, or transforming materials":{
"examples":[
"for the Christmas pageant the boy's mother was able to fashion the length of fabric into something that could pass as a shepherd's outfit"
],
"synonyms":[
"fabricate",
"form",
"frame",
"make",
"manufacture",
"produce"
],
"near synonyms":[
"assemble",
"build",
"construct",
"erect",
"make up",
"put up",
"raise",
"rear",
"set up",
"structure",
"throw up",
"craft",
"handcraft",
"hew",
"forge",
"mold",
"shape",
"cobble (together or up)",
"knock out",
"patch (together)",
"throw up",
"prefabricate",
"create",
"invent",
"mint",
"originate",
"establish",
"father",
"institute",
"organize",
"concoct",
"contrive",
"cook (up)",
"design",
"devise",
"imagine",
"think (up)",
"conceive",
"envisage",
"picture",
"visualize",
"refashion",
"remake",
"remanufacture"
],
"near antonyms":[
"disassemble",
"dismantle",
"take apart",
"break up",
"dismember",
"abolish",
"annihilate",
"demolish",
"destroy",
"devastate",
"eradicate",
"exterminate",
"extinguish",
"flatten",
"pulverize",
"raze",
"ruin",
"shatter",
"smash",
"wreck",
"blow up",
"explode"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun",
"verb"
]
},
"fair-trades":{
"as in sells , retails":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"distributes",
"markets",
"peddles",
"retails",
"sells",
"supplies",
"vends",
"wholesales",
"buys",
"picks up",
"purchases",
"takes",
"black-markets",
"bootlegs",
"fences",
"smuggles",
"auctions",
"exchanges",
"merchandises",
"merchandizes",
"rebuys",
"resells",
"swaps",
"corners",
"engrosses",
"monopolizes",
"undersells",
"bargains",
"barters",
"horse-trades",
"negotiates",
"transacts",
"day-trades",
"invests",
"speculates",
"deals",
"trades",
"traffics"
],
"near antonyms":[
"blackballs",
"blacks",
"boycotts"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"fancy woman":{
"a boldly flirtatious or sexually promiscuous woman":{
"examples":[
"in those days a woman who acted on stage was often thought of as a fancy woman"
],
"synonyms":[
"chippie",
"chippy",
"doxy",
"doxie",
"floozy",
"floozie",
"hoochie",
"hussy",
"Jezebel",
"minx",
"quean",
"tramp",
"trollop",
"wench"
],
"near synonyms":[
"siren",
"temptress",
"vamp",
"grisette",
"prostitute",
"trull"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"facet":{
"a certain way in which something appears or may be regarded":{
"examples":[
"there are so many facets to Benjamin Franklin: statesman, scientist, inventor, American original"
],
"synonyms":[
"angle",
"aspect",
"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":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"fairs":{
"a public showing of objects of interest":{
"examples":[
"a dazzling array of sleek cabin cruisers at the annual boat fair"
],
"synonyms":[
"displays",
"exhibitions",
"exhibits",
"expos",
"expositions",
"shows"
],
"near synonyms":[
"demonstrations",
"performances",
"presentations",
"productions",
"extravaganzas",
"pageants",
"spectacles",
"auctions",
"offerings",
"presentments",
"sales"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"faces up (to)":{
"as in fronts":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"fronts",
"beards",
"braves",
"brazens",
"breasts",
"confronts",
"dares",
"defies",
"faces",
"outbraves",
"outfaces",
"affronts",
"challenges",
"encounters",
"meets",
"accosts",
"approaches",
"corners",
"repels",
"resists",
"stands",
"withstands",
"battles",
"combats",
"contends (with)",
"fights",
"opposes",
"squares (off)"
],
"near antonyms":[
"dodges",
"ducks",
"funks",
"shirks",
"sidesteps",
"avoids",
"eschews",
"shuns",
"eludes",
"escapes",
"evades",
"shakes"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"fantasizer":{
"as in daydreamer , woolgatherer":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"daydreamer",
"woolgatherer",
"emotionalist",
"sentimentalist",
"Micawber",
"optimist",
"Pollyanna",
"Don Quixote",
"dreamer",
"fantast",
"idealist",
"idealizer",
"ideologue",
"idealogue",
"romantic",
"romanticist",
"utopian",
"visionary",
"do-gooder",
"reformer",
"perfectionist",
"doctrinaire",
"theorist",
"thinker"
],
"near antonyms":[
"hardnose",
"pragmatist",
"realist",
"cynic",
"defeatist",
"pessimist",
"empiric",
"empiricist"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"favor":{
"an act of kind assistance":{
"examples":[
"a good and generous friend who is always doing favors for others"
],
"synonyms":[
"benevolence",
"boon",
"courtesy",
"grace",
"indulgence",
"kindness",
"mercy",
"service",
"turn"
],
"near synonyms":[
"dispensation",
"waiver",
"advantage",
"benefit",
"blessing",
"godsend",
"manna",
"liberty",
"license",
"licence",
"privilege"
],
"near antonyms":[
"hindrance",
"hurdle",
"impediment",
"interference",
"obstacle"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"a feeling of great approval and liking":{
"examples":[
"entertainers often learn that the favor of the public can be fickle indeed"
],
"synonyms":[
"account",
"admiration",
"appreciation",
"esteem",
"estimation",
"regard",
"respect"
],
"near synonyms":[
"appetite",
"fancy",
"fondness",
"like",
"love",
"partiality",
"preference",
"relish",
"shine",
"taste",
"use",
"acclamation",
"adoration",
"adulation",
"approbation",
"deference",
"hero worship",
"homage",
"honor",
"idolatry",
"infatuation",
"lionization",
"praise",
"props",
"reverence",
"veneration",
"worship",
"delight",
"enjoyment",
"amazement",
"awe",
"wonder",
"wonderment",
"enthusiasm",
"interest",
"passion",
"bias",
"prejudice",
"affection",
"attachment",
"devotion",
"passion"
],
"near antonyms":[
"condemnation",
"disapproval",
"disdain",
"opprobrium",
"scorn",
"disappointment",
"discontent",
"disenchantment",
"disgruntlement",
"disillusionment",
"displeasure",
"indignation",
"unhappiness",
"aversion",
"contempt",
"disfavor",
"disgust",
"disinclination",
"dislike",
"disliking",
"disregard",
"distaste",
"hate",
"hatred",
"loathing",
"nausea",
"repugnance",
"repulsion",
"revulsion",
"abomination",
"antipathy",
"detestation",
"deprecation",
"displeasure",
"dissatisfaction"
],
"antonyms":[
"disfavor"
]
},
"an acceptance of something as satisfactory":{
"examples":[
"over the years that kind of movie fell out of favor with the mass audience"
],
"synonyms":[
"approbation",
"approval",
"blessing",
"imprimatur",
"OK",
"okay"
],
"near synonyms":[
"backing",
"cachet",
"endorsement",
"indorsement",
"finalization",
"formalization",
"homologation",
"nod",
"ratification",
"rubber stamp",
"sanction",
"support",
"thumbs-up",
"vote",
"benediction",
"goodwill",
"acceptation",
"accession",
"agreement",
"assent",
"concurrence",
"consent",
"countenance",
"liking",
"satisfaction"
],
"near antonyms":[
"refusal",
"rejection",
"repudiation",
"dislike",
"dissatisfaction",
"censure",
"condemnation",
"criticism",
"denunciation",
"deprecation",
"depreciation",
"disparagement",
"opprobrium",
"reprehension",
"reproach",
"reprobation"
],
"antonyms":[
"disapprobation",
"disapproval",
"disfavor"
]
},
"an attitude that always favors one way of feeling or acting especially without considering any other possibilities":{
"examples":[
"although his own son is on the hockey team that he coaches, Mr. Watkins conscientiously avoids any show of favor"
],
"synonyms":[
"bias",
"nonobjectivity",
"one-sidedness",
"parti pris",
"partiality",
"partisanship",
"ply",
"prejudice",
"tendentiousness"
],
"near synonyms":[
"chauvinism",
"cronyism",
"favoritism",
"nepotism",
"self-opinionatedness",
"self-partiality",
"bent",
"inclination",
"leaning",
"penchant",
"predilection",
"predisposition",
"proclivity",
"propensity",
"tendency",
"preconception",
"prejudgment",
"prepossession"
],
"near antonyms":[
"calm",
"detachment",
"dispassion",
"indifference",
"aversion",
"dislike",
"distaste",
"hate",
"scunner"
],
"antonyms":[
"impartiality",
"neutrality",
"objectivity",
"open-mindedness",
"unbiasedness"
]
},
"positive regard for something":{
"examples":[
"was willing to do just about anything to keep the boss's favor"
],
"synonyms":[
"appetite",
"fancy",
"fondness",
"like",
"liking",
"love",
"love affair",
"partiality",
"preference",
"relish",
"shine",
"taste",
"use"
],
"near synonyms":[
"craving",
"desire",
"hankering",
"longing",
"thirst",
"yen",
"enthusiasm",
"gusto",
"interest",
"passion",
"bias",
"prejudice",
"bent",
"inclination",
"leaning",
"propensity",
"tendency",
"tooth",
"palate",
"weakness"
],
"near antonyms":[
"apathy",
"disinclination",
"indifference",
"unconcern"
],
"antonyms":[
"aversion",
"disfavor",
"disgust",
"dislike",
"distaste",
"hatred",
"loathing",
"mislike"
]
},
"the state of enjoying widespread approval":{
"examples":[
"after that rock band fell out of favor \u2014almost overnight\u2014the stores couldn't give their CDs away"
],
"synonyms":[
"fashionability",
"fashionableness",
"hotness",
"modishness",
"popularity",
"vogue",
"voguishness"
],
"near synonyms":[
"craze",
"fad",
"mode",
"rage",
"style",
"trend",
"bandwagon",
"boom",
"fame",
"notoriety",
"prominence",
"renown",
"enthusiasm",
"fervor",
"passion"
],
"near antonyms":[
"oblivion",
"obscurity"
],
"antonyms":[
"disfavor",
"unpopularity"
]
},
"to do a service or favor for":{
"examples":[
"although she was at the party as a guest, the singer favored us with a song"
],
"synonyms":[
"accommodate",
"oblige"
],
"near synonyms":[
"humor",
"indulge",
"coddle",
"mollycoddle",
"pamper",
"appease",
"conciliate",
"mollify",
"pacify",
"placate",
"delight",
"gladden",
"gratify",
"please",
"satisfy",
"abet",
"aid",
"assist",
"help",
"support",
"attend",
"care (for)",
"comfort",
"minister (to)",
"relieve",
"succor"
],
"near antonyms":[
"bother",
"discommode",
"disturb",
"incommode",
"inconvenience",
"trouble",
"burden",
"encumber",
"saddle",
"weigh",
"desert",
"disappoint",
"fail",
"let down",
"constrain",
"hamper",
"hamstring",
"hinder",
"hobble",
"hold back",
"impede",
"obstruct",
"restrain",
"frustrate",
"oppose",
"sabotage",
"thwart"
],
"antonyms":[
"disoblige"
]
},
"to have a favorable opinion of":{
"examples":[
"if this measure will reduce our property taxes, then I favor it"
],
"synonyms":[
"accept",
"approve (of)",
"care (for)",
"countenance",
"OK",
"okay",
"subscribe (to)"
],
"near synonyms":[
"acclaim",
"applaud",
"laud",
"praise",
"salute",
"back (up)",
"concur (in)",
"stand by",
"support",
"sustain",
"uphold",
"bear",
"endure",
"tolerate",
"assent (to)",
"consent (to)",
"commend",
"recommend",
"enjoy",
"like"
],
"near antonyms":[
"blacklist",
"censure",
"condemn",
"criticize",
"damn",
"denounce",
"deprecate",
"depreciate",
"disparage",
"reprehend",
"reprobate",
"dislike",
"mind",
"detest",
"hate",
"loathe",
"dissent (from)",
"object (to)",
"oppose"
],
"antonyms":[
"disapprove (of)",
"discountenance",
"disfavor",
"frown (on or upon)"
]
},
"to show partiality toward":{
"examples":[
"older moviegoers tend to favor films that have certain extras\u2014like a plot and developed characters"
],
"synonyms":[
"care (for)",
"lean (toward or towards)",
"like",
"prefer"
],
"near synonyms":[
"adore",
"cotton (to)",
"delight (in)",
"dig",
"enjoy",
"fancy",
"groove (on)",
"relish",
"revel (in)",
"choose",
"cull",
"handpick",
"name",
"pick",
"select",
"single (out)",
"take",
"covet",
"crave",
"desire",
"hanker (for or after)",
"want",
"wish (for)",
"bias",
"prejudice",
"incline (toward)",
"tend (to)",
"admire",
"appreciate",
"cherish",
"prize",
"treasure",
"value"
],
"near antonyms":[
"disfavor",
"dislike",
"mislike",
"abhor",
"abominate",
"detest",
"hate",
"loathe",
"decline",
"refuse",
"reject",
"turn down",
"discard",
"jettison",
"throw away",
"throw out"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to furnish freely or naturally with some power, quality, or attribute":{
"examples":[
"favored with good looks"
],
"synonyms":[
"bless",
"endow",
"endue",
"indue",
"gift",
"invest"
],
"near synonyms":[
"equip",
"provide",
"supply",
"bestow (on or upon)",
"clothe",
"confer (on)",
"cover",
"accord",
"award",
"grant",
"empower",
"enable",
"enhance",
"enrich",
"heighten",
"bequeath",
"will"
],
"near antonyms":[
"dispossess",
"divest",
"strip",
"deplete",
"drain",
"exhaust",
"skimp",
"stint"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun",
"verb"
]
},
"fairy godmother":{
"one that helps another with gifts or money":{
"examples":[
"when it came time for the girl to go to college, Aunt Edna once again proved to be a reliable fairy godmother"
],
"synonyms":[
"angel",
"benefactor",
"donator",
"donor",
"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"
]
},
"fainthearted":{
"easily frightened":{
"examples":[
"the sport of river rafting is not for those who are fainthearted"
],
"synonyms":[
"fearful",
"fearsome",
"mousy",
"mousey",
"scary",
"shy",
"skittish",
"timid",
"timorous",
"tremulous"
],
"near synonyms":[
"chicken",
"chickenhearted",
"chicken-livered",
"cowardly",
"craven",
"dastardly",
"gutless",
"lily-livered",
"milk-livered",
"poltroon",
"pusillanimous",
"spineless",
"unheroic",
"yellow",
"jittery",
"jumpy",
"spooky",
"anxious",
"apprehensive",
"nervous",
"afraid",
"alarmed",
"horrified",
"panicked",
"panicky",
"panic-stricken",
"scared",
"shocked",
"spooked",
"startled",
"terrified",
"terrorized",
"unnerved"
],
"near antonyms":[
"brave",
"courageous",
"dauntless",
"doughty",
"fearless",
"gallant",
"greathearted",
"heroic",
"heroical",
"intrepid",
"lionhearted",
"stalwart",
"stout",
"stouthearted",
"undaunted",
"valiant",
"valorous",
"assured",
"confident",
"self-assured",
"self-confident",
"determined",
"firm",
"game",
"plucky",
"resolute",
"undeterred",
"unflinching",
"unswerving",
"mettlesome",
"spirited",
"spunky"
],
"antonyms":[
"adventuresome",
"adventurous",
"audacious",
"bold",
"daring",
"dashing",
"gutsy",
"hardy",
"venturesome",
"venturous"
]
},
"type":[
"adjective"
]
},
"far-fetched":{
"not likely to be true or to occur":{
"examples":[
"an exciting thriller, but one with a far-fetched plot that no sensible person could believe"
],
"synonyms":[
"doubtful",
"dubious",
"flimsy",
"improbable",
"questionable",
"unapt",
"unlikely"
],
"near synonyms":[
"implausible",
"impossible",
"inconceivable",
"incredible",
"unbelievable",
"unimaginable",
"unthinkable",
"absurd",
"bizarre",
"crazy",
"fantastic",
"fantastical",
"foolish",
"insane",
"nonsensical",
"odd",
"outlandish",
"preposterous",
"ridiculous",
"unreal",
"wild",
"outside",
"remote",
"slight"
],
"near antonyms":[
"believable",
"conceivable",
"credible",
"earthly",
"imaginable",
"plausible",
"possible",
"potential",
"liable"
],
"antonyms":[
"likely",
"probable"
]
},
"type":[
"adjective"
]
},
"fantasyland":{
"an often imaginary place or state of utter perfection and happiness":{
"examples":[
"a lavish resort casino that transports its patrons to fantasyland \u2014at least for a few hours"
],
"synonyms":[
"Camelot",
"Cockaigne",
"Eden",
"Elysium",
"empyrean",
"heaven",
"lotusland",
"never-never land",
"New Jerusalem",
"nirvana",
"paradise",
"promised land",
"Shangri-la",
"utopia",
"Zion",
"Sion"
],
"near synonyms":[
"arcadia",
"dreamland",
"dreamworld",
"fairyland",
"wonderland",
"blessedness",
"bliss",
"blissfulness",
"euphoria",
"gladness",
"joy"
],
"near antonyms":[
"fool's paradise"
],
"antonyms":[
"anti-utopia",
"dystopia",
"hell"
]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"fathomed":{
"to measure the depth of (as a body of water) typically with a weighted line":{
"examples":[
"the pilot had to continually fathom the river, which drought conditions had lowered to unprecedented levels"
],
"synonyms":[
"plumbed",
"sounded"
],
"near synonyms":[
"gauged",
"gaged",
"scaled",
"spanned",
"remeasured",
"replumbed"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"familiar":{
"closely acquainted":{
"examples":[
"the little inside jokes that people who have long been familiar like to share"
],
"synonyms":[
"bosom",
"buddy-buddy",
"chummy",
"close",
"especial",
"friendly",
"inseparable",
"intimate",
"inward",
"near",
"thick",
"tight"
],
"near synonyms":[
"clannish",
"close-knit",
"tight-knit",
"affable",
"boon",
"companionable",
"convivial",
"cordial",
"genial",
"gracious",
"hearty",
"gregarious",
"sociable",
"social",
"comfortable",
"cozy",
"easy",
"snug",
"amicable",
"neighborly",
"confidential",
"secretive",
"adoring",
"affectionate",
"dear",
"devoted",
"fond",
"loving",
"tender",
"tenderhearted",
"warm"
],
"near antonyms":[
"aloof",
"antisocial",
"cold",
"cool",
"detached",
"distant",
"frosty",
"remote",
"reserved",
"standoffish",
"unfriendly",
"unsociable",
"withdrawn"
],
"antonyms":[
"distant"
]
},
"having information especially as a result of study or experience":{
"examples":[
"book editors who are familiar with what is being taught in the schools"
],
"synonyms":[
"abreast",
"acquainted",
"au courant",
"conversant",
"informed",
"knowledgeable",
"up",
"up-to-date",
"versed",
"well-informed"
],
"near synonyms":[
"alive",
"aware",
"cognizant",
"conscious",
"heedful",
"mindful",
"sensible",
"sentient"
],
"near antonyms":[
"insensible",
"unaware",
"unconscious",
"unmindful",
"blind",
"oblivious",
"unknowing",
"unwitting",
"inattentive",
"unheeding"
],
"antonyms":[
"ignorant",
"unacquainted",
"unfamiliar",
"uninformed",
"unknowledgeable"
]
},
"often observed or encountered":{
"examples":[
"the woman and her pair of Welsh corgis were a familiar sight in the quiet neighborhood"
],
"synonyms":[
"common",
"common or garden",
"commonplace",
"everyday",
"frequent",
"garden-variety",
"household",
"ordinary",
"quotidian",
"routine",
"ubiquitous",
"usual"
],
"near synonyms":[
"normal",
"regular",
"standard",
"de rigueur",
"mandatory",
"obligatory",
"general",
"universal",
"ceaseless",
"constant",
"continual",
"continuous",
"incessant",
"unceasing",
"endemic",
"popular",
"prevailing",
"prevalent",
"rampant",
"perennial",
"recurrent",
"repeated"
],
"near antonyms":[
"aberrant",
"abnormal",
"irregular",
"unnatural",
"intermittent",
"occasional",
"sporadic"
],
"antonyms":[
"extraordinary",
"infrequent",
"rare",
"seldom",
"uncommon",
"unfamiliar",
"unusual"
]
},
"showing a lack of proper social reserve or modesty":{
"examples":[
"rather too familiar for a first-time guest in our home, the woman kept asking how much we paid for this or for that"
],
"synonyms":[
"bold",
"forward",
"free",
"immodest",
"overfamiliar",
"presuming",
"presumptuous"
],
"near synonyms":[
"arrogant",
"bumptious",
"complacent",
"conceited",
"egoistic",
"egoistical",
"egomaniacal",
"egotistic",
"egotistical",
"highfalutin",
"hifalutin",
"high-and-mighty",
"high-hat",
"hoity-toity",
"important",
"overweening",
"pompous",
"prideful",
"proud",
"self-asserting",
"self-assertive",
"self-complacent",
"self-conceited",
"self-important",
"self-satisfied",
"smug",
"uppity",
"vain",
"vainglorious",
"cavalier",
"disdainful",
"haughty",
"lordly",
"pretentious",
"snobbish",
"stuck-up",
"supercilious",
"superior",
"audacious",
"bold-faced",
"brash",
"brassbound",
"brassy",
"brazen",
"cheeky",
"cocky",
"fresh",
"impertinent",
"impudent",
"insolent",
"overbold",
"pert",
"sassy",
"saucy",
"confident",
"self-assured",
"self-confident",
"sure",
"boastful",
"braggart",
"bragging",
"domineering",
"high-handed",
"imperious",
"self-absorbed",
"self-centered",
"self-concerned",
"self-engrossed",
"self-infatuated",
"self-interested",
"self-involved",
"selfish",
"self-obsessed",
"self-seeking"
],
"near antonyms":[
"demure",
"down-to-earth",
"humble",
"lowly",
"meek",
"unassertive",
"unpretentious",
"bashful",
"mousy",
"mousey",
"retiring",
"shy",
"timid",
"timorous",
"diffident",
"self-doubting"
],
"antonyms":[
"modest",
"unassuming"
]
},
"someone who regularly spends time in a particular place":{
"examples":[
"a longtime familiar of the bar, she would most likely have been there on the night in question"
],
"synonyms":[
"denizen",
"frequenter",
"habitu\u00e9",
"habitue",
"haunter",
"rat",
"regular"
],
"near synonyms":[
"client",
"customer",
"guest",
"patron",
"addict",
"aficionado",
"afficionado",
"buff",
"bug",
"devotee",
"enthusiast",
"fan",
"fanatic",
"fancier",
"fiend",
"freak",
"lover",
"maniac",
"nut"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"a person who has a strong liking for and trust in another":{
"examples":[
"with old familiars the normally reserved writer can be quite warm and funny"
],
"synonyms":[
"alter ego",
"amigo",
"buddy",
"chum",
"compadre",
"comrade",
"confidant",
"confidante",
"crony",
"friend",
"intimate",
"mate",
"musketeer",
"pal"
],
"near synonyms":[
"acquaintance",
"associate",
"cohort",
"colleague",
"companion",
"fellow",
"hearty",
"hobnobber",
"partner",
"peer",
"sport",
"blood brother",
"brother",
"main man",
"sister",
"abettor",
"abetter",
"accomplice",
"ally",
"collaborator",
"confederate",
"pen pal",
"benefactor",
"supporter",
"sympathizer",
"well-wisher",
"friendly"
],
"near antonyms":[
"adversary",
"antagonist",
"competitor",
"opponent",
"rival",
"archenemy",
"nemesis"
],
"antonyms":[
"enemy",
"foe"
]
},
"type":[
"adjective",
"noun"
]
},
"fawns":{
"to use flattery or the doing of favors in order to win approval especially from a superior":{
"examples":[
"a student who could not wait to fawn over the new teacher"
],
"synonyms":[
"apple-polishes",
"bootlicks",
"fusses",
"kowtows",
"sucks (up)",
"toadies",
"truckles"
],
"near synonyms":[
"drools",
"gushes",
"slavers",
"slobbers",
"endears",
"ingratiates",
"courts",
"woos",
"adulates",
"idolizes",
"worships",
"blandishes",
"cajoles",
"coaxes",
"flatters",
"overpraises",
"soft-soaps",
"cowers",
"cringes",
"grovels",
"abases",
"debases",
"demeans",
"defers",
"submits",
"yields"
],
"near antonyms":[
"despises",
"disdains",
"scorns",
"gibes",
"jibes",
"jeers",
"scoffs",
"braves",
"challenges",
"defies"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"far and away":{
"by a considerable margin":{
"examples":[
"that Mexican restaurant is far and away the best in the area"
],
"synonyms":[
"head and shoulders"
],
"near synonyms":[
"decidedly",
"definitely",
"really",
"undoubtedly",
"unquestionably",
"considerably",
"extensively",
"significantly",
"substantially",
"well"
],
"near antonyms":[
"barely",
"hardly",
"just",
"marginally",
"scarcely",
"slightly",
"minimally",
"minutely"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"adverb"
]
},
"fall back on":{
"to use or seek out as a source of aid, relief, or advantage":{
"examples":[
"If your teaching career doesn't work out, you always have your baking skills to fall back on ."
],
"synonyms":[
"consult",
"go (to)",
"refer (to)",
"resort (to)",
"turn (to)"
],
"near synonyms":[
"employ",
"use",
"utilize",
"depend (on)",
"rely (on)"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"phrase"
]
},
"fallen from grace":{
"to commit an offense":{
"examples":[
"Once a successful entrepreneur, he fell from grace when accounts of his unethical business practices were revealed."
],
"synonyms":[
"erred",
"fallen",
"offended",
"sinned",
"strayed",
"transgressed",
"trespassed",
"wandered"
],
"near synonyms":[
"breached",
"broken",
"infringed",
"violated",
"backslid",
"backslidden",
"lapsed",
"messed up"
],
"near antonyms":[
"forgiven",
"justified",
"pardoned",
"regretted",
"repented",
"rued"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"phrase"
]
},
"fastened":{
"as in secured , attached":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"attached",
"bound",
"secured",
"embedded",
"imbedded",
"entrenched",
"intrenched",
"impacted",
"implanted",
"immovable",
"unyielding",
"anchored",
"clamped",
"bonded",
"cemented",
"glued",
"fast",
"firm",
"frozen",
"jammed",
"lodged",
"set",
"snug",
"stuck",
"tight",
"wedged"
],
"near antonyms":[
"insecure",
"loose",
"detached",
"dislodged",
"freed",
"loosened",
"unattached",
"unbound",
"undone",
"unfastened",
"unsecured",
"movable",
"moveable",
"yielding"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to cause (something) to hold to another":{
"examples":[
"use this paper clip to fasten your picture to the application form"
],
"synonyms":[
"affixed",
"attached",
"bent",
"fixed"
],
"near synonyms":[
"adhered",
"bolted",
"cinched",
"clamped",
"clasped",
"clenched",
"clinched",
"clipped",
"glued",
"harnessed",
"hasped",
"hung",
"hanged",
"laced",
"lashed",
"latched",
"nailed",
"pasted",
"pinned",
"plastered",
"riveted",
"screwed",
"shackled",
"stapled",
"strapped",
"stuck",
"tacked",
"tackled",
"tied",
"toggled",
"yoked",
"coapted",
"connected",
"joined",
"linked",
"united",
"reaffixed",
"reattached",
"refastened",
"refixed",
"resecured",
"battened",
"belayed",
"buttoned",
"did up"
],
"near antonyms":[
"broke up",
"disconnected",
"disjoined",
"disjointed",
"dissevered",
"dissociated",
"disunited",
"divided",
"divorced",
"parted",
"separated",
"severed",
"split",
"sundered",
"uncoupled",
"unlinked",
"unyoked",
"loosed",
"loosened",
"unbound",
"unfixed",
"unlashed",
"untied"
],
"antonyms":[
"detached",
"undid",
"unfastened",
"unhooked"
]
},
"to put securely in place or in a desired position":{
"examples":[
"don't forget to fasten all the lines on your tent"
],
"synonyms":[
"anchored",
"caught",
"clamped",
"fixed",
"hitched",
"moored",
"secured",
"set"
],
"near synonyms":[
"embedded",
"imbedded",
"entrenched",
"intrenched",
"implanted",
"ingrained",
"engrained",
"lodged",
"stuffed",
"wedged"
],
"near antonyms":[
"extracted",
"pried",
"prized",
"pulled",
"rooted (out)",
"tore (out)",
"uprooted",
"wrested",
"yanked"
],
"antonyms":[
"loosed",
"loosened",
"unfastened",
"unfixed",
"unloosed",
"unloosened"
]
},
"to fix (as one's attention) steadily toward a central objective":{
"examples":[
"if you could fasten your attention on one task for more than a minute, you just might get something done"
],
"synonyms":[
"centered",
"concentrated",
"focused",
"focussed",
"riveted",
"trained"
],
"near synonyms":[
"aimed",
"directed",
"homed (in on)",
"honed in (on)",
"leveled",
"levelled",
"nailed",
"pointed",
"set",
"zeroed (in on)",
"attended",
"heeded",
"minded",
"fixated (on)",
"obsessed (over)",
"refocused"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"adjective",
"verb"
]
},
"falling":{
"as in suspended , dangling":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"dangling",
"pendent",
"pendant",
"suspended",
"floppy",
"limp",
"dipping",
"sinking",
"slumping",
"bowed",
"bowing",
"declined",
"declining",
"descendant",
"descendent",
"descending",
"drooping",
"droopy",
"hanging",
"hung",
"inclining",
"nodding",
"pendulous",
"sagging",
"stooping",
"weeping"
],
"near antonyms":[
"unbending",
"upright",
"erect",
"inflexible",
"rigid",
"stiff",
"elevated",
"raised",
"upraised"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"as in decline , deterioration":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"decadence",
"decay",
"decaying",
"declension",
"declination",
"decline",
"degeneracy",
"degeneration",
"degradation",
"descent",
"deterioration",
"devaluation",
"downfall",
"downgrade",
"ebbing",
"weakening",
"backslide",
"lapse",
"relapse",
"regress",
"regression",
"retrogression",
"reversion"
],
"near antonyms":[
"development",
"elaboration",
"evolution",
"expansion",
"growth",
"progress",
"progression",
"advancement",
"betterment",
"improvement",
"perfection",
"refinement",
"incubation",
"maturation",
"maturing",
"ripening"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to go down from an upright position suddenly and involuntarily":{
"examples":[
"better sand that walkway before somebody falls on the ice"
],
"synonyms":[
"slipping",
"stumbling",
"toppling",
"tripping",
"tumbling"
],
"near synonyms":[
"collapsing",
"crumpling",
"dropping",
"flumping",
"keeling",
"plopping",
"plunking",
"plonking",
"slumping (over)",
"crashing",
"free-falling",
"nose-diving",
"plummeting",
"plunging",
"precipitating",
"wiping out",
"skidding",
"sliding"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[
"getting up",
"rising",
"standing (up)",
"uprising"
]
},
"to yield to the control or power of enemy forces":{
"examples":[
"the city fell after weeks of merciless bombardment"
],
"synonyms":[
"capitulating",
"giving up",
"knuckling under",
"submitting",
"succumbing",
"surrendering"
],
"near synonyms":[
"bowing",
"buckling",
"caving (in)",
"collapsing",
"giving (in)",
"handing over",
"relinquishing",
"losing",
"conceding",
"failing",
"folding"
],
"near antonyms":[
"bucking",
"defying",
"fighting",
"opposing",
"repelling",
"resisting",
"withstanding",
"beating",
"overcoming",
"winning",
"conquering",
"prevailing",
"triumphing"
],
"antonyms":[
"enduring",
"standing"
]
},
"to go to a lower level especially abruptly":{
"examples":[
"word soon got out that the movie was no good, and box-office receipts fell like a rock"
],
"synonyms":[
"crashing",
"cratering",
"declining",
"descending",
"dipping",
"diving",
"dropping",
"lowering",
"nose-diving",
"plummeting",
"plunging",
"sinking",
"skidding",
"tumbling"
],
"near synonyms":[
"abating",
"decreasing",
"de-escalating",
"diminishing",
"drooping",
"dwindling",
"dying (down)",
"ebbing",
"lessening",
"letting up",
"moderating",
"subsiding",
"tapering off",
"waning",
"receding",
"retreating"
],
"near antonyms":[
"accumulating",
"ballooning",
"building",
"burgeoning",
"bourgeoning",
"enlarging",
"escalating",
"expanding",
"growing",
"increasing",
"intensifying",
"mushrooming",
"picking up",
"snowballing",
"swelling",
"waxing"
],
"antonyms":[
"arising",
"ascending",
"lifting",
"mounting",
"rising",
"soaring",
"spiking",
"upping"
]
},
"to grow less in scope or intensity especially gradually":{
"examples":[
"manufacturing in the area is falling , and closing signs are going up all over"
],
"synonyms":[
"abating",
"declining",
"decreasing",
"de-escalating",
"diminishing",
"draining (away)",
"dropping (off)",
"dwindling",
"dying (away or down or out)",
"easing",
"ebbing",
"falling away",
"lessening",
"letting up",
"lowering",
"moderating",
"palling",
"phasing down",
"ratcheting (down)",
"racheting (down)",
"receding",
"relenting",
"remitting",
"shrinking",
"subsiding",
"tapering",
"tapering off",
"waning"
],
"near synonyms":[
"compressing",
"condensing",
"constricting",
"contracting",
"evaporating",
"fading (away)",
"frittering (away)",
"giving out",
"melting (away)",
"petering (out)",
"tailing (off)",
"vanishing",
"slackening",
"slowing (down)",
"alleviating",
"relaxing",
"flagging",
"sinking",
"weakening",
"caving (in)",
"collapsing",
"deflating"
],
"near antonyms":[
"appearing",
"emerging",
"showing up",
"blowing up",
"distending",
"elongating",
"lengthening"
],
"antonyms":[
"accumulating",
"ballooning",
"building",
"burgeoning",
"bourgeoning",
"enlarging",
"escalating",
"expanding",
"growing",
"increasing",
"intensifying",
"mounting",
"mushrooming",
"picking up",
"rising",
"snowballing",
"soaring",
"swelling",
"waxing"
]
},
"to lead or extend downward":{
"examples":[
"the lake bottom falls sharply just a few feet from the shoreline, so be careful"
],
"synonyms":[
"declining",
"descending",
"dipping",
"dropping",
"plunging",
"sinking"
],
"near synonyms":[
"angling",
"canting",
"cocking",
"heeling",
"inclining",
"leaning",
"listing",
"reclining",
"slanting",
"sloping",
"tilting",
"tipping"
],
"near antonyms":[
"evening",
"flattening",
"leveling",
"levelling",
"planing",
"smoothing",
"straightening"
],
"antonyms":[
"arising",
"ascending",
"climbing",
"mounting",
"rising",
"uprising",
"upsweeping",
"upturning"
]
},
"to undergo defeat":{
"examples":[
"not surprisingly, the novice player fell to a much stronger opponent"
],
"synonyms":[
"bowing out",
"losing"
],
"near synonyms":[
"faltering",
"tanking",
"throwing",
"forfeiting",
"bombing",
"collapsing",
"cracking (up)",
"failing",
"flopping",
"flunking",
"folding",
"foundering",
"missing",
"striking out",
"washing out"
],
"near antonyms":[
"flourishing",
"prospering",
"succeeding",
"thriving"
],
"antonyms":[
"conquering",
"prevailing",
"triumphing",
"winning"
]
},
"to commit an offense":{
"examples":[
"even saints can fall"
],
"synonyms":[
"erring",
"offending",
"sinning",
"straying",
"transgressing",
"trespassing",
"wandering"
],
"near synonyms":[
"breaching",
"breaking",
"infringing",
"violating",
"backsliding",
"lapsing",
"messing up"
],
"near antonyms":[
"forgiving",
"justifying",
"pardoning",
"regretting",
"repenting",
"ruing"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to stop living":{
"examples":[
"if their brave leader falls , the men will lose their courage"
],
"synonyms":[
"checking out",
"conking (out)",
"croaking",
"deceasing",
"demising",
"departing",
"dropping",
"dying",
"ending",
"exiting",
"expiring",
"flatlining",
"going",
"kicking in",
"kicking off",
"parting",
"passing away",
"passing (on)",
"pegging out",
"perishing",
"popping off",
"stepping out",
"succumbing"
],
"near synonyms":[
"predeceasing",
"consuming",
"disappearing",
"drying up",
"fading",
"failing"
],
"near antonyms":[
"coming to",
"reviving",
"lingering",
"being",
"existing",
"subsisting",
"flourishing",
"prospering",
"thriving"
],
"antonyms":[
"breathing",
"living"
]
},
"type":[
"adjective",
"noun",
"verb"
]
},
"factual":{
"restricted to or based on fact":{
"examples":[
"a factual biography of George Washington that scoffs at the story about the cherry tree"
],
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"documentary",
"hard",
"historical",
"literal",
"matter-of-fact",
"nonfictional",
"objective",
"true"
],
"near synonyms":[
"actual",
"authentic",
"bona fide",
"genuine",
"real",
"right",
"documented",
"established",
"confirmable",
"reliable",
"supportable",
"sustainable",
"verifiable",
"demonstrable",
"provable",
"incontestable",
"incontrovertible",
"indisputable",
"irrefutable",
"undeniable",
"unquestionable",
"plain",
"simple",
"certain",
"undoubted"
],
"near antonyms":[
"hypothetical",
"speculative",
"theoretical",
"theoretic",
"apocryphal",
"unauthentic",
"undocumented",
"chimerical",
"chimeric",
"fabulous",
"fanciful",
"fantastic",
"fantastical",
"imaginary",
"imagined",
"invented",
"legendary",
"made-up",
"make-believe",
"mythical",
"mythic",
"pretend",
"embroidered",
"exaggerated",
"insupportable",
"unsupportable"
],
"antonyms":[
"fictional",
"fictionalized",
"fictitious",
"nondocumentary",
"nonfactual",
"nonhistorical",
"unhistorical"
]
},
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"a serious scientist, she is only interested in factual phenomena and lets others speculate about the hypothetical"
],
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"actual",
"concrete",
"de facto",
"effective",
"existent",
"genuine",
"real",
"sure-enough",
"true",
"very"
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"attested",
"authenticated",
"confirmed",
"demonstrated",
"established",
"proven",
"substantiated",
"valid",
"validated",
"verified",
"incontestable",
"incontrovertible",
"indisputable",
"indubitable",
"inescapable",
"irrefutable",
"undeniable",
"unquestionable",
"believable",
"convincing",
"literal",
"realistic",
"unmistakable",
"verifiable",
"authentic",
"bona fide",
"real-life",
"real-world",
"absolute",
"certain",
"final",
"hard",
"objective",
"palpable",
"positive",
"substantial",
"tangible",
"authoritative",
"certifiable",
"certified"
],
"near antonyms":[
"alleged",
"assumed",
"reputed",
"supposed",
"conceived",
"envisaged",
"envisioned",
"imagined",
"pictured",
"visualized",
"chimerical",
"chimeric",
"fabled",
"fanciful",
"fictional",
"fictitious",
"illusory",
"legendary",
"fabricated",
"fake",
"imaginary",
"invented",
"made-up",
"make-believe",
"pretend",
"romantic",
"abstract",
"symbolic",
"unreal",
"virtual"
],
"antonyms":[
"conjectural",
"hypothetical",
"ideal",
"inexistent",
"nonexistent",
"platonic",
"possible",
"potential",
"suppositional",
"theoretical",
"theoretic"
]
},
"type":[
"adjective"
]
},
"fazed":{
"as in confused , bewildered":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"bewildered",
"confused",
"disconcerted",
"baffled",
"confounded",
"hard-pressed",
"hard put",
"nonplussed",
"nonplused",
"perplexed",
"embarrassed",
"flustered",
"put out"
],
"near antonyms":[
"undaunted",
"unfazed",
"composed",
"untroubled"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to throw into a state of self-conscious distress":{
"examples":[
"the collapse of part of the scenery didn't faze the actors one bit, and they just carried on"
],
"synonyms":[
"abashed",
"confounded",
"confused",
"discomfited",
"disconcerted",
"discountenanced",
"embarrassed",
"flustered",
"mortified",
"nonplussed",
"nonplused",
"rattled"
],
"near synonyms":[
"agitated",
"bothered",
"chagrined",
"discomforted",
"discomposed",
"dismayed",
"disquieted",
"distressed",
"disturbed",
"perturbed",
"put off",
"put out",
"unhinged",
"unsettled",
"upset",
"debased",
"degraded",
"demeaned",
"humbled",
"humiliated",
"queered",
"shamed"
],
"near antonyms":[
"calmed",
"comforted",
"consoled",
"relieved",
"soothed",
"buoyed",
"cheered",
"emboldened",
"encouraged",
"heartened",
"assured",
"reassured"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"adjective",
"verb"
]
},
"falsely":{
"as in deceptively , dishonestly":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"artfully",
"cannily",
"deceitfully",
"deceptively",
"deviously",
"dishonestly",
"affectedly",
"artificially",
"hypocritically",
"insincerely",
"pretentiously",
"unnaturally",
"archly",
"calculatingly",
"craftily",
"cunningly",
"furtively",
"insidiously",
"sharply",
"shiftily",
"slickly",
"slyly",
"slily",
"underhand",
"underhanded",
"underhandedly",
"flatteringly",
"sycophantically",
"unctuously"
],
"near antonyms":[
"artlessly",
"guilelessly",
"ingenuously",
"innocently",
"naively",
"na\u00efvely",
"naturally",
"sincerely",
"unaffectedly",
"unfeignedly",
"unpretentiously",
"genuinely",
"honestly",
"simply",
"truly",
"freely",
"openheartedly",
"openly"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"adverb"
]
},
"favorable":{
"expressing approval":{
"examples":[
"favorable reviews for the movie were few"
],
"synonyms":[
"admiring",
"applauding",
"appreciative",
"approbatory",
"approving",
"commendatory",
"complimentary",
"friendly",
"good",
"positive"
],
"near synonyms":[
"accepting",
"warm",
"encomiastic",
"eulogistic",
"flattering",
"hagiographic",
"hagiographical",
"laudative",
"laudatory",
"panegyrical",
"praiseful",
"respectful",
"supportive",
"sympathetic",
"adoring",
"adulatory",
"idolizing",
"worshipful",
"worshipping",
"worshiping",
"advisory",
"recommendatory"
],
"near antonyms":[
"captious",
"carping",
"caviling",
"cavilling",
"censuring",
"critical",
"faultfinding",
"hypercritical",
"overcritical",
"belittling",
"contemptuous",
"disdainful",
"disparaging",
"scornful",
"slighting"
],
"antonyms":[
"adverse",
"depreciative",
"depreciatory",
"derogatory",
"disapproving",
"inappreciative",
"negative",
"unappreciative",
"uncomplimentary",
"unfavorable",
"unflattering",
"unfriendly"
]
},
"pointing toward a happy outcome":{
"examples":[
"favorable economic conditions for opening a new business"
],
"synonyms":[
"auspicious",
"bright",
"encouraging",
"golden",
"heartening",
"hopeful",
"promising",
"propitious"
],
"near synonyms":[
"fortunate",
"fortuitous",
"happy",
"lucky",
"providential",
"advantageous",
"beneficial",
"profitable",
"prosperous",
"salutary"
],
"near antonyms":[
"unfortunate",
"unhappy",
"unlucky",
"calamitous",
"catastrophic",
"disastrous",
"fatal",
"ruinous",
"baleful",
"dark",
"dire",
"direful",
"doomy",
"foreboding",
"gloomy",
"ill",
"ill-boding",
"menacing",
"minatory",
"ominous",
"portentous",
"sinister",
"threatening"
],
"antonyms":[
"dim",
"discouraging",
"disheartening",
"futureless",
"hopeless",
"inauspicious",
"unfavorable",
"unpromising",
"unpropitious"
]
},
"promoting or contributing to personal or social well-being":{
"examples":[
"moved to a region with a milder climate in the hope that it would be more favorable to his health"
],
"synonyms":[
"advantageous",
"benefic",
"beneficent",
"beneficial",
"benignant",
"friendly",
"good",
"helpful",
"kindly",
"profitable",
"salutary"
],
"near synonyms":[
"gratifying",
"rewarding",
"satisfying",
"auspicious",
"promising",
"propitious",
"advisable",
"desirable",
"healthful",
"healthy",
"salubrious",
"salutiferous",
"wholesome",
"gainful",
"lucrative",
"remunerative",
"ameliorative",
"amelioratory",
"bettering",
"constructive",
"supportive"
],
"near antonyms":[
"damaging",
"deleterious",
"harmful",
"injurious",
"insalubrious"
],
"antonyms":[
"bad",
"disadvantageous",
"unfavorable",
"unfriendly",
"unhelpful",
"unprofitable"
]
},
"type":[
"adjective"
]
},
"fact finders":{
"as in empiricists , empirics":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"empiricists",
"empirics",
"monitors",
"observers",
"field-workers",
"experimenters",
"investigators",
"researchers",
"examiners",
"inspectors"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"falling from grace":{
"to commit an offense":{
"examples":[
"Once a successful entrepreneur, he fell from grace when accounts of his unethical business practices were revealed."
],
"synonyms":[
"erring",
"falling",
"offending",
"sinning",
"straying",
"transgressing",
"trespassing",
"wandering"
],
"near synonyms":[
"breaching",
"breaking",
"infringing",
"violating",
"backsliding",
"lapsing",
"messing up"
],
"near antonyms":[
"forgiving",
"justifying",
"pardoning",
"regretting",
"repenting",
"ruing"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"phrase"
]
},
"fail (at)":{
"as in lose , miss":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"fall short (of)",
"miss",
"lose"
],
"near antonyms":[
"achieve",
"attain",
"bag",
"chalk up",
"clock (up)",
"gain",
"hit",
"log",
"make",
"notch (up)",
"rack up",
"ring up",
"score",
"win",
"acquire",
"capture",
"carry",
"draw",
"garner",
"get",
"land",
"obtain",
"procure",
"realize",
"secure",
"amount (to)",
"approach",
"equal",
"match",
"measure up (to)",
"meet",
"rival",
"tie",
"touch"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"fall behind":{
"to move or act slowly":{
"examples":[
"He lost his footing and fell behind in the relay."
],
"synonyms":[
"crawl",
"creep",
"dally",
"dawdle",
"delay",
"diddle",
"dillydally",
"drag",
"lag",
"linger",
"loiter",
"lollygag",
"lallygag",
"mope",
"poke",
"shilly-shally",
"tarry"
],
"near synonyms":[
"fiddle (around)",
"fool around",
"mess around",
"monkey (around)",
"play",
"potter (around)",
"putter (around)",
"trifle",
"hang (around or out)",
"idle",
"loaf",
"loll",
"lounge",
"amble",
"ease",
"inch",
"lumber",
"plod",
"saunter",
"shuffle",
"stagger",
"stroll",
"decelerate",
"slow (down or up)",
"filibuster",
"procrastinate",
"stall",
"temporize"
],
"near antonyms":[
"bowl",
"breeze",
"dart",
"hump",
"hurtle",
"hustle",
"scramble",
"stampede",
"gallop",
"jog",
"run",
"sprint",
"trot",
"accelerate",
"quicken",
"speed (up)",
"catch up",
"fast-forward",
"outpace",
"outrun",
"outstrip",
"overtake"
],
"antonyms":[
"barrel",
"bolt",
"career",
"course",
"dash",
"fly",
"hasten",
"hotfoot (it)",
"hurry",
"race",
"rip",
"rocket",
"run",
"rush",
"scoot",
"scud",
"scurry",
"speed",
"tear",
"whirl",
"whisk",
"whiz",
"whizz",
"zip"
]
},
"type":[
"phrase"
]
},
"fallen back":{
"to move back or away (as from something difficult, dangerous, or disagreeable)":{
"examples":[
"resistance from native forces was greater than expected, and the invading army was forced to fall back"
],
"synonyms":[
"backed away",
"dropped back",
"pulled out",
"receded",
"retired",
"retreated",
"withdrawn"
],
"near synonyms":[
"fled",
"flown",
"flinched",
"recoiled",
"shrunk",
"shrunken",
"chickened (out)",
"bowed out",
"backed down",
"backpedaled",
"backtracked",
"climbed down",
"detached",
"disengaged",
"disentangled",
"pulled away",
"abandoned",
"departed",
"evacuated",
"gone",
"left",
"quit",
"quitted",
"vacated"
],
"near antonyms":[
"bearded",
"braved",
"brazened",
"breasted",
"confronted",
"dared",
"defied",
"faced",
"outbraved"
],
"antonyms":[
"advanced"
]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"fall short":{
"to be unsuccessful":{
"examples":[
"The movie fell short of its viewers' expectations."
],
"synonyms":[
"bomb",
"collapse",
"crater",
"fail",
"flame out",
"flop",
"flunk",
"fold",
"founder",
"miss",
"strike out",
"tank",
"wash out"
],
"near synonyms":[
"flounder",
"struggle",
"decline",
"sink",
"skid",
"slip",
"slump",
"wane",
"crash",
"crumble",
"miscarry",
"misfire",
"go under",
"implode",
"self-destruct"
],
"near antonyms":[
"cook",
"flourish",
"prosper",
"thrive",
"prevail",
"triumph",
"win"
],
"antonyms":[
"click",
"come off",
"deliver",
"go",
"go over",
"pan out",
"succeed",
"work out"
]
},
"to go wrong":{
"examples":[
"The biography falls short by neglecting to explore the subject's faults as well as his virtues."
],
"synonyms":[
"miscarry",
"misfire"
],
"near synonyms":[
"miss",
"break down",
"bust",
"conk (out)",
"crash",
"die",
"fail",
"founder",
"stall",
"bomb",
"fizzle",
"flame out",
"flop",
"flunk",
"fold",
"wash out",
"flounder",
"struggle",
"decline",
"skid",
"slip",
"slump",
"tank",
"wane"
],
"near antonyms":[
"prevail",
"succeed",
"flourish",
"prosper",
"thrive"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"phrase"
]
},
"fathomless":{
"being or seeming to be without limits":{
"examples":[
"impresses everyone with her fathomless knowledge of wildcats"
],
"synonyms":[
"bottomless",
"boundless",
"endless",
"horizonless",
"illimitable",
"immeasurable",
"immensurable",
"indefinite",
"infinite",
"limitless",
"measureless",
"unbounded",
"unfathomable",
"unlimited"
],
"near synonyms":[
"abysmal",
"countless",
"incalculable",
"incomputable",
"inestimable",
"innumerable",
"unmeasured",
"exhaustless",
"inexhaustible",
"extensive",
"far-flung",
"immense",
"vast"
],
"near antonyms":[
"fathomable",
"measurable",
"depthless",
"shallow",
"superficial"
],
"antonyms":[
"bounded",
"circumscribed",
"confined",
"definite",
"finite",
"limited",
"restricted"
]
},
"type":[
"adjective"
]
},
"farm":{
"a piece of land and its buildings used to grow crops or raise livestock":{
"examples":[
"a farm that has been in the same family for five generations"
],
"synonyms":[
"estate",
"farmstead",
"grange",
"ranch"
],
"near synonyms":[
"cropland",
"farmland",
"farmyard",
"farmhouse",
"hacienda",
"homestead",
"manor",
"plantation",
"spread",
"croft",
"smallholding",
"station",
"steading",
"garden",
"orchard"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to work by plowing, sowing, and raising crops on":{
"examples":[
"we're planning on farming 50 acres the first year"
],
"synonyms":[
"cultivate",
"tend",
"till"
],
"near synonyms":[
"crop",
"plant",
"harvest",
"reap",
"harrow",
"hoe",
"sharecrop"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun",
"verb"
]
},
"fancies":{
"a conception or image created by the imagination and having no objective reality":{
"examples":[
"a writer with a prodigious talent for creating fancies that captivate readers young and old"
],
"synonyms":[
"chimeras",
"conceits",
"daydreams",
"delusions",
"dreams",
"fantasies",
"phantasies",
"figments",
"hallucinations",
"illusions",
"nonentities",
"phantasms",
"fantasms",
"pipe dreams",
"unrealities",
"visions"
],
"near synonyms":[
"ignes fatui",
"mirages",
"will-o'-the-wisps",
"brainchildren",
"ideas",
"concoctions",
"fables",
"fabrications",
"fictions",
"inventions",
"visualizations",
"cloud-cuckoo-lands",
"cloudlands",
"Shangri-las",
"utopias",
"daymares",
"nightmares"
],
"near antonyms":[
"actualities",
"facts",
"realities"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"a sudden impulsive and apparently unmotivated idea or action":{
"examples":[
"is this a serious interest in music, or just your latest fancy that will be forgotten after a week?"
],
"synonyms":[
"bees",
"caprices",
"cranks",
"freaks",
"humors",
"kinks",
"maggots",
"megrims",
"notions",
"vagaries",
"vagrancies",
"whims",
"whimsies",
"whimseys"
],
"near synonyms":[
"fantasies",
"phantasies",
"impetuosities",
"whimsicalities",
"conceits",
"conceptions",
"concepts",
"images",
"impressions",
"mind's eyes",
"pictures",
"thoughts",
"brainstorms",
"inspirations"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"positive regard for something":{
"examples":[
"now that he's rich he's taken a fancy to expensive sports cars"
],
"synonyms":[
"appetites",
"favors",
"likes",
"likings",
"love affairs",
"loves",
"partialities",
"preferences",
"relishes",
"shines",
"tastes",
"uses"
],
"near synonyms":[
"cravings",
"desires",
"longings",
"thirsts",
"yens",
"enthusiasms",
"gustoes",
"interests",
"passions",
"biases",
"prejudices",
"bents",
"inclinations",
"leanings",
"propensities",
"tendencies",
"teeth",
"palates",
"weaknesses"
],
"near antonyms":[
"apathies",
"disinclinations",
"indifferences"
],
"antonyms":[
"aversions",
"disfavors",
"disgusts",
"dislikes",
"distastes",
"hatreds",
"loathings",
"mislikes"
]
},
"to form a mental picture of":{
"examples":[
"try to fancy , if you can, our mother on an elephant when she was touring India"
],
"synonyms":[
"conceits",
"conceives",
"conjures (up)",
"dreams",
"envisages",
"envisions",
"fantasies",
"fantasizes",
"features",
"ideates",
"images",
"imagines",
"pictures",
"sees",
"visions",
"visualizes"
],
"near synonyms":[
"daydreams",
"stargazes",
"hallucinates",
"re-creates",
"reflects",
"relives",
"reminisces",
"contemplates",
"meditates",
"muses",
"ponders",
"ruminates",
"concocts",
"fabricates",
"invents",
"makes up",
"manufactures",
"plans",
"projects",
"foresees",
"prefigures"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to take pleasure in":{
"examples":[
"the teacher didn't fancy the idea of failing the student, even if he was the class clown"
],
"synonyms":[
"adores",
"delights (in)",
"digs",
"enjoys",
"gets off (on)",
"grooves (on)",
"likes",
"loves",
"rejoices (in)",
"relishes",
"revels (in)",
"savors",
"savours"
],
"near synonyms":[
"admires",
"appreciates",
"cherishes",
"reveres",
"venerates",
"worships",
"prizes",
"treasures",
"values",
"devours",
"drinks (in)",
"eats (up)",
"feasts (on)",
"dotes (on)",
"idolizes",
"cottons (to)",
"favors",
"prefers",
"indulges (in)",
"luxuriates (in)",
"wallows (in)"
],
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"abhors",
"abominates",
"detests",
"dislikes",
"hates",
"loathes",
"condemns",
"despises",
"scorns"
],
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},
"type":[
"noun",
"verb"
]
},
"fall back":{
"to move back or away (as from something difficult, dangerous, or disagreeable)":{
"examples":[
"resistance from native forces was greater than expected, and the invading army was forced to fall back"
],
"synonyms":[
"back away",
"drop back",
"pull out",
"recede",
"retire",
"retreat",
"withdraw"
],
"near synonyms":[
"flee",
"fly",
"flinch",
"recoil",
"shrink",
"chicken (out)",
"bow out",
"back down",
"backpedal",
"backtrack",
"climb down",
"detach",
"disengage",
"disentangle",
"pull away",
"abandon",
"depart",
"evacuate",
"go",
"leave",
"quit",
"vacate"
],
"near antonyms":[
"beard",
"brave",
"brazen",
"breast",
"confront",
"dare",
"defy",
"face",
"outbrave"
],
"antonyms":[
"advance"
]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"farsightedness":{
"concern or preparation for the future":{
"examples":[
"thanks to our farsightedness , we had sufficient emergency supplies when the storm knocked out our power"
],
"synonyms":[
"foresight",
"foresightedness",
"forethought",
"prescience",
"providence",
"vision"
],
"near synonyms":[
"precaution",
"premeditation",
"discernment",
"discretion",
"insight",
"perception",
"perceptiveness",
"prudence",
"sagaciousness",
"sagacity",
"sageness",
"sapience",
"wisdom"
],
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"antonyms":[
"improvidence",
"myopia",
"shortsightedness"
]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"fails (at)":{
"as in loses , misses":{
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"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"falls short (of)",
"misses",
"loses"
],
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"achieves",
"attains",
"bags",
"chalks up",
"clocks (up)",
"gains",
"hits",
"logs",
"makes",
"notches (up)",
"racks up",
"rings up",
"scores",
"wins",
"acquires",
"captures",
"carries",
"draws",
"garners",
"gets",
"lands",
"obtains",
"procures",
"realizes",
"secures",
"amounts (to)",
"approaches",
"equals",
"matches",
"measures up (to)",
"meets",
"rivals",
"ties",
"touches"
],
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},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"facetious":{
"given to or marked by mature intelligent humor":{
"examples":[
"the essay is a facetious commentary on the absurdity of war as a solution for international disputes"
],
"synonyms":[
"clever",
"humorous",
"jocular",
"smart",
"witty"
],
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"cerebral",
"highbrow",
"highbrowed",
"intellectual",
"bantering",
"frivolous",
"jesting",
"joking",
"joshing",
"teasing",
"antic",
"comic",
"comical",
"droll",
"farcical",
"funny",
"hysterical",
"laughable",
"ludicrous",
"ridiculous",
"riotous",
"risible",
"rollicking",
"screaming",
"sidesplitting",
"uproarious",
"amusing",
"diverting",
"entertaining",
"mischievous",
"playful",
"prankish",
"jocose",
"jocund",
"jolly",
"jovial",
"laughing",
"merry",
"mirthful",
"sunny",
"scintillating",
"sparkling",
"flip",
"flippant",
"pert",
"smart-aleck",
"smart-alecky",
"waggish",
"whimsical"
],
"near antonyms":[
"brainless",
"lowbrow",
"stupid",
"witless",
"corny",
"hackney",
"hackneyed",
"lame",
"humorless",
"unamusing",
"uncomic",
"unfunny",
"earnest",
"grave",
"serious",
"serious-minded",
"sober",
"solemn",
"somber",
"sombre",
"doleful",
"dolorous",
"lachrymose",
"plaintive",
"sorry",
"tearful",
"woeful"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"making light of something usually regarded as serious or sacred":{
"examples":[
"a facetious and tasteless remark about people in famine-stricken countries being spared the problem of overeating"
],
"synonyms":[
"cute",
"flip",
"flippant",
"pert",
"smart",
"smart-aleck",
"smart-alecky",
"smart-ass",
"smart-assed",
"smarty-pants",
"wise",
"wiseass"
],
"near synonyms":[
"flighty",
"frivolous",
"cheeky",
"cocky",
"fresh",
"impertinent",
"impish",
"impudent",
"mischievous",
"playful",
"roguish",
"sassy",
"saucy",
"waggish",
"disrespectful",
"rude",
"breezy",
"casual",
"glib",
"inappropriate",
"thoughtless"
],
"near antonyms":[
"grave",
"serious",
"sober",
"solemn",
"somber",
"sombre"
],
"antonyms":[
"earnest",
"sincere"
]
},
"type":[
"adjective"
]
},
"factored (in or into)":{
"to give consideration to (as unexpected circumstances or contingencies)":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[
"allowed (for)",
"considered",
"provided (for)",
"regarded"
],
"near synonyms":[
"accommodated",
"adapted",
"adjusted",
"conditioned",
"anticipated",
"contemplated",
"envisaged",
"expected",
"foresaw",
"assumed",
"presumed",
"presupposed",
"planned",
"calculated",
"faced"
],
"near antonyms":[
"factored (out)"
],
"antonyms":[
"discounted",
"disregarded"
]
},
"type":[]
},
"fanzine":{
"as in zine , magazine":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"book",
"bulletin",
"diurnal",
"gazette",
"journal",
"mag",
"magazine",
"newspaper",
"organ",
"paper",
"periodical",
"rag",
"review",
"serial",
"zine",
"annual",
"bimonthly",
"biweekly",
"daily",
"monthly",
"quarterly",
"semimonthly",
"semiweekly",
"triweekly",
"weekly",
"yearbook",
"broadside",
"edition",
"extra",
"sheet",
"supplement",
"tab",
"tabloid",
"newsletter",
"newsmagazine",
"newsweekly",
"digest",
"little magazine",
"pictorial",
"slick"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"falsehood":{
"a false idea or belief":{
"examples":[
"the possibility of a perpetual motion machine is one falsehood that has been disproved by modern physics"
],
"synonyms":[
"delusion",
"error",
"fallacy",
"falsity",
"hallucination",
"illusion",
"misbelief",
"misconception",
"myth",
"old wives' tale",
"untruth"
],
"near synonyms":[
"factoid",
"superstition",
"fiction",
"pretense",
"pretence",
"distortion",
"inaccuracy",
"misapprehension",
"miscomprehension",
"misinterpretation",
"misjudgment",
"misperception",
"misunderstanding",
"misinformation",
"misknowledge",
"misreport",
"misrepresentation",
"misstatement",
"sophism",
"sophistry",
"fib",
"half-truth",
"lie",
"story",
"tale"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[
"truth",
"verity"
]
},
"a statement known by its maker to be untrue and made in order to deceive":{
"examples":[
"several falsehoods in the witness's testimony that may be grounds for perjury"
],
"synonyms":[
"fable",
"fabrication",
"fairy tale",
"falsity",
"fib",
"lie",
"mendacity",
"prevarication",
"story",
"tale",
"taradiddle",
"tarradiddle",
"untruth",
"whopper"
],
"near synonyms":[
"distortion",
"exaggeration",
"half-truth",
"ambiguity",
"equivocation",
"obliquity",
"defamation",
"libel",
"slander",
"perjury",
"bluff",
"fiction",
"pose",
"pretense",
"pretence",
"humbug",
"jive",
"nonsense",
"canard",
"fallacy",
"misconception",
"myth",
"falsification",
"misinformation",
"misreport",
"misrepresentation",
"misstatement",
"deceit",
"deceitfulness",
"dishonesty",
"duplicity",
"fraudulence"
],
"near antonyms":[
"fact",
"truism",
"verity",
"honesty",
"truthfulness",
"veracity",
"authentication",
"confirmation",
"substantiation",
"validation",
"verification"
],
"antonyms":[
"truth"
]
},
"the quality or state of being false":{
"examples":[
"scientists eventually demonstrated the falsehood of the claim that prehistoric fish did not evolve lungs and legs"
],
"synonyms":[
"erroneousness",
"fallaciousness",
"fallacy",
"falseness",
"falsity",
"untruth"
],
"near synonyms":[
"speciousness",
"spuriousness",
"deception",
"deceptiveness",
"delusion",
"inaccuracy",
"incorrectness",
"dishonesty",
"mendaciousness",
"mendacity",
"untruthfulness"
],
"near antonyms":[
"accuracy",
"actuality",
"correctness",
"factuality",
"factualness",
"genuineness",
"credibility",
"honesty",
"trustworthiness",
"truthfulness",
"veracity"
],
"antonyms":[
"truth",
"verity"
]
},
"the tendency to tell lies":{
"examples":[
"a cynic who believes that politics are a veritable fount of falsehood"
],
"synonyms":[
"deceit",
"deceitfulness",
"dishonesty",
"mendaciousness",
"mendacity",
"untruthfulness"
],
"near synonyms":[
"artifice",
"craft",
"craftiness",
"crookedness",
"cunning",
"dissembling",
"dissimulation",
"double-dealing",
"duplicity",
"fakery",
"foxiness",
"guile",
"guilefulness",
"insincerity",
"trickishness",
"wiliness",
"falseness",
"hypocrisy"
],
"near antonyms":[
"honor",
"incorruptibility",
"candidness",
"candor",
"frankness",
"good faith",
"plainspokenness",
"sincerity",
"straightforwardness",
"dependability",
"reliability",
"reliableness",
"trustworthiness",
"accuracy",
"objectivity",
"authenticity",
"correctness",
"genuineness",
"credibility"
],
"antonyms":[
"honesty",
"integrity",
"probity",
"truthfulness",
"veraciousness",
"veracity",
"verity"
]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"falters":{
"to show uncertainty about the right course of action":{
"examples":[
"William Lloyd Garrison never once faltered in his demand that slavery be unconditionally abolished"
],
"synonyms":[
"balances",
"dithers",
"halts",
"hangs back",
"hesitates",
"scruples",
"shilly-shallies",
"staggers",
"teeters",
"vacillates",
"wavers",
"wobbles",
"wabbles"
],
"near synonyms":[
"haws",
"hems",
"dallies",
"dawdles",
"delays",
"lingers",
"pauses",
"procrastinates",
"waits",
"backs down",
"chickens (out)",
"considers",
"debates",
"deliberates",
"ponders",
"weighs",
"oscillates",
"sways",
"equivocates",
"hedges",
"pussyfoots",
"waffles"
],
"near antonyms":[
"decides",
"budges",
"stirs",
"advances",
"continues"
],
"antonyms":[
"dives (in)",
"plunges (in)"
]
},
"to swing unsteadily back and forth or from side to side":{
"examples":[
"the cut tree seemed to falter for a moment before crashing to the ground"
],
"synonyms":[
"rocks",
"teeters",
"totters",
"wavers",
"wobbles",
"wabbles"
],
"near synonyms":[
"flounders",
"lurches",
"stumbles",
"toddles",
"quakes",
"quavers",
"quivers",
"shakes",
"shudders",
"trembles",
"vibrates",
"careens",
"reels",
"staggers",
"weaves"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"fairings":{
"something given to someone without expectation of a return":{
"examples":[
"business takes him to all corners of the globe, but he never fails to bring back fairings for the family back in London"
],
"synonyms":[
"bestowals",
"comps",
"donations",
"donatives",
"freebies",
"freebees",
"gifts",
"giveaways",
"handsels",
"lagniappes",
"largesses",
"presentations",
"presents"
],
"near synonyms":[
"alms",
"benefactions",
"beneficences",
"benevolences",
"charities",
"contributions",
"doles",
"handouts",
"oblations",
"offerings",
"philanthropies",
"tithes",
"boxes",
"care packages",
"foys",
"grants",
"subsidies",
"remembrances",
"tributes",
"valentines",
"bonuses",
"boons",
"windfalls",
"courtesies",
"favors",
"generosities",
"sacrifices",
"gratuities",
"propines",
"tips",
"awards",
"prizes",
"rewards",
"dowries",
"bequests",
"legacies"
],
"near antonyms":[
"advances",
"loans",
"bribes",
"douceurs",
"peace offerings",
"sops"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"facsimiles":{
"something or someone that strongly resembles another":{
"examples":[
"the family resemblance is so strong that the boy is virtually a pint-size facsimile of his father"
],
"synonyms":[
"alter egos",
"carbon copies",
"carbons",
"clones",
"counterparts",
"doppelg\u00e4ngers",
"doppelgangers",
"doubles",
"duplicates",
"duplications",
"fetches",
"images",
"likenesses",
"look-alikes",
"matches",
"mirror images",
"pictures",
"replicas",
"ringers",
"spits",
"spitting images",
"twins"
],
"near synonyms":[
"Chinese copies",
"effigies",
"portraits",
"portrayals",
"companions",
"fellows",
"mates",
"equals",
"equivalents",
"analogues",
"analogs",
"parallels"
],
"near antonyms":[
"antitheses",
"converses",
"opposites",
"reverses"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"something that is made to look exactly like something else":{
"examples":[
"this is not an antique copy of the Declaration of Independence but a modern facsimile"
],
"synonyms":[
"carbon copies",
"carbons",
"clones",
"copies",
"dummies",
"dupes",
"duplicates",
"duplications",
"imitations",
"mocks",
"reduplications",
"replicas",
"replications",
"reproductions"
],
"near synonyms":[
"counterfeits",
"fakes",
"forgeries",
"knockoffs",
"phonies",
"phoneys",
"rip-offs",
"rubber stamps",
"shams",
"miniatures",
"mock-ups",
"simulations",
"reconstructions",
"re-creations",
"images",
"likenesses",
"semblances",
"shadows",
"impressions",
"imprints",
"prints",
"approximations",
"reincarnations",
"versions",
"extras",
"reserves",
"spares"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[
"archetypes",
"originals",
"prototypes"
]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"failed (at)":{
"as in lost , missed":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"fell short (of)",
"missed",
"lost"
],
"near antonyms":[
"achieved",
"attained",
"bagged",
"chalked up",
"clocked (up)",
"gained",
"hit",
"logged",
"made",
"notched (up)",
"racked up",
"rang up",
"scored",
"won",
"acquired",
"captured",
"carried",
"drew",
"garnered",
"got",
"landed",
"obtained",
"procured",
"realized",
"secured",
"amounted (to)",
"approached",
"equaled",
"equalled",
"matched",
"measured up (to)",
"met",
"rivaled",
"rivalled",
"tied",
"touched"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"fattens":{
"as in fills , battens":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"battens",
"fills",
"messes",
"force-feeds",
"overfeeds",
"surfeits",
"banquets",
"dines",
"feasts",
"regales",
"underfeeds",
"nourishes",
"nurtures",
"sustains",
"hand-feeds",
"spoon-feeds",
"serves",
"waits",
"refeeds",
"reprovisions",
"boards",
"caters",
"feeds",
"provisions",
"victuals"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"fanfare":{
"as in spectacle , pomp":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"dazzle",
"foofaraw",
"pageantry",
"pomp",
"razzle-dazzle",
"razzmatazz",
"spectacle",
"flamboyance",
"flash",
"flashiness",
"garishness",
"gaudiness",
"glitz",
"ostentation",
"ostentatiousness",
"pretentiousness",
"showiness",
"swank",
"pretense",
"pretence",
"\u00e9clat",
"extravaganza",
"mummery",
"pageant",
"parade",
"show",
"adornment",
"decoration",
"dressing",
"embellishment",
"garnishment",
"ornamentation",
"trimming",
"extravagance",
"fanciness",
"luxuriance",
"luxuriousness",
"magnificence",
"opulence",
"richness",
"sumptuousness",
"luridness",
"meretriciousness",
"tawdriness",
"vulgarity"
],
"near antonyms":[
"conservativeness",
"moderation",
"modesty",
"restraint",
"simplicity",
"understatement",
"elegance",
"gracefulness",
"tastefulness",
"minimalism",
"austerity",
"plainness",
"severity"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"fatal":{
"bringing about ruin or misfortune":{
"examples":[
"I made the fatal mistake of sharing my secret with the office's biggest blabbermouth"
],
"synonyms":[
"calamitous",
"cataclysmal",
"cataclysmic",
"catastrophic",
"damning",
"destructive",
"disastrous",
"fateful",
"ruinous",
"unfortunate"
],
"near synonyms":[
"apocalyptic",
"apocalyptical",
"hapless",
"ill-fated",
"ill-starred",
"luckless",
"adverse",
"baleful",
"baneful",
"damaging",
"deleterious",
"detrimental",
"evil",
"harmful",
"hurtful",
"ill",
"injurious",
"noxious",
"pernicious",
"prejudicial"
],
"near antonyms":[
"fluky",
"flukey",
"fortuitous",
"fortunate",
"happy",
"lucky",
"providential",
"auspicious",
"bright",
"encouraging",
"fair",
"golden",
"heartening",
"hopeful",
"optimistic",
"promising",
"propitious",
"rose-colored",
"rosy",
"upbeat"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"likely to cause or capable of causing death":{
"examples":[
"that snake's venom is fatal unless the victim is given the antidote almost immediately"
],
"synonyms":[
"baleful",
"deadly",
"deathly",
"fell",
"killer",
"lethal",
"mortal",
"murderous",
"pestilent",
"terminal",
"vital"
],
"near synonyms":[
"baneful",
"deleterious",
"destructive",
"harmful",
"injurious",
"noxious",
"pernicious",
"truculent",
"infectious",
"infective",
"pestilential",
"poisonous",
"sublethal",
"toxic",
"virulent",
"dangerous",
"grave",
"grievous",
"hazardous",
"jeopardizing",
"menacing",
"parlous",
"perilous",
"risky",
"serious",
"threatening",
"ugly",
"unhealthy",
"unsound",
"bloody",
"internecine",
"sanguinary",
"sanguine"
],
"near antonyms":[
"beneficial",
"restorative",
"salubrious",
"salutary",
"alleviative",
"corrective",
"curative",
"remedial",
"tonic",
"advantageous",
"beneficial",
"useful",
"nonpoisonous",
"nontoxic",
"safe"
],
"antonyms":[
"healthful",
"healthy",
"nonfatal",
"nonlethal",
"wholesome"
]
},
"type":[
"adjective"
]
},
"fancy":{
"made or done with great care or with much detail":{
"examples":[
"we're having a little get-together after the concert\u2014nothing fancy"
],
"synonyms":[
"complex",
"complicated",
"detailed",
"elaborate",
"intricate",
"involved",
"sophisticated"
],
"near synonyms":[
"elegant",
"exquisite",
"grand",
"magnificent",
"ornate",
"splendid",
"chichi",
"extravagant",
"exuberant",
"fancified",
"flamboyant",
"frilly",
"gimmicked (up)",
"grandiose",
"ostentatious",
"overwrought",
"showy",
"souped-up",
"Byzantine",
"convoluted",
"involute",
"involuted",
"labyrinthian",
"labyrinthine"
],
"near antonyms":[
"modest",
"plain",
"plain-Jane",
"plain-vanilla",
"uncomplicated",
"bald",
"bare",
"naked",
"unadorned",
"undecorated",
"unvarnished"
],
"antonyms":[
"no-frills",
"simple",
"unfancy",
"unsophisticated"
]
},
"going beyond a normal or acceptable limit in degree or amount":{
"examples":[
"decided they would rather go without dinner than pay the hotel restaurant's fancy prices"
],
"synonyms":[
"baroque",
"devilish",
"excessive",
"exorbitant",
"extravagant",
"extreme",
"immoderate",
"inordinate",
"insane",
"intolerable",
"lavish",
"overdue",
"overextravagant",
"overmuch",
"overweening",
"plethoric",
"steep",
"stiff",
"towering",
"unconscionable",
"undue",
"unmerciful"
],
"near synonyms":[
"boundless",
"endless",
"immeasurable",
"infinite",
"limitless",
"unbearable",
"unjustifiable",
"unwarranted",
"improper",
"inappropriate",
"thick",
"unseemly",
"unrestrained"
],
"near antonyms":[
"deficient",
"inadequate",
"insufficient",
"minimal",
"minimum"
],
"antonyms":[
"middling",
"moderate",
"modest",
"reasonable",
"temperate"
]
},
"a conception or image created by the imagination and having no objective reality":{
"examples":[
"a writer with a prodigious talent for creating fancies that captivate readers young and old"
],
"synonyms":[
"chimera",
"conceit",
"daydream",
"delusion",
"dream",
"fantasy",
"phantasy",
"figment",
"hallucination",
"illusion",
"nonentity",
"phantasm",
"fantasm",
"pipe dream",
"unreality",
"vision"
],
"near synonyms":[
"ignis fatuus",
"mirage",
"will-o'-the-wisp",
"brainchild",
"idea",
"concoction",
"fable",
"fabrication",
"fiction",
"invention",
"envisaging",
"imaging",
"visualization",
"cloud-cuckoo-land",
"cloudland",
"Shangri-la",
"utopia",
"daymare",
"nightmare"
],
"near antonyms":[
"actuality",
"fact",
"reality"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"a sudden impulsive and apparently unmotivated idea or action":{
"examples":[
"is this a serious interest in music, or just your latest fancy that will be forgotten after a week?"
],
"synonyms":[
"bee",
"caprice",
"crank",
"freak",
"humor",
"kink",
"maggot",
"megrim",
"notion",
"vagary",
"vagrancy",
"whim",
"whimsy",
"whimsey"
],
"near synonyms":[
"capriciousness",
"fancifulness",
"fantasy",
"phantasy",
"freakishness",
"impetuosity",
"whimsicality",
"conceit",
"concept",
"conception",
"image",
"impression",
"mind's eye",
"picture",
"thought",
"brainstorm",
"inspiration"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"positive regard for something":{
"examples":[
"now that he's rich he's taken a fancy to expensive sports cars"
],
"synonyms":[
"appetite",
"favor",
"fondness",
"like",
"liking",
"love",
"love affair",
"partiality",
"preference",
"relish",
"shine",
"taste",
"use"
],
"near synonyms":[
"craving",
"desire",
"hankering",
"longing",
"thirst",
"yen",
"enthusiasm",
"gusto",
"interest",
"passion",
"bias",
"prejudice",
"bent",
"inclination",
"leaning",
"propensity",
"tendency",
"tooth",
"palate",
"weakness"
],
"near antonyms":[
"apathy",
"disinclination",
"indifference",
"unconcern"
],
"antonyms":[
"aversion",
"disfavor",
"disgust",
"dislike",
"distaste",
"hatred",
"loathing",
"mislike"
]
},
"the ability to form mental images of things that either are not physically present or have never been conceived or created by others":{
"examples":[
"to fans of Lewis Carroll, the animal creations of his fertile fancy are as real as any creature to be found at the zoo"
],
"synonyms":[
"contrivance",
"creativity",
"fantasy",
"phantasy",
"ideation",
"imagination",
"imaginativeness",
"invention",
"inventiveness",
"originality"
],
"near synonyms":[
"brainstorm",
"brainstorming",
"inspiration",
"fecundity",
"fertility",
"ingenuity",
"resourcefulness",
"versatility",
"chimera",
"daydream",
"delusion",
"dream",
"figment",
"hallucination",
"illusion",
"mind's eye",
"mirage",
"phantasm",
"fantasm",
"pipe dream",
"envisaging",
"visualization"
],
"near antonyms":[
"literality",
"literalness"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to form a mental picture of":{
"examples":[
"try to fancy , if you can, our mother on an elephant when she was touring India"
],
"synonyms":[
"conceit",
"conceive",
"conjure (up)",
"dream",
"envisage",
"envision",
"fantasize",
"fantasy",
"feature",
"ideate",
"image",
"imagine",
"picture",
"see",
"vision",
"visualize"
],
"near synonyms":[
"daydream",
"stargaze",
"hallucinate",
"re-create",
"reflect",
"relive",
"reminisce",
"contemplate",
"meditate",
"muse",
"ponder",
"ruminate",
"concoct",
"fabricate",
"invent",
"make up",
"manufacture",
"plan",
"project",
"foresee",
"prefigure"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to take pleasure in":{
"examples":[
"the teacher didn't fancy the idea of failing the student, even if he was the class clown"
],
"synonyms":[
"adore",
"delight (in)",
"dig",
"enjoy",
"get off (on)",
"groove (on)",
"like",
"love",
"rejoice (in)",
"relish",
"revel (in)",
"savor",
"savour"
],
"near synonyms":[
"admire",
"appreciate",
"cherish",
"revere",
"venerate",
"worship",
"prize",
"treasure",
"value",
"devour",
"drink (in)",
"eat (up)",
"feast (on)",
"dote (on)",
"idolize",
"cotton (to)",
"favor",
"prefer",
"indulge (in)",
"luxuriate (in)",
"wallow (in)"
],
"near antonyms":[
"abhor",
"abominate",
"detest",
"dislike",
"hate",
"loathe",
"condemn",
"despise",
"scorn"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"adjective",
"noun",
"verb"
]
},
"fairy":{
"an imaginary being usually having a small human form and magical powers":{
"examples":[
"fairies are part of the folklore of many countries and cultures"
],
"synonyms":[
"brownie",
"dwarf",
"elf",
"faerie",
"faery",
"fay",
"gnome",
"goblin",
"gremlin",
"hobgoblin",
"kobold",
"leprechaun",
"pixie",
"pixy",
"puck",
"sprite",
"troll"
],
"near synonyms":[
"little people",
"kelpie",
"nixie",
"changeling",
"imp",
"banshee",
"ghoul",
"hag",
"ogre"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"as in dreamy , fairylike":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"dreamy",
"fairylike",
"cursed",
"curst",
"jinxed",
"possessed",
"fantastic",
"fantastical",
"miraculous",
"utopian",
"wondrous",
"bewitched",
"charmed",
"enchanted",
"entranced",
"magic",
"magical",
"spellbound",
"hypnotized",
"mesmerized",
"bedazzled",
"captivated",
"fascinated"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"adjective",
"noun"
]
},
"fairy godmothers":{
"one that helps another with gifts or money":{
"examples":[
"when it came time for the girl to go to college, Aunt Edna once again proved to be a reliable fairy godmother"
],
"synonyms":[
"angels",
"benefactors",
"donators",
"donors",
"Maecenases",
"patrons",
"sugar daddies"
],
"near synonyms":[
"benefactresses",
"patronesses",
"almoners",
"almsgivers",
"philanthropists",
"altruists",
"bestowers",
"contributors",
"givers",
"helpers",
"subscribers",
"supporters",
"guardian angels",
"protectors",
"saviors",
"saviours"
],
"near antonyms":[
"beneficiaries",
"donees",
"giftees",
"recipients"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"falling back on":{
"to use or seek out as a source of aid, relief, or advantage":{
"examples":[
"If your teaching career doesn't work out, you always have your baking skills to fall back on ."
],
"synonyms":[
"consulting",
"going (to)",
"referring (to)",
"resorting (to)",
"turning (to)"
],
"near synonyms":[
"employing",
"using",
"utilizing",
"depending (on)",
"relying (on)"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"phrase"
]
},
"fancy up":{
"to make more attractive by adding something that is beautiful or becoming":{
"examples":[
"had fancied up his van so much that it was virtually a palace on wheels"
],
"synonyms":[
"adorn",
"array",
"beautify",
"bedeck",
"bedizen",
"blazon",
"caparison",
"deck",
"decorate",
"do",
"do up",
"doll up",
"drape",
"dress",
"embellish",
"emblaze",
"emboss",
"enrich",
"fancify",
"festoon",
"garnish",
"glitz (up)",
"grace",
"gussy up",
"ornament",
"pretty (up)",
"trim"
],
"near synonyms":[
"accessorize",
"dress up",
"trap",
"trick (out)",
"brighten",
"freshen",
"smarten",
"spruce (up)",
"boss",
"chase",
"braid",
"embroider",
"feather",
"figure",
"filigree",
"fillet",
"flounce",
"frill",
"fringe",
"furbelow",
"garland",
"hang",
"lace",
"ribbon",
"swag",
"wreathe",
"appliqu\u00e9",
"gild",
"paint",
"diamond",
"gem",
"impearl",
"jewel",
"pearl",
"redecorate",
"redo"
],
"near antonyms":[
"simplify",
"streamline",
"bare",
"denude",
"dismantle",
"display",
"divest",
"expose",
"reveal",
"strip",
"uncover",
"uglify"
],
"antonyms":[
"blemish",
"deface",
"disfigure",
"mar",
"scar",
"spoil"
]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"farmhands":{
"as in harvesters , reapers":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"field hands",
"gleaners",
"harvesters",
"plowmen",
"reapers",
"agriculturists",
"agriculturalists",
"agronomists",
"cultivators",
"farmers",
"growers",
"planters",
"tillers",
"workfolks",
"crofters",
"croppers",
"gentlemen farmers",
"sharecroppers",
"subsistence farmers",
"tenant farmers",
"yeomen",
"homesteaders",
"nesters",
"grangers",
"rancheros",
"ranchers",
"ranchmen",
"campesinos"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"fast-talker":{
"as in slickster , slick":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"slick",
"slicker",
"slickster",
"slyboots",
"smoothy",
"smoothie",
"wheeler-dealer",
"adventurer",
"fox",
"gamesman",
"knave",
"prankster",
"rascal",
"rogue",
"plotter",
"schemer",
"sneak",
"sneaker",
"bluffer",
"charlatan",
"fake",
"faker",
"humbug",
"impostor",
"imposter",
"mountebank",
"phony",
"phoney",
"pretender",
"quack",
"quacksalver",
"ringer",
"sham",
"blackleg",
"cardsharp",
"cardsharper",
"double-crosser",
"double-dealer",
"bilk",
"bilker",
"cheat",
"cheater",
"chiseler",
"chiseller",
"confidence man",
"cozener",
"defrauder",
"dodger",
"fakir",
"finagler",
"fraudster",
"hoaxer",
"scammer",
"scamster",
"shark",
"sharper",
"sharpie",
"sharpy",
"skinner",
"swindler",
"tricker",
"trickster"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"favelas":{
"as in jungles , shantytowns":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"Hoovervilles",
"jungles",
"shantytowns",
"bivouacs",
"campgrounds",
"camps",
"campsites",
"encampments",
"hutments",
"canvases",
"canvasses",
"tentages",
"colonies",
"plantations",
"settlements",
"barracks",
"cantonments",
"installations",
"laagers",
"leaguers",
"posts"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"fathoms":{
"to measure the depth of (as a body of water) typically with a weighted line":{
"examples":[
"the pilot had to continually fathom the river, which drought conditions had lowered to unprecedented levels"
],
"synonyms":[
"plumbs",
"sounds"
],
"near synonyms":[
"gauges",
"gages",
"scales",
"spans",
"remeasures",
"replumbs"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"fatalistic":{
"having or showing a belief that the future is determined and cannot be changed":{
"examples":[
"His fatalistic outlook resulted in a lack of motivation to pursue a career."
],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"defeatist",
"nihilist",
"nihilistic",
"cynical",
"misanthropic",
"pessimistic",
"grim",
"distrustful",
"mistrustful",
"negative",
"negativist",
"negativistic",
"skeptical",
"suspicious",
"contrary",
"hostile",
"derisive",
"mocking",
"sardonic",
"scornful",
"dry",
"ironic",
"wry",
"bearish",
"despairing",
"downbeat",
"hopeless",
"bleak",
"cheerless",
"comfortless",
"depressing",
"desolate",
"dismal",
"dreary",
"funereal",
"gloomy",
"morose",
"saturnine",
"sepulchral",
"somber",
"sombre",
"sullen",
"desperate",
"discouraging",
"disheartening",
"inauspicious",
"unlikely",
"unpromising",
"jaded",
"sophisticated",
"worldly-wise"
],
"near antonyms":[
"cheerful",
"optimistic",
"positive",
"positivist",
"positivistic",
"rose-colored",
"hopeful",
"Panglossian",
"Pollyanna",
"Pollyannaish",
"Pollyannish",
"rosy",
"upbeat",
"cheery",
"chipper",
"sunny",
"idealistic",
"impractical",
"romantic",
"uncynical",
"idealist",
"utopian",
"visionary",
"cheering",
"comforting",
"reassuring",
"favorable",
"good",
"auspicious",
"bright",
"encouraging",
"fair",
"golden",
"heartening",
"likely",
"promising",
"propitious"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"adjective"
]
},
"factotums":{
"a person whose job involves doing many different types of work":{
"examples":[
"He was the office factotum ."
],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"assistants",
"attendants",
"companions",
"followers",
"dailies",
"domestics",
"flunkies",
"flunkeys",
"lackeys",
"menials",
"retainers",
"servants",
"stewards",
"butlers",
"footmen",
"grooms",
"houseboys",
"housemen",
"majordomos",
"men",
"menservants",
"servitors",
"valets",
"handmaidens",
"handmaids",
"housekeepers",
"housemaids",
"ladies-in-waiting",
"maids",
"maidservants",
"wenches",
"women",
"dogsbodies",
"drudges",
"gofers",
"gophers"
],
"near antonyms":[
"bosses",
"captains",
"chiefs",
"foremen",
"headmen",
"heads",
"helmsmen",
"kingpins",
"leaders",
"taskmasters",
"masters",
"mistresses"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"fallen down":{
"as in gone under":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"gone under",
"choked",
"cracked up",
"miscarried",
"misfired",
"imploded",
"self-destructed",
"crashed",
"cratered",
"crumbled",
"flamed out",
"declined",
"skidded",
"slipped",
"slumped",
"sunk",
"waned",
"floundered",
"struggled",
"languished",
"bombed",
"collapsed",
"failed",
"flopped",
"flunked",
"folded",
"foundered",
"missed",
"struck out",
"stricken out",
"washed out"
],
"near antonyms":[
"clicked",
"come off",
"delivered",
"gone",
"gone over",
"panned out",
"succeeded",
"worked out",
"caught on",
"flourished",
"prospered",
"thrived",
"thriven"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"falls from grace":{
"to commit an offense":{
"examples":[
"Once a successful entrepreneur, he fell from grace when accounts of his unethical business practices were revealed."
],
"synonyms":[
"errs",
"falls",
"offends",
"sins",
"strays",
"transgresses",
"trespasses",
"wanders"
],
"near synonyms":[
"breaches",
"breaks",
"infringes",
"violates",
"backslides",
"lapses",
"messes up"
],
"near antonyms":[
"forgives",
"justifies",
"pardons",
"regrets",
"repents",
"rues"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"phrase"
]
},
"facing":{
"as in cover , covering":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"cover",
"covering",
"facade",
"fa\u00e7ade",
"front",
"top",
"appearance",
"disguise",
"guise",
"mask",
"semblance",
"show",
"exterior",
"face",
"outside",
"shell",
"skin",
"surface",
"veneer"
],
"near antonyms":[
"inside",
"interior"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to stand or sit with the face or front toward":{
"examples":[
"the house faces the sparkling blue waters of the Pacific Ocean"
],
"synonyms":[
"fronting",
"looking (toward)",
"pointing (toward)"
],
"near synonyms":[
"abutting",
"adjoining",
"bordering",
"bounding",
"fringing",
"margining",
"meeting",
"neighboring",
"rimming",
"skirting",
"touching",
"commanding",
"dominating",
"overlooking",
"looking down (on)"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to oppose (something hostile or dangerous) with firmness or courage":{
"examples":[
"movie superheroes who are ever ready to face danger without blinking an eye"
],
"synonyms":[
"bearding",
"braving",
"brazening",
"breasting",
"confronting",
"daring",
"defying",
"outbraving",
"outfacing"
],
"near synonyms":[
"facing up (to)",
"fronting",
"affronting",
"challenging",
"encountering",
"meeting",
"accosting",
"approaching",
"cornering",
"repelling",
"resisting",
"standing",
"withstanding",
"battling",
"combating",
"combatting",
"contending (with)",
"fighting",
"opposing",
"squaring (off)"
],
"near antonyms":[
"avoiding",
"eschewing",
"shunning",
"eluding",
"escaping",
"evading",
"shaking"
],
"antonyms":[
"dodging",
"ducking",
"funking",
"shirking",
"sidestepping"
]
},
"to cover with something that protects":{
"examples":[
"we decided to face our old frame house with aluminum siding"
],
"synonyms":[
"cladding",
"sheathing"
],
"near synonyms":[
"appareling",
"apparelling",
"arraying",
"clothing",
"dressing",
"garbing",
"robing",
"siding",
"skinning",
"embosoming",
"embowering",
"embracing",
"encasing",
"enclosing",
"inclosing",
"encompassing",
"enshrouding",
"enveloping",
"enwrapping",
"investing",
"lapping",
"mantling",
"shrouding",
"surrounding",
"swathing",
"veiling",
"wrapping",
"blanketing",
"overlaying",
"overspreading"
],
"near antonyms":[
"baring",
"denuding",
"exposing",
"stripping",
"unswathing"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to enter into contest or conflict with":{
"examples":[
"the Boston Red Sox were eager to face their traditional rivals, the Yankees, in the play-offs"
],
"synonyms":[
"battling",
"encountering",
"engaging",
"meeting",
"taking on"
],
"near synonyms":[
"emulating",
"rivaling",
"rivalling",
"contending",
"fighting",
"opposing"
],
"near antonyms":[
"eluding",
"escaping",
"evading",
"retreating"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun",
"verb"
]
},
"falls apart":{
"to go through decomposition":{
"examples":[
"The old house was falling apart before the restoration."
],
"synonyms":[
"breaks down",
"corrupts",
"decays",
"decomposes",
"disintegrates",
"festers",
"fouls",
"molders",
"molds",
"perishes",
"putrefies",
"rots",
"spoils"
],
"near synonyms":[
"sours",
"turns",
"turns off",
"contaminates",
"defiles",
"pollutes",
"taints",
"addles",
"curdles",
"ferments",
"mortifies",
"rusts",
"crumbles",
"declines",
"degenerates",
"descends",
"deteriorates",
"dilapidates",
"sinks",
"withers"
],
"near antonyms":[
"ages",
"develops",
"grows",
"matures",
"ripens",
"refreshes",
"renews",
"restores",
"cleanses",
"purifies",
"assembles",
"composes",
"integrates",
"ameliorates",
"betters",
"improves",
"meliorates"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to yield to mental or emotional stress":{
"examples":[
"He fell apart after his wife left."
],
"synonyms":[
"breaks down",
"breaks up",
"cracks",
"flips (out)",
"freaks (out)",
"melts down",
"wigs (out)"
],
"near synonyms":[
"chokes"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"phrase"
]
},
"favoritism":{
"the unfair practice of treating some people better than others":{
"examples":[
"The favoritism of the boss led to many disgruntled employees.",
"He accused the teacher of showing favoritism in assigning grades."
],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"chauvinism",
"cronyism",
"nepotism",
"bias",
"favor",
"nonobjectivity",
"one-sidedness",
"partiality",
"parti pris",
"partisanship",
"ply",
"prejudice",
"tendentiousness",
"self-opinionatedness",
"self-partiality",
"bent",
"inclination",
"leaning",
"penchant",
"predilection",
"predisposition",
"proclivity",
"propensity",
"tendency",
"preconception",
"prejudgment",
"prepossession"
],
"near antonyms":[
"fairness",
"impartiality",
"neutrality",
"objectivity",
"open-mindedness",
"unbiasedness",
"calm",
"detachment",
"dispassion",
"indifference"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"fairyland":{
"as in wonderland , dreamland":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"dreamland",
"dreamworld",
"wonderland",
"Camelot",
"Cockaigne",
"Eden",
"Elysium",
"empyrean",
"fantasyland",
"heaven",
"lotusland",
"never-never land",
"New Jerusalem",
"nirvana",
"paradise",
"promised land",
"Shangri-la",
"utopia",
"Zion",
"Sion",
"arcadia",
"blessedness",
"bliss",
"blissfulness",
"euphoria",
"gladness",
"joy"
],
"near antonyms":[
"fool's paradise",
"anti-utopia",
"dystopia",
"hell"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"family way":{
"the state of containing unborn young within the body":{
"examples":[
"noticing the telltale bump, we guessed that she was in the family way again"
],
"synonyms":[
"gestation",
"gravidity",
"pregnancy"
],
"near synonyms":[
"conception",
"begetting",
"breeding",
"generation",
"procreation",
"siring",
"spawning"
],
"near antonyms":[
"barrenness",
"infertility"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"favorite sons":{
"as in crown princes":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"crown princes",
"dark horses",
"spoilers",
"stalking horses",
"claimants",
"pretenders",
"competitors",
"contestants",
"entrants",
"entries",
"favorites",
"qualifiers",
"nominees",
"running mates",
"applicants",
"appliers",
"aspirants",
"campaigners",
"candidates",
"contenders",
"expectants",
"hopefuls",
"prospects",
"seekers"
],
"near antonyms":[
"noncandidates",
"incumbents",
"officeholders",
"awardees",
"honorees",
"inductees",
"dropouts"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"favorite son":{
"as in crown prince":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"crown prince",
"dark horse",
"spoiler",
"stalking horse",
"claimant",
"pretender",
"competitor",
"contestant",
"entrant",
"entry",
"favorite",
"qualifier",
"nominee",
"running mate",
"applicant",
"applier",
"aspirant",
"campaigner",
"candidate",
"contender",
"expectant",
"hopeful",
"prospect",
"seeker"
],
"near antonyms":[
"noncandidate",
"incumbent",
"officeholder",
"awardee",
"honoree",
"inductee",
"dropout"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"favored":{
"granted special treatment or attention":{
"examples":[
"the youngest child was also the most favored \u2014much to the envy of his siblings"
],
"synonyms":[
"beloved",
"cherished",
"darling",
"dear",
"fair-haired",
"favorite",
"fond",
"loved",
"pet",
"precious",
"special",
"sweet",
"white-headed"
],
"near synonyms":[
"admired",
"adored",
"appreciated",
"esteemed",
"relished",
"revered",
"prized",
"treasured",
"preferred"
],
"near antonyms":[
"abhorred",
"abominated",
"despised",
"detested",
"disdained",
"disfavored",
"disliked",
"execrated",
"hated",
"loathed",
"unfavorite",
"abandoned",
"forgotten",
"ignored",
"alienated",
"estranged"
],
"antonyms":[
"unbeloved"
]
},
"singled out from a number or group as more to one's liking":{
"examples":[
"for a favored few, the restaurant always has a table available, no matter how busy it is"
],
"synonyms":[
"cherry-picked",
"choice",
"chosen",
"elect",
"favorite",
"first-line",
"handpicked",
"picked",
"preferred",
"select",
"selected"
],
"near synonyms":[
"fashionable",
"exclusive",
"culled",
"picked over",
"screened",
"weeded (out)",
"winnowed (out)"
],
"near antonyms":[
"average",
"common",
"commonplace",
"ordinary",
"run-of-the-mill"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to do a service or favor for":{
"examples":[
"although she was at the party as a guest, the singer favored us with a song"
],
"synonyms":[
"accommodated",
"obliged"
],
"near synonyms":[
"humored",
"indulged",
"coddled",
"mollycoddled",
"pampered",
"appeased",
"conciliated",
"mollified",
"pacified",
"placated",
"delighted",
"gladdened",
"gratified",
"pleased",
"satisfied",
"abetted",
"aided",
"assisted",
"helped",
"supported",
"attended",
"cared (for)",
"comforted",
"ministered (to)",
"relieved",
"succored"
],
"near antonyms":[
"bothered",
"discommoded",
"disturbed",
"incommoded",
"inconvenienced",
"troubled",
"burdened",
"encumbered",
"saddled",
"weighed",
"deserted",
"disappointed",
"failed",
"let down",
"constrained",
"hampered",
"hamstrung",
"held back",
"hindered",
"hobbled",
"impeded",
"obstructed",
"restrained",
"frustrated",
"opposed",
"sabotaged",
"thwarted"
],
"antonyms":[
"disobliged"
]
},
"to have a favorable opinion of":{
"examples":[
"if this measure will reduce our property taxes, then I favor it"
],
"synonyms":[
"accepted",
"approved (of)",
"cared (for)",
"countenanced",
"OK'd",
"okayed",
"subscribed (to)"
],
"near synonyms":[
"acclaimed",
"applauded",
"lauded",
"praised",
"saluted",
"backed (up)",
"concurred (in)",
"stood by",
"supported",
"sustained",
"upheld",
"bore",
"endured",
"tolerated",
"assented (to)",
"consented (to)",
"commended",
"recommended",
"enjoyed",
"liked"
],
"near antonyms":[
"blacklisted",
"censured",
"condemned",
"criticized",
"damned",
"denounced",
"deprecated",
"depreciated",
"disparaged",
"reprehended",
"reprobated",
"disliked",
"minded",
"detested",
"hated",
"loathed",
"dissented (from)",
"objected (to)",
"opposed"
],
"antonyms":[
"disapproved (of)",
"discountenanced",
"disfavored",
"frowned (on or upon)"
]
},
"to show partiality toward":{
"examples":[
"older moviegoers tend to favor films that have certain extras\u2014like a plot and developed characters"
],
"synonyms":[
"cared (for)",
"leaned (toward or towards)",
"liked",
"preferred"
],
"near synonyms":[
"adored",
"cottoned (to)",
"delighted (in)",
"dug",
"enjoyed",
"fancied",
"grooved (on)",
"relished",
"reveled (in)",
"revelled (in)",
"chose",
"culled",
"handpicked",
"named",
"picked",
"selected",
"singled (out)",
"took",
"coveted",
"craved",
"desired",
"hankered (for or after)",
"wanted",
"wished (for)",
"biased",
"biassed",
"prejudiced",
"inclined (toward)",
"tended (to)",
"admired",
"appreciated",
"cherished",
"prized",
"treasured",
"valued"
],
"near antonyms":[
"disfavored",
"disliked",
"misliked",
"abhorred",
"abominated",
"detested",
"hated",
"loathed",
"declined",
"refused",
"rejected",
"turned down",
"discarded",
"jettisoned",
"threw away",
"threw out"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to furnish freely or naturally with some power, quality, or attribute":{
"examples":[
"favored with good looks"
],
"synonyms":[
"blessed",
"blest",
"endowed",
"endued",
"indued",
"gifted",
"invested"
],
"near synonyms":[
"equipped",
"provided",
"supplied",
"bestowed (on or upon)",
"clothed",
"clad",
"conferred (on)",
"covered",
"accorded",
"awarded",
"granted",
"empowered",
"enabled",
"enhanced",
"enriched",
"heightened",
"bequeathed",
"willed"
],
"near antonyms":[
"dispossessed",
"divested",
"stripped",
"stript",
"depleted",
"drained",
"exhausted",
"skimped",
"stinted"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"adjective",
"verb"
]
},
"faded (away)":{
"as in gave out , melted (away)":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"evaporated",
"frittered (away)",
"gave out",
"melted (away)",
"petered (out)",
"tailed (off)",
"vanished",
"compressed",
"condensed",
"constricted",
"contracted",
"slackened",
"slowed (down)",
"abated",
"declined",
"decreased",
"de-escalated",
"died (away or down or out)",
"diminished",
"drained (away)",
"dropped (off)",
"dwindled",
"eased",
"ebbed",
"fell",
"fell away",
"lessened",
"let up",
"lowered",
"moderated",
"palled",
"phased down",
"ratcheted (down)",
"racheted (down)",
"receded",
"relented",
"remitted",
"shrank",
"shrunk",
"subsided",
"tapered",
"tapered off",
"waned",
"alleviated",
"relaxed",
"flagged",
"sank",
"sunk",
"weakened",
"caved (in)",
"collapsed",
"deflated"
],
"near antonyms":[
"accumulated",
"ballooned",
"built",
"burgeoned",
"bourgeoned",
"enlarged",
"escalated",
"expanded",
"grew",
"increased",
"intensified",
"mounted",
"mushroomed",
"picked up",
"rose",
"snowballed",
"soared",
"swelled",
"waxed",
"appeared",
"emerged",
"showed up",
"blew up",
"distended",
"elongated",
"lengthened"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"faugh":{
"used to express disgust":{
"examples":[
"faugh ! I will not tolerate such ill-mannered behavior in my house!"
],
"synonyms":[
"fie",
"phew",
"phooey",
"rats",
"ugh",
"yech",
"yecch",
"yuck",
"yuk"
],
"near synonyms":[
"ah",
"bah",
"boo",
"humph",
"pish",
"pooh",
"pshaw",
"sheesh",
"tush",
"tut",
"tut-tut",
"alack",
"alas",
"woe"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"interjection"
]
},
"fathead":{
"a stupid person":{
"examples":[
"so who's the fathead who messed around with my movie collection?"
],
"synonyms":[
"airhead",
"birdbrain",
"blockhead",
"bonehead",
"bubblehead",
"chowderhead",
"chucklehead",
"clodpoll",
"clodpole",
"clot",
"cluck",
"clunk",
"cretin",
"cuddy",
"cuddie",
"deadhead",
"dim bulb",
"dimwit",
"dip",
"dodo",
"dolt",
"donkey",
"doofus",
"dope",
"dork",
"dullard",
"dum-dum",
"dumbbell",
"dumbhead",
"dummkopf",
"dummy",
"dunce",
"dunderhead",
"gander",
"golem",
"goof",
"goon",
"half-wit",
"hammerhead",
"hardhead",
"idiot",
"ignoramus",
"imbecile",
"jackass",
"know-nothing",
"knucklehead",
"lamebrain",
"loggerhead",
"loon",
"lump",
"lunkhead",
"meathead",
"mome",
"moron",
"mug",
"mutt",
"natural",
"nimrod",
"nincompoop",
"ninny",
"ninnyhammer",
"nit",
"nitwit",
"noddy",
"noodle",
"numskull",
"numbskull",
"oaf",
"pinhead",
"prat",
"ratbag",
"saphead",
"schlub",
"shlub",
"schnook",
"simpleton",
"stock",
"stupe",
"stupid",
"thickhead",
"turkey",
"woodenhead",
"yahoo",
"yo-yo"
],
"near synonyms":[
"booby",
"buffoon",
"fool",
"goose",
"loony",
"lunatic",
"madman",
"nut",
"zany",
"loser",
"gawk",
"featherbrain",
"scatterbrain",
"beast",
"boor",
"cad",
"churl",
"clown",
"creep",
"cur",
"heel",
"jerk",
"skunk",
"snake",
"stinker",
"villain"
],
"near antonyms":[
"intellect",
"intellectual",
"sage",
"thinker",
"whiz",
"wizard",
"polymath",
"Renaissance man",
"sharpie",
"sharpy"
],
"antonyms":[
"brain",
"genius"
]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"fancily":{
"as in exceptionally , specially":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"exceptionally",
"specially",
"excellently",
"fabulously",
"finely",
"grandly",
"greatly",
"marvelously",
"superbly",
"superiorly",
"superlatively",
"terrifically",
"faultlessly",
"flawlessly",
"ideally",
"immaculately",
"impeccably",
"pat",
"perfectly"
],
"near antonyms":[
"amiss",
"badly",
"defectively",
"faultily",
"imperfectly",
"deficiently",
"inadequately",
"incompletely",
"insufficiently",
"fallibly",
"atrociously",
"execrably",
"wretchedly"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"as in ornately , swankily":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"ornately",
"swankily",
"flamboyantly",
"flashily",
"garishly",
"gaudily",
"loud",
"loudly",
"ostentatiously",
"gorgeously",
"richly",
"spectacularly",
"splendidly",
"strikingly",
"bravely",
"brightly",
"brilliantly",
"colorfully",
"gaily",
"gayly",
"dapperly",
"dashingly",
"gallantly",
"jazzily",
"nattily",
"neatly",
"pertly",
"smartly",
"snappily",
"spiffily",
"conspicuously",
"luridly",
"shockingly"
],
"near antonyms":[
"boringly",
"drably",
"dully",
"colorlessly",
"inconspicuously",
"unobtrusively",
"unpretentiously",
"chastely",
"demurely",
"modestly",
"conservatively",
"plainly",
"quietly",
"simply",
"bleakly",
"severely",
"somberly"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"adverb"
]
},
"fat":{
"individuals carefully selected as being the best of a class":{
"examples":[
"makers of fine wine will pay very high prices for grapes that are the fat of the harvest"
],
"synonyms":[
"A-list",
"aristocracy",
"best",
"choice",
"corps d'elite",
"cream",
"cr\u00e8me de la cr\u00e8me",
"elect",
"elite",
"flower",
"illuminati",
"pick",
"pink",
"pride",
"priesthood",
"prime",
"royalty",
"upper crust"
],
"near synonyms":[
"establishment",
"gentry",
"nobility",
"quality",
"society",
"top",
"top drawer",
"upper class",
"caviar",
"caviare",
"who's who"
],
"near antonyms":[
"commoners",
"herd",
"hoi polloi",
"masses",
"millions",
"mob",
"multitude",
"rank and file",
"unwashed"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"the state or an instance of going beyond what is usual, proper, or needed":{
"examples":[
"claimed that there was absolutely no fat in the military's budget"
],
"synonyms":[
"bellyful",
"excess",
"overabundance",
"overage",
"overflow",
"overkill",
"overmuch",
"overplus",
"oversupply",
"plethora",
"plus",
"redundancy",
"superabundance",
"superfluity",
"surfeit",
"surplus",
"surplusage"
],
"near synonyms":[
"abundance",
"bounty",
"plentitude",
"plenty",
"profusion",
"sufficiency",
"overproduction",
"overstock"
],
"near antonyms":[
"dearth",
"lack",
"scarcity",
"want"
],
"antonyms":[
"deficiency",
"deficit",
"insufficiency",
"undersupply"
]
},
"the condition of having an excess of body fat":{
"examples":[
"there's a definite predisposition for fat on his wife's side of the family"
],
"synonyms":[
"adiposity",
"chubbiness",
"corpulence",
"corpulency",
"embonpoint",
"fatness",
"fattiness",
"fleshiness",
"grossness",
"obesity",
"plumpness",
"portliness",
"pudginess",
"pursiness",
"rotundity",
"weight"
],
"near synonyms":[
"bulkiness",
"heaviness",
"huskiness",
"stoutness",
"brawniness",
"burliness",
"endomorphy"
],
"near antonyms":[
"fitness",
"trimness",
"gauntness",
"scrawniness",
"skinniness",
"weediness"
],
"antonyms":[
"leanness",
"reediness",
"slenderness",
"slimness",
"svelteness",
"thinness"
]
},
"having an excess of body fat":{
"examples":[
"the popular image of Santa Claus as a fat man in a red suit"
],
"synonyms":[
"blubbery",
"chubby",
"corpulent",
"fleshy",
"full",
"gross",
"lardy",
"obese",
"overweight",
"plump",
"podgy",
"portly",
"pudgy",
"replete",
"roly-poly",
"rotund",
"round",
"tubby"
],
"near synonyms":[
"beefy",
"bulky",
"chunky",
"heavy",
"heavyset",
"plumpish",
"stocky",
"stout",
"thick",
"thickset",
"weighty",
"brawny",
"burly",
"hefty",
"husky",
"dumpy",
"squat",
"stubby",
"hippy",
"paunchy",
"potbellied",
"flabby",
"soft",
"ample",
"buxom",
"corn-fed",
"ripe",
"zaftig",
"zoftig",
"endomorphic"
],
"near antonyms":[
"angular",
"bony",
"boney",
"gaunt",
"lank",
"lanky",
"rawboned",
"sinewy",
"cadaverous",
"emaciated",
"haggard",
"pinched",
"skeletal",
"wasted",
"puny",
"scraggy",
"scrawny",
"slight",
"rangy",
"reedy",
"spindling",
"spindly",
"stringy",
"svelte",
"sylphlike",
"twiggy",
"waspish",
"weedy",
"willowy",
"ectomorphic",
"anorexic"
],
"antonyms":[
"lean",
"skinny",
"slender",
"slim",
"spare",
"thin"
]
},
"containing or seeming to contain the greatest quantity or number possible":{
"examples":[
"the lake is so fat with trout that you probably could catch fish with a bare hook"
],
"synonyms":[
"brimful",
"brimming",
"bursting",
"chock-full",
"chockful",
"chockablock",
"crammed",
"crowded",
"filled",
"full",
"jam-packed",
"jammed",
"loaded",
"packed",
"stuffed"
],
"near synonyms":[
"overcrowded",
"overfilled",
"overflowing",
"overfull",
"overladen",
"overloaded",
"overstuffed",
"abounding",
"flush",
"fraught",
"replete",
"rife",
"swarming",
"teeming"
],
"near antonyms":[
"deficient",
"inadequate",
"incomplete",
"insufficient",
"short",
"shortish",
"shy",
"wanting",
"depleted",
"drained",
"exhausted"
],
"antonyms":[
"bare",
"blank",
"devoid",
"empty",
"stark",
"vacant",
"void"
]
},
"having a greater than usual measure across":{
"examples":[
"a set of fat encyclopedia volumes took up the whole shelf"
],
"synonyms":[
"broad",
"thick",
"wide"
],
"near synonyms":[
"expansive",
"extensive",
"sweeping",
"commodious",
"roomy",
"spacious",
"outsize",
"outsized",
"oversize",
"oversized",
"sizable",
"sizeable",
"substantial",
"tidy",
"voluminous"
],
"near antonyms":[
"fine",
"hairlike",
"reedlike",
"elongate",
"elongated",
"needlelike",
"bottleneck",
"close",
"compressed",
"condensed",
"constricted",
"contracted",
"squeezed",
"tight",
"tightened",
"attenuate",
"attenuated",
"small",
"smallish",
"undersized",
"undersize"
],
"antonyms":[
"hairline",
"narrow",
"paper-thin",
"skinny",
"slender",
"slim",
"slim-jim",
"thin"
]
},
"having or being of relatively great depth or extent from one surface to its opposite":{
"examples":[
"the splendid sight of a fat , juicy steak cooked to perfection"
],
"synonyms":[
"chunky",
"thick"
],
"near synonyms":[
"blockish",
"blocky",
"bulky",
"dense",
"hefty",
"thickish",
"broad",
"deep",
"wide"
],
"near antonyms":[
"narrow",
"shallow"
],
"antonyms":[
"skinny",
"slender",
"slim",
"thin"
]
},
"producing abundantly":{
"examples":[
"the fat soil in the river's delta"
],
"synonyms":[
"cornucopian",
"fecund",
"fertile",
"fructuous",
"fruitful",
"lush",
"luxuriant",
"productive",
"prolific",
"rich"
],
"near synonyms":[
"bearing",
"generative",
"producing",
"yielding",
"abounding",
"abundant",
"bountiful",
"copious",
"generous",
"liberal",
"plenteous",
"plentiful",
"plenitudinous",
"blooming",
"bursting",
"flourishing",
"swarming",
"teeming",
"thriving",
"creative",
"inventive",
"original"
],
"near antonyms":[
"meager",
"meagre",
"scant",
"scanty",
"skimp",
"skimpy",
"spare",
"sparse"
],
"antonyms":[
"barren",
"dead",
"infertile",
"sterile",
"unfertile",
"unfruitful",
"unproductive"
]
},
"yielding a profit":{
"examples":[
"the highly sought-after baseball player signed a fat contract that set a record for the major leagues"
],
"synonyms":[
"economic",
"gainful",
"juicy",
"lucrative",
"money-spinning",
"moneymaking",
"paying",
"profitable",
"remunerative"
],
"near synonyms":[
"advantageous",
"beneficial",
"favorable",
"rewarding",
"useful",
"worthwhile",
"bankable"
],
"near antonyms":[
"disadvantageous",
"unfavorable"
],
"antonyms":[
"unprofitable"
]
},
"having goods, property, or money in abundance":{
"examples":[
"while others suffered and sacrificed, the war profiteers grew fat"
],
"synonyms":[
"affluent",
"deep-pocketed",
"fat-cat",
"flush",
"loaded",
"moneyed",
"monied",
"opulent",
"rich",
"silk-stocking",
"wealthy",
"well-endowed",
"well-fixed",
"well-heeled",
"well-off",
"well-to-do"
],
"near synonyms":[
"better-off",
"comfortable",
"propertied",
"prosperous",
"substantial",
"successful",
"flourishing",
"prospering",
"thriving",
"advantaged",
"blessed",
"blest",
"privileged"
],
"near antonyms":[
"unaffluent",
"deprived",
"disadvantaged",
"hand-to-mouth",
"underprivileged",
"bankrupt",
"bankrupted",
"beggared",
"broke",
"indebted",
"insolvent",
"pauperized",
"ruined",
"skint",
"depressed",
"pinched",
"reduced",
"straitened",
"low",
"short"
],
"antonyms":[
"destitute",
"impecunious",
"impoverished",
"indigent",
"needy",
"penniless",
"penurious",
"poor",
"poverty-stricken"
]
},
"type":[
"adjective",
"noun"
]
},
"fail-safes":{
"a measure taken to preclude loss or injury":{
"examples":[
"there are so many fail-safes built into the system that a highly unlikely series of mistakes would have to be made before failure could occur"
],
"synonyms":[
"cautions",
"palladia",
"precautions",
"preventives",
"safeguards"
],
"near synonyms":[
"armors",
"covers",
"guards",
"protections",
"screens",
"shields",
"walls",
"wards"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"fall out":{
"to express different opinions about something often angrily":{
"examples":[
"club members were soon falling out about how to spend the money they'd made washing cars"
],
"synonyms":[
"altercate",
"argue",
"argufy",
"bicker",
"brabble",
"brawl",
"controvert",
"dispute",
"fight",
"hassle",
"jar",
"quarrel",
"quibble",
"row",
"scrap",
"spat",
"squabble",
"tiff",
"wrangle"
],
"near synonyms":[
"challenge",
"dare",
"defy",
"clash",
"contend",
"contest",
"tangle",
"cavil",
"fuss",
"nitpick",
"consider",
"debate",
"discuss",
"kick",
"object",
"protest"
],
"near antonyms":[
"coexist",
"get along",
"accept",
"agree",
"assent",
"concur",
"consent"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to come to be":{
"examples":[
"I had planned to have a sports career, but things fell out otherwise"
],
"synonyms":[
"come out",
"pan out",
"prove",
"shake out",
"turn out"
],
"near synonyms":[
"develop",
"emerge",
"evolve",
"germinate",
"play out",
"unfold",
"work out"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"as in ripple , blowback":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"blowback",
"by-product",
"offshoot",
"ripple",
"side effect",
"side reaction",
"spin-off",
"afterclap",
"afterglow",
"aftershock",
"denouement",
"d\u00e9nouement",
"echo",
"implication",
"repercussion",
"ramification",
"aftereffect",
"aftermath",
"backwash",
"child",
"conclusion",
"consequence",
"corollary",
"development",
"effect",
"fate",
"fruit",
"issue",
"outcome",
"outgrowth",
"precipitate",
"product",
"result",
"resultant",
"sequel",
"sequence",
"upshot"
],
"near antonyms":[
"antecedent",
"causation",
"cause",
"occasion",
"reason",
"consideration",
"determinant",
"factor",
"base",
"basis",
"foundation",
"ground",
"groundwork",
"impetus",
"incentive",
"inspiration",
"instigation",
"stimulus",
"mother",
"origin",
"root",
"source",
"spring"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun",
"verb"
]
},
"fazing":{
"to throw into a state of self-conscious distress":{
"examples":[
"the collapse of part of the scenery didn't faze the actors one bit, and they just carried on"
],
"synonyms":[
"abashing",
"confounding",
"confusing",
"discomfiting",
"disconcerting",
"discountenancing",
"embarrassing",
"flustering",
"mortifying",
"nonplussing",
"nonplusing",
"rattling"
],
"near synonyms":[
"agitating",
"bothering",
"chagrining",
"discomforting",
"discomposing",
"dismaying",
"disquieting",
"distressing",
"disturbing",
"perturbing",
"putting off",
"putting out",
"unhinging",
"unsettling",
"upsetting",
"debasing",
"degrading",
"demeaning",
"humbling",
"humiliating",
"queering",
"shaming"
],
"near antonyms":[
"calming",
"comforting",
"consoling",
"relieving",
"soothing",
"buoying",
"cheering",
"emboldening",
"encouraging",
"heartening",
"assuring",
"reassuring"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"fallen in with":{
"to come or be together as friends":{
"examples":[
"She quickly fell in with a group of students at her new school."
],
"synonyms":[
"associated",
"chummed",
"companied",
"consociated",
"consorted",
"fraternized",
"hobnobbed",
"hooked up",
"hung (around or out)",
"hanged (around or out)",
"messed around",
"palled (around)",
"run",
"sorted",
"traveled",
"travelled"
],
"near synonyms":[
"affiliated",
"allied",
"attached",
"banded",
"bonded",
"clubbed",
"collaborated",
"colluded",
"confederated",
"conjoined",
"connected",
"cooperated",
"coupled",
"ganged",
"got along",
"gotten along",
"got on",
"gotten on",
"grouped",
"interrelated",
"joined",
"knotted",
"leagued",
"linked",
"mingled",
"mixed",
"rallied",
"related",
"sided",
"socialized",
"teamed",
"tied",
"wedded",
"wed",
"befriended",
"friended"
],
"near antonyms":[
"avoided",
"cold-shouldered",
"shunned",
"snubbed",
"alienated",
"estranged",
"broken up",
"disbanded",
"dispersed",
"split (up)",
"disjoined",
"dissociated",
"disunited",
"divorced",
"severed",
"split",
"sundered"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to be in agreement on every point":{
"examples":[
"The proposal fell right in with our ideas for creating new leadership opportunities."
],
"synonyms":[
"accorded",
"agreed",
"answered",
"checked",
"chorded",
"cohered",
"coincided",
"comported",
"conformed",
"consisted",
"corresponded",
"dovetailed",
"fitted",
"fit",
"gone",
"harmonized",
"jibed",
"rhymed",
"rimed",
"sorted",
"squared",
"tallied"
],
"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 act according to the commands of":{
"examples":[
"She fell in with the strict new regimen with relative ease."
],
"synonyms":[
"adhered (to)",
"complied (with)",
"conformed (to)",
"followed",
"goose-stepped (to)",
"minded",
"obeyed",
"observed"
],
"near synonyms":[
"deferred (to)",
"submitted (to)",
"surrendered (to)",
"yielded (to)",
"acceded (to)",
"acquiesced (to)",
"agreed (to)",
"assented (to)",
"attended",
"heard",
"heeded",
"listened (to)",
"marked",
"noted",
"noticed",
"regarded",
"taken",
"watched"
],
"near antonyms":[
"disobliged",
"challenged",
"dared",
"refused",
"renounced",
"repudiated",
"directed",
"led",
"brushed (off)",
"disregarded",
"ignored",
"overlooked",
"overpassed",
"passed over",
"tuned out",
"winked (at)",
"dismissed",
"pooh-poohed",
"poohed",
"shrugged off",
"breached",
"broken",
"infringed",
"transgressed",
"violated",
"derided",
"flouted",
"mocked",
"scoffed (at)",
"scorned",
"mutinied (against)",
"revolted (against)",
"bucked",
"combated",
"combatted",
"contested",
"disputed",
"fought",
"opposed",
"resisted",
"withstood"
],
"antonyms":[
"defied",
"disobeyed",
"rebelled (against)"
]
},
"type":[
"phrase"
]
},
"fallen for":{
"to feel passion, devotion, or tenderness for":{
"examples":[
"It's hard not to fall for a woman like that."
],
"synonyms":[
"adored",
"cherished",
"loved",
"worshipped",
"worshiped"
],
"near synonyms":[
"adulated",
"canonized",
"deified",
"idealized",
"idolized",
"revered",
"reverenced",
"venerated",
"delighted (in)",
"doted (on)"
],
"near antonyms":[
"antagonized",
"displeased",
"disapproved (of)",
"disfavored",
"disliked",
"disgusted",
"nauseated",
"repelled",
"repulsed",
"revolted",
"sickened",
"turned off"
],
"antonyms":[
"abhorred",
"abominated",
"despised",
"detested",
"execrated",
"hated",
"loathed"
]
},
"type":[
"phrase"
]
},
"fancy Dans":{
"as in popinjays , coxcombs":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"coxcombs",
"popinjays",
"Beau Brummells",
"beaux",
"beaus",
"bucks",
"dandies",
"dudes",
"fops",
"gallants",
"jays",
"lounge lizards",
"macaronis",
"pretty boys",
"blades",
"cavaliers",
"dashers",
"clotheshorses",
"exquisites",
"swells"
],
"near antonyms":[
"slobs",
"slovens"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"fattiness":{
"the condition of having an excess of body fat":{
"examples":[
"the fattiness of the cattle"
],
"synonyms":[
"adiposity",
"chubbiness",
"corpulence",
"corpulency",
"embonpoint",
"fat",
"fatness",
"fleshiness",
"grossness",
"obesity",
"plumpness",
"portliness",
"pudginess",
"pursiness",
"rotundity",
"weight"
],
"near synonyms":[
"bulkiness",
"heaviness",
"huskiness",
"stoutness",
"brawniness",
"burliness",
"endomorphy"
],
"near antonyms":[
"fitness",
"trimness",
"gauntness",
"scrawniness",
"skinniness",
"weediness"
],
"antonyms":[
"leanness",
"reediness",
"slenderness",
"slimness",
"svelteness",
"thinness"
]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"falls short":{
"to be unsuccessful":{
"examples":[
"The movie fell short of its viewers' expectations."
],
"synonyms":[
"bombs",
"collapses",
"craters",
"fails",
"flames out",
"flops",
"flunks",
"folds",
"founders",
"misses",
"strikes out",
"tanks",
"washes out"
],
"near synonyms":[
"flounders",
"struggles",
"declines",
"sinks",
"skids",
"slips",
"slumps",
"wanes",
"crashes",
"crumbles",
"miscarries",
"misfires",
"goes under",
"implodes",
"self-destructs"
],
"near antonyms":[
"cooks",
"flourishes",
"prospers",
"thrives",
"prevails",
"triumphs",
"wins"
],
"antonyms":[
"clicks",
"comes off",
"delivers",
"goes",
"goes over",
"pans out",
"succeeds",
"works out"
]
},
"to go wrong":{
"examples":[
"The biography falls short by neglecting to explore the subject's faults as well as his virtues."
],
"synonyms":[
"miscarries",
"misfires"
],
"near synonyms":[
"misses",
"breaks down",
"busts",
"conks (out)",
"crashes",
"dies",
"fails",
"founders",
"stalls",
"bombs",
"fizzles",
"flames out",
"flops",
"flunks",
"folds",
"washes out",
"flounders",
"struggles",
"declines",
"skids",
"slips",
"slumps",
"tanks",
"wanes"
],
"near antonyms":[
"prevails",
"succeeds",
"flourishes",
"prospers",
"thrives"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"phrase"
]
},
"fans (out)":{
"to arrange the parts of (something) over a wider area":{
"examples":[
"the accordionist smoothly fanned out the bellows of his instrument as he played"
],
"synonyms":[
"expands",
"extends",
"flares (out)",
"opens",
"outspreads",
"outstretches",
"spreads (out)",
"stretches (out)",
"unfolds",
"unfurls"
],
"near synonyms":[
"overspreads"
],
"near antonyms":[
"compacts",
"compresses",
"condenses",
"reduces"
],
"antonyms":[
"closes",
"contracts",
"folds"
]
},
"to extend outwards from or as if from a central point":{
"examples":[
"most of the city's subway lines fan out from this central station"
],
"synonyms":[
"branches",
"radiates",
"rays"
],
"near synonyms":[
"diffuses",
"dispels",
"disperses",
"dissipates",
"forks",
"stems",
"diverges",
"divides",
"parts",
"ramifies",
"separates",
"splits",
"uncouples",
"unlinks",
"unyokes",
"scatters",
"splays",
"spreads",
"arises",
"derives",
"emanates",
"flows",
"issues",
"proceeds",
"springs"
],
"near antonyms":[
"approaches",
"closes in (on)",
"nears",
"centers (on)",
"centralizes",
"connects",
"couples",
"joins",
"links",
"unites"
],
"antonyms":[
"concentrates",
"converges",
"focuses",
"focusses",
"funnels",
"meets"
]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"farce":{
"a poor, insincere, or insulting imitation of something":{
"examples":[
"the recall of a duly elected official for a frivolous reason is not democracy in action but a farce"
],
"synonyms":[
"caricature",
"cartoon",
"joke",
"mockery",
"parody",
"sham",
"travesty"
],
"near synonyms":[
"burlesque",
"comedy",
"lampoon",
"takeoff",
"counterfeit",
"fake",
"feigning",
"forgery",
"hoax",
"humbug",
"knockoff",
"phony",
"phoney",
"pretense",
"pretence",
"simulation"
],
"near antonyms":[
"homage",
"tribute"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"humorous entertainment":{
"examples":[
"the rubber-faced, loose-jointed comedian is a master of knockabout farce"
],
"synonyms":[
"comedy",
"humor",
"slapstick"
],
"near synonyms":[
"high comedy",
"low comedy",
"burlesque",
"parody",
"satire",
"improv",
"stand-up",
"banter",
"drollery",
"persiflage",
"wit",
"foolery",
"fun",
"horseplay",
"knockabout",
"monkeyshine(s)",
"shenanigan(s)"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"faking":{
"to imitate or copy especially in order to deceive":{
"examples":[
"pranksters faked giant footprints and then claimed that they had seen Bigfoot"
],
"synonyms":[
"counterfeiting",
"forging",
"phonying"
],
"near synonyms":[
"simulating",
"duplicating",
"reduplicating",
"replicating",
"reproducing",
"cribbing",
"plagiarizing",
"adulterating",
"doctoring",
"fudging",
"juggling",
"manipulating",
"tampering (with)",
"concocting",
"cooking (up)",
"fabricating",
"inventing"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to present a false appearance of":{
"examples":[
"while running for class president, Dan was not above faking friendship with people just to get their votes"
],
"synonyms":[
"acting",
"affecting",
"assuming",
"bluffing",
"counterfeiting",
"dissembling",
"feigning",
"passing (for)",
"pretending",
"professing",
"putting on",
"shamming",
"simulating"
],
"near synonyms":[
"dissimulating",
"impersonating",
"letting on",
"masquerading",
"playacting",
"playing",
"posing",
"forging",
"imitating",
"camouflaging",
"concealing",
"disguising",
"masking",
"feinting",
"malingering"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to perform, make, or do without preparation":{
"examples":[
"if you give me the gist of the plan, I can probably fake enough for the speech"
],
"synonyms":[
"ad-libbing",
"clapping (together or up)",
"extemporizing",
"improvising"
],
"near synonyms":[
"concocting",
"contriving",
"cooking (up)",
"devising",
"fabricating",
"hatching",
"inventing",
"making up",
"manufacturing",
"thinking (up)",
"cobbling (together or up)",
"dashing (off)"
],
"near antonyms":[
"arranging",
"laying",
"preparing",
"readying",
"considering",
"contemplating",
"pondering",
"studying",
"exercising",
"practicing",
"practising",
"rehearsing"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to elude (an opponent in a sports contest) by making a deceptive or agile movement":{
"examples":[
"the running back faked the defense by stepping to his left and then quickly cutting to the right"
],
"synonyms":[
"dekeing",
"faking out",
"juking"
],
"near synonyms":[
"dodging",
"evading",
"sidestepping",
"slipping",
"pump-faking",
"stutter-stepping",
"maneuvering (around)"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"fables":{
"a story intended to teach a basic truth or moral about life":{
"examples":[
"this classic Christmas film is essentially a fable showing how every person's life has meaning and touches the lives of others"
],
"synonyms":[
"allegories",
"apologues",
"parables"
],
"near synonyms":[
"beast fables",
"bestiaries",
"morality plays",
"legends",
"mythologies",
"myths",
"narratives",
"tales"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"a traditional but unfounded story that gives the reason for a current custom, belief, or fact of nature":{
"examples":[
"according to an ancient fable the waters of the mountain spring are the tears of a woman weeping for her lost children"
],
"synonyms":[
"legends",
"mythoi",
"myths"
],
"near synonyms":[
"allegories",
"parables",
"fabrications",
"fantasies",
"phantasies",
"fictions",
"figments",
"inventions",
"narratives",
"sagas",
"stories",
"tales",
"yarns"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"something that is the product of the imagination":{
"examples":[
"the stories of lost cities of gold may have been fables deliberately concocted by Native Americans to dupe the Spanish"
],
"synonyms":[
"fabrications",
"fantasies",
"phantasies",
"fictions",
"figments",
"inventions"
],
"near synonyms":[
"anecdotes",
"anecdota",
"narratives",
"novels",
"stories",
"tales",
"yarns",
"fairy tales",
"falsehoods",
"falsities",
"fibs",
"lies",
"mendacities",
"misrepresentations",
"prevarications",
"untruths",
"whoppers",
"make-believe"
],
"near antonyms":[
"actualities"
],
"antonyms":[
"facts",
"materialities",
"realities"
]
},
"a statement known by its maker to be untrue and made in order to deceive":{
"examples":[
"the fables that people tell themselves to rationalize their failures and shortcomings"
],
"synonyms":[
"fabrications",
"fairy tales",
"falsehoods",
"falsities",
"fibs",
"lies",
"mendacities",
"prevarications",
"stories",
"tales",
"taradiddles",
"tarradiddles",
"untruths",
"whoppers"
],
"near synonyms":[
"distortions",
"exaggerations",
"half-truths",
"ambiguities",
"equivocations",
"obliquities",
"defamations",
"libels",
"slanders",
"perjuries",
"bluffs",
"fictions",
"poses",
"pretenses",
"pretences",
"humbug",
"jives",
"nonsense",
"canards",
"fallacies",
"misconceptions",
"myths",
"falsifications",
"misinformation",
"misreports",
"misrepresentations",
"misstatements",
"deceits",
"dishonesties",
"duplicities",
"fraudulences"
],
"near antonyms":[
"facts",
"truisms",
"verities",
"honesties",
"veracities",
"authentications",
"confirmations",
"substantiations",
"validations",
"verifications"
],
"antonyms":[
"truths"
]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"fared":{
"to meet one's day-to-day needs":{
"examples":[
"residents of the flood-ravaged town are faring much better than one might have expected"
],
"synonyms":[
"coped",
"did",
"got along",
"got by",
"got on",
"made out",
"managed",
"shifted"
],
"near synonyms":[
"carried on",
"contrived",
"scraped (by or through)",
"scrounged",
"lasted",
"survived",
"eked out",
"scraped (out)",
"squeezed",
"wrested",
"wrung",
"afforded",
"swung"
],
"near antonyms":[
"collapsed",
"failed",
"fell short",
"fizzled",
"floundered",
"declined",
"petered (out)",
"slumped",
"waned",
"gave up"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to move forward along a course":{
"examples":[
"families can be seen faring along the road to the campground while driving or towing all manner of conveyance"
],
"synonyms":[
"advanced",
"came",
"came along",
"did",
"forged",
"got along",
"got on",
"marched",
"paced",
"proceeded",
"progressed",
"went",
"went along",
"went off"
],
"near synonyms":[
"accelerated",
"fast-forwarded",
"sped",
"speeded",
"approached",
"neared",
"journeyed",
"passed",
"ran",
"run",
"repaired",
"traveled",
"travelled",
"wended",
"actuated",
"drove",
"impelled",
"propelled",
"pushed",
"took out"
],
"near antonyms":[
"arrested",
"balked",
"blocked",
"checked",
"detained",
"halted",
"held back",
"hindered",
"impeded",
"nipped",
"obstructed",
"slowed (down or up)",
"stemmed",
"repressed",
"retarded",
"stunted",
"suppressed",
"delayed",
"interrupted",
"stalled",
"cramped",
"hampered",
"inhibited",
"ceased",
"let up",
"paused",
"regressed",
"waited"
],
"antonyms":[
"remained",
"stayed",
"stood",
"stopped"
]
},
"to take a meal":{
"examples":[
"diners at this charming country inn will fare sumptuously in an authentic colonial atmosphere"
],
"synonyms":[
"ate",
"dined",
"fed",
"partook",
"refreshed",
"victualed",
"victualled"
],
"near synonyms":[
"banqueted",
"feasted",
"repasted",
"chowed (down)",
"dug in",
"glutted",
"gorged",
"gormandized",
"overate",
"overfed",
"pigged out",
"grazed",
"nibbled",
"noshed",
"picked",
"snacked",
"boarded",
"dined out",
"messed",
"breakfasted",
"lunched",
"supped",
"picnicked"
],
"near antonyms":[
"dieted",
"fasted"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"fallen (off)":{
"to turn away from a straight line or course":{
"examples":[
"the coastline falls off toward the north after you round the bay"
],
"synonyms":[
"arced",
"arched",
"bent",
"bowed",
"crooked",
"curved",
"hooked",
"rounded",
"swept",
"swerved",
"trended",
"wheeled"
],
"near synonyms":[
"circled",
"coiled",
"curled",
"curlicued",
"looped",
"spiraled",
"spiralled",
"turned",
"twisted",
"wound",
"winded",
"deviated",
"veered"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[
"straightened"
]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"falls back":{
"to move back or away (as from something difficult, dangerous, or disagreeable)":{
"examples":[
"resistance from native forces was greater than expected, and the invading army was forced to fall back"
],
"synonyms":[
"backs away",
"drops back",
"pulls out",
"recedes",
"retires",
"retreats",
"withdraws"
],
"near synonyms":[
"flees",
"flies",
"flinches",
"recoils",
"shrinks",
"chickens (out)",
"bows out",
"backpedals",
"backs down",
"backtracks",
"climbs down",
"detaches",
"disengages",
"disentangles",
"pulls away",
"abandons",
"departs",
"evacuates",
"goes",
"leaves",
"quits",
"vacates"
],
"near antonyms":[
"beards",
"braves",
"brazens",
"breasts",
"confronts",
"dares",
"defies",
"faces",
"outbraves"
],
"antonyms":[
"advances"
]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"failing (at)":{
"as in losing , missing":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"falling short (of)",
"missing",
"losing"
],
"near antonyms":[
"achieving",
"attaining",
"bagging",
"chalking up",
"clocking (up)",
"gaining",
"hitting",
"logging",
"making",
"notching (up)",
"racking up",
"ringing up",
"scoring",
"winning",
"acquiring",
"capturing",
"carrying",
"drawing",
"garnering",
"getting",
"landing",
"obtaining",
"procuring",
"realizing",
"securing",
"amounting (to)",
"approaching",
"equaling",
"equalling",
"matching",
"measuring up (to)",
"meeting",
"rivaling",
"rivalling",
"touching",
"tying",
"tieing"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"faiths":{
"a body of beliefs and practices regarding the supernatural and the worship of one or more deities":{
"examples":[
"the city of Jerusalem is sacred to three faiths : Christianity, Islam, and Judaism"
],
"synonyms":[
"credos",
"creeds",
"cults",
"persuasions",
"religions"
],
"near synonyms":[
"churches",
"communions",
"denominations",
"sects",
"doctrines",
"dogmas",
"dogmata",
"theologies",
"deisms",
"heathenisms",
"monotheisms",
"paganisms",
"pantheisms",
"polytheisms",
"theisms"
],
"near antonyms":[
"agnosticism",
"know-nothingisms",
"atheisms",
"nonbeliefs",
"secularisms"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"mental conviction of the truth of some statement or the reality of some being or phenomenon":{
"examples":[
"she has complete faith that the universe is controlled by a benevolent Supreme Being with a master plan"
],
"synonyms":[
"beliefs",
"credences",
"credits"
],
"near synonyms":[
"axioms",
"laws",
"precepts",
"principles",
"tenets",
"assurances",
"certainties",
"certitudes",
"convictions",
"confidences",
"dependences",
"dependances",
"reliances",
"trusts",
"hopes",
"doctrines",
"dogmas",
"dogmata",
"philosophies",
"dogmatisms",
"fanaticisms",
"insistences"
],
"near antonyms":[
"distrust",
"mistrust",
"skepticism",
"suspicions",
"uncertainties"
],
"antonyms":[
"disbeliefs",
"discredit",
"doubts",
"nonbeliefs"
]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"faithless":{
"not true in one's allegiance to someone or something":{
"examples":[
"faithless friends who deserted him in his time of need"
],
"synonyms":[
"disloyal",
"false",
"fickle",
"inconstant",
"perfidious",
"recreant",
"traitorous",
"treacherous",
"unfaithful",
"untrue"
],
"near synonyms":[
"irresponsible",
"trustless",
"undependable",
"unreliable",
"untrustworthy",
"faltering",
"hesitant",
"vacillating",
"wavering",
"dubious",
"irresolute",
"uncertain",
"apathetic",
"dispassionate",
"uninterested"
],
"near antonyms":[
"dependable",
"dutiful",
"reliable",
"responsible",
"solid",
"tried",
"tried-and-true",
"trustable",
"trustworthy",
"trusty",
"unfaltering",
"unhesitating",
"unwavering",
"determined",
"intent",
"resolute",
"confirmed",
"dyed-in-the-wool",
"inveterate",
"sworn",
"ardent",
"avid",
"enthusiastic",
"fervent",
"fervid",
"impassioned",
"passionate"
],
"antonyms":[
"constant",
"dedicated",
"devoted",
"devout",
"down-the-line",
"faithful",
"fast",
"loyal",
"staunch",
"stanch",
"steadfast",
"steady",
"true"
]
},
"type":[
"adjective"
]
},
"fallibly":{
"as in imperfectly":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"imperfectly",
"misguidedly",
"extraneously",
"irrelevantly",
"meaninglessly",
"pointlessly",
"senselessly",
"amiss",
"erroneously",
"faultily",
"improperly",
"inaccurately",
"inappropriately",
"inaptly",
"incorrectly",
"mistakenly",
"unsuitably",
"wrongly",
"inadequately",
"insufficiently",
"undesirably",
"unsatisfactorily",
"foolishly",
"unwisely"
],
"near antonyms":[
"appropriately",
"aptly",
"correctly",
"fittingly",
"properly",
"right",
"rightly",
"suitably",
"well",
"infallibly",
"perfectly",
"germanely",
"meaningfully",
"pertinently",
"relevantly",
"sensibly",
"acceptably",
"adequately",
"satisfactorily",
"sufficiently",
"prudently",
"sagely",
"wisely"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"adverb"
]
},
"fairish":{
"of a level of quality that meets one's needs or standards":{
"examples":[
"did a fairish job of refinishing the old chest, especially since it was her first foray into furniture restoration"
],
"synonyms":[
"acceptable",
"adequate",
"all right",
"decent",
"fine",
"good",
"OK",
"okay",
"passable",
"respectable",
"satisfactory",
"serviceable",
"tolerable"
],
"near synonyms":[
"agreeable",
"bearable",
"endurable",
"sufferable",
"average",
"fair",
"indifferent",
"mediocre",
"middling",
"minimal",
"common",
"ordinary",
"run-of-the-mill",
"run-of-the-mine",
"run-of-mine",
"second-rate",
"so-so",
"standard",
"unexceptional",
"appropriate",
"correct",
"due",
"fitting",
"meet",
"proper",
"right",
"seemly",
"suitable",
"useful",
"worthy",
"gratifying",
"satisfying"
],
"near antonyms":[
"disagreeable",
"disreputable",
"improper",
"indecent",
"objectionable",
"unfit",
"unsuitable",
"unworthy",
"useless",
"wrong",
"bad",
"cheap",
"defective",
"faulty",
"imperfect",
"incomplete",
"lamentable",
"pitiful",
"shoddy",
"dissatisfying",
"insufficient",
"meager",
"meagre",
"mean",
"miserly",
"niggardly",
"poor",
"scanty",
"shabby",
"short",
"skimpy",
"spare",
"stingy",
"insufferable",
"intolerable",
"unbearable",
"unendurable",
"atrocious",
"execrable",
"miserable",
"vile",
"wretched",
"exceptional",
"exquisite",
"extreme",
"fancy",
"first-class",
"high-grade",
"matchless",
"maximized",
"maximum",
"optimal",
"optimum",
"peerless",
"preeminent",
"premium",
"special",
"supreme",
"unmatched",
"unparalleled",
"A1",
"bang-up",
"banner",
"boss",
"capital",
"classic",
"crackerjack",
"dandy",
"divine",
"fabulous",
"first-rate",
"grand",
"great",
"groovy",
"heavenly",
"jim-dandy",
"keen",
"marvelous",
"marvellous",
"mean",
"neat",
"nifty",
"noble",
"par excellence",
"prime",
"sensational",
"splendid",
"stellar",
"sterling",
"superb",
"superior",
"superlative",
"supernal",
"swell",
"terrific",
"tip-top",
"top",
"top-notch",
"unsurpassed",
"wonderful"
],
"antonyms":[
"deficient",
"inadequate",
"insufficient",
"lacking",
"unacceptable",
"unsatisfactory",
"wanting"
]
},
"type":[
"adjective"
]
},
"fanzines":{
"as in zines , magazines":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"books",
"bulletins",
"diurnals",
"gazettes",
"journals",
"magazines",
"mags",
"newspapers",
"organs",
"papers",
"periodicals",
"rags",
"reviews",
"serials",
"zines",
"annuals",
"bimonthlies",
"biweeklies",
"dailies",
"monthlies",
"quarterlies",
"semimonthlies",
"semiweeklies",
"triweeklies",
"weeklies",
"yearbooks",
"broadsides",
"editions",
"extras",
"sheets",
"supplements",
"tabloids",
"tabs",
"newsletters",
"newsmagazines",
"newsweeklies",
"digests",
"little magazines",
"pictorials",
"slicks"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"falseness":{
"lack of faithfulness especially to one's husband or wife":{
"examples":[
"so that their love would never know a moment of falseness , Thomas Jefferson promised his dying wife that he would never remarry"
],
"synonyms":[
"disloyalty",
"faithlessness",
"falsity",
"inconstancy",
"infidelity",
"perfidiousness",
"perfidy",
"unfaithfulness"
],
"near synonyms":[
"adultery",
"betrayal",
"double cross",
"double-dealing",
"duplicity",
"sellout",
"treachery",
"treason",
"deceit",
"deception",
"lying"
],
"near antonyms":[
"staunchness",
"steadfastness",
"dependability",
"reliability",
"honesty",
"trustworthiness"
],
"antonyms":[
"allegiance",
"constancy",
"devotedness",
"devotion",
"faith",
"faithfulness",
"fealty",
"fidelity",
"loyalty"
]
},
"the act or fact of violating the trust or confidence of another":{
"examples":[
"she could not believe that her so-called best friend could ever be guilty of such falseness"
],
"synonyms":[
"backstabbing",
"betrayal",
"business",
"disloyalty",
"double cross",
"faithlessness",
"falsity",
"infidelity",
"perfidy",
"sellout",
"treachery",
"treason",
"two-timing",
"unfaithfulness"
],
"near synonyms":[
"abandonment",
"desertion",
"deceit",
"deception",
"double-dealing",
"duplicity",
"guile",
"two-facedness",
"fraud",
"informing",
"lying",
"snitching",
"talebearing",
"trickery"
],
"near antonyms":[
"dependability",
"reliability",
"trustworthiness",
"defense",
"protection",
"safeguard",
"shield"
],
"antonyms":[
"allegiance",
"devotion",
"faithfulness",
"fealty",
"fidelity",
"loyalty",
"staunchness",
"steadfastness"
]
},
"the quality or state of being false":{
"examples":[
"the falseness of your reasoning is so blatant that it's no wonder you reached that absurd conclusion"
],
"synonyms":[
"erroneousness",
"fallaciousness",
"fallacy",
"falsehood",
"falsity",
"untruth"
],
"near synonyms":[
"speciousness",
"spuriousness",
"deception",
"deceptiveness",
"delusion",
"inaccuracy",
"incorrectness",
"dishonesty",
"mendaciousness",
"mendacity",
"untruthfulness"
],
"near antonyms":[
"accuracy",
"actuality",
"correctness",
"factuality",
"factualness",
"genuineness",
"credibility",
"honesty",
"trustworthiness",
"truthfulness",
"veracity"
],
"antonyms":[
"truth",
"verity"
]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"fantasms":{
"a conception or image created by the imagination and having no objective reality":{
"examples":[
"frightened by the phantasms of his own making"
],
"synonyms":[
"chimeras",
"conceits",
"daydreams",
"delusions",
"dreams",
"fancies",
"fantasies",
"phantasies",
"figments",
"hallucinations",
"illusions",
"nonentities",
"pipe dreams",
"unrealities",
"visions"
],
"near synonyms":[
"ignes fatui",
"mirages",
"will-o'-the-wisps",
"brainchildren",
"ideas",
"concoctions",
"fables",
"fabrications",
"fictions",
"inventions",
"visualizations",
"cloud-cuckoo-lands",
"cloudlands",
"Shangri-las",
"utopias",
"daymares",
"nightmares"
],
"near antonyms":[
"actualities",
"facts",
"realities"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"the soul of a dead person thought of especially as appearing to living people":{
"examples":[
"believed that she'd seen the phantasm of her father on the anniversary of his death"
],
"synonyms":[
"apparitions",
"bogeys",
"bogies",
"familiar spirits",
"ghosts",
"hants",
"haunts",
"materializations",
"phantoms",
"poltergeists",
"shades",
"shadows",
"specters",
"spectres",
"spirits",
"spooks",
"sprites",
"visions",
"visitants",
"wraiths"
],
"near synonyms":[
"angels",
"daimones",
"daimons",
"familiars",
"genies",
"genii",
"geniuses",
"genii",
"jinn",
"jinns",
"djinn",
"djinns",
"shaitans",
"doppelg\u00e4ngers",
"doppelgangers",
"doubles",
"fetches",
"lemures",
"manes",
"incubi",
"incubuses",
"lamiae",
"lamias",
"succubi",
"vampires",
"zombies",
"cacodemons",
"demons",
"daemons",
"devils",
"fiends",
"ghouls",
"imps"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"facilitative":{
"providing service or assistance":{
"examples":[
"managerial attitudes and practices that have proven to be highly facilitative of increased worker productivity"
],
"synonyms":[
"conducive",
"helpful",
"useful"
],
"near synonyms":[
"advantageous",
"beneficial",
"efficacious",
"favorable",
"productive",
"profitable",
"salutary",
"accommodating",
"obliging"
],
"near antonyms":[
"ineffective",
"ineffectual",
"adverse",
"disadvantageous",
"inconvenient",
"profitless",
"unfavorable"
],
"antonyms":[
"unhelpful",
"useless"
]
},
"tending to promote or assist the development of something":{
"examples":[
"a well-equipped laboratory facilitative to research"
],
"synonyms":[
"conducive"
],
"near synonyms":[
"advantageous",
"beneficial",
"favorable",
"helpful",
"profitable",
"propitious",
"salutary"
],
"near antonyms":[
"bad",
"damaging",
"deleterious",
"disadvantageous",
"harmful",
"injurious",
"unfavorable",
"unhelpful"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"adjective"
]
},
"fatherland":{
"the land of one's birth, residence, or citizenship":{
"examples":[
"though they had lived in their adopted country for many years, the immigrant families never broke their ties with the fatherland entirely"
],
"synonyms":[
"country",
"home",
"homeland",
"mother country",
"motherland",
"sod"
],
"near synonyms":[
"old country",
"community",
"neighborhood"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"fancify":{
"to make more attractive by adding something that is beautiful or becoming":{
"examples":[
"you could take a store-bought cake and fancify it so that it looks semi-homemade"
],
"synonyms":[
"adorn",
"array",
"beautify",
"bedeck",
"bedizen",
"blazon",
"caparison",
"deck",
"decorate",
"do",
"do up",
"doll up",
"drape",
"dress",
"embellish",
"emblaze",
"emboss",
"enrich",
"fancy up",
"festoon",
"garnish",
"glitz (up)",
"grace",
"gussy up",
"ornament",
"pretty (up)",
"trim"
],
"near synonyms":[
"accessorize",
"dress up",
"trap",
"trick (out)",
"brighten",
"freshen",
"smarten",
"spruce (up)",
"boss",
"chase",
"braid",
"embroider",
"feather",
"figure",
"filigree",
"fillet",
"flounce",
"frill",
"fringe",
"furbelow",
"garland",
"hang",
"lace",
"ribbon",
"swag",
"wreathe",
"appliqu\u00e9",
"gild",
"paint",
"diamond",
"gem",
"impearl",
"jewel",
"pearl",
"redecorate",
"redo"
],
"near antonyms":[
"simplify",
"streamline",
"bare",
"denude",
"dismantle",
"display",
"divest",
"expose",
"reveal",
"strip",
"uncover",
"uglify"
],
"antonyms":[
"blemish",
"deface",
"disfigure",
"mar",
"scar",
"spoil"
]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"fallen":{
"no longer living":{
"examples":[
"let's take a moment to remember our fallen comrades"
],
"synonyms":[
"asleep",
"breathless",
"cold",
"dead",
"deceased",
"defunct",
"demised",
"departed",
"gone",
"late",
"lifeless",
"low"
],
"near synonyms":[
"extinct",
"dying",
"fading",
"moribund",
"stillborn",
"finished",
"lapsed",
"terminated",
"inanimate",
"insensate",
"nonliving"
],
"near antonyms":[
"animated",
"dynamic",
"lively",
"thriving",
"vibrant",
"vital",
"vivacious",
"active",
"functioning",
"operative",
"running"
],
"antonyms":[
"alive",
"animate",
"breathing",
"going",
"live",
"living",
"quick"
]
},
"to go down from an upright position suddenly and involuntarily":{
"examples":[
"better sand that walkway before somebody falls on the ice"
],
"synonyms":[
"slipped",
"stumbled",
"toppled",
"tripped",
"tumbled"
],
"near synonyms":[
"collapsed",
"crumpled",
"dropped",
"flumped",
"keeled",
"plopped",
"plunked",
"plonked",
"slumped (over)",
"crashed",
"free-fell",
"nose-dived",
"plummeted",
"plunged",
"precipitated",
"wiped out",
"skidded",
"slid"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[
"got up",
"gotten up",
"risen",
"stood (up)",
"uprisen"
]
},
"to yield to the control or power of enemy forces":{
"examples":[
"the city fell after weeks of merciless bombardment"
],
"synonyms":[
"capitulated",
"given up",
"knuckled under",
"submitted",
"succumbed",
"surrendered"
],
"near synonyms":[
"bowed",
"buckled",
"caved (in)",
"collapsed",
"given (in)",
"handed over",
"relinquished",
"lost",
"conceded",
"failed",
"folded"
],
"near antonyms":[
"bucked",
"defied",
"fought",
"opposed",
"repelled",
"resisted",
"withstood",
"beaten",
"beat",
"overcome",
"won",
"conquered",
"prevailed",
"triumphed"
],
"antonyms":[
"endured",
"stood"
]
},
"to go to a lower level especially abruptly":{
"examples":[
"word soon got out that the movie was no good, and box-office receipts fell like a rock"
],
"synonyms":[
"crashed",
"cratered",
"declined",
"descended",
"dipped",
"dived",
"dove",
"dropped",
"lowered",
"nose-dived",
"plummeted",
"plunged",
"skidded",
"sunk",
"tumbled"
],
"near synonyms":[
"abated",
"decreased",
"de-escalated",
"died (down)",
"diminished",
"drooped",
"dwindled",
"ebbed",
"lessened",
"let up",
"moderated",
"subsided",
"tapered off",
"waned",
"receded",
"retreated"
],
"near antonyms":[
"accumulated",
"ballooned",
"built",
"burgeoned",
"bourgeoned",
"enlarged",
"escalated",
"expanded",
"grown",
"increased",
"intensified",
"mushroomed",
"picked up",
"snowballed",
"swelled",
"swollen",
"waxed"
],
"antonyms":[
"arisen",
"ascended",
"lifted",
"mounted",
"risen",
"soared",
"spiked",
"upped"
]
},
"to grow less in scope or intensity especially gradually":{
"examples":[
"manufacturing in the area is falling , and closing signs are going up all over"
],
"synonyms":[
"abated",
"declined",
"decreased",
"de-escalated",
"died (away or down or out)",
"diminished",
"drained (away)",
"dropped (off)",
"dwindled",
"eased",
"ebbed",
"fallen away",
"lessened",
"let up",
"lowered",
"moderated",
"palled",
"phased down",
"ratcheted (down)",
"racheted (down)",
"receded",
"relented",
"remitted",
"shrunk",
"shrunken",
"subsided",
"tapered",
"tapered off",
"waned"
],
"near synonyms":[
"compressed",
"condensed",
"constricted",
"contracted",
"evaporated",
"faded (away)",
"frittered (away)",
"given out",
"melted (away)",
"petered (out)",
"tailed (off)",
"vanished",
"slackened",
"slowed (down)",
"alleviated",
"relaxed",
"flagged",
"sunk",
"weakened",
"caved (in)",
"collapsed",
"deflated"
],
"near antonyms":[
"appeared",
"emerged",
"shown up",
"showed up",
"blown up",
"distended",
"elongated",
"lengthened"
],
"antonyms":[
"accumulated",
"ballooned",
"built",
"burgeoned",
"bourgeoned",
"enlarged",
"escalated",
"expanded",
"grown",
"increased",
"intensified",
"mounted",
"mushroomed",
"picked up",
"risen",
"snowballed",
"soared",
"swelled",
"swollen",
"waxed"
]
},
"to lead or extend downward":{
"examples":[
"the lake bottom falls sharply just a few feet from the shoreline, so be careful"
],
"synonyms":[
"declined",
"descended",
"dipped",
"dropped",
"plunged",
"sunk"
],
"near synonyms":[
"angled",
"canted",
"cocked",
"heeled",
"inclined",
"leaned",
"listed",
"reclined",
"slanted",
"sloped",
"tilted",
"tipped"
],
"near antonyms":[
"evened",
"flattened",
"leveled",
"levelled",
"planed",
"smoothed",
"straightened"
],
"antonyms":[
"arisen",
"ascended",
"climbed",
"mounted",
"risen",
"uprisen",
"upswept",
"upturned"
]
},
"to undergo defeat":{
"examples":[
"not surprisingly, the novice player fell to a much stronger opponent"
],
"synonyms":[
"bowed out",
"lost"
],
"near synonyms":[
"faltered",
"tanked",
"thrown",
"forfeited",
"bombed",
"collapsed",
"cracked (up)",
"failed",
"flopped",
"flunked",
"folded",
"foundered",
"missed",
"struck out",
"stricken out",
"washed out"
],
"near antonyms":[
"flourished",
"prospered",
"succeeded",
"thrived",
"thriven"
],
"antonyms":[
"conquered",
"prevailed",
"triumphed",
"won"
]
},
"to commit an offense":{
"examples":[
"even saints can fall"
],
"synonyms":[
"erred",
"offended",
"sinned",
"strayed",
"transgressed",
"trespassed",
"wandered"
],
"near synonyms":[
"breached",
"broken",
"infringed",
"violated",
"backslid",
"backslidden",
"lapsed",
"messed up"
],
"near antonyms":[
"forgiven",
"justified",
"pardoned",
"regretted",
"repented",
"rued"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to stop living":{
"examples":[
"if their brave leader falls , the men will lose their courage"
],
"synonyms":[
"checked out",
"conked (out)",
"croaked",
"deceased",
"demised",
"departed",
"died",
"dropped",
"ended",
"exited",
"expired",
"flatlined",
"gone",
"kicked in",
"kicked off",
"parted",
"passed away",
"passed (on)",
"pegged out",
"perished",
"popped off",
"stepped out",
"succumbed"
],
"near synonyms":[
"predeceased",
"consumed",
"disappeared",
"dried up",
"faded",
"failed"
],
"near antonyms":[
"come to",
"revived",
"lingered",
"been",
"existed",
"subsisted",
"flourished",
"prospered",
"thrived",
"thriven"
],
"antonyms":[
"breathed",
"lived"
]
},
"type":[
"adjective",
"verb"
]
},
"fancy men":{
"a man who solicits clients for a woman who is willing to engage in sexual activities for money":{
"examples":[
"coppers arresting both the prostitute and her fancy man"
],
"synonyms":[
"cadets",
"panders",
"pimps",
"procurers"
],
"near synonyms":[
"mack daddies"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"fallaciousness":{
"the quality or state of being false":{
"examples":[
"the fallaciousness of that argument will be apparent as soon as we examine it"
],
"synonyms":[
"erroneousness",
"fallacy",
"falsehood",
"falseness",
"falsity",
"untruth"
],
"near synonyms":[
"speciousness",
"spuriousness",
"deception",
"deceptiveness",
"delusion",
"inaccuracy",
"incorrectness",
"dishonesty",
"mendaciousness",
"mendacity",
"untruthfulness"
],
"near antonyms":[
"accuracy",
"actuality",
"correctness",
"factuality",
"factualness",
"genuineness",
"credibility",
"honesty",
"trustworthiness",
"truthfulness",
"veracity"
],
"antonyms":[
"truth",
"verity"
]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"fasts":{
"as in diets":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"diets"
],
"near antonyms":[
"crams",
"gluts",
"gorges",
"sates",
"stuffs",
"surfeits",
"gobbles",
"gormandizes",
"pigs out",
"gulps",
"guzzles"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"fastbacks":{
"as in hardtops , hatchbacks":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"convertibles",
"hardtops",
"hatchbacks",
"notchbacks",
"ragtops",
"sports cars",
"sport-utility vehicles",
"station wagons",
"SUVs",
"town cars",
"wagons",
"woodies",
"coaches",
"jitneys",
"microbuses",
"microbusses",
"minibuses",
"minibusses",
"minivans",
"omnibuses",
"vans",
"compacts",
"coupes",
"coup\u00e9s",
"intermediates",
"limousines",
"minicars",
"minis",
"sedans",
"subcompacts",
"V-8s",
"automobiles",
"autos",
"buses",
"busses",
"cars",
"horseless carriages",
"machines",
"motorcars",
"motors",
"motor vehicles",
"wheels",
"gas-guzzlers",
"land yachts",
"muscle cars",
"stock cars",
"turbocars",
"beaters",
"clunkers",
"crates",
"flivvers",
"jalopies",
"junkers",
"cream puffs",
"phaetons",
"roadsters",
"tin lizzies",
"touring cars",
"hybrids"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"fastidiousness":{
"as in fussiness , daintiness":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"daintiness",
"finicalness",
"finickiness",
"fussiness",
"delicacy",
"qualmishness",
"queasiness",
"squeamishness"
],
"near antonyms":[
"indelicacy",
"boldness",
"gutsiness"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"farmlands":{
"as in croplands , farmyards":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"croplands",
"farmyards",
"estates",
"farms",
"farmsteads",
"granges",
"ranches",
"farmhouses",
"haciendas",
"homesteads",
"manors",
"plantations",
"spreads",
"crofts",
"smallholdings",
"stations",
"steadings",
"gardens",
"orchards"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"farthest":{
"most distant from a center":{
"examples":[
"for privacy and quiet, we requested a hotel room that was farthest from the elevator"
],
"synonyms":[
"extreme",
"farthermost",
"furthermost",
"furthest",
"outermost",
"outmost",
"remotest",
"ultimate",
"utmost"
],
"near synonyms":[
"aftermost",
"rearmost",
"sternmost"
],
"near antonyms":[
"intermediate",
"medial",
"median",
"mid",
"middle",
"midmost"
],
"antonyms":[
"inmost",
"innermost",
"nearest"
]
},
"as in far , away":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"away",
"far",
"remotest",
"before",
"formerly",
"long",
"once",
"then",
"heretofore",
"hitherto",
"since",
"ago",
"previously"
],
"near antonyms":[
"anymore",
"currently",
"now",
"nowadays",
"presently",
"right now",
"today",
"here",
"at present",
"for the time being"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"adjective",
"adverb"
]
},
"facsimile":{
"something or someone that strongly resembles another":{
"examples":[
"the family resemblance is so strong that the boy is virtually a pint-size facsimile of his father"
],
"synonyms":[
"alter ego",
"carbon",
"carbon copy",
"clone",
"counterpart",
"doppelg\u00e4nger",
"doppelganger",
"double",
"duplicate",
"duplication",
"fetch",
"image",
"likeness",
"look-alike",
"match",
"mirror image",
"picture",
"replica",
"ringer",
"spit",
"spitting image",
"twin"
],
"near synonyms":[
"Chinese copy",
"effigy",
"portrait",
"portrayal",
"companion",
"fellow",
"mate",
"equal",
"equivalent",
"analogue",
"analog",
"parallel"
],
"near antonyms":[
"antithesis",
"converse",
"opposite",
"reverse"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"something that is made to look exactly like something else":{
"examples":[
"this is not an antique copy of the Declaration of Independence but a modern facsimile"
],
"synonyms":[
"carbon",
"carbon copy",
"clone",
"copy",
"dummy",
"dupe",
"duplicate",
"duplication",
"imitation",
"mock",
"reduplication",
"replica",
"replication",
"reproduction"
],
"near synonyms":[
"counterfeit",
"fake",
"forgery",
"knockoff",
"phony",
"phoney",
"rip-off",
"rubber stamp",
"sham",
"miniature",
"mock-up",
"simulation",
"reconstruction",
"re-creation",
"image",
"likeness",
"semblance",
"shadow",
"impression",
"imprint",
"print",
"approximation",
"reincarnation",
"version",
"extra",
"reserve",
"spare"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[
"archetype",
"original",
"prototype"
]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"falling (in)":{
"as in declining (in) , tapering off":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"abating",
"declining (in)",
"diminishing (in)",
"dipping",
"dwindling",
"lessening",
"tapering",
"tapering off",
"decreasing (in)",
"losing"
],
"near antonyms":[
"building up",
"gaining",
"gathering",
"growing (in)",
"picking up",
"doubling (in)",
"tripling (in)",
"accruing",
"accumulating",
"amassing"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"fatherly":{
"as in motherly , brotherly":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"brotherly",
"motherly",
"sisterly",
"lovey-dovey",
"mushy",
"romantic",
"sappy",
"sentimental",
"enamored",
"infatuated",
"lovesick",
"amatory",
"amorous",
"erotic",
"erotical",
"ardent",
"fervent",
"impassioned",
"passionate",
"warm",
"caring",
"compassionate",
"considerate",
"cordial",
"doting",
"forgiving",
"friendly",
"humane",
"kind",
"understanding",
"warmhearted",
"adoring",
"affectionate",
"devoted",
"fond",
"loving",
"tender",
"tenderhearted"
],
"near antonyms":[
"unloving",
"aloof",
"antisocial",
"cold-eyed",
"cool",
"detached",
"distant",
"dry",
"frosty",
"hard-hearted",
"indifferent",
"offish",
"pitiless",
"remote",
"reserved",
"standoffish",
"unbending",
"uncaring",
"unfeeling",
"disaffected",
"unconcerned",
"uninvolved",
"cold",
"frigid",
"unfriendly",
"callous",
"cold-blooded",
"hard-boiled",
"heartless",
"pitiless",
"ruthless",
"soulless",
"unromantic",
"unsentimental"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"adjective"
]
},
"fabricated":{
"as in manufactured":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"manufactured",
"artificial",
"man-made",
"nonnatural",
"synthetic",
"cultivated",
"processed",
"refined",
"industrial",
"mechanical",
"ersatz",
"faux",
"imitation"
],
"near antonyms":[
"natural",
"crude",
"raw"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"as in fictional , fictitious":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"chimerical",
"chimeric",
"fantastic",
"fantastical",
"fictional",
"fictitious",
"famed",
"romanticized",
"storied",
"fanciful",
"imaginary",
"imagined",
"invented",
"made-up",
"make-believe",
"pretend",
"unreal",
"fabled",
"fabulous",
"legendary",
"mythical",
"mythic",
"allegorical",
"mythological",
"mythologic",
"semilegendary"
],
"near antonyms":[
"actual",
"existent",
"real",
"real-world",
"historical",
"factual",
"true",
"attested",
"authenticated",
"confirmed",
"established",
"proven",
"substantiated",
"validated",
"verified",
"authentic",
"bona fide",
"genuine",
"real-life"
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"to bring into being by combining, shaping, or transforming materials":{
"examples":[
"with a few inexpensive materials from a craft shop, we were able to fabricate our own holiday wreath"
],
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"formed",
"framed",
"made",
"manufactured",
"produced"
],
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"assembled",
"built",
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"erected",
"made up",
"put up",
"raised",
"reared",
"set up",
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"threw up",
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"handcrafted",
"hewed",
"forged",
"molded",
"shaped",
"cobbled (together or up)",
"knocked out",
"patched (together)",
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"created",
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"minted",
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"established",
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"organized",
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"cooked (up)",
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"devised",
"imagined",
"thought (up)",
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"remade",
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],
"near antonyms":[
"disassembled",
"dismantled",
"took apart",
"broke up",
"dismembered",
"abolished",
"annihilated",
"demolished",
"destroyed",
"devastated",
"eradicated",
"exterminated",
"extinguished",
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"pulverized",
"razed",
"ruined",
"shattered",
"smashed",
"wrecked",
"blew up",
"exploded"
],
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},
"to create or think of by clever use of the imagination":{
"examples":[
"fabricated a daring plan to create an underground explosion that would take the enemy totally by surprise"
],
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"concocted",
"constructed",
"contrived",
"cooked (up)",
"devised",
"drummed up",
"excogitated",
"invented",
"made up",
"manufactured",
"thought (up)",
"trumped up",
"vamped (up)"
],
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"coined",
"designed",
"hatched",
"produced",
"daydreamed",
"dreamed",
"dreamt",
"fantasized",
"conceived",
"envisaged",
"envisioned",
"imagined",
"pictured",
"visioned",
"visualized",
"ad-libbed",
"extemporized",
"improvised"
],
"near antonyms":[
"cloned",
"copied",
"copycatted",
"duplicated",
"imitated",
"mimicked",
"reduplicated",
"replicated",
"reproduced"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to form by putting together parts or materials":{
"examples":[
"the house was essentially fabricated at the factory and then shipped to the site for assembly"
],
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"assembled",
"built",
"confected",
"constructed",
"erected",
"made",
"made up",
"pieced",
"put up",
"raised",
"reared",
"set up"
],
"near synonyms":[
"carpentered",
"fashioned",
"forged",
"framed",
"hammered",
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"manufactured",
"molded",
"produced",
"shaped",
"prefabricated",
"began",
"coined",
"created",
"generated",
"inaugurated",
"initiated",
"innovated",
"invented",
"originated",
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"established",
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"founded",
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"devised",
"imagined",
"thought (up)",
"reassembled",
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"reconstructed",
"redeveloped",
"reedified",
"retrofitted",
"retrofit",
"jerry-built",
"rigged (up)",
"threw up",
"combined",
"united"
],
"near antonyms":[
"demolished",
"destroyed",
"devastated",
"flattened",
"leveled",
"levelled",
"pulled down",
"pulverized",
"razed",
"ruinated",
"ruined",
"shattered",
"smashed",
"wrecked",
"blew up",
"exploded",
"detached",
"disengaged",
"disconnected",
"disjoined",
"disunited",
"divided",
"separated"
],
"antonyms":[
"demounted",
"disassembled",
"dismantled",
"dismembered",
"knocked down",
"struck",
"took down",
"tore down"
]
},
"to make a statement one knows to be untrue":{
"examples":[
"since he didn't have a good excuse for not having done his homework, he would have to fabricate one"
],
"synonyms":[
"fibbed",
"lied",
"prevaricated"
],
"near synonyms":[
"forswore",
"foreswore",
"perjured",
"equivocated",
"fudged",
"paltered",
"beguiled",
"cozened",
"deceived",
"deluded",
"duped",
"fooled",
"gulled",
"hoaxed",
"hoodwinked",
"kidded",
"snowed",
"took in",
"tricked",
"defamed",
"libeled",
"libelled",
"slandered",
"traduced",
"falsified",
"misreported",
"misrepresented",
"misstated",
"distorted",
"garbled",
"dissembled",
"dissimulated",
"misguided",
"misinformed",
"misled"
],
"near antonyms":[
"asserted",
"swore",
"testified",
"authenticated",
"confirmed",
"substantiated",
"validated",
"verified"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"adjective",
"verb"
]
},
"falls (to)":{
"to take the first step in (a process or course of action)":{
"examples":[
"after some refreshments, she fell to working with renewed vigor"
],
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"begins",
"commences",
"embarks (on or upon)",
"enters (into or upon)",
"gets off",
"kicks off",
"launches",
"leads off",
"opens",
"starts",
"strikes (into)"
],
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"creates",
"generates",
"inaugurates",
"initiates",
"innovates",
"invents",
"originates",
"adopts",
"embraces",
"takes on",
"takes up",
"establishes",
"fathers",
"founds",
"institutes",
"organizes",
"pioneers",
"sets up",
"spawns",
"gets around (to)",
"gets down (to)",
"gets round (to)"
],
"near antonyms":[
"ceases",
"desists",
"discontinues",
"halts",
"knocks off",
"lays off",
"quits",
"stops",
"closes",
"completes",
"abandons",
"forsakes",
"leaves",
"abolishes",
"demolishes",
"destroys",
"exterminates",
"extinguishes",
"phases out"
],
"antonyms":[
"concludes",
"ends",
"finishes",
"terminates"
]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"family physician":{
"as in family doctor , general practitioner":{
"examples":[],
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"near synonyms":[
"family doctor",
"family practitioner",
"general practitioner",
"croaker",
"doc",
"doctor",
"medic",
"medico",
"physician",
"sawbones",
"anesthesiologist",
"dermatologist",
"gynecologist",
"internist",
"neurologist",
"ob-gyn",
"obstetrician",
"ophthalmologist",
"orthopedist",
"pathologist",
"pediatrician",
"pediatrist",
"physiatrist",
"podiatrist",
"radiologist",
"urologist",
"attending",
"clinician",
"hospitalist",
"specialist",
"plastic surgeon",
"surgeon",
"intern",
"interne",
"resident",
"aidman",
"nurse",
"nurse-practitioner",
"EMT",
"paramedic",
"paramedical",
"physical therapist",
"physiotherapist"
],
"near antonyms":[
"nondoctor",
"nonphysician"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"factor (in or into or out)":{
"as in allow (for) , figure in":{
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"near synonyms":[
"allow (for)",
"deduct",
"figure in",
"calibrate",
"gauge",
"gage",
"measure",
"scale",
"figure out",
"solve (for)",
"calculate",
"cipher",
"compute",
"figure",
"reckon",
"work out",
"quantify",
"quantitate",
"count",
"itemize",
"number",
"add up",
"average",
"sum",
"tally",
"total",
"totalize",
"add",
"divide",
"multiply",
"subtract",
"appraise",
"assess",
"estimate",
"evaluate",
"rate",
"value",
"recalculate",
"recompute",
"refigure"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[]
},
"fascinate":{
"to attract or delight as if by magic":{
"examples":[
"for years the zoo's family of giant pandas have fascinated visitors"
],
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"allure",
"beguile",
"bewitch",
"captivate",
"charm",
"enchant",
"kill",
"magnetize",
"wile",
"witch"
],
"near synonyms":[
"disarm",
"draw",
"entice",
"lure",
"pull",
"seduce",
"tempt",
"delight",
"gratify",
"please",
"arrest",
"enrapture",
"enthrall",
"enthral",
"entrance",
"appeal (to)",
"interest",
"intrigue",
"beckon",
"court",
"invite",
"solicit",
"woo"
],
"near antonyms":[
"disgust",
"offend",
"repel",
"revolt",
"annoy",
"displease",
"irk",
"bore",
"tire",
"weary"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to hold the attention of as if by a spell":{
"examples":[
"I can gaze at the sea for hours, fascinated by the never-ending waves crashing upon the shore"
],
"synonyms":[
"arrest",
"bedazzle",
"catch up",
"enchant",
"enthrall",
"enthral",
"grip",
"hypnotize",
"mesmerize",
"spellbind"
],
"near synonyms":[
"enrapture",
"entrance",
"thrill",
"beguile",
"bewitch",
"charm",
"absorb",
"engage",
"engross",
"involve"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to hold the attention of":{
"examples":[
"the subject of artificial intelligence fascinates me"
],
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"absorb",
"bemuse",
"busy",
"catch up",
"engage",
"engross",
"enthrall",
"enthral",
"enwrap",
"grip",
"immerse",
"interest",
"intrigue",
"involve",
"occupy"
],
"near synonyms":[
"allure",
"attract",
"beguile",
"bewitch",
"captivate",
"charm",
"enchant",
"obsess",
"hypnotize",
"mesmerize",
"distract",
"preoccupy",
"hog",
"monopolize"
],
"near antonyms":[
"bore",
"jade",
"pall",
"tire",
"weary"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"fabricators":{
"a person who tells lies":{
"examples":[
"he's been a fabricator for so long that it no longer occurs to him to tell the truth"
],
"synonyms":[
"fabulists",
"fibbers",
"liars",
"prevaricators",
"storytellers"
],
"near synonyms":[
"exaggerators",
"mythomaniacs",
"calumniators",
"defamers",
"libelers",
"libelists",
"slanderers",
"perjurers",
"distorters",
"falsifiers",
"equivocators",
"palterers",
"gossipers",
"gossips",
"talebearers",
"charlatans",
"cheaters",
"cheats",
"counterfeiters",
"cozeners",
"deceivers",
"defrauders",
"dissemblers",
"dissimulators",
"double-dealers",
"frauds",
"hustlers",
"knaves",
"mountebanks",
"operators",
"pretenders"
],
"near antonyms":[
"square shooters"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"fairies":{
"an imaginary being usually having a small human form and magical powers":{
"examples":[
"fairies are part of the folklore of many countries and cultures"
],
"synonyms":[
"brownies",
"dwarfs",
"dwarves",
"elves",
"faeries",
"fays",
"gnomes",
"goblins",
"gremlins",
"hobgoblins",
"kobolds",
"leprechauns",
"pixies",
"pucks",
"sprites",
"trolls"
],
"near synonyms":[
"little people",
"kelpies",
"nixies",
"changelings",
"imps",
"banshees",
"ghouls",
"hags",
"ogres"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"familiar spirit":{
"the soul of a dead person thought of especially as appearing to living people":{
"examples":[
"asked the spiritualist to summon the familiar spirit of her late mother for some matrimonial guidance"
],
"synonyms":[
"apparition",
"bogey",
"bogie",
"bogy",
"ghost",
"hant",
"haunt",
"materialization",
"phantasm",
"fantasm",
"phantom",
"poltergeist",
"shade",
"shadow",
"specter",
"spectre",
"spirit",
"spook",
"sprite",
"vision",
"visitant",
"wraith"
],
"near synonyms":[
"angel",
"daimon",
"familiar",
"genie",
"genius",
"jinni",
"jinn",
"djinni",
"djinn",
"shaitan",
"double",
"doppelg\u00e4nger",
"doppelganger",
"fetch",
"lemures",
"manes",
"incubus",
"lamia",
"succubus",
"vampire",
"zombie",
"zombi",
"cacodemon",
"demon",
"daemon",
"devil",
"fiend",
"ghoul",
"imp"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"facings":{
"as in covers , coverings":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"coverings",
"covers",
"facades",
"fa\u00e7ades",
"fronts",
"tops",
"appearances",
"disguises",
"guises",
"masks",
"semblances",
"shows",
"exteriors",
"faces",
"outsides",
"shells",
"skins",
"surfaces",
"veneers"
],
"near antonyms":[
"insides",
"interiors"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"falls flat":{
"to be unsuccessful":{
"examples":[
"Her performance fell flat despite weeks of rehearsing."
],
"synonyms":[
"bombs",
"collapses",
"craters",
"fails",
"flames out",
"flops",
"flunks",
"folds",
"founders",
"misses",
"strikes out",
"tanks",
"washes out"
],
"near synonyms":[
"flounders",
"struggles",
"declines",
"sinks",
"skids",
"slips",
"slumps",
"wanes",
"crashes",
"crumbles",
"miscarries",
"misfires",
"goes under",
"implodes",
"self-destructs"
],
"near antonyms":[
"cooks",
"flourishes",
"prospers",
"thrives",
"prevails",
"triumphs",
"wins"
],
"antonyms":[
"clicks",
"comes off",
"delivers",
"goes",
"goes over",
"pans out",
"succeeds",
"works out"
]
},
"to go wrong":{
"examples":[
"Their game plan fell flat when their star player suffered an injury."
],
"synonyms":[
"miscarries",
"misfires"
],
"near synonyms":[
"misses",
"breaks down",
"busts",
"conks (out)",
"crashes",
"dies",
"fails",
"founders",
"stalls",
"bombs",
"fizzles",
"flames out",
"flops",
"flunks",
"folds",
"washes out",
"flounders",
"struggles",
"declines",
"skids",
"slips",
"slumps",
"tanks",
"wanes"
],
"near antonyms":[
"prevails",
"succeeds",
"flourishes",
"prospers",
"thrives"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"phrase"
]
},
"falsifies":{
"to change so much as to create a wrong impression or alter the meaning of":{
"examples":[
"taking that statement completely out of context essentially falsifies it, whether that's your intention or not"
],
"synonyms":[
"bends",
"colors",
"cooks",
"distorts",
"fudges",
"garbles",
"misinterprets",
"misrelates",
"misrepresents",
"misstates",
"perverts",
"slants",
"twists",
"warps"
],
"near synonyms":[
"misdescribes",
"misspeaks",
"mistranslates",
"belies",
"camouflages",
"disguises",
"dissembles",
"glosses (over)",
"masks",
"veils",
"whitewashes",
"bowdlerizes",
"censors",
"complicates",
"confounds",
"confuses",
"mistakes",
"mixes (up)",
"mystifies",
"obscures",
"equivocates",
"fibs",
"lies",
"palters",
"prevaricates"
],
"near antonyms":[
"clarifies",
"clears (up)",
"explains",
"illuminates",
"illustrates",
"interprets",
"spells out",
"deciphers"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to prove to be false":{
"examples":[
"telephone records falsified his claim that he wasn't home that night"
],
"synonyms":[
"belies",
"confounds",
"confutes",
"debunks",
"disconfirms",
"discredits",
"disproves",
"rebuts",
"refutes",
"shoots down"
],
"near synonyms":[
"overthrows",
"overturns",
"challenges",
"contests",
"queries",
"questions",
"doubts",
"mistrusts",
"debates",
"discusses",
"hashes (over)",
"moots",
"talks over"
],
"near antonyms":[
"documents",
"evidences",
"evinces",
"records",
"shows",
"supports",
"witnesses",
"backs (up)",
"buttresses",
"corroborates",
"substantiates",
"adduces",
"attests",
"authenticates",
"certifies",
"identifies",
"demonstrates",
"displays",
"illustrates",
"manifests"
],
"antonyms":[
"confirms",
"establishes",
"proves",
"validates",
"verifies"
]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"factualness":{
"as in factuality , correctness":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"accuracy",
"actuality",
"correctness",
"factuality",
"genuineness",
"truth",
"verity",
"credibility",
"honesty",
"trustworthiness",
"truthfulness",
"veracity"
],
"near antonyms":[
"erroneousness",
"fallaciousness",
"fallacy",
"falsehood",
"falseness",
"falsity",
"untruth",
"speciousness",
"spuriousness",
"deception",
"deceptiveness",
"delusion"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"fading (away)":{
"as in giving out , melting (away)":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"evaporating",
"frittering (away)",
"giving out",
"melting (away)",
"petering (out)",
"tailing (off)",
"vanishing",
"compressing",
"condensing",
"constricting",
"contracting",
"slackening",
"slowing (down)",
"abating",
"declining",
"decreasing",
"de-escalating",
"diminishing",
"draining (away)",
"dropping (off)",
"dwindling",
"dying (away or down or out)",
"easing",
"ebbing",
"falling",
"falling away",
"lessening",
"letting up",
"lowering",
"moderating",
"palling",
"phasing down",
"ratcheting (down)",
"racheting (down)",
"receding",
"relenting",
"remitting",
"shrinking",
"subsiding",
"tapering",
"tapering off",
"waning",
"alleviating",
"relaxing",
"flagging",
"sinking",
"weakening",
"caving (in)",
"collapsing",
"deflating"
],
"near antonyms":[
"accumulating",
"ballooning",
"building",
"burgeoning",
"bourgeoning",
"enlarging",
"escalating",
"expanding",
"growing",
"increasing",
"intensifying",
"mounting",
"mushrooming",
"picking up",
"rising",
"snowballing",
"soaring",
"swelling",
"waxing",
"appearing",
"emerging",
"showing up",
"blowing up",
"distending",
"elongating",
"lengthening"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"farmhouses":{
"as in plantations , homesteads":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"haciendas",
"homesteads",
"manors",
"plantations",
"spreads",
"croplands",
"farmlands",
"farmyards",
"crofts",
"smallholdings",
"stations",
"steadings",
"estates",
"farms",
"farmsteads",
"granges",
"ranches",
"gardens",
"orchards"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"fallows":{
"as in plows , breaks":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"harrows",
"hoes",
"lists",
"rakes",
"rototills",
"breaks",
"furrows",
"plows",
"cultivates",
"tills"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"falter":{
"to show uncertainty about the right course of action":{
"examples":[
"William Lloyd Garrison never once faltered in his demand that slavery be unconditionally abolished"
],
"synonyms":[
"balance",
"dither",
"halt",
"hang back",
"hesitate",
"scruple",
"shilly-shally",
"stagger",
"teeter",
"vacillate",
"waver",
"wobble",
"wabble"
],
"near synonyms":[
"haw",
"hem",
"dally",
"dawdle",
"delay",
"linger",
"pause",
"procrastinate",
"wait",
"back down",
"chicken (out)",
"consider",
"debate",
"deliberate",
"ponder",
"weigh",
"oscillate",
"sway",
"equivocate",
"hedge",
"pussyfoot",
"waffle"
],
"near antonyms":[
"decide",
"budge",
"stir",
"advance",
"continue"
],
"antonyms":[
"dive (in)",
"plunge (in)"
]
},
"to swing unsteadily back and forth or from side to side":{
"examples":[
"the cut tree seemed to falter for a moment before crashing to the ground"
],
"synonyms":[
"rock",
"teeter",
"totter",
"waver",
"wobble",
"wabble"
],
"near synonyms":[
"flounder",
"lurch",
"stumble",
"toddle",
"quake",
"quaver",
"quiver",
"shake",
"shudder",
"tremble",
"vibrate",
"careen",
"reel",
"stagger",
"weave"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"faithfuls":{
"as in memberships , folds":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"folds",
"memberships",
"collectives",
"communes",
"communities",
"cooperatives",
"alliances",
"blocs",
"camps",
"coalitions",
"partnerships",
"bodies",
"cadres",
"groups",
"circles",
"clans",
"cliques",
"coteries",
"juntas",
"juntos",
"klatches",
"klatsches",
"lots",
"sets",
"crews",
"outfits",
"parties",
"squads",
"teams",
"branches",
"chapters",
"locals",
"sisterhoods",
"sororities",
"cabals",
"camarillas",
"camorras",
"confederacies",
"conspiracies"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"as in loyalists":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"loyalists",
"apostles",
"missionaries",
"proselytizers",
"soldiers",
"advocates",
"backers",
"champions",
"supporters",
"acolytes",
"adherents",
"converts",
"disciples",
"epigones",
"followers",
"liege men",
"partisans",
"partizans",
"pupils",
"votaries",
"votarists",
"prot\u00e9g\u00e9s",
"scholars",
"students",
"ideologists",
"ideologues",
"idealogues",
"sectarians",
"admirers",
"cultists",
"devotees",
"enthusiasts",
"fans",
"idolaters",
"idolators",
"worshippers",
"worshipers",
"zealots",
"apparatchiks",
"apparatchiki",
"camp followers",
"flunkies",
"flunkeys",
"hangers-on",
"henchmen",
"lackeys",
"lickspittles",
"minions",
"myrmidons",
"satellites",
"stooges",
"sycophants",
"toadies",
"yes-men"
],
"near antonyms":[
"coryphaei",
"leaders",
"apostates",
"defectors",
"renegades",
"traitors",
"turncoats"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"falling-out":{
"an often noisy or angry expression of differing opinions":{
"examples":[
"the two friends have been lonely and miserable since they had a falling-out"
],
"synonyms":[
"altercation",
"argle-bargle",
"argument",
"argy-bargy",
"battle royal",
"bicker",
"brawl",
"contretemps",
"controversy",
"cross fire",
"disagreement",
"dispute",
"donnybrook",
"fight",
"hassle",
"imbroglio",
"kickup",
"misunderstanding",
"quarrel",
"rhubarb",
"row",
"scrap",
"set-to",
"spat",
"squabble",
"tiff",
"wrangle"
],
"near synonyms":[
"clash",
"run-in",
"skirmish",
"tangle",
"tussle",
"logomachy",
"feud",
"vendetta",
"attack",
"contention",
"dissension",
"dissention",
"debate",
"difference",
"disputation",
"fuss",
"objection",
"protest",
"protestation",
"affray",
"fisticuffs",
"fracas",
"fray",
"free-for-all",
"melee",
"m\u00eal\u00e9e",
"catfight"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to express different opinions about something often angrily":{
"examples":[
"club members were soon falling out about how to spend the money they'd made washing cars"
],
"synonyms":[
"altercating",
"argufying",
"arguing",
"bickering",
"brabbling",
"brawling",
"controverting",
"disputing",
"fighting",
"hassling",
"jarring",
"quarreling",
"quarrelling",
"quibbling",
"rowing",
"scrapping",
"spatting",
"squabbling",
"tiffing",
"wrangling"
],
"near synonyms":[
"challenging",
"daring",
"defying",
"clashing",
"contending",
"contesting",
"tangling",
"caviling",
"cavilling",
"fussing",
"nitpicking",
"considering",
"debating",
"discussing",
"kicking",
"objecting",
"protesting"
],
"near antonyms":[
"coexisting",
"getting along",
"accepting",
"agreeing",
"assenting",
"concurring",
"consenting"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to come to be":{
"examples":[
"I had planned to have a sports career, but things fell out otherwise"
],
"synonyms":[
"coming out",
"panning out",
"proving",
"shaking out",
"turning out"
],
"near synonyms":[
"developing",
"emerging",
"evolving",
"germinating",
"playing out",
"unfolding",
"working out"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun",
"verb"
]
},
"father figure":{
"an older man who acts in a paternal role to younger people":{
"examples":[
"The coach was a stern, wise father figure to his players."
],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"father image",
"dad",
"daddy",
"father",
"old man",
"pa",
"papa",
"poppa",
"pater",
"pop",
"sire",
"paterfamilias",
"patriarch",
"stepfather"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"fading":{
"as in sinking , expiring":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"expiring",
"passing away",
"sinking",
"dying",
"moribund",
"decadent",
"declining",
"deteriorating",
"dead",
"deceased",
"defunct",
"demised",
"departed",
"fallen",
"gone",
"lifeless",
"passed away",
"terminal"
],
"near antonyms":[
"alive",
"animate",
"live",
"living",
"quick",
"being",
"breathing",
"existing",
"subsisting",
"surviving",
"booming",
"flourishing",
"prospering",
"roaring",
"thriving",
"animated",
"bouncing",
"energetic",
"frisky",
"jazzy",
"lively",
"peppy",
"perky",
"spirited",
"sprightful",
"sprightly",
"springy",
"vital",
"vivacious",
"zippy"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"as in decline , deterioration":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"decline",
"degeneration",
"deterioration",
"failing",
"languishing",
"sinking",
"wasting (away)",
"weakening",
"wilting",
"withering",
"worsening",
"regression",
"relapse"
],
"near antonyms":[
"comeback",
"convalescence",
"healing",
"mending",
"rally",
"recovery",
"recuperation",
"rehab",
"rehabilitation",
"snapback",
"resuscitation",
"revival",
"survival"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"as in melting , passing":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"dissipation",
"dissolution",
"evaporation",
"fadeaway",
"melting",
"passing",
"vanishing",
"decamping",
"decampment",
"departing",
"departure",
"disappearance",
"exit",
"exiting",
"farewell",
"going",
"leave-taking",
"parting",
"quitting",
"clearing out",
"egress",
"leaving",
"retirement",
"retreat",
"withdrawal",
"emigration",
"evacuation",
"exodus"
],
"near antonyms":[
"advent",
"appearance",
"arrival",
"coming",
"incoming",
"approach",
"entrance",
"ingress",
"beginning",
"birth",
"commencement",
"dawn",
"dawning",
"debut",
"d\u00e9but",
"genesis",
"inception",
"morning",
"onset",
"start"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to cease to be visible":{
"examples":[
"the departing ship gradually faded over the horizon"
],
"synonyms":[
"dematerializing",
"disappearing",
"dissolving",
"evanescing",
"evaporating",
"fleeing",
"flying",
"melting",
"sinking",
"vanishing"
],
"near synonyms":[
"blanking (out)",
"clearing",
"dispersing",
"dissipating",
"drying up",
"dying (away or down or out)",
"blurring",
"dimming"
],
"near antonyms":[
"arriving",
"breaking out",
"coming out",
"emerging",
"issuing",
"looming",
"showing up"
],
"antonyms":[
"appearing",
"materializing"
]
},
"to make white or whiter by removing color":{
"examples":[
"years of harsh sunlight had faded the car, which was once fire-engine red"
],
"synonyms":[
"blanching",
"bleaching",
"blenching",
"decolorizing",
"dulling",
"paling",
"snowing",
"washing out",
"whitening"
],
"near synonyms":[
"brightening",
"lightening",
"dimming",
"matting",
"etiolating",
"whitewashing",
"frosting",
"silvering"
],
"near antonyms":[
"blackening",
"blotching",
"checkering",
"dappling",
"daubing",
"discoloring",
"flecking",
"marbling",
"mottling",
"patterning",
"polychroming",
"shading",
"specking",
"speckling",
"splotching",
"spotting",
"streaking",
"striating",
"striping",
"tarnishing",
"variegating",
"coloring",
"dyeing",
"painting",
"pigmenting",
"staining",
"tincturing",
"tingeing",
"tinging",
"tinting",
"burnishing",
"polishing",
"shining"
],
"antonyms":[
"darkening",
"deepening",
"embrowning"
]
},
"to lose bodily strength or vigor":{
"examples":[
"began to fade after battling the disease for years"
],
"synonyms":[
"decaying",
"drooping",
"emaciating",
"failing",
"flagging",
"going",
"lagging",
"languishing",
"sagging",
"sinking",
"wasting (away)",
"weakening",
"wilting",
"withering"
],
"near synonyms":[
"breaking down",
"wearing out",
"yielding",
"degenerating",
"deteriorating",
"rotting",
"running down"
],
"near antonyms":[
"convalescing",
"rallying",
"rebounding",
"recovering",
"recuperating",
"gaining"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"adjective",
"noun",
"verb"
]
},
"false":{
"not being in agreement with what is true":{
"examples":[
"early reports about the explosion contained much false information"
],
"synonyms":[
"erroneous",
"inaccurate",
"incorrect",
"inexact",
"invalid",
"off",
"unsound",
"untrue",
"untruthful",
"wrong"
],
"near synonyms":[
"counterfactual",
"specious",
"spurious",
"deceptive",
"delusive",
"delusory",
"distorted",
"fallacious",
"fictitious",
"illusory",
"misleading",
"amiss",
"askew",
"awry",
"deceitful",
"dishonest",
"fraudulent",
"lying",
"mendacious",
"unconfirmed",
"unproven",
"untested",
"fabricated",
"invented",
"made-up",
"trumped-up"
],
"near antonyms":[
"confirmed",
"demonstrated",
"established",
"proven",
"tested",
"faultless",
"flawless",
"impeccable",
"letter-perfect",
"perfect"
],
"antonyms":[
"accurate",
"correct",
"errorless",
"exact",
"factual",
"precise",
"proper",
"right",
"sound",
"true",
"valid",
"veracious"
]
},
"being such in appearance only and made with or manufactured from usually cheaper materials":{
"examples":[
"George Washington's false teeth were not made of wood but of elephant ivory and cow's teeth"
],
"synonyms":[
"artificial",
"bogus",
"dummy",
"ersatz",
"factitious",
"fake",
"faux",
"imitation",
"imitative",
"man-made",
"mimic",
"mock",
"pretend",
"sham",
"simulated",
"substitute",
"synthetic"
],
"near synonyms":[
"cultured",
"manufactured",
"process",
"unauthentic",
"adulterated",
"designer",
"doctored",
"engineered",
"fudged",
"juggled",
"manipulated",
"tampered (with)",
"concocted",
"fabricated",
"counterfeit",
"deceptive",
"forged",
"fraudulent",
"misleading",
"phony",
"phoney",
"affected",
"brummagem",
"feigned",
"pinchbeck",
"pseudo",
"spurious"
],
"near antonyms":[
"authentic",
"bona fide",
"legitimate",
"true",
"premium",
"quality",
"valuable",
"pure",
"unadulterated"
],
"antonyms":[
"genuine",
"natural",
"real"
]
},
"being such in appearance only and made or manufactured with the intention of committing fraud":{
"examples":[
"arrested for selling false ID cards to teenagers"
],
"synonyms":[
"bogus",
"counterfeit",
"fake",
"forged",
"inauthentic",
"phony",
"phoney",
"queer",
"sham",
"snide",
"spurious",
"unauthentic"
],
"near synonyms":[
"artificial",
"factitious",
"imitation",
"man-made",
"mimic",
"mock",
"simulated",
"substitute",
"synthetic",
"dummy",
"nonfunctioning",
"ornamental",
"cultured",
"fabricated",
"manufactured",
"deceptive",
"delusive",
"misleading"
],
"near antonyms":[
"natural",
"actual",
"true",
"valid"
],
"antonyms":[
"authentic",
"bona fide",
"genuine",
"real",
"unfaked"
]
},
"lacking in natural or spontaneous quality":{
"examples":[
"so much of the sympathy that the widow received was false and hypocritical, since it came from people who never liked her husband in the first place"
],
"synonyms":[
"affected",
"artificial",
"assumed",
"bogus",
"contrived",
"factitious",
"fake",
"feigned",
"forced",
"mechanical",
"mock",
"phony",
"phoney",
"plastic",
"pretended",
"pseudo",
"put-on",
"sham",
"simulated",
"spurious",
"strained",
"unnatural"
],
"near synonyms":[
"automatic",
"canned",
"concocted",
"fabricated",
"hokey",
"labored",
"manufactured",
"pat",
"unauthentic",
"unreal",
"unrealistic",
"double-dealing",
"empty",
"facile",
"hollow",
"hypocritical",
"insincere",
"left-handed",
"mealy",
"mealymouthed",
"two-faced",
"unctuous",
"exaggerated",
"histrionic",
"melodramatic",
"overacted",
"overdone",
"theatrical",
"theatric",
"cute",
"cutesy",
"genteel",
"goody-goody",
"mincing",
"overrefined",
"simpering",
"conventional",
"formal",
"impersonal",
"inflexible",
"rigid",
"stiff",
"stylized",
"wooden",
"artful",
"calculated",
"conscious",
"cultivated",
"deliberate",
"premeditated",
"studied"
],
"near antonyms":[
"authentic",
"bona fide",
"real",
"realistic",
"right",
"true",
"honest",
"ingenuous",
"sincere",
"unpretending",
"easy",
"effortless",
"smooth",
"extemporaneous",
"impromptu",
"impulsive",
"instinctive",
"unconscious",
"unprompted",
"unrehearsed",
"unstudied"
],
"antonyms":[
"artless",
"genuine",
"natural",
"spontaneous",
"unaffected",
"uncontrived",
"unfeigned",
"unforced"
]
},
"marked by, based on, or done by the use of dishonest methods to acquire something of value":{
"examples":[
"false advertising that claimed that the vegetables were organically grown when they weren't"
],
"synonyms":[
"crooked",
"deceitful",
"defrauding",
"dishonest",
"double-dealing",
"fraudulent"
],
"near synonyms":[
"beguiling",
"deceiving",
"deceptive",
"deluding",
"delusive",
"delusory",
"duplicitous",
"fallacious",
"misleading",
"specious",
"spurious"
],
"near antonyms":[
"legitimate",
"true",
"valid"
],
"antonyms":[
"aboveboard",
"honest",
"truthful"
]
},
"not true in one's allegiance to someone or something":{
"examples":[
"false friends who deserted the prizefighter when all his money was gone"
],
"synonyms":[
"disloyal",
"faithless",
"fickle",
"inconstant",
"perfidious",
"recreant",
"traitorous",
"treacherous",
"unfaithful",
"untrue"
],
"near synonyms":[
"irresponsible",
"trustless",
"undependable",
"unreliable",
"untrustworthy",
"faltering",
"hesitant",
"vacillating",
"wavering",
"dubious",
"irresolute",
"uncertain",
"apathetic",
"dispassionate",
"uninterested"
],
"near antonyms":[
"dependable",
"dutiful",
"reliable",
"responsible",
"solid",
"tried",
"tried-and-true",
"trustable",
"trustworthy",
"trusty",
"unfaltering",
"unhesitating",
"unwavering",
"determined",
"intent",
"resolute",
"confirmed",
"dyed-in-the-wool",
"inveterate",
"sworn",
"ardent",
"avid",
"enthusiastic",
"fervent",
"fervid",
"impassioned",
"passionate"
],
"antonyms":[
"constant",
"dedicated",
"devoted",
"devout",
"down-the-line",
"faithful",
"fast",
"loyal",
"staunch",
"stanch",
"steadfast",
"steady",
"true"
]
},
"tending or having power to deceive":{
"examples":[
"it turned out that the con man had made false promises of marriage to a dozen women"
],
"synonyms":[
"beguiling",
"deceitful",
"deceiving",
"deceptive",
"deluding",
"delusive",
"delusory",
"fallacious",
"misleading",
"specious"
],
"near synonyms":[
"artful",
"crafty",
"cunning",
"devious",
"foxy",
"guileful",
"shady",
"shifty",
"slick",
"sly",
"sneaking",
"sneaky",
"subtile",
"subtle",
"trick",
"trickish",
"tricky",
"underhand",
"underhanded",
"wily",
"inaccurate",
"incorrect",
"wrong",
"bewildering",
"confounding",
"distracting",
"perplexing",
"puzzling",
"ambidextrous",
"crooked",
"defrauding",
"dishonest",
"dissembling",
"double-dealing",
"duplicitous",
"faithless",
"fast",
"fraudulent",
"knavish",
"lying",
"mendacious",
"untrustworthy",
"untruthful",
"bogus",
"counterfeit",
"fake",
"feigned",
"forged",
"jive",
"phony",
"phoney",
"sham",
"spurious",
"insidious",
"perfidious",
"treacherous",
"ambiguous",
"circuitous",
"equivocal",
"evasive",
"artificial",
"backhanded",
"hypocritical",
"insincere",
"left-handed",
"two-faced"
],
"near antonyms":[
"candid",
"direct",
"foursquare",
"frank",
"free-spoken",
"open",
"openhearted",
"outspoken",
"plain",
"plainspoken",
"straight",
"clarifying",
"elucidative",
"explanatory",
"illuminating",
"revealing",
"revelatory",
"honest",
"trustworthy",
"truthful"
],
"antonyms":[
"aboveboard",
"forthright",
"nondeceptive",
"straightforward"
]
},
"type":[
"adjective"
]
},
"fall(s)":{
"to go down from an upright position suddenly and involuntarily":{
"examples":[
"better sand that walkway before somebody falls on the ice"
],
"synonyms":[
"slips",
"stumbles",
"topples",
"trips",
"tumbles"
],
"near synonyms":[
"collapses",
"crumples",
"drops",
"flumps",
"keels",
"plops",
"plunks",
"plonks",
"slumps (over)",
"crashes",
"free-falls",
"nose-dives",
"plummets",
"plunges",
"precipitates",
"wipes out",
"skids",
"slides"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[
"gets up",
"rises",
"stands (up)",
"uprises"
]
},
"to yield to the control or power of enemy forces":{
"examples":[
"the city fell after weeks of merciless bombardment"
],
"synonyms":[
"capitulates",
"gives up",
"knuckles under",
"submits",
"succumbs",
"surrenders"
],
"near synonyms":[
"bows",
"buckles",
"caves (in)",
"collapses",
"gives (in)",
"hands over",
"relinquishes",
"loses",
"concedes",
"fails",
"folds"
],
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"bucks",
"defies",
"fights",
"opposes",
"repels",
"resists",
"withstands",
"beats",
"overcomes",
"wins",
"conquers",
"prevails",
"triumphs"
],
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"endures",
"stands"
]
},
"to go to a lower level especially abruptly":{
"examples":[
"word soon got out that the movie was no good, and box-office receipts fell like a rock"
],
"synonyms":[
"crashes",
"craters",
"declines",
"descends",
"dips",
"dives",
"drops",
"lowers",
"nose-dives",
"plummets",
"plunges",
"sinks",
"skids",
"tumbles"
],
"near synonyms":[
"abates",
"decreases",
"de-escalates",
"dies (down)",
"diminishes",
"droops",
"dwindles",
"ebbs",
"lessens",
"lets up",
"moderates",
"subsides",
"tapers off",
"wanes",
"recedes",
"retreats"
],
"near antonyms":[
"accumulates",
"balloons",
"builds",
"burgeons",
"bourgeons",
"enlarges",
"escalates",
"expands",
"grows",
"increases",
"intensifies",
"mushrooms",
"picks up",
"snowballs",
"swells",
"waxes"
],
"antonyms":[
"arises",
"ascends",
"lifts",
"mounts",
"rises",
"soars",
"spikes",
"ups"
]
},
"to grow less in scope or intensity especially gradually":{
"examples":[
"manufacturing in the area is falling , and closing signs are going up all over"
],
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"abates",
"declines",
"decreases",
"de-escalates",
"dies (away or down or out)",
"diminishes",
"drains (away)",
"drops (off)",
"dwindles",
"eases",
"ebbs",
"falls away",
"lessens",
"lets up",
"lowers",
"moderates",
"palls",
"phases down",
"ratchets (down)",
"rachets (down)",
"recedes",
"relents",
"remits",
"shrinks",
"subsides",
"tapers",
"tapers off",
"wanes"
],
"near synonyms":[
"compresses",
"condenses",
"constricts",
"contracts",
"evaporates",
"fades (away)",
"fritters (away)",
"gives out",
"melts (away)",
"peters (out)",
"tails (off)",
"vanishes",
"slackens",
"slows (down)",
"alleviates",
"relaxes",
"flags",
"sinks",
"weakens",
"caves (in)",
"collapses",
"deflates"
],
"near antonyms":[
"appears",
"emerges",
"shows up",
"blows up",
"distends",
"elongates",
"lengthens"
],
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"accumulates",
"balloons",
"builds",
"burgeons",
"bourgeons",
"enlarges",
"escalates",
"expands",
"grows",
"increases",
"intensifies",
"mounts",
"mushrooms",
"picks up",
"rises",
"snowballs",
"soars",
"swells",
"waxes"
]
},
"to lead or extend downward":{
"examples":[
"the lake bottom falls sharply just a few feet from the shoreline, so be careful"
],
"synonyms":[
"declines",
"descends",
"dips",
"drops",
"plunges",
"sinks"
],
"near synonyms":[
"angles",
"cants",
"cocks",
"heels",
"inclines",
"leans",
"lists",
"reclines",
"slants",
"slopes",
"tilts",
"tips"
],
"near antonyms":[
"evens",
"flattens",
"levels",
"planes",
"smooths",
"smoothes",
"straightens"
],
"antonyms":[
"arises",
"ascends",
"climbs",
"mounts",
"rises",
"uprises",
"upsweeps",
"upturns"
]
},
"to undergo defeat":{
"examples":[
"not surprisingly, the novice player fell to a much stronger opponent"
],
"synonyms":[
"bows out",
"loses"
],
"near synonyms":[
"falters",
"tanks",
"throws",
"forfeits",
"bombs",
"collapses",
"cracks (up)",
"fails",
"flops",
"flunks",
"folds",
"founders",
"misses",
"strikes out",
"washes out"
],
"near antonyms":[
"flourishes",
"prospers",
"succeeds",
"thrives"
],
"antonyms":[
"conquers",
"prevails",
"triumphs",
"wins"
]
},
"to commit an offense":{
"examples":[
"even saints can fall"
],
"synonyms":[
"errs",
"offends",
"sins",
"strays",
"transgresses",
"trespasses",
"wanders"
],
"near synonyms":[
"breaches",
"breaks",
"infringes",
"violates",
"backslides",
"lapses",
"messes up"
],
"near antonyms":[
"forgives",
"justifies",
"pardons",
"regrets",
"repents",
"rues"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to stop living":{
"examples":[
"if their brave leader falls , the men will lose their courage"
],
"synonyms":[
"checks out",
"conks (out)",
"croaks",
"deceases",
"demises",
"departs",
"dies",
"drops",
"ends",
"exits",
"expires",
"flatlines",
"goes",
"kicks in",
"kicks off",
"parts",
"passes away",
"passes (on)",
"pegs out",
"perishes",
"pops off",
"steps out",
"succumbs"
],
"near synonyms":[
"predeceases",
"consumes",
"disappears",
"dries up",
"fades",
"fails"
],
"near antonyms":[
"comes to",
"revives",
"lingers",
"exists",
"is",
"subsists",
"flourishes",
"prospers",
"thrives"
],
"antonyms":[
"breathes",
"lives"
]
},
"a fall of water usually from a great height":{
"examples":[
"tourists were shocked to see a man jump into the water and go over the falls"
],
"synonyms":[
"cascade",
"cataract",
"waterfall"
],
"near synonyms":[
"flume",
"chute",
"shute",
"rapid(s)",
"shoot",
"white water"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun",
"verb"
]
},
"far-out":{
"different from the ordinary in a way that causes curiosity or suspicion":{
"examples":[
"the religious sect's far-out clothes and practices made them the talk of the small town"
],
"synonyms":[
"bizarre",
"bizarro",
"cranky",
"crazy",
"curious",
"eccentric",
"erratic",
"funky",
"funny",
"kinky",
"kooky",
"kookie",
"odd",
"off-kilter",
"off-the-wall",
"offbeat",
"out-of-the-way",
"outlandish",
"outr\u00e9",
"peculiar",
"quaint",
"queer",
"queerish",
"quirky",
"remarkable",
"rum",
"screwy",
"spaced-out",
"strange",
"wacky",
"whacky",
"way-out",
"weird",
"weirdo",
"wild"
],
"near synonyms":[
"aberrant",
"abnormal",
"addlepated",
"flaky",
"extraordinary",
"fantastic",
"fantastical",
"freak",
"freakish",
"freaky",
"phantasmagoric",
"phantasmagorical",
"phenomenal",
"atypical",
"rare",
"singular",
"uncommon",
"uncustomary",
"unique",
"unusual",
"unwonted",
"conspicuous",
"notable",
"noticeable",
"outstanding",
"prominent",
"salient",
"striking",
"atrocious",
"outrageous",
"shocking",
"crotchety",
"idiosyncratic",
"nonconformist",
"nonmainstream",
"out-there",
"unconventional",
"unorthodox",
"baffling",
"bewildering",
"confounding",
"mystifying",
"perplexing",
"puzzling"
],
"near antonyms":[
"average",
"commonplace",
"everyday",
"garden",
"normal",
"ordinary",
"prosaic",
"routine",
"run-of-the-mill",
"standard",
"typical",
"unexceptional",
"unremarkable",
"usual",
"workaday",
"conformist",
"conservative",
"conventional",
"expected",
"familiar",
"knee-jerk",
"predictable",
"common",
"customary",
"frequent",
"habitual",
"regular",
"wonted"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"adjective"
]
},
"farewell":{
"given, taken, or performed at parting":{
"examples":[
"the singer's farewell tour seemed to last almost as long as her entire career"
],
"synonyms":[
"parting",
"valedictory"
],
"near synonyms":[
"closing",
"concluding",
"final",
"last",
"ultimate",
"departing",
"leaving"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"an expression of good wishes at parting":{
"examples":[
"the exchange student and her host family said their tearful farewells , promising to keep in touch"
],
"synonyms":[
"adieu",
"au revoir",
"ave",
"bon voyage",
"cong\u00e9",
"congee",
"Godspeed",
"good-bye",
"good-by"
],
"near synonyms":[
"leave-taking",
"send-off"
],
"near antonyms":[
"greeting(s)",
"salutation",
"salute",
"welcome"
],
"antonyms":[
"hello"
]
},
"the act of leaving a place":{
"examples":[
"before making his final farewell , the company president personally spoke to as many employees as he could"
],
"synonyms":[
"decamping",
"decampment",
"departing",
"departure",
"exit",
"exiting",
"going",
"leave",
"leave-taking",
"lighting out",
"outgo",
"parting",
"quitting",
"walking out"
],
"near synonyms":[
"flight",
"retirement",
"retreat",
"running away",
"withdrawal",
"diaspora",
"emigration",
"evacuation",
"exodus",
"embarkation",
"embarkment",
"disembarkation",
"egress",
"abandonment",
"forsaking",
"relinquishment"
],
"near antonyms":[
"coming",
"approach",
"entrance",
"ingress"
],
"antonyms":[
"advent",
"appearance",
"arrival"
]
},
"the act or process of two or more persons going off in different directions":{
"examples":[
"our farewell was rushed, and we didn't say all that we wanted to before heading off to colleges at opposite ends of the country"
],
"synonyms":[
"leave-taking",
"parting",
"separation"
],
"near synonyms":[
"departure",
"egress",
"exit",
"exiting",
"exodus",
"going",
"leaving",
"quitting",
"running away",
"decamping",
"decampment",
"flight",
"withdrawal",
"abandonment",
"desertion",
"forsaking"
],
"near antonyms":[
"reunion",
"arrival",
"greeting",
"salutation",
"welcome",
"gathering",
"joining",
"meeting"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"adjective",
"noun"
]
},
"farmsteads":{
"a piece of land and its buildings used to grow crops or raise livestock":{
"examples":[
"many of the area's proud, old farmsteads have been bulldozed by developers to make way for condominiums"
],
"synonyms":[
"estates",
"farms",
"granges",
"ranches"
],
"near synonyms":[
"croplands",
"farmlands",
"farmyards",
"farmhouses",
"haciendas",
"homesteads",
"manors",
"plantations",
"spreads",
"crofts",
"smallholdings",
"stations",
"steadings",
"gardens",
"orchards"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"fatuous":{
"not having or showing an ability to absorb ideas readily":{
"examples":[
"the fatuous questions that the audience members asked after the lecture suggested to the oceanographer that they had understood little"
],
"synonyms":[
"airheaded",
"birdbrained",
"bonehead",
"boneheaded",
"brain-dead",
"brainless",
"bubbleheaded",
"chuckleheaded",
"dense",
"dim",
"dim-witted",
"doltish",
"dopey",
"dopy",
"dorky",
"dull",
"dumb",
"dunderheaded",
"empty-headed",
"gormless",
"half-witted",
"knuckleheaded",
"lamebrain",
"lamebrained",
"lunkheaded",
"mindless",
"oafish",
"obtuse",
"opaque",
"pinheaded",
"senseless",
"simple",
"slow",
"slow-witted",
"soft",
"softheaded",
"stupid",
"thick",
"thick-witted",
"thickheaded",
"unintelligent",
"unsmart",
"vacuous",
"weak-minded",
"witless"
],
"near synonyms":[
"cretinous",
"feebleminded",
"simpleminded",
"boobish",
"foolish",
"idiotic",
"idiotical",
"imbecile",
"imbecilic",
"moronic",
"ignorant",
"illiterate",
"lowbrow",
"uneducated",
"uninformed",
"unintellectual",
"untaught",
"unthinking",
"absurd",
"asinine",
"balmy",
"cockeyed",
"crackpot",
"crazy",
"cuckoo",
"daffy",
"daft",
"dippy",
"dotty",
"featherheaded",
"fool",
"half-baked",
"harebrained",
"insane",
"kooky",
"kookie",
"loony",
"looney",
"lunatic",
"mad",
"nonsensical",
"nutty",
"preposterous",
"sappy",
"screwball",
"silly",
"tomfool",
"unwise",
"wacky",
"whacky",
"zany",
"fallacious",
"illogical",
"invalid",
"irrational",
"unreasonable"
],
"near antonyms":[
"ingenious",
"resourceful",
"acute",
"astute",
"discerning",
"insightful",
"keen",
"knowing",
"perceptive",
"percipient",
"perspicacious",
"sagacious",
"sage",
"sapient",
"savvy",
"wise",
"cerebral",
"erudite",
"highbrow",
"intellectual",
"knowledgeable",
"learned",
"literate",
"scholarly",
"thinking",
"well-read",
"educated",
"informed",
"schooled",
"skilled",
"trained",
"crafty",
"cunning",
"foxy",
"shrewd",
"wily",
"judicious",
"prudent",
"sane",
"sensible",
"sound",
"logical",
"rational",
"reasonable",
"valid"
],
"antonyms":[
"apt",
"brainy",
"bright",
"brilliant",
"clever",
"fast",
"hyperintelligent",
"intelligent",
"keen",
"nimble",
"quick",
"quick-witted",
"sharp",
"sharp-witted",
"smart",
"supersmart",
"ultrasmart"
]
},
"showing or marked by a lack of good sense or judgment":{
"examples":[
"ignoring the avalanche warnings, the fatuous skiers continued on their way down the trail"
],
"synonyms":[
"absurd",
"asinine",
"balmy",
"brainless",
"bubbleheaded",
"cockeyed",
"crackpot",
"crazy",
"cuckoo",
"daffy",
"daft",
"dippy",
"dotty",
"featherheaded",
"fool",
"foolish",
"half-baked",
"half-witted",
"harebrained",
"inept",
"insane",
"jerky",
"kooky",
"kookie",
"loony",
"looney",
"lunatic",
"lunkheaded",
"mad",
"nonsensical",
"nutty",
"preposterous",
"sappy",
"screwball",
"senseless",
"silly",
"simpleminded",
"stupid",
"tomfool",
"unwise",
"wacky",
"whacky",
"weak-minded",
"witless",
"zany"
],
"near synonyms":[
"airheaded",
"birdbrained",
"boobish",
"brain-dead",
"chowderheaded",
"chuckleheaded",
"clueless",
"dense",
"dim",
"dim-witted",
"doltish",
"dopey",
"dopy",
"dorky",
"dull",
"dumb",
"dunderheaded",
"empty-headed",
"feebleminded",
"gormless",
"idiotic",
"idiotical",
"imbecile",
"imbecilic",
"knuckleheaded",
"lamebrain",
"lamebrained",
"mindless",
"moronic",
"oafish",
"obtuse",
"opaque",
"pinheaded",
"simple",
"slow",
"slow-witted",
"soft",
"softheaded",
"thoughtless",
"thick",
"thickheaded",
"unintelligent",
"vacuous",
"fallacious",
"illogical",
"invalid",
"irrational",
"nonrational",
"surd",
"unreasonable",
"unreasoning",
"unsound",
"weak",
"farcical",
"laughable",
"ludicrous",
"ridiculous",
"notional",
"buffoonish",
"clownish",
"ill-advised",
"unconsidered",
"unreasoned"
],
"near antonyms":[
"brainy",
"bright",
"clever",
"intelligent",
"smart",
"logical",
"rational",
"reasonable",
"valid",
"well-advised"
],
"antonyms":[
"judicious",
"prudent",
"sagacious",
"sage",
"sane",
"sapient",
"sensible",
"sound",
"wise"
]
},
"type":[
"adjective"
]
},
"fascinations":{
"the power of irresistible attraction":{
"examples":[
"the fascination that the subject of dinosaurs has for most children"
],
"synonyms":[
"allure",
"animal magnetism",
"appeal",
"attractiveness",
"captivation",
"charisma",
"charm",
"duende",
"enchantment",
"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"
]
},
"fat-cat":{
"having goods, property, or money in abundance":{
"examples":[
"the economy was in recession, but the fat-cat financiers on Wall Street didn't seem to be suffering"
],
"synonyms":[
"affluent",
"deep-pocketed",
"fat",
"flush",
"loaded",
"moneyed",
"monied",
"opulent",
"rich",
"silk-stocking",
"wealthy",
"well-endowed",
"well-fixed",
"well-heeled",
"well-off",
"well-to-do"
],
"near synonyms":[
"better-off",
"comfortable",
"propertied",
"prosperous",
"substantial",
"successful",
"flourishing",
"prospering",
"thriving",
"advantaged",
"blessed",
"blest",
"privileged"
],
"near antonyms":[
"unaffluent",
"deprived",
"disadvantaged",
"hand-to-mouth",
"underprivileged",
"bankrupt",
"bankrupted",
"beggared",
"broke",
"indebted",
"insolvent",
"pauperized",
"ruined",
"skint",
"depressed",
"pinched",
"reduced",
"straitened",
"low",
"short"
],
"antonyms":[
"destitute",
"impecunious",
"impoverished",
"indigent",
"needy",
"penniless",
"penurious",
"poor",
"poverty-stricken"
]
},
"a wealthy person":{
"examples":[
"that last recession was particularly hard on the poor, but the fat cats barely noticed a dip in their bank accounts"
],
"synonyms":[
"capitalist",
"Croesus",
"deep pocket",
"have",
"money",
"moneybags",
"plutocrat",
"silk stocking"
],
"near synonyms":[
"moneymaker",
"money-spinner",
"magnate",
"nabob",
"tycoon",
"billionaire",
"gazillionaire",
"millionaire",
"multibillionaire",
"multimillionaire",
"multimillionairess",
"zillionaire",
"heir",
"heiress",
"jet-setter",
"jeunesse dor\u00e9e"
],
"near antonyms":[
"bankrupt",
"beggar"
],
"antonyms":[
"have-not",
"pauper"
]
},
"one of high position or importance within a group":{
"examples":[
"a candidate that has the backing of most of the party's fat cats"
],
"synonyms":[
"big",
"big boy",
"big cheese",
"big gun",
"big leaguer",
"big shot",
"big wheel",
"big-timer",
"bigfoot",
"biggie",
"bigwig",
"heavy",
"heavy hitter",
"heavyweight",
"high-muck-a-muck",
"high-muckety-muck",
"honcho",
"kahuna",
"kingfish",
"kingpin",
"major leaguer",
"muckety-muck",
"muck-a-muck",
"mucky-muck",
"nabob",
"nawab",
"nibs",
"nob",
"pooh-bah",
"poo-bah",
"wheel"
],
"near synonyms":[
"baron",
"czar",
"tsar",
"tzar",
"king",
"lion",
"magnate",
"mogul",
"prince",
"princess",
"queen",
"tycoon",
"VIP"
],
"near antonyms":[
"inferior",
"subordinate",
"underling",
"mediocrity",
"obscurity"
],
"antonyms":[
"lightweight",
"nobody",
"nonentity",
"nothing",
"shrimp",
"twerp",
"whippersnapper",
"zero",
"zilch"
]
},
"type":[
"adjective",
"noun"
]
},
"fanatical":{
"a person with a strong and habitual liking for something":{
"examples":[
"football fanatics are pretty much booked up for weekends from Labor Day to Super Bowl Sunday"
],
"synonyms":[
"addict",
"aficionado",
"afficionado",
"buff",
"bug",
"devotee",
"enthusiast",
"fan",
"fancier",
"fiend",
"fool",
"freak",
"habitu\u00e9",
"habitue",
"head",
"hound",
"junkie",
"junky",
"lover",
"maniac",
"maven",
"mavin",
"nut",
"sucker"
],
"near synonyms":[
"groupie",
"admirer",
"amateur",
"collector",
"connoisseur",
"dilettante",
"authority",
"expert",
"adherent",
"convert",
"cultist",
"disciple",
"follower",
"hanger-on",
"votary",
"advocate",
"apostle",
"backer",
"champion",
"evangelist",
"exponent",
"friend",
"patron",
"promoter",
"proponent",
"supporter",
"partisan",
"partizan",
"zealot",
"booster",
"rooter",
"well-wisher",
"faddist"
],
"near antonyms":[
"nonadmirer",
"belittler",
"carper",
"critic",
"detractor"
],
"antonyms":[
"nonfan"
]
},
"one who is intensely or excessively devoted to a cause":{
"examples":[
"once he joined the movement, he became a fanatic"
],
"synonyms":[
"crusader",
"ideologue",
"idealogue",
"militant",
"partisan",
"partizan",
"red hot",
"true believer",
"zealot"
],
"near synonyms":[
"activist",
"dreamer",
"idealist",
"visionary",
"cultist",
"disciple",
"follower",
"hanger-on",
"idolizer",
"votary",
"addict",
"aficionado",
"afficionado",
"buff",
"bug",
"devotee",
"enthusiast",
"fan",
"fancier",
"fiend",
"fool",
"freak",
"habitu\u00e9",
"habitue",
"head",
"hound",
"junkie",
"junky",
"lover",
"maniac",
"maven",
"mavin",
"nut",
"sucker",
"advocate",
"apostle",
"backer",
"champion",
"evangelist",
"patron",
"promoter",
"stalwart",
"supporter",
"booster",
"rooter",
"well-wisher",
"faddist"
],
"near antonyms":[
"dabbler",
"dilettante"
],
"antonyms":[
"nonmilitant"
]
},
"being very far from the center of public opinion":{
"examples":[
"because of her fanatical views, her friends know better than to try to discuss the issues with her"
],
"synonyms":[
"extreme",
"extremist",
"rabid",
"radical",
"revolutionary",
"revolutionist",
"ultra"
],
"near synonyms":[
"subversive",
"violent",
"wild",
"reactionary"
],
"near antonyms":[
"conservative",
"moderate",
"temperate",
"conventional",
"orthodox",
"traditional",
"liberal",
"progressive"
],
"antonyms":[
"middle-of-the-road",
"nonrevolutionary",
"unrevolutionary"
]
},
"type":[
"adjective",
"noun"
]
},
"failing":{
"a defect in character":{
"examples":[
"we could talk about your failings , but it would take all night"
],
"synonyms":[
"demerit",
"dereliction",
"fault",
"foible",
"frailty",
"shortcoming",
"sin",
"vice",
"want",
"weakness"
],
"near synonyms":[
"blot",
"spot",
"stain",
"blemish",
"deficiency",
"flaw",
"imperfection",
"minus",
"nit",
"Achilles' heel",
"soft spot",
"corruption",
"depravity",
"evil",
"immorality",
"sinfulness",
"wickedness"
],
"near antonyms":[
"excellence",
"perfection",
"goodness",
"integrity",
"morality",
"probity",
"rectitude",
"righteousness"
],
"antonyms":[
"merit",
"virtue"
]
},
"as in dying , declining":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"decaying",
"declining",
"dying",
"waning",
"overrefined",
"precious",
"debilitated",
"enervate",
"enervated",
"enfeebled",
"feeble",
"frail",
"languid",
"sapped",
"soft",
"wasted",
"weak",
"weakened",
"wimpy",
"decadent",
"decayed",
"degenerate",
"effete",
"overripe",
"washed-up",
"dissolute",
"immoral",
"debased",
"debauched",
"degraded",
"demoralized",
"depraved",
"dissipated",
"dissolute"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to stop functioning":{
"examples":[
"my car failed just as I was about to head to work"
],
"synonyms":[
"breaking",
"breaking down",
"conking (out)",
"crashing",
"cutting out",
"dying",
"giving out",
"stalling"
],
"near synonyms":[
"fizzling",
"sputtering",
"wheezing",
"acting up",
"malfunctioning",
"jamming"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[
"starting (up)"
]
},
"to be unsuccessful":{
"examples":[
"despite all the publicity, the movie failed miserably at the box office"
],
"synonyms":[
"bombing",
"collapsing",
"cratering",
"flaming out",
"flopping",
"flunking",
"folding",
"foundering",
"missing",
"striking out",
"tanking",
"washing out"
],
"near synonyms":[
"floundering",
"struggling",
"declining",
"sinking",
"skidding",
"slipping",
"slumping",
"waning",
"crashing",
"crumbling",
"miscarrying",
"misfiring",
"going under",
"imploding",
"self-destructing"
],
"near antonyms":[
"cooking",
"flourishing",
"prospering",
"thriving",
"prevailing",
"triumphing",
"winning"
],
"antonyms":[
"clicking",
"coming off",
"delivering",
"going",
"going over",
"panning out",
"succeeding",
"working out"
]
},
"to fall short in satisfying the expectation or hope of":{
"examples":[
"although the minor-league franchise continues to fail local fans, hope springs eternal"
],
"synonyms":[
"cheating",
"disappointing",
"dissatisfying",
"letting down"
],
"near synonyms":[
"bumming (out)",
"chagrining",
"discontenting",
"disgruntling",
"displeasing",
"distressing",
"upsetting",
"disenchanting",
"disillusioning",
"deceiving",
"deluding",
"mocking"
],
"near antonyms":[
"fulfilling",
"gladdening"
],
"antonyms":[
"contenting",
"gratifying",
"satisfying"
]
},
"to lose bodily strength or vigor":{
"examples":[
"ever since she reached the age of 90, Grandma has been noticeably failing"
],
"synonyms":[
"decaying",
"drooping",
"emaciating",
"fading",
"flagging",
"going",
"lagging",
"languishing",
"sagging",
"sinking",
"wasting (away)",
"weakening",
"wilting",
"withering"
],
"near synonyms":[
"breaking down",
"wearing out",
"yielding",
"degenerating",
"deteriorating",
"rotting",
"running down"
],
"near antonyms":[
"convalescing",
"rallying",
"rebounding",
"recovering",
"recuperating",
"gaining"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to miss the opportunity or obligation":{
"examples":[
"failed to mention that he was looking for new job"
],
"synonyms":[
"forgetting",
"neglecting",
"omitting"
],
"near synonyms":[
"disregarding",
"ignoring",
"overlooking",
"overpassing",
"passing over",
"pretermitting",
"slighting",
"sliding",
"slipping",
"defaulting",
"skipping"
],
"near antonyms":[
"heeding",
"minding",
"remembering",
"keeping",
"observing",
"carrying out",
"doing",
"executing",
"performing",
"practicing",
"practising",
"discharging",
"fulfilling",
"meeting",
"satisfying",
"complying (with)"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"adjective",
"noun",
"verb"
]
},
"factoring (in or into)":{
"to give consideration to (as unexpected circumstances or contingencies)":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[
"allowing (for)",
"considering",
"providing (for)",
"regarding"
],
"near synonyms":[
"accommodating",
"adapting",
"adjusting",
"conditioning",
"anticipating",
"contemplating",
"envisaging",
"expecting",
"foreseeing",
"assuming",
"presuming",
"presupposing",
"planning",
"calculating",
"facing"
],
"near antonyms":[
"factoring (out)"
],
"antonyms":[
"discounting",
"disregarding"
]
},
"type":[]
},
"faces off":{
"to engage in a contest":{
"examples":[
"eager to face off with her longtime tennis rival"
],
"synonyms":[
"battles",
"competes",
"contends",
"fights",
"races",
"rivals",
"vies"
],
"near synonyms":[
"challenges",
"engages",
"plays",
"jockeys",
"jostles",
"maneuvers",
"goes out",
"tries out",
"trains",
"works"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"fathering":{
"as in paternity , fatherhood":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"fatherhood",
"paternity",
"raising",
"rearing",
"upbringing",
"maternity",
"motherhood",
"mothering",
"parenthood",
"parenting",
"caregiving",
"caretaking"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to become the father of":{
"examples":[
"Paul Revere somehow found room in his small house for the large family he had fathered"
],
"synonyms":[
"begetting",
"getting",
"siring"
],
"near synonyms":[
"multiplying",
"procreating",
"propagating",
"reproducing",
"spawning",
"bearing",
"engendering",
"gendering",
"generating",
"producing"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun",
"verb"
]
},
"falls for":{
"to feel passion, devotion, or tenderness for":{
"examples":[
"It's hard not to fall for a woman like that."
],
"synonyms":[
"adores",
"cherishes",
"loves",
"worships"
],
"near synonyms":[
"adulates",
"canonizes",
"deifies",
"idealizes",
"idolizes",
"reverences",
"reveres",
"venerates",
"delights (in)",
"dotes (on)"
],
"near antonyms":[
"antagonizes",
"displeases",
"disapproves (of)",
"disfavors",
"dislikes",
"disgusts",
"nauseates",
"repels",
"repulses",
"revolts",
"sickens",
"turns off"
],
"antonyms":[
"abhors",
"abominates",
"despises",
"detests",
"execrates",
"hates",
"loathes"
]
},
"type":[
"phrase"
]
},
"fallen behind":{
"to move or act slowly":{
"examples":[
"He lost his footing and fell behind in the relay."
],
"synonyms":[
"crawled",
"crept",
"dallied",
"dawdled",
"delayed",
"diddled",
"dillydallied",
"dragged",
"lagged",
"lingered",
"loitered",
"lollygagged",
"lallygagged",
"moped",
"poked",
"shilly-shallied",
"tarried"
],
"near synonyms":[
"fiddled (around)",
"fooled around",
"messed around",
"monkeyed (around)",
"played",
"pottered (around)",
"puttered (around)",
"trifled",
"hung (around or out)",
"hanged (around or out)",
"idled",
"loafed",
"lolled",
"lounged",
"ambled",
"eased",
"inched",
"lumbered",
"plodded",
"sauntered",
"shuffled",
"staggered",
"strolled",
"decelerated",
"slowed (down or up)",
"filibustered",
"procrastinated",
"stalled",
"temporized"
],
"near antonyms":[
"bowled",
"breezed",
"darted",
"humped",
"hurtled",
"hustled",
"scrambled",
"stampeded",
"galloped",
"jogged",
"run",
"sprinted",
"trotted",
"accelerated",
"quickened",
"sped (up)",
"speeded (up)",
"caught up",
"fast-forwarded",
"outpaced",
"outrun",
"outstripped",
"overtaken"
],
"antonyms":[
"barreled",
"barrelled",
"bolted",
"careered",
"coursed",
"dashed",
"flown",
"hastened",
"hotfooted (it)",
"hurried",
"raced",
"ripped",
"rocketed",
"run",
"rushed",
"scooted",
"scudded",
"scurried",
"sped",
"speeded",
"torn",
"whirled",
"whisked",
"whizzed",
"zipped"
]
},
"type":[
"phrase"
]
},
"factor (out)":{
"as in discount , disregard":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"discount",
"disregard"
],
"near antonyms":[
"allow (for)",
"consider",
"factor (in or into)",
"provide (for)",
"regard",
"accommodate",
"adapt",
"adjust",
"condition",
"anticipate",
"contemplate",
"envisage",
"expect",
"foresee"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"fastening (on)":{
"as in holding , latching (on or onto)":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"clasping",
"clutching",
"fisting",
"grasping",
"gripping",
"holding",
"latching (on or onto)",
"securing",
"baying",
"cornering",
"rending",
"wresting",
"apprehending",
"arresting",
"detaining",
"enmeshing",
"immeshing",
"ensnaring",
"entangling",
"entrapping",
"meshing",
"gloving",
"haltering",
"lassoing",
"roping",
"abducting",
"kidnapping",
"kidnaping",
"spiriting (away or off)",
"bagging",
"capturing",
"catching",
"collaring",
"copping",
"corralling",
"getting",
"glomming",
"grabbing",
"grappling",
"hooking",
"landing",
"nabbing",
"nailing",
"netting",
"nobbling",
"rapping",
"seizing",
"snagging",
"snapping (up)",
"snaring",
"snatching",
"trapping"
],
"near antonyms":[
"missing",
"discharging",
"freeing",
"liberating",
"releasing",
"dropping",
"loosening",
"unhanding"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"family practitioner":{
"as in family doctor , family physician":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"family doctor",
"family physician",
"general practitioner",
"croaker",
"doc",
"doctor",
"medic",
"medico",
"physician",
"sawbones",
"anesthesiologist",
"dermatologist",
"gynecologist",
"internist",
"neurologist",
"ob-gyn",
"obstetrician",
"ophthalmologist",
"orthopedist",
"pathologist",
"pediatrician",
"pediatrist",
"physiatrist",
"podiatrist",
"radiologist",
"urologist",
"attending",
"clinician",
"hospitalist",
"specialist",
"plastic surgeon",
"surgeon",
"intern",
"interne",
"resident",
"aidman",
"nurse",
"nurse-practitioner",
"EMT",
"paramedic",
"paramedical",
"physical therapist",
"physiotherapist"
],
"near antonyms":[
"nondoctor",
"nonphysician"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"father image":{
"as in father figure":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"father figure",
"dad",
"daddy",
"father",
"old man",
"pa",
"papa",
"poppa",
"pater",
"pop",
"sire",
"paterfamilias",
"patriarch",
"stepfather"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"facade":{
"a forward part or surface":{
"examples":[
"all of the stores in the mall have facades that are in keeping with the style of a 19th-century American village"
],
"synonyms":[
"face",
"forehead",
"forepart",
"front"
],
"near synonyms":[
"outside",
"skin",
"surface",
"veneer"
],
"near antonyms":[
"innards",
"inside",
"interior"
],
"antonyms":[
"back",
"rear",
"rearward",
"reverse"
]
},
"a display of emotion or behavior that is insincere or intended to deceive":{
"examples":[
"his interest in acting is just a facade \u2014he joined the drama club to meet girls"
],
"synonyms":[
"act",
"airs",
"charade",
"disguise",
"front",
"guise",
"masquerade",
"playacting",
"pose",
"pretense",
"pretence",
"put-on",
"semblance",
"show"
],
"near synonyms":[
"impersonation",
"performance",
"portrayal",
"image",
"persona",
"appearance",
"color",
"gloss",
"camouflage",
"cloak",
"affectation",
"deceit",
"deception",
"dissembling",
"dissimulation",
"double-dealing",
"duplicity",
"fakery",
"fraud",
"guile",
"betrayal",
"double cross",
"faithlessness",
"falseness",
"falsity",
"infidelity",
"perfidy",
"treachery",
"treason",
"unfaithfulness",
"excuse",
"pretext"
],
"near antonyms":[
"bluntness",
"candidness",
"candor",
"directness",
"forthrightness",
"frankness",
"openheartedness",
"outspokenness",
"plainspokenness",
"sincerity",
"straightforwardness",
"artlessness",
"genuineness",
"na\u00efvet\u00e9",
"naivete",
"naivet\u00e9"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"a deceptively attractive external appearance":{
"examples":[
"the company's facade of success collapsed when it was revealed that its financial officers had been cooking the books for years"
],
"synonyms":[
"gloss",
"veneer",
"window dressing"
],
"near synonyms":[
"cotton candy",
"fluff",
"tinsel",
"fig leaf",
"charade",
"front",
"guise",
"masquerade",
"pose",
"semblance",
"show"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"fall guys":{
"a person or thing taking the blame for others":{
"examples":[
"the sandlot ball players wanted the littlest kid to be the fall guy for the broken window, figuring that he'd have the best chance of escaping punishment"
],
"synonyms":[
"goats",
"scapegoats",
"whipping boys"
],
"near synonyms":[
"victims",
"butts",
"dupes",
"fools",
"laughingstocks",
"marks",
"mockeries",
"monkeys",
"excuses"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"fares":{
"to meet one's day-to-day needs":{
"examples":[
"residents of the flood-ravaged town are faring much better than one might have expected"
],
"synonyms":[
"copes",
"does",
"gets along",
"gets by",
"gets on",
"makes out",
"manages",
"shifts"
],
"near synonyms":[
"carries on",
"contrives",
"scrapes (by or through)",
"scrounges",
"lasts",
"survives",
"ekes out",
"scrapes (out)",
"squeezes",
"wrests",
"wrings",
"affords",
"swings"
],
"near antonyms":[
"collapses",
"fails",
"falls short",
"fizzles",
"flounders",
"declines",
"peters (out)",
"slumps",
"wanes",
"gives up"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to move forward along a course":{
"examples":[
"families can be seen faring along the road to the campground while driving or towing all manner of conveyance"
],
"synonyms":[
"advances",
"comes",
"comes along",
"does",
"forges",
"gets along",
"gets on",
"goes",
"goes along",
"goes off",
"marches",
"paces",
"proceeds",
"progresses"
],
"near synonyms":[
"accelerates",
"fast-forwards",
"speeds",
"approaches",
"nears",
"journeys",
"passes",
"repairs",
"runs",
"travels",
"wends",
"actuates",
"drives",
"impels",
"propels",
"pushes",
"takes out"
],
"near antonyms":[
"arrests",
"balks",
"blocks",
"checks",
"detains",
"halts",
"hinders",
"holds back",
"impedes",
"nips",
"obstructs",
"slows (down or up)",
"stems",
"represses",
"retards",
"stunts",
"suppresses",
"delays",
"interrupts",
"stalls",
"cramps",
"hampers",
"inhibits",
"ceases",
"lets up",
"pauses",
"regresses",
"waits"
],
"antonyms":[
"remains",
"stands",
"stays",
"stops"
]
},
"to take a meal":{
"examples":[
"diners at this charming country inn will fare sumptuously in an authentic colonial atmosphere"
],
"synonyms":[
"dines",
"eats",
"feeds",
"partakes",
"refreshes",
"victuals"
],
"near synonyms":[
"banquets",
"feasts",
"repasts",
"chows (down)",
"digs in",
"gluts",
"gorges",
"gormandizes",
"overeats",
"overfeeds",
"pigs out",
"grazes",
"nibbles",
"noshes",
"picks",
"snacks",
"boards",
"dines out",
"messes",
"breakfasts",
"lunches",
"sups",
"picnics"
],
"near antonyms":[
"diets",
"fasts"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"faddists":{
"as in well-wishers , true believers":{
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"addicts",
"aficionados",
"afficionados",
"buffs",
"bugs",
"devotees",
"enthusiasts",
"fanciers",
"fans",
"fiends",
"fools",
"freaks",
"habitu\u00e9s",
"habitues",
"heads",
"hounds",
"junkies",
"lovers",
"maniacs",
"mavens",
"mavins",
"nuts",
"suckers",
"crusaders",
"fanatics",
"ideologues",
"idealogues",
"militants",
"partisans",
"partizans",
"red hots",
"true believers",
"zealots",
"advocates",
"apostles",
"backers",
"champions",
"evangelists",
"patrons",
"promoters",
"stalwarts",
"supporters",
"cultists",
"disciples",
"followers",
"hangers-on",
"idolizers",
"votaries",
"boosters",
"rooters",
"well-wishers",
"dreamers",
"idealists",
"visionaries",
"activists"
],
"near antonyms":[
"nonmilitants",
"dabblers",
"dilettantes",
"dilettanti"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"fagoting":{
"as in smocking , hemstitch":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"hemstitch",
"smocking",
"crewel",
"cross-stitch",
"needlepoint",
"fancywork",
"embroidery",
"needlework"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"fawned":{
"to use flattery or the doing of favors in order to win approval especially from a superior":{
"examples":[
"a student who could not wait to fawn over the new teacher"
],
"synonyms":[
"apple-polished",
"bootlicked",
"fussed",
"kowtowed",
"sucked (up)",
"toadied",
"truckled"
],
"near synonyms":[
"drooled",
"gushed",
"slavered",
"slobbered",
"endeared",
"ingratiated",
"courted",
"wooed",
"adulated",
"idolized",
"worshipped",
"worshiped",
"blandished",
"cajoled",
"coaxed",
"flattered",
"overpraised",
"soft-soaped",
"cowered",
"cringed",
"groveled",
"grovelled",
"abased",
"debased",
"demeaned",
"deferred",
"submitted",
"yielded"
],
"near antonyms":[
"despised",
"disdained",
"scorned",
"gibed",
"jibed",
"jeered",
"scoffed",
"braved",
"challenged",
"defied"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"fast-talked":{
"as in urged , cajoled":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"blandished",
"blarneyed",
"cajoled",
"coaxed",
"entreated",
"exhorted",
"urged",
"wheedled",
"argued",
"brought",
"brought around",
"converted",
"convinced",
"gained",
"got",
"induced",
"moved",
"persuaded",
"prevailed (on or upon)",
"satisfied",
"talked (into)",
"won (over)",
"allured",
"beguiled",
"led on",
"lured",
"seduced",
"snowed",
"tempted",
"brainwashed",
"overpersuaded",
"inclined",
"influenced",
"prompted",
"sold",
"swayed",
"attracted",
"drew",
"enticed",
"interested",
"chewed over",
"conversed",
"debated",
"discussed",
"disputed",
"hashed (over)",
"mooted",
"reasoned (with)"
],
"near antonyms":[
"deterred",
"discouraged",
"dissuaded",
"unsold"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"as in bamboozled":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"bamboozled",
"betrayed",
"bitched",
"double-crossed",
"roped (in)",
"deceived",
"duped",
"fooled",
"gulled",
"tricked",
"exploited",
"milked",
"clipped",
"gouged",
"nicked",
"overcharged",
"soaked",
"extorted",
"wrenched",
"wrested",
"wrung",
"beat",
"bilked",
"bled",
"cheated",
"chiseled",
"chiselled",
"choused",
"conned",
"cozened",
"defrauded",
"did",
"diddled",
"did in",
"euchred",
"fiddled",
"fleeced",
"flimflammed",
"gaffed",
"hosed",
"hustled",
"mulcted",
"nobbled",
"plucked",
"reamed",
"ripped off",
"rooked",
"screwed",
"shook down",
"shortchanged",
"shorted",
"skinned",
"skunked",
"squeezed",
"stiffed",
"stuck",
"stung",
"suckered",
"swindled",
"thimblerigged",
"victimized"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"fastidiously":{
"as in carefully , meticulously":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"carefully",
"fussily",
"meticulously",
"elegantly",
"fashionably",
"modishly",
"stylishly",
"swankily",
"cleanly",
"immaculately",
"pristinely",
"spotlessly",
"neatly",
"orderly",
"tidily",
"trimly",
"dashingly",
"nattily",
"sharply",
"smartly",
"snappily",
"sprucely"
],
"near antonyms":[
"sloppily",
"slovenly",
"dowdily",
"inelegantly",
"slatternly",
"messily",
"mussily",
"untidily",
"scruffily",
"shabbily",
"sleazily",
"dingily",
"dirtily",
"filthily",
"foully",
"grubbily",
"nastily"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"adverb"
]
},
"fancifies":{
"to make more attractive by adding something that is beautiful or becoming":{
"examples":[
"you could take a store-bought cake and fancify it so that it looks semi-homemade"
],
"synonyms":[
"adorns",
"arrays",
"beautifies",
"bedecks",
"bedizens",
"blazons",
"caparisons",
"decks",
"decorates",
"does",
"does up",
"dolls up",
"drapes",
"dresses",
"embellishes",
"emblazes",
"embosses",
"enriches",
"fancies up",
"festoons",
"garnishes",
"glitzes (up)",
"graces",
"gussies up",
"ornaments",
"pretties (up)",
"trims"
],
"near synonyms":[
"accessorizes",
"dresses up",
"traps",
"tricks (out)",
"brightens",
"freshens",
"smartens",
"spruces (up)",
"bosses",
"chases",
"braids",
"embroiders",
"feathers",
"figures",
"filigrees",
"fillets",
"flounces",
"frills",
"fringes",
"furbelows",
"garlands",
"hangs",
"laces",
"ribbons",
"swags",
"wreathes",
"appliqu\u00e9s",
"gilds",
"paints",
"diamonds",
"gems",
"impearls",
"jewels",
"pearls",
"redecorates",
"redoes"
],
"near antonyms":[
"simplifies",
"streamlines",
"bares",
"denudes",
"dismantles",
"displays",
"divests",
"exposes",
"reveals",
"strips",
"uncovers",
"uglifies"
],
"antonyms":[
"blemishes",
"defaces",
"disfigures",
"mars",
"scars",
"spoils"
]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"famines":{
"a falling short of an essential or desirable amount or number":{
"examples":[
"there's a famine of good general practitioners in many rural areas"
],
"synonyms":[
"crunches",
"dearths",
"deficiencies",
"deficits",
"droughts",
"drouths",
"failures",
"inadequacies",
"insufficiencies",
"lacks",
"lacunae",
"lacunas",
"paucities",
"pinches",
"poverties",
"scarcities",
"shortages",
"undersupplies",
"wants"
],
"near synonyms":[
"absences",
"omissions",
"necessities",
"needs",
"privations"
],
"near antonyms":[
"excesses",
"overabundances",
"oversupplies",
"surfeits",
"surpluses"
],
"antonyms":[
"abundances",
"adequacies",
"amplitudes",
"opulences",
"plenitudes",
"plenties",
"sufficiencies",
"wealths"
]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"fabrication":{
"a statement known by its maker to be untrue and made in order to deceive":{
"examples":[
"her claim that she had been a nurse during the war proved to be a total fabrication"
],
"synonyms":[
"fable",
"fairy tale",
"falsehood",
"falsity",
"fib",
"lie",
"mendacity",
"prevarication",
"story",
"tale",
"taradiddle",
"tarradiddle",
"untruth",
"whopper"
],
"near synonyms":[
"distortion",
"exaggeration",
"half-truth",
"ambiguity",
"equivocation",
"obliquity",
"defamation",
"libel",
"slander",
"perjury",
"bluff",
"fiction",
"pose",
"pretense",
"pretence",
"humbug",
"jive",
"nonsense",
"canard",
"fallacy",
"misconception",
"myth",
"falsification",
"misinformation",
"misreport",
"misrepresentation",
"misstatement",
"deceit",
"deceitfulness",
"dishonesty",
"duplicity",
"fraudulence"
],
"near antonyms":[
"fact",
"truism",
"verity",
"honesty",
"truthfulness",
"veracity",
"authentication",
"confirmation",
"substantiation",
"validation",
"verification"
],
"antonyms":[
"truth"
]
},
"something that is the product of the imagination":{
"examples":[
"the notion that the Colossus of Rhodes could straddle the harbor was a fabrication of medieval writers"
],
"synonyms":[
"fable",
"fantasy",
"phantasy",
"fiction",
"figment",
"invention"
],
"near synonyms":[
"anecdote",
"narrative",
"novel",
"story",
"tale",
"yarn",
"fairy tale",
"falsehood",
"falsity",
"fib",
"lie",
"mendacity",
"misrepresentation",
"prevarication",
"untruth",
"whopper",
"make-believe"
],
"near antonyms":[
"actuality",
"realness"
],
"antonyms":[
"fact",
"materiality",
"reality"
]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"fakir":{
"a dishonest person who uses clever means to cheat others out of something of value":{
"examples":[
"a traveling carnival that was run by fakirs preying on small-town rubes"
],
"synonyms":[
"bilk",
"bilker",
"cheat",
"cheater",
"chiseler",
"chiseller",
"confidence man",
"cozener",
"defrauder",
"dodger",
"finagler",
"fraudster",
"hoaxer",
"scammer",
"scamster",
"shark",
"sharper",
"sharpie",
"sharpy",
"skinner",
"swindler",
"tricker",
"trickster"
],
"near synonyms":[
"double-crosser",
"double-dealer",
"bluffer",
"charlatan",
"fake",
"faker",
"humbug",
"impostor",
"imposter",
"mountebank",
"phony",
"phoney",
"pretender",
"quack",
"quacksalver",
"ringer",
"sham",
"adventurer",
"fox",
"gamesman",
"knave",
"prankster",
"rascal",
"rogue",
"fast-talker",
"slick",
"slicker",
"slickster",
"slyboots",
"smoothy",
"smoothie",
"wheeler-dealer",
"plotter",
"schemer",
"sneak",
"sneaker",
"blackleg",
"cardsharp",
"cardsharper"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"one who makes false claims of identity or expertise":{
"examples":[
"a fakir peddling patent medicines that were mostly liquor and sugar"
],
"synonyms":[
"charlatan",
"fake",
"faker",
"fraud",
"hoaxer",
"humbug",
"impostor",
"imposter",
"mountebank",
"phony",
"phoney",
"pretender",
"quack",
"quacksalver",
"ringer",
"sham"
],
"near synonyms":[
"copycat",
"imitator",
"impersonator",
"mimic",
"actor",
"bluffer",
"counterfeiter",
"deceiver",
"dissembler",
"duper",
"feigner",
"misleader",
"operator",
"trickster",
"poseur",
"cozener",
"defrauder",
"dodger",
"fraudster",
"scammer",
"scamster",
"sharper",
"sharpie",
"sharpy",
"skinner",
"swindler"
],
"near antonyms":[
"ace",
"adept",
"authority",
"crackerjack",
"crackajack",
"expert",
"maestro",
"master",
"past master",
"professional",
"virtuoso",
"whiz",
"wizard"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"factious":{
"as in cohesionless":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"cohesionless",
"balkanized",
"fractionalized",
"fractionated",
"disunited",
"divided",
"split"
],
"near antonyms":[
"unanimous",
"undivided",
"united"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"adjective"
]
},
"farsighted":{
"having or showing awareness of and preparation for the future":{
"examples":[
"farsighted conservationists long ago realized that wilderness areas of breathtaking beauty needed to be protected from future development"
],
"synonyms":[
"farseeing",
"forehanded",
"foreseeing",
"foresighted",
"forethoughtful",
"forward",
"forward-looking",
"prescient",
"proactive",
"provident",
"visionary"
],
"near synonyms":[
"careful",
"cautious",
"heedful",
"discerning",
"insightful",
"perceptive",
"percipient",
"prudent",
"sagacious",
"sage",
"sapient",
"wise"
],
"near antonyms":[
"careless",
"heedless",
"incautious"
],
"antonyms":[
"half-baked",
"half-cocked",
"improvident",
"myopic",
"shortsighted"
]
},
"type":[
"adjective"
]
},
"fasting":{
"as in dieting":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"dieting"
],
"near antonyms":[
"cramming",
"glutting",
"gorging",
"sating",
"stuffing",
"surfeiting",
"gobbling",
"gormandizing",
"pigging out",
"gulping",
"guzzling"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"family names":{
"a name shared by members of a family":{
"examples":[
"searched for their family name on a popular genealogy website"
],
"synonyms":[
"last names",
"surnames"
],
"near synonyms":[
"maiden names",
"married names",
"cognomens",
"cognomina",
"epithets",
"sobriquets",
"soubriquets"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"fabricator":{
"a person who tells lies":{
"examples":[
"he's been a fabricator for so long that it no longer occurs to him to tell the truth"
],
"synonyms":[
"fabulist",
"fibber",
"liar",
"prevaricator",
"storyteller"
],
"near synonyms":[
"exaggerator",
"mythomaniac",
"calumniator",
"defamer",
"libeler",
"libelist",
"slanderer",
"perjurer",
"distorter",
"falsifier",
"equivocator",
"palterer",
"gossip",
"gossiper",
"talebearer",
"charlatan",
"cheat",
"cheater",
"counterfeiter",
"cozener",
"deceiver",
"defrauder",
"dissembler",
"dissimulator",
"double-dealer",
"fraud",
"hustler",
"knave",
"mountebank",
"operator",
"pretender"
],
"near antonyms":[
"square shooter"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"faze":{
"to throw into a state of self-conscious distress":{
"examples":[
"the collapse of part of the scenery didn't faze the actors one bit, and they just carried on"
],
"synonyms":[
"abash",
"confound",
"confuse",
"discomfit",
"disconcert",
"discountenance",
"embarrass",
"fluster",
"mortify",
"nonplus",
"rattle"
],
"near synonyms":[
"agitate",
"bother",
"chagrin",
"discomfort",
"discompose",
"dismay",
"disquiet",
"distress",
"disturb",
"perturb",
"put off",
"put out",
"unhinge",
"unsettle",
"upset",
"debase",
"degrade",
"demean",
"humble",
"humiliate",
"queer",
"shame"
],
"near antonyms":[
"calm",
"comfort",
"console",
"relieve",
"soothe",
"buoy",
"cheer",
"embolden",
"encourage",
"hearten",
"assure",
"reassure"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"falsehoods":{
"a false idea or belief":{
"examples":[
"the possibility of a perpetual motion machine is one falsehood that has been disproved by modern physics"
],
"synonyms":[
"delusions",
"errors",
"fallacies",
"falsities",
"hallucinations",
"illusions",
"misbeliefs",
"misconceptions",
"myths",
"old wives' tales",
"untruths"
],
"near synonyms":[
"factoids",
"superstitions",
"fictions",
"pretenses",
"pretences",
"distortions",
"inaccuracies",
"misapprehensions",
"miscomprehensions",
"misinterpretations",
"misjudgments",
"misperceptions",
"misunderstandings",
"misinformation",
"misknowledges",
"misreports",
"misrepresentations",
"misstatements",
"sophisms",
"sophistries",
"fibs",
"half-truths",
"lies",
"stories",
"tales"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[
"truths",
"verities"
]
},
"a statement known by its maker to be untrue and made in order to deceive":{
"examples":[
"several falsehoods in the witness's testimony that may be grounds for perjury"
],
"synonyms":[
"fables",
"fabrications",
"fairy tales",
"falsities",
"fibs",
"lies",
"mendacities",
"prevarications",
"stories",
"tales",
"taradiddles",
"tarradiddles",
"untruths",
"whoppers"
],
"near synonyms":[
"distortions",
"exaggerations",
"half-truths",
"ambiguities",
"equivocations",
"obliquities",
"defamations",
"libels",
"slanders",
"perjuries",
"bluffs",
"fictions",
"poses",
"pretenses",
"pretences",
"humbug",
"jives",
"nonsense",
"canards",
"fallacies",
"misconceptions",
"myths",
"falsifications",
"misinformation",
"misreports",
"misrepresentations",
"misstatements",
"deceits",
"dishonesties",
"duplicities",
"fraudulences"
],
"near antonyms":[
"facts",
"truisms",
"verities",
"honesties",
"veracities",
"authentications",
"confirmations",
"substantiations",
"validations",
"verifications"
],
"antonyms":[
"truths"
]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"fall off":{
"the amount by which something is lessened":{
"examples":[
"the falloff in sales was more than the store could weather and so its closing was inevitable"
],
"synonyms":[
"abatement",
"decline",
"decrease",
"decrement",
"dent",
"depletion",
"depression",
"diminishment",
"diminution",
"drop",
"drop-off",
"fall",
"loss",
"reduction",
"shrinkage",
"step-down"
],
"near synonyms":[
"deduction",
"subtraction",
"downturn",
"slip",
"slump",
"curtailment",
"cut",
"cutback",
"retrenchment",
"shortening"
],
"near antonyms":[
"accretion",
"accrual",
"accumulation",
"addition",
"supplement",
"continuation",
"extension",
"upswing",
"uptrend",
"upturn"
],
"antonyms":[
"boost",
"enlargement",
"gain",
"increase",
"increment",
"raise",
"rise",
"step-up",
"uptick"
]
},
"to turn away from a straight line or course":{
"examples":[
"the coastline falls off toward the north after you round the bay"
],
"synonyms":[
"arc",
"arch",
"bend",
"bow",
"crook",
"curve",
"hook",
"round",
"sweep",
"swerve",
"trend",
"wheel"
],
"near synonyms":[
"circle",
"coil",
"curlicue",
"curl",
"loop",
"spiral",
"turn",
"twist",
"wind",
"deviate",
"veer"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[
"straighten"
]
},
"type":[
"noun",
"verb"
]
},
"fast-talks":{
"as in urges , cajoles":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"blandishes",
"blarneys",
"cajoles",
"coaxes",
"entreats",
"exhorts",
"urges",
"wheedles",
"argues",
"brings",
"brings around",
"converts",
"convinces",
"gains",
"gets",
"induces",
"moves",
"persuades",
"prevails (on or upon)",
"satisfies",
"talks (into)",
"wins (over)",
"allures",
"beguiles",
"leads on",
"lures",
"seduces",
"snows",
"tempts",
"brainwashes",
"overpersuades",
"inclines",
"influences",
"prompts",
"sells",
"sways",
"attracts",
"draws",
"entices",
"interests",
"chews over",
"converses",
"debates",
"discusses",
"disputes",
"hashes (over)",
"moots",
"reasons (with)"
],
"near antonyms":[
"deters",
"discourages",
"dissuades",
"unsells"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
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"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"bamboozles",
"betrays",
"bitches",
"double-crosses",
"ropes (in)",
"deceives",
"dupes",
"fools",
"gulls",
"tricks",
"exploits",
"milks",
"clips",
"gouges",
"nicks",
"overcharges",
"soaks",
"extorts",
"wrenches",
"wrests",
"wrings",
"beats",
"bilks",
"bleeds",
"cheats",
"chisels",
"chouses",
"cons",
"cozens",
"defrauds",
"diddles",
"does",
"does in",
"euchres",
"fiddles",
"fleeces",
"flimflams",
"gaffs",
"hoses",
"hustles",
"mulcts",
"nobbles",
"plucks",
"reams",
"rips off",
"rooks",
"screws",
"shakes down",
"shortchanges",
"shorts",
"skins",
"skunks",
"squeezes",
"sticks",
"stiffs",
"stings",
"suckers",
"swindles",
"thimblerigs",
"victimizes"
],
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"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"falls":{
"to go down from an upright position suddenly and involuntarily":{
"examples":[
"better sand that walkway before somebody falls on the ice"
],
"synonyms":[
"slips",
"stumbles",
"topples",
"trips",
"tumbles"
],
"near synonyms":[
"collapses",
"crumples",
"drops",
"flumps",
"keels",
"plops",
"plunks",
"plonks",
"slumps (over)",
"crashes",
"free-falls",
"nose-dives",
"plummets",
"plunges",
"precipitates",
"wipes out",
"skids",
"slides"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[
"gets up",
"rises",
"stands (up)",
"uprises"
]
},
"to yield to the control or power of enemy forces":{
"examples":[
"the city fell after weeks of merciless bombardment"
],
"synonyms":[
"capitulates",
"gives up",
"knuckles under",
"submits",
"succumbs",
"surrenders"
],
"near synonyms":[
"bows",
"buckles",
"caves (in)",
"collapses",
"gives (in)",
"hands over",
"relinquishes",
"loses",
"concedes",
"fails",
"folds"
],
"near antonyms":[
"bucks",
"defies",
"fights",
"opposes",
"repels",
"resists",
"withstands",
"beats",
"overcomes",
"wins",
"conquers",
"prevails",
"triumphs"
],
"antonyms":[
"endures",
"stands"
]
},
"to go to a lower level especially abruptly":{
"examples":[
"word soon got out that the movie was no good, and box-office receipts fell like a rock"
],
"synonyms":[
"crashes",
"craters",
"declines",
"descends",
"dips",
"dives",
"drops",
"lowers",
"nose-dives",
"plummets",
"plunges",
"sinks",
"skids",
"tumbles"
],
"near synonyms":[
"abates",
"decreases",
"de-escalates",
"dies (down)",
"diminishes",
"droops",
"dwindles",
"ebbs",
"lessens",
"lets up",
"moderates",
"subsides",
"tapers off",
"wanes",
"recedes",
"retreats"
],
"near antonyms":[
"accumulates",
"balloons",
"builds",
"burgeons",
"bourgeons",
"enlarges",
"escalates",
"expands",
"grows",
"increases",
"intensifies",
"mushrooms",
"picks up",
"snowballs",
"swells",
"waxes"
],
"antonyms":[
"arises",
"ascends",
"lifts",
"mounts",
"rises",
"soars",
"spikes",
"ups"
]
},
"to grow less in scope or intensity especially gradually":{
"examples":[
"manufacturing in the area is falling , and closing signs are going up all over"
],
"synonyms":[
"abates",
"declines",
"decreases",
"de-escalates",
"dies (away or down or out)",
"diminishes",
"drains (away)",
"drops (off)",
"dwindles",
"eases",
"ebbs",
"falls away",
"lessens",
"lets up",
"lowers",
"moderates",
"palls",
"phases down",
"ratchets (down)",
"rachets (down)",
"recedes",
"relents",
"remits",
"shrinks",
"subsides",
"tapers",
"tapers off",
"wanes"
],
"near synonyms":[
"compresses",
"condenses",
"constricts",
"contracts",
"evaporates",
"fades (away)",
"fritters (away)",
"gives out",
"melts (away)",
"peters (out)",
"tails (off)",
"vanishes",
"slackens",
"slows (down)",
"alleviates",
"relaxes",
"flags",
"sinks",
"weakens",
"caves (in)",
"collapses",
"deflates"
],
"near antonyms":[
"appears",
"emerges",
"shows up",
"blows up",
"distends",
"elongates",
"lengthens"
],
"antonyms":[
"accumulates",
"balloons",
"builds",
"burgeons",
"bourgeons",
"enlarges",
"escalates",
"expands",
"grows",
"increases",
"intensifies",
"mounts",
"mushrooms",
"picks up",
"rises",
"snowballs",
"soars",
"swells",
"waxes"
]
},
"to lead or extend downward":{
"examples":[
"the lake bottom falls sharply just a few feet from the shoreline, so be careful"
],
"synonyms":[
"declines",
"descends",
"dips",
"drops",
"plunges",
"sinks"
],
"near synonyms":[
"angles",
"cants",
"cocks",
"heels",
"inclines",
"leans",
"lists",
"reclines",
"slants",
"slopes",
"tilts",
"tips"
],
"near antonyms":[
"evens",
"flattens",
"levels",
"planes",
"smooths",
"smoothes",
"straightens"
],
"antonyms":[
"arises",
"ascends",
"climbs",
"mounts",
"rises",
"uprises",
"upsweeps",
"upturns"
]
},
"to undergo defeat":{
"examples":[
"not surprisingly, the novice player fell to a much stronger opponent"
],
"synonyms":[
"bows out",
"loses"
],
"near synonyms":[
"falters",
"tanks",
"throws",
"forfeits",
"bombs",
"collapses",
"cracks (up)",
"fails",
"flops",
"flunks",
"folds",
"founders",
"misses",
"strikes out",
"washes out"
],
"near antonyms":[
"flourishes",
"prospers",
"succeeds",
"thrives"
],
"antonyms":[
"conquers",
"prevails",
"triumphs",
"wins"
]
},
"to commit an offense":{
"examples":[
"even saints can fall"
],
"synonyms":[
"errs",
"offends",
"sins",
"strays",
"transgresses",
"trespasses",
"wanders"
],
"near synonyms":[
"breaches",
"breaks",
"infringes",
"violates",
"backslides",
"lapses",
"messes up"
],
"near antonyms":[
"forgives",
"justifies",
"pardons",
"regrets",
"repents",
"rues"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to stop living":{
"examples":[
"if their brave leader falls , the men will lose their courage"
],
"synonyms":[
"checks out",
"conks (out)",
"croaks",
"deceases",
"demises",
"departs",
"dies",
"drops",
"ends",
"exits",
"expires",
"flatlines",
"goes",
"kicks in",
"kicks off",
"parts",
"passes away",
"passes (on)",
"pegs out",
"perishes",
"pops off",
"steps out",
"succumbs"
],
"near synonyms":[
"predeceases",
"consumes",
"disappears",
"dries up",
"fades",
"fails"
],
"near antonyms":[
"comes to",
"revives",
"lingers",
"exists",
"is",
"subsists",
"flourishes",
"prospers",
"thrives"
],
"antonyms":[
"breathes",
"lives"
]
},
"a fall of water usually from a great height":{
"examples":[
"tourists were shocked to see a man jump into the water and go over the falls"
],
"synonyms":[
"cascade",
"cataract",
"waterfall"
],
"near synonyms":[
"flume",
"chute",
"shute",
"rapid(s)",
"shoot",
"white water"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun",
"verb"
]
},
"fallen away":{
"to grow less in scope or intensity especially gradually":{
"examples":[
"as the years went by, the public's interest in the murder case fell away"
],
"synonyms":[
"abated",
"declined",
"decreased",
"de-escalated",
"died (away or down or out)",
"diminished",
"drained (away)",
"dropped (off)",
"dwindled",
"eased",
"ebbed",
"fallen",
"lessened",
"let up",
"lowered",
"moderated",
"palled",
"phased down",
"ratcheted (down)",
"racheted (down)",
"receded",
"relented",
"remitted",
"shrunk",
"shrunken",
"subsided",
"tapered",
"tapered off",
"waned"
],
"near synonyms":[
"compressed",
"condensed",
"constricted",
"contracted",
"evaporated",
"faded (away)",
"frittered (away)",
"given out",
"melted (away)",
"petered (out)",
"tailed (off)",
"vanished",
"slackened",
"slowed (down)",
"alleviated",
"relaxed",
"flagged",
"sunk",
"weakened",
"caved (in)",
"collapsed",
"deflated"
],
"near antonyms":[
"appeared",
"emerged",
"shown up",
"showed up",
"blown up",
"distended",
"elongated",
"lengthened"
],
"antonyms":[
"accumulated",
"ballooned",
"built",
"burgeoned",
"bourgeoned",
"enlarged",
"escalated",
"expanded",
"grown",
"increased",
"intensified",
"mounted",
"mushroomed",
"picked up",
"risen",
"snowballed",
"soared",
"swelled",
"swollen",
"waxed"
]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"fades":{
"to cease to be visible":{
"examples":[
"the departing ship gradually faded over the horizon"
],
"synonyms":[
"dematerializes",
"disappears",
"dissolves",
"evanesces",
"evaporates",
"flees",
"flies",
"melts",
"sinks",
"vanishes"
],
"near synonyms":[
"blanks (out)",
"clears",
"dies (away or down or out)",
"disperses",
"dissipates",
"dries up",
"blurs",
"dims"
],
"near antonyms":[
"arrives",
"breaks out",
"comes out",
"emerges",
"issues",
"looms",
"shows up"
],
"antonyms":[
"appears",
"materializes"
]
},
"to make white or whiter by removing color":{
"examples":[
"years of harsh sunlight had faded the car, which was once fire-engine red"
],
"synonyms":[
"blanches",
"bleaches",
"blenches",
"decolorizes",
"dulls",
"pales",
"snows",
"washes out",
"whitens"
],
"near synonyms":[
"brightens",
"lightens",
"dims",
"mats",
"mattes",
"matts",
"etiolates",
"whitewashes",
"frosts",
"silvers"
],
"near antonyms":[
"blackens",
"blotches",
"checkers",
"dapples",
"daubs",
"discolors",
"flecks",
"marbles",
"mottles",
"patterns",
"polychromes",
"shades",
"speckles",
"specks",
"splotches",
"spots",
"streaks",
"striates",
"stripes",
"tarnishes",
"variegates",
"colors",
"dyes",
"paints",
"pigments",
"stains",
"tinctures",
"tinges",
"tints",
"burnishes",
"polishes",
"shines"
],
"antonyms":[
"darkens",
"deepens",
"embrowns"
]
},
"to lose bodily strength or vigor":{
"examples":[
"began to fade after battling the disease for years"
],
"synonyms":[
"decays",
"droops",
"emaciates",
"fails",
"flags",
"goes",
"lags",
"languishes",
"sags",
"sinks",
"wastes (away)",
"weakens",
"wilts",
"withers"
],
"near synonyms":[
"breaks down",
"wears out",
"yields",
"degenerates",
"deteriorates",
"rots",
"runs down"
],
"near antonyms":[
"convalesces",
"rallies",
"rebounds",
"recovers",
"recuperates",
"gains"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"as in crops , trims":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"bobs",
"buzz cuts",
"crew cuts",
"crops",
"Mohawk",
"Mohawks",
"shags",
"shingles",
"trims",
"beehives",
"big hairs",
"buns",
"chignons",
"French twists",
"pageboys",
"pugs",
"updos",
"upsweeps",
"braids",
"pigtails",
"plaits",
"ponytails",
"queues",
"Afros",
"conks",
"cornrows",
"dreadlocks",
"permanents",
"perms",
"comb-overs",
"ducktails",
"pompadours",
"roaches",
"coiffures",
"cuts",
"dos",
"do's",
"haircuts",
"hairdos",
"hairstyles"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun",
"verb"
]
},
"fallen off":{
"to turn away from a straight line or course":{
"examples":[
"the coastline falls off toward the north after you round the bay"
],
"synonyms":[
"arced",
"arched",
"bent",
"bowed",
"crooked",
"curved",
"hooked",
"rounded",
"swept",
"swerved",
"trended",
"wheeled"
],
"near synonyms":[
"circled",
"coiled",
"curled",
"curlicued",
"looped",
"spiraled",
"spiralled",
"turned",
"twisted",
"wound",
"winded",
"deviated",
"veered"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[
"straightened"
]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"falls (in)":{
"as in declines (in) , tapers off":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"abates",
"declines (in)",
"diminishes (in)",
"dips",
"dwindles",
"lessens",
"tapers",
"tapers off",
"decreases (in)",
"loses"
],
"near antonyms":[
"builds up",
"gains",
"gathers",
"grows (in)",
"picks up",
"doubles (in)",
"triples (in)",
"accrues",
"accumulates",
"amasses"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"familiar spirits":{
"the soul of a dead person thought of especially as appearing to living people":{
"examples":[
"asked the spiritualist to summon the familiar spirit of her late mother for some matrimonial guidance"
],
"synonyms":[
"apparitions",
"bogeys",
"bogies",
"ghosts",
"hants",
"haunts",
"materializations",
"phantasms",
"fantasms",
"phantoms",
"poltergeists",
"shades",
"shadows",
"specters",
"spectres",
"spirits",
"spooks",
"sprites",
"visions",
"visitants",
"wraiths"
],
"near synonyms":[
"angels",
"daimones",
"daimons",
"familiars",
"genies",
"genii",
"geniuses",
"genii",
"jinn",
"jinns",
"djinn",
"djinns",
"shaitans",
"doppelg\u00e4ngers",
"doppelgangers",
"doubles",
"fetches",
"lemures",
"manes",
"incubi",
"incubuses",
"lamiae",
"lamias",
"succubi",
"vampires",
"zombies",
"cacodemons",
"demons",
"daemons",
"devils",
"fiends",
"ghouls",
"imps"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"fancifying":{
"to make more attractive by adding something that is beautiful or becoming":{
"examples":[
"you could take a store-bought cake and fancify it so that it looks semi-homemade"
],
"synonyms":[
"adorning",
"arraying",
"beautifying",
"bedecking",
"bedizening",
"blazoning",
"caparisoning",
"decking",
"decorating",
"doing",
"doing up",
"dolling up",
"draping",
"dressing",
"embellishing",
"emblazing",
"embossing",
"enriching",
"fancying up",
"festooning",
"garnishing",
"glitzing (up)",
"gracing",
"gussying up",
"ornamenting",
"prettying (up)",
"trimming"
],
"near synonyms":[
"accessorizing",
"dressing up",
"trapping",
"tricking (out)",
"brightening",
"freshening",
"smartening",
"sprucing (up)",
"bossing",
"chasing",
"braiding",
"embroidering",
"feathering",
"figuring",
"filigreeing",
"filleting",
"flouncing",
"frilling",
"fringing",
"furbelowing",
"garlanding",
"hanging",
"lacing",
"ribboning",
"swagging",
"wreathing",
"appliqu\u00e9ing",
"gilding",
"painting",
"diamonding",
"gemming",
"impearling",
"jeweling",
"jewelling",
"pearling",
"redecorating",
"redoing"
],
"near antonyms":[
"simplifying",
"streamlining",
"baring",
"denuding",
"dismantling",
"displaying",
"divesting",
"exposing",
"revealing",
"stripping",
"uncovering",
"uglifying"
],
"antonyms":[
"blemishing",
"defacing",
"disfiguring",
"marring",
"scarring",
"spoiling"
]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"fallen (in)":{
"as in declined (in) , tapered off":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"abated",
"declined (in)",
"diminished (in)",
"dipped",
"dwindled",
"lessened",
"tapered",
"tapered off",
"decreased (in)",
"lost"
],
"near antonyms":[
"built up",
"gained",
"gathered",
"grown (in)",
"picked up",
"doubled (in)",
"tripled (in)",
"accrued",
"accumulated",
"amassed"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"Father":{
"a male human parent":{
"examples":[
"the special relationship that exists between fathers and sons"
],
"synonyms":[
"dad",
"daddy",
"old man",
"pa",
"papa",
"poppa",
"pater",
"pop",
"sire"
],
"near synonyms":[
"paterfamilias",
"patriarch",
"father figure",
"father image",
"stepfather"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"a person who establishes a whole new field of endeavor":{
"examples":[
"Sir Isaac Newton is regarded by many as the father of modern science"
],
"synonyms":[
"author",
"begetter",
"creator",
"establisher",
"founder",
"founding father",
"generator",
"inaugurator",
"initiator",
"instituter",
"institutor",
"originator",
"sire"
],
"near synonyms":[
"cocreator",
"cofounder",
"conceiver",
"contriver",
"designer",
"deviser",
"formulator",
"innovator",
"introducer",
"inventor",
"spawner",
"builder",
"maker",
"producer",
"developer",
"pioneer",
"researcher",
"researchist",
"organizer",
"promoter",
"encourager",
"galvanizer",
"inspiration",
"inspirer"
],
"near antonyms":[
"disciple",
"follower",
"pupil",
"student",
"supporter"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"a person who is several generations earlier in an individual's line of descent":{
"examples":[
"our fathers founded this nation on the fundamental belief that no person is entitled to rule by divine right"
],
"synonyms":[
"ancestor",
"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"
]
},
"the being worshipped as the creator and ruler of the universe":{
"examples":[
"let us ask humbly for the blessings of our Father in heaven"
],
"synonyms":[
"Allah",
"Almighty",
"Author",
"Creator",
"deity",
"Divinity",
"Eternal",
"Everlasting",
"God",
"Godhead",
"Jehovah",
"King",
"Lord",
"Maker",
"Providence",
"Supreme Being",
"Yahweh",
"Jahveh",
"Yahveh"
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"get",
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"propagate",
"reproduce",
"spawn",
"bear",
"engender",
"gender",
"generate",
"produce"
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},
"type":[
"noun",
"verb"
]
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"as in family physician , general practitioner":{
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"family physician",
"family practitioner",
"general practitioner",
"croaker",
"doc",
"doctor",
"medic",
"medico",
"physician",
"sawbones",
"anesthesiologist",
"dermatologist",
"gynecologist",
"internist",
"neurologist",
"ob-gyn",
"obstetrician",
"ophthalmologist",
"orthopedist",
"pathologist",
"pediatrician",
"pediatrist",
"physiatrist",
"podiatrist",
"radiologist",
"urologist",
"attending",
"clinician",
"hospitalist",
"specialist",
"plastic surgeon",
"surgeon",
"intern",
"interne",
"resident",
"aidman",
"nurse",
"nurse-practitioner",
"EMT",
"paramedic",
"paramedical",
"physical therapist",
"physiotherapist"
],
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"nondoctor",
"nonphysician"
],
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},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
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"to change so much as to create a wrong impression or alter the meaning of":{
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"taking that statement completely out of context essentially falsifies it, whether that's your intention or not"
],
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"bend",
"color",
"cook",
"distort",
"fudge",
"garble",
"misinterpret",
"misrelate",
"misrepresent",
"misstate",
"pervert",
"slant",
"twist",
"warp"
],
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"misdescribe",
"misspeak",
"mistranslate",
"belie",
"camouflage",
"disguise",
"dissemble",
"gloss (over)",
"mask",
"veil",
"whitewash",
"bowdlerize",
"censor",
"complicate",
"confound",
"confuse",
"mistake",
"mix (up)",
"mystify",
"obscure",
"equivocate",
"fib",
"lie",
"palter",
"prevaricate"
],
"near antonyms":[
"clarify",
"clear (up)",
"explain",
"illuminate",
"illustrate",
"interpret",
"spell out",
"decipher"
],
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},
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"examples":[
"telephone records falsified his claim that he wasn't home that night"
],
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"belie",
"confound",
"confute",
"debunk",
"disconfirm",
"discredit",
"disprove",
"rebut",
"refute",
"shoot down"
],
"near synonyms":[
"overthrow",
"overturn",
"challenge",
"contest",
"query",
"question",
"doubt",
"mistrust",
"debate",
"discuss",
"hash (over)",
"moot",
"talk over"
],
"near antonyms":[
"document",
"evidence",
"evince",
"record",
"show",
"support",
"witness",
"back (up)",
"buttress",
"corroborate",
"substantiate",
"adduce",
"attest",
"authenticate",
"certify",
"identify",
"demonstrate",
"display",
"illustrate",
"manifest"
],
"antonyms":[
"confirm",
"establish",
"prove",
"validate",
"verify"
]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"fastness":{
"a high rate of movement or performance":{
"examples":[
"the amazing fastness with which the boy took his shower had us wondering if he'd used any water"
],
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"celerity",
"fleetness",
"haste",
"hurry",
"quickness",
"rapidity",
"rapidness",
"speed",
"speediness",
"swiftness",
"velocity"
],
"near synonyms":[
"clip",
"gait",
"pace",
"rate",
"tempo",
"drive",
"hustle",
"acceleration",
"hastiness",
"precipitation",
"precipitousness",
"rush",
"alacrity",
"dispatch",
"expedition",
"expeditiousness",
"promptitude",
"promptness",
"warp speed"
],
"near antonyms":[
"languidness",
"languor",
"leisureliness",
"lethargy",
"torpidity",
"torpor",
"reluctance",
"deliberateness",
"deliberation",
"dilatoriness",
"lateness",
"pokiness",
"procrastination"
],
"antonyms":[
"slowness",
"sluggishness"
]
},
"a structure or place from which one can resist attack":{
"examples":[
"the guerillas retreated to their network of hidden fastnesses deep within the mountains"
],
"synonyms":[
"bastion",
"castle",
"citadel",
"fort",
"fortification",
"fortress",
"hold",
"redoubt",
"stronghold"
],
"near synonyms":[
"battlement",
"breastwork",
"bulwark",
"earthwork",
"embattlement",
"parapet",
"rampart",
"bunker",
"dugout",
"blockhouse",
"garrison house",
"alcazar",
"casbah",
"kasbah"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"adherence to something to which one is bound by a pledge or duty":{
"examples":[
"his uncompromising fastness to the cause of freedom was beyond question"
],
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"adhesion",
"allegiance",
"attachment",
"commitment",
"constancy",
"dedication",
"devotedness",
"devotion",
"faith",
"faithfulness",
"fealty",
"fidelity",
"loyalty",
"piety",
"steadfastness",
"troth"
],
"near synonyms":[
"affection",
"fondness",
"determination",
"firmness",
"resolution",
"dependability",
"reliability",
"trustability",
"trustiness",
"trustworthiness"
],
"near antonyms":[
"alienation",
"disaffection",
"estrangement",
"separation"
],
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"disloyalty",
"faithlessness",
"falseness",
"falsity",
"inconstancy",
"infidelity",
"perfidiousness",
"perfidy",
"treachery",
"unfaithfulness"
]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"favela":{
"as in jungle , shantytown":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"Hooverville",
"jungle",
"shantytown",
"bivouac",
"camp",
"campground",
"campsite",
"encampment",
"hutment",
"canvas",
"canvass",
"tentage",
"colony",
"plantation",
"settlement",
"barracks",
"cantonment",
"installation",
"laager",
"leaguer",
"post"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"familiarized":{
"to give information to":{
"examples":[
"the general's day-to-day duties included familiarizing the president on international developments"
],
"synonyms":[
"acquainted",
"advised",
"apprised",
"briefed",
"caught up",
"cleared",
"clued (in)",
"enlightened",
"filled in",
"hipped",
"informed",
"instructed",
"told",
"versed",
"wised (up)"
],
"near synonyms":[
"advertised",
"alerted",
"notified",
"announced (to)",
"disclosed (to)",
"assured",
"certified",
"convinced",
"reassured",
"warranted",
"educated",
"lectured",
"schooled",
"taught",
"tutored",
"disabused",
"disenchanted",
"disillusioned",
"undeceived"
],
"near antonyms":[
"misinformed",
"misled"
],
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},
"to impart knowledge of a new thing or situation to":{
"examples":[
"one office worker is assigned with the task of familiarizing new staffers with the use of electronic equipment around the office"
],
"synonyms":[
"accustomed",
"acquainted",
"initiated",
"introduced",
"orientated",
"oriented"
],
"near synonyms":[
"habituated",
"wont",
"apprised",
"briefed",
"clued (in)",
"filled in",
"informed",
"educated",
"enlightened",
"grounded",
"instructed",
"schooled",
"trained",
"versed",
"exposed",
"presented",
"subjected",
"advised",
"tipped (off)",
"told",
"warned",
"wised (up)",
"reacquainted"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"fawner":{
"a person who flatters another in order to get ahead":{
"examples":[
"having surrounded himself with fawners who gave him only good news, the governor had no idea of the true state of affairs"
],
"synonyms":[
"apple-polisher",
"bootlicker",
"brownnoser",
"flunky",
"flunkey",
"flunkie",
"lickspittle",
"suck-up",
"sycophant",
"toady"
],
"near synonyms":[
"yes-man",
"apparatchik",
"company man",
"hanger-on",
"leech",
"parasite",
"sponge",
"sponger",
"henchman",
"lackey",
"lapdog",
"minion",
"running dog",
"satellite",
"slave",
"stooge",
"admirer",
"cultist",
"devotee",
"enthusiast",
"fan",
"groveler",
"idolater",
"idolator",
"worshipper",
"worshiper",
"zealot",
"adherent",
"camp follower",
"convert",
"disciple",
"follower",
"me-tooer",
"partisan",
"partizan",
"pupil",
"votary"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"famousness":{
"as in fame , renown":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"celebrity",
"fame",
"glory",
"honor",
"kudos",
"renown",
"reputation",
"repute",
"distinction",
"dominance",
"eminence",
"noteworthiness",
"paramountcy",
"preeminence",
"preponderance",
"preponderancy",
"prepotency",
"prestigiousness",
"primacy",
"superiority",
"supremacy",
"transcendence",
"megastardom",
"stardom",
"superstardom",
"greatness",
"illustriousness",
"nobleness",
"notableness",
"ascendance",
"ascendence",
"ascendancy",
"ascendency",
"authority",
"domination",
"dominion",
"influence",
"power",
"prestige",
"weight",
"infamy",
"notoriety"
],
"near antonyms":[
"insignificance",
"inferiority",
"mediocrity",
"obscureness",
"obscurity"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"fair-trade":{
"as in sell , retail":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"distribute",
"market",
"peddle",
"retail",
"sell",
"supply",
"vend",
"wholesale",
"buy",
"pick up",
"purchase",
"take",
"black-market",
"bootleg",
"fence",
"smuggle",
"auction",
"exchange",
"merchandise",
"merchandize",
"rebuy",
"resell",
"swap",
"corner",
"engross",
"monopolize",
"undersell",
"bargain",
"barter",
"horse-trade",
"negotiate",
"transact",
"day-trade",
"invest",
"speculate",
"deal",
"trade",
"traffic"
],
"near antonyms":[
"black",
"blackball",
"boycott"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"fallen on one's face":{
"to be unsuccessful":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[
"bombed",
"collapsed",
"cratered",
"failed",
"flamed out",
"flopped",
"flunked",
"folded",
"foundered",
"missed",
"struck out",
"stricken out",
"tanked",
"washed out"
],
"near synonyms":[
"floundered",
"struggled",
"declined",
"skidded",
"slipped",
"slumped",
"sunk",
"waned",
"crashed",
"crumbled",
"miscarried",
"misfired",
"gone under",
"imploded",
"self-destructed"
],
"near antonyms":[
"cooked",
"flourished",
"prospered",
"thrived",
"thriven",
"prevailed",
"triumphed",
"won"
],
"antonyms":[
"clicked",
"come off",
"delivered",
"gone",
"gone over",
"panned out",
"succeeded",
"worked out"
]
},
"type":[]
},
"farmstead":{
"a piece of land and its buildings used to grow crops or raise livestock":{
"examples":[
"many of the area's proud, old farmsteads have been bulldozed by developers to make way for condominiums"
],
"synonyms":[
"estate",
"farm",
"grange",
"ranch"
],
"near synonyms":[
"cropland",
"farmland",
"farmyard",
"farmhouse",
"hacienda",
"homestead",
"manor",
"plantation",
"spread",
"croft",
"smallholding",
"station",
"steading",
"garden",
"orchard"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"face values":{
"the monetary figure that is printed or shown on something (such as a coin or bill)":{
"examples":[
"We paid $100 for tickets that had a face value of $50."
],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"list prices",
"unit prices",
"valuations",
"values",
"worths",
"charges",
"costs",
"fees",
"figures",
"prices",
"rates",
"appraisals",
"assessments",
"estimates",
"estimations",
"evaluations"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"fag ends":{
"an unused or unwanted piece or item typically of small size or value":{
"examples":[
"a patchwork quilt sewn together from the fag ends of many bolts of cloth"
],
"synonyms":[
"ends",
"leftovers",
"oddments",
"remainders",
"remnants",
"scraps",
"stubs"
],
"near synonyms":[
"leavings",
"odds and ends",
"pickings",
"refuses",
"remains",
"residuals",
"residues",
"scrapings",
"stumps",
"vestiges",
"balances",
"rests",
"chips",
"flakes",
"fragments",
"pieces",
"slivers",
"splinters",
"ribbons",
"shreds",
"tatters"
],
"near antonyms":[
"wholes"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"faultfinding":{
"given to making or expressing unfavorable judgments about things":{
"examples":[
"publishers now have to produce textbooks that pass muster with a slew of faultfinding committees"
],
"synonyms":[
"captious",
"carping",
"caviling",
"cavilling",
"critical",
"hypercritical",
"judgmental",
"overcritical",
"rejective"
],
"near synonyms":[
"discerning",
"discriminating",
"judicious",
"demanding",
"exacting",
"fastidious",
"finical",
"finicky",
"fussy",
"nitpicky",
"particular",
"picky",
"pettifogging",
"quibbling",
"harsh",
"merciless",
"uncharitable",
"unforgiving"
],
"near antonyms":[
"undiscriminating",
"undemanding",
"unfussy",
"charitable",
"forgiving"
],
"antonyms":[
"uncritical"
]
},
"type":[
"adjective"
]
},
"farmwork":{
"as in horticulture , cultivation":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"cultivation",
"culture",
"gardening",
"horticulture",
"tillage",
"agriculture",
"farming",
"husbandry",
"agribusiness",
"agroecology",
"agronomy",
"agroforestry",
"arboriculture",
"pomology",
"aquaculture",
"aquiculture",
"hydroponics",
"animal husbandry",
"mixed farming",
"monoculture",
"pastoralism",
"sharecropping"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"family name":{
"a name shared by members of a family":{
"examples":[
"searched for their family name on a popular genealogy website"
],
"synonyms":[
"last name",
"surname"
],
"near synonyms":[
"maiden name",
"married name",
"cognomen",
"epithet",
"sobriquet",
"soubriquet"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"failures":{
"a falling short of one's goals":{
"examples":[
"the failure of the school's fund-raising drive was a big disappointment to all"
],
"synonyms":[
"collapses",
"crashes",
"croppers",
"defeats",
"fizzles",
"nonachievements",
"nonsuccesses"
],
"near synonyms":[
"futilities",
"ineffectualities",
"inefficacies",
"deficiencies",
"inadequacies",
"insufficiencies",
"disappointments",
"letdowns",
"setbacks"
],
"near antonyms":[
"victories",
"wins"
],
"antonyms":[
"accomplishments",
"achievements",
"successes"
]
},
"something that has failed":{
"examples":[
"the students' first attempt to build a homemade rocket was a disappointing failure"
],
"synonyms":[
"bombs",
"bummers",
"busts",
"catastrophes",
"clinkers",
"clunkers",
"debacles",
"d\u00e9b\u00e2cles",
"disasters",
"duds",
"fiascoes",
"fizzles",
"flops",
"frosts",
"lemons",
"losers",
"misses",
"shipwrecks",
"turkeys",
"washouts"
],
"near synonyms":[
"also-rans",
"disappointments",
"dogs",
"has-beens",
"near misses",
"botches",
"hashes",
"messes",
"muddles",
"shambles",
"nonevents",
"nonstarters"
],
"near antonyms":[
"corkers",
"crackerjacks",
"crackajacks",
"dandies",
"jim-dandies",
"phenomena",
"phenomenons"
],
"antonyms":[
"blockbusters",
"hits",
"smashes",
"successes",
"winners"
]
},
"a falling short of an essential or desirable amount or number":{
"examples":[
"the failure of the potato crop had a devastating effect on the population of Ireland"
],
"synonyms":[
"crunches",
"dearths",
"deficiencies",
"deficits",
"droughts",
"drouths",
"famines",
"inadequacies",
"insufficiencies",
"lacks",
"lacunae",
"lacunas",
"paucities",
"pinches",
"poverties",
"scarcities",
"shortages",
"undersupplies",
"wants"
],
"near synonyms":[
"absences",
"omissions",
"necessities",
"needs",
"privations"
],
"near antonyms":[
"excesses",
"overabundances",
"oversupplies",
"surfeits",
"surpluses"
],
"antonyms":[
"abundances",
"adequacies",
"amplitudes",
"opulences",
"plenitudes",
"plenties",
"sufficiencies",
"wealths"
]
},
"the inability to pay one's debts":{
"examples":[
"years of prolonged economic depression, when business failures were common"
],
"synonyms":[
"bankruptcies",
"insolvencies",
"ruins"
],
"near synonyms":[
"Chapter 11s"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"fantastics":{
"conceived or made without regard for reason or reality":{
"examples":[
"a fantastic scheme for getting rich quick"
],
"synonyms":[
"absurd",
"bizarre",
"crazy",
"fanciful",
"foolish",
"insane",
"nonsensical",
"preposterous",
"unreal",
"wild"
],
"near synonyms":[
"implausible",
"inconceivable",
"incredible",
"unbelievable",
"unimaginable",
"unthinkable",
"extravagant",
"grotesque",
"bizarro",
"curious",
"eccentric",
"far-out",
"funny",
"kinky",
"kooky",
"kookie",
"odd",
"outlandish",
"out-of-the-way",
"outr\u00e9",
"peculiar",
"quaint",
"queer",
"queerish",
"quirky",
"screwy",
"strange",
"wacky",
"whacky",
"way-out",
"weird",
"farcical",
"laughable",
"ludicrous",
"ridiculous",
"Alice-in-Wonderland",
"Kafkaesque",
"nightmarish",
"dreamlike",
"surreal"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[
"realistic",
"reasonable"
]
},
"excitingly or mysteriously unusual":{
"examples":[
"to European explorers, the Far East was a fantastic land filled with unimaginable riches"
],
"synonyms":[
"bizarro",
"exotic",
"glamorous",
"glamourous",
"marvelous",
"marvellous",
"outlandish",
"romantic",
"strange"
],
"near synonyms":[
"colorful",
"picture-book",
"picturesque",
"quaint",
"alien",
"foreign",
"dark",
"distant",
"faraway",
"remote",
"alluring",
"captivating",
"enchanting",
"fascinating",
"magical"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[
"familiar",
"nonexotic",
"nonglamorous",
"plain-Jane",
"unexotic",
"unglamorous",
"unromantic"
]
},
"not real and existing only in the imagination":{
"examples":[
"a science fiction writer who can conjure up fantastic worlds and make them seem as real as our own"
],
"synonyms":[
"chimerical",
"chimeric",
"fabulous",
"fanciful",
"fantasied",
"fictional",
"fictitious",
"ideal",
"imaginal",
"imaginary",
"imagined",
"invented",
"made-up",
"make-believe",
"mythical",
"mythic",
"notional",
"phantasmal",
"phantasmic",
"phantom",
"pretend",
"unreal",
"visionary"
],
"near synonyms":[
"fabled",
"legendary",
"romantic",
"abstract",
"hypothetical",
"theoretical",
"theoretic",
"unbelievable",
"unconvincing",
"unlikely",
"conceived",
"envisaged",
"envisioned",
"pictured",
"visualized",
"daydreamlike",
"deceptive",
"delusional",
"delusive",
"hallucinatory",
"illusory",
"phantasmagoric",
"phantasmagorical",
"concocted",
"fabricated",
"feigned",
"fictive",
"inexistent",
"nonexistent"
],
"near antonyms":[
"authentic",
"genuine",
"true",
"factual",
"verifiable",
"verified",
"believable",
"convincing",
"realistic",
"corporeal",
"material",
"physical",
"solid",
"substantial",
"palpable",
"tangible"
],
"antonyms":[
"actual",
"existent",
"existing",
"real"
]
},
"too extraordinary or improbable to believe":{
"examples":[
"concocted some fantastic story to try to explain why they had returned home so late"
],
"synonyms":[
"implausible",
"inconceivable",
"incredible",
"incredulous",
"unbelievable",
"uncompelling",
"unconceivable",
"unconvincing",
"unimaginable",
"unthinkable"
],
"near synonyms":[
"debatable",
"disputable",
"dodgy",
"doubtable",
"doubtful",
"dubious",
"dubitable",
"far-fetched",
"fishy",
"flimsy",
"questionable",
"shaky",
"suspect",
"suspicious",
"unlikely",
"unreasonable",
"hopeless",
"impossible",
"absurd",
"comical",
"farcical",
"laughable",
"ludicrous",
"outlandish",
"preposterous",
"ridiculous",
"risible",
"silly",
"indefensible",
"insupportable",
"untenable"
],
"near antonyms":[
"likely",
"possible",
"probable",
"reasonable",
"certain",
"incontestable",
"indisputable",
"indubitable",
"questionless",
"sure",
"undeniable",
"undoubted",
"unquestionable"
],
"antonyms":[
"believable",
"cogitable",
"conceivable",
"convincing",
"credible",
"creditable",
"imaginable",
"plausible",
"supposable",
"thinkable"
]
},
"of the very best kind":{
"examples":[
"surfing conditions were simply fantastic"
],
"synonyms":[
"A-OK",
"A1",
"awesome",
"bang-up",
"banner",
"beautiful",
"blue-chip",
"blue-ribbon",
"boffo",
"bonny",
"bonnie",
"boss",
"brag",
"brave",
"bully",
"bumper",
"capital",
"choice",
"classic",
"cool",
"corking",
"crackerjack",
"cracking",
"dandy",
"divine",
"dope",
"down",
"dynamite",
"excellent",
"fab",
"fabulous",
"famous",
"fantabulous",
"fine",
"first-class",
"first-rate",
"first-string",
"five-star",
"four-star",
"frontline",
"gangbusters",
"gangbuster",
"gilt-edged",
"gilt-edge",
"gone",
"grand",
"great",
"groovy",
"heavenly",
"high-class",
"hot",
"hype",
"immense",
"jim-dandy",
"keen",
"lovely",
"marvelous",
"marvellous",
"mean",
"neat",
"nifty",
"noble",
"number one",
"No. 1",
"numero uno",
"out-of-sight",
"par excellence",
"peachy",
"peachy keen",
"phat",
"prime",
"primo",
"prize",
"prizewinning",
"quality",
"radical",
"righteous",
"sensational",
"slick",
"splendid",
"stellar",
"sterling",
"superb",
"superior",
"superlative",
"supernal",
"swell",
"terrific",
"tip-top",
"top",
"top-notch",
"top-of-the-line",
"top-shelf",
"topflight",
"topping",
"unsurpassed",
"wizard",
"wonderful"
],
"near synonyms":[
"acceptable",
"adequate",
"all right",
"decent",
"good",
"OK",
"okay",
"passable",
"satisfactory",
"tolerable",
"better",
"exceptional",
"fancy",
"high-grade",
"high-test",
"premium",
"select",
"special",
"superfine",
"classical",
"standard",
"traditional"
],
"near antonyms":[
"bad",
"inferior",
"low-grade",
"substandard",
"unsatisfactory",
"mediocre",
"middling",
"second-class",
"second-rate"
],
"antonyms":[
"atrocious",
"awful",
"execrable",
"lousy",
"pathetic",
"poor",
"rotten",
"terrible",
"vile",
"wretched"
]
},
"type":[
"adjective"
]
},
"fairing":{
"something given to someone without expectation of a return":{
"examples":[
"business takes him to all corners of the globe, but he never fails to bring back fairings for the family back in London"
],
"synonyms":[
"bestowal",
"comp",
"donation",
"donative",
"freebie",
"freebee",
"gift",
"giveaway",
"handsel",
"lagniappe",
"largesse",
"largess",
"present",
"presentation"
],
"near synonyms":[
"alms",
"benefaction",
"beneficence",
"benevolence",
"charity",
"contribution",
"dole",
"handout",
"oblation",
"offering",
"philanthropy",
"tithe",
"box",
"care package",
"foy",
"grant",
"subsidy",
"remembrance",
"tribute",
"valentine",
"bonus",
"boon",
"windfall",
"courtesy",
"favor",
"generosity",
"sacrifice",
"gratuity",
"propine",
"tip",
"award",
"prize",
"reward",
"dowry",
"bequest",
"legacy"
],
"near antonyms":[
"advance",
"loan",
"bribe",
"douceur",
"peace offering",
"sop"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
}
}
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